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I have nothing much to say except I think hell just froze over. Or we have officially spun off  into musical Armageddon.

Please say it ain’t so. Ozzy, I love you, did a great interview with you not so long ago for our cover story, but you bit the heads off pigeons and spit them out onto the cheering hordes of fans.  Now you want the groom to kiss the bride in wedded bliss in front of you?

The rest of my blog will be the official press release.  All I can say is that I am at a loss for words and going to put on some Sabbath and grab a box of tissues.

“Hard rocking brides and grooms looking for an exciting unique way to tie the knot this summer can now walk down the aisle on their special day with the Unholy Matrimony Package at a stop on this summer’s OZZFest, August 14-24.

As with other wedding packages, the one-stop Unholy Matrimony Packages provides just about everything the happy couple will need…except a marriage license.  Each special package includes a variety of items to mark the special day and 10 general admission pit tickets for the bride & groom and 8 guests; an official OZZFest wedding ceremony by ordained minister, OZZFest’s MC Big Dave; an OZZFest cake and champagne toast.  In addition, all 10 guests will get early entry into the venue with an exclusive pre-show backstage tour hosted by Big Dave; access to the OZZFest VIP lounge; specially designed Ozzfest tour shirts; collectible tour posters (numbered, limited), PIIQ – Bass Masq Earbuds by Sony and official OZZFest guitar picks.  Beyond the above, each lucky couple will be eligible for a special OZZFest wedding gift from the Unholy Matrimony bridal registry, generously supplied by this year’s OZZFest sponsors.  Items will include a Monster Energy Refrigerator (with twelve cases of Monster Energy Drink to get started), a special ESP LTD Signature Series GUS-200.  Details on the registry will be released in the coming weeks.

While the Unholy Matrimony Package options have already been sold for the California, Connecticut and New Jersey shows, the Tuesday, Aug 17 at the First Midwest Bank Amp. in Chicago, IL, Thurs, Aug 19 at the First Niagara Pavilion in Pittsburgh, PA and Tue, Aug  24 at the Comcast Center in Boston, MA remain available.”

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By Chris M. Junior

Brian Wilson and Mike Love both dig California girl Katy Perry and her summer 2010 smash “California Gurls.”

Randy Lewis, who writes the “Pop & Hiss” music blog for the Los Angeles Times, recently contacted the Beach Boys co-founders to see what they thought about Perry (who was born in Santa Barbara) and her hit song (which spent six weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart).

Here’s what they told Lewis:

“I love her vocal,” Wilson said Monday through his manager. “The melody is infectious, and I’m flattered that Snoop Dogg used our lyric on the tag.”

“I think she’s really clever,” Love said Wednesday. “We have a lot in common now: We both have done songs called ‘California Girls,’ and we’ve both kissed girls and liked it.”

Shedding 40 lbs. helped Valerie Bertinelli jump into a bikini nearly three decades after she last wore a two-piece, complete a marathon and even stop snoring.

What it didn't do? Change her sex life.

"It was pretty good even when I was big," the Hot in Cleveland actress, 50, tells Prevention in its September issue. "[My fiancé] Tom likes me at any size. I'm lucky that way."

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Bertinelli, who plans to wed her longtime boyfriend, businessman Tom Vitale, in an intimate Italian ceremony, says she's also "stopped snoring as much," an unexpected perk from her weight loss, but is still struggling to not "be a slave to my weight."

For starters, she admits she hates the first 20 minutes of her running workout. But she also has to keep her cravings in check while grocery shopping – no sourdough toast or her favorite sweets, Hot Tamales.

"Those cinnamon candies? Love those," the Jenny Craig spokeswoman says. "So when I'm in the supermarket and I think, 'God, I really want those,' I'll remind myself that in two days when I have a weak moment, I'll go straight for them. So there are certain things I just won't buy."

Instead, she'll lean on Vitale, who provides plenty of encouraging words and also helps her cooks healthier alternatives like grilled chicken, veggies and turkey meatballs.

Having turned 50, the actress approached the big milestone the same way she tackled posing in a bikini: With no fear.

"For me it's just another age, just another number," she says. "I'm still kicking, my heart's still beating, my lungs are still breathing, so that's good."

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Many nutritionists are advocating the fortification of a number of foods.This may help, but I contend that we should also intensify our efforts in nutrition education among our young people.I simply do not buy the argument that it is futile to try to change eating habits. Once an intelligent person and this includes adolescents understands the need for a healthy diet, I think he or she will act accordingly.As for specific actions, I suggest that blood hemoglobin should be checked as a routine part of a youngster's yearly physical.lt should contain at least 11 grams per 100 milliliters of blood for a girl and at least 12 grams for a boy.If it is any lower, the physician probably will prescribe an easily absorbed iron supplement.

Adolescents and everyone else should cut out highly processed foods and drinks,which may be low in iron and other nutrients.Read the labels for iron content.Especially make sure that all bakery products are made with enriched flour or whole grains.Try adding liver,chicken,beef,veal or any

other variety to the weekly menu.

Finally,even when you are trying to lose weight,always eat a sensible, well-balanced diet made up of a variety of fresh or very lightly processed foods.This way,you stand a good chance of getting not only enough iron,but also adequate amounts of all the other essential nutrients.

Whether your first encounter is in a grocery store,the museum or in an Internet chat room,you have to play it safe. The following rules are recommended by experts when dating on-line:

1.Practice common sense. Don't give out personal information such as your name,telephone number and address until you feel comfortable. Most matchmaking sites will route correspondence through their internal mailbox so the person will never learn your e-mail address unless you choose to re¬veal it. You may want to use your first name only or use an on-line name until you feel safe. One of the big dangers, particularly in our community where people feel at home,is that people are too free with information about themselves.

When you feel secure enough to talk on the telephone to your on- line friend,give him or her a work,cellular phone or pager number rather than your home telephone number,or get theirs. Meet in a public place during the day for initial dates and tell others where you are going or bring along some friends. Be careful about sharing too much too soon.

2.Be honest. Tell the truth in your profile. You don't need to embellish to be interesting. Stand out by explaining what makes you special. If you send a photograph,make sure it's recent and candid. Experts say being deceitful will only set you up for drama disappointed reactions,angry words and confrontation. So shed the mask and give people the real thing. You want someone to appreciate you for who you are,not someone who you pretend to be.

3.Take your time. Get to know someone through his or her words be¬fore taking the romance to the street. The beauty of the Internet, experts say,is that it has rekindled the joy of writing. Explore that way of connecting before you talk on the telephone or meet face-to-face. "Let your instincts tell you when you're ready to meet that person,"says Detroiter Diane Costa, founder of LoveNubianStyle.com, an Internet matchmaking site for Black professionals. "Some people fear if I don't meet the person soon,he won't talk to me anymore. But if he won't wait until you're comfortable,he wasn't worth having anyway."

4.Pay attention to the signs. Liars,exploiters,playboys,gold diggers they exist on the Internet,just as they exist in real life. Not all people are looking for relationships;some are just looking for sex. Abandon the fantasy and pick up on the signs. With the Internet,you have an advantage,says Costa,because you can save your messages. If you think there's a discrepancy in what someone told you,you can double-check it against your archives. "You may find a person perpetrating (<ffi!P , ff i^) to be single,but they're married,"says Michael Brown,founder of Atlanta based Blacksingles.com. "You may find 'players' on the Internet people meeting as many others as they can and having random relationships. As Internet grows and more people become attracted to it,you will find the same vices as you find elsewhere."

5.Do your research. Before getting too close to a prospective on-line date,make sure the person is who he or she says. Ask for his or her home phone number,work number and even references and a background check if you're still unsure. It's easy to create a phony identity in cyberspace. Make sure you're involved with a real person and not a mirage (jftflTS^).

6.Make sure you know what you want. Are you looking for a relation¬ship? Do you want a casual acquaintance or a long-distance friendship? As in the real world,your Internet friends will assume what you want unless you make it plain. "The biggest problem you have in a virtual environment is determining the true intent of your mate,"says Barry Cooper of Black-Voices.com.

When he came to analyse their embarrassing lapses( JL4fr)in a scientific report, he was surprised to find that nearly all of them fell into a few groupings. Nor did the lapses appear to be entirely random(Ktfa&1).

One of the women,for instance,on leaving her house for work one morning threw her dog her earrings and tried to fix a dog biscuit on her ear. "The explanation for this is that the brain is like a computer,"explains the professor. "People programme themselves to do certain activities regularly. It was the woman's custom every morning to throw her dog two biscuits and then put on her earrings. But somehow the action got reversed in the programme. "About one in twenty of the incidents the volunteers reported were these" programme assembly failures".

Altogether the volunteers logged 433 unintentional actions that they found themselves doing — an average of twelve each. There appear to be peak periods in the day when we are at our zaniesK S.i^-T J£ 6\> ). These are two hours some time between eight a. m. and noon, between four and six p. m. with a smaller peak between eight and ten p. m. "Among men the peak seems to be when a changeover in brain* programmes'occurs, as for instance between going to and from work. "Women on average reported slightly more lapses - 12. 5 compared with 10. 9 for men probably because they were more reliable reporters.

A startling finding of the research is that the absent-minded activity is a hazard of doing things in which we are skilled. Normally, you would expect that skill reduces the number of errors we make. But trying to avoid silly slips by concentrating more could make things a lot worse even dangerous.

When looking for a job, you will most likely have a job interview first. This seems to be in fashion now. Through the interview the interviewer and the interviewee can talk face to face, which provides a way for them to know each other better.

On the one hand, the interviewer can introduce the main aspects of the job opening to the interviewee, such as the specific requirements for the job, the working cinditions, and the wages and benefits the interviewee will get.

On the other hand, the interviewee also has a chance to give the employer a good impression. He can talk with confidence and show the interviewer how well he is educated and how good his working ability is. And it will be better if he emphasizes that this is the very job he wants and he won't cast an eye on any job except this one. The interviewer will most probably be moved.

Through the job interview, people who look for a job will have a better chance of getting a good one and those who need people to do a job will have a better chance of finding some one that is qualified.

While countries such as India have made joint efforts to reduce birth rates, Brazil has had better result without really trying, says George Martine at Harvard.

Brazil's population growth rate has dropped from 2.99% a year between 1951 and 1960 tol .93% a year between 1981 and 1990, and Brazilian women now have only 2.7 children on average. Martine says this figure may have fallen still further since 1990, an achievement that makes it the envy of many other Third World countries.

Martine puts it down to, among other things, soap operas (ftE&iA) and installment (ftBB'ftpfc) plans introduced in the 1970s. Both played an important, although indirect, role in lowering the birth rate. Brazil is one of the world's biggest producers of soap operas. Globe, Brazil's most popular television network, shows three hours of soaps six nights a week, while three others show at least one hour a night. Most soaps are based on wealthy characters living the high life in big cities.

"Although they have never really tried to work in a message towards the problems of reproduction, they describe middle and upper class values not many children, different attitudes towards sex, women wofrking," says Martine. "They sent this image to all parts of Brazil and made people conscious of other patterns of behavior and other values, which were put into a very attractive package."

Meanwhile, the installment plans tried to encourage the poor to become consumers. "This led to an enormous change in consumption patterns and consumption was in compatible (^-^I^Eft) with unlimited reproduction." says Martine.

In the digital world there are no movies, magazines or pieces of music. There are just 1's and O's, for which we did not even have a name until 1946 when Princeton statistician John Tukey fashioned the words binary and digit into the term "bit".

For the next 25 years, bits were of interest only to a few specialized members of the scientific community. Lately bits have become important to everybody because we can represent anything as bits—anything. Soon scientists will test digital versions of drugs on digital people rather than real ones.

Books, magazines and newspapers are not the meaningful element. Only words matter. And words are not going anywhere: They won't leave us. Words powerfully and efficiently communicate. A few words—i. e. , a few bits—can create religions, can make war or peace. Words presented to the eye (instead of the ear) take the form of text. Traditionally, text could be presented only by printing it on paper, carving it in stone, or writing it with smoke.

Today we can do something new. We can reduce the text to bits (which we cannot see or hear) , take this new representation and store it, manipulate it or transmit it, and then later render it on a computer display or apiece of paper. The same is true of music, movies, still photographs. Most people know this, but few realize that the quantity of bits vastly varies from one "message" or medium to another. For example, when you read a book, you consume perhaps 3 million bits an hour. When you look at television, you consume 3 million a second.

Bandwidth is the ability to move bits, broadband to move many bits per second. A common practice, comparing bandwidth to the diameter of a pipe is misleading. Pipes deliver water at a constant flow. However, we frequently need bits delivered in bursts. Even if we did consume bits steadily, it simply doesn't naturally follow that our computers need to receive information in the same fashion.

One of the most profound changes afforded by the digital world is the ability to be asynchronous, in the smallest and largest time scales. In the smallest sense, this allows us to use efficiently our channels of communications—for example, packetizing bits of sound so that many people may speak on the same channel. In the larger sense, we can expand and contract our personal time in new ways, leaving and receiving messages at mutual convenience . On a yet larger scale , social behavior will also become more asynchronous . Time loses its grip when, for example, people control when and where they work (home offices, flextime) — and even when they are ready to watch a TV show.

OAK BROOK, Ill. — McDonald's Corp. is scrapping plans to offer free samples its new smoothies because it's worried it would run out of the fruit drinks.

In a statement late Thursday, the fast-food chain's chief marketing officer called the fruit-flavored yogurt drinks "an absolute hit," with "unprecedented demand."

Sales of the drinks officially began this week, but were already being sold in certain parts of the country. The company, based in suburban Chicago, had planned to offer free samples from July 22 through July 24.

The smoothies are the latest offering from the company's revamped McCafe drink line. The effort includes espresso drinks and lattes and icy coffee drinks.

McDonald's is debating whether to reschedule the event.