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LL PLENILUNIO DELLE VERGINI - "The Devil's Wedding Night" Hosted by Elvira!
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Don't Get A Smart Phone If You're Too Stupid To Operate It!!!
SATELLITE IN THE SKY / Tridelta Productions - 1956
It's time for a deadly trip into space with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. Our feature reminds me of WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE from 5 years earlier. This story's about a crew of astronauts launch from England into orbit around the Earth, their mission is to test a new tritonium bomb. When they try and launch the bomb, it attaches itself to the tail of the rocket. The crew then only has a matter of hours to defuse or destroy the weapon before it explodes. 
We have a soundclip for you, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button there next to the nukular powered dragonfly, NOW, Ralphie The Tarantula! Here's some spacey sounds from... SATELLITE IN THE SKY!
Here's the beautiful British delta wing bomber, the Vulcan B Mark 2, that starts the movie with some graceful maneuvering in the sky! 
Kieron (DR. BLOOD'S COFFIN/THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS) Moore plays Mission Commander Michael Haydon and Lois (Miss Moneypenny in DR. NO) Maxwell plays reporter, Kim Hamilton. Here they are snooping around in a restricted area. 
Other crew members just get drunk and watch the girls at the club. 
They find out at last minute that their rocket would launch with a secret atomic bomb to be detonated in space! Donald Wolfit plays Professor Merrity, creator of the bomb, so, he has to go with them on the mission. Even though he was a total weirdo, Donald gave great performances in BLOOD OF THE VAMPIRE and THE HANDS OF ORLAC. 
And... Around the corner it's Pearly Gates on the inside, then, driving hard into second place it's Heart Attack, followed closely by French Fry!... And, bringing up the rear, it's... Beetle Bomb!!! 
They put it in first gear and floor it!! 
This still really captures how awesome going into space seemed for a kid my age back in the fifties! 
After they are safely in space, they discover a stowaway, Miss Hamilton. She hurt her shoulder from bouncing around during the take off. 
That's a pretty darn nice globe of the constellations there, if you ask me. 
Here's another great shot that kids would love, view ports are always cool! 
Dr. Merrity prepares the bomb for its launch and detonation, but, when launched, it magnetically sticks to the tail! ..Ejoli!!
So, the doc and his helper break communications to go out and tend to the bomb... 
Since they figured they were responsible for the ordeal, they rocket themselves and the bomb out into space and signal for the rocket to get the Hell out of there! There was just no other way. 
And, they do get the Hell out of there and land safely back on Earth, just in time for the fireworks! 
So, the doc and his pal sacrifice themselves to go out in a blaze of glory, a cosmic marigold!This is a good time to thank our pal Charlie for the many movies he's donated to The Dungeon archives recently, which inclues 5 Universal Legacy volumes we'll start reviewing over the next months - Thanks again!
World's Oldest Mother Dies
A Spanish woman who was the oldest ever to become a new mother died Saturday at the age of 69, according to her family, BBC News reported.
Maria del Carmen Bousada was 66 when she gave birth to twin boys in 2006. She said she received fertility treatments at a California clinic after telling doctors she was 55. A Spanish newspaper said she was diagnosed with cancer shortly after giving birth to sons Christian and Pau, who are now 2 years old.
Bousada had said there was no reason to believe she would not live as long as her mother, who was 101 when she died. Even if she died prematurely, she said, her sons would never be alone, BBC News reported.
"There are lots of young people in our family," Bousada said.
Original Post: HealthDay
Parental Stress Increases Kids' Risk of Asthma
Asthma is one of the most common ailments of young childhood - rates among children under age 5 have risen 160% from 1980 to 1994 in the U.S. But while the list of triggers that set off bouts of wheezing and shortness of breath (allergies, pollution or strenuous exercise, for example) are well known, it's still not clear exactly how the various factors that cause asthma - including genes, environment and exposure to pollution - contribute to children's chances of developing the disease.
Now researchers at the University of Southern California say they have a clearer understanding. In their study of nearly 2,500 non-asthmatic children ages 5 to 9 who lived in the area, researchers found that the level of stress reported by the children's parents had a significant impact on the kids' susceptibility to other common contributors to asthma - namely exposure to pollution from traffic and secondhand smoke. Scientists found that children whose parents described themselves as stressed and anxious were 50% more likely to develop asthma than kids with non-stressed parents - at least when these youngsters were also exposed to pollution in a high-traffic, urban setting.
Parental stress alone did not increase the children's risk of asthma, but the combination of living in a household with high stress levels and being exposed to pollutants from traffic in the environment was sufficient to trigger the disease. The study found similar results with exposure to tobacco smoke.
Studying a combination of factors can help explain why some kids are more likely to develop asthma than others, says Rob McConnell, lead author of the study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "Childhood asthma is a complex disease and probably has many contributing causes," he says. "This study provides another clue as to what might be causing it."
The results also shed light on how risk factors like stress can increase the vulnerability of the respiratory system to environmental pollution or allergens. Because asthma involves inflammation in the airways in response to particulates that enter from the air, a separate factor that also increases the body's inflammatory response - like stress - can help create especially fertile conditions for asthma to develop. So a child who feels anxiety in response to parental stress, for example, may already have inflammation in his airways, which makes him more likely to develop asthma because of exposure to environmental pollutants.
"The message to take away is that various factors overlap to create asthma," says Dr. Leonard Bielroy, an allergy, asthma and immunology specialist in Springfield, N.J., who has studied some of the condition's intersecting risk factors. "And whether those factors are psychological or physical, the more they overlap, the greater the chance of developing asthma."
While McConnell and his group did not specifically measure stress levels in the study's participants - it's difficult to get a reliable reading in such a large number of youngsters quickly - other studies have shown that parental stress translates directly with more-anxious kids. McConnell hopes that these findings will spur additional studies to investigate why, for example, asthma rates tend to be higher among lower socioeconomic groups. "There are a lot of potential reasons why poverty might be associated with asthma," he says, including that poorer families tend to live in more highly polluted, densely packed urban areas.
But there might also be a psychological contribution, which his study has highlighted. "It's not poverty itself but something about poverty that increases the risk of asthma, and we are suggesting that stress is another exposure we ought to think about."
Original Post: news.yahoo.com
Heart risks 'missed in smokers'
High blood pressure is picked up less often in people who smoke, despite them being at higher risk of heart disease, research suggests.
A study of more than 20,000 men and women in England found smokers were less likely to be aware that they had high blood pressure than non-smokers.
The University College London team said spotting the condition was particularly important in those who smoke.
Being diagnosed can also prompt people to quit, heart experts said.
Smoking and high blood pressure, also known as hypertension, are both key causes of early death, the researchers wrote in the European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation.
National guidelines advocate that doctors encourage those with high blood pressure to stop smoking and that greater effort should be made to look for signs of the condition in those who smoke.
The study, which took data from the Health Survey for England in 2003 and 2006, found improvements over time in the proportion of people who knew they had high blood pressure.
But it was being detected less frequently in people who smoked compared with those who did not, or those who used to smoke but had quit.
Among those smokers who had been diagnosed with the condition, they were more likely to have been told by a health professional to stop smoking than those who did not know they had hypertension, and were more likely to have quit.
Weight
One reason for the lack of diagnosis could be that smokers in the study tended to be thinner than those who did not smoke.
The researchers, who were funded by Cancer Research UK, said that GPs may be more likely to test blood pressure in people who were overweight.
Since 2004, GPs have been paid an incentive to test blood pressure and to record whether someone is a smoker.
Study author Dr Jennifer Mindell said it was disappointing to find smokers with high blood pressure were not being diagnosed.
"It's important to pick up high blood pressure in everybody but it's particularly important in somebody who already has a higher than average risk of heart disease or stroke, including those who smoke.
"And anything that gives people additional motivation to quit must be a good thing.
"It is a reminder for GPs that measuring blood pressure in smokers, even if they are thin, is important."
June Davison, a cardiac nurse from the British Heart Foundation, said: "It is crucial that smokers are aware of their blood pressure as smoking and high blood pressure are among the most common risk factors for cardiovascular disease.
"This study also highlights that if smokers are made aware of their high blood pressure, it can increase their motivation to stop smoking.
She added that smokers over the age of 40 should go for a health check where their blood pressure will be measured and advice on quitting smoking can be given.
Original Post: bcc.co.uk
8 Temmuz 2012 Pazar
TOUCH OF EVIL - Henry Mancini - "¿Dónde Está Mi Esposa" (1958)
"Touch Of Evil" is one of my favourite movies, and goes way beyond being merely special with an all-star cast, this film is MagnÃfico y Súper Fantástico!!! The Maestro Henry Mancini wrote the score, and although Henry is well known as the composer of "The Pink Panther Theme," and "Moon River," my favourite of his works will always be the timeless "Peter Gunn" theme!! Working effortlessly in all genres, including the Whitey Thomas era of the Glenn Miller Orchestra, Here's just a small snippet of how Hank could rock!
You would't really think a couple of D cell batteries and a cheap $2.99 kitchen timer would be capable of causing much trouble, but....
...this vintage Chrysler and it's passengers are about to become toast! This movie starts off with about a four minute single shot that follows the car right to the point where it explodes, while at the same time introducing the stars Charlton Heston and Janet Leigh as Mike and Susan Vargas! The gal in the car is just one of the four and a half classic beauties of celluloid in this movie, Joi Lansing as Zita! Reading the credits, I knew Joi was in this film, but it took me forever to find out where, since she's gone before it really gets rolling hard!
This is one film that I'm not going to say much about the people involved, because unlike the Director Orson Welles, I'm only mortal! Orson also gets credit for his starring role, and for writing the screenplay, but it was based on a novel titled "Badge Of Evil" by Whit Masterson! Living large, Orson's character Police Captain Hank Quinlan, is made to look even bigger than life, by constantly having the camera shot up at him from a lower position!
Here's a good topic for discussion! So what do you think, does the Oscar winning Charlton Heston make a convincing Mexican? His Spanish is fairly decent! It's very odd, but it seems to work!
The Grande Familia, Akim Tamiroff as Uncle Joe Grandi, and Valentin de Vargas as pinche Pancho! Valentin was the 'go to' guy for many a Mexican and/or American Indian role for many years. Akim was actually of Armenian descent! Every Mexican guy I know named Pancho's real name is Francisco, but actually it's Javier!
For Janet Leigh,"Touch Of Evil" was two years before "Psycho" and 9 years after her appearance in the first Jerry Lewis directed short film ironically titled "How To Smuggle A Hernia Across The Border!"
I told you there were four beauties, here Zsa Zsa Gabor makes a very brief appearance as the strip club owner as Hank Quinlan gobbles down another candy bar!!
This is one of the few times you'll see Hank Quinlan smile in this movie, and here's the reason why....
.....Hank has just cast his eyes on his old flame, the amazing Marlene Dietrich as the bar owner Tanya! I would say at this very point in time, or maybe any time, Marlene was the hottest 57 year old woman on the planet!!!
For various reasons, the Grandi family is trying to make the Vargas's life miserable by doing crap like aiming a flashlight at Susan Vargas through the Hotel window from some adjacent building just to be creepy!
Susan has had enough, and tells her husband she needs to go back over the border to America where she would feel safer!!
Right!!!! She ends up just across the border in the middle of nowhere at the lovely Mirador Motel, a place with no other customers that just also happens to be owned by the Grandi family!
Dennis Weaver has the role of the night man at The Mirador, and he's so weird, you think he's going to go all Anthony Perkins on Janet, but he's a little too crazy to go that far!
You think this blind woman's role has some significant purpose as she listens in on Mike's phone call, but it's just Orson being weird!
Janet Leigh was a real valley girl having been born in Merced, California! Her arm was broken before this film started production, and they had to take the cast off and do everything in their power to not make it look broken during the shoot!
"Hey Captain, Look what I found!" Joseph Calleia is Police Sergeant Pete Menzies, Captain Quinlan's lackey and partner, planting evidence and doing whatever it takes to make the Captain the most respected cop in the land despite his obvious personality defects! Joe was in at least two classic big monkey movies, The Gorilla," and "The Monster And The Girl!"
Grandi and Quinlan strike up a deal with The Devil, and after Uncle Joe proposes a toast, Hank tells him he doesn't drink after having his 3rd or 4th double bourbon!
Irish Catholic Mercedes McCambridge has the role of the bad ass leader of the pack! Mercedes McCambridge also had a stunning career that included an Oscar winning performance in her film debut, "All The King's Men," but her most well known accomplishment was as the voice of the devil child in "The Exorcist!" Originally not credited as promised, she made an appeal, and they had to make a new print that included her name in the credits!
"Touch Of Evil" is a great good cop/bad cop and race relations in the 50's story, and I have no doubt that this scene has multiple interpretations as big loser Hank and the big stuffed head of a once proud bull that eventually lost the fight, are shot in juxtaposition to one another!
Hank asks Tanya to read the cards, and tell him what his future holds, but instead she says, "You have no future Hank!" 
Now the camera shoots down because a totally defeated Hank Quinlan is no longer the big man he used to be! "Touch Of Evil" is dark, gritty, and grimy like a chocolate bar dropped in the dirt! Just pick it up, eat it and enjoy!
World's Oldest Mother Dies
A Spanish woman who was the oldest ever to become a new mother died Saturday at the age of 69, according to her family, BBC News reported.
Maria del Carmen Bousada was 66 when she gave birth to twin boys in 2006. She said she received fertility treatments at a California clinic after telling doctors she was 55. A Spanish newspaper said she was diagnosed with cancer shortly after giving birth to sons Christian and Pau, who are now 2 years old.
Bousada had said there was no reason to believe she would not live as long as her mother, who was 101 when she died. Even if she died prematurely, she said, her sons would never be alone, BBC News reported.
"There are lots of young people in our family," Bousada said.
Original Post: HealthDay
Parental Stress Increases Kids' Risk of Asthma
Asthma is one of the most common ailments of young childhood - rates among children under age 5 have risen 160% from 1980 to 1994 in the U.S. But while the list of triggers that set off bouts of wheezing and shortness of breath (allergies, pollution or strenuous exercise, for example) are well known, it's still not clear exactly how the various factors that cause asthma - including genes, environment and exposure to pollution - contribute to children's chances of developing the disease.
Now researchers at the University of Southern California say they have a clearer understanding. In their study of nearly 2,500 non-asthmatic children ages 5 to 9 who lived in the area, researchers found that the level of stress reported by the children's parents had a significant impact on the kids' susceptibility to other common contributors to asthma - namely exposure to pollution from traffic and secondhand smoke. Scientists found that children whose parents described themselves as stressed and anxious were 50% more likely to develop asthma than kids with non-stressed parents - at least when these youngsters were also exposed to pollution in a high-traffic, urban setting.
Parental stress alone did not increase the children's risk of asthma, but the combination of living in a household with high stress levels and being exposed to pollutants from traffic in the environment was sufficient to trigger the disease. The study found similar results with exposure to tobacco smoke.
Studying a combination of factors can help explain why some kids are more likely to develop asthma than others, says Rob McConnell, lead author of the study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "Childhood asthma is a complex disease and probably has many contributing causes," he says. "This study provides another clue as to what might be causing it."
The results also shed light on how risk factors like stress can increase the vulnerability of the respiratory system to environmental pollution or allergens. Because asthma involves inflammation in the airways in response to particulates that enter from the air, a separate factor that also increases the body's inflammatory response - like stress - can help create especially fertile conditions for asthma to develop. So a child who feels anxiety in response to parental stress, for example, may already have inflammation in his airways, which makes him more likely to develop asthma because of exposure to environmental pollutants.
"The message to take away is that various factors overlap to create asthma," says Dr. Leonard Bielroy, an allergy, asthma and immunology specialist in Springfield, N.J., who has studied some of the condition's intersecting risk factors. "And whether those factors are psychological or physical, the more they overlap, the greater the chance of developing asthma."
While McConnell and his group did not specifically measure stress levels in the study's participants - it's difficult to get a reliable reading in such a large number of youngsters quickly - other studies have shown that parental stress translates directly with more-anxious kids. McConnell hopes that these findings will spur additional studies to investigate why, for example, asthma rates tend to be higher among lower socioeconomic groups. "There are a lot of potential reasons why poverty might be associated with asthma," he says, including that poorer families tend to live in more highly polluted, densely packed urban areas.
But there might also be a psychological contribution, which his study has highlighted. "It's not poverty itself but something about poverty that increases the risk of asthma, and we are suggesting that stress is another exposure we ought to think about."
Original Post: news.yahoo.com