10 September 2008

Just A Reminder....Film Festival Tomorrow

HUB-BUB presents the "From Here to Awesome" Showcase Film Festival every Thursday night at 7:30 p.m., starting August 7 and ending October 2. Each week another short and feature length film will be screened and the public is invited to attend these FREE showings. Independent films competed to be one of the select films shown at theaters and other venues like The Showroom worldwide. For updates and more insight check out this blog. "From Here to Awesome" is the brainchild of Arin Crumley, a filmmaker who did a three-week residency at HUB-BUB in May 2008. *17 and over admitted.

FEATURE Charlie: A man who has failed in love and continually destroyed the lives of the people he loves most embarks on an emotional journey to discover where he went wrong. After seeing another man’s car parked in his driveway, Charlie becomes convinced that his wife is having an affair. Determined to discover the truth behind the stranger he has transformed into, he seeks out his ex-girlfriend and enters a disastrous confrontation with his best friend. As Charlie’s journey sends him reeling through the streets, he sets out in search of a stranger in hopes of making some kind of emotional connection.

SHORT : I F*ING HATE YOU: Sabi Pictures presents the breakthrough performances of John T. Woods and Marion Kerr in this raw, compelling glimpse into a young man’s ill-conceived scheme to redeem himself in the eyes of his ex-girlfriend. Praised by Ain’t It Cool News as “Brilliant”, Zak Forsman’s directorial debut is an emotionally-charged work with highly authentic performances

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09 September 2008

Out of the Mouths of Babes....

These were compiled from various Jewish and Christian Day Schools...

DEAR GOD: Is it true my father won't get in Heaven if he uses his bowling words in the house? Anita

Instead of letting people die and having to make new ones, why don't you just keep the ones you got now? Louise

What does it mean You are a Jealous God? I thought You had everything. Ellen

Did you really mean do unto others as they do unto you, because if You did, then I'm really going to fix my brother. Darla

Thank you for the baby brother, but what I prayed for was a puppy. Joyce

Why is Sunday school on Sunday? I thought it was supposed to be our day of rest. Tom

Please send me a pony. I never asked for anything before. You can look it up. Bruce.

If we come back as something, please don't let me be Jennifer Horton because I hate her. Denise

If you give me a genie lamp like Aladdin, I will give you anything you want except my money or my chess set. Ralph

Please send Dennis Clark to a different camp this year. Peter

Maybe Cain and Abel would not kill each other so much if they had their own rooms. It works with my brother. Larry

I want to be just like my Daddy when I get big but not with so much hair all over. Sam

Of all the people who work for You, I like Noah and David the best. Rob

My brother told me about being born but it doesn't sound right. Marsha

We read Thomas Edison made light. But in school they said You did it. So I bet he stoled your idea. Sincerely, Donna

I didn't think orange went with purple until I saw the sunset you made on Tuesday. That was cool. Eugene

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07 September 2008

How To Ask for a Favor....

Need a Favor? The Best Way to Ask


If you need a friend to help you out, there's a really simple way to get what you want. Just ask. But make sure you ask directly. Don't beat around the bush, offering oblique hints. By making an outright request, you create a social obligation that is awkward to refuse. For many of us, the thought of asking someone for help or a favor--be it a colleague, friend or stranger--is fraught with discomfort. We figure we're imposing or tend to assume the person will say no, which could leave us embarrassed or humiliated. But new research from the Stanford Graduate School of Business verifies the old adage, "Ask and you shall receive." We tend to grossly underestimate how likely others are to agree to our requests for assistance. "Our research should encourage people to ask for help and not assume that others are disinclined to comply," says Frank Flynn, associate professor of organizational behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. "People are more willing to help than you think and that can be important to know when you're trying to get the resources you need to get a job done, when you're trying to solicit funds or what have you."


Study No. 1: Participants were instructed to ask favors of people in campus settings after estimating how many people they thought would comply with their requests. Participants asked to borrow strangers' cell phones in order to make calls back to the experimenter, solicited individuals to fill out questionnaires and asked students to help them find the campus gym--a favor that required obliging students to walk with a participant for at least two blocks in the direction of the gym.The results: The researchers found that participants consistently overestimated by 50 percent the number of people they'd have to ask to get a certain number to agree with each request. "Participants were initially horrified at the prospect of going out and asking people for such things," says co-author Vanessa Lake, a Columbia University psychology doctoral student. "But they'd bound back into the lab afterward with big smiles, saying, 'I can't believe how nice people were!'"

Study No. 2: Those results were replicated even more dramatically in a real-world scenario involving volunteers for Team in Training, a division of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. These volunteers, who receive training for endurance sports events in exchange for fundraising for the society, were asked to estimate the number of people they thought they would have to solicit to reach their fundraising goal, as well as the average donation they expected.The results: Once again, volunteers predicted they would have to approach 50 percent more people than were actually needed. Moreover, they underestimated the average donation they'd receive by $17. "People seem to miscalculate how willing others are to say yes to direct requests, even in a conservative case like this where they're open to soliciting others and the request is significant--anywhere from $30 to more than $1,000," observes Flynn.

Why do people consistently make such underestimations? The researchers found it's because they fail to get inside the head of the potential helper. The critical factor? Those who are approached for a favor are under social pressure to be benevolent, say Flynn and Lake. Just saying "no" can make them look very bad--to themselves or others. The study findings were published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.



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04 September 2008

Art Market/Creative Tastes Event

Saturday 3-9pm Downtown Spartanburg FREE

HUB-BUB is pleased to present the third Art Mart. Local and regional painters, potters, photographers, jewelry makers and textile artists will be setting up tables and selling their wares downtown this Saturday from 3-9pm during the Spartanburg Creative Tastes Festival.

Over twenty artists will be selling their work including The HUB-BUB Artists-in-Residence, USC Upstate Art and Design Club, Pat Kabore , Leslie Hart/The Green Wardrobe, Brandi Dice, and Kris Inman just to name a few. Proceeds from the sale of all art will remain with the artists. At the same time HUB-BUB will be hosting the Recycled Art Auction, a silent auction of donated works of art to raise money for HUB-BUB programming. Vendors will be accepting cash and checks only.

SPARTANBURG CREATIVE TASTES
Saturday, September 6, 2008
3 - 9 p.m.

Downtown Spartanburg
West Main Street @ Daniel Morgan


Local restaurants, chefs, local cookbooks, not-for- profit bake sales, kitchen store retailers and kitchen equipment suppliers are being recruited to participate in Spartanburg Creative Tastes. This is a first-time event in celebration of the City’s Creative Energy campaign. In keeping with the campaign theme of highlighting all that is innovative and creative in the City, this event is designed to showcase the variety of local culinary experiences against the backdrop of family fun and entertainment. Admission to the event will be free to the public with food and beverages available for purchase from vendors.

Planned for Saturday, September 6 th, from 3:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. , there will be a Restaurant Row featuring local restaurants and chefs and a “Made in Spartanburg ” area highlighting local cookbooks, vendors, local produce and locally made food. Also featured will be a local brewery and wine tasting, the Hub-Bub Art Mart, kids’ activities in the “Lemonade Stand” area and local entertainment. The event will take place in Downtown Spartanburg in a festival setting west of Morgan Square and the Clock Tower on the newly updated Ezell St., King Street and West Main Street.

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Thursday

Your Eyes Reveal Heart Disease Risk

The eyes have it--at least when it comes to finding early clues for your risk of developing heart disease. Specifically, damage to the eyes' tiny blood vessels could be the first sign of heart disease, long before any other symptoms show up elsewhere, according to a new study from Australia's University of Sydney and University of Melbourne, along with the National University of Singapore.

Reuters reports that people who had a type of eye damage known as retinopathy were more likely to die of heart disease over the next 12 years than those without it. To reach this conclusion, the team studied the retinal photographs of 3,000 people, most of whom had type 2 diabetes. The photos were taken by the patients' doctors to determine if the diabetes had started to damage their eyes. Then the researchers checked the patients' medical records to determine who had died.

"Over 12 years, 353 participants (11.9 percent) had incident coronary heart disease-related deaths," said lead study author Gerald Liew of the University of Sydney. Those who had retinopathy were almost twice as likely to die of heart disease as people who didn't have it.

Startlingly, retinopathy increased the risk of heart disease as much as diabetes did, but people can use this as an early warning signal of artery damage and then work to lower their cholesterol and blood pressure. The study findings were reported in the journal Heart.

Sobering News don't you think?

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03 September 2008

Free Movie Thursday...( Tomorrow )

Thursday September 4th 2008 from 7:30-9:30 p.m.


HUB-BUB presents the "From Here to Awesome" Showcase Film Festival every Thursday night at 7:30 p.m., starting August 7 and ending October 2. Each week another short and feature length film will be screened and the public is invited to attend these FREE showings. Independent films competed to be one of the select films shown at theaters and other venues like The Showroom worldwide. For updates and more insight check out this blog. "From Here to Awesome" is the brainchild of Arin Crumley, a filmmaker who did a three-week residency at HUB-BUB in May 2008. *17 and over admitted.


FEATURE: The Lonely Bull: The story of a lost individual who attempts to change his losing ways and win the love of another through a dream of becoming a professional matador.


SHORT: AI: A young woman, haunted by the memories of her parents being murdered, discovers the truth about herself and her sensei. Inspired by the great tradition of Japanese cinema, Ai is an exploration of themes that stem from the era of the fearless warriors, the samurai.


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02 September 2008

Healthy Tuesday

Yes, After a Week off..I'm Back...Hope Everyone had a Great Labor Day, Now Onto the Good Stuff...

5 Ways to Make Dessert Good for You

In a diet-focused culture, desserts often get a bad reputation. But some can actually be beneficial. Desserts made with fruit, nature's natural sweetener, are ideal after-dinner treats. The trick is to reduce the sugar and fat in desserts to make them more healthy, but not too much so they still taste good, according to the Mayo Clinic Health Letter.

1. Grill fruit slicesCut fresh apples, pineapple, pears or peaches into chunks. Brush them lightly with canola oil and sprinkle with cinnamon. Grill the fruit on skewers or wrap in foil and grill over a low heat for three to five minutes.

2. Make a fruit dipMix together 1/2 cup of low-fat sugar-free lemon yogurt, 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice and 1 teaspoon lime zest. Serve cold as a dip for fruits such as grapes, sliced strawberries, kiwi or bananas.

3. Add a dollop: Add a dollop of fat-free plain or vanilla yogurt to frozen or canned fruit. Opt for fruit without syrup.

4. Slim down baked goods: Favorite recipes can be made with much less sugar and fat. Reducing sugar by one-third to one-half works in many recipes. To enhance the sweetness, increase the amount of vanilla, cinnamon or nutmeg. Applesauce, mashed banana, prune puree or commercial fat substitute can replace up to half the butter, shortening or oil in many recipes.

5. Use reduced-fat or fat-free ingredients instead of high-fat productsFat-free, 1 percent or 2 percent milk can be used instead of whole milk. Evaporated fat-free milk can replace regular evaporated milk. Fat-free plain yogurt or low-fat sour creams can be substituted for sour cream. Light cream cheese or low-fat cottage cheese often substitutes nicely for cream cheese.(Source: Mayo Clinic Health Letter)

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25 August 2008

Don't Worry, It's only for a Week

Sorry It's Last Minute, Folks. But No Blogs this week from your Friendly Neighborhood Writer Man . As I will be on VACATION. ( Woo Hoo ) As a Reminder, Thursday is the " From Here to Awesome " Film Festival at The Showroom , go to www.hub-bub.com or contact alix@hub-bub.com . Next week will have new blogs...

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22 August 2008

2008-09 Forecast

Forecast .....COLD AND WET ....

Farmers' Almanac: Startling Forecast

"You might want to put some extra insulation in your attic. The Farmers' Almanac has forecast below-average winter temperatures for most of the United States. "Numb's the word," says the 192-year-old publication, which claims an accuracy rate of 80 to 85 percent for its forecasts that are prepared two years in advance, reports The Associated Press."

"The 2009 edition predicts that fully two-thirds of the continental United States will have colder than average temperatures this winter. Only the far West and Southeast will have near-normal temps. "This is going to be catastrophic for millions of people," almanac editor Peter Geiger told AP, noting that the frigid forecast combined with high prices for heating fuel is sure to compound problems households will face in keeping warm. "

"Other details of the forecast:--Above-normal snowfall for the Great Lakes and Midwest, especially during January and February.--Above-normal precipitation for the Southwest in December.--Above-normal precipitation for the Southeast in January and February.--Unusually wet or snowy February for the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions."

"The Farmers' Almanac forecast is made by reclusive prognosticator Caleb Weatherbee, who uses a secret formula based on sunspots, the position of the planets and the tidal action of the moon, reports AP. He may just be right. Mother Nature is already hinting at a rougher-than-normal winter. The clues? That would be an abundance of acorns already on the ground and the frequency of fog in August. "

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21 August 2008

Wow Dave Matthews Band was Right....

Dave Matthews Band wrote it and sang it....and Now it appears they are Right ..." Don't Drink The Water " see story below.....

Something in Water Linked to Diabetes

Uh oh. Even if you give up the burgers and fries and faithfully exercise most days of the week, you may still develop Type 2 Diabetes just by doing what's good for you: drinking water. Low-level arsenic exposure, possibly from drinking water, has been linked to this form of diabetes, formerly called adult-onset diabetes, according to a new analysis of government data by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland.

The Associated Press reports that although utilities use filtration systems to eliminate arsenic, it can still get into drinking water naturally when minerals dissolve or through industrial pollution from coal burning and copper smelting. The Hopkins researchers analyzed the medical tests of 788 adults and found a nearly fourfold increase in the risk of Type 2 Diabetes in people with low arsenic concentrations in their urine compared with people who had even lower levels. Specifically, those who had type 2 diabetes had 26 percent higher inorganic arsenic levels than people without type 2 diabetes. (Some types of seafood contain nontoxic organic arsenic so the researchers adjusted their analysis for signs of seafood intake.)

This isn't the first study to show a link between arsenic and type 2 diabetes. Research in other countries has also made that connection, but only with high levels of arsenic; however, this is the first study to show that even low levels can cause this disease. "The good news is, this is preventable," lead author Dr. Ana Navas-Acien told AP, adding that new safe drinking water standards may be needed if the findings are duplicated in future studies. That research has already begun with a new study of 4,000 people.

How can arsenic contribute to diabetes? Who Knows, laboratory studies show that arsenic impairs insulin secretion in pancreas cells treated with an arsenic compound.

There is good news: Data for this study were collected in 2003 and 2004. In 2001, the U.S. government lowered arsenic standards for public water systems to 10 parts per billion; public water systems had to comply with the new standard by 2006. The study findings were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Also Don't Forget about Tonight...at The Showroom. The " From Here to Awesome " Film Festival....THAT kicks off at 7 30 and lasts until 9 30 P.m. * 17 and over Admitted . for more Info contact alix@hub-bub.com

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