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The goal of No Shave November is not so much the contest or even the ritual shaving, but rather the shear laziness of being unkempt and rough together for an entire month. [1]

Well it’s that time of the year again, I hope you are participating in No Shave November! [2]

The No Shave November movement seems to be most popular among College students but is gaining traction across High School campuses and the general population as well. [3]

Combine NaNoWriMo with with No Shave November! [4]

Head on over to http://timemachine.noshavenovember.net/ and check it out! [5]

No Shave November is a community event that means to not shave the whole month of November. [1]

This entry was posted in The Planning Month and tagged Beard, Man, NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month, Shave, Writing by Jan Simson. [4]

If you haven’t heard “The Beard Song ” by the Sophie Madeleine half of the Rocky and Balls duo, check it out as well. [2]

For many who have never attained to a full beard in the past, this is a grand excuse to let the scruff begin without embarrassment. [3]

A college tradition that involves avoiding shaving because it’s no shave November, or usually because you’re just too lazy. [6]

Anyone who is persecuted and suffers for their hair self-expression is highly encouraged to speak out among the community of Noshemberers (Noshember.com has a Heroes of Hair section that anyone can apply for, ranking any laymen persecuted for his or her hair among celebrities, beard champions, freaks of nature, and other such heroes of hair). [1]

You are commenting using your Facebook account. [4]

The movement seems to have been the catalyst of an offshoot awareness campaign to bring Men’s health issues to light that started back in 2003 as Movember. [...] Die hard adherents will allow no shaving at all to maintain the beards appearance going primarily for the mountain man look. [3]

While most variations of the rules HIGHLY discourage any trimming, shaving, or shaping of this hair, many Noshember elder statesmen will tell you that there is something to be said about standing in unity and increasing the general hairiness of November. [1]

Sources:
[1] No-Shave November - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[2] NO Shave November
[3] No Shave November - Rules and Info - Associated Content from Yahoo …
[4] NaNoWriMo No Shave November = Hairy Novel | Jann?s ‘ The …
[5] No Shave November | Official website
[6] Urban Dictionary: No Shave November

The number of homes and businesses without power on the East Coast has grown to more than 3 million as an unusually early snowstorm passes over New England. [1]

A massive power outage knocked out electricity for nearly 1.4 million customers in San Diego as well as parts of Southern Orange County, Palm Springs, and parts of Mexico Thursday. [2]

A freak early season blizzard on October 13 caused a major power outage that affected more than a million customers for up to one week in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, Canada. [3]

This will typically result in a power outage to the area supplied by these lines. [...] A power outage (also power cut, blackout or power failure) is a short- or long-term loss of the electric power to an area. [...] Examples of these causes include faults at power stations, damage to electric transmission lines, substations or other parts of the distribution system, a short circuit, or the overloading of electricity mains. [4]

A listing, by town, of total CL&P customers; the reported number of CL&P customers without power; and the percentage of CL&P customers reported without power. [5]

Those without electricity number 285,000 in New Hampshire and at least 150,000 in Maine. [...] New York City’s Central Park set a record for both the date and the month of October with 1.3 inches of snow. [1]

Facebook helps you connect and share with the people in your life. [...] A spokeswoman for the utility said a transmission line failure was to blame, and power was being routed around the damaged line. [6]

SAN DIEGO, CA - SEPTEMBER 8: Traffic is backed up after traffic lights were downt after a massive blackout hit Southern California September 8, 2011 in in San Diego, California. [2]

A snowstorm with a ferocity more familiar in February than October socked the Northeast over the weekend, knocking out power to 2.7 million, snarling air and highway travel and dumping more than 2 feet of snow in a few spots as it slowly moved north out of New England. [1]

March 1989 geomagnetic storm ‘ On March 13, a geomagnetic storm caused the Hydro-Qu?bec power failure which left 6 million people in the Canadian province of Quebec without power for 9 or more hours. [3]

The storm came on a busy weekend for many, with trick-or-treaters going door-to-door in search of Halloween booty, hunting season opening in some states and a full slate of college and pro football scheduled. [1]

Sources:
[1] Power Outages Could Last For Days After Deadly Snowstorm Hits …
[2] Massive Power Outage Hits San Diego, OC | NBC Los Angeles
[3] List of power outages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[4] Power outage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[5] Outage Map
[6] NKY Power Outage Puts 15K In Dark - Cincinnati News Story - WLWT …

On Saturday, Oct. 29, former lightweight and welterweight champion B.J. Penn retired from mixed martial arts following his main event loss to Nick Diaz at UFC 137. [1]

A former UFC lightweight and welterweight champion, BJ Penn has long been considered one of MMA’s most naturally gifted fighters as well as one of the UFC’s best draws. [2]

“I’m sure it’s constructive at times, but they light a fire under my butt,” Penn today told MMAjunkie.com Radio. [3]

BJ Penn took defeat to Nick Diaz tonight in their UFC 137 main-event clash. [4]

Ever since BJ Penn returned to the UFC welterweight division, fans around the world have wondered how the former double division champion will readjust to 170 pounds. [5]

Even after all these years, haters still dole out criticism that attack BJ Penn’s motivation, his skills, his background. [3]

Most recently, the popular Hawiian has been promoted to the main event of UFC 137 on Saturday to face ex-Strikeforce welterweight king, Nick Diaz, after welterweight champ Georges St. Pierre was forced from his fight with Carlos Condit due to a knee injury. [5]

‘UFC 137: Penn vs. Diaz’ took place this evening from the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. [4]

Penn is a former UFC welterweight and lightweight champion, one of St. Pierre’s top career rivals. [...] Diaz is looking to secure a UFC welterweight title shot against Georges St. Pierre, a fight he had scheduled before he skipped a pair of press conferences promoting the event. [6]

A former UFC Lightweight Champion and UFC Welterweight Champion, he is only the second fighter in UFC history to win titles in two different weight classes, with the first being UFC Hall of Famer Randy Couture. [7]

BJ doesn’t need to worry that Diaz will fight in the way that prompts a flare-up: the ground and pound, hold-you-down artist. [3]

Starks lands a straight right punch that is the best blow of the round three minutes in. [6]

BJ Penn fights Nick Diaz at UFC 137, Saturday, at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, live on pay-per-view. [3]

He is known for his willingness to fight anyone regardless of weight class, fighting as high as heavyweight when he competed against Lyoto Machida in 2005. [7]

Sources:
[1] B.J. Penn Retires Following UFC 137 Loss to Nick Diaz: Fan’s …
[2] BJ Penn - The Prodigy - News, Stats, Videos, Photos: MMA Fighting
[3] BJ Penn: Haters light a fire under my butt - MMA News
[4] UFC NEWS | MMA RUMORS | BJ PENN
[5] Fighters.com - BJ Penn looking forward to welcoming Nick Diaz back …
[6] UFC 137 BJ Penn vs. Nick Diaz Live Results: Cro Cop, Penn Retire …
[7] B.J. Penn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

After returning from a wedding reception, a couple staying in an isolated vacation house receive a knock on the door in the mid-hours of the night. [...] The couple find themselves in a violent struggle, in which they go beyond what either of them thought capable in order to survive. [1]

The Strangers is a 2008 American horror film written and directed by Bryan Bertino, and starring Liv Tyler, Scott Speedman, Glenn Howerton, Gemma Ward, Laura Margolis, and Kip Weeks. [...] This article is about the 2008 horror film. [2]

Wilson of the War Crimes Commission is seeking Franz Kindler, mastermind of the Holocaust, who has effectively erased his identity. [...] Professor Charles Rankin: Murder can be a chain, Mary, one link leading to another until it circles your neck. [3]

What ensues is a violent invasion by three strangers, their faces hidden behind masks. [...] On the night of February 11, 2005, Kristen McKay and James Hoyt left a friend's wedding reception and returned to the Hoyt family's summer home. [1]

Shortly after arriving in the middle of the night, a young blonde woman (Gemma Ward), whose face is obscured by low lighting, knocks on the front door asking for a Tamara, but leaves after James and Kristen tell her she is at the wrong house. [...] The trailer originally began running in theaters attached to Rogue Pictures ‘ sci-fi film Doomsday (2008) in March 2008, and television advertisements began airing on networks in early-mid April 2008 to promote the film’s May release. [2]

In one of the final scenes, when Orson Welles lifts Loretta Young one-handed into the clock tower from a ladder, this is not a special effect. [3]

On the night of February 11, 2005, Kristen McKay (Liv Tyler) and James Hoyt (Scott Speedman) return to a remote summer vacation home owned by James’s parents after attending a friend’s wedding reception. [...] The Strangers was made on a budget of $9 million and after two postponements, was released theatrically on May 30, 2008 in North America, and grossed $82.3 million at the box office worldwide. [...] It was pushed back yet one more time, and officially opened in the United States and Canada on May 30, 2008; in its opening weekend, the film grossed $20,997,985 in 2,467 theaters, ranking #3 at the box office and averaging $8,514 per theater. [2]

An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi. [3]

Sources:
[1] The Strangers (2008) - IMDb
[2] The Strangers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[3] The Stranger (1946) - IMDb

Energy efficient lighting is particularly important in the fall when Daylight Saving Time ends and the days are shorter. [1]

The end of Daylight Saving Time — this year scheduled for Sunday, Nov. 6 — makes people groan and complain, as the sun begins to set earlier and late afternoons grow dark, but researchers say that the return to natural rhythms can be healthy. [2]

Daylight Saving Time gives us the opportunity to enjoy sunny summer evenings by moving our clocks an hour forward in the spring. [3]

Daylight saving time, also know as daylight savings time, was enacted into law in 1918. [...] Spring ahead, fall back–this is how we are supposed to remember when to set our clocks for daylight saving time or DST. [4]

Benjamin Franklin first suggested Daylight Saving Time in 1784, but modern DST was not proposed until 1895 when an entomologist from New Zealand, George Vernon Hudson, presented a proposal for a two-hour daylight saving shift to the Wellington Philosophical Society. [5]

The common variants daylight savings time and daylight savings use savings by analogy to savings account. [6]

Roenneberg, lead researcher for a study of the effects of time shifts, said that humans’ biological clocks are stronger than the clocks set by Congress. [2]

The new start and stop dates were set in the Energy Policy Act of 2005. [1]

Although standard time in time zones was instituted in the U.S. and Canada by the railroads in 1883, it was not established in U.S. law until the Act of March 19, 1918, sometimes called the Standard Time Act. [7]

Germany was the first country to implement an official daylight saving time in order to conserve coal during World War I. It was not mandatory for all states to observe daylight savings time. [4]

In this ancient water clock, a series of gears rotated a cylinder to display hour lengths appropriate for each day’s date. [6]

Daylight saving time was repealed in 1919, but standard time in time zones remained in law. [...] On the first Sunday in November, clocks are set back one hour at 2:00 a.m. [...] Starting in 2007, daylight time begins in the United States on the second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November. [7]

Sources:
[1] Daylight Saving Time - Saving Time, Saving Energy
[2] Daylight Savings: Body Clocks Reset - ABC News
[3] About Daylight Saving Time - History, rationale, laws & dates
[4] Daylight Savings 2011 Ends in November - Associated Content from …
[5] What is Daylight Saving Time? - timeanddate.com
[6] Daylight saving time - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[7] When Does Daylight Saving Time Begin and End?