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Halloween is a 1978 American independent horror film directed, produced, and scored by John Carpenter, co-written with Debra Hill, and starring Donald Pleasence and Jamie Lee Curtis in her film debut and the first installment in the Halloween franchise. [1]

Michael Myers is the antagonist in all of the films except Halloween III: Season of the Witch, the story of which has no direct connection to any other Halloween film in the series. [...] The franchise focuses on the fictional character of Michael Myers who was committed to a sanitarium as a child for the murder of his older sister, Judith Myers. [...] The original Halloween, released in 1978, was written by John Carpenter and Debra Hill, and directed by Carpenter. [2]

Don’t forget to check your local library for any of these movies, they can be a great source for videos. [3]

Michael’s psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis suspects Michael’s intentions, and follows him to Haddonfield to try to prevent him from killing. [1]

Fifteen years later, he escapes to stalk and kill the people of Haddonfield, Illinois while being chased by his former psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis. [2]

Continuity: As Laurie and Annie walk home from classes together and Laurie points out the figure peering at them from behind the bush, the scene shows that the Sun is setting behind the houses as Annie pursues the unknown figure. [4]

Fifteen years later, Michael (Nick Castle and Tony Moran) escapes and returns to his hometown where he stalks Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) and her friends as they babysit. [2]

A ghost therapist and his daughter move into a haunted mansion to sweep out the ghosts so the greedy owners can get a hidden treasure. [3]

Several of Halloween’s techniques and plot elements, although not founded in this film, have nonetheless become a standard slasher movie trope. [1]

Universal Studios Home Video Rating: Price: $34.99 Description: In this fine sequel to the classic Frankenstein film (and precursor to The House Of Frankenstein in 1944), Having escaped the fiery castle that threatened to engulf him at the end of the 1931 horror classic Frankenstein, the monster is back. [...] All, that is, except for Linus, who firmly believes that this year the Great Pumpkin will finally visit his humble pumpkin patch. [3]

He knows Michael is coming back to Haddonfield, but by the time the town realizes it, it'll be to late for many people. [4]

Halloween is an American horror franchise that consists of ten slasher films, novels, and comic books. [2]

Sources:
[1] Halloween (1978 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[2] Halloween (franchise) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[3] Halloween Movies - All Family Resources - a guide to resources …
[4] Halloween (1978) - IMDb

Share your photos from the first snow of the season! [1]

After Hurricane Irene reeked havoc along the shores of North Carolina, she is/was well on the move up the coast. [2]

We have improved the coverage of weather locations. [3]

Everyone was telling me today: “Oh, WeatherWoman, it is just ONLY a Category 1, and we in Central Jersey ONLY have tropical storm warnings! [2]

During this weekend’s broadcast of ‘The McLaughlin Group,’ host John McLaughlin asked his panel about what would happen to Occupy Wall Street as its novelty wears off and the weather gets colder. [4]

In the end, he determined they were right: Temperatures really are rising rapidly. [...] A prominent physicist and skeptic of global warming spent two years trying to find out if mainstream climate scientists were wrong. [3]

Amid mixed reactions, conservative MSNBC contributor Pat Buchanan described a scenario where freezing temperatures bring out the movement’s violent side. [4]

This storm is huge (literally) and is packing tropical storm force winds 200 miles away from the eye of the hurricane! [...] Flooding WILL occur, and will be a major problem for highly prone flooding areas, especially due to the forecast of prolonged tropical rain. [...] Major kudos to the forecastors and broadcasters and Emergency Management officials that took all the sleepless, wall-pounding frustrating hours warning people of what could happen and pretty much save all these people! [2]

Forecast: Enter City Or Zip, Print out. [5]

It is still early enough for the storm to strengthen because the ocean waters along the coasts of South and North Carolina are in the middle 80s just adding more fuel to the hurricane which is forecasted to strengthen to a category 4 due to these warmer waters. [...] Ocean temperatures this time of year typically run in the 60s, but they are have 5-10 plus degrees higher. [...] This ridge will be over the Mid-Atlantic states towards the end of the week packing the heat the Central Plains have been having, where they have had temperatures in the 80 and 90 with heat indices in the 100s+ in the mornings! [2]

Sources:
[1] New Jersey Local News, Breaking News, Sports & Weather - NJ.com
[2] New Jersey Weather
[3] New Jersey - New Brunswick Weather Forecasts | Maps | News …
[4] Jersey City - New Jersey Weather Forecasts | Maps | News - Yahoo …
[5] New Jersey weather forecast with local weather reports …

The main purpose of Daylight Saving Time (called “Summer Time” in many places in the world) is to make better use of daylight. [1]

But another report published in 2008 by the U.S. Department of Energy concluded 4 weeks extra of daylight savings time could conserve 1.3 trillion watt-hours per day, enough to power 100,000 homes for a year, reports Scientific American. [2]

The common variants daylight savings time and daylight savings use savings by analogy to savings account. [3]

In fact, Daylight Saving Time (DST) comes to an end on the morning of Sunday, November 6, when you move the clocks back one hour. [2]

Proponents argued that the shift would reduce America’s energy consumption during that period about 1 percent. [4]

Thirty years later the Energy Policy Act of 2005 was enacted, mandating a controversial monthlong extension of daylight saving time, starting in 2007. [5]

Daylight Saving Time (or summertime as it is called in many countries) is a way of getting more light out of the day by advancing clocks by one hour during the summer. [6]

In this ancient water clock, a series of gears rotated a cylinder to display hour lengths appropriate for each day’s date. [3]

The extended DST began back in 2007, after the U.S. Energy Policy Act of 2005 came into effect and the clocks were set back one hour on the first Sunday of November instead of the last Sunday of October, reports International Business Times. [2]

In the U.S. a federal law standardized the yearly start and end of daylight saving time in 1918′for the states that chose to observe it. [5]

The conception of DST was mainly credited to an English builder, William Willett in 1905, when he presented the idea to advance the clock during the summer months. [6]

Kellogg and Wolff came to their conclusion by studying Australia, where several states extended daylight-saving time (DST for short) by two months in 2000 to accommodate the Olympic Games in Sydney that year. [4]

Daylight saving time was repealed in 1919, but standard time in time zones remained in law. [...] 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]

While no major disruptions are expected, one analyst estimated to ABC News that American companies were spending $2 billion checking and updating all those devices. [4]

Sources:
[1] What is Daylight Savings Time? | ELEV8
[2] Daylight Savings 2011: When It Ends And Why We Use it
[3] Daylight saving time - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[4] Will the Daylight Savings Shift Do Us Any Good? - ABC News
[5] Daylight Saving Time 2011: Why and When Does It Begin?
[6] What is Daylight Saving Time? - timeanddate.com
[7] When Does Daylight Saving Time Begin and End?

MMA Nation provides live results and play-by-play of the entire UFC 137: Penn vs. Diaz fight card. [1]

LAS VEGAS ‘ MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) was on scene and reporting live from today’s official UFC 137 fighter weigh-ins, where headliners B.J. Penn and Nick Diaz made weight before a brief scuffle. [2]

UFC 137 goes down tomorrow night at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, and the card will feature a main event between former UFC champion B.J. Penn and former Strikeforce champion Nick Diaz. [3]

Cesar Gracie, manager of Nick Diaz, is trying to bait BJ Penn into taking a five-round bout in the main event of UFC 137. [...] St. Pierre was originally slated to face Nick Diaz to unify the UFC and Strikeforce welterweight championships, but Diaz was pulled from the bout after failing to appear at both the Canadian and Las Vegas press conferences to promote UFC 137. [4]

UFC 137 keeps on surprising… hear from Dana White, Nick Diaz, Cheick Kongo, Roy Nelson, Hatsu Hioki, Donald Cerrone and Bart Palaszewski at the post-fight press conference. [5]

The five-round title fight has been postponed and will take place at a later date. [4]

BJ Penn talks about his fight with Nick Diaz and his career in the UFC. [5]

Other main card bouts include Cheick Kongo vs. Matt Mitrione, Mirko Cro Cop vs. Roy Nelson, Hatsu Hioki vs. George Roop and Scott Jorgensen vs. Jeff Curran. [3]

Also appearing on the card are Roy Nelson, Cheick Kongo, Matt Mitrione, Mirko ‘CroCop’ Filipovic and others. [1]

Penn weighed 169 pounds and Diaz 170 pounds, but when the fighters went nose to nose during the customary face-off, things became heated and required quick intervention as shoving broke out. [...] In other action, a slimmed-down Roy Nelson weighed 252 pounds but drew some laughs when he wore a fat suit to the scale. [2]

Diaz is currently riding a 10-fight win streak, while Penn is 1-2-1 in his last four fights. [...] Diaz’s most recent fight came against heavy-handed striker Paul Daley, who he knocked out in the first round. [3]

UFC 137: ‘St. Pierre vs. Condit’ will take place Oct. 29 from the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas Nevada. [4]

Sources:
[1] UFC 137 Results And Play-By-Play: Penn Vs. Diaz - MMA Nation
[2] UFC 137 live and official weigh-in results | MMAjunkie.com
[3] UFC 137 Official Weigh-in Results | Bleacher Report
[4] UFC 137 Results, Fight Card and News - SB Nation MMA
[5] The Official Website of the Ultimate Fighting Championship? (UFC)

The dark journeys into faux psychosis (”American Psycho,” “Devils Night”)–still there. [1]

“Devil’s Night” in Detroit “officially” happens every October 30th, the night before Halloween. [2]

Devil’s Night in Detroit can probably be traced back to mid-1880s Ireland, where the night of mischief was originally attributed to fairies and goblins. [3]

Based on the number of fire calls, officials said it appeared that Detroit had suffered one of its worst nights since the late 1980’s. [4]

Traditionally, the youths of the city engaged in a single night of petty criminal behavior, usually acts of vandalism such as throwing eggs at homes or pedestrians, scribbling windows with soap bars or stringing trees with toilet paper. [5]

And, while street gangs have usually been blamed for the rampant arson and vandalism, there have also been many cases of deliberate insurance fraud-based arson and vandalism that has been perpetuated on October 30th by business owners setting their own buildings and automobiles on fire. [2]

Traditionally, city youths engaged in a night of criminal behavior, which usually consisted of acts of vandalism (such as egging, soaping or waxing windows and doors, leaving rotten vegetables or flaming bags of animal feces on front porch stoops, or toilet papering trees and shrubs). [6]

In spite of the notoriety of Devil’s Night, Detroit is not the only region to experience an escalation from pranks to arson on October, 30th. [3]

Although the number of fires has decreased since the 1984 peak, the Detroit firefighters union has stated that official statistics reflect much higher numbers. [2]

The night before Halloween, October 30th, has traditionally been a night of pranks and mischief in much of the Midwest and some of the northeastern United States, as well as some parts of Canada. [3]

The destruction reached a peak in the mid- to late-1980s, with more than 800 fires set in 1984, and 500 to 800 fires in the three days and nights before Halloween in a typical year. [6]

A 1-year-old girl died in a fire in a suburb, although the authorities were uncertain if the blaze was related to Devil’s Night. [4]

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Mayor Archer, who had hoped to proclaim an end to “Devil’s Night” in Detroit this year, called the sharp increase in fires a disappointment. [4]

Sources:
[1] Amazon.com: Devil’s Night: D12: Music
[2] Devil’s Night - A Uniquely Detroit “Celebration” - Associated …
[3] Devil’s Night in Detroit - History of Devil’s Night in Detroit
[4] Hundreds of Fires Light Up Devil’s Night in Detroit - New York Times
[5] DAMNED : Devil’s Night
[6] Devil’s Night - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia