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The National Do Not Call List (DNCL) is now in effect. This gives you the consumer a choice about whether to receive telemarketing calls. The National DNCL Rules introduce new responsibilities for Canada’s telemarketers. Registered charities are still legally able to contact you but you can choose to reduce the number of telemarketing calls you receive by registering your residential, wireless, fax or VoIP telephone number on the National DNCL.

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It’s getting to be that time of year again. Halloween is on a Friday this year so a lot more grown up ghosts and goblins will join the fun. We thought we would get you into the “spirit” with a ghostly encounter at a Kansas gym. Have a boo at the video below and judge for yourself![youtube suFfI0R4vhQ]

We mentioned this morning on the show the fact that some full grown people still pronounce the word “tiger” as “tagger”. We didn’t have a real problem with it and actually thought it was kind of cute. We were surprised after when that comment really opened up the floodgates and we started getting calls from people who had pet peeves about other mispronunciations. One big one was the word “kilometer”. Have a look at the video below for a very detailed explanation of how the word is supposed to be said!

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Luther College in Regina was the scene of some tense moments yesterday as an angry young man burst into the gym during mass and threatened staff and students with a gun. View the dramatic video here.

Thanks very much to Jarrod for sending us a photo he took of the Snowbirds on Sunday for their BC 150 show.  Amazing!

You may have heard us talk to Jimmy about the Microsoft ad featuring Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates. People thought they were long and very unfunny. Microsoft has decided to pull the campaign. As Jimmy said “This is what happens when you put two people in a room together with too much money and time on their hands. Have a look at one of their longest ads and you be the judge.

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TODAY’S RAP SHEET FOR MONDAY SEPTEMBER 22ND, 2008: Hello Fall!! As of 8:44 this morning, and because this was a leap year, the change of the season was pushed back by about a day. It’s the earliest autumnal equinox in at least 6 years. Weather “experts” say that we had a pretty normal, typical summer, except for about 2 weeks in August…some nice stretches of sunny weather in July and the 1st two weeks of September. If your hoping for an Indian Summer, apparently, the long range forecast is for cooler than normal weather. Definitely cooler and windier as October gets here.

Thought of the day: People don’t change when they see the light. They change when they feel the heat! Or Yoda says: There is either do or not do, there is NO try.

They figure there were about 20 to 30 thousand people around Dallas Road and Clover Point to see the spectacular Snow Birds perform. Wasn’t that amazing! The show was less than 45 minutes, but the traffic hangover continued for at least 2 hours after.

The Victoria Rock n Roll Hall of Fame Awards were held at the Strathcona Hotel. Everyone from Valdy to Red Robinson to The Brothers’ Forbes were back at Element NightClub for the recognition they deserved. There were some of the legends who shaped Victoria music industry, and a great time was had by all.

New season of Dancing with the Stars on tv tonight. Cloris Leachman at 82 with be the official oldest person to ever participate in the show, Susan Lucci at 61 is also taking part. Other stars include Toni Braxton, Ted McGinley and Cody Linley of Hannah Montana fame is the youngest at 18.

One scandal after another with this election…..couldn’t help but notice the story of the candidate from Saanich-Gulf Islands who tore off his clothes, taking part in a body painting event, then went for a skinny-dip in the lake back in 1996. Ya have to know that someone has it on video, and it WILL come back to haunt you!!! Always remember that when running for office.

If your a Yankee fan, the legendary Yankee Stadium in the Bronx is now history. They played the last game yesterday, and will move right across the street to the new one. It was quite a send off, legend look-a-likes paraded around the field in old Yankee uniforms like Babe Ruth and Joe DiMaggio…in fact, Babe Ruth’s daughter threw out the first pitch. Yankee Stadium saw it’s first game in the 1920′s.

If it works, it could be one of the most profound scientific discoveries in history. Really amazing stuff…deep underground near a small French village, scientists from all over the world have launched the Large Hadron Collider, and its purpose is simple but ambitious: to crack the code of the physical world; to figure out what the universe is made of. If all goes right, matter will be transformed by violent collisions into wads of energy, which will in turn condense back into various intriguing types of particles, some of them never seen before. That’s the essence of experimental particle physics: You smash stuff together and see what other stuff comes out. They don’t call them the God particles for nothing… Have a look at the video and see what they are up to….

What’s in a name? Or better yet, where is your name from. Click here, then type in your surname and this nifty little gizmo will give you the origins of your last name and a snap shot of what countries, regions and towns have the most people with it. It’s really interesting. As for our names, Forbes is big in Australia, New Zealand, the U.S., the UK and Canada. Oddly enough, the same goes for Marshall.

This sent in by a a listener, Donald. It’s an ”aawww” moment!