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Most Popular Names For Newborn Ontario Girls And Boys

The infamous 'New Year Baby/Angel" cover of Van Halen's 1984 album- What name did Edward Van Halen choose for his son? Wolfgang!

Olivia has been the favourite name for girls since 2008, followed by the same
second, third and fourth place names from last year — Emma, Sophia and Ava. Emily joins the ranks to round out the top five. For boys, Ethan, Jacob and Lucas once again took spots two through four, with Benjamin coming in at five.

 

Ontario gives parents up to one year to register their newborn’s birth online.
Through the easy-to-use 4-in-1 Newborn Bundle<http://www.ontario.ca/government/register-your-newborn-baby>, they can register their child’s birth and apply for their birth certificate, social insurance number and Canada child benefits, including the Ontario child benefit, in one easy step. Birth certificates ordered online are guaranteed to be mailed within 15 business days or they’re free.

 

 

Making it easier for families to access important government services when and where they need them is part of the Ontario government’s economic plan to invest in people, build modern infrastructure and support a dynamic and innovative business climate.
QUOTES

“Parents can register their newly named babies online from the comfort of their own homes. By making it more convenient for families to access our services, we are helping new parents focus on what’s really important.”
— John Milloy, Minister of Government Services

QUICK FACTS

§  More than 99.5 per cent of birth certificates ordered online have been delivered on time.
§  The Ontario Registrar General compiles annual lists of given baby names from registered births in the province for the previous year.
§  ServiceOntario’s 4-in-1 Newborn Bundle was the first of its kind in Canada when it launched in 2007. Since then, more than 720,000 newborns have been registered in Ontario using the service.
§  The Ontario child
benefit<http://www.children.gov.on.ca/htdocs/English/topics/financialhelp/ocb/index.aspx>
provides up to $1,210 per child per year for nearly one million children to support Ontario families.

LEARN MORE

§  Facts and stats about babies born in Ontario<http://ontario.ca/bklf>.
§  Baby names are just one of the government data sets online at
Ontario.ca/opendata<https://www.ontario.ca/government/government-ontario-open-data>.
§  ServiceOntario provides more than 40
services<http://www.ontario.ca/government/services> online.

 

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Olivia et Liam sont les prénoms les plus populaires pour les filles et pour les
garçons nés en Ontario, et ce, pour la deuxième année de suite.

 

Olivia est le prénom préféré pour les petites filles depuis 2008. En deuxième,
troisième et quatrième place, il est suivi par les mêmes prénoms que l’an dernier,
soit Emma, Sophia et Ava. Emily s’ajoute à ce palmarès et figure en cinquième place.
Pour les garçons, ce sont les prénoms Ethan, Jacob et Lucas qui l’emportent encore
une fois, en deuxième, troisième et quatrième place respectivement. Ils sont suivis
de Benjamin, qui se classe au cinquième rang.

L’Ontario donne jusqu’à un an aux parents pour enregistrer la naissance de leur enfant par Internet. Grâce au Service d’enregistrement des
nouveau-nés<http://www.ontario.ca/fr/gouvernement/enregistrement-de-votre-nouveaune>,
facile à utiliser, ils peuvent enregistrer la naissance de leur enfant, demander un
extrait de naissance, un numéro d’assurance sociale et leurs prestations pour
enfants du gouvernement fédéral, le tout en une seule étape toute simple. Les
extraits de naissance commandés en ligne sont postés dans les 15 jours ouvrables suivant la commande, et le tout est garanti. En cas de retard, l’extrait de naissance est gratuit.

Offrir aux familles un accès plus facile aux services gouvernementaux au moment et à l’endroit où ils en ont besoin fait partie du plan du gouvernement en matière d’économie visant à investir dans la population, à bâtir une infrastructure moderne et à soutenir un climat d’affaires dynamique et innovateur dans l’ensemble de
l’Ontario.
CITATION
« Les parents peuvent enregistrer en ligne leur bébé avec son prénom sans avoir à sortir de la maison. En facilitant l’accès à nos services pour les familles, nous aidons les nouveaux parents à se concentrer sur ce qui compte vraiment. »
– John Milloy, ministre des Services gouvernementaux.

FAITS EN BREF
§  Plus de 99,5 % des extraits de naissance commandés en ligne ont été livrés à temps.
§  Le registraire général de l’Ontario compile des listes annuelles des prénoms à partir des naissances inscrites dans la province au cours de l’année précédente.
§  Le Service d’enregistrement des
nouveau-nés<http://www.ontario.ca/fr/gouvernement/enregistrement-de-votre-nouveaune>
4 en 1 de ServiceOntario a été le premier du genre au Canada lors de son lancement, en 2007. Depuis, plus de 720 000 nouveau-nés ont été enregistrés en Ontario à l’aide de ce service.
§  La Prestation ontarienne pour
enfants<http://www.children.gov.on.ca/htdocs/French/topics/financialhelp/ocb/index.aspx>
verse jusqu’à 1 210 $ par enfant, par année à près d’un million d’enfants pour
soutenir les familles ontariennes.

POUR EN SAVOIR PLUS
§  Faits et statistiques sur les bébés nés en Ontario<http://ontario.ca/bklh>.
§  En savoir plus sur Service d’enregistrement des
nouveau-nés<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlEfw3bRaB8&feature=youtu.be>.
§  Les noms des bébés ne sont qu’une partie des ensembles de données offerts en
ligne par le gouvernement à
Ontario.ca/donnéesourvertes<https://www.ontario.ca/fr/gouvernement/gouvernement-dontario-donnees-ouvertes>.
§  ServiceOntario offre plus de 40
services<http://www.ontario.ca/government/services> en ligne.

 

Reflecting On Baumgartner’s Free Fall Attempt From The Edge Of Space

Tune in here on Tuesday October 9th and watch Felix Baumgartner make his record freefall attempt.

It’s October 5, 2012 and Felix Baumgartner is about to smash the 50+ year old free fall height record and break the sound barrier along the way.

Using a lighter-than-air balloon for the ascent stage, Baumgartner will float above Roswell, New Mexico, USA  to the edge of space and then open the door of his pressurized capsule. It will be one small step for a man, and one giant fall for Felix and one giant marketing coup for RedBull.

When I was a fellow at the Canadian Film Centre’s New Media Lab  in 2009, I was asked to make three predictions about future ‘real-life’ trends. Near the top of my list was increasingly ‘extreme’ extreme sports. I think I have gotten that one right, and if you’d like to know what the other two were drop me an email.  With each leap in technology, mankind has been able to attempt more extreme feats. Technology has allowed us, the viewer, to live directly through real life participants much more vicariously than ever before, and mainstream virtual reality is just around the corner.  Like a feedback loop, technology pushes the boundaries of what the human mind can conceive and what the human body can accomplish. Symbiotically, as we achieve more and more incredible feats, technology is utilized to not only showcase these feats but to instill an empowerment. More on this later….

In the early decades of the last century, extreme sports included seemingly placid activities when viewed with today’s sensibilities.  Consider these examples: crossing the English Channel by airplane, modifying an automobile with solid rockets to reach a speed of 100 miles per hour, diving into the sea from a height of one hundred feet. In their allotted place in time, these activities were considered to be incredibly extreme and borderline committable.

Technology at that time meant that in order for a viewer to share in the participant’s experience, the viewer needed to read about the event in the newspaper, listen to the event on the radio or visit the event in person. This was a time of great internal imagination as methods and technologies in play were mystical and were not an everyday occurrence in those viewers lives. That being said, the crossing of the English Channel by airplane and other flights of fancy were made possible due to “magical signals traveling through the ether”.  Aka: wireless radio technology.  A pilot was now able to fly by honing in on radio signals. This same technology was used to broadcast news of the flight and this connectedness via the same technology  may not be symbiosis in the traditional ecological sense but is most certainly a form of  extreme mutualism. (Spinoza’s Theory of Imagination says essentially the same thing in his Extended Pattern Preservation Doctrine: The persistence of an individual [replace ‘individual’ with ‘same technology’] through time consists not in the sameness of underlying substance but, insofar as it is conceived through extension, in the persistence of a distinctive pattern of communication among moving parts. *

Our era  is markedly different.

It is one of internal and external  imagination. When Felix Baumgartner rides to the edge of space, we get to ride with him. We can watch a live stream of his progress, observe his ‘vital stats’: real-time mission statistics by watching the graphics on our smart device. We can hear the banter between mission control and Felix. We are in effect Felix Baumgartner’s mute passenger.  (We will be hosting the LIVE feed right here in this post at the window below. UPDATE due to high winds today’s rescheduled attempt has been postponed until further notice. Check #freefall on Twitter for latest updates. )

This is a much more immediate and virtual form of reality and the excitement is compounded by our anxiety and our sense of power.

We sense our power because we have the very same technology that makes this attempt possible.  If you happen to be a regular watcher of a reality television show involving a performance and a smartphone voting system you are essentially experiencing an empowerment.  You hold in your hands an actual component of the program and take part in a communal experience.  This is not just “must see t.v.”, this is  “must do t.v.”

“Fearless” Felix

Much like NASA and the current MARS mission,  Baumgartner’s team and sponsor Redbull have come to understand the necessity for hype and sensationalism in order to draw attention to their work and secure future projects. If no bucks=no Buck Rogers, then no Buck Rogers= no bucks.

Gemini and Apollo astronaut Gus Grissom. RIP Gus.

Really though, it’s not an economic strategy that I wish to point out here.

It’s the potential for an economic strategy, the potential for a social strategy, the potential for an emotional strategy and in fact all the potential strategies that our digital age has room for. Extreme human activities are by their very nature extremely emotional. They connect with us on a deep rooted, conscious and subconscious level. It’s like a modern incarnation of the primitive hunt or the ancient journey.

The development of economy and a look at where experience currently influences commerce.

If you choose to experience Felix Baumgartner’s highest free fall record attempt live on your smart device or project it into your living room like we are planning on doing here at the Silo office- you will be transformed on some level. (In the marketing and advertising world this is known as Pine and Gilmore’s Experience Economy.) That’s probably due to the fact that the natural environment, though beautiful, is incredibly dangerous and deadly and throughout our development as we have come to dominate this planet, we have developed and conquered by using technology. Is it incredulous to suggest that by using our smart device to experience these dangerous feats, we are in fact celebrating mankind’s conquering of danger and nature through technology? The very technology that we now hold in our hands? For the Silo, Jarrod Barker.

* Representation and Consciousness in Spinoza’s Naturalistic Theory of the Imagination, D. Garrett, New York University