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Nothing is more personal than your own name. It is a part of you; it defines who you are. Besides, it’s stuck with you for life- unless you are willing to sort through the mountain of paperwork required to change it. But what’s behind a name?
Is it as simple as choosing your favorite relative and passing their name on to your son or daughter? Or can it come from something that has sentimental value to you? In some cases, people decide to take it a step further and choose very unusual names; just to be unique.
 
Celebrity parents have played a big part in this trend, and this month Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban turned heads when they settled on Sunday Rose as their daughter’s name.

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Welcome to Meet the Panelist - our new monthly feature designed to help you get to know your fellow panel members!  Each month we’ll feature a new panelist – and tell you a little bit about them.  It’s our way of giving all of our panelists a chance to get to know each other.

Meet Lyre from Alberta!

More interesting questions we asked Lyre:

Q: How many TVs do you have in your house?
A: 3
Q: If you could be any animal, what would you be?
A:An elephant.        
Q: Where’s the best place to go on a date?
A: Waterton Lakes, Alberta, Canada
Q: What do you usually eat for breakfast?
A: Rice and last night's leftovers           
Q: When you were six years old, what did you want to be when you grew up?
A: A magician  
Q: What is your favorite website?
A: www.Flickr.com   
Q: What do you like about answering surveys for i-Say?
A: Earning points for completing surveys.
Q: What do you like about being an i-Say panelist?
A: I can share my opinions.

Thanks for sharing your story with us, Lyre!

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Drop us a note at meetthepanel@ipsos.com with your name and the primary email address you use for taking i-Say surveys!

Ottawa, ON – It appears that for many families, family night means gathering around the gaming console or computer, with a new Ipsos Reid poll conducted on behalf of the Entertainment Software Association of Canada revealing that four in ten (40%) parents ‘agree’ (12% strongly/28% somewhat) that ‘video games are increasingly becoming a family activity’ in their household.

Furthermore, six in ten (57%) parents of gamers say that they play video games together with their child, with fathers (61%) being more likely than mothers (53%) to say that this is the case. In fact, four in ten (41%) ‘agree’ (6% strongly/35% somewhat) that they prefer their children to ‘play video games than watch television’.

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