Every one of us has two given names. I don’t mean first name and surname, or first and middle. I mean two entire names, each one of which represents our complete identity. These two are a sound and an image, or a spoken name and a written name.
We think of these names as being one. My name is Laura, whether I type it to you in this blog or speak it to you on the phone. But in fact they are two, linked but distinct.
Let’s say your name, spoken, is “IZ-ə-behl.” That’s a familiar and fashionable classic. It’s usually represented by the letter string Isabel or Isabelle, but in the past decade thousands of girls have also been given the written names Isabell, Isobel, Izabel, Izabelle, Izzabelle and more.
Or let’s say your name, written, is Helena.
Venezuela’s president has mused that the US may have given him and other leftist leaders cancer. That’s unlikely to be possible
Five South American presidents and former presidents, including Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, have been recently diagnosed with cancer. Chavez speculated that US agents may be inducing the disease in South American leaders by feeding them or injecting them with an unspecified substance. The state department has rejected Chavez’s insinuation.
Can you give someone cancer? Not reliably. Injecting cancerous cells into a person isn’t enough to give him the disease. The abnormal tissue has to penetrate and grow in other areas of the body.
Happy New Year! The last year has flown by for a lot of us, in some ways, and really dragged in others, especially if your baby hasnt been sleeping. When youre not getting good sleep, days feel terribly long, sometimes. You know what Im talking about if your baby was part of the Massive Recall of 2011 Babies. Its time to take a look into our future and see what we can do to improve sleep in 2012! Here are 7 tips to make sure 2012 is a year of better baby sleep for your baby and your whole family:
All babies will not sleep through the night at the same age, weight, or other arbitrary quality.
Are you not feeling confident? Have you been going through a phase of low self esteem and self worth? Do you think that your lack of confidence has anything to do with your physical appearance? Well if yes is the answer to the above questions, then you do not need to worry anymore as all you have to is visit a cosmetic surgery clinic near you and get a consultation with a specialised surgeon. It so happens that people who are obese and fat tend to have lower confidence with respect to their size and physical attributes. If you have been working out and there has not been any noticeable change in the body structure, even then you do not need to worry and crib over it.
Today the medical world is filled with different kinds of treatment that can ensure that you can get the excess fat around your waist or thigh removed by surgical methods. Read more…
Our first runner-up for Name of the Year was a fashion phenom. Our second is a phenomenon of a very different sort:
Mark Zuckerberg.
No, not Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg the name. The name that got Mark Zuckerberg, a bankruptcy attorney from Indianapolis, kicked off of Facebook.
This name stands as a symbol of the year’s biggest ongoing name story, the growing tension between online and “real world” identities. Some 2011 highlights:
May: Indiana Attorney Mark Zuckerberg finds his Facebook account has been shut down. He’s done nothing wrong, he’s using his real identity and photo, but his name alone made him persona non grata in the social network.
Today’s topic comes courtesy of my daughter, who woke up in the middle of the night last night with a random observation: “Hey! I just realized that Bob the Builder and Barack Obama have the same motto!”
I’ve written at some length (1, 2) about the name Barack Obama and all it signifies. I have never written a word about cartoon construction mogul Bob the Builder. Because, you know, his name is Bob. And he builds stuff.
But Bob is an international phenomenon, and his name is a perfect testbed for the process of literary name translation. The Bob the Builder name has three components:
1. The guy’s name is Bob.
2. He’s a builder.
3. Alliteration.
Don’t underestimate that third component.
Losing weight has always been one of the toughest tasks to achieve for many especially those looking to lose weight relatively quickly but the fact remains that there is no quick way in which one can just lose weight instantly. One should surely spend some time and energy in order to achieve the same. The best methods involve a proper and healthy diet, good exercise and any other supplements to add to help one losing weight. More people try mostly proper diet and exercise without much visible result, but from my own experience described below, I would strongly advice anyone to go for the protein and creatine supplements along with the regular diet and exercise plan to see the 100% visible results in terms of getting into perfect shape and size.
I myself has tried to lose weight and get in perfect shape and have been almost fully successful in achieving the same.