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JinkoSolar seals 2,750-MW solar panel deal with NextEra Energy
JinkoSolar, a leading solar module manufacturer, has signed a 2,750-MW solar panel supply deal with NextEra Energy, the world's most valuable utility company, JinkoSolar has announced in a statement.
The 2,750-MW supply deal ranks as the largest single solar panel supply deal in history, the company noted in its statement.
As the world's most valuable utilities company with market capitalization of over 73 billion USD, NextEra Energy operates approximately 47,000 megawatts of net generating capacity and employs approximately 14,000 people in 33 states in Canada and the USA.
NextEra Energy is a global leader in renewable energy and has plans to own 7,000 MW of solar and wind generation capacity by 2020.
JinkoSolar provides a combination of state-of-the-art solar technology, high-quality products, localized service, and supreme project bankability.
The joining of two major renewable companies not only has further enhanced the position of both parties in the solar industry, but, in the long run, will lead to lower cost of production and, subsequently, generate greater customer demand for stable and reasonable energy prices, the JinkoSolar statement noted.
The partnership between the two leaders of the industry enables highly visible synergies and creates win-win situation, enabling the continued sustainable growth of both parties, the statement stressed.
"As NextEra Energy continues to invest heavily in new solar projects across the country, we're thrilled to have the opportunity to buy cost-effective, reliable solar panels made here in America. JinkoSolar shares our commitment to delivering affordable clean energy solutions," said Jim Robo, NextEra Energy's chairman and CEO.
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"Considering that the US is one of our most important markets, the company highly values the development of long-term strategic partnerships in the US. This partnership with NextEra is built upon a mutually shared vision and management belief in sustainable development. The high bankability of the JinkoSolar products, superior JinkoSolar service, and esteem industry reputation was a foundational catalyst to this partnership," the JinkoSolar CEO added.


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Hope you had a Merry Fishmas
On Christmas Day, James and I went to Ueno Zoo. It was a short trip away and a good way to spend a lazy afternoon.
We saw lots of animals, especially some we hadn't seen in other zoos. We saw a toucan (several of them actually), armadillos (one rolled up sleeping and another one running around everywhere), meerkats, a polar bear playing with a rubber cone, some lazy seals and a lot of birds. I think the cutest animals we saw were two nocturnal leopard cats who were chasing after each other.
Lazy sea lions
I think these were tapirs?
A goat of sorts. We were allowed to touch them as long as we washed our hands
They were pretty cute and lazy
Rooster!
Meerkat standing
Meerkat curled up
Giant tortoise from side
Giant tortoise from above
That evening we went to eat ramen, which completely beats the ramen back at home. I think Sydney does a crappy job of veggie ramen, because a lot of the time it is like instant noodles and tastes terrible. It also has the tendency to make me feel sick. There are many different types of ramen broth, and eateries in Japan often specialise in only one or two types. Types include shio (generally just salt), miso (soy bean paste, like miso soup) and tonkatsu (pork).
I had dipping ramen (otherwise known as tsukumen) made with pork broth, and I loved the ramen because it actually had some flavour I could appreciate. I don't normally like pork broth (I haven't liked the taste of pork since before I became pescetarian), so I didn't drink up all the soup.
On Boxing Day we went to Tokyo Disneyland. It was quite expensive at ¥6200, but we were curious as to what it was like, since it is such a popular tourist attraction. It wasn't quite the fun and enjoyment we expected, particularly because of the lines. We couldn't tell whether it was a school day or not. In Japan, I get the impression that a lot of school students wear their uniform even when they are not going to school. The place was completely packed, and all in all, there were more shops than actual rides. We went on a mountain ride that was a lot of fun, but we waited a total of two hours to get on the ride. The line was very long, with at least a hundred people in it at the one time. The ride was worth it, but after that, waiting in line was certainly not enjoyable. If Japanese people are used to waiting, they are certainly very patient. After walking around and seeing any sign that indicated a wait over thirty minutes, we weren't interested. The signs were ridiculously accurate. We were going to go on a space shuttle ride but the wait was 130 minutes. The people who work there must surely be used to the long lines.
Entrance to Disneyland
Tokyo Disneyland!
After going through the gates. It was the 30th anniversary
Map and day pass
One of the various eateries inside. A waffle shop
Mickey Mouse waffle
We walked in and out of gift and souvenir stores, mainly because I wanted a hat with Mickey Mouse ears to wear as a beanie. But they all looked pretty tacky and were overpriced. I expected that, but I guess the whole experience had overwhelmed me for a day. I already thought about going back home to an ordinary theme park, then it occurred to me that I don't really like theme parks in general… someone will probably strap me to a rollercoaster for that statement. I do like the rollercoasters I have been on, though. Maybe I just don't like waiting for rides. Ahhaa.
The day after that we went to Shinagawa Aquarium. It was marvellous, and more interesting than the one in Sydney. I liked the overall ambience of the place and it felt more lively. The Sydney one is a bit dark in comparison. You can see some of the fish photos I took below. The lighting made it quite a breeze to get these shots.
During our visit we saw a sea lion show. The sea lions caught hula hoops, threw basketballs into hoops and did handstands. There were also a couple of other demonstrations of feeding fish and watching fish swim through hoops to get food.
The next day we went to Mount Takao. My hip has been hurting for a week or two now, only when I walk uphill. I am fine walking long distances on level ground. I might get it checked out when I get back home. Mount Takao was very steep so I walked rather slow, but it felt good to be walking most of the way.
Since we arrived in Tokyo, we have been walking back to our apartment from Tokyo station. It is just a few kilometres, but is still a great and rewarding walk. :3
Yesterday we went to the rural town of Nikko, which is a town known for its cultural heritage with its shrines and temples, but mostly enjoyed the sights. Entry to the shrines was quite expensive so we just visited the garden and a small gallery of paintings and old historic artifacts. As usual, we browsed the shops around the area as well.
Most shops and eateries seem to be closed around new year, so we will have a few lazy days at the apartment making our own soba and cleaning up for our last few days at a hotel in Shinjuku. In Japan, not much is done for new year. There are no huge celebrations or countdowns, but the Japanese acknowledge and celebrate "firsts" such as the first sunrise (Hatsuhinode), first visit to a temple, first letters, and so on. New year is a time during which Japanese people mostly spend time with their families, welcoming in the new year and reminiscing over the year gone by.
Hope you had a Merry Fishmas. Love from your favourite pescetarian.
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30 December 2013, 9:17pm
Nope, those aren't tapirs, they're capybaras! Tapirs have dark skin and have snouts, and they look like pigs. Capybaras are rodents — the largest kind in the world.
Is that a sea urchin next to the sea anemone in the first picture of it, and a starfish in the second? XD
And I believe that's an axolotl, the salamander-looking animal! I just learned that the axolotl is in fact an amphibian, and in fact all salamanders are amphibians! The axolotl just happens to be a species that remains aquatic throughout its life, retaining its gills even through adulthood. From Wikipedia:
Axolotls are unusual among amphibians in that they reach adulthood without undergoing metamorphosis. Instead of developing lungs and taking to land, the adults remain aquatic and gilled.
They may look unusual, but it's not a monstrous kind of unusual, more of an endearing kind :) The one thing that fascinates me about marine life is that there are possibly many orders of magnitude more marine species than land species, that come in all shapes and sizes — and not necessarily in the form of a fish, either. Considering just how many different varieties of fish alone you photographed (which are all beautiful), that's saying a lot about the rest!
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31 December 2013, 6:38am
First: I LOVE your fish photos, all of them, they are so well captured!!! The shark looks freaky with that look on his eyes..
I'm not particularly fond of theme parks either, and usually think they're just too much. Plus I don't like roller coasters and the likes.
Zoos instead, I love them, we have some of them around but I haven't been to one for ages.
31 December 2013, 11:55am
The lines over here at Disneyland are ridiculously long as well, but as of late, because of the ticket prices going up, it's been declining in the wait. I think I've only waited in line for about 30 minutes. It goes by real fast. Not sure how it was over there.
Those pictures are awesome! That shark looks more scared than the person taking the picture of the shark. You can just read his expression as "Oh snap! A human!" Could just be me though.
I'm glad you're having a blast over there in Tokyo. Just to let you know — people in Japan celebrates Christmas more than they do New Years. In fact I do believe that they shut everything down as a means to escape to see family and what not for at least a week. I could be wrong about that, but I was told that by an actual native. I'll have to recheck up on that information.
I haven't received your package yet. I believe that the mail systems over here are way behind. Hence the reason why Kya has yet to receive her card. Which is quite funny — I sent her her card a week or two after I had sent yours. You already got yours, but she's still waiting on hers. I'm sadden by this, but what can you do? Glad to know that you're having fun in Tokyo/Japan!
I don't think the second and third pictures are llamas. Atleast they don't look like it to me.
I did not know there was a disney land in tokyo.
3 January 2014, 6:02pm
Haha yeah, I wasn't sure. Pretty sure it's some kind of goat but not a llama. There is also a Disneyland in Hong Kong. I didn't go to that one though.
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Mount Sinai, also called Mountain of Moses or Mount Hareh, is a granitic peak of the south-central Sinai Peninsula. It is renowned as the exact site of divine revelation in Jewish history. God appeared to Moses and gave him the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20; Deuteronomy 5). According to Jewish tradition, God revealed the decalogue and the entire biblical text and interpretation corpus to Moses on Sinai. Traditionally known as Jabal Musa, Mount Sinai is a sacred mountain on the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula. The mountain is also holy in both the Christian and Islamic traditions.
Scholars differ in the route of the Israelite exodus from Egypt, and they cannot identify the place names in the scriptural in terms of present sites. Thus, the actual location of biblical Mount Sinai is negotiable. However, Mount Sinai itself is traditionally accepted as the site in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam traditions.
Geography of Mount Sinai
Mount Moses is a 2,285-metre (7,497 ft) moderately high mountain near the city of Saint Catherine in the region known today as the Sinai Peninsula. Higher peaks surround it in the mountain range of which it is a part. For example, it lies next to Mount Catherine, the highest peak in Egypt at 2,629 m or 8,625 ft.
Traditionally known as Jabal Musa, Mount Sinai stands near Mount Catherine, in the city of Saint Catherine, the South Sinai Governorate.
Geology of Mount Sinai
Mount Sinai's rocks were formed during the late stage of the evolution of the Arabian-Nubian Shield. Mount Sinai displays a ring complex that consists of alkaline granites intruded into diverse rock types, including volcanic. The granites range in composition from seen granite to alkali feldspar granite. The volcanic rocks are alkaline to peralkaline, represented by subaerial flows, eruptions, and subvolcanic porphyry. Generally, the nature of the exposed rocks in Mount Sinai indicates that they have different depths from one another.
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In the early Christian era, hermits frequently used the area, and in 530 CE, they built the monastery of St. Catherine at the northern foot of the mountain. Still inhabited by a few monks of the autonomous Orthodox Church of Mount Sinai, it is probably the world's oldest continuously inhabited Christian monastery. Its library of ancient biblical manuscripts has been invaluable in reconstructing the text of the Bible. It included the famous 4th-century Greek Codex Sinaiticus, which is now in the British Museum.
The mount summit has a mosque still used by Muslims, and a Greek Orthodox chapel, constructed in 1934 on the ruins of a 16th-century church, is not open to the public. The chapel encloses the rock, which is the source for the biblical Tablets of Stone. At the summit also is Moses' cave, where Moses waited to receive the Ten Commandments.
The Jabal Musa has an association with the Islamic prophet Musa. In particular, numerous references to Jabal Musa exist in the Quran in different names Ṭūr Sīnā, Ṭūr Sīnīn, and aṭ-Ṭūr and al-Jabal (both meaning "the Mount"). The adjacent Wād Ṭuwā (Valley of Tuwa) is sacred and is called "The Blessed Place". It is the place where Musa spoke to his Lord.
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Medical Center PSIM RFP 'Cut and Paste'
By: John Honovich, Published on Jan 03, 2011
In this note, we examine an RFP from a Hawaiian Medical Center that features a 12 page RFP that looks to be a cut and paste from a manufacturer's specification. We examine the key issues with the specification, the limitations and the potential problems this would cause for the end user.
Let's start with reviewing the project:
Approximately 100 cameras and 100 readers in the medical center
Existing American Dynamics DVRs in related medical buildings
They clearly state they want a PSIM (and repeatedly so) for the commonly cited reasons
"The software shall be built and installed as a Web-based thin-client/server architecture"
"The server portion of the product shall be Java Based to support maximum portability"
"The software shall not require any other software to be preinstalled on a client workstation"
"Upon deployment shall support a minimum of 10,000 cameras"
Magic translator: "The selected vendor shall develop an interfacing software device driver, which shall allow the integration of any electronic system with the appropriate data transmitting characteristics into the PSIM platform, regardless of system type, model or manufacturer."
"Accept and interpret messages and alarms from analytic devices regardless of manufacturer or algorithm"
The software shall support VMSes from Cisco, OnSSI, Integral, NICE, Verint, SteelBox and 'others'
"The software shall support managing of all connected Access Control systems under a single user interface regardless of the ACS vendor"
The specification suffers from 2 main problems:
Overly specified low level technical details: Does the system have to be web based? Are the operational requirements such that installing a thick client would be prohibitive? Is Java truly necessary? Do they need to move this from a Windows to a Unix server sometime in the foreseeable future? We suspect this is being used by a vendor to knock out competition as most PSIMs are either thick client based on run on a Windows server technology such as .NET
Magically specified for 3 party integrations: There's no way that any PSIM will simply integrate with various access, video or analytics systems. Interpreted seriously, all products would be rejected.
No doubt the end user is going to spend a lot of money (hundreds of thousands or more on this). However, unfortunately, it appears that the specification is poorly planned and favoring a particular vendor. Our first guess is Vidsys given the web client requirement and specific VMS integrations the specification mentions.
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November 7, 2022 Russia-Ukraine news
By Kathleen Magramo and Joshua Berlinger, CNN
Updated 2:41 a.m. ET, November 8, 2022
What we covered here
Senior US officials have in recent weeks been urging Ukraine to signal it is still open to diplomatic discussions with Russia, sources told CNN.
Russian soldiers have complained about being sent into an "incomprehensible battle" in the Donetsk region. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said Moscow had suffered heavy losses in the eastern region.
Kyiv is preparing for worst-case scenarios in the event of further Russian attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure which could potentially leave the city without electricity or water, according to Mayor Vitali Klitschko.
A US citizen died in eastern Ukraine, according to the International Legion, making him the sixth American believed killed in the conflict since February.
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Egypt's president called for an end to the war in Ukraine at a major climate conference
From CNN's Mostafa Salem in Abu Dhabi
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi speaks during the Sharm El-Sheikh Climate Implementation Summit (SCIS) of the UNFCCC COP27 climate conference on November 7. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi called for an end to the war between Russia and Ukraine at a speech during the opening of the World Leaders Summit at the COP27 UN climate conference.
The entire world is suffering because of the war between Russia and Ukraine," Sisi said. "This war must stop, this war, and the suffering it has caused, must finish."
This year's UN climate summit is being held in the Egyptian resort city of Sharm El-Sheikh, where thousands of climate negotiators and advocates will gather to raise their ambitions on the climate crisis. Negotiators from nearly 200 countries will, over the next two weeks, debate future clean energy proposals to prevent the worst consequences of the climate crisis.
Sisi called on world leaders to urgently take "more measures and actions" to clarify how they will reduce emissions, which will encourage stakeholders to release "adequate funding" to face the challenge of climate change.
"There is no time to sit back, there is no space for hesitation for the sake of future generations," Sisi said.
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Russian forces step up raids on civilians in occupied Kherson
From CNN's Olga Voitovych and Mick Krever in Kyiv
Russian forces have stepped up their scrutiny of civilians in occupied areas of Ukraine's southern Kherson region, detaining locals to root out partisan resistance, according to the Ukrainian military.
In the occupied city of Kherson, Russian troops are now largely wearing civilian clothing and living in civilian housing as they "strengthen positions inside for conducting street battles," according to the Ukrainian military and a resident of the city with whom CNN exchanged messages.
"Amid the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the occupiers have significantly intensified filtration measures," the National Resistance Center, a creation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said on Monday. "Raids among the local population have intensified in the temporarily occupied part of Kherson region. The occupiers are actively looking for the underground movement."
The National Resistance Center said that it was aware of dozens of detentions in recent days. It called on civilians to leave the occupied territories "if possible" while the Ukrainian military pushed its counter-offensive.
Fewer checkpoints, more aggressive behavior: A resident of the occupied city of Kherson told CNN through a third party on Sunday that Russian soldiers in occupied villages are behaving more aggressively towards civilians.
"On the west bank, near Snihurivka, there are cases of occupiers moving into locals' houses when people move to the city," the resident said. "Many soldiers came to the villages, they settle in empty houses. But there are cases when they kick people out of their homes."
CNN is not identifying the Kherson resident for their safety. The city of Kherson itself has been "relatively quiet," she said.
"From time to time you can hear automatic gunfire at night," the resident said. "There is a curfew in the city, and no one goes out at night. The occupiers have created some kind of territorial defense in the city, which deals with security issues."
Checkpoints within the city itself have been removed, she said.
"There are only checkpoints at the entrance to the city. At the checkpoint they check documents and look what is in the car. If it is public transport, then the soldier enters the minibus. It may vary, it all depends on the mood of the occupiers. They can start checking phones and force men to undress to check for tattoos."
More young soldiers appearing: The resident said that most soldiers appear to be over the age of 30, but that they had begun to see more young men, around ages 18 to 20.
Russian authorities continued Monday to try to restore electricity after an outage on Sunday.
"I think electricity and communication will be restored in the near future," Kirill Stremousov, the Russia-appointed deputy head of Kherson region military administration, said Monday morning in a video on Telegram. "There is no food problem in the city, there are foodstuffs. It's true that some pharmacies are shut, but it is not impossible to get social benefits. We keep working on this too."
Stremousov said that authorities continued to offer "evacuation" to the eastern bank of the Dnipro River, including now to bed-ridden civilians or those with reduced mobility.
Evacuation offers like this have sparked concerns that Ukrainian citizens may be forced to go to Russian territory against their will. Reports emerged early in the war of tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilians being forcibly sent to so-called "filtration centers" before being moved to Russia. Moscow denounced the claims as lies, alleging that Ukraine has hindered its efforts to "evacuate" people to Russia.
The Kherson city resident who spoke to CNN viewed the idea of getting on an "evacuation bus" to Crimea as a "one-way ticket."
It's 12:30 p.m. in Kyiv. This is what you need to know
One of the major issues Ukraine faces as it fends off Russian attacks is how to keep its population from freezing. With winter slowly approaching, Moscow has continually attacked energy and infrastructure targets in recent weeks. Here's the latest on the energy situation across Ukraine:
Outages coming: Ukraine's state-energy company said Monday that the country would be subjected to further power cuts, both scheduled and unscheduled, due to damage from recent Russian attacks on infrastructure. The scheduled outages will take place throughout the day in Kyiv city and the regions of Kyiv, Chernihiv, Cherkasy, Zhytomyr, Sumy, Kharkiv and Poltava.
Prepare for the worst: Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said the Ukrainian capital must ready itself for further attacks on its already imperiled energy infrastructure. Klitschko said the Kremlin's strategy was not war, but rather "terrorism" and even "genocide." "Our enemies are doing everything to keep the city without heat, electricity, and water supply, and in general, they want us all to die," he said.
Problems extend to Russian-held regions: Electricity and water have also been temporarily cut off in the Russian-occupied city of Kherson in southern Ukraine, according to Ukrainian local officials and Russian-appointed local authorities. Russian-backed forces and Ukraine each blamed the other for attacks causing the outage. CNN cannot independently confirm or verify details of the claimed attack or who was behind it.
Iran's role in all of this: In his nightly address Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia intends to use Iranian missiles for possible attacks on Ukraine's infrastructure, especially the country's energy sector. Kyiv has accused Russia of using so-called "kamikaze drones" made by Tehran in its attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure in recent weeks. The Iranian government acknowledged for the first time Saturday that it had sent a limited number of drones to Russia in the months before the start of its invasion of Ukraine.
Ukraine schedules further power outages Monday
People shop at a supermarket during a power outage in Kyiv on October 27. (Yevhenii Zavhorodnii/Global Images Ukraine/Getty Images)
Ukraine's state-energy company, Ukrenergo, warned Monday morning that the country would face further scheduled and unscheduled power cuts.
"From 6:00 a.m. and until the end of the day, there will be scheduled power outages in Kyiv city, and Kyiv, Chernihiv, Cherkasy, Zhytomyr, Sumy, Kharkiv, Poltava regions," Ukrenergo said on its Facebook and Telegram channels.
"There will also be emergency outages in certain regions. They will be introduced by regional power distribution companies in case the deficit is bigger than planned. In case of emergency blackouts, electricity may be cut off earlier than planned and consumption restrictions may last longer."
Ukraine's electricity infrastructure has been under severe strain since Russia began attacking power plants on October 10.
"The country's power grid is still unable to resume full operation after the terrorist attacks of Russia," Ukrenergo said. "We have to introduce power outages in some regions to avoid overloading of high-voltage infrastructure."
Fires spread in Russian-held Donetsk after shelling
From CNN's Josh Pennington
Smoke rises near a local railway administration headquarters n Donetsk, Ukraine, on November 7. (Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters)
Several buildings were ablaze in Donetsk city early on Monday morning following Ukrainian artillery strikes on the area, currently under Russian occupation, according to authorities and social media.
According to the Russian-backed Joint Center for Control and Coordination, six rockets hit Donetsk's Voroshilovsky District at 3:13 a.m. local time.
Witnesses on social media reported a shortage of water as the large fire continued burning after the shelling.
Social media videos geolocated by CNN showed the Donetsk Railway Administration building among those on fire in the central part of the city.
No casualties have been reported yet.
Kyiv mayor says it must be prepared for worst case scenario if city is left without water and electricity
From CNN's Sahar Akbarzai and Josh Pennington
A woman looks at generator that powers a cafe in Kyiv on November 05. (Ed Ram/Getty Images)
The Ukrainian capital of Kyiv is preparing for worst-case scenarios in the event of further Russian attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure which could potentially leave the city without electricity or water, according to its mayor Vitali Klitschko.
"Our enemies are doing everything to keep the city without heat, electricity, and water supply, and in general, they want us all to die. This is their task. And how well we'll hold out depends on how well we're prepared for different scenarios ... that's why we need to be prepared," said Klitschko on Sunday.
"This is not a war, this is terrorism, this is genocide," the mayor said regarding Russian attacks on energy infrastructure.
The city's mayor encouraged some residents to think about staying with family and friends outside of Kyiv if the city is left without electricity or water.
"If you have extended family — this is for if we consider the worst case, if we were left without electricity and water supply — or friends outside Kyiv, where there is autonomous water supply, an oven, heating, please keep in mind the possibility of staying there for a certain amount of time," the mayor said.
"His goal is for us to die, to freeze, or to make us flee our land so that he can have it. That's what the aggressor wants to achieve," Klitschko said regarding Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Some background: Russian forces have pounded Ukraine's critical infrastructure in recent weeks, severely damaging its electrical grid and forcing many towns and cities across the country to impose scheduled hours-long blackouts.
Preparing for emergency: The city's Director for the Department of Municipal Security, Roman Tkachuk, relayed fears later in the afternoon on Sunday that all possible action plans are being considered in the case of an emergency but there were no plans to evacuate the city, according to a statement from the Kyiv City Council.
Tkachuk said each district within the city will have about 100 heating centers to operate in case of emergencies in the winter. These heating centers will be equipped with heat, lighting, toilets, canteens, places to rest, warm clothes, blankets and an ambulance crew will be on duty near such centers, the statement said.
"The civil protection system must be ready for various scenarios, but this does not mean that we are now preparing for evacuation. To respond efficiently, we must have a plan for all possible scenarios," Tkachuk said.
Electricity and water temporarily cut off in Russian-occupied Kherson
From CNN's Olga Voitovych, Dennis Lapin and Chris Liakos
Electricity and water have been temporarily cut off in the Russian-occupied city of Kherson in southern Ukraine, according to Ukrainian local officials and Russian-appointed local authorities.
The Russian-backed Kherson region administration announced the outages on Telegram Sunday.
It added that "three reinforced concrete columns of high-voltage power lines were damaged" after what it claimed was "a terrorist attack organized by the Ukrainian side."
The Russian-backed Kherson region administration said that "power and water supply will be restored throughout the Kherson region in the very near future," asking citizens to remain calm.
CNN cannot independently confirm or verify details of the claimed attack or who was behind it. Russia and Ukraine are accusing each other regarding the incident.
What Ukrainian officials are saying: Yuriy Sobolevskyi, a local Ukrainian leader, confirmed roughly 10 settlements of the Kherson region were left without electricity and water, including the whole city.
"A high-voltage power line was damaged. The occupiers have already 'reported' about the attack. However, they did not specify that the attack was carried out by them. Eyewitness testimonies confirm this," Sobolevskyi said in a Telegram post.
More context: The fighting in the Kherson region has escalated in recent weeks. Russian-backed authorities have started evacuating residents, evacuations the Ukrainian side calls "forced."
Last month, a resident described the situation in the city as tense, with people "emotionally exhausted," the streets empty from mid-afternoon onwards and Russian soldiers often seen in civilian clothes.
Zelensky claims Russia will use Iranian missiles for possible attacks on Ukraine's infrastructure
From CNN's Mariya Knight
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky says Russia intends to use Iranian missiles for possible attacks on Ukraine's infrastructure, especially the country's energy sector.
Already, more than 4.5 million residents are without power across Kyiv and six other regions because of Russian strikes, Zelensky said in his nightly address Sunday.
"We also understand that the terrorist state is concentrating forces and means for a possible repetition of mass attacks on our infrastructure. First of all, energy," Zelensky said. "In particular, for this, Russia needs Iranian missiles," the Ukrainian president said, adding Ukraine is "preparing to respond."
He also said that on Sunday, Russians "used Iranian attack drones again," but he stopped short of providing any further details.
"The whole world will know that the Iranian regime helps Russia prolong this war," Zelensky said.
"If it was not for the Iranian supply of weapons to the aggressor, we would be closer to peace now," he continued. "And this means closer to a complete solution to the food crisis."
Some background: Iran is preparing to send approximately 1,000 additional weapons, including missiles and more attack drones, to Russia, officials from a Western country that closely monitors Iran's weapons program told CNN.
The shipment is being closely monitored because it would be the first instance of Iran sending advanced precision guided missiles to Russia, which could give the Kremlin a substantial boost on the battlefield.
Iranian drones have played a significant role in the conflict since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in late February
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Baby name consultant: Less common, meaningful name for third baby boy
April 18, 2016 sanctanomina Baby name consultantBiblical names, Catholic baby names, Nicknames
Shannon, from the blog We, A Great Parade, and her husband are expecting their third baby and third son! This new baby boy will join big brothers:
Alyosha Daniel
Moses Emmanuel
Amazing, right? Handsome, unusual, and full of faith significance, love them. 👌
Shannon writes,
"Our first son was adopted at 11 months old from Uganda … We chose Alyosha because of the main character in The Brothers Karamazov and also loved that it means "defender of mankind". We chose Daniel because we wanted a solid, simple Biblical name to balance out the unusual first name. At the time we were Protestant, but now that we're Catholic I like that his name is somewhat related to St. Aloysius.
Our second son (first biological baby) is named Moses Emmanuel … We chose Moses obviously because of the Biblical character but also because we just really liked the name. And I've kind of loosely made St. Moses the Black his patron 🙂 We chose Emmanuel because he was born during Advent.
So… we love names that are less commonly used but that also bear significance because of a person (even fictitious) that they represent. While we do love saints names, we couldn't just pick a random one simply because we liked it. We would want the person to reflect a trait that is particularly dear to us, OR for the name meaning itself to do so.
We are devoted to the teachings of the Catholic Worker, so people like Dorothy Day or Peter Maurin are ones we have kept in mind in addition to saints. We're trying to steer away from Biblical figures at this point since we already have a Daniel and a Moses. Additionally, since our oldest son is adopted and a different race than the rest of us, we ideally would like to avoid using the letter M in the first name … since that would subtly group together the biological boys and leave him out. That may be something we change our minds on, but is where we're at right now."
I really enjoyed thinking of Shannon's three boys and her and her husband's lovely desire that Alyosha not feel left out name-wise. I also enjoyed having the opportunity to learn more about Servant of God Dorothy Day, one of the four Americans Pope Francis mentioned in his Address to Congress in September, and Peter Maurin, neither of whom I'd known much about before Shannon's email. All in all, this was a really great dilemma to work on!
Names that are currently on their list include:
Oliver ("I think it's super cute, we love that it symbolizes peace, and my family is Irish so naming after St. Oliver would be a kind of homage to that… BUT we don't know anything about him really.")
Theodore ("Again a really cute name, great meaning (gracious gift), but again don't know much about the saint")
Brien ("only as a middle name… my maiden name is O'Brien and I'd like to pass it on")
Maurin ("after Peter Maurin… we both love this one but we run into the problem with the M. Peter is just too common for our tastes. Any creative ideas for a nickname maybe?? We've also thought about Day for Dorothy Day, maybe too short and awkward though. Or Aristide which is Maurin's first name, but my hubs says Aris is too weird")
Basil ("my husband likes saint Basil, and favors this name, but I'm afraid it would come across as hipster to the majority of the world, along the lines of Sage, Juniper, Willow, etc")
Tevye ("the Yiddish version of Tobias, another person we don't actually know much about. My husband likes this one too but I'm not sold because it doesn't mean anything special to me")
Okay, a quick comment on some of the ideas on their current list before jumping into my ideas:
I love Oliver, and I totally agree that it's super cute. St. Oliver Plunket is a great saint for a boy, especially an Irish boy, and one of the things I've learned about him recently is that he wrote about Divine Mercy — what a meaningful tidbit for a baby born during this Jubilee Year of Mercy!
Theodore's a great name too, but it feels a little tame for this family's taste. I could see them liking the variant Fyodor more, but is that too much Karamazov Bros.? At the same time it could be really great — Moses and the new baby have the biological connection; Alyosha and the new baby would have a Russian/Karamazov name connection.
I was interested by Maurin. If it weren't for the M, it seems like it would be a perfect name for Shannon and her hubs — offbeat because of it being a last name, and the name of a man they admire. Shannon asked about a nickname — Maury and Manny were the first two that came to mind. But that pesky M — I agree that maybe an M name wouldn't ideal for this baby (unless they change their minds on that, and then of course I'd support their decision 100%!) … then I thought of Aury, which is a little bit of a stretch but not THAT much of a stretch. I looked it up to be sure it wasn't considered a girl's name (since I know how fussed any of my boys would be if they had what they consider a "girl's name," especially if the other brothers had explicitly masculine names), and though I couldn't find much about Aury, what I did find (babynamewizard.com had an entry for "Aury Estela," a girl's name, and behindthename had a user-submitted entry saying Aury is a boy's name … babycenter.com had Aury listed as a boy's name as well, but no other info) leads me to think there's enough evidence that it's not overwhelmingly considered to be feminine and therefore could easily be used for a boy. I kind of liked the idea of a given name Maurin — starting with an M like brother Moses — being called Aury on an everyday basis, which starts with an A like brother Alyosha. I thought that could be a really nice subtle connection between all the brothers, and not so obvious that they'd feel locked into anything if they were to have more children.
I like the idea of Day, and I saw it used recently as a middle name for a girl (for Dorothy Day) — so cool! As a first name it's certainly short, but so is Todd, for example, so I don't think that's problematic. I guess I'm having a hard time thinking of it on a boy, since the two people I associate with the name are Dorothy Day and that little girl I know with the middle name Day … but of course last names are a great source of first names for boys … I'd love to know what the rest of you think of Day as a first name for a boy! I would love it as a middle name.
I have similar issues with Basil as Shannon does — I love it, and I think it's a great, underused saint's name, but I hate that most Americans would only think of the herb. I looked up its alternate versions in other languages, and wondered what Shannon and her Mr. would think of one of the Eastern European variants like Vasil or Vasyl? I assume they're pronounced to rhyme with Basil, and the V and B are so similar that it's almost exactly the same name sound-wise, but it loses the herb/hippie feel.
I was surprised by Tevye because it's a biblical name and Shannon had said they wanted to stay away from them. So then I assumed she meant they wanted to stay away from biblical names that *sound* biblical to Catholic Americans, which I think is easier to work with than "no biblical names," and I employed this in one of my ideas below.
Okay! So onto those ideas! You all know that I almost always start a consultation by looking up the names that the parents have used and the ones that they like in the Baby Name Wizard as it lists, for each entry, boy and girl names that are similar in terms of style/feel/popularity. Taste like this family's, which is more creative and offbeat, tends not to be served as well by the BNW, but I did get some ideas from it, as well as from my own mental archives:
(1) Julius or Julian/Julien
The BNW actually came through in a big way with this first suggestion—Julius was listed as similar to both Moses and Theodore! And Julian is a style match for Oliver! So of course I had to suggest these names. But then—I was researching Peter Maurin a little bit and discovered that he was born in the village of Oultet within the community of Saint-Julien-du-Tournel! What! I got goosebumps when I read that!
(2) Ciar(an)
I was thinking of various ways of naming Shannon's third boy that would make sure Alyosha didn't feel left out in any way, and one of the ideas I had was to make sure this baby boy had a name completely different from either of his brothers' names in terms of first letter and linguistic origin/variant, just like Moses and Alyosha are totally different. It's one of the reasons I like Oliver—it's Irish/Celtic/British, which is totally different from Alyosha and Moses. But then I was also thinking that—and I hope this doesn't seem insensitive at all—both of her other boys share the color black—Alyosha in his skin and Moses in his patron saint of Moses the Black. So I kind of loved that Ciar means black in Irish—it ties into the really subtle shared black characteristic of her boys while still being its own name totally different from the other two. Ciar is a name on its own (said like KEER), and the more familiar Ciaran (KEER-in, more commonly spelled Kieran) is technically a diminutive of Ciar.
(Along with this same line of thinking, it's pretty cool to know that Maurin is related to Mauritz/Maurus/Maurinus, all of which mean "dark skinned," so if Shannon and her hubs do decide to go that route, that have that connection between all the brothers.)
(3) Jasper
Jasper was listed as a style match for Oliver, and it's also a gemstone that can be black, tying into the idea I presented with Ciar(an) above. Black jasper is not very common, but it was cool to read that the "name blackstones refer to any number of stones, including jasper, that are dyed black and polished for jewellery." Jasper is the name traditionally given to one of the Three Wise Men (you might also see its variants Casper and Gaspar given for that same Wise Man—they're all the same name).
(4) Form of Peter
This is the idea I mentioned that Tevye, being biblical but not obviously so to most English speakers I think, inspired, as well as Peter Maurin of course. Shannon said they'd considered Maurin's first name Aristide and its variant and possible nickname Aris, but I wonder if they'd considered any of the Peter variants? They aren't obviously biblical to English speakers, but would still honor Maurin pretty explicitly. Pierre would be a great one, since Maurin was French; Piers is an English variant; Peadar is Irish and is said more like PAD-der (patter).
(5) Clement
Clement was inspired both by the Jubilee Year of Mercy, as it means "merciful," and I'm a big fan of the idea of naming babies born this year with some element of mercy in their names!, and also by the fact that Shannon's due in May, which is the month devoted to Our Lady, and Clement can be considered Marian (as she's described as clement [=merciful] in the hymn/prayer Salve Regina, for example).
But after I'd already decided to suggest Clement to them for those reasons, I came upon this quote of Dorothy Day's in regard to the Catholic Worker: "Our rule is the works of mercy," and one of its tenets is "daily practice of the Works of Mercy." What a meaningful name Clement would be for this family on so many levels!
(6) Cyprian
Along the same lines as the "black" idea above, I thought maybe the name of an African saint would be cool, and I immediately thought of Bl. Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi. Cyprian's a cool name and unusual, I really like it for this family.
(7) Roman or Tiber
I liked Roman as an idea for this baby initially because it has a long O like Aloysha and Moses, another subtle connection between the brothers, and the reason I liked that particular name-with-a-long-o is because I always think of Roman as a Catholicky Catholic name, as it calls to mind (for me) the Vatican, the Pope, Roman Catholic, etc.
Thinking along those lines also made me think of Tiber, which is the name of a river in Rome, and the phrase "crossing the Tiber" refers to someone converting to Catholicism. It's a really cool name with a really cool meaning for convert parents. (Check out an adorable Tiber here. 🙂 ).
And those are my ideas! What do you all think? What would you suggest for Alyosha and Moses' little brother?
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"Tevya" screams "Fiddler on the Roof fanatic!" to me, so personally I wouldn't go with it. (Unless you really are Fiddler on the Roof fanatics!)
One thought I had was Tobias. It's a Bible name, but since it's from a book that isn't in Protestant Bibles, it's not as well-known. And it's a saint's name as well.
I also thought of Vincent, after St. Vincent de Paul.
sorry, "Tevye," not "Tevya," above
sanctanomina says:
I love Tobias, and you're spot on because Tevye is its Yiddish version! Vincent's also great.
weagreatparade says:
I've come to realize that! Neither my husband nor I were too familiar with the play, having seen it looooooong ago, but in the past few months references to it keep popping up everywhere! If Tevye was a more meaningful character, like Alyosha, we would still likely pull the trigger because we find the sound of it so beautiful. But as it is, meh.
I like Tobias but my husband doesn't love it. And I've never heard of St. Vincent, I'll need to look him up! I wonder what a good nickname for Vincent would be?
Ooh yes, St. Vincent de Paul! Great saint! Vinny and Vince are traditional … I'll have to think of others …
Other Colleen says:
I have a Vincent. We call him Vin, V or Vivi.
Our Vincent is named after St. Vincent de Paul. We love his emphasis on serving the poor.
Thanks for weighing in as the mom of a Vincent!!
St. Vincent de Paul would really fit with your family's social concern!
lrtteague says:
What about the nickname Vito?
I love your suggestions of Roman and Tiber for this family! 😍
Clement is also great!
I also would encourage them to give Basil more consideration because the name is not usually pronounced like the herb (I have met quite a few Basils in my life of all different backgrounds and only one pronounced it like the herb), and while it is unusual, I don't think it's so uncommon that most people would have a hard time with the non-herb pronunciation. My guess is a lot more people have heard of it than one might expect.
Also love JoAnna's suggestion of Vincent.
Another idea is a last name of another great Saint, perhaps someone else whose social justice ideals would inspire this family as Dorothy Day & Peter Maurin do. Or maybe Benedict, as St. Benedict Joseph Labre is the patron saint of the homeless. Bl. Piergiorgio Frassatti, St. Peter Claver, Bl. Oscar Romero, or St. Damien of Molokai come to mind as other saints/blesseds whose stories may appeal to them as naming inspiration, either first or last names. (Though Molokai in honor of St. Damien would have the "M" problem.)
Finally, I do like Day as a first name and I think it would be a really cool way to honor Dorothy Day.
annakcrain says:
I agree…Basil as a name is usually pronounced BAZ-ihl, which then leads to a cute nickname possibility of Baz. I love it! Other than that, I think Clement is lovely. I did immediately thought of Fiddler when I read Tevye, but that's not a bad thing to me! They could do Tobias nicked Tev or something.
I like the nickname Baz too- super cute! And we've put Clement on our list now… Clem is an adorable nickname!
I love Baz and Clem!!
Tobias nicked Tev is super cute!
julianamama says:
I know quite a few Basils, and they all pronounce it like the herb (but it's a common name in our Church, so people know they're named after the saint). I think Bah-zil is the British pronunciation, but one that I love and that would definitely fix the "sounding like an herb" problem.
The Greek and Russian versions are Vassilios and Vasili.
Thank you! And I'm surprised you know so many Basils! Ha very cool!
Interesting! Here I was worried that people would mispronounce Basil as BAY-zil, thinking that BAH-zil was the correct personal name pronunciation — I'm so glad to learn that some people do happily say it that way! I quite like the herb pronunciation, now that I think about it!
I didn't want to get too technical in my comment, but julianamama is Orthodox and the "herb" pronunciation (bay-zil) is the one favored by eastern Christians. In the west, we tend to pronounce it "baz-il" or "bah-zil", including for the saint.
This is all new to me — thank you!!
We know so many we had it on our list for a boy, but crossed it off because we already have to refer to them all by their full name to keep them straight, LOL! James had two at his last birthday party!
I've never heard Basil pronounced aloud as a name. What does is sound like? I'm intrigued!
Oops just saw the above commenter's help!
Baz-il or bah-zil usually. Bay-zil if you are eastern ritevCatholic or Orthodox.
I hope you're right re: Basil! I love it! You have lots of other great ideas here too!
I have met people ranging in age from my children's age to my grandparents' age named this, of all different backgrounds—African American, Greek Orthodox, British, WASP-y American. I think it's out there!
I really like your idea of a Russian name to connect the oldest and youngest boys, and/or an African saint. Cyprian is COOOOOL!
This is a fun one! I love love Moses! And Cyprian is a great suggestion. I'm totally thinking an Africa theme would be kind of cool and meaningful, so along those same lines what about Drexel? St Katherine Drexel opened lots of schools for Native and African Americans, including Xavier University. Xavier may be good too? I still think Cyprian is my favorite though. I agree that Day is a tad feminine, but I can also imagine some men being able to pull it off. Be sure to update us!
Aww so glad you love Moses! It fits our little guy so perfectly. I love Xavier too and it would probably be a contender but we have friends at our church with a Xavier already.
I do think I'm going to save Day for a girl's middle name, because I just love it so much for that!
skimac says:
Maurin would be really pretty for a girl's name as well. And that might be a better way to use the "M" again. It would be a connection but a girl would make it different than connecting two boys.
Oh yes, I like that idea.
Ooh! And Maurin Day would be a great girl's name!
Drexel is a great suggestion!
I thought of Drexel too, but didn't mention it because I wasn't sure how they'd feel naming their son after a female saint. Of course, I should have considered they are considering Day in honor of Dorothy Day, so why not Drexel in honor of the AWESOME Mother Drexel?!
Another one I'm unfamiliar with! Thank you!
I don't know much about her too — clearly I need to remedy that!
I seriously love this idea!
Our daughter Fiona (not a saint's name) has Catherine for her middle name, originally with St. Catherine of Siena as her patron, but a few years later, I started thinking St. Katharine Drexel was even more suited to our family, time, and place. So she's kind of my daughter's patron, too. Love her!
I have a Katherine and Drexel is her patron. 🙂 Her story is awesome and we actually chose her before our little K was born, and then months later realized she was born on the day St Katharine was beatified. It's nice how those little things work out! 🙂
Also I've always loved Pierce for Peter. Pierce Maurin?
I like Pierce but it's one of those things where I've known a Pierce in the past and can't break the connection in my head!
Since writing to Kate, we've also started to consider the name Nico, for St. Nicholas, another saint of mercy. I like using Nicolas as the official name but always calling him Nico, but my husband leans toward just having Nico on the birth certificate.
I'm surprised at the number of you guys who are pulling for Cyprian! It feels awkward on my tongue for some reason, though I absolutely love the uniqueness of it.
Nico!! Love love!!
Nicodemus is a personal fave of mine … 🙂
I loved the suggestion of Paeder, but my hubby did not 😦
Maybe Pier or Piers? I've met a a couple of each, all from very artistic, bohemian families.
Nico is great! Or go with the Nikolai – Russian variation as using a Russian name is suggested. Go by Nico.
I love Nikolai too!
Nico is great!!
There's also Dominic nn Nico.
I love all of these suggestions! Especially how in depth all of the connections are. I can't wait to hear what this little guy ends up being named! I think Julian has my vote because of the unexpected connection to St. Peter Maurin, but they are all so good.
She did have so many great suggestions!
JS Giunta says:
Vasyl is pronounced "vah-SEEL". My grandfather had the name, and he also went by Vasily "vah-SEE-ly" or Basilio in Spanish. It's sometimes spelled with a W instead of a V.
Cool, thank you!
Ahh thanks for clarifying!!
I realize they indicate a no Biblical name preference, but I like the idea of a Biblical name because I think it is something that would tie all the boys together. Even Aloysha to me feels like the biblical prophet Elisha, so the whole name set so far has a strong OT feel. So I also like Tobias (prefer to the Tevye form).
I do like Julius and Julian too, having some ancestors on both sides in my grandparents generation.
I figure since she doesn't want hipster (reason against Basil) that Jasper would be out as well.
Their names are bold – and Cyprian is the boldest of the suggestions.
Love Jasper but friends took it for their son already 😉 ha!
I love Julius or Julian for this family! Other names that I can think of are Alexander, Dominic, Nicholas (I know someone mentioned it), Jonathan, Bosco and Jerome.
Bosco!
Bosco! Why didn't I think of that?!
I love the name Bosco! But I'm an avid Camp Patton reader so I think I would always feel like I stole her kid's name! haha (although I don't feel that way about Theodore… maybe because it's more common?)
Ahhhh yes! Grace and her amazing naming!
Also, I suggest Samuel as a middle name. It keeps the pattern, so no one feels excluded, and the biblical Samuel is 100% admirable.
I love Samuel!
giov says:
Looove nico! nico alone is my favorite, but nikolai is also super cool. Nicolas feels a bit tame next to your first two. I also love basil (baz!) and piers. My dad's name is piero if you want to go the Italian route 🙂
alyosha, moses and nikolai are amazinnggg.
I agree, Nico rocks. And I'm still rooting for Basil nn. Baz!
this is so fun! you guys are rockstars at this!
Piero! I like that!
I haven't had time to scroll through all of the comments here yet (today was just such a Monday if that makes any sense), but has anyone suggested Blaise? It's kind of like Basil (I actually went to school with a Basil, he was Basil Jr. too!) and Shannon's family seems cool enough (read: way cooler than me) to pull off the name Blaise! And it doesn't come with the pronunciation issues that Basil has!
Blaise is a great idea! Also, I love "such a Monday" — yesssss!!!! Also, they're way cooler than me too! 😀
I seriously doubt the coolness thing, haha! I've brought up Blaise a time or two but my husband has a negative connotation with someone he knew as a kid. Booo. If only names came with mental clean slates!
I always feel this way too, but then I've had friends who have used a name I've had negative connections with and them having a little one with that name has wiped away those negative thoughts. So I try to tell myself when it's my kid, I'll like it even more. My boys are Abram Vincent and Samson Gabriel.
I totally agree! (And I LOVE your boys' names!!)
Lindsay H. says:
Oh my gosh I love your ideas! I like the 'black' connection in Cier and Maurin. Very neat. I can't wait to find out what they name him!!
Thanks! I can't wait to find out either — Shannon you have to let us know immediately!! Haha!!
I will!
Another suggestion, since the person behind the name is of great importance, you can sign up for a daily email of a saint of the day. I've found so many names that I would not have considered before because the saint had an amazing story. I found myself connecting with some more than others which led to further reflection.
Love all the suggestions so far. I don't have anything new to add but can't wait to hear the update!
Great idea! Which saint-of-the-day emailer would you suggest? I love CatholicSaints.info — I actually don't know if they email, but they have the saints of the day listed on their homepage every day.
I use Fransican Media (used to be St Anthony's Press) .
http://productions.fransicanmedia.org
Oh what a neat idea!
rebecca marguerite says:
I am so rooting for joachim!!! it's hebrew ("god prepares") like moses but not biblical, and relates to the catholic worker dedication to the works of mercy because st Joachim is the father of mary, the mother of mercy 🙂 joachim day is wonderful!
Ahhhhh Joachim's one of my very very favorites!!! I don't know why I didn't think to suggest it!!! I love all your connections to it for this family!!!
I thought of Joachim too but she did say no names with "m" in them.
I assumed Shannon meant not starting with an M, but maybe you're right?
She says, "we ideally would like to avoid using the letter M in the first name," which I thought meant anywhere in the first name, but I guess I could be wrong?
You're so right, it didn't even register that she said "using it in the first name" …
Joachim is a great suggestion! I love it. We were avoiding using a name that started with M. I'd feel fine about it being at the end of the name. Another great contender!
Also, I forgot to mention that I ❤ ❤ Dorothy Day and I'm so happy to see that Shannon and her husband love her too!! She's so amazing. Social justice is a huge thing for the Jesuits as well, so we learn a lot about Dorothy Day and we have our very own Dorothy Day Center for Social Justice here on campus. I got to read her autobiography for one of my classes and it was really awesome. I recommend it to everyone 🙂
Woo!!
Yay!!! One of my favorite books too!
I also love Dorothy Fay, but my parents REALLY love her. They volunteered at a Catholic Worker House in our city for many years when I was growing up. I have so many great memories of being there, preparing meals, getting to know the young workers who lived there and the residents, too, and then- Fr. Charles Chaput was a frequent guest at the table. It was a neat time.
Also, DAY, not Fay. Hah! iPhone!
I love that you volunteered at the Catholic Worker!! I'm looking into spending a few days a week down at the original Catholic Worker house next semester 🙂
It was really my parents who volunteered, not me! I was like 8 when they started.
So cool that you got to experience that as a kid!
It WAS super cool, so many good memories. It was like a big extended family.
A baby Anne on our list last time was Malcolm, nn Mac/k. I have an old coworker who named her son Mack a few years ago and it is so darn cute on a real live little boy! Also, St. Columba is the patron Saint and he was pretty cool.
I love all of this! Totally agree about Mac/k, soooo cute!
My friend has some nice and unique boys names. She has a Tobias, Aubin , Callum, Simeon and Oliver. All very Catholic!
and Simeon goes by Simmy and it's adorable.
Simmy IS a cute little nickname!
Ooh I love all of those! Thanks for sharing!
Dutch says:
Regarding the name Peter, maybe Piotr, Pyotr, Perkin is an option.
Or a name with a similar meaning as Peter (rock, stone) a make Peter Maurin his patron.
Names meaning 'stone, rock)
Rock – Roque
Eben (short for Ebenezer)
Jagur (biblical place name, meanig 'pile of stones')
Gannet
These are great ideas! I'm loving Perkin for Peter. Carrick is really cool!
What about Fulton, for Fulton Sheen? Irish roots…offbeat, last name…and amazing catholic role model.
Fulton's a great idea!
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March completely flew by, which means a roundup of my March favorites! I've tried a few new products in March that will definitely become staples in my makeup and skincare routine.
Smashbox Super Fan Mascara — Everyone hates clumpy mascara, right? Well, this mascara does such a great job of separating the lashes and creating longer looking lashes. The brush is a rubber applicator, which is what I prefer. I have been using this every day since I got it, so I highly recommend it!
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I used to believe that money had been the reason why a corporation would stop to innovate, a politician would become corrupted, and how a family would break apart. During my studies of great innovators and leaders, I saw a different pattern on how important people of this world use money — they'd give the more they earn. I wondered then, could money adopt different attributes based on who utilizes it. It taunts on me that money is simply a reflection of our own integrity and our opinions of ourselves. Money is not evil nor a vehicle for self-fulfillment; it can be a way of life, and it is life.
Those who help, become rich.
Three years ago, I began picking up some motivational books, books on innovation, creativity, and texts on philosophy, and what I came to find was that those books slowly emerge toward one conclusion about our purposes in this world — altruism. It is a big word that opens to many interpretations, but my understanding is that altruism is about helping others to help ourselves in order to continue helping others. It is a cycle, and only when it's not in a cycle, problems manifest. Selflessness is the force that moves humanity forward. Fundamentally, money is food, water, and hope. We often mistakenly use it for fulfilling egos and desires when we have plenty. It is when we see and use money that way, we'd forget what's enough and can never be truly happy when others rise above us. If we can be content, we realize we only need so little in life to find real happiness. Money is like water in a way that life thrives where money flows. People don't want to just spray water into the desert. We spray water where there's a possibility to nourish life in the same way that people want to support and sponsor those who'd do good or create better lives for others. We all have this innate nature to want to make the world to be better than when we first found it, and when we don't follow that nature, we'd become bitter and set to destroy others' humanity in order to make us feel better. I've finally realized that to be rich financially, it is essential that we'd also be rich spiritually.
Why do we find the need to borrow money that's not our's to buy things that we don't need in order to impress people whom we don't care for? A wise man once said our purpose on this earth is to be happy. Happiness is an enigmatic concept because is addiction happiness? Is eating fast food happiness? Is superiority happiness? I think to be happy, we first need to contemplate contention and realize what we truly want deep in our souls. Taiichi Ohno, the pioneer of Toyota Production System in the 50's, developed a technique to investigate a problem by asking why 5 times. Adopting that practice, let's attempt a thought experiment. If I were a billionaire, would I still do the things that I do today? If no, why? If yes, why? And why? And why? And why? And finally again, why? If we were billionaires, where would we want to travel? If we were billionaires, how would we want to live our lives? If we're billionaires, would we still work at the job we currently have? Ask why 5 times for each of the questions. Do we need to be billionaires to do all those things that we've been wanting to do? If I wanted a nice car, was it because I wanted to instill confidence? Can reading more books to make myself smarter achieve the same goal? If it's because I want to help the environment by purchasing an electric vehicle, can I set up solar panels for my house instead for free? If it's because I want to get to point A to point B safer, most cars are safe enough already to drive on the road as long as we drive responsibly. If I wanted a faster ride, can I not just leave the house earlier if I wanted to build a more punctual reputation?
It's worth noting that Mark Zuckerberg drives a $30,000 Volkswagon. Warren Buffett still lives in the same house he bought in 1958 for $31,500.
If I were a billionaire, do I possess the right to over-tip a waiter after a meal? It's long been a question that I believe is none of anyone's business. But again, if I were to imagine the scenario where if every rich person over-tips his/her waiter at a restaurant making such service one of the highest paying job in the country, wouldn't more people want to learn how to wait on tables? Bringing such example to an extreme, we'll witness a whole city becoming a city of waiters. Investors, donors would open universities to teach people how to wait with a $100k a year salary right off college. What then? When it becomes a nation of waiters, do we find ourselves lacking the ability to grow food, innovate, protect ourselves; no one knows how to be the person who pays the bill.
If we can see that every decision in life as an investment, we'd learn to evaluate and make meaningful and positive choices. Investment is an act of sharing resources that defines the path of human evolution. If we were to over-tip a waiter, we're telling the world that such skill is treasured and demanded for our next stage of evolution. We're telling the world that it is where we could make a living and populate. Although it is true that it's our money, we do with it however we want. But what happens when that decision brings about negative influences to the world? When that happens, inbalance in the world would eventually circle back and affect us. Being either selfish or selfless should bring us to the same conclusion — not to squander. With more money or power, we've become more influential in our evolutionary process, and we're certainly given more responsibilities.
The pride we take in the amount of money that we earn is in direct correlation to our talent and potentials. We often don't disclose that information leaving that information as a mystery or imagination based on the appearance we present. Do we go and have a $200 meal with friends because we can afford it, so we can save face in front of our friends, or so we feel like we're living a life closer to our dream of success? The reality is that those who struggle to become a billionaire do so by being extremely frugal. In reality, $200 for us is 1/5,000,000 of a billion dollars. It's affordable for a billionaire. But let's consider if $200 is 0.01% of our savings, then in the case of spending 0.01% of a billion for a meal would be the equivalent of a billionaire spending $100,000 on the same meal just to display status.
The rich get richer, the poor, poorer.
If there's one thing the richest man in Babylon has taught me is that the poor remain poor is because they'd always pay other people first before paying for themselves. After a day's work, the poor would pay for a waiter, a chef, the restaurant/bar's rent, electricity, and gas before s/he buys the grocery and prepare his/her own meal at his/her own home where most of that has already been paid for. To save up enough to allow money to make more money for us, it's said to always save 10% of everything that goes into our pocket into a well guarded account. We often can't save up enough because we'd always have some sort of emergencies or reasons to spend our savings. Don't we wonder, why in our desperate times or our poorest moments, we're still able to pay off traffic tickets, medical bills, or buy a lottery ticket. Those are unconditional yet we can always manage to pay for those expense while maintaining our life style. We're always capable of earning more, but when we're challenged financially, we often ask the wrong question. Instead of asking "why don't I have more money", we should ask "how do we make more money". To build up a savings account, the richest man in Babylon describes a well-guarded city. The wall has to be so thick and tall that no adversary can get in to kidnap its citizens nor any soldiers can ever go out without capable of bringing more back in. This way, if we don't have enough in the bank to pay for a traffic ticket or a medical bill, we would always ask how can we earn more money instead of taking money out of our savings or borrowing from a bank.
Pursuing frugality is pursuing a higher quality of life.
I've observed that while being frugal makes us richer, being cheap, on the other hand, would make us poorer. Frugality is not about living a lesser life. It is about living a much better life with much less money. It is the discipline of resourcefulness and being smart. That mindset is to allow us to be billionaires before we'll become close to one someday.
We are what we eat. A wise man once compared our body to a country and explains how each cell is a worker. What we eat or how late we decide to sleep determine the level of respect we have for our cells, which metaphorically resemble the workers we manage or govern. Ancient eastern philosophies dictate that we must take care of ourselves before we can take care of others. That is why if a country is not in order, it has no business controlling any foreign affairs. If we want to be a good influence, we first must be a good influence to ourselves and family first. Learning how to treat our body, our friends, family with respect is a testament of how we treat others.
Rich people are rich not just because they are frugal financially, they are frugal every aspect of life. Being resourceful is the prerequisite for greatness, and their accumulated wealth is only a reflection of their discipline in such philosophy. We can easily apply the discipline of frugality to almost everything in life and in our career. To say they are frugal is to say they are extremely efficient and positive in managing their resources not just financially, but to their time, attention to family, employee delegation, corporate expansion strategies, investment ideologies, and more. If we cannot restrain from spending 0.5% of our savings account on unnecessary luxurious items, how can we be trusted to manage a multi-million dollar firm?
After a year of learning about money, I've come to believe that being frugal is the true essence of obtaining more, not just more money, but spirituality, morality, intelligence for everything in life. It's about learning to differentiate the essentials in life from the unessentials. Do we hoard things we don't need? Do we take thousands of photos we'll never go back and revisit? Do we get more when we already have enough? Are we being responsible when we have more than others do? Can we be content? Can we save lives? Can we save the world? Money is evil if we see it as evil. In the eyes of a great man, however, money is indeed noble.