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Marriage Preparation and Enrichment Marriage Enrichment Opportunities Families on Holy Ground
Families on Holy Ground
Gather MONTHLY, every 1st Sunday at 3:00 p.m. at St. John Neumann Catholic Church with fellow Catholic families as we grow together in our rich and beautiful faith. Every gathering will be followed with a potluck or snack. Activities will rotate on a three-month schedule:
* Family Holy Hour: enjoy a child-friendly time of adoration of the Blessed Sacrament with singing, reflection, prayers!
* Liturgical Feast Day celebrations: dive deeper into the faith with crafts, games, discussions and food centered around one of the months' special Feast days!
* Movie/Social Night: gather to enjoy a movie or other social activity and snacks!
To find out more, please contact Adeline Letizia at adeline.letizia@gmail.com or 865-405-8832
JMJ stands for Jesus Mary and Joseph – the Holy Family that we take as our role model. Our goal is to support new marriages and young families as we grow together in our Catholic faith. Events designed for JMJ have spiritual, educational and social goals that build up our Catholic community into a strong support network.
Young couples and families can participate in monthly events or become more involved in a small group of other young couples and families. We look forward to meeting you!
Study and Fellowship for Families and Couples in their 20s, 30s and 40s
Matt and Christine Blair offer a monthly meeting at their home for families and couples who are interested in learning more about their faith and getting to know other families in the parish. The meetings are held the last Saturday of each month from 6-8pm with a guest speaker who provides spiritual education on a particular topic.
The talks are followed by food and fellowship. Free childcare is provided for the children during the talk. Subscribe for Fulton Sheen Society emails through Flocknote by signing up through the Holy Ghost website, or you may contact Christine at christine.h.blair@gmail.com or (865) 356-2017 if you are interested in learning more about this group.
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5 Simple tips on how to make every day holy
In Part Three of the Apostolic Exhortation of Saint John Paul Familiaris Consortio (The Role of the Christian Family in the Modern World) is listed 4 tasks of the family
Family, Become What You Are
Hence the family has the mission to guard, reveal and communicate love, and this is a living reflection of and a real sharing in God's love for humanity and the love of Christ the Lord for the Church His bride. Every particular task of the family is an expressive and concrete actuation of that fundamental mission. We must therefore go deeper into the unique riches of the family's mission and probe its contents, which are both manifold and unified.
Thus, with love as its point of departure and making constant reference to it, the recent Synod emphasized four general tasks for the family:
1) forming a community of persons;
2) serving life;
3) participating in the development of society;
4) sharing in the life and mission of the Church.
2015 NRVC/CARA study on the Role of the Family in Nurturing Vocations
Click here to view or download the full report.
View family study handout.
This report presents findings from a major study of the influence of families on the discernment of a vocation to religious life and priesthood. The goal of the research is to provide information that will help families promote vocations to religious life and priesthood.
CARA surveyed 2,174 men and women religious and 4,140 diocesan priests and seminarians who entered since 2000. The survey also asked respondents to provide contact information for a family member. CARA then contacted 1,587 identified family members with an invitation to complete a similar survey.
CARA received completed responses from 1,279 men and women religious and 1,352 diocesan priests and seminarians for a response rate of 59 percent and 33 percent, respectively, and 892 family members, for a response rate of 58 percent. Another 15 family members participated in one of two focus groups, held in Washington, D.C. and in Chicago, IL, in May 2015.
Major findings
Start with a strong Catholic foundation
• Family members of seminarians, priests, and religious are usually Catholic themselves and are more likely than Catholics in general to have attended a Catholic school. They are more likely than other Catholic adults to say that their Catholic faith is the most important part of their daily life. One in five had a priest or a religious already in their extended family.
• These family members report a more engaged prayer life than do other Catholic parents or other Catholic adults in general. Nearly nine in ten pray daily, compared to just over half of U.S. Catholic adults and just over a third of Catholic parents. They also feel more strongly than Catholic adults in general that it is important that younger generations of the family grow up Catholic.
Build a culture of vocation in families
• Religious faith was at least "somewhat" important to these families at the time their family members was considering a vocation. Six in ten say the family was attending Mass together weekly and a quarter say the family typically prayed at home together daily, apart from prayers at meals.
• Family members were engaged in their faith in public ways. Eight in ten were active in parish life, two in three say the family participated in Eucharistic Adoration, and three in five say the family prayed the rosary together.
• Families typically ate dinner together daily and two in three report that the family gathered together at least once a week for a game or movie night, family discussion, or family prayer.
• More than half report that Catholic media, such as books, movies, and TV shows, were important religious activities in the family. About the same proportion say that volunteer or charitable service in the community were important to the family.
Support and promote vocations in families
• More than half of responding family members say they have encouraged a family member to consider a vocation to priesthood or religious life. Most often, it is parents or grandparents who encourage vocational discernment.
• Family members recommend acceptance, encouragement, and support for those considering a vocation. They suggest that families should uphold priesthood and religious life as options for young people when they are exploring and considering their future.
Couples Prayer
Families on Holy Ground- Support for Young Families
Family Honor
Marriage Enrichment Opportunities
Marriage Enrichment Programs and Materials available for parish use
Marriage and Culture
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Paul Weller Has Twins Bowie and John Paul
by Paul Cashmere on January 17, 2012
Paul Weller and his wife Hannah have welcomed twin sons Bowie and John Paul to the world.
The Weller kids were born on Saturday, January 14, 2012. Paul is 53. Hannah is 25. Bowie and John Paul are his 6th and 7th children from four women.
A statement at Paul Weller's official website reads, "Both boys are healthy and doing well following the birth and Paul and Hannah are thrilled and over the moon."
Paul's new album 'Sonik Kicks' will be released soon.
Tagged as: Paul Weller, Sonik Kicks, The Jam, The Style Council
Paul Weller To Perform With BBC Orchestra
Paul Weller is set to perform with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican in London next year.
UK Charts: Paul Weller Has The Number One Album
Congratulations to Paul Weller, whose new album On Sunset lands straight in at Number 1 on this week's Official Albums Chart and claims a rarely seen chart feat.
Paul Weller Speaks To BBC2
Paul Weller was on Radio 2 Breakfast yesterday morning speaking to Amol Rajan who's been depping for Zoe this week.
Major new titles coming this week from: David Guetta, Paul Weller, Good Charlotte, Mitch James, Jean-Michel Jarre (GH), Willie Nelson, Uriah Heep, Bob Moses, Emma Louise, Carrie Underwood, Dreams (Daniel Johns & Luke Steele), Tony Bennett & Diana Krall, Aphex Twin.
Noise11.com iHeartRadio Playlist for 16 August 2018
In a brand new iHeartRadio Music News powered by Noise11.com there is a stack of new music from Paul McCartney, Paul Weller and Paul Kelly as well as new Australia sounds from Bob Evans, Kav Temperley and John Butler Trio.
Paul Weller Pays Homage To David Bowie On 14th Solo Album 'True Meanings'
Paul Weller has given his former foe David Bowie a musical nod in the new song 'Bowie' to be released on his 14th solo album 'True Meanings' in September.
The Jam Expand 'In The City' and 'This Is The Modern World'
In May 1977, a young three-piece rock group from Woking in Surrey appeared on Top Of The Pops with an explosive single called "In The City."


It's kind of weird when you stop looking at pumpkins as 'those things we put on our porches/use as decorations for fall and Halloween' and start thinking 'mmm...that would taste so good in my oatmeal, as a side with dinner or in my salad'. Don't worry though, if you are one of the latter, you're not alone, and your health will benefit greatly for it. If you're not there yet - read on and join the club.
Pumpkins and squashes are all part of the same family - if you love butternut squash or zucchini, plain old pumpkin tastes like a hybrid of the two. If you buy the canned pureed kind, there is no added sugar, it's crazy low in calories (only 35 calories for 1/2 a cup) and fat free, yet loaded with fibre and vitamins A, C, E (all antioxidants), magnesium, potassium and even iron. This means that adding a little pumpkin to your meals will help you fill up and save on calories. Pumpkins even contain alpha hydroxy acids, powerful fruit acids that help lift away old skin cells to reveal a radiant, more luminous complexion! You can mix the puree into virtually anything without noticing much difference, in fact, you may just find that things taste better with a little pumpkin mixed in!
Even the seeds of a pumpkin are a force to be reckoned with. They're chewy and nutty, and noshing on an ounce of pumpkin seeds each day can help balance your mood, boost heart health, reduce inflammation as they are choc full of manganese, magnesium, tryptophan, phosphorous, iron, vitamin K, zinc and a little protein.
The health benefits of pumpkins and their seeds are seemingly endless, so it's best you stop avoiding this health powerhouse and start including it with your meals! How about some pumpkin pie oatmeal made with cinnamon, pumpkin puree, raisins and oats?


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The 100: Sheidheda Twist Explained
We talked to showrunner Jason Rothenberg about tonight's game-changing Sheidheda twist
By Delia Harrington | May 20, 2020 |
Warning: this article contains spoilers for the season 7 premiere of The 100
The 100's final season premiere closed with a dark, game-changing twist: Sheidheda is back, and he has taken over Russell Prime's latest body. After so much speculation between seasons, we're breaking down what it all means and how it could shape the future of Sanctum.
Throughout season 6, Sheidheda, the Dark Commander, threatened to overtake Madi. As one of the many commanders inside the flame, he was just one of many voices in her head. Unfortunately, he was one of the most powerful as well as one of the most brutal, and as she fed into her fears and grief about Clarke, his hold over her grew stronger.
Clarke, Gaia and Raven were eventually able to save Madi by first removing the flame from Madi and then destroying the flame itself. However, Raven mentioned that she wasn't able to find where Sheidheda's code went. Given how powerful he is – and the tendency for Becca's tech to never give up and die already – we knew after the season 6 finale that one of the biggest questions season 7 would have to answer was what happened to Sheidheda.
Since Sheidheda was connected to the Eligius IV computer as code before Raven lost track of him, many thought he might control that ship or the Eligius III. Controlling either would make him a formidable enemy beyond his strategic abilities and powers of manipulation, however, that's not the direction The 100 went with.
According to showrunner Jason Rothenberg, there was "no debating" how this story would go, as it seemed obvious, creatively.
"It was the story that I knew that I wanted to tell," Rothenberg told Den of Geek. "I got to keep [Russell Prime actor] J.R. Bourne and kind of craft an entirely new character."
If you're wondering how long Sheidheda will be around, how big of a deal he's going to be, or if he'll somehow jump bodies again, we can only speculate. But J.R. Bourne is now a series regular and Rothenberg speaks highly of him, which suggests that the actor will be in the majority of the final season, even if Sheidheda starts traveling again. Perhaps he and Gaia will have another showdown?
It's still unclear just how well Sheidheda understands the current politics in Sanctum, but it likely won't take long for him to realize that while his new body has powerful enemies in Clarke and the Children of Gabriel, it also comes with serious protection from any still loyal to the Primes. It's tough to imagine this character doing anything other than making a big impact on Sanctum and the show, in contrast to last season's continual buildup.
Keep in mind that while Sheidheda was controlling Madi, he awakened both the Grounders and the prisoners from cryosleep on the Eligius IV, providing himself/Russell Prime with a potential army to command as well as creating an even more factious situation in Sanctum. Thanks to him, not only are there Children of Gabriel, SpaceKru, and true believing and unbelieving people of Sanctum, there are also two additional groups with a tendency toward violence.
If Sheidheda was hoping for a powder keg – or a power vacuum – he may just have it. Either way, SpaceKru has plenty of challenges to face this season.
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Well-Preserved Remains of Two Vesuvius Victims Found in Pompeii
The pair's clenched feet and hands testify to the agonizing nature of their death by thermal shock
Archaeologists made plaster casts of the pair, who are thought to be a high-status older man and a younger enslaved individual. (Archaeological Park of Pompeii)
By Livia Gershon
When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D., a wealthy man of 30 or 40 and a younger enslaved man survived the immediate impact, only to die in a second volcanic blast the following day. Two millennia later, reports Angela Giuffrida for the Guardian, archaeologists excavating a villa on the outskirts of the ancient Roman city have found the pair's remains, eerily frozen in their final death throes.
Preserved Horse, Saddled, Harnessed and Ready to Flee, Found in Villa Outside Pompeii
Based on traces of the older man's clothing, which included a woolen cloak, researchers from the Archaeological Park of Pompeii say he was probably a person of high status. The body of the younger man, aged 18 to 25, had several compressed vertebrae, suggesting he was a manual laborer. Likely enslaved by his companion, the second individual wore a short, pleated tunic possibly made out of wool. The team found the remains in an underground corridor of the ruined structure beneath more than six feet of ash.
"The victims were probably looking for shelter in the cryptoporticus, in this underground space, where they thought they were better protected," Massimo Osanna, director general of the archaeological park, tells the Associated Press' Frances D'Emilio.
Instead, the duo died in a rush of heat and volcanic debris that flowed into the building
"It is a death by thermal shock, as also demonstrated by their clenched feet and hands," Osanna tells Angelo Amante of Reuters.
Archaeologists preserved the newly discovered remains using a variation of a technique developed by Italian archaeologist Giuseppe Fiorelli in 1863. The process involves pouring liquid chalk into cavities left by decomposing bodies; this plaster fills gaps in preserved bones and teeth, creating a cast of the bodies as they looked at the moment of death.
A close-up view of one of the victim's clenched hands (Pompeii Archaeological Park)
The bodies were found under more than six feet of ash in a ruined villa. (Archaeological Park of Pompeii)
"It is impossible to see those deformed figures, and not feel moved," wrote Italian author Luigi Settembrini in his 1863 "Letter to the Pompeians," as quoted in a statement from the archaeological park. "They have been dead for eighteen centuries, but they are human beings seen in their agony. This is not art, it is not imitation; these are their bones, the remains of their flesh and their clothes mixed with plaster, it is the pain of death that takes on body and form."
Pompeii now contains the bodies of more than 100 people preserved as plaster casts. Osanna tells the Times that the technique captured fascinating details of the newly discovered bodies, including the "extraordinary drapery" of their wool garments.
"They really look like statues," he says.
The new find is located in Civita Giuliana, about 750 yards northwest of Pompeii's city walls. The villa is on private property, and government-commissioned excavations only began there in 2017, when archaeologists stepped in to help prevent looters from tunneling into the site and stealing artifacts.
This isn't the first impressive find made at the villa: In 2018, archaeologists unearthed the preserved remains of three horses, still saddled and harnessed as if ready to depart at a moment's notice. Research teams also found a whole street of large houses lined with balconies.
The ruins of Pompeii, a city of about 13,000 people at the time of its destruction, have fascinated people around the world for centuries. Roman magistrate Pliny the Younger, who witnessed the destruction from a neighboring city, described it as "an extraordinary and alarming" scene.
Spanish king Charles III of Bourbon began the first official excavations of the site in 1748. Work has continued ever since. (Launched in 2012, the $140 million Great Pompeii Project seeks to conduct the most extensive scientific investigation of the site to date.) The preserved city, with its inhabitants forever caught in the middle of daily activities, has yielded much information about life in ancient Rome, from Pompeiians' culinary habits to their fertility and love rituals.
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Livia Gershon is a freelance journalist based in New Hampshire. She has written for JSTOR Daily, the Daily Beast, the Boston Globe, HuffPost, and Vice, among others.
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A report from a 15-year-old girl who told officers she used a skateboard to fight off an attempted abduction was false, Saskatoon police say.
The unidentified girl went to city police headquarters around 5 p.m. on April 8 and said she was approached by a man driving a white Dodge Ram truck with Alberta plates while she was walking in an alley behind the 3200 block of Milton Street.
She said after the man offered her a ride and she declined, he got out of the truck, hit her and tried to force her into the vehicle but she struck him with her skateboard and fled. The girl had minor injuries and was assessed by a paramedic from the police detention unit.
"An extensive investigation by members of the SPS Targeted Enforcement Unit followed and has determined that the information reported was false," police said in a news release.
The release did not specify whether the teen will be charged with making a false report to police.
Kingston police and the coroner's office are asking for help in identifying a woman who was found dead in a sailboat near Belle Park over the weekend.
Two bodies, a man and a woman, were found in a boat near the northeast side of Belle Park Sunday afternoon.
Police do not believe the deaths are suspicious, but will not release the cause of death as of yet, since the coroner is currently investigating both deaths.
According to police, all conventional methods to identify the woman have been unsuccessful.
They have released a photo of the jewelry she was found wearing as well as a description of her appearance, hoping that someone may come forward to identify her.
The jewellery found on a deceased women floating in a boat near Kingston's Belle Park.
She is described as Caucasian, with dark shoulder length hair and somewhere between the ages of 40 and 50 years old. She is approximately five feet two inches tall, with a medium build and she also has some missing teeth.
Police say she also has several tattoos: one that reads "FAITH" on the back of her neck and upper back, a skull with a rose on her right forearm, two bands of hearts that wrap around her left bicep, "forever strong" in cursive writing on the inner portion of her left forearm and a small heart with the initials "P.W." on her right shoulder.
Kingston police are asking anyone with information about the deceased to contact Det. Veltman at 613-549-4660 ext. 6300, or via email at jveltman@kingstonpolice.ca.
You can also provide tips anonymously by calling the general number for Kingston police at 613-549-4660 ext. 0.
On April 22, 2019 at approximately 6:00 a.m., Lac La Biche RCMP responded to a report of a kidnapping at a residence south of Lac La Biche at Beaver Lake Crescent.
Police attended a residence where it is alleged that a male and two females were assaulted and one of the females was then forcefully removed and placed into a vehicle which fled before police arrived. The suspect and female victim were later located at a separate residence, inside a different parked vehicle.
Lac La Biche RCMP with assistance from the Emergency Response Team, Major Crimes Unit, RCMP Air Services and Police Dog Services attended the scene.
At approximately 6:00 p.m., the suspect male was taken into custody without incident. The female victim suffered minor injuries.
He was remanded into custody and will be appearing in Lac La Biche Provincial Court on April 29, 2019.
As this matter is now before the courts, no further information will be provided.
The Ontario Provincial Police said between 9:30 p.m. on Sunday and 12:11 a.m. on Monday, the woman was driving her vehicle in the Port Dover area when a male attacker emerged from the backseat of her vehicle. The woman was forced to drive to an undisclosed area in Norfolk County where she was physically assaulted and suffered minor injuries.
Police were then contacted on Monday at around 3:54 p.m. and an investigation is ongoing.
The OPP is urging everyone to be aware of their personal safety at all times and to always check their vehicle before entering.
Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to contact the OPP at 1-888-310-1122 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).
The Timmins Police Service is seeking the public's assistance in regards to a reported incident of an attempted abduction of a local youth.
During the late evening hours of Friday, April 19th, a young male pedestrian was accosted by a male party at the intersection of Kimberley and Elm Street South.
The suspect is alleged to have tried to force the young pedestrian into his vehicle.
The pedestrian managed to resist these efforts and broke free and made his way to safety.
The suspect is described as a Caucasian male, approximately 40 years old, with short dark hair, a long nose, and a long skinny face.
The vehicle he was driving is described as a dark-colored or black Jeep SUV with the spare tire mounted on the back of the vehicle and blueish headlights.
This matter remains an open investigation with the Timmins Police Service and public assistance is being sought to identify the suspect.
Anyone with viable information is asked to call the Timmins Police Service at 705-264-1201 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
Ontario Provincial Police have confirmed that the body of a woman found in a park in Campbellford, Ontario last weekend is that of missing resident Nicole Smith.
On Saturday, a group of family and friends conducted a small search around the town located about 52 km east of Peterborough.
Some in the search party visited the Lions Club Park on County Road 50, where they located the human remains. Northumberland OPP attended and investigated.
OPP say a post-mortem identified the body as that of Smith.
A 38-year-old man is facing kidnapping and firearm charges after two men were forcibly removed from a Delhi residence last week.
The two men, ages 29 and 45, both of Tillsonburg, were taken from Delhi to a residence in the Courtland area on Friday.
After arriving at the location, one of the men became involved in a physical altercation that resulted in the suspect fleeing from the area in a vehicle.
Norfolk OPP were contacted by the Brantford Police Services around 1:18 a.m. Saturday after one of the men arrived at a local hospital with injuries.
As a result, police have charged Richard James Hutchison, 38, of Kearns-McGarry Township with a variety of offences.
He has been charged with kidnapping while using a firearm, discharging a firearm into or at a place in a reckless manner, possession of a loaded prohibited or restricted weapon, and possession for the purpose of trafficking cocaine.
The accused was held in custody for a bail hearing on Tuesday at the Simcoe courthouse.
Investigators from the Major Crimes Branch have applied for and received judicial authorization to search a residence located in the 3400 block of Cross Street in relation to this investigation.
The Windsor Police Mobile Command Unit will also be in the area of the 3400 block of Cross Street as the investigation continues.


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Der Laufertorkeller oder auch Laufertorbunker ist eine ehemalige Tiefbunkeranlage im nordöstlichen Teil der Sebalder Altstadt in Nürnberg in Bayern.

Beschreibung
Namensgebend der etwa 2000 Quadratmeter großen Anlage ist das Nürnberger Laufer Tor. Der aufgelassene Bunker ist Bestandteil eines etwa 25.000 Quadratmeter umfassenden Kellersystems in der nördlichen Altstadt. Die Anlage befindet sich  westlich des Laufer Tor Turms, dehnt sich nördlich bis an die Maxtormauer und westlich bis fast zur wirtschafts- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Fakultät (WiSo) der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität aus.

In westlicher Richtung ist der Laufertorbunker über den Tucherstollen mit dem Tucherkeller und dem Panierskeller verbunden.

Seit dem 14. Jahrhundert trieben die Menschen Stollen und Felsenkeller in den Sandsteinkeuper des Nürnberger Burgberges. Die Stollen dienten der Wassergewinnung der Stadt und die Felsenkeller als Lagerstätte der lokalen Brauereien. Ursprünglich bestand das in  bis zu 16 Meter Tiefe gelegene Kellersystem aus voneinander unabhängigen Kellern. Nürnberg fehlte es zum Schutz der Bevölkerung an Hauskellern. Deshalb wurden ab 1940 die Bierkeller ausgebaut und ab 1943 durch Stollen miteinander verbunden.
Während des Zweiten Weltkrieges wurden die Keller von Zwangsarbeitern zum Bunker ausgebaut. Sie dienten bis zum Einmarsch amerikanischer Truppen in Nürnberg im April 1945 Zehntausenden Menschen als Luftschutzraum. Hier überlebten viele Nürnberger die Zerstörung ihrer Stadt am Abend des 2. Januar 1945. In einigen Bereichen der Keller waren auch geschützte Bereiche für die Stadtverwaltung eingerichtet.

Das Bunkersystem selbst erstreckt sich auf drei aber nicht übereinander liegenden Ebenen. Die gesamte Kelleranlage ist weiträumig und unterirdisch mit dem östlich liegenden Staufferkeller (Unterer Laufertorkeller), dem Mittleren Laufertorkeller und  dem westlich gelegenen Uhlkeller verbunden. Die ursprünglichen, nur in Sandstein gehauenen Keller wurden zum Teil beim Ausbau mit Ziegelsteinen ausgekleidet oder mit Beton verkleidet. Notwendige Infrastruktur wie Notstromaggregate, Toilettenanlagen, Belüftungsanlagen  und Versorgungseinrichtungen wurden dabei zusätzlich eingebaut. Beim Ausbau wurde 1943 ein weiterer Zugang am Äußeren Laufer Platz geschaffen. Baumaterial war knapp und die Auskleidung erfolgte mit Ziegelsteinen, die ursprünglich für den Bau der Kongresshalle Nürnberg vorgesehen waren. Die Bauarbeiten waren dort bereits 1940 weitgehend eingestellt worden.

Mittlerer Laufertorkeller
Dieser Teil der Anlage diente vornehmlich der Verwaltung der sogenannten "Werke und Bahnen" und für etwa 250 weitere Menschen als Schutzraum. Von hier aus koordinierten die städtischen Werke den Einsatz von Instandsetzungs-Trupps für beschädigte Gas- und Wasserleitungen, die Reparatur zerstörter Straßenbahn-Schienen und dem Stromnetz. Dieser Teil der Anlage ist relativ komfortabel ausgebaut. Die Wände sind nahezu vollständig mit Beton verkleidet und die Fußböden gefliest. Einzelne als Büro genutzte Abschnitte hatten Holztüren. Hier befanden sich neben Toilettenanlagen auch die Infrastruktur für eine Notstromversorgung und der Belüftung der gesamten Bunkeranlage. Ein Teil des Abschnittes konnte auch von der Bevölkerung als Schutzraum genutzt werden.

Oberer Laufertorkeller
Der ehemalige Uhlkeller diente vollständig als öffentlicher Luftschutzbunker. Er wurde über eine abwärtsführende Treppe beim Ausbau mit dem Mittleren Laufertorkeller verbunden. Ursprünglich hatte dieser Teil des Bunkers zwei eigenständige Zugänge, die heute vermauert bzw. zugeschüttet wurden. In den 1970ern wurde der Keller größtenteils zur Stabilisierung mit Spritzbeton ausgekleidet (torkretiert). In diesem Teil der Anlage befand sich auch ein Teil der Wasserversorgung und Wasserspeicherung.

Unterer Laufertorkeller
Die am tiefsten gelegenen, hohen kathedralartig wirkenden Räume, dienten wahrscheinlich zunächst als Eiskeller. Nach dem Umbau fanden hier Filterräume und ein Ausweichquartier des Wehrkreises Platz. Ergänzend wurde eine Notküche mit mehreren 3000 Litern fassenden Kochkesseln  eingebaut. Pläne, die Küche auch nach Kriegsende auszubauen und zu nutzen wurden wegen hygienischer Unzulänglichkeiten verworfen. Im nördlichen Teil des Kellers wurde ein Notbrunnen angelegt. Der etwa 40 Meter tiefe Brunnen wurde auch noch nach dem Kriegsende im Rahmen des Katastrophenschutzes betriebsbereit gehalten und erst in den 2010er Jahren aufgegeben und ist heute dem Verfall preisgegeben. Der Keller ist hier mit dem Tucherstollen verbunden. Der Tucherstollen diente zunächst der Entwässerung des Tucherkellers und wurde dann im Zweiten Weltkrieg als Fluchttunnel hinab zur Wöhrder Wiese genutzt.

Heutige Nutzung
Die Anlage wird heute nicht mehr genutzt. Das weitverzweigte System ist heute nur noch im Rahmen von Sonderführungen zugänglich. So wurden im Rahmen des Gedenkens an die Zerstörung Nürnbergs jeweils im Januar 2012, 2016 und 2020 Führungen durch den Förderverein Nürnberger Felsengänge e.V. angeboten.

Bis auf zwei Zugänge und dem Tucherstollen sind heute alle ursprünglichen Zugänge vermauert  oder zugeschüttet worden. Ein Zugang in einem Privathaus im südlichen Teil der Anlage wurde dauerhaft versperrt. Teile der Anlage wurden mit Bauschutt verfüllt oder dienen der Ablagerung von demontiertem Material. Durch eindringendes Wasser haben sich zwischenzeitlich auch sehenswerte Versinterungen, Tropfsteine und bunte Mineralauswaschungen gebildet.

Oberirdisch sichtbar sind auch noch die Reste ehemaliger Lüftungsschächte und Kamine. Im Bereich des ehemaligen Laufertorzwingers finden sich noch fünf Kamine.

Bildergalerie

Einzelnachweise

Literatur
 Walter Herppich: Das unterirdische Nürnberg. Nürnberg 2001, ISBN 3-87191-301-4.
 Förderverein Nürnberger Felsengänge e.V., NÜRNBERG UNTERIRDISCH, Von "geheimen Gängen und Felsengewölben", Verlag Nürnberger Presse

Weblinks

Bunker in Nürnberg
Keller (Bauwerk)
Bauwerk in Nürnberg

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The employment opportunity here at Crystal River has taken a new turn. We broke the building , now the lads with pencils go to a whippin. Good news, I am back on Le Chat Beaute tomorrow!!!! It's only for nine days but can't wait.
Today was a grand day here in West Florida. We had tornadoes touch down here the last couple of days, a very strange phenenoma for a sailor from the Great NW. Lots of beautiful old trees without tops today but the sun is out so had a great run down through the hood. Thought I would include some pictures from the Hood.
I am a sailor. Cashed it all in in 2003 and sailed around the NW USA then went to Mexico for two years then sailed to Australia on a Baltic 42. Sold the boat in OZ and bought a Privilege 42 in Venezuela. Not fully retired so have been doing the nuclear steam generator change out gig to recharge my financial batteries. Work 13-15 hours a day for two to three months. Make great money quickly so I can get back to the boat.


11. May 2007 – 29. April 2013.
He was a great dog, a big lovely Teddy Bear, he got round everybody with not only with his beauty but with his big heart too. He has gone..... it was a hard decision to make, but it was a must to prevent him from suffering. He was only 6 year old, he could still have some more years to live, however he could not cope with his kidney failure. He left wonderful Groenendael and Tervueren progeny behind him among which Dotty and Hatisse will carry on their father's fantastic temperament and beauty.


Association assessments are considered consumer debt as defined by the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA). Attorneys and collection companies who collect debts on behalf of associations are required to comply with FDCPA. Management companies, with the exception of those jurisdictions mandating compliance, are not obligated to comply with FDCPA.
The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) was enacted in 1979 to deter unscrupulous creditors from using harassment techniques to recover debt. The Act proscribes the type of activities debt collectors may undertake and requires certain disclosures to consumers. In the past, compliance by community association practitioners was viewed as voluntary. Today, compliance by attorney debt collectors is mandatory under law. With the exception of those management companies obligated to comply with the Act in particular jurisdictions, most management companies are considered to be agents of the association for whom collection of the debt is an incidental duty owed to the association. Because a management company is viewed, by virtue of its agency, as collecting debt for itself, management companies are not required to comply with FDCPA like a third party debt collector.
Association assessments fall under the definition of consumer debt.
(6) The term "debt collector" means any person who uses any instrumentality of interstate commerce or the mails in any business the principal purpose of which is the collection of any debts, or who regularly collects or attempts to collect, directly or indirectly, debts owed or due or asserted to be owed or due another. Notwithstanding the exclusion provided by clause (F) of the last sentence of this paragraph, the term includes any creditor who, in the process of collecting his own debts, uses any name other than his own which would indicate that a third person is collecting or attempting to collect such debts. For the purpose of section 1692f(6) of this title, such term also includes any person who uses any instrumentality of interstate commerce or the mails in any business the principal purpose of which is the enforcement of security interests.
Association attorneys and credit agencies are required to comply with FDCPA.
Management companies in most jurisdictions still fall under the exception of "F," and are therefore not obligated under the FDCPA.


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Newcastle unlocks the mysteries of the Temple of Mithras
by Richard Moss, 13-07-17 Post
Statue head of God Mithras: 2nd-3rd century. Copyright Museum of London
The 1950s were a golden decade for Roman excavations in the UK. Two digs in particular captured the public imagination when they uncovered tantalising insights into the mysterious Roman religion of Mithraism – a ritualistic system of worship of the God Mithras that flourished throughout the Roman Empire alongside Christianity.
In 1954 at Walbrook, a street in the city of London, the remains of a remarkable underground temple eighteen feet beneath city streets was discovered during building work. Dating to the mid third century, it yielded an array of intriguing archaeological treasures including fine marble sculptures of the gods Mithras, Minerva and Serapis, which now reside in the Roman London Gallery of the Museum of London.
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Just four years earlier, 300 miles north at Carrawburgh on Hadrian's Wall, two subterranean early third century temples to the enigmatic cult returned evidence including sculptures, religious utensils and three altars dedicated to Mithras by commanding officers of the Roman Army unit stationed there, the First Cohort of Batavians from the Rhineland.
Now the Great North Museum: Hancock in Newcastle, which houses the Carrawburgh altars, is bringing many of these finds together to offer a rare opportunity to delve into the story of the worship of Mithras in Roman Britain from two different perspectives. As a god worshipped both in the provincial capital of London and on the northern frontier of Hadrian's Wall.
Roman statue head of Serapis. © Museum of London
The marble head of Serapis found carefully buried under one of the floor levels of the Walbrook Mithraeum © Museum of London
Head of Minverva. © Museum of London
Yet despite the hundreds of underground locations uncovered across the former Roman Empire, as befits its secretive nature, little is known about Mithraism's practices.
We know Mithras was an ancient Persian god adopted in the Roman Empire as the main deity of the religion, which flourished in the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD.
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Open only to men (it was very popular with the Roman Army) some scholars believe its worshippers were highly secretive about their rituals and beliefs and may have included secret handshakes and passwords. There were seven steps of initiation for the worshippers of Mithras, via various rituals that would reveal new secret knowledge.
To add to the mystery, all temples of Mithras, known as Mithraeum, were either purpose-built or incorporated into caves underground.
Mithras in Profile. © Museum of London
Reconstruction by Alan Sorrell of the interior of the Temple to Mithras © Museum of London
The head of Mithras. © Museum of London
Mithras was both a sun god and a creator god. Iconography found in his temples often focuses on the act of creation in which Mithras kills a bull in a cave. This scene, which is known as the tauroctony, culminates in new life, in the form of ears of wheat, which emerge from the slain animal's tail.
The god is frequently depicted as being born of a rock or egg, and the Great North Museum: Hancock also holds a unique carving from Hadrian's Wall found at Housesteads Roman Fort showing the birth of Mithras from the cosmic egg.
By the 4th century AD, Roman Mithraism was in decline as Christianity spread across the Empire. The discovery of the heads of Mithras and the Greco-Egyptian-Roman god of fertility Serapis at the Walbrook site, which had been carefully hidden underneath the temple flooring, may attest to this spread – and indeed hostile Christian action and the deliberate destruction of pagan images.
There is very little evidence for the continuation of Mithraism into the 5th century.
© The Hancock Museum
A temple sculpture on display at the Hancock Museum showing the birth of Mithras from an egg © Tyne and Wear Museums
Shrines from the Mithras Temple at Wallabrough displayed at the Museum. © Tyne and Wear Museums
In a strange turn of events that could have only happened during the 1950s rebuilding of Blitzed Britain, the remains of the London Mithraeum were eventually reconstructed, cemented back together in modern concrete, at street level on top of a nearby car park.
In 2014 Museum of London archaeologists dismantled them – in preparation for a return to their original subterranean site, on top of the surviving foundations beneath a new Bloomberg HQ building.
Perhaps the Great North Museum's exhibition suggests some form of Mithraism is about to rise again?
Mithras: Roman Religion from Thames to Tyne is on display in the Hadrian's Wall gallery at the Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle upon Tyne until Sunday 27 August 2017.
Great North Museum: Hancock
The Great North Museum incorporates collections from the Hancock Museum and Newcastle University's Museum of Antiquities, the Shefton Museum and the Hatton Gallery. Highlights of the £26million museum include a large-scale, interactive model of Hadrian's Wall, major new displays showing the wonder and diversity of the animal kingdom, spectacular objects…
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Women's T20 World Cup 2020: Global music superstar Katy Perry to perform in front of record crowd
Posted On / March 7, 2020 / by Anirudh Singh
Ellyse Perry, Katy Perry. (Pic Source: Twitter)
The ICC Women's T20 World Cup 2020 final will take place at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) on Sunday, March 8 – International Women's Day.
India and Australia qualified for the big final after the conclusion of semi-finals at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) on Thursday, March 5.
Harmanpreet Kaur-led India progressed as the top-ranked team in Group A after their semifinal match against England was abandoned due to rain. Host and defending champions Australia defeated South Africa by five runs in the second semi-final.
Global music superstar Katy Perry will first perform two songs to get the final underway and then return for a post-match concert, with her full band, once the on-field presentations get over.
👀 @katyperry is in the 'G#T20WorldCup | #FILLTHEMCG pic.twitter.com/CJ54gv3MjM
— T20 World Cup (@T20WorldCup) March 7, 2020
Timings for fans (all times local / AEDT):
11:00am onwards: Fanzone in Yarra Park precinct (closes at 6:00pm – more details below)
3:30pm – Gates open
5:00pm – Fans encouraged to ARRIVE EARLY and be in their seats to experience the full pre-game show
5:30pm – Katy Perry pre-match performance
6:00pm – Match starts
The match will be played for around three hours, subject to any delays for reasons such as weather, and the on-field presentation with the winning team follows. Katy Perry's post-match concert will then take place.
Till Friday, more than 75,000 tickets were sold out for a match which will mark the culmination of a 17-day, 10-team, tournament that has proved both entertaining and competitive.
A Perry, Perry good photo 😜 #T20WorldCup | #FILLTHEMCG pic.twitter.com/YhBnZmWqvR
For Australia, Ellyse Perry will take no part in what is shaping to be a historic moment in the women's game. Ellyse was ruled out of the remainder of the tournament after sustaining a hamstring injury during the hosts' four-run win over New Zealand in Melbourne.
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