College instructor fired over child pornography allegations - WBTV 3 News, Weather, Sports, and Traffic for Charlotte, NC

FBI - Cross Country Porn Ring - College instructor fired over child pornography allegations - WBTV 3 News, Weather, Sports, and Traffic for Charlotte, NC:

GJ - You do not want to read this, but it explains how those shared video and picture files originate - child abuse of the worst kind.

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Jerry Sandusky: Former Penn State Defensive Coordinator May Consider Plea Deal | Bleacher Report

Jerry Sandusky: Former Penn State Defensive Coordinator May Consider Plea Deal | Bleacher Report:

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Grace Lutheran sued by estranged members - Leader-Telegram: Front Page

We'll get even with you for leaving
Holy Mother ELCA.

Grace Lutheran sued by estranged members - Leader-Telegram: Front Page:


By Christena T. O'Brien Leader-Telegram staff | 4 comments

Nearly 70 members of Grace Lutheran Church, including a former pastor and former council presidents, are asking an Eau Claire County judge to intervene in a dispute over church affiliation.

The group — through a civil suit filed this week in Eau Claire County Court — is asking a judge to declare that the longtime Eau Claire church remains solely affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and must be governed in a manner consistent with the church's constitution and the governing documents of the ELCA.

The Grace Lutheran Church council voted last April to also join the more conservative Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ after a vote to disaffiliate with the ELCA failed.
The Rev. Rolf Nestingen, a pastor at Grace Lutheran Church, was surprised when he learned of the suit Wednesday afternoon.

"We're just absolutely caught off-guard here," he said.

Since pro-ELCA members have chosen to worship at a synod-authorized alternate worship site at First Lutheran Church known as Amazing Grace, which was formed earlier this year, "it has been calm and peaceful here," Nestingen said. "We had thought that maybe they had decided they can no longer affiliate with us, and they are no longer here."

The civil suit — which names Grace Lutheran Church-LCMC and the members of the church council as defendants — seeks to have the court review the constitutional provisions of Grace Lutheran Church and determine that recent decisions by the current church council, including dual affiliation with the LCMC, are unconstitutional.

The suit also asks for an immediate injunction prohibiting Grace-LCMC from exercising authority over property and assets belonging to Grace-ELCA. Specifically, the 68 plaintiffs, who include the Rev. Gordon Thorpe, a former pastor at the church, and Mitch Piper and Dawn Sands, former church council presidents, object to the following:

The current church council's action to ignore the outcome of an April 3 vote to disaffiliate from the ELCA. The vote — prompted by a church member's petition claiming the ELCA had been "drifting theologically" from scriptural teachings — required a two-thirds majority to begin terminating Grace's affiliation with the ELCA and join the LCMC but only received a simple majority.

However, two days after the vote, the council voted to also affiliate with the LCMC — a move which was unconstitutional and not permitted by the ELCA, according to Bishop Duane Pederson of the ELCA's Northwest Synod of Wisconsin.

At the time, council President Anne Carter said the council's action was an effort to keep the divided congregation together under one roof, so parishioners could study both the ELCA and LCMC and make a decision as a united family.


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Evidently, Grace Lutheran (ELCA) in Eau Claire was 52 votes shy of the two-thirds it needed in the second vote to break away from the ELCA. However, the church council then must have decided to join the more conservative LCMC anyway, thus occasioning the lawsuit over procedures:

http://www.wqow.com/Global/story.asp?S=14374373

A majority of Voters at Grace Lutheran (288) wanted to break away, however the final tally was 52 votes shy of the two-thirds majority needed to approve a final vote.

"Pure Gold, John." Companies consider mining for gold in Wisconsin - JSOnline

Companies consider mining for gold in Wisconsin - JSOnline:


There's gold in Marathon County, and a Michigan-based company is returning to the woods this winter for more prospecting in the hope of striking it big.

As mining has taken a higher profile in Wisconsin in 2011, mineral exploration company Aquila Resources Inc. has quietly become the most active player in the state.

Make no mistake about it. These are not gold rush days for Wisconsin, and the state is far from a hotbed of metallic mining.

The most visible mining company, Gogebic Taconite of Hurley, has put plans on hold for a $1.5 billion iron ore mine until lawmakers advance more favorable environmental regulations.

But with global demand for minerals rising - and gold's attraction in uncertain times - there has been a revival in interest in Wisconsin.

Aquila Resources, incorporated in Canada and with offices in Menominee, Mich., is evaluating three sites in central and northern Wisconsin.

Also, with a Canadian partner, Aquila is close to making a formal application to mine gold on land next to the Menominee River in the Upper Peninsula, bordering Wisconsin's Marinette County.

Aquila's most significant project in Wisconsin involves the "Reef" deposit in the Town of Easton, east of Wausau in Marathon County - part of a known belt of gold, silver, copper, zinc and other minerals.


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