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GRAYSON COUNTY, TX - Authorities say there's a new scam spreading across the country, and at least one person here in Texoma has been targeted.
As one of the leaders of the Texoma Red Cross, Sara Jerome is a well known woman around here.
Tuesday she got a call from a man claiming she had won hundreds of thousands of dollars in a contest that she never entered.
She knew it was a scam and now she wants to make sure other people don't fall for it.
Millions of people dream of winning something like the Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes, but when a local woman got a call saying she had won, she knew something wasn't right.
"Congratulations you've won the Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes, we're ten minutes away from your house," said Jerome.
Sara Jerome says she doesn't remember entering any contest, so when she got the call saying she had won $900,000 and a 2012 Mercedes Benz, she thought something was a bit strange.
"So I asked him, when did I enter for the Publishers Clearing House, and he said if you've used your credit card at a convenience store in the last 90 days, you've been entered."
The caller told her to go get 3 green dot cards with $500.00 on each, to tip the people delivering the prize.
Once she got the cards, he asked her to scratch off the backs and give him the numbers.
"I flipped the card over to look at it and there's a little yellow box that says don't give out this number if they ask you for this number it's fraudulent and we can't protect you from fraud."
So she told him no, and called Publishers Clearing House on her house phone and they told her it's a scam, but the caller wouldn't give up, he kept calling her back every time she hung up.
"He was adamant that he was part of Publishers Clearing House, that the lady I was talking to in the fraud division didn't know what she was talking about, he knew her personally, I mean just on and on"
So we called Publishers Clearing House, to help clear things up.
"If it's a legitimate prize from Publishers Clearing House, you never have to send any money to collect that prize, we don't contact our winners ahead of time, and if you won a prize from PCH, it comes with no strings attached," said Chris Irving, PCH Assistant Vice President for consumer and legal affairs.
We tried to contact the caller, but he didn't answer.
Again Publishers Clearing House says they will never ask for money if you're a winner.
If you think you're being scammed, call the police.


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If Speaker Tillis and Senate President Pro Tem Berger have any interest in doing the right thing, they should cancel the special legislative session scheduled for next Thursday immediately.
Truth is, none of the Tarheel Taliban has any interest in doing the right thing. They're on a whacked-out power trip ... and it's going to get a lot worse before it gets any better.
Just sayin...
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Martha was a 1961 graduate of Webster High School.
She departed this earthly life on July 20 in Shreveport.
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Authorities have identified the man whose body was dumped in a Shoreview parking lot on Aug. 29, but they need the public's help to identify a person of interest.
Police say Hagos Melake, 26, of South St. Paul, was last seen leaving the Hunan Garden Restaurant in downtown St. Paul around 1:30 a.m. the morning of Aug. 29. At about 4:30 a.m. the same day, his ATM card was used at the US Bank on West Broadway in north Minneapolis.
The bank's surveillance video captured an unidentified woman using the card. Detectives are calling her a person of interest in Melake's death.
Melake's body was discovered around 6:30 a.m. the parking lot of a business in the 5700 block of Hamline Avenue. He had no identification on him. The Medical Examiner determined he died from a gun shot wound.
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Opel will expand the current Astra range with a new coupe version set to be launched at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show. It will join the current five-door model and the just launched Astra Sports Tourer . The future coupe version will come with a separate, more radical design.
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How would you advise a person who would like to explore the world, yet has no money at all?
Apart from trying to obtain some cash, what would you tell these sort of people who would like to learn new cultures and meet people of various backgrounds yet has no financial means to do so? Would love some creative answers. =)
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Max GutapfelFeb 6 2013: Well as ive been to china at age 16 coming from germany i guess i am one of those teens who travel around :D
But yeah thats not the "conventional" way we do travel i was on an foreign exchange program then (10 months) and it cost about all the money my parents had saved up for me at this point :P
We usually travel within Europe... europe might have quite alot of countrys but its really dense, so i can say ive been to italy, france, the netherlands, uk, spain, poland ans so on and yeah those are all diffrent cultures with diffrent languages so we are blessed here in europe. But why we can do that is partially because:
a)europe is rich compared to the rest of the world and
b) europe is small i mean you can cross france in like 10 hours from where i live its 2 hours to paris by train. Thats not huge distances.
We also have a ticket which is called "interrail" which costs about 180 € for 5 days of "take any train you want" so we buy that ticket and pack a backpack and off we are, we sleep at the trainstation if we cant find a cheap hotel and only have to worry for food.
Combining interrail with couchsurfing is the cheapest way to visit many diffrent places. Couchsurfing is a website on which you can lend a place to sleep to a complete stranger, receiving nothing then the joy of having helped someone out and meeting new people from diffrent cultures.
So a great way to start for you (if you have a place to sleep e.g. a couch) would be to invite foreigners to your home and who knows probably you will make friends and they will invite you over in return that way youve safed the hotel costs.
Edit: and dont "sit and imagine" as someone else suggested ;o) Go out take a risk, if traveling across the world means risking not having a place to sleep inside thats it. Id advise traveling during summer though :D
Feb 12 2013: Well i dont think its highly risky, the couchsurfing community consists of normal people for the greatest part and some weirdos looking for a one night stand, or offering those in addition to the couch.
As there are reviews on every user profile you can always check someones reputation in the couchsurfing network, ofcourse this can be faked, but its in most cases quite easy to see those (5 people commending each other but having nothing to do with anyone else would make me sceptical for instance)
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When I click on help link in any of the Revit Extensions dialog boxes, I get the "file not found " error. How could I fix that?
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Firefox can't find the file at /C:/Users/kasutaja/AppData/Roaming/Autodesk/REX/20
Check the file name for capitalization or other typing errors.
Check to see if the file was moved, renamed or deleted.
Please check if the file exists in the indicated location. Tou may also try to change teh default internet browser.
I have checked this as Help opens with no problems (see teh atatched picture)
I can't see any problem copying the Help address to firefox either.
If you find your post answered press the Accept as Solution button please. This will help other users to find solutions much faster. Thank you.
I have this help folder empty.
Others too.
Should I reinstall?
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But there are more help files than those three. I miss them all. I provided those folders as an example.
Why were they not installed?
Could you provide the whole help folder of rex?
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Okay, I am not sure if anyone thought about this.... but....
I know we all have discussed about Jacob imprinting and that I had put up a discussion about how Jacob could possibly be imprinted on Bella's ovaries (REnesmee) that was why Jacob could not leave her or was half in love iwth Bella....
ok... what if Bella had left Edward and ended up with Jacob, then is it possible Jacob would NEVER imprint? or can someone imprint on someone else if not before? I mean if Renesmee never existed, then can Jacob imprint on someone else? I am curious as to what you all think :)
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I do not think that Jacob could imprint on someone else other than Renesmee.
However, if you are opening the door to him imprinting on Bella's ovaries, then it IS possible that he could imprint on his own child. Clearly if that were to happen it would NOT be sexual, EVER. He just would be one very protective father and the little rug rat would be able to get away with ANYTHING and probably be a spoiled brat.
okay then here is the other question.... if he imprints on his own child and apparently its odd for one becuase then the child will never fall in love with anyone right???? i mean like emily and sam? or can the imprinted child fall in love with other people? hmmmmmmm
does it make sense?
No, I think the child can still fall in love with someone else and have a normal relationship with someone else.
The level of "devotion and love" would be different because it is from a parent and not from a lover, so I believe that the child would form a loving/romantic relationship with someone else and Jacob would want that as long as the other person was good to his child. If this child was ever hurt by someone it would be extremely intense and I think that Jacob would want to kill them for hurting his imprint.
Stay tooned, I will be addressing that.
However I don't believe that Jacob imprinted on Bella's eggs, so THAT won't be an issue, but they will have to deal with his potential imprinting.
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How technically predictable the market has been
Hindsight is 20/20, but can the charts also predict how the indexes will react?
By Tim Parker
Having flashbacks to the days when triple digit swings in the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($INDU) were just another day at the office? This week has felt a lot like 2009. Let's try to make sense of it so far.
Looking at the chart of the S&P 500 ($INX), we find that the Monday and Wednesday close is a support level that dates back to the March 12 close of 1,552. Until April 5, the S&P traded in a 1% range, reaching a high of 1,570 on April 2. The index formed a base allowing the oscillators to unwind. Technicians view basing patterns as healthy price action in a bull market.
On April 5, the index sat at 1,553 -- just slightly above the support level of 1,570. By April 11, the index had rocketed up 2.5% to 1,593. This appeared to be a significant breakout from the base -- something technicians were expecting.
Then came this week. A sharp sell off in commodities that started the previous Friday sent the index plummeting to 1,552 on Monday -- to roughly the April 5 level before the breakout occurred.
The next day the index closed at 1,572. Those familiar with Fibonacci retracements will notice the nearly perfect 50% gain from Monday's 40 point tumble. Wednesday, the index closed at 1,552 -- within one point of Monday's close and right at the March 12 level of support.
Let's sum up:
March 12- 1,552 established;
April 5- traded in a range of 1,552 to 1,570 until this date;
April 11- S&P had gained 2.5% to close at 1,593;
April 15- Fell to 1,552 -- the March 12 support;
April 16- Retraced 50% of the loss to close at 1,574;
April 17- Fell back to 1,552 -- the March 12 support.
Coincidence? Hardly.
Now that we found technical order in the chaos, let's answer the question that everybody is wondering: Have the events of this week caused technical damage to the markets that would signal more downside action ahead? Although nobody can predict the future, we can analyze the present and past. As of Wednesday's close, there is no technical damage to the S&P.
The March 12 1,552 support level is important, but the focus will be on the 50 day moving average currently at 1,542.43. That's a little more than 0.5% below Wednesday's close. If that level is taken out on heavy volume, the S&P will likely see the same price action that Apple (AAPL) saw Wednesday as a key level of support was breached. EBay (EBAY) and American Express (AXP) posting disappointing earnings on Wednesday could make 1,542 more difficult to hold.
Also of note, is this chart of the S&P going back to 1960. It reveals something alarming. At current levels, the S&P has formed a triple top. If the index fails to break out of this long-term pattern, some technicians will argue that a huge sell-off could be in store for the near future.
On the other hand, if a break above the previous two tops takes place, a whole lot of upside could be the future.
Disclosure: At the time of this writing, Tim Parker was long Apple.
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OWENSBORO, Ky. - Donald R. Freels 72, of Calhoun, Ky passed away Sunday, November 3, 2013 at his home in Calhoun. Donald Ray Freels was born February 13, 1941 in Daviess County, Ky to the late Woodrow Wilson and Mildred Juanita McCarty Freels, was married to the former Mary Jane Bassett on February 12, 1994, and was also known as 'Big D' by both his family and friends. Donnie retired as a boat captain from the Crounse Corporation after nearly 30 years of service and was a member of Local # 1392 in Owensboro. He enjoyed spending time with his family and friends on the Green River, caring for his dogs, and loved all sports, especially University of Ky Basketball.
Survivors include his wife, Mary Jane Freels; two daughters, Darla Jackson of Cedar Hills, Tennessee and Karen Davis of Maine; two step sons, Chris Roby of Owensboro and Andy Roby of Rumsey; three grandchildren, Mary Elizabeth Davis, Ashley Dawn Davis, and Blake Jackson; two brothers, O.J. Sallee of Rumsey and Red Sallee of Calhoun; and three sisters, Patty Mullens, Betty Chambers, and Peggy Tanner all of Calhoun.
Funeral services will be held at 11:00 A.M. Wednesday at Muster Funeral Homes, Calhoun Chapel with the Elder Scott Sallee and the Rev. Harry Wilson officiating. Burial will be in the Calhoun Cemetery in McLean County. Friends may visit with Donnie's family from 4:00 P.M. until 8:00 P.M. Tuesday and from 9:00 A.M. until time of services Wednesday at Musters in Calhoun.
The Donald R. Freels family requests that expressions of sympathy take the form of donations to the Calhoun Cemetery, Beautification Fund; C/O Winfred Williams; P.O. Box 201; Calhoun, Ky 42327 Memorial contribution envelopes will be available at Musters in Calhoun.
Share your memories and photos of Donnie at www.musterfuneralhomes.com.
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The vacant building that caught on fire in downtown Birmingham could be a symbol for the "epidemic" of abandoned, vacant buildings in the Magic City.
City leaders say they have been asking the owner for years to properly maintain the building, but they've been unsuccessful. Friday, the structure caught fire, essentially destroying what was left. Flames and smoke could be seen from miles away, including atop Red Mountain where the FOX6 New studios are located.
"This particular structure is in a dilapidated state so to speak and the city has been working to get it torn down," Battalion Chief C.W. Mardis said.
While the city asked the owner to bring the former S.G. Bennett building up to code, the walls have literally crumbled. In 2008, the entire back wall collapsed. Then, just last year, there was another wall collapse.
"We've been on the owner to do something about the building and it's unsafe and unstable and they came out and put some tarpaulins on the back but that didn't really do anything," Birmingham Mayor William Bell said.
Mayor Bell says the number of abandoned, vacant structures is an epidemic. But because of the law, city officials can't jump right in and tear down these dilapidated structures.
"Normally if the owner comes in and starts doing work to upgrade the building saying that he's going to put it back into a state of repair that automatically buys him time to come and do what he says he's going to do," Mardis said.
But in the case of this building and others, it's the city that's left to ultimately clean up the mess.
Mayor Bell said that the city is trying to change the law to give them the power to take action over vacant and abandoned structures.
Fire officials say the clean up of this particular fire will take several days and the investigation into how the fire began continues.
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The Wrong Marlowe
on an amnesiac pulp writer in L.A."You don't deserve it, but I'll give you a choice," I said. "I was going to leave you out here, with the heat and the mosquitoes and the bugs and the snakes and the alligators. You'll never make it in. I doubt if I could myself." His whole face was wet as he stared at me. "You won't go easy if you stay, so I'll give you the choice. Stay, or take one dead center from this." I waved the little handgun … "You'll go out of your mind out here in twelve hours." His chest was heaving as he tried to pump air through his constricted throat. "Take the bullet."Hollywood is for the young and tough, a place where you must be beautiful simply to survive, let alone prosper. God help you if you're homely, aging, and physically beaten. Double that if you've lost the creative skills you've counted on, and forgotten much of your life and all the people you've known. Double that again if you're a writer. Let's say it's 1978 and you are Dan J. Marlowe, once one of the hottest suspense novelists of your day, author of such hard-boiled Fawcett Gold Medal paperbacks as The Name of the Game is Death, The Vengeance Man, Never Live Twice, and the Operation books, featuring a bank robber turned international agent. It's 1978, yes, and the market for that kind of book has evaporated. You're 64 years old, suffering from amnesia, glaucoma, and the consequences of a stroke. It's painful for you even to lift your hands high enough to type.— from The Name of the Game is Death (1962)
Though you're chubby and unathletic and wear dark, horn-rimmed glasses, in the past you've been hell with the ladies. Now those ladies are ghosts to you. You've spent more than 15 years living in Harbor Beach, Michigan, a picturesque, isolated town on the shore of Lake Huron. You made a good living, served on the city council, partied with the Rotary Club. And you found time to indulge in your own secret sexual quirkiness. Now you're broke and short of options. So you're moving to the City of Fallen Angels to share an apartment with a former bank robber. To try to put your writing life back together, maybe even get movies made from your books.
You're a Hollywood Untouchable because you're a lousy money-maker, and you'll stay that way. People hear your name and confuse you with Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler's iconic detective, or with your mystery-writing contemporary, Stephen Marlowe. You're the wrong Marlowe, in the wrong time, the wrong place. So what are the chances you'll be remembered with fondness? What are the odds that nearly four decades later, megastar horror writer Stephen King will honor your talent by dedicating a novel to you? Well, you've always been a gambler — a professional one for seven years. You've played long shots and won. Maybe you'll do it again.
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It's 10 p.m. in Los Angeles, and the team led by hosts Brian Webber and Nicole Zaloumis -- along with analysts Eric Davis, Mark Kriegel and Steve Wyche -- sit around a conference table in the NFL Network complex. They are listening to coordinating producer Jeremy Louwerse as he talks about the early rundown and the guest list for "NFL AM," the network's morning show that airs Monday through Friday from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. EST. It's a show that airs live from the NFL Network studios in Los Angeles, which causes some interesting challenges for the cast and crew.
Speaking to Webber, Davis and Louwerse, we talked about the early success of the show as well as their unusual work schedule.
Louwerse on the show's schedule »
"We have our first rundown meeting at 10 p.m. where we talk about the topics of the day. We want to be the show that viewers go to every morning to find out all the breaking NFL news. So we set the focus for the show at the meeting, then between 11:30 p.m. and 1 a.m. we are working on scripts. The analysts are going over tape and further developing storylines. At 2 a.m. we have a final script meeting, then it's off to makeup with everyone on set at 2:45 a.m. and then we are live at 3 a.m."
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Islam, Europe and emerging legal issues.
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140 comments found
Hi lidplussdesign
I am writing further to asmcagirl's comment re the Twitter feed.
July is a long time to wait with the Twitter feed broken in the header and footer of the theme template. Is it possible for you to apply a fix sooner than that please?
Thank you
Hello Naturally,
I'm sorry, we will fix this as soon as it will be possible that's all i can promise you now,
Thank you
When a viewer is on the homepage, in the site description above the browser bar, it does not state the Page name and then the site description, like every other page on the website. Is there a reason this feature is not coming up on the homepage? How can I update so that it will say the page name and then the site description like how all other pages show?
URL: hpaonline.com
Hello creativebar,
Do you have your "Site Title" in "Settings" => "General Settings",
Also please check your "Browser Page Title" in "Theme Settings" => "Seo Settings"
Here is an example " blog_title page_title " of value for "Browser Page Title",
Thank you
Yeah I just updated the SEO settings to have it a standard header.
I have installed your theme and had try to use dummy data to customize CSS layout little bit but I'm not able to get dummy data fully functional. Also drop down menus are not working properly.http://www.interactstaging.net/clients/tozzi/
Any clue?
Hello interactmarketing
Please contact me via email for new dummy data file,
Thank you
Email sent. Can you elaborate on the main menu why is not working as should? Thanks
Hello interactmarketing,
just answered, please check your mailbox
Thank you
Hello interactmarketing,
1.) I'm sorry but we don't provide support for 3rd party components,
Thank you
Well, that thread point to your theme as utilize an old jQuery library as well is not running jQuery in noConflict mode. There is nothing do do with 3rd party components (WP e-Commerce)
Hi, We bought this theme a few months ago, think its been working pretty much well until last night, i cant access my wp-dash board to update it as always, contact my hosting tech support and told me to fix my theme, suddenly it wont let me access to my dashboard www.semillacuerna.com/wp-admin ,they checked every single part of my work space and told me the problem is my theme, so please is there anyway for you to check my site?
Hello foote_semilla,
I'm sorry but we are not able to help you in this situation,
We think the problem is hiding in plugins conflict or in wordpress software, highly recommend you to find technician who will able to fix this problem,
Thank you
Hi lidplussdesign,
My contact form stop working neither map and button submit are working..is there a way to fix this? or whats the php file i could take a look?
Thanks again
Hello foote_semilla,
I'm sorry but we are not able to explain this fact, the problem can be only in any updates on your server or in core files modification,
Thank you
I purchased the theme, but am having trouble loading the Dummy data. I've uploaded the dummy file, but none of the media is importing properly.
Hello sophos707,
Please contact us via email, i will provide you new dummy data,
Thank you
Any ideas on when the Twitter feed will be fixed?
Hello sophos707,
seaofclouds plugin has stopped working as of 2013-06-11.
More information about this problem can be found on: http://tweet.seaofclouds.com/, https://dev.twitter.com/blog/api-v1-is-retired
Thank you
How can I include google analytics? I don't see this in the theme options.
Hello HankInTheForest,
I'm sorry but it's possible to do only thought the coding or thought google analytics 3td party wordpress plugin,
Thank you
Hey Lidplussdesign,
Seriously enjoying this template. Though there is one thing I was wondering: The portfolio widget order for the front page.
I'd like to set the other to random so it shows different items per page load. Already tried to replace "'order' => 'ASC'" to "'order' => 'rand'" in widget-portfolio.php but that did not work.
All help is welcome. Thanks in advance!
Had another question as a reply to my previous portfolio random order question. Managed to solve it on my own though so making this post a "blank".
The question about the portfolio order still stands. Thanks.
Hello 4rtistic,
You have to use "'orderby' => 'rand'" parameter,
please more information find on:
Thank you
I tried this, and it does not work.
There is one array in each portfolio template you included in the theme:
<?php $args = array(
'numberposts' => 9999, // change this to a specific number of images to grab
'offset' => 0,
'post_parent' => $post->ID,
'post_type' => 'attachment',
'exclude' => $thumbnail_id,
'nopaging' => false,
'post_mime_type' => 'image',
'order' => 'ASC', // change this to reverse the order
'orderby' => 'menu_order ID', // select which type of sorting
'post_status' => 'any'
Changing that to:
<?php $args = array(
'numberposts' => 9999, // change this to a specific number of images to grab
'offset' => 0,
'post_parent' => $post->ID,
'post_type' => 'attachment',
'exclude' => $thumbnail_id,
'nopaging' => false,
'post_mime_type' => 'image',
'order' => 'ASC', // change this to reverse the order
'orderby' => 'rand', // select which type of sorting
'post_status' => 'any'
Does nothing. The order remains the same.
Infact, the array parameters in your theme seem to do nothing at all. As the portfolio is displayed in DESC instead of ASC. I conclude this because it's showing the newest item first (=largest ID). This means 'order' => 'ASC' is bypassed completely.
Is the order overwritten somewhere else in your theme? Or is there a quick fix for this bug in your theme?
Hello 4rtistic,
Please try to use this code:
<?php $args = array( 'numberposts' => 9999, 'offset' => 0, 'post_parent' => $post->ID, 'post_type' => 'attachment', 'exclude' => $thumbnail_id, 'nopaging' => false, 'post_mime_type' => 'image', 'order' => 'ASC', 'orderby' => 'rand', 'post_status' => 'any' );
Thank you
Hey lidplussdesign,
Thank you for your help so far, much appreciated.
Tried your code, it's identical to what I already used.
As said before, it doesn't work. The php script seems to ignore the array settings completely. (template-portfolio-3-sidebar.php)
For example, if you set "'numberposts' => 9999" to "'numberposts' => 1", you still get all posts within the portfolio.
Any idea what might be causing this?
Hello 4rtistic,
I'm sorry but it should work if you do everything correctly,
Please find more information about all parameters on http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query
Thank you
Have you tested this yourself?
Because if this works. Can you explain why, on a clean install of Fusion, the portfolio is displayed in a DESC order even though all portfolio template files have the value: "'order' => 'ASC'"?
Hello 4rtistic,
I'm sorry we can't explain why you have these problem but if it's not working it only can mean that you are doing something wrong because it's basic "Wordpress" functions,
Thank you
When will LayerSlider get updated in this Theme?
The theme is using LayerSlider v1.8.0, the latest version is LayerSlider v4.6.0 and a must with wordpress version 3.6.0+ due to the jQuery update.
Main issue is that LayerSlider doesn't work at all right now.
The "Create New Slider" button does nothing.
Hello 4rtistic,
Which one of theme version do you have now?
Thank you
Hi, I was setting up Fusion yesterday. Works really well. There's only one thing: The slider on the front page is not working with the Internet Explorer – with Firefox, no problem. What makes me crazy: Your Fusion Example works with all my browsers -> also Internet Explorer! Any recommendations? Best Regards S.K.
Hello Dillinger100,
Please made sure you don't have empty sublayer in your slider,
Thank you
Thanks for an excellent theme. Question, how can I change the number of Portfolio posts that is showing in Portfolio widget? Default is 3, but I'd like two columns with 3-each so it shows 6-total.
Thanks in advance!
Hello Webbimperiet,
We are very sorry but widget doesn't have these options, it's possible to do only through the code editing,
Thank you
Can you give me an example on how I edit to code to show 6 portfolio posts in 2-columns?
How can I change the order the Portfolio posts is showing on Portfolio widget? Now it's showing in the order when it was created.
I've tried to change the widget-portfolio.php, but it seems to be overwritten by the setting somewhere else. I can delete the complete sortby row and it still is the same sortby order on widget-portfolio.
downloads doesnt have v1.1 instructions to upgrade from 1.0.2 and also 1.0.3 ?
when i upload via ftp and overwrite theme details read same version as old not new?
seems to be no version later than 1.0.2 in downloads area?
where can i check i have latest theme version
never mind when downloading theme from downloads area use complete download not just theme download as it is old version
Great theme Hi I have installed formidable pro however when adding the a date option, your theme is blocking the plugin's ability to show a calendar for the visitor to select the date from. Is there something we can edit/amend to allow the calendars to show? We have confirmed it is your theme as when we try with another theme, the calendars show. We have contacted Formidable Pro and they have advised us to contact you.
Hello ResilientSystem,
I'm very sorry but we don't provide support for 3rd party plugins, we can't guarantee item will function with all third party.
Thank you
Why haven't you adjusted this yet? It's still not working as 4rtistic says.
Hello Webbimperiet,
I'm sorry please more details about your issue,
Thank you
I purchased your template and just recently, my portfolio page seemed to stop working. Only the first portfolio in each category is linking to the full portfolio. All items were working 2 weeks ago. When I inspected the code in fire bug it is only putting the a href around the first item, the rest just have li code. Please help
Hello creativebar,
We recommend you to check your modification in the code if you have made it
Please provide url of your project,
Thank you
I did not modify the code. Also rollovers on menu stopped working as well. http://littlefieldpt.com/new/our-staff/
Hello markethorizon,
Do you have any 3rd party plugins? please try deactivate them,
Thank you
I want to purchase this theme but I have a few questions. Is it compatible with wordpress 3.9? will you continue to provide upgrades to work with wordpress updates?
My web site is working on Wp 3.61 with this theme Fusion . I like it but today all the plug ins are inactive and on the pages i ve a white text . So i can t change text and all my plug ins are in my ftp folder but don't work . Please can you help me . I dont understand why it doesn t work what i need to do ?http://nadinepenna.com
Hello maxim-robin,
I'm very sorry but we don't provide customization service, we recommend you to use Envato Studio "Wordpress" http://studio.envato.com/explore/wordpress if you need technical help,
Thank you
Thank you for your answer . but do you understand my problem ? i don't know what to do for activate all plug ins now and no have white ext into the admin . Can i do an update about this theme ? and where can i fan exactly the information ? Please can you help me . Thank you so much
i need to pay this for my web client : http://studio.envato.com/explore/wordpress-customization/4852-wordpress-theme-customization-and-setup ?


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Secular Coalition for America - Executive Branch http://www.secular.org/taxonomy/term/25/0 en Model Secular Policy Guide for Legislatures http://www.secular.org/content/model-secular-policy-guide-legislatures
The Secular Coalition's Model Secular Policy Guide is a collaboration of the entire nontheistic movement, endorsed by 86 nontheistic, secular and affiliated organizations across the country. The guide covers a multitude of issues affecting secular and nontheistic Americans in public life including health policy, science education, tax exemptions, religiously-based discrimination, and the treatment of nontheists in the military, among others.

The Model Policy Guide is meant to help educate legislators on the views of secular and nontheistic Americans on pertinent issues, and includes historical background and legal precedent. It will be distributed to every office on Capitol Hill, state legislative offices across the country and will also be available on the Coalition's website following the launch events.

Areas of focus include:

Health and Safety

Education

Discrimination

Tax Policy

Military

International

View or download the guide here >>

 "under God" in the Pledge Acknowledging Nontheists Boy Scouts Christian Nation Civil Rights/Religious Discrimination Conscience Clauses Court Stripping Research Creationism/Intelligent Design Faith-Based Programs Judicial Nominations LGBT Civil Rights Marriage Amendment Member Organizations Executive Branch Nontheist Public Officials Official Prayers Our Constituency Privileging Religion Religion in Political Campaigns Religion in the Military Religious Symbols on Gov't Property Reproductive Rights RLUIPA/RFRA Sex Education Stem Cells Vouchers for Religious Schools Wed, 11 Dec 2013 14:54:03 +0000 Lauren Youngblood 1800 at http://www.secular.org Secular Coalition to White House: Stop Ignoring Faith-Based Employment Discrimination http://www.secular.org/content/secular-coalition-white-house-stop-ignoring-faith-based-employment-discrimination
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Responding to recent comments by President Barack Obama and a top White House official, the Secular Coalition for America today urged the Obama administration to stop ignoring faith-based and taxpayer-funded employment discrimination and recommit to the president's 2008 campaign promise to overturn the Bush-era policy that allows such discrimination to occur.

Under current guidelines established by a 2002 executive order by President George W. Bush, religious organizations that receive federal funding to engage in community services are allowed to discriminate on the basis of religion when hiring or employing staff, even if the individual's job is not related to core religious functions.

When a Secular Coalition for America staffer asked the president at a Friday town hall meeting why he has not reversed this policy, as then-candidate Obama promised he would in Zanesville, Ohio, in July 2008, the president said it was a "difficult issue" but that "the balance we tried to strike is to say that if you are offering, if you've set up a nonprofit that is disassociated from your core religious functions and is out there in the public doing all kinds of work, then you have to abide, generally, with the nondiscrimination hiring practices. If, on the other hand, it is closer to your core functions as a synagogue or a mosque or a church then there may be more leeway for you to hire somebody who is a believer of that particular religious faith."

Joshua Dubois, a Pentecostal minister who serves as director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, defended the Obama policy to a Denver audience on Wednesday, saying, "If your focus is first and foremost serving people in need, then there's not a tremendous amount of time left to debate the finer points of the church-state relationship," according to the Denver Post.

Sean Faircloth, executive director of the Secular Coalition for America, criticized both Obama and Dubois' comments for failing to address the core issue raised by critics of the faith-based policy.

"As long as this policy exists, American taxpayers are being forced to fund organizations that can fire or refuse to hire someone simply because they practice the 'wrong' religion or no religion at all," Faircloth said. "Despite what the president said on Friday, religious nonprofits are still allowed to commit this type of discrimination when hiring for positions that serve no core religious function. This is not only a violation of the separation of church and state, but a glaring instance of religious privileging that harms real people. To say we don't have time to address this issue is akin to saying we don't have time to abide by the United States Constitution."

The nature of the current policy ensures that most instances of discrimination go unreported, but several notable examples have come to light in recent years:

In 2009, Saad Mohammad Ali, an Iraqi refugee who served as an interpreter for the U.S. government and came to the U.S. in 2008, was "told he would not be considered for [a position as an Arabic-speaking caseworker] because he is a Muslim," not a Christian, according to the Seattle Times. Even though World Relief, the agency that rejected Ali, received up to 70 percent of its $32 million budget in 2010 from taxpayer sources, it was completely legal for World Relief to discriminate against Ali for practicing a different religion.

World Vision, a "Christian humanitarian organization" that states on its website that "Christian faith is a prerequisite for employment," has received hundreds of millions of dollars from the federal government in the past decade to fund projects ranging from international disaster relief to "at-risk youth" programs, including more than $100 million in 2010. Even though World Vision is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, not a church, it has been able to legally fire employees who identified as Christian but denied the "deity of Jesus Christ" and "the doctrine of the Trinity." World Vision's president, Richard Stearns, also served on the first Advisory Council to Obama's faith-based office.

During a campaign stop in Zanesville, Ohio, on July 1, 2008, Obama pledged to end federal funding of such discrimination. "If you get a federal grant, you can't use that grant money to the people you help, and you can't discriminate against them – or against the people you hire – on the basis of religion," Obama said.

But after two years in office, Obama has still not signed an executive order to reverse the Bush-era policy. The president addressed the issue for the first time publicly on Friday, after Amanda Knief, government relations manager for the Secular Coalition for America, asked him about his unfulfilled pledge during a live town hall meeting, where the president defended the status quo.

"President Obama has given no explanation for his apparent reversal on this issue," Faircloth said. "In these tough economic times, when it is already hard enough for many people to find work, we strongly urge the president to recommit to his 2008 pledge and sign an executive order that would prohibit federally funded organizations from discriminating against otherwise qualified candidates because of their religious beliefs or lack thereof."

The Secular Coalition was one of dozens of secular and religious organizations affiliated with the Coalition Against Religious Discrimination (CARD) that joined U.S. Rep. Robert "Bobby" Scott and other House members at a June press conference on Capitol Hill to urge Obama to end religious discrimination in hiring and employment.
 News Story Press Releases Civil Rights/Religious Discrimination Executive Branch Privileging Religion Thu, 28 Jul 2011 17:36:31 +0000 Mike Meno 436 at http://www.secular.org Secular Coalition Presses Obama on Faith-Based Policies During Live Town Hall Meeting http://www.secular.org/content/secular-coalition-presses-obama-faith-based-policies-during-live-town-hall-meeting
WASHINGTON, D.C. – At a live-televised town hall meeting in College Park, Maryland, today, President Barack Obama gave the first question opportunity to Amanda Knief of the Secular Coalition for America, who asked the president why he has still not fulfilled the campaign promise he made three years ago to end the Bush-era policies that allow federally funded religious organizations to discriminate in hiring and employment on the basis of belief.

Knief, an atheist and the government relations manager for the Secular Coalition for America, pressed the president on a campaign promise he made in Zanesville, Ohio, on July 1, 2008, when he pledged to ensure that federal grant recipients cannot "proselytize to the people you help, and you can't discriminate against them – or against the people you hire – on the basis of religion." "You have not rescinded the executive order that permits this type of discrimination," Knief told the president. "In a time of economic hardship, when it is difficult for a person to get a job based on her skills, what would you say to a woman who was denied employment based on her religion, or lack of religious beliefs, by a taxpayer [funded] organization?"

In his response, Obama described the topic as "a very difficult issue" but didn't address the central question of why taxpayers should continue funding religious discrimination. "This is always a tricky part of the First Amendment," Obama said. "On the one hand, the First Amendment ensures that there is freedom of religion, on the other hand, we want to make sure that religious bodies are abiding by general laws. […] And so then the question is, does a Jewish organization have to hire a non-Jewish person as part of that organization? Now, I think that the balance we tried to strike is to say that if you are offering, if you've set up a nonprofit that is disassociated from your core religious functions and is out there in the public doing all kinds of work, then you have to abide, generally, with the nondiscrimination hiring practices. If, on the other hand, it is closer to your core functions as a synagogue or a mosque or a church then there may be more leeway for you to hire somebody who is a believer of that particular religious faith.

"It doesn't satisfy everybody," the president continued. "I will tell you that a lot of faith-based organizations think we are too restrictive in how we define those issues. There are others, like you obviously, that think we are not restrictive enough. I think we've struck the right balance so far, but this is something we continue to be in dialogue with faith based organizations about to try to make sure that their hiring practices are as open and as inclusive as possible."

Knief later said she was not satisfied with the president's answer.

"Unfortunately, the president didn't address the most egregious aspect of this policy – that religious discrimination is occurring on the taxpayer's dime," Knief said. "Discrimination is wrong in all forms, especially when it is being funded by taxpayers. I would urge the president to reconsider the statements he made today, and stick to his campaign promise of 2008 by signing an executive order barring any taxpayer funding of religious organizations that discriminate on the basis of belief."

Video of the exchange is available here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9xgqidBoQU

Last month, the Secular Coalition was one of dozens of secular and religious organizations affiliated with the Coalition Against Religious Discrimination (CARD) that joined U.S. Rep Robert "Bobby" Scott and other House members at a press conference on Capitol Hill to urge Obama to end religious discrimination in hiring and employment.

The Justice Department has said it is reviewing the current policy on a "case by case" basis, but Obama has not spoken publicly about the issue since he's been in office.

 News Story Press Releases Civil Rights/Religious Discrimination Media Coverage Videos Executive Branch Our Constituency Privileging Religion Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:35:49 +0000 Mike Meno 432 at http://www.secular.org My Meeting With the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships http://www.secular.org/news/OFBNP_meeting090427.html
A letter to our constituency from Acting Director Ron Millar

Apr. 27, 2009

Dear friends,

I am writing to tell you about my meeting last week, along with other representatives of CARD (Coalition Against Religious Discrimination), with Joshua DuBois, the director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.

I entered the meeting with very mixed emotions. Although I was glad that the Secular Coalition for America has the political connections to meet face-to-face with the person who runs President Obama's new faith-based office, I was saddened that this meeting was even taking place -- saddened that our new president has decided to continue the failed faith-based policies of his predecessor.

The meeting was an open and often lively discussion of our concerns -- and each of us clearly expressed our disappointment that the Obama administration had decided to continue Bush's faith-based program without first dealing with the critical constitutional and civil rights problems it presents: direct funding of houses of worship, religious discrimination in hiring, and entangling secular and sectarian program content.

I left the meeting with the same kind of mixed feelings I had going in. One the one hand, Mr. DuBois seemed sympathetic to our constitutional and civil rights concerns; on the other, it's clear we will have a long wait to see if and how these concerns are going to be addressed. Nearly three months after he was appointed to run it, DuBois told us the new faith-based office is still getting organized and they are just beginning their information collection and policy review.

Unfortunately, until this process is complete, faith-based programs will continue to operate under the Bush administration rules.

We face a very difficult challenge in getting this administration to address all our concerns, so we will continue to put pressure on the White House -- but this meeting did reinforce that we do now have a place at the table.

As the cover story in the National Journal recently reported,

In the past, politicians in Washington and elsewhere could largely ignore the Godless. But those days are over. With their numbers growing, nonbelievers are intent on pushing a political and legislative agenda governed more by cool reason than by faith.

Thank you for your support and efforts that have helped to make this and many other meetings possible.

Sincerely,
Ron Millar, Acting Director
Secular Coalition for America

P.S. The Secular Coalition for America represents the interests of atheists, humanists, agnostics, freethinkers and other nontheists in our nation's capital. According to the latest ARIS study, our community is larger than Methodists, Lutherans, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Mormons and Jews - combined.

 Civil Rights/Religious Discrimination Faith-Based Programs Coalition Updates Executive Branch Privileging Religion Mon, 27 Apr 2009 06:00:00 +0000 admin 92 at http://www.secular.org Obama Takes On "Christian Nation" Fiction, Secular Coalition Cheers http://www.secular.org/news/Christian_nation_Obama090408.html
Constitutional-Scholar-in-Chief Highlights American Secular Values

For Immediate Release: April 8, 2009
 Contact: Anne Singer, 202-271-4679

Washington, DC – The Secular Coalition for America heartily endorses the words spoken by President Barack Obama during a press conference in Turkey this week: "One of the great strengths of the United States is ... we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation; we consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values."

Although the President has previously described America as a nation of not only Christians but Jews, Muslims and nonbelievers, his April 6 statement goes beyond an inventory of religious sects to a unifying theme of shared American secular values. "The President has got this one exactly right," declared Ron Millar, acting director of the Secular Coalition for America. "Not only did he reject the Christian nation canard; he said we are above all a nation of citizens with shared values. This has always been our message. We couldn't be happier."

"The insistence that the United States is a Christian nation is one of the Religious Right's most persistent, dishonest and dangerous ploys," said Millar. "They've been trying to rewrite our history through legislation introduced by their collaborators in Congress. The President delivered an important history lesson in Turkey; we hope he'll do the same thing here at home."

As the Secular Coalition and its allies have repeatedly pointed out, the word "God" does not appear in our constitution, and volumes of documents demonstrate that the Founders intentionally drew a bright line between religion and government to guarantee freedom of – and from – religion for every American citizen. With a Constitutional-Scholar-in-Chief now occupying the White House, the Secular Coalition hopes America can once again celebrate its proud secular history and put the myth of a Christian nation behind us.

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The Secular Coalition for America is a 501(c)4 advocacy organization consisting of nine member groups which serve atheists, agnostics, humanists, freethinkers and other nontheistic Americans. Its purpose is to amplify the diverse and growing voice of the nontheistic community in the United States. The Coalition works to protect the civil rights of nontheists and lobbies the U.S. Congress on issues of concern to its constituents. The group's website is www.secular.org.
 News Story Press Releases Christian Nation Executive Branch Our Constituency Wed, 08 Apr 2009 06:00:00 +0000 admin 79 at http://www.secular.org President Obama Keeps Stem Cell Promise, Puts Science Above Theology http://www.secular.org/node/78
The Secular Coalition for America is pleased that President Obama has signed an executive order ending his predecessor's restrictions on stem cell research. Medical experts agree that embryonic stem cell research has great potential to help alleviate or even cure many devastating medical conditions.

Opponents of stem cell research can provide no medical or scientific support for their position. Instead, they offer only a biblical claim that these cells constitute human life. The Secular Coalition has consistently argued that such theological arguments have no place in sound science policy.

With this decision, President Obama has empowered the National Institutes of Health to devise a plan for pursuing research on the most promising stem cell lines - research that may someday lead to the alleviation of tremendous human suffering.
  News Story Executive Branch Stem Cells Mon, 09 Mar 2009 06:00:00 +0000 admin 78 at http://www.secular.org Can the Obamas Help the Boy Scouts See the Light? http://www.secular.org/news/Obama_BoyScouts_letter090309.html
With reports indicating President Obama will accept the traditional role of honorary president of the Boy Scouts of America, the Secular Coalition calls on him to use his power to move the Boy Scouts beyond their "traditional values" and to practice the American values of diversity and tolerance. The Coalition also hopes the First Lady, likely to become Girl Scouts' honorary president, uses her position to promote that group's enlightened embrace of diversity.

March 9, 2009

President Barack Obama
 The White House
 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
 Washington, DC 20500

Dear Mr. President,

You and the First Lady have been invited to become Honorary Presidents of the Boy Scouts and Girls Scouts of America, respectively; this gives each of you an opportunity to advance our national conversation about diversity and tolerance.

In recent months, many civil rights groups, ours included, have asked you to decline the traditional role of honorary president of the Boy Scouts because of the group's official policies that discriminate against Americans who do not conform to its "traditional values." In fact, in response to requests from Scout troops around the country to expand inclusion, the Boy Scouts' Executive Board resolved in 2002 to formally prohibit participation by gays and nontheists, effectively institutionalizing discrimination against countless thousands of American children.

Because the Secular Coalition's mission is respect and visibility for nontheistic viewpoints and those who hold them, our concern is particularly the Boy Scouts' exclusion of young Americans who do not hold a god belief or have questions about faith. At the Boy Scouts' Legal Issues website (which responds to all the litigation their anachronistic policies invite) the organization states: "Boy Scouts of America believes that an atheist or agnostic is not an appropriate role model of the Scout Oath and Law for adolescent boys. Because of Scouting's methods and beliefs, Scouting does not accept atheists and agnostics as members or adult volunteer leaders."

By contrast, the Girl Scout promise reads, "On my honor, I will try: To serve God* and my country." The asterisked note explains that "God" can be replaced, in the spirit of religious tolerance, with "whatever word" these girls and young women feel represents their beliefs. Further, rather than discourage questions, the Girl Scouts celebrate an annual World Thinking Day; the current triennial theme is how to change the world!

Mr. President, you have spoken repeatedly and eloquently about ending discrimination, perhaps most famously in your Philadelphia speech on race. You have also decried inequality based on gender, once saying the idea of your daughters suffering gender discrimination made your blood boil. At your White House website, you identify discrimination – against gays and lesbians in the armed forces, women and seniors in the workplace, people with disabilities in schools and even small farmers in the agricultural sector – as a scourge your administration will work to eliminate.

And yet by all accounts, you will soon become the symbolic leader of an organization which unapologetically discriminates against American citizens based on its backward and inaccurate view that those of us who have no religion have no values. This is a view we are confident you do not personally hold.

We therefore appeal to you to use this opportunity to advance your vision of a more inclusive and less divided America. You could begin by accepting the honorary role only on the condition that the Boy Scouts agree to review their discriminatory policies. Additionally, perhaps you and the First Lady, in your respective capacities as honorary presidents of the Boy and Girl Scouts, could arrange for a summit in which leaders from the two organizations discuss expanding access to their valuable programs so more young Americans might benefit from them. Finally, we hope the First Lady would use her position to spotlight the Girl Scouts' tremendous success in actively embracing diversity.

We understand that, as president, you must choose your battles carefully. But we also hope you will choose, in the end, to lead the Boy Scouts as you lead our nation, with the vision and courage and ideals that earned you the office you now hold.

Sincerely,
Ron Millar
Acting Director

cc: Michelle Obama, First Lady of the United States

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In releasing his 2010 budget outline today, President Obama indicates that his administration will continue funding abstinence-only-until-marriage sex education, an approach that has repeatedly failed to reduce teen pregnancy. It does nothing more than prohibit sexual activity among unmarried young people, as if sexual activity after marriage has a different outcome.

To prevent teen pregnancy, the president's budget "supports State, community-based, and faith-based efforts to reduce teen pregnancy using evidence-based models. The program will fund models that stress the important of abstinence while providing medically-accurate and age-appropriate information to youth who have already become sexually active."

By stressing abstinence and faith-based partnerships and avoiding specific language regarding comprehensive sex education in his new budget, President Obama is signaling that he may continue the failed and religion-driven policies of the Bush administration. His language also implies that the only students to receive accurate and appropriate information will be those who have already become sexually active. So much for prevention.

See: Reproductive Rights Coalition Letter to President Obama (.pdf)
 News Story Executive Branch Official Coalition Letters Sex Education Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:46:43 +0000 admin 76 at http://www.secular.org New Name, More of the Same? Secular Coalition Responds to Obama's Faith-Based Funding Plans http://www.secular.org/news/Obama_faith_based090205.html
For Immediate Release: February 5, 2009
 Contact: Anne Singer, 202-271-4679

Washington, DC – As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama promised to abide by "a few basic principles" that would protect the constitutional separation of church and state in his plan for an expanded White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. He was specific: "First, if you get a federal grant, you can't use that grant money to proselytize to the people you help and you can't discriminate against them – or against the people you hire – on the basis of their religion. Second, federal dollars that go directly to churches, temples, and mosques can only be used on secular programs."

As President Obama prepares to unveil his version of President Bush's faith-based program and introduce a new advisory council for it, there is little indication that he will deliver on his promises to remedy its inherent constitutional problems in a timely way. "Changing two words in the name does not make this a new program," said Ron Millar, acting director of the Secular Coalition for America. "It still begins with 'faith-based' and it still ends up giving taxpayer dollars to religious institutions."

The Secular Coalition for America lobbied for closure of President Bush's White House Office of Faith-based and Community Initiatives on the grounds that providing federal funds to religious institutions is a violation of church-state separation and a threat to individual religious liberty. Faith-based funding under the Bush administration: privileged religious groups by giving them special access to federal dollars; failed to monitor whether funds were used to evangelize or convert recipients of social services; and failed to ensure that organizations receiving federal dollars did not discriminate by hiring only those individuals who share their religious views.

So far, President Obama has offered no specifics on how and when he will address these constitutional problems he himself has identified in the sprawling, multi-agency program. What is known is that he will give it a new director, appoint an advisory council to oversee it, and order a legal review of hiring practices. "Giving the same, flawed program a new name and new personnel is not the change we need," said Millar. "Not another taxpayer dollar should be spent until all the constitutional and civil rights concerns are addressed."

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The Secular Coalition for America represents nine national coalition partners who share the view that a secular government offers the best guarantee for freedom of thought and belief for all Americans. It works to protect the civil rights of nontheistic Americans, and lobbies the U.S. Congress on issues of concern to its constituents. The Coalition's Web site is www.secular.org.
 News Story Press Releases Faith-Based Programs Executive Branch Thu, 05 Feb 2009 07:00:00 +0000 admin 81 at http://www.secular.org Will Obama Endorse Boy Scouts' Discriminatory Practices? http://www.secular.org/news/Obama_BoyScouts090113.html
The Boy Scouts of America traditionally ask the President of the United States to act as honorary president of their organization. The Secular Coalition for America has joined with 18 other major nontheistic groups asking President-elect Obama to decline the invitation because it would be an endorsement of the Scouts' explicit policy of discriminating against nontheistic Americans.

January 13, 2009

Dear President-elect Obama,

In light of your campaign promise to bring the nation together in a spirit of change we need, we, the undersigned nontheist organizations, urge you to take this opportunity to signify that discrimination against atheists, agnostics, humanists, and other nontheists will not be condoned.

Thus we write to urge you to decline the title and role of honorary president of the Boy Scouts of America. The BSA has acted vigorously in recent years to expel atheist and agnostic members and employees. This policy expresses the Declaration of Religious Principle, Bylaws of Boy Scouts of America, art. IX, § 1, cl. 1:

The Boy Scouts of America maintains that no member can grow into the best kind of citizen without recognizing an obligation to God. In the first part of the Scout Oath or Promise the member declares, "On my honor I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law." The recognition of God as the ruling and leading power in the universe and the grateful acknowledgment of His favors and blessings are necessary to the best type of citizenship and are wholesome precepts in the education of the growing members.

The BSA has elected to set itself apart as a private organization that may discriminate in ways contrary to the laws and practices required of local, state, and federal authorities. Accepting the title and role of honorary president of the Boy Scouts of America would thus send the message that institutional discrimination against people who don't happen to believe in a god is acceptable.

Many presidents of the United States have taken on the title of honorary president of the Boy Scouts of America. However, this tradition was established when discrimination against nontheists was, unfortunately, socially acceptable. Given that nontheists now make up a sizeable minority of the American population-—having more numbers than Mormons, Buddhists, Hindus, and Jews combined-—the BSA is clearly out of touch with the spirit of pluralism, tolerance, and inclusiveness that compose today's American values. By contrast, in 1993 the Girl Scouts of the United States of America adopted more inclusive policies.

Therefore, please decline the title and role of honorary president of the Boy Scouts of America until such time as the organization reforms its bylaws and practices to be non-discriminatory.

Yours in unity,

American Atheists
 American Ethical Union
 American Humanist Association
 Atheist Alliance International
 Atheist Nexus
 Camp Quest
 Center for Atheism
 Center for Inquiry
 Center for Naturalism
 Council for Secular Humanism
 Freedom From Religion Foundation
 FreeThoughtAction
 HUUmanists
 Institute for Humanist Studies
 International Federation for Secular & Humanistic Judaism
 Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers
Secular Coalition for America
 Secular Student Alliance
 Society for Humanistic Judaism

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