Thank you James,
First let me say, this is above and beyond and was not expected. The theme was a good price, your support is priceless.
So I made a post called "This Week" (our intent is to promote one or two community activities each week) That is now a "posts page" (regardless of what I put in the text box, it displays posts that works fine for us)
When I preview this page I see a "page" with all the posts on it. No slider, and no text displayed if added, this is good.
Then in the WP Settings/Reading Settings I select for Front page displays, "A static page" for the front page, I select "test home" for the posts page I select "This Week"
When viewing the site, the front page has no slider, the new "This Week" page, a page assigned the "Blog" template, shows the slider. The intent was to get the slider on the static, home page.
How do I do that?
Also we have been working on a alternative plan, we would rather not use it but I would like to note it here for others if they needed it. The intent was to have a static front page with the incredible slider built into Newscast at the top. The posts would be on a side page. We added the following to the index.php file located in the Newscast theme folder.
After;
` // ############################# FULL SIZED POSTS #############################
if ($fullsized > 0) :</p>
<p> $preview_image = kriesi_post_thumb($post->ID, array('size'=> array('M'),
'display_link' => '_prev_image_link',
'linkurl' => array ('L','_preview_big'),
'wh' => $k_option['custom']['imgSize']['M']
));</p>
<p> ?>
add
<?php if (is_home()) { ?>
<div class=post>
<h2>Your title here</h2>
<p>your text graphics and calls to other items here. HTML is ok, css style is ok to use, cgi scripts, and java work too.<p>
</div>
<?php } ?>
Then set the post format 1 or 2 across in Newscast options, and number of posts in WP read options. They will be under your fixed text and graphics. Again not the way we wanted to do it but it may help someone else.
Create a new thread and tell me what problems you are encountering and what you want to know. 
There is no step 3 :) 
