var theNewsNum;var theAddNum;var totalNum;var CurrentPosion=0;var theCurrentNews;var theCurrentLength;var theNewsText;var theTargetLink;var theCharacterTimeout;var theNewsTimeout;var theBrowserVersion;var theWidgetOne;var theWidgetTwo;var theSpaceFiller;var theLeadString;var theNewsState;function startTicker(){theCharacterTimeout=50;theNewsTimeout=2000;theWidgetOne="_";theWidgetTwo="-";theNewsState=1;theNewsNum=document.getElementById("incoming").children.AllNews.children.length;theAddNum=document.getElementById("incoming").children.AddNews.children.length;totalNum=theNewsNum+theAddNum;theCurrentNews=0;theCurrentLength=0;theLeadString=" ";theSpaceFiller=" ";runTheTicker()}function runTheTicker(){if(theNewsState==1){if(CurrentPosion<theNewsNum){setupNextNews()}else{setupAddNews()}CurrentPosion++;if(CurrentPosion>=totalNum||CurrentPosion>=5){CurrentPosion=0}}if(theCurrentLength!=theNewsText.length){drawNews()}else{closeOutNews()}}function setupNextNews(){theNewsState=0;theCurrentNews=theCurrentNews%theNewsNum;theNewsText=document.getElementById("AllNews").children[theCurrentNews].children.Summary.innerText;theTargetLink=document.getElementById("AllNews").children[theCurrentNews].children.NewsLink.innerText;theCurrentLength=0;document.all.hottext.href=theTargetLink;theCurrentNews++}function setupAddNews(){theNewsState=0;theCurrentNews=theCurrentNews%theAddNum;theNewsText=document.getElementById("incoming").children.AddNews.children[theCurrentNews].children.Summary.innerText;theTargetLink=document.getElementById("incoming").children.AddNews.children[theCurrentNews].children.NewsLink.innerText;theCurrentLength=0;document.all.hottext.href=theTargetLink;theCurrentNews++}function drawNews(){var myWidget;if((theCurrentLength%2)==1){myWidget=theWidgetOne}else{myWidget=theWidgetTwo}document.all.hottext.innerHTML=theLeadString+theNewsText.substring(0,theCurrentLength)+myWidget+theSpaceFiller;theCurrentLength++;setTimeout("runTheTicker()",theCharacterTimeout)}function closeOutNews(){document.all.hottext.innerHTML=theLeadString+theNewsText+theSpaceFiller;theNewsState=1;setTimeout("runTheTicker()",theNewsTimeout)}window.onload=startTicker;