    <!-- Beginning of JavaScript -

    // CREDITS:
    // Right-To-Left-Scroller width fade-effect by Urs Dudli and Peter Gehrig
    // Copyright (c) 2000 Peter Gehrig and Urs Dudli. All rights reserved.
    // Permission given to use the script provided that this notice remains as is.
    // Additional scripts can be found at http://www.24fun.com.
    // info@24fun.ch
    // 6/7/2000
    //
    // Modified by Bryan O'Malley, Chameleon Systems, Inc.  4/15/2002
    // Removed links on messages
    // Updated to work with Netscape 6.0

    // distance of the scroller to the left margin of the browser-window (pixels)
    var scrollerleft=20

    // distance of the scroller to the top margin of the browser-window (pixels)
    var scrollertop=250

    // width of the scroller (pixels)
    var scrollerwidth=500

    // height of the scroller (pixels)
    var scrollerheight=30

    // speed 1: lower means faster
    var pause=20

    // speed 2: higher means faster
    var step=2

    // font-size
    var fntsize=14

    // font-family
    var fntfamily="Arial"

    // font-weight: 1 means bold, 0 means normal
    var fntweight=1

    // do not edit the variables below
    var fadeimgwidth=60
    var fadeimgleftcontent,fadeimgrightcontent
    var clipleft,clipright,cliptop,clipbottom
    var i_message=0
    var timer
    var textwidth
    var textcontent=""
    if (fntweight==1) {fntweight="700"}
    else {fntweight="100"}

    function init()
    {
      gettextcontent()

      fadeimgleftcontent="<img src='images/fadeimgleft.gif' width="+fadeimgwidth+" height="+scrollerheight+">"
      fadeimgrightcontent="<img src='images/fadeimgright.gif' width="+fadeimgwidth+" height="+scrollerheight+">"

      if (nsDom)
      {
        scrollertop = document.images["placeholder"].y;
        scrollerleft = document.images["placeholder"].x;
        document.text.document.write(textcontent)
        document.text.document.close()
        document.fadeimgleft.document.write(fadeimgleftcontent)
        document.fadeimgleft.document.close()
        document.fadeimgright.document.write(fadeimgrightcontent)
        document.fadeimgright.document.close()
        textwidth=document.text.document.width
        document.text.top=scrollertop
        document.text.left=scrollerleft+scrollerwidth
        document.fadeimgleft.top=scrollertop
        document.fadeimgleft.left=scrollerleft
        document.fadeimgright.top=scrollertop
        document.fadeimgright.left=scrollerleft+scrollerwidth-fadeimgwidth

        document.text.clip.left=0
        document.text.clip.right=0
        document.text.clip.top=0
        document.text.clip.bottom=scrollerheight

        scrolltext()
      }
      else if (W3CDom)
      {
        scrollertop = document.getElementById("placeholder").offsetTop;
        scrollerleft = document.getElementById("placeholder").offsetLeft;

        document.getElementById("text").innerHTML=textcontent
        document.getElementById("fadeimgleft").innerHTML=fadeimgleftcontent
        document.getElementById("fadeimgright").innerHTML=fadeimgrightcontent
        textwidth=document.getElementById("text").offsetWidth

        document.getElementById("text").style.top=scrollertop
        document.getElementById("text").style.left=scrollerleft+scrollerwidth
        document.getElementById("fadeimgleft").style.top=scrollertop
        document.getElementById("fadeimgleft").style.left=scrollerleft
        document.getElementById("fadeimgright").style.top=scrollertop
        document.getElementById("fadeimgright").style.left=scrollerleft+scrollerwidth-fadeimgwidth

        clipleft=0
        clipright=0
        cliptop=0
        clipbottom=scrollerheight
        document.getElementById("text").style.clip ="rect("+cliptop+" "+clipright+" "+clipbottom+" "+clipleft+")"
        scrolltext()
      }
      else if (ieDom)
      {
        scrollertop = document.images["placeholder"].offsetTop;
        scrollerleft = document.images["placeholder"].offsetLeft;
        text.innerHTML=textcontent
        fadeimgleft.innerHTML=fadeimgleftcontent
        fadeimgright.innerHTML=fadeimgrightcontent
        textwidth=text.offsetWidth
        document.all.text.style.posTop=scrollertop
        document.all.text.style.posLeft=scrollerleft+scrollerwidth
        document.all.fadeimgleft.style.posTop=scrollertop
        document.all.fadeimgleft.style.posLeft=scrollerleft
        document.all.fadeimgright.style.posTop=scrollertop
        document.all.fadeimgright.style.posLeft=scrollerleft+scrollerwidth-fadeimgwidth

        clipleft=0
        clipright=0
        cliptop=0
        clipbottom=scrollerheight
        document.all.text.style.clip ="rect("+cliptop+" "+clipright+" "+clipbottom+" "+clipleft+")"
        scrolltext()
      }

    }

    function scrolltext()
    {
      if (nsDom)
      {
        if (document.text.left>=scrollerleft-textwidth)
	{
          document.text.left-=step
          document.text.clip.right+=step
          if (document.text.clip.right>scrollerwidth)
	  {
            document.text.clip.left+=step
          }
          var timer=setTimeout("scrolltext()",pause)
        }
        else
	{
          changetext()
        }
      }
      else if (W3CDom)
      {
        var oMsg = document.getElementById("text").style;

        if (parseInt(oMsg.left) >= parseInt(scrollerleft-textwidth) )
	{
          oMsg.left = parseInt(oMsg.left) - parseInt(step)
          clipright += step
          if (clipright > scrollerwidth)
	  {
            clipleft += step
          }

          document.getElementById("text").style.clip ="rect("+cliptop+" "+clipright+" "+clipbottom+" "+clipleft+")"

          var timer=setTimeout("scrolltext()",pause)
        }
        else
	{
          changetext()
        }
      }
      else if (ieDom)
      {
        if (document.all.text.style.posLeft>=scrollerleft-textwidth)
	{
          document.all.text.style.posLeft-=step
          clipright+=step
          if (clipright>scrollerwidth)
	  {
            clipleft+=step
          }
          document.all.text.style.clip ="rect("+cliptop+" "+clipright+" "+clipbottom+" "+clipleft+")"

          var timer=setTimeout("scrolltext()",pause)
        }
        else
	{
          changetext()
        }
      }

    }

    function changetext()
    {
      i_message++
      if (i_message > (message.length-1))
      {
        i_message=0
      }

      gettextcontent()

      if (nsDom)
      {
        document.text.document.write(textcontent)
        document.text.document.close()
        textwidth=document.text.document.width

        document.text.left=scrollerleft+scrollerwidth
        document.text.clip.left=0
        document.text.clip.right=0

        scrolltext()
      }
      else if (W3CDom)
      {
        document.getElementById("text").innerHTML = textcontent
        textwidth = document.getElementById("text").offsetWidth

        document.getElementById("text").style.left = scrollerleft+scrollerwidth
        clipleft=0
        clipright=0
        document.getElementById("text").style.clip ="rect("+cliptop+" "+clipright+" "+clipbottom+" "+clipleft+")"

        scrolltext()
      }
      else if (ieDom)
      {
        text.innerHTML=textcontent
        textwidth=text.offsetWidth

        document.all.text.style.posLeft=scrollerleft+scrollerwidth
        clipleft=0
        clipright=0
        document.all.text.style.clip ="rect("+cliptop+" "+clipright+" "+clipbottom+" "+clipleft+")"

        scrolltext()
      }

    }

    function gettextcontent()
    {
      textcontent="<span style='position:relative;font-size:"+fntsize+"pt;font-family:"+fntfamily+";font-weight:"+fntweight+"'>"
      textcontent+="<nobr><font color="+messagecolor[i_message]+">"+message[i_message]+"</font></nobr></span>"
    }

    window.onresize=init;

    // - End of JavaScript - -->
