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created by Georges Abboudeh on Friday 23-03-2007  
It contains utils functions that let the content of the marquee div
scroll with a configurable speed. Stop scrolling on mouse Over event
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var delayb4scroll = 500;//Specify initial delay before marquee starts to scroll on page (2000=2 seconds)
var marqueespeed = 1 ;//Specify marquee scroll speed (larger is faster 1-10)
var pauseit = 1 ;//Pause marquee onMousever (0=no. 1=yes)?

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var copyspeed = marqueespeed;
var pausespeed = (pauseit==0) ? copyspeed: 0;
var actualheight = '';

function scrollmarquee(){
	if (parseInt(cross_marquee.style.top)>(actualheight*(-1)+8)) //if scroller hasn't reached the end of its height
		cross_marquee.style.top=parseInt(cross_marquee.style.top)-copyspeed+"px"; //move scroller upwards
	else //else, reset to original position
		cross_marquee.style.top=parseInt(marqueeheight)+8+"px";
}

function initializemarquee()
{
	cross_marquee = document.getElementById("vmarquee") ;
	
	cross_marquee.style.top = 0 ;
	
	marqueeheight = document.getElementById("marqueecontainer").offsetHeight;
	
	actualheight = cross_marquee.offsetHeight //height of marquee content (much of which is hidden from view)
	
	if (window.opera || navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Netscape/7") != -1)
	{ //if Opera or Netscape 7x, add scrollbars to scroll and exit
		cross_marquee.style.height = marqueeheight+"px";
		cross_marquee.style.overflow = "scroll";
		return;
	}
	setTimeout('lefttime=setInterval("scrollmarquee()",20)', delayb4scroll);
}

if (window.addEventListener)
	window.addEventListener("load", initializemarquee, false);
else if (window.attachEvent)
	window.attachEvent("onload", initializemarquee);
else if (document.getElementById)
window.onload=initializemarquee;

