// ticker setup
var charDelay = 30;
var storyDelay = 3500;
// two dimensional array to hold stories and links
var storyMatrix = new Array();
storyMatrix[0] = new Array();
storyMatrix[1] = new Array();


function InitTicker() {
    // Default values
    currentStory     = -1;
    currentLength    = 0;
    //The top stories anchor tag
    oAnchor = document.getElementById("tickerHREF");
    NewsTicker();     
}

function NewsTicker() {
    var delay;  
    // Get next story if title is done from previous
    if(currentLength == 0) { // length of title being written out
        currentStory++;
        currentStory = currentStory % storyMatrix[0].length;
        // use HTML entity for quotes so we don't mess up the anchor
        currentTitle = storyMatrix[0][currentStory].replace(/"/g,'"');            
        oAnchor.href = storyMatrix[1][currentStory];
    }
    // Write title to anchor
    oAnchor.innerHTML = currentTitle.substring(0, currentLength);
    // adjust length of substring and set delays
    if(currentLength != currentTitle.length) {
        currentLength++;
        delay = charDelay;
    }else{
        currentLength = 0;
        delay = storyDelay;
    }
    // Recurse ticker
    setTimeout("NewsTicker()", delay);
}