// News script:
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)?

function readNews(site) {
        var news_file = site+".txt";
        if ('undefined' == typeof(news_file)) return false;
        var news,rnd;
    //    xmlhttp=null
        // code for Mozilla, etc.
        if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
          {
          news=new XMLHttpRequest()
          }
        // code for IE
        else if (window.ActiveXObject)
          {
          news=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")
          }

      if (news!=null)
      {
              // Prevent browsers from caching the included page by appending a random number
        rnd = Math.random().toString().substring(2);
        news_file = news_file.indexOf('?')>-1 ? news_file+'&rnd='+rnd : news_file+'?rnd='+rnd;
        // Open the url and write out the response
        news.open("GET",news_file,false);
        news.send(null);
        var news_box = document.getElementById('news');
        news_box.innerHTML = news.responseText;
      }else
      {

      }


}

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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)+10))
cross_marquee.style.top=parseInt(cross_marquee.style.top)-copyspeed+"px"
else
cross_marquee.style.top=parseInt(marqueeheight)+10+"px"
}

function initializemarquee(){
cross_marquee=document.getElementById("news")
cross_marquee.style.top=50
marqueeheight=document.getElementById("news-box").offsetHeight
actualheight=cross_marquee.offsetHeight
if (window.opera || navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Netscape/7")!=-1 ||  navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Safari")!=-1)
{ //if Opera or Netscape 7x or Safari, add scrollbars to scroll and exit
cross_marquee.style.height=marqueeheight+"px"
//cross_marquee.style.overflow="scroll"
setTimeout('lefttime=setInterval("scrollmarquee()",100)', delayb4scroll)  
return
}
setTimeout('lefttime=setInterval("scrollmarquee()",100)', delayb4scroll)
}

if (window.addEventListener)
window.addEventListener("load", initializemarquee, false)
else if (window.attachEvent)
window.attachEvent("onload", initializemarquee)
else if (document.getElementById)
window.onload=initializemarquee