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// ticker setup 
var charDelay = 50; 
var storyDelay = 5000; 

// 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("newsTicker"); 
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 % numStories; 
	
	
	// use HTML entity for quotes so we don't mess up the anchor 
	currentTitle = storyMatrix[0][currentStory].replace(/&quot;/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); 
}

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