function appendEventHandler(elementObject, eventName, functionObject)
{
    if(eventName.indexOf('on')==0)
    {
        appendEventHandler(elementObject, eventName.substring(2),functionObject);
        return;
    }
    if(document.addEventListener)
        elementObject.addEventListener(eventName,
            function (evt) {
                functionObject(elementObject, evt)
            }, false);
    else
        if(document.attachEvent)
            elementObject.attachEvent("on" + eventName,
            function () {
            functionObject(elementObject);
            }
    )
}




	function getElement(ID) {
		if( document.layers ) { //Netscape layers
			return document.layers[ID]; }
		if( document.getElementById ) { //DOM; IE5, NS6, Mozilla, Opera
			return document.getElementById(ID); }
		if( document.all ) { //Proprietary DOM; IE4
			return document.all[ID]; }
		if( document[ID] ) { //Netscape alternative
			return document[ID]; }
		return false;
	}
	function getElementStyle(element){
	
		var dstyle;
		if( element==null ) return null;
		if( element.style ) { dstyle = element.style; } else {dstyle = element;}
		return dstyle;
				
	}

var NewsTicker = { 
         Scroll:function() {
               
               if(initScroll())
                   runScroll();
               
               
               // setNewsTickerStyle(document.getElementById('NewsTicker'),document.getElementById('tickercontainer'));               
                
                //if (document.all) iemarquee(tickercontainer);
                //else if (document.getElementById)
                //        ns6marquee(document.getElementById('tickercontainer'));
        }
}

var sspeed=4;
var currentElemStyle = null;
var maxElemNumber = 0;
function initScroll(){
    var currElem = getElement('dropmsg' + 0);
    var currElemStyle;
    var thisElemNumber = 0;
    while(currElem!=null){
        currElem = getElement('dropmsg' + thisElemNumber);
        if(currElem==null) return true;        
        maxElemNumber = thisElemNumber;
        currElemStyle = getElementStyle(currElem);
        currElemStyle.display = 'none';
        thisElemNumber++;
    }  return false;     
}
function runScroll(){
    if(currentElemStyle!=null) {
        currentElemStyle.display = 'none';
    }
    var currElem = getElement('dropmsg' + currentElemNumber);
    if(currElem==null) { currentElem = 0;     
        return;  }     
    currElemStyle = getElementStyle(currElem);  
    currElemStyle.display = 'block';  
    currentElemStyle = currElemStyle;
    currentElemNumber--;
    if(currentElemNumber==-1) currentElemNumber = 10;
    var t=setTimeout("runScroll();",sspeed * 1000)
    
}
	
     
    function checkCountry(countryid) {
      switch (countryid) {
        case "GOBACK": history.go(-1); break;
        case "": alert("Please select a country"); break;
          default: top.document.location.href = countryid;
      }
    }

   
		function MM_swapImgRestore() { //v3.0
		  var i,x,a=document.MM_sr; for(i=0;a&&i<a.length&&(x=a[i])&&x.oSrc;i++) x.src=x.oSrc;
		}
		function MM_preloadImages() { //v3.0
		  var d=document; if(d.images){ if(!d.MM_p) d.MM_p=new Array();
			var i,j=d.MM_p.length,a=MM_preloadImages.arguments; for(i=0; i<a.length; i++)
			if (a[i].indexOf("#")!=0){ d.MM_p[j]=new Image; d.MM_p[j++].src=a[i];}}
		}

		function MM_findObj(n, d) { //v4.01
		  var p,i,x;  if(!d) d=document; if((p=n.indexOf("?"))>0&&parent.frames.length) {
			d=parent.frames[n.substring(p+1)].document; n=n.substring(0,p);}
		  if(!(x=d[n])&&d.all) x=d.all[n]; for (i=0;!x&&i<d.forms.length;i++) x=d.forms[i][n];
		  for(i=0;!x&&d.layers&&i<d.layers.length;i++) x=MM_findObj(n,d.layers[i].document);
		  if(!x && d.getElementById) x=d.getElementById(n); return x;
		}

		function MM_swapImage() { //v3.0
		  var i,j=0,x,a=MM_swapImage.arguments; document.MM_sr=new Array; for(i=0;i<(a.length-2);i+=3)
		   if ((x=MM_findObj(a[i]))!=null){document.MM_sr[j++]=x; if(!x.oSrc) x.oSrc=x.src; x.src=a[i+2];}
		}