jQuery(document).ready(function($) {

	
		var $panels = $('#slider .scrollContainer > div');
	    var $container = $('#slider .scrollContainer');

	    // if false, we'll float all the panels left and fix the width 
	    // of the container
	    var horizontal = true;

	    // float the panels left if we're going horizontal
	    if (horizontal) {
	        $panels.css({
	            'float' : 'left',
	            'position' : 'relative' // IE fix to ensure overflow is hidden
	        });

	        // calculate a new width for the container (so it holds all panels)
	        $container.css('width', $panels[0].offsetWidth * $panels.length);
	    }

	    // collect the scroll object, at the same time apply the hidden overflow
	    // to remove the default scrollbars that will appear
	    var $scroll = $('#slider .scroll').css('overflow', 'hidden');

	    // apply our left + right buttons
	    $scroll
	        .before('<img class="scrollButtons left" src="./images/scroll_left.png" />')
	        .after('<img class="scrollButtons right" src="./images/scroll_right.png" />');


	    // offset is used to move to *exactly* the right place, since I'm using
	    // padding on my example, I need to subtract the amount of padding to
	    // the offset.  Try removing this to get a good idea of the effect
	    var offset = parseInt((horizontal ? 
	        $container.css('paddingTop') : 
	        $container.css('paddingLeft')) 
	        || 0) * -1;


	    var scrollOptions = {
	        target: $scroll, // the element that has the overflow

	        // can be a selector which will be relative to the target
	        items: $panels,

	       navigation: 'ul#news-archive li a',

	        // selectors are NOT relative to document, i.e. make sure they're unique
	        prev: 'img.left', 
	        next: 'img.right',

	        // allow the scroll effect to run both directions
	        axis: 'xy',

	        offset: offset,

	        // duration of the sliding effect
	        duration: 500,

	        // easing - can be used with the easing plugin: 
	        // http://gsgd.co.uk/sandbox/jquery/easing/
	        easing: 'swing'
	    };

	    // apply serialScroll to the slider - we chose this plugin because it 
	    // supports// the indexed next and previous scroll along with hooking 
	    // in to our navigation.
	    $('#slider').serialScroll(scrollOptions);

	    // now apply localScroll to hook any other arbitrary links to trigger 
	    // the effect
	    $.localScroll(scrollOptions);

	    // finally, if the URL has a hash, move the slider in to position, 
	    // setting the duration to 1 because I don't want it to scroll in the
	    // very first page load.  We don't always need this, but it ensures
	    // the positioning is absolutely spot on when the pages loads.
	    scrollOptions.duration = 1;
	    $.localScroll.hash(scrollOptions); 

 });