var http_request = false;
   function ARTICLEmakePOSTRequest(url, parameters) {
      http_request = false;
      if (window.XMLHttpRequest) { // Mozilla, Safari,...
         http_request = new XMLHttpRequest();
         if (http_request.overrideMimeType) {
         	// set type accordingly to anticipated content type
            //http_request.overrideMimeType('text/xml');
            http_request.overrideMimeType('text/html');
         }
      } else if (window.ActiveXObject) { // IE
         try {
            http_request = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
         } catch (e) {
            try {
               http_request = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
            } catch (e) {}
         }
      }
      if (!http_request) {
         alert('Cannot create XMLHTTP instance');
         return false;
      }
      
      http_request.onreadystatechange = alertContents;
      http_request.open('POST', url, true);
      http_request.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
      http_request.setRequestHeader("Content-length", parameters.length);
      http_request.setRequestHeader("Connection", "close");
      http_request.send(parameters);
   }

   function alertContents() {
      if (http_request.readyState == 4) {
         if (http_request.status == 200) {
            //alert(http_request.responseText);
            result = http_request.responseText;
            document.getElementById('NEWSTABLEResults').innerHTML = result;            
         } else {
            alert('There was a problem with the request.');
         }
      }
   }
   
   function submitArticle(obj) {
   var ARTICLEpoststr = "field=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("field").value ) +
		"&fldvariable=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("fldvariable").value ) +
		"&limit=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("limit").value ) +
		"&headline=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("headline").value ) +
		"&Corridor=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("Corridor").value ) +
		"&Community=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("Community").value ) +
		"&source=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("source").value ) +
		"&type=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("type").value ) +
		"&text=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("text").value ) +
		"&Year=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("Year").value ) +
		"&Month=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("Month").value ) +
		"&Day=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("Day").value ) +
		"&url=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("url").value ) +
		"&author=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("author").value ) +
		"&author_title=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("author_title").value ) +
		"&author_email=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("author_email").value ) +
		"&submitter=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("submitter").value );
      ARTICLEmakePOSTRequest('/News/GETnews.php', ARTICLEpoststr);
   }