var eventDays;
      var calEventsURL = '/events/ajax-helper.php?date=';
      window.onload = function() {
        Calendar.setup(
          {
            dateField      : 'embedded-date-field',
            dateFormat      : '%A, %b %e',
            selectHandler : function() {
                    $('embeddedEventContainer').update('<div style="background:url(/common/images/preloader.gif) no-repeat center;width:200px;height:100px;"><\/div>')
                    var url = '/events/ajax-helper.php?date=' + encodeURIComponent(this.date.print(this.dateFormat));
                    loadEvents(url);
                $('embedded-date-field').update(this.date.print(this.dateFormat));
              },
            parentElement  : 'embeddedCalendar'
          }
        )
      }
      function loadEvents(url){
            new Ajax.Request(url, {
                  method: 'get',
                  onSuccess: function(transport) {
                    $('embeddedEventContainer').update(transport.responseText);
                    }
                  }
            );
      }
      function getDaysWithEvents(url){
         new Ajax.Request(url,  
           {  
             asynchronous: false,
             method: 'get',
             onComplete: function(transport)  
               {  
                 var json = transport.responseText.evalJSON();
                 eventDays = json;
               }
           }  
         )
      }