TICKER_CONTENT = document.getElementById("TICKER").innerHTML;
 
TICKER_RIGHTTOLEFT = false;
TICKER_SPEED = 2;
TICKER_STYLE = "font-family:Arial; font-size:12px; color:#ff9900";
TICKER_PAUSED = false;

start();

function start() {
	TICKER_WIDTH = document.getElementById("TICKER").style.width;
	var img = "<img width="+TICKER_WIDTH+" height=0>";

		// Firefox
	if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Firefox")!=-1 || navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Safari")!=-1) {
		document.getElementById("TICKER").innerHTML = "<table width='100%'><tr><td nowrap='nowrap'>"+img+"<span style='"+TICKER_STYLE+"' ID='TICKER_BODY' width='100%'>&nbsp;</span>"+img+"</td></tr></table>";
	}
	// IE
	if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("MSIE")!=-1 || navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Opera")!=-1) {
		document.getElementById("TICKER").innerHTML = "<div nowrap='nowrap' style='width:100%;'>"+img+"<span style='"+TICKER_STYLE+"' ID='TICKER_BODY' width='100%'></span>"+img+"</div>";
	}

	document.getElementById("TICKER").scrollLeft = true;
	document.getElementById("TICKER_BODY").innerHTML = TICKER_CONTENT;
	document.getElementById("TICKER").style.display="block";
	TICKER_tick();

}

function TICKER_tick() {
	if(!TICKER_PAUSED) document.getElementById("TICKER").scrollLeft += TICKER_SPEED * (TICKER_RIGHTTOLEFT ? -1 : 1);
	if(TICKER_RIGHTTOLEFT && document.getElementById("TICKER").scrollLeft <= 0) document.getElementById("TICKER").scrollLeft = document.getElementById("TICKER").scrollWidth - document.getElementById("TICKER").offsetWidth;
	if(!TICKER_RIGHTTOLEFT && document.getElementById("TICKER").scrollLeft >= document.getElementById("TICKER").scrollWidth - document.getElementById("TICKER").offsetWidth) document.getElementById("TICKER").scrollLeft = 0;
	window.setTimeout("TICKER_tick()", 45);
}