TICKER_CONTENT = document.getElementById("TICKER").innerHTML;

TICKER_RIGHTTOLEFT = false;
TICKER_SPEED = "2";
TICKER_STYLE = "font-family:Arial; font-size:16px; color:#000066;";
TICKER_PAUSED = false;

ticker_start();

function ticker_start() {
var tickerSupported = false;
TICKER_WIDTH = document.getElementById("TICKER").style.width;
var img = "<img src=ticker_space.gif width="+TICKER_WIDTH+" height=0>";

// Firefox
if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Firefox")!=-1 || navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Safari")!=-1) {
document.getElementById("TICKER").innerHTML = "<TABLE cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' width='100%'><TR><TD nowrap='nowrap'>"+img+"<SPAN ID='TICKER_BODY' width='100%'>&nbsp;</SPAN>"+img+"</TD></TR></TABLE>";
tickerSupported = true;
}
// IE
if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("MSIE")!=-1 && navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Opera")==-1) {
document.getElementById("TICKER").innerHTML = "<TABLE cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' width='100%'><TR><TD nowrap='nowrap'>"+img+"<SPAN ID='TICKER_BODY' width='100%'>&nbsp;</SPAN>"+img+"</TD></TR></TABLE>";
tickerSupported = true;
}
if(!tickerSupported) document.getElementById("TICKER").outerHTML = ""; else {
document.getElementById("TICKER").scrollLeft = TICKER_RIGHTTOLEFT ? document.getElementById("TICKER").scrollWidth - document.getElementById("TICKER").offsetWidth : 0;
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()", 30);
}