TICKER_CONTENT = document.getElementById("TICKER").innerHTML;
 
TICKER_RIGHTTOLEFT = false;
TICKER_SPEED = 3;
TICKER_STYLE = "font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12px; font-weight:bold; color:#A6A6A6;";
TICKER_PAUSED = false;

ticker_start();

function ticker_start() {
	var tickerSupported = false;
	TICKER_WIDTH = document.getElementById("TICKER").style.width;
	var img = '<img src=\"space.gif\" width=\"'+TICKER_WIDTH+'\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\">';

	if (!document.all) {
		document.getElementById("TICKER").innerHTML = "<table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' width='100%'><tr><td nowrap='nowrap'>"+img+"<span style='"+TICKER_STYLE+"' id='TICKER_BODY' width='100%'>&nbsp;</span>"+img+"</td></tr></table>";
		tickerSupported = true;
	} else {
		document.getElementById("TICKER").innerHTML = "<div nowrap='nowrap' style='width:100%;'>"+img+"<span style='"+TICKER_STYLE+"' id='TICKER_BODY' width='100%'></span>"+img+"</div>";
		tickerSupported = true;
	}
	if(!tickerSupported) {
		document.getElementById("TICKER").outerHTML = ""; 
	} else {
		if(TICKER_RIGHTTOLEFT) {
			document.getElementById("TICKER").scrollLeft = (document.getElementById("TICKER").scrollWidth - document.getElementById("TICKER").offsetWidth) + 'px';
		} else {
			document.getElementById("TICKER").scrollLeft = 0 + 'px';
		}
		document.getElementById("TICKER_BODY").innerHTML = TICKER_CONTENT;
		document.getElementById("TICKER").style.display="block";
		TICKER_tick();
	}
}

function TICKER_tick() {
	if(!TICKER_PAUSED) {
		TICKER_SCROLL = document.getElementById("TICKER").scrollLeft;
		if(TICKER_RIGHTTOLEFT) {
			document.getElementById("TICKER").scrollLeft = TICKER_SCROLL + (TICKER_SPEED*-1);
		} else {
			document.getElementById("TICKER").scrollLeft = TICKER_SCROLL + (TICKER_SPEED*1);
		}
	}
	if(TICKER_RIGHTTOLEFT && document.getElementById("TICKER").scrollLeft <= 0) {
		document.getElementById("TICKER").scrollLeft = (document.getElementById("TICKER").scrollWidth - document.getElementById("TICKER").offsetWidth) + 'px';
	}
	if(!TICKER_RIGHTTOLEFT && document.getElementById("TICKER").scrollLeft >= document.getElementById("TICKER").scrollWidth - document.getElementById("TICKER").offsetWidth) {
		document.getElementById("TICKER").scrollLeft = 0 + 'px';
	}
	window.setTimeout("TICKER_tick()", 30);
}