TICKER_CONTENT = document.getElementById("TICKER").innerHTML;
 
TICKER_RIGHTTOLEFT = false;
TICKER_SPEED = 3;
TICKER_PAUSED = false;
TICKER_WIDTH = 625;

ticker_start();

function ticker_start() {
  var tickerSupported = false;
	
  var img = '<img src="/images/transparent.gif" width="'+TICKER_WIDTH+'" height="0" alt="" />';

  // Firefox
  if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Firefox")!=-1 || navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Safari")!=-1) {
    document.getElementById("TICKER").innerHTML = img+"<span id='TICKER_BODY' width='100%'> </span>"+img;
    tickerSupported = true;
  }

  // IE
  if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("MSIE")!=-1 || navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Opera")!=-1) {
    document.getElementById("TICKER").innerHTML = img+"<span id='TICKER_BODY' width='100%'></span>"+img;
    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);
}