TICKER_CONTENT = document.getElementById("news_bar").innerHTML;
 
TICKER_RIGHTTOLEFT = false;
TICKER_SPEED = 1;
TICKER_STYLE = "font-family:Arial; font-size:12px; color:#444444";
TICKER_PAUSED = false;

ticker_start();

function ticker_start() {
	var tickerSupported = false;
	TICKER_WIDTH = document.getElementById("TICKER").style.width;
	var img = "";

	// Firefox
	if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Firefox")!=-1 || navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Safari")!=-1) {
		document.getElementById("TICKER").innerHTML = "<table style='width:100%;border-collapse: collapse;padding:0' ><tr><td nowrap='nowrap'>"+img+"<span style='"+TICKER_STYLE+"' 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 = "<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 {
		document.getElementById("TICKER").scrollLeft = TICKER_RIGHTTOLEFT ? document.getElementById("TICKER").scrollWidth - document.getElementById("TICKER").offsetWidth : 0;
		document.getElementById("TICKER_BODY").innerHTML = TICKER_CONTENT + 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/2) 	{ 
		document.getElementById("TICKER").scrollLeft = 0; 
	}
	window.setTimeout("TICKER_tick()", 30);
}