CONTENT = document.getElementById("ticker").innerHTML;
STYLE = "font-size:14px; line-height: 30px;";
PAUSED = false;
ticker_setup();
function ticker_setup() {
	var tickerSupported = false;
	WIDTH = document.getElementById("ticker").style.width;
	var img = "";
	var img = "<img src='/images/ticker_space.gif' width="+WIDTH+" height=0>";

	// Firefox
	if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Mozilla")!=-1 || navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Firefox")!=-1 || navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Safari")!=-1) {
		document.getElementById("ticker").innerHTML = "<TABLE  cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' width='100%'><TR><TD valign='top' nowrap='nowrap'>"+img+"<SPAN style='"+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='"+STYLE+"' ID='ticker_body' width='100%'></SPAN>"+img+"</DIV>";
		tickerSupported = true;
	}
	window.setTimeout("ticker_start()", 00);
}

function ticker_start() {
	var tickerSupported = false;
	if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Mozilla")!=-1 || navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Firefox")!=-1 || navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Safari")!=-1 ||
	( navigator.userAgent.indexOf("MSIE")!=-1 && navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Opera")==-1 ) ) {
		tickerSupported = true;
	} else {
		tickerSupported = false;
	}
	if(!tickerSupported) {
		document.getElementById("ticker").outerHTML = ""; 
	} else {
		if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Firefox")!=-1 ) {
			document.getElementById("ticker").scrollLeft = 0;
			// alert( document.getElementById("ticker").scrollLeft ) ;
		} else {
			document.getElementById("ticker").scrollLeft = 0;
		}
			document.getElementById("ticker_body").innerHTML = CONTENT;
			document.getElementById("ticker").style.display="block";
			var delay= (Math.floor(Math.random()*20))*1000;
			// window.setTimeout("tick()", delay);
			window.setTimeout("tick()", 00);
	}
}

function tick() {
	if(!PAUSED) document.getElementById("ticker").scrollLeft += ( 2 );
	if(
		document.getElementById("ticker").scrollLeft >= 
		document.getElementById("ticker").scrollWidth - // length of ticker text table
		document.getElementById("ticker").offsetWidth // width of actual ticker
			) {
		document.getElementById("ticker").scrollLeft = 0;
		var delay= ((Math.floor(Math.random()*20))*1000)+10000;
		// window.setTimeout("tick()", delay);
		window.setTimeout("tick()", 5000);
	} else {
		window.setTimeout("tick()", 30);
	}
}