NEWS_CONTENT = document.getElementById("NEWS").innerHTML;
 
NEWS_RIGHTTOLEFT = false;
NEWS_SPEED = 1;
NEWS_STYLE = "font-family:Arial; font-size:12px; color:#444444";
NEWS_PAUSED = false;

ticker_start();

function ticker_start() {
	var tickerSupported = false;
	NEWS_WIDTH = "20px"; // document.getElementById("NEWS").style.width;
	var img = "<img src=images/spacer.gif width="+NEWS_WIDTH+" height=0>";

	// Firefox
	if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Firefox")!=-1 || navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Safari")!=-1) {
		document.getElementById("NEWS").innerHTML = "<TABLE  cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' width='100%'><TR><TD nowrap='nowrap'>"+img+"<SPAN style='"+NEWS_STYLE+"' ID='NEWS_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("NEWS").innerHTML = "<DIV nowrap='nowrap' style='width:100%;'>"+img+"<SPAN style='"+NEWS_STYLE+"' ID='NEWS_BODY' width='100%'></SPAN>"+img+"</DIV>";
		tickerSupported = true;
	}
	if(!tickerSupported) 
		document.getElementById("NEWS").outerHTML = ""; 
	else {
		document.getElementById("NEWS").scrollLeft = NEWS_RIGHTTOLEFT ? document.getElementById("NEWS").scrollWidth - document.getElementById("NEWS").offsetWidth : 0;
		document.getElementById("NEWS_BODY").innerHTML = NEWS_CONTENT;
		document.getElementById("NEWS").style.display="block";
		NEWS_tick();
	}
}

function NEWS_tick() {
	if(!NEWS_PAUSED) {
		document.getElementById("NEWS").scrollLeft += NEWS_SPEED * (NEWS_RIGHTTOLEFT ? -1 : 1);
	}

	if(NEWS_RIGHTTOLEFT && document.getElementById("NEWS").scrollLeft <= 0) 
	document.getElementById("NEWS").scrollLeft = document.getElementById("NEWS").scrollWidth - document.getElementById("NEWS").offsetWidth;
//		NEWS_RIGHTTOLEFT = false;

	if(!NEWS_RIGHTTOLEFT && document.getElementById("NEWS").scrollLeft >= document.getElementById("NEWS").scrollWidth - document.getElementById("NEWS").offsetWidth) 
	document.getElementById("NEWS").scrollLeft = 0;
//		NEWS_RIGHTTOLEFT = true;
	
	window.setTimeout("NEWS_tick()", 30);

}