var tWidth = (document.getElementById('newsbox')?'466px':'266px');
var tHeight='16px';
var tcolour='transparent';
var moStop=true;
var fontfamily = 'arial,sans-serif';
var tSpeed=2;
var content=document.getElementById('ticker_content').innerHTML;

// Simple Marquee / Ticker Script
// copyright 3rd January 2006, Stephen Chapman
// permission to use this Javascript on your web page is granted
// provided that all of the below code in this script (including this
// comment) is used without any alteration
var cps=tSpeed;
var aw, mq;
var fsz = parseInt(tHeight) - 4;
function startticker() {
	if(document.getElementById) {
		var tick = '<div style="position:relative;width:'+tWidth+';height:'+tHeight+';overflow:hidden;background-color:'+tcolour+'"';
		if(moStop)
			tick += ' onmouseover="cps=0" onmouseout="cps=tSpeed"'; tick +='><div id="mq" style="position:absolute;left:0px;top:0px;font-family:'+fontfamily+';font-size:'+fsz+'px;white-space:nowrap;"><\/div><\/div>';
		document.getElementById('ticker').innerHTML = tick;
		mq = document.getElementById("mq");
		mq.style.left = (parseInt(tWidth)+10)+"px";
		mq.innerHTML = '<span id="tx">'+content+'<\/span>';
		aw = document.getElementById("tx").offsetWidth;
		lefttime = setInterval("scrollticker()",50);
	}
}
function scrollticker() {
	mq.style.left = (parseInt(mq.style.left)>(-10 - aw)) ?parseInt(mq.style.left)-cps+"px" : parseInt(tWidth)+10+"px";
}