TickerContent = document.getElementById("newsticker").innerHTML;
    TickerContent += (TickerContent + TickerContent);
    
    TickerRightToLeft = false;
    TickerSpeed = {SPEED};
    TickerPaused = false;
    
    function ticker_start() {
        var tickerSupported = false;
        
        // Firefox
        if ((navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Firefox") != -1) || (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Safari") != -1)) {
            document.getElementById("newsticker").innerHTML = '<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"><tr><td nowrap="nowrap"><span id="newstickertext" width="100%" class="newsticker">&nbsp;</span></td></tr></table>';
            tickerSupported = true;
        }
        // IE
        if ((navigator.userAgent.indexOf("MSIE") != -1) && (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Opera") == -1)) {
            document.getElementById("newsticker").innerHTML = '<div nowrap="nowrap" style="width:100%;"><span id="newstickertext" width="100%" class="newsticker"></span></div>';
            tickerSupported = true;
        }
        if (!tickerSupported) {
            document.getElementById('newsticker').outerHTML = "";
        } else {
            document.getElementById("newsticker").scrollLeft = ((TickerRightToLeft) ? document.getElementById("newsticker").scrollWidth - document.getElementById("newsticker").offsetWidth : 0);
            document.getElementById("newstickertext").innerHTML = TickerContent;
            document.getElementById("newsticker").style.display = "block";
            window.setTimeout("ticker_tick()", 100);
        }
    }
    
    function ticker_tick() {
        if (!TickerPaused) {
            document.getElementById("newsticker").scrollLeft += (TickerSpeed * (TickerRightToLeft ? -1 : 1));
        }
        if ((TickerRightToLeft) && (document.getElementById("newsticker").scrollLeft <= 0)) {
            document.getElementById("newsticker").scrollLeft = (document.getElementById("newsticker").scrollWidth / 3);
        }
        if ((!TickerRightToLeft) && (document.getElementById("newsticker").scrollLeft >= (document.getElementById("newsticker").scrollWidth / 3))) {
            document.getElementById("newsticker").scrollLeft = 0;
        }
        window.setTimeout("ticker_tick()", 25);
    }
    
    setTimeout("ticker_start()", 100);