//TICKER_CONTENT = document.getElementById("TICKER").innerHTML;
 
TICKER_RIGHTTOLEFT = false;
TICKER_SPEED = 2;
TICKER_STYLE = "font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:12px; color: #ffffff; font-weight: bold;";
TICKER_PAUSED = false;

TICKER_start();

function TICKER_start() {
	var TICKERSupported = false;
	TICKER_WIDTH = document.getElementById("TICKER").style.width;
	var img = "<img src=TICKER_space.gif width="+TICKER_WIDTH+" height=0>";

	// Firefox
	if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Firefox")!=-1 || navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Safari")!=-1) {
		document.getElementById("TICKER").innerHTML = "<table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' width='100%'><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 style='width:300%; padding-left:300px; padding-right:200px;'><span style='"+TICKER_STYLE+"' id='TICKER_BODY'>Please take note that our offices will be closed from July 17th for the vacations. We will be back August 3rd.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Happy holiday!&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></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;
		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 - document.getElementById("TICKER").offsetWidth) document.getElementById("TICKER").scrollLeft = 0;
	window.setTimeout("TICKER_tick()", 30);
}