TICKER_CONTENT = document.getElementById("TICKER").innerHTML;
 
TICKER_RIGHTTOLEFT = false;
TICKER_SPEED = 2;
TICKER_STYLE = "font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:14px; color:#FFFFFF; line-height:35px; ";
TICKER_PAUSED = false;

ticker_start();

function ticker_start() {
	var tickerSupported = false;
	TICKER_WIDTH = document.getElementById("TICKER").style.width;
	var img = "<img src=\"/images/ticker_space.gif\" border=\"0\" width="+TICKER_WIDTH+" height=0>";

	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;
	
	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").style.display="block";
		
		TICKER_CONTENT = 'Diageo Africa Business Reporting Awards 2010 now open for entry';
		
		document.getElementById("TICKER_BODY").innerHTML = TICKER_CONTENT;
		window.setInterval("repeat()", 26000);
		
		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);
	
}

function repeat() {
document.getElementById("TICKER_BODY").innerHTML = document.getElementById("TICKER_BODY").innerHTML;	
}