var tWidth= ((screen.width >= 1024) ? "970" : (screen.width)) +'px';                  // width (in pixels)
var tHeight='25px';                  // height (in pixels)
var tcolour='#000000';               // background colour:
var moStop=true;                     // pause on mouseover (true or false)
var fontfamily = ''; // font for content
var tSpeed=4;                        // scroll speed (1 = slow, 5 = fast)
var persistlastviewedmsg=1 //should scroller's position persist after users navigate away (1=yes, 0=no)?

// 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"; 
        if (persistlastviewedmsg && get_cookie("lastscrollerpos")!="")
        revivelastmsg()

        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";
}

window.setTimeout('startticker()', 2000);

/*
if (window.attachEvent) {window.attachEvent('onload', startticker);}
else if (window.addEventListener) {window.addEventListener('load', startticker, false);}
else {document.addEventListener('load', startticker, false);}
*/
 

/* Revised 11/09/2008 */
function get_cookie(Name) {
var search = Name + "="
var returnvalue = ""
if (document.cookie.length > 0) {
offset = document.cookie.indexOf(search)
if (offset != -1) {
offset += search.length
end = document.cookie.indexOf(";", offset)
if (end == -1)
end = document.cookie.length;
returnvalue=unescape(document.cookie.substring(offset, end))
}
}
return returnvalue;
}

function savelastmsg(){
document.cookie="lastscrollerpos="+mq.style.left
}

function revivelastmsg(){
lastscrollerpos=parseInt(get_cookie("lastscrollerpos"))
mq.style.left=parseInt(lastscrollerpos)+"px"
}

if (persistlastviewedmsg)
window.onunload=savelastmsg

/* *******************/