var scrollBox  = document.getElementById('newsticker_inner');
	 var viewHeight = 100;
	 var viewPos    = 85;
	 var viewSpeed  =  40;
	 var viewPixels =   1;
	 var boxHeight  =   0;
	 var viewMove   = viewPixels;

	 function ticker_start()  { viewMove=viewPixels; }
	 function ticker_stop() { viewMove=0; }

	 function divHeight() {
	  // find the height of the DIV called 'scrollBox'
	  if(scrollBox.offsetHeight) {
	   boxHeight=scrollBox.offsetHeight;
	  } else {
	   boxHeight=document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(document.getElementById('newsticker_inner'),"").getPropertyValue("height")
	   boxHeight=eval(boxHeight.substring(0,boxHeight.indexOf("p")))
	  }
	   startScroller();
	 }

	 function startScroller() {
	  var scrollBox=document.getElementById('newsticker_inner');
	  scrollBox.style.visibility='visible';
	  scrollBox.style.top=viewHeight;
	  continueScrolling();
	 }

	 function continueScrolling() {
	  viewPos=(viewPos-viewMove);
	  scrollBox.style.top=viewPos+'px';
	  if(viewPos<0-boxHeight) { viewPos=viewHeight; }
	  setTimeout('continueScrolling()',viewSpeed);
	 }