var tWidth='960px';                  // width (in pixels)
var tHeight='20px';                  // height (in pixels)
var moStop=true;                     // pause on mouseover (true or false)
var fontfamily = 'Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'; // font for content
var tSpeed=4;                        // scroll speed (1 = slow, 5 = fast)
var content='LATEST NEWS: <font color="#00447a"><a href="apple_accreditation_news.html">University Centre at Blackburn College Receives Apple Accreditation - University Centre at Blackburn College has become an Apple Authorised Training Centre for Education (AATCe)...read more <\/a> | <a href="entrepreneurship_studies_at_blackburn_college.html">Entrepreneurship studies at Blackburn College - Apprentice star Alex Wotherspoon took time out of the boardroom to learn about the new courses available at Blackburn College...and got fired in the process!...read more<\/a></font>';

var cps=tSpeed; var aw, mq; 
var fsz = parseInt(tHeight) - 4; 
function startticker(){if (document.getElementById) {
	var tick = '<div style="margin-top: 3px; position:relative;width:'+tWidth+';height:'+tHeight+';overflow:hidden;"'; 
	if (moStop) tick += ' onmouseover="cps=0" onmouseout="cps=tSpeed"'; tick +='><div id="mq" style="padding-top: 2px; position:absolute;left:0px;top:0px;font-weight: bold; color: #00447a; font-family:'+fontfamily+';font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap;"><\/div><\/div>'; 
	document.getElementById('ticker').innerHTML = tick; mq = document.getElementById("mq"); 
	mq.style.left=(parseInt(tWidth)+10)+"px"; 
	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.onload=startticker;