/***************************** banner settings **********************************************************/
var myImageFile = "/home_page_feeds/home_page_features/images_en.html";		// HTML file that contains the images
var myImageArea = "bannerArea";												// Div id that will host the images
var myImagePrefix = "itm";													// Prefix that will be used in building the image ids
var mytextFile = "/home_page_feeds/home_page_features/stories_en.html";		// HTML file that contains the text
var myTextArea = "contentArea";												// Div id that will host the text
var myTextPrefix = "txt";													// Prefix that will be used in building the text ids
var imagePath = "/images/rework2010/homePage/"								// Path to images
var elemLimit = 5;                              							// Limit of elements to be displayed on the page
var prevLabel = "<< Previous";												// Label for left arrow on news navigation
var nextLabel = "Next >>";													// Label for right arrow on news navigation

// variable that controls the length of time in milliseconds that a banner image will be displayed on the page
// when counting the two fades, this value will translate to about 7000 milliseconds of viewing time
var timer = 7000;
var fadeSpeed = 0.5;

/***************************** Social media settings **********************************************************/
// Twitter Feed variables
var itemsToShow = 10;                                                              // Number of records to display
var removeArray = new Array("ottawacity: "," #ottawa"," +0000", " -07000");     // Elements to remove from content
var removeArrLen = removeArray.length;                                            // Total number of elements to remove
var elemForFeed = "twitterfeed";                         						// Element that holds the feeds
var twitterWebLink = "http://twitter.com/ottawacity/cityaccounts";                // Twitter account name
var twitterHeading = "twitterfollow";                    // Element that displays the title
var twitterTag = "Follow us on Twitter";                                          // Tagline that shows up on the title
var feed = "/templates/widgets/homepage/city_news_en.rss";           // RSS feed to use 

/***************************** Google Translate settings ***************************************************/
var pgLang = "en";