$(document).ready(function() {
  $('a[rel=external]').attr('target', '_blank');
  // delay sets timeout for first slide. Set to 1 minute for March 2011
  $('#mediaviewer').after('<div id="pager">').cycle({ fx: 'fade', speed: 4500, pager: '#pager', continuous: true, delay:  15000, timeoutFn: calculateTimeout });
});
		
function calculateTimeout(currElement, nextElement, opts, isForward) { 
  // here we set even number slides to have a 2 second timeout;
  // by returning false for odd number slides we let those slides
  // inherit the default timeout value (4 sec)
  var index = opts.currSlide;
  return index % 2 ? 2000 : false;
}