jQuery(document).ready(function(){
	showing = jQuery('#rotating_pictures div.rotating_picture:first'); // Initiate the 'showing' variable as the first rotating_item
	showing.siblings('div').hide(); // Hide all other rotating_items
	setInterval("show_next_rotating_picture(showing)", 9000); // Set the rotate time to 5 seconds
});
// Below is the code that picks an item at random to display
jQuery.jQueryRandom = 0;
jQuery.extend(jQuery.expr[":"],
{
	random: function(a, i, m, r) {
		if (i == 0) {
			jQuery.jQueryRandom = Math.floor(Math.random() * r.length);
		};
		return i == jQuery.jQueryRandom;
	}
});
// The below function repeatedly gets called, to do the rotating
function show_next_rotating_picture(t){
	jQuery(t).fadeOut(2000);
	var next_rotating_picture = jQuery(t).siblings('.rotating_picture:random');
	if(!next_rotating_picture.attr('class')){
		next_rotating_picture = jQuery('#rotating_pictures div.rotating_picture:first');
	}
	next_rotating_picture.fadeIn(1500);
	showing = next_rotating_picture;
}


