jQuery(document).ready(function() {
    showing = jQuery('#rotating_items div.rotating_item:first'); // Initiate the 'showing' variable as the first rotating_item
    showing.siblings('div').hide(); // Hide all other rotating_items
    setInterval("show_next_rotating_item(showing)", 12000); // Set the rotate time to 8 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_item(t) {
    jQuery(t).fadeOut('slow');
    var next_rotating_item = jQuery(t).siblings('.rotating_item:random');
    if (!next_rotating_item.attr('class')) {
        next_rotating_item = jQuery('#rotating_items div.rotating_item:first');
    }
    next_rotating_item.fadeIn('slow');
    showing = next_rotating_item;
}