function slideShow(speed) {


                //append a LI item to the UL list for displaying caption
                j('ul.slideshow').append('<li id="slideshow-caption" class="caption"><div class="slideshow-caption-container"><h3></h3><p></p></div></li>');

                //Set the opacity of all images to 0
                j('ul.slideshow li').css({opacity: 0.0});

                //Get the first image and display it (set it to full opacity)
                j('ul.slideshow li:first').css({opacity: 1.0});

                //Get the caption of the first image from REL attribute and display it
                j('#slideshow-caption h3').html(j('ul.slideshow li:first').find('img').attr('title'));
                j('#slideshow-caption p').html(j('ul.slideshow li:first').find('img').attr('alt'));

                //Display the caption
                j('#slideshow-caption').css({opacity: 0.7, bottom:0});

                //Call the gallery function to run the slideshow
                var timer = setInterval('gallery()',speed);

                //pause the slideshow on mouse over
                j('ul.slideshow').hover(
                        function () {
                                clearInterval(timer);
                        },
                        function () {
                                timer = setInterval('gallery()',speed);
                        }
                );

        }

        function gallery() {


                //if no IMGs have the show class, grab the first image
                var current = (j('ul.slideshow li.show')?  j('ul.slideshow li.show') : j('#ul.slideshow li:first'));

                //Get next image, if it reached the end of the slideshow, rotate it back to the first image
                var next = ((current.next().length) ? ((current.next().attr('id') == 'slideshow-caption')? j('ul.slideshow li:first') :current.next()) : j('ul.slideshow li:first'));

                //Get next image caption
                var title = next.find('img').attr('title');
                var desc = next.find('img').attr('alt');

                //Set the fade in effect for the next image, show class has higher z-index
                next.css({opacity: 0.0}).addClass('show').animate({opacity: 1.0}, 1000);

                //Hide the caption first, and then set and display the caption
                j('#slideshow-caption').animate({bottom:-70}, 300, function () {
                                //Display the content
                                j('#slideshow-caption h3').html(title);
                                j('#slideshow-caption p').html(desc);
                                j('#slideshow-caption').animate({bottom:0}, 500);
                });

                //Hide the current image
                current.animate({opacity: 0.0}, 1000).removeClass('show');


        }