setInterval interfering with hide()
<p>I recently implemented a loading image and noticed that ever 10 seconds, that the loading image appears for a split second then disappears again. I've traced it to this code. When I comment this out, the loading image never appears until it is supposed to. I'm using the setInterval code globally so is there something that I can do to get these two things working nicely together?</p>

<p>I want to stop the loading image from appearing for a brief second.</p>

<pre><code>  var auto_refresh = setInterval(
    function() {
      ....
    }, 10000
  );
</code></pre>
