JQuery :: Synchronized Cycle Slideshows With Pause On Hover

How to have synchronized Cycle slideshows with pause on hover (for the hovered slideshow only). I have several Cycle slideshows on a webpage and am synchronizing them using a setTimeout() that basically issues cycle('next') to all the slideshows at a set interval. See Synchronized Demo. At first I tried setting the pause:true option (to pause the hovered slideshow) and expected the hovered slideshow to ignore the cycle('next') command. The 'next' command was processed regardless of pause:true. As a work-around, I modified the nextSlide() function to not issue a 'next' command to the hovered slideshow. FYI, the cyclePause property of a slideshow is non-zero during hover.

The modifications to the above mentioned demo are shown below in red:
$(function() {
var $slideShows = $('#s1,#s2').cycle({
timeout: 0, // disable automatic transitions
pause: true,
});
setTimeout(nextSlide, 4000);
function nextSlide() {
// advance both shows to next slide
$slideShows.filter( function() { return ! this.cyclePause } )
.cycle('next');
setTimeout(nextSlide, 4000);
}});

This solution directly access the slideshow's cyclePause property. It could be written cleaner if cycle() offered a way of testing a slideshow's hover state, such as a new command: cycle('ishover') returning true if hovering.