Updated jquery.cycle to jquery.cycle2 (2.1.1) from 'http://malsup.github.io/min/jquery.cycle2.min.js'.
Bump the required Django version to >=1.6, as Cycle2 requires at least jQuery 1.7. This avoids having another (possibly outdated) dependency such as django-jquery.
Updated template to make use of Cycle2 for the slideshow.
Also load jQuery JS when needed.