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$("#newsbulletin .midcontainer").append(newsbulletin.nbFooter);
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newsbulletin.baseloc+'/xmldata/newsbulletin?id=14640490twOverride=lpos='+newsbulletin.lpos2+
'section='+nbjsId);
//dynamicJS.load('newsBulletin','http://preview.abcnews.go.com/xmldata/newsbulletin?id=13564505'
);
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this.nbItemStyleAuthor = ' nbItemContentsAuthor'
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this.morelink = 'More'
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3. if(nbItemObj.text.length 63)
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this.text = this.textCapped + '...';
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this.socialStyle = '';
this.authorBlock = '';
this.divider = '';
this.fb = '';
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this.twitter = '';
if(nbItemObj.authortwitter != null nbItemObj.authortwitter != '')
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);
this.rowTemp += nbNoteStr;
return this.rowTemp;
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$('#text_'+id).html(contentObject[id])

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fullTextList.push(id.toString());
var newContainerHeight = $("#nbItemContainer").height() + ($('#nbItem_'+id).height()-
oldItemHeight);
$("#nbItemContainer").css('height', newContainerHeight);
//reinitialize scroll
window.api.reinitialise();
lastNBObjStr = '';
function isNewData(data)
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currNBObjStr = '';
$.each(data.updates, function(ind)
currNBObjStr = currNBObjStr + data.updates[ind].objId + data.updates[ind].date;
);
//console.log('x'+currNBObjStr);
//console.log('y'+lastNBObjStr);
if(currNBObjStr != lastNBObjStr)
isNewTemp = true;
else
//console.log('no refresh');
lastNBObjStr = currNBObjStr;
return isNewTemp;
isHeaderLinkLoaded = false; // flag to check if the header link is loaded
isShareLinkLoaded = false; // flag to check if the share link is loaded
isDoneLoading = false; // flag to check if the html is done loading in the jScrollPane
function newsBulletin(data)

7. if(data)
isNewDataFlag = isNewData(data);
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//clear contents first
newsbulletin.nbDiv.innerHTML = '';
//console.log('refresh');
updates = data.updates;
headerLink = data.widgetLink;
shareLink = data.shareLink;
if (headerLink != '' headerLink != null !isHeaderLinkLoaded)
var twitterImg = " "
$("#newsbulletin .midcontainer .widget_head").append("");
$("#newsbulletin .midcontainer .widget_head .twitterLink a .twitterContent").append("" +
twitterImg + "");
isHeaderLinkLoaded = true;
//clear the author cutouts array
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// check to see if there is a height set for container, if so clear it
// prevents cacheing
var hasHeight = $('#nbItemContainer').attr('style');
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$('#nbItemContainer').removeAttr('style');
$.each(updates, function(ind)
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itemDetails.author = it.author.name;
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itemDetails.authorfb = it.author.facebook;
itemDetails.authortwitter = it.author.twitter;
itemDetails.feed = it.feed;
itemDetails.category = it.category;
//set defaults if item is a status update
if(itemDetails.label == 'Status Update')
if(it.author.image == '')
it.author.image = 'http://a.abcnews.com/assets/images/abc_news_logo_84x84.png'
if(it.author.name == '')
itemDetails.author = 'ABC News'
itemDetails.authorfb = 'http://www.facebook.com/abcnews'
itemDetails.authortwitter = 'http://twitter.com/abc'
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$("#nbItemContainer").append(newsbulletin.displayItems(itemDetails));
);
$("#nbItemContainer").append('');
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if (shareLink != '' shareLink != null !isShareLinkLoaded)
$("#newsbulletin .midcontainer .nbFooter").css("height":"35px", "border-top":"1px solid #d5d5d5",
"border-bottom":"border-bottom:1px solid #eaeaea");
$("#newsbulletin .midcontainer .nbFooter").append("");
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if ($.browser.version .midcontainer .nbFooter").css("display":"none");
var timeoutId = setTimeout(function()
$("#newsbulletin .midcontainer .nbFooter").css("display":"block");
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, 3000);

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newsbulletin.baseloc+'/xmldata/newsbulletin?id=14640490'+nbjsId);
isDoneLoading = true;
if ($.browser.webkit)
if(nbjsId .midcontainer .nbFooter").css("display":"none");
var timeoutId = setTimeout(function()
$("#newsbulletin .midcontainer .nbFooter").css("display":"block");
clearTimeout(timeoutId);
, 3000);
7500)
setInterval(
function()
window.api.getContentPane().html(
newsbulletin.load()
);
,
120000
);
setInterval(function()
// we could call "pane.jScrollPane(settings)" again but it is
// more convenient to call via the API as then the original
// settings we passed in are automatically remembered.
// Initialization of the container should be done after all the markup has been loaded
// since there is no listener that could be passed into reinitialise() for callback
if (isDoneLoading)
window.api.reinitialise();

11. isDoneLoading = false;
, 5000);
;
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