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//dynamicJS.load('newsBulletin','http://preview.abcnews.go.com/xmldata/newsbulletin?id=13564505');

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this.fb = ''

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'+nbItemObj.date+'

'+this.authorBlock+'

'+this.text+'

'+this.social+'

';

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'+this.noteAuthorBlock+'

'+nbNote.noteOverview+'

'+this.notesocial+'

';

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);

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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();

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function isNewData(data)

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$.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)

if(data)

isNewDataFlag = isNewData(data);

if(isNewDataFlag)

//clear contents first

newsbulletin.nbDiv.innerHTML = '';

//console.log('refresh');

updates = data.updates;

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shareLink = data.shareLink;

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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

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$('#nbItemContainer').removeAttr('style');

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itemDetails.authortwitter = it.author.twitter;

itemDetails.feed = it.feed;

itemDetails.category = it.category;

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if(itemDetails.label == 'Status Update')

if(it.author.image == '')

it.author.image = 'http://a.abcnews.com/assets/images/abc_news_logo_84x84.png'

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);

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, 3000);

7500)

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120000

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// 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();

isDoneLoading = false;

, 5000);

;

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