';return html;}function story_to_thumbnail_item(story, options){var html = '';var photo_url = '';if(story.photo_cdn > ''){photo_url = story.photo_cdn + '/width=850,height=400,fit=cover';}else {photo_url = '/image/w850-h400-c850:400-p1/files/' + story.photo;}html += '
';html += '
';html += '';html += '';html += '';if(typeof story.read_time != 'undefined' && story.read_time > 0){html += '';html += '' + story.read_time + '';html += '';html += 'minute';if(story.read_time > 1){html += 's';}html += '';html += '';}html += '
';if(window.innerWidth > 500){html += '
';}else {html += '
';}if(window.innerWidth > 500){html += '
';if(story.author > ''){html += '';html += story.author;html += ' • ';html += ' ';}html += '';html += story.publish_friendly;html += '';html += '
';}html += '
';if(story.categories.length){html += '
';for (var category in story.categories) {html += '';html += story.categories[category].name;html += ' ';}html += '
';}html += '
';html += '';html += story.title;html += '';if(window.innerWidth <= 500){if(story.author > ''){html += '';html += story.author;html += ' • ';html += ' ';}html += '';html += story.publish_friendly;html += '';}html += '';html += story.subtitle;html += '';html += '
';html += '
';return html;}function show_list(news_feed, data){if(news_feed.length){var html = '';var options = {};var ad_class = '';var max_width = 728;if(window.innerWidth<=500){ad_class = 'dfp-square';max_width = 300;}else {//var random = Math.floor(Math.random() * 3);//if(random == 1){//ad_class = 'dfp-square';//max_width = 300;//}//else {ad_class = 'dfp-leaderboard';max_width = 728;//}}if(data.options.show_ads == 'before'){html += '
';html += '
';html += '
';data.ad_counter++;}for (var i = 0; i < news_feed.length; i++) {if(window.innerWidth > 500){html += '
';}else {html += '
';}if(i == 0){html += story_to_thumbnail_item(news_feed[i], options);}else {html += story_to_list_item(news_feed[i], options);}html += '
';if(window.innerWidth > 500){html += '
';}}if(data.options.show_ads == 'after'){//leaderboardif(ad_class == 'dfp-leaderboard'){html += '
';}else {html += '
';}html += '
';html += '
';data.ad_counter++;}if(data.should_append_feed){document.getElementById("news_feed").insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend',html);//show_ad(data);}else {document.getElementById("news_feed").innerHTML = html;data.should_append_feed = true;}data.story_positions = calculate_story_positions();data.ad_positions = calculate_ad_positions();}}function feed_request_callback(xhr, data) {return function() { if(this.readyState == 4 && this.status == 200) { var now = Math.floor(Date.now() / 1000); var json = JSON.parse(this.responseText);data.saved_list.push(json.news_feed);//console.log(data.saved_list);//console.log('show feed');show_list(json.news_feed, data);try {sessionStorage.setItem('feed_' + data.options_string, JSON.stringify(data.saved_list));sessionStorage.setItem('feed_date_' + data.options_string, now);;}catch (e) {if (e == QUOTA_EXCEEDED_ERR) {sessionStorage.clear();sessionStorage.setItem('feed_' + data.options_string, JSON.stringify(data.saved_list));sessionStorage.setItem('feed_saved_' + data.options_string, now);;}}data.loading.style.display = 'none';data.loading_stories = false;}};}function calculate_story_positions(){var stories = document.querySelectorAll(".feed_story");var scroll_y = window.scrollY || document.documentElement.scrollTop;var story_positions = [];if(stories.length){var top;for (var i = 0; i < stories.length; i++){top = stories[i].getBoundingClientRect().top + scroll_y;story_positions.push({id:stories[i].getAttribute('data-id'),position:{top:top}});}}return story_positions;}function calculate_ad_positions(){var ads = document.querySelectorAll(".dfp-feed-ad");var scroll_y = window.scrollY || document.documentElement.scrollTop;var ad_positions = [];if(ads.length){var top;for (var i = 0; i < ads.length; i++){if(ads[i].getAttribute('data-shown') == 0){top = ads[i].getBoundingClientRect().top + scroll_y;ad_positions.push({id:ads[i].getAttribute('data-id'),position:{top:top}});}}}return ad_positions;}function update_ad_positions(data){data.ad_positions = calculate_ad_positions();//console.log(data.ad_positions);}function load_stories(data){if(data.loading_stories == false){var url = '/optimized/feed/?';var post = {offset: data.options.offset,limit: data.options.limit};if(typeof data.options.category != 'undefined' && data.options.category != null){post.category = data.options.category;}if(typeof data.options.exclude_stories != 'undefined' && data.options.exclude_stories != null){post.exclude_story = data.options.exclude_stories;}for (var key in post) {url += key + '=' + post[key] + '&';}url = url.slice(0, -1);data.loading_stories = true;var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();xhr.onreadystatechange = feed_request_callback(xhr, data)xhr.open("GET", url, true);data.options.offset += data.options.limit;xhr.send();// gtag("event", "page_view", {// pageTitle: data.url + "| page: " + (data.options.offset/data.options.limit)// // });// ga('send', 'pageview', {'page': data.url + ':' + (data.options.offset/data.options.limit)});}}function handleScroll(position,data){var furthest_scrolled_story = {id: '',position:{top: 0}};//use bottom of screenvar compare_to = position+window.innerHeight;var position_in_list = 0;if(data.story_positions.length){data.story_positions.sort(function(a,b) {return a.position.top < b.position.top ? -1 : a.position.top > b.position.top ? 1 : 0;});for (i = 0; i < data.story_positions.length; i++){if(compare_to>data.story_positions[i].position.top && data.story_positions[i].position.top>furthest_scrolled_story.position.top){furthest_scrolled_story = data.story_positions[i];position_in_list = i;}}}if(furthest_scrolled_story.id > '' && window.location.hash != '#fs_' + furthest_scrolled_story.id){if(history.replaceState){history.replaceState(undefined, undefined, '#fs_' + furthest_scrolled_story.id);}}if(data.story_positions.length - position_in_list <7){load_stories(data);}if(data.ad_positions.length){var ad_compare_to = compare_to + 100;for (i = 0; i < data.ad_positions.length; i++){if(data.ad_positions[i] != null && ad_compare_to>data.ad_positions[i].position.top){show_ad(data.ad_positions[i].id);data.ad_positions[i] = null;}}}}//may switch this to a timeout of 50 for better performancefunction scroll_callback(data){return function(){data.last_known_scroll_position = window.scrollY || document.documentElement.scrollTop;if(!data.ticking){window.requestAnimationFrame(function() {handleScroll(data.last_known_scroll_position,data);data.ticking = false;});data.ticking = true;}};}function refresh_callback(data){return function(event){event.preventDefault();data.loading_status.innerHTML = 'Updating Stories';data.loading_svg.style.display = 'block';data.options.offset = 0;data.should_append_feed = false;load_stories(data);};}function show_ad(ad_id){var ad = document.getElementById(ad_id);ad.setAttribute('data-shown',1);//console.log('yay ad! ' + ad_id);if((' ' + ad.className + ' ').indexOf(' dfp-square ') > -1){feed_ajax_ad(ad, '/15020739/nowmedia_sidebar', [300, 250], dfp_targeting);}else {if(window.innerWidth<=500){feed_ajax_ad(ad, '/15020739/nowmedia_sidebar', [300, 250], dfp_targeting);}else {feed_ajax_ad(ad, '/15020739/nowmedia_news_feed', [728, 90], dfp_targeting);}/*if(typeof site_url != 'undefined' && site_url != 'www.kelownanow.com' && site_url != 'www.kamloopsbcnow.com'){//var rand = Math.floor(Math.random() * Math.floor(11));//if(rand < 8){//console.log('feed adsense');//feed_ajax_ad(ad, '/15020739/nowmedia_leaderboard/nowmedia_leaderboard_adsense', [728, 90], dfp_targeting);//}//else {feed_ajax_ad(ad, '/15020739/nowmedia_news_feed', [728, 90], dfp_targeting);//}}else {feed_ajax_ad(ad, '/15020739/nowmedia_news_feed', [728, 90], dfp_targeting);}*/}}//googletag.openConsole();function feed_ajax_ad(e, slotCode, size, targeting) {if (typeof targeting === 'undefined') { targeting = {}; } else if ( Object.prototype.toString.call( targeting ) !== '[object Object]' ) { targeting = {}; }var elId = e.getAttribute('id'); googletag.cmd.push(function() { //console.log(elId); var slot = googletag.defineSlot(slotCode, size, elId); //console.log(slot); for (var t in targeting) { slot.setTargeting(t, targeting[t]); } slot.addService(googletag.pubads()); googletag.display(elId); //googletag.pubads().refresh([slot]); });}function init_feed(element_id){var e = document.getElementById(element_id);var now = Math.floor(Date.now() / 1000);if(typeof e != 'undefined'){var options = {};if(typeof e.getAttribute('data-options') > ''){options = JSON.parse(e.getAttribute('data-options'));}options.offset = 0;if(typeof options.limit == 'undefined'){options.limit = 7;}if(typeof options.show_ads == 'undefined'){options.show_ads = 'after';}var options_string = JSON.stringify(options);var data = {options_string: options_string, options:options, ticking: false,saved_list: [],loading: document.getElementById('news_feed_loading'),loading_status: document.getElementById('news_feed_loading_status'),loading_svg: document.getElementById('news_feed_svg'),ad_counter: 0,last_known_scroll_position: 0,loading_stories: false,story_positions: [],ad_positions: [],should_append_feed: true,url: window.location.pathname};var saved_list = sessionStorage.getItem('feed_' + options_string);var saved_date = sessionStorage.getItem('feed_date_' + options_string);//if there are saved stories, and there's a hash in the url, indicating scrolling down the pageif(window.location.hash && saved_list != null && saved_date != null){//console.log('load new stories');saved_list = JSON.parse(saved_list);data.loading.style.display = 'block';for (i = 0; i < saved_list.length; i++){show_list(saved_list[i],data);data.options.offset += data.options.limit;}data.saved_list = saved_list;}//if its been more than 5 minutes, load new storiesif(!window.location.hash || saved_date == null || (now - parseInt(saved_date)) > (60*5)){data.should_append_feed = false;data.options.offset = 0;data.saved_list = [];load_stories(data);}else {//console.log('show_saved_stories');data.loading.style.display = 'none';setTimeout(function(){data.loading_status.innerHTML = 'Click to Check for New Stories';data.loading_svg.style.display = 'none';data.loading.style.display = 'block';}, 240000);}//load_stories(data);//may want to also do this for storieswindow.addEventListener('load', update_ad_positions(data));setTimeout(function(){update_ad_positions(data);}, 3000);window.addEventListener('scroll', scroll_callback(data));data.loading.addEventListener('click', refresh_callback(data));return true;}return false;}//only show ads if should_append_feed is trueinit_feed('news_feed');//}
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