function formatBlogDate(theDate) {
            splitDates = theDate.split(" ");
            //theDate = "<span class=\"month\">" + splitDates[2] + "</span> <span class=\"day\">" + splitDates[1] + "</span>";
            theDate = "Release date: " + splitDates[2] + " " +splitDates[1] + "";
            return theDate;
    }
                
function showBlogPosts(data) {
	WDN.jQuery('#news_headlines').html('<ul id="the_headlines"></ul>');
  for(var i=0; i<3; i++) {
	  if (i == 1 | i==3 | i==5) {
	WDN.jQuery("ul#the_headlines").append("<li><a href='"+data.query.results.item[i].link+"'>"+data.query.results.item[i].title+"</a><br /><span>"+formatBlogDate(data.query.results.item[i].pubDate)+"</span></li>");
	  } else {
	WDN.jQuery("ul#the_headlines").append("<li><a href='"+data.query.results.item[i].link+"'>"+data.query.results.item[i].title+"</a><br /><span>"+formatBlogDate(data.query.results.item[i].pubDate)+"</span></li>");
	  } 
	}
}
var my_calurl = "http://events.unl.edu/?upcoming&format=hcalendar&limit=7";
WDN.get(my_calurl, null, function(content) {
	WDN.jQuery(document).ready( function() {
		WDN.jQuery('#splash_calendar').hide().html(content);
		WDN.jQuery('#splash_calendar abbr').each(
				function() {
					// Convert the date and time into something we want.
					var eventdate = WDN.jQuery(this).html();
					var month,day,time = '';
					var xp = new RegExp(/[A-Za-z]{3,3}/);
					if (xp.test(eventdate)) month = '<span class="month">'+xp.exec(eventdate)+'</span>';
					eventdate.replace(xp.exec(eventdate),'');
					xp = new RegExp(/[\d]+:[\d]+\s?[a,p]m/);
					if (xp.test(eventdate)) time = '<span class="time">'+xp.exec(eventdate)+'</span>';
					time = time.replace('0 ','0');
					xp = new RegExp(/([\d]{1,2})[a-z]{2}/);
					if (xp.test(eventdate)) day = '<span class="day">'+xp.exec(eventdate)[1]+'</span>';
					WDN.jQuery(this).replaceWith('<div'+month+' '+day+' '+time+'</div>');
				});
		WDN.jQuery('#splash_calendar').show();
		});
	});
WDN.jQuery(document).ready(function(){
	//starts the splash rotator on page ready
	//splashRotate(number of headlines, speed in milliseconds 4 sec=4000);
	WDN.splash_poster.initialize();
	newRandomPromo('http://www.unl.edu/ucomm/splash/promo.xml');
});

function playerReady(obj) {
	var player = document.getElementById(obj['id']);
	player.addControllerListener("ITEM", "WDN.splash_poster.stopPanelRotation");
};