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WHO: Vaccine makers should plan to adjust COVID-19 jabs – Live - Aljazeera.com
     
 
Large scale Russian offensive possible in January, Ukraine says - Reuters
     
 
Cementing ties with France, UAE places $19 bln order for warplanes, helicopters - Reuters
     
 
Vaccination, not travel curbs, key to battling Omicron, WHO says - Reuters
     
 
Michigan school shooting – latest: Sheriff criticises school for not reporting Ethan Crumbley before attack - The Independent
     
 
Gableman threatens jail time for Madison, Green Bay mayors if they don't sit for interview - Madison.com
     
 
DA who released Waukesha suspect ahead of tragedy says it was the result of human error by an overworked staffer - CNN
     
 
Government shutdown averted as Congress passes short-term funding bill - CBS News
     
 
US Army and FAA investigating military flyover of NFL game - CNN
     
 
Aariel Maynor arrested in killing of Jacqueline Avant - CBS News
     
 
P.J. Fleck plans to bring back Kirk Ciarrocca as Gophers offensive coordinator - Minneapolis Star Tribune
     
 
Dow Jones Futures Await Jobs Report After Market Rallies; DocuSign Dives; Tesla Rival Reports Booming EV Sales - Investor's Business Daily
     
 
Peng Shuai: Human rights activist Peter Dahlin says IOC is putting Chinese tennis star at 'greater risk' - CNN
     
 
Trump's White House doctor facing fresh scrutiny over Covid test timeline - CNN
     
 
China's Kaisa starts talks with bondholders as default threat looms - Reuters
     
 
Shell scraps plans to develop Cambo oilfield, citing economics not the climate - CNN
     
 
Latest on Omicron Variant and Covid-19: Live News - The New York Times
     
 
Plenty of people are taking melatonin as a sleep aid. What you should know before you do. - USA TODAY
     
 
Retail theft and organized crime are roiling US chains, traumatizing workers - The Washington Post
     
 
Microsoft backtracks on Windows 11’s controversial default browser changes - The Verge
     
 
Sources - Notre Dame Fighting Irish expected to announce hiring of Marcus Freeman as head football coach Friday morning - ESPN
     
 
Sources - Notre Dame Fighting Irish expected to announce hiring of Marcus Freeman as head football coach Friday morning - espn.com
     
 
UK study finds mRNA COVID-19 vaccines provide biggest booster impact - Reuters
     
 
See ads on Facebook comparing Covid vaccine to Holocaust - CNN
     
 
Will an F1 race mark the end of Saudi Arabia's ban on alcohol? - The Economist
     
 
FIDE World Chess Championship Game 6 | Carlsen vs. Nepo | !format !results - Chess.com
     
 
FIDE World Chess Championship Game 6 | Carlsen vs. Nepo | !format !vote - Chess.com
     
 
So metal: Newly discovered exoplanet is likely over 80 percent iron - Ars Technica
     
 
Colombia seizes hundreds of arachnids being illegally smuggled to Europe - NBC News
     
 
DocuSign Stock Sinks as It Delivers 'Big Whiff' on Billings Guidance - Barron's
     
 
Pakistan police: mob kills Sri Lankan over alleged blasphemy - ABC News
     
 
Dow Jones Futures Fall On US Omicron Cases After Market Rallies, DocuSign Dives; Jobs Report On Tap - Investor's Business Daily
     
 
Dan Quinn: It was just a cool win - NBC Sports
     
 
NY Covid State of Emergency now in effect - 13WHAM-TV
     
 
The Bucs will tell us who they are if they keep Antonio Brown - Tampa Bay Times
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Cookies Lightened
Oct 2, 2021, 7:48 pm
News settings were not sticking very long. Cookies set by JavaScript only stay for a week on Safari. The news feed query is done server side and embedded into the home page. These settings need to be cookies.

Moved the news cookie setting code into PHP to bypass the Safari limitation.

To minimize cookies, which are sent on every HTTP request, the links cookies have been isolated to the links pages.

In other news, button colors needed to be explicitly set for Safari 15. They turned blue if they linked to anything. Problem solved, along with other maintenance and security updates.
News in the News
May 18, 2021, 8:59 am
The News system has been updated. Faster and more consistent display.

Tech Details: Feed links are working. Open articles resize with the browser window and settings options. Time of day is calculated by the browser, eliminating time zone issues. News is updated every 10 minutes (was 20 minutes). News is kept for 48 hours (was 24 hours). Displays updated to reflect keeping the data longer (instead of "34 hours"... "1 day, 10 hours"). New display option (100 articles). When there are multiple feed matches, the top matching feed on the list is always the one displayed. News Javascript processing is asynchronous, allowing weather to load faster. Articles load from files, not the database. This eliminates the large text field, reducing disk-based temp tables, and eliminating PHP processing on request. Articles are cached on the browser page until a news refresh. Article text search is maintained with a 511 character copy of the article with HTML tags removed.

On other fronts... upgrades all around. New versions of Nginx, PHP, MariaDB, Coppermine Gallery. Changed MyISAM tables to Aria (more efficient). Most of the tables are InnoDB.
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Feb 19, 2021, 4:21 am
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Elsewhere on the site: Script loading is optimized (header code was in-lined to allow removing main page code from all other pages), images collapsed (reduced image load counts by up to half). Initial news load is in main page request, eliminating the loading delay.