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+  <font color="#006666" size="4"><b>27 June 2016 - New Way to Share Sessions - Public Sessions!</b></font>
+  <p>
+  We are excited to announce the release of the
+  <a href="cgi-bin/hgPublicSessions">Public Sessions</a>
+  page, the newest way to share your UCSC Genome Browser snapshots with your colleagues
+  and the world. The Public Sessions page collects sessions that users have elected to share 
+  publicly. Sessions on this page can be filtered based on assembly, name, or a phrase from
+  the description. Sessions can also be sorted based on their popularity or creation date.
+  To add your own sessions to this Public Sessions page, just check the box under "post in
+  public listing" on the session management page.
+  </p>
+
+  <p>
+  The Genome Browser <a href="cgi-bin/hgSession">session management</a> page has also received an
+  update with the release of the new Public Sessions page. Sessions are now arranged in a table,
+  where varying numbers of sessions can be displayed on a page of this table. Sessions can now be
+  filtered and ordered based on session name, primary assembly, and creation date. Clicking on the
+  session name now displays that session in the Genome Browser. Session details, such as the name
+  or the description, can be changed using the "details" button in the new table layout.
+  </p>
+
+  <p>
+  The release of the new Public Sessions page also marks a change in our session expiration policy.
+  We no longer expire sessions and associated custom tracks four months after their last use.
+  Please note, however, that the UCSC Genome Browser is not a data storage service and that we
+  encourage you to keep local copies of your session contents and custom track data.
+  </p>
+
+  <p>
+  For more information about using sessions to share snapshots of the UCSC Genome Browser,
+  please see the <a href="goldenPath/help/hgSessionHelp.html">User Guide</a> or our blog post,
+  "<a href="http://genome.ucsc.edu/blog/how-to-share-your-ucsc-screenthoughts/"
+  target="_blank">How to share your UCSC screenthoughts</a>."
+  </p>
+
+  <p>
+  Thanks to Jonathan Casper and Matthew Speir for their work on this new tool.
+  </p>
+
+  <hr>
  
   <font color="#006666" size="4"><b>15 June 2016 - New Official Asian Mirror Released</b></font>
   <p>
   We are pleased to announce the introduction of a new supported Genome Browser mirror 
   to serve our users in Asia. The genome-asia server 
   <a href="http://genome-asia.ucsc.edu" target="_blank">(http://genome-asia.ucsc.edu)</a>, 
   which is administered by UCSC, is physically located at the 
   <a href="http://www.yokohama.riken.jp/english/" target="_blank">RIKEN Yokohama Campus</a>
   in Japan.
   </p>
   <p>
   Genome-asia is intended as an alternate, faster access point for those Browser users 
   who are geographically closer to Asia than to the western United States. The mirror 
   is functionally identical to the U.S.-based server, with one exception. Custom tracks 
   residing on the U.S. server are not automatically accessible from the genome-asia mirror; 
   therefore, the use of these custom tracks and saved sessions containing them will require 
   some manual intervention.
   </p>
   <p>
   Genome Browser users located in Asia will be automatically redirected to genome-asia 
   when they click the "Genomes" menu item on the Genome Browser home page, but will have 
   the option to remain on the U.S.-based server. In addition to the 
   genome-asia mirror, we continue to support a Europe-based Genome Browser mirror 
   <a href="http://genome-euro.ucsc.edu" target="_blank">(http://genome-euro.ucsc.edu)</a>
   in Bielefeld, Germany. A third-party mirror in 
   <a href="http://genome-mirror.moma.ki.au.dk/" target="_blank">Aarhus, Denmark</a>, 
   is available as an emergency backup in the rare event 
   that our three supported sites are offline.
   </p>
   <p>
   We wish to express our special thanks to Dr. Hideya Kawaji at the 
   <a href="http://www.riken.jp/en/research/labs/accc/" target="_blank">RIKEN Advanced 
   Center for Computing and Communication</a> for making this possible. We would also 
   like to acknowledge the following members of the UCSC Genome Browser team for their efforts: 
   Galt Barber, Robert Kuhn, Jorge Garcia, and Luvina Guruvadoo.
   </p>
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-  <font color="#006666" size="4"><b>6 June 2016 - New video:  Exon-only mode</b></font>
-  </P>
-  We are pleased to announce the release to our YouTube channel of a new
-  training <A HREF = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNEJBOkf_Gk" TARGET = _BLANK>video</A>,
-  in which we demonstrate the recently released Multi-Region feature in
-  exon-only mode.  This feature is useful for those studying gene expression or
-  undertaking whole-exome sequencing.  By removing intronic and intergenic regions,
-  exon-only mode shows the portion (sometimes as little as a few percent) of the
-  genome most useful for these analyses.
-  </P>
-  <P>
-  This video is
-  <A HREF ="training/vids/#vid09" TARGET = _BLANK>indexed</A> 
-  to allow easy access to relevant sections and comes with a transcript for the
-  hard-of-hearing.
-  </P>
-  <P>
-  Thanks to Robert Kuhn and David Gibson for production.
-  </P>
-  <hr>
+<!-- start archives -->
+<!--staged for future release
 
-  <font color="#006666" size="4"><b>1 June 2016 - New Density Graph Feature!</b></font>
 	<p>
-  The Genome Browser is proud to announce a new &quot;density graph&quot; feature for
-  a variety of tracks, including BAM custom tracks, that converts data into a summary display.</p>
-  <p>
-  The density graph feature enables certain track types to be displayed as a bar graph where
-  the height is proportional to the number of reads mapped to each genomic position.
-  Through dynamic calculation of items in the current window, this feature plots a line
-  similar to a wiggle graph that can be customized with a number of
-  <a href="goldenPath/help/hgWiggleTrackHelp.html"
-  target="_blank">graph-based configuration options</a> such as drawing indicator lines,
-  smoothing plots, adjusting graph height and vertical range, and switching from bars to
-  points. Please note that the feature is best displayed with Display mode set to full
-  and that the default is auto-scale data to view. Please note that using this
-  feature on a <a href="goldenPath/help/gbib.html#GbibMirroring"
-  target="_blank">virtual machine Genome Browser in a Box (GBiB)</a> may benefit from
-  increasing memory.</p> 
-  <p>
-  To turn on the feature click into the track controls for certain track types,
-  such as a BAM custom track, and check the box next to &quot;Display data as a
-  density graph&quot; to see graph configurations and then click &quot;Submit&quot;.
-  To see the new density graph feature in use, please see this example
-  <a href="cgi-bin/hgTracks?hgS_doLoadUrl=submit&hgS_loadUrlName=http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/examples/sessions/session.hg19.densityGraph&hgct_customText=track%20type=bam%20name=bamExample%20visibility=full%20bigDataUrl=http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/examples/bamExample.bam%20doWiggle=1"
-  target="_blank">session</a>.
+	<font color="#006666" size="4"><b>27 June 2016 - New Way to Share Sessions - Public Sessions!</b> </font>
+	We are excited to announce the release of the
+	<a href="cgi-bin/hgPublicSessions">Public Sessions</a>
+	page, the newest way to share your UCSC Genome Browser snapshots with your colleagues
+	and the world.
+	<a href="goldenPath/newsarch.html#062816">Read more</a>.
+	</p>
+
 	<p>
-  Thanks to Brian Raney for the implementation of this feature.</p>
-  <hr>
+	<font color="#006666" size="4"><b>15 June 2016 - New Official Asian Mirror Released</b>: </font>
+	We are pleased to announce the introduction of a new supported Genome Browser mirror
+	to serve our users in Asia.
+	<a href="goldenPath/newsarch.html#061516">Read more</a>.
+	</p>
+-->
 
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         <font color="#006666" size="4"><b>6 June 2016 - New video:  Exon-only mode</b></font>
         We are proud to announce a new <A HREF = "">video</A> demonstrating the
         exon-only feature.  This feature is useful in gene-expresson studies and
         for those doing whole-exome sequencing.
         <a href="goldenPath/newsarch.html#060616">Read more</a>.
        </p>
 
         <p>
         <font color="#006666" size="4"><b>1 June 2016 - New Density Graph Feature!</b></font>
         The Genome Browser is proud to announce a new &quot;density graph&quot; feature for
         a variety of tracks, including BAM custom tracks, that converts data into a summary display.
 	<a href="goldenPath/newsarch.html#060116">Read more</a>.
         </p>
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-        <p>
-        <font color="#006666" size="4"><b>10 May 2016 - New Gateway Page!</b>: </font>
-        The UCSC Genome Browser team is proud to announce a newly redesigned
-        <a href="../../cgi-bin/hgGateway" target="_blank">Genome Browser Gateway page</a>.
-        Please see our <a href="https://youtu.be/5zc9sqd4SD4"
-        target="_blank">Gateway video</a> for an introduction to these new features.
-        <a href="goldenPath/newsarch.html#051016">Read more</a>.
-       </p>
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