Gooch, Bryan N.s. et al. "Vancouver Symphony Orchestra". The Canadian Encyclopedia, 24 November 2017, Historica Canada. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/vancouver-symphony-orchestra-emc. Accessed 18 April 2019.
It was not until 1930 that the Vancouver Symphony Society was revived, largely through the efforts of Elisabeth Rogers, by then a notable patron of the arts. The conductor of the re-formed 80-member Vancouver SO was Allard de Ridder, a pupil of Willem Mengelberg.
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. Professional orchestra begun in 1930. Until 1930 the history of symphony orchestras in Vancouver was one of discontinuity and uncertainty. The first Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (SO), formed in 1897 with 23 players under Adolf Gregory, gave three concerts in Dunn Hall, then disbanded. In 1907 it was revived briefly, with 36 members under Charles Ward. Another group, known as the 'Spare Time Symphony' and conducted by Oscar Ziegler, was playing in 1915 but was disbanded after his death ca 1919. In 1919 Henry Green organized a 60-member orchestra for the Vancouver Symphony Society under the leadership of F.L. Beecher (president) and Mrs B.T. (Elisabeth) Rogers (vice-president). This orchestra survived for two seasons, but financial strains and the disappearance of Green (who had been refused an annual salary of $20,000) ended its activities. In 1921 an English musician, William Raven, started the Vancouver Philharmonic, which became officially the Capitol Theatre Symphony Orchestra. With the advent of the talking motion picture this orchestra, too, lost its audience. Very little symphonic music was heard in Vancouver during the 1920s.
It was not until 1930 that the Vancouver Symphony Society was revived, largely through the efforts of Elisabeth Rogers, by then a notable patron of the arts. The conductor of the re-formed 80-member Vancouver SO was Allard de Ridder, a pupil of Willem Mengelberg. The first of four concerts in the 1930-1 season took place in the new Orpheum Theatre on 5 October. In de Ridder's 10 years with the orchestra he increased the annual number of concerts to seven in Vancouver and two in Victoria. The CBC broadcasts of Vancouver SO concerts began during his tenure. De Ridder programmed no Canadian works except four of his own - including his Violin Concerto. He did, however, share his podium with several distinguished guest conductors, including Arthur Benjamin, Sir Thomas Beecham, Gregori Garbovitsky, and Sir Ernest MacMillan. In 1941 de Ridder left Vancouver for Toronto, and the orchestra played for the next six years under a succession of guest conductors, including Barbirolli, Beaudet, Bernstein, Dorati, Goossens, Klemperer, Mazzoleni, and Sevitzky.
Jacques Singer (b Przemysl, Poland, 9 May 1917, d New York, 12 Aug 1980) was engaged as music director in 1947. He greatly expanded the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra's activities, inaugurating school and pop concerts, visiting smaller centres, and augmenting the orchestral program with large choral-orchestral works such as Beethoven's Symphony No. 9. Though the orchestra attracted new audiences, it was $40,000 in debt when Singer left Vancouver following the 1949-50 season.
Another period of guest conductors followed before the 1952 appointment of Irwin Hoffman (b New York City 26 Nov 1924), a protégé of Koussevitzky. During his 12 seasons with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Hoffman maintained a creditable standard of performance and added considerably to the orchestra's repertoire. He was responsible for the premieres of works by 11 Canadian composers, the addition of the popular 'Christmas Box Concerts,' and an increase in the number of school concerts. Also during Hoffman's tenure, the venue of the concerts changed in 1960 from the Orpheum Theatre and Georgia Auditorium to the new Queen Elizabeth Theatre.
When Hoffman left in 1964, Meredith Davies (b Birkenhead, England 30 Jul 1922, d New Alresford, England 9 Mar 2005) was chosen to succeed him. Davies had made a strong impression when he visited Vancouver in 1961 to conduct the North American premiere of Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Vancouver International Festival. During his tenure, 1964-70, he rebuilt the orchestra, replacing veteran members with younger players (many from Europe and the US) and developing it into an ensemble of high national standing. He also gave the premiere of Ginastera's Estudios Sinfonicos and, with the Vancouver Bach Choir, the Vancouver premieres of several large choral-orchestral works, including Britten's War Requiem, Walton's Belshazzar's Feast, and Honegger's King David, as well as works of Messiaen, Berio, Henze, Penderecki, and contemporary Canadian and US composers, through a commercially sponsored 20th-century music series unique in Canada. In 1967, the symphony also began performing for Vancouver Opera productions.
When Davies left Vancouver in the autumn of 1970, the assistant conductor and former principal viola, Simon Streatfeild, served as acting music director until the 1972 appointment of Tokyo Symphony Orchestra conductor Kazuyoshi Akiyama (b Tokyo 2 Jan 1941).
In April 1977 the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra moved to its former but completely renovated home, the Orpheum Theatre. That year it also stopped performing operas for the Vancouver Opera.
The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra under Akiyama made extended visits to Japan in 1974 and 1985, and toured seven cities in Canada in 1976, another seven cities in the western US in 1978, and western Canada in 1981. The orchestra hosted various special events, including in 1977 a Beethoven Festival and in 1978 a Brahms Festival, and also sponsored solo recitals by famous performers - eg Isaac Stern in 1978. By 1980 the Vancouver SO had taken its place with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the National Arts Centre Orchestra, and the Toronto Symphony, in the topmost echelon of Canadian orchestras, behind only the Toronto and the Montreal symphonies in the number of concerts given in the 1979-80 season, and boasted the largest subscription list of any orchestra in North America.
The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra's fortunes took a turn for the worse in 1981 when it was forced out of the Orpheum Theatre for 13 weeks by a Canadian Union of Public Employees strike. Concerts were given in a shopping mall instead, which resulted in reduced attendance; the accumulated $424,000 deficit was doubled in one season. In the following years the troubles continued to mount: the deficit grew to unmanageable proportions, subscriptions declined, and there were contract difficulties with the musicians and turnovers in the administration.
In September 1985 the Russian conductor Rudolf Barshai (or Barshay, b Labinskaya, near Krasnodar, 28 Sep 1924) succeeded Akiyama as conductor and music director. (Akiyama retained the title of Conductor Laureate.) By then the deficit had reached $1.7 million, and a labour disagreement delayed the opening of the 1985-6 season. Barshai failed to elicit a warm response from Vancouver audiences, and despite his musical strengths in certain repertoire, he was unable to revitalize the orchestra. Emergency bailout funding from three levels of government and private donors only delayed the inevitable. In 1988 the size of the deficit caused the suspension of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra's activities between January and July.
Operations were resumed after creditors forgave the organization's $2.3 million deficit. Strong public support and major financial assistance from three levels of government and the business world set the reborn Vancouver SO on a new track. Outdoor summer concerts began in July 1988 and became a regular feature of the orchestra's schedule.
Peter McCoppin, who had been named associate conductor in December 1987, replaced Barshai with the title conductor and music advisor 1988-9, and was named principal guest conductor in 1989. The 1988-9 season (41 weeks) was so successful that a budget surplus was recorded. In 1989 the orchestra also undertook two tours to northern British Columbia, and to the Kootenays and Vancouver Island. In February 1990 regular visiting conductor Sergiu Comissiona (b Bucharest, Rumania, 16 Jun 1928, d Oklahoma City, 5 Mar 2005) was appointed music director designate; he began his duties in the fall of 1991. As music director for the 1991-2 season, Comissiona presided over a 38-week schedule that offered over 70 concerts in eight different series.
Comissiona continued fostering the strong artistic goals of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and encouraging Canadian music. Where Comissiona busied himself with the more traditional side of the orchestra, assistant conductor Clyde Mitchell (1991-2000) took on pops, light classics, and educational concerts which became a hallmark of the orchestra. Under Mitchell, the orchestra became more active in the communities around Vancouver and successfully sought out new concertgoers among that city's diverse population.
Though the artistic side of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra continued unchanged over the rocky period since the orchestra's 1988 bankruptcy, affairs in the front office did not. Though the Vancouver SO began its most lucrative annual fundraiser (the Symphony Lover's Ball, which has raised over $3.5 million since its inception and has been given annually), financial troubles were again brewing. A 1992 tour to California was cancelled due to insufficient funds, and in the fall, Diane Hoar (then CEO), was dismissed and replaced in quick succession by Graeme Page (1992-3), and Howard Jang (1993-5). Administrative personnel turned over frequently.
The board of directors, faced with a debt that grew to $1 million in 1993, moved to reduce the orchestra from 72 to 68 full-time members and 38 weeks of service. The musicians responded by attending the annual general meeting of the Vancouver Symphony Society in force and facilitating the expansion of the board to 18 members from 12, as well as seeing to the election of five new members more sympathetic to their cause. The board backed off the proposed cuts, and some financial and structural stability returned to the organization. A second foundation, The Vancouver Symphony Foundation, was also established that year.
The summer of 1994 saw the expansion of the Vancouver SO's summer programming. Ron Dumouchelle was appointed general manager of the orchestra in September 1995. He was at the centre of a brief but intense controversy in 1997 over a proposed merger of the Vancouver SO with the Vancouver Opera. The move proved highly unpopular and, after a public relations campaign led by Vancouver SO musicians, the idea was shelved.
In 1996 the Vancouver SO appointed their first composer-in-residence, Rodney Sharman, who served in this capacity 1997-2000 and as new music advisor until 2001.
The year 2000 proved to be a watershed for the Vancouver SO with the arrival of two figures who greatly affected its running, community involvement, and finances. Conductor Bramwell Tovey (formerly of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and founder of the Winnipeg New Music Festival) and general manager Jeff Alexander (formerly of the Cincinnati Symphony) brought a much more involved and activist approach to the Vancouver SO management. With a battery of community initiatives that included concerts in 13 venues over the Lower Mainland, a slew of innovative educational concerts and workshops, the controversial move of becoming the first orchestra in Canada to bring video screens into their regular concert series in order to show the musicians close up, and an overall strengthening of the orchestra's governance, there was growth in subscription and ticket sales as well as public and private sector support.
Early in the millennium, Tovey broke the world record for largest orchestra in an outdoor venue when he led the Vancouver SO and over 6,000 students at BC Place. In 2005, the orchestra recorded Tovey's score for the film Eighteen, which won Tovey a Genie award.
Although in late 2001 the players and conductor accepted a pay cut to reduce the previous season's deficit, the subsequent community involvement and popularity of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra resulted in budgetary surpluses 2004-7, making the orchestra the most financially successful and stable large orchestra in Canada at the time of writing. The organization in 2007 comprised 73 musicians, 26 staff, and 15 board members, had an operating budget of $11.2 million, gave over 150 concerts per season, and had an estimated yearly attendance of 200,000 people. In addition, Alexander and Tovey secured the construction of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra School of Music, where Vancouver SO musicians can teach in a conservatory-style setting that will also cater to the wider music community. In 2008, the orchestra's recording with James Ehnes won Grammy and Juno awards.
Guest artists appearing with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra have included the conductors Mario Bernardi, Lawrence Foster, Stewart Goodyear, Neemi Järvi, Kazimierz Kord, Andrew Litton, Sir Yehudi Menuhin, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, and Yan Pascal Tortelier; the violinists Corey Cerovsek, James Ehnes, Nigel Kennedy, Midori, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Itzhak Perlman, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, and Pinchas Zukerman; the pianists Vladimir Ashkenazy, Yefim Bronfman, Angela Cheng, Jane Coop, Leon Fleisher, Freddy Kempf, Lang Lang, André Laplante, Yundi Lee, Louis Lortie, Murray Perahia, and (in Vancouver and on the 1985 tour of Japan) Jon Kimura Parker: the cellists Shauna Rolston and Mstislav Rostropovich; the guitarists Liona Boyd and Pepe Romero; and sopranos Renée Fleming and (at Expo 86) Dame Kiri Te Kanawa.
In addition, the orchestra has a long-standing practice of performing with pop musicians, eg Jann Arden, Ann Hampton Callaway, The Celtic Tenors, Holly Cole, Natalie MacMaster, Rita MacNeil, John McDermott, John Pizzarelli, and Spirit of the West; it has also played with comedian Rich Little.
On 29 Feb 1948 the Vancouver SO presented the premiere of the Violin Concerto by the US composer David Diamond. It also has premiered Robert Turner's Lyric Interlude (ca 1956) and Capriccio Concertante (Canadian tour, 1976); Ernst Friedlander's Cello Concerto No. 2 (15 Oct 1961); Michael Conway Baker's A Struggle for Dominion (26 Sep 1976), Symphony No. 1 (1 Oct 1978) and Through the Lion's Gate (1989); Frederick Schipizky's Symphonic Sketches (1982), Divertimento for String Orchestra (1984), Symphony No. 1 (1985), and From Under The Overture (1990); Rodney Sharman's Chiaroscuro (1986); and Rudolf Komorous' Sinfony No. 2 'Canadian' (1991).
After Tovey took the helm, there was a flourish of Canadian music being commissioned and performed by the Vancouver SO from such composers as Brian Current, John Estacio, Christos Hatzis, Jacques Hétu, Melissa Hui, Gary Kulesha, Alexina Louie, Kelly-Marie Murphy, and Jeff Ryan (their 2007 composer-in-residence).
The concertmasters of the orchestra have been Kathleen Carapata 1919-21, Arthur Gramm 1930-4, Jean de Rimanoczy 1934-44 and 1951-6, Adolph Koldofsky 1944-6, Albert Steinberg 1946-51 (he also conducted the Vancouver Junior Symphony Orchestra), Gideon Grau 1956-64, Jack Kessler 1964-5, Norman Nelson 1965-73, Gerald Jarvis 1973-86, and Alexander Skwartsow 1986-9. Akira Nagai became acting concertmaster in 1989 and concertmaster emeritus in 2004. Mark Fewer was concertmaster 2004-8.
The Vancouver SO's artistic direction staff in 2007 included conductor laureate Kazuyoshi Akiyama, principal pops conductor Jeff Tyzik, and assistant conductor Kenneth Hsieh.
Michael Allerton (b England 5 Mar 1935) was appointed orchestra manager in 1972, succeeding Victor White. John Smith was interim general manager 1985-6, and in 1986 Ed Oscapella was hired as executive director 1986-9; Diane Hoar occupied the new position of president and chief executive officer 1989-92 but was replaced in 1992 by Graeme Page. Edward Jang was acting manager 1993-5, followed by Ron Dumouchelle 1995-2000, and Jeff Alexander 2000- .


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Cytochrome P450 3A expression in the human fetal liver: evidence that CYP3A5 is expressed in only a limited number of fetal livers
Biol Neonate. 2001;80(3):193-201. doi: 10.1159/000047142.
J Hakkola 1 , H Raunio, R Purkunen, S Saarikoski, K Vähäkangas, O Pelkonen, R J Edwards, A R Boobis, M Pasanen
1 Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Oulu, Finland. jukka.hakkola@oulu.fi
CYP3A is the major cytochrome P450 subfamily constitutively expressed in the human liver. CYP3A4 is the predominant hepatic P450 form in adults and it is expressed at high but very variable levels among individuals. The fetal liver contains mainly CYP3A7, while the presence of the other CYP3A enzymes in fetal liver has remained controversial. In this study, the relative levels of CYP3A4, CYP3A5 and CYP3A7 expression were determined in a panel of 9-11 fetal livers with a similar gestation age (9-12 weeks) and compared to adult livers. CYP3A7 was found to be the major CYP3A form in all the fetal liver samples. The abundance of CYP3A7 varied more at the mRNA (77-fold variation) than at the protein level (4.8-fold variation). CYP3A5 mRNA was also detected in all of the fetal liver samples, but the average level was 700-fold lower than that of CYP3A7. CYP3A5 protein was detected by immunoblot analysis in only 1 fetal liver out of the 9 investigated, the level of expression being moderately high in this sample. CYP3A4 mRNA was detected in only a subset of the fetal liver samples and its level was the lowest of the CYP3A forms. This is the first study to demonstrate the polymorphic expression of CYP3A5 and the variability of CYP3A7 expression in fetal liver and suggests that significant interindividual differences in the metabolism of xenobiotics may already exist at the prenatal stage. These differences may contribute to individual pharmacological and/or toxicological responses in the fetus.
Aryl Hydrocarbon Hydroxylases*
Cytochrome P-450 CYP3A
Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System / analysis*
Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System / genetics*
Gene Expression*
Gestational Age
Isoenzymes / analysis
Isoenzymes / genetics
Liver / embryology*
Liver / enzymology
Mixed Function Oxygenases / analysis
Mixed Function Oxygenases / genetics
Oxidoreductases, N-Demethylating / analysis*
Oxidoreductases, N-Demethylating / genetics*
RNA, Messenger / analysis
Mixed Function Oxygenases
Aryl Hydrocarbon Hydroxylases
CYP3A protein, human
CYP3A5 protein, human
Oxidoreductases, N-Demethylating

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Natalia Dyer and Kyra Sedgwick highlight this sci-fi thriller about a family's fight to survive a solar disaster. As skies darken and hopes grow dim, the Beatys try to stay sane in a lavish home with every possible comfort—except sunshine. Raymond (Tim Daly) plans to have his family transported to a secure underground bunker. But as he makes a gruesome discovery, the greatest threat to the Beatys' survival may be near—or inside—their home.
After Darkness was released on DVD 97d ago in the US.


Next week, the New Yorker will publish its 20 Under 40 fiction list. Today the New York Times has the list, which includes California residents Yiyun Li, Daniel Alarcon, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum and Salvatore Scibona. At least, I think Scibona still lives here -- I once ran into him at the bank, and I assume he might be around any L.A. corner.
Jonathan Safran Foer was an acknowledged frontrunner when the Observer published its preview of the list last month. The 33-year-old has published two novels and one work of nonfiction, won awards, had a movie made of one of his books and published short fiction and criticism. Just about the only thing he doesn't do is Tweet.
Among Foer's many accolades was making the Granta's 2007 Best Young American Writers list. Seven others on this list also first appeared on that one, including Yiyun Li, whose first novel, "The Vagrants" was based on an incident in China in 1979. "It's hard to make this world real," she told the L.A. Times. "It's so foreign to most of my readers."
In the coming weeks, the New Yorker will publish short fiction by all of the writers on its list.


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The White King is a fictional character who appears in Lewis Carroll's fantasy story Through the Looking-Glass. Aside from Alice herself, he is one of the earliest chesspieces that are introduced into the story. Although he does not interact with Alice as much as the White Queen does, because Alice becomes a pawn on his side of the Chess-game, he is, on some levels, the most important character within the story at least as far as the game is concerned. He is not to be confused with the King of Hearts from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
1 Prior to the game
2 During the game
3 Late in the game
Prior to the game
When Alice first sees the White King, having passed through the eponymous looking glass, he is a chesspiece of normal size, but animate, and, for whatever reason, cannot hear or see Alice at this stage. Alice, not realising this, picks both him and the White Queen off the floor and places them on a table, leading them to believe that some unseen volcano blew them up there. Afterwards, however, she has some mischievous fun by manipulating the King's handwriting from behind while he writes so that he comes out with nonsense in his memorandum book ("the White Knight is sliding down the poker. He balances very badly"). She soon leaves him alone, however, when she sees the poetry-book in which Jabberwocky is written.
During the game
When Alice sees the White King next, in a later chapter, he is, along with many other characters in the story, the size of a normal adult. Humpty Dumpty, as a chesspiece, is "taken" (symbolised by his notorious fall from where he sits) and the White King appears with his soldiers, presumably in hopes of putting him back together. He and Alice begin characteristic Wonderland/Looking-Glass banter, as well as the usual Carrollian word play ("I only wish I had such eyes...to be able to see Nobody"). His imperial status as a king, as well as his tendency to take things literally, is reflected in such statements as "it isn't respectable to beg" when Alice simply says "I beg your pardon" and he also remarks that he needs his two messengers Hatta and Haigha: "one to come and one to go... one to fetch and one to carry". When Haigha arrives he claims, in all seriousness, that there is "nothing like eating hay when you're feeling faint", and having eaten two ham sandwiches consumes some hay just as casually. He expresses mixed feelings about two other characters, the Lion and the Unicorn: amusement at the fact that they are "fighting for the crown" even though it is his own crown they are fighting over, but at the same time nervousness when the "two great creatures" stand on either side of him. However, given that they, as chesspieces, are protecting him from danger from the red side, there is, as Carroll tells us, "nothing to be done about it".
His identity as a king in a game of Chess is revealed all the more when he admits that he can never quite catch up with his spouse, because, like all chess-queens, she moves too fast and for too many squares ahead of him for him to overtake her. Indeed, a more extreme version of this relationship can be seen on the opposite side of the game, in which the Red King remains asleep throughout the whole story, and the Red Queen runs her famous race.
Late in the game
Although we do not see the White King again, he is placed into check by the Red Knight before the clumsy soldier is defeated by the even-clumsier White Knight. Gardner, in The Annotated Alice has observed that he is also later put into check by the Red Queen, without either side showing any acknowledgment of it. The White Queen, in characteristic stupidity, performs a completely pointless move on her turn, but nevertheless Gardner and others have pointed out that this is not technically an illegal move, since the Red Queen does not say "check" as the knights did and so the King has no obligation to observe it. After Alice "takes" the Red Queen and checkmates the inanimate Red King, any potential danger is removed and the game, as well as her dream, comes to an end.
Lewis Carroll's Alice
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · Through the Looking-Glass · The Nursery "Alice" · "The Hunting of the Snark"
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Alice · The White Rabbit · The Mouse · The Dodo · The Duck · The Lory · Eaglet · Bill the Lizard · The Caterpillar · The Duchess · The Cheshire Cat · The Mad Hatter · The March Hare · The Dormouse · The Queen of Hearts · The King of Hearts · The Knave of Hearts · The Gryphon · The Mock Turtle · Pat · The Cook
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Alice · The Red Queen · The White Queen · The Red King · The White King · The White Knight · Tweedledum and Tweedledee · The Sheep · Humpty Dumpty · Hatta · Haigha · The Lion and the Unicorn · Bandersnatch · Jubjub Bird
"How Doth the Little Crocodile" · "The Mouse's Tale" · "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat" · "You Are Old, Father William" · "'Tis the Voice of the Lobster" · "Jabberwocky" · "The Walrus and the Carpenter" · "Haddocks' Eyes" · "They told me you had been to her..." · "The Mock Turtle's Song" · "The Hunting of the Snark"
Alice Liddell · Alice's Shop · The Annotated Alice · Works based on Alice in Wonderland · Translations of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · Translations of Through the Looking-Glass
Sequels
A New Alice in the Old Wonderland (1895) · New Adventures of Alice (1917) · Alice Through the Needle's Eye (1982) · Wonderland Revisited and the Games Alice Played There (2009)
Retellings
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland retold in words of one syllable (1905) · Alice in Verse: The Lost Rhymes of Wonderland (2010)
The Westminster Alice (1902) · Clara in Blunderland (1902) · Lost in Blunderland (1903) · John Bull's Adventures in the Fiscal Wonderland (1904) · Alice in Blunderland: An Iridescent Dream (1904)
Mopsa the Fairy (1869) · Davy and the Goblin (1884) · Gladys in Grammarland (1896) · Rollo in Emblemland (1902) · Justnowland (1912)
Reimagining
American McGee's Alice (2000) · The Looking Glass Wars (2006) · Alice (2009) · Alice: Madness Returns (2011)
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As we at The Arsenal History have discovered over the last few years, there is a major discrepancy in the facts of this story.
There's no denying that Arsenal Chairman Sir Henry Norris was banned from football, having been found guilty of a number of financial irregularities. However, the timeline appears to have become skewed over the years, along with who had the authority to execute this decision.
The actual story is told in full in Sally Davis' excellent website that chronicles the life of Norris (relevant links are at the very bottom of the page). The site is so comprehensive that many historians (and Arsenal-bashing fans) seem incapable of reading the whole story and digesting the facts, preferring to dip in and believe they have an understanding.
What we will do here is pull out the relevant facts and show what actually happened and when; using contemporary sources, not books using secondary sources written many years after the events.
The course of events relating to Norris' ban date back to 1919 and came to a head in 1927.
In February 1927, Norris' fellow director William Hall was made aware that Norris had forged Herbert Chapman's signature on a cheque that was used to buy the Arsenal reserve team bus. For some reason, the chairman of Fulham FC was aware of this and had threatened to take the matter to the Football Association to investigate. Hall told Norris that he should resign from Arsenal's board of directors to prevent an enquiry into Arsenal's affairs. Norris refused, and Hall resigned instead in late March.
Norris also issued writs against Fulham's chairman and three other employees of the club. This action was his undoing as the Football League became alerted and wanted to know why two of its members were involved in a potential court case against each other, and why a senior director of one of these teams had resigned.
Having looked into the situation, Charles Sutcliffe, acting for the Football League, suggested that Norris should resign and that the Football League would not look any further into the club's finances.
Norris resigned from Arsenal's board of directors on 1 July 1927. However, the following day William Hall then made a formal application to the Football Association (a higher authority than the Football League) to look into Arsenal's financial affairs.
the payment of travel expenses for Henry Norris in 1927; and the wages of both his and William Hall's chauffeurs from 1921 to 1923.
The FA commission concluded their enquiry on 8 August and made a number of recommendations to the FA council which were acted upon later that month. But before the FA council acted, Henry Norris' solicitors tried to have the results kept private so that they would not be published in the press. They failed, and this had further implications which have resulted in confusion.
The Daily Mail's report on the commission's findings are reproduced below. Click on each image to enlarge them.
On 29 August 1927 Sir Henry Norris and William Hall were suspended from football sine die. From this point onwards, Norris and Hall played no part in football management whatsoever. They were still shareholders but held quantities so small that they had no influence on the limited company. Hall sold his entire shareholding shortly afterwards but Norris held on to most of his until his death.
The masthead of the first matchday programme of the 1927-28 season confirmed that Norris and Hall were no longer directors of the club.
Two days after this game, the FA commission's findings were published. As a result, two more Arsenal directors were suspended by the FA. The two other casualties were Jack Humble and George Peachey.
That should be the end of the story and the record books should have closed on the matter. But Norris wouldn't let the matter lie and his actions over the next two years have caused a great deal of confusion to some historians.
On 26 November 1928, Norris dropped his action against the Daily Mail.
On 5 February 1929 the libel case against the FA was heard in the High Court presided by the Lord Chief Justice (Lord Hewart). Norris lost this case as it was found in the FA's favour. This is where the confusion arises. Many people believe that this was the point at which Norris was banned from football, but it wasn't. He was banned by the FA back in August 1927. The libel case had no bearing on the FA's decision. If Norris had won this case he still wouldn't have been allowed back into the game: this was merely a simple libel case between two parties.
We believe that this decision to ban Norris also adds weight to the defence that he didn't bribe, or offer a bribe to, anyone back in 1919 to get Arsenal elected to the First Division. If that had been the case, surely there would have been at least one person who would have spoken up at this point. The cast of characters involved in bringing down Norris was many and varied. They managed to dig up all sorts of dirt on him, but absolutely nothing relating to the election.
There is another fallacy in Arsenal's history that has a tenuous connection to this story which will be told at a later date. The relevance here is the date, 29 August 1927, that Norris was suspended sine die by the FA.
Following discussions with Steve Kell of the AFSC, Mark and I suggested writing for Gunflash for the 2015-16 season. Steve pointed out this would continue Gunflash's tradition of publishing articles by guest writers, which makes it a great honour for us to be part of this great publication.
Current and back issues of Gunflash are available from the Arsenal Football Supporters Club on matchdays on the corner of Gillespie Road and St. Thomas' Road, and via their website.
Special thanks to Paul Matz and Andy Exley for their help with sourcing some of the information.


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The first of the UK Economic Impact Study (UKEIS) results have been announced by Meeting Professionals International (MPI) Foundation at International Confex. The results, which provide a detailed profile of the UK meetings and events industry, are the first of their kind.
The project is led by the MPI Foundation, whilst the research has been undertaken by researchers at the International Centre for Research in Events, Tourism and Hospitality (ICRETH) at Leeds Metropolitan University on behalf of the UK meetings industry.
Over 1,301,600 meetings took place in the UK and attracted 116.1 million attendees who accounted for spending just under £40bn. Over half of the attendees came to consumer shows and exhibitions, nearly 40% attended conferences.
Meetings took place in 10,127 meeting venues across the UK, 27.7% were large hotels (more than 50 rooms) with meeting facilities. Almost 20% were classed as unusual, unique or special event venues and 14.2% were purpose built convention or exhibition centres. In total the venues occupied 60 million square metres or the equivalent of almost 6,000 football pitches and offered a total seating capacity of approximately 8.5 million seats.
On average each venue was used for 125 days in the year. Large hotels with meeting facilities held all types of meetings conferences, consumer shows, exhibitions and incentive events. More trade shows and business exhibitions were held in purpose built conventions and exhibition centres. Small hotels hosted more incentive events. Resort properties, university / educational institutions and unique and special event venues without bedrooms proved a popular choice for conferences.
On average meeting organisations staged 147 events in the year. Over 81% of meetings were held for the corporate sector, 6.3% of meetings were for Associations, 5.2% for Non-Government and not-for-profit organisations and 4% for Government and public service organisations.
64% of meetings were classed as small meetings with fewer than 100 attendees; nearly 30% were for between 100-500 attendees and 6% attracted more than 500 attendees.
The average length of a meeting was 2 days. Over half (53.8%) of meetings in the UK in 2011 were a single day or less in length. Most meetings happened in March and April (272,926) while far fewer meetings happened in December (46,346). Within England, the Greater London region hosted the most meetings (362,500) followed by the South East (163,349) and the West Midlands (143,210). In other home countries, Scotland hosted most meetings (86,524), Wales hosted 75,802 and Northern Ireland hosted 20,447 meetings over the year.78.5% of people attending meetings were from within the UK and 21.5% were international attendees. In 2011, the total spending generated by international meetings attendees was £10.8 billion and by national meeting attendees was £21.3 billion. The total spend by people who accompanied attendees to the meeting host destination was £7.7 billion. Exhibitors attended events that on average took place over 4 days, spending 3 nights at host destinations, attendees on average spent 2 nights at host destinations.
The largest expense for meeting organisations in the UK was on venue hire (17.4%), equipment / production (13.4%) and food and beverages (11.9%). The most prominent income was from delegate registration fees (38.1%) followed by exhibitor fees (31.6%) and sponsorship (19.5%).
The largest spend for attendees was on accommodation (20.6%) followed by meeting registration fees (18.7%). 10.3% of attendee spend was on air transport with food and beverages from restaurants, cafés and bars accounting for 9.5% and 5.8% spent on fees to attend optional programs such as reception events, dinners and social events.
UK venues spent most on salaries and wages (18.6%), maintenance and repairs (17.8%) and other administrative expenses such as professional fees and contracted services (17%). The highest amount of revenue was gained from meeting space rental (58.1%), followed by exhibition services (14.7%) and food and beverage (11.5%).
Out of the four key business tourism markets surveyed, US attendees (£3.9 billion) spent more than the other business tourism markets Ireland (£2.5 billion), Germany (£1.2 billion) and France (£0.9 billion).


I'm not sure I have much to say about the botched gun votes last week that hasn't already been said. Maureen Dowd wrote a nice piece about President Obama's failures to engage Congress (yet again) and how he provided us with a lot of words but little action or influence. James Fallows wrote a great rant over at the Atlantic about how it was all a consequence of our failed filibuster reform attempt. Even The Onion came through with an article titled, "Jesus, This Week"—it is funny and sad and pretty accurate.
First, I hope we all made note that the entire gun debate was white men talking to other white men about white men's issues. Sure, a few ladies were involved—North Dakota's Heitkamp and New Hampshire's Ayotte are feeling heat for opposing background checks. Gabby Giffords is not only making a courageous recovery, but endeavoring to influence the debate and make positive change. But when it comes down to it, this gun conversation has been about white guys and their guns and other white guys wondering about how much leeway they have to change policies impacting white guys and their guns.
Inside the Senate especially, the fact that the key players are all white guys making decisions about our collective well-being and safety is a pretty big deal when it comes to other issues, including access to contraception and other reproductive health issues. If the gun vote tells us anything, it's that true progressive change will only happen when the U.S. Congress becomes representative of the country. On that note, President Obama should not be able to invite all of the women Senators over for dinner at the White House—women Senators should not be able to fit around a freakin' dinner table. Until there are at least 50 of them, we're not dealing with a truly representative government.
Second, we lost the opportunity to save lives and build safer communities because of the influence of the NRA. Study that influence. When upwards of 90 percent of the country says they're good with a policy change, a bipartisan group of Senators tries to make it law, and it still doesn't happen, money and influence interfered somewhere along the way. When you look at the vote breakdown in the Senate, it's pretty obvious where that interference happened.
It's a tough lesson that "business as usual" wins the day in Washington, D.C., but if we progressives want to win, we're going to have to work harder on the money and work harder on the influence. It's foolhardy to think that because some wide majority of Americans support a good progressive policy, that it will be an easy lift to make it into law. The NRA exists for all of our issues of concern. It's worth accepting and it's worth fighting fire with fire.
Third, the power of a democracy to affect change in representative government is real. I heard a little quip on Morning Joe this week that stuck with me: if five percent of Americans opposed the very minimal gun violence prevention policies being forwarded last week, each and every one of those five percenters called their Members of Congress. From my pleasant spot in politics, I couldn't agree more. Who among us 95 percenters—in this case, folks who support sensible gun control measures—actually called to tell our representatives?
Like the NRA, the five percenters exist for all of the issues we progressives and feminists and bleeding heart liberals care about. And they are really motivated people. Who cares why—they care, they vote, they call. We've got the numbers, but we don't have the motivation to participate in our own democracy. Without it, progressive politics will never succeed.
I am feeling a bit badly about the direction of the country, so perhaps should refrain from speaking or writing.
One of the local Indian Nations name for the white man was "long gun". Elements in this country have allowed their hearts to be hardened, it is almost as if they are under some evil spell. I have to be careful as I sometimes amongst friends will say the Republican party, Fox News Network and right wing talk radio has fallen under demonic influences. Some of them even look creepy.
What continues to trouble me is that elements of the democratic party are only mildly better. I find great discomfort in President Obama's drone program and with a host of his appointments and directions. On the Ed Shultz show, todays discussion was … have Americans become ill equipped to sustain our democracy. It became too much for me and I had to turn off the radio. I fear that our humanity and reason is being diminished day by day by individuals and groups who lack integrity and any sense of what is good and right for humanity. It need not be this way and I have hope that it will change, but it will not be easy to turn around the stampede towards darkness.
I will pray for my nation today.


The Beatles song, When I'm Sixty-Four, pays homage to the aging process and is a tribute to the value of enduring friendships. The light-hearted ditty encapsulates some of the values and aspirations of The SCAN Foundation, which focusses on improving the quality of health and life for older people. SCAN's mission is to advance a coordinated and easily navigated system of high-quality services for older adults, preserving their dignity and independence. Bruce Chernof MD currently serves as the Foundation's President and Chief Executive Officer. In this LLAMA podcast interview with Peter Bowes, recorded at TEDMED, Dr. Chernof explains the challenges for all generations, as they get older, and why he believes embracing the Internet of Things will be crucial to healthy and active aging. He also suggests that the planning process for old age should start much earlier than most people realize, with the sharing economy playing a pivotal role in our way of life.


When your operation is working at full speed, trying to move product or fulfill orders, the last thing you need to worry about is your belt mistracking. Unfortunately, sometimes even the slightest movement or change in the conveyor can throw your belt off track. Misalignment of rollers or pulleys, an incorrect splice, and material build-up are just a few things that can get your belt off track. Sometimes a slight bump by heavy machinery or even the weather – high winds, frost, and even sunshine – can interrupt your belt's path.
If caught early and fixed, a mistracked belt does little damage to the conveyor. However, if missed or left unfixed, other types of damage can occur. If a belt is constantly hitting a structure, it can not only damage the structure, but it could shave layers off the belt until there is little left. The width of the belt could also be affected, which reduces the amount of material it can carry.
If a belt mistracks enough, it will spill material off of the topside onto the area around it, which could result in safety violations. In rare cases, friction heating begins and the belt becomes a source of ignition, causing even more safety problems.
Here's a comprehensive list of six potential problems caused by belt mistracking.
Many areas around the world have implemented safety regulations to address these problems. In the U.S., for example, MSHA enacted code 30CFR 75.1731, specifically citing that "conveyor belts must be properly aligned to prevent the moving belt from rubbing against the structure or components." Failure to comply with these regulations may lead to fines and/or work stoppages.
A total overhaul of the conveyor isn't often in the budget for most operations. Instead, some turn to temporary fixes – like attaching side rollers to the conveyor – that could actually make the problem worse. A roller on the edge of the belt is not always effective because belts prefer to pull, not push, so you are working against the belt. Another way to adjust the belt is to use friction – skewing the roller in comparison to the direction of the belt. The third way is to affect the tension profile. Belts naturally want to "walk away" from a higher tension. If tension is increased on one side, it will walk the other way.
Field testing has proven that a combination of friction and tension is the best way to put a belt back on track when the structure cannot be properly aligned. Many equipment manufacturers offer a steel return roller with an edge roller next to it that causes the roller to pivot or skew relative to the travel of the belt. The friction of the roller on the belt steers it back. The problem with this method is that the edge of the belt strikes the roller with heavy force without much effect, exerting heavy pressure to the belt edge. This situation can generate high force into the roller that can damage the belt.
Other manufacturers offer products commonly referred to as "wobblers," which use a single center bearing inside of a lagged roller/tube to steer the belt. The problem with this design is that in order to create steering forces, the roller must tilt downward on the mistracked side. This is counterproductive since decreasing the tension will quickly invite the belt to mistrack even further. Only in the lightest tension applications, where steering force has more impact than tension, does this method have a chance to work well.
To avoid exerting heavy pressure or making a tracking issue even worse, choose a tracker with a "pivot and tilt" design that provides friction and changes the tension profile of the belt. When both the pivoting and tilting mechanisms work together, they are more than three times as effective at restoring belts back to the center of the conveyor.
The next time you're struggling with a belt that is mistracking to one or both sides, consider a tracker that "pivots and tilts." You'll have an effective solution up your sleeve that you can get to work implementing before it causes too much damage, or downtime.
If you're interested in learning more about the potential problems caused by a mistracking belt, here's another blog post I wrote.


Getting started and framing an offshore program is often the most difficult task a company faces. In the end, it is like systems engineering - it all begins with requirements, options are weighed against them to select a "design", and then a program plan put around the structure.
Big deals are sold at high levels in organizations – everyone wants to "go up the value chain of the customer". But they often get mired in the "commodity monotony" mindset of the mid level managers. This is true for $30M companies and it is true for $30B companies. At the end of the day, it is all about domain and risk. Having sold engineering ODCs from 10 to 250+ FTEs, I can help you package your story for each level in the customer organization with unique credibility.
Two major business themes are infused in global engineering when it comes to aero & defense programs: Export Control and Offset. The A&D industry continues to be a major exporter for the US. However, most A&D managers have been conditioned to believe that virtually nothing can be exported. Not true - all depends upon what it is and where it is going. A license will often be required, but turnaround time is often in months. Offset is often the flipside of the export control coin. OEMs need their subs to help out in this important business element....and I can help them. Having spent nearly 20 years in A&D and 15 in offshore servcies, I speak their language and know their concerns.


Facebook wants to make sure the open-source PyTorch machine-learning framework supports the needs of developers who want to use its AI models in production systems, not just research projects, it plans to announce Wednesday at F8.
Mark Zuckerberg's surveillance factory plans to release PyTorch 1.0 Wednesday, which was designed to incorporate some of the production-oriented qualities of the other open-source AI frameworks developed in part by Facebook, Caffe2 and ONNX. Over the next few months, Facebook plans to merge the PyTorch and Caffe2 code bases, and it also announced that cloud heavyweight Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure plan to support PyTorch 1.0 in their cloud AI services.
PyTorch is known for its powerful research capabilities, as developers used the project to experiment with the machine-learning models best suited for their applications. In a field like artificial intelligence that is still fairly underdeveloped despite years of hype, it's hard to know at first which machine-learning models will work best for certain applications, and landing on the right model as soon as possible prevents a lot of wasted effort.
But PyTorch wasn't nearly as suitable for production-grade use of AI, such as Facebook's own use of neural networks, for which Caffe2 is the engine. ONNX was designed to help developers bridge that gap, but it still required more manual labor that developers would have liked.
That means PyTorch is getting an upgrade, and the 1.0 version will allow developers to share code more easily between research and production environments. The new version will be in beta mode for several months, Facebook said.


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Q: How to make vertically aligned flash charts horizontal in oracle apex In oracle apex,I want these dials to make horizontal..(please refer attachment)

what setting should be done?
My current settings are :

A: By the looks of the config, I would say it's apex 4.2
If you want them horizontally aligned by the apex engine, you need to include each one of them in regions with at least a "div with id" template (in your example there's no template set), then on the first one set the "Start new grid" parameter to "Yes", and in the rest set "Start new grid" to "No", and "Start new row" to "No", then it will appear another parameter called "Start new column" and this one set it to "Yes".
With no template assigned to the region apex does not wrap it with the "grid" which is a regular table.

A: To do this you could create 3 html regions as Borderless Regions - Without Title . These will act as parent regions and can be set so they would be next to each other. You would set the 1st region's Grid Layout as:
Start New Grid: No
Start New Row: Yes
Column: 1
Column Span: 4

The 2nd region would be:
Start New Grid: No
Start New Row: No
Column: 5
Column Span: 4

The 3rd region would be:
Start New Grid: No
Start New Row: No
Column: 9
Column Span: 4

You would set each table's parent region with each of the separate regions you just created.

What this does is that it creates a holding area that are aligned next to each other.If you have more tables you would need to set them the column spans and columns differently.

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We rejoice with your Your Holiness and all the Bishops, clergy, monastics, and faithful of the Russian Orthodox Church at home and abroad, in this year of the centenary celebrations of the Great Moscow Council and the Restoration of the Patriarchate, and we bring with us the blessings of the Most Holy and Life-giving Tomb of our Lord Jesus Chris and the prayers of the Christian community of the Holy Land.
There is a great cause for celebration of these two providential events. The All-Russia Council was the fruit of many years of preparation, and sought to restore to the Church of Russia its true nature of sobornost. In so doing, this Great Council has proved to be a fundamental sign of the conciliar nature of the Orthodox Church. Many eminent Russian theologians, bishops, priests, and laypeople contributed to the preparation and conduct of the Council itself and to its four volumes of definitions that touched on every aspect of the life of the Church.
The Council and its work were all the more remarkable in the face of the complex political climate that had existed in the country since 1905, and which intensified after the October revolution in 1917. However, in spite of huge difficulties, the Council met in three sessions from 1917 to 1918, and at one of its first sessions, having decided to restore the Patriarchate, on 5 November 1917, Stain Tikhon was elected the first Patriarch of Moscow since Tsar Peter the Great abolished the office after the death of Patriarch Adrian in 1700.
The Russian Orthodox Church at home and abroad was able to face the next 70 years with the strength that the work of the Council and the re-establishment of the Patriarchate provided. If the work of the Council itself was never finished because of circumstances beyond the Church's control, yet in the recovery of a deeper sense of sobornost, the Council showed the way for the Orthodox world to renew the conciliar nature of Orthodoxy. This was one of the Council's great gifts to the Orthodox world.
A century after the opening of this historic Local Council and the election of Saint Tikhon as Patriarch of Moscow, the Church of Russia is experiencing a new birth of freedom. While the scars of the wounds that the conflicts of the 20th century inflicted on humanity have yet to heal completely, these first years of the 21st century have opened new paths for the Russian Orthodox Church, not least in the healing of the schism with the Russian Orthodox Church outside Russia. This year too we have celebrated in Jerusalem the 170th anniversary of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission, which throughout its history has been a great support to pilgrims from Russia.
And yet a century after the Local Council and the Restoration of the Patriarchate still sees the Church under terrible pressure in many parts of the world, not least in the Holy Land and the Middle East. As a Church that has known your share of sufferings, you have also been supportive of the Church in the Holy Land as we have been facing our particular difficulties, and we wish to express our gratitude to you, Your Holiness, for the recent statement in support of the Christian presence in the Middle East that you issued with His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury during his recent visit here.
We, in the Holy Land, are facing a number of specific threats.
For some time now there has been a rise in so-called "Price Tag Hate Crimes", which are primarily directed against religious communities and holy sites, including cemeteries. While the government has condemned such acts, there is yet to be an effective enforcement of laws against such crimes, which are carried out by radical extremists. Such crimes result in a de-stabilizing of our society, which has known peaceful and respectful co-existence for generations.
We are also facing an assault on the traditional freedoms of the Church that are enshrined in the "Status Quo", the set of customs and rules acknowledged by the international community and which guarantee the rights and responsibilities of the Churches. Recently in the Knesset there has been a draft bill circulating among members that, if passed, would severely intrude on the rights of the Churches over their prerogatives to deal freely with their properties. While it is not clear if this bill would pass, it is deeply disturbing that it should be circulating at all, and that it has been backed by one third of the members of the Knesset, for it represents a disturbing development on the part of some, with respect to an understanding of the multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, and multi-religious landscape of Jerusalem and the Holy Land.
And perhaps, most significantly, we are facing a threat to the Christian Quarter and the Christian presence in the Old City of Jerusalem in the so-called "Jaffa Gate" case, in which the District Court wrongfully found in favour of a radical settler group whose stated intent is to make Jerusalem an exclusive city, rather than the inclusive community that it has been for centuries. We believe that this decision was reached on the basis of a poor examination both of the evidence and of the law, and we are appealing this judgement to the high court and we are taking our case to the international community.
We are grateful to Almighty God that the Heads of the Churches and Christian communities of the Holy Land are united in our resolve to resist these threats to our life and our very existence, and this solidarity is a great witness and source of our strength. We are encouraged by the strong support that we have been receiving from Churches and governments around the world, and we are continuing to press our case so that we may maintain the true integrity of the Holy City of Jerusalem and the Holy Land.
As we give thanks to you, Your Holiness, in this great anniversary year for the Russian Orthodox Church, we re-commit ourselves to the long-standing and strong bonds of unity and affection that unite the Church of Russia with the Church of Jerusalem, the Mother of all the Churches. We pray that the strength that the Local Council of 1917-1918 and the restoration of the Patriarchate gave to the Russian Church may deepen, and that our unity in the holy Orthodox faith and in the Eucharistic feast may also be a support to the Christian community of Jerusalem and the Holy Land.
May God grant you, Vladyka, many years, and may God bless the peoples of your beloved Russia and our beloved Holy Land.
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import csv

from django import forms
from django.core.exceptions import PermissionDenied
from django.db import transaction
from django.http import (
    HttpResponse, HttpResponseForbidden, HttpResponseRedirect)
from django.shortcuts import get_object_or_404
from django.urls import reverse
from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
from wagtail.contrib.modeladmin.options import ModelAdmin, modeladmin_register
from wagtail.contrib.modeladmin.views import DeleteView, IndexView
from wagtail.core.models import Page

from wagtail_personalisation.models import Segment
from wagtail_personalisation.utils import can_delete_pages

class SegmentModelIndexView(IndexView):
    """Placeholder for additional list functionality."""
    pass

class SegmentModelDashboardView(IndexView):
    """Additional dashboard functionality."""
    def media(self):
        return forms.Media(
            css={'all': ['css/dashboard.css']},
            js=['js/commons.js', 'js/dashboard.js']
        )

    def get_template_names(self):
        return [
            'modeladmin/wagtail_personalisation/segment/dashboard.html',
            'modeladmin/index.html'
        ]

class SegmentModelDeleteView(DeleteView):
    def get_affected_page_objects(self):
        return Page.objects.filter(pk__in=(
            self.instance.get_used_pages().values_list('variant_id', flat=True)
        ))

    def get_template_names(self):
        return [
            'modeladmin/wagtail_personalisation/segment/delete.html',
            'modeladmin/delete.html',
        ]

    def delete_instance(self):
        page_variants = self.get_affected_page_objects()
        if not can_delete_pages(page_variants, self.request.user):
            raise PermissionDenied(
                'User has no permission to delete variant page objects.'
            )
        # Deleting page objects triggers deletion of the personalisation
        # metadata too because of models.CASCADE.
        with transaction.atomic():
            for variant in page_variants.iterator():
                # Delete each one separately so signals are called.
                variant.delete()
            super().delete_instance()

    def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        if not can_delete_pages(self.get_affected_page_objects(),
                                self.request.user):
            context = self.get_context_data(
                cannot_delete_page_variants_error=True,
            )
            return self.render_to_response(context)
        return super().post(request, *args, **kwargs)

@modeladmin_register
class SegmentModelAdmin(ModelAdmin):
    """The model admin for the Segments administration interface."""
    model = Segment
    index_view_class = SegmentModelIndexView
    dashboard_view_class = SegmentModelDashboardView
    delete_view_class = SegmentModelDeleteView
    menu_icon = 'fa-snowflake-o'
    add_to_settings_menu = False
    list_display = ('name', 'persistent', 'match_any', 'status',
                    'page_count', 'variant_count', 'statistics')
    index_view_extra_js = ['js/commons.js', 'js/index.js']
    index_view_extra_css = ['css/index.css']
    form_view_extra_js = ['js/commons.js', 'js/form.js',
                          'js/segment_form_control.js',
                          'wagtailadmin/js/page-chooser-modal.js',
                          'wagtailadmin/js/page-chooser.js']
    form_view_extra_css = ['css/form.css']

    def index_view(self, request):
        kwargs = {'model_admin': self}
        view_class = self.dashboard_view_class

        request.session.setdefault('segment_view', 'dashboard')
        if request.session['segment_view'] != 'dashboard':
            view_class = self.index_view_class

        return view_class.as_view(**kwargs)(request)

    def page_count(self, obj):
        return len(obj.get_used_pages())

    def variant_count(self, obj):
        return len(obj.get_created_variants())

    def statistics(self, obj):
        return _("{visits} visits in {days} days").format(
            visits=obj.visit_count, days=obj.get_active_days())

def toggle_segment_view(request):
    """Toggle between the list view and dashboard view.

    :param request: The http request
    :type request: django.http.HttpRequest
    :returns: A redirect to the original page
    :rtype: django.http.HttpResponseRedirect

    """
    if request.user.has_perm('wagtailadmin.access_admin'):
        if request.session['segment_view'] == 'dashboard':
            request.session['segment_view'] = 'list'

        elif request.session['segment_view'] != 'dashboard':
            request.session['segment_view'] = 'dashboard'

        return HttpResponseRedirect(request.META.get('HTTP_REFERER', '/'))

    return HttpResponseForbidden()

def toggle(request, segment_id):
    """Toggle the status of the selected segment.

    :param request: The http request
    :type request: django.http.HttpRequest
    :param segment_id: The primary key of the segment
    :type segment_id: int
    :returns: A redirect to the original page
    :rtype: django.http.HttpResponseRedirect

    """
    if request.user.has_perm('wagtailadmin.access_admin'):
        segment = get_object_or_404(Segment, pk=segment_id)

        segment.toggle()

        return HttpResponseRedirect(request.META.get('HTTP_REFERER', '/'))

    return HttpResponseForbidden()

def copy_page_view(request, page_id, segment_id):
    """Copy page with selected segment. If the page for the selected segment
    already exists the user will be redirected to that particular page.

    :param request: The http request
    :type request: django.http.HttpRequest
    :param page_id: The primary key of the page
    :type segment_id: int
    :param segment_id: The primary key of the segment
    :type segment_id: int
    :returns: A redirect to the new page
    :rtype: django.http.HttpResponseRedirect

    """
    if request.user.has_perm('wagtailadmin.access_admin'):
        segment = get_object_or_404(Segment, pk=segment_id)
        page = get_object_or_404(Page, pk=page_id).specific

        metadata = page.personalisation_metadata
        variant_metadata = metadata.metadata_for_segments([segment])
        if variant_metadata.exists():
            variant = variant_metadata.first()
        else:
            variant = metadata.copy_for_segment(segment)
        edit_url = reverse('wagtailadmin_pages:edit', args=[variant.id])

        return HttpResponseRedirect(edit_url)

    return HttpResponseForbidden()

# CSV download views
def segment_user_data(request, segment_id):
    if request.user.has_perm('wagtailadmin.access_admin'):
        segment = get_object_or_404(Segment, pk=segment_id)

        response = HttpResponse(content_type='text/csv; charset=utf-8')
        response['Content-Disposition'] = \
            'attachment;filename=segment-%s-users.csv' % str(segment_id)

        headers = ['Username']
        for rule in segment.get_rules():
            if rule.static:
                headers.append(rule.get_column_header())

        writer = csv.writer(response)
        writer.writerow(headers)

        for user in segment.static_users.all():
            row = [user.username]
            for rule in segment.get_rules():
                if rule.static:
                    row.append(rule.get_user_info_string(user))
            writer.writerow(row)

        return response

    return HttpResponseForbidden()

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