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Talk:Cincinnati riots of 2001

Completely Biased
"Of the cited fifteen black men killed by police action since 1995, three (including Thomas) had not even used deadly weapons against police (only ten were firearms, the rest had tried to run the police officers over using motor vehicles), and only four police officers were killed or wounded in the course of the related arrest attempts. [4] Despite all the situations which led to the deaths of the young black males, no police were ever found guilty through any civil or criminal trials; in only one case were the police officers involved reprimanded and given extra training (Death of Michael Carpenter by Officers Michael Miller, III and Brent McCurley)."

I especially loved how "only ten" of the 15 used firearms and how the others "only" tried to use vehicles to "run the police over"

Bias really needs to be corrected

How is this biased? It's factual. Just because it makes the CPD look bad doesn't mean it's not true. Where is the bias? --Duemellon 14:45, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

 * I don't see how it is a neutral point of view to say "only" in those sentences. And the paragraph suggests with its tone that police officers shouldn't use deadly force unless the suspect already kills or wounds a police officer. Peoplesunionpro 05:41, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

 * I will agree the "only four" part can be reduced to "four". The phrase: "had not even used deadly weapons" could be changed to "did not have deadly weapons and ten were armed with firearms". However, it is safe to say the police are not to employ deadly force unless there is a perceived risk of harm to themselves or others. --Duemellon 20:40, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

I don't know about you, but having a firearm pulled out or a car trying to run you over is not perceived, it is reality.76.177.39.156 (talk) 01:08, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

This article is absolutely biased. Not what it says about why the riots happened, that's fine, but it says practically nothing about the details of the rioters crimes. Many business' windows were smashed, car windows were smashed of people sitting in their cars, and innocent people assaulted who had absolutely nothing to do with Timothy Thomas. Where is that at? THAT is the bias of this article. In fact I'd say it completely downplays the actions of the rioters, and points lots of fingers at police. This article sounds like it was written BY A RIOTER. There are other things too. It says rioters set "small fires"? Define "small." And a "small crowd" formed? How "small?" How about stating an approximate number of people instead? For such a controversial subject this article seriously lacks good, verifiable, inline references; which are needed on practically every statement. If a statement isn't verifiable it will be challenged and removed. I will be doing research and cleaning up this article in the future because it SERIOUSLY, SERIOUSLY needs it. J.H (talk) 21:02, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

dude, I was there, it didn't start this way. It started with a peaceful demonstration downtown (not in OTR) it erupted into a riot when the police shot a little black girl and several others with beanbag guns in the back (caught on video, shown on news, she was on her way home from school, but could cross the street because the cops in riot gear wouldn't let her the news said). They were also going around macing people and arresting people for being black. Then the news showed some of these things on tv and it was on! And yes rioter broke windows, stole stuff and started fires. It's a riot, this is what happens in a riot. You don't like riots, don't go around letting the cops murder people left ad right! Obviously, someone from CPD has been messing with this article, again. 72.91.70.49 (talk) 00:56, 30 July 2009 (UTC) -- whoops forgot to sign in (Texxs)

The Owensby Trial
Sorry, I didnt' have the time to really flesh it out. It was not going to remain a simple copy of the information here. There is much more information to detail it with & will be included. I am removing the redirect as it is it's own separate issue and article. --Duemellon 13:02, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Fordmadoxfraud, Owensby's death was decided by court to have been caused by improper police procedures. Whether it was the initial choke hold or improperly caring for an injured person, they did not follow the procedures in place at the time which would have prevented him from dying (or at least prevented him from not having medical attention for the length of time he did). I do believe, with the judge's and later court proceeding's decisions, we can say they were the cause & not as just a possible POV. I am open to discuss any wording you feel would keep this fact in mind --Duemellon 12:16, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Roach shoots Thomas
Removed the statement that Thomas reportedly had a brick. From the multitudinous reports I've seen I have never heard any mention of him possibly being armed having been stated before or during the chase. Even after he was shot there was no initial reports of him being armed. It was later, after Roach was interviewed by investigations that the suspicion of Thomas being armed came up. If you have information otherwise, please share. --Duemellon 04:20, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

What lawsuit ?
In the second paragraph of the section Background of tensions, the word lawsuit pops up twice, but it's not clear what this refers to. Does anybody know ?Unmitigated Success 14:02, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

The lawsuit was in reference to the lawsuit mentioned in the next point. Added a link to the "lawsuit" word to point to it for clarification. --Duemellon 01:46, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

No citations
There are no citations for this article. External links do not count towards this, as they must be introduced per WP:CITE using tags. There are places where the tone is also not as approperiate as I would have hoped, with a slant against the police officers - i.e. unbalanced. Let's try and correct these issues and get this article up to par.  Seicer  (talk) (contribs) 20:59, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

 * I would like for you to be specific on which pieces of this have an inappropriate tone. Whereas I appreciate your interest, I do request specificity in your feedback or even a rewrite to assist. However, I do want to point out that the information present in the sources provided factually point to the CPD acting improperly with dubious intent and perhaps the bias you think you see are really just the facts as they really are? --Duemellon 01:54, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

 * I have no bias in this as I am from out of the area (Lexington) but do not bother reading up on the news for your region. I kept out of the loop for the riots and the aftermath so I am pretty much as unbiased as I am. For inapproperiate tone, there are some areas that seem to be more conversational than anything and I will try tommorrow at work, to go through and rewrite some parts (keeping existing material in place).  Seicer  (talk) (contribs) 03:09, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

if you don't feel comfortable rewriting them, at least point out which ones. Thanks --Duemellon 10:19, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Due to no response or specificity, the NPOV tag will be removed. If the person with the complaint cannot find specific items or suggestions, it can be assumed it is because they find no factual flaws, bending, or bias to point out & in this case it may just mean that, after review, even though the information may put a certain entity in a bad light, the information is factual & not skewed. --Duemellon 15:24, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Problems with links
This article is so bad in the linkage. Items in the links for instance say 'Cincinnati Post' which links to the article about that newpaper, NOTHING about the topic. I will [in time] try to fix much of this, but it is a morass of bad linkage. --Dumarest 00:05, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I would also cull links that fail WP:EL or are just "spam-links." I removed a few a while ago but much more needs to be done. In essence, there should be no need for external link categories.  Seicer  (talk) (contribs) 00:13, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Monstertrucker edits
1) I removed the statements about cops being killed or not during the confrontations. The explanation the Blacks had died "during apprehension, chase, confrontation or while in custody in cruisers" which covers that. Adding that information isn't necessary & was inserted clumsily.

2) Removed the statement that whites were pulled from cars, hit with bats, & screams of "get whitey filled the air" as being non-essential & sensationalistic. The statement: "There was violence against White and non-Black citizens who were in the area"

3)There was a removal (previous to Monstertrucker's changes) of the statement after the citation that national trends show Blacks resist arrest more often then whites as that information is borderline surperflous. The point wasn't how little or often whites do or don't resist, it's that, despite how many whites resited none of them died! Currently considering removing that factoid as well. --Duemellon 23:39, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

 * 1) Why was the link explaining the background of the 15 blacks that were killed removed? Why should readers of this article not know some of the very extreme incidents that happened during these confrontations?  If the link is to be removed, put one of those footnotes in that directs the reader to the article in the reference section.  The statement that they died "during apprehension, chase, confrontation or while in custody in cruisers" minimizes some of these crimes.  Let the people decide whether they think the right action was taken in these incidents.
 * 2) The fact that whites were pulled from their cars and beaten is no more sensationalistic than any of the other facts in this article. People should be made aware that whites were specifically targeted for violence by the rioters.  Whether you like it or not, it is factually accurate.  Also, in regards to your third statement, maybe the whites that resisted arrest did not do so in the ways that some of these 15 dead criminals did.  Not everyone who resists arrest shoots at officers of lunges at them with a knife.  I don't know the circumstances of every white person's resitance to arrest, but there are degrees of resistance.  I bet that if a white man shot at police he would be killed too.  In fact I think I saw it once on Cops.
 * 3) People should be made aware that Jeffery Irons was killed after grabbing an sergeant's gun and shooting another officer. Leaving it at "struggling with police" downplays the life threatening situation that the officers were in.--Monstertrucker 29 October 2006

 * Sorry edit summary was incorrect per revert. It was due to my error in oversight.  Seicer  (talk) (contribs) 03:03, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Sorry if my posting is creating problems, I am new to contributing to Wikipedia.--Monstertrucker 29 October 2006

 * No prob :) I sent you a welcome note to your talk page; drop me a line if you have any questions!  Seicer  (talk) (contribs) 03:34, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

If you would like to balance the information that's one thing, but the way it was inserted was uncomfortable & some of the language used was sensational. If you feel there are parts of this which are sensationalized please point them out or change them to be less sensational.
 * 1) The details to how & why the Black males were killed by the cops isn't all that relevent. The current tone used is not putting the blame on the cops or the but does explain the reaction of the riotors & the tension in the city between Black & White races. It is clear the rioters did blame them.
 * 2) There were non-Whites that were also pulled from their car. The statement they made yells of "Get Whitey" & other information is sensationalistic. The information about the attack was included, reduced in tone, & the indictment info was balanced with the resulting info about no conviction
 * 3) What is the importance about how Jeffrey Irons died? Owensby has an entire article dedicated to how he died because the information is relevent but doesn't need to be here. When considering the background of the tension Irons' death was a sidenote in comparison to the effect the Owensby incident had on the riots. --Duemellon 00:32, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

I believe that the article as it stands now is more balanced than it had been. What I was struck by when I read it was a lack of background regarding the circumstances of the shootings and lack of info on what took place during the actual riots. There was a lot of info on the trials of the officers and the boycott which is very useful and if you notice I did not change anything about those. All facets of this story are important and deserve to be covered.
 * 1) I think that readers will find the circumstances of the police shootings relevant and will be able to form their own opinions on the actions taken by the police. When one says resisting arrest, people might be shocked that the suspect was killed.  But when it is reported that they were shooting at officers, they may see the police actions as justified.  I do not object to your wording, but I feel that readers should have access to more information if they wish, so I added a reference note to a story in the Enquirer about the 15 shooting victims which I feel does not pass judgement but merely reports the facts.
 * 2) I want to thank you for completing the information on the indictment with the fact that no on was convicted. I was unable to find a source for that, but I thought that readers should know that there were felony indictments, and the reference also summarizes some of the violence. This was a good resolution to this point.
 * 3) I do not necessarily believe that the Irons info is important at all. I would rather not mention the incident.  But if it is to be mentioned, it should not be that he was merely resisting arrest.  This may leave readers again wondering about the circumstances and I feel that the fact that he shot an officer places this outside of the description resisting arrest.
 * 4)Again, my problems with this article did not concern the facts that were presented, but the facts that were missing. People from outside of our area are probably not aware of the background incidents and the events during the riot itself.  As they will rely on this article to give them the total picture and probably not go hunting around the internet for 5 year old articles, I think that they should get all of the information in this article.  As there is a background section, it should include all the background information, the same should apply to the sections on the riots and the aftermath.  I believe that now the goal of a comprehensive information source on the riots has been achieved.Monstertrucker 01:49, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

From my view, it's not about whether or not the riots are justified, but these are the reasons why those people rioted & the reasons for the tension. --Duemellon 12:46, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

I agree with you that it is very important to know the reasons why they rioted and the reasons for tensions in this city. I also believe it is important to know why the police acted as they did, right or wrong, and what happened during the riots. This presents the complete story and both sides are shown, correctly, to have behaved badly. Whether intended or not, people are going to pass judgement as they read, so they should have the benefit of all the information. I don't feel that adding factual, related information to any story is a negative thing as it only enhances the reader's understanding of the events described. Monstertrucker 15:55, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

 * I felt that this article was not very clear or NPOV maybe, and am in the process of esentially rewriting it. When done, I will give a link for discussion. Also, references should be fixed, not the list of outside links being the main thing.--Dumarest 13:44, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

I'm confused about how it's important to include why the police had people die in their custody &/r confrontation? Is it to show they acted nobly or according to their policies? It was cited later there were no convictions for the police, which would mean they followed the procedures or were never cited as NOT following. I'm wondering why something that is clear when reading must be restated that way. --Duemellon 15:03, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

 * 1)I'm confused about why you are continuing to complain about the addition of factual information to this article. Why should readers only be informed about how the police acted, but be left guessing as to how the criminals acted?  The last sentence under background says "despite all the situations which led to the deaths of the young black males, no police were ever found guilty through any civil or criminal trials".  Not only are those situations never described, but this sentence also makes it sound like you think they should have been because of the use of the word despite.  Let the reader decide whether they think that the decisions were right or wrong based on the facts.  What could possibly be wrong with that?
 * 2)Remember, Cincinnati had three officers killed by blacks in the 4 years leading up to the riots. Where is the information on them in this article?  Readers should also know more about the violent actions of the rioters which only get about 3 sentences in this entire article that is supposed to be about the riots.  I'm wondering why an article about riots only devotes about 1/10 of its space to the actual riots.--Monstertrucker 18:33, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

 * Hear hear. That is why I am looking at a full redo, this article is on the riots, not a catch all for police/citizens differences. --Dumarest 19:10, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

1) The detail to what the police did in the deaths of the Black males is about equal to what the cops did, in exception of Owensby & Thomas. It didn't say how the people died in custody. It didn't say which ones were criminals, which ones were shot, or hit, or left to die, etc. It only said they died while in the polices' custody. It's pretty darn bland if you ask me. If you really really want to detail each incident they should be spawned off as subarticles somewhere else. In no way has this article said the police killed them unlawfully, unjustly, or mercilessly. The fact is, they died in police custody, during pursuit, &/r confrontations. No blame, no other details.

2) There's only detail on Owensby & Thomas, Caton & Jorg, & Roach, in this article. The balance you're seeking is an imbalance because that's all being talked about. Owensby's trial coincided with Thomas' death, which was the fuel for the fire.

3) Details about the riots are sketchy. The only information I have is from personal knowledge & such. The buildup, the results, & legacy, are things that are sourced. If you have some sources about actions in the riots, please do so from a credible source. The riots are much more than those 2 nights & to treat them as just those 2 nights would be terribly discourteous. --Duemellon 20:08, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

 * All I seek is a full reporting of the facts that led to the tensions in this city and which eventually spawned the riots. As you said yourself, the riots are much more than just those 2 nights.  Because the 15 deaths were used as justification by the rioters, details of those deaths deserve examination.  Perhaps the imbalance that you think I am seeking is really just a reporting of the facts as they actually occurred.  I'd be happy to provide details on the riots themselves from sources like CNN and the Enquirer if they will not be painted as being sensationalistic and unfair to the rioters.--Monstertrucker 22:15, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

 * There are also a good amount of pictures that the Enquirer took during the riots of the rioters, the police and the damage. If I can figure out how to do it I think it would be good to add some of these too so people can visualize what happened.--Monstertrucker 22:31, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Detailing the 15 deaths is not necessary and only will provide a distraction to the point of this article. Currently their deaths are being handled appropriately. There is no blame, no trials, no fingerpointing. The information is very bland & matter-of-factly. It says, as the fact is, they died while in custody, pursuit, and/or confrontation, with the police. No explanation for fault, or sensationalization of the circumstances. If you want to detail them I strongly suggest you make a spinoff article for them instead. The information you seek to add as background is getting too detailed to be practical as we could then start talking about the entire history of race riots in Cincy, economic demographics, when our 1st Black politicians were, individual murders, the Sentinels, etc etc.

As for getting pics from the Enquirer, that won't happen. It's copyrighted material. If you want to provide links, go ahead, but you can't include them here. --Duemellon 11:25, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Full rewrite
I have watched this page for some time, and a few months ago wanted to do a full rewrite. Now that is has been at leas partially divided and some of the 'stuff' is in other pages, I would like to do that full rewrite again, but it will mean greatly modifying this page and others, and I do not know how I can do that in a way that my rewrite of more than one page can be done and evaluated by 'the world' [i.e. you commentators] before it is placed in place of the current pages. Help!! How can I do this.--Dumarest 20:58, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

What I know is you simply drop it in. Start a discussion & see what happens. Keep it factual because there will be people who disagree. Now, if you run into a dispute as to which facts to display (if both are valid, or are competiting) then include them both in the article in a relevent & smooth way. This does not include apologetic or irrelevent details. --Duemellon 23:04, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

 * I have considered in the past a 'temp' page or pages, for discussion, and eventually moving to the real thing if discussion approves. --Dumarest 14:25, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Neutrality DIspute
Removed tag. If you believe it's POV please provide specific examples. A general complaint is not actionable. --Duemellon 11:41, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Howdy from the External Links Wikiproject
Hello all, I wandered over here following the tag. I've never even heard of this incident before, so I claim to be fairly neutral. Anyhow, I'm going to start to go through and fix up the main problem from my end, which is that articles that should be inline citations affixed to facts are instead listed in a rather formidable external links section. While I do that, I'll try to remove non-neutral language and fix up grammar and all that. Thank you to whoever put those links into categories, that will make this task much much easier. Just wanted to say hello to the editors who have obviously put a lot of time into this article and let y'all know what I'm doing. --Gimme danger 16:41, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Civil trial v. Roach & Cincinnati
*Statement From Alicia Reece – WCPO-TV
 * City settles 16 police suits for $4.5 million – Cincinnati Enquirer
 * Leisure sues Reeces over offer – Cincinnati Enquirer
 * Leisure sues Reeces over offer – Cincinnati Enquirer
 * May 8: Leisure Tapes – WCPO-TV (Deadlinks, not available on the internet archive DigitalC (talk) 19:31, 6 December 2009 (UTC))

Strange Article, was there even a riot?
I am trying to research the riots where people were destroying their community while attacking people of different races. Instead there is 8 sentences about the riot, and 8 pages about police officers killing armed gangsters in the line of duty. Can we make 2 pages, one that has the police officer trials, and one about the riot?

 * Armed gangsters? You can't be serious. The riots were a direct reaction to three deaths, and the third that hardly gets mentioned is because the community had no problem with it actually. Owensby and Thomas were not "gangsters". Owensby was a veteran who was mistaken for another man and died in the process of arrest and Thomas was guilty of nothing more than traffic tickets. Honestly, your tone is absolutely racist - so please don't make edits if that's how you see things. I surely hoped you are blocked from making changes to this article. JoeHenzi (talk) 02:23, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

Deaths
Much bs info in the "article" but it the question remains open: How many died in the riots? --188.23.73.236 (talk) 15:31, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

New Links to Look At / Malkin's Link
First, I removed the link to the Michelle Malkin article. I would also like to remove or have removed the link to the "Ascendancy" article. Both are opinion pieces and both are written by people far removed from the events of the riots, what caused them, etc. You really can't find more biased articles. I can only suggest that people try searching for information at Cincinnati.com or by looking at the Cincinnati station's archives at sites for WCPO, WKRC, WXIX, or WCET. As for the events leading up to the Timothy Thomas shooting, which were certainly more influential than Owensby I would suggest looking at the following link (it actually has statistics, quotes from police);

 * http://www.citybeat.com/cincinnati/article-6644-news-ticket-to-die.html

CityBeat is also a good resource if you can find articles prior to and during April 2001.

I would hope that we could get some editors on this outside of Cincinnati and those who are not racially motivated - because that seems to be where all the bias comes. I, personally, won't edit this article other than removing blatant things like the link to Malkin's opinion piece because while I want to have a NPOV stance my blood pressure would skyrocket once I get into the surrounding arguments. I'm just trying to be honest. The issue has been politicized enough and after 10 years we should stop with it and just report the facts or remove the article. JoeHenzi (talk) 02:46, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

Criminal Record of Thomas - Totally made up.
Thomas was 19 when he died and there is a slight chance that some of the information in the portion below, that I removed, could be from when he was a minor - but that is sealed so I would only wonder who made those edits and how they got that information. I can't find a reference for any of this and in fact, the reference provided hardly mentions his traffic violations. It's a discussion/interview piece. Honestly - this is the worst cited article on Wikipedia in my opinion. I've seen hoax articles that have better and believable sources. I said I wouldn't edit, but this is factually wrong;
 * Thomas had 59 misdemeanor charges, which led to 14 open warrants for his arrest. Most of the charges were non-violent, but did include 2 counts of minor assault. The charges included parking tickets, not wearing a seatbelt, loitering, as well as running from police. | NOTE, the reference article mentions none of this, and no where in the news does it appear that Thomas has a criminal record outside of his traffic violations.

Neither in 2001 or today was there anything in the news about these charges of "minor assault" and all were non-violent, not "most". He was certainly guilty of repeated traffic offenses, but until someone can link his rap sheet, I can't see how this should be included as it's unproven. JoeHenzi (talk) 03:10, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

Dead link
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Andre Nolan Dawson (born July 10, 1954), nicknamed "the Hawk" and "Awesome Dawson",  is an American former professional baseball outfielder who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played for four different teams as a center and right fielder, spending most of his career with the Montreal Expos and Chicago Cubs.

An 8-time National League (NL) All-Star, he was named the league's Rookie of the Year in 1977 after batting .282 with 19 home runs and 65 runs batted in (RBI), and won the Most Valuable Player Award in 1987 after leading the league with 49 homers and 137 RBI; he had been runner-up for the award in both 1981 and 1983. He batted .300 five times, drove in 100 runs four times and had 13 seasons of 20 home runs. A strong base-runner early in his career, he also stole 30 bases three times. He is one of eight MLB players with at least 300 home runs and 300 stolen bases during his career.

Dawson was a center fielder until knee problems – worsened by the artificial surface at Olympic Stadium – forced his shift to right field, followed by his move to a team which played on grass. He led the NL in outfield putouts three consecutive years (1981–1983), and won eight Gold Glove Awards for fielding excellence. Dawson was known for his incredible work ethic and study of the game. He was often seen in the dugout with a clipboard in-hand documenting pitches and pitcher tendencies. This was long before such practices were common-place and such information was readily available. Upon his retirement, his NL totals of 409 home runs and 962 extra base hits both ranked tenth in league history; he also ranked seventh in NL history in games as an outfielder (2,303), and sixth in both outfield putouts (5,116) and total chances (5,366). He set Expos franchise records for career games, at bats, runs scored, hits, doubles, triples, home runs, runs batted in, extra base hits, total bases, and steals, all of which have since been broken variously by Tim Raines, Tim Wallach and Vladimir Guerrero. Dawson was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on July 25, 2010.

Early life
Dawson grew up in Florida as the oldest of eight children. His father was a major general in the United States Army and often absent, leaving Dawson to look after his seven younger siblings while his mother worked. Dawson would pay his younger brothers in cookies to toss him rocks for him to hit with a broomstick as batting practice.

Dawson's nickname, "The Hawk", was given to him by an uncle at a very early age. Dawson used to work out with a men's team that would hit him ground balls at practice. Dawson's uncle told him that most kids his age would shy away from the ball, but Dawson attacked the ball like a hawk.

Dawson attended and graduated from Southwest Miami Senior High School in 1972. In high school, he suffered multiple knee injuries which hampered his athletic development. He did not draw any attention from professional scouts or college recruiters and took out student loans in order to enroll at Florida A&M University.

At Florida A&M, Dawson walked on to the Rattlers baseball team as a freshman. He spent three years at Florida A&M which he later said paved the way for his future.

Montreal Expos
Dawson was selected by the Expos in the 11th round (pick #250) of the 1975 Major League Baseball draft. He played in 24 major league games in 1976 after making his debut on September 11. His stardom rose in 1977 when he became an everyday outfielder for the Expos, and batted .282 with 19 home runs and 21 stolen bases. He was awarded the 1977 Rookie of the Year in the National League, narrowly beating out Steve Henderson of the New York Mets. Dawson had a blend of power and speed, hitting at least 20 home runs in seven seasons with the Expos, and stealing at least 20 bases in his first seven seasons. Dawson, playing primarily center field for the Expos, also became an excellent defensive player, gaining his first of eight Gold Glove Awards in 1980. Based on his all-around excellence, Dawson was second in the National League MVP voting in 1981 (won by Mike Schmidt) and second again in 1983 (won by Dale Murphy). He was voted the Montreal Expos Player of the Year in 1981 and 1983.

Dawson played 1,443 games with the Expos, fourth highest in franchise history, and set single-season club records for home runs (32, now seventh), RBI (113, now fourth), extra base hits (78, now seventh), and sacrifice flies (18, still first). He still holds the Expos career record for sacrifice flies (71), and is the only player to hit 200 home runs and steal 200 bases with Montreal. During his Expos days, Dawson hit two home runs in the same inning twice: at Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium against the Atlanta Braves on July 30, 1978 and at Wrigley Field against his future team, the Chicago Cubs, on September 24, 1985. As of 2021, Dawson, Willie McCovey, Jeff King, Alex Rodriguez, and Edwin Encarnación are the only five players to hit two home runs in one inning twice.

In 1984, Dawson appeared in The Cap, a short film about a young boy living in Montreal who was given a baseball cap by Dawson.

Chicago Cubs
Dawson played for the Expos until after the 1986 season when he became a free agent and sought a team whose home field had natural grass, as his knee injuries were aggravated by Olympic Stadium's artificial turf. However, due to collusion on the part of the Major League Baseball owners, he was unable to attract offers.

Dawson campaigned for the Cubs to sign him during the off-season, however general manager Dallas Green resisted, insisting the Cubs would start Brian Dayett in right field (Dawson had moved from center field to right field in his final two seasons with the Expos, due to the condition of his knees), and that one player could not make a 71–91 team a 91–71 team. When the Cubs opened camp in Mesa, Arizona, that spring, Dawson and his agent Dick Moss arrived with a signed blank contract in an attempt to secure a contract with the Cubs. Dawson and Moss' stunt was derided as a "dog and pony show" by Green. After reviewing the contract, Green reached an agreement with Moss on a salary of $500,000 ($0 in today's dollars), second-lowest on the team among regulars, and added bonuses of $150,000 if he did not go on the disabled list by the All-Star Game break and $50,000 if he made the All-Star team. He earned both. The team also wrote in $100,000 bonuses if Dawson was MVP of either the league championship series or the World Series, but did not add a clause for National League MVP. While he won the NL MVP, the Cubs did not make the playoffs, so he had no chance to earn the NLCS or World Series MVP.

He became the Cubs' starting right fielder, and hit an MLB-leading 49 home runs (equal with Oakland Athletics rookie Mark McGwire), the most a player had hit since George Foster in 1977 and Willie Mays in 1965. He was named the league's MVP, finally winning after the two years as runner-up in Montreal. He also earned his fourth All-Star nod and won the Home Run Derby that year. Although the Cubs held first place for nearly half of May and remained in contention through July, the team finished the 1987 season 76–85, last in the National League East.

Dawson was the first player to win a league MVP trophy from a last place team. Dawson played five more seasons with the Cubs, and was one of the franchise's most popular players during that time. His worst individual season came in 1989 when the Cubs won the National League East title. During the NL Championship Series that year, Dawson batted .105 as the San Francisco Giants beat the Cubs 4 games to 1. Dawson's .507 career slugging percentage with the Cubs is fourth highest in team history.

Later career
In October 1992 the Red Sox signed Dawson as a free agent. Dawson hit his 400th career home run with the Red Sox on April 15 at Fenway Park. Dawson sustained a knee injury early in the 1993 season in a game against the Texas Rangers which limited him to only 121 games in his first year with the Red Sox: "I got caught between sliding and standing up on a passed ball. I was on second base, and I took a chop step between strides and hit the corner of the third-base bag. I had knee surgery and [Boston] decided to use me in the DH role."

Dawson would have knee surgery the following year as well, and only managed to play 75 games in his second and final season with Boston. Dawson played his last two years with the Florida Marlins, where he played sparingly, retiring after the 1996 season. In his final game, Dawson was removed from the field as a final farewell to the fans and the game. The fans gave him a standing ovation as Dawson walked off the field.

Accomplishments
Dawson finished his career with 2,774 hits, 438 home runs, 314 stolen bases, and 1,591 RBI. He is one of only eight players in major league history to record over 300 home runs and 300 stolen bases in his career (300-300 club); the other players to accomplish this are Barry Bonds, Willie Mays, Bobby Bonds, Reggie Sanders, Steve Finley, Alex Rodriguez and Carlos Beltrán. Dawson is also one of only five members of the 400 HR-300 SB club, along with Barry Bonds, Willie Mays, Alex Rodriguez, and Carlos Beltrán.

In 1997, Dawson's #10 was retired by the Montreal Expos in his honor (the number had been previously retired for Rusty Staub). After the franchise moved to Washington, the Montreal Canadiens raised a banner in the Bell Centre to commemorate all of the retired Expos numbers, including Dawson's. In 2010 the Washington Nationals franchise placed Dawson in its "Ring of Honor" at Nationals Park. In 2019, Dawson was inducted into the National College Baseball Hall of Fame.

Hall of Fame
Dawson was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2010, his ninth year of eligibility, rising from an initial vote total of 45.3% in 2002 to 77.9% in 2010. Dawson's Hall of Fame plaque depicts him with a Montreal Expos cap. Dawson objected to the choice of the Expos logo at the time and in 2023 he petitioned for the Hall of Fame to change the logo on his cap to a Chicago Cubs logo.

The major impediments to Dawson's election to the Hall had been his ordinary career .323 on-base percentage (albeit accumulated before OBP was even a statistic, and many multi-time All-Stars and even Hall of Famers had even lower), his statistics being diminished in stature by sluggers who played after him in the steroid era, and never playing in a World Series. Cubs teammate Ryne Sandberg campaigned for Dawson's induction during his speech at his own Hall of Fame induction ceremony in 2005: "No player in baseball history worked harder, suffered more or did it better than Andre Dawson. He's the best I've ever seen. I watched him win an MVP for a last-place team in 1987 [with the Cubs], and it was the most unbelievable thing I've ever seen in baseball. He did it the right way, the natural way, and he did it in the field and on the bases and in every way, and I hope he will stand up here someday."

Dawson was the second player in the Hall of Fame whose plaque depicts him with an Expos logo, after Gary Carter. Although Dawson had played the majority of his 21-year career with Montreal, he publicly expressed his disappointment with the decision, saying it was "a little gut-wrenching" to find out he would not go in as a Chicago Cub. Dawson's reluctance to be enshrined as an Expo stemmed, in part, from the breakdown of his relationship with the team during MLB's collusion scandal of 1986–87, when he claimed the team not only "threw him out" of Montreal, but tried to prevent other teams from signing him as a free agent. While Dawson played only six years with the Cubs, five of his eight All-Star appearances were as a Cub, and his only MVP award came in his first year with the team in 1987. The Hall noted that "Dawson had 1,575 of his 2,774 hits as an Expo, won six of his eight Gold Glove awards in Montreal and led the Expos to their only postseason series win" (incidentally, the win in the 1981 NLDS was the only postseason win on Dawson's career).

Retirement and personal life
Dawson married the former Vanessa Turner and had two children, Darius in August 1989 and Amber in September 1990.

Shortly after retiring as a player, Dawson returned to the Marlins to accept a position in the team's front office, where he got his first World Series ring in 2003. Dawson also owns The Mahogany Grille, a soul food restaurant in Miami Gardens, Florida, and the Paradise Memorial Funeral Home in Richmond Heights, Florida.

He entered the funeral business in 2003, investing in a funeral home his younger brother owned, and became the owner and operator of Paradise Memorial in 2008. In an April 2020 Associated Press story on how he and his business were having to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, he noted, "It’s very sad. Because people mourn and grieve differently, and they’re not getting through that process as they would under normal circumstances. You see a lot of hurt and pain." At the time of the story, his wife of 42 years, Vanessa, was the office manager, while an uncle ran day-to-day operations.

Dawson has regularly attended Chicago Cubs functions since his retirement, and is a fan favorite. Dawson has appeared in a "Discount Double-Check" commercial for State Farm Insurance that features former Cubs pitcher Kerry Wood.

Dawson released his autobiography, If You Love This Game: An MVP's Life in Baseball, in May 2012.

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 * Abuse: Users who use the network for spamming (advertising a particular web site, or sometimes displaying false news alerts, often about terrorism) are frequently k-lined. Other forms of network abuse may also result in this effect.

because Abuse is the same as misbehaviour. This would be a good thing to be reincluded as something like: common reasons for k-lines due to misbehaviour. However spamming, false news reports doesn't sound like a very representative accumulation.

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Vendsyssel

Vendsyssel is the northernmost traditional district of Denmark and of Jutland. Being divided from mainland Jutland by the Limfjord, it is technically a part of the North Jutlandic Island which also comprises the areas Hanherred and Thy. Vendsyssel is part of the North Denmark Region.

Vendsyssel neighbours Hanherred to the southwest and Himmerland to the south, across the Limfjord. Whether the island Læsø is also a part of Vendsyssel, is a matter of definition. The major towns of Vendsyssel are Hjørring, Frederikshavn, Brønderslev, Sæby, Hirtshals, Løkken, Nørresundby and, on its northern tip, Skagen. The dominating city is, however, Aalborg which is mainly situated outside Vendsyssel on the southern shore of the Limfjord with Nørresundby as a secondary, northern centre.

Etymology
Adam of Bremen (ca. 1075) calls Vendsyssel Wendila, Ælnoth (ca. 1100) calls it Wendel, the Icelandic literature Vendill or Vandill. Derived from this is the ethnic name wændlar, Danish vendelboer, which is part of the name of the syssel. In the Danish Census Book (Kong Valdemars Jordebog, ca. 1231) Wændlesysæl, Wendelsysel, Wændil. Presumably originally the name of the Limfjord, then name of the region north of it.

According to historians and linguists, the name Vendsyssel may be derived from the Germanic tribe of the Vandals. Syssel is an ancient form of administrative region. Vendel (Old Danish Wændil) was also the ancient name of the Limfjord itself.

Places of interest

 * Hirtshals lighthouse
 * North Sea Oceanarium
 * Rubjerg Knude lighthouse
 * Vendsyssel Historical Museum

Events
The largest classical music festival in Scandinavia is the Vendsyssel Festival in the summer.

Infrastructure
Vendsyssel is an important gatehead for transport from the European continent to Norway and Western Sweden. The European routes E39 and E45 cross the area as motorways. National route 11 connects Vendsyssel with Hanherred and Thy before crossing the Limfjord to western Jutland on the Oddesund Bridge. Danish national road 40 also passes through Vendsyssel.

Bridges
Vendsyssel is linked to mainland Jutland by bridges and a tunnel:
 * Limfjord Railroad Bridge (in Aalborg, linking Vendsyssel to the rail network)
 * Limfjord Bridge (road, linking Nørresundby to central Aalborg)
 * Limfjord Tunnel (motorway E45, east of Aalborg)
 * A further bridge crossing the Limfjord west of Aalborg (carrying the E39) has been proposed.

Railways

 * Skagen-Frederikshavn-Hjørring-Brønderslev-Aalborg, Nordjyske Jernbaner, single track, hourly Intercity trains. From Aalborg there are connections to Århus and Copenhagen
 * Hjørring-Hirtshals, local railway (and transit to Norway) operated by Nordjyske Jernbaner

Ferries
To Sweden:
 * Frederikshavn-Gothenburg (also for railway freight cars)

To Norway:
 * Hirtshals-Kristiansand (also for railway freight cars)
 * Hirtshals-Larvik
 * Hirtshals-Stavanger
 * Hirtshals-Bergen
 * Hirtshals-Oslo
 * Hirtshals-Langesund
 * Frederikshavn-Oslo

To mainland Jutland:
 * Hals-Egense (crossing the eastern mouth of the Limfjord)

To the island of Læsø:
 * Frederikshavn-Læsø

To the Faroe Islands:
 * Hirtshals-Tórshavn

Airports

 * Aalborg Airport (international)
 * Sindal Airport (currently no scheduled routes)

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Shepperton

Shepperton is a village in the Spelthorne district, in north Surrey, England, around 15 mi south west of central London. The settlement is on the north bank of the River Thames, between the towns of Chertsey and Sunbury-on-Thames. The village is mentioned in a document of 959 AD and in the Domesday Book.

In the 19th century, resident writers and poets included Rider Haggard, Thomas Love Peacock, George Meredith, and Percy Bysshe Shelley, who were attracted by the proximity of the River Thames. The river was painted at Walton Bridge in 1754 by Canaletto and in 1805 by Turner. Shepperton Lock and nearby Sunbury Lock were built in the 1810s, to facilitate river navigation.

Urbanisation began in the latter part of the 19th century, with the construction in 1864 of the Shepperton Branch Line, which was sponsored by William Schaw Lindsay, the owner of Shepperton Manor. Its population rose from 1,810 residents in the early 20th century to a little short of 10,000 in 2011. Lindsay had hoped to extend the railway via Chertsey to connect to the South Western Main Line, however the village station remains a terminus. The rise in population and passing trade led to small businesses lining most of its high street by the end of the 20th century.

Shepperton Film Studios is in the neighbouring village of Littleton, approximately 1 mi to the north. The Swan Sanctuary and two SSSIs, one of which is managed by Surrey Wildlife Trust, are nearby.

Toponymy
The first written record of Shepperton is from a charter of 959, in which it appears as Scepertune. The name is thought to derive from the Old English scēp (sheep), hirde (herdsman) and tūn (enclosure, farm or settlement). The name is generally agreed to mean "shepherd's farm" or "shepherd's settlement".

Early history
The earliest evidence of human activity in the local area is from the middle Neolithic. A henge, taking the form of a penannular ring ditch, was discovered in the late 1980s, close to the River Ash, to the north of Shepperton Green. The structure was around 23 m in diameter and is thought to have been constructed c. 3500 BCE. The main entrance to the henge was aligned with the position of the sun at sunrise on the summer solstice and lumps of red ochre had been placed inside the ditch to mark the position of the most southerly moonrise. The ditch appeared to have been refilled and re-excavated in the late Neolithic. Two burials were discovered at the site - a torso, probably male, and an almost complete skeleton of a female. Radiocarbon dating showed that the woman had lived in the late 3rd millennium BCE and analysis of the isotope composition of her teeth suggested that she had grown up in an area where lead-zinc ore was found, possibly Derbyshire, the Mendips or the North Pennines. A reconstruction of the face of the woman from the skull was created at the University of Manchester in 2004.

Finds from the Iron Age include an inhumation of a woman in her 40s, found on Chertsey Road, and iron swords, discovered at Shepperton Ranges. Pewter plates, from the latter site, are thought to date from the late Roman period. Evidence of late-Iron Age and Saxon settlements was found at Shepperton Green in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Later history
Shepperton is recorded in Domesday Book of 1086 as Scepertone. It had a population of 25 households and was held by Westminster Abbey; (excluding any woodland, marsh and heath) it had eight hides, pasture for seven carucates and one weir (worth 6s 8d per year). In total, the annual amount rendered was £6.

The Church Lane and Church Square area, leading to and next to the river predates by several centuries the High Street as the village nucleus. When the Thames Valley Railway built in 1864 the terminus of Shepperton railway station, 1 mi north, for the 12 initial years a single train and track running to and from Strawberry Hill, the village slowly expanded into its northern fields. Its coming which was largely due to contributions and permission of W. S. Lindsay the owner of Shepperton's manor.

The River Thames was important for transport from the late 13th century and carried barley, wheat, peas and root vegetables to London's markets; later timber, building materials such as bricks, sand and lime, and gunpowder, see the Wey Navigation.

While the village was wholly agricultural until the 19th century, there are originally expensive gravestones of the local minor gentry in the churchyard, two of which are dedicated to their naturalised black servants, Benjamin and Cotto Blake who both died in 1781. These bear the inscription "Davo aptio, Argo fidelior, ipso Sanchone facetior". During this long period since the conquest the wealth of the local rector and his bishop was great: William Grocyn was rector 1504–1513 and was an Oxford classical academic who corresponded regularly with Erasmus and Lewis Atterbury (1707–31) expended much of the large parish revenues on having the large tower rebuilt.

A large net income of rents and tithes of £499 per year was paid to the rectory belonging to S. H. Russell in 1848; this compares to £600 of poor relief, including for supporting its workhouse, paid out in 1829.

A change to secular council-administered rather than church-administered public services followed the establishment of poor law unions and Sanitary Districts and was completed with the founding, in 1889, of the Middlesex County Council and Staines Rural District from 1896. In 1930 on the rural district's abolition, Shepperton became part of the Sunbury-on-Thames Urban District until its dissolution into a reduced and reconfigured county of Surrey in 1965. Three districts of the historic county thus did not become part of Greater London: Staines Urban District also joined Surrey and Potters Bar Urban District joined Hertfordshire. In 1951 the civil parish had a population of 6060. On 1 April 1974 the parish was abolished.

In semi-fiction, George Eliot's Scenes of Clerical Life telling the Sad Fortunes of The Rev. Amos Barton, gives a thinly veiled picture of Chilvers Coton's church and village in the early 19th century in which she uses the name Shepperton. If anything real is to be gleaned for its use, it is perhaps a passing similarity. Shepperton Manor by John Mason Neale was contemporaneously written in 1844 fifteen years after he had spent six years living in the village. Old parts of Shepperton are said to be haunted by the ghost of a headless monk. Battlecrease Hall (formerly home to Walter Hayes, Ford Motor Company executive and a founder of the company's Formula One programme) is alleged by its owners and certain visitors to have poltergeists.
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Church Square in Old Shepperton

Leading to this is a short, since 1989 bypassed, winding lane from the High Street to Church Square, flanked by Shepperton Manor and the cricket ground, with some listed walls. Sir Nikolaus Pevsner described the view looking towards the south-east of the square with its now listed buildings and river opening as "one of the most perfect village pictures that the area has to offer". It offers two pub/restaurants two hotels, the Anchor Hotel and the Warren Lodge Hotel. In this little square there is also the King's Head public house.

The riverside manor, late 18th century, (its predecessor, as with the church here, predates the 12th century), features a room painted and rendered to look like a tent or draped damask. Also Grade II* listed is the c. 1500 timber framed Old Rectory refronted in the early 18th century, and including a reception hall built in 1498. Its front cladding has mathematical tiles.

Listed in the same high category of listed building is the parish church, St Nicholas' – its dedication is as with the ancient riverside churches of Thames Ditton and Chiswick. Also architecturally Grade II* is restored half timbered Winches Cottage on the west side of the lane which is 17th century.

Lower Halliford

The village includes the neighbourhood of Lower Halliford, formerly a near but separate hamlet, which historian Susan Reynolds places at the eastern end of a reduced, river bend-consumed half of the early medieval village, east of the Old Shepperton Conservation Area due to erosion.

This area is typified by a small number of detached classical three-storey 18th century riverside houses high on the riverside road on the outside of the river bend; the bend being flanked by riverside meadows with small boat moorings, low rise chalet-style houses to the south west, the Las Palmas Estate, named after the land once being that of the Spanish Ambassador; further west by the wooded Shepperton Cricket Club and by the village Green, Bishop Duppas Park to the east, formerly Lower Halliford Common and in a small part owned by the Old Manor House (Halliford).

From the 1760s—1860s a ropery was an industry here then from the 1860s—1870s brick clay was extracted.

Halliford Manor, confusingly also called The Old Manor, dates to at least the 13th century and ownership became royal, being held by Elizabeth I and the wives of Charles I and Charles II. The Bishop of Winchester, Brian Duppa (1588–1662) owned the waterside meadows adjoining to the south and was also an important landowner in Croydon's history, see Duppas Hill. Wealthy writers built or expanded homes here in the 19th century, primarily as summer residences, such as Rider Haggard, Thomas Love Peacock, George Meredith and Percy Bysshe Shelley.

The Old Manor became yet another rebuilt Georgian house. The house which features a modillioned eaves cornice and glazing-bar sash windows to the first floor. Halliford School in the centre of this area was the 18th–19th century home of Emma Hamilton, mistress of Admiral Nelson.

The 21st century fully renovated hotel and restaurant (formerly the Ship), Harrison's with river views is here beside the shorter Red Lion public house which in turn has a narrow, secluded south-facing public house picnic area overlooking the relatively narrow, non-tidal river Thames. It is for this reason a bridge and ferry was recorded here from 1274 to 1410.

The tern is applicable also to the mostly riverside homes and public park almost surrounded by the River Thames, south of the road from Kingston to Chertsey including next to Walton Bridge by Walton on Thames. The main park is Bishop Duppas Park and almost surrounds completely the Old Manor.

There is mention of Halliford in 962 and there was a settlement there by 1194. However the division into Upper and Lower Halliford does not appear until the late 13th century. Upper Halliford is a large hamlet in the parish of Sunbury, but Lower Halliford was almost certainly the main settlement of the manor. The creation of Desborough Cut diverted the main navigation of the Thames away from the Lower Halliford and Shepperton loop, rendering flooding far less common.

The poet Thomas Love Peacock lived at Elm Bank House here from 1822 until his death in 1866.

Manygate Lane
The field land and large houses on this estate were bought by Lyon Homes from landowner and developer Edward Scott in the 1950s.

This estate of buildings on this street are in a conservation area for proving a successful modular development in geometric, white-painted modernism from in the 1960s, one of very few private sector estate housing experiments of the 1960s with terraced, white panelled communal landscaped front gardens by Swiss architect Edward Schoolheifer; this American Radburn style was also used by Eric Lyons Span Developments in Ham Common, Richmond, London, Blackheath, London and New Ash Green, Kent.

Localities
The conservation areas of Old Shepperton and Lower Halliford are localities, as is Littleton.

Charlton
51.411°N, -0.444°W Charlton is a suburban hamlet and narrow area to the north, bounded to the west by the Queen Mary Reservoir in Littleton, bounded to the east and south by Thames water treatment works from that reservoir and by the M3 motorway. As a well-developed hamlet, bounded by farms, it also referred to as a village or neighbourhood. Its post town is Shepperton. Its parish is Sunbury-on-Thames. In the south of the neighbourhood, on the Shepperton side of the motorway are a general waste transfer station, further fields and Sunbury Golf Course, which has 18 holes and is bisected by the Shepperton railway line.

Charlton appears in Domesday Book as Cerdentone. It was held by Roger de Rames. Its domesday assets were: 5 hides; 1½ ploughs (with potential for 3½), meadow for 4 ploughs, cattle pasture. It rendered £1 10s 0d. However this manor was in the parish of Sunbury and unlike the three adjoining manors, Shepperton, Halliford and Sunbury did not reach down to the river public meadowlands, used for grazing of animals.

Shepperton Green
51.398°N, -0.459°W Shepperton Green is that part of the village which continues immediately west of the M3 motorway, north-west of the village centre. Across the River Ash, Surrey, which is no more than a stream most of the year, adjoining, to its north is Littleton. Taken together with Littleton, three farms operate on the edges of this conjoined residential area, providing a buffer to the north and west. Shepperton's central SSSI is on the south side of the motorway Sheep Lake Walk and meadows, managed by Surrey Wildlife Trust. To the west are large lakes (one sifted and worked for gravel). This means that Shepperton Green with Littleton is buffered to all sides, except for its eastern side with its road bridge to Shepperton proper, classified as Shepperton Town ward and county council electoral division. This area is currently grouped with Laleham for all local elections.

High Street and economy
Shepperton has a traditional high street, shorter than that at nearby Ashford with two medium-size supermarkets, village hall, library, shops, optician, hairdressers, a wide range of restaurants, several cafés, with the railway terminus at the northern end.

Shepperton railway station saw high ticketed entries and exits for a settlement of its size to 422,000 (6 April 2010 – 5 April 2011), being a terminus with main commercial destinations being in the City of London, Kingston upon Thames. commercial hubs of West London and South London accessed along the route; this is supplemented by secondary school usage, with a substantial state school and private school.

History board
The Village Hall in the High Street has a large depiction of the economic life and of the history of the village. In October 2011, a group of children from St Nicholas C of E Primary School won a competition to create the history board, which was then edited by a graphic designer and officially opened by the mayor with a large ceremony and some press, after Sunbury had held a similar competition. The board itself includes a grassland to represent the pastures and provides local information.

Public services
Four infant/junior/primary schools, a senior comprehensive school and senior private school are in the village.

See List of schools in Surrey

Home Office policing in Shepperton is provided by Surrey Police. Public transport is co-ordinated by Surrey County Council who also provide the statutory emergency fire and rescue service who have a station in Sunbury.''

St Peter's Hospital on the far side of Chertsey is a large NHS hospital administrated by Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Trust. It was opened under its existing name in 1947. The South East Coast Ambulance Service Foundation Trust provides emergency patient transport to and from this facility. Other forms of health care are provided for locally by several small clinics and surgeries.

Waste management is co-ordinated by the local authority via the Surrey Waste Disposal Authority and domestic waste collected by Spelthorne Borough Council. Locally produced inert waste for disposal is sent to landfill in Alfold and Shefford, and a proportion to energy from waste plants in Slough and Kent to lower landfill tax. Plans have been approved to permit gasification in Charlton in the north of the Shepperton post town as part of the county's Eco Park to take up to half of the county's residual waste. Shepperton's distribution network operator for electricity is UK Power Networks; aside from renewables there are no power stations in the area. Thames Water manages Shepperton's drinking and waste water; water supplies being sourced from the London sources including several reservoirs fed by the River Thames locally. There are water treatment works at Ashford, Hampton and sewage treatment works at Isleworth.

Topography
Shepperton has a long boundary with the River Thames in its southernmost salient, which almost surrounds Spelthorne. Old Shepperton is almost surrounded by the extreme southern meander within this. Prehistoric glacial retreat north of this has made the north bank almost flat for a considerable distance and as such, elevation never exceeds 14 m above mean sea level (on the border of Laleham). The river never exceeds 11.5 m, (beside Dumsey Meadow and under Chertsey Bridge). The lowest elevation is 9 m in flood meadows at the confluence of the Ash with the Thames. The Ash is the border with Littleton and Sunbury-on-Thames (mostly, to the northeast, with its technical hamlet, Upper Halliford).

Dumsey Meadow SSSI is the only piece of undeveloped, unfenced water meadow by the river remaining on the River Thames below Caversham, and is home to a variety of rare plants and insects.

The Swan Sanctuary moved to an old gravel extraction site by Fordbridge Road in 2005 from its former base in Egham.

On the opposite bank are in downstream order are Chertsey Bridge and Chertsey Meads, the Hamm Court area of Addlestone, three islands, (the first two of which have multiple properties) (Lock, Hamhaugh and D'Oyly Carte, one large man-made island, (Desborough), and the riverside parts of Walton on Thames, the upstream part of which is also open land, Cowey Sale Park. The towpath is the official route of three passing through the Shepperton reaches (of the Thames Path) as heading upstream from Hampton Court Palace another marked version takes Walton Bridge, the official version takes the Shepperton-Weybridge Ferry and another marked version crosses to the north bank at Chertsey Bridge.

 * Upper Halliford

Upper Halliford has since the early 20th century been in Shepperton post town, and almost contiguous, but with its own station, residential roads, fair and shopping parade, even an Upper Halliford Village sign. Arguably in modern analysis it is a village, with the second highest concentration of development in the post town.

This neighbourhood is smaller than the adjoining village, separated by the M3 motorway and some adjoining meadows and fields. The second of the borough's Green Belt SSSIs, Sheep Walk Meadows, is a key feature of Shepperton Green, bounding it, to its south. A Saxon and medieval burial ground gives its name to the Saxon Junior School who use it for playing fields and has Scheduled status. A farm combined with a significant amount of fishing and gravel lakes form the outskirts and within the clustered settlement an estate of the homes was built as non-serving personally barracks for the British Army.
 * Shepperton Green

Historic figures
The population of Shepperton, according to the census of 1801, was 731. This number increased gradually to 858 forty years later, increasing further to the end of the 19th century. Between 1891 and 1901 its population rose by 511 to 1,810. The population also rose substantially between 1931 and 1951, to 6,060 people. Data for 1801–1951 is available at Britain Through Time. The 2001 and 2011 Censuses give detailed information about the Town ward and Shepperton Green.

Other
The settlement had 9,753 residents, living in 4,301 households. Of those, 83.6% of residents described their health as 'good', for this overall figure, above the regional average. Of these people 47.3% described their health as very good, below the regional average. 20.4% of 16- to 74-year-olds had no work qualifications, below the English average of 22.5%. In 2011 the area had only 114 people who were in the category "never worked/long-term unemployed". Ward map confirming correlation of ward to output areas Office for National Statistics Retrieved 16 December 2013

Housing, area and population
The average level of accommodation in the region composed of detached houses was 28%, the average that was apartments was 22.6%.

The proportion of households in the settlement who owned their home outright compares to the regional average of 35.1%. The proportion who owned their home with a loan compares to the regional average of 32.5%. The remaining % is made up of rented dwellings (plus a negligible % of households living rent-free).

Shepperton Studios
Shepperton Studios is home to a multi-disciplinary film production facility from on-set, through to television and various forms of animation. This also acts as a base for on-location film work for television dramas in the South East and in films, for instance for productions partly shot in the Burnham Beeches woods less than 10 mi away. These adjoin Shepperton Green, in the now negligible village of Littleton. In the 1930s its Littleton manor's core, which covered 60 acres was converted into film production lots. This was reduced to 20 acres in 1973. Works produced or shot wholly or in part on its 15 stages, other lots or in its extensive animation facilities since the new millennium include:
 * Billy Elliot, Chocolat, Gladiator (2000)
 * Bridget Jones's Diary, Gosford Park (2001), Spy Game (2001)
 * About a Boy, Bend It Like Beckham (2002)
 * Love Actually (2003)
 * Alexander, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Troy, Wimbledon (2004)
 * Batman Begins, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Sahara, Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005)
 * The Da Vinci Code (2006)
 * Atonement, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, The Golden Compass (2007)
 * Inkheart, Moon, Nine, The Young Victoria (2009)
 * Clash of the Titans, Robin Hood (2010)
 * Captain America: The First Avenger, Hugo (2011)
 * Anna Karenina, John Carter (2012)
 * Fast & Furious 6, Gravity, Thor: The Dark World (2013)

Halliford Studios
Lower Halliford, a completely contiguous so also integral part of Shepperton, used to be home to Halliford Film Studios, opposite the Manygate Lane conservation area, built in 1955 and one of the first film studios devoted to TV commercial production. It was an independent film studio used for commercials, small television productions and other short "promos". The studio was recently closed and demolished.

Literature
George Eliot depicted Shepperton as set out above.

Shepperton was the home of author J. G. Ballard, the so-called "Seer of Shepperton", and provides the setting for his novels Crash (in which a couple become sexually aroused through car crashes and was written as the M3 motorway was being built past the end of his street) and The Unlimited Dream Company.

Shepperton is mentioned in the novel The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells, in which its destruction is described along with nearby settlements.

It is also mentioned in the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, where Bill Sikes tempts Oliver into visiting a house there, but instead, when they get there, Oliver is dragged on to a lonely house nearby by Sikes.

Fine art
J. M. W. Turner painted in 1805 two scenes of the shimmering river and fishermen on the far banks of the Lower Halliford part of Shepperton including the wide landscape work Walton Bridges widely exhibited in 1807 following a previous similar work by Canaletto of the scene in 1754.

Sport and recreation
There are recreation grounds for football on both sides of the M3: one in Shepperton Green and two in Shepperton/Lower Halliford; one has adjoining tennis courts. Through the town there is the Thames Path and there are popular adjacent flat cycling routes to Windsor, Hampton Court Palace and Richmond. There is a golf course north of the station in the historic parish of Sunbury so anachronistically named Sunbury Golf Club and for a time American Golf at Sunbury with two courses, a driving range and Crown Golf Academy as Sunbury is a larger settlement.

Desborough Sailing Club is based here with its own dinghy basin, private inlet and secluded reach of the river Thames and international medal-winner training club Queen Mary Reservoir Sailing Club lies between Shepperton and Ashford.

Angling is substantial at Halliford Mere fisheries and on the River Thames itself.

Shepperton has a thriving cricket club, which has teams in the Fullers Surrey County League.

Places of worship
There are several churches in the village covering three denominations of Christianity.

The architecturally listed stone-clad church to St Nicholas on the preserved village square (Church of England) is led by the rector of Shepperton, Rev Chris Swift and is committed to helping the largest Shepperton primary school and contributes to a wide range of local good causes.

Founded in 1936, St John Fisher Roman Catholic church led by Fr Shaun Richards adopts a vibrant approach to parish life involving "Prayer, Partnership, Pilgrimage, and Panto" the last two of which are annual and the first two of which are intended to be daily or regular activities of its believers. The parish places emphasis on helping the housebound and sick, CAFOD and takes part in the Westminster Diocese pilgrimage to Lourdes.

Jubilee Church, Shepperton was formed as a new church in 1982 to celebrate in modern "mainstream Christianity" being less focussed on ceremony than the two oldest UK churches. Its twin values are: "Love the Lord your God with all your heart ... and your neighbour as your self." and Make disciples.

Littleton has a co-led Church of England; Upper Halliford has a Baptist church for further details of which see those articles.

Notable people
Notable residents, past and present including less historic literary figures than mentioned above, include:
 * Ian Allan, publisher of railway books
 * Olivia Anderson, South African international cricketer
 * Celestine Babayaro, Nigerian footballer
 * J. G. Ballard, English novelist, short story writer and essayist
 * Lynne Reid Banks, late 20th century author with children's best-seller The Indian in the Cupboard (1980) with four sequels and adult novels such as The L-Shaped Room (1960)
 * John Boorman, film director
 * Bernard Braden and Barbara Kelly, television presenters and producers.
 * Ray Dorset, lead singer of Mungo Jerry and songwriter of chart-topper Feels Like I'm in Love
 * Robert Faurisson, French academic (1929-2018)
 * Frank Finlay, actor
 * John Gregson, actor and his wife Thea Gregory, actress
 * Walter Hayes, Ford public relations executive instrumental in developing the company's Formula One programme
 * Steve Holley, Paul McCartney's drummer in 'Wings'
 * Tom Jones, singer
 * Janet Munro, actress, and Ian Hendry, actor, lived on Pharaoh's Island in Shepperton
 * Janek Schaefer, British Composer of the Year in Sonic Art has a studio in Shepperton, 'innerspaces' inspired by J.G.Ballard
 * Ruth Wilson, actress

Notes and references
Notes

References

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Lynn Herring

Sheryl Lynn Herring (born September 22, 1958) is an American actress and beauty pageant titleholder. She is perhaps best known for her role as Lucy Coe on the long-running soap opera General Hospital which she has played on and off since 1986.

Early life
Herring was born in Enid, Oklahoma. Before acting, Herring was Miss Virginia USA 1977, and was 4th runner-up to Kimberly Tomes for the title of Miss USA 1977. She earned a B.A. in psychology from Louisiana State University, where she was also a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority.

Acting career
Herring is best known for her work in daytime television, first portraying the role of mousy librarian Lucy Coe on General Hospital in 1986. Over time, Lucy became much more glamorous and man-hungry, and the role proved to be very lucrative for Herring. She left after six years to explore other opportunities, which led to a role on Days of Our Lives. Her character, Lisanne Gardner, was never fully developed, and Herring asked to be let out of her contract with the show. Days producers agreed, and she then returned to General Hospital.

She played Lucy on General Hospital until 1997, when she was asked to reprise her character on a spin-off series called Port Charles. She appeared on the series until it was canceled in 2003, and subsequently made a brief return to General Hospital in 2004.

She joined the cast of As the World Turns on July 24, 2009, as Audrey Coleman.

On November 2, 2012, after more than eight years off-screen, it was announced that Herring would return to General Hospital as Lucy in December. She first aired on December 17.

Personal life
Herring married actor Wayne Northrop on May 9, 1981, in Jennings, Louisiana. They have two sons: Hank Wayne, born on January 9, 1991, and Grady Lee, born on July 20, 1993, in Los Angeles, CA. Northrop and Herring own and run a working cattle ranch in the Madera County area of Raymond.

In a February 2007 interview, Herring's former co-star Kin Shriner said of Herring: "She's living a life that most women would love. She's going to restore an old train depot on land up where she lives and bring it back to a sort of museum quality. She's lobbying. She's back at school. She's working with animals. She's got her two boys. She's like Barbara Stanwyck in The Big Valley. She's running the whole town."

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Concatenative programming language

A concatenative programming language is a point-free computer programming language in which all expressions denote functions, and the juxtaposition of expressions denotes function composition. Concatenative programming replaces function application, which is common in other programming styles, with function composition as the default way to build subroutines.

Example
For example, a sequence of operations in an applicative language like the following:

...is written in a concatenative language as a sequence of functions:

x foo bar baz

Functions and procedures written in concatenative style are not value level, i.e. they typically do not represent the data structures they operate on with explicit names or identifiers. Instead they are function level –a function is defined as a pipeline, or a sequence of operations that take parameters from an implicit data structure upon which all functions operate, and return the function results to that shared structure so that it will be used by the next operator.

The combination of compositional semantics with a syntax that mirrors such a semantic makes concatenative languages highly amenable to algebraic manipulation of programs; although it may be difficult to write mathematical expressions directly in them. Concatenative languages can be implemented efficiently with a stack machine, and are commonly present implicitly in virtual machines in the form of their instruction sets.

Properties
The properties of concatenative languages are the result of their compositional syntax and semantics:

 * The reduction of any expression is the simplification of one function to another function; it is never necessary to deal with the application of functions to objects.
 * Any subexpression can be replaced with a name that represents the same subexpression. This is referred to in the concatenative community as factoring and is used extensively to simplify programs into smaller parts.
 * The syntax and semantics of concatenative languages form the algebraic structure of a monoid.
 * Concatenative languages can be made well-suited to an implementation inspired by linear logic where no garbage is ever generated.

Implementations
The first concatenative programming language was Forth, although Joy was the first language to call itself concatenative. Other concatenative languages are dc, Factor, Onyx, PostScript, and RPL.

Most existing concatenative languages are stack-based; this is not a requirement and other models have been proposed. Concatenative languages are currently used for embedded, desktop, and web programming, as target languages, and for research purposes.

Most concatenative languages are dynamically typed. Exceptions include the statically typed Cat language.

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Template talk:POTD

 Reporting blurb errors or general POTD discussion Please do not post error reports for today's or tomorrow's picture of the day here; post them at WP:ERRORS instead. For general discussion about POTDs, please post at WT:POTD. Thank you.

How is the POTD Determined?
Does someone manually create the POTD?

Check out Featured picture candidates Dark Shikari 13:12, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Recent unpleasantness
A weird record lock in the database was breaking the ability to edit this page. I'm not totally sure what the cause of this was, but I've worked around it for now by trimming a link record that lead to it. --Brion 23:07, July 11, 2005 (UTC)

 * Thank you! Theresa Knott (a tenth stroke) 06:33, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

Broken front page
Something has broken this template resulting in the following text on the front page: Template:POTD/Error: invalid time Collabi 19:48, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
 * beat me to it. here's a screenshot just in case. http://x012.uploaderx.net/x/wikierror.PNG -Indolences 02:15, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Every time I see this report and come by to look at it, it seems to have fixed itself. I updated the Main Page code to skip the intermediate POTD protected template and go straight to the day's template, which might eliminate that error.  howcheng  {chat} 06:50, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Hyphen
Could an administrator please correct the hyphen after Archive to a dash? Thanks. Daniel Šebesta (talk • contribs) 10:57, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

 * Done.  howcheng  {chat} 16:37, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

Thank you, Howcheng! Daniel Šebesta (talk • contribs) 01:20, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

YEAH!Mannix Chan (talk) 12:47, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 23 January 2014
I noticed is not working, on personal testpages, the userbox, or related media, and produces this bug:

(from ):

Code:

Becomes:

Note the space right after the image file name and just before ".jpg". I think that's why I can't get Picture of the day to work. The fix? Put the tag right after the code:

not

If it doesn't work, I could probably have another go at it. It's only my first stab at solving this bug.

meteor_sandwich_yum (talk) 08:31, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
 * This template has not been touched in 4 years, and the breakage was much more recent. I think it has to do with the media software itself. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 08:36, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Agreed. was 19 January 2010; Internet Archive for [//web.archive.org/web/20130911051746/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day September 11, 2013] and [//web.archive.org/web/20130814053658/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day August 14, 2013] both display it as working on Wikipedia:POTD. According to, between May 25, 2013 and Dec 7, 2013 we experienced an update (1.21 → 1.22). That's my first lead.

 * To the page at large: this software bug is annoying me, so I'm continuing to work on it. meteor_sandwich_yum (talk) 00:49, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

 * It's fixed. I can't tell if my revision (I requested access to edit the template myself; lined up the tag like I suggested) or something else entirely did the trick, but hey, fixed on every page I've seen. meteor_sandwich_yum (talk) 12:38, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

#REDIRECT Correa alba
Today's POTD caption is/was a redlink Correa Alba. It should be Correa alba (genus & species) — Gaff ταλκ 05:22, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

Title and/or Texttitle documentation
When I make an edit like this, I can usually check the template page for an explanation of parameters like "title=" and "texttitle=" here (I changed both, but only one has any apparent effect). However, this page is missing the usual "/doc" page. Art LaPella (talk) 02:56, 18 October 2015 (UTC)
 * While the template is not intended her general use, it is somewhat lacking. From what I can see, texttitle is used for the alt text for the image, while title is largely ignored.  09:05, 18 October 2015 (UTC)

Wednesday
Wednesday's Template:POTD/2017-10-18 says "this painting depicts rectangular plots of blue, yellow, pink, and red hyacinths." The reference agrees, but my eyes clearly tell me blue, yellow, pink, red (in the distance), and white. (There is also a brown plot, but that could be a pink one just starting to bloom.) Art LaPella (talk) 01:28, 14 October 2017 (UTC)

Tuesday
For Tuesday's picture, why are some of the translations abbreviated? For example, "Flavius Eridanus" means "Eridanus River" (a specific river, although different rivers had that name). So translating it as simply "the river" could be considered wrong. Art LaPella (talk) 19:01, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Because they weren't translations, but rather what these are generally represented as. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 02:13, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

2017-12-18
Template:POTD/2017-12-18 includes the text "combs are among the oldest tools found by archaeologists". This is rather a silly statement since the oldest tools are millions of years of old and combs have not been around for a fraction of that. I'd suggest changing it. – Joe (talk) 15:22, 7 December 2017 (UTC)
 * . Not sure if this page is watched. – Joe (talk) 18:45, 8 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Done. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 02:12, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

2018-07-19 bug
I'm not sure if today's POTD being randomly chosen from 2 similar images was an experiment, but it's caused a bug: The  cannot be read directly. See my user page for an example. Also, I would have expected either image to say  (not 425), since multiplying this value by 2.1 normally results in an image that's around 800px wide (or in the case of portrait images, one that's ~800px tall). Of course, I may be the only user affected! nagualdesign 18:27, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

2018-12-08
For Template:POTD/2018-12-08, click the picture. It gets bigger. With some browsers (I tried 4, one of them on a different Windows desktop) the cursor becomes a plus sign in a circle, which tempts me to click it again because that occasionally expands the picture further. It isn't surprising that clicking doesn't expand this specific picture (usually it doesn't). But what's unique is that clicking makes the picture disappear, for each browser I tried. With Firefox I get the top 10% of the picture; with other browsers I get nothing. Art LaPella (talk) 05:39, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

2019-02-14
Template:POTD/2019-02-14 says "Flowers of the Lantana camara plant with a crab spider ..." probably referring to the bug in the lower middle. But something with the same spotted pattern is in the upper middle. So should that be "crab spiders" plural? Art LaPella (talk) 02:49, 9 February 2019 (UTC)

Last minute
You might want to prepare your descriptions earlier. This typo wasn't fixed until after it was on the Main Page, because the text had just been composed two hours earlier. Tomorrow's picture isn't ready yet either. Art LaPella (talk) 00:36, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 25 August 2019
Please amend the template text to ; this should allow the template to accept any valid date formats to display the corresponding POTD. —  RAVEN PVFF  · talk · 01:09, 25 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done for now: Have you tested this change anywhere? Izno (talk) 22:19, 25 August 2019 (UTC)
 * See below. I've pasted the code onto the sandbox subpage. —  RAVEN PVFF  · talk · 11:13, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

 * ✅ please update the documentation at Template:POTD/doc and put your test cases on Template:POTD/testcases for future reference. —  xaosflux  Talk 13:08, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

ParserFunction errors
Would you please check recent edits at Template:POTD/Day. I suspect they may have added some pages to Category:ParserFunction errors. For example, Picture of the day/December 2019 has "Expression error: Unexpected < operator" and the page is in the hidden category. Johnuniq (talk) 07:12, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
 * I've fixed the errors; thanks for notifying. The error lay in the incorrect treatment of a blank parameter, which I've now rectified. —  RAVEN PVFF  · talk · 14:41, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Johnuniq (talk) 22:25, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

Usage of POTDs on portals
Please join the discussion at. —andrybak (talk) 09:55, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

2021-07-07
For the Soyuz diagram, expand the picture ("+") to find the annotation under the heading "Block A (top)". I don't know how hard it is to fix a picture, but "Bloc F" (twice) should ideally be spelled "Block F". Compare bloc to block. Art LaPella (talk) 00:03, 3 July 2021 (UTC)

Proteine
I don't know how practical it is to fix a video, but 30 seconds into the video for Template:POTD/2021-10-21, it displays "spike proteine" which should be spelled "protein". I found another objection at Template talk:POTD/2021-10-21 that you probably didn't see. Art LaPella (talk) 04:52, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

2023-03-25
Please see. Ham II (talk) 20:35, 19 March 2023 (UTC)

VPM Discussion

 * Please see WP:VPM -- RoySmith (talk) 18:20, 23 April 2023 (UTC)

Snowflake
At Template:POTD/2023-07-16, the title snowflake is bolded in the first sentence and linked at the end. Other POTDs both bold and link the article title in the first sentence, with no extra mention at the end. Mistake or deliberate? Art LaPella (talk) 01:38, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Resolved Art LaPella (talk) 04:47, 15 July 2023 (UTC)

Want to report a mistake
Hi, While I was preparing pictures of the day for another wiki, i accidentally edited en wiki. I have corrected it now. Sorry for the mistake. see here. Thankyou. signed, 511KeV    (talk) 06:43, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

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