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User talk:Geographer

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Image:Sss.JPG
Hi, Geographer! Thanks for uploading the photo of Convict Lake. I noticed that it didn't have an image copyright tag. If you're releasing it (and other photos) under GFDL, could you add to the image description page? Thanks!! -- hike395 11:26, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Same with Image:01520008.jpg. Really nice pic! -- hike395

GE Building
--Hey, I like the photo you added for the GE Building, but the time stamp needs to be taken out using Photoshop. If you'd like me to, I can easily handle it. Just let me know. --Jleon 15:47, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

--OK, there it is. I also uploaded it as a JPEG for slightly better clarity. --Jleon 12:43, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

Time stamp
--Hi geographer, I'm not too familiar with the clone stamp tool you mentioned, but the way I usually do it is my using the "eye dropper" tool to match the colors surrounding the time stamp and then zooming in close and using a small paint brush to carefully cover it up. If you'd like, you can post your pictures onto my talk page and I can see what I'm able to do with them. Some are easier to work on than others. I've noticed some of the ones you have posted, like the Chrysler Building and Lincoln Center and I think they are really great, so I would defintely be willing to help you with any others. --Jleon 00:59, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Image:Sss.JPG
I see you requested deletion of this image even though it's tagged, sourced and still used in a number of articles. Could you please tell me why you want this deleted (and use next time round)? - Mgm|(talk) June 28, 2005 08:30 (UTC)

Madrona Marsh
Thanks for the neat photos on my little article! Nice memories, too. I'd have loved to have taken a few myself but I haven't lived in the area for more than fifteen years. - Lucky 6.9 7 July 2005 06:16 (UTC)

 * I'm still in Southern California near Palm Springs. Talk about the SoCal experience!  Heck, I was born in Culver City.  I'm a native SoCal boy!  :^) - Lucky 6.9 7 July 2005 16:56 (UTC)

Los Angeles photo
Yo. I just reinserted the photo DowntownLosAngeles.jpg on the Los Angeles page again. Can you please explain on the Talk:Los Angeles page why you believe LosAngeles05.jpg is better? I personally prefer DowntownLosAngeles.jpg because one can actually make out the specific towers that are characteristic of the L.A. downtown skyline, as opposed to a bunch of distant blobs looming over the L.A. sprawl.

Also, please note both photos appear to be by the same photographer, Thomas Pintaric, and he has granted permission to use them to Wikipedia under the GFDL. So this is not a copyvio issue.

--Coolcaesar 01:40, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

Los Angeles photo
Hello:

Besides the de-emphasis of the city's skyline, I dislike the LosAngeles05.jpg photo because it shows Los Angeles on an overcast day during the second wettest winter in recorded history. Los Angeles, as you probably know, is usually sunny and dry. Also, I am not sure if L.A.'s sprawl is really that notable a feature, since many other cities are surrounded by enormous sprawl as well (like New York City and Atlanta).

However, I agree that keeping DowntownLosAngeles.jpg on the Los Angeles page and putting LosAngeles05.jpg on the Global cities page is a reasonable compromise. Feel free to put Los Angeles05.jpg back on Global cities anytime---although if I can find a similar photo (skyline and sprawl) taken on a sunny day, I will put that there instead.

--Coolcaesar 03:43, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

L.A. Meetup Reminder
Don't forget! L.A's first Wiki meetup is TONIGHT at 7:30 at Philippe's in Downtown. Check out the meetup page for details. See you there! (If you can't make it, come to the next one! - Eric 22:03, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

User page
Yes, I had your user page on my watchlist. I watch some user pages for vandalism and just so happened to see your update, so I added the cat. --Viriditas | Talk 01:30, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

HKWNB, HKCOTW, Current events
Hello fellow Hong Kong wikipedian. You might be interested to take a look at HK wikipedians' notice board, HK Collaboration of the Week and Current events in Hong Kong and Macao. Happy editing! — Instantnood 10:39, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

RE: Social Process
Hello! You asked what social processes I'm interested in - I'm interested a lot in transit/transportation and how that affects people's conception and use of their city and region. I'm interested in city form and the particular processes that lead to it. I'm interested in the individual ways individual people use and think of their city and how all those different conceptions add to a coherent whole. Like why do people choose to live in the particular neighborhoods they choose? What parts of the city do different people know and how far away from home do they go? What makes people comfortable or afraid in different neighborhoods? Why are some people comfortable in areas that others fear?

You also asked what I think about ethnic enclaves and social segregation in LA - I think the degree of separation between different populations is amazing. Like how Westsiders are afraid of Hollywood (and terrified of Westlake). They have no idea what the city is all about there. But the same is true for people in those neighborhoods - they never go to the Westside. People tend to have a solid idea of what Los Angeles is and what it's all about, but that conception varies sharply among different groups, and people seem to tend to associate only with members of their own group. That said, I don't see any "evil" inherent in the ethnicity-based spatial segregation that some people like to denounce. It's like gas stations - they like to be situated next to each other. It only makes sense that a new business dealing primarily in, say, Korean language would choose to locate near other Korean-language businesses. Customers looking for service in Korean go to that part of town to find it. I don't see the spatial differentiation in this respect as racism. However, the fact that minorities tend to occupy less-desirable land probably has something to do with current and past prejudices. And white-westsider fear of minority neighborhoods might be rooted in a subconcious racist fear. However - I think the different "ethnic" neighborhoods is what makes LA amazing. That's why I never want to leave.

Does this address your question? What do you think? EmergentProperty 01:34, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

Coastal cities
FYI, some citie, like Long Beach, California have their own categories, and those categories are subcategories of things like category: Coastal cities in the United States. Thanks anyway! -Will Beback 08:03, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Health geography
I moved medical geography to health geography. Since you created the article, I thought I'd let you know. Matt 17:14, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Images
Thanks again for contributing these informative photos. I edited Image:SanGabrielMountains.jpg in order to straighten the horizon, which was a little crooked. In the process the resolution dropped slightly. I didn't want to lose anything on the left side so I actually copied over the bottom left so the white space wouldn't show. At the same time I darkened it a little to improve the contrast. I'll edit the image page for Image:Western sangabrielmounatins.jpg and identify as much as I can, but I don't think that Strawberry is visible. Cheers, -Will Beback 06:13, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

 * PS: If you're interested in Strawberry Peak some of us are climbing its interesting west ridge on April 15. You are welcome to join us if you're fit and not afraid of heights. Send me an email if you want more info. A general description of the route is here:. Cheers, -Will Beback 06:58, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

 * I know from personal knowledge that someone died this spring, and I have read of many other deaths, due to accidents or illness. I'll find some cites. -Will Beback 06:16, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I might add that Tahquitz is arguably a part of San Jacinto, though few that are climbing it are headed for the summit. Accidents there add to the statistic. -Will Beback 06:20, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Here you go. http://www.rmru.org/missions2000s.htm. PS: Strawberry PK was awesome, but too cloudy to get a clear view of any of the surrounding peaks. I'd hoped to take pictures of the local terrain, but no such luck. Cheers, -Will Beback 08:17, 16 April 2006 (UTC)  -Will Beback 08:17, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

 * PS: the geology of the Southern California mountains is unique and remarkable. If you've ever taken a class or have sources it'd be great to expand out coverage of Southern California geology. Regarding hiking, there's snow still in the high summits, yikes. A planned trip may have to be rescheduled, and we might do Strawberry Peak again as a lower, unofficial alternate, this Sunday. -Will Beback 09:45, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Plant identifications
The Cucurbita is almost certainly C. foetidissima, the calabazilla, rather than C. palmata. C. palmata is normally found in the desert, but C. foetidissima would be common in the Puente Hills.

I'm not good with cultivated plants, and all I can tell you about this one is that it is in the Asteraceae. I suspect it's one of the South African introductions.--Curtis Clark 14:56, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Establishment of The Wikimedia Hong Kong
encyclopedist 17:09, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Categories
Hi, if an article is already in a sub-category such as "American geographers", then they should not also be in the less specific "Geographers". thanks. Martin 13:02, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

your statue of liberty picture
Hi. I just found the picture of the statue of liberty you took and uploaded. I think it's a great picture and I'd like to put it on my website. Please let me know how you want me to credit you, as it is licensed under the Creative Commons attribution license. You can email me at [mailto:RobertEColgan@gmail.com Rob...@gmail.com] [If you need to email me again, you can use Special:Emailuser/BlastOButter42; thanks] or leave a message on my talk page. Thanks a lot. Robert 08:34, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks. My website is www.thebobmachine.i8.com. How do you want me to credit you? As "Geographer" or by your name or some other way? Thanks Robert 21:15, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Thank you
Thank you for your compliments geographer. It's always nice to see that the work we do is appreciated. AlexD 16:28, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Highway City
Would you happen to know anyone living in or near Highway City, California? Plinth molecular gathered 16:37, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Geography Wikiproject
I thought you might be interested in helping WikiProject_Geography If so, just add your name to the page. Thanks AlexD 11:35, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Project Stub Sort
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Thanks!--Ohms law 19:38, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Juglans californica
Great picture, well-framed, shows leaves well and emphasizes fruit, and from a known urban location for the species, much thanks for adding this to Wikipedia. Do you have one, also, of the full tree? In general your photos are well done for posting with the articles. Thanks. KP Botany 16:39, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

LAPD
It looks like you might have reverted to some old version of LAPD that has many spelling mistakes I'm sure that's not what you intended, but perhaps there's a more precise way of accomplishing it. Cheers, -Will Beback · † · 10:28, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Mt. Pinos Pics
Hey, I'm glad you like my pictures. The first one on top of the mountain was taken at an elevation of over 8800 feet. The second one down in Pine Mountain was taken at a elevation of about 5400 feet. Cygnus 23:01, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

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 * The Wikipedia has numerous Policies and guidelines and it's hard to know them all. One of the guidelines mentioned in the Simplified Ruleset is "Decent edit summaries", which is further explained at Help:Edit summary. All that is really needed to help editors looking through their watchlists or the editors doing Recent changes patrol, however, is a very basic description. If you add a photo to the page, all you need to put in the edit summary is "+ photo". If you move a photo, add "moved photo". You can even set your user Preferences to prompt you if you leave the edit summary field blank.

 * If you look at your recent contributions, you can see that you have left the edit summary field blank, let the mediawiki software fill the edit summary (for image uploads), or used the default section header in most cases (If there was an edit summary, it will be in parentheses). The reason that I commented about your lack of edit summaries is that yesterday you did a bunch of fairly quick edits to articles on Southern California topics that were on my watchlist. That can look suspicious because I will sometimes see the same sort of pattern when someone is spamming SoCal articles.

 * I know that I've usually been pretty lazy about using the default section headers, but I'm now trying to add something more than the default. For example, if I delete some spam from the external links, my edit summary still uses the default, but I then add "- spam", so the Edit summary reads "/* External links */ - spam" . BlankVerse 23:42, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

 * BTW: You've been adding some great pictures to the Wikipedia. Better still, you've been replacing some photos that I've always been disatisfied with [and had planned to replace myself as soon as I decide which digital camera I'm going to buy ;-)]. BlankVerse 11:56, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Pico House photo
Thanks for adding the picture. I was hoping that, by creating the article and having historic photos, I would lure someone still in the LA area to submit a photo. Nice one! --Bobak 16:00, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Doreen Massey
Hello there, any idea how I can report the person with the snarky comments on the talk page for Doreen Massey? He/she won't even sign...and as far as I can see, they're trying to undermine Wikipedia, which does my head in. Zigzig20s 17:42, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Advice requested
I've been attempting to overview and tidy up the geography cats which involve the places where people live. From the top level down to local neighbourhoods. There has been some overlapping and various mis-routings. It's been interesting looking at it all. However, there appear to be two useful ways of doing it - by region, and by size. And these can operate side by side quite usefully. The by region isn't a problem. But the by size has become difficult because User:Hmains wishes to use the term settlements to cover all sizes of communities, and has altered dictionary definitions to fit his own understanding of the term - . Community appears to be the term used most often to describe the places where people live, regardless of size. This is the definition of community -. I did some sorting, placing the cat Human communities under Human geography. Human communities splitting into Urban geography and Rural geography. And those splitting into appropriate sized communities - cities, districts, neighbourhoods, villages, settlements, etc. Hmains has reverted much of my work, and insists on settlements being the term we should use - basing it on | this decision, which was a declined proposal to rename Settlements by region to Populated places by region. What do you think? Is settlement an acceptable term for covering human communities ranging from well established cities down to refuge camps. Is Human community a viable alternative? Are there other choices (apart from populated places of course!)? I have started a discussion here and here, with the above wording, but no response as yet. Am I doing the right thing? SilkTork 19:16, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Discussion taking place at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (settlements) SilkTork 11:31, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Washingtonia robusta.jpg
Hi,

Would it be possible to upload your image Washingtonia robusta.jpg to commons?

I need it for croatian article. --Ante Perkovic 09:18, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Would like to use a photo of yours in a book - need permission!
Hi there,

I'm trying to contact you to get your permission to use your image of Occidental College in a book to be published by my company.

If you're interested, please contact me at mlawlor@mycomcast.com and I'll explain the whole project.

Thank you!

Rbf311 15:21, 25 July 2007 (UTC)Michelle

Strawberry redux
Still interested in climbing Strawberry, or climbing it again? If so, drop me an email. We might put together a climb with Wikipedians. ·:· Will Beback ·:· 21:50, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Geographer Classification
Hello Geographer, sorry for the quite long wait for a response I only really go on Wikipedia in the summer holiday period due to other commitments. With regards to the classification of geographers I agree with you that classifying them according to nationality and not putting them in a Geographers category is a problem, I shall see what I can do to get them all in the gegrapher catergory.

In terms of geographers being on wiikipedia, i'm not aware of any policy surrounding them as long as they meet the notability criteria there should be no problem with adding any, although, I think we should be weary about adding any geographer and only add those who are international experts. Prehaps we along with the geography wikiproject could draw up some guide-lines on the matter? AlexD 13:42, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

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 * I see you have removed the PROD tag from this article; could you possibly point to any reliable sources that indicate its notability as a theory? Its Google results are very, very slim and all seem to be mirrors of the article. Thanks. Tony Fox (arf!) 17:14, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Nixon helicopter pic
Hey great pic of Nixon's helicopter! I work at the library so I see it almost everyday, and I was meaning to take a pic myself, but you beat me to it! It adds a lot to the article! Best, Happyme22 03:17, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

CA copyright law for artworks
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Wikipedia Loves Art
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I would like to invite you to the Los Angeles edition of Wikipedia Loves Art, a photography scavenger hunt to be held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) on Saturday, February 28, 2009, from 1:00 to 7:00 PM. All photos are intended for use in Wikipedia articles or on Wikimedia Commons. There will be a prize available for the person who gets the most photos on the list.

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Nixon image
Hi Georgrapher. I removed the image of President Nixon as an infant because it is lacking a source. The article is up for GA as we speak and that photo's source or lack thereof was a reason why it failed the last GA. Until one can be provided it must be removed. Thanks, Happyme22 (talk) 21:55, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for File:Uclapowellsnow1932.JPG
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Possibly unfree File:Pichonbaron97.jpg
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Celebrations for 2nd Anniversary of Wikimedia Hong Kong

Dear:  ：

Wikimedia Hong Kong has been founded two year ago. Today, we would like to invite you to a great event for our second anniversary celebrations, that is co-host by us - Digital Content Jam 1.0, which is belongs to The 3C Digital Creativity Dialogue Series -- Creativity, Content, Community.

This is the information of the event：

 * Date: 31, July, 2009 (Friday)
 * Time: From 7:00pm to 9:30pm
 * Venue: eTech Centre Meeting Room M2 &3, 4/F Opulent Building, 402-406 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai（Google map）
 * Language: Cantonese
 * Free snacks and drinks will be served!

Please register via the link below to tell us if you would like to join the event. Registration Form

Regards, Hong Kong Wikimedian Tango Chan 14:01, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

File:Los_Angeles_City_Hall_with_sister_cities_2006.jpg
Hi! I looks like this image was uploaded by you. Are you the photographer. If so I would be happy if you would leave a note on the image at Commons. --MGA73 (talk) 20:59, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

File:DSC00043.JPG listed for deletion
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Unreferenced BLPs
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Speedy deletion nomination of File:Trinitychurch ny.jpg
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File:Gazebo Tricia Nixon.jpg listed for deletion
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Orphaned non-free image File:Manowar kingsofmetalsalbumcover.jpg
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Proposed deletion of Topocide

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Possibly unfree File:Mural LA Central Library.jpg
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Wikipedia Meetup
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Wikipedia Meetup
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Nomination of Union Jack (Canadian newspaper) for deletion
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Possibly unfree File:Yo-ho Brewing IPA 2013.jpg
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Possibly unfree File:HR4437.jpg
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PUF tags
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Nomination of Lacostian view for deletion
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Orphaned non-free image File:Nippon Express.gif
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Olu Falae

Chief Samuel Oluyemisi Falae (born 21 September 1938), is a Nigerian banker, administrator and politician who was secretary to the military government of Ibrahim Babangida from January 1986 to December 1990, and briefly the Finance Minister in 1990. He ran for president in Nigeria's Third and Fourth Republics but lost.

Early life and education
Falae was born to the family of Chief Joshua Alekete Falae and Abigail Aina Falae on September 21, 1938, in Ilu-Abo, Akure. Joshua Falae was originally from Akure but due to opportunities in cocoa farming, Falae's family and a few other Akure natives moved to a nearby location called Ago-Abo – also known as Ilu Abo – where they settled as pioneers. Falae's father was later made the chief of Ago-Abo village. Falae's mother was born and raised in the village of Igbara-Oke and died during childbirth in 1946 when Falae was only 8. He was then raised by his father and his paternal grandmother, Chief Osanyintuke Falae (née Adedipe), who was a maternal granddaughter of Deji Osupa of Akure and a daughter of the Elemo of Akure, Chief Adedipe Oporua Atoosin (himself a great-grandson of Deji Arakale of Akure, Osupa's father). Falae attended an Anglican primary school in Akure where he met his future wife, Rachael Olatubosun Fashoranti, younger sister of Afenifere leader Reuben Fashoranti. After primary education, he sat for the entrance exam into Igbobi College and was accepted in 1953. upon graduation from Igbobi, he went on to complete his Higher School Certificate at Government College, Ibadan in 1958 and later became a tutor at Oyemekun Grammar School, Akure. He attended the University of Ibadan for his undergraduate studies earning a degree in economics, thereafter, he obtained a graduate degree at Yale University in the United States. At the University of Ibadan, he represented his hall of residence in the Students Representative Council and was editorial board member of the student run campus magazine.

Civil service and government career
After completing his bachelor's degree in economics, Falae joined the civil service as the assistant secretary of the National Manpower Board. He later became a principal assistant secretary of the board. In 1971, he was transferred to the Central Planning office and by 1975, he was a director at the planning office. During his stint at the planning office, the department was actively involved producing the third national development plan for the country and conducting a revision exercise after a change in government. In 1977, Falae was appointed permanent secretary (Economic dept), Cabinet office.

In 1981, he became the managing director of Nigerian Merchant Bank (NMB), formerly United Dominion Trust. In Falae's tenure at the bank, the firm increased its authorized and lending capital.

Falae returned to public service in 1986 when he was appointed Secretary to the Government. By then, he believed Nigeria needed economic re-structuring. In 1985, prior to his appointment, the military sought the public opinion of an IMF economic structuring proposal as a condition for external credit from the fund. The popular opinion was to reject the proposal. The administration then came up with Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP). SAP was a proposal to diversify export from a crude oil dependent regime, ensure fiscal and balance of payments equilibrium and non-inflationary growth. The mechanisms to be implemented in order to achieve these objectives were the devaluation of the naira, reduction of petroleum products subsidies and trade liberalization. During his time in office, Falae became a vocal defender of SAP even when it was becoming unpopular with the masses, earning him the moniker "Mr. SAP" amongst ordinary Nigerians.

He left the post of Secretary to the Government and served as the Federal Minister of Finance in 1990 in the military regime of Ibrahim Babangida. He was relieved from office in August 1990. Thereafter, he joined the democratic transition programme.

Political career
Falae's foray into politics started during the Third Republic. Babangida had banned 'old breed' politicians, who were mostly people who had held elective office in the past such as Bola Ige and Lateef Jakande. Falae soon became the candidate of choice for followers of Awolowo and some progressives within the Social Democratic Party. He contested for the post but lost to Shehu Musa Yar'Adua before the elections were cancelled. He later threw his support and organization towards actualizing the presidential ambition of MKO Abiola.

In the mid-1990s, following the cancellation of the June 12, 1993 and the coming to power of a new military government, Falae became a prominent member of the National Democratic Coalition during the quest for the restoration of democracy in Nigeria. Falae was jailed by the military government of Sani Abacha, but was released in June 1998 after Abacha's death. He unsuccessfully contested the 1999 Nigerian presidential elections on the joint platform of the Alliance for Democracy and the All People's Party against Olusegun Obasanjo, the presidential candidate for the People's Democratic Party. He "swept" the southwestern votes but was unable to attract significant support elsewhere. Since then, Falae has lived in semi-retirement as a large scale farmer in Ago Abo, Akure. He was awarded the national honour of Commander of the Federal Republic in 2008. , Falae is the pro tem Chairman of the Democratic Peoples Alliance, a progressive party allied with the All Progressives Grand Alliance.

On the 21st of September, 2015, Falae was kidnapped on his farm on his 77th birthday, with the kidnappers demanding 100 million Naira ($500,000) as a ransom. He was ultimately released on the 24th of September, 2015, after the payment of the ransom and returned to his home in Akure. The kidnappers were later arrested and in 2017, were sentenced to life imprisonment.

Chieftaincy titles
A direct descendant of Oba Osupa I of Akure (who was his great-great-grandfather), Chief Falae currently holds the chieftaincy titles of the Baale Oluabo of Ilu Abo and the Gbobaniyi of Akure.

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Talk:Low-voltage differential signaling

LVDS vs DS
I think the first section, which describes differential signaling in general, should be farmed out to a separate article on differential signaling, which can be referred to from here, RS-485, from USB, and probably from tons more places too. I'll do this in a couple of days, unless someone objects. - John Fader Dec 9, 2004

 * Urgh, and there's probably some merging to be done with balanced line. I'm afraid this analogy stuff is getting rather too far from my core area of expertise for me to do a terribly good job. Help! - John Fader Dec 9, 2004

I do not believe they should be merged. Differential Signaling is a concept, the idea of sending a signal on a pair of differential wires. LVDS is a standard (http://www.iec.org/online/tutorials/low_voltage/). While the current article does not go in depth, future authors could potentially expand it into covering the basic definion of LVDS timings and such, as well as all of their derivates (such as Infiniband... memory serves me its not QUITE LVDS). Combining the articles could stifle authorship for fear of making the article deviate too greatly from the broad concept of Differential Signaling. Maybe when my work load lightens up, I'll expand it myself. - Cort Ammon May 3, 2006
 * No merge. As above, one is a concept, another is an implementation. -- RevRagnarok  Talk Contrib Reverts 16:28, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

 * I agree with John Fader that we *should* have separate articles on each of the many specific implementations -- LVDS, RS-485, USB, etc. -- and *also* have an article on the general concept of differential signaling. I agree that we don't need to repeat a chapter of information on the general concept of "differential signaling" in each and every Wikipedia article on the dozens of specific implementations that use differential signaling.
 * --DavidCary (talk) 04:26, 6 May 2021 (UTC)

Gobbledegook
Something seems to have gone terribly wrong with these two sentences. I don't even know what is meant, perhaps someone can help :

Without a load resistor the whole wire has to be loaded and unloaded for every bit of data. Using high frequencies and a load resistor so that a single bit only covers a part of the wire (while traveling near light speed) is more power efficient.

 * Just take it out; or ask whoever added it to explain. If someone has a good point, they can put it back with a source.  Dicklyon (talk) 17:46, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

The end?
from http://www.technewsworld.com/story/VGA-Given-5-Years-to-Live-71420.html :
 * "Both Intel and AMD will also stop supporting low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS) by 2013. LVDS is an electrical signaling system that enables high transmission rates over twisted-pair cables. It moves video data from graphics adapters to computer monitors. Apple's (Nasdaq: AAPL) FireWire serial bus interface uses LVDS."

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I am not sure if that should be joined to the previous sentence as an example, taken out, modified into a proper sentence, or given a link to a standard. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Frostybeard (talk • contribs) 14:12, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

The whole standards section appears to have missing words, I'm not an expert on this but it looks like it needs to be edited by someone who knows the topic BPsailor (talk) 21:15, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

"LVDS" is not a flat panel interface and did not "get replaced by DisplayPort"
"Intel and AMD published a press release in December 2010 stating they would no longer support the LVDS LCD-panel interface in their product lines by 2013. They are promoting Embedded DisplayPort and Internal DisplayPort as their preferred solution. However, the LVDS LCD-panel interface has proven to be the lowest cost method for moving streaming video from a video processing unit to a LCD-panel timing controller within a TV or notebook, and in February 2018 LCD TV and notebook manufacturers continue to introduce new products using the LVDS interface."

(Embedded) DisplayPort did not replace "LVDS". In fact, DisplayPort uses LVDS as its physical layer. (Embedded) DisplayPort may have replaced FPD-Link. Both DisplayPort and FPD-Link make use of LVDS as their physical layer, as do S-ATA and PCI-Express and even HyperTransport. As a physical layer protocol, LVDS only determines voltage levels and impedances used, but says nothing about the number of differential pairs used or the clock rates with which they are driven, whether there is a separate clock signal or "clock recovery" from the data is used, and of course what data is transmitted over the link and in which format it is or what application it is used for. FPD-Link may have been replaced, but LVDS is ubiquitous. 88.130.219.83 (talk) 00:52, 19 January 2021 (UTC)

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Grethe Ingmann

Grethe Ingmann (born Clemmensen; 17 June 1938 – 18 August 1990) was a Danish singer.

She started her career at 17, when she temporarily performed as a singer of the Malihini Hawaiians pop quartet. Soon after she sang with the Danish guitarist Jørn Grauengaard and his trio.

In 1955 she met her future husband, guitarist Jørgen Ingmann. The couple married in 1956 and performed as the duet Grethe og Jørgen Ingmann. Together they won the Eurovision Song Contest 1963 representing Denmark with the jazz waltz "Dansevise" (Dancing tune) with music by Otto Francker and lyrics by Sejr Volmer-Sørensen. It was the first entry performed by a duo to win the Contest and also the first Scandinavian winner.

In 1965 she entered the German Schlager Contest with the song "Sommerwind". She dropped out in the preliminaries, but the song's English version, written by Johnny Mercer in 1966 and sung by Frank Sinatra, became an international hit.

Grethe and Jørgen Ingmann continued their musical career until they divorced in 1975. As a solo singer, Grethe participated in several Danish pre-selections for the Eurovision Song Contest, unsuccessfully. Notably, in 1979 she entered the Dansk Melodi Grand Prix with Bjarne Liller and the song "Alt er skønt", which tied for equal first at the end of the voting but placed second after a re-vote.

The couple remarried in the 1980s. Grethe died of cancer on 18 August 1990, aged 52, becoming the first Eurovision winner to die.

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