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Evelyn Ellis (Weston), the Early Years

  • 1898-01-18 Born
  • 1898-07 Father walked out
  • 1898-07 Admitted to orphanage, along with 2 sisters and a brother
  • 1898-12 First sister left to live with rich aunt
  • 1901 Second sister left to live with rich aunt
  • 1904±?? brother left to ...?
  • 1908 Evelyn left to live with her 2 aunts who needed a housemaid at GladStone Ave & Cross St, Toronto
  • 1914-1917 Lived with mother at Shuter & Jarvis
  • 1917-06-05 Married Edgar Ellis, YMCA Director-Instructor

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The B7 might technically be LG's entry-level OLED 4K TV for 2017 but a quick look at its feature list and you realise that it's nothing of the sort. LG have publicly stated that all their 2017 OLED Ultra HD TVs use the same panel and system-on-chip (SoC) which means there should be no difference in picture quality.

All their 2017 OLED TVs also support every version of HDR, use WebOS 3.5 and even support Dolby Atmos. So basically the five models in this year's LG OLED range are actually differentiated by cosmetic features and sound quality rather than picture quality, which raises an interesting question.

Is there any point buying the more expensive W7, G7 or E7 models when you can pick up the C7 or B7 for less and still get the same picture quality? In this review we'll find out by testing the B7 and comparing it directly to the OLED65E7 that we were reviewing at the same time. The OLED55B7 has a suggested pri

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rae / hide_linkedin_ads.txt
Last active February 10, 2017 20:15 — forked from jhult/hide_linkedin_ads.txt
Hide LinkedIn Ads - Adblock Filters
[Adblock Plus 2.0]
! Checksum: tdb [example: aFKyDZkKWVBzgi2W32V8Pg]
! Version: 201702102013
! Title: LinkedIn Invites
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! Expires: 4 days (update frequency)
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! Email: reidellis@gmail.com
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rae / horse-rules.md
Last active March 9, 2022 19:54
Rules for the card game "Horse"

The Rules to Horse

Horse is a Bid Euchre variant, having some similarities to 500

  • similar to Euchre (Bauers if there is trump)
  • deck has cards 9 and up, no jokers
  • 24 cards with 4 players (i.e. 6 cards per player)

Bidding

  • bid for # of tricks (up to 6) you will win if you get to choose trump
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rae / rae-swift-notes.md
Last active August 29, 2015 14:14
Reid's Swift Notes

Reid's Notes on Swift

Hey Cool!

  • you can directly manipulate CGRects. No more assigning to a "Frame" variable and assigning back to the view.frame: self.frame.size.height += 44 // woo!

Things to get used to

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rae / keybase.md
Last active August 29, 2015 14:10

Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

  • I am rae on github.
  • I am rae (https://keybase.io/rae) on keybase.
  • I have a public key whose fingerprint is 0A48 B740 E825 6A52 BCE7 7A6B C2B8 68E2 CE54 7484

To claim this, I am signing this object:

Verifying that +clith is my Bitcoin username. You can send me #bitcoin here: https://onename.io/clith
#!/bin/sh
# Create a RAM disk with same perms as mountpoint
# Script based on http://itux.idev.pro/2012/04/iservice-speed-up-your-xcode-%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%8B%D0%B5-%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%8B with some additions
# Usage: sudo ./xcode_ramdisk.sh start
TMP_DIR="/private/tmp"
RUN_DIR="/var/run"
SYS_CACHES_DIR="/Library/Caches"
USER_CACHES_DIR="${HOME}/Library/Caches"
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rae / .zshrc-git
Created April 4, 2013 15:59
This is my Git-specific zshrc that gets sourced from my main ~/.zshrc
# git
## branch operations
####
#### screw it; I compiled my own version of git on Dreamhost, so I'm no longer checking for
#### git versions older than 1.7.4.4
####
## not the best but it's hard to compare version #s, so just see if we're running
## on Debian, which means we're on Dreamhost where git is old, old, old
#if [[ $(osversion) =~ Debian* ]]; then
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rae / gist:5229069
Created March 23, 2013 19:31
rn - (ReName) a Perl script for batch renaming files, with %-escapes for the file's modification date and time.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Getopt::Long;
use POSIX qw(strftime);
my %options = {
capitalize => 0,
chronological => 0,
execute => 0,
recursive => 0,