 song.Title: Great gift for Dad Review: Every Christmas I buy my Dad 2 of these books. He loves them!!!! I started with the community he grew up in (Sparrows Point)and have expanded across the state of MD. Not only does he remember some of the stuff from when he was a kid, but he has also seen some of his teachers and his parents friends in the books. It has made a GREAT gift! Is the review positive or negative?
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PositiveBut winter is literally coming. It even starts snowing at the end of the episode. 
I don't think a siege would be successful during the snowstorms to come.
They would all freeze to death. 

Also Jon knows that time is working against them no matter what. He knows what is beyond the Wall and he knows it is coming soon.

Wun Wun could smash the gate down because noone was there to stop him. With archers on the Wall he likely wouldn't come close to it.
You can't compare a fully manned castle to what it was at the end of the episode when almost all Bolton men were wiped out.The Caltex (ASX: CTX) share price is down 0.5% after the petrol giant announced a re-branding.
Caltex has received a termination notice from Chevron Corporation about the current licence agreement for use of the Caltex brand in Australia. This is after 18 months of discussions with Chevron.
So, that’s why the company is going to implement existing plans to transition to the company-owned Ampol brand after a brand strategy review.
Caltex’s licence agreement allows for a three year transition period consisting of a six month notice period and 30 month work out period. Caltex has continued exclusive use of the Caltex brand for the notice period and first 18 months of the work out period.
The business will begin transition to Ampol after the six month termination notice period and will complete the transition across the full retail network within the next three years.
Managing Director and CEO of Caltex Julian Segal said: “Ampol is an iconic brand in Australia and reflects our deep Australian heritage and expertise. Our market research confirms that Ampol continues to be regarded as a high-quality and trusted brand by Australian consumers and resonates across our key customers segments.
Whilst this transition will cost additional marketing costs to relaunch, it will save annual trademark licence fees of around $18 million to $20 million, which will be in addition to cost saving initiatives previously outlined to the market.
Wikipedia’s web features let you learn more about what you’re reading than you can from a traditional book. Photo (c) Julia Spranger, licensed CC BY.
Since it launched in 2001, Wikipedia has become the most widely-viewed source of original content in the world. But the way it’s built is utterly different from other publications: newspapers, books, traditional encyclopedias. Most of us have a basic understanding how a traditional publication is created; for instance, the difference between a reporter and a news editor, or the role of a publisher as a gatekeeper in determining what authors get published. But that understanding won’t help much when it comes to Wikipedia.
But there’s plenty you can do to learn about how a Wikipedia article has evolved, and assess things like its accuracy bias. Wikipedia is built on the principle of transparency; with very few exceptions, every edit in an article is preserved, and publicly visible. So is every discussion about how the article should be written or edited.
But if you want to explore these edits and discussions, you will need a basic understanding of how Wikipedia works. Below is an exercise you can complete in 30-60 minutes, designed to help you build some skills as a critical Wikipedia reader.
Before you get started, review this case study of the evolution of the article on Celilo Falls. Don’t worry about absorbing every detail; but take in a view of the kind of things Wikipedia editors do. Keep the case study open in a browser tab while you do the following exercises.
Now explore the rest of the page. Do you see any discussions related to the case study?
Explore that article’s “View history” tab. (See below for some help with this one.) Use the date fields at the top of the page to navigate to one of the dates mentioned in the case study. Can you find any of the edits mentioned in the case study? Do you see any others that are interesting?
Now look at the line near the top of the view history page labeled “external tools.” Try clicking some. Can you find out how many times the article was viewed in the last month? Who has written the bulk of the article? Can you find when a certain sentence was originally added?
Look at the public logs for this article. (The link is at the top of the view history page.) Logs will reflect certain administrative actions, for instance, protecting an article from anonymous edits. For the Celilo Falls article, you won’t see any entries; but for a more controversial article, you probably will.
Finally, look at the “page information” for this article. (The link is under “Tools” on the lefthand side.) Anything interesting here?
Once you are familiar with each of these links, try them all with another article — pick a topic you know or care about. Run through each screen again, and see if you can learn anything interesting about the article’s evolution. In particular, try step #3 with a highly controversial article (for instance, a major politician or political topic).
The “View History” tab of any Wikipedia article is a vital tool in understanding how it has evolved.
Below the header section, each line beginning with a bullet reflects a revision to the article.
█ The green column has tools for to comparing any two revisions of the article.
█ The yellow column states the date of that revision; clicking it will take you to the version of the article as of that date.
█ The grey column tells you who made the revision, and provides links relevant to that user.
█ The blue column tells you about the size of the article as of that revision (and will indicate if the user labeled the edit as “minor,” and a few other things.) This is probably the least important of the columns.
█ The pink column shows the edit summary the user provided (and in some cases, additional information).
For a more thorough overview of the view history screen, see this 10 minute video, which covers each item and link in detail; and see this brochure (designed to be printed) for a general overview of evaluating Wikipedia article quality.
This entry was posted in Beginner how-to, Communicate OER, core, edit-a-thon, How-to, journalism, wiki, Wikipedia, Wikipedia and education, Wikipedian in Residence. Bookmark the permalink.Ask any savvy business owner and they’ll tell you that a significant proportion of their profits come through their mailing list.
That’s no secret. If you’d had a pound for every time someone spouted that bit of wisdom, you’d probably have so much money it would make the Queen blush.
But while everyone understands that the money is in the list, not everyone realises you should be building multiple lists.
So let me ask you – how many lists are YOU building?
Your joint venture and affiliates partners are probably the most valuable relationships you can cultivate in business. After all, one really good partner can add tens of thousands of pounds to your bottom line. So you bet it’s worth nurturing these relationships.
Plenty of business owners make the mistake of not getting their marketing partners onto a separate list. They depend on third-party services, JV blogs or Facebook groups. All of those platforms are okay, but you really do need to have a separate list too so you can quickly and easily reach out by email.
HINT: You can send out mass mailing to your marketing partners to announce new affiliate offers, contests, marketing tools and more. However, you’ll also want to send one-on-one emails from time to time to your best partners just to maintain and build your relationship with them.
If a business owner does only have one list, often it’ll be their customer list. That’s because this is one of your biggest assets. The easiest sale you can make is to an existing customer, so it makes good business sense to follow up with your existing customers via email on a regular basis.
Most business owners know that it’s important to set up a landing page and capture leads onto a mailing list. But most business owners don’t then segment this list.
You can dramatically increase your conversion rate by making offers and sending emails that appeal directly to different segments of your market.
You set up two lead pages in the dog training market. One offer is for an obedience training guide, while the other is for a trick training guide. Some of your market will take just the obedience guide, while some will take only the trick training guide and, of course, some will be interested in both guides.
They key here is that you segment your list by which guide each member of your list was interested in. Then you’re in a p[osition to send out “how to” emails and promotions for products that directly match your readers’ interests.
End result? You’ll build a better relationship with your lists, get fewer unsubscribes, and make more sales.
Your money really is in your list, but smart business owners understand that the key to increasing profits is to build multiple lists. At the very least, you must have a marketing partner list