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To help your kids become safe and responsible online users, check out these tips.

Set the ground rules

Establish rules about the types of content or information your child should report to an adult – for example, telling you about any swearing or bad words they find online.

Set rules to make sure your child knows what information they can share or post online and the websites they can visit. This includes telling a trusted adult before posting any personal information online, including for competition entries.

Encourage your child to use the same manners and communication they would use offline, and remind them it’s okay to report others who aren't being nice.

Stay involved

• Closely monitor younger children’s internet use.
• Try to keep the computer in a shared or visible place in the home.
• Be aware of how your child uses the internet and explore it with them.

Proactively guide

• Help your child understand that what they say and do online is important.
• Encourage your child to learn about online safety with fun resources from the esafety website, like Hector’s World, Zippep’s Astro Circus and #GameOn.
• Talk to your child about personal information and why it is special and remind them how it can be used to identify or locate them.
• Bookmark a list of favourite sites you are comfortable with your child visiting and teach them how to access this list.
• Consider using filters to help manage your child's online access.

Support positively

Advise your child not to respond to any negative messages and to report any hurtful messages they receive to you or another trusted adult.

Teach your child that there are ways they can deal with material that worries or frightens them – this includes immediately telling a trusted adult of any concerns or uncomfortable material and how to close a web page or turn off a screen.

If your child shows any concerning changes in behaviour or mood then talk to them or seek professional support – Kids Helpline provides free, confidential online counselling for young people, and your school may also be able to help.

Christmas is celebrated to remember the birth of of Jesus Christ, who Christians believe is the Son of God.

The name 'Christmas' comes from the Mass of Christ (or Jesus). A Mass service (which is sometimes called Communion or Eucharist) is where Christians remember that Jesus died for us and then came back to life. The 'Christ-Mass' service was the only one that was allowed to take place after sunset (and before sunrise the next day), so people had it at Midnight! So we get the name Christ-Mass, shortened to Christmas.

Christmas is now celebrated by people around the world, whether they are Christians or not. It's a time when family and friends come together and remember the good things they have. People, and especially children, also like Christmas as it's a time when you give and receive presents!

The Date of Christmas

No one knows the real birthday of Jesus! No date is given in the Bible, so why do we celebrate it on the 25th December? The early Christians certainly had many arguments as to when it should be celebrated! Also, the birth of Jesus probably didn't happen in the year 1 but slightly earlier, somewhere between 2 BCE/BC and 7 BCE/BC, possibly in 4 BCE/BC (there isn't a 0 - the years go from 1 BC/BCE to 1!).

The first recorded date of Christmas being celebrated on December 25th was in 336, during the time of the Roman Emperor Constantine (he was the first Christian Roman Emperor). A few years later, Pope Julius I officially declared that the birth of Jesus would be celebrated on the 25th December.

However, there are many different traditions and theories as to why Christmas is celebrated on December 25th.

A very early Christian tradition said that the day when Mary was told that she would have a very special baby, Jesus (called the Annunciation) was on March 25th - and it's still celebrated today on the 25th March. Nine months after the 25th March is the 25th December! March 25th was also the day some early Christians thought the world had been made, and also the day that Jesus died on when he was an adult. The date of March 25th was chosen because people had calculated that was the day on which Jesus died as an adult (the 14th of Nisan in the Jewish calendar) and they thought that Jesus was born and had died on the same day of the year.

Some people also think that December 25th might have also been chosen because the Winter Solstice and the ancient pagan Roman midwinter festivals called 'Saturnalia' and 'Dies Natalis Solis Invicti' took place in December around this date - so it was a time when people already celebrated things.

The Winter Solstice is the day where there is the shortest time between the sun rising and the sun setting. It happens on December 21st or 22nd. To pagans this meant that the winter was over and spring was coming and they had a festival to celebrate it and worshipped the sun for winning over the darkness of winter. In Scandinavia, and some other parts of northern Europe, the Winter Solstice is known as Yule and is where we get Yule Logsfrom. In Eastern Europe the mid-winter festival is called Koleda.

The Roman Festival of Saturnalia took place between December 17th and 23rd and honoured the Roman god Saturn. Dies Natalis Solis Invicti means 'birthday of the unconquered sun' and was held on December 25th (when the Romans thought the Winter Solstice took place) and was the 'birthday' of the Pagan Sun god Mithra. In the pagan religion of Mithraism, the holy day was Sunday and is where get that word from!

The Roman emperor Aurelian created 'Sol Invictus' in 274. But there are records of early Christians connecting 14th Nisan to 25th March and so the 25th December go back to around 200!

The Jewish festival of Lights, Hanukkah starts on the 25th of Kislev (the month in the Jewish calendar that occurs at about the same time as December). Hanukkah celebrates when the Jewish people were able to re-dedicate and worship in their Temple, in Jerusalem, again following many years of not being allowed to practice their religion.

Jesus was a Jew, so this could be another reason that helped the early Church choose December the 25th for the date of Christmas!

Christmas had also been celebrated by the early Church on January 6th, when they also celebrated the Epiphany(which means the revelation that Jesus was God's son) and the Baptism of Jesus. Now Epiphany mainly celebrates the visit of the Wise Men to the baby Jesus, but back then it celebrated both things! Jesus's Baptism was originally seen as more important than his birth, as this was when he started his ministry. But soon people wanted a separate day to celebrate his birth.

Most of the world uses the 'Gregorian Calendar' implemented by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582. Before that the 'Roman' or Julian Calendar was used (named after Julius Caesar). The Gregorian calendar is more accurate that the Roman calendar which had too many days in a year! When the switch was made 10 days were lost, so that the day that followed the 4th October 1582 was 15th October 1582. In the UK the change of calendars was made in 1752. The day after 2nd September 1752 was 14th September 1752.

Many Orthodox and Coptic Churches still use the Julian Calendar and so celebrate Christmas on the 7th January (which is when December 25th would have been on the Julian calendar). And the Armenian Apostolic Church celebrates it on the 6th January! In some part of the UK, January 6th is still called 'Old Christmas' as this would have been the day that Christmas would have celebrated on, if the calendar hadn't been changed. Some people didn't want to use the new calendar as they thought it 'cheated' them out of 11 days!

Christians believe that Jesus is the light of the world, so the early Christians thought that this was the right time to celebrate the birth of Jesus. They also took over some of the customs from the Winter Solstice and gave them Christian meanings, like Holly, Mistletoe and even Christmas Carols!

St Augustine of Canterbury was the person who probably started the widespread celebration of Christmas in large parts of England by introducing Christianity to the regions run by the Anglo-Saxons in the 6th century (other Celtic parts of Britain were already Christian but there aren't many documents about if or how they celebrated the birth of Jesus). St Augustine of Canterbury was sent by Pope Gregory the Great in Rome and that church used the Roman Calendar, so western countries celebrate Christmas on the 25th December. Then people from Britain and Western Europe took Christmas on the 25th December all over the world!

If you'd like to know more about the history behind the dating of Christmas, then read this very good article on Bible History Daily (goes to another site).

So when was Jesus Born?

There's a strong and practical reason why Jesus might not have been born in the winter, but in the spring or the autumn! It can get very cold in the winter and it's unlikely that the shepherds would have been keeping sheep out on the hills (as those hills can get quite a lot of snow sometimes!).

During the spring (in March or April) there's a Jewish festival called 'Passover'. This festival remembers when the Jews had escaped from slavery in Egypt about 1500 years before Jesus was born. Lots of lambs would have been needed during the Passover Festival, to be sacrificed in the Temple in Jerusalem. Jews from all over the Roman Empire traveled to Jerusalem for the Passover Festival, so it would have been a good time for the Romans to take a census. Mary and Joseph went to Bethlehem for the census (Bethlehem is about six miles from Jerusalem).

In the autumn (in September or October) there's the Jewish festival of 'Sukkot' or 'The Feast of Tabernacles'. It's the festival that's mentioned the most times in the Bible! It is when Jewish people remember that they depended on God for all they had after they had escaped from Egypt and spent 40 years in the desert. It also celebrates the end of the harvest. During the festival, Jews live outside in temporary shelters (the word 'tabernacle' come from a latin word meaning 'booth' or 'hut').

Many people who have studied the Bible, think that Sukkot would be a likely time for the birth of Jesus as it might fit with the description of there being 'no room in the inn'. It also would have been a good time to take the Roman Census as many Jews went to Jerusalem for the festival and they would have brought their own tents/shelters with them! (It wouldn't have been practical for Joseph and Mary to carry their own shelter as Mary was pregnant.)

The possibilities for the Star of Bethlehem seems to point either spring or autumn.

The possible dating of Jesus birth can also be taken from when Zechariah (who was married to Mary's cousin Elizabeth) was on duty in the Jewish Temple as a Priest and had an amazing experience. There is an excellent article on the dating of Christmas based on the dates of Zechariah's experience, on the blog of theologian, Ian Paul. With those dates, you get Jesus being born in September - which also fits with Sukkot!

The year that Jesus was born isn't known. The calendar system we have now was created in the 6th Century by a monk called Dionysius Exiguus. He was actually trying to create a better system for working out when Easter should be celebrated, based on a new calendar with the birth of Jesus being in the year 1. However, he made a mistake in his maths and so got the possible year of Jesus's birth wrong!

Most scholars now think that Jesus was born between 2 BCE/BC and 7 BCE/BC, possibly in 4 BCE/BC. Before Dionysius's new calendars, years were normally dated from the reigns of Roman Emperors. The new calendar became more widely used from the 8th Century when the 'Venerable Bede of Northumbria' used it in his 'new' history book! There is no year '0'. Bede started dating things before the year 1 and used 1 BCE/BC as the first year before 1. At that time in Europe, the number 0 didn't exist in maths - it only arrived in Europe in the 11th to 13th centuries!

So whenever you celebrate Christmas, remember that you're celebrating a real event that happened about 2000 years ago, that God sent his Son into the world as a Christmas present for everyone!

As well as Christmas and the solstice, there are some other festivals that are held in late December. Hanukkah is celebrated by Jews; and the festival of Kwanzaa is celebrated by some Africans and African Americans takes place from December 26th to January 1st.

Find out why Christmas is sometimes called Xmas!

May god bless you all & Have a wonderful christmas breaks 

Fr.Joseph Anderson

Assistant Parish Priest

You've worked hard to follow search engine optimization (SEO) best practices to earn high rankings for your website in the search engine results pages (SERPs). After weeks or even months of content creation, customer outreach and link building efforts, you've finally reached a coveted spot in the rankings. Unfortunately, your hard work isn't over.

To understand why, think about the difficulty of maintaining your ideal body weight. While taking off pounds can be a challenge, keeping the weight off is often an even bigger struggle. Similarly, maintaining high rankings in the natural search results can be even more of a challenge than obtaining them in the first place.

Consider these three steps to help you retain those great website rankings you've worked so hard for:

1. Continue with SEO best practices.
The best defense is a good offense, so be sure to continue to follow the same SEO best practices. No matter what rankings you've managed to achieve, never give up on your link building activities, content creation campaigns and customer outreach programs to maintain your SERP standing.

If you become complacent and allow your SEO campaigns to lag, you run the risk of being surpassed by competitors who haven't slowed their search engine efforts.

Related: Bing vs. Google: Which Search Engine is Best?

2. Expand your 'SERP' presence by capturing multiple listings.
If you've seen positive business results from claiming the top spot on a single keyword search results page, just imagine how much better you'd do if your company held multiple listings on the same page.

It is possible to hold multiple search result positions by using a number of different tactics:

• If your site becomes eligible for Google Site Links, you'll qualify to receive between four and six links below your primary search result, each of which points to an internal page on your website. Currently, this program is automated. You'll only be eligible to receive Site Links when Google deems your website to be high enough. So far, the specific criteria to qualify are known only by Google.
   
• You can also optimize additional pages within your website for the same target keyword, increasing the odds that multiple pages will qualify for positions on the same search results list. But depending on how your existing pages are set up to target SEO keywords, this may not make sense for your business. If you're currently using a 1:1 ratio (one target keyword for each page on your site), redirecting your keyword focus to get multiple pages on the same search results page may mean losing a potential ranking for a different keyword.
   
• You can attempt to rank external web pages on which you maintain a presence in the same SERPs as your main site by carrying out backlink building campaigns. As an example, if your company publishes YouTube videos as part of your content marketing campaigns, you could redirect part of your link building campaigns to boost those videos in the SERPs, alongside your primary website.

Related: How to Optimize Your Site for Organic Search (Video)

While none of these techniques is easy, you may find that multiple positions in the SERPs for your target keywords creates an exponentially larger benefit for your business than a single high ranking.

3. Be proactive about negative SEO attacks.
You also need to be aware of the potential for negative SEO on your ranking -- deliberate attacks using SEO techniques that are known to result in search engine penalties. For example, spam backlinks, such as those in the ubiquitous "10,000 links for $10" packages found online, can lead to search engine penalties. Purchasing these links and pointing them at a competitor's website could cause the site to lose rankings and traffic.

Unfortunately, there's no surefire way to prevent a competitor from carrying out negative SEO attacks against your website. What you can do is continually monitor your backlink profile for evidence of low-quality links that you didn't create. If you see such links, there are several steps you can take, and track any attempts you make to have the unsavory links removed. Doing so can increase your odds of getting any resulting SEO penalties removed should it become necessary to file a reconsideration request with the search engines to restore your site to its previously high rankings.

Related: How a Facebook Search Engine Could Change the Way People Find Your Business

Your Sincerely

Adam Anderson

College Executive Chairman

As anyone who's ever struggled to achieve and maintain high search results rankings can attest to, search engine optimization (SEO) is a constant race to stay one move ahead of your competitors. To win that race, you need to continually improve your own website and monitor your competitors' SEO activity.

If you've watched rivals usurp your top rankings, you'll want to consider these five tips:

1. Focus on content creation.
When it comes to digital marketing, the acronym "ABC" doesn't just stand for "Always Be Closing." It should also remind webmasters to "Always Be Creating."

Whether you're pursuing SEO, pay-per-click or any other digital marketing strategy to attract new visitors to your website, the quality and amount of content matters. Adding fresh content to your site makes it more appealing both to the search engines and their automated indexing programs, as well as the people who read your pages. High-value content can also lead to viral sharing, which increases the number of external backlinks pointing at your website and further improves your SEO.

So content creation is a "win-win-win." If you're concerned about competitors usurping your high search rankings, you can't go wrong by investing time in creating blog posts, articles, downloadable products and other content for your site.

Related: The Basics of Using Keywords for Better SEO

2. Plan your keyword targeting strategies carefully.
As you're creating this content, you'll want to pay careful attention to the keywords you're targeting. Just because you've reached the top spot in the Google results for a given keyword doesn't mean that maintaining this ranking is a valuable use of your time.

What you need to focus on are the search queries that yield the highest total traffic. To determine which keywords are most effective and which ones can be ceded to competitors, look at the traffic data for different search queries using Google Analytics or Google's Webmaster Tools program. If possible, use advanced tools like Raven Tools(free, with paid plans starting at $99 per month) to determine which keywords are producing the most conversions.

3. Stay abreast of SEO news.
SEO is a field that's constantly changing. If you're able to jump on a new technique or growing trend before your competitors, you may be able to cement your lead in the natural search results.

Set aside time each week to monitor SEO news websites such as Search Engine Land or Search Engine Watch. If you see evidence of a major change in SEO best practices, take action right away to prevent your site from falling behind in the search results.

Related: Why You Want 'Backlinks' to Your Website (Video)

4. Monitor your competitors' backlink profiles.
While it's important to monitor your own website's backlink profiles to prevent negative SEO attacks, you should also keep a close eye on any changes in the links your competitors are building.

Often, the best SEO techniques aren't widely publicized. Instead, people accidentally stumble upon a winning combination that leads to positive website results. By monitoring your competitors' backlink profiles using tools like Majestic SEO (free, with paid plans starting at $49.99 per month) or Open Site Explorer (free, with paid plans starting at $99 per month), you can both identify potential linking partners for your site and uncover any new linking strategies your competitors may be using to try to beat you.

5. Monitor your competitors' on-site SEO activities.
Also monitor competitors' on-site optimization efforts. If any competitors dramatically change their SEO activities, you could be looking at one of two possible scenarios: They may have discovered a new way to optimize their pages in the search results, or they may be updating their pages in response to a penalty from the search engines.

Either way, it's a good idea to keep an eye on your competitors' title tag structures, use of keyword-optimized headers and other SEO activity. All this information -- and much more -- is available with free, downloadable tools like Traffic Travis.

Related: 3 Steps to Protecting Your Website's Search Rankings

Installing a synthetic grass lawn and making it look good just requires following a few simple steps. Following these steps will ensure a clean, professional looking installation. All it takes is a little hard work and attention to detail.

Steps

1.Remove the existing grass (or weeds, as the case may be). You can use a sod cutter for this task. A sod cutter can be rented from your local tool rental company or home good store. The advantages of a sod cutter are: they cut evenly across the lawn, they are much less destructive to existing water lines and irrigation and if you have grass you can roll it up and dispose of it which saves time.

2. Excavate to an average depth of at least two inches. While you can get away with less, you won't get as good drainage which can be especially important if your turf will be coming in contact with pets and their associated byproducts (ie. urine and feces).

3.Install a bendaboard border along the perimeter of your installation, if desired.The advantages to using bendaboard are that your turf will definitely not come up and cannot be pulled up by dogs. Alternatively you can use 60d six inch nails every 4 inches (10.2 cm) on the perimeter.

• If you elect to use a bendaboard border, be sure to use a composite board material that will not corrode. Wood won't suffice.
• Dig a slight trench along the border approximately six inches deep using a "mud gun" (layman's term for a small jackhammer with a shovel bit - can be rented) or a trenching pick and trenching shovel.
• Put the bendaboard in the trench so the top of the bendaboard is approximately one inch to 3/4" below the finished surface - for example, if the turf lawn has a cement slab next to it, the bendaboard border should be about one inch below the slab height.
• Stake the board to the ground so it is secure and backfill with gravel or the dirt that was excavated and compact thoroughly.

4. Cap any existing irrigation heads. Alternatively you can reconfigure them to "spritz" the turf and keep the irrigation system. This works well for really hot days to cool the turf or for pet owners who want to wash the turf down automatically.

5. Add gravel. Quarter inch self compacting gravel is recommended. Large gravel - half inch or above - will make getting a nice grade very difficult. Add gravel so it comes about a quarter inch above the bendaboard and is higher in the middle. If your area is a 20' by 20' square, it's best to make the middle of your install one inch higher than the edges. This will create a nice "mound" look. Flat synthetic turf installs have a tendency to look fake!

• One cubic yard of gravel will cover 300 square feet one inch thick. Also, one cubic yard will weigh about 2000lbs.

The digital marketing world has seen more changes in the past two years than over the last 10 years combined, thanks to the release of Google's Panda and Penguin algorithm updates. Both have changed online marketing best practices, including everything from how sites should be built to how "backlinks" should be created.

Links that go from another site to yours are called backlinks because they point back to your pages. Building these links, which point back to your website, can help improve your site's search engine optimization (SEO).

So if you're still using outdated link-building techniques -- such as automated directory submissions or "10,000 links for $10" package purchases -- it's time to devise a new, updated link building strategy. For best results, focus your activities on the following techniques:

1. Guest posting.
The process of guest posting refers to drafting an article that will be published on another person or company's website. Not only can this technique give you access to a new audience, it can also help you secure at least one valuable backlink pointed at your own site.

To maximize the value of this strategy, work with well-known, highly regarded blogs and send only your best content to these publishing sites. Guest posting is all about the relationship you build with another site and its audience. It's not a technique that can be automated by sending any old article to any old publishing blog in order to secure a link or two.

2. Creating infographics.
People often like to share infographics -- images that share data in a graphic, aesthetically-pleasing way. If you take the time to develop an interesting, attractive infographic, it's likely to be shared from person to person, resulting in new links every time your graphic is referenced on another site.

To determine whether or not your infographic meets these criteria, ask yourself the simple question, "Would I share this with a friend?" If you can't answer "Yes" to this question, chances are your infographic could use some tweaking before it's released.

It can take time and money to develop a worthwhile infographic but, when done right, this investment can pay off in terms of the number of links that ultimately result from your graphic's distribution.

3. Building links over email. 
With Google cracking down on sitewide links -- links found in blog sidebars and footers that appear on every page of the site -- developing "in-content" links will be a crucial part of the link building process this year. In-content links are ones that are in the body content of the referring site's pages.

The best way to find these links is through a process called email link building, in which you email potential linking websites and request that your link be placed on a relevant page of content. For example, if you run a local restaurant and encounter a website that lists all the small businesses in your area, emailing the owner of the site and requesting that a link to your business website is a way to generate new, valuable links.

Related: 6 Ways to Make Your Content Go Viral

4. Creating viral content.
You might be surprised that one of the most effective link-building techniques doesn't involve any type of outreach at all.

Viral content creation refers to the process of publishing highly valuable, highly shareable content on your website and then seeding your links on popular social networks. If you create remarkable content, people should want to share it with others, ideally leading to an influx of backlinks that occurs without your direct involvement in building each and every link.

Although there's no hard and fast formula for creating viral content online, you can analyze pieces that have been shared widely for clues to what made it so popular. Often times, it is content that captures emerging trends or is simply absurd or entertaining.

5. Analyzing competitor links.
Examining your competitors' link profiles can be done using simple tools like Majestic SEO (free plan available with paid plans starting at $49.99 per month) and Open Site Explorer from SEOmoz (free plan available with paid plans starting at $99 per month). Both allow you to view the websites that are linking back to your competitors' websites.

Viewing your competitors' backlink profiles should give you plenty of ideas for potential sources that should be linking back to your website as well. You'll want to qualify these opportunities, as replicating a competitor's spam links won't do your website any favors. Maintain strict link-building criteria throughout your own efforts that focus on generating high-value links that will appear as natural as possible to the search engines.

Related: 5 Ways to Beat Your Competitors at SEO

In their book Ultimate Guide to Link Building, link-building experts Eric Ward and Garrett French offer straightforward advice to help you earn a higher search engine ranking and increase the authority and popularity of your site. In this edited excerpt, the authors describe the 10 most essential link-building strategies you can use on your site.

The web today is comprised of trillions of links. Who links to your site and how they link to it is the fundamental factor driving your search engine rank and your website traffic.

If you're not sure where to begin when it comes to building links with other sites, here are 10 easy ways to get started:

1. Create a blog.
Creating content on a consistent basis not only builds links internally (by linking out from your posts), but it also gives you the ability to build links naturally, because content is your greatest asset when attracting links. A blog is essential to many strategies outlined here, such as linking out. You absolutely need a blog in today's online environment to survive.

2. Internal linking.
You have pages and posts on your website, so make the most of them. Internal links are huge for link building because you can control everything about them, from the location on the page to the anchor text. This is something that most people overlook--please do not! Make sure to steer your content in the direction of other posts or pages so you can link to them.

Warning: Do not use exact-match anchor text in your site's navigation (sitewide links). This will most likely be another spam filter from Google.

3. Resources/links pages.
Other webmasters have created links, or resource, pages, and these are legitimate opportunities to get links. If the links on that page are relevant, you've got a chance.

Unfortunately, it's not as easy as just asking for a link. The following two suggestions are specific strategies to help you get webmasters liking you before you ask and greatly increase your chance of getting the link.

4. Ask people you know for a link.
Whether it's your friends, relatives, employees, colleagues, business partners, clients, or anyone else, ask them for a link. Someone you know has a website or blog, so take advantage.

5. Make it easy to link to you.
If you want people to link to you, make it easy for them. Create HTML-ready snippets that people can plug right into their content to link to you, because some linkers in your community might not be too web-savvy. Either create a "Link to Us" page or use a little JavaScript to generate the HTML at the end of each article or post.

Note: This might not be the best option for every community. Are you in the cement niche? Then this is perfect. Are you talking about internet-related business? Then this might not be your best bet, because the majority of your audience probably already knows how to link.

6. Research your competitors.
When it comes to finding new link opportunities, competitor research is one of the first things you should do. Essentially, you're piggy-backing off their success. While some links are unobtainable (that is, a random mention in a news post), others can be diamonds in the rough (a high-quality niche directory).

Try using SEOmoz's Open Site Explorer for this. Plug in your competitors and export their backlinks to a CSV file. Do this for all your competitors so you can get all their links in one place in a spreadsheet workbook. Then you can sort them by various link metrics to find the best opportunities.

Related: Promoting Your Site's Best Content Through Link Building

7. Link out.
Linking out is huge. Don't be a link hoarder; you're going to create content, so use it to gain favor with other people.

8. Build relationships.
This is the No. 1 link-building strategy in the world. Get to know people because this is how to promote a website! Build relationships with them, because it'll come back to you in the form of links (that is, if they're the right people).

The best part about this is that it's just like real life. Remember how people say, "It's not about what you know, it's about who you know"? The same goes for link building.

9. Niche-specific directories.
As opposed to general web directories, niche-specific directories only accept sites that meet a certain topic criteria. For example, one directory might only accept sites about arts and crafts. Some of these directories are free, while others are paid. One example is Business.com, a directory for business websites. The cost is $299 per year.

10. Paid directories.
Some directories ask for money before accepting your link(s) in their listings. Dir.Yahoo.com, for example, is a paid directory. Once again, while some of these can pass on legitimate value, others offer little and aren't worth your time or money.

Related: 5 Strategies for Better 'Link Building' and Improving Your SEO

Your Sincerely

Adam Anderson

College Executive Chairman

Introduction

Fifteen senior secondary subjects across English, Mathematics, Science, History and Geography have been endorsed by the council of federal, state and territory education ministers as the agreed and common base for the development of state and territory senior secondary courses. English, Mathematics, Science and History subjects were endorsed in December 2012, and Geography was endorsed in July 2013.

The senior secondary Australian Curriculum for each subject specifies content and achievement standards. The content describes the knowledge, understanding and skills that are to be taught and learned. The achievement standards describe the quality of learning (the depth of understanding, extent of knowledge and sophistication of skill) expected of students who have studied the content for the subject.

State and territory curriculum, assessment and certification authorities are responsible for determining how the Australian Curriculum content and achievement standards are to be integrated into their courses. The state and territory authorities also determine assessment and certification specifications for their courses and any additional information, guidelines and rules to satisfy local requirements, including advice on entry and exit points and credit for completed study.

ACARA continues to work with states and territories to develop processes, options and timelines for further senior secondary Australian Curriculum subjects.

On the following are the new logo for Christmas Slam 2018 this logo was design by Flaming Text and massive thank you to them for making this happen and we are so delightful to announced and show this new amazing logo

The Images are shown below:

Christmas Slam will be held the day after christmas so this is why we call it Christmas Slam this events also will be featured with lots of talented superstars. There also will be lots of Title Defence matches, So far the events is all about celebrating the day after christmas, We also hoping that there will be a new champ but If there's no champ oh well there's another time to be a new champs!

DATE: Friday 28 December 2018

**Please note: There will be no ppv in general when It comes to New Year's Eve**

Thanks guys!

Alex Stewart

College Officers( Current Intercontinental Champion)

When hiring a new leader into your organization, what do you think is the most important thing to focus on? Is it technical skills or certifications? Is it past experiences? The answer likely depends on the specific position, but one thing is certain – no matter the role, fit plays a huge role in determining a leader's success (or failure). Just because someone's experiences and skills look good on paper doesn't mean that person will be a good fit in the role, the team, or the company. When hiring external leaders into your company, don't forget to consider these important aspects of fit.

Fit with the position

One thing that I've learned throughout the course of my career is that job titles don't mean much. For example, an HR manager in one organization could have very different tasks and responsibilities than an HR manager at a different company. To avoid confusion and unrealistic expectations, ensure that you develop a clear and concise job description and share it very early in the hiring process. However, just because that information is readily available, don't assume that a candidate applied because he/she is a good fit. This is something that should be addressed directly. When talking with the candidate, avoid simply enumerating what the job offers. Instead, ask the candidate what they want in a position. Get specific information about tasks they enjoy and goals that they have. Does the candidate's preferences closely match what the job entails? If not, consider how this will impact a person's satisfaction with the job. Even if the person loves their coworkers or the organization, they're not likely to last long if they hate their day-to-day tasks.

Related: 5 Reasons to Update Your Job Descriptions

Fit within the team

Use an objective assessment to gather information about the candidate's leadership style, and then compare that with the needs of the team. Consider things like how many direct reports the person will have, how much coaching and development the team members will need, and what percentage of the leader's time will be devoted to managerial tasks. A well-established, experienced team may not need a lot of guidance and may in fact resent someone who comes in and wants to have a high level of oversight. On the other hand, a team that's accustomed to a very hands-on leader might flounder under a transactional leader who largely leaves them to their own devices. This might be the most important aspect of fit to consider, as a poor fit will not only impact the new leader, but will certainly have a trickle-down effect on the team members as well.

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Fit with the organization as a whole

An organization's leaders set the tone for the company. Their decisions and actions influence the culture of the organization and have a cascading impact for employees at lower levels. A diverse leadership team with varying opinions and ideas is a good thing, but at the end of the day, the team needs to come to a general consensus about what kind of culture the company is going to have. If a company encourages employees at all levels to challenge the status quo and strive for continuous improvement, it needs to hire leaders who are going to be open to new ideas and feedback. If a company has a very formal hierarchy or strict policies about communication and information sharing, its leaders will need to respect those guidelines and act accordingly. Data shows that an employee's cultural fit will impact their job satisfaction and even tenure, so organizations need to ensure their leaders fit within and promote the culture and ideals that are most important to the company.

The WorkSafe SmartMove Certificate has been developed for students in years ten to twelve, and for new young workers between the ages of 15 to 21. It is designed to make young workers more aware of what can happen in the workplace. It gives students/young workers a chance to learn about the potential dangers, rights and responsibilities that exist within the workplace. You will need to register with the website and log in before attempting the SmartMove Certificate, as progress, results and achieved certificates are saved. 

The General Module introduces important facts about safety laws and common hazards, and needs to be completed before you can access the Industry Modules. Once you have completed the General Module, you can then select an Industry Module that best suits your future or current work placement, or your area of interest. Each of the Industry Modules contain more detailed information on the main hazards specific to each industry.

WorkSafe SmartMove will generate a downloadable and printable certificate when you successfully complete ONE Industry Module quiz. The Industry Module quizzes also contains questions on issues that were covered in the General Module. If a teacher/trainer wishes to integrate the SmartMove Certificate into the Passport Program, it is recommended that the Certificate isn't attempted until Lessons 1 to 4 of the Passport Program are completed. Students may struggle to complete the Certificate successfully without some prior WHS knowledge.

Can you tell me more about the SmartMove General Module?

To gain a SmartMove certificate, you first need to complete the General Module quiz before attempting an Industry Module. The module contains work health and safety (WHS) general knowledge information, and multiple-choice questions, that relate to the information presented. Once you have passed the general module with a score of 80% or higher (28 out of a possible 35, with multiple attempts permitted) the Industry Modules become available. Go to an Industry Module of your choice, complete the Industry Module quiz, and download/print your certificate.

Please note there is no certificate for just completing the general module.

Can you tell me more about the Industry Modules?

There are 14 Industry Modules available, each one relating to specific workplace environments. The Industry Modules become available once you have scored 80% or higher on the General Module. The Industry Module quizzes are in a slightly different format to the General Module quiz, and each one contains WHS information relating to a specific workplace, as well as multiple-choice questions. To obtain the SmartMove certificate, simply choose ONE Industry Module quiz and score 80% or higher, (13 out of a possible 16), once you have finished the General Module quiz. Upon successful completion, a certificate will be generated that states you have passed both the General Module and relevant Industry Module. You can attempt each Industry Module as often as you like.

Can you tell me about the WHS Extension quiz/certificate?

The WHS certificate is specifically designed for students with special educational needs that may find the Industry Module quizzes overly challenging, or may not be entering a workplace in the near future. It is formatted in the same way as the General Module. Scoring 80%, (10 out of a possible 12), generates a SmartMove certificate. Unlike the Industry Modules, students do not need to pass the General Module to access this module. Complete the WHS Extension Module quiz, and download/print your certificate.

What are all of the modules that are available? What information do they contain?

Below is a list of all the modules, both General and Industry, that make up the SmartMove certificate. Each one links to downloadable/printable documents which contain all of the WHS information that appears in the online modules. Please note that none of the documents contain their related quiz.

The SmartMove General Module	Automotive	Buidling & Construction
Business & IT	Electrical	Farming, Forestry & Fishing
Hairdressing	Health & Community Services	Hospitality & Tourism
Manufacturing	Metals & Engineering	Mining
Nail & Beauty Technology	Retail	Sport & Recreation
	The WHS Extension Module