With NFL training camps in full swing, much is made of every minuscule detail surrounding teams around the league. Yet somehow, one of the key members of the Broncos No Fly Zone, Bradley Roby, seems to be routinely overlooked.

The Broncos cornerback joined Eric Goodman and Les Shapiro on AM 1340 | FM 104.7 to talk about his role in one of the elite units in the NFL, and his ultimate markers of success for this season.

Im in the shadow but its all good. They have established names from being in the league for a long time so at the end of the day all that matters is making plays. If I make those plays then the recognition will come, Roby explained. My attitude is to just make them recognize me. Make them give me accolades. I dont really want that though. I just want to win, create turnovers, and get paid. As long as that happens, I dont care who gets the glory.

Bradley spoke extensively about the team and their goals, but tried to stay realistic and focused on the benefits of training camp especially when it comes to how his group may be disrupting the development of Denvers young quarterbacks.

You cant expect everyone to just go out and look like Tom Brady against us, because Tom Brady doesnt look like Tom Brady against us. Its hard to hold [Paxton Lynch and Trevor Siemian] to that standard against us, but our goal is to keep getting better at the end of the day, said the fourth-year defensive back. Going against us every day is going to make them better prepared for what they will see in the regular season. I feel like you should always work harder and put more pressure on yourself in practice so in the game its easy.

Listen to the full interveiw, including Robys thoughts on NFL player rankings, in the podcast below.

Catch Afternoon Drive with Goodman and Shapiro every weekday from 4p-6p on Mile High Sports AM 1340 | FM 104.7 or stream live any time for the best local coverage of Colorado sports from Denvers biggest sports talk lineup.

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Andy Hallen is the perfect choice for City Council, and here is why.

Hallen's past experiences, qualifications, drive and success are a sure indication that he is a winner. During his career, Andy worked for Procter & Gamble, a Fortune 100 company, which at that time, was the largest trader of vegetable oils in the world. Andy was entrusted with this budget, which is much larger than the budget for the City of Aiken. His achievements in that industry, along with his prudent investment strategies, enabled him to retire at a mere 55 years of age.

I had the pleasure of meeting fellow adventurer Andy and his wife Tracy, eight years ago when we resided in Panama, where they were both key members of the community. Following retirement, Andy moved to Boquete, Panama, where he divided his time between leisure activities and community service. He volunteered at a nonprofit which taught environmental awareness and soon managed the first and only recycling operation in Panama. When a lack of funding threatened to shut down the program, Andy came to the rescue. Imagine, if you will, the effort it takes to raise funds in the U.S., add the cultural and language issues associated with working in a Third World country and you will begin to realize that Andy, through his skills and talents, was able to save the program.

Among his ideas to raise funding was the development of a coupon book. Although widely known and used in the U.S. for decades, the concept was nonexistent in Panama. Andy convinced many of the local merchants that couponing would promote their businesses. Once printed into booklets, they were sold to residents, raising the much needed capital to keep the door of the recycling center open.

Andy and Tracy were invited to Aiken in 2013, and it was love at first sight. Six months later they moved here. I'm a firm believer that things happen for a reason and meeting Andy in Panama lead to his move to Aiken. Now Aiken needs someone with Andys ability and passion to fill the council position in District 5.

As a conservative, Andy is the right person, in the right place and this is the right time. He has the skills, experience and personal attributes to make an outsized contribution to the City of Aiken, but he cant do it without your help. I guarantee that the 30 minutes it will take you to vote Hallen for City Council will be a wise investment in preserving and improving what we have today for Aikenites of the future. Please vote for Hallen and encourage everyone you know in District 5 to do the same.

Phil Follins

Aiken

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The first time most movie-goers heard the music of Hans Zimmer was in the 1988 movie "Rain Man." The composer went on to write the scores of more than 100 films. He has been nominated for 10 Academy Awards and won for "The Lion King."

Zimmer has also won four Grammys and two Golden Globe awards.

"Dunkirk" has been hailed as a visual masterpiece. But what you hear the film's sweeping musical score is the latest genius from the legendary composer, reports CBS News' Mark Strassmann.

"I wrote by going to the beach, picking up the sand, seeing the misery on that beach. You have to get a movie under your fingers. It's as simple as that," Zimmer said.

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To score "Dunkirk," the German-American Zimmer found inspiration in his own past.

"I approached it at first, of course, as somebody who wouldn't be here if my parents had not escaped the Germans," Zimmer said. His Jewish mother escaped the Germans in 1939.

The 59-year-old Zimmer has scored nearly 150 movies.

"Every job starts the same way. I either see a director or I get a phone call and somebody says, 'I want to tell you a story,'" Zimmer said.

His story began in Frankfurt, Germany. As a kid, he had two weeks of piano lessons. That's it. In his 20s, he played synthesizer in the new wave band, The Buggles, and their 1979 hit, "Video Killed the Radio Star."

It was the first music video ever played on MTV.

"For me it was really the impetus to go, 'Hey I like this idea of combining visuals and music. This is really this is really where I want to go,'" Zimmer said.

His Hollywood catalogue includes hits like "Gladiator," 14 years of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series and the "Dark Knight" Batman trilogy.

He has had 10 Oscar nominations winning in 1995 for Disney's "The Lion King." All that success, and yet every new project makes him anxious.

"The first two, three weeks are just complete agony of, 'oh my God, I don't know how to do this anymore. Maybe now I should phone the director and tell him he should hire someone else.' All the neuroses and self-doubt and the fear it's all there," Zimmer said.

On the piano, Zimmer showed us how he created the music for the movie "Interstellar."

Zimmer became a rock star again this summer. He's currently on a 46-date world tour with a full orchestra and choir. He also played at this year's Coachella festival.

"And I didn't know what to expect from the audience and the audience didn't know what to expect from us," Zimmer said. "To see so many grown men cry, I mean we touched them, we moved them. We did give them that experience. I've been hiding behind the screen. I have never looked them in the eye. It's making me a better composer. It really is."

Remember that the next time you're at a big movie and the closing credits say, "Music by Hans Zimmer."

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Embed from Getty ImagesWe read a lot about motivating factors for entrepreneurs: having self-belief, never giving up, failing fast, continuing to look forward. And its mostly good stuff. But Ive found that sometimes there is something deeper. Something that supports these traits which is more personal and more impactful than just believing in oneself. Here are four things I have found having a meaningful bearing on our mental health, and ultimately our careers.

1. Its never about business, its all about whatever you love the most. For me, my children matter more to me than anything in business. I almost lost sight of that at one point. Not that I forgot I loved my kids, but too often I overlooked being present and showing it. Dont allow your stress and pressure get in the way of the one source of strength that will always be there for you. The ones who love you unconditionally.

2. Have a loving support network around you. Things will go wrong, go south, and be difficult to handle. Having those around you who will understand and offer compassion will give you strength to move forward. Sometimes a person just listening and telling you it will be all right is enough. The hug of a loved one, the compassion of a loving listener, the arm around your shoulder. It can have a profound impact on your decision making.

3. Be a strong co-leader of your family. Learning to lead in business means nothing if you sacrifice the opportunity to be a loving and strong co-leader for your family. You and your parental counterpart, regardless of your marital situation, are who your children look to when they experience the world. Their morals, their ethics, their care for others, their respect for others: They learn it all from you. You cannot hide from this. They are your opportunity to learn how leading impacts others. The most respected business leaders know this and treat their employees this way. They learn it in the most important place, their home.

4. Control doesnt matter. Cooperation and interdependence do. Supporting others in a way they say helps them be a better person, matters. Their love for you supporting them and vice versa, your acceptance of them as an individual with thoughts, feelings, and life goals, your humility to equality and the capable contribution of others, is what will produce trust and drive you all forward.

The feeling of success in life is unique, precious, and incredibly focusing. Nothing in business will ever fully give you this, even the feeling of accomplishment from signing a huge deal or selling your business. This only matters when you have someone to share it with. Someone you love, and someone that loves you and makes you happy. Someone who can say they are proud of you. Someone to acknowledge that your hard work has paid off. And when it doesnt, someone who can tell you will be okay will help you back on your feet.

Finding this contentment, this happiness, this love, will propel your courage, your confidence, and your self-empowerment in your career and your business. Whether its your life partner, your children, your parents, or your God. Success in our lives doesnt come from success in business or our careers, success in business comes from success in our lives. Be successful in your life.Photo credit: Getty Images

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From Galley Head Rd to Long Strand is an oil on canvas by Anastasia ODonoghue Healy, on show at the Aisling Gallery in Ballydehob shortly.

From Galley Head Rd to Long Strand is an oil on canvas by Anastasia ODonoghue Healy, on show at the Aisling Gallery in Ballydehob shortly.

A SHARED love for landscape has culminated in a joint West Cork exhibition by two local artists.

Abundance: Light, Land,Water is the appropriate title for the exhibition which opens on August 4th at the Aisling Gallery in Ballydehob, celebrating the work of Fiona Power and Anastasia O Donoghue Healy.

The show reveals their shared love for the landscape in all its seasonal glory.

A Fine Art graduate from Sligo IT, Fiona Power was a member of the Pigeon Loft Studios in Sligo and of the Backwater Artists Group in Cork city.

She has been living and working in West Cork for over 20 years, where her studio overlooks Dunmanus Bay, surrounded by meadows and fields of cattle.

Working en plein air and in her studio, she employs a variety of techniques and materials glazing, impasto and drawing.

Im inspired by the beauty of colour and the emotion of the moments of change in the atmosphere of a particular place and time. Im interested in the land, sea and sky that present themselves in moments of drama and beauty, she said.

Fiona has exhibited widely including at the prestigious RHA Annual Open, with work held in many collections in Ireland and abroad.

In self-taught artist Anastasia ODonoghue Healys attempt to explain her logic she says her paintings capture another way of seeing.

They are informed as much by her journey to painting as by her growing interest in awareness, consciousness and the writings of Eckhart Tolle.

Anastasia aspires to capture the isness of the landscape at a given time. She paints landscapes en plein air, saying that this invites a more intimate experience of the landscape, responding to this experience intuitively and rapidly by her use of colour and mark-making.

Shortlisted in the National Open Art (UK and Ireland) in 2015 and again in 2016, Anastasia continues to refine both her craft of painting and the art of living.

Abundance: Light, Land, Water opens August 4th at 7pm at the Aisling Gallery and will run for two weeks.

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Pat Simmons Jr. is not just a Maui boy, father, singer-songwriter, musician, surfer and an organic farmer. Hes also a cancer survivor, and the son of Pat Simmons, an American rock musician and original band member of The Doobie Brothers. Being from a musically inclined family, Simmons grew up listening to all types of music. He learned how to play both the guitar and ukulele at age six. He has two older siblings from his mothers previous marriage, and his family has always been extremely close.

His father introduced him to playing musical instruments, showing him how to play the twelve bar blues on the guitar at a very young age. Later, Simmons continued his guitar education with Mauis own Tom Conway at Bounty Music. Conway taught him how to play various songs from Jimi Hendrix to other various rock icons.

Pat was a great guitar student who was always eager to learn, Conway told me. He embraced several styles like reggae, blues, folk, even a pinch of Gypsy Jazz! Now, hes developed into a fine player, singer and composer with his own unique voice and strong conviction about his message as an artist. Im proud to call Pat a friend and I was recently honored to play on his debut CD. Little known fact: He also plays a mean Didgeridoo!

Simmons learned how to play the ukulele more than 20 years ago at Haiku Elementary School. The ukulele class was part of the Hawaiian studies program, focusing on basic technical skills as well as Hawaiian songs from Auntie Makua Bailey. In fact, Simmons says that Auntie Makua and her songs really inspired his passion for Hawaiian music and culture.

From his happy introduction to playing Hawaiian music and rock classics as a child, Simmons has always continued to increase his musical repertoire. Hes constantly learning how to play new instruments and continues to refine his playing skills.

Im always playing around with different things, not always diving in deep, but I do play a little hand percussion, harmonica, lap steel slide guitar, flutes, didgeridoo, etc., mostly just for fun, he said.

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Being that Simmons is the son of a famous American rock musician, I was curious about his youth on Maui.

I was exposed to all kinds of music, people and places at a very young age, he said. Its what has really sculpted me into who I am today, including my diverse musical interests from Django Reinhardt to roots reggae.

Simmons said his greatest musical influences are Bob Marley, George Helm, Gabby Pahinui and his father. My dads music with the Doobie Brothers has influenced me so much, as well as his innate musical talents, he said. A lot of the things that I listen to today, I first heard from my dad. Our musical collections are similar from traditional folk music, to the psychedelic rock of the 60s and 70s.

Simmons was touring with his father and the Doobie Brothers band until a few years ago when he decided to settle into marriage and family life. Although he loves touring the West Coast (because theres a lot of opportunity to surf and eat lots of yummy organic foods, he said), he prefers to play local and just be the Maui boy that hes always been. He deeply cares about the aina, and is currently focusing on building up his following in the Hawaiian Islands. In fact, he worked up a new set with two of his friends, Matt Del Olmo and Justin Morris. The Pat Simmons Jr. Ohana played their first show together at the last East Maui Taro Festival in Hana. As far as more music plans, Simmons wants to record another album in the next year.

On a daily basis, Pat listens to a variety of music. Lately, Ive been finding obscure Hawaiian music and singing along while I drive, he said. One of my favorite ways to learn a song. He finds a lot of inspiration from Dennis Kamakahi, Gabby Pahinui, George Helm and Keali`i Reichel. Im also of course very into Bob Marley, various reggae musicians, and some newer music from Xavier Rudd and Trevor Hall, he said.

Simmons said hes recently been enamored with a song composed in the late 1800s by Eleanor Keho`ohiwaokalani Wright Prendergast. It was originally written for members of the Royal Hawaiian Band in opposition to the illegal U.S. overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom. Its called Kaulana Na Pua (you can find a Hawaiian-English translationhereand you can hear the song on the Maui Museum YouTube channel). Perhaps soon, well all have a chance to hear Simmons playing it, too.

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I asked him how his experience of growing up in a musical family will translate to his own growing family. In just the past year, Simmons became a father to a baby boy.

Since my son has existed, Ive been singing to him and playing songs to him in his born presence, inside and outside of the womb, he said. He loves it when I practice near him, and Im looking forward to sharing my love of different genres with him.

Simmons also spends much of his free time tending to his family land in Haiku. Hes an organic farmer, and is energetic about supporting Hawaiis natural environment and protecting the land from dangerous invasive species. This wasnt always the case. Learning about agriculture and permaculture was a passion that began when he attended Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington.

When I enrolled at Evergreen in 2008, I was headed in a completely different direction, Simmons said. I tried to get into this music class taught by a woman who is an expert in ethnomusicology, particularly Irish folk. But the class filled up, and I was forced to find something else. So at the last minute while scrambling to find a class with open enrollment, I chose a program called Into the WoodsCommunity, Conflict, Alliance.

Simmons said the class changed his life.

At 18 years old, I was exposed to what was happening in the Pacific Northwest logging, he said. I learned about the forest ecosystems and the damage being done to plant and animal habitats, including the waters. This perspective on the preciousness of the natural environment really shaped my thinking and my daily choices. After four years of studying natural systems, including agriculture and permaculture, I walked away with a bachelors degree in ecology, the study of the relationship between all biological lifeforms. Plants are my specialty. This helped me understand my own island home a lot more. I have a strong understanding of the natural environments of Hawaii, as well as how threatened they are from pollution and alien species.

Simmons 10-acre family property in Hana is known as the Opana Valley Farm. He hopes to reforest the land with endemic Hawaiian species, and continues to cultivate abundant, diverse orchards and gardens that will continue to feed his family. Hes currently expanding his potato production, as well as creating an organic nursery with rare plants that he can cultivate and propagate to be shared with the Maui community.

Lately, my wife and I have been taking care of existing plants and trees that my father planted almost 20 years ago, Simmons said. But we are also planting vegetable gardens, weaved among perennial medicines, rare fruit trees, native Hawaiian ferns, trees, plants and rare Hawaiian food plants such as Kalo, Mai`a (ancient plantain banana cultivars) and Uala (sweet potato). I really love collecting rare plants that are literally on the edge of extinction, which is the case for many of the rare Mai`aIve collected from remote valleys in East Maui. Gotta perpetuate the old crops so that future generations can enjoy them.

Simmons and his wife also grow old Hawaiian sugar cane varieties, and press the juice in an old-fashioned hand-crank press. They sell their juice and medicinal teas every other Wednesday at the farmers market that takes place at the Waipuna Chapel on Oma`opio Road in Kula.

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So far, all this sounds like the perfect life. It hasnt been. When he was 23, Simmons was diagnosed with testicular cancer. He told me that it was a very scary and intense time for himself and his family. Naturally, a lot of emotions came up and he always did the best to stay in the present moment, full of gratitude for each moment, and trusting that it was all meant to be. He told me that his spiritual work is what helped him be more prepared for that kind of life crisis, and that it was just another opportunity for him to let go and love his body.

I had read somewhere that Pat Simmons Jr. was a fan of Buddhism. Curious about how deep he is into the Buddhas teachings, I asked him how he integrates the teachings of Buddha into his everyday life. He started out by saying that he wouldnt call himself a Buddhist, but that he discovered the teachings of Buddhism as a teenager.

Ill be quite honest, while exploring the realms of psychedelics, such as LSD and mushrooms, I found myself trying to interpret the unity and love that I was experiencing from taking those medicines, Simmons said. The teachings of the Buddha just made a lot of sense after spending time looking deep into my soul. The values of unconditional love and peace were instilled in my being because of my willingness to learn and move through my ego and all the negative things that the mind can choose to dwell on. Returning to love and the bare life essentials are what I took away from those times, and Buddhism helped me see more clearly how to just be.

The influences that were the most positive for Pats cancer healing process were teachings from the Buddha and Eckhart Tolle. Along with the love and support of his family, Simmons said that TollesThe Power of Now helped him to stay happy.

You gotta remember that its all perfect, and that life doesnt give us challenges we arent ready or capable of handling, Simmons said. Im so unbelievably fortunate to be raised on Maui and that I can raise my family here, too. I recognize that Im just a guest here, among this homeland of the original inhabitants, Na Kanaka Maoli, the Native Hawaiians. I truly cherish their culture, and will continue to do my best to help revitalize this land with healthy forests and waters. After all, Im not Hawaiian by blood, only by culture, being raised close to these values and this sacred aina. My bones and my familys bones will go back to the same soil as those who have lived here before me. And I will stand up, protect those waters, these mountain slopes and the creatures that live here. Aloha Aina is my daily way of life.

Pat Simmons, Jr. plays live shows around Maui on a monthly basis. He has frequent gigs at Charleys Restaurant and Saloon in Paia and at Fleetwoods on Front Street. He also plays weekly at Cafe Des Amis in Paia and every Thursday at Mulligans on the Blue. For more information about his showtimes and locations, visit his website.

Cover photo and farm photo courtesy Pat Simmons, Jr.

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Its hard to get anything done with all of the push notifications pulling us into other directions. You can find something else to do or think about at any given moment. But maybe the distractions arent the problem. Maybe its your willingness to be distracted that needs to be examined.

Distractions are by-products of a problem, says Kyle Cease, author of I Hope I Screw This Up: How Falling In Love With Your Fears Can Change the World. Something outside of you is pulling you away from yourself or a goal. But the distraction is actually on the inside, and whats going on outside matches whats going on inside.

We invite distractions as a way to handle three internal struggles, says Cease.

Distractions can help you avoid something that makes you afraid, such as trying something new or achieving a big goal. Many of us stay in a place of fear because its a way to seek connection, says Cease. We get a lot of love for feeling doubtful and scared, he says. If you go to lunch with friend and you complain, now youre connecting through complaining. Eventually you may become scared to not complain because youd lose the feeling of love from that person.

Fear is an illusion that comes from looking at something youve never done. The nervous system isnt scared of doing specific things; its scared of things its never done before, says Cease. It believes anything could be death. Everything youve already done has proven itself to be safe.

If youre about to make a big presentation, for example, and your mind suddenly comes up with the idea, What if I throw up? youre creating an internal distraction to avoid dealing with your fear.

Immediately your ego shows up, saying Youre not going to throw up, helping you with problem it created in the first place, says Cease. Instead, look at that fear as a thought passing through. The problem isnt having the thought, its being resistant to the thought and feeling that you need to fix the thought.

Instead of creating distractions, embrace the fear, suggests Cease. Go into a new or uncomfortable situation saying, I hope I screw this up, or, What if I screw this up? And I love that.

Once you are okay with the problem, it goes away, he says. All of a sudden youre not enslaved to it. Resistance to the problem keeps it there.

At the time of this interview, Cease, whose speaking tourThe Limitation Gamehas been described as a cross between Jim Carrey and Eckhart Tolle, was preparing for a meeting with a television producer from Oprah Winfreys network. Im going into the meeting with the idea that Im okay with screwing up, he says. All of a sudden Im free of boundaries. I dont need that producers approval. I perform much better if Im okay with it going badly.

The feeling of not being good enough keeps you from pursuing goals, and seeking distractions could mean you have a lack of awareness of who you are. The first thing to do is to stop thinking youre incomplete, says Cease.

Every commercial shows this loser person who then flips the tab of a Budweiser and has bikini women surrounding him, he says. Youre not enough is a great starting point. We buy into it because we are horrified that we are enough. Society is built around constant improvement.

This sense of lacking is often formed in childhood. We grew up believing that who we are is what our parents think about us, says Cease. We tap-danced, performed, or whatever we had to do to get love, and we end up becoming characters, thinking that love comes from avoiding something or moving something or chasing something.

Approval has to come from self-connection. Believing that connection is something outside of yourself causes you to be disconnected, says Cease.

A big cause of stress is trying to control things that you cant, says Cease. You cant control politicians, for example, he says. You can control what you do. People pace around, using circumstances outside of themselves as excuses not to step into their own ambitions. There is a lie that things outside of you run you.

Distractions due to lack of control turn into excuses, blame, and credit. This outward thinking helps you avoid taking action and being vulnerable. Right now we live in a time where people are starting to see the BS in themselves and the world, says Cease. People can see through manipulation and strategies and marketing. The number-one thing theyre looking for is authenticity, and that takes vulnerability.

Letting go of what you cant control opens you up to opportunities. Who am I to say that things haveto go this way when there could be a lesson worth way more than the vision I had for myself? asks Cease.

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Participants have to use theknowledge gainedfrom the course and make a submission for the project

TheAnita Borg Institute (ABI) India launched 2017Codeathon.infor women students in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) from smaller cities across India. As a part of the event, participants have to use theknowledge gainedfrom the online course and make a submission for the project: Navigate the Mars Rover.

The project involves designing and implementing a solution that will apply a variety of shortest path algorithms to help the Mars Rover find the optimal path between the starting point and the destination marked by the user. The end user will have the ability to choose the algorithm to be used. This initiative is an online platform that offers the students an opportunity to enhance their coding skills while developing innovative solutions.

"Currently, the industry efforts in this area are concentrated in the six to eight metro cities. At times there is so much happening that the talent in these cities is spoilt for choices. There is a large pool of untapped talent in smaller cities that have a lot of knowledge, they need more exposure and confidence-building. 2017 Codethon.in aims to bridge this gap. The participation from colleges and students in the selected cities has been positive and we look forward to some great coding,said Geetha Kannan, MD, ABI India.

The event is being held in select engineering colleges in Bhilai (Chhattisgarh), Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu), Mysore (Karnataka) and a few cities in Kerala. It will beconducted online from July and will go on until September 2017.Itwillalso offer all participants coaching and practical experience that will better prepare them students for exciting careers in technology.

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A University of the Cumberlands online education program has recently been ranked among the top programs in the nation.

Teacher Certificate Degrees, a leading education resource, recently published its list of top-ranked online masters in education program rankings with the University of the Cumberlands placing seventh on the list.

UC has an average online tuition of $315 per online credit hour. About 12 percent of the programs faculty is tenured, and a 2.75 is the minimum GPA needed for acceptance.

UC ranks 92 on U.S. News Best Online Graduate Education Programs ranking.

Our ranking is designed to help those considering a career change into teaching understand and compare their options for hybrid and online masters-level teacher preparation programs for first-time educators. Our unique ranking uses markers of academic merit as well as metrics outlining the student experience to highlight quality as well as valueand differs from other lists in this space by focusing on programs that lead to certification, rather than professional development designed for teachers who are already credentialed, Teacher Certificate Degrees Associate Editor Laura McPherson said in a release.

Teacher Certification Degrees is a free resource for those looking to explore, start, or expand a career in education. Its editorial staff has written and published a wealth of information on how to become a teacher, including teacher certification, teaching degrees, teaching careers, related articles, news, and interviews.

Published by Project 8 Labs LLC, Teacher Certification Degrees was established in 2010 and is based in the Seattle metro area. It has been a Better Business Bureau accredited business since 2012.

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OSAWATOMIE The Osawatomie USD 367 website is better than ever after several changes were made by assistant technology director Wes Duncan, who helped redesign and build the website at the behest of the district.

With a fresh new look and added features, the website is also cost-free, saving the district thousands of dollars.

We were with SABS, which was $4,000 or $5,000 a year, District Superintendent Gary French said. Its now free because Wes built it. Its a $4,000 to $5,000 savings on a website that is much, much better.

He said the changes have increased functionality of the website and has hopefully made it more user-friendly.

In addition to the new look and formatting, the website now features social media feeds from the districts Facebook and Twitter pages, which will allow the schools to provide information updates almost as soon as they happen.

French said theyve struggled, at times, with keeping the website updated in the past so hes excited about the new features.

Things happen at school every day, in every building, and we needed a way to get that out, he said.

Duncan designed the district website so that each of the school sites are linked to the school social networks of various administrative staff like Justin Burchett. Those networks are all school-related, not personal, French said.

While the information updates wont exactly be live, French said they would nearly be. He used sporting events as his example. Instead of having to wait on game scores, residents will be able to see the scores on the website via the Twitter or Facebook feed as the coaches or staff members post them.

Another plus is that photographs that are uploaded to the schools Facebook page will be visible via the Facebook feed on the website.

He said Duncan has done an excellent job with the website and commended him during Duncans presentation to the school board at the July meeting. Those who are interested in checking out the improved website can visit http://www.usd367.org.

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