Young MUSIAD in partnership with the National Agency, held on 23-28 February in London within the scope of Entrepreneurship Bridge Project 12 young entrepreneurs from Turkey were introduced with investors in London.

PREPARED FOR THE GLOBAL ARENA

The participants, who came together under the umbrella of Erasmus Plus, in cooperation with EU support and MSAD UK branch, had the opportunity to meet foreign investors, explain their initiatives and get to know the entrepreneurship ecosystem in England. Our young entrepreneurs also gained competence in opening up to the global. In the event, which was held with consultations on the startup development program, entrepreneurs were brought together with important institutions that would open the horizon and get support. Entrepreneurs had the opportunity to present one-to-one interviews and presentations to angel investors, accelerators and start-up consultants.

WILL INCREASE TURKEY'S PRESTIGE of R & D -In

MSAD President Abdurrahman Kaan stated that young entrepreneurs will be very productive in order to improve their horizons and gain a vision for the future by participating in such events abroad. Pointing out that young people should follow the trends in the world closely and take action by generating new ideas, Kaan said, Our country needs entrepreneurs, not imitators, but role models. In this regard, we think that the fact that our young entrepreneurs especially focus on innovation-R&D, start-up and technology issues will play an important role both in advancing their personal careers and in making our state a respected and prestigious country in the international arena. found the assessment.

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Kyle Bardouche at Jack Henry stockist Lone Flag in Encinitas, CA

We are now judged in a different criteria for credibility, professionalism, creativity, confidence and approachability. In a word, impressing is out, empowerment and flexibility are in. Men and grooming are having a meeting and grooming seems to be schooling us - and for good reason.

As the new corporate America seems to evolve, the hard and fast rules that once governed the traditional nine-to-five workplace are bending and with them the ways American men dress and groom themselves for business. For generations, the attire and grooming practices were unchanged. The majority of American men and women were wearing dark suits or serious apparel in conservative colors and style as well as practical and standard grooming practices. As a matter of fact, I recall my older brother and I trying on my fathers old spice and others standard brands at that time.

Organized culture and work attire have definitely changed and our society likes the change. Nowadays, corporations are being reengineered so they are flexible and adaptable, ready to take on the changes that are inevitable.

The new business environment calls for different values, behaviors. dress and grooming. Fresh choices, creativity and relaxed clothing are the new rules the modern office. With that comes flexible time, job sharing, summer hours and home offices. This switch in business development has created a new sense of style and grooming for American men where there will be no turning back. Alas, the brand Jack Henry has developed a grooming brand to adhere the rapidly transitioning market.

Clay Pomade and the Deodorant are a favorite of Kevin Love ( NBA Cleveland Cavaliers)

It started with one guy: Jack Henry.At the time he had just turned two and his hair was getting uncontrollable. His parents Kyle and Erin tried to reel it in style it a little.At the time, Erin asked Kyle if she could use his hair product and Kyle tossed her his pomade. She caught it, turned it over and said, Have you ever looked at whats in here? Do you even know what half these ingredients are? Im not putting this on our son.As it turned out, that product contained 33 ingredients, 98% of which were synthetics. Erin went on a mission to find a cleaner alternative - a hair product made with natural ingredients. She was unable to find what she was searching for henceforth, she decided to make her own. After a bit of research, she created the first batch of OG Pomaderight on their stovetop at home.

Jack Henry Deodorant

Kyle tested it on his hair and quickly realized it felt right. Not only was it clean and minimal, but the performance was great. It was everything hed been looking for himself: zero shine, zero grease, zero crunch. He could run his hands through his hair and it felt like nothing was in thereyet he could still restyle all day, even in moisture and humidity.

After that first batch, they realized they were onto something. Their aim was to build a brand to give guys access to clean, natural body care products. Additionally, they aimed to educate men on what was in the products they were using. So they started a brand: Jack Henry.

Clean and minimal packaging

The current collection consists of clean and minimal hair, skin and body products. They never use any synthetics or questionable toxins. The brand launched face oils in early 2019, as there was a need when it came to simple skincare for guys. they also just released their fully natural and cleanDeodorant this past December.

Jack Henry Clay Pomade is their best seller

TheJack Henry Deodorantquickly became the second best seller. They went through 10+ iterations over eight months of development. It was by far the most complex product they formulated because a deodorant doesnt just need to smell good, but it really has to perform. They set out to develop something fresh, earthy, and uplifting, and it had to be on brand.

I recently has the privilege of speaking with KyleBardouche,Founder of Jack Henrywhat men are seeking in deodorant, how everything the brand makes comes from a personal need and a desire to create the products they wished existed in the market and why all of the products are handcrafted by the team in small batches in Southern California- and why this gives the brand the most control over the process and quality at every step!

Kyle described Jack Henry as an extension of himself by living a conscious lifestyle. Not only about ... [+] what he eats, but what he and his family put on their bodies

Joseph DeAcetis: Talk to Forbes about the history, and development of your brand?

Kyle Bardouche: I started Jack Henry in 2017 after realizing how many questionable ingredients were in the hair product I was using at the time. When I went on a mission to find a cleaner alternative, I discovered that there was nothing out there for guys, although there were some really good options for women. I was alarmed that the hair product I was using then, which came in this crisp white container and was marketed as natural was far from it. So we created our Clay Pomade which is our best seller and only contains four total ingredients. It is simple yet sophisticated. After that, we realized pomade was just the tip of the iceberg. There were so many other body care products that had all these questionable ingredients, so we launched our skincare line in 2018 and a year later in 2019, we released our Deodorant stick, which has been a huge seller and is a favorite of NBA Star Kevin Love.Our Philosophy is simple, we believe in crafting the most effective, clean, and pure products. We believe in simple, purposeful ingredients that are sourced from the finest locations. We believe in inspiring and educating. We also believe it goes beyond the actual product. It's about the design, the craft, the way it's made, the way you use it, and most importantly, the way it makes you feel.As for sustainability, our products come in fully recyclable glass containers. All of our ingredients are certified organic and/or wild-crafted, and we dont skimp on the quality. All of our products and formulations are developed and produced in-house by our team. We don't use any synthetics or toxins. I think you may also find Who is Jack Henry interesting, as essentially its you, its me, its anyone who wants to live a more conscious, healthy lifestyle.Personally, Ive been obsessed with hair since I was two years old. Id use my moms hair spray and spike my hair. In middle school, I was all about LA Looks blue hair gel that left your hair looking wet and stiff as a board. After changing my eating habits and really starting to take care of my mind and body in my mid-20s, which is a constantly evolving process, it took me about five more years to develop an awareness of what I was putting on my body. Its not something that happens overnight. I really just try to learn everyday, make better decisions, and lead by example for my kids.Ive always had a rebellious side. I hated school, and I always thought there were other ways of doing things, which I now see was the start of what some might call an entrepreneurial mindset. My educational background is in computer technologies. I thought I wanted to do something in the tech space, but my true calling was really using technology to communicate, build and distribute products that Im super passionate about. I taught myself marketing and business skills by following mentors, reading books, learning from experience, and connecting with others in the space. My background and passions finally came together in about 2013, but before that, I never really knew you could start your own business or work for yourself or that connecting with people was actually called marketing. Understand people and youll understand business.Its also really important to connect with people who share the same beliefs and passions as you. No one can do everything on their own, and thats one of the biggest things Ive learned along this journey. Its all about the people you surround yourself with, the team you build, delegating responsibilities, and being open to growth-both personally and professionally.

Jack Henry uses zero synthetics and zero toxins

Joseph DeAcetis: In your words, what is your competitive advantage in development and specialized product?

Kyle Bardouche: The beauty & grooming industry is built on beautiful people and elegant packaging; very rarely is it focused on the actual product or formula itself. I was surprised that most products on the market arent even the original formulation of the brand selling them. Most brands will go to a manufacturer and purchase a formula that the manufacturer uses for other brands and will just change something as simple as the scent.All of our products are not only formulated and developed in-house, but they are also tested on us, our friends, family, and professional athletes. We have a rule that we wont use any synthetics or potential toxins. It has to come from the earth or we dont use it. Our ingredients are organic or wild crafted and sourced from small family farms across the globe - organic lavender oil from France, organic coconut oil from the Philippines, Hinoki oil directly from Japan. Everything we make comes from a personal need and a desire to create the products we wished existed in the market. We are focused on creating products that not only help you look better, but also feel better.In short, we flipped things around and started with fewer, but more effective ingredients. Additionally, we lead with transparency and education, use minimal black and white packaging to keep the focus on the products purpose and ingredients, and allow the marketing flow naturally from that. We didnt want to rely on flashiness, but rather we just wanted to make natural stuff that actually worked.

Joseph DeAcetis: In your words, what are men seeking today in deodorant?

Kyle Bardouche: I think what men look for in deodorant is simple it has to perform. Nobody wants to worry about carrying around their deodorant and reapplying during the day. At the same time, I think men are becoming more conscience about not only what they're eating, but also what theyre putting on their bodies. They dont want to sacrifice performance or health. Its really about living a fully conscious lifestyle.

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Joseph DeAcetis: Talk to Forbes in detail about the current product offerings and why it is important for consumers to be aware of this brand?

Kyle Bardouche: While each Jack Henry product was created from a personal need, they represent really universal needs.Most of us didnt know that we should be looking at the ingredients in our deodorant or pomade at all, much less that the ingredients we put on our body could be drying and irritating or even have serious health effects. Our skin is our largest organ, so what we apply to it every day isnt inconsequential.At the same time, we all want to look and feel our best, so its not enough that a product is just natural, it also has to perform and be simple to use. When we searched for products that checked those boxes, we came up empty-handed. We believe no one should have to choose between performance and health, and thats the philosophy behind everything we make.

All products were developed from a need of not being able to find anything that existed in the ... [+] market

Joseph DeAcetis: What are your day-to-day responsibilities?

Kyle Bardouche: Running a startup, you have to be super flexible and willing to help wherever you can. My main role is staying focused on the growth of the brand and making sure we are delivering exceptional products. I still do day-to-day tasks that other founders may not do. Were a culture and customer-focused brand, so its very important to stay in constant conversation with customers. I run our social media, post every day, and respond to comments and DMs. I direct and oversee all our content, from working with our photographers, designers, creators, athlete and partner relationships to managing Instagram and overseeing paid ads, all the way to keeping our website operational and up-to-date. That honestly takes up a lot of my time.Additionally, I formulate all our products, so Im always playing with ingredients, researching ideas, and dreaming up how we can improve on whats already out there. However, every day looks different, sometimes I'm helping pack orders in the morning and then will have a phone call with a retailer such as Nordstrom in the afternoon. Were still a lean, small team of seven phenomenal people so I help to make sure they have what they need to be successful with their roles.

Joseph DeAcetis: Where is the product made and why?

Kyle Bardouche: All our products are handcrafted by our team in small batches in Southern California. This gives us the most control over the process and quality at every step.

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Joseph DeAcetis: You have the floor: Talk to my viewers about why they should try this product now ?

Kyle Bardouche: We began developing our new Deodorant in April 2019. We first focused on developing a product that outperformed everything else, so thats where the beeswax, coconut oil, baking soda and bentonite clay come in. The mix of beeswax and these botanicals help absorb your sweat and eliminate any odor.Next, we focused on the scent. We wanted the scent to be uplifting and relaxing at the same time, much like walking through a Japanese forest. Scent or fragrance are very delicate materials, especially if youre working with pure essential oils. It needed to be subtle yet sophisticated. We started with our base note of Hinoki oil, which is sustainably grown in Japan and comes from the Japanese Cypress tree. Hinoki oil has calming and relaxing properties and can be described in one word as clean. Next is our organic Juniper oil, which is harvested in Bulgaria from the Juniper Berry and has a fine, fresh, woody-green aroma. Next we take a more widely known oil - organic Eucalyptus oil that we source directly from Portugal, which gives the deodorant a fresh, uplifting and invigorating note.In combination, these seven total ingredients work with your body to absorb sweat and odor to help you smell great all day long. Based on our testing, it lasts 48-hours with typical usage so you can skip the shower if you need to.To us, a product isnt ready until weve stripped away anything unnecessary. The ultimate question when it comes to development is How can we create a product that performs with the least amount of ingredients? Theres a quote we live by: Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away, by the French poet Antoine de Saint-Exupry.

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The University of West Florida is asking all students in university housing to leave campus by 5 p.m. Sunday, as all dorms will close and instruction will be online until March 30.

Here is the statement from UWF:

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All courses will be offered remotely from March 16 until March 30, 2020.

Housing and Residence Life Closure All students living in university housing must return to permanent home residences or a non-campus alternative housing arrangement,effective immediately, today March 14until March 30, 2020.

If you need to visit campus to gather personal belongings, you may do so until5 p.m. on March 15, 2020.

We understand that there will be extenuating circumstances. Housing and Residence Life will work with students who are not able to return home during this time period on an individual basis. Please contact Housing and Residence Life athousing@uwf.edu by 5 p.m. on Sunday, March 15, 2020.

Campus Services Limited campus services will be available to those students who are authorized to stay in campus housing, including dining services and residence assistance. Counseling, Psychological Services and Health Services will move all appointments to telephone.

All other campus facilities, including but not limited to Health, Leisure, and Sports Facility, Aquatic Center, University Libraries, the Education Research Center for Child Development and athletic facilities will be closed.

Employees Reporting to Work Changes Only essential personnel are expected toreport to workfrom 12 a.m. Sunday, March 15, 2020 through 11:59 p.m. Sunday, March 29, 2020. Employees who are unsure of their status must seek guidance from their supervisor.

Non-essential personnel, including OPS and student employees, are expected towork remotelyduring this time period. Supervisors are expected to provide assignments to employees. Employees working remotely are expected to:

If employees are in roles that do not traditionally accommodate remote work, supervisors must assign other work, projects or professional development that can be performed remotely.

Faculty who need to visit campus in order to utilize university tools to continue to fulfill the academic mission must notify their dean and department chair before visiting campus. Faculty that need in-person services from Global Online may visit campus. Virtual training bootcamps are also available to faculty through theGlobal Online website.

During emergency and adverse situations, supervisors are encouraged to allow employees to fulfill family care responsibilities due to illness or closing of schools, daycares, assisted living facilities, etc. during telecommuting if the employee can effectively balance family care and work.

An employee who is unable to work due to a family care emergency may use one of the following types of time off to account for time away from work, with supervisory approval:

All employees are still required to submit leave reports and time sheets by the appropriate deadlines. Please contact Human Resources with any questionshr@uwf.edu.

Social Distancing Social distancing is the best way to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. Social distancing refers to measures that are taken to increase the physical space between people to slow the spread of the virus. By maintaining a distance of six feet from others when possible, people may limit the spread of the virus. Social distancing also minimizes the number of interactions that provide the opportunity for the disease to spread.

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Don't bottle up your emotions only to have them hit during a busy week

LAUREN PETTIT

Your brain deals with a lot. Just because you're having a bad time doesn't mean you should bottle it up. Talk to your friends and loved ones to live a happier life.

HALEY BRICKWEDEL, Evergreen Columnist March 13, 2020

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Fear, anger, sadness, joy, disgust, surprise and trust are all emotions felt, sometimes daily. Expressing these emotions is easier than pushing them away or down. At the end of the day, the emotions are still there when they are not dealt with.

Emotions are fabulous teachers, said Isabel Gaila Barbuto, a counselor at Moscow-based Mental Wellness Coaching & Consulting.

No one likes to be friends with the person who emotionally vomits on them, with quick fits of rage or random tantrums of tears.

These emotions are visitors, arriving to show how an individual feels in a moment. Talking about each emotion and accepting the emotions as they come up can be the only way to understand them.

As you get more comfortable with these guests and visitors (the emotions) there is a new sense of safety, an internal dialogue with the family (the individual and their emotions), Barbuto said.

It can be emotionally draining for others when emotions are not accepted on the individual level. Going to a party while sad never ends well. Lashing out and saying hurtful words are not forgiven lightly.

Befriend and establish new relationships, welcome them (the emotions) to create a new relationship with yourself and these thoughts, Barbuto said.

Studying an emotion wont teach an individual anything until the emotion is experienced and put into practice. For example, dealing with one emotion at a time can be easier than dealing with all seven at once. With school, work and life, students should not let their emotions stress them out or become overwhelming.

Rather than reactions, practice a responsive mode that stays calm and at ease that is able to maintain an anchoring and grounding to know the next best action to take, Barbuto said.

Living in your 20s and being in college are some of the most stressful years of life. This is a time of development, as well as experiencing emotions about your future life and career. With so many things to do a day, let alone in a week, there is no denying that students feel every emotion.

You can develop self-efficacy, that is calming on the biophysiological level and emotional cognitive level. The judgment, resistance and pushing away begins to fade away when you welcome emotions, Barbuto said.

Many times students have to push off emotions until after an exam or paper (even I am guilty of this). Pushing these emotions down and not addressing them is where they can really grow and fester.

With so much strain on students, the university provides events and activities to reduce the strain on students. The university recognizes that college and students in their 20s are feeling stressed and overwhelmed.

When I am overwhelmed I either hangout with friends or exercise, if I have the time. Sometimes I take a nap, said Alondra Romero, a freshman studying mechanical engineering.

The gyms around campus provide Sweat the Stress Away. This is a program that give students a chance to work out and meet other students. The program includes climbing, esports, swimming, CrossFit, yoga, boxing and so much more.

There are even times where there are puppies on campus, trivia, wellness seminars and more. These can be more frequent during midterms and finals. However, these events that run for a single hour during a busy week cannot fix everything.

Express every emotion. Lean into them hard and get to know them. My mother used to always say there is more than just anger there. Many times emotions can come in pairs. Sometimes sadness can be expressed as anger, or vice versa. This all becomes clearer when knowing emotions on an individual and personal level.

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It was weird that no one had heard from Jake Millison in a few days.

Maybe someone who didnt know him, an outsider to Gunnison, a small Colorado town on the western slope of the Rockies, might assume he was flaky or unreliable. At 29, Jake still lived with his mom and spent most nights at the local dive bar, the Alamo. But Jakes friends knew he was deliberate, a creature of routine. If you had plans to go to the movies on Saturday, hed text you on Wednesday: What time should I pick you up? And then again on Thursday and Friday just to confirm. On a motorcycle trip to California, Jake was the one who brought tarps and first-aid kits. He definitely wasnt the fall-off-the-face-of-the-Earth type.

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Jake had spent most of his life on the 7-11 Ranch, his familys property just outside Gunnison. Hed drive into town most evenings, work out at the gym, then stop by the Alamo. He always sat at the same table and always ordered the same drink: a Coke, because anything stronger made him nervous. His friends, a close-knit group of half a dozen guys, would show up after their shifts at the mechanic shop or the lumberyard. Theyd shoot pool for a couple of hours, then Jake would head home to the ranch. Everything was like clockwork with him, his friend Antranik Ajarian told me.

On Wednesday, May 20, 2015five days since anyone had heard from Jakehis friends Nate Lopez and Randy Martinez drove out to the 7-11 Ranch. They turned into the driveway, then drove past the barn decorated with the antlers of deer, elk, and moose, testaments to the propertys glory days as a hunting camp. They didnt see Jake, although they did spy his truck, his motorcycles, and his dog, Elmo.

In the horse corral, they spotted Jakes mother, Deb, a wiry woman whose frail frame belied her stubborn strength. Deb told Lopez and Martinez that Jake had gone to Reno, Nevada, to train at a mixed-martial-arts gym; he wasnt responding to their texts because hed dropped his phone in an irrigation ditch and left it behind to dry out in a bag of rice. Her explanation was logical enough. But the more they thought about it, the more it didnt sit right with them.

Another few days passed, and still no word from Jake. His friends called and stopped by the ranch. They werent sure what else to do. Ill let you know when hes back, Deb would say. Were they paranoid, or did she seem annoyed to see them? The situation felt weird, they kept saying to one another. It just felt weird.

After about a week, a Gunnison County patrol sergeant named Mark Mykol, alerted to Jakes sudden disappearance, called the ranch. Deb said her son had taken off with a friend whose name she didnt know. She thought they were headed to Reno to go camping. He did this sometimes, just up and vanished, and she seemed less worried than irritated. Mykol marked the case status as unfoundednothing to see here. But Jakes friends kept insisting that something was wrong. A week later, Mykol called the ranch again. This time, Deb admitted that she and her son had been arguing; he was almost 30 and still living at home, after all. Hed grabbed some camping equipment, a gun, and a wad of cash, then gotten into a car with someone she didnt recognize. She figured he was in Nevada looking for work, or in California with friends, or in New Mexico with his father; shed stopped trying to keep tabs on him.

But Debs story only left Jakes friends more confused. It was as if she were talking about an entirely different person from the Jake they knew.

In the ski mecca of Crested Butte, the median price for a house is $750,000; Gunnison is its more rugged, affordable neighbor 30 miles south, a windswept town of hunting outfitters and craft breweries, and the home of Western Colorado University (motto: Learning, elevated). Gunnisons 6,500 inhabitants are an eclectic mix of hippies, hunters, college kids, ranchers, and professional mountain bikers. At the Traders Rendezvous, you can pick up an antique rifle or a taxidermied wildebeest; a few blocks down the street is Shamans Corner, a combination massage parlor, tattooist, and metaphysical gift shop.

When I visited Gunnison in November 2018, the big news was a local ranchs cattle relocation: Cows will be walking down HWY 135 between 9-noonish, the Gunnison Regional 911 Centers Facebook page warned. With the snow please be safe and budget a few extra minutes as the girls make fast retreat down valley. Thanks for the patience.

Jakes parents split up when he was 6 and his sister, Stephaine, was 7. His father, Ray, whom Ajarian described as an old crazy gun guy (he meant this as a compliment), eventually moved to rural New Mexico. Deb got remarried, to Rudy Rudibaugh, a widowed rancher two decades her senior. When I stopped by Traders Rendezvous, everyone had a story about Rudy. He was a tough little turd, as one man put it, who had served as a frogman in World War II, lurking in rice paddies and breathing through a straw as he stalked the enemy. After the war, Rudy bought the 7-11 Ranch and based a successful hunting business there.

Rudy was known for doing things his own way. In the pre-cellphone era, he used carrier pigeons to send messages between hunting camps. When Jake and Steph were little, Rudy and Deb bought an African lion cub; they kept it chained in the horse corral and fed it a diet of roadkill. Neighbors complained that it frightened the livestock; eventually somebody shot and killed it from the highwaythe Gunnison County equivalent of a drive-by shooting.

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Jake and Stephaine were homeschooled by Deb, in part so they could help out on the ranch. There was always plenty of work on the 700 acres: branding calves, baling hay, repairing tractors, leading hunting trips, caring for the horses. As Rudy got older, he had a harder time keeping upand Jake was expected to pick up the slack. The family was often the last to finish putting up their hay for the season, because Rudy and Jake handled all the work themselves, Jakes friend and former neighbor Adam Katheiser told me. And when Rudy was no longer able, it was just Jake.

As a teenager, Jake began attending public school for the first time. Early on, he got in trouble for the rifle in the back of his truck; he hadnt realized you werent supposed to bring firearms to school. After spending much of his youth isolated on the ranch, Jake began to amass a group of friends. He and Ajarian, both introverts, found it easy to be quiet around each other. Their crew grew to include other guys with similarly low-key temperaments. They went camping, fiddled with their motorcycles, and made fun of one another for all the project vehicles that never quite got all the way fixed.

After high school, Jake stayed at the ranch while most of the crew rented apartments in town. Jake could be standoffish with strangers, but he was inseparable from his friends. He seemed to have a boundlessoccasionally exhaustingappetite for hanging out. He could be a know-it-all, and if he thought you were doing something stupid, he wouldnt hesitate to tell you so. His friends sometimes rolled their eyes, but they appreciated that they always knew where they stood with him. We used to say, Yeah hes an asshole, but hes our asshole, Ajarian said.

Jake was 23 when Rudy died, in 2009. Stephaine had already received an inheritance of $30,000. Jake didnt get any money; the assumption was that he and his stepbrother, ShaneRudys son from his first marriage, who lived in Texaswould eventually inherit the ranch. Now the full burden of maintaining the property fell on Jakes shoulders. If he thought about shirking his obligations, he never did. Gunnison ranchers dont move away, Jakes friend Tom Page told me. Jake was tied to the land, to his familyand to a dying way of life.

Though the mythology of the American rancher looms large in our national imagination, economic pressures and climate change have made small-scale ranching ever more precarious. Since 2000, the Colorado River Basin has suffered an unprecedented period of drought, and low commodity prices and the rising cost of living havent helped matters. The suicide rate in Gunnison and other rural Colorado counties is more than twice the national average.

Faced with a deficit of water, Colorados booming cities have turned to a buy and dry policy, in which farmers agree to let their land lie fallow and lease their water rights to thirsty urban areas hundreds of miles away. By the time Jake took charge of the family ranch, the gulf between rural and urban Colorado was vast: the agricultural land of the Rockies western slope lying uncultivated and slowly drying up, while in Denver so many new buildings were being erected that there was a waiting list to rent a crane.

Ranch life was becoming the purview of wealthy hobbyists who could afford to indulge in cowboy fantasies. In Gunnison County, not far from the 7-11 Ranch, the billionaire businessman Bill Koch built his own private replica of an Old West town, complete with a saloon, church, jail, and train station; the propertys 21,000-square-foot mansion is stocked with memorabilia, including firearms that belonged to Jesse James and Sitting Bull.

News accounts would later refer to 7-11 as a $3 million ranch, but when Jake disappeared, it was kind of a junkyard, Lopez told me. Jake lived in the lodge, a building that had been intended for big gatherings and camp suppers; now it was so cluttered with Deb and Rudys collectionsstuffed rattlesnakes, old bits and bridles, ancient guns, antique machines with unclear usesthat it barely had enough room for his bed.

Jake once asked Katheiser to help brand calves. Katheiser had helped friends out before, and knew that typically a calf was herded into a mechanical chute, where a clamp closed around the animals neck, immobilizing it and then flipping it on its side. Katheiser was surprised to see that the 7-11 Ranch had no such equipment. It was a day of rough, physical worksnagging the calves with a rope, wrestling them to the ground, then holding them down to be branded. The corral itself needed maintenance. But Jake could never get to it, because the fences need fixing, the truck needs fixing, and weve got to brand all these cows now, Katheiser said.

Faced with more than they could handle, the family sold off much of their livestock and stopped hosting hunting trips. Money became a source of tension between Deb and her son. Jake didnt receive a paycheck for the hours he put in at the ranch; his eventual inheritance of the property was supposed to be payment enough. In the meantime, if he wanted to go to the movies or the Alamo, hed have to ask Deb for cash.

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Frustrated, Jake found other ways to scrounge up money. He cut and sold firewood. He worked part-time for a landscaping company. He came up with a scheme to grow marijuana to sell to college students, which his friends found hilarious: Dude, you dont smoke weedhow are you going to test your product? He cultivated psychedelic mushrooms and looked into starting a chimney-sweeping business.

One summer, Jake made good money working on a commercial fishing boat in Alaskabut when he returned home, he ended up giving Deb $15,000 to help keep the ranch afloat. He was always pissed off about that, Ajarian told me. He always said he shouldve just said Fuck the ranch and kept it. But while Jake may have talked about the property as if it were an anchor dragging him down, he was unwilling to walk away. What if the ranch was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity? What if he could restore it to greatness?

However much Jake worked, it wasnt enough for his mother. If the ranch wasnt thriving the way it had under Rudy, it wasnt due to the drought or the economy or any of the other forces that plagued ranchers across the western states. The problem was that her son wasnt trying hard enough. She complained that he slept too late and left jobs unfinished. Whenever you were out there, Ajarian said, theyd be at each others throats.

When Jake vanished, some of his friends hoped that hed finally reached his limit and taken off: Fine, you guys deal with this place. It was nice to imagine him somewhere sunny, California maybe, free to do as he pleased. But that daydream never quite felt plausible. Maybe he wouldve abandoned his family, Jakes friends thought, but he never wouldve abandoned them.

In June, Jakes friend Max Matheny and his sister, Molly, met with Mykol at the sheriffs-department headquarters. Molly had called Ray, Jakes dad; he said he hadnt heard from his son in weeks, and suggested that she file a missing-person report.

Mykol didnt think that was necessary. Everything Deb had said had checked out so far: It seemed that Jake had just taken off. But the sheriffs office did reopen the case, and alerted law enforcement in Reno to be on the lookout for Jake.

Ajarian, too, says he tried to file a missing-person report. The sheriffs department, Ajarian told me, kept saying the family doesnt want it. Several of Jakes friends said they were told that only family members could file such reports, although according to Colorado law any person with relevant, credible information suggesting that a person is missing may make a missing person report to a law enforcement agency.

Nate Lopez spent a lot of time talking with local law enforcement. They just told me that the only people they can really believe is the family. If they say that Jake went on a trip, and theyre the last people to see him, thats what you have to go by until theres evidence that shows otherwise, Lopez told me.

Jakes friends refused to let the matter go. Steph messaged one of her brothers friendsdo you have any idea who keeps reporting jake missing? I would really like [if they] could just call mom instead, she wrote. But Jakes friends called the ranch so often that the sheriff told them to knock it off.

It was dismaying, if not surprising, that law enforcement seemed slow to wonder whether Jake Millison had been the victim of a crime. Most murder victims in the U.S. are maletypically young men of colorbut you wouldnt know that from watching TV, where the victims who get the most airtime tend to be young, attractive white women. As a culture, were not as attuned to young mens vulnerability to violence.

While law enforcement seemed to accept Jakes familys story, his friends found themselves bumping up against an uncomfortable possibility: that one of his family members was complicit in his disappearance.

Three years before Jake went missing, Steph, who had been living in Denver, moved back to Gunnison with her husband and son. She earned money taking tourists on horseback rides, and dreamed of giving her son a country upbringingcrisp mountain mornings; lying in the tall grass, aiming a rifle at soda cans. Though Steph described herself as not good with backhoe things, she was a skilled horsewoman who identified as a country girl.

Despite their shared upbringing, Steph and Jake never got along. Yes hes mellow with his friends but with family he is a complete dick most of the time, Steph texted a friend around the time she moved back to Gunnison. Jake made it clear he was unhappy that his sister was back in town. Steph had already used her inheritance to put a down payment on her house in Denver; now he worried she was trying to stake a claim on the ranch, too.

Steph and Jake had worked out a kind of sibling dtente, which is to say that they mostly avoided each other. But things were different with Stephs husband, Dave. Where Jake was reserved, Dave was cocky. Everything about him seemed to grate on Jake, including Daves cara white Ford station wagon with flames painted on it. Jakes friends say his annoyance was undergirded with fear; he saw Dave as unpredictable, potentially violent. He made awkward half-jokes about keeping a gun nearby in case Dave attacked him.

Jake began training at a jiu-jitsu gym in Gunnison. He took to it right away; the tactics and technicalities and focus on self-mastery suited his temperament. Jiu-jitsu translates as gentle art, Page, who trained at the same gym, told me. Theres no strikingits all about distance management, leverage, control. Its like playing chess with the human body. Jake had always been chubby and withdrawn; jiu-jitsu helped him grow more comfortable in his body, more used to asserting himself.

Jiu-jitsu emphasizes personal development in all areas of life, and Jake became preoccupied with bettering himself. He adopted a strict diet and chided his friends when they ate at Taco Bell. He chugged a gallon of water a day for a few weeks, briefly convinced that hydration was the secret to health. His mania for improvement extended to the ranch, which he periodically tried to clean up, whether his mother liked it or not. He told Ajarian he was bringing junk into town on the sly and tossing it into Dumpsters.

With Dave and Steph back on the ranch, things could get heated. One day, Jake plowed snow into huge banks that blocked Daves car; in the argument that ensued, Dave took off his jacket, revealing a gun. (Dave later claimed that he was planning to set the gun aside so they could fight with their fists.) That afternoon, Jake filed for an order of protection against his brother-in-law. Had it gone into effect, it would have essentially banned Dave from the ranch. Jake withdrew his complaint a few days later, but the animosity between the two men remained so strong that Deb declared they couldnt be on the property at the same time.

Steph was furious when she and Dave had to move to an apartment in town. My younger brother is trying to ruin my life, she wrote on the website Moms.com in 2014. How can I make [my mom] see that it is unhealthy for him to be there controlling her and her property like he owns it?

By the following year, Deb seemed to have taken her daughters advice. My mom might be kicking my brother out soon, Steph messaged a friend on Wednesday, May 13. That Friday night was the last time anyone saw Jake. A few days after that, Steph posted on Facebook: Have you ever been woken up with such awesome news you wanted to run outside screaming?

No more jake???? a friend replied.

Apparently Reno, Steph wrote. Long story tell you soon.

As the weeks ticked by, Jakes friends grew more and more frustrated. No one seemed to be treating Jakes absence as the emergency they felt it was. Steph and Dave moved back to the 7-11 Ranch and were acting like nothing was wrong. If the sheriffs own son had vanished, Ajarian couldnt help thinking, the deputies would certainly be doing more than they were. Finally, the friends decided they couldnt rely on official channels for help.

Ajarian was in the hardware-store parking lot when he spotted the first significant clue: Jakes beloved 1976 Harley Sportster, albeit with a new, slapdash paint job and a modified gas tank. Dave was riding it. If Jake ever saw Dave Jackson breathing on his motorcycle, it wouldve been the end of the world, Ajarian told me. And this guy is riding around on it. And why is it spray-painted all these shitty different colors?

Two other friends were shopping for used bikes when they discovered a couple more of Jakes motorcycles for sale in a local shop. They obtained a copy of the title to one, a Honda, which had both Jakes and Debs signatures on it. To Ajarians eye, Jakes looked like a blatant forgery. You could see Debs signature and you could see Jakes signature underneath it, and its the same fricking handwriting, he said. To Jakes friends, these motorcycle clues were a blatant sign that Debs story didnt make sense. If Jakes family expected him to return, why were they selling his stuff?

One day, Ajarian ran into Deb at the grocery store. He barraged her with questions: Where was Jake? And if she didnt know, why hadnt she filed a missing-person report? She muttered something about not wanting to get in trouble for filing a false report if Jake turned up.

Finally, three months after Jake was last seen, Deb Rudibaugh officially reported her son missing, claiming that his interest in martial arts had brought him into contact with a bad crowd. I figure he got in over his head with something and is either in witness protection or in hiding or dead, she later told investigators.

Ajarian created a Facebook page called Where is Jake Millison. He posted photos from their motorcycle trip out WestJake posing next to a giant redwood; Jake wearing a helmet, making goofy facesand asked people to share any information that might be useful. Someone reported seeing Deb, Steph, and Dave burning Jakes mattress days after he vanished. Someone else pointed out that shortly after Jake disappeared, Dave had changed his Facebook profile picture; in the new photo, he was posed on one of Jakes motorcyclesanother thing Jake never would have tolerated. The tips that came in to the Facebook group were shared with law enforcement. The accumulation of facts, plus Jakes friends persistence, began to convince the department that this was a serious matter here, Mykol said.

Winter brought bad times out at the 7-11 Ranch, Dave texted a friend. With Jake gone, much of the work fell to him. Im sick of being a slave for [Steph] and her mother on this ranch while she is in the lodge warm cozy f****** around on her phone, he wrote. When he threatened to leave, Steph brandished a gun and fired a bullet at the floor. Around the same time, Debs health began to deteriorate. Within a year, she was admitted to the hospital for a collapsed lung; a biopsy revealed that she had Stage 4 breast cancer.

Despite Jakes friends attempts to keep the investigation energized, months passed without much development. A year went by, and then another. Ajarian was alarmed to realize that hed gotten used to Jake being gone. He and his friends sometimes joked about a gray-haired Jake popping up in 50 years, cackling about the epic prank hed played on them, but the unspoken truth was that they all assumed he was dead. Not knowing why or how, or where his body was, was maddening. There had been no funeral where they could make speeches about how much hed mattered to them and cry together for his loss. His family continued to live as if hed never existed. With no official action, it was hard not to feel as though Jakes disappearanceand his lifedidnt matter. The friend group slowly began to disperse: Lopez moved to Texas; Katheiser was in Colorado Springs. Sometimes Ajarian thought of Jake almost as a ghostthere and not there at the same time.

Although the investigation stalled for years, the Gunnison County sheriffs department disputes the idea that it didnt take Jakes friends concerns seriously. We were working pretty hard, Mykol told me. It just takes a really long time. You cant just show up somewhere and searchtheres a thing called the Fourth Amendment, you know what I mean? Mykol also pointed out that the department had only one investigator for the entire county.

Finally, the sheriffs department asked the Colorado Bureau of Investigation for help on the case. Two years after Jakes disappearance, Ajarian met with a CBI agent who told him they were making progress. She said, I cant tell you anythingbut things are in the works for you guys.

On July 17, 2017, official vehicles crowded the county highway by the 7-11 Ranch. As ambulances and fire trucks waited, search teams and dogs spread out over the 700 acres. Later on that day there are reports that theyve found a body, and you just know, Katheiser recalled. Theres not another reason for a body to be out there.

The news spread fast across the small town. While Jakes friends had been calling the sheriff, visiting the ranch, posting on Facebookfor nearly all of that time, his body had been wrapped in a tarp and buried in a manure pile in the corral.

The fact that Jakes body was found on the 7-11 Ranch seemed to confirm that at least one member of his family had played a role in his death. But which one? There were almost too many potential motives: Stephs lifetime of animosity toward her brother, plus the tension over who would inherit the ranch; the constant clashes between Deb and her son. And then, of course, there was Dave. In the weeks before he vanished, Jake had told friends that if anything ever happened to him, Dave would be responsible.

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Investigators questioned Deb, Steph, and Dave separately many times. Their stories were contradictory, confusing, and self-serving. Everyone agreed that Jake had once been his mothers favorite, but that in the years before his death, the dynamics in the family had shifted; Deb began complaining to Steph about Jake, and Steph was happy to egg her on. As Deb told investigators, Steph was insistent that her mother evict Jake. He was a freeloader, she argued. Without tough love, hed never become independent. Sometimes she hinted that more drastic measures might be necessary. The only way that hes going to leave here voluntarily, Deb claimed Steph had said, is if hes in a body bag.

Stephs efforts at persuasion seemed to work. Investigators found an amended version of Debs will, dated three weeks before Jake vanished. Instead of leaving the ranch to Jake and Shane, the propertyand everything else she ownedwould now go to Steph. Jake would get nothing.

Deb told investigators that the week Jake went missing, she had been exhausted from working the night shift at a nursing home. Shed asked Jake to take care of an errand; hed left the job half finished, then gone into town. This, she said, was the last straw. She waited until he fell asleep that night and shot him in the head. She claimed that she disposed of his body on her own. The investigators pressed her on this point. How was this possible, considering how small and frail she was? Yankee ingenuity, Deb said. She had rolled his body in a plastic sheet, then used tow straps and a winch to maneuver it out of the lodge and onto an ATV. She insisted that Steph and Dave had known nothing.

When investigators told Steph that her mother had confessed to murdering Jake, she broke down. Oh my God, she said, sobbing. Are you fucking serious? I cant breathe.

But the officers suspected that she knew more than she was letting on. There was that Facebook post about awesome news once Jake was gone, and her apparent lack of concern for her brother. They kept pressing her.

Okay, Steph said eventually. Honestly I didnt know anything until a couple months ago. Dave had been digging in the manure pile when hed uncovered the body of what looked at first like a large animal, she said. It was partially mummified, and wrapped in plastic. Dave had encountered plenty of carcasses while living on the ranch, but this one unnerved him. He could see parts of a rib cage poking out. Hed called Steph over. Is that what you think it is? he asked.

Maybe, Steph replied. Im going to call Mom.

Deb told her daughter to stay away from the body, Steph said, claiming that it was a mountain lion or a bear Jake had shot. Its illegal game; thats all Im going to say, Deb said. She told her daughter to cover it back up with manure and leave it alone.

In the ensuing weeks, Steph and Dave made awkward jokes about what theyd found. They said they talked about calling the police but never did. Then the investigation ramped up again. With officers sniffing around the ranch, Steph insisted that the remains be reburied somewhere more secure. The family avoided articulating what they were really discussing. Sometimes they called the body it; sometimes they referred to it as the bear. But Steph eventually admitted that was a ruse. I knew in my heart it was Jake, she said. One afternoon, Dave used the backhoe to dig a hole inside the corral. A couple of days later, the bear was gone from the manure pile, and the hole was packed with fresh dirt.

There were reasons to doubt each of these accounts. According to Debs medical records, she weighed 97 pounds at the time of Jakes murder, and was still weak from the gallbladder surgery shed had nine days before. At work, shed been assigned to light duty; at the ranch, she wasnt able to lift a bale of hay. When her doctor examined her a few days after the murder, none of her stitches had torn. Jake had weighed at least 170 pounds. Would it have been physically possible for her to drag his body from the second story of the lodge all the way to the manure pile, even with a winch and straps?

Many of Jakes friends assumed that Deb, dying of cancer, was covering for her daughter, and perhaps also her son-in-law. Ray, Jake and Stephs dad, also resisted the idea that Deb had murdered Jake. No matter how bad it was, I just cant see her shooting her own boy, he told investigators. Cellphone records showed that Steph had been awake in the early-morning hours when Jake was killed. Deborah didnt gain anything by killing Jacob, a CBI agent later testified in a court hearing. But Steph, who would gain sole ownership of the ranch after Deborah passes, did have a motive.

One thing was clear. Whoever pulled the trigger, whoever helped bury the body, they were banking on the idea that everyone else would see Jake the way they didas insignificant, even disposable. That no one would raise a fuss over the disappearance of a quiet, working-class guy who lived with his mother off a rural county highway.

Our families are supposed to be the people who know us best, but that often isnt the case. Sometimes the hardest people to see clearly are the ones were closest to.

After the discovery of Jakes body, and the multiple and confusing confessions from his family members, what seemed to upset his friends most was how they mischaracterized Jake. According to Deb, her son was a drug addict and a drunk, a violent MMA fighter, someone who physically assaulted her and threatened to kill his sister and her family. According to Steph, Jake was a worthless waste of space, lazy and useless. No wonder Jake clung so strongly to his friends. His chosen family was perfectly aware of his flawshis stubbornness, his arrogancebut equally attuned to his loyalty, generosity, and dedication.

On May 13, 2019, almost four years after her sons death, Deb pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and received a 40-year sentence. Dave Jackson had already been sentenced to a decade in prison for his role in moving Jakes body. When I visited Gunnison last fall, the question on everyones mind was what would happen to Stephaine. She was scheduled to go on trial for first-degree murder the next fall, but Ajarian worried that she, like her mother, would end up getting a plea deal. The official version of Jakes death, codified in plea agreements and court filings, didnt strike him as the full story; without a trial, he feared hed never know what had really happened to his friend, or why. Sure enough, several months after my visit, Steph pleaded guilty to tampering with a dead body. In November, Deb Rudibaugh died in jail; two days later, Steph was sentenced to 24 years in prison.

Ultimately the system had worked: Law enforcement had located the body, elicited a confession, and secured convictions. But even after the case was legally closed, it still felt unsettled, incomplete.

One evening, I met Ajarian at a pizza place. Under his mechanics uniform, he wore a T-shirt that said punker than you, and his dark hair was styled in messy spikes. His grief over his friends death expressed itself as a kind of grasping for purpose. When Jake had first disappeared, when his friends were searching for clues and urging the sheriffs department to act, theyd been of use. Now there was nothing left to doexcept maybe hold a memorial service for Jake. Perhaps that would help him feel as though his friend had finally been put to rest. But where would he host such an event? Gunnison was too full of bitter memoriesbut it was also Jakes only home.

The next day, I met Katheiser in his tidy basement apartment in Colorado Springs. He, too, was plagued with thoughts of what might have been. A lot of mornings when I wake up, I think about Jake, what his life would have been, he told me. I like to think that he couldve sold the ranch for quite a bit of money and maybe just gone and worked a regular job somewhere. Bought a house. Maybe he wouldve met a girl and whatever. And he doesnt get that opportunity. Thats what I would have hoped for him. Just that he couldve gotten into a life that he wasnt frustrated at every day.

This article appears in the April 2020 print edition with the headline What Happened to Jake Millison?

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What gets CISOs out of bed in the morning is knowing that they are keeping their organizations safe, according to a new study from privileged access management company Thycotic.

The study of more than 550 IT security decision-makers globally finds being the 'business bodyguard' and the knowledge that they are keeping their organization safe is the top motivator (29 percent), closely followed by being the upholder of ethics (25 percent).

On the negative side when asked about the most stressful aspect of the job, more people (42 percent) cited meeting the growing number of compliance and regulatory demands than lengthy shifts and the need for out of hours availability (33 percent).

"CISOs are on call 24 hours a day seven days a week so they don't have time when they get extra rest, and most cyber attacks, when they do occur aren't at 11am on a Monday morning when you're all sorted after two cups of coffee," says Joseph Carson, chief security scientist and advisory CISO at Thycotic. "They occur typically on Friday night at midnight or on the weekends. The criminals tend to operate from different time zones so they don't really facilitate your time and your attack can happen any time of day, most likely when you're asleep. So, it becomes a very high pressure, very high focused position. One of the things that CISOs can do is strive to find a balance, your mind is always on the job, and doesn't get a break, which definitely is one of the areas of leads to mental health challenges."

The biggest issues surrounding retaining security team members are seen as burnout and stress from long hours and pressures at work (45 percent), lack of support from senior leaders in how to train, appraise and develop staff (40 percent) and lack of opportunity to express themselves in challenging/interesting projects (28 percent).

Carson believes that to address this the industry needs to develop a more positive image, "We tend to focus on threats and fear because that's what that's what drives us for what we do. But sometimes we do have to think about how do we target talent and how do we market to them, how do we make the industry much more attractive for them to decide that this is a career that they want to do? We have to somewhat change the message to talk more about the positive areas talk more about the good things and successes and the people in order to try and change perceptions."

The full report is available from the Thycotic site.

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Tim Rice-Oxley performs with Keane at The Fox Theater in Oakland on March 9, 2020. Joaquin Cabello/STAFF.

Drugs and reported infighting led to the demise of Englishsoft rock band Keanein 2013.

For frontman Tom Chaplin, it was a crippling drug addiction. Keyboardist Tim Rice-Oxley, the bands chief songwriter, saw his own life turned upside down at this time, with a collapsed marriage and a DUI-arrestafter crashing his car into a ditch.

The band reunited a couple of years agoa likely surprise to many longtime fans.On Keanesfifth album,Cause and Effect,Rice-Oxley used some of his darkest and loneliest times as inspiration.

Its kind of emotionally intense, a little more cohesive than anything weve done before, Rice-Oxley said. It tells the story of a relationship breakdown; my marriage, specifically. And it talks about everything that comes out of thatthe falloutthe good stuff and bad stuff.

Keane formed in the mid-90s and struck gold in 2004 withpiano-heavy pop hit Somewhere Only We Know.But after releasing three more albums, Chaplin, Rice-Oxley, drummer Richard Hughes and guitarist Jesse Quin had reached the end. Chaplin has talked about how his drug use contributed to the collapse. But at the same time, the bands constant touring was strainingRice-Oxleys marriage.

Over the course of a hiatus, starting in 2013 and continuing on for the better part of a decade, the keyboardist went back to basics. He wrote songs for a solo album that hed never release. Mostly, he tried to find his balance again. And he had to redefine what he considered personal and professional success, now that his wife and his popularity was gone. Would it be playing shows? Connecting with small crowds? Writing songs that no one would get to hear? He had to find acceptance with that.

Ive certainly done a lot of thinking over the last few years about what constitutes personal success, he said. A lot of the time over the past few years Ive been on my own, just working away on my piano or at my little studio.

Thats what makes the Keane reunion so much more special. Chaplin is reportedly clean now. Rice-Oxley is happier.

The songwriter described Keanes 2019 album,Cause and Effect,as being less of a pop album than previous efforts. The keyboardist, who played a pivotal songwriting role, compared the experience tobeing brought back from the brink, and saiditdisplays more of an emotional standpoint to let fans in on what the members experienced and overcame during the break.

It really influenced the album, he said. And its something that a lot of people can relate to.

The album presents feelings of loneliness, grief, emotional upheaval and regret, but also finds resolution while recreating a sense of hope at the end of the tunnel. On single Stupid Things, for example, Rice-Oxleyfaces up to past mistakes and addresses the feeling of being stuck inside of a black hole so blue, while asking for forgiveness from his ex-wife, Jayne.Phases is another look through the tougher times, but envisions the end of painful moments while fighting through the motions.

Tom Chaplin.

While it has been a difficult journey, Rice-Oxley said thathe feels better than ever now that Keane is back on the road and sharing music with the world.

Weve had a little break and are now in a better place, mentally, he said.The happiest I feel about the songs Ive written is when I hear the stories about how those songs help to bring (people) back from very difficult times in their own lives.

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MISSOULA The moment flooded back to Rollie Worster earlier this week.

The Missoula Hellgate senior had a flashback to last years state title game. Its the last-second loss to Bozeman. A gut-wrenching, heartbreaking defeat on a buzzer-beating layup in overtime.

The crushing agony still hangs with Worster. Hes blocked it out most of the season, but it comes back as hes preparing for his final State AA tournament, starting Thursday in Bozeman.

Worster isnt thinking about it while doing shooting drills or running sprints from one sideline to the other during practice. But the memories of the shot he couldnt stomach to watch until a week after the game and the awful feelings associated with it, like coming out of the locker room to see the sadness on faces, seep through during the innocuous moments.

Just driving to school or back home by myself, I definitely think about it with state approaching, Worster said. It doesnt affect me. You obviously wish it didnt happen, but you cant control that anymore. Hopefully we can make some different memories this year.

A state championship is the one thing thats eluded Worster, a three-time all-state player and a one-time Montana Gatorade boys basketball player of the year. He owns one school record and is in the top three in two other categories. Hes even going to play basketball at Utah State in the Mountain West Conference, a rarity for a Montana athlete to go to that level of a Division I program.

Yet its that state title, the ultimate team award, that Worster so desires. Its been his goal since before he got to high school. He wrote it down as one of the many things he wanted to achieve. Hes crossed off those things one by one.

Just not the state title.

With his uncommon drive, the title is once again in sight. From playing hoops on the driveway against older siblings who never let him get anything easy to working with trainers since he was a kid to putting up shots in empty gyms on off days while others were resting to even exceling on the football field, its all been with an eye on being the best at whatever he does.

You cant work as hard as he does and not be driven to achieve those types of things, Hellgate coach Jeff Hays said.

Basketball is the unofficial Worster family sport.

Rollies uncle Randy Worster began his basketball career at Washington before transferring to Weber State, where he played for three years in the 1980s. His father Scott Worster also played briefly at Weber State. Both of his sisters played in high school and had the chance to continue at the NAIA in Montana, with one going on to play and the other passing up the opportunity.

Its those very siblings who got Worster started in basketball. His father bought him an orange Nerf basketball and a mini-hoop that hangs onto the top of a door to shoot baskets, although Worster was too young to remember those times shooting hoops while still in a diaper.

Id rebound it for him and try to make sure he was getting some decent form, Scott Worster said. He also got that from his two older sisters, following them around. He always watched them and tried to emulate them.

Rollie more so recalls those battles with sisters Sami, 23, and Shannon, 21. Theyre four and two years older than him and never let anything come easy for him on the court.

Theyd get into arguments while playing on their driveway, at Target Range or at the Peak. Rollie sometimes left to storm into the house and slam shut the door to his room.

They were bigger than me and older, and they liked to pick on me a little bit and wouldnt let me shoot on their basket sometimes, Worster said. Just little stuff like that. I think it kind of just drove me, though, to get better and helped me a lot being that we were really competitive with each other growing up.

Worster would also attend his sisters basketball practices when he was around 5. Hed shoot on empty baskets or jump in on any drill he was allowed to do.

Worster came to the attention of former Hellgate coach Eric Hays, Jeffs dad, when he was in first or second grade. His sisters came to Erics basketball camp at Hellgate, and Scott asked if there was room for Rollie because the single father couldnt leave Rollie home alone.

We snuck him in there and weve had him in camp every summer since, Jeff Hays said. Weve known him for a long time. Hes always been that kid whos super focused and driven, even at a young age.

Worster believes it was around fifth or sixth grade that he finally beat his sisters in basketball. By seventh grade, he finally took down his father in a game of h-o-r-s-e.

The hours spent on the court and his own physical growth finally paid off. Soon hed be accomplishing one of the goals he wrote down: start as a high school freshman.

I think I just kind of naturally have the drive to excel, Worster said. But it also started with my sisters, playing against them. That was big time.

Worster exceled as soon as he got to Hellgate, earning first-team all-state honors as a freshman.

Hed go on to earn two-more all-state awards and could make it a clean sweep later this month. He was also named the Gatorade Montana boys basketball player of the year after last season, a bittersweet individual award considering it was coupled with a loss in the state title game.

As he matured, Worster also moved up the all-time lists. He owns the schools career record for points, is second in assists and third in rebounds. Hes also shown his propensity to steal the ball right out of another players hands and block shots.

If you could build a player in those video games, hes that guy, Jeff Hays said. Hes amazing. If he were 6-10 or something, that would be the only thing.

Hes got all five of those physical tools to be a five-tool player, but hes also got that mental makeup that hes not going to give in, hes not going to quit. Hes that fighter and competitor that pushes himself to be the best. But he does it in a way that hes also the best teammate.

Hays knew he had someone with great potential in Worster as a freshman. He didnt know how high the ceiling was because he didnt how tall Worster could end up growing.

Worsters growth as a player came in part from how he transformed his body from a 6-foot, 160-pound freshman to a 6-3, 205-pound senior. He credits his physical growth in part to his trainer, Steve Pitts.

Worster was introduced to Pitts around age 5, once again tagging along with his sisters because his father didnt want to leave him home alone. So, Worster would get up at 5 a.m. to run ladder and cone drills with the girls before later graduating to weightlifting.

Ive never seen a drive like his since my brother, said Scott, who would regularly watch games with Rollie as they broke down film together and talked about how Rollie could improve his game. I dont know where he finds the energy. But thats what makes him the player he is.

Worster has been a headache for opposing high school coaches since he started at Hellgate. Sentinel coach Jay Jagelski said its all about trying to contain Worster because stopping him is next to impossible.

I would say he is one of the most fundamental and smartest basketball players thats come out of Montana, Jagelski said. Hes very fundamental, very smart. And hes become very unselfish over the years. Those are very important qualities that are going to help him at the next level.

Helena Capital coach Guy Almquist raved about Worsters shooting ability.

The thing that separates Rollie is he can get his shot at any time, Almquist said. You put two guys on him, and hell still find a way to get it to go in.

For Hays, its Worsters ability as a two-player that sets him apart.

I feel like hes the best offensive player in the state at almost any position, Hays said. He might even be the best defensive player at each of those positions, except for maybe at the center position where theres some bigger guys that might bother him more. Hes just such an amazing two-way player. We havent seen that here at Hellgate and probably never will again.

College basketball wasnt always the path Worster knew he was going to follow.

He grew up playing basketball, football and baseball, loving all of them. He decided around seventh grade that he had to drop baseball because itd interfere with football and AAU basketball in the summer once he got to high school.

He didnt know if hed have a college opportunity in basketball or football as a freshman, but the basketball interest came quickly. The Montana Grizzlies offered him a full-ride scholarship prior to his sophomore season, and he accepted the offer.

Montana and Montana State both came along with football offers before Worsters senior season. He decommitted from the Griz, weighed his options although he knew he wanted to stay with basketball and ended up signing with Utah State.

I enjoy football a lot, but theres something with basketball that just gets me, Worster said. Basketball you can play year-round, which you cant do in football, especially in Montana. That might have had an effect on why I love basketball so much more and why I chose that route.

Hellgate football coach Mick Morris is adamant that Worster could play football in Division I. Worster was a two-way all-state player for the Knights, suiting up at quarterback and switching between linebacker and safety on defense.

The Knights didnt have a varsity football team Worsters freshman year, but he helped lead the charge in bringing back the program. They returned to the football field his sophomore year, ended a 57-game losing streak his junior season and won three games his senior year.

I think hes as important or more important than anyone, even the coaches, in bringing the program back, said Morris, whose kids will be wearing Worster jerseys at the state tournament this week. We certainly couldnt have done the things we did without him. We had a lot of kids who were instrumental, and we couldnt have done it without a lot of them, but hes an incredibly special football player.

That showed through not only on the field but in Worster leading guys in the weight room or in footwork drills or by throwing around the football when no coaches were around. It was the type of leadership that Morris knew he needed when he took over the program, accepting the job in part because he knew Worster would be going to Hellgate.

Our football team being so young lacked knowing how to compete, Morris said. Rollies competitive in everything he does. Kids certainly fed off of him. He brought the fire and intensity, which is a requirement to have. It was pretty phenomenal.

While football is over for Worster, he learned the valuable lessons of perseverance. He also benefited from on the field. The physicality he learned transferred over to banging bodies in the lane in basketball. The ability to cut on the football field helped him drive through defenders on the court.

What hell remember most is the wins and the time with friends, the latter a key reason why he stuck with football after already committing to college for basketball.

I think everyone was just really proud of what we did, Worster said. We can look back and say we rebuilt the program and brought it back on its feet.

Worster doesnt prefer the spotlight, although hes been in it most of his high school career.

Hed rather go about his business in quiet and not take too much credit, always ready to praise his teammates. He knows winning that state title cant be accomplished on his own anyway.

I know thats what he wants, Hays said. Thats what motivates him and motivates all of us. Hes made me better as a coach. He holds me accountable. I dont want to see that come up short for any of us.

Worster constantly hears from his sister Shannon about how she won a state title at Sentinel her freshman year, not to mention a national title at Montana Western last season. So, he joked he needs to win one just to have something for family arguments.

But on a more serious note, winning a championship has been his stated goal since starting high school. Without one, his journey would be incomplete.

With that crown, itd be the proper ending to a stellar career.

To end of as high of a note like that, it would mean a ton, Worster said. And then last year with what happened and being so close and not achieving it, I think it drove everybody to work harder. I know it drove me to work harder. It would mean the world to finish out on top.

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Personal trainer Sean Hawthorne asks, if we know what to do, then why dont we do it?

In answering the questions laid out in part one of our 4-part series Ive suggested that planning, preparation, and discipline are the vital behaviours required to avoiding finding ourselves in situations where we need to rely on willpower, the third ingredient in behaviour change. Weve looked at what willpower is, how it differs from motivation, and strategies to strengthen it when life throws us a curveball and our plans go awry.

Time now to turn to Tired, the final physiological state in our acronym H.A.L.T., that can so negatively impact our plans for change. With tired, we are talking lack of sleep and sleep is an interesting state of being, some of us need less, some more, but we all need it because without it we die. At least all the rats in the long-term sleep deprivation studies that I looked at did. Ill spare you the details of just how they kept those little critters awake, but in just two weeks without any sleep the rats bodies broke down, stopped working, and they perished.

Without adequate amounts of sleep our bodies and our brains dont function well. In short term sleep deprivation studies, researchers have found that after as little as 24 hours without sleep our blood pressure rises, followed by chaotic fluctuations to our metabolism which result in intense cravings for carbohydrates and were not talking long grained-brown rice, but foods composed of high fat, high glycemic carbohydrate. Not exactly an ideal situation if youre looking to lose some weight, but that aside, lets take a closer look at that time period of 24 hours without sleep. If Im normally awake for 15 17 hours a day, with only a 30% extension, my mind and body begin to behave erratically, and I lose the ability to function effectively. Now, its not often that I extend my waking hours by 30% (been a while since I pulled an all-nighter) but it appears that the same negative side effects occur when the waking hours are extended continually by as little as 5%, or about an hour a day.

So, how much sleep do I need? Unfortunately, theres no easy answer because it depends on age, gender, and your unique genetic profile. Some of us are larks, early risers who function best in the day, and some of us are owls, people whose productivity is best in the evening, some need more and others less, but given the modern environment of cellphones, televisions and artificial light its safe to say that most of us are at least mildly sleep deprived. This is a bad place to be when were trying to change our health or our body composition because as I said earlier chronic sleep deprivation messes with our health and plays havoc with both our metabolism and our brain.

I cant stress how important sleep is when trying to lose weight, not enough sleep increases our appetite for garbage carbohydrates, reduces our ability to resist these cravings and slows our metabolism, a condition where no amount of exercise or calorie reduction will work. This is a recipe for certain failure. By losing as little as an hour of sleep a day I could create a situation that might make my goal an impossibility and even worse, I might establish a core belief that Im a failure (back to part 3) when its the situation and not me thats the issue.

When I was younger, Id say goodnight, put my head on the pillow and out! Now, not so much. So, I can talk about both the research and what Ive done to improve my adventures in dreamland. (If youre interested in this topic, Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep, by David K. Randall is the best one Ive read). The first thing I do is: keep it cold. Were all different and I sleep hot! I keep my room cold: meat-locker, ice-box-cold, and since adjusting the temperature to suit me Ive improved my sleeping tremendously. But what if your significant other likes it warm? A giant fuzzy blanket and flannel sheets warm? Well, there are innovative products that cool one side of the bed and warm the other that can solve that issue, unfortunately this didnt solve the issue of my snoring or mild sleep apnea, but if co-sleeping is important to you and youve got some temperature discrepancies, then its well worth the investment.

Having tried a number of different strategies over the years to help improve both mine and my clients sleep, Ive recently turned to light, putting two different lamps to the test, one a desktop lamp intended to simulate sunlight and improve energy and mood and the other an alarm clock, shaped like an orb that starts out dull red and simulates the rising sun, also intended to improve daytime energy and disposition. I get up very early, typically have a long day and I felt that elevating both my energy and my mood would help with productivity and eventually lead to falling asleep earlier and easier.

Looking at the first lamp, there a number of different studies that support the use of a SAD (now they call them HAPPY, much better marketing) Seasonal Affective Disorder lamp. The one I use is a 10,000 Lux rectangular desktop lamp that I got from Costco online. I keep it angled on the desk beside me and I use it whenever Im doing admin and on my computer. Now, some of these studies are funded by the product manufacturer so its easy to dispute their veracity, but I like the lamp. I dont care if its placebo, or the simulated sunlight striking my pineal gland, all I care about is the effect and I feel better and more energetic on the days that I use it.

Before I go further, my intention is to simply share my experiences working with others and myself, these are not double-blind, randomized, controlled studies, just my personal evaluation and I profit in no way from these products. In fact, I havent provided hyperlinks or even the name of the lamps I use! That said, the second light-based strategy Im currently employing is an alarm clock that simulates the sun, it starts out a dull red and over the course of 20 minutes it changes colour to a brilliant, bright white. I absolutely love waking to a pseudo-sunrise and not the noise of an alarm.

Sleep (or the lack of) has become a hot health topic over the last few years. For good reason. The correlations between chronic sleep deprivation, the advent of artificial light, and a host of health issues are clear and while proof that obesity, decreased libido, elevated blood pressure, even cancer are caused by our modern extended hours lifestyle has yet to be established, getting some quality sleep and feeling energized is an excellent place to start any plan for change.

Willpower. The most important thing to remember about willpower is to do our very best to be disciplined, plan ahead, and to never have to rely on our internal ability to resist! Strategizing and ensuring that we avoid the conditions described in the acronym H.A.L.T. will not only keep us strong for emergencies when we do need to rely on our willpower it will also improve our mental and physical health. See you next time when we look at the final component of behaviour change Motivation.

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Sean Hawthorne is the owner and operator of OneLife Health and Wellness, Kelownas first and longest running private, personal training facility. While working in Dubai, UAE as a Contracts and Project Manager, Sean decided to leave his successful career in Civil Engineering Technology and pursue his passion for health, fitness and helping others achieve their goals. He returned to Canada in 2001, taking formal education in Exercise Science and starting his career in the field of health and fitness. Working in collaboration with their clients, Sean and his team of health and fitness professionals strive to continually improve their skills and to help everyone reach their goals.

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The jury of seven men and five women acquitted Weinstein on the most serious charges, a single count of first-degree rape as well as two counts of predatory sexual assault, which carried a potential life sentence. Those charges relied on testimony by actress Annabella Sciorra, who said Weinstein raped her in the early 1990s.

On Monday, Weinsteins lawyers urged Burke to impose the minimum possible sentence of five years, asking him to consider Weinsteins charitable activities while saying a longer sentence would likely mean Weinstein would die in prison.

His life story, his accomplishments, and struggles are simply remarkable and should not be disregarded in total because of the jurys verdict, they said.

Before the fall

Weinstein has been awaiting sentencing in New Yorks Rikers Island jail, where he was moved last Thursday after a 10-day hospital stay at Bellevue Hospital where he underwent a procedure to clear a heart blockage.

He was a powerful figure in Hollywood and a contributor to Democratic candidates. He won an Academy Award for producing Shakespeare in Love and was responsible for other acclaimed films including Pulp Fiction, The English Patient and Gangs of New York.

Prosecutors portrayed Weinstein as a serial predator who had manipulated women with promises of career advancement in Hollywood, coaxing them to hotel rooms or private apartments and then overpowering and violently attacking them.

Haleyi testified at the trial that Weinstein invited her to his home in 2006 after she had worked on one of his television productions, backed her into a bedroom, held her down on the bed and forced himself on her orally.

Mann told jurors that Weinstein raped her in a Manhattan hotel room in March 2013, about a month into what she described as an extremely degrading relationship with him that continued for several years after the attack. Mann called Weinstein a Jekyll and Hyde character, charming in public but prone to rage when they were alone.

Weinsteins lawyers argued during the trial that the six women who testified against him were reframing consensual encounters as assaults out of regret.

In Fridays filing, prosecutors listed more than a dozen accusations going back to 1978, when they said he sexually assaulted an employee of his Buffalo, New York-based music company in a hotel room.

Court documents unsealed on Monday included an e-mail to Weinstein from his estranged brother, Bob Weinstein, telling him he belonged in hell.U deserve a lifetime achievement award, Bob Weinstein wrote in the November 2017 message, for the sheer savagery and immorality and inhumaneness, for the acts u have perpetrated.

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