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26th International symposium: Synthesis in organic chemistry
15 - 18 July 2019, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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The Synthesis in Organic Chemistry conference is a flagship event for the international organic chemistry community.
The first meeting of this internationally renowned symposium was held in Oxford in 1969, and since then the meetings have alternated on a biennial basis between Oxford and Cambridge.
The Synthesis in Organic Chemistry conference provides an international showcase for the core area of organic chemistry - synthesis - covering all aspects of contemporary organic synthesis and providing a forum for the ever more exciting methodologies and strategies that continue to emerge.
The RSC is keen to encourage and enable as many people as possible to attend our events, to benefit from the networking opportunities and the chance to hear talks from leaders in the field. If you have childcare or other caring responsibilities, and would like to attend this event, please do get in touch with us to see if there's anything we can do to help enable you to attend.
Frances Arnold, Caltech, United States
Frances Arnold is the Linus Pauling Professor at the California Institute of Technology. She received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2018 for pioneering the directed evolution of enzymes
Shankar Balasubramanian, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Balasubramanian studies the chemistry, structure and function of nucleic acids. He co-invented the leading next generation DNA sequencing methodology, Solexa sequencing (now Illumina). He also works on four-stranded structures called G-quadruplexes and chemical methods for sequencing epigenetic features in DNA to understand their function.
Vy M. Dong, University of California, Irvine, United States
Vy Dong was born in Big Spring, Texas and spent early childhood in west Texas before moving with family to Anaheim, California. She graduated magna cum laude from UC Irvine where she majored in chemistry and completed an honor's project with Larry Overman. After graduation, she joined David MacMillan's group at UC Berkeley, and then moved with his group to Caltech to complete her doctoral studies. Her Ph.D. thesis featured variants of the zwitterionic-Claisen rearrangement and a total synthesis of erythronolide B. As an NIH postdoctoral fellow, Vy pursued training in organometallic and supramolecular chemistry with Robert Bergman and Kenneth Raymond at Berkeley. She began her independent academic career at the University of Toronto, where she was promoted with tenure and named the Adrian Brook Professor. After six years in Canada, Vy returned to the United States to assume a professorship at her alma mater, UC Irvine. Professor Dong's research team is interested in new reaction methods, enantioselective catalysis, and natural product synthesis. She is an associate editor at Chemical Science and recipient of the 2019 ACS EJ Corey Award.
Tanja Gaich, University of Konstanz, Germany
Prof. Dr. Tanja Gaich received her PhD under the supervision of Prof. Dr. J. Mulzer in 2009. She then worked as an Erwin Schrödinger fellow (FWF) in the laboratory of Prof. Dr. P. S. Baran at TSRI La Jolla CA. In 2010, she moved to the Leibniz University Hannover to start her independent career (mentorship of Prof. Dr. M. Kalesse), and was funded by the "Liebigstipend (FCI)" and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation with the "Sofja Kovalevskaja prize". Since 2015 she is a full professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Konstanz.
Tanja Gulder, Technische Universität München, Germany
Tanja Gulder studied chemistry at the University of Wuerzburg. After earning her Ph.D. with Prof. Bringmann in 2008, she pursued postdoctoral studies with Prof. Baran at The Scripps Research Institute. She started her independent career in 2011 supported by a Liebig fellowship (FCI) at RWTH Aachen. In 2014, she moved as a Emmy-Noether-research-group leader to TU Munich, where she has become the Heisenberg-Professor for Biomimetic Catalysis in 2018.
Robert Knowles, Princeton University, United States
A native of Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, Rob received a B.S in chemistry from the College of William and Mary in 2003. He went on to receive his PhD in synthetic organic chemistry from Caltech in 2008 for his work on natural product synthesis in the labs of Dave MacMillan. Following his doctoral work, Rob moved to Eric Jacobsen's lab at Harvard University as a NIH postdoctoral fellow, where his work focused on asymmetric catalysis and new reaction development. Rob moved to Princeton in the summer of 2011, where his group's work has focused primarily on the applications of proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) in organic synthesis. In 2017 he was promoted to Professor of Chemistry.
Daniele Leonori, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Daniele completed his PhD in 2010 at the University of Sheffield under the supervision of Prof. Iain Coldham. After postdoctoral studies with Prof. Magnus Rueping (RWTH Aachen University) and with Prof. Peter H. Seeberger (Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces) he joined the group of Prof. Varinder K. Aggarwal FRS as Research Officer (University of Bristol). In 2014 he commenced his independent career as Lecturer in Organic Chemistry at the University of Manchester and was promoted to Reader in 2018. Daniele was awarded an EPSRC Early Career Fellowship in 2016, the ERC Starting Grant in 2017 and the RSC Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize in 2018
Rubén Martin, Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia, Spain
Rubén Martin received his PhD in 2003 (University of Barcelona, Prof. Antoni Riera). During the next 4 years (2004-2008) he conducted postdoctoral studies at the Max-Planck Institut für Kohlenforschung as a Humboldt fellow (Prof. Alois Fürstner) and at MIT (Prof. Stephen Buchwald). In September 2008 he initiated his independent career as an assistant professor at ICIQ. In July 2013 he was promoted to associate professor and subsequently to ICREA Research Professor. His interests concern the discovery and development of synthetically useful organometallic methodologies via inert bond-activation techniques.
David A Nicewicz, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, United States
Dave completed his Ph.D. with Prof. Jeff Johnson at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2006 and was a Ruth L. Kirschstein postdoctoral fellow with Professor David MacMillan at Princeton University from 2007-2009. Nicewicz joined the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2009 as an Assistant Professor and rose to the rank of Professor in 2018. His research is focused on single electron mediated processes in organic chemistry.
Robert Phipps, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Robert graduated from Imperial College London and moved to the University of Cambridge to complete his PhD with Prof. Matthew Gaunt. Following this, he worked at the University of California, Berkeley with Prof. F. Dean Toste and took up his current position as a Royal Society University Research Fellow in at the University of Cambridge in late 2014.
Tobias Ritter, Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Germany
Tobias Ritter was appointed as Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard, promoted to Associate Professor in 2010, and to Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology in 2012. Since 2015 he is director at the Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kohlenforschung in Germany, he became Managing Director in 2018. In 2011, Tobias founded SciFluor LifeScience, a clinical pharmaceutical company in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Tomislav Rovis, Columbia University, United States
Tomislav Rovis was born in Zagreb in the former Yugoslavia but was largely raised in Southern Ontario, Canada. Following his undergraduate studies at the University of Toronto, he earned his Ph.D. degree at the same institution in 1998 under the direction of Professor Mark Lautens. From 1998-2000, he was an NSERC postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University with Professor David A. Evans. In 2000, he began his independent career at Colorado State University and was promoted in 2005 to Associate Professor and in 2008 to Professor and John K. Stille Chair in Chemistry. His group's accomplishments have been recognized by a number of awards including an NSF CAREER and a Roche Excellence in Chemistry award. He has been named a GlaxoSmithKline Scholar, Amgen Young Investigator, Eli Lilly Grantee, Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, Monfort Professor at Colorado State University, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Katritzky Young Investigator in Heterocyclic Chemistry, and an Arthur C. Cope Scholar. In 2016, he moved to Columbia University where he is currently Professor of Chemistry.
Franziska Schoenebeck, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Franziska Schoenebeck has been a Full Professor at the Institute of Organic Chemistry at RWTH Aachen University since the summer of 2016. Professor Schoenebeck was born and raised in Berlin, Germany. From 2001-2004, she studied Chemistry at the Technical University of Berlin and the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, UK. She undertook her PhD in synthetic organic chemistry in the group of Prof. John A. Murphy in Glasgow, Uk. In 2008 she moved to California to work with Prof. K. N. Houk at UCLA, where she was involved in computational studies of organic reactivity. In 2010, she joined the faculty of the ETH Zürich as an Assistant Professor. In 2013, she was appointed Associate Professor at the Institute of Organic Chemistry at RWTH Aachen University and promoted to Full Professor in 2016. She is the recipient of the Novartis Chemistry Lectureship (2016-2017), an ERC Starting Grant, the 2014 'Dozentenpreis' of the German Chemical Industry Fund, the 2014 ORCHEM Prize by the German Chemical Society, the 2014 Marcial Moreno Lectureship by the Spanish Royal Chemistry Society, the 2014 JPOC Award for Early Excellence in Physical Organic Chemistry and the ADUC Prize 2012. Her research program is based at the interface of synthetic organic, mechanistic and computational chemistry with a strong emphasis in homogeneous metal catalysis.
Hiroaki Suga, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Professor Hiroaki Suga received Ph. D. in Chemistry (1994) at MIT, USA. He was appointed in the Department of Chemistry, SUNY at Buffalo as Assistant and Associate Professor (1997-2002). In 2004, he moved to the Research Center and since 2010 has been in the Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science in the University of Tokyo. He is the recipient of Akabori Memorial Award 2014, Japanese Peptide Society, Max-Bergmann Gold Medal 2016, Nagoya Medal 2017 Silver, etc. He is also a founder of PeptiDream Inc. Tokyo, a publicly traded company in the first stock Tokyo exchange market, which has many partnerships with pharmaceutical companies in worldwide.
Edward Tate, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Edward Tate is Professor of Chemical Biology in the Department of Chemistry at Imperial College London, and a Satellite Group Leader and the Francis Crick Institute. He completed his Ph.D. in organic chemistry at the University of Cambridge in the group of Prof. Steve Ley. Following postdoctoral research in chemistry and biology on an 1851 Research Fellowship at CNRS Gif sur Yvette and Ecole Polytechnique and the Pasteur Institute in Paris, he moved to Imperial College London on a BBSRC David Phillips Fellowship, where he was promoted to a Chair in 2014. He leads a team of more than 50 scientists working on the design and application of chemical approaches to understand and manipulate living systems, with a particular focus on drug target discovery and validation. He is a Fellow of the Royal Societies of Chemistry (FRSC) and of Biology (FRSB), and Director of Imperial's Centre for Drug Discovery Science. He received the 2012 Wain Medal, the 2013 MedImmune Protein and Peptide Science Award, the 2014 Norman Heatley Award, and a 2015 Cancer Research UK Programme Foundation Award in recognition of his group's research in chemical biology and drug discovery
http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/e.tate
F Dean Toste, University of California, Berkeley, United States
F. Dean Toste received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in chemistry from the University of Toronto, Canada and his PhD from Stanford University in 2000 under the direction or Prof. Barry M. Trost. Following postdoctoral studies at Caltech in the laboratories of Prof. Robert H Grubbs, he joined the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley in July of 2002, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2006 and is currently the Gerald E. K. Branch Distinguished Professor. Professor Toste's honors include the Cope Scholar (2006), E.J. Corey (2008) and Creativity in Organic Synthesis (2015) Awards from the American Chemical Society, the Organometallic Chemistry Directed Towards Organic Synthesis (OMCOS) Award (2007) and Thieme-IUPAC Prize in Synthetic Organic Chemistry (2008) from IUPAC, the Merck (2010) and Catalysis in Organic Synthesis (2018) Awards from the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Mukaiyama Award (2011) from the Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry Japan, the Horst-Pracejus Prize (2015) from the German Chemical Society and the Janssen Prize for Creativity in Organic Synthesis (2018). In 2015 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada – Academy of Science and in 2018 a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science.
Matthew Tudge, GSK, United Kingdom
Dr. Matt Tudge received his M.Chem. from the University of Salford in 1999 and his PhD in 2003 from the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Prof. Ian Paterson. In early 2003, Dr. Tudge moved to the laboratories of Prof. Eric Jacobsen at Harvard University where he completed his postdoctoral work on catalytic asymmetric carbonyl-ene chemistry. Following his postdoctoral studies, Dr. Tudge joined Merck's Process Chemistry group in Rahway, New Jersey. Dr. Tudge held several roles within Process Chemistry and Discovery Chemistry at Merck focusing on development and application of enabling synthetic technologies. In mid-2015, Dr. Tudge joined GSK to spearhead the development of GSK's high-throughput chemistry platform which was embedded into the Medicinal Chemistry department in late 2018. Dr. Tudge is currently the Global Head of Discovery High-Throughput Chemistry overseeing teams in Stevenage U.K. and Upper Providence in the U.S. He is currently based in the Philadelphia area.
William Unsworth, University of York, United Kingdom
Will started his independent career in 2016 as a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow and will soon take up the inaugural Eleanor Dodson Fellowship at the University of York. Current research interests include ring expansion approaches for the synthesis of medium-sized rings and macrocycles, dearomatising spirocyclisation reactions and catalyst selective synthesis. Will won the 2018 RSC Hickinbottom Award in recognition of this work.
Abstract submission is now closed. Late abstracts will not be accepted.
Due to the popularity of the event and space limitations at the venue, it is only possible for us to accept 80 poster abstracts to present at this event. Please submit you abstract by 17 February 2019. You will be notified by mid March 2019 if your poster has been accepted.
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I bought an iPad mini 2 for my mother but she doesn't want to learn how to use it, preferring her iMac. I'd liked it so well that I bought myself an iPad mini 4. Upon my recent visit to the US I tried again to show Mom the iPad mini but sadly she's not keen.
This iPad does NOT have fingerprint technology (hence easier for Mom). White front, silver back. Comes with light blue protective case that also acts as a stand. Full working order.


Commencement is approaching quickly! The actual day does have a set schedule and there are places that us graduates need to be at certain times. While you've hopefully been receiving emails regarding how to sign up for graduation, here's what to do on the actual day. Want more information or need to send your family some details? There's lots of information at the WOU Commencement website.
This will be your final opportunity to pick up caps and gowns from the student bookstore if you haven't already.
You HAVE to be on campus and lined up to check in at 10 a.m. The earlier you get here, the better. Graduates will be lining up in the New PE building to check-in. Once you do, you'll receive a card and then you'll line up according to your assigned number. This is also the time when the Registrar's office will be handing out honors cords (congrats to those who are graduating with honors!) Just as a heads up, your tassel should be worn on the right up until you walk across that stage and receive your diploma, that's when you can move it over to the left.
At this point, anyone who isn't in line to check in won't be allowed to walk at graduation. So like I said, the earlier you get here, the better.
Next, the processional line will begin but don't worry, faculty marshals will be directing you to your seats.
Commencement begins! You'll get directions on when you're supposed to stand, so don't worry about needing to know what to do. Once you stand, you'll follow your row in a line to the ramp at the north end of the stage. When you're walking across the stage, hand your card to the reader or the reader's assistant so they have your name. After this, each name will be read as you continue across the stage. Once you're across the stage, you'll walk down the ramp and pause for the photographer but you won't stop. Next, you'll return to your assigned seat until the ceremony is done. And that's it!
All in all, commencement usually lasts around 2.5 hours. Once you leave the field, you can go to the Commencement Reception in the Grove, weather permitting, or the Pacific Room of the Werner University Center.
I just want to say a big congratulations to everyone who is graduating this year. I don't know about you, but I'm so excited to be graduating and moving on to the next chapter in my life. We've all worked so hard and this day is a celebration of all of that hard work.
Make sure to grab pictures of this awesome day too. WOU will have a Snapchat Geofilter for the day so take advantage and take as many selfies as you possibly can. To find some good places to take pictures of you in your gown, be sure to keep an eye on WOU's Instagram in the next couple weeks for ideas. We'll also have a hashtag to use regarding graduation so be sure to tag #wougrad on social media!
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In fact, supporting digital transformation with cloud, collaboration and mobility has become an IT priority for SMBs, according to the latest report from IT market research firm Techaisle. The report suggests that many SMBs have been exploring digital transformation since 2016 but largely lack the direction, expertise and investment to realize its potential.
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We would like to share an interesting insight into the potential uses of intellectual property in developing countries, to which our attention was recently drawn.
The "Patent-Free Zone" is the brain-child of JiNan Glasgow, a North Carolina–based patent attorney and CEO of patent analysis firm NeoPatents. The concept, once you see it, is startlingly simple – the fact that most major companies see developing countries as insignificant markets for innovative products and services is precisely why they present unique opportunities for development and growth. This is good news for entrepreneurs willing and able to take advantages of these opportunities, and hopefully also good news for the developing countries themselves.
Glasgow's insight is that much of the developing world comprises a largely "patent-free zone". Because developing countries do not constitute substantial markets for products and services provided by most companies operating in advanced economies, very few of the patent applications filed in jurisdictions such as the US, Europe, Canada, Australia and so forth, are pursued in the developing world.
Developing countries are therefore "patent-free" in the sense that there are very few patents around. Consequently, all of those published patents and applications filed in the developed countries constitute a vast library of intellectual property that has effectively been "donated" for use in the Patent-Free Zone.
Perhaps somewhat idealistically, Glasgow sees the Patent-Free Zone concept as "an initiative to spur economic development and drive corporate innovation at the same time." However, there are too many existing examples of corruption, exploitation and abuse in third-world countries for us to be optimistic of uniformly positive outcomes.
Nonetheless, the concept is sound – to use tried and tested technologies that might not be freely-available in the developed world due to existing patent rights, to solve problems arising in the developing world. In a best-case scenario, this could lead to accelerated economic development, and perhaps even new innovations that could be exported back to developed countries.
The Patent-Free Zone concept suggests new opportunities and business models for entrepreneurs and investors to consider. And for those looking to establish businesses based on strong ethical principles, there may be real opportunities to do some good in parts of the developing world.
There are also obviously opportunities for businesses – such as Glasgow's NeoPatents – with strong patent searching and analysis capabilities to provide the necessary intelligence in relation to patented technologies that are available for use in the the Patent-Free Zone.
For those needing to find the Patent-Free Zone, the following map may be of assistance. According to Glasgow's analysis, the location of the Patent-Free Zone correlates strongly with less-developed countries.
The United Nations Human Development Index (HDI) rankings for 2009 – darker green corresponds with more highly developed coutries, darker red with less developed countries (image: Wikipedia).


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Vol Report: UT Fans, Bond with Pruitt Brought Ansley Back to Rocky Top
Derrick Ansley – Vols DC / Credit: UT Athletics
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – It was an easy decision for Derrick Ansley to return to Rocky Top after spending a season in the NFL as the Oakland Raiders' defensive backs coach.
Ansley, who was hired as Tennessee's defensive coordinator in February, said his relationship with head coach Jeremy Pruitt and the lure of Tennessee's campus, resources and fanbase was strong enough to pull him back to the college game.
"Being from the South and coming back to the South was very appealing to me," Ansley said. "Working with Coach Pruitt was probably the ace in the hole for me because he kind of gave me my start as a graduate assistant at Alabama in 2010 when he was the secondary coach. He and I have a very, very strong and unique bond. I consider him one of my biggest mentors. He's helped me along the way throughout my career."
Ansley was an assistant at Huntingdon College, an NCAA Division III school in Montgomery, Ala., when he first met Pruitt, and the pair eventually worked together at Alabama in 2010-11 before Ansley came to Tennessee as the cornerbacks coach in 2012. He also coached the secondary and was co-defensive coordinator at Kentucky (2013-2015) before reuniting with Pruitt at Alabama as the DBs coach (2016-17).
"Coming back here, working here at Tennessee in 2012, the familiarity with the campus, the fanbase, it was a really easy sell for me to come back," Ansley said.
Tennessee's hire of Ansley was a coup after the 14-year coaching veteran and two-time national champion transformed the Raiders' defensive back unit into one of the NFL's most improved last fall.
The Raiders had 14 interceptions with Ansley in 2018 after totaling only five in 2017. Ansley coached Gareon Conley in Oakland. Conley finished fifth in the NFL with 15 passes defended as he made tremendous strides in his second year in the league, starting 14 games after appearing in only two games as a rookie.
Ansley believes his NFL experience will give him an advantage back in college football.
"I think that just gives me a little more credibility with the guys because all of them always ask me 'how is the league, how is practice different than what we do here, how is the 16-game schedule with the preseason,'" he said. "I think it gives a coach a little bit more of a credibility factor on dealing with guys that want to go to the NFL."
Chevrolet Orange and White Game will Feature First Team Offense vs. First Team Defense
Pruitt announced on Tuesday the format of the Chevrolet Orange and White Game, the annual spring exhibition this Saturday at 6 p.m. at Neyland Stadium.
The first team offense will be paired with the second team defense and the first team defense will be paired with the second team offense to give the fans the most competitive matchups: 1s versus 1s and 2s versus 2s.
The game will be played with a running clock until the final four minutes of each half, and Pruitt is looking for an uptempo game.
"I think we hope to play a little faster so we can get more snaps," Pruitt said. "We like to get somewhere between the 65-70 (plays) range. Something that has to do with putting drives together. I think it will be a great opportunity."
Defensive Coordinator Derrick Ansley Press Conference Transcript
On talent-level of the defense:
"I think we have a lot of talent. We are built back-end forward. We have some seniors up front that have played a lot of ball. Darrell Taylor being one. He has done a really nice job this spring. Daniel Bituli in the middle has done a really good job quarterbacking the defense, getting us lined up and in and out of checks. And done a really good job leading by example. If you look at the backend with Nigel Warrior and Baylen Buchanan, although Baylen is out this spring dealing with (an injury). Both those guys are out there every day being consistent leaders. We have plenty enough talent to be successful on the defensive side of the ball."
On his year with Jon Gruden and the Oakland Raiders:
"On man, I learned a lot. Coach Gruden is a ball guy. Everybody knows that. He's very intense and very thorough in his preparation and how he goes about his business. I learned a lot about how to run a team, how to build a team, how to manage a locker room – through the highs and lows of our season last year. I would say I learned a lot from him. I consider him one of my friends. We still talk on a daily basis and stay in touch very closely."
On having an NFL background:
"If we are recruiting the right guys – all the guys that come here and are in our program now – all of them have goals to go to the next level. So with me having NFL experience, I think that just gives me a little more credibility with the guys because all of them always ask me 'how is the league, how is practice different than what we do here, how is the 16-game schedule with the preseason?' I think it gives a coach a little bit more of a credibility factor on dealing with guys that want to go to the NFL versus a guy that may not have had that NFL experience moving forward."
On having an SEC background:
"I think it helps. Most of the guys in our room, on all side of the ball, I've recruited a lot of those guys. From Deangelo (Gibbs), Nigel (Warrior), Baylen (Buchanan), a lot of those guys … Darrell Taylor. We've all known a lot of those guys for awhile. So coming back here, there wasn't any new faces so to speak. It was just me getting acclimated to how these guys have matured in the year that I was away from college football. It's been an easy learning curve."
On why he left the Raiders for the Vols:
"I think anytime you take a job you have to create value for yourself and you have to take in the family factor. Being from the South and coming back to the South was very appealing to me. Working with Coach Pruitt was probably the ace in the hole for me because he kind of gave me my start as a graduate assistant at Alabama in 2010 when he was the secondary coach. He and I have a very, very strong and unique bond. I consider him one of my biggest mentors. He's helped me along the way throughout my career. Even when we didn't work together. When he was at Georgia and Florida State, we always talked and always bounced ideas off each other. He's helped me tremendously grow as a young coach. Coming back here, working here at Tennessee in 2012, the familiarity with the campus, the fanbase, it was a really easy sell for me to come back."
On personnel that he inherits:
"From a personnel standpoint, I was at Alabama for two years and before that I was at Kentucky for three years. Every year we competed against Tennessee. So, I was very familiar with the personnel that these guys inherited and I talked to coach Pruitt, coach Rumph, coach Sherrer and coach Rocker all through last season when I was on the west coast. I was very aware of the personnel we had coming in here and I've known these coaches for five to 10 years and I have known coach Rocker for almost 20 years. When I was a player at Troy he recruited me. With the familiarity and knowing those guys, it was an easy transition because we all respect each other and know each other. We all have the right intentions with the kids."
On his fingerprints on the defense scheme:
"We are going to run the defense through coach Pruitt's vision. We all have the same philosophy and the same vision. The main thing we want to see when we turn on our tape is guys flying around, communicating and playing clean football. If we do that, we will give ourselves a chance to be successful in the SEC."
On coming back to the college game:
"The relationship with coach Pruitt made it an easy, no-brainer for me, but also to coordinate a defense for the first time in the SEC at a storied program like Tennessee. We have an unbelievable tradition and an incredible boss in coach Fulmer, who give us everything we need resource wise here. To come back to be a defensive coordinator and work with coach Pruitt, both of those things were very positive in coming back."
On Alontae Taylor and Bryce Thompson:
"Coach Pruitt did a really good job of developing those guys last year. Both of those guys played a ton of ball as freshmen. They are not learning on the job anymore. Now, it is about fine tuning the techniques and going out every single day and mastering those techniques. Both of those guys are competitive, have a unique skillset and play corner very different, but effective. We look forward to those guys being the cornerstone of the defense moving forward."
On Darrell Taylor from a leadership perspective:
"When you look at Darrell, he is a guy when you turn on tape that jumps out. He was a guy that made a decision to come back for his senior year and we all appreciate that because he is a difference maker. One thing that you don't see on the field is him grabbing guys like Deandre Johnson and Jordan Allen. Even the young guys like Jaylen McCollough and Warren Burrell, I see him high fiving and being positive with the young guys we have back there. That kind of leadership is contagious and as coaches you always want to try and build on that and promote that kind of leadership."
On Pruitt's willingness to give up play calling duties:
"I think it shows that he trusts me and it shows me that he has the same kind of philosophy as me. This is coach Pruitt's defense. I am just going to try and get it the way that he wants it. He is going to let me call the plays which is very valuable for my growth. My job is to make sure we have success on defense."
On the defense line:
"It starts with Coach Rocker up front. Coach Rocker puts in hard work every day. He's always the first one in the building. He's the one that coaches those guys with a lot of passion and you can see that passion trickle out through the players. John Mincey has been developing. He didn't play a whole lot last year, but he is a guy that is working hard every day and mastering his ability. You talk about Emmit (Williams). Emmit has kind of been a rock inside. And we have a slew of other guys. Butler has done a really good job inside and Aubrey Soloman is working hard to master his position. All of those guys are working hard. We just need to continue to have those guys to work out throughout spring and summer so, they can come in to fall camp ready to go."
On Deangelo Gibbs on the defensive side of the ball:
"I love it. I've known him since his eighth grade year. It's hats off to him that he can go out there and the first 10 practices learn our offense which is very complex with coach Chaney and then come over on defense for the last five and play a complex defense. It has been a breathe of fresh air for the defensive guys especially in the secondary that he is able to get in there and fill in right now without missing a beat. He is ultra-competitive, has great ball skills, has a unique skillset and is a bigger man. We are very thrilled to have him over there and coach Pruitt will kind of figure out where he will land this summer and we are going to make the best decision for the team and for him.
Tennessee Assistant Head Coach Tee Martin Press Conference Transcript
On talent at wide receiver:
"I'll start with the wide receiving group, I was really impressed. It's a group of four seniors that have played a lot of football. The first thing I look for is toughness and the will to win. It starts with number 15. He's been a solid force for a lot of years and he's the guy at practice that gets guys going, when a play needs to be made, he steps up and makes the play. Marquez Callaway has also been playing tough, he's a little banged up. One thing you like to see through leadership is guys who can play through pain and play through a little bit of adversity. Marquez has been doing a good job of doing that. Another guy that's been doing a good job is Josh Palmer. He's had a couple of touchdowns in the last two scrimmages and been very consistent mentally and physically. As a unit, I like where we are. We've grown a lot throughout the spring. Quarterback-wise, Jarrett Guarantano has done a great job and I'm really impressed by his arm talent and really impressed by him mentally being able to handle a few offenses over the last few years and then now getting a complicated offense with a lot of operating at the line of scrimmage and checks and things of that nature. That's what quarterbacks do at the University of Tennessee. So I've been really impressed by him."
On bringing the 1998 championship ring and bringing up his past at UT:
"I haven't done it yet. At some point we'll get there. I've been moving a lot and trying to get settled into the house, but we'll get there. For me, that's a very special symbol of pride, of hard work, of determination and all of those things coming together as a team. I'll find the right time to do that. I'm looking forward to that moment, hopefully it's during training camp, maybe it's some point during the season. Once this group gels together we'll get to things like that."
On the moment it sank in he was here:
"It hits me at different times. Really just walking around the building and sitting in my office as a coach here. As a player, you kind of hang around and go check on your coaches and then go about your business. Over the years, I've come back for games and everything was happening over at the stadium. It had been a long time since I had been over in this building and had seen everything. When it finally kind of set in, it was coming in early in the morning, being here late at night, recruiting for the school that you played at and had so many great memories at. It kind of hits me at different times when I'm around the building or I'm on the phone with recruits. I'm really selling the place that I played at. It's not just a job for me, it means more to me since I've done it here at this place and had the opportunity to come back and get it back to what I know it can be. It's been a different feeling for me, because I've been a lot of places that I've liked when I was there coaching, but nothing is like coming back home."
On first impression of Ramel Keyton:
"Really good. I've only ever been around two other wide receivers in my coaching career that have been early high school graduates. Both of them came in and were injured and we didn't get to see much of them. The first thing that you're concerned about is the physical conditioning of the young man coming out of high school and going straight into the way of college practicing, lifting weights, the classroom regimen, the weight room regimen, the meeting schedule, it can be a lot for a young man to adjust to. Ramel has been smooth. We've been challenging him every day to play fast. Sometimes a young man comes out of high school and they were the fastest guy on the field and then when you get to college, the junior and seniors and guys with more experience move a lot quicker than you do and you're the slow guys. I'm really proud of what he's learned and what he's accomplished. During the first scrimmage, you could tell he had a little nervousness about him. He dropped a couple of balls, but then came back in the second scrimmage and made every play that came his way. And also only had two mental assignment errors the whole scrimmage. That says a lot about his mindset and his determination. Josh Palmer has really taken him on as a little brother, you see them in here doing extra work and catching balls on their own, watching film on their own. Ramel is always asking for ways to get better and asking about how he's doing. He's an eager young man and that's what you like to have in a freshman receiver."
On learning about Josh Palmer's background:
"Josh was the only one that I recruited at my last stop. I was down in Miami recruiting and had a buddy that was a receivers coach at St. Thomas Aquinas that said he didn't know what the kid can do and that he was from Canada. I watched him run and offered him a scholarship at USC. At the time he was looking at Syracuse and at other places closer to where he was from. I left him alone a little bit and them looked up and he had signed with Tennessee. So I was actually happy that he signed with Tennessee even though I was somewhere else because I thought he was a talent. The only concern at that time was how much football he had played. He reminds me of Nelson Agholor. Although Nelson had played a lot of football coming into college from high school, he had played a lot of running back and not wide receiver, so when Nelson moved to wide receiver, he hung on every detail that I coached on. Whether it was depths, releases, the way to catch the ball or reading conversions and coverage, Nelson hung on every word that I said. And I can see Josh in the meetings mentally processing as I'm talking. It really reminds me of Nelson. Josh has really improved this spring. I'm really impressed with where we started 13 practices ago and then where we are right now. I'm really excited about a summer with him, knowing what the potential and capabilities are for a young man like him. He has the size, the speed, the hands, the route running and the releases. He has the ability to be a big time player in the future."
On the Lady Vols hiring Kellie Jolly Harper and his time as a student-athlete with her:
"Three-time national champion, how could you forget that? Congratulations to her and her family, she's been successful at her previous stops. I'm happy to get back some Tennessee blood. You know, Holly (Warlick) was, and she did a great job for us as a university, and for that women's basketball program. But it was exciting to see someone from the family and someone who was around during the time that we were in school. We were undefeated and they were undefeated, it was pretty cool to see that in parallel. We were complaining about how hard Phillip (Fulmer) was on us, they were complaining about Pat, rest in peace. So, I'm really excited for her, and I'm looking forward to welcoming her back."
On experience at wide receiver:
"The thing that you want most is the experience that they have. There's no substitute for experience. A guy knowing what it's like to play against Georgia and Florida and be on the road at Alabama, there's no way that I can explain that to Ramel (Keyton). But, the four seniors in the room, they understand what that's like. The only thing that's a negative when you inherit guys that are veterans is you have to break some of the old habits and the ways that some of the other coaches may have asked you to do things in the past. Some of these guys have had three different guys telling them that. The first thing you have to do is build trust. When I first got the job, it was just a lot of talking to them on the phone, bringing them by the office and sitting down and getting to know them and having them get the opportunity to know me. Some of them may have seen the pictures on the wall and all of that stuff but have never had a relationship or have never had the opportunity to get to know me. And, that's where coaching begins. Before I can ask a young man to go out and give me one hundred percent effort, he needs to know that I care about him, that I know who he is, and that I want him to get better. So, that's what I wanted to establish coming into spring ball, because I knew that once we got on the field, I'm kind of a different person when we get on the field. But they know I care about them, and they know that everything that I ask them to do is to get them better and to get our offense better, and ultimately get our team better. So, the positive is they are experienced. The negative, if there is one, is some of the old habits that have to be broken to get them to do the things that we would like them to do the way that we would like for them to do it."
On last season at USC:
"It was kind of a perfect storm last year. A young team, we had lost our top offensive players at every position, whether it was wide receiver, losing your quarterback, your top tight end, and it was what it was. We didn't perform the way that you need to perform at a place like that. And, you get canned. But, every coach in this business, at some point, is going to get fired. For me, it was a lesson for me to learn about planning for your future and doing the best that you can do at job that you're currently at. You can't take a job worried about losing your job, and you can't think about your last job when you take the next job. It was my first opportunity going through that. And, it was positive to leave a place that was really good. I have no bad words to say about where I came from. But then, you get blessed up and come to Tennessee. So, it was a blessing for me."
On impressions of Deangelo Gibbs and campaigning for him on offense:
"Oh yeah, I'm going to campaign. First off, he was with us for nine or ten practices, and I thought the young man displayed speed, he has good hands, he has big hands, strong hands, athletic ability, he can stretch the field and he made some big catches at times. He was physical, blocking, so there was a good skill set there for an offensive player. But, at the end of the day, we have to do what's best for our overall football team, and if there's help needed in the secondary, you know they pulled him over to the secondary and he went and made an interception in the scrimmage with one hand. So, who knows? But I'm going to always fight for the receiver room and try to get the best players in there, and if he stays on defense we'll go out and recruit and try to fill that void in recruiting."
On what the first day was like back in Knoxville as a coach:
"It was surreal. There was nervousness there, just because it's the first time coming back in this role. You've got to remember, the last time I lived here and spent every day here, I was 21 years old. And now, you return with four kids, a wife and a dog. You're a totally different person. But, to see Angela and Kim and Max, Fraz, Condredge, people who were here when I was a young man and helped me grow to be the man that I am today, they were still around giving me hugs and high-fives. That gave me a sense of being back at home again. Then there's embracing the new. It is a better place that it was when we left it. You just look around and you can tell. The buildings are nice and things of that nature, and it's great having Coach Fulmer back. It really hit me when we were in an academic meeting and I was paying attention to them talk and I look to my left and Coach is sitting right there. It's a little different then being a player, but it was surreal. It took me a couple of weeks to actually get used to being back here as a coach in a different role."
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Amazon Might be Bringing a Cashier-less Amazon Go Store to London
We've been hearing a lot about Amazon Go the past few years, with Amazon pushing itself into the high street with shops that let you pick up stuff and walk out without having to queue up near a till and deal with another human being. The expansion has, for the most part, been restricted to the US, but now it seems Amazon Go might pop up in London.
According to the Sunday Telegraph Amazon is looking to open an Amazon Go branch near Oxford Circus, with sources claiming that Amazon is looking for a retail space between 3,500 and 5,000 square feet. It's said that Amazon's goal is to have this store act as a UK flagship, which makes sense given the location, and to mark the first step in a global rollout.
This isn't the first time we've heard about a UK rollout, though, and back in October rumours emerged that Amazon was actively looking for "a significant number" of retail locations between 4,000 and 5,000 square feet. Earlier rumours also claimed Amazon was hoping to open 3,000 cashier-less shops across the world by 2021, which isn't as far off as it sounds.
Amazon Go is generally used to sell food and other things the Americans call 'groceries', which doesn't really fit with the aesthetic of the Oxford Circus area. Sure there are mini supermarkets around, but it's hardly the kind of place you'd go to for your weekly shop. Amazon has already opened up physical shops for high-rated products, which is a little more fitting for that part of London, but it's impossible to tell what the company's plans are - especially since it has refused to comment on the Telegraph's story.
But hey, at least putting a mini supermarket in a nice part of London should stop people from picking stuff up and walking out without dealing with their payment. Amazon Go may be designed to charge people automatically, but you know there are some less-than-lovely people who will find ways to get around that. [Sunday Telegraph]


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The Windermere Suites
Windermere, Lake District, England
8 out of 10 Telegraph expert rating
A bold and unashamedly sexy b&b with a sophisticated nightclub vibe of moody black and silver, sprawling bedrooms and vast bathrooms with seductive mood lighting. Breakfasts are served in-room, while it's relatively close to restaurants for evening meals.
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At the edge of Windermere town, on the main road to the lake, it's out of the tourist busy-ness yet within easy reach if you don't mind walking: five minutes to the town; 20 minutes to lakeside Bowness with its shops, bars and the starting point for lake cruises. Attractions such as Dove Cottage in Grasmere, pretty Hawkshead village, Ambleside's shops and Beatrix Potter's house are within 20 to 30 minutes' drive. A big plus is that Windermere railway station is only 10 minutes up the road. But it is a busy road, and the views are limited.
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From the outside it looks like many of the neighbouring guest houses; a substantial, late-Victorian, slate-built house with large mullioned windows. Step beyond the heavy oak door with its stained-glass panels and it's a different story. With polished, hardwood floors, charcoal-grey walls, black sofas, heavy walnut doors and outrageous statement chandeliers, it could be the VIP area of a smart nightclub. It's smooth and sleek with little to indicate it's a hotel other than some tourism leaflets and a smart black reception desk in one of the ground-floor rooms.
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It's an owner-managed property – the effervescent Vicky Monk – with three or four staff to help run the show, and the place reflects her personality: exuberant, fun, relaxed. Vicky is knowledgeable on the area and encourages her young staff to learn more. Bedrooms are large, so there's no need for general spaces – there is only reception and a pocket-handkerchief garden beside the rear car park. Guests receive free entry to a leisure centre, a mile away, plus a large range of extras, such as flowers and chocolates, and packages – romantic (champagne, chocolates, rose petals; £65) or naughty (handcuffs, games, ahem, toys; £55) – can be added.
The eight vast rooms (three with patios, two with private entrances) are very grown-up and seriously designer with hardwood floors or chocolatey carpets and a 'fifty shades of grey' colour scheme in textured wallpapers, heavy brocade curtains, sequinned cushions and velvet throws. Statement lampshades, glass tables and white or burnished silver furniture – including French baroque-style beds – add bling while bathrooms are dark affairs with huge air-baths, walk-in showers, mood lighting and wall televisions. Luxury touches include dressing rooms, generous minibars and glossy magazines. But they're rooms for passion rather than practicality so don't expect reading lights, desks or sensible storage in the bathroom.
Meals are served in-room on smart black trolleys and Villeroy and Boch white china. There's a short snacks and supper menu which, nevertheless, covers all you need if you don't want to venture out – from homemade soup, club sandwich and decent pizzas to cheese platters and rich desserts; two courses average £13. The minibar is well-stocked with a good choice of spirits, wines (around £18) and champagne.
Breakfast is comprehensive for a small operation, from granola with fruit and yogurt to eggs Benedict, cold meat platters and full-cooked (with vegetarian option). The downside is that everything arrives together with no means of keeping cooked dishes warm. But it's nicely served and the coffee does the business.
Double rooms from £150 in low season; and from £180 in high. Breakfast included. Free Wi-Fi.
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One room is suitable for those with limited mobility but isn't fully adapted.
Family-Friendly?
It isn't aimed at children; however, two rooms can take extra beds for an additional charge of £35 per child, including breakfast.
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Author: Gulistan Khamzayeva
Behind the Silk Curtain is about multiculturalism, adapting to new environments, socializing with people of different cultures, linguistic integration, gaining experience, and facing challenges.
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Behind the Silk Curtain is about multiculturalism, adapting to new environments, socializing with people of different cultures, linguistic integration, gaining experience, and facing challenges. It is about friends and family, Kazakh traditions and the country's mentality, charity and weddings, and many other fascinating contexts the wife of Kazakh diplomat and chairwoman of Kazakhstan diplomats' wives community Gulistan Khamzayeva was involved in.
Gulistan Khamzayeva is a chairwoman of Kazakhstan diplomats' wives community. From 1993 to 2018 Gulistan has accompanied her husband, Almaz Khamzayev, a career diplomat, on diplomatic postings to Washington, London, Madrid, Rome, and Brussels. They have also been accredited to Greece, Malta, and San Marino.
Gulistan has written extensively about her life as the wife of an ambassador in her books, which she has presented in Kazakhstan, the US, Italy, Belgium, and Spain. Her first book, Leaving a Piece of my Heart behind, written in Russian, was published in 2009 in Kazakhstan and re-edited in 2011. It is about women who, due to their husbands' jobs, had to leave their home country to follow their husbands, find their own way in the host country and learn about the duties of a wife of an ambassador. The book received many warm responses and comments from men and women of different ages and social status. The proceeds from the book sales went to support the Association of Parents with Disabled Children of Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Gulistan has over twenty years of experience as a senior lecturer of English, having taught at Abai Kazakh National Pedagogical University from 1979 to 1992 and as a senior lecturer at the Diplomatic Academy of Kazakhstan in Almaty in 1997-1999. Gulistan is fluent in seven languages: Kazakh, Russian, English, Italian, Spanish, French, and German.
She enjoys crafts and is fond of painting. She is a contemporary painter, having mastered an array of painting techniques and skills while living all over Italy. Her painting style is a synthesis of her poetic inclinations that draw on and evolve from her own everyday experience, and represents a merger of her cultural traditions with the thought and aesthetics of the West. She is a member of the Brussels Circle of Diplomatic Artists. In 2011 she received an award from AODI for her active participation in charity.
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Heck applauds House Passage of Good Samaritan Search Bill
Family of slain taxi driver Keith Goldberg on-hand for vote; commend Heck for leadership on bill; Local organization touts bill's potential
(Greg Lemon) – Washington — Congressman Joe Heck (NV-03), on April 28, 2015, applauded House passage of H.R. 373, the Good Samaritan Search and Recovery Act of 2015, legislation that speeds access to public lands so that volunteer search groups can conduct searches for missing persons.
The bill passed the House 413 to 0 and now heads to the Senate where Sen. Dean Heller (NV) has introduced the companion legislation.
"Federal regulations shouldn't stand between the family of a missing person and the closure that a family deserves," Rep. Heck said."The House has once again demonstrated strong bipartisan support for allowing Good Samaritan search teams to access federal lands to conduct searches for missing persons and I hope the Senate follows suit."
Jodi Goldberg, sister of slain Las Vegas taxi driver Keith Goldberg, whose tragic story prompted Rep. Heck to introduce the bill, was on-hand for Tuesday's vote with other members of the Goldberg family and commended Congressman Heck for his leadership on the bill.
"When a loved one goes missing the pain is unbearable, and there should be nothing that stands in the way of having qualified search teams help these families. I thank Congressman Heck for all of his hard work and persistence in getting this bill through the House yet again. My family hopes and believes that this will be the year Good Samaritan becomes law. Losing Keith was very painful for us but this bill becoming law would help his legacy live on."
Dave Cummings, Commander of Red Rock Search and Rescue, the organization that worked with the Goldberg family to navigate the federal bureaucracy and eventually located Keith's remains highlighted the effect the legislation will have for volunteer search and rescue groups.
"Again we are extremely pleased with Rep Joe Heck and the House for passing this bill which will aid volunteer search and rescue teams coast to coast in their efforts to serve families at a time they are needed most. This makes all the rules the same in all our national parks and eliminates costly insurances and speeds our deployment time which can mean life or death in some cases."
The Good Samaritan Search and Recovery Act of 2015 requires that a decision on issuing a permit for accessing public lands be provided to groups within 48 hours of application and that groups are not responsible for obtaining an insurance policy given they waive federal government liability.
The Good Samaritan Search and Recovery Act was initially drafted in 2013 following the discovery of the bodies of Keith Goldberg and Air Force Staff Sergeant Antonio Tucker in the Lake Mead Recreation Area by Good Samaritan search and rescue teams. In both cases, the volunteer search teams had to wait nearly one year to obtain the proper permits and insurance before conducting their searches. In Goldberg's case, remains were discovered in less than two hours; in Tucker's it took less than two days. The original legislation passed the House 394-0, but was not acted on by the Senate.
Congressman Joe Heck represents Nevada's Third Congressional District in the House of Representatives. He serves on the House Armed Services Committee, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
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