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Attorney General Eric Holder Delivers Lecture at the University of Montana School of Law Jones-Tamm Lecture Series

"In the spirit of Judge William Jones and Judge Edward Tamm – the visionary namesakes of this lecture series – that’s exactly what today is all about: taking a step back from what we do and what we study to consider what we owe – to our community, to our country, and to our fellow citizens," said Attorney General Holder.




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Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division Speaks at the Franz-Hermann Brüner Memorial Lecture at the World Bank

"Prosecutors and law enforcement professionals in the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice are working hard to fight corruption at every level, at home and abroad. This work is one way in which we send the message loud and clear that public officials who abuse their power for personal gain – whether they are in the United States or the emerging democracies of North Africa and the Middle East or anywhere else around the world – are on the wrong side. And we will keep working and keep fighting to hold them to account."




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Attorney General Eric Holder Speaks for the Vanderbilt University Law School Cecil Sims Lecture Series

"Although nearly a full century has passed since Cecil Sims graduated from this law school with top honors, across the academic campus he loved – and in the communities, courtrooms, and State House where he made his mark – his example still serves as a reminder that the actions of a single person can make a difference in countless lives," said Attorney General Holder.




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Attorney General Eric Holder Speaks on Human Trafficking for the Frank and Kula Kumpuris Distinguished Lecture Series

"This evening, we have come together to focus on such an issue; and contribute to an important national dialogue – about how we can advance our nation’s long struggle for fairness and freedom; and, specifically, how we can more successfully identify, assist, and seek justice on behalf of the millions of human trafficking victims who have been trapped in some form of slavery, bonded labor, or forced prostitution," said Attorney General Holder.




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Various Faculty Position (Professor, Associate Professor and Assistant Professor/Lecturer) at School of Materials Science and Engineering , Southeast University (SEU)

About us

Southeast University (SEU), located at Nanjing, is a prestigious higher education institution with its origin traced back to 1902. As one of the national key universities under direct administration of the Ministry of Education of China and jointly established with Jiangsu Province, it is selected in various programs, such National “Project 211” , “Program 985” and “Class A first-rate world universities” sponsored by the Central Government to build world-class universities.

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Various Faculty Position (Professor, Associate Professor and Assistant Professor/Lecturer) at School of Materials Science and Engineering , Southeast University (SEU)

About us

Southeast University (SEU), located at Nanjing, is a prestigious higher education institution with its origin traced back to 1902. As one of the national key universities under direct administration of the Ministry of Education of China and jointly established with Jiangsu Province, it is selected in various programs, such National “Project 211” , “Program 985” and “Class A first-rate world universities” sponsored by the Central Government to build world-class universities.

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Various Faculty Position (Professor, Associate Professor and Assistant Professor/Lecturer) at School of Materials Science and Engineering , Southeast University (SEU)

About us

Southeast University (SEU), located at Nanjing, is a prestigious higher education institution with its origin traced back to 1902. As one of the national key universities under direct administration of the Ministry of Education of China and jointly established with Jiangsu Province, it is selected in various programs, such National “Project 211” , “Program 985” and “Class A first-rate world universities” sponsored by the Central Government to build world-class universities.

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Figure of the week: Annual Nelson Mandela lecture focuses on the potential of Africa’s youth


On Monday, July 18, 2016, the world celebrated Nelson Mandela International Day, a day recognizing the former president of South Africa’s commitment to fostering peace and freedom. Every year the Nelson Mandela Foundation hosts a lecture, inviting prominent individuals to discuss significant social issues affecting the African continent. For this year’s lecture, Bill Gates was selected to speak on the theme of “Living Together” in front of a packed stadium in Pretoria. Gates focused on a topic Mandela returned to repeatedly throughout his life—the power of the youth. In the words of Gates, “…young people are better than old at driving innovation because they are not locked in by the limits of the past… we must clear away the obstacles standing in young people’s way so that they can seize all of their potential.”

Unfortunately, South Africa, the second-largest economy on the continent, has the highest youth unemployment rate at 54 percent, as seen in the figure below. Surprisingly, according to the figure the highest rates of youth unemployment lie in the upper-middle-income countries as classified by GNI per capita. Additionally, these unemployment rates might be depressed due to the fact that unemployment refers to people looking for jobs, and many of Africa’s youth are forced into the informal sector after giving up on their search for employment.

Although youth unemployment in Africa is often seen as a growing challenge, a number of experts interpret the large youth population as an opportunity, as long as the youth have access to the economic opportunities through which they can channel their energy into progress. As Africa’s youth is predicted to grow exponentially, achieving broad-based economic growth and development will rely on breaking down the barriers to economic opportunity, by investing in human capital (through education) and in improving business environments. 

Figure 2.3. Youth unemployment will continue to be a growing challenge in 2016

Interestingly, GDP and income classification have little correlation with youth unemployment rates. For example, South Africa, which has the second-largest economy on the continent and is considered an upper-middle-income country based on its GNI per capita, has the highest youth unemployment rate at nearly 54 percent. Meanwhile, the Liberian economy, which is nearly 200 times smaller than South Africa’s, has a youth unemployment rate 10 times smaller. Youth unemployment is measured as the share of the labor force (ages 15-24) without work but available for and seeking employment. Estimates may be low in some low-income countries like Liberia because many young people cannot afford not to work to seek employment and as a result, end up in low-paying jobs.

Source: Youth unemployment figures from World Development Indicators and GDP data from the World Bank databank.

See the Brookings Africa Growth Initiative’s Foresight Africa 2016 report, from which the figure below comes, for more highlights on the growing challenge of youth unemployment in Africa. In addition, earlier this month the Brookings Institution hosted an Africa Policy Dialogue on the Hill on jobs in Africa, alluding to the shortcomings of the educational systems and the importance of infrastructure and electricity to support business and attract investment. For a summary of the conversation, see here.

Tor Syvrud contributed to this post.

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The United States and Turkey: Sakip Sabanci Lecture with Philip H. Gordon

On March 17, the Center on the United States and Europe at Brookings (CUSE) hosted Assistant Secretary of State and former Brookings Senior Fellow Philip Gordon for the sixth annual Sakip Sabanci Lecture. In his lecture, Assistant Secretary Gordon offered the Obama administration’s perspective on Turkey, its relations with the United States and the European…

       




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Turkey and America: Indispensable Allies at a Crossroads: Third Annual Sakip Sabanci Lecture with Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke

Richard C. Holbrooke, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and vice chairman of Perseus LLC, delivered the third annual Sakip Sabanci Lecture. He was the chief architect of the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement, ending the war in Bosnia; assistant secretary of state for European and Canadian Affairs (1994-96); U.S. ambassador to Germany (1993-94); assistant…

       




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Do Lectures 2011 - 5 Lessons on How to Love Life & Improve the World Around You

There is a man dressed in a silver lamé suit jumping about with extraordinary energy in a wind blown field in West Wales. His name is Steve Edge and his motto in life is:




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Do Lectures 2011 - What Can You Uniquely Do?

Yesterday I introduced the Do Lectures 2011 with a flash of party glitter from Steve Edge and the statement, Things are not just the way they are. This first emerging




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Do Lectures 2011 - Start Where You Live

So far in our Do Lectures 2011 series we've talked about the fact that Things Are Not Just The Way They Are, we always need to ask difficult questions and challenge the




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Do Lectures 2011 - The People's Take Over

Yesterday for our third post in the Do Lectures 2011 series we encouraged you to Start Where You Live. You never know quite how far you will travel. In the




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Do Lectures 2011 - The Importance of Independence

Over the past few weeks we've been sharing the amazing ideas and themes that emerged from the Do Lectures 2011. This year's inspiring talks are now being launched online in




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Prince Charles pays tribute after university lecturer who taught him Welsh dies aged 89

Prince Charles said he has 'very fond memories' of staunch nationalist and republican Dr Tedi Millward, who taught him Welsh ahead of his investiture in 1969 and has died aged 89.




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Irish lecturer stabbed to death in Paris 'insulted the Mohammed'

John Dowling, 66, was attacked and stabbed 13 times outside the Leonardo de Vinci university in Paris where he worked by 37-year-old disgruntled former student Ali R (pictured).




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The BBC told me: 'nobody wants to be lectured by a woman'

History was 'a generally rubbish place,' says Bettany Hughes. She definitely would not want to live there. 'Not before the anaesthetic era,' I suggest. 'Not even before fridges,' she counters




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Macquarie University lecturer tests positive for coronavirus after returning from Iran

A Macquarie University lecturer has tested positive for coronavirus after returning from Iran. The staff member became ill after returning from the western Asian country but had not been on campus.




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MARTIN SAMUEL: Football does not need to be lectured on coronavirus by you, constable Roberts

MARTIN SAMUEL - CHIEF SPORTS WRITER: Playing the only grown-up in the village is fashionable right now. As is demanding consideration of the bigger picture, as if we are all oblivious to this crisis.




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Democratic debate 2019: Marianne Williamson 'YODELS' and delivers lecture

Self-help guru Marianne Williamson warned at Tuesday's Democratic debate that 'Republicans will win' if the party strays too far left on health care - in a voice compared online to yodeling.




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MARTIN SAMUEL: Football does not need to be lectured on coronavirus by you, constable Roberts

MARTIN SAMUEL - CHIEF SPORTS WRITER: Playing the only grown-up in the village is fashionable right now. As is demanding consideration of the bigger picture, as if we are all oblivious to this crisis.




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When a finance minister lectured auditors


Media reports following the two-day Accountants’ General conference have focused largely on the observations and advice on CAG audits by the Finance Minister and the PAC chairman. Himanshu Upadhyaya wonders if such a meet cannot be evolved into a more citizen-focused and constructive exercise.




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How an ex-lecturer turned around the land


With two decades of continuous research and wise management, this ex-lecturer in Karnataka's Udupi district has made a barren hillock into a model of rain harvesting. Shrikrishna D reports.




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The Struggle for Political Liberty. By Chrystal Macmillan, M.A., B.Sc. (A Lecture given on Februarry 16th, 1909, the day of the Opening of Parliament.).

[London?] : [s.n.], [1909]




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The Meaning of the Woman's Movement. By Emmeline Pethick Lawrence. (A verbatim report of a Lecture delivered at the Portman Rooms.).

[Letchworth] : [Printed by Garden City Press, Ltd., Letchworth, Herts.], [1908]




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The Importance of the Vote. By Mrs. Pankhurst. (A Lecture delivered at the Portman Room, on Tuesday, March 24th, 1908.).

[London?] : [s.n.], [1908]




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L. S. Vygotsky's pedological works. Volume 1, Foundations of pedology [Electronic book] / translated with notes and lecture outlines by David Kellogg and Nikolai Veresov.

Singapore : Springer, c2019.




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Historical studies in computing, information, and society : insights from the Flatiron lectures [Electronic book] / William Aspray, editor.

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2019]




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Low frequency radio astronomy and the LOFAR Observatory: lectures from the Third LOFAR Data Processing School / George Heald, John McKean, Roberto Pizzo, editors

Online Resource




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Industrial computational fluid dynamics: September 21-25, 2015 / lecture series directors, J.-M. Buchlin & Ph. Planquart

Barker Library - TA357.5.M43 I548 2015




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A few lectures on documentary film / by Jerzy Toeplitz

Toeplitz, Jerzy




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Lectures, problems and solutions for ordinary differential equations / Yuefan Deng (Stony Brook University, USA)

Deng, Yuefan, author




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Lectures in the Senate Occasional Lecture series, and other papers / edited by Ruth Barney




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Dynamics of reason : the 1999 Kant Lectures at Stanford University / Michael Friedman

Friedman, Michael, 1947-




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Logic and general theory of science: Lectures 1917/18 with supplementary texts from the First Version of 1910/11 / Edmund Husserl ; translated by Claire Ortiz Hill

Dewey Library - B3279.H93 L6313 2019




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The statutory foundations of negligence / Mark Leeming, BA LLB PhD (Syd), Judge of Appeal of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Challis lecturer in equity, University of Sydney

Leeming, M. J. (Mark James), 1969- author




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Refresher course in neurology : venue, Stephen Roberts Lecture Theatre, University of Sydney, 9-13 August 1976

University of Sydney. Post-Graduate Committee in Veterinary Science




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Refresher course in feline diseases : venue, Stephen Roberts Lecture Theatre, University of Sydney, February 14-18, 1977

University of Sydney. Post-Graduate Committee in Veterinary Science




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Refresher course in canine medicine : February 24 & 25, 1978 : venue, Stephen Roberts Lecture Theatre, University of Sydney

University of Sydney. Post-Graduate Committee in Veterinary Science




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Refresher course in the therapeutic jungle : August 14-18, 1978 : venue, the Bosch Lecture Theatre, University of Sydney

University of Sydney. Post-Graduate Committee in Veterinary Science




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Refresher course canine heartworm disease symposium, September 1, 1978 : venue, Clunies Ross Lecture Theatre, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Sydney

University of Sydney. Post-Graduate Committee in Veterinary Science




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Gastroenteric Conditions Seminar, 23 & 24 May, 1980 : proceedings : venue, Stephen Roberts Lecture Theatre, University of Sydney

University of Sydney. Post-Graduate Committee in Veterinary Science




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Refresher course on cats, 11-15 August, 1980 : venue, the Stephen Roberts Lecture Theatre, University of Sydney

University of Sydney. Post-Graduate Committee in Veterinary Science




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Refresher course on dermatology, May 25-29, 1981 : venue, Stephen Roberts Lecture Theatre, University of Sydney

University of Sydney. Post-Graduate Committee in Veterinary Science




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Refresher course on advances in veterinary virology, May 17-21, 1982 : venue, the Stephen Roberts Lecture Theatre, University of Sydney

University of Sydney. Post-Graduate Committee in Veterinary Science




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Clinical pharmacology & therapeutics : the thinking veterinarian's course, 13-17 August, 1984 : venue, The Stephen Roberts lecture theatre, University of Sydney

University of Sydney. Post-Graduate Committee in Veterinary Science




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Clinical oncology : cancer - diagnosis, treatment & prognosis, 21-25 May 1984 : venue, the Stephen Roberts Lecture Theatre, University of Sydney

University of Sydney. Post-Graduate Committee in Veterinary Science




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Dairy cattle production, 6th-10th May 1985 : venue, The Stephen Roberts Lecture Theatre, University of Sydney

University of Sydney. Post-Graduate Committee in Veterinary Science




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Equine Exercise Physiology Seminar, together with notes of lectures by Dr. R. Rose, 14 December 1985 ; venue, The Stephen Roberts Lecture Theatre, University of Sydney

University of Sydney. Post-Graduate Committee in Veterinary Science