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Au bonheur des données

Hans Rosling at TEDImage via Wikipedia200 pays, 200 ans présentés en quatre minutes par Hans Rosling, ou "le plaisir de visualiser des données statistiques."

Dans cette présentation, Hans Rosling reprend une idée déjà brillament explorée sur TED (Let My Dataset Change Your Mindset) et présente l'évolution et les changements majeurs qu'ont connus 200 pays du monde en terme d'espérance de vie et de revenus.





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Ryad Assani-Razaki

Célébrons les succès d'un fils du pays!!


T
he Boy in the Moon
, a tale of a father’s love for his disabled son by The Globe and Mail’s Ian Brown, and Ryad Assani-Razaki’s Deux Cercles, a collection of stories dealing with the frustrations of immigration, have each won the 2010 Trillium Book Award.

Assani-Razaki and Brown will each receive $20,000, and were toasted along with the winners of the Trillium Book Award for Poetry, Karen Solie for Pigeon and Michèle Matteau for Passerelles, at a luncheon announcing the 23rd annual awards in Toronto on Thursday.

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By James Bradshaw, Globe and Mail Update

Steve Jobs: How to live before you die | Video on TED.com

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Steve Jobs a co-créé Apple, puis créé Pixar, entre autres. Je vous invite à regarder cette vidéo, un discours d'une quinzaine de minutes qu'il livre à Stanford et que j'aimerais dédier à ceux d'entre nous (ils se reconnaitront) qui achèvent un cycle académique et qui graduent bientôt, Gi, NK, Yorda, Nora et les autres.

Nos échanges sont une source intarissable d'idées et de savoir à laquelle je m'abreuve régulièrement. Merci!

Stay hungry. Stay foolish.

Steve Jobs: How to live before you die | Video on TED.com
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John Wooden sur le success

Une présentation de Coach Wooden (UCLA) sur sa conception du succès (anglais).

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/john_wooden_on_the_difference_between_winning_and_success.html

John Wooden: Coach

John Wooden, affectionately known as Coach, led UCLA to record wins that are still unmatched in the world of basketball. Today, he continues to share the values and life lessons he passed to his players, emphasizing success that’s about much more than winning.

Why you should listen to him:

Born in 1910, Coach John Wooden is the first person to be inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame both as a player and coach, while ESPN ranks him as the greatest coach of all time, across all sports. In his 40 years at UCLA, he has mentored legends such as Bill Walton and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. His career has been illustrious to say the least, and he has created a model, the Pyramid of Success, and authored several books to impart his insight on achievement to others.

Coach wanted his players to be victors in life and not just on the court, so he treated them as an extended family and emphasized that winning was more than scoring. Indeed, most of his inspiring theories were born from conversations with his father, as a boy on their farm in Indiana. One that sums up his ideology quite well is his often quoted definition of success: "Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best that you are capable of becoming."

"Coach Wooden is a humble, private man who has selflessly given up his life to make other people’s lives better ... John Wooden gave us the necessary tools to overcome the adversity and obstacles that he knew from the beginning would always be in our way. He taught us to find a source of motivation to inspire us to ever higher levels of preparation and work."
Bill Walton

Quotes

About children...

It takes a village to raise a child. (African proverb)

One generation plants the trees; another gets the shade. (Chinese proverb)

A three-year-old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm. (Bill Vaughn)

And my favorite:

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place. (Colette)

Quote

"By being armed but with no weapons great battles may be won"

- The Tao Te Ching

Thank yous

To Jen, mom and dad; Chamime, Axelle, Yazid and Diana; Char, Brennley, Bradley, Jaymie, Lindy, Doug and Leanne; Farida, Aïda, Habib, Tantie Ossenatou; the staff at the CDEM; my colleagues Erin, Naomi, Meghan and Vivian (CCEDNet), Tara and Conrad (StatsCan); my friends Mohamed, Natasha, Anju, Schulamit, Fabiana, Steve, Lola, Sergine, Vera, Fafa, Sara, Tina, Fred, Yanick; and Ghislain, Samuel, Axel, Ben and Joyce.

To Roslyn, Harun, Helene, Alexandra, Tim, Lorianne, Admas, Usman, Shawna and Mike. They'd know why...