2010s, the most important decade of my life

As I've already done, I like doing a recap of what's going on my life. This time, instead of just recapping a year or an event, I want to recap the last decade. Not only did I realize how important this decade was. I'm sure it was for many of you as well. A decade ago, I'm pretty sure only Secra had a child and now he has 4 and a bunch of you guys also have littles ones that changed your life. As usual, it's just bullet points of the major events that happened throughout the year. I also came up with the Goals of the year or GOTY that only started appearing in the last 2 years, but that I set on January 1st every year. I basically started doing that when I finally understood what having MS was. I haven't set my goals for 2020, but I'll take suggestions ;-)



2010: Acquisio
Great business opportunity and the start of my interest in marketing technologies. Since then, I’ve now established a 10-year experience in marketing technologies. It's also the first time where I said "Fuck it, I'll break my CDI, because working with Marc Poirier seems more interesting than working at Aegis

Je sais si pas vous vous souvenez de ce manteau. C'etait un pote de Boston qui a fait voyager le manteau de son pote à travers le monde. On prennait une tof comme ça puis on renvoyait le manteau avec la tof à Boston. Je crois que c'était un pote qui était en Iraq en plus. Bon trip en 2009, j'ai pas de tofs 2010 et 2011, mais à partur de 2012 après.

2011: Started dating Heather
She changed my life the best of ways. I still think that 9 years later. Seriously the luckiest man alive to have found such a perfect life partner. I was living in London since January and I quit my job to move back to Paris and move in with her at the end of the year.


2012: Marriage, the boring one
Best decision I ever made in my life. I call it the "boring wedding" just because it was mostly paperwork so Heather didn't have to sign up for another Masters to stay in the country. I still think it's my "best decision ever" 8 year later.

La Cortille, get ready for us 2023

2013: Marriage, the best one
The best party ever in Drôme provençale. I still think that 8 year later. I remember saying I wanted to do a 10-year reunion in the same 10-bedroom villa we rented. I'm still thinking about it for 2023. Maybe Renfl, Misako & Toki will come this time.

It sums up the year in one picture

2014: Datorama
Best business opportunity I ever undertook. Was the 35th employee worldwide and it grew to 300+ people in 3 years. It had zero business in France and I built one that successfully got absorbed by a giant like Salesforce. I hired one of my best friends Romain a year later. He now has a well-paying job and just bought a house. I'm pretty happy about that.

Marriage de Jill et Blake à Beacon, NY. Tellement buens!

2015: Becky mourning
The best person in the world. She was so young and it made us so sad. It still makes us very sad more than 5 years later. It was devastating. Obviously, even more devastating for Heather losing her mom so quickly. More devastating than SEP honestly.

Where we scaterred her ashes in the Pacific.

2016: MS
Really shitty auto-immune disease that changed my life from head to toe. But maybe it changed my life in a good way? Also, totally bailed on the great opportunity to be the Country Manager of Integral AdScience for a €€€ €€€ job plus tons of perks. Just because I trusted that fuckface YR, I wasn't interested and preferred staying with the Dato France that i had built.

Petit tour de canal bien trempé avec Sam et Megan

2017: YR incident
He fired me right after I told him I had MS and had built him a great business for him with Pernod Ricard, Aegis and Publicis. I don't think he fired me because of MS, he just felt he had used up my client portfolio, so he replaced me to get someone with a new portfolio. All the other Datoramas around the world were hiring more people as they were growing. YR preferred replacing me because he's a fucking douche. First time in my life I was fired, so it hurt pretty bad. But maybe I would’ve ended up in a wheel chair had I stayed and gotten a job at Salesforce. So who knows, maybe it was a good thing I got fired before the Salesforcebuyout.

This picture sums up pretty well how I felt after being fired.

2018: Transparency
Started Transparency with a great project for Rocketer that unfortunately only lasted 10 months. I also accomplished many certifictations such as "Meditation Guru" with Surrendipity, and other Coursera certifictations from Yale and Leiden.

GOTY
1. Start meditating every day: Check
2. Start my own company: Check
3. Sign my 1st client (Rocketer): Check

Completed all my GOTY, so i'm pretty happy about that

Tellement buens de revoir des potes de Babson 20 ans plus tard

2019: Move to Aix
>Second best decision I ever made in my life.
>Started at Aix Marseille Université & other Transparency small activities


GOTY
1. Déménager à Aix en Provence: Check
2. Trouver un poste de prof à l'université à Aix: Check
3. Passe le code de la route: Check

Mes 40 ans, zero quoi

2020: Transparency Booms!
The Datorama-YR saga is finally over!! That page is finally turned 2 ½ years later. I only got a 1/4 of what I was asking for (75K€), but oh well. The Prudhomme system just sucks. At least Pole Emploi was good for 2 years. Vive la France!

GOTY
1. Transparency gets another good project
2. Get a French driver's licence
3. Ted Aix Tours starts getting more business come tourist season


I hope you like this little story, let's see if I can accomplish my GOTYs in 2020!

Zero!

Deute est un faux français

Ca vaut un post je pense ce genre d'info. Je suis 67% Brit-Gallois et 30% europe de l'est, donc il reste 3% de français.

0

Scandale ou pas scandale ?

Alors comme ça Secra se prétend non pénalisable et Renfli prétend avoir toujours raison.

La preuve est accablante et sans appel.

Le CPSAV en bon délateur souhaite faire appel au CSDT pour trancher sur ces 2 cas qui frisent l'insolence en toute impunité, et ce, sur un thread whatsapp par dessus le marché.

Needless to say, little Tommy Vercetti is more than disappointed and looks down on all y'all !

ZERO!

It's that time of year again !

Ho ho ho !

No. Not that time.

M'en bats les couilles de noel.

Its the annual poll !

Aux urnes messieurs !

Zero

Randy tries to get cancer.

Enjoy! Bande de zappeurs.




Zéro.

"Tommy Vercetti? Shit... didn't think they'd ever let him out..."

Le voici votre faire part.

Zero

CR EN AVANT YA PAS PHOTO

OK so as I promised 2T  voila le post qui va régler une fois pour toute la question de l'en avant Gallois.

Je ne vais pas entrer dans la polémique (ou discuter du fait qu'on aurait pu se mettre a l'abri en transformant le premier essai, ou se faciliter les choses si on prenait pas un carton rouge -parfaitement légitime... quel con d'ailleurs!!), je vais presenter les faits et les règles, ainsi que ce qu'il s'est passé avec les mots qui ont été utilisés. Vous pourrez choisir de débattre si vous le voulez, mais la chose est sûre, indéniable et on ne peut pas la remettre en question (a moins d'être "bias" - d'être biaisé en Anglais),  l'essai n'était pas valable et cette erreur d'arbitrage a couté la qualification de la France: sans cette erreur d'arbitrage, pas d'essai. Pas d'essai pas de point en plus. Pas de points en plus, pas de victoire des gallois.

Donc, without further ado, pourquoi il y a eu erreur d'arbitrage:

Les faits de jeu: après un cafouillage, Thomas Williams arrache le ballon des mains d'Ollivon. Il gicle et décrit une trajectoire qui ressemble - a vitesse reel et sur l'angle présente "live" (en direct en Anglais) aller vers l'avant. Le flanker Justin Tipuric le récupère mais échoue devant la ligne. Ross Moriarty, en seconde lame, jaillit pour inscrire l'essai.


L'essai était-il valable ? Pour trancher il faut les réponses a questions  :
1/ is it a forward throw or pass?
2/ is it a knock-on?
3/ did the ball travel forward the French dead ball line?
4/ Can a "rip" (arrachage en Anglais) lead to a knock on


Que dit le règlement ? Consultons les lois du jeu dictées par World Rugby, l'instance qui régit le rugby à l'échelle mondiale:

Dans la section "definitions" du World Rugby:

Throw forward: When a player throws or passes the ball forward i.e. if the arms of the player passing the ball move forward.

Wales player Tamos Williams rips the ball and his ripping arm goes behind his head towards France's try line. 
By ripping the ball from Ollivon, Tamos Williams (wether on purpose or not is irrelevant) passes the ball to his team-mate Justin Tipuric.

This definition is crystal clear:  the play is a "throw forward" and therefore if the ball moves forward, it is a forward pass. 

If it is a forward pass, the try cannot be awarded.


To avoid any doubt or discussion, I will also address the diehard Wales fans  trying to wiggle their way out of the term forward pass by considering that a "rip" is not a pass, but "in the spirit of rugby" is more akin to a "knock" - to these people I say: fair point, so? what do the rules state about "knock-on":

Toujours dans la section "definitions" du World Rugby:

Knock-on: When a player loses possession of the ball and it goes forward, or when a player hits the ball forward with the hand or arm, or when the ball hits the hand or arm and goes forward, and the ball touches the ground or another player before the original player can catch it.

Cette definition est claire, le ballon n'allant pas vers l'en-but Gallois, il ne peut pas s'agir d'un "knock-on" Francais. So, does it fall into the category of a Wales "knock-on"? 

World Rugby has a specific "Rule section" covering knock-ons, à savoir la règle 11!  (Notamment à les règle 11 alinéa 2 et alinéa 5b)

11.2 It is a knock-on when a player, in tackling or attempting to tackle an opponent, makes contact with the ball and the ball goes forward.

Again, here the rule is clear and leaves no room for interpretation, if this rule is applied on its own, the play is therefore a Wales knock-on. 
But wait, there is a caveat, a specific rule for the "rip" in this case that could cancel the knock on: 11.5.b 

11.5 The ball is not knocked-on, and play continues, if:

1. b. A player rips or knocks the ball from an opponent and the ball goes forward from the opponent’s hand or arm.

Once more, the rule is very clear, for 11.5.b to apply, the ball has to travel forward from the opponent's hand or arm (i.e. off the French arm toward the Wales dead ball line). This is not the case, so rule 11.5.b cannot apply, and 11.2 stands.

Since the ball is caught by another player on the team, the knock is therefore considered a pass.

If the rip deemed a "knock" (instead of a throw or pass) the ball moves toward the French dead ball line - and the same player does not catch the ball, it is therefore a knock-on, and the try cannot be awarded.

So now the crucial question: le ballon est-il allé vers l'en-but Français après l'arrachage? oui ou non? (there is no middle ground here. Yes of course it might have been hard on the field in the heat of the moment, but physically,  there is no margin for debate: the ball either went forward or not)

je vous remets la video pour que ce soit clair:

so back to the initial questions:
1/ is it a forward throw or pass? YES
2/ is it a knock-on? FROM WALES.
3/ did the ball travel forward the French dead ball line? YES

CONCLUSION: THE TRY SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN AWARDED.



For the record: Earlier in the tournament a Fiji rip against Georgia was termed a knock on, as it left the ripping players arm last and went forward to the ground.


link to world rugby rules (Download the 2019 World Rugby Law Book)