Hello and welcome to Triskel Hearts Golden Compass podcast. I'm your host and producer of the show, Order Queen and today I am delighted to welcome another amazing speaker that we get to meet together, Ona Christy-Martin and Ona is joining me all the way from the states. So welcome Ona. Thank you and thank you so much for having me on. You're so welcome. So for those that don't know Ona, she is a clairvoyant artist, writer and shamanic guide who uses a unique soul visioning process to help people find their spiritual genius. So I look forward to going to those kind of concepts with you. As a mentor Ona has been described as a spiritual jumper cable, cables, functioning like a combination of magic mirror to the soul and inner wilderness guide. She helps her clients connect more deeply with their spiritual guides, clarify their own inner vision and develop a strong inner GPS so they can get on the fast track to living their purpose of how you describe that. Many report that the work results in a deep sense of inner peace, connection and abundance in their life and work. Ona also connects with your higher self and spirit guides to create beautiful personalized artworks that remind you every day of the divine essence of your being. The paintings carry a very high frequency vibration that helps to activate sacred healing energy within you. She is especially known for her connection with spirit animals and is the creator of the spirit animal awareness oracle card deck, which you can get on YouTube and I'll be sharing the link to that in the description. So today Ona is going to be talking about finding your genius own with the help of your spirit animal allies. So Ona tell me how did you get started in this work? Where did this journey start from? That's a really, really good question. I think for for most of us, like all of us, you know, it starts in childhood. I think we each of us has our own, I don't know what I call it spiritual superpowers, which is, you know, just the things that come naturally to us. And for me, it really manifested very early on through the artwork. It was always from the time I could hold a crayon was always, always drawing. I can also remember singing. It's a very, very young child. And interestingly enough, I stopped at about age three. And I'm pretty sure it was like stuff happening in my life. It happens to a lot of us. Light workers, star seeds, we kind of get shut down at some point. And either it's, you know, very early, or we make this conscious conscious decision. Sometimes that it scares us, our gifts, right?  So the singing is starting to come back. But the artwork was something that was constantly with me. And when I was in college, I began to realize that, you know, I do these paintings, and they would be symbolic, right? But I didn't know what they meant, you know, and it started to realize I look back after a year or two years and realize, Oh, well, I could see the meaning in it. And I could see the symbolism and how it related to my life. And so about five years ago, I kind of started the, I hate to say, it was like the start of my awakening, because I think it was sort of, you know, throughout the life, but but the major kind of awakening. And early on in that process, I had this just download to hold my dad in my head and get some paper and see what wanted to come out. So I did that, I was just thinking of him, and started to draw without even thinking about what I was doing. And this bear goddess came out, it was this beautiful goddess with a bear. And I looked at it, and I could see all the symbolism and how it related to him and what it was about. And it's like, Wow, that's really cool. So I tried it with a few other people at each time. It was like the image would come out. And I could see what it meant for them. And it was like, Oh, that's really cool. So shortly after that, I have a friend who were, we're both writers and we met in that way. But she I my writing career had taken off and hers really hadn't. And she she called me one day. She was like, I found out I'm really not a writer. I'm, I'm an energy worker. I'm like, Oh, well, what's that? And the funny thing was that I had already been certified like in Reiki, but it was just like I didn't put the two and two together is like, what the heck is this energy stuff? So she's like, I'll show you. So she did this energy scan technique on me. And I think that was what actually, because it was shortly after that, that I had the art thing with my dad. So that that really kind of helped to trigger this whole thing. But then she invited me down to this workshop in Chicago with her mentor.  And I was like, I agreed. But then I as a last minute, I almost didn't go because I was I was thinking, you know what, it's a long way down there. It was about seven hours away. And there's going to be a pitch, right?  I just don't want to go. But then at the last very last minute, I was like, well, you know, what the heck, I'll go anyway. I want to spend some time with Lisa. It'll be fun. I don't have to buy anything. So I went down there all the whole way down. I was thinking, well, you know, I'm not going to buy. I'm not going to buy. Okay, so I get down there and walk into this room. And there's this whole room of people who and I've always felt like kind of an outsider, right? Throughout my whole childhood, we moved a lot. And I never felt like I was kind of, you know, in, walk in there and the whole room, everybody in there was so welcoming. And it was like they got me, like the first time in my life, I was within this room with a whole crowd of people who understood kind of who I was, right? And even though I didn't know I was like an energy worker. And so I was like, when they did make a pitch, and I was like the person at the table to sign up. So that's where I learned the energy scan technique, which I'm incorporating into, you know, what I do. So that's kind of a, I guess, short version of how I got here. Yeah, yeah, we'll, we'll go deeper into, you know, we'll go deeper into it. But that's, that's a fascinating journey, especially, I love the description of your, the exercise you did with your dad and what emerged from that to show your gift. But tell me about the soul. So the soul visioning work. So where did you go, you know, like that, that stepping from just energy healer energy work to the soul visioning process, because that's a whole other, you know, that's a whole other level. Yeah, for me, it was a real struggle. And I know, again, this is also fairly common with very creative people, because creative people tend to be very interested in, and often are good at different things. And so it's, it can be a challenge to figure out, well, what's my actual soul path, you know, where's, which, what can I do to incorporate all these, right? So it was a kind of a long process of figuring out what my actual process is, because I always felt like the art was so important. And it's, it's our society teaches us to put things in boxes, right?  And so I really had internalized that and had this really kind of struggling. It's like, because every time I'd go and starts really stepping out as an energy worker, it just something in me was like, well, yes, but not all of it. I mean, that's not all. And then I'd sort of pull back. And then I'd start stepping out as an artist. But it's like, yes, but it's not all of it. So it was a process of learning to, first of all, accept all of that, and to love myself enough to allow myself to, you know, just to push boundaries. And then to figure out, well, how does this all interact? And how does it all come together? And how do I incorporate all this stuff in, you know, when I'm working with others and so forth. So excuse me. So it, it, what it works out, what it has kind of evolved into is I use it, I think the term visioning is what I sort of settled into, because when I work and with the energy work, I don't, like some people are very like, use their hands a lot to move energy. I'm more of a mind and vision. So I take people in a process like I can sort of see into them, I'll see, I'm very clairvoyant. So, you know, I'll do this process where I look into each other chakras and kind of see what comes up. Often I'll get the clear audience stuff and, you know, just whatever however way it comes up, and I'll describe it to them. And there becomes sort of like this picture that comes up, as well as if they want, I can kind of look into sometimes people are like, Well, can you tell me what my spirit animal is? And I usually tell them, I'm not going to tell you what your primary totem is, because I think that's a very personal relationship. And sometimes it takes a little time to work with the spirit animal on your own. I really encourage people to to do that work, you know, and have that own personal thing. But I can look into them and ask for a spirit animal to come forward and see what wants which one wants to come forward. Sometimes it is their personal totem. Other times it's one that simply has a message for them right at the moment or for a certain phase of their life. But I can't do that work. And another one of the things that I do is, I can ask for an angel to come forward and I'll paint it. So that is all incorporated depending on like what the person chooses what, what, you know, what I've got different packages that I use. You know, so whether they want to come to me for the art or if they're looking for more of the life path kind of thing, but I will bundle the artwork in there because I think it is very powerful. Our minds often will kind of trip us off.  And it will because it bypasses the whole language part of us. It is really a fairly pure channel into, you know, what the divine wants to tell us, it's just that it needs to be interpreted. So that's kind of part of what I do is helping people to access that part. And since for a lot of us aren't real clairvoyants, I can help kind of be that guide to help that come forward and help work through it. And I also do sort of a journeying process, which is like a, like a guided meditation, a very interactive with people. So we'll go into that dream world. And I find that not every client is able to follow that. But most are, and we can kind of go into that dream world, allow the archetypes, the guides, and so forth to come forward and then look with them. And I really consider myself more as a guide and not as a healer. I think everybody is their own healer, right? So I don't feel like I heal people, but I do help guide them and assist them in a self-healing process. Beautifully described. And I want to excite listeners by sharing that Ona is going to be giving a free gift later on in the show. She's going to be offering just, she'll speak to it, but it's about experiencing some of her work. And I'm like, I'm super interested, Ona. I'm like, I'm in. So thank you for describing so beautifully. Yeah, this, you know, what you do around this visioning, this soul visioning process. And you speak then about the genius zone, like finding your genius zone. So maybe if you can talk to that a little bit more as well, like what specifically is that? And how do you find it? Like, how does your process help to find it? Sure. Well, to preface that, I really use nature as a pattern for everything. I think, you know, we're all in this creative process. And we are creators, we're creating our own reality, we're creating our own selves. But nature has this template, right? It's the grand creation that everything unfolds through. And we are, of course, a part of that. But there's this ego, ego part of us, of course, that can miscreate. And so I find nature to be like, this, this pattern that I want to look at for, for for everything, because that that's, it shows us the healthy ways to be, right? It shows us how to thrive. And so looking at nature, I noticed that each creature has its own, what I call superpowers, its own characteristics, whether it's physical characteristics or behavioral that help it to survive and to thrive in its natural environment. And I believe that each one of us has that as well. For instance, one of the clients I've been working with, one of his superpowers is that he, he sees truth, right? And sometimes the superpowers, it's like, it's like, because when I first met him, it, he was going through this, this where he would be caught up in other people's illusions. And as we've been working together, it's like he's been more and more really being able to see through that and really becoming discerning and so forth. And he's got this kind of laser focus where he is a truth seeker. And, and that to me is one of his superpowers is that he just is like this bulldog for the truth, which, which is really, really powerful. And let's see another one that I'm working with. She's able to kind of delve into some really dark, dark, dark stuff that's, that's, you know, underlying the underbelly of society, right? And what she's, you know, what we're realizing that she's able to do is to bring that up to light and to start to transmute that. So each of us has, you know, are different with some people move energy really well through their hands, like my partner, he's just naturally just, he can just pull, you know, funky energy right out of a person. So, but, but sometimes it's like, we're not really aware of those or, or we sort of like, we're not consciously aware of it, or sometimes it's like, because illusion likes to come forward, that the trickster and all of us likes to hide that from us or to put barriers in the way, right?  So part of the finding of the superpowers is to really, first of all, identify them, you know, because as I'm working with somebody and something comes forward like that, I'll be like, that's one of your superpowers, right? And they'll be like, Oh, yeah. And, and then but sometimes it's like, there's work around, you know, to value oneself enough, right, to, to recognize that there is value to that, to what they're doing. Like, like, for myself, it was the art, right? Or, you know, part of it was the art, because there's this whole societal thing about starving artists, and there is sort of a devaluing of, of the creative process, right? Or it has to be making money, it's got to be, you know, economically viable or whatever it is, right? Sometimes the superpower is simply presence is simply the ability to just walk into a room and just change the vibration in the room. And you don't have to, like, can you make a career out of that? It doesn't even matter what your career is, right? If that's your superpower. Sometimes it doesn't, like, because people are always looking at, Well, what can I do? What can I do? Well, sometimes it's really more about being. So recognizing some of those, you know, gifts that are necessarily something that society recognizes, right? But as recognizing that as valuable as well. Well, beautifully described. And it's interesting that you use the term superpower almost more than the genius zone. And I love that, you know, that we all have these superpowers that aren't necessarily, yeah, they're not necessarily what you can build a career out of, but career out of, but they're because of their subtle nature. And but they're so much more powerful than that because they, you know, it's that it's, it's, it's a it's a deep truth that comes through. And then that results in a deep knowing of the self, right?  And so some of us have a couple of these superpowers, you know, when you mentioned some of them, I can identify a few that I have, you know, definitely a true seeker, but I can see another mission that I'm, you know, that I'm, you know, also, that person who works at a multi, multi dimensional level, where I'm, where I'm some kind of a justice seeker that I haven't, maybe, maybe tuning in with you will help me to certain a little bit more clear what that superpower is. That's right. And the archetypes will show it too. Yeah, go ahead. Well, interestingly, the archetypes, and yeah, let's let's jump to the spirit, animal archetypes, because that's something that you're going to be, maybe, and yeah, that's something that we've kind of identified as kind of what we want to talk about today. And also maybe that you want to give your offering around, right? So maybe, maybe just like talk about that, like, in terms of how, you know, how that can help, like that, that ally, the spirit animal ally, or the archetype. Right, right.  And when I work with people, sometimes those will come up to plant totems often come up. The animals as well. But like, I find the animals really interesting to work with, because we can relate to them. Right? You know, we are animals ourselves. And so when an animal comes forward for us, it's, it's very relatable in a way that that you can't really find in any other way, like, we can relate to a plant, but we relate to an animal in a little bit different way, right? We can really feel ourselves as the animal. And so when an animal shows up for you, we can look at, you know, all those superpowers of the animal and see what that is saying to us or the behaviors of the animal. And it can come up in a number of ways. I mean, it can come up as an animal that we really, really identify with. And then, then we're looking at the strengths and weaknesses of the animal. And that will is going to reflect some of your own, you know, your own journey, your own challenges. And it can give us clues as to how to overcome those challenges, as well as it can sort of like, give us a heads up that this might be an area that might be challenging for us. And sometimes we have to draw on maybe a different animal in order to assist or balance out those energies. For instance, my primary totem is a horse and tends to be very kind of forward moving. And that's got a lot of forward momentum kind of energy. If you think of Aries, I've got a lot of Aries kind of deep down in my chart. And so the shadow side of that is like, it could be very impulsive and jumping into things will be without thinking. And that kind of thing that's been something I've been working on a lot. So if you think of horse and bringing that animal into its, into its genius zone, right, as an animal that can really carry us forward and has a lot of power. It requires a lot of balance. If you think of an equestrian has to really have that seat and have the balance and have the calm, right? So these are all things that I've had to work on myself a lot. It's been the kind of the primary journey for me. And the horse really has helped me to kind of understand myself, be more compassionate with myself through the whole process and continuing process of living here on earth. So just as an example. Yeah, well, thank you for that. And I think, yeah, giving giving such examples really help people understand how they can, can be aids, how they can be allies. And I'm interested then just to make that link between, you know, this, the visioning the soul visioning and these archetypes allies, how do they? Yeah, I suppose it's like, it's making that bridge like how do these, how do these different archetypes help us to access our full purpose, right? The visioning process that you talked about? It happens a lot of different ways. Like what I just described about the my own personal totem, a lot of that is just like the mental work, right? And so some of it is like helping the mental side of us understand what's going on so that we can change the way we respond or react to things, right? So training the mind. So that's one aspect of it. But they can actually come forward and really work with us energetically. I've been having that happen lately with the bees. They have been connecting with bees. And actually, I was invited last year to attend this workshop with bees, this kind of shamanic workshop. And about a week or so after I decided I just like I knew right away, okay, I want to do that. And I had this just in vision, this bee angel came through in my journal. And then I happened to like, there were all these synchronicities at this workshop. It was crazy, but I ended up connecting with one of the workshop leaders. And because what as soon as I got there, the thought came into my head, I would really love to do an Oracle deck around bees. And then the next thought that came in was like, Oh, but I don't I've never worked with bees. I don't know enough about them to really do that. And it turned out the workshop leader, I got to chatting with her. She knew I had done this Oracle deck. And she's like, Well, I have this Oracle deck on bees, all written up. But I'm looking for an artist. I'm like, Yeah. And the funny thing is, it's like, you know, people approach me quite frequently about doing decks and so forth projects. And it's like, well, if I'm working on your project, I'm not working. But this time it was like, yes, I this really resonates. So we're working on the thing. And but the bees since then it was almost like, like, they have been coming in and working with me energetically in just amazing ways they've been coming in a lot with client work and just know how to describe it. But but like I said, I go into this sort of meditation journey kind of state when I'm working with clients. And so things will come in sometimes, you know, that's bird animals or whatever, the bees have been frequently coming in as a protector. I remember one time I was in meditation and working through this issue. And the bees just came in and just covered my chakras. And this is what they do when the queen the old queen is ready when when it's like the hive has gotten too big. And it's the swarming process. She'll lay queen eggs and for the young queens queen to take over and she'll leave the hive and she takes the majority of the bees with her. And so in the process where she has to leave the hive and she's very vulnerable, of course, and they all just surround her in this big ball of bees. That's what they were doing. Because I was really like I was literally moving I was moving kind of starting this process of transferring out of my my other business as a writing agency. And I'm sort of in this process of transferring that I was handing some of that stuff over to my daughter. So literally, you know, handing it over to the other the younger queen. And so they were coming in and energetically just protecting. And I was in this very vulnerable stakes. I had this health thing going on. And it was moving. And they were just like, and it felt amazing.  And so a power animal, or a spirit animal can really have, they definitely have lives of their own. And they can come in an amazing, amazing ways for us. That I could never make this up. You know, it's just like they continually surprised me. Wow. Wow, this is incredible hearing it. And already, you know, I feel that protection, just from from listening to you and bringing in the essence of the bee. So then we can call that in, too. You know, once they've, once we've developed a relationship with them, we can ask them for help or, or, you know, call in that energy. Well, beautiful. I, I'm excited for you just to talk about your offering, because I think it's such a gift for, for our listeners. So if you want to go ahead with that, thank you. Well, the first thing that I will do with every client, whether it's an art clients, because if they, if somebody comes to me for like, and say, an angel painting or something, I need to kind of tune into them. Or if it's an energy client, the first thing I do is what I, what's called an energy scan. So like I mentioned before, we have the chakras and see what comes up. It's a diagnostic procedure really, but it can also be very healing, because it brings to light things. Okay, so a lot of the soul visioning work revolves around being becoming clear about things, becoming aware of them. It's awareness. And so typically an energy scan session is a full hour. But what I'm going to like to offer is a mini one. I don't, I almost never offer free one on one work anymore, because I found that I used to do that. And it would draw a lot of people that just wanted something for nothing. But I think in these times, this time right now, with the whole worldwide, I would like to offer like a mini scan, you know, 20 to 30 minutes, and we'll just kind of look at sort of the some of the major energy coming forward. And, you know, to help to I can't say exactly how it'll work out. It's a lot of it's just the clarity to be clear on what's going on. And then some kind of the human work comes in with that. What I would like to ask in return is because I think there always has to be an energy exchange. It's really, really important. Without an exchange, you get this, like I said, wanting something for nothing. That's the victim mentality. And that's what we're moving out of right now. So in exchange, I would just ask that you pay it forward, you know, find somebody, either somebody in need or somebody you don't know, and give something of yourself to them. Just pass it on. Yeah. Such important, like a beautiful gift. And, and also a really important kind of teaching there around passing on and, you know, not just being a receiver, because of course, yeah, that's that it's not it's not good energetically. So so on how do people then yeah, how do people follow up with you around that? Okay, so my I'm thinking probably I should set up a landing page that they can just sign up for that. So I'll set it up on my website is art of awakening dot life and attention to the dot life because usually you think dot com so art of awakening dot life. And then I'll put slash scan SCAM. And allowed that probably through the end of April. Just for people that hear about it through this interview. Yeah, okay, perfect. Well, that's again, like I say, such a generous gift. I I'm gonna sign up. Yeah, I mean, it's it's such a fascinating process. And as you said, it's, you know, these guides, these allies are there to help support us. And we are going through really challenging times right now with this global pandemic. And I think now more than ever, people can look to these allies can can look to these archetypes for support. And because it is a real soul searching time.  And as only said, pass it on, you know, we, you know, we're in this time of, we really do have to be generous and give back to society in a time of crisis. Absolutely. And it's also, it's this call to purpose, right? Because the world is really shifting right now. And what I'm seeing happening, there's been a few of us who've been sort of like, ahead of the crowd, right, who've been through this awakening process. And now it's hitting the collective, it's hitting the planet, right. And so for many of us who've kind of been through this, it's been a process of purging a process of, of a lot of trials and things, you know, and we've had to come through that and test to pass and so forth. This is just sort of like this, this, this COVID-19 pandemic. This I'm feeling like maybe the first of quite a few interesting shakeups. And, and there's going to be a great need for people to really, you know, those people who have kind of come to a place where they feel strong enough to step forward in whatever way, as healers, or as bringing healing work into whatever they're doing, but finding that purpose and being clear about it so that they can really step into that genius zone, and utilize their superpowers to really assist in this whole process, assist in the collective's healing, right? There's going to be a lot, a lot, a lot more people now starting to need this kind of work. They're, they're, they're needing, you know, those around them that can help to tell them what's happening, you know, to, to help them to stay centered and balanced and to get through this.  So, so yeah, the call to purpose. Yeah, perfect.  Oh, no, thank you so much. Thank you so much. I thoroughly, thoroughly enjoyed this, and I've taken so much from it. I'm sure, I'm sure our listeners have as well. And, and for sure, I appeal to you to, to get in touch with Onan and go through this process with her.  Thank you so much for tuning into the Trisco Hearts Golden Compass podcast, go on to the sign, signplied link and see all the other podcasts that are there. And, and I look forward to tuning in to your next, next time we, I published these podcasts every full moon. So, and so that's when you will expect to see them go live. All right, well, thank you all for tuning in. And thanks again, Oh, no, blessings. Thank you so much, Orla. Thank you. Bye. Bye. Bye.


Light is a form of radiation that travels as a transverse wave. Light behaves in various different ways. It can be refracted and reflected. For more on this, see our video on ray diagrams. In this video, we're going to learn about how shadows are formed. It's important to remember that light travels in straight lines. Transparent materials allow light to pass through them. Translucent materials allow some light through, but not all. And opaque objects don't let any light pass through them, and so they cause shadows. A shadow is an area where there is no light. Shadows have two regions within them, the umbra and the penumbra. The umbra of a shadow is in the centre and is the darkest part of the shadow. The penumbra is an extended part of the shadow that is slightly lighter than the umbra. The size of the umbra and penumbra depend on the size of the object, and also the position of the object relative to the light source. Think of shadow puppets. If the light is closer to your hands, the shadow becomes bigger. What do you think happens to the size of the shadow, if the distance between the object and the light source stays the same, but the distance to the wall is increased? Pause the video and have a think. The size of the shadow, so both the umbra and penumbra, increases. During a solar eclipse, the moon passes between the sun and the earth. Light travelling in a straight line cannot pass through the opaque moon, and so a shadow is cast on part of the earth. As always, the shadow has an umbra and the penumbra region. So if you're standing in the umbra, on the part of the earth where the sun's light is totally blocked from reaching you, the sun will look like this in the sky. If you are ever lucky enough to witness this very rare event, make sure you don't look directly at the eclipse, as it can damage your eyesight.


Live from the Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of jazz at Lincoln Center in New York, New York. It's theCUBE at IBM Z Next. Redefining digital business. Brought to you by headline sponsor IBM. This is Dave Vellante, we're with theCUBE here, CUBE After Dark at the IBM Z event. I'm here with Ron Perry, the CEO of Radix. Ron, thanks for coming on. Hey, it's a pleasure. Glad to be here. Tell me a little, we had a great dinner last night. It was awesome. I love this story. Tell us a little bit about Radix. Yeah, Radix has about 40 airlines around the world. We provide reservation systems for them. So if somebody calls a call center, or checks in online, or makes a booking online, it's one of our airlines. It'll come back into Orlando to our data center. We handle all the processing, the whole distribution side for the airline. Okay, so you compete with the likes of, say, Burr and others. Exactly, exactly. But we're using very modern technology, huge server farms, and everything's over the internet. So okay, so huge server farms, you're at the Z event, what's the connection? We are replacing a good percentage of our servers with an IBM Z mainframe. So can you help us understand the scale, the scope, the big consolidation effort, and what's driving that? Sure, yeah. The first Z mainframe we're putting in, we're going to replace the Hunter Z, and we're going to replace 172 cores on the servers with 10 cores on the IBM Z. Okay, so pretty significant. So you're going from an X86 environment to a Z environment? Exactly. So what drove that? Well, I mean, there's a variety of different things. The first thing is, as a server farm begins to expand, the orchestration and management of that farm becomes virtually impossible. You have so many different vendors that you're trying to deal with. It's almost like you're your own general contractor and you keep getting more and more and more subcontractors. All these different vendors, you have to make them all work together. Plus you have to deal with the potential for hacking and the more diverse systems you have, the more likelihood that you have that somebody has an entry point. Plus you have to make sure that everything is working together. Nobody tests out the entire environment as a unit. The vendors will test out individually and maybe they'll test with one or two of the other items of equipment. And so what we've seen is the mainframe is far more reliable, more scalable. And what surprised me was the total cost of ownership for us is going to go down rather than up. So that's an interesting story. To me, the even more interesting part of your story is the way the airline business is transforming and the role you're playing. So I wonder if you could talk about that a little bit. You see the price of oil dropping, intense competition, very high-profile industry. How is it transforming and what role is your firm playing? Okay, well we basically have gone through and rethought the airline distribution side of things. The way airlines distribute is somewhat irrational. In a typical traditional system, within five days after you've flown the last leg of your itinerary, all your data is pulled off of the system. It's not online any longer. It's on some subsidiary database. If you can think about any of the major e-commerce systems, they couldn't operate that way. They want the customer data online. The way the money flows is very strange. A traditional system only wants a ticket number. That's it. They don't handle any of the money. The money goes through separate channels and sometime later has to be reconciled. So an airline running in a traditional environment has no idea what their true revenues are on a flight until anywhere between 15 and 30 days after it's flown. So you're saying there's a big value chain and the revenue is flowing in a manner that the airline can't really even tell. They really can't analyze it. So how do you solve that problem? Well, a key thing is providing a way to control the revenue and identify what it is at all times. And so we really started writing our systems from the ground up. Most of the industry has taken systems that were developed in the 60s and early 70s, and they have continued to adapt and modify them but use the same basic design principles with regards to the business flow. We basically started from the beginning. It's taken us 22 years. It's taken a long time. And our goal is to be a 22-year overnight success. And this is all custom code, right? It's all custom, but what we're doing different from others is that we have one code base for our 40 airlines. So if one airline wants a modification, it then can become available to them. And you're running this on Linux? We're running it on Linux, yeah. So you'll be porting that to Linux on Z? Yeah, it's not much of a port. It's basically just moving it over. Now, what's the time frame for this all happening? The system is in place right now. We're building out a little bit of the power and some of the cage, and I would expect within about three to four weeks it will be up and live. Awesome story. A long-time entrepreneur. Really appreciate you coming on. Really a pleasure. All right, keep right there, buddy. We'll be back with our next guest right after this. This is theCUBE.


Mae gennym hon yn gallu i gyddon i gyda'r gweithio gyda'r gyda'i lleol – yw Llyfr Ddechrau. Mae'n gwybod i'ch gweld i gael yma. Mae'n gweithio'n gwybod. Felly, fyddwch chi'n ei gwneud i Gybril Siddi, mae'r hyn yn fawr yn ymddangos i gael'u bwysig i'w gwneud i'r ffarsadau. Mae'n gweithio i gael'u bwysig i gael'u bwysig i'w gwneud. Mae'r yn ei gyddi, mae'n gweithio i gael'u gwneud i gael'u bwysig i'w gwneud i'w gwneud. I put such a good ball into the penalty area, but his defensive work was a lot better today, made some crucial interceptions in first and second half, and he's such a big unit as well, he does really well physically, so I thought he was magnificent for us today, obviously he got brought off after what 25 minutes was it at Anfield the other night or half an hour or whatever, he was probably pushing too high up, but he was very, very controlled today. He had help from Theo Walcott who was in front of him, of course he did, but when you've got a right fallback who's just good at getting forward is what he is. He causes issues for defenders and the same at Luca Dino on the other side, but should have he was better than Dino today, no question about it. But I just thought he was brilliant and I thought it was a really good response from him, he was excellent at Leicester last Sunday, obviously the derby went the way the derby did, but today when we needed him I thought he was brilliant and he was my man of the match like I say so, I just wanted to talk about him because I think he deserves to be singled out today because I thought he was brilliant. Another assist for him, brilliant cross, that's three for the season isn't it, Sheldanton? Sheldanton, Leicester and of course today against Chelsea, so Jibril should have been point number one. Point number two, Dominic Aldert. Llewyn, absolutely delighted for the lad that he scored twice today. Could he do more? Yes he could. I think he worked so hard today, he really did and he deserves to be praised for that because he was, you know, I think with Dom, I think what I want to see from him is he getting his kit dirty will be a start, but put himself about a little bit more, but I thought he really ran himself into the ground today. He wasn't amazing, but he's got himself a couple of goals, he's had a shot in the first half that he maybe could have done a little bit better with, but he's made sure that Chelsea defenders, you know, Christensen in particular, he made sure that he was in a game, you know, particularly second half. I think first half, sometimes he doesn't know whether to stick or bust in terms of go and get involved with the defender, bring him into it. You know, 22 is your big lad, put yourself about a little bit, but I thought he did that much better in the second half on whether Duncan had a waird with him over but when he made it 3-1 it was lovely to see him run down a touch line and hug Duncan, who I know has done a lot of work with him, particularly last season, and you know, Dom appreciates all of that and he has improved working with Duncan. This season, bow and mode, he was giving the job of working with the front man for some reason and Duncan was doing other stuff, so obviously Duncan probably done a little bit with him yesterday in training as well. But there you go, I just thought Dom worked his socks off. If he can get himself involved a bit more with defenders, put himself about a bit more, he will score more goals for sure and he'll be important to us. But I think he benefited as well from having the charlots and closings that they showed well played on when they called it doing. And finally, I can't do this without talking about the man himself, Duncan Fegers. You know, we had them in the studio a couple of weeks ago. If you haven't watched it, loads of you have. If you haven't watched it, give the video or watch it on YouTube. It's absolutely brilliant. And he talks about, you know, I asked him about his coaching, his style and everything else and he talks about winning games and what you have to do and it's well worth a watch. So today what we showed was that passion and commitment. He had the players for a day at training, you know, and he had been quiet and shall be saying training by Marko Silver and by his coaching staff, so he was doing less and less. And he's had the players himself yesterday, so we've been able to really, you know, imprint on them what was expected of them today. And it was important today that the players come out and give us a performance after at the back of the field on Wednesday night. And it was great to see them responding the way they did. And when players do that and run and tackle and get stuck in, Godderson Park banters. And when Godderson Park banters, the players get a lift from it, the opposition shrink a little bit and it can be a brilliant level. And Duncan's done that. I thought the club were magnificent with him. Before kickoff, during the game, absolutely outstanding, you know, singing his name and all of that. And it was great to see him celebrating and, you know, I'm just delighted for him and delighted for him. And if that's the only game I've said it on the other video, that's the only game he manages ever before. He's played one-one-one and he's got a performance when we really needed one against a good side, a side in the top four. It was a big, big win for Everton today in East Auckland Strait of that, picked a slightly different team, different tactics, different way of playing, look resplendent in his suit. I was on the page giving it all that to everybody and the crowd responded and went, that's Everton to me. Different people will have their ideas of Everton, but that's Everton to me when the crowd are united with the team and Godderson is bouncing. And that, when I see that Everton, that makes me feel like we can beat anybody. And if you could have that, if Everton could play like that or could have played like that from day one this season, we would be in the top four or up there or thereabouts. Because today we didn't have, I can't say go men, so we didn't have, yet he meaner who's been probably our player this season. We didn't have Fabian Belf available to us, you know. So these, shame is common, whether he's in or out, but in the squad. You know, we've got four, five, six injuries and that damages us. We haven't had a midfield that we wanted all season and yet today they've gone out and they give that display and I thought Duncan Fergus and Hatton, I haven't got a Hatton, but if we had one I'd take it off to you. Enjoy the night, big man, cos you deserve it. Make sure you check out the match reactions, subscribe to the channel, get the video off the thumbs up. If you want more videos, join us over on Patreon. Other than that, have a fantastic weekend. Enjoy the blues of one again. Enjoy. See you later.


Okay, guys. So this is a super controversial thing that I'll say, but I really don't think there is a DSA roadmap. All right. Like, I know there's no roadmap to learn data structures and algorithms. And here's the reason why. Okay.  All right.  And there's no I have no shade against these videos at all, whatever these videos are. But I'm just going to skip through different parts of these videos to see, like, what exactly do they mean by a roadmap? Okay, so here, if you if you open up like this guy's video, I don't have no shade against him whatsoever. So he says the first day is that you're going to learn day one and day two, you're going to learn space and time complexity. Okay, okay, sure, sure. Now, here's the thing is that then let's see what he does. Okay, from day three to day 10, learn about recursion backtracking. Day three and day 10, learn about recursion and backtracking. Okay, it doesn't set it. Okay, you cannot master recursion and backtracking in seven days. Right. That just doesn't it's not that it's impossible. Okay, now there might be some people who can, you can learn about the basics of recursion and backtracking. But there are a lot of recursion, recursion and backtracking problems on lead code that are ridiculously hard. Okay, so you like sometimes like, if you try to do backtracking, and some backtracking algorithms require a lot of pruning. And if you'd like, sometimes they're ridiculously hard to master. So I don't think you could actually master it in seven days, though. But anyway, let's keep going. Okay, learn about basic data structures. Okay, what does he mean by that? Because there's a lot of data structures. What does he mean by that? Okay, okay, so learn about arrays, linkless stacks and queues. Okay, so here's the thing is that you can learn these data structures, and you still don't know how to use them. Okay, so you can learn anything about arrays, you can learn about linkless, you can learn about stacks and queues, and it could take like, I don't know, this guy's saying take 19 days to learn it. But you could not you could learn, you practically could learn like all the methods of each of these, and still not know how to use them. Okay, so they're pretty much useless in an interview. And it's not going to take you 19 days to master how to use any of these. And some of these like require like actually like, actually implementation, like sometimes linkless, there's some linkless problems where it's like, hey, you have a doubly linkless, you have to try to find like the median or something. And then that takes more time to think it's actually thinking skills rather than, hey, this is like, just learn about the linkless, right? Learning about the linkless is not going to help you solve some of these problems. You know what I mean? Also same as like stacks and queues. Just because you know stacks and queues does not necessarily mean like you could, you could, you will be able to solve any interview profession. Okay, so he's saying it takes 19 days to do that. Okay, sure. But let's say you do get 19 days. What do they do afterwards? Okay, let's see what he does. Okay, so now now start doing contests. Okay, sure, sure. Okay, do contests. Okay. I have no problem with that. I think contests are a good way to learn. But I just don't, I don't know how you could do that in like 19 days. But let's let's just continue going forth. Okay, now he's just promoting some coding studio thing, which I have no idea. Maybe he's trying to promote this like thing to buy. See, here's a problem that I have with like DSA roadmaps from YouTubers. Sometimes they just want to promote like a certain software or a certain course to sell to other people. Like this is my main issues. Like sometimes, like, I don't know, there's there's a lot of like these YouTubers who just literally just here to like sell courses to people thinking that they could think that once you have this dream that you'll be able to, you know, get to your dream company once you buy this course, which I just don't think that's true. Okay. All right, so now what is the next day? Day 11 to like day 31 to 45. Okay, fine. Let's see what he's to talking about that. Okay, now we're learning about searching sorting hash maps, trees, heaps sliding window. Okay. So first of all, from, from what I've seen before, I'm not sure if like sorting is really a thing that like interviews require nowadays. It's, if you want to learn sorting algorithms, it's fine, but like, this is not, it's, I don't think they're going to ask you to code a quick sort. But I mean, sure, it's good to know. But like, again, you can't really learn all this in like 15 days, because it's really ridiculous. Okay, so now we have more sorting. Okay, so we have bubble sort, insertion sort, selection sort, merge sort, quick sort. Okay, so all this stuff, they don't really, in an interview, they don't really ask you this. But I mean, if like, if you want to, you can, I just don't see this, this at all. Okay. Okay. So now we have the trees, heaps sliding window. Okay. So here's the thing is like, these are just like random topics that I just don't think you can master in like 15 days or 14 days. And there's no shade against these people, these YouTubers who say there's DSA algorithms are beginning to advance level. I don't think you could actually become beginner to advance in 90 days. In my opinion, that's just not possible. Okay. Like it's just not like otherwise, like their people, it wouldn't take like a competitive programmer to get from gray to red in like five years, like those people literally spent like hours trying to get to like, red. And those guys are like masters of data structure and algorithms. But to be honest, I don't think that just doing 90 days of these topics, just getting a breath, like a breath overview is going to help you just master data structure and algorithms replacements. I just don't I just don't see that. But let's continue. Okay.  Okay, they don't ask you this interview, but it's fine. Okay, prims cross schools. I don't think they asked you this anymore. Strong. They really don't ask you this to catch you as algorithm topological sort maybe shortest path vertices. No, Bellman Ford. Yeah, maybe DSU, they don't I don't think they asked you that. But so you have to be very unlucky to get a DSU question. Then they then he's doing dynamic programming last. I think you should do dynamic program with recursion. But okay, then now learn about OOP. So here's the thing is like, if okay, if you want to actually want to get a job, object oriented programming is actually way more important in my opinion, like learning how to develop software learning how to like, actually debug code develop software. Those are the most important things in software development, communication skills talking with people, you know, how to write like design problems like design, like, I don't know, large systems API. So those are the most important things. So if you're going to leave that all the way to the last part, I don't think that's a good idea. But because like, once you actually learn all this stuff, and then let's say you somehow master this all in 90 days, okay, then after the 90 days, what are you going to do? Like, please like, okay, so after the nine days, you mastered it, right?  Okay, if you don't know how to code object oriented programming and don't know design patterns, you're kind of screwed in the in the actual job. And you're probably will get fired. But I mean, this is just, this is my opinion, though, somewhere topics will help you perform better in online tasks. I don't know, I don't know what he means. I didn't want to 90. But that's his his that's his that's his roadmap. No shade to other YouTubers. But I just don't see like roadmaps actually a thing like, that you can just you just can't master something in 90 days. Okay, let's look at other let's look at other your own maps. Okay. Okay, so we have learned a program language 1.5 months. Okay, okay, that might actually take longer. But whatever. Two weeks, simplified ds with fresco. Okay, so here, so I'm guessing he's trying to sell his course that is this is guy. Okay, so this guy is, he's trying to sell his YouTube solutions. So here's the problem is like, if you're going to, if you're going to like, sell people this dream of all I'm going to get into fang all this stuff, and then sell people say, Hey, buy my course, I'll get into fang. That's just like, kind of scummy, in my opinion. I don't know, like some people want to profit off of this, but I don't know, this is just this is just my opinion. Okay, I just don't I don't think it's a good idea to just like, just think that, hey, there's a roadmap that helps you just 90 days, you'll become an expert at, I don't know, data structures and algorithms. I just don't see that occurring. But yeah, okay, at least this guy's like, more reasonable, his timeframe, two weeks a month, at least that seems more reasonable. Right. But yeah, this is a reason why I don't want to create roadmaps. I could create like a list of topics videos for you guys to want to learn. But to be honest, there's really no roadmap. We could go through like rocking the coding interview. And they have some patterns that we could go through. And then we could just go through like, I don't know, most common questions, maybe blind in 75. But there's really no roadmap to just master everything. But yeah, hope you guys enjoyed this video. Rate, com, subscribe. I'll check you guys later.


So, good afternoon everybody. Thank you for joining us this lunchtime for what is a very timely and important webinar discussion with our good friend Michel Barnier, the EU chief negotiator and head of the European Commission's Task Force for Relations with the United Kingdom. My name is Michael Collins and I'm the director general of the Institute of International and European Affairs, the IEA here in Dublin and we are absolutely delighted to be co-hosting this event with the European Commission representation here in Ireland. Brexit hasn't gone away of course and time is ticking away as we approach the December deadline. We've had a huge amount of interest in today's event with well over 1,500 people signing up from Ireland, from the UK, from across Europe and indeed from beyond that as well. And this is a testament to how important the ongoing negotiations are as we enter the final crucial phase that lies ahead. Before handing over to Michel Barnier, I will just run through some of the format details of this event. The full event today is on the record, the initial presentation and the questions and answer sessions that will follow. You can join the discussion using Zoom's dedicated Q&A function and I would encourage you to submit your questions as they occur to you throughout the presentation. Given the huge volume of questions that we expect, please keep your questions as brief as possible in the interest of getting through as many as we can. Please identify yourself and submitting your question, your name and your affiliation if that is applicable. Lastly, we also encourage you to join the discussion on social media, namely through Twitter. Please join in using the handle at IIEA. So with that, Michel Barnier, you're very, very welcome indeed. Thank you for being with us on this important day and on this IIEA platform. I'd now like to hand over to you the floor is yours. Many thanks, Michael. Ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon, the IIEA. Thank you also for tuning in. I hope you are all safe and well despite the difficult, very difficult circumstances. Let me start by thanking the Institute for International and European Affairs, Michael, for inviting me and your team and for your kind words. For many years already, your Institute has played a key role in helping the public to better understand the implication of Brexit for Ireland. And also your thoughtful analysis and recommendations have also been useful for us here in Brussels and in national capitals. I would like also to thank the European Commission's representation in Ireland and its head, Jerry Kiley, for helping to organize this event, as well as for all the support you have given to our task force over the last years. I'm very happy for this new opportunity to interact with all of you today, even if only virtually. The coronavirus pandemic continues to take lives around the world and dealing with the sanitary crisis and it very serious economic and social consequences naturally remains the very first priority of governments and businesses. This is also, of course, one of the main priority of the European Commission and its presidents, Ursula von der Leyen. And there are obviously other major projects and ambitions for the future of Europe, which President von der Leyen will present in a very important speech on the state of the Union on the 16th of September. But as you all know, ladies and gentlemen, the pandemic does not stop the Brexit clock from ticking. We are now less than four months away from the first of January 2021. This is a day chosen by the UK itself or its economic and commercial Brexit after the political Brexit in January this year. Because as you know, the UK refused any extension of the transition period. So we have no more time to lose. We must have a final agreement by the end of October. If we are to have a new partnership in place by the first January 2021. And as I've already explained, this is the only way to give enough time to the European Parliament and to the Council to have their say. This is a legal and democratic necessity. Everyone, everyone, everywhere must be realistic about this strict deadline. Ladies and gentlemen, the economic Brexit will in any case have negative consequences, many negative consequences. But if we all act responsibly, we can contain some of those consequences. Back in February, I mentioned three major tasks for this year. Number one, negotiating our future partnership. Number two, implementing the with the agreement ratified last year. Number three, getting ready for changes at the end of the transition, the first of January. These three tasks are closely interlinked. And completing each of them is urgent. I know this sense of urgency is strong in Ireland and Northern Ireland. Without a doubt, Ireland is a member state most affected by Bext. And of course, for the island of Ireland, Brexit negotiations have not just been about trade and the economy, but more existentially about maintaining peace and stability. That is why, since the very beginning of the Brexit negotiations four years ago, I have been very attentive to the concerns voiced by the old different parties and communities in Ireland and Northern Ireland. I've worked closely, very closely with Ireland's successive teaching and Dakinie, Leeuva Radkar, and today, Mirol Martin, and with Minister Simon Covney and other members of government. I've exchanged views with the Dole and Shenad, as well as all the Irish members of the European Parliament. Together, we carried forward a close relationship between Ireland and the rest of the EU based on solidarity, solidarity and respect. Ladies and gentlemen, in this context, I will miss Phil Hogan, on whom I could always count to relay any Irish concerns to me very directly over the last four years. I would like to take this opportunity to thank him warmly for all the work he has done for Europe, as commissioner for agriculture and rural development, and more recently, as commissioner for trade. In particular, in the context of the current negotiations with the UK where he and his team of trade experts, including obviously Sabine Vaillant, has been a great value. I used to meet him once a week as trade commissioner once a week. And I look forward to working with the future commissioner of Irish nationality in the final stretch of the negotiation with the UK. Ladies and gentlemen, before opening up the discussion between us, let me tell you where we stand on the three important tasks that I mentioned. First of all, let's turn to our current negotiations with the UK on the future partnership. We want a close partnership with the UK, provided the conditions are right. This is in everybody's interest, everybody, and in Ireland's interest in particular. So far, the UK, frankly speaking, has not engaged constructively in all those conditions. And as I have said before, I am particularly worried and disappointed by the UK's lack of engagement on three points. First point, since the start of these negotiations, the UK has refused to engage on credible guarantees for open and fair competition, open and fair. Yes, the US has been clear about this from the very, very beginning four years ago. Any trade and economy partnership between economies as close are interactive hours. Look at one of my favorite slide showing on the two axes on one end the distance and on the other and the volume of exchanges with our main partners in the world. This shows clearly why we need this economic and commercial fair play and credible mechanisms to avoid trade distortions and unfair competitive advantages. This is particularly important in the area of state aid where the potential to distort competition using subsidies is clearly significant. A level-paying field that ensures common high standards in areas such as labor rights and the environment and with the effective domestic enforcement and dispute settlement mechanism is the only way, the only way to start a new relationship between the EU and the UK on a firm and sustainable footing. And it is also what Prime Minister Johnson himself agreed on to explicitly in this text which is the political declaration ratified and agreed between us, the Prime Minister and the 27 leaders and the European Parliament at the end of last year. Second point, second point, since the start of these negotiations, the UK has not shown any willingness to seek compromises on fisheries. Contrary to media reports, even this week, the UK government's position has not evolved in past months. No new legal texts have been tabled by UK negotiators. Where the EU has shown openness to possible solutions, the UK has shunned our offers. Yet the UK government's positions would look on islands, fishermen and women from waters they fished in long before Ireland or the UK joined the European Economic Community in 1973. And of course, the fishermen and women of many other EU countries, that is just not acceptable. Ladies and gentlemen, we fully understand and respect that the UK will become an independent coastal state outside the common fisheries policy, outside of this European policy. But we will not accept that the work and the livelihoods of this man and woman be used as a bargaining chip in these negotiations. Any solutions ensure a balance between further developing the activities of British fishermen and women, safeguarding the activities and livelihoods of European fishermen and women, and preserving natural resources. Without a long term, fair and sustainable solution on fisheries, there will simply be no new economic partnership with the UK. Finally, third point, since the start of these negotiations, the UK has been extremely reluctant to include any meaningful horizontal dispute settlement mechanisms in our future agreement. Yet, this is the only way to ensure that what we eventually agree on is respected. On all these issues, we are simply asking to translate the political engagement taken in this text in the political declaration in a legal text, just a legal transition of the political commitments taken by the UK government and by the EU leaders. Nothing more, nothing less, nothing more, nothing less. Yet, on all these issues, the UK sides continue to disappoint. We know well the UK's argument. We want a clean break from the EU. We want full sovereignty and the freedom to set its own rules and spend its own money as it wants with no constraints on Europe. And for all these reasons, the UK insists it cannot commit to a level playing field or to basic safeguards for our future relationship. Not even when it comes to fundamental rights. And yet, the truth is that British negotiators are still seeking continuity in many areas, not a clean break at all. For instance, on transport or on energy trading, on its role for conformity assessments for goods, and on many aspects of police and judicial cooperation. The UK government is still looking to keep the benefits of the EU and of the single market without the obligations. The UK often says it would be in the EU's interest to grant it a special statue in these strategic areas of cooperation, but frankly speaking, is it really the EU's long-term economic interest? For instance, British proposals on rules of origin would help the UK to develop its role as an assembly hub for the EU. They would allow the UK to source goods from around the world and export them with very little alteration to the EU as British goods, tariff, and code for free. British proposals on road transport, and as an example, would allow British truckers to drive on EU roads without having to comply with the same working conditions at EU drivers. The UK's proposal on air transport, third example, would allow British airlines to operate inside the EU without having to respect the same labour and environmental standards. In the area of energy, the UK is asking to facilitate electricity trade without committing its producers to equivalent carbon pricing and state aid controls. In this area, as in others, without a common framework on state aid, the UK government would be free to hand out subsidies at will, not just to support the green economy, but also polluting industries, not just to support the industry of the future, but also traditional sectors such as steel and automotive, before exporting these tariff and code for free to our market. Ladies and gentlemen, we have no wish to intervene, no wish to intervene in the UK's domestic affairs. But how can we conclude a long-term economic partnership agreement between sovereign partners, sovereign partners on both sides, without knowing which system of state aid or subsidies the UK will put in place? Without any assurances that the UK will not use its new regulatory autonomy to distort competition with us in the future. I noted with interest a recent speech by the Chief Executive of the Environment Agency for England, Sir James Bevin. He suggested that, after Brexit, water quality standards for English rivers, lakes, and beaches should be less rigorous than under the EU's water framework directive. Of course, this raises major environmental and health concerns, but let us consider the economic too, if English farmers and industrials are no longer bound by high standards on water pollution, would they gain decisive and unfair cost advantages? We have no issue with regulatory divergence. It is normal that the UK wants to set its own standards and rules, normal, and it is the reason of the Brexit. But this serves to distort competition with us, then we have a problem. And there are other areas where the UK insists on being able to divert substantially from its current standards as of the 1st of January next year. I'm thinking, for example, for instance, of the food sector. Here, not only is the UK looking to go back to go back on protections for geographical indications secured the WISDRA agreement. It has also given us no reassurance on the future sanitary and phytosanitary regime that the UK will apply after the 1st of January next year. How can we make progress on sanitary and phytosanitary issues when we have no idea how the UK system will evolve? Ladies and gentlemen, these are not technocratic details. These are essentials. At stake are tens of thousands of European jobs and livelihoods, Irish jobs and livelihoods, our health, safety and well-being, our environment and climate, our fundamental rights. Of course, Ireland's particularly close relationship with the UK makes these questions even more important, especially for businesses exporting to Great Britain or competing with British companies. Ladies and gentlemen, thankfully, the WISDRA agreement means that we have a stable solution for goods trade between Ireland and Northern Ireland, without the hard border on the island. This is essential to protect the whole island economy. This is precisely why our second important task before the end of this year is to ensure the full and effective implementation of the WISDRA agreement, in particular as regards citizens' rights and obviously the protocol on Ireland and Northern Ireland. This remains an absolute priority for the EU. It is the only way to protect the Good Friday, the Good and Belfast Friday agreement, and all its dimensions, and therefore to protect the gains of the peace process, which people like Devin Trimble, John Hume, Seamus Marlon, Martin Magnus and Jan Pesley worked so hard for with the support of successive Irish and British governments and of the EU, obviously. A precise implementation of the WISDRA agreement is also the only way to avoid the hard border on the island of Ireland and preserve the whole island economy. It is the only way to preserve the integrity of the single market and all its guarantees for consumer protection, public and animal health by ensuring all the necessary checks and controls for goods entering Northern Ireland. And of course, it is a precondition for us, the EU and the UK, to be able to forge a meaningful partnership built on trust for the future. In recent months, under the impetus of Michael Gove, the UK has started to make progress on the implementation of the protocol and this is encouraging. But important questions remain open. The EU needs to be sure that the union customs code will be applied in its entirety for goods arriving in Northern Ireland. Similarly, we need to know that goods leaving Northern Ireland respect all applicable EU export procedures and formalities. And finally, we need to be certain that all necessary controls are carried out on live animals and animal derived products arriving in Northern Ireland from Great Britain and the rest of the world. To ensure that this agreement works on the ground, on the ground, as of the 1st of January next year, the UK still needs to complete many, many practical preparations, time consuming and resource intensive preparations. And of course, we will also continue to be extremely vigilant when it comes to ensuring the full respect of citizens' rights under this withdrawal agreement, both in the UK and in the 27 EU member states. Together with by the president, Marosev Kovic, we continue to follow closely the UK's actions. Ladies and gentlemen, the rigorous implementation of this protocol will serve to protect peace and stability of Ireland once again. And of course, an ambitious future partnership with the UK would help limit the negative impact of Brexit for Ireland, for the EU and for the UK. But even with these two pillars in place, and we are not yet there, there will be big changes on the 1st of January 2021. On that date, the UK will leave the single market, will leave the customs union and all EU policies and all our international agreements. This is his choice, not our choice. Let me mention just a few examples of what this means concretely. On that date, the 1st of January, custom formalities will apply to all our imports and exports with the UK. On that date, the EU will no longer recognize UK types approvals for cars, for instance. On that date, financial institutions established in the UK will lose the benefit of the EU's financial passport. This is the UK consequence, the Brexit consequences, clearly. No trade agreement, no matter how ambitious, can change this. Businesses, public administrations and citizens must urgently get ready for these changes. Here again, Ireland's unique geographical situation means that it will be particularly affected. Many Irish importers and exporters rely on the UK as a key route to end and from the rest of the EU, their land bridge to and from the EU. We have been working with Ireland and relevant member states to ensure that this key connection to the single market remains effective. The UK participation in the Common Transit Convention will certainly help this regard and on the EU side, our major entry and exit points are ready. But there are still concerns as to the readiness of some key UK ports. Irish businesses, transport operators, ports and shipping companies will have to play their part in adapting to the new situation. Many already have, shipping companies have increased capacity on direct services on the continent. Businesses are reorganizing their distribution chains and diversifying their market. More generally, Ireland has done a very good preparatory work. I particularly commend the government's Getting Ireland Brexit Ready campaign and I know this work is continuing. I trust in your capacity to adapt to new times, very new times. Finally, to help stakeholders across the EU to prepare to commission adopted readiness communication last July, by the time of July, we have also published more than 80 sectorial notices with more detailed guidance which are being translated in all EU languages.  Dear gentlemen, dear Michael, as we near the finish line, I still have hope that despite current tensions, our common history with the UK shared value and joint commitment towards mutualism will prevail. Seamus Inay, who passed away seven years ago this week, liked to quote the words of another great European vassal, and he said, and he wrote, hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that is good, worth working for. Ladies and gentlemen, I continue to think, despite the current difficulties, that Prime Minister Boris Johnson wants an agreement with the EU. He confirmed this recently to our, to your t-shirt, Mirol Martin. This is also the wish of presidents Ursula von der Leyen and Charles Michel, the wish of the European Parliament, the wish of the 27 heads of state and government. And we will do everything in our power to reach an agreement until the very, very end. But to be clear, we will not sacrifice, never sacrifice the EU's long-term economic and political interests for the sole benefit of the UK. In past months, the EU has repeatedly shown flexibility and creativity to work with the UK's red lines on the role of the European Court of Justice, for instance, on preserving the UK's legislative autonomy on fisheries. It's time for the UK to reciprocate on those issues that are fundamental for the EU. I will be back in London next week for our eight negotiating rounds as planned. And I sincerely hope to be able to tell you a new story after that round, a story of real, tangible progress in all areas. And thank you for your attention. I'm now ready to answer some questions. Of course, Michael, I ask for your understanding. Should I not turn into details, given that the negotiations are now ongoing? Thank you. Thank you, Michel. That's, of course, fully understood. And thank you for your words in Ghegelik as well in Irish. Very much appreciated. And your poetic references as well to the great Seamus Heaney. So, thank you indeed, Michel, for getting us back up to speed, because we've had a summer break. And I think it's really, really important that we should now be reminded of the huge amount of work that still needs to be undertaken by you and your team, and by the UK as well. But as you say, the clock is ticking ever more loudly as December approaches. So, we really do appreciate the update that you've given us and the insight into the current state of play. So, I'm going to turn to a few questions in the time available to us, Michel. And there are several questions in about your mandate. And I'm just going to take one, if I may, from our good friend, the Belgian ambassador here, Pierre-Emmanuel de Brau, here in Dublin. And he wants to know, he says, do you foresee a need for adapting your mandate in order to find a landing zone with the UK? And I suppose the question is, do you have enough flexibility in your mandate to allow you to complete the negotiations successfully? Michael, if the question of the Belgium ambassador in Dublin is twice, ask me if I have enough flexibility. My answer is yes. This flexibility is clearly linked to the trust we built between the EU 27 leaders, the European Parliament and my team working under the authority of the Australian Commission with all the trust and the confidence of this house, where I am in Brussels, the Commission, all the services, the directions, many, many experts, very important competences. My answer is yes. I think that this mandate is clear. It has been given in the unity and total clarity by the EU member states and supported by the European Parliament. And I think I can use this mandate and this trust towards my team and perhaps myself to find a compromise. But this mandate is also linked to the EU interests. And as I said in my initial remarks, we are ready and we want a deal, but not at any price. And we will never pay the price if it would be at the detriment of the single market, the integrity of the single market and the values of the EU and the interests in the long term of the EU. Never. So, Michel, I just a question here from Termito Lyri, just to follow up on that. I mean, clearly from within the membership of the European Council, there remains a unanimous support for what you are doing and the approach that you're taking. Yes, but once again, my answer is yes. There is a unanimous support of the 27 leaders. And I check this point on a regular basis, meeting, for instance, the ambassador, the co-repair, speaking with the leaders, personally speaking with the Sherpa, as the President of the Commission and the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, obviously are doing every day. I work to deliver this mandate. So there is no way to any kind of divergence or difference between what I am doing and the wish and the will of the leaders. But let me just mention one point. This unity of the 27 member states and the parliament is not given by chance. It's not falling from the sky. We are working and we are building this unity every day, meeting the leaders, meeting the national parliament, between the stakeholders, the business communities, the trade unions, obviously meeting the European parliament every week. This unity is built every day, thanks or through perhaps an unusual method we have put in place with support of the President of the Commission, which is a total transparency. Perhaps one point that reaches some difficulty to understand from the very beginning, but this is the case. We say everything every day to everybody. And in that process, every member states, every member, each of the 27 member states, are the same influence and the same information at the same time. Okay. Okay. Just two questions. Our questions here from two journalists who I know write regularly on Brexit issues from the Guardian, Jennifer Rankin and Lisa O'Carroll. And referencing your visit to London yesterday, they ask after your meeting with David Frost yesterday, has there been any change in the UK's position on state aid, level playing field or fisheries that could open the way for a deal? And I know you don't want to get into the detail of negotiations and that's understood. The second question that they have is is it true that the EU is refusing to discuss the UK's proposal on fishing? And finally, a simple question out of 10. What are the chances of no deal? Once again, I don't want to enter the details of my discussion with David Frost, with a very strong and competent negotiator for the UK and the team also has my team is very competent. But this week, yesterday and I come back from London this morning, we did not see any change in the position of the UK. This is why I express publicly what I said, I'm worried and I am disappointed. Because frankly speaking, we have moved. I've shown in many issues a real openness in the last few months, trying to reach the British concern, the British priority, what we call the British straight line, expressed by the prime minister on the role of the Court of Justice, the British sovereignty, what I call the legislative autonomy of the UK, we want to respect obviously, and also the fishing issue. And I have shown clearly openness to find a compromise, respecting my mandate and using this flexibility and distress. And none of this issue, the UK moved in a kind of reciprocal movement. So the reason why I'm concerned because if they don't move on this issue, which are the key issue of the EU level playing field, fishery and governance, the UK will take will take itself the risk of no deal. I already mentioned the point of this press comments this recon fishery, this article was and is ridiculous, because it is clearly contrary to the truth. So I don't think that the source, if I may say of this journalist writing for the times, was the correct ones. No other comments on this point. Last point, Michael, I don't think you can use the word chance for a no deal. If I may, I will use the word of risk of a no deal, not a chance, as you mentioned. We are working for a deal. Let me just mention one point. Make no mistake. Make no mistake. There will be a huge difference between a deal and or no deal on trade and economy between the UK and the UK and the EU, a huge difference. Sometimes I listen some in UK speaking of the chance of a no deal, the opportunity of a no deal. Good luck. Good luck. But frankly speaking, there is no reason to underestimate who undermining the consequences for many people, many sectors of a no deal. There will be a huge difference between a deal and a no deal. The reason why we are working for a deal and for the moment I still hope and I still think even it is very difficult because of the British positions that a deal is possible. Okay. Just you very generously and warmly referred to the contribution that commissioner, former commissioner Phil Hogan played and made in relation to his portfolios as commissioner. There is a question here and we just take this one from Justin McCarthy, who is the editor of the Irish Farmers Journal. He wants to know, does Mr Barnier believe the resignation of EU trade commissioner Phil Hogan will have a negative detrimental impact on the outcome of Brexit from an Irish perspective? I don't want to come back on what I said very sincerely about Phil Hogan, the friendship and the good very good very good cooperation between us all along the last four years. It is a truth. So I don't want to comment what happens. I'm sure that the new Irish commissioner will be very proactive defending his portfolio or portfolio. But even I am French, I have always been very close from the Irish interest and very attentive to the Irish concerns. I will never forget my meetings in Ireland and Northern Ireland with people on the grounds. And the reason why I pay such an attention to the Irish concern so I will continue and to be frank in that process every member state has the same influence. Every member states. Okay, two questions here Michel in relation to services. One from David Finnemore of Queens University, Belfast. He wants to know, how can the all island economy be protected in the absence of the free movement of services? And then there's a second question here from John McGrane who's the DG of the British Irish Chamber. He wants to know, could Mr Barnier say his view on whether services can be addressed in adequate time within any deal at this stage? So just services if you may. This question is very important because it is one sector of services which is huge important for the UK and for us and obviously for Ireland where you will see a real difference between a deal and a new deal. So we are working with the UK in the global framework of the trade agreement on goods and services. So if we succeed to reach a deal there will be important part of the agreement dedicated to the services. I'm speaking about all the services except the financial services which are in a different process which is what we call the equivalences process for financial services which is not in the negotiation which is a unilateral process from the EU side. So I think that if we reach a deal which is my goal, our goal, a large part of the services will be covered by this agreement. Very good. Just a question here from Shane Cody who's a member of our institute here and he says, he asks, he says in the event of no agreement which I know we're working to make sure we do get agreement but he says in the event of no agreement or a minimal agreement what are the options for further or new negotiations in early 2021 and are there any procedural obstacles to further engagement at that stage? Michael is not exactly the same thing to speak about no agreement or no minimal agreement. I know this wording of the UK speaking about a low-profile agreement. What the UK calls low-profile is nevertheless zero-tariff, zero-cota access for the UK products to the single market. It's not really what we call a low-profile. Remembering that we never propose for any country the world at the very beginning of the negotiation zero-tariff and zero-cota as we did for the UK. So it cannot be a low-profile but in any case even with a low-profile agreement in trade we will need and we will ask for a credible framework on the level playing field. If there is no agreement everybody will see very soon and for four months from now what will happen and once again it will be a huge difference and many change. I spoke in my initial remark about what will happen in the first of January next year. Huge change, deal or no deal. If there is no deal in addition to the controls which will be an obligation for any goods entering the single market we will control these goods to protect the consumer, to protect the budget, to protect the companies and the businesses. But in addition of this control we will implement tariffs, custom tariffs and cota, which will be a huge huge difference. If there is a need unfortunately we will leave for our trade relation under the framework of the WETU which will be once again a very important change and many many distortions and many many problems and and and frictions, frictions between us. Unfortunately it will be the choice of the UK not our choice and the door of the EU will remain open in any case. Okay just a question here maybe just going back on the fisheries issue if I may again without getting into asking you to get into the detail of the negotiations if they are on the way from Kearon O'Driscoll from the European movement here in Ireland he wants to know in terms of fisheries within the Brexit negotiations what obstacles could be removed that would allow for an agreement in this sensitive policy area. Again I know you don't want to enter into detail but what steps can be taken that would would help secure an agreement in this area? This is a very difficult issue. Frankly speaking we are nowhere for the fisheries issue even if we have had useful clarification and discussion but we are still in very two opposite positions. I have already said that we are ready to move from our initial position which is no change if the UK move but the UK does not want to move and this is a problem. The key problem is that becoming an independent coastal code obviously the UK will recover the full sovereignty on their waters. No doubt and no question at this point but it is another thing, another story, speaking about the fish which are inside the waters and looking and respecting the international regulations and also what is must be done on this issue we think that we have to speak about the Cotash air to find a sustainable long term and balance agreement with the UK. We are not there so this is the point I don't want to enter into details but let me just recall once again it is my mandate and I just want to mention that this mandate is very clear. There will be no trade agreement between the UK and the EU without a credible framework on level playing field what I called the fair play the economic and trade fair play and without a sustainable agreement and balanced agreement on fishery. There will be no trade agreement between UK and EU without these two points sold before. Okay so just maybe just one final question if I may Michel you're heading back to London next week are you going back to London and I know you've you haven't been too optimistic in your remarks but are you are you expecting a breakthrough then or when do we need to see a breakthrough and what would that breakthrough how would we know that we've got a breakthrough when the time comes I mean so time is running out and you're going back to London I think there's one more negotiating session after that so are you hoping maybe against hope that there would be some movement on the UK side that you will see next week. We need a breakthrough we need to move and once again if the UK wants a deal with us and a fair agreement for this zero zero zero zero access to the British products to our market of 450 million consumers they will have to move and it is their choice it is their responsibility we are ready to make fair and constructive compromise but not at the detriment of the EU and the single market and integrity and the values and the rights of the consumers the workers the environmental rights so we'll come back as frequently as necessary to London the UK negation is ready to come back to Brussels we will work with respect towards the UK as usual as always we will be patient calm I will keep calm until the day the last day of this negotiation and respectful but we will not change the main lines and we are just asking for the UK to understand the key positions the EU and also if I may repeat what I said we just ask for a legal translation of the political commitments taken by Boris Johnson a few months ago in October in this document can take the time to read this document which is not so long 16 pages which is the political declaration rotified supported approved by the House of Commons the same time that the treaty the with the agreement these documents it is not a speech it is a political document and it is a commitment for the two sides given the the framework of the future negotiation so once again I am worried and disappointed but I still think that the really possible you just use the word optimism you just you just use the word optimism remember Michael what what was the answer of Jean Monnet one of the grandfathers of the EU when he was asked Mr Monnet are you optimism or pessimistic are you optimistic or pessimistic and his answer was never optimistic I'm never pessimistic I'm just determined it is exactly my my feeling today thank you just there is actually one just final question here and then we're going to wrap it up Michel from Bruno Waterfield from the the London Times and I think it's a question that I just want to address to you and we'll finish on this particular one I think he says I need to ask Mr Barnier about fishing is a contrary to truth comment also on state aid he says does Mr Barnier deny that the UK table room documents in round seven I never see new legal documents on fishing issue and level playing film with the UK in the last round okay that's clear okay well look at on that basis I think we're going to finish thank you indeed and thank you to everyone who joined us this afternoon for such a timely indeed lively discussion thank you in particular to our friends in the European Commission representation office here in Dublin who are our co-hosts for this event but thank you most of all to you Michel and we hope at some future dates that you will find it possible when circumstances permit to come back to Ireland to see us in person and clearly the coming weeks are going to be critically important critically important for Ireland and critically challenging for the European Union and the UK and we wish you the very best in all your endeavors if I could just say that in two weeks from today as you mentioned yourself I think Michel President Dr Ursula von der Leyen will deliver her first State of the Union address and following that speech the IEA will co-host with our friends in the European Commission representation office and the European Parliament Office in Dublin an expert discussion exploring the key issues arising in that context and you can get more details about that on our website so with that I want to adjourn say thank you sincerely thank you for your insight thank you for your candor thank you for just for for representing the European Union in the way that you do in these challenging times we wish you the very very best and we just would like to say go ahead and meet them all good thank you very much Michel perhaps just if I may just one one sentence to thank you Michael and your team I will be always available I hope after the good conclusion of this negotiation on the deal which is once again in the common interest and you mentioned once again the very important speech that Ursula von der Leyen will deliver in two weeks from now this speech will be about the current crisis but also on many ambitions and projects at the Green Deal for instance of the EU and the proposal of the commissions and about the future of Europe which is much more important than the Brexit if I may say so remain available and obviously I will come back to Ireland and also as frequently as possible in the future thank you very much you'll be very welcome indeed so thank you very much with that we will end and sign off thank you very much indeed