Here's an overview of the OpenShift Batch project. Our effort to improve the development, accessibility, and resource efficiency of machine learning are really any large-scale distributed workloads in both cloud and on-prem environments. First, let's take a look at some of the challenges developers, system administrators, and organizations face today. For data scientists and developers, it's important to have easily accessible environments for reproducibility, which unfortunately isn't always the case. Additionally, working in small interactive notebooks is great for the development process and collaboration, but developers still need simple and intuitive access to powerful compute resources in order to execute model training and high-performance jobs in reasonable amounts of time. Administrators have their own set of concerns, starting with how to fairly and efficiently allocate these necessary resources to all of the developers and making sure the most important jobs are prioritized while avoiding excessive downtime. Organizations would also like to keep cloud costs low, and having to keep GPU resources always around is incredibly costly. So, let's now present some solutions to these various challenges. For the first challenge, we have ROADS, which provides easy access notebook environments with a variety of AI and ML libraries pre-installed. Also pre-installed in our notebooks is the next developer solution, the CodeFlair SDK, which is an intuitive, easy-to-use interface for resource requesting, access, and job submission. With a couple lines of Python code, you can potentially scale up, access, and run code on whatever GPU resources your workload may demand, all from the comfort of your notebook. Taking a look behind the scenes, we see our next solution to the Administrator's Challenge, the MCAD Priority Queue. This is the back-end where all of the CodeFlair SDK requests end up, and it handles resource allocation, prioritization, and quota management. Finally, we have Instascale, for on-demand resource scaling in the cloud. GPU resources are provisioned and scaled up as needed, and just as easily released when done with them. All of these components come together to form the value proposition of OpenShift Batch. Now that we've run through the pieces and what they solve, let's take a look at it all in action. In this demo, we have three notebooks, each of which is going to be running a different ML training job using our batch solution. The first is an interactive notebook, in which we have some code cells for setting up and training a model from Huggingface, which will ultimately be run on four remote V100 GPUs. The second is a full job submission of the training of a machine learning model on the MNIST dataset, which will be run on two remote workers with four GPUs each. The third and final job is another full batch job submission, this time training the Ansible Wisdom Foundation Language Model, which will be trained similarly with two workers each with four GPUs. Now let's get into the step-by-step. So the first thing you'll see is here's our OpenShift cluster. We've got nothing but two CPU nodes currently. So now let's pop into our roots and let's go over to the Rhodes dashboard. So once we're in there, we want to go into our notebook server, configured of course with our custom notebook image. So we'll load into that and here we are. Now you can see our three notebooks. So let's take a look at the first one. This is our interactive example, which I'll go through in more detail in just a second. The second, much simpler, is our MNIST notebook. As you can see, a lot simpler and easy to parse. We've just got a few lines for our CodeFuler SDK, getting our resources, job submission, and then we bring the resources back down. You'll see just the same as our Ansible notebook with our resources, job submission, and take it down. So let's pop back into the first notebook. The first thing we want to do is define the resources that we think we'll need for our work. So we'll define a cluster object with the following resources. Here we want one worker with eight CPUs, 16 gigs of memory, and four GPUs. If we take a look in our second notebook now, you'll see very similarly that we've defined the resources that we need as two workers this time, each with eight CPU, 16 gigs of memory, and four GPU. And if we go into our final notebook now, we'll see our most intense resource request, which is again two workers, but this time with 16 CPU, 48 gigs of memory, and four GPU each. So now that we've actually written the definitions of our resources, let's go and actually create those cluster objects. And you'll see once we do, we've generated in the background our app wraparing ammo. So let's take a quick peek under the hood and take a look at what that app wraparing ammo looks like. Note that an app wrapper is a simple job request schema for submission to our MCAT queue, which allows the SDK to launch all kinds of resource and cluster abstractions. So you can see our resource requests as well as our attached request for a ray cluster matching those resources. So we'll pop back into the other two notebooks and we'll also create those cluster objects. So once we've done that, we can go ahead and run our cluster dot up. So what exactly has just happened? So we ran cluster dot up, which means that we've officially pushed our app wrapper onto our MCAT queue. And so from there, our MCAT queue is going to go look into each of these requests and see if it has the resources it needs. If the resources aren't available, and we still have quota, the request will be passed to Instascale to scale up the additional resources we need. So first, let's take a look and make sure all of those got queued up. So if we run a cluster dot ready is ready on each of those, we'll see that our cluster request has been queued and that the current status is pending. So if we go now to the Instascale logs, we'll see for our first job, MCAT said, we don't have the resources we need yet, we need to scale those up. And so it passed the job along to Instascale. So as you can see, it's begun setting up the machines and the machine sets necessary to get those resources up and available. So you can see here that we've completed the scaling request for our HugginFace interactive notebook. And so we should now have the four GPUs we want. But more so, there are two things that we'll be able to see from here. The first is that we're still working on now the scaling for our second request, which was the MNIST notebook. And so the scaling is going on for that one in the logs right below us. And then the second thing is we'll go ahead and check to see that the ray cluster that we want has been set up on the resources we just scaled up for our first HugginFace notebook. So the developer here can run a cluster dot status, and they'll see that their ray cluster is now up and running. They have one worker with 16 gigs of memory, 8 CPU and 4 GPU, just like they requested. So now let's go and interact with that ray cluster using a cluster dot cluster URI. And then we'll go ahead and connect the ray python client to the actual ray cluster that we just spun up for our work. And so we'll run our ray dot init there, basically, to work with this HugginFace model. And we've tagged it at the top, as you can see, with a ray dot remote indicating we are going to eventually want to run these python functions on a remote cluster. And so let's then go ahead and actually define all of these. And then once we've done that, we can run this ray dot get train fn dot remote, which is basically saying, run my main training function that I've just defined on my remote cluster. And so we'll go ahead and do that. And immediately you'll see the logs begin to output. It's doing a bit of data loading and pre-processing here. And now we can see that the training has started and is currently underway. So if we pop back into our GPU utilization, we'll see that we now see all 4 GPUs being almost fully utilized, exactly as we would expect from the resources that we asked for this job. So we can see that our job is complete. But if we pop back into our Instascale logs here, we see something very interesting. First that our second cluster's resource requests have been completed in terms of scaling. So our MNIST notebook that we're going to go into next has its cluster fully scaled up and ready to go. But we notice something interesting here because Instascale picked up the resource scaling request for our third notebook, the Ansible Wisdom Model. And interestingly enough, it got the request and then it did its check. Do we have enough resource quota to be able to scale this up? But this time we didn't. We hit the cap with the other two clusters that we scaled. And so Instascale said we do not have enough quota to scale this up. So we are going to wait until more quota becomes available. And so if we pop back, we'll see, okay, we've finished with our Hugging Face stuff. So let's call a cluster.down and take those resources down. And immediately you'll see in the Instascale log, the app wrapper has been deleted and the resources and the Ray cluster have all been scaled down for our first notebook. So those resources are no longer there. And then you'll immediately see underneath that the Ansible Notebook Resource Request has now gone through and it can now begin scaling. Let's then see that those pods are running for our second Ray cluster. We'll go back into the MNIST notebook and we'll run a cluster.status once again. So we can see we've got exactly what we requested. What we're going to go ahead and do now is we're going to run a single batch job to submit our entire MNIST model definition and training using Torchex, which is just an easy tool for submitting full Python script jobs to remote Ray clusters or really any type of remote cluster abstraction in the background. Let's take a look at exactly what it is that we are submitting as a remote batch job to our Ray cluster. So here we have just basic simple PyTorch code that defines a model and how we want to train it and everything that we need to get that training up and running. We'll run it as a batch job. We'll grab the ID and the first thing we'll do is we'll see, all right, what are the jobs that we've submitted to our Ray cluster and we can see we have one job that we've submitted with a status pending. So we'll give it just a second and it should switch from pending to running on our cluster. And just like that, it is in fact running. So let's take a look at our logs now and we can see we are in fact starting to get logs for the job that we submitted. And if we scroll down, we can see that it's already begun training. So we'll go back and we'll double check with Instascale and we'll wait to see the Ansible Resource Request scale up. And so it's just finished. And so we've completed scaling up our resources for our third notebook and the reason I didn't take the resources down for the second before the third is I just wanted to reiterate the point that we can have multiple resource requests and Ray clusters up and running simultaneously. And so what we can then do is we can see the Ray cluster pods are coming up for our third and final Ray cluster that we're going to be using and there they are. So now of course, we're going to go back into our third notebook and run status one more time and we see exactly what we expect. So we'll just print out the cluster URI as well as the Ray cluster dashboard URI just to show that we can with SDK. And we're going to do something just the same as we did in the notebook before. We should use Torchex to submit our Ansible Wisdom model training as a single batch job on our remote resources. And if we take a look, just the same, it is a PyTorch based model and training that we are going to be running with no special changes for Ray or the code for SDK or anything like that. We're taking the Python file as it is and we're submitting it as a batch job to train. And so we'll grab the ID once again. We'll check our list and we'll see we have one job pending on the Ray cluster. We'll check the job status and we'll see that it is pending. We'll check the logs. And we'll see the job was submitted. And in just a second again, we will see the status change from pending to running on our Ray cluster and we'll see that we have log output. So now we've begun our data preprocessing step. And if we look down at the bottom of our logs, beautiful. We can see exactly what we want to see, which is that we're currently training and we're currently on epoch zero. And so training is underway as expected. So now let's make sure those resources are actually being used. We'll take a look at the GPU utilization and wouldn't you know it? All eight GPUs are essentially under full load. And so that'll continue running for several hours. We won't sit through that today. Now we can say that we have completed all three of our demo jobs. We've got through an interactive notebook training our hugging face model. We've gone through a batch job submission training a model on the MNIST dataset and another batch job submission training our Ansible Wisdom Foundation model all in parallel on three notebooks requesting resources for each one of them submitting our jobs to those resources and scaling down when completed. So this is the beginning of batch computing in roads and open shift environments. With great benefits to both developers, administration and resource cost saving, we are excited to be moving forward with this project.


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Yo, what if this was like our intro song? Who would have to ask Harry Styles? Babe! Come right! My bad guys, uh, Janice got me stuck on this one song from Harry Styles. Bro, you gotta hit. That one's a smash. What's going on, Infinite Fam? Welcome back to another video. If you guys are new to the channel, make sure you guys hit that subscribe button. Turn on your post notification bell. Leave a positive comment down below for a chance to get a- For a chance to get a shout out in the next video. That is right. So, you guys are being nosy. Alright? You guys want to know some questions. You guys want the answers to some questions. They're kind of personal. I'm not going to lie. Yeah, it's just like a life update kind of Q&A. I feel like we haven't done a Q&A in so long. Yeah, it's been a while since we did a Q&A. And I feel like this is probably going to be the juiciest of questions in all of our Q&As. So, I think we should just get right into it. Alright, so who's going to ask the questions first? You got the whole list. We asked on Instagram guys. So if you guys don't follow us on Instagram, make sure you guys follow us right here. And next time we do a Q&A, you can probably have your question pop up. But she has a list of I don't know how many questions we grabbed the most that we possibly could. And we're just going to try to answer them as quick as possible. You ready? Yep. Let's do it. Alright guys, so the first question is we starting off juicy. How much money do you guys make? Who asked that? I don't know somebody on Instagram. I want to see the name and I want to see the profile picture. Why are you asking such a personal question? You know I'm going to answer it anyway. You alright with answering this? I don't care. Alright, so it varies by month. There's no set number. But I will tell you guys that we are in the six figure range for annually. Okay. That's all I'm going to say. That's all I'm going to say. I'm not going to give you. I'm not going to tell you if we make 100. I'm not going to tell you if we make 800. Six figure range. That's all I'm going to say. Next question is for you. Okay. It is when are you proposing? I'd like to know the answer to this. I'm not answering this question. If I answer the question, what's the point of proposing? I'm serious. It's supposed to be this big thing, this big meaningful thing. It's supposed to be a surprise.  Today's September 22nd.  What was the thought in the... Imagine that. Imagine somebody telling you when you're going to get proposed. Bro, that's horrible. Why would you know? I'm never answering that question. Do you have a time frame? I will tell you this. We are going on seven years together next month. I will tell you that it will happen before the 10-year mark. That's very broad. Yeah, it is pretty broad. But I need to have a general idea, I guess. Three years, however, you won't know if it's next month. You won't know if it's tomorrow. You won't know if it's on the 10-year mark. You won't know. I'm not answering it. And I guess I will never know until the time comes. No, only a select few people know. This is like multiple questions. What's your age, your height, and your ethnicity? You want my social security number while you're at it too? All right, age, I am turning 25. So right now I'm 24. 25 in January. What was the height? 6'6". Yeah, okay. No, I'm 5'8". 5'9". Shoes on every inch counts, if you know what I mean. And what was the last part of the question? Ethnicity. I am Puerto Rican. Next one. Well, you didn't answer it. I got to answer my question. Man, come on, let them know how you're like 30 years old. Boy, don't you dare. I'm not 30 years old. My age is 24. My height is 5'1". Even though a lot of people don't believe me when I say that. I don't know why. Why, they think you're taller? Yeah, one thing's I'm taller. They tell me that I look taller on camera. I'm going to measure you. Why? I'm going to have to measure you. Because a lot of people are questioning it. Maybe they're right and you're wrong. I'm not wrong. Every time I go to the doctor, it's the same thing. I just went to the doctor. All right. And they told me 5'1". Okay. All right. And my ethnicity, let's just say that I'm mixed. And we'll leave it right there. Oh my God. You never want to tell them. Because it's a whole big list. It's really, just give them the three names. Okay. I'm Dominican, Puerto Rican, and Jamaican. Dang, bro. I mean, she got the Jamaican in her. Okay. Anyway. Next question is pretty spicy. Is who dominates in the bedroom? Okay. Who do you guys the first take a guess? Who do you think dominates the bedroom? Piri. Oh, Piri. Oh, me. Yeah. I'm just going to say that. We're not going to get into it. We're not going to get into it. Do we miss our old apartment? No. Not really. Absolutely not. However, it will always hold a memory, being that it was our first apartment together. But do I miss it? Yeah. Yeah. I feel the same. The only thing I feel like I miss, was a community pool and a community gym. And it was really easy to get to. But now we have a whole house. What a staircase. We have a second floor. Yeah. That's crazy, right? I freaking love this house. I wish we would have bought it. I know. But, you know, we'll talk about that in the future. Keep going, keep going. Were we an accident or a miracle baby? Bro, I was 100% an accident. Same. I was not supposed to happen by any means. I would say that on both though. Period. No, 100% an accident. Like, my mom had me when she was 15. Like, that says it. It's right there. Yeah. Teenage love. What can we say? Next question is, how's life in Florida? Amazing. Don't get me wrong. I miss my family. However, just living out here in general, so much better. The weather, the people, the gas prices. Oh my God, guys. I don't spend as much on gas anymore. You guys know how I love my car stuff. For me, honestly, I'm gonna miss the fall of New Jersey. What? The fall's important to me. But other than that, I enjoy living in Florida so much more than I ever did in Jersey. The weather is just... Unmatched. That's the main thing, the weather. I mean, it's pretty hot right now for my liking. I'd rather that than cold. I guess. I like sweater weather. Well, I guess, yeah. Well, I mean, we're gonna get that over here in Florida. I know. We know how it is in the winters over here. We've been here before in the winter. What's a goal that you have for one another? That is a really good question. Okay. I will probably say that my main goal for you would be to overcome your fear and stop being a... No. I want you to get over your fear of driving. Well, I'm slowly working on that. You are.  You've been impressing me the past couple of days. Thank you. You have. You've been working on it. I've been really, really trying. Good job. Good job. Good job. Ooh, I don't know. This is a hard question. I know what your goal for me is. What? You want me to put a bigger turbo in my car. Actually, I want to put a ring on it. That's my goal for you. That sounds kind of like... That's a little selfish, I feel. Like, it's really for you, not for me. Like, geez, man. Hey, wow. Okay. My goal for you... No, you said it already. No, no, no, seriously. My goal for you is to eat more healthy. Like, more veggies. I eat vegetables. What are you talking about? No, like... I eat asparagus, green beans, corn, lettuce. I recently tried spinach in one of our videos and I liked it. Mm-hmm. I don't know what else you want from me. I like potatoes. I know you prefer eating out than you prefer eating in. That's all of America. Even fitness trainers will tell you they like eating out more. I don't know about that. Bro, it's just... All right, go ahead. Why do we have each other's location? Yeah, a lot of you guys always question that as to why we have that. It's not because we're possessive or stalkerish and we don't like when the other one is out. It's more so just in case of emergency. You know, like if she's not responding or something like that. I know she has a fear of driving or something like that. So God forbid if anything were to happen she's not responding or something and I know she's out by herself. I have her location and I can see what's going on, you know, and just check up on her really. I want to know when you're safe.   Yeah. Because when they if I slip up, she has it.  Like like car stuff, car stuff. Are you building your dream home? So that's still in the works really. We don't we know we're getting a house in the upcoming year. We know this and it's going to be the dream home. However, we don't know if we want to buy one or just build it. However, I feel buying it already made would be a lot more easier and simpler. But again, that also comes down to is it going to be perfect dream home? There's not one thing that we would change. And I feel like that's going to be hard to find. That is definitely hard to find especially because like everything's so crazy right now. It's so populated in Florida especially. I haven't had the market so the prices are kind of like. That's true. I don't know. Probably leaning more towards buying than building, but building is definitely still an option. When and where did we have our first kiss together? Do you remember that? I do. I remember it. Are you sure you remember it? Yeah. Want me to tell the story? All right.  Just to make sure we're both on the same page. So we both know. Yeah. So it was at the movie theaters. Yes. And it was on a date and we weren't really even a thing yet. Right. So go ahead. Okay. So wait. Do I give them all the tea? No, no, no. Not all the tea. Not all the tea. That's for a story time if they really want it. Okay. So pretty much we were watching a movie. Do you remember the movie? We weren't watching a movie. I was watching it. I was. All right. Well, we were with our friends at the time. They were twins and they sat in front of us and we sat behind them. And you know, we were just feeling each other or whatever. So we kept the camera like that. You said what?   And I was like, make me. And then you were like, boom. Went in for it. Yep.  Seven years later, almost seven years later. Yeah. It's been a long seven years. It has. What's the one thing people misunderstand about you? I feel like people, when they look at me, like if they don't know me, they don't know anything about me, they automatically assume like, yo, that guy's angry. I'm not mad. Like everyone always comes up to me and bro, you look mad. You look angry. That's just my face. Yo, I'm sorry. Like, I don't know. Everyone just always thinks I'm angry or like I'm uptight or something like that. I don't know. I'm very daring and I like doing adventurous stuff and I'm not angry. I promise you. That's just the way I look. I don't really know what people perceive me as. Honestly, I feel like everyone perceives me different. I feel like, well, this is a question for yourself. But I feel a lot of people at the same time, they felt like you were like stank.  Yeah. I think the same thing. I feel like when people meet me, they don't like me until they start talking to me. They're like, oh. Yeah. And I feel like we get judged very easily. Yeah.  And it's just like, bro, I promise you, I'm really nice. I just, I look mad. I'm not. Have resting B face. Yeah. Like, I don't know. We get that a lot. I'm sorry if I ever looked at you and you made a thought like I'm mad at you or something like that. I don't even know you. Yeah. Because a lot of people always think I'm mad. Like, I'm not. Okay, babe. We get it. You're not mad. I'm gonna squeeze my cup. Last question is what show or shows are you currently watching? I don't want to answer this one. All right. But we're not watching the same thing really. Like you have more interest. We watch the same shows, but you have more interest than one. Okay. Well, like currently, like what is the stuff that we're watching? All right. Go ahead. You answer yours first. All right. Well, right now I'm watching the grassy by myself. Out of all the things that we're watching, you mentioned that. I'm saying for myself. From 1994? That's what you're gonna mention? In 1990. I don't think so. The grassy is so overall. It is, but it's not that old. You know what I mean? The grassy is wack. It's not. It's wack. People are gonna come for you in the comments. That's fine. You're gonna get canceled for saying the grassy stuff. Bro, the grassy is wack, bro. I love the grassy. There's mad drama in it and I like drama. But anyway, I'm watching the grassy by myself and I just started watching the Jeffrey Dahmer kind of series. He started watching it with me yesterday. Bro, I started from the second episode. I should have watched the first one, but yo, it's actually really good. Now that I'm watching it, I'm uncomfortable. Like it's just really hard to watch for me. So I don't know if I'm gonna continue watching it. It's very eerie. I'll say that like kind of disturbing as well. Very disturbing. But I don't know. You gotta have like a stomach for that kind of stuff. I personally like it. I find it very interesting. Together we're watching, I'll say Jenny and Georgia. Yes, so making him watch Jenny and Georgia with me.  I fall asleep 15 minutes into every episode that we watch. Yes. So that's my bad. But it actually is good. It's not because it's boring. I'll just show that we're watching that I absolutely love. And I do the same thing. I fall asleep. It is ratchet. That is crazy. It's crazy. And it was like holding teeth to make him watch that show. I gotta catch up on it. It's really good. That's pretty much it, right? That's all that we've been watching. Yeah.  Oh, we do not do none of that. Do not do something. No, I'm not joking. You guys don't believe that. For real. That was the last question. Yeah, that was the last question we don't have anymore. All right.  You guys got some personal questions up front. You know, the first couple of questions were a little like, why do you want to know that, bro? You know, people being nosy. Glad it's it for today's video, guys. If you guys want another Q&A video of different questions, let us know down below. Ask your questions. Also, give this video a thumbs up. And with all that being said, it is now time for today's post notification shout out. Today's post notification shout out goes out to... Eluxis Charles. Thank you so much for your love and support. Izan, I love you. 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This paper presents a system for remote assessment of knowledge, which automates the formation of tickets with questions and tasks for conducting intermediate and final monitoring of knowledge of students. It also outlines the basic requirements for a web application and the modules that the system consists of. Additionally, it establishes access rights, describes the technical, functional and non-functional features of the software product, and provides a diagram of system sequences, a use case diagram, and a diagram of classes of a database structure. Finally, it discusses how the resource can be developed using PHP, JavaScript, and MySQL. This article was authored by Mikhailou I-Sherman, Yaroslav Obisemkinska, and Vitaly M. Kobets.


e hara taku toa i te toa takitahi, e ngare he toa takitini, na mihinu i kie koutou katoa ko Victoria Pasa o Tokoingawa. Good morning everybody, my name is Victoria and today I will be presenting with a beautiful clear land yin about online Senataf. Online Senataf is a biographical database of New Zealand military personnel and it also includes non-New Zealanders who served in the New Zealand forces and it dates from the New Zealand wars right up until Afghanistan and it was established by the Auckland Museum in 1996 and it includes about 140,000 records to date and it mainly focuses on the First World War and this is a screenshot of the old Senataf database as it was called and as you can sort of tell it's pretty data heavy doesn't provide you with a huge amount of context to sort of be in the know on what that information meant and where we got that information from. It was very much a push out service so that meant that we told you what was the verified information. You could provide us with feedback but you could see on that page that there's really not much space for you to sort of engage in the site and so we luckily received funding from the Ministry for Culture and Heritage to redevelop the website and we launched on the 22nd of January of this year and I should say that this record is my great-grandfather's record and we're going to see the updated version of Online Senataf. So Online Senataf now allows for user-generated content to be added so the public can add information, images, documents and notes throughout the record so they can contribute to every field. The database was also transferred from the DB Text platform to Vernon and so that was quite a major task. I think it was a lot bigger than what we thought at the beginning so we spent a lot of time testing and migrating that content over before we launched. Okay, so this is what the record looks like so it's the same record with my family updating some photos and adding some notes and you can see every field can be added to. It's quite a long record which we'll touch on in a moment and all the content that you add is published automatically we don't moderate anything. It's a good core team of two who work on this project so to try and verify all this content would have been a little bit unreasonable. The new database allows us to source the content that we put into the core database as well as the user-generated content and contributors can be contacted if they choose to be contacted through emails so we sort of stay out of the sometimes arji-barji that happens between people adding content and other people not agreeing with it. So you think, wow, this looks really great. You must have got positive feedback all the way around. No. So we launched on the 22nd of January, day after somebody told us it was a load of rubbish. I think the project's really taught me to toughen up. Not quite succeeded yet. I'm still a little bit of a baby when it comes to this. I try not to take it personally but we've been captured by a snake oil salesman. Thanks, digital IT people. You're the best. And that photo of the guy really reminds me of Max Gimblett. I was like, are you sure that's not Max Gimblett? But it's not. No, I don't think so. And so we also got a lot of feedback from our historians and our genealogists who a lot of our genealogists used to like to just copy and paste records, which was totally fine because this is all publicly available information into their own databases. And so a lot of the older people, mature people or people who don't necessarily enjoy technology found the new site to be a little bit challenging. And somebody said that anyone older than 60 years wasn't going to be able to use it. But we've found that one of our users has added 3,000 pieces of data in there in their 60s. So, you know, swings and roundabouts. And that was only again four days after launch. Just breathe that in. So during the first couple of months before Anzac Day, which was our like big launch day, it was a completely soft launch. So we didn't tell anybody we were launching. It just, people just love to give us feedback. We also got really positive feedback, constructive feedback. You can, you know, give us, we can take it. Well, I can't really, but it's fine. So we did get constructive feedback within this sort of content. And overall we've received about 2,000 inquiries, 50 of which were pretty, as my Michelle calls it, brick-bat level. But that's totally fine compared to 2,000 pretty happy customers. We've had about 25,000 pieces of data added. The website now is really allowing for more personal and official data to interact, which is really great. So people are able and feel comfortable putting up information that it can never be verified. You know, I love, my granddad was called Bubby and you're like, okay, well that's fine. So before we couldn't, we'd have to verify it and then if we couldn't verify it then it wouldn't go up. But now people can put that information in themselves. And then the other element which is really great is that a lot of schools have been using this website and a lot of school children want to do something when they go on the site. They may not be able to add data, but they can lay a poppy. And so every year these poppies will be removed and you'll be able to remember the service person again. But for us in terms of our process, the images have been a major coup for us to be able to get 6,500 images up on the site within the last eight months is really impressive. We had a very small team of staff including just maybe two or three hours a week of somebody scanning images to archival quality. And so with our really dodgy maths, we sort of guesstimated that it would take us about 10 years to add that many images because we just weren't at the time being able to scan as much as we wanted so being able to get 6,500 images up is just awesome. So this is the technical element of it is that people are very concerned that our content, the core data which has been verified from military personnel files, nominal roles and other primary and secondary sources were going to be completely dirtied by the public and don't worry, it's all in Vernon, all of the verified content is in Vernon and other collection management system which is Kentico that the museum uses keeps all of the user-generated content. As I said, we don't moderate the content, it's automatically published but we can edit, remove, delete the content that has been added by people so it's not as if it's just up there. And then that content is then put up into the UI and at the moment Kentico is not able to be searched by the user interface so hopefully at some point we'll be able to make the user-generated content searchable through the website. So this picture is just to say that at the beginning in terms of the enquiries, not in terms of the technical side of things I was the only one really responding to enquiries so it's about sort of trying to emphasise that you need to have a team of people, a workflow to be able to support a project just because it's online and people can add content themselves doesn't mean you can just walk away and leave it to sort of sort of sort itself out. So we had to sort of think on our feet and create a really strong enquiries, workflow and also just change our ethos in terms of how we support people before we sort of tended to be a little bit of gatekeepers like you can't put that information up, we have all the information们 anrengi maespa ndi wath yama i manaki phaeja mŕtamaant pa bactσε ngai uwi bunci angi, d ولu mowagin'a ini, mese congratulations to our oversea aien po te connects raiapi maka임 teimos i ngai wow kai i chansani Thank you. So, I am responsible for the Haipo-Araha Community Senatāf part of the project. And it really is about bringing the community in, first of all, I guess, making online Senatāf visible, encouraging people to use it and encouraging people to contribute to it. So, we received a very generous lottery grant, to, I guess, do a couple of things. One of those things was to redevelop some galleries, some World War I galleries. But the other part was this community project. And as part of it, there are two physical elements. So, one of those things is this mobile roadshow unit that you see there. And inside, we share three stories of service personnel from online Senatāf. But the most important thing that's in there are these things called artefact digitisation units. So, we have nine of these artefact digitisation units. Two of them, in fact, three go out in the mobile roadshow unit. But the cool thing is they're locked down to online Senatāf and obviously some websites that make sense around that.  And then underneath that keyboard, you can just see a little shiny glowing box. That's a photo booth. So, essentially, people can bring in their objects, their letters, their diaries, their medals. Anything that relates to a person within online Senatāf digitise that and immediately it will upload to online Senatāf so anybody across the world can see it straight away. So, one of the cool things about this project is we have nine of them, as I've already said. But seven of those we loan to libraries, RSAs, museums and other heritage organisations or even events that make sense. So, they go out, they're a standalone thing. If anybody in the audience is interested in borrowing one, please come and have a chat with me. It's a four-year programme so there's plenty of time, obviously, for you to take it on. You can see here, this is an actual photo that was taken on Anzac Day. This lady, whose hands you can see, she was wearing her grandfather's medals so she digitised those and she was able to share them with her brother who's not very happy that she has the medals. Ending amusing. So, this is another story that happened on Anzac Day and Victoria and I often go out to these events. It's really easy when you sit in the museum to almost forget that there's this personal side behind it but we hear these amazing stories every day and we see amazing things that are brought into us that we just wouldn't have access to usually and people are very, very appreciative to be able to share that. So, this particular group, there was about 15 in this family and they'd just been to the dawn service and they walked in and started typing on the artefact digitisation unit. They found that person straight away and in little groups they had family photographs standing around the ADU with that person in the middle and it was just such a cool thing. I kind of had to take a photo of it. And from a couple of days after we launched an image was added by a person from Malta and his name happened to be Albert and he added an image onto an Albert's record so that's a little bit confusing. And it was amazing because it was a carving of Albert Waitford's serial number that was carved into stone on a boulder in Malta and we just found out this week that one of his family has gone to Malta to meet with Albert who uploaded the image. So, yeah, it's just one of the really cool stories that we have. Yeah, and not only that, we've had dog tags returned back to families and medals so you have this interaction of families, I guess, meeting each other for the first time or strangers meeting for the first time saying, hey, I've got this thing. I think it might belong to you. It's really cool. So, here at NDF Today we are launching a social media campaign called Discover Your Connection. So, really this was about enabling people to, first of all, identify a connection if they have a known or a familial connection but also recognizing that only 40% of New Zealanders believe that they have a connection to somebody in World War I. So, we kind of took that to heart and really wanted to recognize it and enable people to commemorate and provide a focus for that commemoration. So, this is the hashtag. Unfortunately, you have to look at my face for a couple of minutes. This is a tweet that I did on Saturday and you can probably hear that I've got this weird English Australian accent. I'm fairly new to New Zealand and my grandfather served in World War I but I knew that he wouldn't be on the database. He was English. So, I put in my most important name, my maiden name and found a guy called Cornelius O'Connor and it was so amazing because this guy shares my dad's name and what a weird name it is. So, you know, I did and it was cool and I had a little look at his record and he also lived or was born 20 km away from where my dad was born. So, he's my guy and I encourage you to hop onto Online Sinitaf, have a look, put in a name, a place, a date. Some relevant thing that you are interested in, please tweet, use the hashtag, discover your connection. It would be great if you could also put a link to that within the tweet so that others are able to have a look at your connection and maybe discover theirs and if you're really, really kind, please also add in our Auckland Museum handle. So, the future. To be honest, we don't know what we don't know so we're not really sure how our content's going to be used but we're really excited to say that the API has been opened up and it is described with linked open data so you'll be able to utilise it in any way that you want. We're really appreciative of the Museum providing ongoing enhancement support for the next few years so we will be able to tweak any things that the people who think it's rubbish will be happy with and also just being able to create connections and we just want to say a big thank you to all the institutions and organisations that have supported the launch. It's not just us, it's been a lot of people helping us along the way. Thank you very much.


of the great and the late and the legendary Charlie Pride and in a few minutes I'll be talking to him of course. When you hear the name Pride you immediately think of Charlie but his younger brother is just everybody's good. He is a legend and he's alright I have to say. Carved out his own path and country music. He shared the stage with the likes of Willie Nelson, Ricky Van Shelton, Barbara Mandrell and many many more. And we'll be talking to him about his life and times in just a few minutes and in the studio as well as a very own Tommy Rosney. We're going to further a big thanks to Mark Donner-Marie Daugherty for the news. The news team will be back in the morning and bright and early with all the latest national and international and local news as well. While I get in touch with those we are live on Facebook and Instagram and Twitter. We can reach us also on the Highland Radio app and WhatsApp and text number 08 660 25000. And of course getting the show off to start this evening of course is Stephen Pride. From his album and it's called Pride on the Wild Side. An album that was recorded back in 2005. I'd love to hear from you. Good to have you company. And Stephen you're very welcome along to the show. Well thank you very much Rosemary. It's a great great pleasure to have you here indeed. It's a pleasure being here. Thank you.  Yes. As well as the country awards as long as not right Tommy. That's right tonight the country awards us. And your special guest at the country awards tonight. Yes that's correct.  Correct. OK we're going to talk to you about your life and your music and when you grew up in Mississippi. So tell me about when you were young and you were growing up Stephen. When I was growing up I was I guess we lived on the sharecroppers farm until I was five years old. And then my father moved us my sister and I. He remarried and moved to Lambert from Sledge. And I grew up basically in Marx and Lambert Mississippi. I was also born in Marx Mississippi. So while growing up those were my areas of growing up and developing. And sharecroppers sharecroppers it must have been a tough kind of life. Yes it was. It was quite a demanding and challenging work. Yeah. For people probably there are listeners that doesn't know as both what sharecroppers mean. It means that you actually get part of your crop to the landowner is it? Yes in order to facilitate success from the good Lord giving you crop. So that must have been tough enough because the crop failed or whatever it was. Okay when you moved things were were you still working on sharecropping or was it different? No it wasn't I never actually. I was a child during that time. But my dad he actually when moved he involved with other works. He was a school bus driver and just like I said by his own craft his own skills. He was also a carpenter and a barber as well as a school bus driver. And you were brought up in Lambert Mississippi and I went to school in Marx. And I also was born in Marx Mississippi. Very good. So you were brought up through music weren't you? Music was in your family? Yes. Listening to country music. Yes. Our dad did. Yes. He listened to the Grand Ole Opry. Yeah but you know like I said that was his only music that he listened to other than gospel.   There's 21 years difference in both of you. Yeah. And you met Charlie when you were eight years old. Yeah I first met my brother in Mac. And Charlie when I was eight. Because of course they were way working of course. Yes. Yes and they were way. You were a baby yeah. Yes. Wow. So tell me when you first heard Charlie singing. Oh that was great. I first heard him singing on the Lawrence Welk show. The Lawrence Welk show. My stepmother and I were sitting in front of the TV and looking at the program. And I'm going to mention that tomorrow night too. There's a few really lovely stories I have about home and him coming home. But anyway to continue it. We were looking at the Lawrence Welk show and my brother was on TV and Lawrence Welk introduced him. And he came on and he did one of his songs. And ten minutes later there's a knock on the door on the front porch. And it's my brother. Well. He had driven down from Nashville. Wow. And I'm trying to I'm looking here I am looking at him on TV. And then he's coming in the house stepping in the house. And I'm trying to figure out how is that possible. How can he be there and here at the same time. And see that's all prior to me knowing about technology. Yeah. I'm young. I'm a kid. Child. You know they know no better. Of course. Yeah. Well tell me this. Then when did you start to sing? When did you started actually. Six years old. Really. Yeah. Singing country music. Yeah. No. Not country music. I started realizing I had the ability and the best talent to sing. Yeah. Uh huh. Yeah. At six. At six. Yeah. Because his mother bought him a guitar when he was about eight years old. And yeah. Or maybe 10. Was it Tommy? I think. I think it was 10. Yeah. It was 10 maybe. Yeah. And he started to sing and then so. Yeah. So when did you start to sing and then. Oh. I'm sorry. Let me correct that. He was 14. Was he? Right. Yeah. He was 14 when she when he got this serious robot guitar. Wow. Very good. He started himself to play the chords play and everything.  Yes. Yeah. Wow. When did you start yourself playing guitar? 83. Wow. Very good. So when did you start then and sing in professionally yourself? Uh. 84. 85. Yeah. Right. Okay. And then did you ever sing along with your brother? Oh yeah. Yeah. Wow. Yes. When later on in the later years. Yes. He was gracious enough. I love him for that. Mm-hmm. He took me on tour with him. Oh, absolutely. Brilliant. But we sang together a couple of times at home, you know. Mm-hmm. I'm talking about for the general public. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Gospel music is a big party for life as well, wasn't it? Oh, yes. Yeah. You grew up with gospel. Yes. Yeah. Back then is everywhere. Yeah, of course. All families had that vein. Yeah. Yeah, gospel vein. Yes. And then the big stars, anyway, started off in gospel music, didn't they? Yeah. Well, history-wise, I'm not as versed on the actual situation, but I would only assume that all of those genres of music were pretty much connected. Mm-hmm. You know? Okay, tell me about your CD, Pride on the Wild Side. Pride on the Wild Side became an existent, like you said, late 2004, early 2005.  My producer at the time was handling other major artists. Mm-hmm. And in 2004, later part of 2000, early part of 2005, I went back to Nashville and let my producer, Jim Glenn Pace, we got together and comprised, and I listened to a lot of songs, and I picked out about maybe 280 to 300 songs, just listening to songs, and I managed to come up on six to add to the other six that I had done previously. Mm-hmm. And so that's how that album became. Mm-hmm. I love the album. You have another album out as well, don't you? You recorded an album as well, didn't you? Not an entire album. There's a single that is being recognized here in Ireland that I did when I was in Norway. Mm-hmm. I recorded this... I recorded one of my brother's hits, Crystal Chandelier and Christians in Norway. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Oh, wow, very good. The CDs, kind of a blend of country melodies that kind of rip your heart out, and honky-tonk, kind of. Yeah, I can't remember the reporter who actually made that assumption or made that narrative, but I considered it to be a group of a combination of songs that had a meaning, and it told stories, but it had different nice melodies, you see. Yeah. And the instrumentation was quite complimentary, I thought. Mm-hmm. I'll be playing tracks from that CD now throughout the show, even when you're going... Yeah. Because really, it's my featured... I do a featured artist on the show every single week. I feature one American artist, and I play tracks throughout the show from that artist, so that's what I'll be doing tonight. And we'll expect some of the same on Wednesday, will we, from that CD? Actually, this is a short promotional tour and tribute to Charlie, to my brother, and to all the fans that love him so much and have been so kind and loving to him, and for him to be the same, giving back to them since he's been a part of Ireland for so many years. This basically was an idea that was prompted through Hugh O'Brien to give back to the country of Ireland, to the fans of Ireland, and this was a short promotional tour that's going to reflect that. Absolutely, brilliant. Looking forward to that. Tell me you're going... But to answer your question, we haven't... the band... I did not send them any of my songs. This is a total tribute to my brother. Oh, yes, right. And have you got your own band with you? No, ma'am. No, no. These are artists from Ireland. Right, okay, very good.  Well, I believe in God. I believe in Jesus Christ. Yes, I would say yes. Yeah, you said, and I quote, you draw unto the Lord to guide you. Yes. Yeah. Every day, I ask that. Yeah, absolutely brilliant. Very good. Okay, I know you have to go. And I know that, to me, you sound like Charlie. You were singing that song, Crystal Chandeliers. Tell me, what do you think? Rosemary, can I just say, I heard him doing a sound check earlier today for the song, he's singing tonight. And if that's anything to go by that show he's going to be doing tomorrow night down in the Mount Argyll, it'll be some show. And he's in Bundour next Wednesday night. He's doing a few gigs around the country, but I'm telling you, just looking at him at stage, looking at him on stage and hearing his voice, you're saying, I know that voice. Yeah, of course. As I said to Steve, Well, thank you, Tony. As I said to Steve and myself when I was talking to him on Friday night, he said, you know, it's grand having the talent and that, and you know, I asked him the story about, you know, whatever field people would be judging him on his brother, but if you haven't got it yourself and he isn't in the Bundins, let me tell you. Absolutely, yeah, absolutely. And you sound so very, you have your own unique style.  Oh, yes. Yeah, it's the genetics and plus and now I'm sure he's probably doing that too. Yeah, absolutely. Up above, you know. I was talking to him earlier and you were saying that you're very like Charlie in every way and you have different traits and you just like Charlie, you know, but Charlie was so funny. Charlie was so funny, remember, Tommy? It's great to see Stephen like that too because you know the way yourself for Rosemary, the way country music is going these days, it's great to see a young man. Yeah. Now, he is a young man, isn't he? He's younger to me anyway, but it's great to see him keeping the traditional sound of steel and that because Nashville has gone to her lately. Stephen was saying to me the other night, Texas is the place to be these days. Absolutely. We were actually talking, we were discussing that earlier on about the song that Alan Jackson and George Strait wrote, Murder and Music Rope. Murder and Music Rope, yeah. And I was asking him about what he thought about the music in National at the moment, you know, but he was saying, he's not going to say anything about it on air at the moment. Any American artist that I mentioned it to, kept gracefully, you know, they wouldn't say as such, I agree with you, but... Yeah, yeah, yeah. They don't want to say. Yeah, absolutely. And he was saying Nashville's not the same at all now as you go to, you know yourself, Tommy, and it isn't the same. But anyway, that's great to have you with us. Hey, I appreciate you having me. Absolute pleasure to have you. Thank you for having me. I really appreciate it. You're very, very welcome. I know you're busy and you took the time out to come up from the Mount Arigal and you're going to play now in a little while or you would perform a little while. So again, thank you very much and I want to wish you the very best of luck with your tour. Thank you very much. And we will see you on Wednesday night because I'm going on Wednesday night. I'll probably go down later as well for a little while. Awesome. I look forward to it. Yeah. All right then, Stephen, thanks very much again. You're quite welcome. Thank you. And enjoy the night. And Tommy, thanks for coming in as well. You're more than welcome. All right.


How's it going everybody? Dotto away here back with another Dragon Ball Fighters update video, and yes it's actually been quite a while since we've had one of these on the channel, but that's because, you know, the world's been in a very different place as of late, so the way we get information on Dragon Ball Fighters is much much different. For example, we probably would have gotten an Evo style announcement relatively soon, but if you aren't caught up on all of that, basically Evo Online has been canceled, you can go look into more of that on your own. It's definitely something that you should read for yourself and not really be told about, but on the more uplifting side of things, that also means we were about to get a ton of crazy fighting game related announcements that now have nowhere to properly, you know, release or slash come out to the public. One of these announcements, of course, being the next Dragon Ball Fighters character, who was it going to be? We probably would have gotten a very cool trailer, but instead we were left with nothing. Until today that is when Bandai Namco Latin America posted this tweet over on their Twitter page asking you who you think these two pictures represent. Now this one was a real brain scratcher for me, a pair of glasses and a turtle. I studied the photo for a long time. I ran it by my professionals and it's Master Roshi. It wasn't that... I kind of wish they made it a little bit harder. It would have been at least a little more interesting, but no, there's no use in hiding it. Master Roshi is most likely going to be the next Dragon Ball Fighters character. In fact, I would say he's 100% going to be the next Dragon Ball Fighters character, but I can understand if you still have your doubts. With that said, even if you don't think it's Master Roshi right now, we can probably expect a character trailer for him or whatever the DLC character is going to be if on 0.001% chance it's not Master Roshi. That trailer should also be going up in the next couple of weeks here. As for places you can expect this trailer to pop up, honestly, I have no idea. These are really big hype events, so I don't know if they'll try to do their own Dragon Ball Fighters related livestream over on their Twitch page or if they'll just take it as, you know, it's unfortunate that that happened, but you know, we might as well upload the trailer to YouTube right away or Twitter right away. That could also be hype in its own way, so definitely go check out all of Bandai Namco's Twitter pages slash YouTube pages if you want to see it right away. But of course, I will be doing a YouTube video on the trailer as soon as it drops. I will be there. And now for the comment section down below, I want to know are you excited for Master Roshi and what do you think he's going to do in the game? Personally, I kind of hope it's more of a tournament of power style Roshi, but I would also really, really enjoy if it was just buff Master Roshi. I think that would be really funny if Master Roshi ended up being one of the big characters and he just transformed into buff right away. Of course, no matter what, I'm pretty sure we're going to get something amazing for the original Kamehameha and I'm hoping we also get something with the Mafuba, but I could understand that that one gets scrapped. Either way, that original Kamehameha has to look amazing with ArcSys. They are not going to do that move any injustice. That move is going to look amazing. Also in the comment section, I kind of want to know how do you think Roshi is going to get around? The character really cannot fly, so how do you think they're going to make Super Dash work for him? Are they just going to allow him to Super Dash anyway? Because really, it's not too tough of a mental jump to make where Roshi can just, you know, jump really fast at you or something like that, but I would like to hear your guys' thoughts on that. Do you think they'll have him fly on the turtle shell? And with that, I'm going to leave the video off there. There's not too much more information to cover. It's mostly just a confirmation that Roshi will be the next character. Not so much any looks at him or things like that, how his toolkit will be, but I am definitely interested in hearing all of that and your thoughts on that down below because now is the most fun time to guess about DLC character stuff is like what is he actually going to do and look like. But with that said, wire down in the comments if you enjoy the video and like to be updated on Dragon Ball Fighters. Make sure to like, button and subscribe and check out some of the other videos on your screen where I actually play the game or other fighting games. Those are pretty fun too. I have been Dachadoia and I will see you in the next one.


Shanks vs Zoro, Sanji vs Crocodile, Kuzan vs Katakuri and who will be Luffy's opponent? These are just a few out of the many dream matchups that we could potentially see as a part of One Piece's upcoming highly anticipated battle royale that will lead to the crowning of the Pirate King. Now, if you don't know exactly what that means, back in December 2022, the author of One Piece, Etchido Order, released the message for Jump Festa, in which he addresses the final saga and the new One Piece Odyssey game, but what really caught everyone's attention is the mention of a free-for-all battle royale that will happen in the series. And the recent events in One Piece might just have put the wheels in motion and heightened the possibility of us seeing these epic clashes. And it seems we now have all the necessary pieces we need for a war that will make Marineford look cute in comparison. And in this video, we're going to talk about all the potential matchups we could witness, but also battles that make sense from a storytelling standpoint. Plenty of names that are set up to be involved in this battle royale already have prior history with one another. So a lot of these potential matchups will involve a number of intriguing interactions, since most of them have already had seeds planted for a clash, and it may just be the right time to harvest. So even if the upcoming battles don't have a proper, long, in-arc setup, most of the backstory we need have already been given from prior arcs. This is one of those plug-and-play scenario ready to go. And since we are expecting a full-scale war, we need to set some parameters on what type of matchups we're going to be discussing today. Each of the Yonko crew alone that are participants in the chase of the One Piece have a number of combatants, not to mention the possibility of Marines or revolutionary army members interfering or any of the other players that could pop up during the battle royale. Meaning this would be an extremely long video, so you and I don't have to go through all the possible fights. And just for the purposes of this video, we will only be focusing on solely big-name 1v1 battles between well-known combatants of the Yonko crews that we expect to face off in this coming battle. So if you're someone who would like to see Chopper and Frankie have a 2 on 2 matchup with Monster and Bonkface, then I'm sorry to disappoint you, but you won't be seeing such a matchup discussed here. Similarly, a face-off like Robin vs Katarina Devon, which I know we all want to see, but we can't discuss it if they haven't had previous interactions or if there is nothing that links them together. I mean apart from the fact that they are both women and both being considered the worst of their kind with Robin being the devil child of O'Hara and Katarina Devon who is now perhaps the most dangerous female pirate. Do you know what? That's enough reason. Alright, let's pit them against each other. Robin vs Katarina Devon because of reasons stated. But please keep watching this video and if there are any matchups you think I missed or some that you would just personally like to see, then please comment below. And if you would like to provide your own fun reason as to why you would like such and such to face off, then let me know.  Drumroll please. And the first matchup is between you and the subscribe button. And the way to defeat the subscribe button is to hit it so hard that your attack ricochets and even clicks the notification bell. And now with that ultimate battle out of the way, we can focus on our real big first matchup. Sanji vs Crocodile. I have to start with this pair because although never meeting face to face, Sanji and Crocodile had one of the best and most memorable interactions back in Atta Buster. If it wasn't for Sanji successfully tricking Crocodile and saving his friends who would eventually go on to topple Baroque works, then Crocodile's life might have turned out a whole lot differently than being sent to impale down. Sanji was an unaccounted factor that ended up leading to the downfall of Crocodile's plan. Had Sanji not freed Luffy, Operation Utopia would have been achieved earlier and quietly, instead of Crocodile still chasing his dream but now in a much harder situation with the Marines crosshair on his back. So surely Crocodile would love to get his hands on the man who was partly responsible for getting him locked up and making his life difficult. As he said, no one makes the fool of him and lives with it, and perhaps he would like to settle Sanji's comment about Crocodile being able to kill the straw hat cook being debatable. Personally, this is a fight I'm really excited for, not only because it is the perfect recipe to be an epic clash, but also absolutely hilarious should another mystery idea play out as a part of this conflict. And that concerns Crocodile's big secret that Ivankov knows about. And as someone who spent two years in the Kamabaka Kingdom, albeit running for his life most of the time, is there a chance that Ivankov told Sanji about Crocodile's secret? Perhaps in an attempt to make him feel better about a certain activity he partook in. Let's make an assumption since we don't actually know what this big secret is, but what if, like Sanji, Crocodile was also defeated into wearing a dress by Ivankov and Yokama? Maybe the big secret Crocodile is so afraid of, it's the fact that he wants crossdressed in his rookie days.  And based on that answer, we could have a winner or a new bromance. What do you think? But Sanji isn't the only possible match up for Crocodile because we could also have Robin vs Crocodile. Okay, this is one of those reunions I've always expected and really want to see happen. But I've always thought about it happening in a way where Robin would be in a predicament and Crocodile would come out of nowhere to help her and will get a badass shot of the reuniting Mr. Zero and Miss All Sunday. I imagine Crocodile helping Robin instead of the other way around because it could be seen as a character redemption arc for Crocodile and to be a reverse of how he left Robin to die back in Arrabasta to now prevent her from harm. But if that scenario is not to happen, then perhaps a quick skirmish between the two would suffice. After all, Robin herself has going to be a lot more formidable now since her Baroque works days and why not test her new abilities against her former boss. Next up, Kuzan vs Katakuri. Wait, but this is a battle between the current Yonko crew. Why would someone from a defeated crew show up? One word, family. The Blackbeard Pirates took Pudding and that is enough reason for Big Mom's strongest child and commander to join the fray. Van Orger was also with Kuzan, but since the former admiral was the one who was shown to have done the most damage freezing the chocolate town, his ability would be the easiest for Katakuri to recognize should he enter the battlefield and I could see Big Mom's strongest child trying to take the man responsible down. And if getting his sister back isn't enough, let's increase the stakes and say that Katakuri's favorite chocolate donut filling is produced at Kakao Island for some extra motivation. And while I can see other Big Mom kids trying to help, Katakuri is the only one I can really see putting up somewhat of a fight. Although against Kuzan's overwhelming devil fruit, it makes you wonder how long Katakuri would actually last before eventually being defeated of course. Moving on, Brooke vs Gekko Morio. Now Morio isn't really a part of the story just yet, but with the reveal that he is alive and imprisoned at Hachinosu, then a little prison break might be in the works. And it just so happens that there is a faction currently looking to increase their military forces. A cross guild could find Gekko Morio's zombie creating abilities quite useful. Not to mention the funny reactions Buggy and his crew would have having to work with the undead. So let's assume Cross Guild's need opens up the door for a Gekko Morio to return. And as he joins his fellow former warlords in the war, he's confronted by the man whose shadow he once stole. Next, Usopp vs Yasopp vs Van Ogre. A triple threat match. Alright, this is just super wishful thinking that Usopp and Yasopp won't take sides and fight common enemy, but I just think it would also be so entertaining to see three of the best snipers in the series have a three-way shootout while on the move. They don't even need to shoot at each other. It could just be one of those scenarios where they each try to one up the other by shooting a target that gets increasingly difficult. Sorry, random Marines. Straight up, Yasopp vs Van Ogre shootfest would also be welcome, of course, since we know that their crews are destined to war at some point due to their captain's beef with one another. And this interaction could serve as a learning moment for Usopp, who will learn from his father first-hand and use that knowledge to eventually defeat Van Ogre one-on-one himself. Now, Shanks vs Zorro. Who doesn't want to see this at least once? They don't even need to have a full fight. A quick skirmish would be enough. For Shanks, it's seeing the ability of Luffy's right-hand man and his old rival's most prominent challenger for the title of the world's strongest swordsman. And for Zorro, he would get to challenge Mihawk's old rival and the man that his captain idolizes, experiencing first-hand why he is Luffy's hero. It could even lead to Mihawk telling Zorro that he's not ready to face someone as strong as Shanks yet, and Mihawk himself having a quick skirmish with Shanks just because, since he's already fighting, might as well do it against someone he considers to be the strongest in the battlefield. But since it's not really in Mihawk's interest to have an all-out fight against the one-armed man, then perhaps this will be nothing more than just a quick clash of swords. Also, there is another swordsman in the battlefield that he might find more interesting than Shanks. Zorro vs Mihawk. This fight is going to happen one way or another, and now that Mihawk is part of a crew also after the one piece, that fight might just be happening sooner than expected. Perhaps this fight may even play a more important role beyond someone just claiming or keeping the title of the world's strongest swordsman, because it could present an opportunity for these men to fight for their captain's dream. As I've mentioned before, one thing I would personally love to see is Mihawk and Crocodile eventually acknowledging Buggy as a pirate and genuinely trying to help him achieve his dream. So imagine a scenario where a race to Laugh Tale is happening with Luffy and Buggy as the front runners. Mihawk then tries to stop Luffy to help Buggy move forward, but then Zorro enters the scene and tells Luffy to go ahead and leave Mihawk to him. Now we have Zorro once again challenging Mihawk for the title of the world's strongest swordsman, but this time with also his captain's dream on the line.  Now, everything ties up with their first match at Baratier because this was also when Zorro promised Luffy that he will never lose again and for the sake of his captain's dream, this is one fight that he must win. But when it comes to Zorro, another heavily anticipated match up is Zorro versus Shiryu. Zorro fights the swordsman, that's the rule. So say this is the same arc, Zorro finally defeats Mihawk and becomes the world's strongest swordsman, but before he even has time to rest, a new challenger appears in the form of Shiryu. Now if Mihawk isn't Zorro's final opponent, who I'd like to think is stronger than Shiryu, then Zorro being in a weakened state is one way that Zorro fights Shiryu while still keeping the tension and danger that Zorro might actually lose a battle. Top it off with Shiryu's devil fruit, which is very difficult to deal with since it allows him to attack Zorro from anywhere without Zorro seeing him. This also presents a scenario where Zorro must master his observation haki to defeat Shiryu and maybe that will spill out enough to also fix his sense of direction. Sanji versus Lucky Ruu. Now there's a rumor going around that one Lucky Ruu is one of the fastest characters in the series. His name is likely a reference to Lucky Luke, the man who shoots faster than his shadow. And the fact that it was revealed that Lucky Ruu is the one who obtained the Gomu Gomu no Mi in the first place, perhaps using his speed, the ideal matchup to showcase this arsenal would be a fight against Sanji. As the fastest straw hat that can move faster than the eye can perceive, Sanji and Lucky Ruu share this same characteristic apart from also being the cooks of their respective crews. But should Shanks's crew refuse to fight the straw hat pirates, then we'll settle for a cook-off. Ben Beckman versus Kizaru. I know I said that this video is just about the Yonko crews, but this just needs to happen alright. Continue that Marineford confrontation and settle which is faster, Beckman's bullet or Kizaru's kicks. Speaking of kicks, Sanji versus Kizaru. Now unlike Beckman's bullets and Lucky Ruu's speed, we know that these two are fast. Like really fast. And being one of the most highly anticipated matchups because of their shared love for kicking, it would be good to see how Sanji matches up against an admiral. And while this is an interesting end of series fight for Sanji, I could also see this as a learning curve for him and maybe start a new goal on his way to eventually defeating Kizaru in a rematch later on in the story. Also Kuzan versus Kizaru. This one's simple. Former comrades who are now on opposing sides with their own brand of justice. Plus it's time to see two admiral's fight without it being off-screen. And next up, the emperors themselves. Luffy versus Buggy. This rematch needs to happen now that they are both Yonko. It could even be that the winner of this fight faces the winner between Shanks versus Blackbeard. As Luffy's first menacing threat and as someone who rivals Luffy when it comes to luck and being at the right place at the right time, Buggy manages to maintain a surprising longevity in the series and this hype just keeps on increasing the more we see him. And now that he's declared his dream of becoming the pirate king, Luffy and Buggy now have something bigger at stake to face off and defeat the other. The conflict that first started back in Orange Town will now turn into what will possibly be known as one of the most legendary battles that happened en route to the One Piece. And Buggy has the potential to forever be known as the Whitebeard to Luffy's Roger. A legendary eternal rivalry known to all people across the sea. And speaking of reunions, let's go to Shanks versus Buggy. The more information is revealed about these two's history, the more I fall in love with their relationship, which is why it would be an incredible moment to see these two former crewmates face off. For Buggy's sake, it doesn't have to be a proper fight but to witness these two interact knowing the misunderstanding between these two opponents who could have continued to be a part of the same crew is exactly the sort of layers and drama I want in a battle. And if we're looking at prior history, then there's also Buggy versus Blackbeard. Also just for the sheer fact that this will be a very fun interaction. After all, Buggy was the one who initially noticed that there was something odd about Blackbeard. And wouldn't you just like to see each Yonko have a one-on-one against each other at least once even for the briefest of moments, which brings me to Luffy versus Shanks. Oh come on, you knew this was coming. Luffy will need to surpass Shanks's greatness as a pirate and why not see where he stacks up in terms of battle prowess while we're at it? I'm sure Shanks would also like to see how much he can push Luffy and witness the true power behind the Nika Devil Fruit, which we can all agree he knows the truth about. But I'm not one for the evil Shanks theory, so I think it would be nothing but a quick test of strength before it would promptly lead to Shanks versus Blackbeard. Finally, the battle is here. Decades in the making. Two pirates whose destinies are intricately intertwined. Both were once apprentices to two of the most legendary pirates in history. No one knows better the danger that the other one presents. A score that must be settled. Shanks versus Blackbeard has all the potential to be the most epic clash in the history of the series and no amount of speculation will ever top that. And now we have the main event, Luffy versus Blackbeard. Plenty of discussion has been had about when these two will eventually clash and now that they are inching closer and closer to the same goal, we might be seeing this fight sooner than we expected. A match up I always expected to be one of, if not Luffy's final battle. This is a long time coming and there is a lot at stake here. Blackbeard is the man responsible for Ace being at Marineford. Now at our assumption that Blackbeard defeats Shanks at this point, that gives Luffy two huge personal reasons to take Blackbeard down. And then at the fact that this might be one of, if not his final challenge, to become the pirate king. This is a battle that will shape history. Two men who both desire their own completely different idea of freedom. Two sides of the same coin. The winner rules the seas. What do you think? Are there any matchups you would like to add? I really enjoy these so make sure to drop a comment below and make sure to make it fun. 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