How does the Holy Spirit move? What's His nature? What are His tendencies? I want to show you seven ways the Holy Spirit moves. The first thing you should know about the Holy Spirit is that He often moves in ways that we wouldn't expect. Number one, the Holy Spirit moves unconventionally. There's a difference between knowing the Holy Spirit's nature and knowing the Holy Spirit's actions. If you only know the Holy Spirit's actions, then your understanding of the Holy Spirit will be limited to those actions. But when you know the nature of the Holy Spirit, then you can see the many ways that He moves. For example, in Genesis 1-2, we see that He hovered like a dove. In Genesis 41-48, we see that He moved through Joseph's dream interpretations. In Exodus 31-6, we see that He brought about expert craftsmanship. In Judges 14-6, He gave supernatural strength to Samson. Matthew 1-18, He caused the Word to become flesh. Acts 2-1-4, He arrived as a wind. 1 Corinthians 12, He gives spiritual gifts. Now notice that none of these actions look anything like the other. For example, if you were to compare Genesis 1-2 to Judges 14-6, the Holy Spirit hovering or brooding compared to the supernatural giving of strength to Samson, then you might think that they're two different people moving. But in fact, it's the same Holy Spirit moving in different ways. So the Holy Spirit moves unconventionally. Don't limit the Holy Spirit by what He's done in the past. Number two, He's going to move biblically. And this is important to note because the Holy Spirit will never contradict any truth or principle that's firmly established in the Scripture. John 14-26 says, But when the Father sends the advocate as my representative, that is the Holy Spirit, He will teach you everything and will remind you of everything I have told you. Romans 8-26-27 says, And the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness. For example, we don't know what God wants us to pray for, but the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words. And the Father who knows all hearts knows what the Spirit is saying. For the Spirit, watch this now, for the Spirit pleads for us believers in harmony with God's own will. God's will will never contradict God's word. And the Holy Spirit pulls us toward the divine destiny that God has for us. The Holy Spirit prays for us. The Holy Spirit moves us. The Holy Spirit inclines us toward the will of God. So that's number two. The Holy Spirit will always move biblically. Just because He moves unconventionally, sometimes He does different actions. Sometimes what He does today doesn't look like what He did yesterday. He will always bind Himself to the Word of God. He will never contradict it. Number three, the Holy Spirit moves powerfully. When the Holy Spirit moves, there is true transformation. He's not just putting on a show. When the Holy Spirit moves, people are healed, delivered, saved, changed into the image of Christ. 2 Corinthians 3.17 says, For the Lord is the Spirit. And wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. Luke 4.18 says, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me. For He has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim that captives will be released, that the blind will see that the oppressed will be set free. Notice here that there is action to the move of the Holy Spirit. Notice here that there is freedom when the Holy Spirit moves. When the Holy Spirit moves, He moves powerfully. Number four, the Holy Spirit moves mysteriously. Now, sometimes we miss the way the Holy Spirit is moving because we're not discerning. We're not paying attention. It doesn't always make sense what the Holy Spirit does. John 3.8 says, The wind blows wherever it wants. Just as you can hear the wind, but can't tell where it comes from or where it is going. So you can't explain how people are born of the Spirit. 1 Corinthians 2.14-15. But people who aren't spiritual can't receive these truths from God's Spirit. It all sounds foolish to them and they can't understand it. For only those who are spiritual can understand what the Spirit means. Those who are spiritual can evaluate all things, but they themselves cannot be evaluated by others. The Holy Spirit and those who love the Holy Spirit are often misunderstood because there's a mystery to Him. There's a mystery to the way the Holy Spirit moves. You're not always going to understand everything that He does. You won't always be able to wrap your mind around what the Holy Spirit is doing. Sometimes what the Holy Spirit does will offend the intellect. It will confound the wise for God chooses the foolish things. Don't expect to always understand what the Holy Spirit is doing when He's moving. So, so far we've seen the Holy Spirit, number one, moves unconventionally. In other words, He moves in ways we wouldn't expect. Number two, He moves biblically. Though He moves in ways we wouldn't expect, He will never contradict the word. Number three, He moves powerfully. He's not just putting on a show. He has actual effect on people and regions. Number four, He moves mysteriously. Don't expect that everything the Holy Spirit does will make sense to you. Number five, He will move gracefully. There's an elegance to the way the Holy Spirit moves. Luke 3, 21 through 22 says, one day when the crowds were being baptized, Jesus Himself was baptized. As He was praying the heavens open and the Holy Spirit in bodily form descended on Him like a dove and a voice from heaven said, You are my dearly loved Son and You bring me great joy. Notice here that the Holy Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove. A dove represents grace. A dove represents purity and innocence. The Holy Spirit took on the form of a dove demonstrating that there is a grace to His moving. He moves gracefully and powerfully. Gracefully and mysteriously. And no, these aren't contradictions. You know, when the Holy Spirit begins to move, people begin to criticize that move of the Holy Spirit. Religious people often point to a move of the Holy Spirit and say, No, God is a God of order. Although say no, the Holy Spirit gives us self-control. And this doesn't look like self-control to me. And what they're actually doing, though it may sound clever, is they are putting their personal preferences before the move of the Holy Spirit. Yes, God is a God of order, but whose order?  But that doesn't mean that the Holy Spirit won't disrupt our agendas. That doesn't mean that we're always going to like the way He moves. What it does mean is that there is always a grace to the way the Holy Spirit moves. There's an elegance about the way He moves. He's classy. He's elegant. He's graceful. He's a gentleman. He is the dove of heaven. The Holy Spirit doesn't make you senseless and silly. He makes you spiritually sharp. Number six, the Holy Spirit moves timely. He moves just on time, His time. His timing has such perfection. And sometimes that can be a little frustrating. You've likely heard the phrase, He's never early. He's never late. He's always on time. Now, being in the flesh, sometimes we'd rather that He arrives a little early so that we can settle our fears. But God challenges our faith because the Holy Spirit moves in His perfect timing. Acts two, one through four says, on the day of Pentecost all the believers were meeting together in one place. Suddenly, there was a sound from heaven like the roaring of a mighty windstorm. And it filled the house where they were sitting. Then what looked like flames or tongues of fire appeared and settled on each of them. And everyone present was filled with the Holy Spirit and began speaking in other languages as the Holy Spirit gave them this ability. Now, what actually happened here in Acts two came about as a result of the disciples waiting in obedience to the command that Christ had given to them. Jesus told the disciples to wait. He said, wait for the coming of the Holy Spirit. Gather together and wait upon the Holy Spirit. And those who are Spirit feel, those who are Spirit led, those who are friends of the Holy Spirit know that sometimes you have to wait on the move of the Holy Spirit. Yes, we should be about our Father's business. Yes, we should be engaged in evangelism. We should be revival in the earth. But there are certain things that only the Holy Spirit can do and he will do in his timing. But there's a suddenly to his moving. You see, there's a waiting on the Spirit and in that season of waiting, God is testing your patience and your faith. He's stretching you and he's helping you mature. And then there's the suddenly like in Acts two when you obey Jesus in the waiting, there will be a suddenly of the Spirit and the Holy Spirit came upon them suddenly. A sound from heaven was heard like the roaring of a mighty wind and suddenly the Holy Spirit moved. When you wait upon the Lord, the Holy Spirit will show up suddenly. They had been waiting because Jesus told them to wait and that's when the Holy Ghost showed up. That's what he does. When we patiently wait on the Holy Spirit, he moves in his perfect timing. So far we see the Holy Spirit moves unconventionally. He moves biblically. He moves powerfully, mysteriously, gracefully and timely. Number seven, and please don't misunderstand this. I'm going to explain this in just a moment. Number seven, he moves inconveniently. And what I mean by that is he's not going to move based upon your preferences or timing. You often hear people crying out for a move of the Holy Spirit. God give us an outpouring. God give us revival. But when many believers fail to recognize is that when the Holy Spirit begins to move, that's actually when we become the busiest. We work the harvest field, but it is work. Ministry is work. Serving God is work. Though it's a joy, though it's a privilege, it is work. And when revival comes, it'll cost you something. People want to move the Holy Spirit. They want revival. Are they really looking forward to gathering every day with the believers? Because that's a mark of revival. Are they really willing to give themselves to evangelism? Are they really willing to drop everything and go and do what God has told them to do? In many cases, that's not so. But when the Holy Spirit moves, he will demand your time. When the Holy Spirit moves, there will be sacrifice involved. When the Holy Spirit moves, there will be something that you have to place on the altar to keep that fire burning. Acts chapter 16 verses 6 through 8. Next, Paul and Silas travel to the area of Phrygia and Galatia because the Holy Spirit had prevented them from preaching the word in the province of Asia at that time. Then coming to the borders of Mycia, they headed north for the province of Bethany. But again, the spirit of Jesus did not allow them to go there. So instead, they went on through Mycia to the seaport of Troas. Notice here that Paul and Silas had an agenda. They had a plan. They had their own purpose. They had something set in their heart. They were going to go somewhere and then the Holy Spirit said, No, when the Holy Spirit begins to move, some of the things that you wanted to do won't be done. And some of the things that you didn't want to do, he'll ask you to do. The Holy Spirit, yes, moves inconveniently. Now, this does not mean that he moves disorderly or harmfully. I'm not saying that he hurts his children. What I'm saying is that when he moves, sometimes that will be a challenge to your agenda, to your plans, to your dreams, and you'll have to lay them at the altar. The Holy Spirit moves unconventionally. He's not always going to move in the way that you expect. He moves biblically. He will never contradict the scriptures. He moves powerfully. Things actually change when he moves. He moves mysteriously. Sometimes we can miss him if we're not paying attention. He moves gracefully. There's an elegance to the way he moves. He moves timely, meaning he arrives just on time and he does things just when they're supposed to be done, whether we like it or not. And he moves, number seven, inconveniently. A move of the Holy Spirit will cost you something at some point if you want to keep that fire burning. Now, let's pray. Father, in the name of Jesus, we are asking for a move of the Holy Spirit, no matter what it costs us. I want you to pray that right now.  Pour out your spirit. We're so hungry for you. And we pray, Lord, that you would use our lives. Help us to recognize when you're moving. We call upon the name of Jesus asking for a fresh touch of the Holy Spirit. Move as you will. Precious Holy Spirit, we love you. In the name of Jesus, we pray. I want you to say it because you believe it. Say, amen. Here now is a question for conversation. What do you love most about when the Holy Spirit moves? Let me know in the comment section. Now, don't forget to subscribe if you're watching us on YouTube and click that notification bell when you do. You can also follow us wherever you're watching us. Now, I want to read a portion of scripture to you found in 2 Corinthians chapter 9. And I want to challenge you here. And I want to challenge you to step out in faith. 2 Corinthians chapter 9, I'm going to begin reading at verse number 6. Remember this, a farmer who plants only a few seeds will get a small crop. But the one who plants generously will get a generous crop. Paul the apostle here is talking about finances. You must each decide in your heart how much to give. And don't give reluctantly or in response to pressure. For God loves a person who gives cheerfully. Now watch this wonderful promise. This is powerful. And God will generously provide all you need. Then you will always, not sometimes, have everything, not some things, that you need. And plenty left over to share with others. That's one of my favorite parts right there. Plenty left over to share with others.  How do you align yourself with this promise? You become a giver to the gospel. This is biblical truth. Every Christian should give financially to the gospel. When you plant seeds, you're planting seeds for a harvest. When you plant seeds, you're planting for souls. We want to see souls saved. And we don't give to be blessed. But the scripture makes it clear that God will provide everything that you need. When you're a giver to the gospel, he meets your need and then makes you a blessing to others. So I want to challenge you to step out in faith here. Some of you are walking in a season of abundance. Some of you are walking in a challenging time. Whatever your situation looks like financially, this promise is yours. If you are a giver to the gospel and you will receive in proportion to how you give, that's the scripture. That's the biblical truth. That is absolute truth. It's the reality of what we believe. Now, if you believe the Bible, then you know that you can depend on this promise.  Step out in faith. Do something generous for the Lord. Not for me, for the Lord. You may give through this ministry, but you give to the Lord. Give generously to the gospel. Give a one-time gift by going to davidhernanisministries.com slash donate or become a monthly partner by going to davidhernanisministries.com slash partner. Some of you will even be led to do both. Your support helps this ministry to fund the live streams, the media, the Holy Spirit School, the events that we do around the world and we don't charge for any of those things. It's all donor supported. People like you with generous hearts who are blessed by what we do and who believe in what we do, give to the gospel.  Do that today and we thank you for your generous support. Thank you for standing behind us. It means the world. Here are some comments from a previous video titled How to Finally Be Free from Guilt and Move on with Your Life. Gracia Ui writes, So blessed. I'm feeling guilty for the sin I committed yesterday. Praise God. I saw this. God bless you. Paula McAva writes, Wow, this is powerful. Thank you for the encouragement to focus ahead, not behind. Che Lee writes, Brother David, As you were speaking, God was talking to me through you about my guilt and shame. I love Jesus with all my heart, but often think of my past sins. 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Hello everyone, my name is Dylan Baumgartner, and I am a bachelor's student at the University of Zurich in Switzerland and I will be presenting expert or research relating to my bachelor thesis work where we are trying to study the extent to which the discourse quality index can be applicable in Wikipedia Deliberation and at the same time we are trying to better understand the current wiki deliberative processes and Factors that are related to the quality the deliberation While in our extended abstract we presented the mythology of our work. We already have some early results that we would like to share Our motivation for this work lies within how deliberation is an essential element of the peer production process in wiki media projects furthermore recent Literature has looked into the phenomenon of how wikipedia rcs becomes stale and also how group diversity can influence the wiki data knowledge graph Social psychology has looked into how diverse groups can be effective. However Must be managed effectively in order to produce Good outcomes While political science research focused mainly on the relation between gender diversity and ethnicity diversity and Deliberation our work studies deliver quality based on a political science standard the discourse quality index Our goal is twofold firstly to compare the deliberative quality of discussions taking place in rcs of the English wikipedia wiki data and meta and Secondly to study the relationship between group diversity and deliberative quality Following our motivation. We stated the following research questions How does the deliberative quality in wikipedia wiki data and metas rcs discussions compare? How does the lifespan of the rcs discussions compare across the three projects? Relating to the participants. How does the diversity compare across all projects? And then finally, what is to what extent is the participants diversity related to the deliberative quality of rcs? in order to Answer our research questions. We collected data Using py wiki bots more specifically we collected pages referencing specific templates so in wikipedia the Request for comments are embedded in talk pages and we then looked for the talk pages referencing a Specific template called closed rc top once we had that page. We then parsed it the wiki text until closed rc bottom for example and in wiki data and met to rcs the RFCs are an individual pages or is it easier and we just had a look for a specific template We've been following parsed the discussions in the talk pages and then converted the templates in wiki text to human readable text We collected available user information the wiki age at account number of wiki projects with more than 50 edits and The roles via the wiki media API We focused on closed rcs as these relate closely to real parliamentary debates where there's any end outcome and Not becoming stale Relating to the content of the RSC so in wikipedia the RSCs are mostly concerned with articles sources in wiki data about the knowledge graph and in wiki media the community users and blocking So we use the discourse quality index It's defined in the political science domain and it spans over the following dimensions however, after labeling 200 comments we found only the metrics colored to be applicable for our data set and The metrics in red were trained with a random forest classification a supervised learning method and Explanation didn't work well Using the random forest classification and we used a legit logistic regression method based on text length and And about a 75 precision rate that way disrespect was not Available in our data sets wasn't that there wasn't that many comments and We measured it as toxicity via a Burt's based model and our scale is then from one to five We tested for normality using the Kolmogorov-Semyonov test and found our The deliberate quality to not be normally distributed We analyzed the differences between diversity means using the man-with-me-you test and Found a significant difference between all pairs of projects We found meta and wiki data RSEs to be open for a longer time We measured the participants diversity or experience based on the following four metrics world diversity age diversity edit diversity and the amount of projects with over 50 edits We calculated the diversity index using the Shannon entropy and we also found the distribution to follow a non-normal distribution and Also found a significant difference across all projects upon investigating if there's a correlation between the participants diversity and Deliberative quality we found a slight correlation within wikipedia RSEs and a bit less but also in meta so this was a first step towards observing understanding and Possibly improving deliberative quality in terms of the DQI in wiki media projects We found that deliberative quality was around the same values in all projects, but with slightly different distributions concluding we found meta and wiki data RSEs to be open for a longer time we found a small positive correlation between some group diversities and deliberation quality within wikipedia in meta RSEs and We also found that deliberation is often within voting sections and We would propose To have a separate voting section maybe with a graphical user interface where a user can Maybe click on a support button instead of loading the Discussion sections with support oppose comment, etc Thank you for attention and if you have any questions now will be the time to do so. Thank you


And we keep trucking along like this is my third Pikes Peak ascent and I'd like to do many many more Here we go everyone in the studio Pikes Peak ascent recap breaking down what happened with a Strava flyby and yes jumping right into it tip of the day oh this is amazing okay I know I've mentioned this in the past but you got to do it you just got to do it keep your bib numbers from your races whether it's a small local turkey trot or a big peak race like the Pikes Peak ascent for me in 2019 here is the 2019 bib number number 103 so what I do is I write the date the time that I ran and the place on every single bib number in every race that I've ever run and then I put it in a box a shoe box and just keep it safe well sure enough I went digging just a minute ago and I found it the 2017 bib number from the Pikes Peak ascent look at that August 19th 2017 third place two hours 21 minutes and 45 seconds 2019 two hours 12 minutes and 45 seconds so if I'm doing the math or exactly to the second nine minute PR that's amazing so that's the tip of the day keep your bib numbers write your times down and anything even like sometimes I'll put location um and sometimes I do it on the back front anywhere just to get some information on your bib numbers so that's the tip and let's dive into it breaking down the Pikes Peak ascent in the Solomon s lab at cents seven sgs by the way I'm going to make an amendment to my running shoe reviews moving forward remember how I do let's just pick one real quick here the turbos remember how I do 50 miles in a running shoe before giving a full review well I'm realizing for racing shoes it takes a long time to get to 50 miles I don't even know if I'll get to 50 miles in this shoe so I'm probably gonna make it I might even do like two races instead of a distance uh and now I have two races in this uh Solomon s lab cents seven sg so I feel really confident in giving you a full review that'll be happening very soon but rather than go to 50 miles it'll probably be two races is what I'm thinking moving forward okay so Pikes Peak this was basically my biggest race of the year until I had the so I had the Cleveland marathon for May I got I had an injury so I was unable to do it and my second big race was Pikes Peak but now because of Amsterdam in October that is that is that is that I will just say that supersedes the Pikes Peak ascent because it's a really important race to to really nail on race day in order to qualify for the Olympic trials in the marathon so but nonetheless Pikes Peak was a big deal and I believe that I did a pretty good job sticking to my race plan and I'm not going to break down remember a couple days ago I I walked you through my my game plan for Pikes Peak and here it is on paper I will keep this as well for the future just to reference back to basically I guess one thing is I was in second place immediately I thought I would be top 10 I thought guys would actually go back go out faster I feel like in 2017 guys went out faster off the starting line but anyway I was immediately in second right behind Joe Gray and I did mention here at mile 9.9 or 10 miles which is treeline I said here I expect one or two competitors around a treeline ahead or behind with a 5k to go and sure enough of course Joe was at that point Joe was probably he was probably at that point I'm guessing about two to two and a half minutes ahead of me based on the Strava flyby or sorry not based on that based on the cheering at the aid stations and I will just mention how I know where Joe was ahead of me throughout the entire race so the gun goes off there's seven or eight eight I think there's seven aid stations along the way what you can do if you're like listening for competitors you listen for people cheering and using cowbells ahead of you and then you can look at your watch and then you can time okay this is when you know your competitor went through the aid station boom now I'm at the aid station boom my competitor is 52 seconds ahead or whatever the case may be so that's how I knew that Joe he was around 45 seconds and then a minute and a half and then eventually at uh the at treeline it sounded like about two and a half minutes based on looking at my watch and yes I'm going to put on screen right now the Strava flyby in case you didn't if you've never seen this feature before on Strava it's pretty cool it's only on the desktop version so there's the start there's my little dot I'm in the lead there the black I think I'm a black circle going up the trail and by the way I guess Joe did not upload his race to Strava so he is not in this flyby uh so I'm in I'm not in the lead just so you know Joe is ahead of me but I love Strava flybys as you see me going up the mountain here at about halfway point right now because it gives me a sense of what was actually happening in the race behind me and I believe it was the green circle I'm not sure but his name was Galen Burrell he ended up in third place and it sounds like looking at the Strava flyby he didn't take over third place until it looks like about treeline maybe even a little above treeline so that's interesting I had no clue obviously what was going on behind and I think third place it would so Joe was basically like three minutes 45 seconds or yeah right around three minutes 45 seconds ahead of me and then third place was I have 15 minutes behind me so I was pretty much in no man's land a good chunk of the race meaning nobody no other competitors around me now as far as my overall pace you can see it here on your screen it breaks down all the stats for the different aid stations my overall mile pace was 958 a mile I'm very happy with that pleased with that I was I thought I could run about 10 minute pace so I'm actually very pleased with 958 and then you can see Joe there he was 941 a mile so about 17 seconds per mile faster than I was and I just feel very fortunate that I kept it that close like listen obviously I go to a starting line and I want to rock and roll and I'm going for the win like I'm not going there to just get second place so you know you just got to show up and battle every single race and so that was you know that was my mindset on the starting line like let's do this I knew I had you know I knew in my gut like Joe is probably going to take it out and of course he did but I kept it much much closer than two years ago in fact I think he was I think Joe finished like 12 or 13 minutes faster than me two years ago so obviously the gap closed a lot and I do just want to point out one thing and I'm making a little bit of a a little bit of a stretch here but listen to that I'm pretty excited about this so at bar camp about halfway up the mountain a little past halfway uh it's called bar camp a big aid station I Joe came through and where was Joe I think he was like 101 something one hour and one minute and then I was through in 103 07 so about two minutes back at bar camp but Killian who was racing the marathon and this is where I'm stretching it a little bit but Killian basically you know I would say the best mountain runner in the world he's done he's he's hiked Everest a couple times in one week he's just insane he came through bar camp in 103 49 so about 30 seconds slower than me I realized he was racing a marathon I was doing the ascent so I get it but it just gives me a sense of effort and like my perceived effort what my pace feels like compared to Joe up ahead to Killian slightly behind even though he did double the distance that day but here's where it gets interesting is that by the top Joe had put another like minute and a half minute 45 on me so in the next five miles Joe you know kept kept cruising I tried but he put more time on me and so but Killian put over three minutes and 45 seconds on me from bar camp to the top of course fully realizing he was doing the marathon but it just again as far as my perceived effort an actual effort I shouldn't say perceived but my actual effort what it felt like kind of the pain that I was in and comparing it to really I'll just say like these other world-class mountain runners and it gives me frankly quite a bit of hope for the future and trying to not only race in the United States but hopping across the pond to go battle with the dudes over in the Alps next summer 2020 so anyway it's pretty interesting so Killian's okay so at the top Joe is at 208 59 Killian 209 12 and I was 2 12 45 so again about four minutes back from Joe and well yeah Joe and Killian basically were neck and neck at the top Joe a little bit ahead so fascinating I'll take it again I'm always going for the win when I show up at the starting line but a nine minute PR is good it's good and I'm not forgetting that I was in a boot and on a scooter you know two and a half months ago so um you know maybe it played to my benefit in the sense that I was my legs maybe are a little more fresh they're not quite as tired this summer but at the same time I did miss you know eight weeks of running in uh what was it was it May and June or late April uh yeah I guess April May and a little and well gosh how much did I miss everyone do you guys remember I missed at least eight weeks of running so I'm excited so in conclusion thank you to everyone who sent me clips I can't even tell you brought tears to people uh and I know you brought tears because they're saying it in the comments people out there cheering saying seek beauty work hard and love each other and then filming like those that went up the mountain and filmed and then sent me the clips that day like huge kudos to you because you brought a lot of joy to a lot of people around the world who would not have been able to experience the race without your help so thank you for doing that like I can't even uh it's just incredible and I don't even I couldn't shake your hand after the race because you're down the mountain and I'm on top anyway it was incredible I'm very pleased and I think I'll be back does that sound good I think I'll come back uh if the body holds up and we keep trucking along like um this is my third pike's peak ascent and I'd like to do many many more so I'm excited for the future um keyword we're gonna go with fly by because Strava fly by that's what that thing was on the screen moving across and the question of the day how do you reflect on your running races especially the big ones where you really like do you how much time do you give yourself I usually give at least a couple days just to process and then uh but I don't want it to go too long so I it's fresh in my memory but uh how do you process and mull over and try and learn from your races okay just give us a few maybe strategies or tips down in the comments that'd be awesome for the question of the day because um I'm learning even though I've been doing this a little while like just even processing Killian's effort and sage and and Joe and everybody all the other guys out there like I'm learning like I don't know I feel like I'm a little bit of a rookie in this mountain running world uh as far as at this type of level so bottom line thank you again and that's it okay gonna give a shout out to two not two videos but two playlists I'm uh the one on the right is the Solomon running shoe playlist and the one on the left is the running race playlist so if you want to dive into Solomon shoes or running races click on either one of those thanks for being here thanks for watching seek beauty work hard and love each other whoo great day see you tomorrow


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t degree One of the things that occurred to me. Let's let's go here to outcome There are real winners and losers in the army battle tactics. Agree I'm sure Okay These may become quite important in the new season new battle tactics dependent right like again come back next week and we'll see Most of these books have too many and that that creates a problem in and of itself Because it's clear to me that when they're forced to design six They just miss the mark um It's it is too much one of the to go back to the fundamentals Of this There is only so much design space that they can explore with these And We went through all of these.  This is pick a hero or monster and kill the hero or monster right Like there are just fundamental concepts you're playing within this game Yeah And they're just this actually isn't a very deep well And you can probably design this is ultimately why like i'm sorry to keep going back to the fundamentals, but here we go like There's probably six to eight good battle tactics you can design in any given season variations on themes Right The guy standing near the thing kill the thing the all this stuff right But I don't think there's a hundred variations on these you can design in one season that are all good I just don't and this this this little journey Proved it to me like I can make 10 different variations of kill the unit standing near the thing Right so fine. Okay Right or kill the specific type of unit Or whatever. Yeah Mm-hmm But when you when it's clear to me that when they have to make six they just run out of design space almost immediately Like that runway is so short Sure Right If this was if they had limited it to three or one like you had one army battle tactic Like you often now are getting one army heroic action or one army unique enhancement, right or one army Uh monsters rampage or something right effectively Then then cool like we probably could have nailed some good design and lived in the space where they all look like corn And it kind of all clicked for me when I did the corn near the end of the presentation when I was putting it together because it's like, huh It really stood out to me. Yeah as as well. Yeah, there's only three of these. They're all in theme They're all on flavor. They all have some fail states and interactivity, but they're all doable Okay Just kind of you don't just feel elegance, you know, like yeah kind of subconsciously when you when you see when you see something And yeah, it really hits the mark 100% right and I think if I think six is just too many. It's just too much space Right because once they start trying to push out they really quickly drift into easy and hard Yeah, that resonates Let's I mean, let me just let's let's let me reverse the skin. Let's go back here. Okay Basically Now, you know once what when you look at this Everybody who has at least five right Has three mediums Except the daughter's a cane who has zero mediums because everything in there is just dominant either. It's super easy or super hard, right? So like This space was there We just over designed it Yeah, so and I mean like if we if we harvested the best three more or less we'd be in a much better place This wouldn't look like this Yeah, I think that's true. It still does not address in my mind the ultimate goal Which I do tend to be aligned around We have been achieving far too many of these things over the first two seasons Uh already, you know said I'm not seeing that change sufficiently in the upcoming season So, yeah, even even that doesn't sufficiently get us there one battle tactic might make a dent That that can run into some challenges You know if you have a terrible battle tactic in a terribly designed battle tactic, right? There's probably going to be some inequity, but at least constrain this constrains the space Hopefully you'll have higher odds of having the net be pretty good And then you're just looking at one plus the ghb Yeah, that feels like a much better world to be in in terms of the ultimate goal here Sure. I didn't do so but like I said, I didn't pull all of the tomes celestial because they were kind of hard to go put together um the um You know so like but but again soul blights one of those ones they have three um which is they're um they're like one of them is probably uh uh medium Two of them are probably hard honestly or or drifting toward it. So, you know soul blight doesn't have the best road here either honestly Um So, you know Yeah, I mean this is this folks. This is the thing. Yeah, this is what I've been rallying against what do you think about uh gt that says In your list building submission pick one battle tactic You can use that Paternment I don't think it solves the problem because doc's gonna pick their easy one All the people with easy still pick their eases and then everybody else I'm not trying to solve the problem. I'm just trying to improve the situation Does that I'm not sure it improves the situation is my point that that's what I'm saying like Because most the time you like would it be better? Sure, but everybody's just gonna pick their easy one Yeah, that that's it that we just fall to the lowest they were already doing that tyler Like the one they were trying to complete at most points in most games Would be the easiest one anyways Yeah And that's a pretty knowable thing Right Yeah Interesting. All right. Yeah You know like if you're asking me how as a to do you respond to this information we've presented where this is a real problem in my mind How do we fix it? I will give you Two answers Okay The first one is you just don't allow these in your tournament. That's it Yeah, say book battle tactics aren't allowed next Okay, so I mean I I feel pretty strongly that tournaments that are making that call Going to not only be the exception, but that they'll take quite a bit of grief I'm a lot of players that decision I mean We made that call let for example, right? We made that call a vault wars out Uh, but we were certainly the exception not the rule Yeah, yeah tournaments last year.  Okay But I mean there there were it wasn't an it wasn't much of an issue, but there were players Who were surprised by that decision? And for for various reasons wait, I mean fair enough, right? I thought it was the right call at the time I'm less confident. It's the right call Al not because I'm still not convinced I think we made a pretty compelling case These things are not doing us any favors not helping the situation Yeah, I mean my answer is just like I think it I think it's an I think it's a bad and it's bad design and you can say they're not allowed as the to so you should do so It's more or less that simple Right, I understand that's not the tide or whatever, but Sure I've always been a tall poppy.  Did you have something else in mind make them worth less points? Like again doc is still gonna laugh all the way to the bank Uh score in there twos, but at least you're doing something you're pushing in the right direction You know make that make the book battle tactics worth only one point Or worth less in some kind of scoring matrix or whatever right like your book battle tactic doesn't actually count toward You know your your however, whatever the victory points in the game is translating through to your your scoring matrix Make them worth nothing or less in that Something like that right like all those different steps can happen in whatever way you want like I don't care where you drop the hammer on the less You know what I mean in the chain of events but De-incentivize them like classic economic incentives, right make them worthless and hence people are less attracted to them Okay Yeah, let's go food for thought. Yeah, we did this so there you go um Yeah, so I mean that's that's where I've come to I I've had a lot of opinions about this for a long time and I I hope this Illuminated people as to why I feel the way I do look. I know this is kind of a downer of an episode Just because it's just me talking about things. I think are mad But like I love this game right now. I think I am very excited like no no spoilers We'll talk about the ghp next week, but I am very excited about 2023 and warhammer That's what I will say like I am beyond excited for 2023 and warhammer. I think it's going to be a Banger year. I will put my flag down that this will be the best year in aos history for aos okay I hope I'm not proven wrong, but we'll see And Uh This to me is the biggest proud nail just sticking up out of the deck We have we just installed a new deck on the back of the house. It's beautiful. It's gorgeous You want to go out there? You want to have a barbecue?  You got the grill going you're roasting some some locally sourced You know organic weeners on the fire. It's perfect You got some shish kebabs going maybe you get that smell of sizzling peppers and onions.   That's what this is to me Right. Yeah That that's it. I'm hearing my friends. It's one of the reasons I I like I'm so up in arms about it, right? It's because you notice Oh, you notice that one nail So anyways, all right, cool. Anything else, Tyler? No, I'm glad we finally did this. Yeah, hopefully it's been a useful exercise. I certainly found it valuable Yeah, kind of get a better understanding of what the actual landscape is right now with these things Yep Yep, uh, so hey everybody out there. I hope you enjoyed this.  Don't worry. Look look next week fun times ghp review. Very excited Uh, so come back then don't forget to hit like. Hey, it's so easy. Just click that little button It's like less than half of you have hit like so far. 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This think-tech commentary is dedicated to Joe Biden, President of the United States. Thanks for your consideration of the views expressed in this think-tech commentary, which is entitled Send in the Tanks. Germany has said it will not send its tanks to Ukraine unless the US sends its tanks first. The US, however, says it will not send its tanks because they are too hard to maintain. This all seems questionable and disingenuous. The reluctance of the US seems based on political fear and weakness. That has given cover to a divided Germany. This is not a credit to the Biden administration, which, as you may recall, stopped the initiative to send fighters after it became clear that Russia controlled the skies. Where does the buck stop? Where does leadership begin? The sanctions are clearly not enough. Patriot missiles alone aren't enough to deal with Russia's coming spring offensive. Likewise, the Bradley fighting vehicles aren't enough. What Ukraine needs now are hundreds of Abrams tanks from the US and Leopard tanks from Germany. There doesn't seem to be any question about that. The Ukrainians desperately need these tanks, just as they needed the fighters a year ago.  How long can the country last without being able to defend itself against this onslaught? Zelensky says, there is no option but for the West to provide the tanks. He is frustrated with the US and Germany. He holds out hope, even while the genocide continues. Other Ukrainian officials point out that this indecision is killing their people. They urge the West to think faster. Daily attacks on civilian targets have increased pressure on the West, but still the US and Germany avoid the issue. Poland has been urging Germany to clear the way for the tanks. Poland stands ready to send some of its own German tanks, but it needs Germany to sign off on that. Things are at an impasse. Must a decision on this require the complete destruction of Ukraine? And the killing of millions more of its people? So far the pressure for the tanks is mostly coming from the ministers of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, who are Russia's neighbors and understandably concerned. Western officials met in Germany a few days ago. They had hoped to reach a deal on sending the German tanks to Ukraine, but sadly that meeting ended without a decision, even though it seems clear that Putin's coming spring offensive could be existential for Ukraine. We cannot be part of this continuing indecision. Someone has to stand up and give Ukraine what it needs to defend itself from this invasion. The tanks Ukraine needs are anything but a provocation, they are to defend a country that is being brutally attacked. Joe Biden could break this impasse. He could be the leader that we need to save Ukraine. Thanks for your consideration of the views expressed in this ThinkTech commentary. Aloha.


Hello everyone, welcome back to this course on supply chain digitization. This course is jointly floated by myself, Professor Priyanka Verma along with my colleagues, Professor Sushmita Narayana and Professor Deba Pratadas. We are from IIM Mumbai. Going forward, we will be starting to focus on our first module again where we have been discussing so far about fundamentals of supply chain management. So if you remember from our last discussions, we were talking about the competitive strategy, the competitive priority and competitive capability that the business should have. This helps in deciding the focus of the business and accordingly how it is being translated to the manufacturing requirement and to the supply chain requirement. So far we have understood that if the business is cost focused, the manufacturing accordingly should be focusing on ensuring that it is following a system where it is dealing with higher volumes and with lesser varieties. In this way, the objective of dealing with or providing the product at lesser cost can be achieved significantly through selection of the right manufacturing process. It can be assembly or it can be continuous in this way. Similarly, when we talk about other type of competitive strategy that is allowing or producing products with a differentiation strategy where the focus is more on introducing more and more new type of products or new dimensions in the product is obviously differentiation strategy to be followed. This is again being translated to the required manufacturing process where you can go for job type of production system where you can have higher varieties but maybe lesser volumes. So we have seen the linkage between the competitive strategies, the competitive priorities and the competitive capabilities along with the manufacturing processes that needs to be accordingly selected and that helps in building the right match. Going forward, this needs to be further translated to the supply chain requirement as we are talking about how the products one made are being distributed to the consumer in the right way. So this leads to the decision that whether our supply chains are required to be responsive or they are required to be efficient. So when we are saying that the supply chain is required to be responsive, the expectation is something from the supply chain that it will fulfill the customers need with in the minimum possible time, following a differentiation strategy and so on. Whereas when we say that the supply chains are required to be efficient, the primary it is focusing on ensuring that the linked with this is at the minimal value. So we can say that in order to achieve that whether a supply chain should be responsive or should be efficient, this requires lot of different supply chain drivers to play a critical role. For any business it is very important to keep a balance between the expectation from the customer end that is being by falling a balance between being responsive or being efficient. The supply chain requires the support of all of the supply chain drivers in order to achieve this balance. Let us see that what are the supply chain drivers. These are the primarily well known supply chain drivers which are facilities, information, inventory, sourcing, transportation and pricing. The supply chain can employ these drivers to actually attain the performance benchmarks which is outlined in the strategy and does to optimize their profits. When we see these drivers, the combined effects of these drivers will actually help you in determining the balance between the responsiveness required and also to achieve the highest possible value of the profit for the entire supply chains. Let us have a quick look into the supply chain drivers. As you can see out of these six supply chain drivers, three of them are more of the physical entities which are your facilities, inventory and transportation. These are also called as logistical drivers whereas when we see the other three that is information sourcing and pricing, these are something which are obviously required by these physical drivers and that is why they are called as cross sectional drivers. So for running these physical drivers that is facilities, inventory and transportation, you need a very close coordination that is achieved through information. You need the right information about your suppliers and the sourcing decisions and obviously how you are having a pricing strategies in gaining these benefits. So we can now understand that whether we want our supply chains to be responsive or to be efficient to fulfill this need, we have to decide about the roles of the supply chain drivers accordingly. Let us have a quick look into all these drivers one by one. The first from this list of drivers is the facilities which is very, very important driver as the different locations in the supply chain which can include the location of a plant or a warehouse or a retail store. At these facilities, the primary role is to store the inventory which can be in the form of raw material components or finished goods or WIPs. So the main role of these facilities is to receive these raw materials or to store them as when required. So at these facilities, these raw materials or these inventories are converted into finished goods that is at the production centers or these raw materials components of finished goods are stored at facilities like warehouses. In order to understand these facilities in detail and specifically what will be their role to see that these facilities can contribute in making the supply chain efficient or responsive, let us see that what these facilities should do. When it comes in terms of deciding the capacities of the facilities, if we are keeping a large capacity of the facilities, then obviously these facilities can handle larger volumes. But the benefit is that these higher volumes can be managed very effectively with fewer resources. This will lead to the reduction in the unit cost and as we can see that there is a benefit of cost because of doing the large scale of operation with minimal resources, this helps you in making your supply chain efficient. But in case you are having your facilities with smaller capacities, they are quite adaptable to any change in the demand or the market condition because of which the unit cost associated with small capacity of the facility comes very high. However, keeping smaller capacity will help you in achieving your target of making supply chain responsive. Similarly, in terms of the location of the facilities, these locations can be either centralized or can be decentralized. In case you have got centralized locations of the facilities, they help you in achieving the target of making a supply chain efficient by following the principles of economics of scale. However, in case of decentralized facilities, they are good in ways of making a supply chain responsive. When we talk about the role of the production facilities, this again can be classified into two types. Your production facilities can be flexible or it can be dedicated. In case your production facilities are designed in a way which can make multiple type of products, similar set of equipments and workers, obviously it is allowing you to introduce flexibility in the system which is again helping you in achieving higher responsiveness. However, if you have got dedicated resources, dedicated machines, dedicated manpower, this is helpful in seeing that you can make large quantity of good but with limited varieties. So, we can see that a flexible production facility can help you in making your supply chains responsive. However, a dedicated production facilities can help you in making your supply chain efficient. Let us talk about warehouses. In warehouses, again we can have two ways of functioning, whether we can either we can have cross talking or we can have against storage type of systems. In case we have cross talking, we are allowing the inventory to be moved without storing it for long time at the warehouses. So, here you can do lot of mix and match as per the customer requirements, thereby introducing more and more flexibility into the system which is actually helping you in achieving your target of making your supply chains responsive. Whereas, if you have dedicated storage systems, this is suitable for larger volumes and again it is targeting for minimal cost thereby making the processes more and more efficient and thus the supply chains which are efficient in nature can have a dedicated storage system in their warehouses. Let us look into the second driver which is your inventory. Again, inventory is a physical entity as we can understand. There are different types of or different components of inventory decision. This include your seasonal inventory, your cycle inventory and your safety inventory. When we talk about cycle inventory, this is an inventory decision which is related to the ordering of same quantity of material in a repeated cyclic form. Whereas, when we talk about safety inventory, this is required for keeping minimum balance to see that you do not lose your processes because of non-availability of the inventory. Whereas, seasonal inventories are helpful in case your products are having some fluctuating demands which varies maybe due to seasonal requirements or maybe due to some specified business requirements. In this case, you will carry additional inventory in peak seasons and you will manage your inventories considering the seasonal requirements. When we talk about inventory related decisions, these are the three primary components of inventory decision which has to be taken care about deciding the different levels of inventories to be carried at the different facilities in a given supply chain. When we talk about inventory, their primary role is to minimize the gap between the supply and demand. In case the inventory you are carrying is very high, will obviously help you in fulfilling all your demand, but this will add cost to your overall supply chain. In none of the case, if the inventory that you are carrying is quite low, your service level will be again getting affected, your demand that you are trying to fulfill will get affected and though you are able to minimize your inventory cost, but your other cost gets significantly affected and this will affects very severely to your businesses. So, it is important that the availability of the product should be taken care by ensuring that right amount of inventory is available whether it is related to raw materials, components or finish goods. So, in case we have got a high availability of the products that is high inventory, this makes the supply chains highly responsive, but as we know that higher is the inventory that you are carrying, it will add cost to your supply chains. Another case when the availability is low for this inventory, there is customer lost and this is a very heavy penalty on the overall business. Carrying low inventory will have low cost, but the implication of losing your customer is very significant. So, how do you take decision related to inventory and particularly when you want your supply chains to be responsive or you want them to be efficient. So, if you are trying to make your supply chains responsive, remember that it comes at high cost of inventory. To achieve this responsiveness target, you are required to carry large amount of finish goods and this inventory of the finish goods should be available closure to the consumers. The more they are close to the consumer, the better is the responsiveness that can be achieved. Whereas, if you are trying our supply chains to be efficient, then we can carry large amount of finish goods and which can be at a centralized location. So, you can take the benefit of order consolidations and you can have your transportation optimization type of methods where you can deliver your products in a significantly lesser value. So, we can see that whether we want our supply chains to be responsive or to be efficient, it is important that you find the right location and quantity of the inventory which helps you in finding the optimal level of responsiveness, but also at the lowest cost. So, when we are talking about making supply chains and responsive, it is not always in terms of a pure strategies to be followed by the supply chains, it can be a mix of both. That is your supply chain can be a mix of both, little bit of responsiveness and it can also have a mix of little bit of efficiency. So, the way you want your supply chains to be responsive or to be efficient, you have to keep this point in mind about deciding decisions related to inventory in this manner. The next decision is about transportation and which is again a very, very important driver as it ensures the delivery of the raw material from the suppliers to the manufacturing and also it also takes care of the delivery of the finished course to the final customer. When we talk about the decisions that we primarily take in transportation, we have two major decisions. The first is about how should be the transportation network designed. There are different possible ways in which the products can be delivered to customers. Very interestingly, one of the method is you can have a transportation network which tries to deliver the product directly to the demand point from the manufacturer. This is also referred as direct shipping, but we have alternative options where we try to deliver it, but through intermediaries in between the manufacturing and the customers. So, depending on again whether we want the supply chains to be responsive or to be efficient, the transportation network design can be accordingly selected. Similarly, the another type of decisions which is related to the transportation is about the choice of the transportation modes. These are the four transportation modes which are well available in today's time. They are the air mode, the rail mode, the road mode or the seaways. And as we can see, depending upon the expectations of the supply chains to be responsive or to be efficient, we can select any of these transportation modes. If the focus is more on being efficient, seaways are the best as it delivers large quantity of goods in minimum cost by actually going through, by taking the benefit of economic scale. Whereas, we have airways is another as the transportation mode which can deliver products in faster time, but with a very high cost. So, in case the supply chains are required to be responsive, this is again a very, very effective mode of transportation. In short, if we are trying to summarize the role of transportation decisions for any decision-making, we can see that the requirement of supply chains being responsive or being efficient can be seen in two ways. Either you need a supply chains which are rapid or you need a supply chains which are at low cost. So, if you are looking for a responsive supply chains, the transportation are required to be rapid. Now, this type of supply chains is suitable for high value products, but which are having very low demand. So, here we are trying to see that the customers are getting these products as quickly as possible. In this case, we can have, we will be supported with the centralized facility because here we have, we can store wide variety of the products and direct delivery of the cost, direct delivery of the products can be given to the consumers. Whereas, if the focus is on making a supply chains efficient, it is how well you are having a transportation which is helping you in achieving low cost. This is very useful for products which have got low value but have got significantly very high demand. In this case, we can see that if we can bring the inventory of these products closer to the customers, the transportation can be done at the minimal possible cost. Going forward, we have the next supply chain driver which is information. When we talk about information, again we can see that there are different functions of information as a supply chain driver which can help you in achieving the target of supply chain being efficient or being responsive. So, remember that your supply chains can be having a push strategy or a pull strategy. When we talk about push strategy or a pull strategy, this concept we will discuss more frequently in the upcoming sessions. But let us try to understand the role of information in making or in responding to push versus pull strategy. A push strategy is something where we see that the production is initiated based on forecast and you have enough historical demand pattern based on which you can predict about the production requirements. This will help us in deciding the products to be manufactured or the services to be provided in advance of the actual customer orders. In case of push system, the information requirement will be very different. Whereas in a pull system, the production or the service provision is actually triggered by the customer demand. The products are made or the services are provided in response to the specific orders or the consumption need. So, we can say that there is a huge difference between the push strategy or the pull strategy and correspondingly in order to fulfill this requirement, the information plays a very critical role over here. As the demand is well known, in case of push strategy, the information system can be used to plan the system in advance. Whereas in pull system, it is more of being responsive, the information system can help in ensuring the collaboration between all the partners so that they can react quickly to the customer who is having a pull type of requirements. Similarly, the other aspect of information is how well the coordination is done between the different partners of supply chain and how the information sharing is done between them. Supply chain coordination takes place when every phase within a supply chain collaboratively strives to achieve the goal of maximizing the overall profitability of the entire supply chain by sharing information. This is one of the very, very important role of the information that has to be achieved. Lastly, when we talk about other functions of the supply chain, whether it is sales, marketing, production or any other department, it is important that all are in tune with the business requirements. So, we can see that the role of the information is very important if we want our supply chains to be efficient or if we want them to be responsive. In case of being supply chain efficient, the forecasting, inventory management, supplier collaboration, production planning and the optimization of transportation decisions can be done effectively which helps you in achieving these targets significantly. Whereas, in case of supply chains being responsive, the real-time visibility can be achieved with the use of proper machine learning methods. The changes in the demand can be sensed and by offering right promotions, the demand shipping can be done. Several scenario planning can be done and obviously all these can help you in reducing your response time. So, that is why supply chain is playing a critical role over here to see that how supply chains can be managed in an efficient way or in a responsive way with the help of information systems. The next decision is the sourcing decision and the components of the sourcing decisions include decisions related to procurement, sourcing strategies and supplier selections. The procurement decisions are all related to the different types of materials which are required in the system. We will be talking more about procurement in future sessions through tragic metrics and so on. Similarly, the decisions related to sourcing strategies include whether you will have single sourcing, multiple sourcing or so on or whether you should have in-house processes or outsourcing. And lastly, last type of sourcing decision includes that who should be your suppliers, what are your requirements and which are the suppliers who can fulfill these requirements. So, supplier selection again is a very critical decision in ensuring that the sourcing is done in the most effective manner. One of the important decision that is taken in sourcing is about should you go for in-house or outsource your any of the existing processes. These processes can be manufacturing, transportation or so on. If we want the supply chains to be efficient, the sourcing can help us by achieving it through cost optimization, by achieving it through economies of scale and also ensuring that the suppliers are being consolidated which helps you in getting your target in making your supply chains efficient. Whereas, in case you want the supply chain to be responsive, the sourcing decisions will ensure the collaborations between the suppliers and that will help you in making the supply chains responsive as in case of any disruptions being happening, the collaborative supply chains or the collaborations between the suppliers will ensure that they can respond to these disruptions very well. Similarly, keeping a base of alternative suppliers always helps in making supply chains responsive as it ensures that no demand remains unfulfilled because of the presence of the alternative suppliers and sourcing can helps you in devising proper strategies to achieve customization which is one of the primary requirements of the supply chains being responsive. Let us discuss the final driver of supply chain which is pricing. Again, pricing can be having different strategies. It can have strategies of economies of scale or everyday low pricing versus high low pricing or fixed pricing versus menu pricing. In case of strategies of economies of scale, then this strategy is very suitable for the big batch production where the economies of scale help you in making it cost effective and also it is ensuring that the change over cost is saved because of larger volumes. The other type of pricing strategy is everyday low pricing or having a high low pricing. Now, EDLP keeps the price steady over time. That is one of the biggest benefit of EDLP versus high discounts every week in high low pricing is again ensuring that different pricing are being offered at different point of time and this actually is an interesting strategy if you want the supply chains to be responsive. There is another type of strategy which is fixed pricing versus menu pricing. Fixed pricing, the prices are already fixed and it is quite efficient to work in the system. That is why for supply chains to be efficient it is interesting to have a fixed pricing versus menu pricing is all about depending upon the requirements these values can be changed. The prices can also vary with the other attributes like response time or location.  So, we can see that the role of pricing in decision making is quite significant. Customers who prefer responsiveness or customers who prefer efficiency are entirely different. So, it is very important that we have the right pricing strategy so that we can target the two divergent needs of the customers accordingly. Let us try to summarize the overall discussions. In this session we have seen that how the competitive strategy of the business is being translated to the competitive priority and to the competitive capability which is first translated to decide the right manufacturing process and ultimately you are required to translate it to decide about right about your right supply chain strategy. The supply chain strategy again it can be in terms of supply chain being efficient or supply chain being responsive. In terms of making your supply chain efficient or supply chain responsive you need to have support of six main drivers which includes your facilities, transportation, inventory, information, sourcing and pricing. So, we have gone through the details of all these drivers one by one and we have seen that what role they are required to play to make the supply chains responsive or to be efficient. In terms of facilities it is required that more facilities are there but they should be located next to the customers or near to the customers whereas for making your supply chain efficient it is important that you have larger capacities which will help you in decreasing your inventory cost. So, you can have decentralized facilities for making your supply chains responsive and you can have centralized facilities for making your supply chains efficient. In case of inventory keep higher inventory for making responsive supply chain and because of the centralized facility you can have reduced inventory holding cost. The transportation can help you in making your supply chain responsive by allowing you fast modes of transportation whereas it needs slow modes of transportation and thereby taking the benefit of cost for making the supply chains efficient. For information more information sharing improves the responsive nets but obviously it will create more complexity. For efficiency the advance planning can be done very effectively with the right information systems. Sourcing suggests that in-house processes is good if the risk associated with outsourcing is small. However the outsourcing to the third party will see that the supply chains can be efficient. The pricing can have a strategy of offering differential pricing to follow a responsive supply chain requirement whereas pricing can have a everyday low pricing strategy to make your supply chain efficient. So, in short we have seen the role of all of these drivers in a nutshell to help us making our supply chains responsive and efficient. In this way we have covered about the supply chains the requirement of the or business and how these business requirements are being translated to the manufacturing and to the supply chain processes capabilities as well. With this we will close for today. Thank you everyone have a nice day.