Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA the Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. It's Monday, and you know what that means. It's market outlook time. Taking a look at the market this week, in Foot's birthday week two, and talking about what kind of market movements we could see, what can we expect content-wise, and what can we expect to see maybe objective-wise, maybe new promo at the end of the week. Is that possible? We'll talk about that as well. But right now, Squad Battle Rewards just came out a little bit ago. We are coming off of one of the highest rises in the Weekend League, in terms of just cards rising in price in general, that we have seen in a long time. Just due to a lot of coins being injected into the game, and a lot of people just being on the game right now, because of Foot's birthday, because of the quarantine and stuff, there's a lot of people on FIFA, and that has the market very, very high. This, man, I'm telling you, this Macha Lele Thursday after rewards was over 500K, sold a couple times over 500,000 coins. He's back down to almost 400K flat, and that's basically an out-of-packs card, right? Mid-icons are out-of-packs. We take a look at some other cards in the market. I've been looking at these all day. You can tell that I don't have a lot of coins. I have gone absolutely in. I have gone almost all in on out-of-packs in-forms, especially some of the shape-shifters, some of the winner refresh players, and some of the cards that were in the Foot birthday party bag, the party bag SBC that we got today, and I don't wanna talk about that and what happened to the market today for those as well, but some of these prices are still really low. So as you're watching this video, what I would encourage you to do, wow, this is low, man, 630 for this, not way. Show me like a 610 or a 620. Oh, that is getting cheap, man. This Bruno Fernandez was like 680. It was over 700K this last weekend. I actually do know that for a fact. He was over 700K at one point, but what you can do right now, and this is if you're watching this video almost right away, is especially before it gets too far into the day on Monday in the UK, into the UK time or wherever you're at when you're watching this video. As soon as you possibly can, get on the market and look for some of these undercuts, especially on open bids. I bought, I think I have like five or six of this Mateus Kunia today. I will take that for 228 with the Hunter Kem style. This guy was 280,000 coins this weekend. He's back down to 230. Under 230K, I'm literally going broke on some of these cards, on all of these cards today because I just think that they are too cheap. Will they rise back up throughout the week? I think that's a yes, especially because of what has happened today on the market with the SBC that we got. And I wanna talk about that SBC right now. I have to go to the end because I've actually done it. But the foot birthday party bag SBC came out today. We were all expecting the guaranteed foot birthday SBC to be later this week and like on Thursday, right? I was telling you guys yesterday, I was like, hey, this SBC probably coming out Wednesday, Thursday. If we're talking about a buy time for these new foot birthday cards, team two, we're probably gonna be looking around then for a buy time. Well, today or last night after I dropped the video, like two hours after I dropped the video, EA decided to add this card or this pack code in the game, which was a guaranteed shapeshifters, winner refresh or foot birthday, just team one foot birthday player. So they added that to the code and today it came out, cost around 200,000 coins to do. Not the worst value ever, but there's definitely a lot of players you can get in it that are not good. I got Mahrez, but this is the type of SBC that when you can get a guaranteed promo player out of it and it's not too expensive, people go nuts for it. That has caused high-rated to absolutely fly. We're talking doubling in price for some moments, these 89-rated, I saw Kealini today was selling at 90,000 coins at one point. These 88s, the 87s, like high-rated stuff, anything that's 85 or above, I think 85s didn't go up that much, but anything that had good links as a SBC card went flying today. And I'm talking like these 86s are down a little bit now. They were 30K plus earlier tonight. These 87s were all like almost 40K, these were 50K, so dude, the SBC fodder is crazy, crazy high right now. And the SBC today wasn't that expensive, but the panic that we saw on this and all the selling that I saw today, since we had this SBC happen now, instead of later this week, that's why I really think that this market is due for a bounce back later on this week, is what else is there to do in the game? What else is gonna happen this week that people are kind of looking forward to or looking ahead to, right? All we really have is player SBCs yet to come out for this promo. We don't have more cards coming in packs. We don't have to really worry about another guaranteed SBC to come out. Could they re-release this SBC or make a separate just foot birthday only guaranteed pack? Yeah, they could do that on Thursday, but at least for Monday, at least for today, tomorrow, and maybe into Wednesday, I would expect that the market does rise up because there's a lot of people on this game. Of course, people are gonna be grinding objectives, right? But they're also just gonna be buying players, trying people out and doing stuff on FIFA. So since there's a lot of people that have time and they're on the game, that's why I expect the market to rise back up. Some of these prices that we got on these cards today were literally incredible. This Pal Verde, I got for 605,000 coins. This guy was 700K at multiple points this weekend. He's back to 630, 640 right now. I'm a fan of that one. I got the Shape Shifter Murtons in the panic. I got a bunch of Infer 268. I got a Trent at 180. I got some Nicones right around 220, 230. And I got a bunch of this Mateus Acuna around 220 to 230 as well, with some Mbappus at 440, 345. Especially on the open bids, some of these cards, these deals have been fantastic. This Bale, 320. I saw this guy at 380 this weekend. Lucas Mora was 140K this weekend. And his Team of the Week Moments card is I think like 118K or something like that right now. I was trying to get him for like 115. Okay, he's bounced back up a little bit. Some of the cards have bounced back up in price since I started buying them. And since they were, you know, after squad battle rewards, some people start to buy things, especially like investments. A lot of people, I don't know if you guys know what Patreons are, but a lot of Patreons go and tell people to buy cards on squad battle rewards nights. So some of these cards have rebounded a little bit, but some of them are still pretty low. So as you're watching this video, my best recommendation to you would be, go check out Footbin. I'll go check out Footbin, scroll through some of the old Team of the Weeks and just look at some of the current prices. I'm about to buy some more of these Econes, man. This guy was 270K this weekend. If I see any more under like 229, if I saw like a 227 or anything under 230 really, I would buy that card. So the way you can look for some of these undercuts is basically go to Footbin, look through the Team of the Week page and just look at the panic selling today. And I want to talk to you about when you're, oh my gosh, 615 for Bruno. That's a fantastic price. When you're looking through cards that are being sold off from the Week and the Excel off, or they're getting panic sold, the number one thing that you should consider in terms of how fast they're going to rise back up is popularity and rarity. Because it depends, these shapeshifters, that's why I bought shapeshifter Mertens today. Because some of these guys have already rebounded back up to where they were. Conte was under 700 today. He's now back to 720. Alexander Arnold was at 180. He's now back to 200. Some of the promo cards, you just kind of have to make a mental note when cards are really rare and when some of the Team of the Weeks are really rare. Mertens is still around 270, which I think is really low. This and Bobby was 340 this morning. I picked two up. He was now 366. Atal was under 600 for a while today. He's still lower than what he was during the Week in League. But then looking at some Team of the Weeks as well, just kind of remember which ones are rare and which ones were not as rare. This Team of the Week moments right here was very rare because there was not lighting rounds. There were not any pack supply SBCs that came out during this week. I sold Bale at 387 this weekend. He's got a new promo card. He's got some hype. I bought three or four Bale's today all under 330. That was a good buy. But, you know, I liked the Lucas Mora buy because he's cheaper than what he was when he was in packs. But I'm a bit skeptical on this Team of the Week because they had a lot of investing happen. There's still a lot of people that have these cards on their transfer list and these cards had lighting rounds. They were out during the first set of foot birthday. So that's why I'm always curious and the older you go for some of these promo teams, you know, some of these guys are really usable. Luis Felipe, 205K. That's a crazy low price for him. Anything else in here? Milan was 127K this weekend. Wow, Fuppin says Akone was 226. Can I get some of that, please? And I get some of that. He's still 230 over here. But looking through, again, and remembering, popular league, popular nation, and just rarity. Those are the most important things to look at. Greenwood was 740 earlier today. This was 270 at one point. Rodrigo's pretty low. Dembele's pretty low. So some of these cards have rebound a little bit. But if you start to take a look at some of their graphs, you'll figure out and you'll notice that some of these guys are still pretty cheap. Delaney, 190. What was he at this weekend? What was this card at this weekend? He was at 240,000 coins. The man is 190. So I don't expect these cards to rise back up to their prices that you saw on Friday or Saturday, this middle of the week. I would expect to see a guy like Delaney, depending on who gets into team of the week moments this week and what people are doing in foot. That's why I tried to buy some of the French guys just because of all the French people that are in, the French players that are in foot birthday. A lot of people going for the Bacchioco. That's why I tried to buy some of the French guys. But I do think you could expect to see some rebound in price and possibly getting back to around, maybe he could get to 230 or to 220 again. I think that's very, very possible to see him back along that price range. So one of the things that I was looking at in past team of the weeks to really figure out is this card dropped enough to make it a buy? I was looking through their prices and I would look to see if they got lower. 314 for Kyle Walker. What was he last week before reward? So last week he was 325. He boomed at 362 on the weekend. 314 for this Kyle Walker. That would be a card I would go look to pick up, right? That's a perfect example. He's lower than what he was last week. We have a lot of coins on the market right now and he's lower than what he was last week. It seems crazy, right? So let's go Kyle Walker. Can I find that one for 315? I doubt that it's there. 330, right? Well, I'm still gonna add that to my transfer targets because of course flipping right now is showing that low price. So that's the kind of stuff that I think you guys could do. Again, I've put a lot of coins into cards because of that today. Some cards have already rebounded Cancelo today. The foot birthday. I think he's like 190 something K, 190 K plus. Yeah, he's almost back to 200 K. He is back to 200 K. This guy was 185 K this morning. I see out of packs. This is one of the most popular used cards right now with a new Premier League right back with the five star skills. A lot of people seem to like this card and they're using him. It is a good card, but he's got a lot of hype. So that's why he rose back up so quickly today. The foot birthdays were the ones that had panic selling in the morning and then rebounded the fastest because of the SBC. But I do expect more of a rebound later this week in terms of just a whole market outlook. Kind of like it happened last week, right? We saw what the Kyle Walker, back here to Footman for a second. We saw what the Kyle Walker that he was 325 on Sunday and then he rose to 339, 340 by Wednesday, right? So that's a 15 K gain, right? That covers your tax. If you bought the card on Sunday, he rose back up. I see that happening again this weekend and I see the market going high this week on Thursday rewards because think about how many people played weak in league this weekend? With the extra player picks, they were out and available. So I would expect to see the market do well this Thursday. So what other content could we see during the week this week? This was supposed to be a Champions League week. So I do expect us to see some sort of pack supply during this week. They have the throwback UCL marquee matchups. I think they'll do something along those lines and it seems like they've been throwing in like the pack supply SBCs. Like, you know, we had the champion. It was one of them or like they've had some names like straight to the top. I think it was an SBC name too possibly. I would expect on Tuesday or Wednesday of this week we get some sort of SBCs that are Champions League related since this was a UCL game week or was supposed to be before the whole competitions and everything got shut down. So I would expect some more of that. And that could also drop these foot birthday prices a little bit lower. I've been watching this lock is at tonight because a lot of people want to try them out. He got low with rewards. He was 1.050, so 1050, 1.05 mil at rewards. I would expect some of the foot birthday to players that are pretty hyped up that are, you know, more rare. Wow, DeMaria, it says is a million coins. DeMaria is a mil. This is a card that I would be interested in because he fluctuates a lot. Wow, man, DeMaria's got a bunch of supply over here as I'm looking at the market. That's crazy. That's crazy. He got supplied a bunch of rewards, but a lot of these guys have dropped down because of the rewards supply. Hernandez is under 400. Pogba's at 2.6, Van Dyke 1.3, Lamar's down. Literally all of these guys are down because of squad battle rewards. And I would expect these guys to rebound a little bit into the week. They could take a hit if we get some sort of other repeatable SBC that would give tradable cards in the market. Not a repeatable, but a pack supply.  They give multiple of those this week. I do think you could see a little bit of a drop on some of these cards. Wow, DeMaria just popped under a mil over here on the screen. But if you're looking to buy any of these cards for foot berth they set to, and you want to try them in the next day or so, I wouldn't be like, you know, buying DeMaria for under a mil right now, that's just crazy low. That's just crazy, crazy low. And it's, you kind of just have to gauge the hype on the card to know is it's gonna end up being worth it for you. This Douglas Costa is one of the most hyped up cards. In this set, he's also one of the most supplied. It's under 600,000 coins right now. And I know I'm going back and forth from flipping to the game a lot, but I want to show you this. Look at the most used players. This is a good way to tell, especially with a team of the week investing, which players will rise out of packs because they're the most demanded. Take a look at this number right here. Number of games played, 3,000 games played, right? Let's take a look at some of the rest of the team at some of the most hyped up players and how many games played do they have, right? Let's go for another cheap player, DeCosta, right? A lot of people can afford him. He has 1,400 games played, all right? What about Lasagna? He was extinct for a while, might not be the best example. 1,100 games played. What about a guy like DeMaria? You know, a million coins, 1,700 games played. Lacazette, Premier League, French striker, 1,900 games played. Seriously, maybe Theo Hernandez, 14-hour games played. Pogba probably has 1,000 games played or less because he's just so rare on the market. The cards that are more expensive that are more rare on the market, they always have less games played because there's not as many cards on the market and that's how Footbin calculates how much use these cards get and how many games have been played. But as of right now, Lamar and Douglas Costa are the most used players on this game. In his promo set, and Douglas Costa with 3,000 games played, nobody really is even kind of close to that. Lamar is the second closest. So I do think that this Douglas Costa card will rise out of packs, but I think that it still has more room to drop this week because, again, the supply on this card and a lot of these for birthdays, the supply is pretty crazy. There's a lot of supply on these cards. $594 right now, $595 for Douglas Costa. I wouldn't be surprised if you saw this at $550 at some point this week. That's just my take. It's my hot take, I guess you could say. So just be on the lookout for these cards dropping a little bit in price if you're interested in trying them. Just be careful with that. I'm also, wow, $1299 for this. I'm really curious about this card because this Van Dyke is really rare and it's a solid stat boost. I know he's got the five star weak foot. That doesn't matter a ton for his center back, but it's kind of nice. There's a big difference between his team of the year and then his inform and then this card. So I think this card will be a riser out of packs personally. So I'm kind of watching that one. But again, I would just expect for this week on the market to see a little bit of a rise in card prices. SBC fodder hopefully drops a little bit when the birthday SBC goes away, when the party bag SBC goes away because man, some of that supply or some of the prices for the SBC fodder right now is literally incredible.  I'm not gonna buy any more Mateus Cunhas. I already have a ton of them. I don't wanna buy any more, to be honest. I just wanna play it safe. But I will take a look at Bruno Fernandez. I mean, this guy's getting pretty low. I might spend my last bit of coins on this card. And I think this card's 629. I think this card's price has been held in check a bit because of the player of the month still being in the game and it being a higher rate of version. After that player of the month goes away, which is in seven days, I think. I think seven days, the player of the month Messi goes away tomorrow and Bruno Fernandez goes away in seven days. So after that, then you might see his informs go up a little bit more. But basically right now, if you're wanting to do any SBCs, they're all at a premium. We got this today. It's not even worth doing. It's like 370K because all of the SBC fodder is crazy, crazy expensive. You have one last chance, one last couple of hours to do some 81 plus double upgrades. Will they refresh these or will they put something else in? I don't know. I kinda hope they put the same ones in because these 81 double pluses have been really nice to me and really nice to a lot of people this week. So I kinda hope they refresh those. And then I wanna spend the last little bit talking about what promo could be Friday. A lot of people have said, is team of the season coming Friday? I don't think so. I don't think that it will be team of the season coming this Friday because I don't think EA can make that decision before they really know if the leagues are gonna end. Right now, I think, especially the Premier League, I think in my mind, from what I know has not officially been called off yet or officially been canceled. It's still kind of hanging in the ropes. They're trying to figure it out. So I don't think that we'll really get a team of the season on a normal time. That's just my opinion, but we honestly have no idea and that's completely up to EA. Obviously it's a crazy circumstances so they're gonna figure something out. I honestly think we might not get a promo this weekend. So we might see a nice rise on Thursday rewards, probably not a loading screen. If they do wanna run a promo, I mean, okay, EA Sports, go for it, do it, but I really don't know what that would be. I'd be really curious to see what they do if they did run a promo. And the other question I had was, are they gonna do a guaranteed foot birthday SBC? If EA wants to drain coins from the game, which they have a prime opportunity of doing right now, if they wanted to run a promo this weekend, I think they would drop another guaranteed just foot birthday SBC on Thursday. So that's something that we might be looking for in the PAC code. If it comes, it does. If it doesn't, then it doesn't. But I would expect, again, maybe another foot birthday player this week, another flashback, another player moments SBC, so maybe three to four more player SBCs this week as we round out the foot birthday promo and then some rising prices throughout the week as well. That's kinda how I feel this game is gonna go this week. Should be an interesting week on foot. A lot of people are probably grinding objectives as well. That's gonna be a main grind this week to try to get this Bakioko. I'm gonna try to go for it, I think, because it just looks like a really good card. And then, of course, a couple other things you could ground in here for too. I mean, yo, to be honest with you boys, if you guys have never hit level 30 before or if you hit level 30 pretty often, I'm level 20 right now? Like, I don't play much at all. I did icon swaps, I don't do objectives, and I'm only, I might get Fred. I mean, there's still 18 or 17 days left from the season right up here, 18 days left on the season. So I'll be really curious to see, I think a lot of people will end up getting to level 30 that maybe don't because this season is so long. So that's something that I'm actually kinda hyped for, that I might hit level 30 and get myself a nice little Fred that I could, you know, link up to Rashford. So that'd be cool. But that's kinda my market outlook for this week, boys. It's kinda just kind of an up in the air. I don't know. It's gonna be a great week to trade, though. A lot of people on the game last week was great to trade. And with SPC fodder so high, low budget trading is gonna be fantastic as well. If you wanna do anything this week, since the fodder is so high, hit league SBCs, because league SBCs are gonna be very, very profitable. If you pack one walkout, I mean, a walkout, 86 rated, you're looking at like almost 30,000 coins for those cards. So that's a dub, in my opinion. The SBC method is probably a grind this week that you could put some time into and be profitable from. So that's my last word on that. But that's the market outlook for this week. If you enjoyed the video, smash the thumbs up on it. Comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe to the channel. If you're new, it's been Nate, the Foot Accountant. Catch you guys later. Peace out.


Item number, SCP-340, Object Class, SAFE. Special Containment Procedures SCP-341, 34, and 5 are to be communally housed in a 10 meter by 10 meter by 2.5 meter tank with the water temperature maintained between 25 degrees Celsius and 30 degrees Celsius. Antidepressants and broad-spectrum antibiotics are to be administered intravenously every 12 hours. Medicinal compounds may not be added to the standard nutritive paste without approval. All waste products must be properly sterilized. Many personnel who aspirate water from the containment tank must report to medical staff immediately. Description SCP-340 is produced by a human-specific virus, which preferentially colonizes the nasal cavities. The virus cannot be identified according to the Baltimore classification scheme, leading foundation researchers to believe it was engineered by parties as yet unidentified. The presence of genes from both HIV and the SARS coronavirus supports this hypothesis. An incubation period, with a mean duration of three days, occurs upon initial exposure to the virus. Influenza-like symptoms will then develop and will persist for a mean of seven days before clearing up. An increased production of mucus has been observed in all known cases and will persist after other symptoms have ceased. Virulence is highest during the first five days of infection, but viral particles have been detected up to a month after exposure and foundation trials. Many time after infection, a high blood concentration of carbon dioxide will trigger production of SCP-340. When initially produced, SCP-340 is a jelly-like mucus, which extrudes to cover the lower half of the face, including the nose and mouth. SCP-340 and mucus form will undergo a catalytic reaction when immersed in water and will set into a bioplastic membrane. The chemical composition of the bioplastic facilitates the data-expunged process. Although it causes SCP-340 to degrade, the process allows the host to breathe underwater. The membrane is flexible and does not inhibit the host's facial movement. Any tears or holes which develop due to mechanical stress or SCP-340 degradation will be regenerated within 30 seconds due to constant production of SCP-340. The process is drastically reduced in this stage, but viral particles have been detected in water samples contaminated with SCP-340. Environmental contact may still spread the infection. When SCP-340 is exposed to air, it dries into a chitinous substance, similar to crustacean shells. The water vapor trapped inside an SCP-340-sealed respiratory system is sufficient to prevent premature hardening. The hardening process also destroys its ability to data-expunged, and loss of function is irreversible after approximately two minutes' exposure to air. Once fully hardened, SCP-340 is impossible to remove without inflicting major tissue damage. It is harder than any generally known organic substance. A standard tungsten carbide drill bit required more than 15 minutes of constant use to drill a hole through 5 mm of dried SCP-340. Research is ongoing into methods for the in vitro culture and harvest of SCP-340 for use in industrial applications. Addendum 341, Circumstances of Retrieval On date undisclosed, 12 students at a boarding school in United States began to produce SCP-340 during a swimming competition. Nine died before a Foundation containment team could be dispatched to the site. Five suffocated when attempts to clear airways of hardened SCP-340 failed. Two suffocated after attempts to open alternate airways induced hardening of air-exposed SCP-340 in the trachea, and two died from dehydration. Upon arrival, the Foundation containment team quarantined the school until the infection spread could be determined. Four additional cases were discovered who were not yet producing SCP-340. All seven were taken into Foundation custody. The team then distributed class-A amnestics and followed COVERA procedure Gimmel II, the Tragic Fires scenario.  Stable removal of the host's teeth will be safer in the long run than trying to deal with abscesses, bone infection, and sepsis. Do we have a laparoscopic surgeon on staff? Dr. Cairns. Document 341 Inventory, SCP-341 through 7 SCP-341 Caucasian Male Agent Retrieval 12 SCP-340 Production at Retrieval Positive Notes Housed at Site SCP-342 African American Male Agent Retrieval 12 SCP-340 Production at Retrieval Positive Notes Deceased Complications from Surgical Insertion of Feeding Tube SCP-343 Caucasian Male Agent Retrieval 11 SCP-340 Production at Retrieval Positive Notes Housed at Site SCP-344 Hispanic Male Agent Retrieval 12 SCP-340 Production at Retrieval Negative Notes Underwent Experimental Treatment Treatment Failed SCP-340 Production Induced Housed at Site SCP-345 Caucasian Male Agent Retrieval 27 SCP-340 Production at Retrieval Negative Notes Refused Experimental Treatment Voluntarily Induced SCP-340 Production Housed at Site SCP-346 Caucasian Male Agent Retrieval 12 SCP-340 Production at Retrieval Negative Notes Underwent Experimental Treatment Treatment Failed SCP-340 Production Induced Deceased Voluntarily Self-Termination SCP-347 Caucasian Male Agent Retrieval 13 SCP-340 Production at Retrieval Negative Notes Underwent Experimental Treatment Treatment Initially Believed Successful Deceased Suffocation Due to Unexpected SCP-340 Production Lesson Complete If you missed the previous orientation, go watch SCP-339. 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The Columbia network takes pleasure in bringing you suspense, suspense. Columbia's parade of outstanding thrillers, produced and directed by William Spear, and scored by Bernard Herman. The notable melodramas from stage and screen, fiction and radio, presented each week to bring you to the edge of your chair to keep you in suspense. Good evening. This is Orson Welles. I'm very happy I am to be back in the United States and back on the Columbia network, even for so short a visit as this one. Back with old friends like Johnny Deets, who was tonight's director and Bernard Herman. The Mercury Theatre presented tonight's radio play for the first time last year. We came right out then and hailed it as a classic of the medium. Nobody argued the point. A lot of people asked us to do it again, so it's gratifying to get the chance now. And to find a favorite of ours in this distinguished anthology of spook shows. Personally, I've never met anybody who didn't like a good ghost story. But I know a lot of people who think there are a lot of people who don't like a good ghost story. For the benefit of these, at least, I go on record at the outset of this evening's entertainment with a sober assurance that although blood may be curdled on this program, none will be spilt. There's no shooting, knifing, throttling, axing or poisoning here. No clanking chains, no cobwebs, no bony and or hairy hands appearing from secret panels or better yet bedroom curtains. If it's any part of that dear old phosphorescent foolishness that people who don't like ghost stories don't like, then again, I promise you, we haven't got it, not tonight. What we do have is a thriller. It's half as good as we think it is. You can call it a shocker. It's already been called a real Orson Well story. Now, frankly, I don't know what this means. I've been on the air directing and acting in my own shows for quite a while now and I don't suppose I've done more than half a dozen thrillers in all that time. Honestly, I don't think even that many, but it seems I do have a reputation for the uncanny. Quite possibly. A little escapade of mine involving a couple of planets which shall be nameless is responsible. It doesn't really matter. Don't think I disapprove of thrillers. I don't. A story doesn't have to appeal to the heart. It can also appeal to the spine. Sometimes you want your heart to be warmed and sometimes you want your spine to tingle. The tingling, it's to be hoped, will be quite audible as you listen tonight to the hitchhiker. That's the name of our story, the hitchhiker. I'm in an auto camp on Route 66 just west of Gallup, New Mexico. If I tell it, perhaps it'll help me. Keep me from going, going crazy. I've got to tell this quickly. I'm not crazy now. I feel perfectly well except that I'm running a slight temperature. My name is Ronald Adams.  I drive a 1940 Buick license number 6Y175189. I was born in Brooklyn. All this I know. I know that I'm at this moment perfectly sane. That it's not me who's gone mad. It's something else. Something utterly beyond my control. I'd love to speak quickly at any minute the link may break. This may be the last thing I ever tell on earth. The last night I ever see the stars. Six days ago I left Brooklyn to drive to California. Goodbye, son. Good luck to you, my boy. Goodbye, mother. Give me a kiss, and I'll go. I'll come out with you to the car. Oh, no, it's raining. Stay here at the door. Hey, what's this? Tears? I thought you'd promised me you wouldn't cry. I know, dear. I'm sorry. But I do hate to see you. I'll be back. It'll only be on the course three months. It isn't that. It's just the trip. Ronald, I wish you weren't driving. Oh, mother. There you go again. People do it every day. I know, but you'll be careful, won't you? Promise me you'll be extra careful. Don't fall asleep or drive fast or pick up any strangers on the road. Oh, gosh. I think I was still 17, dear. And why?  Of course I will. Don't you worry. There's nothing going to happen. There's eight days of perfectly simple driving on smooth, decent, civilized roads. A hot dog or a hamburger stand every ten months. I was in fine spirits. Drive ahead of me, even the loneliness seemed like a lark. I reckoned without him. Crossing Brooklyn Bridge that morning in the rain. I saw a man leaning against the cables. He seemed to be waiting for a lift. There were spots of fresh rain on his shoulders. He was carrying a cheap overnight bag in one hand. He was thin, nondescript, with a cap pulled down over his eyes. I would have forgotten him completely, except that just an hour later, while crossing the Pulaski Skyway over the Jersey Flats, I saw him again. At least, he looked like the same person. He was standing now with one thumb pointing west. I couldn't figure out how he'd got there, but I thought probably one of those fast trucks had picked him up, beat me to the Skyway and let him off. I didn't stop for him. Then late that night, I saw him again. I saw the new Pennsylvania turnpike between Harrisburg and Pittsburgh. It's 265 miles long with a very high speed limit. I was just slowing down for one of the tunnels. When I saw him, standing under an arc light by the side of the road, I'd seen quite distinctly the bag, the cap. Even the spots of fresh rain scattered over his shoulders. He hallowed at me this time. I stepped on the gas like a shot on its lonely countries with the Alleghenies and I had no intention of stopping. Besides the coincidences or whatever it was, neither the Willys stopped at the next gas station. Fill her up. Certainly, sir. Check your oil, sir. No, thanks. Yes. It hasn't been raining here recently, has it? Not a drop of rain all the way. Oh. I suppose that doesn't don your business any harm. Oh, people drive through here all kinds of weather. Mostly business, you know. The car's out on the turnpike this season of the year. I suppose not. What about hitchhikers? Hitchhikers here? What's the matter? Don't you ever see any? Not much.  Bull who started out to hitch rides on this road. Look at it. You've never seen anybody? No. Maybe they get the lift before the turnpike starts.  But then it'd be a mighty long ride. Most cars wouldn't want to pick up a guy for that long a ride. And you know, this is pretty lonesome country here. Mountains and woods. You ain't seen anybody like that, have you? No. No, not at all. It's just a technical question. Well, that'll be just $1.49 with the tax. The thing gradually passed through my mind a sheer coincidence. I had a good night's sleep in Pittsburgh. I didn't think about the man all next day until... Just outside of Zanesville, Ohio, I saw him again. It's a bright, sunshiny afternoon. The peaceful Ohio fields. Brown with the autumn stubble. A dreaming in the golden light. I was driving slowly, drinking it in when the road suddenly ended in a detour in front of the barrier. He was standing. Let me explain about his appearance before I go on. I repeat, there was nothing sinister about him. He was as drab as a mud-fenced or was his attitude menacing.  He looked as though he'd been waiting there for hours. And he looked up. He hailed me. He started to walk forward. Not just now, sorry. Going to California? No, not today. The other way, going to New York, sorry.  At the same time, I felt more than ever unspeakably alone. He was the town's ticked off one by one. The light changed. I knew now that I was going to see him again. And though I dreaded the sight, I caught myself searching the side of the road, waiting for him to appear. All sandwiches and pop here, don't you? Yeah, we go in the daytime. I know, and I was wondering if you could possibly have a cup of coffee, black coffee. No, not this time of night, mister.  Just a minute ago, there was a man standing here, right beside the stand, a suspicious looking man. I don't mean to disturb it. You see, I was driving along, to look and there he was. How's he doing? Well, nothing. You've been taking a nip. That's what you've been doing. Now line your way. I went into the car again and drove on slowly. It's getting to hate the car. If I could have found a place to stop her, I'd have to rest a little. I was in the Ozark mountains of Missouri now. Few resort places there were closed, only an occasional log cabin, seemingly deserted. That's all that broke the monotony of the wild wooded landscape. I had seen him at that roadside stand. I knew I'd see him again, maybe at the next turn of the road. I knew that when I saw him next, I would run him down. I didn't see him until late next afternoon.  The red clay of Oklahoma was baking under the southwestern sun. Yet there were spots of fresh rain on his shoulders. I couldn't stand that. Without thinking blindly, I started the car across the tracks. He didn't even look up at me. He was staring at the ground. I stepped on the gas car during the hill sharply toward him. I could hear the train in the distance now, and I didn't care then. Something went wrong with the car. The train was coming closer. I could hear its bell ringing and a cry of its whistle. Still, he stood there. And now I know that he was beckoning me. Beckoning me to my death. I was frustrated in that time. I started working at last. I managed to back up. And the train passed. He was gone. I was all alone in the hot, dry afternoon. After that, I knew I had to do something. I didn't know who this man was, or what he wanted of me. I only knew that from now on, I mustn't let myself alone on the road for one minute. Oh, where do you want to go? Amarillo Tech. I'll drive you there. Gee. You mind if I take off my shoes? My dogs are killing me. Go right ahead. Gee, what a break this is. They hitchhike much? Sure. Only at the top sometimes and need great open spaces to get the break. I should think it would be, though. I'll bet you get a good pickup in a fast car. If you did, you could get places faster than say another person in another car, couldn't you? I don't get you. Well, take me, for instance. Suppose I'm driving across the country, say at a nice, steady clip, about 45 miles an hour. Couldn't a girl like you just standing beside the road waiting for a list beat me to town or any town, provided she got picked up every time in a car doing from 65 to 70 miles an hour? I don't know. What difference does it make? Oh, no difference. It's just a crazy idea I had sitting here in the car. Imagine spending your time in a swell car thinking of things like that. What would you do instead? What would I do? If I was a good-looking fellow like yourself? Why, I just enjoy myself every minute of the time. I'd sit back and relax. If I saw a good-looking girl along the side of the road... Hey, look out! Hey, who? A man standing beside the barbed wire fence. I didn't see anybody.  What did you think he was doing? Trying to run into the barbed wire fence? There's a thin gray man with an overnight bag in his hand. I was trying to run him down. Run him down? Kill him? Say you didn't see him back there? You sure? I didn't see a soul. As far as action... Watch for him the next time. Keep watching. Keep your eyes peeled on the road. He'll turn up again. Maybe any minute. There! Look there! This door will work. I'm getting out of here. Did you see him that time? No, I didn't see him that time. And personally, Mr. I don't expect never to see him. All I want to do is go on living. I don't see how I will very long driving with you. I'm sorry. I didn't... I don't know what came over me. Please don't go. So if you'll excuse me... You can't go. Listen, how would you like to go to California? I'll grab you to California. See, and pink elephants all the way? No thanks. Uh-uh, thanks. Just the same. Listen, please. Just one minute, please.  Not a girlfriend. Just a good dose of sleep. Please. There. I got it now. No, you can't go. Please. I was a monster. A few minutes later, I saw a passing truck picker up. I knew then that I was... utterly alone. In the heart of the great Texas prairies, there wasn't a car on the road after the truck went by. I tried to figure out what to do to get hold of myself. I could find a place to rest or even if I could sleep right here in the car for a few hours along the side of the road. I was getting my winter overcoat out of the back seat to use as a blanket when I saw him coming toward me. Merging from the herd of moving steer. Hello? Maybe I should have spoken to him then. I fought it out then and there. For now, he began to be everywhere. Wherever I stopped, even for a moment, for gas, for oil, for a... drink of pop, a cup of coffee, sandwich, he was there. I saw him standing outside the auto camp in Amarillo that night when I dared to slow down. I was sitting near the drinking fountain with a little camping spot just inside the border of New Mexico. He was waiting for me outside the Navajo Reservation where I stopped to check my tires. I saw him in the Albuquerque when I bought 20 gallons of gas. I was... I was afraid to stop now. I began to drive faster and faster. I was pure landscape now. A great, arid, messa country of New Mexico. I drove through it with the indifference of a fly crawling over the face of the moon. Now he didn't even wait for me to stop. Unless I drove at 85 miles an hour over those endless roads he waited for me at every other mile. I'd see his figure, shadowless, flitting before me, still in that same attitude over the cold, lifeless ground, flitting over dried-up rivers, over broken stones cast up by old glacial upheavals, flitting in that pure and cloudless air. I was beside myself when I finally reached Gallup, New Mexico this morning. There's an auto can't hear. Cold almost deserted this time of year. I went inside and asked if there was a telephone. I had the feeling that if only I could speak to someone familiar, someone I loved, I could pull myself together. Your call, please. Long distance. Long distance, certainly. This is long distance. I'd like to put it in a call to my home in Brooklyn, New York. I'm Ronald Adams. The number is Beechwood 20828. Certainly I will try to get it for you. Albuquerque, New York for Gallup. Gallup, New Mexico calling Beechwood 20828. I'd read somewhere that love could banish demons. It's the middle of the morning. I knew Mother would be home. I pictured her tall and white-haired and her crisp house dress, going about her tasks. It'd be enough, I thought, just to hear the even calmness of her voice. Will you please deposit $3.85 for the first three minutes? When you have deposited a dollar and a half, will you wait until I have collected the money? I deposit another dollar and a half. Please deposit the remaining $0.85. Hey, with Brooklyn, go ahead, please. Hello? Hello, Mother? Who's this? Mrs. Winnie. I don't know any Mrs. Winnie. Is this Beechwood 20828? Where's my mother? Where's Mrs. Adams? Mrs. Adams is not at home. She's still in the hospital. The hospital? Yes. Who has this calling, please? Is it a member of the family? What's she in the hospital for? Prostrated for five days. Nervous breakdown. But who is that calling? Nervous breakdown? Well, my mother never was nervous. It's all taken place since the death of her oldest son, Ronald. Death of her... death of her oldest son, Ronald. Hey, what's this? What number is this? This is Beechwood 20828. It's all been very sudden. He was killed just six days ago by an automobile accident on the Brooklyn Bridge. Your three minutes are up, sir. Your three minutes are up, sir. Your three minutes are up, sir. And so, so I'm sitting here in this deserted auto camp in Yalap, New Mexico. I'm trying to think... trying to get hold of myself. Otherwise, I... I'm going to go crazy. Outside it's night. The vast, soulless night of New Mexico. A million stars are in the sky. Ahead of me stretch a thousand miles of empty messa. Mountains. Prayers. Desert. Somewhere among them. He's waiting for me. Somewhere I shall know who he is and who I am. Mr. Hitchhiker and to Orson Wells are considerable thanks for his playing of the title role. Mr. Wells. Help wanted. Men, women and children. Nature of work, hard, monotonous, backbreaking labor. Hour 75 a week minimum. Pay a few cents an hour. Added inducement. Two meals a day including several ounces of bad bread and a cup of thin soup. Don't delay, apply at once. How'd you respond to a want ad like that, Mr. and Mrs. American working man and woman? You'd laugh wouldn't you and throw the paper in the trash basket. Dismiss the whole advertisement of some kind of a joke. But believe me, it's no joke. It's a simple statement of the working conditions that exist today in Nazi Germany. Then the conquered countries under Nazi rule. It's also an exact statement of the working conditions that will be imposed on you and every member of your family if the Nazis win this war. You yourself personally can stop them from winning, as you know. You don't have to give up your well-paid job to do it. You needn't have to be a soldier, a sailor, an airman, or a nurse or a war worker to ensure American victory. Uncle Sam doesn't ask plain ordinary hard-working citizens like you to give him anything. All he asks, all he does ask very seriously and very urgently is that you loan him ten cents out of every dollar you make. That's all there is to it. Lend Uncle Sam a dime to win this war and he'll pay you back with interest when he's won it. The easiest, most convenient way to lend him these dimes is to enroll in the payroll savings plan. Just tell your boss to deduct ten cents from every dollar he pays you and lend it to Uncle Sam in your name. Sign up for this simple savings plan today and when victory comes, you'll have war bonds in your pockets instead of Axis bonds on your wrists. Suspense will be heard again two weeks from tonight. Next Wednesday night, September 9th, the Columbia Broadcasting System will present over many of these stations at 9.30 p.m. Eastern wartime an address by W. Aberall Harriman, the United States' land lease administrator in London. Mr. Harriman, as the personal representative of the President of the United States, attended the Moscow Conferences in Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin. Next Wednesday's broadcast will be Mr. Harriman's first public address since his return to this country. Suspense is produced and directed by William Spear. John Deets was our guest director this evening. Tonight's radio drama was written by Lucille Fletcher. The original score was by Bernard Herman. 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In lecture 3, we're going to look at doing derivatives in Sympi. So first of all, as always, opening a new notebook, we're going to say import Sympi as SYM. Just an abbreviation for our namespace there. And we're going to initialize pretty printing. Sum.init underscore printing, open and close parentheses. And I'm going to map the variable A to the symbol A, and then B, X, Y and Z to the appropriate symbols on the right-hand side. So let's just run that by hitting Shift, Enter, or just hitting the Run button there. And this code gets executed. There's nothing to be printed to the screen. Nothing happens. We've just run that piece of code. Now I'm going to introduce this variable, name F, and I warn here that I'm only using F as a variable here. That's not defined as a function. In future lecture, we're going to look at defining a function as opposed to a variable. So this is symbolic Python. So I have referred to Sympi as SYM. So if I want to use trigonometric functions such as cosine and sine, I have to invoke this namespace, Sum dot cosine X times Y, and Sum dot sine Z times X. X, Y and Z are symbols here. So this expression here, I've attached to the variable F, and I'm just going to print out the variable F. And there we have the sine of X times Z plus the cosine of X times Y. And it's printed in this pretty printing format because I've initialized that printer up here. So let's look at just printing the first derivative. So SYM dot capital D, we saw that in the previous lecture. The derivative of F, now F is a variable referring to this expression up here with respect to X. Lo and behold, it's going to do a partial derivative for us because there's not only an X in our expression, there is Y and Z as well. The second derivative, remember how to do that. I can put two X's there. Let's execute that code so we have the second partial derivative. Or instead of putting the two X's, I could say X comma two. And there we go, it looks exactly the same. Now partial derivatives need not only B with respect to a single variable. We can have the following. I'm going to have my expression F there. And I'm going to do the derivative, partial derivative with respect to X once, with respect to Y three times and with respect to Z twice. Let's execute that code. And you see this long partial derivative here and it's going to be to the order and in series as I put it down there. First X, then Y three times and Z twice. Now let's actually do that first derivative. Now perhaps I should start down here. We've already done that by using the derivative. That's the printing statement. And just adding a dot, do it at the end. And if I execute that, I'm going to see it's negative Y times the sine of X, Y plus Z times the cosine of X, Z. This is the proper way of doing it though. I'm just going to use this keyword Diff with a lowercase D, I, F, F. So I'm going to take the derivative of F with respect to X and I'm just going to print that out. It's just going to do the equation or get the solution for me. So in essence I can say something like sym.diff, ti, ff. And let's give it a function. Let's say it's X cubed with respect to X and we know that should be 3x squared and if we execute that, indeed it is 3x squared. So I can either do the printing part and just do it instead of printing out the function itself or properly just calling the di, ff function there and just executing the code.


Good afternoon and welcome to today's Energy 7R. This is the last Energy 7R for winter quarter. We will be off next week, March 22nd, and return with Brad Page on March 29th, right at the beginning of spring quarter. I'm very pleased to introduce our speaker today, Alicia Green, the General Manager of Information Technology Engineering at Chevron. Students among you may be interested to know that she was a student here in Mathematical and Computational Sciences, kind of an innovative program then and now, and also a stalwart member of the women's track team here at Stanford. So I think she has a great perspective on the Stanford community. She's been at Chevron for a few decades now and worked her way up to a General Manager position amongst many other stops along the way. Again, for the students, she also does IT recruiting. I just learned a few minutes ago that her husband is actually a Stanford CS grad. So without further ado, I'd like to introduce Alicia Green to speak to us today about digital transformation in the energy sector. By the way, Chevron has been the dominant supporter of the energy seminar for at least 10 or 15 years and maybe more. So Alicia, thank you, thank you, thank you on many levels. Please take it away. Well, John, thank you so much for that warm introduction. And it's great to be back virtually anyway on the farm. So I'm actually here in Tomball, Texas, which is north of Houston. And as John said, yes, I am a proud Stanford alum. And I actually was hoping that I would be back there this year. Well, still fingers crossed. I don't think they've completely canceled our reunion yet. But this will be a big 3-0 reunion at Stanford. So hopefully, all will be good in October. And I can actually come back to campus for that reunion. I love coming back to campus. And so as John said, I have a mathematical computational sciences degree. And I've worked at Chevron the whole time since leaving Stanford, which is quite unusual amongst the folks that I graduated with. It is a very large multinational company. And though I've been at the same company for all of these years, I think I'm on my 14th or 15th different role. This is actually my second time in Houston. I started there in California. That's where our headquarters are. I was in San Ramon, California, so about 35 miles east of campus. And then I was here in Houston in the early 2000s. I was in Louisiana for about five years. I did about two and a half years in Bangkok, then came back to California. I was actually in California for about another three or so years before I moved here. And we've been here this time since 2018. I also have a daughter who just graduated college, not Stanford. She went to Wake Forest, but she graduated last year and is now living in Los Angeles. So that's a little bit about myself. And so I'm here today to talk to you a bit about the digital transformation that's going on in the energy sector. And I know that I'm looking forward to sharing some information with you, but then also answering questions as they come and then also leave time for sure at the end. So let's go to the first slide here. So just have a couple of slides just to help with some of the dialogue. So from a standpoint of what our company, Chevron, believes, energy is essential. It really enables human progress across the world. And if you look really across the world, not everyone has energy today. We take for granted here in the US that you flick on a light. And pretty much, hopefully, the lights will come on. And that's not so in many areas of the world. And so that's really what we see as our vital purpose in the world is to deliver the energy that enables human progress. Because you can really track having that affordable energy to people getting to a different lifestyle. Being able to get out of poverty into middle class and other areas. A lot of that can be contributed to countries and their ability to have the energy. And we do think that it needs to be both affordable and reliable. We also feel that we need to protect the environment in which we work. And you can see on here for us, that means the air, water, land, and the climate. And so we are very much supporters of the Paris Peace Accord, I mean, I'm sorry, the energy. And we really do support a price on carbon. We think it takes all form of energy to really meet that the energy demands of the world. And we have made commitments both financial as well as from an employee standpoint across all forms of energy. And then ultimately, it really is going to take innovation to meet all of our challenges. And that's across all aspects of the value chain. When it comes to manufacturing, doing that in different ways, electricity, being able to get electricity both from a renewable standpoint in the agriculture and the transport. When you think about going into from a renewable space, some of the things really are about the infrastructure and the scale and scope of the renewable energy to make it something that can be used across the globe and really meet the demand that not only are those that are used to having reliable energy have, but as I said, those other countries that are wanting to have the energy that they currently don't have. And we don't see this by ourselves. We look to make partnerships and really partner with other entities, both from a scientific standpoint that we really see that will help then accelerate the advances across the world. When I talk about, say, advancing the carbon future, there are kind of three areas that we are looking at. We are looking to, first of all, lower our carbon intensity of the current operations that we have. The second piece is really increasing the renewables. And so we think this is an and world. It's not one of these. It's all of these together. And so increasing the amounts of renewables we have in the offsets that support various businesses we have and even extending or going into different businesses. And then we look to invest in lower carbon technologies. We actually have a wing of the company that's basically a tech ventures wing. And what that does is that looks for companies. And a lot of the companies are in the renewable space. And we provide different rounds of funding for those companies. And also, in some cases, not just the funding, but places to actually test out these new technologies in an already existing space. So it's a very really good symbiotic relationship where it helps the assets that we already have to perform better. And then it helps the companies to really test out their new technology in an actual functioning operational setting. So from a Chevron standpoint, different energy companies have different portions maybe of the value chain. We're really involved in all aspects of the value chain. So this is just a snippet to show basically our company's coverage. So we go from upstream through downstream and what you see here is a very simplistic pictorial of what upstream through downstream means within Chevron. So from an upstream standpoint, that's where we explore for. So look, explore, find, and then produce the oil and gas. Midstream is that wing of being able to transport, whether it's via vessel or pipeline. And there's also a commercial aspect in there of trading. And then our downstream really picks up at the manufacturing plant where we take that oil or gas and then refine it. And then it goes into the marketplace then where I'm sure many of you then go out and buy our lovely product that is fueled with Tecron. So now let's jump into, so where's the intersection then from a digital standpoint? So it's interesting because if you ask many different people within the company, you'd get different answers about how long have we been on this digital journey. Many would say for decades because we have been using digital technologies for many decades. It just might not have been called digital then. When you, for instance, the third piece that you see on here, the industrial internet of things, while that has become the name that we've given things, say over the last three to four years. I mean, in the energy industry, we've been doing that for quite a while. When you think about the sensors that we've had at our various plants, that's what really the industrial internet of things, it's that blurring of the physical and the digital. And in order for us to really operate these highly complex plants, whether they be in the manufacturing side or in our upstream part of the business, where especially our liquefied natural gas plants, where basically you've got many chemical reactions that are going on in order to take the gas, go find the gas. It's in its gaseous state. And in order to be able to store it, you have to take the temperature down and put it under pressure in order for it to get into its liquid state in order for it to then be put on a vessel that stays in that very, very cooled state and under pressure in order to transport it usually from where the natural habitat of the gas is to where the demand is. So we've been doing that for over a 140-year-old company. So we've been doing that for a long time. It's just in the last, like I said, maybe four or five years where now the buzz has become this digital buzz and industrial internet of things. And so you talk to a lot of our engineers or geoscientists or geophysicists and they're like, well, we've been doing this for a long time. You think about, say, like our 3D imaging that we do in order to find the reservoirs and to really assess how much hydrocarbon is in those reservoirs. We've been doing that for a really long time. So what's different now? Well, what's different? And I think it's the thing, if you've heard about the Fourth Industrial Revolution, it really is the difference in bringing together many of these different technologies, as well as the advancements that we've had from a compute perspective. So the high-performance computing that you see, I mean, we've had high-performance computing for a really long time. If we didn't have high-performance computers, our geologists and geophysicists wouldn't be able to do that earth modeling interpretation that they've done for decades and decades. The difference now is the type of compute power allows us to do that even more quickly. And then being able to, we've had the sensors, like I said, on our operational equipment. The difference now is the ability to, in real time, capture the data from those sensors and to have that, say, flow through statistical models that allows us to do statistical analysis. Whereas in the past, a lot of times, our engineers would have to spend the time to get all of that information. So the information would come out. It wouldn't necessarily be real time. It would come to them, but then they'd have to put it into a spreadsheet. They'd have to massage the data, get it, and then be able to combine that data, maybe that reservoir data with some other operational type of data. And by the time they did all of that, maybe a week had passed. And then finally, they were able to get to the analysis. And that analysis now was on very old information. So the difference now with the ability to have cloud compute and your sensors, and then being able to get to real time information and being able to put that, say, into data lakes and combine that data, put it into a model, and then let our engineers actually do the analysis in real time, and then being able to make decisions in real time. That's a lot of the difference. So we've always been a member, a colleague of mine, as had said for years, for many years have been data rich, but information poor. We've had all this data at our fingertips, but not really being able to utilize this data. And so that's what's different when I think of other industries. For them, it's all about going and getting the sensors. So for them, the industrial internet of things is let me go put sensors on all this stuff. And now, oh, all of a sudden, I have all this information that I didn't have before. Now, what do I do with it? And for us, that wasn't the thing. It was like, how do I get all this massive information and make some sense of it? So let me just give you kind of a few more specific, tangible applications of what we've done. And then the journey, I would say it's more of an acceleration as opposed to a start, but it's really the acceleration and focus that we've been on over the last couple of years. So one of our things that we've looked to do really is as our assets become more complex, we look to put what we call advanced process control systems within those assets. So one of our newer assets that we've brought online is in Australia. And it's called Gorgon. It's an offshore field near Perth, Australia. It's a liquefied natural gas. So this is a gas field. And the plant itself actually sits on a, I forget what the specific Australian designation is, but think of it as a highly regulated kind of natural sanctuary. And so we have a energy plant on there. We had to go through many things for the country to let us put our plant there to show that we were not going to impact the environment or even the animals in any way. And just a fun fact there, we basically had to go and monitor that the turtles that are out there that we did not interrupt their mating plans. And so when you go out there and before all this COVID stuff hit and we used to be able to go on those things that fly in the air and people sit next to each other, go on planes and stuff, I was able to take a trip out there. And before you go out there, you have to go through and understand that this is a natural preserve. And you take training before you go out there. And in that training, it talks about how to properly clean all of your clothing before you go out there, your shoes and everything.  There's brushes and everything that you have to put on because they want no foreign fauna introduced into that area. And you go out and it's actually paradise out there. So one of the things our advanced process controls help us with, one, it helps us to have as many people out on the plant because we can have more sensors that help to really control the operations. The other thing as opposed to people having to go and check all of the facilities and make sure that you've got, I mean, I taught you a bit through what you've got to do is you're bringing the gas in. You've got to lower the pressure. I mean, you've got to increase the pressure and lower the temperature to these really ridiculous temperatures. Well, again, instead of humans having to go out and make sure that we're at the right temperature or pressure, we've got sensors doing that. And then those sensors then relay data back to Perth where our office is. And people can then sit in the office and it's real-time information then that the engineers get. And then they're able to really control the plant from many, many kilometers away from the actual site. Another example of some of the technologies that we're using, staying in the Asia area and our Singapore area, we have a chemical plant there. Safety is our top priority. And one of the things that we've done there to, as we say, we like to make sure that we have safeguards in place. So we look at a lot of these digital technologies as a way to put a digital safeguard in place and to go from, I think, somebody is safe to I know that they are safe. So by being able to use RFID tags on folks, we're able to see where they are and even monitor, like, are they upright? So we can see if someone, say, has fallen in the plant, we will be able to be notified of that and then we'll be able to get their latitude and longitude and we'll know exactly where they are and then personnel can be sent directly to them. The other thing is as we have, say, various activities going on in the plant, instead of, say, putting up, you know, some cones to say, hey, don't go here, there's some sort of, you know, chemical type of procedure going on, we're using geo fencing. And so the geo fencing then allows and kind of sends a little buzz to say, oh, don't go there. So it's very much a smart plant that we have there, which again is a lot of the use of many of these areas that we've got. Another thing that we're looking, that we're doing across many of our facilities is really utilizing, you know, unmanned aerial systems and the use case there is, you know, currently we have various inspections that we need to do and to look at doing those inspections by utilizing drones instead of having people do that. Because again, that will help remove people from potentially hazardous situations. They can find space like vessel, even though the vessel will be cleaned out, there could still be like residual fumes. And so we like to not have people do that. And so being able to utilize drones to be able to go into those spaces.  And in some cases, you know, being able to have the cameras bring things back and then do, you know, like photo analysis to see what does that look like? So you could look for say defects that maybe the naked eye couldn't even see. So that even further helps from a safety and reliability standpoint. The other thing that we've done where we've used data science, and that's something close to my heart. As you heard, I have a mathematical and computational sciences degree. And I tell all the data scientists who are at Chevron now that I was a data scientist before it was cool cause that's all mathematical and computational sciences is. Is it's really what we're calling data science today. And so some of the things that we've looked to do there when we, like when I said, we talk about our maintenance is instead of having say some of our equipment be on a time-based maintenance procedures, we go more to predictive based. And so, you know, where you would take, say for, we have a decision support center for our rotating equipment and we have turbines and compressors like about 2000 across the company. And basically we can get all of the data that comes back again from the sensors that is on that rotating equipment and really look at the history of the equipment and look at it across the whole fleet and then predict when we think there'll be an incident and then take that piece of equipment out of service before there is an incident. And then so what that allows us to do then is have people then go to the site before there's an incident and then when they go, they actually know what the issue is. And so they go, we had the right people that go there with the right tools. And again, that can help prevent any sort of safety, you know, incident that there could be but more importantly, it helps with the reliability of our plants. And so then we can do controlled takedowns of equipment as opposed to equipment failing, you know and not being expected to. The last one that I'll mention is we also have a another decision support center as we called it called the Well Deck. And during there, it's actually located here in Houston where I am. And really all of our complex wells across the company are monitored from this place. Think of a very like large room and with huge monitors like on the wall that kind of show where all of the wells are being drilled all around the world. And we've got about 10 to 15 people sitting in there and those 10 to 15 people have these huge desks with monitors of their own and they're able to see how the drilling is going. And think of it as like expert set of eyes to really help the people that are on the ground. And again, and to bring in maybe, you know analog information from another similar well that was drilled to help drill that well better. And again, in order to do that, we need to be able to have, you know, cloud computing. We need to be able to have our high performance computers. So it kind of brings all of these different things together. And I didn't mention the bottom right there but it's really crucial. I mean, all of this that I'm talking about cybersecurity is at the heart. And so if you think about this flow of information we want this flow of information to go to the approved people. And so cybersecurity becomes even more important than it was before. So we build all of the different types of use cases that I just told you that have the various digital technologies associated with them. Our principle is, you know, we build them secure, you know and we make sure that, you know, our folks can get into it. And cybersecurity is kind of a never ending thing because all of these technologies that I just told you about that we utilize in our business. Well, the bad people using them too, you know so the bad people use data science to kind of figure things out of how they can get in, you know, to, you know, systems that they shouldn't, you know, in the past it used to always be, you know, build firewalls and keep people out. And now it's assume people will get in.  I mean, that is our mantra. So we have a very sophisticated cybersecurity protocol that goes on where we've got a basically a cybersecurity center couple actually where we do kind of a follow the sun method. So we have constant monitoring that's going on of both our business network as well as our industrial or kind of field network. Okay, let me see, see if I can see some of the questions here. Yeah, there's quite a few, I've been coming through them. So maybe you can either pick them out or I could give you a few. Why don't you give me a few maybe that go with what I've been talking about. That'd be great. Okay, well going way back, there is some interest in carbon emission reduction, just general background, carbon emission reductions and carbon pricing, what Chevron is doing and recommending. I do know, I think it was last week, Chevron issued its fourth climate change disclosure report We did called Climate Change Resilience Advancing, Hello, Carbon Future. I think it's unavoidable. In the talk like this, you'll get questions regarding that. So I wonder if you could start with that and then we can get into some more of the IT and technology things you mentioned in more detail. Yeah, so as I said before, we have the kind of the three pronged approach where we are looking to significantly reduce our emissions both through our GHG emissions and we've got targets across our value chain. To date, our greenhouse gas is down 20% and our methane and flaring intensity is down 50 to 60% since 2016. And then we've got targets for, we had some 2023 targets that we've already exceeded and we have announced new 2028 goals that expects to take us down another 35% since 2016. And so, from a standpoint of the carbon emissions, the carbon kind of technologies, I mean, a lot of what we're focused on is really capturing carbon. So hopefully you all have maybe heard about our, we just, I think we announced it a couple of weeks ago, a partnership between us and, so Chevron, Slumberger, Microsoft and a clean company, clean energy systems company and basically it's going to take kind of the greenhouse gas carbon with basically some bio waste. That then gets, can get gasified. There's also some air separation that goes on there and then there's through the clean energy systems, what they have is a power block that helps convert all of that into electricity. And so those are, those are kind of some of the things that we're doing in the carbon kind of carbon capture and lowering of carbon space. And I would definitely, you know, have you go to, as John said, the going to our Chevron climate that we just, yeah, I think we just, I think that was out just last week because yeah, we're in our investors day and I think right after that, we released that so it's a nice, like about 70 page read, not too bad, but it's got, it's got much more specifics about, you know, what we plan to invest in, you know, kind of lowering our carbon, where we're looking to increase our renewables and offsets and then also the, what I just kind of explained to you, some of the lower carbon technologies we're looking to invest in. Super, there were a number of, just another, before we get into the IT area more directly on technologies that could be considered to be silver bullets, game changers, I guess I would call them backstop technologies. So I'll just give you three that were explicitly mentioned, a deep hot geothermal director capture and sustainable ways to produce shale. Yeah, I don't know that there's a silver bullet, which is why, you know, we've been investing in many different companies, like I kind of said in the beginning. And so, you know, for us, we think it's going to take many different types.  So we think it's gonna take many different forms of energy and that there's not one silver bullet that's going to kind of get us to where we need to be from a greenhouse gas and, you know, lower emissions perspective. There's one final question, just as an ally, because he keeps coming up. Does Chevron have a preferred way to do carbon pricing, either a way to do that or a number, you could think of many possible ways to do that. I understand the Biden administration is back into the social cost of carbon business, something that I've worked on the last five or 10 years as well. You know, that's one, it's a little bit out of my area of expertise on the carbon pricing. I've heard a little bit about that. And again, I think the specifics, I would definitely point you to our, you know, the release that we just had. Because I think there are some ideas in there about how we look to do carbon pricing. Okay, now back to your... I just want to speak out of school on that one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, if people are interested in that. I know Arthur Lee a bit. He could probably help us. I'm sure you know him. Yeah, yes, definitely. Back to your directories of interest, which I'm kind of overly interested in as an energy environment person anyway, having started my career in national security and whatnot. How do you think about that? A lot of questions on, wow, there's so many things going on and as you mentioned, Chevron has been doing this kind of thing for a while, but for you personally, how do you keep track of all this stuff? And a lot of questions on, how do you coordinate just your own stuff, let alone you're facing with people who are doing things that could affect you or be affected by you? And then for me, as a national security analyst, years and years ago, I shudder to think how bad this looks from a national, could look from a national security point of view. I don't know. So the other way of putting this with somebody did explicitly ask is, how high up in your list of risk to the company, either financially, public image, national security and whatnot is cyber nowadays. Every time I hear a cyber expert talk, they always say, this may seem bad to you, but if I could tell you all, I know it would seem a lot worse, which I find a bit irritating because it just makes me, I find I'm very unsettled. So how do you think about that panoply of issues from where you sit as a kind of expert and not person try to deal with all these things simultaneously within your company? Yeah, it's definitely up there for us. I mean, this is, and I think for most companies, it's at the board level. And so one of my colleagues is our, we have a chief information security officer. And we all have to partner together. So how do, I don't keep track of everything. That's probably the first thing because otherwise I would not be sleeping. And I'd probably have more gray hairs in my head than there are already. No, I don't feel so bad. So I think that the key for us, and we do this across all of our corporation, we are very much a matrixed organization. And what I mean by matrixed is, we look to have expertise that works as a team. So we have cyber experts. So we've actually say from a talent management standpoint where some folks stay at Chevron as long as I have, but we also hire from the outside. So we have many people, as we started ramping up our cyber security practice probably about five, six, seven years ago, we hired some very skilled people like from our own government who are doing cybersecurity for that to come and help us. Yeah, this wasn't always a board topic. Before, you know, when it was before, again, you put buzzwords, the thing was where it's cyber now, before it was information risk management. And that was always an IT thing and have the IT people go figure stuff out and whatever firewalls IT people keep us safe. And then when, you know, as all the world started really moving to having a more free flow of information, you also started seeing that that information is valuable and when the value is there, I mean, that unfortunately, then sparks up another industry, which is a nefarious industry. And so I think it's having both talented people as well as tools. And so we have very sophisticated tools, which I won't go into, but we do. And then it's something that there's also coalitions around this where, you know, say from the energy industry, these would be something, would be things that we as the energy industry actually meet and share information on. Because when you think about national security, say if somebody could get into, you know, one of the plants that I was talking about, like our advanced process controls where we have people, you know, that are remote being able to operate some of our things. Well, if that's a bad person doing that, think of the damage that they could cause. And so from that standpoint, this isn't like colluding or trying to do anything, but this is more of a, how do we, how do we create a coalition to keep us safe?  That's one way that we do it.  And so this is something that's looked at. And so it's not just an IT thing. You know, it's something that all facets of our business are aware of, aware of the threat that's there and what are everybody's personal responsibility. Because think about it, somebody, it can just be as simple as clicking on a link to an email that you're not sure about that gets infiltrated. So, you know, we do white hat hacking. And that's, you know, so there's definitely a component of that which is awareness and teaching of personal responsibility in addition to, like I said, the monitoring and tools that we have. And now as far as the other things, one of the pieces that where I say that this, in the last two years, what have we done in our digital transformation, we have gone to, so while I said we kind of have this matrixed organization, it's also kind of decentralized, which is, it's good from the standpoint where you can, again, get people with different, you know, strengths, say whether it's in drilling or in trading or in reservoir engineering. And, you know, they're all really strong and then they're out in all the different countries.  And so one of the things that we're doing now is we're really going to be able to deliver these digital technologies in scale and scope. We are utilizing a logical construct of platforms that are really based on the different parts of the value chain. So instead of each business unit, because we have 13 or so different business units and upstream, instead of each of them having their own tools, what we're looking to do is really have a subsurface platform. And so all of the digital tools that we will use to really enable exploration through production will be delivered through this digital platform. And then that way, that gets us to be able to really ensure that we have common applications and more important common data. And that data can flow not only within that piece of the value stream, but then it can go to, you know, our wells area or from our design through to decommissioning or into our, you know, procurement area. And so we have a construct of 12 different kind of functional platforms, again, a logical construct that connect all the different pieces of our value chain and business, even the corporate function areas. And then it's underpinned by an IT platform so that we also have a very similar way, you know, that we have, you know, our cloud environment and our networking. And that's one of the things that we're doing within our digital transformation is utilizing a more of this logical construct that we, that will allow as innovation happens that we can innovate, design once, and then kind of deliver across. And so that also helping to, as opposed to in the past where, you know, you had to kind of stay in contact with these like 50 different business units and what are they all doing and what application did they pick and can this application talk to that application and had the application, say this application, you know, had a different data definition for well versus this one, then you have to build things in the middle, get a lot of spaghetti as we call it. And so we're trying to, and that's one of, with my role as IT, the GM of IT engineering, it really is having that engineering discipline within IT to build both applications and data in a very similar way, so that we can actually do data science and the analytics on top of it. Great, yeah, so I guess I know you can't get into kind of methods and whatever they call it, methods and models on the cyber side, because it might give the, as you pointed out, a new ideas to the bad guys as you put it. Can you categorize sort of general, are you worried about your equipment being taken over and disrupted, blown up, people stealing money, oil, who knows? Is there a way to talk about general categories of risks that you feel are important? It's kind of like what keeps you awake at night most at this point. Well, many of the stuff that you just said.  So that's the good side of it, the bad side of it. Again, if it's not, if we don't have that secure, you can, you definitely can have folks that can get in. And especially as you start talking about how highly instrumented our operations are, you know, if somebody is able to get in and, you know, either take that over or to fool an instrument to say that, you know, if there's an instrument looking at a pressure and then the pressure is within a certain range, but somehow, you know, you're able to go in and kind of say, oh, the pressure isn't there or say even like a vessel where a vessel, you know, if you get in and like get to the kind of GPS, you know, a lot of the folks, and you talk to a lot of the folks on our vessels today, and it's probably the same thing with, I would think with aviators where a lot of these things, it's so, you know, automated that people don't know by hand how, you know, by hand like steer these big vessels, right? And so it's those types of things that definitely do keep us up at night. Those are, you know, we categorize them as kind of the highest potential of risk. And then we also look at the likelihood of them happening and then based on those risk matrix. So that's really what our cyber is about. It's very much a risk-based and where do we go? Very Bayesian, right in the wheelhouse of ICME, as we can now call it here for sure. I did have a couple of slides. I wanted to say, because I see we're getting close time, I actually wanted to go to... Okay, go for it. Let me see here. So just a couple of things. I want to talk about maybe the softer side or the people side, but it's not even, I don't even want to say softer because it's just as important. So really, I mean, I talked about all the things, right? But the other piece of digital is really just learning. There is a mindset shift about, you know, we are in a mature business. And so as I said, that's why I said in the beginning, I said, if you ask people, we've been doing this forever. It's like, yes, but then there's also like, how do we do the same things that we've been doing but solve them in very different ways? The other piece is, you know, because we're such a big business, long business, sometimes things take a really long time. And so trying to get people to think more from an agile standpoint and trying to be more iterative. Cause I mean, that really lends itself when you start thinking about kind of doing transformation or breakthroughs, it really is about, you know, you don't know what you don't know. And so you can't have some sort of plan out where I'm going to do this, this, this and this. It's like, you kind of have to have hypotheses, have hypotheses and kind of iterate. And then because technology is changing quite a bit, being that continuous learner and challenging yourself to continually learn all these things. And I talked about the collaborative nature and this transparency and information theory. This is the thing for us to be able to get to that scale and scope where it's not, you know, again, the 40 different business units. It is, you know, an entity, one big entity that is the company and then how do we share so that we look across the world and that if somebody's come up with a great idea, we're able to quickly pick it up and replicate it across. And then finally, one of the things just to maybe leave with some of the students, as we really see going forward, we've kind of coined this phrase of digital translators because there is this intersection between the kind of engineering technologies and the digital technologies.  But then it's like, how do you blend that with some of the digital to help look at how we interpret in a very different way to maybe to drastically reduce the cycle time that it takes. And so what we've found is people in our company who either from an academic standpoint actually have like dual degrees, you know, so somebody who has say a petroleum engineering degree and a statistics degree, or, you know, like say a geophysics degree and a computer science degree. I mean, that's what we call digital translators or somebody in the company maybe who came in again, academically either in maybe that digit, you know, more of a CS or data science space and then learn, you know, but then was in, you know, either the upstream midstream or downstream and really learn that engineering side. It's in the translators where we find the magic to happen because if you have folks where you have folks that know computer science and no data science but don't really understand the business of energy or the fine workings of the different engineering aspects of drilling a well or exploring for it or doing the operations or doing the, you know, the commercial trading or things like that, they just know the tools and there could just be fancy, cool tools. Or if you have somebody that only knows the petrotechnical side and has no clue of what the digital is, then there's this kind of huge schism in between and you can almost be speaking a different language. And so that's why we call it translator. You need kind of that translator that kind of knows both sides and can say, hey, I kind of know enough about this to be able to talk your language, no doubt about this talk yours. And I think if you guys come together, some of the magic could happen. And so that is what we're finding that folks that are kind of there, we need deep technical folks on the both sides and the petrotechnical side and on the digital technical side, but then we also need translators. Interesting. So therefore your IT department is actually not only useful as such, but also perhaps a facilitator of a change in corporate culture that brings these two disparates. There's a lot of questions about that. How do you make rapid transitions in a big old successful company? So you can do through the IT work with these, it's interesting, you immediately love a little recruiting plug in there to get, that'll work much better if you have people who can actually play that role, which you called the- And I've actually done that in my career. So I came into Chevron as a computer programmer based on my background. I was very fascinated by the piece of the business that I was in, which was that midstream piece of the business, which was that commercial piece. And so then I went and I was like, well, I wanna learn more about what they do. And I got the opportunity, I was gonna building an app and they didn't have enough time. Like people were too busy to kind of come and give me business requirements. And so it was like, okay, well, can I just go and sit with people? And that's what I did was I went for a month and I just sat with them and learned what they did. And the best thing for me was one day when the guy who was like my buddy was like, hey, I need to leave, why don't you cover my desk? And so I was covering his desk and I was using like the prototype that I had built. And I was like, good Lord, this thing is clunky. And in my mind, I saw the code and I was like, well, this is an easy fix. I was like, this will take about a half an hour to go fix this. And now that I'm using it.  And I came back and I used to take him two hours to do something. And when I took a half an hour and then by the, when I like rewrote the code, it took him 15 minutes, you know? But it was because I could see both sides. Like I knew exactly what he was doing. And I also knew that that wasn't really easy coding fix. And I just went and did it. So... I think that's a great transition into your up close and personal with the students now as you're now an even more impressive role model for them that I thought an hour ago. So Alicia, thanks for your inspiring talk. It is important, I think, for big companies who can make changes quickly to get synchronized with all that's going on in the world now. And you are doing so in many, many dimensions, some of which we didn't even get into today. Yeah. That time flew by so sorry. I'm happy to come back and share more. Yeah, well, I hope next time you'll be able to do so in person. So you can, I'm not sure if we'll get it done by the time of your reunion, which may be delayed anyway. So thanks once again for an inspiring and eye-opening seminar. Thank you very much. Thanks for having me.