Hello, and welcome to our video summarizing all you need to know about the non-fiction novel by Truman Capote called In Cold Blood. My name is Sarah, and today I'm going to give you an overview of the book, a summary of its chapters, an analysis of characters, and a quick biography of the author. This video is really useful, especially if you are studying the book as part of your English literature course or exam, as I'll get into the details you need to know to get top marks. So, let's get started. So, In Cold Blood is a non-fiction novel by the American writer Truman Capote, published originally as a four-part series in the New Yorker magazine in 1965, and in book form in 1966. Capote used the techniques of fiction to tell the true story of the 1959 murders of the Clutter family in Kansas by a pair of drifters and of the subsequent capture, trial, and execution of the killers. So now on to the plots. In Cold Blood tells the true story of the murder of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas in 1959. The book is written as if it were a novel, complete with dialogue and is what Truman Capote referred to as New Journalism, the non-fiction novel. Although this writing style had been used before, the craft and success of In Cold Blood led to its being dimmed the true masterwork of the genre. For Truman Capote, it was the last in a series of great works, which included breakfast at Tiffany's, other voices, other rooms, and the grass harp. In Cold Blood was originally published in four parts in the New Yorker and then released as a novel in 1965. In Cold Blood took six years for Capote to research and write, and it took an incredible toll on Capote, personally. So much that he never published another book again. In Cold Blood is said to have been his undoing. The book tells the story of the murder of the Clutter family consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Clutter and their two teenage children, Kenyon and Nancy. They had two older daughters that were grown and out of the house and the events that lead the killers to murder. The family was living in Holcomb, Kansas and in November 1959, they were brutally killed with no apparent motive by Dick Highcock and Perry Smith. The family was discovered bound and shot to death with only small items missing from the home. Capote read about the crime in the New York Times soon after it happened, and before the killers were caught, he began his work in Kansas, interviewing the people in Holcomb and doing extensive research with the help of his friend Harper Lee who would go on to write the classic to kill a mockingbird. Perry and Dick initially get away with the murder, leaving behind scant clues and having no personal connection with the murdered family. Capote explores the motive again and again within his text, eventually concluding that any real motive for the crime lays within Perry. His feelings of inadequacy, his ambiguous sexuality and his anger at the world and at his family because of his bad childhood. Dick plays the role of true outlaw but the impact of the killings weigh heavily on him and his own role in the murders remains unexplained and unclear. The townspeople of Holcomb and other friends of the Clutters are deeply affected by the murders. This includes Nancy's best friend Sue and Nancy's boyfriend Bobby. The townspeople perceived the Clutters as the family least likely in the world to be murdered. Unable to conceive that the killers were strangers, many of them become suspicious of everyone and anxious about their own safety in the company of the neighbors. The man who heads the murder investigation, Al Dewey, becomes obsessed with both the murderers and the Clutter family. His need to find the killers becomes his driving force in life. While the anxiety in Holcomb grows, the killers move on with their lives. The book follows Perry and Dick to Mexico and back and incredibly it seems that they might never be found out and brought to justice. Ultimately, a living witness who can tie the two men to the Clutters footprints at the crime scene and the possession of a pair of binoculars and a radio from the Clutter home become the pair's undoing. They are arrested and both confess to their part in the crime. They are tried for murder and convicted. After many years on death row, both men are hanged.  So now on to a detailed summary. Chapter 1. The Clutter family is introduced on November 15, 1959, the day they were murdered through the eyewitness accounts of friends and neighbors who spent time with them before the Clutters met their fates. They are a tight-knit, all-American family unit. Herb Clutter spends his day running the ranch supervising his employees. He's a good employer offering decent wages and personal help to anyone who works for him. His one rule is that he will not employ anyone who drinks or keeps alcohol. His daughter Nancy is a thriving popular attractive and kind teenage girl who dreams of moving to New York and attending college. Nancy is described as the town darling. She has long been dating a local boy named Bobby Wrapp, but she sees no solid future with him. Herb's wife and the mother of their children, Bonnie Clutter, suffers severe bouts with postpartum depression after the birth of her four children. She remains bedridden and miserable while her daughter and husband run the household. The youngest Clutter, Kenyon, spends his days constructing, deconstructing and rebuilding various electronics and gadgets. He is highly intelligent and has the promise of growing up to become an engineer and inventor. Unknown to the Clutters, Paris Smith and Dick Hickock are making their way to the Clutter home with the intention of murdering them all. Despite the lack of a clear motive, Dick is bloodthirsty. He plans to leave no witnesses and to blast hair all over the walls. Paris seems less enthusiastic about the potential for violence and pleads with Dick to buy stockings to disguise their faces. At first, Dick refuses, but eventually, Paris convinces him to buy stockings to conceal their identities. Paris has an incredible almost fanatical interest in words and the English language. His sole motive for participating in this crime has nothing to do with greed or bloodlust. All Paris wants is to stay with Dick long enough to reunite with his friend Willie J, a former prison mate and the focus of all of Paris' affection and actions. Meanwhile, Dick is fascinated by a story Paris once told him in which Paris bid a man to death with a bicycle chain. Dick wants to see if Paris is indeed a true killer. After Dick and Paris murder the Clutters and the bodies are discovered, Paris and Dick are exhausted. Paris sleeps in his hotel room while Dick returns to the home of his parents, where he eats, watches basketball and eventually falls asleep on the couch. On to Chapter 2. Herbert Clutters, three closest friends, arrive at the Clutter home after the bodies have been removed and the police finish their initial investigation. They clean up the home and scrub it off all of the unpleasant reminders of the crime itself. Paris and Dick have gone to Mexico as much to avoid arrest or suspicion as to fulfill Paris' desire to go skin diving and to search for treasure. Dick goes to Mexico reluctantly and finances the trip by writing bad checks. Dick uses phony checks to get both cash and to buy merchandise which he can sell somewhere else. Back in Holcomb, the murders have an epic impact on the town. Holcomb is a town where people traditionally know and trust one another, but now its residents keep lights on at all hours, lock their doors and suspect everyone else. Bobby Rubb, Nancy's boyfriend, faces more police interrogation but is eventually ruled out as a suspect. This despite the fact that he has the only reasonable motive to harm the Clutters, that of looting Nancy to her father's disapproval. Capote reveals details of Paris' childhood. His childhood was unpleasant until his mother began drinking and abandoned her husband, taking the children with her. Later, Paris was left in children's homes where he was horrifically abused, mainly by nuns. Paris is eventually reunited with his father and they tried to start a hunting lodge, but when the business failed, Paris and his father went separate ways after an intense physical fight during which Paris felt the need to nearly choke his father to death. Paris' sister and brother both committed suicide, while a second sister established a good life for herself with her husband and children. Paris reflects on his life of crime, which mainly consists of petty thievery and breaking and entering. Paris reveals to Dick that he has a reoccurring dream in which he is in Africa, where he approaches a tree that smells terrible but looks beautiful. In this dream, as Paris gets closer to the tree, he sees that it has diamonds hanging from it like fruits. He begins to pick the diamonds, but is attacked by a giant snake that wears the tree. The snake begins to eat Paris. What Paris doesn't tell, Dick, is that his dream always ends the same way, with a giant bird, a sort of parrot, arriving to save Paris, conquering whoever might be hurting Paris and then taking him to heaven. Back in Hong Kong, the murder investigation continues. Police discover a gold wristwatch tucked into Nancy's shoe, indicating that she heard the intruders and attempted to hide her valuables before they find her. Police also note that Kenyon's radio is missing. Rubbery was quickly disregarded as a motive for the crime, as Herb Clutter was infamous for having no cash on hand. But when locals hear that Kenyon's radio is gone, the townspeople presume that robbery was a motive after all. Capote makes it clear that Dick and Perry have possession of both Kenyon's radio and Herb Clutter's binoculars. Finally, footprints with a diamond shaped shoe pattern are discovered in the basement where Herb and Kenyon Clutter were murdered. Still another puzzle piece that baffles investigators is the positioning of the Clutter family's bodies. Nancy and Bonnie were covered with blankets up to their chins, tucked in, either before or after they were killed. A box had been moved from one end of the basement to the other to give Herb Clutter a more comfortable seat, and Kenyon had been given a pillow to lie on before he was murdered on the chest he built himself. These actions, coupled with the lack of upper motive in killing the family, said to be the least likely to have been killed. However, Kenyon, who ever been murdered, increases speculation in the town, criticism of the investigator and tension within the texts. Capote introduces Albert Jui and his family into the narrative. Albert is the lead investigator in the Clutter case, and he becomes obsessed with the Clutter's, the crime scene, and with finding the killers. Albert feels haunted by the Clutter family and believes that he will remain so until he knows what happened to them. He comes to believe that the person who killed the Clutter's knew them well and had a personal motive due to the intimate nature of the crime and the lack of an apparent motive. While Albert's wife is sympathetic, she is disturbed by the crime scene photos and has a terrifying dream in which Mrs. Clutter speaks to her from the grave about being murdered. Meanwhile, Dick and Perry continue their journey. They are hitchhiking, waiting for someone to pick them up. They intend to murder the unlucky driver and then steal the car.  A former employee of Herbert Clutter, Wells remembers that he had told Dick about the Clutter family revealing details about the house and its occupants. Wells realized that Dick believed, based on Wells' account of his own employment there, that they would be safe in the office. While Capote revealed the identity of the Killers at the very beginning of the novel, he kept both a motive and any connection between the murderers and the Clutter's to himself. Sometimes, Capote's writing suggested that even the Killers themselves didn't know why they chose this family to kill, but here, finally, a motive surfaces, robbery. Dick Heacock was misled into believing there was a safe on the Clutter property. This is one of a series of small seemingly insignificant details that contributed to the fate of the Clutter family. Albert learns about Dick and Perry and the potential that they are the murderers, but he decides not to reveal details about the pair to the public or media. He is cautious because of the lack of physical evidence connecting Dick and Perry to the crime. What's more, Dewey believes even if robbery was the motive, the lack of money in the Clutter household would not be enough to cause Dick and Perry to murder the whole family. Regardless, Dewey receives files on Dick and Perry, including photographs of the men. Dewey's wife recalls upon seeing the two men, convinced that they were the last people the Clutter saw. Herbert Knight resolves to track down Dick and Perry. He visits the homes of their families and the pawn shops where Dick had been hawking stolen goods. And he comes to a hotel where the pair had been staying, where Perry's box of drones and memorabilia was being kept for him. He visits Perry's sister who remains pleasant but holds nothing back in her description of Perry as someone she fears, while at the same time someone she deeply loves and worries about.  But at the last possible second, the driver picks up another hitchhiker in what Perry calls a goddamn miracle. Despite the threat of being discovered, Perry and Dick then decide to return to Kansas City because they believe it to be the best place for Dick to con his way into more money. While Perry remains worried about being so close to their crime scene, they make their way to the town, where Dick runs his camp and gets some money, and the two of them live without incident. By returning and again leaving Kansas without incident, Dick and Perry become convinced that they will never be connected to the clutter murders. As they continue their journey westward, they pick up a boy of about 12 and his grandfather. The four of them make a slow journey through the desert, picking up empty soda bottles to turn in for cash. The arrest occurs in Las Vegas on December 30th, 1959. Dick and Perry are captured by Las Vegas police based on the license plate number of the stolen car they were driving. Al Dewey is informed of the arrest as his wife is preparing for a party. The two of them embrace and Al apologizes for spoiling her party. It assures him that it's the best way he could have spoiled it, as they will soon be living a normal life again. Dick and Perry are interrogated by police, both believing that they are being arrested for parole violations and Dick's bad check schemes. Harold Nye and Roy Church interview Dick, who is proud to confess that he cons people by writing bad checks. Dick becomes even more likes when the questioning turns to his personal life and history. When the conversation comes to the night of the clutter murders, Dick details a story that he and Perry invented and rehearsed in which they stayed in a cabin with two prostitutes. Nye tells Perry that he is a murder suspect in the clutter case and that there is a living witness. Perry finally admits that the story about the cabin is a lie and Dick realizes that the witness is his ex-cellmate and both men begin to unravel. Finally Dick tells the investigators that it was Perry who killed the family and that he was unable to stop Perry from killing them all. The news of the arrest arrives in Holcomb and received as an anti-climax. The people of Holcomb were almost disappointed that the murderer was not acquainted with the clutter and that the killer wasn't working among them. As Dewey and Dunn transport Perry back to Kansas, he gives the ultimate confession, recounting the murders in incredible detail. Perry reveals that Mr. Clutter cooperated with the home invaders up until he realized that his family was in mortal danger when his own throat was slit.  With a general sense of frenzy the other members were shot, perhaps all by Perry. Perry's disgust and irritation with Dick becomes clear. Dick had such a bravado that wasn't able to follow through with the plan. The Clutter family was murdered because of Perry daring Dick to complete what he had started, but this became a frenzy of activity in which Perry seems to have acted alone. There is a question of whether or not Dick actually killed Nancy or Mrs. Clutter but it remains unanswered. Chapter 4 Dick and Perry are incarcerated and await trial. Dick is put into the county jail but in order to keep the two separated, Perry is put into a cell usually reserved for women at the home of the undersheriff, Wendell Mayer and his wife. Perry befriends the couple who treat him well and he acquires the trust and affection of a wild squirrel that lives just outside the window. When asked to sign his statement, Perry asked that it be changed to reflect that he now asserts as the truth, that he killed the entire family and that Dick did not kill Mrs. Clutter or Nancy. Perry does this as a means to comfort Dick's mother. He also keeps a journal remarking on his upcoming trial and his current life with the Mayers. Dick lives among the general population in county jail. He becomes popular among the inmates and begins to plot an escape. He fashions a shive but it is discovered before he can enact his plan. Perry also begins to think about escaping and he writes a note to the two young boys who have been watching his cell asking for a hacksaw. After he writes the note, Perry never sees the boys again and he begins to wonder if they ever existed. Perry also considers suicide by using the light bulb in his cell to cut his wrists. In a dream in which he succeeds in killing himself, he is visited again by the yellow bird. The trial arrives and Perry and Dick's sanity is called into question. The first doctors who examine Perry conclude that he is now and was at the time of the murders sown by the legal definition. Further details regarding the behavior of the two men following the murder are recounted. Perry says that after the killings the two men couldn't stop laughing that they felt high and joked around as they buried evidence and cleaned themselves. This new physical evidence was found by investigators and brought to the trial along with the radio binoculars and photographs of the shoe prints matching those of Dick and Perry. With this even without the confession the case is solid. Each man is appointed a lawyer. Both lawyers confess that the case is not the most attractive to a defense attorney but they do their best to represent Dick and Perry. Perry begins to correspond with Don Cullivan, a man with whom he served in the army. Don eventually comes to visit Perry in jail and the two of them share a meal. Perry tells Don that in truth he is not sorry and feels no regret for his crime. Don and Christian tells Perry that he is concerned for Perry's soul. Don admits that he enjoys Perry's company and friendship and personally concludes that it is only because of God's grace that he himself did not end up a criminal in the same way that Perry has. The property and belongings of the clutter family are auctioned off. There is a large turnout and everything is sold. The final tragedy is the sale of Babe, Nancy's horse, who was not a useful farm animal but a pet. Sue Kidwell is overcome at the sight of Babe being led away by a farmer intending on using the horse to plow. Floyd Wealth testifies as the mysterious witness. He is given the reward but at the time of the book's writing he is again incarcerated for armed robbery. The prosecution also introduces the crime scene photos, physical evidence and Perry's confession. The defense only is able to put forth characters with the defense only is able to put forth character witnesses and makes closing arguments more against the death penalty than for the innocence of the murders. But both Dick and Perry are found guilty and sentenced to death. Mrs. Mayer grieves after the verdict she is joined in her grief by the squirrel that will not take food from her but continues to wait for Perry. The two men arrive at Death Row where they are to stay for a total of five years.  The inmates are all within speaking distance to each other but their cells line up so they cannot see one another. Perry attempts to starve himself to death though his motivation may have been to be declared legally insane. The other occupants of Death Row are introduced among them is Loa Lee Andrews, a large and highly intelligent young men who killed his entire family and feels no guilt or grief. Eventually young soldiers George Ronald York and James Douglas Latham arrive on Death Row. These two men all good-looking and pleasant despite having gone on a multi-state killing spree because of their belief that the world has become hateful. The title of the chapter is revealed.  Dick finds an attorney to appeal his conviction based on what he considers his lack of a fair trial. He's ultimately unsuccessful. Andrews is put to death on November 30th, 1962. Dick and Perry are put to death on April 14th 1965. Al Dewey attends the execution and feels deep, true empathy for Perry and his last minutes. Dewey sees Perry as a child. The final scene of the book jumps ahead and finds Susan Kidwell and Al Dewey meeting one another in a graveyard. Susan is attending college and living in New York just as she and Nancy had planned. The book ends optimistically looking ahead to the future and with a feeling that Susan and Al are moving on with life and with a feeling that Susan and Al are moving on with life. So let's study the characters. Herbert William Clutter, the head of the Clutter family, his 48th and owns a ranch. He provides well for his family and employs several ranch hands. He's a hard worker, a generous employer, a strict but fair father and a faithful husband to his bedridden wife. He's a college graduate having a degree in agriculture from Kansas State University and a self-made man. He is the embodiment of the American dream and the pinnacle of respect. Bonnie Clutter, wife of Herbert, mother of four and bedridden with severe depression since the birth of her youngest, Bonnie. She's fragile, affectionate and deeply ashamed of her condition. She's always cold even in the summer and her room is always heated. She collects miniature things and wants studied to become a nurse. In the opening of the book she has recently been given a silver of hope for recovery by a doctor who suggested her condition may be the result of a pinched nerve. Nancy Clutter, daughter of Bonnie and Herbert Clutter and described as the town darling. Nancy is smart and beautiful and she is involved in the community. She is the class president, a leader of the 4H program, a musician and an excellent student. She is generous and kind to her friends and neighbors. Kenyon Clutter, the youngest of the Clutter children at 15. Kenyon is a loner. He has one friend who he no longer sees often because the friend has recently taken a girlfriend. Kenyon is highly intelligent and likes to build and modify electronic gadgets and other machines. Paris Smith, one of the two murderers of the Clutter family. He grew up under difficult circumstances. He was abandoned by his family and severely abused by nuns and other caregivers. He has a reoccurring dream about a large bird that saves him from bullies, abusers and anyone who might cause him harm. Paris is described as a small man, but very muscular in his upper arms and chest. His feet and legs, however, are small and delicate. This is one of Paris's many contradictions. He never passed the third grade, but as an adult he has an incredible thirst of foreign knowledge, vocabulary and literature. He is calm and gentle and he seems to want love and acceptance, but he is eventually revealed to be the more brutal of the two men.  After the murders, Paris seems unable to reconcile his personal opinion. After the murders, Paris seems unable to reconcile his personal opinion of himself with the crimes he has committed. Paris also appears to have homosexual tendencies, which are revealed via his affections for both Dick and a former cellmate by the name of Willy J. Dick Hiccup, one of the two murderers of the Clutter family. He is motivated by coronal impulses, lust, greed, vanity and indulgence of any kind. He is the mastermind and instigator of the murders, having heard about a big score at the Clutter ranch. He is further motivated by the fact that there is a teenage girl in the house.  After the murders, Dick shows no remorse or interest in discussing the crime. He remains focused on finding money and women and avoiding capture. He is able to con shop owners and vulnerable women out of money and property. His friendship with Paris stems solely from a lie Paris told him in which he killed a man with a bicycle chain. Dick was amused by the story and had hoped to bring forth Paris's murderous nature again during the Clutter robbery. I'll win a dance, Jewie. Head of the Clutter murder investigation, he had been a sheriff of Finey County and a special agent of the FBI. He becomes completely obsessed with the Clutter case, spending all of his emotional energy sometimes at the cost of his family in solving the crime. The clues, leads, theories and his general meditation on both the family and the crime. He admits to be haunted by the crime and he intends to continue his investigation until he finally understands why the Clutters were murdered. His motivation becomes the narrative and the reader finds it equally imperative to continue reading to discover finally what actually happened. Willy J, a friend of Paris from a previous incarceration. Paris' desire for a relationship like the one he had with Willy J leads him to begin his journey with Dick. Floyd Wells, a former cellmate of Dick Hickock and a former ranch head of Herbert Clutter. Floyd becomes a catalyst for the murders by allowing Dick to believe that the Clutters had a safe in the house. The murders take place 10 years after Dick and Floyd share a cell, but Wells becomes the only person who can tie the murders to Dick and Perry. Susan Killwell, Nancy's best friend and one of the last people to see the Clutters alive. Susan discovers the bodies after the family is killed. Her grief causes her a form of intense bond with Bobby soon after the murders. About the author. Truman Capote was born on September 30, 1924 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He died in August 25, 1984 in Los Angeles in California. He is an American novelist, short story writer and playwright whose early writing extended the Southern Gothic tradition, though he later developed a more journalistic approach in the novel in Cold Blood, which together with breakfast at Tiffany's remains his best known work. His parents were divorced when he was young, and he spent his childhood with various elderly relatives in small towns in Louisiana and Alabama. He attended private schools and eventually joined his mother and stepfather at Mill Brook in Connecticut, where he completed his secondary education at Greenwich High School. Capote drew on his childhood experiences for many of his early works of fiction. Capote drew on his childhood experiences for many of his early works of fiction. Having abandoned further schooling, he achieved early literary recognition in 1945, when his haunting short story, Miriam, was published in Mademoiselle Magazine. The following year, it won the O. Henry Memorial Award. The first of four such awards Capote received. His first published novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms, was acclaimed as the work of a young writer of great promise. The book is a sensitive, partly autobiographical portrayal of a boy's search for his father and his own sexual identity through a nightmarishly decadent southern world. The short story showed a final door and other tales of loveless and isolated individuals were collected in a three-of-nights and other stories. The quasi-autobiographical novel The Grass Harp is a story of non-confirming innocence who temporarily retired from life to a treehouse returning renewed to the real world. One of Capote's most popular works, Breakfast at Tiffany's, is a novel about Holy Golly Thlee, a young few-cafe society girl. It was first published in Esquire Magazine in 1958 and then as a book with several other stories. So that's all for this video. If you found it useful, give it a thumbs up and do subscribe to our channel where we offer free materials that you can use as part of your studies to really get a better grasp of specific areas you might find challenging. Make sure to visit our website where you'll find useful revision guides, modem answers and tools to get top marks. Thank you for listening!


One of the goals of the T2 Tile project is, well, the main goal is to build a hardware implementation for the movable feast machine, a particular kind of architecture, and one of the most important things that most basic beginning things that the movable feast machine has to provide is large object motion, where it depends on exactly what large, what object and what motion means, but let's take a couple of minutes to marinate in this. We're actually a little sunlit getting in, reflecting off of the afternoon in the South West like much yet, but that makes me really excited to be that feels full of potential. So hey folks, it's T Tuesday, 3122. These were the goals from last time. I'm just going to, instead of going through them in this order, I'm just going to do kind of a news report because there's all kinds of things going on. This may take a little bit longer than I tried to say for myself, but you know, I'm going to let the casual YouTube audience go. Is if there's content that I want to report to you, I'm going to report to you.  That's what matters. So, OK, let's get into it. Number one, ULAM 5, the latest version of the programming language designed for the movable feast machine to run on the T2 Tiles is finally released. The previous ULAM 4 was released in 2018. ULAM 5 was supposed to be come out a couple of years ago or year and a half ago. Anyway, it is now out. Elena is the the principal author of the ULAM compiler and made all this happen. There's a tremendous amount of new stuff. And we got all the way to have Ubuntu packages. Not for everything in particular, only for 64-bit architectures, not for 32-bit architectures. Does anybody care about 32-bit architectures anymore?  Once one starts getting into dealing with this stuff and I just couldn't go far enough, but, you know, I will show you.   So it was like, OK, figure out what I need and then go start springing the bear traps and, you know, just fail, fail, fail. And then eventually get to a fairly, you know, this piece of software has to be newer than this version. That piece of software has to be older than that version. It was like there's no solution. And so, like, can I go all the way back to 2016 era, you know, like before America went to hell? Um, to get ancient software. So to 1604, that's an Ubuntu distribution from 2016. Can we make a VM and run it there? And that eventually started to work. And then I started getting a higher class of errors. And eventually I actually got far enough that I could start sending packages up to Canonical. That's the company that does Ubuntu. And when you're contributing packages for a personal package archive, you send the source code up to them and they build it on their build farm. And if they don't like it, it doesn't, if it doesn't build, they don't like it. And, you know, wasn't getting it to build failed here. The clock just keeps spinning. But by like eight o'clock last night, I got everything. The 64 bit builds finally working. And, you know, OK, I will take it. Oh, yeah. And just to show how easy it is. Now that we have packages, I'm going to try to do a demo on a VM, because, you know, I've actually become quite a bit more competent with modern VM stuff. They've come a long way. All right, so this is a brand new Ubuntu 2204. That's the most recent long term thing. I'm going to see if I can connect to the personal package archive, install Llam and run a program while we watch. OK, so no, I do not want to connect my online accounts. No, I do not want to set up live patch. No, I do not want to send system info about this virtual machine that I am about to toss immediately. OK, I'm ready to go. All right, so I need a terminal terminal. OK, and now I got to do the magic command, which I have pre-typed over here so that if I can, can I paste it? No, I cannot paste it. sudo add at repository, PPA, actually, MFM. OK, and the password for me here, did I blow it? So, oh, is it lowercase? I think it's lowercase. Maybe it's lower. I think it's really lowercase. Oh, repository. Yeah, jammy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, press enter. OK, all right, so, theoretically, that now made, all right. So now, I don't actually, software, right? So, if I start this up and I type, I search for ULAM, it's taken for, oh, great. Yeah, I really, I really need the application ratings. All right, come on, I don't want, search, synaptic. See, I don't use this, I use synaptic because it's the old one. Does that mean, I guess I'm going to pretend it means it's done? So now can I run synaptic? Oh, dear, I knew this was a bad idea. That's what I chose to do it anyway. So now, come on, mark for installation. Yeah, it's going to mark a bunch of other stuff. Oh, this is probably going to take quite a while. Yeah, yeah, yeah, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it. I wonder if I should just go, maybe, yeah, yeah. What if I go back to other stuff and then we'll come back to that? That's how easy this is. All right, in other topics, one of my goals for this time was to learn more about self-publishing so that I might be able to get this little science fiction story, Search Quiet Wake, out to the world and just to try to, you know, be able to speak in my own voice, whether anybody wants to hear it. I don't have to convince a publisher or an editor first to get it out there. If I can find an audience, I can find an audience directly.  Rin, in the Discord, sorry to bug, saw in your last video, I think I went into publishing, you know, Spirits might want to discuss. Yes, that's exactly what I wanted.  So I learned no need to sign up for a Kindle direct publishing. I just signed up for Ingram Spark account. Yes, yes, yes.  For latex files, which is what I would like to use and so forth. I'm working my way through the care package, getting it working on my thing. I've still got problems. That's currently on my desk to figure out. And, you know, Rin, thank you so much. It felt like, you know, the hardest part of the ramp is when you need a little help to get you the farthest, the quickest. Yay. Yeah. All right. Can we go back to our demo doing all right. Change is applied. We'll get out of this and we ought to be able to just type MFMS. Now, here's a trick. MFMS dash dash CPP demos. These are the ancient, ancient, look at all that. These are the ancient, ancient elements that were written. Oh, man, I don't know how many years ago, even before ULAM existed. We've managed to keep them still running. And, you know, we can run the procedural city generation demo right now. Boom, there we are. That, you know, is one of the more popular videos over on the Dave Ackley channel because, you know, it's quite a bit of fun to watch. Won't take any more time now. ULAM five packages are available. All of this stuff has been pushed to master for GitHub folks. Finally, I am sorry it took so long. All right, let's stop the city here. All right, so in other news, you know, I have so many things that seem like they're sort of separate branches, but in my mind, they all come together and I'm hoping they will all come together while I'm still able to explain why they do fit together. But there's the Hyperspace Academy series of lectures over on the Dave Ackley channel of which the most recent one, We Are Coders, is beginning to put out what I think is a kind of compelling, if you're a nerd, philosophy of life sort of where the idea is a large part of it. It's about code design. It's about API and program design. It's not about like what is true. It's not about what the neurons force on you or physics force on you. It's about choices. It's about what architectural design. How do you want to organize your programs, your hardware, software system to do good things? And the suggestion is, is that organizing it around the fact that number one, first up, We Are Coders is a useful, productive way that unfolds in an effective way and can unfold in an effective way. And part of that is this idea of the self image that came out. I talked about it right. So we can view ourselves. We can view programmable machinery as being consisting of four processes, input, sequence, judge and output. And that's what the We Are Coders video over on the Dave Ackley channel was about. I had these symbols for each one, input, arrow in, output, arrow out, sequence, arrow going around in the same place and judge being good or bad, up or down, that sort of thing. And those four symbols, I smushed together into the self symbol. You know, there's the input, there's the output over there. Here's the sequence up here and there's the judge, good and bad.  We've got, you know, wine charms, these things. But the fantasy is the Hyperspace Academy uses the self symbol all over the place. It's a shorthand for a computer architecture, a programmable architecture. Not that, again, is right or wrong, but one that we can choose. We can say, I'm going to look at things as being organized in terms of input, output, sequence and judgements. And they can control each other in different kinds of ways. And we get all kinds of different machinery by how each of those processes impacts the other ones. And so I wanted to get it in as many ways as possible. I always kind of fantasized about having sort of like an ancient, you know, Inka or Stonehenge stone version of the thing. And, you know, again, the introductions channel, which Andrew, I think, made on the Discord a week or two ago, has been really great and lots of people have introduced themselves. And it's been really interesting to see it. And so the Scoundrel M showed up and said, you know, they're an amateur computer graphics artist and, you know, they know about Blender and so forth. And I have gotten destroyed by Blender. So I started talking to the Scoundrel M and look at this.  And, you know, this is also now on my on my desk to find some reference stones and stuff like that, that to keep working on it. But already, you know, thank you, the Scoundrel M, and thank you, everybody who participates in the Discord or, you know, participating in any way, it really, really helps me. Now, research and development, what we saw in the opening video, low density mobile grid, LDMG, that's my new thing. And so just to back up to introduce it for a minute. So, you know, in the 12 steps to robust, one of the steps is like step number three, I mean, it's really basic. Build bottom up has been echoing in my mind a lot. And the, you know, when I would design, like when I was designing the plates, I was filling space with plate, solid plate, and the plate could overwrite other plate and so forth. But it was hogging everything. And the build bottom up notion was, well, one of them was, what if it's about leaving empty space? What if it's about not being committed and saying, yeah, I don't care.  And I won't even look at the rest of the space. And that makes it a lower order problem. And it makes everybody else that has to deal with it can know that. And say, you know, as long as I can definitely zip in and hear and avoid the things that it cares about, I know it will work. Now, what if it's about empty space? And that led me to the idea of this hard cell that, you know, we've seen over the last two updates, the sort of blobby membrane gas cloud slash soft cell versions. What if I said, you know, and I really didn't like that. But once again, this is the same move. What if we wanted to focus on building a grid that number one can move and number two, it's as low density as possible. It leaves as much empty for other purposes as it can. And I got to hard cell three. So, you know, here is the event window. The guy that's having the event is always in the middle. He thinks he's the center of the universe. And he can look out to distance four all the way around. And so the idea of hard cell three is that we're going to have another. We're going to have a hard cell three. It distance three in each of the four directions. And we're just going to keep tiling space until we get to however big the overall grid wishes to be. And, you know, so if we if we do this, I mean, we could have said, put it out at distance four. But when I started working it all through, in particular, the needs of being mobile, distance three kind of seemed to be the sweet spot. And when you work it out, you think about it, OK, well, what that really means is in every three by three collection of sites, there's one hard cell three and the other eight sites are empty. One of nine occupied, eight of nine empty, 88.8 percent, almost 89 percent. So here's the advertising slogan for hard cell three. Hard cell three is 89 percent, nothing. And that's a good thing because it means it's 89 percent of your potential. 89 percent of, you know, memory unused in effect, processing power unused for whatever you want, where you can now count on having a grid around you. And that's what we saw in the open events. Now, how does the grid actually move? And this is another thing that really made me happy. And this is why hard cell three is what works good. And hard cell four would not do it, at least not this way. And the idea is, is that if we're supposed to go out three, we can look north, south, west and east of each of our neighbors. So we've got a little for, you know, across here, across here, across there. So what could happen is, is, you know, if one of them wants to, they're not going to send a packet. They're not going to send a message saying, I want to go north under the right circumstances, according to the hard cell three rules, they will just go north. And that will tell everybody else something. It's also a message and its emotion. And that's the key to this idea of stigmergy that we see in nature all over the place. The termite mounds, classic example, that the termite mounds, the termites, they just do what they do. And in addition to getting things done, it's also a signal to other termites at the exact same time, the exact same motion, no extra work. And that's what we do with hard cell three. So for example, if the way we can tell is each hard cell has a hop count so that we can have a root and then we have hop counts increasing away from the root. So if this guy has got hops three, this guy's got hops three, the one in the center who's having been hops four, this one's got hop five over there that's empty, then because these two have threes, that means they're upstream. So we're going to pay attention to them because this thing has hops bigger than the guy that's having been that means they're downstream. And so the idea is, oh, look at this, you know, this guy's in the center. This one has moved north relative to the three by three pitch. And over here, this guy has also moved north relative to the resting position. And that sends a stigmatic message to the guy in the middle that he'd like to go north as long as going north would not cause him to lose sight of any of his downstreams. Now, in this case, there's nobody over there, so there's no problem. In this case, even if he moves north, the downstream guy will still be able to see him. In fact, it will look just like we have here. He'll see them one step up so he can go ahead and move, and that's how it works. And finally, so all of these things move by moving in their little cross shaped neighborhoods around each of the four neighboring sites, plus the full four cross cell neighborhood around the center. That's because we don't we don't we move, you know, north, south, east, west, one square at a time. And that's what we saw, and that means there are these pockets, these 16 sites that the code never needs to look at. It can move, it can preserve itself without caring about those in the least. Now, the way the code is written in a couple of cases, it does scan through that stuff because that's because I really hadn't figured it all out quite at that point. But this, like this whole lot, you know, we could put messages in there, we could put storage in there, and that storage would then look to the grid and say, oh, I need to move to keep up as the grid moves. But then that's all it has to do. It doesn't have to worry about the bigger picture of motion or of coordinating space. So that's it did pretty well, considering we did a sort of busted live demo. So that's it for next time. Here are the goals. I want to announce the goal project, the T2 tile project goal for 2022. It's June, it's getting to be time. And, you know, the real point is, is that, you know, a two week cadence is, is, you know, enough to certainly keep me not slacking off for more than a day or two after each Tuesday update. And it's like, I got to get something going again. But we need a slightly longer scale thing as well. And so six months is something that seems about right. I have an idea what that's going to be, but I want to flesh it out a little bit, make it more specific. So that'll be next time.  We'll see how far we can get. And I want to take the learning that I got from RIN and get the IngramSpark account and start moving all down the road there so that I could do, you know, maybe publish a little test book and find out how much is going to cost me, even though I want to do a little bit more work on SearchQuiet Wake, if I'm going to go final before I actually push that out there and then have some more fun. It's been pretty good. Thank you so much for coming, whether you're here live or you're watching the other videos later. I hope to see you next time.


Vayam Bharatasya Janah HM Bharat ke log, HM Hind ki Awam People of India Having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a sovereign socialist, secular, democratic republic and to secure to all its citizens justice, social, economic and political liberty of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship equality of status and of opportunity and to promote among them all fraternity assuring the dignity of the individual and the unity and integrity of the nation In our constituent assembly this 26th day of November 1949 do hereby adopt, enact and give to ourselves this constitution


A mid-July itinerary is the first to list the island as a port of call for the Royal Caribbean cruise line. Prime Minister the Honourable Alan Sharsney says protocols have been determined for the sub-sector. This includes mandatory vaccinations, pre-arrival COVID-19 testing, and limited short excursions or options. All passengers disembarking the ship onto the island will be required to wear a face mask, adhered to physical distancing and regular sanitizing. Honourable Sharsney says talks however continue to address grey areas of the cruise sector resumption. What we're looking at is that everybody who would be on the ship would be vaccinated, both the crew as well as the guests. The complicated matter is that persons under the age of 18 and certainly persons under the age of 10 are probably not going to be vaccinated and what are the protocols we're going to put in place and that's what we're working through right now for those specific persons. An itinerary of four destinations in the region will harmonize the protocols and work in tandem to fit each government's COVID-19 response requirements. These include ensuring the isolation of any crew or passengers that contract COVID-19 during the cruise. In the case of St. Lucia, we have been co-existing with COVID. We've created a bubble for our tourism industry and that bubble has continued to grow meaning that in addition to having access to the hotel that the tourists are now having access to certain tours. And so the persons who are providing those tours have actually been practicing the necessary protocols and are being properly observed on a regular basis to make sure that we're not spreading any disease locally. So that's really fortunate for the cruise industry because it means they can benefit automatically from that experience. Particularly if all the persons who are going on the tours have been vaccinated. We believe we have a great product and now each one of the countries are doing similarly to St. Lucia in working out what their protocols are going to be. St. Lucia has established a special tourism committee to provide oversight over the resumption of the cruise tourism which includes the ministries of tourism, health and wellness and the St. Lucia Air and Seaports Authority. The protocols will continue to be examined and updated where necessary as the July restart date draws nearer.


good morning and welcome to morning prayer. For those of you that don't know, my name is Adam. I'm our morning Levite here at the Radiant City Center prayer room. Our lovely and incredible pastor Sean will be leading us into a time of intercession, but I'm going to open us up in Psalm 84. How lovely is your tabernacle, O Lord of Hosts. My soul longs just even faints for the courts of the Lord. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God. Even the sparrow is found a home in the swallow and nest for herself where she may lay her young. Even your altars, O Lord of Hosts, my King and my God, blessed are those who dwell in your house. They will still be praising you. Jumping down to verse 10, for a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness. For the Lord God is a son and a shield. The Lord will give grace and glory. No good thing will he withhold from those who walk up rightly. O Lord of Hosts, blessed is the man who trusts in you. God, we just come before you today with the heart cry of how lovely is your tabernacle. Lord, our soul longs it faints for the courts of the Lord. And Lord, we consider it a high honor to get to start off our day gathering together for a time of worship and prayer, for a time of ministering to your heart. Lord, we don't come to get something. We don't come with ourselves on our minds, Lord, but we come to bring an offering. We come to bring something that costs us. We come to bless your heart. We don't come to receive. We come to give. So God, we just ask that you would dwell here. Would the hunger of our hearts be pleasing to you? Would the cry of better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere? Lord, would that be pleasing to your ears? God, so would you just come? Would you rest? Would you rest here? Would you dwell here? Ride in on our praises, God, and rest. Dwell here, Lord. Just be the lift your voice to the Lord right now. Prayer language, if you have it, and if you don't, just sing praises to the Lord. Jesus, I love you.  My attention begins to sing to him.  Offer up a song of thanksgiving and praise and love to him right now. This is a pleasing fragrance. A beautiful offering. He hears your voice in the midst of all the noise in this world.  Your voice moves his heart. Even going to transition, we're going to keep in this same flow, the same mindset as we are worshiping and declaring the truth of who God is that he is worthy. He is worthy of our love. He's worthy of our worship. He's worthy of our attention, of our resources, of our time. He's worthy of every song we sing, every phrase we say, every thought that we think, he is worthy of it. Not one moment is wasted. And so as we declare that, we're going to pray into that right now. We're going to pray for strength and grace to be rooted in this love, to be rooted in the knowledge of God, so that we can understand the fullness of who he is, understand the riches of he is, and I encourage you, if you're here joining us in this prayer time, that this is not just an observation room, but this is a corporate gathering. We are here together with one voice to the church crying out for a move of God in our midst. So as I pray, repeat phrases that I pray, as the singers sing, repeat phrases that they sing, as we join together in one voice. So if you have your bibles open up to Ephesians 3, we're going to pray through this passage together, this prayer from Paul. Starting in verse 14, Ephesians 3, it says, For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named. And according to the riches of his glory, he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his spirit, in your inner being or in your inner man, in the innermost parts of who you are, so that Christ may dwell, make his home in your hearts, through faith, like a tree planted deep in his love, that you may have strength to comprehend, to understand with all of his saints, with the church, what is the full dimension, the full capacity, what is the breath, the length, the height, the depth of his love, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. So Father, we come before you as your children, and we pray for the church in this city, we are in that church, but not just us, but for the church in this city, all throughout the greater Kalamazoo area, we pray, strengthen us in a time of testing, in a time of cultural testing that's trying to defy for our attention, in a society that is constantly roaring to get our eyes, to get our hearts, to get our attention, to get our focus, we pray that you would come and strengthen us to lay down those things that hinder love, to strengthen us, to say yes to the things that deepen our relationship with you, that we would see ourselves as not as orphans, but that we are children, but we are not children trying to gain the attention of a father, but we are children sitting before the eyes of a loving and accepting Father, who sees us, who knows us, who wants us, and who is making us to draw closer to him, and that we are his children. So would you come right now in the name of Jesus, and would you strengthen us with your glory in our inner man? Continuing verse 17, it says, So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, that we be rooted and grounded in love, that this strengthening is not just to make us better or cooler, but this strengthening is so that we can open up our heart, that we can have the grace and the strength to say no to things that hinder love, and to say yes to things that deepen our relationship, so that Christ may dwell in our hearts, so that we can be rooted and grounded in love, that we would not have a shallow root system that's easily tossed and turned by waves, or blown away by the wind, but it is rooted deep, and when deep roots are planted, fruit can flourish, branches and leaves can flourish, so we ask that Christ would be able to make his hold in our hearts, that he cannot dwell in the midst of sin and darkness, and through his grace, and through his strength, we can say no to those things that easily bind us, and make room, break those chains, and make room for him to come and dwell within us. We ask for a purification in the church, we ask for a revival in the church, we ask for eyes to be open, for hearts to be softened, for spirits to be sensitized right now, to where the church and the world can look eerily similar, we ask for the church to be revived, to be refined, to be strengthened, to be made clean and new, so that it could be set apart as a city on a hill, as a beacon of hope and light for those who are bound in darkness, that they can come into the heart of the church and be set free. So we ask that through your grace, through your strength and kindness, that you begin to reveal things in our heart that are hindering, reveal things that we as the church are still clinging on to, whether it be sin, whether it be fear, whether it be our own dreams and desires, our love of money and self, our love of adoration, our attention, our fame, that you would come right now and in your kindness begin to reveal those things, so that in the name of Jesus, you can come and make your home in us and root us and ground us in your love. May Christ be rooted deep in my streams of living water to say yes and hit their love, those walls that be placed giving us grace to say yes to you. I have more for you. Church arise, strengthen, be set apart, rise church, take your place, my children will say for not orphans, but in permeate, but in anchor, and through that strengthening, through that rooting and grounding, we would have the strength to comprehend as the whole church what is every capacity, the multifaceted beauty of the love of Christ, what's the length, the height, the depth, the width, not just one aspect, but all aspects to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge that we can't even fully comprehend it right now, but as we continue to let go of things that hinder love and say yes to things that deep in relationship, we can fully experience what you have freely provided for us on the cross. We want to fully experience what has already been given to us, what has already been provided for us through the cross, through the love of Christ, that you are offering it to us as a gift in saying will you say yes to this, will you receive, will you fully receive what I have provided for you. We want to know the freedom, the salvation, the kindness, the faithfulness, the grace of God. We want to see Jesus as a perfect leader. We want to see Jesus as that perfect shepherd. We want to see Jesus as that perfect king. We want to see God as our one true God, as the perfect father. We want to see the Holy Spirit as that perfect counselor and helper. We want to fully experience what you have freely provided for us. So through your strengthening, through that rooting, we ask in the name of Jesus that you would help us know the love that surpasses knowledge. How high is your love for me? It knows no end. Your grace abounds. Four more is the love you have for me. So we say yes. It's not run dry. Turn to a father who does not dismiss. We turn to who is always leading and guiding us to go deeper. Strengthen your church, church, in Portage, in Richland, Otsego, Comstock, Schoolcraft, Madowan, Kapa, strengthen your church in this region. Let us have a revelation of your love. As we continue on with our worship, I encourage you that don't just let this be a time of just listening, but to sing the words as truth. Declare the words as truth. As we continue to agree with who God is and let us stir our faith to ask Him to do what He promised to do. Worthy. Holy, holy, are you. Worthy, are you. We declare in the midst of the chaos, in the midst of culture, in the midst of what the world is trying to shout. We say Jesus, you are worthy. And we declare and we say this in Jesus' mighty name. Amen and amen. Thank you for joining us for Monday Morning Prayer here at the Radiant City Center. For those who are here in person online, we're continuing to pray through the day, morning, noon and night, Monday through Friday, and online during our 8 a.m. times. I just pray that this hour does not just pass by and nothing changes, but let this be a seed in our hearts that changes the way that we worship, changes the way that we read Scripture and that we commune and pray to the Lord. So God, we ask for this to be a seed planted deep and it would root and ground us in your love. In Jesus' mighty name we pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you for joining us.


Don't you owe your entire career to Warren Moon? I won't say my entire career. You know what really happened, right? No, I don't. I just heard that you rolled into an airport. You were wearing some sick Warren Moon jersey and a young teenage LeBron James said that to Victor Z. But that's because at that time, the height of those jerseys was, it was the lead leader in fashion. You were selling a lot of your car or something? I was trunking my car and I was traveling back and forth to Atlanta. But I just asked him, why did you even say something to me? 20 years later, I asked his question, just kind of hanging out. He had just watched Fabulous Video and the last thing he saw was Fabulous Video on his way out the door to the airport. So even when he seen me in it, it's what caused him. That's like the energetic, that's what caused him to, yeah. And I just told Fabulous that not too long ago, during Super Bowl, he was like, what? And I was like, yeah. It was meant to be. It was meant to be. So that started the relationship.


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