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Vocaloid Wiki
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VOCALOIDs
HATSUNE MIKU EXPO 2020 EUROPE
ローリンガール (Rolling Girl)
*ハロー、プラネット。 (*Hello, Planet.)
卑怯戦隊うろたんだー (Hikyou Sentai Urotander)
Luo Tianyi/Notable songs list
兔子先生 (Tùzǐ Xiānshēng)
霜雪千年 (Shuāng Xuě Qiānnián)
僕みたいな君 君みたいな僕 (Boku Mitai na Kimi, Kimi Mitai na Boku)
ココロ (Kokoro)
ロミオとシンデレラ (Romeo to Cinderella)
カンタレラ (Cantarella)
サンドリヨン (Cendrillon)
人柱アリス (Hitobashira Alice)
マトリョシカ (Matryoshka)
炉心融解 (Roshin Yuukai)
Austronesian
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5SING (5S)
A Chinese music sharing site for musicians.
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AH-loid
A fan-created term used to describe VOCALOIDs created by the company AH-Software. An example of a notable AHloid would be SF-A2 miki.
Alter/Ego
Wikia • Wikipedia
Is a synthesizer developed by plogue.[1]
ALYS is a character created by VoxWave and voiced by Poucet, a Youtube-based utaite. In December 2013, she was prematurely labeled to be an upcoming VOCALOID3 vocal for the French and Japanese language. Part of her development would be crowdfunded. After the campaign was dropped she was announced for CeVIO this too was also dropped until she was developed and released for Alter/Ego.[2]
See also: Image of mascot
Annoyloid
A fan-created term used to describe a mocking representation of fanmade characters that considered uncreative due to lack of effort in creation. Be it their design, voice, or name. An example of a notable Annoyloid would Kawaiine Kagami.
Amateur artisans are those who create and showcase their sculpted works at conventions.
AquesTone
AquesTone is a VSTi plugin developed by Aquest, there are four voice options: Female F1, Auto F1, Male HK, and Auto HK. UTAU Uta Utane (aka. Defoko) uses Female voice 1 as a source for the UTAU default voicebank.
The female voice is credited in Pop'n Music ("Chilt Featuring AquesTone") and other BEMANI rhythm games like Dance Dance Revolution.[3][4]
B Edit
A music streaming website. It is popular with Western producers who want to share their works or receive optional payment for their original content.
Big Al's syndrome
A joke term used in some Western VOCALOID fan circles. It describes VOCALOIDs that are given a release and then is delayed.
A Chinese video-sharing site that contains most of the original VOCALOID songs in Chinese. The functions of the site are similar to NicoNico Douga.
Boxart (illustration)
Boxart is the picture on a VOCALOID's DVD copy. Some VOCALOIDs are for download only and thus don't have a boxart but do have an official illustration.
Britloid (UKloid)
A fan-created term used to describe VOCALOIDs originating in the United Kingdom and capable of singing in the English language. The term largely applies to VOCALOIDs from the company Zero-G. An example of a notable Britloid would be MIRIAM.
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Cadencii
Cadencii is a voice synthesizer program and frontend for several other voice synthesizers. It has its own engine (written by shuraba-P / HAL) named v.Connect-STAND. The source code used to be hosted on SourceForge.JP, but has moved to GitHub.[5]
See also: Image of interface
Cantor (and it's successor Cantor 2) is a synthesizer developed by Vir Syn. It was released at the same time as MIRIAM and was a rival to the original VOCALOID software. It was sold for £199.99 including VAT which was said to be expensive for its time, but that was due to offering a far greater selection of vocals.[6]
Chipspeech
Chipspeech is a synthesizer developed by plogue. A retro-styled vocal synthesizer created to reproduce vintage vocal synthesizers released in the 20th century. The software acts as stand-alone or plug-in software to various DAWs. It can sing and talk and supports two languages: English and Japanese (though Japanese currently does not have talk capability). There are various means to adjust the vocal in the way the user wants, creating some very unique sounds and results.[7]
See also: Image of interace
A term to describe the act of fans (usually amateurs) covering a known song by singing. Since this is online, it involves recordings of individual dubs, which are afterward combined to create a chorus.
CeVIO Creative Studio
CeVIO (pronounced che-ˈvē-ˈo) is a commercial vocal synthesizer product released on September 26, 2013. CeVIO Creative Studio received two awards in 2013, the "MicrosoftⓇ Innovation Award 2013" and the "CEDEC Award". Its demo version, CeVIO Creative Studio FREE, is available in trial form. Previously, users could not edit Parameters in this version, but they are able to now, with few restrictions.[8]
Cover(ing)
A term to describe the act of a fan (usually an amateur) covering a known song by either singing or instrumental recreation.
Crack(ed)
A term used to describe the act of removing or disabling a software's protective features in order to manipulate the product for personal or illegal use. This could be the usage of programs such as POCALOID in order to access distributed copies of VOCALOID software and voicebanks without the official product keys.
CreCrew
A Korean video-sharing site that contains most of the original VOCALOID songs in Korean. The functions of the site are similar to NicoNico Douga.
Main article: CreCrew
Cryptonloid
A fan-created term used to describe VOCALOIDs originating from Crypton Future Media. An example of a Cryptonloid is Hatsune Miku, who is also the most famous.
This is the conjectured title of CV04β or simply 「新しい男声VOCALOID」 (New Male VOCALOID),[9] given to a Japanese male vocal that was speculated to be apart of the Character Vocal Series, a set of vocals by Crypton Future Media, Inc.. However, Crypton confirmed that they would instead focus on updating existing VOCALOID2 vocals before any new vocals would be considered, leaving this project (along with Project if...) with no further news.
The existence of a 'new' male vocal had been known as early as October 2009. The voice provider was said to have volunteered for the job and was also a client of the company. The voice was described as a youthful male vocal.[10][11] At the time of CV04 's known existence, Crypton was working on several voicebanks and they had not announced which voicebank would be said vocal but had noted CV04 was not part of Project If.... However, another report confirmed Crypton was behind schedule due to being taken aback by the popularity of CV01, Hatsune Miku, this had caused delays on their developing VOCALOID2 projects and resulting in many projects not seeing developments by the time the retirement of the VOCALOID2 engine approached.[12][13]
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Database (DB)
Also called a "voice database" or "voicebank", is a term to describe the set of samples required for the VOCALOID or UTAU software to sing in a particular character's voice.
A term used to describe fanmade characters that are inspired by YAMAHA's Vocal Synthesizer Tool VOCALOID. In the Japanese fandom, they are often referred to as a VOCALOID variant (亜種) / derivative (派生キャラ). An example of a notable derivative would be Akita Neru.
Desktop Music,
Commonly abbreviated to DTM, is a wasei-eigo (a kind of Japanese pseudo-Anglicisms) and what is called computer music in English.[14] It includes music sequencers or singing synthesizer application softwares, such as Vocaloid and UTAU, and also sometimes it is used as any music that has been created using computing technology or activities of creating music with computers in Japan.
DeviantART (dA)
An English website where people can post artwork for others to see and use.
Dong Fang Zhi Zi
Dong Fang Zhi Zi (東方梔子) is an UTAU voicebank whose character was originally accused of "copying" Hatsune Miku's design. She is 16 years old with a height of 160 cm and a weight of 45 kg.[15][16]
Her presence was known on the internet around early May 2012, but searching her pinyin name reveals work from early March 2012. It is unknown how long her development was before the mentioned date.
In January 2013, Dong Fang Zhi Zi received an UTAU voicebank voiced by Shan Shan. She, along with 34 other Mandarin UTAU voicebanks, Yu Niaoniao, Luo Tianyi, KAITO, and VY2, were featured in a cover of a Chinese song called "Tomorrow Will Be Better".[17] Her voicebank was a monopitch single sound bank, with Mandarin sounds only, though she can sing in Japanese with proper aliasing and configuration. There are reviews that her voice is difficult to work with due to her voice provider not using a microphone that allowed for clear recording.[18][19]
In June 2013, an update was made, Dong Fang Zhi Zi V2.0, where she was given an updated Chinese voicebank and a CV Japanese voicebank.[15] As of August 2013, the link has stopped working.
Dong Fang Zhi Zi has also been given a NIAONiao voicebank.
See also: Image of mascot and VOCALOID answer wiki about mascot
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A term used to describe the VOCALOID software. In technical terms, the "engine" refers to Vocaloid's core mechanics and inner workings used to control the voice synthesizer, rather than the visual surface and interface.
Engloid
A fan-created term used to describe VOCALOIDs that are capable of singing in the English language only, though is often also been used as a general term for VOCALOIDs that were created with the intention of singing in English. An example of a notable Engloid would be Sweet ANN. Originally it applied only to Vocaloids of Zero-G Limited or PowerFX Systems AB..
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Fandub(ing)
This term is largely used to describe the act of dubbing over audio in one's native language. And similar to "Cover", it too is used to describe the act of a fan (usually an amateur) covering a known song by either singing or instrumental recreation.
Fanmade VOCALOID (Fanloid)
A fan-created term used to describe fanmade characters that are inspired by YAMAHA's Vocal Synthesizer Tool VOCALOID.
Festival Speech Synthesis System
Festival Speech Synthesis System is a free (libre) / open-source software speech synthesizer developed at the Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR) of the University of Edinburgh. In order to enable Festival to sing, there is a plugin required called Flinger (Festival Singer) developed at the OGI School of Science and Engineering that was released in 2001. Free(b)soft has contributed Czech diphone voices and an accessible editor similar to the VOCALOID editor.[20][21]
FLELE
FLELE is a "ghost" for the program Ukagaka, a program which allows the user to have an animated desktop buddy which can be changed at any time (The appearance is called the "shell", and the underlying is called the "ghost"; there can be multiple ghosts for a shell). FLELE is a ghost that can play music and can move, the concept of which is very popular among VOCALOID fans, and as such, there are many VOCALOID character shells to choose from.
Formerly known as FruityLoops, it is a digital audio workstation (DAW), developed by Belgian company Image-Line. FL Studio was originally the creation of Didier Dambrin, who is now the lead programmer responsible for the overall development.
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A fan-created term used to describe fanmade characters that have a heavy metal theme. An example of a notable Hagane-loid would be Hagane Miku.
Human VOCALOID
A fan-created term used to describe humans with a singing ability that alters their recorded voice in a VOCALOID-centric nature and also have VOCALOID-inspired avatars. An example of a notable one would be REOL.
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Item War
A term to describe an often-heated debate over which VOCALOID or UTAU characters should be associated with a themed item, largely inspired by Hatsune Miku's negi (Welsh onion).
Main article: Internet Meme
iVoxel
iVoxel is a singing vocoder with a vocal sequencer developed by VirSyn. It is a built-in application for the iPhone and iPad.[22]
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J-loid (Japaloid)
A fan-created term used to describe VOCALOIDs that are capable of singing in the Japanese language and/or VOCALOIDs that were created with the intention of singing in Japanese. An example of a notable J-loid would be Hatsune Miku.
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Linux MultiMedia Studio
A free digital audio workstation (DAW) alternative to proprietary software such as FL Studio, Cakewalk, and GarageBand. It is distributed free of charge, unlike FL Studio and Cakewalk, and it is also free as in freedom, meaning anyone can see or modify the source code. It is available for various distributions of Linux, and despite its name, also for BSD, Microsoft Windows, and Mac OS X (with some limitations).
LipSync model (Raster image processor @ Synchronizer)
A term to describe a free software that analyzes the UST and VSQ file in the audio editors, specifically ones developed by Yamaha. The output causes a drawn model (character) to appear animated and lip-sync to a song.
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Macloid
A fan-created term used to describe synthesizing software for Garageband which runs on the macOS called the Macne series.
Macne Series
Macne Series (Mac音シリーズ) is a series of voicebanks designed for Reason and GarageBand, music sequencer software for the Macintosh operating system, developed by MI7 Japan Inc. and distributed by Act2. The idea of releasing a voicebank for Macintosh computers was conceptualized in the Japanese voice actress Haruna Ikezawa's regular column 天声姫語 Vox Reginae, Vox Dei ("voice of princess, voice of god," a spoof of Asahi Shimbun's editorial article 天声人語 Vox Populi, Vox Dei or voice of the people, voice of god) carried in the magazine Mac Fan by Mainichi Communications. [23]
MAIDLOID
MAIDLOID (メイドロイド) is a Text-to-Speech/Phrase Editor synthesizer developed and distributed by StudioS, and it was released December 27, 2007.[24] The purpose was to create erotic sounds using 50 Japanese consonants along with several hundred voice clips and breathing sounds to sound like a recreation of an eroge.
MeAw (メーウ) is the name of the cat-themed "virtual idols" who were released into "the VOCALOID culture".[25][26] Their artwork is by Yusuke Kozaki, illustrator of SF-A2 miki. Their backstory is that they are two girls who came to Tokyo to train for 2 years to become idols. This is likely based on the story of the Thai twin unit, Neko Jump.[27] Me has a pink ponytail and Aw has a blue side ponytail. Their outfits are blue and pink, with each girl having the blue and pink in opposite places to each other.
In both Japan and Overseas, there has been much confusion on their classification of "VOCALOID", consequentially owed to the way the pair were introduced and marketed. Their marketing consisted of two PVs and the CD releases Meaw Left ver. and Meaw Right ver. (August 2011). The first PV was in November 2010, "60th サマーオブラブ (60th Summer of Love)", directed by Tripshots with song by Kobayashi Onyx.[28][29] The second PV was in July 2011, "pair* Factory MIX", directed by KDB of CGWORLD.jp.[30][31] More of their songs can also be heard in the soundtrack of the anime short "Honto ni Atta! Reibai Sensei", which aired in April 2011. Since then they have had no further appearances.
Due to the vagueness surrounding the pair and their developments, there is doubt towards their authenticity as VOCALOID characters and vocals. On their official site, VOCALOID™ is not mentioned but instead written within the keywords as "ボーカロイド" (as highlighted here).[32] This could have been done for search engine purposes. And while YAMAHA expanded its VOCALOID software licensing for private usage, the company does not acknowledge or mention the existence of MeAw, even though the PV and song producers claim that synthesizer technology was used.
See also: Image of mascots and Official website
Max Factory is a company that produces Figma models. Max Factory uses the Good Smile Company for distribution, which is why several model lines appear in both their and Good Smiles catalogs and many Max Factory models are listed as "Good Smile Company" instead of "Max Factory".
MEIKO(16)
Pronounced as "MEIKO-san juuroku-sai" (めいこさんじゅうろくさい) in Japanese. It can become a wordplay that is "MEIKO sanjuuroku-sai" which means "MEIKO 36-years old". Soon after Hatsune Miku was released, the trial of making MEIKO sing in a youthful voice was performed by some producers for opposing to Miku. MEIKO of a youthful voice is generally called "MEIKO(16)".
The first MEIKO(16) video "MEIKO - "Overthrow Miku! I tried loli-training to Meiko by my song. (sm1058196)" was made by yuukiss on September 14, 2007, however, that song was unfinished. A finished song video, the first video, "Tsuki ni Humming", was made by Dott-P on September 17, 2007. Sakine Meiko, who is the most famous MEIKO(16), appeared for the first time on April 11, 2008. Her voice was made by Nanameue-P and her picture was drawn by daigoman.
Was the file type extension .midi produced by VOCALOID voicebanks.
MikuMikuDance (MMD)
It is a freeware animation program that lets users animate and create 3D animation movies, mostly with VOCALOID models along with personally made models of Fanmade VOCALOID characters, models of various anime characters, etc.
Main article: MikuMikuDance
MMDAgent
A state of the art speech synthesis software developed by the [[[wikipedia:Nagoya Institute of Technology|Nagoya Institute of Technology]]. This software employs MikuMikuDance as a foundation for its 3D rendering system, as well as allowing users to maintain a lively conversation with their 3D companion. Hatsune Miku is one of the many models that can be used to hold a conversation with.[33]
MikuMikuEffects (MME)
Effects that are used in the MikuMikuDance Programs.
MikuMikuMoving (MMM)
A freeware animation program that builds upon what MikuMikuDance left off since MMD has stopped updating at ver.7.39. The program has the same functions as MikuMikuDance. However, several MikuMikuEffects might not be compatible with the program.
MikuMikuVoice
A program used in conjunction with VOCALOID software. It analyzes human speech for pitch and converts it to a VSQ. It allows the VOCALOID to "talk" but is not limited to speech, as it can be used to capture precise pitch bends and tones that would otherwise take long to calibrate in the VOCALOID editor.[34]
There was originally a download but after VocaListener was set up, the project ceased to be downloadable. The only way to obtain the software now is to request a copy from another user.
It captures vibrato in a singer's voice and encodes it as pitch anomalies, and not in VOCALOID's builtin vibrato parameters.
It only accepts kana as lyric input; attempting to use romaji or English letters will result in the "a" phoneme used instead. Extra work must be done to correct this.
Beware that extra work may be needed to fit the voice into a DAW, especially if following a particular music tempo.
DO NOT USE WAV FILES WITH MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT. Doing so will distort the results and may result with a glitchy pitch that will not serve its purpose at all.
MikuPa
MikuPa (ミクパ) refers to as "Hatsune Miku`s Live Party". Every year on 3/9, SEGA and its affiliates put on a giant concert in Tokyo starring Vocaloid, Hatsune Miku. This date was chosen because the Japanese words for 'three' and 'nine' can be read as 'Miku'. It was originally held on March 9, 2010, at Zeep in Tokyo, there were two performances - an afternoon performance and an evening performance, and a total of 5000 fans came to see Miku live, along with another 4000 fans who watched via online streaming by use of Nico Nico Douga. The concert was run using the 3D model data created by SEGA for the Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA, while the character danced and sang, they were backed up by a live band. This was an introduction to a brand new type of entertainment from Japan that excited audiences all over the world.
The event's popularity grew among the growing fan base and soon Miku's fellow Vocaloids, the Kagamine's and Megurine Luka joined her on stage with their own 3D models and singing their own hit songs. However, the event is still Miku-centric as the name implies.
Mikuture (みくちゃ, Mikucha)
Was a live-action AR Camera app wherein users can shoot pictures using Mamama's Api Miku MMD model, It was first released for Android on July 6, 2014, then for iOS devices several days later on July 17. Mikuture, developed by Sorasu, is an augmented reality photo application featuring an appearance by Hatsune Miku who is owned by Crypton Future Media. The app's language can be changed between English and Japanese.[35]
An update was made called Mikuture 2.0 but it is currently available only on the Android Play Store but will be available to the iOS App Store soon. The update brings the user a new experience of control improvements, new UI look, and 5 new (and free) downloadable characters: Snow Miku, Sakura Miku, Tda Miku, Yuzuki Yukari, and Flower.
Mikuture is, as aforementioned, an Augmented Reality (AR) synthesis phone app allowing you to take pictures with a 3D model of Miku placed in the photo that was taken. The Miku model can be changed in a variety of ways before the picture is taken, such as changing her pose and face, and can be placed in different spots of the camera.[36]
See also: Mikuture 2.0 New Menu and Mikuture's updated user interface
Monsterloid
A fan-created term used to describe VOCALOIDs created by the company PowerFX, whose VOCALOIDs have a monster themed appearance. An example of a notable Engloid would be Big Al, whose design is an homage to Frankenstein's monster.
Music Video (MV)
When a fan decides to create their own video-based upon a copyrighted or known source it becomes 'Fanvid' or (when an animation is involved) Animated Music Video (AMV).
Muzie (MZ)
A Japanese music sharing site for musicians.
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NIAONiao Virtual Singer
NIAONiao Virtual Singer (袅袅虚拟歌手 Niǎoniǎo xūnǐ gēshǒu) is a Chinese voice synthesizer program developed by dsound.[37]
The default voicebank is named Yu Niaoniao (余袅袅), however, users can create their own voicebank and take advantage of its larger file feature. NIAONiao can import MIDI files, VSQX files (VOCALOID3 only), and UST files, export tracks as the "Niao" file format (*.nn), and can render vocal tracks directly as WAV, MP3, or MIDI files.[38]
NicoNico Douga (ニコニコ動画)/ NND/ Nicovideo
A Japanese video-sharing site, NND is the source of most Japanese VOCALOID music. Videos are only watchable by members who have registered on the site (or that is how it's intended to be).
Main article: Niconico
Nyappon
Was an exclusive Japanese site for VOCALOID producers and exclusive MMD models. It was invite-only and knowledge of Japanese was required.
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Operaloid
A fan-created term to describe VOCALOIDs that are capable of singing in an Opera-like manner. An example of a notable Operaloid would be Prima.
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Piapro
The Japanese center of the VOCALOID community. It was designed by Crypton Future Media to be a hub for everything related to VOCALOID and VOCALOID music development. The name is a combination of the terms "Peer" and "Production", likely to highlight its collaborative nature. Piapro is the only website with the permission to grant VOCALOID-producers the characteristic honorific "P".
Pitchloid
A fan-created term used to describe a fanmade character whose voice is a pitched-up version of another known VOCALOID (or UTAU) voicebank by use of a third party audio program. It is also used when describing characters with a pitched voice that were done so by the configuration of the VOCALOID or UTAU program.
A Japanese website which people can post artwork for others to see and use. A common topic to draw about is VOCALOID, so the site is often mentioned in the community.
Polygon Model Data (PMD / PMDX)
A MikuMikuDance Model. The name comes from the characteristic ".pmd" file-extension associated with the model-files used by MMD. A PMDX has a ".pmdx" file-extension which allows more texture to be added onto the model than a PMD would allow.
Polygon Model Editor (PMDE)
A program editor that allows editing PMD files.
Prize Fair
Prize Fair (プライズフェア) is an annual event held in Japan, in which a convention by makers of arcade game prizes showcase their upcoming products for the year.[39]
Producer ("-P")
A term to describe a VOCALOID song producer who has status in the VOCALOID Community. It originates from the IDOLM@STER games. The "P" acts as an honorific thus it is usually the community that grants the title not the producer themselves.
Main article: Producer
Promotional Video (PV)
When a fan decides to create their own video-based upon a copyrighted or known source it becomes 'Fanmade PV' or (when an animation is involved) Movie Anime Doujinshi (MAD). An example of a notable 3DPV is "[Hatsune Miku] Miku Miku ni shite ageru♪ [3DPV]". 3DPV means three-dimensional Promotional Video. Most 3DPV's are made with MikuMikuDance or other similar programs. The "PV" abbreviation is used more in Japanese Pop Culture than "MV" although "PV" could also refer to things other than music.
Main article: Vocaloid Fanmade Promotion Video
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Realivox
Realivox is a vocal synthesizer by Realitone. There are two software packages for Realivox entitled The Ladies and Blue. The software used to run the voices is powered by the Kontakt which has a full version which goes by the same name, or Kontakt Player which is free but comes with fewer features. Kontakt runs on Windows and Mac meaning that Realivox does as well.[40]
See also: Image of interface (The Ladies) and Image of interface (Blue)
RenoidPlayer
RenoidPlayer is an online synthesizer created by g200kg. It is compatible with various web browsers and also works on the iPad and iPhone as long as they run iOS 6.[41]
Roboloid
A fan-created term used to describe a branch of fanmade characters that are robotic and have vocals that are metallic and sing with noticeably distorted music. An example of a notable Roboloid would be Tetsune Rena.
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A series in the VOCALOID community refers to a group of songs that relate to one another by producer and theme. Occasionally a series is born from an answers song(s) to a determined previous song, revealing some aspect(s) or a different point view to the original song, that was not initially shown. On some occasions, these answer songs are done by a different author. When this song is confirmed as canon by the original author they can form into a series; if not, it's just a derivative of the original song.
All the songs that conform to a series are original VOCALOID songs in their own right, but due to their different characteristics, in which they explain complex storylines or universe, this category was created to differentiate them from the individual original VOCALOID songs.
Sinsy
Sinsy (Singing Voice Synthesis System) (しぃんしぃ) is an online HMM-based singing voice synthesis system by the Nagoya Institute of Technology that was created under the Modified BSD license.[42]
SING (upcoming name SOHO) is a software by Emvoice for OSX and Windows. The software will allow music producers to create vocals without the need of a singer.[43]
A song is a single (and often standalone) work of music that is typically intended to be sung.
SoundCloud (SC)
An audio-streaming website. Members can leave comments on uploads and rate them.
SugarCape
SugarCape is a vocal synthesizer developed by sota, only available for use on Mac OS X Snow Leopard 1.6.8 or above. The newest version now called SaltCase Alpha 0.0.2 uses a tripitch voicebank, and it is assumed that it has been given a sort of "prefix.map", similar to that of an UTAU voicebank. This function allows transitions between pitches to be more natural, rather than giving in to the harsh distortion of the sample as it goes deeper.[44][45][46]
Symphonic Choirs
Symphonic Choirs is a choir synthesizer produced by EastWest/Quantum Leap, able to recreate the effect of an entire choir for any song. It is popular with indie musicians.[47]
See also: Image of box
Synthesizer V Wikia • Wikipedia
Synthesizer (also know as SynthV) is a vocal synthesizer created and developed by Dreamtonics, Co. Ltd. It is currently available on Windows, Mac, and Linux systems. The software is available in English, Japanese, Chinese and Korean. The engine was fully released on December 28, 2018.[48]
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Talkloid
A fan-created term used to describe the act of getting a VOCALOID or UTAU to talk instead of sing.
Thanks Giving Day
Miku no hi kansha-sai 39's (Thank's) Giving Day (ミクの日感謝祭 39's (Sanku's) Giving dē). Definition pending
TmBox (TM)
A Japanese website described as a 'Social Sound Sharing Service'.
Treasure Festa is a convention that revolves around Garage Kits – resin figures made by fans (not official and not mass produced) that are usually sold in parts and without paint.[49][50]
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Utatte Mita (歌ってみた / "Tried singing")
A term to describe the act of a fan (usually an amateur) covering a known song by singing.
An UTAU sequence file. The term comes from the ".ust" file-extension associated with UTAU project-files.
Vocal Synthesis Tool UTAU
Vocal Synthesis Tool UTAU (歌声合成ツール UTAU) is a voice synthesizer program currently available for Windows and Mac OS X systems (the Mac version being named UTAU-Synth). UTAU is a shareware vocal synthesizer program that allows users to create and distribute their own voicebanks
A fan-created term used to describe voicebanks that are created and function by using the Vocal Synthesizer Tool UTAU, with accompanying personified avatars (original characters). An example of a notable UTAUloid would be Defoko.
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Vimeo (VM)
A video-sharing website in which users can upload, share and view videos.
Vipperloid
A fan-created term used to describe faux VOCALOID characters who are created with the intention of convincing the fandom that they are official YAMAHA based VOCALOIDs. An example of a notable Vipperloid would be Kasane Teto.
Virtual Singer
Virtual Singer is a plug-in module released late 2000 for Melody Assistant or Harmony Assistant and was made by Myriad.[51]
Vocalistener
A developing plug-in for VOCALOID that analyzes a human voice for pitch and dynamics to help imitate human singing for VOCALOID.
VOCALINA
VOCALINA (보카리나) is a "text to speech" singing synthesizer and DAW for personal music-related content. It was developed in October 2011 by TGENS Co., Ltd. In October 2018, it will cease service.
Vocalo-P
A term to describe a song producer that uses the VOCALOID engine.
The trademark name and the general name for the franchise which includes: engines, voicebanks, and mascots.
Main article: VOCALOID
The name was later given to the first VOCALOID engine, abbreviated as V1.
The second VOCALOID engine, abbreviated as V2.
Main article: VOCALOID2
The third VOCALOID engine, abbreviated as V3.
The fourth VOCALOID engine, abbreviated as V4.
The fifth VOCALOID engine, abbreviated as V5.
VOCALOIDOtaku (VO)
An English, overseas VOCALOID forum, now defunct.
VOCALOID Trans-Pacific
VOCALOID Trans-Pacific was the project aimed to introduce VOCALOID to Pacific Rim and the United States in 2013. It centered around the promotion and introduction of VOCALOID into the American market. The project was supported by "Strategy Cool Japan FY 2012" Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry as part of the bid to expand into overseas sales which included 110 businesses. The project itself gave an introduction to the science and technology behind VOCALOID and helped expand the English VOCALOID trademark. VOCALOID related merchandise would be sold in cities such as San Francisco. The launch of projects began with the launch of the "Megpoid English".[52]
Characters from the VOICEROID program produced by AH-Software that imitates talking rather than singing.
Main article: VOICEROID
VOYAKILOID
A fan-created term used to describe fanmade VOCALOIDs that are representations of failure to produce a pleasing result using the VOCALOID program. An example of a VOYAKILOID would be Yowane Haku.
VSQ
A VOCALOID2 sequence file. The term comes from the ".vsq" file-extension associated with VOCALOID2 project-files. This file type replaced the VOCALOID type extension "VOCALOID midi".
VSQX
A VOCALOID3/4 sequence file. The term comes from the ".vsq" file-extension associated with VOCALOID3/4 project-files. This file type replaced the VOCALOID2 type extension "VSQ".
VPR
A VOCALOID5 sequence file. It's a whole new Vocaloid file-extension specially made for VOCALOID5 project-files. This file type replaced the VOCALOID3/4 type extension "VSQx".
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An internet-term that describes a person who is overly obsessed with the Japanese culture, the technical term is "Japanophile" and is often applied to fans of anime and manga. This term is applied to those within the VOCALOID circle who are only interested in VOCALOID due to the Japanese cultural influence and would have no interest otherwise, nor are they interested in non-Japanese VOCALOIDs due to not being Japanese. It is often misapplied to all VOCALOID fans, even those who do not follow Japanese VOCALOIDs and those who are not obsessed with the Japanese culture.
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A widely-known and used video-sharing website. Members can leave comments on videos and rate them.
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LONDON, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Financial market volatility is slumping across the board to historically - or, dangerously - low levels, potentially fanning the flames for a repeat of February's "volmageddon" explosion that sparked a 10 percent correction in U.S. and world stocks.
Then, major bond and currency markets remained reasonably insulated from the turmoil that swept through equities. They may not be so lucky next time around, because positioning in some cases is even more extreme than it is in stocks.
A breakdown of how speculative investors like hedge funds are positioned across U.S. futures markets shows that short VIX positions as a share of overall open interest are higher now than they were just before that record surge in February.
The net short position in 10-year U.S. Treasuries as a share of total open interest is the highest since 2010 and close to a record high, while specs' net long dollar bet as a share of open interest is the highest since May last year.
Dollar positioning might not seem too extreme. But the currency has traded in such a narrow range this summer that its daily 'standard deviation' is now the lowest this year, and closing in on historically low levels.
While global trade tensions are intensifying and some specific markets like Turkey's are experiencing acute problems, the overall calm descending on developed markets should come as little surprise.
There's been no big shock on the fiscal or monetary policy front, nor has there been an economic data bombshell that might herald a change of tack or policy U-turn at the Fed, ECB, BoE or BOJ. The Q2 earnings season has, on the whole, been much stronger than expected too.
In short, investors have had little reason to change their broadly benign view of the world: solid corporate profit growth, strong and steady economic growth, low inflation, and higher but well telegraphed U.S. interest rates.
The VIX index of implied volatility on the S&P 500 this week fell as low as 10.5 pct and within sight of November's record low, and the Mermove index of implied vol in Treasuries is now also within sight of November's record low.
As February showed, betting on continually low and falling volatility is fine. Until it's not. Positioning is so one-sided on many of these trades that investors may soon face potentially large losses when markets turn.
The VIX index's dramatic surge in early February was short-lived but the rise on Feb. 5, in nominal and percentage terms, was the biggest ever.
The fallout from February's volatility explosion, which was sparked by a sudden reversal in inverse VIX trades, has mostly been cleaned up. The Nasdaq hit a fresh record peak last month and the S&P 500 is now within 0.5 pct of January's record high.
Speculators' short VIX futures position is now bigger than in the run-up to February's shakeout. Nominally, it's the biggest since October last year.
As a share of open interest, it's also the biggest since last fall. But at 24.9 pct, it's not far from being the biggest short position in many years (the record is 60 pct in November 2008).
A major difference with February is positioning in bonds and the dollar. It is now much more stretched, particularly in 10-year Treasuries futures, which in nominal terms is a record net short.
It's a mirror image with the dollar, where speculators and hedge funds are heavily long. As a share of open interest the net long position stands at 53 pct, the highest since May, although some way off the record 77 pct seen in November 2005.
Steve Barrow at Standard Bank notes that the dollar has traded in a "pretty tiny" 1.5 pct range over the last two months. Whether it breaks out to the upside or downside is immaterial, although positioning suggests it will be lower.
Either way, the elastic band is getting stretched. Fingers could get rapped when it snaps.


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PRODUCTION: The Glass Room Starts Shooting in Famous Tugendhat Villa in Brno Featured
Denisa Strbova 2018-03-06
Director Julius Ševčík and actor Karel Roden photo: Infilm
PRAGUE: Julius Ševčík's Czech/Slovak high budget period drama coproduction The Glass Room started shooting in the famous Tugendhat villa in Brno. This English-language film will be shot in several European countries with international stars such as Dutch Carice van Houten (Game of Thrones) and Danish Claes Bang (The Square). The cast includes Czech actors Karel Roden and Karel Dobrý.
The script written by Andrew Shaw is based on the famous novel of the same title by British author Simon Mawer, nominated for Man Booker Prize in 2009, and is connected with the iconic modernist Tugendhat villa. Designed by the famous German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the Tugendhat villa was for many years under reconstruction. In the 1930's it was owned by a wealthy Jewish couple who escaped Czechoslovakia before the Nazi Occupation and never returned because of the rise of Communism in 1948.
The Glass Room / Skleněný pokoj is made by the team of Prominent Patient, directed by Julius Ševčík and produced by Infilm, winner of 12 Czech Lion Awards in 2017. Rudolf Biermann is producing through Infilm in coproduction with the Czech Television and the Slovak private channel JOJ TV. The Brno Film Office is helping with the organisation of the shooting and the city of Brno is supporting the filming financially. Private investors are also involved.
Shooting at the Tugendhat villa is planned for three parts: from 1 to17 March, from 1 to 18 June and from 1 to16 July 2018, when the building and garden will be completely closed for the public.
The theatrical release is planned for spring 2019.
Production Information:
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Director: Julius Ševčík
Scriptwriter: Andrew Shaw
DoP: Martin Štrba
Cast: Carice van Houten, Claes Bang, Hanna Alström, Alexandra Borbély, Karel Roden, Karel Dobrý

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Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt är en amerikansk komediserie skapad av Tina Fey och Robert Carlock, med Ellie Kemper i huvudrollen. Serien hade premiär på Netflix 6 mars 2015.

Rollista i urval
 Ellie Kemper – Kimberly "Kimmy" Schmidt
 Tituss Burgess – Titus Andromedon
 Jane Krakowski – Jacqueline Voorhees
 Carol Kane – Lillian Kaushtupper

Återkommande roller
 Sara Chase – Cyndee Pokorny
 Lauren Adams – Gretchen Chalker
 Sol Miranda – Donna Maria Nuñez
 Dylan Gelula – Xanthippe Lannister Voorhees, Jacquelines dotter
 Tanner Flood – Buckley Voorhees, Jacquelines son
 Mike Britt – Walter Bankston, vittne till räddningsaktionen
 Andy Ridings – Charles
 Adam Campbell – Logan Beekman
 Ki Hong Lee – Dong Nguyen
 Susanna Guzman – Vera, Jacquelines hushållerska
 Tim Blake Nelson – Randy, Kimmys styvfar
 Kiernan Shipka – Kymmi, Kimmys halvsyster
 Jon Hamm – Reverend Richard Wayne Gary Wayne
 Tina Fey och Jerry Minor – Marcia och Chris, åklagare
 Tina Fey (säsong 2) – Dr. Andrea Bayden
 Sheri Foster och Gil Birmingham – Fern och Virgil, Jacquelines föräldrar

Källor

Externa länkar

TV-seriestarter 2015
TV-serieavslutningar 2019
Amerikanska komediserier på TV
TV-program av Netflix
Amerikanska TV-serier från 2010-talet

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HomeGeraldo
December 2, 2010 Calvin Freiburger 9/11 Truthers, Andrew Napolitano, blogosphere, ethanol, Fox News, Geraldo, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Iran, Leslie Nielsen, libertarianism, marriage, Maureen Dowd, nuclear weapons, Plame, RIP, Stuxnet
Check out Part 1 and Part 2 of Suzanne Venker's 3-part NewsReal series on why marriage matters.
You've gotta be kidding me: someone's turning Maureen Dowd into a sexed-up action heroine in a new comic book? It's so absurd that it would be hilarious…if not for the fact that the plot is yet another way in which entertainment outlets are injecting a false narrative of the Valerie Plame saga into the national consciousness. Historical revisionism is no laughing matter.
First Geraldo Rivera revealed how "open-minded" he was about what "really" happened on 9/11, and now losertarian Judge Andrew Napolitano has joined the Truther brigade. It's way past time for Fox News to can both these clowns.
Comedy great Leslie Nielsen, dead at 84. I plan to take some time this weekend to watch Airplane! in his memory; I'd encourage all of you to do the same.
Donald Douglas slaps around a richly-deserving losertarian blogger.
Neil reminds us that ethanol is a dud.
And this Thanksgiving, I'm really, really thankful for a little wonder-virus called Stuxnet.
Calling All Bloggers! Slime Alert!
September 3, 2007 Calvin Freiburger blogosphere, demagogues, Fox News, Geraldo, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, immigration, Malkin, moonbats
It's no secret that sniveling amnesty thug Geraldo Rivera is a cheap demagogue, but now he's reached a new low. In a recent Boston Globe profile, Rivera simply can't control his hatred of the "vile" Michelle Malkin (pot, meet kettle): "It's good she's in DC and I'm in New York. I'd spit on her if I saw her."
It's kinda amusing to see Geraldo reduced to such childishness because he can't handle someone who stands up to him, but there's nothing funny about the fact that Bill O'Reilly & Sean Hannity give tacit legitimacy to this pig by treating him like a friend on their TV shows. Both pundits are on record against recklessness & vitriol in the public discourse, and both consider Michelle a friend, so which one of them is going to stand up for her next time Rivera's on their show? Which one is going to tell Rivera to his face that he's crossed one line of decency too many? Is Fox News Channel going to put up with one of their personalities publicly expressing desires to spit on women?
Fellow bloggers (and all observers of conscience), let's find out. Here are the email addresses for Fox News and their personalities. Let FNC know you think Geraldo reflects horribly on the channel, and ask O'Reilly & Hannity if they intend to do the right thing. You never know what might happen if enough people let their voices be heard.
UPDATE: Upon challenge from O'Reilly, Geraldo has apologized. I'm glad to see it, but Geraldo still has a lot of vicious immigration-related hyperbole to answer for before he ought to be taken seriously again. And where's Hannity?


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"Immigrants – We Get the Job Done!"
contraryperspective / January 25, 2016
Stuart Lyle
The hit Broadway show 'Hamilton' has enjoyed a meteoric rise. Less than a year ago, it opened off-Broadway, but quickly found traction and was on Broadway by midsummer. Now shows are sold out well into later this year. Few would have predicted that a show about founding father Alexander Hamilton would strike such a deep chord with a wide audience.
Much has been made about how the show has brought hip-hop and rap to the mainstream. Commentators have also marveled at the skin color of the cast, which is many shades darker than the historical characters being portrayed. These are significant, even exciting, elements, but a black and Hispanic cast spitting rap phrases about dead white men is not a classic formula for success. Those are only the obvious departures from more tried-and-true formulas for a Broadway hit. What holds audience attention, and indeed the attention of many who, despite not having seen the show, obsessively listen to the Cast Recording, is neither the music nor the cast themselves, but the words – all 20,000+ of them.
Lin-Manuel Miranda, who wrote the show, nursed it to maturity over 8 years, and now stars in it, has succeeded in bringing to life the long-forgotten, but oft-mythologized era of the founding of the United States. In a rare act of conviction in today's highly commercialized entertainment realm, Miranda put the content ahead of the demographics. Instead of polling to find the market, a la Carville's "triangulation" that shifted Bill Clinton's agenda ever rightward, Miranda wanted a Broadway hit on his own terms, undiluted by commercial exigency.
The show tells the story of Hamilton, the archetypical immigrant, a 'bastard, orphan, son of a whore,' who, in a rags to riches story, claws his way up in New York. And in this telling of the history, we encounter colorful, but weak, petty, and greedy people who tell us more about ourselves, about America, than could ever be gleaned from the predigested myths peddled by mainstream politicians extolling "the American dream." Most intriguing is the figure of Aaron Burr, the "villain" of many history books who, in the show's denouement, guns Hamilton down in a duel for honor.
While Hamilton represents the ascendency of finance and Wall Street, he is also a fiery and obsessive personality, idealistic, but hell-bent on following his own ideals. In a powerful number, Thomas Jefferson describes Hamilton in terms easily translatable to 2016:
I get no satisfaction witnessing his fits of passion
The way he primps and preens and dresses like the pits of fashion
Our poorest citizens, our farmers, live ration to ration
As Wall Street robs 'em blind in search of chips to cash in
Burr too is hardly distinguishable from many of today's public figures: think Donald Trump. In the show, he is regarded as something of an oddity for his open self-promotion in campaigning for president. He slithers away from taking any clear stands on the pressing issues of the day as he runs for president against Jefferson.
JEFFERSON] He's not very forthcoming on any particular stances
[MADISON] Ask him a question: it glances off, he obfuscates, he dances
[JEFFERSON] And they say I'm a Francophile: at least they know I know where France is!
Nonetheless, he is popularly regarded as a genuine person, or as one voter puts it, 'Like you could grab a beer with him.' (Where have we heard this before?) Burr is portrayed as elusive and possibly unprincipled ('talk less, smile more…'), driven primarily by his desire to be 'in the room where it happens.' Sound familiar?
The seeds of our current state of empire in dissolution and corruption are all visible in Miranda's account of our country's founding. Hamilton is a far from unambiguous hero, selling out New York as the new nation's capital in order to keep his job and keep the Treasury in New York. Burr represents the future devolution of the political sphere into unprincipled self-aggrandizing tribes, with little concern about the impact of their policies on the population.
Hamilton is a cautionary tale. It relates the almost miraculous joining of the disparate thirteen colonies, who 'somehow defeat a global superpower' of the era, and the machinations required to mold the colonies into "these United States."
No one really knows,
how the game is played,
the art of the trade,
how the sausage gets made.
Rather than fanning the myth of perfection, Hamilton highlights the corrosive flaws in the original edifice that have inexorably led to the distorted 'American dream' we live in today. And what better way to tell that story than in the vernacular of the today's dispossessed, using rap, hip-hop, and an ensemble of color.
I Have the Honor to Be,
Your Obedient Servant,
S. Lyle
January 25, 2016 in Arts and Culture, Literature, US Politics. Tags: Aaron Burr, Bill Clinton, Broadway, Donald Trump, Hamilton, hip-hop, James Carville, James Madison, rap, Thomas Jefferson, triangulation, Wall Street
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I don't expect to ever see this show about which I've heard such raves, but I can still make a small contribution to discussion: if my memory hasn't gone altogether haywire, I believe that the books by historian Joseph H. Ellis on the subject of the Founding Fathers state that Hamilton was greatly despised by many of his peers. Probably the majority were rooting for Burr to triumph in that (in)famous duel! And yet, where is Aaron Burr on our currency? Hamilton is there because he was the first Secretary of the Treasury. Lose a duel, get enshrined on the nation's currency! Not such a bad deal! Except for the little problem that nowadays, unlike the early days of the so-called republic, the linen/paper hybrid we call "money" is backed by NOTHING of true, intrinsic value. But that, as it's said, is a whole other can of worms to open.
Greg: Burr is on the NRA's currency — its motto being "gun control means hitting your target." :-)
Good one, Bill Astore! BTW, when I was trying to build a house in Vermont 12 years ago (a long tale with sad ending I won't go into), the contractor I hired to do the foundation had a wall poster in his office. (He resided in rural Massachusetts, near the border with Vermont.) It declared "MY President is Charlton Heston" with a portrait of that, um, fine gentleman. Lest any reader not get it, Mr. Heston was Honorary Lifetime President of the National Rifle Association.
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I still love '1776', the musical. Earthy, funny, true.
Mention of Burr and Hamilton always reminds me that two hundred years ago, as now, our leading political and economic oligarchs could literally get away with murder. At least Aron Burr did his own killing with his own hands whereas our present puppet presidents have uncounted numbers of people murdered by legions of mercenary minions whose numbers and identities no one even bothers to count or acknowledge. Things have certainly gotten worse by orders of magnitude. Way past time to separate our infantile "leaders" from their murderous toys.
While I always applaud and encourage attempts to write in verse, the samples on offer above do not sound especially well constructed to me, especially as they exhibit little interest in rhythmic consistency. Then again, audience expectations change over time and I hardly know what listeners in the United States today consider interesting or amusing lyrics. Personally, have always found rap or hip-hop lyrics both tedious and heavy-handed: bad poetry by people who cannot sing or play musical instruments. Still, the concept of casting a movie or play with unconventional actors does have potential. Like, for instance:
The Day that Mars Stood Still
Haven't seen the show. Don't think I'll do so.
Hardly sounds like a Robinson Crusoe
On Mars with a gay Chinese duo
As Friday and her/his new belle/beau
Moaning "Klaatu barada Nikto"
When caught in flagrante delicto.
Something like that …
Very cute Mike. Now tel us know what "klaatu barada Nikto" means ( unless it would violate the rules of internet decency>
I can't pass up an opportunity to comment on "The Day The Earth Stood Still" (1951–yes, 65 years young this year), one of my favorite movies (of ANY genre) of all time. "b. traven" is likely aware of all this and is just joining in some pseudo-risque fun here. The filmmakers never revealed a translation for the phrase Patricia Neal's character must utter to the massive robot, Gort, after the interplanetary emissary Klaatu is gunned down by the US Army on the streets of Washington D.C. (Our good ol' enlightened military at work way back then!) Film scholars and fans have theorized that it means "Don't destroy the planet"–that is, don't reduce Earth to a "burned-out ember" to avenge Klaatu's death. One of the most intelligently scripted (Edmund North, based on a story by one Harry Bates) and executed American movies ever. Director: Robert Wise; Music: Bernard Herrmann. Michael Rennie was "born to play Klaatu," as they say. Fun Trivia: Spencer Tracy and…wait for it…Ronald Reagan (!!!) had been considered for the role!!
Thanks Greg. In 1951 I was too busy finishing up my grad thesis and working in the steel mills on weekends to go to the movies. Some how i thought "Klaatu" was part of some foreign language that Mike had run across. Where does the "barada Nikto" come in the movie?
"traven"–Fortunately for you, "The Day The Earth Stood Still" is rather frequently shown on cable/satellite channels. Actually, I have a spare DVD copy I could mail you, assuming you do have a DVD player. The complete phrase is "Gort, Klaatu barada nikto." The dying Klaatu instructs Earthwoman Patricia Neal, who has come to trust him, that she must deliver this message to the robot Gort or "There's no telling what he might do" [upon learning of Klaatu's death at hands of the Army]. This happens about 5/6 of the way into the film, near the climax. What I most love about this movie is that, at the height of McCarthyism, it dared to suggest that military madness in general, not solely "the Russkies," posed the greatest threat to our planet's existence via nuclear weaponry. It is therefore a brave, as well as keenly intelligent, bit of celluloid.
Just a reminder: TCP has featured this movie before! Check it out, including your comment, Greg:
https://contraryperspective.com/2013/09/28/the-day-the-congress-stood-still/
2013…ancient history!!! :-)
Actually, b.traven, I wanted to poke a little fun at the casting of unorthodox — say, racial minorities, for example — in film or stage productions normally reserved for more "traditional" (Republican code word for "white") actors, as if an unusual racial mix of actors and their supposedly different views of life somehow has a value in and of itself. The featured article somehow seemed to imply this. Some really good satire or social commentary can come from the creative casting of implausible actors in ostensibly "straight" roles. Sometimes not so much. Having not seen the production in question, I can't say in this particular case. I only had the example lyrics to go on.
At any rate, the concept of virtuous implausible casting led me to imagine a gay Chinese couple doing a science-fiction rip-off of Robinson Crusoe on Mars* which I recently saw (parts of) on television here in Taiwan. Playing around with the idea of gender reversals in key roles — he/she, her/his, that sort of thing — I thought of the phrase in flagrante delicto, the meaning of which — i.e., caught red handed (if not red-faced) literally screwing around — I supposed literate adults pretty much knew without need of explanation (which I have provided here for younger readers). This choice of phrase required a rhyme for "delicto" and given the science/fantasy setting on Mars as a backdrop, the famous phrase "Klaatu barada nikto," from The Day the Earth Stood Still suggested itself. This reference, naturally, then led to the title of the poem.
As an additional technical consideration, every line of verse in the example lyrics ends with the same two-syllable or single-syllable pronunciation: "passion/fashion/ration," "played/trade/made," etc. Therefore, I adhered to that limitation as well. However, I quickly ran out of things to say in such a restricted format. However, as Greg Laxer points out in his comments, the visiting alien (of whatever race or gender) requires a lethal enforcer sidekick named Gort to either protect the visiting alien from the hostile natives or to exact total revenge upon them in the obvious case where they would kill first and await posthumous proof of innocence later — President Barack Obama's preferred course of action against impoverished foreign peasants and their "threatening," "bad" wedding parties. But having exhausted one rhyme scheme in only a six-line stanza, I obviously should have included a second stanza to complete the required minority LGBT cast. Hence:
Some question the need to contort
The meaning of "art" just for sport
Just so Earthlings on Mars can report
Watching Klaatu and Friday cavort
With both leading roles of the queer Asian sort
And Caitlyn "Bruce" Jenner** as Gort.
There. Fixed it.
Notes courtesy of Wikipedia)
Note * Robinson Crusoe on Mars is a 1964 independently made color Techniscope science fiction film distributed by Paramount Pictures that was produced by Aubrey Schenck, directed by Byron Haskin, and stars Paul Mantee, Victor Lundin, and Adam West.
Robinson Crusoe on Mars is a science fiction retelling of the classic novel Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.
Note ** Caitlyn Marie Jenner (born October 28, 1949), formerly known as Bruce Jenner, is an American television personality and retired Olympic gold medal-winning decathlete. Since 2007, she has been appearing on E!'s reality television program Keeping Up with the Kardashians and is currently starring in the reality TV show I Am Cait, which focuses on her gender transition.
Oh my, Mike, now that IS some interesting casting for Gort!! Technically, Gort is a member of the "race" of robots the inhabitants of other "peopled" planets, acting in cooperation, have crafted to enforce the non-aggression principle. They are the police force; Klaatu, as an organic entity, is understood to be "expendable" on the mission to Earth. He was sent in the belief the inhabitants of Earth would relate more easily to a living being who has assumed human morphological form. (No hint is provided as to how his species appears in its natural state.) [Incidentally, Gort happens to be a town in County Galway, Ireland, and the residence of W.B. Yeats! I made a point of visiting there in 1990.] If readers need a little more nudging to seek out this "ancient" movie, if not already familiar with it, I also find it fascinating that it features two real media stars of the time: columnist/radio/TV commentator Drew Pearson and the very rightwing commentator Gabriel Heater. We hear the latter in a radio broadcast call for the destruction of this "monster" Klaatu, on whom he of course has never set eyes. Fear, irrational human fear, of the unknown is a major theme of "The Day The Earth Stood Still." As to "Robinson Crusoe On Mars," I know a lot of sci-fi fans take a very warm liking to it but it doesn't really do much for me. To each their own…
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The Queen's "Name the Robot" campaign featured a contest among Napa area children to name the medical center's newly acquired surgical robot. Six-year-old Austin Whitehead, a student at Napa's Vichy Elementary School, submitted the winning entry, "Sir Lancebot."
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"'Our Name the Robot' contest drew more than 700 entries, and created a fun way for the community to become excited about, and involved in, the arrival of our new surgical robot," said Jaime Peñaherrera, Director of Marketing, Communications and Public Relations at Queen of the Valley. "It was also a great way to get the word out about the benefits of robotically assisted procedures and our advanced surgical capabilities in this specialized area."
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After having searched high and low and everywhere in between I could not find a tree of life that I liked or that looked simple enough without being to simplistic.
Finally I decided to draw up my own. The original reference for this was a necklace on pyramidcollection.com but that was inside a circle and had no roots. This is what I finally came up with and I'm in love with it.
This is soon to be a tattoo and has become the main symbol we are using in our wedding.
Please do not steal my work.
I see that the last comment from Ivy was about 3 years ago in 2014 but still I put in this request for permission to use the image on a Tombstone - my own. and that may happen sooner than later... who knows? (given my heart condition). It's just that it seems to encapsuate the Celtic heritage I claim along with all its symbolism and I'm guessing ot will be straight-forward to 'set in stone'. Thanks.
I am seeking permission to use your tree of life design as an applique on church altar cloths for my small Presbyterian Church in northern Wisconsin. The simplicity of the design is perfect and the celtic design would be a tie-in with the Scottish roots of the Presbyterian Church. I am doing the work as a donation and no sales transaction will take place.
Would you be willing to allow me to use your design as a reference for a stained glass window? Thanks for your consideration.
I would love to use this tree of life for a wedding invitation I am doing for a friend. Would you grant permission? It is exactly what we are looking for!
Sure! I would love to see it when your finished!
Would you mind if I used this image, or something very similar, to decorate a felt envelope that I am making for a Yule card?
so very sorry I did not get a chance to respond to this in time!!! I have been without internet for a while now! I would not mind though I think it is a bit late. Sorry again!
I there miss Ivy, I didn't end up using this design for my Yule cards but I did base a component of a piece of jewelry which you can see here. I included credit to you as well as a link back to your deviantART page as well as directly to this image.
Thank you!! Your jewelry looks amazing!
I would like to use this design to redraw for a logo for my best friends' psychology organization. Small family concern. Would you grant permission? We could,pay an honorarium. I love the simplicity and the symbolism.
you may use it for this purpose I would be honored! No need for pay of any kind since it will be used for an organization that will be doing good.
I love this! Could I use it as a reference for a woodburning I need to finish my nephew's toybox? I need something simpler than the traditional tree of life. Thank you.
Do you mind if I use this for a reference for my own design?
sorry it has taken so long to respond to this, you are more than welcome to use this piece as reference!
I love this design and I'd like your permission to use it as a tattoo. I, too, have had trouble finding the perfect tree of life design and this one seems to be just right!
I am very flattered that you like it so very much but honestly this was a very special tattoo for me. It has become the center piece for my wedding and a symbol of the love and trust my finance and I share.


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28-Aug-12 - 11:32 AM
Thread Name: Free the Pussy Riot Three
Subject: RE: Free the Pussy Riot Three
So what were your bandmates arrested for? I mean, if they weren't trespassing and desecrating a shrine? Just for protesting? And foul language? Where's the equivalence to the PR stunt? Were those girls given a two-year sentence for protesting in a public place and breaking no laws except use of foul language?
The part about the girl expecting to be arrested tells us nothing new. It's obvious that the series of events they staged were intended to push the tolerance of the government until they were arrested. To me, that suggests that it's pretty hard to get arrested for protesting. They should come here. You can be arrested just for being on the sidewalk near a WTO meeting.
The question of why she was willing to make that sacrifice is unanswered. It could be that she thought her event would save Russia, but it could also be that she saw the financial advantage.
Based on what I saw in the video and what I know about the etiquette of Orthodox churches and what I've heard about Russian religious fervor these days, I'm guessing that if they had done the same thing, said all the same things, sang a parody of the liturgy substituting "shit" for "holy," called the patriarch a "bitch," etc, but with the one difference that they hadn't said "Drive Putin away," then they would have gotten a longer sentence. I think that if they had said they were just doing it as a prank or to promote themselves commercially it would have been more outrageous than it was when presented as a political protest. I think the political protest angle must have justified it to some degree.
By contrast, if someone went into the visitors' gallery of the US Senate and threw feces down on the Senators, I don't think his prison term would be any be shorter if he said "Down with Obama" while doing it. The protest angle doesn't justify anything to us, because we have such a perfect government and complete freedom.
And what makes this PR event a protest anyway? The event itself only tells us that the girls were foul-mouthed hooligans. It doesn't tell us any more about Putin than that they want him to go away. At least 45% of any country feel that way about their leader. They didn't say why they want him to go away, nor associate the event with any other protest, and the event only involved 6 people, not a newsworthy event except for the trespassing and desecration.
The only thing it accomplished was to make an international reputation for the rock band, and to polarize Russian society around questions of religion and politics; in other words to make it more like the US, where people are so polarized that they're more likely to shoot each other than talk. That's nice for the folks in control. They can pursue their consolidation of power agenda of wealth concentration and imperialist war because the people are too busy fighting each other to notice what the government is doing. It's the modern, democratic version of "divide and conquer." And these girls have helped that along, whether knowingly or not.
I, too, have a personal bias here. I've taken part in a lot of anti-war protests, but of a more traditional form, with thousands of people picketing and listening to speeches, and permits and staying inside the yellow tape and holding the placards up on paper tubes so the police wouldn't feel threatened by us carrying wooden sticks. I marched to the Pentagon with 20,000 people and not a single network or major newspaper covering it or reporting later that it had occurred (this was before YouTube and all that, when that was the only way the general public could have found out about it). And I hate to see real, meaningful protests getting so much less attention than these self-promoting and divisive stunts.
That's not to say that I want them to be punished for it, any more than I want Glenn Beck and Bill Maher punished for similarly cashing in on a system that glorifies the opportunist and social divider. If it were up to me, I would maybe ban those girls from church and from the supermarket unless they apologize and promise not to do it again. The best response is to ignore them. But governments take a different view, particularly when you show by a series of events that you're going to be more and more offensive until they do something about it. The Russian government's response was relatively moderate, and the international reaction to it is inappropriate.


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Q: AWS Cloudwatch logs to ElasticSeacrh via Kinesis Firehose I am trying to stream AWS cloudwatch logs to Amazon ES using Kinesis Firehose. However, I keep getting the below errors in the ES error log. Any idea?
The data could not be decoded as UTF-8 as in {"attemptsMade":0,"arrivalTimestamp":1494910856979,"errorCode":"InvalidEncodingException","errorMessage":"The data could not be decoded as UTF-8","attemptEndingTimestamp":1494911157268,"rawData":"H4sIAAAAAAAAADWO0QqCMBiFX2XsWiJBQ70LUW8sIYUuQmLpnxvpJttMQnz3ZtrlxzmcQj0RXNBWNMkErmkSKoTfZSrmWQLoV1fBQlWS9ZoLHrNUgFQ5u5a8XvYHrBSfM6rWumdHQpDNjtuM7vr333IPnOtZfbxG4pmjTQ5tegEIK1YvxBlEgraZIPFFtlhgnyzOKmQQqFOzwXM5fj/HcTewAAAA=","esDocumentId":null

A: This is most probably because Cloudwatch logs are compressed. You can use a Firehose transformation lambda blueprint and add code to uncompress the records.

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