The AI trained itself by continuously attempting to write carols, checking their accuracy against the carols in the dataset, and modifying its process accordingly.
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"The PA system was still blaring Christmas carols," Sherlock said.
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Projections of snowflakes danced overhead while an organ puffed carols.
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Now it's the grandkids getting indoctrinated with my carols record.
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The two sang (inappropriate) Christmas carols at a mall's Santaland.
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We sing songs — but during Christmas, songs are called carols. Why?
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There are only so many God-fearing carols to get through.
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Either way, Christmas carols are a staple to the holiday season.
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At the event, you can find Santa, cookies, candies, and carols.
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Of all the musical Christmas Carols, this one is my favorite.
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Furious demonstrators drowned out cheery Christmas carols being sung by schoolchildren.
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The men reportedly sang more carols, shook hands, and exchanged gifts.
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Doesn't conflict with the carols gig, so I take it, too.
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Refreshments will be served afterward, when the carols continue at the church.
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The sponsors invited the children to make gingerbread houses and sing carols.
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One time, she said, 'Let's go sing Christmas carols in a mental hospital!
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That winter, we drove around singing Christmas carols to anyone who would listen.
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So too did singing carols in other languages, including Latvian and Church Slavonic.
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But I've got this day job singing Christmas carols for children with cancer.
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Also qualifying under that umbrella is a medley of carols that avoids turning saccharine.
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Mr. Fallon and the actor Rebel Wilson sang auto-translated versions of Christmas carols.
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Perry sang carols to the crowd with Bloom accompanying her on some baby bongo drums.
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They chatted with the shopkeepers and cuddled up beside the tree to listen to carols.
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Our critics select museum and gallery exhibitions that provide a respite from carols and crowds.
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If you love Christmas carols, thank Oberndorf bei Salzburg, a tiny riverside town in Austria.
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Children joined Roosevelt at the White House to ring in Christmas 1940 with Christmas carols.
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LONDON — For some people, Christmas is all about carols, presents, Santa Claus and his reindeer.
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We head home and G. sweetly plays Christmas carols on the guitar while I sing along.
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About 2.503 people are crowded around the giant tree, singing carols along with a brass band.
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Senators were spotted singing multiple Christmas carols as they waited for action on the continuing resolution.
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Greta Now dressed as Santa and performed a set of Christmas carols before her regular set.
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I think it's valid for boys to learn how to knit and sing Christmas carols, too.
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Join them as they sing traditional Christmas carols and a few of their own new originals.
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Something about the Lessons and Carols' serene liturgy of music, words and wonder touches a nerve.
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Christmas carols jingled from rooftop public speakers in an apparent act of state-enforced holiday cheer.
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You're about to hear your favorite Christmas carols repeating over and over — if you haven't already.
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What are the holidays for if not for honouring the people you admire with presents and carols?
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You can choose to remove the Christmas Carols from your vibrator on December 26, if you want.
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Lighted Carousel Christmas Decoration, $79.15, available at Lowe'sThis carousel plays 25 classic Christmas carols and actually spins.
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Speeches are given, carols are sung and a wreath is placed at the foot of the tree.
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Families protested at theaters around the US and picketed its premiere, singing Christmas carols outside the cinema.
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Sunday Routine Marky Ramone, who became the drummer for the Ramones in 26, doesn't do Christmas carols.
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HALLE, Germany — Christmas carols were playing and the scent of ginger hung in the crisp December air.
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Behind her, a truck bearing the words "Trump Unity" blared Christmas carols, altered with pro-Trump lyrics.
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After watching a youth choir sing carols, Trump asked two of the girls how old they were.
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A military choir sang Christmas carols, "Silent Night" and "Joy to the World," and a military band played.
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"In many places carols are not sung, churches are empty and are being turned into museums," he said.
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In Manger Square, visitors were entertained by choirs singing carols, bagpipe players and a Palestinian scouts' marching band.
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Visitors to the installation can also sing Christmas carols, meet Santa Claus, and shop in the Christmas markets.
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The freshmen had been directed by upperclassmen to sing the carols while dressed in costume, the school said.
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Al Weaver is the newsletter master this week while Alexis Simendinger is going around Washington singing Christmas carols.
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Singing her Christmas carols, but getting the words wrong on purpose, so Astrid is almost sobbing with laughter.
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Until then, there had only been schmaltzy carols and easy listening staples, with occasional hints of a party tune.
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The halls were all decked, the stockings were hung,And for all that we know, even carols were sung.
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In much of America, the Christmas season means candy canes, carols, claymation specials, and all that wholesome childhood jazz.
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But there's always a risk of driving customers insane with Christmas carols and ruining the seasonal spirit for everyone.
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Aside from gifts and Baby Jesus, people find loads to like about it: the carols, the cookies, the decorations.
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In 2013, students were banned from singing Christmas carols with a religious theme at a VA hospital in Georgia.
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" From piles on a Dennett-built coffee table, Dennett and his wife distributed homemade books of Christmas carols. "Hello!
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It is unlikely that either player imagined that 26 years later their families would be singing Christmas carols together.
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A Marine Band played Christmas carols while the president and his party soaked up a moment long in coming.
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The earlier bill was passed in a voice vote with senators singing Christmas carols while they waited for the vote.
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In another, protestors gathered in the main entrance of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery to sing climate-themed Christmas carols.
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But by the 17th century, the authorities there had had enough of the raucous practice and they banned Christmas carols.
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But by the 17th century, the English authorities had had enough of the raucous practice and they banned Christmas carols.
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Theater Latté Da's documentary musical, about the Christmas carols that emanated from World War I trenches, is finishing its song.
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The episode began as part of an annual tradition at the Citadel in which freshman cadets sing carols to upperclass cadets.
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For instance, the words "Curry" and "Dingle" weren't in the input data, but did show up in the AI-generated carols.
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The album is admittedly catchy, but it sounds more like a Killers greatest-hits album than a Killers greatest-carols collection.
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Well, it's happened for real apparently, but during a Christmas carols event called "Joy To The World" in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
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How are these people going to find a brand-new hookup while everyone is singing Christmas carols or lighting the menorah?
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Monday, they went a step further and showed up at her house with chorus instructor Stephanie Puckett to sing Christmas carols.
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So, we've got chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost nipping at your nose, and something something about "Yuletide carols"?
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Neural networks are hot stuff these days having been used for fun things like writing bad Christmas carols and horror stories.
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At the local public school, Ozick was taunted as a "Christ killer" when she refused to sing Christmas carols in assembly.
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" "This storm comes at a time of year when North Carolinians are usually hearing carols about snow, not actually seeing it.
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Last week, Mr. Padberg and Mr. Meyer returned to the rehab facility — but this time to sing carols for the residents.
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Americans go on marathon shopping trips, both in store and online to find that perfect gift while listening to Christmas carols.
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In public school, the week before Christmas, we went in early to gather around the Christmas tree and sing Christmas carols.
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Kaley Cuoco falls into the first camp; according to her latest Instagram Story, she's been cranking up the Christmas carols all weekend.
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Listeners can start blasting Christmas carols and other holiday music as soon as they take their Halloween costume off, on Nov. 1.
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Albatross The following day, I had this great idea to buy a boom box radio so Gatsby could listen to Christmas carols.
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He has sung ranchero to Christmas carols, but boleros are where he excelled, though critics often found him repetitive and lacking innovation.
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Now I will do my Santa shtick For Q.B. Colin Kaepernick, And belt a coupla carols with Josh Norman and Za'Darius Smith.
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When a pair of Iranian bands flown in for the occasion began playing Assyrian and Persian Christmas carols, the audience clapped along.
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But there were no Christmas carols, no spruce trees lining the sidewalk outside of delis and nary a twinkling light in sight.
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From the many speakers of the Bose system, Frank Sinatra brayed Christmas carols, his band never as good as one might wish.
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Other activities will include children's crafts; film screenings, including Chuck Jones's 1971 animated version of Dickens's novel; and, of course, concluding carols.
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Set in Harlem's pregentrification 1980s, the show features original music and reimagined Christmas carols in the spirit of pop, gospel and jazz.
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Times of worship become jubilant and joyful: White replaces purple, babies are finally placed in mangers, and Christmas carols fill the air.
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And yet, I still know the words to most Christmas carols and can recognize a Douglas fir tree when I see one.
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He sang in the school's choir, performing with the Kingsmen Quartet, singing carols during the holidays, and performing the national anthem at graduation.
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Liam Payne is either about to be a dad, or his gf had way too much food and beer before enjoying Christmas carols.
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One is a concert by the Baltimore Consort "playing Yuletide fare, including old and new versions of Renaissance carols and dances," he said.
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"He has more than 300 children who are ready to go," O'Rourke told a crowd gathered outside the shelter to sing Christmas carols.
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And, of course, the drumbeat of Amazon was ever in their ears, drowning out Christmas carols even in the normally robust holiday season.
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Candles and lyrics were passed out to each attendee, and traditional carols like "O Tannenbaum" were mixed with medleys of game-day chants.
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To help fill the void, then-eight-year-old Cavan went to a veterans' home with his Cub Scout troop to sing Christmas carols.
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The annual service includes festive readings and traditional Christmas carols for London Fire Brigade's uniformed and non-uniformed members of staff and their families.
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Last night, we covered the mantelpiece in bright-blue packing tape, hung our mustard-yellow stockings, and sang our carols to the UPS man.
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A Pennsylvania man is accused of strangling a man driving him last week because he was angry the driver wouldn't stop singing Christmas carols.
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The alleged victim had been driving Lucas from a halfway house to treatment when he began to sing Christmas carols, according to the complaint.
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As you can see, the resulting songs look a heck of a lot like Christmas carols, but they don't make a ton of sense.
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Footage shared by the hospital on Twitter shows an excited crowd singing carols, cheering for, and taking photos of Obama Claus in the hallway.
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He said there would be an increased police presence at Melbourne events, including the Boxing Day Test Cricket, carols and other major sports events.
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Nobody knows exactly how many people listen to the annual Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols from King's, but it's a worldwide broadcasting phenomenon.
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Holiday lights line the streets, carols are on the radio and blood-red trees stand in the White House: It's December, and we're ready.
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Editors' Choice I had drinks recently with a novelist friend, and the talk turned to our mutual distaste for Christmas carols as a category.
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When the holidays arrived, we sang carols in German, ate pfeffernüsse (a spiced, German cookie), and piled mountains of gifts under the Christmas tree.
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The carols, the cookies, the presents, etc.. But, he says, there are some people who hate Christmas so much they want to stop it.
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Using the alias "Carols Danger," Weiner received explicit photos from a woman with whom he'd been in contact as recently as April of that year.
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He sang along to the well-known first verses of the Christmas carols, though once the songs entered the later, lesser-known verses he stopped.
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And therein lies the anticlimax: after 24 seconds inside the car, give or take, it's basically going away until we're singing Christmas carols in 235.
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You'd think it would be easy for a computer to generate something indistinguishable from the typical carols piped through department stores this time of year.
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To showcase this celebrated British tradition, The Kensington hotel is offering a package with two tickets to the Christmas Eve carols at Royal Albert Hall.
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And on Christmas Eve, the garden kids would line up, holding candles and wearing red capes, and sing carols they had rehearsed for the adults.
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In the 1990s and afterward, Mr. Yarbrough toured in a one-man Christmas show, "The Forgotten Carols," with book, music and lyrics by Michael McLean.
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Tiger Woods named himself to the United States Presidents Cup team on Thursday, a decision as predictable as Christmas carols in radio rotation before Thanksgiving.
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Over Christmas, 2009 Eurovision singer Soraya Arnela performed the world's first ever "concert for fetuses" using the Babypod, serenading ten pregnant women with Christmas carols.
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Other ways that Redpepper has played with technology include building a QR code with Oreos and having humans sing Christmas carols written by artificial intelligence.
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The former Beatle — who's "Wonderful Christmas Time" is currently #29 on Billboard's Holiday Airplay Charts — has recorded a home-studio album of traditional Christmas carols.
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You could make little onion tarts with Gorgonzola and walnuts, and treat your home like an office party, sing carols and karaoke while you eat.
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This time around, the producers asked the young children voicing the birds to sing an Easter classic, but unfortunately, none of them knew any Easter carols.
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If you liked that album, there's no reason you wouldn't like this one, which also emulsifies carols and Christmas standards to the consistency of a smoothie.
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The plan was to ice skate, watch the tree lighting and enjoy the live choir belting out carols, and I was more than happy to join.
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This photo was taken on Christmas day 2012, and according to NASA Hadfield later joined the rest of the crew for an "assortment of Christmas carols."
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On that day, radio stations start playing catchy carols, families transform their homes into winter wonderlands, and fast-food chains add seasonal items to the menu.
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"When you know the story behind everything from old carols to 'Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer,' you can give them the insight," Ace told MUNCHIES.
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Right: A group of students from Sear Rogers International School sing carols in front of a Christmas tree inside one of Hong Kong's shopping centers on Dec.
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In Germany, children dressed up as wise men in colourful robes and gold crowns to sing carols for President Joachim Gauck outside the presidential palace in Berlin.
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Thenceforth Sharp devoted all his energies to collecting lullabies, carols, love songs and work songs—in streets and kitchens, out in the fields and in the poorhouse.
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The Trumps, both dressed festively in red, surveyed the tree as a military band played Christmas carols, walking hand-in-hand as they inspected the carriage's cargo.
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Christmas carols are simple and easily identifiable, as they're based on either the plagal cadences of centuries-old church choirs or on extravagant, jazzy show tune chords.
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On Tuesday, with British and Norwegian officials attending and children singing Christmas carols, a 24-metre (79-foot) spruce was felled in drizzling rain and chilly temperatures.
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The Miz had an AWESOME Christmas in the Middle East -- singing carols, shooting semis and SLINGSHOTTING OFF A FRICKIN' AIRCRAFT CARRIER ... and he documented all the action.
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The witches are singing pagan carols around the fire and, in true holiday spirit, Sabrina (Kiernan Shipka) conducts a séance and opens her home to real spirits.
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Another Australian tradition is "Carols by Candlelight", which takes place in cities and towns across Australia, where groups of people gather and sing Christmas songs, holding candles.
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Year after year, the same group of students who decorated the Christmas tree also begged me to let them go around the school and sing Christmas carols.
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Some of the best-known carols were written during this period, like "We Three Kings," and "Jingle Bells," which was actually first played at a Thanksgiving concert.
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It lights up red and blue (and green for the laser, of course) and plays the Star Wars main theme and the Imperial March — classic holiday carols, obviously.
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When twinkling lights illuminate city streets, familiar carols ring in the air and when you wander around the mall aimlessly to find gifts for everyone on your list.
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Previously, he ate a habanero pepper, sang Christmas carols at Costco and took a two-minute ice bath, and has, so far, raised more than $3,000 in donations.
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Colorado-based research scientist Janelle Shane has trained a neural network (a type of machine-learning algorithm) to write its own Christmas carols, and the results are...interesting.
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Who doesn't want to trust their government, sing carols in a rainbow sweater ($395) and wear a crown of wildflowers with your three-quarter puff sleeve leather trench?
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A group of women in Hawaii were greeted by former President Obama on Christmas Eve as they sang Christmas carols outside the home where his family was staying.
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As the votes rolled in Wednesday night to fund the government until February, a cluster of Democrats were singing Christmas carols in a corner of the Senate chamber.
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On a mostly bare stage, dotted with packing crates and wreathed in haze, a chorus of ten men trade carols and popular songs in English, German and French.
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Plus, the notes of cocoa and vanilla add a festive touch that feels right at home in the season of twinkling street lights and never-ending Christmas carols.
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Centuries later, carols are still thriving in New York City, performed at tree lightings, holiday parties and even on the subway to help ease the dreary winter commute.
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Juan Carols Hernandez-Caseres, a 37-year-old roofer, was arrested Saturday for the murders months apart of Ann Farrin, 41, and Neidy Roche, 39, the Miami Herald reported.
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The machine learns from a dataset, which in this instance was about 240 carols, new and old, aggregated by the Times of London and neural net hobbyist Erik Svensson.
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There was this moment where I looked up and Fat Joe is singing Christmas carols with the carol singer we had hired and everyone is just having a ball.
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And the holiday trappings give the story a haunted feel, as though the characters listening to carols on the radio are actually hearing echoes from their town's dark past.
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Inside the home on Tuesday, Meghan was given a tour of the facilities and then took part in the festive fun, including craft-making and listening to Christmas carols.
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"My memory is very, very long — like it or not," C.C. tells Hillary as they debate whether Hillary forced C.C. to sing Christmas carols during their first holiday together.
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Biblical allusions aside, Faust 3 also playfully alludes to a wide range of material, including Shakespeare, Billie Holiday, Christmas carols, Roman history, Yeats, Donne, and of course Goethe's Faust.
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If you're wondering why we're singing Christmas carols in July, it's because the actions of Melania Trump's husband are currently being discussed before Congress, and she's tweeting about... Christmas.
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And it will feel like coming home, because I was an organ scholar at King's and remember December evenings locked in the chapel, practicing for the Lessons and Carols.
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As with most gender-flipped A Christmas Carols, this one also demonizes a career woman by implying that the moral of the story is sticking to gender roles more.
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The new carols were actually modern versions of the old: the voices of people of the time dancing, celebrating or reflecting, sometimes stridently or clumsily, but with raw devotion.
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Of course, the Christmas carols were part of the plan, suggested by one of Burpee's former students — but the project also extended well beyond members of the school community.
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Some of the best-known carols were written during this period, like "We Three Kings," and "Jingle Bells," which was actually first played at a Thanksgiving concert in America.
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A few times, the group passed by other outdoor music-makers, including a drummer playing plastic tubs and metal pots, and a saxophonist offering a medley of Christmas carols.
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The app's available now as a free download through the Apple TV App Store, just in time to stream Christmas carols on a 24/7 loop in your living room.
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The Hearthstone- and Warcraft-themed scene features a Murloc singing Christmas carols, pausing between songs to go do battle with denizens outside and decorating the fireplace with its newfound loot.
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Sarah Tran, 20, of Walnut Creek, California, gave up Girl Scouts in middle school because of the focus on domestic activities, like knitting and singing Christmas carols at retirement homes.
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Carols by the Sea also happens annually at the city's famous Bondi Beach on December 12, and festive markets cater to people of all denominations and faiths around the holidays.
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Washington (CNN)During a speech to the American Legion, Vice President Mike Pence claimed Wednesday that under the Obama administration, Veterans Affairs hospitals had removed Bibles and banned Christmas carols.
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"Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way …"I was four years old in this story, and my brother had dragged me out to sing Christmas carols in our neighborhood.
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That means memorizing not only Christmas carols and poems, but the lore of the character: what the North Pole is like, how he hires elves, what he feeds the reindeer.
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With the "Christmas Creep" seeming to start earlier every year, that gives us all a lot more opportunity to get sick of our favorite carols before the holidays even roll around.
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Don't worry, trying out Peppermint Bark Oreos early doesn't mean you have to start listing to Christmas carols or hanging up wreaths just yet, so really, you've got nothing to lose.
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The videos were taken between the time my brother stopped doing drum pad covers of Christmas Carols and when my grandma phoned to ask why we don't visit more often. 5.
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Fourteen years ago, Mark (Andrew Lincoln) showed up at Juliet (Keira Knightley)'s doorstep with a boombox to play Christmas carols and profess his love to her using giant cue cards.
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He tried to stem the tide of pre-holiday gifts coming into our house, objecting to a battery-powered book that sings Christmas carols—and his mom threatened to kill him.
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Listen: The Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols at King's College, Cambridge, will be directed for the last time by Stephen Cleobury and broadcast around the world at 10 a.m. Eastern.
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Passers-by can have their photos snapped by in-window cameras, which then beam their images into displays, or karaoke their favorite Christmas carols, into microphones jutting out onto the sidewalk.
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Graphic Content It's a peaceful domestic scene on a Sunday in Los Angeles, 2480: 229.95-year-old George helps his father trim the tree, as carols curl out of the radio.
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Barack Obama was singing Christmas carols in Hawaii when an aide interrupted to tell him that a man with explosives in his underwear had tried to blow up a passenger plane.
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Still, with its richly saturated lighting (by Nicolas Brion) and shimmering costumes (by James Lavoie), "'Twas" is fun to look at, and its soundtrack of percussive Christmas carols is contagiously upbeat.
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Kit Harington and wife Rose Leslie made a rare public appearance together Tuesday, stepping out to attend the MS Society's Carols by Candlelight at St. Boltolph-Without-Bishopsgate Church in London.
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We take a step back, revel in the wholesome Danishness of it all, join hands and hygge it up a notch by singing our favorite carols and dancing around the tree.
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Sebastian is a principled jazz fan who rages at any hint of compromise, and whose latest restaurant gig, dutifully plinking out aural-wallpaper Christmas carols in a classy restaurant, doesn't last long.
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We meet his sharp but affectionate sister, learn who his favorite musicians are, watch him plink out basic Christmas carols before he explodes in a burst of frustration and cascading, crunching chords.
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Members of Windward ReSisters, a women's group in Hawaii, decided to gather outside the estate where the Obama family was staying for Christmas and sing carols to welcome him, People magazine reported.
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"Every Christmas I sit down to watch Carols from Kings, which is broadcast around the world, and every year I wonder where the girls are," Ms. Garrett said in a telephone interview.
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My favorite part was a video installation of actors reading diaries from the Christmas Truce of 1914, when both sides laid down their weapons to sing carols, share rum and bury bodies.
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"Many years after our divorce, Billy would still come to my house for the Christmas singalong and play the piano, and all our friends would come over and sing Christmas carols," Brinkley said.
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Yet the faithful braved the chilly weather outside the town's Manger Square as traditional Christmas songs like "Jingle Bells" played in Arabic over loudspeakers and scout groups paraded with bagpipes and sang carols.
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Gucci Mane's third solo release of the year is Return of East Atlanta Santa, a collection of cooking carols and hustling hymns that only the Trap God himself can deliver down our chimneys.
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Christmas carols and classic movies will try to convince you that the holidays are a time to be merry, thankful, and full of love and light, and anything other than that is dysfunctional.
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Uncle Drew and his Celtics teammates threw on some goofy Christmas hats and hit up Boston Children's Hospital on Tuesday ... singing carols and handing out special shoes to the tough kids getting treatment.
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The investigation shows that several freshmen were told to report to an upperclassman's room on numerous occasions after Thanksgiving break, where they were directed to sing Christmas carols in costume, the school said.
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Guests could dress up in their finery, stay at the hotel, and, in a glowing banquet hall with soaring views of Yosemite Valley, watch some light, Yuletide-themed performances and listen to carols.
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Carols, and caroling, have been around in England since at least the Middle Ages, when people would go "a-wassailing" — singing Christmas songs in the streets in exchange for wassail, an alcoholic drink.
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A passer-by added yet another agenda item to an already overburdened program, handing out new lyrics for "White Christmas," by Phyllis Kind, from a little sheaf, "Feminist Carols," distributed by B. Rugged.
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"I couldn't allow the pessimism that is everywhere, that is covering us, to also wither the culture, the traditions," said one woman who attended a parranda, a traditional get-together to sing carols.
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The sandman so love to seek the worldThe sandman so love so deep and sing and the sunThe machine's inability to grasp the nuances of human language means that these carols are deeply nonsensical.
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He then dons a top hat and coat, making him look like a plus-size Scrooge, and treks out into the town square, where everyone is gathered to sing carols around the Christmas tree.
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But an especially poignant moment for the group came when Gregg (an actor/singer based in Woodstock, New York) sang Christmas carols with Carla, a family tradition that's been going on for 6 years.
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A popular one (pictured) that speaks of "Chestnuts roasting on an open Fire, Jack Frost nipping at your nose, Yuletide carols in the choir…." was in fact penned on a blistering day in Chicago.
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Musical Christmas Snowglobe Lantern, $39.99, available on Amazon This festive black snowglobe water lantern showcases Santa on his sleigh and plays eight different classic Christmas carols, the perfect musical addition to your holiday decor.
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Menotti wrote the role of Amahl for the angelic tone of a boy soprano; such voices distinguish the Saint Thomas Choir's performance of Britten's divine "Ceremony of Carols" at its namesake church (Dec. 19).
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Sadly, those qualities are absent from "Home for the Holidays," a limp revue of carols and Yule-themed pop songs that makes the Osmond siblings' spectacle look as debauched as a Mötley Crüe concert.
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It sneaks up on you: At first you think those carols coming from the store speakers are from your childhood — but why are they all being sung over four octaves by one distinctive voice?
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In a scene in which Eichner and Poehler, dressed in Victorian costumes, run around getting people to sing Christmas carols with them, a man makes a dumb joke, and Eichner screams and sprints off.
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TOKYO, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Japanese authorities have requested the International Criminal Police Organization (ICPO) for an Interpol wanted notice for the wife of former Nissan Motor boss Carols Ghosn, local media reported on Saturday.
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PARIS (Reuters) - The wife of former Nissan boss Carols Ghosn on Tuesday said a Japanese arrest warrant against her was to avenge her husband's escape from Japan's judiciary and described the act as petty.
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Melania, in London while President Donald Trump attends a NATO summit, complimented the students on their Christmas hats while helping them to make festive wreaths, as a brass band played carols in the background.
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Neural networks can learn to imitate tone and vocabulary, as Shane points out in a blog post about the carols, but they pretty much suck at picking up on the subtleties of the human language.
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The UK-based company, which makes an app where people can download different vibration settings for their sex toy, "secretly" released a set of vibrations that buzz along to the tune of popular Christmas carols.
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From soulful versions of Christmas carols — if you love yourself, download Santa Hooked Me Up by B2K — to running jokes about our families on Twitter, we can do holiday spirit with the best of them.
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While I enjoy Christmas carols, roasting chestnuts and the gift giving experience, I walk a tightrope, as I try to balance my joy for the season with my sadness of the years lost to memories.
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The group in Guaynabo had arrived at the home of Juan Pablo González for a parranda, a Puerto Rican Christmas tradition that brings friends together to sing carols, usually in the middle of the night.
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It was a traditional holiday service with carols, readings of scripture and a "lively" version of "Go Tell It on the Mountain," according to the summaries from a White House pooler attending with the president.
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The original idea for SantaCon started off as a very merry concept: People would dress up and parade through the streets spreading goodwill and good cheer, singing Christmas carols, and giving out gifts to strangers.
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Usually, the Christmas tree lighting involves a bunch of celebrities singing Christmas carols and the first family counting down to the lighting of the tree, which sits in President's Park, adjacent to the White House grounds.
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For weeks, neighbors and strangers have showered Brody with Christmas carols and gifts — and some have even gone as far as decorating their own homes with ornaments to transform their town into a summertime Winter Wonderland.
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The New York City chapter of reproductive rights nonprofit National Organization for Women (NOW-NYC) recently released the Nasty Women's Choir Songbook, an online collection of cheeky anti-Trump carols set to the tune of classics.
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This year Ms. Carey will perform six such shows, starting this week and extending through next, all built around her 1994 hit "All I Want for Christmas Is You" and a range of other melismatic carols.
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Carols at St. Patrick's Cathedral are an annual Christmas highlight, as is the Moving Crib at St. Martin Apostolate's, a "nativity tableaux told through handcrafted moving figures" that has been around for more than 236 years.
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And at a younger St. Thomas Church, on Fifth Avenue in New York, an esteemed choir of men and boys sang a Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols to a jam-packed service on Christmas Eve.
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King's has the most celebrated men-and-boys choir in the world, one admired for an enduring vocal purity and beauty that the world imagines reaching back in time just as the Lessons and Carols do.
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PARIS, Jan 7 (Reuters) - The wife of former Nissan boss Carols Ghosn on Tuesday said a Japanese arrest warrant against her was to avenge her husband's escape from Japan's judiciary and described the act as petty.
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If we look at Christmas music, the carols, the chants that referred to the birth of Christ, the "Silent Nights" and the "Adeste Fideles," we see that at a certain point new songs came into vogue.
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Men sang Christmas carols across the trenches on Christmas Eve, and on Christmas Day, some were brave enough to rise out of their trenches and walk into no man's land to meet their enemies in person.
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Joanna has been in the Christmas spirit since October, when she posted a video captured at her sister Mary Kay's house, where the fire was lit, carols were playing and the Magnolia Christmas candle was already burning.
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While standing on the podium waiting to be handed her trophy, Osaka heard only boos as an angry crowd took out their frustration on umpire Carols Ramos, whom they perceived to have been too harsh on Williams.
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None had ever been in my home, where my girls had prayed that Hanukkah would fall around the same time as Christmas so we would not feel cut off from the cheer of carols and twinkling lights.
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And second, if Christians were so restricted from practicing their faith that they had to conceal messages in a song, they also wouldn't be able to celebrate Christmas in the first place — much less sing Christmas carols.
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Rand returns home to Kingston Falls, U.S.A., a perfect movie set of a town, where the plastic snow never melts and where, you can be sure, they start playing Christmas carols the day after the Fourth of July.
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Just Wednesday night, a group of Senate Democrats burst into Christmas carols on the Senate floor as many could taste their long-awaited winter break with their families just a plane ride away, but the "break" was short-lived.
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The college said its investigation found that freshmen cadets who dressed in all white with pillowcases over their heads to perform a "Ghosts of Christmas Past" skit and sing Christmas carols showed poor judgment but had no ill intent.
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AND ONE OF THE EASIEST WAYS TO LOOK AT THAT, IF YOU LOOK AT QSR, WHICH IS A DARLING STOCK, HIGH MULTIPLE, BURGER KING, POPEYES, TIM HORTONS— THEIR LARGEST NORTH AMERICAN FRANCHISEE IS PUBLIC, COMPANY CALLED CAROLS, SIMPLE TASTE.
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Children dressed as Santa Claus sang carols and rang bells during a Christmas-themed show at the College des Freres, which sits in the biblical city's central market where holiday decorations and wooden nativity scenes line the narrow alleys.
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He lives here in a manor house, where he composes carols that are sung throughout the English-speaking world: It's almost inconceivable these days for a carol concert not to feature at least one of Mr. Rutter's modern classics.
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For having 'Christmas' in the title, the movie mercifully holds off on, say, famous Christmas carols playing on the score, and it depicts a time in Christmas history when the holiday was in danger of being run over roughshod by capitalism.
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I want to hear the children sing off-key during the Lessons and Carols service, smell the musty air in the Russian Center, eat too many doughnuts in the common area with the people who are the church to me.
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On Wednesday night, after a contentious day of negotiating and a round of cheerful Christmas carols from a group of Senate Democrats, the Senate passed a stopgap spending bill that would fund the remaining parts of the government through Feb. 8.
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"You know, the truth is to come as no surprise, because under the last administration, the V.A. hospitals had made it a practice to remove Bibles and even banned Christmas carols in an effort to be politically correct," Pence said.
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Still, the best carols — like the best books, like life itself — make room for both the shadows and the light; in keeping with this time of year, they're as much about endings as they are about the hope of new beginnings.
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It may be the local waits, clustered under a streetlamp with gloves and torches, but more often over the past few decades it has meant the broadcast service of Nine Lessons and Carols by the choir of King's College, Cambridge.
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But he was most often in the news in connection with the Christmas Eve performance, part of A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, a service in the King's College Chapel broadcast on hundreds of radio stations around the world.
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The singer, 36, has been hard at work prepping for Christmas with her family to make all of her 3-year-old son Titan Jewell's holiday wishes come true this year including picking out a tree, sipping hot cocoa and doing carols.
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They were in the same advanced glee club in high school, and these two Jewish girls entertained commuters with Christmas carols in the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York each winter -- dressed in "black sweaters, black skirts and pearls," Marilyn said.
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Thursday's rollercoaster ride represented a dramatic turnaround from Wednesday night, when the Senate passed its seven-week continuing resolution by a voice vote, senators were singing Christmas carols on the floor and GOP leadership appeared confident that Trump would sign the stopgap.
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King's Choir: Every year for the last century, the choir boys at the University of Cambridge college belt out the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, a treasured Christmas tradition that is broadcast to more than 370 million people around the world.
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In 2019's Black Christmas, twinkly lights become weapons, Christmas carols are used as warnings, and kissing under the mistletoe isn't an option — not when you and your friends are fighting for your lives against a murderous, misogynistic, and cult-y fraternity.
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But many of her chosen Christmas party songs are simple enough to make her sound fussy, like she can't quite relax and get in the swing of things — and on carols like "Silent Night" and "O Holy Night" the stylistic mismatch grates.
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And on Saturday, they are holding a Nasty Women's Choir Sing-a-Long in New York City to spread a little holiday cheer — with some choice parodies of Christmas carols to protest the upcoming administration and the various ways it could affect women and minorities.
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Kyrie apparently wasn't too wounded because he also helped lead the Celtics in some Christmas carols at one point in the day: But it seems that athletes shouldn't step up to a children's hospital expecting some kind of cakewalk, fun and games and songs.
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We are officially a week away from Christmas Eve, which means those who celebrate the holiday have one week left to finish their gift shopping, and those who don't celebrate the holiday have one week left to hear Christmas carols played incessantly everywhere they go.
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That's the story retold in "All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914," a docudrama in musical form that evokes the memory of that brief holiday peace through a cappella carols, ballads and patriotic songs and the spoken words of men who were there.
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When Windward ReSisters, a women's movement based in Obama's native Hawaii, heard he was returning to the islands with his family for the holidays, they decided to welcome the former president by singing Christmas carols outside the Paul Mitchell estate in lanikai, where the Obamas were staying.
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Using a special intravaginal speaker (babies can&apost hear much through the mom&aposs abdominal wall), the team played 15 songs for each fetus, ranging from sonatas by Bach and Beethoven, to traditional Spanish Christmas carols, to the hits of Queen, Adele and the Village People.
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And this year will be special: Partly because it's the 100th Lessons and Carols, but also because it's the last time Mr. Cleobury — who has held one of the most coveted jobs in church music for longer than most people can remember — will be in charge.
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You can hear your favorite carols performed around town during the next week: • At the Park Avenue tree lighting in front of the Brick Presbyterian Church, and at a holiday tree lighting at Carl Schurz Park, both on Sunday on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
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Directed by Steve H. Broadnax III at Aaron Davis Hall, it has a curiously unfestive air despite some lovely interspersed a cappella carols (the music director is Kahlil X Daniel) and dance (choreographed by Tiffany Rea-Fisher) that's eye-catching from the opening scene, a balletic snow frolic.
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Celebrity warblers — the list includes Conan O'Brien, Rashida Jones, Charles Barkley, Shaquille O'Neal, Jane Lynch, Ludacris, Kenny G, Tony Sirico, ASAP Ferg, Three Loco, Fred Willard and T-Pain — bring holiday cheer to some unsuspecting masses by breaking into renditions of classic carols both good and not so.
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Over at the ornate county courthouse, which dates back to 1909 and which was built at a time when the future of Wilkes-Barre seemed bright, a chorus of fourth graders from a school across the river in Larksville filed into the central hall to perform a medley of Christmas carols.
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That night, in San Martino, a tiny church warmed by a space heater, the audience in the pews matched the number of chorus members dressed in tuxedos and gowns on stage who sang "I'm a-dreaming of a white-a Christ-a-mas" and more local carols in their native tongue.
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" We are now going to have two and a half months to point out that in a land surrounded by Christmas sales, carpeted by Christmas trees and bathed in the broadcast of Christmas carols, the last thing we really need to worry about is the failure to mention the word "Christmas.
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However, this fall the Monkees filled this Santa-shaped gap in their formidable discography with Christmas Party, an exuberant (and occasionally eccentric) collection of classic carols and new additions to the pop Christmas canon, penned by bonafide rock legends like REM guitarist Peter Buck, Andy Partridge of XTC, and Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo.
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Just one stanza of "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer," and I'm suddenly jetting back through time, reliving my entire childhood with her: seeing The Nutcracker while wearing scratchy tights and a fur muff, the gatherings every December at the weird buffet restaurant in Copley Place, the Christmas carols playing endlessly.
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Reasonable people might ask what compelled Trump, when so many Americans were singing Christmas carols and exchanging gifts, to use the holiday weekend to continue his vendetta against the FBI through his false accusation that investigations of the Russia scandal are witch hunts and to continue his repeated attacks against the Steele dossier.
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A serene liturgical parade of music, words and wonder that expounds the Christmas story, the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols is the high point of the year for King's, a University of Cambridge college with a celebrated choir that sings in its chapel almost every day while classes are in session.
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Lincoln feared his iconic handwritten card scene would come across as "creepy" One of the film's most memorable scenes comes when Mark (Lincoln) declares his unrequited love to his best friend's wife (Keira Knightley) by playing a recording of Christmas carols outside her house while silently holding up handwritten cards that proclaim his true feelings to her.
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The Doctors change just a few little things and returns that soldier, who was to face a German bullet, to a point in time just a few hours later, on the brink of the famed Christmas Truce of World War I, where both sides laid down their arms and gathered for a day of laughter, games, and carols.
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Rick Wakeman: Christmas Portraits (Sony) Few rock survivors are as prolific as Wakeman — this is the Yes keyboardist's third consecutive classical piano album, his second (at least?) Christmas album, and one of nearly a hundred solo albums he's released since the '70s, some on ambient synthesizer, others, like these rearranged instrumental Christmas carols, on solo piano.
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Santa baby, and Dancer, and Curry downHappy HolidayWhen the snowflakes will call the world wakes to bringGlory bears and asses the air the angels sangAnd Christmas treeThere are also a number of carols featuring the Sandman, but Shane said in the post that the word was only mentioned once in the human dataset, adding that neural networks can inexplicably cling to certain words.
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As LeAnn Rimes sings "America the Beautiful" and fighter jets fly in formation above, all the spectators (barring Joe Bang, who needs to stay incognito) bare their heads, and you can feel the film following suit, as you can when Sadie, shimmering with hairspray and fake tan, carols a John Denver song at a beauty pageant, with her audience crooning along.
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Anyway: If you ever fancy mulled wine—very, very, very bad mulled wine—without the sheer rigmarole of studding an orange with cloves and warming it slowly in a deep pan while children sing carols around you, then I can sort of recommend that you add a dab of PSL syrup to some Merlot before chugging the whole thing down.
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To pay the rent, he is obliged to take what he regards as demeaning gigs: tickling out Christmas carols and show tunes at a restaurant (the manager is J. K. Simmons, the fearsome Oscar-winner from "Whiplash"); doing '80s pop hits with a knowingly cheesy cover band; touring with a combo fronted by an old friend who has made it big.
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" She replied immediately via email: "Since I met you less than 24 hours ago, I have noticed all the colors of the sky, the trees, the bay as so much more vivid, heard the Christmas carols (my absolute favorite time of the year) sounding oh-so-much merrier and continued smiling so widely that my cheeks hurt, so, yes, please know that I felt that same intensity.
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Still, only a woman who looks like Witherspoon could get away with driving to a party in hot rollers — "the higher the hair, the closer to God," Witherspoon writes, adding that these days going for volume over height is perfectly acceptable — without getting some side-eye on the way, and not many more would feel comfortable going up to strangers' houses to sing Christmas carols in our current climate.
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Crooning piano ballads that use snow as a metaphor for happiness, flexing his vocal muscles on traditional Christmas carols as well as modern Christian rock songs, desperately wishing it could be Christmas every day, he's reached the career stage when all-American boys dissolve into spectral spirits gliding through the wintry night, materializing out of nowhere to sing generic power ballads before spookily vanishing from whence they came, doomed to haunt public retail spaces for eternity.
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