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Jacques Drouin, Master Of Pinscreen Animation, Dies At 78
By Chris Robinson | 09/02/2021 2:35 pm | Be the First to Comment!
The sudden passing of animator Jacques Drouin from a stroke was a shock to many in animation, especially in the halls of the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), where he was an influential and beloved fixture for decades.
"I thought he was eternal," says former NFB colleague Hélène Tanguay.
"He always seemed to me to be forever young," says NFB filmmaker Don McWilliams. "Jacques was a true gentleman with an iron will, as he explored the human condition and advanced the art of the animated film."
Drouin will be remembered throughout the animation community for his mastery of the pinscreen, the device invented by Alexandre Alexeieff and Claire Parker. Drouin's use of the rare tool left us with a unique body of work, including the widely acclaimed Mindscape (1976), Nightangel (co-directed with Břetislav Pojar, 1986), and his final film Imprints (2004).
Drouin was born in Mont-Joli, Quebec in 1943. His journey towards the NFB began when he was a teenager. "My parents moved to Montreal in 1955 and that was about the time the NFB building was in construction," he recalled in January 2021. "We lived in an area where employees of the Film Board were coming from Ottawa to look for new houses to buy. So I heard about the Film Board quite early."
A few years later, while in his final year at L'École des Beaux-arts de Montréal, Drouin finally entered the freshly painted walls of the new NFB headquarters in the city. "[Animator] Kaj Pindal was giving occasional talks, and because of this we went to the NFB one day to get our paper perforated," he said. "That was the first time I entered the Film Board."
Drouin working with the pinscreen in the 1970s. © National Film Board of Canada. All rights reserved.
Drouin's interest in animation grew even more during Expo 67, which was held in Montreal. He visited an animation exhibition where he first glimpsed a small prototype of Alexeieff and Parker's pinscreen. "I remember going to see many screenings of animation during the World's Fair. It was fantastic."
In 1968, Drouin headed west to UCLA to study filmmaking. "I only took one animation class there. It was very basic. I wasn't that interested. I learned to make dope sheets and prepare artwork but my animation knowledge was very limited." Drouin made a few films at UCLA (including animated short The Letter) before graduating.
Back in Montreal, Drouin began work as an editor for tv sports programs. He did this for a couple of years before getting up the nerve to go to the NFB with some animated films he had made. "I had done some pixilation and cutouts and I didn't see much of a future with my job. I was not too happy about the work, so I went to see René Jodoin [head of the NFB's French animation unit]." About a year later Drouin received a call from Jodoin's secretary encouraging him to apply for a three-month internship in the animation department. He went for the interview and was chosen.
During the internship, Drouin stumbled upon a device that would change his life. "I was told that the pinscreen of Alexeieff was there. I got a 16 mm Bolex camera and [filmmaker Norman McLaren] told me I could take a few days to test the pinscreen." Drouin had done some engraving work in school and saw possibilities with the pinscreen. "I thought I was the ideal person to try it. I felt there was a connection since this was the invention of an engraver [Alexeieff]. I was there a very good moment. It's changed my life."
Drouin and the pinscreen. © National Film Board of Canada. All rights reserved.
For the rest of his internship, Drouin experimented with the pinscreen, eventually completing Three Exercises on Alexeieff's Pinscreen (1974). After the internship, Drouin went back to editing. It would be a couple more years before he returned to the NFB to pitch Mindscape, a pinscreen film about a painter who enters his own painting.
Drouin knew he wanted a film without words that fused the real and the imagined. As he explained:
I really liked Saul Steinberg drawings. One of them is of an artist with a fingerprint for a head. It struck me that it was about impressions left behind in a painting. I was also interested in Carl Jung at the time. I just put it all on paper and made a few images that became more or less a storyboard. I then figured I had a nine-minute film and it would take me nine months to make it. It ended up taking twice as long. I really had no idea how much time would be needed between each image. I went with intuition and little precision. There was a lot of improvisation that happened.
Mindscape made its debut at the inaugural Ottawa International Animation Festival in 1976, where it took home a jury prize. More importantly, this was also where Drouin met Alexeieff: "McLaren insisted that Alexeieff come to see Mindscape in person. We spoke a few words during lunch. That evening the film was shown and as a gesture of continuation, a 35 mm print was given to him after the screening. Then I visited him in Paris the following year and we had some conversations. I probably saw him three or four times before he died."
Despite the praise for Mindscape, Drouin found himself going back to editing work again. "I struggled during those years doing many things," he said. In 1981 he would finally be hired as a full-time director at the NFB, a position he maintained until it was abolished in 2004.
After Mindscape, Drouin made Nightangel, a story about a blind man and his guardian angel that combines puppet and pinscreen animation (with color, for the first time in his filmography). This challenging co-production — Czechoslovakia, the partner country, was in the midst of many sociopolitical changes — was co-directed by Czech animator Břetislav Pojar.
Outside of contributions to a handful of animation projects, Drouin would not make another film until Ex-Child (1994). Made for the well-intended but poorly conceived Rights from the Heart anthology series (which was inspired by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child), the film tells a story of a father and son who are enlisted to fight in an unnamed war. While there are some striking moments, for the most part, Ex-Child feels a bit stiff and naïve.
Portrait of Jacques Drouin by NFB colleague and friend Michèle Cournoyer.
Drouin acknowledged problems with the film but said that it was a learning experience: "With the limitation of the story, it pushed me to do something other than metamorphosis. I had not really done very realistic actions with the other films, but with this I had to make some people walk. It was a challenge for me to do something that was not too friendly with the pinscreen."
His next film, A Hunting Lesson (2001), was based on a famous children's book by Jacques Godbout about a boy who is fascinated by his neighbor, a hunter. Drouin recalled: "That film is probably the most illustrative I could get with the pinscreen. It was another kind of challenge because I was shooting in color and had to make some ambience with it. The pinscreen was also too small for the images I wanted to do, so I had to make separate sets that I would photograph and make believe it was a continuation of the pinscreen itself. It was fun to try, but I spent too much time trying to solve puzzles."
Imprints, the director's final short, marked a shift back towards a less linear, more abstract approach. "It was a very physical film. I was sweating all day because I was working under difficult light conditions and making the screen move. I had a device to make it turn. It was like making a first film again. I was over sixty and I guess I finally lost my caution."
The pinscreen during the production of "Imprints." © 2004 National Film Board of Canada. All rights reserved.
Before heading for the NFB exit doors, Drouin made sure to share his knowledge of the pinscreen. Marcel Jean, artistic director of Annecy Festival, remembers: "He gave a masterclass and animator Michèle Lemieux had the opportunity to touch the thorny beast." Lemieux went on to complete her first pinscreen film, Here and the Great Elsewhere (2012).
"Jacques gave me so much," she says. "To start with, the privilege of being his successor to the pinscreen. He gave me room to be myself, along with the confidence to tackle this somewhat terrifying tool. Those hours we spent side by side as he taught me how to repair and maintain the pinscreen are something I will cherish forever. He was passing on the role of protector of an imposing but fragile instrument, one haunted by its inventors' painful past, and I understood that I had become its keeper and curator. These moments are among the most precious, the most moving, of my entire life."
"A few years later," adds Jean, "Lemieux then gave a masterclass to train young French filmmakers on the pinscreen. Today, the pinscreen is alive and well and this is largely indebted to Jacques Drouin."
We can learn much about animation and its expressive reach by revisiting Drouin's career. But at the end of the day, what matters most is the quality of the person behind the works. Drouin was a stellar human being known for his compassion, humor, humanity, and modesty. The disbelief and deep grief that many are feeling over his loss speaks volumes about his character.
"Throughout his career," notes Julie Roy, the NFB's director general of creation and innovation, "Jacques carried the legacy of this imposing apparatus of film heritage. But he also stood out for his exemplary involvement in the day-to-day activities of the NFB and with the broader animation family on the world film scene. He was endlessly erudite, a patient and attentive teacher, and a warm and caring colleague. But above all, a man of exceptional humanity."
"The single greatest kindness ever offered to me by a work colleague," says Halifax animator Heather Harkins, "was the moment when Jacques Drouin pulled me aside in the corridors of the NFB in 2003 to ask, 'Are you okay? This place is not a normal place.' Full disclosure: I was not okay. He was warm, friendly, and always willing to make room for one more person at his cafeteria table.
"Day after day, Jacques showed up to work at an institution whose highest executives seemed indifferent to its artists, and he persisted in sharing his bright beautiful creativity with the world."
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Chris Robinson is a writer and Artistic Director of the Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF). Robinson has authored thirteen books including Between Genius and Utter Illiteracy: A Story of Estonian Animation (2006), Ballad of a Thin Man: In Search of Ryan Larkin (2008), and Japanese Animation: Time Out of Mind (2010). He also wrote the screenplay for the award-winning animation short, Lipsett Diaries.
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Like Their Art, Artist Vo Vo's Workspace Is Informed by Their Life Experiences and Anarchist Philosophy
"I do want to meet people at an entry point that feels accessible to them."
ARTIST VO VO (Christine Dong)
By Shannon Gormley
February 24, 2021 at 5:30 am PST
After working four months with a tapestry company to create a textile for an upcoming show, Vo Vo ran into a problem: The company refused to print the design.
The tapestry depicts a stately building with Roman columns alight with squiggly, pastel-colored flames. On a corner of the blanket is the phrase "Burn it down."
After months of back-and-forth, the company balked, saying it couldn't support the "situation there in Portland, Ore." It's a fitting, if ironic, backstory for the New Zealand-born, Portland-based artist's new show, on display through April 1 at Fuller Rosen Gallery.
Things that have to do with fire was partially inspired by last summer's protests, and the misconceptions about Portland anarchists—and anarchism in general—that revealed themselves on a national level. Comprising video installations and cloth banners covered in illustrations and slogans, the gallery show is a response to the idea that anarchists are primarily devoted to destruction. But the exhibit isn't exactly a condemnation of Portlanders who have wagged their fingers at Vo and their peers for the past year. Rather, it's intended as a bridge.
"I do want to meet people at an entry point that feels accessible to them," says Vo, who has worked for years as a radical educator. "A lot of [the show is] jokes and signals to my fellow anarchists, and then some are for people who haven't maybe critiqued liberalism, who haven't looked at where liberalism comes from, and the idea of U.S. exceptionalism and individualism."
Despite its controversial subject matter, Things that have to do with fire isn't preachy. It's warm, discursive and heartfelt. And, like Vo themself, it's full of sly humor.
Vo sews and weaves much of their work. Looms, sewing machines and quality materials usually don't come cheap, but all the materials in their home work space were either gifts or bought at a discount.
"I'm someone who's experienced houselessness myself as an adult and as a child. I'm constantly making work as a survivor, and someone who's experienced these systems as a participant," says Vo. "I think that's been a struggle for people to understand, because they assume that when they walk into a space—especially a very nice looking space with art displayed—they kind of assume that the person who's making it comes from a specific position."
1. Sewing Machine
When Vo started their MFA at the Pacific Northwest College of Art two years ago, they thought they'd study illustration. Then they found a sewing machine on the side of a road. As a kid, Vo worked in a sweatshop with their parents, but they hadn't sat at a sewing machine since. "Me and my parents were part of a wider network of Vietnamese refugees who were employed illegally to make things in Australia for North American fashion companies," says Vo, who is Vietnamese. Not long after they took home the abandoned machine, Vo shifted their focus from illustration to textiles. "I do feel so comfortable when I'm at the machine making stuff, and it's because I did it for hours as a kid," says Vo. "But this time, I'm doing it for me and not for another company."
2. Yarn Collection
Vo's towering stash of yarn is stocked with luxurious skeins of wool from Uruguay, Lithuania and Australia. It's an astounding amount of high-quality yarn, but it took them less than a year and relatively little money to accumulate. "I think honestly my coping mechanism after COVID hit was to look at really cheap lots on eBay," says Vo. "I know what I like, but I'll only get it if it's free or if they're selling it on eBay for a really low price."
3. Storage Closet
Stuffed into a closet in the corner of Vo's workroom is two years' and dozens of hours' worth of work. A jacket might take an hour and a half—a surprisingly short period of time considering the clean lines achieved from cobbled-together, reclaimed fabrics. A weaved piece can take weeks. It's not uncommon for them to spend 12 hours a day in front of the sewing machine or the loom. "I get in the zone," says Vo. "That's why I chose to do what I'm doing, because I enjoy it."
4. Uniform Couch
Across from Vo's loom is a couch upholstered with U.S. Army uniforms from the Vietnam War, a piece from a show about immigration that Vo curated before the pandemic. Now, it almost blends into what Vo refers to as the "man cave" aesthetic of their basement workspace. "Even in the Southern Hemisphere, you're still bombarded with U.S.-specific films about the Vietnam War that center white dudes," says Vo. "All that this does is visualize that, even though that's an experience that I've had since I was a kid. My experience is always pushed aside for the Tom Cruise or the Charlie Sheen or whoever."
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5. Loom
Last March, Vo came across a fortuitous Craigslist post: A woman in Ridgefield, Wash., was looking to get rid of a 3-foot tapestry loom. The loom was sitting in a barn, so it was rickety and caked with grass and horse manure. Vo fixed it up themself, and it now looks sturdy and elegant—you'd never guess it was salvaged from literal shit.
Though Vo attributes their resourcefulness to their experiences with homelessness and as an immigrant, it also seems essential to the philosophy behind Things that have to do with fire.
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Are Machine Learning and Adversarial AI the New Insider Threats?
July 11, 2018 @ 11:00 AM
By Douglas Bonderud
Machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) are transitioning from proof-of-concept programs to functional corporate infrastructure. As spending on these technologies continues to drastically rise, their expanding prevalence is all but inevitable.
But the adoption of digital intelligence introduces new risk: IT experts face a steep slope of adaptations while cybercriminals look for ways to compromise new tools.
Could adversarial AI become the newest insider threat?
Why AI Won't Replace Human Expertise
Security teams are overworked and understaffed, but some still worry that AI tools will eventually replace human expertise. In response to these concerns, Phys.org noted in June 2018 that discussions about artificial intelligence and automation are "dominated by either doomsayers who fear robots will supplant humans in the workforce or optimists who think there's nothing new under the sun."
New research, however, suggests that these technologies are better suited to replace specific tasks within jobs rather than wiping out occupations en masse. As reported by The Verge in June 2018, a pilot plan by the U.S. Army will leverage machine learning to better predict when vehicles need repair — taking some of the pressure off of human technicians while reducing total cost.
The same is possible in IT security: Using intelligent tools for the heavy lifting of maintenance and data collection and freeing up technology professionals for other tasks.
Will Machine Learning Reduce or Multiply Insider Breaches?
Though new technology likely won't be stealing jobs, it could boost the risk of an insider breach. All companies are vulnerable to insider threats, which can take the form of deliberate actions to steal data or unintentional oversharing of corporate information. Since AI and machine learning tools lack human traits that underpin these risks, they should naturally produce a safer environment.
As noted by CSO Online in January 2018, however, malicious actors could leverage the same technologies to create unwitting insider threats by poisoning data pools. By tampering with data inputs, attackers also compromise outputs — which companies may not realize until it's too late.
According to a May 2018 Medium report, meanwhile, there's a subtler class of attacks on the rise: adversarial sampling. By creating fake samples that exist on the boundary of AI decision-making capabilities, cybercriminals may be able to force recurring misclassification, compromising the underlying trust of machine learning models in turn.
How to Thwart AI-Powered Insider Threats
With the adoption of intelligent tools on the rise, how can companies safeguard against more powerful insider threats?
Best practices include:
Creating human partnerships: These new tools work best in specific-task situations. By pairing any new learning tools with a human counterpart, companies create an additional line of defense against potential compromise.
Developing checks and balances: Does reported data match observations? Has it been independently verified? As more critical decision-making is handed off to AI and automation, enterprises must develop check-and-balance systems that compare outputs to reliable baseline data.
Deploying tools with a purpose: In many ways, the rise of intelligent technologies mirrors that of the cloud. At first an outlier, the solution quickly became a must-have to enable digital transition. There is potential for a similar more-is-better tendency here, but this overlooks the key role of AI and machine learning as a way to address specific pain points rather than simply keep up with the Joneses. Start small by finding a data-driven problem that could benefit from the implementation of intelligence technologies. Think of it like the zero-trust model for data access: It's easier to contain potential compromise when the attack surface is inherently limited.
Machine learning and AI tools are gaining corporate support, and fortunately, they're not likely to supplant the IT workforce. Looking forward, human aid will in fact be essential to proactively address the potential for next-generation insider threats empowered by compromised learning tools and adversarial AI.
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What is a selective lockdown and how does it work?
EL PAÍS looks at how the rules were introduced in the Spanish city of Palma, in the Balearic Islands, following a spike in Covid-19 cases
A resident of the Son Gotleu neighborhood in Palma de Mallorca on September 11.JAIME REINA / AFP
Lucía Bohórquez
Palma - 18 Sep 2020 - 06:30 UTC
Between August 1 and 25, the neighborhood of Son Gotleu, in the city of Palma in the Spanish island of Mallorca, had a coronavirus incidence rate of 7.28 cases per 1,000 inhabitants. It was by far the highest rate in the entire Balearic Islands, which also include the popular Ibiza. The epidemiological reports released during this period by the Balearic health department showed that the virus was spreading rapidly in the poorest areas of Palma, which at the time had an average incidence rate of 5.64 cases per 1,000 inhabitants.
The impact of the second Covid-19 wave on Son Gotleu ruined hopes that the pandemic could be contained in the middle of summer, and it led the Balearic regional government to adopt tighter restrictions. Last week, regional authorities ordered the selective lockdown of four neighborhoods in Palma, as well as different areas of Sant Antonio de Portmany and Ibiza city on Ibiza island.
The 23,000 residents of Son Gotleu, Can Capes, La Soledat Nord and Son Canals, situated in the east of Palma, have been confined to a defined area – which is not physically marked in any way – since last Friday night. They are only allowed to leave the perimeter for essential business such as work, school and visits to the doctor. Capacity at shops and restaurants has been reduced by half, and social gatherings restricted to five people. Religious ceremonies and sporting activities have been suspended, and all stores have to close at 10pm.
It was not an easy decision to make, but it was necessary given the rising number of coronavirus cases in one of the most densely populated areas of the archipelago.
"Studying the data, we are able to locate contagions, even on a street-by-street level, and this allowed us to have a much more detailed evaluation of transmission in different areas," explains Marga Frontera, who directs and coordinates the expert committee that has been advising the Balearic government during the deescalation process. "This information helped us adjust our response so that, as a first step, we could narrow down the perimeter as much as possible and allow the affected municipality to maintain activity as normally as possible."
According to Frontera, the decision to partially confine four neighborhoods was based on the evolution of the disease in the area and specific "worrying" indicators, like the number of cases in the same building or home, which were seen in multiple instances and indicated possible community transmission of the virus. The measures limiting social gatherings and capacity at shops were introduced in a bid to reduce the number of contacts of each resident, and by doing so lower the risk of transmission. The restrictions will come to an end on Sunday, September 27, but may be extended if the situation has not improved.
"The measures are also aimed at reducing mobility, which we know helps the virus spread to other areas. That's why we need people to limit their movements," says Frontera.
The Balearic government is also considering measures for poorly-ventilated closed spaces, like gyms and religious sites, where many people gather without always wearing a face mask. "They are especially risky circumstances for contagion, especially for mass contagions, and that's where we need to make more of an effort to restrict activity," says Frontera.
How is it being enforced?
But who is making sure that no one is leaving the confinement area? The local council has tasked 20 local police officers with supervising these neighborhoods and issuing sanctions if violations are detected. In the first few days of the lockdown, this translated into fines for not wearing a face mask or for smoking in public spaces without respecting social distancing. The National Police department explains that they are available to enforce the rules of the Balearic health department, but do not currently have any fixed checkpoint and are conducting patrols as per usual.
This means that it is down to the individual to follow the measures and reduce transmission in Palma. Vicenç Alemany, the owner of Alemany pharmacy in Son Gotleu, thinks that this will be difficult in his neighborhood. "There are people who are very aware and worried about the issue, but I think it will be more difficult with youngsters," says Alemany. "This is a complicated neighborhood because of social issues, and you have to explain the measures well to the people, because many of them don't even know that things have changed."
The lack of controls is also considered a problem by Jesús Heredia, a local from Son Gotleu, who says he has not seen more police officers in the neighborhood since it was confined. "Some [officers] drive by here in a patrol car but they don't stop or do anything. I haven't noticed any difference. There are people who follow [the measures], and others who go on the same as always. I know people who leave the neighborhood and nothing happens."
The mayor of Palma, José Hila, says it's up to individual residents to comply with the rules. "If we don't want more areas confined, I am calling on the people, even if it is just those in these neighborhoods, to strictly follow the heath rules, which are more than clear. Only through individual responsibility will we defeat Covid-19. What the administration does is not enough," he says, explaining that the measures "were necessary."
I know people who leave the neighborhood and nothing happens
Jesús Heredia, local from Son Gotleu
"Citizens have to understand that these are the best measures that could be taken, and if they are not followed there will be consequences," he warned, adding that 42 fines were issued on Tuesday for leaving the lockdown area.
The restrictions in Palma come as part of a bigger regional plan in which local government inspectors are tasked with informing businesses of the health rules and making sure they are met with the help of the police. "Door-to-door" visits to homes in the areas are also being done to make sure people are observing the confinement orders, and to find out what locals need in order to do so. From Friday, the same restrictions will be applied to the neighborhoods of Son Forteza Sur, Plaza de Toros, Archiduque and some streets in Son Olivia, restricting the mobility of 20,000 residents.
"If there is no sense of joint responsibility from the affected people, it will be difficult for it [the selective lockdown] to work, because obviously we cannot put up a physical perimeter in each area or a police officer behind each person," says Frontera.
English version by Melissa Kitson.
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The update for Xcode – Apple's integrated environment for developing software for macOS, iOS, watchOS, and tvOS – carries a fix for a single flaw: CVE-2018-4461, a kernel memory corruption issue that has been patched last December in iOS, tvOS, watchOS and macOS Mojave. This fix is for macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 or later.
Apple has plugged a bucketload of WebKit holes in all the security updates except that for macOS. Most of those fixed solve issues that could allow attackers to achieve arbitrary code execution by serving maliciously crafted web content.
A bug in Safari (CVE-2019-8554) that would allow a website to access sensor information without user consent.
The tvOS update also carries much of the fixes covered in the iOS update, including those for the GeoServices flaw and one affecting Siri (CVE-2019-8502), which would allow a malicious application to initiate a dictation request without user authorization.
The Safari update fixes the aforementioned WebKit flaw and plugs two security holes in the Safari Reader feature that could be exploited for cross site scripting by a maliciously crafted webpage.
CVE-2019-8537, a flaw that could allow allow a local attacker to view a user's locked notes.


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Home How-To Culture Chinese Traditions for the Dongzhi Festival (Winter Solstice)
Chinese Traditions for the Dongzhi Festival (Winter Solstice)
Posted:12/10/2022 Updated:12/23/2022
The Winter Solstice in Chinese is 冬至 (dōngzhì), which translates to "winter arrival." As you may already know, it's the shortest day of the year and the longest night. The Dongzhi Festival is an important Chinese holiday, but it's sometimes forgotten—overshadowed by the Lunar New Year (AKA the Spring Festival). In the old days, it was celebrated as much as the new year!
The Winter Solstice marks a turning point in the year—a time when yin (cold, dark) energy transitions to yang (light, positive) energy as the days begin to get longer again.
When is the Winter Solstice (Dongzhi)?
The Winter Solstice usually falls between the 21st to the 23rd of December.
Many of us know it as the darkest day of the year, with the shortest amount of daylight in the Northern Hemisphere. But you may not have realized that it's been an important Chinese holiday for 2000 years!
If you ask the older generations—like my mother—they still celebrate Dongzhi. It's the younger generations that are increasingly unaware of this big holiday.
But the old saying goes, "冬至大如年," (Dōngzhì dà rú nián) which means "the winter solstice is as big as the new year." So how did people forget about it?
My theory is that as Chinese people emigrated abroad, The Dongzhi Festival perhaps wasn't as exciting as holidays like Christmas and New Year's Eve. Or perhaps it's due to Dongzhi's proximity to the Lunar New Year (which usually happens within 1-2 months, from January 21st to February 20th).
Because Lunar New Year is the biggest Chinese festival of the year, with people traveling long distances to spend time with family, Dongzhi may be taking a backseat!
Not to mention that we've lost traditions as the older generations pass on and folks stop talking about Dongzhi. Hopefully, I can help preserve some of this holiday for younger folks today who may not be as familiar with it!
How Do People Celebrate the Chinese Winter Solstice?
In the past, when more people celebrated Dongzhi, all government offices and facilities closed for 5-7 days. Shops and businesses closed as well, in order to allow people to properly rest and celebrate the holiday with family. It was very much like what we do with Chinese New Year today.
During the winter solstice, people also worship their ancestors and their protective gods and goddesses.
When there were still emperors, the royal court officials paid tribute to the heavenly gods for peace, protection, health, well-being, and auspicious times (吉时 or jí shí) for a prosperous new year. Also, like Chinese New Year, people visit family and friends with good wishes and blessings.
What foods should we eat during The Dongzhi Festival?
In general, the most well-known traditions are that Northerners eat dumplings, and Southerners enjoy tang yuan (both sweet and savory).
Northern vs. Southern China
To know whether you're from a family of Northerners or Southerners, just look at a map of China and locate your family's hometown relative to the Yangtze River.
The Yangtze is the third longest river in the world, and the longest river that flows entirely through one country. It's known in Chinese as 长江 (chángjiāng), or "long river." Hence, it's the best point of orientation: Northerners are above the Yangtze River. All the states below Yangtze River are southern—jiāngnán, 江南, or "south of the river."
There are also many, many local traditions. Here are just a few:
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Q: Everytime I call my updateScore() method, it won't update the score? I'm trying to update my score everytime I call the method "updateScore()" but for some reason it doesn't work.
if I win the first time, it will update it properly, then if I select a new game and win, it won't update the score, the score remains like it is.
Example
first win---> (X) Wins: 1
second win--->(X) Wins: 1 ????? it should be 2
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CODE SOURCE
public void updateScore() {
    xWinnerTimes = 0;
    oWinnerTimes = 0;
    winnerBoardO = findViewById(R.id.winner_o);
    winnerBoardX = findViewById(R.id.winner_x);
    if (winner == 1){
        xWinnerTimes++;
        winnerBoardX.setText("(X) Wins: " + (xWinnerTimes));
    }

    if (winner ==2){
        oWinnerTimes++;
        winnerBoardO.setText("(O) Wins: " + (oWinnerTimes));
    }

A: You should put xWinnerTimes = 0;
    oWinnerTimes = 0; in global and remove it in updateScore(); Because you always reset it to 0.

A: This is because the initialization and incrementation both are in the same scope.
The first time it will show the correct result but next time value again get initialized by 0.
Try to make that variable global
Declare them outside from your method.

A: Mention below code in onCreate Method
xWinnerTimes = 0;
oWinnerTimes = 0;
winnerBoardO = findViewById(R.id.winner_o);
winnerBoardX = findViewById(R.id.winner_x);

xWinnerTimes  and oWinnerTimes  should be global variable.
and According to me, if you update score on User Interface on a particular time then you have to call your method that is updateScore() in runOnUiThread

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Tabaluga is a German media franchise featuring a fictional green dragon, created by German rock musician Peter Maffay, children's songwriter Rolf Zuckowski and author Gregor Rottschalk. Artist Helme Heine drew the image of Tabaluga as it is currently known. The character Tabaluga was first introduced by Maffay in the musical fairy tale Tabaluga ... oder die Reise zur Vernunft (Tabaluga or... The Journey to Reason) in 1983. This first studio album was the step to success: within the next years some Helme Heine books, four sequel concept studio albums, two tours, a stage musical, Tabaluga und Lilli (Tabaluga and Lilli), based on the third concept album and many TV cartoons which have been broadcasting in over 100 countries round the world followed and a children's game show. Over 100 kindergartens and child care groups carry the word "Tabaluga" in their name.

Fictional character biography
Tabaluga inhabits the fictional province of Greenland. He is about 8 "dragon-years" old (800 human years, as one year for a dragon is 100 for a human). His father Tyrion died when he was six. Little is known about his mother. Following his father's death, Tabaluga was the last of the dragons and styled the crown-prince of Greenland, a place inhabited by talking animals of many different species. Tabaluga must defend his home from two rival kingdoms on either side of Greenland: a frigid arctic tundra, ruled by the evil snowman Arktos, and a searing desert, ruled by an evil sand-spirit named Humsin.

Media

Concept albums
 1983: "Tabaluga oder... Die Reise zur Vernunft" (engl. "Tabaluga or... The Journey to Reason"), first concept album (LP / CD)
 1986: "Tabaluga und das leuchtende Schweigen" (engl. "Tabaluga and the Luminous Silence"), second concept album (LP / CD) published in the UK 1988 as "Tabaluga and the Magic Jadestone" (LP / CD)
 1993: "Tabaluga und Lilli" (engl. "Tabaluga and Lilli"; with Alexis playing and singing the part of "Lilli"), third concept album (CD)
 2002: "Tabaluga und das verschenkte Glück" (engl. "Tabaluga and the Gift of Luck"), fourth concept album (CD)
 2011: "Tabaluga und die Zeichen der Zeit" (engl. "Tabaluga and the signs of the times"; with Mandy Capristo as "Lilli"), fifth concept album (CD)

In the first album, Tabaluga is a young dragon who gets sent by his father Tyrion in a learning quest as a punishment for not listening his admonitions. Tabaluga, who only reveres imagination, must therefore find reason. On his travel he meets the Moon, a queen of time and order; the giant Grykolos, related to the tree of life; and the fire salamander Pyromella, who Tabaluga learns coexistence with. At one point, the stork Arafron advices him to consult the 200 years old turtle Nessaja and brings him to her, and by the way Tabaluga sees a pod of dolphins who just enjoy their existence. At the end of his journey, Nessaja tells him that she never wanted to grow and that she has remained a child deep down.

In the second, Tabaluga steals a magical jade stone from Tyrian and, when the latter doesn't answer to his question about what is love, Tabaluga uses the stone to teleport. At the end of the rainbow he finds the Halfchild, the daughter of the Sun and the Moon, who cries because she cannot love herself without the Shining Silence. By advice of the rainbow, Tabaluga uses the stone to travel to a world without love, populated by robots who believe themselves to be perfect, and he only overloads them when he asks about love. Still desiring to know, he travels to the world of the shapeshifting Dream Woman, where he meets Deimon and the snake Bilingua, embodiments of hate and envy. After a last travel to the Ice World, where the cold-hearted Ice Princess keeps souls frozen forever, Tabaluga is deceived by a stranger that takes him away from his father. Tyrion fights Deimon and his fourth winds in his search for Tabaluga, and after a long battle, the old dragon is killed by Deimon, dying in remorse for not having answered to his son's question. Tabaluga is crushed by his father's death, but Death teaches him that Tyrion is now a star in the sky and that he will always love him. Next day, Tabaluga flies to the rainbow, where the Halfchild is now happy and with the Shining Silence, the mix of all colors. Looking upon all those he met in his travel, the dragon finally understands what love is.

In Tabaluga und Lilli, Tabaluga hears a strange noise and disobeys his father's warning not to travel to the ice kingdom. There he finds king Arktos sculpting a daughter made of ice for himself, and although an angry Arktos forces him to fly away, Tabaluga is smitten with the figure. Exhausted, he sleeps and meets his father on a dream, being told that he will have to know new things as part of life. Next morning, after being taught politeness by bees, Tabaluga discovers a volcano operated by a Crater Man, and accidentally singes himself by triggering an eruption out of curiosity. He gets thrown to the webs of black widow spider Tarantula, whom he talks with about fear and love, and eventually finds an ice castle similar to a large casino. Arktos is here and offers Tabaluga to bet Lilly against his dragon fire in a play of dice; although the dragon wins, Lilli is revealed to move only through a golden key who the evil Arktos has. Deceived, Tabaluga finds the world collapsing around him and wonders whether it was dream or reality. He feels he has lost Lilli, but the hermit crab Ostrakes talks to him about the power of love advices him to use his fire on her. By doing so, the ice of her heart melts and she gains sentience, and she and an overjoyed Tabaluga embrace.

In the third album, years after defeating Arkos, Tabaluga celebrates his seventh birthday. He receives many gifts, including from Arktos himself, but he ends up loaded with heavy jeweled chains he can barely move. The ice king offers to remove a crystal chain in exchange for it, and Tabaluga, free, soars away. He trades another chain for honey with the bees, gifts a sad river with another, uses another to mend the tree of life from his first adventure, grants another to a unlucky fellow, and gifts the penultimate to a dirty pig. He also meets the Silver Fox, a friend of Arktos who tries to steal his last chain, but Tabaluga gives it voluntarily and explains he only needs his fire to live. Free from the weight, Tabaluga boastfully tries to lift an iceberg, but gets trapped underneath and Arktos takes advantage to try to conquer Greenland. Fortunately for Tabaluga, all the people he gave his chains come and form a living chain to get him free. Tabaluga ponders about friendship and, being then gifted a mirror by Nessaja, decides he doesn't want to keep holding doubts about himself.

In the fourth, when Tabaluga accidentally breaks his alarm clock, he fears he has stopped time, but a stone and a mayfly explain he has not. Arktos kills the mayfly, though, so Death appears under the form of a strange fellow and explains Tabaluga that lives can have different lengths. Still wanting to learn about time, Tabaluga meets the Lion, king of beasts, but the latter believes time is money and you can never have enough of both. That night, Tyrion appears to Tabaluga in a dream and tells him time cannot be bought and that he lacked time himself with his son. Tabaluga's search for knowledge gets interrupted by his friends, who wish more time for everybody, and the four seasons, who sing four songs. With the song of summer, Arktos starts melting, but an amused Tabaluga saves him on the say that the two of them belong together. The dragon later finds a bazaar, where a dealer offers him a watch with 13 hours in exchange for his fire, but the man turns out to be the ungrateful Arktos and Tabaluga passes. He then finds Time in the form of a young woman, and she grants Tabaluga his greatest wish, to dance one more time with Lilli. When the dance is over, Tabaluga realizes that time only stops in dreams and that love is the only thing that can defeat it.

The 2015 album sees Arktos attacking Greenland with a massive snow storm, burying Tabaluga under an avalanche. Although a bug and an army of ants manage to shovel Tabaluga free, he has lost his memory, so the bug must help him recover it. He finds the volcano from the third album and causes an enormous eruption the same way he did it then, threatening both Greenland and the ice kingdom. Tabaluga and Arktos must work together to stop the volcano, and in the process they finally become friends.

Cartoon series

An animated television series was produced by Yoram Gross-Village Roadshow and Yoram Gross-EM.TV. It was broadcast from 1997 to 2004 with a total of 78 episodes. In this series, as usual, Tabaluga is the last of the dragons and the crown-prince of Greenland, a magical place inhabited by talking animals of many different species. Tabaluga must defend his home from two rival kingdoms on either side of Greenland; a frigid arctic tundra, ruled by the evil snowman Arktos and a searing desert, ruled by an evil sand-spirit named Humsin.

Tabaluga tivi
Tabaluga tivi was a 90-minute television children's entertainment and game show similar to Disney Club or its German derivative, Tigerenten Club, that ran on ZDF from October 4, 1997 to 2011, serving as a mother show to the cartoon series. It featured the little green dragon Tabaluga, his friend Happy (a snow hare), his enemy Arktos (a wicked snowman) as well as the Penguin Butler "James" (who is a loyal servant of Arktos). It consisted of games, sketches, cartoons and short documentaries and was hosted by Tabaluga and some human co-hosts that changed multiple times over the years.

In the show, two teams play against each other in five competition rounds to win prizes for themselves, and to win the contents of a treasure chest, which they can donate to their school, a children's home, etc. The broadcast is transmitted by ZDF and also KiKa. In Summer 2005 the show celebrated its 400th transmission. The show is made for ZDF in co-production with Munich Production Company MingaMedia and is made in the Bavaria-Studios in Unterföhring, near Munich.

Musical
The musical "Tabaluga & Lilli" celebrated its premiere on 24 September 1999 in the TheatrO CentrO, Oberhausen, and ran there until 30 June 2001. The little dragon managed to unite the High Society of German musical actors, with stars such as Andreas Bieber, Ross Antony, Paul Kribbe, Carolin Fortenbacher. Its plot is a combination of the second and third concept albums.

In the musical, the race of the dragons is almost extinct in the battle against the kingdom of ice led by Arktos. The last great dragon king, Tyrion, has placed his hopes on his young son, Tabaluga, who must find the True Fire in order to defeat the evil. Therefore, aided by a wise wizard, Tabaluga sets out on a quest for the fire, avoiding dangers such as a black widow spider but also finding beautiful things like a group of dolphins. In this travel, Tabaluga learns that there is both good and bad in the world and that everything has its meaning a place in life.

In order to defeat Tabaluga, Arktos creates a beautiful girl of pure ice, Lilli, and sends her to charm Tabaluga so he cannot end his search for the True Fire. Tabaluga falls in love with Lilli and the plan seems to be working, and during a battle, Tyrion dies trying to protect him. Crushed, Tabaluga wants to give up, believing that his life without his father has no meaning anymore. However, he then realizes he has finally found the True Fire, which was actually the fire of love. Arktos' powers then wane and good triumphs over evil.

Film

Tabaluga (also known as Tabaluga & Lilli) was a 2018 animated film directed by Sven Unterwaldt Jr. and starring Wincent Weiss in the title role. The story follows Tabaluga, who teams up with an ice princess, Lilli, to save the world from the evil snowman, Arktos.

History

References

External links

 Official site
 The Tabaluga Foundation
 Tabaluga Cartoon Series Synopsis on ASO

1983 albums
Fictional characters introduced in 1983
Fictional dragons
Fictional characters invented for recorded music

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Wash white tofu and then cut it into medium pieces. Also, wash white radish and slice it.
Pour 300 milliliters of water into a pot and add sliced gingers, salt, and seasoning and then cook in about 3 minutes. Then add white radish into the pot and cook until these radish pieces become soft. Next, add white tofu and stir them gently.
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