#Paul Kronenberg

[cantsayidont]

March 2004. Selina and Batman have a moment in CATWOMAN #27. I have mixed feelings about the Ed Brubaker run, but it frequently looks cool.

[opera-ghosts]

On June 10, 1865, the world premiere of "Tristan and Isolde" by R. Wagner took place in Munich.

„Tristan! Trauter! Schilt mich nicht, dass der Treue auch mit kommt!…“

Here are some of the first baritones to have sung the role of Kurwenal over the years and contributed to the success of this work through their dedication.

Anton van Rooy (1 January 1870 – 28 November 1932), Dutch bass-baritone.

Josef Groenen (Waalwijk, May 11, 1884 – Hamburg, March 29, 1959), Dutch baritone.

Rudolf Bockelmann (born 2 April 1892 in Bodenteich, died 9 October 1958 in Dresden) was a German dramatic baritone.

Paul Schöffler (15 September 1897 – 21 November 1977), German baritone.

Carl Kronenberg (June 24, 1900 Solingen - September 21, 1974 Solingen), German baritone.

Hans Bonneval

Hans Hotter (19 January 1909 – 6 December 2003), German operatic bass-baritone.

Tomislaw Neralič (9 December 1917 - 16 November 2016 in Zagreb, Croatia), Croatian bass-baritone.

Walther Kreppel (3 June 1923 – 18 October 2003), German bass.

Otto Wiener (February 13, 1911 – August 5, 2000), Austrian baritone.

Gustav Neidlinger (21 March 1910 – 26 December 1991), German bass-baritone,

[cccovers]

Catwoman #41 (May 2005) cover by Paul Gulacy, Jimmy Palmiotti and Laurie Kronenberg.

[lishminstyle]

Catwoman and Slam Bradley.

Detective Comics #761 & #762 (2001) by Ed Brubaker and Darwyn Cooke; Catwoman #16 (2003) by Ed Brubaker, Cameron Stewart and Matt Hollingsworth; Catwoman #17 (2003) by Ed Brubaker, Javier Pulido and Matt Hollingsworth; Catwoman #37 (2005) by Ed Brubaker, Paul Gulacy, Jimmy Palmiotti, Laurie Kronenberg; Solo #5 (2005) by Darwyn Cooke.

[i-r-readcomics]

Year One: Batman/Ra's al Ghul

Volume: 1 #1

Part One

Writers: Devin Grayson

Pencils: Paul Gulacy

Inks: Jimmy Palmiotti

Covers: Paul Gulacy, Laurie Kronenberg

Featuring: Batman, Ra's al Ghul, Alfred Pennyworth, Leslie Thompkins, Seiobo, Queen Mother of the West 

DC

[bestofrasalghul]

Year One: Batman/Ra's al Ghul (2005)

written by Devin Grayson

art by Paul Gulacy, Jimmy Palmiotti & Laurie Kronenberg

[averyenglishnerd]

Catwoman Volume 3 #41

Solicit Art by  Paul Gulacy, Jimmy Palmiotti & Laurie Kronenberg

[brokehorrorfan]

Scream Factory has revealed the specs for Universal Horror Collection: Volume 5, which streets on June 16. The Blu-ray box set includes The Monster and the Girl, Captive Wild Woman, Jungle Woman, and Jungle Captive.

The Monster and the Girl is a 1941 sci-fi/horror film directed by Stuart Heisler (The Glass Key). Ellen Drew, Robert Paige, Paul Lukas, Joseph Calleia, Onslow Stevens, Rod Cameron, Phillip Terry, and George Zucco star.

Captive Wild Woman is a 1943 sci-fi/horror film directed by Edward Dmytryk (Crossfire). Evelyn Ankers, John Carradine, Milburn Stone, Lloyd Corrigan, Martha Vickers, Vince Barnett, and Acquanetta star.

Jungle Woman is a 1944 sequel to Captive Wild Woman directed by Reginald Le Borg (The Mummy’s Ghost). Evelyn Ankers, J. Carrol Naish, Lois Collier, Milburn Stone, Douglass Dumbrille, and Acquanetta star.

Jungle Captive is a 1945 sequel to Jungle Woman directed by Harold Young (The Mummy’s Tomb). Otto Kruger, Amelita Ward, Phil Brown, Jerome Cowan, Vicky Lane, and Rondo Hatton star.

The Monster and the Girl, Jungle Woman, and Jungle Captive have received new 2K scans from fine grain film elements. Special features are listed below.

The Monster and the Girl special features:

Audio commentary with film historians Tom Weaver and Steve Kronenberg (new)

A mobster’s brain is transplanted into an ape who carries out his revenge in The Monster and the Girl. 

Captive Wild Woman special features:

Audio commentary with film historian Tom Weaver (new)

Theatrical trailer

Still gallery

A mad scientist turns an ape into a beautiful, but deadly woman in Captive Wild Woman.

Jungle Woman special features:

Audio commentary with film historian Gregory William Mank (new)

Still gallery

Jungle Woman, the sequel to Captive Wild Woman, is an eerie thriller with all the danger of wild animals on the loose and a sexy killer on the prowl.

Jungle Captive special features:

Audio commentary by film historian Scott Gallinghouse (new)

Theatrical trailer

In Jungle Captive, the sequel to Jungle Woman, a scientist has experimented on re-animating animals … but now he has decided to go one step further and re-animate a human.

[projectourworld]

My name is Paul Kronenberg, co founder of Kanthari

Let me introduce you to Stephen

‘My name is Stephen Onang, I was born in 1968 in a middle-class family in Nairobi, life was good until one day, my father lost his job & life became very hard. Our family was not alone in this, many families suffer from poverty & hunger. 63% live below a budget of $1 a day.

Then a wave of HIV/AIDS hit the region through which I lost my brother and his wife, leaving two children behind. Me & my wife decided to adopt the children. Whenever I see a child being stigmatized due to poverty or diseases it makes me sad. I know what it feels like to be stigmatized, outcast, discriminated due to conditions that a child cannot control. My name is Stephen Onyang from Kisumu West District, Nyanza Province, Kenya & I founded hope restoration centre to provide education for HIV/AIDS orphans.

More about Stephen’s work, who now runs the first Albert Schweizer school in Kenya with 180 HIV/aids orphans, is available on https://lnkd.in/dUyjtc4

Want to start your own organisation? The next kanthari course starts in April 2021. apply today at https://lnkd.in/fd4RuEv

#kanthari #AlbertSchweizer #AlbertSchweizerSchool #ChangeFromWithin #Change #HopeRestoration #Kisumu #Kenya #Orphans #AIDS-Orphans #Hope #BetterTomorrow #kanthari2020 #orphanage #projectourworld

[cantsayidont]

January 2005. This issue (CATWOMAN #37) was the end of the Ed Brubaker run (which in TPB terms concludes with Vol. 3, Under Pressure), although Paul Gulacy stuck around for one more issue and Jimmy Palmiotti for a few issues beyond that.

[richfieldbranch]

Mike’s Picks

Hello to all our Richfield Library Patrons. Enjoy our new Adult Services newsletter with some more suggestions to keep you busy while you're stuck at home. The books are all available at akronlibrary.org under the digital media section. All titles are in both the E-book and E-audio formats. The movies below have been released on one of the major streaming services. If you don't have access to Netflix, Hulu, or Amazon Prime, be sure to check out the free movies you can access through the library, with our Hoopla or Kanopy apps.

Adult Services Librarian Mike Daly, mdaly@akronlibrary.org

Books:

Non-Fiction

The Library Book by Susan Orlean

This book, by Shaker Heights native and the author of the Orchid Thief, tells the story of the huge fire at the Los Angeles Public Library. Because it took place during the same week as the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, not many people outside California know the story. The author reopens the unsolved mystery of the most catastrophic library fire in American history. The fire was disastrous: it reached 2000 degrees and burned for more than seven hours. By the time it was extinguished, it had consumed four hundred thousand books and damaged seven hundred thousand more. Investigators descended on the scene, but more than thirty years later, the mystery remains: Did someone purposefully set fire to the library--and, if so, who? Part mystery, part love letter to American libraries, Orlean tells a fascinating story.

Say nothing: a true story of murder and memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe

This book which appeared on all the major top ten lists for 2019 is a great true crime story that reads like a novel. In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belfast home by masked intruders, her children clinging to her legs. They never saw her again. Her abduction was one of the most notorious episodes of the vicious conflict known as The Troubles. Everyone in the neighborhood knew the I.R.A. was responsible. But in a climate of fear and paranoia, no one would speak of it. In 2003, five years after an accord brought an uneasy peace to Northern Ireland, a set of human bones was discovered on a beach. McConville's children knew it was their mother when they were told a blue safety pin was attached to the dress.

Fiction

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

I found this book to be one the best surprises of the last year. Eleanor Oliphant struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy. But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen on the sidewalk, the three become the kinds of friends who rescue one another from the lives of isolation they have each been living. And it is Raymond’s big heart that will ultimately help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one.

Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate

Based on one of America’s most notorious real-life scandals—in which Georgia Tann, director of a Memphis-based adoption organization, kidnapped and sold poor children to wealthy families all over the country this fictionalized account was one of my favorite books I read last year. At once both heartbreaking and heart warming, it tells a story you will remember long after turning the last page.

Movies:

This weekend we had a Humphrey Bogart marathon. Watched To Have and Have Not, The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, and The African Queen. Besides killing a Sunday afternoon it was so much fun hearing all the classic lines and enjoying the wonderful supporting performances.

And finally.................

Monday March 30th is

National Doctor's Day

“Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.” Norman Cousins

“Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots.” Flannery O'Connor

“Doctors?" said Ron, looking startled. "Those Muggle nutters that cut people up?” J. K. Rowling

Tuesday April 1st is

National Clam Day

“She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide.” Louis Kronenberger

“Do the Clam, do the Clam, grab your barefoot baby by the hand.” Elvis Presley

“Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hard-shelled, firmly closed.” Margaret Atwood

Wednesday April 1st is

April Fool's Day

“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.” Alexander Pope

“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.” Winston Churchill

“When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.” William Shakespeare

Thursday April 2nd is

National Burrito Day

“A burrito is a delicious food item that breaks down all social barriers and leads to temporary

spiritual enlightenment.” Lisi Harrison

“A burrito is a sleeping bag for ground beef.” Mitch Hedberg

“Ever had a flying burrito hit you? Well, it's a deadly projectile, right up there with cannonballs and grenades.” Rick Riordan

Friday April 3rd is

American Circus Day

“Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end.” David Niven

“Life is a circus ring, with some moments more spectacular than others.” Janusz Korczak

“The circus is the only fun you can buy that is good for you.” Ernest Hemingway

Saturday April 4th is

International Carrot Day

“The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.” Paul Cezanne

“You ask me what life is. That's like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there's nothing more to know.” Anton Chekhov

“I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.” Mae West

More to come next week!

[dc-trinity90s]

Of Cats and Dogs By Paul Gulacy, Jimmy Palmiotti, and Laurie Kronenberg

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Catwoman #37 (January 2005) cover by Paul Gulacy, Jimmy Palmiotti and Laurie Kronenberg.

[gabmarplemiss99]

Part 3 of 3: After she initiated the destruction, she told Batman that there was no other escape routes from that tower. She told Batman to either stop beating Black Mask and save her or all of them would die in the explosion. She didn't only sacrifice her place, but also almost her life. In tears, Babs keep telling Batman to save her as he was the only person to do that. Finally, Babs words could change his heart and Batman immediately jumped and saved her from the explosion. Babs had to say goodbye to The Clock Tower. The GCPD found her and she tried to protect her secret identity. After he saved Babs, Batman immediately went to the hospital to check on Steph's condition. I will say that this is indeed a great moment. Babs played a prominent role to stop the gang war although she had to sacrifice her favorite place. She did it only for saving Gotham City. Not only that, she also could change Batman's heart. If she didn't initiate the explosion and forced Batman to save her, maybe he already broke his moral and killed Black Mask. So, that's why she is a real hero. ❤ Panels from: Batgirl Vol. 1 Issue 57 (War Games Act 3 Part 6) Written by Dylan Horrocks. Art by Mike Huddleston & Jesse Delperdang. Coloured by Jason Wright. Catwoman Vol. 3 Issue 36 (War Games Act 3 Part 7) Written by Ed Brubaker. Art by Paul Gulacy & Jimmy Palmiotti. Coloured by Laurie Kronenberg. Batman Vol. 1 Issue 633 (War Games Act 3 Part 8) Written by Bill Willingham. Art by Kinsun Loh, Aaron Sowd, Rodney Ramos, and Adam DeKraker. Coloured by Tony Aviña. https://www.instagram.com/p/CFPTxu4AImr/?igshid=11qt70ach1ba8

[i-r-readcomics]

Year One: Batman/Ra's al Ghul

Volume: 1 #2

Part Two

Writers: Devin Grayson

Pencils: Paul Gulacy

Inks: Jimmy Palmiotti

Covers: Paul Gulacy, Laurie Kronenberg, Jimmy Palmiotti

Featuring: Batman, Ra's al Ghul, Alfred Pennyworth, League of Assassins

DC

[cds-arts]

Sabriye Tenberken  //  trailblazers

When you’re talking about a trailblazer, you’re talking about someone like Sabriye Tenberken.  Trailblazers are persistent.  They know exactly what they want and they don’t take no for an answer.  If there’s no known path to get where they want to go, a trailblazer forges their own.  Sabriye Tenberken was born in Germany in 1970.  As a young girl, her eyesight began to slowly deteriorate.  She was diagnosed with a retinal disease that threatened to take her sight completely.  A diagnosis like this could easily devastate a family, but Tenberken’s parents did not allow it to upend their lives.  Instead, they decided to use the next several years traveling, allowing their daughter a chance to see the world and build up her visual memories with whatever time she had left to do so.  By the time she became totally blind at age twelve, Tenberken’s parents had clearly instilled in her the idea that she had no limits.  She was already more worldly and more cultured than most people become in their entire lifetimes.  As she got older, her interest in the world’s cultures never wavered.  At Bonn College, she majored in Central Asian Studies. She learned Mongolian and Chinese alongside both classical and modern Tibetan, as well as studying philosophy and sociology.  This is where she began to run into uncharted territory.  The subjects Tenberken was interested in were ones that had never been studied by a blind student before.  Rather than giving up and choosing a different field of study, she decided to build it herself.  There was no Braille version of the Tibetan language?  No problem, Tenberken would just invent one herself!  She modified international Braille to correspond to specific Tibetan characters and sounds.  By 1992, she had completed a fully functional Tibetan Braille alphabet approved by native speakers and Tibetan scholars alike.  As the creator of Tibetan Braille, Tenberken travelled to Tibet in 1997 with the goal of evaluating the needs of Tibet’s blind community.  The situation as she found it was in dire straits. Because there had been no Tibetan Braille alphabet until this point, most blind children there simply were not sent to school.  The social stigma against blindness led many Tibetan families to effectively hide their blind children away from the world.  In 1998, Sabriye Tenberken founded the first school for the blind in Tibet.  The school started small with only five students enrolled and Tenberken – the only faculty member – acting as teacher, coordinator, and advisor to each of the children.  Running the school was no easy task.  Underestimated at every turn, Tenberken found little support from outside sources.  Many European organizations refused to send aid, believing too literally in the old adage of “the blind leading the blind.”  How, they asked, could a woman who herself was blind possibly succeed at the task she had set before herself?  Tenberken, of course, was undaunted.  She continued her work with the school, eventually training native Tibetans as teachers and turning over the school’s day-to-day operations to one of her former students.  Once she was sure that the school was in good hands, Tenberken moved on to her next big project.  She and her partner, Paul Kronenberg, founded Braille Without Borders, an organization designed to teach Braille to blind students in developing countries throughout the world.  As Tenberken did in Tibet, in any country reached by BWB that does not already have their own Braille system, the organization works to develop one.  They also provide vocational training to help blind members of these communities get jobs with the ultimate goal of helping them support themselves.  It’s easy to give up on a project when you’re told that there’s no known way to accomplish it.  When most of us come to a block in the road, we simply turn around and go back the way we came.  But for a someone like Sabriye Tenberken, that block is a challenge.  It’s just another new trail to blaze.