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With Apple unveiling macOS 27, or macOS Golden Gate, today at its annual WWDC event, the Intel Mac's end has finally arrived. It was a good run.
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Eleanor Caines (1870 or 1880-1913) was an American silent film actress. She spent most of her film career at the Lubin Film Company. According to IMDb, Eleanor Caines was born in 1870 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. In 1909, she began her film career at Lubin in the short comedy Blissville the Beautiful (1909) with George Reehm and Harry Myers. In the following years, she appeared in some 30 Lubin productions. Eleanor Caines died in 1913 in her hometown Philadelphia at the age of 43. The cause of her death was surgery after an accident. She was married to William Robson with whom she had a child, and till her death to Jack Le Faint.
NANTERRE, June 14 — Two women have filed new complaints of sexual abuse against French pop icon Patrick Bruel, prosecutors and their lawyer said Saturday, in the latest accusations against the singer under investigation.
The 67-year-old, a major figure in French popular culture with several top selling albums and dozens of film appearances, denies any wrongdoing.
Bruel is the latest top French celebrity to face questioning in the wake of the #MeToo movement, after film star Gerard Depardieu was handed a suspended 18-month prison sentence last year for sexually assaulting two women on a film set.
In the latest two complaints filed on Friday, one woman accuses Bruel of attempted rape and sexual assault during a film festival in the overseas territory of La Reunion in 2007, the prosecutor’s office in the Paris suburb of Nanterre and lawyer Jade Dousselin said.
The other woman alleges he committed rape and sexual assault against her in 2012, the same sources said.
Allegations have piled up against Bruel, some dating back to the 1990s.
Investigating magistrates on Wednesday charged him with rape, attempted rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment in four cases, three for alleged acts in France and one in Belgium.
They said he was to be investigated — but not charged — in four other cases, including two of suspected rape.
A ninth case of alleged rape was deemed to have happened too long ago to be prosecuted.
Another 13 people have accused him of rape, attempted rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment from 1992 to 2008, but prosecutors have yet to assess whether they are past the statute of limitations.
Three other complaints — two for rape and one for attempted rape — have also either been or will be filed against him.
Bruel is under judicial supervision, meaning he is not allowed to leave French territory. — AFP
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PARIS, June 11 — French pop icon Patrick Bruel was charged with rape and sexual assault yesterday, after nearly two dozen women came forward to make allegations against him, some dating back to the 1990s.
The 67-year-old, a major figure in French popular culture with several top‑selling albums and dozens of film appearances, has denied any wrongdoing.
He is the latest top French celebrity to face investigators in the wake of the #MeToo movement, after film legend Gerard Depardieu was handed a suspended 18-month prison sentence last year for sexually assaulting two women on a film set.
Bruel, a heartthrob whose face was plastered on teen magazines in the early 1990s, has spent 48 hours in custody after being held for questioning on Monday.
A judge in the Paris suburb of Nanterre said Bruel was charged with rape, attempted rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment.
Earlier the Nanterre prosecutor’s office said the charges related to nine victims and involved incidents between 2010 and 2019.
It said that the complaints of another 13 people accusing him of rape, attempted rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment from 1992 to 2008 had been added to the file handed over to investigating magistrates, even if they “appeared to be beyond the statute of limitations at this stage”.
Bruel was released under judicial supervision, his lawyer Fanny Colin said, after the judge rejected a request from prosecutors for him to be put in pre-trial detention.
‘Never forced a woman’
Bruel — who in 1998 was briefly a world poker champion — protested his innocence last month, saying in an Instagram post that he had “never forced a woman”.
He then said he would be cancelling all concerts until September.
His lawyers on Monday said in a statement he would answer all questions and “provide all the elements necessary to demonstrate his innocence”.
Bruel’s accusers include Daniela Elstner, the current director of Unifrance, a company promoting French cinema abroad.
In March, she formally accused him of attempted rape during a film festival in Mexico when she was a 26-year-old intern at Unifrance in 1997.
“This is a real first legal victory for the victims,” her lawyer Jade Dousselin told AFP after the prosecutors demanded charges.
Several new allegations against the star have been reported since Monday.
Lawyer Myriam Guedj Benayoun on Tuesday said a new complaint would soon be filed against the singer for the alleged attempted rape of a 19-year-old at his home in 2000.
Another lawyer, Corinne Herrmann, has said two women filed rape complaints against him on May 27 and June 3.
Investigative news outlet Mediapart said the women were a former beauty queen who accuses Bruel of raping her in 2008 and a physiotherapist who alleged he committed rape in 2000.
‘Outrageous’
His other accusers include French television presenter Flavie Flament, who last month accused him of raping her in 1991 when she was a minor.
She told AFP on Monday that her case was not one being looked into by investigators this week, but she criticised what she described as a slow judicial system.
“Three weeks after my complaint was made public, Patrick Bruel is in police custody,” she told AFP on Monday.
“What is truly outrageous is that before me, there were women who for months — for years — tried to make themselves heard, and it took the media coverage of my complaint for things to move forward,” she added.
At the height of his popularity, a period dubbed “Bruelmania” in French pop culture, teenagers saw in the singer a masculine ideal, with enthralled fans gathering outside places he was thought to be in Paris.
Bruel seemed to enjoy his image, in 2000 saying on television: “I’m easy to seduce, but not easy to keep.” — AFP
Urban VIII corresponded with Francisco de Quevedo, Alexander VII spent his leisure time as pope writing little poems in Latin, and John Paul II — who had studied St. John of the Cross in his youth — even published a collection of poems, Roman Triptych (2003), while still occupying the Chair of Saint Peter.
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It's been a minute since RWBY fans last got to visit the world of Remnant. Volume 9 of the wildly popular animated fantasy series created by the late Monty Oum premiered back in 2023, yet a milestone tenth season following the teenage huntresses remains elusive, though for understandable reasons. Rooster Teeth, the internet content giant and longtime producer of the series, shut down in 2024, creating some uncertainty about the story's future until Viz Media stepped in to acquire the IP. Still, updates have been scarce since showrunner Kerry Shawcrossconfirmed that Volume 10 was on the way in 2025, and, unfortunately, there's still not much to report on that front, even from the perspective of the stars.
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Here’s another Star Wars vehicle sculpture I created for LEGO in 2015. It's titled Falcon Over Jakku and it swings side to side when you twist the gear at the back. I had a prototype with a TIE, too; the two modules could be connected and they'd crisscross when the gear was turned.
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f8 Develop is a new film negative inversion app made specifically for macOS and is meant to support photographers who scan with a mirrorless or DSLR camera at home.
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