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‘We’ve all been waiting for this moment’: Photographer shares surreal snapshot of Olympic surfer Gabriel Medina

by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief

The AFP photographer Jerome Brouillet knew he was in for an explosion when he saw the Brazilian surfer Gabriel Medina to ride one of the biggest waves of the day at the Olympic Games, at Teahupo’o, on one of the most powerful surf spots in the world.

Jérôme Brouillet captured one of the most striking images of these first days of the Games. In his photo, we can see Gabriel Medina in a three-quarter face view rising above the waves, pointing his index finger towards the sky, with his surfboard vertically behind his back.

Medina is known for his explosive aerial maneuvers, regularly sending himself and his board across the surface of the wave and into the air at breakneck speeds.

“Every photographer is waiting for this moment. You know that Gabriel Medina, especially at Teahupo’o, is going to step up and do something (…) The only tricky part is where he’s going to kick“, says Jérôme Brouillet.

As the surfer enters the wave, he is on a boat in the channel, a deeper, calmer area of ​​water to the side of the wave, with no clear view of the action.I am blind“At that time,” he explains. “But it was exactly the place to be.

He was in a privileged position to wait for Medina to “kick out“, comes out of the face of the wave at the end of its course.”Sometimes he does an acrobatic gesture and this time he did and I pressed the shutter.“

The shot is so dramatic that online commenters wrongly assumed it had been Photoshopped.

“I think when he was in the tube, he knew he was in one of the biggest waves of the day. He jumped out of the water and thought, man, I think that’s a ten.“, said Jérôme Brouillet about Gabriel Medina.

Where the AFP photographer was lucky was that he only took four photos of the Brazilian surfer.When I take pictures at Teahupo’o, I don’t take burst mode pictures, because at the end of the day, if you press the button too hard, you come back with 5000 pictures, and I don’t like that!” he says.

“I was also on the lookout for the next wave. I took 20-25 photos on both waves” he adds. The image has been used by dozens of publications around the world and shared or liked millions of times online.

“This might just be the greatest sports photo of all time!” posted the Australian media conglomerate News.com.au on his Facebook page.

The magazine TIME described it as “the defining image of the triumph of the 2024 Summer Games.“

Gabriel Medina even posted the image to his own Instagram account, quickly attracting over 2.4 million likes.likes“.

Despite the praise, Brouillet said the celebrations would have to wait, as he still had the rest of the competition to photograph.

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Sandra Bullock celebrates her sixtieth birthday today

by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief

Sandra Bullock was born in Arlington, Virginia, the eldest daughter of German opera singer Helga Meyer and American singing teacher John Bullock. The girl, who studied ballet and singing, spent part of her youth in Germany, was assigned minor extra roles on her mother’s tours in Bavaria, and regularly performed with the Nuremberg children’s choir, so she also speaks the language excellently.

The film that brought Sandra Bullock’s breakthrough: Unbridled (Source: Northfoto)

They moved back to America when he was a teenager, where he enrolled in drama at East Carolina University.

He had just three exams left when he turned his back on college in 1986 and moved to New York, where he worked as a bartender, waiter, wardrobe, auditioned and performed in off-Broadway theaters.

One night in 1989, she was spotted by director Alan J. Levi, who gave her a small role in the TV movie Bionic Woman. Bullock struggled in Hollywood for years, starring in embarrassingly weak films and even writing and singing film songs.

In 1993, he was able to jump into Sylvester Stallone’s action film The Destroyer at the last minute, and although the role did not require special acting skills, Jan de Bon noticed him.

The director gave her the female lead role in the action film Unbridled, although the producers wanted a blonde and plump lady as Keanu Reeves’ partner. After seeing success, they then relented, with Bullock later saying:

I never thought an action movie would open the doors I wanted to walk through

In the following years, one romantic role followed another. In 1995, she played a lonely girl who finds love under strange circumstances in the film Only I Dream

The movie was a huge success, the actress was nominated for a Golden Globe award for the first time.

This was followed by the drama If You Must Kill, based on John Grisham’s novel, in which Samuel L. Jackson and Matthew McConaughey were partners, and then he also took on roles in not very successful films such as The Impossible Robbery, In Love and War and the second part of Unbridled.

However, his fans did not let him down, the new romantic piece Majd alválik – the first production of his own film company – already performed well at the box office. He then entertained audiences alongside Nicole Kidman in the comedy Cursed Witches, and then partnered with Ben Affleck in Like a Hurricane.

One of the biggest successes of his career is the crime comedy Built-in Beauty, filmed in 2000, which was followed up five years later.

Bullock played a tough FBI agent who must compete in a beauty pageant to uncover a terrorist. In the comedy “Two weeks later forever” he appeared on the screen again in his usual role alongside Hugh Grant, but at that time he also wanted to show his dramatic side.

Drama roles of Sandra Bullock

In 2005, she played the racist wife of a public prosecutor in the film Collisions, and she was already mentioned among the Oscar contenders. In 2006, he worked again with Keanu Reeves in the drama House by the Lake, and then took a break for two years after Intuition, made in 2007.

In 2009, he returned in one of the year’s biggest box-office hits, the comedy The Marriage Proposal alongside Ryan Reynolds, and received another Golden Globe nomination.

That same year, she played a mother who adopts a black boy in the drama A sív bajnokai, based on real events. Bullock is one of the few actresses to win Worst Actress in the same year for She’s the Solution Golden Raspberry Awardand even “won” the worst couple award together with Bradley Cooper.

The actress accepted the lemon award with a great sense of humor and even gave a thank you speech.

His streak of success continued in 2013: first he portrayed an FBI agent in the action comedy Female Organs, then he played an astronaut drifting alone in space in Alfonso Cuarón’s spectacular sci-fi film Gravity, for which he was again nominated for an Oscar.

In the last decade, she first portrayed a political consultant in The Crisis Staff, and then played the sister of the master thief played by George Clooney in the crime thriller Ocean’s 8 – Scam of the Century, which was released as a sequel to the highly successful Ocean’s trilogy.

His most recent films include the drama film Unforgivable, the romantic adventure film The Lost City with Channing Tatum and Daniel Radcliffe, and the action film The Killer Flight, in which he starred alongside Brad Pitt.

In addition to his acting work, he is a producer of one and a half dozen films, and also lent his voice to the animation Minions.

The popular actress lent her name to countless charity initiatives.

His star has been on the Hollywood Walk of Fame since 2005. In 2010 and 2014, she was the highest-paid actress, in 2010 she was on Time magazine’s list of the most influential people, in 2015 People magazine chose her as the most beautiful woman in the world, and she was the audience’s favorite at the People’s Choice Awards on several occasions. .

According to the men, time will not stop her beauty, her personal life did not develop happily for a long time, and several of her relationships ran aground. Bullock adopted two African-American children, whom she raised with model-turned-photographer Bryan Randall, who died last year, starting in 2015.

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Construction and Housing is mobilized to serve Moroccans around the world.

by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief

Agadir24

Fatima Zahra El Mansouri mobilizes the ministry’s components to serve Moroccans living abroad and launches a national campaign under the slogan: “Construction and housing in the service of Moroccans around the world”

In implementation of the royal high instructions aimed at paying special attention to members of the Moroccan community residing abroad, responding to their aspirations and continuously improving the quality of services provided to them, as well as bringing the administration closer to citizens, and in accordance with the two circulars of Ms. Fatima Zahra El Mansouri, Minister of National Land Use Planning, Urban Planning, Housing and City Policy, addressed to the components of the ministry, the official launch of the 2024 national campaign to welcome Moroccans residing abroad was held, in line with this year’s “Marhaba” operation.

On this occasion, Ms. Fatima Zahra El Mansouri stated: “During this national campaign, all the components of the Ministry are mobilized to be at the service of Moroccans abroad, listening to their needs and providing them with technical and administrative assistance, with the aim of processing their files as quickly as possible and in the best conditions.” The Minister added: “We are also working to inform members of the community about the many advantages offered by the Royal Program for Direct Housing Support ‘Sakn Support’, in addition to the investment opportunities available, to strengthen their connection to their motherland.”

This national campaign, organized under the slogan: “Construction and Housing in the Service of Moroccans of the World,” is distinguished this year by the combined efforts of all components of the Ministry in order to make this operation a success, including the central, regional and provincial components of the Ministry, as well as the urban agencies and the Al Omrane Group.

This campaign includes a series of practical measures aimed at informing Moroccans living abroad of the latest developments in the construction and housing sector, as well as the programs and projects they can benefit from, such as the direct housing support program, the services provided by urban agencies, as well as the exceptional offers provided by Al Omrane Group. These measures also aim to provide all the necessary information and answer the various questions of Moroccans living abroad related to construction and housing.

In this context, the Ministry has taken several initiatives and measures to facilitate the reception and support of Moroccans living abroad, including organizing a mobile caravan that will tour 23 cities, providing special reception areas at border points, in strategic rest areas, as well as in the four stations of the high-speed train, organizing open days to receive members of the community at the headquarters of urban agencies and the headquarters of the Al Omrane Group, as well as organizing work after official working hours and on Saturdays to provide continuous assistance to members of the community.

The Ministry is also strengthening its efforts to ensure that Moroccans living abroad interact with the direct housing support program, which was launched by His Majesty, may God support and assist him, by accompanying them and providing all the explanations for purchasing a primary residence in Morocco, in accordance with the specified legal conditions.

As a reminder, Moroccans residing abroad constitute a significant percentage of those seeking direct housing support and beneficiaries of the housing support program, as they represent 21% of the applications registered through the digital platform and 23% of the beneficiaries so far.

These figures confirm the strategic importance of the programme in meeting the needs of this category of citizens and its positive impact on strengthening their relations with their homeland.

Ms. Fatima Zahra El Mansouri also stressed the need to organize round tables to study all possibilities of benefiting from the Ministry’s programs and to respond to the needs of Moroccans living abroad. This initiative is part of the continuation of the National Dialogue on Urban Planning and Housing launched by the Minister of National Territory Planning, Urban Planning, Housing and City Policy under the high patronage of His Majesty King Mohammed VI, may God assist him.

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2024-07-30 12:22:43

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Bushra named accused in 11 cases including BBGHQ attack on May 9 – Pakistan

by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief

The Islamabad High Court again issued notices to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) and the Balochistan Police in the case of providing the details of the cases of Bushra Bibi, the wife of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf founder chairman Imran Khan and the former First Lady, while the Rawalpindi Police issued a notice to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) and Balochistan Police. Bibi was named accused in 11 cases of May 9, including the GHQ attack.

Justice Amir Farooq of Islamabad High Court heard the case of providing details of the cases filed against Bushra Bibi, Sardar Latif Khosa’s assistant counsel appeared in the court.

At the beginning of the hearing, National Accountability Bureau (NAB) submitted a response to the court order, NAB Prosecutor Rafi Maqsood said that 4 cases are registered against Bushra Bibi in NAB, 3 cases are registered in NAB Rawalpindi and one case is registered in NAB Lahore. is listed.

Rawalpindi Police and Islamabad Police also submitted their response, however, FIA and Balochistan Police did not submit their response to the court.

Imran Khan’s 6 and Bushra Bibi’s 1 bail application hearing adjourned

During the hearing, the details of the cases filed against Bushra Bibi were presented in the Islamabad High Court, while the submission report of the Rawalpindi Police came out.

Rawalpindi Police named Bushra Bibi as an accused in 11 cases including the GHQ attack on May 9 and submitted the details of 11 cases filed against her in Rawalpindi district in the High Court.

The report was submitted in Islamabad High Court on behalf of CPO Rawalpindi.

Case of attack on Bushra Bibi, Army Museum, GHQ Gate 4, burning of sensitive military building in Sadar Cantt, attack on office of sensitive organization on Murree Road, arson and vandalism in various areas, RA Bazar Police Station, Civil Line, New Town, City, Waras Khan, Taxila police station has been named in the cases.

Later, the court issued notice to FIA and Balochistan Police again for Monday and adjourned further hearing of the case till Monday.