#belgium 2007

[umseb]

sebastian vettel arrives to the track on media day, belgium - september 13, 2007 📷 roland weihrauch / alamy

[umlewis]

belguim, p4 // september 16, 2007

[sewellove-deactivated9782]

‘a sticker of Sebastian Vettel, Scuderia Toro Rosso on the timing screen in the garage’ (15/09/07 📸motorsport.com)

[opelman]

1000 Km Spa 2007 by Ste Tit

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Aborted - Prolific Murder Contrivance

[miyoshi-iwasawa]

Bruxelles, Belgium  2007

[doyoulikethissong-poll]

Britney Spears - Break the Ice 2008

"Break the Ice" is a song by American singer Britney Spears from her fifth studio album, Blackout (2007). It was released as the third and final single from the album on March 3, 2008. The song was written by Nate "Danja" Hills, Jim Beanz, Keri Hilson and Marcella Araica, while production was handled by Danja and vocal production was handled by Beanz. "Radar" was originally planned to be released as the third single, but "Break the Ice" was released after it was chosen by a poll on Spears's official website. Musically, "Break the Ice" is an electro-R&B song with influences of crunk. "Break the Ice" received critical acclaim, with reviewers praising its lyrics, production, Spears' vocal performance and deemed it a strong electronic song from the record.

"Break the Ice" was a moderate success, reaching the top ten in Canada and Finland, peaking at 23 in New Zealand, and 15 in the UK. It also had moderate success through Europe, reaching the top ten in Belgium (Flanders and Wallonia), and the top twenty in Denmark and Sweden. In the US, the single reached number 43 on the Billboard Hot 100, while peaking at number one on the Dance Club Songs chart. The anime-influenced animation video, directed by Robert Hales, was based on the super-heroine character of Spears's "Toxic" video.

"Break the Ice" received a total of 72,9% yes votes! Previous Britney Spears polls: #4 "Toxic".

[dino0316]

At the U17 European Championship, Belgium was in a very tough group with the Netherlands, England and Iceland. The European Championships took place in their own country and national coach Bob Browaeys did not want to go off. “The fear was that we would make a fool of ourselves. I also missed a creative player up front. Someone who could make a difference,' he says in Sport/Voetbalmagazine .

Eden Hazard meets the profile sought and is picked up at the U16. Despite the fact that he is still an unguided missile at that moment, Browaeys will not regret his choice.

Hazard is decisive in the opening game of the Belgians against the Netherlands (2-2), he shines against England (1-1) and shows himself incredibly altruistic against Iceland (5-1). Belgium thus reaches the semi-final against Bojan Krkic's Spain, in which it draws 1-1 and is only eliminated after the penalties (7-6).

Simple tactics

Nill De Pauw was part of the Belgian U17 at that time. 'Eden mainly wanted to have fun. Any 16-year-old playing at home against the Netherlands, England and Spain in front of 2000 spectators would normally be stiff with stress. But he made it seem he didn't care.'

"I think Hazard has become the player he is today because he seeks diversion even in the most important games. The coach tried to make him more performant, but he had developed his own internal audit that allowed him to find a balance between having fun and boosting his stats.'

Kevin Kis, an average player who later played for Union, Roeselare, Eupen and eventually Lommel, summarizes it as follows: 'The tactic was simple: we gave the ball to Eden and it was waiting for something magical to happen… You had to go blind not to systematically let the ball pass through him.'

Guillaume François shares a similar view: 'Bob Browaeys was a nice man. He's tried hard not to make it seem like the tactic was geared solely to Eden. He handled it the right way and he tried to make us important. But you couldn't fool us. You had to be very naive to believe that Eden wasn't the epicenter of the squad.'

[zhanteimi]

Aranis – II

Belgium, 2007, avant-prog / chamber music / modern classical Violins, accordion, piano, guitar (surprised by this addition), flute, and double bass. In some ways this chamber music reminds me of what post-rock tries to do: create emotion in the form of music, evoking peaks of passion and exploring pensive, lonely phrasing, all in the same composition. Again, rather cinematic in…

[urbanrelics]

HAUT FOURNEAU 4

I adore visiting blast furnaces. They are the most spectacular sights I've ever got to witness. The intricacy of the engineering is quite simply astonishing. This particular specimen in Belgium, which has been under close surveilance since it was shut down in 2008, has been preserved in a remarkably good condition. Almost immediately after the closure, an interest group was established that wanted to preserve the blast furnace as an industrial landmark.

This blast furnace company, which is a defining feature of the city of Charleroi, was founded in 1836, during the heyday of the European steel industry. Like all other steel companies in the region, this blast furnace was also the subject of numerous takeovers and mergers. These mainly took place in the 1960s and 70s. It always remained a flourishing company, competitive on a global scale. However, the takeover by the Duferco group in 2001 heralded the beginning of the end…

The site was then operated under the name Carsid. After a fire in 2007, the furnace was temporarily shut down to carry out the necessary repairs. At the same time, capacity was increased and a number of environmental investments were made. The installation would now be operational for another ten years. Barely a year later, the blast furnace was shut down again, due to “poor prospects”. Due to the economic crisis and the declining demand for steel, the operation of the blast furnace company was no longer deemed profitable.

A “temporary” closure and the search for a buyer should bring relief. After more than three years of uncertainty and economic unemployment, the curtain finally fell for the blast furnace. Since HF4 is one of the best preserved blast furnaces in Europe, the Walloon government is striving to preserve the furnace as industrial heritage. Although a ministerial decree has been published to this effect, the demolition work on the site is progressing steadily…

Unfortunately Charleroi is one of the poorest cities in Belgium. There is no budget for the necessary sanitation and preservation works, which would run in the millions of euros. The futures is looking bleak for this beautiful piece of industrial heritage...

[umseb]

“ 21st place: not classified. (F1 Belgium GP, Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps) “ - june 16, 2023 📷 @.sebastianvettel / instagram

[hboww2rewatch]

Please read the movie descriptions below

Saving Private Ryan (1998) - Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action. Dir. by Steven Spielberg

A League of Their Own (1992) - American sports comedy drama film that tells a fictionalized account of the real-life All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) during WWII. Dir. by Penny Marshall

Greyhound (2020) - The film is based on the 1955 novel The Good Shepherd, and follows a US Navy commander on his first assignment commanding a multi-national escort destroyer group of four, defending an Allied convoy from U-boats during the Battle of the Atlantic. Dir. by Aaron Schneider

Mudbound (2017) - The film depicts two World War II veterans – one white, one black – who return to rural Mississippi each to address racism and PTSD in his own way. Dir. by Dee Rees

Twelve O'Clock High (1949) - A tough-as-nails general (Gregory Peck as General Savage) takes over a B-17 bomber unit suffering from low morale and whips them into fighting shape. Based on a novel by the same name. Dir. by Henry King

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) - three United States servicemen re-adjusting to societal changes and civilian life after coming home from World War II. The three men come from different services with different ranks that do not correspond with their civilian social class backgrounds. It is one of the earliest films to address issues encountered by returning veterans in the post World War II era. Dir. by William Wyler 

The Monuments Men (2014) - An unlikely World War II platoon is tasked to rescue art masterpieces from German thieves and return them to their owners. Based on the 2007 non-fiction book The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History. Dir. by George Clooney

Dunkirk (2017) - Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Commonwealth and Empire, and France are surrounded by the German Army and evacuated from Dunkirk. It is shown from the perspectives of the land, sea, and air. Dir. by Christopher Nolan

Fury (2014) - A grizzled tank commander makes tough decisions as he and his crew fight their way across Germany in April, 1945. Dir. by David Ayer

Valkyrie (2008) - A dramatization of the July 20, 1944 assassination and political coup plot by desperate renegade German Army officers against Adolf Hitler during World War II. Dir. by Bryan Singer

[morbidology]

Andrée de Jongh was a member of the Belgian Resistance during World War Two. She also toured and organised the Comet Escape Line, the route between Belgium, France and Spain which was used by hundreds of Allied airmen to escape from Nazi-occupied Europe.

Andrée got involved in resistance work as soon as the Nazis advanced into Belgium. She initially volunteered in the Red Cross, nursing injured soldiers and finding them safe homes once they were healed. She, along with her father, organised the escape of the abandoned allied soldiers, creating the Comet Escape Line which would send these men from their safe houses in Belgium through occupied France and finally to Spain. It was estimated Andrée helped over 400 allied soldiers escape imminent death by the Nazis. 

Andrée de Jongh was captured on the 15th of January, 1943, and sent to Ravensbruck Concentration Camp and then to Mauthausen. Andrée survived the concentration camps but her father, Fredericnde Jongh, was executed in 1944. Following the war, Andrée went to Coquilhatville to work with a leper colony. She died in 2007 at the age of 90.

[opelman]

1000 km Spa 2007 by Ste Tit

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Aborted  -  The Spaying Seance

[doctorwhogirlie]

Doctor Who: Time Crash

Children in Need Special 2007

Doctor: 5th and 10th

Companions: n/a

Main Setting: Inside the TARDIS

Main Enemy: n/a

Creatures: n/a

My Personal Rating: 10/10

After saying his goodbyes to Martha Jones at the end of Last of the Time Lords, the Tenth Doctor accidentally pilots his TARDIS into the path of… the Fifth Doctor's TARDIS! As the current Doctor muses over aspects of the Fifth, the Fifth Doctor becomes increasingly worried as their combined TARDISes threaten to rip a hole in space and time the size of Belgium! Source

I love this little special! It was the first time I had seen a Doctor from Classic Who when I was little! And from then I was obsessed, I tried to find out as much as I possibly could about Classic Who, including memorising every Doctor and their actor, annnd all the companions in order. I was a little nerd okay. But anyways, this short, I love it, it's so fun and I could tell David Tennant loved telling Peter Davison that he was his Doctor. When I watched this it was like I craved the idea of more Doctor's meeting.

(Please don't take these too seriously, I am not a real life reviewer, just someone who likes the show)