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Knechten van oorloge

Ik begin aan het vierde hoofdstuk dat zal handelen over de voornaamste leiders van de protestantse geloofsmilities hier in Poperinge. Pieter Dathen, Jan Denys van de evangelische militie, Jacob de Buzere, Frans-Antoon de Swarte, pater Willem, Gilles du Mont en Sebastiaan Matte. Ik verplaats me naar het jaar 1566, vier jaar na het eerste beruchte sermoen van Boeschepe. De predikers moeten beter…

[wimjee]

Grafmonument oorlogsslachtoffers. by Wim Jacobs Via Flickr: Oorlogsmonument massagraf kerkhof Monfort.

[natracha]

November op reis

[grogumaximus]

Yet another Red Bull team mate of Max Verstappen’s is struggling to be competitive, Liam Lawson having qualified last in China last weekend after failing to get out of Q1 in Melbourne. He joins a long list over the last five years. Pierre Gasly, Alex Albon and Sergio Perez were never this far off, but the pattern is unmistakeable: Red Bull has followed where Verstappen’s enormous talent has taken them. But it’s made for a car no-one else can make competitive.

This looks a lot like Michael Schumacher at Benetton in 1994/95. There was of course a lot of controversy around the electronic systems on the Benetton in ’94 and it led to questions about whether his car was the same as that of his team-mates. But it was about more than that. JJ Lehto, Jos Verstappen and Johnny Herbert all had good reputations damaged by being his team-mate in a nervous car only he could properly exploit.

Listening to Max describe his car preferences, it sounds pretty much how Schumacher used to describe it.

Schumacher: “People say I like oversteer. I don’t. I can handle it and drive it but I don’t want it. With a neutral car you can have it sliding from turn-in to exit and all the time you can just drive on the limit of the four tyres’ given grip, and that’s what I’m always looking to achieve. I had cars that did that. With a little input you could make it go the way you wanted it to go.”

Verstappen: “I like a pointy car but with a rear that is just stable enough to have a controlled balance. I like a strong front end. I don’t really like understeer. It’s just killing the whole feel of the car. A strong front end with a rear that is just on the edge. But of course you still need that rear to rely on.”

It sounds simple, but what separates them from their team-mates is/was the feel for the transition, trading off rotation against scrub. Verstappen’s sim racing partner Atze Kerkhof is also an F1 driver coach and has studied intensely what Max does and how he makes it work. He relayed it on his YouTube channel. at 0:30:40

“When the Red Bull was a bit of a lazy car at the beginning of ’22 it was very easy to drive leaning towards understeer. Understeer is a very boring way to drive a car because whatever you do with the brake pedal, at a certain point the car doesn’t rotate any more. A pointy car wants to rotate more than you want and what Max does very well is he can balance the car that is too pointy for everyone else because for them it starts sliding. Max can make that car perfectly smooth and make use of that extra rotation and he can cancel it with his inputs in the points where he doesn’t need it. … the last five-tenths is dancing a very thin line, balancing the car and stepping away from the textbook style of aggressive on the brakes, very smooth coming off, turning at the right time. That’s still there in the basics but it needs to be adjusted intermittently in millimetres to have a positive effect on the balance.”

Intuitively feeling that point where the rotation needs to be checked, with just the smallest inputs of brake and steering, allows outrageous speed to be taken in without the penalty of time-consuming slides. Watching Lawson desperately try to make sense of the Red Bull in Shanghai, he would take the speed in and turn, only to then find himself correcting big snaps of oversteer. That sensitivity to a demanding car just wasn’t in the same league. But put them in a less pointy car, Lawson would be much closer.

Red Bull has naturally followed Verstappen’s preferences in how it has developed its cars over the last few years. Just as Benetton did with Schumacher. But when Michael left and two good drivers – Gerhard Berger and Jean Alesi – tried the car, they could barely control it and each suffered several pre-season crashes.

Some say Lawson should be given more of a chance than just two races and certainly there’s merit in that. But conversely, perhaps the sooner he can get back in to a ‘normal’ car, the quicker he can begin recapturing the confidence which has surely been destroyed.

[newlexlothario]

Jeroen Kerkhof (?)

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via verstappen.com

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[mywanderingeye]

Jeroen Kerkhof photographed by Barry Marré

tes silences effleuraient du bout des doigts, tous mes sens, aurons-nous un autrefois, reste chez moi

[raveyardwalks]

This was my most personal graveyard visit since i started actively taking pictures. Oude Torenhof in Alblasserdam, Netherlands. A couple of my relatives have been laid to rest there. Its one of those graveyards that feels like an intimate celebration of life.

(April 2023)

[kronieken]

Het mirakel van Rozebeke

In 1468 wordt Vlaanderen geteisterd door valse reeuwers die profiteren van de pest om overal mensen te vergiftigen en met hun eigendommen aan de haal gaan. Zo bijvoorbeeld een zekere Willem Matthys, een ‘scheur-kapproen’ van Diksmuide die op 11 augustus ter dood wordt veroordeeld wegens de moord op twee Ieperse maagden. De kous in Ieper is nog niet af want wat later wordt ook nog de heer Heyne…

[bucklemonster2]

Photography Military Cemetery Harelbeke

This cemetery contains the remains of British soldiers who died during

the first and second world wars.

It is a sign that there is nothing romantic, heroic or positive about war.

War only creates death and destruction.

Instead of fighting, let us negotiate, talk, connect.

Sometimes you just have to accept that you don't agree.

Silence is better than battle.

Never war again.

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[wimjee]

Petersfriedhof, Salzburg. by Wim Jacobs Via Flickr: Zomervakantie Bergtesgaden. Tussenstop heenreis Hilpoltstein, terugreis via Aschaffenburg. Salzburg, Petersfriedhof en Katakomben.

[grogumaximus]

[art-pedagogy-society]

Kunst.vormen - Atelier de l'Enjoliveur

The start is an empty ping pong table as a scale model of Martin Kippenbergers footballfield “The Happy End of Franz Kafka’s ‘Amerika’”. Inviting artists, alumni and others, to take part at a sometimes wordless conversational game in Atelier de l’Enjoliveur in Schaarbeek. Another attempt to continue the collective thinking and doing after school. A fight against loneliness, trying to reveal mystic truths to the world. The game will be played at irregular intervals, until the 21st of October 2024, the day the work must be mounted at the exhibition in Hasselt.

Expositie Kunstenaar-Leraarschap PxL-MAD School of Arts (De kooi) - 7 nov 2024 - 20 dec 2024

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Jaye Kaye (Jeroen Kerkhof)

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Zot als een achterdeur

2 mei 1382. Het volksleger van Filips van Artevelde laat Gent achter zich. Naast brood en wijn voeren ze 300 stukken grof geschut met zich mee. De rest van de inwoners duimt fanatiek en krampachtig voor een goede afloop van de missie. Bij valavond slaan de Gentenaars hun kamp op te Beverhout, een soort veld naast een moeras, op de grens tussen Beernem, Oostkamp en Oedelem. ‘s Anderendaags laat…