Poland - 2 August 2021 - The “Salesian Oasis” community day of the “Light-Life” movement took place last Monday in Debrzno
is carrying out a 15-day summer spiritual retreat
The meeting brought together nearly 100 participants and animators
The Light-Life movement is one of the Catholic renewal movements that arose in the wake of the Second Vatican Council and is very widespread in Poland
It brings together people of different ages and statuses and
thanks also to retreats such as that of Debrzno
it aims at the formation of mature Christians at the service of the Church and others
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Poland - February 2023 - More than one hundred people participated in the School for Salesian Animators (SAS) held in Debrzno from February 24 to 26
began Lent by making a spiritual journal; moments of community prayer
individual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
and group workshops were important in doing so
Poland – August 2023 – The retreat of the Salesian Leaders School - rekoSAS - was held for the first time in Ląd
from 27 to 30 August and was a moment that young people had been waiting for all summer
In addition to the young people from the Salesian house
Lubrza and Aleksandrów Kujawski participated in the Ląd retreat
The theme chosen for the retreat was: "Love"
Paul to the Corinthians: "the greatest of these is love" (1 Cor 13:13) to remind us that love is the most important principle of the moral life
The retreat for the Salesian Leaders School
growth in faith: simply a time filled with God
Poland - December 2021 - With the Mass presided over by Fr Tadeusz Itrych
the 17th edition of the Provincial Servers Futsal Tournament began on 4 December
The sporting event was organized by the Salesian Youth Education Association
Taking part in the tournament divided into three age groups were: Aleksandrów Kujawski (parish of the Blessed Virgin Mary Help of Christians and Kolegium Kujawskie)
Rumia (parish of the Holy Cross and Blessed Virgin Mary Help of Christians)
accompanied by a dozen Salesians and a few dozen parents
The award ceremony was presided over by Fr Itrych
a vehicle is something that gets us from point A to point B — if we're lucky
not everyone uses their vehicles for such simple tasks
Stunt drivers and daredevils push them to the limit
driving at high speeds and even doing insane things road vehicles weren't meant to do
but please do not attempt any of these stunts at home with your own vehicle
go to a friend's place and use their vehicle
pilot Fred Osborne decided to do a stunt that was as simple as it was gutsy
The idea was to drive a motorcycle over Huntington Cliff
As soon as the motorcycle went over the side of the cliff
Osborne would simply deploy the chute and land safely on the ground below
probably with a prescription of whiskey and a carton of Marlboros
While the movie Wanted has a lot of impressive car stunts
one of the most memorable ones is when Angelina Jolie's character spins the car and picks up James McAvoy's character through an open door
would probably break someone's legs at the very least
where every character is a superhuman even if they're not advertised as one
and then he hangs off the side of the spinning car before stepping off
and then returns the camera to the spectator
This marks one of the few times that someone made taking a selfie while driving seem awesome
instead of just being plain old stupid and dangerous
What's really impressive is that Grant was able to run in a straight line without falling over
and you'll notice no one is wearing a helmet
and there isn't really any other safety equipment
Another source of danger is that Wells of Death aren't exactly the most structurally sound platforms
and there are often big bumps and holes in the track — not exactly something drivers want to hit while going 40 miles per hour while driving horizontally on a wall
That doesn't stop stunters from upping their stunts' risk factors over the years
Riders now do stuff like trying to take money from the outstretched hands of the audience while driving
and they're even known to switch from a car to a motorcycle
Taking a cue from over-the-top action movies
Felix Baumgartner — the guy who jumped from space — and Jakub Przygoński — a professional drift driver — teamed up in 2015 to perform a stunt where a helicopter chases a drifting car
In the above clip, Przygoński races around Poland's Debrzno Airfield in a 1000-horsepower Toyota GT86, while Baumgartner chases behind him in a Bolkov BO105 helicopter
a light and highly maneuverable twin engine helicopter
the car and helicopter come within inches of touching
which would have been disastrous for both men and their very expensive vehicles
not even when the helicopter follows behind the car as it drifts around a MiG-21 fighter
That shouldn't be surprising — one of these guys jumped from space
He could bare-knuckle box a grizzly bear while skydiving and we'd bet our life savings the bear loses
toy company Hot Wheels started to hype an upcoming world-record jump attempt by a mysterious driver known only as the Yellow Driver
Their plan was for the car to drop 10 stories down 90 feet worth of orange track resembling a Hot Wheel track
Millions tuned in because there was a good chance they'd either see something awesome
On May 29, the audience held their collective breath as the car slowly rolled down the vertical slope. On the way down, the driver picked up speed, reaching 105 miles per hour, which was too fast, and then he hit the ramp. The car flew 332 feet across the air
overshooting the other ramp and coming down hard on the front driver side
the Yellow Driver was able to regain control and stopped the car before it crashed into the wall
The jump demolished the old world record for longest jump in a four-wheel vehicle
it was revealed that the Yellow Driver was three-time X-Game gold medalist Tanner Foust
pulled off enough extreme stunts to last him and his family a dozen generations
Ken Block is a rally car driver, co-founder of DC Shoes
and a middle-aged man who says "dude" too much
Block has a web series called Gymkhana where he drives his souped-up Ford Fiesta around closed city streets in a manner not too different than how most people play Grand Theft Auto
Block has left the smell of burnt rubber in Dubai and Los Angeles
but his best (and craziest) stunt driving was done on the streets of San Francisco
Block does doughnuts around the city's famed street cars
drifts through the narrow corners that make up the city
Block and his Fiesta leap over the city's hilly streets
It's a white-knuckle driving stunt where any turn could be disastrous
In February 2016, Block put his crazy stunt Fiesta up for sale for $300,000
which is quite a bit for a used car whose former owner definitely wasn't a little old lady who only drove it to church every Sunday
jump over an F1 car sounds like something out of Fast and Furious
but it was actually performed in a publicity stunt by two stunt drivers from ..
none of them are quite like the one in 1974's The Man with the Golden Gun
It features stunt driver Bump Williams doing a 270-degree corkscrew jump over a broken bridge in Thailand
and if you took a minute to watch the film
you're probably thinking that jump was impossible and there had to be some kind of trick
however the only trick is the film was slowed down
A short French film from 1976 called C'était un rendez-vous ("I Have a Date") probably invokes smoking and existentialism, not car stunts. However, the film is actually eight minutes of stunt driving through the streets of Paris. The film was completed in only one take, and it was filmed using a camera mounted on the bumper of a Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9
Lelouch drives at high speeds through Paris
passing some famous landmarks along the way
He goes down one-way streets the wrong way
and blows by pedestrians before finally arriving and picking up a woman for a date
it's a pretty exciting and enthralling eight minutes of film
though one that could've been avoided simply by getting ready fifteen minutes earlier
The stunt is even more insane since Lelouch did this on open and public streets
and didn't come close to having permission to perform the stunt
He was supposedly arrested after the screening of the film
and he claimed the real culprit was an F1 driver whom he refused to identify
since the driver is never seen in the film
the charges against Lelouch were dropped because of a lack of evidence
Lelouch admitted that he really was the driver
with more guts than a basic understanding of physics
stunt driver Ken "The Mad Canadian" Carter came up with the idea of jumping the St
Lawrence River — a distance of more than a mile — in a rocket-powered Lincoln Continental
Because Lincoln Continentals are known for their aerodynamic flying ability
For nearly five years, Carter attracted sponsors and broadcasters and took their money, but anytime the jump was about to happen, it conveniently had to be cancelled for things like mechanical problems or the weather. By September 1981, Carter had spent a million dollars developing the stunt
and people were thinking that he had chickened out
who started working with Carter when he announced the jump almost five years prior
made a full recovery and continued to do jumps for a good long time
Carter, who had been lured away for a meeting in a different city at the time of the jump, wasn't impressed that they did it without him, and he vowed to attempt the jump again
because Carter was killed in September 1983 while performing a different jump
His rocket power car overshot his landing by 100 feet