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Tuesday Feb 10, 2009
Spring Massive at 9600 feet in Breckenridge April 1-20.
End the season with twenty days of the best spring skiing and riding in Colorado, competitions, events, food, and the biggest concert line up in Spring Massive history featuring Robert Randolph, Grace Potter , Tony Furtado, The Rail Benders, The Subdudes, and Grammy winner Jo Dee Messina. See springmassive.com for all the details!
Four huge peaks with over 2350 acres of skiing and riding, five terrain parks, four half-pipes, two high-speed six passenger SuperChairs, a state-of-the-art children’s ski and snowboard school, unparalleled grooming, exciting events and a historic mining town with endless shopping, dining and nightlife. At 9600 feet, with over 300 days of sunshine and an average of 300 inches of snowfall per year, Breckenridge is the Perfect Mountain Town.
New last season, the perfect mountain town got a little more perfect with the addition of the BreckConnect, Breckenridge’s 8-passenger gondola. Setting the stage for the future development of Peaks 7&8, the gondola takes skiers, riders and visitors from town to the Peak 8 base area. Breckenridge also introduced SnowWhite - 150 acres of above tree line expert terrain accessed by the Imperial Express SuperChair, the highest chairlift in North America, reaching 12,840 feet.
From December to April, Breckenridge is packed with events including the Hartford Disabled Sports Ski Spectacular, US Snowboarding Grand Prix, Ullr Fest and the International Snow Sculpture Championships. The season wraps up with the 8th Annual Spring Massive Festival April 1-20, 2008 - a fusion of sport, music, family fun, incredible lodging specials and legendary spring conditions.
www.breckenridge.com
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Sunday Feb 8, 2009
I’m not sure why the sound isn’t working on this video, but I uploaded it anyway. It gives you an idea of how accessible Toronto is from downtown to the Eaton Center.
You’ll notice I didn’t have my guide dog with me here. She stayed at home with my guide/service dog in training and my boyfriend/camera guy was giving me directions. It seemed to work out well, but I wouldn’t want to do it on a busy day with a lot of people around.
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Friday Dec 12, 2008
192 km’s of grueling road to raise money for Winter Disabled sports Australia. Thankyou to all the sponsors.
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Saturday Dec 6, 2008
From a clip out of “Wheelin round the World”, this clip shows that a person with a disability can do anything an able bodied person can do
www.wheelinroundtheworld.com for more info
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Thursday Nov 27, 2008
Great travel tips from Mark, a paraplegic and experienced wheelchair user, on everything from checking your wheelchair, getting an aisle chair, to getting your car rental and hand controls. http://www.easystand.com
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Friday Nov 14, 2008
Text updated June 2008 This text is an ongoing project and will be periodically updated.
The “Amended Strolling - Version” is because not everybody reads at the same speed.
A V_TxT Movie
http://www.youtube.com/group/VtxTMovies
A short history of Bicycles and Wheelchairs. Both forms of transport liberation are very ecological and do not harm the planet.
The music was released in 1936 by Mr Louis Armstrong and his Orchestra, it is titled “Mahogany Hall Stomp” (Williams, Bregman).
Other slightly different versions:-
Bicycles and Wheelchairs: A short history (Definitive Version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFeJFnI6yWI
Bicycles and Wheelchairs: A short history (Definitive Version)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3897273680838381148
If you are interested in further information
about the history of people with impairments
Disability History Studies
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/disabilitystudies/
Disabled Peoples Video History Group
To collect Disabled Peoples History throughout the world. Includes history of aids and similar technology.
http://www.youtube.com/group/DisabledPeoplesHisto
I would welcome any positive suggestions.
Please rate the video and add your comment. Thank you.
The oldest known European visual representation of a wheelchair comes from a woodcut by Hans Weiditz. It is dated 1531 and was published in Augsburg, Bavaria (now in modern Germany).
The first recorded use of a wheelchair in England was on January the 11th, 1672, when John Evelyn, a diarist contemporary of the notable Samuel Pepys, commented in his own diary on Lord Aubignie’s “wheele-chaire”.
John Evelyn, recorded in his entry of 11th of January, 1662 that:
“I dined this day at Arundell-house, where I heard excellent Musique, perform’d by the ablest Masters both French & Eng, on Theorba, Viols, Organs & Voices as an Exercise against the comming of the Queene, as purposly composd for her chapell &c: After which my Lord Aubignie (her Majesties Almoner to be) shewed us his elegant Lodging;& his wheele-chaire for Ease & motion, with divers other Curiosities,…….”
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Stephan Farfler
After his death, Farfler’s vehicle went to the Municipal Library in Nuremberg, it later became the victim of allied bombs in January 1945.
Source:-
History of wheelchairs
Kamenetz, Herman L., (1969) ‘The Wheelchair Book: Mobility for the Disabled’
Charles C Thomas Pub Ltd.
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Wednesday Nov 12, 2008
Travel with a wheelchair in Thailand is not impossible and a lot of fun. Misch is a german Wheelchair user who is travelling arround the world in his wheelchair. RollOn Travel can help you to arrange a wheelchair tour to Thailand.
Reisen mit dem Rollstuhl in Thailand sind nicht unmöglich. Mitsch Schreiner reist seit vielen Jahren alleine mit dem Rollstuhl um die Welt. RollOn Travel kann auch Ihnen helfen eine Rollstuhl Reise nach Thailand zu organisieren.
www.rollontravel.com www.rollontravel.de www.accessible-asia.com www.thailand-fieber.de www.rollontravel.de www.rolli.info www.volkerposselt.de
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