Showing posts with label ADVENTURES. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ADVENTURES. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
WALMART'S CRAZY RETURN POLICY
I have a grip about Walmart. They don't accept returns on books or magazine after 24 hours plus you have to have your receipt. I bought a book in Oxford which I thought I could read with my 5x magnifier but the pages were tinted on the edges. I went to return it without knowing their policies. I asked "How would I know about the 24 hours. It's not posted anywhere". I explained that if I went to look for the receipt I might not be able to return the same day since I don't drive. I got no sympathy. So I called my son who was home to look in my suitcase and bags from the trip. He did find it and brought it to me. It wasn't the money but the principle of the policy. I wouldn't read something and return it for credit. I did notice the associate looking at the binder to see if I read it. Most trips I make to the store result in an item having to be returned. I often pick up the wrong item.
Saturday, February 11, 2012
VISION IMPAIRED KIDS RADIO SPACE STATION
For the first time ever, blind and low-vision children got to find out what it’s like up in Space recently.
At Vision Australia Enfield,12 lucky children got to talk to the on-orbit crew at the International Space Station, through a live radio transmission.
It’s a world first for the crew to have spoken with a disability group.
Lilian Wang, 11, wanted to know what stops you and your pillows floating away when you go to bed.
Meanwhile her friend Mia Armsworth, who lost her central vision to an eye condition called macular atrophy, was more interested in knowing what the astronauts do on a normal day in the space station.
This worldwide educational project is made possible by ARISS (Amateur Radio on International Space Station).
National coordinator Paul Paradigm said the children had a general interest in wanting to know about what’s going on up there.
“It’s to give these children an opportunity that most others don’t get,” Mr Paradigm said.
“The purpose was to encourage young people to become interested in science, mathematics and technology.
“Over the last 20 years there’s been a decline in young people being interested in this technology,” he said.
Stationed high above us
■ The International Space Station is the biggest object ever flown in space
■ It travels around the Earth at an average speed of 27,700 km/h, completing 16 orbits per day
■ At night it can easily be seen from Earth, as it flies 320km above us
At Vision Australia Enfield,12 lucky children got to talk to the on-orbit crew at the International Space Station, through a live radio transmission.
It’s a world first for the crew to have spoken with a disability group.
Lilian Wang, 11, wanted to know what stops you and your pillows floating away when you go to bed.
Meanwhile her friend Mia Armsworth, who lost her central vision to an eye condition called macular atrophy, was more interested in knowing what the astronauts do on a normal day in the space station.
This worldwide educational project is made possible by ARISS (Amateur Radio on International Space Station).
National coordinator Paul Paradigm said the children had a general interest in wanting to know about what’s going on up there.
“It’s to give these children an opportunity that most others don’t get,” Mr Paradigm said.
“The purpose was to encourage young people to become interested in science, mathematics and technology.
“Over the last 20 years there’s been a decline in young people being interested in this technology,” he said.
Stationed high above us
■ The International Space Station is the biggest object ever flown in space
■ It travels around the Earth at an average speed of 27,700 km/h, completing 16 orbits per day
■ At night it can easily be seen from Earth, as it flies 320km above us
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