BE2 (Blog entry number 2)
Today's entry :
How To Productively Watch TV
Short Story:
Have a PC with you as you watch TV and look up people or things as you see them on TV. You will learn a lot more than if you just watched the TV only.
Long Story:
While watching TV, have your laptop (or any "PC") right next to you. When something or someone of interest is on the TV, go to http://www.answers.com/ (or your favorite lookup site) and immediately look at the topic of interest.
My mornings are usually started by drinking a cup of coffee while watching the news. I watch some local news, German news, and the Russian news,-all broadcast in English.
The international news sources are very informative and like local news, have supporting web sites. The German web site is (http://www.dw-world.de/) and the Russian site is (http://russiatoday.com/).
These web sites are wonderful. They allow you to get more information on a story, or forward a story link to people you think should know. For example, this week I forwarded an inspiring story http://russiatoday.com/features/news/26704 about a farm they have for disabled people:
Disabled thrive on farm work
"A group of people with special needs have moved to a remote village in the Leningrad region, and made it their home. They work alongside local residents, doing tasks they thought they would never be able to perform. The sort of people who came to live in the isolated village of Svetlana are usually termed as having special needs, but they actually don't need very much. In the sleepy Russian hamlet, 17 disabled people aged between 18 and 54 have found a new home living and working alongside the residents..."
The article ends saying there is really a need for public awareness as we need to create many more facilities similar to this one.
OK, the real premise of this Blog entry now appears!
While watching the Russian News they interviewed Igor Larionov, a former Soviet Hockey player. I didn't know anything about him so I had to make a trip to answers.com The link (http://www.answers.com/Igor%20Larionov) brought back a story of an extraordinary person. After some huge efforts, he won freedoms for the Soviet hockey players that allowed them to play in the NHL. These poor guys had hardships including being stuck in the barracks for up to 11 months of the year -even if married. [For details on this, please see (http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/winter02/hockey/story?id=1326249)]
Besides working tirelessly for the player's freedom, he was one of the world's best hockey players of all time.
This lesson of using the PC while watching TV has been useful to me and hopefully you will find it of value too.
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