My Work in Theatre Tell me about your occupation. I work as an engineer in the theater. We have a team of seven people. Our workplace is an instrument room filled with different equipment. First of all there are different projectors, servers, lighting consols, splitters, converters of video signal etc. Our team takes care about our equipment to work correctly as from the inside as outside. What does it mean? Before each performance we have to check each projector that it works correctly, that it has clean lenses, has no any warning messages, appropriate cooling liquid pressure etc. From the outside we must to check focus, convergence, power cords and sources, to check that signals comes from servers to projectors etc. Before each new performance we calculate how many projectors do we need, where it should be placed, configure servers and other equipment. There is one main difference bettween our work and work in the cinema. We have no screens as we usually used to think about screen in the cinema (a big white flat surface with presice borders). And in cinema there is one central point opposide the screen where projector be placed at. In theatre we have to project from any point to any surface. It might be a wall, a cloth, a theater scenery, a floor or even artificial facade of building. I love me interesting and hard job.

My ex colleagues.. I want to tell you about interesting people that I know. Some time ago I worked with two very ambitious man that very impressed me. One of them is very reasonable and reliable, I never saw him cheeky or bad tempered. He is brilliant at analog cinema technologies and has an absolute ear for music. He has excellent sence of humor and he always told us hillarious stories and new jokes. He is humble man and have no succes among woman. He is confirmed bachelor and he often told me that he was very lonely. Other person is totally different. He is bad tempered and arrogant. He even cant orginize himself. He is very rich and therefore is very busy. He has a wife that always helps him and manages his schedule. If you speak a little with her it become clear that she is very jelous. He becomes irritable when she see his husband speaking with other girls. But I am not envious of her, I personally could not live as a free application to her famous husband. He is mean. He often forgot to pay to his partners and salary to his workers. By the way to be honest is important in our narrow sphere. But he is good engineer, educated and brilliant at digital cinema technologies. They are partners and summed their talentes and forces. They both are very stubborn thats why have an succes. They are strong and courageous. When I was working with them I was ashaimed of having lower knowleges. Its company have a good reputation and is considered as reliable. They use only reliable equipment. It's so sad that I am not working now with them..

battery of server We have a message of warning in server Doremi. In log files this warning appeared 12 of January at the first time. Here is information from logfiles: "...This unit Secure Clock Battery Replacement status is in Warning because there is less than 365 days before the Secure Clock Battery Replacement due date." What does it mean? How much time we have before replacement of battery should be done? Must we replace the battery as soon as posible or we have 365 days from the date of 12 Jan for normal work without functionality loss of server? Is this case covered by warranty? What battery exactly we should replace, is it placed in the motherboard or in the mediablock (from autor its a part of server)?

So many questions... So many questions appears when one morning you understand that you will move to live to the other city for a long tiime. Except things relative for looking a new habitation or bying the tickets to the train there are many things no related directly with moving. For example. Whole year you was going to visit a dental doctor but each time there was no courage to do it. But now it is time. Other example. The winter boots are weared out and you can't take it, you must buy a new boots. And you are going to do it. And visit a hairdresser, leave from the work, visit your friends and your family before leaving, to think about a telefone's tariff change... After all of this, my new friends in new city ask me when I was in cinema at the last time? What I have to answer him?

Where was disappearing the snow? This year in my town a snow fell in the second half of January. It is very strange because in our climate a snow usually fall in november or in the extreme case in december. At least New Year we always met with the snow in the streets. Also is widely known that this year will occur the winter olympiad at the South of my country. There is the cost of the sea and the climate is enough soft and warm. And appeared the new joke which is relate with that facts. Peoples have assumed that snow is really fell during the night but before dawn him brought and transported to the South for needs of Olympiad. It is a reason why each morning we woke and couldn't see the snow...

A dónde desaparecía la nieve? Este año en mi ciudad la nieve ha caido en segunda mitad de enero. Es extraño para nuestro clima porque vivimos en el norte y habitualmente la nieve cae el mes de noviembre, o en casos extremos el diciembre. Por lo menos El Año Nuevo siempre encontrabamos con la nieve en las calles. También es bien conocido el hecho que este año pasará olimpíada de invierno en el sur de mi país. Allá es la costa del mar y el clima es bastante suave y caliente. Y apareció una broma relacionada con estos hechos. La gente ha supuesto que en realidad en el norte del país la nieve cae durante la noche pero antes del amanecer la recogen para transportar al sur para necesidades de olimpíada))) Y por eso al despertar y al mirar a la ventana cada mañana de nuevo no veíamos la nieve...

I have a friend I have a friend. We met at the work. At first we were sustaining each other bad. I was his chief and sometimes I had to correct his actions. In turn he didn't like it. Sometimes I had to raise a voice. Also I was understanding bad his pronunciation what increased misunderstanding. But later situation was changed. We were fond of technologies and it pulled us together. We liked to repair the equipment together. Slowly I got used to his pronunciation. Now he changed the job but we continue the communication and exchange of experience. I have friend and it is a good news!

Tengo un amigo Tengo un amigo. Nos hemos encontrado en el trabajo. Primeramente nos soportabamos mal. Yo fue su jefe y a veces tenía que corregir sus acciones. De su parte a él no se lo gustaba. A veces yo tenía que hablar con alta voz. Además yo entendía mal su pronunciación que sólo aumentaba la incomprensión. Más tarde la situación se cambió. Nos aficionabamos de tecnologias que nos ha sido cercanos. A nosotros nos gustaba reparar el equipo juntos. Poco a poco he acostumbrado de su pronunciación. Ahora él cambió el trabajo pero continuamos la comunicación y intercambio de la experiencia. Tengo un amigo y eso es muy buena noticia!

The last news from Russia The government will pay for the education of the russian students in foreign higher education institutions. The student must to enter a university by yourself. The obligatory condition consist in the return to the native country after termination of education and work there during three years in the speciality. Otherwise students will have to return the payment which was paid for them by the state.