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WHAT I LEARNT THIS MONTH Liz Kentish
Holidays, hey, who needs them? Especially when you’re busy trying to get everything done. There are never enough hours in the day anyway, so taking a break is really going to put you behind. I hear and see this happening to many people who I know and work with.
The reason that I book weekend breaks and holidays months in advance is that if I didn’t then I too would get caught up in that downward work spiral. I’d be too busy to have clear thinking time and too late to book a holiday because my diary told me that I couldn’t.
Our practice of getting breaks in the diary was reinforced when we went to the south of France a few weeks ago. Leading up to the holiday was frantic and the thought did cross my mind that our going away had come at the wrong time. But when you have your own business is there ever a right time? The answer is that there is only ‘a’ time.
Rattling round the beautiful French countryside helped to clear my mind. Without even thinking about work, solutions to ongoing business concerns seem to spring out of nowhere – as if clearing out the clutter in your brain allows new ideas to filter in. One minute your focus is on the menu in a restaurant and the next moment a fix for a problem drifts into your mind between the starter and the main course...
So what have I learned? That I need to get onto the holiday websites and get our next break in the diary!
www.tomorrowsfm.com
UPGRADE FOR NAVY TRAINING AT HMS
COLLINGWOOD Located at Fareham in Hampshire, HMS Collingwood is the Royal Navy's largest training establishment. The school provides training over a vast range of disciplines, using two identical Consort ship bridge simulators to deliver mission realism and a seamless transition from daytime to night-time operational scenarios.
After ten years of impeccable service from its Christie Matrix 3000 DLP platform, the school has now moved onto its second generation of Christie projectors to drive the bridge simulators at the Maritime Warfare School (MWS) and Surface Stream.
Saville Audio Visual was contracted to upgrade the visual systems, and duly specified twenty of the Christie DS+6K-M projectors: nine deployed on each bridge, with two spares. Saville partner Softbox (SBL) undertook project management, at the same time upgrading the cabling infrastructure to DVI fibre and the connectivity from Serial to USB for the 64 PC workstations.
The most compact in its class, the high-performance Christie M Series features embedded warping, blending and colour matching capabilities with SXGA+ resolution and 6300 lumens output. The blended images are displayed on a cylindrical wall offering a 270° (9 x 30°) horizontal field of view.
According to Bridge Simulator Manager, David Goddard, it was entirely logical to remain with a brand they could trust and a system integrator in Saville Audio Visual that was completely familiar with the environment, having been retained under a service agreement.
“We saw this as a low-risk option,” he explained. “The support aspect was important but we knew from experience that the Christie projectors were extremely reliable, and it was reassuring to know that we were dealing with an installation team that knew the system.”
As HMS Collingwood operates to 90%-plus of its capacity from 8am until 11pm five days-a-week, racking up 2,500 projection hours per year, they also needed to be convinced that their chosen projector could perform over these arduous duty cycles. The decision, he said, has been entirely vindicated. “We could see immediately that the projectors were brighter and much sharper. With the screens painted pale grey rather than white, it gives us improved depth of field and a better 3D effect — since it can be very difficult to judge distances accurately in a simulator.”
Summing up, David Goddard said he is delighted with the integration. “The switch-over has been entirely seamless, and there have been no issues with the projectors whatsoever,” he concluded.
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