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Two massive American mergers in under five years have transformed what used to be the UK's Hammonds into a global mega firm...
What's in a name?
"We've had four name changes since I applied here," pointed out several second-years, nearing the end of their training contracts during our calls. They'd applied to Hammonds, a mid-sized UK firm with offices in Leeds, Birmingham, Manchester and London, plus a sprinkling abroad. They'd joined Squire Sanders Hammonds, thanks to the 2011 merger with huge American firm Squire Sanders, headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. The Hammonds name soon disappeared from the masthead. Then, in May 2014, Squire Sanders agreed to merge with another big US law firm, Washington, DC-based Patton Boggs, known especially for its political lobbying and Middle Eastern practices. Squire Patton Boggs was born. In July, yet another merger, though this time on a much smaller scale, boosted SPB's presence in Tokyo.
All this begs the million-dollar question: is the firm today very different to the one its trainees thought they were joining? "Yes and no," was the verdict. One grasped the nettle with both hands by telling us: "I worried! I'd applied to Hammonds because it was a smaller, European-focused firm with some international offices. I wanted a more collegiate, less international firm. But my fears haven't materialised." Others also gave the thumbs-up: "They have focused on keeping the culture steady. The managing partner has maintained a UK LLP independent spirit." Squire Sanders had a London office for some time before merging with Hammonds, so it wasn't as if our transatlantic cousins suddenly pitched up out of nowhere, interviewees stressed. On the whole, they hadn't experienced gulp-inducing shifts in culture or the nature of their work, but viewed their firm's vastly expanded international network as "mutually beneficial" as it opens up "more access to work" – especially for those "in departments like corporate and banking." For others on the ground in London and the regions "there hasn't been a much greater international element than we would have had anyway with Hammonds."
Second(ment) nature
So, on to future trainees. Two interesting things distinguish Squire Patton Boggs: the fast-track LPC at BPP Law School followed by a three-month client secondment before the training contract begins, and a three-week trainee induction in Leeds when it starts. Pre-TC client secondments – options include concerts and ticketing giant Live Nation –"give you a bit of a head start. It's good to get into the office environment before starting, and it had been a couple of years since they'd interviewed us. There were lots of opportunities to talk to partners for my particular client, and you get an insight into what clients want." Next, first-years from all four offices live together in a Leeds hotel for their three induction weeks – a heady mix of "getting most of the PSC out of the way," team-building activities (like making clothes from piles of rubbish for a fashion show), introductions to essentials like IT and research services, social outings (eg a cinema night), and dinners galore. "It's great to get to know people," interviewees reported. "They can be your gateway in future if you need to pick up the phone to other offices." Various big hitters like office heads turn up to some events, while others are strictly for trainees only. We can only pray that the 'retro sports day' was restricted to newbies – the spectacle of sweaty partners bouncing around in sacks or racing with eggs on spoons is too mind-boggling for us to imagine.
Trainees loved doing more, shorter seats (the firm runs a six-seat programme) as they "give you as much exposure as possible." But sources acknowledged the potential downside that you "might not get to see things through" on longer assignments, as you have to up sticks to the next department. There are lots of seat options in each office, and some vary according to when there is or isn't a need in a particular team for a trainee.
Corporate is "big nationwide and globally" (though "not so big in Manchester," where "real estate is the engine, though it all works together a lot, as some is corporate support work"). The "bread and butter is M&A, private acquisitions and private equity. The remainder is public company work, and there are some big international clients." A "baptism of fire," corporate is "one of the seats where quite a lot is expected of you" time-wise ("a few late nights"), but it also provides "some of the juiciest, big-value deals." Another "worked with the London office on some big cross-border deals. Trainees get involved and run smaller aspects, like the disclosure process. They will give you a certain amount of trust if you show you're capable." UK transactions are typically mid-market: "£5m or £6m to several hundred million" in value. One fairly recent highlight was advising on the UK aspects of US billionaire Shahid Khan's acquisition of Fulham Football Club from Mohamed Al Fayed (a deal which also involved US and Bermuda jurisdictions).
"There's always a bit of grunt work in transactional departments," a source reflected. The financial services team is no different, although people praised responsibility levels here too. "A partner came into my office and said 'look I'll supervise you, but this is yours'." Long hours are inevitable as deals head for closure, but so is "champagne all over the place" when they do complete. Trainees often find themselves working with colleagues in other offices, as clients include large banks on "chunky deals," and there's "a lot of cross-referral" from and to other departments like real estate. For example, lawyers from both teams acted for Lloyds Bank in a large-scale portfolio refinancing by IM Properties (one of the UK's largest privately-owned property companies).
Real estate teams at law firms around the world took a battering during the Great Recession. Here, "it's picked up outrageously well. Lots of recruiters are on the phone to people interested in real estate roles, and for the first time in six years there's a dearth of candidates for jobs," one trainee glowed. The group has been busy for some very large and impressive clients, notably multisite retailers, public bodies (like councils), developers, charities, financiers, even the National Grid. "This was a seat and a half, I can tell you! I think I forgot I was a trainee in this seat. It was 'here is the file, there you go – over to you'." There's plenty of work to do on "huge lease portfolios" and "massive refinancing deals," among other things. Clients include Cancer Research UK, TfL, Birmingham City Council, and jewellery retailer Signet. "I ran small files by myself and helped on large transactions as part of the team," said one source. Aiding ongoing regeneration in Liverpool, SPB recently advised investors (supported by a government grant) backing the development of the decades-empty iconic Royal Insurance Building into a trendy hotel (not to be confused with the famous Royal Liver Building, which looks pretty similar but is still very much functioning).
The highly regarded pensions team often appeals to trainees not (necessarily) because of the inherent fascinating-ness of all things pensions per se, but because it provides a good opportunity to experience some black-letter law, and "mash your brain." In four months "you don't have the time to learn all the depth and breath of pensions law, so trainees have more of an assisting role." Another source said: "Pensions sounds boring but this couldn't be further than the truth. It has truly lovely people, self-confessed geeks, who are very social." Lawyers often act for trustees of pension schemes, for example "drafting deeds of appointment and termination, monitoring a piece of legislation, and updating people if there are any changes." Clients include the Trustees of the ICI Pension Fund, the Norfolk Pension Fund, and the trustees of two schemes sponsored by Thames Water.
Far from boggs standard
In litigation, "right from the get-go I had high responsibility, running my own files from beginning to end." A colleague found it was "the epitome of what you think a lawyer is supposed to be – running into court at the last minute with documents." Among other things, the department is doing a lot of high-volume PPI (payment protection insurance) claims, acting for the banks. Over in property litigation, people are similarly "incredibly busy," dealing with "hundreds of properties at any one time," often lease renewal claims acting for clients of the real estate team like Cancer Research UK and Signet. Again, "high-volume work" means good responsibility in the form of "lots of client contact by phone, calling into court every day, and filing claims." Other areas of dispute resolution specialisms include environmental (such as fracking), and health and safety defence work for companies when an employee has been injured at work (or worse). But for one source, the main benefit of their contentious seat was that "I came out knowing that I didn't want to be a litigious lawyer. You either are or you aren't. I'm not." Litigation clients include European football governing body UEFA, Chelsea FC, ABN AMRO, and a very large public company, which is being advised on a very big cross-border matter (sorry, we can't be any more specific than that as it's ongoing).
Trainees "really enjoyed" their time in labour and employment, describing it as "an incredible team, really enthusiastic," which provides "good commercial training" as it does work that's very "contracts-based." Clients include advertising and PR giant WPP, Investec Bank, US Airways, and hotels group Marriott. In Leeds, SPB has long-standing relationships with (and provides all their employment work for) FTSE 100 companies Tesco, Amec and Smith & Nephew. For these large clients, trainees may get "decent client contact by phone" getting stuck into volume-driven work, which can include anything from a "straightforward misconduct case" to "litigation around holiday pay." Other clients include Greggs, TM Lewin and Rolex. More seat options include IP, which is "mostly non-contentious;" regulatory; tax; and restructuring and insolvency, "a mix of litigious and non-litigious work." Restructuring can see some huge cases and be "very document-heavy," but also opportunities to meet clients, and take and draft witness statements.
Client secondments are particularly popular among London trainees, though some in all four UK offices do them, usually in their second or third seat. Current options include Tesco and Live Nation. They typically learn what will be coming up during their mid-seat review. Two overseas seats are also available, in Paris and Brussels, the latter being slightly more competitive because it is an English-speaking office. Hong Kong and Madrid used to be options too but aren't any more (Madrid owing to regulatory changes there), and given the firm's recent global expansion it will be interesting to keep an eye on developments to see if any other overseas destinations become offered in the future. We've already heard of a trainee being sent to Riyadh, and one to Sydney, in the past year; you can bet your bottom dollar that similar ad hoc postings will follow, when needed.
The Leeds office is "about to get refurbished," but gossiping trainees didn't know any details apart from believing that the "traditional layout" of external offices around a bank of secretaries and paralegals will be preserved. Popular trainee watering holes in Leeds' new Trinity mall are The Alchemist, and The Botanist –"one of the places we have drinks during induction" – as well as "poncy wine bar" Angelica. "A lot of support services are based in Leeds too, so it's a very important office," one source here was keen to emphasize. Manchester trainees chill out when they can in the city's huge Spinningfields development, which featured in the BBC documentary Restaurant Wars, as well as the Ape & Apple and Restaurant Bar & Grill next to the office on John Dalton Street. In Birmingham, Metro is the property team's preferred hangout, while trainees here also visit Utopia, and Asha's (for award-winning Indian cuisine), among other destinations. The "pretty flashy" London office, near Liverpool Street Station, has had dollars spent on it recently, we heard, and boasts a top terrace. The Magpie, and Devonshire Terrace, are popular nearby pubs – though we heartily recommend a trip up the road to the American-themed Diner in Shoreditch to make those visiting US colleagues feel at home.
And finally...
20 out of 26 NQs stayed with the firm.
How to get a Squire Patton Boggs training contract
Vacation scheme deadline: 31 January 2015
Training contract deadline: 31 July 2015
Applications and assessments
Squire Patton Boggs' academic criteria are a minimum 300 UCAS points and 2:1 in any degree. Applicants – both those aiming for a vacation scheme place and those gunning directly for a training contract – who impress on paper go on to attend an assessment day, which normally lasts for two days. This starts with a welcome from HR, trainees and partners about the firm and the training contract.
The day also involves an interview with two partners, a group exercise and a mini-seat in a single department. There are lots of opportunities for questions and networking throughout to get a real sense of the firm. From here the firm makes its vacation scheme offers and, later, its training contract offers.
The firm plans to offer more than 30 training contracts for the 2015 application round. In a given year it usually receives around 1,350 applications.
Vacation scheme
Vacation scheme placements are available at all of Squire Patton Boggs' UK offices and last two weeks. There are around 40 places available in total. Attendees sit in two departments over the course of their visit and get to offer preferences on these beforehand. They typically do live work, occasionally attend meetings with partners, and have the opportunity to ask questions to senior figures (like office heads and trainee supervisors) during various forums.
There are social events to get involved with too, such as drinks outings, a day at the dogs and quiz nights.
As with vac schemes anywhere, don't forget that you'll be on show at all times. No need to get paranoid, but remember to show yourself off at your best whenever you can. For example, if the trainee you're working with is working late, stay with them, or at the very least ask if there's anything else you can help them with before you head home that evening.
Vac schemers have an interview during the second week of the scheme, along with a group exercise and individual pitch presentation.
How to wow
According to head of graduate recruitment Richard Morton, "we're looking for character and individuality. Everyone's very bright. Roughly half of our trainees got Firsts, but that's not the be-all and end-all. We want to see your personality shining off the page of your application." That said, he's quick to add that you shouldn't come across as "wacky or anything ludicrous like that."
Of the interview, Morton has this to say: "Candidates are so well drilled these days. I will ask people questions – proper, difficult questions. Some say 'I can't answer that'. I reply, 'yes you can. Think!'" One such question he's asked in the past is 'Without using your hands, describe how to do the butterfly swimming stroke'. "We don't learn anything by asking things like 'Why do you want to become a lawyer?' We don't want to hear the stock answers they just gave to another firm."
The firm will, however, ask why you want to join Squire Patton Boggs. Morton cautions against trotting off "'because I want to join a big international firm'. That tells us nothing."
He goes on to say: "Everyone always says we're friendly and open, but one of the things that attracts trainees to us is we do recruiting in a very personal way. They're not just numbers. I personally call people to tell them they've got a job or haven't. I attend universities. We do take an interest." Indeed, following the 2014 summer vac scheme, "I called students personally, then texted them, then asked a trainee to get in touch saying 'call us if you have any questions'," he says. "No other firm is doing this. We want to provide support and answer any questions they may have as they're going through university."
Pre-training contract client secondments
Something that sets Squire Patton Boggs apart from other firms is the the three-month pre-training contract client secondments it requires of its incoming trainees. "It requires an awful lot of confidence from us to put them before clients before they've even started working us," Morton admits. "We have that confidence in them because we spent a lot of time getting to know them."
So who exactly is (or rather was) Patton Boggs?
Our sister student guide for American law students, Chambers Associate, interviewed lots of junior Patton Boggs lawyers as well as its top management earlier this year for the latest edition, which launched in June. While the guide was at the printers, Squire Sanders and Patton Boggs announced their merger. You can read what we wrote about Patton Boggs (and while you're at it, take a look at our write-up of Squire Sanders in the US).
In a nutshell, Patton Boggs was one of America's biggest and most prestigious law firms, known especially for it top notch Washington, DC political lobbying practice (and lots of other government-related work). It's long had a strong Middle East practice, and does a wide range of other transactional and litigation work besides.
Movers and shakers of the DC political scene at the firm have included the late Tommy Boggs himself (who passed away in September 2014), Nick Allard (who since 2012 has also been Dean of Brooklyn Law School) and, until fairly recently, Ben Ginsberg, a stalwart of the Republican movement who was presidential candidate Mitt Romney's campaign lawyer. You can read our personal "5 Minutes With" interview with him here.
Note that we said Ben Ginsberg was here 'until fairly recently' – he was one of several prominent partners who left the firm around the time of the merger with Squire Sanders. In the months before the merger was announced, Patton Boggs' future was the subject of much speculation in the legal press. It had experienced a tricky 2013, with two large rounds of redundancies in that year alone. The firm had also been embroiled in long-running, costly litigation with oil giant Chevron over pollution in Ecuador (Patton Boggs was playing David to Chevron's Goliath, on the side of indigenous tribes whose lives were wrecked by the mighty corporation). This troublesome case finally settled in May 2014 – read about it here. With this obstacle finally out of the way, the path was clear for the merger.
Graduate recruitment partner Richard Morton tells us that the "importance of the merger with Patton Boggs is immeasurable." He highlights exciting additions to Squire Sanders' business including a "much bigger platform in Washington, DC," increased access to Texas through Patton Boggs' offices there ("we're now incredibly powerful in oil and gas"), and a much-strengthened presence in the Middle East, where there is obviously oil money galore and "lots of work for sovereign funds."
So, he concludes, "from the US perspective it's a real game changer." UK lawyers can expect a slice of the action too whenever they're needed to advise on the UK aspects of international deals (or contentious matters, for that matter). And such cross-border work is not restricted to those who work in the capital, as Morton emphasises: "Lots of international work is done from UK offices outside London."
Squire Patton Boggs
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- Assistant Solicitors 1500
- Total Trainees 40
- Contact Graduate Recruitment Team
- Email email@example.com
- Method of application Online application form
- Selection procedure Assessment and interview
- Closing date for 2017 31 July 2015
- Application
- Training contracts p.a. 20
- Applications p.a. 1,500
- % interviewed p.a. 10%
- Required degree grade 2:1
- Training Salary
- 1st year (2014) £23,500 regional £35,000 London
- 2nd year (2014) £26,000 regional £37,000 London
- Holiday entitlement 25 days
- % of trainees with a non-law degree p.a. 30%
- No. of seats available abroad p.a. 6
- Post-qualification
- Salary (2014) London £58,000 Other £37,000
- % of trainees accepting job on qualification (2014) 80%
- Overseas offices Squire Patton Boggs Legal Counsel World Wide has offi ces in the USA, South America, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. For a complete list of our offi ces, please visit our website.
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Top car manufacturers Maruti Suzuki, Hyundai Motor, Honda Siel & Toyota Kirloskar expect 15-20% jump in sales
October 5, 2011
Chanchal Pal Chauhan , ET Bureau
NEW DELHI: The Indian car market has come back to life with customers thronging showrooms to check out new models and special discounts since the end of shradh—a period most people in northern India consider inauspicious for shopping. Top car manufacturers such as Maruti Suzuki, Hyundai Motor, Honda Siel and Toyota Kirloskar say they expect 15%-20% increase in sales during the festival season as new car launches, aggressive pricing and discounts and stable loan interest rates revive consumer interest after a dull start to the fiscal year.
Maruti Suzuki, Tata Motors, Hyundai Motor slash output in festive season
September 21, 2011
Ketan Thakkar & Chanchal Pal Chauhan , ET Bureau
MUMBAI | DELHI: Carmakers have slashed production during the festival season for the first time in a decade as rising interest rates and fuel prices have led to a pileup of unsold vehicles. While the domestic auto industry raced to a growth of more than 30% during September-October last year, the expectations are muted this time round as demand is slowing down in the auto sector, reflecting and exacerbating the larger economic malaise. Three of the largest carmakers - Maruti Suzuki, Tata Motors , Hyundai Motor - have scaled down production, top component suppliers told ET. Departing from its usual practice of ramping up production during the festival season, the country's leading carmaker Maruti Suzuki has cut production by 10-20% depending on the models.
Suzuki Motor cuts ties with Volkswagen over Fiat spat
September 13, 2011
TOKYO: Suzuki Motor will seek to dissolve its 20-month-old alliance with Volkswagen after the German carmaker's 222.5 billion yen ($2.9 billion) investment failed to yield a single project. The Japanese automaker, which owns 1.49% of Volkswagen, plans to sell its holdings if Volkswagen agrees to end the tie-up, the company said in a statement to the Tokyo Stock Exchange. The Wolfsburg, Germany-based carmaker owns 19.9% of Suzuki, according to Bloomberg data. Suzuki will seek to end the pact with Volkswagen, even if the German automaker wants to maintain it, Chairman Osamu Suzuki said on Monday in Tokyo.
Suzuki Motor Chairman Osamu Suzuki rules out compromise with striking workers
September 10, 2011
ET Bureau
NEW DELHI: Suzuki Motor Corp, the parent of Maruti Suzuki, has supported the stand of the Indian management over the ongoing agitation at the company's Manesar plant, ruling out any compromise with striking workers. "Indiscipline will not be not tolerated... not in Japan, not in India. It is never in the interest of any company and its people," SMC chairman Osamu Suzuki told representatives of Maruti Udyog Kamgar Union, the company's elected workers union. Production at Maruti's Manesar plant has been severely affected since August 29 after workers went on a strike following a management directive asking them to sign a good conduct bond.
Public issues over operational factors threaten to unravel Volkswagen-Suzuki Motor Corp alliance
September 7, 2011
TOKYO/BERLIN: A tiff that started over Volkswagen AG's description of Suzuki Motor Corp in its annual report has escalated into a spat threatening to unravel the two automakers' planned alliance before the partnership ever gets going. "Volkswagen is not talking to us," Osamu Suzuki, the Hamamatsu City, Japan-based company's chairman, said in an interview. "We have no plans to talk to them. " The downward spiral began in March when VW said in the report that it could "significantly influence financial and operating policy decisions" at Suzuki, describing the Japanese company as an "associate".
Suzuki Motor Q3 op profit up 31 pct, keeps forecast
February 7, 2011
TOKYO: Suzuki Motor Corp , Japan's No.4 automaker, posted a 31 percent rise in quarterly profit on Monday on brisk sales in Asia , but stuck to its conservative forecasts as competition intensifies in its key Indian market. Suzuki has enjoyed robust earnings growth compared with most domestic rivals thanks to its limited exposure to the stronger yen and heavy weighting in India, where majority-held unit Maruti Suzuki India Ltd sells every other car. But falling margins in India due to rising raw materials prices and a slowdown in the country's car market have weighed on Suzuki's shares, which have been the worst performer among Japanese auto stocks in the past three months.
Suzuki Motor Corp plans to make India an export hub
November 30, 2010
NEW DELHI: Japanese auto giant Suzuki Motor Corporation (SMC) on Tuesday said it plans to make India an export hub for its small cars, mainly for European and African markets. "For Europe, Africa and West Asia (Middle East), we are looking at India as an export hub," SMC Chairman Osamu Suzuki said at the Nikkei Business Summit here. He said the country's infrastructure needs to be developed in order to make India an exports hub. "As we want to use India as an export hub, ports are very important.
Suzuki shares soar on production shift report
October 6, 2010
TOKYO: Shares in Japan's Suzuki Motor soared nearly five percent Wednesday after a newspaper report that it plans to shift part of its engine production abroad due to the strong yen. The automaker gained 4.91 percent to 1,945 yen in the afternoon, boosted by the report in the Asahi Shimbun. However, Suzuki denied the story, saying it had no plans to reduce its annual production of 800,000 engines for vehicles assembled at factories in Japan for domestic sales and exports.
Over-dependence on Suzuki proving costly for Maruti
July 26, 2010
Krishna Kant , ET Bureau
The over-dependence on its Japanese parent for launching Maruti Suzuki also bore the brunt of the 2% hike in excise duty in the last budget and its indirect outgo was up 51% during the period, much faster than the 25% YoY increase in sales volumes. The duty burden was up 21% to '32,818 per unit and was only partially compensated by a 1.6% increase in net sales realisation during the period. The future looks equally challenging for company, given its RTF commitments, the possibility of a further rise in metal prices and its capex.
Maruti Suzuki, Tata Motors top auto bets for Macquarie
June 2, 2010
ET Bureau
MUMBAI: Macquarie Equity Research is of the view that most auto companies reported decent sales figures for the month of May. Going forward, it expects industry giants like Tata Motors and Maruti Suzuki benefiting the most amongst other auto companies. "While a normal monsoon season should support strong retail demand, we believe that overall volume growth will slow in FY11 as the pent-up demand effect wears off. Improving consumer sentiment, an increase in finance penetration and an overall recovery in the economy should benefit commercial and passenger vehicle sales.
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A cross point resistive memory array has a first array of cells arranged generally in a plane. Each of the memory cells includes a memory storage element and is coupled to a diode. The diode junction extends transversely to the plane of the array of memory cells.
1. A magnetic memory cell comprising:
a magnetic storage element, the magnetic storage element having a plurality of layers including a first magnetoresistive layer and a second magnetoresistive layer and a non-magnetic material layer therebetween;
a current control element coupled to the magnetic storage element to control current flow therethrough, the current control element including a first region of material of a first conductive type and a second region of material of a second conductive type and defining a junction therebetween, wherein the junction extends transversely to each of the layers in the magnetic storage element; and
wherein the first region of the current control element is in the form of a core and the second region is in the form of a circumferential layer formed on the core, wherein the first and second regions form a pillar structure wherein the pillar structure is disposed within a first conductor line such that the first conductor line surrounds the sides of the pillar structure.
2. The magnetic memory cell as claimed in
3. The magnetic memory cell of
4. The magnetic memory cell of
5. The magnetic memory cell of
6. The magnetic memory cell of
7. The magnetic memory cell of
This patent application is a continuation-in-part (CIP) of patent application Ser. No. 10/764,052, titled "CROSS POINT RESISTIVE MEMORY ARRAY", filed Jan. 23, 2004, now abandoned.
The present invention relates information storage devices. More specifically, the invention relates to cross point resistive memory arrays. In particular, although not exclusively, the invention may have application to magnetic random access memory ("MRAM") devices.
Many different resistive cross point memory cell arrays have been proposed, including resistive cross point memory cell arrays having MRAM elements, phase change memory elements, resistive polymer memory elements, polysilicon memory elements, and write-once (eg. fuse based or anti-fuse based) resistive memory elements.
Consider the example of an MRAM device including a resistive cross point array of spin dependent tunnelling (SDT) junctions, word lines extending along rows of the SDT junctions, and bit lines extending along columns of the SDT junctions. Each SDT junction is located at a cross point of a word line and a bit line. The magnetization of each SDT junction assumes one of two stable orientations at any given time. These two stable orientations, parallel and anti-parallel, represent logic values of '0' and '1'. The magnetization orientation, in turn, affects the resistance of the SDT junction. Resistance of the SDT junction is a first value (R) if the magnetization orientation is parallel and a second value (R+ΔR) if the magnetization orientation is anti-parallel. The magnetization of the SDT junction and, therefore, its logic value may be read by sensing its resistance state by passing a current through the junction generating a voltage from the magnetic resistance of the cell. Thus the magnetoresistance contains the information on the state of that cell.
A write operation on a selected SDT junction is performed by supplying write currents to the word and bit lines crossing the selected SDT junction. The currents create two external magnetic fields that, when combined, switch the magnetization orientation of the selected SDT junction from parallel to anti-parallel or vice versa.
However, since the junctions are essentially resistors, problems arise in read and write sensitivity as a result of shunt currents passing through junctions other than the selected junction. Such problems are eliminated by placing an electronic switch between the word and bit lines in series with each magnetic cell. Such a device can be a diode or transistor.
A known form of a diode integrated into a magnetic storage element is constructed by building up the various layers of the diode and the magnetic storage element. These layers include p and n layers of the diode followed by the layers of the magnetic storage element including two magnetoresistive layers separated by a non-magnetic layer such as aluminium oxide. Once the required number of layers has been built up, etching takes place to form an array of memory cells each incorporating an integrated diode and magnetic storage element. The diode junction is thus arranged generally parallel with the layers of the magnetic storage element and is also generally parallel with the general plane of the MRAM array.
Another known form of a cross point resistive memory array has memory cells each built on a pillar diode structure. However the equivalent circuit of each memory cell includes a tunnel gate surface effect transistor having non-uniform gate oxide built on the pillar diode structure. Thus, the pillar diode does not function as a diode in the forward conducting direction. Further, the control gate prevents sneak path currents through the memory cell.
It is desirable to resist shunt currents through non-selected junctions of a cross point resistive memory device.
In accordance with a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a cross point resistive memory device which comprises a first array of memory cells arranged generally in a plane. Each of the memory cells includes a memory storage element having a diode coupled thereto to control the current through the memory storage element. The diode includes a first region of material of a first conducting type and a second region of material of a second conducting type. A junction is defined between the first region and the second region and the junction extends transversely to the plane of the array of memory cells. The memory device is operable to pass current through a selected one of the memory storage elements with the junction of the coupled diode forward conducting.
In order that the invention may be more fully understood, one embodiment will now be described by way of example with reference to the drawings in which:
The figures illustrate an MRAM device but it will be appreciated that the device is not limited to MRAM and may include memory cells of the type including phase change memory cells, a resistive polymer memory cell, a polysilicon memory cell, or a write-once (eg. fuse based or anti-fuse based) resistive memory cell.
The memory cells 102 are cross-linked by bottom line conductors 104 and top line conductors 106. The line conductors are made from copper formed by a copper damascene process as will be explained further below.
As can be seen from
The magnetic storage element could be any element having a resistance that is dependent upon its magnetic state. Examples of such elements include magnetic tunnel junctions such as spin dependent tunnelling junctions (SDT), giant magnetoresistance (GMR) spin valves and colossal magnetoresistance memory cells (CMR). The basic magnetic storage element consists of two magnetoresistive layers 206, 208 which may for instance be formed of GMR film. These two layers 206, 208 are separated by a layer of non-magnetic material serving as an insulator 210. Examples include Al2O3, MgO, Ta2O2, AlN, SiO2,HfO2, ZrO2, BN and others. While the magnetic storage elements 202 have been described as incorporating three basic layers, it will be appreciated that more complex structures may be employed. For example, one of the magnetoresistive layers may be "pinned" with a layer of anti-ferromagnetic material. When the magnetoresistive layer is "pinned" it serves as a reference layer while the magnetic state of the other magnetoresistive layer is reversible. Additional layers include capping and seed layers.
The diode pillar 204 comprises a central core 212 of n doped silicon. The central core 212 is surrounded by a circumferential layer 214 of platinum silicide forming a p type region of a Schottky diode. The central core 212 of the silicon pillar is connected to the bottom magnetoresistive layer 208 of the magnetic storage element 202.
Each diode pillar 204 is disposed within one of the bottom conductor lines 104 such that the conductor line 104 surrounds the diode pillar 204. The top magnetoresistive layer 206 is connected to one of the top conductor lines 106. As will be appreciated from
While the preferred embodiment illustrated in
An alternative construction for diode 204 is a rectangular body of silicon with material of the opposite conductivity type disposed on one side or all four sides of the rectangular body. In an alternative construction, a first region of a first conducting type material may be placed adjacent a second region of a second type conducting material, provided the junction therebetween extends transversely to the layers of the magnetic storage element 202 and/or the general plane of the MRAM array 100. Furthermore, instead of a diode, an appropriately connected transistor may be employed.
As discussed above, the diode pillar 204 is disposed within the bottom conductor 104. However, other arrangements are possible. For example, the bottom conductor could be disposed beneath the diode pillar 204. Alternatively, the bottom conductor 104 may be connected only on one side of the diode pillar 204.
As will be explained further in connection with
In the operation of reading the state in selected MRAM cell 302 b, TC2 and BC2 are activated. The activation produces a sense current flowing from TC2 through MRAM cell 302 b, through diode 304 b to bottom conductor BC2 as depicted by solid arrow 308. The sense current causes a voltage drop across magnetic storage element 302 b dependant upon the direction of magnetic vectors within the magnetic storage element 302 b. The voltage drop can be detected by additional circuitry (not shown) to determine the logic state stored in the magnetic storage element 302 b. No sub-current flow can detour around the target MRAM cell 302 b because diodes 304 a, 304 c and 304 d prohibit the sub-current from flowing through the MRAM cells 302 a, 302 c and 302 d.
Further, when logic states are to be written in the magnetic storage element 302 b, bottom conductor BC2 and top conductor TC2 are activated to produce respective currents therein. These bottom and top line currents generate magnetic fields in the magnetic storage element 302 b, and a combination of these magnetic fields switches magnetic vectors in magnetic storage element 302 b to a desired direction. The activation of BC2 and TC2 do not affect or change the states in the other MRAM cells 302 a, 302 c and 302 d.
A beneficial effect is achieved by the disposition of the diode pillars within the bottom conductor lines 104. As will be appreciated from
Turning to
While the semi-conductor elements of the present invention rely on a silicon based technology, it will be appreciated that other semi-conductor material may be employed such as germanium, carbon, indium, telluride, antimony, antimony telluride.
Such low temperature deposition processes may be carried out with relatively little heating of the underlying substrate 220. Accordingly, the silicon pillar can therefore be constructed on low temperature substrates such as ceramics, dielectrics, glass or polymers. Furthermore, as the process preserves the substrate, the silicon columns can be constructed over underlayers and structures such as silicon integrated circuits. It will therefore be appreciated that through the use of lower temperature deposition of amorphous or polycrystalline silicon, multiple layers of arrays may be built up one atop the other. In the preferred embodiment, the silicon pillar 402 is built over a planarized dielectric layer or a quartz layer.
After deposition of the silicon layer and patterning into silicon columns, platinum is deposited onto the silicon columns. The deposition may be conducted either by vapour deposition or electroplating. Following the deposition of platinum, the platinum is selectively etched on the horizontal surfaces to leave platinum deposited on the side walls. A high temperature anneal then occurs to form platinum silicide at the surface. The platinum silicide forms a p type semi-conductor material formed as a circumferential layer 502 surrounding the n type silicon core 402. A p-n junction thereby exists at the boundary between the n type silicon core 402 and the circumferential layer 502 of platinum silicide. A Schottky diode is thereby formed.
Dielectric material is then deposited onto the substrate 220 and planarized level with the top of the pillar diode 204. The dielectric material is then patterned by selective vertical etching to form a trench 604 as shown in
As per
In an alternative process illustrated in
In accordance with a second aspect of the present invention a magnetic memory cell has a magnetic storage element coupled with a current control element to control current flow through the magnetic storage element. The magnetic storage element has a plurality of layers including a first magnetoresistive layer and a second magnetoresistive layer separated by a non-magnetic layer. The current control element includes a first region of material of a first conducting type and the second region of material of a second conductive type. A junction is defined between the first conducting type material and the second conducting type material. The junction extends transversely to each of the layers in the magnetic storage element.
A method of constructing the memory cell set out above is also within the scope of the present invention.
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Hey guys, I just finished this for my structural drawing (perspective) class: space shuttle interior view in three-point, rendered with good ole' fashioned prisma markers and a touch of colored pencil.
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seeing you did this for your persp class, thats what ill comment on.
Your dashboard and two front seats dont seem to follow the same perspectivespace whatsoever. To me it seems as if youve eyeballed the perspective on lots of places and, well, in theory thats not a bad thing, but getting down some basic lines with a good ol ruler is a must when drawing scenes like this.
Your rendering skill is sweet though, with a bit of good ol erasing and rulering this pic could be real sweet.
October 19th, 2005 #3
Are you talking about the front control panel? I realize it might be a bit confusing, as in the real shuttle the dash is more or less perfectly vertical, which seems a bit counterintuitive, but hey, who am I to argue with NASA? I did eyeball a lot of the smaller details, knobs and buttons and such, to spare my sanity, mostly.
Anyway, thanks for the comment.
Edit: I did a little photoshop study, I think maybe I am a little off on some of the control panels, and notably the headrests, which are pissing me off now that I can't really fix them.
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October 19th, 2005 #4
It looks really nice overall. There are a few minor parts where the line didn't quite follow the perspective, or parts that's not same size, those kind of take professional look away from the work.
The colored version has too many bright colors in my opinion. I like the grey part though.


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Pitch Count Roundtable: Your Thoughts?
Written on April 30, 2012 at 8:38 am, by Eric Cressey
Last week, I contributed on a pitch counts roundtable for ESPN Boston. You can read it HERE.
I'd love to hear your thoughts on the matter in the comments section below, as it is a certainly a heated debate that has come to the forefront in recent years with pitching injuries on the rise.
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5 Overlooked Resources for Making Your Strength and Conditioning Programs More Effective
Written on April 27, 2012 at 7:38 am, by Eric Cressey
I know there are a lot of fitness professionals who look to EricCressey.com as a continuing education resource. With that in mind, I wanted to discuss a few resources that have been tremendously valuable to me; hopefully you'll benefit from them (if you aren't already) as much as I have.
1. Video - Video is a powerful tool for coaching and monitoring progress in clients, and it's also very accessible nowadays, thanks to smart phones and digital cameras. Still, I'm always amazed at how few fitness professionals utilize it to help coach. I use it quite a bit in my evaluation process, especially with tough cases where I want to be able to monitor progress in movement quality. It's just as valuable on the training floor to back up coaching cues that you're giving.
Additionally, having access to the RightView Pro software in our facility thanks to our pitching coordinator, Matt Blake, has been tremendously valuable in not only breaking down inefficient mechanics, but also demonstrating the powerful effects a good baseball strength and conditioning program can have on a pitcher's body control and power on the mound.
2. Related Professionals - A fresh sets of eyes and a new perspective can have a huge influence on your strength and conditioning programs and how you coach. We've learned a ton from rehabilitation specialists, other fitness professionals, sport coaches, business consultants, and folks from a host of other professions.
As an interesting aside to this discussion, have you ever noticed how doctors - who have a minimum of eight years of higher education - refer patients out all the time to other doctors for second opinions? Yet, how often do you see personal trainers - who are a profession with an absurdly low barrier to entry - ask for another perspective from an unbiased third party? Food for thought.
3. Your Clients - I'm sure you'd love to think that you know your clients' bodies better than anyone else, but the truth is that those clients know themselves and how they're feeling much better than you ever could! I made the mistake early in my career of assuming too much and asking too few questions; I was talking 70% of the time and listening for the other 30%. Nowadays, I'm listening 70% of the time (at the very least) and I am a much better coach as a result.
As an example, now is a quiet time of year with all of our baseball guys in-season, so I'm using it as an opportunity to follow up with all our clients from this past off-season. I want to know how they felt during spring training, and how the transition to the start of the season went. All the feedback I get is valuable for not only next off-season, but helping them to tinker with things as needed right now.
4. New Training Equipment - Variety in a strength and conditioning program isn't just important to ensure optimal progress, but also to make sure that clients remain interested. Do you need to go out and buy all new equipment every other month? Of course not! However, adding some new training implements - or even just new uses for old equipment - can provide some variety. And, it's an opportunity for you to teach your client, as they're sure to ask: "What is this and what does it do?"
5. Business Partners/Assistants - When I first got started in Boston, I was doing all the scheduling and billing. While swiping credit cards and watching your schedule fill up is fulfilling at first, it eventually becomes a huge drain on your time, energy, and productivity. I'm a much better coach than I am a business logistics guy - and that's why the first person I contacted to help me start Cressey Sports Performance was my buddy, Pete Dupuis.
Pete's become a fantastic business director (and vice-president) at CSP, and we've had double digit growth every year since we opened in 2007. He's managed my schedule, handled phone calls, done all our billing/invoicing, and become a liaison between coaches and clients when the clients aren't in the gym. In short, his efforts have made me more efficient so that I can evaluate, program for, and coach clients; review research; interact with other coaches; and do more staff/intern education.
Additionally, business partners, staff, and interns are great for asking the challenging questions that make you rethink the way you're doing things - and often provide suggestions and solutions that help make things more efficient and effective.
These are only five resources to get the ball rolling, but there are certainly many more available to fitness professionals in their quest to deliver a great client experience. I'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments section below on what resources have helped to make you better at what you do.
And, in the meantime, I want to give you a heads-up about a new option on this front that I'm really excited to incorporate in my "continuing education arsenal." It's called the Examine Research Digest. This regular publication features reviews of recent nutrition and supplementation research by an accomplished panel of industry experts, and the reviews end with practical applications. It's a time-saving way to stay on top of the latest research, and it's also very affordable, especially at the introductory 20% off discount. The sale ends tonight, though, so don't delay in checking it out HERE.
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Strength and Conditioning Stuff You Should Read: 4/26/12
Written on April 26, 2012 at 8:21 am, by Eric Cressey
Here's this week's list of recommended strength and conditioning reading.
The Walk-On – This article by Jim Wendler should be mandatory reading for an high school kid who hopes to play college sports – and not even just the walk-ons. It's a great story about hard work, humility, and why the process is as important as the destination.
The New Rules of Lifting for Life – Alwyn Cosgrove has been a great friend and mentor to me for years – and this book is a great resource, too. I view this as excellent "gift" material; it's something you can recommend to a family member who wants to get fit, but needs direction. Lou Schuler is Alwyn's co-author, and his writing is always very engaging.
Scariest Fitness Trends – Adam Campbell interviewed me for this compilation for Men's Health, and it was subsequently picked up by Fox News. I think this is another one you can simply forward to a relative who trains like an idiot and needs direction!
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Baseball Strength and Conditioning: What to Do With an Extra Day Between Pitching Starts
Written on April 24, 2012 at 5:12 pm, by Eric Cressey
Q: I read your series, A New Model for Training Between Starts, and love the ideas you introduced. Since eliminating distance running between outings, I've noticed a big difference in how I feel and how I pitch. I did have one question about the weekly rotations you outlined in Part 2. What happens if I have an extra day between starts due to erratic scheduling or just a rain out?
A: This is a great question – and one I have received several times – so I'm glad I'm finally getting around to answering it here on the blog!
I usually look for guys to do a "bridge" training session. Basically, these sessions are all about leaving the gym feeling refreshed; you work, but not so hard that you're exhausted.
In the typical in-season baseball strength and conditioning program we use with professional pitchers on a five-day rotation, here's how we'd schedule it:
Day 0: pitch
However, if the next outing isn't until Day 6, we will integrate one of two options:
The first option would be to simply split the Day 3 training session into two shorter sessions: one upper, one lower. These sessions might only be 10-12 sets in all. Then, Day 5 would be the low-intensity dynamic flexibility circuits.
The second option would be to keep the strength training component as-is, but perform some medicine ball circuits on Day 4, then use Day 5 for the low-intensity dynamic flexibility circuits.
Both options keep you training hard without interfering with the subsequent pitching outing. Particularly in professional baseball, there are more days off early in the season, so it's important to be able to roll with the punches like this.
At the college and high school levels, the 7-day rotation is usually implemented. If a pitcher starts on Day 0, I like to see him strength training on Day 1, Day 3, and Day 5, with Day 5 being a lower-intensity lift (Days 2 and 4 are movement training, and Day 6 is low-intensity dynamic flexibility). If there is an extra day on the end, we simply treat our Day 5 lift like we did the Day 3 option in the 5-day template from above; it can either be split into upper and lower body sessions, or we can do it as-is, and add medicine ball circuits on Day 6, taking Day 7 for dynamic flexibility before starting again on Day 8.
That said, as in my experience, guys rarely get that extra day in high school and college; they're more likely to have their starts pushed up. In this case, we just drop the Day 5 lift.
Getting training sessions in between starts is incredibly important, but that doesn't mean that one must be rigid in the scheduling of these sessions. In fact, one must be very flexible in tinkering with that scheduling on a week-to-week basis to make sure that guys are getting in their lifts, but not at the expense of their performance on the mound. Hopefully this blog provided some strategies you can employ when weather or scheduling throws you a curveball!
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Strength Exercise of the Week: DB Goblet Lateral Lunge
Written on April 23, 2012 at 7:14 pm, by Eric Cressey
It goes without saying that poor adductor length is a huge problem in many of the athletes I encounter, particularly those participating in sports (e.g., hockey, soccer, baseball) involving a lot of extension and rotation. As a result, we always spend a lot of time with self myofascial release, static stretching, and mobility exercises for the adductors.
As I've written in the past, though, after you transiently reduce stiffness in a tissue, you want to build some stability through that newfound range-of-motion. Unfortunately, it isn't exactly easy to load folks up in the frontal plane, and some folks still won't be able to get in to a lateral lunge position without pitching forward. Enter the Dumbbell Goblet Lateral Lunge, which borrows the "counterbalancing" benefits we see with a traditional goblet squat to allow us to get back "into" the hip and build some longer-term mobility in the frontal plane.
I don't worry about folks really loading this up; in fact, form tends to break down a bit if you go heavier than 40 pounds with the dumbbell. We'll usually include it as the last exercise on a lower-body day, for 2-3 sets of 8-10 reps.
We spend a lot of time focusing on building strength and power, but a lot of times, movement quality gets overlooked. Here's an exercise that helps you to improve the latter without forgetting the former. Give it a shot and let me know how it goes!
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Q&A: Can You Overtrain on Core Stability Exercises?
Written on April 21, 2012 at 8:31 am, by Eric Cressey
Q: What are your thoughts on the right amount of volume, intensity and frequency on core exercises ranging from bridging variations to ab wheel rollouts from the feet for the intermediate to advanced lifter looking to decrease back pain and get out of anterior pelvic tilt? Is it possible to make progress for a while, but overdue it on volume, intensity or frequency and actually have your core get weaker or stop progressing/responding, and start to experience back pain and anterior pelvic tilt again?
A: This is an outstanding question, and I can really go in a number of different directions with it.
First, let me say that the single best way to get out of excessive anterior tilt is training oneself to not live in anterior tilt! No amount of exercise will undo the damage you can do with your daily posture. That's the easy part of this response, though.
Next, I'll say that I absolutely believe that we can overdo it with "core-specific" exercises.
As a parallel, just consider the shoulder. The glenohumeral (ball and socket) joint is heavily reliant on both active (muscles/tendons) and passive (capsule/ligaments and labrum) restraints for stability. If you overdo it with rotator cuff exercises and train the cuff to excessive fatigue, individuals lose dynamic stability and can't maintain the position of the humeral head in the glenoid fossa. Overuse conditions and injuries can occur. I wrote about this in an old series, How Much Rotator Cuff Work is Too Much? – Part 1 and Part 2.
Similarly, the lumbar spine relies heavily on both active and passive restraints. People can overcome lumbar ligament and disc injuries to live pain-free if they maintain adequate soft tissue control. Likewise, many sedentary folks can live pain-free in spite of poor soft tissue function simply because the challenges of their daily activities don't exceed the tolerance of the passive restraints (these are the folks who often blow out their backs trying move couches).
That said, we have to be careful about overreacting to this realization. Just as the trend of doing thousands of sit-ups in the past few decades created a ton of back pain, you see a lot of completely deconditioned individuals who are hurting, too. There has to be a middle ground between the two. So, you could say:
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Beautiful campground close to central northern New England spots. Great service, wider sites with sitting area, fire ring, and picnic table, though the terrain on the upper pull-through sites, as mentioned, is hilly and the sites a bit short for our 32 foot MH and toad. However, the whole place is clean and well kept with lots of little extras like escort and parking help, wood delivery, trash pickup. Laundry was clean and in good working order. Cable and Wi-Fi are free and work well, even though the campground was full the night we stayed. Would definitely stay again. - Doogiesmom
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This is a nice little campground with friendly owners. This was our second stay here. Our site was a little wet but all was fine. We were at the end of a row facing the woods and what seemed like wetlands. Thought it would be buggy but it was not. Site was very private. Trash pick up and wood deliver was great. The store here is great, plenty of cool little things. The campground seemed to have available sites all weekend which was surprising. Just down the road from the Quechee Gorge which is a nice little hike. Our friends 91 yo dad was able to do the hike with us. We will return as this is very much worth it for us. - Happy Camper X2
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This is an excellent campground with wonderful people! It is clean beyond belief. They even rake the campsites after each checkout, and they are checking the bathroom every little bit. We had an amazing stay for two days and we wish we would have found them the day before. The sites are level and easy to back into. The pool is small, but very nice and well maintained. The laundry is clean, neat, and well ventilated. The little pond you pass on your way in is breathtaking and so inviting. There's a real nice playground and trails. We would stay here again and again. - Slittle
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This is park has a beautiful, secluded setting. No hook-ups are available. Generators can only be running for a few hours daily. The sites are deep and separated by wooded areas. Ours was not at all level. We only stayed one night, so we did not take advantage of the trails or other natural attractions. We would stay again, but would probably look elsewhere first for something more compatible with our needs. - normav
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Improved algorithm for removal of clonal sequences of the BISMA software. For illustration, a data set obtained in the DNA methylation analysis of in the mouse Xist promoter of a female animal was used, where 50% fully methylated and 50% unmethylated clones are expected. A) Simplified example DNA sequence alignment of bisulfite sequencing data for demonstration of the filtering algorithm. Cytosines in the reference sequence on top of the alignment are indicated in bold green. For the rest of the aligned experimental sequences, methylated CpG sites are highlighted in bold orange, while unmethylated CpG sites are shown in bold purple. Converted cytosines at non-CpG positions are shown in bold black, while conversion artifacts are indicated in bold green. B) Relevant cytosine pattern derived from the multiple sequence alignment includes information about the methylation status of CpG sites and the conversion status of non-CpG site cytosines. 1) Using the strict option BISMA keeps only one sequence out of several with identical patterns. 2) Using the BISMA suggested filtering algorithm only removes clones with identical patterns if these have a conversion artifact at the same position. C) Final methylation pattern obtained after using the 1) strict filtering algorithm or 2) the BISMA suggested filtering algorithm: each square indicates a CpG. Columns represent CpG sites while rows represent single molecules which were subcloned and sequenced. The underlying full DNA sequence alignment of all bisulfite sequencing data is available in Additional file 1: Suppl. Text S9.
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They should have gone with something simpler, like this:
Looks great, but shouldn't those orange bits be green?
I thought I saw more orange in the episode rather than Green. Also, this could be before the cube explodes.
True, you could view it as the cube just beginning to explode from the inside and I sort of noticed that as I was making it, so I welcome that interpretation... but initially, I was trying to match the original internal lighting scheme of the miniature from this episode:
The DP, Marvin Rush seemed to use yellow as his Borg color of choice at this point in the series:
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Marseille's New 'Film City'
In the summer of 1941, the famed French writer and filmmaker, Marcel Pagnol, set his heart on creating a Hollywood-style studio under the shimmering skies of his beloved Provençe.
An estate agent tasked by Pagnol to find the site for this illusive "Film City" turned up Le Château de la Buzine, a baroque 19th-century pile perched high up in the eastern hills of Marseille. Sight unseen, Pagnol immediately agreed to its purchase, later going as far as to move his elderly father, Joseph, and his younger sister, Germaine, (not to mention a stubborn donkey called Papillon) onto the commodious estate.
But Pagnol's best laid plans were derailed by the brutal realities of World War II and the studio never materialized. Seventy years later, and after decades of neglect, La Buzine has finally found a new calling. Last month, after four years of extensive renovation and building work, the freshly scrubbed Maison des Cinématographies de la Méditerranée (The House of Mediterranean Cinemas) opened its doors to the public. The latest incarnation of La Buzine, which cost the City of Marseille €11.4 million to rebuild, has disappointed some of Pagnol's more fervent supporters, including his grandson, Nicolas Pagnol. They felt that it would have been more appropriate to have paid sole homage to the genial creator of such indelible characters as "Jean de Florette" and "Manon des Sources."
"For the last 50 years 40,000 people a year from all over the world have visited La Buzine to pay their respects to Pagnol. I even know of some Japanese couples who took their wedding vows there," says Bernard de Fallois, Pagnol's publisher during the latter part of his career. "I think it would have been better if the new center had at least borne Marcel Pagnol's name."
But for Serge Necker, the House of Mediterranean Cinemas' managing director, the idea had never been to turn La Buzine into a Pagnol museum.
"When Pagnol wanted to create his 'Film City' his idea was to open it up to the world," he says. "I think we've done something similar by focusing on the whole of the Mediterranean."
La Buzine, which has been extended by a sparkling glass and steel atrium, now houses a state-of-the-art 350-seat cinema with an old-fashioned balcony, a film library and a DVD library. Every year there will be seasons of films celebrating Mediterranean actors and directors. In the basement, there are several rooms dedicated to landmark films by Mediterranean filmmakers such as the Lumière Brothers, Pedro Almodovar, Luchino Visconti and Robert Guédiguian.
Pagnol hasn't been forgotten either, with a room entirely devoted to his famous trilogy of films—"Marius," "Fanny" and "César"—which were all set in and around the Old Port of Marseille. The advent of the Italian neorealist film movement during the 1940s meant it has often been forgotten that Pagnol was one of the first Mediterranean directors to take his films out of the studios and into the streets and countryside. Vittorio de Sica, who along with Roberto Rossellini was the standard-bearer for the Italian neorealist movement, once described Pagnol's 52-minute film "Jofroi" (1933) about two rival peasants as "the first neorealist film."
La Buzine's June 17 inauguration provided a very special moment for its French architect, André Stern, who had befriended Pagnol not long before his death in 1974, at the age of 79. As a child Mr. Stern had spent two years of World War II hiding in the scrubland around Allauch, a commune east of Marseille full of valleys, caves and fragrant pine trees that Pagnol once described as "the place I love best in the world." Mr. Stern's father, a Hungarian Jew, had hidden his family there after escaping from the Gestapo.
"A few years later I read 'Le Château de Ma Mère" [the second volume of Pagnol's childhood souvenirs titled "My Mother's Castle" in English]," says Mr Stern. "I was amazed at how he [Pagnol] had felt all the same things I did when I was growing up."
Basing his research on thousands of photographs taken of La Buzine by Pagnol's official photographer, Henri Moiroud, over a period of 30 years, Mr. Stern was able to reconstitute the château down to the tiniest detail. When Mr. Stern encountered La Buzine for the first time 11 years ago, he discovered a "moribund" building that had been invaded by bramble bushes and was stripped of its floorboards, staircases and roof tiles.
"It was in a desperate state," he comments. "I even asked myself sometimes whether I was going to be able to save it. But when a building tells such an interesting story as this one does then it can be a real inspiration for an architect like myself."
The inspirational story Mr. Stern is thinking of arrives near the end of "My Mother's Castle," when Pagnol, who is by now 46, describes discovering La Buzine for the second time. In the meadows beneath his new house the author spots a hedgerow in the distance. "My breath stopped," Pagnol writes, "and without knowing why, I made a wild dash through the meadow and through time. Yes, it was there. It was the canal of my childhood…"
Years earlier, as a boy, Pagnol and his family had taken a short-cut through the very same private grounds of La Buzine. Looking up from the meadow he only now recognized "the terrible château" where a beastly guard had humiliated his family.
For Pagnol there could be no doubt: this was the place where his late mother had "heard the guard's cries, and the husky breathing of (his) dog. Pale, trembling and forever inconsolable, she did not know she was at her son's home."
The legend (some Pagnol scholars have called into doubt the author's grasp of geography) of "My Mother's Castle"—which was first published in 1957 and is the sequel to "My Father's Glory"—has proved to be a fascinating one for generations of readers.
Indeed Pagnol's work remains as popular as it ever was. France's leading actor Daniel Auteuil made his directorial debut earlier this year, adapting Pagnol's original film script "La Fille du Puisatier" ("The Well-Digger's Daughter") for the screen. The new film, which has sold 1.4 million tickets in France, drew positive comparisons from French critics with Pagnol's own version of his rural tale, which came out in 1940. Mr. Auteuil, who first shot to fame playing Ugolin in Claude Berri's adaptations of "Jean de Florette" and "Manon des Sources," recently announced that he will now tackle remakes of Pagnol's famous trilogy: "Marius," "Fanny" and "Cesar."
For Mr. de Fallois, who published "My Mother's Castle" and "My Father's Glory" among others, Pagnol possesses the same enduring appeal "as Mark Twain."
"His natural simplicity and the amusing way he mocks both adults and children without being cruel are two outstanding traits of his writing," notes Mr. de Fallois. "Pagnol's books are never about rejection, but about love and I think that is why they continue to be enjoyed today."
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With his bike arriving from the UK early in the morning on the eve of the rally, Paul Castle immediately set to work undertaking the last minute preparations required prior to event scrutineering.
The atmosphere is like a carnival he smiles as he describes the apparent chaos around the bivouac that precedes a typical desert rally. This is the first time Ive entered an event like this, so its a mixture of excitement and nervousness - not really knowing what you need to do, or where you need to be at a particular time - but somehow it all comes together after all he grins.
For example, there was a mild moment of panic during the scrutineering inspection when his rear lights refused to work: I was under pressure from the officials to fix it right there and then - fortunately it was simply a connector that had come undone while Id been applying the [Team Dirtpunk/ZenOverland] graphics to the bodywork earlier - and its all good practice he smiles.
Paul was impressed with the shear diversity of the competition There are some amazing vehicles here - and the majority of the competitors do appear pretty serious [about it all] he concludes. Of course I dont really consider myself actual competition in that regard - Im really just here to see what its all about - I just want to ride my own race, and concentrate on my navigation - make sure I get every waypoint [and thus avoid an penalties] - thats my goal.
Despite his modest intentions, there was also a glint in his eye Of course I also love speed, and I love riding in dunes he says But at the same time, Ive only really just recovered from a broken wrist (sustained in training before Christmas), so I really dont want to repeat that!
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The lake-dwelling young male has been promised to a private game reserve but beat a capture team's tranquilliser dart guns by sticking to the water for several days.
"We haven't seen it emerge," said Julia Wood of Cape Town's Biodiversity Management.
The hippo had popped up in gardens and on roads around the Zeekoevlei lake after escaping Rondevlei Nature Reserve when part of the boundary fence was stolen a month ago. But there have been no recent sightings from residents, Wood said.
Another hippo has meanwhile moved into the water pans at a nearby waste disposal plant, where another male spent 18 months after fleeing from a bullying father before finally being removed in 2010.
The city is less concerned about the second escapee as there are not many people around the plant and an electric fence has been set up.
"So our big thing is to focus on the one at Zeekoevlei," Wood said.
Officials will monitor the animal day and night to study its habits and will restart capture efforts once a pattern favourable for darting emerges.
The city has six hippos in the False Bay Nature Reserve. The semi-aquatic animals are known to be extremely violent and can run faster than a human on land.
Another South African hippo, Solly, died last week north of Pretoria in a swimming pool where he got stuck after being kicked out of his herd, and before a crane could lift him to freedom.
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The winners for the Chicago-based "Space in Between" contest, designed to honor groups in the greater Chicago, Milwaukee and Gary, Indiana areas that temporarily transform vacant lots and buildings into community-building projects, have been announced.
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Five singers were selected by judges to advance to the next round at Saturday's Wisconsin District Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.
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Walt Whitman may have rightly claimed that his poetry contains multitudes, but Emily Dickinson can stake an equally valid claim to being America's greatest poet.
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