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CineKids: The Lorax
Saturday 6 & Sunday 7 October 10.30am
From the creators of 'Despicable Me' and the imagination of Dr. Seuss comes the feature 'The Lorax', an adaptation of the classic tale of a forest creature who shares the enduring power of hope. The animated adventure follows the journey of a 12-year-old as he searches for the one thing that will enable him to win the affection of the girl of his dreams. To find it he must discover the story of the Lorax, the grumpy yet charming creature who fights to protect his world.
A Nos Amours: War And Peace
Sunday 7 October 10.00am
Roger Ebert has said has said of Sergey Bandarchuk's film, "War and Peace is the definitive epic of all time. It is hard to imagine that circumstances will ever again combine to make a more spectacular, expensive, and splendid movie." It took seven years to make (shooting lasted from 1961 to 1967). One battle scene alone required 120,000 extras. 35,000 costumes were needed. Sergie Bondarchuk was nothing if not ambitious. Adapted from Leo Tolstoy's novel of the same name, A Nos Amours will present the four parts over one glorious day, including three short intervals.
DocDays: We Went To War plus Q&A with Michael Grigsby & Rebekah Tolley
Thursday 11 October 6.30pm
In 1970, a young British director Michael Grigsby made the first film about veterans returning home from the Vietnam war, I Was a Soldier, portraying three young men struggling to reclaim their own versions of normality after a year on the frontline. Some 40 years later, Grigsby & producer Rebekah Tolley return to the stories of those once young Americans, now aged and scarred by lives lived far too brutally, far too young. Co-authors Grigsby and Tolley will be joining us for a post-screening discussion.
CineKids: Drawing On Film – Colour Flight (U)
Saturday 20 & Sunday 21 October 10.30am
With a splash of vibrant colour children and parents will be able to draw shapes and patterns onto clear 16mm film which will then be fed through a projector and brought alive with movement and light. Children will be encouraged to draw in response to music, inspired by the cocktail of colour and rhythm in 'Colour Flight' (1938) by Len Lye the master of painting on film. This screening is in partnership with Wimbledon Film Fest.
Royal Opera House Live: Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake
Tuesday 23 October 7.15pm
Mayfair, Richmond
The Royal Opera House's 2012/13 live Cinema Season opens with Anthony Dowell's production of Swan Lake, created for The Royal Ballet in 1987. Surely the greatest of all Romantic ballets, Swan Lake is a perfect synthesis of choreography and music with sets inspired by the Russian Imperial Court of the late 1890s. In creating this production Anthony Dowell aimed to return to an authentic version of the choreography, with the set design an inspired blend of historical accuracy and gothic fantasy.
Special Event: David Byrne In Conversation – How Music Works
Wednesday 24 October 6.30pm
Curzon Cinemas, in partnership with Canongate Books, is proud to bring you an evening with David Byrne, to celebrate the publication of his new book How Music Works. David Byrne will discuss how profoundly music is shaped by time and place, and how the advent of recording technology has forever changed our relationship to playing, performing and listening to music.


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Throughout Long Beach, groups and organizations are seeking volunteers and donations to help those in need.
Here is a list of some that have asked for a helping hand. For these and other volunteer opportunities, call Alexandra Weiss at The Volunteer Center, South Bay-Harbor-Long Beach, at 310-212-5009 or www.volcenter.org.
Memorial Medical Center Foundation: The organization is looking for volunteers of all ages to help out with an upcoming event, Tour of Long Beach, on Saturday that supports pediatric cancer research at Miller Children's Hospital Long Beach. It takes over 200 volunteers to put on this large event. The event has many different types of volunteer jobs to choose from. For example, people are needed out on the course to help distribute water, at the finish line to hand out medals, and at registration to check people in and give them their bibs. In 1961, the Memorial Medical Center Foundation was established so that individuals, corporations and foundations could ensure excellent health care close to home. Since its inception, grateful patients and philanthropic friends have continued to step up and give tomorrows for men, women and children in the local region. 562-933-4483. www.memorialcare.org.
The Volunteer Center's Food For Kids: The program is looking for individuals, groups and businesses to host nonperishable food drives on behalf of the program. Food For Kids is a Volunteer Center program that delivers nonperishable food to seven Title One elementary schools in the Long Beach Unified School Districts and one school in Compton. The program provides food assistance to children and families in need while also giving the schools the tools by which to connect, build trust, and create a stronger sense of community with their families that are in need. 310-212-5009 or visit www.volcenter.org.
Long Beach Day Nursery: The program is looking for volunteers to help with its annual Tea for Tots Luncheon on May 17. The mission of the Long Beach Day Nursery is to provide quality early care and education for young children of working parents. Long Beach Day Nursery is dedicated to the belief that a good start in the formative years of childhood provides children with a lasting foundation for success throughout their lives. 562-421-1488. www.lbdn.org.
Long Beach Opera: The organization expands the boundaries of the opera experience in Southern California by presenting new and rare works that engage a diverse audience. Long Beach Opera is looking for volunteer ushers to assist at performances. Volunteers are welcome to stay and watch the performance for free. 562-432-5934. long beachopera.org.
Women Shelter of Long Beach: The organization welcomes volunteers to serve in a variety of capacities including: planning and participating in community awareness campaigns; providing service to its board of directors; engaging in direct service support; involvement in donation procurement and sorting; providing clerical assistance, hotline coverage, group facilitation, legal advocacy, assistance with child care; and planning and executing fundraising events and activities. (Some of these positions require training and background checks) All of the above activities are crucial to the survival of the agency. Since 1977, Women Shelter of Long Beach has helped thousands of families overcome the trauma caused by domestic abuse. 562-437-4663. www.womenshel terlb.org.
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SNL Financial says reserves were $26.90 billion in the second quarter.
Though a little weaker than residential real estate, reports on sales and leasing of nonresidential real estate are still mostly positive.
Three weeks after a Florida agency purchase, Prudential PenFed Realty is set to buy another realty company in Kansas.
Modern residential lending requires much tighter focus on compliance and valuation standards than ever before.
Jeff Marshall typically starts his days early at the Mystic Shipyard, a 169-year old marina with a history steeped in the construction of schooners and iron-clad ships to sail the waterways of New England.
A Connecticut credit union won the business of historic Mystic Shipyard. Get the story in this preview from next week's print edition.
Banks appear to have begun picking up the pace of foreclosures on residential real estate in August, reducing the time before the housing industry works through the overhang of troubled properties, according to RealtyTrac.
An online marketplace that connects financial institutions looking to purchase loans with those who are selling loans is the premise behind BP Connect, a new venture from Business Partners LLC, a business lending CUSO.
Business Partners LLC, a business lending CUSO, has created BP Connect, an online marketplace that connects financial institutions looking to purchase loans with those who are selling loans.


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A legacy in music: Phatfish bowing out with a smile after 20 years
After 20 years of recording albums, gigging and leading worship at countless conferences and festivals, Phatfish are playing their last two gigs in March. Claire Musters caught up with founding member Nathan Fellingham to ask what led them to this point and what the future holds for them all.
CM: It has been quite a journey over a number of years. When you first started Phatfish, did you have any idea how long the band would go on for?
NF: No! But I was 16 when we first formed Phatfish and at that age I don't think you can see much past the next month – let alone 20 years! But I had strong conviction that it was right for me to give myself to the band. We were all in 100 per cent – willing to take it wherever it went.
CM: With 10 studio albums under your belt and having penned songs such as, 'Holy Holy, Lift Up His Name', 'There Is A Day' and 'Amazing God', which are sung worldwide in thousands of congregations, how does it feel to stop and look back over the band's career?
NF: There is a mixture of emotions. I feel hugely privileged to have been able to do what we've done. We would all testify to how God's sustained us through thick and thin and provided for us again and again. I suppose if I'm honest there are times when I wish we'd been able to sell a few more albums and seen bigger numbers at gigs. And there are certainly some things that I'd do differently with the benefit of hindsight. But at the same time I genuinely have no regrets.
As you begin to count up the concerts, the places we've travelled to, the people we've got to work with, the lives we've seen impacted and the fun we've had along the way it's hard to be anything but thankful! And I'm certainly also trusting that there will be more songs in the future – from many of the Phatfish members that will continue to have impact both in the church and beyond.
CM: I know you told me that for a couple of years now the band has known that change was coming – so could you explain why you have decided to put on this final gig at this point in time?
NF: Yes, we've certainly felt strongly that things would be changing. And in some respects it would have been easier just to kind of fizzle out without making any sort of song and dance about it. But it feels healthy to be clear to our fans – and also something that we need to walk through to bring proper closure. And as we approach these final two gigs, it definitely feels right to have a chance to celebrate, reflect and define who we've been over the last 20 years, and then who we now are going forward.
CM: If you could summarise what Phatfish's aim has been over the years in a couple of sentences, what would it be?
NF: It's really been to do all we can to communicate the truths of the Gospel and the reality of God through music and song. Trusting that through interacting with our music hearts would be lifted and eyes would be opened to the wonder of who God is and what he has done for us.
CM: Do you feel you have achieved what you set out to do with the band?
NF: Wow. That's a good question. And it forces me to think deeply! When we started we definitely carried a desire to see the music industry changed. We wanted to bring light into what we saw as a dark place in much need of Jesus. But breaking into that world significantly wasn't something that ever happened for us. And again with hindsight I can see certain elements where we just could have been better and would have needed major modification to hit that level.
But as the journey has continued we've felt complete peace about playing predominantly in front of a Christian audience. That's certainly no excuse for being second rate as artists – and we've continued to strive after writing better songs and delivering all we do with as much passion as we can. I guess it is something that did alter slightly from where we first started. But reading letters and emails from people who have heard our albums and come to gigs and been touched as a result is a massive encouragement.
We really have seen God take what to us sometimes feels very small and use it to great effect in people's lives. And we've always been passionate to see those who don't yet know Jesus as their Lord come to faith, which we've had the privilege of seeing many times.
CM: Did you ever feel constrained by being part of a well-known Christian band?
NF: Not really. We've always been slightly oblivious to marketing principles (for better or worse) and just got on with making the music that we've wanted to make!
CM: What do you feel you have learned over the years being part of a band?
NF: There really are so many great principles that you can learn from being in a band: Preferring others over yourself; looking to see others flourish; seeing success for the team as a higher goal than your own personal exploits; learning to encourage each other, to spur each other on, to pray for each other. And how to handle times when you don't see eye to eye. It's a hugely rewarding experience.
CM: Most people know that you are married to Phatfish's lead singer, Lou Fellingham, who has recorded and toured as a solo artist in recent years. Is that something she will be pursuing more now?
NF: Well, Lou will certainly continue to write and record under her own name. It's something we've enjoyed together over the last 10 years actually, since Lou brought out her first album 'Treasure'. We certainly feel that we need to continue to develop things that Lou and I do together – from songwriting to concerts and also teaching and training. Lou will be recording a new album this year with Integrity music.
CM: Could you also let your fans know what plans the other members of the band have?
NF: Well, Luke (my brother) and I have a studio that he runs. He is really developing his skills both as a recording engineer and a mastering engineer and I know that he will continue to grow in that whole area.
Mike is also working at his home studio producing albums and developing the whole area of training worship bands. On top of that he's a massive asset to the community as a school governor and magistrate. He's also a hugely gifted communicator and I look forward to seeing the doors that God opens up for him.
Jos is now heading up the worship team at a church in Horsham called Kings Church. He and his family moved there recently and he's already doing an amazing job developing the team and growing in leadership himself.
Ben is recently married and getting stuck in at their church in London, developing a community centre with his wife Toni. He's also training to be a teacher.
CM: When I asked if there was anything fans would want me to ask you in this interview, many simply wanted to express their thanks to you and let you know how pivotal your music has been to them either becoming a Christian or moving on in their Christian walk. How does it make you feel knowing you've had that role, and is there anything you would like to say to your fans?
NF: We feel truly privileged to have played some sort of a part in helping them in their journey with God. Thanks for the encouragement, for buying the albums and supporting us with all the live gigs. And make sure you come to Bournemouth on 14 or 15 March. You don't want to miss it!
CM: It has been a real pleasure to start off simply as a fan back in the Purple through the Fishtank days and, more recently, have the opportunity to interview you guys. I'm sure everyone would want to join me in wishing you well for the future – God bless and we hope this isn't the last we've heard from you all!
Phatfish's final gigs are being held on 14 and 15 March at the Wessex Christian Centre in Bournemouth. Former Phatfish guitarists Mike Blow and Alan Rose will be making guest appearances. For more details, and to book a ticket, please click here


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Parent-teacher conferences begin
Parent-teacher conferences, being held at most high schools tonight and tomorrow, offer families the opportunity to meet teachers and learn how their children are doing in class. But it's hard for harried high school parents, who must rush around large buildings in an attempt to meet every teacher, to do that in the three minutes allotted for each meeting.
Our High School Hustle blogger Liz Willen thinks there must be a better way. Apparently, Chancellor Walcott agrees. He acknowledged as much in his Oct. 27 speech about parent engagement, likening the school conferences to "speed dating." The department is working on strengthening the conferences, he said, and has developed a tool-kit with sample questions to ask teachers as well as tips for how to prepare. Check out 10 questions on the DOE's website and let us know what you think.
Parents who don't speak English can get free over-the-phone interpretation services at evening parent-teacher conferences. Normally translation is available from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. by calling the Department of Education at 718-752-7373, ext. 4.
Every school is supposed to post flyers and signs into different languages to let families know that conferences are happening and that interpretation and translation will be available. If you don't see them, let your parent coordinator know.
For interpretation or translaton questions, email firstname.lastname@example.com or call 718-752-7373.
Upcoming parent-teacher conferences are scheduled for Oct. 27 and 28 (high school), Nov. 2 and 3 (District 75), Nov. 14 and 15 (elementary) and Nov. 16 and 17 (middle schools.) Note that some schools, among them Brooklyn Tech, set their own schedules. If you haven't had any notices yet, ask in the office.
And, if your child is struggling in school, this is the time you should find out about it. According to the city's regulations, teachers must inform parents if their child is not meeting promotion standards during fall conferences. If a parent does not meet with a teacher during the conference, the school must follow-up immediately and notify parents in writing, in a phone call, or in a personal meeting that their child is at risk of failure and come up with strategies to improve his performance.
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Brad Robbins remains a Murrieta boy at heart even though he hasn't lived full-time in his hometown in seven years.
An ice hockey player, the 21-year-old has lived in the northern latitudes since his departure. Robbins is currently in his first season as a freshman with Bemidji State (Minn.), a Division I program.
Robbins plays forward for a Bemidji State team that has labored through a 6-18-8 season, including a 5-14-7 conference mark in the highly competitive Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA).
Despite the lackluster season, the Beavers are a reputable hockey program that reached the NCAA Tournament's Frozen Four as recently as 2009.
Bemidji is located in the northern part of Minnesota, where hockey is not only the primary sport in the region, it's a religion.
"We have a very strong fan base," Robbins said. "All the fans are very passionate and want us to do well. We get a lot of fans at our games. They are very supportive. It's great to play in front of them up here."
Robbins was a fervent hockey player as a youth when he attended Thompson Middle School in Murrieta.
But the trips to the nearest ice rink in Orange County would often take an hour each way.
Robbins was fortunate to have two parents, Tom and Jackie, who happily made the long trek to fulfill their son's dreams.
"They would have to drive me to play probably four or five days a week," Robbins said. "It's quite a commitment that the parents have to make there."
Once reaching high school, Robbins and his parents decided the best route for him was to enroll in a boarding school in the hockey hotbed of Minnesota.
Robbins moved to Faribault to attend Shattuck-St. Mary's School, an institution renowned for its hockey teams.
"It was a really fun experience," Robbins said. "I had hockey and school in the same place. It was a really close community. It was fun. It was definitely hard at first to live away from home. You get used to it over the years."
Following his prep career at Shattuck-St. Mary's, Robbins went on to play junior hockey, a high level of amateur competition. Junior hockey players aren't even paid a stipend and they live with host families.
Robbins first played with the Penticton Vees of the British Columbia Hockey League before joining the Sioux City Musketeers of the United States Hockey League, the premier junior circuit south of Canada.
In 2011-12, Robbins led the Muskeeters in points (52), goals (25) and assists (27), which helped catch the attention of Bemidji State.
Robbins, an elusive goal scorer at 5-foot-7, 169 pounds, said the junior hockey experience prepared him for the collegiate level.
"You are playing against guys that are 24 years old," Robbins said. "They are really physically strong and are able to play at a faster pace."
While the Beavers' season hasn't gone according to plan, Robbins and his teammates can still change their fortunes with the WCHA playoffs (March 15-17) on the horizon. They also have two upcoming games against Minnesota, the No. 2 ranked team in the country.
• Oregon State forward/center Joe Burton (West Valley), the team's lone senior, was honored in a pregame ceremony before his team's final home contest against California on Feb. 23. Burton, born on the Soboba Indian Reservation, was the first Native American to receive a scholarship in the conference since it expanded to 10 teams in 1978. The Beavers wore turquoise uniforms in honor of Burton. The color turquoise is considered a color of friendship in Native American culture. With six more points scored, Burton will become the first player in Oregon State history with 1,000 points, 700 rebounds and 300 assists.
• Nebraska-Kearney's Patrick Martinez (Temecula Valley) is ranked No. 2 in the 174-pound weight class heading into the Division II National Championships, which are held in Birmingham, Ala., from March 8-9. Martinez's Lopers are No. 3 in the national coaches' poll.
• Arizona first baseman Brandon Dixon (Murrieta Valley) leads the Pac 12 in batting average (.465), on-base percentage (.561) and runs scored (19). Dixon is also tied for the conference lead in hits (20) and stolen bases (9). He has reached base safety in all 13 games this season.
• Michigan freshman shortstop Sierra Romero (Vista Murrieta) was named co-freshman of the week by the Big Ten Conference on Monday. It was the second time this season Romero has earned the freshman of the week honor. Romero leads the Big Ten in runs scored (20) and is tied for second in home runs (5) and total bases (46).


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We have had UVERSE for almost a year. Top of the line tv and Internet. Well, we are not happy.
Our Internet is running slow. We have had technicians come once or twice to test line and they say it is faster than my son finds when he tests the speed.
The uverse is far worse. We have had the boxes and modems replaced. We have had technicians to our house multiple times. We must reboot the individual boxes daily and the modem at least weekly. We have complained and once they took $50 off our bill. This last time we called. It was a Thursday and it took until Monday to get a technician. We had not recorded tv for the weekend and no Internet. \
We have called and run diagnostics online. At what point can we cancel the service without fear of reprisals, termination fees or anything else. This is passed ridiculous.
I would recommend you send a private message to AT&T Customer Care using the link below.https://forums.att.com/t5/notes/privatenotespage/tab/compose/note-to-user-id/192773
Shortly after I first had U-verse installed, I was having a similar problem. I subscribe to the 24 Mbps service, but was only getting 5 or 6 Mbps. It turned out the problem was WiFi congestion in my apartment complex. When my computer searches for networks, it finds 25+ available. With that many different networks in the area, they are interfering with each other, since there are only about 10 channels to use.
The solution for me was to switch to a 5 Ghz network, of which there are only 2 in my area, so there's no more interference and I now show about 23-24 Mbps as my speed over WiFi.
This may not resolve your problem, but it's worth taking a peek to see. You can connect your computer directly to your Residential Gateway with an Ethernet cable and re-run the speed test. If you show a good speed with that connection, the problem likely lies with the WiFi network.
As a note: while I am an AT&T employee, I do not work in the U-verse area of the company and all comments from me are reflective of my personal experience as a U-verse customer. I have no "inside knowledge" of anything regarding U-verse.
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Hi all,
Yesterday, I ended up with four stitches on my right index finger (I'm right-handed), which has put a major roadblock in my cooking plans for the week.
I can't get my right hand wet, and can't do anything that requires bending my index finger--which pretty much rules out most knife work. (I tried holding the knife with my remaining fingers, but it just wasn't happening.)
Last night, I managed to cook soft-shelled crabs (battered and deep-fried, served with some Szechuan pepper salt and lime wedges that were thankfully already cut up in the fridge), and chilled asparagus with a mayo/mustard dip (I broke the tough ends off manually). I was able to cook (and eat!) these with just my left hand.
I'm trying to think of what else I can make "single-handedly." So far, I figiure I can do quesadillas (using pre-shredded cheese), and stir-fries using pre-cut wegetable mixes and meat (luckily, I have several good Asian markets nearby), and steamed artichokes.
Do any of you have suggestions for other single-handed meals? I would be most grateful!


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Advances in OptoElectronics
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 714895, 6 pages
Ultrabroadband Electro-Optic Modulator Based on Hybrid Silicon-Polymer Dual Vertical Slot Waveguide
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Delaware, 140 Evans Hall, Newark, DE 19716, USA
Received 15 May 2010; Accepted 30 July 2010
Academic Editor: Ana Vukovic
Copyright © 2011 Shouyuan Shi and Dennis W. Prather. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
We present a novel hybrid silicon-polymer dual slot waveguide for high speed and ultra-low driving voltage electro-optic (EO) modulation. The proposed design utilizes the unique properties of ferroelectric materials such as LiNbO3 to achieve dual RF and optical modes within a low index nanoslot. The tight mode concentration and overlap in the slot allow the infiltrated organic EO polymers to experience enhanced nonlinear interaction with the applied electric field. Half-wavelength voltage-length product and electro-optic response are rigorously simulated to characterize the proposed design, which reveals ultrabroadband operation, up to 250 GHz, and subvolt driving voltage for a 1 cm long modulator.
1. Introduction
Low driving voltage and high-speed electro-optic (EO) modulators are of great interest due to their wide variety of applications including broadband communication, RF photonic links, millimeter wave imaging, and phased-array radars. In order to attain optical modulation at low driving voltages, a strong mode concentration and a tight mode overlap between optical and radio-frequency (RF) modes in the nonlinear EO material are required. Typically, to maintain a single mode operation in optical domain, the optical mode size is on an order of wavelength, that is, 2 um at telecommunication region. As a result, to match with the optical mode, the RF guiding structure essentially has to reduce a factor of three orders of magnitude. Conventional traveling wave EO modulators are usually driven by RF transmission lines, such as coplanar waveguides (CPWs) and microstrip lines. These electrode designs provide not only high speed operation but also a strong overlap between optical and RF modes. While the device operates at very high frequency, that is, over 20 GHz, the RF wave propagation attenuation attributed from both conduction loss and dielectric loss becomes the key issue that prevents the device from operating over a wide bandwidth. Physically, a small mode size provides a strong RF field concentration, or a small mode volume, however, leads to a significant increase in propagation loss. As a result, an optimal design of RF electrode design including signal electrode and gap between signal and ground is required to minimize the overall RF propagation loss.
To date, many high speed traveling wave EO modulators have been designed, fabricated, and characterized, leading to operation at speeds as high as 140 GHz. Most of these modulators were developed using crystalline EO materials, such as LiNbO3 [1–5] and GaAs [6, 7]. Recently, tremendous efforts have gone into the development and optimization of organic EO polymers. State-of-the-art nonlinear electro-optic polymers have been reported to have an EO coefficient of pm/V or higher [8–14], which is nearly an order of magnitude higher than the crystalline LiNbO3 and two orders of magnitude higher than most III-V materials. With the recent breakthroughs in silicon photonics, specifically vertical and horizontal slot waveguides [15, 16], the silicon organic hybrid represents a tremendous opportunity to develop highly sensitive devices for an array of photonics applications [17–20]. A variety of designs including ridged slot waveguides and segmented slot waveguides have been proposed for modulation applications [21–24]. By placing low index EO polymer material in the slot region, the optical mode will be tightly confined in the nonlinear material. This requires an extremely small RF mode concentration for deep modulation. One of the approaches is to dope the silicon ridges at the edge of the slot; the voltage then will be applied directly across the slot region, thereby maximizing the electric field. This confinement of the optical mode and electric field allows for modulation at millivolt driving voltages [22, 23]. However, the introduction of doping in the silicon ridges also induces significant RF propagation loss. The loss is strongly dependent on the operational frequency and the doping level but can reach values up to 30 dB/cm at 100 GHz. To mitigate the RF loss, a novel modulator design based on a dual horizontal slot waveguide, where a unique ferroelectric material is used to form an RF and optical nanoslot in a microstrip line with a large electrode separation, has been proposed. An ultra-high speed modulation and extremely low driving voltage are achieved [25]. In this paper we present a CMOS compatible vertical dual slot waveguide EO modulator design, where the slot waveguide is formed on silicon-on-insulator wafer.
In order to accurately characterize the proposed device, both optical and RF analysis are performed by using vectorial waveguide mode solvers. In the optical domain, a Finite-difference Frequency-domain (FDFD) method is employed [26]. On the other hand, due to nanometer scale of slot structure, the analysis of such a device at RF frequency becomes extremely challenging. To this end, a finite-element method (FEM) based commercial software package, ANSYS High Frequency Surface Simulation (HFSS), was employed. The adaptive meshing scheme allows handling both very subwavelength and larger features to achieve convergent results. In the rest of paper we will present the slot waveguide analysis and design, as well as its electro-optic characterization in terms of sensitivity and high frequency response.
2. Dual RF Photonic Slot Waveguide
The dual vertical slot waveguide is formed on a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate. As depicted in Figure 1, the device consists of two ridges with a high refractive index, that is, silicon, and a nanometer-scale slot infiltrated with a lower refractive index EO polymer material that is sandwiched between the ridges. The silicon ridges then are bounded with ferroelectric materials, such as LiNbO3 and TiO2. The nanoslot has a gap size of and silicon ridges have a width of . The outer claddings have a width of and their height is aligned with silicon substrate. The polymer is infiltrated in the slots as well as the gaps between signal electrodes and ground of coplanar waveguide. As shown in Figure 1, by introducing an RF coplanar waveguide, two sets of slot waveguides can be embedded in the gaps, thereby forming a push-pull EO modulator configuration. The gold electrodes have a signal width of and thickness of . In this design a SOI wafer with thickness of nm and an oxide layer of 2 m are used, thereby leading to a single mode operation in the vertical direction at telecommunication wavelengths.
The ferroelectric materials possess unique material properties, that is, low optical refractive indices and very high RF dielectric constants. In particular, LiNbO3 material is used to form the waveguide due to its additional EO effect on the modulation. In the optical wavelength range, that is, at an operation wavelength of 1.55 m, the ordinary and extraordinary refractive indices of LiNbO3 are and , respectively. However, in the RF frequency range, the anisotropic LiNbO3 substrates have high relative permittivities of 28 and 43 perpendicular and parallel to the substrate surface. Silicon ridges have an RF relative dielectric constant of 11.97, which is a slight variation compared to their optical refractive index of 3.5. The EO polymer has an optical refractive index of 1.6 and an RF relative dielectric constant of 2.49. Obviously, the indices of LiNbO3 are lower than that of silicon at optical wavelengths and much greater than that of silicon in the RF frequency range. These unique material properties allow us to construct a dual nanoslot waveguide in order to achieve both optical and RF mode concentration.
First, consider a quasitransverse electric (TE) mode in the optical domain, where the dominant electric field component is parallel to the horizontal plane, as shown in Figure 1. The electromagnetic boundary conditions reveal the electric field discontinuity across the slot, thereby resulting in an enhancement in the electric field strength in the low index material [15]. In order to characterize optical confinement within the polymer material, the confinement factor is defined as the ratio of the propagation power inside the slot to the total power of the guiding mode, . The figure of merit, , is strongly dependent on the design parameters, such as waveguide height, slot width, and silicon ridge width. Therefore, optimization of the design parameters is required to maximize mode confinement factor to achieve an improved EO modulation.
A full-vectorial finite-difference (FD) analysis [26] that is capable of handling anisotropic and lossy material properties is developed and employed to simulate the waveguiding characteristics, that is, the guided mode and effective index. We consider a slot waveguide with a gap size of nm and a silicon ridge width of nm. The EO polymer has a total height of m. Figure 2(a) shows the optical electric field distribution at the wavelength of 1.55 m with an effective index of 2.027. Across the middle plane of the waveguide structure an enhancement of in the electric field can be observed. Based on the mode profile, the calculated optical confinement factor in the EO polymer is %. The large mode concentration in the nanoslot provides an opportunity for the enhanced nonlinear interaction with applied electric field. As shown in Figure 2(a), the further extension of optical mode into top cladding of EO polymer and edge cladding of LiNbO3 will lead to an improved EO modulation.
The strong optical mode confinement in the slot suggests a RF mode overlap in the slot to maximize the modulation. Due to the very extremely different wavelength scales between RF and optical waves, the design for RF mode in a nanometer-scale slot becomes extremely challenging. Efforts have been made to establish the electrical field in the vertical slot by highly doping the silicon. However, at high frequencies the doped silicon becomes extremely lossy rather than conductive, thereby prohibiting its high speed operation. With the application of LiNbO3 as the outer claddings, let's also concern with concentrating the RF signal. While an RF signal is applied to the CPW electrodes, a CPW mode is established in which the dominant electric field in the gap between signal and ground is aligned in the direction. Since LiNbO3 material has a much larger dielectric constant than the silicon and EO polymer materials, the boundary conditions reveal that the resultant RF electric field inside the ferroelectric and silicon materials is much weaker than within the EO polymer. The weak electric field in the high dielectric constant materials indicates a small fraction of voltage drop across the materials; as a result, a large portion of the applied voltage is directly across the slot. The resulting structure creates an effective RF nanoslot waveguide within the transmission line. Due to the strong mode confinement in the low index EO polymer infiltrated slot, a lower overall RF effective index can be achieved. In the proposed design, the signal electrode width is m and the CPW gap size is m. The electrode thickness, , is optimized to match the RF effective index with that of the optical mode, enabling high speed operation. The loss tangents of LiNbO3 and silicon are 0.004 and 0.002, respectively, and the conductivity of gold is S/m. As shown in Figure 2(a), a strong electric field confinement, over V/m, is observed when a voltage of 1 V is applied across the signal electrode and ground at a frequency of 100 GHz. Such a strong electric field concentration will induce a significant optical index change in the nonlinear EO polymer material, resulting in a deep optical modulation. An ultrabroadband response that spans from DC to 250 GHz is performed by HFSS.
On the other hand, the introduction of the high dielectric constant material potentially allows for an increased electrode separation between signal and ground without significantly decreasing the electric field confinement in the slot. As a result, the RF mode will experience reduced conduction loss. This becomes of particular importance for the modulators to operate at high frequencies. Figure 3(a) shows the comparison between the optical effective index and frequency dependent RF effective index, as well as the attenuation constant for the RF slot waveguide. An optimal electrode thickness, m, is found to minimize the index mismatch to a value as low as 0.038 at high frequencies. Due to tight concentration in the slot, the overall RF effective does not vary significantly, and tends to be convergent to 2.065 at the frequencies over 50 GHz. Figure 3(b) shows the real and imaginary parts of the characteristic impedance. The finite conductivity has a strong impact on the characteristic impedance. At frequencies over 50 GHz, the characteristic impedance remains to be 49 Ohms.
3. Electro-Optic Modulation Analysis
In order to characterize the high speed electro-optic response and sensitivity of the proposed device based on the simulated optical and RF guided mode characteristics in the previous section, consider a traveling wave electro-optic modulator, where both optical and RF guided modes are copropagated along the same direction over a length of . The RF voltage amplitude along the transmission line can be expressed as [4, 27] where is the amplitude of the RF wave at the input port, is the RF wave number, is the RF attenuation constant, is the relative index mismatch between RF effective index and optical effective index , and is the RF frequency. Driven by the microwave, the optical phase induced at the end of modulator is derived by integrating the induced phase over the modulator, given by where the mode overlap integral factor, , that characterizes the induced changes in refractive index for a given applied voltage of , is defined by the mode overlap integral between optical and RF electric fields in the cross section transversal to the modulator propagation direction, where is the effective index of the optical mode, is the EO coefficient distribution, and and are the RF and optical electric fields, respectively. To characterize the high-speed response of the modulator, the electro-optic response of the modulator, derived from the induced phase at a given RF frequency of , is defined as a normalized quantity compared to the phase change at DC, From the above equation, the electro-optic response is strongly dependent on the RF loss coefficient and index matching, or velocity matching, between optical and RF guided modes. The half-wavelength voltage of corresponding to a phase change of over the interaction length of to produce a zero optical output can be derived as, where DC half-wavelength voltage is given by the . The longer the length of the modulator is, the lower the DC is; however, the lower the EO response is due to RF loss. Therefore, there is an optimal length for achieving a minimum half-wavelength voltage at high frequency.
From the analysis of both RF and optical characteristics in the previous section, the electro-optic modulation can be characterized based on the DC half-wavelength voltage-length product and the electro-optic response. The DC half-wavelength voltage-length product is strongly dependent on the mode overlap integral factor, , that is inherently related to the RF and optical mode concentration and overlap, as well as the EO coefficients. To evaluate these expressions, the EO coefficient of the EO polymer is assumed to be , 100, or 170 pm/V [8, 11, 22, 28]. The resulting is listed accordingly in Table 1, indicating nearly two orders of magnitude enhancement in EO modulation compared to traditional LiNbO3 traveling wave modulators. Figure 4 depicts the EO response of the proposed modulators with two different lengths: and 2 cm, obtained from (4). Minimal RF propagation loss and good index matching provide an ultrabroadband electro-optic response, that is, 250 GHz. The frequency-dependent driving voltage, derived from the DC and electro-optic response , demonstrates a subvolt driving voltage, at ultra-high frequencies. The push-pull configuration of the modulator will further reduce the DC by a factor of 2 if an intensity modulation is interested.
Compared to conventional traveling wave modulators, the proposed dual vertical slot waveguide EO modulators demonstrate superior advantages from a variety of aspects. The extremely strong RF and optical modes confinement within a nanoslot lead to a tight mode overlap, enhancing nonlinear interaction of EO polymer. The reduced RF loss due to a large electrode gap improves the electro-optic response, thereby enabling high speed operation. The application of exotic organic EO polymer owing to its high EO coefficient further lower the driving voltage, therefore enhancing sensitivity. In addition to these, the application of EO property of polymer requires careful material preparation, including EO activation. In order to activate the EO property, EO polymer is required to pole at an appropriate temperature with an extremely high field, that is, 50 V/m [22]. The proposed design may offer potential in the EO material poling process. An applied DC bias on the electrodes can be directly extended across the slot. For a given 120-nm slot and 40-V applied voltage, an electric field about 44 V/m can be produced. The small slot size and the strong field established with a low applied voltage make an in situ poling process of the polymer feasible.
4. Conclusion
In summary, we have presented an integrated RF and optical vertical dual slot waveguide traveling wave EO modulator. By harnessing the unique material properties of the ferroelectric LiNbO3 material and organic EO polymers, the proposed design is able to tightly concentrate both RF and optical modes in a slot for maximizing the nonlinear interaction with the applied electric field. Numerical simulations are performed to characterize the design. The tight mode overlap and large EO coefficient of polymer significantly leverage the modulation sensitivity, leading to a subvolt driving voltage over a length of 1 cm. The improved electrode design significantly reduce the RF propagation attenuation, thereby enabling the design operate over the frequencies of 250 GHz.
The authors gratefully acknowledge Drs. Attila Szep, Robert Nelson, and Gernot Pomrenke from Air Force Research Lab for the valuable discussions and financial support for this research.
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Three Sisters and their Mother Visit Paris
I have been very fortunate over the last few years to have had the opportunity to take many fabulous trips with my favorite travel partner, my sister K. After debating our endless "places to go" list for our next destination, we decided on Paris, a city we had both visited before separately, but both 10+ years ago. We were pleasantly surprised when our sister C asked to come along and get that first stamp in her passport, and soon our Mom signed up for the journey, too.
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We all converged on JFK less than a week after Sandy – my sisters from Manhattan, Mom from CT and me from the Philly suburbs. Fear of Sandy-related traffic caused us to arrive at the airport many hours early, but fortunately there were no surprises and our Iberia flights to Paris via Madrid were on-time and uneventful.
It has become a tradition to start every vacation with a brisk walk through the sprawl that is Madrid-Barajas Airport. Just typing those words make me sweat. There is a reason there are defibrilators on the wall every 100 yards in this airport. It's a terrifically well-laid out and modern airport, but HUGE and can be a bit exhausting to traverse after a sleepless overnight flight. Thankfully there are also lots of places to stop for a café, and when we settled in at the gate to wait for our Paris flight with a cafe con leche and the smell of ham in the air, a small part of me almost wished Spain was our final destination.
Soon, though, we were very happy to be in a taxi in Paris on our way from Orly to our home for the next week on the Quai des Grands Augustins, directly at the foot of the Pont Neuf.
This apartment was perfect for us. It had four single beds, was in a great location for walking to many sites and attractions, and had plenty of storage and sitting room for relaxing and game-playing (it is vacation, after all, and we have become addicted to the dice game "Farkle". How can you not love Farkle? Just saying Farkle is fun). It may be a bit too cozy for some. There's only one bathroom, and the area with two of the beds wasn't really a bedroom but a curtained-off nook with room for just the two beds and about 6" of space between them, but for close friends or a family it was fine. We all loved the colors and comfort of this place, and were really happy with this choice.
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Checking in was an adventure, and my French lessons quickly paid off as the owner (actually the owner's Mother, I think), did not speak English. The apartment has three keyed entrances, and a code one must enter to access the building after 8PM and on Sundays. I was pleased that even though my French is really crummy and we did need some charades, I was able to (mostly) understand what she was telling me.
Also an adventure: leaving the apartment. Owner-Mother showed us how to open one of the building doors using a magnetic key-fob, but never showed us how to get OUT. Day one and we were trapped in the building, able to see passers-by through the jail-like bars but unable to figure out how the blasted thing opened! While I ran back up to the apartment to try to search for clues and fret about this being a fire hazard, C and K stayed by the door in hopes they could figure it out.
Using a few "bonjours" and her womanly charms (or at least her ability to gesture wildly), C proved herself to be an excellent addition to our travel-group as she lured over a nice Frenchman who said "there must be a button…" Aha! There was a button, and pressing that released the magnets and allowed the door to be pushed open. C and K thanked our hero (while also hoping not to run into him again, as not being able to work a door is a tad embarassing) and we were freed! In our defense, the button was not very close to the door (though now that I'm writing this, of course the button can't be so close to the door that an outsider could stick a hand thru and open it. Duh) and in our jet-lagged state, we figured it was a broken light switch. Oops.
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Interesting start so far. Just about every residential building in Paris has a button to push to release the street door. In most cases it is even labeled "porte".
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A label would have been most helpful!
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Nice summary!
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Good report thus far!
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We were bursting with culture when we left Paris (along with foie gras and vin rouge). There are endless choices of things to do and see, and it was hard to whittle the wish list down. Here's what we ended up doing, with plenty left on the "next time" list (and the next time and the next time after that, too)
Part 1, Museums and Exhibits
Musee D'Orsay
In addition to the marvelous collection here, we saw a really enjoyable exhibit called Impressionism and Fashion.
Bibliotheque Forney
We saw a small exhibit here of ad posters designed by Bernard Villemot. This was a fun little show, featuring posters he created for brands like Orangina and Perrier.
Paris Seen by Hollywood @ the Hotel de Ville
This was another fun exhibit, free at the Hotel de Ville. The exhibit focused on the way Paris and Parisians are portrayed in films and how the view has changed with the times. The exhibit features all sorts of drawings, snippets of films and costumes worn in different films, and of course there's lots of Audrey Hepburn. We really enjoyed this.
This was a nice space and Monet's Waterlillies are beautifully presented here.
Ok, we didn't actually go INTO the Louvre, but we did walk to it and past the i.m. pei pyramid to walk thru the Tuilleries, so that should count for something, right? This is my second trip to Paris and second miss of the Louvre. We are museum people, too. We go to museums in real life and not just when on vacation. I don't know what it is, but we all just looked at the building and the crowds (and this was in November) and said – meh, next time. I felt the same way at the Vatican and even the Met sometimes. It's too much. The volume is overwhelming. The way to manage it would be to go to a special exhibit or focus on an area of interest, but nothing tickled us on that day so we were happy to just keep walking.
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What a cute, bright apartment---good choice. Also what a great way to connect with your sisters and mother. It's fun to follow along with you in my favorite city.
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We really loved that apartment. The owner is an artist and the paintings on the wall are his work, and the colors made the place cheery even when it was gray outside. It was really comfy, too (I can picture my sis rolling her eyes as I type this - I must have said 50 times that I loved the comfy couch), and there was no way we would have been able to find a hotel room for four people with this much space at the price we paid. It really worked out well for us, and gave us a spot to just hang out and spend time together.
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Part 2, Touring, Sites and Performances
Mass at Eglise Saint Germain des Pres
One tradition when traveling with Mom is to go to mass in a language that we don't understand (a favorite was in Lisbon, where the only words we understood the entire mass were "Senor Cristo.") The tradition remained alive as we attended Sunday mass at this beautiful church, the oldest in Paris. The church faces some of the famous cafes of Hemingway's Paris, and having recently re-read A Moveable Feast, it was fun to see those.
Discovery Walks Montmartre Walking Tour
We loved this walking tour. It was about two hours long, and we thought it was a great way to see some of the nooks and crannies of this neighborhood. Honestly, if we had gone right to Sacre Couer as originally planned, we would have made a quick stop there and then made a hasty retreat to get away from all of the souvenir stands and hawkers. We would have missed out on a lot of interesting stories. The woman who guided this tour was really passionate about Montmartre, and it was infectious.
Ballet at the Opera Garnier
A tip to anyone interested in taking in a performance at the Opera Garnier: plan to purchase your tickets as soon as they go on sale, or else the choices may be limited. I made my purchase the day after, and ended up with limited choices and pretty lousy seats, in the third row of a box. Of course, they were super cheap at 12e each, but you get what you pay for. Our view was very limited, and we had to wait for our box-mates to leave to get a look at the magnificent Chagall ceiling.
The evening was a tribute to Merce Cunningham, featuring a ballet by Cunningham and music by John Cage. I've seen a Merce Cunningham performance before and loved it, but in that case the music was done by Radiohead and Sigur Ros. I enjoy modern dance (not that I'm any sort of expert) but I can't say the same about John Cage. I think his music (aka collection of noises) sucks the energy out of the dance. I'm sure there's something I'm not getting, but no matter. It was still a great experience to see a performance here, and well worth the 12euro
We went here twice. The first visit was to admire the stained glass windows of the upper chapel. It was the first Sunday of the month so admission was free, and we love gratuit! I was expecting long lines here, but we must have timed it nicely b/c there was hardly a wait at all. It was a sunny afternoon so the colors of the glass were brilliant and we were all enthralled.
The second visit was to take in a performance of Vivaldi's Four Seasons. What a nice way to spend an evening (well, an hour of the evening. It's not a long concert). The setting is beautiful -- you can't see the windows as well in the dark, of course, but they turn off all lights and illuminate only the altar, where the musicians perform, and it's just lovely. Even if you don't like classical music, I would highly recommend this.
Vedette du Pont Neuf cruise
We usually have a ban on water attractions. K and I once had a harrowing experience on a tourist boat in San Francisco, when some other cruisers started throwing food to the flock of seagulls shadowing our boat. The boat was quickly besieged by frenzied seagulls looking for lunch, and K and I were forced inside the boat to escape the attack. We felt trapped, and a ban against water attractions was established. BUT, but this is Paris and we needed to get a little closer to the Seine, plus the dock was about 10 steps from our apartment, so we lifted the ban and spent a chilly hour on the upper deck during one of their evening cruises. We got a really nice of view of a twinkling Eiffel Tower (and that is as close as we got to the ET, BTW) and it was lovely seeing the buildings and monuments of Paris illuminated at night. And, best of all, there were no seagulls.
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I am enjoying reading your report.
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Nice report, thanks.
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I'm enjoying reading your report. We were in Paris for the first time in August, and I LOVE Paris!!! We went on the Vedette du Pont Neuf, too, and really enjoyed the ride. Paris is so beautiful at night.
We had a tour of the Opera Garnier, but didn't see a show there. Went to mass at Notre Dame, which was amazing, and unplanned; we just happened to be there when there was an evening mass being held.
Your story of the sea gulls in San Francisco reminds me of Hitchock's The Birds!
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It did feel like a scene from the Birds!
Thanks for the nice comments.
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Great report. It's nice to see another mother/daughter(s) travel team! My mom and I leave for Rome tomorrow!
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Ohhhh, I long to return to Rome. Have a great trip! I'm already looking forward to reading your report!
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WHAT WE DID, Part 3, Shopping
Typically when K and I travel together our shopping consists of a) visiting every chocolate shop within a 10 mile radius and b) frantically searching the airport for last minute gifts before leaving the country. Mom, though, loves to shop and she quickly sucked us all into her purchasing frenzy. It was fun!
We shopped around a charming area of Rue du Bac and found a Laudree on Rue Jacob, where we felt obliged to sample some macarons. So pretty and tasty, too. They could become an expensive habit. Mom bought some pretty linens at a shop near here, too.
Rue Montorgueil
I forget where I had read about this market street, but I'm glad we wandered over to it. There were lots of different shops to poke around, and plenty of opportunities to pick up some fun chocolates to sample and to bring back home.
Rue Dauphine and Rue du Buci
We traversed these rues about 100 times during our stay. There are a number of interesting galleries on these streets, but we also found some reasonably priced little places to buy scarves and earrings and things. We had an interesting time at one shop trying to buy jewelry that was sold by the gram, and lamented that we never quite learned the metric system (the shopkeeper may have been lamenting that, too). Oh, and can't forget that there were places to get twinkling Eiffel Towers around here, too, if one desires.
On "Marais Day" we also hit a lot of the shops in that area, and bought some pretty scarves from a street vendor near the Hotel de Ville.
Went to the Supermarket
At home, I dread the supermarket and would much prefer to go to a small market or markets specializing in produce or bakeries or whatever, and we did go to the local boulangerie and fromagerie while in Paris. But we also made many a stop at our local market (a Carrefour, I think) near the Rue de Buci. At first, it was fun looking at all of the French products (why don't we have poultry and thyme flavored potato chips??), but when C started pointing out to other customers which aisle they could find things in, we began to think that perhaps we were spending a bit too much time here.
One reason for our many visits - we were challenged with finding a half-and-half type of creamer for the morning coffee we had at our apartment. We never did quite figure it out, though we did accumulate quite a collection of different milk and milk-like products that we tried but failed. We had the same issue during our trip to San Sebastian last May, where we ended up using a tube of condensed milk out of desperation. I really need to make a note to research the milk issue for our next trip!
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I am enjoying your report. It is so great to hear of mothers/daughters/sisters travelling together. I bet you did a lot of laughing!
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I am so enjoying this. We go back in March for trip #6 to Paris, following 10 in Rome and Sicily. Love Rome and Sicily, but Paris has my heart. We have spent many hours at the supermarkets near the apartment we stay in. Too much fun!!
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Yes, there was definitely a lot of laughing. We had a lot of fun together.
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"when C started pointing out to other customers which aisle they could find things in"
I thought this was really funny. We are going to Paris in March and sharing an apartment with my sister and her husband. I hope we have as much fun as you did with your family. Thanks.
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I am enjoying your report! Whenever we travel, DH loves to explore the local supermarkets! We always purchase snacks for the hotel room. Looking forward to the next installment!
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Supermarkets are always surprisingly fun and enlightening.
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Talking about milk/cream for coffee----what's with the milk in a box on the shelves that is not refrigerated? In the smaller towns in France that's all we could find. It was good and we refrigerated it after opening but I can't imagine a product like that in the US. In those markets the cold refrigerater sections did not have any milk at all.
An item we loved in the supermarkets in Paris was the sliced, packaged ham in the fridge section. It was so good for a quick snack at the end of the day. Sliced, packaged ham in the US is just nasty compared to the European stuff. The US is a progressive country---why can't we get ham as good as in France & Italy? It's like night and day different.
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Great report, jmct! I love it that you passed on the Louvre and yet managed to be brimful of culture.
I got up at 0245 on the day Opera Garnier tickets went on sale here, was all primed to jump on decent cheap seats for either an opera or ballet. Waited... waited... by the time my turn came, incredibly the last expensive tickets for either would have cost our family of four $135. I still would have jumped on them, but half of us wanted dance and the other half preferred opera. So I agonized for a few min and then turned the computer off and went back to bed.
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I am thoroughly enjoying your report and travelling vicariously with you to my favourite city. We, too, did the "meh" thing when we saw the lineups at the Louvre, but ultimately did get there (4 times). It's never enough!
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I, too, am thoroughly enjoying your report and can't wait for the next installment. We'll be in Paris next September with family members, one who will be visiting Paris for the first time. I appreciate your details and your humor. Thank you!
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Gosh, I remember that boxed milk from a trip to Switzerland in 1983. It seemed so exotic at the time, but then our local Kroger carried it for a while.
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this is such a fun report. you are fortunate to travel with family and enjoy all the laughs.
the Milk you got was called "longlife milk" 9at least in England) and it is really a lifesaver at times.
As for half and half, I would just buy plain milk, and then cream, and mix them til I got what I'd like in my coffee. It has worked in a couple of places.
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Thanks all for the kind words and the milk info. Funny how those little things are what you find yourself laughing about later. Taconic, I probably shouldn't admit this, but we weren't even able to figure out which of the many choices wasn cream, in either the refrigerated or non-refrigerated sections. Oops.
I just have a bit left, mostly some restaurant highlights. I'll try to finish it up tomorrow, or at least before I start to focus/fantasize about the next trip!
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