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We were looking forward to experiencing Underbelly and tried to make sense of the menu. The food was excellent and the waiter explained that it was family style. That was not a problem. However the order of dishes and the time between each dish was awkward. Family style is when everything is complete and passed around. We started with squash and two more courses before the short rib was served. There was awkward order of dishes and no sense of a meal.
Food was outstanding and the service was great. Overall a lovely experience for my wifes birthday.
Great menu and dining room. Order lots of small plates to share.
Presentation was impeccable and food was paired well.
First time. Enjoyed very much. Pork roast and Waygu roast excellent
For starters, the service was impeccable. Almost instantly there was an understanding between our server and us that this was going to be a fun night. And once he found it that we were rookies at this fine establishment, he somewhat took us under his wing and guided us through through the menu and ordering styyle. Once the food started coming, it didn't stop until the coup de gras, Waygu roast. It was cooked at a perfect medium rare and was quite the delight for both the eyes and the pallet. Also, I would highly recommend the goat and dumplings in chili sauce. You've never had a dish like it. And are likely never to again. Our deserts, pretzels and pie (vinegar) were also quite memorable. In a good way of course.
Very interesting combination of flavors in each dish. Really enjoyed the family style servings that allowed our party of 6 to try almost everything on the menu, share the dishes, and still get full. Highlights: the bread and smoky butter, greek style pork tenderloin, wagyu ribeye, crispy okra, and the dessert with the pretzel. Delicious!! Great atmosphere as well for a special night out!
Food was excellent, sever was very attentive, over all a good experience.....
I heard so many good things about Underbelly that I decided to make reservations; when we got there it was a brisk and rainy evening and decided to move our dining outside on the open patio. LOVED it, we had to move towards the end of our dining experience but it was still a great evening. The rain and the cool breeze from a fall evening is so rare in Houston. The food was scrumptious and filling. The service was great- our waiter was pretty cool, a tad hipster like but rather entertaining and helped us with dish recommendations. Awesome find and a must try. (Two dishes to share was enough for 2 but we pushed it to 3 and couldn't finish the 3rd)
Loved the Korean goat and dumplings and the vegetables with caramelized fish sauce. Wow - so good!!
Chef came to our table, made a personal welcome and gave my wife and me Underbelly T-shirts....He made us feel very comfortable. The food was superb, especially the snapper and steak and dessert. Waitress was very pleasant. Service was with a smile and excellent. Atmosphere was not stuffy. Great for dinner. This is on our list when we go back for a weekend from the Pa cold weather.
a co-worker and i went after a long day at the trade show and it was one of the best dining experience i have ever had. I am not an adventurous eater but we ordered about 5 dishes and dessert and i ate every last bit of it! the waiter was extremely kind and informative and the food was phenomenal. prices are fair and the atmosphere is relaxing.
There were four of us and we simply ordered 5 different things and shared them vs. each of us settling in on one dish and making it our entire meal. Doing this likely made our overall rating better for all 4 of us. Pretty interesting menu I could see how some might struggle with the creativity. It was a fun place, which has been on our "list" of places to try and the most important thing "we will go back"!
We had a very pleasant meal. Walking into the restaurant we immediately felt this was a great place, and the friendly and knowledgeable server confirmed that impression. I had read a lot about the Korean goat and dumplings so we had to have that, and we selected a few more dishes from the menu. The server suggested a wine that turned out to be very nice and that complemented the various dishes excellently. The food was very good, and we liked all our choices. My first bite of the Korean goat dish seemed to indicate something really yummy, but it soon turned out that the dish was just a tad too spicy for my taste. It is still a very good and unusual dish though. We had a nice evening and would definitely recommend this restaurant.
The server was very knowledgeable. The Korean bbq gnocchi and the wagyu meatballs are a must have. Th eprices for lunch are a bargain. I will definitely come back.
Always have a great time here and the food is generally great. That said, our deserts both had crusts that were so tuff that we couldn't cut them. Still, we will be back and just order more savory dishes instead of dessert!... one other note, we ordered a second bottle of wine (a light Oregon pinot noir) and when we were told they were out, the waiter then presented a Rhone as an alternative. Couldn't really figure that out, but we really couldn't figure out why the waiter was then rude to us for politely rejecting the suggestion.
Very interesting menu that is well thought out and executed. Certainly a place to dine for Foodies. Korean goat dumplings are outstanding.
This was our 4th time here. We have not had a bad dish yet. Wait staff excellent! Food is amazing!!!
Food was excellent. Wine list is extremely thoughtful. Service was relaxed but attentive and professional. Can't fault. Top 5 Houston restaurant. Top 1 with a less formal vibe.
Food was great. But could be a bit more subtle w/ the 'just-great-food-w/-no-rules' commitment. The food sends that message insofar as it simple, yet creative and very well executed. And front matter to the menu and wine list is an appropriate place to underscore that point. But the wine list and menu read like a creative workshop writing assignment - they seem (dis)organized so that, in case I didn't get the message - this is a place with no rules, just great food. And in case I missed it, the waiter told the same story. If any part of the message would not suffer from emphasis, it is the part about the local sourcing and inspiration. To be sure, Underbelly has great food, and absolutely worthy of return visits.
Took a client there for dinner and he was extremely impressed with the food and wine selection Would easily go back there again. Like the fact that the menu is constantly changing to keep it fresh
We dine at Underbelly about once a month and we are always impressed. The flavor profiles are intriguing and always work.
I had heard alot about it and was anxious to try. Food was good, but I didn't think the place was "over the top"
We were looking for a special treat for a special occasion and were very pleased with our decision to try Underbelly! There were 4 of us in our party and we were seated at a comfortable table for 4. We chose a family-style main course of pot roast with sides that included crispy sautéed green beans and a tasty loaf of their bread. Finally, we split 2 delicious deserts. And their house "cab" was a delicious wine choice. Service was fast and friendly on all counts!
We were impressed with the food at Underbelly. Our dishes were flavorful, unique and pleasant. Goat and Dumplings, homemade bread and butter, fish and vegetable dish and Housemade sausage with seared cabbage and Vinegar Pie. We thoroughly enjoyed every bit of each dish. There was nothing to complain about even if we wanted to. Temperature of the food was perfect as well as the visual appeal of each dish. The service was also perfect and I am very fussy about service. Our waiter was knowledable about the food and helped us to make desicions. He was there when we needed him and absent when we didn't. The cost of our lunch was higher than we would normally spend for lunch, but well worth it for the experience and quality of what we received.
My first impression is that I loved the industrial decor with a touch of farm flare. Off putting was the lack of seating for those waiting. Standing for 30 minutes on a concrete floor in 4-inch heels isn't fun. Also off-putting: the woman with a gaggle of 4-5 small girls taking up space IN THE BAR. One of them dropped a glass or plate on the concrete floor that smashed loudly, shattering on impact. Who takes small children to places like this - to dine in the BAR, no less? Staff, from beginning to end were gracious, friendly, and professional. The whole by-catch was beautiful and delicious, just slightly underseasoned. The Butcher's Cut was the ribeye and was spectacular. Desserts were cozy and comforting. They ran out of Pot Roast early.
The food was great, but the presentation was amazing. Camera came out to take pictures of it. Service was great and at the right level. The price was very reasonable for the quality.
Had a wonderful meal with guests from New York. We ordered a number of small plates plus two family style plates. Standout winners were pork belly with cheese grits and whole bycatch. Duck was also amazing. Only low note was pot roast, which had great flavors but was a bit dry.
I was looking for a unique fun place to take a lady that had interesting food and good service. The experience was great starting with the menu's presented inside book covers to the unique menu. Service was excellent and our server seemed to know when to check on us without stopping too frequently. She was also helpful in guiding us through the many interesting choices. Atmosphere was great and not too loud so conversation was easy. Only complaint was the online booking tool was booked from 6:00 until 8:45 but many tables were open from 5:45 to 7:15. Recognize that is not the restaurant's fault but would have been nice to start later. Overall - highly recommend. Reasonably priced, very tasty food, very good service!
My sister and I tried Underbelly for the first time for lunch after seeing write-ups in several magazines. We were not disappointed! The staff was great and the food was exactly what we'd hoped for. We shared the spicy Korean goat dumplings (excellent!) and the smoked bologna sandwich (not your typical bologna sandwich from your childhood - it was fantastic!). Highly recommend for anyone that looks forward to an interesting menu. Can't wait to go back and try something else!
I liked the fact that the food we ordered was light on the carbs and locally grown. I founf it a little bland so asked for hot sauce. I also wanted a tad bit of bread to scoop up the broth of the main course and that was sort of a hassle to obtain. Overall, I was impressed by the decor, ambiance, quality of the food, artsy menus and th service. I will bring guests from out-of-town since it is a great place to showcase Houston Food. However, I may not return casually with my date since I was not over-impressed.
Have only eaten lunch here but each time is such a treat. It's comfort food with modern menu design. While dining for lunch earlier in the week, I had the flank steak with roasted sweet potatoes and pecans. The mixture of flavors between the steak and potatoes was amazing. Their portion size is very generous. My dining partner had a sausage and cabbage dish. the sausage was a burst of flavor by itself and combined with the cabbage, was amazing. The service was good, the noise level is high due to the high ceilings so if you have hearing problems, make sure to ask for a seat by the wall. Highly recommend it.
Great meal and a great time! Got to have a conversation with owner/chef at the end of the night, which made it even more memorable and special.
The descriptions on the web site are very inviting,.the food was delicious. The bread was so good, I would love to get it as a gift along with the butter. I enjoyed sharing a variety of dishes , but the greedy part of me just wanted to eat it all. The portions are enough for two people. The vegetable dish was awesome flavorful and maintained the veggie crunch, green beans were featured. I will be back. I do plan to visit one of the suggested establishments.
The Korean Braised Goat and Dumplings didn't disappoint ... again! Quiet, easy-paced late weekday lunch. Everything was delicious.
The food was simply awesome. The service was super! I had the C and D Hamburger w/ fries. I have never tasted a better hambuger, my sister had the guld shimp on a salad. Which was also awesome. I am still dreaming about the desert. The fried Pretzel was heavenly and the sauce and ice cream put the desert over the top. Will go back again and again
Worst panna cotta ever, don't know why their version was soo thick. Does anyone else feel the same? Other items very good!
We had an amazing selection of dishes to choose from on the ever-changing menu... and every one of our 8 or 9 choices was sensational. Great selection of wines and great service also.
Of all the steak, sushi/japanese, chinese, vietnamese, korean, new american, french-inspired, and/or farm to table restaurants in Houston, this is my favorite... because it is better and fresher than all of them and tastilly and tastefully inspired by all of them. Go with a party of four and you can share over half of the menu at this family style restaurant. Must love meat to enjoy this place.
This place is a total gem! Only drawback I have so far is it's hard getting in there!...you need to make a reservation a week in advance. But the food and service are both phenomenal. Local meat/seafood and produce from the farmer's market bought just a few hours before it's put on your plate. I tried 5 different main dishes and 2 different deserts and all were out of this world for taste and quality!
Worth the hype! We had reservations but were running a few minutes late; the lady over the phone reassured me it wasn't a problem. The ambiance was energetic. Customer service was great. Food: AMAZING. We tried five dishes. We started with the steak tartare; although a small portion, it was very good with the sesame crackers. Then we had the slow dough with the honey butter which was so warm and fluffy on the inside and nice and crusty on the outside. We tried the vindaloo meatballs which exploded with flavour. The Korean dumplings are nothing you would imagine. This dish was amazing, super flavourful AND spicy. We ended off with the pork collar which I personally would have been fine without. Overall great experience!
Simply put, this was one of, if not the best, meals of my life. Don't walk, RUN here!
Everything we tasted was delicious. We ordered what the server recommended, including the wine, and he did not disappoint. Will definitely come back for more recommendations!
Everyone has THE DISH they use to judge a place (I compare gumbos to my grandma's). I took a friend to UB for the first time and his comparator is cheese grits. An understated man, his eyes lit up one bite into his shrimp and grits, and he exclaimed, "This is outstanding!" While we were there, a crew dropped in and filmed chef Chris cooking something wonderful. His interviewer had the same look as my friend when she tried the finished product! The service is impeccable. On the flip side: the chairs at most of the tables are hardwood and are uncomfortable for those with back or hip issues. And don't go expecting a romantic experience- unless romance for you means eating at a long table with other people. The ambience here is different.
Excellent food and service. Wine list is extensive, but you've probably never heard of anything on it. It's printed in a small, low-contrat font, so you really can't read it anyway. As to the food - it was really, really good. And as is always the case: "small plates" are a way to try more variety, get less food, and spend quite a lot more. If you like to foodie scene and that sort of ordering and dining, then this is a superb choice.
The best restaurant we have been to since moving to Texas 2-years ago. Outstanding reception, service, food and ambience. We will be back...
From the moment you walk into the dining room you know you are in for a great experience. The from is inviting and gives you the feeling you can relax and have a great meal. The wait staff is friendly and attentive. The food is always the best, you really don;t know what to expect until you sit down because they focus on farm to table and the freshest ingredients. I would recommend ordering several dishes and share them with everyone at the table. We ordered Fried Oysters which were great. Pot Roast which melted in your mouth and local vegetables. Save some room because the deserts are something to behold, the creme de pot was the highlight of a great desert selection. If you are in Houston you need to go to Underbelly.
From the entrance through dessert Underbelly was a wonderful dining experience. The place scales well. You can have a romantic dinner for two or a large party. The food is very colorful, flavorful and intriguing.
Food was excellent and I enjoyed the ambience, warm and relaxing. It is nice to have high quality dining without the formality.
My boyfriend and I have been wanting to try Underbelly since we moved to Houston a few years ago. I decided to surprise him for his birthday.... then got stuck in traffic and we missed our reservation (typical 290, eh?). Luckily, there ended up being plenty of room in the bar area which was snug, but not crowded :) The food was so delicious and we love the concept of sharing small plates; why chose just one thing when you can try 3 or 4?! The staff was incredibly nice and really great helping us pick our drinks and food. The Korean Braised Goat with Dumplings was one of the best things I've ever eaten :)


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On Roots & Branches, Paul Asbell's second collection of gourmet guitar pieces, the well-known Burlington axeman further verifies his place as Chittenden County's John Fahey. The disc is a wonderful follow-up to 2000's Steel-String Americana; the originals and classics here are played on his collection of snazzy, exquisite-sounding acoustic and electric guitars.
The new CD is dedicated to Asbell's late father, Bernie, who was not only a well-respected musician and writer, but also a prodigious collector of early blues and jazz recordings. Through these Paul was introduced to some of the material he recorded for Roots & Branches, so we listeners owe the elder Asbell our thanks, too.
While he certainly has the technical ability to go it alone, Asbell brought in some friends to spice up a few of the disc's 14 cuts. Both "Parker's Mood" and "Hideaway" feature some fine down-and-dirty blues harp from Howard Levy. Joel Smirnoff, violinist with the Julliard String Quartet, fiddles about and adds extra class to Asbell's take on Fats Waller's "Ain't Misbehavin'."
It sounds like Asbell had a ball with the vocals on "Jesus on the Mainline" and "Fishin' Blues," numbers most often associated with Ry Cooder and Taj Mahal, respectively. Melvin Jackson's "Gambling Blues" and Jelly Roll Morton's "Windin' Boy" feature more singing. Asbell might be having a bit too much fun to be a convincing blues vocalist, though - much of the underlying darkness that makes the blues the blues simply isn't there. But you can practically catch the light glinting off of his guitar work, and that's Asbell's real claim to fame.
In the tradition of Stefan Grossman, John Renbourn and other guitar pedagogues, Asbell has graciously provided track-by-track information on his website about which guitar he's using and whether alternate tunings were employed.
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BACKGROUNDER: Benefits of NAFTA |
May 2005 |
continued strength of North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
markets has been one of the brightest spots for U.S. farmers,
agricultural exporters, and the industries that support them. Together,
our NAFTA partners, Canada and Mexico, purchased $18.2 million worth of
agricultural products or 29.6 percent of total U.S. agricultural exports
in 2004, up from 28.9 percent in 2003 and 20.8 percent in 1993. |
Farmers in the United States, Canada, and Mexico all benefit from NAFTA.
Two-way agricultural trade
between the United States and Mexico increased 149 percent since 1993 (the
year prior to NAFTA implementation), reaching $15.8 billion in 2004.
Two-way trade increased 10.9 percent from 2003 to 2004.
Two-way agricultural trade between the United States and Canada increased 112 percent since 1993 and 8 percent with respect to 2003 reaching $21.1 billion in 2004.
Although U.S. imports have grown under NAFTA, so have U.S. exports. Without NAFTA, the United States would have lost these expanded export opportunities.
Since implementation of the U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement, U.S. agricultural exports to Canada have nearly doubled. Canada is now the No. 1 market for U.S. agricultural exports, which climbed from $5.3 billion in 1993 to $9.3 billion in 2003 and on to $9.7 billion in 2004.
Since NAFTA's approval in 1993, U.S. agricultural exports to Mexico have more than doubled. Mexico is now our second largest market, taking over that rank from Japan in 2004. In 1993, Mexico took $3.6 billion worth of U.S. agricultural products compared to $7.9 billion in 2003 and and $8.5 billion in 2004.
In 2004, exports of numerous key U.S. commodities set records to both countries:
Canada: fresh vegetables, fresh
fruits, snack foods, poultry meat, pet foods, vegetable oils, planting
seeds, breakfast cereals, tree nuts, nursery products, rice, soybean meal,
processed fruits and vegetables, juices and eggs.
Mexico: red meats, processed fruits and vegetables, poultry meat, fresh vegetables, tree nuts, wheat, soybean meal, animal fats, dairy products and rice. This broad cross section of commodities suggests the benefits of NAFTA are widely distributed across U.S. agriculture.
Import competition has increased under NAFTA for some commodities, a not unexpected development, as trade barriers begin to come down and trade is subject to open marketing conditions. As the largest of the NAFTA countries and with a booming economy, it is not surprising that U.S. imports from Canada have grown strongly, providing American consumers with a broader array of competitively priced, high-quality products.
In 1993, U.S. goods faced an average tariff barrier at the Mexican border of about 10 percent, five times the 2.07 percent rate that the United States imposed on Mexican goods. With NAFTA, Mexico's average tariff has fallen to about 2 percent. Import licensing and other non-tariff barriers have been eliminated and more than two-thirds of U.S. exports now enter duty-free.
U.S. pork producers credit NAFTA with their gains in market share in Mexico for pork products, which increased 3.5 times to $430.7 million between 1993 and 2004 and more than seven-fold to $259.8 million to Canada during the same period. One-year increases from 2003 to 2004 are quite striking: exports to Mexico and Canada surged 93.6 percent and 49 percent, respectively.
Mexico and Canada have become two of the top three U.S. poultry markets in the world: In 2004, U.S. poultry exports to Mexico were valued at $331.1 million while Canada reached $330.3 million (the Russian Federation came in at $530.5 million). Exports to Mexico increased 61.5 percent and 100 percent to Canada since 1993. The export increases from 2003 are remarkable at 27.6 percent for Mexico and 22.8 percent for Canada.
Sales of U.S. corn to Canada and Mexico increased 175 percent and fifteen-fold in value, respectively, between 1993 and 2004. In 1993, Mexico and Canada were ranked 16th and 9th, respectively, in U.S. corn markets worldwide. By 2004, they had risen to 2nd and 4th, respectively. Mexico chose to expedite its market openings for corn under NAFTA in order to provide lower cost food to its increasingly urban population and to ensure sufficient animal feed. Changes in U.S. corn exports in 2004 compared to 2003 are more ordinary than pork and poultry, registering a quite modest 3.5-percent gain to Mexico and a 3.3-percent decline to Canada (and a 3.9-percent decline since the record of $394.6 million worth in 2002).
Exports of U.S. fresh fruits and vegetables to Canada, out top market, reached $1.9 billion in 2004. This is an increase of 45.5 percent since 1993 and 5 percent from 2003. Mexico's growth as a market for these products is even more striking: rising from our fifth largest market in 1993 to third in 2004. Exports to Mexico surged 98 percent from $134 million in 1993 to $265.8 million in 2004. The changes between 2003 and 2004 were mixed: exports to Canada rose 5 percent but declined 0.5 percent to Mexico.
Implementation of NAFTA began on January 1, 1994. Once NAFTA is fully implemented, it will remove most barriers to trade and investment among the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
Under NAFTA, all non-tariff barriers to agricultural trade between the United States and Mexico were eliminated. Many tariffs were eliminated immediately while others were scheduled for phase out over periods of 5 to 15 years. Virtually all agricultural tariffs and tariff rate quotas will be phased out by the year 2008. Currently, all Canadian and U.S. agricultural import tariffs are at zero except for Canadian poultry and U.S. sugar. As of January 1, 2003, virtually all Mexican import tariffs are at zero except for corn, dry beans, non-fat dried milk, orange juice and sugar, all of which are subject to tariff-rate quotas.
The agricultural provisions of the U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement, in effect since 1989, were incorporated into NAFTA. Under these provisions, all tariffs affecting agricultural trade between the United States and Canada, with a few exceptions for items covered by tariff-rate quotas, were removed by January 1, 1998.


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Holding a stopwatch in his hand, Dale Borchardt walked around the Cloquet wrestling gymnasium at Tuesday's practice observing athletes as they squared off – Including a match between his oldest son, Reid, and his youngest, Mitchell.By: Tyler Korby, Pine Journal
Holding a stopwatch in his hand, Dale Borchardt walked around the Cloquet wrestling gymnasium at Tuesday's practice observing athletes as they squared off – Including a match between his oldest son, Reid, and his youngest, Mitchell.
In fact, the rare matchup between the 145-pound Reid, an Esko junior, and 124-pound Mitchell, an Esko freshman, sparked Dale to talk about the atmosphere in their wrestling household.
"We'll be watching a movie, and all of sudden Mitchell will throw me in a headlock – then it's go time," Dale said. "Usually he and I go at it – noogie wrestling – and Reid jumps in sometimes."
Both brothers jumped into their favorite sport when they were young: Mitchell began wrestling in kindergarten, while Reid is now in his 10th season. Each are pivotal members of the Cloquet-Esko wrestling team, a program with half a dozen team victories already and off to its finest season since it became a varsity sport here in 2006.
"I think about wrestling all day long," said the 5-foot-9 Reid. "It's a sport we love so much during the season. Mitchell and I always work. Some weeks we even go for all seven days."
"It's fun to get out here," added the smaller Mitchell, standing 5-foot-6. "You're just pounding on guys. It takes some strength."
Last Thursday, both brothers won their pair of matches in a triangular meeting with Grand Rapids and Virginia in Cloquet. Monday at Aitkin, each wrestled above his normal weight class, according to a thoroughly-impressed Coach Al Denman.
"They've been doing this since they were little shavers," Denman said Tuesday. "Every good team needs to have those go-to guys. They are that for us. They give us a chance to win. They bring up the hope for the whole team."
With the Borchardt brothers teamed up for 30-plus wins combined, the depth-laden Lumberjacks also look to Conner Denman, Jordan Baker, Alex Land, Seth Stevens, Casey Kulas, Treavor Lowther and Kristina Erickson for point support.
More importantly, family support is pivotal in the sport.
As many families are involved, the Borchardts are, too. While Reid and Mitchell wrestle, Dale serves as the junior varsity coach and Esko Youth Club director. Mom Wendy helps run the concession stand at all home meets in Cloquet. Tuesday night, Wendy thanked all within the program for their opportunities.
Denman was quick to add praise to families like theirs.
"They're passionate about it – not just to benefit their own kids, but for the rest of the kids, as well," Denman said, respectfully. "The Borchardt family invests a lot of time here."
It's an investment they wouldn't want any other way.
"We've done this for 11 years now," said Dale. "We've done it. We've enjoyed it. And the boys have been alright at it."
"I've spent a lot of my life in this," added Mitchell. "It's fun."
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Every year sarai provides stipendship to conduct research on the city Life. These stipendships are provided to post graduate researchers enrolled in different academic programmes across the country.
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This year, 20 stipendships were provided to researchers who come from a wide range of disciplines and places. On 14-15th December 2007,they will be making public presentations on their nine months of research.
Sarai, CSDS Student Stipendship Workshop
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Day I Friday, 14 December 2007
9.30-9.45 Tea
9.45-10.00 Introductory Remarks: Ravi Sundaram, Awadhendra Sharan and Sadan Jha
10.00-11.00 Spaces and Institutions of Commercial Life
Chair: Ipsita Sahu
Hijam Eskoni Devi, Manipur, "Relevance of Traditional Institution in
Urban Governance: A Case Study of Nupi Keithel, Imphal"
Discussant: Mayuri Samant
Sumalatha.B.S., Trivandrum, "Space for Brokering Branches in Kerala
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Discussant: Sreeja
Open Remarks
11.00-11.15 Tea Break
11.15-1.00 Music, Television and Theatres
Chair: Meera Baindur
Vineet Kumar, Delhi, "Niji Samachar Chennelon ki Bhashik Sanskriti:
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Discussant: Priyanka Gupta
D.Karthikeyan, Chennai,"Music From The Margins: Gaana Songs As A
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Discussant: Sowjanya R.Peddi
Rohit Parkash, Patna, "Kalidas Rangalaya: Patna Ka Ek Sanskritik
Discussant:Agniv Ghosh
Open Remarks
1.00—2.00 Lunch Break
2.00-3.30 Environment, Governance and Planning
Geetanjoy Sahu, Bangalore, "Urban Environmental Governance"
Discussant: D.Karthikeyan
Sutapa Ghosh, Mumbai, "Modernist Planning"
Discussant: Hijam Eskoni Devi
Meera Baindur, Sreeja K.G. and Sowjanya R. Peddi, Bangalore, "The
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Discussant: Kartik Nair
Open Remarks
3.30-3.45 Tea Break
3.45-5.00 Open Session (Observations and Suggestions for Further Improvement by Workshop Participants. Moderator: Sadan Jha).
Day II Saturday, 15 December 2007
10.00-11.00 Visual (In)Visible City
Chair: Kartik Nair
Priyanka Gupta, Kolkata, "Graffiti and Kolkatascape: A Discourse of
Conflicting Rights, Class and Citizenship"
Discussant: Bhavya Dore
Akhil Katyal, Delhi, "Queer Urban Culture(s): The Case of New Delhi"
Discussant: Vineet
Open Remarks
11.00-11.15 Tea Break
11.15-1.00 Caste in the Changing Urban Milieu
Chair: Vineet
Abhishek Kumar Gupta, Delhi, "Ganga Main Bahati Jindagi"
Discussant: Rohit Prakash
Mayuri Samant, Delhi, "Caste Violence in Urban Spaces: A Study of
Discussant: Sumalatha B.S.
Sangeeta Chandu Thosar, Pune, "Political Leadership of Women in Pune
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Discussant: Geetanjoy Sahu
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1.00-2.00 Lunch Break
2.00-3.00 The Urban Reading Practices
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Sreedeep Bhattacharya, Delhi, "Pornography in Urban India: From Porn
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Agniv Ghosh, Delhi, "Nababus and their New Calcutta"a
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3.00-3.15 Tea Break
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Bhavya Dore and Kartik Nair, Delhi, "Appu Ghar: Amusing the City"
Discussant: Sreedeep
Ipsita Sahu, Delhi, "Gentrification in the Built Environment of
Ghaziabad: A Focus on Malls and Multiplexes"
Discussant: Meera Baindur
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Courtenay recently retired as a professor of psychiatry for the past 38 years. She was trained at the University of Vermont and Yale and worked last in the Department of Psychiatry at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia. She simultaneously retired as director of the Center for Rehabilitation and Recovery at the Coalition of Behavioral Health Agencies in New York City which serves 130 agencies caring for 350,000 people. Courtenay moved to New York from Boston where she was the Senior Director of Boston University's well-known Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation under William Anthony. Among her research endeavors, she participated in two three-decade NIMH studies of schizophrenia and other serious illnesses and found that many once profoundly disabled persons could and did significantly improve and/ or even fully recover. Her study in Vermont is now considered a "classic" in community psychiatry. These findings, similar to nine other long-term studies from across the world, helped to create the Institute for the Study of Human Resilience in order to investigate ways in which people reclaimed their lives including getting back to work. To date, Courtenay has received 52 federal, state, and foundation grants and contracts for schizophrenia research and studies of mental health services. She has been the recipient of over 45 awards and honors including the Alexander Gralnick Research Investigator Award from the American Psychological Association's Foundation for "exceptional contributions to the study of schizophrenia and other serious mental illness and for mentoring a new generation of researchers'. Courtenay has published nearly 100 papers about schizophrenia, rehabilitation, and recovery and has presented findings from her studies and clinical work in over 550 state, national, and international meetings. She has worked with 30 states, Australia, New Zealand, 11 European, and 9 Asian countries including China, to redesign their systems of care. She was recently married and now lives in Virginia. Courtenay established Integrated Health Outcomes, a consulting organization providing staff training, program evaluation and policy implementation in Virginia.
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Don is a retired Actuary having completed his career managing life and property insurance subsidiaries of major financial service companies. For the past 10 years, he has formed and built with his wife and many wonderful staff CooperRiis, Inc., a non-profit healing community that works with people suffering from a major mental illness and (often) substance abuse. CooperRiis currently has 100 residents under care, 150 FTE staff, a $10 million annual budget, $25 million in assets, and no debt.
Fran is Director of the International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership (IIMHL), which he founded in 2003. IIMHL is jointly funded by seven countries, including the United States, to build partnerships between mental health leaders in order to rapidly exchange knowledge of best and promising practices internationally. Before his work with IIMHL, Fran was CEO of Monadnock Family Services (MFS) in Keene, NH, for 10 years. In this role he looked internationally to identify, and then replicate, innovative services that promote recovery and social inclusion for long term consumers of mental health services. Such services have included the Wyman Way Cooperative, an independent, non-profit corporation managed and operated by long-term consumers of mental health services (based on an Italian model), and the Elm City Cooperative, where consumers own their own homes. Fran also led the development of Monadnock Partnership; a region-wide, integrated service linking health care, social services and economic development.
Gina is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health Care and an Associate Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at Oregon Health and Sciences University. She formerly served as the Executive Director of the Association of Oregon Community Mental Health Programs for 11 years and has worked extensively in mental health and addictions policy, leadership and management, health care financing and political advocacy. Gina has also been a Tillamook County Commissioner serving as Vice-President of the Association of Oregon Counties. As a former Community Mental Health Therapist, Adolescent Program Director and Clinical Supervisor, she gained experience in all aspects of community mental health including prevention (she ran a teen theatre program), civil commitment, compliance review, and crisis management. Gina also spent 25 years as a dance teacher and choreographer.
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Jessica is responsible for website design and management, marketing and media development, and coordination of information technology for Foundation programs. Jessica formerly served at the Association of Oregon Community Mental Health Programs for five years. Prior to that, she served as legislative staff at the Oregon State Capitol during the 2003 session, followed by three years at the Office for Oregon Health Policy & Research. Jessica found her passion for improving standards for mental health care just out of college during her two-year tenure as an employee of a community psychiatric crisis system. Jessica lives in Salem, Oregon and in her spare time enjoys wilderness backpacking with her two rescue dogs. She can be reached at
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Larry has, for the past twenty years, worked on Wall Street as an attorney specializing in complex financial and capital market products. He also has served as the President of the Board of Directors of Gould Farm, a residential therapeutic community dedicated to helping adults with mental illness move toward recovery, health and greater independence through community living, meaningful work and individual clinical care. Larry is presently on the Board of Directors of Gould Farm and is a member of both the Finance and Governance Committees.
Louisa is a psychotherapist in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Patty is the Administrative Manager for the Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health Care. Patty formerly served as the Administrative Manager for Jefferson Behavioral Health, a mental healthcare organization in Southern Oregon, for five years. She has over 12 years experience in human resources and also has experience in contract management, risk management, office management and meeting coordination. Patty lives in Oregon City, OR and enjoys spending her free time with her husband and son. Patty can be reached at
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Bob has over 40 years of experience working at all levels of the mental health and chemical dependency field, from case manager and alcohol/drug counselor to supervisory and management responsibilities. He was Oregon's commissioner for mental health and addiction services from 2003 to 2008 and is part-time Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, Oregon. Bob has published in the national peer-reviewed literature on consumer-operated case management services, dual diagnosis, supported education in a state hospital setting, and other related topics. In addition to the Foundation board, he also serves on the boards of the Oregon State Hospital Museum and Dual Diagnosis Anonymous of Oregon.
Sandra is the Medical Director at HowardCenter, a community mental health center in Burlington, Vermont where she has worked for the past 17 years. She is also Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University Of Vermont College of Medicine. For over 20 years, her clinical practice has primarily included patients with schizophrenia and other psychotic illnesses. She was named to Best Doctors in America in 2003. She currently writes a blog called Anatomy of a Psychiatrist on the website www.madinamerica.com.
As founding Executive Director of the CooperRiis Healing Community, Virgil began his mental health career in 1975 at Gould Farm, America's oldest therapeutic community. He was the founding Program Director of Gould Farm's Boston Program. Later, he was also the founding Executive Director of two other therapeutic communities; Rose Hill in Michigan and Gateway Homes in Richmond, Virginia. His past roles also include being founding President of the REACH Community Health Foundation, Vice President of Planning and Development for Northern Berkshire Health Systems, President of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, Senior Vice President of Legacy Banks, and Adjunct Professor of Philanthropy for the Visionaries Institute of Suffolk University. He has served on 10 nonprofit Boards, 6 of which were for new community health organizations.
Bill served as the founding Director of Boston University's Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, beginning in 1979 until his retirement from that position in June, 2011. He is now Professor Emeritus in the College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at Boston University. Bill is recognized as a major leader in the field of psychiatric rehabilitation and recovery. For the past 40 years, Bill has worked in various roles in the field of mental health and psychiatric rehabilitation, and has been honored for his performance as a researcher, an educator, and a clinician. In 1988, Bill received the Distinguished Services Award from the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill in recognition of "...his efforts that challenge outdated ideas which limit the potential of mentally ill people. The innovative programs created through Bill Anthony's leadership offer hope and opportunity". Bill has appeared on ABC's Nightline, which featured a rehabilitation program developed and implemented by Boston University's Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation. Ted Koppell characterized it as a model program: "a small beacon of sanity in dealing with the problems of those whose sanity has crumbled"; In 1992, Bill received the Distinguished Service Award from the President of the United States for his efforts "...in promoting the dignity, equality, independence and employment of people with disabilities". Bill has authored over 100 articles in professional journals, 18 textbooks, and several dozen book chapters. His latest professional books were published in 2002, 2008 & 2011. A completely updated and revised second edition of Psychiatric Rehabilitation was published in 2002. In 2008, the Toward a Vision of Recovery (book & cd) was published. Also in 2008 Principled Leadership was co-authored with Kevin Huckshorn, and in 2011 Readings in Psychiatric Rehabilitation was co-edited with Kathy Furlong Norman . In a departure from his professional writing, Bill has written two trade books. They are: The Art of Napping and The Art of Napping at Work. These books are a whimsical, light-hearted look at a skill that does merit serious attention -- especially in our sleep-deprived, 'nap-ready' culture. He has discussed napping on numerous TV and radio shows, including the Today Show, Good Morning America, CNN, Fox, The Osgood File, and the BBC; the Art of Napping and The Art of Napping at Work have been featured in numerous print media, such as The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, New York Times, the London Daily Express, and dozens of local newspapers and national magazines. Bill lives in Reading, Massachusetts, is married and has three daughters and six grandchildren.
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"Hi! How do you apply your foundation (or whichever type of face makeup) so flawlessly? No matter how much I try (primer/ concealor/ foundation) redness and dryness ruins it for me (and I have oily skin). Thank you!!!!"
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Hi there! Sounds like you might be dealing with sensitive-combination skin or else oily skin dried-out and sensitized by skin treatments (hence dry, oily, and red at the same time).
I do have some dry and some oily spots (my skin is either side of normal) but it's seldom red unless I've got hives or rashes, which is quite infrequent. Due to this, I tend to treat the problems in the following priority order:
Redness/Sensitivity - for me this is usually a temporary skin reaction, so I always treat it first as it can make oiliness or dryness worse.
Dryness - it's harder to make crepe-y (or worse) flaky skin look good with makeup
Oiliness - can be dealt with after you apply makeup
Dealing with Redness:
- If it's not a chronic issue, arm yourself with a bit of hydrocortisone cream or other soothing creams (Avene Thermale Antirougeurs is a good line for treating flushed, sensitive skin) and press it into your skin gently, in place of your regular lotion.
- If your redness is chronic, you might want to switch out your products to gentler alternatives, and give the Antirougeurs line a try as well. Other than this, don't cleanse your face with hot water, and always wear a good sun-screen. The fastest way would actually be to visit a reputable dermatologist for a quick consultation. (I find this saves a lot of time, money and frustration in the long run.)
Dealing with Dryness + Oiliness:
- If your dryness is temporary due to spot-treatment of acne, it helps to remove the flakes during your cleansing routine (I find gently massaging your skin right before you leave a warm shower helps to loosen whatever dead skin there is) before applying your treatments and cleansers.
- Slather on a good non-greasy moisturizer (either the Avene Antirougeurs or Dermalogica Intensive Moisture Balance) and let it sink in a few minutes before applying sun screen and makeup. Don't use the harsh mattifying lotions that promise to keep you matte. They never work except to temporarily strip your skin.
- I choose a foundation for dry skins even if I know it will get oilier over the day (e.g. Clinique Repairwear Laserfocus All Smooth makeup). I can always blot my skin, but I can't add moisture in after my makeup goes on.
- If you have flakiness, use a flat paddle-shaped foundation brush and dampen it with something like MAC Fix+ before using it to smooth makeup over your skin. This not only helps your foundation stay on a bit better but also minimizes the appearance of flaky skin. (Stippling and buffing brushes can work if you don't have flakiness.)
Getting More Coverage:
- If you need more coverage at this point, don't keep caking on more foundation. A light layer lasts and looks better.
- Apply a fuller coverage concealer onto areas that are still red. You might want to use something that isn't too dry and powdery, as you will need to spread and blend it out. A great video on applying concealer to cover redness is one by Nic from Pixiwoo, who has dry, flushed skin.
- At this point, you should have moderate coverage on your skin already, but if you're determined to cover most, if not all of the redness due to the look you're going for, I suggest setting your face with loose mineral powder foundation, which will give a lot of extra coverage. This may be too much for the under-eye area so I usually use translucent powder there instead.
- To finish, spray your face with Fix+ or any setting spray to cut any powderiness and make everything look more like skin, and just remember to blot your skin with oil-absorbing sheets every 2 hours or so.


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Picture of the Week 2008
Spiral Galaxy NGC 1232
The striking, large spiral galaxy NGC 1232, and its distorted companion shaped like the greek letter "theta".
The pair is located roughly 70 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus (The River). Billions of stars and dark dust are caught up in this beautiful gravitational swirl. The blue spiral arms with their many young stars and star-forming regions make a striking contrast with the yellow-reddish core of older stars.
This image is based on data acquired with the 1.5 m Danish telescope at the ESO La Silla Observatory in Chile, through three filters (B: 900 s, V: 400 s, R: 400 s). East is up, North is to the left.
ESO helps school to get a bus
About a year ago, ESO kindly agreed to donate a surplus van to the Colegio Hellen Keller, a school for children with visual disabilities, located in Santiago, Chile. The school was in desperate need of some form of transport as there were many children who could either not attend school at all, or had to spend the weekdays away from their family, simply because they could not make the daily journey on public transport, due to their disabilities. The initial idea was to donate one of the bus used to carry staff to Paranal. However, it became clear that this big van was not ideal for the school, especially with rising fuel prices. ESO kindly offered to donate the proceeds from the sale of the van instead, which was in excess of 4.000.000 Chilean Pesos (about 5,000 EUR). The school set up a fund to raise the rest of the money needed to purchase a brand new bus and recently took delivery after a lot of hard work from many fundraisers. As you can see from attached photo, the kids were delighted!
SN2008bk: The last moments of a star
Supernova 2008bk in the spiral galaxy NGC 7793 was discovered at the end of March 2008 by amateur astronomer Berto Monard from South Africa. The galaxy is 13 million light-years away in the direction of Sculptor constellation. This supernova is a typical example of a massive star that exploded at the end of its life. But this time, the astronomers were able not only to see the explosion, but to precisely pinpoint the star that exploded, a rather rare achievement.
This was made possible because the explosion site had been observed several times with the help of ESO's Very Large Telescope, the latest images having been observed only a few months before the explosion with the new HAWK-I instrument.
An European team of astronomers, led by Seppo Mattila of University of Turku, Finland, then observed the explosion site again two months after the supernova's discovery, this time with the VLT's NACO instrument, which uses adaptive optics to resolve the finest details. Adaptive optics is a technique that allows astronomers to overcome the blurring effect of the atmosphere, thereby producing very sharp images. By comparing these sets of images, the team found the doomed star from the early images.
The colours and brightness of the star revealed it to belong to the family of red supergiants — to which the very bright star Betelgeuse also belongs — and that it had initially a mass of about eight to nine times the mass of our Sun.
Just before exploding, it was about 500 times larger than our Sun, meaning that if it were placed where the Sun is, it would engulf all the planets up to the planet Mars.
This is only the fifth time astronomers have been able to directly trace back the star that exploded as a supernova. Of all these red supergiants, four of them have about eight times the mass of our Sun, which is thought to be the minimum mass needed to produce such explosions.
This research appears today in print as a Letter to the Editor of the Astrophysical Journal (ApJ, 2008, vol. 688, L91). The team is composed of S. Mattila (Tuorla Observatory, University of Turku, Finland), S. Smartt and Mark Crockett (Queen's University Belfast, UK), J. Eldridge (University of Cambridge, UK), J. Maund (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), and J. Danziger (Universita di Trieste, Italy).
The image shows the star before it exploded (left), as observed with ISAAC and FORS on ESO's Very Large Telescope, and after the explosion (right), as seen by the very sharp NACO.
Sunset over Paranal Panorama *
Le Very Large Telescope (VLT) on the 2600-metre-high Cerro Paranal is ESOs premier site for observations in the visible and infrared light. It is located in the Chilean Atacama desert. All four unit telescopes of 8.2-metre diameter are individually in operation with a large collection of instruments and have already made amazing scientific discoveries.
The VLT offers also the possibility of combining coherently the light from the four UTs to work as an interferometer. The Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI), with its own suite of instruments, ultimately providing imagery at the milli-arcsecond level as well as astrometry at 10 micro-arcsecond precision. In addition to the 8.2-metre diameter telescopes, the VLTI is complemented with four Auxiliary Telescopes (AT) of 1.8-metre diameter to improve its imaging capabilities and enable full nighttime use on a year-round basis.
The enclosure of the yet to come VLT Survey Telescope (2.6-metre diameter) is visible in the centre of the panorama.
The Carina Nebula
The Carina Nebula is a large bright nebula that surrounds several clusters of stars. It contains two of the most massive and luminous stars in our Milky Way galaxy, Eta Carinae and HD 93129A. Located 7500 light years away, the nebula itself spans some 260 light years across, about 7 times the size of the Orion Nebula, and is shown in all its glory in this mosaic. It is based on images collected with the 1.5-m Danish telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory.
Being brighter than one million Suns, Eta Carinae (the brightest star in this image) is the most luminous star known in the Galaxy, and has most likely a mass over 100 times that of the Sun. It is the closest example of a luminous blue variable, the last phase in the life of a very massive star before it explodes in a fiery supernova. Eta Carinae is surrounded by an expanding bipolar cloud of dust and gas known as the Homunculus ('little man' in Latin), which astronomers believe was expelled from the star during a great outburst seen in 1843.
Gone with the Wind
M1-67 is the youngest wind-nebula around a Wolf-Rayet star, called WR124, in our Galaxy. These Wolf-Rayet stars start their lives with dozens of times the mass of our Sun, but loose most of it through a powerful wind, which is ultimately responsible for the formation of the nebula.
Ten years ago, Hubble Space Telescope observations revealed a wealth of small knots and substructures inside the nebula. The same team, led by Cédric Foellmi (ESO), has now used ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) to watch how these structures have evolved and what they can teach us about stellar winds, their chemistry, and how they mix with the surrounding interstellar medium, before the star will eventually blow everything away in a fiery supernova explosion.
The image is based on FORS1 data obtained by the Paranal Science team with the VLT through 2 wide (B and V) and 3 narrow-band filters.
Milky Way above Paranal
A night of work for the Paranal Observatory, in the Chilean Atacama Desert. This picture, taken on 20 September, shows the incredible beauty of the night sky above the most advanced telescope in the world, ESO's Very Large Telescope. The Milky Way is clearly seen in this superb image.
Magnificent Spiral Galaxy NGC 7424
Composite colour-coded image of another magnificent spiral galaxy, NGC 7424, at a distance of 40 million light-years. It is based on images obtained with the multi-mode VIMOS instrument on the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) in three different wavelength bands. The image covers 6.5 x 7.2 square arcminutes on the sky. North is up and East is to the right.
Read more about this superb object in the ESO Press Release eso0436.
The Globular Cluster NGC 3201
Colour-composite image of the globular cluster NGC 3201, obtained with the WFI instrument on the ESO/MPG 2.2-m telescope at La Silla. Globular clusters are large aggregates of stars, that can contain up to millions of stars. They are among the oldest objects observed in the Universe and were presumably formed at about the same time as the Milky Way Galaxy, in the early phase after the Big Bang. This particular globular cluster is located about 16 000 light-years away towards the Southern Vela constellation. The data were obtained as part of the ESO Imaging Survey (EIS), a public survey being carried out by ESO and member states, in preparation for the VLT First Light.
The original image and astronomical data can be retrieved from the EIS Pre-Flames Survey Data Release pages, where many other nice images are also available.
The centre of the Milky Way
The centre of our Milky Way galaxy is located in the southern constellation Sagittarius (The Archer) and is "only" 26,000 light-years away. On high-resolution images, it is possible to discern thousands of individual stars within the central, one light-year wide region.
Using the motions of these stars to probe the gravitational field, observations over the last decade have shown that a mass of about 3 million times that of the Sun is concentrated within a radius of only 10 light-days of the compact radio and X-ray source SgrA* (Sagittarius A) at the centre of the star cluster. This means that SgrA* is the most likely counterpart of the black hole believed to exist at the centre of our Galaxy.
This image was obtained in mid-2002 with the NACO instrument at the 8.2-m VLT Yepun telescope. It combines frames in three infrared wavebands between 1.6 and 3.5 µm. The compact objects are stars and their colours indicate their temperature (blue ="hot", red ="cool"). There is also diffuse infrared emission from interstellar dust between the stars.
A newer image of that region has been published in 2008; see image eso0846a.
Paranal in Atacama desert
Paranal, the site of the VLT, was chosen for its unique characteristics: extreme dryness, very low cloud coverage, high altitude, and distant from any source of pollution. This wide-angle shot of the Atacama desert around Paranal, which shows the VLT and, in foreground, VISTA, summarizes it all. Photo taken in November 2007.
VLT Video Compilation 2008
The "Very Large Telescope Video Collection 2008" features High Definition video material which was obtained in June 2008. For the first time, ESO distributes HD-footage of the world's most advanced ground-based observing facility and provides free access to video sequences of outstanding technical quality and beauty.
The material has been edited especially for broadcast use, without commentary or music.
Moving an ALMA Antenna
The first successful movement of an ALMA antenna took place at the Operations Support Facility (OSF) on 8 July 2008. The antenna transporter "Lore", one of the two units manufactured by Scheuerle under contract by ESO and delivered recently at the OSF, has been used to move one 12-m antenna from their site erection facility to an external antenna pad for sky testing.
APEX at Chajnantor*
While ALMA is currently under construction, astronomers are already doing millimetre and submillimetre astronomy at Chajnantor, with the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX). This is a new-technology 12-m telescope, based on an ALMA prototype antenna, and operating at the ALMA site. It has modified optics and an improved antenna surface accuracy, and is designed to take advantage of the excellent sky transparency working with wavelengths in the 0.2 to 1.4 mm range.
This image is available as a mounted image in the ESOshop
The image shows X-shooter, the first of the second generation VLT instruments, under test in the integration lab at ESO, Garching. The instrument has been built by a Consortium including ESO and institutes from Denmark, Italy, The Netherlands and France, and will start operation at the telescope in 2009.
X-shooter is a single target, wide band, intermediate spectral resolution spectrograph, designed to get the full spectrum of the faintest cosmic sources from the atmospheric cutoff in the near-ultraviolet to the infrared K-band in a single exposure.
In this image the instrument is shown as mounted on a telescope Cassegrain focus simulator, pointing at a large zenith distance. At the centre is the cryostat with the near-infrared arm of the spectrograph and at the left is the lower side of the visual spectrograph with its CCD detector. The two large boxes on the sides host the control electronics of the instrument.
Echinopsis Atacamensis and the Milky Way
The winding road connecting the ALMA Operation Support Facility at 3,000m altitude to the Array Operation Site (5,000m high) passes an area between 3500m and 3800m dominated by large cacti (Echinopsis Atacamensis). These cacti grow on average 1cm per year, and reach heights of up to 9m.
Stephane Guisard recently captured the beautiful sky above this unique location in the Chilean Atacama Desert. The Milky Way is seen in all its glory, as well as, in the lower right, the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Paranal summit ready for the VLT - 1994
This aerial view of Cerro Paranal, the site of ESO's Very Large Telescope, was obtained in 1994. It shows the construction of the concrete base for the four telescope enclosures. To the left and a little lower than the rest of the platform is the excavation for the control building.
The platform altitude is about 2640 metres above sea level and it measures about 150 metres across. The width of the access road is no less than 12 metres, i.e. nearly equal to that of a three-lane highway; this is necessary to ensure the safe transport of all telescope parts, especially the four 8.2-metre fragile mirrors, to the top.
The summit of Paranal has been blasted away so to create the flat platform that supports the 4 Unit Telescopes, as well as the network of tunnels that transport the light from the telescopes to the interferometric laboratory. On this 1994 aerial view, the summit is ready: the platform is flattened, and the volume of the foundations is excavated. Note the white marks indicating the location of the interferometric tunnels.
Trailing stars above Paranal
The rotating sky above ESO's Very Large Telescope at Paranal. This long exposure shows the stars rotating around the southern (left) and northern (right) celestial poles, the celestial equator being in the middle of the photo — where the stars seem to move in a straight line. The motion of the VLT's enclosures are also visible.
Transporters at Chajnantor
Heavyweights at 4,000 metre altitude: this photo shows the two ALMA antenna transporters during the final phase of the acceptance testing in April on the road between the ALMA OSF at 2,900 metre altitude and the AOS at 5,000 metres. The first transporter ("Otto") is travelling unloaded, while the second one ("Lore") is carrying the 115-tonne antenna dummy.
Uranus and satellites
An image of the planet Uranus (located 20 Astronomical units from Earth) obtained at the Very Large Telescope Observatory using the Adaptive Optics system NAOS and the near-infrared imager CONICA to capture high-contrast images of the giant planet and its system of satellites and rings during its 2008 equinox.
Every 42 years, the ring (and satellites) plane of Uranus crosses the Sun, providing us with a unique opportunity to observe the rings while they present their edge to us. Ring plane crossing also allow us to observe the rings form their dark side (i.e. while the Sun is illuminating them from the opposite side), so one can search for faint satellites, faint rings, or faint ring structures, which could not be seen otherwise. Ring Plane Crossings are also an excellent opportunity to observe mutual events between satellites such as eclipse or occultation phenomena.
The image above corresponds to a one minute exposure (maximum permitted time to prevent trailing of the moving satellites) obtained at 2.2 micron with a K band filter. The bandpass of this filter matches the absorption bands of methane, which is present in the atmosphere of Uranus, and has the effect of making the bright planet (almost) completely disappear from our images. Thanks to this observing trick, we can observe the faint rings and small satellites of Uranus, which would become invisible otherwise, lost in the glare of the planet. The bright spots on each side of Uranus are Miranda (~470km diam.) and Ariel (~1100km diam.), respectively to the right and left of the image. Two much smaller satellites can be seen just above the ring plane, to the left of the planet, the closer to Uranus being Puck (~150km diam.) and the other Portia (~100km), near the ring tip in this image.
A movie of these observations is also available. The movie shows an animation of this system of satellites over a two hour period. You can easily see the impact of fluctuating seeing conditions on the image quality. Under good seeing, both small satellites Puck and Portia becomes clearly visible when they move along their orbital path, while the images start to blur when the seeing conditions degrade.
Recoating Yepun's mirror
The 8.2-m primary mirror of Yepun, Unit Telescope 4 of ESO's Very Large Telescope, after its recoating in early March
The Orion Nebula Spied by Hawk-I
The central region of the Orion Nebula (M42, NGC 1976) as seen in the near-infrared by the High Acuity Wide field K-band Imager (HAWK-I) instrument at ESO's Very Large Telescope at Paranal.
ALMA Transporters Arrive in Chile
Arrival of the ALMA Antenna Transporters at the Operations Support Facility (OSF) in Chile as the convoy passed through the Valle de Luna.
Light Echoes (Artist's impression)
Taking advantage of the presence of light echoes, a team of astronomers have used an ESO telescope to measure, at the 1% precision level, the distance of a Cepheid — a class of variable stars that constitutes one of the first steps in the cosmic distance ladder.
The determination of the distance to RS Pup, following the method of the American astronomer Robert Havlen, is based on the measurement of the phase difference between the variation of the star and the variation of isolated nebular features. Because the luminosity of the star changes in a very distinctive pattern, the presence of the nebula allows the astronomers to see light echoes and use them to measure the distance of the star. The light that travelled from the star to a dust grain and then to the telescope arrives a bit later than the light that comes directly from the star to the telescope. As a consequence, if we measure the brightness of a particular, isolated dust blob in the nebula, we will obtain a brightness curve that has the same shape as the variation of the Cepheid, but shifted in time. This delay is called a 'light echo', by analogy with the more traditional echo, the reflection of sound by, for example, the bottom of a well.
By monitoring the evolution of the brightness of the blobs in the nebula, the astronomers can derive their distance from the star: it is simply the measured delay in time, multiplied by the velocity of light (300,000 km/s). Knowing this distance and the apparent separation on the sky between the star and the blob, one can compute the distance of RS Pup.
This artist's illustration is not to scale.
The Growing-up of a Star: the disc around MWC 147
Artist's impression of the disc of matter surrounding the young stellar object MWC 147 as inferred from observations made with ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer. Thanks to these observations, astronomers have probed the inner parts of the disc of material surrounding the MWC 147, witnessing how it gains its mass before becoming an adult.
A slice has been cut to show the inner structure better. The disc extends out to 100 times the distance between the Earth and the Sun (100 Astronomical Units — 100 AU). It is inclined by about 50 degrees as seen from Earth. The dust in the outer disc emits mainly at mid-infrared wavelengths, while close to the star there is also strong near-infrared emission from very hot gas. This gas is transported towards the forming star, increasing its mass at a rate of 7 millionths of the mass of the Sun — or about 2 times the mass of the Earth — per year.
Cosmic Interactions
Colour-composite image of the triplet of galaxies, catalogued as NGC 7173 (top), 7174 (bottom right) and 7176 (bottom left), and located 106 million light-years away towards the constellation of Piscis Austrinus (the 'Southern Fish'). This triplet of galaxies makes up part of the Hickson Compact Group HCG 90.
NGC 7173 and 7176 are elliptical galaxies, while NGC 7174 is a spiral galaxy with quite disturbed dust lanes and a long, twisted tail. This seems to indicate that the two lower galaxies - whose combined shape bears some resemblance to that of a sleeping baby - are currently interacting. Astronomers have suggested that the three galaxies will finally merge.
The size of the image is about 5.3 arcminutes. The image is based on data obtained with the VLT FORS1 instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope through three different filters, B, V, and R. The data were extracted from the ESO Science Archive and fully processed by Henri Boffin (ESO).
Robert's Quartet
Robert's Quartet is a family of four very different galaxies, located at a distance of about 160 million light-years, close to the centre of the southern constellation of the Phoenix. Its members are NGC 87, NGC 88, NGC 89 and NGC 92, discovered by John Herschel in the 1830s.
NGC 87 (upper right) is an irregular galaxy similar to the satellites of our Milky Way, the Magellanic Clouds. NGC 88 (centre) is a spiral galaxy with an external diffuse envelope, most probably composed of gas. NGC 89 (lower middle) is another spiral galaxy with two large spiral arms. The largest member of the system, NGC 92 (left), is a spiral Sa galaxy with an unusual appearance. One of its arms, about 100,000 light-years long, has been distorted by interactions and contains a large quantity of dust.
The White Penitents*
These bizarre snow and ice formations, called "penitentes", form in high-altitude regions such as the Chajnantor plain, close to where the ALMA array will be located.
These are ice blades produced by the competition between sublimation and melting of the snow. At Chajnantor at the summer solstice, the Sun is close to the zenith at noon, and penitents are vertical. This image was taken in December 2005.
This image is available as a mounted image in the ESOshop