tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30990903538069139202024-03-05T09:51:33.055-06:00Katherine Salant's House ThoughtsKatherine Salant, a nationally syndicated columnist, writes about residential architecture.Katherine Salanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04780977352498518184noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3099090353806913920.post-80722051019535936652012-08-12T13:48:00.001-05:002012-08-12T13:48:52.211-05:00If A Kitchen Island Functions Like A Table...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A typical island configuration in a new house</div>
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In many kitchens now the island has gotten wider, and it's used for serving and socializing, not food prep. The serving side has cabinets, the socializing side is open below for chairs or stools.</div>
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So, one might ask, if the island functions like a table, why not finish it like one and put a wood counter on top?</div>
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Once you make that leap, a host of new possibilities open up, including one that's been handcrafted by a local cabinet maker. He'll make something very unusual because cabinet makers get their wood from many different sources, including local urban timber sawyers. These specialists prepare trees that are blown down in storms or cut down because they are diseased for a cabinet maker's use. A sawyer's wood will always have local cachet (it could be from a tree in your town or even your own neighborhood) and, depending on the age of the tree when it was taken down, the boards can be unusually wide.</div>
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John Haling stands next to boards that could be made into a "book matched" counter</div>
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John Haling (<a href="http://www.johnsurbantimber.com/">http://www.johnsurbantimber.com</a>), a sawyer who works with urban timber in Whitmore Lake, Mi., said he often gets old trees that produce boards as wide as 40 inches, wide enough that a single board can be used to make a kitchen counter. Haling himself makes counters, including ones that are "book matched" (two boards from the same tree are laid next to each other so that the grain pattern of each board appears to mirror the other one) and counters with one or more "live edges" (instead of planing the edge of the board to be smooth and straight, the bark is left on and the edge is irregular).</div>
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Jeff Jenkins' butcher block counter combines local and exotic hardwood species</div>
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A cabinetmaker can fabricate a more conventional countertop with smaller pieces of wood, but the look will still be unique. For example, Jeff Jenkins (<a href="http://www.jeffreyjenkins.com/">http://www.jeffreyjenkins.com</a>), an Alexandria, Vi., cabinet and furniture designer, has made butcher block counters that combine locally sourced maple, cherry, ash and walnut with unusually colored tropical hardwoods. </div>
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Jeff Jenkins' walnut countertop made from a single piece of black walnut</div>
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Jenkins has also made single plank counters of black walnut, a species that is now so rare in the Washington area it took him two years to locate a small supply from an urban timber sawyer in Pennsylvania.</div>
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If you're ready to take an unconventional path, a handcrafted wood counter could be the beginning of an entirely handmade kitchen (<a href="http://wapo.st/OSN37k">wapo.st/OSN37k</a>), with handmade tiles for backslashes and counters in food prep areas, handmade cabinet knobs and pulls and handmade cabinets.</div>Katherine Salanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04780977352498518184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3099090353806913920.post-20188480610929006552012-06-05T03:51:00.000-05:002012-06-05T03:51:08.458-05:00Les Haut de Porto-Vecchio<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The welcoming committee</div>
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We booked our hotel on the web. Just after we arrived I heard the sound of animal bells and knew it was exactly the right place for us -- below our cabin perched high above the Corsican town of Porto Vecchio a dozen sheep were grazing.</div>
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Our greeters scatter</div>
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When I went in for a closeup, our greeters scattered.</div>
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Our cabin </div>
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In Corsica big boulders are everywhere</div>
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The view from our cabin perch</div>Katherine Salanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04780977352498518184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3099090353806913920.post-39751596402637341102012-06-04T17:07:00.000-05:002012-06-04T17:07:55.547-05:00Unspoiled Coast of Corsica<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Northwest Coast of Corsica</div>
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Corsica is, by intent of the locals, a largely undeveloped island. There are many stretches of dramatic seacoast available for all to see and enjoy.</div>
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Western Coast, near Cargese</div>
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Western Coast, near Cargoes</div>
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Southeastern Coast, looking towards Punta di a Chiappa</div>
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Les Calanches region of Corsica</div>
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Corsica was described to me as a "chunk of the Alps that was tossed into the Mediterranean." The island is solid granite, and this geological phenomenon is nowhere more beautifully seen than a stretch on the western coast known as "Les Calanches." Towers and sheer cliffs 1,300 feet high rise from the sea, a soft ochre or a bright orange, depending on what time of day you encounter them.<br />
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Profiles emerge from weathered rock formations</div>
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Picasso saw possibilities?</div>
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The inspiration for Jaws?</div>
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Michelangelo sketching the Sistine Chapel? </div>
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Is Nature the true source of inspiration in modern art (Picasso et al) modern entertainment (Jaws) and even looking back to the Renaissance and the power conveyed by gesture (Michelangelo) or is it the personal vision of the artist?Katherine Salanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04780977352498518184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3099090353806913920.post-10762023305155986822011-09-16T11:07:00.000-05:002011-09-16T11:07:23.400-05:00Eisenman House II On The Block<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsuAXkcjQ5CETwyOe5WnodHj4_1bYUxxq8lw0NdROpnHSS3UlQd7nM7EQZ1GN-yO7-6rOGnNlNe9D8VZ2IPh_hkXoajdsqEv_Ta4H32AtQSQBwdVZ6UKLD4S7DxRk7BdRNigsx4jDCyEo/s1600/2011+eisenman+House+II-Brian%253ARon+10pete.slide5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsuAXkcjQ5CETwyOe5WnodHj4_1bYUxxq8lw0NdROpnHSS3UlQd7nM7EQZ1GN-yO7-6rOGnNlNe9D8VZ2IPh_hkXoajdsqEv_Ta4H32AtQSQBwdVZ6UKLD4S7DxRk7BdRNigsx4jDCyEo/s320/2011+eisenman+House+II-Brian%253ARon+10pete.slide5.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> photo Brian Venden Brink</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eisenman House II</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</style> <![endif]--> <!--StartFragment--> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Peter Eisenman’s House II is on the block. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For a mere $2,800,000 you can own this 3 Bedroom, 3 Bath 2,554-square-foot 20th century architectural icon that was built in the late 1970s. The house sits on 110 acres; there is also a 4-stall horse barn with a studio apartment upstairs.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></o:p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfGde-7m22WMoZGcYx6V-oGTCLASsnmSk7oYMybB8b5kiihKbhpZ6B2qJzysUJhdPFM572LeT-S0OraWAJ2smcoz3PQLz1R7kNI5gzGBn969ckgIsoWU82hMdkDlgKwgL5pn_qlH2Ay_I/s1600/2247-104_VANDEN-BRINK.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfGde-7m22WMoZGcYx6V-oGTCLASsnmSk7oYMybB8b5kiihKbhpZ6B2qJzysUJhdPFM572LeT-S0OraWAJ2smcoz3PQLz1R7kNI5gzGBn969ckgIsoWU82hMdkDlgKwgL5pn_qlH2Ay_I/s320/2247-104_VANDEN-BRINK.jpg" width="256" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> Photo Brian Vanden Brink</span></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">House II, Side View </span></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not only does the house have impeccable credentials – Eisenman routinely appears on lists of the “World’s Top 10 Living Architects,” --<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>it has been <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">fully restored.</b> The current owners, John and Lydia Makau, bought a ruin in 2000 that had been on the market for 10 years, and they painstakingly brought it back to life, as Gwenda Blair vividly describes in a NY Times article with the header “House Proud: A White Elephant Restored.” <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/10/garden/house-proud-a-white-elephant-reincarnated.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/10/garden/house-proud-a-white-elephant-reincarnated.html</a> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">House II, which is located in Hardwick, Vermont, is one of a series of ten houses that Eisenman designed early in his 5-decades-long career. The houses, which challenged every commonly held notion of “house” and “home,” catapulted Eisenman to architectural fame and, many would add, notoriety, as the houses had “confrontational” details like bedrooms separated by half-walls and large openings in the floors without railings or grates to prevent falling through. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWxtDF1iyBpWJypTHAvto0vjMPdjUn2TFD30agmN4_XvrjSsXKIBh7pTK7paoQlR5ZsbO6HjEvgltx54a3udvS9MYAN7BHODggv0cKBt8vyj2l8HJrkgwY8GKPA8Noevs0cOlgk96qKkY/s1600/2011+-Eisenman+House.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWxtDF1iyBpWJypTHAvto0vjMPdjUn2TFD30agmN4_XvrjSsXKIBh7pTK7paoQlR5ZsbO6HjEvgltx54a3udvS9MYAN7BHODggv0cKBt8vyj2l8HJrkgwY8GKPA8Noevs0cOlgk96qKkY/s320/2011+-Eisenman+House.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> Photo Cynthia Davidson</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Eisenman's Own House</span></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the years since he designed the houses, Eisenman’s own ideas on this subject have dramatically changed, as I discovered in an interview last spring: <a href="http://www.katherinesalant.com/columns/column268.html">http://www.katherinesalant.com/columns/column268.html</a> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For more info on the House II real estate listing and more pics: <a href="http://www.weichert.com/35620012">http://www.weichert.com/35620012</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><!--EndFragment-->Katherine Salanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04780977352498518184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3099090353806913920.post-9643986962286451052011-09-03T15:27:00.000-05:002011-09-03T15:27:39.655-05:00The Long Goodbye to a Dearly Beloved Neighbor<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh27QjGt2zqSDEuvu_adttYbCEfLkmciZZAwXIzFNqDpgTSlqzUWXYHHrWtSjnr9fw7o-6p1pDf4TWJFSWHSQ80_3kAzUeOUWMfiiOPEHmajDVj9olV6c3LIn9UD_cwYr5qywPVE9Pb4sc/s1600/IMG_0997.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh27QjGt2zqSDEuvu_adttYbCEfLkmciZZAwXIzFNqDpgTSlqzUWXYHHrWtSjnr9fw7o-6p1pDf4TWJFSWHSQ80_3kAzUeOUWMfiiOPEHmajDVj9olV6c3LIn9UD_cwYr5qywPVE9Pb4sc/s320/IMG_0997.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">The House</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">For 22 years I lived across the street from a modest, one-story, modernist house designed by an architect who worked in Minoru Yamasaki's office in Troy, Michigan. The house was built in 1960, and it had some wonderful features. The most notable was the central living room with two glass walls and a 4-sided clerestory window that ringed the space.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipTW3va86T3a-NsoB62XG5i3S2ZvdCaE1Q2Rz7H2vPuvWFW2L3INNe3VoFdaBHbCQoxB3YZLnqj6LaV5ll6EOY6kxdM-fRZA5IdBngRYelRdDBLL1MvBs0KmTr_xiM64UNoQPzBG7zfJk/s1600/IMG_1019.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipTW3va86T3a-NsoB62XG5i3S2ZvdCaE1Q2Rz7H2vPuvWFW2L3INNe3VoFdaBHbCQoxB3YZLnqj6LaV5ll6EOY6kxdM-fRZA5IdBngRYelRdDBLL1MvBs0KmTr_xiM64UNoQPzBG7zfJk/s320/IMG_1019.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">The Central Living Room</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">My favorite thing about the house was outside -- an enormous, sheltering walnut tree in the front yard. It always reminded me of Longfellow and another very famous "spreading chestnut tree."</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKszT8u3YhA_n5mXRfOhOlX78ocqnfzPLzhF16IEOlo9lioYDyGCEsVdNzOy9q6v1NPVomcEvKyHRnpVDP8ii6Wz-cI-hyLcGpl_ajsKyY9sTWux8Nx-i6cjUK6o25sJHJ_cd5HYUIcLw/s1600/IMG_1037.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKszT8u3YhA_n5mXRfOhOlX78ocqnfzPLzhF16IEOlo9lioYDyGCEsVdNzOy9q6v1NPVomcEvKyHRnpVDP8ii6Wz-cI-hyLcGpl_ajsKyY9sTWux8Nx-i6cjUK6o25sJHJ_cd5HYUIcLw/s320/IMG_1037.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">The Sheltering Walnut Tree</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">The original owners died. Their daughter lived there for a time and then sold the house last year. The new owners decided that they could not have the house they wanted simply by enlarging this one, so they elected to tear it down and start over. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkdIXxfF5y_HQ0wPJ8XIjZxL-Diua2xVHAyXEyS2zFn1iqIR6u6g-RFsaBmBD0uTU-AyDQiiewJeo49jFR2hsoJ-waOpOmPs2XLzfysMiaqOtkgmHVfKUCa-71CxjuqziIjLuTurJjcuc/s1600/IMG_1052.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkdIXxfF5y_HQ0wPJ8XIjZxL-Diua2xVHAyXEyS2zFn1iqIR6u6g-RFsaBmBD0uTU-AyDQiiewJeo49jFR2hsoJ-waOpOmPs2XLzfysMiaqOtkgmHVfKUCa-71CxjuqziIjLuTurJjcuc/s320/IMG_1052.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">My beloved walnut tree went down the first day.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">The new owners are building a two-story house that's twice as big. It will be very green. In style it will be colonial. We hope that in time we come to love it as much as we did its predecessor.</div>Katherine Salanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04780977352498518184noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3099090353806913920.post-69384760289714464692011-09-02T13:30:00.000-05:002011-09-02T13:30:48.370-05:00Home Builder Contracts: Definitely NOT a New Idea<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0iDqUWp228ZuKgpCBZxhq9MKT-ORQtwZNCEnlKyOaYuA8RHoWccqEs3L-ByGrXS2eyZsGncHD5OX09SeprUVcDdTSBhmF-lkwDV09e4iHyAF6wm5yPXw83DoT6bWlQLSgJsGF-zh8reI/s1600/IMG_0829.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0iDqUWp228ZuKgpCBZxhq9MKT-ORQtwZNCEnlKyOaYuA8RHoWccqEs3L-ByGrXS2eyZsGncHD5OX09SeprUVcDdTSBhmF-lkwDV09e4iHyAF6wm5yPXw83DoT6bWlQLSgJsGF-zh8reI/s320/IMG_0829.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Fragment of a Roman Contract</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">There may have been a time in the US when building a house was a "handshake deal" between the home owners and the builder, but those days are long gone.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Today, every builder presents the home owners with a contract that details what he promises to deliver. The contract, which can be many pages long, may seem like a new wrinkle. But in fact, mankind has been writing contracts almost as long as we have been writing anything at all, said Matthew Stolper, a professor and archeologist at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">The first writing systems, Egyptian hieroglyphs and Sumerian cuneiform, were developed around 3400 to 3200 BC. Even if written contract documents did not become common for another 200 to 400 years, that would still give legally binding contract documents a pedigree that is more than 5,000 years old.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Photo by Katherine Salant</div><div style="text-align: left;">Note: Comments and observations made during a trip to Italy in July and posted after my return.</div>Katherine Salanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04780977352498518184noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3099090353806913920.post-34044296236253148302011-08-22T22:51:00.000-05:002011-08-22T22:51:39.696-05:00In Rome, History Is Everywhere<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhflZJrFfHL0dATgnPKG6DPj-aLrohkRxN-DqfIoMxD_2SJh8R8pJXA8djAJlwHJ4hVlBYBSP6MXsWl2VNJGuelUjsokaptXmC6xpR2XZNOsqrNObVsqWlDJX-1SvWDsqF0cV9YvFFecYw/s1600/IMG_0889.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhflZJrFfHL0dATgnPKG6DPj-aLrohkRxN-DqfIoMxD_2SJh8R8pJXA8djAJlwHJ4hVlBYBSP6MXsWl2VNJGuelUjsokaptXmC6xpR2XZNOsqrNObVsqWlDJX-1SvWDsqF0cV9YvFFecYw/s320/IMG_0889.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Piazzo della Republica</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">One of the wonders of Rome is surely that ancient, modern and the millenia-in-between are mashed together cheek by jowl. Even within one building eras overlap.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Piazzo della Republica shown here is a case in point. The Baths of Diocletian (300 AD) overlook a modern traffic circle that surrounds the Fountain of the Naiads (1870) with frolicking nymphs (installed 1901-11). The water for the fountain is piped in through the Acqua Marcia, an aqueduct built by the ancient Romans in 144 BC. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqj9ZB8NA2KSt93mPLfpKBL0RI6h9IzJasplXHmlzU_jWzAVOhl94zGJ_I32p3LCdSqKVfl2NfvRJYp7ETOw4YMef-E6nfqIQ0kiL9vi6I9n4oWhNwzmXqL8rGynIiTHxJ08W41M-nVCw/s1600/IMG_0824.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqj9ZB8NA2KSt93mPLfpKBL0RI6h9IzJasplXHmlzU_jWzAVOhl94zGJ_I32p3LCdSqKVfl2NfvRJYp7ETOw4YMef-E6nfqIQ0kiL9vi6I9n4oWhNwzmXqL8rGynIiTHxJ08W41M-nVCw/s320/IMG_0824.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">The Fountain of the Naiads, Piazzo della Republica</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Inside the Baths of Diocletian, the central hall was converted into a church. The work was based on a design by Michelangelo, who died before it was finished in 1566. His work was later modified by Vanvitelli and that is what we see today.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifOvQWcJeKnDf0HQ07kIYd36UM2yxcfFA6I8phDgRh0ICeoq7ZL6DlH7TH4OnILOWlsO7xHjM4dflsL_TEFVfj0Vs2ovegYUrN8QggKnGLHqQ3QmyQu-ycGWvIUiH_bUJ9qvLsSLpJlCs/s1600/IMG_0859.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifOvQWcJeKnDf0HQ07kIYd36UM2yxcfFA6I8phDgRh0ICeoq7ZL6DlH7TH4OnILOWlsO7xHjM4dflsL_TEFVfj0Vs2ovegYUrN8QggKnGLHqQ3QmyQu-ycGWvIUiH_bUJ9qvLsSLpJlCs/s320/IMG_0859.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">The large central hall of the Baths of Diocletian, now Santa Maria degli Angeli church </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Even old trees are venerated in Rome. In a cloister behind the Baths of Diocletian, which was also designed by Michelangelo, this centuries old cypress shades a fountain that was built in 1695.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPyKrfHB2hpZ2t5KKR1U-DD-stH05Y71FfKL3fiq5f8PdXdm7BJf6HG-eNebaVBNHEil2P_U-up2MyOItplz7DxQXy4yaiYuCEtEeKQcqv_C7DkcK7txmdSKbFa6MU-R2uacsSGhOWpl0/s1600/IMG_0851.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPyKrfHB2hpZ2t5KKR1U-DD-stH05Y71FfKL3fiq5f8PdXdm7BJf6HG-eNebaVBNHEil2P_U-up2MyOItplz7DxQXy4yaiYuCEtEeKQcqv_C7DkcK7txmdSKbFa6MU-R2uacsSGhOWpl0/s320/IMG_0851.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">In Rome, even old trees are venerated</div>Katherine Salanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04780977352498518184noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3099090353806913920.post-88063162549956629392011-08-19T15:30:00.000-05:002011-08-19T15:30:27.267-05:00Rome: The Eternal & Sustainable City<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG-v-ow-Ip4zYXD0bfqd9-A_A3JeRLaX_BIihFpy1PKgfZsuXEMpjSpqbeasFCO3KzmKHTHfVDc0JOebk_4zTpn33a1pqCM_OC8setz6qfWUdsxFTiA6yCNNVJpDadgConDb6qgMA_Ids/s1600/IMG_0937.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG-v-ow-Ip4zYXD0bfqd9-A_A3JeRLaX_BIihFpy1PKgfZsuXEMpjSpqbeasFCO3KzmKHTHfVDc0JOebk_4zTpn33a1pqCM_OC8setz6qfWUdsxFTiA6yCNNVJpDadgConDb6qgMA_Ids/s320/IMG_0937.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">A residential neighborhood in Rome</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Travelers and tourists have gushed about Rome for centuries. Now they can add a new virtue to its list of "most-es". It is one of the world's most sustainable cities as well as one of its most beautiful.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Rome carries this distinction because the building height is capped at 78-1/2 feet, which works out to be 6 stories, the optimal number of floors from a density and energy use perspective, said Mathis Wackernagel, president of the Global Footprint Network (<a href="http://www.footprint.org/">www.footprint.org</a>) and a co-creator of the Ecological Footprint, a metric for measuring the impact of humanity on the earth's resources.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Multi-story buildings, including apartments, use resources more efficiently and occupy far less land that single family houses, but above 6 stories, electric elevators, which consume far more energy than the slow-pokey hydraulic models, are required and energy- consuming pumps are needed to get water to the upper floors, Wackernagel said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Other cities which merit the sustainable moniker because six-story buildings predominate are Paris, Amsterdam, The Hague and Antwerp, Wackernagel noted.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiAZiQLEURHMMPyAC879UkcXss1cV6CMQ3vQ4_eCiWgQfPcsQkALlmW6kuKkr3XJJfjDKm5dzDP8v15sBabR8CR2FRaZGajnn-HsbYTyf3bs6M5azEbWnsZGGx90CUX3yDoDPR_p9dMqs/s1600/IMG_0933.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiAZiQLEURHMMPyAC879UkcXss1cV6CMQ3vQ4_eCiWgQfPcsQkALlmW6kuKkr3XJJfjDKm5dzDP8v15sBabR8CR2FRaZGajnn-HsbYTyf3bs6M5azEbWnsZGGx90CUX3yDoDPR_p9dMqs/s320/IMG_0933.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Roman residential neighborhood near the Vatican</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Note: My observations were made on a trip to Europe in June and July and posted after my return to the US.</div>Katherine Salanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04780977352498518184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3099090353806913920.post-32856410744501831482011-08-17T21:42:00.002-05:002011-08-18T21:44:10.691-05:00Cell Phone Use in the Car Can Be Bad for Your Love LifeUsing a cell phone while driving is a poor idea. Not only do you endanger yourself, the other occupants of your car and the other drivers on the road. This can also bring down the curtain on a relationship that's already in trouble, suggests University of Minnesota professor of family social science Paul Rosenblatt, in an article published in Family Science Review and noted in UMN's University News Service (<a href="http://www1.umn.edu/news/news-releases/2010/UR_CONTENT_202137.html)">http://www1.umn.edu/news/news-releases/2010/UR_CONTENT_202137.html)</a> .<br />
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A conversation minus the visual cues -- gestures, facial expressions and posture -- combined with poor reception and pregnant pauses (the person on the other end doesn't know that you are silent because you're trying to avoid a pot hole) can lead to serious misunderstandings. If the relationship is already tenuous, Rosenblatt suggests, this could be the last straw.<br />
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By the same token, if you've just starting dating someone and don't know each other well, a garbled call could end something that seemed promising.Katherine Salanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04780977352498518184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3099090353806913920.post-3891062774897540162011-07-19T17:04:00.000-05:002011-07-19T17:04:49.441-05:00Magna Carta: More Interesting As Idea than As Artifact<!--StartFragment--> <br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm7m219f23cJ_rb6am-QrBy_3Y7OGsql1wtSL38kByNIfqKrQ4Ufh_SbbsZEm7ESCym2f2gifKpFnuMxoPnFiRdztsLw6V4_ETGTUaswaI5x_5oLsSNLzKJ0N2Z7KYQHZGM2QM1ke-_bA/s1600/history.magnacarta.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm7m219f23cJ_rb6am-QrBy_3Y7OGsql1wtSL38kByNIfqKrQ4Ufh_SbbsZEm7ESCym2f2gifKpFnuMxoPnFiRdztsLw6V4_ETGTUaswaI5x_5oLsSNLzKJ0N2Z7KYQHZGM2QM1ke-_bA/s1600/history.magnacarta.jpg" /></a></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;">The Copy of the Magna Carta at Salisbury Cathdral</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">One of the original copies of the Magna Carta is kept in the Chapter House of Salisbury Cathedral in Salisbury, England. The parchment document is smaller than you might expect – it’s only about 12-inches wide by 18-inches long. The scribe who copied it had remarkably consistent penmanship, but the only people who can easily decipher it are Latin scholars who enjoy plowing through densely written, medieval text --<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>there are no paragraphs or indentations and none of the 63 clauses is numbered.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Salisbury’s copy of the Magna Carta is actually a copy of a copy of the document to which King John affixed his seal on June 15, 1215 at Runnymede. That agreement was formally recorded a month later on July 15, 1215. The recorded document itself was then copied and distributed. No one knows exactly how many copies were sent out, but the author of Wikipedia’s Magna Carta entry suggests there were more than 40. Of these, 4 survive (besides the one in Salisbury, two are held by the British Library in London and one is held by the Lincoln Cathedral).<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal">As an idea, however, the Magna Carta definitely had legs. Though King John reneged and ended up in a war with the barons (wars between the feudal barons and the king were not uncommon in England at that time), the principles laid down in the Magna Carta did eventually became the cornerstones of British law and its parliamentary system of governing. For Americans, the most important of the Magna Carta’s 63 clauses is the right to due process.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAgpJlBMtwZgIl3hTBbTH88PobufqT3Ood-4up4M4WEYqN-Rfz6DOuM1MlYr0_mJ9QRVI8KZnmc_TNMIKxO7o1l-SrYGpi2wlp77yz2RDVGvvqAfAbYUZJHWfvhblTmX0_zqCsW1n2wTk/s1600/IMG_0772.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAgpJlBMtwZgIl3hTBbTH88PobufqT3Ood-4up4M4WEYqN-Rfz6DOuM1MlYr0_mJ9QRVI8KZnmc_TNMIKxO7o1l-SrYGpi2wlp77yz2RDVGvvqAfAbYUZJHWfvhblTmX0_zqCsW1n2wTk/s320/IMG_0772.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Salisbury Cathdral</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">Note: My observations were made during a trip to Great Britain, Italy and S. France in June and July, 2011. I am posting them after my return to the US.</div><!--EndFragment-->Katherine Salanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04780977352498518184noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3099090353806913920.post-44983008680302487972011-07-19T16:33:00.000-05:002011-07-19T16:33:31.061-05:00Neolithic Persistence<!--StartFragment--> <br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><b></b></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><!--StartFragment--> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsjyIx7zff0Gg3XFTvMxNL_koAeT3pnGA4JnIjsaTp2ZRI5eQVQ1aA4XBQXC0dJuJhsMzRlC4AzI3Fhalt9NyB37a9P_0BjZfCWdrmawdiAZou4jhBihI9ZUmynPbkgJVYPsNmrVqZrI8/s1600/2011+blog+Silbury+Hill+IMG_0730.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsjyIx7zff0Gg3XFTvMxNL_koAeT3pnGA4JnIjsaTp2ZRI5eQVQ1aA4XBQXC0dJuJhsMzRlC4AzI3Fhalt9NyB37a9P_0BjZfCWdrmawdiAZou4jhBihI9ZUmynPbkgJVYPsNmrVqZrI8/s320/2011+blog+Silbury+Hill+IMG_0730.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Silbury Hill</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -0.25in; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Silbury Hill is a man-made creation. Located in the flat-as-a-pancake English lowlands (at least that’s how most Midwesterners would characterize the Wiltshire landscape that surrounds it), Silbury Hill is the largest Neolithic mound in Europe, and one of the largest such “structures” in the world.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Even by modern standards, Silbury Hill is big. It stands about 130-feet high (about the height of a 13-story modern office building). In circumference it measures about three-tenths of a mile; in area about 5 acres.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> More amazing to this observer is how it all began – with basket loads of gravel, some wooden stakes and stone boulders. To this, successive layers of chalk rubble (found in the adjacent countryside) and dirt were added over a period of about 250 to 400 years. The volume of the mound is estimated to about 324,000 cubic yards. Assuming that each basketful held about one cubic foot, this works out to be about 8.75 million basket loads. No wonder it took several hundred years to complete the project.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Why did they build it? Scholars have no idea. Smaller Neolithic mounds nearby were used as burial sites, but archeologists excavating at Silbury Hill have found nothing underneath all that dirt.</span></span></span><o:p></o:p></div><!--EndFragment--> </b></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">To a modern observer, the engineering and astronomical feats of the Neolithic peoples who lived in the British Isles five thousand years ago are humbling. They had no system for writing or for complex mathematical notation; nonetheless, they were able to record their observations of the sun and the moon as they moved across the sky in the course of a year. The Neolithic people lacked the wheel, but they were able to move large and heavy stones long distances and then precisely position them in large circles to mark the sunrise and sunset for important dates in their calendar. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The enormity of these Neolithic accomplishments began to sink in after I visited the Castlerigg Stone Circle and started to wonder how these ancient peoples had built it, despite their daunting limitations. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Castlerigg Stone Circle, located in the Cumbrian region of England, was built about 5,000 to 5,200 hundred years ago. Today, 38 of the original stones still stand in a slightly flatted circle that is 107 feet in diameter. The stones, which stand 3 to 5 feet high, 'were not worked or shaped in any way. They mark the position of the summer and winter solstices, Candlemas (the festival that celebrated the time to begin spring planting), and the setting of the most southerly and most nothernly moons.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqBn3-6_CLjD31B0PNfFYZIvphtqJca8yN6TRhxcix01sOhHfu1DObPyVan5K_u1AO1pCSjHxlXeh40RRMOnQtdENLUCJEUK4NW0CG_B-UfaaWeQpCDfK1RmmOhq752Sx964GlI9_kPlw/s1600/IMG_0428.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqBn3-6_CLjD31B0PNfFYZIvphtqJca8yN6TRhxcix01sOhHfu1DObPyVan5K_u1AO1pCSjHxlXeh40RRMOnQtdENLUCJEUK4NW0CG_B-UfaaWeQpCDfK1RmmOhq752Sx964GlI9_kPlw/s320/IMG_0428.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Most of the stones are 3 to 5 feet high</div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><br />
</o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Castlerigg Stone Circle predates the stone circles of Stonehenge by about 800 to 1,000 years. It is thought by many to be the oldest such circle in England and perhaps in Europe. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The Castelrigg Stone Circle also includes a unique feature: 10 stones form a rectangle at one end. Its purpose is unknown, as is the purpose of the circle itself. Scholars speculate that the site, as well as other stone circles, was used for trading, religious observations, and tribal gatherings. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b>Note:</b> My observations were made during a trip to Great Britain, Italy and Southern France in June and July, 2011. I am posting them after my return to the U.S.</div><!--EndFragment-->Katherine Salanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04780977352498518184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3099090353806913920.post-62706322182349428262011-06-19T17:54:00.000-05:002011-06-19T17:54:45.103-05:00Edinburgh's Most Famous Native Son<div style="text-align: right;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: right;">Dateline: Edinburgh, Scotland</div><div style="text-align: right;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Grave of Adam Smith</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Who knew that Edinburgh's most famous native son was Adam Smith? Even more interesting, the grave of the father of modern free-market capitalism is behind a museum dedicated to the proletariat! The exhibitions in the museum trace the conditions of the working class through the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.</div>Katherine Salanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04780977352498518184noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3099090353806913920.post-63826350999017869042011-06-07T22:26:00.000-05:002011-06-07T22:26:00.301-05:00Carbon Offsets: Who Should Be Picking Up This Tab?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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Last month I purchased a round trip airplane ticket online for a trip to Denver from Detroit. At the end of the transaction, Delta airlines invited me to contribute $11.74 to the Nature Conservancy to "offset your share of carbon emissions for this trip." The distance traveled will be approximately 2,300 miles.<br />
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Maybe I am missing something here. But who is the carbon culprit in this case? Shouldn't Delta, who is producing the carbon emissions and making a profit in doing so, be making the carbon offset donation?Katherine Salanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04780977352498518184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3099090353806913920.post-5110111468038171742011-06-03T10:24:00.000-05:002011-06-03T10:24:52.071-05:00Some Laughs to Start Your Weekend!With special thanks to John G Colby, a retired, Northern Virginia real estate developer and a very old friend. Even if these are photoshopped, as Colby puts it, "the images are certainly credible, and funny!"<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">CONTRACTOR OF THE YEAR</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The Nominees are: </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">(1 & 2)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">AND The Winner :</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br />
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</b></div>Katherine Salanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04780977352498518184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3099090353806913920.post-32560906435741222812011-06-01T13:37:00.000-05:002011-06-01T13:37:52.035-05:00Welcome Aboard the Salant Express<!--StartFragment--> <br />
<div class="MsoNormal">Welcome to my <a href="http://www.katherinesalant.com/">remodeled website</a> and my <a href="http://www.katherinesalant.blogspot.com/">blog</a>. <span style="color: red;"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">After 8 years it was time to get more connected (my blog and Twitter remarks on my website’s home page!). And, it was time to reorganize my archived columns to highlight my current interests and the sea changes that have occurred in the home building and remodeling business since 2003 when I started the website. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Some categories are new.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">“Emotional Intelligence,” one of the new categories, focuses on the connections between “house” and psychology. For example, why does it take the hanging of photographs and art work and the displaying of family treasures and knick knacks from travel to make your new or new-to-you house feel like it’s home? Hint: it’s more than just the visuals.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">“The Big Picture” is another new category organized around this question: In this post-McMansion era, what will be the next version of the American Dream? <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">“Remodeling” is also new. In the current economy more people are remodeling than are building new houses, and more readers are interested in this. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">“Green and Greener” was needed because I have written so many columns on green building I needed to organize them into subcategories. The number of green building products available in nearly every building category has exploded. And, the environmental impacts of home building and home owning have become critical as we have become more knowledgeable about the connections between home energy use and climate change. In the U.S., most households use energy derived from coal, natural gas, and oil. When these fossil fuels are burned to produce energy, they also produce the greenhouse gas emissions that are causing global warming.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">With the blog I also hope to share the nuggets of useful info that often end up on the cutting room floor as I write my regular Housewatch column. For example, now that summer is here, you can reduce the energy needed to run your central A/C by about 24 percent if you simply turn the thermostat up two degrees from 72 to 74. If the air is humid, moving air across your skin will keep you comfortable. The energy needed to run a floor or a ceiling fan is much less that the amount needed to run the A/C. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Look for new posts on Tuesdays and Fridays!<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><!--EndFragment-->Katherine Salanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04780977352498518184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3099090353806913920.post-70144764212620276472010-01-08T09:17:00.000-06:002010-01-08T09:17:37.775-06:00Is Your Ecological Footprint Shoe-Sized or Cello-Case Sized?<!--StartFragment--> <br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">The recent UN-sponsored Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen focused on the ways mankind is adversely affecting the earth’s atmosphere. But in fact we are adversely impacting every natural system on the planet, not just our atmosphere. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">The Ecological Footprint is a way of quantifying this. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">The originator of the concept, environmentalist Mathis Wackernagel, converted all the earth's resources, including the oceans, crop land, fresh water resources, forests and the atmosphere into a single unit of measurement, productive hectares of land. He termed these “global hectares.” Then he calculated each person's share. That's the Ecological Footprint. With 6.9 billion people on the planet, the average stands at 1.6 global hectares per person. (1.6 global hectares equals about 2 acres.)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">The size of an average American's ecological footprint, however, has ballooned to about 9 global hectares. If everyone on earth lived like we do, we would need five planets, clearly an unsustainable proposition. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">What’s the size of your Ecological Footprint? The links below offer several different ways to measures it. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">You may discover that your lifestyle has more impact than you think. Running the numbers for my regular routine in Ann Arbor, Michigan, which I had always considered benign, my scores were a bit over the average American’s and ranged from 5.06 to 5.4 planets (that is, if everyone lived like me we would need more than 5 planets). <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I also plugged in the data for Manhattan, where I lived for the last year, and my score went down by only one planet. I had expected the difference to be greater because in New York we lived in a small, high rise apartment and used the subway exclusively. But air travel, meat consumption and not buying 100 percent locally raised food (buying any local produce was almost impossible in our neighborhood on Roosevelt Island) consume an enormous amount of resources no matter where you live. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Best Foot Forward <a href="http://www.ecologicalfootprint.com/">www.ecologicalfootprint.com</a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Earthday Network Footprint Calculator <a href="http://earthday.net/footprint2/index.html">http://earthday.net/footprint2/index.html</a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Center for Sustainable Economy <a href="http://www.myfootprint.org/">www.myfootprint.org</a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Global Footprint Network <a href="http://www.footprintnetwork.org/">www.footprintnetwork.org</a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Ecology Fund <a href="http://www.ecologyfund.com/ecology/res_bestfoot.html">http://www.ecologyfund.com/ecology/res_bestfoot.html</a> will give you the size of your footprint if you lived in the UK. Mine was<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>about half the size of my American footprint because Europeans use far fewer resources than Americans. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">A great read on the state of our planet – Lester Brown’s “Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization” (W.W. Norton $16.95)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
</div><!--EndFragment-->Katherine Salanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04780977352498518184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3099090353806913920.post-39873906664696956472009-12-24T10:14:00.003-06:002010-01-08T09:11:52.439-06:00A Kitchen for a Bad Hair Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvcihw7nn4CtrHLm-g-6qe7IwThcioQSp6Lu1BDlSB1zoK7rCEzwAyuPodwtiZQI3oCCGX6_IOiaUCo2rbySnFEOmoN9rxYDQLYZdezhFpRrtpNc29u2Ttu8O0EFv8RYzkNIS-C3rLDjg/s1600-h/2009-JGrey-Colored+Kitchen-photo-jg_sol_001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvcihw7nn4CtrHLm-g-6qe7IwThcioQSp6Lu1BDlSB1zoK7rCEzwAyuPodwtiZQI3oCCGX6_IOiaUCo2rbySnFEOmoN9rxYDQLYZdezhFpRrtpNc29u2Ttu8O0EFv8RYzkNIS-C3rLDjg/s320/2009-JGrey-Colored+Kitchen-photo-jg_sol_001.jpg" /></a><br />
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Who says that kitchens must be dreary, utilitarian spaces? Only those bean counters who have never cooked a day in their lives!!!<br />
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As British kitchen designer Johnny Grey says, the places that we inhabit affect our lives so why not have spaces that affect them for the better and make cooking a pleasure even in a bad hair day!Katherine Salanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04780977352498518184noreply@blogger.com0