ADAMS AVENUE NEWS - NORMAL HEIGHTS EDITION AUGUST 2016

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IT’S ‘A BEAUTIFUL PLANET’

WHAT’S INSIDE?

IMAX film blends astronauts’ view of Earth with environmental message

GI Film Festival The second annual GI Film Festival Sept. 14-18 features a variety of movies for, about and by service men and women — bringing the stories of America’s Military to life through film. PG. 16

A Writer to Watch San Diego author Jill Hall says she is often caught off guard during the process of writing her novels. “I get to know my characters first, then let them tell me what they’re going to do. It’s part of the excitement of writing,” says Hall. PG. 18 NASA Commander Barry (Butch) Wilmore shoots a scene with the IMAX camera through the window of the International Space Station’s Cupola Observation Module. (Courtesy of NASA)

Stunning views of the earth from the International Space Station are just a few of the features of “A Beautiful Planet,” an IMAX film currently playing at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center in Balboa Park. The Toni Myersdirected film stresses the planet’s fragile biosphere. Read Andrew Dyer’s report on PAGE 10 LEFT: Director Toni Myers is a veteran of IMAX documentaries. (Photo: Andrew Dyer)

Researchers Develop Novel Microscope A new microscopic imaging system is revealing a never-before-seen view of the underwater world. Researchers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography have designed an underwater microscope to study the seafloor.

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RIGHT: An astronaut’s view of Los Angeles from the International Space Station. (Courtesy of NASA)

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I have really been watching many good, interesting videos.

MIRACLES FROM HEAVEN - Jennifer Gar-

ner, Kylie Rogers and Queen Latifah. An incredible and true story of the Beam family and their 10 year old daughter. This film touches the heart and speaks to the spirit. We need a story like this every once in awhile, so we are more thankful for what we have and empathy for heartaches others have to bear.

WILD TALES - By Damian Szifron – Produced

by Pedro and Agustin Almodovar. Very entertaining and shocking. Everyday encounters that drive the characters to lose control and cross the line. I liked this film very much.

DEMOLITION- Jake Gyllenhaal and Naomi

Watts. Jake always does a good job of acting.

This is a story of a man that is completely falling apart and acts very unusual.

MILES AHEAD - Don Cheadle and Ewan McGregor. Another one of the greats. Those of you that could listen all night to someone like Miles will enjoy this travel of their life. The ups, downs and hardships, but they still have their music. It is always good to see a film about someone with this music ability. Not an easy life.

TELL NO ONE – A French film by Guillaume

Delnot. A top notch thriller about a pediatrician who grieves over the murder of his wife.

10 CLOVERFIELD LANE - This is John

Goodman at his best. Loaded with tension, so much so that I had to turn it off and come back

and watch the ending. I was watching it at night and it got too tense, so I waited until the next day and finished it. Very good!

CRIMINAL - Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman,

Tommy Lee Jones and Alice Eve. A real action movie. I thought this movie took a different approach than others and kept you wondering what was going to happen. Good entertainment.

I hope you take advantage of my picks and have fun looking at them. See you next month and at Ken Video, Winnie

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Bird’s Nest Custody The kid stays put, Mom and Dad move back and forth B J

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Among several bird species, the male and female work together to build their nest, forage for food and feed their young. When the time is right, the babies leave the nest and begin life on their own.

Now there’s a custody arrangement gaining popularity. Its name offers a nod to the avian world in its reference to post-divorce parenting: bird’s nest custody. It is uniquely child-centric.

Increasingly, families are finding that shuffling kids back and forth between Mom’s house and Dad’s house isn’t in their children’s best interest.

Bird’s nest custody is a co-parenting option that prevents children from having to split their time between their divorced parents’ homes. Instead, the children stay put and the parents alternate moving in and out, “like birds alighting and departing the nest,” according to a Psychology Today article on the topic.

The divorced parents live in a different home when they aren’t in the family home with their children. That home might be a place of their own, or a second home the divorced parents share.

It is believed that bird’s nest parenting originated about 16 years ago, when a Virginia court ruled that the best solution for two young children involved them remaining in their

John Griffith is a partner at Griffith, Young & Lass Family Law in San Diego.

family home, according to an article in The Telegraph.

This option works best when the parents are co-parenting, as opposed to an arrangement where one is the custodial parent, the Psychology Today article stated.

It isn’t a good option for every situation, for obvious reasons. Divorces can be contentious and emotional, and bird’s nest custody requires a level of communication and cooper-

ation that some couples simply can’t provide. But in situations where the divorcing parents remain on friendly terms and genuinely desire to make the children’s needs the priority, this is an option.

This is an arrangement that tends to be reached voluntarily by the divorcing couple. However, there is a case of it being court ordered . A 2003 ruling in Canada made news when the judge “told parents to stop treating their children like ‘Frisbees,’ and imposed bird’s nest custody without either party requesting it.”

This parenting option is seen more frequently New York City, due in part to limited, expensive housing options, according to an article in The New York Times. Many divorcing couples opt for bird’s nest custody for financial, as well as child-rearing reasons.

Bird’s nest custody is something to consider if spouses are divorcing on amicable terms. This arrangement can be included in the divorce decree.

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Top 5 Reasons to Choose a Community Bank or Credit Union

BY STACY MITCHELL INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL SELF-RELIANCE

1. Get the Same Services at Lower Cost

Most locally owned banks and credit unions offer the same array of services, from online bill paying to debit and credit cards, at much lower cost than big banks. Average fees at small banks and credit unions are substantially lower than at big banks, according to national data. Studies show that small financial institutions also offer, on average, better interest rates on savings and better terms on credit cards and other loans.

2. Put Your Money to Work Growing Your Local Economy

3. Keep Decision-Making Local

Small businesses, which create the majority of new jobs, depend heavily on small, local banks for financing.

Although small and mid-sized banks control less than one-quarter of all bank assets, they account for more than half of all small business lending.

Big banks, meanwhile, allocate relatively little of their resources to small businesses. The largest 20 banks, which now control 57 percent of all bank assets, devote only 18 percent of their commercial loan portfolios to small business.

At local banks and credit unions, loan approvals and other key decisions are made locally by people who live in the community, have face-toface relationships with their customers, and understand local needs.

Because of this personal knowledge, local financial institutions are often able to approve small business and other loans that big banks would reject. In the case of credit unions, control ultimately rests with the customers, who are also member-owners.

4. Back Institutions that Share a Commitment to Your Community

The fortunes of local banks and credit unions are intimately tied to the fortunes of their local communities. The more the community prospers, the more the local bank benefits.

This is why many local banks and credit unions are involved in their communities. Big banks, in contrast, are not tethered to the places where they operate. Indeed, they often use a community’s deposits to make investments in other regions or on Wall Street.

5. Support Productive Investment, Not Gambling

The primary activity of almost all small banks and credit unions is to turn deposits into loans and other productive investments. Meanwhile, big banks devote a sizeable share of their resources to speculative trading and other Wall Street bets that may generate big profits for the bank, but provide little economic or social value for the rest of us and can put the entire financial system at risk if they go bad.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR American voters agree money has too much influence in our democracy and are eager to hear candidates debate bold solutions. Voters need to know where candidates stand on reforming our democracy so every voice is heard. A democracy does not work when special interest money drowns out the voices of everyday Americans.

But there are solutions that are already working to strengthen democracy on the state level — and a huge majority of voters agree it's time to take them nationwide.

That’s why it is so important for our candidates to tell us where they stand on the Fight Big Money agenda, a platform endorsed by over a dozen organizations committed to

restoring balance to our democracy.

The agenda urges candidates to explain their stances on specific policy reforms, including creating a small-donor citizen-funded election program, protecting the right to vote, overturning disastrous Supreme Court decisions like Citizens United, ensuring full disclosure of political contributions, and mak-

ing sure our campaign finance laws are strictly enforced.

These are commonsense solutions supported by a wide majority of Americans Democrats, Republicans, and independents. Join me to encourage candidates to let voters know where they stand on these important issues at www.WhoWillFightBigMoney.org.

Sincerely, Evan Ingle Lincoln Avenue San Diego

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1 in 4 Local Banks Has Vanished Since 2008 Why we should treat it as a national crisis

BY STACY MITCHELL INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL SELF-RELIANCE

Here’s a statistic that ought to alarm anyone interested in rebuilding local economies and redirecting the flow of capital away from Wall Street and toward more productive ends: Over the last seven years, one of every four community banks has disappeared. We have 1,971 fewer of these small, local financial institutions today than at the beginning of 2008. Some 500 failed outright, with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) stepping in to pay their depositors. Most of the rest were acquired and absorbed into bigger banks.

To illustrate this disturbing trend and highlight a few of the reasons we should treat it as a national crisis, we’ve published a trove of new graphs. These provide a startling look at the pace of change and its implications. In 1995, megabanks — giant banks with more than $100 billion in assets (in 2010 dollars) — controlled 17 percent of all banking assets. By 2005, their share had reached 41 percent. Today, it is a staggering 59 percent. Meanwhile, the share of the market held by community banks and credit unions — local institutions with less than $1 billion in assets — plummeted from 27 percent to 11 percent. You can watch this transformation unfold in our 90-second video, which shows how four massive banks — Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, and Wells Fargo — have come to dominate the sector, each growing larger than all of the nation’s community banks put together.

“If we continue to go down this path, we’ll kill this concept of relationship banking,” contends Rebeca

Romera Rainey, the third-generation CEO of Centinel Bank in Taos, New Mexico. Like other community banks, Centinel makes lending decisions based on its relationships with its customers and deep knowledge of the local market. It underwrites a wide range of business loans and home mortgages to local families.

Many of these borrowers would likely not qualify for big-bank financing because they do not fit neatly into the standardized formulas megabanks use to evaluate their risk of default.

Yet, despite having a portfolio filled with highly localized and unconventional loans — to a home builder, for example, who constructs super energy-efficient houses entirely out of old bottles and other recycled materials — Centinel has a remarkable track record when it comes to judging risk. In 2014, the bank had to write off as a loss just 0.05 percent of the total value of its outstanding loans. In contrast, the nation’s 21 megabucks collectively charged off 0.54 percent of their lending, or ten times as much.

Even though they excel at doing exactly what we need our finance system to do, however, community banks like Centinel, which was founded by Romera Rainey’s grandfather in 1969 and is one of about 180 Latino-owned banks in the country, are disappearing rapidly.

Exactly why is the subject of much debate.

Is Dodd-Frank to Blame?

Some scholars and bankers are giving the blame to the added costs of complying with the Dodd-Frank banking reform law, which created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and imposed new rules on

banks’ behavior. In February, Michael Lux, a senior fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group, and Robert Greene, a graduate student, released a widely discussed paper arguing that the decline of community banks accelerated in “the second quarter of 2010, around the time of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act’s passage.” Lux and Greene contend that Dodd-Frank has piled new regulatory compliance costs on local banks “that neither pose systemic risks nor have the diversified businesses to support such costs.”

Surveys do indeed indicate that community banks are spending more on compliance as a result of Dodd-Frank, including hiring more staff, and the added burden is leading more of them to consider exiting the business by selling to a bigger bank. Yet, the correlation between Dodd-Frank and the drop in the number of community banks is not nearly as strong or clearcut as Lux and Greene suggest. Many of Dodd-Frank’s provisions took effect only in the last year and cannot explain losses in previous years.

Consumer advocates worry that Lux and Greene’s paper, which prescribes policy changes that would make it harder for regulators to impose new rules on financial institutions of any size, may help fuel a campaign by the nation’s big banks to gut Dodd-Frank. Lobbying groups like the American Bankers Association (ABA) are already using the plight of community banks to push for overturning parts of the law, including many regulations that apply only to Wall Street.

At a hearing in February, Senator

Elizabeth Warren took the ABA to task for this. In an exchange with group’s chairman, R. Daniel Blanton, she noted that “the ABA’s very first request in the name of community bank regulatory relief” was the passage of a bill exempting banks of all sizes from a rule designed to prevent them from issuing mortgages that borrowers can’t afford to repay. “As you know, under the current rule, banks with under $2 billion in assets that issue fewer than 500 mortgages a year can already satisfy the… rule,” she said.

“If Congress passed this bill that the American Bankers Association wants, how many community bank mortgages would become eligible [for the exemption] and how does that stack up on mortgages held by Citibank, JP Morgan, and the other giants that would become eligible under this change?”

Putting the Squeeze on Local Banks

The real factors driving the decline of community banks are more complex and longstanding. In a lengthy paper, Arthur E. Wilmarth, a law professor at George Washington University, offers a comprehensive and nuanced discussion of the problem. Wilmarth provides a damning look at the regulatory disadvantages faced by community banks, but without feeding the deregulation agenda of their big competitors.

Dodd-Frank is flawed, Wilmarth contends, but not merely because of the added burden some of its rules impose on community banks. Its chief failing is that it did nothing to end the too-big-to-fail status of megabanks, a regulatory structure that has long favored them, and the

substantial public subsidies that go along with it.

The decline of community banks actually began with a series of policy changes in the 1990s that untethered banks from their communities and allowed publicly insured commercial banks to engage in risky speculation. This shift in policy allowed big banks to become giant conglomerates, gobbling up market share and their smaller competitors.

The financial crisis should have been a wake-up call, but instead policymakers doubled down. “The federal government encouraged further consolidation by adopting extraordinary assistance programs to ensure the survival of the biggest institutions,” Wilmarth observes.

Policymakers’ treatment of community banks could not have been more different: “Federal regulators issued hundreds of capital directives and other enforcement orders against community banks and allowed more than 450 community banks to fail.”

Perhaps the most important reason to treat the decline of community banks as a national crisis is that, while megabanks devote much of their capacity to activities that enrich their own bottom line, very often at the expense of the broader economy, local banks are doing the real work of financing businesses and other productive investments that create jobs and improve our well-being.

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Doug Manchester Donates Historic Hand Press to San Diego History Center Developer Doug has donated a historic Washington Hand Press to the San Diego History Center. The press and typesetting were acquired

by James Copley for its historical value and was displayed for decades at the headquarters of the Copley Press in Mission Valley. Manchester is a former publisher of the San Diego Union-Tribune.

The Samuel Rust-patented Washington Hand Press was introduced in 1829. R. Hoe and Company gained control of his patents in 1835 and continued to manufacturer these presses into the 1900’s.

The press, which weighs approximately 2,500 pounds, is identical to the one brought to San Diego in 1851 by John Judson Ames to print the San Diego Herald, San Diego’s first newspaper. It is also identical to the press brought to Old Town San Diego from San Andreas, Calif., in 1868 by William Jeff Gatewood

and Ed Bushyhead to publish their newspaper, The San Diego Union.

The press required two men (a printer and an inker) to operate.

Two pages were printed at a time and a good team could print about 175 sheets per hour. Pages one and four were generally printed on Mondays and contained no current news. Pages two and three were printed on Wednesdays and contained local and current news.

The Washington Hand Press will become a centerpiece in the launch and expansion of the History Center’s permanent exhibit “San Diego: A Place of Promise” at the San Diego History Center located in Balboa Park.

“I am honored to donate the press equipment which will be available for the public to view for eternity,” said Manchester. “It will not only remind us of the past and our history, but also how news and

media has shaped and influenced our lives today and what it will become in the future. My goal is for our community to learn more about newspapers, media and the press and their role in our society. Most importantly, I believe it is important to leave something behind for future generations to learn about and enjoy.”

The Press will become part of the museum’s permanent collection with a special acknowledgement to Manchester. The exhibit tells the story of how we became the region we are today and offers opportunities for children to come and learn about the history of San Diego; about 18,000 underserved school children K-12 visit the center each year to view relics that date back to 10,000 BC. The newly expanded exhibit is tentatively scheduled to open in August 2017.

Volunteers Needed for Balboa Park Rose Garden The Inez Grant Parker Rose Garden, 2125 Park Blvd. in Balboa Park, is accepting volunteers, novice or experienced, to join the Rose Garden Corps. Volunteers work in the garden trimming off dead blooms, weeding, raking, fertilizing, pruning

and planting new varieties.

Volunteer days are Tuesday and/or Thursday mornings, preferably weekly, for 2-3 hours. A monthly meeting in the Rose Garden the third Tuesday of each month at 9:15 a.m. is used to share information

and direct needed work. Volunteers learn about roses, and also act as goodwill ambassadors to the many tourists who frequent our beautiful garden. The next meeting will be on Aug. 16 at 9:15 a.m. in the arbor area.

The Samuel Rust-patented Washington Hand Press.

Rose Garden Corps volunteers receive excellent rose care training from experienced volunteers. This is a great chance to learn more about roses and contribute to a rose garden ranked one of the best in the world.

Interested in volunteering?

Contact Mary Rose, bprosegardencorps@gmail.com.

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By Bart Mendoza August 19-21 Legends Come Out for the Tiki Oasis Festival

The Sonics

Fans of Tiki culture, surf and garage music, burlesque and exotic cocktails won’t want to miss the annual Tiki Oasis Festival when it returns to the The Crowne Plaza Hotel Aug. 19-21. Among the highlights will be seminars on everything from playing the ukulele to the proper use of a hula hoop. There are even free to the public happenings such as a custom car show. However, the main attraction is the music and this year organizers have put together their best lineup ever with appearances from ’60s-era garage legends The Sonics, Georgia-based rockers the Woggles and ’60s actress/singer Donna Loren among the performers. If you are a fan of the look, feel and sounds of the late 1950s through the early 1960s, this fun event is the ultimate time warp. www.tikioasis.com

Flamin Groovies

September 2 Flamin’ Groovies in San Diego, Finally

August 21 A Chance to Catch Rock Royalty

Jeff Bloom

If you’ve listened to much rock music over the last 40 years, you’ve heard the drumming Appice brothers, Carmine & Vinny. The pair and their band will perform at Brick by Brick on Aug. 21, the culmination of a career that has seen them playing behind some of the biggest names in music. Vinny became a legend playing with the likes of Black Sabbath, Dio and Rick Derringer, while Carmine can be heard on countless records by Rod Stewart, Vanilla Fudge and Pink Floyd, to name a few. The show will be a mix of classics and new rockers, but if you are a drummer or love classic rock, this chance to catch an intimate set from rock royalty should not be missed. www.brickbybrick.com

It’s taken 51 years, but the Flamin’ Groovies are finally playing a San Diego show on Sept. 2. Perhaps it’s because the garage rock icons now include a San Diegan in their midst, drummer Victor Penalosa. But whatever the reason, fans of great rock ‘n’ roll have much to be grateful for. Riding a resurgence that has seen them perform sold-out shows around the globe, The Flamin’ Groovies will be playing a few new tunes from their upcoming album, but the biggest cheers will be for their long string of classic, much covered tunes, such as “Shake Some Action,” “Slow Death” and “I Can’t Hide.” www.thecasbahmusic.com

Appice brothers, Carmine & Vinny.

August 26 Standout Rock and Reggae Favorites Rock and reggae favorites Jet West celebrate the release of their long awaited sophomore album, “Wake Up,” with a concert at the Music Box on Aug. 26. The show comes at the end of a two-week West Coast tour, just the start of a round of road work that will see them traveling around the U.S. over the next year. One of the night’s standouts promises to be their version of the Doors “People Are Strange,” but the whole new album will thrill longtime fans, with songs such as “Ocean” and “Free,” both full of the melodies and rhythms that have made Jet West one of the area’s most popular bands. . www.Musicboxsd.com Jet West

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September 14

The Plaintive Voice of Molly Ringwald

Free Concert Celebrating ‘Soul Music in San Diego’

One of the most beloved actresses of the 1980s, Molly Ringwald, will perform an intimate concert at Hillcrest nightspot, Martini’s Above Fourth on Sept. 1. Ringwald is best known for her roles in such iconic coming of age films as “Pretty In Pink” and “The Breakfast Club,” but these days has added singing to her resume, with jazz standards and selections from the great American songbook in her repertoire. While her movie fans will be thrilled by this chance to see a favorite star, music fans will also be delighted by her plaintive voice and playful stage presence, topped by a jazzy reading of the “Breakfast Club” theme “Don’t You Forget About Me.” www.ma4sd.com

On Sept.14, Fans of classic soul will want to head to the Saville Theatre at City College for a special free concert dedicated to “Soul music in San Diego.” There will be speakers and a slide presentation, but the focus of the event will be a set from the area’s best R&B dance band, The Amandas, performing some of the era’s top hits.

Making this an event not to miss, the group will play a selection of rare soul sides from San Diego’s ’60s-era performers, including “Little” Marie Staten and Jesse Davis, whose original 45’s now go for hundreds of dollars on the collectors market. Whether you go for a look at the area’s music history or to hear great tunes, this promises to be one of the year’s most unique and fun events. www.sdcity.edu/CampusLife/performances/SavilleTheatre

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STUNNING VIEWS OF EARTH IMAX film offers rare glimpses of the planet and important environmental issues

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BY ANDREW DYER PHOTOS COURTESY OF NASA

In the IMAX film “A Beautiful Planet,” director Toni Myers takes audiences to the International Space Station for an astronaut’s-eye-view of the earth and the environmental issues stressing its fragile biosphere.

With narration by actress Jennifer Lawrence and filmed over one year by four overlapping space station crews, “A Beautiful Planet” made its San Diego debut at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center in Balboa Park in June.

Myers is a veteran of IMAX documentaries and her film career spans more than 40 years. Her director credits also include IMAX films “Hubble 3D” and “Space Station 3D.” She has worked on IMAX since

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A NASA astronaut on a spacewalk to repair the exterior of the International Space Station. It’s almost 300° on the sun side of the space station and -275° in the shade.

its inception in the late 1960s and has been involved in IMAX space films since writing and editing the first — the 1985 classic “The Dream is Alive.”

“We put (an IMAX) theater in the National Air and Space Museum in Washington,” she said. “The first director of that museum was (Apollo astronaut) Mike Collins. When he saw IMAX, a film called ‘To Fly,’ he said it was the only way people would experience what he did going to space. We already knew that but it was good that he said it. It took 10 years (from then) to get a camera on board the space shuttle.”

Myers worked on several space films for IMAX and NASA. She said they trained 145 astronauts on 24 shuttle flights to operate the cameras. With the shuttle’s retirement

the way they had been making the films, with physical film, was also retired.

“We could no longer fly IMAX film and cameras to the ISS,” she said. “We had to switch to digital.

Myers said she was astonished at the quality of the digital images despite some purists’ instance on film’s superiority.

“The blacks are as black as you can make them. The colors are vivid and there’s no bleeding,” she said.

“You could even see colors in the Bahaman reefs by moonlight. It allowed us to (see) what we never would have seen on film.”

Space Station crews shot over 11.5 terabytes of data for the project, and Myers said there was so much quality footage it was difficult not to make the film feature-length. “A

Beautiful Planet’s” run-time is 45 minutes.

“It was a difficult job because I had such an embarrassment of riches,” she said. “We had a specific environmental message to convey, so those automatically went into the film. We stopped shooting in November 2015, and I had to deliver the finished film by March. It was a crunch.”

Myers said she was not trying to be preachy with the film’s environmental themes and that she wanted to use the fragility of the space station as a metaphor for the earth.

“We made a film back in 1990 about the earth called “Blue Planet,’” she said. “A lot has changed. (Then) the big worry was the ozone hole, SEE EARTH, Page 15

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GET FIT…GET PLANKING! During the annual Art Around Adams event in June, we sported our own brand of “art” with the Annual Planking Contest right here at GET FIT on ADAMS. Twenty participants gathered in the studio/gym, including our GET FIT dog mascot Bearheart, to plank their way to fitness and local fame. Congratulations to Lynne Carry, age sixty female, and long-time client as this year’s winner, holding the perfect plank for 10 minutes. Simply impressive! Lynne shares this about her experience; "I have to give credit to Tamara's expertise in strengthening my core and upper body especially in the last couple years

when I started playing tennis again. This is the only way I was able to plank for 10 minutes!"

What is planking?

Basically—you are taking the form of a plank of wood, aligning your body in a straight, flat and solid line. Think Home Depot’s lumber department! Anyone can do it, and if you haven’t done it before, this will take some guidance, practice and discipline to do and hold the pose properly. Here’s a written description below of how to plank, although there is nothing like checking your form in the mirror and with the guidance of a trained professional:

1. Hold your elbows directly under your shoulders and place your wrists in line with your elbows.

2. Push your body up into your upper back and hold your chin close to your neck (like you’re holding an egg between your chin and your throat.)

3. From this position, brace your abdominals—contract them like expecting a punch in your stomach, squeeze your gluteal (tailbone) and thigh muscles simultaneously while continuing to breathe normally.

4. Hold a plank at least 20 to 30 seconds. (When using correct form, it is not necessary to hold it for longer than this amount of time.)

5. Rest for approximately one

minute and repeat three to five more times.

6. Start doing the plank using your elbows and toes (feel free to drop to your knees if necessary) and progress up to a high plank when you feel you have developed the necessary strength.

Why get planking?

The plank exercise is one of the single best and simplest of movements for core conditioning, however, getting into the proper form is key and holding the position properly takes strength and endurance, and the guidance of fitness professionals to help you get there. Planking uses all of the muscles of the core while also engaging your glut and hamstring muscles, supporting prop-

er posture, improving balance and overall functional fitness.

Incorporating planking into your fitness regime is an added bonus to your functional fitness program and GET FIT on ADAMS can help you do just that. And…maybe next year, we’ll see you planking your own way to fitness and fame during Art Around Adams in 2017!

GET FIT on ADAMS is a functional fitness studio and gym, owned and operated by Tamara Fanning, a NASM Certified Personal Trainer with a Bachelor’s Degree in Kinesiology with an emphasis in Fitness and Nutrition. She is also the dog-mom of Bearheart.

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and now things have become a lot more urgent.”

From the vantage point of the ISS, audiences can see the effect humans are having on the planet.

“You can see monster pollution clouds over China and we have a large sequence on the drought in California,” Myers said. “Water is a big theme. On the other side of the world in the Himalayas, glaciers are melting. The water supply of 500 million people is being affected.”

“A Beautiful Planet” also features footage of the earth at night with city lights visible from space. Myers said energy is another theme of the film with the need to find an alternative to fossil fuels.

“There is an incredible moonlit shot of the Gulf of Mexico,” she said. “You can see Dallas, Houston and San Antonio with all the oil well flares and fracking fires arrayed around.”

Myers said that with the exception of about one minute of the film, none of what is presented is Computer Generated Imagery ( CGI) effects.

“Everything in the planetary shots in the Milky Way sequences is not CGI,” she said. “It is real data.

We do these sequences at the supercomputing center at the University of Illinois. Every one of the stars in the Milky Way is a real star with a real address in three-dimensional space. That is not made-up.”

Young people are the film’s target audience and Myers said she hopes to inspire tomorrow’s problemsolvers.

“I wanted to inspire those kids,” she said, “not berate them about what terrible humans are doing to the earth. I want them to go out and find the solution to the problems we are facing.”

‘I will never cease to be astonished at how the Earth looks from the vantage point of space,’ says Toni Myers, director of ‘A Beautiful Planet.’

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The entire northeast of Canada, the United States and beyond as seen from the International Space Station.

NASA Commander Terry Virts and European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti smiling after her haircut, by Terry.

This image is featured in the new IMAX film, ‘A Beautiful Planet,’ narrated by Jennifer Lawrence.

An astronaut’s view of Los Angeles from the International Space Station.

NASA Commander Barry (Butch) Wilmore enjoys zero gravity aboard the International Space Station.

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USS Indianapolis

GI FILM FESTIVAL SAN DIEGO Second annual event set for Sept. 14-18 Organizers of the second annual GI Film Festival San Diego have announced movie titles for this year’s event and a list of festival events. The festival — scheduled for Sept. 14-18 —features a variety of films for, about, and by service men and women, bringing the stories of America’s military to life through film.

Festival Events

Wednesday, Sept. 14 at 7 p.m.

—Opening Night Screening and Reception at the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park featuring the 2016 documentary, “USS Indianapolis: The Legacy.”

Filmmaker Q&A and a reception will follow the film screening.

This thrilling retelling of the fate of the World War II heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis exclusively uses first-person accounts from 107 survivors of the devastating torpedo attack. The film took 10 years to produce. Local filmmakers, Sara Vladic and Melanie Capacia Johnson, will attend the kick-off event. The film made its debut at the GI Film Festival in DC earlier this year.

Thursday, Sept. 15 at 6 p.m. — Screenings at The Village Theatres in Coronado. Filmmaker Q&A and panel discussions will follow select screenings. Films to be determined.

Friday, Sept. 16 at 7 p.m. — Family Movie Night —Venue and

film to be determined.

Saturday, Sept. 17 at noon — All film screenings will take place at UltraStar Cinemas Mission Valley at Hazard Center. Filmmaker Q&A and panel discussions will follow select screenings.

Films to be determined.

Sunday, Sept. 18 from noon to 5 p.m. — Local Film Showcase screenings at UltraStar Cinemas Mission Valley at Hazard Center.

Filmmaker Q&A will follow select screenings. Films to be determined.

Sunday, Sept. 18 at 6 p.m. — Closing Celebration and Awards Ceremony at the DoubleTree by Hilton San Diego Mission Valley at Hazard Center. Filmmakers featured in the Local Film Showcase will receive awards in multiple categories.

Many of the events will be open to the public with special discounted opportunities for active duty military personnel and veterans. General admission tickets will be available online on Monday, Aug. 8. All access passes for entry into festival events and screenings are available now for $85 each on the GI Film Festival San Diego website at www.GIFilmFestivalSD.org.

Festival Films

In addition to the “USS Indianapolis: The Legacy,” the following films are confirmed to be

screened this year: “Adventurmentalism”

Directed by an independent documentary filmmaker and former member of the U.S. Army, “Adventurmentalism,” is an interpersonal depiction of nature’s positive influence on mental health in combat veterans and suicide survivors struggling with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

“Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War”

In this film by Ken Burns and Artemis Joukowsky III, Church minister Waitstill Sharp and his wife Martha left their children behind in Wellesley, Mass., to join a life-threatening mission in Europe and help save Jews and other refugees fleeing the Nazis during World War II. Their selfless endeavor spanning over the course of two years is told through their journal writings in the film “Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War.”

where they are surrounded by thousands of North Vietnamese troops. After surviving a brutal three-day siege, they lead a daring middle-of-the-night escape through the jungle and evade enemy troops. “Escape from Firebase Kate” is their story, told by the men who survived in their own words.

“Forced Landing”

During World War II, more than 100,000 foreign soldiers were interned in Switzerland.

French, Polish, English, Russian, Italian, and German soldiers who fled combat found a safe haven in neutral Switzerland. Those who escaped were sent to a detention camp in Wauwilermoos near Lucerne where they would undergo harsh conditions and treatment. In April 2014, eight survivors of this camp received the Prisoner of War Medal, marking the first time this medal has been granted to soldiers that were held prisoners in a friendly country.

“Frogman”

“Escape from Firebase Kate”

During the implementation of Nixon’s plan to end the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, 26 U.S. troops are caught in the transition. Unsupported by the South Vietnamese, the men are abandoned on a tiny outpost

Patrick only knew his father through the life stories he would tell — stories of covert operations as a frogman and Navy SEAL in Vietnam. With each story told, Patrick felt he gained not only a piece of his father but a piece of history. “Frogman” delves into the sacrifices and burdens of a family

where keeping secrets became part of the job, and explores just how much we can know someone through the stories we inherit.

“Heroes on Deck: World War II on Lake Michigan”

During World War II, just off Chicago’s shoreline, the U.S. Navy trained over 15,000 carrier pilots on two makeshift “flattops,” both former, coal-fired, side wheel passenger steamers. Not every pilot landed successfully on the pitching decks of the USS Wolverine and USS Sable; many aircraft went to the lake bottom. This is the story of the recovery of those rare warbirds and the ingenious training program that changed the course of the war in the Pacific.

“Operation Allie”

Anthony Marquez, a former Marine and military dog handler, has returned from Afghanistan.

He lost 17 friends in the war and has been suffering from the effects of PTSD. When he finds out that the dog that he went through the war with is being retired from the Marine Corps, he sets out to adopt her. This is the story of his journey to be reunited with his best friend and the comfort they can provide for each other.

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“Paper Lanterns”

In the summer of 1945, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan. On the morning of the bombing a young Japanese boy, Shigeaki Mori, would witness the explosion.

He would survive that day and go on to document the bombing and honor the thousands that were lost, including the 12 American POWs. Mori’s efforts provided closure and solace for the families of those fallen soldiers.

‘Adventurementalism’

‘Defying the Nazis.’ Waitstill Sharp and his wife Martha leave for Prague to join a life-threatening mission in Europe and help save Jews and other refugees.

‘Escape from Firebase Kate’

‘Forced Landing.’ Former prisoner of war honored.

Scene from ‘Frogman.’

‘Heroes on Deck’

“StoryCorps: Tom’s War”

Tom Geerdes served as an Army medic in the 11th Armored Calvary in Vietnam and Cambodia. Like many veterans, he returned home a changed man. At StoryCorps, Tom shared his long journey toward healing with his daughter, Hannah Campbell. This animated short features the audio from their recording.

“Thank You For Your Service”

This film takes a hard look at our understanding of war trauma and the policies that result. The film’s director, Tom Donahue, interweaves the stories of four struggling Iraq War veterans through candid interviews with top military and civilian leaders. The film argues for significant change and offers a roadmap of hope.

“The Last Time I Heard True Silence”

Upon returning from Iraq, Noah struggles to transition back into civilian life. His attempts to reintegrate are repeatedly thwarted by problems he never faced before. After losing more friends to suicide than war, he finds himself hitting rock bottom so he starts running and he never stops.

Now a father and husband, Noah enters a 50-mile wilderness race, pushing his mind and his body to their limits.

“The Unimaginable Journey of Peter Ertel”

Peter Ertel was considered “like family” by his Jewish employers by the end of World War II, but he had a remarkable past as a German soldier for five years at the beginning of the war. In the first-person narrative documentary “The Unimaginable Journey of Peter Ertel,” the man speaks of his experience in a hatred, destruction-driven time. The film features rare archival footage — previously unreleased — as the audience learns from this former agent for the U.S. State Department.

‘Operation Allie’

‘The Last Time I Heard True Silence’

‘Paper Lanterns’

‘Story Corps’

‘Thank You for Your Service’

‘The Unimaginable Journey of Peter Ertel’

‘The Year of the Tiger’

“The Year of the Tiger”

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, President John F. Kennedy has to decide whether to put millions of Americans at risk and assist millions of people trapped 110 miles behind the Iron Curtain.

The GI Film Festival San Diego is presented by KPBS in partnership with the GI Film Group and Film Consortium San Diego.

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A WRITER TO WATCH

Award-Winning San Diego author thrives on the unexpected

BY JENNIFER COBURN

You know that moment in a great book when the story takes an unexpected plot twist? A gun is fired. The car swerves off the road. The bride makes a U-Turn down the aisle and runs out the door.

Those moments of surprise make for an exciting story for the reader.

But San Diego author Jill G. Hall says she too is often caught off guard during the process of writing her novels.

“If I knew what was going to happen, why keep writing?” she says over lunch at the Adams Avenue Grill. “I get to know my characters first, then let them tell me what they’re going to do. It’s part of the excitement of writing.”

Rather than working from an outline like many novelists, Hall uses visual prompts like photographs or memorabilia from the period about which she is writing. “I am an intuitive writer, which means I lead with my heart rather than my head,” she says. Hall says she also writes freehand, a technique encouraged by her mentor Judy Reeves, founder of San Diego Writers Ink. When she began taking classes at Writers Ink nearly a decade ago, Hall found this approach resonated with her artistic nature. In addition to being a novelist, she is a visual artist specializing in mosaic work and collage. She is also a published poet.

Hall is doing something right as her debut novel, “The Black Velvet Coat,” was recently named a finalist in best new fiction in this year’s International Book Awards. Since the publication of her novel in October, Hall has been on a whirlwind book tour with 33 events in cities across the

United States. The Downtown library also named her as one of its “Writers to Watch” and is hosting a talk and signing for her in August.

Hall’s second novel is not a sequel to the “Black Velvet Coat,” but the author says there are some common themes that show up throughout her work. In her debut, Hall’s protagonist finds a black velvet coat in a vintage shop and becomes intrigued by its former owner, a San Francisco socialite with a colorful past. Hopping back and forth in time between present day and the 1960s, the novel explores how one coat can change the course of two people’s lives.

Hall’s new novel (working title: “The Silver Shoes”) also revolves around a vintage item, dancing shoes worn by a debutante-gone-burlesque dancer after the stock market crash of 1929. Much to the author’s surprise, one of the characters from “The Black Velvet Coat” appeared on the pages of her new manuscript as she was writing. “She just showed up on the page and told me she was going to be part of this story too,” Hall says playfully.

Thus far, Hall’s books focus on the lives of women at crossroads in their lives. Characters grapple with conflicting cultural expectations and their own desires for fulfillment. Both books have strong themes of artistic exploration.

True to the mosaic and collage artist that she is, Hall says she identifies with elements of all the characters in her books. Pieced together, though, they are completely unique individuals.

A quality she shares with one of her novel’s characters is a love of vintage shopping. Hall regularly scours

antique shops and flea markets for items she can use in her work. At her studio, she has dozens of transparent shoeboxes filled with items to use in her visual art, or as visual prompts for writing. In fact, it was at a yard sale that she found the black velvet coat which inspired her novel. “At first I didn’t buy it because I didn’t see it as being useful in a collage or mosaic, and couldn’t justify spending ten dollars on something I wouldn’t wear often in San Diego,” she explains. “That night, I dreamed about the coat and went back to the yard sale the next morning and bought it.”

The coat became so important to her artistic process, she had it flown to the art department at her publishing house so they could photograph it for the front cover.

This fall, Hall is heading to New York for a research trip where she will spend time at the famed Waldorf Astoria where some chapters of her next book take place. She’ll research the era at the New York Historical Society and visit the Central Park West address of one of her characters.

And of course, Hall will hunt the local antique and vintage shops of Manhattan and let the setting help shape her story. So far she knows that her young burlesque dancer character will meet a handsome stranger under a nightclub table during a police raid.

The girl will defy her father’s expectations and discover herself, all while sporting a nifty pair of silver shoes.

The rest of the story will be a surprise — not only for Hall’s fans, but for the author herself.

Visit jillghall.com for more information.

MEET THE AUTHOR: JILL HALL “San Diego Writer to Watch” series Book talk and signing Sunday, Aug. 14, 1-2:30 p.m.

San Diego Public Library – Downtown Branch

San Diego County Embraces Water-Use Efficiency as a Way of Life

BY MARK WESTON SAN DIEGO COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY

When I walk around my neighborhood, it’s clear that a new level of commitment to water-use efficiency has taken hold at the grassroots level.

About half the homes around me have upgraded from conventional turf-based landscapes to attractive, low-water landscapes that are more appropriate for the climate of San Diego County.

I see the same phenomenon across the county; residents and businesses are making the most of our water supplies like never before. In fact, we collectively use nearly 40 percent less potable water per capita today than we did in 1990.

At the San Diego County Water Authority, we embrace WaterSmart living even though our investments in droughtresilient supplies mean the region has all of the water needed to sustain our $222 billion economy and the quality of life for 3.3 million residents even after five years of drought. Our investments also mean that the region is no longer under emergency state mandates to reduce water use. On July 26, we launched a new outreach campaign – Live WaterSmart – in coordination with our 24 member agencies to help San Diego County make the most of our water supplies regardless of drought conditions.

With state mandates removed, we have an opportunity to do the right thing for our long-term water security while enhancing our region’s role as a leader in water-use efficiency. That tradition really began in the early 1990s, when the Water Authority sponsored landmark state legislation to mandate low-flush toilets that quickly became the national standard. Over the decades, we have created and supported numerous other efforts to hardwire efficient water use into our everyday lives.

Live WaterSmart is the Water Authority’s resolution to raise awareness about ways to make the most efficient use of water, reinforce positive behaviors and promote available water-saving programs. One easy way people

Mark Weston

can find out what they can do to improve their long-term water-use efficiency for a free home water-use checkup at WaterSmartSD.org. The website also offers numerous other resources, including an array of award-winning, water-efficient landscaping classes for homeowners and an on-demand video version of those classes to fit our busy lives.

You’ll also start to see Live WaterSmart reminders around the greater San Diego region.

Donated outdoor advertising in several regional malls already shows the Live WaterSmart message, and restaurants will be placing gentle reminders on their table tops. Related outreach in the works includes print and digital ads, social media messages, promotional items and partnerships.

In addition, the Water Authority is also working with partners – including the city of San Diego, the county of San Diego, and the Surfrider Foundation – to launch a new incentive program for sustainable landscapes in August.

It’s designed to help our region take the next step in water-efficient living, while improving storm water capture and enhancing the environmental benefits of our urban landscapes.

Let’s all Live WaterSmart so we can carefully manage our most precious natural resource no matter the weather.

Mark Weston is chair of the Water Authority’s Board of Directors.

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Scripps Oceanography graduate student Andrew Mullen positions the Benthic Underwater Microscope to study coral competition. (Credit: Jaffe Laboratory for Underwater Imaging/Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego)

Researchers Develop Novel Microscope to Study Underwater World Sea floor imaging system captures microscopic view of a coral’s life A new microscopic imaging system is revealing a never-before-seen view of the underwater world.

Researchers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego have designed and built a diveroperated underwater microscope to study millimeter-scale processes as they naturally occur on the seafloor.

The research team observed coral turf wars, coral polyp “kissing,” and much more using the new microscopic technology.

Many important biological processes in the ocean take place at microscopic scales, but when scientists remove organisms from their native habitats to study them in the lab, much of the information and its context are lost. In a quest to overcome this challenge, Scripps oceanographer Jules Jaffe and his team have developed a new type of underwater microscope to image marine microorganisms in their natural settings without disturbing them.

The Benthic Underwater Microscope, or BUM, is a two-part system–an underwater computer with a diver interface tethered to a microscopic imaging unit–to study marine subjects at nearly micron resolution. The instrument has a high magnification lens, a ring of focused LED lights for fast expo-

The Benthic Underwater Microscope is put in positioned to study coral competition. (Credit: Jaffe Laboratory for Underwater Imaging/Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego)

sures, fluorescence imaging capabilities, and a flexible tunable lens, similar to the human eye, to change focus for viewing structures in 3-D. “This underwater microscope is the first instrument to image the seafloor at such small scales,” said Andrew Mullen, a Ph.D. student at Scripps and the Jacobs School of Engineering and co-lead author of the study published in the July 12 issue of the journal Nature Communications. “The system is capable of seeing features as small as single cells underwater.”

The motivation for building the imaging system was to better understand the many ecological

processes taking place underwater on a microscopic scale, according to the Scripps researchers.

“To understand the evolution of the dynamic processes taking place in the ocean, we need to observe them at the appropriate scale,” said Jaffe, the senior author of the study, and head of the Jaffe Laboratory for Underwater Imaging at Scripps.

To test the new technology’s ability to capture small-scale processes taking place underwater, the researchers used the imaging system to view millimeter-sized coral polyps off the coast of Israel in the Red Sea, and off Maui, Hawaii.

During experiments in the Red

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Sea, the researchers set up the BUM to capture the interactions of two corals of different species placed close to each other. The images revealed micro-scale processes in which corals emit string-like filaments that secrete enzymes from their stomach cavity to wage a chemical turf battle to destroy the tissue of other species in a competition for seafloor space. Yet, when the researchers placed corals of the same species next to each other, they did not eject these gastric fluids.

“They can recognize friend versus foe,” said Mullen.

The researchers also captured video of neighboring individual polyps on a single coral colony taking turns embracing one another, an unknown phenomenon the researchers call coral polyp “kissing.”

Next, the researchers deployed the instrument off Maui following one of the largest coral-bleaching events on record, which occurs when single-celled algae that live inside the coral polyp eject themselves during high ocean temperature events. Recently bleached corals are still alive, but in their weakened state can be rapidly invaded and overgrown by filamentous turf algae.

Using the microscope, the research team observed a previously unreported honeycomb pattern of initial algal colonization and

growth in areas between the individual coral polyps during coral bleaching. These findings provide insight into a process that Scripps marine ecologist Jennifer Smith, a co-author of the study, called the “succession of algae” where small filamentous algae initially settle on the ridges between coral polyps and eventually smother the living tissue. The images showed that algae are able to actively overgrow living corals during a bleaching event.

“This instrument is a part of a new trend in ocean research to bring the lab to the ocean, instead of bringing the ocean to the lab,” said study co-lead author Tali Treibitz, a former Scripps postdoctoral researcher now at the University of Haifa’s Charney School of Marine Science.

Jaffe and Mullen are now preparing the instrument to take pictures of microscopic particles in the water near the coral’s surface to study how the flow of water over corals allows them to exchange the necessary gases to breathe.

The W.M. Keck Foundation, National Science Foundation, Link Foundation for Ocean Engineering, and U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation supported the instrument development and research.

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HIDEAWAY HAVEN UPGRADE OF A 1956 CABIN

BY PATRICIA POORE | ARTS & CRAFTS HOMES AND THE REVIVAL | PHOTOS BY SUSAN GILMORE

In this upgrade of a 1956 cabin, raising the roof created classic bungalow lines that envelop a well-crafted cottage interior.

This complete makeover shows how the cottage sensibility can be preserved even when a vacation cabin becomes a year-round home, updated with modern amenities.

Working within the strict guidelines of the Lower Saint Croix National Scenic Riverway, which are regulated by the federal government as well as local townships, David Heide Design Studio put a handsome new face on the house while retaining original features. The board-andbatten siding remains, enhanced now with shingles on the second level and a cedar-shake roof. Heide had to stay within the original footprint, and so raised the roof ridge three feet and added dormers to create a second floor. Now bungalow rooflines envelop the forest-color exterior with its whimsical cottage shutters. The steeper pitch allowed conversion of the children’s loft into a new master suite, a guest suite, and a laundry room.

“The Scenic Riverway guidelines go beyond setbacks,” David Heide explains. “They essentially demand that the houses be discreet, if not invisible, when viewed from the river. Materials and colors must reflect nature, height is restricted, as is clearing of vegetation…it was a challenge.

“The house was a ’50s rambler,” Heide says, “mostly a Sheetrock box but with some cabin-like details, including knotty-pin paneling. My clients had added some wood details over the years.” Doug and Ann McMillan bought the cabin in Hudson, Wisconsin, in the early 1990s, using it as a family summer getaway. But 20 years later they were spending more time at the place and decided to upgrade.

“Our original intention was to create a master bedroom with a bathroom that would work in cooler months,” Ann says. “But during the remodeling we missed a summer—the project was complete in September. So Doug and I moved in just to take advantage of the remaining good weather. We never returned to St. Paul!” The couple, in fact, sold their other house.

The family’s everyday kitchen is in its original location, and still has the stainless-steel cabinet interiors, drawers, and countertops installed by the first owner, who was a metal fabricator. But now it opens through new French doors to a deck, and has a peninsula and seating areas embellished with Arts & Crafts tiles by Motawi. The foyer was reconfigured and the staircase changed for better flow and access to the new suite above. “Heide’s elegant design solutions were quite extensive, but rela-

tively subtle; they changed our quality of life,” Ann says. “The team generated ideas we never would have thought of.”

The overflow kitchen downstairs was reconfigured using original materials, then given cottage charm with forest-theme wallpaper and a pair of cutout shutters to separate it from the family room. “It comes in handy,” Ann says, providing additional storage, ovens, and workspace for caterers during big family gatherings. The room is immediately accessible to an outdoor terrace and the path to the river. Square backsplash and wainscot tiles here are from North Prairie Tileworks; the paper is ‘Evergreen’ from Thibaut.

Before, the house had an open loft, with two twin beds tucked into the space left between knee walls at the eaves. With the raised roof and four large, shed-roof dormers for headroom, the new second floor accommodates bedrooms and a laundry area. The master bedroom is long and narrow; Heide placed the bed closer to the windows and backed it with a custom dresser, dividing the room into sleeping and dressing spaces.

The dresser was inspired by tramp art, a folk art practiced ca.

1870 to 1940 and given the whimsical name, appropriately enough, during the 1950s, by antiques dealers. Like the old picture frames and decorative pieces, the dresser is chipcarved, and inlaid with mirrors and stone. Behind it, doors open to walk-in closets from a dressing area with a built-in bench seat. The room is further divided by a fir beam supported on tree trunks, a detail that also appears on the staircase.

Behind the dressing area, the master bath has a spacious lavatory with twin facing sink counters; a door opens to a separate shower and toilet. The knotty pine vanities by a local company, and new skylights with leaf motifs, celebrate the forest setting. (LED lights lining the skylights allow the glass pattern to be seen at night.) The Stark wallpaper is a contemporary interpretation of William Morris’s ‘Honeysuckle’ pattern. The marble tile floor was set in a traditional basket-weave pattern over radiant heat.

The owners say they had a master plan created for the site during the 1990s, after a terrible storm took out many of the old white pines. “I have a degree in landscape architecture,” Ann confides, “and I’ve tried to maintain the original design, but I can’t resist the temptation to experiment with new plants and colors.”

Wearing cedar shakes and old-fashioned green shutters, the quietly updated house nestles into this lovely setting.

(From Arts & Crafts Homes and the Revival)

Wearing cedar shakes and old-fashioned green shutters, the quietly updated house nestles into this lovely setting.

David Heide Design Studio redesigned this 1950s cabin to be a year-round home.

Doors in the dressing area open to two walk-in closets; the cozy window bench is a practical addition at one end.

The main-level kitchen remains in its original location, and retains the unique stainless-steel drawers and countertops installed by the first owner. The art tile mural is by Motawi.

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