10 Things to Know for Monday

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Monday:

1. PURSUIT PROVES FATAL FOR STORMCHASERS

Tim Samaras, son Paul and colleague Carl Young, killed in Oklahoma, are believed to be first scientific researchers to die in tornado.

2. THE US WANTS CHINA TO ADDRESS CYBER THREATS

At upcoming summit, Obama will be looking for signs that President Xi is ready to engage on espionage.

3. HOW VINEGAR IS SAVING WOMEN'S LIVES IN INDIA

An inexpensive test for cervical cancer, a top killer in the developing world, is credited with amazing results.

4. THE RULING THAT COULD FURTHER INFLAME EGYPT

Country's top court says parliament was illegally elected, setting the stage for potential street battles.

5. A DARK SIDE TO THE WONDER OF 3-D PRINTING

The ability to create solid objects from a desktop could fundamentally disrupt manufacturing economies.

6. NO END IN SIGHT FOR PROTESTS IN TURKEY

An exuberant rally was revived when 10,000 people gathered to call for the Erdogan government to resign.

7. WAITING FOR THE WINNER

After more than a week, folks in Zephyrhills, Fla., are anxious to know the ID of the $590 million Powerball winner, who bought the ticket at a local store.

8. ANGELINA JOLIE STEPS BACK ON THE RED CARPET

The actress greets fans at the London premiere of Brad Pitt's "World War Z," her first public appearance since announcing her double mastectomy.

9. PUFFINS AT PERIL IN THE US

And there are signs they are in distress elsewhere as the AP reports that the seabirds are dying of starvation.

10. HEAT, PACERS HEAD INTO GAME 7

To the winner, a trip to the NBA Finals. To the loser, an offseason loaded with regret.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/10-things-know-monday-104352258.html

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The Kickass Processors That Will Power Your Next Computer

Bits and pieces of info about Intel's brand new 4th generation processors have been dripping out for months now. Good graphics, crazy battery life. Exciting stuff. Finally, though, we've got a full view of guts that'll power most of next year's computers, and they'll be available starting June 4th. The future looks very, very bright.

To put these chips?previously known as Haswell?in their proper perspective, remember that Intel has what it calls a tick-tock system when it comes to processor upgrades. The tick is a smaller, incremental upgrade where things get shrunk down and tuned up. The tock is where the big changes get made. This is the tock.

At a glance, the 4th gen chips don't appear wildly different from their predecessors. While the chips have grown just slightly in size, from 160nm to 177nm, they're built on the same 22nm process. So why slightly bigger? To accommodate the biggest graphics on-die space Intel's ever had.

And that's just for starters. Here's the full rundown of what these bad boys can do.

Bigger, better battery life

What's maybe most exciting about Intel's 4th generation cores is the leap ahead in battery life. It's the biggest in Intel's history. The gains come from a few different places. For starters, the 4th gen chips pull less power than their predecessors for CPU tasks, but they've also got some sophisticated sleep states and panel refreshing are able to cut back on power used by the rest of the system as well.

When it comes to practical applications, that means that you'll be getting 9 hours of HD video playback where you used to get only 6, and similar increases when you're just using your device for light-use things like browsing the web, or working in a word processor. The really huge jump is for standby time though. With previous-gen Ivy Bridge cores, you'd be lucky to get four or five days of standby life on a full charge. With a 4th gen core, Intel's promising a number more like 10 or even 13. And this is all with no better batteries required; the gains are purely from more efficient performance.

To explain it simply, devices running on 4th gen chips will be able to sleep way more often than what you've got right now. Essentially, Haswell's introducing a new kind of sleep state that marries all the power saving qualities of an actual, non-responsive sleep state with being totally awake. So now, when you close the lid (or turn off the display), your device can take a power nap, but still be damn quick waking back up. And those little naps count for a lot.

Integrated graphics that are actually awesome

Intel had already let slip some of the details about its sweet new integrated graphics brand a few weeks ago. In sort, Intel's Iris graphics are able to hold their own in a way they never have before, running stuff like Bioshock Infinite at playable speeds with moderate settings. Granted, there's still nothing quite like have discrete graphics in your laptop, but these 4th gen cores do built-in damn well.

Super small laptops and convertibles running U-series processors chips in the 15w range are going to be treated to at least a 2x performance increase in graphics power thanks to Intel HD Graphics 5000, the next step up in Intel's traditional integrated graphics line. Laptops with more power-hungry chips in the 28w range are treated to Iris, and real chunky, performance-first devices in the 50-ishw neighborhood and up are going to see even bigger gains with top of the line Iris Pro, using on-die eDRAM high-speed memory. But all of them will be able to handle things like OpenCL, DX11.1, OpenGL4.1, making things like playing Tomb Raider on your laptop possible.

And the graphics advancements aren't just limited to gaming. The new chips also support three-screen displays and UHD (4K) output by default. And even if you're not pushing that kind of video right now, it's going to be good to have the option when super hi-res displays start getting more affordable.

Getting your video onto other, bigger screens that aren't attached to your device is going to get easier too. 4th gen chips will have Intel's Wireless Display (WiDi) 4.1 built in. It's not as open as something like Miracast, but it does support wireless streaming of HD video, and it's already in some LG and Toshiba HDTVs. And with it baked into 4th gen Intel devices from here on out, you can bet that trend will continue.

A high bar for tiny computers

In reality, there's really no such thing as an "ultrabook," but that doesn't stop Intel from laying down a definition of what it thinks a thin, ultraportable laptop should be, and what a thin, ultraportable laptop on current hardware can handle.

And when Intel sits down to describe its dream scenario for an "ultrabook," it's setting the standard pretty high. We're talking touchscreens and voice control capability across the board, the ability to handle at least 9 hours of idle time on Windows 8, at least 6 straight hours of HD video, and seven days of standby time. And damn snappy too; we're talking wake times under three seconds.

Granted, nobody's going to be forcing OEMs to live up to these kind of standards, and they're going to build whatever the hell they want as usual. But it definitely says something about what Intel things is possible?and important?for even the slimmest of the slim this time around. And if these ideal ultrabook specs are any indication of the reality we'll actually see, slim laptops won't have to skimp on key features.

Detachables

Windows 8 put the dream of a real computer that's also a real tablet on the to-do list for manufacturers everywhere. The onslaught of tablet-laptop hybrids alongside Microsoft's own first-party Surface push shows it. But no one's really hit that sweet spot yet. For the most part, at best you get a tablet with a keyboard. Or occasionally something weirder.

Intel's aiming to bridge that gap this generation with a new line of ultra-low power, but still fully-featured mobile processors: the Y-series. In the past, 17W U-series processors have been the brains of ultrabooks everywhere. Detachables and almost-a-tablet slate PCs have been stuck with low power chips that aren't even in the same ballpark, like Atom or ARM.

Now, the U-series is reaching new power lows by hitting 15 watts, but the Y series is taking things even further, dropping down to a ridiculously low 6w, specifically for use in ultra portables where all those guts have to fit behind the glass.

With Y-series chips under the hood, detachables should actually be able to hang with the rest of the crew. They'll still be at the bottom of the list when it comes to capability, but they won't have to sit at the kids' table any more, stuck with a processor that's not quite the real thing.

Don't forget the desktops

And if, by chance, you still have a desktop and you've got no interest in going mobile, it's not a bad time to check out an all-in-one either. Battery life's not really an issue there, but Intel's 4th gen cores have a lot to offer when it comes to performance, whether it's just office stuff, video editing, or the occasional game. All in a package that's probably a bit more interesting than your dusty old tower.

Bottom line

Hopefully you waited to buy a laptop, because these are the sorts of bonuses you'll be getting when 4th gen cores start rolling out this summer. There's still going to be a little bit of a wait until things start hitting store shelves, but you can bet we'll see a fresh new line of Macs trotted out at WWDC, and you can bet they'll be repping Haswell.

We might not be post-PC yet, but everything that has to rely on a battery is about to get a whole hell of a lot better, and a lot less tethered to the wall. And who doesn't want that?

Source: http://gizmodo.com/the-kickass-processors-that-will-power-your-next-comput-510668761

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Davidson Green School plans a home on S. Main St. | Real Estate

Posted on 01 June 2013.

The Davidson Green School hopes to open this fall at 511 S. Main St.

By DAVID BORAKS
DavidsonNews.net

Organizers of the planned Davidson Green School have chosen a single-family house on 3.2 acres on South Main Street in Davidson as the home for their environmentally focused private school and the related Davidson Green Center. If all goes according to plan, the new school will open this fall with about 30 students in grades K-4.

Local educators with an interest in the environment are joining forces to found the new private school, which will offer instruction through ?the lens of environmental stewardship.?

The Davidson Green School has meeting with parents of prospective students in recent months, while at the same time hunting for a suitable location. The school plans to grow gradually, eventually reaching maximum of 150 students in grades K-8. (Another meeting is planned Tuesday; see the box at right.)

INFORMATION SESSION The Davidson Green School will hold an information session on Tuesday, June 4, at 5:30pm at Davidson Public Library, 119 S. Main St., Davidson. It?s open to the public and will include information about the school?s curriculum, programs and enrollment.

?Our vision is to stay small,? co-founder Jennifer Jakubecy said this week.

The school has a contract on 511 S. Main St., a two-story house just north of Twin Oaks Road near the Davidson-Cornelius line. The property has old-growth woods, a small stream and open space.

School organizers are currently working with Mecklenburg County Building Code Enforcement and Davidson planners to determine what work needs to be done to prepare the site for a school.

Educational uses are allowed in most parts of town under Davidson?s planning rules. Davidson Green School will need approval to change the use from residential to educational. That means some improvements a sprinkler system and a handicap-access ramp.

Jakubecy said the school also has begun working with neighbors to ensure the school does not disrupt its South Main and Twin Oaks neighborhood. One neighbor has requested a fence, and Jakubecy said, ?That works for us.?

Other neighbors have expressed concern about traffic. Town planning officials say there are no current town rules governing traffic or parking around schools. But the organizers are working with town officials and neighbors.

At the suggestion of one nearby resident, the school plans to stagger drop-off and pickup times to limit the number of cars in the area. Current plans call for two shifts, with half the morning drop-offs 8:30 to 8:45am, half from 8:45 to 9am. Afternoon pickups would be 2:30-2:45pm, and 2:45-3pm.

Jakubecy also said organizers are inviting neighbors to continue discussing their concerns.

While the school still hasn?t finished working with building officials, ?It?s looking very positive,? she said.

TEACHING LEADERSHIP AND STEWARDSHIP

Jakubecy, who has her M.A. and PhD in education from the University of Virginia and N.C. certification to teach exceptional children in K-12, has worked 17 years in public education. But she also has a vision for a new kind of school. It will teach leadership, entrepreneurial, and environmental skills, as well as subjects required in the North Carolina common core curriculum ? using a problem-solving approach to learning. She will be the Head of School.

Her co-founder is Kathleen McIntyre, an educator and environmentalist who most recently was president of the Children?s Schoolhouse in Huntersville. McIntyre has an undergraduate degree in environmental health science and a master?s degree from the University of Georgia in Forestry Resources. She has taught high school and college and also is certified in secondary education and permaculture design.

The school will open with a minimum of 20 students, organizers said, though the first year target is 40 students in the first four grades. Annual tuition will be $7,900.

DAVIDSON GREEN CENTER

The school is the main initiative of an umbrella organization that Jakubecy and others have started, called the Davidson Green Center. The center will share the school?s space and offer programs aimed at the community.

?We want to be an educational site that is also open to the community,? she said.

The Davidson Green Center is envisioned as a meeting place for people who share concerns about the environment and sustainability. While the town and the area have a variety of ?green? organizations, ?There?s not a physical location for people to come together,? Jakubecy said.

The center will develop its own programs or provide a location for those organized by others.

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Trustees say Medicare exhausted in 2026

Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew, accompanied by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, speaks about Social Security and Medicare, Friday, May 31, 2013, at the Treasury Department in Washington. The government says Medicare's giant hospital trust will not be exhausted until 2026, while the date that Social Security will exhaust its trust fund is unchanged at 2033. The date for Medicare is two years later than was projected last year. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew, accompanied by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, speaks about Social Security and Medicare, Friday, May 31, 2013, at the Treasury Department in Washington. The government says Medicare's giant hospital trust will not be exhausted until 2026, while the date that Social Security will exhaust its trust fund is unchanged at 2033. The date for Medicare is two years later than was projected last year. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew listens at left as Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius speaks about Social Security and Medicare, Friday, May 31, 2013, at the Treasury Department in Washington. The government says Medicare's giant hospital trust will not be exhausted until 2026, while the date that Social Security will exhaust its trust fund is unchanged at 2033. The date for Medicare is two years later than was projected last year. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The government said Friday that Medicare's giant hospital trust will not be exhausted until 2026, two years later than projected last year, while the date that Social Security will exhaust its trust fund remained unchanged at 2033.

The latest projections were included in the annual report of trustees of the trust funds. The new report warned that despite the small improvement in Medicare, both it and Social Security face significant funding challenges as the giant baby boom generation continues to retire. Currently, 58 million Americans are receiving Social Security benefits.

The reasons given for the improved financial outlook for Medicare were an overall slowdown in the rate of increase in health care spending, particularly on skilled nursing care, as well as lower projected costs for popular insurance plans available within the Medicare program.

Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew, the chairman of the trustees, said President Barack Obama is committed to working with Congress to put both programs on a stronger footing.

"Protecting Social Security and Medicare is one of the most significant challenges we face today as a nation. And it is a challenge that we can and must meet," Lew told reporters at a news conference.

With almost 10,000 baby boomers reaching retirement age and qualifying for benefits each day, those dates have been creeping closer, but Washington has been unable to reach consensus on an agreement to strengthen the finances of the government's biggest benefit programs, which together accounted for about 38 percent of federal spending last year.

Depletion of the reserves in the giant trust funds would not end the benefit programs but would trigger sharp reductions in benefits. For Social Security, retirees would continue to receive about 75 percent of benefits once the Social Security trust fund was exhausted in 2033. For the Medicare hospital trust fund, the depletion of that fund in 2026 would mean a cut in benefits to about 87 percent of the full level.

While the combined Social Security trust fund was projected to be depleted in 2033, the trustees warned that the funding threat to one of the component trust funds that makes payments for workers on disability is much more urgent. It was projected that the disability trust fund would deplete its reserves in just three years in 2016. That date is unchanged from last year's report.

Charles Blauhous III, one of two public members of the trustees group, said that while Congress could decide to correct the shortfall in the disability program by moving tax revenue away from Social Security, that would only worsen the funding problems facing the Social Security retirement program.

A solution to the funding problems for Social Security and Medicare has proven allusive because of the political dangers posed by any agreement that would trim benefits for millions of Americans or raise taxes to cover the projected shortfalls.

Obama has already offered to break a pledge he made in his 2008 re-election campaign not to trim Social Security benefits. Twice in negotiations with GOP leaders, he agreed to adopt a new measure of inflation that would result in smaller cost-of-living adjustments, or COLAs, for Social Security recipients. He formally put forward that proposal in the budget he sent to Congress in April.

His proposed change in the COLA, once phased in, would mean a cut in Social Security benefits of nearly $1,000 a year for an average 85-year-old recipient of Social Security benefits.

Obama and Republican leaders in Congress have held off-and-on talks about various other possible fixes for the entitlement programs since 2011 as part of their efforts to reduce the government's soaring budget deficits. But both sides remain far apart. Republicans insist any budget agreement must include deep spending cuts, while Obama is seeking what he calls a balanced deal that would include not only cuts in government spending including reductions in entitlement programs but also higher taxes.

Many Democrats in Congress are protective of the entitlement programs, expressing strong opposition to the COLA trim that Obama has put forward.

House Republicans earlier this year passed a budget that would eventually turn Medicare into a voucher-like program for people younger than 55. But Obama and other Democrats reject that approach.

Obama's approach to Medicare savings would trim payments to drug companies, hospitals and other service providers. He has also proposed having a growing share of seniors pay higher premiums over time, based on their incomes. In addition, Obama would have wealthy taxpayers pay a higher Medicare payroll tax.

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Associated Press reporters Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and Alan Fram contributed to this report.

Associated Press

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Bad Santa 2 Gets a New Writer/Director

Posted 9:40 PM May 30th, 2013 by Binh Ngo

Do we need a sequel to Bad Santa? The lengthy development time suggests no, but one is threatening to show up one of these days because there's a new attempt to get it going.

Last year, we heard Steve Pink was in talks to rewrite and direct Bad Santa 2, but, apparently, no deal was made. Now, Deadline has learned Entourage's Doug Ellin will take a crack at John Rosenthal's script and will direct the movie for Miramax.

Should it happen, Billy Bob Thornton is expected to reprise his role as a con man named Willie. According to the report, Thornton wants to make Bad Santa 2 in the fall after he's done with London Fields, but there may be some complications should Entourage, a movie Ellin is attached to direct, gets the greenlight around the same time because Ellin may want to do that one over Bad Santa 2.

In any case, Ellin has already started work on the script, and, if everything goes well, the movie will be shooting in the fall, for better or worse.

The first movie was made for a reported $23 million, but took in over $76 million at the global box office. Not bad for an R-rated comedy. That huge return is a large part of why they want to make the sequel, but they may find it's not so easy capturing lightning in a bottle twice.

Source: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1927578/news/1927578/

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Eye Lifts - Fine Line Between Cosmetic and Therapeutic

May 31, 2013 6:00am

More than 200,000 eyelid lifts were performed in the U.S. last year. (Media for Medical/UIG/Getty Images)

Drooping eyelids may seem like an inevitable effect of getting older, but sagging eyelids not only age a person?s face, they can impair peripheral vision too.

Removing the excess skin through surgery can both improve vision and result in a more youthful appearance, but determining whether the procedure is cosmetic or medically necessary has become a point of controversy, especially since Medicare is increasingly picking up the tab.

An?article from the Center of Public Integrity, a nonprofit investigative news organization, found that Medicare paid the bill for 156,000 eyelid lifts in 2011, a threefold increase since 2001. But the American Society of Plastic Surgeons said this increase did not coincide with an increase in the total number of? eyelid lifts in the United States, ?which ?from 2000 to 2012? actually decreased by 38 percent,? from 327,514 in 2000 to 204,015 in 2012.

The increase in eye lift surgeries covered by Medicare has also risen disproportionately to the number of people on Medicare. In 2010 there were 47.5 million people enrolled in Medicare, up from 39.7 million in 2000, an increase of about 20 percent, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Eyelid lifts, called blepharoplasties, are done when the upper eyelid, which usually hangs about 2mm above the pupil, starts to sag. It can be removed for cosmetic reasons or because it starts to block a person?s peripheral vision.

According to the Center of Public Integrity, Medicare pays $574 to $640 per eye. Dr. Michael Migliori, president of the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, estimates that the cost of a blepharoplasty?is often about four to five times that rate, although he cautions that?s only an estimate.

According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, the average surgeon?s fee for the operation was $2,972 in 2012.

Dr. Mami Iwamoto, a Boston-based ophthalmologist who performed a blepharoplasty on Boston Mayor Tom Menino last year,?said she has to say no to some patients who think they need a functional blepharoplasty ? one that would improve their vision ? but who don?t meet the medical criteria.???

?We?re the final word on it,? said Iwamoto. ? She said she?ll tell them, ??It?s not medically necessary.? In their hearts they know that.?

There are no national Medicare criteria for what determines a functional blepharoplasty. Different Medicare contractors that cover different regions of the country have their own criteria, although Migliori said that the criteria were ?fairly uniform across the country.

For ?Medicare to cover the surgery, according to Migliori and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a doctor must perform two vision tests, which measure the degrees to which a person can see peripherally from the horizon. The surgery would have to theoretically improve a patient?s peripheral vision by a specific number of degrees to be approved. The number of degrees depends on what is required by the individual Medicare contractor.

Other private insurance companies? often use the same criteria as Medicare to determine if an eye lift is necessary, according to Migliori. United Health Group, one of the largest private U.S. health insurance carriers, uses the Medicare ?guidelines to determine if a blepharoplasty is medically necessary or if it is cosmetic.

According to Migliori, a photo of the patient also has to be included to show that he or she ?has sagging eyelids, and the patient must report additional symptoms, such as headaches from straining their eyebrows or injuries from running into things they can?t see. Migliori said one common early sign was difficulty reading.

At the end of the day, the eyelids might become so heavy they can?t open them, ?said Migliori, ?even though they?re not tired.?

Dr. Robert Benson, a?commissioner at the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission?and a fellow at the Urban Institute, said the rise in Medicare-covered eyelid lifts was worrying because the difference between what makes an operation medically?necessary or simply cosmetic is so minor.

?There?s some clear-cut cases where eyelids interfere with vision, but a few doctors say everybody at age 70 or 80 has ?it, which I?m skeptical about it,? said Benson. ?This is a tough one, because in most of these things, you?ve got this objective criteria ? but ?the subjective stuff may be the most important.?

When reached for comment, a spokesman at the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services said it had systems in place to root out fraud, including the ability to screen medical bills ?and to review medical practices that have had suspicious billing.

?The Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services takes seriously allegations of any abuse of Medicare benefits, and we have in place a series of tools to spot and stop fraud,? the center ?said in a statement. ?We believe these tools, including sophisticated data analytics and stronger enrollment and screening requirements for health care providers, made possible by provisions of the Affordable Care Act, will protect the Medicare Trust Fund.?

Migliori said that one reason for the tremendous increase in the number of eyelifts covered by Medicare could be the number of ?uninsured or underinsured patients who wait until their Medicare coverage kicks in to get the surgery.

?There are a number of people who wait until they?re Medicare eligible,? said Migliori. ?Their insurance may be better. Blepharoplasty is a legitimate problem.?

Migliori also said that the surgery was more likely to be needed by older people, who are the ones covered by Medicare.

?It?s not a life-threatening condition, [but] for older folks it?s a safety thing,? said Migliori. ?We don?t do a lot of functional blepharoplasties on people in their40s or 50s.

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Source: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2013/05/31/eye-lifts-fine-line-between-cosmetic-and-therapeutic/

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At Home With Jill Munro - A Beautiful Mess

Today we are happy to welcome Jill from Lune Vintage on the blog to share bits of her home! "This year our little old home turned 99! It's not big, but it's ours. I love how every old home has individual personality. The moment I stepped in the door of this house, I knew this meant?to be our home. 11 years later, and after some big renovations, we're still loving her." "Nearly everything in this house is either from a relative, friend or thrift store, so it's hard to pick a favorite piece. The record console was a gift to myself after my first big festival sale with Eggie (my mobile shop). We use it every single day. The clad wood steamer trunk belonged to my Uncle who passed away this time last year. It was from my favorite room in his house which was full of antiques and a big?tiger wood?wardrobe. Currently it holds vintage clothing that I sell through my blog & Instagram. The sofa is a perfect fit for our small?living room. It cost $20 at a thrift shop and was from an old hotel lobby. I let that baby sit outside on the cold porch for a few months before daring to bring it inside for a deep cleaning. One day I'll have it recovered in leather." "Our family uses every space in this home to its full potential, but Eve and I spend most of our time here in the kitchen and living room. Her favorite toys, including her kitchen, set are here. We color, listen to records (Baby Beluga is her top pick), make real and pretend meals and build tall block towers. I love the light that streams in through the kitchen window in the morning, while I make a cup of coffee. This happy space always starts our day off right. I always feel very fortunate that we can call this place home." "My father in law gave me an old wood window from the farmhouse he grew up in. When we were renovating the kitchen and dining areas, I was?disappointed?to discover we wouldn't be able to get rid of the wall between the two spaces. As a compromise, he suggested we set the window in the wall to let more light through to the dining room from the kitchen window. I think it's such a fun personal touch, and it really does make a difference in connecting the two rooms." "We've been in this nearly century-old house for 11 years. During that time we've done a lot of renos to the interior and exterior. In this space, we swapped the tiny galley kitchen with the formal?dining room, replaced the kitchen completely, made a door a window, and opened a mudroom that was sealed off and stuck behind a fridge. The rooms are modest in this house, but the?ceilings?are high, and the windows are large. I find it to be very functional for our family of four. Small can be wonderful." Thank you so much for sharing your space with us, Jill! You can find more of Jill and her beautiful home over at her blog Lune?or find her on Instagram under @lunevintage. xo.

Source: http://www.abeautifulmess.com/2013/05/at-home-with-jill-munro.html

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