Summit Signature Homes Wins Silver Key Award for Custom Home ...

Chicago Real Estate Forum and Marketing RELEVANCE congratulate Summit Signature Homes for winning a Silver Key Award in Excellence in New Construction for a Custom Home.

Summit Signature Homes stated: Our clients in this town are aged 35-45 and many are relocating from downtown Chicago or building their second home. The draw of this location is the oversized property which backs up to the Hinsdale Golf Club, offering plenty of privacy. In addition, the home is close to Clarendon's charming downtown, train station, schools and parks.

This all-American Nantucket style home offers an open floor plan and features 10-foot main level ceilings, four bedrooms, four-and-a-half baths, a large mud room and bonus room. This home is situated on a 60-by-239 deep lot in Clarendon Hills which is larger than the standard 60-by-150 size lot normally found in town. We worked closely with our clients and architect to make sure the backyard was a focal point from the main living area in this home.

In Clarendon Hills you are limited by the FAR requirements. We maximized the square footage on this home including the added space above the garage (bonus room). In addition, we situated the garage on the front of the home with a sideload entrance. We wanted our clients to be able to turn their car around so that they would have an easier time exiting their driveway.

For more information on Summit Signature Homes , please visit summitsignaturehomes.com or call 630-366-2011

The Home Builders Association of Greater Chicago's KEY and SAMMY Awards celebrate their 40th anniversary in 2012. The awards began in 1972 and have grown throughout the years to now feature more than 100 building, remodeling, marketing and personal achievement categories. The KEY and SAMMY awards are the premier awards of Chicago's residential building industry. To see more award winners, visit Chicago Real Estate Forum.

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Vegetables Are Essential For Maintaining Good Health | Health and ...

Vegetables should be an integral part of our diet because vegetables are not only abounding in nutrients but they also increase the value of the meal. According to a recent study, children tend to admire those meals that contain vegetables more than others. In fact, additions of vegetables make your diet more complete, appreciative and delicious.

However, it is also a fact that as children grow they gradually develop a disliking for vegetables due to many reasons. At this point, the mothers should alter their thoughts of just taking vegetables as beneficial for children. Instead vegetables should be considered as the enhancement of the actual meal. Children?s taste changes with the time and parents need to add variety of vegetables cooked in different fashions to satisfy ever fluctuating requirements.

Tips to Counter Vegetable Haters:

If you are managing people who really hate vegetables, employ the following techniques to answer their irritating objections.

• Let children choose the vegetable they want to eat and you will receive no complains at all
• Make the meal little spicy and crunchy because such foods are children favorites
• Do not just advise your children to eat vegetables if you yourself do not like to eat them. You have to be a role model for children and then expect them to follow you.

Various benefits of Eating Vegetables:

There are numerous benefits of eating vegetables that range from physical to mental health. Some of these advantages have been discussed below.

Health Benefits:

Consuming large amount of vegetables can have very pleasant effects on the health of any person.

• Vegetables protect people from attacks of certain types of cancers
• Vegetable rich diet can save you from heart attacks and other heart diseases.
• Low vegetable diet can result in low testosterone (Low-T) levels and subsequently low testosterone symptoms appear like reduced libido and mental disorders.
• Regular consumption of vegetables can also prevent diabetes from taking hold of you
• Furthermore, certain vegetables are also helpful in stopping kidney stone to develop

Nutritional value of Vegetables:

Vegetables are very important for maintaining heath and vegetables perform these duties because they are rich in almost all types of nutrients required for optimum body performance.

• Vegetables are cholesterol less and also low in fats and thus hold obesity back and repulse the invasion of heart diseases
• They are vital to enhance the production of testosterones and keeping low testosterone symptoms at bay.
• Vegetables are an important source of mineral like potassium which keeps bones healthy and strong
• Potassium in vegetables also plays it part to regulate blood pressure to normal levels.
• Fibers in vegetables helps to control blood sugar
• Fibers also control the function of intestine and prevent constipation and diverticulitis
• Vitamin A in vegetables help to fight against different infections and keeps eye and skin healthy
• Vitamin C helps in early clotting of blood and healing of injuries alongside helping in absorption of iron.

Healthiest Vegetables:

Although all vegetables have some value for health, following vegetables surpass all others in terms of their health and nutritional benefits:

Tomato is technically a fruit but often considered as vegetable. It is rich in Lycopene which is an antioxidant and increase the production of human growth hormones naturally that help to fight against many diseases like cancers. Other methods to improve growth hormones reserves include hormone replacement therapy for men and women.

Broccoli also assists in avoiding cancers and provides immunity against colds and flues because it contains nutrients like beta carotene, Folate and Vitamin C.

The importance of carrots for eyes, skins and hair cannot be denied. They are rich in Vitamin A and C and are extremely beneficial for cardiovascular diseases.

Squash is a wonder vegetable and abound in nutrients like Vitamin C and beta carotene and is indispensible for natural treatments of asthma, osteoporosis, rheumatoid and osteoarthritis.

Nutrients like Vitamin A and C and manganese occur in great amount in this sweet little vegetable. They are also rich in iron and provide energy as well as improving the performance of digestive system.

Each and every nutrient and mineral is found in plenty in this powerful vegetable and is important for almost everything from heart to limbs.

Conclusion:

Vegetables are very important for the smooth flow of life cycle and should be made permanent member of your diet. Parents need to persuade their children to eat more vegetables because lack of vegetables in diet can have serious consequences for their health in the long run.

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Judge: George Zimmerman must keep GPS monitor on

George Zimmerman was rebuffed by a Florida judge in his request today to remove the GPS tracking device he must wear and be allowed to leave Seminole County so that he would not have to live in hiding while awaiting trial for shooting unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin.

Zimmerman, who is currently out of jail on a $1 million bond, appeared in court today, noticeably stockier, clad in a dark suit and presumably a bulletproof vest as he typically wears in public.

In seeking permission to remove the tracking device, defense attorney Mark O'Mara put Adam Vincent, Zimmerman's probation officer, on the stand. Vincent testified that Zimmerman has always complied with the terms of his probation.

O'Mara argued that Zimmerman has "shown himself where he should be free" and should not be restricted to Seminole County because it does not allow him to speak with attorneys, expert witnesses or to help his attorneys prepare for the upcoming trial.

Zimmerman "shouldn't have to be in hiding," O'Mara told the court. Zimmerman, 28, has been in hiding since he received death threats following the shooting death of the unarmed teenager on Feb. 26.

Lead prosecutor Bernie De La Rionda argued that the state "objects strenuously to any modification of his GPS or his boundaries" and reminded Judge Debra Nelson that Zimmerman lied to the court about how much money he could provide for bond and neglected to mention the existence of a second passport.

De La Rionda argued that the GPS is as much for Zimmerman's protection as it is for the state's benefit.

"Isn't the defendant safer if law enforcement knows exactly where he is?" De La Rionda asked.

The judge denied Zimmerman's request, requiring him to continue wearing the GPS tracker and remain in Seminole County, except to visit his attorneys in Orange County.

The two sides also wrangled over identifying the voice heard screaming for help during the deadly confrontation between Zimmerman and Martin.

Members of Zimmerman's family said the voice was his, while Martin's family claimed the voice belonged to the teenager. Martin's father initially said the voice was not his son, but when he heard it with heightened clarity, said it was Trayvon.

Defense Attorney Don West argued that the defense is obligated to know which witnesses have heard the audio and identified who it was yelling on the calls. The judge countered, saying that anyone could have now heard the audio on the internet and that the prosecution has no greater obligation than to disclose whether or not each witness made a statement to law enforcement.

The hearing, like previous hearings, turned into a mini-trial complete with witnesses and cross examination. At one point in today's court session the prosecution brought up Zimmerman's comments on MySpace that made derogatory statements about Mexicans, while the defense showed newly released color photos of Zimmerman's bloodied and bruised nose taken the night of the shooting.

Zimmerman is charged with murder, but he claims he shot Martin in self defense while struggling over his pistol after Martin knocked him down and bashed his head against the cement. The trial is scheduled for June 13.

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Congressman says Marine's medal won't be upgraded

SAN DIEGO (AP) ? A San Diego congressman says the secretary of defense has denied his request to upgrade a fallen Marine's Navy Cross to the Medal of Honor.

Rep. Duncan Hunter's office said Wednesday that the Pentagon told the lawmaker it supports the decision of former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who honored Sgt. Rafael Peralta with the Navy Cross instead of the military's highest honor.

Gates ruled in 2008 that Peralta was not conscious when his body smothered a grenade in Iraq in 2004, saving the lives of other Marines.

The case was reopened this year after Hunter obtained a video of the battle action and a new forensics report that the lawmaker says prove Peralta's actions were intentional.

Hunter's office says defense officials found the new evidence was not sufficient.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/congressman-says-marines-medal-wont-upgraded-175603287.html

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Yahoo revamps email in bid to catch up with Gmail

In this undated image made available by Yahoo the company's recently retooled free email service is shown on a web device and tablet. Aside from the new look aimed at regaining some of the ground Yahoo lost to Google's popular alternative, Yahoo introduced Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012, email apps for the iPhone, iPad and mobile devices running on the new Windows 8 operating system. (AP Photo/Yahoo)

In this undated image made available by Yahoo the company's recently retooled free email service is shown on a web device and tablet. Aside from the new look aimed at regaining some of the ground Yahoo lost to Google's popular alternative, Yahoo introduced Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012, email apps for the iPhone, iPad and mobile devices running on the new Windows 8 operating system. (AP Photo/Yahoo)

In this undated image made available by Yahoo the company's recently retooled free email service is shown on mobile devices. Aside from the new look aimed at regaining some of the ground Yahoo lost to Google's popular alternative, Yahoo introduced Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012, email apps for the iPhone, iPad and mobile devices running on the new Windows 8 operating system. (AP Photo/Yahoo)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? Yahoo is spiffing up and expanding its email service in an attempt to regain some of the ground lost to a Google alternative that lured away millions of users.

The changes unveiled Tuesday are meant to make Yahoo's email faster and easier to use on the Web. To cater to the growing audience checking their email on smartphones and tablet computers, Yahoo also introduced mobile apps for the iPhone, iPad and devices powered by Microsoft Corp.'s recently released Windows 8 system.

The company, which is based in Sunnyvale, Calif., also updated its email app designed for Google Inc.'s Android operating system.

The email overhaul is part of Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's crusade to give people more reasons to visit the company's online services and stick around longer. In doing so, Mayer hopes to sell more advertising and accelerate Yahoo's revenue growth after years of financial malaise. The stagnation has kept the company's stock price below $20 for more than four years. Yahoo shares were hovering near $30 before the company squandered an opportunity to sell itself to Microsoft for $33 per share in May 2008.

Yahoo's stock rose 9 cents to close at $19.52 on Tuesday. The stock has surged 25 percent since Yahoo hired Mayer from Google nearly five months ago.

During her 13 years as a top Google executive, Mayer played a key role in building the company's Gmail. The service was a novelty when it began in 2004 and with Mayer's help it transformed into a trend-setting service that surpassed the early leads of rival offerings from Yahoo and Microsoft.

Through October, Gmail had more than 295 million active users to eclipse Microsoft's Hotmail at nearly 284 million users and Yahoo email at 282 million, according to the most recent data from the research firm comScore. At the same time last year, Hotmail led the pack with 335 million users, followed by Yahoo at 303 million and Gmail at more than 245 million.

With more people gravitating to Gmail, Microsoft also recently redesigned Hotmail and rebranded the service as Outlook.com ? a reference to the communications channel built into the software maker's widely used Office suite of programs.

In a sign Google isn't taking its lead for granted, the company is the in process of phasing in changes to Gmail that will give it a slightly different look and add more features.

All the retooling underscores the ongoing importance of traditional email, even as people increasingly rely on text messages sent on phones and thoughts shared on Facebook and Twitter. Despite its shrinking market share, Yahoo says it still processes about 30 billion emails each day and estimates its users collectively check their inboxes about 190 million times per day.

Although none of the major email providers charge to set up an account on the Web, the services are valuable because they encourage repeat visits and require people to log in. Internet companies covet activities occurring under a logged-in identity because they can more easily track people's preferences and tailor ads more likely to appeal to users' tastes.

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McAfee wants to return to US, 'normal life'

FILE - In this Dec. 4, 2012, file photo, software company founder John McAfee listens to a question during an interview at a local restaurant in Guatemala City. McAfee said Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012, a live-stream Internet broadcast from the Guatemalan detention center where he is fighting a government order that he be returned to Belize, that he wants to return to the United States and "settle down to whatever normal life" he can. Police in neighboring Belize want to question McAfee in the fatal shooting of a U.S. expatriate who lived near his home on a Belizean island in November. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)

FILE - In this Dec. 4, 2012, file photo, software company founder John McAfee listens to a question during an interview at a local restaurant in Guatemala City. McAfee said Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012, a live-stream Internet broadcast from the Guatemalan detention center where he is fighting a government order that he be returned to Belize, that he wants to return to the United States and "settle down to whatever normal life" he can. Police in neighboring Belize want to question McAfee in the fatal shooting of a U.S. expatriate who lived near his home on a Belizean island in November. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)

In this photo released by Guatemala's Human Rights Ombudsman's office, software company founder John McAfee is photographed in an immigration detention center in Guatemala City, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012. The anti-virus guru was arrested at a hotel in an upscale neighborhood with the help of Interpol agents, hours after he said he would seek asylum in the Central American country. Guatemalan authorities were awaiting orders from their Foreign Ministry about whether to send him back to Belize, where he is a person of interest in the killing of a fellow expatriate American. (AP Photo/Guatemala's Human Rights Ombudsman's office)

BACALAR, Mexico (AP) ? Software company founder John McAfee said Sunday he wants to return to the United States and "settle down to whatever normal life" he can.

In a live-stream Internet broadcast from the Guatemalan detention center where he is fighting a government order that he be returned to Belize, the 67-year-old said "I simply would like to live comfortably day by day, fish, swim, enjoy my declining years."

Police in neighboring Belize want to question McAfee in the fatal shooting of a U.S. expatriate who lived near his home on a Belizean island in November.

The creator of the McAfee antivirus program again denied involvement in the killing during the Sunday Internet video hook-up, during which he answered what he said were reporters' questions.

His comments were sometimes contradictory. McAfee is an acknowledged practical joker who has dabbled in yoga, ultra-light aircraft and the production of herbal medications.

The British-born McAfee first said that returning to the United States "is my only hope now." But he later added, "I would be happy to go to England, I have dual citizenship."

He was emphatic that "I cannot ever return to Belize .... there is no hope for my life if I am ever returned to Belize."

"If I am returned," he said, "bad things will clearly happen to me."

He descibed the health problems that had him briefly hospitalized earlier this week after Guatemalan authorities detained him for entering the country illegally. He apparently snuck in across a rural, unguarded spot along the border.

"I did not eat for two days, I drank very little liquids, and for the first time in many years I've been smoking almost non-stop," he said. "I stood up, passed out hit my head on the wall, came to," though he now said he was feeling better.

McAfee praised the role his 20-year-old Belizean girlfriend, Samantha Vanegas, played in his escape from Belize, where he claims he is being persecuted by corrupt politicians. Authorities in Belize deny that they are persecuting him and have questioned his mental state.

"Sam saved the day many times" during their escape, he said, and suggested he would take her with him to the United States if he is allowed to go there.

He confirmed that journalists from Vice magazine who accompanied him on his escape after weeks of hiding in Belize had unwittingly posted photos with embedded data that revealed his exact location.

"It was an error anyone could make," he said, noting they were under a lot of pressure at the time.

McAfee has led an eccentric life since he sold his stake in the anti-virus software company named after him in the early 1990s and moved to Belize about three years ago to lower his taxes.

He told The New York Times in 2009 that he had lost all but $4 million of his $100 million fortune in the U.S. financial crisis. However, a story on the Gizmodo website quoted him as describing that claim as "not very accurate at all."

McAfee's Guatemalan attorney, Telesforo Guerra, says that he has filed three separate legal appeals in the hope that his client can stay in Guatemala, where his political asylum request was rejected.

Guerra said he filed an appeal for a judge to make sure McAfee's physical integrity is protected, an appeal against the asylum denial and a petition with immigration officials to allow his client to stay in this Central American country indefinitely.

The appeals could take several days to resolve, Guerra said. He added that he could still use several other legal resources but wouldn't give any other details.

Fredy Viana, a spokesman for the Immigration Department, said that before the agency looks into the request to allow McAfee to stay in Guatemala, a judge must first deal with the appeal asking that authorities make sure McAfee's physical integrity is protected.

"We won't look into (allowing him to stay) until the other appeal is resolved," Viana said. "The law gives me 30 days to resolve the issue."

McAfee went on the run last month after Belizean officials tried to question him about the killing of Gregory Viant Faull, who was shot to death in early November.

McAfee acknowledges that his dogs were bothersome and that Faull had complained about them, but denies killing Faull. Faull's home was a couple of houses down from McAfee's compound in Ambergris Caye, off Belize's Caribbean coast.

Associated Press

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North Korea may postpone controversial rocket launch

SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea may postpone the controversial launch of a long-range rocket that had been slated for liftoff as early as this week, state media said Sunday, as international pressure on Pyongyang to cancel the provocative move intensified.

Scientists have been pushing forward with final preparations for the launch from a west coast site, slated to take place as early as Monday, but are considering "readjusting" the timing, an unidentified spokesman for the Korean Committee for Space Technology told North Korea's state-run Korean Central News Agency.

It was unclear whether diplomatic intervention or technical glitches were behind the delay. A brief KCNA dispatch said scientists and technicians were discussing whether to set new launch dates but did not elaborate.

Word of a possible delay comes just days after satellite photos indicated that snow may have slowed launch preparations, and as officials in Washington, Seoul, Tokyo, Moscow and elsewhere urged North Korea to cancel a liftoff widely seen as a violation of bans against missile activity.

Commercial satellite imagery taken by GeoEye on Dec. 4 and shared Friday with The Associated Press by the 38 North and North Korea Tech websites showed the Sohae site northwest of Pyongyang covered with snow. The road from the main assembly building to the launch pad showed no fresh tracks, indicating that the snowfall may have stalled the preparations.

However, analysts believed rocket preparations would have been completed on time for liftoff as early as Monday.

North Korea announced earlier this month that it would launch a three-stage rocket mounted with a satellite from its Sohae station southeast of Sinuiju sometime between Dec. 10 and Dec. 22. Pyongyang calls it a peaceful bid to send an observational satellite into space, its second attempt this year.

The launch announcement captured global headlines because of its timing: South Korea and Japan hold key elections this month, President Barack Obama begins his second term next month and China has just formed a new leadership. North Koreans also have begun a mourning period for late leader Kim Jong Il, who died on Dec. 17, 2011.

Last week, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Washington was "deeply concerned" about the launch, and urged foreign ministers from NATO and Russia to demand that Pyongyang cancel its plans.

U.S. and others said the launch would violate U.N. Security Council resolutions banning North Korea from nuclear and missile activity because the rocket shares the same technology used for firing a long-range missile.

North Korea has unveiled missiles designed to target U.S. soil and has tested two atomic bombs in recent years, but has not shown yet that it has mastered the technology for mounting a nuclear warhead to a long-range missile. Six-nation negotiations to offer North Korea much-needed aid in exchange for nuclear disarmament have been stalled since 2009.

China, the North's main ally and aid provider, noted its "concern" after North Korea declared its plans. It acknowledged North Korea's right to develop its space program but said that had to be harmonized with restrictions including those set by the U.N. Security Council.

In Seoul, officials at the Defence Ministry, Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Foreign Ministry said Sunday they couldn't immediately find what might be behind the possible delay.

North Korea may hold off if Washington actively engages Pyongyang in dialogue and promises to ship stalled food assistance to the country, said Koh Yu-hwan, a professor of North Korean studies at Seoul's Dongguk University.

In February, the U.S. agreed to provide 240,000 metric tons of food aid to North Korea in exchange for a freeze in nuclear and missile activities. The deal collapsed after North Korea attempted to launch a long-range rocket in April. That rocket broke up seconds after liftoff.

Analyst Baek Seung-joo of the South Korean state-run Korea Institute for Defence Analyses in Seoul said China must have sent a "very strong" message calling for the North to cancel the launch plans.

"North Korea won't say it would delay the launch due to foreign pressure so that's why they say scientists and technicians are considering delaying it," he said.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/north-korea-may-postpone-controversial-rocket-launch-024014393.html

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