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Your backyard is a space where you enjoy quality time with your family ? from running around with your kids in the fall leaves to playing catch with your furry friend in the snow. It?s a place to escape, but remember accidents can happen anywhere at any time, and just like you childproof your house, you need to ensure your backyard is safe as well.

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A very unusual starter, but a bit of a difference is always good. This starter will please anyone. The soft potato texture combines perfectly with the melting cheese. This dish should be served warm.

Surprise and delight your guests this holiday season with unexpected morsels of indulgence on the hors d?oeuvres tray. Elegant, savory, flavorful?potatoes.

Pet owners want the very best for their animals, but it can be hard to choose the right food. With hundreds of pet food products available, how do you decide what?s best for your pet? It?s smart to start with the label ? but labels can be confusing if you don?t know what to look for. Here?s what you need to know.

The arrival of autumn signals many changes in the household, from switching from salads to soups to pulling sweaters out of storage to changing furnace filters. With pets, however, you may need to think as much about what you don?t change as what you do.

For the family looking for a hectic-free dinner, meatballs may be the ideal solution. With school in session and busy activities scheduled, dinnertime doesn?t have to be a major production. Hearty and delicious meatballs make stress-free meals easy and delicious.

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Decorate your home with a festive fruit wreath.? Celebrate the fall harvest and holiday season with fruit-forward d?cor. Simply slice and dry firm apples, like Braeburns and Galas, then string them together to create a rustic wreath.

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Recycle your old bed sheet into a lovely woven rag rug.

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Get this free printable fall cleaning checklist to make sure you don't forget anything when cleaning your home this autumn to get ready for the change of seasons.

Your backyard is a space where you enjoy quality time with your family ? from running around with your kids in the fall leaves to playing catch with your furry friend in the snow. It?s a place to escape, but remember accidents can happen anywhere at any time, and just like you childproof your house, you need to ensure your backyard is safe as well.

Good news for homeowners looking to upgrade their house without seriously downgrading their finances: Product rebates are available for many kinds of energy-efficient home appliances.

?Tis the season for at-home entertaining ? food, friends, family, fun and yes, even fires. Fire fighters respond to calls of nearly 400,000 home fires each year, according to the National Fire Prevention Association (NFPA). Many fires occur in cold weather months as more people bring warmth into their homes with things like traditional candles or holiday lighting. These fires result in more than 15,000 civilian deaths or injuries annually.

For a basic green living project with benefits to your wallet and the environment, consider revamping the kitchen pantry. The cupboard is the starting point for most kitchen activity and is more than just a storage space. Develop good buying habits and build a strong foundation and you can avoid the waste of food and money. Here?s how to tackle the task at once or little by little.

Anyone can buy patterns for doll quilts in various sizes varying in complexity from easy to highly skilled. Children and grown ups all adore their dolls. All good dolls are worthy of a special made quilt. You can create it to sell at a craft show, or make for your child, or yourself. They?re really sought-after things for every age.

Learn 6 no-sew ways to make your own placemats and update old ones.

I'm going to go ahead and say something heretical. Something very antiquated and anti-feminist. Something that might make Betty Friedan turn angrily in her grave. You ready? Here I go: Staying at home with my kids has been good for my marriage.

Make festive garlands to use as party decorations or seasonal d?cor.

Follow our day-by-day timeline and shopping list to plan a memorable feast.

Well my husband and I ordered some new phones (Hooray!) and as I was signing for the UPS man and he sniffed a little and said, "Oh Man, Your House Smells Good!" When food is cooking and someone comments.... you always know that is a good sign! Ha Ha! Thanks UPS man! You made my day! And if you are wondering... it tastes even better than it smells!

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Stocks end day higher, but HP weighs on Dow

By Anglela Moon, Reuters

NEW YORK -- Stocks ended trading higher Wednesday on stronger-than-expected U.S. labor and service-sector data, but the Dow industrials were hobbled by a slide in Hewlett-Packard.?

Shares of Hewlett-Packard dropped sharply after the company warned on Wednesday of a darker outlook for 2013 earnings, reflecting slow progress on CEO Meg Whitman's turnaround plan while technology spending sputters and driving its stock down to a nine-year low.?

The three major U.S. stock indexes, which initially got a modest lift from the positive data, came off their highs by late afternoon trade on lingering concerns about the global economy. A gloomier outlook in China and Europe weighed on commodity prices and hit energy and materials shares.

According to preliminary data, the Dow Jones Industrial Average?rose 12.63 points, or 0.09 percent, to 13,494.99. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index?was up 5.24 points, or 0.36 percent, to 1,450.99. The Nasdaq Composite Index was up 15.19 points, or 0.49 percent, at 3,135.23.?

Earlier in the session, the Dow climbed as high as 13,536.27, while the S&P 500 hit an?intraday?high at 1,454.30. The Nasdaq rose to an?intraday?high at 3,142.36.?

"The ADP numbers were good and the services index was good, but we are missing the big catalyst to keep the market up," said Jack De Gan, principal and senior advisor at Harbor Advisory in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

"The next big catalyst will be Friday's employment numbers if we don't get any news out of Europe on the progress of Spain's bailout before that."

Data showed growth in the U.S. services sector picked up in September, defying economists' expectations for a slight decrease, while last month, the private sector added more jobs than forecast. The data comes ahead of the closely watched monthly U.S. non-farm payrolls report on Friday.

The S&P's consumer discretionary sector index rose 0.7 percent. It was the best-performing S&P 500 sector, helped by stocks like Amazon , up 1.8 percent at $255.04, and homebuilders like PulteGroup
, up 5.8 percent at $16.46.

But prices of crude and metals tumbled, pressuring stocks in the energy and basic materials sectors after the euro zone looked unable to dodge a recession based on a reading of purchasing managers indexes last month, and China's slowdown looked likely to extend to a seventh quarter.

HP, the largest U.S. technology company by revenue, forecast that its earnings will slide sharply next year, compared with Wall Street's expectations for flat profits. HP shares fell 12.9 percent to $14.91.

In contrast, Best Buy shares gained 4.8 percent to $17.79 as founder Richard Schulze and at least four private-equity firms started examining its books, in early steps toward what could become an $11 billion buyout.

The S&P 500 ended September with its fourth-straight month of gains, adding roughly 11 percent since the end of May.

"The market has lifted meaningfully since June 1st, and it has taken the last couple of weeks to consolidate those gains," said Jim Russell, chief equity strategist at U.S. Bank Wealth Management in Cincinnati.

The proportion of bullish U.S. investment advisors fell below 50 percent for the first time in five weeks, hitting 46.8 percent in the latest week versus 51 percent the previous week, according to a survey by Investors Intelligence on Wednesday.

Investors often see bullishness as a contrarian indicator, meaning that when bullishness is running high, the market may be due for a pullback. Investors Intelligence said a reading of 55 can often signal a market top.

Shares of Family Dollar Stores rose 3.6 percent to $68.37 after the discount chain posted a higher quarterly profit.

Not all was rosy, though, on the earnings front. Monsanto shares fell 2.3 percent to $88.49 after the agribusiness group posted a fourth-quarter loss during a seasonally sluggish sales period.?

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Chemical bond shields extreme microbes from poison

Molecular structure explains how ?arsenic life? bacteria rely on phosphate instead

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Hardy bacteria that live in an arsenic bath survive in part by keeping poison from entering their cells, scientists have found. Just one tiny tweak in a hydrogen bond is enough to let the microbes pick out the phosphate they need to build their DNA ? while keeping the arsenic out.

The work helps explain how famous bacteria in the arsenic-rich waters of Mono Lake, Calif., manage to live there without incorporating arsenic into their DNA, as a controversial 2010 paper had claimed (SN: 2/25/12, p. 10).

?It goes to show that life will find a way,? says Matthew Pasek, a geochemist at the University of South Florida who was not involved in the new study.

The discovery may also open new ways to deliver substances into a cell that are wanted, like drugs, while keeping unwanted stuff out. ?The best way of avoiding poison is not to take it, and this is like the first defense mechanism,? says Mikael Elias, a biochemist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. He and his colleagues describe the finding online October 3 in Nature.

Mono Lake contains a witch?s brew of chemicals, yet a strain of Halomonas bacteria somehow manages to thrive there. The original ?arsenic life? paper contended that the strain took up arsenate (a combination of arsenic and oxygen) in place of phosphate, the structurally similar chemical that forms the backbone of DNA in living organisms.

Elias had been studying the class of proteins that cells use to pull in phosphate, and suspected that Halomonas somehow fishes out the tiny bits of phosphate available from a sea of arsenate. So he and his colleagues examined the structures of five proteins, including two from the Mono Lake strain of Halomonas, that pull phosphate from the environment into cells.

All the proteins contain a particular hydrogen bond that latches onto phosphate (and arsenate). But structurally, that bond is slightly different in the Halomonas protein thought to be most responsible for choosing phosphate over arsenate. ?It?s really a tiny difference, but it has a big consequence,? says Elias. ?Basically with phosphate this bond is almost perfect? ? but with the slightly larger arsenate the bond is much harder to make. That difference lets Halomonas take up phosphate molecules about 4,500 times as efficiently as it takes up arsenate, the team found. The other proteins tested all pick out phosphate over arsenate, but not nearly as dramatically.

Other structurally similar molecules, such as one based on vanadium, also compete with phosphate for getting into cells, says Pasek. The new work might help explain the great evolutionary mystery of why phosphate usually triumphs.?

The original arsenic-life paper reported that the Halomonas strain grew in the presence of arsenate alone. But some tiny amount of phosphate must have been present in that mix, scientists suspect.

?The new results add to the growing evidence that the earlier claim ? was indeed incorrect,? says Tony Hunter, a biologist at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif.

Found in: Life and Molecules

Source: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/345502/title/Chemical_bond_shields_extreme_microbes_from_poison

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Everything You Need to Stay Entertained During Tomorrow Night's Debate [Toolkit]

Tomorrow evening President Barack Obama will debate challenger Mitt Romney in the first of what are sure to be a series of rousing debates leading up to election day in November. More »

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Early humans began eating meat earlier than thought: Oldest known evidence of anemia caused by a nutritional deficiency

ScienceDaily (Oct. 3, 2012) ? A fragment of a child's skull discovered at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania shows the oldest known evidence of anemia caused by a nutritional deficiency, reports a new paper published Oct. 3 in the open access journal PLOS ONE.

The discovery, made by a global team of researchers led by Manuel Dom?nguez-Rodrigo from Complutense University, Madrid, suggests that early human ancestors began eating meat much earlier in history than previously believed. The skull fragment identified is thought to belong to a child somewhat younger than two and shows bone lesions that commonly result from a lack of B-vitamins in the diet.

Previous reports show that early hominids ate meat, but whether it was a regular part of their diet or only consumed sporadically was not certain. The authors suggest that the bone lesions present in this skull fragment provide support for the idea that meat-eating was common enough that not consuming it could lead to anemia.

Nutritional deficiencies such as anemia are most common at weaning, when children's diets change drastically. The authors suggest that the child may have died at a period when he or she was starting to eat solid foods lacking meat. Alternatively, if the child still depended on the mother's milk, the mother may have been nutritionally deficient for lack of meat.

Both cases imply that "early humans were hunters, and had a physiology adapted to regular meat consumption at least 1.5 million years ago," say the authors.

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1. Manuel Dom?nguez-Rodrigo, Travis Rayne Pickering, Fernando Diez-Mart?n, Audax Mabulla, Charles Musiba, Gonzalo Trancho, Enrique Baquedano, Henry T. Bunn, Doris Barboni, Manuel Santonja, David Uribelarrea, Gail M. Ashley, Mar?a del Sol Mart?nez-?vila, Rebeca Barba, Agness Gidna, Jos? Yravedra, Carmen Arriaza. Earliest Porotic Hyperostosis on a 1.5-Million-Year-Old Hominin, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. PLoS ONE, 2012; 7 (10): e46414 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046414

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