FRANKENMUTH, MI Millington wasnt supposed to be here.

Defeating rival Frankenmuth on the road 27-13 on Friday, Sept. 19 and putting an end to the Eagles 18-game conference winning streak. It has the Cardinals heading into the midpoint of the season in the drivers seat at 4-0 overall and 4-0 in the Tri-Valley Conference East Division.

We heard everyone talking how were small and young this year, Cardinals junior Koltyn Sebert said. But every day in practice, were working hard. Them young kids out there are blocking their butts off.

Millington graduated a lot up front on the offensive line, but returned skilled players Caleb Wascher, Chase Maxon and Sebert. That group found holes in the Frankenmuth defense, created by that inexperienced offensive line, and rode them to a win over the rival Eagles.

It was Frankenmuths first conference loss since a 28-12 setback to the Cardinals on Sept. 30, 2011.

It looks good for the future, I guess you could say, Millington coach Roger Bearss said. But every game, youve still got to go out and play. You play game-by-game. Hopefully we can take what we learn from here that youre going to have some battles.

The Cardinals faced battles with a couple thunderous hits from the Frankenmuth defense in the first half, and they faced a few more in the second half when a couple fumbles put the Eagles in scoring position on multiple possessions in a two-score game.

The results of those battles showed a Millington team that has penalty problems at times and can shoot itself in the foot with turnovers, but also one that has skill on both sides of the ball to put up points and force game-clinching turnovers in a hostile environment.

Thats what Cardinals faithful have become accustomed to seeing in a small community with a large football tradition.

Millington has had experienced teams and young groups. It has had teams that have a ton of skill and teams that have to grind each night. But the one thing Millington has consistently had is winners.

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Set in a lawless town in the Austrian mountains, the English-language "Autumn Blood" seems at first like something along the lines of "The Sound of Music" as re-imagined by Michael Haneke. But whereas Haneke's films grapple with the blunt force of violence, novice filmmaker Markus Blunder just lets the violence snowball all the way down a slippery slope.

Nameless siblings (Sophie Lowe and Maximilian Harnisch) witness the senseless murder of their father. They lose their mother a few years later. Ostracized by the small foothill community for some unknown reason, the orphans carry on with their routines without telling anyone. Three local thugs (Samuel Vauramo, Gustaf Skarsgard and Tim Morten Uhlenbrock) seize every opportunity to molest and assault the teenage girl, sometimes right in front of her preteen brother.

One might wonder if someone in this situation would commence a self-defense regimen or at the very least reinforce the door locks. So it's frustrating to watch this character run and hide (poorly) with her dress stripped off for no apparent reason. The gratuitous nudity raises suspicions of whether Blunder is on some level blaming the victim.

"Autumn Blood."

MPAA rating: R for violence including rape, nudity.

Running time: 1 hour, 40 minutes.

Playing: At AMC Universal CityWalk Stadium 19. Also on VOD.

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(SALT LAKE CITY)A new study by researchers at the University of Utah School of Medicine sheds light on a longstanding question about the role of mitochondria in debilitating and fatal motor neuron diseases and resulted in a new mouse model to study such illnesses.

Researchers led by Janet Shaw, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry, found that when healthy, functioning mitochondria was prevented from moving along axons nerve fibers that conduct electricity away from neurons mice developed symptoms of neurodegenerative diseases. In a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Shaw and her research colleagues said their findings indicate that motor neuron diseases might result from poor distribution of mitochondria along the spinal cord and axons. First author Tammy T. Nguyen, is a student in the U medical school's M.D./Ph.D. program, which aims to produce physicians with outstanding clinical skills and rigorous scientific training to bridge the worlds of clinical medicine and basic research to improve health care.

"We've known for a long time of the link between mitochondrial function and distribution and neural disease," Shaw says. "But we haven't been able to tell if the defect occurs because mitochondria aren't getting to the right place or because they're not functioning correctly."

Mitochondria are organelles compartments contained inside cells that serve several functions, including making ATP, a nucleotide that cells convert into chemical energy to stay alive. For this reason mitochondria often are called "cellular power plants." They also play a critical role in preventing too much calcium from building up in cells, which can cause apoptosis, or cell death.

For mitochondria to perform its functions, it must be distributed to cells throughout the body, which is accomplished with the help of small protein "motors" that transport the organelles along axons. For the motors to transport mitochondria, enzymes known as Mitochondrial Rho (Miro1) GTPases act to attach mitochondria to the motors. To study how the movement of mitochondria is related to motor neuron disease, Nguyen developed two mouse models in which the gene that makes Miro1 was knocked out. In one model, mice lacked Miro1 during the embryonic stage. A second model lacked the enzyme in the cerebral cortex, spinal cord and hippocampus.

The researchers observed that mice lacking Miro1 during the embryonic stage had motor neuron defects that prevented them from taking a single breath once born. After examining the mice, Nguyen, Shaw and their colleagues discovered that neurons required for breathing after birth were missing from the upper half of the mice's brain stems. The phrenic nerve, also important for breathing, was not fully developed, either.

"We believe the physical difficulties in the mice indicated there were motor neuron defects," Shaw says.

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Depictions of animals in ancient Egyptian artefacts have helped scientists assemble a detailed record of the large mammals that lived in the Nile Valley over the past 6,000 years. A new analysis of this record shows that species extinctions, probably caused by a drying climate and growing human population in the region, have made the ecosystem progressively less stable.

The study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), found that local extinctions of mammal species led to a steady decline in the stability of the animal communities in the Nile Valley. When there were many species in the community, the loss of any one species had relatively little impact on the functioning of the ecosystem, whereas it is now much more sensitive to perturbations, according to first author Justin Yeakel, who worked on the study as a graduate student at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and is now a postdoctoral fellow at the Santa Fe Institute.

Around six millennia ago, there were 37 species of large-bodied mammals in Egypt, but only eight species remain today. Among the species recorded in artwork from the late Predynastic Period (before 3,100 BC) but no longer found in Egypt are lions, wild dogs, elephants, oryx, hartebeest, and giraffe.

"What was once a rich and diverse mammalian community is very different now," Yeakel said. "As the number of species declined, one of the primary things that was lost was the ecological redundancy of the system. There were multiple species of gazelles and other small herbivores, which are important because so many different predators prey on them. When there are fewer of those small herbivores, the loss of any one species has a much greater effect on the stability of the system and can lead to additional extinctions."

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Sony acquired game streaming company Gaikai back in 2012, and today Game Informer published a wide-ranging interview with Gaikai CEO David Perry that (among other things) sheds some light on how that deal came about.

"We were very worried because we were doing only PC games," says Perry, who goes on to run down the list of troubles Gaikai had while trying to get PC builds of games streaming through their network: translating keyboard and mouse control layouts to TV-friendly gamepads, translating resolutions in real-time and sorting out credentials for proprietary publisher platforms like Games For Windows Live.

"We wanted to get [on a platform] where there was a large set of very high-quality games but with a standardized control system, something that used a joypad that all the games would be compatible with," says Perry. "And it didnt have crazy random security systems included."

Perry also said with PlayStation Now being built into Sony TVs, the service will be able to offer higher-quality games than what mainstream TV users are used to. "[You] go to the games section [of your new TV] and youre like 'Oh man, its bowling and darts.' [But] thats where we need to put The Last of Us and the best that our industry can make."

Sony (and, by extension, Perry) has previously said that Gaikai's technology suite will one day be capable of streaming old games -- think PlayStation 1, 2 and 3 -- on contemporary consoles. The current version of PlayStation Now is capable of streaming PlayStation 3 titles, but Perry says that going back farther requires further work on the Gaikai technology platform and support directly from Sony's Japanese division, since it's not like he can easily ask the individual developers on those games to dig back into their source code and build in support for PlayStation Now.

"You want to always try to think about how you can unlock the past. I would love to be able to unlock every game ever on any 3D platform," says Perry. "I cant do that by requiring all the [old] teams to touch their code...that would be Sony of Japan doing this."

The full interview, which contains more technical details about Gaikai's operating structure and the challenges it faces as global broadband speeds slowly grow, can be read over on the Game Informer website.

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Jake's weight was a problem from childhood and by 23 was 23st Had never been kissed and was often the victim of cruel jibes from girls Met Carlisa online and says he know she was The One Determined to lose weight before meeting Carlisa, who lives in New York Began strict highprotein, low carb diet and exercising 2 hours a day Jake managed to drop from 23st to 15st in just eight months Met Carlisa, experienced his first kiss, and hopes to marry her one day Now is hoping to raise money to get rid of excess skin on his stomach

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An obese man has beat the bulge in the name of love.

Jake Golding, 23, from Leicester, had his first ever kiss after shrinking from 23st to just 15st.

After meeting the love of his life online, Jake refused to let his beloved see his body when they chatted, making sure the camera stayed on his face.

Desperate for his happily ever after, Jake took matters into his own hands and set up his own diet and exercise programme.

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