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|Smart Missile
|Tennessee Sunrise
|4 year old
|Aug 27th, 2015
|Bay filly
|Foaled in 2015
SMART MISSILE (AUS) (Bay 2008-Stud 2012). 3 wins-2 at 2, ATC Todman S., Gr.2. Leading Aust. First Season Sire 2015-16. Sire of 251 rnrs, 134 wnrs, inc. SW I'll Have a Bit (SAJC Euclase S., Gr.2), Debellatio, Irish Bet, Exocet, Sassy 'n' Smart, SP Aim Smart, Smart Coupe, Rocketeer, Smart Amelia, Smart Manoeuvre, Clockwise, Island Missile, Fromparis Withlove, Hair Trigger, Jericho, Mediterranean, Royal Missile, Sacred Missile, Stephenstihls, etc.
1st dam
TENNESSEE SUNRISE, by End Sweep. Winner at 1000m in Aust. Half-sister to Irruption. Dam of seven named foals, six to race, five winners, inc:-
TENNESSEE WILLS - MYSTIC POWER (Mal.) (c. by Not a Single Doubt). 6 wins from 1200m to 1600m, A$18,095, 939,136Rgt. in Malaysia, Selangor Gold Cup, L, Penang TC Malaysian Magic Millions Classic, L, Selangor TC Metro 71 S., 3d MVRC St Albans S., L, VRC Spotless 2YO P., 4th Selangor Gold Cup, L.
Sweepstaking (f. by Not a Single Doubt). 4 wins-2 at 2-at 1100m, 1200m, A$182,930, BRC Racing Retro H., Qld Tatt's RC John d'Arcy Memorial 2YO H., BTC Girls Day Out 2YO H., GCTC Coastal Tipper Hire H., 2d BRC Juanmo S., L, Aspley Hotel H., STC Bacardi Breezer H., 3d AJC Light Fingers S., Gr.2, BRC Greg Grant H., 4th STC Darby Munro S., L. Dam of-
Sienna Symphony. 2 wins at 1100m, 1400m to 2016-17 in Aust.
Leconte (g. by Not a Single Doubt). 3 wins from 1200m to 1650m to 2017-18, TTC Frank Feeney 60th P., Ken Evans Memorial H.
Angus Rock (g. by Fastnet Rock). 3 wins at 1200m, 1400m, A$75,105, 3d ATC TAB Highway H.
Madison County (f. by Flying Spur). 3 wins at 1100m, 1200m in Aust.
2nd dam
Academic, by True Version. Placed at 2, 2d VATC Emerald H., VRC Delina H., 3d VATC Bounding Away H., L, VRC Waltzing Lily H., L. Three-quarter-sister to TENNESSEE MORN (dam of MALAGUERRA, TENNESSEE MIDNIGHT), TENNESSEE MAGIC (dam of TREZEVANT), TENNESSEE MIST, Tennessee Spirit. Dam of 8 foals, 7 to race, 6 winners, inc:-
Irruption (Flying Spur). Winner at 1200m, 2d Singapore TC Class 3 H., 3d MVRC William Inglis Cup, L, Singapore Magic Millions Classic S., Singapore TC Class 4 H.
3rd dam
TENNESSEE VAIN, by Whiskey Road. 7 wins-2 at 2-from 1200m to 2000m, A$415,300, STC Magic Night S., Gr.2, Storm Queen S., Gr.2, VRC AV Kewney S., Gr.2, Vanity S., L, MVRC Cumberland H., Lite Ace H., VATC Peter Jackson S., 2d VRC Oaks, Gr.1, ACT RC Black Opal S., Gr.2, VRC Edward Manifold S., Gr.2, Wakeful S., Gr.2, VATC Stansmore S., 3d VATC Tranquil Star S., Gr.3, Blue Diamond Prelude, Gr.3. Sister to TENNESSEE JACK, three-quarter-sister to Minsky Lass, half-sister to Vain Rancher,
TENNESSEE MORN (Bletchingly). 3 wins at 2, A$138,400, VRC Maribyrnong P., Gr.2, VATC Blue Diamond Prelude, Gr.3, VRC Maribyrnong Trial S., L, 2d VATC Debutante S., L, 3d MVRC Seaview Champagne S., L, VATC Bounding Away H., L. Dam of-
MALAGUERRA (Magnus). 12 wins-1 at 2-to 1400m, A$1,709,600, to 2016-17, BTC Cup, Gr.1, VRC Darley Classic, Gr.1, MVRC Australia S., Gr.2, ATC Star Kingdom S., Gr.3, VRC Bob Hoysted H., L, Emirates Airline H., Lavazza Short Black H., 2d MRC Schillaci S., Gr.2, MRC (Mornington) Bayside Jeep Guineas, 3d MVRC Manikato S., Gr.1.
TENNESSEE MIDNIGHT (Danehill). Winner at 2, VRC Ottawa S., L, 4th VATC Blue Diamond Prelude (f), Gr.3. Dam of-
ALOHA (Encosta de Lago). 8 wins from 1200m to 1750m, A$804,974, ATC Coolmore Classic, Gr.1, VRC PFD Food Services S., Gr.3, MRC Lord S., L, MVRC Nye at MVRC H., VRC Aktrapid Nursing Agency H., MRC Yalumba H., Thomas Moule H., VRC Better Draw H., 2d MRC Kevin Hayes S., L, VRC Henry Bucks S., L, 3d Moonee Valley Fillies Classic, Gr.2, SAJC Adelaide Guineas, L, 4th SAJC Schweppes Oaks, Gr.1, ATC George Ryder S., Gr.1. Producer.
Midnight Rock. Unplaced. Dam of-
MY EMOTION (Savabeel). 3 wins-1 at 2-at 1200m, 1600m, A$288,100, Moonee Valley Fillies Classic, Gr.2, VRC Thoroughbred Breeders S., Gr.3, MVRC Agar Cleaning P., 2d MRC Arborea H., 4th MRC Kevin Hayes S., L.
Midnight Revels. Unraced. Dam of-
SEABROOK (Hinchinbrook). 2 wins at 2, A$556,300, in 2017-18, ATC Champagne S., Gr.1, Sweet Embrace S., Gr.2, 3d MRC Blue Diamond Prelude (f), Gr.2, 4th MVRC Inglis Banner 2YO S., L.
Don't Get Excited (Elvstroem). 9 wins to 1400m, A$386,951, to 2016-17, Swan Hill JC Golden Topaz, MRC National Jockeys' Trust H., Sportingbet.com.au H., 2d MRC (Mornington) Hareeba S., L.
TENNESSEE MIST (Bletchingly). 4 wins-2 at 2-to 1200m, A$89,955, VATC Bounding Away H., L, Avon H., VRC PFD Food Services H., VATC Jan Bo Restaurant H., 2d VRC Maribyrnong Trial S., L, STC Truscotts Toyota H., 3d VATC Mona Nursery S., L. Producer.
TENNESSEE MAGIC (Bletchingly). 3 wins at 2, A$129,690, VATC Bounding Away H., L, VRC Neat n' Trim Uniform S., L, MVRC Vobis 2YO H., 2d VATC Merson Cooper S., Gr.3, MVRC William Crockett S., L, 3d VATC Blue Diamond Prelude, Gr.3, MVRC Silver Jubilee S., L. Dam of-
TREZEVANT (Flying Spur). 3 wins-2 at 2-to 1400m, A$208,950, AJC Light Fingers S., Gr.2, STC Rotary Health Research 2YO H., AJC Marriott Hotels Australia 2YO P.H., 3d AJC Silver Shadow S., Gr.2, STC Vodka Cruiser H. Producer.
Step Ahead (Entrepreneur). 8 wins-1 at 2-from 1000m to 1650m, A$450,620, MVRC Staff Australia Flying H., 3d MRC Blue Diamond Prelude (c&g), Gr.3, Autumn S., Gr.3, Rubiton S., Gr.3.
Tennessee Spirit (Bletchingly). Placed at 2 & 3, 3d VRC Maribyrnong Trial S., L, MVRC The Lodge H., VATC Riva Diva 2YO H.
Academic (True Version). Placed. See above.
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Leader of People's Party
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Impact on Spain's credit rating
Germany has become 'less predictable': Merkel wins fourth term but far-right AfD makes historic breakthrough
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Investors pile back into German exchange-traded funds as political fears recede
Inflows over August and July
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Outflows of €743m in June
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German and Italian elections to come
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EEC founded in 1957
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Northwest Missouri State University will "Celebrate Agriculture" with a series of activities Saturday, Nov. 16.
"Celebrate Agriculture allows us to come together to recognize the impact agriculture has in the region and at Northwest Missouri State University," said Rod Barr, director of the School of Agricultural Sciences. "It gives us an opportunity to showcase the School of Agricultural Sciences and say thank you to everyone involved in the agricultural industry."
The day begins at 9 am with an open house at the Dean L. Hubbard Center for Innovation. A barbecue lunch for alumni and friends takes place at 11 am at the McKemy Center for Lifelong Learning. The activities conclude with Northwest's home football game against University of Central Missouri.
Northwest alumni and friends as well as school groups may register and purchase tickets by visiting www.nwmissouri.edu/ag/
Northwest's School of Agricultural Sciences has experienced rapid growth in recent years with about 10 percent of the University's student population enrolled in an agriculture program. In addition to its headquarters at the Hubbard Center, the School of Agricultural Sciences operates the Horticulture Complex and the 448-acre RT Wright Farm, which is home to beef, swine, dairy and sheep enterprises as well as row and forage crops.
Additionally, Northwest's Forever Green campaign is raising an estimated $8.5 million in funds for an Agricultural Learning Center, a 29,000-square-foot center to be built at the RT Wright Farm. The multipurpose facility will provide classrooms and laboratory resources to supplement and enhance the academic curriculum and research, to promote agricultural literacy, and to provide space for public and private functions such as producer and agricultural industry meetings, workshops, shows and career development events.


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Before the invention of the microchip, research and development of new tech was an evolutionary affair. A slow, successive chain of trial and error.
Since 1971 when Intel put their revolutionary 4004 chip on the market, it seems that modern technological innovation has advanced at an ever-increasing rate. Our lives are somehow lived faster.
Integrated circuits, what we commonly call microchips, have come a long way over the last 50 years. They are an essentially fabricated device containing a multitude of transistors, the electrical switches that interpret the binary language that computers operate with.
Intel's 4004 chip contained 2,300 transistors within its 12 square millimetres. If you looked at them through a microscope you could count them. The chips Intel make now are larger in size but the transistors are much closer together and so tiny as to be invisible to the human eye. They may have as many as 25 million transistors per square millimetre, making them far more powerful; making the computers and systems they control far, far faster. Even prior to 1971 as the knowledge and materials required for the computer revolution were coming together, scientists, who are always projecting ahead, were musing about where we would be now
In 1965 Gordon Moore, then R&D director at Fairchild Semiconductor and later Intel president, made his now famous observation that the number of components in an integrated circuit had doubled approximately every year. And that it would continue to do so for at least the next ten years. In 1975 he revised this to every two years…
It would be fair to say that the secret sauce of miniaturisation has given these chips the power to literally change the world. The ability of the billions of switches contained within one circuit making ever more rapid decisions has changed how cars drive, planes fly, ministers govern, and how markets trade. The last 50 years have been truly revolutionary in that sense. The now clichéd comparison between the Apollo Guidance Computer and the modern iPhone (the latter is many times more powerful) actually does hold true. That thing in your pocket could guide rockets. But the question is, how long can this trajectory continue?
Moore's Law is not actually a law in the strictest sense. It is not a universal constant. It is not inescapable like gravity. It has been in the commercial interests of companies such as Intel to get more bang from the bucks they invest in chip design since Moore wrote his paper. They made it a self-fulfilling prophecy for sound economic reasons.
There are though a growing number of voices within the industry and academia that believe its time as a method of predicting the future is up. "There's a law about Moore's Law", jokes Peter Lee, a vice-president at Microsoft Research: "The number of people predicting the death of Moore's Law doubles every two years."
Moore's Law has been observed to be less reliable in recent times for a number of reasons.
For some time now the economic benefits of going small have been decreasing. It has been costing Intel and competitors far more to go in that direction than previously. The main obstacle facing them is that chips are beginning to reach a fundamental level of smallness. Intel's Skylake transistors are only 100 atoms across, spaced 14 nanometres apart. Beyond this level of smallness chips become much harder to make cost effective.
As Dr Richard Cooper, former senior lecturer in the Department of Computing Science at Glasgow University puts it: "It seems 'obvious' that there are physical limits to how close we can place transistors and proximity is the key at present, but someone may invent another way. I'd still think we are approaching a limit that will be hard to exceed."
It's also the case that no matter how fast the hardware gets, the software becomes more complex in turn. Dr Cooper continues on this point: "The sad thing about working in computing is that whereas the hardware can do amazing things, they cannot overcome the ability of software engineers to make things overly complicated and thus slow things down."
This idea of 'software bloat' is also known as 'The great Moore's Law compensator (TGMLC)'. Randall C. Kennedy, formerly of Intel, coined this term. He compared successive versions of Microsoft Office between the year 2000 and 2007. Despite the gains in computational performance during this time period in accordance with Moore's Law, Office 2007 performed the same task at half the speed on a prototypical year 2007 computer as compared to Office 2000 on a year 2000 computer.
It would seem that Moore's Law, durable though it has been, only really describes the first revolutionary period of computing. What does remain constant however is the commercial imperative to steal a march on the competition. Dr Cooper uses the financial markets as an example to illustrate this: "The compelling application right now is High Frequency Trading; algorithms which analyse the market and issue buy/sell orders. In 2011 issuing an order took 11 microseconds, now it's 84 nanoseconds, (one nanosecond being the physical limit). So, the guys with the money are driving this, because it's still true that if you're late with the order you will lose out."
In order to do this R&D departments are starting to look into areas such as quantum mechanics; advances in the emulation of biological brains; and the diffusion of computing across a range of objects, which has become known as 'the internet of things'. Gordon Moore himself sees the temporal limit of his "law" as being about 2025. Beyond that it seems a new paradigm will be required that has not yet arisen. Whatever it turns out to be, the future will certainly be interesting, and very probably faster.
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