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The increasing number of Internet users and innovative new services such as e-commerce are placing new demands on Web servers. It is becoming essential for Web servers to provide performance isolation, have fast recovery times, and provide continuous service during overload at least to preferred customers. The invention describes a kernel-based architecture for content-aware service differentiation that protects Web servers against overload by controlling the amount and rate of work entering the system. We have invented a mechanism that provides admission control and service differentiation based on connection and application level information. The application header-based connection control uses application-level information (such as URIs and cookies for HTTP) to define different service differentiation actions. The present invention provides the kernel mechanisms that are more efficient and scalable than application level controls implemented in current Web servers.
1. A computer system apparatus comprising a non-transitory computing medium enabling functions of a service differentiation module in a kernel of the computer system apparatus and a policy agent in a user space of the computer system apparatus to populate service differentiation rules for the service differentiation module,
said service differentiation module including:
a parser to parse a client Web request;
a classifier to classify the request based on application headers including client identity and application-specific information and assigning a classification rule within the kernel;
a selector to determine an action rule based on the classification rule;
a performer to apply the action rule based on the classification rule in order to provide better system performance based on client identity and application-specific information for higher classed packets and connections; and
a detector to detect establishment of a new connection and establishing of a new TCP connection;
said policy agent including:
a communicator to communicate from the user space to the kernel with an application interface;
an initializer to instantiate service differentiation rules for the service differentiation module within the kernel which include classification and action rules; and
a manager to delete and update rules on a user request.
2. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer usable medium having computer readable program code means embodied therein for causing rule installation, the computer readable program code means in said computer program product for causing a computer to effect the functions of
3. A method of populating service differentiation rules for a service differentiation module comprising:
forming a rule, including the steps of:
communicating from a policy agent in a user space to a service differentiation module in a kernel with an application interface;
instantiating service differentiation rules for the service differentiation module within the kernel which include classification and action rules; and
deleting and adding rules based upon a user request, wherein the service differentiation module is populated with service differentiation rules; and
further comprising differentiating at least one service class in a kernel to provide different levels of service for system performance to users to perform service differentiation based on content in at least one data packet, said content including client identity and application-specific information, including the steps of
capturing said at least one data packet until a complete application header is detected;
parsing said complete application header to determine at least one application tag indicative of application-specific information;
matching said at least one application tag to at least one matching application-specific service differentiation rule;
determining a presence of at least one match with said at least one matching rule; and
performing application-specific service differentiation action based on said at least one matching rule in order to provide a particular level of service from said different levels of service; and
detecting establishment of a new connection and establishing of a new TCP connection.
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This application is a divisional of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/933,200, filed Oct. 31, 2007 now abandoned, which is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/053,012, filed Jan. 18, 2002, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,315,892, which is a nonprovisional of, and claims priority from, Provisional Application 60/301,292, filed, Jun. 27, 2001.
This invention is directed to the field of operating systems and computer networking. It is more particularly directed to enable content-aware service differentiation in servers which communicate with clients over a network.
Application service providers and Web hosting services that co-host multiple customer sites on the same server cluster or large SMP's are becoming increasingly common in the current Internet infrastructure. The increasing growth of e-commerce on the web means that any server down time that affects the clients being serviced will result in a corresponding loss of revenue. Additionally, the unpredictability of flash crowds can overwhelm a hosting server and bring down multiple customer sites simultaneously, affecting the performance of a large number of clients. It becomes essential, therefore, for hosting services to provide performance isolation, fast recovery times, and continuous operation under overload conditions at least to preferred customers.
Each of the co-hosted customers sites may have different quality-of-service (QoS) goals based on the price of the service and the application requirements. Furthermore, each customer site may require different services during overload based on the client's identity (preferred gold client) and the content they access (e.g., a client with a buy order versus a browsing request). When providing service differentiation during overload it is important to know who the request was from and what it is intended to do. The current techniques of using the incoming connections network header values to differentiate requests is not sufficient. The network headers (IP address and port numbers) only identify the origin client machine and the destination client machine and the receiving application at the destination port. With clients behind a proxy all clients will share the same network and cannot be distinguished. Similarly the type of request that can be determined from the port number as being an FTP transfer vs. an HTTP transfer but cannot distinguish a browse order from a buy order. Current commercial switches and routers use a simple threshold-based request discard policy (e.g., a TCP SYN drop mode) to discard the incoming, oldest or any random connection to control overload. Such techniques may delay or control overload but pay a penalty by discarding a high priority gold customer request instead of an ordinary request. These content-unaware approaches are not adequate as they do not distinguish between the individual QoS requirements. For example, a majority of the load is caused by a few CGI requests and most of the bytes transferred belong to a small set of large files. It has been shown in earlier studies that 90% of the web requests are for 10% of the pages at a site. But 10% of the requests account for 80% of the data transferred.
Consider for example, a news site with a small size main page which is accessed by a majority of the customers. Few customers will download a large audio/video news segment which will cause a high load on the server and the network. If all the small page requests were dropped they would possibly not reduce the server load as much as the single video segment request. This suggests that targeting specific information and client identities (e.g., URIs, types of URIs, cookie information, SSL session ids) for service differentiation can have a wide impact during overload.
One approach to do content-aware service differentiation is to do it within the application or in user space. Clearly when content-based control is performed it requires that the application is modified and is aware of service differentiation functions during overload. This does not achieve application transparency. Modifying legacy applications is difficult. Secondly, control is handed to the application at a much later stage compared to when the operating system kernel processing begins. In such a case low priority requests or requests that will be discarded subsequently will use precious server resources during overload for no useful work. The service differentiation during overload should follow the "early discard" policy. In this case prioritizing a request or deciding to discard or delay a request should be done as soon as the request is received by the kernel. This implies that an ideal location of content-aware service differentiation is within the operating system kernel.
To overcome these problems, the present invention embodies new kernel mechanisms that enable Web servers to provide content-aware service differentiation functions such as policing actions, request dropping, request prioritization, request rate control, and request scheduling, during overload based on client identity and application-specific information. The industry focus on QoS has been network centric but our invention resides on the server allowing for tighter integration with applications and application data like URI's and cookies. Outbound QoS traffic controls alone are not enough to provide the necessary service differentiation required in the current Web server environment. The level of service differentiation required can be provided with integrated outbound and inbound traffic control kernel mechanisms which classify requests based on application content.
In this invention we describe methods, systems and apparatus for content-aware service differentiation for overloaded servers within the server operating system. One service-differentiation police action includes silently dropping a communication request received based on the request content. An alternate action is to send a specific message to the client informing that the service is unavailable. In an alternate action the communication request received is scheduled in the kernel based on the request content to determine the order in which the requests are accepted. Different scheduling policies can be specified for this action. In one scheduling policy a priority ordering can be used where a higher priority request is serviced first by the application. A second policy is to use a weighted round-robin ordering where the weights are determined by the service differentiation requirement. In an alternate action the communication request is rate controlled based on the request content. The rate control action limits the rate of new requests entering the system and the number of concurrent requests that are allowed to enter the system. In an alternate action the statistics of the incoming requests are monitored and recorded based on the request content.
Thus, the present invention introduces kernel mechanisms in the networking stack of the operating system to support content-aware service differentiation and admission control based on client attributes (IP address, SSL session id, port etc.), server attributes (IP address, type), and the request content (e.g., URI accessed, CGI request information, cookie attributes etc.).
An advantage of a kernel-based approach is that it provides lower overhead and better performance for service differentiation as it is placed in the request processing path of the kernel (in the networking stack). It enables "informed early discard" where control can be enforced in the early stages of a request lifetime without consuming system resources but with full knowledge of the request type and client identity. Secondly, it can be implemented easily in any commercial operating system without any complex change to the underlying architectures. Finally, it can be deployed in both the server as well as any external switch or router that controls a cluster of server machines.
These and other aspects, features, and advantages of the present invention will become apparent upon further consideration of the following detailed description of the present invention when read in conjunction with the drawing figures, in which:
The present invention provides methods, systems and apparatus to efficiently perform content-aware service differentiation in the kernel for overloaded servers based on application layer information. In a first example embodiment of the present invention we leverage the fact that the majority of traffic received by servers from external clients uses the HTTP protocol which in turn is sent over a TCP transport connection. The HTTP header information can be used to identify the type of request, the client identity and other client specific information that can be used to perform informed service differentiation. With the increasing deployment of e-commerce sites, sessions or Web transactions are widely used where web servers exploit cookies in the HTTP header to identify session state. These cookies include attribute value pairs that can also be used to uniquely identify a client and the nature and type of the request. In this embodiment the information in the HTTP headers (URI name or type, cookie attribute-value pairs or other header tags) are used to provide content-aware service differentiation. An alternate embodiment provides application header-based service differentiation, that enables content-aware service differentiation by examining information in any application header sent over a transport protocol.
The service differentiation mechanisms are placed in the kernel's networking stack to transparently intercept the data packets of a new TCP connection to parse the layer headers, classify the attributes in the header based on the classifier rules and find a matching rule and then apply the associated service differentiation action rules that include but are not limited to:
The classifier involves parsing the (HTTP in this example) header in the kernel and applying an action rule includes waking the sleeping server process only after a decision on how to service the connection is made based on the action rule.
Thus the invention also includes a method comprising forming a rule. The step of forming often includes the steps of: communicating from a user space to a kernel with an application interface; instantiating service differentiation rules for an application tag within the kernel which include classification and action rules; and deleting and adding rules based upon a user request. In some embodiments the method further includes updating rules based upon a user request.
The present invention can be realized in hardware, software, or a combination of hardware and software. A visualization tool according to the present invention can be realized in a centralized fashion in one computer system, or in a distributed fashion where different elements are spread across several interconnected computer systems. Any kind of computer system—or other apparatus adapted for carrying out the methods and/or functions described herein—is suitable. A typical combination of hardware and software could be a general purpose computer system with a computer program that, when being loaded and executed, controls the computer system such that it carries out the methods described herein. The present invention can also be embedded in a computer program product, which comprises all the features enabling the implementation of the methods described herein, and which—when loaded in a computer system—is able to carry out these methods.
Computer program means or computer program in the present context include any expression, in any language, code or notation, of a set of instructions intended to cause a system having an information processing capability to perform a particular function either directly or after conversion to another language, code or notation, and/or reproduction in a different material form.
Thus the present invention includes an article of manufacture which comprises a non-transitory computer usable medium having computer readable program code means embodied therein for causing a function described above. The computer readable program code means in the article of manufacture comprises computer readable program code means for causing a computer to effect the steps of a method of this invention. Similarly, the present invention may be implemented as a computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer usable medium having computer readable program code means embodied therein for causing a function described above. The computer readable program code means in the computer program product comprising computer readable program code means for causing a computer to effect one or more functions of this invention. Furthermore, the present invention may be implemented as a program storage device readable by machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine to perform method steps for causing one or more functions of this invention.
It is noted that the foregoing has outlined some of the more pertinent objects and embodiments of the present invention. This invention may be used for many applications. Thus, although the description is made for particular arrangements and methods, the intent and concept of the present invention is suitable and applicable to other arrangements and applications. For example, although the description is with regard to HTTP on top of TCP/IP, the concepts of the present invention may similarly be employed for other protocols. It will be clear to those skilled in the art that modifications to the disclosed embodiments can be effected without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. The described embodiments ought to be construed to be merely illustrative of some of the more prominent features and applications of the present invention. Other beneficial results can be realized by applying the disclosed invention in a different manner or modifying the present invention in ways known to those familiar with the art.
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That's because they can be linked back to Heineken's renowned "refreshes the parts" advertising, not only one of Britain's most enduring campaigns but also one that changed a nation's drinking habits.
A set of the specially made jugs are owned by the veteran copywriter and one-time agency boss Alfredo Marcantonio, who created the poster at Collett Dickenson Pearce with the art director Rob Morris.
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In these days of campaigns being researched to within an inch of their lives, it's debatable whether "refreshes the parts" would have made the cut, let alone run for two decades. The story of how the ads made it through raises a question whose relevance has not diminished over time: how much should research results dictate whether a creative idea lives or dies?
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Lovelock says: "At 3am, I woke, grabbed my notepad and wrote two lines: 'Heineken is now refreshing all parts' and 'Heineken refreshes the parts other beers cannot reach'. I blame it on a mixture of desperation and mental incubation."
Things you need to know
- Frank Lowe presented the "refreshes the parts" line to Anthony Simonds-Gooding while the pair were on a flight to St Petersburg. He had written it on a sick bag.
- Legend has it that the relationship between CDP and Whitbread was so close that fast-turnaround Heineken press ads and posters based on current events sometimes ran without client approval.
- When Australian lagers arrived in the UK in the 80s, Heineken reinforced its European credentials by hiring the comedian Victor Borge for the voiceovers. This struck some as curious, since Heineken was Dutch and Borge was Danish.
This article was first published on campaignlive.co.uk
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Named to Fodor's Top Ten Luxury Resort Spas, the St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort and Spa sits high on a bluff overlooking the Pacific, halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego. This beautiful resort is a sun-kissed landmark, inspired by the architecture of Tuscany. With its private beach club, world-class spa, oceanfront golf course, and personalized (ever attentive) service, this is the ideal spot for a luxurious escape. For a limited time, stay four nights but only pay for three! If you book three consecutive nights by December 15, 2006, your fourth night is on the house. This offer is available every day of the week.
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"Look, honey, isn't that Sanibel?"
"Could be, or maybe it's Boca Grande. I can't tell"
The plane lands and sure enough, there's the guy holding a card with your name on it.
"Well they didn't lose our luggage. That's good."
You step out of the terminal and that warm, soft air hits you for the first time this year.
"I sure don't need this jacket."
You open all the windows in the condo to let in that Florida air. He digs to the bottom of his suitcase for shorts. Him clad in wrinkled shorts and black sox and her in flip-flops, you head to the store.
"We don't have to get everything tonight, just the essentials."
Coffee, bread, milk, orange juice, cereal and something for dinner. Plus wine.
"Oh look, stone crabs!"
"Not tonight, Phil; save those for a special dinner."
"Avocados and mangos! Look at these mangos."
"OK, but get some grapefruit too."
"Red or white? Are two enough?"
"I don't care; you decide."
"What about Kleenex? Did they have some at the condo?"
"I dunno. Buy one to be safe."
I see them coming toward me down the aisle, checking their list and debating as their cart fills. It happens every year. You can spot 'em a mile away.
They bring money. We give them springtime.
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The GTX260 is currently a bit behind a single HD4870 in performance, so no, not likely.
"Brilinear" filtering is an optimization meant to give near tr-linear quality, at a near bi-linear performance hit. During the GeForce FX days, NV did this whenever you picked trilinear as an option, and they caught hell for it. With the 6/7 series, it was the default option, but going to HQ settings removed it.
ATI then started using the optimization on the Radeon 9600 series (the 9700/9800 don't use it). In a test, it shows up as full tri-linear, but in a game, it uses bri-linear. It was a cheat on their part, and not one of their better days. It was discovered when people found out through benchmarks that when using colored mipmaps, ATI cards would offer worse performance.
This was confirmed, again, on the Radeon 9600XT (the only r300 card to use it), as well as the entire r400 line. I haven't heard of anything on this subject with r500 and beyond. But, the only way to see it was in benchmarks. The quality difference really is negligible. Performance increases can be substantial in some cases though.
benchmarks @ beyond 3d indicate that ati's hq af is inferior to the 8, 9, and GTX 200 series HQ AF.
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Hopefully, what happens at Comic-Con, stays at Comic-Con. Ian Somerhalder, 35, and Nina Dobrev, 25, are making things "awkward" at the event after Ian was spotted out with rumored new love, Nikki Reed, 26. HollywoodLife.com has all the EXCLUSIVE details about their uncomfortable interaction as they promoted The Vampire Diaries!
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Ginnifer Goodwin, 36, welcomed baby boy Oliver on May 29 with husband and co-star Josh Dallas, 32. Mom and baby have been keeping a low profile since the birth, but fans were treated to an adorable video starring Ginnifer and baby Oliver since they couldn't attend the Once Upon A Time's Comic-Con panel. Too cute!
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'Firefly': Nathan Fillion & Entire Cast To Reunite For Online Game
'Firefly' fans rejoice! Nathan Fillion and the cast of the cult classic are coming back together in the form of an online game!
Firefly lives on! The Serenity crew, including Nathan Fillion, 43, and the additional cast members, are reuniting for another round of intergalactic fun in Firefly Online. The big news about the online game was announced at Comic-Con on July 25 and it's easily the best news for Browncoats since 2010.
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Ian Somerhalder Wants To 'Kiss' Someone At Comic-Con: Is It Nina Dobrev?
Pucker up! 'Vampire Diaries' star Ian Somerhalder is heading to Comic-Con and he wants to 'kiss' a special someone! Could the lucky lady be his sexy co-star and ex, Nina Dobrev?
When Comic-Con rolls around every year, anything can happen. The Vampire Diaries cast is back at the convention for the sixth year and reuniting former flames, Ian Somerhalder, 35, and Nina Dobrev, 25. Ian is super pumped about Comic-Con and wants to plant a sweet kiss on someone! Does Ian want to "pucker up" to Nina?
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'Veronica Mars' Wins mtvU's Fandom Of The Year Award
'Veronica Mars' fans are so fierce! Not only did they manage to fund a Kickstarter campaign to get a big-screen version of the cult classic, but they also won an award at the first-ever mtvU Fandom Award for being the best fans ever!
Way to go, Marshmallows! mtvU, MTV's 24-hour college network, announced winners of their first-ever Fandom Awards at Comic-Con: San Diego on July 24. Veronica Mars took home the biggest award of the night, "Fandom of the Year," beating out 31 other nominees (yes, there were 32 total), including Community, Supernatural and Free! Iwatobi Swim Club. Click here to read more
'The Walking Dead': Rick & Daryl Take On Cannibals In Intense New Trailer
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Andrew Lincoln, 40, Steven Yeun, 30, and Lauren Cohan, 32, among many other cast members, were on hand at The Walking Dead panel during the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con to debut previously unseen footage and a brand-new trailer for the show's fifth season. Not only did they promise an action-packed season five that would answer a lot of questions, but the new three-minute-long trailer provides many more details about where our favorite group of survivors are headed.
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With school districts across the nation failing to include arts instruction as part of their curricula, many cultural and arts organizations have decided to step in to fill this gap by providing arts education programs for nearby schools.
These amazing organizations have taken action to ensure that our children have at least some exposure to the arts. However, could these activities actually be detrimental to the long-term sustainability of in-school arts programs?
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5. Take the ribs out of the oven, pour some sauce on it and place it on a very hot grill to caramelize.
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We reached a bit of a milestone yesterday. Mrs. FB and I reached our 20th anniversary, and though we had a hectic day, we celebrated in the evening with our daughters and had a wonderful time.
My anniversary present was a copper saute pan (French). I don't think it can get much better than that. :-) Enjoy your Italian ovens and your French copper pans.
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Congratulations James (and Mrs FB)! Thats a good mile stone to cross.
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Yes James, a worthy milestone I must say and congratulations.
My other half and I celebrated a mere 36 years only last month, so I can only encourage you to get those numbers up.
Many of our friends are either on their second or third marriages, so we (as n you and I) are becoming a rare bread.
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Congratulations Mr And Mrs FB...
Wish you many more healthy and happy anniversaries !!!!
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May you have many happy years ahead. Congratulations Mr. and Mrs FB!
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Congratulations! 20 years, that's quite a while...
So your anniversary was yesterday? So was ours! Only eight years here, but we're working on it.
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Congratulations! 27 years for us, as of today (we should have known better than to get married on Nov. 13, since it falls on a Friday every 7 years!)
And congratulations on FB's move into Marina!
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Congratulations. May your next 20 be even better.
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Congratulations James and Mrs FB!
Thanks for all you do here!
Also, not to disparage your french copper saute pan, but if you ever get to Montelpulciano, make sure to visit Bottega del Rame...
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Congrats James, my wife and I are celebrating our 23rd. I think I am finally starting to get the hang of this marriage business. :D
By all means, lets celebrate the good things in life. Love, children, familyi and great pizza !!
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It was also just on the Dan Patrick Show. They were saying it was a rip-off of Bob Seger. I thought it sounded pretty good!
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Yea- I am on BengalZone as much as I am on RedsZone...I just havent posted here yet.
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So what they're saying is that the Bengals will finish no better than 3rd in their 4-team division. :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
I posted sometime ago that I could see the Ravens having a bounceback season, and I still stand by that.Quote:
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The Bengals schedule and the Steelers question marks could make it easier for Baltimore to re-enter the picture.
Wow that was good stuff, and I'm not even a Bengals fan.


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2 hours post-administration. Alexza expects preliminary findings to be
released by the end of Q1 2008. AZ-104 is being developed through
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The progress of Bridgestone Americas' new off-road radial tire plant is on a roll.
According to Bridgestone's Chief Project Officer Steve Brooks, the first of two phases of the new plant being built in the Sage Mill Industrial Park is nearly complete.
Approximately 200 employees already have been hired and are on site now, Brooks said. About 80 percent of those employees are local.
Phase one, which includes construction and equipment installation, is about 85 percent complete, Brooks said. Phase two is scheduled to begin on Monday.
That's the "final building construction phase" and will bring the plant's size to a total of 1.5 million square feet. Brooks said the second phase should be done by 2015.
When construction of the plant is finished, more than 850 full-time and contractor positions will be filled, Brooks said.
In April, Bridgestone unveiled the first set of tires that was produced by a recent $300 million expansion of its passenger and light truck tire plant in Graniteville. The entire expansion project increased the existing plant's footprint by 740,000-square-feet and upped its production to 37,750 tires per day, or about 13.4 million tires annually.
Once the new off-road radial tire plant is complete, Aiken County will be the home of the world's largest manufacturer of Bridgestone tires.
The new plant combined with the completed expansion represents a $1.2 billion investment – making it the single largest capital investment in South Carolina's history.
The announcement of the monumental economic development project was made in September of 2011.
Amy Banton is the County reporter for the Aiken Standard and has been with the publication since May 2010.
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The current population of The Villages Metro is 107,911 with the median age of 48. The Villages Metro's median household income is $45,381, and the average household net worth is $268,122. 36% of The Villages Metro's population are long term residents having lived in their homes for more than 5 years, while 22% of The Villages Metro's population have moved in the last year.
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Age distribution represents the distribution of the population in The Villages Metro by age group. In The Villages Metro, the male-to-female ratio is 55,352:52,566, which is 10% higher than the ratio of Florida, which is 9,410,191:9,845,104. Age demographic data is sourced from census, 2015.
Crime rate index represents the average crime rate for a local area in comparison to nearby areas and the national average. A crime index of 100 represents the national average. Florida, has 23% more property crime than the national average, and has 55% more personal crime than the national average
Marital status represents the percent of residents in The Villages Metro that are single, married, widowed and divorced. In The Villages Metro, 89% of people are married and 11% of people are single. The percent of people married is 17% higher than the ratio of Florida, which is 72%. Marital data is sourced from census, 2015.
Household income distribution represents the distribution of The Villages Metro income brackets at the household level. Overall, the median household income for The Villages Metro is $45,381, which is 4% lower than that of Florida ($47,152). Income data for The Villages Metro is sourced from census, 2015.
Education data represents the highest level of education attained by residents in The Villages Metro. In The Villages Metro, 14% of residents 18 and over graduated from high school and 20% completed a Bachelor's degree or higher, which is 6% lower than that of Florida. Education statistics is sourced from census, 2015.


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Lebanese Rice Pudding With Cinnamon And Caraway
11 Oct 2010
|Caraway seeds
|1 Tablespoon
|9 Cup (144 tbs)
|Rice flour
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
|Granulated sugar
|2 Cup (32 tbs)
|1⁄2 Teaspoon
|Walnut halves
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
|Slivered almonds
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)
|Pine nuts
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)
|Confectioners' sugar
|2 Tablespoon (for dusting)
1. In a spice grinder, grind the caraway seeds to a coarse powder.
2. Pour the water into a large saucepan. Whisk in the rice flour, granulated sugar, ground caraway and cinnamon. Bring to a boil over moderate heat, whisking constantly. Reduce the heat to moderately low and simmer, whisking often, until the pudding is very thick, about 1 hour and 10 minutes. Transfer to a bowl and let cool to room temperature. Cover the pudding and refrigerate overnight.
3. Meanwhile, place the walnuts, almonds and pine nuts in separate small bowls and cover with water. Let them stand at room temperature overnight. Drain well.
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Revised guidelines for Continuing Professional Education (CPE) issued on 28 November 2012 by the Professional Standards Board for Patent and Trade Marks Attorneys (and soon to appear on the Board's web site) require registered practitioners to undertake a minimum of one hour of ethics or professional conduct CPE in each year. Currently, the minimum total CPE requirement is 10 hours for practitioners registered as either patent attorneys or trade marks attorneys, and 15 hours for practitioners registered as both.
While one hour per year may not seem like much, this is a significant step for the profession, both practically and symbolically.
Part of the background to the new guideline is a recent decision of the Disciplinary Tribunal, which found a senior Australian patent practitioner (now retired) guilty of unsatisfactory professional conduct, for failing to resolve a conflict of interest between two clients of his Adelaide firm, both of which had developed directly competing inventions. We reported on this decision back in April this year (see Senior Patent Attorney Found Guilty of 'Unsatisfactory Conduct').
One consequence of the Tribunal's decision was to turn a spotlight on the lack of agreement amongst patent and trade marks attorneys in Australia as to exactly how and when conflicts arise, and how they should be identified and resolved. The Professional Standards Board provided evidence of one senior member of the profession who testified to his opinion that the practitioner's firm was clearly in a conflict situation at least from the time that one of the clients discovered, and complained about, the firm's acting for the other client in August 2007. However, two other senior members of the profession provided completely contrary evidence on behalf of the practitioner!


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