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In some embodiments, the invention involves protecting network communications in a virtualized platform. An embodiment of the present invention is a system and method relating to protecting network communication flow using packet encoding/certification and the network stack. One embodiment uses a specialized engine or driver in the network stack to encode packets before being sent to physical network controller. The network controller may use a specialized driver to decode the packets, or have a hardware implementation of a decoder. If the decoded packet is certified, the packet is transmitted. Otherwise, the packet is dropped. An embodiment of the present invention utilizes virtualization architecture to implement the network communication paths. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
1. A system, comprising:
a virtualization platform capable of running a virtual machine monitor and a plurality of virtual machines, the virtual machine monitor to capture packets of information to be sent over a network by a process running in a virtual machine on the platform;
an encoder residing in a virtual machine to encode packets of information, the packets of information to be sent to a network interface card (NIC) via a network stack, wherein the encoder is communicatively coupled to a virtual network stack in the virtual machine running on the virtualization platform; and
a decoder to decode and verify the encoded packets of information, the decoder communicatively coupled to the NIC, wherein the NIC sends only verified decoded information packets and drops unverified information packets.
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11. A method for sending packets in a virtualization platform, comprising:
sending a packet of information by an application running on the platform, the packet of information to be sent over a network, wherein the packet is sent to a first virtual network interface;
capturing the packet of information by a management partition running in a first virtual machine on the platform;
encoding a packet of information by an encoder residing in the management partition, the encoder communicatively coupled to a virtual network stack; and
sending the encoded packet of information to a physical network interface, the physical network interface being capable of decoding and authenticating the encoded packet, the physical network interface being capable of sending authenticated packets and dropping unauthenticated packets.
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send a packet of information by an application running on the platform, the packet of information to be sent over a network, wherein the packet is sent to a first virtual network interface;
capture the packet of information by a management partition running in a first virtual machine on the platform;
encode a packet of information by an encoder residing in the management partition, the encoder communicatively coupled to a virtual network stack; and
send the encoded packet of information to a physical network interface, the physical network interface being capable of decoding and authenticating the encoded packet, the physical network interface being capable of sending authenticated packets and dropping unauthenticated packets.
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An embodiment of the present invention relates generally to computing systems and, more specifically, to protecting network communications in a virtualized platform.
Various mechanisms exist for protecting spurious information from being transmitted over a network. Existing platforms may run an operating system (OS) on the equivalent of bare hardware. In other words, the OS communicates directly with the physical devices on the platform, often using device drivers or direct memory access (DMA). Coupled to the hardware may be a network interface card (NIC), graphics card and other hardware components. When security applications, such as, a firewall or intrusion detection are run on a platform, rogue applications within the operating system partition may disable, destroy, manipulate or corrupt the operating system services. A user may intentionally or unintentionally turn off security capabilities. It is desirable to protect the agents running on a system that may prevent security breaches or protect other system policies.
The features and advantages of the present invention will become apparent from the following detailed description of the present invention in which:
An embodiment of the present invention is a system and method relating to protecting network communication flow using packet encoding/certification and the network stack. One embodiment uses a specialized engine or driver in the network stack to encode packets before being sent to a network interface card (NIC). The NIC may use a specialized driver to decode the packets, or have a hardware or firmware implementation of a decoder. If the decoded packet is certified/authenticated, the packet may be transmitted. Otherwise, the packet may be dropped. An embodiment of the present invention utilizes virtualization architecture to implement the network communication paths via virtual network interfaces.
In one embodiment, a management partition may be run on a virtualization platform. This architecture uses a virtual network stack, as above. Another embodiment enables a sending application to mark outgoing packets in such a way so that the NIC may authenticate the packet. The application may utilize an agent, service or be hard-coded to provide the appropriate encryption, encoding or digital signatures.
Reference in the specification to "one embodiment" or "an embodiment" of the present invention means that a particular feature, structure or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment is included in at least one embodiment of the present invention. Thus, the appearances of the phrase "in one embodiment" appearing in various places throughout the specification are not necessarily all referring to the same embodiment.
For purposes of explanation, specific configurations and details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the present invention. However, it will be apparent to one or ordinary skill in the art that embodiments of the present invention may be practiced without the specific details presented herein. Furthermore, well-known features may be omitted or simplified in order not to obscure the present invention. Various examples may be given throughout this description. These are merely descriptions of specific embodiments of the invention. The scope of the invention is not limited to the examples given.
A variety of methods may be used to protect network communication in a platform or network. An embodiment of a platform using a proxy server to protect network communications is described in copending U.S. application Ser. No. 10/875,833 (Attorney Docket No. P18666), filed on Jun. 23, 2004, entitled, "Method, Apparatus And System For Virtualized Peer-To-Peer Proxy Services" to Steve Grobman, et al. and assigned to a common assignee.
Services that should be protected from corruption by a rogue application or other damage may be moved into a management partition, for instance, a firewall 111, intrusion detection 113, or other services 115, 117. In one embodiment, a proxy server 115 is put into the management partition 110 to control transmitted content. By using a proxy server 115 in the management partition to trap all network communication from a web browser 121, for instance, communications are protected regardless of whether the platform is connected to a host network or merely connected directly to the Internet. Using a proxy server effectively sets up a virtual network 125 within the platform via a virtual NIC 123. The virtual NIC 123 appears to the COS 120 as if it were a physical NIC. The virtual NIC 123 may be communicatively coupled to a network stack (not shown) which is connected to the management partition 110.
In this way, all network traffic may be routed through, or monitored by, the management partition 110. In the case of a proxy server 115, if a web browser 121 in the COS 120 attempts to access a restricted site on the Internet, the management partition 110 may restrict the web browser 121 from accessing the site because the web browser communicates through the proxy server and is not directly connected to the NIC 145. Communications using port 80 (the conventional port for web browsers), for instance, may be forced to go through the proxy server 115. The proxy server 115 in the management partition 110 may then block certain sites or content. A system administrator for an enterprise platform, or parents managing a home computer, may control the proxy server 115. Firewalls 111 may be protected from viruses running in the COS 120, as well. Capabilities such as firewalls running in a partition other then the user's partition should not be affected by malware (malicious software) and/or user intervention because of the protections enforced by the VMM architecture. Users running applications in the COS 120 may not disable the firewall 111 or other software running in the management partition 110. In this architecture, a VMM may provide memory protection and independent execution environments such that partitions cannot access memory controlled by another partition.
One feature virtualization technology may enable is the ability to directly map hardware through to a VM partition. Hardware components 140 on the platform may be directly mapped to a dedicated VM partition 120 and 110. Processor technology and/or chipset technology may specifically allow this mapping. A chipset modification may be required to transparently offset memory addressing such that direct memory access (DMA) works in arbitrary partitions. NICs and other devices transfer data using DMA so that they may transfer data from the device to/from memory without going through the processor. Typically a virtual machine manager (VMM) creates a virtual network that would allow the COS 120 to communicate to the SOS 110 which would then route or use a network address translator (NAT) or bridge the network traffic to the physical NIC 145. As described, this management partition is implemented in the context of a hypervisor architecture.
Another standard VMM architecture is called a host-based VMM architecture. In this architecture, all hardware is typically mapped to a host operating system (OS). Instead of the management partition and capability operating system residing in separate partitions, the management partition resides inside of the host partition, under a host operating system. The host operating system may run at a higher privileged mode than guest virtual machine (VM) operating systems.
A virtual NIC 219 may be communicatively coupled to a physical NIC 203, via the NIC driver 215, where the virtual NIC 219 is communicatively coupled to a virtual machine (VM) 205 via a network stack 213. The VM 205 may communicate to the virtual NIC 219 via a network address translator (NAT) or by Ethernet bridging (207). The VM may be a management partition having a firewall process 209 and/or an intrusion detection process 211. The VM 205 does not have direct access to the physical NIC 203, however, and must communicate to the network through the virtual NIC 219.
An embodiment of the present system and method may be implemented in a host-based VMM architecture. The host may route the network traffic through the virtual NIC 219 into the VMM 210 through the network stack 213 and back thru the bridged or NAT'ed or routed network to the physical NIC 203 then out onto the network.
A goal of a management partition in a virtualized platform may be to protect the services running on a VM and force all network traffic to navigate through the services, or at least enforce this communication path for specific processes. There may be a problem with building a management partition in a host-based VMM architecture, because the OS is linked to the physical NIC. There may be nothing to prevent an application from circumnavigating the defined communication path. Hardware virtualization capabilities such as may be delivered with some virtualization platforms enable the permitted communication path to be defined and prohibit short-circuiting of the path using DMA or other techniques to access the real network stack. The VMM must typically access the real network stack, so the real network stack may not be disabled. Software that is running within the VMM puts packets out onto the "wire" or network, via the network stack.
The system and method as described herein prevents applications from accessing the network stack without going through a virtual NIC controlled by the VMM or management partition.
In an embodiment using a software implementation, the VM 510 has a virtual network stack 511. The virtual network stack includes a specialized driver 514 at the kernel level of the guest VM. In some embodiments, a VMM 530 may execute kernel guest code in processor ring-3, or user mode, (for IA-32 architecture). In some embodiments, a VMM 530 may execute kernel guest code in native ring-0 mode. For Intel architecture, and the like, ring-0 is a most privileged processor mode, and ring-3 is a lesser privileged mode. Future platforms may have a privilege level higher than ring-0. It will be apparent to one of ordinary skill in the art that various implementations of privilege levels may be used in practicing embodiments of the disclosed invention. In an embodiment, there is guest code, which may be in the form of an agent or process coupled to the network stack, which may encrypt or digitally sign or encode the packet to be sent out over the network. The NIC 501 may be configured to send only properly decoded and validated packets. The physical network stack 505 may have a specialized driver 516 to decode the packets received from the virtual network stack 513. This method may be a viable option for systems where specialized hardware is not possible and where applications running on the platform are trusted not to attempt to bypass the specialized drivers.
A more secure embodiment may implement a hardware modification or augmentation to the NIC 501.
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The host VMM 640 virtualizes network communication and captures packets to be sent to the LAN 660, by various VMs on the platform. The packets are passed to the virtual network stack 630 in the management partition 620. This is facilitated by having the host and/or other guests use the virtual NIC 627 in the management partition as their "Default gateway." In other words, the IP routing stack will target this virtual NIC 627 with the packets that are destined to be sent from the partition/host. Embodiments of the present invention may prevent any other path from functioning; the host (and/or) other partitions must configure in this manner to establish network connectivity with the outside world.
Packets to be sent are placed on the network stack 631 of the virtual NIC 630 and encrypted 632. In alternative embodiments, the packets are digitally signed or otherwise digitally encoded rather than encrypted. It will be apparent to one of ordinary skill in the art that various authentication or signing techniques may be used. The encoded packets may be sent 634 to a bridged NIC driver 635 and then placed on the physical network stack 651 of the physical NIC 650. A network bridge takes packets from one subnet/NIC and places them on another subnet/NIC. Bridging enables each partition/host to have a unique IP address and be externally addressable. Packets received by the virtual NIC 633 are passed through the network stack 631 to the appropriate VM. In an embodiment that uses bridging, the management partition 620 may copy the packet, after successfully being received through a firewall, if necessary. In the case of a NAT, the firewall/NAT process 625 may rewrite the IP header for a private network.
When the physical NIC 650 receives an encrypted/encoded packet in the network stack 651, the packet it decrypted or decoded 652. The decryption step may be omitted if the NIC 650 is in normal, or pass-through mode, rather than secure (decode) mode. The NIC may have multiple secure modes to accommodate various encryption schemes. If the packet is determined to be valid at 653 in a circuit, the packet is sent to the LAN 660. If the packet it determined to be invalid in 653, the packet is dropped and an error message may be sent back to the host VMM 640 or the transmitting VM 610. Packets received from the LAN 660 are sent unimpeded to the physical network stack 651. In some embodiments the decision block 653 and the decryption block 652 reside in the same circuit. In other embodiments, the decision block 653 and the decryption block 652 reside in firmware operatively coupled to the NIC 650. It will be apparent to one of ordinary skill in the art to determine how to allocate the functional components among various software, hardware and firmware solutions, and combinations thereof.
The NIC 650 may run in normal operations mode for systems without the encryption/encoding/signing capability or in a secure mode which uses the hardware modification to verify the packets authorization to be sent. By allowing multiple modes, a secure NIC which is capable of decoding the packets, may be used in legacy systems, as well as secure systems, as described herein.
In one embodiment, virtual NIC 630 and NIC 650 may be linked through an Ethernet bridge that is facilitated by the VMM 640. The encryption process 632 may encrypt all data above the Ethernet layer of the packet so that the bridge is not impeded. It will be apparent to one of ordinary skill in the art that an intelligent VMM may be designed to avoid this limitation.
In embodiments of the invention, negotiation between the NIC card and the VMM driver are used to protect the network flow. The VMM does not need to reside in a hypervisor architecture for this negotiation to work.
With virtualization there are typically two categories of VMMs: 1) Host-based VMM and 2) Hypervisor VMM. Hypervisor architecture may be implemented with some features of a host-based system and is called a hybrid VMM architecture. In a hypervisor model, multiple operating systems may be run in VMs as peers on a platform. For instance, OS A is no more privileged than OS B. A thin layer of software (VMM) may communicate with OS A and OS B. The VMM may have a scheduler in addition to the OS schedulers to allocate time slices to the guest VMs. The VMM may also virtualize some hardware. The processor timer may be mapped to the VMM. Timer interrupts must be generated for all guest VMs. This VMM controls mapping of guest VMs to services or hardware resources. Many hardware resources may be mapped directly from the hardware to the partition (VM). A partition, or VM, in a hypervisor architecture may act as a management partition, as discussed above.
In a host-based system, a VMM may run on the host OS and execute VMs in partitions as subordinate to the host OS. In some embodiments, the host-based VMM may be more privileged than other guest VMs. In some embodiments, the VMM may be a peer to the host OS. The host OS running the VMM typically has a higher privilege than OSs running in other VMs. The host OS may control all VMs, as well as physical hardware. In this host-based model, some applications are run on the host OS because it is desirable to optimize graphics, for instance, and the graphics card will be mapped to the host OS.
In some embodiments, a management partition may be a secure partition as enabled by some trusted platform technology, as may be found in Intel Corporation's secure VMM technology (see, e.g., documents describing Intel's LaGrande platform at Internet Universal Resource Locator (URL) www.intel.com/technology/security). One example of a trusted platform module (TPM) model may implement hardware embedded cryptographic engines such as those found in smartcards or a trusted platform module (TPM). The smartcard may have an embedded cryptographic engine and non-volatile storage, and the ability to perform security operations. The smartcard may be on the motherboard so it may be integrated with various parts of the platform. One aspect of system having a TPM component is the storing of the current platform state. This state may be stored using a cryptographic hash or checksum-like function. The state of the platform is determined and a hash of the state is saved to determine future integrity of the system. One feature of virtualization technology being developed in the industry is to enable a secure launch where the TPM may protect the hash of the current platform state. Thus, a VMM will launch only if the key in memory matches the hash. If a virus maliciously modifies the VMM, TPM will not allow the VMM to launch because the hash keys will not match. TPM may aid in guarding secrets by communicating with a NIC.
A hybrid VMM is an specialized class of hypervisor that leverages a dedicated guest OS to host the device drivers and create object models. In the hybrid model, not all hardware needs to be mapped to the "device OS" and may be directly mapped to one of the other partitions.
In one embodiment, the virtual network stack is implemented in software in the management partition. The process for virtualizing the network stack may be implemented in various layers of the network stack, even at the API level. In some cases, this method may be circumvented by uninstalling the software which uses the virtual stack. In another embodiment, the virtual stack is augmented by using encryption, or encoding of the packets and coupling this with a NIC that is required to decode and validate the packets before transmitting then over a network.
Various permutations of this method are illustrated by
Secure VMMs typically runs in a secure partition in trusted platforms. A secure VMM can attest that it is running on top of a trusted platform by validating various stages of the platform boot and Software launch process. Additionally, these secure partitions may utilize capabilities such as those presented in a TPM platform configuration register (PCR) storage scheme. This scheme enables data to be available only upon authentication that the platform is in the appropriate and trusted state. This disables attacks such as where a rogue VMM is inserted to steal the encryption keys from the management partition.
Row 1 is for a platform using certification or decryption of a packet in hardware, i.e., a specialized NIC, and Row 2 is for a platform using certification in software, i.e., putting a specialized driver in the network stack or modifying Winsock or other API. As can be seen, a platform implemented with a secure VMM and certification in hardware is the most secure and hardest to circumvent. A platform using a standard VMM and software certification only is the least secure. It will be apparent to one of ordinary skill in the art that various implementations may be used depending on the desired application.
The techniques described herein are not limited to any particular hardware or software configuration; they may find applicability in any computing, consumer electronics, or processing environment. The techniques may be implemented in hardware, software, firmware or a combination of the three. The techniques may be implemented in programs executing on programmable machines such as mobile or stationary computers, personal digital assistants, set top boxes, cellular telephones and pagers, consumer electronics devices (including DVD players, personal video recorders, personal video players, satellite receivers, stereo receivers, cable TV receivers), and other electronic devices, that may include a processor, a storage medium accessible by the processor (including volatile and non-volatile memory and/or storage elements), at least one input device, and one or more output devices. Program code is applied to the data entered using the input device to perform the functions described and to generate output information. The output information may be applied to one or more output devices. One of ordinary skill in the art may appreciate that the invention can be practiced with various system configurations, including multiprocessor systems, minicomputers, mainframe computers, independent consumer electronics devices, and the like. The invention can also be practiced in distributed computing environments where tasks may be performed by remote processing devices that are linked through a communications network.
Each program may be implemented in a high level procedural or object oriented programming language to communicate with a processing system. However, programs may be implemented in assembly or machine language, if desired. In any case, the language may be compiled or interpreted.
Program instructions may be used to cause a general-purpose or special-purpose processing system that is programmed with the instructions to perform the operations described herein. Alternatively, the operations may be performed by specific hardware components that contain hardwired logic for performing the operations, or by any combination of programmed computer components and custom hardware components. The methods described herein may be provided as a computer program product that may include a machine accessible medium having stored thereon instructions that may be used to program a processing system or other electronic device to perform the methods. The term "machine accessible medium" used herein shall include any medium that is capable of storing or encoding a sequence of instructions for execution by the machine and that cause the machine to perform any one of the methods described herein. The term "machine accessible medium" shall accordingly include, but not be limited to, solid-state memories, optical and magnetic disks, and a carrier wave that encodes a data signal. Furthermore, it is common in the art to speak of software, in one form or another (e.g., program, procedure, process, application, module, logic, and so on) as taking an action or causing a result. Such expressions are merely a shorthand way of stating the execution of the software by a processing system cause the processor to perform an action of produce a result.
While this invention has been described with reference to illustrative embodiments, this description is not intended to be construed in a limiting sense. Various modifications of the illustrative embodiments, as well as other embodiments of the invention, which are apparent to persons skilled in the art to which the invention pertains are deemed to lie within the spirit and scope of the invention.
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Free-market roads
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Free-market roads is the theory that a society should have entirely private and/or community owned roads.
Free-market roads and infrastructure are generally advocated by anarcho-capitalist works, including Murray Rothbard's For a New Liberty, Morris and Linda Tannehill's The Market for Liberty, David D. Friedman's The Machinery of Freedom, and David T. Beito's The Voluntary City.
- 1 Arguments for free market roads
- 1.1 Private roads can have no free riders, reducing congestion
- 1.2 Competition will motivate better service than is provided by regional monopolies
- 1.3 Privatization will encourage infrastructure construction
- 1.4 Free market roads facilitate internalization of external costs
- 1.5 Private roads couldn't use eminent domain
- 1.6 Free market roads will have less crime
- 1.7 Free market roads will encourage small business
- 2 Arguments against free market roads
- 3 See also
- 4 References
Arguments for free market roads[edit]
Private roads can have no free riders, reducing congestion[edit]
The free rider problem has been cited by some proponents[who?] as a reason for privatizing roads: since traffic congestion is the result of excess demand for transportation infrastructure, it may be treated as any other economic shortage - in this case, a shortage of roads, lanes, exits, or other infrastructure. Seeing the pricing mechanism of a free market as a more efficient means of meeting demand than government planning (see Economic calculation problem), Peter Samuel, in his book Highway Aggravation: The Case For Privatizing The Highways, compares American traffic jams and Soviet grocery store lines:[1]
- "In Russia communism's failure was epitomized by constant shortages in stores. Empty shelves in supermarkets and department stores and customers in line, wasting hours each week, became the face of the system's failure, as well as a source of huge personal frustration, even rage. Communism failed because prices were not flexible to match supply and demand; because stores were bureaucracies, not businesses; and because revenues went into a central treasury and did not fuel increased capacity and improved service. We in supposedly capitalistic America suffer communism--an unpriced service provided by an unresponsive monopolistic bureaucracy--on most of our highways. Our manifestation of shortage, our equivalent of Russian lines at stores, is daily highway backups. There is no price on rush-hour travel to clear the market. There is no revenue stream directly from road users to road managers to provide incentives either to manage existing capacity to maximum consumer advantage or to adjust capacity to demand."
Ronald F. Kirby, transportation director for the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, opined that private companies have more of an incentive to invest in infrastructure early, before a public outcry prompts construction. He noted, "Too often in the public sector, the easiest thing to do is let things sit unresolved. The private sector is motivated by self-interest to resolve things quickly".[2]
Furthermore, if roads are privatized, only those who pay for roads will directly benefit from them. Otherwise, those who pay for roads must deal with traffic congestion caused by those who have not paid.[citation needed]
Competition will motivate better service than is provided by regional monopolies[edit]
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Proponents[who?] often cite competition among road providers as an advantage, as road companies would have an incentive to develop innovative ways of lowering prices and improving service to gain a competitive edge. For this reason, arterials (major highways) are often viewed as prime candidates for privatization, since there are typically[citation needed] many possible routes one could take to get to a particular destination, which could allow for competition among multiple road companies. However, local neighbourhood streets could also be provided by private road associations, in much the same way that common stairs, hallways, etc. are provided in a cooperative living arrangement, condominium, or gated community. The association might allow members to drive these streets for free and charge fees to motorists using them as cut-throughs to get to other places. Contractors would compete to provide good road service in much the same way as elevator companies compete for the business of office buildings, despite the fact that a typical building may only contract with one elevator provider at a time.
Privatization will encourage infrastructure construction[edit]
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A company that owns a private road will typically want to at least recoup its earlier investment to construct the road. Furthermore, when construction is complete, the company wants to keep investing in the road to keep up its initial value, because roads deteriorate over time. Road maintenance needs to be quick and of high quality, to keep the road from becoming idle again in the future resulting in a capital loss for the company; road traffic needs to be maximized, because that will result in the most revenues to the company. A government does not seek to maximize traffic or reduce road maintenance, because it has no incentive to do so, claim supporters of private roads. These supporters also claim that road safety is increased by companies that own private roads. Those companies do not want to see people getting injured on their roads, as it will tarnish a company's reputation. The companies will seek active removal of unfit, drunk and other reckless drivers, if allowed to discriminate so by the state, and will want to see increased mechanical standards of vehicles, because a stalled vehicle means an idle road. The company itself needs to pay for its removal, or passes this cost on to the owner of the stalled vehicle, inciting the owner to upkeep the quality of one's property.
B. H. Meyer stated, "It is evident that the turnpike movement resulted in a very general betterment of roads."[3] The book Street Smart claims that Brazil has saved 20 percent and Columbia 50 percent through efforts to outsource road maintenance to the private sector.[4]
Free market roads facilitate internalization of external costs[edit]
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A private company can more easily be held accountable for negative effects of the highway than that if it is publicly owned. For example, residents living next to urban highways will benefit from noise barriers. However, campaigning for the city council to erect the walls is often ineffective and the process can take years, since the council needs to divert funding from other more pressing projects. A private highway will try to avoid court action and feel more obliged to cater for residents. The cost of erecting the walls will be passed on directly to the drivers (who are causing the noise), rather than the general public.
Private roads couldn't use eminent domain[edit]
In 2006, eminent domain authority was stripped from private highway developers in Colorado due to concerns over abuses.[5] Cato rebutted the potential for eminent domain abuse, noting that "In California the state highway agency approved private development of the Mid-State Tollway on the eastern fringe of the San Francisco-Oakland area. Bay area residents, however, strongly opposed the tollway and favored of a Bay Area Rapid Transit line built nearby to serve the area. As a result, the highway developer abandoned the northern leg of the project. Had a public agency been building the highway, it could have invoked eminent domain authority to build the road in spite of political opposition."[6]
Toll Road Investors Partnership II CEO E. Thomas, in testimony before the State Corporation Commission, said that the lack of eminent domain power required developers to "acquire necessary property through private means, which was a costly and time consuming exercise for the private investors in the Greenway."[7]
Free market roads will have less crime[edit]
Bruce L. Benson argues that when roads are privately owned, local residents will be better able to prevent crime by exercising their right to ask miscreants to leave.[8] He observes that avenues in the private places of St. Louis have been shown to have lower crime rates than adjacent public streets.[9] The Market for Liberty further argues that private roads will be better policed as the owners focus on serious crime rather than on victimless offenses:[10]
|A private corporation which owned streets would make a point of keeping its streets free of drunks, hoodlums, and any other such annoying menaces, hiring private guards to do so if necessary. It might even advertise, "Thru-Way Corporation's streets are guaranteed safe at any hour of the day or night. Women may walk alone with perfect confidence on our thoroughfares." A criminal, forbidden to use any city street because all the street corporations knew of his bad reputation, would have a hard time even getting anywhere to commit a crime.
On the other hand, the private street companies would have no interest in regulating the dress, "morals," habits, or lifestyle of the people who used their streets. For instance, they wouldn't want to drive away customers by arresting or badgering hippies, girls in see-thru blouses or topless bathing suits or any other non-aggressive deviation from the value standards of the majority. All they would ask is that each customer pay his dime-a-day and refrain from initiating force, obstructing traffic, and driving away other customers. Other than this, his life-style and moral code would be of no interest to them; they would treat him courteously and solicit his business.
Free market roads will encourage small business[edit]
Mutualist Kevin Carson argues that transportation is a natural diseconomy of scale.[11] The cost of transportation increases disproportionately with the size of a firm; in a free market, there would be strict upper limits to the size and power of corporations, and small businesses would have natural advantages. Government subsidies to transportation, however, make large, centralized corporations artificially profitable, contributing to corporate dominance of the economy.[12] Carson points out that in many cases, centralized industry did not develop until after the advent of taxpayer-funded roads and other transportation projects.[13]
Arguments against free market roads[edit]
Highways are natural monopolies[edit]
In many parts of the world land use patterns mean that building two or more highways in parallel isn't practicable, thus making highways a natural monopoly. Kroeger claims, "This would result in an incredibly inefficient use of land resources."[citation needed] When there is only one highway connecting points A and B, the main advantage of privatization, competition, disappears. In the absence of regulation, a private highway operator is likely to charge an exorbitant monopoly price, resulting in huge profit margins and few benefits for drivers. An initial franchise fee (in the case of franchised publicly owned roads) and/or savings of public capital costs, can offset the resulting monopoly profits in terms of societal costs, but there are distributional issues in that the income is spread over an entire region while the burden falls on a small subset of that region's population who actually need to use the road. Also, it is difficult to predict the long term present value of a road. For example, the 407 ETR (an express toll highway near Toronto originally built with public funds) was leased for three billion CDN and was subsequently valued at nearly ten billion CDN. [14] While alternate local roads and other forms of transportation may provide some competition, it is often impractical, especially for goods.
A counter-argument is that while a lone highway connecting A to B may not have any other competition from other highways, it would still have to compete with trains, planes, and other roads.[15]
See also[edit]
- ^ Samuel, Peter: Highway Aggravation: The Case For Privatizing The Highways, Cato Policy Analysis No. 231, June 27, 1995.
- ^ Fehr, Stephen C.: Highway Links Loudoun to Region's Growing Pains, The Washington Post, Sep. 24, 1995.
- ^ Klein, David (January 1998). Libertarian Solutions: Private highways: A solution whose time has come (again)?.[dead link]
- ^ STREET SMART | National Center for Policy Analysis
- ^ Colorado Hwys: Major Non-State
- ^ How Government Highway Policy Encourages Sprawl
- ^ Direct Testimony Of E. Thomas Sines On Behalf Of Toll Road Investors Partnership II, L.P. State Corporation Commission Of Virginia Before The Case No. Pue-2006-00081
- ^ Benson, Bruce L. To Serve and Protect: Privatization and Community in Criminal Justice. p. 159.
- ^ Benson, Bruce L. To Serve and Protect: Privatization and Community in Criminal Justice. p. 85.
- ^ Tannehill, Linda and Morris. The Market for Liberty. p. 61.
- ^ http://members.tripod.com/kevin_carson/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/Chapter2.pdf[self-published source][full citation needed]
- ^ http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/the-distorting-effects-of-transportation-subsidies/
- ^ http://members.tripod.com/kevin_carson/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/Chapter3.pdf[self-published source][full citation needed]
- ^ Alexander, Doug. "CPP Investment Board to Buy 10% of 407 Toll Road for About $878 Million". bloomberg.com. Bloomberg. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
- ^ Block, Walter (2009). The Privatization of Roads and Highways: Human and Economic Factors. Ludwig von Mises Institute.


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We left in sunshine and traveled the last few hundred yards of pavement and hit the dirt for Cantwell, 100 miles or so away.
This dirt road is probably what the Canada side of the Top of the World highway is like. It's wide, nicely graded, very few corners and spectacular scenery. Oh, and no traffic, either.
Our first pause for a look at a different angle of Deborah, Hess, and Hayes.
Miles roll by at a rapid rate and soon we're at the crossing of the Susitna River.
It's easy to hold about sixty on this road. Only the dust is a bit of a challenge. Here's a dust trail left from a big duallie hauling a quad trailer.
He was rolling about 50. His fillings must be much better seated than mine. I'll take two wheels anytime for that kind of running.
Another great view of the Deborah group.
A little camera like mine can't duplicate the view, you had to be there.
I recall a story of a climb of Deborah by David Roberts back in the sixties. He and his partner did it as a two person team spending a long time on the mountain. To save money they decided they would forego the flight out and hike back to the road (probably the Richardson Highway, I forget). To do this they had to cross one of the big rivers and got hung up for days waiting for the water to subside, running out of food. Eyeballing the distances from the Denali, I'm stunned anyone would try, though in the day, it was the only alternative. If you're going to be brash, best be young.
We had high hopes to see Denali.
It is right there, the guidebook says so. An excuse to come back. Probably many times.
At the end of the Denali Highway at Cantwell, we gas up and the party is basically over. There's a lot more traffic on the Parks Highway (though its relative, it's about as busy as Highway 20 over Rainy Pass in Washington on a weekday). We get about five more miles of dirt riding at 3 mph through road construction outside Willow, eat lunch in Sarah's hometown, and hit Anchorage about five.
We're on an airplane home by eight.
I snapped this little peak somewhere on the inside passage.
All you need is some climbing gear, a little sailboat, and some time. Alaska isn't the only big and empty place for chasing grand schemes.
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I have been trying to nail down (or at least get some insight) on the Phoenix Suns' summer direction but the front office has not been inclined to comment on it while the current season is still going on. There are obvious limitations on speaking about other teams' players, and the draft is still a big unknown until the lottery and workouts and players declaring for the draft. Even then, teams keep it close to the vest anyway.
Lon Babby, the Phoenix Suns President of Basketball Operations, rightly doesn't want to give anything away on Blanks' or Hunter's performance as of yet. The season's not over, and a lot of times simple comments on performance get blown out of proportion by the media. Plus, and this is my own conclusion, he didn't know if he himself would get a say in whether Blanks or Hunter stay on since his own contract expired in July.
But one area I thought I could make headway was to establish a basic timeline for naming a permanent head coach this summer. Over the weekend, I tried to engage Lon Babby in a discussion about that timing but got no response. This was unusual, because Lon has always been good about at least replying in some way to my inquiries*. Figuring it was a holiday, I tried again on Monday but still got nothing.
Ultimately, I gave up waiting and I wrote the Tuesday article on my own assumptions alone based on history. Robert Sarver had never acted quickly to keep his incumbent President/GM since taking over the team. There was always, after some unsuccessful negotiation, an agreement to remove the President/GM from their position (Bryan Colangelo, then Mike D'Antoni, then Steve Kerr).**
And without the President/GM settled, there was no way to resolve a head coaching situation. So I was fully prepared to wait longer than anyone thought was prudent.
But a mere FOUR HOURS later, the Suns organization surprised me. Robert Sarver broke his own mold this week by keeping a President/GM longer than one contract. And he did it in a timely, orderly fashion without any hiccup to the offseason planning process.
I also got my answer on why Lon Babby had been nonresponsive the last few days to my queries on the HC: because he was in the middle of negotiating his own extension.
Now that Lon Babby is under contract for two more years, azcentral.com beat writer extraodinaire Paul Coro has this tidbit:
Sarver's endorsement means that [General Manager Lance] Blanks will likely stay on board for his last contract year and there is a strong possibility that interim head coach Lindsey Hunter is named the permanent coach.
I am not sure if this is informed opinion or not. This could just be Paul's conjecture, but it also could be based on scuttlebutt around the arena.
Clearly and consistently, both Babby and Sarver have supported the work of Lance Blanks as talent evaluator even though the public has been less than enamored with him. Some of that is that he is "terrible at PR", as Sarver admitted in January. And part of it is that the Suns have not made any WOW moves in the three years since Blanks took over as GM. He has not hit a home run yet while the team had declined in performance every season.
Marcin Gortat was really a nice find, but a lot of people in the NBA felt the same. Gortat was the most coveted underutilized big man in the game, playing behind Dwight Howard, and a lot of teams wanted him. The Suns took advantage of a since-ousted Orlando GM Otis Smith who still loved Hedo Turkoglu in that deal.
On a lower scale, Blanks has unearthed some gems. P.J. Tucker, Wes Johnson, Sebastian Telfair, Shannon Brown, Michael Redd are not diamonds by any means and may not be legitimate NBA starters, but they became valid rotation players. They were all signed to low-level contracts off the street and played well in Phoenix. The same could not be said for some other guys Blanks gave a chance to succeed in the NBA: Zabian Dowdell, Garrett Siler, Aaron Brooks, Ronnie Price, Luke Zeller and Diante Garrett.
His big free agent signing was Michael Beasley this season, who has not worked out. In fact, Beasley is having his worst season in the NBA despite being given a great deal of support and love within the front office ranks. The Suns tried to help Beasley reach his potential, but fared no better than his two prior teams. Blanks' draft picks were "eh". Not bad, not necessarily good either. He mis-evaluated Goran Dragic and Robin Lopez.
But the worst thing Blanks has done publicly has been to systematically help remove every link to the "old" days, the glory days, while trying to lay a brand new foundation on this franchise.
I agree that it was time to move on from the old days, but the way the Suns did it put a bad taste in Suns fans mouths. Certainly, more wins would wash away the bad taste, but for now all we know is that every icon has been swept out of the building since Lance Blanks signed his contract (Nash, Hill, Majerle, Gentry, etc.).
Whose fault is that? Sarver, Babby or Blanks? All of them, of course. They are a team. But since Blanks makes the hiring decisions on the coach, and by extension his coaching staff, and since Blanks is the resident NBA talent evaluator, I think that more of the blame goes to Blanks than either of the other two for this PR debacle. And certainly, a team wholly constructed based on Blanks' talent evaluation is the worst in the Western Conference.
I didn't mean for this article to turn into a Lance Blanks hatefest, so I will stop now. I am just trying to state facts here. I have to admit that I've never sought out Lance Blanks for an interview, so a big part of my ambivalence is my own fault.
Maybe Blanks is not responsible for most of this PR problem. And certainly, teams decline with age and injury. There were reasons the team is where it is today. Valid reasons. It's no surprise to anyone that the Suns are taking their turn at the bottom of the NBA, since that's been predicted for several years now.
I digress.
With Lon Babby at the helm for the next two seasons at least, he gets a chance to see the Suns move forward and start back up the hill.
More to Coro yesterday: "I may be like Moses. I'm on a journey to get to the promised land of a championship. I didn't want to leave at the start of the walk through the desert."
Babby has been judicious with contracts to help make the Suns solvent.
He declined a contract extension to Jason Richardson in the fall of 2010. Richardson wanted $9-10 million a year. That was a good move, with Richardson already on the decline of his career. $10 million to J-Rich right now would be an albatross. So Babby replaced him with young Marcin Gortat, 25 at the time and ready to excel at a position that's tough to fill.
He declined to give an aging Nash $12 million a year. Nash eventually took a lot less from the Lakers, but even that $9 million the Lakers gave Nash would have been too much for a guy you increasingly can't count on staying healthy.
He overpaid Grant Hill in the summer of 2011 to keep him one more season alongside Nash while they tried to stay competitive, but then decided it was time to get younger than 39 at the SF position.
He gave out solid contracts to every other free agent they've signed, not saddling the Suns' books with any bad contracts. Even Michael Beasley's is reasonable, only guaranteed for two seasons and barely more than the midlevel.
He offered a max contract to a guy good enough to get one in Eric Gordon, and surprised the league when Gordon not only accepted the offer but expressed a great appreciation and desire to make Phoenix his home. That's a good sales job.
And he convinced Robert Sarver to use the amnesty clause on Josh Childress, which would effectively cost Sarver every penny of Childress' $7-8 twice a year for three years if they found the right players to replace Childress on the salary cap. That's a big chunk of money that Sarver just ate up.
So, Babby has been smart and safe. Nothing outrageous.
Now he just needs a good talent evaluator to pick the right players for the turnaround.
And the right coach. I really hope the Suns execute a full coaching search this spring with Lindsey Hunter as one of the candidates. You rarely get a chance to hear from a lot of people how they would handle your team, and a coaching search is a great way to do it. Then, you hire the most impressive candidate. If that's still Hunter, all the better. At least you proved it to yourself.
*Regarding my inquiries to Suns staff: I am not a hard-nosed investigative reporter. I am a softball guy, to be sure. The most I feel comfortable doing is shooting emails to guys like Babby, asking questions and offering to meet before games to discuss further. So it's no surprise that Coro and others had the extension news way before I did - which was in the Suns' press release. Sorry, BSotS. I have a full-time day job and a moderate personality. I just don't have it in my nature to force sources to give up breaking news before anyone else knows it. I don't know how those guys get all those details about stuff before it's been released. Do they have dirt on these sources? Or are they just so persistent the source gives them the info to make them go away? I dunno. I doubt I'll ever find out.
**Regarding Sarver's track record with President/GMs: I have no idea what happened in each of those prior negotiations. I can guess that Sarver wanted more control than Bryan C wanted to give up after his father had sold the franchise. And I can guess that both Mike D and Sarver agreed that Mike D sucked at being a GM. And I heard rumors of lowballing Kerr in 2010, but that doesn't totally explain why Kerr so quickly walked away from something that appeared to be so positive just two months before. So, we can't put all blame on Sarver "failing" at keeping President/GMs. Maybe they were all meant to be.
Insert your favorite 16 reference for the numerically equivalent podcast edition. I was infatuated with Molly (star of Sixteen Candles) as a child, so I'd much rather have that image burned into my head than Lon Babby who, though dapper in his own right, has decidedly less sex appeal.
Maybe you like Coreys... well, maybe not, but I was still enamored by Heather Graham, regardless of her inebriated state.
For some reason when I think 16, these movies are the first things that come to mind. But what can I say?
I'm old. I like girls. But if License to Drive taught us anything, it's that half full and half empty cups can stir debate... but sometimes empty cups can actually be a good thing.
In addition to the Jays, I was able to see games featuring Duke, Georgetown and San Diego State and the NBA Draft prospects those teams featured. I also was treated to the show put on by Dunk City (No. 15 seed Florida Gulf Coast for those that don't follow the tournament), but that's a different story.
In total, I watched about nine potential NBA players play.
Potential First Round Picks in Philly: Otto Porter, Mason Plumlee, Jamaal Franklin, Doug McDermott
Potential Second Round Picks/Summer League Invites: Seth Curry, Ryan Kelly, Gregory Echenique, Chase Tapley, Amath M'Baye
Here's my take on the guys that have a chance to go in the mid-to-late portion of the first round.
Quote: "When the separation was created, I thought Franklin did a good job of getting into the paint and creating opportunities for others as well as scoring himself. He's just a terrific all-around player and a tough match-up. I thought his ability to get in and create good things for his teammates was a big key in the game." - Oklahoma head coach Lon Kruger
Franklin is a high-flying guard that I really like. I got two looks at him in Philly and he put up two really solid performances showcasing his all-around game.
Franklin played 73 out of possible 80 minutes between his two games - the first a 70-55 win against Oklahoma and the second an 81-71 loss to FGCU - and racked up 41 points on 14-26 shooting (4-9 from downtown), 11-11 from the free-throw line, 19 rebounds, nine assists, seven turnovers and six steals.
I already knew Franklin was a great rebounder. His average of 9.5 per game as a guard (something that has only been done a handful of times) speaks for itself, but seeing him live, it's easy to understand why. Franklin has excellent athleticism, good length and strong hands, but even more than that, he has a strong motor and an ability to read the ball off the rim. He pulled down eight boards in the first game and followed it up with 11 in the second, figures that aren't the least bit out of the ordinary for him.
Franklin has a good body control and loves to use head fakes to get his defender off balance. He has a good post game for a guard, with solid footwork. There was one play in the second game against Florida Gulf Coast where he faced up from the high post, pump-faked, drop-stepped, then spun to the basket and finished. It was a brilliantly advanced move to see from a college guard, showcasing his balance, footwork, composure in traffic and strength to finish. It was one of the most impressive plays of the game for me, which is saying something considering he was playing against Dunk City.
One thing that I hadn't noticed before but that really stuck out to me is that Franklin is a capable, but more importantly, willing passer. He played well in the flow of the offense, looking to move the ball and find open teammates. In fact, he was almost too passive at times. At one point in the second game, the Eagles went on a big run and Franklin basically disappeared (although to be fair, most of that were his teammates taking bad shots). He needed to be more assertive with his teammates struggling; 13 shots was not enough.
Franklin's biggest problem as a prospect is his shooting. He only shot 40.4 percent from the field and 27.9 percent from 3-point range during the season. His jumpshot form looks decent enough; no hitches or anything like that. I think he can easily improve his shot and in fact has already done so throughout his college career. A lot of it is due to his shot selection as well, but I don't think it's bad enough to really be an issue moving forward if he is given a more defined role.
After losing to FGCU, Franklin remained out on the court to watch the Eagles celebrate. He just stood there and stared for a two or three minutes. This is a man who wants to win badly, and is willing to do the work necessary to do so.
Franklin is another versatile, athletic wing. I would compare him to a young Jason Richardson, Evan Turner or Terrence Williams.
Final Thoughts: I am a big fan of Franklin's game and how much he's grown from his freshman year. When it's all said and done, he'll probably end up in the middle of the first round and out of the Suns' draft range, but depending on what happens, the Suns should definitely consider him with their second pick (either at the end of the lottery from the Lakers or at the end of the first round from the Heat).
Quote: "If you have a 6-8 guy that can really almost do everything, like he can make threes, he can take you off the block and everything, it's kind of tough because we're not used to like 6-8 guys, especially in our league, doing things like that." - Cincinnati sophomore guard Sean Kilpatrick.
Doug McDermott is a National Player of the Year Finalist, a two-time All-American and, for my money, the best scorer in college basketball. I may be a tad bit biased considering that he plays for my school, but that also means I've been able to see almost every game he has played in a Bluejay uniform.
I'm not really sure where McDermott's stock is right now. Some places have him in the second round, others have him going in the latter part of the first. What I do know is that he knows how to play basketball.
McDermott is first and foremost a knockdown shooter. He has proven the ability to shoot the three at a high rate all the way out to NBA range (49 percent this season), both spotting up and running off of screens. He has also developed a very reliable face-up mid-range jumper that has really rounded out his game this season. McDermott's shooting touch will be his number one asset in the NBA.
However, what separates McDermott from a Matt Bonner or Steve Novak is his high basketball IQ and his ability to play in the post. McDermott has a terrific feel for the game and this allows him to be a pretty good rebounder on both ends. He doesn't have great physical tools, but his mental ones are top-notch. He has great touch on shots around the basket. He's not going to be able to play the same way he did in college - as a post-up power forward - but that ability to finish in the post and around the basket will certainly help him at the next level.
Against a really tough Cincinnati defense, McDermott was still able to get his and lead his team to a win. He finished with 27 and 11. He struggled mightily against Duke, shooting just 4-16 from the field, but he also went 12-12 from the line for 21 points. That would be more troubling, but McDermott is not going to be facing the same kind of defense (double-teaming and switching every screen) that forced that performance in the NBA.
McDermott is too good of a shooter and too smart of a player not to find a role offensively in the NBA. The big question mark with him is on the other end. Can he guard anyone? He's too small to defend most power forwards and he's too slow laterally to slow down quick or athletic wings.
McDermott should become a good role player at the next level if he ends up on a team that can put him in position to use his strengths while covering for his weaknesses. Comparable players would be Kyle Korver, Jared Dudley and Mike Dunleavy.
Final Thoughts: I'm as big of a Dougie fan as you'll find. I want him to go as high as possible and I want him to be very successful. However, with the disarray the team is in now and with Jared Dudley already on the roster, I don't think Phoenix is the right place for Doug. That doesn't mean I won't hope the Suns get him, either with that Heat pick or with the Suns' second rounder, though, as I can't help but want a Bluejay on the Suns.


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CnC Holland Beta 1.7 PatchJul 9, 2005 Full Version 9 comments
The latest patch for CnC Holland, a modification for Command and Conquer Generals : Zero Hour adding the Dutch faction with 3 sub-generals. All new units...
CnC Holland is a mod for Command and Conquer General Zero Hour. This mod adds the Dutch to the game. Other than adding only the main country, there are also special Dutch generals that can be selected.
Each general has its own tactics. You have the Marine General, which is specialised in covert operations and special missions. This general is based on the Dutch Corps Mariniers. The Luchtmobiele Brigade general is specialised in fast air combat and other forms of fast air assaults. The Panzer General specialises in Tanks and Artillery. The Artillery, in particular, play a strong role with the Panzer General.
The mod also has a small humoristic side to it, which can be found in the voices. We know Holland is not a world superpower, but we are active in almost every war and help in countless countries to maintain peace and
order. We do play an important military role, our army is highly trained and uses top notch military equipment often developed by Holland.
This is a tribute to the Dutch Army, for no matter what role they play, they are almost never included in wargames. Now the ducth can fight the world with their own army...
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Its been a while again. Well we have finally finished the CnC Holland DVD cover and made some copies for the crew! This is a special edition with Audio Cd and Install CD.
This will not be sold :) ( as it is not allowed ). Anyway, we do have a download for the fans.
A while ago, 2 CnC Holland fans constructed a Fan-Trailer. We think its a pretty nice trailer, and therefore are hosting its download at our site.
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The latest patch for CnC Holland, a modification for Command and Conquer Generals : Zero Hour adding the Dutch faction with 3 sub-generals. All new units...
A modification for Command and Conquer Generals : Zero Hour adding the Dutch faction with 3 sub-generals. All new units, aircraft, structures and much...
the apaches (tankkiller) i think is great... but it seems to be really cheap because its oo powerfull but other than that its a really great mod
like the soundtrack
Oh boohoo. the dutch didn't get into a game so now they have put themselves in.
you apaches have rocket pods on them but why does it have only 4 missles shoun't it be like 10 or 20 cuz i see rocket pods on the wings oh and it doesn't have enough decimals on it (e.g) dutch airforce)
Excuding my own country, but the war is not popular here anyway, the problem is with our government, it's total @$@#%#@.
Exactly like i said. They got smart AND pulled out a YEAR ago.
Sad thing is, We are losing all of our valible allies (Like Germany, Which im German, so its sad to See my
Homeland and The land i live in on such un even terms.)
heel leuk gedaan met nederlandse stemme erbij VETTE ****!!
textures in this mod is very agly
@CB_12345, thats cause most US allies including the Dutch pulled out of Iraq a year ago. There are a bunch dying in Afghanistan these days, since that place is going downhill...
Where is it?
Lol Whens the last time you heard of any other soldier besides a US soldier dying in iraq?
weve been there for way to long, and the rest of the world looks down on us for being so STUPID with the
PS im not a damn democrat. i just think we could have won this war in the first 2 - 3 years
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Our Children's StreamersThis feature organized by Stan Jakubaszek, provides some artistic streamer patterns inspired by the contributors' children or grandchildren.
By Stan Jakubaszek
Submitted By Chris DelPlato
The task at hand was to design a streamer that had some significance with respect to our children.
This was my approach....
Information Gathering:
I first asked 'my three girls' (Allison - 9 yrs., Haley - 6, and Lauren - 3) what their favorite colors were. Their responses - purple, pink and blue, respectively. "Perfect for a 'smeltish' flair", I thought. I then looked up their birthstones. They are opal, pearl and emerald.
Creation Process:
Armed with that information, I applied it to my streamer design. Starting with the body, I used some pearlescent mylar tubing with a white floss underbody to represent both the opal and pearl birthstones. A peacock sword tail would take care of the emerald. Leaning toward a smelt look, I added a white bucktail belly (which can also signify white pearl) and a red hackle throat. On to the wing...
Using marabou for the pinkand purple seemed 'girlish' to me - the purple on top of the pink. I needed to include the youngest one's favorite color - blue. This child is just a bit less girlish, and a tad tougher, than the other two. That meant hackle, as opposed to the soft & fluffy marabou. Light blue saddles were added over the marabou to 'shroud' it, in effect. I then added peacock herl topping, again in the 'smelt tradition' (also having emerald tones). Lastly, I slapped on a silver pheasant & jungle cock shoulder/cheek assembly (bowing to tradition) and finished off the head. And there you have it!
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