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Rigi II-Apartment
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LUZERNER ALLMEND, HOCHZWEI In this bright, exclusive and fully furnished 2.5 – bedroom apartment you can enjoy the comfort of living in a centrally located place. The apartment has three single beds and one sofa bed for two persons. It accommodates up to five guests in total. The kitchen with its modern interior is designed for five people and fully equipped with cutlery, dishes, pans, two hotplates and a combination device, that can be either used for baking or as a microwave. The bathroom includes a shower, a toilet, a mirror cabinet, a hairdryer, an electric iron and...Read more
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The apartment is located on the Allmend in Lucerne, two kilometers away from the main rail station, the old town, the lake and footsteps away from the football stadium "Swisspor Arena". Not only does the Allmend of Lucerne offer you a place to enjoy yourself, it also gives you the possibility to do various kinds of activities. A multiplex building steps from the apartment offers tennis courts, a gym and also day nursery. The highway connection (Kriens Süd) is only a 2.5 kilometers drive from the apartment. The main rail station and old town Lucerne can easily be reached with public transport within 14 minutes. Buses are heading towards Lucerne every 15 minutes. The bus stop is only a few steps from the apartment. Also there is a rail station close to the apartment. Trains pass through the station every 30 minutes. All sightseeing spots and the main rail station are only a few minutes away from the apartment. Both of the HOCHZWEI towers are the highest in all of central Switzerland and the first ones to receive the "green property" certificate, indicating that the HOCHZWEI towers are sustainable real estates.
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LHS Football Season Will Become Part Of Local Lore
Some random bits of information as LHS gears up for its football showdown with Bishop Feehan.
Note: Now includes note on "Who was Bishop Feehan?"
On Saturday, the LHS football team takes on Bishop Feehan High School in the Division 3A Super Bowl game at Gillete Stadium.
- On Thursday, Patch.com colleague Dan Libon was down at the stadium for a media availability with Lynnfield and the other teams. His story will be posted on this website Friday morning. Lynnfield Patch will also provide real-time blog coverage of the game as it happens on Saturday night. So if you have far-off LHS alumni, be sure to let them know.
- This article on Boston.com talks about the recent victory over Dighton-Rehoboth that propelled Bishop Feehan into the Super Bowl game against Lynnfield. The team that Feehan beat, Dighton-Rehoboth, was good enough to crack ESPN Boston's Top 25 MIAA high school football list - at #25. Neither Lynnfield nor Feehan were on that list. Like LHS, Feehan is a 9-2 team. Their standout player appears to be Matt Allen, who according to this Boston.com table was 5th in Division 3A with 120 total points - including 14 touchdowns and 26 one-point kicks. The same table shows Lynnfield running back Kyle McGah as the 13th overall scorer in the division, with 13 touchdowns.
- Regardless of what happens in Saturday's game, the 2012 season and Super Bowl bid will be remembered in town for a long time. A check at the LHS gymnasium finds that the Pioneers were the Cape Ann League football champs in 1960, '61, '62, '73, '83, '85, '86 and '09. I might be missing something here because at least two other online sources point to a 1973 entry year into the CAL for the Pioneers.
- For the 1973 team, Tom Condardo has done an excellent job on his Lynnfield Football Gridblog this fall with his week by week look at that season. Check out the latest article here. The other ones can be seen in a sidebar on the lefthand side of his page.
- A visit to the Lynnfield High School Library on Thursday found that they have copies of the 1985 and 1986 yearbooks still handy. This brings up a detail that most of the LHS players and families already know, but which others will find interesting as well - the 1985 yearbook includes several photos of Mike Karavetsos Sr., who was apparently a standout player in his own right. A few hours later, Lynnfield Patch was able to talk to him on the phone for this separate item on the website this morning. Also check out the images attached in the photos above. Saturday night, the LHS squad will be led by its captain and quarterback, Mike Karavetsos.
- The previously mentioned yearbooks also noted that the 1985 football team went 9-1 to win the CAL championship under then-first year coach Bill Adams. 1984 marked the final year for former coach Bill Rodan.
- Just for the record, both short term and long term, a copy of the 2012-2013 Lynnfield High School football roster is attached to this article in the images above.
- Bishop Feehan: For those who were wondering, Bishop Feehan is located in Attleboro, their team name is the Shamrocks, and their school is named after an area Bishop from the 1800s who was the son of a blacksmith, friends with President William Howard Taft, and who had the nickname "The Benevolent Bishop." Now we just have to see if Feehan has "The Benevolent Defense" on Saturday night. An earlier search for this article initially came up empty on the Bishops' background.
In contrast, this is what you can find online about Bishop Edward Fenwick, the pioneer-type namesake of the school in neighboring Peabody:
On a side note somebody even entered an "Urban Dictionary" page for Bishop Feehan where they describe themselves as… Well, I'll just let you click. This is the sort of thing that LHS linemen can use as motivational material. And so can the nuns who are apparently back at Bishop Feehan school.
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Bill, you needed to do a little more research! The school is named after Bishop Daniel Feehan and his biography is located on the Bishop Feehan website here: http://www.bishopfeehan.com/catholicidentity/feehan.htm. The Shamrocks may need to call upon the Bishop for assistance Saturday night!
William Laforme
10:32 am on Friday, November 30, 2012
I looked all over for that thing yesterday, oh well. Son of a blacksmith, friend of William Howard Taft, and the nickname "The Benevolent Bishop." I'll add a correction.
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Lake Forest's Brad Hopfinger, seen here at Western Amateur earlier this summer, won the recent Illinois State Amateur. After the win, he turned pro. | Tamara Bell~Sun Times Media
Updated: June 26, 2012 3:54PM
The Chicago area could be a player on the Champions Tour next year.
Glenview's North Shore Country Club is being considered as a host for a June tournament on the senior golf tour, according to Crain's Chicago Business.
Speaking on the condition of anonymity because it's not a done deal, sources close to the club confirmed North Shore is interested in becoming a tour stop.
A vote is expected late this week. An official announcement by the tour is should occur sometime next month.
Last year, North Shore hosted the Western Amateur, one of the top amateur tournaments in the country. In years past, the club was the site of two U.S. Amateurs and one U.S. Open, in 1933.
Encompass Insurance, a division of Northbrook-based Allstate, will be the title sponsor, according to Crain's. The tournament will be moved from the Tampa area, where the event was played in April at the TPC Tampa Bay golf course.
If approved, North Shore will host the Chicago-area's first Champions Tour tournament since 2002, when Harborside International presented the SBC Senior Open.
Some of the big names now playing on the senior circuit include Fred Couples, Tom Watson and Jay Haas. Hinsdale resident Jeff Sluman and Lake Forest resident Chip Beck also participate.
North Shore, a classic tree-lined parkland layout, is listed at 7,103 yards and par 72 from the back tees. It played as a par 71 for last year's Western Amateur.
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Constructed principally from discarded wood and other materials, the artists describe these sculptures as street compositions. Each work appears abstracted or even unfinished as the debris of the artists studio gathered sawdust, wood shavings and tools lie scattered around the sculptures. A sense of urban chaos is implicit within the construction of the surrounding gallery environment; this is not an isolated white cube space, but one which remains connected to the studio and the streets to the source of these artworks.
There was a kind of deliberate choice not to use such recognisable objects any more, and to start fracturing things up - splintering things. So the mind has to wander in a different way, like youre giving and taking, and its as much about the gaps and holes in between. Tim Noble
When illuminated, a number of works cast shadow portraits upon the wall; the artists are represented both together and alone, as a unit and as individuals. In My Beautiful Mistake (2012), this light source is poignantly omitted, throwing the focus on the tentative material composition of the sculpture itself, and its sense of impending destruction.
The exhibitions dualistic title, Nihilistic Optimistic, responds to the oppositional forces present within these works, and indeed within the artists themselves; the show is at once constructive and destructive, hopeful and despairing. Light and shadow, form and absence, figuration and abstraction all inform one another and exist in a constant state of tension.
Tim Noble (born 1966) and Sue Webster (born 1967) met in 1986 while studying Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University. Selected solo exhibitions include: Turning the Seventh Corner, Blain|Southern, Berlin (2011); The Head of Isabella Blow, National Portrait Gallery (solo room), London (2010); 20 Modern Classics, Triumph Gallery, Moscow (2009); Tim Noble & Sue Webster, The Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas (2008); Polymorphous Perverse, Deitch Projects, New York (2008); Electric Fountain, Rockefeller Plaza, New York (2008); Polymorphous Perverse, The Freud Museum, London (2006); CAC, Malaga (2005); Tim Noble & Sue Webster, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2004); Tim Noble & Sue Webster, P.S.1/MoMA, New York (2003); Ghastly Arrangements, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes (2002); Masters of the Universe, Deste Foundation, Athens (2000); and The New Barbarians, The Chisenhale Gallery, London (1999). Group exhibitions include: Burning, Bright: A Short History of the Light Bulb, The Pace Gallery, New York (2011); Family Ties, GALERIE THOMAS, Munich (2011); The Unconscious in Everyday Life, Science Museum, London (2010); Rude BritanniaBritish Comic Art, Tate Britain, London (2010); The Surreal House, Barbican Art Gallery, London (2010); Distortion: 53rd Venice Biennale, The Gervasuti Foundation, Venice (2009); Statuephilia: Contemporary sculptors at the British Museum, The British Museum, London (2008); and ApocalypseBeauty and Horror in Contemporary Art, The Royal Academy, London (2000). Tim Noble & Sue Websters work is in numerous public and private collections, including the Arken Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen; Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver; National Portrait Gallery, London; Samsung Museum, Seoul; and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. In 2007 they received the prestigious Arken Prize for artistic achievement.
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Convicted animal abuser Ann Arnold violates probation by having 17 horses on her Greenfield farm, could face jail
GREENFIELD — A 58-year-old woman convicted of animal abuse and neglect in May could be headed to jail after violating her probation by bringing 17 horses to her property.
Ann Arnold of Wilton Greenfield Road was convicted in May of abusing or neglecting 19 of the 23 horses she had on her farm at the time. As part of her plea agreement, Arnold was spared jail but was ordered to give up her horses, undergo a mental health evaluation and pay restitution to the Upstate SPCA, which cared for her malnourished and mistreated horses after her arrest. She also was barred from having any horses on her property for three years.
According to Saratoga County District Attorney James A. Murphy III, Arnold violated one of those probation conditions earlier this week when 17 horses she had previously owned were brought to her Greenfield property. A neighbor reported the horses' arrival to New York State Police, who contacted Murphy and the county's Department of Probation.
"This weekend's horse arrival is a flagrant disregard for the law and for the judge's ruling," Murphy said.
The district attorney believes Arnold owned the horses prior to her animal cruelty arrest but kept them on a Washington County property she owns and transferred ownership of the horses to a family member. Because the horses aren't officially under her ownership, they were not included in the original court case.
Having the horses on her property now, however, is a violation of her probation, regardless of the condition the animals are in.
Murphy said Arnold has also violated her probation by not undergoing a required mental health evaluation and failing to make restitution payments.
"She faces up to a year in jail, and we will be seeking jail" when Arnold appears at a yet-to-be-scheduled court hearing, he said.
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This is a group for more advanced tennis players looking for more than social tennis. I started this group because I have not seen one in the area and would like for more advanced players to come out for pick up matches and hitting! Your skill level for this group: men and women MUST BE 4.0+, 4.5 or higher. We are interested ONLY in players who have a competitive history. For example: USTA; TCD, Metro, Nett or flex leagues. We already have members that have joined this group that were Div1 colle …
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Positive Strokes Racquet Club (PSRC) is a tennis and social organization for single adults in the Dallas - Fort Worth area. Activities include weekly mixed doubles tennis play, monthly mixed doubles tournaments, and a variety of social events year-round. PSRC is a volunteer, not-for-profit organization.
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With 3 tennis meetups per week (Weds nights@6pm, Fridays@5pm, and Sundays@5pm) this is by far one of the hottest tennis meetups in Texas. Meet new players and make great friends. Play doubles or singles, learn more about the game, get some exercise, enjoy the great outdoors and just have some fun! The group consists mostly of 3.5 to 4.5 level competitive players. Please upload your photo and tell us a little about yourself so we'll all be able to recognize each other. We play at Arlington's Rand …
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This is a group for anyone interested in playing racquetball. All skill levels are welcome. I started this group to meet other racquetball enthusiasts. Looking forward to hitting the courts.
Remember those days in India, when your daily life was so active - playing badminton/tennis/lagori (a.k.a pitthu)/running & catching ;) - and compare it with today's sedentary life - either sitting in front of the TV or PC. Yikess!! As an Indian women, you are either taking good care of the household or working - either ways, you probably have long foregone your passion for sports!! Lets get together and get involved in your favorite sport for fun, socializing and best of all-losing weight! You …
I started this group to connect with other Moms in the Rowlett community. The purpose of this group is to give Moms an easy way to connect outside of the home in local parks, kid friendly restaurants, and other public places in the area. There are no dues and no obligations. There is never any pressure to RSVP or attend any of the meetups. If you don't make a meetup that you signed up for, don't sweat it, I certainly won't. Participation is optional. If you are a Mom or caregiver in the area and …
MISSION: To create and provide social activities and ski trips to promote friendships and camaraderie for the Dallas/Fort Worth community. The Dallas Ski Club is a very active ski club with a rich history spanning over 50 years. Skiing is the main objective of the Club; however, our members participate in other sports throughout the year including tennis, golf, and softball tournament. We have two "Black Tie optional" parties each year as well as a Trip Sign Up Party, a season Kick Off Party and …
This is a community for people who prefer an active lifestyle over a passive one. Instead of just watching things happen, we get out there, get involved, and help make things happen. I started this group to bring people together who proactively live life. Extroversion isn't required, though an open mind toward free time activities is certainly encouraged. Whether you join to meet new people, explore new hobbies, get exercise, gain more energy, or just avoid boredom, you've got a place here! M …
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For 10 years, our club has been focused on growing the sport of curling in the Dallas / Ft. Worth metropolitan area. We stand as an example of how far south the appeal of the sport has reached. Guests and spectators are always welcome to visit our club and watch live curling games during league play and special events. League games are played Thursday evenings and Sunday afternoons starting in early October and continuing through the spring until mid-March! If you are interested in learning more …
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Our Purpose: To support men of all backgrounds with relevant, practical, and Christian based life skills, while promoting fellowship through community service and sportsmanship through athletic activities. Life Skills / Support: As a group we provide mentorship, guidance, and support to one another for important life issues such as marriage, parenting, finances, career, and other social concerns to become better fathers, brothers, husbands, and leaders in our families and community. Sport Acti …
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This meetup group consists of companies interested in the E-Myth principles to sell to the affluent demographic market. Whether you sell luxury vehicles, boats, tailor-made clothing, designer clothes, perfumes, jewelry, high-end real estate, millionaire dating services, oriental carpets, antiques, fine art, gourmet restaurants, luxury travel packages, golf and tennis equipment, wines and fine spirits, country club memberships, or anything else the affluent demographic purchases, you'll find our …
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A person who is blindly, fanatically loyal to Microsoft. Will immediately buy anything with the Xbox logo and mindlessly insult anyone who doesn't share their fanaticism, and would proclaim a blank disc with "Halo" scribbled on it to be the greatest game ever made. Rarer than the Nintendrone, but no less lame.
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A creature that dwells from the depths of Microsoft studios, these creatures are mass produced and then sent to work on forums, protecting mother Microsoft at all costs in pointless forums and creating flamewars with anyone that dares to insult Microsoft in anyway. There have been cases where one Xbot can clone itself into multiple users in exactly one nanosecond to defend mother Microsoft from petty verbal abuse. User 1: Hey Microsoft scammed!
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In this roller-coaster ride of an issue the crew heads to the swamps of Florida to finally repossess Sarah from a mysterious Demon. But they have to deal with more than redneck survivalists and gators: a surprise guest makes an explosive entrance and an old friend reappears. Demons galore!


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The NY Haskell Users Group is for all programmers either interested in or experienced with the Haskell programming language. We want to build a community of Haskell developers in the New York area that can share knowledge, projects, and experience, and to generally foster and encourage strongly typed functional programming, in all languages, all settings, and all industries. Our events will center around talks, but we intend to have other sorts of activities, including social hours, code worksho …
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A group for Haskellers in and around New York City.
In this group we'll make our way through the book "Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: A Pragmatic Guide to Learning Programming Languages," by Bruce Tate. It's a quick deep-dive into seven very different languages: Ruby, Io, Prolog, Scala, Erlang, Clojure and Haskell. I know almost nothing about these languages myself -- I'm a JavaScript guy with some very limited exposure to Ruby -- and do not expect to become an expert in any of them overnight, but I am excited to dive into paradigms I know nothi …
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Meet local programmers interested in Haskell, Ocaml, Erlang, Scheme and other functional programming languages.
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Semi-regular tutorials/discussions about OCaml language features and libraries. A meetup should ideally center around a topic which (1) contains some interesting core idea, (2) helps us get stuff done, (3) is reasonably accessible to people without a ton of OCaml experience (but who might be familiar with other MLs, Haskell, Scheme, etc...)
Are you a woman* who loves programming and has been searching for a similar bunch of ladies to eat cupcakes and discuss code with? Are you happier discussing Ruby** than rubies over coffee? If so, you've come to the right place! We meet at least once a month to hack on projects, give casual 5-minute lightning talks, ask all of our technical questions, and toss around ideas together. It's a great way to make new friends, and to bounce ideas off each other to keep improving our coding skills. Thin …
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Come join other enthusiastic computer programmers in the Hudson Valley. Members of this group should be interested in data structures, algorithms, and writing clever, powerful programs in a variety of languages. There will be a focus during the meetings about writing correct code that fits the philosophy of the language and paradigm it is written in. Some meetings will be spent going over old programming problems (perhaps from ACM or ICFP or TopCoder) and devising the best solution that we kno …
Calling all Reiki Practitioners… A Reiki Circle/Share is a gathering of Reiki practitioners who congregate for a combination social/healing session. A Reiki share consists of many healing hands on one person at a time. One person lays on a table while the participating practitioners gather around that person, laying their hands upon him/her facilitating a massive flow of Reiki energies. Group energies are often very strong and can be more than individual sessions. This type of Reiki treatment is …
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Socially Functional is a meetup group for programmers that like to chat/scheme/vent about functional programming. It is also known as Functional Alcoholics, which is a hilarious pun except when people see it out of context and think you have a drinking problem. We have weekly hacking sessions at a coffee shop, and bar meetups at fairly random intervals. If you have an idea for a good bar or other venue, post it!
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This group is for people interested in the Scala programming language and related projects like the Play web framework. We can meetup and help each other learn. I'm not sure about the format yet, but we could have mini presentations or classes, discussions, study halls, share code, etc.
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The mortgage market appears to finally be stabilizing -- as long as you ignore loans backed by the Federal Housing Administration.
Increasingly, FHA-insured loans are falling into foreclosure or serious delinquency, moving in the opposite direction of loans guaranteed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac or those held by banks, which are all showing signs of improvement.
And taxpayers could ultimately be on the hook for FHA's growing number of troubled mortgages. The agency's finances are already on shaky ground, and additional losses from loans going sour could prompt the need for a federal bailout, experts said.
"We can't escape this one," said Joseph Gyourko, a real estate professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. "This is an arm of the U.S. government."
The share of government-guaranteed loans, a majority of which are backed by FHA, that were 90 days or more delinquent soared nearly 27% during the year ending March 31. Foreclosures jumped nearly 17%, according to a report published recently by federal regulators.
At the same time, bank loans saw a dramatic improvement, with delinquencies shrinking by 39% and foreclosures declining by nearly 10%. Fannie and Freddie's portfolio also improved as delinquencies dropped by nearly 15% and foreclosures slid by more than 6%, the quarterly report issued by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said.
FHA has also had a tougher time successfully modifying loans. More than 48% of government-guaranteed mortgages re-defaulted 12 months after modification, compared to 36.2% of loans overall, the report said.
FHA's risky borrowers: FHA doesn't make loans, but it backstops lenders if borrowers stop paying. With this guarantee in place, banks are more likely to offer mortgages to borrowers with lower credit scores or incomes.
FHA-backed loans made up more than 29% of the market for home purchases in the first quarter of 2012, according to Inside Mortgage Finance, an industry publication.
Housing experts have been warning for years that many FHA-insured loans are not sustainable, especially in these troubled times. That's particularly concerning because FHA's share of the market has swelled in recent years as lenders pulled back on providing mortgages that weren't backed by the government.


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I also have to tell you.....that the editing software I recommended a few weeks back....Video Spin.....do you remember that?!
Well, I told you it was a free download.....AND IT IS, but I realized last night when I went to edit my video, that it's only free for 15 days! That's right.....it's only a 15 day trial!
After the trial period they ask you to PAY UP!!
I was totally bummed when the little "pay now" icon came up on the screen.....I just knew that it was going to be super expensive and that I wouldn't want to pay for it, & then I would have to look for another way to edit my videos....blah, blah, blah.
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Be still my cheap little heart!!
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Okay, enough typing.....here is my video for this week!
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The Homestead Lodge is a fully equipped, self contained lodge offering guests B&B accommodation nestled between Ambleside and Windermere in the stunning English Lake District. This is the perfect retreat for couples who want privacy in their own holiday accommodation and for those who wish to enjoy a romantic break and time together in cosy, comfortable, contemporary surroundings. With stunning lake and mountain views from the grounds, you can relax by the fire on the wintry evenings or sit outside and take in the scenery on the balmy summer nights. In the morning your hosts will be delighted to deliver a Continental breakfast to the lodge or a full English if preferred.
Homestead Lodge is set in an ideal location. We are a 5 minute drive to Windermere and a 10 minute drive to Ambleside. For those who have a car, we have secure parking at the lodge and electric gates. Bring your bicycles and leave your car safe in the knowledge it is secure while you explore the breathtaking scenery of the Lakes on your bikes. In the evenings walk to our local pub which is just a 2 minute walk away. For those who wish to enjoy a meal in a restaurant, Windermere offers a wonderful array of restaurants and pubs. Both Ambleside and Windermere offers many tourist attractions that will keep you busy both through the day and evening.
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Paranoid Penguin - Building a Transparent Firewall with Linux, Part I
When I started writing this column in autumn of 2000, I had the day job of firewall engineer. I enjoyed that type of work, but I was enough of a big-picture kind of guy to be aware that every year, firewalls were becoming less important in the overall scheme of things. In fact, I was convinced that within a decade or so, firewalls would be nearly if not completely obsolete.
But, I was wrong! Firewalls aren't dying. They're evolving, and even though traditional firewall technologies probably achieve less than they did ten years ago, the threats we'd face if we did without them still justify the effort and expense of keeping them around.
So, I think the time is ripe for me to return to my roots, so to speak. This month, I kick off a series of articles I've been meaning to tackle for some time: how to build a transparent firewall using Linux. To begin, I set the stage by explaining why firewalls are still relevant in the first place and the difference between "routing" and "bridging" (transparent) firewalls.
I was tempted to begin with a primer on firewall architecture and design, discussing the difference between the multihomed and "sandwich" topologies, rule design methodology and so forth. But my April 2007 article "Linux Firewalls for Everyone" does that just fine, and you still can read it on-line (see Resources). Instead, I'm going to talk about why firewalls are still useful.
An IP firewall, as opposed to an application firewall or XML gateway, inspects network traffic at the IP and TCP/UDP layers, possibly with some very limited amount of application intelligence (for example, being able to distinguish between FTP "get" and "put" commands, HTTP "post" vs. "get" and so forth). In actual practice, most packet-filtering and "stateful" IP-filtering firewalls evaluate traffic primarily based on source and destination IP addresses, and source and destination UDP or TCP ports.
When I started out in network engineering, just filtering traffic based on these few criteria seemed plenty powerful enough for most practical firewall applications, especially if the firewall was smart enough to track network traffic by session rather than by individual packet. (In olden times, it wasn't enough to program your IP-filtering firewall to allow outbound DNS queries on UDP port 53; you also had to put in a corresponding rule to allow DNS replies originating from UDP port 53. State-tracking, or "stateful", firewalls automatically correlate packets to already-allowed sessions.)
Because in those days of yore different network applications all used different TCP and UDP ports—TCP port 23 for telnet, TCP and UDP ports 53 for DNS, TCP ports 20 and 21 for FTP and so forth—filtering by port number equated to filtering by application type.
This didn't mean firewalls could detect or prevent evil that might occur over an allowed source/destination/address/port combination. We had no illusions that the firewall could stop, for example, Apache buffer overflow attacks against a public Web server reachable from the entire world on TCP port 80. The firewall could (and can), however, prevent attempts to connect to that Web server via Secure Shell on TCP port 22, except perhaps from some internal, authorized access point.
The problem is that every year, we're less able to rely on the assumption that the things we should be worried most about will happen on ports that the firewall can block altogether. This is because so much of what people use networks for happens on only two TCP ports: TCP 80 (HTTP) and TCP 443 (HTTPS).
Even ten years ago, developers were racing to migrate from client-server application architectures, in which every network application used its own communication protocol, to the Web services model, in which there are really only two types of network transactions, Web sessions and database transactions. Well before then, people started figuring out ways to do practically everything that can be done over networks—from browsing a filesystem to running a remote desktop session—over HTTP using a Web browser.
But does this really mean that firewalls are obsolete? Definitely not, not even in contexts where Web servers are involved. Let's suppose it were true that all network traffic between two security zones happened over TCP port 443. By restricting traffic by source IP address and destination IP address, you still could make decisions about which hosts could initiate any transactions to any other given host.
If one filters traffic strictly based on source and destination IP addresses and, in practical terms, not by TCP/UDP port (service type), you may think that you haven't achieved much. All an attacker has to do in order to attack a protected system is gain access to some other system that the firewall allows to initiate transactions with your actual target. But, what if none of those "secondary" systems that the firewall considers trusted is externally reachable? If that's the case, your "crude" firewall rules may, in fact, have effectively mitigated the risk of remote compromise for that system.
This scenario is illustrated in Figure 1, which shows a firewall that sits in between two different networks, Zone A and Zone B, and the Internet. The firewall blocks all inbound traffic from the Internet to either zone, but allows hosts in Zone B to initiate transactions with hosts in Zone A. In this case, the firewall is highly effective in making it unfeasible for Internet-based attackers to exploit the trust relationship between Zones A and B, even if the firewall filters only on source IP address.
But, I'm not really advocating address-only filtering. The fact is there are still plenty of important network services that use ports and protocols besides TCP 80/443 and HTTP/HTTPS. Domain Name Services still use TCP and UDP 53; Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (Terminal Services) still uses TCP port 3389; Oracle still uses TCP port 1521; and so on. Modern firewalls still make plenty of meaningful decisions about what traffic to allow, based on service type.
Another argument against the usefulness of firewalls is the fact that malware (viruses, trojans, worms) has evolved from being mainly a nuisance to becoming a sophisticated means of infiltrating even well-secured networks. Ten years ago, the most likely impact of a virus or worm outbreak in one's organization was a disruption of service. Malware tended to strain system and network resources, but by its indiscriminate nature, it wasn't very useful for stealing data or breaching sensitive systems.
Nowadays, however, malware often is targeted at specific organizations by attackers who first go to great lengths to learn what data and systems to have their malware seek out, based on known (or highly probable) vulnerabilities on those systems. In other words, nowadays malicious hackers often deploy worms as "avatars" of themselves!
Such targeted malware is extremely difficult to detect, remediate against or trace back. Often, it's placed directly on target networks or systems by co-opted insiders. Therefore, firewalls frequently have little useful role in blocking the activity of targeted malware. It doesn't matter how thick your fortress walls are if your mailroom guys have been bribed to ignore the fact that the large package addressed to your king is ticking.
But I ask you, does the fact that bad guys may simply mail your king a bomb, mean that you can safely replace those expensive castle walls—the tuckpointing-bill for which in any given year is probably astronomical—with cardboard? I, for one, don't think you can.
Just because attackers are developing ever-more sophisticated tools doesn't mean they'll forget how to use the old ones. Remember the LAND attack from the late 1990s? It involved sending spoofed TCP packets bearing the same source IP address as the target to which you're sending them, causing a massive "reply to myself" sort of loop, which impairs system performance (potentially cripplingly). LAND was made obsolete by system patches and firewall protections—or so we thought. But in 2005, a security researcher named Dejan Levaja discovered that Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP SP2 were vulnerable to the LAND attack.
The fact that LAND attacks are (still) trivially blockable by firewalls is actually beside the point. What I'm really trying to illustrate is that no attack is truly obsolete for as long as it's still feasible and as long as systems are vulnerable to it. In theory, if your organization rigorously hardened every single computer connected to the network, if you took down your firewalls you might not get infected or attacked right away. But I guarantee you would, sooner rather than later, and not strictly by completely cutting-edge attack techniques.
So, to summarize, even if you think all your firewall does is block traffic from unexpected sources, it still provides meaningful protection. Modern network traffic does not, in fact, consist solely of HTTP and HTTPS; it still plays out over a surprisingly wide range of different ports and protocols. And, the rise in use of targeted malware and attacks against Web applications aren't arguments against firewalls; they're simply reasons that firewalls alone aren't sufficient to protect critical systems.
Can we agree, then, that firewalls are still an important tool in the network security toolkit? I hope so, because I'm about to spend several months showing you how to build a particularly clever type of Linux firewall: a transparent firewall.
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