text: THE DEVOTED FRIEND One morning the old Water-rat put his head out of his hole. He had bright beady eyes and stiff grey whiskers and his tail was like a long bit of black india-rubber. The little ducks were swimming about in the pond, looking just like a lot of yellow canaries, and their mother, who was pure white with real red legs, was trying to teach them how to stand on their heads in the water. "You will never be in the best society unless you can stand on your heads," she kept saying to them; and every now and then she showed them how it was done. But the little ducks paid no attention to her. They were so young that they did not know what an advantage it is to be in society at all. "What disobedient children!" cried the old Water-rat; "they really deserve to be drowned." "Nothing of the kind," answered the Duck, "every one must make a beginning, and parents cannot be too patient." "Ah! I know nothing about the feelings of parents," said the Water- rat; "I am not a family man. In fact, I have never been married, and I never intend to be. Love is all very well in its way, but friendship is much higher. Indeed, I know of nothing in the world that is either nobler or rarer than a devoted friendship." "And what, pray, is your idea of the duties of a devoted friend?" asked a Green Linnet, who was sitting in a willow-tree hard by, and had overheard the conversation. "Yes, that is just what I want to know," said the Duck; and she swam away to the end of the pond, and stood upon her head, in order to give her children a good example. "What a silly question!" cried the Water-rat. "I should expect my devoted friend to be devoted to me, of course." "And what would you do in return?" said the little bird, swinging upon a silver spray, and flapping his tiny wings. "I don't understand you," answered the Water-rat. "Let me tell you a story on the subject," said the Linnet. "Is the story about me?" asked the Water-rat. "If so, I will listen to it, for I am extremely fond of fiction." "It is applicable to you," answered the Linnet; and he flew down, and alighting upon the bank, he told the story of The Devoted Friend. "Once upon a time," said the Linnet, "there was an honest little fellow named Hans." "Was he very distinguished?" asked the Water-rat. "No," answered the Linnet, "I don't think he was distinguished at all, except for his kind heart, and his funny round good-humoured face. He lived in a tiny cottage all by himself, and every day he worked in his garden. In all the country-side there was no garden so lovely as his. Sweet-william grew there, and Gilly-flowers, and Shepherds'-purses, and Fair-maids of France. There were damask Roses, and yellow Roses, lilac Crocuses, and gold, purple Violets and white. Columbine and Ladysmock, Marjoram and Wild Basil, the Cowslip and the Flower-de-luce, the Daffodil and the Clove-Pink bloomed or blossomed in their proper order as the months went by, one flower taking another flower's place, so that there were always beautiful things to look at, and pleasant odours to smell. "Little Hans had a great many friends, but the most devoted friend of all was big Hugh the Miller. Indeed, so devoted was the rich Miller to little Hans, that be would never go by his garden without leaning over the wall and plucking a large nosegay, or a handful of sweet herbs, or filling his pockets with plums and cherries if it was the fruit season. "'Real friends should have everything in common,' the Miller used to say, and little Hans nodded and smiled, and felt very proud of having a friend with such noble ideas. "Sometimes, indeed, the neighbours thought it strange that the rich Miller never gave little Hans anything in return, though he had a hundred sacks of flour stored away in his mill, and six milch cows, and a large flock of woolly sheep; but Hans never troubled his head about these things, and nothing gave him greater pleasure than to listen to all the wonderful things the Miller used to say about the unselfishness of true friendship. "So little Hans worked away in his garden. During the spring, the summer, and the autumn he was very happy, but when the winter came, and he had no fruit or flowers to bring to the market, he suffered a good deal from cold and hunger, and often had to go to bed without any supper but a few dried pears or some hard nuts. In the winter, also, he was extremely lonely, as the Miller never came to see him then. "'There is no good in my going to see little Hans as long as the snow lasts,' the Miller used to say to his wife, 'for when people are in trouble they should be left alone, and not be bothered by visitors. That at least is my idea about friendship, and I am sure I am right. So I shall wait till the spring comes, and then I shall pay him a visit, and he will be able to give me a large basket of primroses and that will make him so happy.' "'You are certainly very thoughtful about others,' answered the Wife, as she sat in her comfortable armchair by the big pinewood fire; 'very thoughtful indeed. It is quite a treat to hear you talk about friendship. I am sure the clergyman himself could not say such beautiful things as you do, though he does live in a three-storied house, and wear a gold ring on his little finger.' "'But could we not ask little Hans up here?' said the Miller's youngest son. 'If poor Hans is in trouble I will give him half my porridge, and show him my white rabbits.' "'What a silly boy you are'! cried the Miller; 'I really don't know what is the use of sending you to school. You seem not to learn anything. Why, if little Hans came up here, and saw our warm fire, and our good supper, and our great cask of red wine, he might get envious, and envy is a most terrible thing, and would spoil anybody's nature. I certainly will not allow Hans' nature to be spoiled. I am his best friend, and I will always watch over him, and see that he is not led into any temptations. Besides, if Hans came here, he might ask me to let him have some flour on credit, and that I could not do. Flour is one thing, and friendship is another, and they should not be confused. Why, the words are spelt differently, and mean quite different things. Everybody can see that.' "'How well you talk'! said the Miller's Wife, pouring herself out a large glass of warm ale; 'really I feel quite drowsy. It is just like being in church.' "'Lots of people act well,' answered the Miller; 'but very few people talk well, which shows that talking is much the more difficult thing of the two, and much the finer thing also'; and he looked sternly across the table at his little son, who felt so ashamed of himself that he hung his head down, and grew quite scarlet, and began to cry into his tea. However, he was so young that you must excuse him." "Is that the end of the story?" asked the Water-rat. "Certainly not," answered the Linnet, "that is the beginning." "Then you are quite behind the age," said the Water-rat. "Every good story-teller nowadays starts with the end, and then goes on to the beginning, and concludes with the middle. That is the new method. I heard all about it the other day from a critic who was walking round the pond with a young man. He spoke of the matter at great length, and I am sure he must have been right, for he had blue spectacles and a bald head, and whenever the young man made any remark, he always answered 'Pooh!' But pray go on with your story. I like the Miller immensely. I have all kinds of beautiful sentiments myself, so there is a great sympathy between us." "Well," said the Linnet, hopping now on one leg and now on the other, "as soon as the winter was over, and the primroses began to open their pale yellow stars, the Miller said to his wife that he would go down and see little Hans. "'Why, what a good heart you have'! cried his Wife; 'you are always thinking of others. And mind you take the big basket with you for the flowers.' "So the Miller tied the sails of the windmill together with a strong iron chain, and went down the hill with the basket on his arm. "'Good morning, little Hans,' said the Miller. "'Good morning,' said Hans, leaning on his spade, and smiling from ear to ear. "'And how have you been all the winter?' said the Miller. "'Well, really,' cried Hans, 'it is very good of you to ask, very good indeed. I am afraid I had rather a hard time of it, but now the spring has come, and I am quite happy, and all my flowers are doing well.' "'We often talked of you during the winter, Hans,' said the Miller, 'and wondered how you were getting on.' "'That was kind of you,' said Hans; 'I was half afraid you had forgotten me.' "'Hans, I am surprised at you,' said the Miller; 'friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it, but I am afraid you don't understand the poetry of life. How lovely your primroses are looking, by-the-bye"! "'They are certainly very lovely,' said Hans, 'and it is a most lucky thing for me that I have so many. I am going to bring them into the market and sell them to the Burgomaster's daughter, and buy back my wheelbarrow with the money.' "'Buy back your wheelbarrow? You don't mean to say you have sold it? What a very stupid thing to do'! "'Well, the fact is,' said Hans, 'that I was obliged to. You see the winter was a very bad time for me, and I really had no money at all to buy bread with. So I first sold the silver buttons off my Sunday coat, and then I sold my silver chain, and then I sold my big pipe, and at last I sold my wheelbarrow. But I am going to buy them all back again now.' "'Hans,' said the Miller, 'I will give you my wheelbarrow. It is not in very good repair; indeed, one side is gone, and there is something wrong with the wheel-spokes; but in spite of that I will give it to you. I know it is very generous of me, and a great many people would think me extremely foolish for parting with it, but I am not like the rest of the world. I think that generosity is the essence of friendship, and, besides, I have got a new wheelbarrow for myself. Yes, you may set your mind at ease, I will give you my wheelbarrow.' "'Well, really, that is generous of you,' said little Hans, and his funny round face glowed all over with pleasure. 'I can easily put it in repair, as I have a plank of wood in the house.' "'A plank of wood'! said the Miller; 'why, that is just what I want for the roof of my barn. There is a very large hole in it, and the corn will all get damp if I don't stop it up. How lucky you mentioned it! It is quite remarkable how one good action always breeds another. I have given you my wheelbarrow, and now you are going to give me your plank. Of course, the wheelbarrow is worth far more than the plank, but true, friendship never notices things like that. Pray get it at once, and I will set to work at my barn this very day.' "'Certainly,' cried little Hans, and he ran into the shed and dragged the plank out. "'It is not a very big plank,' said the Miller, looking at it, 'and I am afraid that after I have mended my barn-roof there won't be any left for you to mend the wheelbarrow with; but, of course, that is not my fault. And now, as I have given you my wheelbarrow, I am sure you would like to give me some flowers in return. Here is the basket, and mind you fill it quite full.' "'Quite full?' said little Hans, rather sorrowfully, for it was really a very big basket, and he knew that if he filled it he would have no flowers left for the market and he was very anxious to get his silver buttons back. "'Well, really,' answered the Miller, 'as I have given you my wheelbarrow, I don't think that it is much to ask you for a few flowers. I may be wrong, but I should have thought that friendship, true friendship, was quite free from selfishness of any kind.' "'My dear friend, my best friend,' cried little Hans, 'you are welcome to all the flowers in my garden. I would much sooner have your good opinion than my silver buttons, any day'; and he ran and plucked all his pretty primroses, and filled the Miller's basket. "'Good-bye, little Hans,' said the Miller, as he went up the hill with the plank on his shoulder, and the big basket in his hand. "'Good-bye,' said little Hans, and he began to dig away quite merrily, he was so pleased about the wheelbarrow. "The next day he was nailing up some honeysuckle against the porch, when he heard the Miller's voice calling to him from the road. So he jumped off the ladder, and ran down the garden, and looked over the wall. "There was the Miller with a large sack of flour on his back. "'Dear little Hans,' said the Miller, 'would you mind carrying this sack of flour for me to market?' "'Oh, I am so sorry,' said Hans, 'but I am really very busy to-day. I have got all my creepers to nail up, and all my flowers to water, and all my grass to roll.' "'Well, really,' said the Miller, 'I think that, considering that I am going to give you my wheelbarrow, it is rather unfriendly of you to refuse.' "'Oh, don't say that,' cried little Hans, 'I wouldn't be unfriendly for the whole world'; and he ran in for his cap, and trudged off with the big sack on his shoulders. "It was a very hot day, and the road was terribly dusty, and before Hans had reached the sixth milestone he was so tired that he had to sit down and rest. However, he went on bravely, and as last he reached the market. After he had waited there some time, he sold the sack of flour for a very good price, and then he returned home at once, for he was afraid that if he stopped too late he might meet some robbers on the way. "'It has certainly been a hard day,' said little Hans to himself as he was going to bed, 'but I am glad I did not refuse the Miller, for he is my best friend, and, besides, he is going to give me his wheelbarrow.' "Early the next morning the Miller came down to get the money for his sack of flour, but little Hans was so tired that he was still in bed. "'Upon my word,' said the Miller, 'you are very lazy. Really, considering that I am going to give you my wheelbarrow, I think you might work harder. Idleness is a great sin, and I certainly don't like any of my friends to be idle or sluggish. You must not mind my speaking quite plainly to you. Of course I should not dream of doing so if I were not your friend. But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.' "'I am very sorry,' said little Hans, rubbing his eyes and pulling off his night-cap, 'but I was so tired that I thought I would lie in bed for a little time, and listen to the birds singing. Do you know that I always work better after hearing the birds sing?' "'Well, I am glad of that,' said the Miller, clapping little Hans on the back, 'for I want you to come up to the mill as soon as you are dressed, and mend my barn-roof for me.' "Poor little Hans was very anxious to go and work in his garden, for his flowers had not been watered for two days, but he did not like to refuse the Miller, as he was such a good friend to him. "'Do you think it would be unfriendly of me if I said I was busy?' he inquired in a shy and timid voice. "'Well, really,' answered the Miller, 'I do not think it is much to ask of you, considering that I am going to give you my wheelbarrow; but of course if you refuse I will go and do it myself.' "'Oh! on no account,' cried little Hans and he jumped out of bed, and dressed himself, and went up to the barn. "He worked there all day long, till sunset, and at sunset the Miller came to see how he was getting on. "'Have you mended the hole in the roof yet, little Hans?' cried the Miller in a cheery voice. "'It is quite mended,' answered little Hans, coming down the ladder. "'Ah'! said the Miller, 'there is no work so delightful as the work one does for others.' "'It is certainly a great privilege to hear you talk,' answered little Hans, sitting down, and wiping his forehead, 'a very great privilege. But I am afraid I shall never have such beautiful ideas as you have.' "'Oh! they will come to you,' said the Miller, 'but you must take more pains. At present you have only the practice of friendship; some day you will have the theory also.' "'Do you really think I shall?' asked little Hans. "'I have no doubt of it,' answered the Miller, 'but now that you have mended the roof, you had better go home and rest, for I want you to drive my sheep to the mountain to-morrow.' "Poor little Hans was afraid to say anything to this, and early the next morning the Miller brought his sheep round to the cottage, and Hans started off with them to the mountain. It took him the whole day to get there and back; and when he returned he was so tired that he went off to sleep in his chair, and did not wake up till it was broad daylight. "'What a delightful time I shall have in my garden,' he said, and he went to work at once. "But somehow he was never able to look after his flowers at all, for his friend the Miller was always coming round and sending him off on long errands, or getting him to help at the mill. Little Hans was very much distressed at times, as he was afraid his flowers would think he had forgotten them, but he consoled himself by the reflection that the Miller was his best friend. 'Besides,' he used to say, 'he is going to give me his wheelbarrow, and that is an act of pure generosity.' "So little Hans worked away for the Miller, and the Miller said all kinds of beautiful things about friendship, which Hans took down in a note-book, and used to read over at night, for he was a very good scholar. "Now it happened that one evening little Hans was sitting by his fireside when a loud rap came at the door. It was a very wild night, and the wind was blowing and roaring round the house so terribly that at first he thought it was merely the storm. But a second rap came, and then a third, louder than any of the others. "'It is some poor traveller,' said little Hans to himself, and he ran to the door. "There stood the Miller with a lantern in one hand and a big stick in the other. "'Dear little Hans,' cried the Miller, 'I am in great trouble. My little boy has fallen off a ladder and hurt himself, and I am going for the Doctor. But he lives so far away, and it is such a bad night, that it has just occurred to me that it would be much better if you went instead of me. You know I am going to give you my wheelbarrow, and so, it is only fair that you should do something for me in return.' "'Certainly,' cried little Hans, 'I take it quite as a compliment your coming to me, and I will start off at once. But you must lend me your lantern, as the night is so dark that I am afraid I might fall into the ditch.' "'I am very sorry,' answered the Miller, 'but it is my new lantern, and it would be a great loss to me if anything happened to it.' "'Well, never mind, I will do without it,' cried little Hans, and he took down his great fur coat, and his warm scarlet cap, and tied a muffler round his throat, and started off. "What a dreadful storm it was! The night was so black that little Hans could hardly see, and the wind was so strong that he could scarcely stand. However, he was very courageous, and after he had been walking about three hours, he arrived at the Doctor's house, and knocked at the door. "'Who is there?' cried the Doctor, putting his head out of his bedroom window. "'Little Hans, Doctor.' "'What do you want, little Hans?' "'The Miller's son has fallen from a ladder, and has hurt himself, and the Miller wants you to come at once.' "'All right!' said the Doctor; and he ordered his horse, and his big boots, and his lantern, and came downstairs, and rode off in the direction of the Miller's house, little Hans trudging behind him. "But the storm grew worse and worse, and the rain fell in torrents, and little Hans could not see where he was going, or keep up with the horse. At last he lost his way, and wandered off on the moor, which was a very dangerous place, as it was full of deep holes, and there poor little Hans was drowned. His body was found the next day by some goatherds, floating in a great pool of water, and was brought back by them to the cottage. "Everybody went to little Hans' funeral, as he was so popular, and the Miller was the chief mourner. "'As I was his best friend,' said the Miller, 'it is only fair that I should have the best place'; so he walked at the head of the procession in a long black cloak, and every now and then he wiped his eyes with a big pocket-handkerchief. "'Little Hans is certainly a great loss to every one,' said the Blacksmith, when the funeral was over, and they were all seated comfortably in the inn, drinking spiced wine and eating sweet cakes. "'A great loss to me at any rate,' answered the Miller; 'why, I had as good as given him my wheelbarrow, and now I really don't know what to do with it. It is very much in my way at home, and it is in such bad repair that I could not get anything for it if I sold it. I will certainly take care not to give away anything again. One always suffers for being generous.'" "Well?" said the Water-rat, after a long pause. "Well, that is the end," said the Linnet. "But what became of the Miller?" asked the Water-rat. "Oh! I really don't know," replied the Linnet; "and I am sure that I don't care." "It is quite evident then that you have no sympathy in your nature," said the Water-rat. "I am afraid you don't quite see the moral of the story," remarked the Linnet. "The what?" screamed the Water-rat. "The moral." "Do you mean to say that the story has a moral?" "Certainly," said the Linnet. "Well, really," said the Water-rat, in a very angry manner, "I think you should have told me that before you began. If you had done so, I certainly would not have listened to you; in fact, I should have said 'Pooh,' like the critic. However, I can say it now"; so he shouted out "Pooh" at the top of his voice, gave a whisk with his tail, and went back into his hole. "And how do you like the Water-rat?" asked the Duck, who came paddling up some minutes afterwards. "He has a great many good points, but for my own part I have a mother's feelings, and I can never look at a confirmed bachelor without the tears coming into my eyes." "I am rather afraid that I have annoyed him," answered the Linnet. "The fact is, that I told him a story with a moral." "Ah! that is always a very dangerous thing to do," said the Duck. And I quite agree with her.


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Khushiyaan Foundation wins hearts by feeding a Million lives during Coronavirus Pandemic
Mumbai: To provide relief during the tough fight of corona pandemic, Khushiyaan Foundation ( A Thane based Non-profit organisation) stepped forward and extended their on ground support. Making it possible by feeding a million lives non-stop throughout the lockdown by strengthening their already existing project "Roti Ghar".
The initiative born with the intent to feed the homeless during tough times came in action on the very first day of National Lockdown i.e 25th March 2020. With the help and support of Mrs. Priyanka Chaturvedi (MP Rajya Sabha) the project kick started and teams were on ground with packed fresh meal boxes. Starting with 1000 meals everyday, team soon reached to 10,000 meals a day providing relief to economically weaker sections under critical challenging situations. Roti Ghar kitchen is special in it's own way as the meals come from the love-full supervision of a Mother herself- Mrs. Rama Kwatra, mother of Chinu Kwatra who checks quality and quantity of food at every step daily.
Under the leadership of Mr. Chinu Kwatra & support from Mrs. Priyanka Chaturvedi, the power packed young team of Khushiyaan Foundation accomplished their mission to spread happiness through their freshly cooked meal boxes during the tough days of Lockdown.
Beneficiaries for meal boxes include families of rag pickers, transgenders, other daily wage earners, migrant labourers& communities of Mumbai, Thane and Navi Mumbai. Starting with meal boxes the initiative widened its reach and support in all possible ways. While on ground, the team acted on the other needed areas and extended their support by providing dry ration kits, dry snacks, sanitary napkins, water bottles, masks, PPE kits, protection shields to all in need.
In 78 days (25th March to 10th June) The Foundation have touched a Million hearts which is shown below:
Freshly Cooked Meals Served | 6,50,380 people |
Individual Benefitted from Dry Ration | 2,89,590 |
Packets of Sanitary Napkins distributed | 27,100 |
Stray Animals Fed | 54,600 |
Water Bottles Distributed | 30,000 |
Dry Snacks Distributed | 25,000 |
Self-Made Vadapav | 10,000 |
Dry Fruit Distributed | 3000 |
While providing the best services in crisis and need, team also took up a special drive to sanitise and disinfect the most corona affected slum areas and basti. Team provided help beyond borders and expanded reach to people in need in Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad & Odisha. Kala's Kitchen in Delhi played an important role, which in collaboration with Khushiyaan Foundation distributed approx. 300-400 meals daily.
In last two months Khushiyaan Foundation and Roti Ghar project has received support and appreciation from many across the globe. Team give credit of being fearlessly on ground daily to the continuous support of their donors, well-wishers and supporters. Chinu Kwatra, Founder of Khushiyaan is whole heartedly thankful to ANANTA, TTMS XLNC Dil Se, Child Help Foundation, Helping Hands Ngo, VIEWS, JRP, Kala's Kitchen, Wild West Media Innovations, All Cargo Logistics Ltd, Jupiter Dychem Pvt Ltd. Along with the support from Bollywood celebs like Farah Khan, Manish Mundra, Kirti Kulhari, JaavedJaaferi, Anurag Kashyap, SonuSood, ZoaMorani who all came forward and extended their support by contributing their bit.
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Khushiyaan, as the name suggests 'Happiness" is committed to delivering Happiness to underprivileged humans of the society & environment. Khushiyaan Foundation is officially registered under the Mumbai Public Trust Act, 1950 & Societies Registration Act, 1860. Khushiyaan Foundation is formed by young team under the leadership of Mr.Chinu Kwatra
Through its successfully running projects Roti Ghar, MARD, Beach Warriors and Project Paathshala Khushiyaan foundation strives to provide healthy food to kids, runs women empowerment and menstrual hygiene programs, conducts cleanliness drives / awareness & initiates extra-curricular activities respectively. Khushiyaan foundation can be labelled as an implementing organization which designs and implements various 360 degree developmental projects. The overwhelming response and unconditional support of the volunteers have always been our inspiration to make this world a better place than before.


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RFC3639: Considerations on the use of a Service Identifier in Packet Headers
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Network Working Group M. St. Johns, Ed. Request for Comments: 3639 G. Huston, Ed. Category: Informational IAB October 2003 Considerations on the use of a Service Identifier in Packet Headers Status of this Memo This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Copyright Notice Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2003). All Rights Reserved. Abstract This memo describes some considerations relating to the use of IP protocol number fields and payload protocol (e.g., TCP) port fields to identify particular services that may be associated with that port number or protocol number. 1. Introduction This memo describes some considerations relating to the use of IP protocol number fields and payload protocol (e.g., TCP) port or service fields to identify particular services that may be associated with that port number or protocol number. It is a general statement regarding appropriate processing and use of service identifiers by intermediate systems. This memo points out that various measures by intermediate systems that are intended to filter or prevent the transmission of traffic based on the service identification within the traffic flow will have a limited effect. This will also have a major side-effect of forcing the affected services to be redesigned using various forms of encapsulation or dynamic port negotiation in order to remove the fixed service identification from the IP packet headers. The IAB does not believe this serves the general interests of the Internet community related to the design of simple and reliable Internet applications. This memo suggests some thought be given to control mechanisms that do not rely on intermediary systems taking actions based on an assumed relationship between the service identifier in the packet and the actual service of which the packet is a part. St. Johns & Huston Informational [Page 1] RFC 3639 Service Identifier in Packet Headers October 2003 2. Service Identifiers Although not necessarily by design, certain conventions have evolved with respect to the IP protocol suite relative to the identification of services within an IP traffic flow: o Within the IP protocol suite, end point identifiers (e.g., TCP/UDP/SCTP port numbers, IP protocol numbers) are designed to identify services to end points. In particular, TCP, UDP or SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) port numbers are intended to identify the source service location and the destination service entity to the destination end point. o The IP [2] datagram header contains the source and destination address of the datagram as well as an indication of the upper- level protocol (ULP) carried within the datagram. If the ULP is either TCP [3], UDP [1], or SCTP [8] the payload will contain both source and destination port numbers which allows differentiation between services (e.g., TELNET, HTTP) and between multiple instances of the same service between the pair of hosts described by the source and destination address. o By convention, for at least TCP and UDP, certain port numbers are used as rendezvous points and are considered "well known" on the source or destination side of the communication. Such rendezvous points are maintained in an IANA registry currently located at [11]. Specific registries for protocol and port numbers are at [12] and [13]. o Notwithstanding the "well knownness" of any given port, port numbers are only guaranteed to be meaningful to the end systems. An intermediate system should generally not impute specific meaning to any given port number, unless specifically indicated by an end system (e.g., via the Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) [4]) or agreed to by convention among the end systems and one or more specific intermediate systems (e.g., firewall traversal for the IP Security Protocol (IPSEC) [5]). o Some services make use of protocol interactions to dynamically allocate service identifiers (i.e., port numbers) to specific communications. One specific example of this is the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) [9]. The implication of this is that intermediate systems cannot relate the service identifiers to the actual service unless they participate in the protocols which allocate the service identifiers, or are explicitly notified of the outcome of the allocation. St. Johns & Huston Informational [Page 2] RFC 3639 Service Identifier in Packet Headers October 2003 o Various products and service-related mechanisms deployed today take advantage of the fact that some service identifiers are relatively stable (and well known) to do various things (e.g., firewall filtering, QOS marking). o Certain network operations, such as various forms of packet encapsulation (e.g., tunneling) and encryption, can occlude this port number (or service identifier) while an IP packet is in transit within the network. For example, both the IPSEC Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) [6] and Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) [7] both provide means for tunneling an IP datagram within another IP datagram. The service information becomes obscured and, in some instances, encrypted. o Cooperating end systems may elect to use arbitrarily selected port numbers for any service. The port numbers used in such cases may be statically defined, through coordinated configuration of the cooperating end systems through use of a common application or operating system, or by dynamic selection as an outcome of a rendezvous protocol. Intermediate system imposed service-based controls may block legitimate uses by subscribers. For example, some service providers are blocking port 25 (i.e., notionally SMTP) traffic for the stated purpose of trying to prevent SPAM, but which can also block legitimate email to the end user. Attempts by intermediate systems to impose service-based controls on communications against the perceived interests of the end parties to the communication are often circumvented [10]. Services may be tunneled within other services, proxied by a collaborating external host (e.g., an anonymous redirector), or simply run over an alternate port (e.g., port 8080 vs port 80 for HTTP). Another means of circumvention is alteration of the service behavior to use a dynamic port negotiation phase, in order to avoid use of a constant port address. For the purposes of this memo, a "party to a communication" is either the sender, receiver, or an authorized agent of the sender or receiver in the path. If intermediate systems take actions on behalf of one or more parties to the communication or affecting the communication, a good rule of thumb is they should only take actions that are beneficial to or approved by one or more of the parties, within the operational parameters of the service-specific protocol, or otherwise unlikely to lead to widespread evasion by the user community. St. Johns & Huston Informational [Page 3] RFC 3639 Service Identifier in Packet Headers October 2003 3. Ramifications The IAB observes that having stable and globally meaningful service identifiers visible at points other than the end systems can be useful for the purposes of determining network behavior and network loading on a macro level. The IAB also observes that application protocols that include dynamic port negotiation for both ends of a connection tend to add to the complexity of the applications. Dynamic port negotiation for a protocol may also limit or prohibit its use in situations where the service provider (e.g., ISP or employer) has instituted some form of service filtering through port blocking mechanisms. From this perspective of network and application utility, it is preferable that no action or activity be undertaken by any agency, carrier, service provider, or organization which would cause end- users and protocol designers to generally obscure service identification information from the IP packet header. Nothing in this statement should be construed as opposing encapsulation, application security, end-to-end encryption, or other processes beneficial or specifically desired by the end-users. 4. Security Considerations This document is a general statement regarding appropriate processing and use of service identifiers by intermediate systems. If enough agencies, carriers, service providers, and organizations ignore the concerns voiced here, the utility of port and protocol numbers, general network analysis, end-user beneficial filtering (e.g., preventing DDOS attacks), and other common uses of these service identifiers might be adversely affected. 5. References [1] Postel, J., "User Datagram Protocol", STD 6, RFC 768, August 1980. [2] Postel, J., "Internet Protocol", STD 5, RFC 791, September 1981. [3] Postel, J., "Transmission Control Protocol", STD 7, RFC 793, September 1981. [4] Braden, B., Ed., Zhang, L., Berson, S., Herzog, S. and S. Jamin, "Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) -- Version 1 Functional Specification", RFC 2205, September 1997. St. Johns & Huston Informational [Page 4] RFC 3639 Service Identifier in Packet Headers October 2003 [5] Kent, S. and R. Atkinson, "Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol", RFC 2401, November 1998. [6] Kent, S. and R. Atkinson, "IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)", RFC 2406, November 1998. [7] Farinacci, D., Li, T., Hanks, S., Meyer, D. and P. Traina, "Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)", RFC 2784, March 2000. [8] Stewart, R., Xie, Q., Morneault, K., Sharp, C., Schwarzbauer, H., Taylor, T., Rytina, I., Kalla, M., Zhang, L. and V. Paxson, "Stream Control Transmission Protocol", RFC 2960, October 2000. [9] Rosenberg, J., Schulzrinne, H., Camarillo, G., Johnston, A., Peterson, J., Sparks, R., Handley, M. and E. Schooler, "SIP: Session Initiation Protocol", RFC 3261, June 2002. [10] New York Times, "STUDENTS EVADE UNIVERSITY TACTICS TO PROTECT MEDIA FILES", 27th November 2002. [11] IANA, "IANA Protocol Numbers and Assignment Services", May 2003, <http://www.iana.org/numbers.htm>. [12] IANA, "IANA Protocol Number Registry", May 2003, <http:// www.iana.org/assignments/protocol-numbers>. [13] IANA, "IANA Port Number Registry", May 2003, <http:// www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers>. St. Johns & Huston Informational [Page 5] RFC 3639 Service Identifier in Packet Headers October 2003 Intellectual Property Statement The IETF takes no position regarding the validity or scope of any intellectual property or other rights that might be claimed to pertain to the implementation or use of the technology described in this document or the extent to which any license under such rights might or might not be available; neither does it represent that it has made any effort to identify any such rights. Information on the IETF's procedures with respect to rights in standards-track and standards-related documentation can be found in BCP-11. Copies of claims of rights made available for publication and any assurances of licenses to be made available, or the result of an attempt made to obtain a general license or permission for the use of such proprietary rights by implementors or users of this specification can be obtained from the IETF Secretariat. The IETF invites any interested party to bring to its attention any copyrights, patents or patent applications, or other proprietary rights which may cover technology that may be required to practice this standard. Please address the information to the IETF Executive Director. St. Johns & Huston Informational [Page 6] RFC 3639 Service Identifier in Packet Headers October 2003 Appendix A. IAB Members Internet Architecture Board Members at the time this document was completed were: Bernard Aboba Harald Alvestrand Rob Austein Leslie Daigle, Chair Patrik Faltstrom Sally Floyd Jun-ichiro Itojun Hagino Mark Handley Geoff Huston Charlie Kaufman James Kempf Eric Rescorla Michael St Johns Editors' Addresses Mike St Johns Internet Architecture Board EMail: email@example.com Geoff Huston Internet Architecture Board EMail: firstname.lastname@example.com St. Johns & Huston Informational [Page 7] RFC 3639 Service Identifier in Packet Headers October 2003 Full Copyright Statement Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2003). All Rights Reserved. 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The Todos Santos "Pueblo Magico" is inviting all to its 4th Mango Festival in the neighborhood of San Ignacio. Experience artistic and cultural events and activities related to mysterious mango.
Witness the election of the Mango Princess of Todos Santos. Savor the flavor of the fresh, seasonal, local Mangos. Watch the beautiful local horses as they are gracefully handled by the Todos rancheros.
The 2011 Festival will include anything and everything that has to do with Mangos, from songs and dances to food, art and Literature. Check this year's new events, featuring Horse races, Kid's Theater Play and Race Cars Show.
The festival is sponsored by the Delegación de Todos Santos, the Municipio de la Paz and the Pueblo Mágico Committee.
The 2nd Annual Mango took place July 30th in 2009 in downtown Todos Santos. In 2009 Author Lauren Klein presented her new book: "Mango: Peeled Apart to Find the Heart" . The event also featured live music with Dueto Los Flores and it was free to attend. In 2009 the Festival was in Honor of Prof. Esteban Perez Espinoza, an icon of the local community that recently passed away.
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- Event – 4th Annual Gastrovino Food and Wine Festival – April 24 – 26, 2015
- Event – 12th Annual Todos Santos Film Festival – March 12-22, 2015
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1.Read and follow all of the instructions before you make a telephone call or send an email. I said this the last time I did customer service tips, but it's a perpetual problem that so many people face. People tend to panic when they read something that alarms or confuses them and skim right to a telephone number to start dialing and firing off questions. Don't do that. I can't tell you how many times people said "oh yea, it says that right here." Keep reading because businesses try to address their most commonly asked questions in instructions and the answer to your question may be in the next sentence (or paragraph). If you read everything and still have questions, then make the call.
2.Be mindful of deadlines and routinely busy times. There are two times when volume spikes: Right before a deadline and right around a holiday. Everybody rushes to get thing in, and that results in a slow down in productivity, especially if the staff has a heavy schedule or is short staffed due to people taking off for the holidays. Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years Day are especially heavy times (frankly, New Year's Resolutions nearly kill me just about every year). So don't wait until the last minute, or set an arbitrary deadline for the next major holiday. can assure you that you're likely to miss it because you aren't the only one cleaning off your desk. Submitting about a week to ten days prior to a deadline or holiday can make a world of difference in response time.
3.Gather things together before you call. It makes it easier for the conversation to flow if you don't have to say "wait a minute" while you dig through piles of paper, or break into a conversation with a question you just thought of. Sit down and plan your questions before hand – write them down if you need to, and gather any paperwork you need to reference during the call before you dial. If you have to leave a voicemail and wait for a callback, set it aside where you can get to it quickly.
4.Find a quiet place to make telephone calls before you dial. I know this can be tricky because you can have an hour of silence, and then the place lights up with noise the minute you pick up the phone.Machinery, pets, children, and other people tend to pipe up when you pick up a receiver. I face it myself with screaming parrots at home and co-workers in the cubical farm around me at work. Just do the best you can to limit that background noise and it will actually make things easier for you.
5.If you have a heavy accent, consider saying "no" to the telephone. If you must call, be sure to speak slowly and annunciate. I'm not trying to sound rude. It's just a simple fact that accents don't translate well over the telephone and the heaver it is, the harder it can be to understand. This applies to domestic and foreign accents, too. And this is inexcusable to plead ignorance on because people aren't shy about the "you aren't from around here, are you?" question. If you've ever been asked that, at any place, any time, or in any contect, then you have an accent. Consider emailing your question if possible. And yes, I know I'm guilty on this one. I have a southern accent and I'm frequently asked to repeat myself over the telephone – in fact, I try to avoid drive-in restaurant speakers for this very reason.
6.If you leave a telephone message, don't spit out your telephone number in a fraction of a second. Sometimes people ramble on messages, then spit out the number quickly when they realize they're about to "time out." Give your name and telephone number first (speak slowly, and consider repeating your number), and then give a brief description (1-2 sentences) about why you're calling. Try to keep your entire message under 30 seconds. In fact, it might be wise to consider what you will say in a voice mail message prior to calling so you'll be prepared.
7.When you visit a place of business, be sure to fully secure your vehicle. This isn't really a customer service tip - it's more of a CYA tip (if you know what I mean). Don't leave anything out in plain sight. Businesses have things stolen too. In fact, we had a customer have their truck broken into one morning during a meeting – in broad daylight in a public parking lot! It happens. Put personal items in trunks, consoles, or glove compartments and be
sure to lock all doors and set car alarms (if you have one).
8.Be mindful of business hours. Don't loiter in parking lots before opening or after closing and whatever you do, DO NOT grab random employees and ask questions. Employees can only address questions related to their area and sometimes aren't allowed to personally interact with customers unless they are in the building or
at a business-related function. Loitering around a building and approaching employees in parking lots is a good way to get security – or worse yet, the police – called. If you arrive early, stay in your car and direct questions to
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9.Set deadline dates in your cell phone with a reminder to go off about a week before the deadline date. I mentioned this too, but it bears repeating because people keep claiming that "I got busy and it snuck up on me." This is inexcusable with everybody flashing smartphones all over the place. Even the most basic cell phone has a calendar function. Use it.
10.Give other employees a chance to help you. So often, people will get a name, and that's the only person they want to talk to. Don't make your life harder by being stubborn and clinging to a particular employee. They've all
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That's it – eight new tips for great customer service and a repeat on two that, well, seem to need repeating. Follow these tips, and I can guarantee that you'll get faster and better service all around.
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Why Amartya Sen remains the century's great critic of capitalism
Critiques of capitalism come in two varieties. First, there is the moral or spiritual critique. This critique rejects Homo economicus as the organising heuristic of human affairs. Human beings, it says, need more than material things to prosper. Calculating power is only a small part of what makes us who we are. Moral and spiritual relationships are first-order concerns. Material fixes such as a universal basic income will make no difference to societies in which the basic relationships are felt to be unjust.
Then there is the material critique of capitalism. The economists who lead discussions of inequality now are its leading exponents. Homo economicus is the right starting point for social thought. We are poor calculators and single-minded, failing to see our advantage in the rational distribution of prosperity across societies. Hence inequality, the wages of ungoverned growth. But we are calculators all the same, and what we need above all is material plenty, thus the focus on the redress of material inequality. From good material outcomes, the rest follows.
The first kind of argument for capitalism's reform seems recessive now. The material critique predominates. Ideas emerge in numbers and figures. Talk of non-material values in political economy is muted. The Christians and Marxists who once made the moral critique of capitalism their own are marginal. Utilitarianism grows ubiquitous and compulsory.
But then there is Amartya Sen.
Every major work on material inequality in the 21st century owes a debt to Sen. But his own writings treat material inequality as though the moral frameworks and social relationships that mediate economic exchanges matter. Famine is the nadir of material deprivation. But it seldom occurs – Sen argues – for lack of food. To understand why a people goes hungry, look not for catastrophic crop failure; look rather for malfunctions of the moral economy that moderates competing demands upon a scarce commodity. Material inequality of the most egregious kind is the problem here. But piecemeal modifications to the machinery of production and distribution will not solve it. The relationships between different members of the economy must be put right. Only then will there be enough to go around.
In Sen's work, the two critiques of capitalism cooperate. We move from moral concerns to material outcomes and back again with no sense of a threshold separating the two. Sen disentangles moral and material issues without favouring one or the other, keeping both in focus. The separation between the two critiques of capitalism is real, but transcending the divide is possible, and not only at some esoteric remove. Sen's is a singular mind, but his work has a widespread following, not least in provinces of modern life where the predominance of utilitarian thinking is most pronounced. In economics curricula and in the schools of public policy, in internationalist secretariats and in humanitarian NGOs, there too Sen has created a niche for thinking that crosses boundaries otherwise rigidly observed.
This was no feat of lonely genius or freakish charisma. It was an effort of ordinary human innovation, putting old ideas together in new combinations to tackle emerging problems. Formal training in economics, mathematics and moral philosophy supplied the tools Sen has used to construct his critical system. But the influence of Rabindranath Tagore sensitised Sen to the subtle interrelation between our moral lives and our material needs. And a profound historical sensibility has enabled him to see the sharp separation of the two domains as transient.
Tagore's school at Santiniketan in West Bengal was Sen's birthplace. Tagore's pedagogy emphasised articulate relations between a person's material and spiritual existences. Both were essential – biological necessity, self-creating freedom – but modern societies tended to confuse the proper relation between them. In Santiniketan, pupils played at unstructured exploration of the natural world between brief forays into the arts, learning to understand their sensory and spiritual selves as at once distinct and unified.
Sen left Santiniketan in the late 1940s as a young adult to study economics in Calcutta and Cambridge. The major contemporary controversy in economics was the theory of welfare, and debate was affected by Cold War contention between market- and state-based models of economic order. Sen's sympathies were social democratic but anti-authoritarian. Welfare economists of the 1930s and 1940s sought to split the difference, insisting that states could legitimate programmes of redistribution by appeal to rigid utilitarian principles: a pound in a poor man's pocket adds more to overall utility than the same pound in the rich man's pile. Here was the material critique of capitalism in its infancy, and here is Sen's response: maximising utility is not everyone's abiding concern – saying so and then making policy accordingly is a form of tyranny – and in any case using government to move money around in pursuit of some notional optimum is a flawed means to that end.
Economic rationality harbours a hidden politics whose implementation damaged the moral economies that groups of people built up to govern their own lives, frustrating the achievement of its stated aims. In commercial societies, individuals pursue economic ends within agreed social and moral frameworks. The social and moral frameworks are neither superfluous nor inhibiting. They are the coefficients of durable growth.
Moral economies are not neutral, given, unvarying or universal. They are contested and evolving. Each person is more than a cold calculator of rational utility. Societies aren't just engines of prosperity. The challenge is to make non-economic norms affecting market conduct legible, to bring the moral economies amid which market economies and administrative states function into focus. Thinking that bifurcates moral on the one hand and material on the other is inhibiting. But such thinking is not natural and inevitable, it is mutable and contingent – learned and apt to be unlearned.
Sen was not alone in seeing this. The American economist Kenneth Arrow was his most important interlocutor, connecting Sen in turn with the tradition of moral critique associated with R H Tawney and Karl Polanyi. Each was determined to re-integrate economics into frameworks of moral relationship and social choice. But Sen saw more clearly than any of them how this could be achieved. He realised that at earlier moments in modern political economy this separation of our moral lives from our material concerns had been inconceivable. Utilitarianism had blown in like a weather front around 1800, trailing extremes of moral fervour and calculating zeal in its wake. Sen sensed this climate of opinion changing, and set about cultivating ameliorative ideas and approaches eradicated by its onset once again.
There have been two critiques of capitalism, but there should be only one. Amartya Sen is the new century's first great critic of capitalism because he has made that clear.
Tim Rogan
This article was originally published at Aeon and has been republished under Creative Commons.
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Our roots go back to 1946, when Belam company founder Victor Haim returned from WWII with his Belgian war bride and began to supply the ravaged European continent with fresh American goods. Early products included foodstuffs, electrical equipment, airplanes, surplus Army goods, jukeboxes and pinball machines. The business prospered and grew, eventually specializing in the Coin Operated Machine business.
As the years passed the company became the largest exporter of used Coin Operated Machines in the United States, eventually opening a sales office in the duty free zone of Antwerp, Belgium.
Victor's children entered the business after completing their educations, and led by son Marc Haim, the business grew to another level. Not satisfied to handle used equipment with its limited sales potential, Marc landed valuable new distributorships from such burgeoning pioneering companies as Atari, Sega, Nintendo, and many other technological leaders in the new video field.
Marc also embarked on a major expansion in the American market, acquiring or starting full distribution plants in Miami, Orlando, New York, and New Jersey. Further expansion ensued as the company acquired or started arcade operations, initially on the eastern seaboard but eventually spreading to Argentina, Peru, and Colombia as well.
Business was not always about growth, the company endured many down cycles in its history, rising and falling with the ups and downs of its industry. By the end of the last century the company began to downsize, selling or liquidating its many subsidiaries and branches, renaming and re-inventing itself as GOLD COAST INTERNATIONAL.
Recent years have been very good for Gold Coast, once again operating from a single New York office and servicing its thousands of wholesale and retail customers through its experienced network around the world.
As the business enters its 75th anniversary, it stands as a respected distributor of all types of Amusement Machines, Amusement Park Rides, Children's Rides, Redemption and Merchandising Equipment, Jukeboxes and Vending Machines, Sports Equipment, Novelties, etc. We are proud to represent nearly every manufacturer in our industry and to efficiently distribute their products throughout the USA and the world.
We offer the products of virtually every manufacturer in the industry. In addition to brand new equipment, many models can also be supplied used at greatly reduced prices. - Contact Us
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We provide spare parts for all our product lines, and offer technical service such as board repairs for most lines. Our skilled service team also provide machine installations, machine repairs, pool table recoveries, game room set up, and all required services.
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The industry is filled with great programs for children, but Sahara Sam's Oasis Indoor Water Park definitely stands out. Inspired by his 28-year-old sister with special needs, owner Ilya Girlya and his staff have created an environment that accommodates children with special needs, often with little concern over whether or not it fits into the business plan.
Every two months, and during two special summer events, the Special Events At Sam's program takes over the 58,000-square-foot waterpark. Children with special needs and their families are invited to the SEAS program for a reduced price of $15; nonswimmers pay $5. Parents are encouraged to relax, and kids can play without fear of bullying or body insecurities. The staff, which receives special sensitivity training, assists — and food rules are relaxed because many participants have special food restrictions.
Typically, 400 to 500 people attend SEAS events. Many of the children have multiple challenges, including autism. To further meet their needs, the usual noise level is scaled down.
SEAS is not Sahara Sam's only special needs program. When the waterpark upgraded its computers, used items were donated to families and programs serving the local community.
Sahara Sam's also offers a community education program that has reached more than 8,500 kids. Delivered in a "Sambulance," the program is designed to educate students about safety awareness, emergency situations, first aid and water safety. With these programs, Sam's Oasis is a shining example of the positive impact a waterpark can make in its community.
When it comes to his efforts for special needs kids, Girlya believes in paying it forward. As he says, "Where other facilities might prefer to spend their money on ads, I prefer to spend it on building relationships in the community. It will all come back to you, in so many ways."


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Government spending explained in 10 charts; from Howard to Turnbull
Alan Duncan, Curtin University and Rebecca Cassells, Curtin University
Successive Australian governments are usually judged on how they balance the budget and spend taxpayers' dollars. The stereotypes are that Liberal governments keep a tight hold on the purse strings, while Labor governments are spendthrifts.
While total government spending has increased from around A$240 billion in 1998-99 to a predicted A$451 billion in the 2016-17 financial year, it's also accompanied by an increase in revenue from around A$250 billion to A$417 billion over the same period.
But the pressure on the budget under a Turnbull government is more acute now than ever before, because spending is outpacing revenue. It's now at an estimated 26.6% of GDP in 2016-17, higher than at any point since before the start of the millennium.
When you look at the mix of government spending over the the past fifteen years, you start to see some of the drivers of the growth.
To compare spending over time, we have adjusted for the effect of inflation by using real measures.
Social security continues to dominate government spending at A$161.4 billion, constituting around 35% of all government outlays on latest figures. This has fallen from a high of 39% during the Rudd government stimulus package in 2009-10 and is similar to levels at the beginning of the millennium.
In the graph below "other" spending includes the distribution of GST revenues to states and territories as well as spending in areas such as job seekers assistance, industrial relations, vocational training, tourism and immigration. This constitutes the second highest share of government spending, at 18% (A$83.4 billion) of the total spend. General revenue assistance to states and territories accounts for two thirds of spending in this category.
Governments spend almost as much on defence and public safety (around A$32.6 billion) as they do on education (A$34.3 billion), although the states ultimately pick up most of the education bill.
The global financial crisis saw a temporary blip in the mix of general government spending. Social security spending rose by 22% in the year to June 2009, and education expenditure jumped 60% a year later as a result of Rudd's economic stimulus package.
Government spending on public debt interest has more than tripled in real terms to A$15.4 billion since the start of the global financial crisis, and now accounts for 3.7% of all government spending.
Many of the changes in real government spending between 2008 and 2010 were driven by the impact of the global financial crisis, which resulted in a slowdown in economic growth, rising unemployment and a negative hit on the sharemarket.
The Rudd government response was a stimulus package. The main spending increases came from a combination of accelerating public debt interest, increased payments to assist the unemployed, but mainly the government's stimulus measures channelled through increased spending on education, housing and cash payments to families.
If a spending measure is truly temporary, a rise in real spending should be followed by an equivalent fall in subsequent years when the spending runs out or the program ends. This is evident to some degree for the social security and welfare and fuel and energy portfolios, but less so in other areas.
For example, the 45% rise in fuel and energy spending in 2008-09 was primarily driven by the introduction of the Energy Efficient Homes package within the Rudd stimulus suite. The scheme ended in February 2010, resulting in a 33% drop in spending.
On the other hand, spending on education rose by A$16 billion as part of the Rudd stimulus package, but remained A$10 billion higher than pre-global financial crisis levels in subsequent years.
Overall government spending has continued to grow since 2010-11, but less dramatically than during the heart of the global financial crisis, by around 8% in real terms over the five years to 2015-16.
The Conversation/Emil Jeyaratnam
Social security and welfare spending constitutes the largest spending commitment of any government budget. It has risen by 70% in real terms over the past fifteen years, from A$91 billion at the turn of the millennium in 1999-00 to A$155 billion in 2015-16.
The biggest welfare spending is for assistance to the aged, families with children and people with a disability. Together, these three items make up almost 85% of all welfare spending.
The 2008-09 Rudd stimulus package had a substantial yet temporary effect on welfare spend, with "bonus" cash payments to families in the 2009 calendar year increasing assistance to families by around A$10 billion. Additional cash payments were also made to students, pensioners and farmers under the stimulus program. And 8.7 million Australian workers earning $100,000 or less also received a cash payment.
Australia's ageing population and increases in both disability prevalence and disability support are the main driving forces behind welfare spending growth. These factors will continue to exert pressure on future government budgets, especially with the full rollout of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).
More than 40% of the government's 2015-16 health budget of around A$71.2 billion was committed to community health services spending. At A$28.7 billion, spending in this sector has nearly doubled since the start of the millennium and by a quarter since the start of the global financial crisis in 2008-09.
This stems from the need to deliver medical services to a growing – and ageing – population, and the increased prevalence of chronic disease. In this respect, Australia is little different to most countries around the world.
Specific measures contributing to this growth included the expansion of health infrastructure, the costs of enhanced primary care attracting higher Medicare rebates, and indexation of health related payments to states and territories. Pharmaceutical spending increased by 12%, from A$1.4 billion year-on-year to A$12.1 billion in 2015-16.
Education spending rose dramatically during the global financial crisis, with spending on primary and secondary education increasing 81% to A$24.7 billion in the year to 2009-10 as part of the economic stimulus package.
Rudd's "education revolution" led to a 12% growth in education spending in the 2008-09 budget, quickly followed by a further 61% spending increase in 2009-10 as part of the economic stimulus package. Spending in the following year fell as the temporary stimulus measures came to an end, but overall, education spending has remained significantly higher in real terms than pre-global financial crisis levels.
Spending on the university sector rose to around A$10.9 billion over the same period, but has remained relatively stable since.
Federal government money given to the states and territories
The federal government committed A$60.8 billion in general revenue assistance to states and territories in 2015-16, almost all of which came through the distribution of GST revenue. General revenue assistance spending rose A$3.8 billion in real terms in 2014-15, up 7% on the previous year, but has since stabilised.
Spending on superannuation interest has grown by a quarter since the end of the Howard years, reflecting the increase in the government's superannuation liability. Lower public sector wages and employment have led to superannuation interest payments stabilising over the last two budgets to around A$9.4 billion in 2015-16.
Immigration spending rose between the Gillard and Abbott governments to a peak of A$4.7 billion in 2013-14, but has since fallen back to around A$3.8billion in 2016 dollars.
Much of the growth in immigration spending occurred during the Rudd and Gillard governments, by an average of 23% annually. This compares to an average of 7% during the previous Howard years. Additional government spending on detention facilities for irregular arrivals was the principal reason for this spending growth.
Natural disaster relief spending spiked between 2009 and 20-11 to assist with the damage and recovery costs from the Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria in 2009, and the 2010 Queensland floods.
Government approaches to supporting various industries has typically been applied on an ad hoc basis. Budget spending on specific industries has risen from A$3.2 to A$5.6 billion in real terms. Agriculture, forestry and fishing typically received a greater share of industry spending during the Howard budgets, reaching a high of A$4.8 billion in Swan's final 2007-08 budget.
Growth in industry spend slowed during the Rudd years, picking up again with the Gillard and Abbott governments, with a greater preference towards spending in mining, manufacturing and construction projects.
Spending on housing and community amenities has increased from A$2.7 billion to A$7.6 billion, reaching a high of almost A$12 billion in the Rudd years. Spending in this portfolio increased with the Rudd stimulus package, incorporating a number of housing affordability measures including the First Home Buyers Grant Scheme and a boost in investment in social housing.
Spending on sanitation and protection of the environment also expanded rapidly during the Rudd/Gillard government, relative to the Howard years. The establishment of the Climate Change Action fund introduced by Rudd in 2009-10 and the Clean Energy Futures package in 2010-11 have been the main drivers behind this increase. Spending in each has been pared back since the Liberals came to power with Abbott at the helm.
Commonwealth spending on transport and communications projects has more than doubled from A$3.1 to A$7.5 billion over the last 15 years. Spending remained relatively stable under Howard's government, and then got a further injection on roads in the last two Swan budgets. The Rudd government continued this trend, with Gillard following suit with increases in both road and rail projects.
Spending in this portfolio has been clawed back since the Abbott government, falling from A$9.2 billion to A$7.8 billion billion between the final Labor government budget (2013-14 financial year) and the first Liberal government budget (2014-15 financial year). The most recent Turnbull/Morrison budget has reaffirmed spending commitments under this portfolio, committing to more than A$11 billion in 2016-17.
The Howard/Costello years were characterised by good economic times, with an extended period of strong revenue growth, yet this prosperity wasn't matched with any significant spending growth. In fact, overall government spending fell as a share of GDP – from 25.7% in 2000 to 23.6% in 2006-07 – the lowest share since the start of the millennium. And the combination of strong revenue and limited spending commitments under Howard drove down public debt, and public debt interest payments.
We saw some pretty dramatic increases in real spending when Rudd came into power in December 2007. Rudd's first budget in 2008-09 saw some substantial spending commitments in the area of education but nothing exorbitant.
However, the major turning point in government spending has been driven by the response to the global financial crisis. There were significant spending commitments over the course of the crisis, some of which are still present.
Spending on public debt interest has increased to A$15.4 billion since the global financial crisis – more than the spending on transport and housing combined. And it's projected to increase further to A$18.7 billion by 2019-20. This just emphasises how high the stakes are for Scott Morrison in delivering a credible budget repair strategy.
The spending of incumbent governments inevitably draw from the commitments of previous administrations, especially for those programs – in infrastructure, education or housing – that involve medium-term funding commitments.
The growth in real spending in areas that directly affect households – social security, NDIS, health or pensions – is an issue that no government can ignore. NDIS costs have been hugely underestimated already, and social security and health spending will inevitably increase with the ageing population.
Set against this context, it's clear that a piecemeal approach to budget repair is unsustainable. A drop in revenue has ramped up budget pressures, and highlights the compelling need to return to a sustainable spending path and a credible budget repair strategy.
The Turnbull government cannot shy away from making the big decisions that secure a sustainable future for Australia. And the roadmap towards a sustainable future has to include revenue as well as spending as part of the recovery narrative.
The graphs in this article were created by The Conversation's Multimedia Editor Emil Jerayatnam
Alan Duncan, Director, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre and Bankwest Research Chair in Economic Policy, Curtin University and Rebecca Cassells, Associate Professor, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, Curtin University
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article.


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Jackals A German-speaking Jew among Czechs, and of a generation allowed to assimilate, tentatively, for the first time, Kafka was at home nowhere. Though born into German, Kafka considered writing in it akin to kidnapping someones baby from its crib, dancing on a tightrope or composing ones will before committing suicide. He wasnt even a circus rider on two horses. Alas, I am no rider, but lie prostrate on the ground. With everything about himself uncertain, Kafka dreamt up an entire menagerie of talking and/or hybrid animals, including, most interestingly, an odradek, a senseless yet perfectly finished half thing, half beast that is possibly immortal because he has had no discernable aim in life. In the same issue of Der Jude, Kafkas A Report to an Academy was also published. An ape is captured by sailors, so his first human home is a ship, which is neither land nor sea, but a rocking, artificial womb. Aping his captors, he quickly learns to spit, his first human action, and his first utterance, Hallo!, is blurted out spontaneously after a prolonged effort to drink schnapps, which he finds repulsive. This kidnapped ape and boat person, or rather, boat ape, eventually becomes nearly a person, by way of the circus then the academy, his progress accompanied by excellent mentors, good advice, applause and orchestral music. Seeing no place, no future for himself, he could never procreate, and Im talking about Kafka here, not the ape, who has, as a companion, a half-trained little chimpanzee and I take comfort from her as apes do. Tired of this impossible life, Kafka dreamt of emigrating to Palestine and even learnt Hebrew well enough to read an entire novel, but he would die 24 years before Israel was created. Though Kafka never lived to see the violence that hasten, accompany then follow that countrys founding, he knew full well that such a large influx of Jews onto Arab land would be problematic, to say the least. It would exacerbate a very old quarrel, and not just any conflict but one that divides the world. Lamenting his fate of being exiled among Arabs, the head jackal suggests a definitive solution, So we shall draw blood from them and the quarrel will be over! Among the anthropomorphic animals in Kafkas universe, none is as repulsive as these chatting jackals. They even emit a rank smell that the narrator must grit his teeth to endure. Kafka even has them devouring a camel carcass, which is particularly ironic in light of their insistence on cleanliness. In Orthodox Judaism, the camel is deemed a foul beast, of course. Allowed to feast on a dead camel by Arabs, these jackals immediately forget their hatred of Arabs and dont even mind being lashed by Arabs as they eat. Whipped, they lifted their heads, half swooning in ecstasy. Earlier in the story, Kafka prefigures this collective devouring by having two young jackals bite the narrator, a European visiting Palestine, through his coat and shirt. When the narrator protests, the oldest jackal explains that they will let go, if that is your wish. But it will take a little time, for they have got their teeth well in, as is our custom, and must loosen their jaws bit by bit. Also, we are poor creatures, we have nothing but our teeth; whatever we want to do, good or bad, we can tackle it only with our teeth. In a letter to his beloved Milena, Kafka also wrote, Their insecure position, insecure within themselves, insecure among people, would above all explain why Jews believe they possess only whatever they hold in their hands or grip between their teeth. Jewish grasping, an anti-Semitic trope, for sure, is here depicted not as greed but pathetic physical acts born of anxiety, and the jackals are also pitiful, if blood thirsty. They finally beseech the European to slit Arab throats with a rusty pair of sewing scissors, but the head Arab laughs this off as the lunatic hopes of fools, utter fools. He dismisses these jackals as dogs of no consequence. In real life, however, his deadly enemy is sophisticatedly armed and well funded by the worlds most powerful empire. From 1948 until now, America has consistently backed diasporic Jews and their descendants as they massacred Palestinians and expanded their conquest of this foreign land. In the American press, Arabs are often painted as deranged terrorists, while their Jewish conquerors are extolled as standard bearers of democracy and civilization. Israel is a beachhead for Western values or even a first domino against jihad. Writing in National Review, Andrew C. McCarthy calls it the canary in the Wests coal mine. But relative civilization aside, shouldnt one back natives against invaders in any war, since a home invasion is always wrong, no? Unpopulated land for a landless people, went a Zionist slogan. According to the myth, Israel has been built from nothing, or raised from the sand, as recently phrased by a CNN lackey. In fact, Palestine was already substantially urbanized by the time of Balfour. Less than 11% of its people were Jews, with most having arrived only in the previous four decades. By Israels founding, 32% would be Jews. Now, it is roughly 57%. At the start of the latest attack on long suffering Gaza, I went to a Philly rally where both sides were present. Divided by a street, the pro-Israel demonstrators chanted at the pro-Palestinian, We gave you Gaza! You gave us rockets! Its amazing that usurpers occupying 78% of historical Palestine could claim to give its native people anything, much less a quarantined piece of land deemed by many an open-air prison! But many Jewish protestors were actually pro-Palestinian. Among their signs, I AM A JEW. STOP KILLING BABIES IN GAZA. Another, ONE MORE ISRAELI AGAINST THE OCCUPATION. So a truce between Israel and Hamas has been announced, ending a bombardment of Gaza that left 147 dead and 1,155 wounded. Israel, on the other hand, suffered five dead and 235 wounded, a bit higher than usual, proportionally. That Iron Dome may not be so rocket proof, after all, especially with Egypt allowing better ordnances to be smuggled into Gaza. Did Israel have to stop its assault before its flank was seriously exposed? In any case, serial war monger Netanyahu was immediately praised by Obama, his pet hyrax, for being so restrained, while Hilary Clinton got quality face time for her shuttle diplomacy. (Asskissing done, Obama pardoned two turkeys by removing them from his kill list, per witty Yahoo!) But what has been solved, exactly? Likely nothing. Born in blood and maintained through constant bloodletting, Israel has gotten its teeth into its prey, and it wont let go. If it had a choice, it would have devoured all already. Linh Dinh is tracking our deteriorating socialscape through his frequently updated photo blog, State of the Union


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Clarksville, Ark.-Building upon positive results and an expectation to be competitive are the themes for new head coach Adam Nirenberg's 2004 version of the University of the Ozarks women's soccer team.
Nirenberg, who became the program's sixth head coach in eight years, has seven starters returning from a team that finished with a 4-13-1 overall record and a 2-11-1 American Southwest Conference record last year. Nirenberg can also count on six new players, five of which are freshmen, for the upcoming season. "My expectation is to compete in every game," said Nirenberg, who served as the assistant men's and women's coach at Concordia University in Illinois the past two seasons. "I want to compete in all games even when we are overmatched and that falls on me as head coach to motivate our players. It is my responsibility to prepare them mentally and tactically each time we play. We want positive results every time we step on the pitch and we want to build upon those results even if they are not wins." Seniors Lindy Swatzell, Marissa Andrade, Letty Trevino and Lindsey Turnbow lead the way for the Lady Eagles and have exhibited strong leadership in the preseason, according to Nirenberg. "Our senior leadership is outstanding," said Nirenberg. "I think the whole senior class has been really working hard and that has resulted in a display of great work efforts as a team." Swatzell, a three-time All-Conference forward, recorded nine goals and four assists a year ago. She has led the team in points and goals the last three seasons and ranks first at Ozarks in career goals (21) and second in career points (49). Turnbow, who recorded four assists last season, gives Ozarks experience at the forward position. Junior Becky Obermueller can provide a lift on offense as she recorded two goals a year ago in limited time due to an injury. Andrade was an ASC All-East division second team pick last season and provides steady leadership and ability in the midfield. Andrade was named conference Offensive Player of the Week as a freshman. Trevino, who has started in 48 career games, gives the Lady Eagles stability on the defensive front. Defenders Kate Schoenhals and Ember Smith were honored by the ASC coaches as league standouts as freshman. Schoenhals earned ASC All-East Division Second team while Smith gathered ASC All-East Division honorable mention honors. "The midfield section will be our strength," said Nirenberg. "Marissa is a leader by example and has done a good job of leading our team thus far. I want Lindy to be the player that brings other players with her and raises the level of her teammates." Senior Carrie Rogers is set to be the goalkeeper. "Carrie is a fast learner and is a good athlete," said Nirenberg. Prospects for the upcoming season look even more reassuring with a glance at the incoming freshmen class. Three-time NSCAA All-America Jessalyn Halsted adds an instant offense punch. Halsted's former Harrison High School teammates Cayenne Carter and Lacey Howard provide Ozarks with talent and depth as will Olivia Fisher and Amanda Alexander, who are both from Mountain Home. "I've been impressed with our underclassmen," said Nirenberg. "This group of freshman is real coachable. They have done nothing but come in and worked hard. They've realized they have some work to do and they are willing to put in the effort. And that's what will make them successful in the future." "I like our team," said Nirenberg. "I think we can be very successful and surprise a lot of people with how strong we are. We have a good group of freshmen and a solid senior class. We will start to learn to win and that starts in practice and leads into games. We are working very hard at practice sessions to keep them business-oriented. I have an expectation as to how we practice is how we are going to play. We want to make sure we are working on the business at hand." The Lady Eagles open the season September 1 in Memphis, Tennessee, against Rhodes College.
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