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Celebrating success and building brighter futures at Barr's Hill
Barr's Hill is a school dedicated to building brighter futures for each and every one of its students.
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Established in 1908 as a girls grammar school, Barr's Hill School is proud of its traditional values and rich history of providing high quality education.
As a smaller school, a real emphasis is placed on high academic achievement, ensuring students feel supported and happy and have the chance to reach their potential.
Head teacher, Mr C Jupp, said: "I believe our students deserve the best possible learning experiences that ensure they achieve amazing outcomes.
"I want them to demonstrate PRIDE and become the kind of young people we know they can be, contributing positively to the local community and beyond.
"In short, I believe in 'Building Brighter Futures'. We will maintain an unwavering focus on the academic progress of all students, no matter what their starting point."
Building brighter futures at Barr's Hill School
The school's values centre around placing students first, the focus is on learning, any barriers to which are removed quickly and effectively.
Students feel supported and happy at Barr's Hill School and a larger proportion of Barr's Hill's students than ever are now progressing on to university and highly sought-after apprenticeships.
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Continuing the school's long academic tradition, more than one-fifth of students achieved a Grade 7, 8, or 9 in maths this year, and Barr's Hill School was in the top 20 per cent for progress in English and maths nationally.
Students achieved top grades in a wide range of the new, more challenging GCSE qualifications.
Star student Mimi Avworo, excelled and will be one of the highest performing students in the country with eight Grade 9s (A**) and an 8 (A*). She will be going onto Post-16 Select to study maths, physics, philosophy and ethics and plans to carry on with Japanese.
Once students have taken their GCSEs they can benefit from Post 16 Select – a joint venture between President Kennedy School and Barr's Hill School.
Post 16 Select offers students an unusually wide range of courses to study in the Sixth Form and they benefit from the best teaching and educational experiences available from both schools.
Barr's Hill School hosts first meeting of Volunteer Police Cadets
The Bridge: A Magnificent Year 7!
The first set of The Bridge students have settled in well.
The Bridge is a self-contained building with its own dedicated social space and classrooms for Year 7s.
The Bridge provides a happy and secure environment where students feel confident and make rapid progress at Barr's Hill School.
The Bridge at Barr's Hill School provides: a carefully crafted curriculum; personalised timetables; additional small group lessons; a wide variety of enrichment opportunities.
Year 7s also join a highly-praised transition programme which delivers a series of carefully organised events throughout the spring and summer months.
The programme ensures that new students joining Barr's Hill School feel confident, safe and happy and can therefore make a flying start and progress from the moment they join The Bridge.
Showcase highlights Barr's Hill School pupil's skills
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Extra Opportunities
Students attending Barr's Hill School enjoy an extensive extra-curricular and enrichment programme.
Performing arts is a real strength of the school and students benefit from a dedicated professional drama teacher and a bespoke drama studio.
Students recently participated in a sparkling musical performance of "Blood Sisters" which was very well received by a highly-appreciative audience.
When it comes to sport, students have a wide choice, ranging from basketball to rugby, football and badminton.
Students are encouraged to take part in competitive sports and activities both inside and outside of school.
Marius Panek has been selected for Coventry Elite National basketball team and Tobi Nwazili has been selected for the Coventry Elite
Basketball Academy.
Barr's Hill School
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Celebrating success and high aspirations
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* Headteacher: Mr C Jupp.
* Address: Radford Road, Coventry, CV1 4BU.
* Phone: 024 7623 4600.
* Website:www.barrshill.coventry.sch.uk
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IRS extends period for furnishing written qualified small employer HRA notices to eligible employees
The IRS has extended the period for an employer to furnish an initial written notice to its eligible employees regarding a qualified small employer health reimbursement arrangement (QSEHRA) under Sec. 9831(d) (which was enacted Dec. 13, 2016) to 90 days after the IRS issues guidance on how to furnish the written notice. An eligible employer (generally an employer with fewer than 50 full-time employees, including full-time equivalent employees, that does not offer a group health plan to any of its employees) may provide a QSEHRA to its eligible employees and must notify its employees of the QSEHRA within 90 days of the enactment of the new provision or be subject to a penalty under Sec. 6652(o). The due date for the notice (90 days after enactment) is Mar. 13, 2017, but the IRS is extending the notice due date until after guidance is issued. Notice 2017-20 (2/27/17).
Court rejects taxpayer's positions, warns of future Sec. 6673 penalty
The Tax Court held that (1) it would not grant a taxpayer's motion to reopen the record in his case because it would be pointless; (2) the IRS properly verified that notices of deficiency for 2008 and 2009 were mailed to the taxpayer; (3) the taxpayer could not challenge his underlying tax liabilities for 2008 and 2009 because he did not properly raise them during his CDP hearing; and (4) the IRS did not abuse its discretion by denying the taxpayer a face-to-face hearing because it would not have been productive, considering other opportunities he had been given. The court did reject the IRS's argument that the taxpayer should pay a penalty under Sec. 6673(a)(1) for frivolous and groundless arguments but admonished the taxpayer that if he persisted in maintaining groundless positions or instituting or maintaining proceedings primarily for delay, he could expect a penalty in the future. Ertelt, T.C. Memo. 2017-41 (3/1/17).
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RLI Earnings Reports Setting Quarterly Mark
Illinois-based RLI Corp. reported first quarter net earnings of $0.65 per diluted share ($16.9 million), a 16 percent per-share improvement over the $0.56 per diluted share ($14.4 million) reported in the first three months of 2003. Quarterly operating earnings of $0.59 per share ($15.4 million) were a 7 percent per-share improvement from the $0.55 per-share ($14.2 million) result one year ago. The per-share and total dollar postings set first quarter net and operating earnings records.
As of March 31, shareholders' equity stood at $576.1 million, book value per share was $22.88, and assets reached $2.2 billion.
In the year's first quarter, RLI earned underwriting profits of $10.8 million on a 91.5 net GAAP combined ratio, compared to a profit of $9.7 million on a 91.2 combined ratio last year. RLI's property segment led the way with a 68.7 combined ratio. Casualty writings contributed to the quarter's profitability on a combined ratio of 96.7. The surety segment reported near breakeven results with a 100.3 combined ratio.
Net premiums earned of $125.9 million grew 15 percent in the year's first three months, pushing consolidated revenue to $140.6 million, an increase of 17 percent. Gross premiums written rose to $182.9 million during the quarter, a 5 percent increase from the same period one year ago. Segment results include an increase in casualty gross premiums of 7 percent, property writings rose by 3 percent, and surety business was down 5 percent.
"Market conditions favorable to specialty insurers continued in the first quarter of 2004," said RLI President & CEO Jonathan Michael. "While our underwriters again reported a softening trend in property rates, their selectivity created satisfactory profits. The casualty segment showed strong results, continuing a trend from last year. We are encouraged by the surety segment's numbers, which reflect our confidence that we are moving beyond previously reported problems."
Comprehensive earnings, which include after-tax unrealized gains/losses from the investment portfolio, posted a $0.94 per-share gain for the quarter ($24.5 million). This result was a 169 percent per-share improvement over the $0.35 per-share ($9.0 million) level from the same period last year.
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Streaming Parallel Decision Tree
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![tree!](https://github.com/soundcloud/SPDT/blob/master/config/tree.png?raw=true)
![Scala CI](https://github.com/mweiden/spdt/workflows/Scala%20CI/badge.svg?branch=master)

A streaming parallel decision tree (SPDT) enables parallelized training of a [decision tree classifier](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_tree_learning) and the ability to make updates to this tree with streaming data. Basic MDL-based pruning is also implemented to prevent overfitting.

The SPDT algorithm is described by [Ben-Haim and Tom-Tov 2010](http://jmlr.org/papers/volume11/ben-haim10a/ben-haim10a.pdf?origin=publication_detail).

Minimum Description Length (MDL) pruning is desribed by [Mehta et. al 1995](http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/projects/iis/hdb/Publications/papers/kdd95_mdl.pdf).

## Command-line interface

SPDT has a command-line interface (CLI) for classification experiments and producing models. For an overview of the CLI options, use the `--help` option. A more detailed description of each option follows.

### --model-path
You must specify a model path for model output or updates.

In the case that there is no existing model file at the path specified, a new model will be trained and written to this path with the date appended to the end of the filename.

In the case that the path points to an existing model file this model is used for one of the following operations:

* if `--training-data` specifies a data file, the model will be updated with the samples inside.
* if `--test-data` specifies a data file, the model will be used to classify the samples inside.
* if `--print` specifies a feature map file, a `dot` file will be produced using the feature map.

### --class-labels
Specify the observable class labels in the dataset in a comma-separated list. SPDT defaults to binary classification and adapts automatically to the sets `0,1` or `-1,1`.

### --error-weight
Set a weight on classification errors used during MDL pruning. Higher weights penalize errors more than lower weights. Higher weights result in more complicated trees than those resulting from lower weights.

### --real-features, --boolean-features
By default, SPDT assumes all features are real-valued. If your dataset is comprised solely of boolean variables, you must enable them in SPDT:

```
./bin/spdt --boolean-features <other_opts>
```

If your dataset contains a mix of boolean and real-valued features, you must specify which are real-valued in a comma-separated list and enable boolean features:

```
./bin/spdt --boolean-features --real-features 0,1,2 <other_opts>
```

### --impurity-limit
Specify the maximum class [entropy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_\(information_theory\)) allowable at leaf nodes. Decision trees continue to split samples at a node until the impurity criteria, which is a threshold on the class entropy at that node, is satisfied. By default, SPDT adds decisions until the training data is completely classified or further separation of the classes is impossible based on the features in the dataset.

### --min-delta
Specify the minimum change in entropy neccessary for adding a new decision at a leaf node in the tree. By default, any decrease in entropy results in a new decision.

### --min-feature-frequency
Specify a minimum relative frequency of boolean features before they are added to the model. Underrepresented boolean features might be a computational burden if too many exist in the dataset. Furthermore, they might not improve classification performance. The minimum feature frequency enables you to filter these features out.

### --training-iterations
Specify the maximum number of times that the algorithm can attempt to expand leaf nodes into new decisions. By setting the training iterations, you also set a limit on the maximum depth of the tree.

### --print
Specify a feature-map file for generating a `dot` file with a graph that represents a trained model. In the resulting graph, nodes are labeled with a period-separated concatenation of the node's ID, feature, and class label. For example:

![dot!](https://github.com/soundcloud/SPDT/blob/master/config/dottree.png?raw=true)

To generate the preceding graph, first provide a `tsv` feature-map file that maps feature indexes from the `LIBSVM` sparse data format to strings:

```
$ head -n 3 feature_map.tsv
1       Regular_insulin_dose
2       NPH_insulin_dose
3       UltraLente_insulin_dose
```

Next, call spdt with the print option:

```
$ ./bin/spdt --model-path diabetes_2015-01-20_143112.spdt --print feature_map.tsv
INFO Loading model: diabetes_2015-01-20_143112.spdt
INFO dotfile written to ./spdt.dot
$
```

Lastly, render the image with the `dot` program:

```
$ dot -Tpng -o ~/Desktop/dottree.png ./spdt.dot
```

### Data format

The SPDT CLI accepts training and testing data in [LIBSVM format](https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/61328/libsvm-data-format):

```
<classLabel: Int> <feature1: Int>:<value1: Double> <feature2: Int>:<value2: Double> ...
```

The following example specifies a sample from the class `1`. This sample has features `0`, `1`, and `6` with corresponding values `0.5`, `0.75`, and `0.9`:

```
+1 0:0.5 1:0.75 6:0.9
```

## Serving layer

SPDT provides a basic HTTP API that enables classification and model updates. By default, models are loaded from and saved to [HDFS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Hadoop#HDFS).

### Running
The serving layer loads the most recent model from the HDFS directory that is specified by the environment variable `SPDT_DIRECTORY`. New versions of the model that result from requests to the `/update` endpoint are saved in this directory as snapshots.

You must also specify the port for the API to serve on using `WEB_PORT` and the base url for a web HDFS service for model storage with `WEB_HDFS`.

```bash
SPDT_DIRECTORY='/tmp/dir' WEB_HDFS_BASE_URL='http://localhost/webhdfs/v1' WEB_PORT=5000 ./bin/serve
```

### /classify
To classify a sample, send a POST request with a sample represented in JSON to the `/classify` endpoint. Format the sample JSON as follows:

```
{"features":[<feature1: Int>,<feature2: Int>,...],"values":[<value1: Double>, <value2: Double>,...]}
```

The following sample has features `1` and `2` with corresponding values `0.1` and `0.2`:

```
{"features":[1,2],"values":[0.1,0.2]}
```

You can use `curl` to see how the `classify` request works:

```
$ SAMPLE='{"features":[1,2],"values":[0.1,0.2]}'
$ curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d "$SAMPLE" -XPOST http://localhost:5000/classify ; echo
{"endpoint":"/classify","label":0}
$
```

### /update
To update the model, send samples in a POST request to the `/update` endpoint. Format the request JSON as follows:

```
{"samples":[<sample1: Sample>, <sample2: Sample>,...]}
```

Format each sample as follows. Note that a `label` field has been added:

```
{"label":<label: Int>,"features":[<feature1: Int>,<feature2: Int>,...],"values":[<value1: Double>, <value2: Double>,...]}
```

A complete example follows:

```
{"samples":[{"label":1,"features":[1,2],"values":[0.1,0.2]},{"label":0,"features":[3,4],"values":[0.3,0.4]}]}
```

You can use `curl` to see how the `update` request works:

```
$ SAMPLE='{"samples":[{"features":[1,2],"values":[0.1,0.2],"label":1},{"features":[3,4],"values":[0.3,0.4],"label":0}]}'
$ curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d "$SAMPLE" -XPOST http://localhost:5000/update ; echo
{"endpoint":"/update","num_samples":2,"updateId":0}
$
```

The resulting model is saved to HDFS in the directory that you specified with the `SPDT_DIRECTORY` environment variable. The current date is automatically appended to each model's filename. This enables any new instance of the serving layer to load the most recent model.

## Copyright

Copyright (c) 2013 [SoundCloud Ltd.](http://soundcloud.com) | [Trust, Safety
& Security Team](mailto:sketchy@soundcloud.com).

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Epictetus and our narcissistic politicians
July 13, 2018 Economics, Philosophy, PoliticsCelebrity, Churchill, elites, Epictetus, kierkegaard, Media, Narcissistic Politicians, Oxbridge, Private Schooling, Public Opinion, The Kardashiansangrytunbridgewells
Epictetus (AD 55 – AD 135) is a Greek philosopher whose writings never seem to date. One particular discourse is which impresses me is addressed to those who wish to be admired. A very apt discourse in an age which is obsessed with celebrity. Not only obsessed with celebrity, but an age in which our politics is dominated by a group of narcissistic celebrity politicians. Leaders who crave the adulation of the crowd. Epictetus offers these people a stark rejoinder, which is that there very actions are going to win them the affections of those who can be most easily swayed. These peoples affections change quickly, today's hero is instantly forgotten when these people find a new subject for there affections. Our narcissistic politicians are aware of this and their politics is reduced to a constant struggle to retain the affections of the volatile crowd.
The crowd's affection is retained by maintaining a high profile in the media. What this media wants is a constant series of highlights to hold the fickle crowds attention. Media celebrities such as the Kardashians are the masters of media manipulation. They can create daily stories for their social media followers a series of eye catching and glitzy events. However a politics that consists of just a series of media highlights is bad politics. What should be a reasoned deliberative practice is now reduced to the practice of producing simplistic stores of headline grabbing nature? Now the politician is no longer the master but the slave.
What Epictetus states is the affections these politicians win are not real or substantial. They are merely the latest glittering media toy that catches the crowds attention. One politician who is admired for his japes or media catching antics does not have the respect of the crowd, just their attention. He might think he is the new Churchill, the man who will change the nation's destiny, but to the crowd he is an amusing distraction. A distraction from the dull difficult stuff that is the reality of politics. Unfortunately these narcissists are reducing politics to a reality game show. What matters is who has the most engaging personality, it's a political Love Island. Politics is reduced to the jostling of the politicians, each determined to come out on top in this personality contest.
Epictetus makes clear that the popularity these politicians seek to win is with the worst kind of people. What our narcissistic politicians must win the support of the representatives of the people. These representatives are the media bosses and their journalists. These representatives are the interpreters and explainers of the will of the people. However they are not of the people. Journalists and those working in the world of media overwhelming come from elite backgrounds. Only 8% of the population went to private schools, and even less to Oxbridge, yet people from these backgrounds dominate the media. This leads to the curious situation in one group of the elite, tabloid journalists speak to the political elite as representatives of the people. What the people speak to our leaders is mediated through these media filters. A filter that is not impartial, but one that gives the people the voice that it thinks they should have. All one can add is that whatever the tabloid press and media express is not the voice of the people, but one that is a creation of the media world. When Kierkegaard said that public opinion is the dogs opinion he gave the best description that I can find of today media world.
What our narcissistic politicians are incapable of doing is making good decisions. Deliberation and reason are alien to there thinking. What matters is how will there decisions sit with the crowd. In consequence today is the time of bad politics, when politicians make only those decisions that will please the crowd. There politicians shy away from difficult decisions that would make them unpopular, instead such decisions are postponed or delayed in the hope that the people won't notice.
Stoicism and epicureanism philosophies for today
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Recently on radio there was a programme about the Roman philosopher and politician Seneca. What occurred to me was the similarities between the world in which Seneca lived and the one in which I live today. He witnessed the decay of the old Roman Republic into an authoritarian state which was at first ruled by the rich oligarchs, a rule which evolved into the rule of one man the Caesar. Several books I have read suggest that we are living in the last days of liberal democracy and that our political system is being subverted by the rich oligarchs who are turning our society into one that bears strong resemblances to the Rome of the last days of the Republic.
These similarities are no more than that, Britain is not becoming a society ruled by a new class of Caesars. Violence is not employed by the rich oligarchs to destroy their enemies, no opposition politician has suffered the indignity of being murdered and having his skull converted into a wine cup by his enemies. These oligarchs to gain power have used more subtle methods. They have corrupted the legal system with their wealth so all kinds of judicial restraints have been developed to silence their opponents. One such restraint is the super injunction whereby a powerful individual or business can prevent any reporting or discussion of their alleged wrong doing as it is claimed that it will unfairly damage their reputation. Such stories can remained suppressed for years. The other powerful weapon wielded by the oligarchs is the destruction of their opponents reputations. This is conducted through the publication of hostile articles in the media, which they largely control. It a weapon whose power cannot be underestimated, as when the politician Nick Clegg was asked to explain why so many MPs voted against their principles and backed the government over its policy to leave Europe, he said that they were scared of 'The Daily Mail'. While there is no equivalent of the Roman mob who could be incited to attack opponents of the oligarchs there are the internet trolls. They can be whipped up into a frenzy and encouraged to launch virulent attacks on the oligarch's enemies.
When hearing this programme I wondered if stoics such as Seneca who lived under the cruelest of authoritarian rulers could provide evidence of how to live the good life today in a society which is becoming increasing dominated by rich unpleasant oligarchs.
Stoicism taught that the world was created by logos (the spirit) and that logos remains force which continues to direct the development of the world and humankind. The logos determines everything, so people have a choice either to ignore logos and risk being crushed under its onward movement or change their actions and behaviours to accord with the movements of logos. What stoicism taught was that history was pre-determined and wise individual was the one who accepted their lack of control over their lives, Happiness was gained attained by those who cultivated an air of indifference to those things that they could not control. A person who valued material wealth above all else would suffer great pain from its loss. This cultivation of indifference reaches its extreme limits in the writings of Epictetus. He advises the father not to kiss his son goodnight or show any kind of affection, as that son might be dead by the morning. At its simplest stoicism was a philosophy of pain management. In the Roman society of the Caesars it was rule by Caesar a capricious individual who if he wished could tomorrow deprive you of your wealth or even your life, therefore one should not be greatly attached to either.
In a society in which social and economic inequality is increasing to such an extent that it is likely that the great majority of people will be poor, in which the poverty that characterised earlier societies will begin to characterise the Britain of tomorrow. Material riches of even the most modest kind will be denied to a majority of people, so an indifference to material wealth will help them cope with a life of relative poverty. People would not be depressed for a lack of things of this world, as they have minimised their attachment to them. However such poverty does bring real suffering and why stoicism will help with managing the discomforts and unpleasantnesses of poverty it is not an answer to pain and suffering. Poverty is not caused by the movements of the logos, but through the greed of the rich oligarchs. A more activist philosophy than stoicism is required.
Stoicism was usually a philosophy of the educated rich. These people who had ample wealth could afford to affect to be indifferent to material wealth, as even under the worst of the Caesars very few of them lost their wealth. The poor of Rome preferred the fairy tale religion of the Olympian Gods. They would turn out in their thousands to celebrate the festivals of the old Gods, as the theatre of these festivals offered them some escape from the misery of their lives.
One positive effect of adopting stoicism as a philosophy would be an ending of the cult of celebrity. All these endless talent shows would lack an audience, as people would not longer see a rags to riches story as real, as celebrity would be due not to talent but the arbitrary movement of the fate. Also a people that attached little value to material wealth would have little interest in programmes which celebrated individual talent as a means to material wealth. Celebrity culture acts as a safety value, it releases the pressure that builds up from social discontent. The poor can be pacified by the fairy tales of celebrity that claim that no matter how poor there are celebrity offers an escape from poverty. People will instead have a keen sense of reality and are less likely to taken in by stories of celebrity success.
Stoicism can perhaps be called the philosophy of unpleasant reality and as such it will always lose out to philosophies of hope. In the Roman Empire such a philosophy of hope was Christianity. Contemporary Britain lacks such a philosophy of hope which will act as a catalyst of change. There are many alternative philosophies in our society but they do not have the messianic appeal of Christianity with its potential for change.
There is another philosophy that was popular among the Romans of this time and that was epicureanism. This is a much misunderstood philosophy it usually thought of as the philosophy of hedonism, as Epicurus taught that the good life should be one of pleasure. However it was a very different pleasure that he had in mind. Individuals should take pleasure in the essentials of life, pleasure should be derived from enjoying a modest diet, dressing modestly, these things were sufficient to enable the individual to live a good life. If one took pleasure in the luxuries of life, life was reduced to a constant craving for more and more of sensual pleasures and this craving made life one of misery. For Epicurus only a person living a modest life could be described as happy.
Epicureans were often persecuted by the authorities because by only valuing a life lived modestly they threatened a society that valued overindulgence and sensual pleasures in all forms. At Roman meals the rich had vessels placed near the table at which guest could vomit into, so as to make room in their stomachs for more of the extravagant dishes that would be placed before them. They took pleasure in all kinds of sensual pleasures as demonstrated by the popularity of gladiatorial sports. Pleasure was gained from watching the pain and suffering of others. Epicurean philosophy through offering an alternative to the dominant philosophy of excess was seen as a threat to a society that valued excess.
If epicureanism was more widely known, there would be one major beneficial effect. The rich billionaires rather than being celebrated for their wealth, would be seen rather as slaves to it and as such to be pitied. There is one marvellous passage in Thomas More's Utopia where it is seen as slavish behaviour to wear gold and valuable stones as jewellery or chains of office, they are seen as slaves to their possessions. If the rich billionaires who dominate contemporary society were seen to objects of pity, rather than celebrity, their malign influence on politics would be much reduced. Politicians would not seek out their company and not be so desperate to give them favours.It goes without saying that in contemporary Britain and the US the billionaires can buy policy favours, with what to them is the small change from their pockets. Unfortunately the most successful of our politicians worship wealth and despise modesty. Politics for them is a means to acquiring a substantial fortune.
In today's papers an open secret is being exposed and that secret is that London is one of the major centres of money laundering for criminal enterprises. In this instance the police forces of Latvia and Moldavia exposed this criminal behaviour of the London banks. It was the poor underfunded police of two poor European countries that exposed this activity, not the well funded City of London police. Perhaps the relative poverty of the police and politicians there means they are of higher moral calibre than those of the UK. Only where wealth is so celebrated as the chief of virtues could such corrupt practices be sanctioned.
Billionaires by their very nature will always seek to corrupt those around them. What is the threat to our democracy is the willingness of our politicians to be corrupted by them. An annual salary almost three times the median wage in Britain is seen as inadequate by most MPs. Too many of them seek sources of income from outside politics making them susceptible to persuasion or corruption. Now the successful politician is seen to be the one who uses their position to acquire the most wealth; the practice of politics taking second place to money making. Reform has become redefined as making changes in the law or society that benefit the MPs wealthy benefactors. Epicureanism with its emphasis on modesty if more generally accepted would give us a generation of politicians less susceptible to corruption and a political class more deserving of respect. Those few politicians uncorrupted by money are drowning amongst the swill of corruption that is contemporary politics.
Social democracy was formerly the force which ensured that the market economy worked for the benefit of the majority not the minority. Unfortunately nominally social democratic politicians have abandoned the substance of that philosophy believing that Neo-Liberalism was the philosophy of today. In the heyday of social democracy many politicians of the right subscribed to its tenets and contributed making Britain a fairer and better society. With the discrediting of social democracy it is unlikely that those moderate politicians of the right would ever subscribe again to its tenets. Epicureanism has none of the baggage associated with social democracy and could be easily adopted by those moderate politicians on the right. In a country with a political class in thrall to the philosophy of greed what is needed desperately in a philosophy of compassion and fairness to counter that extremism.
(Gauis Gracchi was the unfortuante Tribune of the people who lost his life and head.)


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Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh briefing about recent DoPT reforms, at New Delhi on Friday.
NEW DELHI: Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Monday said India has shown to the world that despite the crippling coronavirus crisis, the show goes on here as smoothly as during the pre-pandemic times.
He was speaking after inaugurating the IAS professional course phase-II (2018 batch) at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie through video conference.
Singh, the Minister of State for Personnel, said that civil services in 2020 have assumed a pan-Indian character in true sense as it has representation from almost all states and union territories in the last couple of years.
He said, for a heterogeneous country like India, it's a huge asset and in tune with the dream of the founding father of civil services in the country — Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. (AGENCIES)
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As the Houses of Parliament adjourn for the summer, Canadians can reflect on the fact that this country is in better condition than all but a few others. And that small group certainly does not include the United States.
The state of American policy is now beginning to transcend even the indulgence of the most tenacious believers in Barack Obama's statesmanlike aptitudes. The "Reset" button with Russia has led to a torrent of insolences from the Kremlin, including increased intimacy with Iran in promoting the survival of the Assad regime in Syria. The corrupt Karzai regime in Afghanistan, for which thousands of Americans and their allies (including 158 Canadian Forces personnel) have died and a trillion dollars have been spent, has now embraced Tehran as a senior ally. And Washington itself has convened peace talks that include Mullah Omar's Taliban, the host to Osama bin-Laden and his lieutenants when al-Qaeda was planning 9/11.
In the words of distinguished Wall Street Journal commentator Bret Stephens, it is "The Age of American Impotence: no peace, no peace process, no ally, no leverage and no moral standing." President Obama still speaks of arms control while approaching what is now a high probability of an Iranian-led nuclear arms build-up in the Middle East. His strategy is bluster and threat without any follow-up, unless shamed into action (as in Libya by the French and the British).
In Berlin last week, Obama ascribed terrorism to "instability and intolerance," as if we had gone back to the New Frontier theory of JFK's Best and Brightest, that Indochinese Communism could be fought by the Peace Corps, and by building schools and roads. American liberals, like the French Bourbons returning in the baggage train of the Duke of Wellington's army in 1815, "have forgotten nothing, and learned nothing." There is now little likelihood that America will have anything to show for the mighty effort and sacrifices in Iraq and Afghanistan, except the evaporation of its influence in the capitals of the world.


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Death at the EU border: Migrants pay the price of Belarus's 'hybrid warfare'
Madeline Roache
Grave pit in the muslim cemetery of Bohoniki prepared for a miscarried baby from a migrant woman found in precarious state in the forests of Poland after crossing the border from Belarus during the migrant crisis between both countries. (Photo by Celestino Arce/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
After living through a decade of conflict in Syria, Boushra believed she was finally going to find safety in Europe. The 48-year-old teacher thought her journey from Syria would be easy. She would fly, via Lebanon, to Belarus. From the Belarusian capital, Minsk, she would drive several hours to the border and cross by foot into Poland. Then she would get a train to Belgium to be reunited with her brother, who has been living there since 2018.
But, on reaching the Polish border in mid-September, Boushra and many other migrants were aggressively pushed back by Polish border guards. When they tried to return to Belarus, they were shoved back by guards and left trapped in the dense forest that straddles the two countries.
"We were pushed into the swamp, into the mud, we were shaking from the cold and screaming at the guards, but nothing changed," Boushra said, "I want to forget all of it."
Since Boushra arrived at the Polish border, tens of thousands more migrants have attempted to cross into the country, lured by simplified visa rules and direct flights to Minsk from the Middle East. Poland has recorded 24 500 attempted crossings from Belarus this year, more than half of which took place in October alone — compared with 120 in the whole of last year.
Anna Alboth, a member of a minority rights NGO, said: "There are lots of 'travel agencies' in Iraq, Lebanon and Turkey" that spread information about the route to Europe via Minsk. "You can find Facebook ads about the 'easy, cheap, fast' trips," added Abloth, who is also a member of Grupa Granica, a Polish network of 14 NGOs monitoring the situation on the border. Most of the migrants have fled danger and poverty in the Middle East and Asia.
Polish officials and the European have accused the long-serving Belarusian president, Alexander Lukashenko, of engineering the migrant crisis in retaliation to sanctions imposed on Minsk after the country's disputed 2020 presidential election and the ensuing vicious crackdown on dissent.
"It is a hybrid attack, a brutal attack, a violent attack and a shameful attack," said Charles Michel, the president of the European Council, said in Warsaw last week. Lukashenko has denied the accusation.
In August Lukashenko told journalists in Minsk: "We are not blackmailing anyone and we are not threatening anyone. You have put us in such circumstances that we are forced to react and we are reacting."
As Boushra experienced, every day, Polish border guards push hundreds of migrants into the forest, while Belarus turns them back towards the Polish side. Marta Gorczynska, a human rights lawyer at Grupa Granica, said she has received reports from multiple migrants about Belarusian border guards beating and threatening to kill migrants if they do not cross the razor-wire fence that Poland erected in August to deter crossings.
"All the testimonies that we hear are so similar that, for us, it's confirmed that this is a practice of Belarusian guards along the border," said Gorczynska.
Trapped between push backs and violence, potentially thousands of migrants have hidden in no-man's land, too afraid to approach either border. They are sleeping under trees, trying to shield themselves from the freezing temperatures with damp sleeping bags.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has said that allowing migrants to enter the country would be giving in to "blackmail" by Lukashenko. Warsaw has deployed thousands of troops to try to fortify its border and plans to spend €350-million on a border wall. It has already passed legislation in October allowing border guards to immediately expel migrants who cross the border illegally and to reject asylum requests.
Activists say this breaches international law, under which Poland is required to help anyone seeking asylum. But Poland's government has insisted that it is acting legally and has an obligation to defend its territory.
According to documents, Tsentrkurort — a state tourism company that is part of the Office of the President of Belarus — allegedly also provided transfer from Minsk airport to the city and accommodation in centrally located hotels, from where guests were taken to the border in an organised manner. Tsentrkurort denied coordinating the travel of Iraqis to Belarus.
For 21 days, Boushra was stuck in the forest, trudging back and forth through swamps to both sides of the border. "We were like a football being kicked between these countries," she said.
The forest has effectively become a black hole, devoid of independent information from the rest of the world. Many migrants have little hope of receiving help there. An emergency act imposed by Warsaw in early September banned all non-residents, including aid workers, medics and journalists, from entering a three kilometre strip that spans the entire length of the forest, covering 115 towns and villages.
No one knows how many migrants are stranded or have died in the forests. Grupa Granica, which relies on a network of local residents for information, estimates that up to 5 000 people, including children, are trapped there for days, even weeks at a time.
According to Polish officials, at least nine people have been found dead. But aid workers say the unofficial death toll is much higher, based on information they have received from those who have passed through the "emergency zone". Last week, Polish media reported that a 14-year-old Kurdish boy froze to death overnight on the Belarusian side of the border. The Belarusian Border Commission denied the reports.
Kalina Czwarnog, who works for the Polish human rights organisation, Fundacja Ocalenie, said migrants told her they were "walking through bodies". She also heard a report of a three-year-old child from Syria dying while crossing the woods. Activists and journalists have been unable to verify these reports because they are denied access to the region. But Gorczynska said these claims are "not hard to imagine" given the severe weather conditions, with temperatures reported to drop to -3℃ at night.
"Small children, sick and elderly people cannot survive these temperatures without having proper equipment, and people rarely have any kind of equipment with them," Czwarnog said.
Boushra said she begged for food and water from the Polish border guards, who replied that Belarus was responsible for them, not Poland. On her social media page, she shared a video of masked security officials in Poland pointing guns at people and shouting, "Go to Belarus", while children cried. Another video, taken by Boushra, shows a migrant trying to put a plastic sheet on the ground for an unconscious man, who was being carried by several migrants. An unknown man snatched the sheet as it touched the ground and told them to move away.
After three weeks in the forest, Boushra collapsed from exhaustion and was taken by Polish border guards to a hospital in the northeastern town of Hajnowka. "I was so hungry, thirsty and cold. I couldn't breathe," she said.
The Polish government has denied multiple requests by NGOs to enter the emergency zone, meaning the only assistance migrants in that zone can hope to get is from local residents, who help at their own risk.
Activists have been doing what they can to help the migrants hiding in the part of the forests that stretches past the emergency zone, having made it past the guards and the razor wire. They have been delivering food, water and clothes, guided by location pins sent by migrants to alert activists to their whereabouts.
Last week alone, Grupa Granica was in contact with more than 1 000 migrants. "Our most important job is to keep people alive, the ones we can reach. Very often, by the time we reach people they're in a very critical state — they are dehydrated, they have hyperthermia," Gorczyńska said.
"In this forest, you can feel like you're in a battlefield, as if there is a war going on," Czwarnog told me in a cabin surrounded by forests in the Polish town of Sokolka, where Fundacja Ocalenia set up a base a few months ago. The cabin, located about 16km from the border, was filled with bags of canned food, clothes and blankets, which the volunteers and aid workers delivered around the clock. "It's emotionally and physically exhausting because some nights you only sleep two hours," Czwarnog said, wrapping her hands around a mug of tea.
A challenge for activists has been to reach migrants without drawing the attention of the guards, who will push any migrants they find back across the border. When delivering provisions at night, Ocalenie workers have been using a red light that cannot be seen from a distance.
Activists say that as the winter sets in, pushing already freezing temperatures lower, it will be even harder to protect the migrants. "Sending people into forests where the temperatures will reach -20℃ is like sending them to death," said Gorczyńska.
Małgorzata Nowasad, of the Medycy na Granicy (Doctors on the Border), group of volunteer medics has treated migrants with medical problems including hypothermia, frostbite, hunger, dehydration and conditions including diabetes. "There are going to be more and more people who need help in the hospital," she said. Human rights activists said some migrants have broken limbs from being attacked by security forces in Belarus. Even with help from aid workers, Nowasad said, it is not possible for some migrants to survive in the forest for longer than a week.
Nowasad is one of 40 medics who have been volunteering near the border in her spare time after work. "It's our duty to do this," she said. The group has received a lot of public support, quickly raising funds for medicine and equipment through a crowdfunding campaign. "It shouldn't be like this — our government should be paying, not civilians," she said.
But activists have said their efforts to deliver humanitarian aid outside the "emergency zone" are being hampered by the Polish authorities and unknown people. They have been aggressively questioned at checkpoints by border guards and police, who often threaten to charge them with trafficking or people smuggling when they suspect they are trying to help the migrants, according to the United Nations. Medycy na Granicy was forced to suspend its work on Sunday after unknown people deflated tyres on five cars used by its team. A week earlier, someone punctured their ambulance's tyres while they were helping migrants.
'I feel like I'm dreaming'
Kalina Czwarnog claimed some migrants who are admitted to hospital are later being forced back into the forest by border guards — a claim that has also been raised by the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights. She said she helped to organise hospital treatment for a man who was suffering from symptoms of an imminent heart attack, who was later brought back to the border by guards. "We knew he would become very ill again soon because of his heart condition," she said.
Boushra was luckier. After six days in hospital, she was transferred to a centre for migrants in Poland. By that point, she was determined to leave the country because of her experience at the border. "I didn't trust Poland anymore. A lot of the migrants felt the same way," she said.
Boushra escaped from the centre and took the first train she could get out of Poland, which was bound for Amsterdam, Holland. There, officials took her to a migrant centre in the north of the country, where she will be able to claim asylum.
Boushra said she feels finally safe in Holland but hopes to make it to Belgium to be with her brother. "I can't believe that I'm here — sometimes I feel like I'm dreaming, but my journey has not ended yet. I still feel for the people who are at the border. It's very hard to stay there. It was so cold and now it's colder.".
What is the role of Belarus in the border crisis?
Although Alexander Lukashenko denies any involvement, an investigation by Der Spiegel and the London-based Dossier Centre suggests that a company connected to the Belarusian presidential administration has helped obtain Belarusian visas for Iraqi ci
In another investigation, Lithuanian public broadcaster LRT interviewed a number of migrants, as well as employees of Iraqi travel agencies, and concluded that the Lukashenka regime earns money on migration visas, accommodation in Minsk hotels and transportation.
According to their reporting, Iraqi travel agencies collect a deposit of some $3 000 a "tourist". This money, LRT suggested, is used to pay for the services of those who deliver migrants to the border of Belarus and beyond. In total, "transit" to Europe, including crossing the Belarusian border, can cost $6 000 to $15 000 a person. People who passed through Belarus and reached Germany named similar numbers to two German media outlets, Bz-berlin and Bild.
This is an edited version of an article first published on the Open Democracy website: https://www.opendemocracy.net/
Madeline Roache is a London-based freelance journalist focusing on politics and human rights issues in Europe
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It's been tipped as the next 'foodie superpower' and now Colombia is taking centre-stage at Latin-American restaurant Paladar in London's Elephant & Castle, where head chef Jose Rubio-Guevara has added a number of innovative new dishes inspired by his home country to the menu.
Writing in The Telegraph, travel journalist Paul Richardson noted that, "the Colombian cooks of the 21st century are flinging open doors on to a whole new world of flavour." Rubio-Guevara is at the forefront of this new culinary movement in the UK and has emerged as a trusted voice on the cuisine of Colombia and wider Latin-America, recently contributing his expertise to BBC Good Food magazine and Radio 4's The Kitchen Cabinet.
Classic Colombian soup ajiaco, which Rubio-Guevara's recipe for was featured in BBC Good Food, is cleverly reinterpreted as a starter of Santaferen~o ajiaco croquettes, capers & cream. The soft-textured croquettes with a crunchy outer 'shell' are garnished with capers and cream – the traditional accompaniments to the soup which is particularly popular in and around Bogotá.
New to The Sea section of Paladar's menu is Pan-fried tilapia fillet, coconut milk & chontaduro pure´e, shredded green mango, from Colombia's Caribbean coast. Known in English as peach-palm, chontaduro is a nutritious fruit native to South and Central America and particularly to Colombia; slow-cooked and puréed, its starchy texture can be compared to sweet potato.
Also from the Caribbean coast comes Braised black beef, tamarind & panela reduction, sweet plantain, Colombian-style sour cream, an addition to The Farm, Paladar's meat dishes. The deep, black-brown sheen of the beef is often achieved in Colombia using Coca-Cola; Rubio-Guevara however uses panela, unrefined cane sugar, which is the traditional method. The sweetness of the plantain comes from its being infused with hibiscus, which gives it a striking purple colour.
Lastly, Rubio-Guevara has created for The Land, his vegetarian and vegan courses, 'Cassanoa' - Cassava and white quinoa gratin, chilli-truffle oil. Cassava, white quinoa and cheese are creamed together, topped with farofa – toasted cassava flour – for texture, and baked in the oven to create a comforting, warming vegetarian dish.
As with everything on the menu, Rubio-Guevara's new Colombian-inspired dishes are gluten-free, partly a 'happy accident' resulting from the relative scarcity of gluten-containing ingredients in Latin-American cuisine and partly thanks to Jose's efforts to avoid adding any to his recipes and making substitutions where necessary.
Rubio-Guevara said, "My food at Paladar draws inspiration from all over Latin-America. We don't focus on any one country, and individual dishes sometimes borrow ingredients and ideas from several countries, but I'm proud to be bringing a taste of my native Colombia to the menu.


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These tips will definitely come to your aid survive when car brakes failure to occur.
When driving a car can sometimes lead to great disasters as a brake fails into a sad. Thousands of people are being fatally annoyed every year due to the car brakes fail problem that has no forecasts, and we will give some important tips to avoid the tragedy that can be caused by the brake fail problem.
Developing a hobby to focus on technical aspects before driving Sometimes the minor mistakes that we do not know can bring life to life. The problem is that the brake fails problem is one of the most commonly known things that are not easy to take control of the car.
Using some tips, you can control brake faced cars in just a few seconds, and if you use the handle brake and manual gearbox utility in the correct order, you can definitely avoid the disaster.
Yes, the following tips can be used without any fears when you notice that the handle brake will come to your aid in emergency situations and the brake failure.
Let's say you are driving your car at an average of 70 to 80 mph. When you notice that the brake fails immediately, then slowly press the handle bracket.
If the handle brakes are halfway down, the gear will need to be reduced to four to reduce the car's speed, and then the rest of the handle brake will be hit by the speed of the car.
Handbrake and gearbox should be used step by step, without any confusion, and handle brakes should not be completely pressed for any reason to park the car.
The car is fast enough to hit the handle block at the speed of the car, and the car will stop without any risk of bringing it to the handle block slowly.
One brake is important to save a life when brake failure occurs. If the handle base is used at the right time, the speed of the car can be up to zero by 80 km in only 8 to 10 segments.
Some may have some more disturbing questions. You only apply to Manual Gearbox cars. But how to control the automotive cars can be asked. True, there is a solution.
The gearbox facility is only in the automotive and manual in the counter. But Handbrake is also used as a manual in the counter. Thus, manual car modeled automotive cars can also be controlled by the above advice.
You may be aware that some of the features that appear before the brake failure problem can give you the indications that your car may be having a brake failure problem and that you will notice some of the things we say.
Traveling at high speeds on a car or bike is not difficult. But you should have the driving skills that control the speed well. This can prevent tragedies that can be traced to the ability to brake failure when running faster.
When the brake failure in the vehicle, it's a sign that your car's brake failure is coming. In fact, many of the companies have been given vehicles in order to get this sound up for safety. If the brakes have been pressed to the end, there is a noise that comes when the two parts running on the wheel will stick to one another. This indicates that brakes should be repaired.
If the brake is applied then the brake shoe drops between the wheels. There is a brake lining between these two. If brake lining does not change for a long time, the brake shoe will stick to the drum. Then the word vibrates comes. In such a case, the brake shoe will be sure to become a brake failure. So, when the brakes are pressed, check the word immediately near the mechanic near the port.
There are two types of vibrations.
1. brake the pedal when the brake is up is vibrate, which means there is a problem with the brake.
The brakes problem is that the brake pedal is over and the car is fully vibrating, and the brake is long lasting. If such vibration is coming after a limited speed, contact Mechanic immediately.
Are you pressing the brake pedal for a long time?
Are you pressing the brake pedal for a long time to minimize the speed of the vehicle? However, those brakes will definitely be brake failure. This happens when brake Fluid is reduced. True, the risk of breaking oil is very low. So check whether brake oil is leaking. If the leak is coming immediately contact mechanic near. Running a vehicle without brake Fluid is to play with Prana.
Brake Warning Light is on the car's dashboard.
Yes, most of the cars coming now have brake warning lights. Institutions are incorporated by the security features of the car. One side of the anti-lock braking system, along with brake system lights on the other.
ABS Lite will turn on when the brake failure is performed on the ABS braking system while in vehicular moving. Braking and braking lining brakes with ABS on the ABS system.
Do not be afraid to drive and drive the vehicle so that it can be traumatized when driving. If you are aware that life is bigger than speed, you can solve the problem even if you have a problem.
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Q: Redirect subfolder to root and hide it in the url I have managed to "rebase" the root from a directory in order to keep public files separated from configs, helpers, and controllers, thanks to this answer and this answer.
However I realized that if a user type http://domain.com/public it will not redirect to http://domain.com this is harmful for SEO because robots will treat them as two urls thus duplicate.
I need to 301 redirect /public to root but as long as I am trying. It doesn't work.
My htaccess looks like the following:
# Options
Options +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews -Indexes
DirectorySlash off

# Enable Rewrite Engine
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

# Exceptions
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(images|javascripts|stylesheets)/ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ - [L]

# www to non-www
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTPS}s ^on(s)|
RewriteRule ^ http%2://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

# Make /public like it was root
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /public/([^\s]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /%1 [NC,L,R]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/public
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /public/$1 [NC,L,QSA]

# Error pages
ErrorDocument 403 /errors/403.php
ErrorDocument 404 /errors/404.php
ErrorDocument 500 /errors/500.php

<files .htaccess="">
  order allow,deny
  deny from all
</files>

In this way it will redirect to http://domain.com//
How can I fix this issue?
EDIT
My website directory structure is:
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|__data
|__controllers
|__helpers
|__partials
|__layouts
|__images
|__javascripts
|__stylesheets
|__public
   |__index.php
   |__subfolder
      |__index.php

In root there won't be any index.php pages. So I need to make the /public dir as it was my root, in order to keep configs and other directories that users don't have to see separate.

A: Replace your 2 public/ related rules to this:
# add a trailing slash if public/$1 is a directory
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/public/$1 -d
RewriteRule ^(.*?[^/])$ %{REQUEST_URI}/ [L,R=301,NE]

# Make /public like it was root
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s/+public/(\S*)\s [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /%1 [L,R=301,NE]

# internally add public/ to URIs
RewriteRule ^(?!public/).*$ public/$0 [L,NC]

Without first trailing slash add rule if you use a URL for sub-directory e.g. http://domain.com/subfolder then after 3rd rule adding public/ in the URI it internally becomes http://domain.com/public/subfolder which is a valid directory and Apache's mod_dir module adds a trailing slash in the end doing a 301 redirect to http://domain.com/public/subfolder/ and this will expose public/ part to your clients.
When first trailing slash is there we check if destination is directory and add a trailing slash in original non-/puclic/ URL itself.

A: There's a number of things here that you need to address, but it appears that the core of it is here:
# Make /public like it was root
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /public/([^\s]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /%1 [NC,L,R]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/public
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /public/$1 [NC,L,QSA]

That block is going to generate a loop. It says "if the URL contains public, redirect it to root, but if it does NOT contain public, redirect it to public".
I think what you're trying to do is just:
RewriteRule ^public/(.*) /$1 [R=301,L]

It's also worth pointing out that your  block at the bottom isn't going to do anything. I suspect that what you meant was:
<Files .htaccess>

However, for good measure, you might try
<FilesMatch ^\.>

for all "dot-files".

A: Ok, with your edit, it now appears that you're asking the opposite of how I initially interpreted it. It kind of looks to me as though you're introducing an additional layer of complexity in order to protect files that shouldn't be inside the document directory to begin with.
What I would recommend is more from a security perspective than an httpd configuration perspective. If files aren't meant to be public, move them out of the document directory. You'd end up with your regular content, plus images, js and css, in the document directory, and the rest of that stuff outside of it.
Failing that, if you insist on using mod_rewrite to accomplish this, I'd recommend something like the following:
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}public%{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteRule ^ /public%{REQUEST_URI} [PT]

However, note that this doesn't actually solve the problem, since that "private" content is still there, inside the document directory, waiting for someone to figure out how to get at it.
What I'd recommend is that you take a step back and figure out what problem you're actually trying to solve. If it's the problem of private files being in the document root, the right solution is to move them out of that document root, not try to route around them being there.

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Q: Can you help clarify Javascript prototype inheritance method invocation? In this block of code:
var Fruit = function() {}

Fruit.prototype = {
    color: function () {
        console.log('Fruit color...')
    }
}

var Apple = function () {}

Apple.prototype = new Fruit()
Apple.prototype.constructor = Apple

var a = new Apple()
Apple.prototype = null // the question!!!
a.color()

When Apple.prototype has been set to null, why can the instance a still invoke the color method?

A: You're changing the Apple.prototype reference after you have created the instance a.
Changing the reference here doesn't change it for existing instances.
You'll also find
var a = new Apple();
Apple.prototype = {}; // some other object
a instanceof Apple; // false

i.e. because we've changed the inheritance chain of Apple a is no longer considered an Apple.
Setting Foo.prototype = null will cause a TypeError if you attempt to to an instanceof Foo check

Changing a property of an Object doesn't change the reference to that Object. e.g.
var foo = {},
    bar = foo;
foo.hello = 'world';
foo === bar; // true

Changing the Object itself does change the reference
foo = {hello: 'world'};
foo === bar; // false

Or written in a way more closely to how the prototype is referenced from an instance,
var Foo = {}, // pseudo constructor
    bar = {},
    baz = {};
var fizz = {}; // fizz will be our pseudo instance

Foo.bar = bar;          // pseudo prototype
fizz.inherit = foo.bar; // pseudo inheritance
Foo.bar = baz;          // pseudo new prototype
fizz.inherit === foo.bar; // false, instance inheritance points elsewhere

Current best practice for setting up an inheritance chain is not to use new, but to use Object.create
Apple.prototype = Object.create(Fruit.prototype);

If you need the Fruit constructor called on Apple instances, you would do
function Apple() {
    // this instanceof Apple
    Fruit.apply(this);
    // ...
}

A: We have to understand what happen behind the line
var a = new Apple();

JavaScript adopts Prototype-based programming as its OOP style. That means, it creates a new object by cloning a former object, not by instancing a class. Given Gecko and Webkit JavaScript engines, here is what happen behind the "new" statement above:
var a = clone(Apple.prototype); // this is an analogy to memcpy() in C/C++
a.__proto__ = Apple.prototype; // useful for the instanceof checking
a.constructor = Apple; // a function
a.constructor(); // so "this" in the called function means "a"

So now, both a.color and Apple.prototype.color are references to the same function located at address, e.g., 0xABCD because the value 0xABCD was copied from Apple.prototype to a. Thus, calling a.color() will associate with the address 0xABCD, it has nothing to do with Apple.prototype, so you can freely assign Apple.prototype to null.
It turns out that the clone() function above is actually the well-known Object.create() function. Object.create() also includes the assignment for the __proto__ property.


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Magnetic properties after irradiation of tetrakis[4-(α-diazobenzyl)pyridine] copper(II) in a frozen solution
H. Morikawa, Satoru Karasawa, Noboru Koga
Chemo-Pharmaceutical Sciences
The molecular structure of tetrakis[4-(α-diazobenzyl)pyridine]copper(II) bis(hexafluorophosphate) was revealed by X-ray structure analysis. The magnetic properties after irradiation of a 1:4 mixture of Cu(NO3)2 and 4-(α-diazobenzyl)pyridine in frozen ethanol solutions were investigated by electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectrometry and magneto/susceptometry. In a randomly oriented X-band EPR spectrum, new signals appeared in the field range of 0-500 mT at the expense of the signals due to the isolated copper(II) after irradiation. All signal intensities gradually decreased on warming and new signals disappeared over 60 K. The field dependence of difference magnetization M at 2 and 5 K was measured under a condition similar to that for the EPR experiment. Fitting experiments to M vs. H/T plots by use of theoretical equations for two components suggested that a mixture of high-spin species with S = 9/2 and 7/2 in a ratio of 0.18:0.82 formed under a frozen condition.
Applied Magnetic Resonance
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Morikawa, H., Karasawa, S., & Koga, N. (2003). Magnetic properties after irradiation of tetrakis[4-(α-diazobenzyl)pyridine] copper(II) in a frozen solution. Applied Magnetic Resonance, 23(3-4), 507-515. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03166638
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In: Applied Magnetic Resonance, Vol. 23, No. 3-4, 01.01.2003, p. 507-515.
Morikawa, H, Karasawa, S & Koga, N 2003, 'Magnetic properties after irradiation of tetrakis[4-(α-diazobenzyl)pyridine] copper(II) in a frozen solution', Applied Magnetic Resonance, vol. 23, no. 3-4, pp. 507-515. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03166638
Morikawa H, Karasawa S, Koga N. Magnetic properties after irradiation of tetrakis[4-(α-diazobenzyl)pyridine] copper(II) in a frozen solution. Applied Magnetic Resonance. 2003 Jan 1;23(3-4):507-515. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03166638
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