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Tax, tax and a little more taxPosted on: 06 April 2010 by Mark O'haire
Well there was no surprise regarding the budget according to independent financial advisor Peter McGahan.
But if you are bailing out banks at a rate of knots its no surprise that you need a sub from the unsuspecting tax payer.
It is perhaps most worrying that the government appears intent on taxing the higher earners. This will be deemed as a penalty against success and sends a message out to the entrepreneurs who make the world tick that the UK is not a place to visit.
As well as a top rate of income tax of 50% from 6 April for those earning above £150,000, Mr Darling has thumped this tax payer again by taking away the personal allowance for those who earn over £100,000. The personal tax allowance is reduced by £1 for every £2 of income over £100,000, so much so that at £112,950 there is no personal income tax allowance at all. Furthermore Mr D has announced that personal allowances across the board will be frozen. If inflation is sitting at 3% we would expect to see allowances increase by that, so this is effectively a £38 per-person charge per-year.
He has also U-turned previous plans for inheritance tax by keeping the nil rate band at £325,000 and frozen this until April 2014!
Most investors will have enjoyed a fantastic year with the UK all companies sector up over 50% over the last year. 40% of this will now be wiped off if their total assets are over £325,000. If markets continue to grow, each 10% of growth will only net beneficiaries 6% as the nil rate band has effectively been set in stone for the next four years. Astonishing.
Thankfully corporation tax has remained unchanged and Mr Darling has decided to defer the increase in corporation tax for companies with less than £300,000 profit. Nice touch. But on the grounds he put a hole in most of that profit, the difference will be negligible. There has also been an increase in higher rate tax to 42.5% for trusts. And so all round its just tax increases.
Why? On the face of it it's largely down to the forecasts by the treasury that the level of UK debt is set to soar from £776 billion in 2009/2010 to £1.4 trillion in 2014.The general view is that this could get worse as the government has assumed economic growth to hit 3-3.5% per year which is well above the norm and of most experts forecasts. It is expected that the cost of servicing that debt will reach £43bn rising to £63bn per year. To put that into perspective the cost of the NHS last year was £100bn.
On the good news, first time buyers will have a holiday on stamp duty for properties under £250,000 for the next two years. End of good news. At the same time properties over £1m will have an increase in stamp duty of 1%. It's clear to see where the government is going with all this and I wonder how much the weight of the decision to bail out banks will lean on them over the next two months.
A capitalist society allows you to win well and lose well. I have never seen it allowed where you win well, get super greedy and get bailed out for shocking decisions, followed by the ability to overcharge customers whilst at the same time catapult your marketing budget to make yourself more palatable. I must drink with the wrong people.
Such was my shock when a member of staff returned from a meeting with her bank to 'see if she was running her account well'. That's a bit rich isn't it? She was in surplus, they weren't. And you guessed it; it was just the normal lure to sell the life policy, the new loan and to offer her more credit.
As Yogi bear said: it's like that déjà vu all over again, again.
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A model for lubricated squeezing flow of a viscoelastic fluid is developed in order to study the viability of this flow as a rheological technique for generating equibiaxial extensional deformations in polymer melts. In this simple flow model, the melt, described by an upper-convected Maxwell fluid, is squeezed between thin films of a Newtonian fluid. Comparisons of the model predictions for constant strain rate and constant stress flows are made with experimental results presented in the first paper. Predictions from the model are able to describe the effects of lubricant viscosity and experimental configuration and indicate the technique fails for these flows at Hencky strains of approximately one. The cause for this failure is lubricant thinning, which leads to significant errors in both the measured stress difference and the strain.
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Domain functional level only affects domain controllers. From what you've described there won't be any problems raising the level.
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I agree, from what you described you should be fine.
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The tentative schedule for Fall 2012 CHRS seminars is as follows. CHRS seminars meet on Wednesdays from 2:30 to 4:00 at Battelle T30. More details will follow soon.
October 3, 2012
Antwan Jones, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, the George Washington University (with Hiromi Ishizawa, Dept. of Sociology, GWU) will give a talk entitled, "Child Obesity, Immigrant Acculturation and the Built Environment."
October 10, 2012
With new member to the AU community, Jeffrey Kaplan, Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Director, Center for Food and Health, AU will introduce his new center, Center for Food and Health to the CHRS community. The meeting will also involve discussions about possible synergies with CHRS.
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Leslie Hinkson, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Georgetown University will give a talk entitled, "The Right Profile: Mechanisms of Bias Guiding Race-Based Pharmacological Treatment of Hypertension."
October 31, 2012
Nina Yamanis, Assistant Professor of International Development, School of International Service, and American University will lead a work in progress seminar, focusing on her newly awarded qualitative research study, "Identifying HIV prevention strategies for Latino sexual minority young men living in DC." The study is co-led by Maria deJesus, Assistant Professor, SIS, AU with support from SIS, AU.
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Asoka Bandarage, PhD, a scholar and practitioner in the fields of International Development, Environment, Conflict Resolution and Gender Studies, will give a talk based on her forthcoming book entitled, "Sustainability and Well-Being: An Integrated Approach to Environment, Society and the Individual" to be published by Palgrave Macmillan.
November 14, 2012
Presenter: Kristen Springer, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University
Talk title: TBA
November 28, 2012
Typhanye Penniman Dyer, Research Assistant Professor, University of Maryland and University of Florida will give a talk entitled, "Individual-Level and Social-Level Factors Impacting HIV Risk among Black MSM."
December 5, 2012
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Talk title: TBA
December 12, 2012
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Talk title: TBA
The following are seminars held and planned by CHRS for Spring 2012. CHRS seminars are held every Wednesdays from 2:30-4 p.m. at Battelle T-30, unless otherwise notified.
January 25, 2012
Presenter: Maria De Jesus, Assistant Professor, SIS.
In-progress proposal entitled: A Pilot Study Examining Impact of a Community Health Worker (CHW)-Delivered Mobile Health (m-Health) Communication Strategy Using Personalized, Culturally Tailored and Empowering Interactive Follow-up Text Messages to Increase Mammography Screening among Hispanic Women
Discussants: Nina Yamanis, Assistant Professor, SIS and Kim Blankenship, Professor, Sociology Department served as discussants for this seminar
February 1, 2012
Presenter: Kim Blankenship, Professor, Sociology Department, AU
In-progress paper: Incarceration and Black-White Disparities in HIV/AIDS: An Analysis across Metropolitan Statistical Areas
In-progress conference: Community Disruption and HIV Risk in Washington D.C.
Discussant: Rachel Robinson, Assistant Professor, SIS
February 8, 2012
Presenter: Nina Yamanis, Assistant Professor, SIS
In-progress proposal: Social and structural factors associated with HIV risk behavior among homeless youth in the District of Columbia
Discussants: Jonathan G. Tubman, Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Research, and Maria De Jesus, Assistant Professor, SIS
February 15, 2012
Presenter: Larry Sawers, Professor, Department of Economics
Talk: Probably everything you have read about concurrency is wrong
February 22, 2012
"Improving HIV and Nutrition Outcomes in Rural Malawi:
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March 7, 2012
Elizabeth Rigby
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"Public support for redistribution to address inequality."
March 21, 2012
Sonya Grier
Associate Professor, Department of Marketing, Kogod School of Business will lead a work-in-progress seminar.
Paper title TBA
March 28, 2012
Jennifer Huang
Associate Professor, School of Nursing & Health Studies, Georgetown
"Migration Passage, Sexwork, and HIV/STI in China"
April 18, 2012
Jeremy Shiffman
Associate Professor, Department of Public Administration and Policy, SPA, AU.
"A Comparative Assessment of the Effectiveness of Six Global Health Policy Networks (Tobacco, Alcohol, Tuberculosis, Pneumonia, Newborn Survival, Maternal Mortality)"
April 25, 2012
Lindsay Shade
MA Student, International Affairs, and Natural Resources and Sustainable Development, AU
Dennis Stinchcomb
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"Health and Social Impacts of Rising Deportation Rates in the U.S."
This seminar was the result of a collaborative effort between the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies and the CHRS. The presentation slides can be accessed here.
May 2, 2012
Jimi Adams
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"Formalizing the Many Possible Routes among Many Disciplined Science: The Case of HIV/AIDS Research."
Wednesday, September 7, "MSM & HIV Aids in the Middle East and North Africa" by Bryan Hoffman, MA candidate.
Wednesday, September 14, "Advancing HIV Prevention Through Transformative Behavioral & Social Research" Round table discussion.
Wednesday, September 21, "Social Network Influences on Young Men's HIV Risk Behavior in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania" by Nina Yamanis, Assistant Professor, School of International Service
Wednesday, September 28, "Moving to Health or Avoiding Equality" Residential Mobility and the Spatial Concentration on Racial Health Disparities" by Michael Bader, Assistant professor, Department of Sociology
Wednesday, October 5, "Local Food Prices & Child Insecurity/Obesity" by Taryn Morrissey, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration & Policy
Wednesday, October 12, "Perceptions of African-American Women on the Down-low Phenomenon Among Black Men," Lakshmi Goparaju, Assistant Professor & Women's Interagency HIV Study Director, Georgetown University Medical Center.
Wednesday, October 19, "Works-in-progress Seminar," involving presentation and discussions on Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Research, Department of Psychology, Jonathan Tubman's paper titled, "Hetergeneity in Sexual Communication Among Adolescents Recieving Substance Abuse Treatment Services: Implications for HIV/STI Risk Reduction Efforts" and Assistant Professor, School of International Service, Daniel Esser's paper, "National Ownership in Development Assistance for Health: Success Factor or Smokescreen?" The format was based on pre-circulated papers to seminar attendees, which offered ample opportunity to discuss and share feedback at the seminar.
Wednesday, October 26, "Shifting Fortunes for Family Planning: The Role of Norms" by Jeremy Shiffman, Associate Professor, Department of Public Administration and Policy, SPA, and Katy Quissell, PhD student, Department of Public Administration and Policy, SPA.
Wednesday, November 2, "Reconsidering Wilkinson's income inequality hypothesis: new evidence from Argentina" by Dr. Fernando De Maio, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, DePaul University. See Event Flyer.
Dr. De Maio holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Essex. His work examines the social determinants of health, with ongoing research projects on the health effects of income inequality and the health transitions of immigrants. In recent years he has studied the social patterning of chronic non-communicable diseases in Latin America and has worked in collaboration with colleagues in Argentina's Ministry of Health. His work has appeared in Global Public Health, Critical Public Health, Health Sociology Review, the International Journal for Equity in Health, and Population Health Metrics. He is the author of Health & Social Theory (Palgrave Macmillan) and is currently working on his second book, Global Health Inequities.
Wednesday, November 9, "Work in Progress Seminar" Michael Bader, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology will discuss his paper tentatively titled, " The Fundamental Influence of Retail Disinvestment on Adolescent Health in New York."
Wednesday, November 16, "Achieving Universal Coverage: An Assessment of Policy Approaches and Outcomes in the Caribbean" by Tamara Hafner, Assistant Professor, School of Public Affairs
Wednesday, November 30, "Social Resources and Health Disparities: The Impact of Local Nongovernmental Organizations on HIV Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa" by Rachel Robinson, Assistant Professor, School of International Service


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"I want to win a Super Bowl," Kennedy says. "I want to help a contender."
Whispered owner Jerry Jones to Unfair Park just last night: "Sure, we have interest in him. Definitely worth taking a look at."
If he can return to his old, dominating form, Kennedy can help a below-average Cowboys offensive line. Last year Dallas gave up 49 sacks of quarterback Drew Bledsoe--25 in the last five games alone, which helped pave the way to the team's ugly 2-4 finish. Worse, running back Julius Jones had one--count 'em, one--100-yard rushing game. Add to those ugly numbers that the best lineman in the history of the franchise, Larry Allen, was cut in the off-season, and it's easy to see how desperate the Cowboys are for help. --Richie Whitt
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My first thought was that it was supposed to be more modest but if you think about it even long skirts probably look more arousing than trousers.
Also during most times of history women used to work a lot too and isn't it simply more practical to wear pants, no matter what kind of work you are doing?
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Actually, the issue is that both men and women once wore robes or toga type things.
However, as you pointed out, pants work better for working. So men switched to pants.
However, women worked at things that didn't require pants, because it wasn't hard labor.
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text: DSpace Community: http://dspace.cityu.edu.hk:80/handle/2031/710 2017-08-17T01:25:41Z 2017-08-17T01:25:41Z Nonlinear behavior and temperature-dependence of frequency in silicon bulk-mode micromechanical resonators Zhu, Haoshen (朱浩慎) http://dspace.cityu.edu.hk:80/handle/2031/8695 2017-01-27T04:49:33Z 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Title: Nonlinear behavior and temperature-dependence of frequency in silicon bulk-mode micromechanical resonators Authors: Zhu, Haoshen (朱浩慎) Abstract: Silicon bulk-mode micromechanical (MEMS) resonators, given their high quality factors (Q's), are key elements in high-performance MEMS oscillators, which are reshaping the timing devices market by offering low-cost and fully-integrated solutions. The phase noise (PN) performance and frequency stability over the industrial temperature range (-40°C to 85°C) are two major bottlenecks to realizing high-end application MEMS oscillators. The nonlinearity of the resonator sets a fundamental limit on the PN performance while frequency-temperature dependence needs to be quantitatively examined for improving the frequency stability against temperature change. In this thesis, these two aspects and their correlations are comprehensively explored. This thesis covers the design, fabrication, and characterization of various single-crystal-silicon (SCS) bulk-mode resonators. These include resonators dominated by longitudinal-waves (like square-extensional and length-extensional mode resonators) as well as resonators dominated by shear-waves (like Lame and face-shear mode resonators). These bulk-mode resonators exhibit very high Q ranging from 10 5~10 6, leading to fQ products in the order of 10 13 and close to the fundamental limit of SCS. A three-level modeling framework (from bottom to top: material, device, and system levels) is proposed to simulate the nonlinear behavior of MEMS devices. This proposed framework offers the capability to predict the nonlinear behavior of the silicon bulk-mode resonators, dominated by material-nonlinearity, from the atomic structure of the crystal lattice as the basis. Close agreement between simulations and measurements is obtained. In addition, reversed nonlinearity (softening vs. hardening) has been observed in devices with the same physical dimensions but aligned to different crystal orientations, indicating the material nonlinearity is highly orientation dependent. To cancel the undesirable nonlinearity, this thesis describes a novel electronic tuning mechanism that cancels out the nonlinearity in bulk-mode resonators, which is achieved for the first time. The temperature dependence of frequency in silicon bulk-mode resonators tend to be affected by doping type and concentration. A quantitative study based on free carrier contribution on elastic constants is performed to predict the temperature coefficient of frequency (TCf) of n-type doped resonators with different vibration modes and crystal orientations. The predicted TCf values agree well with the experimental results. The measured TCfs are found to also be orientation dependent and, as expected, can be correlated with the observed nonlinear behaviors. Finally, to demonstrate the application of silicon bulk-mode resonators for MEMS oscillators, this thesis describes the implementation of 17.6MHz MEMS oscillators based on wafer-level vacuum packaged silicon Lame-mode resonators. The oscillators only require less than 3V bias voltage and show good PN performance of -127dBc/Hz at 1kHz offset. Their PN performance could be further improved by implementing the proposed nonlinearity cancellation concept. Notes: CityU Call Number: TK6565.R43 Z47 2015e; xv, 155 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm; Thesis (Ph.D.)--City University of Hong Kong, 2015.; Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-153) 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Stable photonic microwave generation using semiconductor laser dynamics Zhuang, Junping (莊俊平) http://dspace.cityu.edu.hk:80/handle/2031/8624 2016-11-09T03:42:07Z 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Title: Stable photonic microwave generation using semiconductor laser dynamics Authors: Zhuang, Junping (莊俊平) Abstract: Photonic generation of stable microwave signals has attracted considerable attention for transmission of microwave signals over optical fibers with low loss, electromagnetic interference immunity, and large bandwidth. The generation techniques have found a range of potential applications including radio-over-fiber communication, photonic microwave signal processing, photonic microwave beamforming, and radar. Among the various techniques for photonic microwave generation, the approaches based on semiconductor lasers are strong competitors due to compactness and potential for integration. In this thesis, the dynamics of both optically injected semiconductor lasers and passively mode-locked semiconductor lasers are investigated for photonic generation of microwave signals. Techniques for improving the frequency stability are explored. Firstly, an optical injection drives the laser into nonlinear dynamical period-one (P1) oscillation at a microwave frequency, which is widely tunable up to 100 GHz. Owing to the laser nonlinearities, the P1 microwave linewidth can even be smaller than the free-running optical linewidth, though it is still affected by intrinsic laser noise. Optical feedback to the injected laser are introduced to further stabilize the P1 frequency fluctuation. Via theoretical analyses and numerical simulations, the P1 microwave linewidth is found to follow an inverse-square dependence on the feedback strength and feedback delay time asymptotically. By modification to a dual-loop feedback, noisy side peaks around the central P1 frequency are effectively suppressed through the Vernier effect. The numerical simulations are in good agreement with the experimental results. Photonic generation at a millimeter-wave frequency of 45.4 GHz is experimentally demonstrated with a clean spectrum and a linewidth below 50 kHz. Secondly, utilizing the optical tunability of the P1 frequency by introducing modulation on the injection power, photonic generation of frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) microwave signals is also investigated. This generation scheme exhibits superior stability and tunability in terms of central frequency, bandwidth, and chirp rate. The FMCW microwave signal is generated with central frequency, sweep bandwidth, and chirp rate tunable up to 22 GHz, 7.7 GHz, and 0.42 GHz/ns, respectively. Thirdly, monolithic photonic microwave generation is demonstrated by using a passively mode-locked semiconductor laser, where an anticolliding-pulse mode-locking (ACPML) configuration is introduced. The laser consists of a gain section and a saturable absorber (SA) section. With proper DC biasing on the laser, a millimeter-wave signal at around 34.7 GHz with a linewidth on the order of 100 kHz is demonstrated. To realize the ACPML configuration, low-reflection and high-reflection coatings are deposited on the SA section and gain section facets, respectively. After the deposition, the threshold is unchanged, while the modulation of the SA is increased. As a result, simultaneous improvements in pulse peak power, pulse amplitude noise, and timing jitter are achieved. These photonic schemes generate stable microwave signals that offer opportunities in photonic microwave applications. ii Notes: CityU Call Number: TK7872.S5 Z45 2015; xxvii, 167 pages : illustrations (some color) 30 cm; Thesis (Ph.D.)--City University of Hong Kong, 2015.; Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-164) 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Low-cost dielectric polymer waveguiding platform for sub-millimeter wave applications Tsui, Ping Yuen Jacky (徐秉源) http://dspace.cityu.edu.hk:80/handle/2031/8623 2016-11-09T03:42:05Z 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Title: Low-cost dielectric polymer waveguiding platform for sub-millimeter wave applications Authors: Tsui, Ping Yuen Jacky (徐秉源) Abstract: For wave guiding applications at sub-millimeter or terahertz frequencies, the currently adopted metallic waveguides will need to be scaled smaller and smaller in order to satisfy low order mode operation at high frequencies. However, as the size of the metallic waveguides is downscaled, the difficulty of fabricating such waveguides with high precision using conventional milling methods is increased and hence cost. In view of this problem, dielectric waveguides were proposed to guide sub-millimeter or terahertz waves. Nonetheless, the aim of these proposed dielectric waveguides is focused on transmission-line applications rather than as components in waveguide circuits. On the other hand, prior works on planar dielectric waveguide exists but these approaches faces tremendous fabrication difficulty and was not fabricated. In this thesis, we propose to use commercially available injection molding technique to fabricate a new sub-millimeter planar circuit platform that is low loss, low cost, mass producible and most importantly is also compatible with current adopted metallic waveguides for sub-millimeter wave applications and is able to be fabricated into waveguide circuit components. The study can be divided into four parts. First of all, the first section focuses on picking a low loss dielectric polymer as the material of the waveguide, measuring the absorption spectrum and calculating the refractive index and absorption coefficient of different polymers. Next section provides an insight to the fabrication process of the waveguides, such as design of the waveguide and the injection molding process. Then the measurement setup is discussed in the following section and the results of the fabricated waveguides are presented along with analysis. Finally, the thesis is concluded with some ongoing future works. Notes: CityU Call Number: TK7871.65 .T77 2015; x, 74 pages : color illustrations 30 cm; Thesis (M.Phil.)--City University of Hong Kong, 2015.; Includes bibliographical references. 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Memory-based hardware architectures for regular expression matching Or, Nga Lam (柯雅琳) http://dspace.cityu.edu.hk:80/handle/2031/8622 2016-11-09T03:42:03Z 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Title: Memory-based hardware architectures for regular expression matching Authors: Or, Nga Lam (柯雅琳) Abstract: Signature-based intrusion detection systems (IDS) and anti-virus systems detect potential threats via byte-by-byte content inspection. Today, more and more intrusion signatures and computer viruses are specified using regular expression (regex). Matching an input data stream against a set of regex patterns is a computation intensive task. Accompanying the rapidly increasing data traffic over the Internet, the design of hardware accelerator to speed up regex matching has been an active research area. A systematic approach to detect regex is based on finite automaton. The space-time trade-off between deterministic finite automaton (DFA) and non-deterministic finite automaton (NFA) is well-known. DFA can offer constant throughput but it may suffer from the state explosion problem. Therefore, implementation of DFA-base match engine for large pattern set on embedded device with limited on-chip memory is not viable. NFA-based match engine requires linear space but the throughput is unacceptably low if it is implemented using the conventional lookup-table based method. Implementing the NFA-based match engine with hardwired circuits may overcome the speed deficiency by exploiting the massive parallelism offered by dedicated hardware circuitries, but this approach does not support efficient dynamic updates to the pattern set. In this thesis I shall present cost-effective memory-based hardware architectures for regex matching. Results presented in this thesis are based on the regex patterns taken from the Snort IDS and the ClamAV anti-virus system. The size of the pattern set in a typical IDS installation is in the order of hundred, whereas the size of the pattern set in an anti-virus system is in the order of 10 thousand. Hence, scalability of the matching method is a major issue for anti-virus application. One of the objectives in this research is to implement a virus detection engine on a single FPGA. This task is unprecedented and is extremely challenging given the fact that the size of the virus database is greater than the amount of on-chip memory available in state-of-the-art FPGA. The major contributions of this thesis are two folds. First, a memory-based NFA regex matching architecture, called MX-NFA, for intrusion detection is developed. MX-NFA is based on a novel concept of active transition rule table that can be implemented using on-chip block RAM with simple embedded control circuits. Each transition rule only contains a transition symbol and the associated control flags, and no explicit state IDs are maintained. Individual transition rules can be enabled or disabled by the associated control circuits based on the input sequence. The system does not explicitly maintain the set of active states. Instead, all the out-going transition rules from an active state of the underlining NFA are enabled, and out-going transition rules from an inactive state are disabled. When the input character matches the transition symbol of an enabled transition rule, the corresponding rule will be fired and it may in turn activate the transition rules associated with the corresponding next state. The MX-NFA regex matching engine requires linear space and offers constant processing speed of one character per cycle. In addition, dynamic updates to the pattern set can be handled easily by simply modifying the data stored in the internal tables and registers without any hardware reconfiguration. The number of regex patterns in a typical virus database is in the order of 10 thousand. It is not possible to implement the regex matching engine for such a large pattern set on a single FPGA using conventional byte-oriented matching methods. The second contribution of my thesis is the proposed information reduction approach to regex matching for very large pattern set in anti-virus application. Instead of following the conventional byte-oriented matching approach, the virus signatures are treated as equivalent token-based patterns. A token is a non-trivial sub-pattern (which may contain regex features) extracted from the underlying patterns. The tokens can be seen as a hypothetical alphabet set with very large cardinality, e.g. the number of unique tokens is greater than the number of regexes in the pattern set. The input byte-stream is transformed into a token-stream using cost-effective hardware modules, where the number of tokens in the token-stream is much smaller than the number of bytes in the original input stream. A byte value is usually contained in a couple of thousand patterns, but in general a given token is contained in one or a few patterns only. When a token is received, the NFA-based detection system will only need to make a few state transitions. As a result, the complexity of the underlying automaton can be reduced substantially, and cost-effective implementation in hardware is viable. The proposed method to detect the 9700 regexes in the ClamAV virus database only requires 2.24MB of on-chip memory. Together with the previous results of our research group on the design of string matching engine, it is possible to implement a hardware detection engine for the full set of ClamAV embedded virus signatures with 90 thousand strings and 9700 regexes on a single FPGA. Notes: CityU Call Number: TK5105.59 .O7 2015; xi, 126 pages : illustrations (some color) 30 cm; Thesis (Ph.D.)--City University of Hong Kong, 2015.; Includes bibliographical references (pages 120-125) 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z


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Four arrested by gardai in connection with false imprisonment and blackmail incidents
Gardaí from Wexford have arrested two men, aged 25 and 33 years, and two women, 31 and 48 years, in connection with investigations into false imprisonment, blackmail and criminal damage incidents that occurred in Gorey, Co Wexford between January 25 and February 3 this year.
The four people were arrested in Gorey and Enniscorthy this morning at approximately 8.30am.
Three of those arrested, two men and a woman, are currently detained at Enniscorthy and Wexford Garda stations under the provisions of Section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act, 1939-'98 as amended.
The fourth person, a woman aged 48 years, was detained at Gorey Garda Station under the provisions of Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1984.
She was released this evening from Garda custody without charge.
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5th KALAYAAN PARADE IN HISTORIC FILIPINOTOWN, JUNE 03, 2017
For Immediate Release
5th HFT Kalayaan Organizing Committee, 2017 (5K0C 2017).
April 18, 2017
Historic Filipinotown Kalayaan Parade Slated On Saturday, June 03, 2017
Los Angeles– Mabuhay ang ika-Limang KALAYAAN Parade Sa Araw ng Kalayaan sa HFT, June 03, 2017
The 5th Historic Filipintown Kalayaan Organizing Committee (5KOC) proudly announced today that the 5th Kalayaan Parade for Historic Filipinotown will be held on Saturday, at 9 AM June 03, 2017 to celebrate the 119th Philippine Independence Day, June 12, 1989 from Spain.
The assembly area is in front of the Silverlake Medical Center (SLMC) at Temple Street at 8;00AM. The parade starts at 9;00 AM.
The 5KOC is comprised of member organizations led by the Justice For FiIipino American Veterans (JFAV), Historic Filipinotown Neighborhood Council (HFNC), KNIGHTS OF RIZAl-HISTORIC FILIPINO TOWN (KOR-HFT), BANTAY PILIPINAS-USA.
Other groups are the legal Filipino American Community of Los Angeles (FACLA); Philippine Institute of Language, Arts and Culture (PILAC Inc), TALAKAYAN CLUB and Alliance-Philippines (AJLPP).
The Filipino Christian Church (FCC), KOR-California Chapter, the Echo Park Community Coalition (EPCC), the Christian Fellowshio Committee, The Rampart Village Neighborhood Council (RVNC) and other groups.
On Outreach for 5th HFT June 03 Kalayaan Parade
The 5KOC is now outreaching to Filipino-American and allied organizations who have joined the HFT Kalayaan Parade in the past.
The Kalayaan Parade started as a collaboration between the Philippine Consulate General of Los Angeles and FACLA with JFAV in June 2013 .
Since then it has been held since every first week of June. and since then forms an expanding organizing commitee for the yearly event.
More than 50 Organizations
Last year, more than 50 organizations from HFT and around Los Angeles joined the parade. More than 50 motorcyclist from Philippine Hurley Riders Club joined the parade.
The Parade starts at Temple St and goes around the Beverly-Temple corridor of the last four years.
This year, the 5KOC is trying to call out marching bands in the FilAm community to make the parade livelier.


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5 Eating Mistakes That Kill Your Possibility To Lose Weight
If you work on a treadmill, but never have a lifting and dieting plan, then you're missing out the most important pieces of a fitness puzzle. Not only does weight training and diet strengthens the joints, but also helps to build muscle mass and increases the metabolic rate.
Your diet and workout will not show satisfactory results in just one week. There is a vast difference between losing weight and becoming skinny. People often have a wrong view about it. Avoid making any of these 5 mistakes that may block your path towards losing your extra weight.
1- Choosing a diet of your favourite delicacies
A good diet aims at reducing your cravings for heavy meals and not deepen them. An effective diet will not have what you love to eat. You can either submit to your urges or have an admirable physique and fitness code. You lose weight while responding to your body's needs!
2- Are you on diet? Well, sort of….
If you are on a diet-and- exercise plan, do not follow it half-heartedly and expect good results in return. Do not cheat on your plans, or you'll see the pounds increase on your body. Do not blame your diet if you are not dedicated!
3- Jumping From One Diet To Another
A balanced diet is one of the keys to a healthy and fit body. Let your coach decide your diet and follow it. Do not listen to the free tips given by the freshmen. A body takes time to adjust to a diet – so give it some time.
A body mass and density varies from person to person. A wrong diet may have an adverse effect on your body structure. A coach or a trainer is the best person to analyse your physique and know which areas you need to work on. Just because your brother has lost weight or gained muscle, due to a particular diet, doesn't mean that you will too.
One diet never fits all!
5- You do not Sync your diet with your workouts
Whatever food you consume, it needs to be put to work. If you are on a high calorie diet for muscle gain and do not follow a strict work-out, then you are sure to get fat. Workout not only helps to burn the extra fats, but also provide ample energy to push yourself through your workout.
A diet should be planned around your workout to achieve your goal for looking PERFECT.
Giving up on essential food can lead to nutritional deficiency and can activate cravings for food that should be avoided! Follow a strict lifting and dieting programme.
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Junior National Account Manager
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- D R Newitt
- Location
- South East England / West London area
- Salary
- £30-35k + car + bonus + benefits
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- 15 Feb 2017
- Closes
- 15 Mar 2017
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- Function
- Category Management, National Accounts, Sales
- Business Sector
- Food & Drink
- Hours
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent
Are you an Account Executive, NAE or JNAM with top 4 multiple experience looking to further your career? If you are looking for a great business which is profitable, growing and ambitious, or maybe you wish to have more autonomy and decision making capability with a major customer then look no further this opportunity could be the role for you.
I am working exclusively with a category leading branded food business who are seeking sales person to manage categories with a top 4 multiple that will be a key development account for them. The supply on a branded and own label basis across multiple categories.
Opportunities and challenges for the new incumbent include:
• Improving and developing current retail relationships
• Improve household penetration and consumer awareness
• New categories
• New product innovation
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The most common error in not striking the ball cleanly is termed falling off the ball
When taking a powerful shot, also make fifa 15 coins a conscious effort to more explosively snap the knee to make that lever of the lower leg and rigid, stiff ankle crush the instep through the ball.
Shooting the ball is usually initiated with a run-up of three or four steps, approach- ing the ball from an angle of 5 to 10 degrees to the target line Coming from this slight angle allows a smooth strike of the ball full on the instep.
Another critical element in striking the ball is the hop onto the support (nonkick- ing) foot. The hop allows time for the kinetic chain to load the hip and cock the kicking leg prior to striking the ball. The support foot lands 10 to 12 inches (about 25 to 30 cm) laterally from the ball. Although many coaches teach that the support foot should land beside the ball, a more precise placement is a line through the junction of the foot and big toe of the support foot, running across and through the center of the ball. Also, make sure that the knee of the support leg is flexed at contact. A flexed knee facilitates the ability to drive the strik- ing foot through the ball and achieve a strike that stays parallel to the ground. This parallel strike is vital to keeping the shot low.
In an efficient follow-through, the kicking foot follows the target line, and the momentum from a powerful strike pulls the support foot off the ground, also along the target line. If the ball is struck cleanly, the player lands on the kicking foot, with body propelled along the target line. Visualize a round, compact body driving the kicking foot through the center of the ball and continuing along the target line.
Both player and coach can monitor the correctness of the strike by observing the spin on the ball as it flies through the air. A ball struck cleanly will have either no spin or a slight bit of backspin A ball struck in this manner flies straighter through the air and travels at a faster velocity. A ball spinning laterally (sidespin) has not been struck correctly and bends in the direction of the spin. When a player strikes the ball, the foot must travel through the midline of the ball along the target line. If the knee points outward at contact, the foot will hit through the ball on a line to the outside of the intended target line. Typically, this occurs when players approach the ball at too great an angle in an effort to strike the ball on the instep, and the resulting contact occurs with the kneecap and the instep pointing to the outside of the target line. While a soccer player often wants to make the ball bend, learning the proper technique of powerfully driving the ball at goal is the first objective.
The most common error in not striking the ball cleanly is termed falling off the ball, which occurs when a player finishes with a sideways, falling motion to the left as the right foot crosses over the left on the follow-through. The body should become like a cannonball, driving the instep through the center of the ball and continuing along the target line.
To achieve the desired cannonball effect, a player should approach the ball straighter on than normal (closer to the intended target line) and focus on keep- ing the kneecap pointed at the target. This helps ensure that the instep will drive through the ball along the target line and the whole body will finish the strike moving toward the target. The upper body will have a slight curl. With the shoulder of the kicking foot moving over the point at which the ball was struck, the cannonball effect will result.


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Interview #1 (of 3)
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Another meme thinger! I got (self)tagged by Nomi800
Feel free to modify the questions to fit!
If you're seeing it you're automatically tagged (that's the initial rule? I'm not sure)
Today is Fahren, tomorrow I'll post Eddie's and then Viv for last ^-^
1. How do you feel having been one of the three peeps picked out for the interview meme? People voted for you!! 😀
→ Fahren: It kinda surprised me actually! Thank you for the cuties who voted on me <3
2. What was your childhood like?
→ Fahren: Hnng, I'm not going to enter in much details, let's keep the moods up in here… but in general, my mama and nainai took care of me while they could. I came up well anyway and I was generally happy. I had good parents~
3. If you could go back in time and change one thing, what would it be?
→ Fahren: Give us some money or then at least a medical insurance to my nainai. I think she could be still alive if we had some better conditions… pfft. Oh well. *shrug*
4. How much do you weigh?
→ Fahren: Shhhh, no. Never ask something like that to a lady~
5. Have you ever loved and lost?
→ Fahren: Errr, nah.
6- What do you do for a living, and why?
→ Fahren: I'm the manager of a spa. I've been sticking up in there since my first contract, as secretary. It was still a small biz back then and I had to book everything up by myself, but now we've got plentiful of people. Things are running very smoothly, my boss is the babest babe in our office <3 I'm pretty happy about it.
7. What kind of music do you listen to? Do you play any instruments? If so, which ones?
→ Fahren: Anything, really! I'm very eclectic about it, huhu. Although Pop and the dance-y ones are my favorites 😀
I don't really play anything… but I'd love to learn keyboards. Or anything else! Free classes anyone?
8. How old are you?
→ Fahren: Blossom of age la. Twenty four~
9. What is the most annoying thing in the world?
→ Fahren: Wanting to blot up your lipstick and having no handkerchief or some paper available :/ Not even yelling customers do annoy me more than this…
10. What is your favorite word?
→ Fahren: Not a word, but POK GAI!!! It feels great to shout it out.
11. Do you have any interesting hobbies?
→ Fahren: I keep all the used tub stubbies from my lipsticks after they're gone. I have literally a bucket of it. Okay… that's not really a hobby. I just don't know what to say :/ I club, go shopping an to the beach sometimes, pretty average for my age?
12. What's the most romantic thing anyone has ever done for you…?
→ Fahren: Maybe the engagement proposal I got back in my teens. It was so uncalled, but so awkwardly cute too. He even got on his knees to give me the ring and said some bunch mushy of speech, all of that stuff you know tsc tsc 😛
I think about it and realize of how it was silly, back then…
-…buuuut then what happened??
→ Fahren: …..uhm. I… pawned it 😡
-…you pawned off the ring you got? OAO
→ Fahren: Uh-huh :/
I know! No need to say anything. Doing something like that probably makes me sound heartless and a mega-bitch, but… you don't understaaaaand, I really needed that money! =A=;; I worked as homemaker and waitress, my shifts sucked, my pay sucked, my bosses rode on my back all the time, it was hell.
Don't worry, I made up to my mistake and the poor thing survived the heartbreak. I even repaid to him later.
13. PFFFT, okay then. Everyone has an adrenaline fix, what's yours?
→ Fahren: I get on my bike and go pedalling super fast with my dog running beside me on the park, on weekends. He's a cutie and the best coach I could ask for <3
14. What do you do to relax at the end of a long day?
→ Fahren: I have some fun with my friends or whomever might be staying over…. if you know what I mean~~
15. Do you have any obsessions?
→ Fahren: I don't think so… I'm pretty normal in all my likes (I think) :3
16. What is your nationality?
→ Fahren: Taiwanese!
17. What languages can you speak?
→ Fahren: Mandarin, Hokkien, english and italian.
18. If you could own ANY animal in the world as a pet, what would it be?
→ Fahren: A dinosaur! Imagine how many leather bags, good shoes and awesome belts I could make out of it? *A*
Just kidding, don't hit me XD
19. What do others think your best quality is?
→ Fahren: My lips! I get a lot of compliments on it. 😉
20. Who do you consider to be your hero?
→ Fahren: Ana Matronic!! Or then Maryse Ouellet. I watched the whole Diva Championship because of her :O
21. Have you ever been in a fight? Did you win?
→ Fahren: Hnnng, just those high school bitch-slapping hair-pulling face-scratching tit-punching things in a long looong time ago. What girl didn't go through these things? It's kind of a passage rite to womanhood.
I'm pretty peaceful nowadays…
22. What's a random thing you find yourself doing every day?
→ Fahren: I blot up my lipstick like every half-hour, more or less. I can go pretty obsessive with it.
23. SPEED FAVORITES GO! Book, Movie, Game, Food, Drink, Color!?
→ Fahren: Some from Virginia Woolf's collection (Can't choose!!), Bikini Bandits, I don't play games, nantou with mushrooms! Jello margaritas and purple ;3
24. Where is your house located and what is it like? Do you live alone or does someone live with you?
→ Fahren: I live alone. It's a little apartment on the suburb. We don't have much room for a barbecue or these things, but at least I got a pretty roomy place for guests <3
25. What is the most sentimental thing you own and why?
→ Fahren: A framed portrait of tiny me, mama and nainai. It's a very old picture…
Because it's family stuff, obviously.
26. Are you in a relationship? How's it working out for you?
→ Fahren: Naww, no. Not in a relationship, so guess I can't really answer to that </3
27. What's the worst you've ever been injured or sick?
→ Fahren: Hmm, I've broke an arm once and I got sprained toes a couple times. I've had flu, chicken pox, etc etc, but nothing else too threatening or surprising. Just the same things as everyone. Thankfully maybe? :/
28. What scares you the most?
→ Fahren: Getting pregnant. Or maybe getting some bad disease. I keep myself checked regularly…
29. Something random about you that people don't know?
→ Fahren: I love yard sales. Specially yard sales of dead people's stuff… huhu. Might sound freaky to some, but sometimes you can find really good stuff! I've found several shoes and bags of high quality for suuuuch a friendly price ;D
30. Do you have any pets?
→ Fahren: I've mentioned already, my dog. His name is Ba-wan and he's my big ball of mush <3
31. Okay that's all!!! What did you think of this interview?
→ Fahren: It was fun! I hope there is another sometime else 🙂
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"She invited us to her 35th birthday! We were so excited!" trills Beyoncé (pronounced Bay-onsay) Knowles, founder member and lead singer of Destiny's Child. She's reminiscing about the first time they met Whitney Houston, in 1998.
"We scrambled up all our money, got us some outfits. We were the only group that came dressed as a group. Everybody was sayin': 'Y'all are like the Supremes.'" When Knowles and Kelly Rowland (second singer) shook Houston's hand, they both burst into tears.
These are the things that R'n'B dreams are made of. But there was to be more. Destiny's Child took off, and this year, in their youthful exuberance, the trio asked Houston to appear with them at the US MTV Awards. "We were gonna say: 'We've found the fourth member,'" Knowles says gleefully. Then pauses. "But it didn't work out. Never mind. She's an inspiration to us all."
It's not surprising that R&B's queen diva declined the offer of playing fourth fiddle to the biggest teen girl group in America (she's got a lot on her mind these days). But it's that combination of naivety and Southern sass that has seen the Texan girls clock up 6m sales of their second album, The Writing's on the Wall. The record has birthed four huge hit singles, including Bills, Bills, Bills and Say My Name, and is still shifting 70,000 units per week.
A year ago they were virtual R&B nobodies, now they have Grammy nominations and Mobo awards coming out of their ears. It has not been plain sailing, however. With the acrimonious departure of two original members earlier this year, and the recent exit of fourth member Farrah Franklin after just five months, job security in Destiny's Child is up there with the manager's seat at Chelsea FC.
Q gets the full story on the day that Destiny's Child – DC to their fans – are to appear at the MTV Awards in New York. Knowles, Rowland (19) and third member Michelle Williams (20) arrive in a stretch limousine at Chelsea Piers, an entertainment complex by the river. The sofa disappears under mountains of Prada and Gucci handbags. The photographer and his crew are furiously painting a backdrop in time for the photo session, but they needn't have worried. Hair and make-up takes five hours.
While her sistas get ready, Knowles chats to Q in a café overlooking the Hudson. She's a self-assured and extremely beautiful 19-year-old who regularly clicks her fingers or punches her right hand into her left palm to illustrate a point. Q asks a question, and Knowles just … goes.
In a soft Texan drawl she tells how, at nine years old, already a veteran of talent shows and beauty pageants, she and schoolmate Rowland formed a group in their hometown of Houston. They were joined by friends LeToya Luckett and LeTavia Robertson, and managed by Knowles's father Matthew. The group jetted round the country playing talent showcases, in an effort to get a record deal. They would dedicate every summer vacation to the group, rehearsing five hours a day. They would watch archive tapes of the Supremes, analyzing the Motown stars' every move. A vocal coach moved into their back apartment and, instead of paying rent, gave the group voice lessons.
"We were young and sacrificed a lot. I had to give up cheerleading, as did the others," says Knowles.
Dad left his job selling medical equipment and dedicated himself to DC. Mom took time away from her Houston hair salon to become the girls' stylist and personal assistant. In 1995, now aged 13, they were signed to Elektra by Sylvia Rhone, the woman behind En Vogue. They had a short-lived production deal with LA and Babyface sideman Daryl Simmonds, and then they got dropped.
"We thought the world was at an end," sighs Knowles. But it wasn't and Columbia signed them within the month. DC spent the next two years recording their self-titled debut. Though produced mainly by Dwayne Wiggins from hyperactive R'n'B boys Tony! Toni! Tone!, the stand-out track No, No, No was cut with Fugees impresario Wyclef Jean. Through him, DC arrived at their trademark staccato, rhythmic style almost by accident.
"We were in the studio one night with Wyclef, all really tired. I sang melody to the fast music track, for a joke and Wyclef said, That's hot! Do it like that," recalls Knowles. At first she refused, saying she sounded like a chipmunk. Eventually she agreed to try. The girls recorded the song in 57 minutes, and came up with a No 1 R&B hit. "That's how the whole fast-singing rhythmic thing started," says Knowles. "Then we went right into recording the next album." The follow-up, The Writing's on the Wall, was banged out in two months.
Knowles wrote and co-produced 17 tracks with She'kspere and Timbaland, superstar producers of tricky-clicky R&B, and also worked with Missy Elliott. The result is an audacious mix of raw R&B bass beats, baroque samples and daring vocal harmonies, a cross between TLC and Kraftwerk.
"I grew up listening to Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, En Vogue. I like old school. Kelly is more alternative, and we both listen to gospel. When you bring all that together, it's really cool," says Knowles. As each single "blew up" in the US and Europe, DC crossed over to the pop market with ease, and seemingly couldn't put a foot wrong. But in February 2000 they had what Knowles calls "The Change".
They were about to shoot the video for Say My Name, which was to be their biggest hit so far, when Luckett and Robertson sent a letter to the DC office firing Matthew Knowles as manager. This came after months of internal tension within the group. Knowles chooses her words carefully.
"We tried everything. Counselling with our church, our youth pastor. Rotating rooms. But it was two and two. Our vision of the group was different from theirs." The other two, it seems, wanted DC to be more "street" and less Christian. They complained about money, but Knowles insists that everything was split 25%. After protracted negotiation, the two girls left the group.
"It was a stressful time for Kelly and I," says Knowles. "We were very depressed and hurt."
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The remaining two soldiered on, prayed hard, and found two new members – Michelle Williams, a former backing singer with Monica, and Farrah Franklin, a dancer in their 'Bills, Bills, Bills' video.
Since then Luckett and Robertson have apparently been "dissin'" the band in the press. The remaining two have kept quiet. But now Rowland, tall with cropped hair and a feisty attitude, lets rip.
"They were very negative and jealous. Am I right? I don't sound mean, do I? I'm just tellin' the truth," she says, while Knowles's mother Rina, a friendly, mumsy woman with a smart blouse and a pierced eyebrow adds: "They didn't have the ability."
"They weren't able to do leads by themselves," says Rowland. "We went to voice lessons because we wanted strong vocals. They wouldn't do that."
Billy B, make-up artist to Dc, Mary J Blige, Pink, and a good friend of drag queen RuPaul, butts in: "… I told you a hundred times!" Everyone laughs.
"They were late for interviews and photo shoots. That's not the philosophy of Destiny's Child," continues Mrs K. "The group is serious about what they do. Nothin' comes before DC but God."
"They'd just show up when it was time to make money," snips Rowland.
"Go Kelly!!" screeches Billy B.
Farrah Franklin, too, fell foul of the DC regime – it appears it all got too much for her. One day she failed to show up for an MTV show in Sacramento.
"That was such a huge thing for us," says Knowles testily. "It took us nine years to get on MTV. We'd worked so hard to get to that point. Whatever your problems, can't you hold off until you get back to the hotel? It showed how she'd only been in this for five months. That's what happens when you give somebody that kind of success in two weeks and they don't have to work for it."
And since then they've carried on with just the three of them. Reviews have been good, sales are still high and the only thing they have to worry about now is their image. Girl groups are routinely required to "up" the foxy factor, and the devout DC find themselves treading a line between sensual and sexually explicit. When they squeeze into today's costumes (racy rock'n'roll motorcycle chic), there is consternation over the size of William's cleavage. The ever-inventive Tina Knowles has customized three black leather S&M corsets, covering them with rhinestones to give them a bit of dazzle. The only problem is Williams is revealing a little too much. Mrs K pokes at the girl's curvy bosom.
"If it's too open, we press 'em back down," explains Williams. From Rockford, Illinois, she has been part of the Pentecostal church all her life. "Back in the day it was a very strict religion, and some women still don't believe in wearing pants, make up, highlights in your hair. I didn't come up in that era. I wear pants and sexy tops."
Despite their bare legs and midriffs, the group are careful to keep things the right side of smutty. "Classy" is the DC buzzword.
"People have tried to get us into bathing suits," says Knowles, "but there's a line we draw. We wear nothin' with our butt cheeks out, our boobs out. We like sexy clothes, but still classy. Not so people can say, How can they wear that and be a Christian?"
To those R&B girls who like to reveal more, Knowles says diplomatically that it's "their business. Who am I to judge them?"
DC have a huge following amongst drag queens, a factor no doubt enhanced by Independent Women, DC's contribution to the Charlie's Angels film soundtrack. That's to be the title of their next album and ideas are already in the mix, along with plans for Knowles to do a solo project. Her star quality has been noted, but she is not about to do a Diana Ross. "I heard Prince wrote a song for me, I'd love to work with him," she gushes, "If I do, it'll probably be as a solo side project, but I wouldn't do it to compete with the group."
Come 5pm the girls are to be at the MTV Awards in an hour, and they still haven't done the photo session. Billy hurries with the make-up, applying thick kohl to Knowles' eyelid. "I'm doing a modern version of a Sophia Loren eye," he informs Q. "A bit 70s, A bit Ursula Andress."
The girls are laced into tight corsets and impossibly high heels. Williams, a former criminal justice and sociology undergraduate, tries to breathe. "With beauty comes pain," she sighs. "My feet are hurting, and this corset is very painful."
She doesn't mind too much, is the implication, because it's all part of God's plan.
"He's here with us now. It's weird how he shows up," she says softly.
Q looks around.
"He's a friend. Sometimes you gotta sit and listen. That guy can respond to you."
The minutes are counting down, and soon DC will have to get into their stretch limo. The photographer is having kittens. When the trio finally stand in front of that pearly pink backdrop, the results are electrifying. Striking one pose after another, they make graceful, dramatic shapes – sort of Blanche DuBois meets En Vogue. Despite their magnificent effort, Tony, their hulk of a bodyguard, is getting bored.
"Say quarter pounder," he asks Q. We oblige, and Tony cracks up. "Kwarta pownda," he mimics.
In an attempt to distract him, Q asks who DC has to be guarded from. At first their audience was "small kids and 80% females", he says but, now they're getting older, men are interested. "Mostly," Tony concludes, "I'm protecting their jewellery."
Once the session ends, the girls dispense kisses all round, rush to do an extra shoot for the Until There's A Cure AIDS charity next door, and make for the MTV Awards. After the show that night they have to finish a track in the studio before doing another day's intensive promotion. There's no rest for the fabulous.