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Patrick Robinson allegedly fired from Armani Exchange over bracelet
By Stephanie Smith
June 23, 2014 | 10:01pm
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Fashion designer Patrick Robinson is out at A/X Armani Exchange, just as sources are buzzing that some of his accessory designs for the brand were uncannily similar to those by New York-based jewelry company David Yurman, Page Six can exclusively reveal.
Robinson, who signed on as creative director of Armani Exchange in March 2013, was let go quietly several weeks ago. Sources told us it was because his collection had not sold well.
But others say there may have been another reason Robinson was pushed aside. The designer created a "torc" bracelet for Armani Exchange's men's collection made from recycled bullets and handguns, with proceeds going to nonprofit Liberty United to fight gun violence.
But we're told David Yurman notified Armani Exchange that bracelets Robinson designed in his collection were allegedly too similar to Yurman's iconic cable cuff bracelets.
One source told us David Yurman fired off a legal letter to Armani Exchange demanding it stop selling the bracelets.
The insider explained, "Steady declining sales were the main reason for his exit, but this issue was the smoking gun."
David Yurman reps denied that a cease-and-desist letter was sent. An Armani Exchange rep told us, "Patrick Robinson left the brand amicably several weeks ago. His departure and this alleged claim of the Yurman's sending us a cease-and-desist letter are entirely unrelated."
Before Robinson's stint at Armani Exchange, he was creative director at The Gap from 2007 to 2011, until he was fired after sales at the retailer tanked. In 2013, he launched his own line of men's lounge wear, Paskho, sold exclusively through crowd-funding website Kickstarter.
Robinson, a graduate of Parsons School of Design, worked for Giorgio Armani, Perry Ellis, Anne Klein and Paco Rabanne earlier in his career.
Besides his pedigree, Robinson is considered part of fashion's elite for another reason — he's married to Virginia Smith, Vogue's market director for fashion and accessories.
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| 46727 Hidekimatsuyama||||30 вересня 1997||Обсерваторія Наніо||Томімару Окуні
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Those born from 1928-1945 are know as the Traditional/Silent Individuals. They follow the rules and have a strong respect for authority. As employees, they are loyal to the organization and their work responsibilities take precedence over their personal pursuits.
Baby Boomers were born between 1946 and 1964 and are the first workaholics, valuing hard work and education. They prefer fact to face interactions, and formal communication styles. Also are know to be status conscious and respect driven.
Generation X are individuals born from 1965 to 1979 and seek work-life balance and prefer an informal, fun environment. They are self-reliant and prefer individual projects and minimal supervision, although work well in groups. Generation X wants informal and quick communication.
Generation Y (Millennials) were born between 1988 and 1994 and are the most diverse in ethnicity. They are motivated by encouragement and rewards and are optimistic, confident and civic-minded. They want constant email communications, speedy decisions and information to be available immediately.
Generation Z (Next) is the last generation born and has experienced a tough economy, terrorism and complexities of life. They plan to be pioneers, are multi-taskers and are connected to technology at times. They operate on a personal and professional level base on a fear of missing out.
Lynette led group discussions on how the characteristics and values of each generation affect the community and its needs, and how to create an inclusive environment regardless of age and generational differences.
Lynette Chappell-Williams, JD, is the Chief Diversity Officer and Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion for Penn State Health and Penn State College of Medicine. She is a lawyer, by training, but has focused on creating more diverse and inclusive workplaces for the past 18 years.


A significant volume of research examines value creation (total value created in a given relational transaction between two or more firms) and value appropriation (level of value the focal firm captures) as two major components managers examine when considering the outsourcing choice. However, scholars have paid far less attention to the trade-offs managers of a focal firm make when they consider the total value an outsourcing choice creates and the value they expect the firm to capture. In a study of 1,728 decisions made by 72 managers with outsourcing experience, we examine how managers distribute importance (i.e., utility) between these two important value components, and whether or not heterogeneity exists in managerial preference models. Our analysis finds that managers' expectation about the total value an outsourcing engagement will create has a positive influence on the decision to outsource. Moreover, the level of value managers expect to appropriate strengthens this relationship when the value an outsourcing engagement creates involves shared investments in resources and capabilities. We also find significant idiosyncrasy in managerial preference models. In several cases, the characteristics of the decision maker explain a large portion of the variance in the decision to outsource.
حجم قابل توجهی از تحقیقات، ایجاد ارزش را بررسی می کند (ارزش کل ایجاد شده در یک معامله ارتباطی معین بین دو یا چند شرکت) و تخصیص ارزش (سطح ارزش شرکت های کانتینری)، به عنوان دو مدیر اجرایی مهم در هنگام انتخاب برون سپاری مورد بررسی قرار می گیرد. با این حال، محققان توجه کمتری به مدیران شرکت کننده در یک شرکت کانتی ایجاد کرده اند، زمانی که ارزش کل ارزش انتخاب برون سپاری را تعیین می کنند و ارزش آنها را که انتظار می رود شرکت را جذب کند. در مطالعه ای که از 728 تصمیم گرفته شده توسط 72 مدیر با تجربه برون سپاری گرفته شده است، ما بررسی می کنیم که چگونه مدیران اهمیت (یعنی ابزار) را میان این دو مولفه ارزشمند مهم توزیع می کنند و اینکه آیا در مدل های ترجیحی مدیریتی وجود دارد یا خیر. تجزیه و تحلیل ما نشان می دهد که انتظارات مدیران در مورد ارزش کل یک فرایند جذب خارجی، تأثیر مثبتی بر تصمیم گیری برون سپاری دارد. علاوه بر این، سطح مدیران ارزش انتظار می رود که این رابطه را تقویت کند، زمانی که ارزش ایجاد تعامل با برون سپاری شامل سرمایه گذاری مشترک در منابع و توانایی ها می شود. همچنین در مدل های ترجیحی مديريت، مشخص می شود. در چند مورد، ویژگی های تصمیم گیرنده بخش بزرگی از واریانس در تصمیم به خارج از سایت را توضیح می دهد.


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Repost of CBC Books Black History Month: 6 Black Canadian Writers to Watch in 2019 by Ryan B. Patrick.
In honour of Black History Month, CBC Books is highlighting six Canadian authors of black heritage who are making their mark on the national literature scene.
Zalika Reid-Benta is a Toronto-based author. (House of Anansi Press)Zalika Reid-Benta is a Toronto-based author. Lauded by George Elliott Clarke as a 'writer to watch', Reid-Benta explores race, identity and culture through the lens of second-generation Caribbean Canadians in her work. The Columbia MFA gradudate's debut novel Frying Plantain is a series of interconnected stories featuring a young black female protagonist in West end Toronto neighbourhood. Frying Plantain is set for a spring 2019 release.
Whitney French is an writer, editor and literacy advocate. (Whitney French)Whitney French is a writer, storyteller and educator. Her self-published poetry collection 3 Cities came out in 2012. Her latest work is Black Writers Matter, an anthology of African Canadian writing — edited and curated by French — which features a cross-section of established and emerging authors. Mentored by author David Chariandy, French also has several literary works in development.
Chantal Gibson is a Vancouver-based author, poet and educator. (Dale Northey)Vancouver-based Chantal Gibson is a artist, poet and educator. Her 2019 book How She Read is a collection of genre-blurring poems about the representation of black women in Canada from a cultural perspective. With ancestral roots in Nova Scotia, Gibson's literary approach is dedicated to challenging imperialist ideas by way of a close look at Canadian literature, history, art, media and pop culture.
Kaie Kellough is a Montreal-based author, novelist and poet. (Marie-Claude Plasse)Kaie Kellough is a Montreal-based poet, novelist, and self-described "word-sound systemizer." His experimental novel Accordéon explores the intersection of French and English culture and was a finalist for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award in 2017. Kellough was a 2018 CBC Short Story Prize reader and released the poetry collection Magnetic Equator in 2019.
Ben Philippe is a Montreal-raised writer based in New York. (HarperCollins)Ben Philippe is of Haitian descent, was raised in Montreal and is now based in New York. Philippe has an MFA in fiction and screenwriting, has contributed to publications like Vanity Fair, The Guardian and Playboy and in 2019 released his debut YA novel, The Field Guide to the North American Teenager, about a wisecracking black French Canadian teenager who moves to to Austin, Texas.
Sarah Raughley is an author of fantasy novels. (Melanie Gillis)Sarah Raughley is a fantasy novelist from Southern Ontario. Raughley's recently completed YA Effigies series, which includes Fate of Flames, Siege of Shadows and Legacy of Light, involves four young women are imbued with the powers of the four elements and tasked with protecting the world from the evil Phantoms. Her forthcoming fantasy book, The Bones of Ruins, features a black protagonist in Victorian England.
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Monday, Oct. 3 marked National Mean Girls Day where we celebrated cinema's nastiest mean girls. There are two queen bees that many pop culture lovers would argue deserves the crown for most conniving, manipulative and cruelest mean girl ever: Kathryn Merteuil from "Cruel Intentions" (1999) and Regina George from "Mean Girls" (2004). So, who's the girl from the movies you really don't wanna mess with? Read more and vote below!
WatchMojo's Top 10 mean girls in movies ranked Regina George at #1 and Kathryn Merteuil at #2—meaning they can go head-to-head in this match up!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVrn0q0PJMU
Regina George is the antagonist from a little popular film called "Mean Girls"; so by the movie's title and her role in it, you know she is a force to be reckoned with, right? RIGHT!
Regina George is the ultimate manipulator—tearing down others' self-esteem; pitting her "friends" against each other; backstabbing anyone who's a threat. Sounds like the quintessential mean girl. She brings out her ultimate mean-girl antics when a fellow Plastic (who ranks underneath her) falls for her ex-boyfriend. Here's some of her best movie moments.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_dCc-9pEPM
Oh please! Kathryn Merteuil makes Regina look like a girl scout. Although a teenager, she isn't simply a manipulative high school mean girl. She's seductive, sadistic and like the movie's title suggests—she has cruel intentions. She bets her step-brother (whom she shares sexual tension with) to seduce their prep school headmaster's virginal daughter for the fun of it. She likes sadistic games, and sadistic games she plays! Here's one of evilest movie moments.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgBeBag4ir0
Buzzfeed has created many listicles about the evil brilliance of Regina George. Heck, they believe we all have a little bit of a Regina in us. Rachel McAdams definitely made the role relatable to almost everyone's high school experiences—making Regina the ultimate mean girl. We've all been obsessed with her since 2004.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/briangalindo/always-be-queen-bee?utm_term=.uwQxaNkWB#.dqvy3mR54
Regina might be the cinema's ultimate traditional high school mean girl. But Bustle put together a list as to why Kathryn was the BEST villainess of the entire '90s. Heck, she might one of the cinema's greatest villains ever! Sarah Michelle Gellar created so many memorable moments playing Kathryn in this film, and every single one of them made you want to root for this sophisticated, confident femme fatale.
https://www.bustle.com/articles/86590-12-reasons-cruel-intentions-kathryn-merteuil-was-the-best-villainess-of-the-90s-why-we
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Submitted by Discover Waltham on Mon, 10/16/2017 - 6:32am
Randy LeBlanc, owner of the Waltham firm, LeBlanc Mechanical, will be inducted into the 2017 Minuteman High School Hall of Fame on November 3rd. He was chosen as a Distinguished Alumnus for his professional accomplishments, and outstanding community service.
After graduating from Waltham High School, LeBlanc attended an Open House at Minuteman with his father and was instantly excited about enrolling there. He completed the HVAC Post Graduate program in 1992, with the intention of creating his own heating and air conditioning business. He founded LeBlanc Mechanical in 1997.
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Opinion: If You Want Change, VOTE for a change!
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It's been a few weeks since the Preliminary Municipal Election and the results could be a precursor of things to come in November. Though turnout was low in Ward 5 and even lower in Ward 8 (which is no surprise), three candidates familiar to Waltham voters were eliminated. There will be new faces sitting in the Council seats for Wards 5 and 8. In Ward 1, however, incumbent Councilor Dan Romard's two challengers staged robust campaigns which brought out almost 22% of Ward 1 registered voters. Two years ago incumbent Ward Councilors faced no opposition. This year 8 out of the 9 Ward Coun
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Waltham — (October 10, 2017 ) Over 60 people from the community attended an open discussion at the Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation Monday night concerning the Cooper St development and subsequent arson on the site. The discussion was organized by Consuelo Valdes, Ward 9 candidate for the Waltham City Council, and a group of local residents. The goals of the meeting were to identify how we got to our current situation, what we can do about it, and how we can improve in the future.
Valdes presented questions which were submitted by several Waltham residents:
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As in previous years, the Marketplace fundraiser will take place in early Fall, with the raffle drawing set to begin on Saturday the 23rd.
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Waltham Hawks Seek Donations for New Dugouts Honoring Al Scafidi
The Waltham High School Baseball program is seeking donations from the Waltham Community to build new dugouts at Leary Field. The dugouts will be will be named in honor of Al Scafidi who was the Waltham High Baseball coach from 1979-1993. Al gave a lot of time and effort to the community during his tenure and his family name has been a mainstay in Waltham Baseball. The money you donate will help with supplies, labor costs and any other cost the program may run into. If you are willing to make a donation please send a check to: Waltham Hawks Baseball, 28 Sartell Road, Waltham MA 02451.
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South African medical students' perceptions and knowledge about antibiotic resistance and appropriate prescribing: Are we providing adequate training to future prescribers?
Sean Wasserman, Samantha Potgieter, Evan Shoul, Deborah Constant, Annemie Stewart, Marc Mendelson, Tom H Boyles
Background. Education of medical students has been identified by the World Health Organization as an important aspect of antibiotic resistance (ABR) containment. Surveys from high-income countries consistently reveal that medical students recognise the importance of antibiotic prescribing knowledge, but feel inadequately prepared and require more education on how to make antibiotic choices. The attitudes and knowledge of South African (SA) medical students regarding ABR and antibiotic prescribing have never been evaluated.
Objective. To evaluate SA medical students' perceptions, attitudes and knowledge about antibiotic use and resistance, and the perceived quality of education relating to antibiotics and infection.
Methods. This was a cross-sectional survey of final-year students at three medical schools, using a 26-item self-administered questionnaire. The questionnaires recorded basic demographic information, perceptions about antibiotic use and ABR, sources, quality, and usefulness of current education about antibiotic use, and questions to evaluate knowledge. Hard-copy surveys were administered during whole-class lectures.
Results. A total of 289 of 567 (51%) students completed the survey. Ninety-two percent agreed that antibiotics are overused and 87% agreed that resistance is a significant problem in SA – higher proportions than those who thought that antibiotic overuse (63%) and resistance (61%) are problems in the hospitals where they had worked (p<0.001). Most reported that they would appreciate more education on appropriate use of antibiotics (95%). Only 33% felt confident to prescribe antibiotics, with similar proportions across institutions. Overall, prescribing confidence was associated with the use of antibiotic prescribing guidelines (p=0.003), familiarity with antibiotic stewardship (p=0.012), and more frequent contact with infectious diseases specialists (p<0.001). There was an overall mean correct score of 50% on the knowledge questionnaire, with significant differences between institutions. Students who used antibiotic prescribing guidelines and found their education more useful scored higher on knowledge questionnaires.
Conclusion. There are low levels of confidence with regard to antibiotic prescribing among final-year medical students in SA, and most students would like more education in this area. Perceptions that ABR is less of a problem in their local setting may contribute to inappropriate prescribing behaviours. Differences exist between medical schools in knowledge about antibiotic use, with suboptimal scores across institutions. The introduction and use of antibiotic prescribing guidelines and greater contact with specialists in antibiotic prescribing may improve prescribing behaviours.
Sean Wasserman, Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Samantha Potgieter, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
Evan Shoul, Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Deborah Constant, Women's Health Research Unit, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Annemie Stewart, Clinical Research Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Marc Mendelson, Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Tom H Boyles, Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Antimicrobial stewardship; Medical education; Antibiotic resistance; South africa; Africa
South African Medical Journal 2017;107(5):405-410. DOI:10.7196/SAMJ.2017.v107i5.12370


Thought Balloons - Creating Comics One Page At A Time: Top Cow Talent Hunt - Pandora's Quest - MK Stangeland Jr.
Top Cow Talent Hunt - Pandora's Quest - MK Stangeland Jr.
Panel 1: Smaller Panel. Four of the mercenaries approach JI XI with their weapons drawn.
JI XI stands and waits as they approach. He looks mostly harmless in his present position.
Panel 2: Smaller Panel. Close up on JI XI's face, with special attention paid to the symbol for the 13th Artifact on his forehead. His eyes are now filled with aggression – you can tell things are about to get serious and that the mercenaries approaching are about to be destroyed.
Panel 3: Panel is positioned behind JI XI.
Combat starts as JI XI crouches and sweeps his arm across the ground in front of him. The force he does this with kicks up a wall of dirt and dust in front of him, obscuring the four mercenaries and making it impossible to see anything beyond them.
A smoky, steamy trail follows the movement of JI XI's arm to represent the extra power the 13th Artifact is granting his moves. This should continue throughout the fight with any other combat moves that JI XI performs.
13th ARTIFACT: (Text Box) KILL THEM.
Panel 4: This is a very active panel - JI XI bursts through the wall of dust as it hits its climax. The back half of his body is still obscured as it hasn't come through yet.
JI XI leads with a closed palm strike to the chest of the nearest mercenary (#1). The impact is clearly visible all across the mans body as he reacts to being hit with a force that is about to send him flying several feet backwards.
The smoky trail of JI XI's movements should be mixed with some of the dirt and dust from the wall JI XI created in the previous panel as it gets caught up in the movements.
SFX: (From the point of impact on the mercenaries chest.) CRACK!
Panel 5: JI XI follows by swinging his other arm around to hit the next closest mercenary with a palms up spear hand to the throat of MERCENARY #2. The Mercenary is just starting to react to the blow in a way one might expect someone to react when being hit in the throat by an exceptionally powered martial arts master.
The smoky trail follows his movements from panel 4 to panel 5, showing that the two moves have happened in relatively short order – not super speed, but far faster than any normal human should be capable of.
Some of the dirt and dust that got mixed into the trail from the previous panel should follow the moves through into this panel as well, and while JI XI has passed the wall of dirt and dust he kicked up in panel 3, it hasn't fully settled on the ground yet.
Panel 6: Panel set near the ground from behind MERCENARY #2's position.
JI XI drops to sweep MERCENARY #2's legs out from under him before he's even finished reacting to having his throat collapsed. Bullets fly over the heads of both JI XI and MERCENARY #2 as MERCENARY #3 and MERCENARY #4 shoot at JI XI from off-panel.
Panel 7: The smoke trail follows JI XI's leg as he completes the sweep and brings the leg behind him. He has used this same leg to help propel him up and forwards as he delivers a blow with both fists at once into the chest of MERCENARY #2, who is half-way to the ground and currently 'lying' horizontal in the air – the panel takes place right at the moment of impact as the fists hit the chest, allowing us to see the very beginning of the connection.
(I decided to go one step further than Dan Hill and post an actual page from the first draft of the script I'm actually planning on using and am currently in the process of writing. It wasn't until the idea of doing a week specifically for the Top Cow talent hunt was used that I actually decided to get involved. So for better or worse, I figured I'd just go ahead and use a page that hints at what I'm going for without giving away too much of what I'm planning.
It should also be noted that according to the podcast that Top Cow put together regarding the Talent Hunt, the part about only being able to use characters from the list is a tad misleading - people are free to use misc cannon fodder, 'Cab Driver X', other smalltime misc characters that already exist in the Top Cow universe, or other characters of that nature. Their main concern was people trying to write stuff for characters they already have plans for or introducing new characters which would create legal problems.
This was a nice juicy page to sink my teeth into.
Like you MK will be sharing a work in progress age from my actual script and I was pleased to see I wasn't the only one.
As for your page I love a heck of a lot about it. The fact that this is page four and so much is already underway is an exciting protect. I must also commend you on the way you write action. I find it difficult to choreograph an exciting and interesting fight scene, something you do with skill and style here.
Your work on display here is really impressive, and if you want any feedback on the first draft of script I would be more than happy to read more of this.
Lastly that Top cow podcast was the most helpful thing in regards for what I could use in my script. I like you have a lot of general characters that I needed for my tale and I am glad to have that confirmed as being ok.
Shot it over to me at any point mate.
Much like Shaun I am impressed with your ability to write action. It is something that I often side step in order to not write it. There will come a day when I am forced into actually penning an action script.
This is some brilliant action stuff here, MK. I'm blown away at your keen sense of pacing for this scene, as the whole thing just works so well. Like Ben, I tend to shy away from this type of thing more often than not, so I'm even more impressed by what you manage here. Awesome stuff.
If I can affirm the above sentiments: the fight action is well done. Even more so because you start the page on a slow burn; makes the explosion of violence that much more potent. Well done on all fronts!
This is some nifty action going on here, and kudos for including an actual page from the script too!


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Gay Men's Chorus remember nail bomb victims Jump to media player The London Gay Men's Chorus performed outside the Admiral Duncan pub in Soho to remember the victims of a deadly nail bomb attack on 30th April 1999.
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'There were broken people' Jump to media player Twenty years ago, three bombings targeted London's black, gay and Bangladeshi communities.
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Gay Men's Chorus remember Soho nail bomb victims
London's Gay Men's Chorus performed outside the Admiral Duncan pub in Soho to remember the victims of a deadly nail bomb attack on 30th April 1999.
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White Professors Sue Alabama State for Discrimination
Rick Harmon, USA Today, April 4, 2015
Two white faculty members at Alabama State University have filed a lawsuit contending that the historically black university is racist toward whites in its hiring and admission practices.
Steven B. Chesbro, who according to the suit is the only dean at Alabama State not designated as African-American or black, and his partner and fellow ASU faculty member John Garland also contend that ASU passed regulations specifically against same-sex couples and that officials retaliated against the pair for complaining about the university using race as a determining factor for both hiring professors and admitting students.
Bobby Segall, an attorney representing ASU, said the university categorically denies the contentions.
He said the contention that the university uses race as a determining factor in hiring faculty is also untrue.
But attorney Wayne Sabel, who is representing Chesbro and Garland, said the suit "clearly shows that there was discrimination because of race and sexual orientation: There's no doubt about that."
"They have told Dr. Chesbro that his hands are tied in the face of gross insubordination and even threats of physical harm," Sabel said. "You look at some of the statements they have made that are in the complaint, and they are saying things like 'only black professors should teach black students.'"
Some of the major allegations the suit raises:
• Numerous white faculty members have complained about racist hiring and selection processes at the university without any action being taken by the administration.
"As many as six EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) charges, not including those directly involving this matter, are now pending against the university alleging race or gender discrimination," the suit says. It alleges that when a white ASU faculty member voiced concerns with others on a search committee that race was being used inappropriately to make a selection, the university's response was to remove him as head of the search committee.
• Faculty members on one search committee insisted its primary goal should be to select someone who was both female and black and there were instances in which search committee members said only black applicants should be considered for employment at the school, according to the suit.
"Of the 47 black applicants who applied for admission to the doctoral program for physical therapy in 2013, 20 percent met the required GPA standard, but 57 percent of the candidates were admitted. In contrast, of 137 white applicants, 59 percent met the required GPA standard, but only 32 percent were admitted," according to the suit.
Topics: Anti-White Discrimination, Anti-White Racism, Race and Universities, Racial Preferences in Education, Racial Preferences in Hiring
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\subsection{Privacy Accounting}\label{subsec:account}
At the end of the day, a user is interested in computing the RDP parameters of Algorithm \ref{alg:dp-dfa} and then converting it into the $\epsilon,\delta$ parameters of differential privacy. We now describe this process. The $T$ iterations of the algorithm correspond to the sequential composition of $T$ mechanims $M_1,\dots, M_T$, where $M_j$ applies the Gaussian Mechanism (lines \ref{line:w} and \ref{line:b}) on sampled data (the minibatch) of iteration $j$ of the algorithm. Let $\Delta$ be the sensitivity of the combined computations (for all layers combined) of $\frac{1}{m}\sum_{i\in S}\left((\mat{B}^{l+1}\vec{e}_i)\odot
          \phi'_l(\vec{z}_i^l)\right)\mathsf{clip}_{\tau_h}(\vec{h}_i^{l-1})^\intercal$ and $ \frac{1}{m}\sum_{i\in S}\left(\mat{B}^{l+1}\vec{e}_i\right) \odot \phi'_l(\vec{z}_i^l)$ (we show how to compute this in Section \ref{subsec:sen}). The Gaussian noise (Lemma \ref{lemma:gaussmech}) added to these quantities provides $(\alpha, \alpha\Delta^2/(2\sigma^2))$-RDP. The second RDP parameter is further reduced by applying Lemma \ref{lemma:rdp_amp} since the batch was chosen randomly. The second parameter is then multiplied by $T$ to account for all iterations. Finally, the resulting RDP parameters are converted to $(\epsilon, \delta)$-differential privacy parameters using Lemma \ref{pro:conversion}.

\subsection{Sensitivity Computation}\label{subsec:sen}
Thus, all that is left is to compute the sensitivity $\Delta_{\zeta_l}$ of $\zeta_l\equiv \frac{1}{m}\sum_{i\in S}\left((\mat{B}^{l+1}\vec{e}_i)\odot
          \phi'_l(\vec{z}_i^l)\right)\mathsf{clip}_{\tau_h}(\vec{h}_i^{l-1})^\intercal$ and the sensitivity $\Delta_{\xi_l}$ of  $\xi_l\equiv \frac{1}{m}\sum_{i\in S}\left(\mat{B}^{l+1}\vec{e}_i\right) \odot \phi'_l(\vec{z}_i^l)$ under the "modify one record" version of neighboring datasets (Secction \ref{subsec:dp}).

Once we have those quantities, the overall  sensitivity $\Delta$ (used in Section \ref{subsec:account}) is clearly equal to $(L\Delta_{\zeta_l}^2 +  L\Delta_{\xi_l}^2)^{1/2}$.

\noindent\textbf{Sensitivity for Fully Connected Networks}. For fully connected networks, we note that changing a record only changes one term in the summations, so the sensitivity of $\zeta_\ell$ is equal to
\begin{align*}
    \Delta_{\zeta_l}\leq \frac{2}{m}\norm*{\left((\mat{B}^{l+1}\vec{e}_i)\odot
          \phi'_l(\vec{z}_i^l)\right)\mathsf{clip}_{\tau_h}(\vec{h}_i^{l-1})^\intercal}_F &= \frac{2}{m}\norm*{\left(\mat{B}^{l+1}\vec{e}_i\right) \odot \phi_l'(\vec{z}_i^l)}_2
    \norm{\mathsf{clip}_{\tau_h}(\vec{h}_i^{l-1})}_2\\
    &\leq \frac{2}{m}\gamma_l \tau_h \norm*{\mat{B}^{l+1}\vec{e}_i}_2 = \frac{2}{m}\gamma_l \tau_h \beta_{l+1}\tau_e
\end{align*}
while for $\xi_\ell$, a similar computation for sensitivity yields:
\begin{align*}
    \Delta_{\xi_l}\leq \frac{2}{m}\norm*{(\mat{B}^{l+1}\vec{e}_i)\odot
          \phi'_l(\vec{z}_i^l)}_2
    \leq \frac{2}{m}\gamma_l  \norm*{\mat{B}^{l+1}\vec{e}_i}_2 = \frac{2}{m}\gamma_l   \beta_{l+1}\tau_e
\end{align*}
So the overall sensitivity of one iteration, to be used in the privacy accounting in Section \ref{subsec:account}, is $\Delta \leq 2\gamma_l \beta_{l+1}\tau_e \sqrt{(1+\tau_h^2)L}/m$.

\noindent\textbf{Handling Convolutional Layers}. Although DFA can be extended to convolutional layers,  several results suggest that it is better to use a hybrid BP/DFA approach instead. The first reason is that in the non-private setting, it has been observed that DFA does not perform well with convolutional layers \cite{Han_2019_ICCV}. Second, we observed that this rule sometimes carries over to the privacy-preserving setting. The sensitivity is much larger than for fully connected layers.\footnote{For completeness, we include the details in the supplementary material.}

In the non-private setting, Han et al. \cite{Han_2019_ICCV} suggested a hybrid approach that we can carry over to the privacy-preserving setting. This hybrid approach can be visualized in Figure \ref{fig:CNN_hybrid}. Consider a network with layers $1,\dots, \ell$ being convolutional and layers $\ell+1, \dots, L$ being fully connected.

 For the fully connected layers (i.e., $\ell+1,\dots, L$), we use the differentially private DFA updates from lines \ref{line:w} and \ref{line:b} from Algorithm \ref{alg:dp-dfa}. Given an overall target sensitivity $C$, we choose the algorithm parameters so that the sensitivity of each fully connected layer is $C/\sqrt{L}$.

 For the convolutional layers (i.e., $1,\dots, \ell$), the actual gradient at layer $l$ is  $\pdv{\mathcal{L}}{\mat{W}^l}
  = \pdv{\vec{z}^{\ell+1}}{\mat{W}^l}\pdv{L}{\vec{z}^{\ell+1}}$. However, since we did not back-propagate from $L$ down to $\ell+1$, the partial derivative $\pdv{L}{\vec{z}^{\ell+1}}$ is not available by the time the algorithm is processing the convolutional layers. Hence we replace $\pdv{L}{\vec{z}^{\ell+1}}$ with its DFA counterpart $\delta\vec{z}^{\ell+1}= \left(\mat{B}^{\ell+2}\vec{e}\right) \odot \phi_{\ell+1}'(\vec{z}^{\ell+1})$ (see Equation \ref{eq:dfa_error_prop}). Meanwhile,  $\pdv{\vec{z}^{\ell+1}}{\mat{W}^l}$ can be computed using back-propagation starting at layer $\ell+1$. Putting this together, the differentially private update step for convolutional layers that should be performed on lines \ref{line:w} and \ref{line:b} is:
  \begin{align*}
       \mat{W}^l &\gets \mat{W}^l -
      \eta\left(\mathcal{N}(0,
        \sigma^2\mat{I}) + \frac{1}{m}\sum_{i\in S}\mathsf{clip}_\tau\left(\pdv{\vec{z}^{\ell+1}_i}{\mat{W}^l}  \delta\vec{z}_i^{\ell+1}\right)\right)\\
       \vec{b}^l &\gets \vec{b}^l - \eta\left(\mathcal{N}(0,
        \sigma^2\mat{I}) + \frac{1}{m}\sum_{i\in S}\mathsf{clip}_\tau\left(\pdv{\vec{z}^{\ell+1}_i}{\vec{b}^l}  \delta\vec{z}_i^{\ell+1}\right)\right)
  \end{align*}
  where the clipping threshold $\tau$ is chosen so that the sensitivity of each convolutional layer is $C/\sqrt{L}$.

  Since each network layer has sensitivity $C/\sqrt{L}$, their combined $L_2$ sensitivity is $(C^2/L + \cdots + C^2/L)^{1/2}=C$.

\subsection{Convolutional Networks.}
For convolutional networks, we use a similar setup to \cite{Abadi2016deep}. The architecture uses 2 convolutional layers (5x5 kernels and 64 channels each with 2x2 max pools) followed by 2 fully connected layers (384 units each), and the output layer uses softmax. Following \cite{Abadi2016deep}, we set the sensitivity for each iteration at 3 (so even the DP DFA uses their setting) and a mini-batch of size 512. For DP BP, following \cite{Abadi2016deep}, the layers use ReLU activation. ReLU is  not recommended for DFA in the non-private case \cite{nokland2016direct} so for DP DFA we use tanh for convolutional layers and sigmoid for fully connected layers (we use this setting even when using the differentially private DFA/BP hybrid).

This setup ensures that each iteration and each epoch of DP BP has the same privacy impact as DP DFA. The results for Fashion MNIST are shown in Figure \ref{fig:exp_conv_fmnist}. At various noise levels $\sigma$, we see that a large gap between differentially private BP and the non-private network. Differentially private DFA outperforms DP BP, with the hybrid approach clearly outperforming both, and doing a better job of closing the gap with the non-private network. Corresponding results for CIFAR 10, which is known to be much harder for differentially private training, is shown in Figure \ref{fig:exp_conv_cifar10}. We see the same qualitative results, where the differentially private hybrid approach significantly outperforms the other privacy-preserving methods.

\subsection{Fully Connected Networks.}

\begin{figure}[tp]
  \centering
  \begin{subfigure}[b]{.9\textwidth}
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=.35\textwidth]{te_acc_fmnist_MLP_base_SIG001.pdf}
    \includegraphics[width=.35\textwidth]{te_acc_cifar10_MLP_256_SIG001.pdf}
    \caption{Testing accuracy, $\sigma=0.01$. At $\delta=10^{-5}$, the
      $\epsilon$ values at epochs 50, 100, 150, 200, 250, 300 are 9.77,
      13.75, 17.8, 21.3, 23.74, and 26.19, respectively. (left: Fashon-MNIST,
      right CIFAR10)}
  \end{subfigure}~\\
  \begin{subfigure}[b]{.9\textwidth}
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=.35\textwidth]{te_acc_fmnist_MLP_base_SIG005.pdf}
    \includegraphics[width=.35\textwidth]{te_acc_cifar10_MLP_256_SIG005.pdf}
    \caption{Testing accuracy $\sigma=0.05$. At $\delta=10^{-5}$,
      the $\epsilon$ values at epochs 50, 100, 150, 200, 250, 300 are
      1.03, 1.46, 1.8,2.1,2.35, and 2.59, respectively. (left: Fashon-MNIST,
    right CIFAR10)}
  \end{subfigure}
  \caption{Differentially private fully connected network  on Fashion-MNIST and CIFAR 10}
  \label{fig:connected}
\end{figure}

For fully connected networks, we use the following architectures. For Fashion MNIST,  the network consists of two hidden layers, with 128 and 256 hidden units, respectively. These layers use the sigmoid activation function and we use softmax for the output layer. We use a minibatch of size 128 and the sensitivity of each iteration is set to 2. As usual, the privacy impact of each iteration and epoch is the same for DP BP and for DP DFA. Since CIFAR 10 is a more complex dataset, we use a more complex network with 3 hidden layers of 256 units each.  The results are shown in Figure \ref{fig:connected}. We see that the accuracy of all networks saturate fairly quickly with DP DFA achieving good accuracy with fewer epochs than DP BP, suggesting that we can use it to train more accurate networks with a smaller privacy budget.

\section{Introduction}
\label{sec:introduction}
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\section{Related Work}
\label{sec:related_work}
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\section{Preliminaries}
\label{sec:prelim}
\input{preliminaries}

\section{Differentially Private DFA}
\label{sec:algorithm}
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\section{Exerimental Results}
\label{sec:experiments}
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\section{Conclusion}
\label{sec:conclusion}
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\small
\bibliographystyle{abbrv}

\subsection{Notation}
We use bold-face uppercase letters (e.g., $\mat{W}$) to represent
matrices, bold-face lowercase letters (e.g., $\mathbf{x}$) to represent
vectors and non-bold lowercase letters (e.g., $y$) to represent scalars. Tensors of order 3 or
higher (i.e., multidimensional arrays  indexed by 3 or more
variables) are represented in calligraphic font
(e.g,. $\mathcal{W}$).
We index vectors using square brackets (e.g., $\mathbf{x}[1]$ is the
first component of the vector $\mathbf{x}$). For matrices, we use
subscripts to identify entries ($W_{i,j}$ is the entry in row $i$,
column $j$).

We use the following notation to represent a dataset $D$ and its constituent records:  $D = \{\vec{d}_i = (\vec{x}_i, \vec{y}_i)\}_{i=1}^n$ is a set of $n$
examples, where $\textbf{x}_i$ is a feature vector (e.g., image pixels) and $\vec{y}_i$ is
a one-hot encoded target vector (i.e., to represent class $k$, $\vec{y}_i[k]=1$ and all other components are 0).

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\subsection{Backpropagation and DFA}
\label{sec:prelim_bp}
Direct Feedback Alignment \cite{nokland2016direct} is best explained by showing how it deviates from backprop.

As an example, consider a feed-forward network $f_{\theta}$, consisting of $L$ fully-connected
layers with a soft-max output (for a classification task). Let $\mat{W}^l \in \R^{n_l\times n_{l-1}}$ and $\vec{b}^l \in \R^{n_l}$
denote the weight and bias of the $l$\th layer in $f_{\theta}$,
respectively. The feed-forward step of layer is defined by:
\begin{equation}
  \vec{h}^l= \phi_l(\vec{z}^l)\,,\quad \vec{z}^l =
  \mat{W}^l\vec{h}^{l-1} + \vec{b}^l\,,\quad \theta =\{(\mat{W}^l, \vec{b}^l)\}_{l=1}^{L}\,,
\end{equation}
where $\vec{z}^l \in \R^{n_l}$ is the pre-activation and $\vec{h}^l
\in \R^{n_l}$ is the (post-) activation of the layer obtained by applying
the activation function $\phi_l$ element-wise on
$\vec{z}^l$. In our notation, $\vec{h}^0=\vec{x}$ denotes the input
record. In the final layer (with softmax activation),
the $k$\th output is
$\vec{h}^L[k] = \frac{\exp(\vec{z}^L[k])}{\sum_{j} \exp(\vec{z}^L[j])}$,
which can be interpreted as the probability estimate
for class $k$. Continuing our example, suppose the network is to be trained with
cross-entropy loss. That is, if $f_\theta(\vec{x})\equiv\hat{\vec{y}}$ is the output vector for input $\vec{x}$ with true class label $\vec{y}$, the cross-entropy loss for that record is $\mathcal{L}(\vec{h}^L) = -\sum_{k} \vec{y}[k]\log \hat{\vec{y}}[k]$.

In BP, the gradient of $\mathcal{L}$ w.r.t. the parameter $\mat{W}^l$
is computed using the chain rule and updated as follows
\begin{align}
  \delta \vec{z}^l
  &=  \pdv{\vec{h}^l}{\vec{z}^l}\pdv{\vec{z}^{l+1}}{\vec{h}^l}\pdv{L}{\vec{z}^{l+1}}
    =
    \begin{cases}
      \left((\mat{W}^{l+1})^\intercal\delta\vec{z}^{l+1}\right)\odot\phi_l^\prime(\vec{z}^l)
      & \mbox{ if $l<L$,}\\
      \hat{\vec{y}} - \vec{y}
      &\mbox{ if $l=L$,}
    \end{cases} \label{eq:bp_error_prop}\\

  \pdv{\mathcal{L}}{\mat{W}^l}
  &= \pdv{\vec{z}^l}{\mat{W}^l}\pdv{L}{\vec{z}^{l}}   = \delta\vec{z}^l(\vec{h}^{l-1})^\intercal   \label{eq:grad_param} \\
  \mat{W}^l &\gets \mat{W}^l - \eta \pdv{\mathcal{L}}{\mat{W}^l}; \quad\vec{b}^l \gets \vec{b}^l-\eta \delta\vec{z}^l \label{eq:bpsgd}
\end{align}
where $\eta$ is the step size, $\odot$ is an element-wise multiplication
operator and $\phi^\prime_l$ denotes the derivative of the activation function. Equation~\eqref{eq:bp_error_prop}
shows that the backward error signal $\delta \vec{z}^l$ for layer
$l$ is computed using the signal $\delta \vec{z}^{l+1}$ propagated from
the  layer above. Starting from the output layer, the error information
propagates backward through the network from layer to layer.
Notice that the error signal $\delta \vec{z}^l$ requires the transpose
of forward weight matrix $\mat{W}^{l+1}$. In other
words, $\mat{W}^{l+1}$ appears in both feed-forward and backward
paths.

DFA makes two modifications to the backward path of BP (and only the backward path). First, for each layer, it
replaces $\mat{W}^{l+1}$ in the backward path with a random feedback
weight matrix $\mat{B}^{l+1}$ (chosen at the beginning of training). The entries of $\mat{B}^{l+1}$ are randomly sampled from a
probability distribution such as the Gaussian distribution and then are
fixed throughout the training process (i.e. they do not get updated/learned). The second change introduced by DFA is that
instead of propagating the error signal backward through the layers, the error signal at each layer depends directly on $\delta\vec{z}^L$, which is the  error signal of the output layer. Due to the special importance of $\delta\vec{z}^L$, we denote this error signal  by $\vec{e}$ (which equals $\hat{\vec{y}}-\vec{y}$ for cross-entropy loss over softmax output). Mathematically, the error signal $\delta\vec{z}^l$ at layer $l$ is:
\begin{equation} \label{eq:dfa_error_prop}
  \delta\vec{z}^l = \left(\mat{B}^{l+1}\vec{e}\right) \odot \phi_l'(\vec{z}^l)\,.
\end{equation}
Compared to Equation \ref{eq:bp_error_prop}, $(\mat{W}^{l+1})^\intercal$ is replaced with $\mat{B}^{l+1}$ while $\delta\vec{z}^{l+1}$ is replaced with $\vec{e}$. Plugging Equation \ref{eq:dfa_error_prop} into Equation \ref{eq:grad_param} and then \ref{eq:bpsgd}, one arrives at the DFA update equation for $\mat{W}^l$ (the weights used in the feed-forward pass) and $\vec{b}^l$:
\[
  \mat{W}^l \gets \mat{W}^l -\eta
  \left(\left(\mat{B}^{l+1}\vec{e}\right) \odot \phi'(\vec{z}^l)\right)(\vec{h}^{l-1})^\intercal\,;\quad \vec{b}^l \gets \vec{b}^l - \eta\left(\left(\mat{B}^{l+1}\vec{e}\right) \odot \phi'(\vec{z}^l)\right)
\]

Graphically, the distinction between BP and DFA is illustrated in
Figures~\ref{fig:BP} and \ref{fig:DFA}.

\subsection{Differential Privacy}\label{subsec:dp}
Differential privacy is a formal notion of privacy that provides
strong privacy protection in sensitive data analysis. It bounds the influence that one record can have on the output of a randomized algorithm.

We say two datasets $D_1$ and $D_2$ are \emph{neighbors}
if $D_1$ can be obtained from $D_2$ by changing one
record and write $D_1 {\sim} D_2$ to denote this relationship.

\begin{definition}[($\epsilon,\delta$)-DP~\cite{Dwork2006calibrating,Dwork2006our}]
  \label{def:dp}%
Given privacy parameters $\epsilon\geq 0$, $\delta\geq 0$, a
randomized mechanism (algorithm) $\mathcal{M}$ satisfies ($\epsilon,
\delta$)-differential privacy if for every set $S \subseteq
\Range(\mathcal{M})$ and for all pairs of neighboring datasets $D_1{\sim}D_2$,
\[
  \Pr[\mathcal{M}(D_1) \in S] \leq \exp(\epsilon)\Pr[\mathcal{M}(D_2)\in
  S] + \delta\,.
\]%
The probability is only with respect to the randomness in $\mathcal{M}$.
\end{definition}

In differentially private deep learning, a mechanism corresponds to the set of parameter updates from processing one minibatch. Since training involves many minibatch updates, it is important to accurately track  the combined privacy leakage from all minibatches used. In this work, we use R\'enyi Differential
Privacy (RDP)~\cite{Mironov2017renyi} to track privacy leakage. RDP uses its own parameters, but after training finishes, the RDP parameters can be converted
 to the $\epsilon,\delta$ parameters of Definition \ref{def:dp}.
RDP relies on the concept of R\'enyi divergence:
\begin{definition}[R\'enyi Divergence]
Let $P_1$ and $P_2$ be probability distributions over a set $\Omega$
and let $\alpha\in (1,\infty)$. R\'enyi $\alpha$-divergence $\Divergence_\alpha$
is defined as:
$\Div{P_1}{P_2} = \frac{1}{\alpha-1}\log(\E_{x\sim P_2}\left[P_1(x)^\alpha P_2(x)^{-\alpha}\right])$.
\end{definition}
R\'enyi differential privacy requires two parameters: a moment
$\alpha$ and a parameter  $\epsilon$ that bounds the moment.
\begin{definition}[$(\alpha,\epsilon)$-RDP~\cite{Mironov2017renyi}]
Given a privacy parameter $\epsilon \geq 0$ and an $\alpha\in(1,\infty)$,
a randomized mechanism $\mathcal{M}$ satisfies $(\alpha,\epsilon)$-R\'enyi
differential privacy (RDP) if for all $D_1$ and $D_2$ that differ on the
value of one record,
$
\Div{\mathcal{M}(D_1)}{\mathcal{M}(D_2)} \leq \epsilon\,.
$
\end{definition}
A simple way to achieve $(\alpha, \epsilon)$-RDP is to take a vector-valued deterministic function $f$ and add appropriately scaled Gaussian noise as follows. The scale of the noise depends on the sensitivity of $f$.

\begin{definition}[$L_2$ sensitivity]
Let $L_2$ sensitivity of $f$, denoted by $\Delta_f$ is equal to $\sup_{D_1\sim D_2} ||f(D_1)-f(D_2)||_2$, where the supremum is taken over all pairs of neighboring datasets.
\end{definition}

\begin{lemma}[Gaussian Mechanism \cite{Mironov2017renyi}]\label{lemma:gaussmech}
  Let $f$ be a function. Let $\alpha>1$ and $\epsilon>0$. Let $M$ be the mechanism that, on input $D$, returns $f(D)+N(0,\sigma^2\mat{I})$, where $\sigma^2 = \frac{\alpha\Delta^2_f}{2\epsilon}$. Then $M$ satisfies $(\alpha,\epsilon)$-RDP.
\end{lemma}

The composition theorem of RDP states that if $M_1,\dots, M_k$ are mechanisms and each $M_i$ satisfies $(\alpha,\epsilon_i)$-RDP, then their combined privacy leakage satisfies $(\alpha, \sum_i \epsilon_i)$-RDP \cite{Mironov2017renyi}.
The parameters of RDP can be converted into those of
$(\epsilon, \delta)$-DP through the following conversion result~\cite{Mironov2017renyi}.
\begin{lemma}[Conversion to $(\epsilon,\delta)$-DP~\cite{Mironov2017renyi}] \label{pro:conversion}
  If $\mathcal{M}$ satisfies $(\alpha, \epsilon)$-RDP, it satisfies
  $(\epsilon^\prime, \delta^\prime)$-differential privacy whenever
  $\epsilon^\prime \geq \epsilon + \frac{\log (1/\delta)}{\alpha-1}$
  and $\delta^\prime \geq \delta$.
\end{lemma}
The following lemma states that the privacy guarantee of an $(\alpha,
\epsilon)$-RDP mechanism $\mathcal{M}$ is amplified when it is applied
on poisson subsampled data.

\begin{lemma}[Subsampled Mechanism and Privacy Amplification for
  RDP~\cite{pmlr-v89-wang19b}] \label{lemma:rdp_amp}
 For a randomized mechanism $\mathcal{M}$ and a
dataset $D$, define $\mathcal{M} \circ \mathfrak{S}_q$ as (i) sample a
subset $B\subseteq D$ (with $q=|B|/|D|$),  by
sampling without replacement (ii) apply $\mathcal{M}$ on $B$. Then if $\mathcal{M}$
satisfies $(\alpha, \epsilon(\alpha))$-RDP with respect to $B$,
$\mathcal{M}\circ \mathfrak{S}_q$ satisfies $(\alpha,
\epsilon'(\alpha))$-RDP with respect to $D$ for any integer $\alpha
\geq 2$, where
$\epsilon'(\alpha) \leq \frac{1}{\alpha-1} \log \big(
1+q^2 {\binom{\alpha}{2}}\min\left\{4(e^{\epsilon(2)}-1), 2e^{\epsilon(2)}, e^{\epsilon(2)}(e^{\epsilon(\infty)}-1)^2\right\} +
  \sum_{l=3}^\alpha
{\binom{\alpha}{l}} q^l  e^{(l-1)\epsilon(l)}\min\{2, (e^{\epsilon(\infty)}-1)^j\}
\big)$.
\end{lemma}

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I am a big fan of Christine Bell. Her Dare Me series is a great example of her writing which combines dirty, bad boys who think they aren't good enough for the woman they love with heroines who bring a Samsonite collection of emotional scars. Her trademark sense of humor always shines through her characters' dialogue and thoughts but her writing never ceases to impress. She makes a clever turn of phrase that encapsulates a scene or emotion look effortless. Love her.
With my fangirl chops established, it goes without saying that I was looking forward to the release of the second book in her Perfectly Matched series focusing on a dating service in Salem, Massachusetts. Grace Love, the business founder (and owner of the requisite "tingles" that let her know when a perfect match has been made), found her true love in the form of her playboy best friend and SWAT leader, Patrick Mathews, in the first book of the series, Dirty Trick. Business co-owner and socialite, Selena Elliott, was due to take a fall from her love 'em and leave 'em ways and that future is delivered in the pages of Dirty Deal via the form of Dr. Bryan Metcalf, army ER trauma doctor and auctioned bachelor.
Bryan can't believe that he's let his professional party-planner sister talk him into doing this bachelor auction, but considering that it's to benefit the hospital, he could hardly say no. While walking out in some little leaf costume and nothing else makes him wish he could chose Afghanistan again, he still goes out, and is frozen in place when a bidding war breaks out between his stalker ex-girlfriend, Piper, and Grace Love, the owner of the dating service who wants him to do an ad campaign for her company. At the last minute, a stunning platinum blond grabs Grace's paddle, delivers some smack talk to Piper, and saves the day with the winning bid. Thinking he might just have won the dating jackpot, Bryan is disappointed to find out that the woman who won him for the night is Grace's business partner, Selena.
Dirty Trick (Perfectly Matched #1 – Grace and Trick) by Christine Bell (Entangled: Brazen, September 2013)
But he quickly realizes that while he can't take his eyes off Selena's gorgeous body and beautiful face, she actually is the real deal – funny, smart, and just as anti-commitment as he is. Considering his philandering military father scarred him with the prospect of ruining any relationship he might attempt while he's still in service, Bryan has made a point of keeping things light. The times he didn't ended in disaster. Not only is Piper still stalking him nine years later but he's had women attempt to kill themselves or make other grand stunts that just embarrassed themselves and him. Selena's cool demeanor and healthy sexuality reassure Bryan that he won't have to worry about that reaction and he can't deny the strongest attraction he's ever felt for a woman. He finds himself agreeing to be the ad campaign boy for her dating business and the phenomenal sex that follows on the beach melts his brain.
Selena isn't sure exactly what Bryan uses to mesmerize these crazy women other than an unusual dose of intelligence, good looks, and a great sense of humor, but she knows how to keep her distance from guys. Her parents may have left her a massive trust fund and palatial home, but what she really inherited was a disbelief in real love and family after seeing her parents' affairs and being raised by a series of boarding schools. Despite telling him that their awesome sex was a one-off, Selena finds herself spending all her time with the sexy doctor and hanging out with his great family seals the deal – she's in big trouble. When her attempt to tell him how she feels dredges up all his phobias about clinging women, she thinks her chance at love is over. But Bryan needs to figure out who Selena is and get past his own history in order to embrace what might be the best gift he's ever received.
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Dare to Resist (Wedding Dare #.5 – Kady and Colton) by Laura Kaye (Entangled Brazen, May 12, 2014)
It's hard not to get really worried when a publisher puts together a series using multiple authors. I've seen it used successfully only a handful of times (the Harlequin/Mills & Boon Notorious Wolfes series comes to mind) but mostly it becomes a "who writes it better" comparison with some authors lacking.
Leave it to the editors at Entangled's Brazen line – a group who fortunately employ a stable of authors who comprise "who's who" in the field of contemporary romance – to harness the power of writers like Laura Kaye, Jen McLaughlin (aka Diane Alberts), Tessa Bailey, Katee Robert and Samanthe Beck in order to deliver a uniformly phenomenal series, Wedding Dare, that everyone should run out and buy ASAP.
Another brilliant move was releasing the prequel, Dare to Resist by Laura Kaye (which I told everyone to buy after reading it a few weeks ago) to set the stage of a couple falling in love and preparing to gather their friends and family to have a wedding. The whipsmart Kady and dominant Colton found their happily ever after competing for a military contract. Having known each other for years, Colton wasn't about to waste time before making Kady his own. With four bridesmaids and four groomsmen in tow, the happy couple has a week of activities leading up to the wedding planned at the Colorado resort that makes for the perfect romantic setting. When libidos run high at the bachelorette party it's not long before the lovely women in question begin betting each other that they can bag a groomsman by the end of the week, with a few of them choosing the lucky man in question from across the room. But you know what they say about the best laid plans…
Falling for the Groomsman by Jen McLaughlin/Diane Alberts
Falling for the Groomsmen (Wedding Dare #1 – Christine and Tyler) by Jen McLaughlin/Diane Alberts (Entangled Brazen, June 9, 2014)
Christine Forsythe, tough investigative journalist, has been Kady Dresco's best friend forever, and she's thrilled to see one of the people she loves the most find the forever brand of happiness, particularly with Colton, who was Kady's crush growing up. For years the two were driven apart by some particularly hot hanky-panky that Colton initiated and then fled from, and Christine knows exactly what that feels like – she lost her virginity in the hallway of a Mexican hotel with Kady's hot brother Tyler.
That he promptly left her after apologizing and looking horrified, never speaking to her again except in the barest of social contact, humiliated and angered her, but she's thinking that she might be able to get a little payback eight years down the road based on how Tyler keeps sniffing around. The man is smoking hot, and Christine can't keep her hands (damn them!) off him, no matter how bad an idea this seems. Tyler is a sure bet not to be looking for a relationship, as this ER doctor takes months of leave to do his Doctor Without Borders work all over the globe, so he might the perfect participant for her naughty to-do list. Christine is using Kady's wedding as the opportunity to turn over a new leaf and start fresh in her life – new job, new state to live in, and new sexual experiences are all on her agenda, albeit a secret agenda she's not currently sharing.
Tyler Dresco has committed to head up the ER of a prestigious hospital in the Pacific Northwest for a year before giving in to his wanderlust, but it's lust of a different kind he's feeling upon setting eyes again on his sister's smoking hot friend, Christine. He still winces when he thinks of his colossal dick move of comforting the young girl who was still dealing with the recent loss of her parents, but having sex with Christine was all-consuming. Yes, he panicked when he realized he had taken her virginity that night and he has no excuse for his behavior, but what he's always chalked up to the lust in a moment is disproven when he realizes that Christine still makes him lose control. When he catches wind of the fact that the bridesmaids are looking for a hookup, Tyler plans on making sure that she experiments with no one but him. But when the question arises of whether Christine has been playing an elaborate game of payback or if what between them is real, Tyler doesn't know if he can bring himself to give up the woman in whose arms he has finally found a home.
Temporarily Yours (Shillings Agency #1 – Cooper and Kayla) by Jen McLaughlin/Diane Alberts (Entangled Brazen, February 3, 2013)
In Falling for the Groomsman, we have classic Diane Alberts (Jen McLaughlin's contemporary romance pseudonym) who always writes her heroes and heroines with a decent amount of emotional baggage to overcome. Her characters are intensely likeable, which is why I read her work, and Christine and Tyler are no exception. There is no question that Tyler was a supreme coward (and super dickish) for the way he reacted all those years ago with Christine, but having a chance to finally own it and move forward to get to know her better as the incredible woman she is now shows how he has grown as well. I loved that Alberts has tied this book to her fantastic first novel in her Shillings Agency series, Temporarily Yours, as Christine is the sister to the former Marine hero of that novel; Christine's move to Maine is to be near her brother who has finally returned home and gotten a job with the Shillings security company. Let me also say that I had the pleasure of meeting Jen at my local chapter of Lady Jane's Salon (a romance reading series around the country) and she's as funny and nice as you'd imagine based on her terrific novels.
Baiting the Maid of Honor by Tessa Bailey
Baiting the Maid of Honor (Wedding Dare #2 – Reed and Julie) by Tessa Bailey (Entangled Brazen, June 9, 2014)
God, Tessa Bailey has yet to write the book that doesn't blow me out of the water and this second installment in the Wedding Dare series is no exception. I totally jones for her brand of dark, dark hero and the women they fall for, who usually are their polar opposites.
In Baiting the Maid of Honor, Julie Piper is the perky blonde sorority sister who has been given the maid of honor post since that's her role in life – she's the one everyone counts on, who organizes activities and puts herself dead last while taking care of other people's needs. Her friends love her but her family still hasn't gotten over the tragic accident that stole Julie's older sister, a paragon whose memory Julie knows she will never live up to in their eyes. Since she loved her sister, too, she's never going to stop trying.
Reed Lawson can't believe that he's actually at Colton's wedding. This SWAT officer is a long way from Atlanta and only for one of his best friends would he put up with donning a suit and making small talk over champagne. The situation and people remind him how far he's come from a kid escaping his abusive home in a poor Tennessee town, but considering how much Colton and their friends Reed and Brock contributed to helping him see what he could become, the least he can do is be here. One look at the blond, upper-class Southern belle who is the maid of honor and Reed cannot keep his hands off her or his dirty mouth silent, particularly after he realizes that this stunner hides a dirty girl under that polished debutante surface. But while she's not his usual one-night-stand type, he knows he's not her usual type of bedmate either – and that he can never give her the affection and emotional intimacy that she needs. When the thought of hurting her proves just as painful as walking away, Reed is forced to face a world where he has to fight for his future or live in the darkness that is a world without Julie.
Asking for Trouble (Line of Duty #4 – Hayden and Brent) by Tessa Bailey (Entangled Brazen, November 25, 2013) – Brent is one of Bailey's ultimate dirty talkers!!
Oh. My. God. No one does the dark, dirty-talking hero like Tessa Bailey (as any reader of her amazing Line of Duty series knows). Reed is exactly the tattooed bad boy who is easy to fall for. Bailey's proven formula is shoving emotionally bereft men into the vortex of a heroine who suddenly has them craving more. That cracking sound is the ice under the feet giving way as they take the plunge into a honest-to-goodness relationship in which they love this woman so all-consumingly that they will do whatever it takes to insure her happiness and well-being. Julie is a fantastic character – the friend everyone takes for granted – and that Reed sees how she is not taking care of herself or getting what she needs in return makes you root for him to get his shit together and take a chance on love. I'm hoping that she might develop Reed's Atlanta SWAT office into other books, as I was super impressed with her pitch-perfect Southern voice. It was sexy as hell coming out of both Reed and Julie's mouths and I want more! 🙂
Seducing the Bridesmaid by Katee Robert
Seducing the Bridesmaid (Wedding Dare #3 – Brock and Regan) by Katee Robert (Entangled Brazen, June 9, 2014)
Katee Robert just continues to impress me – her Come Undone and Out of Uniform series are excellent and her recent foray into science fiction romance has proven her versatility as an author. With Seducing the Bridesmaid, Robert demonstrates how she's able to mine emotions in her characters, with the result being deep, three-dimensional people who you're startled when you lift your head to discover they aren't actually in the room with you.
It's particularly impressive in the two characters who are her hero and heroine. Regan Wakefield is a gorgeous, assertive headhunter who is quite the ball breaker, owning her sexuality like she wears her stiletto heels. She's got a personal plan that's in countdown mode since her soriority sister Kady announced her wedding date, and the best man, CEO Logan McCade, hits all Regan's major points. Unfortunately she can't seem to get rid of the other groomsman, Brock McNeil, whose gorgeous face and body house a lack of ambition in this silver spoon holding playboy.
Brock is not happy that the gorgeous Regan is unwilling to give him the time of day and he wants to shatter the control she wears like one of her designer dresses. Proving to Regan that he sees her beneath the facade means revealing that there is more to him than his last name and the work he's kept off the business world's radar. That she has set her sights on Logan, who is too much like Brock's perfect older brother, sticks in his craw, but he wants her to want him – the real Brock – despite his hangups. That his insecurities might drive away the one woman he's wanted for more than a few nights means that Brock has some reevaluation to do, particularly when it becomes obvious that he's going to have to finally go after something after a lifetime of taking the easy road.
In Bed with Mr. Wrong (Out of Uniform #1 – Ryan and Brianne) by Katee Robert (Entangled Brazen, January 13, 2014)
Regan could have easily been bitchy and Brock a shallow manwhore, but Robert's skillful writing shows Regan as strong but misguided and Brock as suffering at the hands of his father as never living up to expectations. There is a lot of personal accountability to be owned for each of them, with Brock having to do more growing than Regan, as she at least doesn't hesitate to face up to her mistakes and misperceptions. Her fear of the outdoors provides a wonderful injection of humor at key points in the book, and you'll never look the same way at a squirrel again! I adored the epilogue (I think it's my favorite out of all of the novels, even though each one is perfectly suited for its couple) and can confidently say that if you enjoy this novel (and you will) you need to check out Robert's other books as they maintain a similar high standard.
Best Man with Benefits by Samanthe Beck
Best Man with Benefits (Wedding Dare #4 – Logan and Sophie) by Samanthe Beck (Entangled Brazen, June 9, 2014)
I've loved Samanthe Beck since reading her smoking hot McCade Brothers series, so I was elated to discover that the hero of this Wedding Dare novel was none other than the elusive Logan McCade, the driven, outdoorsy CEO who provides a distinct counterpoint to his cop and Marine brothers.
As the college roommate of the groom, Logan has been given the best man role, one he's happy to take on despite his outdoor gear company taking up 25 hours of his day. On the cusp of a major merger, he's getting constant calls and emails, distractions which make it hard to fulfill his role for the week of wedding activities, but it's friends first in Logan's priorities. When Colton asks him to keep an eye on his shy sister Sophie, Logan remembers the sweet girl from their college days and is happy to volunteer. One look at the shy siren with big brown eyes and dangerous curves and Logan discovers that major parts of his anatomy are volunteering to assist and he doesn't think Colton would approve.
That doesn't stop him from sampling everything Sophie has to offer. Watching this young woman bravely fight through her shyness as she tries to reclaim a confidence eroded by years of body shaming from her family and peers is both a struggle and a joy to watch. Logan wants her to see herself as the sexy woman who makes his heart thunder. But just as they begin to make progress – and as Logan confronts the painful reality that he needs to change his corporate structure so he can spend more time with his family and with Sophie – it all threatens to fall apart when Sophie discovers that she's been an assignment all along.
Lover Undercover (McCade Brothers #1 – Trevor and Kylie) by Samanthe Beck (Entangled Brazen, April 2013)
Sophie's character is painfully shy yet you'd have to be born without a heart not to root for her as she attempts to reclaim her voice and make personal and professional changes that will benefit her. Logan is exactly what she needs and you understand why he decides not to tell her that Colton asked him to spend time with her even as you see the ax starting to fall. Logan is total sweetie (those McCades! *fans self*) who demands that Sophie take ownership for her personal and sexual desires, and who – unlike every other male in this series – understands the emotional foundation of a relationship needs to be based on trust, trust he demands from her even when he's worried she can't work through her issues and give it to him. Shout out for Beck doing such a phenomenal job on this novel's epilogue as it manages to bring together the closure for all five books in the series in an amazing way. I was alternately choking up and grinning like a loon as I read those final pages of Logan's proposal!
Honestly, this whole series has knocked my socks off, particularly as it manages to include almost every one of my favorite contemporary authors (Tonya Burrows and Jill Shalvis are the only two of my writing heroes missing). Considering the fantastic Entangled tradition of the $.99 price for new releases, fans are going to be able to purchase all five novels – 988 pages exactly – for under $5.00, less than a brand new trade paperback at your local bookstore that's a third of the length (and probably half the quality of the writing contained in this series). It's irrefutable math, people.
Many, many thanks to not only the above wonderful authors but the visionary editors at Entangled for bringing such an amazing group of writers together around a terrific concept. I hope this is not the last series they assemble as this one will undoubtably build even more of a fan base around these talented women.
Tags: Asking for Trouble, Baiting the Maid of Honor, Best Man with Benefits, Brock, Christine Forsythe, Colton, Dare to Resist, Diane Alberts, ER doctor, Falling for the Groomsman, In Bed With Mr. Wrong, Jen McLaughlin, journalist, Julie, Kady, Katee Robert, Laura Kaye, Line of Duty, Logan, McCade Brothers series, Out of Uniform series, Reed, Regan, Samanthe Beck, Seducing the Bridesmaid, Shillings Agency, Sophie, SWAT officer, Temporarily Yours, Tessa Bailey, Tyler Dresco, Wedding Dare series
Categories Contemporary Romance, Review, Series


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