In your letter dated April 7, 2004 you requested a tariff classification ruling on behalf of your client ABC International Traders Inc. Samples of the two bags were submitted for review with your inquiry, and are being returned as requested.
Item # 282112 Bratz Holiday Beauty Bag consists of a fur trimmed textile bag containing bubble bath, bath gel, and a heart shaped soap.
Item # 275206 Bratz Beauty Bag consists of a draw string toiletry bag filled with eye shadow, nail polish and lip-gloss. The drawstring toiletry bag is manufactured with an exterior surface of textile material and polyvinylchloride (PVC).
Although sold as sets, the above items are not classifiable as sets. The bags, which are separate articles of commerce and more than just packing containers, have a different use than the items in the set. Consequently, each item is classifiable separately under its appropriate heading. In the case of the draw string toiletry bag, neither the textile fabric nor polyvinylchloride impart the essential character of the toiletry bag, therefore, pursuant to GRI 3(c), the toiletry bag will be classified in the heading that appears last in chapter 42.
Your inquiry does not provide enough information for us to give a classification ruling on the bath gel and textile bag. Your request for a classification ruling should include the complete chemical composition of the bath gel, stating whether the product contains any aromatic or modified aromatic surface-active agents. Provide the composition of the fur-trimmed bag specifying the outer surface material. When this information is available, you may wish to consider resubmission of your request. We are returning any related samples, exhibits, etc. If you decide to resubmit your request, please include all of the material that we have returned to you.
The samples submitted with your inquiry are not properly marked with the country of origin or the ingredient listing of the cosmetic items. Perfumery, cosmetic and toiletry products are subject to the requirements of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, which is administered by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. You may contact them at U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Office of Cosmetics and Colors, 5100 Paint Branch Parkway, College Park, MD 20740-3835, telephone (202) 418 3412.
The marking statute, section 304, Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (19 U.S.C. 1304), provides that, unless excepted, every article of foreign origin (or its container) imported into the U.S. shall be marked in a conspicuous place as legibly, indelibly and permanently as the nature of the article (or its container) will permit, in such a manner as to indicate to the ultimate purchaser in the U.S. the English name of the country of origin of the article. As provided in section 134.41(b), Customs Regulations (19 CFR 134.41(b)), the country of origin marking is considered conspicuous if the ultimate purchaser in the U.S. is able to find the marking easily and read it without strain.
The applicable subheading for the lip-gloss will be 3304.10.0000, Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS), which provides for Lip makeup preparations. The rate of duty will be free.
The applicable subheading for the eye shadow will be 3304.20.0000, Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS), which provides for Eye makeup preparations. The rate of duty will be free.
The applicable subheading for the nail polish will be 3304.30.0000, Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS), which provides for Manicure or pedicure preparations. The rate of duty will be free.
The applicable subheading for the bubble bath will be 3307.30.5000, Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS), which provides for Perfumed bath salts and other bath preparations: Other. The rate of duty will be 4.9 percent ad valorem.
The applicable subheading for the soap will be 340111.5000, Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS), which provides for Soap: For toilet use (including medicated products): Other. The rate of duty will be free.
The applicable subheading for the drawstring bag will be 4202.90.4500, Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS), which provides for Travel, sports and similar bags, with outer surface of sheeting of plastic, other. The rate of duty will be 20 percent ad valorem.


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Drinking Four Cups of Coffee Is Probably Safe
in Weird
A Los Angeles news anchor said earlier this month, in response to the announcement that "the world's strongest coffee" is now available in the United States. The product is called Black Insomnia, a playful nod to a potentially debilitating medical condition that can be caused by the product.
The anchor's tone took a dramatic decrescendo as she read from the teleprompter: "The site Caffeine Informer says Black Insomnia is one of the 'most dangerous caffeinated products.'" Her smile faded. "Oh. I'll have to have this one sparingly."
Black Insomnia is actually in competition for the title of "world's strongest coffee." Another, similar purveyor sells coffee grounds called Death Wish. They come in a black sack with a skull and cross bones. On its Amazon page, Death Wish claims to be "the world's strongest coffee" and promises its "perfect dark roast will make you the hero of the house or office."
How much caffeine is required for heroism? At what point does the drug (known technically as 1,3,7-trimethylxanthine) actually become unsafe?
Caffeine occurs in plant leaves and seeds as an insect repellant and herbicide. It is used in hospitals to revive newborns who stop breathing. It can be given intravenously to induce seizures. CNN cautioned against Black Insomnia: "Just one cup could spill you over the daily caffeine limit."
Multiple news outlets referred to this "limit." For healthy adults, the number is 400 milligrams per day, and it comes from sources like the Food and Drug Administration and the International Food Information Council. Four hundred milligrams amounts to around four cups of coffee in the old-style sense of the phrase, an eight-ounce mug in a diner. It's more like one Starbucks venti.
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Heart for art and service
Mariana EngelbrechtWork
Published in Financial Mail 19 January 2017
SA-born author Richard Mason says writing calls for more than disciplined effort.
The novel Who Killed Piet Barol? is a revelation in many senses. Not only is it enlightening in terms of SA history, but it is beguiling in a way that pays tribute to the storytelling finesse of its award-winning author, Richard Mason. This work, his latest in a collection of interrelated stories, inspires me to make more time to read for my own pleasure.
But this is not a book review. It's an account of an interview I had with the author that, after a solid hour, yielded exactly two words in my notebook: Oscar Wilde.
Neither Mason nor I can recall the reference, and it was written down before I switched on my voice recorder. If you watch Mason recount the background to the book on YouTube you might understand something of his magic.
Despite being a natural storyteller, he says he was surprised that anyone even read his first novel, The Drowning People. Written at the age of 21, it propelled him into the spotlight, a position he doesn't like much and tries to limit to every five years or so, when he releases a new book.
"[Before] I write a book I think about it for years. At a certain point, I'll tell someone the whole story and record what I say. In the course of telling it, things happen and explode. It's like this enormous brain churn — it takes me weeks to listen to the 3½-hour tape because every little bit reveals more detail. It's like Google Maps: you get [drawn] further and further in."
Disciplined by nature, Mason says that this quality can get you only so far. "It would be much easier if the harder you try, or the more disciplined you are, the better the book is — but that's not what it's like, because it's a work of art. There's something serendipitous about it."
[Before] I write a book, I think about it for years. At a certain point, I'll tell someone the whole story and record that, and in the course of telling it, things happen and explode.
For The Lighted Rooms, the first in this collection of stories that focuses on SA, Mason decided never to worry about the creative process and just let it happen. "That worked. Liberating yourself from worry is so freeing.
"With History of a Pleasure Seeker, where we first meet Piet Barol as a young man in his 20s in Amsterdam, I decided to try something else. To write only when I felt like it." He wrote it the fastest of any of the books, by hand, in a specially commissioned leather-bound notebook, because he is very much against using Microsoft Word "as a tool for creative writing".
Who Killed Piet Barol? was written largely in a woodshed at the edge of the Breede River, at the end of a 45km dirt track, on a "trusty" 1982 Brother Electronic typewriter because Mason wanted the narrative to go quickly.
In the story Barol and singer Stacey Meadows are in colonial Cape Town, short of cash and living a lie. They find a way to inject new life into their furniture business, and Barol sets off with two Xhosa men in search of wood for it. Their stories, set against the backdrop of the Native Land Act of 1913, make for gut-wrenching reading, and they are all real.
"You can't understand contemporary SA unless you acknowledge some of the big acts of theft that have taken place in the past. It doesn't mean you're personally responsible for it, but it also doesn't mean you bear no responsibility," says Mason.
Very soon after creating Piet, Mason says, he knew how the character would die. But he felt he couldn't create the story without the "lived experience" he needed to write about Xhosa characters.
Through the Kay Mason Foundation, which he had established in memory of his sister to educate 75 scholars a year in Cape Town's best secondary schools, he helped found Project Lulutho, a rural regeneration project at Nqamakwe in the Eastern Cape.
Mason says that, aided by the Hans Hoheisen Charitable Trust's sponsorship of one of the largest solar-powered water extraction facilities in the country, Lulutho kept hundreds of people and animals, as well as a whole ecosystem, alive during the worst drought in a generation.
"I borrowed a fortune … and rocked up on this devastated hillside with a chef from my favourite restaurant, who cooked for us in a Wendy house with three gas burners and an anthill oven.
"Trailed by a French film crew, I had to jump right into all the issues of the book — a white guy trying to gain control of land in the area, endless government meetings …
"When my life has its tough moments, which it definitely does, I think about the profound effect this book is having on people's lives and on my life. It was an amazing experience, but also a very challenging one."
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Social Security System SSS Retirement Benefit
What is the retirement benefit?
It is a cash benefit either in monthly pension or lump sum paid to a member who can no longer work due to old age.
Who may qualify for a retirement benefit?
1. A member who is 60 years old, separated form employment or ceased to be self-employed, and has paid at least 120 monthly contributions prior to the semester of retirement.
2. A member who is 65 years old whether employed or not and has paid at least 120 monthly contributions prior to the semester of retirement.
For Underground Mineworkers:
1. Has reached the age of 55 years old and is an underground mineworker for at least 5 years (either continuous or accumulated) prior to the semester of retirement but whose actual date of retirement is not earlier than March 13, 1998; separated from employment or in the case of self-employed, has ceased self-employment, and has paid at least 120 monthly contributions prior to the semester of retirement.
2. Has reached the age of 60 years old whether employed or not.
What are the types of retirement benefits?
1. The monthly pension - The monthly pension is a lifetime cash benefit paid to a retiree who has paid at least 120 monthly contributions to the SSS prior to the semester of retirement.
2. The lump sum amount - The lump sum amount is granted to a retiree who has not paid the required 120 monthly contributions. It is equal to the total contributions paid by the member and by the employer including interest.
How much monthly pension will a retiree receive?
The monthly pension depends on the members paid contributions, including the credited years of service (CYS) and the number of dependent minor children but not to exceed five. The amount of monthly pension will be the highest of:
1. The sum of P300 plus 20 percent of the average monthly salary credit plus 2 per cent of the average monthly salary credit for each accredited year of service (CYS) in excess of ten years; or
2. 40 per cent of the average monthly salary credit; or
3. P1,200, provided that the credited years of service (CYS) is at least 10 or more but less than 20 or P2,000, if the CYS is 20 or more. The monthly pension is paid for not less than 60 months.
A retiree has the option to receive the first 18 monthly pension in lump sum discounted at a preferential rate of interest to be determined by the SSS. The option should be exercised upon filing of the first retirement claim. Only advance payments shall be discounted on the date of the payment. The dependents' pension and 13th month pensions are excluded from the 18 months lump sum pension.
The member will receive the monthly pension on the 19th month and every month thereafter.
What happens when the retirement pensioner resumes employment?
The monthly pension shall be suspended upon the re-employment or resumption of self-employed of a retired member who is less than 65 years old. The member shall again be subjected to compulsory coverage. At 65 year old whether employed or not, he can already claim for retirement benefit.
How much is the monthly pension of a member who retires after age 60 and who has contributed the required 120 monthly contributions?
The monthly pension shall be the higher of the following:
1. The monthly pension computed at the earliest time the member could have retired had been separated from self-employment or ceased to be self-employed plus all adjustments thereto; or
2. The monthly pension computed at the time when the member actually retires.
A pensioner who retires more than once shall be entitled to the higher of:
1. The monthly pension computed for the first retirement claim; or
2. The re-computed monthly pension for the new claim.
How is the monthly pension paid?
The monthly pension is paid thru the member's designated bank. He is allowed to choose the bank nearest his residence thru which he wishes to receive his pension benefits under the "Mag-impok sa Bangko" program. This became mandatory effective September 1,1993.
A member must open a single savings account and must submit to the SSS his savings account number and a photocopy of his passbook upon filing of his application. The original copy of the passbook must be presented for authentication purposes.
Upon approval of the claim, the SSS will mail a notice voucher to the claimant informing when to withdraw the benefit from the bank.
Aside from the retirement benefit, what else can a retiree receive?
The retiree is entitled to a 13th month pension payable every December. All retiree pensioners prior to the effectivity of RA 7875 on March 4, 1995 are automatically considered members of PhilHealth and he and his legal dependents are entitled to its hospitalization benefits. On the other hand, retirees effective March 4,1995 up to the present will be entitled to hospitalization benefits under PhilHealth only if they have contributed 120 monthly Medicare contributions. The counting of 120 monthly contributions shall start in 1972, when the Medical Care Act of 1969 started implementation.
A copy of DDR print-out indicating the type of claim is retirement in nature and the effectivity date of pensioner in its absence a copy of retiree-pensioner certification issued by SSS shall be required. They need to register under Philhealth for the issuance of a Philhealth ID card.
Are the children of a retiree member entitled to the dependent's pension?
The legitimate, legitimated, or legally adopted and illegitimate children, conceive on or before the date of retirement of a retiree will each receive dependents' pension equivalent to 10 per cent of the member's monthly pension or P250, whichever is higher.
Only five minor children, beginning from the youngest, are entitled to the dependents' pension. No substitution is allowed.
If there are more than five dependents, the legitimate, legitimated or legally adopted children shall be preferred.
For how long will the dependent child receive his pension?
The dependents' pension stops when the child reaches 21 years old, gets married, gets employed or dies. However, the dependents' pension is granted for life for children who are over 21 years old, provided they are incapacitated and incapable of self-support due to physical or mental defect which is congenital or acquired during minority.
What will happen to the monthly pension of a retiree in case of death?
Upon the death of a retiree pensioner, the primary beneficiaries as of the date of retirement shall be entitled to 100 per cent of the monthly pension and the dependents to the dependents' pension.
If the retiree pensioner dies within sixty (60) months from the start of the monthly pension and has no primary beneficiaries, the secondary beneficiaries shall be entitled to a lump sum benefit equivalent to the total monthly pensions corresponding to the five-year guaranteed period excluding the dependents' pension.
What documents are needed in filing for a retirement benefit?
1. Retirement claim application (SSS Form DDR-1);
2. DDR Savings Account form;
3. Certificate of Separation from last employer (for members less than 65 years old);
4. Passbook (if pension);
5. Certified true copies of birth or baptismal certificate of dependent children;
6. Certificate of cessation of business or practice of profession (for self-employed less than 65 years old);
7. Certified true copy of Marriage certificate (if with dependent children)
8. Proofs of filiation for illegitimate dependent children; and
9. SSS digitized or E-6 (acknowledgment stub) with two valid IDs, one of which with recent photo.
Where can a member file his retirement application?
Applications forms for retirement benefit are filed at any SSS branch or representative office
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The ObserverMorocco holidays
Swept off my feet in Morocco
Trekking with Berbers across the remote Jebel Sahro mountains offers a Christmas treat – and a romantic surprise for Beverley Fearis
Walking wonderland ... the remote and rocky mountains of the Jebel Sahro. Photograph: Michel Setboun/Corbis
Beverley Fearis
Sat 29 Nov 2008 19.04 EST
On a bitterly cold but beautifully starlit Moroccan night, in the remote, rocky mountains of the Jebel Sahro, the last thing I'd expected to be doing was the hokey cokey. But there I was, in a circle around the campfire, putting my right foot in, taking it out, and shaking it all about with the rest of them. After all, with temperatures below freezing, it was a good way to keep warm.
It was Christmas Day and I, and 15 other trekkers on this Exodus holiday, had promised some festive entertainment for our Berber guide, Mustapha; our chef, Mouhcin; and six young muleteers. We'd already performed a Monty Python-style Nativity play and sung every Christmas carol we could remember, but the hokey cokey had proved to be the Berbers' favourite.
The night before, Mustapha and his team had entertained us with traditional Berber songs, accompanied by the slow, steady rhythms of a goatskin drum. Their hypnotic, prayer-like songs were perfect in this mystical setting. Sadly, the same couldn't be said for the hokey cokey.
We were half way through our 12- day trek of this lesser-known desert mountain range, south of the Atlas. Our Christmas camp was surrounded by the majestic, towering pinnacles, outcrops, and the jagged outline of the Ridge of Fingers, eroded and smoothed by the elements over thousands of years to look like – you guessed it – giant fingers. Of all our stunning nightly camping spots, this was the most spectacular. On Mustapha's advice, a few of us rose at 6am on Boxing Day and climbed to the top of a ridge to see the sun rise. It was magical.
So far, our trek had taken us through the fertile Draa Valley, passing by the occasional tiny village of red mud houses, date palms and irrigated fields. Winding our way down dried up riverbeds, we'd wondered how these rivers would look in full flow; for two afternoons on the trot we found out. Not only did it rain, it hailed till it hurt, and within minutes we were having to hop across rocks to avoid sudden streams of gushing water.
On day three we did the first of our optional "Grade C" mountain climbs, billed as "demanding" compared with the rest of this "moderate Grade B" trek. It had rained then, too, on and off, but when we reached the top of the 2,447-metre Jebel Amlal for our picnic lunch, the clouds cleared and we could see right across to the snowy peaks of the Atlas mountains. The climb and descent took more than nine hours in all and, exhausted, we all slept well that night.
Apart from one valley where we spent two nights, we moved to a different camping spot every day. The tents, our luggage, and food and drink supplies were transported on a team of eight mules along a shorter route. The muleteers would have the camp set up by the time we'd finished our daily walks.
Most days, we were woken by the Berber drum at about 7am and had 30 minutes to pack away our sleeping bags, mats and thermals ready for breakfast. Breakfasts and dinners were served in the "mess tent", basically a small marquee with a plastic tablecloth in the centre, surrounded by mattresses. Eating cross-legged wasn't easy, but three of us had followed Exodus's advice and invested in Thermarest Chairs – lightweight frames that fit around a folded sleeping mat to give back support. By day three, most of the others were wishing they had brought them too.
Considering the limited cooking facilities, the food was excellent. Dinners consisted of soup, meat and vegetables (courgettes, carrots, peppers) with rice, potatoes or couscous, and fresh or tinned fruit for dessert. Veggies had the same, minus the meat. As a special treat on Christmas Day, the muleteers bought a sheep from a shepherd en route and cooked it in a hole in the ground.
For breakfasts we ate steaming hot porridge, freshly made bread, with cream cheese, fig and raspberry jams, tea or coffee. An hour or so into our morning walks, we'd stop at a spot with a particularly good view and Mustapha would bring out a bag with a delicious mix of figs, dates, and nuts, which became known as "second breakfast".
But the lunches were the best. Most days, the chef would start the walk with us, but as midday approached we would see him disappear off ahead, traversing the rocky landscape with the agility of a goat. An hour or so later, we'd turn a corner to find him preparing a picnic spread of salads, sardines, cheese, bread, lentils or pasta, which we'd eat under the shade of a tree. The landscape became less fertile and more lunar, with jumbled rock and eroded pillars, and we needed a fair bit of concentration and balance to negotiate some of the uneven terrain, particularly going downhill. One trekker pulled a tendon and had to be driven back to Marrakesh, but apart from that there were no casualties.
The biggest hardship was the nighttime temperatures. As our camping spots rose in altitude, the nights got colder, until temperatures fell below zero. Those who had not brought four-season sleeping bags and insulated mats suffered, and by the last few nights, even those who were well equipped wore layers of thermals and woolly hats. In the daytime, apart from the two afternoons of hail and rain when waterproofs were required, T-shirts were enough. The bright blue, sunny skies were ideal for trekking and the perfect backdrop for photographs.
Each time we climbed a peak we were rewarded with another breathtaking view of distant mountains, stretching for miles, rich red or soft, shadowy grey, depending on the position of the sun. Some days we would see only one or two people – perhaps a young shepherd girl or a hooded old man on a mule.
On other days, as we wound our way through the twists and turns of the valley floors, we passed Berber villages where women were laying their washing out to dry on rocks and young children played in the dusty streets. They would watch us, and some inquisitive young boys would come closer. Shy at first, we would share a "Bonjour" or a "Ça va" and eventually they would be happily walking alongside us, escorting us through the village.
Sometimes on our lunch stop, Berber women, carrying babies in slings, would appear apparently from nowhere bearing handcrafted trinkets and scarves for us to buy for ridiculously low prices. Although very few trekking groups pass through these mountains, the villagers knew where to find us. When we asked for permission to take their photograph (something that Moustapha had urged us to do on the first night), the women refused, but the young boys were usually happy to pose and loved seeing themselves on the screens of digital cameras.
Having a local as our guide, we learnt much about the Berber way of life, their Islamic beliefs and how they survive in such barren surroundings without electricity or cars. It seemed incredible to find such a different world to mine only three hours' flying time from the UK and, in some ways, I envied the simplicity of their agricultural lives. Walking between four and nine hours a day in such surroundings inspires plenty of contemplation and soul-searching, and many of us took the opportunity to make some life-changing decisions. I made one, too, when, on our last day, we climbed the Amalou n'Mansour, the highest mountain in the Jebel Sahro, and my boyfriend got down on one knee and proposed. At 2,712m, I wasn't sure if the altitude had gone to his head or if he'd been overwhelmed by the romance of the views, but I quickly said "Yes" anyway.
It was New Year's Eve and our remote Moroccan mountain adventure had come to an end. Tomorrow we would be heading back to the hustle and bustle of Marrakesh for a few days, acclimatising ourselves to city life before flying home.
That night, as we gathered around the campfire with our Berber friends for one last time, we shared our memories of the past year and our resolutions for the new one, and agreed that this trek had been a highlight. Then, just to keep ourselves warm – and the mule team happy– we did one last round of the hokey cokey.
Exodus (0845 863 9601; www.exodus.co.uk) offers a number of trips to Morocco, including an eight-day Atlas Panorama trek, departing 18 January. The trip costs £599 including flights, transfers, accommodation and most meals. Exodus also offers an eight-day Jebel Sahro & the Draa Valley cycling trip with departures from 7 February, for £1,069, including flights, transfers, accommodation and most meals. Optional cycle hire £85. Thermarest products are available from First Ascent (01629 580484; www.firstascent.co.uk/thermarest.asp).
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Two Conservative candidates have transphobic policies. Why is no-one talking about this?
Josh	Commentary	 June 22, 2020 December 20, 2021 3 Minutes
In the wake of JK Rowling's most recent twitter debacle in which she (again) spread transphobic slander, it is clear that transphobia is still a pervasive force in our society, and yes, in Canada too. While facing backlash from many in the LGBTQ+ community and their allies, Rowling only doubled down in her misinformation and hatred. Lets be clear here, transgender and non-binary people have no obligation to defend the validity of their own lived experience. That is the job of allies to the LGBT+ community.
Even in Canada, the denial of the validity of transgender people's lived existence remains. Two out of the four leadership candidates for the Conservative Party of Canada want to remove protections for transgender people. The platform of Leslyn Lewis specifically says in no uncertain terms that she would like to repeal Bill C-16, which added gender expression and gender identity as protected grounds to the Canadian Human Rights Act.
Removing this protection would enable the harassment of trans individuals by allowing them to be misgendered. It would also allow discrimination broadly against trans people in employment, medical services, schooling, and countless other necessary elements of society.
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Derek Sloan is much more aggressive in his transphobia. He has appeared on far right talk shows voicing his transphobic views many times along with other conspiracy theories. In a bizarre policy statement, Sloan said that he wanted to "outlaw transgender surgery for children across Canada" as he thought children as young as five were recieving gender affirming surgeries. This is simply not a thing that happens.
Children that young do not undergo any type of surgery related to transitioning. Puberty blockers are prescribed as children undergo puberty to give them more time to grow and understand the direction they would like to take. The WPATH standard of care recommends cross-sex hormones be given at the age of majority (in Canada this is 18 or 19, depending on the province or territory), although it can happen earlier.
This is all in a context of a country which, before European settlers arrived in the land now known as Canada, Indigenous cultures had a variety of conceptions of gender that goes back as far as time itself, according to their traditions. This has been the case throughout the entire world.
By denying the validity of being transgender, it is transgender individuals being erased and marginalized
So, why is what JK Rowling said, wrong?
In short, there are two main problems: she is missing the division between sex and gender, and she is erasing transgender people's existence, while claiming that woman's existence is being erased.
Every major health and scientific organization has made the distinction between sex and gender, and has acknowledged that some individuals may have a sense of gender that does not align with their 'biological sex'. Despite the use of the phrase 'biological sex' to mean binary sex by conservatives, there is a wide variety different genetic, hormonal, and physiological variation within the range of biological sex. And on top of that, there is a wide variety among individuals in the way they experience their 'psychological gender.' The Canadian Psychological Association clearly states:
The Canadian Psychological Association affirms that all adolescent and adult persons have the right to define their own gender identity regardless of chromosomal sex, genitalia, assigned birth sex, or initial gender role. Moreover, all adolescent and adult persons have the right to free expression of their self-defined gender identity.
The Canadian Psychological Association opposes stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination on the basis of chromosomal sex, genitalia, assigned birth sex, or initial gender role, or on the basis of a self-defined gender identity or the expression thereof in exercising all basic human rights. (October 2010)
By denying the validity of being transgender, it is transgender individuals being erased and marginalized, not women, as Rowling claims.
It's not just the Canadian Psychological Association that support trans people. Similar scientific and health organizations in the USA, UK, United Nations, and the World Health Organization have all moved in the same direction. The science is very clear.
So what's an ally to the Trans community to do?
We need to support policies that have beneficial outcomes for Trans people. A meta-analysis of 55 studies has definitively informed us that transitioning improves the overall well-being of transgender people.
We also know that puberty blockers, affirming medical professionals, and sex reassignment surgery have incredibly beneficial outcomes for trans individuals' mental health and productivity.
Parental support and supportive organizations can reduce the likelihood of younger individuals from attempting committing suicide from 57% to 4%.
We need to affirm and support Transgender people wherever possible, and defend the protections put in place with Bill C-16. Transphobia is still a very strong force in Canada, and must be stamped out.
The far right is more wrong than they think. Less than 5% of Spain and France have Covid-19 antibodies.
Canadian Freedom and Anti-maskers. Covid-deniers just don't get it.
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Sheikh NaKambo Osman Sani, an Islamic spiritualist, yesterday, held a number of journalists spellbound when, in his bid to stop the rampant deaths in the Ashalley Botwe suburb of Accra, he unearthed weird materials from the ground.
He ordered the digging of a portion of the ground near the St. Peter's School in the area, revealing a pot containing live crabs
The action was preceded by a brief moment of incantations by the spiritualist and when the ground was dug, two pots-full of crabs were taken out.
After ordering the man who dug the ground to pour out the contents of the pots, he proceeded to kill the crabs to end, according to him, the increased rate of death in the suburb. Four lives have been lost within a year in the suburb, the cause of which, according to him, was spiritual.
"There have been premature deaths in the area in the last few months, causing fear among the populace in the area.
"Four people have died mysteriously, and after a trip into the spiritual realms, I discovered the spirit behind it, hence this exercise.
"Personally, I hear the sound of people sweeping, clapping and doors banging deep in the nights, but you don't see anybody physically," Sheikh Nacambo said.
According to Sheikh, "Now that I have contended with them, there is wailing and mourning in the spirit world. These are destinies of innocent people which have been hidden in the pots. The blood you see from the crabs are blood of people witches have drunk."
He advised prospective land owners to seek spiritual guidance before buying pieces of plots to build, saying, "You don't just build after buying a piece of land, you need a man of God to pray over the land before you start building. I am the fourth person to live in this house. The first three people died mysteriously, and so nobody wanted this house, but since I am not afraid of them, I moved in at a much reduced cost because everybody was afraid to live here."
Sheikh Nacambo pointed out that he had discovered another habitat of a demon in the area, and he was 'warming up' to combat it.
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5/2016 - First T cell receptor tension sensor is highlighted by Chemical & Engineering News and by Emory Science Commons!!
5/2016 - Watch 2 min youtube interview describing our latest results studying T cell mechanics!
4/2016 - Roxanne Glazier receives the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!! Aaron Blanchard receives honorable mention!!
4/2016 - Yang Liu's paper on T-cell mechanics is accepted in PNAS!
4/2016 - First example of catalytic amplification to readout piconewton forces. Victor's paper appears in Angewandte Chemie!
1/2016 - First example showing the use of catalytic nanoparticles for treatment of acute inflammation in heart disease! Paper appears in Biomaterials!
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8/2015 - Dr. Weiwei Zheng moves to Syracuse University to start as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry. Best of Luck! We will miss you!
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5/2015 - Carol's review article is published in Molecular and Cellular Biology!
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1/2015- Hanquan Su joins the lab! yay!
9/2014 - Josh Brockman and Roxanne Glazier (BME program) join the lab! WELCOME and best of luck!
9/2014 - Yang's paper on patterned tension sensors is accepted in Nano Letters! Congrats!
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5/2014- Khalid receives the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award!!
2/2014 - Lab welcomes three new graduate students: Jessica Petree, Mingda Zhang, and Victor Pui-Yan Ma!
1/2014 - NSF-CAREER, NSF-IDBR, and NSF-EAGER proposals are all recommended for funding! Nice work team!
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1/2014 - Weiwei Zheng's paper "Quantum dots encapsulated within phospholipid membranes: phase-dependent structure, photostability, and site-selective functionalization" is now in JACS!!
12/2013 - The first Atlanta Area Molecular and Cellular Biophysics Symposium was a huge success! Over 170 attendees! Special thanks to the group for all their help!
3/2013 - Kevin Yehl receives NSF EAPSI award!!
3/2013 - Yoshie Narui selected to attend the 2013 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Germany!!
2/2013 - Khalid selected as a 2013 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow!
2/2013 - Daniel's paper in Integrative Biology is highlighted on the back cover!
2/2013 - Daniel's paper is accepted in Integrative Biology! Congratulations!
12/2012 - Proposal for Nanoscience Research Program at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS) is approved to support Yoshie's project.
11/2012 - Charlene's work is highlighted on the cover of the Journal of Chemical Education.
9/2012 - Kevin's paper appears in ACS Nano! Congratulations!
9/2012 - Carol and Daniel are headed to Washington DC as finalists for 2012 Collegiate Inventor's Competition!!
8/2012 - Charlene's manuscript appears in the Journal of Chemical Education! Congrats!
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4/2012 - Lab receives R01 grant from NIH-NIGMS !!!
2/2012 - Lab receives seed grant through the NIH-NHLBI Program of Excellence in Nanotechnology (PEN) center.
2/2012 - Welcome to Yun Zhang and Yuan Chang who have joined the lab as first year graduate students.
12/2012 - Work from the lab listed as one of the top ten science stories of 2011 at Emory.
12/2012 - Group research highlighted in Chemical & Engineering News.
11/2011 - Daniel Stabley, Carol Schumacher, and Stephen Marshall's paper appears in Nature Methods!! Congrats!
October 2011- Charlene Chan's Mole Day pinata highlighted at eScienceCommons. Fun!
May 2011 - Congratulations to Charlene Chan for winning the 2011 William Jones Scholarship!!!
April 2011 - Congratulations to Charlene Chan for winning the Undergraduate Poster Award and to Deep Chandegara for winning the Hypercube Outstanding Physical Chemistry Student award!!
March 2011 - Come see Charlene and Khalid give talks at Spring ACS meeting in Anaheim, CA.
March 2011 - Congrats to Charlene Chan for winning Chemistry Department ACS travel award!!
February 2011 - Welcome Yang Liu as a first year graduate student in the lab!!!
December 2010 - Come see Kevin Yehl and Khalid Salaita give talks at the 2010 SERMACS Meeting in New Orleans!
October 2010 - Congrats to Charlene Chan and Kevin Harrell on being accepted into Phi Kappa Beta (photos).
October 2010 - Yoshie (photos) and Daniel (photos) give posters at Winship Cancer Institute Research Symposium.
August 2010 - Congratulations to Kevin Yehl for GAANN Graduate Student Fellowship!!
August 2010 - Welcome Carol Schumacher as a grad student into the lab!
July 2010 - Charlene Chan and Stephen Marshall awarded independent research grantsfrom SIRE !!!
May 2010 - Welcome Yoshie Narui and Stephen Marshall to the lab!!!
April 2010 - Khalid Salaita receives a Cancer Research Award from the Georgia Cancer Coalition.
March 2010 - Kevin Harrell receives a SURE award to conduct summer research. Congratulations Kevin!!
March 2010 - Khalid gives seminar to Emory School of Medicine Division of Digestive Diseases .
March 2010 - Manuscript appear in Science along with a Perspective article!!!
March 2010 - Nscriptor DPN System arriving into our lab!
March 2010 - Come see Daniel Stabley's presentation at the Spring ACS meeting in San Francisco!
February 2010 - Khalid gives Winship Cancer Institute Elkin Seminar.
February 2010 - Welcome Kevin Yehl into the lab!!!


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Fry's Electronics in Renton permanently closed in 2021 and owners of the now vacant site seek to build housing and retail units over the next decade. Photo courtesy of Bay West Development
Planned development near Renton's The Landing could be city's largest
An 1,179-unit apartment complex taking over the vacant site of the former Fry's Electronics.
By Bailey Jo Josie bailey.jo.josie@rentonreporter.com
Thursday, January 12, 2023 3:59pm
Nearly two years after the Fry's Electronics in Renton closed down, a redevelopment plan is on the way.
The permit application to redevelop the property into three buildings with an expected 1,179 apartment units is complete, but the period for public comment ends Wednesday, Jan. 18.
From California-based Bay West Development and architect Carrier Johnson + Culture, the buildings are outlined to have housing, retail, commercial and restaurant spaces. Covering 11 acres, the former Fry's property at 800 Garden Ave. N., between the railroad tracks along Interstate 405 and the Target, near The Landing.
According to Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce, this project would likely be the largest mixed-use residential development in Renton history. A new access road will be built to separate the development from the Lowe's to the north and the tracks to the east.
Plans for the first of three project phases will have an eight-story building facing Garden Avenue with 419 units. The project also has plans for a grocery store along with a retail plaza, public art and an open public space facing North Eighth Street on the southern portion of the property.
If permit processes and demolition are executed accordingly, phase one could begin in 2024.
Plans for phase two are set to begin in 2029 and phase three, which is a planned seven-story building with 760 units, could start in 2034 — approximately 10 years after phase one is expected to break ground.
Housing units will range from 540-square-foot studios to 1,230-square-foot three-bedroom units. In addition, 660 bike stalls are planned for tenants.
Vehicle parking for the project will total 1,613 stalls within three levels of the north building and two levels of the three southern buildings. There will also be short-term parking for shoppers.
The land was acquired for over $15 million from Boeing in 2000, where it became the now-closed Fry's Electronics.
Public comments can be taken at the City of Renton Planning Committee meeting, which will run from 6-8 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 18. The meeting is available virtually on Zoom and in-person in the seventh floor Council Chambers at City Hall.
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The Soap Wars
Adriana Ermter
Bar soaps have been making a comeback…
By Adriana Ermter
This year's Friends reunion, "The One Where They Get Back Together," commemorating the 1990s' hit television sitcom's 25th anniversary, brought back a lot of memories that, in unexpected ways, felt relevant right now. Particularly the episode "The One Where Joey Moves Out," when Chandler confronts his roommate Joey about the bar soap they share in the shower.
Chandler: (talking about Joey finishing his cereal, licking his spoon and putting it back in the silverware drawer) The spoon. You licked and, and you put. You licked and you put!
Joey: Yeah, so?
Chandler: Well, don't you see how gross that is? I mean, that's like you using my toothbrush. (Joey looks sheepish) You used my toothbrush?
Joey: Well, that was only because I used the red one to unclog the drain.
Chandler: Mine is the red one! Oh God. Can open, worms everywhere.
Joey: Hey, why can't we use the same toothbrush, but we can use the same soap?
Chandler: Because soap is soap. It's self-cleaning.
Joey: All right, well, next time you take a shower, think about the last thing I wash and the first thing you wash.
Yup, it was the '90s and while most households were, like the fictional characters Chandler and Joey, still sharing the aforementioned bar, shower gels were also beginning to pop up in stores everywhere. And they were gaining popularity over their solid counterparts. Big name brands such as The Body Shop, Crabtree & Evelyn and Bath & Body Works had a fun and fanciful plethora of fresh, citrus, floral and baked goods-smelling liquid options that were too good to ignore; they soon had consumers' attention and buying loyalty. Whether the general public had viewed the Friends episode or not, people were starting to rethink the way they sudsed up in the shower.
This mindset continued to expand over the next two decades and, according to a 2016 research report by US research group Mintel, was the cause for bar soap sales to fall, thanks to 60 per cent of consumers ages 18 to 24 and 31 per cent of consumers 65 years and older believing bar soaps were germ magnets. An additional 55 per cent of all consumers simply found liquid soaps to be more convenient. A cleansing trend quickly turned into the new norm and put foaming and gooey liquid pump-based options front and centre, forcing bar soaps into the background.
Since 2020, however, bar soaps have been making a comeback. A big one, too, with the Kline Group's Cosmetics & Toiletries USA reporting a resurgence in their popularity, with a record sales growth of 6.5 per cent in 2020. The report attributes this to the increased need for hand and body hygiene during the 2019-to-current COVID-19 global pandemic.
"Bar soaps were a wonderful luxury during self-quarantine, as well as now," affirms Matthew Malin and Andrew Goetz, the founders of Malin+Goetz, a beauty company based in New York City. The 17-year-old cult brand is renowned globally for both its bar and liquid soaps, among other skincare offerings. "A good bar soap is the minimalist's dream," continue Malin and Goetz. "It does not take up a lot of space when being used and it can look really pretty in its wrapping. They help freshen the bathroom even when you are not using them and they last practically forever, so they offer the greatest luxury of all time."
Time…which since early 2019 has often felt like an eternity, with everyone confined indoors focusing on constantly, consistently lathering, rinsing and repeating their handwashing routine. It has also caused many to wonder which type of soap – bar or liquid – is better.
Focus on formula
While bar and liquid soaps are certainly different in appearance, they are more similar than you'd think, at least when it comes to their formulations. "Surfactants, or surface active agents, are a key ingredient in both bar soap and washes," explain Malin and Goetz. "Surfactants act like a magnet attracting water to one side and dirt, oil and debris to the other. They cleanse the skin of daily dirt and grime."
Additionally, both bar and liquid versions can contain olive, coconut, palm kernel, soy palm, castor, apricot, avocado, almond, jojoba, hemp, nut or seed oils (just to name a few) to reduce bacteria and create the bubbles that appear when you lather up. Hydrating ingredients such as vitamin E and cocoa, mango or shea butters are also often included to provide moisture to the skin. Water and glycerin (albeit liquid glycerin for liquid soaps) and fragrance, essential oils and colour can also be found in each option's formulas.
The core difference between the two is that bar soaps are typically made from animal fat or vegetable oils and then mixed with an alkali, while liquid soaps tend to be predominantly petroleum based and created with emulsifying agents and stabilizers to keep their ingredients from separating in the bottle.
Yet contrary to myth, both are equally efficient and safe at eliminating dirt, debris, germs and bacteria. "It's all about the lather," explains Dr. Nowell Solish, a cosmetic dermatologist and dermatologic surgeon, the director of dermatologic surgery at the University of Toronto and the founder of his eponymous clinic in Toronto. "When you work up a lather, you spend more time lifting up the dirt and micro-organisms, cleaning away the oil and dead skin cells that stick to the skin, removing the bacteria growing on it and any odours that have formed. The oil-based portion of each soap's formulation attracts the membranes that contain viruses and kills them. Then the water washes it all down the drain." Just don't use a foam-based liquid, warns Dr. Solish: their lack of ability to create more lather when emulsified in your hands directly correlates to their inability to thoroughly clean.
According to a 2019 study by the Institute of Environmental Engineering, more than 40 per cent of consumers buying skincare products are concerned about environmental factors. Additionally, the study notes that liquid soaps leave a 25 per cent larger carbon footprint than bar soaps. "Regardless of whether they're dermatologist approved or otherwise, most liquid soaps are more costly on the environment," agrees Dr. Solish. "Bar soaps win, hands over feet. Plus, they're usually inexpensive and are simply wrapped in paper, while liquid soaps are frequently contained in plastic, pump-based containers."
Clearly, when it comes to the packaging debate, bar soaps come out on top. That said, favourites such as Dove, Irish Spring, Cerave, Crate 61, Dr. Squatch, Avène and Schmidt's are sold in additional packaging like cardboard boxes, while brands with liquid options such as Molton Brown, Diptyque, Lothantique and The Unscented Company use recyclable, glass dispensers. Many more brands, such as Dial, L'Occitane en Provence, Mrs. Meyers, method and CleanCult have reduced their plastic waste by creating biodegradable pouches, tubs and aluminum containers replete with their soapy formulas, empowering consumers to refill their existing dispensers.
Still, even if you opt for a refill, bar soaps last longer. "You don't have to replenish them as often as a gel cleanser," affirm Malin and Goetz. "They're extremely environmentally responsible. No plastic to chuck into the recycling bin hoping it finds its way to a recycling centre. So they save space at home and on the planet. The other nice thing about a bar soap is that you know exactly how much you have left. No frustration pumping a bottle trying to squeeze out the last bit of gel."
Custom creations
Yes, there are loads of fresh, sporty and clean-scented hand and body washes and bar soaps to choose from. Yet, when you want to curate the way you smell, shower gels take the lead. Designer fragrance houses and cult beauty and grooming brands, such as Acqua di Parma, Chanel, Le Labo, Byredo, Hugo Boss and Malin+Goetz can transform your bathroom into a spa and get you squeaky clean all at the same time. But what they truly specialize in is their ability to personalize your wash routine.
Capitalizing on your mood and emotions and how you want to express yourself that day, liquid washes can be used in place of or to build upon a signature scent, cologne or perfume. Tapping into your senses and having a fragrance linger on your skin is a key benefit to using a luxury liquid soap, one that bar soaps just can't replicate.
"We like the tactile act of picking up a bar of soap to wash; it always feels so nice and thorough between our hands, and we like that the bar literally washes itself clean when you rinse it under water," explain Malin and Goetz. "But we also love a multi-purpose product, like our washes. They can be used to both cleanse and bathe, and, as a bonus, run the pump under the faucet for an aromatic foaming bath."
So who wins? "As long as you're thoroughly washing your hands every time you come inside from being outdoors or in the car, at work or wherever, and you're lathering up for a solid minute before rinsing off, you can use either product," says Dr. Solish, affirming that the soap wars choice boils down to personal preference.
"We can't pick a favourite," Malin and Goetz agree. "The key differences between hand and body washes and bar soaps are the textures, performance and sensorial experience due to the unique chemical makeup." So, ultimately, it's up to you to decide.
ADRIANA ERMTER is a Toronto-based, lifestyle-magazine pro who has travelled the globe writing about must-spritz fragrances, child poverty, beauty and grooming.
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Q: Will RCpp speed up the evaluation of basic R functions? Pardon me, but I do not know much about Rcpp, but I am trying to figure out if it would be good to learn it in order to improve a package I am writing.
I have written an R package that (is supposed to) efficiently and randomly samples uniformly from a high-dimensional, constrained space with an MCMC algorithm. It is (unfinished and) located at https://github.com/davidkane9/kmatching.
The problem is when I run a statistical test called the Gelman-Rubin diagnostic to see whether my MCMC algorithm has converged to a stationary distribution, I should get R = 1 for the statistic, but I get very high numbers, which basically tells me my sampling is bad and no one should use it. The solution is to take more samples and skip more (taking 1 out of ever 1000 instead of every 100). However this takes a lot of time. If you want some code to run, here is an example:
##install the package first
data(lalonde)
matchvars = c("age", "educ", "black")
k = kmatch(x = lalonde, weight.var = "treat", match.var = matchvars, n = 1000, skiplength = 1000, chains = 2, verbose = TRUE)

Looking at an Rprof output of this I get that rnorm and %*% are taking most of the time:
                       total.time total.pct self.time self.pct
"kmatch"                  1453.14    100.00      0.00     0.00
"hitandrun"               1450.18     99.79    128.80     8.86
"%*%"                      757.00     52.09    757.00    52.09
"cat"                      343.18     23.62    329.82    22.70
"rnorm"                    106.34      7.32    103.50     7.12
"mirror"                    35.26      2.43     21.84     1.50
"paste"                     14.02      0.96     14.02     0.96
"stdout"                    13.36      0.92     13.36     0.92
"runif"                     13.32      0.92     13.32     0.92
"/"                         12.82      0.88     12.82     0.88
">"                          7.42      0.51      7.42     0.51
"<"                          6.22      0.43      6.22     0.43
"-"                          5.78      0.40      5.78     0.40
"max"                        5.18      0.36      5.18     0.36
"nchar"                      5.12      0.35      5.12     0.35
"*"                          4.84      0.33      4.84     0.33
"min"                        3.94      0.27      3.94     0.27
"sum"                        3.42      0.24      3.42     0.24
"gelman.diag"                2.90      0.20      0.00     0.00
"=="                         2.86      0.20      2.86     0.20
"ncol"                       2.84      0.20      2.84     0.20
"apply"                      2.72      0.19      0.26     0.02
"+"                          2.48      0.17      2.48     0.17
"FUN"                        2.32      0.16      1.66     0.11
"^"                          2.08      0.14      2.08     0.14
":"                          1.24      0.09      1.24     0.09
"sqrt"                       0.96      0.07      0.96     0.07
"%%"                         0.90      0.06      0.90     0.06
"mean.default"               0.62      0.04      0.62     0.04
"lapply"                     0.40      0.03      0.26     0.02
"("                          0.32      0.02      0.32     0.02
"unlist"                     0.26      0.02      0.00     0.00
"array"                      0.12      0.01      0.02     0.00
"sapply"                     0.12      0.01      0.00     0.00
"matrix"                     0.06      0.00      0.02     0.00
"Null"                       0.04      0.00      0.04     0.00
"print"                      0.04      0.00      0.00     0.00
"unique"                     0.04      0.00      0.00     0.00
"abs"                        0.02      0.00      0.02     0.00
"all"                        0.02      0.00      0.02     0.00
"aperm.default"              0.02      0.00      0.02     0.00
"as.matrix.mcmc"             0.02      0.00      0.02     0.00
"file.exists"                0.02      0.00      0.02     0.00
"list"                       0.02      0.00      0.02     0.00
"print.default"              0.02      0.00      0.02     0.00
"stopifnot"                  0.02      0.00      0.02     0.00
"unique.default"             0.02      0.00      0.02     0.00
"which.min"                  0.02      0.00      0.02     0.00
"<Anonymous>"                0.02      0.00      0.00     0.00
"aperm"                      0.02      0.00      0.00     0.00
"as.mcmc.list"               0.02      0.00      0.00     0.00
"as.mcmc.list.default"       0.02      0.00      0.00     0.00
"data"                       0.02      0.00      0.00     0.00
"mcmc.list"                  0.02      0.00      0.00     0.00
"print.gelman.diag"          0.02      0.00      0.00     0.00
"quantile.default"           0.02      0.00      0.00     0.00
"sort"                       0.02      0.00      0.00     0.00
"sort.default"               0.02      0.00      0.00     0.00
"sort.int"                   0.02      0.00      0.00     0.00
"summary"                    0.02      0.00      0.00     0.00
"summary.default"            0.02      0.00      0.00     0.00

If I set verbose = F, the cat goes away, but then %*% takes about 70% of the time. I am wondering if it would be worthwhile to try to write my code in C++ and then use RCpp, or if because the functions that are taking so much time are basic functions (already written in C) it wouldn't be worth it and I'll just have to live with it or find a better algorithm.
Edit: According to Rprof, the one line that is holding me up is u = Z %*% r in hitandrun:
## This is the loop that is being run millions of times and taking forever
for(i in 1:(n*skiplength+discard)) {
        tmin<-0;tmax<-0;
        ## runs counts how many times tried to pick a direction, if
        ## too high fail.
        runs = 0
        while(tmin ==0 && tmax ==0) {
          ## r is a random unit vector in with basis in Z
          r <- rnorm(ncol(Z))
          r <- r/sqrt(sum(r^2))

          ## u is a unit vector in the appropriate k-plane pointing in a
          ## random direction Z %*% r is the same as in mirror
          u <- Z%*%r
          c <- y/u
          ## determine intersections of x + t*u with walls
          ## the limits on how far you can go backward and forward
          ## i.e. the maximum and minimum ratio y_i/u_i for negative and positive u.
          tmin <- max(-c[u>0]); tmax <- min(-c[u<0]);
          ## unboundedness
          if(tmin == -Inf || tmax == Inf){
            stop("problem is unbounded")
          }
          ## if stuck on boundary point
          if(tmin==0 && tmax ==0) {
            runs = runs + 1
            if(runs >= 1000) stop("hitandrun found can't find feasible direction, cannot generate points")
          }
        }

        ## chose a point on the line segment
        y <- y + (tmin + (tmax - tmin)*runif(1))*u;

        ## choose a point every 'skiplength' samples
        if(i %% skiplength == 0) {
          X[,index] <- y
          index <- index + 1
        }
        if(verbose) for(j in 1:nchar(str)) cat("\b")
        str <- paste(i)
        if(verbose) cat(str)
      }

it is actually the only time I do matrix multiplication in my sampling loop, however I do it thousands of times, once per sample taking a million samples and throwing out 99%.

A: Rcpp has in fact been used a lot for precisely this purpose: MCMC.  You generally get pretty decent speed gains on the order of 30 to 50 or 70.
One of the early packages is Whit's rcppbugs which he converted to Rcpp for general ease of use after having programmed it with some classes he wrote.  A casual web search for 'Rcpp MCMC' will lead you to a few posts.
And other authors have used Rcpp for this as well.  And it also sits on the inside of (R)Stan as you really want the looping constructs inherent in MCMC to be running as fast as possible. Hence compiled.
I asked the rcpp-devel list last week what I should talk about in a brief R User Group presentation I'll give tomorrow, and the 'MCMC' suggestions more or less dominated.  One entire talk from another RUG was presented too.  I'd link to the thread but somehow it fell of Gmane's archive for rcpp-devel.
So in sum I'd say yes, you do want to consider using Rcpp here.

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Love Island's Jess Shears and Dom Lever shocked Good Morning Britain viewers as they tied the knot live on air yesterday morning.
The couple received a string of backlash over the vows, with some blasting the ceremony as "cringe-worthy", forcing Jess to hit back and confirm the wedding was a "joke".
Good Morning Britain presenter Piers Morgan, who usually hosts the show alongside Susanna Reid, added to the negative feedback and took to Twitter to claim the couple will be divorced in a matter of days.
Alongside a video of Jess and Dom saying "I do", Piers wrote: "FFS. Can I cover the live divorce when I get back in 10 days?"
But hitting back, brunette beauty Jess replied: "Might be difficult as we aren't actually married yet," alongside a shrugging emoji.
Jessica Shears, who is engaged to Dom Lever after they met on Love Island, hit back at haters after receiving mass backlash online for their live nuptials.
Although they admitted that it wasn't an official wedding, they received some mixed reviews online – with fellow islanders such as Cara De La Hoyde and Olivia Buckland throwing serious shade at their decision.
But now Jess has bit back online, saying people need to "take a joke" as she defended her and Dom's decision to tie the knot on TV.
"So many people getting their knickers in a twist this morning about mine and @_DomLever Valentines Wedding on @GMB," she wrote to her 224k followers. "We had such a laugh and can't wait for the REAL wedding now in October #learntotakeajokekids." Dom re-tweeted his fiancee's post, adding: "What a morning #haterswillhate."
Many fans had branded the ceremony "cringe", "awkward" and "not funny", with one even writing: "It was the most embarrassing thing ever."
During a chat before their wedding on Good Morning Britain, temporary host Jeremy Kyle said: "Do you want to get married now?", to which they both replied: "It's Valentine's Day, let's go for it!"
Richard Arnold, who joked he was recently ordained, held the ceremony as he recited vows with hilarious catchphrases from their time on Love Island. Jess and Dom stripped to a skimpy white swimsuit and trunks for the special occasion.


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