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(ati - too much) na caikAntam anaznataH na cAti-svapna-zIlasya jAgrato niva cArjuna yuktAhAra-vihArasya yukta-ceSTasya karmasu yukta-svapnAvabodhasya yogo bhavati duHkha-hA ============ This could have been posted on Atma's Insomnia or Gauracandra's Short Power Naps thread as well. ********** Good Night's Sleep for Healthy Heart by Geoffrey White AP CHICAGO (Jan. 27) - Too little sleep - or too much - may raise the risk of developing heart disease, according to a study of nearly 72,000 nurses. Women who averaged five hours or less of sleep a night were 39 percent more likely to develop heart disease than women who got eight hours. Those sleeping six hours a night had an 18 percent higher risk of developing blocked arteries than the eight-hour sleepers. And nine or more hours of shuteye was associated with a 37 percent higher risk of heart disease. Researchers could not explain that finding, but suggested those women might have slept more because of underlying illnesses. "People should start thinking of adequate sleep not as a luxury but more as a component of a healthy lifestyle,'' said Dr. Najib Ayas, a sleep disorders specialist who was at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston when he led the study. The researchers suggested that getting enough sleep may be nearly as important to heart health as eating right and exercising. And they pointed out a recent poll that found that about one in three Americans has long-term sleep deprivation. The study was published in Monday's Archives of Internal Medicine. The researchers could not say for certain whether the findings apply to men, too. But other research strongly suggests so. Previous studies of men and women found short-term sleep deprivation can raise blood pressure and levels of the stress hormone cortisol, lower glucose tolerance and lead to variations in heart rate - all precursors of heart disease. Phyllis Zee, director of the sleep disorders center at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, said the findings show that doctors should be asking their patients about sleep habits. And if those patients are losing sleep by choice, "they may want to rethink their priorities,'' Zee said. Researchers examined 10 years of data on 71,617 participants in Harvard's Nurses' Health Study, which tracked female nurses for a variety of studies. The women were ages 45 to 65 and had no sign of heart disease at the outset in 1986. Over 10 years, 934 of the women had nonfatal heart attacks or died of heart disease. The study relied on the nurses' recollection of their sleep patterns rather than directly measuring their sleep. The researchers were also from the Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School, all in Boston. 01/27/03 17:15 EST

Just a reminder. Precious sesame seeds. All the world's scientists combined cannot produce even one.

Actually, if properly harvested, vegetables r not killed. Of course we know no killing is involved with fruit picking & cow milking. But what about grain? SP stated: "In the case of grain, the soul leaves before the grain ripens." Ask any undertaker, he'll tell u the same. According to Gita 3.12-13, vegetarians don't kill. But if they/we don't offer, we do steal. So stealing is also sinful, though venial compared to mortal. What to speak of unnecessary animal slaughter, human sacrifice is regularly going on today in various regions of Amerika's contiguous 48. Everyone has misinterpreted Gita 11.32 to suit himself, herself. "Humbug Civilization simply for flickering, temporary happiness."

1st question/division: whether I/u believe God exists; atheist vs theist 2nd: whether God is personal or impersonal, Divine Form or formless? 3rd: whether God has any limitations: can appear in this world or not? 4th: whether practitioners follow any rules, 10 Commandments, 4 regs etc 5th: whether animals, plants have souls 6th: whether we can have rasa = mellow with God or not? 7th: whether we r home in this material world or not? sambandha-jnAna 8th: whether life itself has any goal? prayojan-tattva 9th: whether we can achieve that goal? abhidheya-tattva ====== Bonafide HKs can see the good in anything while weeding out the bad. PrabhupAd said Christianity is a level of bhakti, God the Father, whereas Buddhism's (no God) not. "NAstik. If there's no god, how it can be bhakti?" Lord GaurAnga felt closer to RAmAnujAcarya's sampradAya than His own line MadhvAcarya Tattva-vADIs. Why? You figure.

Olive branch symbolizes what? Peace, no? So is it any wonder that as we type, Zionist Bulldozers paid for by US $Tax Dollars to the tune of $100KK/day, r uprooting 100 yr old olive trees while simultaneously not allowing Palestinian farmers onto their own cultivated land? Some say one tree is worth one hundred men. In Amerika we chop down trees to print pornography & falsehood trash every chance we get. If u don't know who is terrorizing whom by now... well, there's always tomorrow. Eyes Wide Shut. Resting Your Lids? For how long?

We still don't know who knocked down those twin towers. We're not even allowed to investigate, thanks to Chainman Cheney. Can he cover up WTC-related illness too? Or is he not even interested? Bomb others for oil first, ask questions later? Oor... Don't look THERE, look HERE! Oor... Don't u dare ever ask. We're watchin u. Watch your step.. A real patriot, right? Ask the ailing below how patriotic covering up calamity can be. ============ NEW YORK (Jan. 27) - A majority of ground zero workers screened for health problems 10 to 11 months after the terrorist attacks still showed lung, throat or mental ailments, according to preliminary findings released Monday. The federal screening program found that 73 percent had ear, nose and throat symptoms, and 57 percent had lung problems. Under the program, more than 3,500 workers who toiled at the ruins of the World Trade Center have been examined. The findings were based on a random sample of 250 people from the first 500 patients who were seen from July 16, 2002, to Aug. 29, 2002. Dr. Robin Herbert, co-director of Mount Sinai Medical Center's screening program for World Trade Center workers, said the findings are alarming. ``Our preliminary findings clearly demonstrate the need for the immediate screening of the WTC responders, as well as the provision of medical follow-up,'' he said. The program has offered free medical screening to anyone who worked at ground zero, including volunteers. It is scheduled to conclude in July. 01/27/03 15:33 EST 2003 Associated Press.

FAT - Is Fat the Next Tobacco? For Big Food, supersizing America is becoming a big headache. ============ I've heard one guru disliked overweight disciples. Avoiding offense, respectfully encourage overweight vaisnavas to... increase their spiritual while reducing their material. ============ FORTUNE Tuesday, January 21, 2003 By Roger Parloff On August 3, 2000, parody newspaper The Onion ran a joke article under the headline Hershey's Ordered to Pay Obese Americans $135 Billion. The hypothesized class-action lawsuit said that Hershey "knowingly and willfully" marketed to children "rich, fatty candy bars containing chocolate and other ingredients of negligible nutritional value," while "spiking" them with "peanuts, crisped rice, and caramel to increase consumer appeal." Some joke. Last summer New York City attorney Sam Hirsch filed a strikingly similar suit--against McDonald's--on behalf of a class of obese and overweight children. He alleged that the fast-food chain "negligently, recklessly, carelessly and/or intentionally" markets to children food products that are "high in fat, salt, sugar, and cholesterol" while failing to warn of those ingredients' links to "obesity, diabetes, coronary heart disease, high blood pressure, strokes, elevated cholesterol intake, related cancers," and other conditions. News of the lawsuit drew hoots of derision. But food industry executives aren't laughing--or shouldn't be. No matter what happens with Hirsch's suit, he has tapped into something very big. (Editor's note: After this story went to press, a federal judge dismissed the suit, but granted permission to refile, which Hirsch says he will do.) Seasoned lawyers from both sides of past mass-tort disputes agree that the years ahead hold serious tobacco-like litigation challenges for the food industry--challenges that extend beyond fast foods to snack foods, soft drinks, packaged foods, and dietary supplements. "The precedents, the ammo, the missiles are already there and waiting in a silo marked 'tobacco,' " says Victor Schwartz, general counsel of the American Tort Reform Association. Junk food may not be addictive in the same way that tobacco is. But weight, once gained, is notoriously hard to lose, and childhood weight patterns strongly predict adult ones. Rates of overweight among small children--to whom junk-food companies aggressively market their products--have doubled since 1980; rates among adolescents have tripled. (See the following story for more on the fat epidemic.) In 1999 physicians began reporting an alarming rise in children of obesity-linked type 2 diabetes. Once an obese youngster develops diabetes, he or she will never get rid of it. That's a lot more irreversible than a smoking addiction. Though many people recoil at the idea of obesity suits--eating habits are a matter of personal responsibility, they protest--tobacco precedents show that such qualms can be overcome. Yes, most people know that eating a Big Mac isn't the same as eating spinach salad, but most people knew that smoking was bad for them too. And yes, diet is only one risk factor out of many that contribute to obesity, but smoking is just one risk factor for diseases for which tobacco companies were forced to fork over reimbursement to Medicaid. (Industry's share of blame was statistically estimated and then divvied up among companies by market share.) Tobacco companies eventually agreed to pay $246 billion to states, and juries are now ordering them to pay individual smokers eight-digit verdicts too. By Surgeon General's estimate, public-health costs attributable to overweight and obesity now come to about $117 billion/year--fast approaching $140 billion stemming from smoking. Suing Big Food offers allures to contingency-fee lawyers that rival those of Big Tobacco, and implications of that are pretty easy to foresee. While the food industry is not apt to be socked with anything like penalties that hit tobacco, companies will face consumer-protection suits that might cost them many tens of millions of dollars and force them to significantly change marketing practices. The triggering event occurred in December 2001. That's when the Surgeon General, observing that about 300,000 deaths per year are now associated with overweight and obesity, warned that those conditions might soon cause as much preventable disease and death as smoking. The report prompted journalists to call John Banzhaf III, antismoking activist and law professor at George Washington University School of Law, to see whether tobacco-style litigation might be in the offing. "I said, 'Well, no, there are important differences,' " Banzhaf recalls. But even as he talked, he began to change his mind. Another key academic strategist in tobacco wars, Northeastern University law professor Richard Daynard, was soon drawn into the fray. At a conference last April to discuss Marion Nestle's new book, Food Politics, he was asked to talk about possible obesity-related litigation. (Nestle, who chairs the nutrition department at New York University and whose name is pronounced NESSel, is not related to founders of the food company.) Daynard, like Banzhaf, at first saw no analogy to tobacco. But as he read Nestle's book, he, too, began to change his mind. Here's Nestle's argument. For at least the past 50 years public-health authorities have wanted to deliver a simple, urgent message to American people: Eat less. They have been thwarted from doing so, however, by political pressure from the food industry. The meat industry alone spends millions a year on lobbying, apparently with great success. Instead of forthrightly saying, "Eat less red meat," government health authorities are forced to say, "Eat more lean meat." Food companies compound the confusion by advertising that their products can be "part of a balanced and nutritional diet," even though they know that their products are not typically consumed that way. Any food can theoretically be part of a balanced diet if you keep the portions tiny enough and eat lots of fruits, vegetables, and grains. As Daynard well knew, advertising claims that are literally true, but misleading when viewed in a real-world context, can violate state consumer-protection laws. In some states, like California, plaintiffs can force companies to disgorge all profits attributable to advertising that employs such statements, and the plaintiff can win without having to prove that even a single individual was actually tricked by the statement. The idea of bringing such suits against the food industry is not unprecedented. In 1983, for instance, the California supreme court greenlighted a suit brought by an advocacy group against General Foods over the way such breakfast cereals as Sugar Crisp and Cocoa Pebbles--which contain 38% to 50% sugar by weight--were being marketed to children. The plaintiffs argued that "although promoted and labeled as 'cereals,'" the products "are in fact more accurately described as sugar products, or candies." The court suggested that ads even implicitly claiming that such products were nutritious or healthful were plausible lawsuit targets. (After the ruling, the case settled.) Last July, Daynard attended an informal meeting of lawyers and public-health advocates in Banzhaf's office in Washington. "The first question at John's meeting was, 'Is there a there there?' " Daynard recalls. "What persuaded us was, in a sense, the media. This thing is so radioactive in terms of media attention that cases will bring in other lawyers and bring in other cases." Later that month a lawyer who'd never heard of Banzhaf or Daynard crashed their party. Sam Hirsch, who runs his own small practice in New York City, had become interested in food issues after an overweight associate referred to a burger as a "fat bomb." Though Hirsch, 54, had never brought a class action, he now filed two, one in Brooklyn and another in the Bronx. The suits, brought on behalf of classes of obese people, named McDonald's, Burger King, KFC, and Wendy's as defendants. From Feb. 3, 2003 Issue Article

Many volunteers would quickly come forward to lend support.

Rastogi? Rasta? If Rastafarians show up in Ayodhya to show their support, they can appropriately loudly chant Bob Marley's International Hit Song: "Get up, Stand up, Stand up for your Rights!"

Truly great thread. Pleasing to Guru, God, this entire universe and beyond.

RAvan had a bro in Brazil passing hema by tunnel. Don't tell.

Have u read 5th Canto? Difficult, no? Some conclude Earth is elliptic, others conic. SP quoted some Vedik verse using word gal or gol? meaning round - ball shaped. Has anyone flown around this Earth planet North to South? Was Admiral Byrd discredited? There's your answer.

There is a story indicating GaurAnga's desire to only accept lunch at 64 round-chanters' homes. Maybe in Cc Madhya-lila

After being thoroughly defeated & publicly obliterated by Senator Bentsen, feeling totally bewildered, Quayle was secretly recorded speaking to himself: "I wonder whatever became of me? I should've been back here a long time ago."

.. THE TOUGH GO SHOPPING! I O, I O, SO OFF TO WORK I GO... WHATEVER IT IS, I'M AGAINST IT!

I religiously shave every Dvadasi. I should've taken my passport photo 1-2 days later. Oh well, I'll make a note for next time (~~10 yrs).

Which reminds me of that hitsong wall-plaqued at Cracker Barrel thus: "I can see clearly now the BRAIN is gone."

This morning we heard on www.wbai.org or www.Pacifica.org : "A fanatic is a person who does what the Lord Himself would have done if He had had all the facts." or "A fanatic is a person who does what the Supreme Lord Himself would have done had He had all the facts." mano-rathenAsati dhAvato bahiH Interesting mindset, no?

U can tune in live rifht now worldwide to ongoing discussion featuring Chairman Powell (Colin's kid) at Columbia Law School via www.wbai.org or www.pacifica.org streaming 2600 or 2800.

Anyone with genuine guru knows all this clone ... is bogus to the hilt. Others must remain in ignorance awaiting their latest rhetorical reports. "No, just now not, but in future we shall..." SP: "Trust no future, however pleasant" Filmfreaks: "Trust no future, just ask Donald Pleasant" Reread "Life Comes from Life" or better yet, hear the tapes!

Somebody moves into your neighborhood, knocks down your house, blocks u from harvesting your crops, shoots your kids... see how quickly u'd become /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif 1st class so-called 'terrorists' too! YamarAj is keeping a special place for Aerial Sharon, his supporters & his suppliers.

Like those Klassik Karl Malden Amerikan Express commercials: "HOMEland Security: don't leave HOME without it!" Now whether u can really get it...? ================= (*Editors Note | For those TruthOut Readers wishing to become more involved in raising public awareness, this piece by William Rivers Pitt is ideal for pamphleting. You might consider printing it out and circulating it by hand in your community. I suspect responses you would get might be well worth the price of admission. -- ma) Take the Homeland Security Quiz! By William Rivers Pitt t r u t h o u t | Perspective Dec2002 Question One: Do you approve of the new Homeland Security Department, signed into law by President Bush? Background: On November 25th, 2002, President Bush signed into law legislation that created a new Homeland Security Department. Called for in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks, this new department will merge 22 different government agencies and over 170,000 government employees into one unit. The stated purpose of the new Homeland Security Department is to defend America against future terrorist attacks. a) Yes, I approve b) No, I do not approve c) I am not sure Question Two: Do you approve of the creation of a 'Total Information Awareness' database by the Department of Defense that will track a wide variety of data regarding every American citizen? Background: The 'Total Information Awareness' database is the brainchild of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the research and development core of the Department of Defense. The database will gather data regarding credit card purchases, telephone calls made, websites visited, academic grades received, surveys taken, sweepstakes entered, property purchased, financial records, magazine subscriptions, medical procedures and so forth. The data will reveal not only shopping habits but an overall picture of personal lifestyle, including everything from pets owned to religious preferences. Every American will be subject to its scrutiny. It will be run by Admiral John Poindexter, who was criminally convicted in 1990 for lying to Congress, destroying official documents and obstruction of justice in the Iran/Contra scandal. a) Yes, I approve b) No, I do not approve c) I am not sure Question Three: Do you believe that citizens should be allowed to sue in civil court the Eli Lilly Pharmaceutical Corporation for the production of products which cause autism in children? Background: For more than 40 years, the Eli Lilly Corporation developed and sold a mercury-based preservative used in many vaccines against childhood diseases. The preservative, called thimerosal, has been linked to the development of autism in children exposed to it. 45 lawsuits have already been filed by parents against Eli Lilly. These lawsuits seek to establish Eli Lilly's liability regarding the development of autism in these children. a) Yes, these parents should be allowed to sue Eli Lilly in civil court b) No, these parents should not be allowed to sue Eli Lilly in civil court c) I am not sure Question Four: Do you approve of the Freedom of Information Act? Background: The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) was passed in 1966 to allow public access to records and documents created by federal agencies. Since its passage, all fifty states have passed their own versions of the FOIA. The Supreme Court, in a case entitled NLRB v. Robbins Tire Co. in 1978, spoke of the importance of the Act: "The basic purpose of FOIA is to ensure an informed citizenry, vital to the functioning of a democratic society, needed to check against corruption and to hold the governors accountable to the governed." a) Yes, I approve b) No, I do not approve c) I am not sure Question Five: Do you approve of an investigation into the attacks of September 11, 2001? Background: On September 11th, 2001, four commercial airliners were hijacked by terrorists. Two were flown into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, causing the Towers to collapse. A third was piloted into the Pentagon in Washington DC, and a fourth crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. Close to 3,000 people perished in these attacks. In the nearly 500 days since, little has come to light regarding how American intelligence agencies failed to perceive the threat. None of the perpetrators who planned the attacks have been apprehended, including the mastermind, Osama bin Laden. The manner in which these terrorists were funded has likewise gone unexplored, as have many other pressing questions. A thorough investigation will serve to reveal the information behind these questions and take a large step towards ensuring that such an attack can never happen again. a) Yes, I approve of a 9/11 investigation b) No, I do not approve of a 9/11 investigation c) I am not sure Question Six: Did you know that the 'Total Information Awareness' database, under the stewardship of Admiral Poindexter and the Department of Defense, is an integral part of the new Homeland Security legislation, and will begin mining for data soon? a) Yes, I knew that b) No, I did not know that Question Seven: Did you know that the Eli Lilly Pharmaceutical Corporation was granted immunity from lawsuit and liability regarding the autism allegations in the new Homeland Security legislation, because they are under contract to produce bioweapons vaccines for the federal government? a) Yes, I knew that b) No, I did not know that Question Eight: Did you know that the Freedom of Information Act has been severely curtailed by the new Homeland Security legislation, because public data on the actions of federal agencies is now considered a "potential security weakness?" a) Yes, I knew that b) No, I did not know that Question Nine: Did you know that, thanks to new restrictions on the Freedom of Information Act which will be decided upon on a case by case basis by the same department that manages the Total Information Awareness database, an effective investigation into what happened on September 11th, 2001 is now a practical impossibility? a) Yes, I knew that b) No, I did not know that Question Ten: Do you approve of the new Homeland Security Department, signed into law by President Bush? a) Yes, I approve b) No, I do not approve c) I am not sure

Is this story credible? Not trumped up? As Trump trumped up full-page rape charge ads shouting: "Bring Back Death Penalty" against those 5 innocent "Central Park jogger" boys? Even if it's true, is our U.S. gov't any better? Agent Orange cover-up, Depleted Uranium snow-job, to name a few.

Sloka's meaning: Our environment is favorable. Any environment is favorable. We r all complete, though interrelated & interdependent.

No one can take ABC seriously. (ABC = Ash,Bush,Chen) Still we may consider them a seriously up-n-coming, funny (though lethal), better late than never, comedy team. ========= (*Editors Note | For those TruthOut Readers wishing to become more involved in raising public awareness, this piece by William Rivers Pitt is ideal for pamphleting. You might consider printing it out and circulating it by hand in your community. I suspect responses you would get might be well worth the price of admission. -- ma) Take the Homeland Security Quiz! By William Rivers Pitt t r u t h o u t | Perspective Sunday, 1 December, 2002 Question One: Do you approve of the new Homeland Security Department, signed into law by President Bush? Background: On November 25th, 2002, President Bush signed into law legislation that created a new Homeland Security Department. Called for in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks, this new department will merge 22 different government agencies and over 170,000 government employees into one unit. The stated purpose of the new Homeland Security Department is to defend America against future terrorist attacks. a) Yes, I approve b) No, I do not approve c) I am not sure Question Two: Do you approve of the creation of a 'Total Information Awareness' database by the Department of Defense that will track a wide variety of data regarding every American citizen? Background: The 'Total Information Awareness' database is the brainchild of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the research and development core of the Department of Defense. The database will gather data regarding credit card purchases, telephone calls made, websites visited, academic grades received, surveys taken, sweepstakes entered, property purchased, financial records, magazine subscriptions, medical procedures and so forth. The data will reveal not only shopping habits but an overall picture of personal lifestyle, including everything from pets owned to religious preferences. Every American will be subject to its scrutiny. It will be run by Admiral John Poindexter, who was criminally convicted in 1990 for lying to Congress, destroying official documents and obstruction of justice in the Iran/Contra scandal. a) Yes, I approve b) No, I do not approve c) I am not sure Question Three: Do you believe that citizens should be allowed to sue in civil court the Eli Lilly Pharmaceutical Corporation for the production of products which cause autism in children? Background: For more than 40 years, the Eli Lilly Corporation developed and sold a mercury-based preservative used in many vaccines against childhood diseases. The preservative, called thimerosal, has been linked to the development of autism in children exposed to it. 45 lawsuits have already been filed by parents against Eli Lilly. These lawsuits seek to establish Eli Lilly's liability regarding the development of autism in these children. a) Yes, these parents should be allowed to sue Eli Lilly in civil court b) No, these parents should not be allowed to sue Eli Lilly in civil court c) I am not sure Question Four: Do you approve of the Freedom of Information Act? Background: The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) was passed in 1966 to allow public access to records and documents created by federal agencies. Since its passage, all fifty states have passed their own versions of the FOIA. The Supreme Court, in a case entitled NLRB v. Robbins Tire Co. in 1978, spoke of the importance of the Act: "The basic purpose of FOIA is to ensure an informed citizenry, vital to the functioning of a democratic society, needed to check against corruption and to hold the governors accountable to the governed." a) Yes, I approve b) No, I do not approve c) I am not sure Question Five: Do you approve of an investigation into the attacks of September 11, 2001? Background: On September 11th, 2001, four commercial airliners were hijacked by terrorists. Two were flown into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, causing the Towers to collapse. A third was piloted into the Pentagon in Washington DC, and a fourth crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. Close to 3,000 people perished in these attacks. In the nearly 500 days since, little has come to light regarding how American intelligence agencies failed to perceive the threat. None of the perpetrators who planned the attacks have been apprehended, including the mastermind, Osama bin Laden. The manner in which these terrorists were funded has likewise gone unexplored, as have many other pressing questions. A thorough investigation will serve to reveal the information behind these questions and take a large step towards ensuring that such an attack can never happen again. a) Yes, I approve of a 9/11 investigation b) No, I do not approve of a 9/11 investigation c) I am not sure Question Six: Did you know that the 'Total Information Awareness' database, under the stewardship of Admiral Poindexter and the Department of Defense, is an integral part of the new Homeland Security legislation, and will begin mining for data soon? a) Yes, I knew that b) No, I did not know that Question Seven: Did you know that the Eli Lilly Pharmaceutical Corporation was granted immunity from lawsuit and liability regarding the autism allegations in the new Homeland Security legislation, because they are under contract to produce bioweapons vaccines for the federal government? a) Yes, I knew that b) No, I did not know that Question Eight: Did you know that the Freedom of Information Act has been severely curtailed by the new Homeland Security legislation, because public data on the actions of federal agencies is now considered a "potential security weakness?" a) Yes, I knew that b) No, I did not know that Question Nine: Did you know that, thanks to new restrictions on the Freedom of Information Act which will be decided upon on a case by case basis by the same department that manages the Total Information Awareness database, an effective investigation into what happened on September 11th, 2001 is now a practical impossibility? a) Yes, I knew that b) No, I did not know that Question Ten: Do you approve of the new Homeland Security Department, signed into law by President Bush? a) Yes, I approve b) No, I do not approve c) I am not sure