Engler For Congress

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Prabhash Dutta asked:


With an open-eye on the upcoming elections to the Maharashtra Assembly and the Lok Sabha, the Congress today played a community cards by appointing Manikrao Thakre, a Maratha, as Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee chief and Jayant Awale from dalit community as working president of the state PCC. The Congress leadership also appointed Gurudas Kamat as the chairman of the state campaign committee, while Kripa Shankar Singh was made new Mumbai Regional Congress Committee chief (MRCC).

While Thakre belongs to powerful Kunbi Maratha community, Awale is a Dalit hailing from Kolhapur. By this twin appointments the Congress party is hoping to attract both Maratha and dalit voters, who together constitute major vote plank in the state.

Kamat, an MP from Mumbai, on the other hand has been given the campaign responsibility after his successful stint as MRCC chief. He had won all but one Lok Sabha seats from Mumbai during the last general elections. Kamat has been replaced with a migrant from Uttar Pradesh to counter Thackrey brand of anti-north India politics.

The appointments to the state PCC were filled with political permutations and combinations and did not go without opposition and lobbying. While Thakre came as a replacement for Prabha Rau, who has been appointed as the Governor of Himachal Pradesh, Kamat came up after refusal by not-so-happy power centre of Congress’ state politics Narayan Rane. Kamat’s is a key post keeping in view the imminent elections.

Sources in Congress have confirmed that Narayan Rane was the first choice of the Congress leadership and was offered the post of the state campaign chief but the Deputy Chief Minister, who has been operating ‘remove Vilasrao Deshmukh’ campaign, was reluctant to shoulder the responsibility. He is reportedly not ready to work in coordination with the Chief Minister.

The latest appointments are being seen as a boost and victory for Deshmukh who had a major conflict with the now Governor of Himachal Pradesh. Deshmukh visited Delhi at least twice in past one week pleading Congress president Sonia Gandhi for effecting requisite changes in the state Congress committee.

It has also been learnt that the Maharashtra CM would be holding meetings with Sonia Gandhi’s political secretary Ahmed Patel and veteran leader Margaret Alva in few days from now to finalise appointments on various corporations in the states.

Deshmukh is also expected to put it across during the meetings that there was an urgent need to conclude seat-sharing talks with NCP as soon as possible. He has been asking for constitution of a committee for the purpose. He has been a supporter of permanent alliance with the NCP and instrumental in keeping the Congress-NCP alliance intact in the state. NCP is also sharing power with Congress at the Centre for past four years.

Stephanie Vance asked:


Recent polls show that Americans aren’t at all impressed with our U.S. Congress. Really. I know you’re shocked to hear it, but it’s true. In fact, a recent AP poll shows that 73% of Americans disapprove of the job Congress is doing, while only 22% approve. These are the lowest numbers in decades. Oh, and in case you’re wondering if the question was “leading”, it wasn’t. Here is specifically what people were asked:

“Overall, do you approve, disapprove or have mixed feelings about the way Congress is handling its job?”

I don’t know about you, but I don’t think there are a lot of ways to misinterpret that question.

So what’s behind all this crankiness? Well, I think a few key factors are coming together in a sort of “perfect storm” for members of Congress. What are they? I’m glad you asked.

Reason #1: Candidates Over Promising

In the 2006 elections, with Democrats eager to take over the House and Senate, there were a whole lot of promises made by candidates about getting the U.S. out of Iraq quickly. If you haven’t noticed, we’re still in Iraq. In fact, most of the increase in disapproval ratings comes from annoyed liberal Democrats who assumed that once Democrats took over Congress, all would be well (from their perspective).

Here’s the thing, though. Frankly, there’s no way in heck that any single member of Congress can have any impact at all on an issue of such national scope

Samuel Bryant asked:


The Dewey system was developed in 1876 by Melvil Dewey and allows for an unlimited expansion of cataloguing possibilities and generally keeps different subjects together in physical locations. This system allowed smaller libraries to use more general categories all the while keeping the whole system generally the same at all libraries.

The first half of the 20th century was dominated by the use of Dewey’s system but by the 1960s a change started to take place over to the use of the Library of Congress classification system because of the realization that the Dewey system was failing in two respects. The first was that it did not handle inter-sharing libraries with books at two different locations and the second was that new subjects were not easily inserted into the catalogue without making major changes to the system. The subjects were chosen a long time ago and many new books must fit into only a few categories. The existing subjects don’t all share common interest as they once did.

The Library of Congress classification system evolved over time and was generated by more than one person as the Dewey system was and at one time. The first part of the LC system was developed in 1898. The LC system is comprised of 21 major classes represented by letters excluding I, O, W, X, and Y. A second letter is used to further specialize the subject and even a third letter is used in the Law category. After the third letter a decimal point is used and an infinite number of categories can be used.

Another classification system is the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC), which is used primarily in Europe, Japan, Russia, and Latin America. This system was actually based on the fifth edition of the Dewey Decimal Classification and was first presented in 1895 by bibliographers Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine. This classification was different in that it was used, primarily, for identifying a document’s contents rather than just be able to find the documents as DDC is primarily used for.

Book catalogues were popular between the 16th and 18th centuries. These were portable and cheap to produce but hard to update. Card catalogues replaced book catalogues in the late 19th century. These were popular until the 1990s. Three types of cards were usually used for every item in the library. The first type had the author’s name on the first line. The second type had the title on the top line. The third type had the subject of the item on the top line. Card catalogues were superior to book catalogues in that more than one person could use it at a time and new entries were easily integrated into the drawers. It became even easier to use in 1901 when the Library of Congress began selling copies of its catalog cards to other libraries. There were 5,738 subscribers to the card service by 1935.

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David Tanguay asked:


Although at times it seems as if the credit card companies have dominance over everyone, Congress continues to remind us that they have the final say in the way things are run. With Congress looking at several issues that deals with credit card companies, there is sure to be some kind of regulations on policies in the coming years.

As the internet continues to develop, more and more people are using credit cards for an array of different things. Credit cards are used for everything from purchasing clothes or computers online to gambling and online auctions. With the freedom that is allowed thus far, Congress is bound to step in and begin regulating online policies.

One way Congress is helping people with credit cards right now is through the fair debt collection practices act. This is a law that was passed by Congress which regulates the methods collection agencies can use to collect money from debtors behind on their payments. For instance, collection agencies are not allowed to contact relatives or employers of a debtor, and they are not allowed to contact the debtor by phone before 8 a.m. or after 9 p.m.

While it is vital that you try and pay off as much of your debt as possible, sometimes debt piles up on you. With the FDCPA, it allows you to buy some time try to come up with the money without legally being contacted if you choose not to pick up the phone. If any collection agency does break any of the rules set, you have the ability to take them to court.

One of the main areas of concern for Congress is internet fraud and identity theft. Through online auctions, gambling and online stores there are thousands of credit card transactions a day. However, there are also hundreds of reported identity thefts around the world every day. In fact, identity theft has climbed to the number one crime in the U.S.

Congress continues to look into what protection online sites are providing their customer with and what regulations they are going to have to make. The further the internet develops, the more websites are going to have to adjust to fit the needs of their customers. While things are alright at the time being, many sites won’t be good enough in time with a growing number of people purchasing items online.

What types of regulations Congress will make to protect you and your credit card is still unclear. There has been continuous research and discussions regarding how Congress will make things safer online and only time will tell what types of regulations they set.