CHAPTER VII

THE STATEMENT OF TIBBIE BIRSE

On a Thursday Pete Lownie was buried, and when Hendry returned from the funeral Jess asked if Davit Lunan had been there.

"Na," said Hendry, who was shut up in the closet-bed, taking off his blacks, "I heard tell he wasna bidden."

"Yea, yea," said Jess, nodding to me significantly. "Ay, weel," she added, "we'll be hae'n Tibbie ower here on Saturday to deave's (weary us) to death aboot it."

Tibbie, Davit's wife, was sister to Marget, Pete's widow, and she generally did visit Jess on Saturday night to talk about Marget, who was fast becoming one of the most fashionable persons in Thrums. Tibbie was hopelessly plebeian. She was none of your proud kind, and if I entered the kitchen when she was there she pretended not to see me, so that, if I chose, I might escape without speaking to the like of her. I always grabbed her hand, however, in a frank way.

On Saturday Tibbie made her appearance. From the rapidity of her walk, and the way she was sucking in her mouth, I knew that she had strange things to unfold. She had pinned a grey shawl about her shoulders, and wore a black mutch over her dangling grey curls.

"It's you, Tibbie," I heard Jess say, as the door opened.

Tibbie did not knock, not considering herself grand enough for ceremony, and indeed Jess would have resented her knocking. On the other hand, when Leeby visited Tibbie, she knocked as politely as if she were collecting for the precentor's present. All this showed that we were superior socially to Tibbie. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. When was the funeral?
2. Who is Davit's wife related to?
3. Who was she married to?
4. Who was fashionable?
5. Where do they live?
6. Who lived shabbily?
7. When did she show up?
8. Did she seem nervous?
9. Does she knock upon entering?
10. Who is better than Tibbie?
Answer: 1. Thursday
2. Marget
3. Pete
4. Marget
5. Thrums
6. Tibbie
7. Saturday
8. yes
9. no
10. Leeby

Problem: The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is the largest office within the Executive Office of the President of the United States (EOP). OMB's most prominent function is to produce the President's Budget, but OMB also measures the quality of agency programs, policies, and procedures to see if they comply with the president's policies and coordinates inter-agency policy initiatives.

The current OMB Director is Mick Mulvaney. The OMB Director reports to the President, Vice President and the White House Chief of Staff.

The Bureau of the Budget, OMB's predecessor, was established in 1921 as a part of the Department of the Treasury by the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921, which was signed into law by president Warren G. Harding. The Bureau of the Budget was moved to the Executive Office of the President in 1939 and was run by Harold D. Smith during the government's rapid expansion of spending during the Second World War. James L. Sundquist, a staffer at the Bureau of the Budget described the relationship between the President and the Bureau as extremely close and of subsequent Bureau Directors as politicians and not public administrators.

The Bureau was reorganized into the Office of Management and Budget in 1970 during the Nixon administration. The first OMB included Roy Ash (head), Paul O'Neill (assistant director), Fred Malek (deputy director) and Frank Zarb (associate director) and two dozen others.
1. Who is the current director?
2. what does OMB stand for?
3. Doesthe director just report to one person?
4. how many?
5. who?
6. What was it's predecessor?
7. When was that established?
8. When was it reorganized?
9. To what?
10. Under what administration?
11. What is it's main function?
12. Does it also do other things?
13. could you give an example please?
14. why?
15. when was the bureau moved to the office of the president?
16. who ran it?
17. what was happening in the world at the time?
18. Who was the first deputy director?
19. name the employee who spoke about the relationships?
20. who was the first head?
Answer: 1. Mick Mulvaney
2. The Office of Management and Budget
3. no
4. Three
5. the President, Vice President and the White House Chief of Staff
6. The Bureau of the Budget
7. 1921
8. 1970
9. the Office of Management and Budget
10. the Nixon administration
11. to produce the President's Budget
12. yes
13. it also measures the quality of agency programs, policies, and procedures
14. to see if they comply with the president's policies
15. in 1939
16. Harold D. Smith
17. the Second World War
18. Fred Malek
19. James L. Sundquist
20. Roy Ash

question: KDE () is an international free software community that develops Free and Libre software. Well-known products include the Plasma Desktop, KDE Frameworks and a range of cross-platform applications designed to run on modern Unix-like and Microsoft Windows systems. It further provides tools and documentation for developers that enables them to write software. This supporting role makes KDE a central development hub and home for many popular applications and projects like Calligra Suite, Krita or digiKam.

The Plasma Desktop, being one of the most recognized projects of KDE, is the default desktop environment on many Linux distributions, such as openSUSE, Mageia, Chakra, Kubuntu, Manjaro Linux, and PCLinuxOS. It was also the default desktop environment on PC-BSD, but was later replaced with Lumina, a desktop environment which, like KDE, is written in C++ and Qt.

The work of the KDE community can be measured in the following figures:

K Desktop Environment (KDE) was founded in 1996 by Matthias Ettrich, who was then a student at the Eberhard Karls University of Tubingen. At the time, he was troubled by certain aspects of the Unix desktop. Among his concerns was that none of the applications looked, felt, or worked alike. He proposed the creation of not merely a set of applications but a desktop environment in which users could expect things to look, feel, and work consistently. He also wanted to make this desktop easy to use; one of his complaints about desktop applications of the time was that it is too complicated for end user. His initial Usenet post spurred a lot of interest, and the KDE project was born.
1. What is KDE?
2. What is one well known product?
3. what else?
4. Which one was more popular?
5. What that a default desktop environment?
6. Was it mainly on Linux or Windows?
7. Name one of those Linux distributions?
8. What about another one?
9. What does KDE stand for?
10. when was it founded?
11. By who?
12. What he a student or a professor?
13. At what university?
14. What was he troubled by?
15. Did he want something more than a desktop environment?
16. what was his issue about desktops?
17. Were people interested in what he created?
18. Was it a lot or a little interest.
19. Do people pay for the software or is it free?
20. Can it run on Microsoft systems?
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answer:
1. an international free software community
2. Plasma Desktop,
3. KDE Frameworks
4. The Plasma Desktop
5. Yes
6. Linux
7. openSUSE
8. Mageia
9. K Desktop Environment
10. 1996
11. Matthias Ettrich
12. a student
13. Eberhard Karls University
14. certain aspects of the Unix desktop
15. Yes
16. that none of the applications looked, felt, or worked alike.
17. Yes!
18. a lot
19. Free
20. Yes