Q: CHAPTER XVI

THE RUSE

Cliffe and his daughter were landed at Kingston, and three weeks later Grahame put into a Central-American port. The propeller was not running well, and Macallister, suspecting it was working loose on the shaft, declared that he must put the vessel on a beach where she would dry at low-water. Grahame had a few days to spare, for he could not land his cargo before the time Don Martin had fixed; but as the arms were on board he would have preferred to wait at sea, outside the regular steamers' track.

It happened that there was no repair-shop in the town, but while Macallister thought over the difficulty a tramp steamer dropped anchor, and he went off to her, remarking that he might find a friend on board. In an hour or two the gig came back, and Grahame, hearing _My boat rocks at the pier o' Leith_ sung discordantly, saw that Macallister's expectations had been fulfilled. This did not surprise him, for the Scots engineer is ubiquitous and to have "wrought" at Clydebank or Fairfield is a passport to his affection.

Macallister's face was flushed and his air jaunty, but the tall, gaunt man who accompanied him looked woodenly solemn. He began by emptying a basket of greasy tools on the _Enchantress's_ white deck with the disregard for the navigating officers' feelings which the engine-room mechanic often displays. After this, he went down a rope and sat on the sand under the boat's counter, studying the loose screw while he smoked several pipes of rank tobacco, but without making any remark. Then he got up and slowly stretched his lanky frame.

1. Cliffe and his daughter
2. in a Central-American port.

Numbered questions:
1. Who arrived at Kingston?
2. Where was the repair shop?

Q: Los Angeles (CNN) -- The doctor convicted in pop star Michael Jackson's death is suffering possibly life-threatening and permanent injuries after almost a year in a small jail cell, his lawyers are warning.

Dr. Conrad Murray is housed in a high-security section of the Los Angeles County jail because of his notoriety, which isolates him from the general population for his protection but means he has "extremely limited access to exercise."

"Death or injury at the hands of another prisoner, however, is no worse than a slow death caused by a loss of circulation and atrophy resulting from inhumane confinement of a large man in a tiny space," lawyers Valerie Wass and Michael Flanagan wrote in a letter addressed to Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca Wednesday.

Conrad Murray invites Katherine Jackson to visit him in jail

Murray -- jailed since November 7, 2011, when he was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in Jackson's death -- is 6 feet 5 inches tall, but confined in a 5-foot-by-7-foot cell, the letter said.

"If one were to keep a dog in a space just a few inches larger than the dog's length, for any extended period of time, contentions of animal cruelty possibly leading to prosecution would likely result," it said.

The sheriff's office did not immediately return repeated calls from CNN for comment.

Wass, who is overseeing the appeal of Murray's involuntary manslaughter conviction, told CNN Thursday his jail conditions "are the equivalent of a large individual flying coach in a middle seat for a period of a year."

1. November 7, 2011
2. Involuntary manslaughter
3. Michael Jackson
4. Yes
5. No
6. Loss of circulation and atrophy resulting from inhumane confinement in a tiny space
7. Yes
8. Valerie Wass and Michael Flanagan
9. Wrote in a letter
10. Sheriff Lee Baca Wednesday
11. Los Angeles County

Numbered questions:
1. When was Murray put in prison?
2. On what charge?
3. Who died?
4. Was the Doctor injured?
5. Attacked by an inmate?
6. What caused it?
7. Is he represented?
8. By whom?
9. What did they do Wednesday?
10. Who was it to?
11. Of what?

Q: 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. 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

Numbered questions:
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?