The federal Performance Measurement System (PMS) and how It relates to the field of corrections.

The FOR...NEXT loop for TIME increments by STEP 2 (every two jiffies) for two reasons: 1) the printing of 60 jiffies a second is too fast to read, and 2) the printing of each jiffy takes longer than its incrementations; this would delay the loop, so the printing of TIME$ is slower than it should be.

I may add that my own putting becomes “snatchier,” quicker and worse day by day; which again is testimony, if it is understood rightly, of the value of the slow, smooth stroke.

A verveful mix of live action and puppetry, the dramatisation promises to be as magical as Phillip Pullman’s magnificent novels.