Here's my Twitter farewell, and another fun riff on his departure: Ever wise, @drgrist takes year off from run-on sentence of bloggery.
The whispering, scratching, plinking, and sighing of her "run-on sentence of the pavement," for piano, Ping-Pong balls, and electronics, has an oddly sad, entrancing effect, especially when the stream of noise coalesces into slivers of song.
Months inevitably melt together and time becomes separated only by short punctuations of Rest &Recuperate (R&R) - commas interspersing a run-on sentence of emergencies and high-priority To-Do's.
On sentences of this kind, the time served is up to the discretion of the Parole Board.
After a decade here, Ms. Botwinikova speaks German easily, the Russian accent dancing lightly on sentences of hermetic Teutonic perfection.
Between 2000 and 2006 there has only been a 4.8% reduction in the frequency of reoffending for prisoners on sentences of less than 12 months (compared to a 23.4% reduction for community sentences).
Thus, relying on sentences of imprisonment to prevent criminal re-offending is not an effective strategy in the long term".
A significant amount of the last government's legislation on sentencing, some of it going back more than a decade, was never brought into force.
The validity of these statements critically depends on one sentence: "In the absence of intracellular interactions".
