Crack house

In actual cases involving random employee urine tests that were positive for cocaine metabolite, people have offered many different ways of explaining the test results. For example, one person proposed that cocaine was put in his medication capsules, another that cocaine was added to her drink at a party, another person claimed that she inhaled cocaine as secondhand smoke while looking for someone in a crack house, and a garbage collector claimed that garbage bags had ripped open and covered him with white powder. Other explanations offered in defense... 

Use and abuse of cocaine have skyrocketed in recent years, provoking much public alarm. Sensational news stories about crack, with graphic descriptions of inner-city crack houses and impaired "crack babies" born to addicted mothers, led directly to escalations of the current war on drugs. For drug warriors crack is the new devil drug, so dangerous as to justify the most repressive measures. 

The prevalence of negative images of cocaine and crack use in the media, such as this picture of police raiding a crack house in Washington, D.C., have done little to affect the overall trends of cocaine use among teens. Peer influence and reinforcement from the positive effects of the drug itself seem to overshadow scare tactics and education. 

Glide Memorial Church in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco, an area of tenements, crack houses, and shooting galleries, lies at what Rev. Williams calls the intersection of despair and hope. Williams took over the church in 1966, when the congregation included about 35 people, nearly all of them middle-class whites. Today, it has 6,400 members and a reputation, as Psychology Today reported in 1995, as an urban refuge for the spiritually disenfranchised...a faith steeped more in heart and soul than in scripture. ... 

Leather finishes penetrate to a greater or lesser extent and have a profound effect on the grain or wrinkle characteristics of the leather. Penetration of the resia into the leather tightens the grain but may produce a surface stiffness and a tendency toward grain cracking upon flexing. The development of leather finish resins and the appHcation of these finishes is done by specialty houses. 

Note The lamp can crack if the hot bulb comes into contact with a cold TLC plate (protective housing ). 

If outdoor air can easily leak into and through homes, both comfort and energy-efficient performance will be difficult to maintain. Today, off-the-shelf technologies that contribute to airtight construction include a variety of house wraps, sealants, foams, and tapes. In energy-efficient homes, builders use these tools to seal the myriad of cracks... 

After exiting the riser, catalyst enters the reactor vessel. In today s FCC operations, the reactor serves as a housing for the cyclones. In the early application of FCC, the reactor vessel provided further bed cracking, as well as being a device used for additional catalyst separation. 

It is important to separate catalyst and vapors as soon as they enter the reactor. Otherwise, the extended contact time of the vapors with the catalyst in the reactor housing will allow for non-selective catalytic recracking of some of the desirable products. The extended residence time also promotes thermal cracking of the desirable products. 

Asian restaurants, with the help of people like Ms. Kim, who is Korean, are creating Asian cocktails as specialty drinks that showcase the house style, starting at the bar. The popularity of Asian accents in international cooking is cracking open cocktail menus, too. 

No, always. Mark, you don t know—you ve no idea—how often after you left... every day something needed you. My voice is cracking painfully in my throat. In the workshop, in the house, something that you made work and no one else could. Every day. Only you weren t there. ... 

The most common way radon enters a building is when lower indoor air pressure draws air from the soil, bedrock, or drainage system into the house. If there is radon in the soil gas, it will also be drawn in. Just as gravity will make water flow from a high elevation to a lower elevation, pressure differences will make radon-laden air move from an area of higher pressure to an area of lower pressure. For a variety of reasons, most buildings tend to maintain an indoor air pressure lower than outdoor air pressure. If cracks and holes in the foundation are open to the soil, radon will be drawn indoors. Radon movement by pressure differences is called pressure-driven transport. 

Theoretically, a gastight barrier could be placed between the soil and foundation to eliminate radon entry from the soil. Like many other building details, it is much easier to draw such a detail than to actually install it. Many materials form effective retarders to gas transport. The problem is effectively sealing cracks, joints, and penetrations. As anyone who has tried to build an airtight house can tell you, it is not as easy as it seems. 

The perimeter crack is located between the edge of the floor slab and the foundation wall. This applies to slabs in basements, crawlspaces, and slab-on-grade foundations. As a cold joint, this perimeter crack is always a potential radon entry point. Contractors building radon-resistant houses... 

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