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  2. Fair Sentencing Act - Wikipedia

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    Crack cocaine. The Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 (Pub. L. Tooltip Public Law (United States) 111–220 (text)) was an Act of Congress that was signed into federal law by United States President Barack Obama on August 3, 2010, that reduces the disparity between the amount of crack cocaine and powder cocaine needed to trigger certain federal criminal penalties from a 100:1 weight ratio to an 18:1 ...

  3. Public Prosecution Service of Canada - Wikipedia

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    A federal agency, the PPSC prosecutes offences on behalf of the Government of Canada. It is responsible to Parliament through the attorney general of Canada, who litigates on behalf of the Crown and has delegated most prosecution functions to the PPSC. The director of public prosecutions – currently George Dolhai – leads the day-to-day ...

  4. Crack cocaine - Wikipedia

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    A woman smoking crack cocaine in San Francisco, California, in December 2005. Crack cocaine is commonly used as a recreational drug. Effects of crack cocaine include euphoria, [11] supreme confidence, [12] loss of appetite, [11] insomnia, [11] alertness, [11] increased energy, [11] a craving for more cocaine, [12] and potential paranoia (ending ...

  5. Timeline of Rob Ford crack video scandal - Wikipedia

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    April to November. April 30 A second video of Ford smoking crack cocaine, reportedly recorded in the early hours on Saturday, April 26, emerges and is reviewed by reporters from The Globe and Mail. The Globe releases a description and a screenshot from the video.

  6. Pikes Peak State College - Wikipedia

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    PPSC's Centennial Campus. Pikes Peak State College is a public community college in Colorado Springs, Colorado. It is the largest institution of higher education in the Pikes Peak region. PPSC offers more than 150 programs in liberal arts and sciences transfer and career technical education. The college's 60+60 Bachelor's Degree Transfer ...

  7. The Iberia Parish Coroner said because his cause of death was ruled natural, more information is not a public record. Lumpkin's family told KATC he had heart and lung diseases, and that it took the jail hours to provide him with medical help. The sheriff disputed this account, saying the family is "full of it." Jail or Agency: Iberia Parish Jail

  8. List of RKO Pictures films - Wikipedia

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    RKO released 42 films in 1935, of which it produced 39. There was yet another shake-up in the management structure of the studio, but the company saw its first profit since 1930, albeit a small one of $684,000. Highlights of the year included Alice Adams, and Becky Sharp (the first full-length feature film made entirely in Technicolor).

  9. Fracture mechanics - Wikipedia

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    e. Fracture mechanics is the field of mechanics concerned with the study of the propagation of cracks in materials. It uses methods of analytical solid mechanics to calculate the driving force on a crack and those of experimental solid mechanics to characterize the material's resistance to fracture. Theoretically, the stress ahead of a sharp ...