Split Decision

Author : Ice-T,Spike,Douglas Century
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781982148782

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Split Decision by Ice-T,Spike,Douglas Century Pdf

Award-winning actor, rapper, and producer Ice-T unveils a compelling memoir of his early life robbing jewelry stores until he found fame and fortune—while a handful of bad choices sent his former crime partner down an incredibly different path. Ice-T rose to fame in the late 1980s, earning acclaim for his music before going on to enthrall television audiences as Odafin “Fin” Tutuola in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. But it could have gone much differently. In this “poignant and powerful” (Library Journal, starred review) memoir, Ice-T and Spike, his former crime partner—collaborating with New York Times bestselling author Douglas Century—relate the shocking stories of their shared pasts, and how just a handful of decisions led to their incredibly different lives. Both grew up in violent, gang-controlled Los Angeles neighborhoods and worked together to orchestrate a series of jewelry heists. But while Ice-T was discovered rapping in a club and got his first record deal, Spike was caught for a jewelry robbery and did three years in prison. As his music career began to take off, Ice made the decision to abandon the criminal life; Spike continued to plan increasingly ingenious and risky jewel heists. And in 1992, after one of Spike’s robberies ended tragically, he was sentenced to thirty-five years to life. While he sat behind bars, he watched his former partner rise to fame in music, movies, and television. “Propulsive” (Publishers Weekly, starred review), timely, and thoughtful, two men with two very different lives reveal how their paths might have very well been reversed if they made different choices. All it took was a split decision.

Author : Ricardo Perez Jr.
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781304596949

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Split Decision by Ricardo Perez Jr. Pdf

Author : Todd Hafer
Publisher : Zonderkidz
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780310870555

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Split Decision by Todd Hafer Pdf

Stand-out efforts on the freshman football and basketball teams have Cody Martin in demand with both the track and baseball coaches. And to complicate matters further, his personal life's a mess since his dad remarried-and now Cody thinks Pork Chop might be using performance-enhancing drugs. When Pork Chop's coach confronts Cody, he is forced to make a tough decision-lie to the coach or risk losing his best friend. What's the right thing to do?

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Education
ISBN : UCR:31210014050528

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Hearing on Split Decision by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Pdf

Author : Jacquelyn Smith
Publisher : WaywardScribe Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781989650066

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Split Decision: A Kira Brightwell Novel by Jacquelyn Smith Pdf

Kira Brightwell never planned to become a private detective. Or a local hero, for that matter. She only wants to hone her MMA skills. And focus on her own personal need for vengeance and closure. While listening to Nine Inch Nails. But people call Kira a hero for a reason. She never walks away from trouble. And between her wits and her fists, she can take down just about anything that gets thrown her way. Meet Kira in action in this first novel in the Kira Brightwell mystery series by the author of the Mackenzie Quinn mysteries, Jacquelyn Smith. If you love a clever heroine who kicks ass, grab this book. (Originally published under the pen name Kat Irwin.)

Author : Janet Halley
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1400827353

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Split Decisions by Janet Halley Pdf

Is it time to take a break from feminism? In this pathbreaking book, Janet Halley reassesses the place of feminism in the law and politics of sexuality. She argues that sexuality involves deeply contested and clashing realities and interests, and that feminism helps us understand only some of them. To see crucial dimensions of sexuality that feminism does not reveal--the interests of gays and lesbians to be sure, but also those of men, and of constituencies and values beyond the realm of sex and gender--we might need to take a break from feminism. Halley also invites feminism to abandon its uncritical relationship to its own power. Feminists are, in many areas of social and political life, partners in governance. To govern responsibly, even on behalf of women, Halley urges, feminists should try taking a break from their own presuppositions. Halley offers a genealogy of various feminisms and of gay, queer, and trans theories as they split from each other in the United States during the 1980s and 1990s. All these incommensurate theories, she argues, enrich thinking on the left not despite their break from each other but because of it. She concludes by examining legal cases to show how taking a break from feminism can change your very perceptions of what's at stake in a decision and liberate you to decide it anew.

Author : Carmen DeSousa
Publisher : Written Musings
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781945143052

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Split Decisions by Carmen DeSousa Pdf

Sometimes you want something so badly you are willing to abandon everything you've ever known--including yourself. Eighteen years ago, Jaynee Monroe married the man of her dreams, became the mother of four, and fulfilled her career goals. About to turn forty, she senses something is missing from her idyllic life. While Googling her name in an attempt to find herself, she unearths something so impossible, she contemplates her own sanity. Seeking answers, she embarks on a journey to discover the truth, only to end up abducted by a deranged stranger who insists on calling her Caycee. Caycee took the road less traveled. After rejecting a marriage proposal from the only decent man she has ever known, she ventures to California to become famous. Eighteen years later, success has left her alone and miserable. Attempting to locate her lost love on Facebook, she discovers his infatuation with her. Not only does his presumed-dead wife have Caycee's uncommon middle name, it also appears he has photo-shopped Caycee's face over his wife's face. Never could Caycee and Jaynee have imagined that decisions they made years earlier would threaten not only their lives, but also their loved ones. Caycee must now reunite with the southern gent she dismissed eighteen years ago and convince him to accompany her to New York to locate his wife, the most important person in both their lives. Although Split Decisions is part of The Southern Collection, it is a stand-alone story that can be read on its own. This is a cliffhanger-free zone here, friends!

Author : Jeff Stallinga
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781257905195

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Split Decisions by Jeff Stallinga Pdf

Author : Geoffrey Mount Varner
Publisher : Beyond the Book Media LLC
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1734256664

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Training Your Mind for Split-Second Decisions by Geoffrey Mount Varner Pdf

We make about 35,000 decisions every day. Most of them are mundane and not significant, but about 70 of those decisions are life-changing and life-altering split-second decisions. What are split-second decisions? They are decisions made when the following factors are involved: time constraint, limited information, and critical consequences. This is also known as the TLC framework. In this book, you will learn: ① Specific strategies to improve and maximize your split-second decision-making ability. ② To manage decision fatigue, which is the decrease in your ability to make optimal decisions as the day progresses, especially if you had to make several mundane decisions throughout the day. ③ The required rules for making split-second decisions- i.e., no decision is a decision. You must decide. If you are an executive, business leader, chief, first responder, or in a leadership role, the framework for split-second decisions is a tool that gives you an advantage in making optimal decisions at the most critical times. When making split-second decisions, you have either been trained or you are guessing. The same is true for your employees and those you lead. They have either been taught and have a clear framework for what and how to respond during these critical times, or they are guessing. Split-second decisions teach extraordinary leaders how to make exceptional decisions and help move good teams to greatness.

Author : Aijun An,Stan Matwin,Zbigniew W Ras,Dominik Slezak
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 667 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05-08
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540681229

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Foundations of Intelligent Systems by Aijun An,Stan Matwin,Zbigniew W Ras,Dominik Slezak Pdf

This volume contains the papers selected for presentation at the 17th Inter- tional Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS 2008), held in York University, Toronto, Canada, May 21–23, 2008. ISMIS is a conference series started in 1986. Held twice every three years, ISMIS provides an inter- tional forum for exchanging scienti?c research and technological achievements in building intelligent systems. Its goal is to achieve a vibrant interchange - tween researchers and practitioners on fundamental and advanced issues related to intelligent systems. ISMIS 2008featureda selectionof latestresearchworkandapplicationsfrom the following areas related to intelligent systems: active media human–computer interaction, autonomic and evolutionary computation, digital libraries, intel- gent agent technology, intelligent information retrieval, intelligent information systems, intelligent language processing, knowledge representation and integ- tion, knowledge discovery and data mining, knowledge visualization, logic for arti?cial intelligence, soft computing, Web intelligence, and Web services. - searchers and developers from 29 countries submitted more than 100 full - pers to the conference. Each paper was rigorously reviewed by three committee members and external reviewers. Out of these submissions, 40% were selected as regular papers and 22% as short papers. ISMIS 2008 also featured three plenary talks given by John Mylopoulos, Jiawei Han and Michael Lowry. They spoke on their recent research in age- oriented software engineering, information network mining, and intelligent so- ware engineering tools, respectively.

Author : Jerry Fitch
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467108065

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Cleveland Arena: Ohio’s Professional Boxing Mecca, 1937-1973 by Jerry Fitch Pdf

Cleveland Arena featured professional boxing from 1937 to 1973 and left a lasting legacy that can never be duplicated. Many Cleveland boxers fought there during those years, including Jimmy Bivins, Joey Maxim, Chuck Hunter, Georgie Pace, and Carmen Barth. These men all came out of the Cleveland Golden Gloves. Cleveland Arena was the mecca of Ohio boxing with appearances from 50 fighters who at one time held recognition as world champions. Those fighters include such names as Henry Armstrong, Jake LaMotta, George Foreman, Archie Moore, Ezzard Charles, Jersey Joe Walcott, and Sonny Liston. Each of the arena's 162 fight shows--feature bouts, undercards, and all results--appear here together for the first time in print, accompanied by great stories and rare photographs. Jerry Fitch started following boxing in the 1950s. His love of the sport began while watching televised fights and eventually attending the World Welterweight Championship match between Carmen Basilio and Johnny Saxton at Cleveland Arena on February 22, 1957. He was only 10 years old. Fitch has since participated in many boxing activities; the one that has stayed with him is writing. He has written hundreds of articles for major boxing magazines and authored six books, including Arcadia's Cleveland's Greatest Fighters of All Time. This latest continues his journey.

Author : Bob Jones
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-16
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781775534396

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Fighting Talk by Bob Jones Pdf

From 'A Low Blow' to 'Went the Distance', a fascinating and lively examination of the regular use of terms from the boxing ring in our everyday language. Have you ever stopped to notice how often your local newspaper or favourite magazine uses the terms 'On the Ropes', 'The Gloves Are Off' and 'Knockout Punch'? How often TV newsreaders will say that a politician has "Thrown His hat in the Ring', is a 'Big Hitter', is 'Taking it on the Chin', is 'Down for the Count' or has the 'Killer Instinct'? Knight of the realm, leading businessman, colourful and controversial commentator, and boxing aficionado Sir Robert — Bob —Jones certainly has. Over a period of years he made careful note of how often terms cropped up and then retraced their etymological origins in boxing history. The result is a lively, entertaining, and thought-provoking miscellany of boxing terms that are now part of our everyday English language. Some have strayed far from their original meanings, others are more frequently in use now than at any other time. Jones asks why that might be, and his answers are, well, a knockout.

Author : Zachary Ingle,David M. Sutera
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810887909

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Identity and Myth in Sports Documentaries by Zachary Ingle,David M. Sutera Pdf

In Identity and Myth in Sports Documentaries, editors Zachary Ingle and David Sutera have assembled a collection of essays that look at the ways in which identity—national, religious, ethnic, racial, etc.—and myth are constructed, perpetuated, or questioned in documentaries produced in the United States, France, Australia, Germany, and Japan. This volume is divided into three sections: “American Identity and Myth,” “Race and Ethnicity,” and “Global Perspectives.” Spanning several decades, the landmark sports documentaries discussed in this volume include Hoop Dreams, The Endless Summer, The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg, Olympia, and Tokyo Olympiad. Sports covered in these films include baseball, football, basketball, boxing, soccer, surfing, and the Olympics.

Author : George Bredehorn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Puzzles
ISBN : 0806959622

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Split Decisions and Other Word Puzzles by George Bredehorn Pdf

Anagram loops, mixagrams, pentads, and phrase forays: if you love wordplay, these intriguing puzzles are better than crosswords! They don't have those awful, never-before-heard words meant just to trip you up. And 7 out of these 10 puzzles have no clues at all! You complete them by doing anagrams or by using the three or four letters provided to get you started. Begin with the simplest and make your way up the ladder to the hardest and trickiest. Split decisions have letter pairs in a grid, surrounded by empty squares. Each answer consists of a pair of words that share the letters that should be entered in those squares. For example: Go two by two to complete miniature crisscross puzzles: the vowels are there, but you have to add the correct consonants. Mixagrams have a five- and a four-letter word on each line; their letters have been mixed together, but their order is unchanged--just like this: D A R I U N V E T = DRIVE + AUNT It's hours and hours of braintwisting! 96 pages, 63 b/w illus., 5 3/8 x 8 1/4.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Interior and Insular Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Lead
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110714289

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Lead and Zinc Problems by United States. Congress. Senate. Interior and Insular Affairs Pdf

Considers S. 1747, to stabilize the domestic lead and zinc market by authorizing price supports, import restrictions, and import tariffs.