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I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be.' This sentence, from the first paragraph of The Big Sleep, marks the last time you can be fully confident that you know what's going on.Ĥ. Golsfish (BKWL.3), Chandler, Raymond, 10,07. Selected as one of Time Magazine's All-Time 100 Novels, with the following review: "'I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. Marlowe subsequently appeared in a series of extremely popular novels, among them The Lady in the Lake, The Long Goodbye, and Farewell, My Lovely." ~ Elizabeth Diefendorf, editor, The New York Public Library's Books of the Century, p. This work established Chandler as the master of the 'hard-boiled' detective novel, and his articulate and literary style of writing won him a large audience, which ranged from the man in the street to the most sophisticated intellectual. This is the Code of the Private Eye as defined by Raymond Chandler in his 1944 essay 'The Simple Act of Murder.' 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Since pulmonary artery balloon flotation catheterization was first introduced in 1970, by HJ Swan and W Ganz, it has been widely disseminated as a diagnostic tool without rigorous evaluation of its clinical utility and effectiveness in critically ill patients. Researchers cited the credibility of staff, their training and the connections they’re able to make as strengths. The study found those neighborhoods saw lower rates of homicides committed with a gun compared to similar neighborhoods in Charlotte. “I've been keeping my ear to the streets, but right now it is really dead as far as violence and shootings and stuff like that,” Jordan told his team. That's one of six historically low-income areas designated by Charlotte as "Corridors of Opportunity," where the city hopes to focus public and private investment to spur revitalization.īefore they go out, they share assessments like violence interrupter Dmitros Jordan did on a recent afternoon. In its first year, the team spent more than 1,500 hours canvassing neighborhoods along the Beatties Ford Road Corridor. In a study released Wednesday, UNC Charlotte’s Urban Institute looked at the first year it was up and running - and found that violence dropped where the interrupters were deployed.Ĭharlotte’s Alternatives to Violence team includes trained community members who make connections and address problems without involving the police. A program that deploys what are called “violence interrupters” on Charlotte’s west side has shown some promise in its early results. |