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“Finding love in the city is hard. Soaring crime rates keep everyone indoors. Living life on the right side of the law keeps everyone busy. These days, who has time to make that special connection? Is romance dead?

MEET MARKET don’t think so. We’re Mega-City One’s most popular in-house dating agency. Our auctions can get you a great deal, whether you’re bidding on the date of your dreams or listing yourself as part of a romantic evening that goes to the highest – and hopefully hottest – bidder!

Sign-up before Valentine’s Day and we’ll upgrade your first listing for free.*

Whoever you’re looking for, you can find them on MEET MARKET.

*subject to 36-month contract; offer excludes robots, mutants and aliens.”

‘Meet Market’ Tri-D commercial, first aired 01.02.2100

Psi Judge Cassandra Anderson is on the trail of a telepathic killer who has been picking off victims via ‘Meet Market’, Mega-City One’s biggest – and trashiest – dating agency. Now she must go undercover and bring the murderer to justice before the citizens attending this week’s Valentine’s Parade find themselves smitten with something even deadlier than love.

Judge Anderson: Heartbreaker is an exclusive Kindle e-novella written by Alec Worley and published by Abaddon Books. Available on Amazon and the Rebellion online store 17 October 2014.

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Above all taken from Alec Worley’s website

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Original source Happily, although the series ended after a record-tying run of 20 seasons, there is always a Law & Order episode playing on television somewhere in the world. While watching one on Channel 5 last night, I started thinking about a dual conundrum in the opening credits, which reminded me of another one I’ve pondered for years. Since it was late, I thought I’d share these.

‘In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate but equally important groups: the police, who investigate crimes, and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders….”

Listening to the famous opening, it struck me perhaps for the first time that if there’s anything Law & Order shows us, it’s that the police and DAs are certainly NOT separate groups. They may not always work in concert, but they are joined at the legal hip. More importantly, however, DAs do NOT prosecute offenders: they prosecute the accused offenders. It’s not as if everyone prosecuted over 19 seasons of L&O has been guilty as charged.

In the opening credits, the characters are divided into ‘Law’ (the police) and ‘Order’ (the DAs), but surely this is backwards. It is the police who protect order, while the attorneys enforce and play with the law, a concept which, if the show teaches us anything, has little to do with justice, criminal or otherwise. Somehow I doubt this matters to anyone but me.

I’d just picked up L&O in series 18 on Channel 5, and I was thinking that this grouping was as good as any I’d seen since the Jerry Orbach days. It was perfect for Sam Waterson to take the District Attorney’s role when Fred Thompson left to return briefly to politics; Thompson never convinced as a New York politician, but then none of the successors have ever caught the nature of the role as well as Stephen Hill did. Linus Roache plays the ADA part somewhere between Michael Moriarty and Waterson, and Alana de la Garza is the best second chair since Jill Hennessy or Carey Lowell. Meanwhile, on the police side (Order, remember?) S. Epatha Merkerson was getting more space, which is good, and the chemistry between Jeese Martin’s Green and Jeremy Sisto’s Lupo recalls the days of Orbach with a number of partners.

Of course, I no sooner thought about this than I discovered the episode I was watching was the one where Martin leaves the show, written out and replaced by Anthony Anderson, who’s going to have a hard time getting a balance with Sisto. Knowing the series has only two more seasons beyond this is not encouraging, especially as the 5 in Channel 5 seems to stand for ‘get them five years after they run in America and only make them available for five days!’

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Original source Jason Koebler writes: Peter Richie spent eight months planning and building a megacity in vanilla SimCity 4, and the end result is mind-boggling: 107.7 million people living in one massive, sprawling region (video). “Traffic is a nightmare, both above ground and under,” Richie said. “The massive amount of subway lines and subway stations are still congested during all times of the day in all neighborhoods of each and every mega-city in the region. The roadways are clogged at all times, but people still persist in trying to use them.”

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