The general idea behind free nights and weekends is not inherently flawed, electricity is a product just like any other. If everyone is trying to buy the same amount of a limited commodity, the price goes up. We see this every holiday season when people race to buy the hottest new electronics..

Ebay told me to file a police report. A few days later I had the police report scanned and within a day of emailing it to ebay, they reversed the dispute in my favor and refunded the order. On a side note, the call I got from the detective, he said they can’t do anything bc the package was sent from a different city so its out of their jurisdiction.

The embarrassment finally ends when we get to the bottom, but then we notice that the train has just arrived! Is this the one we want? Where do we transfer? We don’t have time to worry because we either get on here or wait for the next one, and we hate waiting, so we jump on. The world seems to move so fast when you are on BART. From the window, SF looks like an Impressionist painting, as we only catch a glimpse of the blurred city landscape.

But he adds, We take the impossible cases the cases no one else will take. If these were easy cases, private attorneys would be representing these people, because private attorneys look for slam dunks and easy payoffs. He repeats the image: Were really on a Mission Impossible challenge, he says an attitude that makes any victory noteworthy.

“America is a peaceful country,” he told me in halting English learned from watching bootleg American DVDs. He had heard there was a jungle ahead, and that’s all. His backpack contained potato chips, Oreo cookies and an Islamic prayer book for travellers.

You can unsubscribe at any time.Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourprivacy noticeA piper headed a guard of honour for an “unapologetic Irish Republican” during a funeral service through the streets of Glasgow.Grandad Billy McPeake a prominent Republican and Scottish independence activist from the city’s east end was laid to rest with Scotland and Republic of Ireland flags draped over his coffin.Men and women from the Friends Of Irish Republican Prisoners Welfare Association (IRPWA) Scotland a dissident republican organisation which supports republican prisoners and has been linked to Saoradh, the political wing of the New IRA were filmed as they flanked the hearse.Read MoreWatch as Scots fishing boats come ‘seconds away’ from smashing into rocksA Friends of IRPWA Scotland spokesman wrote: “We were proud to have provided a guard of honour for our friend and comrade Billy McPeake as he made his way to his final resting place.”We also placed the national flag of both Ireland and Scotland on Billy’s coffin to mark his two great passions. Billy was an unapologetic Irish Republican of over 40 years. He was known and respected in Republican circles across Scotland, Ireland and beyond.”Our thoughts are with his daughters and the extended family.”Earlier this month, Celtic fans reportedly unveiled a Parkhead tribute to Billy McPeake with a huge ‘RIP Billy Mcpeake’ banner outside Celtic Park.Fan collective North Curve Celtic posted the snap alongside a tribute to Billy.