| Delta Employees Get First Pay Raise Since Pre-Pandemic Posted: 19 Mar 2022 03:29 PM PDT Delta Employees Get First Pay Raise Since Pre-Pandemic A four percent raise is first increase in more than two years. |
| FW: RAM lounge at lhr Posted: 19 Mar 2022 11:56 AM PDT Feed: FlyerTalk Forums
Posted on: Saturday, March 19, 2022 9:09 PM
Author: Vasco Pridat
Subject: RAM lounge at lhr hi society. I booked an avios flight ber lhr cmn in C.. And realized they now fly out of t2.. And no one can tell me if they use any lounge?
Does anyone know which they use?
It's 32k avios and 107eu.. And I was planning on having a nice dinner in the ccr.. But now. Not sure
Thnx |
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| FW: Folding Mobility Scooter - Catch 22 Posted: 19 Mar 2022 11:56 AM PDT Feed: FlyerTalk Forums
Posted on: Saturday, March 19, 2022 9:31 PM
Author: curiouspax
Subject: Folding Mobility Scooter - Catch 22 I have been searching for a collapsible scooter and thought I'd hit jackpot with (https://www.vivehealth.com/products/...bility-scooter) ...but then it occured to me that with the battery off due Airline procedures there was no way to fold/unfold without power...calling them (Vive) they stated there was no manual overide. If there WAS AC available then yes you can use the adapter...but what use is this on the departure/arrival gate where plug-ins are typically non-existent...what say you? Have any in here been looking for similar? |
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| FW: Do BA Holidays bookings meet Thailand's Test&Go Criteria Posted: 19 Mar 2022 11:56 AM PDT Feed: FlyerTalk Forums
Posted on: Saturday, March 19, 2022 9:37 PM
Author: acerockstar
Subject: Do BA Holidays bookings meet Thailand's Test&Go Criteria I am looking to make a flight+hotel booking through BA Holidays for Phuket in April. I've read the Test&Go criteria for Thailand and it seems that you have to book a package with an approved hotel in order to make use of the scheme. The hotel I am looking at booking through BA Holidays seems to be approved under the scheme however I'm not sure if a special package needs to be booked with the hotel in order for it to be eligible for the scheme (for example the Test&Go package requires a special airport transfer I think?)
Has anyone had experience with how the Thailand Test and Go scheme works or booked something similar through BA and know if it's eligible? |
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| FW: AA Excellent Customer Service Posted: 19 Mar 2022 11:56 AM PDT Feed: FlyerTalk Forums
Posted on: Saturday, March 19, 2022 9:47 PM
Author: turntheheatdown
Subject: AA Excellent Customer Service I think as a BA customer we are inured now to poor customer service. What a revelation AA were recently. I booked two tickets from Glasgow to St Kitts for my wife and I in business class, AA fare £2353. BA fare for the exact same flights £9616 (4 of the flights were on BA). Something came up and my wife couldn't go. I called AA 40 hours after booking. It took 2 minutes for someone to speak to me. They very courteously split the booking and advised me what to say to try to get a refund. The refund was declined but a full credit given. BA cancelled my flight at 20.01 the night before I was due to leave. BA Executive Club close at 20.00. Is that a coincidence? I had spoken to them several times during the day and they had not told me the flight was cancelled. Appalling customer service. This would then have resulted in all of my flights being cancelled. I spoke to someone at AA and they stayed on the line for an hour and a half to get my ticket validated from London. I took a train to London (it arrived in over 2 hours late) and BA in person were wonderful. I had a great driver from Euston who got me to Terminal 5 in 33 minutes. 8 minutes from outside Terminal 5 to being on the bus to an aircraft due to leave 20 minutes later including checking in a bag, clearing security etc. All the other flights were great and the Flagship Lounge at Miami is outstanding. After I got back I again contacted AA and pointed out that the flight they gave a credit for was actually cancelled. They agreed and 48 hours later refunded my AMEX account the full amount of my wife's fare.
Throughout the people at AA were superb to deal with. BA was awful except when there was a person in front of me. Her name was Michelle. They still haven't dealt with the cancelled flight. I emailed Doug Parker to let him know. I got a lovely reply from his office. I would not hesitate to book with AA over BA in the future as I now know that they know how to deal with customers. I think BA has forgotten unless you are in their face. |
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| FW: A story about everything that seems to me wrong at BA Posted: 19 Mar 2022 11:56 AM PDT Feed: FlyerTalk Forums
Posted on: Saturday, March 19, 2022 9:51 PM
Author: turntheheatdown
Subject: A story about everything that seems to me wrong at BA
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| FW: Fair compensation for cancelled flight ? Posted: 19 Mar 2022 09:45 AM PDT Feed: FlyerTalk Forums
Posted on: Saturday, March 19, 2022 7:24 PM
Author: wildcare
Subject: Fair compensation for cancelled flight ? I recently booked flights for my daughter's family from BZN-OGG. All in first class on Airbus 330 (lie-flats) . Three were milage (270,000 ) and two with Cash $6200.00). The first flight BZN-SLC was cancelled with no explanation or warning , So, at the airport , they were rebooked on AS in the main cabin with various seat assignments ( not together) no meals and poorer by $120.00 for baggage . They did arrive in OGG the same day but 3 hours later . The return trip was fine and not a problem . I called the plat line and was offered 10,000 miles and $100. per ticket . I refused and now have taken up the complaint with the " Help line " They say they will respond within 30 days . So , what does the community think is a fair offer ? |
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| FW: 100k+ Miles gifted, need stopover planning help! Posted: 19 Mar 2022 09:45 AM PDT Feed: FlyerTalk Forums
Posted on: Saturday, March 19, 2022 7:31 PM
Author: tmobiley
Subject: 100k+ Miles gifted, need stopover planning help! This past week for work someone generously gifted me 100k Alaska Miles, I have never flown Alaska but upon my research (Alaska website, Oneworld, ThePointsGuy, etc.), it looks like they have a very generous stopover allowance on award tickets. I have looked at the Oneworld Route Map based on each carrier to see where I can fly to on partners as well as Alaska partners not in Oneworld.
Here are a few of my top choices for travel that I have found as potential possibilities based on my cursory research and the Oneworld Route Map--
(EUROPE): Dublin, Ireland; Riga, Latvia via Helsinki, Finland
(ASIA PACIFIC) Tokyo, Japan; Sydney, Australia; Auckland, New Zealand; Nadi, Fiji
(AFRICA) Nairobi, Kenya via Kigali, Rwanda; Johannesburg, South Africa
Are there any good routes you know of in these regions/for these pairs across regions? |
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| FW: ‘Nostalgic racism is racism’: Disney criticised for Texas students’ performance Posted: 19 Mar 2022 09:45 AM PDT Feed: Culture | The Guardian
Posted on: Saturday, March 19, 2022 6:52 PM
Author: Edward Helmore
Subject: 'Nostalgic racism is racism': Disney criticised for Texas students' performance | Walt Disney World apologises after Texas high school drill team chants 'Scalp 'em, Indians, scalp 'em' during performance Walt Disney World apologised after a Texas high school drill team performing at the entertainment giant's Florida theme park wore fringed outfits and chanted: "Scalp 'em, Indians, scalp 'em." "The live performance in our park did not reflect our core values and we regret it took place," a spokesperson, Jacquee Wahler, said in a statement. Continue reading... |
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| FW: Booker winner Ben Okri rewrites published novel to drive home message on slavery Posted: 19 Mar 2022 09:45 AM PDT Feed: Culture | The Guardian
Posted on: Saturday, March 19, 2022 7:01 PM
Author: Vanessa Thorpe
Subject: Booker winner Ben Okri rewrites published novel to drive home message on slavery | The author tells why he spent five years on a new draft of his 2008 novel Starbook to give more emphasis to one of its key themes Self-criticism, perhaps even regret, is common among writers looking back at old work, but the novelist Ben Okri has now gone so far as to rewrite a whole published novel. And it is a book he already liked quite a lot. The Booker-prize-winning Nigerian author has spent much of the last five years re-crafting his 2008 story Starbook, a mystical romance set in his homeland. A new version, complete with a new title and cover, is to be published this summer as The Last Gift of the Master Artists, and Okri believes that he has given more emphasis to transatlantic slavery, and will now offer his readers a "more considered" narrative. Continue reading... |
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| FW: ‘These stories change how people think’: actor Ruth Madeley on disability, activism and sex scenes Posted: 19 Mar 2022 09:45 AM PDT Feed: Culture | The Guardian
Posted on: Saturday, March 19, 2022 6:01 PM
Author: Michael Segalov
Subject: 'These stories change how people think': actor Ruth Madeley on disability, activism and sex scenes | A brilliant new BBC drama about disability activism in the 90s is a game-changer but, as its star Ruth Madeley reveals, the fight is far from over Ruth Madeley hadn't intended to cause a commotion in the quiet carriage. She was taking the train to a script read-through on an entirely unremarkable March 2016 morning when, out of the blue, her phone started to ping at an unusual pace. She gave apologetic looks to the commuters tutting at the incessant buzzing. But once she'd looked down at the screen, she stopped caring what other people thought. "I picked up my phone and read the first Twitter post," Madeley says. "Bafta nominations for Best Actress: Suranne Jones, Claire Foy, Sheridan Smith… and me. I couldn't shitting believe it." Continue reading... |
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| FW: How do Back-to-Back Reservations Work? Posted: 19 Mar 2022 09:16 AM PDT Feed: FlyerTalk Forums
Posted on: Saturday, March 19, 2022 6:46 PM
Author: Synthesis
Subject: How do Back-to-Back Reservations Work? Apologies if this has been asked somewhere before, but do back-to-back stays at the same property (2 separate reservations) count as 1 stay?
I'm curious to know for when there are promo's where you get something per stay or where you get a bonus if the stay is a weekend stay, in the latter's case when the first part of the booking was a weekend stay but the 2nd part (back-to-back) did not include a weekend night anymore, will the entire stay count as 1 or will they be considered 2 separate stays where bonus points are concerned? |
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| FW: London, United Kingdom to Les Houches, France via Eurotunnel, skiing and back again Posted: 19 Mar 2022 09:15 AM PDT Feed: FlyerTalk Forums
Posted on: Saturday, March 19, 2022 6:50 PM
Author: GregWTravels
Subject: London, United Kingdom to Les Houches, France via Eurotunnel, skiing and back again This was just a quick long weekend away to get another ski trip in, and wasn't sure I was going to write it up. Then I did a search, and saw that there haven't been many trip reports, and certainly nothing in recent times on what it is like to travel by what is quite a unique method of travel - loading your car on a train, and riding that under the sea. So my trip report on driving from London to the French Alps via the Eurotunnel.
Eurotunnel Booking and Pre-departure
A group of friends was going to be down in Les Houches, which is a ski resort in the Chamonix Valley on the main motorway between France and Italy through the Mont Blanc tunnel. Myself and another friend, plus a friend of hers weren't able to get away for a full week, but a long weekend was possible. We found an AirBnB (one we had stayed at before) without issue, but flights to Geneva were proving expensive, and so we decided to drive down on Wednesday night to be on the slopes Thursday morning.
People may think that driving 10 or 11 hours through the night to ski the next day is a daft thing to do, and you may be right. But I've done it before, and it isn't as bad as you think it will be, especially if you can split the driving. And when it comes to costs, you have to pay fuel, tolls and the Eurotunnel booking, but offset that against the flights, extra baggage fees for the ski equipment, and having to book a car anyway to transfer from the airport up to the slopes, it can be more cost effective.
And so we booked in on the Eurotunnel, and reserved the AirBnB.
For booking a Eurotunnel crossing (also known by their new branding "Le Shuttle"), you choose a date and time to cross, and enter the details about the vehicle you are taking. There are different classes of tickets, depending on the length of your trip, type of vehicle, whether you want the trip refundable, and whether you want to have the flexibility to turn up at any time, or lock into a specific crossing time (more on the actual flexibility on this later). For our trip from a Wednesday to a Sunday, we got a Short Stay Saver fare.
To book a fare, you need to enter the number of passengers and the details of the vehicle you are taking (vehicle type, number plate, type of fuel).
Initially we planned to head down in my friend's car. However, it is a rather long in the tooth Audi A3 which was having some reliability issues. As her car was both shaky on if it would actually make the trip, and also awfully small for 3 people and their ski gear, we made a pivot and I ended up renting a car from Enterprise. Luckily, you can easily change the details of your booking with no fees, assuming you aren't changing the class of vehicle you are taking.
Prior to your trip, you do need to fill out an API (advanced passenger information) for each passenger. When making your booking, you need to specify the number of travellers. This includes name, gender, date of birth, nationality, and passport details for each passenger. This can be entered any time after your booking, and doesn't need to be entered all at once, so each member of our party went in and filled in their details individually. You can add, remove and change traveller details any time up to entering the Eurotunnel site.
Though it was only a week and a half ago from when I travelled to today, already the Covid travel requirements have changed for both France and the UK. So at the time, for the trip down I need to provide a vaccination pass and a "sworn undertaking to comply with the rules" form. This could be done anytime from 4 days prior to your departure time.
Car Rental from Enterprise, Hammersmith - March 9, 2022
As previously stated, we decided to rent a car to go down. I booked from one of my local rental agencies - a branch of Enterprise. I have rented from them multiple times, and have always found them very reliable and excellent.
To take a rental vehicle out of the UK, you need to pay to have the paperwork that says the owner of the vehicle (in this case, Enterprise) allowing you to take it out of the country. In addition, you pay additional for EU roadside coverage. As we were also splitting the driving, we paid another £15.60 a day for the additional drivers. In all, the rental and all the extra gubbins cost us £558.18 (though I was able to get some discounts for what was about to happen).
As we had ski gear, I rented a "Nissan Qashqai or similar." Everything was all set when I got a call at 10AM on the 9th of March, 2 hours before I was meant to pick up the car. Seems the car they had planned to give me had been returned with mechanical issues. Would I be happy to pick up the car at 4PM instead of noon?
As our crossing was at 5:20PM in Folkestone, there was no way to pick up the car that late and make it our train crossing, so I said we couldn't. The agent said she would call me back.
It was a tense 20 minutes while I waited for a call back, and I went through various permutations and combinations of what we might do (take my friend's car anyway? rent from another agency? change our departure time?).
Enterprise called back and had found a solution. And so I was able to show up at midday and pick up a Hyundai Kona, a hybrid small SUV.
The car was alright, but felt a bit small to me as compared to a Qashqai. I also found rubbish in the car from the last rental. I mentioned my disappointment at those items, but as it was the only suitable car available, I took it. Enterprise refunded me £59.30 (15% off the base rental price) as a goodwill gesture.
This was the first time I have had issues with this branch of Enterprise, and they seemed very keen to try and make things right for me, so I'd still recommend them if you ever need to rent a car in Hammersmith, London (your only other option is Sixt, which is always priced much higher than Enterprise).
And so I went home, loaded up the car, picked up the two passengers and loaded and reloaded the car a couple of times, and away we went. |
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| FW: AA > B6 JFK Minimum Connection Time Posted: 19 Mar 2022 09:15 AM PDT Feed: FlyerTalk Forums
Posted on: Saturday, March 19, 2022 6:57 PM
Author: SFOtoORD
Subject: AA > B6 JFK Minimum Connection Time I have a trip this summer that goes BOS > JFK (AA) > SFO (B6) that now due to schedule changes has a 54 minute connection time at JFK. I see that the shuttle from T8 to T5 is roughly a 15 min endeavor (with 2 parents and 3 kids), but still feels tight. Does anyone know the official minimum AA to B6 connection time at JFK?
Btw - the data sharing between AA and B6 if janky. AA change the BOS flight time, but B6 still thinks it is the same time more than 2 weeks after the change. |
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| FW: Southwest Airlines Rocketmiles Hotels Posted: 19 Mar 2022 09:15 AM PDT Feed: FlyerTalk Forums
Posted on: Saturday, March 19, 2022 6:59 PM
Author: Speechlady
Subject: Southwest Airlines Rocketmiles Hotels I am trying to book a hotel on Southwest Airlines site. I keep getting a "clear your cookies" reply. This is a recent problem as I have been able to use the Book A Hotel portion of Southwest in the past. Any ideas?
I've cleared my history for the last 2 months and still not working. Thanks in advance. |
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| FW: Annie Macmanus: ‘I can’t cook. But a macaroni cheese is named after me' Posted: 19 Mar 2022 09:15 AM PDT Feed: Lifestyle | The Guardian
Posted on: Saturday, March 19, 2022 7:01 PM
Author: Tim Lewis
Subject: Annie Macmanus: 'I can't cook. But a macaroni cheese is named after me' | The broadcaster and author on her passion for pigs and getting to grips with Nigella's desserts It's a joke among my friends how not great a cook I am. [Former Radio 1 DJ] Nick Grimshaw is always slagging me off for the fact that he'll come to my house and get served a bowl of crisps for dinner. Famously, I had to ring him up once to ask how to bake a potato. On my DJ rider, I used to ask for "pig paraphernalia". I just think they are really clever, clean and amazing animals who are continuously disrespected by the world. I was expecting maybe a postcard or a mug or a soft toy, but it didn't work out that way. There were people who took this very far: at one point, there were two live piglets in my dressing room. It was incredibly cute, but bad for the pigs, because it was loud, the music was reverberating [around] the walls. Another time, one of the promoters dressed up in a giant pig costume and hid in the toilet in my dressing room. So when I went to go to the toilet, there was just an enormous pig waiting for me. That was a bit freaky. I took them off the rider after that. Continue reading... |
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| FW: Are Travel Agents Still a Thing? | Seattle Met Posted: 19 Mar 2022 08:46 AM PDT Feed: Google Alert - travel
Posted on: Saturday, March 19, 2022 12:16 PM
Author:
Subject: Are <b>Travel</b> Agents Still a Thing? | Seattle Met | Like buggy drivers and LaserDisc player repairpeople, the travel agent profession sounds like it should be obsolete. After all, Expedia has been ... |
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| FW: Business travel takes wing as India Inc unlocks - The Economic Times Posted: 19 Mar 2022 08:46 AM PDT Feed: Google Alert - travel
Posted on: Saturday, March 19, 2022 12:49 PM
Author:
Subject: Business <b>travel</b> takes wing as India Inc unlocks - The Economic Times | According to most companies ET spoke to, business travel is still at only 10-20% of pre-pandemic levels, though they expect it to rise in the coming ... |
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| FW: The destinations dropping all Covid rules for entry and more of the latest in travel - CNN Posted: 19 Mar 2022 08:46 AM PDT Feed: Google Alert - travel
Posted on: Saturday, March 19, 2022 3:13 PM
Author:
Subject: The destinations dropping all Covid rules for entry and more of the latest in <b>travel</b> - CNN | This week at CNN Travel, we look at the countries dropping all their Covid-related rules for entry, innovative airplane cabin designs, ... |
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| FW: H.K.'s Lam to Review Travel Ban When Fifth Wave Eases: HK01 - Bloomberg Posted: 19 Mar 2022 08:46 AM PDT Feed: Google Alert - travel
Posted on: Saturday, March 19, 2022 3:17 PM
Author:
Subject: H.K.'s Lam to Review <b>Travel</b> Ban When Fifth Wave Eases: HK01 - Bloomberg | Hong Kong will map out its plan to resume quarantine-free travel after the current fifth wave of the pandemic subsides, HK01 cited Chief Executive ... |
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| FW: First trip to Mexico City in mid-May Posted: 19 Mar 2022 08:46 AM PDT Feed: Fodor's Travel Talk Forums
Posted on: Saturday, March 19, 2022 4:06 PM
Author: mike_pakowski
Subject: First trip to Mexico City in mid-May Hi guys,
I am thinking about booking a solo trip to Mexico City in mid-May. Probably 4-5 days in total. I would love to hear from folks who have spent time there as this would be my first time visiting. I always do my own research, but I always like to hear from people about their "must do, must go, must visit, etc.".
Would love to hear about your hidden gems (restaurants, museums, art galleries, parks, hikes, historical sites, etc.). Favorite neighborhoods that you stayed in or spent time in. Any areas outside of the city that you would recommend visiting? Outdoor activities that you really enjoyed, sites that you loved.
Thanks in advance for your tips! |
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| FW: One to watch: Fana Hues Posted: 19 Mar 2022 08:45 AM PDT Feed: Culture | The Guardian
Posted on: Saturday, March 19, 2022 5:00 PM
Author: Laura Snapes
Subject: One to watch: Fana Hues | The Californian singer keeps the R&B faith with Flora + Fana, an introspective new album of heartbreak and weirdo funk To read the headlines it might seem as though R&B is in crisis. Some say it's dead. Others say it has lost its identity. Critics hymn so-called "alternative" R&B, a minimising tag that every artist shoved under that umbrella seems to loathe. But Fana Hues is keeping the faith. "For me, R&B is the foundation of pop music today," the California songwriter has said. "It could never be dead!" Certainly not with Hues pumping blood through its heart. You may know her woozy vocals from Tyler, the Creator's Call Me If You Get Lost, where she voiced his unattainable love interest. Her new full-length, Flora + Fana, occupies a more introspective headspace as she treads water after a broken relationship: the opening song, Moscato, about drowning her sorrows, swirls as sweetly as the last drops of wine around a long-stemmed glass. Continue reading... |
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| FW: A Life of Picasso: Volume IV by John Richardson review – stranger things Posted: 19 Mar 2022 08:45 AM PDT Feed: Culture | The Guardian
Posted on: Saturday, March 19, 2022 2:00 PM
Author: Kathryn Hughes
Subject: A Life of Picasso: Volume IV by John Richardson review Рstranger things | The final volume of biography by Richardson, who died before finishing it, is a thrilling survey of Picasso's surrealist era John Richardson opens the final (fourth) volume of his magisterial biography of Pablo Picasso with the artist in more than usual disarray. The year is 1933 and, while his celebrity and his wealth are unassailable, Picasso's marriage to the Russian ballerina Olga Khokhlova has entered its bitter endgame. Meanwhile, his relationship with mątresse-en-titre Marie-Th̩r̬se Walter, tucked away in the country, is beginning to pall even before it has properly hit its stride. Waiting in the wings is Dora Maar, the surrealist photographer who will dominate Picasso's life, mostly painfully, for the next eight years. Richardson shows himself as deft as ever at making connections between Picasso's tumultuous private life and his art. The increasingly despised Olga appears in a series of nightmare images Рas a hideously toothy horse, as a wonky ballerina straining to hold her arms above her head and, worst of all, as a disappointed bride whose veil is slipping off the end of her nose. Earth mother Marie-Th̩r̬se, meanwhile, is transposed into what Richardson describes as "a kinky cluster of boxed vaginas, beehive breasts, and turdlike fingers". Then there is glamorous Dora, depicted famously in The Weeping Woman with a green face, stringy hair and sausage fingers. As Richardson pithily puts it: "Picasso Picassified people." Continue reading... |
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| FW: Stormzy review – shock and awe Posted: 19 Mar 2022 08:45 AM PDT Feed: Culture | The Guardian
Posted on: Saturday, March 19, 2022 5:00 PM
Author: Kitty Empire
Subject: Stormzy review – shock and awe | Leeds First Direct Arena
A superstar-size stage show very nearly distracts from the colossal charisma of the south London rapper Hip-hop has a soft spot for statistics. On Audacity, a track full of pique at the impertinence of his critics, the rapper Stormzy lists the capacity of the venues he played on the tour for his debut album, Gang Signs & Prayer, as evidence of his supremacy in UK grime. "5,000 capacity," it goes, "spread that over the UK and then add it up and get back to me." Except this time around, that figure has doubled to "10,000 capacity" – an edit to the lyrics met by one of the many roars of recognition of the night from an adoring crowd. Delayed for two years, Stormzy's tour for his second album, Heavy Is the Head, will now play to more than 175,000 people in the UK. With so many certainties upended in the past two years, it is heartening to see the south London artist remains an adored cultural figurehead, one whose lyrical power is matched by the breadth and depth of his offering. Continue reading... |
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| FW: Hannah Gadsby on her autism diagnosis: ‘I’ve always been plagued by a sense that I was a little out of whack’ Posted: 19 Mar 2022 08:45 AM PDT Feed: Culture | The Guardian
Posted on: Saturday, March 19, 2022 3:00 PM
Author: Hannah Gadsby
Subject: Hannah Gadsby on her autism diagnosis: 'I've always been plagued by a sense that I was a little out of whack' | Even as a child, the comedian knew her brain was atypical. But it was only in her late 20s that her anxiety, depression and meltdowns finally made sense You don't have to be an expert to know that people with autism don't get to speak about their own experiences. Until very recently, autism has largely only been understood through the prism of the experience of parents and as a list of observations that mostly neurotypical medical professionals have made and assigned meaning to. The myths around ASD (autism spectrum disorder) have wasted enough of my life, so I don't really want to waste any more of my time thinking about them, much less writing them down. But as the myths are so firmly embedded into popular (mis)understanding, I don't have the luxury to skip over them, so it is just a sad reality that I have to waste even more of my time to bring many of you up to speed. Continue reading... |
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