11 May 2010
The BeetleCam Project - wildlife photography from a new perspective
BeetleCam Project Teaser from Will & Matt Burrard-Lucas on Vimeo.
The BeetleCam Project was started by Will & Matt Burrard-Lucas, who had the idea to photograph wildlife from "a new perspective, one that would involve getting close to potentially dangerous animals and photographing them with a wide-angle lens." Therefore they installed a DSLR camera on top of a four-wheel drive remote control buggy, started taking amazing pictures and gave wildlife photography "a new perspective"! Kudos!
British Airways cabins crew to stage new strikes
UPDATE (20 May 2010): Unite the union today (20th May) confirmed that cabin crew would go on strike for five days from Monday May 24, as previously notified.
Joint general secretaries Derek Simpson and Tony Woodley said today: “British Airways management now has a chance over the next three days to address our outstanding concerns and seize the possibility for industrial peace. We hope it has the wisdom to do so. Failing that, cabin crew will once more be taking industrial action with our full support.” [src.]
UPDATE (18 May 2010): Britain's High Court has approved British Airways’ injunction against a 20-day walk-put by its cabin crew members. BA said that flights over the next few days will still be disrupted because it is too late to unwind contingency plans already put in place. Visit ba.com for more info!
British Airways cabin crew are planing to strike from
Joint general secretaries Derek Simpson and Tony Woodley said today: “British Airways management now has a chance over the next three days to address our outstanding concerns and seize the possibility for industrial peace. We hope it has the wisdom to do so. Failing that, cabin crew will once more be taking industrial action with our full support.” [src.]
UPDATE (18 May 2010): Britain's High Court has approved British Airways’ injunction against a 20-day walk-put by its cabin crew members. BA said that flights over the next few days will still be disrupted because it is too late to unwind contingency plans already put in place. Visit ba.com for more info!
British Airways cabin crew are planing to strike from
- 18 May - 22 May 2010 British Airways is planing to operate all flights to and from London City and London Gatwick. (last updated 15 May 2010)
- 24 May - 28 May 2010 British Airways is planing to operate all flights to and from London City and London Gatwick. At Heathrow BA is planing to operate a substantial part of our longhaul schedule and there will be a number of flights to every destination across our shorthaul network. (last updated 15 May 2010)
- 30 May - 02 June 2010 British Airways is planing to operate all flights to and from London City and London Gatwick. At Heathrow BA is planing to operate a substantial part of our longhaul schedule and there will be a number of flights to every destination across our shorthaul network. (last updated 15 May 2010)
- 05 June - 09 June 2010 British Airways is planing to operate all flights to and from London City and London Gatwick. At Heathrow BA is planing to operate a substantial part of our longhaul schedule and there will be a number of flights to every destination across our shorthaul network. (last updated 15 May 2010)
In the event that cancellations are made due to strike action you will be able to:
Rebook onto another British Airways flight to the same destination within 355 days of the original date of travel
OR
Rebook onto another British Airways flight to/from the nearest alternative airport (for example, if booked to/from Boston you could rebook to/from Philadelphia or New York)
OR
Rebook onto an agreed alternative airline, subject to availability.
OR
Cancel your booking and get a refund.
All rebooking options will be subject to availability. Pls visit the website of British Airways for more info!
07 May 2010
2010 World Cup in Johannesburg: How to get to & from the stadiums
The City of Johannesburg has published a "Joburg 2010 Transport" guide on the city's official webiste.It is basically giving you all information about public transport, park & ride, park & walk and getting in, out and around Joburg.
It's a bit of a read, but gives you all relevant info you need to know, such as that you need to book Park-and-Ride/Walk tickets in advance. Otherwise you won't be able to make use of the services. Click here for a map how on "How to get to Ellis Park and Soccer City stadiums".
It's a bit of a read, but gives you all relevant info you need to know, such as that you need to book Park-and-Ride/Walk tickets in advance. Otherwise you won't be able to make use of the services. Click here for a map how on "How to get to Ellis Park and Soccer City stadiums".
2010 World Cup: new country-wide bus service for World Cup fans
South African sport website www.sport24.co.za is reporting that "an inter-provincial and regional transport system which will facilitate the efficient and safe transport of general spectators to and from matches" was introduced by SA national department of transport. According to the website afleet of 110 new 79-seater buses was acquired for the new service.
Inland service:
Booking options? I'll keep you posted! The tickets can be booked online on http://transport.strictlytickets.com/StrictlyTickets
Inner-city transport: Metrorail will transport match ticket holders of the 2010 FIFA World Cup free of charge on its special dedicated trains to host stadiums. [more]
Inland service:
- Transport from Pretoria and Johannesburg hubs to and from stadiums in Rustenburg, Polokwane, Nelspruit, and Bloemfontein
- Knysna to Cape Town, via Wilderness, George and Mossel Bay and from Mossel Bay to Port Elizabeth, via George and Wilderness and vice versa.
- East London to Port Elizabeth, via King Williams Town and Grahamstown and vice versa.
- Durban to Richards Bay, Pietermaritzburg and the Wild Coast and vice versa
Inner-city transport: Metrorail will transport match ticket holders of the 2010 FIFA World Cup free of charge on its special dedicated trains to host stadiums. [more]
Communication outage in northern Mozambique
Mozambique's main fibre-optic cable for the communication system in northern Mozambique broke down earlier this week. The actual breakdown has been located north of the town of Vilankulo, in Mozambique's Inhambane province. The cable is on the sea-bed, at a depth of over 30 metres, and can't get repaired by the country's public telecommunications provider TDM. Assistence from outside Mozambique is needed; repairing the fault is expected to take not less than four weeks.
06 May 2010
2010 World Cup ticket sales updates
More than 230,000 tickets have been sold during the current fifth (and last) ticket sales phase. 270,000 tickets (less than 10% of the total 3 Mio. tickets) are still available from Fifa.com, 11 ticketing centres, 18 selected Shoprite/Checkers and more than 600 FNB branches in South Africa. Johannesburg - which will host the opening and final matches - and Pretoria are sold out but there are still many tickets available for matches in Polokwane, Port Elizabeth and Nelspruit.
Host country South Africa is leading the total ticket sales with approximately 1,150,000 tickets purchased by locals. The United States follows with around 130,000, the UK at 97,000, Australia at 43,000, Germany 40,000, Mexico 36,000, Japan 22,000, Brazil 18,000, Canada 17,000 and Switzerland 16,000.
Host country South Africa is leading the total ticket sales with approximately 1,150,000 tickets purchased by locals. The United States follows with around 130,000, the UK at 97,000, Australia at 43,000, Germany 40,000, Mexico 36,000, Japan 22,000, Brazil 18,000, Canada 17,000 and Switzerland 16,000.
Metrorail ready for World Cup fans - free of charge trains to and from stadiums
Johannesburg - Metrorail will transport match ticket holders of the 2010 FIFA World Cup free of charge on its special dedicated trains to host stadiums.
Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) acting boss, Tumisang Kgaboesele, said through its rail division, Prasa will run special commuter services through its Metrorail and Shosholoza Meyl intercity services during the tournament.
"We can't wait to play our part in helping South Africa rise to this once-in-a-lifetime occasion. The train services will be available free of charge to 2010 FIFA World Cup ticket holders on special dedicated trains," he said.
Kgaboesele said this is an additional special train service over and above the normal services provided, adding that it will be synchronised according to match schedules.
"Additional rail services will be scheduled to cope with the demand as government has promised that by 2010 there will be a train available every five minutes during peak times. Train services will be running between 14 and 16 hours every day," he said.
Metrorail Gauteng Region will service a total of 12 routes namely Soccer City with 14 train sets, Coca-Cola Park with 13 train sets and Loftus Versfeld with 14 more trains.
In order to cope with anticipated high demand on certain parts of the rail network, Kgaboesele said additional train shuttles are also set to run to and from certain routes between stadia.
The short routes include Pretoria to Rissik station, Johannesburg to Nasrec station, Westgate to Nasrec station as well as Westgate to Doornfontein station.
All stations will start operating from 5am to 10pm on match days while for late games, stations will operate until midnight.
Each soccer train will be staffed with a team of ten ticket officers, both to and from venue stations. One inspector or supervisor will be deployed on each soccer train.
Shosholoza Meyl, with an active coach fleet of 1 223, already runs on 19 scheduled routes stopping at 95 stations, while Metrorail services 468 stations in Gauteng, Cape Town, Durban and the Eastern Cape.
Regional and cross-border train services have been revised to coincide with matches in the various host cities, this includes the scheduling of dedicated trains to matches and from outside the Gauteng region.
Passengers will be able to choose between the various products such as the Tourist Class Train Service, Economy Train Service and Premier Class.
The train services will run from Musina in Limpopo, Komatipoort, Rustenburg, Durban, Bloemfontein and Greenpoint in Cape Town. Passengers will then connect to Metrorail trains to take them to their respective games.
Prasa group chief executive officer, Lucky Montana said they are confident that they are ready to move football fans wherever they need to go well before the 2010 FIFA World Cup's first whistle sounds.
"Prasa's 13 000 employees are prepared and ready to welcome our visitors and treating football fans to the best possible service in our country," he said. [src.: BuaNews / Nthambeleni Gabara]
Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) acting boss, Tumisang Kgaboesele, said through its rail division, Prasa will run special commuter services through its Metrorail and Shosholoza Meyl intercity services during the tournament.
"We can't wait to play our part in helping South Africa rise to this once-in-a-lifetime occasion. The train services will be available free of charge to 2010 FIFA World Cup ticket holders on special dedicated trains," he said.
Kgaboesele said this is an additional special train service over and above the normal services provided, adding that it will be synchronised according to match schedules.
"Additional rail services will be scheduled to cope with the demand as government has promised that by 2010 there will be a train available every five minutes during peak times. Train services will be running between 14 and 16 hours every day," he said.
Metrorail Gauteng Region will service a total of 12 routes namely Soccer City with 14 train sets, Coca-Cola Park with 13 train sets and Loftus Versfeld with 14 more trains.
In order to cope with anticipated high demand on certain parts of the rail network, Kgaboesele said additional train shuttles are also set to run to and from certain routes between stadia.
The short routes include Pretoria to Rissik station, Johannesburg to Nasrec station, Westgate to Nasrec station as well as Westgate to Doornfontein station.
All stations will start operating from 5am to 10pm on match days while for late games, stations will operate until midnight.
Each soccer train will be staffed with a team of ten ticket officers, both to and from venue stations. One inspector or supervisor will be deployed on each soccer train.
Shosholoza Meyl, with an active coach fleet of 1 223, already runs on 19 scheduled routes stopping at 95 stations, while Metrorail services 468 stations in Gauteng, Cape Town, Durban and the Eastern Cape.
Regional and cross-border train services have been revised to coincide with matches in the various host cities, this includes the scheduling of dedicated trains to matches and from outside the Gauteng region.
Passengers will be able to choose between the various products such as the Tourist Class Train Service, Economy Train Service and Premier Class.
The train services will run from Musina in Limpopo, Komatipoort, Rustenburg, Durban, Bloemfontein and Greenpoint in Cape Town. Passengers will then connect to Metrorail trains to take them to their respective games.
Prasa group chief executive officer, Lucky Montana said they are confident that they are ready to move football fans wherever they need to go well before the 2010 FIFA World Cup's first whistle sounds.
"Prasa's 13 000 employees are prepared and ready to welcome our visitors and treating football fans to the best possible service in our country," he said. [src.: BuaNews / Nthambeleni Gabara]
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