TUI Travel pins hopes on Jamaica, Mexico

International Travel Group, TUI Travel, says increased demand for long haul flights to Jamaica and Mexico will help it to realize its profit forecast this year.  
The company had projected earnings to grow in the region of  7-10%. It said recent developments mean its earnings will reach the upper end of  the forecast.      
TUI said bookings on its airline for the upcoming winter are up 2%. It said the demand has been driven by the addition of  long haul leisure destinations such as Jamaica and Mexico, out of  the UK.  

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CJ Killawno hopes to tattoo his name in history

CJ Killawno

Carl Tuckett aka CJ Killawno is widely known throughout the city of Montego Bay as a highly skilled tattoo artist.

However the multitalented deejay/producer seems well on his way to gain even greater fame as a dancehall artiste.

“I’ve been working hard on my music career over the years while earning a living as a tattoo artiste. I’m a very creative individual, therefore, I’ve been able to excel in both fields. I feel blessed to be able to express my creativity, both as a tattoo artist and a deejay,” he said.

In order to ensure his success in the music business, CJ Killawno is working relentlessly to push his career. “Right now, my music career is looking brighter every day. In the last two weeks, I have distributed more than 3,000 copies of my new mix tape on the streets,” said the artiste.

The Tivoli Gardens Comprehensive High alumnus is currently enjoying a strong buzz with singles such as Sando, Wine For Me and the Mobay street anthem Warnin, featuring Hydal.

“My tracks are getting a lot of love in the streets and I am also getting some good airplay, too. Everywhere I go, more and more people are approaching me for CDs.”

CJ Killawno recently shot the music video for his new single, a bouncy party track aptly titled Slap Weh Party. The video was shot at the Bellevue Sports Bar & Club in Montego Bay.

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Roach captures 100th test wicket but Williamson, rain dampen Windies hopes

: Fast bowler Kemar Roach celebrates his 100th wicket as BJ Watling falls. (Credit: WICB Media)

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Monday June 30, 2014, CMC – Speedster Kemar Roach captured his 100th Test wicket but Kane Williamson’s career-best century and then torrential rain, spoiled West Indies chances of winning the decisive third Test at Kensington Oval here Sunday.

When the adverse weather ended play prematurely at 4:51 pm on the fourth day, New Zealand had reached a formidable 331 for seven in their second innings – a lead of already 307 heading into Monday’s final day.

The rain, which first came at 1:48 pm and then allowed just 26 balls following a 4:30 pm restart, robbed the game of a precious 42.5 overs.

Williamson, who began the day on 58, finished on a superb, unbeaten 161, an innings that formed the bedrock of the New Zealand innings and seems likely to ensure them at least a share of the series.

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The 23-year-old right-hander hardly put a foot wrong as he faced 271 balls in just under 6-1/2 hours at the crease, and stroked 22 fours.

Along the way, he extended his overnight fourth wicket stand to 67 with captain Brendon McCullum who scored 25, added a further 91 for the fifth wicket with Jimmy Neesham who belted an attacking 51 and then also posted 79 for the sixth wicket with BJ Watling who hit 29.

It was the wicket of Watling, caught at gully by Jason Holder 45 minutes after lunch, which gave Roach the 100th scalp of his 26-Test career.

He was the best Windies best bowler with four for 55 while debutant fast bowler Jason Holder has claimed two for 26.

Resuming the day on 123 for three, New Zealand gathered runs quickly as Williamson showed his intent from as early as the third ball of the day, lofting off-spinner Shane Shillingford wide of long on for four and then cutting the first ball of Roach’s next over to the point boundary.

McCullum, however, added just two to his overnight 23 before falling lbw to Roach in the day’s fourth over, trapped on the crease by a delivery that came back. He
consulted DRS in vain.

Neesham’s arrival increased the scoring rate, the left-hander belting three fours and four sixes off just 67 balls in an hour-and-a-half at the crease.

He took a liking to the toothless Shillingford – unable to fire his lethal doosra because of the ICC restrictions – lofting him onto the media centre at the southern end in the day’s seventh over and then clearing the ropes and wide long on in the bowler’s next over.

When seamer Jerome Taylor was introduced, Neesham struck him for a flat six over long on and then smashed left-arm spinner Sulieman Benn over the ropes at mid-wicket off the first ball following the water break.

Williamson, meanwhile, edged seamer Jason Holder to third man to move to 97 before reaching his seventh century with a couple behind point off Benn, 50 minutes before
lunch.

Neesham followed him soon after, driving Holder for two to reach his half-century but then fell off the very next ball, smashing a full-blooded drive into the lap of Kraigg Brathwaite at a very short cover, with the score on 226 for five.

Any hopes the Windies had of making further inroads were quickly erased as Williamson and Watling stood firm in another half-century stand that proved a source of
frustration.

With Williamson picking off boundaries at will, Watling held up the other end for nearly an hour-and-a-half, before falling in the second over with the second new
ball, slashing at Roach at 305 for six.

Williamson equaled his previous career-best of 135 with a boundary to third man off Benn before steering Taylor through gully for another to raise his 150.

Southee, dropped by Benn at slip off Roach before he had scored, hung around half-hour for seven before tapping a tame return catch back to Taylor, 20 minutes after
the rain break.

Only five more deliveries were possible before rain put paid to any more hopes of play.

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Google hopes designer frames will sharpen Glass

NEW YORK, USA - GOOGLE Glass is getting glasses.

Google is adding prescription frames and new styles of detachable sunglasses to its computerised, Internet-connected goggles known as Glass.

The move comes as Google Inc. prepares to make Glass available to the general population later this year. Currently, Glass is available only to the tens of thousands of people who are testing and creating apps for it.

Glass hasn’t actually had glasses in its frame until now.

Glass is basically a small computer, with a camera and a display screen above the wearer’s right eye. The device sits roughly at eyebrow level, higher than where eyeglasses would go.

It lets wearers surf the Web, ask for directions and take photos or videos. Akin to wearing a smartphone without having to hold it in your hands, Glass also lets people read their email, share photos on Twitter and Facebook, translate phrases while travelling or partake in video chats. Glass follows some basic voice commands, spoken after the words “OK, Glass.”

The gadget itself is not changing with this announcement. Rather, Google plans to make various attachments available. Starting yesterday, the Mountain View, California, company is offering four styles of prescription frames and two new types of shades available to its “explorers” — the people who are trying out Glass. The frames will cost US$225 and the shades, US$150. That’s on top of the US$1,500 price of Glass.

Users can take the frames to any vision care provider for prescription lenses, though Google says it is working with insurance provider Vision Service Plan to train eye-care providers around the US on how to work with Glass. Google says some insurance plans may cover the cost of the frames.

Isabelle Olsson, the lead designer for Google Glass, says the new frames open the spectacles up to a larger audience.

She demonstrated the new frames to The Associated Press last week at the Google Glass Basecamp, an airy loft on the eighth floor of New York City’s Chelsea Market. It’s one of the places where Glass users go to pick up their wares and learn how to use them. Walking in, visitors are greeted, of course, by a receptionist wearing Google Glass.

“We want as many people as possible to wear it,” she said.

To that end, Glass’s designers picked four basic but distinct frame styles. On one end is a chunky “bold” style that stands out. On the other is a “thin” design — to blend in as much as possible.

Olsson said Google won’t be able to compete with the thousands of styles offered at typical eyeglasses stores. Instead, Glass’s designers looked at what types of glasses are most popular, what people wear the most and, importantly, what they look good in.

The latter has been a constant challenge for the nascent wearable technology industry, especially for something like Google Glass, designed to be worn on your face. When Google unveiled Glass in a video nearly two years ago, it drew unfavourable comparisons to Bluetooth headsets, the trademarks of the fashion-ignorant technophile.

In designing Google Glass, Olsson and her team focused on three design principles with the goal of creating something that people want to wear. These were lightness, simplicity and scalability. That last one means having different options available for different people — just as there are different styles of headphones, from in-ear buds to huge aviator-style monstrosities.

Google Glass currently comes in five colours — “charcoal,” a lighter shade of gray called “shale,” white, tangerine and bright blue “sky.” The frame attachments out yesterday are all titanium. Users can mix and match.

“People need to be able to choose,” Olsson said. “These products need to be lifestyle products.”

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Rain dashes Australia"s hopes of victory

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