TRELAWNY, Jamaica - The police have identified the woman who was this morning killed as a result of a motor vehicle crash along a section of the Northern Coastal Highway in the vicinity of Hague, Trelawny, as Lacy-Ann Whyte, a 31- year-old- businesswoman of Race Course in the parish.
Reports are that about 4:00 am, a Mercedes Benz motorcar was heading towards Falmouth along the roadway when it crashed into the back of a parked tractor trailer on the soft- shoulder of the roadway, before ending up in a bus shed.
Whyte reportedly died at the scene on the impact, while the driver of the high-end vehicle, was taken to the nearby Falmouth Public General Hospital, where he is said to be in a serious condition.
Nearly three-quarters of fresh shop-bought chickens have tested positive for a food poisoning bug in a test by the industry watchdog.
The Food Standards Agency survey found 73 per cent of birds were contaminated with harmful campylobacter.
Of those tested, 19 per cent were found to contain the highest level of the bug, which affects an estimated 280,000 people a year.
In serious cases, victims of the bug can be bed ridden for weeks.
One woman claims she was forced to take two months off work after contracting the bacteria in Bulgaria.
The 12-month survey, running from February 2014 to this February, looked at the prevalence and levels of campylobacter contamination on fresh whole chilled chickens and their packaging.
The results showed that all of the major retailers failed to reach the industry target for reducing the bug over the period of the survey.
Asda had a higher-than-average incidence of chicken contaminated at the highest level, while Tesco was the only supermarket to fall below the industry average.
The FSA's cumulative results from the first three quarters of the survey show that the overall rate of contamination has stalled at 73% since February but risen from 70% in November and 59% in August.
A second year of testing will begin this summer to measure the impact of interventions being introduced by the industry to tackle campylobacter.
More than 4,000 samples of fresh whole chickens and packaging have been tested from large UK retail outlets and smaller independent stores and butchers.
Jamaica pay has you go meter, Do you think that would work better for us?
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A prepayment meter allows you to pay as you go for energy. You pay using a token, key or smart card which you charge up at local stores. If you don't recharge your token, key or card, you'll run out of energy.
A prepayment meter can be a good way to budget for your energy, if you are on a low income or your income goes up and down a lot. But it's also usually the most expensive way to pay.
How prepayment meters work
The main types of prepayment meters are:
key meters. They have electronically coded keys which are specific to the meter and contain tariff information which is updated when you charge the card smart card meters. These download information about your usage onto the card to send back to your supplier when you top up token or card meters. Rarely used now. They need to be adjusted manually whenever the tariff changes.
Your supplier will give you a list of the places to charge up the card, token or key charged. The meter records the amount of gas or electricity used.
Baby spiders are falling from the sky in a town in Australia, according to a local media report.
Millions of spiders seemingly dropped from above earlier this month in
the town that is about 125 miles southwest of Sydney, the Goulburn Post reported. It quoted a local resident, Ian Watson, who reportedly posted on the Goulburn Community Forum page:
"Anyone else experiencing this 'Angel Hair' or maybe aka millions of
spiders falling from the sky right now? I’m 10 minutes out of town and
you can clearly see hundreds of little spiders floating along with their
webs and my home is covered in them. Someone call a scientist!"
The scenario, nightmarish as it may be for those who suffer from arachnophobia, is entirely plausible, experts said.
"It's a phenomenal event, but it’s not unprecedented,” said Rick Vetter,
a retired research associate of entomology at the University of
California, Riverside.
The main reason this happens is because of a dispersal technique called
ballooning, Vetter said. Ballooning occurs after a mother spider lays
her eggs and they hatch.
The Crab spider, or Xysticus audax, exhibits behavior prior to ballooning in the video below.
“[The babies] want space to themselves, you got 1,000 brothers and
sisters sitting right around you, you’re not going to go close and make a
web -- there’s too much competition,” Vetter said.
That’s when the babies climb off the ground to something like the top of
a fence post, they release silk and the updraft carries them away.
While ballooning happens often, mass ballooning like the one reported in
Australia doesn't. In cases like this, it’s multiple mothers, a big
population of spiders, and maybe even more than one species, according
to Mike Draney, an arachnologist and biology professor at the University
of Wisconsin-Green Bay.
The weather plays a big factor in an event like this, Draney said.
“It can’t be too windy and there needs to be warm rising air currents,” he said.
Draney also pointed out that people most likely don’t have to worry about these baby spiders.
“Spiders can’t bite humans until they get to be a certain size,” Draney
said. “When spiders are born, they’re small and can’t break human skin.
I’d be very surprised to hear any ballooning spiders can
bite.”
And that may be reassuring to arachnophobes -- or not so much.
Driving's battle of the sexes appears to have been won by women, according to a survey.
Female drivers outscored males not only in in-car tests but also when observed anonymously using one of the UK's busiest junctions - Hyde Park Corner.
But another part of the survey - from Privilege Insurance - found only 28% of women reckoned they were better drivers than men, with only 13% of men thinking women were superior behind the wheel.
A sample of 50 drivers faced in-car assessment while 200 were watched at Hyde Park Corner. Marked on 14 different aspects of driving, women scored 23.6 points out of a possible 30, while men managed to chalk up only 19.8 points.
On one of the categories - tailgating - just 4% of women but 27% of men drove too close to the vehicle in front.
People's views on their driving skills differed dramatically from their actual skills. When asked if they thought they drove at the appropriate speed for the situation, 84% of men claimed they regularly did, which was in contrast to the 64% that actually did.
The 'Privilege driving coefficient' - How the sexes fared
After the war they don't need us anymore, is it that they always use us the abundant us? Learn more about migrant in the UK after the war in this video below.
An excerpt from part one of Playing The Race Card, focusing on the
arrival of newly migrant Afro-Caribbean and South Asian communities into
the UK during the early 1960s.
