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With hundreds of trees and thousands of branches down from the recent ice storm, the Radnor Township Board of Commissioners Monday approved hiring a contractor to help township employees clean up trees and brush.

While residents can put bundles of tied up branches out at the curb on Wednesdays as usual, the township will make additional collections, as well, said Steve Norcini, director of public works.

Residents should put those branches of no larger than 14 inches in diameter and no more than 2 feet long at the curb by March 16.

In addition, the grinders at Skunk Hollow will be open by appointment for residents or their landscapers to bring larger tree trunks and branches, Norcini said. Call the township at (610) 688-5600, ext. 155 for an appointment.

The outside help is slated to cost $9,500 per week and will continue for about four or five weeks, Norcini said.

Commissioners President Elaine Schaefer said most homes in the township have some fallen trees and branches and would benefit from the additional service.

Resident Jim Schneller of St. Davids objected to the plan, saying that it penalized prudent residents who took care of dangerous trees before the storm felled them.

The commissioners also discussed - but voted 5-2 against - a proposal to amend their ordinances to require that people submit written documents to the Planning Commission or the Board of Commissioners at least three business days before a meeting. Commissioner John Fisher said that staff members had requested the change because of the large numbers of documents generated by the Comprehensive Integrated College Development Ordinance requested by Villanova University and the Mixed Use Special Transportation Development Ordinance (MUST) for the BioMed site and three other properties along King of Prussia Road. Having the documents several days before the meetings would allow officials time to read them and also cut down on the confusion as to which version was the one under consideration, according to Fisher.

In addition, the BOC set a March 31 hearing date for the CICD ordinance. That hearing will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the township building. The Planning Commission is expected discuss the CICD at its March 3 meeting at 7 p.m.

While residents can put bundles of tied up branches out at the curb on Wednesdays as usual, the township will make additional collections, as well, said Steve Norcini, director of public works.

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The Selinger government will look at sprinkler retrofits in personal care homes and create a task force to see if further improvements need to be made in other health-care facilities across the province.

The province also said Friday it is dedicating up to $7 million annually for sprinkler and fire-safety upgrades in health-care facilities. In addition, a fire-safety fund will be created to set aside $2 million to support additional standards and safety reviews.

The province's announcement comes after a Jan. 23 fire at a nursing home in L'Isle-Verte, Que., that killed at least 27 people. Five more people are still considered missing.

The province said the fire-safety task force will review fire safety in facilities that care for vulnerable people, including retirement homes, assisted living and supportive housing, hospitals and group homes. It will be chaired by staff from the Office of the Fire Commissioner and include representatives from the Manitoba Building Standards Board, the Manitoba Association of Fire Chiefs, front-line fire services, regional health authorities and several provincial departments. Input will also be sought from the Long Term and Continuing Care Association of Manitoba, local certified sprinkler system installers, municipal governments and others.

The task force will also look at a range of fire- and life-safety activities including fire protection and early warning systems, code enforcement and inspections, education and prevention, and emergency and fire planning. Recommendations from the task force are expected this fall.

Health-care facilities in Manitoba, including personal care homes, were built to the building standards in place when they were constructed. In 1998, the building code changed, requiring new building construction or renovation projects to have sprinkler systems. All personal care homes constructed or renovated since 1998 have full sprinkler systems.

Media reports say more than half of the licensed personal care homes in Manitoba do not have full sprinkler systems installed.

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Increasing numbers of birds are being packed into mass meat production facilities because high street retailers want smaller, younger chickens to sell to customers at lower prices. As many as 19 chickens or more are being squeezed into every square metre of floor space, which some experts say causes pain and stress.

Farmers and supermarkets, however, deny that their increasingly intensive production methods are cruel. They point out that animal welfare standards conform to the food industry's assurance scheme and are much better than they used to be.

But, according to Tim Lang, professor of food policy at London's City University and a former government adviser, chickens have the most miserable lives on farms. "Probably no animal farmed intensively has a shorter, more captive or controlled life than the broiler chicken," he said. "A luxury item six decades ago has become routine, tasteless, so-called meat today. And now we witness this new shift to even shorter lives, driven by market changes."

Lang urged people to question why mass-produced chicken has become so tasteless. "If you want to eat chicken, pay more," he suggested. "Eat it more infrequently to compensate for buying better quality."

Controversy has been sparked by a bid from a big farm in Fife to boost its production capacity by almost 50% from 340,000 to 500,000 chickens. In an application to the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, Peacehill Farm on the Firth of Tay says this is because "the supermarkets are requesting lighter birds".

A farm spokesperson said: "The reason for increasing bird places is that due to customer requirements the birds will have a shorter productive life and will be slaughtered at a lighter weight."

The application says this will lead to more chickens in the same space, but promises that the stocking density will not exceed 38 kilogrammes per square metre. If the chickens weigh an average of 2kg each, that is 19 in every square metre.

According to Libby Anderson, policy director at OneKind, an Edinburgh-based animal rights group, this will inevitably cause the birds suffering. The European Union's scientific committee on animal welfare concluded that at more than 30kg per square metre there is a "steep rise in the frequency of serious problems".

Anderson added: "The demand for chicken seems to be limitless and we are concerned to see the drive towards greater intensification of this sort. The more densely they are stocked, the greater the risk of lameness and painful leg problems, hock and foot burns, and stress."

She urged people who buy chicken sandwiches from supermarkets to be aware that the meat comes from birds unable to move around freely. "Current guidance is for stocking densities to be lowered, not raised, when birds are being reared to lower slaughter weights, so we can't see a justification for increasing it here almost to the very upper limit."

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How often, and how well, do you remember your dreams? Some people seem to be super-dreamers, able to recall effortlessly their dreams in vivid detail almost every day. Others struggle to remember even a vague fragment or two.

A new study has discovered that heightened blood flow activity within certain regions of the brain could help explain the great dreamer divide. In general, dream recall is thought to require some amount of wakefulness during the night for the vision to be encoded in longer-term memory. But it is not known what causes some people to wake up more than others.

A team of French researchers looked at brain activation maps of sleeping subjects and homed in on areas that could be responsible for nighttime wakefulness.

When comparing two groups of dreamers on the opposite ends of the recall spectrum, the maps revealed that the temporoparietal junction - an area responsible for collecting and processing information from the external world - was more highly activated in high-recallers. The researchers speculate that this allows these people to sense environmental noises in the night and wake up momentarily - and, in the process, store dream memories for later recall.

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In support of this hypothesis, previous medical cases have found that when these portions of the brain are damaged by stroke, patients lose the ability to remember their dreams, even though they can still achieve the REM (rapid eye movement) stage of sleep in which dreaming usually occurs.

The sleeping brain cannot store new information into long-term memory - for instance, if presented with new vocabulary words to learn while asleep, you will wake up completely unaware of what you heard. But this leaves open the question of how one is able to recall vivid nightly visions in the morning.

"If the sleeping brain is not able to memorise something, perhaps the brain has to awaken to encode dreams in memory," said study author and neuroscientist Perrine Ruby of Inserm, a French biomedical and public health research institution. If awakened during a dream, the brain has the chance to transfer its faint flashes - via reiteration of the memory in one's mind - into more long-term storage. This hypothesis has been dubbed the "arousal-retrieval model".

"There's a real question about the difference between dreaming, encoding memories of those dreams and being able to recall them," said Harvard Medical School's Robert Stickgold, a sleep researcher who was not involved in the study. "For someone to remember their dreams, all three of those things have to happen."

Dreams exist first in working memory, or the memory we use to hold and manipulate thought fragments. Stickgold gives the example of hearing a five-digit number and then reciting it backward. But, like a fleeting dream, the series of numbers will erase in a flash if not put away into longer-term memory.

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