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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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BRISTOL, Va. -
Downtown Bristol has been noisier than usual with construction underway at the old CityMac building.
Quaker Steak & Lube developers, the Albatross Group, told us they are on track to open the new restaurant in June.
We went to the site on Friday and found out the plumbing has been installed. They are now working on the framework.
Construction crews said theyve reinforced some beams so cars can be hung from the ceiling.
The developers told us they plan to display a race car, classic car and motorcycle, all from drivers in this area.
The garage door will be a straight shot inside the building to our Backyard Buddy, which is our automobile hoist, where we'll showcase classic cars, said Blair Jones, with the Albatross Group.
The garage door will be one of three doors leading out to the patio area, which construction crews have also been working on.
The patio will be in the parking lot on the corner of State Street and Piedmont Avenue.
Jones told us the project was expected to cost about $1.5 million. He said they may end up completing the project for less than that.
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