Grade 3 students in Lynn Valley build coop for comfort chickens Vancouver Waldorf School is guided by the anthroposophy of Rudolf Steiner, an Austrian philosopher, social reformer and educator
Author of the article: Gordon McIntyre
Publishing date: May 01, 2021 • May 1, 2021 • 3 minute read • Faculty at the Waldorf School in North Vancouver decided animal therapy would be a great way to mitigate anxiety with the challenges students are facing due to COVID-19. The Grade 3s at the school decided to build a hen house on the school s campus. Pictured is gardening teacher Chris Henley, in blue, helping students and parent volunteers carry a roof section from one part of the campus to another on April 22. The section will be added to the henhouse. Photo by Jason Payne /PNG
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“Lectins are proteins that can bind the sugar molecule structure on lipids or proteins such as the spike protein. Our idea is to harness this property to develop a drug to combat COVID-19 disease.”
What you see in the video, he said, is the single spike (the large bright object) and lectins (smaller fast-moving objects).
It was shot at 303 milliseconds per frame over an area of the virus measuring 100 X 100 nm² (nanometres are one-billionth of a metre), using something called atomic force microscopy at the University of Linz, Austria.
“This is what it looks like in real time when the spike binds to something,” Penninger said. “Very few people have this microscope, so it was great to hook up with people who do some really cool stuff with cool technologies.”
Police officer saves teen s life with a bear hug on Burrard Bridge Cont. Brad Mears, responding to a call of a distraught man climbing the bridge s suicide fencing, raced to the scene and was able to grab the man from behind and restrain him until help arrived
Author of the article: Gordon McIntyre
Publishing date: Apr 24, 2021 • 2 hours ago • 2 minute read • There was opposition when the suicide fencing went up on Burrard Bridge five years ago, but that fencing was what gave Const. Brad Mears time to get to a young man while he was still trying to climb the bridge to commit suicide. Photo by Jason Payne /PNG
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Residents near a huge overnight fire in Langley Township had never seen anything like it short of special effects on a movie screen. They describe red-hot embers falling like snow as firefighters battled the blaze that brought down a building complex in its final phase of construction near 80th Avenue and 208th street.
The fire began at around 9:30 p.m. on Monday and burned until the wee hours of Tuesday. Firefighters were still at the scene Tuesday afternoon pumping water on the smouldering rubble of collapsed buildings.
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