On the occasion of launch of ADITYA-L1 Mission, the Regional Science Centre, Bhubaneswar organised a panel exhibition and live streaming of the spacecraft on Saturday here.
The historical event was witnessed by more than 150 students, teachers and general public who gathered from different
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A center of Chicago’s sports world will become a focal point of its pandemic response March 10 when a mass COVID-19 vaccination site will be launched at the United Center.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced the site Friday with Mayor Lightfoot and Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle.
“The United Center is one of the best locations for vaccinating large numbers of people in America: It’s easy to get to, is in the midst of a medically underserved community, can handle large crowds and is well known to everyone in Illinois,” Pritzker said in a statement. “Thanks to FEMA, the United Center is just our most recent among a growing number of state-supported mass vaccination location for residents.”
Artist Phil Gayter “wanted to bring COVID to life as the rain we’re in,” in his portrait of Mount Sinai intensive care unit nurse Herbert Wandaki, finding “an element of drama to that.” He portrayed Wandaki amid COVID viruses falling like rain.
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The mask.
We spend so much time complaining about wearing it, we might not have noticed how much the mask has come to define the past year, physically, emotionally and, yes, visually.
But Phil Gayter, artist and ad man, has noticed, and is painting a series of masked portraits.
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“I decided to do a self-portrait, painting myself with bright yellow gloves and an N95 mask. That was the start,” said Gayter, who lives in Highland Park. “It was going to be a one-off. As the pandemic was setting in, I was spending more and more time at home, I had my daughter over, and I did a portrait of her in a mask.”