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  2021-02-16

  Creatives Meet in The Cloud

  During a pandemic, creatives continued to collaborate online through the platform Zoom. In this picture, Jackson Scoggins, William Way, and I (Spencer Bolding) meet and discuss the beginnings of Jackson’s new magazine about a local record label. We spent our first semester interviewing key characters in the creation of Dolfin Records over Zoom, often having to explain the mechanics to those new to the program. After a series of recorded interviews, we put together an in-depth timeline of the beginning of Dolfin Records that will go into our first issue. Creatives will always find a way to create. #HST269 #zoom #localmusic #Dallas #Dolfin #zine #DIY #musicians #art #deepellum #pandemic #creative
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  2020-12-10

  United States Shatters Single-Day Death Toll

  On December 9, 2020, the United States broke a single-day death record with over 3,000 deaths in 24 hours. These deaths come as a result as the huge surge in cases the United States is seeing as winter sets in.
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  2020-11-06

  COVID-19 cases breaking records...again

  The United States is experiencing another huge wave of COVID-19 infections. On November 5th, 2020 the new daily Covid cases was about 116,255 which is a 204% increase from last month. Right now new daily cases are breaking yesterdays records which shows that even 8 months into the pandemic, it's far from over.
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  2020-09-27

  Jewish Melbourne: St Kilda Hebrew Congregation pre-Yom Kippur sermon

  Due to the halachic restrictions on using technology during Yom Kippur, and that lockdown prevented synagogues from having congregations attend services, St Kilda Hebrew Congregation's Rabbi Yaacov Glasman pre-recorded and shared online a Yom Kippur sermon
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  2020-09-27

  Jewish Melbourne: St Kilda Hebrew Congregation pre-Kol Nidre Service

  Due to the need to follow halachah, St Kilda Hebrew Congregation pre-recorded a pre-Kol Nidre service for their congregants, which they shared on Facebook.
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  2020-10-30

  Over 90,000 Cases Recorded in a Single Day

  The United States is experiencing yet another surge in Covid cases, this time just days before the presidential election. "The new benchmark of 90,456 cases was hit Thursday just hours after the U.S. logged its 9 millionth coronavirus case and shattered the previous daily record of 80,662 infections, set a day earlier. Also, the 540,035 new Covid-19 cases reported from last Friday, Oct. 23, to Thursday was the most for any seven-day period since July." The Trump administration has said that the U.S. is rounding the corner on the pandemic and even cited "ending" the pandemic as one of Donald Trump's accomplishments in office, yet the growing number of cases and deaths would say otherwise.
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  2020-04-14

  Distractions

  Music helped me during quarantine because it was an amazing distraction and I was able to tune everything else out. I would listen to music in my different ways including a record player, a cd player, and my phone. I played music just about anytime I wasn't doing something else. It helped me calm down in such stressful times. Quarantine was such a dark time, we expected to finish off the school year but that got taken away from us. We weren't allowed to see our friends, we didn't get to say goodbye to our teachers, all we really needed was distractions. Music wasn't the only thing that helped, some other things were facetiming, text messaging, TikToks, movies/tv shows, and reading.
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  2020-04-15

  VINYL NATION

  The documentary about the resurgence of vinyl records, the diversification of vinyl fans and what this all means for America was ready for its premiere this spring, but well, things have changed. So the filmmakers changed their plans! You can catch VINYL NATION from the comfort of your own home the weekend of April 18 and 19---the original Record Store Day weekend!-- and help out your local record store!
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  2020-04-17

  4/7/20, Ambulance Sirens heard in Bklyn

  This is an entry from my journal dated 4/7/2020. Ambulance sirens have been the dominant noise on the streets of NYC during this crisis. On this date, I decided to record every ambulance siren I heard passing through my neighborhood of Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn.