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Tuesday | July 14, 2020 | Volume 92 | Issue 07

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PANORA-MANIA

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DO YOU KNOW YOUR NEWS?

By MARISA NELSON Section Editor

1.) Which popular app does President Donald Trump want to ban in the U.S. because of its ties to China?

2.) A Black Lives Matter mural painted in NYC on Manhattan’s 5th Avenue was located near which landmark?

3.) Which Republican Senator condemned President Trump’s commutation of Roger Stone?

COVID-19 cases did Utah reach on July 10? a. 867

a. The One World Trade Center

a. Mitch McConnell

b. 851

a. Facetune

b. Trump Tower

b. John Thune

c. 625

b. Instagram

c. The Empire State Building

c. Mitt Romney

d. 769

c. TikTok

d. Central Park

d. John Barrasso

d. Snapchat

4.) What record high number of

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ANSWERS AND EXPLANATIONS ON PAGE 07

NEW DELIVERY,

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SAME SEMESTER

By FRANCIA HENRIQUEZ BENSON Asst. Section Editor

To avoid further spread of COVID-19, Weber State University has changed some classes’ format delivery for fall semester.

Many flexible options are available. The course offerings will include a mix of faceto-face, on-campus courses, alongside virtual, hybrid and online offerings.

After reviewing course offerings, faculty decided which classes needed to be delivered face-to-face, such as labs.

Face-to-face classes will be offered in the classroom during the currently scheduled times with modifications for safety without moving the classes online.

Hybrid courses will be offered on campus with at least 20% of the course online and with no schedule for online instruction.

In virtual classes, students will meet online at a specific date and time via video conferencing. Students complete homework using Canvas or email.

Online classes may also not require any online video calls and be taught asynchronously.

Virtual Hybrid courses will combine synchronous and asynchronous instruction; the students will meet on a set schedule, but the instructor may deliver asynchronous instruction at no set time or scheduled video classes.

Finally, courses may be offered as Flex, which entails in-person, technology-assisted instruction. Flex courses can include synchronous and/or asynchronous online instruction.

The Flex option is built for large classes such as labs or studio courses. Some students will meet in person while the rest of the class participates online. Students will rotate through who meets face-to-face on any given day.

Students should receive an email outlining the new delivery formats no later than July 17. It’s likely that courses listed as face-to-face during registration will change to virtual, hybrid or online.

Along with that, there will be classroom

changes to accommodate all the students and maintain the six-foot safe distance.

At the beginning of the semester, professors will discuss what is required from each student to maintain a healthy environment.

Students taking classes on campus are required to clean their personal areas and wear face coverings while indoors.

If the state goes back to orange or red, face-to-face classes will be moved online.

The testing center will resume its operating hours, and the university will allow events to be hosted on campus starting July 27.

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PICTURES

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DIY PANORAMIC

By ROBERT LEWIS Photography Editor

Waterfall at the end of Waterfall Canyon Trail Og- Waterfall at the end of Waterfall Canyon Trail Ogden, Utah. den, Utah.

Waterfall at the end of Waterfall Canyon Trail Ogden, Utah.

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Waterfall at the end of Waterfall Canyon Trail Ogden, Utah.

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BriElle and Robert are photographers for The Signpost at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah. During summer vacation, they have been practicing their craft and trying different techniques to give readers some ideas for taking their own photographs.

Hi, Robert here. I’m solo for this assignment. So, those who like BriElle’s work will have to wait for a future article.

This week, I took a group of photographs and used Adobe’s Lightroom to merge the group into one panoramic photo.

Usually, a panoramic photograph consists of a single photo with horizontally-elongated fields of view wider than the human eye can see. They are taken with special equipment and software.

With Adobe’s Lightroom software, you do not have to use a wide-angle lens or special equipment. The software allows you to take multiple photos and stitch them together to form one photograph, horizontally or vertically.

To do this, you have to take a series of photos and overlap each frame by at least 20 percent. The overlap allows the software to determine how the photos go together.

The equipment I brought along included a 28-millimeter-to-70-millimeter-zoom lens and the Canon EOS R. To get better results, you should use a tripod; I didn’t.

Without the tripod, the software will crop more from the photos to make the edges even when it merges the frames.

The photos below were taken at 50-millimeters, hand holding the camera, rotated 90 degrees. I also set the camera to manual mode, so the exposure stayed the same.

In Lightroom, I selected the group of photos. Then, under the Photo menu I selected Photo Merge and clicked on Panorama. This brought up the Panorama Merge Preview dialog box. In it there are three options: Spherical, Cylindrical and Perspective.

Light Room will choose the one it thinks is best – it allows you to toggle through all three. I chose Spherical, turned on the Auto Crop, adjusted the Boundary Warp and clicked on merge. And voila.

It gives the user a high-resolution version of a panoramic photograph. When it combines the frames, it produces a DNG file. Mine is 257 MB. It should appear in the collection where you started.

I like this feature because it allows someone to shoot vertical or horizontal and combine the frames to produce a photo that includes more area. Anyone who does not have a DSLR can probably use the camera on their phone to obtain the photos. Lightroom does the rest.

Waterfall at the end of Waterfall Canyon Trail Ogden, Utah.

Five photos merged into one vertical panoramic photograph.

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By ADAM RUBIN Senior Reporter

The Bus Rapid Transit line, a 5-mile project connecting the Frontrunner to WSU, McKay-Dee Hospital and the business district in the surrounding area, is on its way alongside plans for land usage, housing, parks and open spaces in Southeast Ogden.

The Ogden City Council will host a virtual meeting with the aim of ironing out the final details of changes to come to the Southeast Ogden Community. A final Ogden City Council meeting will be held on July 14 at 6 p.m.

The Southeast Ogden community zone covers the majority of Ogden City. This area spans WSU, McKay-Dee Hospital, Shadow Valley and a large portion of Southeast Ogden.

“The Southeast Ogden City Plan has been in development for over a year now,” Ogden City Council’s Communications Manager Brandon Garside said. “There hasn’t been an update to the community in nearly 30 years.”

According to Ogden Utah Planning website, the last fully-completed Southeast Ogden City renovation to the area was back in 1987.

“The community planning involves several steps, a good example of the community planning process is to help put in place new ordinances and measures which will help the community to preserve its historical character and also help it thrive in the future,” Clint Spencer, Deputy Planning Manager for Ogden City, said.

Residents, business owners and community opinion leaders of the Southeast Ogden area have come together in help-

ing sculpt the focuses of this plan. The meeting on July 14 will be the final opportunity for residents to take action in discussing their concerns regarding the plan before it is finalized.

There has been community involvement throughout the planning project, with some residents allowing for council members to visit their homes and get an inside look into how they can renovate while maintaining single-family homes and the integrity of the Southeast Ogden City’s identity.

“The area is already about 90% developed,” Garside added. “It’s all about making sure that the integrity of the area will be maintained and improved upon.”

Some initiatives of the plan directly impact WSU: the plan includes incorporation of quality student housing for WSU’s growing community.

“Aside from the university and the hospital, the majority of the community consists of single-family homes, roads and vacant land, most of the remaining vacant land isn’t developable,” Mitch Shaw noted in an article for the Standard-Examiner.

Ogden City encourages as much community participation as possible to help them ensure they have taken into account the community’s perspectives before finalizing the plan and moving forward with it. They encourage individuals to go over the plan documents, visit their website for in depth details and attend the meeting on July 14.

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DO YOU KNOW YOUR NEWS? QUIZ ANSWERS FROM PAGE 2

1. The correct answer is C. TikTok. According to Fox News, the Trump administration wants to protect American’s privacy and data.

2. The correct answer is B. Trump

Tower. According to NPR, groups of painters began painting the large yellow words in the middle of the street on July 9.

criticized Trump’s commutation for Roger Stone and called it “unprecedented, historic corruption.”

3. The correct answer is C. Mitt Romney. According to USA Today, Mitt Romney

4. The correct answer is A. 867. According the the Standard Examiner, Utah

reached a daily high with 867 cases reported on July 10 with medical leaders in the community calling for a state-wide mask mandate.

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