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The College News VOL. XXII, No. 25 BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., MONDAY, JUNE 8, 1936 Copyright BRYN MAWR COLLEGE NEWS. 19S6 PRICE 10 CENTS SEVENTY-ONE STUDENTS AWARDED A. B. DEGREES Dr. Hamilton Urges War be Combatted As Dread Disease Work of the League Health Commission is Summarized In Address SCIENTIFIC ATTITUDE TYPICALLY PACIFISTIC Goodhart, June 8.�"I sometimes think how much nearer we should be to world peace if statesmen would face war as physicians face .disease," remarked Dr. Alice Hamilton, who delivered the Commencement address here today. Dr. Hamilton's speech was concerped chiefly with the ex- cellent work done by the Health Com- mittee of the League of Nations, of which she is an eminent member. Sickness is not the cause of heroism and "beautiful instances of self-sac- rifice"; usually its stunts and embit- ters, rather than ennobles. The ar- gument that disease is necessary to keep down excess of population and to eliminate the unfit is specious, for sickness often takes those who are fittest both mentally and spiritually. All of these arguments are used by those who believe pacifism to be an impossible and undesirable idea. We are told that you cannot change human nature, that war always has been and therefore always will be, that it stimulates heroism. That is why the fight against disease is so Continued on Page Six Many Alumnae Gather To Attend Reunions President Park Entertains at Home; 1926 Largest Group In spite of the fact that many alum- nae had the opportunity of seeing each other again at Big May Day, be- tween 200 and 250 people found it possible to attend class reunions on June 6 and 7. The largest group present was the class of 1926, repre- sented by thirty-si* alumnae. Their headquarters were at Wyndham, with Edith Harris West, '26, acting as man- ager. Less than ten people were present from classes of 1934 and 1935, whose reunions were managed by Josephine Continued on Page Five Alternate Fellow is Horace Prize Winner Miss Donnelly Regards Literature as an Art Instituted Courses in Creative Writing Here and Movement For Comprehensives HAS TAUGHT 40 YEARS "I am interested in literature as an art, in its creative spirit and the link- ing of its past with present growth, as well as in its sources and history." With these words, Miss Donnelly, who is retiring this June from her place as head of the English Department, summed up the spirit of the forty years of her teaching here. "You see," she added, "I was brought up in the Nineties, when art was spelled with a capital A, and still the form and quality of any literary work seems to me the most important thing about it,�the thing which no student should fail to grasp." When Miss Donnelly began her work at Bryn Mawr as an instructor in required general English, she put her theory into practice. She felt that the exclusively critical interests of this course were too narrow, and through her influence, accordingly, Continued op Page Six Jean Holzworth, Latin Major, Has Magna Average of 88.7 For Four Years FELLOW HERE NEXT YEAR Jean Holzworth, the alternate for the European Fellowship this year, has had a distinguished career of fine and original work and has maintained throughout her four years an aca- demic average of 88.712. Her most spectacular achievement while at Bryn Mawr was the winning of the prize contest sponsored by the American Classical League in connection with the bimillenium celebration of Hor- ace's birth. The contest, known as the "Uni- versity of Cincinnati Prize Contest," was open to undergraduates of uni- versities in the United States and Canada and involved the presentation of a metrical translation of at least fifty lines of Horace's odes or epodes, an original ode or satire in the style of Horace and an essay on "Horace and Augustus." All the papers were submitted anonymously or under pseudonyms; Miss Holzworth chose the name "John Michael" and hers (or his) were chosen unanimously by the judges. Miss Holzworth won the New Eng- land Matriculation Scholarship when she entered college and at the end of her junior year won the Shippen Foreign Language Scholarship award- ed for excellence in a foreign lan- guage. This year she has done honors work with Dr. Taylor, writing her thesis on the Philosophical and Rhe- torical Works of Cicero. When she came to college after graduation from Greenwich Academy, Miss Holzworth planned to major in English and then changed to classical archaeology; but in the middle of her sophomore year she made up her mind to major in Latin, doing t"he work of the entire first semester of the second year Latin Continued on Pag� Six Rufus Jones Outlines Personal Philosophy Baccalaureate Speaker Relates Doctrine of a Progressive World Creation MIND PRODUCES SPIRIT Goodhart, June 7.�In his Baccalau- reate sermon, Dr. Rufus Jones, pres- ident of the Board of Trustees, ad- vanced his philosophy of the progres- sive creation of the world and the emergence of the "free self-transcend- ent spirit" from the natural-animate to where "we find ourselves in mutual reciprocal and communion with a Beyond within ourselves." He began with the proverb: " 'the spirit of man is a candle of the Lord. Our lives are kindled by Gld' and as we feed the flame with our enkindled lives we become revealing places for the life of God," and our religion be- comes "complete normal spiritual health." This spirit is the result of slow development of life towards higher forms, and man "a being with a slen- der body, but with ideal vision in his eyes," has succeeded the mighty saurians. The spirit does not come from above but "as a new and subtle elevation of what was here before." Refined forms of matter allow con- sciousness to break forth. When the mind progresses beyond being able to know an object to being able to know "lhat it knows as well as what it kmWs," the term spirit can properly be used. The mind is no longer com- pletely dependent on objects; it can now "enlarge the empire of its estate by the ideal forecast of what oughji to be." We can enjoy abstract, spir- itual realities such as Beauty and Truth, ideas which are eternal. At the top of this "Jacob's ladder" we find within us "a More that is akin to what we know as spirit in our- selves." This actual world only touches this- world within a world as a "bounding shore." The upward urge in the universe has shifted from physi- cal development and has become a "nisus towards spirit." Dr. Jones said that he preferred the account of the creation in the Romans to that in Genesis, because the former sees man as being still in the making. In the latter, when God has made man, "the work is finished Continued on Page Five Josephine Heiskell Wins Second Prize In Vogue Prix de Paris Contest Begins Work on Editorial Staff In September; Will Assist Fashion Editor ANSWERED SIX QUIZZES With Josephine Heiskell, '36, on the Editorial Staff of Vogue, Bryn Mawr will have to change its collegi- ate style in order to keep up with the times. Miss Heiskell is the winner of the second prize in Vogue's Prix de Paris Contest. She will start work- ing on the Editorial Board in Sep- tember. For a week in June she will "cover the market" and ass st the fashion editor in the picking out of styles for the August college issue. The incoming Bryn Mawr freshmen ougnt to arrive in the fall with as much style as the "rugged individual- ist" who shocked all the slack-clad in- tellectuals in the famous New Yorker cartoon. The Prix de Paris prize was not a gift from heaven which descended af- ter an ardent prayer. Miss Heiskell won it by answering six quizzes issued from November to April as well as by writing a thesis of not more than 1500 words. The quiz questions were usually on ideas received from the preceding issue of Vogue, for instance, writing an answer to the article which Vogue, ran on "What the College Man Thinks of the College Woman." The subject of Miss Heiskell's thesis was "Modern Trends in Advertising." Recently when she visited the New Y6�k "umce one of the staff greeted her with the words, "Oh, this is just like having a baby. This is the first one we've seenC STEWART WINS MEDAL FOR FRENCH READING Alicia B. Stewart, of the graduat- ing class, won the gold medal for French reading at the Concours Ora- toire held on Thursday, May 15. The medal is offered each year by the Comite France-Amerique. Last year it was won by Mary Pauline Jones who graduated summa cum laude with distinction in French. Miss Stewart is no majoring in French and has been doing honours work on Victor Hugo with Mademoiselle Sou- beiran. Miss Stewart was one of six contestants for the medal, who read the same selections both of prose and poetry. Each girl read prepared passages of La Fontaine and de Vig- ny, and also read at sight from work of Andre Gide and Emile Verhaeren. The judges were Mrs. Pavey, whose husband is President of the Alliance Francaise, Madame Cret of Phila- delphia and Miss Edith Phillips, of Swarthmore. Students' Change bf Courses Students who are changing their courses must notify the Dean's office before September 15. After Commencement noti- fication may be made by letter to either Mrs. Manning or Miss Ward. After September 15 a fine of $5.00 will be charged un- less a very good reason for de- lay can be given. _____ European Fellowship Is Given To Elizabeth Porter Wyckoff Science Building Plans Delayed y^fti tPJUlement to the College /News Mrs. F. Louis Slade, chairman of the Fiftieth Anni- versary Fund, said that the committee had decided not to plan the new science building this spring, although the alum- nae have obtained enough money to begin construction. They ex- pect to wait until they receive enough to cover the carrying expenses before the building shall be begun in order not to burden the college with the ex- penses of running it. E. Wyckoff is Major In Ancient Classics Average is 88.919; Interests Include English, Politics and Creative Writing IS EDITOR OF LANTERN Elizabeth Porter Wyckoff, the Eu- ropean Fellow chosen from this year's senior class, is a scholar as the stu- dents of the Middle Ages were. Choos- ing no new-fangled science for her work, she has majored in the litera- ture and language of ancient Greece; and the classical studies of Latin and philosophy have supplemented her in- terest in the time-honored, traditional knowledge on which to some degree all other knowledge rests. Not a whit dismayed by the incomprehensibility attributed to Greek by popular talk, she has maintained a brilliant record in this subject as well as in her other courses throughout her college years, for her general average is 88.919? Miss Wyckoff is not, however, ex- clusively devoted to antiquity. She is a member of the executive commit- tee for the very modern organization of the A. S. U. and heartily approves of the union between liberal and radi- cal forces accomplished by this asso- ciation. She is encouraged, too, by the increased interest in political affairs shown on the campus. Since one of her two habitual modes of recreation is talking�the other is walking�, she has always been in close touch with all sides of campus activity, not merely politics. As hall president for Pembroke East this year, she has been a leader in student government, and as editor of the Lan- tern, she has been a leader in student expression. She only wishes the col- Contlnued on Page Six Meeting Votes Assent To New Plan of Marks Faculty Endeavoring to Eliminate Emphasis Upon Grades On the recommendation of the com- mittee especially appointed to con- sider the problem, the Faculty voted at its meeting in April that in the future no grades should be posted in Taylor Hall. Instead of posting the grades the Registrar will enter them on the students' course cards and send out the course cards as soon as the record is complete. In February the cards will be sent by campus mail; in June it will probably be necessary to send them to the student's home ad- dress. In special cases information as to grades will be given out through the Dean's office. Mrs. Manning will furnish such information when it seems necessary for the upperclass- men, and Miss Ward for the freshmen. Members of the faculty have agreed not to give out grades, and students are especially requested not to ask for them except at the Dean's office. The grades for the language examinations will be sent to the students on sep- Contlnued on Pa*� Stt 11 of 71 Graduated Magna Cum Laude 25 Students Receive Diplomas Cum Laude, 22 Gain Degrees With Distinction 3 PH.D.'S CONFERRED Goodhart, June 8.�Elizabeth Porter Wyckoff has been selected as the Bryn Mawr European Fellow for next year, Miss Park announced at the Com- mencement exercises this morning. Miss Wyckoff was graduated magna cum laude with distinction in Greek. Jean Holzworth was named alternate for the fellowship. The M. Carey Thomas Essay Prize of one hundred dollars, awarded to the member of the graduating class whose writing is adjudged best in the class, the second coveted honor announced on Com- mencement Day, went to Margaret Kidder. Out of a class of seventy- one, eleven students were graduated magna cum laude and twenty-five, cum laude. Twenty-two received their degrees with distinction. Dr. Alice Hamilton, eminent research worker in the field of industrial poison, delivered the Commencement address. Following is a list of those who re- ceived A. B., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Bryn Mawr College: Continued on Page Four Susan M. Kingsbury Retiring This Month Directed Carola Woerishoffer Department Since Founding In 1915 HAS AMAZING CAREER The choice of Susan M. Kingsbury as director of the Carola Woerishoffer Department of Social Economy in 1915 resulted from a consideration of her personal qualities and the achieve- ments in which they had already as- serted themselves at that time. In 1890 she had her B. A. from College of the Pacific in California, of which her mother was dean. She became president of the Y. M. C. A. of her college and later of the'State organization. In a very brief time after that Dr. Kingsbury had' a strange assortment of teaching posi- tions. After a year in a two-room country school she went to the Coggs- well Polytechnical School, then the Lowell high school in San Francisco. During her free hours Miss Kings- bury managed to work toward her M. A. in history at Stanford Univer- sity. At Columbia, where she secured her doctorate in 1905, Dr. Kingsbury's career began when she became the first woman ever to receive a fellow- ship. Following her studies at Co- lumbia, she was awarded the foreign fellowship by the American Associa- tion of University Women. She went to London, where she ferreted out ex- ceptionally important documents con- cerning the Virginia company, which the Library of Congress published. In 1908 Dr. Kingsbury went to teach at Vassar; but an offer of the Massachusetts State Commission of Industrial Education to investigate Continued on f �*e FIt� The Drive is Over the Top! June 7.�Just as the News went to press Mrs. Slade an- nounced that the Alumnae had reached their goal and the Mil- lion Dollar Fund was complete. ,T
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CONS: anything above ISO 800 is pretty grainy and nearly useless. the flash leaves a shadow at really close range (ie 2 cm or so). the lens shade is so bulky i dont use it. that's pretty much it.
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PO1 M. James "Morpheus" Mundy
James awoke to the usual feelings of the last two years of being refreshed and no time having passed since he had just closed his eyes. 0500, huh? My 'standard' three dreamless hours. Then again, I did dream for almost thirty-eight years... He quickly changes into in his PTs and straps on his gunbelt. And all I have to show for it is a three-hour dreamless sleep cycle, freezerburn, my history being so classified that almost everyone who reads my file wants nothing to do with me, a life amongst a population the majority of whom don't understand--or care--about 'The War', and a suitable callsign, courtesy of the infamously-snarky ELINT Raptor crews. He expertly tunes a hand-held military wireless tranceiver to the squadron frequencies, attaches it to his gunbelt, and slips an earbud in his left ear. Let us see what is going on this morning, shall we?
The halls are quite deserted as he steps out of his quarters. Half-crew, and my Senior Instructor/Master Trainer/Liaison orders, got me a birthing compartment to myself. Of course, if I didn't sleep as little--and deeply--as I do, sharing the left compartment wall with Electronics Shop 1, the right with the largest head on the deck, and the back wall with the Armory would make my quarters a great deal less pleasant. Still, no surprise that in a ship with space to spare in berthing that no one wanted to bunk in it besides me. He walks into Electronics Shop 1--a common haunt of his compared to the hangar-dedicated Electronics Shop 2--and performs a quick inspection to make sure everything was still in place. He stops as he notices something--two somethings--that are pink, frilly, and definitely not shop-issue on top of one of the cabinents. Again, Dargien? Is that girl trying to shake the tree of everyone not legally forbidden on this ship? Of course, given that she keeps it out of work, within the regulations, and is competent, I can't really fault her...and during the war, I was the only one not doing the same damn thing. Maybe the recruiters need to try 'The Fleet, Where ALL of the Action is Fast, Hot, and Heavy'? He shakes his head as he closes the shop hatch behind him, then turns towards the rest of Crew Berthing and begins a slow, steady jog.
I do miss being able to actually run, though. He passes through the majority of Crew Berthing, taking 15 minutes to do what he knew the Marines did in 5...and feeling the familiar mild pain in every fiber of his being. As he approaches the boundary between the Fleet and Marine sections of the Meleager, he spots a familiar Electronics Specialist trying to very quickly and discretely place boots back inside the quarters she was leaving. James smiles slightly as he sees the compartment number, then stops a short distance behind the still-groggy Specialist Lacy Dargein and composes his face in its normal neutral 'glare'. This is going to be slightly entertaining. His deadpan voice--quiet although stern--suddenly coming from behind her causes her to jump a little and quickly spin to face him.
"Specialist, I believe you have personal property in the shop. Try to make sure you retrieve it before everyone else is on-shift; I run a professional shop." He looks her in the eyes, letting none of his inner humor show, and gives her points for levelly meeting his gaze...despite the blush on her cheeks. "Carry on, Specialist." He resumes his steady jog, although he hears her mutter a few quiet, choice oaths as her footsteps quickly accelerate back towards Electronics Shop 1 once he is around the bend. Let the little embarassment to be a lesson to her; after all, I am not going to let anyone under me suffer public embarassment without a damn good reason. He shakes his head as he finally reaches Marine Berthing, then stops as he realizes that none of the Marines were out finishing their morning run with the sprint and cooldown laps he normally joins them on. That is odd...
He hears the sounds of a familiar thick Aerelon accent faintly echoing from the open door of the Troop Bay. Wonder what has SSGT Burke going? As he walks up to the open door, he begins to make out what the Staff Sergeant was saying. An inspection? Did one of the Marines somehow draw the XO's ire on them...again? As he looks inside, he both clearly understands exactly what Burke is saying and sees that every single one of the Meleager's small Marine Contingent were inside. They are carefully checking over each others' full kit as SSGT Burke strolls amongst them, his corrections and admonishments easily carrying throughout the compartment in a thick Aerelon drawl. James quickly withdraws, snapping an abbreviated but respectful salute to the veteran NCO. Thankfully only Burke saw me, what with all of his Marines facing away from the door. Good thing I took efforts to get to know him as soon--and with as much respectf--as possible. Another lesson of the war: make sure the Marines like you enough to take decent risks saving your ass. James shakes his head as he resumes jogging; he had accomplished that goal by spending time on the range with the Marines, teaching them several tricks they could use, and always buying at least two beers for all them when possible. With no Marines to wear me out, looks like I am going to have to do a long lap. Hell, it's only 0533; I have plenty of time. I feel for those Marines, although I can't blame Burke for having them already starting his notoriously-thorough 'pre'-inspections. Damn, I thought that Third was arriving tomorrow...
James then hits one of the major passageways around the ship's perimeter and heads aft at his highest sustainable jogging speed. He tunes out the slightly increased pain coming from his body by focusing on the Meleager around him and the wireless traffic coming through his earpiece. Let's go see what the snipes are up to this morning...And if they need anything computerized worked on today...
A half-hour later, right after passing the Missile Magazines, James finally hears the announcement that heralds the start of most of the actually interesting--and usually entertaining--wireless traffic he has listened to since being assigned to the 24th Viper Training Squadron. He recognizes the tired voices of both--relatively attractive--communications operators on both ends as Constallation-shift personnel; he has worked with--and given a few tips--to both of them during his two months in 'exile'.
Echidna Flight Control, this is Meleager, request clearance for Flight Operations in Erebos Flight Range.
Meleager, Echidna Flight Control, you are Cleared for Flight Operations in Erebos Flight Range. Break. Two-Four Training Squadron, Echidna Flight Control: Be advised that Meleager is now conducting Flight Operations in Erebos Flight Range. Break. Erebos Flight Range is now Status Red and Release is Granted for training munitions. We say again, Erebos Flight Range is now Hot and Flight Operations are now Active; all ships contact Echidna Flight Control for additional flight clearance, weapons release, or range status changes. Echinda Flight Ops clear.
Copy, Flight Control.
James briefly smiles as he starts jogging his return path, choosing to wind through the center of Meleager. Well, let us see what fun message traffic we have today... Fifteen minutes later, he casaully salutes a groggy Lieutenant suddenly exiting CIC as he dodges around her. "Morning Ma'am!" Her reply was lost as he rounds the bend and runs as hard as he can through the relatively 'bendy' passageways between him and the long hallway in front of his quarters. I think I startled her; and if she is that new Lieutenant we got last week, than she must be the Constellation Officer of the Watch at the moment. It certainly looks like she had a long night from how worn out she looks. Of course, if she was relieved, that means either Captain 'More Frakkin Discipline' Fenq or The Major have the Watch; wonder which one was up first today? James slows to a moderate walk, carefully taking long strides to cool down AND stretch his muscles, as he enters the corridor in front of his quarters. Hopefully The Major will be up by the time I stop by CIC to report, since if not, I will end up sharing the CIC with 'More Martinet' Fenq until she gets there. I know we had our share of needlessy hard-assed leadership during the war, but I swear that man is aiming to be the Fleet definition of 'Hard-Assed Mother-Fracker'. At least I do not report to HIM every morning. James shakes his head, then checks his chronometer as he steps back into his quarters.
0643. I think I managed to shave a couple minutes off of my 'perimeter run' time; still makes me wish for when I could still seriously run. I'm only thirty; I am sure the frack not supposed to feel this old and worn. He pauses momentarily to listen as 'Riptide', 'Killer', and 'Artemis' launch from the Meleager. Oh, as usual, that is going to be fun to listen to. James quickly grabs his tolietry kit and a towel, and then heads into the head next door. He nods to a few 'early-risers' from Alpha Shift, and then quickly performs his personal hygiene. I am probably the only person in this entire Squadron who regularly wears a gunbelt over my towel to walk less than five meters from the head to my room because they refuse to be more than an arm's reach from their sidearm. Of course, I am not having a repeat of when the fracking Cylons cut through the Chiron's hull right into the head I happened to be showering in. Thank whichever Gods, God, or Whatever that they didn't think to check the showers...that time, at least. Those poor pilots on the Warden were not as lucky as me...I was fracking lucky during the war. He quickly and efficiently changs into his flight suit, re-securing all of his gear over it before grabbing his clipboard and leaving for CIC. 0658, Damn. As he re-traces his run route towards the CIC, he finds his way blocked by a detail shifting supplies. These guys won't have the cross-traffic cleared for another ten to fifteen, minimum. Damn!
He turns around and quickly passes through Marine Berthing, noting that all of the Marines are absent; he shrugs, and proceeds through into the passage that will eventually take him to Hangar Deck Hatch 2. He rapidly ducks down the first available cross-corridor as he notes the passageway's occupants and hears the transmissions to and from Raptor Two-Zero-Four. I get along as well with SSGT Burke as an extremely senior Fleet Petty Officer can with a senior Marine Staff Sergeant, but if I disrupt the welcoming inspection of his new Lieutenant, he is going use me for target practice...and I could not even blame him. James takes a right and heads down the passageway to Hangar Deck Hatch 2. Wonder if we should just let 'Killer' and 'Artemis' go at each other with live ammunition NOW, or keep seeing if they will ever get past their damned rivalry and focus on the important mission of DEFENDING THE FRACKING COLONIES. I really, really miss the days when all such issues were forgotten about--in public, at least--by almost everyone...of course, I don't wish another desperate defense against genocidal robots to come back. I just wish this generation would notice the fact that the Cylons are not gone, just quietly sitting in their own corner! I would use the normal 'Pilots!', but since I have Wings, I know that is not fracking true. He passes through the hatch onto the hangar deck of the Meleager, and quickly assesses his surroundings as he continues towards the hatch on the far side of the hangar that will allow him to continue to CIC.
He passes around the crowd of Nuggets, showing no outward notice of their curious looks at his flight suit's patches and insignia. The instructing senior pilot catches sight of the flight-suited figure passing to his left and turns towards James. He thinks I am a tardy Nugget. I keep forgetting that since I arrived in the middle of Constellation shift two weeks ago, almost none of the crew has seen me in my flight suit. He stops, turns towards the pilot, and snaps off a smooth, well-worn salute. "Good morning Sir, Ladies and Gentlemen." The senior pilot answers James' salute with a surprised, somewhat sloppy, salute and a dawning light of recognition in his eyes.
"Good morning, First Class Mundy." The senior pilot looks notably confused. "Are you here to join the class...?"
"No sir. And by all means, call me 'Morpheus' when I am in the flight suit, Sir. Sorry for momentarily disrupting your class." James resumes walking, only to be stopped by a deckhand as a Raptor--Two-Oh-Four, if I am reading its markings right--trundles out of an airlock and directly across his intended path. It is 204. I might as well see the new Marine Third anyway, since his arrival has delayed me. Maybe my damned Portable Cyberwarfare Suite will have finally gotten shipped out here and be aboard as well. At least it is not my ass, since it was in Depot Storage, if they lose it. And deities know that I don't need the 4-million-plus credit bill if they have lost it. He shifts to just within hearing distance as he spots SSGT Burke standing at parade rest, and then quickly starts 'inspecting' a handy piece of targetting electronics from a Viper Mk.VIa4 sitting nearby that still allows him a discrete line of sight on the Raptor and the Staff Sergeant. He watches as salutes and greetings are exchanged, and manages to catch part of their conversation as they duck through a hatch and towards the waiting Marines.
Smart enough to relegate formalities to their appropriate place, seek his senior NCO's advice, and have done at least a little information collection before arriving. There is potential there. And, alas, no Portable Cyberwarfare Suite aboard that Raptor. Time to get to the CIC. "Sir?" James turns towards the understandably confused Senior Deckhand that had just walked up behind him. "Is there a problem with this component, Sir?" James narrows his eyes at the Deckhand. Given the rarity of Enlisted Flight Crew--and especially Enlisted Flight Wings--these days in the Fleet, I should not be surprised...but when did the Fleet stop teaching crew to read a person's FRACKING RANK before addressing them?
"First Class, Senior Deckhand, First Class. I actually work very, very hard for a living, and would like to be addressed as such." At the deckhand's clear confusion, James continues the educational lecture. "See the patches?" James rotates each should in sequence so that the deckhand can see both patches. "I am a--very--veteran Cyberwarfare Specialist who is-" James points to the rank and Enlisted Flight Wings on his caller "-both an NCO and Flight-Qualified." At the young woman's look of comprehension, James continues speaking in a level tone of voice. "Any questions on this quick instructional briefing, courtesy of Petty Officer First Class Mundy, Senior Deckhand?" James slightly raises his left eyebrow at the deckhand, internally amused at the sudden drop in traffic passing behind the young woman.
"No, First-Class Mundy!" James drops the eyebrow, widens his eyes to a slightly sympathetic look, and nods at her.
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Iareto, welcome to the forum. Whereabouts are you located?Post the recipe you're using and tell us a little about your oven setup (peak temp, stone thickness/material, gas or electric, broiler location, etc.) and we'll help you get to the bottom of your browning issues.
Iaretto...I dont know if you have any sugar in your recipe but some sugar will add to the browning of your crust.Chaz
iareto,I'm catching up with some of your efforts and you may already have changed things in other threads but I wondered how you came up with 2% IDY for the Lehmann NY style dough. You didn't indicate how you fermented the dough but, without any added sugar, 2% IDY would eat up just about all of the natural sugars released by the damaged starch through enzyme performance, leaving very little sugar to contribute to final crust coloration.The second recipe you posted looks to be the Bruno recipe, which has been discussed several times before on the forum. See, for example, Reply 10 at http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,12883.msg125253.html#msg125253 and the thread at http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,20246.msg198969.html#msg198969. If that is the recipe you intended, then you would use less IDY on a percentage basis to be equivalent to the cake yeast.Peter
I'd be interested in seeing one of your finished pies so I can see the browning, or lack thereof. Also, can you tell us what temperature and the duration of your average bake? And, probably an important thing to know, is what kind of oven are you using?(let it be known that I had the same issues when I embarked on the journey of pizza making!)


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Co-development for Windows Phone 7/8 and Windows 8 guide
This article explains how to write code that can target multiple platforms including Windows Phone 7/8, Windows 8 and beyond
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Building applications that target multiple platforms is always hard. We would like to minimize maintenance, testing and coding time in order to ship more quickly.
Each platform has its own set of APIs, it can have different capabilities, screen resolutions and all those differences creep into the code. The key is to isolate the code which is platform independent, i.e. it is the same for all platforms, and separates it from the platform specific code. This separation will minimize the written piece of code. Traditional solutions for reusing code across projects were either "copy paste pattern" which didn't help reducing the overall code size or sharing source files in multiple projects. The latter way introduced its own quirks and, as we will see later on, this technique is pretty much still used, although significantly less.
But how do we do that? One way is to structure your application using the MVVM pattern and keep views in the platform specific projects and put view models and models inside a shared library. Since ordinary class library cannot be shared between multiple platforms, there is a new project type called Portable Class Library (later referred as PCL). It can be consumed in Windows Phone 7, Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 projects (later referred as WP7, WP8 and W8 respectively).
However, PCL are C# assemblies and as for WinRT, there is no such thing for C++ based Runtime Components. You have to share the code between them using the old way. It will be described in more detail further down this article.
Benefits of Cross Platform Code Reuse
- Reduced Development Time : Code modification will propagate to all platforms, thus reduced development time
- Ease in code maintenance : Changes in code is now handled at one place alone and then sharing the same binaries.
- Excess code can lead to more defects : Reusable design will lead to less code and in turn less defects.
- Consistent Quality
- Improved 'Time to market'
- Reduced project cost
Platform overview
Windows Phone 7 | Windows Phone 8 | Windows 8 | |
Screen size | 800x480 | 800x480 | 1366x768 (minimum full) |
1280x720 | 1024x768 (minimum filled) | ||
1280x768 | 320x768 (minimum snapped) | ||
Preferred screen orientation | Portrait | Portrait | Landscape |
Programming languages | C#, Visual Basic, F# | C#, Visual Basic | C# |
HTML5 + js (†) | HTML5 + js (†) | HTML5 + js + WinJS | |
APIs | .NET | .NET | .NET |
DirectX (sans Direct2D) | DirectX | ||
WinRT (†††) | WinRT (†††) |
†) HTML5 applications on Windows Phone 7 are not the same as on Windows Phone 8. There are some technical details involved and note that Windows Phone 8 SDK comes with a project template for creating Windows Phone HTML5 App. Also note that this is quite different from Windows Store applications which use WinJS. All three platforms are different and portability is quite an issue.
††) XNA is deprecated in Windows Phone 8 which only means that you cannot target Windows Phone 8 with a XNA project, only Windows Phone 7. Note that XNA applications will run on WP8 devices. If you still want to target WP8 or W8 and use XNA as a framework, you can use MonoGame, an open source implementation of XNA.
†††) Although WP8 and W8 share the same core and share a subset of Windows RT APIs, you cannot reuse components between the two platforms. More on that below.
Sharing source files
This techniques was prevalent before PCL came along. Source code that could be shared between multiple platforms could be added to different solutions as linked file. The difference between standard file adding is that the linked file is not copied to the project, it is simply referenced as if it was an external source. You can still debug it and it works as a normal file, the only difference is that code is shared.
To add an external source file to a project without copying it to the project's folder, use the Add/Add Existing Item context menu option in Solution Explorer. Browse to the file you wish to include and instead of clicking Add, click on the small triangle next to it and select Add As Link in the dropdown menu as seen on the image below.
This way you can share assets as well. Note that linked files have small blueish symbol in the lower right corner that indicates that it isn't part of the project and that it is linked.
When you share a source file between projects that target multiple platforms, you might run into two kinds of problems:
- The code will not compile without small changes.
- The code will compile, but there are some runtime differences.
Let's explore those differences in more depth.
Compile time differences
Sometimes the code is almost the same for two or more platforms. Some functions might be renamed, they can accept different parameters or they might function differently. If you can isolate these small chunks of code, you can use preprocessor to compile the code differently depending on which project the file is included into. Let's say we want to write a download helper class and we are targeting both W8 and WP8. You can use HttpClient in W8 applications to download strings from the given URI, but in WP8 you must use WebClient. One way to implement it is with the following code:
using System.Threading.Tasks;
#if NETFX_CORE
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Net;
namespace W8ClassLibrary
public class DownloadHelper
public static async Task<string> DownloadString(string uri)
#if NETFX_CORE
var client = new HttpClient();
return await client.GetStringAsync(uri);
var client = new WebClient();
return await client.DownloadStringTaskAsync(new System.Uri(uri));
We can now write our app logic using this helper class and its methods and that code will be portable. The symbol NETFX_CORE is defined only in W8 projects and this is how we can enforce compile time changes to the code.
Runtime differences
Sometimes the code will compile regardless of the platform, but we need to check on which platform the code is executing in runtime. This is useful when dealing with In App Purchases or Live Tiles on Windows Phone. For example, if you are still maintaining a Windows Phone 7 application, but you wish to use the features that are provided by Windows Phone 8 OS when you detect that you are running on it, you can use reflection to access them. It is obvious that you can check which operating system version you are running on only in runtime. This is useful when you do not want to convert or work in parallel on the WP8 version of your application. Check out the following links for more information:
- Using IAP in Windows Phone 7.1 projects - code sample
- Adding Windows Phone 8 Tile functionality to Windows Phone OS 7.1 apps
You can also adapt your UI depending on the OS version and load images of different sizes or use completely different assets. Code using reflection will compile regardless of the destination platform, but once the code actually runs, you can adapt your behavior depending on the runtime differences.
To detect Windows Phone OS version, you can use the following fragment:
public bool IsRunningOnWP8
return Environment.OSVersion.Version.Major >= 8;
You can detect current resolution if you are compiling for Windows Phone 8 using the Application.Current.Host.Content.ScaleFactor property. But if the code that uses the above property is shared between WP7 and WP8 projects, it will not compile. In this case we use both compile time and runtime testing. The following function returns ScaleFactor value regardless of the project type it is included into.
public static class ResolutionChecker
static int _scaleFactor = -1;
public static int ScaleFactor
if (_scaleFactor == -1)
#if WINDOWS_PHONE7
if (Environment.OSVersion.Version.Major < 8)
_scaleFactor = 100;
var scaleFactorProperty = Application.Current.Host.Content.GetType().GetProperty("ScaleFactor");
if (scaleFactorProperty != null)
_scaleFactor = (int)scaleFactorProperty.GetValue(Application.Current.Host.Content, null);
#elif WINDOWS_PHONE8
_scaleFactor = Application.Current.Host.Content.ScaleFactor;
return _scaleFactor;
Portable Class Library
Sharing source code files will only get you so far. You still have to maintain a separate library for each new platform you wish to support. If you want to add a new class, you need to manually update each library and add the new file as a linked file. This is clearly impractical. To solve that, Visual Studio 2012 comes with a new project type called Portable Class Library.
PCL is a special type of class library that is compiled only once and can be run on multiple .NET platforms without recompiling. This means that you can put your platform agnostic code in it and reuse it across different projects that target specific platforms. You write your source once, put it in one project and you compile it to one assembly - instead of having an assembly for each platform with shared code. Since you now maintain only one version of source files, this reduces the maintenance cost usually assigned to various platform's quirks drastically and gives you flexibility when writing new apps.
When you create a PCL, you are prompted to choose which platforms you want to target. Depending on the chosen platforms, a minimal set of APIs that is present in all selected platforms is available to you. You can only add reference to other portable libraries which target the same set of APIs.
Depending on the targets you choose, you will have a limited subset of Base Class Library (from now on referred as BCL) that exists in all selected platforms and many other APIs such as XML handling, core networking, XLINQ, serialization, etc. All the infrastructure for writing MVVM code is available if you target even .NET Framework 4. This makes it easy to put your view models in portable code. It is obvious that many APIs were already present in multiple platforms and you can see the full matrix of available features on the image below.
Here are the links to if you want to read more about PCL:
- http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dsplaisted/archive/2012/08/27/how-to-make-portable-class-libraries-work-for-you.aspx
- http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg597391.aspx
- http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bclteam/archive/2012/05/09/announcing-portable-library-tools-2-beta-for-visual-studio-2010.aspx
- http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2012/07/06/targeting-multiple-platforms-with-portable-code-overview.aspx
General pattern
MVVM is the recommended pattern for writing Windows Phone and Windows RT applications. It allows for easy separation of UI code and the application logic. Once you separate them, UI code can stay in platform specific projects while the application logic can be placed into one or several PCL projects. You can use INotifyPropertyChanged and ICommand interfaces inside your portable library if you target Windows Store and Windows Phone apps. This ensures that your existing code built with MVVM pattern in mind can be made portable quickly.
Platform specific implementation
Even though you can separate application logic from the presentation layer, sometimes you need to perform an action that is present on all target platform, but the API is not portable. Since we don't want to move parts of application logic to platform specific projects, we can use abstraction pattern to solve this issue.
Consider the above mentioned DownloadHelper class. When we shared the code between platform specific projects, we could change which code is compiled using compiler flags. This is not available in PCL since you compile your library only once and for all platforms once. It is obvious that we can't use those APIs in the PCL, but we can abstract that functionality. Now each platform specific project will implement abstract functionality using platform specific APIs. This approach keeps PCL testable and you can still write correct application logic even though you don't call concrete APIs, you call your own instead.
Another example of functionality you might want to use, but APIs differ:
- Choosing an image on Windows 8 using FilePicker, but with PhotoChooserTask on WP
- You can get list of image folders both on WP device and Windows 8 device, but the APIs differ
- Opening URI in browser: WebBrowserTask on WP, Launcher.LaunchUriAsync on Windows 8
So how do we convert DownloadHelper to PCL? There are several ways to do it: IoC (Inversion of Control), Dependency Injection, using ServiceLocator. We can group solutions roughly into two categories:
- Abstracted functionality is available as singleton globally.
- Abstracted functionality is given upon construction (IoC, DI).
- Portable library dynamically determines platform and loads appropriate platform specific implementation.
Let's see how we would implement it using the second technique. Create PCL that targets both WP8 and W8 and add new class inside named IDownloadHelper.
using System.Threading.Tasks;
namespace PCL
public interface IDownloadHelper
Task<string> DownloadString(string uri);
Let's say that our view model is declared in the following fashion:
namespace PCL
public class InfoViewModel
IDownloadHelper _downloadHelper;
public InfoViewModel(IDownloadHelper downloadHelper)
_downloadHelper = downloadHelper;
The idea is to pass a concrete implementation upon view model construction. The concrete implementation will be supplied by platform specific project. In the WP8 project, implement the interface:
In Windows Store app you would implement IDownloadHelper analogously:
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using PCL;
namespace W8App
class DownloadHelper : IDownloadHelper
public async Task<string> DownloadString(string uri)
var client = new HttpClient();
return await client.GetStringAsync(uri);
Async support and PCL
When you target both Windows Phone 8 and Windows Store Apps with your PCL, you can use async/await pattern and you have Task available. If you target Windows Phone 7, you cannot use any of them. But there is support for async/await pattern available (even though it is prerelease at the time of writing this) and you can actually write WP7 apps with async/await pattern.
How do we target all three platforms then? Unfortunately, you need to resort back to linked files. You can put portable code in PCL targeting both WP8 and W8 and create a new Class Library for WP7 with all files from PCL added as links. Unless you don't care about supporting WP7 (and I strongly recommend that you support it), this is the only way.
Notable portable libraries
It is strongly recommended that you write all of your future libraries as portable libraries if possible. This makes it easier to interop later on without the need for porting it.
Some notable libraries have been converted to portable libraries:
Check out Portable Class Libraries Contrib for some additional features available for portable libraries.
WinRT components
This section applies only to WP8 and W8 since native code is not available on WP7 platform.
There is a great deal of API exposed as WinRT API and can be consumed in native components. This is particularly important for DirectX based applications since it is available only for native code. There is alse a great deal of other API functionality available as WinRT API like networking, proximity, In-App Purchase, sensors, location, file system, core app model and threading API.
Unfortunately, you cannot write single WinRT compoment and use it in both WP8 and W8 projects. To share code between WP8 and W8 RT components, you must use linked files. All platform specific code should be wrapped in preprocessor directives similarly to the sample shown above.
Cross Platform Code Reusability Best Practices
Writing reusable code may take more time in the analysis and design phase, but this cost is usually recovered by reducing both the total cost of development and the cost of ongoing maintenance. This section contains a few key guidelines for creating reusable code.
Keep the UI separate
.NET uses MVVM model i.e. view : view-model : model, where the view represents the UI layer.
WP8 and Windows have similar UI design guidelines for a consistent look and feel. But the way apps appear and interact with desktop and mobiles differ and hence it's good to avoid re-engineering too much on code reuse of this layer.
Reusing the application business logic
The best layer that can be part of reusable component is the business logic layer, which will remain the same irrespective of how it is presented on UI.
Reusing the data layer
This is a bit tricky, as in some cases this layer can be made reusable but in some cases it won't.
Example : Above mentioned Sales App, the database and services pulling data from it will be the same and can be a part of reusable components.
But consider an example of a photo editor application; here the data (image files) on which the business logic will act can be highly platform specific and hence in this case, this layer should not be a candidate for code reuse.
Supporting multiple platforms requires extra resources, but can be greatly reduced using Portable Class Libraries. Sharing WinRT native code is not that simple, but can be done through linked files.
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