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Last month I was at the airport browsing random things on my phone and I ran into this text by Jon Evans.
It made me think of how people always try to come up with the perfect set of practices for software development, but there's always someone reminding them that common sense still prevails over every possible process or practice. But it also reminded me of some thoughts I had many years ago about pair programming, or, actually, trio programming.
I've seen many terms for the situation where 3 people are coding together: triple-programming, trio-programming, trairing, etc, choose at will.
The problem I see with these terms is that usually they are used to describe 3 people working on a single feature, and that's not very effective in my opinion – except on some rare occasions with extremely complex/important features or problems (common sense still prevails).
Going back in time a little, when I was in college I had to work with a group of 3 other guys to write a web application, it was our finals for one of the courses we were taking, and it was a big deal because we had never written something like that with all the integrated bits and layers and shenanigans. One of the guys bailed for some reason I can't recall – no hard feelings, he had his legitimate reasons – so it fell to the other 2 and I to do the work.
All the 3 of us were raised in Brazil, and as I usually say, every Brazilian is born agile, because we always seem to "do everything at the latest responsible moment". As expected, 2 days before the deadline to hand in the application we had barely started coding, so we had an overnight development session where we wrote most of the application together.
It worked like this: we were 3 guys, we had 2 machines. There was always one pair and one solo dev, but the pair would rotate constantly. I was pairing with João now, and César was going solo, until he stumbled on an issue/doubt/important-decision-making-point, where he would call for help and either João or I would join him. If João joined him, now I was the one going solo, until one of them joined me again. We had 2 well defined streams of work, but neither of them had a clear driver, because all 3 of us had a medium-to-high level general understanding of what was going on with both.
The most interesting thing is that this process had not been defined previously, in fact we only realized that it had happened once we finished, it was all very natural and organic, and worked very well. We didn't have any tool to remind us of rotating, in fact, we barely noticed we were rotating. We were just 3 guys working together on a project, all of us helping one another.
Back to the present, whenever I think about that experience, I recall how well it worked, and how interesting it would be to try that again.
I guess I am just trying to put into words a very non-organized way of work, but I think it's possible.
And here's why:
A typical pairing session for me usually has 3 clear different actions: the talk, the decision making, the typing. For the typing bits, given both people in the pair are proficient with the technology in hand, usually there's not much the navigator has to add. Most of the comments around typing are going to be things along the lines of "you forgot a semicolon" or "there's a typo there", which are usually things the driver had already noticed and was on his way to fixing, or that he would catch quickly enough anyway. The greatest value of pairing is on the other 2 actions.
(Now, there can be typing involved in the talk and in the decision making, typically when one of the developers in the pair go like "here, what if we did something kinda like this?" and starts to type code away, usually not really code that is going to be used in the final version of the solution but just a means of expressing his/her ideas. So when I say that "typing" is one of the 3 actions in pairing, it does not include these moments where we write code to discuss our solution.)
That's why I think triple-pairing in 2 work streams works so well: there's always a pair talking and making decisions, while the typing can be done solo. Hell, if the typing is so important to you, and, let's say, you don't want to have to wait for the tests to run to catch a typo, I could even argue that there's some just-in-time code-reviews happening there as well: whenever the pair enters in typing mode, one of the guys in the pair goes back to the solo guy to check on how he's doing and can offer advice on the typing bits.
So how can this practice be formalized? Should we try to assign 2 stories to 3 people?
Well, maybe, why not? I still want to try this out and see what happens. If anyone out there has had experiences in these lines, please share!
But I think that there's more to that than simply having 3 developers for 2 streams. The project I am currently working on has a small team of 5 developers. Which means there's always one person soloing, but this person is more often than not doing QA work. Anyway, here are 2 situations that I think fit this idea even though they don't fall into the 3 for 2 category:
– I worked in a story while another dev worked on some other bits of work. We were sitting side by side just as if we were pairing, but our pairing screens were not connected to the same machine. We both knew what each other was doing, and we both talked about both problems constantly and even took each other's keyboard for a few seconds to type something – but we had clearly one person working on each stream of work;
– 2 pairs working on 2 different stories, but all 4 people involved knew at least some about the 2 stories (they are both stories in the same project after all, so guess what? They are related!). One developer goes to the restroom, his pair has a doubt, one of the developers in the other pair joins them, the refreshed-developer-who's-just-back-in-the-room hovers a little bit both streams of work and eventually joins one of them. This happened more than once (and not only triggered by restroom visits, otherwise we would be thinking about a general team visit to the nephrologist).
So, here are my conclusions:
– 3 developers for 2 streams of work may be worth trying. I want to try it out again, and will share my experience when I do so. If you have, please share with me.
– When pairing on a story with someone, don't shut yourselves from the world – I see this happening very often. Go around the team and talk about the problems you're facing, ask for advice from a third party, go around offering advice. If you've done the talk and made a decision with your pair that results in at least a few minutes of pure typing/refactoring/moving stuff around, choose one of you to do the dirty job and get the other to go poke around and check what the others are doing, maybe they could use some talk themselves. Of course, sometimes it may be worth to stay and pair through the typing too, specially if it involves moving a bunch of existing code around or touching the always-present-hairy-parts of the codebase – again, common sense.
Don't use this in JavaScript
this JavaScript:
var o = { f1: function() { console.log('hi'); }, f2: function() { this.f1(); } }; o.f2.prototype.f1 = function() { console.log('bye'); } var k = { f1: function() { console.log('pfff'); } } new o.f2(); o.f2.apply(k); o.f2(); var x = o.f2; x();
There. That's why I never use the
this keyword in JavaScript.
And that's why I think you should stop using it too.
Can you figure out what's the output of this code?
Thoughts on software estimation
1. Why do we estimate?
Estimations are part of our everyday life. We estimate how long the bus ride to work will be so that we know what time we should wake up. Drivers estimate how big a spot by the curb is to decide if they can park there or not. Engineers estimate how much time they need to get a building done so that they can charge the clients, pay the builders, and so on.
So, looking at these examples, I'd say that we estimate as a means of predicting something that usually can be measured: time, distance, size, etc, without having to actually measure it. We predict because measuring it may not be worth it, or because if we measure it, once we are done, this knowledge isn't useful anymore.
With this prediction in hand we are able to make decisions. So I think that we can say that we estimate stuff to plan our actions.
2. Estimating projects
Let's take the engineer as an example, I am not an engineer, but since my father is a builder, I think I can say some things about it. So the engineer has to estimate a building project, probably the differences between a project and another will eventually boil down to the material, the size, the number of builders that will be working, and a few more variables that are likely to be easily quantified. Once the engineer has all the information he needs, it's just a matter of calculations. There aren't many different ways of building a wall or a pillar after all. Of course, it is an estimation, so it may still prove itself invalid, that's why it's called estimation and not vision-from-my-crystal-ball.
Now, in software development we also need to estimate how long it will take, how many developers/QAs we will need, and so on, but the tricky thing is: how do we measure software? We don't have materials, area, size. What units are going to be used as input for our calculations to come up with a reliable estimation?
Well, there aren't any. Software development, different to classical engineering, isn't measurable, because it's an intellectual and creative type of work. Writing software for a bank is not the same thing as writing a mobile phone game. While we work in a development project we learn about the client's domain, their needs, their specificities. And each client has their own details, even if they belong in the same type of industry. This makes all development projects a learning project. If we are learning something, we don't really have the knowledge before it is done, so our estimations won't be very accurate.
Not to mention differences of technology, the knowledge of the team members, how to deal with the client people to gather requirements and approve a completed functionality.
If you ever hear anyone saying that software development is an exact science, tell them: "Lies!". It's a lot about learning, finding different solutions for different problems and *a lot* of dealing with people, not so similar to the classical build-my-house project.
3. So what do we do?
Well, that's a good question, since we can't really say "we won't estimate this software project". We still need to plan it, and as we agreed estimations are needed for planning. So, where I come from we don't estimate how big a software is, nor how long it's going to take us to write it. We estimate how complex it seems to be, and the most important thing is: this estimations are relative, not absolute. We split the work into "stories", an independent and small piece of work and assign "story points" to each story, a completely abstract unit of measurement.
If I tell you that I will need 4 hours to wash your car, this is an absolute estimation, since 4 hours is a fixed amount of something that we all know how to measure and have a common understanding of (hours). Now if we agree that a given piece of functionality for your software is 2 story points, it's relative because it means that it is twice as complex as it is to write another piece of functionality that is 1 story point. But a "story point' doesn't really mean anything.
It's true that there is a statistical co-relation between story points and time, as we can see on the chart below, but this co-relation of how much time in average a story point is worth varies quite a lot depending on the team, the project, the domain, technology and so on. The relativity between the points is still valid though.
4. Estimating software
So now that we can measure the effort to write software using its complexity in story points, we can start estimating our work. As we already agreed, development is a lot about learning, so we can infer that the more we work on a project, with the same team and environment, the more accurate our estimations will be, since we will know more about such project's details. That's why we ideally avoid estimating a whole project at once in the beginning, it's better to estimate it in parts. For instance, estimating a bucket of stories for each planned release or each planned iteration.
After a few iterations we can get a grasp of an average number of story points that team can complete in a given amount of time. It's important noticing that any change in any of these variables: team, project and environment may and will affect this co-relation. Once we have this average number we can start predicting how much time it will take us to complete a big set of stories.
Now, that sounds very good in theory, but in real life we usually need to tell our clients an estimation before we actually start working, depending on the contract and the relationship with the client, so… what do we do? This has got to be the one billion dollars question of software development lately. And the more I talk to people about it, the more it seems like there's no satisfying answer.
5. Contracts
When the client is known and there is already a strong relationship between the parts it is easier to get a flexible contract, usually in a time-and-materials fashion, allowing us to adapt the complexity x time co-relation as the project advances and negotiate deadlines x scope x team variables to get whatever the client needs the most as soon as we can deliver. This really requires mutual trust and collaboration, which agile is all about. But the world is not 100% agile, as humans are not 100% trustworthy, so from what I have experienced these contracts are not the most common out there, specially when we are trying to get a new client to partner up with.
On the other side of the rope lies the least flexible type of contracts: fixed-price and scope contracts. The client tells you: here's what I need, you tell them: I need X months to get that done, and it will cost you Y money units. Needless to say there's a big risk involved in this type of contract. If the estimation is too low either you may need to work over-hours to get the work done, or the deadline won't be met. In the worst cases, both may happen. If the estimation is too high, the client may prefer a cheaper potential partner and leave you. In the case they accept your terms, there will probably be a big waste of money from the client's part, and time from both your sides (see the Parkinson's Law). Not to mention requirement changes that, regardless of what the clients say, will come up during the development.
Most of the other types of contracts I have seen lie in between these two types or are a mix of them. Some examples I have seen are offering a couple of iterations to develop a prototype for the potential client, for free. After this prototype is ready, if the client likes what they see, the team will have a much better knowledge to work on more reliable estimations for a fixed-price contract. Another option could be a contract with a fixed deadline but variable scope, where the team compromises to deliver at least X story points. Or fixed scope but variable deadline, depending on what's more important for that client.
6. Managing estimations
That said, I have had many discussions with colleagues about how to manage existing estimations, mostly in regards of whether we should re-estimate stories or not.
This may become a rather hot debate, but my opinion is that: we should try to avoid re-estimating stories, unless we're really far off.
I really like Mike Cohn's take on the subject, I don't think I can explain it as well as him, so just take a look at it!
The basic idea is that we have knowledge-before-the-fact and knowledge-after-the-fact, and we shouldn't mix them on our backlog, since we will need a normalized set of data to plan our future work on.
The problem arises when we use estimations not only for planning, but also to charge the clients due to the contract type. In this case re-estimating stories or not may not be an option. If the estimations are not tied with the project costs, informing the client that a given story will take longer than planned may suffice, in this case, since the development is in progress, a timed-estimation may even be accurate enough and more useful.
7. Conclusion
In my opinion, software estimation techniques are quite fair nowadays, the problem is not how we estimate software, it's how we charge our clients.
Estimations are called estimations for a reason, they are not supposed to be the truth written in stone, and contracts based on that are quite risky.
I have the impression that once we all build a common understanding that software development is not as a classical engineering type of project many things will become simpler, and we will stop feeling that we are working in the software-estimation industry instead of in the software-development one (at least I feel like that at times).
The engineering part of our work is done by the compilers and interpreters, not by the developers.
Testing events on jQuery objects with Jasmine
Recently we had a piece of JavaScript code that looked roughly like this:
myApp.buttonBinder = { bind: function(button) { if (myApp.shouldChangeButtonAction()) { button.unbind("click").click(function() { button.closest("form").submit(); }); } } }
So we wanted to test this using Jasmine.
Our main goal was to test that when the button was clicked the form that contains it was being submitted.
It would be cool if we could use Jasmine's spies:
describe("myApp.buttonBinder", function() { it("should bind form submit to button", function() { var form = $("<form/>"); var button = $("<input/>"); form.append(button); spyOn(form, 'submit'); myApp.buttonBinder.bind(button); button.click(); expect(form.submit).toHaveBeenCalled(); }); });
But unfortunately this does not work. I didn't look too much into it, but I suspect it is due to the fact that when the actual code runs, the jQuery 'closest' selector creates a new form object that represents the same DOM element. But as it is a different object the spy can't recognize that the function submit has been called.
One idea is to instead add a listener to the form's submit event and check if this listener has been called:
describe("myApp.buttonBinder", function() { it("should bind form submit to button", function() { var form = $("<form/>"); var button = $("<input/>"); form.append(button); var formHasBeenSubmitted = false; form.submit(function() { formHasBeenSubmitted = true; }); myApp.buttonBinder.bind(button); button.click(); expect(formHasBeenSubmitted).toBeTruthy(); }); });
And voilá! This works!
But it looks terrible, doesn't it?
Good thing Jasmine lets us extend itself, so we can create a new spy function and a new custom matchers:
// SpecHelper.js var jasmineExtensions = { jQuerySpies: {}, spyOnEvent: function(element, eventName) { var control = { triggered: false }; element.bind(eventName, function() { control.triggered = true; }); jasmineExtensions.jQuerySpies[element[eventName]] = control; }; }; var spyOnEvent = jasmineExtensions.spyOnEvent; beforeEach(function() { this.addMatchers({ toHaveBeenTriggered: function() { var control = jasmineExtensions.jQuerySpies[this.actual]; return control.triggered; } }); });
And now our test looks like this:
describe("myApp.buttonBinder", function() { it("should bind form submit to button", function() { var form = $("<form/>"); var button = $("<input/>"); form.append(button); spyOnEvent(form, 'submit'); myApp.buttonBinder.bind(button); button.click(); expect(form.submit).toHaveBeenTriggered(); }); });
Much better \o/
Go learn JavaScript!
This post comes late, as I have realized this late myself.
But it is not late enough to be useless, because most developers out there still haven't learned JavaScript.
If you work with development of some sort, big chances are you work with web development.
That said, once you have learned JavaScript, you will find out that programming in JavaScript is actually fun!
I have gone through this myself as I have seen colleagues going through this too.
Not only you will find out it is fun, you will see how JavaScript is a powerful language that has lots of good things that you will start to wish other languages also had.
Most important of all: your JavaScript code will start to look good.
And once all developers in your team have learned that learning JavaScript is not only important, but necessary, your project's JavaScript codebase will stop looking horrendous as it does nowadays. It will look good, modularized and testable. And you won't ever again go "Oh crap, I have to touch JavaScript in this story…".
Wait, did I say testable? Yes, I did! You can actually TDD your JavaScript code as well as you can TDD your <favorite language> code.
For that I recommend Jasmine, have been using it in our project, love it.
You can even combine Jasmine with Rhino or WebDriver and add your JavaScript tests to your Continuous Integration pipeline. (Your project has a CI server, right?!)
And you know what? Learning JavaScript is EASY!
I believe most developers familiar with any OO language wouldn't need more than a couple of days to start writing more than decent JavaScript code.
There's plenty of good websites and books out there for you to learn it, so go on and have fun!
* Ok, actually, you can escape from writing JavaScript.
You could go with GWT for instance. And I remember there were other frameworks that let you develop the whole fancy UI on Java on the server side, sending only few instructions to the client – I can't recall any names right now.
The thing is: is it worth it?
I worked with GWT for a considerable time in 2009 and, now that I have had more JavaScript experience, I definitely wouldn't go back to GWT. It just seems like a lot more work to do, not to mention the messy HTML and CSSs it generates.
If you'd like to have your JavaScript compiled from something else, take a look at CoffeeScript 😉
Step-by-step selenium tests with page objects, dsl and fun!
Note: this is a long post!
Not long ago I wrote about functional tests and the page objects pattern in Aqris' blog. Back then we at Aqris got all very excited about page objects as they were the solution we were looking for to solve our problems on maintaining our functional test code base, which by that time was based on a set of messy helpers that nobody really understood completely.
Before page objects, whenever a developer in our team had to write a test that had to perform an action no other test already performed, he or she would go through that bunch of helpers trying to figure out which one was the helper that should perform such an action. The result of this approach was that the team couldn't get to a full agreement on what was each helper's responsibilities. Everybody agreed that the code was not good, but each person had their point of view on why.
We first learned about the pattern here, when reading about WebDriver (now Selenium 2). Page objects came as the solution to separate the different actions our helpers contained in an extremely simple and even obvious way that nobody in our team had previously thought: simply creating a specialized helper for each page of the application.
It is in fact so simple that I still wonder how come we didn't think of that before… I think that we were too busy trying to figure out how to deal with the helpers we had, and we were too used to have them that way. I guess that's because the previous project we had worked on (and the first one we had a strong movement towards automated tests with Selenium) was a web app based on only one single page with lots of GWT-based ajax.
Anyway, excuses aside, we started using page objects and it was great! But then other doubts started to come up: how to deal with parts of a page that are common to many pages – for instance a side navigation bar? How to make our tests more readable? Should our page objects use selenium directly? If yes, how to resolve the selenium dependency? Can the page objects just encapsulate the locators for the html elements instead? Should page objects be responsible for the tests assertions too, depending on xUnit's API, or should they just provide verification methods that would be used by our tests' code itself?
I think that these are questions that may or may not have a straight correct answer, but here I will write a bit of what worked well for us or for me later on when dealing with that.
To do that I think we can write a test for an imagined scenario.
Let's try that!
The problem
Let's say that we have a test case to test the following hypothetical scenario:
We have a hypothetical book store application.
Every page in the application has a navigation bar on the side.
An user goes to our application home page and, by clicking on a link on the navigation bar, she goes to a page to search for books.
On the search books page she fills in a search form, entering "Tolkien" in the author field and "Rings" in the title field, and submits the form.
She is then redirected to a search result page that contains a list of books along with the same search form already filled in with the same search data she had entered – in this case, "Tolkien" in the author field and "Rings" in the title field.
We want to assure that, given our test data, the search result contains the book 'The Return Of The King'.
We also want to assure that the search form in the result page still has the data she had previously entered.
The code solution after the jump 🙂
How to switch off Dell XPS 1340's discrete video card on Linux
Finally, after months, the discrete video card of my Dell Studio XPS 1340 is switched off on Linux.
The story…
This laptop comes with two video cards and what nvidia calls Hybrid SLI.
The idea is very nice : one video card is integrated to the motherboard and is always switched on.
The other one is a discrete card and is manually switched on by the user when he/she wants more graphical processing power, consuming more power. This sounds interesting for laptop owners, who may want to save the battery as much as possible.
When the discrete card is on, both cards work together combined to provide a more powerful graphical processing device.
Even tough the idea is nice, the implementation is not, and nvidia even gave up moving on with the technology. If I am not mistaken, I read somewhere that they claim the driver implementation to control the devices together is very complicated.
The drivers for Windows Vista and Windows 7 work quite well, and is maintained by the laptop vendors, in this case, Dell.
Now if you use Linux…:
nvidia provides their proprietary driver for Linux, which is very nice, but allows us to use only the integrated card.
At first it was ok for me, as I didn't have the need to use the power of both cards together on Linux anyway. The problem is: the Linux driver does not switch the discrete card off. Yeap, that's right, you can't use the discrete card, but it is always on consuming power. Ironic, uh?! The result is: on Linux my laptop always runs hotter and the battery lasts shorter than on Windows.
I researched for a long time when I bought the laptop, but I couldn't find a way to get the discrete card off.
One good piece of news is that the project nouveau, an open source driver for nvidia cards, plans to add full support to switching these cards on/off at will. The driver is still under heavy development though… and many features are not yet implemented.
So just a few days I received an update from the sites I have been following related to the subject.
avilella has been running a great blog about switchable graphics on Linux, and quickly updating it on every new details that comes up. The address to his blog is: http://linux-hybrid-graphics.blogspot.com/
There is also a bug report on Launchpad regarding the same problem: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/312756
On this bug report page they are collecting information about all different laptops with switchable cards, so that they can work on a solution for everyone.
But just yesterday a member from Launchpad named drphd found an ACPI method that can be called on the Dell XPS 1340 to disable the graphic card.
I just made a small modification on the module that avilella posted here, making it specific for the Dell XPS 1340, by using the method indicated by drphd. And, thanks to these guys, we can now switch the discrete card off.
The solution
So, to use it, just download these two files:
Before compiling the module, run:
lspci -v
You should see the information for both cards, including the IRQ and the kernel modules related to them.
Now place those two files inside the same folder, cd to this folder and run:
make sudo cp xps_nv.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/ sudo depmod sudo modprobe xps_nv
If you run
lspci -v again, you should see the detailed information only for the integrated card. On my machine the output after the module is loaded is:
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G98 [GeForce 9200M GS] (rev ff) (prog-if ff) !!! Unknown header type 7f 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C79 [GeForce 9400M G] (rev b1) Subsystem: Dell Device 0271 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 23 Memory at aa000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Memory at b0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] Memory at cc000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M] I/O ports at 5000 [size=128] [virtual] Expansion ROM at c0000000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: Kernel driver in use: nvidia Kernel modules: nvidia-current, nvidiafb, nouveau
To make sure that the module is loaded every time you boot your laptop, edit the file /etc/modules and add, in the end, a new line with the text:
As you see, I have the Dell XPS 1340 with a GeForce 9400M G and a GeForce 9200M GS.
But I think that the same solution should also work for people who have the combination GeForce 9400M G + GeForce 210M.
After the module is loaded the laptop runs a bit cooler, it uses around 4W less power and the battery is estimated to last around 30-50 minutes longer.
Remember that every time you install a new kernel you will have to re-compile and re-install the module.


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Why Acting Extroverted Leads to Greater Happiness
New research suggests that extroverts tend to be happier, and there's a way to get a taste of those feel-good vibes even if you aren't the outgoing type. Your Health's Sumathi Reddy and Carleton University's John Zelenski explain. Photo: Getty Images.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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This week it's just us and we offer our candid personal opinions on the current issues of the major shelter magazines - both print and digital. We do want to make it clear that we are in awe of all the work and heart that goes into producing these publications - especially the new digital versions. Kudos to everyone. However, in addition to our praise, we also had criticisms that we share as well. We hope these will be taken in the spirit intended. And we count on you, our commenters, to maintain the same level of respect as well should you wish to offer your opinions.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
The State of the Magazines
This week it's just us and we offer our candid personal opinions on the current issues of the major shelter magazines - both print and digital. We do want to make it clear that we are in awe of all the work and heart that goes into producing these publications - especially the new digital versions. Kudos to everyone. However, in addition to our praise, we also had criticisms that we share as well. We hope these will be taken in the spirit intended. And we count on you, our commenters, to maintain the same level of respect as well should you wish to offer your opinions.
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- vicki archer said...
Good chat LInda, Joni and Megan....The biggest problem with the increasing amount of magazines online is finding the time to enjoy them...There in lies the challenge for those producing them...How to grab our already diminishing attention span? Linda I still think your cover image from the Christmas issue of 'Surroundings' was extraordinary....and from my experience, it is always and will always be about the cover. xv
- February 16, 2011 at 3:38 AM
Thank you for the discussion of House Beautiful changes. I know they are trying for the Y generation dollars but at the expense of good design verses trends. The format reads like a whats Hot list instead of wonderful photography/text of great design work.
- February 16, 2011 at 8:28 AM
I haven't listened to your podcast yet, but I definitely have an opinion on online magazines. I love the Zinio reader & thoroughly enjoy reading magazines on my Ipad. However, Isuu isn't my favorite - probably because you have to read it on a computer. I don't mind curling up in front of the fire with my Ipad, but reading a magazine on a laptop is a buzz kill. I think it's something about using a mouse to turn the page.
- February 16, 2011 at 9:44 AM
I think Linda said it best when she commented on the fact that as bloggers you are more saturated with photographs than your average reader and therefor grow more weary of seeing the same style images. Someone stated they were over the Belgian look which is exactly what's wrong with decorating according to trends. It seems all of you are wanting to see a more eclectic mix of styles and designs in the mags and I would agree with that. That way, a larger appeal is made to differing tastes and it becomes less likely that there is an over abundance of one design scheme being published.
- February 16, 2011 at 9:58 AM
- Crystal @ Rue said...
Thank you for another lively discussion ladies! We're honored that Rue was part of the conversation and ALWAYS enjoy and appreciate hearing from our readers!
- February 16, 2011 at 10:23 AM
- Luciane at HomeBunch.com said...
That's right, girls!!! I am 100% with you about HB! They need to care more! We want to see new things. Joni made great points about HB!
I love hearing you guys... it's really fun!
Luciane at HomeBunch.com
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- February 16, 2011 at 11:57 AM
- Mrs. Blandings said...
You all said out loud all the things I was thinking about HB this month. A "pink" issue seemed like a fine idea, but the re-runs were an odd choice. Also, the houses seemed a stretch; they were more styled pink than pink themselves. Other than Sommers's, which I loved as much for her attitude as her work. It was nice to see some actual writing, however. Prisant's essay was a breath of fresh air - just the right length - and a welcome break from the tedious interview format. (I know I am a broken record on this.)
I'm still struggling with the digital concept. I just don't get why I'm waiting a month or two for such long issues, as Megan said.
Oh, and, I do wonder if the economy has had an affect on the houses available. I know there are a lot of stalled projects here in town - beautiful homes that have the master or the office "on hold." It could be the kind of thing that would make a designer hesitate to submit.
- February 16, 2011 at 1:40 PM
- Bridget said...
I am listening now and have to agree that I keep seeing the same thing in these magazines. I love blogs, but they can't compete with having a beautiful magazine to hold and rip out pictures for projects. I'd pay more for magazines if they'd come through and give us better content. Even a beautiful one every other month would be better. So glad to know I wasn't the only one feeling like House Beautiful is slipping (which is sad). You were out of luck if you didn't like pink this month!
- February 16, 2011 at 2:49 PM
- Concrete Jungle said...
Personally I love the digital magazines lliving where I live...but totally agree make them shorter and monthly!
By the time they load etc.they are just too long. Great call out Joni on the repeats...if these are the leaders in the design mag world there is trouble brewing!
- February 17, 2011 at 1:23 AM
- Concrete Jungle said...
PS I love Linda's as I always want a little more!
- February 17, 2011 at 1:24 AM
- Tina Ramer said...
I really miss the old Veranda, and Southern Accents! I think so many of the new magazines and emagizines are full of trendy and cheap looking furniture that is not cheap! I wamt to see high end designers doing high end homes to inspire my clients and myself, and it is my job to encourage my client to purchase classic, timeless investments that they will keep.
Tina Ramer
- February 17, 2011 at 4:03 AM
- Lili said...
I love pink, so I actually liked the HB pink issue. But then, I haven't read HB in something like 15 years. It just caught my eye on the shelf while I was waiting for a prescription.
- February 17, 2011 at 9:24 AM
- Teacats said...
Great discussion! The term for the ever-present products pages in magazines of any sort is "Advertorial" Basically it is another way to garner and gather favor from advertisers and retailers. And Joni's recall of house/home decor photos is simply incredible! Of course the very simple explanation for any magazine using "old" photos is to save money on photoshoots. I am hoping for an upcoming segment from SRT on Traditional Home magazine -- I did love the home featured on pages 74-81 in the February issue. The designer was Madeline Stuart.
Thanks for another wonderful show! And I wonder where Mr. Drucker may show up next?
Jan at Rosemary Cottage (an old fashioned paper magazine addict)
- February 17, 2011 at 12:09 PM
- Kellie Collis said...
Gorgeous magazines! Eye candies! Have a beautiful day, Kellie xx
- February 17, 2011 at 1:26 PM
- Karena said...
Really interesting discussion. I will leaf through one of my favorite magazines, and see so much clutter, instead of as Jonie says; Home Features.
I do know that a lot of high end owners do not want their homes featured, however even designer do love to get the press.
As bloggers, we see so many images, I really follow blog etiquette and visit my readers sites, even those who never or rarely comment on mine. So sometimes I am overloaded, and will not buy a magazine that is not fresh, clean, and exciting!
Art by Karena
- February 18, 2011 at 10:32 AM
- jlonit said...
House Beautiful is my favourite magazine and I'm slowly becoming despondent about it. The latest I read was the blue/green February issue and it was flat and didn't excite me like it used to. I do not like all the new stupid small features like "makeover in a day" - I want long features about beautiful homes with beautiful pictures.
I agree with Joni, it's too fragmented, and trying to pack in too many silly "projects" and "makeovers" like some sort of DIY magazine. I live in a one bedroom apartment and I love the scope and scale and luxury of the homes featured in House Beautiful and feel that Newell is trying to go downmarket or something (could he be copying the online shelter magazines layouts?). It's starting to feel like an IKEA catalogue (much as I love IKEA).
- February 18, 2011 at 2:53 PM
- Sarah said...
Great discussion...Joni, I agree with you - I too remember houses and pictures and its never good if a magazine starts recycling old pictures. I too am struggling with the digital magazine - I sooo love to read a magazine, hold it and look through it again and again. Reading on the computer...let's face it...it hurts the eyes after awhile. And another thing - the digitals are WAY too long -they should be half the pages. I feel like I just don't have the time to go through them.
- February 18, 2011 at 6:46 PM
- Dianne said...
Enjoyed the conversation BUT....House Beautiful, which you bashed, told us on the cover that it was 10 rooms they could not forget!!!! Meaning, 10 rooms that had been published before. So that was expected.
Traditional Home has always been a favorite and remains so.They had the prettiest Christmas issue on the market.
I do think that you ladies are more saturated with homes than the average magazine buyer and that makes a huge difference.
- February 18, 2011 at 8:38 PM
- Jennifer @ Belclaire House said...
Great discussion! Y'all are certainly keeping the magazines on their toes and I love it. I soo miss Southern Accents. I was looking through some of my mom's old inspiration clippings from Southern Accents and I think there is a real void there. I would like to see a magazine (online or print) the style, taste and tone of Southern Accents but broadened to include interiors beyond just those physically in the South.
- February 19, 2011 at 5:19 PM
- elizgonz said...
The online format of the new mags is difficult for me to read and re-read and the writing is def. kind of bloggy (ex: every room is "ethereal" and . I'm a sucker for pretty pictures, so I'll always at least scan the photos. I'm looking forward to Trad Home because it seems that it will have the most financial support at the start. Hopefully, the quality will be good.
I'm sick of "Top Picks" features. One of them recently included a cute, but super flimsy table from Nate's HSN collection. The online reviews of that table are just awful. I can't imagine why they'd be pushing a crummy product.
Keep up the good work, ladies.
- February 19, 2011 at 7:57 PM
- S@sha said...
I'm glad that you addressed some criticisms of the magazines in a constructive way. I've had every single thought that you have regarding both the print and online magazines. It seems like a circular problem to me, the online magazines are copying the format from print magazines of the domino era, while the print magazines are trying to adopt some online influences, like the rehashed pictures, abbreviated content, smaller budgets. I think its hurting all of them. I also sometimes thing that the biggest problem of the online mags is the lack of self-editing as you put it. Its great that the web is democratic and anyone can start a magazine, but a good editorial eye is something that usually comes from years of working in an industry. I find that blogs written by Gen Y-ers are without fail self-congratulatory and postitive- there is no room for constructive criticism, because that generation is all about complimentary feedback. To me it hurts the content, because a good editor can be brutal with exclusion. Personally I'd like to see the online magazines step up with more original home features. I think my favorite online magazine is Covet Garden because it's short, monthly and showcases homes that I've never seen any where else.
- February 20, 2011 at 11:15 AM
- Market Decor said...
The digital magazines are here to stay and I do admire the hard work involved in putting these magazines together. But... they must get with it and EDIT. They need to quickly establish, clearly, what they are all about. They all seem scattered, jumping from this to that. As for Lonny, Rue, & High Gloss, I think a pitfall may be in trying to be so tendy, so hip - real content is lacking. I was impressed by Matchbook's interviews with Rita Konig, John Derian, & Miles Redd - they should focus on this more! I also cannot stand all the fashion & food in a home decor magazine - personal taste. Maybe, in the end, all this will inspire whatever print magazines we have left (still love the "real" thing!)to be better, much better. We need quality, outstanding design work, substance.
- February 20, 2011 at 4:27 PM
- Acanthus and Acorn said...
As much as I love when you have guests, there really is nothing that beats a chat with just you 3. It's been so long since I've taken the time to listen...and this was great!
I am just like Joni and pictures are embedded in my mind. Sometimes I think I am imagining it. Just pick up an issue for DECOR magazine and you will see homes from all the mags recyled there. So it's possible to find a lost tear sheet or image there. Many are over five years old.
As far as the HB cover and content,I am in total agreement. I was beyond annoyed that a magazine I pay for a subscription is recyling recent material. It's absurd. And, it's not just people like Joni, me, bloggers and designers who notice. I actually had a friend/goverment official notice. That's bad. It's was a pink room with a zig-zag yellow chair. A bit unique for anyone to forget whether you loved it or hated it.
And, yes please enough with the product pushes and trend segments.I personally like the Veranda covers because they are not loaded up with text. Most importantly, I think shelter magazines have to give us big pictures that show the details of a room/house no matter what.
I applaud anyone who can tackle an online magazine and am trying to read them more. Personally, I think the secret to success is a great cover, a variety of interior styles and short issues. I think anything past 150 pages is hard to keep reading on a screen.
- February 21, 2011 at 1:05 PM
I agree with Joni,
I find it easy to identify the duplications, and I don't look at decorating mags that often. It is disappointing that a publication dups it loyal readers in such a fashion. It makes one not one to be very loyal in the future.
I frankly have stopped buying decorating magazines since I have run onto the online decorating blogs.....forget the online decorating magazines.........i prefer the blogs to the decorating magazines...........
Joni....love you to pieces......and love how all three of you interact. Keep it up. You are a diverse group and I respect each of you what you bring to the discussion and how you do it.
- February 22, 2011 at 4:08 AM
- Mike Springer said...
I'm surprised nobody mentioned the last two issues of Architectural digest. As a kitchen designer I noticed that many of the projects featured a photo of the kitchen. We didn't get that much in the past. New fresh look but they still have the same cover.
I don't see as many blogs and magazines as you gals do so the content in House Beautiful was new to me. So they went to the archives…OK by me. Again H.B. shows lots of kitchens so I'm happy.
Very few big high end projects in my area. That market is dead right now so you're going to see some substandard content in the magazines and some "re-runs". In St. Louis the kitchens winning the local design contests are from 2-3 years ago. Until the economy comes back we will see more of the same.
Rumor is that Drucker may move onto book publishing. Sad if true.
- February 22, 2011 at 8:05 AM
- French Basketeer.com said...
Very interesting to hear you three sans guests. I agree I look for new vs recycled images from the mags; had already seen all of these in HB.... I saved my old World of Interiors and Maison et Jardin issues; there was much less filler and more and larger pics.
Re the Picks page, I think there is a good following, "regular" people are looking for "new" stuff. I've had very good buzz and sales when my baskets were featured.
- February 23, 2011 at 8:47 PM
- margot said...
Well, I'm late to the party but would like to add my 2 cents. First, as a long time print editor I would like to thank you for the statement "editing is hard". Yes, it is. In journalism we call it "killing your babies" (sorry, I know that's gross) but basically it comes down to that -- whether it's a phrase, a favourite chair on a product page or a shot from an interior story -- they can't ALL make it in. Editing is hard. Some of us have made a career out of it. Some are dabblers...there's room for all of us.
A word about pacing. Good pacing makes good editing -- that's the reason behind the typical mag architecture of product pages, short features, then long uninterrupted interiors (we call it the Well). You build up to the really good yummy stuff -- like an ap before your main. Product pages are usually the MOST read in magazines.
House Beautiful - interesting discussion. I liked the package of pulling together pink rooms. Though we have seen many before, we hadn't seen them side by side. I enjoyed seeing them together to compare the different shades used -- the many moods of pink.
One correction to a comment above: product pages are not advertorial. Advertorials are pages that are bought and paid for by a sponsor but designed to mimic editorial. Product pages are not bought and paid for by the makers of the items featured.
- February 24, 2011 at 11:14 PM
- Jeannine @ Small and Chic said...
Thank you for addressing the length of these new online magazines!
They are too, too long. I lose interest after a while and one can't fold the page down and return to the issue at a later time!
- February 28, 2011 at 2:29 PM
- KitchAnn said...
I agree with so many of the previous comments. I read the online mags from my laptop and I find that I am less likely to read the articles and just scan the pictures. I think if there was some better editing I might be enticed to zoom in to read the content.
- March 1, 2011 at 8:34 AM
The use of recycled images is more noticeable to the non-professional than Linda implies. I am not a decorator, and I only subscribe to two magazines—Elle Décor and HB—yet I feel just as frustrated as Joni. When I saw the cover of the HB "Pink" issue, my first thought was we were going to see more of the Windsor Smith house they had featured so recently. The reality was quite disappointing. I believe the role of decor magazines is to keep us informed of what's new and exciting out there. So when I see pictures repeated I feel cheated as a reader and subscriber. If I wanted to re-view a certain home, I would just go to the magazine's website.
The other gripe I have is particular to Elle Décor. Month after month, articles will refer to specific features, many of which are not shown in the pictures. This month is was the reference to the "funky Swedish grandfather clock" in Kit and Tim Kemp's home. It seems like dirty pool to intrigue us with a comment like that and then not show it to us! I encounter this in every issue of ED.
Thanks for the interesting topic!
- March 8, 2011 at 4:55 PM


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Boulder County officials have confirmed a fourth person has been killed by the flooding in Boulder County.
The body of Gerry Boland was recovered today near Lyons in a St. Vrain River drainage area, officials said. He was one of two people in the entire county who remained unaccounted for as of early this morning.
Boulder County Coroner Emma Hall officially identified Boland, 80, this afternoon. A determination as to the cause and manner of his death are pending further investigation, according to Hall.
Boland, a retired math teacher and former Lyons basketball coach who lived in the flood-ravaged town, had been unaccounted for since Sept. 12, according to family members, who previously said they suspected he may have been one of the flood's fatalities.
One person -- believed to be Joseph Howlett, 72 -- was killed in Jamestown last Thursday in a building collapse. His body was recovered this week and the coroner's office has yet to release his identity. The coroner has identified two teens -- Wiyanna Nelson and Wesley Quinlan, both 19 -- who were killed when they were swept away in floodwaters on Linden Drive in Boulder County.
Boulder County ceased air rescue operations today as the county's number of unaccounted for dropped significantly over the course of the day Wednesday.
Jennifer Bray with the Boulder County emergency center said all of the military air support stationed at Boulder Municipal Airport since the county began air rescues over the weekend has been sent back to Fort Carson.
Boulder Sheriff Joe Pelle said Wednesday night he expected the sharp decrease in air operations as the county prepares to take control of the operation from the military and federal agencies.
"We're preparing to move this back into county control," Pelle said.
Officials said Boulder County still will be able to request air resources should the need arise. Ground search and rescue missions will continue, particularly in the town of Lyons, officials said.
But search crews did not have to conduct any rescues Wednesday. Since the flooding, the National Guard said 1,809 people have been evacuated in Boulder County, 1,102 by air and 707 by ground.
The county also has a list of about 17 people who are not officially "unaccounted for" because there is a question of whether they are in Boulder or Larimer County.
Boulder Office of Emergency Management said Wednesday night that at least 397 homes were damaged and 340 destroyed by the Boulder County floodwaters.
Federal Emergency Management Agency spokesman William Rukeyser said of the 10,190 households statewide that have applied for FEMA assistance, 7,685 are in Boulder County. FEMA so far has given out $4.3 million in assistance.
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Message from the Caltrans Director
Keeping California moving is no easy task, and the 2009-10 fiscal year was particularly challenging due to the economic climate that stretched our resources.
During the last fiscal year, our department oversaw more than $9 billion in transportation projects — thanks to the men and women of Caltrans who continued their exceptional work during these trying times.
Given the tremendous challenges, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act) was a welcome relief. It provided much-needed cash for projects that might otherwise have not been funded.
California received nearly $6 billion in Recovery Act funds to improve transportation across the state. Caltrans led the nation with nearly $2.6 billion obligated for 991 highway-related and job training projects around the state. Examples of key Recovery Act projects include major improvements for the nation's busiest interstate (Interstate 405 in Los Angeles) and a new fourth bore at the Caldecott Tunnel on State Route 24 in the Bay Area. Also, California successfully obtained an additional $2.3 billion in funding for both high-speed and intercity passenger rail service.
In the past year, Caltrans made great progress on the stunning San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and broke ground on the Presidio Parkway, the southern access to the Golden Gate Bridge. In Central California, we are converting State Route 99 — the backbone of the state's highway system that moves goods across California — into a full-fledged freeway. Farther south, we continued work at the Otay Mesa United States-Mexico border crossing in San Diego.
Working with our partners, Caltrans has also developed a number of innovative solutions and technologies that will allow us to deliver our projects quicker and make our roads and bridges safer and stronger. Using these new technologies, the department can respond after an earthquake to quickly assess the condition of the state's bridges and roadways. In addition, new construction techniques will increase worker and motorists' safety while decreasing traffic impacts and construction time.
This report is organized under the topics of safety, mobility, delivery, stewardship, service, and financial. We hope you enjoy learning more about how Caltrans has met the challenges of the current economic environment to produce a world-class transportation system.
Caltrans Projects Pave the Way to Recovery
In 2009, President Barack Obama signed into law the Recovery Act, a $787 billion economic stimulus package designed to put people back to work and provide more than $27 billion to improve the nation's transportation infrastructure. California's share of Recovery Act dollars for transportation was the nation's largest, including nearly $2.6 billion for highways and local streets.
The Recovery Act is helping construction workers across California. For example, Bart Pensinger, a construction manager in San Diego County, was laid-off from his job in January 2009 and was out of work for nearly six months. His family had exhausted their savings and was on the verge of defaulting on their mortgage. In May 2009, thanks to $74 million in Recovery Act funding, construction began on a State Route 905 project in San Diego, and Pensinger, hired as a project manager, went back to work. The project will create an estimated 1,400 jobs and is critical to the flow of goods between the United States and Mexico.
Since March 2009, Caltrans has leveraged more than $2 billion in Recovery Act funds with other state and local sources for nearly 1,000 transportation projects, putting $3.8 billion into California's economy. Nearly $600 million was, as of the fiscal year's end, paid to transportation contractors — ranking California second nationally in Recovery Act funds paid.
Thanks to efforts by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Caltrans and local transportation officials across California expedited the use of Recovery Act funds. As a result, jobs are being created and retained while we improve California's transportation system. These jobs are not just with contractors, who buy equipment, fuel, and other supplies, but also with trucking companies, small and disadvantaged businesses, and suppliers of construction materials. The economic activity generated by the Recovery Act supports thousands of jobs and yields sales tax revenue for the state.
Recovery Act Funds Highway Projects
In April 2009, Caltrans broke ground on its first Recovery Act-funded project, the $23.7 million Interstate 80 Rehabilitation Project in the Bay Area financed by $19.5 million from the Recovery Act. The resurfacing project, to be completed in fall 2010, transformed a 50-year-old section of I-80 into a smooth new roadway for nearly 200,000 daily commuters and truckers. The project came in nearly 40 percent under original cost estimates, and Caltrans has directed the savings to advance other highway projects.
Other examples of the Recovery Act-funded projects include the Interstate 405 Sepulveda Pass Widening Project in Los Angeles. California's bleak economic situation looked as if it would delay the start of a new 10-mile bus/carpool lane on the I-405. The state was planning to sell millions in bonds to help pay for the project, but the economic downturn made it impossible. The project was able to start on schedule when Caltrans and the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority secured $190 million in Recovery Act funding. It was the third largest Recovery Act funding allocation for a transportation project in the nation.
In spring 2009, crews began a four-year task to construct the new northbound bus/carpool lane on I-405 through the Sepulveda Pass from Interstate 10 to U.S. Highway 101. When the project is completed in 2013, there will be 72 continuous miles of bus/carpool lanes in either direction on I-405 from the San Fernando Valley to Orange County. Bus/carpool lanes typically carry two to three times more people at peak traffic hours than conventional mixed-flow lanes.
This I-405 widening project is also the first design-build highway construction project in Los Angeles County. Design-build combines both project design and construction into one contract with the goal of expediting a project's completion.
Recovery Act dollars also enabled Caltrans to start work on other Southern California projects, including the next two phases of the Interstate 215 Widening Project through downtown San Bernardino. Funding for these phases includes $128 million from the Recovery Act. The project will improve access to the east and west sides of San Bernardino with 17 new bridges and direct connectors to Interstate 210.
The first shovels went into the ground in November 2009 on Orange County's largest Recovery Act transportation project — a $59.5 million job to ease a chronic traffic bottleneck by expanding State Route 91, a major transportation artery connecting Orange County with the Inland Empire. The project is funded primarily by nearly $48.5 million in Recovery Act funds.
A $100 million infusion from the Recovery Act launched construction in December 2009 on one of the Bay Area's showcase projects, the San Francisco Presidio Parkway. The project, which is well ahead of schedule, is intended to replace Doyle Drive with a modern, seismically safe, parkway. The 73-year-old access road to the Golden Gate Bridge is part of a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County.
In July 2010, construction began on the parkway's second major phase — a $116 million project to build the Battery Tunnel and a temporary bypass. The contract is funded entirely by the Recovery Act — and was awarded 41 percent lower than Caltrans' estimate. The savings of $41 million in Recovery Act funds will be redirected to help pay for additional highway projects.
Additional projects in the Bay Area include the Caldecott Tunnel Fourth Bore Project, which received $192.4 million in Recovery Act funding. This $420 million project on State Route 24 is constructing a fourth tunnel bore, which will relieve traffic congestion for some 160,000 vehicles a day by eliminating the need to reverse the traffic direction twice a day in the existing center bore.
In February 2010, California learned it would receive an additional $130 million through the Recovery Act's Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery Grant program for a quartet of key projects: $46 million for the Presidio Parkway in San Francisco; $33.8 million for freight corridor improvements at Colton Crossing in San Bernardino County; $30 million for the ports of Oakland, West Sacramento, and Stockton to move freight via barges; and $20.2 million for a new freeway interchange at the Otay Mesa East border crossing in San Diego County.
For more information on the Recovery Act projects, visit http://recovery.ca.gov/.
High-Speed Rail out of the Station
In January 2010, California was awarded $2.3 billion in Recovery Act funding for high-speed and intercity passenger rail — more than any other state. High-speed rail is set to receive $2.2 billion while nine vital intercity passenger rail projects will collect nearly $100 million. High-speed trains will link San Francisco, Sacramento, the Central Valley, Los Angeles and San Diego. In California, "high-speed trains" really means high speed — up to 220 mph — which will allow passengers to travel from Los Angeles to San Francisco in just 2 hours and 40 minutes. Building the 800-mile high-speed train system is estimated to create up to 600,000 jobs. And these jobs aren't limited to construction or engineering. High-speed rail will produce employment across the state in many areas, such as food, materials and retail sales. Construction is expected to begin as early as 2012.
Voters in 2008 elected to issue nearly $10 billion of state bonds for high-speed rail. California is home to the second (Pacific Surfliner), third (Capitol Corridor), and fifth (San Joaquin) busiest intercity passenger rail corridors in the nation. With 5 million annual passengers, California has more than 20 percent of all Amtrak riders. Since 1990, the state has invested more than $1.3 billion in infrastructure and equipment for intercity passenger rail and about $1 billion in operating support.
Proposition 1B Improves Transportation Across the State
Forty years ago, California created a transportation system to support one of the most dynamic economies in the world. By the early 21st century, however, the condition of the Golden State's highways, bridges, and transit had noticeably declined due to decades of underinvestment in transportation. In 2006, seeking to reverse this trend, the governor championed, and the state's legislators and voters approved, Proposition 1B, a $19.9 billion transportation bond. Since its passage, nearly $6 billion has been committed to more than 1,000 projects statewide.
In addition to highway projects, California is investing a robust $4 billion from Proposition 1B for public transit, intercity and commuter rail, and waterborne transit. California's airports and seaports are receiving $3.1 billion to reduce terrorism, and bond funding has also paid for 300 new traffic detection systems, which save more than 1,300 hours of daily travel time.
The bond is helping fund major transportation projects across the state. Near Sacramento, a 12-mile bypass around the suburb of Lincoln became a reality. This $325 million project reduces congestion by close to 4,000 hours per day. In Southern California, the $1 billion Interstate 405 Sepulveda Pass Widening Project in Los Angeles and the $60 million Bus-Carpool Extension/Loma Santa Fe Interchange in San Diego County will increase mobility for commuters. In addition, projects like the $79 million Interstate 210/215 Connector Ramps project are improving economic competitiveness and quality of life by reducing delays for consumer and commercial vehicles. When completed in 2011, it will link northern Los Angeles County to the city of San Bernardino and provide another commute option for hundreds of thousands of commuters daily.
More than $1 billion in bond funding is also supporting 13 projects on State Route 99 in the Central Valley that will convert the route into a full-fledged highway. Completed nine months early, the $70 million Atwater Freeway Project is one such project. The project received nearly $50 million from Proposition 1B, allowing nearly three miles of SR 99 in Merced County to be upgraded from a four-lane expressway to a six-lane freeway. Nearly 40,000 vehicles use the highway section per day.
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Takes Shape
"Monumental" took on a new meaning this past year as work continued on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, a $6.2 billion seismic retrofit project that will replace part of the existing structure with the world's largest self-anchored suspension span. The connection of the Yerba Buena Island (YBI) Detour represented the most significant realignment of the Bay Bridge since it opened in 1936. Also, the arrival and erection of the first 12 massive deck sections for the self-anchored suspension span was another giant step, bringing the new east span's most iconic element closer to reality.
For only the second time since the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, the entire Bay Bridge closed to accommodate major construction. During the 2009 Labor Day weekend, the bridge closed for four days to connect the YBI detour. Crews replaced a section of the bridge east of the YBI tunnel to connect the bridge to the detour.
The historic and unprecedented construction occurred 150 feet in the air. Crews cut a massive 300-foot-long, 3,200-ton, double-deck section out of the bridge and moved it north on a set of hydraulic rails. A new 3,600-ton double-deck section built just south of the existing bridge was rolled into place, connecting the bridge to the detour. Traffic will flow on the half-mile-long detour for the next few years, allowing crews to demolish a portion of the original bridge and build a new permanent connection from the tunnel to the east span.
Work on the new east span's most iconic element — the single tower, 2,047-foot-long self-anchored suspension span — took a monumental leap forward when the first permanent deck sections were delivered early from China, arriving in the Bay Area in January 2010. The trans-Pacific trip took just 22 days. The first sections were placed less than a month later, and at fiscal year end, the first 12 sections were in place. The first tower sections left Shanghai in mid-June 2010 and arrived in the Bay Area in July.
The Oakland Touchdown (OTD), which connects Interstate 80 in Oakland to the Bay Bridge, celebrated its own major milestone, as all major work on the first OTD contract was completed at the end of 2009. This work included the entire westbound roadway and 500 feet of the eastbound roadway, and crews installed hinge pipe beams between the OTD and the bridge's skyway. Minor work, including installing barrier rails, grinding the roadway, and removing the temporary supports, was completed in early 2010.
Yerba Buena Island Transition Structure
Work will begin later this year on the main Yerba Buena Island Transition structure. This structure, one of the most important and challenging, of the Bay Bridge projects, will transition traffic from the side-by-side decks of the east span to the double decks of the Yerba Buena Island tunnel and west span.


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The play is about a young man, Clarence Rawlins, played by Bastrop High School student and Youtheatre veteran Josh Womack, who manages to be a hero while wearing a dress. Rawlins and his theatre company head west to Lucky Lady, Nev., where he discovers that he has misread his distant aunt's handwritten will.
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For ticket information, call the theatre's boxoffice at 281.0911 or go the Visitor Center located at 124 N. Washington, March 4 – 8.


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