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Are you suffering from double vision in your IT? As odd as it sounds, this is a common occurrence. Line-of-business (LOB) stakeholders often use a different set of criteria to measure IT than IT uses to measure itself. This can lead to a kind of "double vision"that can hurt IT prospects. A cloud-centric IT maturity model is a useful tool for evaluating present IT capabilities and planning future growth. It is increasingly being used to establish present and future success criteria for IT in a common language understood by all parties. In this article, we will discuss three essential dimensions of IT maturity and how they can be applied to help IT decision makers achieve their goals.
The Double Vision
Cloud computing has created two major sets of expectations, which are worth a critical look:
- IT-centric View of Cloud: Historically, many CIOs and IT professionals, perhaps led by the traditional capability-based IT maturity models suggested by IT-focused analyst firms, have believed that managing and improving IT infrastructure, costs, agility, IT service quality, etc., are the primary measures of IT success. When cloud technology became available, they started expecting cloud to be a way to accelerate the achievement of these goals. But this may be a myopic view of how cloud technology will impact the enterprise. We call this the "IT-centric view."
- Business-centric View of Cloud: In contrast, business stakeholders, such as LOB owners, and business CXOs (e.g., CEO, CFO, CSO, COO), have desired solutions that improve business flexibility and speed, reduce business operating costs and create better business differentiation. Such solutions may include management, automation and optimization of business processes, services, activities, transactions, and end-user experiences, examples of which are shown in the Business Value Stack. When cloud technology became available, these business stakeholders started expecting cloud to be a way to deliver highly innovative, flexible, competitive and cost effective business solutions that could be leveraged by both internal business users as well as by enterprise end customers and partners creating significant business advantages for the enterprise. In addition, business stakeholders expected IT to directly or indirectly supply these business-centric cloud-based solutions to help them attain the desired business benefits. In the business stakeholders' view, IT success should be measured in terms of its ability to directly and readily address these business improvements. For them, improvements to IT itself are neither enough nor interesting. We call this the "business-centric view."
Based on the above, we can conclude the following key points:
- IT and business owners have different views and expectations of cloud technologies.
- Cloud is expected to transform both IT and business, and IT is expected to play a major role.
- Business stakeholders use a different set of criteria to measure IT than IT uses to measure itself. Cloud related expectations may amplify this difference.
- Cloud is changing the traditional role of IT, and its success measures.
Even though both IT-centric and business-centric views of IT are acceptable in their own ways, they can cause double vision for IT. If this issue is not resolved it can lead to conflicts and confusion with respect to IT's roles, goals, strategies and priorities, which can potentially lead to IT failure.
This double vision can be resolved if IT can: clearly see the business-centric view described above; fully understand the value it needs to deliver to the business; recognize the role it needs to play; and use the success measures used by business stakeholders.
Need for a New IT Maturity Model
A new IT maturity model is needed to help IT reconcile and resolve the double vision, and to guide both IT and business organizations through cloud-led transformations and beyond.
To address these needs, we have identified the following major requirements for this new model:
- It must be based on the value IT delivers to the business (and not on internal IT capabilities).
- It must focus on the type and maturity of solutions IT supplies to the business (as opposed to maturity levels of IT's own tools, people, processes or projects).
- This model must fully take into account the impacts of modern technologies, like cloud computing, that are driving the transformations of IT and business organizations across industries.
A New IT Maturity Model (Value-based)
This model consists of three categories, or "maturity dimensions," with the following key aspects:
- How the IT organization is viewed by the business (IT's own view may differ)
- Business value of IT, as perceived by the business stakeholders
- Type of solutions IT is expected to supply to the business
- Examples of key solution areas
Using This Model
An IT organization is considered mature in a specific dimension when it becomes a trusted supplier of solutions required in that dimension; they may also achieve maturity in more than one dimension at any point in time.
A key difference between a capability-based model and the value-based model is that some IT organizations may not fit under any of the three dimensions in the value-based model. This situation arises when according to business stakeholders IT is not providing effective solutions. This highlights a key advantage of the value-based model as it helps IT leaders recognize and proactively address circumstances where business leaders may be losing confidence in IT. In addition, it enables IT to more effectively stay apprised of business leaders' needs, resulting in a win-win for both groups.
The latest version of this maturity model and other supplementary content is available here.
The Three Dimensions of IT
Infrastructure-centric IT
These IT organizations are expected to supply effective infrastructure-centric solutions to business stakeholders, often delivered in the form of a cloud with Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), and/or as virtualized datacenters. These solutions alone support business improvements indirectly. They are rarely capable of directly addressing improvements and automations across business applications, processes, services, transactions, activities or end-user experiences. This is why business stakeholders frequently rate the business value of an infrastructure-centric IT organization fairly low.
Application-centric IT
These IT organizations are expected to fully understand business-centric needs and usage of business applications, and supply effective platform and application automation solutions. These solutions typically enable the management, automation and optimization of business applications, including packaged apps, custom apps, composite apps, highly modular apps, cloud-only apps, or special purpose apps such as mobile apps, Big Data apps, and social apps. To be fully effective, these solutions may also require IT to drive appropriate levels of integration, customization, configuration or personalization. These solutions are typically delivered through various models, such as private, public, hybrid or community clouds with Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), or with application component-based services such as Middleware, Database, Testing or other such services offered in the XaaS model. Since almost all internal and external business users of an enterprise directly or indirectly use business applications, the business value of application-centric IT is generally rated to be at the medium level.
Business-centric IT
These IT organizations fully understand short and long-term business challenges and are expected to supply effective business improvement, automation and optimization solutions, and help drive business innovations, business differentiation and competitive advantages. Many of these solutions are capable of fully leveraging the most appropriate combination of technologies that are best for the business problem they are solving. Examples of such technologies include business process management, business activity management, business transaction management, business intelligence, business analytics, business-centric collaboration, mobile or social networking technologies, and the right set of delivery models including private, public, hybrid or community clouds. These business-centric solutions, typically created through collaboration between IT and business organizations, are designed to directly address improvement, management, automation and optimization of business processes, services, transactions, activities, etc. This is why the business-centric IT organizations are awarded the highest level of business value.
Key Points to Note About This Model
Model is three-dimensional
Each dimension represents a specific type of value, and a corresponding set of solutions. Although the solutions across all three dimensions are interrelated, the three dimensions themselves are neither sequential, nor incremental, nor dependent on each other. Each dimension independently reflects IT maturity within that specific value area, and the model does not imply a roadmap for transitioning from one dimension to another.
Value-based approach
In contrast to traditional "capability"-based models, this is a "value"-based model. This model focuses on the external value of the solutions that IT supplies to the business stakeholders, as opposed to traditional models that primarily focus on IT's operational capabilities (capability maturity) with respect to IT's own internal tools, technologies, processes, people and projects.
In this value-based approach, the value of IT is determined directly by the business stakeholders based on the effectiveness of solutions IT provides to the business. This is called the "business value of IT".
Solution-centric approach
This model is constructed to explicitly focus on the solution-related aspects of IT. In each dimension, IT is expected, and required, to supply a very specific and distinct set of solutions required in that dimension. It is assumed that IT is capable of, and effectively uses, all internal IT tools, technologies, people and processes, as needed for that specific dimension. But these IT capabilities are not explicitly referenced in the model because they are not part of the value-based or solution-centric success measures of IT.
Model is time-based
At any given time, an IT organization may have different levels of maturity in each dimension. A 3D IT maturity map can be created by independently plotting the maturity level of an IT organization in each of the three dimensions. IT maturity levels of an IT organization or its inclusion in a specific dimension may change over time as organizations transform, solutions change or value measures change.
Focus is on business and business stakeholders
In each dimension, IT is expected to supply business-centric solutions that provide significant value to business stakeholders - which include business CXOs, line-of-business owners (VP Sales, VP Marketing, VP HR, VP Finance, VP Mfg, VP Support, etc.), internal business operations staff, and end customers and partners.
Success measure is the business value of IT
In this model, IT's level of success, and IT's level of maturity within a dimension, are measured only in terms of the of value of the solutions that IT supplies to the business, i.e., the business value of IT. It is foreseeable that IT may have its own view regarding the business value of IT, but only the value receiver, i.e., the business stakeholders, can (and should) assess the business value of IT. Internal IT maturity aspects related to IT's own internal use of IT technologies, people and processes are neither weighted nor factored in the success measure. Tying the IT success to only a single external measure (i.e., the business value of IT) removes the possibility of double vision.
IT is in charge, but solutions can come from any source
In each dimension, IT is expected to understand and act in accordance with the business objectives, requirements and priorities that are specifically applicable to that dimension. Then, they can identify and implement the most effective structure and delivery models for the required solutions - whether they are built internally by the IT organizations, or acquired from external vendors, built through outsourcing to third parties, or acquired from external service providers, like public clouds, or developed directly by the business units themselves, or through any combination of these means and delivery models such as private, public, hybrid or community clouds, or physical and/or virtual and/or hosted, and/or on-demand, and/or outsourced datacenters.
IT Maturity is Pre-Requisite for Cloud Maturity
A business-centric IT organization is in the best position to deliver a complete and mature cloud solution with high-business value. The following figure relates the three value-based dimensions of the IT maturity model to the three major types of clouds. Additional information on Cloud Maturity is available here.
Conclusion and Recommendation
This value-based maturity model of IT can be a very important tool to guide CIOs and business CXOs if their goal is to increase the strategic value of IT within the enterprise and across enterprise customers and partners.
CIOs should be asking: To what extent does your IT organization focus on improving business value of IT as opposed to improving IT's own tools, processes, people and projects? Do your business stakeholders fully trust and rely on IT for highly effective application-centric and business-centric solutions? Are you regularly polling your business stakeholders?
Business CXO, or a LOB owner, should ask the following questions: What business value does your IT organization actually deliver? What solutions provided by your IT organization deliver high business value? Have you clearly communicated all these to IT?
This value-based IT maturity model can be a framework for such discussions.
This article introduced the new value-based IT maturity model. Information on how to put this model to work and other related content is available here.
The views expressed in this article are those of Jay Parekh and do not necessarily reflect the views of Oracle or any previous employer.
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Description- A long-legged bright ginger tom with a short,flame-colored pelt. His back is flecked with a rusty ginger, and his ears are tipped with black. He has a white dash on his chest, and a white tail-tip. Fireblade's eyes are a bright amber with a few light streaks of forest green. He also has one odd red-colored claw.
Personality- Usually cheerful, except when worried about his sister or friends. He's very loyal, and would fight to the death for his Clanmates. Energetic, bubbly, friendly, and a superb hunter and fighter (though he doesn't fight much).
Special Abilities- None that he knows of...
History- He doesn't really talk about it.
Other- Nothing much.
Name- Moonshard
Gender- Female
Rank- Warrior
Mate- Like anyone would ask her!!
Crush- None. Absoloutly none.
Kits- Nope, nope, nope.
Other Kin- Fireblade (brother)
Apprentice(s)- Probally can't be trusted with one...
Description- A strong and lithe jet black shecat with white ears, paws, chest, tail-tip, underbelly, and several white patches on her back and face. She has several scars, including one on her shoulder, a torn ear, and a faint scar on one cheek. Her claws are unusually long, and tipped with a faint icy blue color, that matches her cold icy blue eyes.
Personality- This is not the kind of cat you'd like to mess with. She is rather prickly, and not very friendly—the exact opposite of her brother. Moonshard is a fighter all the way, and would prefer to fight things out rather than talk about them. She's been alone nearly all her life, and likes it that way. Her only real friend is Fireblade, though secretly she wishes for more.
Special Abilities- Her claws are tipped with ice, doing double damage to enemies.
History- She might claw you if you ask her!
Other- Has had dealings with the Dark Forest.
Name- Lizardstripe
Gender- Female
Rank- Warrior
Mate- None :(
Crush- None...yet!
Kits- None
Other Kin- Cloudstar (mother), Shellstorm (father), Braveheart (brother), and Mistyflower (sister).
Apprentice(s)- None...yet!
Description- A long-legged nimble light brown shecat with long white legs built for running. Her tail is long and jet black, and she has a golden dash across her chest. There is a faint dark brown stripe that runs down her back, and her ears are also tipped with black. She also has fiery orange eyes.
Personality- Bold, adventerous, and funny! She is a good cat to hang out with, and loves making new friends. Lizardstripe is always first into a battle, and jumps into sittuations without thinking sometimes. She is a loyal friend, and great hunter, and will always be there to cheer you up!
Special Abilities- None that she knows of...
History- Not much.
Other- Nothing really.
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Name- Cloudstar
Gender- Shecat
Age- 24 moons ((2 years))
Personality- Kind, smart, sometimes shy around strangers. Brave and quick in battle, she will fight to the death to protect the Clan.
Build- Skinny, with muscular haunches for jumping. Long, fluffy tail.
Fur Color- White with silver stripes. Black paws and tail tip.
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Grd or Grdeša (Bosnian: Grdeša, Croatian: Grdeša, Serbian: Грд, Грдеша, Latin: Gerdessa, Gurdeses; ca. 1120 – 1180) was the provincial lord (župan) of Trebinje (Travunia) (r. ca. 1145 – 1162) and a military commander in the service of Uroš II Vukanović of the Serbian Grand Principality.
It is believed that Grdeša was born around 1120. In 1150 he was one of the military commanders in the army of Uroš II that fought the Byzantine Empire; the combined Serbo-Hungarian army suffered defeat at the Battle of Tara, where Grd and fellow Duke Vučina (Bучинa) where captured.[1] It is assumed the prisoners were taken to Sredets (Sofia), but were released in 1151.[2] The death of Grd is placed in 1178 or around 1180.[2] He had a son, župan Pribilša, who "died in the time of Vladislav".[3]
His tomb (Stećak) was found at the local community of Police in Trebinje.[4] The tablet mentions him "in the days of Grand Prince Mihailo" (Mihailo III of Duklja[citation needed]) as the župan of Trebinje, and also his brother župan Radomir (Радомир), and his family.[3][4] The stećak is the oldest found and is currently held at the Museum of Herzegovina in Trebinje.[5] A spur of his is in the collection of the National Museum in Sarajevo.
A charter was found, claiming to be dating to 1151, where Desa, the younger brother of Uroš II, gifted the island of Mljet to the monastery of Saint Mary in Apulia, of which witnesses were "iupanus Gerdessa, Desimir, setnicus Rastessa, iupanos Grubessa, Petrus comes Raguseorum...", however, this was proven to be a falsification dating from the 13th century.[6][7]
- ^ Cinnamus (1976), p. 87
- ^ a b c SANU (2007) p.[page needed]
- ^ a b Mihaljčić 1982, pp. 112-114
- ^ a b Jireček 1912, p. 12
- ^ Muzej Hercegovine Trebinje, Ćirilički natpis sa grobne ploče župana Grda, gospodara Trebinja, druga polovina XII v.
- ^ SANU 1963, p. 256
- ^ Kampuš, Ivan (1963). "Novi prilozi o lokrumskim falsifikatima i Desinoj darovnici pulsanskim Benediktincima". Historijski zbornik (in Croatian) (Zagreb: Savez povijesnih društava Hrvatske / Štamparski zavod "Ognjen Prica"). Retrieved 2012-11-13.
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- Joannes Cinnamus (1976), Deeds of John and Manuel Comnenus, Columbia University Press, ISBN 978-0-231-04080-8
- Konstantin Jireček, Vatroslav Jagić (1912), Staat und Gesellschaft im mittelalterlichen Serbien: Studien zur Kulturgeschichte des 13.-15. Jahrhunderts, Volumes 1-4, Zentralantiquariat der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik (German)
- Rade Mihaljčić (1982), Namentragende Steininschriften in Jugoslawien vom Ende des 7. bis zur Mitte des 13. Jahrhunderts, F. Steiner, ISBN 978-3-515-03873-7 (German)
- Vizantološki institut SANU (2007), "Vizantijski izvori za istoriju naroda Jugoslavije IV" (fototipsko izdanje originala iz 1971), Beograd. ISBN 978-86-83883-10-3 (Serbian)
- Vizantološki institut SANU (1963), "Zbornik radova, Book 8, Part 1", Naučno delo (Serbian)
- Radojičić Đorđe, Sp. (1931) Grdeša trebinjski župan XII veka. Prilozi za KJIF (Serbian)


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PROVO — BYU matches up with Weber State this Saturday in a game that many feel is a foregone conclusion. BYU is expected to beat Weber State comfortably, but is that a valid assumption? We looked at the match-ups and talked to BYU players throughout the week in order to give a good glimpse at what will likely happen.
BYU rushing offense vs. Weber State
The Cougars had mixed results running the football last week against Washington State. Michael Alisa and David Foote provided for some good gains on the edge but were stalemated often through the middle — particularly in the second half and in the red zone.
Weber State presents a 4-2-5 defensive alignment that gave up 217 yards rushing on a 5.6 average to Fresno State last week. Its two best defensive players (defensive tackle Trevor Pletcher and linebacker Anthony Morales) were held out against Fresno due to injury but could play against BYU.
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As alluded to above, the inside running game remains a question mark entering Saturday's game. Center Blair Tushaus started for the first time last week and should be due for some improvement along with the offensive guard positions.
How much will true freshman Jamaal Williams play, and will Adam Hine get some reps? If the game goes like most assume, both players should be getting plenty of work.
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"Weber State has a good nose tackle, and we can't take them lightly," said center Blair Tushaus. "They vary their front, but we'll see mostly a four-man front. We're taking the mentality that we need to be at our best regardless of how an opponent looks on paper because anyone can upset anyone on any given Saturday, so we can't overlook Weber State for sure."
BYU should enjoy a much more productive running game against Weber State. If BYU gets out to the early lead most are anticipating, the play-calling should go very conservative with a lot of running attempts as a result. Fans can expect BYU to eclipse the 200-yard mark on the ground on Saturday.
BYU passing offense vs. Weber State
The passing attack was efficient last week against WSU. Riley Nelson threw for 285 yards and two touchdowns on 25-36 passing, with players such as Skyler Ridley and Kaneakua Friel stepping up big.
Weber State gave up 298 yards passing last week to Fresno along with an 80 percent completion rate. It's largely a young and inexperienced defensive backfield that is learning a new defensive system, so initial struggles are largely granted.
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Cody Hoffman left last week's game early with a quad injury. How he looks coming off of that injury is a question mark along with how much he'll play. Ross Apo had a pedestrian outing against WSU, but fans and coaches are hopeful he'll step up and make big plays down the field. It will also be worth noting if Friel can repeat upon his breakout performance last week.
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"We need to focus on what we do offensively and completing our own assignments," said Tushaus. "Any opponent has strengths, and we need to be ready for anything. I feel we did a good job pass-blocking last week and with our passing game, but we need to work to get even better this week."
Look for BYU's rushing attempts to far outweigh its passing attempts come Saturday. Coach Bronco Mendenhall isn't someone who likes to run up the score, so look for the Cougars to shut down a lot of their passing arsenal for most of the second half should they jump out to an early lead.
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Shame on me, being in the colour bomb month of green and St Patricks day and not posting something wildly, extravagantly, and opulently green. Shame, opprobium, and the fleas of a thousand camels, may pimples erupt weekly on my butt. And I didn't even have the good grace to take the time and thought to write anything interesting and/or useful.
So why post at all? Excellent question, I knew there was a good reason I liked you so much. It's like what that beautiful, crazy, shiny bright Mr van Gogh once wrote: I am convinced that there will be a time when, let us say, I will make something good every day, on a regular basis....I am doing my very best to make every effort because I am longing so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things mean painstaking work, disappointment, and perseverance. I know I'm not much good at making any kind of 'art', and for sure I'm not the least bit original, and chances are I never will be. None of this matters, none of it is the point. Blending one colour into another is ice cold water on a stifling Summer's day and the more I drink from that cup the thirstier I get. It's grown into a deep and insatiable longing and I'm not interested any more in analysing or understanding it. I just want another drink.
To many metaphors, not enough sense. Um. I am longing so much to make beautiful things. That's pretty much it. And it will take a lot of time and a lot of mediocre shots of mediocre practicing to get there, if I ever get there at all. It helps to have someone to share the work, and the disappointment with, thank you.
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I have just decided that watercolour pencils and me are the best of bestest friends, joined heart and soul for eternity. I didn't used to like them. At all. And I only have a few odd colours left over from buying and losing cheap versions of same from the supermarket, but it has been so relaxing and stimulating sitting on my couch with a watercolour pad and some pencils and scribbling away some quick practice exercises of other people's paintings. (People practice on the great master's paintings so I figure it is completely acceptable to practice on google image search). Fast and loose is my motto, except when it comes to morals because that would be entirely inappropriate.
The pencils solve a perpetual problem I have with no space to paint and getting flicks of watercolour and acrylic and lord-knows-what splashed all around my dining area (and wallpaper and clothes and kitchen sink). I use the pencils dry and when I'm happy (ish) with what I've done, I move my picture to the kitchen bench and flick a wet brush over everything. Happy Megan to be able to sort of paint everyday without wrecking her house entirely.
I've ordered myself a moleskine watercolour sketchbook and some proper artist pencils so I can make a picture (or 20) a day. Hark the herald angels sing.
They look even better as backgrounds for letters, do they not?
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I can paint a lot better than I draw, which isn't saying much at all. I'm a bit rough on it, and highly impatient. I keep wanting to write inpatient, because it feels like I am one when I pick up a pencil to sketch. It takes so long! And looks so ugly. I get very cross. I don't like that feeling of incompetence which I always feel when trying to learn the technical side of anything at all, it's so far away from being my forte that I need a special visa in my passport to even visit it.
The only useful answer to all of that is, so what? To learn is to be eternally dissatisfied.
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I'm so desperate to paint something but no time to do it. I offer instead a copyright free vintage botanical image of a fern. I have a thing for ferns, they always seem so lush and vibrant and alive to me. The koru, that curly section of newly growing leaf, is a potent symbol of growth and renewal in my country, as is the fern itself. A lot of our sports teams wear it, it's an icon really, so I suppose having a thing for the fern is my patriotic duty. We had a lot of ponga, or silver fern, growing on the hill behind my childhood home, and I thought they were beautiful. Their thick and hairy black trunks especially. You can chop down a ponga trunk and use it to build a fence or a garden - even a house - and as dead and barren as they seem, they'll still sometime pop out a new frond. I always think that's a bit magic. My siblings told stories of jumping off the rope swing they had tied on to the branch of a large tree and landing on the leaves of a tree fern, sliding down from one to other all the way home. In the way of childhood, I knew it wasn't true and also believed it could be true. They did look like you could slide on them, those big fat tree ferns standing en masse and overlapping their fronds one to the other.
My second week of sitting in a classroom listening to lectures 8 hours a day is coming to an end, yes and amen, and surely there will be time for paintbrush to meet paper soon. Surely.
*A phrase lifted from an unrelated and irrelevant quotation by Frederick Beuchner.
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Green is my favourite. Green is calm and vibrant and soothing. It reminds me of the feeling I used to have swimming in the rivers of my childhood, the freedom and the peace of it, the happy privilege of just being alive. If contentment had a colour, I think it would be green.
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Oh lord, March already. Lordy, lord, lord. What have I been doing during my unexplained and inexplicable absence these last few weeks? Nothing. Seriously and hand-on-heart-edly, absolutely nothing. It felt like I was bowling along just fine and dandy, being all productive and shiny happy, and Wham! Bash! Kapow! Everything just slammed to a stop. This (usually) means I am taking a wrong turn somewhere in my life and my mind and body shut down until I fix it. This is mildly useful and invariably humiliating. Anyway. Course corrected! Onward!
Also, hey there, how are things with you?
Tomorrow: a colour for March. March needs a colour.
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I keep going to put all my materials away, and keep making just one more. The thing (a thing) about collage is that it can take as long or as short as you like, use as many or as few materials as you have, and adjust to whatever your current skill level is. The other thing (another thing) is that very few people show their processes. The tutorials I found didn't suit the type of collage I am attracted to, so I took a few pics of my process this morning to document what I do. For what it's worth. Which isn't much.
The basics for collage are paper and glue and a background to put them on. Here I've used the back of a muesli packet I was just about to put in the recycling before I thoroughly distracted myself from any and all household chores. Because it is just cardboard, I used a glue stick for the paper. If you want to use something like gel medium or liquid glue, you'll need a stronger background to stop it drying warped. Ask me how I know. Paper doesn't like to get wet. Them's just the facts.
You can gesso to build a stronger base, especially if you're using paint, but I didn't this time. I just used a small amount of white acrylic to blur the background (which was a page ripped out of an old and not very good book. I don't mind ripping up books when they are old and not very good). Usually I use my fingers, but usually I also get paint over the wall and floor and my clothes and the pet cat, if I had a pet cat.
You can use anything that'll stick. This one was mostly leftover bits I happened to have lying around, plus a gratuitous cupcake wrapper. I did use a used tea-bag, gross, Pinterest made me do it. I washed the tea-leaves out first, promise.
I was going to look up nice lovely words in a nice new page of my nice old and not very good book, but I forced myself to use the three lines left over from the one page I had already used. My usual process is to just cut out a few dozen phrases and play around with them, so it was a good challenge to limit myself to so few.
I also originally glued on a few words from this discarded yarn wrapping, but I didn't like it.
So I painted over it. I had planned to use white paint but also had some black handy and my impulse fairy, who is alert to opportunity at all times, quickly chose the black before I had a chance to think about it. She's not interested in what looks best, I can't even tell you what she's interested in, all I know is she can be every bit as much miss as she is hit.
Lucky in this case it was hit. The black worked much better.
And voila. I stopped there because I most often keep going until everything is ruined, and unlike my paintings I never get through the other side and unruin them again. I like it just like this, simple as it is.
The point of them? I can't tell you. But they look good in a big white box frame, which is point enough for me.
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Does Pecan Firewood store longer than most Oaks?
1. That seems to be my opinion here in DFW, North Tx. It is dominating free firewood off the curbs the last 2-3 yrs vs Oaks, Elms and Fruitless Mulberry.
2. A problem is splitting large blocks with my approx 9 ton hydraulic splitter X 1 HP AC motor.
3. Solutions: Take 12" Dia wood or choke splitter to split 12" long wood vs wearing splitter.
4. The splitter will split big blocks but IMO,repair cost long big blocks are hard on the Ram Cyl.
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I got over 12 lbs of pecans in the easement before they took a tree 1/2 block away. Under the brush I got another 12 lbs as they chipped. A friend raked and took many lbs (24 +) from the brush. The majority were mulched before taking the tree inside the fence my mowers. With our drought, the paper shells were about � full compared to the past.
Good Point bill_kapaun! I get the free wood when I find it and has had up to 8-10 cords sharing with my parents. It worked due to not being able to cut one season due to medical issues but had plenty wood to burn. It's a habit vs a need as my Dad enjoyed the wood and heat before asking me to take all from his backyard (due to the work). I know my day is coming on giving up the past need (firewood and fishing) but more a habit now. I'll hope to enjoy a few more years of each as I know Life Changes.
this has nothing to do with your situation Logger, but I see this all the time in my area. what I don't understand is why people cut down pecans and plant some useless ornmetal tree or bush that don't bear fruits. World would be better off also if cities,counties, states quit wasting money planning bushes and trees on corners blocking site and trees or bush don't produce nothing.
If I am going to pay for tree or bushes it's going to produce something I or birds can eat. Nothing like pulling rip pear, cherry, apple, or peach off tree that taste real good, not like the green frozen store produce that coated in chemicals to keep the on the shelf for months.
Getting back to the pecan I would say probably last as long or depending on how it's stored.
It stores about like oak here, does pop real bad as burns fire coals go to flying out the draft along with ashes. In my young days burning Pecan wood was not allow in home. Burning outside was simple fireworks show.
rcmoser, This was poor planning and a change of owners. The PO add-on to the house was 3-4' from this 36" dia tree after years. Those houses were built in 1958 and the tree could have been just as old. The PO had it trimmed yearly to keep it safe. Good size limbs still came down loaded with pecans onto the add-on. I feel the PO knew fruit values due to having nice fig trees that are still there.
gator_rider2, I am surprised to hear that you got sparks or firework actions from pecan wood. I have not seen that from pecan but some Elm and definitely Bodock is a no no in our fireplace. I season all large dia green wood one year. I'm stocking for next winter now.
Using Pecan wood for BBQ is a top wood at homes and businesses here in the DFW North, Tx area. The fireworks would be a fire hazzard which I have not seen or heard of in this area.
My friend came back and got the blocks that they got over the fence (w/o cutting the 12" cuts X 36" dia into smaller blocks to lift as promised). He rolled the slices on the low VW's trailer as our last 2 load of Pecan blocks (that I left and he left here for processing from a street over). My 2 loads in my shell vs my trailers were reasonable to lift. The cutting and splitting is on (With Breaks LOL) to finish out our harvest for next season. Blocks are good solid wood but I need wood that will stack (12 - 16" blocks split) in my limited 3 cord space.
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