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The federal government has moved closer to the brink of a shutdown, as the House of Representatives approved a temporary funding bill Saturday night that the Senate and White House say has no chance of becoming law.
The House bill would avert the budget deadline at midnight Monday by funding the U.S. government into December. But it also includes a one-year delay of Obamacare — a provision that Democrats and some Republicans say has no place in a stopgap funding bill.
If the funding problem isn't solved, the federal government would begin its first shutdown in 17 years on Tuesday.
The late-night vote came after the Senate roundly rejected a similar House bill on Friday that eliminated money for the new health care law. The Senate passed its own stopgap spending bill to avoid a shutdown.
Here's a roundup of what people are saying about the current state of affairs:
The Hill: "This bill is not about whether Obamacare is going to come in or not," said Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.). "What we're voting on is whether or not you'll accept the compromise which we have reached out to offer."
"In candor ... when the clock strikes midnight on Monday, the place is shutting down," said Rep. Robert Andrews (D-N.J.).
The New York Times: "How dare you presume a failure?" Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) told a reporter. "We continue to believe there's an opportunity for sensible compromise, and I will not accept from anybody the assumption of failure."
"By pandering to the Tea Party minority and trying to delay the benefits of health care reform for millions of seniors and families, House Republicans are now actively pushing for a completely unnecessary government shutdown," Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) said.
The Washington Post: "We will do everything we can to protect Americans against the harmful effects of Obamacare. This bill does that. We're united in the House as Republicans," House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (Va.) said. "Now it's up to the Senate Democrats to answer."
"As I have said repeatedly, the Senate will reject any Republican attempt to force changes to the Affordable Care Act through a mandatory government funding bill," Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) said in a written statement.
Politico: "I'm not concerned about personal impact, I'm more concerned about personal real impact of my constituents and this law. I made a commitment in August I would do everything I could to protect them from it," said Rep. Tom Graves (R-Ga.).
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It's been a year since we posted about Irv Gordon and his 1966 Volvo P1800S, and as you would expect from someone who had already put 2.97 million miles on his car already, he hasn't stopped driving.
Volvo is projecting that this coming September in Alaska, Gordon and his P1800S will drive their 3 millionth mile.
With that, according to a package we got in the mail from the car company on Monday, "Gordon will reach a milestone no other individual has accomplished, nor likely will ever accomplish."
We're also intrigued by some of the "Irv Gordon fun facts" Volvo sent us:
"0 = the number of people besides Gordon who have driven his P1800." [We assume that's not counting a mechanic or two.]
"11 = the number of collisions Gordon has been in."
"48 = out of the 50 U.S. states Gordon's P1800 has seen."
"3 million miles = driving around the earth 126 times."
The company is riding Gordon's record for all its worth. It's got a "3 Million Reasons to Believe" website tracking "Irv's story."
We'll keep an eye on his progress.
Editor's note on Feb. 2, 2017: That "3 Million Reasons to Believe" website appears to have been deactivated, so we've removed the link. Volvo has collected videos and other information about Gordon and his car here.
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What is the United States Code?
The Code is a consolidation and codification by subject matter of the general and permanent laws of the United States.
How is the United States Code organized?
The Code is divided into smaller units called titles. Each title covers a broad subject matter category, such as title 7, Agriculture, and title 10, Armed Forces. There are 54 titles of the Code. The titles are listed on the Search & Browse page.
What is the difference between a positive law title and a non-positive law title of the United States Code?
A positive law title is a title of the Code that has been enacted into law as a title of the Code. A non-positive law title is a title of the Code that consists of an editorial arrangement of Federal statutes. See the Positive Law Codification page.
Does the United States Code contain all the Federal laws?
No. The Code only includes the general and permanent laws of the United States. Temporary laws, such as appropriations acts, and special laws, such as one naming a post office, are not included in the Code.
How is it decided which laws are included in the United States Code?
Congress determines by law the content of the positive law titles of the Code. The Office of the Law Revision Counsel decides where general and permanent freestanding provisions are placed in the Code. See the About Classification page.
How current is the United States Code?
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How often is the United States Code updated?
For the most current version of the Code that is provided for searching and browsing on this website, updates are made throughout a congressional session on an ongoing basis as public laws are enacted. For the print version of the Code, each title is updated once a year to include all of the laws enacted during the latest session of Congress.
How can I tell when a law becomes effective?
Unless otherwise provided by law, an act is effective on its date of enactment. When a Code section or an amendment to a Code section is effective on a date other than its date of enactment, the Code will almost always include an effective date note under the section. See the Detailed Guide to the Code .
What version of the United States Code is the official version?
The online versions of the Code on this website are produced using the same database that is maintained by the Office of the Law Revision Counsel, from which files are created and transmitted to the Government Publishing Office to print volumes of the United States Code. However, it is the printed version of the Code that is recognized under law as evidence of the laws of the United States in all courts, tribunals, and public offices of the United States, the States, and the Territories and possessions of the United States ( 1 U.S.C. 204 ). Several private companies publish both print and online versions of the Code. These versions are unofficial. See the About the Code page.
Is the text of a law changed when it goes into the United States Code?
The text of the law is not changed in positive law titles. Some technical changes are made in the text of acts that are included in non-positive law titles in order to integrate them into the Code. These changes, which include changes in section designations, headings, and translations, do not change the meaning of the law. See the Detailed Guide to the Code.
What is the difference between a United States Code section and a statutory note?
Both Code sections and statutory notes are based on provisions of Federal statutes. In the case of a non-positive law title, whether a provision is set out as a Code section or as a statutory note is a classification decision made by the editors of the Code. See the About Classification page. In the case of a positive law title, only Congress can add a section to, or amend a section of, the title, but if Congress enacts a provision the subject of which relates closely to that of an existing section, the editors of the Code may set the provision out as a statutory note under that section. Placement of a provision as a statutory note under a section of either a positive law title or a non-positive law title has no effect on the validity or legal force of the provision; that is, a provision set out as a statutory note has the same validity and legal force as a provision classified as a section of the Code.
How do I find a particular act in the United States Code?
If you know the popular name of the act, such as the "Social Security Act", you can use the Popular Names Table to find the public law number or act date and chapter number (for laws enacted before 1957). You can then use that information to find out where the law is classified to the Code using Table III , or for recent laws, the Classification Tables.
How do I cite to the United States Code?
Section 204 of title 1 of the Code provides that supplements to the Code may be cited as "U.S.C., Sup. ____ ", with the blank being filled with Roman figures denoting the number of the supplement and new editions of the Code may be cited as "U.S.C., ____ ed." with the blank being filled in with figures denoting the last year the legislation of which is included in whole or in part. Additional guidance about citing the Code may be found in various citation handbooks.
What is positive law codification?
Positive law codification by the Office of the Law Revision Counsel is the process of preparing and enacting codification bills to restate existing law as positive law titles of the United States Code. See the Positive Law Codification page.
Why does it take so long to enact a positive law title of the United States Code?
The preparation of a codification bill is an exacting process. Unlike the authors of other bills in Congress, authors of a codification bill are not free to put into the bill provisions that reflect the particular policy choices of any Member of Congress or any other person. Instead, the codification attorneys must be scrupulous in ensuring that any changes in the form of the law that the codification bill may propose do not change the meaning or effect of the existing law that is restated in the codification bill. Any significant change in the form that is intended to improve the law (see Importance of Positive Law Codification on the Positive Law Codification page) must be documented in tables and notes in the report accompanying the codification bill. The codification attorneys must obtain a consensus among all interested persons that the codification bill does what it is supposed to do and nothing more. If it is not possible to obtain that consensus by the end of the Congress in which a codification bill is first introduced, a new, updated codification bill must be prepared for introduction in the next Congress. The process is inherently time-consuming.
What effect does the editorial omission of a provision from the Code (for example, as part of an editorial reclassification project) have on the validity of the provision? How can I find the text of the omitted provision?
The editorial omission of a provision from the Code has no effect on the validity of the provision. The provision remains the law. All the omission means is that the text of the statute will no longer appear, starting with the most recent edition or supplement of the United States Code in print.
The text of the omitted provision can be found on the website in a number of ways. If you know the title and section number of the Code provision omitted, you can enter the Code title and section number in the search and browse feature, navigate to its prior location in the Code, and follow the links to the text as it appears in the Statutes at Large. For example, the text of section 1 of Pub. L. 93-531 (popularly known as the Navajo-Hopi Land Settlement Act of 1974) was formerly set out as 25 U.S.C. 640d. The Statutes at Large citation for section 1 – Pub. L. 93-531, §1, Dec. 22, 1974, 88 Stat. 1712 – is included in a Codification note on the webpage for 25 U.S.C. 640d. The citation is linked (as can be seen by mouseover) to 88 Stat. 1712, and clicking the link brings up an image of the page, where the text can be found. Any amendatory laws will also be cited in the Codification note. If there are none, the text as it appears on the Statutes at Large page is the most current.
In addition, at the top of the webpage upon which the omitted Code section appears is a dropdown box that allows you to view current and prior versions of the statute. In the example above (25 U.S.C. 640d) , viewing a prior version of the statute in the dropdown box (such as 2012 Ed. and Supplement III) will locate the full text of the statute prior to its omission.
You can also locate this information using the Popular Name tool. In the above example, the pop name entry for the Navajo-Hopi Land Settlement Act of 1974 has links to Short title of the Act, appearing under 25 U.S.C. 640d. You can then utilize the links to the underlying statute or the dropdown box to the Code provision prior to omission (as described above) to view the statutory language.
How do I link directly to a section of the Code?
To create a link directly to a section, build it as follows:
Substitute 'title-num' and 'section-num' with the title and section required, and 'year' with either 'prelim' or a previous year for which the data is available.
Some examples:
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Where the 'item-you-want-to-link-to' is the substructure enumerator(s) separated by the character '_'.
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Can the Office of the Law Revision Counsel answer my legal questions or provide me with legal advice?
No. The Office of the Law Revision Counsel prepares and publishes the United States Code but cannot answer questions or provide legal advice to members of the public about the meaning or application of the laws in the Code.
I have a comment about a law in the United States Code or about pending legislation. Should I send it to the Office of the Law Revision Counsel?
Comments about codification bills prepared by the Office of the Law Revision Counsel are encouraged. See the Positive Law Codification page. Comments about any other legislation or existing laws should be sent to your representatives in the House and Senate or to the House committees or Senate committees that have jurisdiction over the matters you wish to comment on. The Office of the Law Revision Counsel is not involved in the development of substantive legislation or policies.
What should I do if I find an error in the United States Code?
Please advise the Law Revision Counsel of any possible errors in the Code by sending an email to email@example.com.
"Act" is used to refer to a bill or joint resolution that has passed both the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate and has been signed into law by the President, or passed over his veto, thus becoming a law.
Amended generally
"Amended generally" is used in amendment notes to indicate that the provision was amended "to read as follows . . ."
Amendment note
An amendment note is an editorial note explaining how an act amended a Code section.
An analysis is a table of contents of a unit of the Code, such as a subtitle or chapter.
An appendix is the material that follows titles 5, 11, 18, and 28 of the Code. The appendices contain Federal court rules and certain acts that relate to the subject matter of the title to which they are attached. See the Detailed Guide to the Code .
A catchline is the heading of a Code section.
Classified generally
"Classified generally" is used in references in text notes to indicate that an entire act or unit of an act is classified to a chapter or other unit of the Code, with possible minor exceptions, such as a short title or effective date provision.
Classified principally
"Classified principally" is used in references in text notes to indicate that the major part of an act or unit of an act, especially the freestanding provisions, is classified to a chapter or other unit of the Code. However, some freestanding provisions and some amendments may be classified to other parts of the Code.
Classification is the process of deciding which laws are included in the Code and where they are to be placed. See the About Classification page.
Classification Tables
The Classification Tables are tables that show where recently enacted laws will appear in the Code and which sections of the Code have been amended by those laws. The tables are available in Public Law or Code order. See the Classification Tables . See also the entry for Table III below.
Concluding provision
In a Code section, a concluding provision is the undesignated text that follows a series of designated units, such as paragraphs. For example, 11 U.S.C. 345(b) contains paragraphs (1) and (2) followed by the concluding provision that reads: "unless the court for cause orders otherwise."
See source credit.
A designation is the number, letter, or number/letter combination that identifies a unit, such as a chapter, section, or subsection, in the Code. For example, the designation for the first section in title 51 is section "10101".
Editorial note
An editorial note is a note appearing in the Code that was prepared by the editors of the Code. It is distinguished from a statutory note, which is based on a provision of law. See the Detailed Guide to the Code.
Effective Date note
An effective date note is a note that relates to the effective date of a provision of an act. It can be either a statutory note if it sets out a provision of law or an editorial note if it paraphrases or refers to a statutory effective date note.
Freestanding provision
A freestanding provision is a provision of an act that is not an amendment to or repeal of existing law.
Introductory provision
In a Code section, an introductory provision is the text that precedes a series of subordinate designated units, such as paragraphs or subparagraphs, and usually links up logically with each unit. For example, 11 U.S.C. 101 begins with an introductory provision that reads: "In this title the following definitions shall apply:", followed by paragraphs (1), (2), etc., that define a series of terms.
The textual material set out following a Code section and its credit or preceding a Code section. There are two basic types of notes: statutory notes and editorial notes.
"Omitted" is used to indicate that statutory text has been deleted for a reason other than that it was repealed. When "omitted" is used in a section catchline, it indicates that the section has been deleted because it was amended out of existence or because it is obsolete, terminated, or expired. When "omitted" is used for a unit of a section or of a statutory note, it indicates that the unit has been deleted because it amended another provision or because it is obsolete, terminated, or expired. Information about omitted material in a section can usually be found in a Codification note under that section.
Popular name
A "popular name" of an act, unit of an act, or unit of the Code is a name that is attached to the act or unit through common usage. It is distinguished from an official short title which is prescribed as the name of an act or unit by law.
Positive law title
A positive law title is a title that has been enacted into law as a title of the Code. See the Positive Law Codification page.
Public law
A public law is an act of general application (unlike a private law). Public laws are designated by the Congress number and the number of the law for that Congress (e.g., Pub. L. 111-314 is the 314th law of the 111th Congress).
References in Text note
A References in Text note is an editorial note that explains, clarifies, or corrects a reference within the text of a Code section.
See Tables (for classification)
"See Tables" in an editorial note or bracket directs the reader to consult Table III and the Classification Tables to determine where a particular act has been incorporated into the Code.
Short Title note
A Short Title note is a note that relates to the name of an act, unit of an act, or unit of the Code. It can be either a statutory note if it sets out a provision of law or an editorial note if it paraphrases or refers to a statutory note or relates to a popular name.
So in original
"So in original" in a footnote means that the footnoted words or punctuation are set out in the Code exactly as they appear in the original act.
Source credits
A source credit is the series of citations immediately following the text of a section or preceding the text of a statutory note that identifies all of the acts that enacted, amended, or otherwise affected the section or note. See the Detailed Guide to the Code .
Statutes at Large
The Statutes at Large is the official publication of the laws enacted during each session of Congress. See https://www.govinfo.gov/app/collection/STATUTE. "Stat." is used in a source credit or other Code reference to indicate a Statutes at Large volume and page number.
Statutory note
A statutory note is a provision of law set out as a note following a Code section (or in some cases preceding the first section of a chapter). See the Detailed Guide to the Code .
Table III
Table III is a Code table that contains information about the classification of public laws to the United States Code. See Table III.
A title of the Code is the broadest subdivision of the Code. The Code is organized into 54 titles each covering a broad subject matter, such as Title 12, Banks and Banking, and Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. Many acts also have subdivisions that are designated as titles. Act titles are typically given the Roman numeral designations I, II, III, etc.
A translation is an editorial change made in a cross reference when an act is incorporated into the Code, such as substituting "section 1002 of title 20" for "section 102 of the Higher Education Act of 1965" (which is classified to 20 U.S.C. 1002). See the Detailed Guide to the Code .


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Cloud Adoption Essentials 2018 (superseded)
Overview of the Cloud Adoption Essentials course
Meet your instructor (1:45)
1. Why cloud?
Learn how cloud computing is the logical next step in the IT market (17:47)
An example of the IT supply chain (3:55)
Your place in the supply chain
2. What is cloud?
Understand the essential cloud characteristics - video (11:23)
Cloud characteristics - slides
Practical demo: Getting started on AWS (8:46)
Worksheet characteristics
Worksheet characteristics - answer key
Cloud service models - slides
Cloud Service model game
Private cloud
3. How? Roadmaps and Maturity
Learn how the cloud characteristics lead to value and risk - video (2:24)
Cloud business value - slides
Worksheet business value
Agile, Devops and Cloud
Cloud Roadmap - overview (7:28)
3 (extra). Business cases for cloud, deep dive and exercise
Articulating cloud business cases
The business case for server replacement
The business case for IaaS as an alternative
The business case for project speedup
The business case for new business
4. Service and Service Chains
Service design and promise theory
Worksheet service elements
Business models and brokers in the supply chain
The customer's customer
4 (extra). Service Engineering
Learn the key elements of services (4:02)
How is cloud procurement different? (1:07)
5. Strategic choices
Cloud Service model
Compare sourcing approaches
6. Technology and Risk
The three top technology components in cloud computing (4:54)
Cloud infrastructure
Federated Identity Management
Scalable SaaS
IT risk basics
6 (extra). More technology and labs
Software Defined Networking and NFV
Cloud Technology Quiz
Hybrid cloud and migration architectures
Lab 01: Set up your AWS account
Download Putty and Puttygen
Lab 02: Generate keypair with Puttygen
Lab 03: Generate keypair on AWS
Lab 04: Generate keypair on Mac or Linux
Lab 05: Create the first instance on AWS
Lab 07: Log in to your server
Lab 06: Your first VM on OpenStack
Lab 31 API management with Zapier
Lab 60: Federated identity management
A sketch of the continous deployment toolchain (3:52)
Lab 35: Continuous Delivery
6 (extra). Cloud Risks
Introduction to cloud specific risks (4:38)
Cloud Security Alliance body of knowledge, CCSK, and more.
Resources for cloud risks management
Cloud risks quiz
Apply: worksheet on cloud risk triage
Introduction to the GDPR (23:57)
Putting it together
Roadmap revisited (3:51)
Roadmap worksheet
Question for you: what should be in the next update of this course?
Review of this course
(extra) More resources
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Surya Granada GND-2347 Beige Modern Rug
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Bring a classic, modern touch to your home with this Granada Area Rug. Made of wool and hand tufted in India, this medium-pile rug has a sturdy construction that will stand the test of time. Its geometric design adds a contemporary flair to any room. For best results, pair this rug with a rug pad for added cushioning and secure placement on hard surfaces. To clean, spot clean only. Add style and comfort to any space today with this stunning Granada Area Rug!
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THL Projects Overview
THL is a technological infrastructure and social network for creating, revising, and publishing content from a wide variety of projects. These projects are based around the world but use THL technologies for managing and publishing content. Projects can focus on content rather than technology, while taking advantage of content from other THL-published projects and collaborative resources. THL also publishes the more centralized THL Collaborative Repositories, which can theoretically accept input from anyone with appropriate content. These repositories – images, audio-video, bibliographies, dictionary terms, and more – can be consulted in their own right and used within thematic projects. THL technologies themselves are a series of interlinked technical projects directed by THL staff, UVa staff, and volunteers around the world.
Please consult a list of select projects in the THL Projects Inventory. THL is publishing a projects at www.thlib.org as it continues to migrate its old publications from THDL into the new format and repositories. We have published the Tibetan Literary Encyclopedia, the Tibetan Historical Dictionary, the Knowledge Maps, the Place Dictionary, and more. Visit us week by week to see the transformations. Current THL publications include:
1. Antiquities of Zhang Zhung: a survey of 400+ ancient sites of western Tibet, including site descriptions, analysis, place dictionary entries and mapping, and images.
2. Drepung Monastery Website: a study of one of the main Tibetan monasteries in Lhasa, including interactive map, essays, videos, and images.
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4. Meru Nyingpa Monastery Website: a study of a Tibetan monastery in the center of Lhasa, including architectural studies and a three dimensional interactive reproduction.
5. Place Dictionary: a dictionary or gazetteer of Tibetan and Himalayan places currently focused on contemporary administrative units.
6. Sera Monastery Website: a study of one of the main Tibetan monasteries and its associated hermitages in Lhasa, including interactive map, essays, videos, and images.
7. Tibetan Unicode: a leading Unicode Tibetan font as well as extensive documentation on Tibetan language computing.
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Below are all available graphing tracks that can be added to any collection. Click the arrow to the left of each folder below to show/hide tracks. Click the green "plus" symbol to add a track to any selected collection in the right window. See "Getting Started" below for tips.
To make a new collection of tracks, click the 'Add Collection' button above. Once saved, double-click the new collection to edit the name, description, and graph color. To remove a track from a collection, click the red "minus" symbol to the left of each track. Click "GO" (upper right) to see collections in the browser.
Note: You must save your session to preserve collections long-term.
The Track Collection Builder (My Data > Track Collection Builder) is a tool that allows multiple tracks to be copied and grouped together into one composite track or "collection." A composite track can be thought of as a container for grouping a set of similar-type annotation tracks.
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To sort by magnitude, right-click the collection in the browser window and select . For the given region visible in the browser window, tracks within the collection will sort in order of magnitude, with the highest in magnitude at the top of the subtracks in the collection where magnitude reflects the total number of pixels set when drawing each track.
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Magically Delicious - Oversized Twirl
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- 3 x 4 1/2 inches
- Attached to a one size fits most nylon headband or alligator clip with teeth
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Each one of our hair bows are handcrafted with care by women across the US and are made with great attention to detail and love. If you have any issue with your bow coming apart, please contact us and we'll get it fixed for you right away.
*Your bow may look slightly different than the one pictured due to the print and placement of the fabric pattern.*
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Ellia & Co wants to thank our customers for supporting us! So, please use these Bundle Discount Codes as a little gift from us!
When your order is $60 or more use code - 15off60
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Thank you so much again for your purchase and support of our little shop!
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All orders will be shipped via USPS First Class mail. Each item will include tracking information emailed to you provided by the USPS. The post office can take up to 10 business days to deliver a first class package. If you have not received your order after 10 business days please contact me via Etsy.
Please keep in mind that, once a product is shipped, I cannot control shipping speed. Factors like weather, holidays, etc., occasionally can cause shipping delays. I am not responsible for delays once an item has been shipped.
All items will be shipped to the address on file with Etsy--the address that shows as 'ship-to' when you check out. If you give me a different address via Etsy convo or email after you have already submitted your order, I will cancel your order and have you reorder again with the correct address to avoid any confusion. However, due to high order volume, I cannot be responsible for items shipped to the wrong address if you haven't double checked it when you placed an order.
Please do not hesitate to contact me if you need anything sooner, and we can see about making special arrangements.
Frequently Asked Questions
When will my order ship?
Everything in the shop is handmade in the order they were received. I do my best to get all orders completed within a 1-2 week time frame. After that your order ships out via USPS first class and you receive a tracking number. Generally first class takes about 3-5 days to get to you; there have been known to be slight delays depending on the postal system.
What happens if my bow comes apart?
I guarantee my product 100%, so if your bow comes apart please email me at hello@elliamaydesigns and I will gladly work this out with you.
What is Left Side Clip//Right Side Clip?
If you are choosing to have your bow placed on a hair clip you have two options: left side clip or right side clip. This is what side of your childs head you want the bow to be on. Not when you are facing the child. If your childs hair swoops to the right then you want the right side clip; and visa versa.
Can I combine my orders?
If you email me your order numbers, I can do my best to have them ship together. Due to large order volume this is not always feasible.
Can I make changes to my order after it's placed?
Once your order is placed I am not able to make any changes to it. If you'd like an additional item you will have to place another order. If you need to change your shipping address I will need to cancel your order and you can re-order it.
Can I cancel my order?
If you need to cancel your order it needs to be done within 48 hours of purchase.
Do you offer coupons or discounts?
I often have coupon codes and sales over on my Instagram feed or in my VIP Facebook Group. Go there to see if there are any current coupon codes!
How do I sign up?
It's easy! Just go to the top of the main page on our site, click the link titled "Bow Subscriptions", choose which one you'd like (headband or clip), create an account and sign up, and voila! You're signed up to get the cutest bows every month!
When will my credit card be charged?
If this is your first time placing a subscription order, you will be charged the day you sign up. After that you will be billed on the 5th of every month. Please Note: If you sign up at the beginning of the month between the 1st - 4th, your card will not be charged again on the 5th. Rather you will be charged on the 5th of the following month.
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When will I receive my bows?
You will get three bows every month! They will be shipped the last week of the month, and you'll get an email when the order has shipped with tracking information as well. Please allow 7-10 business days for them to be delivered.
Can I switch my subscription options from headband to clip?
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Can I cancel my subscription?
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5:1 Micro Metal Gearmotor LP 6V
We have ✅ 1 available of the PL-1100 in our Sydney warehouse.
These tiny brushed DC gearmotors are available in a wide range of gear ratios—from 5:1 up to 1000:1—and with five different motors: high-power 6 V and 12 V motors with long-life carbon brushes (HPCB), and high-power (HP), medium power (MP), and low power (LP) 6 V motors with shorter-life precious metal brushes. The 6 V and 12 V HPCB motors offer the same performance at their respective nominal voltages, just with the 12 V motor drawing half the current of the 6 V motor. The 6 V HPCB and 6 V HP motors are identical except for their brushes, which only affect the lifetime of the motor.
The HPCB versions (shown on the left in the picture below) can be differentiated from versions with precious metal brushes (shown on the right) by their copper-colored terminals. Note that the HPCB terminals are 0.5 mm wider than those on the other micro metal gearmotor versions (2 mm vs. 1.5 mm), and they are about 1 mm closer together (6 mm vs. 7 mm).
Versions of these gearmotors are also available with an additional 1 mm-diameter output shaft that protrudes from the rear of the motor. This 4.5 mm-long rear shaft rotates at the same speed as the input to the gearbox and offers a way to add an encoder, such as our magnetic encoder for micro metal gearmotors (see the picture on the right), to provide motor speed or position feedback.
With the exception of the 1000:1 gear ratio versions, all of the micro metal gearmotors have the same physical dimensions, so one version can be easily swapped for another if your design requirements change.
Please see the micro metal gearmotor datasheet (2MB pdf) for more information, including detailed performance graphs for each micro metal gearmotor version. You can also use our dynamically sortable micro metal gearmotor comparison table for search for the gearmotor that offers the best blend of speed, torque, and current-draw for your particular application. A more basic comparison table is available below.
Note: Stalling or overloading gearmotors can greatly decrease their lifetimes and even result in immediate damage. The recommended upper limit for instantaneous torque is 35 oz-in (2.5 kg-cm) for the 1000:1 gearboxes and 25 oz-in (2 kg*cm) for all the other gear ratios; we strongly advise keeping applied loads well under this limit. Stalls can also result in rapid (potentially on the order of seconds) thermal damage to the motor windings and brushes, especially for the versions that use high-power (HP and HPCB) motors; a general recommendation for brushed DC motor operation is 25% or less of the stall current.
In general, these kinds of motors can run at voltages above and below their nominal voltages; lower voltages might not be practical, and higher voltages could start negatively affecting the life of the motor.
Details for item #1100
Exact gear ratio: ``(27×37) / (20×10) =bb(4.995:1)``
Gearmotor Dimensions
In terms of size, these gearmotors are very similar to Sanyo's popular 12 mm NA4S DC gearmotors, and gearmotors with this form factor are occasionally referred to as N20 motors. The versions with carbon brushes (HPCB) have slightly different terminal and end-cap dimensions than the versions with precious metal brushes, but all of the other dimensions are identical.
Dimensions of versions with carbon brushes (HPCB)
Dimensions of the Pololu micro metal gearmotors with carbon brushes (HPCB). Units are mm over [inches]. |
Dimensions of versions with precious metal brushes (LP, MP, and HP)
Dimensions of the Pololu micro metal gearmotors with precious metal brushes: low-power (LP), medium-power (MP), and high-power (HP). Units are mm over [inches]. |
These diagrams are also available as a downloadable PDF (262k pdf).
Motor Accessories
- Wheels and hubs: The micro metal gearmotor's output shaft matches our assortment of Pololu wheels and the Solarbotics RW2i rubber wheel. You can also use our Pololu universal mounting hubs to mount custom wheels and mechanism to the micro metal gearmotor's output shaft, and you can use our 12mm hex wheel adapter to use this motor with many common hobby RC wheels.
12mm Hex Wheel Adapter for 3mm Shaft on a Micro Metal Gearmotor. |
- Mounting brackets: Our mounting bracket (also available in white) and extended mounting bracket are specifically designed to securely mount the gearmotor while enclosing the exposed gears. We recommend the extended mounting bracket for wheels with recessed hubs, such as the Pololu wheel 42×19mm. Our micro metal gearmotors will also work with our 15.5D mm metal gearmotor bracket pair.
- Quadrature encoders: We offer several quadrature encoders that work with our micro metal gearmotors.
Note: The HPCB versions of our micro metal gearmotors are not compatible with our #2590 and #2591 optical encoders or our older #2598 magnetic encoders (the terminals are too wide to fit through the corresponding holes in the encoder boards). However, they are compatible with our newer #3081 magnetic encoders.
- Motor controllers and drivers: We have a number of motor controllers, motor drivers, and robot controllers that make it easy to drive these micro metal gearmotors. For the 6 V micro metal gearmotors, consider the DRV8838 single-channel motor driver carrier, the DRV8833 dual motor driver carrier, and DRV8835 dual motor driver carrier (or DRV8835 shield for Arduino). For the 12 V micro metal gearmotors, consider the MAX14870 single-channel motor driver carrier, DRV8801 single-channel motor driver carrier, and A4990 dual motor driver carrier (or A4990 shield for Arduino).
- Current sensors: We have an assortment of Hall effect-based current sensors to choose from for those who need to monitor motor current:
We also incorporate these motors into some of our products, including our Zumo robot and 3pi robot :
Selecting the Right Gearmotor
We offer a wide selection of metal gearmotors that offer different combinations of speed and torque. Our metal gearmotor comparison table can help you find the motor that best meets your project's requirements.
Some of the Pololu metal gearmotors. |
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President Barack Obama signed into law Friday a measure restoring lower interest rates for student loans, pledging the hard-fought compromise would be just the first step in a broader, concerted fight to rein in the costs of a college education. Encircled by lawmakers from both parties in the Oval Office, Obama praised Democrats and Republicans alike for agreeing – finally – on what he called a sensible, reasonable approach to student loans even as he cautioned that "our job is not done."
"Feels good signing bills. I haven't done this in a while," Obama said, alluding to the difficulty he's faced getting Congress, particularly the Republican-controlled House, to approve his legislative priorities, such as gun control and budget deals. "Hint, hint," he added to laughter. But even the feel-good moment at the White House came with reminders of the bitter partisanship that still makes future deals incredibly difficult for Obama. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, called the law part of the "Republican jobs plan," while House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California said it "stands in stark contrast to the House Republicans' plan to saddle families with billions more in student debt."
The rare compromise emerged only after a frenzy of summer negotiations, with lawmakers at odds over how loan rates should be set in the future even while they agreed that a doubling of rates – it kicked in July 1 when Congress failed to act before the deadline – would be bad policy and bad news for students. The legislation links student loan interest rates to the financial markets. It offers lower rates this fall because the government can borrow money cheaply at this time. If the economy improves in the coming years as expected, it will become more costly for the government to borrow money, and that cost would be passed on to students. About 11 million students this year are expected to have lower interest rates, saving the average undergraduate $1,500 on interest charges on this year's loans.
Boehner called it "a good day" and a fine example of what Washington can accomplish when petty partisanship is put aside. "With the stroke of a pen, we've now officially taken the politics out of student loans," he said. Obama cast the student loan deal as just the first of many measures the U.S. needs to make college affordable as a higher-tech economy makes advanced training and education a necessity for many workers. "The cost of college remains extraordinarily high. It's out of reach for a lot of folks," Obama said, calling it a burden as well on families who have to balance other priorities, like buying a home, with helping fund their children's educations. "We've got to do something about it." To that end, Obama said he'd be looking to the same coalition of political forces that came together on student loans as he pursues further steps.
White House officials have said Obama plans to lay out a broad and aggressive strategy in the coming months to tackle the spiraling cost of a college education. Even as they passed the bill weeks earlier, congressional officials were already talking about a broader approach to curbing fast-climbing costs and perhaps scrapping the deal when they take up a rewrite of the Higher Education Act this fall. Rates on new subsidized Stafford loans doubled to 6.8 percent July 1 when Congress couldn't agree on a way to keep them at the previous 3.4 percent rate. Without congressional and presidential action, rates would have stayed at 6.8 percent. The compromise is a good deal for all students through the 2015 academic year. After that, interest rates are expected to climb above where they were when students left campus in the spring, if congressional estimates prove correct for 10-year Treasury notes. Undergraduates this fall will borrow at a 3.9 percent interest rate for subsidized and unsubsidized loans. Graduate students would have access to loans at 5.4 percent, and parents would borrow at 6.4 percent. The rates would be locked in for that year's loan, but each year's loan could be more expensive than the last. Interest rates will not top 8.25 percent for undergraduates.
Graduate students will not pay rates higher than 9.5 percent, and parents' rates would top out at 10.5 percent. Using Congressional Budget Office estimates, rates would not reach those limits in the next 10 years. In all, some 18 million loans will be covered by the legislation, totaling about $106 billion this fall. The Congressional Budget Office estimated the bill would reduce the deficit by $715 million over the next decade.
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The Worthy Dog tough animal toys are made with high-quality durable materials that will stand up to both rough play and determined chewers for hours of vigorous fun.
Featuring a tough and rugged fabric outer layer with a strong mesh fused lining and stuffed with safe, non-toxic fiber fill, each toy includes multiple squeakers to keep pups engaged.
Tug & toss & play! Safe and soft for indoor play, but durable enough for romps in the yard or park.
Available in both small and large versions, just right for dogs of all sizes. Treat your pup to a toy that will last—play longer, play harder, play together.
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15ft x 3ft Multi Usage Synthetic Artificial Grass
We work with 3-dimensional blade systems for spring-back resilience. The blade tufts are surrounded by a buried supporting "thatch" nest of highly crimped kinky tan-coloured blades. So realistic. Brilliantly engineered. All-weather for Canada (snow/ rain/ sun). Toe wiggling friendly too! Imagine this unrolling onto your hard cold-concrete highrise condo balcony. Or backyard deck. We reach into our prime mill roll stock and make a custom grass rug just for you. (Remember: you can easily make wee 'trim-to-fit' adjustments with a simple sharp utility knife too)


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Bears Law is a native of Central Kentucky; a graduate of Western Kentucky University, summa cum laude, Class of 1970; the University of Kentucky College of Law, Class of 1973;
Preparatory Education includes graduation from the Defense Language Institute West Coast Branch at Monterey, California (1965) (German); The Goethe Institute, (Advanced Studies, German Language and Culture) West Berlin, FDR (1968); as well as several Military Intelligence Schools and Courses. Military Service from September, 1964 – September, 1968, Honorably discharged with the rank of Intelligence Specialist (E-6). Awarded among other Service Medals the Army Commendation Medal, for Meritorious Achievement for actions of the night of February 19, 1966.
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In Memoriam: Rick Woudenberg
My teachings, for I am not a scholar, come from my experience on the pillow. In the first ten years of the practice, I worked on the pain of life, the confusion, how to gain clarity. In the next ten, I was finding balance in non-attachment; being in life, but not wanting to enter life. In the last ten, I've been learning how to engage with the stickiness of living and loving. I ask, how kind are people to each other? How can we find a place inside that is not afraid anymore?
We need to know what drives us and our minds, how to relieve the cultural anxiety all around us. We need to stop and slow down, to start feeling. But the dharma not just a stress reduction course; the teachings point directly toward the nature of human conditioning and our freedom.
Overall, my teachings are very much about self-acceptance, giving ourselves space to do the practice and find our own voice. My intention is to give people permission to listen to themselves, to become friends with themselves. Ultimately, this moment is enough, we're enough, and don't need to be anything other than we are.


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In the late 1970s the computer industry was dominated by huge, vertically integrated companies such as IBM, Burroughs, and Digital Equipment. With their vast advantages of scale and huge installed base of users, these companies seemed to be unassailable. Yet just ten years later, power in the industry had shifted: the behemoths were struggling to survive while an army of smaller, highly specialized companies was thriving. What happened?
The industry's transformation can be traced back to 1978, when a then-tiny company, Apple Computer, launched the Apple II personal computer. The Apple II's open architecture unlocked the computer business, creating opportunities for many new companies that specialized in producing specific hardware and software components. Immediately, the advantages of the generalist—size, reputation, integration—began to wither. The new advantages—creativity, speed, flexibility—belonged to the specialist.
The story of the computer industry illustrates the crucial role that interaction costs play in shaping industries and companies. These costs represent the money and time expended whenever people and companies exchange goods, services, or ideas.1 The exchanges can occur within a company, among companies, or between a company and a customer, and they can take many everyday forms, including management meetings, conferences, phone conversations, sales calls, reports, and memos. In a real sense, interaction costs are the friction in the economy. Taken together, they determine the way companies organize themselves and form relationships with other parties. All else being equal, a company will organize in whatever way minimizes overall interaction costs.
Apple's open architecture sharply reduced interaction costs in the computer industry. By conforming to a set of well-documented standards, specialized companies could, for the first time, work together easily to produce complementary products and services. As a result, tightly coordinated webs of companies—such as Adobe Systems, Apple, Intel, Microsoft, Novell, and Sun Microsystems—could form and ultimately compete effectively against the entrenched, vertically integrated giants. Many of the new companies grew very large very quickly, but they never lost their focus on specialized activities.
The moral of the story is that changes in interaction costs can cause entire industries to reorganize rapidly and dramatically. Today, that fact should give all managers pause, for the world economy is on the verge of a broad, systemic reduction in interaction costs. Electronic networks, combined with powerful PCs, are permitting companies to communicate and exchange data far more quickly and cheaply than ever before. As business interactions move on to electronic networks such as the Internet, basic assumptions about corporate organization will be overturned. Activities that companies have always believed to be central to their businesses will suddenly be offered by new, specialized competitors that can do those activities better, faster, and more efficiently. Executives will be forced to ask the most basic and discomfiting question about their companies: what business are we really in? The answers will determine their fate in an increasingly frictionless economy.
One company, three businesses
Beneath the surface of most companies are three kinds of businesses—a customer relationship business, a product innovation business, and an infrastructure business. Although organizationally intertwined, these businesses differ a great deal (exhibit).
Rethinking the traditional organization
The role of a customer relationship business is, obviously, to find customers and build relationships with them—for example, the marketing function of a bank or a retailer's focus on drawing people into its branches or stores. Another set of employees—loan officers or store clerks, perhaps—assists customers and tries to build personal relationships with them. Still other employees may be responsible for questions and complaints, processing returns, or collecting customer information. Although these employees may belong to different organizational units, they have a common goal: to attract and hold on to customers.
The role of a product innovation business is to conceive of attractive new products and services and figure out how best to bring them to market. In a bank, employees in various product units or in a centralized business development function are responsible for researching new products (such as reverse mortgages) and ensuring that the bank can bring them to market successfully. In a retail business, buyers and merchandisers perform the product innovation role, constantly searching for interesting new products and effective ways of presenting them to shoppers.
The role of an infrastructure business is different again: to build and manage facilities for high-volume, repetitive operational tasks such as logistics and storage, manufacturing, and communications. In a bank, the infrastructure business builds new branches, maintains data networks, and provides the back-office transactional services needed to process deposits and withdrawals and present statements to customers. For retailers, the infrastructure business constructs new outlets, maintains existing outlets, and manages complex logistical networks to ensure that each store receives the right products at the lowest possible cost.
These three businesses rarely map neatly to a corporation's organizational structure. Rather, they correspond to what are popularly called "core processes"—the cross-functional work flows that stretch from suppliers to customers and, in combination, define a company's identity.
Managers talk about their key activities as "processes" rather than as "businesses" because, with rare exceptions, they assume that the activities ought to coexist. Almost a century of economic theory underpins the conventional wisdom that the management of customers, innovation, and infrastructure must be combined within a single company. If those activities were dispersed to separate companies, the thinking goes, the interaction costs required to coordinate them would be too great.
Working from that assumption, large companies have in recent years spent a lot of energy and resources reengineering and redesigning their core processes. They have used the latest information technology to eliminate handoffs, cut waiting time, and reduce errors. For many companies, streamlining core processes has yielded impressive gains, saving money and time and giving customers more valuable products and services.
But managers have found that there are limits to such gains. Sooner or later, companies come up against a cold fact: the economics governing the three core processes conflict. Bundling them into a single corporation inevitably forces management to compromise the performance of each process in ways that no amount of reengineering can overcome.
Take customer relationship management. Finding and developing a relationship with a customer usually requires a big investment. Profitability hinges on achieving economies of scope—extending the relationship for as long as possible and generating as much revenue as possible from it. Only by gaining and retaining a large share of a customer's spending can a company earn enough to offset the up-front investment. Thus, customer relationship businesses naturally offer customers as many products and services as possible, which requires an intensely service-oriented culture.
Contrast that kind of business with a product innovation business, in which speed, not scope, drives the economics. The faster an innovation business moves a product or service from the development shop to the market, the more money the business makes. Culturally, product innovation businesses concentrate on serving employees, not customers. They do whatever they can to attract and retain the talent needed to come up with the latest and best product or service. They reward innovation, and they try to minimize administration.
If scope drives customer relationship businesses and speed drives innovation businesses, scale is what drives infrastructure businesses. Such businesses generally require capital-intensive facilities, which entail high fixed costs. Since unit costs fall as scale increases, pumping large amounts of product or work through the facilities is essential for profitability. As a result, the culture of infrastructure businesses reflects a one-size-fits-all mentality that abhors all customization and special treatment.
The regional Bell operating companies (RBOCs)—local telephone carriers in the United States—provide a good example of how these tensions can play out. An RBOC's retail telephone operation is a customer relationship business; it focuses on acquiring customers and keeping them happy. By contrast, the wholesale telephone operation is an infrastructure management business; it maintains the RBOC's physical communications facilities and furnishes specialized support services such as network management. To maximize economies of scale, the RBOCs could lease their wholesale facilities to telephone service resellers, which focus on the customer relationship business. But the telephone companies are wary of entering into such alliances because they fear that resellers will drain customers away from their own retail telephone businesses.
RBOCs have, in other words, deliberately limited the growth and profitability of their infrastructure businesses to protect their customer relationship businesses. That decision has encouraged specialized infrastructure businesses, which operate their own fiber-optic networks, to enter the competitive fray in metropolitan areas, creating a further threat to the RBOCs.
Most senior managers make such compromises because they believe, or assume, that they have no option. How, after all, can a core process be removed from a company without somehow undermining its identity or destroying its essence? Such a mind-set, though historically justified, is now becoming increasingly dangerous.
Organizational fault lines
Under the pressures of deregulation, global competition, and advancing technology, a number of industries are already fracturing along the fault lines of customer relationship management, product innovation, and infrastructure management. The newspaper industry is one. Not so long ago, all three core processes were tightly integrated within most newspapers. A paper took on full responsibility for attracting its customers (both readers and advertisers) and for developing most of its product (that is, the news stories presented in its pages). A paper also managed an extensive infrastructure, printing its editions on its own presses and distributing them with a fleet of its own trucks.
Today the industry is beginning to look very different. Much of the typical newspaper's product is outsourced to specialized news services; an average newspaper depends heavily on wire services, syndicated columnists, and publishers of specialty magazine inserts for the words and images filling its pages. In addition, many newspapers aspire to shed their scale-intensive printing facilities and to rely instead on specialized printers to produce the paper each day. As newspapers move away from product innovation and infrastructure management, they can concentrate on the customer relationship portion of the business, helping to connect readers and advertisers. The Los Angeles Times, among other papers, is creating special sections, geared to particular regions or interests, that help advertisers target specific sets of readers more accurately. Such unbundling is making the newspaper business less capital-intensive, a development that permits more resources to be devoted to building customer relationships.
An influx of specialized companies has also begun to reshape the pharmaceutical industry. Some product innovators in biotechnology, notably Amgen, Genentech, and Myriad Genetics, are focusing on specific techniques such as gene mapping. Others, including Medicis Pharmaceutical and Bausch & Lomb, are concentrating on specific disciplines—dermatology, for instance. Larger drug companies, rather than financing product development efforts in all these areas, are taking equity stakes in or allying with such niche players. Roche Holding, for example, has purchased over two-thirds of Genentech, and Merck has entered into a collaborative research and licensing agreement with Aurora Biosciences. On the infrastructure side of the business, big drug companies have begun to outsource the planning and execution of large-scale pharmaceutical trials to contract research organizations such as Quantum. And big distribution specialists, including McKesson and Cardinal, now warehouse and deliver most drugs.
As these and other industries have yielded to the pressures of unbundling, established companies have faced a series of hard choices. They have had to rethink their traditional roles and identities, to challenge their organizational assumptions, and, in many cases, to make fundamental changes in the way they operate. Now, as electronic commerce reduces interaction costs throughout the economy, more and more companies will face equally tough, if not tougher, decisions.
Organization and the Internet
To see into the future of business organizations, you need only look at how Internet companies are organizing today. Portal businesses such as Yahoo! increasingly focus on managing customer relationships, relying on other companies to provide innovative products and services based on the World Wide Web, on the one hand, and infrastructure management, on the other. Many people still think of Yahoo! as a search engine, but in fact its searching product is provided by another company, Inktomi, an innovator whose expertise in parallel computing enables its engine to search millions of Web pages almost instantly. Yahoo!, meanwhile, has forged relations with big Internet-access providers, such as AT&T, that manage a large portion of the Internet's infrastructure. Yahoo! can thus concentrate on attracting customers, gathering data on them, and connecting them with both advertisers and merchants. It is positioned to become what we call an "infomediary"—a company whose rich store of customer information permits it to control the flow of commerce on the Web.2
Because electronic commerce has such low interaction costs, it is natural for Web-based businesses to concentrate on a single core activity—managing customer relations, product innovation, or infrastructure management. Not that all current Internet companies are pure players. We would argue, though, that hybrid models are transitional, required by the infancy of electronic commerce. As the Internet industry matures, mixed models will become less attractive and less sustainable.
As electronic commerce spreads out into other, more traditional industries, they too will begin to fracture. Take the automotive business. Small, entrepreneurial companies, such as Autobytel.com and Autoweb.com, have recently emerged on the Web and are already gaining control over customer relationships. These companies' sites provide car buyers with a broad range of information about current models and pricing. The sites then collect detailed data about the customers and their preferences and use that information to refer customers to appropriate automobile dealers. In 1997 Web site referrals accounted for about 2 percent of all nonfleet new-car sales—a small percentage but one representing 300,000 cars, or $6 billion in revenue. And J. D. Power & Associates predicts that one-third of all new-car buyers will purchase cars using the Web by the year 2000.
As infomediaries gain further control over customer purchases and, more important, over customer information, car companies will have to rethink the role of the traditional automobile dealer. Dealers could give up their customer relationship business entirely and focus narrowly on the infrastructure business (managing showrooms, for example), while independent, on-line infomediaries take over the role of acquiring and managing customer relationships. Car manufacturers, meanwhile, may decide—or be forced—to unbundle their businesses, outsourcing the role of customer relationship management to an infomediary, increasing the proportion of manufacturing they outsource to subcontractors, and focusing on product innovation. As infomediaries develop a deeper understanding of each customer, they could play an ever more central role in determining which make and model a customer buys, eventually coming to fulfill virtually all of a customer's car-related needs.
A road map for unbundling
Although industries will fracture, they won't necessarily break into many small pieces. In fact, the structure of only one of the three businesses—product innovation—is likely to be characterized by large numbers of small businesses competing on a level playing field with low barriers to entry. The product innovator's need to provide a fertile environment for creativity tends to favor smaller organizations, as does its need for speed and agility in bringing products to market.
The other two businesses will probably consolidate quickly as a small number of large companies assume dominance. Since economies of scope are necessary in the customer relationship business, it is likely that only a few big infomediaries will survive. America Online's decision to acquire Netscape, with its popular Netcenter Web portal, provides strong evidence that the consolidation of this business is well under way. Similarly, in the infrastructure business, economies of scale create irresistible pressures to form large, focused enterprises.
Once a company decides where it wants to direct its energies, it will probably need to divest other businesses. That will be a big challenge. Few senior managers of large companies have ever attempted a systematic divestiture program; such divestitures as have occurred have usually been spin-offs of recent acquisitions whose expected synergies never materialized. Even AT&T's highly publicized divestiture of its computer and telecommunications equipment businesses, NCR and Lucent, respectively, falls largely into this category. The closest most companies have come to the kind of divestiture we are talking about is the establishment of outsourcing relationships in which infrastructure management activities such as logistics, manufacturing, or data processing are contracted to outside providers.
Divestiture is, of course, a radical step. In most cases, executives would need to perceive a significant and immediate threat before considering such aggressive surgery. For that reason, the first divestiture programs will probably be launched by computing, telecommunications, media, and banking companies whose markets are undergoing major technological or regulatory change. Companies in other industries will be able to learn from the successes—and mistakes—of these pioneers.
If a company has chosen to compete in customer relationship or infrastructure management, where size matters, divestiture won't be enough; such a company will also need to build scope or scale through mergers and acquisitions. Each acquired company will probably have to go through a similar process of unbundling—shedding unneeded businesses to help finance the next wave of acquisitions and integrating the remaining businesses into the existing operation. The secret of success in fractured industries is not just to unbundle but to unbundle and then rebundle, creating a new organization with the capabilities and size required to win.
Rebundling will be a very different process from the vertical integration that has often characterized traditional acquisition programs. Because companies will be focusing on a single activity—relationship management or infrastructure management—their acquisitions will be aimed at achieving horizontal integration. They will seek to build scope or scale within their own industry and then to leverage their capabilities across related ones.
Senior managers will face many painful decisions as they make the wrenching changes needed to realign their businesses. Although the choices may be difficult, time will probably be short. Once interaction costs begin to fall, an industry can reorganize remarkably quickly—as did the computer industry. Sources of strength can turn into sources of weakness almost overnight, and even the most successful company can swiftly find itself in an untenable position.