In the end, it's a balancing act: If cogs get stuck, expect more people to shell out for shared or single rides, but those rides may keep the cogs stuck for even longer.
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So putting more expenses into COGS could reduce BEAT exposure.
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Data businesses often have significant COGS, particularly at small scale.
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Workers were, in fact, conceived as inputs, cogs, resources, etc.
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We can't manage those workers like cogs in a factory.
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"Cogs" came from James, and that was very upbeat and different.
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Seattle's offensive line has some solid cogs, but also big weaknesses.
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And yet, the cogs on the AV machine haven't stopped turning.
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Both objectives require placing some sand in the cogs of globalization.
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Different narrative parts act like interlocking cogs moving at different speeds.
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Why must they be cogs in the conflicts of the powerful?
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It just takes a while for all the cogs to slow down.
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Mostly just being cogs in the wheel that is Claire Hale's Washington.
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Market power can throw sand in the economy's cogs in several ways.
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I did one track first ("Cogs") played to Stuart, Rachel, and James.
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These people are the unseen grease in the cogs of international diplomacy.
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The residents of Consett are key cogs in a booming online industry.
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They are large, meaty cogs in the often extraordinarily inhumane American farming apparatus.
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These were high-tech cogs, one piece of a more complex, expensive product.
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Today, several members of the Illy family are key cogs in the company.
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Settings cogs can be simple, or more detailed in a few extra seconds.
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When we agree to talk about people as cogs, we lose our humanity.
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Nothing gets creative cogs churning quite like an 850-year-old cathedral on fire.
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You pulled me apart and the cogs spilled out, leaving only moons and stars.
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What gave us a voice was also what made us cogs in the machine.
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Each one of Big Ben's cogs are going to be dismantled, examined, and restored.
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Importantly for tax planners, COGS is exempt from BEAT, under the new tax law.
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They weren't cogs in a machine whose output was measured in lines of code.
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This is "fun", as constructed by the system in which these men are cogs.
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Some of the individual cogs, such as sophomore linebacker Caleb Kelly, have flourished, too.
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And if you pull me out, a lot of other cogs start to fall.
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By the end of last season, he had become one of Atlanta's vital cogs.
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The crankset, shifters, derailleurs, rear cogs, hydraulic disc brakes, and brake levers are Shimano.
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I can feel the muddy cogs of my brain churning and, eventually, calling it quits.
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It may feel like two giant cogs twirling quickly — but they don't quite fit together.
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These cogs don't connect to anything; they don't move each other, much less anything else.
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And now that the spotlight is on the city, the cogs of government are turning.
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Also, sites like those found by Reuters are small cogs in a complex global infrastructure.
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Around 34% of Ache's cost of goods sold (COGS) is linked to the U.S. dollar.
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They just had an antiquated view of reporters, you know, that they were just cogs.
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Sort of looking under the hood at all the cogs that make this thing work.
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But then one could almost see the cogs in his mind turning: Do I slide?
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"Nothing is more toxic than treating employees like interchangeable cogs in a machine," Banach said.
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So that geisha, for instance, we built fully practically, and inside were animatronic brass cogs.
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"I heard it so many times that it just got the cogs moving," Noone said.
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Cogs in a behavioral/social system that evolved over time to optimally promote survival and reproduction?
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Instead, it stays in a fixed position on the cogs, similar to a single-speed bike.
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We are told that the costs associated with each transaction have been accounted for in COGS.
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It's a beautifully animated short film full of little technical doodads, gizmos, pulleys, cogs, and mechanisms.
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David Cameron wants them in the UK. But the cogs of the law grind agonizingly slowly.
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A giant, heavenly finger poked around among the cogs, and the curtain slid back into place.
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Virtual workers feel like they're cogs meant to just produce, and not part of workplace relationships.
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The Times and The Washington Post are mere "cogs for a corrupt political machine," he said.
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My friends and neighbors were beholden to him, manipulated by him, played as cogs in his machine.
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Moreover, the international system's cogs started turning late, after the government initially tried to go it alone.
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We are the cogs that are being ground to dust by a system perpetuated by the establishment.
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Despite our pretensions as budding masters of the universe, we remain misshapen cogs in the cosmic machine.
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But does this mean human brewers will just become cogs in the wheel of an AI machine?
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Fortress and the Vision Fund would be the main cogs, but they would exist as separate entities.
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At their best, his teams play like well-oiled machines, the players fitting like cogs into a whole.
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This created a sort of identity crisis, since the serfs were accustomed to being cogs with no individuality.
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But the media is first among cogs, probably the first entity Trump will blame if he doesn't win.
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We're all cogs in the same machine; some of us are just smaller and more insignificant than others.
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After five days, they observed four circular mills, including a twinsie that turned like cogs in opposing directions.
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Since it makes the best of all eight cogs, you also get up to 28mpg on the highway.
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Nickel was a chronic underperformer after two cogs of the ore supply chain, Indonesia and the Philippines, turned bearish.
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In a moment of humor, the knot's twisting form mimics the turning cogs of the massive piece of machinery.
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The spotlight has also been thrust back on Britain's overseas territories, which are important cogs in the offshore engine.
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That means suitable plug-and-play cogs like C.J. Miles and Kyle Korver are out of their price range.
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The kit comes with a flashlight, two tires, a big red button, and a mess of cogs and gears.
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Oppression, in Colony, is a tool to make humans feel like worthless cogs in the machine of the state.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Nothing gets creative cogs churning quite like an 850-year-old cathedral on fire.
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Nedraki now supplies 13 Venezuelan firms with the filament and produces plastic parts like transmission gear cogs for other companies.
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But then the pre-cogs predict that the leader of the PreCrime unit, John Anderton (Tom Cruise), will commit murder.
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She sees Japanese people as cogs in an asphyxiating machine, urging them to embrace a more sustainable pace of life.
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Another is the nature of the beast: many cogs have to mesh to match people and ads in real-time.
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Missing these two cogs, the Celtics opened by playing the worst quarter in NBA playoff history, scoring only seven points.
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The player is able to better see the series of cogs and gears moving in rhythm to animate another world.
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The predominant image of government at the time was as a clock, with its cogs working both independently and dependently.
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Otherwise we'll be overtaken by the automation curve: Human workers will simply be cogs in business processes driven by machines.
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Individuals are just cogs in those machines, and Melmoth appears at the instant that those individuals realize their terrible culpability.
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The government will reduce them to mere "functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery" of a system of terror.
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Sliced into two-foot sections and arranged across the gallery, it looks like the cogs of some enormous, surreal machine.
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The Minnesota Wild will be without a few key cogs heading into the opener of their four-game road trip.
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Hot-desking is a clear message to low-level office workers that they are seen as disposable cogs in a machine.
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Everything from cyber security to encryption to the way that the cogs of political machinery link up to those of tech.
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Always following orders, the eight-speed auto serves up cogs without flinching; it's no dual clutch, but a fantastic gearbox nonetheless.
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Microsoft appears to be using gear-like cogs to create this adjustable hinge, allowing the device to hold in different positions.
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Although Adam, Christine, and Bob are all cogs in the wheel towards Corrine's death, none of them are to blame directly.
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We cannot allow ourselves to become cogs in a dangerous machine, or we'll take the whole of medicine down with us.
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Now its adorably anxious cartoon cogs in the machine are being used to sell more cute stuff to despairing human beings.
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Sometimes the companies come to us through intermediaries, like through other agencies, so there's all kinds of cogs in the machine.
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A large system of cogs moves marbles from the bottom rail to the top where they cascade and fill the rails.
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Thanks to your donation, filmmakers could invest in the many, many cogs of the movie machine, from equipment to actors to editors.
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Even actual Nazi war criminals could argue that they were cogs in a bureaucratic machine, committing atrocities without really understanding their actions.
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Mechanically, the Tacoma sticks with a tried-and-true 3.5-liter V6 making 53 horsepower, with a six-speed automatic swapping cogs.
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The cogs in a station like Rinse were never oiled by career presenters with dictated playlists, scripted comedy segments and TV aspirations.
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Much training is impromptu, and chains have tended to view their hourly workers as interchangeable cogs rather than resources worth investing in.
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Once, we possessed a unique potential to nurture individuals to become more than just compliant cogs of an inconscient crowd or mass.
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OPEC is seen as one of the fundamental cogs moving the oil market, with its current intention to stabilize and reduce oversupply.
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Why have the House and Senate, through the impeachment process, become willing cogs in the oily machinery of the 2020 presidential contest?
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Despite what could be a thankless role as a government stooge, he more than keeps up with the cogs turning around him.
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"The COGS loophole for BEAT is a straightforward gimmick, but I am unsure how or whether the IRS will stop it," he said.
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That is where the show grows stale — too often, the characters are just cogs in the machine of the movement, and lack depth.
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The gearbox makes the best of all eight cogs, acting intelligently but responding quickly to any user paddle-ordered shifts from the driver.
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Or it could be a warning sign, visual proof of the first cogs and springs flying out of Darren Rovell, human-cyborg relations.
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That's probably small-sample-size theatre, but low-usage, high-IQ cogs who can really shoot the ball are essential on this roster.
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Musicians can spend years in Nashville as cogs in the city's singer-songwriter machine, gigging and writing hits while remaining in the shadows.
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A few clicks of the left paddle, and the LC 500's 10-speed automatic swaps cogs and drops me into second gear.
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We'd rather make discoveries than predictions, pick personal favorites rather than possible winners, observe the machine rather than spin like cogs inside it.
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It was like business boot camp — I had to understand how each department worked and how all the cogs really connect in business.
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After serving our country, they become cogs in a byzantine system, delivered outmoded treatments and profit-driven pharmacology that produce sub-par results.
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I thought of the album's 22016 tracks as cogs in a large machine, slowly turning on the hour, until all possible sequences ran out.
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Just like knowing your overseas COGS, know what your upside is to spin your own component solutions, as well — but don't do it… yet.
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They'll put up with a corporate overlord that treats them as disposable cogs rather than living breathing humans with lives and hopes and dreams.
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If you complained to the administration, the cogs in the bureaucratic machine would grind real slow to fix it, if they ever actually did.
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"The COGS loophole for BEAT is a straight-forward gimmick, but I am unsure how or whether the IRS will stop it," he said.
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Mr. Kepel sees individuals as cogs in a system — part of a classically French, structuralist tradition that minimizes the role of individual human agency.
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If American politics impedes any redistribution of trade's spoils, perhaps there is a casefor restoring equity by throwing sand in the cogs of trade.
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This intro, for instance, prompts the viewer to "subscribe now for lettest [sic] png and backgrounds," while 3D cogs work in a blank void.
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The story is a mostly wordless sci-fi tale about a future where capitalism has gone unchecked, and people are cogs in corporate machines.
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McNair's death has thrown a spotlight on collegiate strength and conditioning coaches, who are seldom celebrated yet are vital cogs on the athletic staff.
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They're cogs in a much, much larger machine — or to put it another way, just creatures living in an ecosystem they cannot possibly control.
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Instagram and WhatsApp have instituted themselves in their respective markets, and now have the leaders to make them well-oiled cogs in the Facebook machine.
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There is ample evidence that treating people as nothing more than cogs in a productivity-boosting machine is bad for productivity as well as morale.
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But does the emphasis on happiness in the workplace serve to help the individual, or just oil the cogs of an ever-turning capitalist wheel?
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Consolidation in the health care and media industries has made doctors, nurses and journalists feel like cogs in corporate machines that don't share their values.
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And some vital cogs in the title run (Marc Gasol, Fred VanVleet, Serge Ibaka) are still around, making this a strong team in the East.
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A group of Democrats is pressing for details on whether major cogs in the financial system are prepared to weather a major financial storm. Sens.
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If American politics impedes any redistribution of trade's spoils, perhaps there is a case for restoring equity by throwing sand in the cogs of trade.
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The artist uses his sculpture to make obvious the kind of dehumanization that can happen when tech workers are treated like cogs in a machine.
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Much of our sitting time takes place at work, where we are glued to our computers as cogs in the post-farming, post-factory economy.
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True, she could become a valuable cog in someone else's machine—but the owner of the machine is always looking to do more with fewer cogs.
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"Translators were critical cogs in the Einsatzgruppen [SS death squads] machinery of murder," wrote Bernie Farber Eric Vernon and in the Canadian Jewish News last year.
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His reviews get to the heart of how a game plays, how its various cogs and wheels spin and interact, with palpable passion for the medium.
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That means there's an intricate system of four cogs, which the headset requires to move the lens toward and away from the eye to control focus.
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It's a guide to becoming a linchpin at your company — that is, how to differentiate yourself from other "cogs in the machine" to become truly indispensable.
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From the preseason to today, enough Spurs cogs have taken advantage of organic opportunities to establish San Antonio as the 2017-18 season's least killable monster.
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When their contracts are up, they will be sent home, with another group of migrant workers brought in as required — replaceable cogs in a tireless machine.
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As it is, though, I think we ought to consider the possibility that more cogs in our vital delivery networks may break in the coming weeks.
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As it is, though, I think we ought to consider the possibility that more cogs in our vital delivery networks may break in the coming weeks.
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So, couching their story in a rambling, romping murder mystery turns them into entertainment for us rather than us into cogs in the wheel for them.
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We weren't able to necessarily charge the premiums that would justify all of the cogs, at the cost of goods sold, that we put into the device.
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Jaquet Droz, named after the late eighteenth century watchmaker and automaton builder Pierre Jaquet-Droz, designs and builds old-school mechanical masterpieces using springs, gears, and cogs.
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You never see the cogs behind it, you merely type (or speak) a command and read (or hear) tailored responses served on screen or through a speaker.
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Seattle's also light a couple key cogs in running back C.J. Prosise and wide receiver Tyler Lockett, who were supposed to make the passing attack more effective.
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The lawmakers said the outsized presence of these firms in the financial services sector made them similarly critical cogs as payment and settlement firms, meriting more scrutiny.
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Since electoral-college electors are "citizens exercising judgment, not cogs turning a wheel", they should feel free to ignore the popular vote totals in their home states.
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Corporations like George's employer, Spacely's Sprockets, and its primary competitor, Cogswell's Cogs, dominate modern life in ways that feel easy to swap out for Google or Amazon.
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There's an O. Henry-ish dimension to Clinton's strategy, though: By targeting one voting bloc—well-off Republicans—she's turned off key cogs of the Obama coalition.
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More and more, we must come up with ways to use drugs as precision tools to jam cogs and turn off selective switches in particular cancer cells.
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Most humans don't seek to become leaders of major political parties—and political parties that elevate cogs, rather than leaders, into positions of power deserve our condemnation.
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Most people in Frostpunk remain abstractions, just frail cogs in a machine dedicated to keeping an entire community alive through the apocalyptic onset of an ice age.
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Mr. Duterte's allies in the government, his die-hard supporters and well-rewarded propagandists — the cogs in his political machinery — have been revved up to great momentum.
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"I think Kuznetsov was trying to hit the guy back door and Cogs got his stick in there and deflected the puck into the net," Carlyle said.
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"Machines" is at its strongest when interviewing the workers, who aren't named and who, the film not so subtly implies, have become cogs in the machinery themselves.
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Testing has evolved into an industry, a game for test companies and policymakers; everyone benefits — except the students and educators, who are just cogs in the machine.
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As such, Tinguely reminds us that we, too, may be enslaved to a machine, mere cogs in wheels that enable the social and economic machinery to function.
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Unlike many mechanical watches that hide their innovations amongst a sea of gears and cogs, what makes the Azimuth SP-1 Crazy Rider notable is easy to spot.
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In the story Coco the Clown, the 20th to hold that name, travels incognito on a starship to provide a little human oil "for human cogs and wheels".
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These are the jobs that AI hasn't managed to eliminate yet, where humans are expendable cogs in an automated machine: Uber drivers, Instacart shoppers, TaskRabbit manual labor, etc.
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Meanwhile, as Connecticut coach Geno Auriemma pointed out, the primary cogs in that machine of a win—Breanna Stewart, Moriah Jefferson, and Morgan Tuck—are no longer Huskies.
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They may not have been among the league leaders in sacks, but they were the key cogs in a defense that led the N.F.L. with 10 quarterback hits.
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We peered into the complex cogs of the Blu-ray drive, which is mostly made from a plastic called polyoxymethylene (POM) and is cheaper than hardier nylon plastic.
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I have ridden hundreds of London buses and 99% of the time they are fine – everyone keeps to themselves and you're all just cogs in the wheels of London.
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Most of the adults in Stodden's life have seemed happy to brush off any accountability when it comes to her, painting themselves as merely cogs in her manipulation machine.
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Minority Report opens with a montage of visions from a trio of "pre-cogs": individuals who have the ability to see into the future, predicting murders before they happen.
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"In the older version of the toilet you had to push a pedal to make the bag seal the waste," he explains, pointing at the plastic cogs and wheels.
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Suu Kyi's party won a resounding election victory last November, but must still work with the military because of its continued hold over key cogs of the government machinery.
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Divisions, collaboration, dreams, nightmares, paranoia, land, facades, and capital have always been key cogs in the darkness of the American experiment, and Bisbee '17 won't let you forget that.
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DEM PRESSURE ON DERIVATIVES: A group of Democrats is pressing for details on whether major cogs in the financial system are prepared to weather a major financial storm. Sens.
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The weather turns out to be an enemy, too, albeit one that no gun can go up against—lightning strikes the ground with deadly results for the COGs' opposition.
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His every pout and blink and penetrating stare shows us the whirring cogs inside an unhinged mind, every loping step leading a careening train of thought into the world.
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Public drinking water, wastewater, and waterways systems are often unseen cogs in the machine that drives our economy and delivers affordable and efficient utilities to American businesses and homes.
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Even as they consist of motors, wheels, belts, cogs, and crank shafts, his sculptures have a bit of a funky chicken swaying movement because of his deliberate cog imperfections.
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They include a serif-ed play on http urls, a fireworks-like set of cogs, a flame, and an abstracted dinosaur face, with the "o" in Mozilla for an eye.
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Second, the gross margin impact from the recent 25% tariff on List 3 (12% of COGS) is likely to carry over into 2020 as Michaels' inventory turns 2x a year.
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But there's still something undeniably appealing about watching all those gears, springs, and cogs spinning about—and this incredibly complicated clock that writes out the time has them in abundance.
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In a world where people can feel like cogs in a wheel, using drugs to escape—whether in positive or negative ways—has always been an understandable response to life.
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And even for those who remain in Gilead, a zealotry reigns that has stopped seeing people as human and started seeing them as numbers and cogs, bodies without individual souls.
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But Hoenig argued such a change is precisely the wrong move, warning that custody banks are central cogs in the financial system and should be holding more capital, not less.
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Within these 405mm-long nematodes are genetic mechanisms that can be picked apart like cogs and springs in an attempt to better understand the causes of aging and ultimately death.
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I suggested that my compatriots might come to a consensus that inequality is harmful when they realized how vast inequities could gum up the cogs of economic and social mobility.
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Unfolding with little exposition, it finds horror and surrealism in Inner Mongolia, where migrant iron and coal workers are shown as cogs of the monster of economic progress in China.
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I've defined "True COGS" below as the aforementioned expenses to providing their service, minus the contributor royalties: Surprisingly, rather than decreasing over time, these True COG costs appear to be increasing.
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A lot of cogs need to keep turning in order for all of this to become a reality, but if it does, it could have long-lasting, positive consequences on humans.
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Critics say it let many high-ranking Nazis and SS members escaped justice only for their juniors, small cogs in the Nazi death machine, to be put on trial decades later.
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There are some parallels between Barnes' situation and what James Harden went through back in 2012: both were ultra-talented cogs who figured they could thrive in a leash-free environment.
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Leverage Expected to Decrease over Rating Horizon Estimated leverage (adjusted for cranberry COGS) for the LTM ended May 28, 503 was 2.3x down from 2.8x at the end of fiscal 2015.
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Narrative cogs turn, some large (an act of violence), others minute (a passing remark), with moral complexity springing from each action (are we supposed to take sides in this class war?).
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The bench should flood opposing second units with individual bucket-getters, versatile defenders, willing passers, three-point weaponry, and, above all else, cogs who stay in their lane while executing their strengths.
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With 22 horsepower and a slick eight-speed automatic swapping cogs, the CTS-V will hit 4.53 mph in 24.5 seconds and keep pulling onto a claimed top speed of 23.9 mph.
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The quotas in particular have made judges feel as if they were cogs in a deportation machine, as opposed to neutral arbiters given time to thoughtfully analyze the merits of each case.
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It's a little different, in that it was a mechanical windup instrument featuring a row of handmade cogs producing sounds on a jumble of objects, including a ruler and a bent fork.
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TV producers, on-air correspondents, and publicists are just a few of the very important cogs in the big celebrity machine, and they let us know how it all comes together. 1.
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If we focus on the individual parts that are jammed and snapped, the permutations are seemingly infinite: Every instance of a broken machine seems to have a distinct fingerprint of broken cogs.
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Natural gas and oil are crucial cogs in our planet's energy mix but, for all their importance in making the world go round, they can be a big drain on water resources.
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However, Fitch excludes floorplan financing from its primary leverage ratio calculation and makes adjustments to EBITDA (which includes categorizing LTM $90.8 million in floorplan interest expense within COGS) in deriving its IDR.
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Read in this way, the "price" Gorsuch and Kavanaugh will pay could be that they will see their party driven from power and many of the cogs of their partisan machine broken.
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Mr. Erpulat, a Turkish-born resident director at the Gorki, said in an interview that he didn't want the "youth" of the play's title to seem like brainwashed cogs in a wheel.
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Psychedelics researcher Robin Carhart-Harris previously told Insider that the "sense of lubrication, of freedom, of the cogs being loosened and firing in all sorts of unexpected directions" shouldn&apost be underestimated.
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Germany has faced criticism for not prosecuting those who were small cogs in the Nazi machine and did not actively take part in the killing of six million Jews during the Holocaust.
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Maybe they didn't work for an elite consulting firm or make millions from dispensing legal advice, but these voters may be cogs in a law firm representing oil companies or Big Pharma.
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Producer Mike WiLL Made It contributes hypnotically mechanical synth megahooks, stringing those ubiquitous high wispy keyboards across lower piano chords, constructing a giant lumbering metal animal-machine with discrete, mentally separable cogs.
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They think there's no point in putting ballots up in the box, they've got no faith in this system no place in its cogs, easy targets, they be getting brainwashed by these nobs.
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It features a level of detail Mr. Wall said most viewers would never notice, with cogs and gears mostly under the surface that you can see only if you're looking in small gaps.
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It's mated to a 10-speed automatic transmission co-developed with GM. With a whopping 2000 lb-ft of torque and 265 cogs at its disposal, the Expedition never feels out of breath.
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"The dollars are the grease in the cogs of the financial system and when they were in short supply, things just weren't 'working'," said Brad Bechtel, global head of FX at Jefferies LLC.
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If enabling far greater communication between rider and ride provider is part of the grease to the cogs of that currently creaky system, I think it's a great idea and should move forward.
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I wanted a notebook that functioned not as a body but as a mind, a notebook that collected, interposed, collaged; a machine whose components could move, whose cogs, chutes, and levers were air.
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Her strummed country-folk band unfolds in weird directions, revealing miniature pocket orchestras and pop-up choirs before reassembling into a different ensemble altogether, foregrounding strings or Hawaiian guitar, cogs whirring, gears flying.
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So far as fifth cogs go, the Blazers are a juggernaut when Evan Turner lets McCollum and Lillard operate off the ball, and they're overpowering when Moe Harkless is healthy enough to start.
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The fairytale-like characters that populate Rottenberg's world are workers around the globe who perform menial tasks and churn out mass-produced goods — cogs in the machine that powers our globalized capitalist economy.
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This article originally appeared on VICE UK In 19983, an anal sex-fearing fundamentalist preacher set the cogs in motion that would hold back Northern Ireland's progress on LGBT rights for decades to come.
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So perhaps a tiny piece of that snuck into a gap on the back of the hinge and then around or through its cogs until it lodged in between the screen and the hinge.
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The moon phase is an homage to more complicated watches that were able to display the phases of the moon using a perpetual calendar complication with a delightfully complex set of gears and cogs.
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So we become cogs in the Facebook machine, more susceptible to propaganda, blissfully unaware of the algorithm at work — and of all the ways in which it has inserted itself into our thought processes.
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In 2017, Buterin (who insists he's just one of many cogs inside Ethereum but is largely seen as the project's leader) said he will leave (Ethereum) if its community doesn't get its act together.
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These are days of many cogs in Trump's America — everything from the Republican officials who Trump says have abandoned him to the United States Justice Department to the women accusing him of sexual harassment.
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Soete is very welcoming of the movements on a policy front, but he cautioned that people don't need to hold out for the bureaucratic cogs to turn to make a difference this festival season.
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But go read this Motherboard story about Shipt because it has a lot of great details about how real people are affected when a company treats them like disposable cogs in their corporate wheel.
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The other four, and a raft more who do not support the bill, have all said the private insurers are either inescapable or, as many moderates argue, vital cogs in America's health care system.
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And, Netflix's COGS will only rise significantly as it tries to meet its 50% original content goal amidst competitors who drive up those costs higher, faster (and can use their OTT services as loss leaders).
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In spite of its title, The Turk was not a foreign dignitary, but an automaton, comprising a wooden exterior in the shape of a mustachioed man and a complex interior mechanism of cogs and gears.
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"Well, Judgie's one of the best players in the league and Sanchie's a great offensive player, so you take those two huge cogs out of the lineup, it's a big deal," Manager Aaron Boone said.
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Two key cogs in the Nationals' high-octane offense were held under wraps with Bryce Harper and Ryan Zimmerman going a combined 0-for-8 on Wednesday to see their impressive batting averages tumble to .
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Human forms are replaced by outsized gears, cogs, and wheels, which are painted in primary colors and worn by performers who move mechanically, as if they had just escaped from the factories where they were made.
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Bitcoin is a very big machine and its cogs are numerous; there are even conspiracy theories that say some miners will reject the proposal at the last second precisely to cause a rift and create chaos.
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They are thumbing through their income statement and picking off the largest categories to "productize" — first technology (AWS), then fulfillment (FBA), then COGS (the actual products themselves via Amazon's various private label programs), and next shipping.
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San Francisco may be without one of its key offensive cogs for the series finale, as right fielder Hunter Pence left Wednesday's game in the fourth inning with a hamstring injury suffered running to first base.
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And there's certainly some of that in the film, along with some familiar modernist fears that we're all just cogs in a machine, that being obsessed with work, productivity, and conformity makes us lose our individuality.
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If at least three Republicans disappear into negotiations with Democrats over an Obamacare stabilization bill, ACA supporters will have succeeded in grinding the legislative machinery to a halt, and Trumpcare will be stuck in the cogs indefinitely.
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So if you're looking for a little bit of inspiration yourself or just want to see what goes on in the cogs and wheels of Lena Dunham's mind, it might be time to click over to Pinterest.
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In "Monumental," that truism is illustrated by this Canadian dance company, whose members thrash about and cavort in black-and-white work attire, channeling both cogs in the capitalist machine and animals trying to escape their cage.
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Realizing, as I stare into the abyss of my spreadsheets, that we are all cogs in a capitalist machine that commodifies our health from the moment of our conception to the day we go to our grave?
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French visual artist Ingrid Maillard, who frequently works with graphite mediums and favors depictions of the human body, juxtaposes the objective angles against the pulsing racket of the mind and the working cogs of the nervous system.
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Extreme value, both monetary and emotional, is placed on certain individual dogs, while an entire underclass of dogs are treated as objects, as means to an end, as cogs in the wheels of human commerce and moneymaking.
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Not only that, creators Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan have thrown another wrench into their precious machine's cogs: This third season, at least judging by this Sunday's premiere, doesn't primarily take place at the Westworld theme park.
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In person, it's much easier to get a sense of the massive number of people required to create television; writers, producers, publicists, casting agents, lawyers, accountants, and all the various cogs and wheels that make the machine run.
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At stake is France's identity as one of the most powerful cogs in the engine of the European Union, at a time when many voters around the continent have turned to populism and soured on the trading bloc.
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He is enmeshed in a series of cogs, as Chaplin was in " Modern Times " (1936), and the homage that King pays to Wes Anderson, not least to the jailbreak in " The Grand Budapest Hotel " (2014), is positively slavish.
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As described in organizational researcher Frederic Laloux's book "Redefining Organizations" (which Hsieh instructed all employees to read), a small turn of a big cog at the top of a traditional management hierarchy can send many small cogs spinning.
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While competitors give you as many as nine cogs to swap, the CX-5 is left with a six-speed automatic that's plenty smooth but doesn't have enough ratios to get the best performance out of the engine.
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Sunday's latest emergency action suggests the Fed believed the cogs of the US economic machine were getting gummed up, and it was concerned that waiting even three more days could be too late to prop up the economy.
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Iraqi intelligence officials say that high-value detainees, people accused of involvement in specific terrorist attacks, are held separately from the majority of prisoners, who are suspected of having been low-level cogs in the Islamic State bureaucracy.
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When you are sitting in a hunting blind for hours in the cold it just takes a second to listen and hear all the cogs and gears turning and grinding in mother nature's clock, which is the world.
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The scale and the speed of China's economic transformation were conducive to a fictive mode that concerns itself with the fate of whole societies, planets, and galaxies, and in which individuals are presented as cogs in larger systems.
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While figuring out how to co-exist is the story of 21st century societies, figuring how to do more work with fewer human cogs is the story of the 21st century economy (and those two stories are highly related).
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Not a place where security or safety is a primary concern, but instead, a place where employers obsessively monitor employees in some misguided attempt to maximize profit by chewing up and spitting out the fleshy cogs in their machine.
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Looking ahead, Jackson suggested that the Knicks did not need to pursue one of the top free-agent point guards, even if they have become among the most vital cogs in the predominant style of play in the league.
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Sharr White's new play, set in 1977, spotlights one of the political machine's spunkier cogs: Polly Noonan (Edie Falco), a real-life party operative who had a close relationship with the mayor of Albany at that time (Michael McKean).
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Pink and yellow discs that could be suns, flowers, or the cogs of some transcendental machine burst up out of two motley columns in the piece's upper half, while clear acrylic glitters like smashed safety glass around its edges.
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Anyone who wants to catch a glimpse of the designers, editors, buyers and celebrities who turn the cogs of London Fashion Week will find an Art Deco-inspired restaurant called Casa Cruz is the best bet for a sighting.
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The museum establishment — usually one of the most cumbersome and slow-moving cogs in the machinery of the art world — presents itself here as motivated to overcome its inertia and move towards a more varied representation of contemporary art practice.
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In a minor holiday miracle, though, the cogs of consumerism have started turning again and the Star Wars drones will be available for preorder at some point before the holidays, although we don't know when, through Brookstone and other retailers.
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There are thousands of cogs that must work in unison to protect DC leadership, symbols of democracy like the Declaration of Independence and the Liberty Bell, and a few specific private industry heads before the capital is flattened by a nuke.
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The HKW doesn't miss its chance to merrily topple male-modernist myths, and adds a new twist: these celebrated artists were cogs in the capitalist expansion, unbeknownst to them, frontmen for the CIA's global mission to plant the aesthetics of freedom.
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If Payton is the last of a dying breed—the pass-first ball-handler who can do just about everything but keep defenders 100 percent honest beyond the arc—then NBA may become a homogeneous collection of positionless 3-and-D cogs.
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Addressing the laborers as cogs in a machine, the firm streamlines the workplace to be its most efficient, and through the lens of Farocki's camera we are left with a shiver, witnessing how inhumane and devoid of feeling the process of work becomes.
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As the team members think through the implications of their task — and yes, you might expect they'd have stopped to do that sooner — they begin to wonder: Are they potentially safeguarding humanity, or have they signed on as cogs in a new Holocaust?
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Much more than technology, consumer goods are highly dependent on real-world uncertainties, like fluctuating commodity prices or supply chain disruptions, which can increase a startup's COGS and thus negatively impact the bottom line — so healthy margins are imperative for downside protection.
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This is where we get the cogs of castles and sigils and the final shot of the astrolabe rotating around the sun with engravings that show the battle for the throne between the stag (Baratheon), lion (Lannister), wolf (Stark), and dragon (Targaryen).
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But as many 20- and 30-somethings struggle to make ends meet, they continue to purchase readily from Amazon, an online retail giant routinely accused of preying on smaller rivals while treating its own workers like cogs in an ever-expanding machine.
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The Ricky Gervais-starring series premieres less than a month after the debut of Miracle Workers, a TBS comedy about two cogs in the heaven wheel (Daniel Radcliffe and Blockers breakout Geraldine Viswanathan) trying to stop God (Steve Buscemi, natch) from ending the world forever.
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Members of the Coast Guard, he said, volunteered their time off in his kitchens, and ICE agents who are cogs in the deportation machines he has been critical of "helped feed people with the most love I've ever seen in my life," he said.
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One can argue, though, that a higher level of studio involvement is more justified in regard to these modern blockbusters, which are not only hugely expensive to make but as much cogs in an elaborate global marketing apparatus as they are stand-alone films.
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With his combination of youth, size and relevance on both ends of the court, he became one of the most important cogs in the Thunder machine, even if he is being paid about $24.7 million less this season than Kanter, who is essentially his backup.
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There's a genuine sadness on Boy Man Machine; lyrics bemoan the rise of machine and the loss of self, while guitars lack any sign of humanity, distorted and turned into noises that sound like the loading of guns, the turning of cogs in the machine.
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Through these experiences, Mr. Brennan, who describes himself as "an obsessed, introverted farmer/cider maker," gained a deepened wonder and love for apple trees, particularly those that have been permitted to follow their wild nature rather than trained as undignified cogs in industrial orchards.
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Their ideas were opposed to those who tried to create a "national school" in Armenian Soviet architecture; the image on the first issue of Standard, a montage of Lenin atop some cranks and cogs, gives a good idea of where they were coming from.
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Observe Yourself Being Watched investigated — through video, photography, and installation — exactly who or what we want to become: more efficient cogs and consumers; safer but continuously data-farmed and eerily stalked by personalized digital ads in a Godless future, or liberated post-singularity gods ourselves.
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For the most part, the great TV dramas of the post-Sopranos era (so roughly 1999 to the present) ask how we function in a modern society that seems designed to turn us into cogs in a giant, implacable system that couldn't care less about us.
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To make this point more clear: Most of the bikes you  can buy at Walmart or other major retailers include a big, heavy piece of metal near the rear wheel called a "chain derailleur" that moves the metal chain to different cogs when you shift gears.
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Obviously the people are indoctrinated, but the automatic conclusion that they have all been completely desensitized to become unthinking cogs in the state apparatus is an exceedingly simplistic analysis and typical of the kind of assumption one makes without having been there — I had made it too.
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Growth remained very consistent tho expenses came in higher from Other COGS, including costs related to YouTube, & R&D (Other Bets revaluations raising stock comp)...The largest Ad Revenue-based 'Net business has now averaged 23% growth for 36 straight quarters & shows no signs of slowing.
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Through the course of covering its French operations over the past few years, I've spoken to many disgruntled Uber drivers who have grown frustrated with the company's fare cuts, and there's a growing sense here, as in the US, that they're just cogs in a capitalist machine.
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My goal is that when every year our logistics get better and better, our COGs reduces, so that hopefully we can offer this same value, over time, at $99 a month, which would really open us up to around 80 million households in the U.S. KS: Right.
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Designed to estimate the costs at which banks will lend to each other, rates such as Libor and Euribor are central cogs in the global financial system and a benchmark for interest rates on an estimated $450 trillion of financial contracts, from derivatives to student loans.
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Designed to estimate the costs at which banks will lend to each other, benchmark rates such as Libor and Euribor are central cogs in the global financial system and a benchmark for interest rates on an estimated $450 trillion of financial contracts, from derivatives to student loans.
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The cogs don't actually mesh until over halfway through, which is a little late, but the question of who is going to do what to whom keeps you queasily engaged, especially after the Worker modifies his plan of rape and murder in favor of something more florid.
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When there are only a few customers to service, cost of goods sold (COGS) can appear artificially low because the true costs to serve have not yet been tracked as distinct cost centers as most of your team members wear multiple hats and pitch in ad hoc.
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Yet if Scorsese sounded dismissive, and perhaps a little out of touch, he was identifying the fact that such movies operate as cogs in larger corporate machines -- designed not merely to create an experience in a theater, but to move merchandise, inspire theme park attractions and so on.
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But amid the scrambling by the media, cogs were also turning behind the scenes in another unique multimillion-dollar industry: the lawyers and crisis public relations professionals called upon to act as the first line of defense for the accused during a moment unlike any in US history.
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He baldly opined that several journalists are mere "cogs in an activist enterprise that churns out both pro-Antifa propaganda and doxing information about real or imagined ideological enemies"—which is a rather rude way to refer to people who are doing their literal jobs by exposing neo-Nazis.
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They're cogs in the gears of the music industrial complex, singing so the manufacturer can have things to press, the label can have records to sell, the radio can have songs to play, the promoters can have tickets to move, and the kids can have stuff to stream.
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A knockout blow came from a spectacular mishap: In June, an American helicopter gunship patrolling Saigon's Chinatown fired an errant rocket, incinerating Ky's brother-in-law, the Saigon and Cholon District police chiefs and four other high-ranking police officials — all vital cogs in Ky's political and underworld networks.
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KEY ASSUMPTIONS Fitch's key assumptions within the rating case for the issuer include: --In fiscal 2016, Fitch expects Ocean Spray will increase revenue in the low single digits; --Cranberry COGS adjustment in the mid-single digit of revenue for imputed cost of cranberries; --EBITDA margins (without cranberry COGS adjustment) in the low 503% range for fiscal 2016 and 2017; --In fiscal 2016 and beyond, Ocean Spray is expected to derive cash flow benefits from adjusting grow-owner payment schedules to better align grower advances to pool earnings; --Leverage (total debt-to-adjusted operating EBITDA) will decrease to approximately 2.6x at the end of fiscal 2016 and continue to trend down in fiscal 2017 and beyond.
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"There are too many people at work who are treated like cogs in a machine rather than being human beings, and there are too many people who don't see a route from their current job to progress and earn more and do better," Matthew Taylor, the report's author, told BBC News.
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"We refuse to participate in the creation of databases of identifying information for the United States government to target individuals based on race, religion, or national origin," reads the petition, which has been signed by over 600 cogs in the tech machine from companies such as Google, PayPal, Apple, and GitHub.
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It becomes clear that these artists were themselves cogs in the Soviet propaganda machine, a role that may have been forgotten 100 years later, in a contemporary climate where rock bands co-opt political imagery for their own ends (something that, 15 years ago, Hal Foster referred to as 'fetishitic constructivism').
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What the Trump meeting also showed is how little we actually understand how the major cogs of the US economy work: our reliance on trading partners like Mexico, the benefits that have redounded to both nations under free trade agreements, and the importance of perfecting, but not discarding bilateral commercial agreements.
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Just listen to his latest comments explaining how wonderful and great and productive billionaires are such that they most certainly deserve the rewards of having more money than one could spend in a lifetime while working class Americans are treated as inhuman disposable cogs who apparently deserve misery, struggle, and addiction.
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Constance: One of the biggest critiques of Mr. Robot since its premiere has been that it tends to take itself too seriously, like it's the TV equivalent of a first-year philosophy student, sipping a beer and explaining the ways in which we're all just cogs in the machine, man.
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Further along they take curtain calls with divas on stage at La Scala, or they are tailors wielding measuring tapes, or chefs in hats, or watchmakers in a workshop in waistcoats, the cogs and innards of a clock spilling out before them; or disco dancers, in sequins, on a multicolored flashing floor.
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What followed after that initial tip was a yearlong investigation that culminated with the arrest of Meredith and other coaches; parents, including actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin; cogs in the alleged scam, such as Mark Riddell, accused of taking tests for others or fixing scores; and the mastermind of the plot, Singer.
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In its function, it feels like a world founded on the idea that if you can just imbue it with enough randomness, enough player-independent activity and interaction, enough probabilistic cogs and gears to let random characters and random story beats to fit together, we can imbue that world with life as well.
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But then Vicari couldn't do it in the studio for various reasons, and you didn't want to make Prince go to LA. In the end you compromised and planned to lay down the record in Sausalito, across the bay from San Francisco, but that cogs didn't exactly run smoothly in that situation either…Right.
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And Mr. Rasche, 50, has once again brought his distinctive brand of "machine theater," which transforms the stage into an elaborate mechanical assemblage while treating the actors as cogs in an all-consuming apparatus, this time for a production of "Elektra," adapted from Sophocles' tragedy in 1903 by the Austrian writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal.
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At a recent Washington conference, panelists from the law firm of Caplin & Drysdale, audit and consulting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers and the IRS talked about the new law's Base Erosion and Anti-Abuse Tax (BEAT) and how it interacts with a standard business accounting entry called cost of goods sold (COGS) that encompasses the expenses of producing goods.
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But as Eric Limer shows us over at Popular Mechanics, check out what happens when someone tries to do this on a Facit ESA-25 mechanical calculator, with the cover helpfully removed so all the internal workings are exposed:The machine pretty much goes insane, its gears and cogs hammering away in a nonstop frenzy of clacking. WTF?
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There are several reasons margins have struggled to improve, but everyone agrees that one of the primary problems is that sales growth has been stagnant while the cost of doing business — the cost of goods sold (COGS), which is the cost of materials and the direct labor costs used to produce the goods — have been rising.
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Echoing longstanding complaints from blue-collar workers that they have become replaceable cogs in a globalized economic machine, the effort reflects a growing view among more highly educated employees in recent decades that they, too, are at the mercy of faceless organizations and are not being treated like professionals and aspiring professionals whose opinions are worthy of respect.
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The first things we see in the film are the cogs of the town clock, grinding away in the belfry, and it crossed my mind that Farhadi could have planted his film in the same spot but wound the clock back by six or seven decades, to an age when Franco still ruled and the Church held solemn sway.
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But it's also one of the more insightful series of its particular generation when it comes to questions of how broken capitalist systems turn people into literal spare parts, exploitable cogs that can be hammered into place and treated like shit because they have no real value as human beings, just as pieces of the larger system.
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In a summer that has already seen several sequels, including Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Cars 3, and Transformers: The Last Knight, open to lukewarm reception — and with plenty more still to come — Willmore is frustrated that Hollywood's current summer offerings amount to little more than cogs in the machine of franchise filmmaking.
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Given the history of slavery, of Jim Crow, and segregation, whether it's enforced (Native American reservations and the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882) or voluntary (gated communities and Hudson Yards) — all cogs in a sanctioned reign of brutality and disenfranchisement visited by one part of society on another — Driskell's decision to go his own way is to be admired and praised.
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"The Brexit crisis looks like it may be heading into an awkward period of uncertainty as the cogs in the British and EU bureaucracies slowly begin to whir into action," said Angus Nicholson, a market analyst at spreadbettor IG. Lien added that the political uncertainty in Britain translated into a long wait in the forex market, and that it did not bode well for currencies.
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It's not clear if Workplace's win at Nestlé is replacing another product; it seems, however, that it is more likely a trend of how more businesses are making an investment in company-wide communications platforms where they may never have had one before, in hopes of it helping keep employees switched on, linked up and generally more happy and feeling less like expendable cogs.
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Maybe this is all part of the big "Black Mirror" plan to make everyone as nihilistic as possible; to remind us that being British is very sad but it's better than the alternatives; to illuminate the fact that we are just cogs in a machine that produces more machine; that my futile role such that it is will soon be obviated by that exact machine.
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With cultural roots in the skinhead movement (though a separate strain than that which is associated with White Power politics), Northern Soul dance parties allowed workers to throw off the shackles of their repetitious work week, as cogs in the industrial machine, with all-night dance parties fueled by amphetamines and a particular type of music that coalesced in the wake of the Motown sound.
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EUR400 MILLION * EXPECTED COGS SYNERGIES OF MORE THAN EUR120 MILLION, PRIMARILY RELATE TO CONSOLIDATION OF COMBINED GLOBAL MANUFACTURING FOOTPRINT * IN LONGER TERM, AMS ANTICIPATES SIGNIFICANT ADDITIONAL REVENUE SYNERGIES FROM ACCELERATING ROADMAPS IN NEW OPTICAL SOLUTION AND PHOTONIC AREAS * TRANSACTION VALUES OSRAM AT AN ENTERPRISE VALUE OF EUR4.3 BILLION * CO INTENDS TO RAISE EUR1.5 BILLION (ISSUE CURRENCY CHF) OF NEW EQUITY WHICH HAS BEEN FULLY UNDERWRITTEN BY HSBC AND UBS Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage:
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"Some see the opportunity to reform the Church from abuses as a counter-revolution ... against the Church of Vatican II itself," Faggioli told Vox in an email, "something that would not have been imaginable under ... John Paul II." But the timing of the Pennsylvania report itself speaks less to a specific change in culture of believing abuse victims than it does the catastrophically slow turning of the cogs in the Catholic bureaucratic machine, and the sheer scope of the crisis.
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In the end, I felt that many people couldn't define democracy in complex or interesting ways because it wasn't something they experienced day to day: not during the media and celebrity-driven circus of national elections that happen every four years, nor at their jobs where they have to keep their heads down and are treated like cogs in a machine, nor at their schools where they are encouraged to see themselves more as consumers seeking a return on investment than as citizens educating themselves to participate in the common good.
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What you make of it, the straw-and-dung-flecked scene, whether or not you scroll witchcraft into it or construe the mare as a stud or momentarily affiliate the stall boy's jacket, its pleats and ripply tucks, with high station: though these cogs in the gearing of your take tooth a definite sequence, coloring and culling a specific harvest—these tell less in the mound weight on the pan balance than how the macro already in you cups it, the man you are, the woman you are, leaning in at the stall, breathing, not breathing.
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RATING SENSITIVITIES Future developments that may, individually or collectively, lead to a positive rating action include: --Increase in grower equity approaching the 30% range of total capitalization; --Total debt-to-adjusted operating EBITDA sustained below the 3.0x range due to operating income growth and/or debt reduction; --Demonstrated ability to generate discretionary cash flow to reduce debt; --Expectations for stable revenue trends with low single-digit revenue growth driven by innovation; --Per barrel patronage rates reflecting healthy operating conditions for Ocean Spray and its member-owners; --EBITDA margins (absent COGS adjustments) sustained at least in the low 20% range.
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Future developments that may, individually or collectively, lead to a negative rating action include: --Total debt-to-adjusted operating EBITDA sustained above mid 173x range due to materially lower than expected operating income, or unanticipated debt-financed acquisitions; --Negative cash deficit over multiyear period driven by higher capital investment and working capital requirements funded by debt; --Revenue weaker than expectations; --EBITDA margins (absent COGS adjustments) sustained below 20%; --Grower equity as a percent of total capitalization declines to the lower 20% range; --Lack of appropriate level of external liquidity with sufficient covenant capacity in the event of a material revolver draw-down.
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