This is a selfie I took yesterday as a baseline.
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As a baseline, several factors work against the United States.
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This story has been updated using 2009 as a baseline instead.
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You can also use your completed 2018 return as a baseline.
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We are projecting 6% as a baseline, with significant upside potential.
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We can take our own Milky Way galaxy as a baseline.
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We started with a simple white bread as a baseline test.
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With that as a baseline, most anything else is a heartbreaking letdown.
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"Teenage girls really like horses and wolves, as a baseline," Sotira says.
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Researchers used water as a baseline, assigning it a score of one.
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Both charts use February 1st, Iowa caucus day, as a baseline of 100.
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A tablet should have a higher amount of storage as a baseline option.
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Media reports did not specify what year Yu was using as a baseline comparison.
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Using the Pentagon's massive budget as a baseline, this is a relatively small increase.
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That goes beyond the billions spent as a baseline for policing the border each year.
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Using that sedan as a baseline you're reminded this is very much a luxury item.
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The company uses its 2015 emissions of 51.2 million tonnes of CO2 as a baseline.
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That scenario is meant as a baseline against which to measure the effects of new policies.
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When asked, ICE did not have information on what the administration is using as a baseline.
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We've only been in school for a week, so I use the assignment as a baseline.
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As a baseline VR experience, Windows 10 and the Acer Mixed Reality Headset and Controllers nails it.
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In this analysis, we use current plans sold through the Affordable Care Act's exchanges as a baseline.
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As a baseline, I used public information requests to get details on the MLS stadium in Colorado.
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Today, Paris' current disaster planning uses the 1910 flood as a baseline and a worst-case scenario.
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As a baseline, the poll also included four celebrities: George Clooney, Justin Bieber, Bill Murray, and Tom Brady.
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And most importantly, it's a stream of income independent of all other income that functions as a baseline.
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Problems arise not when we appreciate the struggle, but when we impose it on people as a baseline.
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The report was used as a baseline to establish which qualifying conditions were well-supported by the science.
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"not changing anything" as a baseline—show that we're headed off a cliff in terms of planetary habitability.
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However, if we take his better rookie season as a baseline, his WP48 at 26 wil be 0.153.
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And there's no state that's otherwise identical to Alaska that didn't enact the policy to use as a baseline.
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Notes: [1] Calculated by taking 63 revenues * (1-86%), divided by 2016 1 year cohort spend (as a baseline).
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We can also use these 220 respondents as a baseline against which we can compare their 290 survey responses.
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We must view intersectionality not as some lofty goal, but as a baseline requirement for our participation in feminism.
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Scientific institutions typically use the average temperature between 1.53 and 1900, also known as preindustrial levels, as a baseline.
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Dr. Casas: As a baseline, everyone we train to be an operator has to be a pharmacist, nurse, or physician.
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Mr Hassenfeld likens the organisation to an index—it serves as a baseline against which other charities can be judged.
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And he anticipated that China would overcome its challenges as a baseline forecast, but he noted concerns over debt levels.
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The gun physics in Ravenfield feel as good as a baseline as the jumping, whacking, and digging of Minecraft did.
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So, using the Agriculture Department's economy food plan as a baseline, her formula multiplied the cost of food by three.
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Democrats said, however, that the ostensibly nonpartisan map was never intended to be used as a baseline for actual districts.
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This is why it used the March 2016 data as a baseline for its score on the Senate's healthcare bill.
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Using the Goldman Sachs commodity index as a baseline, Jones said prices are down 15 percent over the past 40 days.
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And the efforts that they're making so far are just what they need to do as a baseline response under pressure.
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Scientists will now use this dramatically improved figure as a baseline when monitoring the effects of climate change on the continent.
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It used Sunday, the worst day to list, as a baseline and then calculated the relative advantages for every other day.
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The prime rate that banks use as a baseline for interest rates usually rises immediately after the Fed makes a move.
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In 1919, American and European feminists led the global fight for paid maternity leave as a baseline standard of social justice.
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The scientists left the remaining three pools unaltered, to serve as a baseline for measuring changes in the other nine pools.
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As a baseline, you'll be able to count on speeds that match the best of what LTE can do right now.
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Participation in the program will be among the criteria the union uses as a baseline for supporting candidates, an official said.
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As a baseline, we plot your results against those of the S&P 500, a broad gauge of stock market performance.
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Pledges by states help set America on the path to a 17% cut in emissions by 2025, using 2005 as a baseline.
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We examine the human side, use machines as a baseline, and ask when and how humans behave in a machine-like manner.
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Longer-term bonds could have a major impact on international bond markets, which often rely on U.S. Treasury bills as a baseline.
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The agreement was to reduce supply by 1.2 million barrels per day (bpd) for six months using October production as a baseline.
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The default amount serves as a baseline for a shopper's potential tip, and can be increased to any amount by the customer.
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"The First Amendment doesn't prohibit the state from using a previously conveyed price as a baseline for a price regulation," he said.
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"As a baseline of the conversation, he has to produce a better economy for anything else he is doing to make sense."
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But using $753 as a baseline, most of these models make these sales on the platforms they use for other online sex work.
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He told me a common ratio is about 70 percent VG and 30 percent PG, so I used that as a baseline metric.
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The shipment included "type specimens," which are rare samples highly sought by botanists who use them as a baseline to compare other plants.
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That means engaged couples should be able to take this information and use it as a baseline for their wedding planning going forward.
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Several candidates land below the 1% marker set out as a baseline for inclusion in the Democratic National Committee's upcoming debates -- including Sen.
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Heteronormativity here means emphasizing the unspoken normality of heterosexuality, setting it as a baseline from which everything else is judged by its distance.
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Using 2019 and 2020 pollution levels as a baseline, countries and their carriers will be allocated a set quota of "emissions units" each year.
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Here's the rub: Obamacare sets the size of its tax credits by using the cost of the second-cheapest silver plan as a baseline.
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Prescriptions are measured by morphine milligram equivalents, which uses morphine as a baseline to measure the equivalent prescribed opioid, which may be more powerful.
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It would use Medicare prices as a baseline, setting prices as a percentage of what the federal program that covers elderly Americans currently charges.
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The Fed's benchmark sets the rate for what banks charge each other for overnight lending but also serves as a baseline for most consumer debt.
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Recently, for example, I went to Kroeger's for an order, and I got a batch payment with somewhere between $260 to $22 as a baseline.
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There was a time about 10 years ago when I'd have said two a week as a baseline; now it's more like two a day.
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That's why Congress directed the study to use military we had in 2012 as a baseline, to reflect the needs of a more capable force.
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Instead, it uses them as a baseline for a second round of analysis that determines whether plans to return capital to shareholders will be approved.
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"The helmet is a multi-faceted tool that provides protection and life support as a baseline," said 1st Lt. Anton King, 75th Fighter Squadron pilot.
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In the most concentrated, least competitive markets, the government should cap how much hospitals can charge private insurers, using Medicare rates as a baseline, he says.
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It looks as though Disney is looking to use some original work from Williams as a baseline for the film, from which Powell will work from.
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If Iowa is the most Midwestern state, then I think it's fair to set the total number of its votes as a baseline for maximum Midwesternness.
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The FTC uses its own prior actions as a baseline, but those baselines are so low as to be effectively meaningless in a case like YouTube's.
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Unfortunately, there is no hard rule like the 60/40 split between stocks and bonds that serves as a baseline for investing in the public markets.
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ICE will escalate its spending during these periods, then use the newly inflated figure as a baseline for setting its budget for the next fiscal year.
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The Illinois law in question, the Biometric Information Privacy Act, requires as a baseline that companies obtain prior consent from people before gathering their biometric data.
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"You basically print out the 3D photograph into a 3D model and you can use that as a baseline to discuss with the patient," Tanna said.
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First, as a baseline rule, for the sake of overall American credibility and for that of our diplomats, Washington officials must be empowered to tell the truth.
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Hawley said game developers "shouldn't be able to monetize addiction" in children and highlighted the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act as a baseline guide for the bill.
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"We should take it as a baseline since there are things you can't always quantify by just looking at a chart review and billing data," McLaughlin said.
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The soft, warm, somnolent form of the miniature yellow bovine, about as big as a baseline Shih Tzu, hardly seemed worth millions of NUbucks, but it was.
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Many Democratic lawmakers argue that any national legislation should leave California as a baseline and extend those protections across the country and add more protections if necessary.
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And while scientists are still uncertain whether they were a fluke or part of a trend, they are warning we should treat it as a baseline year.
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At my restaurant in Seattle, called Stateside, I start with Vietnamese food as a baseline for my cooking and I take some liberties in Chinese and French directions.
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But as a baseline position, I think assuming a null effect is a more reasonable guess than assuming that voter preferences are heavily influenced by candidates' issue statements.
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The idea of a "pre-industrial" climate serves as a baseline in determining how global warming impacts the Earth, and how much hotter it can afford to get.
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The auto industry has been rallying around 200 miles as a baseline range for practicality; below that, range anxiety starts to become a big concern for potential buyers.
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Second, ensure that the Trump administration trade policy is supported by Congress by passing a "model" trade treaty to serve as a baseline of US trade treaty negotiations.
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With that knowledge as a baseline — the unquestionable acceptance of an uphill battle — get to the root of why you're so afraid of making changes in your life.
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Shown in his new concrete headquarters, the collection took as a baseline the military uniforms that are the origin of virtually all the core elements of men's wear.
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Using English as a baseline, you would need approximately 700 hours to become proficient in a foreign language as measured by Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
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Practically, that means using the successful 803 Assault Weapons Ban as a baseline, and updating it to cover new models and firearm technologies in the 25 years since.
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MORE (R-Ariz.) acknowledged it busts spending caps by more than $85033 billion and called on Congress to use the bill's figures as a baseline for budget negotiations.
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MORE (R-Ariz.) acknowledged it busts spending caps by more than $22019 billion and called on Congress to use the bill's figures as a baseline for budget negotiations.
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As part of the deal, the $3 billion capital buffer will be used as a baseline each quarter to determine dividend payments from Fannie and Freddie, Treasury said.
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Wallarm then uses this profile as a baseline to measure against, rapidly differentiating malicious hacker threats from normal requests and effectively reducing the number of false positives to zero.
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By using Google's own results as a baseline for "unbiased" search, and directly measuring user behavior, the plug-in helped critics make a concrete argument against Google's search practices.
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The study used the $10 increase in hourly wages at the start of the year as a baseline and simulated that to calculate the results for $15 an hour.
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Kazakh deputy energy minister Magzum Mirzagaliyev told reporters in Abu Dhabi that he understood Saudi Arabia was suggesting using August-October output levels as a baseline for determining cuts.
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In other places, pricing guidelines use the fair market price of an item as a baseline and mandate that the prices stay within 10 percent of the current selling price.
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If you're interested in learning the above dance, or at least using it as a baseline for your own unique choreography to Bey's song, you can download a tutorial here.
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OPEC members are reportedly trying to reach agreement on a deal lasting for just six months, but the production allocations are likely to be cited as a baseline for future deals.
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Whiteness has long been deracialized, which is to say, considered not as a race but as a baseline, not as a way of being so much as the way of being.
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Update: Late Thursday night Twitter tweeted a lengthy statement about its DAU-to-MAU ratio, advising people not to use past ratios as a baseline for calculating its current DAU total.
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Aitken acknowledges some employers use a previous salary as a baseline to determine future pay, but he says that's typically within the salary range it already has established for the position.
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Measured against October 2018 production used as a baseline by most OPEC members in the supply accord, supply from the three exempt nations had declined by 1.37 million bpd by May.
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Longer-term bonds, which could last for 50 or even 100 years, would have a major impact on international bond markets, which often rely on U.S. Treasury bills as a baseline.
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While you might come across a fitness class that uses twerking as a baseline to activate certain core muscles, you'll be hard-pressed to find an actual class that teaches twerk.
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Measured against October 73 production used as a baseline by most OPEC members in the supply accord, supply from the three exempt nations had declined by 1.37 million bpd by May.
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Using that 37 percent figure as a baseline, the EU would see its steel imports to the U.S. fall by nearly 2 million metric tons at a loss of $2.4 billion.
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But if the distance in quality isn't too great, most VR developers will probably target the Oculus Quest as a baseline, since it has the same features and controls as the Rift.
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Its record label partners expect guarantee payments as a baseline for their continued allegiance to the service, on top of the per-stream rates that Spotify provides when users actually listen to music.
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Higher prices have contributed to more drilling, particularly in the Permian Basin of western Texas and eastern New Mexico, raising the current rig count and actual production the forecast uses as a baseline.
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In its 2016 whitepaper explaining its proposed air taxis, Uber uses chartered helicopters as a baseline for safety estimations, with the company's ultimate goal being to create eVTOLs that are safer than cars.
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Absent a comprehensive national strategy to counter this ongoing threat, state and local governments must use information from the 2016 and 2018 elections as a baseline to understand threats facing their electoral systems.
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Hiding your poverty, performing middle-class-ness, and just plain not talking about class is something American culture seemingly requires of us as a baseline behavior, as a condition of survival, let alone advancement.
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These future emissions will, however, add warming on top of the already committed warming and so our study can act as a baseline for estimating how far we are from reaching various temperature targets.
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Using a federal government formula for housing affordability as a baseline, Smart Asset created a 28 percent rent-to-income ratio to determine how much money households needed to afford rent in all 300 cities.
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A proposed all-payer system, where California would create a board to set provider rates for all insurance plans using Medicare as a baseline, was shelved after facing serious opposition from the state's hospital lobby.
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One level deeper: The study, as a baseline, assumes the Trump administration plan would delay retirement of an estimated 7,800 megawatts of coal-fired generation capacity and 1,100 megawatts of nuclear capacity over two years.
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Diplomats fear that entails a tricky sharing out of agricultural quotas, but Fox said Britain would use a "sensible" method of using three years' trade as a baseline, which would ensure there were no disputes.
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SO IF YOU START FROM THAT AS A BASELINE, AND THE FACT THAT A NUMBER OF THE PEOPLE HE IS INVOLVED AS CABINET PEOPLE AND PEOPLE AT THE NEW WHITE HOUSE ARE QUITE KNOWLEDGEABLE, QUITE SOPHISTICATED.
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Initiated last summer, the report is the first of its type and is intended to serve as a baseline to measure progress as the DCA works to promote diversity to create a more inclusive cultural sector.
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Live transcription and captioning in Android are a boon to the hearing-impaired A standard voice-recognition model was used as a baseline, then tweaked in a few experimental ways, training it on the new audio.
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"While certainly it removes some pressure for an all or nothing deal, it seems the gap between what the two sides want as a baseline and are willing to reciprocate still has not narrowed," Town added.
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The meteorological organization found that global temperatures from January to September were about 0.88 degrees Celsius (1.58 degrees Fahrenheit) above the average for the years from 1961 to 5463, a period the organization uses as a baseline.
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Rosenblatt estimated the impact those park closures could have, using Asia as a baseline for a France closure and 2017's Hurricane Irma, when Disney World was shuttered for two days, as a guide for the US:
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By The New York Times | Photo by Matt Nolan Dr. Nolan spent most of July flying across the 1002 Area making a high-resolution elevation map that will serve as a baseline for any changes to come.
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"If you notice that they really focus on the head, or if they tend to squeeze as they stroke, follow these guides as a baseline — since nobody knows a body as well as their own," she says.
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With that presumption as a baseline, any congressional action to repeal or limit CMMI actions would be scored as lost savings and would require lawmakers to either increase federal revenues or find alternative budget cuts to compensate.
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Like most fast-growth companies, we look for highly motivated individuals willing to wholly buy into a broader vision, and it's worth stating directly at the beginning of the interview process as a baseline for all potential hires.
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For example, the researchers' "synthetic Seattle" statistical model, used as a baseline to suggest what might have happened in Seattle without the wage increase, excludes 45 percent of the relevant job market, according to critics of the study.
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Because American political memory uses the 20th century as a baseline, there's a dominant assumption that the current, high state of polarization is the aberration, and the relative comity of mid-century American politics the state of nature.
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Recouping some savings from a pot of $25 billion, if we're using U.S. Part B drug spending in 2015 as a baseline, isn't nothing, but Part B drug spending overall only accounts for three percent of total Medicare spending.
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"The very people who keep calling the law broken have the ACA's track record of covering more people with high quality benefits as a baseline to improve from," said Slavitt, whose massive former agency oversees the health-care law.
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There will always be issues between nations and differences in constitutions and systems of laws, but without sovereignty as a baseline there can be no fair debate between nations on a variety of issues including security and economic security.
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The administration has previously acknowledged that parents were removed without their children, but the latest report provides an updated count -- which had been requested by the American Civil Liberties Union to serve as a baseline to better track reunifications.
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"With all these conditions, we could compare the brain signals evoked by playing the irregular harmony or irregular fingering with the signal evoked by playing correct chords (used as a baseline)," explained Roberta Bianco, one of the authors of the study.
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One dodge to give the appearance rather than achieve the reality of reducing pollution, for example, is to pick a particularly fume-laden year as a baseline, according to Peter Williams, an expert on sustainability data at IBM, a computing firm.
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Using official EU growth forecasts as a baseline, the EBA's adverse scenario which includes the cocktail of shocks and risks, sees the EU economy contracting 1.2 percent this year, by 1.3 percent in 2017, and growing only 0.7 percent in 2018.
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The "clean energy plan" established by the Obama administration stipulates that each state would come out with a plan to use greenhouse gas emissions in 2005 as a baseline and hoped to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 32% by 2030.
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True free apps let users do all of this as a baseline, and then offer paid perks such as the ability to see everyone who has swiped right on you or boosting your profile for a certain amount of time.
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The final set started as a baseline slugfest with both players struggling to hold, until Stephens showed the kind of scintillating form that carried her to the 2017 U.S. Open title to ease away for a memorable come-from-behind victory.
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While there have been incremental gains since the 1970s in the institutional recognition of women artists — that is, if you take zero as a baseline — the issues of freedom, equal rights, economic parity, social justice, and personal respect are, if anything, in retreat.
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However, the new hundred-page regulation clarifies, in two brief sentences, that new standards will use 50% as a baseline in determining at-risk schools, making the rates far less dramatic than one would initially assume given ED's current calculation of repayment rates.
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A Intel Core i7-6600U Surface Book is used as a baseline, with a single-core score of 4,000, so don't panic if you're way below that in the charts, as long as your machine is still doing what you need it to.
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Sometimes the sisters' disappearance is in the foreground but more often it lingers at a distance — an echo on the news or a remote unease that serves as a baseline refrain to the other tragedies, small and large, that permeate the narrative.
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DeepMind's AlphaGo Zero was an immense achievement not just because of its speed, but because it was able to accomplish all this starting from scratch – researchers didn't do the first step where it uses human data as a baseline from which to begin the system's education.
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As a baseline, SRS Acquiom, a San Francisco-based outfit that provides M&A post-closing services to companies, says that 21 percent of the 735 private M&A transactions it saw between 2012 and 2015 featured an earn-out period of four to five years.
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As a baseline, the report's authors suggest that the EU draft legislation that makes it clear that people only have to establish "a causal link between the harmful behavior of the robot and the damage suffered by the injured party" to be able to claim compensation from a company.
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What they found, published Wednesday in a paper in the journal PLOS One, will be used as a baseline behavior for an upcoming study to test how narwhals respond to air gun blasts similar to the ones used by oil surveyors, and may help protect them in the future.
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I do know that it took me around three years to fill a 256GB SD card with my Canon 6D shooting our Disrupt events, product reviews and more, so using that as a baseline this should last you basically to the end of your natural life even with terrible data management practices.
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They tested participants&apos ability to quickly process and recall information, under three different conditions: after 20 minutes of light jogging or brisk walking on the treadmill; after consuming about as much caffeine, in powdered form, as in an average cup of coffee; and then with neither of these interventions, as a baseline.
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Male bodies have traditionally been used as a baseline in studies, in research, and in clinical trials, but female bodies react differently to medicine—and behave differently in medical crisis (case in point: women are more likely to have heart attack symptoms that are unrelated to chest pains, which makes them easier to miss).
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" On foreign affairs, the Daily News asked: "Expanding [Israeli] settlements is one thing; coming into office as a President who said as a baseline that you want Israel to pull back settlements, that changes the dynamic in the negotiations, and I'm wondering how far and what you want Israel to do in terms of pulling back.
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Breed told me that, for "Biopiracy," which was held in a riverside warehouse in Paris, he had sought to replicate the experience of being in a soundless environment—an impossibility at a fashion show—by having guests take their seats to a barely discernible recording of the warehouse's "room tone," the ambient sound that radio technicians record as a baseline audio setting.
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As a baseline, this is how congressional seats would be redistributed if we were to use state population estimates from the 22016 American Community Survey (instead of the 22010 census upon which the current map is based): Because of population change since that 22016 census, Texas, Florida, North Carolina and Oregon would gain a seat (and an electoral vote) from the current Congress.
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And so the real question here is, as a baseline, can we reinvent how people interact with businesses and services, and if it's services, then what are those services that are actually not making the cut of that home screen of yours for apps, and that could work inside of a conversation in Messenger where you have the identity of both parties and you have all of these tools that we've built on the platform?
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