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The hard disk has different sections called partitions and each of the partition is given with a drive letter. The whole storage capacity of the hard disk is divided into different partitions. Hard disk is secondary storage device which has high capacity to store data. You could format each partition and store the OS in the active partition (C: drive). The installation of an incompatible hardware or software might result in the corruption or crash of your OS. The system failure might also occur due to the improper shut down of the system or power failure. You need to format your system if your system is infected with virus. Sometimes a good antivirus program might not be able to remove virus from your system. The users of Windows 7 operating system can use many online tools and system recovery options for removing the issues related with the OS and for eliminating viruses from the system. But theses tools too fail sometimes and thus, the users have to opt for reformatting the hard drive and reinstall the operating system.
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Even though this is a very old recipe, I thought it might be something new to the "young whipper-snappers" who have recently joined Zaar. It was always a popular appetizer.
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The U.S. military has sought to appease al-Sadr by treading delicately in neighborhoods known to be
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In a pop-music world where image is all, the Dandy Warhols are fortunate to possess a stratospheric level of coolness. But these fours uniform good looks, runway-worthy ensembles, heaven-sent melodies and platinum sales in the U.K. still arent enough to make them feel like the rock stars they deserve to be. We dont sell a lot of records in America, so were being insulted constantly, gripes Courtney Taylor-Taylor, he of the bee-stung lips and classic bone structure. Every aspect of this business is just one slap in the face after another, right down to secretaries who didnt do this or whatever because Oh, we got too busy. But Taylor-Taylor fails to mention the Portland, Oregon, bands stellar soundtrack placement were talking blockbusters like Theres Something About Mary, Good Will Hunting and, lately, Tomb Raider: Cradle of Life, not to mention the indie critics pick Igby Goes Down and even Vodaphone commercials you couldnt ask for better PR. Were kind of a favorite for filmmakers, he admits, but everyone who sees the movie and hears our song will have no idea who we are.
Its a maddening paradox, all right, and the Dandy Warhols neatly sum it up in the title of their new Welcome to the Monkey House. If the band Zia McCabe (keys), Brent DeBoer (drums), Peter Holmstrom (guitar) and Taylor-Taylor (vocals/guitars) are gonna have a domestic breakthrough, Monkey House will probably be it. Its also the album that could piss off a few fans. Were you hoping for the near-perfect triangulation of Neil Young, the Byrds and Swervedriver that was The Dandy Warhols Come Down? No backtracking here. How bout the Keith Richards swagger sprinkled with spaghetti-Western horns on 13 Tales From Urban Bohemia? Nuh-uh. When we make albums, theyre a response to a need that we feel isnt being met, and for this record we asked ourselves, Wheres all the champagne and caviar? Where are the Roxy Musics? Where are the Duran Durans? The David Bowies? We had to retaliate against all the dumb-ass garage-rock Strokes rip-offs out there . . . when shoegazer records were four years out of style, we made a shoegazer record. When all that cretin rap-metal was happening, we did a Stones record. We see what everyone else is doing and go off in the opposite direction.
When it came to filling the elegance gap, the Dandies didnt cut corners: T. Rex and Bowie helmer Tony Visconti, along with Duran Duran founder/heartthrob Nick Rhodes, produced Monkey House; D.D. front man and consummate new-romantic fop Simon Le Bon lent backing vocals to Plan A; the ax-pertise of Chic guitarist Nile Rodgers finesses I Am a Scientist. And for the sentimental money-shot, good friend Evan Dando co-wrote Last High, a wispy dream elegy that could make you cry. Evans an amazing songwriter. Last High is my favorite song on the album favorite of all our songs ever, probably. But for all Taylor-Taylors talk of running counter to musical trends, and the Brit-mags rhapsodizing over the bands new-wave-electro makeover, those juicy hooks are still here, like those on We Used To Be Friends, which blunt-force trauma couldnt dislodge from your skull. And just when Monkey Houses sweetness and light approaches the saturation point, Heavenlys cock-swinging riffs come thundering down before the final tracks gauzy, hypnotic swirls decrescendo into nothingness. Glamour-schmamour, Monkey House is still a Dandy Warhols record.
Really, though, what makes the Dandies the Dandies is their collective smirk. Chucking trad rock-lyric opaqueness right out the window, now-classic tunes such as Horse Pills (about an aging sexpot) and the famous Bohemian Like You are perfect examples of the bands yarn-spinning penchant. I finally printed up lyrics for this [album] because I started to realize my lyrics are fucking awesome, says Taylor-Taylor. But did he cross a line with the memorably snide I never thought youd be a junkie, because heroin is so passé? But its true, he protests. The whole ritual [of shooting up], the stealing, the lying, its pathetic, and I wasnt going to write one of those songs about how much it hurts. Fuck that. But if you saw how on-it the Dandies were at the Sunset Junction Street Fair, even lyrics as spot-on as Taylor-Taylors become a moot point. Musically, we just fuckin excel. Theres no big show involved, we just do our thing, get everyone going on the same vibe. If we had the business end of our shit as tidy as our music, our worries in this world would be over forever.
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"Are we going camping today?" my five year old, Aiden, asks, his eyes still foggy with sleep. "As soon as your Dad wakes up," I answer. Immediately, all sign of sleepiness disappears as he shoots back up the stairs to what I imagine will be a rude awakening for Andrej. "Serves him right," I think, smiling inwardly. I've showered, eaten, packed, had my coffee and have been chomping at the bit to leave since I woke up. I dislike waiting on people especially when my favorite pastime is on the line. Our last backpacking trip was slightly disastrous due to an unreliable guidebook and although we still had fun, I am anxious to end the season with a more enjoyable trip to Pyramid Lake in Northern Idaho.
Eventually we get on the road and four hours later we arrive at the trail head. I always choose trails that either have long mileage or hard passes to climb since they tend to give me the most solitude. Unfortunately, when selecting trips that Aiden is accompanying us on, I have to look more for easy hikes which usually means they draw in more people. The trail head is full of cars and I cross my fingers that they are all at one of the other destinations or just day hiking. While Andrej divvy's out the beer between our backpacks, another car drives up and a lone hiker emerges and is soon off down the trail. I see that he's carrying bear mace and all of sudden notice that the trail head is plastered with bear safety posters. My reasons for not buying bear mace seem frivolous when I'm surrounded by giant bold warnings about my impending death via grizzly. Luckily, we have the best bear-deterrent known to man: Aiden. The 2 miles to the lake is non-stop chatter about anything from boulders to counting bridges to pirates. Any nearby bear, or person for the matter, would've retreated as fast as possible to escape the onslaught.
Upon arriving at Pyramid Lake, I sigh with relief when I see we're alone. The lake is fairly picturesque, the sun is warm, and the sky is clear; couldn't ask for anything more. After setting up our tent in a dusty, slightly overused campsite, we relax on a big rock overlooking the lake to enjoy some lunch and take in the scenery. We soon hear screaming and as I'm thinking, "I'm glad the bears chose some other victim" a horde of children come running down the trail, stripping their clothes, and leap into the lake. They spend the next few hours, swimming and screaming, and overall quashing the serenity of the lake. Cold gusts of wind eventually send them shrieking back to wherever they came from, but their departure marks the arrival of a steady stream of campers.
While searching for a cool place in the water to stash our beers, we discover the lake is infested with 5-inch long leeches that wiggle out from under rocks like vicious predators at the slightest splash. All of Aiden's hopes of swimming are dashed when he learns what leeches eat and he keeps well away from the water so he "doesn't lose any blood."
Too soon, the sun goes behind the mountains and the relentless assault of mosquitoes begins. We eat dinner, drink warm beers (the lake was too shallow to keep them cool), attempt to make cake-on-a-stick, and then retreat to our tent for the night. At some point during the night, I'm rudely awakened by a giant animal crashing through the bushes towards us and am subsequently serenaded by elk chuffs and stomps for an hour or two.
The next day we day hike to Ball Lakes, eat lunch, and return to our campsite for an uneventful evening around the campfire.
The whole weekend is a trip of firsts: first time using our new BioLite camp stove, eating dehydrated meals I dried myself, seeing leeches, being kept awake by an annoyed elk, and enjoying warmish beer.
The worst part about returning home for me is cooking dinner that first night when I'm tired, sore, sunburned, and mosquito bitten. It's one of the few times I take shortcuts and don't make anything from scratch. With little effort, I throw boxed cornbread mix into the oven, toss pre-shredded coleslaw mix with dressing, and pan-fry some pork chops coated with BBQ sauce. Viola! A post-backpacking I'm-too-exhausted-to-do-much-else meal in less than 30 minutes. To make it a square meal, I open a bottle of Beresan's 2010 Buzz, the one wine I know that's uncomplicated enough to go with anything I make. Full of plum and blackberry flavors, hints of vanilla and spice, and a light peppery finish, you'd be hard pressed to find a dish the Buzz doesn't compliment. It's a wine meant for food, friends, and lazy nights where thinking and getting off the couch are optional.
Barbequed Pork Chops
(From Sarah's I'm-Too-Exhausted-To-Do-Much-Else Repertoire)
4 Bone-in Pork Chops, 3/4-inch thick
Salt and Pepper
Vegetable oil
1 medium onion, chopped
2 cloves of garlic, minced
1/3 cup orange juice
1/2 cup BBQ sauce
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Season pork chops with salt and pepper. Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a large ovenproof skillet over medium high heat. Add the pork chops and brown, about 2 minutes on each side. Transfer to a plate.
Add onion and garlic and cook until softened, about 5 minutes. Add orange juice and cook until most of the liquid has evaporated. Stir in BBQ sauce. Return the pork chops to the pan, turning to coat.
Transfer pan to oven and bake 6-10 minutes, until just the chops are just barely pink in the middle. Serve with coleslaw, cornbread, and Buzz.


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This invention relates generally to the field of three-dimensional virtual reality environments and models, and, more particularly, to building virtual reality world models from multiple-viewpoint real world images of scenes.
In the field of computer graphics, there is a need to build realistic three-dimensional (3D) models and environments that can be used in virtual reality walk-throughs, animation, solid modeling, visualization, and multimedia. Virtual reality environments are increasingly available in a wide variety of applications such as marketing, education, simulation, entertainment, interior and architectural design, fashion design, games and the Internet to name but a few.
Many navigable virtual environments with embedded interactive models tend to be very simplistic due to the large amount of effort that is required to generate realistic-3D virtual models behaving in a realistic manner. Generating quality virtual reality scene requires sophisticated computer systems and a considerable amount of hand-tooling. The manual 3D reconstruction of real objects, by using CAD-tools is usually time consuming and costly.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Regina in Canada, and Apple Computer, Inc. jointly created the "Virtual Museum Project" which is a computer-based rendering of a museum which contains various objects of interest.
As the user moves through the virtual museum individual objects can be approached and viewed from a variety of perspectives.
Apple Computer also has developed the Quicktime VR™ system that allows a user to navigate within a virtual reality scene generated from digitized overlapping photographs or video images. However, warping can distort the images so that straight lines appeared curved, and it is not possible to place 3D models in the scene.
Three-dimensional digitizers are frequently used to generate models from real world objects. Considerations of resolution, repeatability, accuracy, reliability, speed, and ease of use, as well as overall system cost, are central to the construction of any digitizing system. Often, the design of a digitizing system involves a series of trade-offs between quality and performance.
Traditional 3D dimensional digitizers have focused on geometric quality measures for evaluating system performance. While such measures are objective, they are only indirectly related to an overall goal of a high quality rendition. In most 3D digitizer systems, the rendering quality is largely an indirect result of range accuracy in combination with a small number of photographs used for textures.
Prior art digitizers include contact digitizers, active structured-light range-imaging systems, and passive stereo depth-extraction. For a survey, see Besl "Active Optical Range Imaging Sensors," Advances in Machine Vision, Springer-Verlag, pp. 1-63, 1989.
Laser triangulation and time-of-flight point digitizers are other popular active digitizing approaches. Laser ranging systems often require a separate position-registration step to align separately acquired scanned range images. Because active digitizers emit light onto the object being digitized, it is difficult to capture both texture and shape information simultaneously. This introduces the problem of registering the range images with textures.
In other systems, multiple narrow-band illuminates, e.g., red, green, and blue lasers, are used to acquire a surface color estimate along lines-of-sight. However, this is not useful for capturing objects in realistic illumination environments.
Passive digitizers can be based on single cameras or stereo cameras. Passive digitizers have the advantage that the same source images can be used to acquire both structure and texture, unless the object has insufficient texture.
Image-based rendering systems can also be used, see Nishino, K., Y. Sato, and K. Ikeuchi, "Eigen-Texture Method: Appearance Compression based on 3D Model," Proc. of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 1:618-624, 1999, and Pulli, K., M. Cohen, T. Duchamp, H. Hoppe, L. Shapiro, and W. Stuetzle, "View-based Rendering: Visualizing Real Objects from Scanned Range and Color Data, " Proceedings of the 8th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, pp. 23-34, 1997. In these systems, images and geometry are acquired separately with no explicit consistency guarantees.
In image-based vision systems, there are two inherent and some what related problems. The first problem has to do with deducing the camera's intrinsic parameters. Explicit calibration of intrinsic parameters can be circumvented in specialized processes but is common in many existing systems. The second problem is concerned with estimating the camera's extrinsic parameters i.e., camera position/motion relative to the environment or relative to the object of interest. Estimating the camera positions is an essential preliminary step before the images can be assembled into a virtual environment.
The terms 'camera position' and 'camera motion' are used interchangeably herein, with the term 'camera position' emphasizing the location and the orientation of a camera, and the term 'camera motion' indicating a sequence of camera positions as obtained, for example, from a sequence of images.
The first problem, of calibrating a camera's intrinsic parameters, is well studied. Solutions for calibrating a single camera are too many to enumerate. Solutions for calibrating stereo cameras are also well known. There, the simple requirement is to have some overlap in the images acquired by the stereo cameras. Calibrating rigid multi-camera systems where there is no overlap of the viewed scene in the different cameras has, however, not been the subject of previous work.
In the prior art, the second problem, of estimating camera position, can be solved in a number of ways. For generating a 3D model of a portable object, one method rigidly fixes the cameras at known locations, and rotates the object on a turntable through precise angular intervals while taking a sequence of images. Great care must taken in setting up and maintaining the alignment of the cameras, object, and turntable. Therefore, this type of modeling is usually done in a studio setting, and is of no use for hand-held systems.
Another method for generating a 3D model of an object of interest assumes a known "position-registration pattern" somewhere in the field of view. The term "position-registration pattern" is used here to indicate a calibration pattern that enables computation of the camera position relative to the pattern, in a fixed coordinate frame defined by the pattern. For example, a checkerboard pattern is placed behind the object while images are acquired. However, this method for computing camera position also has limitations. First, it is difficult to view the object from all directions, unless the position-registration pattern is relocated and the system is re-calibrated. Second, the presence of the pattern makes it more difficult to identify the boundary of the object, as a precursor to further processing for building a 3D model, than would be the case with a bland, low-texture background.
Obviously, the two techniques above are not practical for imaging large-scale, walk-through environments. In that case, the varying position of architectural details in the image, as the camera is moved, can be used to determine camera motion. However, these scenes often includes a large amount of extraneous movement or clutter, such as people, making it difficult to track image features between successive images, and hence making it difficult to extract camera position.
Motion parameters are more easy to resolve when the camera has a wide field of view, because more features in a scene are likely to be visible for use in the motion computation, and the motion computations are inherently more stable when features with a wide angular spacing relative to the observer are used. Computation of camera position/motion is also easier when working from images of rigid structure, or known geometry. However, high-quality color images may not be necessary.
But wide field of view images contain distortion which is usually too great for the images to be of use with applications that are concerned with geometric accuracy. Methods exist for removing the distortion, but the corrected images generally suffer from a loss of quality. Furthermore, a wide field of view means that there are fewer pixels viewed for any given angle of view.
Thus the desire for computing camera position/motion conflicts with the desire for generating a 3D model of an object or environment. Computing camera motion works best with a wide field of view, and known scene characteristics such as rigidity or known geometry, and absence of scene characteristics such as specular or transparent surfaces which can adversely affect the recovery of position. But 3D scanning can involve applications where the environment is uncontrolled e.g., independent motion can impact the ability to collect reliable estimates of camera position/motion, or there may be a lot of clutter making automatic analysis difficult. A narrow field of view camera is preferable for acquiring the images used to make a 3D model, because this type of camera allows more detailed information to be collected per image than a wide-angle camera at the same distance.
Further, computing camera position can work acceptably with cheaper monochrome cameras, whereas scanning a 3D model generally requires high-quality color imagery to acquire details of surface texture,
Therefore, when building a 3D virtual model from images, there are conflicting requirements which are not being met by traditional vision systems.
The invention provides a method for constructing a 3D model of a scene, by acquiring first images of a first scene having unknown characteristics with a first camera. Corresponding second images of a second scene having known characteristics are acquired by a second camera. The first and second cameras having a fixed physical relationship to each other. Only the second images are analyzed to determine corresponding positions of the second camera while acquiring the first images, and only the first images are assembled into a 3D model using the determined corresponding positions and the fixed physical relationship of the first and second camera. The 3D model can then be rendered on a display device. The known characteristics of the second scene can include a rigid structure, a position-registration pattern, or a fixed set of visual beacons, each with a unique distinguishable identity. Furthermore, the images can be obtained without constraining motions of the first and second cameras. In one embodiment, the first camera is oriented at right angles with respect to the second camera, and the first and second cameras each have a field of view less than 90�.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a 3D vision system according to the invention;
FIG. 2a is a block diagram of an alternative embodiment of the system of FIG. 1;
FIG. 2b is a block diagram of another alternative embodiment of the system of FIG. 1.
FIG. 3a is a block diagram of another alternative embodiment of the system of FIG. 1;
FIG. 3b is a block diagram of another alternative embodiment of the system of FIG. 1;
FIG. 3c is a block diagram of another alternative embodiment of the system of FIG. 1;
FIG. 3d is a block diagram of another alternative embodiment of the system of FIG. 1;
FIG. 4 is a side view of an embodiment of the system with a removable second camera mounted on a body of the first camera,;
FIG. 5 is a side view of an embodiment with multiple cameras;
FIG. 6 is a schematic of a calibration set-up according to the invention;
FIG. 7 is a schematic of a synthesized stereo calibration set-up; and
FIG. 8 is a schematic of the calibration pattern of FIG. 6 with visual identification information.
FIG. 1 shows a hand-held, mobile vision system 100 according to the invention. The system 100 includes two cameras 101-102 oriented in a fixed physical relationship to each other i.e., the camera system is internally rigid. The first camera 101 acquires first images 111 of a scene 120 having unknown characteristics. The scene 120 can include an object 121 of interest. The second camera 102 acquires corresponding second images 112 of a scene or object 122 having known characteristics. For example, it is known that characteristics of the scene 122 include rigid structures, or a registration pattern (checkerboard) of known geometry, or a moving object with known motion, or known color features.
The fixed physical relationship of the two cameras is unusual because the field of views of the first and second camera do not need to overlap, as in prior art stereoscopic systems. Even if there is accidental overlap in the images, the fact that portions of the images overlap is irrelevant for determining positional information of the cameras as described below.
At this point, several important distinctions can be made. First, the pair of images do not have to overlap in their field of view, so there is nothing in the second images that can tell one anything about the first images. Second, the function of the first camera 101 and the processing 131 on the first images 111 is totally different than the corresponding function and processing 132 for the second camera 102 and second images 112.
The second camera 102 is used only to determine positional information for the camera. That is the processing of the second images 112 is concerned with motion analysis (M) 132. Therefore, the content, i.e., texture, of the second image is immaterial, other than that the content has characteristics that are sufficient to determine camera motion or position.
In contrast, the processing (T) 131 of the first images 111 is concerned only with content of the images, for example, texture of the scene and the object. The processing 131 of the first images is not at all interested in determining camera position and motion, these are provided by the process 131. The first images are to be used to build an accurate 3D model of the scene as reflected in the texture of the first images.
The images 111-112 are in a digital form consisting of pixels. Pairs of images are acquired while the two cameras are in the identical position. This can easily be done by acquiring each pair of images concurrently.
Because the field of views of the two cameras are non-overlapping, as stated above, the pixels of the pairs of corresponding images 111-112 have nothing in common. That is, the set of pixels of a particular first image 111 can be disjoint of the set of pixels of the corresponding second image 112. This is unusual for vision systems. Therefore, the method according to the invention does not use stereoscopic information to derive positional information.
The images are fed to a processor 130. The processor 130 use knowledge of the scene characteristics in the second images 112 to determine the position of the second camera 102 relative to scene 122 when each second image was taken. This is done using motion analysis procedures (M) 131. Numerous motion analysis procedures for images with known characteristics are well known. Predetermined, known information about the relative position of cameras 102 and 101, described below, is then used to determine the position of the first camera 101 relative to the scene 122. Thus, the position of camera 101 can be determined for each of the corresponding first images 111. The first images 111 can then be assembled by the process (T) 132 to generate an accurate 3D model 140 of the scene 121. The model 140 can then be rendered as an output image 141 on an output device 150 as a virtual reality environment.
As shown in FIG. 1, the cameras are oriented at right angles to each other, and the field of view is less than 90�, thus, there can be no overlap in the first and second images. In this configuration, the first camera 101 can be rotated in a plane to acquire a full 360� panoramic view of the scene 120, while the second camera is rotated about an axis substantially perpendicular to the plane. It should be noted that with this configuration it is possible for the user to obtain the panorama from a set of images with negligible overlap between adjacent images, if the floor is composed of tiles, or a rug with some regular pattern. This is in contrast with prior art techniques which require a larger set of images with substantial overlap between images e.g., see U.S. Pat. No. 6,256,058 issued to Kang, et al. on Jul. 3, 2001, entitled "Method for simultaneously compositing a panoramic image and determining camera focal length."
In FIG. 2a, the same two cameras 101-102 are oriented at an oblique angle. In this configuration case, the second camera 102 can be rotated in a circle around the scene or object 121 so that that the first camera 101 can view the object 121 from all sides, while the second camera 102 is always aimed at some relatively small position-registration pattern 122.
FIG. 2b is a configuration in which the object of interest 121 is placed on the central blank area of a planar surface, with a position-registration pattern surrounding 122 the central area. Again, this allows the cameras 101-102 to be moved around so that that the first camera 101 can view the object 121 from all sides, while the second camera 102 is always aimed at some part of the position-registration pattern 122. As an advantage, this permits the scanning of a 3D object with hand-held cameras in a setting that does not rigidly constrain the motion of the cameras, as in the prior art. This makes visions systems according to the invention affordable, and easy and fast to implement by a casual, non-professional user.
In FIG. 3a, the second camera 102 is inverted. Here, the first camera 101 can be used to acquire images of a building's interior during a walk-through while the cameras are moved from room to room. In this case, the position of camera 102, and hence of camera 101, is derived from a position-registration pattern on the ceiling, provided by the ceiling panels, or perhaps, the sharp, rigid edges where walls and ceiling meet.
This orientation, like the orientation of FIG. 1 is useful for acquiring panoramas, a frequently performed activity in vision systems. In the prior art, a panorama typically requires that there is substantial overlap in adjacent images. With the system according to the invention, there is no requirement that adjacent scene images have significant overlap.
In FIG. 3b, the camera configuration is the same as in FIG. 3a, but visual beacons 301 have been attached to the ceiling at known positions. Each visual beacon has a distinct identity, for example a color-coding which distinguishes it from all other beacons. The visual beacons are identified in second images 112, and the position of camera 102, and hence the position of camera 101, is computed relative to the beacons.
In FIG. 3c, the second camera 102 is viewing some arbitrary rigid, 3D structure 302 on the ceiling. Again, the motion of camera 102 is computed from the images, and the computed motion of 102 is used to determine the motion of camera 101. This requires a more complicated motion-recovery algorithm than in the case where the camera views a regular grid of ceiling panels.
In FIG. 3d, there are two cameras 102 used for determining positional information. The cameras 102 are arranged as a conventional stereo system with overlapping fields of view between the cameras 102, and are viewing some arbitrary 3D structure on the ceiling. Note, however, consistent with the above described arrangement, the images acquired by the second cameras 102 do not overlap with any images of the first camera 101, and even if they do, that is immaterial. The motion of the stereo system is computed from the images by an appropriate process for finding the motion of a rigid stereo system, and is used to determine the motion of camera 101. As an advantage, the stereo cameras providing reliable 3D measurements at each camera location, enabling computation of more accurate motion information of the system than is the case with a single camera.
Although FIGS. 1-3a-d show two separate cameras fixed to each other, it should be understood that the two cameras can be mounted in a single camera body as shown in FIG. 4. The second camera 102 can be removable mounted on the body of the first camera 101, using, for example, a Velcro fastener.
Because the two cameras are used for two totally different purposes, the cameras themselves can be configured to maximize the functionality for each purpose. The first camera, which takes images of the view of interest, can use a high-quality, color sensor and high quality lens. The second camera 102 can use a relatively inexpensive low-resolution monochrome sensor and low quality lens. In order to improve the accuracy of the computed camera motion, the field of view of the second camera can be substantially larger than the field that of the first camera.
FIG. 5 shows a configuration where multiple cameras 102-104 are used to acquire images of known geometry. This makes it more likely that the position-registration pattern is in the field of view of at least one camera.
Before the images 111-112 are acquired, a calibration method is performed to obtain the relative position (translation and rotation) of the two cameras 101-102. Methods for calibrating cameras manually, or for automatically calibrating stereo cameras, i.e., cameras which overlap in their field of views, are well known. However, automatically calibrating cameras with no overlapping field of view, as described for the invention, requires special techniques. Although this description details a system with two cameras, it should be understood that the method could be extended to systems with three or more cameras.
FIG. 6 shows the basic principle of the calibration method and set-up according to the invention. In one embodiment, the calibration set-up uses a planar calibration pattern 600. Here, the two cameras 101-102 are fixed to each other by means 103 so that the field of views 601-602 of the two cameras are non-overlapping, as described above. The two cameras 101-102 acquire a pair of images 611-612 of the calibration pattern 600.
The calibration method has two components—calibration of the intrinsic parameters of each camera, and calibration of the extrinsic parameters, i.e., the relative position, of the two cameras. The intrinsic parameters are calibrated using standard techniques. The technique for calibrating the extrinsic parameters uses a calibration pattern and works in the following way. First, a partial image of the calibration pattern is acquired by each camera. Second, the appearance of the full calibration pattern is synthetically generated for each camera as it would appear if the camera were able to image the entire pattern simultaneously. Third, standard techniques for stereo calibration can be used on the synthetically generated information because it simulates the situation where there is common structure visible by both two cameras.
The pattern 600 includes calibration points pi 603, which are visible in camera 101, and qi 604, which are visible in camera 102. Each of pi and qi is a subset of the full set of calibration points ri of known geometry. The points can be vertices of squares of a checkerboard, for example. A black and white checkerboard pattern is a frequently used design for calibrating cameras because the vertices of the squares can be found to a high accuracy. However, it should be understood that the pattern 600 can be any arbitrary design, as long as it has a known geometric structure, i.e., all the positions of the calibration points of the pattern 600 in the physical world are known.
Camera 101 acquires the first image 611 including pixels ai 621 which are the images of pi 603 while camera 102 acquires the second image 612 including pixels bi 622 which are the images of qi 604. As stated above, the points pi are disjoint from the points qi, and hence the pixels ai and bi have no physical calibration points in common. Here, pixels ai 621 and pixels bi 622 are in independent image coordinate systems, obtained under perspective projection. In contrast, the corresponding points pi and qi are measured in a single coordinate frame which is the true, metric coordinate frame for the physical calibration pattern 600.
Thus, the coordinates of the calibration points pi 603 are known in the coordinate frame of the calibration pattern. Also, the image coordinates of the image points ai 621, which correspond to pi, are known in the image coordinate frame. These correspondences can then be used to determine the planar homography H which describes the mapping between the calibration points pi 603 and the pixels ai 621.
Note, that the computed transformation H can be applied to any point in the plane of the calibration pattern 600. Thus, the transformation can be applied to all calibration points of the pattern 600 to determine the expected image positions of calibration points in image 611 acquired by first camera 601. The full, synthesized set of mapped points is Hri. The fact that some of the points have image coordinates outside the bounds of any one image 611 of the camera 101 is irrelevant for their subsequent use in the present calibration process.
The same reasoning as above applies to the second camera 102. In this case, the transformation is G. Then, the calibration points of the full pattern 600 map to a full, synthesized set of image points Gri, which describe the expected positions of the full set of calibration points in an image acquired by the second camera 102.
Again, some of these points will lie outside the field of view of an actual image 622, but this is immaterial.
The situation is now effectively as shown in FIG. 7. The exact pixel location for every point in full pattern 600 can be determined even though the parts of the pattern beyond the bounds of the real images 611 and 612 of FIG. 6 have been generated synthetically. Thus, for a particular point rm 700, the stereo image match between the image Hrm of rm in camera 101 and the image Grm of rm in camera 102 is known. The full set of synthesized stereo matches is used as an input to a known technique of stereo camera calibration to determine the relative position (translation and rotation) of the two cameras 101-102.
For this calibration process, a single position of the camera system relative to the calibration plane is not sufficient for an exact calibration. However, two or more relative positions of system and calibration pattern, with generation of the information above at each position, does yield sufficient information to do the exact calibration.
Determination of Pattern Parts for Partial Views
Part of the calibration processing above needs to determine which specific part of the full pattern 600 is visible in a partial image. This could be done manually. However, given a partial image of the checkerboard pattern, it is of course impossible to tell automatically what specific part of the pattern is imaged without additional identification information on the rows and column of the squares. Therefore, an automatic identification method is provided.
FIG. 8 shows the calibration pattern 600 with identification information or "visual tags" 801. Each visual tag 801 is a circle with multiple segments. One segment 802 in each tag 801 is black, and marks the starting point for circularly traversing the remaining segments. The remaining segments are colored. Typically, four to six different colors are used to allow a large number of distinct tags. For example, a tag design with four segments (not including the black start segment) and five colors provides 54 or 625 unique color codings. These tags can be detected and identified automatically to determine which part of pattern 600 is visible. The tags 801 are described in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/628,461 "Badge Identification System" filed by Beardsley on Jul. 31, 2000, incorporated herein in its entirety by reference.
Obtaining High Accuracy
A fundamental aspect of the calibration method is that each camera 101 and 102 views less than the complete calibration pattern 600, but synthetically generates a complete view of the pattern. This is an extrapolation process in which the visible part of the pattern is used to infer the appearance of the pattern for areas beyond the physical bounds of the image. Extrapolation is a sensitive process, and the further the extrapolated data is from the original measurements, the greater the error. This raises the question of how errors due to extrapolation can be kept to a minimum.
If the extrapolation error was not an issue, calibration could be achieved using two positions of the camera system relative to the calibration pattern 600. For each position, a minimum of four calibration points would be recorded. This would provide a minimum of eight calibration points, taken for two different relative positions between rigid camera system and calibration pattern, and this is sufficient for calibration.
To reduce error due to extrapolation, the four points at each position are not chosen arbitrarily, but are chosen to lie close to the midpoint of a projected line 710 between the cameras, as shown in FIG. 7. This midpoint is straightforward to compute. The accuracy is further improved by taking many more than two relative positions of the camera system relative to the calibration pattern, and using a least-squares approach in the calibration.
Although the invention has been described by way of examples of preferred embodiments, it is to be understood that various other adaptations and modifications may be made within the spirit and scope of the invention. Therefore, it is the object of the appended claims to cover all such variations and modifications as come within the true spirit and scope of the invention.
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U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Carl Levin (D-MI) today announced that the state of Michigan will receive $5,269,296 in emergency funding to help families pay the anticipated high cost of fuel this winter. The funding is being awarded as part of the Department of Health and Human Services Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), which helps pay the cost of heating and cooling bills for millions of low-income families, seniors, and individuals with disabilities.
"With energy prices skyrocketing, and families being squeezed on all sides, the need for emergency energy assistance has never been greater," said Stabenow. "Michigan families should not have to choose between putting food on the table and paying their energy bills. This announcement is welcome news and will allocate millions of emergency energy relief dollars to our most vulnerable citizens."
"LIHEAP funds provide essential assistance to families throughout Michigan who are struggling with the cost of heating their homes during cold Michigan winters," Levin said. "With the price of energy already sky-high and rising, this funding will provide welcome relief for many families in the state."
In 2008, Michigan has provided over 526,300 households with LIHEAP financial assistance. Michigan families receiving LIHEAP assistance have incomes below 110 percent of the federal poverty level. Of those individuals in Michigan receiving LIHEAP assistance, 32% are seniors, 20% are children under the age of 5, and 18% are persons with disabilities.
According to the National Energy Assistance Directors' Association, the average cost to heat a home this winter will be about $1,114, almost 15 percent more than last year's $972. The cost of home heating with heating oil is projected to reach $2,593, natural gas $978, propane $1,967 and electricity $875.
The LIHEAP program is administered through HHS, under which states, territories, and tribes receive annual grants to operate home energy assistance programs for over 5 million low-income households. This money then goes to local agencies, such as the Salvation Army, to be administered.
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The world today talks of women leading ahead, showing wonders in every field. I feel ecstatic when I see women leading from the front. It gives me a great pleasure to see them treading their path to success. Indian women are no exception in this regard; they are achieving new highs every day. The story of success is not different for Indian women too, but the difference lies in the amount of stress an Indian working women feels as compared to the women of rest of the world.
"Indian Women Are the Most Stressed on Earth" – according to "Women of Tomorrow" (2011), one of the reports of Nielsen. This is a matter of great concern. The woman is the anchor of the family, and if she remains stressed continuously for years, it adversely impacts the whole family. What has lead to such a stressed life? – Lets have a look:
1) The Stress of moving Out to Work
Most of the women belong to the first generation in their families who are coming out to work. They carry a social and a psychological pressure to prove their decision a right one. They fight a mental war not only for performance but for acceptance too.
2)The Rise in Expectations
On one hand where families are happily accepting and appreciating working women, on the other hand the parents want the girl to be married at a "suitable age". No debate is required to put forth the fact that marriage in itself is a great test which demands preparation in terms of adjustment, compromise and patience and measures performance in terms of compatibility and understanding. Then the in- laws want grandchildren just "on time" (the timing surely gives the stress). The women keep thinking about the new expectations people have from her, amongst the job responsibilities that she holds.
3)The Role Conflict
Being a mother is the greatest gift to women from nature. Indian mother are most revered worldwide for their love and affection. With more and more mothers turning working, the role conflict has increased. The lack of social infrastructure like a reliable crèche and a good and a reliable domestic household help adds to their miseries.
4) Working Not for Luxury or Hobby:
That's the saddest part of the story but so true. Today, Indian women work to maintain a decent living standard. The consumerist family aspirations compel her to go out and work. This naturally means they make compromises in their work.
I believe all those who are reading will find either themselves or their mother, sisters, wife in this lurch. In midst of all these problems I see opportunities; I find a silver lining in black clouds. So, Hey Ladies when we know that there is a problem, let's find the solution. Here are few things for every woman to understand:
1) The Wake Up Alarm (Set it for yourself Please):
It's not hard to believe that with loads of work, working women is dead tired by the evening. Having finished their responsibilities towards kids, job, family and husband all she requires is " sleep", yes but suddenly she wakes up and plans for next day- what is to be cooked, is the kid's uniform ready, what is to be worn next day, are the husband's clothes ironed and numerous such things wake her up. She tries to sleep and sleeps only for a little while. And as she wakes up , the list she had made in her mind on the previous night comes in front of her. Then starts "A race against the clock" – a big stress!!!. Hey Ladies !! Just Chill , please try and wake up at least 15 minutes ( Is it too much out of 24 hours, which you give to everybody else) before the usual time. Do breathing exercises and stretching. Have one glass of water (I know, for rest of the day you won't get "time" to have water in peace) eat your breakfast properly and then leave for office.
2) You: The Weekend Queen
Pursue any of your hobbies on weekends. If you are interested in cooking, cook "YOUR" favourite dish and serve it for yourself as a queen. If you have a good hand at painting, paint something you love and present it to your husband (Do not forget to ask him to get your masterpiece framed). Understand that every small smile brings happiness to life. If you used to sing, then sing your heart out during weekends (If you are concerned about the reactions of husband and your kids start in the bathroom, who stops you there?). During weekends, be the queen and act like one.
3)Look for Happiness Not for Perfection:
It is perfectly okay to repeat your dress sometimes, It is alright if your son/daughter does not perform well at annual functions, there is absolutely no problem if your husband took a public transport to the office. Learn, to take life as it comes to you. Planning is a great thing, but adjusting to a situation where a plan does not work is a greater. Repeating your dress to the office shows, "how much you adore yourself in that dress", your kid's not so- good performance taught him/her that things do not always happen as we like, but we should not be sad else be cheerful about coming out of complacency and giving a performance. Your husband taking a public transport is actually a blessing, which can teach him that public transports do not only save money , but also reduce the traffic on roads, – So that you reach home early and have good time with family. So, be happy and cheerful.
The fast paced life in urban India is bringing loads of stress, but a small change in lifestyle and attitude can be the game changer. The most important thing "Love Yourself", "Admire Your Stamina" and " Be Proud of What You Are."
By Swati Singh
Also See:
Your Guide to an Easy Life!
Revitalize Your Marriage With "Emotional Language
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Great story pothos. My buddy works for verizon he wishes he could haw good phones. "The Network" b***s goats.
I never had Verizon/Poll does not apply to me
Great story pothos. My buddy works for verizon he wishes he could haw good phones. "The Network" b***s goats.
I had t-mobile, then switched to AT&T. Verizon sucks in Chicago for some reason. Now, i'm at Buffalo, NY, and Verizon is apparently king here. T-mobile has horrible reception, so i switched to At&t.
the other reason for never using verizon is that verizon never had good deals on letstalk.com
When i had Tmobile, i got 2 Samsung T809's for free. And when i switched to AT&T, i got a lg something or other, RAZR2 and a HTC Tilt for a total of $25. lol
verizon couldn't beat that. and i just really don't like the custom phone bloatware verizon uses
I did a while back and I love my iPhone! Verizon had nothing to offer! Their reps were powerless against a product that could be the killer but with too many restriction it is jut avarage at best. Too bad jailbreak is the only way. Bad Apple! Bad AT&T!
I have never left AT&T since I got my first cellphone back in late 1996 and my cellphone number is still the same. I never change it. My first cellphone was a Nokia. I forgot the model, but it was big and bulky.
I voted No, though I did just leave Verizon for AT&T last month. Now, my story is.... I switched because AT&T has the sim card. I cannot bring camera phones into work, and I love having a good smartphone. I know VZW has a few smartphones sans camera, but I wasn't crazy about the choices. My solution was to switch, so I can simply pop out the sim card when I get to work and bring in a Go phone, or some other cheap cameraless phone, that I can then switch back into my iPhone when I leave. PIA, yes, but now that I've experienced the iPhone, I love it!
I never had any problems with VZW, and actually felt bad for leaving. Customer service always treated me well, refunding me when I had issues, which was rare enough anyway. AT&T service in my area seems spotty, so I'm not happy about that. Also, 99% of the people I know are VZW, so there goes all my Mobile to Mobile free minutes and texts, thus causing me to buy into a more expensive plan.


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The 2016-17 league season has wrapped up. Thanks to all the teams for their participation this year. Looking forward to seeing everyone again next season. Registration for the next season will begin in September 2017.
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Mid Valley Megamall Hot
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 59200
Mid Valley Megamall, located in the Mid Valley City precinct of Kuala Lumpur, was the largest retail development in Asia when it opened in 1999, occupying 1.7 million square feet spread across five levels of retail space that are occupied by 430 shops and restaurants. The anchor tenants at Mid Valley Megamall are Jusco, Carrefour, Metrojaya, and Golden Screen Cinemas (currently the largest multiplex in Asia with 18 screens). Also, it only takes another 30 steps to their sister mall, The Gardens, for an additional 200 shops worth of retail bliss.
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Must-go mall for shopaholics
When I heard that Mid Valley Megamall had over 400 sops in it, I knew I had to drop in when I was in KL. Getting there is fairly convenient, with a KTM station less than 5 minutes away.
And when I entered, I felt like a little kid spoilt for choice! there were so many retail outlets and eating outlets! Unlike many other malls where sooner or later you find that all the retail outlets are selling more or less the same item, this one's different.
After about 3 hours of shopping at shops like Himalaya Herbal, Yin Onn and World Of Cartoons, which had great discounts by the way, I had a fulfilling dinner at Sushi King. All in all, a day well spent.
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Very big
If you are shopping for clothes, you would not be able to browse through each and every clothing store in a day. I kinda agree with the previous reviewer that even though it is big, there is not many things to buy. However, for me, the main reason is because most of the things are above my budget even though for many people, there are many averagely-priced items in this mall.
If you want to go to Midvalley during the weekends, I would suggest you to take the public transport instead because driving is just suicidal as it would be too jam-packed.
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Big but still not much to buy
There was one business trip where my colleague helped me book a hotel very near Mid Valley. After office hours, I had the whole evening to myself and I walked around the mall. The mall was too big and there were also a lot of shops. I was looking around for something to buy back for my children.
Sadly, after walking around for a few hours and browsing through a few shops that sold children stuff, I was still not able to find anything special to buy for my children. I think the saving grace here is that they have a wide selection of restaurants and eating places. It was a pity I was only eating one meal there, if not, there would be a lot more restaurants that I would want to try.
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What a huge place!
Out of all the malls in KL, I would have to say Mid Valley has a special place to my heart as it was the only mall I used to visit whenever I came to KL as a child. As a child, this place is very astounding. I loved how the GSC branch here outshines the one in my hometown, Kota Kinabalu by so many ways. There aren't really much to complain about here except that the building looks a bit old and that made it seem a bit dirty.
I also had a bad memory of getting lost in Mid Valley when I was a child as the place was just so huge. I got separated from my parents when I was 'leaving the pack' to check out some toys, the next thing I knew, I was crying in search of my parent. Fortunately for me, my luck change when a security guard found me and brought me to the information counter.
Memories aside, I think that the price here is quite decent and most of the shop welcomes bargaining. However, don't expect to see much of any designer brand here. Like always, if you're not satisfied about the price when shopping for electronics, just ask for a free gift.
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Very tiring to walk around the whole of Mid Valley
Mid Valley Megamall is probably the biggest mall in the Kuala Lumpur area. It is so huge that after walking to each shop in the mall, my legs feel like they've just finished a work-out session at the gym. Needless to say that this mall is complete, with a cinema, various restaurants and plenty of fashion stores around, you'd definitely be able to find something to do here.
Also, there are times when a certain event would be happening at their convention centre at the top floor. Events such as the Education Fair or an Anime Festival will be held at that place. I only come here via the LRT to Bangsar and then take the shuttle bus from there as the parking there is always full.
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A change of environment
I love to shop at Mid-valley because of it's many retail outlets and anchor tenants. I am always spoilt for choice knowing that I can always switch between Jusco or Isetan if I can't find something. The parking can be a real hassle as there are many people every day due to the popularity of the mall. Normally if I'm going for a quick shopping trip or just for a movie outing plus dinner with friends, I would be the one who suggest that we all take the KTM to the mall.
IT saves much more time compared to driving there and saves you plenty of stress, ensuring you can still enjoy shopping. I would also come here first when there are sales going on because I normally find more things than what I really need, to buy.
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Perfect choice for shopping leisure
It's my favorite place to shop when I go to KL as I can just go there via the KTM from KL Sentral. There are wide choices of retail stores and based on my experience, one day is not enough to completely shop around here. The facilities are quite convenient, there are two large suraus for the Muslims and the restrooms are satisfyingly clean. You can find almost everything there. There was once that my family and I had to wait for almost an hour to get a parking space here due to large amount of people even though on weekdays. Thus my advice is preferably to go there via KTM.
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Crowded most of the time
This mall is easily accessible via public transportation. A really nice place for shopping, it has numerous choice of stores. I once spent almost a whole day here doing my rounds of shopping. When it comes to mega sale, this mall is the best.
As what its name says, this place is huge! You can find almost everything here. The exhibition center at the top floor often hosts some great expos where you can find a good deal out of it.
But do take note, parking is a nightmare! Even though they have ample parking spaces, most of the time they're always full. So it's no wonder if you found yourself driving around in the basement for 30 minutes or so looking for an empty bay.
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Great place to hang out
Mid Valley is one of my favourite shopping centres. There are just so much variety here for the food, clothes, shoes and etc that ranges from high-end to affordable. Love that it houses 4 anchor tenant stores here under one roof. – Jusco, Isetan, Metrojaya & Robinson.
It is also very easy to get here using public transportation. You can get here using KTM and stop at the Mid Valley station. Likewise, you can take the Putra LRT, stop at Bangsar station and then take the free shuttle (a yellow color small sized bus) to Mid Valley. It is also linked to two hotels ( Boulevard and Cititel) so for those staying here you can shop till you drop, take a rest in the hotel and then shop till you drop again.
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Once the biggest mall in SEA
The mall is huge! If you try to spend a day to walk thoroughly the whole building, dream on! I spend two days just to cover most of the shops. I was staying at Cititel Hotel for my breakaway; there are plenty of good foods in the mall with variety of shops. It is very convenient for those who stay in Cititel Hotel as there is a passage from the hotel lobby to the mall. You can spend your time to shop around. Once you are done, just drop all your bags in the hotel and get good dinner before you head for midnight movie.
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A really huge place.
Midvalley was one my favorite shopping malls as it has most of the shops that I can't get to in the place I'm living at.
Among my favorite food places here are Little Penang Cafe and Carl's Junior. There's also a 2 story pet shop there which I frequent during my high school days and it has lots of cool pets like tarantulas and sugar gliders.
The downside to this place is that parking here gives me a good dose of frustration. It seems common courtesy doesn't apply in the pits of Midvalley basement parking and there have been reports of crimes in the parking area.


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Now will Obama's agents call in each of those seven Rats and show them what is in their files and what will be done with it if they don't get back in line?
47 vile sob's that should never be anywhere near a leadership position.
Born Adebowale Patrick Akande Adegbile in New York City, Adegbile is the son of a Nigerian father and an Irish immigrant mother. He was raised by his single mother....
where have we heard this before ?
Recess appointment.
That or lowering the bar for confirmation yet again.
Pre-Obamacare, no democrat would have opposed a Barack nominee. The fact that vulnerable senators find it necessary to distance themselves from him is telling. Even without voter I.D., the massive fraud that the dems will attempt won't be sufficient to save the Senate for them.
"Shoots down"... ???
Interesting choice of words from CBS, isn't it... if that phrasing came from Fox, the leftards would be losing their minds right about now.
This is why we need a Jesse Helms.
Someone needs to go to the floor and filibuster for 48 hours every fake magic Black hero.
Expose the true story of Rubin Carter, Mumia and Mandela.
No doubt Dingy Reid switched his vote from Yes to No to reserve his right for another Adegbile floor vote.
FUBO for nominating/enabling the filthy defenders of Mumia.
This is obviously a case of George Zimmerman murdering Trayvon all over again (sarcasm alert).
So, Harry Reid, how's that "nuclear option" workin' out for ya'?