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Mars Exploration Rovers Update: Opportunity Phones Home after Conjunction Healthy, Ready to Rove

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Posted by A.J.S. Rayl

02-07-2015 24:12 CDT

Topics: Opportunity, mission status, Mars Exploration Rovers, Mars

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After three weeks of being in a communications blackout on the other side of the Sun during the Earth-Mars solar conjunction, Opportunity phoned home from the rim of Spirit of St. Louis Crater on June 24th reporting that she is healthy and ready to continue the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission.

The MER ops team immediately resumed normal tactical planning, preparing its first post conjunction commands for the rover. The following day, Opportunity was back to taking images and working at the northern rim of Spirit of St. Louis Crater, the small, oblong crater that lies near the entrance of Marathon Valley, along the western rim of the much larger, 22-kilometer (13.7 mile) diameter Endeavour Crater.

“Opportunity came through solar conjunction with flying colors and is now dutifully carrying out her science assignments,” said Bill Nelson, chief of MER engineering at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), home to all NASA’s Mars rovers.

Many of the MER team members took a much-needed break during the Earth-Mars Solar Conjunction command moratorium and communication blackout, said John Callas, MER project manager, at JPL. "We took advantage of the solar conjunction quiet period to take some time off and now we're back and rolling," he said.

Solar conjunction is a celestial event that occurs once every 26 months or so when Mars orbits behind the Sun from our perspective on Earth. This geometry disrupts radio communications between the planets, so to prevent Opportunity from receiving garbled commands that could be misinterpreted or even harmful, a temporary moratorium on sending commands and a communication blackout is routinely instituted during this period.

Examining Priv. William Bratton
Examining Priv. William Bratton
Opportunity hunkered down for the Earth-Mars Solar conjunction command moratorium and communication blackout in a red alteration zone that can be seen in different parts of the rim of Spirit of St. Louis Crater. The team named the area over which she perched after Private William Bratton, after a member of the Corps of Discovery Expedition. During solar conjunction, the rover spent most of June using her Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS) gleaning the chemical composition of two targets in the red zone area that features a scattering of small, broken-up small rocks.

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With 42.37 kilometers (26.33 miles) on her odometer and producing just under 500 watt-hours of power, about half of her full power capability, the veteran robot field geologist hunkered down on June 3rd under hazy skies to wait out conjunction. The rover parked on the northern rim of Spirit of St. Louis Crater in a “red alteration zone,” as Matt Golombek, MER project scientist of JPL, described it. The red zone, which features a scattering small, broken up rocks, can be seen along different sections of the small crater's rim.

Opportunity spent the three weeks of the solar conjunction blackout there using her Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS) to analyze the chemical make-up on two selected surface targets in a section of this rocky red zone named after Private William Bratton, a member of the Corps of Discovery, better known as the Lewis and Clark expedition.

The MER scientists will be using the science data Opportunity collected at Private William Bratton to compare the red alteration zone findings with the rocks and soil materials that the rover checked out inside and around Spirit of St. Louis Crater.

Since the rover's troublesome non-volatile flash memory – basically her long-term memory that saves data after she powers down overnight – was taken "offline" prior to solar conjunction, Opportunity operated in persistent RAM mode throughout the blackout and all of her conjunction-period data was uplinked to one of NASA's Mars orbiters before she went to sleep each night. As reported in these pages many times, RAM is the rover's volatile memory and so each sol’s data must be uplinked to an orbiter before the rover shuts down for the night or it will be lost.

Opportunity sent most of her data from her solar conjunction science campaign at Private William Bratton to the Mars Odyssey orbiter during the blackout, though on two passes she uplinked her research to the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).

The MER mission has relied primarily on Odyssey during the last 11 and a half years, a largely unsung hero at Mars. Named after Sir Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey, the workhorse orbiter arrived at Mars in October 2001 and holds the record as longest-operating spacecraft ever sent to Mars. MRO dropped into orbit at the Red Planet in March 2006 about two years after Spirit and Opportunity bounced down on Mars.

While the orbiters were able to relay some of Opportunity's data to Earth during solar conjunction, all of the rover's science research and engineering information was also stored in buffers on those orbiting spacecraft for downlinking in what the engineers call a "full buffer dump" following the biannual celestial event.

On June 23rd, just before Opportunity phoned home, Odyssey achieved another major milestone – completing its 60,000th orbit since arriving at the Red Planet, no pit stops – and then went about the business of downlinking all the rover's data stored in its buffer as the rover got back to work on the surface.

Earth-Mars solar conjunction

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Earth-Mars solar conjunction
Earth-Mars solar conjunction is a regular celestial event that occurs once every 26 months or so, when the orbits of Earth and Mars align them on opposite sides of the Sun. During this time, the Sun disrupts radio transmissions between the two planets, so the MER team initiated a communications blackout from June 3rd to June 24th this year. Opportunity worked on 'autopilot' at Private William Bratton following commands uploaded before solar conjunction began.

Opportunity emerged fresh from her sixth Earth-Mars solar conjunction and began her Sol 4059 (June 25, 2015) taking images of some of her own tracks, her deck, and the area just in front of her position at Private William Bratton. The MER scientists will compare these images with images of the same targets taken before solar conjunction to look for any changes.

The rover also used her panoramic camera (Pancam) to re-shoot some images she had taken before hunkering down for solar conjunction and which had not been received on Earth. “This was basically a recovery plan,” said Ray Arvidson, MER deputy principal investigator of Washington University St. Louis. “We wanted to recover some images that we didn't get down, some Pancam frames that were missing."

The MER scientists are now looking at the data Opportunity sent home from Private William Bratton. At the same time, they are still writing the story of Spirit of St. Louis Crater.

“It's all interesting,” Arvidson said. “The Spirit of St. Louis rocks are different than anything we've seen.”

While all the rocks Opportunity that has examined in and around Spirit of St. Louis Crater are breccias – rocks formed of broken fragments of minerals and/or rock cemented together by a fine-grained matrix during the impact that created Endeavour Crater some 3 to 4 billion years ago – “they are all enriched in silicon and aluminum with a little bit of sulfur, yet are all slightly different,” said Arvidson.

With the exception of the dark rocks on Lindbergh Mound – the strange cairn-like pile of rocks inside the small crater, which for now remains an enigma – the whole Spirit of St. Louis Crater area seems to have been “pretty well altered by fluids,” Arvidson added. “But we're still exploring this area and still trying to work out the story.”

Lindbergh Mound
Lindbergh Mound
Opportunity took this image of Lindbergh Mound, a strange stack of rocks just inside the small, shallow, oblong Spirit of St. Louis Crater, with her Navigation Camera. The rover investigated this cairn-like Martian formation in May 2015. It was named in honor of Charles A. Lindbergh, who on May 20-21, 1927, flew from New York over the Atlantic Ocean to Paris in a single engine, high-wing monoplane. It was the first solo, non-stop TransAtlantic flight. "Lucky Lindy," as he came to be known, became the first person in history to be in New York one day and Paris the next.

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During the last weekend in June, Opportunity finished up work on Private William Bratton and then drove a short 1.25 meters (4.1 feet) to the southeast to begin a kind of transect, "to take begin taking measurements on either side of the red rocks on the northern rim of Spirit of Saint Louis Crater," said Arvidson.

The robot field geologist, for now, is still relying on her RAM memory to store her data. “We will stay in persistent RAM mode for the foreseeable future while we continue to investigate the sudden reboots or warm resets and amnesia events that have been occurring and which we attribute to Opportunity’s flash or long-term memory,” Nelson said.

The investigation into Opportunity's flash issue is a world-class effort. A group of former MER engineers who worked on the electronics and software programming of Spirit and Opportunity back in the beginning joined forces a couple of months ago with current ops engineers on a flash tiger team led by Bekah Sosland, MER flight director and Tactical Downlink Lead, to dig deeper into the rover's flash memory problems, as reported in the April and May MER Updates.

"We may take 'toe-dips' back into using flash periodically to see what the rover tells us, but for now we're trying to see if we can learn more about what's going on," said Nelson, who is part of the flash investigation team.

"While it is inconvenient not to have flash, its not a big impact on the mission," said Callas. "It kind of like being a grad student who goes to the all-you-can to buffet, loads up, and then brings food back to the refrigerator in dorm room to eat later," he said metaphorically speaking. "For now, we don't have a 'refrigerator,' so we have to eat it or throw it out. However, we have shown that we can operate in persistent RAM mode and still have a very productive science mission."

Once Opportunity finishes imaging and gleaning data from either side of the red rocks on the northern rim of Spirit of Saint Louis Crater, the plan roving forward calls for the robot field geologist to at long last drive to the entrance of Marathon Valley. The valley is where data from the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, a visible-infrared spectrometer onboard MRO which searches for signs of past and present water, first detected a mother lode of various kinds of clay minerals in 2009. [See citation at end of report]

The whole MER team is more than ready to finally get into the valley, but they’re not rushing it. “We will go to the entrance of Marathon Valley, stop, and take some panoramas of the interior to better understand what's there, and figure out what to do,” said Arvidson. At month's end, the plan was to "drive to Marathon Valley next week," he said.

Although planetary scientists have long known that Endeavour Crater formed some 3 to 4 billion years ago, it wasn't until a year after Opportunity arrived at the 22-kilometer diameter hole in the ground that the robot first drove onto Noachian terrain, the first Mars surface mission to rove onto this ancient ground, the first to travel geologically this far back in Martian time.

Opportunity's route so far
Opportunity's route so far
The gold line on this image, courtesy Larry Crumpler of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, shows Opportunity's route from the Eagle Crater landing site to her approximate current location. Since August 2011, the MER mission has been investigating the western rim of Endeavour Crater, which spans about 22 kilometers (about 13.7 miles) in diameter. The base image for the map, all within the Meridiani Planum region of equatorial Mars, is a mosaic of images taken by the Context Camera onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).

In late August 2012, the MER team, using additional observations that Arvidson, a co-investigator on CRISM, collected from the infrared spectrometer, homed in on a "weak but real" signal for clay minerals. He then meticulously pinpointed the "sweet spot" to a hill in the Cape York segment of Endeavour’s eroded western rim that was named for MARs rover pioneer Jake Matijevic, one of the original "creators" of Spirit and Opportunity at JPL, who had just passed away.

Since Opportunity was traveling south along the Cape York segment near the hill, the timing was perfect. For Squyres, MER principal investigator of Cornell University, Arvidson, and most of the other MER scientists, it was a no-brainer. They commanded the rover to "slam on the brakes and take a hard right," as Squyres put it then, and head up Matijevic Hill.

There, for the first time in all her years on Mars, the robot field geologist found undeniable evidence for past near-neutral water the likes of which humans could probably drink.

That evidence was in the form of phyllosilicates, specifically smectite clay minerals, exactly what it had come to Endeavour Crater to ground-truth, exactly what CRISM detected and indicated would be there. It put the MER scientists over the Martian moons and the mission made space exploration history again, this time as the first surface mission to send home evidence of these telling clay minerals.

The CRISM data also directed the mission to Marathon Valley, where the signals from the orbiting spectrometer are much stronger and indicate a veritable bounty of three or four different kinds of smectite clay minerals. In addition, aerial imagery of Marathon Valley reveals a more defined stratigraphy in places, stratigraphy that must harbor evidence of Mars' ancient history and watery environment there.

After Opportunity finishes taking images of the valley from the entry point, “we will drive inside and then probably do a walkabout through the valley and to see what's where,” Golombek said.

The MER team will be looking for areas in Marathon Valley that feature a number of north-facing slopes where the solar-powered rover can angle her arrays toward the winter Sun in the northern sky to glean as much sunlight “fuel” as possible during the harsh season. Then as the Martian winter sets in [around the beginning of 2016], “we will decide where we might want to be perched for the winter months,” said Golombek.

The excitement about finally getting into the valley is really building now. It has, after all, been a destination years in the roving. "This is what we came here to do and it is the objective of our extended mission plan – explore Marathon Valley and the clays that CRISM indicates are abundant in this valley," said Callas. "Now, we're poised to go in and check it out."

J.J. Wray, et al., "Phyllosilicates and sulfates at Endeavour Crater, Meridiani Planum, Mars," Geophysical Research Letters, Nov. 4, 2009.

Marathon Valley overlook

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Marathon Valley overlook
This view from Opportunity shows part of Marathon Valley as seen from an overlook north of the valley. The landscape is presented in false color, a process that makes it easier to see differences in surface materials. The scene spans from east, at left, to southeast. The image combines exposures the rover took through three of the Pancam's color filters, centered on wavelengths of 753 nanometers (near-infrared), 535 nanometers (green) and 432 nanometers (violet), at each of the four camera pointings.
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ReaperX: 07/02/2015 06:16 CDT

"producing just under 500 watt-hours of power" Watt-hours are a unit of energy, not power. I suppose you meant the solar panels produce 500 watt-hours of energy per day?

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Younger students are still forming their interests. Younger students should be encouraged to enjoy a wide exposure to many wholesome activities. For example, a student may want to volunteer for an animal rescue foundation, but may show little or no interest in becoming a veterinarian. Everything a student does should not be judged as good or bad depending on whether it fits an adult's idea of 'meaningful' or career-focused. On the other hand, an older student who believes she wants to go pre-med should demonstrate an active interest in clinical medicine by volunteering or finding an internship at a hospital or medical clinic.

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? On-line courses. I know one student on a tight budget, who enrolled in an inexpensive on-line design course. She was guided through the creation of a 3-dimensional model bedroom (complete with furnishings, fabrics, window treatments, rugs, the works!). This project became part of her portfolio when she applied (successfully!) to several excellent architectural programs.

? Employment. Students with jobs learn many vital life lessons and gain valuable leadership experience—especially if they can continue the job into the high school year.

? Internships. Internships are tremendous opportunities for students to build specific skill sets and gain valuable experience in a particular field or area of knowledge. There are many summer programs to choose from and costs vary greatly. Get an early start researching these opportunities as many selective programs have March and April deadlines. Another bonus of applying to more selective internships is that the application is similar to the college application (many selective intern programs require letters of recommendation, school transcript, test scores and a personal essay) An 11th grader who completes this type of application process gets a good head start on the college application process.

? Community Service. Time is more plentiful during the summer and students who are drawn to volunteerism can expand this interest over the break.

? College Research and Visits. Summer is a perfect time to develop a balanced list of good fit colleges, explore each college fully and, if possible, plan to visit a few.

I hope this kick starts your ideas about how to spend your summer!

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LOS ANGELES — Democrats across the nation are eager to make increasing the minimum wage a defining campaign issue in 2014, but in California a proposal to boost the pay rate to $12 an hour is coming from a different point on the political compass.

Ron Unz, a Silicon Valley multimillionaire and registered Republican who once ran for governor and, briefly, U.S. Senate, wants state voters to endorse the wage jump that he predicts would nourish the economy and lift low-paid workers from dependency on food stamps and other assistance bankrolled by taxpayers.

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But entrepreneur Unz, 52, is a former publisher of The American Conservative magazine with a history of against-the-grain political activism that includes pushing a 1998 ballot proposal that dismantled California's bilingual education system, an idea he later championed in Colorado and other states.

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Republican National Committee member Shawn Steel praised Unz for his 1998 initiative, which abolished most bilingual education programs for students who speak little, if any, English and replaced them with English-only instruction. But Steel predicted a jump in the minimum wage would eliminate jobs, penalizing young people who often hold them.

Unz "is an innovator, he's extremely bright and he's a lone wolf," Steel said.

To Unz, who's spoken out over the years on issues as varied as campaign finance to IQ and race, the proposal simply makes sense. As drafted, it would increase the minimum wage in two steps — to $10 an hour in 2015, and $12 the following year, which would be the highest among states at current levels.

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His push comes as Seattle's new mayor, Democrat Ed Murray, has said he wants workers there to earn a minimum of $15 an hour, and after fast-food workers staged nationwide rallies calling for higher income.

Unz says taxpayers for too long have been subsidizing low-wage paying businesses, since the government pays for food stamps and other programs those workers often need to get by. He posits that the increase — at $12-an-hour, up from the current $8 — would lift millions of Californians out of poverty, drive up income and sales tax revenue and save taxpayers billions of dollars, since those workers would no longer qualify for many welfare benefits.

He dismisses the notion that countless jobs would evaporate, noting that most of the state's lower-wage jobs are in agriculture and the service sector, which can't be easily automated or transported elsewhere. He believes higher wages would make the jobs more attractive to U.S. residents, curtailing a lure for illegal immigration.

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For California, among the world's 10 largest economies in 2012, the jump "would be a gigantic economic stimulus package," Unz said in an interview. He hopes its passage in the nation's most populous state would have a ripple effect, prompting other states to increases wages.

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As with Clinton’s letter, Bush’s also lays out categories of greater sensitivity.

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President George W. Bush, whose White House was legendary for its secrecy, seems to have turned over a new leaf in his post-presidency.

A previously undisclosed directive Bush signed almost two years after leaving office could result in many of his official records becoming public faster than those of his predecessor, President Bill Clinton, experts say — a move that’s drawing praise from unlikely quarters.

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Bush’s letter to the National Archives about his presidential records, obtained by POLITICO under the Freedom of Information Act, establishes nine categories of documents cleared for release to the public. They include memoranda and reports provided to Bush and his aides that are “purely informational or factual in content,” talking points on policy decisions, scheduling files and recommendations about whether to sign legislation, while still allowing for withholding of some details of sensitive policy debates.

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The relatively expansive directive stands in contrast to Bush’s approach to the public’s right to know while he was in office, when his administration battled to the Supreme Court to keep secret the work of Vice President Dick Cheney’s Energy task force and reversed a Clinton-era presumption favoring disclosure in Freedom of Information Act cases. The Bush order also sets his approach apart from Clinton’s instructions for his White House records — a process that led to about 33,000 pages being held back for more than 12 years after the 42nd president left office.

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While Bush’s letter was signed about 3½ years ago, its true test has just gotten under way. That’s because, by law, White House records become subject to Freedom of Information Act requests from the public five years after a president leaves office. That window opened at the Bush Library in January of this year. In the first week, it was open to FOIAs, the Bush Library received more than 200 requests from journalists, scholars and activists.

A close observer of White House operations, Towson University political science professor Martha Kumar, said Bush likely views himself as having little to lose and something to gain by being open with his official files.

“He left the presidency very comfortable with his record. I think that’ll carry through into the release of information from it,” Kumar said. “I think he believes his actions were justified and that the records will demonstrate that.”

An analogous letter Bill Clinton signed in 2002 took a different approach, appearing to lift the legal restrictions on all confidential advice unless it was covered by certain exceptions. However, experts and former National Archives officials say that the outlines of those exceptions were so unclear that even mundane records were often withheld.

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“In general, I would say that the Bush letter is more helpful and concrete than the Clinton one,” said Scott Nelson of Public Citizen, an attorney who has fought for broader public access under the Presidential Records Act. “On its face, the Bush letter appears to do more to ‘ease’ the restrictions than the Clinton one did, and to empower the Archives to make its own decisions about releasing materials as to which the restrictions have been ‘eased.’”

“Bush chose to delineate categories in which he was waiving restrictions,” said Sharon Fawcett, who retired in 2011 as director of the Archives’ presidential libraries division. “He operated more from: ‘This is what you should open. This is what you must close….’ That helps to speed up the review, rather than saying, ‘I’m mostly willing to open confidential advice, but I want to look at it first.’”

That extra step, said Fawcett, means “great quantities of materials have to go through the eyeballs of the [president’s] personal representative to identify material everyone is comfortable with.” That’s what happened following Clinton’s 2002 directive, she said.

The high marks Bush is receiving for his letter are startling, since historians and a media coalition complained loudly and bitterly in 2001 about an executive order he issued ceding additional power to former presidents to prevent disclosure of their records. A judge struck down part of the order in 2007.

In a measure of liberal disdain for Bush’s action, the first executive order President Barack Obama signed after taking office revoked the earlier order.

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Bush’s post-presidential directive is careful to preserve his ability to hold back what many researchers would consider the crown jewels: the most sensitive memos and emails created during his eight years in the White House. Departing from Clinton’s letter, Bush’s order seeks to give special protection to communications involving his most senior advisers by designating senior staff memos for possible withholding.

“I further request that the NARA staff pay particular attention to, and appropriately consult with, my designated representatives regarding confidential communication, including electronic communications, containing substantive advice or recommendations involving White House staff serving as Assistants to the President,” Bush wrote in the Nov. 15, 2010, letter.

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As with Clinton’s letter, Bush’s also lays out categories of greater sensitivity, including “confidential communications on a national security or foreign policy topic,” “substantive policy communications to or from the President,” and communications with the vice president or first lady.

Here, too, there are nuanced differences. Bush’s letter says he’s considering easing even those restrictions and appears to give his representative authority to do so. Clinton’s urges that the restrictions be interpreted “as narrowly as possible,” but doesn’t appear to give the go-ahead to disclose any of the information in the categories deemed most sensitive.

“The Clinton letter didn’t clearly specify anything that would definitely be subject to release,” Nelson said.

“This is a very generous sounding letter,” Fawcett said of Clinton’s instructions. “But there were these restrictions.”


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PHOENIX — Priorities USA Action, the main super PAC backing Hillary Clinton, doesn't plan to continue spending in the March Democratic primaries following the front-runner’s victories over Bernie Sanders on Tuesday night, the group’s chief strategist Guy Cecil told POLITICO on Wednesday.

The group intends to let its ongoing ad buy in Arizona — which will vote on March 22 — play out, but it will cease pumping resources into the upcoming Democratic primary contests after spending over $5 million in February and March, according to Federal Election Commission filings.

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The PAC, which is the main vehicle for major donations in support of Clinton, did not originally intend to spend significantly on the primary. But that changed in the days after Sanders blew Clinton out in New Hampshire, with a $5 million effort focused primarily on building turnout among African-American and Hispanic voters. The group has invested roughly $140,000 on digital ads in Arizona — a state where Sanders’ team believes he can compete against Clinton -- but not in any other states with primaries or caucuses in the coming weeks.

The move to close the spigot on primary spending without specific plans to re-engage reflects a sense of confidence among Democrats aligned with Clinton about her prospects following wins in Florida, Ohio, North Carolina, Illinois, and Missouri on Tuesday.

That message was being sent as early as Tuesday night, when Brad Woodhouse, the president of Correct The Record, another super PAC supporting Clinton, declared, “Hillary Clinton’s wins tonight effectively ended the Democratic nomination for president."

On Wednesday, the former secretary of state’s campaign manager Robby Mook went further, declaring in a memo, “The broad coalition of Democrats supporting Hillary Clinton has given her a nearly insurmountable lead in pledged delegates and we are confident that for the first time in our nation’s history, the Democratic Party will nominate a woman as their presidential nominee."

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Herman Van Rompuy: ‘I wouldn’t want to be in Tusk’s shoes’

The former European Council president sees a leadership deficit during a new crisis for the EU.

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Since Donald Tusk’s predecessor Herman Van Rompuy left office, the European Union has gone through a series of crises testing countries’ willingness to work together for the common good.

As president of the European Council from 2009 to 2014, Van Rompuy orchestrated the response to the eurozone crisis, one of the EU’s darkest hours since its creation. The fragile stability he left behind him was soon shaken by the resurgent Greek debt crisis, the arrival of hundreds of thousands of refugees and a series of deadly Islamist attacks.

Europe’s diplomats remember Van Rompuy as the paragon of a consensus politician. But the current political climate has caught up with his style of politics: compromise is now more often the result of a series of heavily publicized clashes.

It is a Europe that Van Rompuy believes is facing a “leadership deficit” rather than a democratic deficit.

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In the year since he left power, Van Rompuy has divided his time between university lectures — including at Sciences Po in Paris and the College of Europe in Bruges — and leadership posts such as the presidency of the European Policy Centre, a think-tank close to the EU institutions. He spends most days at the Brussels headquarters of the conservative European People’s Party.

On a drizzly Monday afternoon, he had just wrapped up a brainstorming session in the town of  Vilvoorde with business leaders on the future of retail. An “intellectual exercise,” Van Rompuy called it when POLITICO caught up with him for an interview.

The current EU leadership has little interest in being lectured by a former president and Van Rompuy has been sparing in his media appearances over the past year.

“People think of politicians as typically power-hungry, wedded to power and incapable of giving it up. In that case, I am completely atypical,” he said.

Van Rompuy’s election to the new role of president of the European Council in November 2009 was mostly thanks to things he wasn’t: not from a big EU country, not flamboyant or attention-seeking, not provocative.

“We don’t play a game of winning and losing, no zero-sum game … I will take into consideration the interests and sensitivities of every member state,” he phrased it in his confirmation speech.

Nicknamed “the Belgian submarine,” his approach was appreciated by national leaders always eager to raise their own profiles.

“The fact that I worked discretely had a lot to do with the fact that I was trusted from the start. You build up a relationship of trust in this way, and that’s perhaps essential to perform this role,” he said. “We are not there to make a good impression in the press. We are there to make the EU institutions work.”

It marks a stark difference between the Belgian and his successor, former Polish prime minister Donald Tusk.

“Tusk sees his role as going beyond that of only being a broker of compromises,” said an official at the European Council in an evaluation of the Pole’s first year in office.

Van Rompuy, however, refrained from passing judgement on his successor. “These people have to work in daily circumstances that I am not familiar with,” he said. “I don’t intervene in politics, not even in Belgium. Unless it’s an encoded message, and they’ll have to decode it before it hits home.”

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With the EU facing existential crisis once more, Van Rompuy said he wouldn’t want to change places with Tusk.

“I believe that the migration crisis is a more difficult one than the eurozone crisis. I wouldn’t want to be in Donald Tusk’s shoes,” he said, adding that the human tragedy of the refugees made this a very different challenge.

The Belgian politician expressed gratitude to German Chancellor Angela Merkel for speaking about the refugees “in a humane way. I have missed this a lot at European level — as if it was merely a threat, as if it didn’t concern people in despair.”

Herman Van Rompuy (right) hands over the presidency of the European Council to Donald Tusk | EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images

Too often, he said, the response from leaders in Central and Eastern Europe but also in the west — who are “dominated by fear” — has been to imitate populists and demagogues who have tried to take advantage of the refugee crisis.

“A lot of leaders are confronted with extreme-right movements. They too tend to move to the right, thinking this will block the rise of the far-right,” he said.

Like the huge public debts and deficits that threatened the existence of Europe’s single currency, said Van Rompuy, the refugee crisis has highlighted the lack of instruments to deal with extraordinary circumstances.

“There is a parallel between the eurozone and Schengen [Europe’s passport-free travel zone]. Both are political projects … But both were designed with measures that would cope with normal circumstances — not times of crisis,” he said.

“Leaders have had to come to the conclusion that there was nothing in the toolbox in terms of crisis management nor to prevent such crises to happen in the future. Schengen, too, was destined for normal periods, not for one million people from outside of Europe’s borders.”

Van Rompuy expressed a sense of responsibility and regret for not having taken measures that could have made a difference today: the EU’s failure to craft a coordinated response to civil war in Syria; the drop in funding for refugee camps in Lebanon and Jordan that have contributed to a “lost generation” of school-age Syrian kids; inaction after Italy ceased its Mare Nostrum operation to search for and rescue refugees in the Mediterranean.

“It doesn’t sit well that I didn’t do everything in my power to provide an alternative European capacity back then,” he said, airing the idea of a common EU asylum policy while acknowledging that the political climate is not right for such a debate.

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Van Rompuy perfected the art of consensus and compromise in the notoriously complex world of Belgian politics, making his way up through Flemish Christian-Democrat ranks to become a cabinet minister in the mid-nineties and prime minister in 2008, at a time of domestic political deadlock.

It was a career characterized by negotiating tables rather than TV debates and campaign speeches, driven by what he calls his “very high sense of relativism.”

Naturally, he finds it hard to understand why David Cameron put Britain’s future in the EU at stake if his demands for new terms of membership are not met — Van Rompuy called it a “disproportionate” response.

“Cameron does not like the sound of the word ‘compromise’,” he said. “They are not used to that in the U.K., but in the European Union you take compromises on a daily basis.”

The U.K.’s non-membership of the euro, Schengen, EU asylum and migration policy and some social policies means it “already does not belong to the core of Europe,” said Van Rompuy. While many EU leaders can live with Cameron’s demands on the single market, competitiveness and guarantees against being forced to join an “ever closer union,” Van Rompuy believes his wish to limit welfare benefits for EU citizens is possibly “discriminatory.”

Even so, the Belgian master of consensus can see a way ahead for Britain to remain in the EU, if the will is there.

“There is a solution thinkable in which the non-discriminatory principle is respected and at the same time one responds to the misuse of social services,” he said. “But you have to be willing to find that compromise.”


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A hard Brexit is a far cry from what most communities want, write Labour MPs.

Pursuing a hard Brexit would leave British working people poorer, according to 90 Labour MPs.

Withdrawing from the EU’s single market and customs union would increase costs to consumers and take a heavy toll on jobs, growth and business, they said in a letter to the Guardian on Monday, in response to a call from Tory MPs for Prime Minister Theresa May to back a hard Brexit approach.

The Labour MPs include Emma Reynolds, Pat McFadden, Stephen Timms and Stephen Malhotra — all of whom sit on the parliament’s select committee for exiting for the EU — and Shadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer.

Many Tory party backbenchers hold similar views, the Guardian reported. “There are a number of Conservative colleagues who also feel the letter signed by 60 Conservative MPs needs to be answered, and it should be clear that not everyone on the Tory backbenches believe in a hard Brexit or closing off options now,” one Tory MP said, according the Guardian.

“The referendum result was a cry from many communities that they wanted to share in future economic gains, not to remain left behind,” the Labour MPs wrote. “A hard Brexit is the worst of all worlds and does nothing to honor their aspirations.”


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The "once you pop, you can't stop" Pringles campaign seemed kind of cute, but the catch phrase actually embodied truth in advertising. Former FDA commissioner David A. Kessler says some foods are scientifically engineered with particular combinations of salt, sugar, and fat that ultimately take you to your "bliss point" and keep you reaching for more.

The appetite is manipulated by these flavor combinations and your willpower doesn't stand much of a chance after you've had a taste. The brain's pleasure system is shot into nirvana, and then you crave to relive that moment of pleasure by eating the same junk food. But that doesn't mean you're powerless — knowing what foods trigger your bliss point will enable you to avoid them, and ultimately those cravings should vanish.

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Classically comforting dishes like cheese fries, buffalo wings, chicken tenders, spinach dip, and potato skins, are all designed so you want to devour the entire plate. If moderation just isn't an option when you're presented with these foods, skip the order altogether and find a creative swap instead.

For example, satisfy your desire for potato skins by ordering a healthy baked potato instead. Top it with salsa or broccoli and go light on the cheese, butter, and sour cream for a nutritious and delicious substitute. You should notice your cravings subside the more you forgo those tricky foods that entice you to keep eating.

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wiggle wiggle 7 years
I haven't had potato skins in years, but i can still remember the taste and the bliss. LOL!
Spectra Spectra 7 years
That's pretty interesting. I don't usually order food like that at restaurants, but this does explain why my husband will (and often DOES) eat a whole pizza or an entire plate of mozzarella sticks by himself, but when I offer him something a bit healthier, like mashed potatoes or a bowl of cereal and milk, he eats a more reasonable amount.
CoralAmber CoralAmber 7 years
I try and pull out a portion of chips and then put the bag away each time. I'm not overly fond of a lot of the foods mentioned above.
Asche Asche 7 years
This is interesting and I second kcmonsinki! I can devour french fries (my weakness), but baked potatoes never interest me.
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Interesting. I like the suggestion for a replacement food.
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great tips fit, i never really understood why i could wolf down an entire plate of curly fries but put a baked potato in front of me, and i'm full before I finish it, no more fries for this girl
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Next up: The Douro Chair

You would think that after 30 months of researching and building campaign furniture, I’d be ready to build something else. Such as something that didn’t collapse, fold or have copious amounts of brass hardware.

But no. I am nuts for the Douro chair. It’s a reclining chair with leather cushions, yet it pre-dates the Morris chair by many decades. Not only is it a very comfortable chair (I sat in one this fall), but it folds up to travel in a box. And that box converts to a convenient side table with turned legs.

The earliest Douro chair I’m aware of is shown in a painting that is circa 1835, which was found by Simon and Sean Clarke of Christopher Clarke Antiques in England. I’ve not been able to find any references that early; many of the references to the chair I’ve found start popping up about 1850, which is when it appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald (Oct. 9, 1850, and Dec. 21, 1850) and in the Bermuda Royal Gazette (Aug. 27, 1850).

In any case, the Douro was an enduring design produced by many makers and even was produced in an iron version. I’ve found catalog listings for Douros in the 1907 Army & Navy Co-operative Society catalog. That’s a long run for a chair design.

The chair’s mechanism is like a modified director’s chair. The base is a simple folding X-frame. The chair’s back is hinged to one end of the frame. The front posts of the chair are also hinged (typically) to the front of the base.

The seat and back are caned. And the whole thing is covered by a folding leather cushion.

You can recline the back using the heavy leather arm straps. There are holes in the straps, which can be moved to different positions. Some Douros were even used as beds in a pinch and appear with footrests.

The chair was typically made in birch, mahogany or oak.

Interestingly, the Douro (allegedly named for the Marquis of Douro), was often recommended for homemakers as an ideal chair for invalids.

Other kinds can, however, be used, if preferred; one of a simple construction is shown at figure 25, said to have been invented by the Marquis of Douro, whence its name, Douro chair. The back is hinged where it joins the seat, so as to alter its slope, like the bedchair described above. The elbows are two leather straps, with holes pierced at their outer ends, which fit over a small brass nob fixed in the upright, and so hold the back in any position. The bottom is formed by a piece of sacking, on which the lower cushion rests. It will thus be seen that this chair is of very simple construction, and it has besides the convenience of folding into a small compass.

— “How to Make a Home and Feed a Family…” Ward & Lock (London), 1857.

I’m headed to England this summer to teach a couple of classes, and I hope to get my hands on a Douro to measure and examine. (If you have one in your garage, let me know.)

— Christopher Schwarz

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  1. ikemerrell

    That’s a sweet chair, I’d love to see one in person or check out some plans. Do any plans exist ?

  2. mickthetree

    Did you check out the Chair Museum in High Wycombe when you were here in the summer Chris?? Lots of gems in there. I think the company that were looking after it have recently closed, but I’m sure someone will be looking after it.
    Lots of fine furniture still being made in and around this very historically important area. At one time 5000 chairs were being made per week in High Wycombe to be exported around the world. Anyway, good luck with finding the chair. If I get chance I’ll pop to the museum to see if they have one.

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The perfect hamper for the French Farmhouse Baby Bedding, Toddler Bedding or any French-inspired room. Mocha ultra-suede hamper with linen trim wooden frame. Includes removable machine washable mesh insert. Lovingly crafted in the US.
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Emile French Farmhouse Hamper
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    Dimensions:  16"W x 26"H x 16"D
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    Product ID:  26680
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