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Up the Sandbox (1972) Irvin Kershner

March 18th 2024

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Ariane-5 rocket model in Daz3D format with Iray shader. The rocket model is sized according to the size of the Heller model in scale 1:125. If you set the size to 100%, you get the original rocket size... Coming soon: https://3d-stuff.net/ #daz3d #dazstudio #3drender #3dart #daz3dstudio #irayrender #3dartwork #blender #blenderrender #blenderart #noaiart #noaiwriting #noai https://3d-stuff.net/

[ulrichgebert]

In Up the Sandbox spielt Barbra Streisand eine überforderte und vom Gatten vernachlässigte Hausfrau und Mutter, und durchlebt einige reichlich hanebüchene Tagträume, wie beispielsweise diesen, in dem sie Fidel Castro trifft, der ihr offenbart, daß er in Wahrheit eine Frau ist. Unterwandert netterweise die Erwartungen an einen “Unterwandert-die-Geschlechterrollen-Klischees”-Film gleich mit.

[skyfire85]

FLIGHTLINE: 195 - SNECMA COLÉOPTÈRE ("BEETLE")

-The SNECMA Coléoptère on its specially designed cradle/erector. | Photo: USN

FLIGHTLINE: 195 - SNECMA COLÉOPTÈRE ("BEETLE")

Designed by French engine manufacturer SNECMA, the Coléoptère was an experimental VTOL aircraft using an annular wing.

In the wake of WWII, a number of aircraft design and manufacturing organizations around the world sought to create an aircraft capable of taking off and landing vertically (VTOL), using a number of cutting edge technologies, including turbojet engines. One such company was SNECMA (Société nationale d'études et de construction de moteurs d'aviation , now Safran Aircraft Engines), which along with its own R&D work, integrated the research of Austrian-born Helmut von Zborowski, who had designed an annular wing he felt was capable of acting "as power plant, airframe of a flying wing aircraft and drag-reducing housing". SNECMA began design work of an aircraft incorporating von Zborowski's wing with their own jet engines into a ramjet interceptor, capable of taking off vertically and accelerating to supersonic speeds. This work culminated in the C.450 Coléoptère. Prior to building the Coléoptère, however, a number of test vehicles were built, known as the Atar Volant (either "Shuttlecock" or "Flying Atar").

-The second Atar Volant (C.400 P.2), on display at the Musée de l'air et de l'espace in Le Bourget, France. | Photo: ignis

Essentially an Atar 10DV engine with a metal skin providing space for fuel and remote control equipment, the first Volant, model C.400 P.1, had its first tethered flight on 22 September 1956 and completed 205 flights to validate control systems, which included an early thrust vectoring nozzle.

-Cutaway of the P.1. | Illustration: SNECMA

-Photo of the P.2 (L) and P.1 (R) in the late 1950s. | Photo: Nico Braas

The P.1 was followed by the P.2, which was also powered by a 10DV, but had a platform above the intake for an ejection seat and controls, allowing a pilot to fly the Volant. The P.2 supplemented the nozzle control of the P.1 with control jet nozzles on the landing legs. a 500kg capacity fuel tank gave an endurance of almost 5 minutes. The first tethered flight was on 8 April 1957, with the first free flight on 14 May 1957. The P.2 made 102 flights by 1958, after which it was displayed at the Paris Air Show before being preserved at the Museum of Air and Space in La Bourget. A third Volant, the P.3, used a more powerful 101E engine, and had a fully-enclosed cockpit atop the stack, which also had a tilting ejection seat for both vertical and horizontal flight.

-The C.400 P.3 during an early tethered flight. | Photo: SNECMA

The P.3 was used in two separate phases, one testing vertical flight, then a second stage with the engine mounted in a horizontal position on a rail car to test airflow and other aspects of horizontal flight.

-The P.3 being prepped for a horizontal test. | Photo: SNECMA

THE BEETLE

After the conclusion of the Volant test series, SNECMA proceeded with the construction and testing of the full annular wing aircraft, designated the C.450-01 Coléoptère. Lacking the needed experience with manufacturing a full airframe, SNECMA contracted Nord Aviation to complete the Coléoptère, with the aircraft being ready for its maiden flight in 1959.

-Orthograph of the C.450-01. | Illustration: aviastar.org

The C.450 stood eight meters tall on four small swiveling caster wheels, and while the diameter of the wing was just over three meters, four small fins for maneuvering in horizontal flight increased the 'wingspan' to 4.5 meters from tip to tip. At maximum weight the Coléoptère weighed 3,000 kilos, while the Atar EV 101E engine produced 3,700kg of thrust. An annular tank provided 700kg of fuel. Two small retractable canards on either side of the nose aided with stability during the transition from vertical to horizontal flight, while deflection of the exhaust provided directional control during vertical flight. As with the P.3 test rig, the seat and instrument panel tilted with the aircraft, keeping the pilot relatively upright in all phases. Two windows were added to the fuselage to give the pilot a frame of reference for the ground during landing and takeoff, and auxiliary doors would open to direct air into the engine as needed.

-The C.450 resting in the transporter/erector, with pilot Auguste Morel in the pilot's seat. | Photo: SNECMA

The C.450 arrived at Melun Villaroche Aerodrome for testing in 1958, with the first tethered test occurring in December. Test pilot Auguste Morel, who had also flown the Volant during its test phase, found almost immediately that the Coléoptère had a tendency to slowly rotate during hover (likely a result of torque from the engine), that the vertical speed indicator was inaccurate, and that the control system was almost ineffective during vertical flight. Dead stick (i.e.: engine off) landings were impossible. Adjustments were made to the aircraft, and the first free flight was undertaken on 6 May 1959. Seven more successful test flights were completed, with the aircraft demonstrating its ability to hover before a public audience. The C.450 established a maximum ceiling of 800m (2,600 feet).

-The Coléoptère in a hover. | Photo: SNECMA

The ninth and final flight occurred on 25 July 1959, and was intended to be the first full transition from vertical to horizontal flight. Poor instrumentation and a lack of visual references resulted in Morel becoming disorientated however, and the Coléoptère began to stall. The aircraft entered a series of oscillations and Morel triggered the ejection seat at 150m (490') altitude. The C.450 impacted the ground and was destroyed, and Morel was injured but survived. SNECMA had planned on having a second Coléoptère built, but the funds were never provided, and the test program ended with the 450.1's destruction. SNECMA's brief entry into experimental aircraft ended as well, though the company continued to innovate within that field, working with Rolls-Royce on the Olympus 593 engine for Concorde as well as with GE on several airliner engines, and developing the SNECMA M53 for the Mirage 2000 as well as the M88 for the Rafale fighters. The company also branched out into rocket engines, developing the Viking and Vulcain motors for the Ariane series of launch vehicles. In 2016, after a series of acquisitions and mergers, the company was renamed Safran Aircraft Engines as a subsidiary of Safran S.A.

-Box art for a contemporary model kit of the Coléoptère, released by French company Heller. | Illustration Heller SA

[mellometal]

I may be a fan of women in rock music and in metal (that was my senior project topic), but you KNOW I vibe with some of the women in pop, R&B, etc.

Ariana Grande, for example, is a woman I've stanned since she was on Victorious and Sam&Cat! She means so much to me. I love her so much. She lives in my head rent free. Arianators, WHERE Y'ALL AT?

Another person I adore is Melanie Martinez. She's made me feel better about being different and helped me come to terms with what I struggle with, I love her music, and they just make me feel like I'm not alone, y'know? I love Melanie's aesthetic, they're living their best life, and I love that for her.

Also, Melanie Martinez is daddy af. (Mel actually doesn't like being called "Queen" or "Mom", and prefers to be called "Daddy".) Crybabies, WHERE Y'ALL AT?

I'd add all my biases in K-Pop girl groups, but y'all probably already know them, and you know...picture limits! 😅 If you want to know, here's a list of my biases so far:

TWICE: Dahyun

BLACKPINK: Jisoo

ITZY: Lia

LOONA: Chuu and HyunJin

EVERGLOW: Yiren

Red Velvet: Irene and Wendy

PURPLE K!SS: Yuki

Dreamcatcher: Dami (Gahyeon and JiU would be runner-up biases)

Pink Fantasy: SeeA, Yechan, and Momoka

HOW CAN I FORGET ABOUT RIHO SAYASHI HERSELF? She's really bringing back City Pop. Stream her music! It's good.

THE POP PUNK QUEEN AVRIL LAVIGNE HERSELF.

THE LEGEND MARIAH CAREY.

I know this might be controversial, but I do like Timothy Heller! Her music is pretty good. I like her work when she was in Dresses.

(Please don't attack me.) This is only a small list, but yeah. Lol. If any of you like any of the same artists, let me know!

[librairie-voyage]

Prendre la route, se laisser embarquer par les éléments, les évènements. Briser ses doutes, sortir de cette satanée zone de confort. S'autoriser un shoot de lecture ou de nature. La lecture d'Yvon Le Men et son désarçonnant "La bretagne sans permis" nous ouvre les voies de la poésie contrebalancé par le récit "La Rivière" de Peter Heller et ce périple en canoë qui promettait, au départ, douceur et contemplation. Cette semaine il sera question d'escalade, de surf, de voyage en van, de balades en Bretagne. Saluons les belles parutions chez Gallimard, véritables odes au voyage tout-en-douceur. Nul doute que pour se sentir encore plus vivants nous avons besoin de toucher ce papier dont la caresse est la promesse de futurs souvenirs nostalgiques #librairie #voyage #Rennes (à Librairie du Voyage - Ariane) https://www.instagram.com/p/COxl60ysd7l/?igshid=z3kldk18g1ly

[gonzalomingo]

The 5th annual VISION Festival May 19-29, 2000 at Saint Mark's Place

FRIDAY MAY 19

7pm

Joseph Jarman Opening Invocation

7:30pm

Reggie Nicholson Concept:

Gene Ghee

Russel Blake

Gerald Brazel

Bruce Edwards

8:30pm

Peter Kowald w/ Conny Bauer & Gunter "Baby" Sommer

9:30pm

Gus Solomons jr. Dance

w/ Walter Thompson

10:30pm

Sunny Murray

William Parker

Matthew Shipp

11:30pm

Mark Whitecage

w/ Jay Rosen

Sabir Mateen

Chris Dahlgreen

SATURDAY MAY 20

7pm

Brian Smith Sextet

Kalaparusha Difta

Justin Robinson

Michael Mossman

Bryan Carrott

Reggie Nicholson

video by Phylis Bukin-Lehrer​

8pm

Nadine Mozon Poet

with Nioka Workman

9pm

Karen Borca Quartet

Rob Brown

Reggie Nicholson

Pheeroan akLaff

10pm

Dewey Redman Quartet

Charles Eubanks

Matthew Wilson

John Menagon

11pm

Cooper-Moore Choir "From The Sea"

Tiye Giraud

Jane Gabriels

Aleta Hayes

Sharon Heller

Ayana Lowe

Bruce Mack

Fred L. Price

Lisa Sokolov

Michael Wimberly SUNDAY MAY 21

7pm

Claude "Fiddler" Williams

with James Chirilo

Wilber Morris

8pm

Mat Maneri Quintet

Dave Ballou

Mark Dresser

Randy Peterson

Matt Moran

Christine Coppola Maneri Dance

9pm

Leroy Jenkins & Felicia Norton Dance

with Michael Brain Visual Artist

10pm

Billy Bang

​with Sirone & Abbey Radar MONDAY MAY 22

7pm

Andrew Bemkey Trio

Tom Abbs

Chad Taylor

8pm

Gerry Hemingway Quartet

Robin Eubanks

Ellery Eskelin

Mark Dresser

9pm

Craig Taborn Quartet

Gerald Cleaver

Reid Anderson

Aaron Stewart

10pm

Ikue Mori & Sylvie Courvoisier

11pm

Elliott Sharp with I-Sound TUESDAY MAY 23

5:30pm

Special Panel Discussion: Defining the Vision, an open conversation between artists, critics and the audience

7pm

Visions: Special Video Screening: Susan Littenburg's video documentary of the 1997 Vision Festival.

8pm

Bill Cole and the Untempered Ensemble

with William Parker

Cooper-Moore

Joseph Daley

Atticus Cole

Sam Furnace

​Warren Smith

9pm

Alan Silva

Marshall Allen

William Parker

10pm

Steve Dalachinsky Poet

with Stephanie Stone

11pm

Roscoe Mitchell New Chamber Ensemble

with Thomas Buckner

Joseph Kubera

Yasunao Tone

Leon Dorsey WEDNESDAY MAY 24

7pm

Yoshiko Chuma and the School of Hard Knocks Dance

Chris Cochrane

Jim Pugliese

Mark Stewart

7:45pm

Joseph Jarman Ensemble

8:45pm

K.J Holmes Constellation

Sondra Loring & Jon Kinzel Dance

Elena Beriolo Artist

Santio Debriano Percussionist

and Dave Douglas, Roy Campbell, Baikida Carroll Trumpets

9:45pm

Whit Dickey Quartet

with Rob Brown

Joe Morris

Chris Lightcap THURSDAY MAY 25

7pm

Joe McPhee "Bluette"

with Michael Bisio

Dominic Duval

​Joe Giardullo

8pm

David S. Ware Special Solo Performance

8:45pm

Jemeel Moondoc Quartet

with Khan Jamal

Nathan Breedlove

Jon Voigt

Cody Moffet

9:45pm

Patricia Nicholson Dance

Billy Bang

William Parker

Hamid Drake

Jo Wood Artist

10:45pm

Nami Yamamoto Dance

with TEST

Matt Heyner

Sabir Mateen

Daniel Carter

Tom Bruno FRIDAY MAY 26

7pm

Michele Rosewoman Quintessence

with Steve Wilson

Gary Thomas

Lonnie Plaxico

Gene Jackson

8pm

Rob Brown

Hamid Drake

Mat Maneri

9pm

Kidd Jordan

with Alvin Fielder

Joel Futterman

William Parker

10pm

David Budbill Poet

with William Parker

11pm

Perry Robinson Quartet

with Cristoph Adams piano

Ed Schuller

Ernst Bier

12pm

Other Dimensions in Music with Matthew Shipp

Daniel Carter

Roy Campell

William Parker

Rashid Bakr

SATURDAY MAY 27

7pm

Bill Dixon & Vision Orchestra

Premiere Index

Roy Campbell, Stephen Haynes, Taylor Ho Bynum, Raphe Malik, Jeff Hoyer, Steve Swell, Bill Lowe, Joseph Daley, Rob Brown, Stephen Horenstein, Sabir Mateen, Scott Currie, J.D Parran, William Connell, Karen Borca, Glynis Lomon, Mary Wooten, Klaus Janek, Wilber Morris, John Blum, Jackson Krall and Warren Smith.

8:30pm

Miguel Algarin Poet

9:15pm

Bobby Few Solo

10:15pm

Steve Cannon "Au Courant / Currences"

with Natasha Diggs and Edwin Torres

11pm

Joe Morris Trio

with Timo Shanko

Gerald Cleaver SUNDAY MAY 28

7pm

Myra Melford / Marty Ehrlich Duo with Special Guest Joseph Jarman

8pm

DJ Spooky / Matthew Shipp Duo

8:45pm

Francesca Harper Dance

with DJ Spooky

9:15pm

William Parker and the Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra Premieres KALEIDOSCOPE

commissioned by Arts for Art with funds provided by NYSCA

​

10:30pm

Jerome Cooper Drum Solo

11:30pm

James Blood Ulmer's Music Revelation Ensemble

with Calvin James

David Murray

Cornell Rochester MONDAY MAY 29

Julius Hemphil Tribute

​

7pm

Baikida Carroll Solo Trumpet and Jeff Schlanger Artist

7:45pm

Oliver Lake

Joseph Bowie

Pheeoran akLaff

​

8:45pm

Maria Mitchell Dance

and Terry Jenoure

9:45pm

Julius Hemphill Sextet

with Marty Ehrlich

Andrew White

Sam Furnace

Andy Laster

Alex Harding

Aaron Stewart

10:45pm

David Murray & Dave Burrell

Visual Artists: Elena Beriolo, Michael Brain, LeRonn Brooks, Dennis Cowley, Nadine de Koningswater, Stephanie DeManuelle, Anne Humanfeld, Alain Kirili, Phyllis Kulkin Lehrer, Ariane Lopez Huici, Eleanor Magid, Kazuko Miyamoto, Chris Olsavsky, Yuko Otomo, Jeff Schlanger, Marilyn Sontag, Jason Weller, Jo Wood-Brown, Skip Brown, Enid Farber, Lona Foote, Rozanne Levine, Alan Nahigian, Raymond Ross, Michael Wilderman                            

[maxwellyjordan]

Tuesday round-up

Briefly:

At Bloomberg Law, Jordan Rubin reports that “[a] Maryland murder case that garnered nationwide attention after a hit podcast raised questions about its subject’s guilt landed on Monday at the U.S. Supreme Court.”

Ariane de Vogue reports at CNN that “[t]he Trump administration reiterated to the Supreme Court on Friday that it does not believe that federal employment law that bans discrimination based on sex also encompasses discrimination based on transgender status … in the latest filing in one of the most important cases of the upcoming Supreme Court term,” G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. [Disclosure: Goldstein & Russell, P.C., whose attorneys contribute to this blog in various capacities, is counsel on an amicus brief in support of respondent Stephens in this case.]

At Take Care, Leah Litman and Kyle Skinner note that “[t]he Solicitor General recently filed a petition for certiorari asking the Supreme Court to review a constitutional challenge to the so-called expedited removal system,” in Department of Homeland Security v. Thuraissigiam; they argue that “[t]he Court should deny the petition, for no other reason than that the Trump administration –within the last month–announced that it is dramatically expanding, and therefore radically altering, the scope of the expedited removal system.”

At the Yale Journal on Regulation’s Notice & Comment blog, Bernard Bell writes that although Kansas v. Garcia, which asks whether a federal immigration-law provision pre-empts a state prosecution for identity theft for using someone else’s Social Security number, “may appear to be an immigration case, … lurking near the surface is a dispute over preemption analysis, namely the role of textualism and the scope of the presumption against preemption,” which “may have implications far beyond the immigration context.”

At Truthdig, Bill Blum worries that New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. City of New York, New York, a challenge to New York City’s limits on transporting personal firearms, “has the potential to rival or surpass [District of Columbia v. Heller] for its impact on gun rights and gun regulation.”

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Business Where Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh stands on key issues

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Washington (CNN)The confirmation battle over Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s pick to fill the Supreme Court vacancy created by retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy, is set to intensify when hearings on his nomination start Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Kavanaugh, 53, currently serves as a judge on the powerful US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Here’s where he stands on some hot-button issues:

Roe v. Wade

Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine

told reporters

in August that Kavanaugh informed her that he considers Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion nationwide, to be settled law.

Kavanaugh has not expressed outright opposition to Roe v. Wade. In 2006, Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, now the Senate Democratic leader, pressed Kavanaugh on his personal opinion about Roe, but he declined to answer, saying, “I don’t think it would be appropriate for me to give a personal view on that case.”

The exchange

took place during a hearing to consider Kavanaugh’s nomination to serve on the DC circuit.

Kavanaugh did say, however, that if he became a judge on the circuit court, he would uphold Supreme Court precedent with respect to Roe. “If confirmed to the DC Circuit, I would follow Roe v. Wade faithfully and fully. That would be binding precedent of the court. It has been decided by the Supreme Court,” he said at the time. (The Supreme Court, of course, can overturn its previous decisions.)

Because Kennedy was a swing vote in favor of abortion rights, his departure from the court has sparked alarm among abortion rights activists that Roe v. Wade could be overturned. In addition, Trump has long vowed to appoint justices who would reverse Roe and allow the states to determine whether abortion should be legal.

Abortion

One of Kavanaugh’s opinions likely to draw scrutiny from senators is

his dissent from a ruling

of the DC Circuit last October that an undocumented immigrant teen in detention was entitled to seek an abortion.

In his dissent

, Kavanaugh wrote the Supreme Court has held that “the government has permissible interests in favoring fetal life, protecting the best interests of a minor, and refraining from facilitating abortion.” He wrote that the high court has “held that the government may further those interests so long as it does not impose an undue burden on a woman seeking an abortion.” He said the majority opinion was “based on a constitutional principle as novel as it is wrong: a new right for unlawful immigrant minors in US government detention to obtain immediate abortion on demand.”

Executive branch authority

Democrats are likely to make Kavanaugh’s views on presidential power a focus of the hearings.

In a 2009 Minnesota Law Review

article

, Kavanaugh wrote that “Congress might consider a law exempting a President — while in office — from criminal prosecution and investigation, including from questioning by criminal prosecutors or defense counsel.” In the same article, however, he noted, “If the President does something dastardly, the impeachment process is available.”

Kavanaugh

said

back in 1999 that the landmark Supreme Court opinion that ordered President Richard Nixon to turn over White House recordings toward the end of the Watergate investigation might have been “wrongly decided.”

The comments were part of an interview in Washington Lawyer magazine. Reached for comment, the White House pointed to a more recent speech in which Kavanaugh praised the 1974 opinion in United States v. Nixon, which set a key precedent limiting presidential claims of executive privilege.

Agency power and government regulation

Kavanaugh

has demonstrated

a deep suspicion of government regulation, a pattern aligned with the Trump administration and perhaps best exemplified by his

dissent

in the case of a killer whale that attacked a SeaWorld trainer.

As Kavanaugh criticized a Labor Department move to sanction SeaWorld following the drowning of a trainer by the orca Tilikum, he declared that the agency had “stormed headlong into a new regulatory arena” and warned that regulators would try to impose new safety requirements on sports, the circus and more.

Overall, his view is that agencies should exercise authority as clearly spelled out in federal statutes and that judges should not, as occurred in the SeaWorld case, defer to agency interpretations that go beyond what’s explicit in a law.

In opinions and speeches, Kavanaugh has questioned a ruling in a 1984 Supreme Court case,

Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council

, that said judges should defer to agency interpretations of ambiguous laws. That, he said in a 2017 speech, “encourages agency aggressiveness on a large scale.”

Religious liberty

Kavanaugh’s opinion in a case involving a challenge under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act to the Affordable Care Act’s so-called contraceptive mandate,

Priests for Life v. HHS

, has also drawn scrutiny. In a dissent, he expressed sympathy for the religious challengers. Making reference to the Supreme Court’s ruling in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, he wrote that “the regulations substantially burden the religious organizations’ exercise of religion because the regulations require the organizations to take an action contrary to their sincere religious beliefs.”

In a line that has attracted

some conservative criticism

, however, Kavanaugh also wrote in his dissent that Supreme Court precedent “strongly suggests that the government has a compelling interest in facilitating access to contraception for the employees of these religious organizations.”

Obamacare

When a lawsuit challenging the Affordable Care Act

reached

Kavanaugh’s Washington appeals court in 2011, he was careful not to commit and did not vote on the merits of the case.

Kavanaugh dissented from the 2-1 ruling in favor of the 2010 law known as Obamacare. He said judges had no jurisdiction at that point to resolve the merits of the dispute.

He described the law requiring people to buy health insurance as “unprecedented” and the breadth of the Obama administration’s defense of it “jarring.” But at the same time, Kavanaugh said judges “should be wary of upending” Congress’ effort to help provide Americans with quality health care.

Second Amendment

In 2011, Kavanaugh dissented from a majority opinion of the DC Circuit that upheld a ban that applied to semiautomatic rifles in the District of Columbia.

In his dissent, he wrote that the Supreme Court had previously “held that handguns — the vast majority of which today are semiautomatic — are constitutionally protected because they have not traditionally been banned and are in common use by law-abiding citizens.”

Citing a previous high court ruling, Kavanaugh went on to say, “It follows from Heller‘s protection of semiautomatic handguns that semiautomatic rifles are also constitutionally protected and that DC’s ban on them is unconstitutional.”

Privacy and national security

In 2015, Kavanaugh

wrote an opinion

defending the US government’s controversial metadata collection program, in part citing national security considerations. He wrote that the program “is entirely consistent with the Fourth Amendment,” which

protects

against unreasonable search and seizure.

He wrote that the program “does not capture the content of communications, but rather the time and duration of calls and the numbers called,” and said it “serves a critically important special need — preventing terrorist attacks on the United States.” Kavanaugh argued “that critical national security need outweighs the impact on privacy occasioned by this program.”

Net neutrality

In a 2017 dissent, Kavanaugh

said

he believed that Obama-era net neutrality regulations were “unlawful” and wrote that the policy violated the First Amendment.

At issue were rules

approved

by the Federal Communications Commission in 2015 to more strictly regulate the Internet. The rules, based on the principle of “net neutrality,” were intended to provide equal opportunity for Internet speeds and access to websites. In a May 2017 order, a majority of the DC Circuit declined to review an earlier decision siding with the FCC. Under the Trump administration, the FCC has since moved to dismantle the regulation.

Kavanaugh wrote in his 2017 dissenting opinion that the regulation was consequential and “transforms the Internet.” But he said the rule “impermissibly infringes on the Internet service providers’ editorial discretion,” and he suggested the FCC had overreached in issuing the regulation. “Congress did not clearly authorize the FCC to issue the net neutrality rule,” he wrote.

This story has been updated.

CNN’s Ariane de Vogue, Sunlen Serfaty and Jose Pagliery contributed to this report.

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Business Where Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh stands on key issues

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Washington (CNN)The confirmation battle over Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s pick to fill the Supreme Court vacancy created by retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy, is set to intensify when hearings on his nomination start Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Kavanaugh, 53, currently serves as a judge on the powerful US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Here’s where he stands on some hot-button issues:

Roe v. Wade

Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine

told reporters

in August that Kavanaugh informed her that he considers Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion nationwide, to be settled law.

Kavanaugh has not expressed outright opposition to Roe v. Wade. In 2006, Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, now the Senate Democratic leader, pressed Kavanaugh on his personal opinion about Roe, but he declined to answer, saying, “I don’t think it would be appropriate for me to give a personal view on that case.”

The exchange

took place during a hearing to consider Kavanaugh’s nomination to serve on the DC circuit.

Kavanaugh did say, however, that if he became a judge on the circuit court, he would uphold Supreme Court precedent with respect to Roe. “If confirmed to the DC Circuit, I would follow Roe v. Wade faithfully and fully. That would be binding precedent of the court. It has been decided by the Supreme Court,” he said at the time. (The Supreme Court, of course, can overturn its previous decisions.)

Because Kennedy was a swing vote in favor of abortion rights, his departure from the court has sparked alarm among abortion rights activists that Roe v. Wade could be overturned. In addition, Trump has long vowed to appoint justices who would reverse Roe and allow the states to determine whether abortion should be legal.

Abortion

One of Kavanaugh’s opinions likely to draw scrutiny from senators is

his dissent from a ruling

of the DC Circuit last October that an undocumented immigrant teen in detention was entitled to seek an abortion.

In his dissent

, Kavanaugh wrote the Supreme Court has held that “the government has permissible interests in favoring fetal life, protecting the best interests of a minor, and refraining from facilitating abortion.” He wrote that the high court has “held that the government may further those interests so long as it does not impose an undue burden on a woman seeking an abortion.” He said the majority opinion was “based on a constitutional principle as novel as it is wrong: a new right for unlawful immigrant minors in US government detention to obtain immediate abortion on demand.”

Executive branch authority

Democrats are likely to make Kavanaugh’s views on presidential power a focus of the hearings.

In a 2009 Minnesota Law Review

article

, Kavanaugh wrote that “Congress might consider a law exempting a President — while in office — from criminal prosecution and investigation, including from questioning by criminal prosecutors or defense counsel.” In the same article, however, he noted, “If the President does something dastardly, the impeachment process is available.”

Kavanaugh

said

back in 1999 that the landmark Supreme Court opinion that ordered President Richard Nixon to turn over White House recordings toward the end of the Watergate investigation might have been “wrongly decided.”

The comments were part of an interview in Washington Lawyer magazine. Reached for comment, the White House pointed to a more recent speech in which Kavanaugh praised the 1974 opinion in United States v. Nixon, which set a key precedent limiting presidential claims of executive privilege.

Agency power and government regulation

Kavanaugh

has demonstrated

a deep suspicion of government regulation, a pattern aligned with the Trump administration and perhaps best exemplified by his

dissent

in the case of a killer whale that attacked a SeaWorld trainer.

As Kavanaugh criticized a Labor Department move to sanction SeaWorld following the drowning of a trainer by the orca Tilikum, he declared that the agency had “stormed headlong into a new regulatory arena” and warned that regulators would try to impose new safety requirements on sports, the circus and more.

Overall, his view is that agencies should exercise authority as clearly spelled out in federal statutes and that judges should not, as occurred in the SeaWorld case, defer to agency interpretations that go beyond what’s explicit in a law.

In opinions and speeches, Kavanaugh has questioned a ruling in a 1984 Supreme Court case,

Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council

, that said judges should defer to agency interpretations of ambiguous laws. That, he said in a 2017 speech, “encourages agency aggressiveness on a large scale.”

Religious liberty

Kavanaugh’s opinion in a case involving a challenge under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act to the Affordable Care Act’s so-called contraceptive mandate,

Priests for Life v. HHS

, has also drawn scrutiny. In a dissent, he expressed sympathy for the religious challengers. Making reference to the Supreme Court’s ruling in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, he wrote that “the regulations substantially burden the religious organizations’ exercise of religion because the regulations require the organizations to take an action contrary to their sincere religious beliefs.”

In a line that has attracted

some conservative criticism

, however, Kavanaugh also wrote in his dissent that Supreme Court precedent “strongly suggests that the government has a compelling interest in facilitating access to contraception for the employees of these religious organizations.”

Obamacare

When a lawsuit challenging the Affordable Care Act

reached

Kavanaugh’s Washington appeals court in 2011, he was careful not to commit and did not vote on the merits of the case.

Kavanaugh dissented from the 2-1 ruling in favor of the 2010 law known as Obamacare. He said judges had no jurisdiction at that point to resolve the merits of the dispute.

He described the law requiring people to buy health insurance as “unprecedented” and the breadth of the Obama administration’s defense of it “jarring.” But at the same time, Kavanaugh said judges “should be wary of upending” Congress’ effort to help provide Americans with quality health care.

Second Amendment

In 2011, Kavanaugh dissented from a majority opinion of the DC Circuit that upheld a ban that applied to semiautomatic rifles in the District of Columbia.

In his dissent, he wrote that the Supreme Court had previously “held that handguns — the vast majority of which today are semiautomatic — are constitutionally protected because they have not traditionally been banned and are in common use by law-abiding citizens.”

Citing a previous high court ruling, Kavanaugh went on to say, “It follows from Heller‘s protection of semiautomatic handguns that semiautomatic rifles are also constitutionally protected and that DC’s ban on them is unconstitutional.”

Privacy and national security

In 2015, Kavanaugh

wrote an opinion

defending the US government’s controversial metadata collection program, in part citing national security considerations. He wrote that the program “is entirely consistent with the Fourth Amendment,” which

protects

against unreasonable search and seizure.

He wrote that the program “does not capture the content of communications, but rather the time and duration of calls and the numbers called,” and said it “serves a critically important special need — preventing terrorist attacks on the United States.” Kavanaugh argued “that critical national security need outweighs the impact on privacy occasioned by this program.”

Net neutrality

In a 2017 dissent, Kavanaugh

said

he believed that Obama-era net neutrality regulations were “unlawful” and wrote that the policy violated the First Amendment.

At issue were rules

approved

by the Federal Communications Commission in 2015 to more strictly regulate the Internet. The rules, based on the principle of “net neutrality,” were intended to provide equal opportunity for Internet speeds and access to websites. In a May 2017 order, a majority of the DC Circuit declined to review an earlier decision siding with the FCC. Under the Trump administration, the FCC has since moved to dismantle the regulation.

Kavanaugh wrote in his 2017 dissenting opinion that the regulation was consequential and “transforms the Internet.” But he said the rule “impermissibly infringes on the Internet service providers’ editorial discretion,” and he suggested the FCC had overreached in issuing the regulation. “Congress did not clearly authorize the FCC to issue the net neutrality rule,” he wrote.

This story has been updated.

CNN’s Ariane de Vogue, Sunlen Serfaty and Jose Pagliery contributed to this report.

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40 European architecture projects shortlisted for Mies van der Rohe Award 2017

Finland's first high-rise wooden apartment building and OMA's Fondazione Prada art centre are among 40 projects shortlisted for the European Union's 2017 architecture prize, the Mies van der Rohe Award.

The biennial award – named after German-American architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe – is the most prestigious accolade in European architecture. It is awarded to the best building completed in the last two years by a European architect.

Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy, by OMA

The 40 projects shortlisted for the 15th edition of the €60,000 (£51, 000) prize include four works each in France, Portugal and the United Kingdom, and three each in Denmark, Spain, Finland, the Netherlands and Norway.

Belgium, Germany, Ireland and Turkey each feature two shortlisted works, while Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Sweden each host one.

The 40 projects were selected from 355 works nominated for the award by a jury led by UK architect Stephen Bates and including architects Gonçalo Byrne, Peter Cachola Schmal, Pelin Derviş and Dominique Jakob. 

Puukuokka Housing Block , Jyväskylä, Finland, by OOPEAA Office for Peripheral Architecture

A third of the works tackle the challenge of contemporary architecture in relation with built heritage, like the century-old distillery in Milan that OMA has turned into a new arts centre for Fondazione Prada and the European Hansemuseum, which includes the Lübeck Castle Friary monument.

Another third of the works are housing – from collective accommodation for elderly people in Barcelona to an eight-storey apartment block in Finland made with prefabricated modules of cross-laminated timber.

Turner Prize winner Assemble also features for its work on the Granby Four Streets project in Liverpool.

Rasu Houses, Vilnius, Lithuania, by Paleko Arch Studija and PLAZMA Architecture Studio

Five finalists will be named next month, and the overall winner will be announced in a ceremony on 26 May 2017 at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona – one of the architect's most famous works.

Past winners include Barozzi Veiga's Szczecin Philharmonic Hall in Poland (2015), the Harpa Concert and Conference Centre in Iceland (2013), David Chipperfield's Neus Museum in Berlin (2011) and Snøhetta's Opera House in Oslo (2009).

Scroll down for the full list of shortlisted projects:

Belgium

» Polyvalent Infrastructure, Spa, by Baukunst » Navez, Schaarbeek, by MSA / V+

Skjern River Pump Stations, Skjern, Belgium, by Johansen Skovsted Arkitekter

Denmark

» Kvæsthus Pier, Copenhagen, by Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects » Skjern River Pump Stations, Skjern, by Johansen Skovsted Arkitekter » Kannikegården, Ribe, by Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects

Finland

» Suvela Chapel, Ribe, by OOPEAA Office for Peripheral Architecture » Opinmäki School, Espoo, by Esa Ruskeepää » Puukuokka Housing Block (house 1), Jyväskylä, by OOPEAA Office for Peripheral Architecture

Landmark Nieuw-Bergen, Nieuw-Bergen, Belgium, by Monadnock

France

» 59 Dwellings, Neppert Gardens Social Housing, Haut-Rhin, by Lacaton & Vassal architectes » Community Workshop, Poigny-la-Forêt, by Boidot Robin Architectes » The Rivesaltes Memorial Museum, Rivesaltes/Ribesaltes, by Rudy Ricciotti » Ariane futsal sports complex, Nice, by CAB Architectes

Germany

» European Hansemuseum, Lübeck, by Studio Andreas Heller GmbH Architects & Designers » Barn, Fergitz, by Thomas Kröger Architekten

Timmerhuis, Rotterdam, Netherlands, by OMA

Ireland

» Model School Inchicore, Dublin, by Donaghy + Dimond » Merrion Cricket Pavilion, Dublin, by TAKA

Italy

» Fondazione Prada, Milan, by OMA

Lithuania

» Rasu Houses, Vilnius, by Paleko Arch Studija and PLAZMA Architecture Studio

Granby Four Streets, Liverpool, UK, by Assemble

Netherlands

» Landmark Nieuw-Bergen, Nieuw-Bergen, by Monadnock » Timmerhuis, Rotterdam, by OMA » DeFlat Kleiburg, Amsterdam, by NL Architects and XVW Architectuur

Norway

» Weekend House at Sildegarnsholmen, Herøy, by Knut Hjeltnes AS Sivilarkitekter MNAL » Moholt 50I50 – Timber Towers, Trondheim, by MDH Arkitekter SA and Masu planning » Eldhusøya Tourist Route Project, Averøy, by Ghilardi+Hellsten Arkitekter

Poland

» Katyn Museum, Warsaw, by BBGK Architekci

Suvela Chapel, Ribe, Finland, by OOPEAA

Portugal

» House in Oeiras, Oeiras, by Pedro Domingos Arquitectos » Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon, by AL_A » EDP Headquarters, Lison, by Aires Mateus » Nadir Afonso Museum for Contemporary Art, Chaves, by Studios Álvaro Siza 2 – Arquitecto, SA

Romania

» Take a(l)titude, Fagaras Mountain, by Archaeus

House 1014, Granollers, Spain, by H Arquitectes

Spain

» Museum of the Royal Collections, Madrid, by Emilio Tuñón Architects; Mansilla + Tuñón Arquitectos » House 1014, Granollers, by H Arquitectes » Collective housing for elderly people and civic and health centre, Barcelona, Bonell i Gil and Peris + Toral Arquitectes

Sweden

» Östermalm's Temporary Market Hall, Stockholm, by Tengbom

Merrion Cricket Pavilion, Dublin, Ireland, by TAKA

Turkey

» Angelos Organic Olive Oil Mill, Izmir, by Mimarlar ve Han Tümertekin » Beyazıt State Library Renovation, Istanbul, by Tabanlioglu Architects

UK

» Holmes Road Studios, London, by Peter Barber Architects » Shepherdess Walk Housing, London, by Jaccaud Zein Architects » Ely Court, London, by Alison Brooks Architects » Granby Four Streets, Liverpool, by Assemble

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40 European architecture projects shortlisted for Mies van der Rohe Award 2017

Finland's first high-rise wooden apartment building and OMA's Fondazione Prada art centre are among 40 projects shortlisted for the European Union's 2017 architecture prize, the Mies van der Rohe Award.

The biennial award – named after German-American architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe – is the most prestigious accolade in European architecture. It is awarded to the best building completed in the last two years by a European architect.

Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy, by OMA

The 40 projects shortlisted for the 15th edition of the €60,000 (£51, 000) prize include four works each in France, Portugal and the United Kingdom, and three each in Denmark, Spain, Finland, the Netherlands and Norway.

Belgium, Germany, Ireland and Turkey each feature two shortlisted works, while Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Sweden each host one.

The 40 projects were selected from 355 works nominated for the award by a jury led by UK architect Stephen Bates and including architects Gonçalo Byrne, Peter Cachola Schmal, Pelin Derviş and Dominique Jakob. 

Puukuokka Housing Block , Jyväskylä, Finland, by OOPEAA Office for Peripheral Architecture

A third of the works tackle the challenge of contemporary architecture in relation with built heritage, like the century-old distillery in Milan that OMA has turned into a new arts centre for Fondazione Prada and the European Hansemuseum, which includes the Lübeck Castle Friary monument.

Another third of the works are housing – from collective accommodation for elderly people in Barcelona to an eight-storey apartment block in Finland made with prefabricated modules of cross-laminated timber.

Turner Prize winner Assemble also features for its work on the Granby Four Streets project in Liverpool.

Rasu Houses, Vilnius, Lithuania, by Paleko Arch Studija and PLAZMA Architecture Studio

Five finalists will be named next month, and the overall winner will be announced in a ceremony on 26 May 2017 at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona – one of the architect's most famous works.

Past winners include Barozzi Veiga's Szczecin Philharmonic Hall in Poland (2015), the Harpa Concert and Conference Centre in Iceland (2013), David Chipperfield's Neus Museum in Berlin (2011) and Snøhetta's Opera House in Oslo (2009).

Scroll down for the full list of shortlisted projects:

Belgium

» Polyvalent Infrastructure, Spa, by Baukunst » Navez, Schaarbeek, by MSA / V+

Skjern River Pump Stations, Skjern, Belgium, by Johansen Skovsted Arkitekter

Denmark

» Kvæsthus Pier, Copenhagen, by Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects » Skjern River Pump Stations, Skjern, by Johansen Skovsted Arkitekter » Kannikegården, Ribe, by Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects

Finland

» Suvela Chapel, Ribe, by OOPEAA Office for Peripheral Architecture » Opinmäki School, Espoo, by Esa Ruskeepää » Puukuokka Housing Block (house 1), Jyväskylä, by OOPEAA Office for Peripheral Architecture

Landmark Nieuw-Bergen, Nieuw-Bergen, Belgium, by Monadnock

France

» 59 Dwellings, Neppert Gardens Social Housing, Haut-Rhin, by Lacaton & Vassal architectes » Community Workshop, Poigny-la-Forêt, by Boidot Robin Architectes » The Rivesaltes Memorial Museum, Rivesaltes/Ribesaltes, by Rudy Ricciotti » Ariane futsal sports complex, Nice, by CAB Architectes

Germany

» European Hansemuseum, Lübeck, by Studio Andreas Heller GmbH Architects & Designers » Barn, Fergitz, by Thomas Kröger Architekten

Timmerhuis, Rotterdam, Netherlands, by OMA

Ireland

» Model School Inchicore, Dublin, by Donaghy + Dimond » Merrion Cricket Pavilion, Dublin, by TAKA

Italy

» Fondazione Prada, Milan, by OMA

Lithuania

» Rasu Houses, Vilnius, by Paleko Arch Studija and PLAZMA Architecture Studio

Granby Four Streets, Liverpool, UK, by Assemble

Netherlands

» Landmark Nieuw-Bergen, Nieuw-Bergen, by Monadnock » Timmerhuis, Rotterdam, by OMA » DeFlat Kleiburg, Amsterdam, by NL Architects and XVW Architectuur

Norway

» Weekend House at Sildegarnsholmen, Herøy, by Knut Hjeltnes AS Sivilarkitekter MNAL » Moholt 50I50 – Timber Towers, Trondheim, by MDH Arkitekter SA and Masu planning » Eldhusøya Tourist Route Project, Averøy, by Ghilardi+Hellsten Arkitekter

Poland

» Katyn Museum, Warsaw, by BBGK Architekci

Suvela Chapel, Ribe, Finland, by OOPEAA

Portugal

» House in Oeiras, Oeiras, by Pedro Domingos Arquitectos » Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon, by AL_A » EDP Headquarters, Lison, by Aires Mateus » Nadir Afonso Museum for Contemporary Art, Chaves, by Studios Álvaro Siza 2 – Arquitecto, SA

Romania

» Take a(l)titude, Fagaras Mountain, by Archaeus

House 1014, Granollers, Spain, by H Arquitectes

Spain

» Museum of the Royal Collections, Madrid, by Emilio Tuñón Architects; Mansilla + Tuñón Arquitectos » House 1014, Granollers, by H Arquitectes » Collective housing for elderly people and civic and health centre, Barcelona, Bonell i Gil and Peris + Toral Arquitectes

Sweden

» Östermalm's Temporary Market Hall, Stockholm, by Tengbom

Merrion Cricket Pavilion, Dublin, Ireland, by TAKA

Turkey

» Angelos Organic Olive Oil Mill, Izmir, by Mimarlar ve Han Tümertekin » Beyazıt State Library Renovation, Istanbul, by Tabanlioglu Architects

UK

» Holmes Road Studios, London, by Peter Barber Architects » Shepherdess Walk Housing, London, by Jaccaud Zein Architects » Ely Court, London, by Alison Brooks Architects » Granby Four Streets, Liverpool, by Assemble

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