Nico Nerdworm

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     No one before Bernini had managed to make marble so carnal. In his nimble hands it would flatter and stream, quiver and sweat. His figures weep and shout, their torses twist and run, and arch themselves in spasms of intense sensation. He could, like an alchemist, change one material into another - marble into trees, leaves, hair, and, of course, flesh.        -   Simon Schama’s Power of Art. Bernini

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Victorian Style With Classical And Modern Twist.

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Trump’s EPA Is Weakening Pollution Rules For Cars And Trucks

It’s the latest example of the Trump administration gutting environmental and climate rules.

The Trump administration announced Monday afternoon that Obama-era rules to reduce climate pollution from cars and trucks have got to go because they are too strict.

The decision comes at a time when cars, trucks, and other forms of transportation are the top source of greenhouse gas emissions in the US, surpassing climate pollution from the power sector for the first time in 2016, according to the US Energy Information Administration.

It’s the latest example of the Trump administration gutting environmental and climate rules — from the Environmental Protection Agency proposing to undo the Clean Power Plan to the Interior Department allowing new coal leases on public lands.

The long-anticipated announcement on car emissions rules was immediately praised by conservative groups.

“This is the first step in many years toward reducing government control over what kinds of cars people can choose to buy,” Myron Ebell, a director of the Competitive Enterprise Institute who has long advocated against action on climate change, said in a statement.

But many policy experts, environmental groups, and state officials have come out in opposition to the decision, saying the move is a bad deal for the climate, public health, and consumer wallets.

“This kind of effort by the Trump administration to roll back our progress here means it’s going to be more challenging to reduce emissions from the transportation sector, and that’s really the big source of greenhouse gas emissions in most of the United States,” Ethan Elkind of California Berkeley’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment told BuzzFeed News.

California has pledged to keep stricter standards, and several states are expected to follow, effectively splitting the US car market in two.

“As the administration tries to take the nation backwards, more than a dozen states — led by California — are pushing ahead, and we hope more will join,” Michael Bloomberg, former New York mayor and cochair of a US cities and states coalition pushing ahead on climate action called America’s Pledge, said in a statement. “If anything, we expect this misguided move to spur even more bottom-up progress.”

The Obama administration in 2012 set climate and fuel efficiency standards for new cars and light trucks built between 2022 and 2025, leaving the door open to changing the standards in the future. Officials reviewed the standards a few years later, deciding to keep the same strict ones in place.

Shortly after President Donald Trump took office, however, two agencies — the EPA and the Department of Transportation — reopened the so-called midterm review of the car pollution standards. Now the second review has ended, and the administration has decided to set new car standards.

“The Obama Administration’s determination was wrong,” EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt said in a statement Monday.

The EPA and DOT’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration intend to develop new, weaker rules for both greenhouse gas emissions and fuel efficiency for new cars and light trucks built between 2022 and 2025. The exact timing of the new rule-making has not been announced.

Another unknown is what the administration will do about California, which has a waiver from Obama’s EPA to set its own strict standards.

“Cooperative federalism doesn’t mean that one state can dictate standards for the rest of the country,” Pruitt said, adding that the agency was still deciding what to do about California.

California officials have already threatened to sue the Trump administration on this issue.

“We’re ready to file suit if needed to protect these critical standards and to fight the Administration’s war on our environment,” California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said in a recent statement. “California didn’t become the sixth-largest economy in the world by spectating.”

This is a developing story. Check back for updates.

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The Greatest Male Star of Classic American Cinema: 44 portrait photos of Humphrey Bogart from the 1930s and 1940s.

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Art Prints By Hugo Barros

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Beheading of Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian, 1438, Fra Angelico

Size: 46x36 cm Medium: paper, tempera

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LunHybOKIjU). I know I’m so late on this

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Jean Harlow in Red-Headed Woman (1932).

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You’re welcome

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This is the most useful thing I’ve ever reblogged.

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i used to think when people said my cousin twice removed that their cousin must’ve did some fucked up shit to get kicked out of the family twice

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mastermind of the baroque,

Gianlorenzo Bernini

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Good Things that Happened in 2016

·         New chemotherapy breakthroughs have increased the 5-year survival for pancreatic cancer from 16% to 27% (and is getting better)

·         Scientists figured out how to link robotic limbs with the part of the brain that deals with intent to move so people don’t have to think about how they will move the limb, it can just happen.

·         Child mortality is down everywhere and it keeps going down.

·         Thanks to the ice bucket challenge the gene responsible for ALS has been found, meaning we are closer to an effective treatment. Let me rephrase that: we are close to getting a treatment for a very bad disease because a lot of people (including really hot celebrities) got wet.

·         A solar powered plan circumnavigated the world.

·         Michael Jordan donates 2mil to try and help bridge connection between police and the community.

·         Tiger numbers are growing.

·         And manatees.

·         And pandas.

·         Pakistan has made strides toward outlawing honor killings.

·         70,000 Muslim clerics declared a fatwa against ISIS.

·         Pokemon Go players went insane with placing lure modules near hospitals for sick kids.

·         California is now powering over 6 million homes with solar power, a record in the US (and that is the tightest shit)

·         Volunteers in India planted 50 million trees in 24 hours.

·         Apparently world crime as a whole has drastically declined as a whole in the last couple of decades.

·         Coffee consumption has been proved to help curtail cancer and suicide rates.

·         Speaking of coffee Starbucks figured out how to donate perishable food in a food safe way.

·         500 elephants were relocated to a better, safer and bigger home.

·         We made massive strides in Alzheimers’ prevention (my grandmother literally told me that scares her more than getting cancer this is very good news)

·         The ozone layer is repairing itself and all the work we did to get rid of those aerosol chemicals was actually worth it.

·         A new therapy developed in Israel could cure radiation sickness.

·         The Anglican church resolved to solemnize same-sex unions the same as opposite-sex unions which required a super majority of all three orders of the church (lay, clergy, bishop).

·         The Rabbinical Assembly issued a resolution affirming the rights of transgender and non-conforming individuals.

·         Precision treatments for cancer are hitting clinical trials and WORKING (as someone who’s had relatives with cancer this is the best news)

·         Dentists are once again providing free care to veterans who need it.

·         The Orlando Shakespeare Festival showed up with angel wings to block funeral-goers for the Orlando Pulse victims, view from anti-gay protesters

·         Rise Women’s Legal Centre opened

·         Death by heart disease has decreased by 70% in the United States

·         Two brothers saw color for the first time thanks to specially-designed glasses

• Portugal ran its entire nation solely on renewable energy for four days straight

·         A retiree is launching a project to transport 80 endangered rhinos to an Australian reservation to save the animals from poaching

·         An Afghan teacher has been delivering books via bicycle to villages that lack schools

·         Harriet Tubman is going to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill.

·         200 strangers attended the funeral of a homeless WW2 veteran with no family

·         A teen battling cancer married his sweetheart

·         Bank firm pays for college tuition for the children of employees who died in the 9/11 attacks

·         New medicine has been shown to increase melanoma survival rate to 40%

·         Over 800 Boko Harem Hostages were rescued by Nigerian Army

·         Toys R Us is Offering Quiet Shopping Hour for kids with autism this holiday season

·         Volunteers made special tiny Halloween costumes for NICU babies

·         A 4-year old befriends a lonely man and helped him heal after losing his wife

·         Families grew

·         People survived c ancer

·         People overcame depression

·         Any kind of victory, even if it affects only one person,  is a victory

·         Now for the pop culture good news

·         LEONARDO DICAPRIO WON AN OSCAR! EVERYONE READING THIS LIVED LONG ENOUGH TO SEE LEO FINALLY GET WHAT HE DESERVED

·         There’s a new Harry Potter book

·         And a movie

·         Harry Potter has no plans on vanishing with time

·         This sweet father gave candy to passengers on a flight so his little girl could trick or treat on Halloween

·         LET ME TALK ABOUT ALL THE KICK ASS MOVIES WE GOT THIS YEAR OH MY GOD

·         Kung Fu Panda 3, this franchise is still going strong despite that its about a panda played by Jack Black

·         Jungle Book. The amazing remake none of us saw coming

·         Finding Dory. I haven’t seen it yet but I’ve heard good things

·         Kubo and the Two Strings. Haven’t seen that yet as well but its Laika so I know it’s a masterpiece

·         Deadpool. The beautiful and super accurate R-rated marvel film

·         Captain America: Civil War. Seriously is the best marvel movie yet in my opinion I need more.

·         Zootopia. Oh don’t mind me I’m just a movie that tackled the issue of racism and not only game changed animated films but also made a billion dollars

·         The Hamilton Mixtape is coming out. Which is a bunch of artists singing songs from the musical (Sia, Usher, Regina Spketor, etc.) I’m excited.

·         A personal victory for myself, I joined Tumblr and met angels in blog form so…that’s uplifting.

·         And I met my favorite voice actor at a con which was a bucket list accomplishment.

Good Things that have yet to happen this year

·         Birthdays

·        Thanksgiving

·         Black Friday

·         Moana

·         Christmas

Good things that have nothing to do with the year but will hopefully make you feel better

·         Puppies

·         Chocolate

·         Rainbows

·         Rain (I like listening to rain it’s one of the most calming sounds)

·         Cartoons

·         Kissing

·         Music

·         Friends

·         FF: If you are a religious person you are an imperfect masterpiece

·         FF: If you are not then you are a splendid coincidence

·         Any year spent with loved ones be they family or friends is a good year. Trust me.

·         ”A laugh can be a very powerful thing. Why, sometimes in life, it’s the only weapon we have” –Roger Rabbit

#NeverForgetTheGood

*Plz feel free to add other good news (even if it’s something small like you ate cheesecake THAT is good news)

*at the end of the year I plan to remake this list with new things, fixed mistakes and links but will be posting from my side blog @iamrainbow

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This should put an end to anyone questioning Will and Jada’s parenting approach.

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#TodayInAmerica

Armed terrorists who took over an Oregon wildlife refuge and threatened to shoot any police that try to kick them out just were acquitted on all charges

Meanwhile peaceful #NoDAPL protestors protecting Native American land and water at Standing Rock were met with military force and arrested

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Pennsylvania pipeline burtsts, leaks 55,000 gallons of gas into one of US’ most endangered rivers

A pipeline owned by the same company behind Dakota Access leaked 55,000 gallons of gasoline into a major river, endangering the drinking water of six million people.

A pipeline managed by Sunoco Logistics burst Thursday night after heavy rainfall in Pennsylvania. The spill dumped 55,000 gallons of gasoline into Wallis Run, a tributary of the Loyalsock Creek that drains into the Susquehanna River. The breach was detected at 3 am when the pressure of the pipeline dropped significantly, leading Sunoco to shut down the pipeline. Though the pipeline has been shut down, the heavy rains that led to the leak are expected to continue, so the actual break in the pipeline will remain unidentified until the weather clears. The Pennsylvania water authorities have warned customers to refrain from using water from the river as a precaution. No official data has been released regarding how long the ban on water use will continue.

The Susquehanna had previously been declared the third most endangered river in the US by the NGO American Rivers. It has come under threat due to the development of the natural gas industry, particularly the practice of hydraulic fracturing or “fracking.” Fracking has caused major problems in the US due to the so-called “Cheney’s loophole” that exempts natural gas companies from the vast majority of US environmental regulations. Many other rivers in the US are endangered by fracking. American Rivers has said that fracking “poses one of the greatest risks our nation’s rivers have faced in decades. We are taking a major gamble on the clean drinking water for millions of Americans.”

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