Hasta La Gadget!

Don’t tell Shredder, but it turns out New York’s sewers are just one of the Turtles’ hangouts. They also have a nice three-bedroom apartment in Manhattan, and they let folks stay there while they were out fighting crime.

To promote the upcoming movie Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Out of the Shadows, Paramount turned a Manhattan apartment into the Turtles’ lair, complete with a TV area filled with boomboxes, a basketball ring, a weapon locker and lots of graffiti. Then they put it up for overnight stays on Airbnb, throwing in a couple of free pizzas. It’s already fully booked, but at least we have these pictures.

Their Airbnb account says that for every guest that stayed, Paramount will donate money in their name to PACER’s National Bullying Prevention Center. Check out the Airbnb page for more shots and messages from Leonardo. So what’s next, Casey Jones on Tinder?

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The University of Tennessee’s flagship campus in Knoxville is now prohibited by state law from supporting a student-organized event called “Sex Week,” after Gov. Bill Haslam (R) allowed a bill to become law on Friday.

The bill, pushed by state Republicans, bars UT Knoxville from giving any state funds to Sex Week, and defunds the school’s office of diversity and inclusion. Instead, the $436,000 that would’ve gone to the diversity office is rerouted to support engineering scholarships, and to supply decals for police vehicles. 

Haslam allowed the bill to become law by failing to either veto or sign the legislation, the Knoxville News Sentinel reports. The legislation passed the Tennessee Senate and House in April. 

The new law forces the university to put about $100,000 of the $436,000 toward the school’s graphic design program to create and distribute decals for cop cars that read “In God we trust.”

The law also explicitly prohibits the university from using state funds to “promote the use of gender neutral pronouns.”

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a nonprofit, has argued in the past that legislation banning the university from putting money toward Sex Week, based solely on the nature of the event, would be a violation of free speech rights. 

Tennessee lawmakers have been trying for years to thwart the student-run Sex Week, proposing several bills intended to block the event from happening. There have been no protests on campus against Sex Week, nor any mass effort by the community to stop it — lawmakers simply believe the event is inappropriate for adults. Students did protest on campus in April against the bill that has now become law.

The university doesn’t provide funding for Sex Week, so in 2014, the state legislature pressured the school into requiring students to “opt in” to paying fees that support all student-organized events. 

Sex Week typically features forums and workshops about different types of sexuality and sexual orientation, teaching students about consent, healthy relationships, body image and other types of sexual education students might not have gotten in middle school or high school.

Tennessee lawmakers targeted the promotion of gender-neutral pronouns, used for people who do not identify as either male or female, following erroneous reports that the school was banning the use of the pronouns “he” and “she.” It was not — the now-defunded diversity office was simply providing information to students about what gender-neutral pronouns are, and when someone might request their use.

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U.S. Park Police said there was a shooting near the White House on Friday afternoon. 

President Barack Obama appeared to be away from the White House at the time of the shooting, based on a pool report from 1:30 p.m. that said he was golfing at Andrews Air Force Base. NBC Washington reported that the condition of the person shot was not known.

Members of the White House press corps were told to report to the basement and shelter in place.

Jared Sorhaindo, 29, said he was walking past Pennsylvania Avenue near the White House when Secret Service officers began clearing the area.

“All of a sudden Secret Service start screaming, ‘Everybody across the street, now,’” Sorhaindo said. “People were running across Lafayette Park and they cordoned everything off.”

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by guest blogger Holly Walck Kostura, BSN and certified Iyengar Yoga teacher

To quote Webster’s:

“Aging (adj): (of a thing) reaching the end of useful life; growing old or older, especially visibly and obviously so; obsolescent

Obsolescent (adj): becoming obsolete

Obsolete (adj): no longer produced or used; out-of-date.”

When I was 22 years old, a friend and I went into a local bookstore and saw a display of exercise videos, including one titled, Yoga for Beginners. The middle-aged woman demonstrating the pose on the cover looked strong, stable, flexible, and joyful, and I remember knowing that the way she looked WAS yoga and that if I practiced it I would feel that way in my own skin.

So I bought the video and started practicing every single day; that was 7,120 days (more than 19 years) ago, and I feel younger now than I did on the day I started practicing.

Back then, I was plagued with migraines, unexplained fevers, joint pain, and digestive problems and felt generally anxious and unhappy. Doctors told me I had acid reflux, possible rheumatoid arthritis or lupus, and–to top it off–chronic sinusitis.

Within a year of committing to a consistent practice, those pains had disappeared, the way I looked at the world around me shifted, and the sands of time began to slow down as they made their way though the hourglass of my life. The way the woman on that video cover looked was now how I felt, and it was only up from there once I started to delve deeper into the limitless ocean of yoga and its philosophy.

Now I am a middle-aged woman who is devoted to yoga practice and teaches students of all ages and abilities how they can use yoga to improve the quality of their lives. It’s because of yoga that I anticipate practicing, teaching, and aging purposefully and usefully as I make the repeated journey around the sun.

May all beings everywhere experience peace and well-being.

Namaskar,

Holly

An Antiaging Yoga Sequence

Repair and prepare with Reclining Bound Angle Pose (Supta Baddha Konasana), variation.

Build strength, stability, and stamina with Warrior Pose I (Virabhadrasana I) and Warrior Pose III (Virabhadrasana III).

Open and aerate with chair Upward-Facing Two-Foot Staff Pose (Dwi Pada Viparita Dandasana).

Build bone and muscle with Downward-Facing Dog (Adho Mukha Svanasana).

Balance and rejuvenate the body/mind with inversions, Supported Headstand (Salamba Sirsasana) and Supported Shoulderstand (Salamba Sarvangasana) (using a chair).

Replenish with relaxation in Corpse Pose (Savasana).

Holly Walck Kostura uses the healing practices of Ayurveda and Iyengar Yoga to secure her to the core of her being. Combining her bachelor’s degree in nursing with her certification in Iyengar Yoga gives her the ability to approach her students from a place of wholeness and infuse her yoga classes with a unique flavor. Find her online at yogawithholly.com.

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A new Project Ara developer phone will be available the end of this year, the company announced at Google I/O today, followed by a consumer model later on in 2017. This consumer version will be “thin, light and beautiful,” says the project’s creative head Blaise Bertrand. Google teased the kind of things owners will be able to do with an … Continue reading