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Man dies in crash while taking pregnant wife to hospital

FORT COLLINS, Colo.

A Colorado man driving his pregnant wife to the hospital to deliver their third child crashed and died after apparently suffering some kind of medical problem.

The Colorado State Patrol said 37-year-old Tony Schmucker died after his Nissan Pathfinder went off the road and down an embankment west of Fort Collins. The wife and the couple’s two sons, who were also in the SUV, all survived.

According to a family fundraising website, Jill Schmucker suffered a broken back but delivered a baby boy by cesarean section at the hospital.

Coroner’s investigator James MacNaughton told the Coloradoan that initial findings suggest a medical event, and not injuries from the crash, caused his death.

Bend and a beer: Yoga classes and craft breweries team up

MIAMI

Call it detox and retox: Around the country, yogis are jumping up from savasana and hopping onto a bar stool as yoga classes are making their way into breweries.

While the teaching is traditional, the classes tend to attract newbies, especially men, said Beth Cosi, founder of Bendy Brewski in Charleston, S.C., and Memphis.

“We get the men in the door mostly because it’s in a brewery, and they get a beer afterward. That’s the carrot. A lot of them come with girlfriends, wives, sisters,” Cosi said.

Her $15 classes are 45 minutes, compared with a typical 90-minute class. The room isn’t heated to near 100-degree temperature, and the partnering breweries typically offer a tour of the facility after or the chance to drink a flight of several beers.

“They both lead to relaxation. And they both have a little bit of a social aspect, you know. And it’s a very relaxing place to do yoga. So, you know, very unpretentious,” Jason Crafts, 43-year-old IT project manager, said after a recent class at Raleigh Brewing Co. in Raleigh, N.C.

Though traditional yoga tends to encourage a navel-gazing focus on oneself, individual breathing and controlling one’s thoughts, the yoga beer classes are all about community.

“This gives you the opportunity to come to your mat, to connect with yourself ... and then to socialize after class and get to know people,” said Mikki Trowbridge, whose free classes in the Salem, Ore., area draw between 75 and 150 people two or three times a month.

Trowbridge’s business plan wasn’t calculated. She and her husband just liked a strong, sweaty yoga class and a nice craft beer and figured they weren’t alone.

“[Beer] is part of our culture here. We have breweries everywhere, and so breweries are where we gather for social time,” she said.

Associated Press