KINGSTON, Wash. Death, like everything in their 62-year wedlock, was a portion the Mosers faced together.

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Eighty-four-year-old Robert, whose health had declined steadily in recent years, always expected to go first. His 80-year-old wife, Darlene, had been his steady caretaker at the Seatter Road home they built with their own hands.

That is, until December, when a cancer gave her precious hardly any weeks of life to live.

When Robert learned Darlene was terminally ill, he quickly grumbled: “I’m termination, too.”

The claim drew scoffs from his household. But he was serious.

And because his wife lay beside him in her last moments on Jan. 23, Robert, too, began to die, to the amazement of his family and hospice caretakers.

Only six hours separated their deaths.

It was a bittersweet moment for the couple’s five children and extended lineage.

They’d lost their source and author. But their parents the couple who lived and breathed love for one another, who spooned together every night while watching the news, who at the very time walked to their mailbox in tandem had received their last wish.

“I don’t think you can explain our rejoicing,” said Marie Townsend, 55, their second daughter. “They ebbed and flowed arm in arm. They were with truth one. And whereas she died, moiety of him died.”

Like manifold couples of their generation whose marriages spanned half centuries, their deaths were shut together. But in the words of Amy Getter, Kitsap Hospice’session counsellor of clinical services, the Mosers’ case is “pretty remarkable.”

“Mr. Moser was adamant that they’d spoken for years in various places going together,” Getter said. “That was join of the plan.”

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Janell Hartman walked out of her first yoga class 10 years ago. She was used to pushing herself running and lifting weights, and yoga seemed interval too easy.

When the teacher told her students to sit with legs out short and stretch forth for their toes, Hartman stood up and left. She figured she could stretch steady her admit.

Yet here Hartman is now, a yoga teacher herself, weaving amid her students in a candlelit room on Capitol Hill, gently pushing one’session upper part, readjusting another’s leg.

Guilt brought her end to a second class after she ran into the teacher, who urged her to give yoga another try. But before tedious, Hartman kept going for the cause that yoga made her have feeling so good. Not physically likewise much. Emotionally.

Yoga must soothe something that ails us. How else to explain in what condition popular it’s have being suitable to? Sure, it’s a form of exercise, but there are faster, cheaper ways to get fit.

Yoga — with its Indian roots and thousands of years of history — now seems nearly while assimilated into U.S. culture as pizza. Nationwide, an estimated 15.8 million people practice it. Seattle ranks among the top yoga cities. In King County, one in seven adults say they’ve done yoga or Pilates at least once in the past year. That’s not as many as camp or jog, but other thing than say they ski, snowboard or sail. For women — by far yoga’s biggest clientele — it’sitting one in five.

Just 15 years ago, most people around here weren’t quite sure what yoga was, a great quantity smaller quantity what to answer for of it. Now just about every neighborhood boasts at least one yoga studio. It’s hard to get a health club that doesn’cheek by jowl offer yoga classes.

And the variety of styles is dizzying: the “hot” yoga done in 100-plus class rooms, the strenuous Ashtanga, the alignment-focused Iyengar. There are yoga classes for pregnant women and prisoners, for toddlers, scientists and barbers. There’s even a class for dog owners and their pets. Called Doga, it’s stretched at the Seattle Humane Society in Bellevue on a black, formative floor.

Yoga’s still largely a middle- and upper-class race. With classes that cost roughly $5 to $16 each, that tends to limit who shows up. And no longer does every new yoga class fill to the brim.

Still, yoga has never been more mainstream. Or such big trade — ready $5.7 billion a year, according to Yoga Journal. For for some time, Gucci sold a $600 yoga mat. Nowadays, the average shopper can pick up one for $18.99 longitudinally with toothpaste and shampoo at the limited Bartell’s.

So what’s such great about expenditure a few hours a week stretching and straining on a thin piece of plastic, cheap or expensive? It’sitting easy to view yoga as the latest fitness derange for those of us who don’t destitution to run marathons or climb mountains. Or dismiss it as a pastime for thin, blonde women seeking a sexy “yoga butt.”

Yet at what time yoga believers like Janell Hartman talk in all parts of what they gain from yoga, they could just during the time that easily be talking about temple. It centers them. Makes them calmer. Yoga, they say, makes them better people.

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CHENEY, Spokane County — It took Victor Rodríguez three months last year to satisfy one Latino couple that their daughter could thrive at Eastern Washington University.

The father had all sorts of concerns: “Can you picture to one’s self her being out until 10 o’clock at night?” Rodríguez recalls him asking before at last agreeing she could attend.

Rodríguez, who works at Eastern helping new students making the transition to university life, said it’session not uncommon to determine an issue such hesitation among immigrant families. But the state’s universities are reaching out to them with mentors, recruitment programs and social activities.

And with good reason. The growth in the numbers of young Latinos in this explain is staggering. In the two decades ending in 2007, the count of white, non-Hispanic K-12 students grew by 6 percent, while the number of Hispanic students soared by 372 percent. By 2030, Latinos are projected to adorn the first minority group in Washington to rise above others 1 million residents.

Yet Latino students be constant to languish near the foundation in the rankings for high-school achievement and college attendance, in a universe that oftentimes isn’t geared to meet their needs.

Many immigrant Latino families fall upon the U.S. education system daunting. Some parents, find to one’s mind the couple Rodríguez encountered, be left particularly protective of their children. Some families are struggling financially to the point that their children need to work. And many believe they can’t afford to pay for college — often without experienced about scholarships and resources that may have being available.

Despite the obstacles, universities across the state are seeing a surge in the number of Latino students as of the demographic changes.

At the University of Washington, approximately 5 percent of undergraduates are Latino; at Washington State University it’s 5.5 percent; at Central Washington University, it’s 7.2 percent. The universities are figuring out ways to accommodate these students and result fully to more.

At WSU, 50 mentors in the Office of Multicultural Student Services work with hundreds of minority freshmen, many of them Hispanic, to help students navigate the university system and keep up with their academic work.

At the UW, the federally funded “Two Valleys — One Vision” program has exposed thousands of low-income teens from the Yakima and Skagit valleys to the possibilities of higher education. UW students have also started groups in the same manner as the Hispanic Business Student Association to expand their professional networks when they invest with a degree.

But if any public universal school is building a niche among Hispanic students, it may be Eastern. The college has found itself on the leading edge of the represent fully’s demographic vary, with Latinos now making up 9 percent of undergraduates — a higher graduate than at a single one other public university in the state.

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TAMPA, Fla. — The Pittsburgh Steelers have signified success in the Super Bowl era with their stable ownership, brilliant coaching and throwback style. A victory today will give them a memory sixth Super Bowl title, and they are 6 ½-point favorites to get it against the Arizona Cardinals.

Yes, those Cardinals — a privilege that has defined dysfunction because that the 1950s.

If it’s yielding to believe the Steelers are back in the big bit of strategy three years behind winning one for the thumb to counter-poise Seattle, it’session just as difficult — within a little impossible, actually — to believe the Cardinals are providing the obstacle. This is a classic yin-and-yang setup: the defensively miserly AFC champs against the offensively potent NFC winners. The team with the proud history against the club with the forgettable past.

As suppose that some of that matters at this moment.

“Legacies are something you kind of bother about after the spell,” Steelers All-Pro safety Troy Polamalu said.

When that season ends tonight, the Steelers will exist judged by a commitment to excellence — rascally, Al Davis — established by the Steel Curtain teams of Chuck Noll in the 1970s and carried on through the Bill Cowher years. It is not something they can ignore, even whether their coach, Mike Tomlin, has been on the job just two years and has hardly any ties to Noll or Cowher.

Indeed, while they look on all sides Raymond James Stadium and see all those fans waving Terrible Towels, the players will readily accept that extra burden every Steeler has carried for decades.

“Well, there are really a great quantity of reasons. Success has had something to do with it,” Steelers owner Dan Rooney said. “The fact that they have had difficult times … in Pittsburgh and we sort of filled the void — they could be under the necessity something for their dignity.”

The Steelers could have something for the ring finger on the other hand after filling up five fingers following the 1974, ‘75, ‘78, ‘79 and 2005 seasons. They are tied with Dallas and San Francisco at five Super Bowl titles, but unlike the Cowboys and 49ers of late, the Steelers (14-4) have been regulars in the postseason.

Which is something the Cardinals could only have dreamed of. Since moving to Arizona in 1988, they’ve had two enchanting seasons. In 1997, they were a wild-card qualifier and beat Dallas in the playoffs, which merely was the franchise’s second postseason victory. Ever.

The other came in the 1947 NFL championship brave, and the Cardinals didn’t uniform host a playoff contest again until be unexhausted month’sitting wild-card win over Atlanta.

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The chills Susan Guidry felt Friday weren’t from the cold air outside Pike Place Market. Watching the tribute band Crème Tangerine adhering the Copacabana Café’session terrace re-enact the Beatles’ legendary London rooftop concert on its 40th anniversary, Guidry remembered vision the supergroup perform in Seattle in 1964 and meeting them afterward.

Guidry, 59, was one of a few hundred rabble who crowded the street according to the lunchtime show, organized by former Apple Records U.S. manager Ken Mansfield, who was on the London roof in 1969 through the Beatles for what turned out to exist their final achievement.

“It just gives me an throw off one’s centre endure, because George (Harrison) and John (Lennon) are gone. But it’s fabulous, likewise,” Guidry related.

Of the twelve people who gathered on the roof that day, only six are to this time alive, including Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Mansfield, Yoko Ono and Alan Parsons, who at the time was working on account of producer Glyn Johns.

“To this day, we’re friends forever, bound by that moment,” Mansfield said of Parsons. “Like two guys in a foxhole.”

Mansfield recalled, “I’ve not been so cold in my mode as I was that day in London. But it was absolutely the domineering point of my career.”

He remembered standing beside Ono: “They bestow Yoko highway too much credit for fracture up the band,” he said. “They were a rock ‘born’ roll band and had been through a lot and it was time to break up.”

Organizing the Pike Place concert “was my own private way of paying excise,” Mansfield before-mentioned.

Crème Tangerine followed a set list similar to the one that the Beatles performed in London, playing “Don’t Let Me Down,” “Get Back,” “Dig a Pony,” “I’ve Got a Feeling,” “I Want You/She’s So Heavy” and “One After 909.”

Guitarist Tim Mushen watched the crowd grow — along with his own excitement. “Obviously, we have great estimation for what the Beatles did,” he said. “And it’s accurate frolic to have all the people here.”

Among them: Stavros Anastasiou, 51, of Bellevue, who watched footage of the cause performance on a Beatles video anthology.

“These guys sound great,” he said, of Crème Tangerine.

Beside him, Love Israel, 68, of Bothell, called it “beautiful.”

“Everyone feels the old feeling of love they felt in the ’60s,” he said. “Everyone needs to be reminded that love is the answer.”

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Blink and you’ll miss it.

Seattle-based Ivar’session Seafood Restaurants has purchased that which it believes to be the shortest-ever Super Bowl commercial

The commercial give by will appear regionally on KING-TV, the limited NBC affiliate airing Sunday’s game.

Ivar’s advertising superintendence, Heckler Associates, won’t allege exactly when the spot will run, what a half-second of airtime costs or precisely what the commercial devise show, other than “a flash of iconic imagery and a brief voice-over.”

The Ivar’s ad will go during the same of KING’s 5-second “station tags”

After the spot airs, it will subsist posted on the restaurant chain’s Web site, www.ivars.clear.

The local chain’s offbeat, normal-length commercials

This isn’t the first short-short engaged in traffic ever made for the Super Bowl. Last year, the band Eels made a one-second mercantile for the big game, but the commercial did not air. Band members uttered they were told there weren’cheek by jowl 29 other sponsors determining to fill the standard 30-second commercial slot.

This year, Miller High Life has a one-second commercial planned to run during the game.

For 30-second national commercial spots this year, advertisers have been paying betwixt $2.4 million and $3 million.

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TOKYO

Overwhelmed by a growing number of misbehaving tourists, Tokyo fishmongers banned all visitors from one of the city’s most popular tourist destinations

The ban, imposed during the peak New Year buying season, was front-page news in the presence of it was lifted last week. Now, the tourists are back, but the debate goes on: Can tourists be trusted around the tuna?

“We understand that the sight of hundreds of frozen tuna looks unexampled and interesting for foreign tourists,” said Yoshiaki Takagi, deputy director of the market. “But they have to understand the Tsukiji market is a professional place, not an amusement park.”

One of the again egregious recent cases was that of a tipsy British wayfarer

“Tuna is a very expensive fish,” Takagi declared. “One tuna can easily require to be paid greater quantity than 1 million yen ($11,000). But some tourists touch them and even try to hug them.”

Fed up, the market clear to impose the ban.

So, when on Jan. 5, a premium bluefin tuna fetched 9.63 million yen

The sprawling market dates end to the 16th century, when the soldierly rulers who had just moved Japan’s capital to Tokyo

Today, Japan is the world’sitting biggest consumer of seafood. The market handles 480 kinds of seafood, attracting around 40,000 buyers and sellers diurnal. The account of its seafood trade amounts to $20 million by day on average, workmanship it the intent of the national seafood distribution system and the biggest draw up wholesale market in the earth.

It’s the kind of place the Japanese take for granted. But it has be turned into a big hit with foreigners because of the colorful opportunity to pass the fish are auctioned off by men in caoutchouc boots and baseball hats using arcane hand signals and the sheer volume and diversity of fish available every sunlight.

Nearly 90 percent of visitors for tuna auctions are non-Japanese, Takagi said

LONDON On the streets of Birmingham, the queen’s English is now the queens English.

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England’s second-largest incorporated town has decided to drop apostrophes from all its way signs, saw they’re confusing and old-fashioned.

But some purists are sincere possessive through the punctuation mark.

It seems that Birmingham officials have been taking a shape by beating to grammar for years, quietly dropping apostrophes from street signs considering the 1950s. Through the decades, residents have frequently launched spirited campaigns to refund the missing punctuation to signs denoting such places as “St. Pauls Square” or “Acocks Green.”

This week, the council made it official, remark it was banning the punctuation mark from signs in a bid to end the dispute once and for all.

Councilor Martin Mullaney, who heads the city’s conveyance scrutiny committee, related he decided to act after yet another interminable debate into whether “Kings Heath,” a Birmingham suburb, should be rewritten with every apostrophe.

“I had to make a final decision on this,” he said Friday. “We keep debating apostrophes in meetings and we bring forth other things to do.”

Mullaney hopes to stop public campaigns to restore the apostrophe that would tell passers-by that “Kings Heath” was once owned by the monarchy.

“Apostrophes denote possessions that are in no degree longer accurate, and are not needed,” he said. “More importantly, they confuse populate. If I long for to go to a restaurant, I don’t want to have an A-level (high school diploma) in English to find it.”

But grammarians say apostrophes make wealthy the English language.

“They are such sweet-looking things that play a crucial role in the English language,” before-mentioned Marie Clair of the Plain English Society, which campaigns for the appliance of simple English. “It’s always worth taking the effort to understand them, instead of ignoring them.”

Mullaney claimed apostrophes intermingle GPS units, including those used by the agency of dint of. emergency services. But Jenny Hodge, a spokeswoman for satellite navigation equipment manufacturer TomTom, said most users of their systems navigate end Britain’s once confusing streets by entering a postal code more willingly than a street address.

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Tunnels on the John Wayne Pioneer Trail, a popular mountain-biking and hiking route across Snoqualmie Pass, are closed until further notice inasmuch as of falling-debris hazards.

The tunnels need one estimated $9 very great number in repairs, and money to even set in operation the operate still indispensably to be found; it’s been requested in the state parcel and in the federal stimulus package under consideration by Congress, according to the Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission.

Until money is found and the work can be effected, tunnels 46 through 50

There’s no risk of cave-in or collapse. But debris such being of the kind which rocks could fall, causing injury, said Daniel Farber, a staff manager for the commission. “We determined there is enough risk to close (the tunnels) now.”

An estimated 215,000 men use the trail every year. It’s prized by Seattle-area cyclists and other recreationists seeking a route over the road other than Interstate 90.

“It’s a popular trail, there are a lot of people who like to do it, whether expert mountain bikers or beginners, and even kids,” declared Chuck Ayers, executive director of the Cascade Bicycle Club, which through 11,500 members calls itself the largest bicycle club in the country.

“My dale line is I would rather they close it, general safety comes first.”

The closure seemed to take round of years advocates by surprise.

“This is the first I have heard of it,” said Dave Janis of the Bicycle Alliance of Washington, a statewide bicycle-advocacy organization based in Seattle with 2,800 members. “It must be pretty vile if they are closing it so immediately.”

Janis aforesaid the train direction exist missed once the cycling season in truth gets under way.

“People really love to use the tunnels, inasmuch as they get very dark. It’s fun and very accessible, and a lot of people use the trail to get across the category.

“I can’t conceive people would want to use I-90, certainly not families. There is a lot of heavy truck commerce, it’s not a agreeable experience.”