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Today, regular contributor Henci Goer, co-author of the recent book, Optimal Care in Childbirth; The Case for a Physiologic Approach , discusses a just published study on resolving the OP baby during labor through maternal positioning. Does it matter what position the mother is in? Can we do anything to help get that baby to turn? Henci lets us know what the research says in today's post. – Sharon Muza, Community Manager
In OP position, the back (occiput) of the fetal head is towards the woman's back (posterior). Sometimes called "sunny side up," there is nothing sunny about it. Because the deflexed head presents a wider diameter to the cervix and pelvic opening, progress in dilation and descent tends to be slow with an OP baby, and if OP persists, it greatly increases the likelihood of cesarean or vaginal instrumental delivery and therefore all the ills that follow in their wake.
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The good news is that regardless of group assignment, and despite virtually all women having an epidural (94-96%), 76-78% of the babies eventually rotated to OA. The bad news is that regardless of group assignment, 22-24% of the babies didn't. As one would predict, 94-97% of women whose babies rotated to OA had spontaneous vaginal births compared with 3-6% of women with persistent OP babies. Because positioning failed to help, investigators concluded: "We believe that no posture should be imposed on women with OP position during labor" (p. e8).
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WEST POINT — With the announcement of the starting lineups complete, Dave Magarity turned back toward the Army basketball bench to squeeze in a few more reminders to his team.
WEST POINT — With the announcement of the starting lineups complete, Dave Magarity turned back toward the Army basketball bench to squeeze in a few more reminders to his team. Meanwhile, public address announcer Joe Beckerle told the small gathering at Christl Arena that Magarity was coming off his milestone 100th career victory at West Point on Friday.
There was a bit of applause and certainly no fanfare, just the way Magarity would probably want it. Besides, he was more concerned about adding No. 101 to his ledger.
But on this Monday evening, a night like many in career that has stretched back more than 34 years, that next win would prove hard to get. Saint Francis of Brooklyn made just enough plays down the stretch and handed Army a 59-47 loss.
The milestone win — and No. 413 overall for his career — came Friday on the road at Wagner College. Afterward, Army players wrote his milestone in big numbers on the coaching board in the locker room and playfully jostled the 62-year-old Magarity.
"We were all jumping up and down with him, and chanting 100,'' said senior captain Liz Benedict. "We really wanted to hit his head to see if there's hair spray on there, but it's actually really soft.''
Army win No. 100 for Magarity is significant because there really wasn't supposed to be win No. 1. Magarity was thrilled to get back into coaching, following a 19-month absence, when Maggie Dixon hired him to be her associate head coach in the fall of 2005. Together, they helped lead the Black Knights to a magical championship season, and then Dixon died from a heart ailment only weeks later.
"There was really only one person who could head that program at that time and it was Dave,'' said Bob Beretta, Army's executive athletic director and the man instrumental in bringing Magarity to West Point.
Magarity was on his way out, just about ready to accept an NBA scouting job with his friend, Jeff Bower, when his call to duty came. Magarity accepted the head coaching job at Army, mostly out of obligation to a distraught team but also because his desire to coach was reignited by Dixon. Add the fact he was able to add his daughter, Maureen, to his coaching staff and the deal was sealed.
"I look back on it and I have no regrets, I really don't,'' Magarity said. "It's been a wonderful experience. It's been great for me personally, professionally and for my family. I think of the opportunity to work with Maureen for four years was really special. The year with Maggie Dixon was incredibly special. I just feel it's been special for so many reasons. I love being here. It's a really neat place to finish my career.''
His year-and-a-half away from the game, between his ouster at Marist in March 2004 after 18 seasons and joining the Army staff, was agony for Magarity. He tried to embrace the role of being an assistant commissioner of two collegiate leagues, but the calling was strong and the emptiness was real.
"It was something that you can't even put a dollar figure on,'' Magarity said. "It left a huge void in what I did because that's all I had ever done. I missed the day-to-day stuff. I missed getting on a bus with (assistant coaches) George Siegrist and Steve Sauers and Rob Colbert and (trainer) Glenn Marinelli. When I was able to bring Maureen with me, I was able to get some of that back.'' Well, perhaps without a bit of coarse language in a testosterone-filled environment, he admits.
Magarity's decision to stay at West Point helped heal a program, the school and himself.
"He made a commitment to stay here for these women and for these future leaders,'' Beretta said. "We'll always be thankful for that.''
That's why Magarity is still here, seven seasons later. Retirement is on the horizon — he has a deal through 2015, when he turns 65. He has no idea whether he will stay or leave at that time, but he still loves the job and wouldn't mind making at least one more run for a championship and leave on his terms.

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I fell for Smith the day my father hit his first hole-in-one on his homemade golf course. Dad had spent years shaping the earth in our backyard until he had two holes that landed somewhere
between an extravagant minigolf spread and a Jack Nicklaus par-72.
Mae! my father yelled, hoisting his nine-iron into the air. I did it!
He was a couple hundred yards away, and because I didn't think my voice would carry, I jumped up and down a few times and clapped my hands, trying to appear visibly thrilled. But I was self-conscious with Smith standing behind me, his hands stuffed into the pockets of his army-green cargo pants, an anxious scowl on his almost beautiful face.
Dad sauntered off to pluck the winning ball from the hole, long, white beard trailing in the wind, his spaniel, Betsy, two steps behind. It was hardly fifty degrees out, but Dad was wearing shorts and hiking boots. He was nearing seventy, but he had the bulging calf muscles of a man half his age.
I want to see birds no one else has seen, Smith was saying. I printed out the checklist for North Carolina. How soon can we mark these off?
Slow down, I said, smiling.
I don't know if I can tell a common goldeneye from a loon, he said. Is that important?
He followed me to our picnic table, which was soft from rot and green with moss.
Smith stuck his fingers into his bramble-thick hair, hair the color of sea grass. It seemed inclined to one side, like a plant reaching for the sun. He wore a paint-flecked T-shirt covered in a school of dolphin fish.
First, I said, let me tell you what we can see here in the Great Dismal Swamp.
I opened our brochure, pushed it toward him like a menu. We had a chunk of land outside of town that had been in my father's family for two generations. We lived in his ancestral home and ran Pocosin Birds, our bird-watching business, from the property.
In April, I began, birders can expect to sight fifty to one hundred bird species in the swamp.
Are you reading backward? Smith asked.
I have it memorized, I said.
I studied his face. His left eye was deep brown, his right hazel. For a moment, I wondered if he had a glass eye.
Eyes like David Bowie, I said, nodding my head in approval.
Are you going to take me into the swamp? he asked. He smiled. He was lean and dark from the sun. I couldn't tell if he was twenty-five or just short of forty, impoverished or on the receiving end of a trust fund. When he smiled, he looked like too much fun to be thirty, as if he wasn't tired of the world yet.
Typically, I said, we help our clients assemble the correct gear and map a course. We drop you off at daybreak.
I took a red pen from my pocket and circled an area near Lake Drummond.
The best nesting sites for warblers are here, I said. What do you know about songbirds?
I want to go in with you, he said.
Dad was born on the outskirts of the swamp at a time when it was desolate, hard, and flecked with ramshackle hunting cabins. His father had been into timber, and Dad was raised wild—the kind of man who could pick up a snake by its neck with the confidence I'd exhibit picking up a rubber version in a toy store. He was sentimental about his family home and the town. Anything he was used to having around he wanted to keep around. So when the town got too small to sustain a post office, he converted the blue mail drops into composting hubs in the back corner of our lot. He bought the abandoned elementary school at auction for almost nothing—no one wanted to pay the taxes on it, and looters had already taken the copper pipes and pedestal sinks. He rented it out for birthday parties, weddings, and to local artists for studio space. When a developer leveled the city park, Dad reassembled the jungle gym in our side yard near the garden and let the scuppernong vines go wild.
We lived in a dying town with a dwindling tax base. I never thought I'd come back, but the swamp was in me; if Dad was half feral, I was one-quarter. I liked the way the water tasted, the sound of birds outside my window in the morning. A few years in Raleigh studying conservation biology at the state university and I needed to find a place where I could look out my window and see nothing man-made. I missed the smell of things rotting, the sun bearing down on a wet log.
Nothing in the city seemed real to me—it was fabricated, plastic, artificial, fast. After years of biology classes, every come-on was a mating call, every bar conversation a display—a complicated modern spin on ancient rules. I didn't believe in altruistic acts—I could find a selfish root to anything. Eventually I felt as if I was looking out at the busy world and I could see nothing but its ugly bones.
I was taught that at the heart of all people, all things, lay raw self-interest. Sure, you could dress a person up nice, put pretty words in his mouth, but underneath the silk tie and pressed shirt was an animal. A territorial, hungry animal anxious to satisfy his own needs.
At least in the swamp, there was no make-believe chivalry, no playing nice. It was eat or be eaten out there, life at its purest, and it's where I wanted to be.
Another thing—I loved my dad. I'd never known my mother—she'd died just after giving birth to me—so he was all I'd ever had. He was honest, fun, and unapologetically himself.
I'm not asking you to come home, my dad said, when I approached him with the idea. You won't find a husband here, he added.
I don't want one, I'd said—and for a while, that had been the truth. Perhaps it was all the years I'd watched my father carve out a happy life alone.
Your old room is packed solid, he'd said. I disassembled a tobacco barn. Numbered the slats. You can't move in 'til I sell it.
I'll take the room over the garage, I said. I have some money to fix it up—I'll put in a shower.
Aside from serving in Korea and a short stint living on a houseboat in his twenties, Dad had remained hidden from the world in the swamp, inhabiting the same house, trapping the same illegal lines, fishing the same shallow waters.
We didn't watch the market or follow politics. That was part of the appeal, for me anyway. For centuries people had used the swamp to hide from their problems. Runaway slaves, ruthless fugitives, shell-shocked soldiers, and cheating wives—all had hidden in the swamp at one time.
When I moved from the city to the swamp, the things I could not have became special again. Cappuccino was special. Driving forty minutes to eat second-rate Indian food was special. Planning a day around the "good" grocery store—special.
You got about half fancy living out of town, Dad told me.
I was a thirty-six-year-old single woman living in a poor man's theme park, running birding trips into the swamp. Most of my binocular-laden clients were pushing sixty and just as concerned with sunscreen and hydration as they were with spotting a pileated woodpecker. I drove them into the swamp in Dad's pickup, left them with a map, a bagged lunch, water, a GPS device, and a phone, and picked them up at twilight in a place that seemed less wild every day.
For the most part, I was happy.
Birds of a Lesser Paradise
Exploring the way our choices and relationships are shaped by the menace and beauty of the natural world, Megan Mayhew Bergman's powerful and heartwarming collection captures the surprising moments when the pull of our biology becomes evident, when love or fear collides with good sense, or when our attachment to an animal or wild place can't be denied.
In "Housewifely Arts," a single mother and her son drive hours to track down an African gray parrot that can mimic her deceased mother's voice. A population-control activist faces the conflict between her loyalty to the environment and her maternal desire in "Yesterday's Whales." And in the title story, a lonely naturalist allows an attractive stranger to lead her and her aging father on a hunt for an elusive woodpecker.
As intelligent as they are moving, the stories in Birds of a Lesser Paradise are alive with emotion, wit, and insight into the impressive power that nature has over all of us. This extraordinary collection introduces a young writer of remarkable talent.
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Megan Mayhew Bergman's Birds of a Lesser Paradise captures the surprising moments when the pull of our biology becomes evident, when love collides with good sense, and when our attachments to an animal or wild place can't be denied. In "Housewifely Arts," a single mother and her son drive hours to track down an African Gray Parrot that can mimic her dead mother's voice. A population control activist faces the ultimate conflict between loyalty to the environment and maternal desire in "Yesterday's Whales." And in the title story, a lonely naturalist allows an attractive stranger to lead her and her aging father on a hunt for an elusive woodpecker. As intelligent as they are moving, the stories in Birds of a Lesser Paradise are alive with emotion, wit, and insight into the impressive power that nature has over all of us.
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Canada's breadbasket
Heading west towards the Prairies, Manitoba is the gateway province filled with lakes and National Parkland.
Winnipeg, like many Canadian cities, is located in the south of the province and lies halfway between the coasts. Despite being so far inland, Winnipeg is still easily recognizable as a western city with its skyline and architecturally diverse streets.
In the north of Manitoba, Churchill, on the shore of Hudson Bay, draws interest from around the world with its unique wildlife including Polar Bears that often wander down the streets of the town. With no roads this far north, most people arrive by plane or the more adventurous take the train from Winnipeg which takes about 35 hours.


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Cambridge, Mass. – Continuing its rich history of broad-based educational opportunities through athletics, Harvard University will create a varsity women's rugby team to begin play in the 2013-14 academic year. Women's rugby will be the 21st varsity sport for women and 42nd varsity sport overall at Harvard making Harvard the nation's leader in both areas.
Harvard will be the first Ivy League institution to sponsor a varsity rugby program and continues to lead the field with its long tradition of supporting athletics for women. This tradition began in the 19th century when Radcliffe College, its sister school, offered tennis and basketball teams. In 1923, Radcliffe competed in the country's first intercollegiate swimming meet.
"As a former student athlete and competitive swimmer, I strongly support the important role that athletics plays in the lives of thousands of Harvard College students," said Michael D. Smith, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. "I'm proud of what the women's rugby club has already achieved in recent years and look forward to following their success as a varsity sport."
"The opportunity to excel in a host of different sports continues to be one of the hallmarks of a Harvard College education," stated Evelynn M. Hammonds, Dean of Harvard College. "The addition of women's rugby builds on that tradition and opens yet another opportunity for students to find their passion at Harvard."
"We are delighted to add women's rugby as our 21st varsity sport for women." said Bob Scalise, the Nichols Family Director of Athletics. "We are proud to be the largest intercollegiate athletic program in the country and to have the greatest number of intercollegiate athletic opportunities for women of any college or university nationwide.
"We have been impressed by our team's enthusiastic engagement in their sport as well as the explosive growth of rugby as a sport for women. We hope that our decision will be a catalyst for other schools to follow our lead and consider adding rugby as an intercollegiate sport for women. The program's impressive role as part of our club sport offerings and the longstanding level of commitment by these students has underlined the importance of athletics as an integral part of the educational process and experience."
The women's rugby club, which began in 1982, has won two national championships (1998, 2011) in the club ranks. "The women's rugby team has demonstrated the commitment and sustainability of interest that is consistent with a varsity level program." said Scalise. "We are committed to our mission of providing educational opportunities through athletics where competitive and recreational programs serve an integral part of the educational experience."
Division I women's rugby is currently classified as a National Collegiate Athletic Association emerging sport. This designation is used to encourage growth of opportunity at the intercollegiate level in these sports. According to USA Rugby, growth of the sport has increased exponentially at the High School and Intercollegiate level and currently there are over 300 collegiate women's rugby clubs. The sport of rugby also returns to the Olympics in 2016 after being recognized in four previous Games.


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Kelly Clarkson Salutes Clive Davis
Kelly Clarkson performs at the 2009 GRAMMY Salute To Industry Icons at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Saturday (February 7) in Beverly Hills, Calif.
The 26-year-old original American Idol champ hit the red carpet in a perwinkle blue Carmen Marc Valvo dress and Loree Rodkin jewels. At the event, Kelly honored record industry boss Clive Davis. She received one of the evening's biggest standing ovations with her performance of her new single, "My Life Would Suck Without You" and her own rendition of the Janis Joplin classic "Piece of My Heart."
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Both the undergraduate and graduate business majors at SNHU give you the opportunity to pursue an in-depth study of business while concentrating on a specialized area of interest. They also offer the chance to put your course study into practice and gain valuable hands-on business experience through related internships. SNHU faculty, alumni and career development staff are committed to helping you connect with experiential learning opportunities that prepare you to enter the business world.


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WINFIELD — Police says a train has struck and killed a man near the Winfield fairgrounds where a bluegrass festival is being held.
The Wichita Eagle (http://is.gd/aSWv5k ) reports that the Winfield Fire Department found the man's body near the railroad tracks around 4:05 a.m. Saturday. Police Capt. Brett Stone said in a release that the discovery was made after a train-pedestrian accident was reported.
A police dispatch supervisor says the man was over 18 years old, but his exact age was not available.
Stone says the accident remains under investigation, and more information may be released early next week. The Walnut Valley Festival is going on at the fairgrounds this weekend.


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Deformed Fishies
Posted 31 December 2007 - 05:52 PM
Noticed this section (my fave!) hasn't been too active of late, so thought I'd throw something in from our archive...
....a few years back while diving the Exmouth Navy Pier, I spotted this deformed looking trevally on consecutive dives. I eventually got a shot of him and emailed to a couple of marine biologist friends who couldn't provide me with much insight into the reason his spine is out of shape (ie what disease it has and whether similar to a human spinal abnormality)....I thought some of you smart cookies might be able to shed some light?
It would also be interesting to see any other shots/ vision of fishies with disabilities- this little guy was determined to keep up with all the other able-bodied trevally, what a little trooper huh?!
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Posted 02 January 2008 - 11:15 PM
Seriously though, I am looking forward to hearing what zan discovers in his book!...I have become a bit posessed with this little trevally (as Wags will confirm!)
Posted 03 January 2008 - 06:12 AM
Unfortunately my book doesn't really have much more information. It mentions that spinal deformities can be caused by a parasite which can lead to whirling disease, but unless your fish is whirling, it's unlikely (if only all illnesses were so self-explanatory, eh?). Nutritional factors and genetics have been the reported causes in farmed fish (e.g. salmon\bass), so that might be something?
sorry I can't be much help! I'll let you know if I find out any more, I'm getting curious myself now
Posted 03 January 2008 - 06:32 AM
The shark is observed on a regular basis over the last 2 years . It is a regular attendee at our weekly shark attraction dive and appears to have no issues swimming or feeding.
The first time I saw it I thought that the shark was demonstrating a threat posture - lucky for me I was mistaken
Will try to find some footage and post it when I get back to Cairns.
Edited by pmooney, 03 January 2008 - 06:33 AM.
Posted 03 January 2008 - 08:40 AM
there are quite a few reasons i think. If they have been selected for farming and get to live older than they would usually they often get deformed, which is what happened to our cod. If they have been kept in a round tub from an early age and only swim round in one direction that can cause it too.
In wild fish, it's possible that some are prone to it. Sand tiger sharks have big problems with spinal deformities in aquariums but it has also been seen in the wild and nobody knows what causes it. Also, if a wild fish has damaged itself somehow that can make the spine deform as it tries to heal/correct itself.
hope this is a bit more help!
Posted 03 January 2008 - 04:56 PM
Would be cool to see your shark vision Peter- I'll look forward to that when you get home!
Posted 04 January 2008 - 02:23 AM
Happy diving
Posted 28 January 2008 - 05:43 PM
I don't know about fish, but in snakes, once the egg is laid-it must remain totally immobile. If it is moved it may allow the embryo to reattach on another part of the shell and may cause a "kinking" of the spine which is noticeable at hatching.
Maybe the same can be true of fish eggs, that are meant to stay immobile.
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Another skirmish in a five-year flap tied to an awning in a historic district is ready to unfold Wednesday, Sept. 3, in Allegan County District Court.
This time, though, the battle has taken a new twist with defendant John Porzondek, of 790 Lake St., in Saugatuck claiming the aluminum framing of his awning is actually art that the city � marketed internationally as part of �The Art Coast of Michigan� � cannot regulate.
�We have a right to self-expression,� he said. �This is art on trial.�
The city of Saugatuck, however, responded after neighbors complained, citing Porzondek for violating the city ordinance that limits the number of signs to three. At the time of the citation earlier in the summer, there were 14 signs on the property.
The citation has nothing to do with art, said City Manager Kirk Harrier.
�Again, the city cited property owner for a sign violation. It has nothing to do with art,� he said.
In fact, the city has even suggested how the display could be brought to code.
�Finally, the applicant could take all the text that is currently on the existing signs, reduce the text size to fit onto three signs, each no more than four square feet, have them located on private property, with each sign being different, and would be in conformance with the temporary sign ordinance,� said Michael Clark, planning director for the city.
Porzondek�s house is on a main entry point into Saugatuck for thousands of summer tourists each day. Many have stopped to photograph the display. He has installed a small box with brochures that explain the exhibit.
Misfit Art
The display, called Misfit Art Butterfly �was created out of our soul�s necessity to balance our understanding of forces directly attacking our artistic goals in the restoration, adornment and protection of our home within this place called Saugatuck,� Porzondek and James Bryan Serman wrote on their website, lakestreetcommons.com.
The two run the businesses Lake Street Commons Lodging at the address.
Serman, who has other pieces of art around the property, described working on the display as therapy for the stress caused by the battles with the city.
�We�re trying to make it positive, to take the negativity out of our souls,� he said.
Both insist the 29- by 12-foot creation has nothing to do with a long dispute over an awning.
Awning history
Porzondek�s issues with the city go back to 2009 when the Historic District Commission did not approve the green vinyl-plastic canvas canopy Porzondek had installed on the second story of the 19th-century building.
He appealed the decision to the Michigan State Historic Preservation Review Board that issued a 35-page ruling in 2010 siding with the Saugatuck historic board.
He then appealed to Allegan County Circuit Court, which in 2011, upheld the state review board�s ruling. Porzondek, though, did not take down the structure. The city issued another citation and the court told him in June 2011 to take the awning down.
In that circuit court trial, Porzondek�s attorney admitted his client made a mistake in not seeking historic commission approval before he added the awning, but he was just trying to protect his home with the $6,400 awning.
The awning came down, but was put back up in 2013. After being told by the city he was in violation of code, Porzondek took down the canvas but left the metal framing up, then moved it to the ground in front of the building.
In 2014, the signs challenging the city�s decision were added.
�Like a butterfly, it metamorphosizes,� Serman said.
Porzondek, who is acting as his own attorney, met with city attorney Crystal L. Morgan of Bloom Sluggett Morgan, of Grand Rapids, on Aug. 1 for a pretrial hearing.
�Based on our conversation at the pretrial conference, it was apparent to me that you were unwilling to remove any of the signs unless the city granted you permission to resurrect the awning (or some variation thereof) that you were previously ordered to remove from your second story porch,� Morgan wrote in a letter to Porzondek and city officials. Morgan also handled the 2011 circuit court case.
She said the sign and awning issues are separate and will be addressed independently.
Porzondek said he is not negotiating for the awning.
�We are only prepared to defend our art and not any past history with the city,� he wrote in reply.
The trial is set for 2:30 p.m. in Allegan in 57th District Court in front of Judge Joseph Skocelas.
Cost and election
The long legal action has cost the city thousands of dollars, Harrier said.
The awning issue was a high-profile part of a drive in 2009 by some city residents to abolish the historic commission because, they said, their houses were not historically significant and the rules overburdened them.
The city appointed a seven-member committee in June 2010 to look at the future of Lake Street area of the city�s historic district, but in 2011 the city council ended its investigation due to high costs. The city spent $1,900 on preliminary work for the project and estimated it would have cost $50,000 more to complete it.
Porzondek ran for Saugatuck City Council in 2010 and was elected, serving�two years. He is running again for council in the November election in which voters will choose four people from the five candidates.
Incumbents Jane Verplank, Mark Bekken and Barry Johnson as well as newcomer Ken Trester are also seeking seats.
Porzondek said he is not running again because of the sign ordinance dispute, but to bring back free beach passes for residents, term limits for city council members and commissioners and �public excellence, transparency and communications.�
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Art or awning? Simmering Saugatuck spat takes creative twist to court
Another skirmish in a five-year flap tied to an awning in a historic district is ready to unfold Wednesday, Sept. 3, in Allegan County District Court.


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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) Alabama gymnastics coach Sarah Patterson is stepping down after leading the Crimson Tide to six national titles in 36 seasons.
Patterson announced her decision on Tuesday, leaving a program she took over as a 22-year-old and built into a perennial contender. She has been dealing with degenerative problems in both knees for the past few years.
''This is something I have tried to postpone but, through ongoing consultation with my physicians, it has become evident that surgery to replace both knees is necessary,'' Patterson said. ''My physician shared with me that it will be a year or more before I am back to a normal lifestyle.''
She will remain as a special assistant to the athletic director and serve on the NCAA gymnastics committee starting in September. Alabama selected assistant Dana Duckworth as Patterson's replacement, pending formal approval by the board of trustees.
Duckworth won two individual NCAA championships at Alabama in the early 1990s.
Patterson posted 1,006 wins and 43 postseason championships during her tenure. The Tide's Champions Plaza outside Coleman Coliseum bears Patterson's name.
The gymnastics team has drawn an average of 10,000-plus fans for 11 consecutive years and won back-to-back titles in 2011 and 2012.
''Although this is certainly not how any of us wanted Sarah's incredible coaching career to come to an end, we are excited that Sarah has agreed to continue to serve the university and this department,'' athletic director Bill Battle said. ''At this point, though, we are focused on her return to health. We will make every effort to continue the tremendous momentum that Sarah and David created and maintained for our gymnastics program.''
Patterson's husband, David, spent 30 years as the Tide's associate head coach before retiring and working as a volunteer coach. He also will step down.
''I am grateful that, for 36 years, David and I were able to implement our coaching philosophy of trying to develop well-rounded young women who are ready to make a difference in the lives of others upon their graduation from this University,'' Patterson said.
The Tide won the Southeastern Conference title and claimed an NCAA-best 27th top four national finish last season.