| Annual half marathon will explore new paths on island today
Today's 5th Annual Hilton Head Regional Medical Center Half Marathon & 10K will require a change of pace and offer a change of scenery. The Hilton Head Island event features a new course organizers hail as more scenic than the one used in the first four runnings. It is flat and fast with one big obstacle -- the bridge over the Broad Creek, a 1-mile span of the Cross Island Parkway that half-marathon participants must traverse twice. The course was changed at the behest of town and Sherrif's Department officials, who, because of traffic and safety concerns, discouraged race organizers from routing courses over U.S. 278 and other main thoroughfares. "It kind of worked out well," said Mark Weisner, president and founder of Bear Foot Sports, which is conducting the race.
Passion primer post-baby
In the La-La-Land version of life with baby, Mom and Dad stand together over a frilly bassinette cooing at a sweet, smiling, baby who coos back. In the real-life version, it's 3 a.m. and baby wakes up crying – again. Dad feigns sleep, or maybe he really is sleeping, and Mom wonders how much force she can legitimately use to wake him up without ending up in jail, ferried from home in the back of a police car with lights flashing. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad after all, she thinks. She might get some sleep in jail. Austin, Tex., mom Stacie Cockrell and her two closest friends, Cathy O'Neill and Julia Stone, have been there, done that, and when they looked for the book that would tell them how to steer their marriages past the shoals of sleeplessness and diapers and tantrums and time-outs, they couldn't find it.
Condition of injured baby is upgraded to 'serious'
The condition of Christiona Shelley, the 6-week-old baby who Syracuse police say was severely beaten by her father, improved Saturday, moving her off the list of critical patients at University Hospital. Shelley was listed in serious condition Saturday evening, a hospital nursing supervisor said. She had been listed as critical since Feb. 2, when she was admitted to the hospital. Police said her father, Christopher Shelley, 18, punched her when she wouldn't stop crying. Christopher Shelley has been charged with first-degree assault and endangering the welfare of a child. .
Students visit US capital for anti-war rally
On Saturday they rallied against the United States military presence in Iraq in a march sponsored by national nonprofit organization United for Peace and Justice, which drew more than 100,000 protesters from across the country.
The participants packed the Mall in front of the Washington Monument, spilling onto bordering streets and cheering notable speakers, including prominent religious leaders, lawmakers and celebrities.
"This is what peace looks like," the Rev. Louise Green cried at the rally's official start, gesturing with open arms at the crowd.
Speeches from actors Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon, Reps. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) and Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) and the Rev. Jesse Jackson, among others, followed before the demonstrators swarmed onto Third Street to begin the march.
Pad Concept baby car seat
Ever tried changing a baby's nappy while they're sitting in a car seat? Well, no. It's impossible. At least, it was impossible. The Pad Concept has been made at California State University, and is a baby car seat that transforms into a changing station, then back again. Designed by Ravi Itiravivong, it was recently named as one of the winning entries in the iF Concept Product Awards 2007. It has a swivel base that lets it be rotated to the right or left while in place, so that the backrest can be folded back to leave your baby in a lying position. One swift nappy-change later, and it turns back into a seat again. Hopefully someone's already turning this into a commercial product: it's genius! iF Design Awards – Household/Residential category Came straight to this page? Visit www.TechDigest.tv for all the latest news.
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