Challenges In The News 04/01/08

Movie fans with a creative itch should take a look at the Almost Famous Film Festival's "48 Hour Challenge." The brainchild of Valley videographer Jae Staats, Almost Famous challenges participants to write, shoot and edit an original short film in just 48 hours.

KUALA TERENGGANU, MALAYSIA: Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) president Datuk Seri Hadi Awang pointed out he is willing to challenge Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi for Seberang Prai Utara Kepala Batas parliamentary seat, if the party makes such arrangement.

A CHALLENGE to the established way of building cellular infrastructure was thrown down at the recent MCW in Barcelona. ZTE claims to have shown the world's first SDR (Software Defined Radio) base station.

About 175 people submitted notes to the mayor's office in a contest challenging Pittsburghers to offer "unique, exciting, romantic or unusual" reasons they love the city.

The lasting mystery of "The Spiderwick Chronicles" is why the producers cast actors known for rising to a creative challenge - and then gave them so little to do. Mary-Louise Parker, David Strathairn, Nick Nolte, Dame Joan Plowright - Laurence Olivier's widow, for Pete's sake - all rattle around this noisy action-fantasy contraption looking vaguely stunned.

Sun looks to challenge IBM in rankings of world's top supercomputers with Constellation, which will get its coming-out party next week.

Leeds United are seeking to challenge the Football League's decision to dock them 15 points for entering administration

I just think it would be effective if you included in your Fireside Chat at the Roundtables the Cronk Challenge to get all the leadership at the unit level trained.

The weekend in Woodley Park coincided with an especially blustery season of Santa Ana winds, which at times made outdoor camping rather challenging.

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They hope to lobby students to stop using bottled water and the administration to stop providing it to faculty members. To that end, they held a "World Water Challenge" last year and this year they decorated the cannon with water bottles as a sign of protest.