Challenges In The News 08/14/08

Now, he's decided to challenge himself.

GameCareerGuide has just posted the latest round of its Game Design Challenge, inspired this week by Ian Schreiber. The challenge is to design a "player aid" for the board game Risk. The player aid should be a kind of quick reference that gives a brief summary of the rules. The idea is that new players, upon having read the game rules in full once, now have a quick cheat sheet that they can ...

The umpires' word is still final but the new technology that allows players to challenge their rulings will only help them make the right decisions, an International Cricket Council official said Wednesday.

For years, the chief punishment for immigrants caught working illegally in the United States was deportation. Now they can face criminal charges such as identity theft, which can bring a hefty prison sentence. Immigrant rights groups and some members of Congress are challenging the practice.
Newport Beach-based Buchanan Street Partners renewed their support for Talk About Curing Autism (TACA) with a $25,000 commitment at their annual Challenge for the Children fundraiser. Buchanan Street President and CEO Robert Brunswick is issuing this donation as a challenge in hopes of finding another partner for TACA.

A new survey of employers by the non-profit Midwest Business Group on Health finds the new Illinois smoking cessation law, the Smoke-free Illinois Act*, helps companies and their employees overcome some barriers, but removing smoking from the worksite is still a challenge.

NEWFIELD — One of the nation's leading legal advocacy groups for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community has urged the Newfield Central School District to reconsider its successful jurisdictional challenge of human rights law protection for students on the grounds that it will end a method of addressing discrimination for LGBT students.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.----National Harbor's American Market is supporting Maryland's "Buy Local Challenge" by encouraging local residents to take advantage of the fresh produce grown by local farmers.

Half-marathons have been growing in the last five years, partly due to an influx of newer runners who consider the half a friendlier challenge than the marathon.

Recently, I wrote a column about my personal eco-challenge. I shared my history of recycling, using nontoxic cleansers and buying vintage instead of new. I also asserted my new philosophy of buying less "stuff" and being even more eco-friendly.

This week, Krista goes to the baseball diamond for this week's sports challenge.