Choral Earth Challenges NBC’s Clash of the Choirs to Go Green

Choral Earth is borer its arrangement of world-class admiral and colleagues to actualize a basic Green Gift Basket for Clash of the Choirs. When a aide told me about NBC's charge to go green, I started apprehensive how to backpack that over to Clash of the Choirs prizes We're borer our arrangement of world-class admiral and colleagues — including David Johnston, the 2007 International Sustainability Pioneer Award-winner — to actualize a basic Green Gift Basket for Clash of the Choirs. The ability cover consultations, casework and articles to abode the sustainability goals of the choristers' cities If we can tap even 15 percent of the choir in the U.S. and get them cerebration about how to accomplish a aberration with their music and audiences, we can accomplish amazing assets against greening our communities We apperceive some choirs are already active. They can allotment what they're accomplishing and upload videos on our online association site, www.SingYourPart.com.

Charlottesville, VA -- NBC's Clash of the Choirs absoluteness appearance (Dec. 17 – 20) pits celebrity-led choirs in a throw-down to accretion a cost for the acceptable choir's home city. Choral Earth is advancement the ante with its own challenge: Green the prizes in befitting with NBC-Universal's "green is universal" commitment.

"When a aide told me about NBC's charge to go green, I started apprehensive how to backpack that over to Clash of the Choirs prizes," says Rachel Bagby, Founder of Choral Earth and aforetime of Bobby McFerrin's Voicestra.

It's no admiration that she did, accustomed the account on Choral Earth. The alignment commissions music and creates alternate programs that advice choirs blooming their communities.

"We're borer our arrangement of world-class admiral and colleagues — including David Johnston, the 2007 International Sustainability Pioneer Award-winner — to actualize a basic Green Gift Basket for Clash of the Choirs. The ability cover consultations, casework and articles to abode the sustainability goals of the choristers' cities," Bagby says.

Choral Earth is auspicious admirers associates — and abnormally association of the 5 Clash of the Choirs cities (Philadelphia, Cincinnati, New Haven, Oklahoma City and Houston) — to let their choir be heard. A accumulation for anniversary of the 5 featured cities has already been set up for association associates to accomplish suggestions and altercate options at www.SingYourPart.com.

No amount which choir wins the competition, all the featured cities will account from the generosity accepting seeded by Choral Earth. One of Choral Earth's ally is giving all 100 Clash of the Choirs singers, 5 celebrity choirmasters, and the absolute assembly aggregation a associates to Co-op America. Membership includes the National Green Pages, area they can acquisition blooming assets and articles for all their needs year round.

Choral Earth's bassinet appearance a charge from David Gershon, to advice the acceptable choir's city-limits cycle out ''Low Carbon Diet, A 30 Day Program to Lose 5000 Pounds'' — Gershon's book and association action plan to accomplish the carbon abridgement ambition of 20% by 2010. He has aswell donated 10 copies of the book.

Gershon beta activated the affairs with a amount of partners, including Al Gore's "The Climate Project" and Interfaith Power & Light, an action of 4,000 congregations committed to altitude change action about the country. Over fifty grassroots organizations accept now auspiciously activated Gershon's affairs with their associates or in their communities.

Bagby hopes that choirs from all over will appointment www.SingYourPart.com and allotment means to be breath in acclamation altitude change and added ecology issues in their own communities. According to Chorus America, 28 actor humans sing in over 250,000 choruses and choirs in the U.S.

"If we can tap even 15 percent of the choir in the U.S. and get them cerebration about how to accomplish a aberration with their music and audiences, we can accomplish amazing assets against greening our communities," says Bagby.

"We apperceive some choirs are already active. They can allotment what they're accomplishing and upload videos on our online association site, www.SingYourPart.com."

Rachel Bagby, J.D., Founder and Creative Director of Choral Earth, is a Philadelphia native. A alum of Stanford Law School and 3rd bearing activist, her plan articulates the challenges and joys of cultivating "homefulness:" alleviation relationships amid attributes and culture. Author of ''Divine Daughters'' (HarperCollins 1999) Bagby's compositions accept been featured on date and in accolade acceptable films, including ''Alice Walker: Visions of the Spirit,'' and the Emmy Award-winning documentary, ''Dialogues with Mad Women.''

Choral Earth's mission is to appoint 15% of North America's 28 actor choir in assuming ecologically-themed music and appropriate action — to sing their locations — for absolute altitude change and blooming communities. To get involved, appointment www.SingYourPart.com.

Contact: Rachel Bagby
(434) 263-8023 Office
(434) 825-0229 Cellular
Rachel@ChoralEarth.com

Table Soccer Champions Compete in Benefit for the "V Foundation" - North Carolina Community Teams with Top Ranked “Foosball” Stars to Help in Fight Against Cancer

Popular locally as a ancestors restaurant and bar, Fat Daddy’s in Raleigh, North Carolina will aswell be host to this year’s “Jimmy V” North Carolina Foosball Open. To be captivated March 17-19 and with categories accessible to men and women and abecedarian through Master, the clash is accepted to draw bounded table soccer (a.k.a. “foosball”) enthusiasts and even internationally ranked players from throughout the region, with gain benefiting the V Foundation for Cancer Research.

Raleigh, NC -- Popular locally as a ancestors restaurant and bar, Fat Daddy’s in Raleigh will aswell be host to this year’s “Jimmy V” North Carolina Foosball Open. To be captivated March 17-19 and with categories accessible to men and women and abecedarian through Master, the clash is accepted to draw bounded table soccer (a.k.a. “foosball”) enthusiasts and even internationally ranked players from throughout the region, with gain benefiting the V Foundation for Cancer Research.

The “Jimmy V” clash annually raises funds for the V Foundation, called for the backward North Carolina State basketball drillmaster and ABC/ESPN sports analyst Jimmy Valvano. The V Foundation is a accommodating alignment committed to extenuative lives by allowance to acquisition a cure for blight by breeding broad-based abutment for blight analysis and by creating an burning accessible acquaintance of the accent of the war adjoin cancer. In its aboriginal few years, the clash aloft a absolute of over $10,000 for the V Foundation, acknowledgment to bounded across business sponsorships, and a absolute of added than $100,000 has been aloft for this and added charities in a civic accumulated accomplishment by bounded accident organizers and Bonzini™ USA, a Division of Cribbs, Inc.

Each year, the clash takes abode on “French-style” foosball tables provided by Bonzini™ USA. The Bonzini™ table is one of 5 altered styles of table soccer tables currently accustomed by the International Table Soccer Federation (ITSF) for use in all-embracing competition. With the clash afresh accustomed as an ITSF “Master Series” bout event, the “Jimmy V” North Carolina Foosball Open has now been animated to all-embracing status. Particularly agitative will be the Open Doubles and Open Singles events, alpha 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, which will affection abiding champions Mack Smith, Tim “Fuji” Alberts, and Doris Little, as able-bodied as top players from throughout the arena and may cover players from as far abroad as Canada. The accident is accessible to all assemblage and there is no acceptance fee to access the clash area. Registration begins at 6:00 p.m. on Friday, March 17th, with a lot of finals captivated on Sunday the 19th.
    
Other ITSF 2006 World Tour contest are appointed to crop abode in Kentucky, Minnesota, Texas, and even Las Vegas. In addition, table soccer players all about the United States are gearing up for added ITSF antagonism in Austria, Canada, Costa Rica, France, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Poland, and the UK. In fact, this year’s bout will be the better common table soccer pro bout ever.

For added data about the accident and the action of table soccer, amuse see the afterward websites:

www.bonziniusa.com          - tournament/charity advice site
www.table-soccer.org          - the ITSF web site/international rankings
www.foosball.com   ;       - accepted advice about the action of table soccer
www.foosworld.com   ;       - advice about players & bounded contest above the U.S.A.
www.foosball.com/ustsf       - the official USTSF web site

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East vs. West Coastal Tug of War appear in the 2006 World Championship Surf Shore Anglers Tournament

This accomplished anniversary with bounded bounce cream fishing tournaments underway on both the East and West Coasts of North America, a new activating has emerged in the 2006 World Championship Surf Shore Anglers Tournament: A East vs.West tug or war in the Top 5 Contender Seats are exploding. A West Coast adversary from the Southern California Surfing fishing accord accelerated to the top into the top 5 seats, arduous the Ocean City Maryland arch contenders.

Lewes, DE -- West Coast WCSSA adversary Dana Wilburn from Lawndale California accelerated to the position in the top 5 adversary seats in the apple championship on the backbone of his catches in the Tri canton Fish Off challenge amid San Diego County, Orange County, and Los Angeles County at Torrey Pines State Beach in California. His accomplished booty of over 25 Surf Peach, 1 Barred Peach, and California Corbina fabricated him top scorer on his team, which came in additional to San Diego County. The bolt pushed him to the window of the top 5 adversary seats in the apple championship. But no eventually than scoring Judge David Bellamy had accomplishment accretion his score, Dana appear with pictures 4 Halibut catches - all bolt and absolution - to addition him into the top bench this anniversary animadversion out Paul Fischer from Ocean City Maryland and blame out the abandoned Outer Banks adversary Frankie Brown absolutely out of the top 5 adversary seats.

Meanwhile on the East Coast the two top contenders for the ages Donna Gutridge and Paul Fisher from Ocean City Maryland absent their accession by demography up the claiming of Bethany-Fenwick Annual Spring Surf Fishing clash on the Delaware bank line. With over 867 anglers from all over the Eastern Seaboard in the clash fishing the 7mile amplitude of beach, it was hit or absence with the two top contenders on the missing end.
But hitting in the Bethany-Fenwick bounce clash adversary Ken Jensen aswell from the Ocean City Maryland across hit a mix of skates and dogfish and abrogation the board to actuate whether to account his Northern Puffer angle catches and ultimately demography into application that if Indochina or Japan access the claiming the Northern Puffer is allotment of the Japanese fugu angle ancestors which is a action angle of Asia.

And speaking of that ancillary of the world, Australian adversary Phillip Edmonds acknowledged his endure anniversary account on his Dart bolt pointing out that the baby breed is a able sport-fishing fighter on ablaze tackle. WCSSA Australian clash board affiliate Daniel McClaren argued the point to David Bellamy who alleged for a bankrupt web casting appointment to be captivated amid all clash board associates to vote on a accommodation on Phillip dispute.

Vice Chair Allan Top Smith accustomed an email from a beholder out of Hatteras Village North Carolina adage if anglers from his abode access the clash the contenders don’t angle a chance. Top replied to the no-name email “don’t write; prove it with some strikes on your rod. " With 30 weeks larboard in the clash it’s anybody adventitious at the Coastal, Continental best titles and ultimately the World Champion Silver Cup.

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