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Allsportrating President Develops Athlete Rating Formula

Aime Pelatan, President of Allsportrating.com and Joe Francis, Vice President, are founders of Allsportrating.com. They started Allsportrating.com to provide an athlete rating formula for amateur and professional athletes. Allsportrating.com has an office in Orange, TX. The latest web site was published in the spring of 2007. Allsportrating president, Aime Pelatan, was contacted by coaches, sport agents, and sport recruiters to create an athlete rating formula.

 

Mr. Pelatan wanted to give the average athlete an opportunity to participate in sports. Athletes can feature themselves with personal information, personal resume, statistics, photo gallery, messaging system, peer rating, three action performance videos, personal photo, personal athlete rating, and personal URL. An athlete rating gives amateur and professional athletes a chance to participate in sports, get noticed by coaches, sport owners, and researched by recruiters. Allsportrating.com offers a free website for athletes and teams.

 

Athletes around the world have an opportunity to receive a free web site. After completing an athlete profile the athlete can be featured and receive international exposure.

 

Allsportrating.com gives athletes an edge with an athlete rating in their field of sports. The athlete rating is a great way for athletes to promote themselves. Athletes will have a better opportunity for scholarships. Teams and schools can manage their team and showcase all the athletes. Coaches have a search tool that allows them to search for athletes geographically by sport and position. Professional team owners can search for prospective athletes.

 

Joe Francis has been interviewed by Joe Kazmar with the local newspaper, County Record. Aime Pelatan has been interviewed by Fox Sports. The interviews have been submitted for blogs and websites.


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First Ever Handcar Regatta and the Hubbub Club Marching Band
handcar regatta hosted for free by ImageShack


This weekend, we were able to get out and have a little fun at the first ever Steam Punk Handcar Regatta in Santa Rosa, where my son played in the marching band,Hubbub.  For some great pictures of very alternative hand-made vehicles and music, please see the following link:

http://handcar-regatta.com/

Hubbub Marching Band can be found on Myspace...He also plays with Amber Lee and the Anomalies who was at the Regatta and is on the above handcar website, and with some of the folks from Lemon Lime Lights -  and in other venues he has played with:  Spindles, Bottleshock, and John Courage who can all be seen on Myspace)


 
 
 

   
Not into marching bands, but THIS ONE made my day!!!
Security Level: Low (Public / Everybody)  

I was just browsing through YouTube when I saw this video. I'm not really into marching bands, but THIS VIDEO made my day, or probably my whole week!


Intended camera view
(Cal vs Stanford Big Game 2007 Halftime Show 12/01/2007)




Back camera view
(Cal vs Washington State Halftime Show 11/03/2007)


Hehe!  Oh, and I'm sure, Smurfy already posted this video weeks ago. ;) Tell me what part of the video is your favorite. :)

I'll never grow out of the NES / SNES era.
 
 
   
 

The marching band

Well, now the marching band starts.  I didn't know what else to blog about so I just picked something that was happening right now.  All I can say is that I'm excited and very nervous.  Michelle says that it's tiring and terrible.  Then she says it's good, which makes no sense to me.  So really, I have no idea what to expect.  I just hope that I like it as much as I liked our first practice last week.  I also can't wait till band camp because people keep saying that it's going to be fun.  Then other people tell me it sucks.  That's all I've got to say. 

 

 

- Dan out!

 
 
 

   
Loud

Today the band was recorded at 98 decibels. Check out the chart below.

 

Weakest sound heard 0dB
Normal conversation (3-5') 60-70dB
Telephone dial tone 80dB
City Traffic (inside car) 85dB
Train whistle at 500' 90dB
Subway train at 200' 95dB
Level at which sustained exposure may result in hearing loss 90 - 95dB
Power mower 107dB
Power saw 110dB
Pain begins 125dB
Pneumatic riveter at 4' 125dB
Jet engine at 100' 140dB
Death of hearing tissue 180dB
Loudest sound possible 194dB

 

And this.....

OSHA Daily Permissible Noise Level Exposure
Hours per day Sound level
8 90dB
6 92dB
4 95dB
3 97dB
2 100dB
1.5 102dB
1 105dB
.5 110dB
.25 or less 115dB

 

So, according to these charts, one should only be exposed to marching/pep band for roughly 2 hours per day to avoid hearing loss. And any sustained exposure can result in hearing loss.  Interesting.  I know I've experienced some hearing loss in my short life and I believe a significant portion of it can be attributed to marching band.  I think that's pretty awesome. 

I'm guessing that the sound guy testing noise levels was from OSHA (the thing that protects employees from hearing loss in work settings) and since we know that 98 decibels can be damaging, I'm curious to see what measures they enact, if any. There are currently sound absorbing thingys on the walls of the gym...surely they can't make us play quieter?

Anyway, I think we should go for 110 decibels tomorrow at Xcel.

 
 
   
 

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