The term Splab originated from 1960's era rock and jazz as an alternative term for scat singing in which several instruments from a song were improvised at once. The term appears in museum displays of several late-60's era posters from the San Francisco Bay area.
In 1980 Seattle singer Ben Davis (Weird Feeling #3) and several fellow Northwest School Alumni began performing "splab" around Seattle, making weird punk-rock beat-box acappella songs and poems, influencing many area musicians including the Probes' John Wolverton, eventual Pearl Jam member Stone Gossard, and CZ Records founder Daniel House. In 1984 NWS Alum Pliny Keep was hired as production assistant to radio legend David Ossman of The Firesign Theater on the basis of his Splab Radio Theater, which he produced with partner Patrick Brainard on their radio show, the NO-DOZ-BROS. on KUGS FM at Western Washington University (Ref: 1884, 85, 85 The Western Front). The NO-DOZ-BROS. released their first album, " The Next Best Thing to Dead Air", in 1986, which featured Splab prominently, along with fake advertisements similar to the Firesign Theater. The called splab "Spontaneous Power Lip Art Blowing". "SPoken word LAB", or SPLAB was founded in late 1996 by poets Paul Nelson and Danika Dinsmore, SPLAB! existed as an intergenerational SPokenword Performance, Resource and Outreach Center until May 30, 2006. Another Northwest School Alumni founded Suzy Splab Design in (date...?). Splab is now commonly used to denote experiemental and improvised spoken word performance from LA to London.
The Hastings & St.Leonards Angling Association is a members only sea fishing club in Hastings, East Sussex, England, UK
The Hastings & St. Leonards Angling Association was founded in 1895 as a freshwater angling club.
In 1904 a sea angling branch was formed and the two branches ran in parallel for a number of years.
The subsequent history of the freshwater branch is not known; the sea angling branch became the current club.
Organised angling competitions between members and other associations are held throughout the year and there is a substantial social membership with events throughout the year.
The total membership of the club, including Social members is now almost 1000.
The Virtual Combat Convoy Trainer (VCCT) is a training simulator used by the United States Army, provided by Lockheed Martin and Firearms Training Systems. The VCCT is a suite of four Humvees outfitted with armor and weapons that replicate the vehicle configurations crews actually used in the field. The simulators are housed in 53-foot trailers that can be easily moved from one location to another to provide training for deploying troops. The system uses detailed databases that give students a stunningly realistic depiction of what they will encounter in Iraq. In some cases crews have trained on the actual routes they traveled with their convoys.
While IED attacks get most of the public attention and are an important part of the training experience, other aspects of the training scenarios are equally important. Situations such as equipment breakdowns, blocked routes, vehicle identification, and determining how far a convoy stretches from end to end are all vital for commanders to understand.
One of the most important lessons that learned by using the trainers was that communication is the critical element. Traveling in the dangerous territory north of Baghdad to distant cities such as Tikrit, Mosul and Tal Afar.
The Stivs were a punk rock band on Boot to Head Records based out of Portland, Oregon. Their releases included The Reaction, The Beat is Loose, TBIL Revisited, and Sweet Heartach and the Satisfaction. Similar to some of their major influences (The Ramones, [...] City Devils, and The Stooges), they never achieved much commercial success although they were known to play non-stop for their lifetime.