The Concordia-class Fleet Carrier was the standard carrier of the Terran Confederation Space Navy in Wing Commander during the Kilrathi War.
The Concordia-class carriers have a fighter wing capacity of 96 starfighters, compared to 40 for the smaller but otherwise similar Ranger-class Light Carrier. Weapon armaments include eleven dual laser batteries.
List of notable Concordia-class carriers
*TCS Ark Royal
*TCS Armageddon
*TCS Concordia (class leader, destroyed 2634)
*TCS Freedom (Destroyed, 2666)
*TCS Hermes (destroyed, 2669)
*TCS Invincible
*TCS Kalamazoo
*TCS Kennedy
*TCS Kirsk
*TCS Lexington (CV-44)
*TCS Leyte Gulf
*TCS Liberty (Scrapped)
*TCS Lincoln
*TCS Moskva (Destroyed 2668.364)
*TCS Petrov
*TCS Princeton (CV-48) (captured by Border Worlds 2673)
*TCS Saratoga
*TCS Verdun (Destroyed 2668.364)
*TCS Viking
*TCS Viper (Destroyed)
*TCS Winterrowd (Destroyed 2669)
The Concordia-class carriers have a fighter wing capacity of 96 starfighters, compared to 40 for the smaller but otherwise similar Ranger-class Light Carrier. Weapon armaments include eleven dual laser batteries.
List of notable Concordia-class carriers
*TCS Ark Royal
*TCS Armageddon
*TCS Concordia (class leader, destroyed 2634)
*TCS Freedom (Destroyed, 2666)
*TCS Hermes (destroyed, 2669)
*TCS Invincible
*TCS Kalamazoo
*TCS Kennedy
*TCS Kirsk
*TCS Lexington (CV-44)
*TCS Leyte Gulf
*TCS Liberty (Scrapped)
*TCS Lincoln
*TCS Moskva (Destroyed 2668.364)
*TCS Petrov
*TCS Princeton (CV-48) (captured by Border Worlds 2673)
*TCS Saratoga
*TCS Verdun (Destroyed 2668.364)
*TCS Viking
*TCS Viper (Destroyed)
*TCS Winterrowd (Destroyed 2669)
The Musacha Tapes is a collection of prank calls made by prank call artists known as "Big Ant" and "Lionel", as their real names are never credited. The calls are in the style similar to The Jerky Boys, but a little more brash. The Jerky Boys are in the "Thank you" section of the liner notes from the album, although no direct affiliation of the Jerky Boys is known.
The characters portrayed by Big Ant are similar to the ones portrayed by Johnny B of the Jerky Boys. John Musacha and the surname "Musacha" appear regularly on the album as character names such as "Giovanni Musacha", who is an 'adverse advertiser' or John Musacha, a character similar to Frank Rizzo from the Jerky Boys. Lionel's characters are based on racial stereotypes of African-Americans and Italians, often unintelligible to the caller.
The characters portrayed by Big Ant are similar to the ones portrayed by Johnny B of the Jerky Boys. John Musacha and the surname "Musacha" appear regularly on the album as character names such as "Giovanni Musacha", who is an 'adverse advertiser' or John Musacha, a character similar to Frank Rizzo from the Jerky Boys. Lionel's characters are based on racial stereotypes of African-Americans and Italians, often unintelligible to the caller.
Elizabeth M. Duke was named administrator for the Health Resources and Services Administration on March 6, 2002, after serving as acting administrator for the previous year.
HRSA is one of 11 operating divisions in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The agency uses its $7 billion annual budget (FY 2007) to expand access to quality health care for all Americans through an array of grants to state and local governments, community-based health care providers, and health professions training programs. These HRSA-supported grantees provide direct health care services to 20 million people each year.
Duke has led HRSA's implementation of President Bush's Health Center Initiative, which has created or expanded 1,100 service delivery sites since 2001 and boosted the number of patients served annually at health centers from about 10 million in 2001 to 15 million in 2006. HRSA-supported health centers deliver high-quality preventive and primary care to patients regardless of their ability to pay at 4,000 sites across the United States.
HRSA recently implemented another Presidential initiative meant to extend health center services to an estimated 300,000 residents in some of America's poorest counties. Eighty grants worth more than $40 million were awarded in August 2007 to bring the benefits of health centers to low-income counties that do not currently have access to health center care.
Duke also has led Federal efforts to boost organ donation. Since 2003, the HRSA-sponsored Organ Donation Breakthrough Collaborative has brought together donation professionals and hospital leaders to share ways to raise donation rates in their facilities to 75 percent of eligible organ donors. Since then, the number of hospitals achieving the 75 percent goal has increased from 55 to 301, and a record 29,000 transplant operations took place in 2006, up from 19,000 in 1995.
At HRSA , Duke also administers:
• the $2.1 billion Ryan White program, which give more than 500,000 low-income people living with HIV/AIDS the medication and care they need to get better or stay well;
• maternal and child health block grants that states use to fight infant illness and mortality by supporting health care for pregnant women and their babies;
• a range of programs that train health care workers and place them in areas where they are in short supply; and
• cost-saving networks of care among rural health care providers.
Inside HRSA, Duke has worked hard to make the agency more cohesive. She has created a single agency-wide process for handling grant applications and awards and she has streamlined the way HRSA communicates with the public and Congress.
Additionally, Duke created the HRSA Scholars Program in 2001 to attract talented new employees to support the agency's mission of expanding access to quality health care for all Americans. Its cornerstone is a year-long training and development curriculum that rotates scholars among four program and administrative areas. Duke created the program after viewing staffing forecasts showing that many of HRSA's most experienced employees soon would be eligible for retirement. Another Scholar class entered HRSA in September 2007; the 250 graduates of the Scholar program now on staff at the agency represent more than a tenth of the agency's total workforce.
Professional Background
Before coming to HRSA, Duke served as deputy assistant secretary for administration in another HHS operating division, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF). In that post, she was in charge of grants policy, financial management, internal and state systems, human resources and administrative functions.
Duke also has more than 12 years of experience as both acting assistant secretary and principal deputy in HHS' Office of the Assistant Secretary for Management and Budget (OASMB) β currently called the Office of Resources and Technology, which includes HHS' chief financial officer, management control officer and chief information officer.
She oversaw major organizational changes carried out within the framework of the Department's Continuous Improvement Program, reinvention efforts to streamline HHS personnel, and an initiative focusing on regional restructuring. In the mid-1990s, she led the Department in implementing the Congressional mandate to separate the Social Security Administration from HHS βan effort that saw no personnel grievances filed.
In 2006, Duke received a Presidential Rank Award for Distinguished Executive, the most prestigious award offered by a U.S. President to Federal senior executives and professionals. She was one of only six 2006 award recipients from the Department of Health and Human Services.
Duke entered Federal service at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), where she rose to the rank of deputy assistant director and director of policy and systems in OPM's Office of Training and Development from 1984-86. From 1978-84, she was director of the Government Affairs Institute in OPM's Office of Executive and Management Development. The institute trains Federal executives in such responsibilities as testifying before Congress, developing budgets and managing large bureaucracies. Before joining the government, Duke was a professor of political science and spent two years as a research writer for Congressional Quarterly, a Washington, D.C.-based publication that covers Capitol Hill and Federal agencies.
Education
Duke earned a bachelor's degree in political science from Douglass College of Rutgers University, a master's degree in political science and African studies from Northwestern University, and a doctorate in political science from George Washington University. She stays connected to academia by teaching political science and American government courses at Washington-area universities and by mentoring graduate students.
HRSA is one of 11 operating divisions in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The agency uses its $7 billion annual budget (FY 2007) to expand access to quality health care for all Americans through an array of grants to state and local governments, community-based health care providers, and health professions training programs. These HRSA-supported grantees provide direct health care services to 20 million people each year.
Duke has led HRSA's implementation of President Bush's Health Center Initiative, which has created or expanded 1,100 service delivery sites since 2001 and boosted the number of patients served annually at health centers from about 10 million in 2001 to 15 million in 2006. HRSA-supported health centers deliver high-quality preventive and primary care to patients regardless of their ability to pay at 4,000 sites across the United States.
HRSA recently implemented another Presidential initiative meant to extend health center services to an estimated 300,000 residents in some of America's poorest counties. Eighty grants worth more than $40 million were awarded in August 2007 to bring the benefits of health centers to low-income counties that do not currently have access to health center care.
Duke also has led Federal efforts to boost organ donation. Since 2003, the HRSA-sponsored Organ Donation Breakthrough Collaborative has brought together donation professionals and hospital leaders to share ways to raise donation rates in their facilities to 75 percent of eligible organ donors. Since then, the number of hospitals achieving the 75 percent goal has increased from 55 to 301, and a record 29,000 transplant operations took place in 2006, up from 19,000 in 1995.
At HRSA , Duke also administers:
• the $2.1 billion Ryan White program, which give more than 500,000 low-income people living with HIV/AIDS the medication and care they need to get better or stay well;
• maternal and child health block grants that states use to fight infant illness and mortality by supporting health care for pregnant women and their babies;
• a range of programs that train health care workers and place them in areas where they are in short supply; and
• cost-saving networks of care among rural health care providers.
Inside HRSA, Duke has worked hard to make the agency more cohesive. She has created a single agency-wide process for handling grant applications and awards and she has streamlined the way HRSA communicates with the public and Congress.
Additionally, Duke created the HRSA Scholars Program in 2001 to attract talented new employees to support the agency's mission of expanding access to quality health care for all Americans. Its cornerstone is a year-long training and development curriculum that rotates scholars among four program and administrative areas. Duke created the program after viewing staffing forecasts showing that many of HRSA's most experienced employees soon would be eligible for retirement. Another Scholar class entered HRSA in September 2007; the 250 graduates of the Scholar program now on staff at the agency represent more than a tenth of the agency's total workforce.
Professional Background
Before coming to HRSA, Duke served as deputy assistant secretary for administration in another HHS operating division, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF). In that post, she was in charge of grants policy, financial management, internal and state systems, human resources and administrative functions.
Duke also has more than 12 years of experience as both acting assistant secretary and principal deputy in HHS' Office of the Assistant Secretary for Management and Budget (OASMB) β currently called the Office of Resources and Technology, which includes HHS' chief financial officer, management control officer and chief information officer.
She oversaw major organizational changes carried out within the framework of the Department's Continuous Improvement Program, reinvention efforts to streamline HHS personnel, and an initiative focusing on regional restructuring. In the mid-1990s, she led the Department in implementing the Congressional mandate to separate the Social Security Administration from HHS βan effort that saw no personnel grievances filed.
In 2006, Duke received a Presidential Rank Award for Distinguished Executive, the most prestigious award offered by a U.S. President to Federal senior executives and professionals. She was one of only six 2006 award recipients from the Department of Health and Human Services.
Duke entered Federal service at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), where she rose to the rank of deputy assistant director and director of policy and systems in OPM's Office of Training and Development from 1984-86. From 1978-84, she was director of the Government Affairs Institute in OPM's Office of Executive and Management Development. The institute trains Federal executives in such responsibilities as testifying before Congress, developing budgets and managing large bureaucracies. Before joining the government, Duke was a professor of political science and spent two years as a research writer for Congressional Quarterly, a Washington, D.C.-based publication that covers Capitol Hill and Federal agencies.
Education
Duke earned a bachelor's degree in political science from Douglass College of Rutgers University, a master's degree in political science and African studies from Northwestern University, and a doctorate in political science from George Washington University. She stays connected to academia by teaching political science and American government courses at Washington-area universities and by mentoring graduate students.
D.V.C was an underground heavy metal band from Tallahassee, Florida, U.S.A. D.V.C means Darth Vader's Church. Genre: Death metal. Style: Old school.
The band released two studio albums and toured Europe with Paradise Lost, Unleashed and Protector during April of 1992.
Band
Parker Knapp - Vocals, Guitar
Glenn Lawhon - Vocals, Guitar
Alain Rodgers - Bass
Todd Thompson - Drums
Discography
Demo: "Constrictus Mortum", 1989.
1st album: "Descendant Upheaval", Album, 1989, Manufacture Sound Output Co. Steamhammer a division of SPV.
2nd album: "Molecular Shadow, Album, 1992, Manufacture Sound Output Co. Steamhammer a division of SPV.
"Descendant Upheaval", 1989
The first album of DVC is an underground death metal. It was fast, raw, violent and with punk attributes. Eighteen years later, D.V.C's debut still sounds strong. The album feature the catchy opening song "Cranium Overture". Hightlights: "Eve Angel" and "Bow Of Mortis".
Line-up: Parker Knapp - Guitar, Growl. Alain Rodgers - Bass Guitar. Glenn Lawhon - Guitar, Growl. Todd Thompson - Drums
"Descendant Upheaval" was recorded By Thomas Clayton Lewis & Thomas Chester-Hamilton At Georgia Street Studios, Tallahassee, Florida.
Album review (German language): [http://www.rockhard.de/index.php?smod=p209MJ56rKOyMTyuWz1iMUIfo2qAo2D9pz9wn2uupzDhpzI2nJI3pl5xMKEunJkJnJI3Wzqlo3IjFHD9pzuspzI2nJI3WzAioaEyoaEWEQ0kAwL3ZFL%3D Rockhard.de]
Tracklisting:
1. Cranium Overture 03:30
2. Mortal Constrictor 01:55
3. Eve Angel 02:20
4. Mourning Sun 04:17
5. Embalmed In Stone 02:35
6. Devious Circus 03:15
7. Concentrated Hate 03:25
8. Electrocutioner 02:56
9. Ledgre Demantist 03:02
10. Descendant Upheaval 03:40
11. Bow Of Mortis 02:55
12. South Side Dirthead 03:18
13. Gluttonious Fiend/Resume Aggression 04:39
14. Big Bong Hits 02:59
15. Licentious Abandon 02:19
16. Devouring Volvulous Corpses 02:54
17. Expansion Into The Firmament 02:40
18. Luminous Darkness
19. Untitled
"Molecular Shadow", 1992
"Molecular Shadow" Is D.V.C second album.
Line-up: Parker Knapp, Glenn Lawhon (guitars, keyboards, vocals). Alain Rodgers (bass); Todd Thompson (drums)- Additional personnel: Mace Fleeger (harmonica).
Engineers: Tommy Hamilton, Steve Wilkie, DVC. "Molecular Shadow" was recorded at Blue Moon Studios, Tallahassee, Florida.
Album review (German language): [http://www.rockhard.de/index.php?smod=p209MJ56rKOyMTyuWz1iMUIfo2qAo2D9pz9wn2uupzDhpzI2nJI3pl5xMKEunJkJnJI3Wzqlo3IjFHD9pzuspzI2nJI3WzAioaEyoaEWEQ0kAwt4APMmqJAbp3ElnJ5aCFL%3D Rockhard.de]
Tracklisting:
1. Cannabilistic Torqulation 1:51
2. Ash 5:59
3. Tallow 2:27
4. Bow Of Mortis 3:09
5. Pig Latin Auctioneer 4:05
6. Sick With Experience 4:48
7. In A Gadda Da Bhagavad Gita 5:44
8. Remnant Ashes Of Mortal Man 5:14
9. Ominous Dance 2:11
10. Dissolve In Galaxia 7:25
Miscellaneous
-The death metal page on . Death metal
-D.V.C page on
The band released two studio albums and toured Europe with Paradise Lost, Unleashed and Protector during April of 1992.
Band
Parker Knapp - Vocals, Guitar
Glenn Lawhon - Vocals, Guitar
Alain Rodgers - Bass
Todd Thompson - Drums
Discography
Demo: "Constrictus Mortum", 1989.
1st album: "Descendant Upheaval", Album, 1989, Manufacture Sound Output Co. Steamhammer a division of SPV.
2nd album: "Molecular Shadow, Album, 1992, Manufacture Sound Output Co. Steamhammer a division of SPV.
"Descendant Upheaval", 1989
The first album of DVC is an underground death metal. It was fast, raw, violent and with punk attributes. Eighteen years later, D.V.C's debut still sounds strong. The album feature the catchy opening song "Cranium Overture". Hightlights: "Eve Angel" and "Bow Of Mortis".
Line-up: Parker Knapp - Guitar, Growl. Alain Rodgers - Bass Guitar. Glenn Lawhon - Guitar, Growl. Todd Thompson - Drums
"Descendant Upheaval" was recorded By Thomas Clayton Lewis & Thomas Chester-Hamilton At Georgia Street Studios, Tallahassee, Florida.
Album review (German language): [http://www.rockhard.de/index.php?smod=p209MJ56rKOyMTyuWz1iMUIfo2qAo2D9pz9wn2uupzDhpzI2nJI3pl5xMKEunJkJnJI3Wzqlo3IjFHD9pzuspzI2nJI3WzAioaEyoaEWEQ0kAwL3ZFL%3D Rockhard.de]
Tracklisting:
1. Cranium Overture 03:30
2. Mortal Constrictor 01:55
3. Eve Angel 02:20
4. Mourning Sun 04:17
5. Embalmed In Stone 02:35
6. Devious Circus 03:15
7. Concentrated Hate 03:25
8. Electrocutioner 02:56
9. Ledgre Demantist 03:02
10. Descendant Upheaval 03:40
11. Bow Of Mortis 02:55
12. South Side Dirthead 03:18
13. Gluttonious Fiend/Resume Aggression 04:39
14. Big Bong Hits 02:59
15. Licentious Abandon 02:19
16. Devouring Volvulous Corpses 02:54
17. Expansion Into The Firmament 02:40
18. Luminous Darkness
19. Untitled
"Molecular Shadow", 1992
"Molecular Shadow" Is D.V.C second album.
Line-up: Parker Knapp, Glenn Lawhon (guitars, keyboards, vocals). Alain Rodgers (bass); Todd Thompson (drums)- Additional personnel: Mace Fleeger (harmonica).
Engineers: Tommy Hamilton, Steve Wilkie, DVC. "Molecular Shadow" was recorded at Blue Moon Studios, Tallahassee, Florida.
Album review (German language): [http://www.rockhard.de/index.php?smod=p209MJ56rKOyMTyuWz1iMUIfo2qAo2D9pz9wn2uupzDhpzI2nJI3pl5xMKEunJkJnJI3Wzqlo3IjFHD9pzuspzI2nJI3WzAioaEyoaEWEQ0kAwt4APMmqJAbp3ElnJ5aCFL%3D Rockhard.de]
Tracklisting:
1. Cannabilistic Torqulation 1:51
2. Ash 5:59
3. Tallow 2:27
4. Bow Of Mortis 3:09
5. Pig Latin Auctioneer 4:05
6. Sick With Experience 4:48
7. In A Gadda Da Bhagavad Gita 5:44
8. Remnant Ashes Of Mortal Man 5:14
9. Ominous Dance 2:11
10. Dissolve In Galaxia 7:25
Miscellaneous
-The death metal page on . Death metal
-D.V.C page on