She has appeared with her trio at some of the finest venues in the world, including The Blue Note, Iridium, Small's, and Dizzy ’ s Club Coca Cola in New York, The Toronto Pride Fest, The Bohem Festival in Budapest, Hungary, Mammoth Lakes and Sweet and Hot Jazz Festivals in California, Blues Alley in Washington DC, Catalina's, The Jazz Bakery, The Lighthouse, Donte's.

Iridium operates at only 2. 2 to 3. 8 kbit / s, which requires very aggressive voice compression and decompression algorithms.

Other schemes ( Orbcomm, ICO Global Communications, and Globalstar ) followed Iridium into bankruptcy protection, while a number of other proposed schemes were never constructed.

Iridium controls the virtual country codes + 8816 and + 8817, part of the 881 range designated by the ITU for the Global Mobile Satellite System.

Examples of satellite constellations include the Global Positioning System ( GPS ), Galileo and GLONASS constellations for navigation and geodesy, the Iridium and Globalstar satellite telephony services, the Disaster Monitoring Constellation and RapidEye for remote sensing, the Orbcomm messaging service, Russian elliptic orbit Molniya and Tundra constellations, the large-scale Teledesic and Skybridge broadband constellation proposals of the 1990s, and the proposed LEO global backhaul constellation named COMMStellation ™.

For example, Inmarsat satellite phones are issued with code + 870, while Global Mobile Satellite System providers, such as Iridium, issue numbers in country code + 881 (" Global Mobile Satellite System ") or + 882 (" International Networks ").

The 9601 is an Iridium manufactured product designed as an OEM module for integration into applications that only use the Iridium Short Burst Data Service.

* Iridium Service Provider

This has included launch vehicle evaluation and systems engineering support for Motorola on Iridium ; avionics architecture, generation of performance specification, and generation of performance map for small expendable launch vehicle ; and constellation configuration and launch vehicle performance definition for proprietary smallsat communications system.

Iridium OpenPort < sup >®</ sup > is a broadband satellite voice and data communications system for maritime vessels.

* 2009 – The communication satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos-2251 collide in orbit, destroying both.

* The February 10th, 2009, collision of a U. S. Iridium communications satellite ( Iridium 33 ) and a Russian Cosmos 2251 communications satellite, which added hundreds more pieces of debris to the atmosphere, highlighted the need for more precise tracking of space objects.

* Major breakthroughs in chemistry occur, with the identification of the elements Rhodium, Palladium, Osmium, Iridium, and Cerium.

Nowadays resistojet propulsion is used for orbit insertion, attitude control, and deorbit of LEO satellites, including satellites in the Iridium satellite constellation.

Two such constellations, intended to provide satellite phone services, primarily to remote areas, are the Iridium and Globalstar systems.

The Iridium system has 66 satellites.

Iridium Communications Inc. ( formerly Iridium Satellite LLC ; ) is a company, based in McLean, Virginia, United States which operates the Iridium satellite constellation, a system of 66 active satellites used for worldwide voice and data communication from hand-held satellite phones and other transceiver units.

The Iridium network is unique in that it covers the whole Earth, including poles, oceans and airways.

Iridium SSC, Iridium communications service was launched on November 1, 1998.

The first Iridium call was made by then-Vice President of the United States Al Gore.

In 1999, CNN writer David Rohde detailed how he applied for Iridium service and was sent information kits, but was never contacted by a sales representative.

The initial commercial failure of Iridium had a dampening effect on other proposed commercial satellite constellation projects, including Teledesic.

At one stage there was a threat that the Iridium satellites would have to be de-orbited ; however, they remained in orbit and operational.

The AMPAS was originally conceived by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio boss Louis B. Mayer as a professional honorary organization to help improve the film industry ’ s image and help mediate labor disputes.

The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences defines psychological altruism as " a motivational state with the goal of increasing another ’ s welfare ".

Psychological altruism is contrasted with psychological egoism, which refers to the motivation to increase one ’ s own welfare.

One way is a sincere expression of Christian love, " motivated by a powerful feeling of security, strength, and inner salvation, of the invincible fullness of one ’ s own life and existence ".

Another way is merely " one of the many modern substitutes for love, ... nothing but the urge to turn away from oneself and to lose oneself in other people ’ s business.

* David Firestone-When Romney ’ s Reach Exceeds His Grasp-Mitt Romney quotes the song

" Swift extends the metaphor to get in a few jibes at England ’ s mistreatment of Ireland, noting that " For this kind of commodity will not bear exportation, and flesh being of too tender a consistence, to admit a long continuance in salt, although perhaps I could name a country, which would be glad to eat up our whole nation without it.

George Wittkowsky argued that Swift ’ s main target in A Modest Proposal was not the conditions in Ireland, but rather the can-do spirit of the times that led people to devise a number of illogical schemes that would purportedly solve social and economic ills.

In response, Swift ’ s Modest Proposal was " a burlesque of projects concerning the poor ", that were in vogue during the early 18th century.

Critics differ about Swift ’ s intentions in using this faux-mathematical philosophy.

Charles K. Smith argues that Swift ’ s rhetorical style persuades the reader to detest the speaker and pity the Irish.

Swift ’ s specific strategy is twofold, using a " trap " to create sympathy for the Irish and a dislike of the narrator who, in the span of one sentence, " details vividly and with rhetorical emphasis the grinding poverty " but feels emotion solely for members of his own class.

Swift ’ s use of gripping details of poverty and his narrator ’ s cool approach towards them create " two opposing points of view " that " alienate the reader, perhaps unconsciously, from a narrator who can view with ' melancholy ' detachment a subject that Swift has directed us, rhetorically, to see in a much less detached way.

Once the children have been commodified, Swift ’ s rhetoric can easily turn " people into animals, then meat, and from meat, logically, into tonnage worth a price per pound ".

Swift uses the proposer ’ s serious tone to highlight the absurdity of his proposal.

In making his argument, the speaker uses the conventional, text book approved order of argument from Swift ’ s time ( which was derived from the Latin rhetorician Quintilian ).

James Johnson argued that A Modest Proposal was largely influenced and inspired by Tertullian ’ s Apology: a satirical attack against early Roman persecution of Christianity.

Johnson notes Swift ’ s obvious affinity for Tertullian and the bold stylistic and structural similarities between the works A Modest Proposal and Apology.

He reminds readers that " there is a gap between the narrator ’ s meaning and the text ’ s, and that a moral-political argument is being carried out by means of parody ".