Supporting the fight against illicit traffic in cultural goods is among ICOM ’ s highest priorities.

ICOM was fueled by three strands of thought – Christian socialism, workers ’ control and “ rice and sandals ” alternativism – and successfully promoted the creation of over 2, 000 worker ’ s co-operatives, before merging in 2001 with the Co-operative Union to form Co-operatives UK, thus, reuniting the worker co-operative and consumer co-operative sectors.

In joint action with the J. Paul Getty Trust, ICOM established the Museum Domain Management Association ( MuseDoma ), headed by Cary Karp, for the purpose of submitting an application to ICANN for the creation of the new generic top-level domain ( gTLD ), and to operate a registry.

The International Council of Museums ( ICOM ), created in 1946, is the only organisation of museums and museum professionals with a global scope, committed to the promotion and protection of natural and cultural heritage, present and future, tangible and intangible.

ICOMOS is part of the International Committee of the Blue Shield ( ICBS ), which works to protect the world's cultural heritage threatened by wars and natural disasters, and whose Director General is currently Mr Julien Anfruns from the International Council of Museums ( ICOM ).

museum is a sponsored top-level domain ( sTLD ) in the Domain Name System of the Internet used exclusively by museums, museum associations, and individual members of the museum profession, as these groups are defined by the International Council of Museums ( ICOM ).

Between 1989 and 1992 he was president of ICOM ( International Council of Museums ; http :// icom. museum / founders. html # presidents ).

The Museum Domain Management Association ( MuseDoma ) was created in 2000 by the International Council of Museums ( ICOM ) and the J. Paul Getty Trust.

The International Council of Museums ( ICOM ) defines a museum as " a non-profit-making, permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits, for purposes of study, education and enjoyment, the tangible and intangible evidence of people and their environment.

Through its Disaster Relief for Museums Task Force ( DRTF ), its Museums Emergency Programme ( MEP ) and its active role in the International Committee of the Blue Shield ( ICBS ), ICOM assists museums worldwide by mobilising its resources quickly and efficiently to provide support both in the prevention and the aftermath of disaster situations.

Every year since 1977, ICOM has organised International Museum Day, a worldwide event held around 18 May.

Each year, ICOM defines a specific theme for International Museum Day:

As the topic of conserving and transmitting collective memory does not only affect museums, ICOM initiated partnerships with cultural organisations that share ICOM's missions and feel concerned by these questions: UNESCO Memory of the World Programme ( World Documentary Heritage ), Co-ordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives Associations ( CCAAA ), International Council on Archives ( ICA ), International Council on Monuments and Sites ( ICOMOS ) and

From 1998 to 2004, he was President of CIMAM International Committee of ICOM for Museums of Modern and Contemporary Art.

In 1994, he founded the Virtual Library museums pages ( VLmp ), an online museums directory that was soon adopted by the International Council of Museums ( ICOM ).

The 2011 Swedish Museum of the Year award is sponsored by the Swedish chapter of the International Council of Museums ( ICOM ) and the Association of Swedish Museums.

This Convention was the first international treaty aimed at protecting cultural heritage in the context of war, and which highlighted the concept of common heritage and led to the creation of the International Committee of the Blue Shield ( ICBS ), whose Director General is currently Mr Julien Anfruns from the International Council of Museums ( ICOM ).

It is supported by the International Council of Museums ( ICOM ) and Museophile.

In 1976, the British Parliament passed the Industrial Common Ownership Act (“ ICO Act ”), which gave £ 100, 000 of " seed " funding to the Industrial Common Ownership Movement ( ICOM ) and £ 50, 000 to the Scottish Co-operative Development Committee ( SCDC ), respectively.

There have been several system improvement programs, including the Integrated Communications Security ( ICOM ) models, which have integrated voice encryption, the Special Improvement Program ( SIP ) models, which add additional data modes, and the Advanced SIP ( ASIP ) models, which are less than half the size and weight of ICOM and SIP models.

Third party alternatives to MacsBug included ICOM Simulations ' TMON which came with the Darin Adler Extended User Area & Trap Discipline ( allowing all documented Mac API parameters to be verified ) and the fully symbolic Jasik debugger, which was much more powerful, but harder to use due to the intricate and non-standard user interface.

During 1985 – 1987 he worked for ICOM Simulations as primary developer of the MacVenture series of games, including Shadowgate.

At home, it helped to form the Industrial Common Ownership Movement ( ICOM ) and campaigned with others in its situation for small parties to be allowed to make party political broadcasts.

The success of Shadowgate prompted ICOM Simulations to have Kemco / Seika port the other MacVenture titles to the Nintendo Entertainment System.

Specifically, ICOM PCR1000, PCR1500 & PCR2500 will produce excellent results.

Islamic College of Melbourne ( ICOM ), located at Wootten Road, commenced its classes from Grade 1 to Grade 4 in February 2011.

Her work with the organisation included sitting on and responding to the recommendations of the Co-operative Commission, facilitating the organisation's merger with the Industrial Common Ownership Movement ( ICOM ) and working to " secure and celebrate " the Co-operative Advantage.

As well as her status as a Labour and Co-operative MEP and advisory position with the Co-operative Union, she had been a Woodcraft Folk leader and was made president of the Industrial Common Ownership Movement ( ICOM ) in 1999.

This work continued into 2001, with Green using her joint positions in ICOM and the Union to facilitate a merger of the two organisations, bringing together the worker and consumer co-operative sectors that had existed separately for over 100 years.

With approximately 30, 000 members in 137 countries, ICOM is a network of museum professionals acting in a wide range of museum-and heritage-related disciplines.

Saroj Ghose, former President of ICOM.

Created in 1946, ICOM is a non-governmental organization maintaining formal relations with UNESCO and having a consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council.

ICOM also partners with entities such as the World Intellectual Property Organization, INTERPOL and the World Customs Organization, in order to carry out its international public service missions, which include fighting illicit traffic in cultural goods and promoting risk management and emergency preparedness to protect world cultural heritage in the event of natural or man-made disasters.

A leading force in ethical matters, ICOM adopted its ICOM Code of Ethics for Museums in 1986, a reference tool that sets standards of excellence to which all members of the organisation must adhere.

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.

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" 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 ".