The NCS finally accepted female members the following year.

By March 1947, the NCS had 112 members, including Bud Fisher ( Mutt and Jeff ), Don Flowers ( Glamor Girls ), Bob Kane ( Batman ), Fred Lasswell ( Barney Google and Snuffy Smith ), George Lichty ( Grin and Bear It ), Zack Mosley ( The Adventures of Smilin ' Jack ), Alex Raymond ( Rip Kirby ), Cliff Sterrett ( Polly and Her Pals ) and Chic Young ( Blondie ), plus editorial cartoonists Reg Manning and Fred O. Seibel and sports cartoonist Willard Mullin.

Despite the contributions of Duffy and Mendez, there were no female members, as stipulated in the NCS ' constitution which specified that “ any cartoonist ( male ) who signs his name to his published work ” could apply for membership.

On November 6, 1951, 49 members of the NCS arrived at Washington's Carlton Hotel for breakfast with Harry S. Truman.

The NCS expanded from its original six members to an interagency group of 23 Federal departments and agencies, and began coordinating and planning NS / EP telecommunications to support crises and disasters.

With the addition of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence ( ODNI ) on September 30, 2007, the NCS membership currently stands at 24 members.

The NCS Augmentee Program consists of two components: the civilian members of the National Defense Executive Reserve ( NDER ) and the U. S. Army reservists participating in the Individual Mobilization Augmentee ( IMA ) Program.

The NCS had originally disallowed female members into its ranks.

Hilda Terry was the first woman cartoonist to break the gender barrier when the NCS finally permitted female members in 1950.

The neurologist or a neuromuscular specialist may run a series of more specialized tests, including EMG / NCS ( this is one of the most important tests ), chest CT ( to rule out paraneoplastic ) and specific blood work looking for voltage-gated potassium channel antibodies, acethlocholine receptor antibody, and serum immunofixation, TSH, ANA ESR, EEG etc.

The NCS also participates in joint industry-Government planning through its work with the President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee ( NSTAC ), with the NCS's National Coordinating Center for Telecommunications ( NCC ) and the NCC's subordinate Information Sharing and Analysis Center ( ISAC ).

In 2011, to memorialize and commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9 / 11, many NCS cartoonists auctioned off art that gave commentary to the tragedy and raised money for families victimized by the event in a reflective homage called, Cartoonists Remember.

* Chalk Unit 5-Tor formation-Maastrichtian age, ( major reservoir in many fields including Joanne oil filed ( UKCS ), Valhall oil field ( NCS ))

The National Council of Synagogues ( NCS ) is a partnership of the non-Orthodox branches of Judaism.

Each year, during the NCS Annual Reuben Awards Weekend, the Society honors the year's outstanding achievements in all walks of the profession.

The Silver T-Square is awarded, by unanimous vote of the NCS Board of Directors, to persons who have demonstrated outstanding dedication or service to the Society or the profession.

* NCS Awards, including the Reuben Awards for Davis, Aragones, Drucker and Jaffee

In 2008, NCS joined over 60 other art licensing businesses ( including the Artists Rights Society, Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, the Stock Artists Alliance, Illustrator's Partnership of America and the Advertising Photographers of America ) in opposing both The Orphan Works Act of 2008 and The Shawn Bentley Orphan Works Act of 2008.

DCE derived from a suite of technologies, including NCS and Kerberos.

The VA was charged with the operation of the NCS, including the marking of graves of all persons in national and State cemeteries ( and the graves of veterans in private cemeteries, upon request ) as well and administering the State Cemetery Grants Program.

In January 2000 Thomas Reedy was convicted of trafficking in child pornography through testimony from witnesses including Sharon Girling, a UK police officer at SOCA / NCS ).

The era of modern neurology progressed from Duchenne's understanding of the conductivity of neural pathways, his revelations of the effect of lesions on these structures and his diagnostic innovations including deep tissue biopsy, nerve conduction tests ( NCS ), and clinical photography.

The NCS consisted of 1, 656 full time personnel, including 5 Directors, 1, 169 seconded police officers, and 280 civilian police staff.

Excellence in the fields of newspaper strips, newspaper panels, TV animation, feature animation, newspaper illustration, gag cartoons, book illustration, greeting cards, comic books, magazine feature / magazine illustration and editorial cartoons, is honored in the NCS Division Awards, which are chosen by specially-convened juries at the chapter level.

Today's strip artists, with the help of the NCS, enthusiastically promote the medium, which is considered to be in decline due to fewer markets ( today few strips are published in newspapers outside the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada, mainly because of the smaller interest there, with translated versions of popular strips-particularly in Spanish-are primarily read over the internet ) and ever-shrinking newspaper space.

In the fall of 1949, the NCS cooperated with Treasury Department to sell savings bonds, engaging in a nationwide tour to 17 major cities with a team of 10 to 12 cartoonists and a traveling display, 20, 000 Years of Comics, a 95-foot pictorial history of the comic strip.

As NCS president for two consecutive terms, Jeff Keane, cartoonist for the Family Circus and son of comic creator, Bil Keane, returned to the charter and spirit of the NCS by extending the society's outreach to the military by visiting and cartooning for vets who served in the Iraq War and Afghanistan War, during the years 2007-2011.

The earliest NCS award was the Billy DeBeck Memorial Award, known as the Barney from the character in DeBeck's popular comic strip Barney Google and Snuffy Smith.

Non Sequitur is the only cartoon to win National Cartoonists Society Divisional Awards in both the comic strip and comic panel categories, and Miller is the only cartoonist to win an NCS Divisional Award in his first year of syndication.

Saneeyas involvement in the Pakistan's National Conservation Strategy ( NCS ) drafted at that time included the path-breaking NCS Bulletin ( later The Way Ahead magazine ), and its Urdu counterpart, Jareeda, edited by Obaidullah Baig.

) He was an outspoken pioneer in favor of diversifying the NCS by admitting women cartoonists.

The National Cartoonists Society ( NCS ) convened an ethics hearing, and Fisher was expelled for the forgery from the same organization that he had helped found ; Fisher's scheme had backfired in spectacular fashion.

When Dien Bien Phu fell in May 1954, Ike refused to intervene despite urgings from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the Vice President and the head of NCS.

The level of needs will vary, and the task will be enormous, however NCS will try to align itself and co-operate with other organisations or agencies to be able to provide training for the people of Niue.

The National Cartoonists Society ( NCS ) is an organization of professional cartoonists in the United States.

The NCS is not a guild or labor union.

Marge Devine Duffy, a secretary in King Features public relations department, had been helping Russell handle correspondence to the NCS, and in 1948, she was installed as the official NCS secretary and later given the title Scribe of the Society.

Her name was on all the Society ’ s publications, and her address was the permanent mailing address of the NCS for more than 30 years.

When Al Posen originated the idea of National Cartoonists Society tours to entertain American servicemen, he became the NCS Director of Overseas Shows.

When the NCS started, Rube Goldberg, Russell Patterson and Bob Dunn had become very friendly with a lot of actors.

In addition, the NCS has chartered 16 regional chapters throughout the United States and one in Canada.

Chapter Chairpersons sit on the NCS Regional Council and are represented by a National Representative, who is a voting member of the Board of Directors.