** Individual Mobilization Augmentee ( IMA )-The National Communications System ( NCS ) Augmentee Program was established in 1988 to provide a cadre of skilled civilian and military reservists to enhance the efforts of the Office of the Manager, NCS ( OMNCS ), the National Coordinating Center for Telecommunications ( NCC ), and NCS Regional Managers ( RMs ) during national crises and emergencies.

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.

The service consists of two segments, the original Newark City Subway ( NCS ), and the extension to Broad Street station.

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.

On November 15, 2005, the NCS became part of the Department's Directorate for Preparedness after nearly two years under the Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection Directorate.

In 2004-2005 season TL won the first NCS team tournament for class 2A Redwood Empire, even though they forfeited two weight classes.

NCS also has two school hymns, one dating back to the beginning of the school, and one for the school's centennial celebration composed by Richard Wayne Dirksen, former director of the National Cathedral Choir of Men and Boys.

The men's varsity soccer program has been extremely successful with multiple BCL championships and two NCS Championship appearances in the last 4 years.

The NCS mandate included linking, improving, and extending the communications facilities and components of various Federal agencies, focusing on interconnectivity and survivability.

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

The NCS finally accepted female members the following year.

NCS members work in many branches of the profession, including advertising, animation, newspaper comic strips and syndicated single-panel cartoons, comic books, editorial cartoons, gag cartoons, graphic novels, greeting cards, magazine and book illustration.

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 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 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.

Reuben awards are presented annually by the National Cartoonists Society ( NCS ).

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

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

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.

NCS sealThe National Communications System ( NCS ) is an office within the United States Department of Homeland Security charged with enabling national security and emergency preparedness communications ( NS / EP telecommunications ) using the national telecommunications system.

The COP, formed as a result of Executive Order 12472, provides advice and recommendations to the NCS and the National Security Council through the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board on NS / EP telecommunications and its ties to other critical infrastructures.

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 March 2007 the NCS became an entity of the National Protection and Programs Directorate.

Currently, the DHS Under Secretary for National Protection and Programs Directorate serves as the NCS Manager.

In 1973, the Veterans Administration assumed another major responsibility when the National Cemetery System ( NCS ) ( except for Arlington National Cemetery ) was transferred to the Veterans Administration from the Department of the Army.

Part of Swinburne ’ s commitment to sustainability can be seen through the National Centre for Sustainability ( NCS ), a collaboration of several education institutions dedicated to the development and promotion of sustainability and education, hosted by Swinburne.

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

" It enrolls approximately 575 boys from grades 4 through 12, and is affiliated with the National Cathedral School for Girls ( NCS ) and the co-ed Beauvoir School for PK-3 students, all of which are located on the grounds of the Washington National Cathedral on Mount St. Alban in Washington.

Based on the recommendations, in October 1989 APCO Project 25 came into existence in a coalition with the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials-International ( APCO ), the National Association of State Telecommunications Directors ( NASTD ), the National Telecommunications and Information Administration ( NTIA ), the National Communications System ( NCS ), the National Security Agency ( NSA ) and the Department of Defense ( DoD ), to find solutions that best serve the needs of public safety management.

The NCS was one of 22 Federal agencies transferred to the Department on March 1, 2003, in accordance with Executive Order 13286.

The NCS executes the program on behalf of the Executive Office of the President.

Reflections on Covenant and Mission is a statement developed jointly by the NCS and the U. S. Bishops ' Committee for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs.

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

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.

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 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 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 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.

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.

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

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.

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