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.

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

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.

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.

The Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award is awarded by unanimous vote of the NCS Board of Directors.

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 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.

Each NCS member organization is represented on the NCS through the Committee of Principals ( COP ) -- and its subordinate Council of Representatives ( COR ).

** Planning, Training, and Exercise Support ( PTE )-Our mission is to ensure NCS readiness, enhance partnerships within government and industry, coordinate telecommunications operational planning among NCS elements, develop emergency response requirements, and to provide skilled civilians and reservists during crises and emergencies.

The NCS color model is based on the three pairs of elementary colors ( white – black, green – red, and yellow – blue ), as defined by color opponency.

The Natural Color System ( NCS ) is a proprietary perceptual color model published by the Scandinavian Colour Institute ( Skandinaviska Färginstitutet AB ) of Stockholm, Sweden.

The NCS model, for its part, describes the organization of the color sensations as perceived at the upper, brain level, and thus is much better fitted than RGB to deal with how humans experience and describe their color sensations ( hence the " natural " part of its name ); but it would be useless, for example, for describing the behavior of mixing lights and pigments.

The NCS is based on the six elementary color percepts of human vision — the psychological primaries — as described by color opponency — white, black, red, yellow, green, and blue — which are difficult to define perceptually in terms of others ( for example, one cannot describe color red as looking " like a yellow and magenta mixture ", even though you will in fact get a red pigment by mixing yellow and magenta pigments ).

NCS is an acronym with more than one meaning:

The fact that the NCS is well established in Michigan is particularly interesting in light of the dominant beliefs about local speech.

NCS was founded in 1972 and is a ministry of the First Regular Baptist Church of Northumberland, Pa.

NCS was founded in 1972 and is a ministry of the First Regular Baptist Church of Northumberland, Pa.

NCS was founded in 1972 and is a ministry of the First Regular Baptist Church of Northumberland, Pa.

NCS was founded in 1972 and is a ministry of the First Regular Baptist Church of Northumberland, Pa.

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

The NCS finally accepted female members the following year.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Or, he might remind Fromm that the 41 per cent figure is really astonishingly low: after all, the medieval guild system was dedicated to the proposition that 100 per cent of the workers ought to turn out only the average amount ; ;

Normally, a guild or organization to promote the cause of the candidate's sainthood is created, an exhaustive search of the candidate's writings, speeches and sermons is undertaken, a detailed biography is written and eyewitness accounts are gathered.

Finberg pointed out, however, that a document of 1651 refers to Tavistock's guildhall as Guilehall, so Guilebridge is more likely to be guild bridge, probably because it was built or maintained by one of the town guilds.

Contained within Economic Sophisms is the famous satirical parable known as the " Candlemakers ' petition " which presents itself as a demand from the candlemakers ' guild to the French government, asking the government to block out the Sun to prevent its unfair competition with their products.

A guild ( German: Gilde ) is an association of craftsmen in a particular trade.

A recent guild is the Worshipful Company of Tax Advisers.

Real estate brokerage is an example of a modern American guild.

Academia is also a guild.

A gold ring belonging to the healer rests in a nest on top of a tree ; fighters might make it fall by hurling rocks, thieves may want to climb the tree, while a magic user can simply cast the fetch spell to retrieve the nest, and then, while the fighter and magic user return the ring for a reward, the thief can choose between returning or selling the same ring in the thieves ' guild ( which is not available for those not possessing the " thieving " skills ).

For instance, Radhanites were a medieval guild or group ( the precise meaning of the word is lost to history ) of Jewish merchants who traded between the Christians in Europe and the Muslims of the Near East.

Though little is known of how the priestess was chosen, the Pythia was probably selected, at the death of her predecessor, from amongst a guild of priestesses of the temple.

It is also the architecture of many castles, palaces, town halls, guild halls, universities and to a less prominent extent, private dwellings.

The title is also used for the president, chairperson, or head of a trades guild in Scotland ; and likewise to two officers of a Masonic Lodge.

The traditional explanation is that each arch was funded by a different guild, although there are no records to confirm this.

A guild is any group of species that exploit the same resources, often in related ways.

" The word universitas originally applied only to the scholastic guild ( or guilds )— that is, the corporation of students and masters — within the studium, and it was always modified, as universitas magistrorum, or universitas scholarium, or universitas magistrorum et scholarium.

Because no guild records were kept prior to 1494 in Leuven there is no concrete proof that Matsys attained his master's status there ; however, historians generally accept this to be the location of his early training because there he had not been previously registered in Antwerp as an apprentice.

Existing records of guild laws and regulations from the 16th century indicate that it is highly unlikely that Matsys was self taught, despite accounts in Carel van Mander's Schilderboek ( 1604 ) stating that Matsys studied under no artist.

This is the dominant guild in polar and subpolar environments, as it is energetically inefficient in warmer waters.

It has been suggested that plunge divers are restricted in their hunting grounds to clear waters that afford a view of their prey from the air, and while they are the dominant guild in the tropics, the link between plunge diving and water clarity is inconclusive.

One of the most interesting details of the game is an opportunity for a Magick User to be part of a guild or society, more or less secret, including members of his class, and sometimes other classes of magicians pursuing the same ideals and animated by the same designs.