Community support

People are more willing to accept risks from which they will receive a direct, tangible benefit. A one-company town will likely have widespread community support for the company and accept the risks of its business—it directly or indirectly provides the livelihood for most families in the community. This may not be the case in an area having a broad-based manufacturing and service economy. Here the relatively small public benefit from a new plant may be outweighed by the public s perception of the plant s risk. People are unwilling to tolerate a given level of risk unless there is a direct benefit to themselves. 

Once you have agreed on broad goals for PSM, consider enlisting someone from your company s corporate communications or public relations staff to help you draft a formal vision statement. This will help you (1) assure a well-written document and (2) win communicators support by involving them. 

Communications support is critical to the success of any major company effort, especially in cases such as PSM that are both relatively complex and inherently long-term. 

Community supported agriculture (CSA), or subscription farming, is a direct marketing method started by organic farmers in the USA about a decade ago. Consumers subscribe to the harvest of a CSA farmer for the entire forthcoming season, and pay for their produce in advance. Consumers and farmers share the production and harvest risk of the farmer, and the bonus. There are variations to this scheme, which is a useful method of direct marketing. 

SAS users groups are user-based communities supported by SAS Institute that are organized by geographical or industrial areas. These users groups typically have annual meetings where you can go to leam and to network with fellow SAS programmers. 

Strength Dispatcher initiated all call pages for other fire departments to be on standby without consulting IC (Incident Commander). Specific directions were provided to responders reporting to CP. Community support to provide facilities (Honda Cars/John-son Motors, Baptist Church) was very beneficial to command and response operations. 

The Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank (RCSB-PDB at http //www.rcsb.org/pdb/home/home.do is the online source for X-ray and NMR structural data. Many software programs mentioned in Section 4.5 include the facihty to visualize imported data however, two free software programs operate well in this regard. One is MDL Chime described previously in this section. Chime, a chemical structure visualization plug-in for Internet Explorer and Netscape Communicator, supports a wide variety of molecule coordinate formats, including PDB (protein data bank), Molfile (from ISIS/Draw), MOP (MOPAC input hies), and GAU (Gaussian Input hies). 

A typical biofilter setup consists of a blower, humidification chamber and a biofilter unit, and an additional pohshing unit (optional) such as granular activated carbon backup. The biofilter is composed of microbial communities supported on a packing surface material such as wet peat. 

Providing community support and psychoeducation for the patient and family, as well as involving school personnel, can help in monitoring for signs of dangerousness, relapse, medication noncompliance, and substance abuse. Tight treatment team communication minimizes the likelihood of aggressive behavior. 

If a youth is imminently dangerous, health professionals are obligated to protect the individual from acting. Either psychiatric hospitalization or one-to-one close supervision, while optimizing community support, is indicated. All dangerous items (e.g., weapons, medications, etc.) should be removed from the home or locked out of reach. Efforts should be made to decrease stimuli likely to agitate the youth. If a youth is homicidal, psychiatric hospitalization is usually the only course of action. The health professional team has... 

Division of Surveillance, Research and Communication Support Office of Drug Safety, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), Eood and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland, U.S.A. 

This can be carried out either in an acute medical or psychiatric ward, or in a special drug-dependency in-patient unit. The advantages of the latter will include the initiation of a rehabilitation programme particularly geared towards the problems of addictions. However, some patients may well prefer a straightforward detoxification and then work in the community supported by other services, for example, from the Community Drug Team. There are several options for the in-patient detoxification of opiate dependents. These include ... 

Figure 1.7 Health status and quality of life depend on multiple measures. Successful or healthy aging depends on a combination of lifestyles involving persistence of physical and mental functioning, avoidance of disease, and enjoyment of family and community support. (Courtesy of Dr. S. Oklund.)...

Legarre, Paola, E. Nakata, and G. Peer. 2001. Pricing strategy analysis Farm and community supported agriculture. M.B.A. project paper. Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara, California. 

A second initiative is being developed by Dr. Ann Richard and coworkers at the EPA. The Distributed Structure-Searchable Toxicity (DSSTox) public database network is a flexible community-supported, web-based approach for the collation of data. It is based on the SDF format for the representation of chemical structure. It is intended to enable decentralized, free public access to toxicity data files. This should allow users from different disciplines to be linked. Public, commercial, industry, and academic groups have also been asked to contribute to, and expand, the DSSTox public database network. Data from potentially any toxicological endpoint can be collated in the DSSTox public database network, including both human health, and environmental endpoints (Richard et al 2002 Richard and Williams, 2002). 

The US corn wet-milling industry is represented by the Corn Refiners Association, Inc., a Washington, DC-based trade association which provides technical, regulatory, legislative and communications support for its members. 

Stanford, Lois. 2.006. The Role of Ideology in New Mexico s CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) Organizations Conflicting Visions between Growers and Members. In Past Eood/Slow Pood The Cultural Economy of the Global Pood System, edited by Richard Wilk, 181-200. Lanham, MD Altamira Press. 

Russia inherited the world s largest declared stockpile of chemical weapons, over 40,000 metric tons, from the Soviet Union. The Russian government has identified chemical weapons destruction as one of its two priority areas of concern for the G-8 Global Partnership accord against the spread of weapons of mass destruction. Although issues of economics have often dominated what has been said and written about the disposal programme, lack of local community support is also cited as a major political obstacle. Many of the same concerns detailed extensively by US citizens are also asserted by Russian citizens. Foremost is concern about the detrimental effects of chemical weapons destruction on public health and the environment . ... 

Roadside stands, farmers markets, and community supported agriculture farms (CSAs) constitute the direct marketing end of the organic industry. There are approximately 1,000 CSAs across the United States. In CSAs, clients support a farm s production by purchasing a share, which can range from 200 to 400/season. For each share, clients receive an average of 15 pounds of produce per week. For more information on CSAs, see the Iowa State University Extension publication on Iowa CSA Farms (PM 1693). 

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