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Bylaws of the Highway 108 FireSafe Council, Inc.
A California Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation
Amended October 25, 2007
Section 1. PRINCIPLE OFFICE
The principle office of the Corporation will be located in Tuolumne County, California. The address of the principal office of the Corporation will be as follows: Highway 108 FireSafe Council, Inc. Post Office Box 692, Tuolumne, CA 95379-0692
Section 2. CHANGE OF ADDRESS
The county of the Corporation's principal office can be changed only by amendment of these Bylaws and not otherwise. The Board of Directors (herein called the "Board") may, however, change the principal office from one location to another within Tuolumne County. Changes of address or a historical log of addresses are recorded in the Recording Secretary's Minutes.
Section 1. MISSION STATEMENT
The primary Mission of this Corporation shall be focused within Tuolumne County to help protect the citizens, property, and natural resources from the effects of catastrophic wildland fires.
The intent of the Council is to:
- Educate the public about fire threat and fire prevention measures;
- Serve community and neighborhood fire safety needs;
- Coordinate a Fire Plan, with the cooperation of local fire agencies;
- Improve circulation for evacuation;
- Reduce the potential for fire loss damage;
- Improve fire safety by reducing dangerous fuel load;
- Reduce vegetation waste stream to landfills;
- Promote a healthy forest;
- Improve air and water quality;
- Secure grant funding for fuel reduction projects.
The mission will be accomplished through interagency and neighborhood coordination, along with a strong public and private partnership focusing on public education, exchanging of information, and fostering fire prevention and fire safety to make homes, neighborhoods, and communities fire safe within Tuolumne County. This Fire Safe Council will operate through in-kind donations, volunteer participation and financial contributions.
Section 1. NUMBER
The Corporation will not have fewer than three (3) nor more than fifteen (15) Directors, which shall include the President, Vice-President, Recording Secretary, and Treasurer. The minimum and maximum numbers specified in this Section may be changed by amendment of this Section. The Board shall consider the experiences and background of potential candidates, and shall strive to provide representation from all stakeholder groups, as well as supply the Board with the skills needed to effectively carry out its objectives and purposes.
Section 2. POWERS
Subject to the limitations of the articles and these bylaws, the activities and affairs of this Corporation shall be conducted, and all corporate powers shall be exercised by or under the direction of the Board of Directors, acting together as the Board, establish the policies and programs of the organization, and monitor and evaluate results. The Board may delegate management of the activities of the Corporation to any person or persons, a management company, or committee, however composed, provided that the activities and affairs of the Corporation shall be managed and all corporate powers shall be exercised under the ultimate direction of the Board.
Section 3. ELECTIONS
The Board will hold the annual election of Director(s) and Officer(s) at the December meeting. A candidate shall be considered elected if he or she receives a majority vote of the total number of Directors in attendance at the December Board Meeting. The new Director(s) and Officers(s) shall be installed at the annual meeting in January.
Section 4. TERMS OF OFFICE
Each Director(s) will hold office for one (1) year until the next annual meeting of the Highway 108 Fire Safe Council, and until his or her successor is elected and qualifies or the Board of Directors declares that a Director's position is vacant by reason of the death, resignation, or proper removal of the Director.
Section 5. VACANCIES
Vacancies on the Board will exist:
- on the death, resignation or removal of any Director(s), or
- whenever the number of authorized Directors is increased.
- The Board may declare vacant the office of a Director who has failed to participate at a Highway 108 FireSafe Council board meeting or event over a four (4) month long period or who has failed, in the judgment of a majority of Directors, to act in a manner consistent with the purpose and mission of the Council. Any Director may resign effective upon giving a written notice to the President or the Board of Directors unless the notice specifies a later time for the effectiveness of such resignation. No Director may resign if the Corporation would then be left without a duly elected Director or Directors in charge of its affairs, except upon notice to the Attorney General.
Section 6. FILLING VACANCIES
The President will appoint a Nominating Committee consisting of three (3) board members at the November meeting. When vacancies exist on the board, the President will work with other Directors to identify potential candidates to fill the vacant positions. Each potential candidate will be contacted beforehand by the President and permission obtained to submit his or her name before the election as a potential director. The Nominating Committee shall, from this list, select a slate of individuals to fill the positions on the Board then expiring, and shall submit its slate to the Board at the December meeting.
Section 7. SPECIAL ELECTIONS
A special election may be held to fill a vacancy at any regular or special meeting held for that purpose and will be held in accordance with Article 3, Section 3 of these Bylaws. A person elected to fill a vacancy will hold office until the next annual election of the Board after assuming office.
Section 8. COMPENSATION
Directors will serve without compensation. However, they shall be allowed reasonable advancement or reimbursement of expenses incurred in the performance of their regular duties as permitted under the provisions of the California Nonprofit Public Corporation Law and any limitations in the Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws. If the board determines that a Director is the appropriate person to be funded to perform contract work or administrative oversight duties for projects tied to grants received by the Council, that Director may only be paid for such work if a two-third (2/3) majority of Directors in attendance at a regular meeting adopts a resolution to pay that Director for that specific contract work. No director shall be allowed to vote on any resolution that may personally benefit him/her directly.
Section 9. RESTRICTION REGARDING INTERESTED DIRECTORS
Notwithstanding any other provision of these Bylaws, not more than forty-nine percent (49%) of the persons serving on the Board may be interested persons. For purposes of this Section, "interested persons" means either:
(a) Any person currently being compensated by the Corporation for services rendered it within the previous twelve (12) months, whether as a full or part-time officer or employee, independent contractors, or otherwise; or
(b) Any brother, sister, ancestor, descendant, spouse, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, mother-in-law, or father-in-law of any such person specified in subsection (a) of this Section.
Section 10. NON-LIABILITY OF DIRECTORS
The Directors shall not be personally liable for the debts, liabilities, or other obligations of the Corporation.
Section 11. INDEMNIFICATION BY CORPORATION OF DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES AND OTHER AGENTS
To the extent that a person who is, or was, a Director, officer, employee or other agent of this Corporation has been successful on the merits in defense of any civil criminal, administrative or investigative proceeding brought to procure a judgment against such person by reason of the fact that he or she is, or was, an agent of the Corporation, or has been successful in defense of any claim, issue or matter, therein, such person will be indemnified against expenses actually and reasonably incurred by the person in connection with such proceeding.
Section 12. INSURANCE FOR CORPORATE AGENTS
The Board of Directors may adopt a resolution authorizing the purchase and maintenance of insurance on behalf of any agent of the Corporation (including a Director, Officer, employee or other agent of the Corporation) against any liability other than for violating provisions of law relating to self-dealing (Section 5233 of the California Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation Law) asserted against or incurred by the agent in such capacity or arising out of the agent's status as such, whether or not the Corporation would have the power to indemnify the agent against such liability under the provisions of Section, 5238 of the California Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation Law.
Section 13. PLACE OF MEETINGS
Meetings of the Board of Directors shall be held at any location within Tuolumne County.
Section 14. REGULAR, ANNUAL, AND SPECIAL MEETINGS
- Regular Meetings: Meetings of the Board shall be held with call or notice on such dates and at such time as may be fixed by the Board.
- Annual Meetings: The Board shall hold an annual Meeting for the purpose of organization, selection of Directors and Officers, and transaction of other business. Annual meetings of the Board shall be held with call or notice on a day in January set by the Board.
- Special Meetings: Special meetings of the Board for any purpose may be called at any time by the President, Vice President, Recording Secretary, Treasurer or any two Directors.
Section 15. NOTICE OF MEETINGS
Notice of regular meetings shall be given to the Board members not less than seventy-two (72) hours prior to the meeting. Notice of the time and place of meetings of the Board of Directors shall be given by one of the following methods:
- by personal delivery of written notice; or
- by First-Class postage prepaid mail, Internet E-mail, Facsimile; or
- by telephone communication, either to the Director or to a person at the Director's home or office who would reasonably be expected to communicate such notice to the Director. Such notices will be addressed to each Director at his or her United States Postal Service address or Internet E-mail address as shown on the Recording Secretary's books of the Corporation.
Section 16. WAIVER OF NOTICE AND CONSENT TO HOLDING MEETINGS
The transactions of any meeting of the Board, however, called and noticed or wherever held, are as valid as though the meeting had been duly held after proper call and notice, provided a quorum, as hereinafter defined, is present and provided that either before or after the meeting each Director not present signs a waiver of notice, a consent to holding the meeting, or an approval of the minutes thereof all such waivers, consents, or approvals will be filed with the corporate records or made a part of the minutes of the meeting.
Section 17. QUORUM FOR MEETINGS
A simple majority of the total number of Directors constitutes a quorum for the transaction of business. Except as otherwise provided in these Bylaws or in the Articles of Incorporation of this Corporation, or by law, no business requiring a vote will be considered by the Board at any meeting at which a quorum, as hereinafter defined, is not present. The only motion which the President will entertain at such meeting is a motion to adjourn not-withstanding the loss of a quorum at the meeting due to a withdrawal of a Director(s) from the meeting.
Section 18. MAJORITY ACTION AS BOARD ACTION
Every act or decision done or made by a majority of the Directors present at a meeting duly held at which a quorum is present is an act of the Board, unless the Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws of this Corporation, or provisions of the California Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation Law, particularly those provisions relating to appointment of committees (Section 5212), approval of contracts or transactions in which a Director has a material financial interest (Section 5233), and indemnification of Directors (Section 5238e), require a greater percentage or different voting rules for approval of a matter by the Board.
Section 19. CONDUCT OF MEETINGS
Meetings of the Board will be presided over by the President, or, if no such person has been so designated or, in his or her absence, by the Vice-President or, in the absence of each of these persons, by a Director chosen by a majority of the Directors present at the meeting. The Recording Secretary of the Corporation will act as a Recording Secretary of all meetings of the Board, provided that, in his or her absence, the presiding Officer will appoint another person to act as Recording Secretary of the Meeting. Meetings will be governed by Robert's Rules of Order or by any process agreed to by the Directors present insofar as such rules are consistent with these Bylaws, with the Articles of Incorporation of this Corporation, or with provisions of law.
Section 20. ACTION BY MAJORITY CONSENT WITHOUT MEETING
Any action required or permitted to be taken by the Board of Directors under any provision of law may be taken without a meeting, if at least three-fourths (3/4) of directors agree and that three-fourths (3/4) of directors will not include any interested director as defined in Section 5233 of the California Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation Law. Written documentation of such consent or consents to action without a meeting will be filed with the minutes of the proceedings of the Board.
Section 1. NUMBER OF OFFICERS
The officers of the Corporation shall be a President, a Vice-President, a Recording Secretary, and a Treasurer.
Section 2. QUALIFICATION, ELECTION AND TERM OF OFFICE
The Board may elect or may empower the President to appoint Officers or Directors as the business of the Corporation may require. Officers and Directors may be elected or approved for successive terms. Any number of offices may be held by the same person, except that neither the Secretary nor the Treasurer may serve as the President. Individuals holding more than one office are entitled to only one vote. Officers may be selected or approved for successive terms.
Section 3. SUBORDINATE OFFICERS
The Board may appoint such other Officers or agents as it may deem desirable and such Officers will serve such terms, have such authority, and perform such duties as may be prescribed from time to time by the Board.
Section 4. REMOVAL AND RESIGNATION
Any Officer may be removed, either with or without cause, by a three-fourths (3/4) majority of the Board, at any time. Any Officer may resign at any time by giving written or verbal notice to the Board or to the President of the Corporation. Any such resignation will take effect at the date of receipt of such notice or at any later date specified therein, and unless otherwise specified therein. The acceptance of such resignation will not be necessary to make it effective. The above provisions of this Section will be superseded by any conflicting terms of a contract, which has been approved or ratified by the Board relating to the employment of any Officer of the Corporation.
Section 5. VACANCIES
Any vacancy caused by the death, resignation, removal, or disqualification of any Officer will be filled by the Board as soon as practical. In the event of a vacancy in any office other than that of the President, such vacancy may be filled temporarily by appointment by the President until such time as the Board will fill the vacancy. Vacancies occurring in offices of Officers appointed at the discretion of the Board may or may not be filled, as the Board will determine.
Section 6. DUTIES OF THE PRESIDENT
The President will be the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation and will be subject to the control of the Board. He or she will supervise and control the affairs of the Corporation and the activities of the officers. He or she will perform all duties incident to his or her office and such other duties as may be required by law, by the Articles of Incorporation of this Corporation, or by these Bylaws, or which may be prescribed from time to time by the Board. He or she will preside at all meetings of the Board as Chairperson of the Board, except as otherwise expressly provided by law, by the Articles of Incorporation, or by these Bylaws. He or she will, in the name of the Corporation, execute such deeds, mortgages, bonds, contracts, checks, or other instruments, which may from time to time be authorized by the Board.
Section 7. DUTIES OF THE VICE PRESIDENT
In the absence of the President, or in the event of his or her inability or refusal to act, the Vice President will perform all the duties of the President, and when so acting will have all the powers of, and be subject to all the restrictions of the President. The Vice President will have other powers and perform such other duties as may be prescribed by law, by the Articles of Incorporation, or by these Bylaws, or as may be prescribed by the Board.
Section 8. DUTIES OF RECORDING SECRETARY
Subject to the provisions of these Bylaws, the Recording Secretary shall also:
- Keep up to date the original, or a copy of these Bylaws, as amended, or otherwise altered.
- Be Custodian of Records, including a book of minutes of all meetings of the Directors, recording therein the time and place of holding, whether regular or special, how called, the names of those present or represented at the meeting, and the proceedings thereof.
- See that all notices are duly given in accordance with the provisions of these Bylaws, or as required by law.
- Exhibit at any reasonable time to any Director of the Corporation, or to his or her agent or attorney, on request therefore, the Bylaws, the membership book, and the minutes of the proceedings of the Directors of the Corporation.
- In general, performs all duties incident to the office of a Recording Secretary and such other duties as may be required by law, by the Articles of Incorporation of this Corporation, or by these Bylaws, or which may be assigned to him or her from time to time by the Board.
Section 9. DUTIES OF THE TREASURER
Subject to the provisions of these Bylaws, the Treasurer shall also:
- Have charge and custody of, and be responsible for, all funds and securities of the Corporation, and deposit all such funds in the name of the Corporation in such banks or other depositories selected by the Board.
- Receive, and give receipt for, monies due and payable to the Corporation from any source whatsoever.
- Disburse, or cause to be disbursed, the funds of the Corporation as may be directed by the Board, or the Project Manager, or the Project Coordinator.
- Keep and maintain adequate and correct accounts of the Corporation's properties and business transactions, including accounts of its assets, liabilities, receipts, disbursements, gains and losses.
- Exhibit at any reasonable time to any Director of the Corporation, or to his or her agent or attorney, on request therefore, the books of account and financial records.
- Render to the President and Directors, whenever requested, an account of any or all of his or her transactions as Treasurer and of the financial condition of the Corporation.
- Prepare, or cause to be prepared, and authenticate, or cause to be authenticated, the financial statements to be included in any required reports.
- The Treasurer shall prepare and submit a quarterly financial report to the Board at each regular scheduled quarterly meeting in March, June, September and December.The Treasurer will also submit an annual financial report for the preceding fiscal year to the board no later than one-hundred twenty (120) days after the end of the fiscal year.
- In general, perform all duties incident to the office of Treasurer and such other duties as may be required by law, by the Articles of Incorporation of this Corporation, or by these Bylaws, or which may be assigned to him or her from time to time by the Board.
Section 10. COMPENSATION
Officers will serve without compensation. However, they shall be allowed reasonable advancement or reimbursement of expenses incurred in the performance of their regular duties as permitted under the provisions of the California Nonprofit Public Corporation Law and any limitations in the Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws. However, if compensation for an Officer is to be considered, it will be paid by resolution of the Board, and no Officer will be prevented from receiving such salary by reason of the fact that he or she is also a Director of the Corporation, provided, however, that such compensation paid a Director for serving as an Officer of this Corporation will only be allowed if permitted under the provisions of the California Nonprofit Public Corporation Law, and any limitations in the Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws. In all cases, any compensation received by Officers of this Corporation will be reasonable and given in return for services actually rendered for the Corporation which relate to the performance of the charitable or public purposes of this Corporation.
Section 1. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
If the Board chooses to create an Executive Committee, that Executive Committee will consist of the President, Vice-President, Secretary, and Treasurer and will convene only for advisory purposes.
Section 2. OTHER COMMITTEES
The Corporation may have such other committees as may from time to time be designated by the President or by the Board of Directors. Such other committees may consist of persons who are not also members of the Board. These additional committees will act in an advisory capacity only to the Board.
Section 3. MEETINGS AND ACTION OF COMMITTEES
Meetings and action of committees will be governed, noticed, held, and taken in accordance with the provisions of these Bylaws and the direction of the Board.
Section 1. EXECUTION OF INSTRUMENTS
The Board, except as otherwise provided in these Bylaws, may by resolution authorize any Officer or Agent of the Corporation to enter into any contract or execute and deliver any instrument in the name of and on behalf of the Corporation, and such authority may be general or confined to specific instances. Unless so authorized, no Officer, Agent, or employee will have any power or authority to bind the Corporation by any contract or engagement, or to pledge its credit or to render it liable monetarily for any purpose or in any amount.
Section 2. CHECKS AND NOTES
Except as otherwise specifically determined by resolution of the Board, or as otherwise required by law, checks, drafts, promissory notes, orders for the payment of money, and other evidence of indebtedness of the Corporation will be signed by the Treasurer and countersigned either by the President, or the Vice President, or the Recording Secretary of the Corporation. The Board may authorize additional Directors to countersign checks.
Section 3. DEPOSITS
All funds of the Corporation will be deposited from time to time to the credit of the Corporation in such banks, trust companies, or other depositories as the Board may direct the Treasurer to select.
Section 4. GIFTS
The Board may accept on behalf of the Corporation any contribution, gifts, bequest, or device for the charitable or public purposes of this Corporation.
Section 1. MAINTENANCE OF CORPORATE RECORDS
The Corporation will keep and maintain the following records:
- Records of the minutes of all meetings of the Board committees of the Board, indicating the time and place of holding such meetings, whether regular or special, how called, and the names of those present and the proceedings thereof.
- A record of its Directors, indicating their names and addresses and, if applicable, the office held, and the termination date of any office.
- A copy of the Corporation's Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws as amended to date, which will be open to inspection by the members of the Corporation at any reasonable time.
- Adequate and correct books and records of account, including accounts of its properties and business transactions and accounts of its assets, liabilities, receipts, disbursements, gains and losses.
Section 2. DIRECTORS RIGHT OF INSPECTION
Every Director, either as an individual or as a group, will have the absolute right at any reasonable time to inspect and make photocopies of Council materials, including all books, records and documents of every kind, and to inspect the physical properties of the Corporation.
Section 3. ANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORTS
The Board of Directors and Treasurer will cause an annual financial report to be furnished not later than one hundred and twenty (120) days after the close of the Corporation's fiscal year to the Board of Directors. The report shall contain the following information in appropriate detail:
- The assets and liabilities, including the trust funds, of the Corporation as of the end of the fiscal year;
- The principal changes in assets and liabilities, including trust funds, during the fiscal year:
- The revenue or receipts of the Corporation both unrestricted and restricted to particular purposes, for the fiscal year;
- The expenses or disbursements of the Corporation, for both general and restricted purposes, during the fiscal year.
Section 1. FISCAL YEAR OF THE CORPORATION
The fiscal year of the Corporation will begin on the first day of January and end on the last day of December in each year.
Section 1. AMENDMENT OF BYLAWS
Subject to any provision of law applicable to the amendment of Bylaws of public benefit nonprofit Corporations, these Bylaws, or any of them, may be altered, amended, or repealed and new Bylaws adopted by a quorum of the Board.
Section 1. CERTAIN AMENDMENTS
Notwithstanding the above Sections of this Article, this Corporation will not amend its Articles of Incorporation to alter any statement which appears in the original Articles of Incorporation and of the names and addresses of the first Directors of this Corporation nor the name and address of its initial agent, except to correct an error in such statements.
Section 1. PROHIBITION AGAINST SHARING CORPORATE PROFITS AND ASSETS
No member, Director, officer, employee or other person connected with this Corporation, or any private individual, will receive at any time any of the net earnings, or pecuniary profit from the operations of the Corporation, provided, however, that this provision will not prevent payment to any such person, or reasonable compensation for services performed for the Corporation in affecting any of its public, or charitable purposes, provided that such compensation is otherwise permitted by these Bylaws and is fixed by resolution of the Board of Directors; no such person or persons will be entitled to share in the distribution of, and will not receive, any of the corporate assets on a dissolution of the Corporation. All members, if any, of the Corporation will be deemed to have expressly consented and agreed that on such dissolutions or winding up of the affairs of the Corporation, whether voluntarily or involuntarily, the assets of the Corporation, after all debts have been satisfied, will be distributed as required by the Articles of Incorporation of this Corporation and not otherwise.
Section 1. CLASSES OF MEMBERSHIP
The Board of Directors are voting members of the Corporation. Therefore, any action which would otherwise require a vote of members, under law or the provisions of the Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws of this Corporation, shall only require the approval of the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors may establish classes of non-voting members to actively encourage participation in Highway 108 FireSafe Council meetings, activities, and educational outreach by any interested individuals or groups who may benefit from the mission of the Council.
We, the undersigned, are all of the persons named as the Directors of the Highway 108 FireSafe Council, Inc., a California nonprofit Corporation, and, pursuant to the authority granted to the Directors by these Bylaws, take action by unanimous written consent at a regularly scheduled board meeting in Sonora, Tuolumne County, State of California on Thursday October 25, 2007 at 11:30 AM and do hereby adopt the foregoing amended Bylaws, consisting of Articles One (1) through Twelve (12), as the Bylaws of this Corporation.
Authorized signatures (11):
Approved by (SIGNATURE)
_________________________ Jerry Tannhauser, President
Approved by (SIGNATURE)
_________________________ Rick Jerome, Vice President
Approved by (SIGNATURE)
_________________________ Alexis Halstead, Recording Secretary
Approved by (SIGNATURE)
_________________________ Steven Johnson, Treasurer
Approved by (SIGNATURE)
_________________________ Joseph Celentano, Director
Approved by (SIGNATURE)
_________________________ Robert Fiala, Director
Approved by (SIGNATURE)
_________________________ Glenn Gottschall, Director
Approved by (SIGNATURE)
_________________________ Bob Hackamack, Director
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_________________________ Steven Hollett, Director
Approved by (SIGNATURE)
_________________________ Patrick Kaunert, Director
Approved by (SIGNATURE)
_________________________ Jerry McGowan, Director
(Original signatures appear on original document in corporation files)
Witnessed and authenticated by:
Alexis Halstead, Recording Secretary
Dated: October 25, 2007
Highway 108 FireSafe Council, Inc.
Post Office Box 692
Tuolumne, CA 95379-0692
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2018 Student Scholarship Essay Winner
Cristine Kuo, Essay Winner
Each year TCRA sponsors a scholarship for court reporting students. Students may participate in the program by writing a short essay. The student scholarships are awarded to deserving students each year at our Annual Convention. This year we had some great essays submitted from several students. It is so inspiring to read their essays and to hear the passion and enthusiasm in their words.
Cristine Kuo is our 2018 recipient of the Tiffany Brosemer Student Scholarship Essay Contest. Congratulations, Cristine!
Read Cristine's essay below.
Tiffany Brosemer Student Scholarship Fund Essay
Submitted by: Cristine Kuo
If you ask a child, whether they are in middle or high school, what they want to be when they grow up, the usual response is, "I want to be a teacher! I want to be a lawyer! I want to be a doctor!" Well, if you asked me that question my response is, "I have no stinkin' idea what I want to be. Both of my parents are restaurant owners, so I suppose that's what I'm going to become, a restaurant owner."
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Verizon partners with BoxTone on mobile management
Verizon Wireless on Monday said it is now offering enterprises BoxTone's mobile device management software, allowing some customers to pay for the software on their Verizon Wireless bills.
BoxTone offers mobile device management software as well as an automated service desk product and compliance tools.
BoxTone's software lets IT administrators remotely monitor the health of phones in the enterprise. They can look up the real-time status of a phone, see what applications are running on it, monitor the connection between the phone and the enterprise, check on the wireless connection and see other performance metrics, said Brian Reed, chief marketing officer for BoxTone.
BoxTone also offers software that IT administrators can use to serve as a help desk for employees. "It's hopeless to expect a junior IT person to support hundreds of devices. You'd never be able to train all your people to support all these different devices," he said. Last week, BoxTone released a new version of the product that lets IT staff access compliance information from the service desk console.
The support feature is one that BoxTone argues many mobile-device-management service providers ignore. "They're missing the fact that it's not 'set it and forget it.' Once you have 90% of employees using mobile devices, they will call your help desk," he said.
With the service desk console, an IT person can look up an employee who calls for help and see what kind of phone the worker has. The IT person will be able to see when it's not configured correctly, which would explain why the caller isn't receiving voice mail, for example. IT administrators can remotely repair the issue.
The new version of BoxTone also adds a compliance engine that monitors for risk and enforces corrections so users stay in compliance. The software integrates with existing IT policy management software and Active Directory, so IT workers don't have to treat mobile like a separate system.
For instance, when an employee quits, the IT department should cut off the employee's remote access to corporate data. With the new version of BoxTone, "when you cut off all user access, it propagates out to the mobile device and makes sure the mobile device is cut off and company data is wiped," Reed said.
Without a product like BoxTone, cutting off that employee's mobile device would require an IT administrator to log into a separate system and manually make the permission changes.
Enterprises can opt to use individual components of BoxTone's offerings, including the mobile device management software, the help desk capabilities or the compliance tools.
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SCITTELS and the Graduate Teaching Scheme (GTS) have come together to offer graduates the opportunity to apply for Graduate Teaching positions in SCITTELS primary partner schools in East London. The SCITTELS GTS Scheme is a unique new way to access teaching. This salaried scheme provides you with a genuine school experience in a SCITTELS partner school, enabling you to make an informed decision about teaching as a career whilst also providing you with transferable employability skills valued in all professions. You'll gain confidence, skills and experience in a real classroom – and you'll get paid too. If teaching is right for you, we'll encourage you to apply to the SCITTELS teacher training programme (School Centred Initial Teacher Training programme) and support your journey to Qualified Teacher Status and beyond.
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"The Masterpiece Series has in fact been on our internal road map for some years, but was not supposed to be introduced until 2011. However as the number of requests from the market increased, we decided to bring development forward and launch this very special series early. We think it is somewhat fitting for a range of products that are ahead of their time! The complexity of all the MP products has put our engineering team to the test, as the technology used in the Signature Series needed to be pushed to the extreme, to satisfy our expectations for the new Masterpiece Series.
To reach this level, we had to re-qualify all parts from component level and up. Further more, many new custom made parts were developed, pushing our subcontractors technology to the limit of "possible". The MP-P201 uses the same discrete gainstage modules developed for the MP-L201, however it has been optimized for a much lower noise level. This is essential in order to keep the very high musical performance with even the lowest output cartridges available on the market today.
Gain selection on the MP-P201 is based on the output voltage from the cartridge. This is the most effective and optimal way of ensuring perfect balance between the cartridge and the phonostage. Setting the correct load has also been made as user friendly as possible. The four load boards in the MP-P201 provides a total of 16 different load values. The external power supply is shared with the MP-L201 and gives the first extreme level of line regulation. This ensures the lowest possible noise level, even before the supply reaches the actual phonostage circuitry."
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Hi Folks
This forum thing is new to me so a fools pardon please.
I have been rallying for years many many years and would like to go the BMW route in my old age. Need a car I can use for road rallying here in N Ireland. We also have a private business called
The Rally Sport Association http://www.protosport.co.uk/rsa/ - check it out great inexpensive fun minus the MSA fuss and bother. Really want something that is near to standard but with the prep work done on it. My days of lying on a cold garage floor are long gone. Would like a compact with a good lump of an engine in it.


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I JECHONIAS YANCEY of the county of Granville, State of North Carolina, being weak and feable in body, but of sound mind & memory, blessed be God, do this sixth day of January in the year of our Lord 1828 make, publish and declare the following items to be and contain my will with regards to the [disposition?] of that portion of temporal substance with which I have been blessed - after first [resigning?] my immortal spirit unto the hands of my [almighty?] creator who gave it and this frail [L____?] to it's mother dust to be decently buried.
Item - It is my will & desire that my Executor should select such property as they may think fit to a sufficient value and sell the same [upon?] a credit of [_____?] months and with the money arising from such sale pay & discharge all my just debts.
Item - I give and bequesth to my son LEMUEL & his heirs forever two negro men named Harry & [Mullet?] or young Cator.
Item - I give & bequeath to my daughter POLLY YANCEY a negro girl named Sally & her increase - also our bed furniture.
Item - I give & bequeath to my daughter FANNY YANCEY a negro girl named [Lydy?] & her increase forever - also one bed furiture.
Item - I give & bequeath to my son WILLIAM P. YANCEY four negroes [say?] Osborn, Harriet, James, Albert to him & his heirs forever.
Item - It is my will and desire that my man Cator & his wife Linda at my death be set free & with my Executor to use his best [exertion?] to effect that object.
Item - I hereby nominate ordain constitute & appoint my son CHARLES YANCEY my Executor to Execute do and perform this my Last Will & Testament.
JECHONIAS YANCEY (seal)
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this 6 day of January 1828
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State of North Carolina
Granville County 1828
The Executor of the foregoing Last Will & Testamanet of JECHONIAS YANCEY Decd. was [_____?] on oath in [____?] court by David J Young one of the subscribing witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded. At the same time came forward CHARLES YANCEY who is named as the Executor in said will and [succeeded?] to qualify as such. Whereupon as [_______?] with the will annexed was granted to Stephen [______] on this estate of JECHONIAS YANCEY Decd. who [charged?] into bodn for $2000 with RICHARD [LUSSD?], ALBERT SNEID, & SAMUEL LUSSD [____?] and qualified accordingly.
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Michael Arrigo
Painter based in Toledo, Ohio. M.F.A. in Painting and Drawing from the Ohio State University. Participation in many regional and national juried and invitational exhibitions. Received G.C.A.C. Individual Artists Fellowship, and painting awards from The Columbus Museum of Art, The Maser Museum of Art and The Toledo Museum of Art. Current President of the Toledo Federation of art Societies and National Portfolio Reviewer for Educational Testing Service, the non-profit consortium that assigns AP credit in studio art. Former executive board member of the International Visual Literacy Association. Arrigo has taught painting at Studio Arts Center International in Florence, Italy and served for two years as director Young Artists at Work, a nationally recognized arts outreach program for young adults. Has a background in installation and site-specific art as well as painting. Current research interests include investigating how images prefigure and shape personal identity, cultural narratives and mythic forms. Arrigo is currently an Associate Professor of Art and Coordinator of First Year Studies at Bowling Green State University in Ohio.
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The Koenigsegg Regera consolidates a powerful twin-turbo V8 ignition engine with three electric engines and front line battery power by means of new powertrain innovation called Koenigsegg Direct Drive. This progressive innovation evacuates the customary gearbox, making the car lighter and more proficient.
While conventional Koenigseggs have dependably had amazing levels of common sense, familiar luxuries and features, our essential concentration has dependably been to make the quickest cars on the planet – around a circuit or anyplace else. The Koenigsegg Regera proceeds with this custom, however with creative innovation that mixes over the top speed, preeminent solace, and an interesting Direct Drive understanding.
Regera is Swedish for "to Reign" – an appropriate name for a machine that offers an unexpected blend of power, responsiveness and luxury. The Regera will rule as ruler of the open street – the quickest quickening, most powerful generation car ever.
Notwithstanding all its propelled innovation and common luxuries, the Regera is nearly light can in any case perform aggressively around a race circuit. How does 3.2 seconds between 150 to 250 km/h and under 20 seconds from 0 to 400 km/h sound? The main Hypercar/Megacar that we think could be speedier around a circuit is another Koenigsegg.
The Regera is to be handcrafted in a release of only 80 vehicles at Koenigsegg's generation office in Ängelholm, Sweden. This is the first run through ever that Koenigsegg will have two distinct models in parallel creation.
The inside features included protection, 8-way electrically customizable adjustable foam situates, a Koenigsegg 9" infotainment framework, 4G and Wi-Fi availability, front, internal and rear camera framework with recording ability, Apple CarPlay, preeminent sound framework, encompassing lighting and numerous other incredible new features. The Regera likewise accompanies front and rear stopping sensors and remote demonstrative and firmware refresh capacity.
THE HEART OF THE MATTERThe absolute entirety of each Koenigsegg is its Internal Combustion Engine – the ICE. The ICE of the Regera takes after the way of its kin, the demonstrated and greatly solid Koenigsegg dry-sump twin turbo, DOHC, 5.0 liter V8.
The Koenigsegg V8 is the most downsized homologated creation ICE on the planet, with 220hp for each liter (utilizing general pump gas). The minimal way of the engine implies the Regera is light in weight, and in this manner deft and productive.
The Regera V8 contrasts somewhat from our forerunner Agera engine. As the powertrain as of now creates a consolidated 1500hp and with electric impetus giving moment torque from the Direct Drive framework, we didn't need to go as outrageous on ICE power. Rather, we installed much smaller, speedier spooling turbos on the Regera, additionally upgrading the car's drivability and reaction.
KOENIGSEGG DIRECT DRIVEConventional hybrids speak to a trade off with regards to weight, intricacy, cost, bundling and effectiveness.
The Regera is not what we at Koenigsegg would call a customary hybrid as it doesn't have the conventional inadequacies of a hybrid. Rather, the Regera is another type of hybrid. It is another type of Koenigsegg and another type of car, so far as that is concerned.
Conventional "parallel" hybrids are traded off and substantial as they have two free impetus frameworks moving the car. While "arrangement" hybrids are less traded off with regards to weight, intricacy and costs, they are bargained with regards to proficiency as there is excessively vitality change occurring.
The Koenigsegg Direct Drive transmission (KDD) was designed by Christian von Koenigsegg and produced for the Regera by the Koenigsegg Advanced Engineering group.
The patent-pending KDD replaces the burning engine's customary transmission – the gearbox as you most likely are aware it is expelled from the car. In its place, the KDD gives direct drive to the rear hub from the ignition engine without the need of huge number riggings or a variable transmissions, all of which have inalienably high vitality misfortunes.
Amid thruway go, for instance, the KDD lessens drivetrain misfortunes contrasted with a conventional transmission or CVT by more than half as there is no progression up or venture down rigging working in arrangement with the last drive – simply direct power sent from the engine to the wheels.
The Regera has three YASA created electric engines, which supplement the vitality from the burning engine. Beside giving extraordinary responsiveness, these electric engines additionally allow for torque vectoring, regenerative braking and vitality transformation. YASA's pivotal flux engines are greatly power thick, making them a key-element for the KDD. There is one YASA engine for each rear wheel, giving electric direct drive, and one on the crankshaft that gives torque-fill, electrical era and starter engine usefulness.
The three electric engines constitute the most powerful electrical engine set-up underway car history, supplanting the riggings of an ordinary transmission. This gives all-essential weight investment funds and additionally including power, torque and torque vectoring capacity.
Koenigsegg has built up a grip slip system that uses the pressure driven coupling to change over torque at medium/high speeds amid quick quickening. This allows the burning engine to pick up revs and power, in this way giving the impression of a customary downshift with the related aural delight, even without the conventional gearbox.
Shift paddles stay on either side of the steering wheel. The left oar is utilized to improve regenerative braking impact in reviving the battery pack. The correct oar is utilized to initiate the water powered coupling's "downshift" operation.
Koenigsegg has worked to a great degree elusive the best performing, and most secure battery feasible for the Regera. This exploration and testing has brought about a 800 volt, 4.5kWh battery pack, making the Regera the world's initial 800V generation car.
This extraordinary battery innovation will now give an astonishing 525kW of release and up to 200kW of energize. The main batteries in any type of automotive utilize that give near performance to their size are those found in Formula 1 race cars.
The Koenigsegg Regera battery pack additionally brags the most noteworthy cooling limit of any battery in automotive utilize today. All electric vehicle producers utilize coolant funneled around the battery pack to draw warm from the batteries. There is dependably a region that customary cooling channels can't reach, notwithstanding. The Regera battery pack is housed in a fixed unit including improved nearby coolant flooding over all basic warmth touchy components. Each basic surface inside and around the battery stack is cooled as effectively as could reasonably be expected.
Finally, there is the battery pack's weight. Through research and interest in premium battery innovation, the creation adaptation of the Koenigsegg Regera will deliver with a battery pack that performs better, as well as measures only 75kgs, a sparing of 40kgs over the idea battery.
Each cell of the pack is carefully observed for voltage, condition of charge, wellbeing and temperature. The cells are encased in a carbon fiber packaging for proficiency, safety and strength. The battery is situated in the most secured range of the car – the carbon-aramid chassis burrow.
To put the progressive way of the Regera into legitimate viewpoint, it has practically triple the same number of electric horsepower (700hp) than its nearest hybrid adversary, with more than 300hp more in complete horsepower. But then the Regera stays at an extremely aggressive weight, while as yet including features, for example, a six way customizable electrical seat and a completely robotized body work.
A NEW LEVEL OF LUXURYThe Direct Drive transmission of the Regera conveys rankling performance, while in the meantime offering one of the smoothest, most alleviating driving encounters possible. It is a genuine Jekyll and Hyde encounter that depends totally on your inclination.
We have built up a totally new rear sub outline that allows the engine and transmission to lay on dynamic soft mounts. When driving in ordinary conditions, the mounts remain soft and disengage engine clamor and vibrations. Amid lively driving, the mounts solidify to harden the car and give more noteworthy reaction. The safeguards are dynamic in both stature and solidness, changing right away to your contributions in the driver's seat.
The Regera can likewise be driven in total quiet, with a full EV mode available for shorter timeframes.
Heavenly body DRLDaytime Running Lights (DRL) are often the primary impression one gets of a car drawing nearer from a separation. We needed the Regera to be effortlessly perceived from a remote place, a yearning that prompted our new Constellation DRL framework.
The heavenly body impact was accomplished by dispersing LEDs around the light group – like stars set against a night sky of cleaned carbon fiber.
The LED's make the entire light bunch sparkle and sparkle as though encrusted with precious stones. There's cool, and after that there's Koenigsegg cool.
THE FIRST FULLY ROBOTIZED CARThe Regera is the primary car on the planet that works all body terminations totally automatically, at the touch of a catch. We call this framework 'Autoskin'.
Koenigsegg has figured out how to robotize the whole Regera with no weight punishment, because of the most recent advances in conservative lightweight pressure driven innovation. The Regera features capacities, for example, dynamic front and rear wings, chassis control and lifting framework as standard, so the pressure driven pumps and aggregators were at that point set up to execute automation of our doors and front/rear hoods. The Autoskin power through pressure supplant gas struts of comparable weight, bringing about negligible weight affect.
Autoskin features soft-shutting instruments, giving the Regera a modern vibe. The completely robotized body framework adds a simple 5 kg to the aggregate weight of the car, making full robotization an exceptionally attractive choice.
All openings and wing mirrors are fitted with vicinity sensors to protect against the doors striking adjacent items (check, low roof, and so forth) while opening or shutting.
FIRST FOLDABLE, ACTIVE, TOP-MOUNTED REAR WINGThe Koenigsegg One:1 featured the world's first top-mounted dynamic rear wing. This was an inventive arrangement that augmented down compel contrasted with its size and weight.
The Regera has taken this answer for the following level, allowing the wing to completely withdraw into the body work upgrading the cars class while stopping and lessening drag while cruising. The wing's dynamic, foldable component is a lightweight work of carbon fiber workmanship and the development is really hypnotizing.
Why do we utilize a top-mounted rear wing? It is basic to see a rear wing upheld by columns running between the body of the car and the underside of the rear wing. This is a decent base level arrangement that gives fitting downforce when designed in the correct way.
Streamlined testing demonstrates us, in any case, that it is the underside of the wing that gives the most downforce, so unsettling influences to this surface ought to be limited where conceivable. A top-mounted rear wing, for example, that fitted as standard gear on the One:1 and Regera gives an undisturbed underside surface to greatest downforce.
Koenigsegg Regera. The Price of a Dream"This is obviously altogether different to what individuals are utilized to in sports cars," conceded organization originator Christian von Koenigsegg, including, "It's pleasant to shift down, hear the engine cry and afterward shoot off. Be that as it may, given the huge electrical support and the power of the interior burning engine more than 2500 rpm, the experience is supernatural. At low rpm, the engine will at present feel genuinely enormous as the consolidated torque is amazing. The enjoyment of shifting down and anticipating the speeding up is immediately overlooked and not missed. It should be experienced."
Good fortunes with that last point. Only 80 Regeras will be created, every one ordering a beginning Koenigsegg Regera price of $1,890,000 before any charges or expenses. That aggregate is powerful, certain, yet it additionally appears like an odd kind of deal when the track-just P1 GTR costs more than $3 million. And afterward there's this: The Regera will be offered in the U.S. as a completely federally agreeable model, presumably ahead of schedule one year from now.


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FORT LAUDERDALE -- The first coats of paint went onto the south-side wall of the Third Avenue bridge on Saturday.
But Sheila Harrigan surveyed the work and envisioned the future. She saw sparkling tiles that will soon adorn the bridge columns, a renovated bridgetender`s house and more paint to cover the concrete.
``I drive over this bridge a lot, and soon it`ll be more enjoyable,`` said Harrigan, who when she is not painting is chairwoman of Fort Lauderdale`s Parks and Recreation Advisory Board. ``The boats along New River will see the tiles, and the bridgetender`s house is going to be so different.``
Harrigan and about 15 other volunteers painted the Southeast Third Avenue Bridge on Saturday as part of Fort Lauderdale`s Make It Shine Project.
Since October 1985, Make It Shine has brought together an estimated 7,500 volunteers who have completed more than 75 beautification projects in the city.
The projects have ranged from the array of art deco colors that artist Jim Weinberg painted on the Henry E. Kinney Tunnel, to the painting of one of the small bridges over the Tarpon River for an Eagle Scout project by Peter Cameron, 14, to the cleanup of the Lauderdale Manors neighborhood entrance.
It`s the people who make the project so successful, coordinators said.
It`s people like Birch Willey of the Hobby House camera shop, who donated $1,000 in paint, and Fort Lauderdale Police Chief Ron Cochran, a project volunteer.
``I asked a young lady once why she was out painting and she said very simply, `Because I live here,` `` Cochran said. ``You can`t put it any plainer.``


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On behalf of Commissioner Jack Morman we would like to thank Stephen Coycault for being Precinct2gether's Texan Plus Champions Finalist! Now it is our turn to cheer Mr. Coycault on and help Precinct2gether Inc. win $25,000. Voting begins at www.TexanPlusChampions.com on July 31st through September 18th. You can vote once a day from your computer, your laptop, your tablet, and your cell phone! The best part is you do not have to live in Harris County to show your support and WIN 2gether!
Stephen Coycault has made a difference in the life of senior citizens in numerous ways from spending time educating seniors, to working on policies that impact them in their daily lives through saving them money. He played an integral role with the Pasadena Meals on Wheels program and has been wildly successful in reducing the program's waiting list from 300 to only 50 persons, currently. Mr. Coycault is on the Advisory Planning Council for Area Aging. He also conducts monthly meetings at East Harris County Activity Center to teach approximately 50 Precinct2gether seniors classes on topics such as How to avoid Identity Theft; Scams; Fraud and Elder Abuse. In addition, Mr. Coycault assists Veterans in their application for VA benefits; and he also assists widows with acquiring any assistance in which they qualify. He educates homeowners how to apply for their over 65 and over exemptions from appraisal districts, as well as, how to effectively protest their taxes. Mr. Coycault promotes the Texas Silver-Haired Legislature by speaking at Town Hall meetings and Legislative meetings, civic groups and churches. Mr. Coycault is TRIAD Director for Harris County Precinct Two, which is a partnership between senior citizens, law enforcement and the community. Through this partnership, he is able to educate Precinct2gether seniors on how to stay aware and learn the tricks used on seniors to harm them financially.
Mr. Coycault believes in the Precinct2gether Senior Program mission of encouraging social and physical activity among senior citizens to better guide them to remain a contributing and viable force in their community. Stephen Coycault is the walking example of Precinct2gether Senior Citizen's Mission.


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Jockey Damien Oliver seems to be inching towards victory in the Melbourne Jockeys' Premiership, with a two-win gap between him and his nearest rival Craig Williams. With only six races left at Geelong on Sunday, Oliver's march towards a 10th title got an extra boost with a victory aboard Volcanic Ash at Caulfield on Saturday. His contention for the title was further boosted by William's winless performance at the meet.
Williams, however, could be termed unlucky on Saturday as he finished second in three races in the Caulfield meet.
Oliver later expressed his relief with the lead. "We both had some nice rides today but we probably didn't ride as many winners as we kind of thought we might have," Oliver said.
"But you've got to be happy going into the final day with a lead," he added.
"I'm hopeful but never too confident in this game."
"If you looked at our rides today you would have swore that we would have probably ridden more winners than we did."
"It just goes to show, you can have a lot of the good rides and not always get the winners."


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|Grant: free money that doesn't need to be repaid
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|Federal Supplemental Education Opportunity Grant (FSEOG)
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|Must complete GPA verification form and FAFSA before March 2
|Cal-Grant B: $1,656
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|CCCG is given to eligible Cal Grant students that have received FTSSG award for the same term
|If attending at least 15 units, $1,500
|The Full Time Student Success Grant (FTSSG)
|FTSSG for Cal Grant recipients attending a California community college full time.
|If attending at least 12 units, $1,000
|Grant: free money that doesn't need to be repaid
|Students can apply for various scholarships. Each scholarship may have different requirements and deadlines


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Theorising Social Work Research
Doctoral and advanced studies in Social Work Seminar topics
Doctoral and advanced studies in social work 15th November 1999, Warwick
Daring To Transgress: Involving Participants in Assessment of Participatory Research in Doctoral Programs Wanda Thomas Bernard PhD
Inclusion of 'first voices'2 is an integral part of participatory research (PR). Qualitative research methodologies, particularly PR, have the potential to empower those that are marginalized and oppressed. Feminist researchers (Ralph 1988, Kirby and Mckenna 1989, Maguire 1987, Maynard and Purvis 1994) have argued that critical theorists have not gone far enough, and suggest that a more fundamental change is required. That fundamental change has been conceptualized by some as the active involvement of 'subjects' in all phases of the research, the basic rubric of PR. Despite these goals, however, few researchers write about the experience of involving participants in PR. Few publicly examine the issue of participants' voice, what I call 'first voices' in conducting, evaluating and disseminating results of research.
This paper explores the question of doing participatory research (PR) in a doctoral study, and subsequently involving participants in the evaluation or assessment of the work. Using my doctoral research as a case study, I examine some of the challenges that emerged as I tried to involve participants in the research process and tried to bring PR from the margins to the center of academic research.
My Doctoral Research
My doctoral study, Survival and Success: As Defined by Black Men in Sheffield, England and Halifax, Canada was an exploratory cross-national participatory action project with Black men from the two countries that explored their experiences and conceptualizations of survival and success. The project involved ten Black men, from the two sites, who worked with me to develop an understanding of the survival strategies that Black men used to survive in societies where they are normally expected to fail. The research also sought answers to the question 'how do Black men define success?'.
Ten Black men formed the Research Working Group (RWG) (a snowball sampling method was used), and they interviewed from three to four other Black men. We used a questionnaire, to provide some consistency in the data that was gathered using this method. We also used focus groups in each site, to collect data, and to assist with the analysis. The RWG's also functioned as a focus group, and were involved in each stage of the research. And finally, conferences on Black masculinity were organized in each site, which provided opportunities for more voices to be heard in the research. The conferences served as sites for data gathering, analysis, and finally, as a way to report the research findings to a wider audience. I used a feminist participatory research methodology in my doctoral study.
Feminist Participatory Research
Participatory research (PR) originates in activist work in developing countries ( Freire 1972, Hall 1992, Maguire 1987, Reason 1988). Most proponents agree on the following as key components of PR: active involvement of participants, raising their consciousness; participant empowerment, which leads to the reconceptualization of problems; and the identification of action strategies. I defined PR elsewhere as a process of critical and reflective inquiry, that holds hope for the marginalized, gives voice to those who are usually silenced, and empowers people to analyze their experience as a means of effecting change (Bernard forthcoming.). According to Maguire (1987:29) participatory research is 'a method of social investigation of problems, involving the participation of oppressed and ordinary people in problem posing and problem solving'.
Essentially, those marginalized persons who are normally studied, become active agents in the research.
The central focus in feminist, participatory research is the involvement of subjects as co-researchers into the study and resolution of their perceived problems. Social change and transformation are the ultimate goals, which result when people develop an increased awareness about their own resources and power, which facilitates their taking action. Some consider it a more scientific method of research because participation of the community in the research process facilitates a more authentic analysis of their social reality. The researcher is a committed participant and learner in the research, not a distant observer.
"Research is the production of knowledge about a given subject matter, and people who produce and control such knowledge increase their power to deal with the particular issues involved (Bernard 1996). Ralph (1988:39) states that '[t]he research establishment is structured like a giant pyramid, with the largest group of people [the researched]' at the bottom, having virtually no power in making these research decisions, and the fewest people [the researchers] at the top' who have the most powerful impact on what gets studied and published'. PR challenges those traditional power hierarchies and imbalances, and is "intended to contribute to a process of shifting power" (Hall 1992). PR provides participants with an opportunity to challenge existing structures and processes. Bud Hall (1992: 15-16) says that participatory research (PR) were the words that evolved for practice that attempted to put the less powerful at the center of the knowledge creation process; to move people and their daily lived experiences of struggle and survival from the margins of epistemology to the center. Given the richness of PR, why are academics, and doctoral students in particular, so reluctant to use this potentially transformative research methodology?
Negotiating the Border-Walk: Doing Participatory Research in Academia
Hall (1992) posits that although the concept of PR evolved for the past twenty years or more, from the work of activists and researchers in poor countries and poorer parts of rich countries, it has struggled to find its way into the center of research in academic settings. Maguire (1993) also suggests that there are challenges and contradictions for academics that want to engage in PR. This is particularly challenging for doctoral students, who can be immobilized and intimidated by the ideal standards of PR (Maguire 1993). Moving PR from the margins to the mainstream was one of the goals in my doctoral study (Bernard 1996). One of the questions that guided my research, and provided a vision of empowerment, was 'how could I best negotiate the border walk between the university and the men that I want to reach through the research?'.
Reason (1994) informs us that whilst participatory research is relatively easy to espouse, it is challenging to genuinely practice. Maguire (1993) contributes to this debate with her reflections on doing participatory research as a doctoral student. She argues that the demands of academia are contradictory to the expectations required for genuine participation in research. In my research project, I was constantly troubled by the contradictory demands.
The type of involvement in participatory research may vary, however to be considered participatory, a project must involve some degree of active involvement of participants as agents in the research. This may be limited to consultation during various stages of the research, or total involvement and ownership, as it was in my research. In my doctoral study the men participated in the development of the questions to be asked, the data gathering instruments, the data collection, analysis and dissemination of the results (which is an ongoing process). Whilst I took responsibility for the writing of the thesis, the men in the RWGs reviewed and commented on drafts of the work. The conferences also allowed others to comment on the research findings, which built in another layer of community accountability and construct validity.
I was able to use an innovative methodology because I had a supervisor who was willing to transgress and who in fact pushed me to push myself on this unchartered learning journey3. However, in the final stages, I still worried about the defense. The following quotation from my personal research diary captures my anxieties around the assessment process:
"I have written the thesis, to satisfy the academic requirements, yet the research belongs to the men. I have used [their] [voice[s]' throughout the text. How will the examining board perceive this? I am worried that they will not see it as 'academic enough'. 'How can I best honor the men's voices, and meet the academic requirement'?"(Personal Research Diary 1995)
I decided that I would honor the men's voices in my thesis, even if this was not approved by the examining committee. While preparing for the defense, I made a conscious decision to rewrite the thesis on the PR process, if I was challenged about my use of methodology or the location of first voices in the work. I did not have to implement this plan, as the committee was most excited by the methodology and the inclusion of first voices. I quote from their report "this is an ambitious and innovative thesis....Bernard created a most imaginative methodology which actively involved groups of black men in both Canada and England."
The positive review of my work reinforced my commitment to the active inclusion of first voices in research.
The voices of marginalized persons are rarely heard in the final stages of the PR process, the evaluation of the research, and dissemination of the findings. Although subjects are considered co-researchers in PR, as they devise, manage and draw conclusions from the research (Heron 1988:40), their voices are lost at the end stages. This is particularly true in PR conducted by academics. Much of the literature reviewed on this subject suggests that while the purpose of PR is not to "enhance our own careers and survival (Stoecker and Bonacich 1992:8) in academia, academics who do PR are constrained by the contradictions in doing community based and collaborative research within the confines of academia (Stoecker and Bonacich 1992, Hall 1992, Maguire 1987&1993, Stoecker 1998, Cancian 1993, Nash 1993). Hondagneu-Sotelo (1993) argues that "demands of academia are contradictory to the expectations required for genuine participation in research "(emphasis mine).
Nash (1993:53) states that PR is not valued in the [academic] profession. Stoecker 1998 concurs, and quotes Hubbard (1996) who posits that community based or PR is neither valued in academia or the activist community, therefore academics are pressured to construct the research in a way to give it a higher academic profile. Hall (1992) informs the debate by reminding us that the political economy of academia actively discourages community based and collaborative or participatory research. Academics who want to engage in PR and community based research do so at the risk of their survival in academia. Those who choose this methodology must be prepared to transgress, to challenge those traditional research hierarchies.
Can Participants Be Involved in PhD Assessment?
There are standards and procedures for doctoral research set by the University that are totally outside the student's control. Some institutions will not allow doctoral candidates to pursue PR. Doctoral research is expected to be an individual piece of work and participatory research calls for the active involvement of participants (Reason 1988: Park et al. 1993; Maguire 1987, 1993). It presents a challenge to PhD students to reconcile these conflicting expectations.
I began my doctoral research with a desire to bridge the gap between academia and community, and to engage in work that was going to be of direct benefit to African communities. Using participatory research in this way forges links between academia and community; linking community need with academic resources. Such an approach encourages academia to be more responsive to communities, who want and need research that will be of direct benefit to enhancing their knowledge and hence their power base. It should facilitate a meaningful exchange between academia and community.
I thought it was most appropriate to have the men who participated in the research also evaluate it, therefore, I decided to conduct a participatory evaluation of our research process. During the writing up phase of the research I did follow-up interviews with each of the RWG members, and several focus group sessions with them, as another means of achieving face validity, and to do a participatory evaluation (Park 1993) of the PR process. Overall, the men evaluated the work very positively. The process was an empowering one for those who worked on the research, and for many who participated in the various stages of the project. The following quotation from one of the men is illustrative of the conclusions drawn by the men:
I enjoyed working as a group in an ongoing way. Research participation usually involves a one or two hour interview, with no feedback...the fact that we have linked as two distinct groups, plus come together on two occasions is good...I have a feel for people involved on the other side, have got to know them on a personal level, and have an understanding of the issues. One of the highlights for me is the high level of commitment in the group; everyone attending meetings and doing the work! This encourages you to participate. I also liked the opportunity to speak to other people on the [PhD] course, being given the opportunity to participate in the academic circle... Sheffield RWG
Maguire (1993) says that a researcher should get involved in a problem that you feel passionately about. I have argued that it is not only important to feel passionate about a problem, but one must be willing to use one's skills and resources to actually do something about that which you feel so passionately (Bernard 1996). My lived experiences as an African Canadian woman influenced my choice of research topic, and my commitment to social action and change underpins my choice of methodology. My goal was not simply to do research on Black men's experiences, but to work with Black men, and engage others in a process, that would facilitate change. The participatory research methodology clearly enabled me to do this. Those who participated in the research have been personally empowered to do and to act; they gained knowledge, information, and experience that has led to action. And the work has taken on a life of its own, long after the completion of my doctoral program in 1996. Black men in both Sheffield and Halifax continue to challenge the ways in which they are marginalized from the mainstream, and to push for policy and program changes in various institutions4.
Since knowledge is the exchange of the academic political economy (Hall 1992), and PR is about the centering of disenfranchised voices in the research, PR should have a home in academia. It is our responsibility as academic researchers, to help challenge the structural and institutional barriers that block us from moving PR from margin to center. Hall argues that since PR originated as a challenge to positivist research paradigms used by academic researchers, it should be taught in universities, and the academic community deserves to discuss and challenge and be challenged by these and other ideas that emerge in PR (Hall 1992:25). This research project stands as an example of one doctoral student who dared to transgress, who successfully negotiated the border-walk between the academy and the community, to bring PR, and the voices of Black men from the margins to the mainstream of academia.
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Wanda Thomas Bernard PhD is an assistant professor of social work at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. She received her doctoral degree from the University of Sheffield in May 1996.
1 The author wishes to thank professor Lena Dominelli for graciously agreeing to speak to this paper at the conference.
2 I use the term 'first voices' to refer to the coming of voice as a gesture of resistance and an affirmation of struggle that bell hooks (1988) refers to. I use the plural 'voices' to illustrate the multiplicity of experiences that embody those who are oppressed.
3 This is a good opportunity to publicly thank Professor Lena Dominelli, my PhD supervisor, who encouraged me to transgress, and supported me throughout the process. Doctoral students cannot do PR without support from their supervisors.
4 I am currently doing a follow up project with the men who participated in the Research Working Groups in both sites, to assess the long term impacts of our findings, and to develop other collaborative projects.


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