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Today is a wonderful day for mocking online publications.
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I'm going to replace an existing 3-hole faucet with a single hole faucet in my kitchen sink. I plan on installing a soap dispenser into one of the other holes, but that will still leave me with one empty hole. Aside from faucets what accessories are available that fit into faucet holes?
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The most common I've seen.
Most single hole faucets come with an extra base piece that covers up the old unused holes.
An instant hot water tap would also fit. We have a long run to the hot water heater, and installing one of these units was one of our favorite kitchen improvements.
Another use is an air pressure switch for a garbage disposal/food grinder. When we moved in it took a while to discover that using the garbage disposal required opening the cupboard door and reaching underneath the sink for a switch. When we too went from three fittings to one I got the chance to install an air pressure switch in one of the spare holes. (A soap dispenser went in the other hole.)
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In West Michigan, it's apple harvest time. That may conjure up images of picturesque orchards and old-fashioned fun: growers harvesting apples and then selecting them by hand.
Think again.
Robotic arms, computer vision and high-resolution photography are helping Michigan growers wash, sort and package apples at top speeds in the business — think 2,000 apples per minute.
With this modern technology, farmers are expanding production and getting Galas and Ginger Golds from Michigan orchards to grocery stores faster and more cheaply.
That's especially important during bumper crop years like 2013, when Michigan apple growers are expected to bring in a potentially record-setting 30 million bushels.
Rob Steffens, an apple grower on West Michigan's fertile "fruit ridge," has about 280 acres of orchards northwest of Grand Rapids. He packs 800 to a 1,000 apple trees into each acre, which is about three times as many trees as his father grew on the land.
With so many new trees, Steffens and other Michigan growers needed a way to process all those extra apples faster and more cheaply.
So Steffens pooled his resources with six other farmers to build a $7 million apple packing plant. It's where his apples are sorted, washed, waxed and readied for shipping to grocery stores.
Wooden crates with "Steffens" stamped on them stack up against one wall in the warehouse. A machine picks up the crates and dumps the apples onto a sort of water conveyor belt. The three-foot-wide river of bobbing apples moves quickly, as a machine sorts the fruit.
Then the apples go through a tunnel filled with flashing lights.
"Really, this is the brains of that," Steffens says, as he points to the tunnel. "This takes a picture of each apple — I think it's between 25 and 29 times a second."
The computer then forms a 3D model of each apple so it can figure out the fruit's size, color and quality. The apples are sorted by weight and color in a fraction of a second. Bruised or misshapen apples are rejected.
"See, and it's kicking out fruit like this," Steffens says as he points to a blemish no bigger than a dime on the skin of one of the rejected apples.
The high-tech machine means the growers can process and pack way more fruit with the same amount of workers. On a typical day, the machine can scan almost 2,000 apples a minute.
"It's processing at an astonishing rate," says horticulturist Randy Beaudry, at Michigan State University.
But this new technology, he says, is what Michigan apple growers need to compete with other states.
"If, for instance, a large box store says, 'OK, we want fruit that are between 2.5 and 2.75 inches.' And they want them 80 percent red with coloration. And they want zero defects — Michigan growers can get that fruit," he says. "And they can do it within a few hours time."
Each year, Michigan is typically only behind Washington and New York state in terms of apple bushels. That has a lot to do with good weather and luck. But it's also because growers have been changing their orchards. Growers have been ripping out older, taller apple trees and replacing them with smaller ones, Beaudry says.
"The trees are shorter. They're closer together," he says. "We create what we call fruiting walls. That's a relatively recent innovation, but it's part of a long-term trend to reduce the size of apple trees, so that they're harvested more easily and more efficiently. So we don't need as much labor."
More and more technology is needed to move labor-intensive agricultural products like apples efficiently to market, Beaudry says.
Fortunately for us, the end result still tastes like an old-fashioned Michigan apple in October.
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For anyone who loves a good apple, October is peak season. Growers in west Michigan are near the height of their apple harvest. This may conjure images of picturesque orchards and old-fashioned fun for some. But modern technologies are playing a bigger role in the business side of the apple harvest.
Michigan Radio's Lindsey Smith visited a packing plant to see first hand how technology help apples go from Michigan farms to grocery stores across the country.
LINDSEY SMITH, BYLINE: Right now it's crunch time for growers like Rob Steffens. He's got 280 acres of apple trees in west Michigan's fertile fruit ridge northwest of Grand Rapids. Steffens walks through a block of stubby Fuji apple trees, the branches are just full of fruit.
ROB STEFFENS: This block here is really going to pick heavy this year. I mean, I don't know if you can see here, Lindsey, this just gorgeous sized fruit on here.
SMITH: Steffens palms a Fuji apple nearly the size of a softball. It's not just the size and color he's impressed with, but the taste, too. Michigan apple growers are expected to bring in a potentially record setting 30 million bushels this year. That has a lot to do with good weather and luck. But it's also because growers have been changing their orchards.
Randy Beaudry studies apples after they're harvested at Michigan State University. He says growers have been ripping out older, taller apple trees and replacing them.
RANDY BEAUDRY: So the trees are shorter, they're closer together. We create what are called fruiting walls, this is a relatively recent innovation, but it's part of a long term trend to reduce the size of apple trees so that they're harvested more easily and more efficiently so we don't need as much labor.
SMITH: Steffens says he's got about 800 to 1,000 apple trees per acre, but when his father ran the orchard, there was only about one-third the trees packed in now. With so many new trees, growers on Michigan's fruit ridge are producing more apples. Technology is helping process the extra apples faster.
Rob Steffens leads the way into a packing plant just a couple of miles away. This is where his apples are sorted, washed, waxed and packaged. He and six other growers nearby went in on this roughly $7 million packaging plant. It opened this summer. Wooden crates with Steffens stamped on the side tower against one wall.
A machine picks up the crates and dumps the apples onto a sort of water conveyor belt. The three-foot wide river of bobbing apples moves quickly as a machine sorts them. Each apple is sorted by weight and color in a fraction of a second. Bruised or misshapen apples are rejected.
STEFFENS: See, it's kicking out fruit like this. It's got a little of that on it.
SMITH: Steffens points out a blemish no bigger than a dime on the skin of one of the rejected apples. The hi-tech machine means that growers can process and pack way more fruit with the same amount of workers. The day I visit, it was scanning almost 2,000 apples a minute.
BEAUDRY: I know, I know. It's processing at an astonishing rate.
SMITH: Again, Michigan State's Randy Beaudry, but he says this new technology is what Michigan apple growers need to compete.
BEAUDRY: If, for instance, a large box store says OK, we want fruit that are between 2 and one-half inches and two and three-quarter inches, OK, they can get that fruit.
SMITH: Beaudry says more and more technology is needed to efficiently move labor intensive agricultural products like apples to market. Fortunately for us, the end result still tastes like an old fashioned Michigan apple in October. For NPR News, I'm Lindsey Smith in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Volleyball collides with SEC powerhouse Auburn in season opener
Friday, September 03, 2004Auburn, Ala. (Sep. 3, 2004) - The East Tennessee State volleyball squad opened their season this evening against SEC powerhouse Auburn at the Mizuno/Auburn challenge with a 3-0 loss at the hands of the Tigers. AU freshman Whitney Jacob put a kill down the line off of a pass from classmate Jordan Elliott to get the season started and then also hammered home the final kill in game three. The Tigers won 30-25, 30-28, 30-23, marking the first time since the 2000 season that AU has opened the season with a victory. "We played very well for our first match of the 2004 season. We have many newcomers to our squad and the total team effort tonight was great to see," head coach Lindsey Devine said. "We have set the bar for a tough and competitive season and look forward to rest of the year." The Lady Bucs were led by Sara Scandiffio (Purcellvill, Va.) who posted 12 kills adding seven digs and three block assists in the three game set, while Jennifer Sartor (Toronto, Canada) and freshman Callie Kiselich (Colorado Springs, Co.) each added seven kills on the night. At the net, ETSU managed nine blocks matching the defensive effort by the Tigers. Freshman Rachel Shanks led the Tigers with 11 kills while Elliott hoisted 34 assists in her collegiate debut. Jacob finished with nine kills on 20 attacks with just one error for a .400 hitting percentage. Senior Ashlee Johns picked up where she left off last season, posting 10 kills to go along with a team-high 13 digs for the eighth double-double in her Auburn career. "This was a good win for us," AU Coach Laura Farina said. "Jordan Elliott did an exceptional job of running the offense and Whitney also played very well. It was good to get some of the first-match jitters out of the way for our freshmen. Tonight was a very good sign." The Auburn crowd of over 500 saw the first season-opening victory in Farina's six-year career. The crowd was also treated to a mini comeback by the Tigers, who found themselves down by three points, 27-24, in game two before rallying to tie the game at 28-all and winning on a Johns ace. The Mizuno/Auburn Challenge will conclude with two sessions on Saturday. The first session will feature Iowa State vs. East Tennessee State at 10 a.m. CT followed by Auburn vs. Birmingham Southern at noon. The afternoon session will put ETSU and BSC against each other at 5 p.m. and then AU and ISU in a 7 p.m. match. Admission to all matches is free.


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Roseville Teachers Reject Antievolutionist Materials
Science teachers in the Roseville Joint Union High School District have told the district that they do not want to add antievolutionist materials to the district science curriculum, according to the Sacramento Bee (December 28, 2003). The materials, recommended by Larry Caldwell, a local parent, and Cornelius Hunter, author of Darwin's God and Darwin's Proof, included the videotape of Icons of Evolution.
Grand Canyon National Park Embroiled in Creationism Issue
In August 2003, NCSE sponsored a raft trip down Grand Canyon. We then became aware that the Grand Canyon Association, a private nonprofit organized to benefit Grand Canyon National Park, was selling a creationist book in its bookstores.
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Brian Alters Wins Highest Teaching Award at McGill
NCSE member Brian Alters, associate professor of education at McGill University, was awarded the 2003 Principal's Prize for Excellence in Teaching at McGill University. This university-wide award follows Alters's receipt in May 2003 of the College of Education's highest teaching award, the Distinguished Teaching Award.
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Marvalee Wake, NCSE Supporter and Professor Emerita of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, was elected as the president-elect of the American Institute for Biological Sciences; her term as president begins in 2005. Congratulations from all of us at NCSE!
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Do schools just test your memory?
As a middle school student I have rather unsatisfactory grades but the way I see it, I just have a bad memory.
Think about it, don't tests technically just assess what you remember and not what you actually know? I could remember that 2 + 2 = 4 but that doesn't mean I know why. I guess this doesn't count for those who actually understand the process.
Please share your opinions with me, I am here to learn.
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Nov 13 2012: ... It depends on what you commit to memory. You are correct that getting the correct answer doesn't mean you know what was being tested (i.e. if you memorize that equation), but if you solve [ X + Y = ? ] enough times you start to memorize a pattern to the solution. Such patterns are crucial to learning, since it simplifies big problems into bits that are easier to understand. Unfortunately, the only way schools can test if you've learned that is by making you solve the same problem over and over with different numbers. Similarly, other subjects do the same thing with rules for sentence structures, chemical reactions, physical interactions, musical progression, and even sports.
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"Learn the rules, so you know how to break them properly." - The Dahlia LamaNov 12 2012: Ali, schools do test memory and understanding . We do need to commit to memory certain basics to promote understanding of the concepts. For example, how did you learn to speak and write ..by memorizing the alphabets and words..unconsciously most of the time. The grammar you may have acquired by understanding. The same principle applies to all the subjects, including learning to play an instrument.Nov 19 2012: Ali,
I hope that you don't mind me putting in my two cents after you've already thanked everybody else for their opinions.
I remember very well when my time in junior high and high school. Although those times in my life are becoming more noticeably a part of my past (I graduated high school in 2007), the feelings I had about education at that time are still very fresh to me. There was one time I found myself in almost exactly your situation. One day in grade 10 math class, I stopped my teacher while we reviewed the Pythagorean Theorem (a sq.+b sq. = c sq., I don't know if you've covered that yet), when I stopped her in the middle of her explanations to ask her, "Why are we learning this? What are we ever going to use this for later on in life?" She had no great answer or insight for me. After pressing her for something meaningful she eventually said with no small amount of annoyance in her voice, "It's in the curriculum so you have to learn it!" It was from that experience that I had lost all curiosity with regard to math, and later the sciences, for several years.
It's exactly as most of the people who commented on your thread has said; memorizing the base skills are essential to understanding concepts; however, I think you're at about the point in your education where you're starting to see the structures and ideologies that are behind education as a whole. My best advice to you would be to not lose your curiosity. Math is wonderful. It's a language that speaks to us about the beauty of all things natural and created. While I study words and meaning, math speaks to me about how the world moves, and how it maintains movement in a sort of chaotic beauty. So do your memorizing practices. Take the tests that don't mark your understanding. In the meantime, try and understand things on your own terms. Think about everything you're taught, turn them over in your mind, come up with your own opinions, and then talk about them. All of a sudden school will become fun.
Nov 22 2012: Thanks for the advice! My cousin told me the same thing, and its been really helpful! Thanks for the input, I really appreciate it!
Have a good day!Nov 13 2012: This is a message for everyone who has commented on this conversation.
Thank you for your opinions. I do not want to use memory as an excuse but now I realize that it would be good for me to try harder in my studies. At least now I can use all of your advice as motivation to do better in school. Your comments have enlightened me and I greatly appreciate it. Have a nice day!Nov 13 2012: Actually there has to be a creteria for assessing learners. If it is not what it is, then it would be something else and someone else would be saying it ought to be something else.
If every learner is not given the same assessment, then someone else would be crying 'discrimination'.
There is far more to learn from school than what is taught, and much more to school than passing tests and having good grades.
Just like talent is common and it takes a couple of other things to make people exceptional, so is the school system.
Anyone that really thirsts/hungers for education would go farther than what the system offers or does, would not cling to excuses, and would focus on the pursuit of education.Nov 13 2012: If they do not encourage and explain what originality is then yes. You can learn by rote but you are only learning symbols.Nov 13 2012: Hi Ali,
What we "know" is no more than the collection of spacial and causal maps retained in our brains.
These are a kind of memory.
These maps define the basis of perception - which has another word: "belief".
we, as humans, have the capacity to share our perceptions with each other.
There are 2 types of perceptional constructs:
1. Intrinsic.
2. Extrinsic.
Intrinsic perception is based on direct obervation of our internal states and external objects/events.
Intrinsic perceptions always remain conditional on continuous observation - they can change and are adaptive.
Extrinsic perceptions are based on artificial association. They are formed as a consenses to accept the association. For instance, I can propose that a pebble associates to a sheep in my flock. The pebble is not the sheep, but if a new lamb is born, I can add a pebble to my collection, if one dies or is eaten, I can remove one. If someone asks me how many sheep are in my flock, instead of going out to count them every time I'm asked, I can simply count the pebbles in my pocket. If the person who asked also accepts my pebble/sheep association, then it has mutual communicative value.
In this example, the extrinsic association of "pebble=sheep" relies on nothing more than the association. It is rendered static - i.e. it cannot ever change without losing its communication value.
Modern schools tend to rely exclusively on static extrinsic perceptions. They rarely admit to the underlying falicy - a pebble is not a sheep.
So when you say 2 + 2 = 4, you are training the extrinsic that 2 represents one thing in the company of another same-thing (2). If the expression (2+2=4) is taught in the absensce of the intrinsic perception, it collapses into a meaningless artifact that is useful only if you are a calculator .. and not even insects would let themselves be reduced to that.
However, the enlighened teacher might explode the extrinsic perceptions into intrinsic framework. E.g. counting pebbles.Nov 13 2012: Perhaps you have addressed something that you will recognize later in your education. At elementary and middle school we are concerned with rote memory as the basis of the learning process. here is defination of rote memory:
Rote learning is a memorization technique based on repetition. The idea is that one will be able to quickly recall the meaning of the material the more one repeats it. Some of the alternatives to rote learning include meaningful learning, associative learning, and active learning.
Nothing is faster than rote learning if a formula must be learned quickly for an imminent test and rote methods can be helpful for committing an understood fact to memory. However, students who learn with understanding are able to transfer their knowledge to tasks requiring problem-solving with greater success than those who learn only by rote. And that is called critical thinking ... you will get this later in your education.
Critical thinking is hard to lock down but here are some explainations:
"the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action
"purposeful, self-regulatory judgment which results in interpretation, analysis, evaluation, and inference, as well as explanation of the evidential, conceptual, methodological, criteriological, or contextual considerations upon which that judgment is based
So, Ali, here is my answer. If I was your teacher I would test you to see if you are real smart and just bored or maybe just do not get it. In education we crawl, walk, and run ... right now you are walking ... hang in there and you will soon be running. Smart people are lucky ... the harder they work the luckier they become ... LOL
So get to work my friend.
All the best. Bob.Nov 12 2012: I don't know you personally, so I can't be sure. But if I have to go by all the other cases I have seen up close, I'd say you get bad grades because you don't work hard enough. Bad memory is an excuse -- don't take it personally, I have used the excuse too. But that's what it is.
You are right, in that understanding the concept behind various things is important, critically important in some fields of science, but
1. it is harder to test for that.
2. it is harder to get consistent results across all students taking the test.
It is nice that you are putting an effort into understanding the concepts. There is no need to cut down on that. But work harder now! Once you get older, it will get more difficult to change your habits.
Think of it this way: schools are not testing your memory. They are testing your effort.Nov 11 2012: "Do schools just test your memory?"
Take a calculus class and you will find out that memory only gets you so far, even in high school.


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Bow hunters preparing for the upcoming season should check all their gear to make sure it is in proper working order, especially tree stands and safety harnesses, before heading to the timber.
"Falls associated with tree stand use are the most common hunting incidents during the bow season," Litchfield said. "Hunters should always wear a safety harness and use caution when climbing."
Megan Wisecup, supervisor for the DNR's recreational safety program, said there are a number of tips hunters can use to prevent injury when using a tree stand.
"Make sure to select a tree that fits the tree stand recommended limits and follow the three point rule of tree stand safety – always have three points of contact to the steps or ladder before moving," she said.
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Other safety tips include using a haul line to pull gear and the unloaded firearm or bow to the stand and hunters should never climb with anything in their hands or on their back. When exiting the stand, use the haul line to lower the gear on the opposite side of the tree.
"Get familiar with the safety harness. Read the instructions for it and for the tree stand itself so you know how to use it properly and know its limitations," Wisecup said. Falls from tree stands are required to be reported to the DNR if a person seeks medical attention for an injury received while entering, exiting or sitting in a stand.
"The basic rules of tree stand safety don't apply to just bow hunters, but to firearm hunters using an elevated device or stand," she said. "We want everyone to be safe out there. The goal at the end of every hunt is to arrive home safely."
Bowhunter class
The bow hunter program is designed to teach bowhunters safe and ethical hunting techniques and to install responsible attitudes toward people, wildlife and the environment. Participants learn more about tree stand safety and urban bow hunting.
A field day portion of the online bowhunter class will be held on Oct. 7, in Vinton. The class has room for 30 participants. To sign up for the course, go to www.iowadnr.gov/training.
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As autumn days grow shorter, Iowa drivers are urged to keep a cautious eye on roadsides. In the coming weeks, whitetail deer will become more active as the 'rut' or breeding season approaches.
The early harvest also removes standing crops. As a result, deer are on the move to more wooded or brushy areas. And finally, with shorter day length, our peak driving times coincide with sunrise and sunset, when deer are active, traveling between food and cover.
Although deer vehicle collisions increase in the fall with the increase in deer movement, the good news is that over the last decade the rate of deer/vehicle collisions has declined significantly. The decline is a result of actions taken by the DNR to reduce Iowa's deer population; primarily through hunters harvesting more does.
The reduction was the intent of Iowa legislators in 2003 when they instructed the DNR to reduce deer populations. Those goals have been reached in most counties and are close to being met in remaining counties.
Deer vehicle collisions are down, even though Iowans drive an estimated 4.3 billion miles more (18.6 billion/2011) than 20 years ago.
"Last year the rate of deer killed in Iowa was down from the peak years of 2004 through 2006 and is actually similar to levels reported from the mid-1980s to mid-90s," says Tom Litchfield, forest wildlife biologist for the Iowa DNR.
"It is important to consider the number of miles driven, when looking at vehicle-deer mishaps; in particular rural miles," emphasizes Litchfield. "Insurance industry figures often overlook the fact that most miles driven on Iowa's highways are in rural areas where most deer live."
Drivers can reduce the chance of hitting a deer by remaining alert for deer crossing the road and by scanning road shoulders, especially near creeks and wooded areas.
Reducing speed slightly will also increase the amount of time the driver has to react if a deer appears on or near the road. This is especially important around dawn and dusk, when deer are more active.
In the unfortunate event that a collision cannot be avoided—it is usually safer to slow down as much as possible and hit the deer, than to veer into oncoming traffic or leave the roadway.
Turkey season
Iowa's turkey population likely benefited from an early nesting season and dry spring and summer, which is good news for turkey hunters who should expect to see more birds when fall turkey hunting seasons open next month.
The archery only fall turkey season mirrors the archery deer season: Oct. 1-Nov. 30, then closes for the shotgun deer season and reopens Dec. 17 to Jan. 10, 2013. The gun-bow fall turkey season is Oct. 15-Nov. 30.
The fall turkey seasons are often passed over while hunters pursue deer, ducks and pheasants, but it provides a good opportunity to bring kids into the sport because being noisy is one of the ways to hunt them.
"The most productive way to hunt turkeys in the fall is to find a flock, break them up by either running at them, or sending the dog in or let the kids run at them. The key is to get the birds flying in as many different directions as possible," said Todd Gosselink, forest wildlife research biologist for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.
"Turkeys are flocking birds so they will want to get back into a flock. Once they are dispersed, get the camo on, sit down, wait a few minutes and then begin to call them back," he said.
But leave most of the spring calls at home. Calling in the fall is different than in the spring. "It sounds like 'kee-kee' and you can mimic the call with a diaphragm mouth call to bring them in. It's pretty exciting," he said.
Deer bowhunters and pheasant hunters should consider picking up a tag as well, Gosselink said, not because they plan specifically target turkeys, but more as an opportunistic harvest.
"Hunters who will be around wooded areas and our wooded riparian corridors in Iowa's more agricultural areas may have the opportunity to shoot a turkey this fall," he said.
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With all the activity in the forests and fields, hunters should plan to wear blaze orange when they head to and from the field.
Fall turkey hunting has similar shotgun and bow hunting regulations, with the exception that in the fall, hunters may harvest a bird of either sex. In the spring, it's bearded bird only. Rifles and muzzleloading rifles are not allowed and shotguns must be between 10-gauge to 20-gauge. Bow hunters are under the same broad-head restrictions for turkey as they are for deer.
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How To Organize A Protest
Posted On June 15th, 2012 by Sam
Editor's Note: This is a guest post submitted to us by Alyssa Vincent. As Occupy Together is rebuilding to help people plug into the movement and give them the tools and resources they need to become engaged, we thought this would be a great guest feature to highlight.
The Occupy Wall Street movement is back in force now that warmer weather is here. The movement's critics say Occupy demonstrations are still unorganized, begging the question, "How do you arrange a protest?"
I asked Mike Mann, founder and author of Crime.org, how he coordinates protests for his organization. He had this valuable advice:
Step 1: Set a Goal and Identify Your Audience
It's important to identify what you want to accomplish with your protest. Are you trying to raise awareness? Are you trying to change a policy or law? Once you identify the goal, you then must identify your audience. If you're trying to raise awareness, then the general public may be your target audience. However, if you're trying to change a policy or law, your target audience will be much different.
Step 2: Determine the Forum and Tone of your Protest
It's important to determine a medium for your protest, and how the demonstration will proceed. Maybe the Internet would be the best forum for your demonstration. It worked well for those protesting the SOPA legislation. Perhaps your protest is better suited in a park or on a street corner. It depends on your goal.
Also determine the tone of your protest. Are you going to have a silent sit-in, or will your protest be loud and in your face? The tone will vary depending on what you are protesting and your goal.
Step 3: Set the Location, Date and Time of the Protest
Sometimes the location for your protest will be obvious, other times it won't. If you are protesting a law, a government building where the law is being drafted would be an ideal location. But if you are protesting a business with many locations, pick the busiest spot. Check with city officials if you are expecting a large crowd.
The date and time will largely depend on your goal. If you are trying to raise awareness among the general public, then the weekend when people are out and about would be the best time. If you are targeting business executives, weekdays would perhaps be most beneficial.
Step 4: Prepare Content for the Protest
Once you have the location, date and time nailed down, it's time to start creating content for the demonstration. Make picket signs and pamphlets to let people know what you are protesting. If your protest is online, create images and videos with embed codes so they can be easily shared. Finally, refer people to a website before, during and after the event, and put the Web address on all protest materials.
Step 5: Promote the Protest
Depending on your budget, there are many ways to promote a demonstration. From billboards to passing out fliers, there is something for everyone. Some low-cost things you can do to promote your protest include writing a press release, contacting the local media, utilizing social media and asking like-minded groups to use their resources to help spread the word.
Step 6: Stay Positive
Don't get discouraged if you're the only one who shows up — ride out the protest solo. You may have hecklers, but it's important not to get caught up in arguing, hate or negativity. Other people observe your behavior, and you want to be respectful to everyone. The biggest mistake you could make is getting discouraged and feeling like what you're doing isn't making a difference. Stick with it. You might not change anyone's mind during the protest, but understand you're planting a seed that could grow.
Whether you're planning a small local protest, or something more large scale, these basic steps will get you started. Don't let a lack of knowledge stand in the way of voicing your opinion, it's your First Amendment right to protest, don't be afraid to exercise it.
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