Month: July 2012 | the Wakefield Doctrine

Hey clarks! (for the moment) the Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not for them (3 personality types: all the people you meet today!)

July 22, 2012 By clarkscottroger

Welcome to… never mind, Today’s Post is meant to be read by the clarklike Readers, we can dispense with the following 2 parts of the traditional Wakefield Doctrine Post opening:

we already know that the Wakefield Doctrine is the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers
the ‘Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine!’ greeting, to a clark, is like one of those hypersonic dog whistles, we ‘look around’ at the other Readers and see that they seem to be smiling, so we assume the beginning of the Post is some sort of friendly, good-feeling generating thing…
…otherwise, we’re already half down the Page, looking for bullet lists

So why the clark-centric approach today? Well, two main reasons:

after writing this blog for 3 years ( 1.5 years in scottian age and 3 months by the way rogers perceive time), we look around and see that virtually everyone who is active with this thing is a clark
something that Molly said last night on the Saturday Night Drive (paraphrasing here): ” I would never tell people I am an expert at horse training, even though I have, in fact, trained horses from beginning to end, under different circumstances, all quite successfully, but I still don’t know as much about it as I would like to.

Damn!

If I am serious about this Post being for the clarks out there, I will surpass on the explanations of: (the) ‘Damn!’ and the reason why those 13 words (in italics) are so powerful.¹

To the new clarklike Readers (who are reading their very first Wakefield Doctrine blog Post: 3 personality types, 3 personal realities, accurate description of each, disparate qualities within each are connected, a simple, fun way of the seeing the world as the other person does that some of your friends will enjoy.

That will suffice for most of the new clarklike Readers.

This Post is not about disappointment about how things are going in our efforts to attract and educate people to the uses of the Wakefield Doctrine, roger
This Post is not a cry for help to have someone tell us how we can do what you mis-assume we are saying we should do, scott
This Post is for those of us who have found the fun and use in this Doctrine (and those yet to stumble upon the Wakefield Doctrine) (and) we say… ‘turn in your Outsider badge at the door, this is the house that (a) clark …. ( err, was walking along and saw a pile of building materials, and looked and called out and there didn’t seem to be anyone using the stuff, and (while we have the time) decided that we might as well see what this house would look like and somehow, even though we do not know as much about building houses as we should, the house came out pretty good and though we thought that the neighbors would be pleased and grateful for the nice addition to the neighborhood, we might as well use it ourselves…we built it after all, we don’t need no steenkin building permit) ….built.

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine

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1) if you really want to know, then write us a Comment and we will respond with an explanation that will not only provide you with understanding but will enhance your ability to improve your own damn life!²

2) that is, if you want to improve your (damn) life³

3) no, scott, roger don’t get upset, we are not talking about you! lol

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What were they talking about? the Wakefield Doctrine looks at the ‘other blogs’

July 21, 2012 By clarkscottroger

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of...)

No time! Gotta get a look at the blogs of all of the FOTD’s¹ and still meet a client at the SHGC and get ready for tonight’s Saturday Night Drive!! ( hey Jasmine! call us girl²)

DS#1 at Girlie on the Edge1: “don’t look a gift horse in the mouth”

This phrase, it seems, can be traced back to St. Jerome, who referred to it as a common saying in his introductory remarks to the Epistle to the Ephesians in his translation of the New Testament: “Equi donati dentes non inspiciuntur.” A rather mangled literal translation would go something like this: “A given horse’s teeth are not inspected.” This is evident from parsing the original Latin sentence: Equi (masculine genitive singular) donati (perfect passive (supine) masculine genitive singular) dentes (masculine accusative plural) non (negative adverb) inspiciuntur (3rd person plural present passive indicative). It is likely that English versions are translations of this original Latin; furthermore, the Latin form seems to explain the use of “given” (geuen) in the 1546 version.

From early modern English given horse: “No man ought to looke a geuen hors in the mouth.” —John Heywood, 1546.

Horses’ gums recede as they age making their teeth appear longer (hence the term, “long in the tooth”). Inspecting the teeth of a horse given as a gift was considered ungrateful. It would mean that recipient is trying to see if the horse is old (undesirable) or young (more desirable).

The substitution of “gift” for “given” occurred in 1663 in Butler’s Hudibras, because the iambic tetrameter required a shortening:

He ne’er consider’d it, as loth

To look a Gift-horse in the mouth.

(source: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/don’t_look_a_gift_horse_in_the_mouth

the Progenitor roger at the Secessionist Rag: Food? you want to know about food??!

Sam J. Porcello (1935 or 1936 – May 12, 2012) was an American food scientist who worked at Nabisco for thirty-four years. He is particularly noted for his work on the modern Oreo cookie. Porcello held five patents directly related to the Oreo. In particular, Porcello was the inventor of the white Oreo cookie creme-filling. His work earned him the nickname, “Mr. Oreo.”

Porcello was born and raised in Newark, New Jersey. He also lived in Wayne, New Jersey. He and his family moved to Tom’s River, New Jersey, in 1974, where he resided for the rest of his life. Porcello initially worked as a teacher for a short time during his early career. He then worked for the former The Charms Company, a candy manufacturer. He was nearly hired by a major cosmetics company, but his candidacy ended when the company learned that Porcello was color blind.

Porcello joined Nabisco after his rejection by the cosmetics industry. When he was hired, Nabisco promised that he could eventually earn a salary of up to $12,000 dollars per year if he was successful. He began his Nabisco career at the company’s plant inFair Lawn, New Jersey. He later worked at Nabisco’s corporate headquarters in East Hanover, New Jersey.

Porcello joined Nabisco’s research and development department, which develops new lines of snack foods. He was considered one of the world’s leading experts on cocoa, which is used to make chocolate. He was given the title, “principal scientist,” during his career at Nabisco. The Oreo cookie, has been sold since 1912 (450 billion Oreos have been sold since their introduction), but it was Porcello who invented the modern creme-filling for Oreos and the Double Stuf Oreo, which has extra filling.

In total, Porcello held five patents related to his work on the Oreo. He also developed a product line of Oreos enrobed in white chocolate and dark chocolate. Porcello found the particular type of chocolate which he used for chocolate-covered Oreos while attending a food industry trade show in Europe.

Aside from his work with the Oreo, Porcello developed other Nabisco snack products, including SnackWells. His position required him to travel extensively in search of new potential products and ingredients. According to his son, Curtis, Porcello often brought new snacks home with him to see how his family liked or disliked the potential new products. Porcello was not a huge eater of Oreo cookies, preferring to eat the cookie without dunking it in milk.

Porcello left the company as its principal food scientist in 1993 after thirty-four years. Additionally, he was a longtime volunteer with ACDI/VOCA, for which he helped create a food and program and company in Thailand.

Sam Porcello died May 12, 2012, at the age of 76. He was survived by his wife, Karen; two sons, David and Curtis; two grandchildren, and his dog, Évry (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Porcello

Ms. AKH over at: Three Personalities of the Wakefield Doctrine: What? I didn’t say anything!! (thats it, just a little closer now….)

A contract is an agreement entered into voluntarily by two parties or more with the intention of creating a legal obligation, which may have elements in writing, though contracts can be made orally. The remedy for breach of contract can be “damages” or compensation of money. In equity, the remedy can be specific performance of the contract or an injunction. Both of these remedies award the party at loss the “benefit of the bargain” or expectation damages, which are greater than mere reliance damages, as in promissory estoppel. The parties may be natural persons or juristic persons. A contract is a legally enforceable promise or undertaking that something will or will not occur. The word promise can be used as a legal synonym for contract, although care is required as a promise may not have the full standing of a contract, as when it is an agreement without consideration.

Contract law varies greatly from one jurisdiction to another, including differences in common law compared to civil law, the impact of received law, particularly from England in common law countries, and of law codified in regional legislation. Regarding Australian Contract Law for example, there are 40 relevant acts which impact on the interpretation of contract at the Commonwealth (Federal / national) level, and an additional 26 acts at the level of the state of NSW. In addition there are 6 international instruments or conventions which are applicable for international dealings, such as the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (Vienna Sales Convention) (wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract )

(what do you mean ‘out of space’??! this is a blog! there ain’t no such thing as ‘out of space’!! Keep scrolling!!)

Molly at Journey (nah…better luck finding her over at ‘the FaceBook’ she do make them sit up and pay attention!)

Steampunk is influenced by, and often adopts the style of, the 19th-century scientific romances of Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, and Mary Shelley.

20th century precursors

Several works of art and fiction significant to the development of the genre were produced before the genre had a name. Titus Alone (1959), by Mervyn Peake, anticipated many of the tropes of steampunk. Remedios Varo’s paintings combine elements of Victorian dress, fantasy, and technofantasy imagery. One of the earliest mainstream manifestations of the steampunk ethos was the original CBS television series The Wild Wild West (1965–69), which inspired the film Wild Wild West (1999). The film Brazil (1985) was an important early cinematic influence toward creating the genre.

Origin of the term

Although many works now considered seminal to the genre were published in the 1960s and 1970s, the term steampunk originated in the late 1980s as a tongue in cheek variant of cyberpunk. It seems to have been coined by science fiction author K. W. Jeter, who was trying to find a general term for works by Tim Powers (The Anubis Gates, 1983); James Blaylock (Homunculus, 1986); and himself (Morlock Night, 1979, and Infernal Devices, 1987)—all of which took place in a 19th-century (usually Victorian) setting and imitated conventions of such actual Victorian speculative fiction as H. G. Wells’ The Time Machine. In a letter to science fiction magazine Locus, printed in the April 1987 issue, Jeter wrote:

Dear Locus,Enclosed is a copy of my 1979 novel Morlock Night; I’d appreciate your being so good as to route it Faren Miller, as it’s a prime piece of evidence in the great debate as to who in “the Powers/Blaylock/Jeter fantasy triumvirate” was writing in the “gonzo-historical manner” first. Though of course, I did find her review in the March Locus to be quite flattering.Personally, I think Victorian fantasies are going to be the next big thing, as long as we can come up with a fitting collective term for Powers, Blaylock and myself. Something based on the appropriate technology of the era; like “steampunks”, perhaps…

—K.W. Jeter

Modern steampunk

While Jeter’s Morlock Night and Infernal Devices, Power’s Anubis Gates, and Blaylock’s Lord Kelvin’s Machine were the first novels to which Jeter’s neologism would be applied, they gave the term little thought at the time.^[9] However, they were far from the first modern science fiction writers to speculate on the development of steam-based technology or alternate histories. Keith Laumer’s Worlds of the Imperium (1962) and Ronald W. Clark’s Queen Victoria’s Bomb (1967) apply modern speculation to past-age technology and society. Michael Moorcock’s Warlord of the Air (1971) is another early example. Harry Harrison’s novel A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah! (1973) portrays a British Empire of an alternate year 1973, full of atomic locomotives, coal-powered flying boats, ornate submarines, and Victorian dialogue. In February 1980 Richard A. Lupoff and Steve Stiles published the first “chapter” of their 10-part comic strip The Adventures of Professor Thintwhistle and His Incredible Aether Flyer.

The first use of the word in a title was in Paul Di Filippo’s 1995 Steampunk Trilogy, consisting of three short novels: “Victoria,” “Hottentots,” and “Walt and Emily,” which, respectively, imagine the replacement of Queen Victoria by a human/newt clone, an invasion of Massachusetts by Lovecraftian monsters, and a love affair between Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk )

Nell Rose (who is all over ‘the Hubpages’ seems to have started something at blogger or gblog or whatever the hell they call it! go here be sure to tell ‘er that the Doctrine sent ya )

Abdominal exercises are useful for building the abdominal muscles. This is useful for improving performance with certain sports, back pain, taking punches. Abdominal muscle exercises are known to increase the strength and endurance of the abdominal muscles as well (Vispute et. al.). It has been a highly disputed topic whether or not abdominal exercises have any impact on the reduction of abdominal fat. The study by Vispute et. al. found that in fact doing abdominal exercise does not reduce abdominal fat. To reduce abdominal fat one must create a deficit in energy expenditure and caloric intake, doing abdominal exercises alone were not enough to reduce the girth of the abdomen (Vispute et. al.) (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdominal_exercise )

Mel (well, the tbwfkaM³) at Mostly Teachable … the guy claims to live in ‘Michigan’, what more can we say?

The name Marathon comes from the legend of Pheidippides, a Greek messenger. The legend states that he was sent from the battlefield of Marathon to Athens to announce that the Persians had been defeated in theBattle of Marathon (in which he had just fought), which took place in August or September, 490 BC. It is said that he ran the entire distance without stopping and burst into the assembly, exclaiming “νικωμεν’(nikomen)”, We have won), before collapsing and dying. The account of the run from Marathon to Athens first appears in Plutarch’s On the Glory of Athens in the 1st century AD which quotes from Heraclides Ponticus’s lost work, giving the runner’s name as either Thersipus of Erchius or Eucles. Lucian of Samosata (2nd century AD) also gives the story but names the runner Philippides (not Pheidippides).

There is debate about the historical accuracy of this legend. The Greek historian Herodotus, the main source for the Greco-Persian Wars, mentions Pheidippides as the messenger who ran from Athens to Sparta asking for help, and then ran back, a distance of over 240 kilometres (150 mi) each way. In some Herodotus manuscripts the name of the runner between Athens and Sparta is given as Philippides. Herodotus makes no mention of a messenger sent from Marathon to Athens, and relates that the main part of the Athenian army, having already fought and won the grueling battle, and fearing a naval raid by the Persian fleet against an undefended Athens, marched quickly back from the battle to Athens, arriving the same day.

In 1879, Robert Browning wrote the poem Pheidippides. Browning’s poem, his composite story, became part of late-19th century popular culture and was accepted as a historic legend.

Mount Penteli stands between Marathon and Athens, which means that, if Pheidippides actually made his famous run after the battle, he had to run around the mountain, either from the north or from the south. The latter and more obvious route matches almost exactly the modern Marathon-Athens highway, which follows the lay of the land southwards from Marathon Bay and along the coast, then a gentle but protracted uphill westwards towards the eastern approach to Athens, between the foothills of Mounts Hymettus and Penteli, and then mildly downhill to Athens proper. This route, as it existed when the Olympics were revived in 1896, was approximately 40 kilometres (25 mi), but was later extended to the current standard marathon distance of 42.195 kilometres (26 miles 385 yards, approximately 26.22 miles). However there have been suggestions that Pheidippides might have followed another route: a westward climb along the eastern and northern slopes of Mount Penteli to the pass of Dionysos, and then a straight southward downhill path to Athens. This route is considerably shorter, some 35 kilometres (22 mi), but features a very steep initial climb of more than 5 kilometres (3.1 mi). (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon)

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(the) Tritone Paradox and three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine ( the things we will do/write to avoid working on the book )

July 19, 2012 By clarkscottroger

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

OK, so we drew the attention of the clarks yesterday, both with the Post (and it’s excellent video of Giada, Alton and Bobby totally illustrating the three personality types) and with the photo that Molly posted in ‘the FaceBook’ (reproduced here with assumed permission)

(You should go to the Facebook for the Comments! we heard from ‘near ever body’ Nell, Jasmine(!)* DS#1, ‘KH and a number of Comment-shy Facebookians…)

Tritone paradox?
You know how you read something and lights start to go off in your head, connections among ideas that are seemingly un-related? Well, this morning I was browsing through some youtube videos and found myself watching a video that promised to teach me to play the correct ‘bass lines’ for modern gospel music. Well, at some point in lesson, this teacher-fellow, mentioned tension and resolution (“…when we say, praise the Lawd, thats a Fifth note and the tension wants us to get back to the First note, Amen! “). He went on to describe what triads, are and (the) role they play in this kind of music and thats when the lights started flashing.
Suddenly, it was “hey! triads!! that means three! …and what do we know that has three? the Wakefield Doctrine!”

So, off I went, clicking my way through google search results, trying to learn enough about tension and resolution to add to how we talk about the three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine. Well, I got as far as:

“…the Wakefield Doctrine maintains that we all are born with the capability of living in the reality of the outsider (clarks) the predator (scotts) or the member of the herd (rogers), and, at a fairly early age, we settle into one of these three. However, we never lose the ability to experience the world as ‘the other two’ do. In other words, although we spent virtually all our time in our predominant worldview (lets say, as a clark), there are moments and times (usually under some form of duress) when we look up and see the world as a scott …or a roger. This usually is a very fleeting experience, but it explains why many new Readers will say, “I read the Doctrine and I can see that I must be a roger, but there are time when I am acting just like these scottian (‘sco-shun’) people! What gives?”

What gives is that you see the world as you would (have) if you were one of the other two types and you act accordingly. (Not very skillfully, but appropriately …this matter of the skill involved in each of the three types is for another Post.) You return to your pre-dominant type pretty much right away, but there is that attraction between and among the three worldviews that is the ‘tie-in’ with today’s Post Title.

…as to what a tritone paradox is? Why doncha ask the Progenitor roger? he the reckers of intelligence in musical matters, I just follow the flashing lights in my head!

…for you clarks (and a handful of rogers who think they are not being watched, here is a little more commonplace example of this, whatever the hell it is, music)

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‘…the miracle of 5 loaves and 2 fishes’, the Wakefield Doctrine and improving the quality of your life

July 18, 2012 By clarkscottroger

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

Yes, we really did use a reference to one of the most famous of the miracles in the New Testament in the title of today’s Post.

Before our more literal minded Readers ( yeah, the rogers, who else? ) get themselves worked up, lets get right to ‘the statement that is being made’. Everyone has heard about the miracle of the loaves and fishes. We (just) learned from our friends at wikipedia that this is the only miracle that is repeated/re-told in all 4 Gospels. Quick re-cap of the story for our non-judeo/christian/Western culture Friends:

This is also known as the “miracle of the five loaves and two fish” given that the Gospel of John reports that five small barley loaves and two small fish supplied by a boy were used by Jesus to feed a multitude.

According to the Gospels, when Jesus heard that John the Baptist had been killed, he withdrew by boat privately to a solitary place near Bethsaida.The crowds followed Jesus on foot from the towns. When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them and healed their sick. As evening approached, the disciples came to him and said, “This is a remote place, and it’s already getting late. Send the crowds away, so they can go to the villages and buy themselves some food.”Jesus replied, “They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat.”
“We have here only five loaves of bread and two fish,” they answered.
“Bring them here to me,” he said.

Jesus directed the people to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves. Then he gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people. They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over. The number of those who ate was about five thousand men, besides women and children. ( our friends at Wikipedia )

The story is told and re-told for various purposes and to make a variety of points…true generosity is limitless, the power of sharing and the nutritional importance of seafood as a source of Omega-3 fatty acids. But what lesson can we take from this story that would help us with (using the Wakefield Doctrine) to improve the quality of our own lives? Two things:

the Wakefield Doctrine is for you and not for them
there is no single, global strategy for improving the quality of your life
(and) it does not have to make sense in order to work

When we say, ‘the Wakefield Doctrine is for you and not for them‘ we mean that it (Doctrine) cannot be used to change the behavior of other people in our lives. We sometimes look around and think, ‘My life would be better if only so and so was different’ or ‘I would be able to do this, if only they would not do that’. The Wakefield Doctrine lets you understand why people act the way that they do. That’s it.

The Doctrine maintains that you have the capability of acting as the other two personality types do. If you are a clark, there may be times when you would be best served acting like a scott. If you are a roger then there are times to be clarklike.

And, most of the time, knowing about clarks and scotts and rogers is just plain fun as you watch people act just the way you read about in this blog!

Get it?

No? well pass me the fish sticks anyway!

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…and while we wait for the multitude to gather, this brief word (with handy ‘Reminders’) from the Wakefield Doctrine

July 16, 2012 By clarkscottroger

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

This, ‘discover a unique, useful and fun insight into human behavior and turn it into something useable for people everywhere‘ business is not as easy as it looks! Now, mind you, I am not complaining! Rather, I would like to think that I am exploring my rogerian aspect. (Reminder: we all have the capacity to live in one of the three worldviews but even when we settle on one, the other two remain a potential for each of us.)
This rogerian perspective is becoming increasingly important because we are getting to the point, in our efforts, where we have to develop an approach that is accessible to a broader cross-section of the blog-reading, personality-type-liking Reader who might be looking for a new approach to self-improvement. (Reminder: you Readers and the DownSprings are not the typical blog-reading, personality-type etc… etc… person that we are referring to! You mutants are the exception, you have the flexibility of intelligence, not to mention a high secondary or primary clarklike aspect and so, you are able to untangle this colander of rhetorical pasta and figure what the hell we are talking about.)
The ‘mass audience’ that I am referring to is the demographic who can realize the greatest benefit from this here Doctrine here.

If this Post seems a little…. self-critical, it is not intended that way. Rather, it is more about trying to see what we are doing here, from the ‘first time Readers’ perspective.
We all know that the Wakefield Doctrine is not for everyone. We all know that the Wakefield Doctrine is not easy to apply to our lives.
We all know that the ‘presentation’ in this blog tends to range from ‘lol, I get it!’ to ‘wtf??!’.
But at the end of each day, I find myself with the simple realization that the Wakefield Doctrine is a unique, useful and entertaining insight into human behavior and it is attractive because we all are driven to understand why people do the things that they do. That’s why we have a Post today.

…now, if you ask the question, ‘why is there a blog (not to mention hats and tee shirts!!) in the first place?’ then it gets a little more… weird? eccentric? very damn cool! The best answer I can come up with is, ” I am not sure, except it is a clark thing” (Reminder: the Wakefield Doctrine is concerned with the worldview of people, not a list of the traits or likes or dislikes. Want a very simple overview of the Doctrine that you will not understand? (unless, that is, you already get it)… the three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine are nothing more than labels for the personality of the person who lives in one of the three characteristic worldviews. In other words, even if you are a roger, were you to be dropped into the predator-prey reality of the scottian personality type when you were 4 years old, you would act and look and sound and behave like a scott! If you were dropped into the ‘outsider’ existence of the clarks, then you would now be indistinguishable from any other clark. What we call the personality types: clark or scott or roger are merely the appropriate responses to the world that you are experiencing.

Now that you have a sense of how laid-back and easy going Monday Mornings are on ‘the planet clark‘, maybe you rogers will fuckin lighten up and get your heads out of your sanctimonious asses and see that the world does not revolve around you ….and scotts? a little less chewing on everyone and everything you encounter would be a good way to go, I personally guarantee that you will not starve if you don’t try to eat or hump or piss on everything you encounter this morning, …and clarks, jeez guys! sure you’re creative and we know that you know that the world thinks you’re weird, but you know it’s just because you see so much that others don’t see… guess what? you are weird and as long as you keep trying to explain why you think you are different, you will never be happy and then, just like scotts and rogers you will get old and die. yeah, we know how comfortable you are with that idea… 411 here: as you get older you get simpler….a simpler version of what you are when you are young: the scott in the nursing home is a loud, unpleasantly aggressive person that the staff pretends is ‘amusing’ and the rogers are just plain mean, in an unctuous sort of way and clarks? hey, you’re the ones with the amazing imagination! you tell us.