You and I are Past Our Dancing Days

Operating systems have grown in size and functionality. Today's many flavours of Unix provide a multi-user environment with protection, address spaces, and attempts to allocate resources fairly to users competing for them, They provide processes and threads, mechanisms for synchronization and memory sharing, blocking and nonblocking system calls, and a complex file system. Since it was first introduced, Unix has grown more then a factor twenty in size. Several operating systems now consist of a microkernel, surrounded by user-space services [Accetta et al., 1986; Mullender et al., 1990; Rozier et al., 1988]. Together they provide the functionality of the operating system. This operating system structure provides an opportunity to make operating systems even larger. The trend for operating systems to grow more and more baroque was signalled more than a decade ago [Feldman, 1980], but has continued unabated until, today, we have OSF/1, the most baroque Unix system ever. And we have Windows/NT as a demonstration that MS-DOS also needed to be replaced by something much bigger and a little better.\ud In this position paper, I am asking what community we serve with our operating systems research. Should we continue doing this, or can we make ourselves more useful to society and industry by using our experience in operating systems in new environments.\ud I argue that there is very little need for bigger and better operating systems; that, in fact, most cPus will never run an operating system at all; and that our experience in operating systems will be better applied to designing new generations of distributed and ubiquitous applications

Leadership Trails: Lessons from the Lakota Sun Dance

This essay argues that while having a vision as a leader is important, that often means that the future is afforded more value than the past and the present. The past demonstrates the leadership trails, or the evidence for what has and has not worked for the organization as the leaders and members enact the leadership vision. Here I offer a leadership model that embraces leadership trails, one based on a decade of research on traditional Lakota life, particularly their most sacred ceremony, the Sun Dance. The Lakota-based leadership model consists of six elements: mitakuye oyasin (“we are all related”), respect, bravery, generosity, fortitude, and wisdom

Spartan Daily, May 10, 2002

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Volume 18, Number 2 – January 1936

Volume 18, Number 2 – January 1936. 52 pages including covers and advertisements. Frontispiece: Winter Editorials S. T. L., A Birth-Night Schriever, Donald C., Dancing Cheek-to-Cheek Beaudro, William George, Jovial Embroidery Murray, Jr. Herbert F., The Seeker Sought The New Year McKenna, William F., The Economic Fallacy of Birth Control Devenish, Jr. Joseph E., Disillusion: OHNE, The Old Year Paul, Santi, Paul, The Man Walsh, Laurence J., A Minion of Midas Sullivan, Jr., William J., Tryout Healy, R. C., Romanticism -- A Personal View Hughes, E. Riley, How Tomes Have Changed! Cap, Gown and Halo The Reviewing Stand Murray, Herbert F., Philosophy of Life Campus Spotlight Musty Time From Musty Papers McInnis, Francis, The Court of Spor

"Oh! What a tangled web we weave": Englishness, communicative leisure, identity work and the cultural web of the English folk morris dance scene

In this paper, we consider the relationship between Englishness and the English folk morris dance scene, considering how the latter draws from and reinforces the former. Englishness is considered within the context of the cultural web; a tool more often applied to business management but linked to a sociological viewpoint here. By doing so, we draw the connections between this structured business model and the cultural identity of Englishness. Then, we use the framework of the cultural web and theories of leisure, culture and identity to understand how morris dancers see their role as dancers and ‘communicative leisure’ agents in consciously defending Englishness, English traditions and inventions, the practices and traditions of folk and morris, and the various symbolic communities they inhabit. We argue that most morris dancers in our research become and maintain their leisured identities as dancers because they are attracted to the idea of tradition – even if that tradition is invented and open to change

Spartan Daily, December 3, 2004

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Spartan Daily, December 8, 2003

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