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|Survey Finds Auto Insurance Premiums in San Fernando Not Among The Highest in L.A. County
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|Thursday, 10 April 2014 02:22
Auto insurance premiums are not inexpensive anywhere in the state of California. But compared to other cities and counties, the insurance rates in San Fernando — if not a bargain — are not that bad.
According to a report released by researchers at wallethub.com on Tuesday, April 8, the average yearly premium cost for the 91340 zip code ranged from $1,398.34, for young male drivers, experienced female drivers and/or family car insurance, to $769. 48 for other levels of the insured including teen drivers, and experienced male and female drivers single or married.
In Los Angeles county, the average yearly costs be as high as $1,913 in the 90010 zip code, and as low as $735.49 in the 90022 zip code.
Simi Valley, the next closest area to the San Fernando Valley listed in the survey, had an average premium rate of $1,262.27.
The report was compiled using public filings on record with the California Department of Insurance, reviewing premium data for seven auto insurance companies collectively representing 38 percent of the total California auto insurance market. These insurers are: Allstate Insurance Company, Geico General Insurance Company, Mercury Casualty, State Farm Mutual, Progressive, SafeCo, Farmers Insurance Exchange.
The analysis included information for all areas in California that are served by all seven insurance companies, encompassing 58 counties and 1,831 zip codes and representing 99.9 percent of the populated areas of the state. mInsurers use multiple variables to determine auto insurance pricing. In order to assess the impact of the variables individually, we used a base case, as defined below, and then changed one variable (age, marital status, annual mileage, etc.) at a time.
The analysis, the report said, "reveals that insurance costs vary based on a number of factors," ranging from the expected – driving experience and traffic violations – to the somewhat surprising – where you live and the characteristics of your region.
"With over 22 million registered drivers and 15,000 miles of highway, you can see that California definitely is in love with driving! However, one accident every three minutes and 15 seconds means you need to have auto insurance," said Sonia Garrison, research manager.
"Be careful when you do so," Garrison continued. "Read reviews and compare rates for several companies, and make an informed decision. Keep in mind that premiums are influenced by more than your driving record — age, make, model and year of the vehicle, annual mileage, security (i.e., alarms) upgrades, safety (i.e., airbags), and even where you live and work. If you have questions about what factors into a premium, make certain you ask and understand the answer before committing."
Los Angeles had the highest annual rate among the 58 counties — $1,584.61 (based on an experienced female driver with no accidents within the past five years). The county with the lowest premium average? San Luis Obispo, at $1,013.77.
Glendale, at $1824.93, had the highest premium rate among the 100 top California cities surveyed (based on population). Santa Maria had the lowest premiums for a city at $997.47.
Other data released in the report included:
— Using a baseline of $1,268.17 for drivers at age 37, a driver age 16 could have premiums as high as $3,998.59 while drivers aged 55 could pay a low of $1,149.49;
— Latinos living in zip codes where the specified minority population is more than 50 percent pay an average $1,348; in zip codes where the minority population is less than 10 percent, that cost drops to $1,210. For African Americans, the average cost in the more than 50 percent minority population is $1,655, and $1,246 in the less than 10 percent minority population. For Asian Americans, the two average costs are $1,372 and $1,223;
— The occupations with the lowest average premium rates were engineers and scientists/ researchers ($1,126.92), and teachers ($1,135.21). The occupations with the highest average rates were homemakers, retirees, or those self-employed ($1,268.17).


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As one of the most eminent western scholars of Islam, Annemarie Schimmel is still held in high esteem in the Islamic world. But despite being a kind of a mystic herself, the German got entangled in the fraught relations between East and West. Ten years after her death, Stefan Wild takes stock of her life and workMore
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CBS reported during the broadcast that the injury appeared to be serious. Bennett tore his ACL in the same knee during practice in 2012.
This season, the junior has 13 receptions for 162 yards and two touchdowns. At the time of his injury in 2012, he was the Bulldogs' leading receiver.
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When Zundouya ramen opened recently in Kurashiki, I could not help but noticing the long line at the door and the packed parking. It left me wondering if this new ramen shop was any good and my curiosity was rewarded by a great bowl of ramen. I am warning you there seem to be a line in front of that shop the minute they open at 11 AM.
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Yashi Tonkatsu in Kurashiki
If you happen to be anywhere near the Sasaoki area of Kurashiki, Yashi is the perfect place to eat a decent tonkatsu (deep fried pork cutlet). If you are a bit familiar with Kurashiki, Sasaoki is the area near the big Edion electronic store.
Nyan Nyan Chinese Food
Finding great Chinese food in Kurashiki or Okayama has always been a great challenge which I am proud to undertake whenever I have a bit of time. I came upon Nyan Nyan a few years ago and decided to write about it since it's a great place for lunch and the food stands out more then the drab grey building.
Tweet Rocka
When I got to Tweet Rocka, which is only a short walk from the historical center of Kurashiki, I asked my wife:
-Are you sure this is a coffee shop?
-Yes, look at the sign, it says Coffee.
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Koba Coffee Kurashiki
Koba Coffee is a brand new coffee roaster located in the heart of the old Bikan area in Kurashiki. It's a bit on the edge of the old historic area on one of the smaller streets near Ivy Square, but it's worth the trip. Kurashiki is such a nice place, so it's always fun to play tourist in my own town.
Union Bread Kurashiki
Union Bread has been for a couple of years my go to place in Kurashiki for great bread, but I somehow never posted anything about it. It's not too late to recommend this great little bakery built inside two shipping containers.
Café et Restaurant Vingt-Cinq Kurashiki
When I left home this Saturday for a dinner with my family in Kurashiki, I didn't really know where I was going. Let's call this a culinary blind date and Restaurant Vingt-Cinq which means "25″ in French turned out to be an awsome date.
New Kurashiki Beer Tei
I recently wrote about a nice little beer shop located in Kurashiki and they recently moved right in the heart of Bikan in the former Kibidote bar.
Boulangerie & Cafe Mugi
I've been buying bread at boulangerie Mugi pretty much since they opened, but I had never ventured on the second floor of this beautifully renovated building in the heart of the Bikan area in Kurashiki City.
Café Un deux comme chez vous
Café Un deux comme chez vous opens only 12 days a month and I still don't understand why after going there twice in the same weekend. If you don't speak French, Un deux comme chez vous means "One Two Like your Home" and the place is indeed very homey. The name might be as weird as the opening hours but after eating their cake, I could not care less.
Shittora Korean Restaurant
Tamashima is right across the river from where I live and when I heard about Shittora, a Korean restaurant, I didn't wait too long to go and try it. I always appreciate when I get suggestions online and this one turned out to be a good one.
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The Bucks Herald's brilliant photographer Derek Pelling, who leaves the paper on Friday, showcases his favourite pictures of the last seven days.
Derek is moving on after more than 16 years at the Herald.
He has set up his own business, www.derekpellingphotography.co.uk, which will cover all types of photographic needs including weddings, events and press.
Also included in his pictures of the week are a few of his favourite pictures from his time at the paper. See his comment below (village boy).


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FSU faces federal probe due to fallout of sexual assault allegations
TALLAHASSEE -- Fallout from the sexual assault allegations into FSU's Heisman winning quarterback is ongoing - 16 months after the alleged incident occurred.
A federal probe could land the university in some serious trouble.
In the same week Florida State's National Championship football team was honored at the Capitol, the university is being investigated by the United States Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights. The probe stems from fallout from the Jameis Winston sexual assault investigation from last year.
The Heisman winning quarterback had no criminal charges brought against him. The federal department of wants to know if the university violated a Title IX law. Title 9 requires the institution to "promptly respond to sexual violence complaints"
If Florida State is found to have violated the law, they could lose their federal funding.
It's never happened before. But Title IX lawyer Rick Johnson says don't count it out.
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"Oh it's serious stuff, and the fact that federal funds have never been taken away doesn't mean that they won't ever be taken away, and there's a publicity downside."
Florida State's response was short. A spokeswoman stated "Florida state has been notified of the OCR investigation; however, due to the federal and state privacy laws the university cannot comment.
Students on campus want the issue to be over.
Tyler Zimmerman
"I'm just kinda tired of hearing about it for the most part. What's done is done I feel like."
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"I thought it was over and done with. We'll have to wait and see what happens."
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"It's the same thing I come here for all the time. I come here for the fritters," Robert Thomas said.
Robert Thomas treats himself to a doughnut once a week.
"I could easily pass it up, but my brain says, 'You know you like those, and it's just once a week,'" Thomas said.
Experts say Americans are eating too much sugar, but it can be hard to avoid something so tasty -- and so prevalent in food. Even if you avoid doughnuts, you probably still eat plenty of sugar. Health officials recommend women eat no more than six teaspoons a day. Men should limit themselves to a maximum of nine teaspoons of sugar a day.
"Your average can of pop will have about ten teaspoons of sugar." Hy-Vee Registered Dietitian Robbyn Nelson said.
The average American will consume approximately 22 teaspoons a day, she adds. Nelson says some of that sugar may be hidden in your diet.
"In one tablespoon of ketchup, there is a teaspoon of sugar, so even in things like that you are getting a small amount that can add up throughout the day," Nelson said.
An average can of pork and beans actually has more sugar in it than pork.
"When you are looking at the ingredient list, sugar might be labelled as many different things," Nelson said.
If you are avoiding sugar, watch for dextrose, maltose or fructose, along with brown rice syrup or cane syrup.
"Also high fructose corn syrup," Nelson said.
If you are craving something sweet, Nelson recommends looking for sources of natural sugar.
"Natural sugars are found in foods like fruit and milk," Nelson said.
Meanwhile, Thomas aims to cut his sugar intake by cooking his own meals. That way he knows exactly how much sugar he's eating.
"The problem is taking the time. In today's fast-paced world, who has time? Not too many of us, but I use it as a hobby," Thomas said.


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A House Is Not a Home Opens its Doors at Burbank International Film Festival
My mom always said that a house is not a home without a dog. But in the world of horror movies, a house is not a home without an evil ass paranormal entity. And the house we're about to enter has sure as shit got one.
First Poster for A House Is Not a Home Stares Back at You
Production company DeInstitionalized dropped us a line today with the first official one-sheet for their haunting new feature film A House Is Not a Home. Check out all the goodies right here.
First Stills and Trailer for A House is Not a Home
Production company DeInstitionalized dropped us a line today with the trailer and a couple of stills for their haunting new feature film A House Is Not a Home. Check out all the goodies right here.
A House Is Not a Home Getting Ready to Haunt You
A new production company by the name of DeInstitionalized dropped us a line today to let us know that their haunting new feature film A House Is Not a Home is in post-production and will soon be scaring the hell out of you!
The Asylum's #HoldYourBreath Slated For Theatrical Release
I absolutely love this story! We've told you about The Asylum's #HoldYourBreath (formerly Don't Hold Your Breath) in the past, and now it seems like the fine purveyors of mockbuster cinema have gone and done it: They're taking the multiplexes by storm!
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The Asylum Has a Change of Heart! They Now Want You to Hold Your Breath!
A couple of days ago we broke the news that The Asylum was readying its first theatrical feature. Well, it's still happening; only now it has a bit of a different title. That's right, kids! Don't Hold Your Breath has become Hold Your Breath.
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Exclusive: Katrina Bowden Enters The Asylum for Their First Theatrical Feature Don't Hold Your Breath
If someone were to ask you if The Asylum was ever going to make a theatrically released film, you'd probably respond, "Don't hold your breath!" Turns out Don't Hold Your Breath will be the title of their first ever big screen bound slasher flick starring "30 Rock" beauty Katrina Bowden.
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Image Gallery and Sneak Peek Clip from The Asylum's Air Collision
Air Collision, the newest airplane-themed disaster flick from The Asylum, hits DVD and Blu-ray on March 27th, and we've got an image gallery and clip from the film to share.
Details, Cast, and Early Artwork for Zombie Plantation
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Nice lobby with a receptionist 24/7. Free internet use.
We were charged 30 dollars for a private room with a shared bathroom and with a breakfast in the morning. The shared bathrooms rooms on the first floor are basic, but very clean. All of them have a TV with cable (buch of English language channels).
There is one shared bathroom per 2 rooms, and it's located right where those rooms are, so you don't really share bathroom with too many people.
The backyard (as well as kitchen) are superclean and well maintained.
It takes only 10 min to/from airport to this hotel.
The hotel called us a taxi in the morning (we had a very early flight) and it cost us only $5 dollars.
The hotel is also very close to the public buses to San Jose (Tuasa bus), volcano Poas etc etc. There is a cute soda place right across the hotel.
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At St. Francis of Assisi Catholic School, we share a partnership of students, parents, clergy, administration, and staff who fully embrace the Christ-centered and child-centered Mission and Philosophy of our school.
This focus guides us as we provide a Catholic education of excellence.
The administration and staff of St. Francis School are dedicated, professionally qualified and committed to continuous student learning and achievement.
Our two most important goals are to assist your child in his/her faith formation and prepare him/her to be productive, successful individuals of the twenty-first century.
We achieve these goals through the school wide learning expectations of faith and worship, scholastic achievement, and stewardship.
There is no greater gift you can give your child, grandchild, or godchild, than the Catholic education we offer at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic School.
There is no greater gift you can give your child, grandchild, or godchild, than the Catholic education we offer at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic School.
Established in 1961, St. Francis of Assisi Catholic School educates students in preschool through eighth grade and is fully accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges and the Western Catholic Education Association.
We are eager to share our God given gifts with your family as we continue to work in the mission for the Lord.
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Posted by tquinlan on Monday, 09 June 2014 at 12:07 PM in Cognitive Edge, Cognitive science, Communications, Complexity, Events, Knowledge, Leadership, Narrative and storytelling, Organisational culture, SenseMaker | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
I'm teaching in with Michael Cheveldave in Toronto today, while Dave and Sonja do the same in South Africa. (It's been a while since we needed simultaneous sessions on different continents.)
The London workshops are coming up between 16th and 19th June. Check out the Cognitive Edge website for details and to snap up some of the remaining places.
I'll be teaching on days 1-3, while Dave Snowden will be there throughout.
There are four courses on offer, and you can take any combination of 1-, 2-, 3- and 4-day courses as appropriate. The content is excellent and I'd highly recommend them.
The breakdown is:
Posted by tquinlan on Wednesday, 14 May 2014 at 08:41 PM in Change, Cognitive Edge, Complexity, Hints and tips, Knowledge, Narrative and storytelling, Organisational culture, SenseMaker, Tools and techniques | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
The excellent Cognitive Edge courses are running again soon - I'm due to be teaching with Michael in Toronto in May - details are here. (The venue isn't confirmed yet, but that's a decision depending on how many people we get turning, so go ahead and book quickly!)
There are four courses on offer, and you can take any combination of 1-, 2-, 3- and 4-day courses as appropriate. The content is excellent and I'd highly recommend them.
The breakdown is:
(Michael is teaching the first day on his own, then we're teaching day two together. I'm certainly teaching days three and four - with Michael possibly around on day three, but definitely not on day four.)
In addition to the theory and exercises, Michael and I will be sharing recent practices and applications - ranging from national economic development, IT strategy, customer understanding and cultural research.
Posted by tquinlan on Wednesday, 09 April 2014 at 12:56 PM in Cognitive Edge, Narrative and storytelling, Organisational culture, Recommendations, SenseMaker, Tools and techniques | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
I came across a glorious Churchill quote recently while reading Billy Bragg's The Progressive Patriot. It wasn't one I had heard before, but it sums up beautifully something that challenges many of the people I talk to - how to set direction and objectives for large numbers of people, many of whom have different perspectives on the world.
"Precise aims would be compromising, whereas vague principles would disappoint."
The context is important - this was in January 1941, where the immediate task of fighting the war was supplemented with setting a longer term direction for the world after the war. The War Cabinet were agitating for a vision of a new and better world than the pre-war status quo, in part to counter Hitler's promise of a new world order and in part to maintain commitment among the British population (to draw the parallel more explicitly with current organisations - to build their engagement)
It mirrors what I've seen in other places - the temptation to spell out the detail of a future utopia. (Ten years ago, I recall colleagues wanting workshop participants to imagine themselves in the future and spell out everything they sense.) But that is doomed to fail, because the reality always differs from the dream (assuming people don't simply dismiss the exercise and trot out what they think the facilitator/sponsor wants to hear) - and worse, if people have actually believed that their visions have a chance of coming true, the reality will discourage them. (In addition, if you are in an environment with an opponent or adversary, you will give them valuable intelligence in their fight against you.)
At the other end of the spectrum, vague principles are too abstract, too idealist and too misperceived. They're often inarguable - honesty, leadership and innovation are examples that come to mind - but mean different things to people in different environments and with different backgrounds. I'm also against abstract principles universally applied per se - while I'm all for innovation, I'd rather that the team in the salary department remain steady and innovative, while I think we are all leaders at one time or another, an organisation of all leaders all the time sounds like a nightmare scenario - chaotic in the extreme.
The alternative I'm exploring with people in different environments is setting direction (and boundaries) by using multiple diverse micro-narratives. We want "more stories like these and fewer like these" - it avoids absolute ideals and utopias while also explicitly indicating where the future does not lie. As a way of communicating to a diverse (and diversely-intelligent) audience it is more easily understood while, crucially, allowing people some leeway to exercise their judgment.
Posted by tquinlan on Wednesday, 22 January 2014 at 05:58 PM in Change, Communications, Complexity, Narrative and storytelling, Organisational culture | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Further to yesterday's post about the upcoming courses with Cognitive Edge, diaries have worked out such that Washington DC (Details here) will be a two-handed affair with myself and Dave Snowden teaching, while London (Details here)will be a unique one - three different presenters: Dave, Michael Cheveldave and myself passing the baton at different points throughout the course.
Given the inevitable slight differences and approaches we all take to our various projects, it'll be a chance to get three perspectives on complexity, narrative and interventions. I doubt there'll be fireworks, but it could provide for some very interesting conversations...
The blogtitle comes from the simple act of Googling "The Three..." and watching what comes up. I'll let you decide which is most appropriate...
Posted by tquinlan on Tuesday, 29 October 2013 at 02:54 PM in Cognitive Edge, Complexity, Events, Knowledge, Leadership, Narrative and storytelling, Organisational culture, Recommendations, SenseMaker | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Two upcoming courses that I'd highly recommend - and not just because I'm helping teach them these days. I've recommended the Cognitive Edge courses for years, but this year has seen a major refresh of the content and approach to the material. It's a real combination of solid theory, exercises and practical examples - all spread over four days.
What's it about? Why should you come?
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Never has there been a greater need to manage more things with fewer resources. To create organisations that are resilient under conditions of uncertainty requires new ways of thinking and acting. Those who stay within the safety of the old paradigm sooner or later fail.
For more detail, have a look at the brochure here.
But for those who can't take four solid days off, it's also possible to do them in 1, 2 and 3 day chunks as well, picking and choosing the most relevant elements for your specific area.
Washington DC course is next week - 4-7th November Details here
London course is 26-29th November Details here
Posted by tquinlan on Monday, 28 October 2013 at 06:06 PM in Branding, Change, Cognitive Edge, Cognitive science, Communications, Complexity, Events, Knowledge, Leadership, Narrative and storytelling, Organisational culture, Recommendations, SenseMaker | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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Yesterday, the House of Commons saw some to-and-fro rhetoric between the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition around counter-terrorism in the wake of the Algerian attack and its aftermath. It's important to recognise within the wide context of the news stories and the political analysis that at the personal level there are families across the globe now who have been robbed of sons/brothers/fathers/husbands - and they need support in what comes next for them in their lives.
In the Commons yesterday, there was an expected increase in rhetoric about the need to fight terrorism. The Prime Minister, towards the end of his initial comments, said:
"In sum, we must frustrate the terrorists with our security, we must beat them militarily, we must address the poisonous narrative they feed on, we must close down the ungoverned space in which they thrive, and we must deal with the grievances that they use to garner support. This is the work that our generation faces, and we must demonstrate the same resolve and sense of purpose as previous generations did with the challenges that they faced in this House and in this country."
In response, the Leader of the Opposition:
"In particular, the task is to understand the nature of the new threat, which is more decentralised and fragmented and takes advantage of the ungoverned spaces and security vacuum in parts of north Africa. At the same time, in its response the international community needs to apply the lessons of the past about the combination of diplomacy, politics and security required to help to bring about stability in the region."
"More broadly across the region, countering the emerging threat of terrorism begins with understanding it and talking about it in the right way. The work to deal with that threat will be painstaking: diplomatic and political as much as military; and collaborative and multilateral, not unilateral. Does the Prime Minister agree that we are talking about a number of distinct regional organisations, some using the banner of al-Qaeda and others not, rather than a single, centrally co-ordinated or controlled group? Each of these threats needs to be monitored and countered appropriately."
Taking the two areas of that on which I feel qualified to speak - the understanding element and the poisonous narrative. I believe one is essential and the other is a deeply misleading concept that blinds us to opportunities and threats.
Understanding the region, the people and groups within it, is crucial to undermining support. Having done some work with narrative research in Egypt the year before the Arab Spring, I can say with some confidence that underlying dispositions arise from small grievances and historical events - usually things that sit well below the radar of analysts sitting far away. It's the coalescence of common grievances and perspectives that tends to drive social movements, and these are only visible at the personal, the local level. It's why we gather experiences and narratives about day-to-day life, not grand events (although those can crop up in the material we collect).
For monitoring, it's more useful to watch for emergent clusters of narrative around common themes - letting the people on the ground tell you what is bothering them. Pre-defined categories and questions can be too directive - gaining us at best answers that fit within our previous suspicions, at worst allowing the people we're hearing the opportunity to give us the stories they think we want to hear. (cf The Hoaxing of Margaret Mead)
The poisonous narrative is a tempting but dangerous notion. It's also a simplistic one that is easier to fit into newspapers and popular discussion than a more difficult, more nuanced one. The truth - as I pointed out some time ago at a conference - is that there is no single terrorist narrative. There are many narratives - each one different in its inception - that, as people become part of the movement, is co-opted and shaped to fit a bigger motivation. It's an end-result after radicalisation, to my mind, less of an instigating motivation. In essence, one person's dissatisfaction with their life warps over time to become "the West is keeping me down".
To mistake the end-point as the motivation is deeply misleading.
There are other problems with this approach too. If we as observers approach the subject with the concept of a single narrative, we emphasis and activate our own cognitive biases - we go into the problem counting basketballs and risk not seeing guerillas. If we're looking for the early signals of rising dissatisfaction and potential radicalisation, a single narrative will blind us. We will miss the early warnings - but more crucially we may miss early opportunities, moments when small incidents addressed quickly will dampen down ill-feeling and dispositions towards violence.
If we see a single poisonous narrative, the temptation is to find a cure or a counter-narrative. And as Dave and I have both commented on in the past, this is a Bad Idea. There won't be a counter-narrative - but there may be multiple local narratives and thousands of micro-narratives. Countering and curing are both approaches that define something as negative and look for that which will eradicate it. Instead, by looking at all those different narratives, the better approach is to amplify some - through action, through diplomacy, through aid and, yes, through military options where necessary - and dampen others.
The approach instead is an ecological one - how do you encourage the plants you want in your garden, weeding out those you don't want early and while they are small. Wait until they've coalesced into something large and its roots are too deep to remove easily.
[At some point, I need to write that article on Gardening and Narratives - I've only been contemplating it for 20 months now. Elephants have shorter gestation periods...]
Posted by tquinlan on Tuesday, 22 January 2013 at 06:44 PM in Applications, Communications, Complexity, Narrative and storytelling, Organisational culture, SenseMaker | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
Amsterdam in February 2013 - Foundations course (with free full day on SenseMaker) 4-6th February and Advanced course 7th-8th February.
Posted by tquinlan on Thursday, 27 December 2012 at 10:47 AM in Cognitive Edge, Cognitive science, Communications, Complexity, Knowledge, Leadership, Narrative and storytelling, Organisational culture, SenseMaker, Tools and techniques | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
I'm teaching on behalf of Cognitive Edge this week in Boston - the Practitioners Foundation course that I was recommending to all and sundry years before CE asked me to start teaching it myself. It's still a great course:
"exceeded my expectations, re-kindled a lot of ideas and opened me up to possibilities ... stimulating on so many levels"
One of the difficulties is defining who will benefit from the course - truth is everyone will, as its underpinning is around techniques to address complex situations, "wicked" problems and uncertainty in organisations. It's a mixture of theory, with practical approaches that embed the theory and give participants tools to use as soon as they return to the office.
Last time in London, we had communicators from the financial sector, consultants to large corporates, evaluators from development and health sectors, developers from telecoms and more. Diverse people, diverse issues...
It's being run again in Amsterdam in February 2013 - Foundations course (with free full day on SenseMaker) 4-6th February and Advanced course 7th-8th February.
Early bird registrations are available until 31st December, so don't loiter. (It's possible to take over €1200 off the combined price of the two courses, if you get the right combination of people together in time...)
Posted by tquinlan on Monday, 10 December 2012 at 10:39 AM in Cognitive Edge, Communications, Complexity, Narrative and storytelling, Organisational culture, Recommendations, SenseMaker, Tools and techniques | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
I had a blast last week in the Docklands, teaching first the Cognitive Edge Foundations course then teaching with Dave Snowden the Cognitive Edge Advanced course. There's one final chance to catch both courses in 2012. (And before any possible revamps of course materials.)
11th-12th December in Boston, MA - I'll be teaching the Foundations course
13th-14th December - Dave'll be teaching the Advanced course
There are a few spots available on both courses, but better be quick - last week in London, the room was at capacity...
Posted by tquinlan on Thursday, 29 November 2012 at 08:11 AM in Cognitive Edge, Complexity, Narrate news, Narrative and storytelling, Organisational culture, SenseMaker | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
I'm packing to leave for Hong Kong in about half an hour - looking forward to some of the discussions that will ensue around Strategy, Leadership and Innovation next week, then off to Sydney for the Cognitive Edge Foundations course. For the UK-based, however, I've just had details of a talk I'm giving with a colleague on my return. Details below:
Measuring marketing activities and expenditure is one of the hot topics in marketing. That is why the Cranfield Marketing Club together with the Cranfield School of Management Alumni organises an event where we will discuss this issue. You don't need to be member of the club to come to the event.
Please find more info and the registration for our Cranfield Marketing Club event about "Measuring Marketing" here:
Date: Tuesday 9th October
Time: 18.30 – 20.30 (+ after-work drinks in a nearby pub)
Venue: Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace London SW1Y 5AG
Agenda (Find talk abstracts and speaker bios at bottom of email):
18:30 – Arrival & networking activities
19:00 – Welcome & Introduction (Manfred Bortenschlager/Paul Baines)
19:10 – Meaning in numbers: a narrative approach to marketing measurement (Claire Spencer and Tony Quinlan)
19:50 – Measuring Marketing Effectiveness for Success (Paul Lee)
20:30 – Close and informal drinks in nearby pub for those who want to continue the conversation
Abstract: "Meaning in numbers: a narrative approach to marketing measurement"
Collecting stories around customers' experiences of a brand offers a real alternative to traditional market research. Seeing how customers' lives are affected by a brand offering can illuminate opportunities to enhance the brand or resolve underlying issues before they become problematic. For many of us in research, we have an innate - and appropriate - skepticism around "anecdotal evidence" but this latest approach supercedes that to provide real, actionable data based on fast analysis of thousands of narratives. This then helps marketers to better assess the 'keep doing', 'stop doing' and 'start doing' for their marketing communication.
Abstract: "Measuring Marketing Effectiveness for Success"
The evolution of buyer behaviour now requires marketers to think and act differently to effectively influence the different stages of the sales funnel (for engagement and revenue creation).
Speaker Bios
Claire Spencer, FCIPR Visiting Fellow, Marketing, Cranfield University
Claire is Chief Executive and founder of i to i research, a research consultancy specialising in insights and measurement around how people interact with brand communications. Previous to this, Claire worked in advertising and ran her own Public Relations consultancy. Over her 25 year career, Claire has been involved in some of the most high profile communication campaigns including the privatisation of British Telecom and London's bid to hold the 2012 Olympics.
Tony Quinlan
Tony is Chief Storyteller and founder of Narrate, a unique organisation that has been developing tools for working with narrative since its formation in 2000. Tony himself has 25 years experience in communications, having started in the Press Office of the Internatiaonal Stock Exchange just weeks before the 1987 crash. Since then, he's driven public relations for Hewlett-Packard, IBM, UNICEF and many others, both as in-house client and external consultant. He has been a regular speaker on aspects of communications, chairing conferences and giving keynotes for many years. Until recently, he was also a leading member of The Medinge Group, an international branding thinktank.
Paul Lee
Paul Lee is Regional Sales Director for Eloqua, the leader in marketing automation and revenue performance management technology. Paul's 20-year sales career has been spent within the high tech, media & publishing industries. Today he supports customers with improving demand generation, sales & marketing alignment, enhancing marketing effectiveness and efficiencies alongside Eloqua best practice methodologies.
Posted by tquinlan on Friday, 21 September 2012 at 05:50 PM in Branding, Communications, Events, Medinge, Organisational culture, Turning the tanker | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
I'm going to be in Hong Kong on 24th-26th September, running a Cognitive Edge introductory course to using SenseMaker® - highly recommended. If you're interested (and you should be) you can get details and book on the Cognitive Edge website.
I'm then flying down to Sydney to run the Practitioners' Foundation course the following week - it's already very full, but there may be one or two places left for 2nd-4th October. Details again at the Cognitive Edge website. The Practitioners' Foundation course is outstanding - the content and exercises are what I've recommended to anyone interested in narrative and complex facilitation for the past five years. (Long before I started giving the course myself)
I'm not going to have any spare time in Singapore, but have some free time on Friday 28th and Friday 5th October in Sydney, if anyone fancies a coffee and conversation...
Posted by tquinlan on Thursday, 13 September 2012 at 08:49 PM in Narrate news, Narrative and storytelling, Organisational culture, Recommendations, SenseMaker, Tools and techniques | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
An excellent series of lectures and workshop-type studies last week prompted a bunch of thoughts - some of which I'll pick up in the coming weeks. One in particular that was raised again today was while looking at a particular case of an area where there were a wide variety of conflicting groups of people. Some in particular were causing greater problems to people outside of the area and so programmes were put in place to deal with them.
At which point, groups that had hitherto been in conflict with the target group suddenly came to their defence. There was a degree of surprise about this - after all, hadn't these other groups been arguing and in some cases actually fighting only a short time earlier?
I can understand the surprise, but it's easy to forget that the arrival of a common enemy can overcome all sorts of differences. Witness, for instance, in the UK the sudden support of the Olympic games by skeptics like myself - all in response to criticism from Mitt Romney, US presidential candidate. He may have said nothing that hadn't already been said by others in the UK - but we can say that about each other because we're family. An outsider saying that produces a very different dynamic.
Now clearly, some outsiders can criticise without uniting opposing factions, but I'd suggest they need to have high degrees of credibility or trust first. And for most organisations wading into a tricky area, the more likely outcome is going to be focusing the conflict on themselves.
Posted by tquinlan on Monday, 10 September 2012 at 06:48 PM in Ah-Ha! moments, Communications, Narrative and storytelling, Organisational culture | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
I've just seen another article about how social media caused change in Egypt. (I'm not going to link to it - or any of the others - as I don't want to encourage the causal thinking behind it.) The other element I've seen mentioned as important in the Egypt changes earlier this year is that "everyone stayed on message."
Now, the former element had a role to play - but it's too tempting to assign it too much importance in the piece. The second - staying on message - is just wishful thinking on the part of someone who wants to convince their salary-payer to stick to the script - which is a dangerous and seriously wrong interpretation that doesn't stand up to any scrutiny of the facts.
There are two important elements here that intertwine:
While this doesn't apply everywhere - bounded applicability after all - I do think that if you're facing a dynamic, fast-moving complex environment, planning can only show you roughly what not to do and broadly what might be worth saying. More specific than that, I don't believe that analysis and planning can take you.
Instead, I think a better, faster and more effective route is to take an evolutionary approach - diverse (but coherent) vehicles and messages, fast feedback loops to show what effect is being had and then rapid adaptation. Not with the goal of finding a single message or a best practice, but to develop a constantly evolving, more resilient approach.
*Which I would disagree with at the most basic level - the appearance of a clear message is more down to misinterpretation from a non-Egyptian cultural perspective, missing nuances and differences in varying communications.
Posted by tquinlan on Wednesday, 23 November 2011 at 07:52 PM in Ah-Ha! moments, Change, Communications, Complexity, Narrative and storytelling, Organisational culture, Tools and techniques, Turning the tanker | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
One of the great truisms in communications and development work (these days, I seem to be having conversations in both areas and am aware of their similarities) is that "we want to hear from everyone, give everyone a voice". The principled, idealistic side of us believes that, but the pragmatic side veers away from it - if everyone had a voice, the result would be nothing more than noise. Single voices would be drowned out, and all that anyone listening would hear would be the general hum of thousands of conversations - with the occasional howl of outrage emerging from the sonic ocean.
One of the benefits of using SenseMaker™ - as was shown last week in an interesting environment - is that it allows for lots of voices (over a hundred in this case, thousands in another current project) but allows for patterns of meaning to emerge, without getting trapped in the individual words.
While the voice that is collected is personal, contextual and authentic - allowing people to say what really matters and why - the next step is all-important. They then then put tell us what that story, that narrative, actually means - by simply putting it into a simple framework. Often, as last week, it's a simple mark on a triangle. And it's then the accretion of marks from hundreds or thousands of stories that produces the emergent patterns - the overall voice of the population.
(With some judicious demographics collection it's then possible to see how different groups' voices tell different stories too.)
And from the patterns, it's then easy to drill back down to the individual voices - meaning that everyone's voice is heard and recorded, that everyone's voice has equal weight in the emergent patterns, but we can hear the overall voice of the people rather than just a cacophony.
It's opening up some truly interesting projects - more on which in due course...
Posted by tquinlan on Tuesday, 22 November 2011 at 11:19 PM in Communications, Narrative and storytelling, Organisational culture, SenseMaker | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
At some recent conferences, the issue of identity has cropped up a few times - usually with the underlying assumption that each individual has a core identity. It's a seductive idea - and one that I've seen permeate organisational human resources, the self-help movement and research fields.
The inference taken from that assumption is that our identities are independent of our location or context, that work done to change an identity in one environment will "stick", transferring to other environments.
But it's not true. Our identities shift all the time - and our behaviours along with them. They change by location, by environment, by role we're playing.
Harry Eyres' recent FT article after a meeting with Amartya Sen hints at this here: "Many hats, not just one".
To give an example of how plural such affiliations can be, Sen writes that "the same person can be, without any contradiction, a South African citizen, of Asian origin, with Indian ancestry, a Christian, a socialist, a woman, a vegetarian, a jazz musician, a doctor", and so on.
(My daughters know that my nationality depends on the shape and size of the ball being used on the screen and whether the sticks on the pitch are 100 metres apart and very tall, or 22 yards apart and waist-high. My patterns of behaviour and attitude will change depending on whether I see myself as being sibling/consultant/facilitator/mentor/offspring or parent.)
That shift between identities can be subtle - but I've often thought that, when we want to stress or un-stress a particular behaviour, one of the ways to do so is to look at the roles that generate it - and use that understanding to develop new approaches or interventions.
I love Sen's phrase in the article "viciousness of single identity politics" that boils someone down to a single role on which a group focuses. By looking farther afield at their other roles, we give them more humanity in our own eyes as well as giving us and them more choices to look at.
Posted by tquinlan on Wednesday, 10 August 2011 at 01:56 PM in Ah-Ha! moments, Narrative and storytelling, Organisational culture | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
It's been a busy couple of months - with a number of things that I'll be putting up here in the coming weeks. Including, excitingly, the next pilots for the Children of the World project...
In the meantime, however, some apposite quotes around ways of making changes and the work we've been - and are - doing at the moment.
"[He] started in the wrong place. He didn't look around, and watch and learn, and then say, 'This is how people are, how do we deal with it?' No, he sat and thought, 'This is the people ought to be, how do we change them?'
Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
"'A healthy galaxy is forever poised on the edge of chaos, transixed between the sterile wasteland of order and the mad wilderness of rampant entropy.' ... [The organisation] was structured to thrive on diversity, multiplex thinking, multicultural societies.
"Nice trick. Starting is easy.
"It's keeping it going that's so hard."
Heaven, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen
"In a world where everything is connected, advance signs of change, of turbulence, are likely to appear only when we look in unexpected places."
The Age of the Unthinkable, Joshua Cooper Ramo
"Narrow-gazing not only leads to kinds of misfires, it also fatally constrains the ability to imagine good ideas or policies. The chance for real brilliance or flair is usually best seen out of the corner of the eye."
The Age of the Unthinkable, Joshua Cooper Ramo
"[Chinese students instinctively knew] the environment contained clues to what was about to happen. If you stared at a single spot in the world around you, that incipient sensibility would be dulled to the point of uselessness."
The Age of the Unthinkable, Joshua Cooper Ramo
Yup, as I've said before, Joshua Cooper Ramo's book is great - my copy has pages and pages of underlined phrases. Read it. Just read it.
Posted by tquinlan on Monday, 18 July 2011 at 12:38 PM in Communications, Complexity, Narrate news, Organisational culture | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Yesterday afternoon was another interesting presentation - this time to the CASE group of internal communicators from Higher Education. Smart people, fun afternoon and just to add to the mix, I got to speak with Ghassan Kharian of Kharian and Box, who I haven't seen in a while. Following his presentation was a challenge...
I promised to post a number of things here:
My presentation slides: Capturing an organisation's narrative.pdf (3573.9K)
Links to the method papers for Anecdote circles and The Future Backwards at the Cognitive Edge website
For people starting to explore using story in communications, this post might be a good place to start.
Posted by tquinlan on Friday, 13 May 2011 at 04:28 PM in Ah-Ha! moments, Change, Communications, Conference references, Narrative and storytelling, Organisational culture | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Here's an interesting question - are you assuming that because people tell you the right answer that they believe in it?
I ask, because I'm looking at some interesting employee responses to a recent survey. With a colleague, we changed the usual response format from 1-7 Likert scales of "How engaged do you feel on a scale of 1-7?" to a combinations of triads and polarities going from one extreme to another. (See this previous post for the background.)
What's been interesting is the comments coming back from people appended to the end of the survey. A fair number of people have come back saying "I wasn't sure what the right answer was in this format, I hope I've got it right." It raises some interesting issues:
Why were employees looking for the right answer in an employee survey?It's a natural thing to spot the answer people are looking for in surveys - we do it pretty much unconsciously. You know if you're given a range of answers for a number that you discount numbers that don't fit the majority pattern and that you tend to go for the mid-point of a range. You know if you're given a standard scale of Bad-to-Good, people are looking for answers at the Good end of the scale. And the human instinct (unless you're a maverick or in a bad mood) is to "gift" the answer within your comfort zone. (So, you'll tend to the Good end of the scale, but you may not be comfortable giving 10, so you'll go 8 or 9.)
But to find people concerned about finding - and giving - the right answer seems to indicate a culture where it is more important to understand and replay the language - conforming to what they think the organisation expects. It's evident, too, in the actual answers - particularly because there is one triad where the "right" answer is evident, but people who have developed a pattern of putting there mark in the centre of a triangle (i.e. not being willing to commit to any particular strength, but taking the non-commital approach) put their mark in the centre because they've got used to that.*
It does, however, make me wonder about all the standard employee surveys - are they actually testing for compliance and the ability to feedback what the company has said to them? I have a horrible feeling that that's increasingly the case.
*The upshot is that this putting-it-in-the-centre-all-the-time could be useful. By possibly including one triangle where the answer is evident (and where the centre is inappropriate in most cases), we'll be able to check and filter out sets of responses where that easy default option has been taken.
Posted by tquinlan on Monday, 09 May 2011 at 01:14 PM in Ah-Ha! moments, Change, Communications, Organisational culture | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
This time last week I was in Brussels, talking about internal communications - and made the point I always do about the problem with corporate values. They don't work. There's no context, they're generally meaningless (who's ever going to argue with them) and they're too easy to twist around.
This week, Dave picks up on the topic coincidentally - and offers more structure to my comments last week. Stories - parables even - and archetypes is a better route. (It's a topic I'm picking up at the moment with some colleagues working on a global culture change project - instead of going for the standard approach of "The Future is Blue and Round, so let's give everyone paint brushes, pots of paint and sandpaper and measure their progress towards Blue and Round" they're going with "Let's look for where there are some brilliant success stories, share them and have people work out how to come up with ways to create stories like that where they are. Blue and Round is our general intention, but along the way we may find out that Indigo has more going for it and that Ovoid is more flexible.")
[That metaphor needs work. Lots of it.]
Pithy comments from Dave's post as he sowed, some fell by the wayside are here:
Aside from the fact that I have yet to see a set of organisational values that were not a set of well meaning platitudes, all you are really doing is teaching the politically manipulative the language of power.
...it doesn't follow that I don't think we shouldn't articulate values, but we need to do so in a way that carries with it necessary ambiguity so that the statements can adapt to context, and also so that their form allows for verification of actions, not just linguistic form.
The point here is that a story carries context with it, as well as the ability to create resonance. Critically it allows for ethical validation; saying that action X was consistent with a mission statement is easy, matching it against a story is far more difficult.
So what form could this take? Lets summarise a few:
- Parables are the basic method in the New Testament to convey complex ethical principles
- Fables are a long standing type of parable, but using animal proxies.
- Archetypal stories and characters represent complex learning and cultural statements in most societies. Anthropologies use the archetypes present in traditional stories to understand the culture of the society from which they have emerged; and they do emerge over time they are not created. One of the most used methods I ever created was archetype extraction, something we teach on the accreditation courses and which is more fully described here. The method also provides something more substantial than persona for software design by the way.
Posted by tquinlan on Friday, 06 May 2011 at 06:16 PM in Communications, Narrative and storytelling, Organisational culture, Tools and techniques, Turning the tanker | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)


text: Berger backs Formula 1 in Bahrain 21 April, 2013 Gerhard Berger in Bahrain Former grand prix winner and F1 team owner Gerhard Berger has backed Bahrain's Grand Prix, blaming the media for overstating the island Kingdom's problems. As protests and clashes took place outside the Sakhir circuit, the former Ferrari and McLaren driver strolled the pitlane and paddock and said Formula 1 can legitimately continue to host the race in Bahrain. "I also came a couple of months ago and went all around the city," the Austrian told Spain's El Pais newspaper, "and I didn't see any fighting or anything resembling it — except for a young couple making some noise." "I think the press has overstated everything, but the reality is that nothing happened last year and nothing is happening this time," Berger insisted. "If you believe what you read then Formula 1 is motivating a war, but this is not a country at war. It is a place where there are some problems, but if we stop coming here then we will have to stop going to China and other countries like that as well." In his typically blunt manner, Bernie Ecclestone admitted a similar view on Saturday, jokingly saying the Bahrain government is "really stupid" to host a race and give protesters "a platform". Bahrain's crown prince, however, said he is not offended. "It's Bernie being Bernie," said prince Salman bin Hamad Isa Al Khalifa. "I love Bernie and his quotes. I think it's funny. I can't be thankful enough for his support." (GMM) Tweet Related NewsBahrain jails five for plotting to bomb 2013 F1 raceAlonso denies sarcastic victory salute for Bahrain ninth placeRosberg to clear air with Hamilton over on track limits before Chinese Grand PrixMarko claims Bahrain was only great because of Safety CarPhotos: Bahrain Grand Prix race day in SakhirMercedes secret is in the ingenious packaging of the V6 turbo Power UnitLowe: It was not team orders, I just wanted to remind them to give each other spaceMallya: A long time coming, but it's very satisfying to see Force India back on the podiumCritics of new era Formula 1 look stupid after Bahrain delivers action packed bonanzaHamilton: Me and Nico haven't had a race like that since back in our karting days Bec It's the agents provocateurs of the media encouraging the protests.


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Applies To: SQL 2008, 2008 R2 and Denail builds
The SQL Server developer can elect to partition memory allocations at different levels based on the what the memory is used for. The developer may choose a global, CPU, Node, or even worker partitioning scheme. Several of the allocation activities within SQL Server use the CMemPartitioned allocator. This partitions the memory by CPU or NUMA node to increase concurrency and performance.
You can picture CMemPartitioned like a standard heap (it is not a HeapCreate) but this concept is the same. When you create a heap you can specify if you want synchronized assess, default size and other attributes. When the SQL Server developer creates a memory object they indicate that they want things like thread safe access, the partitioning scheme and other options.
The developer creates the object so when a new allocation occurs the behavior is upheld. On the left is a request from a worker against a NODE based memory object. This will use a synchronization object (usually CMEMTHREAD or SOS_SUSPEND_QUEUE type) at the NODE level to allocate memory local to the workers assigned NUMA NODE. On the right is an allocation against a CPU based memory object. This will use a synchronization object at the CPU level to allocate memory local to the workers CPU.
In most cases the CPU based design reduces synchronization collisions the most because of the way SQL OS handles logical scheduling. Preemptive and background tasks make collisions possible but CPU level reduces the frequency greatly. However, going to CPU based partitioning means more overhead to maintain individual CPU access paths and associated memory lists.
The NODE based scheme reduces the overhead to the # of nodes but can slightly increase the collision possibilities and may impact ultimate, performance results for very specific scenarios. I want to caution you the scenarios encountered by Microsoft CSS have been limited to very specific scopes and query patterns.
Newer hardware with multi-core CPUs can present more than 8 CPUs within a single NUMA node. Microsoft has observed that when you approach and exceed 8 CPUs per node the NODE based partitioning may not scale as well for specific query patterns. However, using trace flag 8048 (startup parameter only requiring restart of the SQL Server process) all NODE based partitioning is upgraded to CPU based partitioning. Remember this requires more memory overhead but can provide performance increases on these systems.
The issue is commonly identified by looking as the DMVs dm_os_wait_stats and dm_os_spin_stats for types (CMEMTHREAD and SOS_SUSPEND_QUEUE). Microsoft CSS usually sees the spins jump into the trillions and the waits become a hot spot.
Bob Dorr - Principal SQL Server Escalation Engineer
Do you mean exactly the number of CPU Sockets within a single NUMA node, not the number of Cores, Don't you?
Thank you for greate information. :)
I believe the article meant to reference sys.dm_os_spinlock_stats instead of dm_os_spin_stats
Answering the question(s).
I meant the number of CPUs presented for a given node. This includes cores and HT CPUs represened in the same NUMA node.
Yes dm_os_spinlock_stats - good catch.
at what rate of spins\hour or day would this be considered a bottleneck. wait stats can be skewed by other wait types far exceeding the ones mentioned in this article.
For these issues we would see a big jump (trillions of spins) in a small windows (5 / 10 minutes) that was really unusual for the normal running of the system.
"Remember this requires more memory overhead"...
What can be captured before and after implementing trace flag 8048 to indicate the overhead on a given system? I've implemented trace flag 8048 on a number of DSS systems, and its been beneficial on most of them. But I haven't figured out where the overhead of per-core memory allocation vs per NUMA node memory allocation would show up. Somewhere in memory clerk stats, or purely CPU consumption? Cross-posting the question to Rohit Nayak's recent post on Diagnosing CMEMTHREAD Waits...
" I want to caution you the scenarios encountered by Microsoft CSS have been limited to very specific scopes and query patterns."
In my experience the pattern I've seen this with is a batch reporting model, where SAP or SSRS sends hundreds (or thousands) of queries to SQL Server in a very short period of time.
1. In SQL Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2012, trace flag 8048 no longer seems to be a startup only trace flag. I'm not sure it's safe to change memory serialization strategy while a workload is in place, but I've seen it take place in a spinlock convoy situation and it had the desired performance impact.
2. Memory serialization spinlock contention at the NUMA node or 'scheduler group' level can occur with less than eight cores per socket, and can occur even in a six vcpu vm. The necessary ingredients are enough queries/threads competing for the spinlock resource while stealing memory against query memory grant. Each allocation against the grant is a potential for spinlock contention.
3. VMs consolidated on a physical server can be even more susceptible than physical servers to this spinlock, if competing for physical CPU time with other guests. Time waiting for physical CPU can exaggerate the hold time of spinlock resources, increasing the time window for contention in each possession.
We have a server with 1500 users databases and an awful adhoc workload. We are on 2008 and have 10 logical cores per socket/numa node. We see a large percentage of CMEMTHREAD waits (75%). BUT as far as spinlock stats - seeing SOS_TLIST as the largest spinner. This is a delta on a 10 minute sample:
Spinlock Collisions Spins SpinsPerCollision SleepTime Backoffs
How do I determine if this trace flag is appropriate?


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Louisiana's Boustany Responds To State Of The Union
Louisiana Republican Charles Boustany was disappointed in the President's State of the Union address last night.
Louisiana Republican Charles Boustany was disappointed in the President's State of the Union address last night.
Declaring 2014 a "year of action" as he unveiled a series of relatively meager executive actions, President Barack Obama vowed in his State of the Union address Tuesday night to sidestep Congress "whenever and wherever" he can in order to push through his agenda.
In a very official statement, the White House has welcomed the newest member of the first family: Sunny.
Politics usually has a way of putting a wedge between people, and it seems that the Affordable Health Care Act is one of those hot-button subjects.
Here is why I believe the Presidents Affordable Healthcare Act should mean beer for every American. Even those who can't afford a beer. It's his plan but our interpretation.
Meet a man who says time travel is not only real, it is something he has done! Can this be true? Watch his story and tell us what you think.
Who knew one of television's biggest stars, Honey Boo Boo, even cared about politics. I guess she started when she found out that Mitt Romney said he preferred Snooki over herself on a recent stop to Live! With Kelly and Michael.
The second presidential debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney got started just after 9 o'clock from the campus of Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York. The town-hall-style debate, with an audience of uncommitted voters selected by Gallup, was moderated by CNN's Candy Crowley
In case you missed this morning's 5:20 Funnies, here it is in video form.
It's a Ray Stevens song and video from last year. And even though it is a few months old, it still rings true for a lot of Americans.
Last night while most of South Louisiana's registered voters were gearing up for Saints football, the President of the United States was making a major speech about employment in our country. One Louisiana Congressman, Jeff Landry (R), knew that he could not yell out what he and a lot of people in South Louisiana know about employment in our state. Instead the 3rd district Republican Congressman let his feelings be known with a small sign that got right to the point. DRILLING = JOBS,


text: Hey fellow Vikings fans!! I just wanted to get your opinions on Brett Favre regarding his current situation with retirement and the legacy that he will carry with the league. I personally think that he WAS a great QB and have no doubt that the FIRE that he put into the Vike/Pack rivalry has been AWESOME, and tough to replace. I am from northern MN. and when I hear Madden talking about how Favre was bowhinting just before the game makes me like him, even if he is a packer dude.


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USD Ousts Lamar, Will Host WBI Semifinal
by KDLT Sports
March 24, 2013 8:18 PM
Polly Harrington scored 15 points and Alexis Yackley recorded nine assists to lead the South Dakota women past the Lamar Cardinals 71-48 in the WBI quarterfinals on Sunday afternoon. The win gives the Coyotes (19-15, 10-6 Summit) one more home game as they will host a semifinal matchup with McNeese State (20-14, 11-7 Southland) on Thursday night at 7 p.m.
Harrington shot 7-for-8 in the game and scored 13 points in the first half, while Yackley led the Coyotes in assists and rebounds for the second-straight game. Yackley had eight rebounds and finished the game with 442 career assists, passing Kelly Gese's 439 career assist mark for fourth on USD's all-time assist list.
Tempestt Wilson and Nicole Seekamp added 14 and 13 points, respectively. Seekamp finished the game by scoring her 500th point this season, becoming the eighth player in program history to accomplish that feat.
As a team, USD had 20 assists on 27 field goals, shot 51 percent from the field and held a 32-18 advantage in points in the paint.
Lamar (22-11, 12-6 Southland) was led by Carenn Baylor's 16 points and Gia Ayers' seven points. The Cardinals played most of the game without their all-time leading scorer Kalis Loyd, who played only 12 minutes because of an ankle injury.
South Dakota went on a 24-7 run over the last 7:41 of the first half to take turn a 20-15 deficit into a 39-27 halftime lead. USD shot 10-of-12 during the stretch and clamped down defensively, holding Lamar to 3-for-11 shooting and forcing three turnovers.
The Coyotes continued to shut down Lamar in the second half, holding the Cardinals to 20 percent shooting and never letting the lead shrink to less than 10 points.
If the Coyotes win the semifinal matchup against McNeese State, they will play at Detroit (19-13, 9-7 Horizon League) or Pennsylvania (18-12, 9-5 Ivy League) in the tournament championship next weekend.
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