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Competency Based Learning

How to build a competency based learning programme.

Diagram about learning momentum to support our competency based learning process page.

If you define a competence and publish it as a desired or required standard, you can leave it up to the individual to organise their own learning.

The following process provides a step by step guide for establishing your own competency based learning programme.

1. Define the required competence.

a) List all the things a person with this competence should know. This doesn't need to be a list of the actual knowledge, just the classifications. For example, "How the company was formed." and "The unique features of (product name)".

b) List all the things a person with this competence should be able to do. For example, "Plan a sales call according to nominated method." and "Qualify a sales opportunity using (nominated method)".

c) List all the things this person is expected to do together with when each thing needs to be done. For example, "Update a sales forecast weekly." and "Organise progress review meetings for all nominated accounts, at least once a quarter".

2. For each element of knowledge, listed skill, and required action, identify a manual, online resource, guide, or other document that enables those needing to develop the competence, to obtain the necessary information together with appropriate forms and tools.

3. Create a web page or hyperlinked document that presents all elements of the competence model together with the locations of the information necessary for learning each element of the knowledge, skill, and habitual action.

4. For gamification, create a badge to represent each element or group of elements of the competence model.

5. Publish the competence model to those required to have the competence together with the expected compliance policy.

6. Ask all those who are required to have the competence, to assess their compliance. Use a scoring system so that they can indicate their degree of attainment for each element of the competence model.

7. Verify the accuracy of the participants self assessment through a one-to-one interview.

8. Ask those with unacceptable gaps to submit their plan for attaining compliance with the declared policy.

9. Establish a cadence of review to maintain and update the competence model over time. We recommend full reviews involving all stakeholders at least once a year.

There is a lot of work to do if you recognise the potential of competence led learning however, the benefits are significant:

  • Team members take responsibility for attaining competence.
  • Appraisals cease to become a chore and instead are progress reviews.
  • Managers are freed up to focus on results.
  • Objective assessment can be used for recruitment selection.
  • Staff turnover decreases.
  • Job satisfaction increases.
  • Sales process becomes self-governing
  • Sales forecasts accuracy improves
  • Sales performance increases
  • The cost of selling is reduced

While the benefits of such an initiative are overwhelming, establishing a competency based learning programme can be too challenging for organisations who are fully occupied with day to day business priorities.

We can help. Knowing the process, we can do the work, taking direction from appropriate leaders in your organisation.

If you want to adopt competency based learning quickly, call us now. Telephone +44 (0)1392 851500. Alternatively send an email to or use the contact form here .

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…the last great day of May

57. It is the last day of May and we gather in the garden beneath the high sun, some of us meeting for the first time, some already old friends.  Once we’ve eaten the collected treasures of olives and cheeses and harmonies of chocolate, we untangle ourselves to the drowsy lane, down to where weContinue reading “…the last great day of May”

…fishing for books

46.Today the river that runs through your town is high after days of rain, a fine mist rising from the weir.  Her water is brown and thick, the currents and eddies rippling the surface as she seeks out a favourable path, finding pleasure in her intimate relationship with the land. You and your sister haveContinue reading “…fishing for books”


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Decorative painting ideas to having the paint suppliers

You took days lastly you found the ideal shading. Gone through hours setting up the room, and significantly more hours putting on the colorant now you detest it is not the shading you had at the top of the priority list, how would you live with this awful misstep You have choices numerous truth be told and most are simpler than re-painting the room.  Before you begin working with some other alternative, if it’s not too much trouble recollect test everything, practice until you get the specific look and shading you need. I feel compelled to pressure this as much as possible. Make the example sheets enormous with the goal that you can attempt a few alternatives. Recollect whether you complete a few attempts and still do not care for the result repaint the board and start once more. Try not to be hesitant to leave for a day and begin once again, at times it takes that for the new motivation to come to fruition.

The frequently heard objection is that the shading is excessively dim. This can be a simple fix, I normally recommend going over the divider with a lighter shading wash. Now and then I utilize white paint, yet not simply white paint; it must be joined with an extender item make certain to keep an eye on the item name to see the proportion of paint to extender normally 1 paint to 4 sections extender This broadens the drying time and above all it gives the figment of shading, since it makes a translucent look.  Do the inverse if too light include a wash over the divider that is darker; obscure the paint by including a dash of darker paint dark, brown, or dim, and include the extender same procedure as working with gia son jotun. At that point apply it is possible that one with a fabric, roller, enormous brush, or wipe. Toning it down would be best it will be a lot more slender than the first paint so apply a slim coat.

You can likewise utilize a huge ocean wipe utilizing more than one shading; never multiple hues. Wipe the new hues over the current paint. Again rehearse and furthermore utilize the extender in all the hues you use. With this strategy you will apply the hues over one another, toning it down would be best on the off chance that you escape you get a sloppy look practice, practice and practice some more. The outcomes will merit the additional time spent getting the specific look you need.  When playing with shading, you can include somewhat dark colored or dark key here is practice and including modest quantities particularly dark. You can include different hues like grays, yellows, even blue to change the shading to something closer to what you needed. Try not to be reluctant to analysis to locate the best one. Utilize a tablespoon of paint each time and record the blends and around the amount you put in, you will need that data when you locate the ideal mix.


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Most carnivals are held within the Illawarra/South Coast area and all members; both junior and seniors are encouraged to compete for the club.

Some Carnivals hold Junior and Seniors on the same day (Sydney Water), while most are split and held on either the Saturday or Sunday of the same weekend. All nippers are welcome and encouraged to attend.

Nippers in the Under 8 to Under 14 age groups are eligible to compete at SLS Carnivals. Sandon Point does not have any selection criteria for these carnivals. (Note: Carnivals are not open to Nippers in the Under 6 and 7 age groups.)

All 2020-2021 Junior proficiency information for competitors must be entered into SurfGuard prior to the first carnival the member wishes to compete in. Any Competitors that do not meet the criteria will not be allowed to compete.

Senior competitors are Under 15 and over. Active Seniors must be Proficient and have completed a minimum of 25 patrol hours in the last calendar year.

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Ways of Successfully Reaching your Goals

In this life, we are targeting to exploit all our capabilities so that we can come out as the most successful people. Every day we are all targeting to beat our former self, but we face several challenges that bar our way through. The long-term goals and aims are easily achieved by hitting the basic daily requirements which are intertwined in the daily activities. Achieving set goals no matter how small they might be is not a minute task, and therefore you find many people despairing in the process, and they tend to accept the outcomes in whichever way they occur. Here are how one can reach the set goals successfully in life and even in a simpler and better way.

You can first create vision board that will help you in realizing your targets and goals. In the quest for arriving at our visions, we reach our set goals, and this is easily possible by using the vision board instead of using the checklist. The process of arriving at your goals successfully begins by outlining your visions and expectations for the future. A vision board is more beneficial in the sense that you can visualize your future by attaching photos of your future aspirations like in your particular career or in an investment.

As pointed out earlier, the process of realizing your goals in life is not easy and therefore many people tend to lose hope in the process wasting the vision forever. Counsellors should, therefore, be consulted so that they can give the right way forward towards realization of your goals. The counselor has a vast understanding of your problems and therefore because of the huge experience that they have, they can manage to uplift you to the high standards that will help you to achieve the goals and targets. When you go to talk to the counselor, you should, therefore, be open to him or her so that he or she can handle your situation appropriately.

You should not only share your goals achievement strategy or situation with the counselor alone but also your loved ones should be included. These loved ones can be close friends or family members, and they can boost you by giving you either financial, spiritual or emotional support. These family members will cheer you up when you realize success in the long run because they have you in their hearts. The moment challenges hit you, they will be there to comfort you and give you more energy to move on.

Dreams differ in the accomplishment periods, and therefore you are supposed to be patient when perpetuating these dreams. For instance, you should not just think that you will wake up one day to find yourself in the career or area of specification that you may wish. Dreams are achieved on procedural pattern where you begin by the light events to the complex ones.


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Alborada and Festival of Saint Michael 2021

San Miguel de Allende.- For the second consecutive year, in attention to the health contingency, the Traditional Alborada was held virtually in a representative action with small groups of people from the neighborhoods that lead this festival: La Aurora, Valle del Maíz, and La Estación.

At 03:30 hours the transmission of the special program began through the social networks of the Directorate of Culture and Traditions, where the historian Graciela Cruz and the announcer Toño Rayas shared with the audience historical data about this traditional festivity.

Meanwhile, the contingents from each neighborhood gathered in the main garden toured the first painting of the city dancing with the typical stars and accompanied by the wind band. With the first ringing of the bells of the public clock at 04:00 hours, the fireworks began to burn.

For 30 minutes, the fireworks, flares, and bombs thrown from the atrium of the parish and the esplanade of the main garden resounded to culminate with a pyro-musical act accompanied by religious praises and songs dedicated to the patron saint of the city, San Miguel Arcángel.

Alborada SMA (Photo: Periodico Correo)

Finally, the San Miguel traditionalists Emigdio El Gordo Ledesma, Joel Arias, and Patricio Espinoza shared some of their experiences regarding their participation each year and thanked all the people who collaborated to carry out the Traditional Alborada 2021.

The Ministry of Public Security reported a white balance in the celebration of the Traditional Dawn 2021; during the event, access to the first painting in the city was restricted.

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Garnet of Sapphire Mountain. Very handsome young pup that is owned by a retired couple.

This fine youngster is here with us for a week of boarding while his owners are busy. He is smart, social, active and quite good looking.  A perfect dog for family companionship and future protection!


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When someone asks me why I hiked the A.T., several answers come to mind.  “I did it for the adventure,” or “I did it to experience nature,”  or ” I did it to get in shape” I might reply.  These are the socially acceptable answers; however, they are all lies.  The true answer is too complicated to state simply.  Most people who ask me “why?” are not looking for a treatise on motivational psychology.  In fact, most are not really even seeking an answer.  Usually, they are really saying “What are you? Crazy?”  But if you really want to know why I labored through mountainous terrain for five months, I’ll tell you.

Among other things, I am an expert on the functioning of the human brain.  My research on this topic can be summed up by stating that I have tried to use a human brain for over fifty years.  Here is what I have discovered.  We are all two-headed creatures.  One head, which I have termed “Grong,” has been handed down from our ancestors since soon after the nervous system first evolved.  The other head, which I here-to refer to as “Poindexter,” is a relative newcomer to our family tree.  Grong is emotional and impulsive.  Poindexter is rational and careful.  Every decision we make, every action we take results from a tug-of-war match between Grong and Poindexter.  Sometimes Grong triumphs, resulting in sexy actions such as shooting a tailgater or pepper-spraying a shopping competitor.  More often, Poindexter wins, resulting in boring actions like pulling over to let a tailgater pass, or avoiding shopping on Black Friday to begin with.

We all know Poindexter pretty well.  He is our conscious and rational thought.  Grong, on the other hand, is a little more mysterious.  He manifests himself through dreams, emotions, and impulses.  Most of the time, Poindexter keeps a rein on Grong.  Let me illustrate this concept further.  What would happen if Poindexter were to suddenly take a vacation when I was in a public place, say, for instance, the produce department of my local grocery store………

“Food everywhere!  HUNGRY!” I think.  I pick up an avocado and tear off the skin with my teeth.  I cram it into my mouth.  “Um! GOOOOOD!”  I go for watermelon next (I’m kind of thirsty after the avocado).  I grab one, raise it over my head, and throw it on the floor.  “Grong SMASH!” I exclaim.  Dropping to my hands and knees, I scoop fistfuls of the juicy melon’s innards into my mouth (never shop when you’re hungry).  A grocery clerk spots me on my hands and knees, grunting as I slurp mashed melon off the floor.  “Excuse me” she offers tentatively, “may I help you?”  I pause, annoyed at the interruption.  “WOMAN!!!!”  I exclaim.  I tear off my clothes, but by then the clerk has tottered around the corner and into the next isle.  I begin to pursue, but my attention is soon diverted as I pass the ice cream section.  I see a man selecting a carton of chocolate chip mint.  “MINE!!!”  I grab the carton from the dumbfounded shopper, who, not expecting to have a naked man with watermelon all over his face contest his selection, backs off quickly.  I sit on the floor and begin consuming my hard-won treasure.

Well….I think you get the point.  Without Poindexter, you wouldn’t last long in mainstream society.  On the other hand, without Grong, you wouldn’t have any fun.  What do Grong and Poindexter have to do with why I hiked the A.T.?  Well…for me, making the decision to hike the A.T. was Poindexter rewarding Grong for taking the back seat since years ago, when I went to preschool and started learning to share.  Grong likes to walk.  I don’t know why.  Maybe this impulse was selected for recently, say because my ancestors were nomadic.  On the other hand, maybe the impulse to move or die is left over from the amoeba stage of my family history.  The point is, Grong likes to walk much like your pet hamster likes to run on his exercise wheel.

Furthermore, walking is one of the only actions liked by Grong that remains socially acceptable even when performed to the extent of his satiation.  Most of Grong’s favorite things, such as eating, sex, and sleeping, would lead to public scorn and ridicule if performed in excess.  Compulsive walking, on the other hand, tends to foster respect and sometimes even fame, at least among those whose Grongs also like to walk.

Potential respect and fame are OK, but the most fabulous result of excessive walking, is that you can eat horrendous amounts of food without getting fat.  In the thru-hiker’s realm, good food is only periodically available.  The thru-hiker may go for days eating nothing but what he can carry.  When he finally reaches a store or restaurant, the ravenous thru-hiker is in virtual heaven.  He then partakes in guilt-free gluttony (hunger is the best sauce after all).  So, I could pretend that I hiked the A.T. for an admirable reason, like getting close to nature.  But the truth of it is Poindexter gave Grong a double treat.  “Go ahead” Poindexter exhorted, “walk until you’re sick of it, and by the way, you can eat anything and everything you want.”


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New Statesman | Vertigo by Joanna Walsh

“Elegance is a function of failure,” says the narrator of Joanna Walsh’s Vertigo, a collection of short stories all told from the point of view of one character. “There is no need for elegance in success: success itself is enough. But elegance in failure is essential.” Walsh is a sublimely elegant writer. Her interests revolve insistently around failure: failed marriage, unsatisfactory affairs, disappointing parties, travel that ends nowhere. It’s thematically consistent at least that the collection itself is not wholly a success.

Much of the problem stems from that solitary narrator. It’s a choice that pays tribute to Katherine Mansfield’s first published story collection, In a German Pension (1911), which Walsh wrote about last year in her non-fiction book Hotel – an odd, intriguing work, part analysis of the cultural import and symbolism of the hotel, part memoir of Walsh’s dissolving marriage and fugue into hotel living. But where in Mansfield’s book a single, semi-autobiographical narrator observes multiple guests during her stay at a boarding house, Walsh’s narrator in Vertigo (who sounds strikingly similar to the autobiographical voice of Hotel) travels to multiple locations, yet only fully observes what happens inside her own skin.

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Chicken, Raspberry And Asparagus Salad

for two – good served hot – but also cold so you could make double quantities and have two very different meals. If you do this, don’t forget to reserve half the dressing for the second meal.

  • 120g/about a cup basmati and wild rice (buy Tilda ready mixed)
  • 1 chicken stock cube
  • left over chicken – equivalent of two breasts. (or poach two breasts for ten minutes in a mix of cider and stock made with water and a stock cube)
  • 2 red onions – peeled and chopped
  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • 75g THIN asparagus – not the massive tree trunk stuff
  • 75g raspberries
  • handful of rocket

  • 1 tbsp redcurrent jelly
  • 1 tbsp sherry vinegar
  • 1 tsp grainy mustard
  • zest and juice of half a lemon
  • salt and pepper
  1. warm the plates and the raspberries, and the left over chicken
  2. fry the red onions in a tbsp. of olive oil in a saucepan, once beginning to caramelise take out and keep warm with the other ingredients
  3. add another tbsp of olive oil to the saucepan and add the rice and wild rice
  4. fry for about two minutes
  5. add two cups stock made from hot water and the stock cube (if you’ve poached the chicken, use the poaching liquid and make up to the right amount with cider).
  6. snap off the inedible ends of the asparagus and put it in a sieve over the rice, cover with the saucepan lid – steam the asparagus for 10-15 minutes depending on how thick it is. Keep it warm with everything else. Keep four asparagus spears and about ten raspberries to one side for garnishing.
  7. cook the rice (with the lid on) for an additional ten minutes.
  8. make the dressing
  9. mix everything except the garnish in with the rice including the dressing.
  10. garnish artistically

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Farewell to Buena Vista Pasta

One of the best music festivals around is the Verbier festival. Every year the town, perfectly located halfway up a magnificent bowl of an alpine valley (the Vallais) hosts a really eclectic mix of musicians – most simply outstanding – performing in chalets, churches and concert halls. Often first violins are given their longed-for opportunity of a prestigious solo. The restaurants in the town are full of discussion, about symphonies, timing, voices, harmonies…Sometimes diners are lucky enough to an impromptu demonstration of a musical point being made.

This year I would have given my eye teeth to be there. Today is the farewell concert of my favourite music consortium, the Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club – these Cuban musicians have been touring around the world in various permutations and combinations since 1997.

So the mark the occasion in a culinary sense something Cuban might have been in order and my plan was to give the recipe for Moros y Cristianos – rice and black beans – but in the end although the monochrome dish looks elegant, it’s really double the carbohydrates as well as being twice the effort. So I decided to invent a monochrome recipe instead using cauliflower and Japanese noodles for white and mushrooms for black…. But then I was lucky enough to find a head of romanesco. Here anyway is a great tasting and looking pasta dish created in appreciation of the very many enjoyable hours cooking and pottering in the kitchen I’ve spent listening to the music of Ruben Gonzales, Omara Portuondo, and all the others. Chan Chan, in the YouTube clip below, is their signature tune.

For two

  • One small head of cauliflower, or if you can get it, romanesco
  • 2 nests of instant white Japanese noodles
  • 4 slices of streaky bacon
  • 2 generous tbsp double cream
  • 1 large Portobello mushroom
  • 2 cloves black (if possible) garlic
  • 1 small red onion, peeled and chopped
  • 2 generous tsp Dijon-strength mustard
  • Olive oil or butter to fry

  1. Get a smallish saucepan (it’s for the cauliflower) of salted water on to boil, cover with a lid
  2. Peel the mushroom and take off the stalk, chop up the stalk, cut the mushroom into quarters
  3. Peel and chop the shallot
  4. If you’re using ordinary garlic, peel and crush with a little smoked salt (not too much because of the bacon). Chop the black garlic clove finely
  5. Chop off the stalk, ribs and leaves leaving the head in one piece, with the stalk slightly hollowed out
  6. Put into the saucepan, get the water simmering, and cover. Cook for about a quarter of an hour until the head is just tender – don’t overcook
  7. Boil a kettle
  8. Meanwhile fry the bacon, the chopped mushroom stalk, the mushroom quarters and the onion adding olive oil or butter as you need.
  9. Put the noodles in a large bowl (you’re going to add the frying pan contents to it) and cover with boiled water for three minutes
  10. Take out the mushroom quarters and set aside, keeping them warm. Add the garlic to the frying pan, and then the cream and mustard – allow that to bubble up gently. Stir well.
  11. Drain the noodles and put them back in the bowl together with the contents of the frying pan. Mix well.
  12. Put the whole onto an attractive serving plate,
  13. Drain the cauliflower or romanesco head and place in the middle
  14. Surround it with the mushroom quarters
  15. Serve with a flourish
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Friday, May 02, 2008

I Saw Vince Noir

I went to a corporate party last night.

It was for the launch of LG's new series of Scarlet TV's. Quite a neat idea - the pre-launch activity was all about pretending they were launching "a new TV series".

They even signed up David Nutter, director of Smallville, to pretend to be directing it. Website here (N.B. is not a BBH campaign, it was I think).

Anyway, for a corporate party, it was pretty cool. Lindsay Lohan was at the LA event. In London was supposed to appear Grace Jones, but she didn't show. Apparently she refused to leave her suite at the Dorchester because she hadn't been given her fee in cash, in advance. Not many divas of that calibre around nowadays.

But we did have Noel Fielding (in case you don't know him, he plays Vince Noir, and various other characters, in The Mighty Bhoosh, comedy programme on BBC). I was in awe; wanted to get my photo taken with him but was too shy. I should have just gone up to him. He seemed very happy, not surprising as he was constantly surrounded by about eleven girls, and was probably being paid a small fortune to be there.

Anyway, if you've never seen this clip - 'Old Greg' from The Mighty Bhoosh - you have a real treat in store.

It is probably the funniest thing ever. Ever.

P.S. thanks for all the birthday wishes

Anonymous said...

happy b'day scamp

Anonymous said...

"Mighty Bhoosh"

Happy Birthday, grandpa.

Anonymous said...

the mighty boosh is fucking gash

Anonymous said...

the mighty boosh is dope. love it. very brave comedy.

hitting the big four-oh scamp? have a glass of rose for me.

Chris Gough said...

happy birthday... wanna come to a club where people wee on each other?

William said...

Happy Birthday Mr Scamp.

Anonymous said...

Today's piece is nothing more than star fucking masquerading as ad blogging.

Tad self indulgent, don't you think?

Lunar BBDO said...

I managed half that clip before giving up. Not only did it confirm my opinion that TMB is as funny as living in your dad/grandad's Austrian cellar for twenty years but that character is a shitty rip off of Papa Lazaru from the League of Gentlemen.

BUT HAPPY BIRTHDAY111111!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anonymous said...

The llama crimp is the funniest Boosh clip. I've said it so it's true.

Anonymous said... did a global ad campaign?

Anonymous said...

"Wanna go to a club where people wee on each other?"

proxikid said...

Happy Birthday.

Mighty Boosh rocks.
so does Noel.

Anonymous said...

agree that mighty boosh is inspired. however this post does border on the 'what my cat did this week' in tone. The LG scarlet thing is quite cool though, any more details on it?

Anonymous said...

Scarlet was a TBWA\Group initiative with Tequila, Stream and Tequila specifically was the lead agency both strategically and creatively for the project.

A big chunk of budget was spent seeding the idea of a hit new TV series throughout the community via traditional and online PR and social networking sites. Extra interest and momentum came from sneak previews and gossip about the TV series and its stars. Stuff like the Natassia "Scarlet" Malthe hanging out on P.Diddy's boat and dumping Robbie Williams. It even had the Hollywood producers saying how slick it was and clambering for a piece of the action.


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Long Island Iced Tea

Unlike some of the Classic Cocktails such as Manhattan or Martini which date back some 100 years, the Long Island Iced Tea made it´s first appearance in the late 1979´s.

Some claim that the Long Island Iced Tea was invented in the 1920´s making drink significantly older than originally thought and placing the birth in the middle of the Prohibition, in an area of secrecy, smuggling, gangsters, shootouts and undercover "dry agents" the illegal consumption of alcohol was kept very low key.

Original Recipe   CORDIALS V.I.P. Drinks®

1/2 oz  Triple Sec
1/2 oz Light Rum
1/2 oz Gin
1/2 oz Vodka
1/2 oz Tequila
1 oz Sour Mix
Lemon Wedge

1 Liter/ 33.82 f.OZ (US)
8.9% Alc. Vol. per Cocktail
Amount of Alcohol from Base 40% Alc. Vol.
25 - 50 servings per bottle

Ratio   Mixer

1:3 (1 part of CORDIALS + 3 parts of the mixer)

Imperial: 1.4 f.OZ. CORDIALS + 4.8 f.OZ. mixer
Metric: 4 cl CORDIALS + 14 cl mixer

Cola. Do not use fruit-flavored colas

Preparation Instruction   Ingredients

Muddle softly green Lemon, then stir gently CORDIALS and Cola, garnish with fresh Fruit and serve

Cane Sugar.
Neutral Alcohol from Grain Spirits
Citric Acid
Natural Rum Aroma
Natural Vodka Aroma
Natural Tequila Aroma
Natural Gin Aroma
Natural Triple Sec Aroma
Natural Yellow Color made from Fruits and Vegetables

No artificial Aromas or Colors
No Preservatives added

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Imperial: +41°F to +83°F
Metric: +5°C to +28°C

Do not expose to UV-light.
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Original sealed: up to 3 Years
Opened: up to 1 Year

Colors are natural ingredients and can oxidize when longer stored and/or exposed to sunlight. Oxidation is not harming just flattening the color intensity. Oxidation is not influencing the quality of the Cocktails

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8.9% Alc. Vol. per Serving

Alcohol Content (Vol.) of finished Product 8.9%
Amount of Alcohol (Vol.) per Base 40%

Concentrated Product, not for direct Consumption
Shake Bottle before using
Settling is natural
Best Before and Serial Number on lower Bottle Rim

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E-Mail: info@vipdrinks.us
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Furman golf

Hirai and Murphy each win a championship

Last year Furman’s Reona Hirai and Auburn’s Kelli Murphy teamed up to win the Carolinas Women’s Four-Ball championship. Just a little over a year later the two golfers are still having success, but this time as individuals.

Former Furman golfer Reona Hirai won her third important individual title of the year by winning the Eastern Amateur.

Hirai, a recent Furman grad finished off a victory in the Women’s Eastern  Amateur being played at Palmetto Hall Plantation in Bluffton.

Hirai shot rounds of 75-67-71 for a 213 total and a four-shot victory over Courtney McKin.  Maggie Ashmore of Augusta finished third at 220.

The win was the third important championship Hirai has won this year. She began the year with a victory in the Carolinas Golf Association Young Amateur championship.

The former Lady Paladin won the SoCon individual title at Moss Creek in April and helped Furman to their fourth straight Southern Conference team title.

The Women’s Eastern Golf Association championship has been played for over 100 years. The event includes golfers from Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, and the District of Columbia.

Murphy wins WSCGA Amateur

Kelli Murphy shot a second round 66, including a hole-in-one and went on to win the WSCGA Amateur.

Murphy outdistanced the field at the WSCGA Amateur with a second round 6-under par 66. Her second round included a hole-in-one on the par 3, 131 yard 15th hole.

With a seven shot lead over the field Murphy was able to cruise through the final round with a 1-under 71 to claim an 11 short victory.

Thornblade Club’s Dawn Woodard shot a final round even par 72 to climb up three places and finish as the runner-upon shot in front of Abigail Schimpf from Daniel Island.

The State Division championship was won by Terri Allemeng from Hilton Head. Allemeng topped Karen Ferree from Hilton Head on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff to with the title..

Terri Allemeng won the WSCGA Amateur state division title.

Flight winners included, First Flight – Kelli Murphy, Second Flight – Karlee Vardas, Third Flight – Kayleigh Reinke. State Division Flight winners, First Flight – Karen Ferree, Second Flight – Betty Armbruster, Third Flight – Karen Harwood.

Complete tournament scoring https://www.golfgenius.com/pages/4244460028901246668

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BACKGROUND: Metastatic DNA mismatch repair-deficient (dMMR)/microsatellite instability-high (MSI-H) colorectal cancer has a poor prognosis after treatment with conventional chemotherapy and exhibits high levels of tumour neoantigens, tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes, and checkpoint regulators. All of these features are associated with the response to PD-1 blockade in other tumour types. Therefore, we aimed to study nivolumab, a PD-1 immune checkpoint inhibitor, in patients with dMMR/MSI-H metastatic colorectal cancer. METHODS: In this ongoing, multicentre, open-label, phase 2 trial, we enrolled adults (aged ≥18 years) with histologically confirmed recurrent or metastatic colorectal cancer locally assessed as dMMR/MSI-H from 31 sites (academic centres and hospitals) in eight countries (Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Ireland, Italy, Spain, and the USA). Eligible patients had progressed on or after, or been intolerant of, at least one previous line of treatment, including a fluoropyrimidine and oxaliplatin or irinotecan. Patients were given 3 mg/kg nivolumab every 2 weeks until disease progression, death, unacceptable toxic effects, or withdrawal from study. The primary endpoint was investigator-assessed objective response as per Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (version 1.1). All patients who received at least one dose of study drug were included in all analyses. This trial is registered with, number NCT02060188. FINDINGS: Of the 74 patients who were enrolled between March 12, 2014, and March 16, 2016, 40 (54%) had received three or more previous treatments. At a median follow-up of 12·0 months (IQR 8·6-18·0), 23 (31·1%, 95% CI 20·8-42·9) of 74 patients achieved an investigator-assessed objective response and 51 (69%, 57-79) patients had disease control for 12 weeks or longer. Median duration of response was not yet reached; all responders were alive, and eight had responses lasting 12 months or longer (Kaplan-Meier 12-month estimate 86%, 95% CI 62-95). The most common grade 3 or 4 drug-related adverse events were increased concentrations of lipase (six [8%]) and amylase (two [3%]). 23 (31%) patients died during the study; none of these deaths were deemed to be treatment related by the investigator. INTERPRETATION: Nivolumab provided durable responses and disease control in pre-treated patients with dMMR/MSI-H metastatic colorectal cancer, and could be a new treatment option for these patients. FUNDING: Bristol-Myers Squibb.

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Duke Authors

Cited Authors

  • Overman, MJ; McDermott, R; Leach, JL; Lonardi, S; Lenz, H-J; Morse, MA; Desai, J; Hill, A; Axelson, M; Moss, RA; Goldberg, MV; Cao, ZA; Ledeine, J-M; Maglinte, GA; Kopetz, S; André, T

Published Date

  • September 2017

Published In

Volume / Issue

  • 18 / 9

Start / End Page

  • 1182 - 1191

PubMed ID

  • 28734759

Pubmed Central ID

  • PMC6207072

Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

  • 1474-5488

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1016/S1470-2045(17)30422-9

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Background: Primary laparoscopic hiatal repair with fundoplication is associated with a high recurrence rate. We wanted to evaluate the potential risks posed by routine use of onlay-mesh during hiatal closure, when compared to primary repair. Methods: Utilizing single-institutional database, we identified patients who underwent primary laparoscopic hiatal repair from January 2005 through December 2014. Retrospective chart review was performed to determine perioperative morbidity and mortality. Long-term results were assessed by sending out a questionnaire. Results were tabulated and patients were divided into 2 groups: fundoplication with hiatal closure + absorbable or non-absorbable mesh and fundoplication with hiatal closure alone. Results: A total of 505 patients underwent primary laparoscopic fundoplication. Mesh reinforcement was used in 270 patients (53.5%). There was no significant difference in the 30-day perioperative outcomes between the 2 groups. No clinically apparent erosions were noted and no mesh required removal. Standard questionnaire was sent to 475 patients; 174 (36.6%) patients responded with a median follow-up of 4.29 years. Once again, no difference was noted between the 2 groups in terms of dysphagia, heartburn, long-term antacid use, or patient satisfaction. Of these, 15 patients (16.9%, 15/89) in the ‘Mesh’ cohort had symptomatic recurrence as compared to 19 patients (22.4%, 19/85) in the ‘No Mesh’ cohort (p = 0.362). A reoperation was necessary in 6 patients (6.7%) in the ‘Mesh’ cohort as compared to 3 patients (3.5%) in the ‘No Mesh’ cohort (p = 0.543). Conclusions: Onlay-mesh use in laparoscopic hiatal repair with fundoplication is safe and has similar short and long-term results as primary repair.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1-10
Number of pages10
JournalSurgical Endoscopy
Early online dateSep 15 2017
StateE-pub ahead of print - Sep 15 2017

  • Hiatal hernia
  • Surgery, complications
  • Surgery/incisions/exposure/techniques

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Surgery

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Miss Purfect Liquid snacks Tuna are purfect for cat food topping or as a snack. The snack has high palatability and therefor purfect for hiding medicine or enhance your cats food. To keep your best friend healthy we also added Vitamin E and Taurin. The snack is single packed and easy to open.

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I wanted to talk a bit about my thoughts on Assessments here. Firstly assessment need not just be in the form of examinations. Exams are only a part of assessments.

A child grappling with an assessment

What are some of the purposes of assessments?

  1. For the teacher to learn what the students know. It is extremely important for the teacher to know what the students understand and do not understand.
  2. For the students to know what they know. People’s own idea of what they know and do not know often tends to be wrong. A formal test or exam helps the student more clearly understand their own weaknesses. This is more important at higher levels of learning. At a primary level where the instruction is mostly teacher driven, this is not a very important goal. To use modern terminology, meta-cognitive abilities are considered the most important for learning. i.e. The child should learn to learn. They should understand what they know, how they can test their own knowledge, how they learn etc. For this too assessments are important.
  3. To serve as a beacon for the teacher. If the assessment is designed by a higher body, this helps the teacher to understand what is the expected outcome for a course that he or she is teaching.
  4. Ranking the students. Often we need to rank the students to provide admissions for higher education, selection for scholarships etc. based on certain academic criteria. Exams serve the purpose of ranking the students.
  5. Driving policy. Data from assessments or examinations can provide information to policy makers that can drive policy related to education and development.

The reason I have taken Assessments as one of the first topics for discussing here is because I believe this is about the biggest problem facing education in India. None of the above stated goals are being served satisfactorily by the various assessments being conducted.

Where are we now?

Most of the Indian states follow some version of Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation or CCE. This is also mandated by RTE Act! In Tamilnadu primary schools, the school year is divided into 3 terms and each term they have a Summative Assessment at the end of the term. At the end of each lesson the teacher conducts a Formative Assessment. The purpose of the formative assessment is to assess how the children are learning the lesson so that the teacher can do some course correction if required for children who are not on the right track. Summative assessment is supposed to test the children on all the lessons of the term and also see how they have integrated these concepts with the broader subject materials learnt till then. Formative assessments were further broken into two sections FA(a) and FA(b). FA(a) covers expression of the concept learnt through games, dance, art etc. whereas FA(b) is the more traditional pen and paper kind of assessment.

These formative and summative assessments should meet the goals 1 and 2 of assessments as I laid out earlier. By providing some sample assessments and manuals they also to a large extent meet goal 3 in the list.

Government has created elaborate resources to train the teachers on conducting the CCE. Here are some materials created by the Tamilnadu SCERT for CCE. If you read some of these manuals you will think you have died and gone to a heaven of perfect schooling!

So what has happened? The problem is in the implementation. They first of all formalised something which ought to have remained informal — formative assessments. Rather than stopping with telling the teachers what needs to be done and allowed them the freedom to assess the children in the way they think makes sense, they specified it in a lot of details. Teachers more or less stopped applying their minds and just started using standard assessments available to conduct their FAs. Further for whatever reason FAs started getting conducted at the end of teaching the lesson rather than in the middle of it. As the name suggests it is supposed to assess the knowledge as a formative stage to do course corrections. Thus the purposes of FAs were largely defeated.

This formality extended to the SAs as well. Very few school teachers created their own FAs or SAs. At least SAs were created by some teachers as these are typical pen and paper assessments. But the thing that should have been done informally in every class, FA, was almost always taken straight from the ABL cards or teachers’ manuals.

The schools are expected to record and report the scores from the FAs and SAs to the higher officials. At higher classes like 10th and 12th, the marks from the FAs and SAs will also factor in the overall board exam marks. This completely killed CCE. Teachers cannot possibly go about being honest with these assessments. How many schools will give anything less than 25 out of 30 on any of the practical exams? CCE became like that. Children and their parents expected the school to give them maximum marks for the internal component at the board exam classes. CBSE recognised the sham it has become and has more or less reverted to the old style board exams. Internals only count for 20% marks now.

In other classes too, the teachers started fudging these assessments to not have any trouble with the higher officials or parents. All children are supposed to pass in every class till 8th std. If the child is not at grade level it reflects on the teacher and not on the child. With this pressure why would the teacher want to take the risk of having a child score poorly in an assessment?

In TN primary schools, one week before the summative assessments, the schools give the children the papers and coach them on all the answers. Then the children are expected to just recollect and answer the questions during the actual exam. For children who cannot answer the questions in spite of this, the teacher helps by giving the answer or even asks the bright children to go around and help the other children complete the assessment. Note this is not something exceptional that happens in a few bad schools.This happens in EVERY government school I have ever been to!

During the days of ABL (which was replaced by a different teaching methodology starting 2018–19), there were FA cards which was what the teacher was meant to use for the assessment. If you hold up the card against the light you can see the answers etched in them! This is the case once again in most of the schools.

So rather than assessments contributing positively to the process of education, it institutionalised rote learning and killed any sense of fairness or merit in the children.

Board exams conducted at the end of your 10th or 12th standard are there to meet the goals 3 and 4 that I laid out earlier. They serve as a beacon for the schools on where the children should be after serving the full term at the school. They also provide the ranking required for admission to higher education.

Unlike the CCE, most people are familiar with what has become of the board exams. Competitive dumbing down of the board exams and mark inflation are familiar to most people There is massive cheating at every stage from writing the exam to corrections to recorrections.

Infamous picture showing friends and family helping student to copy during a board exam in Bihar

In Tamilnadu some 95%+ of the questions are directly from the textbooks or from a Question Bank. In Maths, the questions are repeated without even changing the numbers! If this is a beacon for all schools and teachers, how can we ever fight rote learning? But the board and the government are also caught in a bind. If they attempt to increase the number of questions that involve some reasoning and is not directly from the textbooks or QB, there are huge protests from the parents and teachers. In states like Bihar, even if the education department tries to control copying there is protest from parents and teachers!

Further performance of the students in the board exams is considered as a proxy for how education is doing in the state. So every state wants to keep showing a steady increase in the percentage of children passing in the board exams. Average marks keeps increasing while education levels keep dropping.

Given the low quality of the board exams, admissions to courses that are in demand have started having their own entrance examinations. There is JEE (main and advanced) for engineering, NEET for medicine, NATA for art and architecture etc. Given the variations in the syllabus and testing methodology for these examinations, there has been an explosion of coaching classes. The costs of these and access to these are limited to the rich, urban children. This makes the system highly unfair.

There are people who argue against ranking exams as a whole. I am not one of them. Even in the best of circumstances, there are many problems with ranking examinations as the criteria for selection for higher education or jobs.

  1. The coaching and other inputs that the privileged get over the under-privileged certainly makes ranking exams unfair.
  2. Performance in exams has only a weak correlation with performance in higher education or jobs for which they are used as criteria.
  3. Performance at the exams become the goal of education and the broader goals of education get sidelined.

But despite all this, “good” ranking exams serve their goals of being a beacon and in ranking the students reasonably well. Here is an article that talks about how SAT in US is fairer than a system without SAT.

However as stated earlier the problems with the exams in India are much more fundamental and these need to be eliminated.

  1. Test actual learning instead of just the memorising ability. Other competitive exams are far better than the board exams in this matter.
  2. Getting a high pass percentage should not be the yardstick for evaluating an education system. Having a lot youth with 12th std pass with no value for that doesn’t serve any purpose. A broader social dialogue is required to change this mindset.
  3. Eliminate the huge number of exams and reduce it to a minimum. Most streams should base their admissions on the board exams. Only when there are significant quantifiable reasons, other competitive exams should be allowed. If there are exams that control access to a large sector of opportunities, training for this should also be made mandatory at all schools.

Education Surveys and Policy Making

Finally coming to goal 5, how is the government measuring the health of the education. As mentioned in the previous section, because of a lack of better survey, governments use the board exam results as a proxy for the state of education and therefore manipulate these exams to show improvement in education.

Standardised testing where the results are comparable across years is still nowhere to be seen in India. Some surveys are being done.

  • National Achievement Survey or NAS — This is conducted by NCERT. It is conducted at 3rd, 5th and 8th standard children once every three years. It is a sample survey and is conducted only at 5 schools in every district. The tests are designed well and test the learning levels as recommended by NCERT. The reports from NAS give the areas of strength and weaknesses for different states but doesnt go beyond that.
  • Tamilnadu conducts another State Level Achievement Survey or SLAS. The question papers till recently were developed by SCERT and were much worse than the NAS question papers and had direct reference to the text book material (i.e. did not test the curriculum knowledge but the textbook knowledge). But in the last year they changed the SLAS to also test with the same paper as NAS. This has a much bigger sample of 5 schools per block and is conducted every year but I am not sure what the reports contain. Their reports do not seem to be available publicly.
  • ASER by Pratham — Pratham an NGO started conducting ASER a survey to measure basic reading and arithmetic skills of children. Their findings were shocking. In most states majority of the children in 5th std couldn’t read a 2nd std text or do a division sum. Its simplicity communicates very powerfully as these are things that anyone can understand. Unfortunately the way this assessment is conducted is very subjective and this shows up in the wild swings in the results and the poor correlation with the much better conducted NAS.

You can read this article in Hindu that compares the results of NAS and ASER. This also talks about the results of India’s participation in PISA. India was represented by just two states (TN and HP) in the 2009 version of PISA. It ranked 87th out of 88 countries and then decided it will stop participating in PISA.

Summing Up

In short the assessments framework in India during the schooling years requires a massive overhaul. Continuous Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) that should be providing continuous information about the progress of the students to the teachers and to the students or their parents is corrupted beyond recognition and only survives in the reports it generates. There is no truth behind the data in these reports.

Board exams in most boards have become completely rote based and are competing to dumb themselves down and award more marks to their students. This creates the environment for a plethora of competitive exams and corresponding coaching classes. These make the system very unfair for the rural poor.

Broad surveys that aid a government in comparing the performance of the student population across years is still lacking. The closest available is for now Pratham’s ASER which is also flawed in many ways.

All these need to be addressed urgently to improve our education system.

6 thoughts on “Assessments

  1. Dear Rajaram,
    I agree with your thoughts. But how does one change the teachers to assess the children properly? Just by bringing CCE didnt change anything. For example, in CBSE also, my son was asked to write on disaster management. I was trying to tell the teacher that instead of writing on disaster management, ask the children to inspect their surroundings and try to figure out what kind of disasters can happen, and how to prevent it. This way they will learn more instead of googling and printing some random report.

    1. When you ask teachers to submit all metrics from an assessment to higher authorities and there are consequences for those metrics, then you cannot really expect them to be very honest with that. One of my recommendations in the “What ails education in Tamilnadu” blog was to do away with those metrics, give teachers some space, insist that they be honest and conduct a rigorous assessment conducted by people from outside the school.

      Regarding your second point I agree. We need to move to test higher order thinking skills like application, analysis etc. as you have suggested. We dont do that enough at all.

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Title: Ecological status assessment of the Samokovska river: 2018 case study
Authors: Simić, Snežana
Mitrović, Aleksandra
Đorđević, Nevena
Radosavljević, Sanja
Journal: Kragujevac Journal of Science
Issue Date: 2021
Abstract: The Samokovska River, as the most important watercourse of the Kopaonik National Park, has been poorly investigated from algological and water quality aspects. This river is not covered by the monitoring program of the Serbian Environmental Protection Agency routine. Our research performed in October 2018 aimed to present an algal diversity, ecological status assessment, and negative anthropogenic impacts threatening this river. For ecological status assessment purposes, the diatom indices phytobenthos and physico-chemical parameters of water were used. The typology and the problem of reliable assessing of the ecological status were also discussed on the example of the Samokovska River.
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ISSN: 1450-9636
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Aging: Even Opie. An evolutionary perspective

I'm not going to say that Ron Howard is old or anything, but he isn't Opie any more. (And, in fact, it has been fascinating and inspiring to watch his career, by the way.) Anyway, Howard produced a new documentary with National Geographic called "Breakthrough: The Age of Aging, which premieres Sunday, November 29 at 9 pm et on National Geographic Channel. And, pursuant to this, National Geographic's web site is sponsoring a Roundtable on the topic. The roundtable addresses the question, "By treating aging as a disease are we just prolonging the inevitable or can we change the course of our lives?"

The short answer to this is, I'm not really sure, but I think it is helpful to put aging, and changes in human patterns of aging, in a broader anthropological and evolutionary perspective.

LOS ANGELES - Priya Balasubramanian studies the science of aging.

(photo credit:  Asylum Entertainment) LOS ANGELES - Priya Balasubramanian studies the science of aging.

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People have long lived long, even hunter gatherers in the Stone Age, as to modern hunter gatherers. In fact, hunter gatherers may have had longer and healthier lives than some of their errand cousins who went and invented agriculture and animal husbandry. In some cases we know from archaeology that populations engaged in early experiments with agriculture experienced dramatic decreases in overall health, and presumably, life span. This may have been a combination of larger groups sharing more diseases, unsanitary conditions developing in a more settled lifestyle, and a diet based on a smaller range of foods one ends up when casting off the foraging way of life. Eventually, in regions where this has been observed, things got better, either as a result of cultural adaptation or genetic changes.

When we look into the past, it is too easy to compress our ancestry into a caricature of primitive humanity, and based that conception on the wrong model. For example, it is said that "people were shorter back then." Often, that is true, but the shorter people were actually poor urban dwellers in late medieval European settlements where diet was poor and disease demanded more energy of the immune system than average, so growth was sacrificed. If we look at pre-agricultural foraging populations, we often see relatively tall people. This is a bit enigmatic because so many modern forager groups are short statured. The explanation for that is probably that forager groups who are still around today, or have been extant over the last century or so, eek out their existence in relatively marginal habitats, the better parts of the landscape taken over by farmers and herders.

See: “If this was the Stone Age, I’d be dead by now”

So, we should expect that prehistoric lifespan varied across time and space, and as I noted, there were probably always elderly people, but just not too many of them, compared to today. It has become axiomatic to note in modern day conversations that many of our diseases, in the West, are "diseases of civilization." This is a combination of health effects, but one of the most important is the lack of disease of the past because they have been addressed, at least for now, at least for a subset of the human population. Antibiotics alone probably allow a much larger proportion of the human population to survive long enough to experience age-related disease.

A good part of Howard's documentary is about the science of aging. We want our scientists to figure out how to beat aging, or at least, slow it down. But this is not easy. Humans are primates, and primates are mammals. The very earliest mammals probably evolved to die young. That seems counterintuitive but it really isn't. Life History Theory predicts that organisms will be selected to produce some sort of balance (or bias, imbalance) of three major energy shunting systems: growth, maintenance (including the immune system), and reproduction. Humans reproduce slowly, producing one (or two) offspring at a time, and putting a lot of effort into each one. This goes along with a long lifespan, because in order to produce a small number of high-quality offspring one must take some time. This, however, places additional demands on the immune system. In order to keep up with evolving microbes and the overall ravages of time, we need to spend a fair amount of effort on keeping from being too sick. And, we happen to be large, for a primate. That probably relates to predator pressure and a few other factors. So while we are selected to live a long time compared to the average primate (and certainly, the average mammal) we can only go just so far.

But perhaps more importantly, we (humans, and to a somewhat lesser extent, primates in general) are modified versions of mammals, and there are indications that mammals were never originally designed (by natural selection) to live long lives. Early mammals were probably small, and small goes along with a short lifespan in the mammalian world. Remember, those early mammals were living along side dinosaurs! (There were large early mammals but modern mammals, including all the more recent large one, probably evolved from a subset of them that were on the small side.) In a world where the smallest dinosaurs were larger than the largest mammals (or close to that) mammals were probably more often prey than predator. The best strategy if the most likely cause of death is being scarfed up by something larger is to live fast, have one or two litters of offspring, and do the whole "circle of life" thing really fast.

See: How Long Is A Human Generation?

One strong piece of evidence that a live fast and die young strategy applied to early mammals is the fact that mammal females are born already containing all the egg cells they will ever produce. This is the primary determinant of reproductive lifespan for human females. Organisms that are born ready to reproduce tend to have that strategy of rapid early reproduction followed by an early death. One of the more extreme examples of this is aphids. Aphids have two modes of reproduction, but in one of them, female aphids are born gravid. While human females are not born pregnant, they are born with the eggs ready to go.

Not only have humans (following the primate lead) extended their lifespan and slowed down their reproduction, but they ave added, apparently, another phase of life: Post reproductive. Human females in foraging societies around the world are productive members of their families after they have stopped being fertile. This seems to not make sense from a Darwinian perspective. Why not just keep reproducing until you die? Probably for two reasons. First, they can't, because human lifespans are already extended to the limit of our phyolgeneticaly constrained abilities. Second, that post-reproductive period probably enhances Darwinian fitness. Studies have shown that elder women in foraging societies contribute significantly to the health and wellbeing of their own children's offspring. Grandmothers are an adaptation!

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