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Pennsylvania freshman sire El Padrino's first starter became his first winner June 8 at Delaware Park, where longshot Whereshetoldmetogo rallied in the stretch to win by 2 1/2 lengths.
Pennsylvania freshman sire El Padrino's first starter became his first winner June 8 at Delaware Park, where longshot Whereshetoldmetogo rallied in the stretch to win by 2 1/2 lengths.
Delaware Park, a bucolic race course steeped in racing history but an operation battling stiff competition from other Mid-Atlantic region tracks, begins its 80th season of racing with a 10-race program June 3.
Delaware Park has canceled live racing for Aug. 13 because of excessive heat in the Wilmington, Del., area.
Longtime race caller Tony Bentley will take the mike in the announcer's booth at Suffolk Downs when live racing returns to the East Boston, Mass., racetrack Aug. 6-7.
An excessive heat warning from the National Weather Service led Parx Racing to cancel its July 25 live racing program.
WinStar Farm homebred American Patriot overhauled pacesetter He'll Pay in the stretch and edged away to win the $200,000 Kent Stakes (gr. IIIT) July 16 at Delaware Park.
I'm a Chatterbox waltzed to victory on the track and then survived an objection to win the $750,000 Delaware Handicap (gr. I) July 16 at Delaware Park.
Fletcher and Carolyn Gray's homebred I'm a Chatterbox, an easy winner of the Obeah Stakes in her last start, could be heavily favored versus five other fillies and mares in the $750,000 Delaware Handicap (gr. I) July 16 at Delaware Park.
A sloppy track and a rain delay that kept the runners in the Delaware Park paddock for more than 30 minutes was no bother to WinStar Farm's Dark Nile, who won the $300,000 Delaware Oaks (gr. III) by 1 1/4 lengths.
Second choice Real Smart got a perfectly timed ride to collar grade I winner and even-money favorite Photo Call in the stretch and win the $200,000 Robert G. Memorial (gr. IIIT) July 9 at Delaware Park.
Grade I winner Photo Call headlines a field of eight older fillies and mares set to run in the $200,000 Robert G. Dick Memorial Stakes (gr. IIIT) July 9 at Delaware Park.
Dark Nile and Browse, the one-two finishers in the local Our Mims Stakes in early June, are among nine 3-year-old fillies entered for the $300,000 Delaware Oaks (gr. III) at Delaware Park.
Trainers Arnaud Delacour and Graham Motion each entered two in the $50,000 Christiana Stakes, which will offer a look at many promising 3-year-old fillies should the 1 1/16-mile event remain on the turf July 6 at Delaware Park.
Maybe I'm a Chatterbox needed a race, maybe she needed an easy target. Either way, the grade I winner got her mojo back in the $100,000 Obeah Stakes (gr. III), in which she made short work of a short field June 11 at Delaware Park.
The promising Pennsylvania-bred filly Dark Nile ran her record to three wins in four starts with a come-from-behind victory in the $50,000 Our Mims Stakes for 3-year-old fillies June 8 at Delaware Park.
Carolyn and Fletcher Gray's I'm a Chatterbox, one of the top 3-year-old fillies of 2015, will take the next step toward the Delaware Handicap (gr. I) in the June 11 Obeah Stakes (gr. III) at Delaware Park.
The first stakes of the Delaware Park meet, the Our Mims for 3-year-old fillies, is worth $50,000 but attracted multiple graded-stakes competitors as the local prep for the $300,000 Delaware Oaks (gr. III) July 9.
Mademoiselle Coco, a half sister to champion Havre de Grace, broke her maiden in her third start May 25 at Delaware Park.
The barn area at Delaware Park continues to fill up in anticipation of the track's May 21 opening day, and some trainers will have horses there for the first time or have returned after an absence.
Wilson begins his duties as the new track superintendent in early May, shortly before Delaware Park begins its 79th season of racing.
Of the four parts of the National Uniform Medication Program, the multiple medication violation penalty system has been adopted by the lowest number of jurisdictions. But one official April 11 said he expects that to change.
The Racing Officials Accreditation Program hopes to make progress this year on protocol that will keep horses placed on various lists from showing up and racing at other tracks while ineligible under current guidelines.
Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association chairman Alan Foreman is confident a 2015 decision not to pursue a medication overage case against trainer Todd Pletcher won't negatively impact the National Uniform Medication Program.
Racing investigators will cover a wide range of topics when they meet for four days in March at Delaware Park in Wilmington, Del.
The Delaware Thoroughbred Racing Commission Jan. 13 upheld a decision by its board of stewards to suspend trainer Ramon Preciado 21 days and fine him $1,500 for a pair of clenbuterol positives last summer.
Total and average pari-mutuel handle, as well as purses, were up slightly during the 81-day meet at Delaware Park that ended Oct. 17.
Based on the results of a 23-day summer meet at Laurel Park that generated positive numbers and response from the local community, the Maryland Jockey Club intends to do so again next year -- on some level.
The Delaware Park Safety Committee will review safety protocol following a Tuesday, Aug. 18 paddock accident in which a valet suffered serious injury but was not transported from the track for 32 minutes.
Upset with the level of care after a valet was seriously injured in the paddock at Delaware Park Tuesday, Aug. 18, jockeys took off their mounts, forcing cancellation of the final four races.
Delaware Park, the Delaware Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association, and the Delaware Jockeys' Association are teaming up to support the Permanently Disabled Jockeys Fund through Family Fun Day Aug. 22.
A recommendation by an attorney for Delaware racing stewards to drop a therapeutic medication overage case against trainer Todd Pletcher could impact the sport's move toward uniform medication rules, Pletcher's attorney said.
Track president Bill Fasy said Delaware Park continues to make money, but when it comes to long-term things like capital improvements, the racetrack gaming industry in the state needs some assistance.
Jockey Ruben Rojas is facing multiple charges after Delaware State Police arrested him in connection with the July 29 shooting of a trainer at Delaware Park.
One man was shot and another arrested following a shooting on the backstretch at Delaware Park the morning of July 29, according to reports.
The Delaware Horsemen's Assistance Fund will honor Thoroughbred Charities of America at the 13th annual Horsemen's Classic fundraiser Sept. 11 in Wilmington, Del.
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Sheer Drama turned the tables on Frivolous to win the $750,000 Delaware Handicap (gr. I) July 18 at Delaware Park and earn the first grade I victory of her career.
Syntax took command in the stretch and held off Money Multiplier's closing run to register a half-length victory in the $200,250 Kent Stakes (gr. IIIT) Saturday, July 18 on the Delaware Park turf.
None of the eight runners entered in the $200,000 Kent Stakes (gr. IIIT) has made it to graded status yet, but the winner will walk away with that distinction July 18 at Delaware Park.
Harold Queen's Sheer Drama will attempt to avenge her loss to Frivolous in the June 13 Fleur de Lis Handicap (gr. II) when those two and five other fillies and mares face off in the $750,000 Delaware Handicap (gr. I) July 18.
Glen Hill Farm and Hill 'n' Dale Equine Holdings' Ceisteach proved her win in the Keertana Stakes last time out wasn't a fluke when she captured the Robert G. Dick Memorial Stakes (gr. IIIT) July 11 at Delaware Park.
Trainers Graham Motion and Jonathan Sheppard each have entered two mares in what appears to be a contentious renewal of the $200,000 Robert G. Dick Memorial Stakes (gr. IIIT) July 11 at Delaware Park.
Brereton Jones' Lovely Maria, winner of the Longines Kentucky Oaks (gr. I) in her previous start, is set to run July 11 in the $300,000 Delaware Oaks (gr. III) for 3-year-old fillies at Delaware Park.
In his first race in more than a year, Fox Hill Farms' Normandy Invasion finished second in his 5-year-old season debut in what amounted to a match race with winner Our Caravan July 1 at Delaware Park.
Trainer Juan Vazquez is slowly running out of Mid-Atlantic tracks at which to run his horses after Delaware Park informed the trainer he is no longer welcome to race at the track.
Fox Hill Farms' Normandy Invasion, away from the races for more than a year in part because of a fractured right front sesamoid, is scheduled to return in a $36,000 allowance event July 1 at Delaware Park.
Though the numbers certainly can't be considered robust, average field size at racetracks in five states in the Mid-Atlantic region and neighboring New York is up from the comparable period in 2014. read blog
Brereton Jones' Lovely Maria, winner of the May 1 Longines Kentucky Oaks (gr. I) in her last start, is gearing up for her race at Delaware Park, the summer base for trainer Larry Jones.
Luna Time, claiming her first graded score in just her second start of the year, got the jump on favored Joint Return and upset the $100,000 Obeah Stakes (gr. III) at odds of 15-1 June 20 at Delaware Park.


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Cervicogenic headache is referred pain perceived in the head from a source in the neck. Cervicogenic headache is a secondary headache, which means that it is caused by another illness or physical issue. In the case of cervicogenic headache, the cause is a neck disorder or lesion.
Information and diagnostic criteria for cervicogenic headache from the International Headache Society's International Classification of Headache Disorders, 2nd Edition (ICHD-II)1:
11.2 Headache attributed to disorder of the neck
11.2.1 Cervicogenic headache
Previously used term:
Cervical headache
Coded elsewhere:
Headache causally associated with cervical myofascial tender spots is coded as 2.1.1 Infrequent episodic tension-type headache associated with pericranial tenderness, 2.2.1 Frequent episodic tension-type headache associated with pericranial tenderness or 2.3.1 Chronic tension-type headache associated with pericranial tenderness.
Diagnostic criteria:
- Pain, referred from a source in the neck and perceived in one or more regions of the head and/or face, fulfilling criteria C and D
- Clinical, laboratory and/or imaging evidence of a disorder or lesion within the cervical spine or soft tissues of the neck known to be, or generally accepted as, a valid cause of headache1
- Evidence that the pain can be attributed to the neck disorder or lesion based on at least one of the following:
- demonstration of clinical signs that implicate a source of pain in the neck2
- abolition of headache following diagnostic blockade of a cervical structure or its nerve supply using placebo- or other adequate controls3
- Pain resolves within 3 months after successful treatment of the causative disorder or lesion
- Tumours, fractures, infections and rheumatoid arthritis of the upper cervical spine have not been validated formally as causes of headache, but are nevertheless accepted as valid causes when demonstrated to be so in individual cases. Cervical spondylosis and osteochondritis are NOT accepted as valid causes fulfilling criterion B. When myofascial tender spots are the cause, the headache should be coded under 2. Tension-type headache.
- Clinical signs acceptable for criterion C1 must have demonstrated reliability and validity. The future task is the identification of such reliable and valid operational tests. Clinical features such as neck pain, focal neck tenderness, history of neck trauma, mechanical exacerbation of pain, unilaterality, coexisting shoulder pain, reduced range of motion in the neck, nuchal onset, nausea, vomiting, photophobia etc are not unique to cervicogenic headache. These may be features of cervicogenic headache, but they do not define the relationship between the disorder and the source of the headache.
- Abolition of headache means complete relief of headache, indicated by a score of zero on a visual analogue scale (VAS). Nevertheless, acceptable as fulfilling criterion C2 is equal to or more than 90% reduction in pain to a level of less than 5 on a 100-point VAS.


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Recent Linux Distributions
Current distributions (i.e. Ubuntu 10.04) have a small bluetooth icon in the system tray next to the clock. Pair your phone there once, and you can continue with the phone configuration.
Manual bluetooth setup
The following examples are taken from Ubuntu Linux 6.06. The description assumes that you have DBUS server running.
First make sure that Bluetooth packages are installed. Most important are these containing bluez-libs and bluez-utils. There may be also bluez-pin package. You should have /etc/bluetooth/hcid.conf file with the content similiar to the following syntax:
options { # Automatically initialize new devices autoinit yes; # Security Manager mode # none - Security manager disabled # auto - Use local PIN for incoming connections # user - Always ask user for a PIN # security auto; # Pairing mode # none - Pairing disabled # multi - Allow pairing with already paired devices # once - Pair once and deny successive attempts pairing multi; # PIN helper pin_helper /usr/bin/bluez-pin; }
Make sure that pin_helper variable is uncommented and set to /usr/bin/bluez-pin. Next step is to run pin helper daemon and restart bluetooth subsystem (the latter command is for Debian systems):
pkot@bua:~$ bluez-pin --dbus & pkot@bua:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/bluez-utils restart
Now, unless phone and pc are paired, after entering pin on the phone you should get password popup window on your screen.
You may try to run:
pkot@bua:~$ hcitool cc XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
to estabilish a connection between phone and PC and avoid further PIN questions.
On Windows gnokii supports only MS bluetooth stack so make sure you use the proper one. If you use other bluetooth stack most likely you will get the output like this:
[...] Serial device: opening device 1 socket: Result too large Failed to create a bluetooth socket Couldn't open PHONET device: result too large Error in link initialisation: 1 [...]
Phone setup
You need to enable Bluetooth in phone menus but there's no need to make the phone "visible" or "discoverable" if you know its Bluetooth address (on some Nokia models you can type *#2820# to read it).


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In a Research Article published between Columbia, LI University, University of California Berkley and University of Washington the subject is Rejection Sensitivity and the Defensive Motivational System. Now this study isn't specifically tailored for Borderline Personality Disorder, but as I discussed yesterday, people with BPD are particularly prone to Rejection Sensitivity. I've extracted the more relevant passages for this post and interpreted them in blue for easier reading (I'm going to skip the Methodology section because while I find them fascinating, I recognize that not everyone likes scientific minutia the way I do, hah!), but you can read the whole article: HERE.
Research Article
Rejection Sensitivity and the Defensive Motivational System: Insights From the Startle Response to Rejection Cues
By: Geraldine Downey, Vivian Mougios, Ozlem Ayduk, Bonita E. London, and Yuichi Shoda
Rejection sensitivity (RS) is the disposition to anxiously expect, readily perceive, and intensely react to rejection. This study used the startle probe paradigm to test whether the affect-based defensive motivational system is automatically activated by rejection cues in people who are high in RS. Stimuli were representational paintings depicting rejection (by Hopper) and acceptance (by Renoir), as well as nonrepresentational paintings of either negative or positive valence (by Rothko and Miro, respectively). Eyeblink startle magnitude was potentiated in people high in RS when they viewed rejection themes, compared with when they viewed nonrepresentational negative themes. Startle magnitude was not attenuated during viewing of acceptance themes in comparison with nonrepresentational positive themes. Overall, the results provide evidence that for people high in RS, rejection cues automatically activate the defensive motivational system, but acceptance cues do not automatically activate the appetitive motivational system.
Rejection sensitivity (RS) is the disposition to anxiously expect, readily perceive, and intensely react to rejection. Essentially this study used a series of upsetting (negative) and pleasant (positive) pictures and sounds to trigger a startling response in people that have been screened to have either a typical sensitivity or a High Rejection Sensitivity. From here they should be able to determine how much higher (or if it's higher) the response is in people with high Rejection Sensitivity when they view negative rejection themes. Comparing this to when they view non rejection themes. The results of this provide evidence that rejection cues automatically activate the defensive motivational system. In an interesting twist it should also demonstrate that positive acceptance themes do NOT automatically activate positive feelings of motivation and acceptance.
So while the negative defensive system automatically responds to perceiving negative stimuli, the positive reinforcement area of the brain does not automatically respond to positive stimuli.
Everyone experiences rejection. Whereas some people respond with equanimity, others respond in ways that profoundly compromise their well-being and relationships. To help explain such maladaptive reactions to rejection, we have proposed a specific cognitive-affective processing disposition, rejection sensitivity (RS; Downey & Feldman, 1996). At the core of this disposition is the anxious expectation of being rejected by people who are important to the self, an expectation developed through exposure to severe and prolonged rejection. Our research has shown that individuals who anxiously expect rejection have a tendency to readily perceive it in other people's behavior and then react to it in ways that undermine their relationships; their behavior thus leads to the feared outcome (see Levy, Ayduk, & Downey, 2001). We have applied the term high-rejection-sensitive (HRS) to describe people who show a heightened tendency to anxiously expect, readily perceive, and intensely react to rejection (Downey & Feldman, 1996).
Everyone experiences rejection. Whereas some people respond with equanimity, others respond in ways that profoundly compromise their well-being and relationships. The purpose of this study is to explain this maladaptive reaction to rejection. Research shows that people who anxiously expect rejection have a tendency to readily perceive it in other people's behavior and then react to it in ways that undermine their relationships; their behavior [could contribute to] the feared outcome. This is believed to stem from the exposure to sever and long prolonged rejection by people who are important to the self.
Why do people who anxiously expect rejection behave in ways that lead to the realization of their worst fears? Our view is that the RS dynamic functions to defend the self against rejection by significant others and social groups. To the extent that the individual has experienced the pain of rejection, protecting the self from rejection while maintaining close relationships will become an important goal, and a self-defensive system such as RS will develop to serve it. However, this system becomes dysfunctional to the extent that it gets elicited automatically with minimal rejection cues and sets in motion the precise actions that ultimately lead to the fulfillment of expectations of rejection (Downey, Freitas, Michaelis, & Khouri, 1998).
Why do people who anxiously expect rejection behave in ways that lead to the realization of their worst fears? It's believed that the purpose of this Rejection Sensitivity is to defend the Self against rejection from significant others and social groups. Protecting the self from rejection while maintaining close relationships is an important goal and a self-defensive system will enable this to develop. However, if the system becomes dysfunctional, as it does in the Highly Rejection Sensitive person, so that it triggers automatically with minimal rejection cues it can cause a person to behave in ways that actually lead to fulfilling the expectation of rejection. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy of rejection.
The present study tested our guiding assumption that RS is a defensively motivated system that gets elicited by rejection-relevant stimuli and that this elicitation occurs automatically, at an early, nonverbal stage in the activation of the RS dynamic.
Converging evidence from neurological and behavioral research suggests that two primary affective-motivational systems organize behavior––an appetitive system that responds to positive stimuli (i.e., rewards), motivating approach and consummatory behavior, and a defensive system that responds to negative, aversive stimuli (i.e., punishments, threat), disposing the individual toward active avoidance, and fight-or-flight (Gray, 1987; Lang, Davis, & O¨ hman, 2000; Metcalfe & Mischel, 1999).
Neurological and Behavioral research suggests there are two primary affective-motivational systems that organize behavior –
1. An Appetitive system to responds to positive stimuli (rewards), which motivates positive interaction and fulfilling relationship behavior.
2. A Defensive System that responds to negative, aversive stimuli (punishments, threats), which motivates people towards active avoidance, and fight-or-flight behavior.
This study tests that assumption that Rejection Sensitivity is a Defensively Motivated System that is triggered by stimuli that is personally association with rejection. What's more, this study shows that this defensive system is triggered at an early stage of interaction before actual statements of rejection are even made by taking non-verbal cues. In essence, it's not even something that needs to be said, non verbal cues, body language, demeanor or interpreted in a way that triggers self-defensive systems.
Lang et al. (1990) proposed a model of human emotions that is consistent with this literature. In this model, human emotions are viewed as action dispositions that organize behavior along an appetitive-aversive dimension. Valence determines which system is activated (i.e., defensive vs. appetitive), but arousal determines the intensity with which the system is activated. According to this model, when negatively valenced and highly arousing stimuli are encountered, the DMS becomes activated to prepare for rapid execution of a set of automatic behaviors aimed at self-protection. What constitutes athreat can be biologically based (e.g., an instinctive threat reaction to seeing a snake) or socially learned (e.g., an expectation of rejection in certain social situations).
Lang organizes emotions along a spectrum from desirable to avoidant. The capacity of a person to react with or affect another person in some way (as by attraction or the facilitation of a function or activity) determines whether the positive or negative system is activated, but the height of arousal determines the just how intensely the reaction will be. When negative experiences are coupled with highly arousing stimuli, that defense motivational system kicks into high gear to prepare for rapid, automatic response behaviors meant as self-protection. What constitutes a threat is biologically based or learned during development based on personal experience.
Research on both animals and humans suggests that when the DMS is activated by the potential of danger, physiological responses to newly encountered threat-congruent cues are amplified, and physiological responses to threat-incongruent cues are attenuated. That is,the organism is oriented to detect cues that are congruent with a state of threat and to act when confirmatory cues are detected (see Lang et al., 2000). The model also indicates that when the appetitive system is activated, there should be a relative dampening of physiological responses to threatening cues.
Research shows that when the Defensive Motivational System is triggered that primal response to danger is amplified and heightened, while the natural responses that tell you something is not a threat is diminished. So when you're in Danger Mode, you're ability to tell the difference between Threat and Not A Threat is minimized. It's all danger.
Our phenomenological description of the operation of the RS system closely parallels the operation of the DMS. According to our conceptualization of RS, in situations in which rejection is a possibility (e.g., meeting a prospective dating partner, asking one's friend to do a favor), people who are high in RS are uncertain about whether they will be accepted or rejected, but the outcome is critical. Thus, for HRS individuals, such situations incorporate cognitive appraisals of threat under conditions of uncertainty––the specific conditions known toactivate the DMS (Fanselow, 1994; Lang et al., 2000; Lazarus, 1999; LeDoux, 1996; Metcalfe & Mischel, 1999). Low-RS (LRS) individuals are less likely to experience heightened DMS activation in these same situations because they typically deem rejection less probable and of less concern.
In situations where there is a possibility of rejection (e.g., meeting a prospective dating partner, asking one's friend to do a favor), people who are high in RS are uncertain about whether they will be accepted or rejected, but the outcome is critical. For individuals high in Rejection Sensitivity these situations use cognitive appraisals for potential threat, all the while their own emotional conditions are uncertain, more anxious, more on edge. These emotional conditions are the ones known to activate the Defensive Motivational System. This is in contrast to low-Rejection Sensitivity people who are less likely to experience heightened DMS activity in the same situations because they don't enter the situation expecting rejection or assess rejection to be less probable and less of a concern.
As we have described, when the DMS is activated, it facilitates monitoring and detection of threat-relevant cues and prepares the individual for swift response once cues of danger are detected. We hypothesize that in rejection-relevant situations, this system is automatically activated in HRS individuals.
So when the DMS is triggered, it puts you on the lookout for potential threat-relevant cues. You become hypersensitive to what might occur and the body/mind prepares itself for a quick response if threatening or emotionally dangerous situations are detected. In rejection-relevant situations this response is automatic for high-RS people.
Given our assumption that RS develops specifically to defend the self against rejection, we hypothesize that the system is biased primarily toward dealing with threats of rejection. We do not expect acceptance to elicit the appetitive system in HRS people to a greater extent than in LRS individuals. Thus, RS should predict indicators of heightened DMS activation in the presence of rejection cues but should not predict heightened activation of the appetitive system in the presence of acceptance cues.
Since Rejection Sensitivity is believed to have developed specifically to ward against rejection it's believed that this will only predict heightened DMS activation in situations which present negative rejection cues, but not heightened activation of the positive reward system when positive acceptance cues are given. Perception of the bad, is REALLY FREAKING BAD, but perception of the good is still just, meh, it's good.
When viewing art depicting rejection themes (Hopper's paintings), people who were high in RS showed an amplified eyeblink following a loud noise, relative to their eyeblink response when viewing each of the other types of artwork, whereas people low in RS did not. This finding indicates that when HRS individuals are viewing rejection related stimuli, they show heightened DMS activation.
Unsurprisingly when people who are highly Rejection Sensitive viewed the rejection stimuli, they did show heightened DMS activation.
We propose that the activation of this system helps explain the readiness with which HRS individuals perceive rejection in otherpeople's behavior and contributes to the intensity of their responses tothe perceived rejection. The adaptive value of the DMS comes from its ability to trigger quick defensive responses under threat without the individual needing time to think (Lang et al., 2000; LeDoux, 1996; Metcalfe & Mischel, 1999). Such an emergency system can become maladaptive, however, if activated when reflective, strategic behavior is required, when the threat is minimal, or when efforts to prevent the realization of the threat occur at the expense of other personal goals.
This leads to the conclusion that the activation of this system helps to explain why high RS people are at thee ready to perceive rejection in the behavior of other people and it contributes to the intensity of their responses to that perceived rejection. This was evolutionarily advantageous because the DMS system has the ability to trigger quick defensive responses when under threat without the individual having to waste time to think. [Unfortunately when this system becomes maladaptive it remains on continuously, instead of turning off when the threat has been removed.] This emergency system can become maladaptive though, if it activates on reflex when more advantageous behavior would suit the situation better, like when a threat is minimal, or when efforts to prevent the realization of the threat (when your actions cause the threat to take form when it normally wouldn't have otherwise) occur at the expense of higher priority personal goals.
[It's easy to see how this is an evolutionary advantage in the wild, or say, in an abusive household… unfortunately our systems don't de-evolve or let go of the past rapidly at all and we still have these systems solidly in place long after our environments have changed.]
We found no evidence that acceptance cues elicit a positive, appetitive motivational state to a greater extent in HRS individuals than in LRS individuals. These findings support our view that acceptance and rejection are not of equivalent importance for HRS individuals and that the RS system develops specifically to protect the self against the threat of rejection.
As expected, while the rejection cues produced the defensive state, there was no evidence seen that positive cues of acceptance produced a corresponding positive motivational state. This supports the conclusion that acceptance and rejection hold different levels of importance for highly Rejection Sensitive people ( It's more important to not be rejected, than it is to be accepted) and that this system develops specifically to protect the self against the threat of rejection.
(Even when positive acceptance is given, it doesn't necessarily trigger a positive reaction in the brain. Here's an exaggerated example: Hearing the phrase "I love you" is important but it doesn't give you that gut feeling of internalized safety.)
This is only the first study of its kind and the paper acknowledges that it should be followed up with a broader range of stimulus events.
All in all I find this quite enlightening. It certainly makes a little more sense of the seemingly baffling behavior we have sometimes. You know that look. That expression of complete and utter What the Fuck? It's often been stated that people with BPD are hypersensitive to the emotional states of those around them. However our failing is in the interpretation of those states. Our fear of rejection leads to a self-centered interpretation of the cues we perceive, which can in turn trigger our less favorable behavior, and actually lead to the fights, emotional throw downs, and flaring tempers that bring about the rejection and abandonment we fear. Hmmmmmmmm.
Learning to sit on our own behavior until we've had time to settle our emotions, control the impulsive reactions, and think through what actually happened vs. what he perceive to have happened is an important skill to develop. Breathe. Think. Then determine the course of action we should take. Of course this is so much easier said than done when you're in the midst of an emotional maelstrom, but if we practice it does get easier and become more natural.


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- Analyze, interpret, and evaluate written, artistic, or other evidence in its historical context
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ATHENS, Ga. (AP) -- Tennessee trailed by one with four minutes remaining when JaJuan Smith finally snapped at Georgia's fans.
The junior guard stood near the Volunteers' baseline and pronounced a Tennessee victory.
``We had been down, but we started feeling it, and somebody needed to let them know,'' Smith said. ``It was just a matter of us getting the lead back, and a lot of the credit has to go to our crowd. We had a lot of people here today.''
Smith scored 19 points and Chris Lofton had 14 to help Tennessee beat Georgia 71-65 and win for the seventh time in eight games on Saturday.
The Volunteers (22-9, 10-6 Southeastern Conference) secured the Eastern Division's No. 3 seed. They will play LSU in the first round of the league tournament next week in Atlanta.
Georgia (17-12, 8-8) has lost two straight and three of four to become the East's No. 5 seed. Sundiata Gaines scored 18 points to lead the Bulldogs, who have yet to learn their first-round opponent.
Smith credited Tennessee's defense with Georgia's poor ball movement in the final minutes. After Gaines nearly lost on the Bulldogs' baseline, Georgia coach Dennis Felton called timeout to settle down his team.
The Vols led 60-56 with 3:32 remaining, and Felton knew Tennessee's high-wire transition game had reclaimed momentum, but the Bulldogs returned with little urgency, and the shot clock expired on Gaines' air-ball.
``We made it tough on them,'' Smith said. ``But that possession was pretty much a case of us seeing that they were just standing around and nobody wanted the ball.''
Georgia's hopes were essentially dashed at the 2:22 mark. Levi Stukes had stolen the ball and was about to score a layup when Dane Bradshaw knocked the ball away. Jordan Howell recovered for Tennessee, which took a 63-56 lead on Wayne Chism's straightaway 3.
Lofton, who began the game with a 20.8 average as the SEC's leading scorer, was just 4-of-10 from the field, but the junior guard took control of the game with 5:33 remaining and Georgia leading by two.
With Stukes guarding him tightly, Lofton hit a 25-foot 3-pointer in front of the Tennessee bench that gave the Vols a 55-54 lead.
``I've said it many times before, but he has won so many games for them single handedly,'' Felton said. ``He hits big shots with regularity, and even though today he was well defended, it seemed like every shot he hit was a dagger or a big shot.''
Steve Newman answered with a put-back for the Bulldogs, but Lofton followed with a 3 from the left corner before stealing the ball from Takais Brown and driving for a layup that made it 60-56.
Winners of six straight and nine of 11 against Georgia, the Vols had a 12-point lead twice in the first half, the second time coming on Smith's 3-pointer.
``His two 3s were the difference in the game,'' Felton said. ``He is a big-time player with big-time moments.''
The Bulldogs were just 5-of-21 on 3-point attempts, but Tennessee, which finished the regular season with a school record 279 treys, went 11-of-26.
Ramar Smith had 13 for the Vols, and Brown finished with 13 for Georgia.
Because the Bulldogs rarely play before a full house at Stegeman Coliseum, Tennessee fans were able to buy hundreds of tickets in the upper levels and then drive 40 minutes west to watch the No. 2 Lady Vols play No. 11 LSU in the SEC women's tournament in Duluth.
The orange-clad fans, who congregated near the floor when the game ended, roared with delight when Smith and coach Bruce Pearl emerged from the tunnel for radio interviews.
After improving his two-year record at Tennessee to 44-17, Pearl praised the Vols' perimeter defense, which held Stukes without a 3 in six attempts.
``He is Georgia's all-time leader in 3-pointers,'' Pearl said. ``We felt that they relied on the 3. They had 12 versus Mississippi State and 11 versus Kentucky, so we were bound and determined to not let them beat us from 3.''


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So i build a co2 set up this weekend for my tank and I got everything working just how I want it.....EXCEPT diffusion, so last night I took and ran the tube which the co2 bubbles come out of and I connected it to the intake of my HOB filter in hopes that the bubble gets sucked up and broken up by the propeller and then thrown back into the water.....Is this dumb or am I maybe on to something lol..
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People have done and do this, but it is hard on the impeller is what I hear. Maybe an airstone would work.
Sorry didnt read the HOB filter part.
HOB filters tend to splash water with the return waterfall. This liberates the dissolved CO2, leaving you back where you started. If you keep the tank water level high, and/or use other methods for getting the water back to the tank with no splashing, that can work, but not nearly as efficient as other methods.
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Gary Kays, 28, got his girlfriend pregnant on day release and was then allowed out of jail to be with her at the boy's birth in hospital last month.
Just five days later Kays was freed on licence after serving just half of his seven-year sentence for assisting Rhys' 18-year-old killer Sean Mercer.
Last night Rhys' father Stephen Jones reacted with fury to the revelation that Kays had been able to carry on with his normal life while still under sentence for a crime that shocked Britain.
He said: "This kind of thing should not go on. It is wrong that the authorities should have allowed him to do this. He was supposed to be being punished.
"I understand that he was going to be released back into the community but this news has come as a shock and a surprise."
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He went on: "They should have at least made sure that he did not have the sort of close relationship where he could father a child. It is very galling that Kays has been allowed to go out and enjoy himself and have a child.
"A lot of people would be shocked that he has been allowed to carry on a relatively normal life. It does not make things any easier for us."
Rhys was shot dead in Liverpool in August 2007 as he made his way home from football training and was caught up in a clash between rival gangs.
Kays, a member of the city's notorious Croxteth Crew, phoned Mercer to say rival Norris Green gang members were in Croxteth Park. Mercer fired on the gang as Rhys walked past.
Kays and accomplice Melvin Coy picked up Mercer after the murder and drove him to a Kirkby lock-up where they doused him in petrol to hide any gunshot residue. They also burned Mercer's clothes.
Jail sources said yesterday that Kays had been in regular contact with his girlfriend via Facebook while in jail.
It was also revealed yesterday that Kays' 51-year-old father, also called Gary, is a drugs gang boss facing prison.
Steve Rotherman, MP for Liverpool Walton, said: "This is a massive slap in the face for Rhys' parents and for most of the people in Liverpool. It raises big questions about the judicial system."
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Hi all, just found this forum and 5 minutes later registered.
Got interested in CCW after an incident involving my wifes business partner. We sat down and decided that with 2 boys under 5 we needed to be a bit more prepared for the craziness of this world.
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Welcome from South Carolina...
Sometimes in life you have to stand your ground. It's a hard lesson to learn and even most adults don't get it, but in the end only I can be responsible for my life. If faced with any type of adversity, only I can overcome it. Waiting for someone else to take responsibility is a long fruitless wait.
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On India's west coast, travelers can find rugged beaches, Portuguese-inspired architecture, and a handful of impeccable hideaways.
"Oh, isn't it wonnnnnnderful! I think he's going to make a speech!" exclaimed Loulou Van Damme, a spry, sixtysomething hotelier and interior designer of Belgian descent, done up like Auntie Mame-Sahib in a flowing kurta and knuckle-dusting rings. We were enraptured by a beige, golf ball–size frog poised regally on the showerhead in one of the vast en suite bathrooms at Panchavatti, Van Damme's guesthouse on North Goa's Mapusa River. Though not even a ribbit was forthcoming, the frog's demeanor fit in nicely with the black-and-white maharajah portraits that decorated the room. Uninvited wildlife would send most proprietors into an embarrassed pique, but on this night in late October, the atmosphere at the four-suite inn was like a swinging slumber party. Van Damme is particular about her guests, as socializing is the thing here: the common areas include a soaring open kitchen; a broad living room filled with teakwood Indian antiques, groupings of club chairs, and stacks of art books; an infinity pool ringed with shaggy greenery; and a wide veranda, where we were sitting after dinner, drinking enthusiastic amounts of Grover Vineyards La Réserve Cabernet-Shiraz (bottled outside Bangalore). In addition to the other guests—a graphic designer, an editor from Vogue India, and a couple in the foreign service—joining Danelle, my high school friend, and me were Van Damme's four rangy dogs, hundreds of crickets, and clusters of enormous striped moths, like one big interspecies family. Van Damme's approach to hospitality isn't radically juxtaposed with Goa's let-it-all-hang-out reputation—one that has attracted Indian and foreign tourists alike, especially since the 1970's and 80's. But there is a crucial difference: all else around us that night—the 24 acres of Panchavatti's grounds, the jungly river, and the imposing nearby Western Ghat mountain chain—was at perfect, pitch-black repose. Even in India, whose countryside is some of the most densely populated on the planet, we felt as if we were the only people around for miles.
Could such luxurious stillness really be Goa? Most of what I knew about India's smallest state before I got there was that it was the unruliest vacation spot this side of Amsterdam, overrun with raver dreadlocks and aggressively drugged-out mountainside trance parties. It turns out that picture is almost as aged as Van Damme's maharajah portraits. Indian and English tabloids still love to treat the state like a patchouli-scented den of iniquity, and you can certainly still find a trance party if you'd like, but Goa has become the place to be for young Indian urbanites looking to escape the rest of the country's social conservatism, for glamorous Indian designers (Malini Ramani and Wendell Rodricks), Hollywood stars chilling out with their families (Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie), arty amateurs of the good life (Jay McInerney), and crowned heads (the U.K.'s Princess Eugenie on her gap year); and for not-so-famous Europeans in search of a profoundly slow-paced taste of India, a country that can overwhelm the uninitiated with noise and pollution.
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For two solid years, friends—from an Indian-American accessories designer and a Texan socialite to the Indian wife of a real estate mogul and several girlfriends working in the French fashion industry—had encouraged me to go. The Goa they knew and loved was all about seclusion, gentility, and grown-up relaxation, and that's exactly what I found at Panchavatti and a handful of other tranquil boutique manor houses on inland rivers away from the beach, mostly in the northern part of the state, and at one low-key shoreline villa. The important thing about planning a trip here is to pick wisely where you go, and when.
As to the where, my friend Binith Shah, of the boutique accessory company Rickard Shah, instructed, "The best stuff is all up on the rivers." But it's the 65-mile beach running the length of Goa's western shore that's most famous, and where Goa most closely conforms to its unsavory reputation, especially during its high season in December and January, when charter flights deposit hordes of package tourists from Sweden and Russia. The main road that connects the better-known northern towns of Candolim, Calangute, and Baga is lined with cheap mini mall–style architecture, thanks to the local government's policy in the early 1990's to open the coastline to whomever wanted to develop it. That and the uptick in the Indian economy has made Goa a hot spot for speculators. Anjuna, once a hippie HQ just north of Candolim, is now as built-up as its neighbors.
Granted, the coastal area isn't all sad. I got over my crowd aversion at the Anjuna flea market—a riot of jewelry, spices, wandering cows, Gujarati tribeswomen, and, yes, tourists—because the shopping was so good. And one brilliant exception to the beachside-hotel rule is Elsewhere, a protected island owned by Goan fashion photographer Denzil Sequeira, in still-quiet Asvem at the northern edge of the state. But its 13 rooms (including three tents) are booked months in advance. And not everyone who can get a room can find it. The hotel obliges by sending an envoy to meet you at the airport. Meanwhile, down in the south, below the Zuari River, the prettier white-sand beaches have been almost entirely colonized by luxury mega-resorts.
There is hope for change. Overdevelopment has caused controversy and a push for preservation from environmental groups with campaigns such as Save Goa. Last year the local government began to institute environmental measures to slow down the development of the interior as well. And the Indian government, aided by the Asian Development Bank, is now spearheading a reef-and dune-building initiative to be implemented up and down the state's beaches by 2010.
Staying off the beach is, in fact, a far better way to get a taste of traditional Goan hospitality—albeit of an upscale kind. Casa Palacio Siolim House, which Kate Moss, Sadie Frost, and their entourage took over for two weeks a few years ago, is on an outlet of the Chapora about 10 minutes inland. One of the original indie establishments that have set a microtrend for heritage hotels, it's a study in lazy manor living. The hotel was recognized by unesco in 2001 for owner Varun Sood's letter-perfect restoration of the 17th-century governor's mansion. With old Portuguese tiles, formal sitting rooms, and an enormous pool, it feels more like a villa than a hotel. For someone like me, used to European luxuries, the thin mattresses and towels were a little jarring surrounded by all that stately grandeur. But within a day of floating in the sunlit pool, drinking fresh lime and soda, and eating a home-cooked fish thali, we gave ourselves over to it. The lack of a television was just what we needed, with the music of the frogs to keep us entertained at night. The vibe was similar at Casa Britona, an old riverside warehouse in the inland village of Britona that in 2003 turned into a 10-room property with brightly painted walls and lovely antiques. We were the only guests, owing to our arrival early in the season, and we were doted on with warm familiarity by the staff. Some of these historic hotels (also Panjim Inn, in the capital Panjim, also known as Panaji, and the lovely Vivenda dos Palhaços, in the south) would have made great Merchant Ivory film sets. "Goa retains a great simplicity," said interior designer Jivi Sethi, a Delhi native whose house in the mountain village of Assagao has graced the pages of Vogue India.
Inland is where Goa relaxes best and most alluringly. When Vasco da Gama first arrived just to the south of the state in 1498 "seeking Christians and spices," there was already a bustling trade in livestock (and, yes, spices) in the Muslim-controlled city of Gove, on the Mandovi River. Further Portuguese conquest established the towns of Panjim and Old Goa, a few miles in from the coast, as administrative and religious capitals, and the Portuguese influence is everywhere in the architecture and the religion. (Da Gama didn't find any Christians, but he and his compatriots made plenty—Goa is 30 percent Catholic.) All of Goa's churches, most built between the 16th and 17th centuries, are now unesco World Heritage sites. And along any winding back road, hidden behind the banana and coconut trees, are colonial mansions and villas, painted in vivid primary colors, with bright-red tiled roofs and lacy wooden trim. The designer Jean-Paul Gaultier has found inspiration for whole collections in that latticework, unique to this part of the country. The Portuguese would fight the Protestant British over Goa until the 19th century, but the Portuguese continued to win out until 1961, when the Goans achieved independence 14 years after the rest of India kicked out the Brits. Goa didn't become an official Indian state until 1987, almost 40 years after greater India coalesced, which helps to explain Goan cultural exceptionalism. Most Goans refer to themselves and their traditions as "Goan," and people from the rest of the country as "Indian." Perhaps most tellingly, only in Goa do teenagers shun cricket, the national Indian pastime, in favor of soccer.
We had timed our visit for the tail end of monsoon season, in mid-to late October, which brings with it dramatic rainstorms and a sultry landscape, so as to avoid the tourist onslaught of high season. It so happened that our visit coincided with Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, which takes place during the new moon that falls between late October and early November. A celebration of the evil demon Ravana's defeat at the hands of the heroic Lord Rama, with its tales of hand-to-hand combat between shirtless heroes and damsel-snatching villains, Diwali is a macho holiday and a teenage pyromaniac's dream. Villages erect elaborate papier-mâché demons (some equipped with moving heads and tape-looped guttural roars), parade them through town, and light them on fire. ("Oooh, that's a good one!" Danelle and I would shout as we meandered along back road after back road, admiring the handiwork of neighborhood kids.) During Diwali, doorways are strung with even more Christmas-tree lights and marigold garlands than usual, and firecrackers go off everywhere after dark.
We decided to spend Diwali night in the inland town of Mapusa, the biggest modern city in Goa, where we had heard the best effigy-burnings would be. There we checked out an endless array of local boys, each commandeering a demon more aggressive than the last. (One was done up in a black vest and a giant belt buckle that said rock on!) A talent show taking place in a vast parking lot by the bus depot featured 10-year-old girls lip-synching and gyrating to Hindi pop like cast members of Grade School Musical. Families were everywhere, with their babies out way past their bedtime, and they were as enchanted by the lights and the noise as we were. The firecrackers and singing and parading and torching went on till dawn.
One of the most visually striking areas in Goa, where the local and colonial aesthetics are most keenly felt, is in Panjim. Anyone who has spent time in conquest towns in Brazil or Mexico will find the winding, narrow lanes of the old Fontainhas neighborhood, which is Panjim's atmospheric draw, deeply familiar. Wood-framed row houses in saturated hues and neat little shops predominate, but the 17th-century Church of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception is the jewel in the neighborhood's Latin-style crown, planted atop a hill where the sun kicks off its blinding whitewashed exterior like a faithful torch. Panjim is tidy and sedate compared with other Indian cities, and spending a few afternoons there was like a vacation-within-a-vacation. Panjim is where Danelle and I shopped (no haggling!) for elaborate Indian gold jewelry, where we meandered aimlessly without interference or questions, and where we ate one of our best Goan meals, at Mums Kitchen.
As much an archive of home recipes as a popular lunch spot serving up crab fritters and prawns caldin (a green-chile-and-coconut stew), Mums is another proud preserver of Goan tradition that takes a stand against the encroachment of fusionism that is seen at so many other restaurants in the state. Where Western taste is indulged in loungey cocktail bars and Euro-flavored beach restaurants like La Plage and Sublime, the food at Mums, Siolim House, Elsewhere, and chef Urbano de Rego's Beach House restaurant at the Taj Holiday Village is much more authentic. Goan food is southern Indian (think coconut milk, fish, fresh herbs, and tamarind), but it's uniquely Portuguese-influenced, as Chef Rego, as he is called, explained during a discussion of piri-piri, a base for many Goan sauces made of toddy vinegar and chile peppers. Chef Rego was the first to bring Goan food to the world's attention, having cooked for the elder President Bush and at the World Economic Forum. "Our food takes time," he said. "Time to marinate, time to simmer." We tasted his pork piri-piri at the Taj, and then four other varieties at O'Papagaio, which serves regional, though technically illegal, wild game. (Locating the restaurant was a monumental challenge for able concierges and two Goan drivers. Be sure to have your hotel call ahead, give thorough directions to a driver, and bring along the restaurant's phone number, just in case.) On the menu that night were porcupine, venison, wild boar, and frog's legs—sadly, no monitor lizard—and all were boiled, then curried, to surprisingly subtle effect. Since we were the only guests in what is basically the large front room of a house, we popped back into the kitchen, watched the owner add endless pinches of dozens of spice powders, tasted some of the venison before he curried it, and were given the quills of one of the beasts we'd soon be eating. It was a fitting tribute. The porcupine was delicious, like unusually delicate lamb fed on lavender flowers. As development eats away at the remaining stretches of forest, hunting is becoming more challenging, so the porcupine's days as a blue plate special could be numbered. At least we already knew the same would never be true for still-legal and plentiful frog, which translates from the local Konkani language as "jumping chicken."
Despite Goa's pride in its unique cultural identity, there's worry about cultural dilution. (The dramatic tagline at Mums Kitchen is "A Move to Save Goan Cuisine.") The state's Hindu and Muslim populations are growing because of immigration from the neighboring state of Maharashtra, and native Goans often leave to seek their fortunes in the Gulf states or Canada. There are strong non-Goan elements in the evolving cultural mix: the frenetic hustler's pace of the Delhi and Mumbai natives who have set up shop here; the squajillionaires like Kingfisher chairman Vijay Mallya, who throws the party of the year in his enormous Sinquerim beach house each December; the Europeans in their Speedos, in search of a tan; the just-furloughed Israeli soldiers looking for the party. The Indian government is enthusiastically bureaucratic, and protecting one of the country's most distinct regional cultures is not its highest priority. For the moment, that's left up to the Goans themselves, whose live-and-let-live shrug is not the best weapon with which to battle the onslaught. Pitted against the forces of rampant capitalism, it's not clear who will come out ahead.
Alexandra Marshall is a Travel + Leisure contributing editor.
The optimal time to visit Goa is in early October, just as monsoon season ends and before the crowds arrive. December and January are the busiest months. Avoid May, when travelers must endure searing heat and high humidity. Air India and Continental fly from major U.S. cities to Dabolim Airport, in South Goa, via Mumbai.
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Prebooking hotels with a credit card can sometimes be a problem in India, and local airlines don't always accept foreign charges, so using a travel agent can be a huge help.
Roads in Goa are unmarked and traffic is kamikaze-style. As taxis are surprisingly expensive, the best option is to book a driver through your hotel. Avoid beaches after nightfall, when the crowds can get a little unsavory.
Great Value Casa Britona Near Charmanos Badem, Salvador-do-Mundo, Bardez; 91-832/241-6737; casaboutiquehotels.com; doubles from $123.
Great Value Casa Palacio Siolim House The road leading here is a bit scrubby, but a treat awaits inside. Wadi, Siolim; 91-832/227-2138; siolimhouse.com; doubles from $136.
Great Value Elsewhere Near Asvem; 91-982/003-7387; aseascape.com; doubles from $125.
Lazy Days in Goa A British-run rental agency with numerous houses in North Goa. Ask for a condo at Coco Shambhala, decorated by Panchavatti's Loulou Van Damme; the author Frank Simoes's quirky former home Rockheart; or Kiranpani, in Mandrem, the backdrop for many a fashion shoot. 44-1202/484-257; lazydays.co.uk; rentals from $2,090 per week.
Panchavatti Island of Corjuem, Aldona; 91-832/248-4888; avanilaya.com; doubles from $247.
Great Value Panjim Inn 212 31 January Rd., Fontainhas, Panjim; 91-832/222-8136; panjiminn.com; doubles from $82.
Great Value Vivenda dos Palhaços An oasis of eccentric refinement in the charm-starved south. Costa Vaddo, Majorda; 91-832/322-1119; vivendagoa.com; doubles from $137.
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Beach House at Taj Holiday Village The open-air, waterside setting at chef Urbano de Rego's traditional Goan restaurant is not to be missed. Sinquerim; 91-832/664-5858; dinner for two $60.
La Plage This beach-shack restaurant is perfect for sunset drinks. On the beach just south of Asvem; 91-982/212-1712; drinks for two $10.
Lila Café The place for brunch or coffee. Near the Baga River, Arpora-Baga; 91-832/227-9843; brunch for two $10.
Mums Kitchen Martins Building, DB Marg, Miramar, Panjim; 91-932/610-0873; dinner for two $25.
O'Papagaio Across from St. Anthony's Church, Siodem, Siolim; 91-832/227-2310; dinner for two $30.
Thalassa Ordering lettuce is not always advisable in India, but it's safe to try Greek salads and juicy souvlaki here. On the cliff above Little Vagator Beach, down the road from Nine Bar; 91-985/003-3537; lunch for two $20.
Zeebop Opposite Kenilworth Beach Resort, Utorda Beach, just north of Majorda; 91-832/275-5333; dinner for two $40.
Anjuna Flea Market Anjuna Beach; open Wednesdays, 9 a.m. to sundown, from October to April.
Barefoot Sophisticated housewares and clothing. 1/26 31 January Rd., Panjim; 91-832/243-6815.
Bombay Bazar A swap-meet-style market for spices and people-watching. 18 June Rd., Panjim; 91-832/223-2044.
Fabindia Traditional clothing and linens in block-printed cottons. Opposite Canara Bank, Murrod Vaddo, Candolim; 91-832/248-9143; fabindia.com.
Sainath Jewellers Filigreed Indian gold and gemstones at great prices. No haggling required. Shop 2, Rizvi Chamber, Panjim; 91-832/242-2293.
Calizz A heritage-house museum with a lovely restaurant. Bammon Vaddo, Candolim; 91-832/325-0000; calizz.com.
Nine Bar If you want to check out the Goa music scene, this dusty, open-air disco is a reliable spot. The cliffs above Little Vagator Beach.
Shiro Beach The posh dance club of the moment for Indian urbanites. Marquis Beach Resort, Candolim; 91-832/665-3366; drinks for two $10.
Utorda Beach A white-sand beach with clear, warm water that hasn't been overrun. North of Majorda.


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