Motorcycle fatalities stay steady while auto deaths decline

The numbers haven't been definitively crunched, but it is expected that the estimated 32,310 traffic fatalities in 2011 were the lowest on record in the 62 years that records have been kept. Yet the good news about the total number of fatalities masks regrettable news for traffic safety authorities: automobile fatalities are down, but motorcycle fatalities are up.

After a steady rise in motorcyclist death rates through the first decade of the new century, numbers fell in 2009 and the beginning of 2010. Observers hoped the trend would continue, but that didn't happen when deaths ticked up slightly over the course of 2010 and stayed steady through 2011.

Causes are varied, from high gas prices leading more people to ride motorcycles to inadequate training for both riders and automobile drivers on how to ply the roads safely. A report breaking down the numbers also "noted that 29 percent of fatally injured riders in 2010 had a blood-alcohol concentration at or above the legal limit, and 35 percent of motorcycle riders involved in fatal crashes were speeding." It didn't, however, indicate how much of those numbers overlapped ? how many of those riders were over the limit when they died.

Nor does it look like current developments will allay the trend in the near-term. Only 19 states require riders to wear helmets, Michigan just repealed its compulsory helmet law and five other states are considering such measures. Again, the overall number of fatalities is welcome news considering how many more people and cars there are on the roads now compared to 1949, but the takeaway for motorcyclists is that there is now more reason to be extra careful when you ride.

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A look at each of the 16 teams at Euro 2012

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updated 10:10 a.m. ET May 25, 2012

WARSAW, Poland (AP) -A brief look at each of the 16 teams at this year's European Championship:

Group A(equals)

Poland(equals)

Playing at home will give Poland a huge boost, but it could still be tough to make it out of the first round. With the Netherlands, Germany and Portugal as possible quarterfinal opponents from Group B, the host nation is unlikely to make it into the semifinals.

Greece(equals)

The Euro 2004 champions were drawn in a relatively easy group and have an excellent record under coach Fernando Santos (7-3-0 in qualifying), but getting through the first round of a major tournament still isn't easy. Since their victory over Portugal eight years ago, the Greeks failed to get out of the group stage at Euro 2008 and the 2010 World Cup.

Russia(equals)

The Russians excelled at the last European Championship, but despite winning their qualifying group last year they are not expected to be among the contenders in Poland and Ukraine. But with Andrei Arshavin and Pavel Pogrebnyak up front, they should be scoring plenty of goals.

Czech Republic(equals)

The Czechs needed to go through the playoffs to reach Euro 2012. Heading into the final tournament, the 1976 champions are the lowest ranked team of the 14 qualifiers at No. 29. Only co-hosts Poland and Ukraine, who qualified automatically, are ranked lower.

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Group B(equals)

Netherlands(equals)

The World Cup runners-up were put into the toughest group, but they should still be able to make it into the quarterfinals with Robin van Persie, Arjen Robben and Wesley Sneijder all threats up front. The team's final match against Portugal is likely to be decisive.

Denmark(equals)

The Danes are the lowest ranked team in the group, and the biggest outsiders. The 1992 champions will likely need all the other teams to beat each other for them to sneak through.

Germany(equals)

Germany reached the final at Euro 2008 and the semifinals at the World Cup two years later, and they should be getting better. Bastian Schweinsteiger has become the heart of the team, but Thomas Mueller, Mario Gomez and Mesut Oezil are the ones most likely to provide the goals.

Portugal(equals)

Cristiano Ronaldo will have another chance to shine on the big stage, and he will have to carry Portugal if the Euro 2004 finalists want to make it into the quarterfinals. Among the top players in the world, Ronaldo has so far failed to play his best when wearing a Portugal shirt.

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Group C(equals)

Spain(equals)

The defending champions from Spain are many people's favorite to win another major title. The Spanish finally ended their 44-year drought at major tournaments when they beat Germany in the Euro 2008 final in Vienna, and then followed that up by winning their first World Cup trophy two years ago in Johannesburg. With Xavi Hernandez and Andres Iniesta controlling play, they are a good bet to make it three in a row.

Italy(equals)

The Italians have been on the decline since winning their fourth World Cup title in 2006, and despite winning their qualifying group they are not expected to challenge for the Euro 2012 championship. But if Mario Balotelli makes the team and can showcase his skill, Italy could mount a championship run.

Ireland(equals)

After the disappointment of missing out on the last World Cup because of a handball against France, the Irish made it through to their second European Championship. Coached by Italian veteran Giovanni Trapattoni, the Irish have a team made up mostly of English Premier League players.

Croatia(equals)

The Croats have struggled since qualifying for Euro 2008, missing out on the last World Cup. But they finished second in their qualifying group and beat Euro 2008 semifinalist Turkey in a playoff. To make it through the first round in Poland and Ukraine, the Croats will likely need to beat Italy.

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Group D(equals)

Ukraine(equals)

Ukraine has never before played at the European Championship, missing out on all four tournaments since it split from the Soviet Union. But as usual, home advantage should give the co-hosts a boost in what is likely to be a tough group.

Sweden(equals)

With Zlatan Ibrahimovic on the field, the Swedes should not be counted out. The AC Milan striker can score some amazing goals, but he'll have to get through the French and English defenses if Sweden is to have a hope of making a run at the title.

France(equals)

After infighting derailed their chances at the 2010 World Cup, France coach Laurent Blanc seems to have the team back on track. A two-time European champion, the French will be tough to stop with hard-running Franck Ribery and Samir Nasri in the attack.

England(equals)

The English will again be looking to win their first European Championship, but they will arrive with an aging defense, a new coach and a suspended Wayne Rooney (for the first two matches). If the English don't win the group but still advance, a possible quarterfinal match against Spain could be the end.

? 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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London's Best Vegetarian Restaurants | Londonist

Mildred's restaurant. From Londonist Flickr Pool

London offers some of the best vegetarian food available. The capital?s veggie restaurants and caf?s?vary from offering light bites and food on the go to fine dining. They take their influences from the UK, the Mediterranean and of course South India amongst many other cuisines.

Many vegetarian places are hugely popular with veggies and non-veggies alike. As we draw to the end of national Vegetarian Week, we choose our own favourite restaurants.

Please leave your comments and let us know your favourites and we?ll add them as we go along.

Mildred?s
Mildred?s is one of the busiest and most popular vegetarian restaurants in London. Offering a diverse range of fresh and exiting food from Sri-Lankan to Mediterranean dishes and veggie burgers, it has become one of the most vibrant eateries in Soho, if not London.

Starters come in at around ?6 with mains costing between ?7 and ?11. For the quality of food, this is incredible value. Mildred?s don?t take table bookings, so you have to turn up on spec. This can mean a bit of a wait but with a great selection of drinks available and the promise of some fine food to come, its not too much of a hassle! The one room you can book is the upstairs private dining room, which has a collection of vintage porn on the walls.

Midlred?s is at 45 Lexington Street, London, W1F 9AN. Our review.

Vanilla Black
Vanilla Black takes inventive vegetarian cooking to the highest level. This Michelin recommended restaurant originally opened in York before moving to its current location in the heart of the city. Since then it has delighted restaurant goers with its funky, modern take on vegetarian fine dining.

The mouth watering culinary creations on offer include such delights as ?fried mushroom mousse and pernod pancakes with whipped cider, fennel and butternut squash?.

A great location for a treat or a celebratory meal. The set menus help to provide a more affordable option. Lunch is available at ?18.50 for two course or ?23.50 for three.

Vanilla Black is at 17-18 Tooks Court, London, EC4A 1LB. Our review.

The Gate
Hammersmith?s The Gate?has been a favourite with vegetarians since opening in 1989. Run by the brothers Adrian and Michael Daniel, the food is a fusion of Asian flavours mixed with Mediterranean influences. Starters cost around ?6 with mains varying from ?10 to ?15.

The restaurant also periodically offers cookery workshops and the chefs have published two recipe books. Due to the ongoing success of the place, the brothers are opening a second restaurant in Islington on 1 June.

The Gate Hammersmith is at 51 Queen Caroline Street London, W6 9QL. Our review.

Food for Thought
Covent Garden?s Food for Thought?is a well priced, friendly caf? that is a great option for a quick bite while out shopping. The menu changes regularly but often includes bean stews, quiches, burritos and much more. You can get a fantastic main with a plate stacked full of salads and sides for between ?5 and ?8.

As the caf? is quite small and gets pretty busy. It can be a good idea to go either a bit before or after the lunchtime rush.

Food for Thought is at 31 Neal Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9PR

Vitao
Serving up a buffet of wholesome salads, bean- and pulse-based concoctions and much else besides, this friendly and inviting vegan caf? has become a favourite among London?s vegetarians, and visitors to Soho alike.

All the food on offer is organic, wholesome and well priced. All you can eat costs between ?6 and ?9 depending on the time of day.

Vitao is at 74 Wardour Street, London, W1F 0TE.

The Bonnington Caf?
The Bonnington Caf??is a community caf? run by a collective of volunteer chefs. The menu rotates with the cooks and there are normally a couple of different options available.

It started life as a squat caf? during the 1980s and has been a fixture of the community ever since. Starters and desserts cost ?3 with mains coming in at ?7. The Bonnington is a quirky, friendly and fun place to have a meal. It?s also good to support a local community enterprise that?s run on a not for profit basis.

The Bonnington Caf? is at 11 Vauxhall Grove, SW8 1TD. Our review.

Sagar
With restaurants in Hammersmith, the West End and Covent Garden, Sagar offers some of the best-value vegetarian Indian food available in London.?The menu is based on dishes from south India and offers incredible value with selection plates and Thalis available at lunchtime for around ?5. They also serve these?preposterously?large crispy roll things.

Sagar Hammersmith is at 157 King Street, London, W6 9JT
Sagar West End is at 17A Percy Street off Tottenham Court Road, London, W1T 1DU
Sagar Covent Garden is at 31 Catherine Street, London, WC2B 5JS

Manna
Primrose Hill?s Manna has been nominated as the best vegetarian restaurant in London during this vegetarian week. Its an accolade that is much deserved.

Manna offers modern, stylish and inventive vegetarian food that takes in a huge range of influences. With dishes varying from organic bangers and mash to burritos, Indian dishes and tofu based concoctions, there is something for everyone here. Starters are approximately ?8 with mains coming in around ?14. Truly exciting veggie food.

Manna is at 4 Erskine Road Primrose Hill, London NW3 3AJ

Tibits
Situated in Piccadilly, Tibits is one of the capital?s best vegetarian and vegan buffets. Offering eat-in and take-away options, Tibits serves up a diverse selection of enticing fresh flavours with dishes taking in salads, African cuisine, Asian influences and much more.

With all this on offer alongside a well stocked bar, Tibits is a great place to drop into if you?re out in central London.

Tibits is at 12-14 Hendon Street, London, W1B 4DA

Reader suggestions
OK, that?s our recommendations. We?d love to hear your favourites, though, and we?ll add them here.

From Twitter:
@paddy_wagstaff suggests Rasa
@DelveBand says inSpiral Lounge?in Camden has great food and lovely people
@bonny_vivante recommends ?Amico Bio at (ironically) Smithfields for great organic Italian vegetarian dishes. Omnivore friends have been uniformly impressed?

From the comments:
James suggests Woodlands in Panton Street?? looks like they also have branches in Hampstead and Marylebone
Probably Jon says Pogo Cafe in Hackney and?Jai Krishna on Stroud Green Road or Turnpike Lane?
Dave Cross recommends Blah Blah Blah in Shepherd?s Bush

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Topics: Self Help Information That's Great To Know

Personal development is all about making positive changes in yourself so that you can have a better life. You will have to research and learn more about what you need to do to achieve your goals, but if stay motivated and put enough efforts into personal development, you will be rewarded. There are some great ideas for personal development in the article below.

Selfless behavior is a big leap forward in your personal development. You can benefit greatly by just making some simple sacrifices and helping others. If you can see the emotional benefits of helping others, then you are already well on your way to becoming a person you can be proud of.

Don't allow buying sprees to become an emotional release. Taking up a hobby is a better alternative. Do so and you will avoid cluttering up your life with needless possessions; even better, you will save yourself a great deal of money.

Place your personal central principles into practice. Your personal beliefs create the foundation for who you are. If you stay on top of your morals you will have a boost in self esteem and you will have a good base to defend them. If your goals are grounded by your principles, you'll be more consistent in pursuing them.

Try to get more organized. When you are organized, you will improve your confidence and feel accomplished in many different areas of your life. Your stress level will also diminish as your life becomes more orderly. There is something very calming about knowing that everything is in its place.

Make a real effort to stop worrying. Worrying unnecessarily will only create worst-case scenarios in your mind. Instead of worrying, think about the worst thing that could happen, and prevent it. Then, you are prepared to handle whatever gets thrown your way. Excessive worrying solves nothing.

Never force yourself to work beyond your physical limitations as you pursue your goals. Doing your best is essential, but you also need to know what your best is and not go past it. Caring for yourself is important when you are striving towards a desired end. If you were to sacrifice your body in pursuit of improving yourself, it would be counter-productive to your needs.

Personal development begins when you identify what you value the most. Setting high standards for yourself can help you achieve personal development you desire.

When building a personal development plan, it is important to consider your personal values. It's counterproductive to focus on things that you don't value. Instead, work on aspects of your life you want to improve that mesh well with your individual beliefs. This will help you make significant changes to your life, both at home and at work.

It is normal to find unhealthy foods tempting. Stress can harm your body, and life is too short to worry about every little thing.

Ignore social status and instrumental gain and treat everyone equally, unless they have actually done something to earn your scorn. Your demeanor towards them speaks a great deal about you, and nothing about them.

You may experience excess stress when you overreact to difficult situations. Analyze your situation with care and manage stress. Even if it's a mistake, you can always live through it or fix it. Successful people know that learning from your mistakes, and not simply the fact that you've made mistakes, is the key.

Maximize work time. Take an ample amount of breaks when you are working hard. This might sound counterproductive, but breaks allow you to refocus and re-energize, allowing you to return and work more efficiently.

Instead of bragging about your accomplishments, ask those around you about what they are most proud of and what they've achieved. This helps you discover what other people have accomplished to help you respect them which in turn betters your character.

See what obstacles are keeping you from success. This seems to be hard from some people. You might not be able to find your weakness, but you can find the way to change them. If you are successful in moving obstacles out of your way, you may find that your life's path is easier to navigate.

Your body's health affects your mind's health. Develop a regular fitness routine and follow a nutritious, satisfying diet plan. If you want a healthy mind, make sure it resides in a healthy body.

It is essential to have a clearly outlined goal, when working toward improving personal development. Set a clear, well-defined goal for yourself. Having a specific goal will help you to get better results.

To improve your personal development, make sure that you are always using love to fuel whatever faith you believe in. Faith and love are intertwined. Do not stop doing things to strengthen your and faith. Put your faith into action through caring for those in need. This makes your faith real, and brings love to you and those around you.

You must determine what you would like to achieve in your life. Once you've done this, get out there and do it. Sitting and thinking about the life you want will not get you that life. If you take action and start working toward achieving your dreams, you can change your life for the better.

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What is an Accelerated Payment?

An accelerated payment is a lump sum payment of 60% of the tuition and fees for certain high cost, high tech programs. The Veterans Administration will make accelerated payments for one term, quarter, or semester at a time. However, if the program is not offered on a term, quarter or semester basis, the accelerated payment is paid for the entire program. To qualify, you must certify that you intend to seek employment in a high tech industry as defined by the VA. Accelerated payment is paid instead of regular Montgomery GI Bill - Active Duty (Chapter 30) benefits that you would otherwise receive.

Can I receive accelerated payments for computer training and certification courses?

Yes, as long as the courses have been approved for Veteran Administration benefits.

How much might the VA pay for a computer certification course?

To determine the exact amount of your benefits you must call the Veterans Administration at 1-888-GI-BILL-1 (1-888-442-4551) to speak with a Veterans Benefits Counselor.

The Veterans Administration pays for 60% of tuition and fees and 100% for certification tests under the Accelerated Payment plan.

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• Material Design
• Aerospace
• Weapons
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How do I apply for accelerated payments?

Ask your school to include you request for accelerated payment to the Veterans Administration when it sends your enrollment information to VA for processing. Your request must include your certification that you plan to seek employment in the a high technology industry.

How is my education entitlement charged for accelerated payment?

The Veterans Administration will divide your accelerated payment by the amount of your full-time monthly rate (including kickers and additional contributions) and will reduce your entitlement by the resulting number of months and days. If you do not have sufficient entitlement to cover 60% of tuition and fees, the VA will pay you based on your actual remaining entitlement.

When can accelerated payments be made?

Accelerated payments may only be made for terms or other enrollment periods that begin on or after October 1, 2002.

Can school related expenses (such as books, supplies, and living expenses) be counted as tuition and fees for accelerated payments?

No. Only the school's tuition and fees can be considered for accelerated payment.

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Exotic particles, chilled and trapped, form giant matter wave

ScienceDaily (May 24, 2012) ? Physicists have trapped and cooled exotic particles called excitons so effectively that they condensed and cohered to form a giant matter wave.

This feat will allow scientists to better study the physical properties of excitons, which exist only fleetingly yet offer promising applications as diverse as efficient harvesting of solar energy and ultrafast computing.

"The realization of the exciton condensate in a trap opens the opportunity to study this interesting state. Traps allow control of the condensate, providing a new way to study fundamental properties of light and matter," said Leonid Butov, professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego. A paper reporting his team's success was recently published in the scientific journal Nano Letters.

Excitons are composite particles made up of an electron and a "hole" left by a missing electron in a semiconductor. Created by light, these coupled pairs exist in nature. The formation and dynamics of excitons play a critical role in photosynthesis, for example.

Like other matter, excitons have a dual nature of both particle and wave, in a quantum mechanical view. The waves are usually unsynchronized, but when particles are cooled enough to condense, their waves synchronize and combine to form a giant matter wave, a state that others have observed for atoms.

Scientists can easily create excitons by shining light on a semiconductor, but in order for the excitons to condense they must be chilled before they recombine.

The key to the team's success was to separate the electrons far enough from their holes so that excitons could last long enough for the scientists to cool them into a condensate. They accomplished this by creating structures called "coupled quantum wells" that separate electrons from holes in different layers of alloys made of gallium, arsenic and aluminum.

Then they set an electrostatic trap made by a diamond-shaped electrode and chilled their special semiconducting material in an optical dilution refrigerator to as cold as 50 milli-Kelvin, just a fraction of a degree above absolute zero.

A laser focused on the surface of the material created excitons, which began to accumulate at the bottom of the trap as they cooled. Below 1 Kelvin, the entire cloud of excitons cohered to form a single matter wave, a signature of a state called a Bose-Einstein condensate.

Other scientists have seen whole atoms do this when confined in a trap and cooled, but this is the first time that scientists have seen subatomic particles form coherent matter waves in a trap.

Varying the size and depth of the trap will alter the coherent exciton state, providing this team, and others, the opportunity to study the properties of light and mater in a new way.

This most recent discovery stems from an ongoing collaboration between Leonid Butov's research group in UC San Diego's Division of Physical Sciences, including Alexander High, Jason Leonard and Mikas Remeika, and Micah Hanson and Arthur Gossard in UC Santa Barbara's Materials Department. The Army Research Office and the National Science Foundation funded the experiments, and the Department of Energy supported the development of spectroscopy in the optical dilution refrigerator, the technique used to observe the exciton condensate in a trap.

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1. A. A. High, J. R. Leonard, M. Remeika, L. V. Butov, M. Hanson, A. C. Gossard. Condensation of Excitons in a Trap. Nano Letters, 2012; 12 (5): 2605 DOI: 10.1021/nl300983n

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