Set high on Sicily's Monte Tauro in picturesque natural beauty and commanding breathtaking views over two rugged bays below, Taormina has captured the imagination of great travellers and writers for many decades With its charming pedestrianised streets and small piazzas, it enjoys stunning views of the coast with Mount Etna rising in the distance. As such, it is the perfect setting to celebrate creativity at the upcoming Taormina Film Festival (June 11-18). Now in its 57th year, the Festival shows a range of Hollywood and independent movies, as well as playing host to ...

Premier dentists in Houston, Katy and Memorial, Drs. Trey Thompson and Rick Hammond, have been working with patients in the Houston, Katy and Memorial, TX areas to provide the best dental care for the entire family since 1978. From cosmetic work, such as veneers and implants in Katy, to children's dentistry, Hammond and Thompson Dental Group is committed to providing patients with optimal dental health care no matter their age. At Hammond and Thompson Dental Group, providing dentistry for the entire family means that their dental family takes care of their patient's ...

Montreal dentist, Dr. John Petruccelli, has created a new informative practice blog for additional patient knowledge. Patients can now gain even more valuable dental health care information by visiting Dr. Petruccelli's new information-rich blog. The new blog can be accessed via the practice's website and is updated regularly with new information. The blog was created for the practice in order for Dr. Petruccelli to actively contribute content related to dental health care. Each post from the practice's blog updates the Facebook and Twitter pages, maintaining an up-to-date ...

Dr. James Lee, a premier dentist in Ann Arbor, is pleased to have been named number one dental practice in Washtenaw County by readers of Current Magazine in 2009. This is a great recognition and award to receive, further demonstrating Dr. Lee's continuous commitment to providing the best in quality dental care for his patients. "I am honored to be selected by the readers of Current magazine as the number one dentist in Washtenaw County. There is nothing more honorable than to be recognized by my own patients that read this magazine for the quality dental health ...

A recently proposed bill moving through Congress would establish minimum graduated driver's license guidelines for states to either adopt or risk loss of federal funds. The Safe Teen and Novice Driver Uniform Protection Act, or STAND UP Act, creates minimum requirements for graduated driver's licensing programs, many of which states have already embraced over the past two decades. Until now, states have been free to pick and choose the different restrictions they wish to adopt. All states but South Dakota have graduated driver's licensing programs (GDLs), which typically ...

While California is a beautiful place to live, the roads are congested and full of dangers that can lead to serious car accidents. From distracted drivers to intoxicated drivers to defective cars, there are many contributing causes to car accidents in Southern California. If a loved one is seriously or fatally injured in a San Diego car accident, it's important for you to understand your next steps. Tips After a Serious Car Accident You can do many things after a serious car accident to help an injured loved one. It is important to understand that you may not have ...

The Governors Highway Safety Association recently released a national report on motorcycle accident statistics for 2010. It indicated that motorcycle deaths declined slightly last year. The two percent decline was far less than the 16 percent decline in motorcycle deaths in 2009, but the numbers were still encouraging in the face of 11 years of increases before that. In New York, however, there was a large increase in the number of fatalities. The number of fatalities in the first 9 months of 2010 was 180, up sharply from 136 in the same period during 2009. Michigan ...

Even though America has made substantial progress in stamping out racial discrimination over the last few decades, it remains a real threat to our nation's workforce. In fact, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) reports a growing trend of race-based employment discrimination claims over the last five years, with a record high of 35,890 incidents reported nationwide in 2010. Fortunately, there is a well-developed legal process in place to help set things right for those who have been discriminated against in an employment situation. Federal Protection Title ...

After the death of Osama bin Laden Sunday night, New York personal injury lawyer David Perecman reaffirmed his commitment to help the heroes who are still battling illnesses connected to 9/11. For many individuals, the death of bin Laden brought closure. The death also served to rekindle memories of those who volunteered to assist at the World Trade Center site after the 9/11 attacks. The lives of many Ground Zero volunteers were changed in challenging ways. Rescue and recovery workers and others are still suffering from health consequences related to the World Trade ...

The advent and proliferation of social media has allowed the world to connect easily by computer or phone. With Facebook boasting over 500 million users and Twitter's ever expanding reach, social media is everywhere. From wedding photos and vacation photos to photos from a Friday night with friends, they're all there. From wishing someone 'Happy Birthday' to venting about an annoyance and commenting on a friends post, they're all there too. The best part? Through privacy settings, who sees comments, pictures and posts can be limited to a select group. Maintaining ...

Amid the ongoing trauma of the foreclosure crisis, some borrowers and their advocates are questioning lenders' rights to foreclose on their homes. Across the country, several lawsuits have been filed challenging the framework the mortgage-lending industry relies on to bundle and sell mortgages and then seek to foreclose on mortgages when homeowners fall behind on their payments. Upon closer scrutiny, evidence of faulty foreclosure proceedings by mortgage lenders has accumulated over the past year. Now-notorious practices of some mortgage lenders, like using "robo-signers" ...

A lot of courage is sometimes required to report an employer's illegal activity or unsafe working conditions. A panoply of relatively recent laws and new amendments to existing laws offer legal protections and remedies for the courageous among us who wish to blow the whistle on corporate wrongdoing in the workplace. The laws address specific industries. Whistleblower Protection Laws The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) oversees the Office of the Whistleblower Protection Program and is responsible for enforcing 21 federal-level whistleblower protection ...

A 16-year-old girl with a learner's permit panicked, jumped a curb and hit a nine-year-old boy biking on the sidewalk. The boy died soon after the auto accident in New York's Floral Park. New York auto accident lawyer David Perecman, who has been following the story, agrees with the boy's mom who wondered why a person would teach a teen to drive in a residential neighborhood. "There is a lot of responsibility that comes with driving - and teaching teenagers to drive. Inexperienced teen drivers are more likely to make simple mistakes that can lead to both minor ...

It's a story that no parent likes to hear, but that many have heard in one form or another. Junior borrows the car and gets into an accident. It may be that he ran the car into a mailbox or it could be more serious. In the case of injury-causing accidents, who is liable for those injuries? Sixteen-year-old Junior? His parents? The registered car owner? Generally under New York Vehicle and Traffic Law, when someone gets into a car accident while driving with the owner's consent, the owner can be held liable for the driver's negligence. This means that if parents give ...

A new report from Duke University suggests that natural gas drilling operations in the Marcellus Shale region could be responsible for polluting nearby sources of drinking water. Although industry insiders insist that further study is required before jumping to conclusions, for those who live close to drilling sites, stepped-up governmental oversight could not come too soon. Extracting Natural Gas The Marcellus Shale is a black shale formation rich in natural gas deposits: scientists estimate it contains some 168 trillion to 516 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. ...

PHILADELPHIA — When semiconductor nanorods are exposed to light, they blink in a seemingly random pattern. By clustering nanorods together, physicists at the University of Pennsylvania have shown that their combined "on" time is increased dramatically providing new insight into this mysterious blinking behavior. The research was conducted by associate professor Marija Drndic's group, including graduate student Siying Wang and postdoctorial fellows Claudia Querner and Tali Dadosh, all of the Department of Physics and Astronomy in Penn's School of Arts and Sciences. They ...

According to the New York Daily News, a New York City highway worker was killed in a truck accident that involved a Department of Transportation vehicle. Errol Wilson, a 59-year old veteran employee of the New York Department of Transportation, was killed when a co-worker accidentally backed over him with a giant Mack Truck. Wilson was crushed to death by the truck while directing the driver during construction in Queens, New York. The driver reportedly lost sight of Wilson. The NYPD is investigating the cause of the fatal truck accident and New York auto accident ...

SPOKANE, Wash.—Birth defects are significantly more common in areas of mountaintop coal mining and are on the rise as the practice becomes more common, according to a study by researchers at Washington State University and West Virginia University. The researchers, led by Melissa Ahern, health economist and associate professor in WSU's College of Pharmacy, found 235 birth defects per 10,000 births where mountaintop mining is most common in four central Appalachian states. That's nearly twice the rate of 144 defects per 10,000 in non-mining areas. Previous studies have ...

A new advance by UCLA biochemists has brought scientists one step closer to developing treatments that could delay the onset of Alzheimer's disease and prevent the sexual transmission of HIV. The researchers report that they have designed molecular inhibitors that target specific proteins associated with Alzheimer's disease and HIV to prevent them from forming amyloid fibers, the elongated chains of interlocking proteins that play a key role in more than two dozen degenerative and often fatal diseases. "By studying the structures of two key proteins that form amyloids, ...

TORONTO, Ont., June 22, 2011 – Researchers at St. Michael's Hospital have put forward a new theory as to what causes sepsis, an often fatal condition that occurs when infection spreads throughout the body. Leaking blood vessels may actually be a cause of sepsis, rather than a symptom as previously thought, said Dr. Warren Lee. Dr Lee's hypothesis and a review of recent research on sepsis were published today in the journal Science Translational Medicine. Sepsis kills about 1,400 people a day worldwide and is the second-leading cause of death in intensive care units ...

Have a tough time remembering where you put your keys, learning a new language or recalling names at a cocktail party? New research from the Lisman Laboratory at Brandeis University points to a molecule that is central to the process by which memories are stored in the brain. A paper published in the June 22 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience describes the new findings. The brain is composed of neurons that communicate with each other through structures called synapses, the contact point between neurons. Synapses convey electrical signals from the "sender" neuron to ...

Cambridge, Mass. – June 23, 2011 – Albert Einstein defined insanity as "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." Practicing the same task repetitively, though, tends to be the default procedure when trying to learn a new motor skill. A study led by Maurice Smith and colleagues at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) suggests that simple task repetition may not be the most efficient way for the brain to learn a new move. Their results, published in PLoS Computational Biology, demonstrate "motion-referenced learning." ...

A freight elevator malfunctioned and crashed into a basement in Chelsea, according to the New York Post. Four people were seriously hurt and ten others suffered minor injuries in the New York elevator accident. "Although not as common as construction accidents or auto accidents, elevator accidents resulting in injury or death happen more often than people think," New York personal injury lawyer David Perecman said. As reported, the elevator suddenly plunged three floors shortly before 7 a.m. It was carrying 24 men, all construction workers. The elevator ...

Overall spending on construction in New York declined by 12 percent last year, according to a study released by the New York Building Congress and reviewed by New York construction accident lawyer David Perecman. In the same period of time, the number of construction jobs dropped more than 15 percent. As construction work has slowed, so have the number of construction site deaths and injuries. There was a 28% decrease in construction-related accidents in New York City in 2010 compared to 2009, reported the city Buildings Department. New York construction accident ...

Familial hemiplegic migraine is a rare and severe subtype of migraine with aura, an unusual sensory experience preceding the migraine attack. Researchers from the San Raffaele Scientific Institute in Milan, and CNR Institute of Neuroscience in Pisa, Italy, have developed a mouse model of Familial Hemiplegic Migraine type 2 (FHM2) and used it to investigate the migraine's cause. The study will be published on June 23rd in the open-access journal PLoS Genetics. The researchers developed a knock-in animal model for FHM2 by inserting the W887R mutation of the ATP1A2 gene ...