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-0- Islanders' Simon suspended indefinitely NEW YORK, March 9 (UPI) - The National Hockey League Friday indefinitely suspended New York Islanders forward Chris Simon for a stick-swinging incident.

Simon was given a match penalty for a deliberate attempt to injure and was thrown out of Thursday's game against the New York Rangers when he hit Ryan Hollweg with his stick.

Hollweg checked Simon into the boards and, after getting up and seeing Hollweg moving toward him, Simon took a two-handed swing with his stick and hit Hollweg in the face.

The Rangers' player fell and was motionless on the ice for a time but was able to leave the ice on his own.

After the game Hollweg said the extent of the injury wouldn't be known until he was examined but did black out briefly and also temporarily lost his hearing.

The Rangers scored their game-winning goal on the power play after Simon was ejected.

Simon refused to discuss the incident until he spoke to league officials.

NHL officials said they would convene a hearing to determine how long Simon would be suspended.

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...ba href=/dementia/a/b" and "she should remain in receipt of NHS continuing care funding." Mr Shakespeare, who works in the print industry, has set up the website www.fightthebureaucracy.org and is planning to distribute 10,000 leaflets calling for support.

He has also enlisted the help of local politicians including West Bromwich West MP Adrian Bailey, who said: "I have been in touch with the primary care trusts over this case and I am monitoring it closely." Mr Shakespeare claims a "post-code lottery" means those suffering from the same condition in other parts of the country are treated differently.

"My main aim is to to get my mum the care she deserves," he said.

"She does not even know who I am.

This is somebody in need of constant medical attention.

"The worst-case scenario is I will have to fund a proportion of that £800 a week." Sandwell PCTs' director of primary care and modernisation Claire Molloy said: "Sandwell PCTs regularly review the care needs of our clients and where those needs have changed; this may mean an alteration of funding levels or funding arrangements.

"In some cases responsibility for funding some elements of that care may pass to social services.

"Sandwell PCTs have a robust process where such assessments take place and family members or carers are routinely invited to be present at case conferences or discuss the case with clinicians." Wolverhampton social services declined to comment.

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After a passerby found and returned her to the facility, the owner punished her by leaving her to sit with the fracture untreated.

In the same facility, a staff member refused a nurse's request to send a resident with fever of 104 to the hospital, and the nurse had to call 911 for help.• In Etowah County, the bag for a resident's Foley catheter was left full, resulting in a painful blockage of the flow of urine.

Others were found extremely malnourished and suffering from pressure sores.

It was alleged that patients were left alone at times, with no one to assist with care or evacuation in case of emergency.• At a North Alabama facility that reopened after being shut down, a mentally retarded woman was removed after her sister discovered she was being sexually abused by the owner's boyfriend or husband.• A man in Talladega County was found by visiting home care providers to be lying in feces, with feces under his fingernails from scratching where the filth had irritated his skin.• In Washington County, a woman's fractured hip went undiagnosed and untreated for weeks, even though she screamed in pain whenever she was touched.The pending bills would make it a class A misdemeanor with fines of up to $5,000 for operation of an illegal "hospital," and if such operation continued in spite of an injunction, it would be a class C felony, subject to fines of up to $25,000 and forfeiture of all property involved.

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