Vick shaken up, Eagles top Patriots 27-17

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) ? Eagles coach Andy Reid figures Michael Vick will be ready for the regular season even if he misses Philadelphia's two remaining exhibition games.

At least he wouldn't get hurt again.

For his second consecutive game, Philadelphia's star quarterback lasted just six plays then went for X-rays, this time on his ribs. They were negative, just as they were on his left thumb 11 days earlier.

"I'd probably like to see him play a little bit more, but he's got enough experience," Reid said after the Eagles beat the New England Patriots 27-17 on Monday night. "We're not talking about a rookie, so I think he'd be OK."

Vick doesn't have much time to get over his soreness. Philadelphia plays Friday night at the Cleveland Browns.

"I'm not that concerned, other than he's hurt," Reid said. "I want to make sure he heals up and get him back in there. Hopefully, he doesn't get hurt again."

Vick was knocked down by linebacker Jermaine Cunningham after heaving a long pass in the first quarter. In a 24-23 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers on Aug. 9, he smacked his thumb on the helmet of center Jason Kelce.

In both games, rookie Nick Foles came off the bench to throw two touchdown passes. Last year's No. 2 quarterback, Mike Kafka, missed Monday night's game with a hand injury. Trent Edwards also played against the Patriots.

Foles, a third-round draft pick from Arizona, finished 18 for 28 for 217 yards and touchdown passes to Clay Harbor of 1 and 3 yards.

"He did a great job," running back LeSean McCoy said. "In the huddle he demanded respect. He put everybody in the right places at the right times."

Tom Brady sat out the game for the Patriots (No. 2 in the AP Pro32). The New England quarterback figures to play Friday night in the team's third preseason game, at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Other healthy starters, including wide receivers Wes Welker and Brandon Lloyd, tight ends Rob Gronkowski and Aaron Hernandez, defensive lineman Vince Wilfork and linebacker Jerod Mayo, were held out of the game.

That gave players trying to make the team more time on the field.

"We got to look at a lot of players," Patriots coach Bill Belichick said, "evaluate them against a good football team."

One of them was Cunningham, a disappointment since being drafted in the second round in 2010. But he made an early impact when he hit Vick with about nine minutes gone in the game.

"That is just football," Cunningham said, "going out there and getting the person with the ball."

Vick went 1 for 3 for 5 yards with one run for another 5 yards. After Cunningham drove his helmet into Vick's left side, the quarterback went down, got up slowly then knelt on one knee. He was checked by medical personnel before going to the sideline under his own power.

"Mike's tough," McCoy said. "I kind of figured it would be all right, even though he took kind of a big blow."

The Eagles (No. 8) also have just three days between games. Vick had been expected to play at least a half on Monday night.

McCoy scored on a 1-yard run and Alex Henery kicked a 42-yard field goal to give the Eagles a 24-17 lead with 33 seconds left in the third quarter, and a 21-yarder that capped the scoring with 2:00 remaining.

For the Patriots (1-1), third-stringer Ryan Mallett completed 10 of 20 passes for 105 yards, including a 7-yard scoring pass to Alex Silvestro. Brian Hoyer was just 5 for 17 for 55 yards.

"Ryan's a very confident player, both him and Brian," wide receiver Deion Branch said, "but it's hard for them because they have to play behind Tom Brady."

Stephen Gostkowski kicked field goals of 51, 35 and 55 yards for the Patriots, who have scored just two preseason touchdowns.

Vick's departure didn't change much for the Patriots despite his scrambling ability, defensive end Chandler Jones said.

"It's the same offensive scheme they're running," he said.

Vick wasn't the only first-stringer knocked out of the game. Philadelphia cornerback Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie and New England safety Patrick Chung went out in the first half with shoulder injuries.

The Patriots led 11-0 after Silvestro's touchdown 1:16 into the second quarter and a two-point conversion run by Shane Vereen. Then two lost fumbles within a span of just six plays led to two Eagles touchdowns.

Rookie Brandon Bolden muffed a punt, and McCoy scored three plays later. On the Patriots' second play after that, Hoyer fumbled when he was sacked by Phillip Hunt and Darryl Tapp recovered at the New England 12. Foles hit DeSean Jackson for an 11-yard completion on the next play before connecting with Harbor.

The Eagles took the lead for good, 21-14, with 3:58 gone in the third quarter on Harbor's second touchdown.

NOTES: Reid and defensive tackle Cullen Jenkins had a brief confrontation on the sideline in the first half. "He comes at you. He wants to get the best out of you," Jenkins said. "Obviously, that's not the way I should have handled it, but you just get emotional." ... A moment of silence was held before the game for Garrett Reid. The son of Philadelphia's coach was found dead Aug. 5 in his dorm room at Lehigh University, where he was helping the team's strength and conditioning coach during training camp.

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Syrian minister warns US against intervention after chemical weapons remarks

The comments came a day after President Barack Obama said the US would reconsider its opposition to military involvement in the Syrian civil war if Bashar Assad's government deploys or uses chemical or biological weapons, describing it as a 'red line' for the United States.

By Zeina Karam,?Associated Press / August 21, 2012

Syrian Deputy Prime Minister Qadri Jamil speaks during a news conference in Moscow, on Aug. 21.

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A Syrian government official warned the United States Tuesday that military intervention inSyria?could lead to regional turmoil as regime forces bombed a northern village and stormed a rebel-held Damascus suburb, killing dozens of people, activists said.

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The comments came a day after President Barack Obama said the U.S would reconsider its opposition to military involvement in the Syrian civil war if Bashar Assad's government deploys or uses chemical or biological weapons, describing it as a "red line" for the United States.

Syrian Deputy Prime Minister Qadri Jamil called Obama's statements "propagandistic threats" made in connection with the U.S. presidential election. But Jamil also said the comments indicate that the West is looking for a pretext to intervene militarily.

He insisted that such intervention would be "impossible" because it would cause the civil war to spread to other countries in the region.

"Those who are contemplating this evidently want to see the crisis expand beyond?Syria's?borders," Jamil told reporters during a visit to Moscow.

The conflict already has spilled over into neighboring Lebanon, where sectarian tensions have risen.

Clashes that broke out Monday night between the two sides in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli killed at least six people and wounded more than 70 in some of the most serious fighting in Lebanon in several months, the Lebanese state-run news agency said. The wounded included nine Lebanese soldiers.

The mostly Sunni city also saw gunbattles in May, when fighting over?Syria?killed eight people. The latest clashes were between gunmen from the Sunni neighborhood of Jabal Mohsen and the neighboring district of Bab Tabbaneh, which is mostly populated by followers of the Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam.

Assad is a member of?Syria's?Alawite minority, while rebels fighting his regime are predominantly Sunnis.

The streets around the two districts were sealed off by roadblocks to keep people away from the line of snipers' fire, but life went on normally in the rest of the city despite the occasional sound of gunfire.

In Washington, U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the U.S. was "very concerned" about the spillover effect from?Syria.

Heavy fighting also continued in and around Aleppo on Tuesday.

On Monday, veteran Japanese war correspondent Mika Yamamoto became the first foreign journalist to die in the northern Syrian city since clashes between rebels and regime forces erupted there almost a month ago.

Syrian government forces also reportedly captured two other journalists there, including Alhurra TV correspondent Bashar Fahmi and his cameraman Cuneyt Unal.

Japan's Foreign Ministry spokesman Masaru Sato said Yamamoto, 45, was hit by gunfire while she and a colleague were traveling with rebels from the Free Syrian Army who are fighting the Assad regime.

Yamamoto worked for The Japan Press, an independent TV news provider that specializes in conflict zone coverage.

The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalist said at least 16 journalists have been killed since November while covering?Syria, making it "the most dangerous place in the world for journalists."

A statement from Springfield, Virginia-based Alhurra said the company has not been able to reach its correspondent and his cameraman since they entered?Syria?on Monday morning.

Most of Tuesday's fighting appeared centered in Damascus suburbs, which have witnessed a dramatic spike in fighting over the past month.

The Syrian activist group the Local Coordination Committees and a rebel spokesman also said regime troops entered the opposition-held suburb of Moadamiyeh from four points, raiding homes in search of anti-Assad fighters.

The rebel spokesman, who asked to be identified only by his first name Ahmed said three men in their late 20s and early 30s were shot dead execution-style soon after the town fell to regime forces.

He also said 23 fighters from the Free Syrian Army rebel group were killed when government forces stormed the town at dawn.

Later, activists said dozens of bodies were found dumped in a building in the town. The LCC said they appear to have been killed execution-style. But Rami Abdul-Rahman, director of the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said it was not clear whether they were killed in the shelling or had been shot.

The reports could not be independently verified.

Moadamiyeh, west of the capital, Damascus, had been under siege for more than two weeks. Its capture followed days of intense fighting and shelling by government troops.

In northern?Syria, an activist who goes by the name Abu al-Hassan said warplanes and helicopters attacked a number of towns and villages north of Aleppo early Tuesday, killing a young boy and another civilian, and damaging homes. Several people also were wounded.

After strafing a number of villages overnight, government fighter jets dropped two bombs on a residential part of the village of Marea, about 30 kilometers (20 miles) north of Aleppo, Abu al-Hassan said via Skype.

One amateur video posted online showed a huge cloud of gray smoke rising over the village, a crater in a rubble-strewn road and two houses with collapsed ceilings. Residents were searching through the rubble for survivors, crying "is anyone there?"

A second video showed a number of people, including a small boy, with serious injuries. The videos could not be independently verified.

Marea is a relatively quiet farming village in the Aleppo countryside that was not known for being a hub of rebel activity, although one rebel group runs a prison in a school there.

Assad's overstretched forces have found it increasingly difficult to quell the rebel challenge over an ever widening stretch of territory across the country, a sign that the regime's grip on power is loosening.

The seemingly intractable 17-month-old conflict in?Syria?that human rights groups say has claimed the lives of more than 20,000 people has defied all international attempts to calm the bloodshed.

U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said Lakhdar Brahimi, the new special representative for?Syria, will be based at U.N. headquarters in New York when his new job starts on Sept. 1.

Brahimi will be coming to New York later this week to meet with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and senior U.N. officials, Nesirky said.

Meanwhile, Renesys Corp., a Manchester, N.H., company that studies the structure of the Internet, said a Chinese company is keeping war-torn?Syria?connected to the Web as other telecommunications companies withdraw.

The Syrian government ultimately controls Internet connection to the outside world but it's a major route for rebel communications and news from the country as the civil war intensifies.

Hong Kong-based PCCW Ltd. is now carrying most of the Internet traffic to and from?Syria, according to Renesys Corp.

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GM Recalls Midsize SUVs - Zacks.com

General Motors Company (GM - Analyst Report) plans to recall 249,260 units of midsize sport utility vehicles (SUVs) in order to fix a potential fire hazard led by an electrical short. The recall would cover Chevrolet Trailblazer and GMC Envoy SUVs as well as Buick Rainier, Saab 9-7X and Isuzu Ascender SUVs, all from the 2006-2007 model years.

The vehicles are either sold or currently registered, particularly in the Northeast and Midwest states, including Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia, Wisconsin and the District of Columbia.

In a filing with National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), GM revealed that a possible electrical short could affect power windows and door locks and lead to fire in severe cases.

The automaker has decided to replace the driver?s master power window switch on Chevrolet, GMC and Buick models. It has asked Saab and Isuzu owners to call customer service centers or the NHTSA safety hotline for information regarding the repair.

This is GM?s third recall beginning this month.? Earlier this month, GM announced its plan to recall 38,000 units of Chevrolet Impala police cars in North America after receiving complaints from two police fleet about front lower control arms that had fractured. The recall, which is expected to begin today, covers 36,413 cars in the U.S. and 1,713 in Canada from the 2008?2012 model years.

Last week, the company also announced that it would recall 10,315 units of full-size vans in 20 cold-weather U.S. states and in Canada due to fuel filler pipes that can rust and leak due to salt and chemicals used to clear snow from roads. The recall covers Chevrolet Express and GMC Savana vans from the model year 2003 to 2004 with left-side cargo doors.

Automotive safety recalls were brought into focus by media after Toyota Motors? (TM - Analyst Report) announcement of the largest-ever global recall of 3.8 million vehicles in September 2009, triggered by a high-speed crash that killed 4 members of a family.

Later on, a string of recalls has led Toyota to face numerous personal injury and wrongful death lawsuits in federal courts. The Transportation Department of U.S. also imposed a fine of $48.4 million on the company due to late recall of millions of defective vehicles.

GM, a Zacks #3 Rank (Hold) company, reported a sharp 41% fall in profits to $1.49 billion or 90 cents per share in the second quarter of the year from $2.52 billion or $1.54 in the same quarter of 2011. Nevertheless, profits exceeded the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 15 cents per share.

Revenues in the quarter fell 4.5% to $37.61 billion, which is lower than the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $37.98 billion. Unit sales rose 3% to 2.39 million vehicles from 2.32 million vehicles in the second quarter of 2011. The automaker occupied a worldwide market share of 11.6% during the quarter, down from 12.3% a year-ago.

Adjusted earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) dipped 28% to $2.12 billion from $2.96 billion in the second quarter of 2011. Operating profit ebbed 26% to $1.82 billion from $2.45 billion a year ago.

The decline in profits and revenues was attributable to strengthening of U.S. dollar against most of the major currencies as well as weak macroeconomic conditions globally, especially in Europe and South America.
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Eye pain usually follows trauma, infection or inflammation of the eye and the surrounding structures.

Eye pain is a distressing symptom often described in different ways depending on the cause. The pain arising from the superficial structures of the eye results in burning, or sharp and shooting pain. Pain due to conditions affecting the deeper structures feels like a throbbing, aching or stabbing pain.

The cause of eye pain can be diagnosed to some extent based on the description of the pain by the patient. For example:

Pain in a single eye could be due to trauma. Pain affecting both the eyes may be due to infection or a systemic disease.

A sudden onset of severe deep-seated eye pain could indicate glaucoma.

Eye pain accompanied by purulent discharge indicates bacterial infection.

Eye pain that is not accompanied by visual symptoms may indicate that the conjunctiva or eyelids are affected. Visual disturbances are usually caused if the cornea or deeper structures are involved.

Mild pain may accompany a conjunctival infection.

A history of use of contact lenses could indicate a corneal abrasion or infection.

Eye pain that occurs in patients with conditions like rheumatoid arthritis may indicate infliction of the eyes by the disease.

In some cases like glaucoma or infection of the deeper structures, it is necessary to identify the cause and treat it early as possible to prevent permanent damage to vision.

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Biffle wins at Michigan when Johnson's car falters

BROOKLYN, Mich. (AP) ? Jimmie Johnson looked as if he had already finished the hardest work. After starting at the back of the pack, he had moved up quickly, and when he passed Brad Keselowski for the lead on lap 191 of 200, his No. 48 Chevrolet seemed to be the superior car.

Then Johnson's engine faltered with only six laps remaining. He lost the race ? and the NASCAR Sprint Cup points lead ? to Greg Biffle on Sunday.

"I got it turned around and was catching him, and then his engine failed," Biffle said. "It was going to be a great race, no matter what. I felt like I could catch him, but we'll never know. Passing him might have been a different story."

Biffle won the race at Michigan International Speedway, taking advantage when Johnson left the track because of engine trouble. Johnson started the race from the back because of an engine change, and he couldn't hold on at the end. He finished 27th.

After Johnson's mishap, there was a caution for oil on the track. Biffle held off Keselowski by 0.416 seconds in the green-white-checkered finish.

Biffle took over the points lead, while Johnson dropped from first to fourth. Matt Kenseth moved up a spot to second despite a 17th-place showing.

"I know that a lot of people don't expect us to win the championship, and don't expect us to compete for the title," Biffle said. "I don't care what they say or who they want to talk about, but we will be a factor when it comes down to Homestead. I promise you that."

Kasey Kahne finished third in the 400-mile race, followed by Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Marcos Ambrose.

It was the 12th victory for Roush Fenway Racing at MIS, breaking a tie with the Wood Brothers for the most wins at the track.

Pole sitter Mark Martin was sailing along in the lead for most of the first 65 laps before his race ended in scary fashion. Bobby Labonte went into a spin while Martin was coming up from behind, and Martin went sliding off toward pit road. His car crashed frighteningly into the end of a short, narrow barrier on the interior side of pit road.

The side of Martin's car was essentially impaled by the end of the wall, just in front of the left rear tire and dangerously close to the driver's seat. But in the smoky scene that followed, Martin was able to get out and walk away.

"I really feel that was a freak accident. I'm not sure you can ever completely fix something like that," Martin said. "That was a pretty freak angle that I got it. I'm not sure what you can do. It could have been really bad if I would have got into that hole a little deeper where it would have caught me in the door instead of the crush area back there."

Johnson started from the back, and so did Earnhardt, who was using a backup car after a mishap in practice Saturday. The two Hendrick Motorsports teammates made a solid run of it, but it was Biffle and his No. 16 Ford that emerged at the end.

Johnson did not speak to reporters afterward. He was trying to become the first driver to reach four victories this season. Keselowski and Tony Stewart also have three, and drivers will earn bonus points in the Chase for the Sprint Cup for "regular-season" victories.

The Chase starts next month.

"The 48 has the most speed and the best history as far as the Chase is concerned," Keselowski said. "We caught a lucky break that was unfortunate for Jimmie. ... He definitely deserved to win the race. Just didn't play out that way."

It was Biffle's second win of the year and third career victory at MIS. Keselowski, racing in his home state, settled for second place for the second straight week.

"Just a great day," Keselowski said. "I don't know what to say other than I was this close to getting what would have been one of the biggest wins of my career. That would have been really special."

Biffle's victory was his 18th on the Cup circuit.

Earnhardt won at MIS in June, snapping a four-year losing streak. The last driver to sweep the two Cup races at MIS was Labonte in 1995.

Earnhardt bounced back with a nice showing amid adversity. That was after finishing 32nd at Pocono and 28th at Watkins Glen the last two races.

Stewart and Jeff Gordon both had motor problems, finishing 32nd and 28th. Gordon, Kyle Busch and Carl Edwards entered the race on the outside looking in for the Chase.

Those three didn't do much to change that. Edwards finished sixth and Busch was 13th. There are three more races before the Chase starts. Right now Kahne and Ryan Newman are in line for the two wild card spots that go to the drivers between 11th and 20th in the standings with the most wins.

Busch, Gordon, Ambrose and Joey Logano could edge out Newman if any of them win another race.

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Intense fighting rages in Syria's southern city

BEIRUT (AP) ? Syrian activist groups say fighting between rebels and regime forces has killed six people, including two children and two women, in the southern city of Daraa, birthplace of the country's 18-month-old uprising.

Monday's violence in Daraa was reported by the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Coordination committees.

The fighting comes on the second day of Eid al-Fitr, a major Muslim holiday that marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan.

The two groups reported fighting across much of the rest of the country, including the suburbs of Damascus and the northern city of Aleppo, with scores killed or wounded.

The reports could not be independently confirmed.

Anti-regime activists say the violence in Syria has killed some 20,000 people since the uprising began in March 2011.

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