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— 4 p.m. Courtesy visit to Htin Kyaw, president of the republic, at the presidential palace.
— 4:30 p.m. Meeting with Aung San Suu Kyi, state counselor and foreign minister, the country’s de-facto leader.
— 5:15 p.m. Meeting with government authorities, members of civil society and the diplomatic corps in the city’s international convention center. Speech by pope.
— 6:20 p.m. Departure by plane for Yangon.
— 7:25 p.m. Arrival at Yangon airport, transfer to archbishop’s residence.
— 9:30 a.m. Mass at Kyaikkasan sports ground. Homily by pope.
— 4:15 p.m. Meeting with the Sangha supreme council of Buddhist monks at the Kaba Aye pagoda. Speech by pope.
— 5:15 p.m. Meeting with the bishops of Myanmar at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Speech by pope.
Stand-in skipper Stephen Kelly says the time has come for Rotherham United’s players to stop making excuses.
Kelly and his teammates have spent pre-season and the first month of their Championship campaign adapting to a more expansive style of play under new manager Alan Stubbs.
The full-back, who has been wearing the armband in the injury absence of Lee Frecklington, says the squad have now had enough time to take on board the boss’s ideas.
“It’s a new team, new players, but we are working hard together on the training ground and we should be seeing the rewards of that now.
“I don’t think we’re not comfortable with the new style of play. I think we’re doing the right things, but at times making the wrong decisions. I think it will come. But you can make excuses for only so long.
The Millers have won one and drawn one of their two league games at home, but have lost all three of their away matches and sit in the division’s bottom three.
Stubbs has brought in 12 new players since taking the hot-seat and is hoping to add free-agent strikers to his options in the near future now that the transfer window has closed.
Dexter Blackstock, who has just ended his association with Nottingham Forest, is a target, althought it it thought two other second-tier clubs have shown interest in the 30-year-old frontman.
Stubbs’ side are halfway through the two-week international break, having signed off with a 4-0 derby-day defeat at Barnsley. Their other August fixtures away from home brought 3-0 reverses at Aston Villa and Brighton.
“It’s not good enough, said Kelly, “As professional players, we want to improve this team and take the steps to move it forward.
Stubbs, who added Middlesbrough’s highly-rated teenage centre-half, Dael Fry, to his ranks on last Wednesday’s deadline day, is confident the Millers will starting climbing the table as his new signings gel.
Kelly says Rotherham have contributed to their own downfall on the road by losing their defensive discipline.
“At home, we had a great result when we beat Brentford, and in the draw against Wolves we played very well as well,” he said.
“But we need to have a mentality away from home that will allow us to come away with a result. We can’t, every time we go 1-0 or 2-0 down, go chasing the game and leave ourselves so exposed.
Two teams from Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have been named as finalists in the Nursing Times Awards, one of the most coveted accolades in the healthcare industry.
The stroke research team are one of ten teams across the country in the running for the Clinical Research Nursing category while the Trust’s Okay to Stay plan, which helps patients with long term health conditions avoid unnecessary hospital stays, is a finalist in the Nursing in the Community category.
The Nursing Times Awards recognise innovative and excellent care that nurses provide at all levels across the UK.
The stroke research team said they were “absolutely thrilled” to have been nominated for the Clinical Research Nursing award after significantly increasing the number of research trials patients being cared for at the Trust for a stroke can take part in.
The team attended consultant ward rounds and clinical meetings, ran training sessions and shared an office with the clinical stroke team to keep those on the stroke unit, speech and language therapists, nurse practitioners, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and other research nurses up to date with potential new trials and ongoing studies that their patients could take part in. As a result the team recruited 40% of the Yorkshire and Humber region’s stroke patients to trials being run at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals.
Rebekah Matthews, an Integrated Pathway Manager at the Trust, came up with the idea of the ‘Okay to Stay’ plan in July last year.
As well as including vital medical information, it paints a picture for any visiting health professional of how the patient manages at home - who supports them, and what medication they need if unwell. It also helps the patient to recognise an exacerbation of their condition.
The winners will be announced on Thursday November 2 at an awards ceremony at Grosvenor House, London.
I entered Doug Wheeler’s PSAD Synthetic Desert III, an installation in a small gallery at the top of the Guggenheim, and waited for something to happen. From the name, I assumed the experience would be psychedelic, like the acid trip I’ve never taken. The guide who introduced me and four other journalists to the work in the atrium just outside the gallery told us it was best enjoyed if we were seated, and even better, not moving. He was a humorless sort of fellow. He hovered near the exit. I took a yogic deep breath in. Behind me, the leather pants of another journalist squeaked as she shuffled around the space, damn what the guide said about not moving.
I waited. And waited, but not much more. I quickly suspected that there was nothing more to the room than what it presented in the moment we entered it. A narrow ramp that extended in the center, and served as a platform over a grid of white pyramids. The pyramids were lit grayish white. The walls of the gallery were grayish-white. The room smelled of fresh paint. The sea of pyramids resembled both a glacier at dusk, and what I imagined the ice sheet on the planet Gethen looked like inUrsula K L Guin’s science fiction novel The Left Hand of Darkness. Resembled, but did not replicate. The room was noticeably small. It was clear where the field of pyramids hit a wall, and ended. The installation felt empty, like it needed to be activated by a light show, or at the very least, a weed brownie, to hold my attention for the allotted twenty minutes.
This sort of pissed me off because I had begged my husband to watch our baby so that I could have the experience of visiting the installation. He had agreed because it “sounded cool.” It wasn’t that cool. To be honest, it was pretty lame. I knew that the installation was based on a series of drawings that Wheeler made in 1968. The Guggenheim acquired the concept for the installation in 1992 along with many other Minimal, Post-Minimal, and Conceptual artworks in the collection of Giuseppe Panza di Biumo, whoever that is. The work has never been realized before now. And it turns out for good reason.
I read about the artwork in the press release afterwards. Apparently, Wheeler wanted to replicate the sense of infinite space he has experienced in the deserts of Northern Arizona, where he was born. In the state, not the desert. Or maybe the desert, who knows. In any case, the installation was designed to not only create an optical illusion, but also to suppress all but the lowest level of ambient noise. And yet, I so clearly heard those leather pants. If they put a mirror in there, then at least people would stay still to take selfies.
From the photographs I looked at afterwards, the installation looked awesome. But I was not missing something. It is just photogenic. What does it say about Wheeler, or art in general? That if the gallery who represents you is powerful enough —David Zwirner represents Wheeler — you can find funding to have anything made.
Doug Wheeler in the Painted Desert, Arizona, ca. 1970.
I would like to visit Northern Arizona, however. I could perceive, more from the press release than the installation itself, the quiet of the desert. A cold morning, a deep breath, and then, the sunrise. Nature is almost impossible to replicate.
Shortly before taking his own life, a Queens man who had stabbed his wife to death in the early hours of New Year's Day had just one request — he wanted to be cremated, police sources said Tuesday.
In a bizarre phone call to his mother, Vinny Loknath, 46, called his mother and asked her not to bury him, but to burn his body, which was found hanging from a tree in Forest Park at about 11 a.m. Monday, sources said.
At the time, Loknath's mother didn't know that her son had just stabbed his wife, Stacy Singh, 26, after a New Year's Eve filled with cocaine and hard partying, police said.
The two had a 5-year-old son and a 1-year-old daughter together.
Singh was found stabbed repeatedly in the back and was left facedown in the couple's Richmond Hill home on 103rd Ave. near 113th St., according to the sources.
A knife was found near her abandoned corpse when police arrived around 2 p.m.
Loknath — who was found swinging from a tree three hours earlier about 1 1/2 miles from the murder scene — was immediately linked to the killing.
Singh is the city's first murder victim of 2018, police said.
Friends of the couple told police that Loknath and Singh were arguing with each other all night. The fighting was so loud at one point that the two were thrown out of the club where they were celebrating, family members said.
Cops arrested Loknath for attacking Singh last September and charged him with misdemeanor assault.
A judge granted an order of protection barring Loknath from being near Singh until October 2019, but the couple apparently reconciled, police sources said.
"(He) was very abusive to her," Romain Shaw, Singh's brother-in-law, told the Daily News on Monday. "She stayed with him no matter what because they had two kids together. She was hoping for him to change, but he never did."
The ACT Greens are pushing for women in Canberra to be able to order the abortion pill over the phone or through their GP to have at-home medical abortions.
It is a service available to women in most of the country, but in the ACT abortions can only be carried out at the territory's abortion clinic or the Canberra Hospital.
The party is expected to this week present legislation to enable access to the drug through telephone medical consultations or a local doctor.
Greens MLA Caroline Le Couteur said a "considerable number" of women do not want anyone to know when they have an abortion.
"There's clearly a demand from people in Canberra who need to access abortions and who want to do it in a way that's as discreet as possible, as safe as possible and with less interruption to their lives," she said.
"Not everybody wants to have a surgical abortion."
Canberra's Marie Stopes Abortion Clinic does prescribe the drugs mifepristone and misoprostol, known as RU486, but women have to take the first dose while at the centre.
The Greens legislation would prevent women from having to attend the clinic, but medical practitioners would still have to assess a patient to determine if medical abortion is a suitable option.
Doctors who conscientiously object would not have to prescribe RU486 however would still be required to perform an abortion in an emergency situation.
Ms Le Couteur believes the ACT legislation has not kept up to date and is hopeful the bill will win support in the Legislative Assembly.
The Tabbot Foundation markets its phone consultation service to Canberra women, offering to send the abortion pill just across the border to Queanbeyan.
"Although you live in Canberra — or indeed anywhere in the ACT — for only $250, you can have a medical abortion with 24-hour aftercare as a non-surgical alternative to having an operation at the only surgical clinic located in Canberra," it's website states.
"You can collect and take the medications in Queanbeyan."
The site said once initial contact is made, ultrasounds and blood tests are ordered at a location near the client before a medical consultation and possible psychological assessment.
It also offers support from a registered nurse through out the process and 24 hour access to an on-call doctor.
Marie Stopes medical director Dr Philip Goldstone said medical abortion was "incredibly safe", with very few women requiring surgical intervention.
"In many ways, it's no different to a miscarriage and women have miscarriages all over Australia every day," he said.
The company runs an over-the-phone service operating in all other states and territories, except South Australia, and says about 30 per cent of its abortions are carried out through RU486.
Dr Goldstone said women in the ACT currently already take the second pill, which induces the miscarriage, at home.
"So women are actually completing the abortion process in their homes at the moment," he said.
The SWFL Pizza Poll — who made the cut?
It's National Pizza Day! See how your pizza picks compared to food critic Jean Le Boeuf's.
It's the most wonderful day of the year. Today is National Pizza Day!
Last week I assembled a list of current favorite pizza joints to honor this momentous occasion. My (completely subjective) picks spanned North Fort Myers to Naples — a guide, of sorts, to some of the best pies our area has to offer.
This class implements a simple interval timer that generates a GTimerEvent with a specified frequency.
Creates a timer object that generates a GTimerEvent each time the specified number of milliseconds has elapsed.
No events are generated until the client calls start on the timer.
Due to implementation details, you must create at least one GWindow before you can start() a GTimer object.
Destroys the timer, stopping it if it's currently running.
Returns the delay in milliseconds between each tick of this timer.
Returns true if the given timer has been started (via start()). If you stop the timer or have not started it yet, this method will return false.
Stops the timer (if it was started) and then starts it again.
Changes the delay in milliseconds between each tick of this timer.
If the timer is currently running, calling this method will stop and restart the timer with the new delay.
A timer continues to generate timer events until it is stopped; to achieve the effect of a one-shot timer, the simplest approach is to call the stop method inside the event handler.
Stops the timer so that it stops generating events until it is restarted.
12th album from the Canadian power-pop band, Sloan. Solid album that includes 3 songs written by each of the four long-time members of the band. Music ranges from big, guitar-driven anthems to 1970s-style prog pop and even folk-pop-rock that’s reminiscent of the Byrds or Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (CSN&Y). There’s a lot to like here with a fit for a variety of shows featuring any type of rock. RIYL: Guided by Voices, Buffalo Tom, Teenage Fanclub, the Byrds, or other 90s or 70s rockers.
Recommended: 1, 6, 5, 3, 10, 7, 12, 4. No FCCs noted.
2. (2:52) All Of The Voices Another straight-ahead 90s-sounding guitar rocker.
8. (3:37 Year Zero — Up-tempo rocker with a nice blend of guitar riffs and a busy bass line.
9. (3:19) Have Faith — Harder rocker with shimmering reverb on the guitars.
11. (3:38) Wish Upon A Satellite — Deliberate, pulsing rocker with roaring guitars.
The Trump Organization faces further conflict with Scotland’s environment agency after its revised plans for a second golf course near Aberdeen were rejected as inadequate.
Solicitors for the US president’s golf resort in Aberdeenshire said the company had dropped plans to use a stream to irrigate the course and to supply a man-made lagoon after the Scottish Environment Protection Agency logged formal objections to its proposals in July.
The Trump Organization has also offered far more detailed proposals for public access paths across the course, linked to a neighbouring country park, in an effort to meet concerns raised by Aberdeenshire council officials.
Sepa, the statutory authority that polices pollution legislation, has welcomed the concessions but intensified its objections to the Trump Organization’s plans to continue using a temporary sewage drain near a cottage and the course’s small clubhouse.
It has also insisted Trump agrees to a detailed and comprehensive environmental management plan during construction of the new course – a proposal the company has again rejected.
There is a long history of conflict between the Trump Organization and conservationists over environmental protection on the site. Its coastal dunes, seen by Trump as central to the resort’s dramatic setting, had their legally binding status as a site of special scientific interest removed in order to allow him to build his resort.
Conservationists were furious after Trump’s resort unilaterally closed down last year an environmental advisory group that Trump’s advisers had suggested be set up when he needed to win initial planning approval. It had included Sepa and Scottish Natural Heritage, another government agency, among its members but very rarely met.
The application for the second course was filed two years ago, and a local council committee has postponed consideration of it twice this summer due to Sepa and SNH objections. Local hoteliers and tourism officials back the plan, but 93,000 people have signed a petition organised by the US-based online campaigners SumOfUs opposing the development.
In a new exchange of letters with Aberdeenshire, the agency has said it will continue to oppose the golf course application unless the company connects both courses, the clubhouse and staff housing to the public sewage system at its own expense.

— 4 p.m. Courtesy visit to Htin Kyaw, president of the republic, at the presidential palace.

— 4:30 p.m. Meeting with Aung San Suu Kyi, state counselor and foreign minister, the country’s de-facto leader.

— 5:15 p.m. Meeting with government authorities, members of civil society and the diplomatic corps in the city’s international convention center. Speech by pope.

— 6:20 p.m. Departure by plane for Yangon.

— 7:25 p.m. Arrival at Yangon airport, transfer to archbishop’s residence.

— 9:30 a.m. Mass at Kyaikkasan sports ground. Homily by pope.

— 4:15 p.m. Meeting with the Sangha supreme council of Buddhist monks at the Kaba Aye pagoda. Speech by pope.

— 5:15 p.m. Meeting with the bishops of Myanmar at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Speech by pope.

Stand-in skipper Stephen Kelly says the time has come for Rotherham United’s players to stop making excuses.

Kelly and his teammates have spent pre-season and the first month of their Championship campaign adapting to a more expansive style of play under new manager Alan Stubbs.

The full-back, who has been wearing the armband in the injury absence of Lee Frecklington, says the squad have now had enough time to take on board the boss’s ideas.

“It’s a new team, new players, but we are working hard together on the training ground and we should be seeing the rewards of that now.

“I don’t think we’re not comfortable with the new style of play. I think we’re doing the right things, but at times making the wrong decisions. I think it will come. But you can make excuses for only so long.

The Millers have won one and drawn one of their two league games at home, but have lost all three of their away matches and sit in the division’s bottom three.

Stubbs has brought in 12 new players since taking the hot-seat and is hoping to add free-agent strikers to his options in the near future now that the transfer window has closed.

Dexter Blackstock, who has just ended his association with Nottingham Forest, is a target, althought it it thought two other second-tier clubs have shown interest in the 30-year-old frontman.

Stubbs’ side are halfway through the two-week international break, having signed off with a 4-0 derby-day defeat at Barnsley. Their other August fixtures away from home brought 3-0 reverses at Aston Villa and Brighton.

“It’s not good enough, said Kelly, “As professional players, we want to improve this team and take the steps to move it forward.

Stubbs, who added Middlesbrough’s highly-rated teenage centre-half, Dael Fry, to his ranks on last Wednesday’s deadline day, is confident the Millers will starting climbing the table as his new signings gel.

Kelly says Rotherham have contributed to their own downfall on the road by losing their defensive discipline.

“At home, we had a great result when we beat Brentford, and in the draw against Wolves we played very well as well,” he said.

“But we need to have a mentality away from home that will allow us to come away with a result. We can’t, every time we go 1-0 or 2-0 down, go chasing the game and leave ourselves so exposed.

Two teams from Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have been named as finalists in the Nursing Times Awards, one of the most coveted accolades in the healthcare industry.

The stroke research team are one of ten teams across the country in the running for the Clinical Research Nursing category while the Trust’s Okay to Stay plan, which helps patients with long term health conditions avoid unnecessary hospital stays, is a finalist in the Nursing in the Community category.

The Nursing Times Awards recognise innovative and excellent care that nurses provide at all levels across the UK.

The stroke research team said they were “absolutely thrilled” to have been nominated for the Clinical Research Nursing award after significantly increasing the number of research trials patients being cared for at the Trust for a stroke can take part in.

The team attended consultant ward rounds and clinical meetings, ran training sessions and shared an office with the clinical stroke team to keep those on the stroke unit, speech and language therapists, nurse practitioners, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and other research nurses up to date with potential new trials and ongoing studies that their patients could take part in. As a result the team recruited 40% of the Yorkshire and Humber region’s stroke patients to trials being run at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals.

Rebekah Matthews, an Integrated Pathway Manager at the Trust, came up with the idea of the ‘Okay to Stay’ plan in July last year.

As well as including vital medical information, it paints a picture for any visiting health professional of how the patient manages at home - who supports them, and what medication they need if unwell. It also helps the patient to recognise an exacerbation of their condition.

The winners will be announced on Thursday November 2 at an awards ceremony at Grosvenor House, London.

I entered Doug Wheeler’s PSAD Synthetic Desert III, an installation in a small gallery at the top of the Guggenheim, and waited for something to happen. From the name, I assumed the experience would be psychedelic, like the acid trip I’ve never taken. The guide who introduced me and four other journalists to the work in the atrium just outside the gallery told us it was best enjoyed if we were seated, and even better, not moving. He was a humorless sort of fellow. He hovered near the exit. I took a yogic deep breath in. Behind me, the leather pants of another journalist squeaked as she shuffled around the space, damn what the guide said about not moving.

I waited. And waited, but not much more. I quickly suspected that there was nothing more to the room than what it presented in the moment we entered it. A narrow ramp that extended in the center, and served as a platform over a grid of white pyramids. The pyramids were lit grayish white. The walls of the gallery were grayish-white. The room smelled of fresh paint. The sea of pyramids resembled both a glacier at dusk, and what I imagined the ice sheet on the planet Gethen looked like inUrsula K L Guin’s science fiction novel The Left Hand of Darkness. Resembled, but did not replicate. The room was noticeably small. It was clear where the field of pyramids hit a wall, and ended. The installation felt empty, like it needed to be activated by a light show, or at the very least, a weed brownie, to hold my attention for the allotted twenty minutes.

This sort of pissed me off because I had begged my husband to watch our baby so that I could have the experience of visiting the installation. He had agreed because it “sounded cool.” It wasn’t that cool. To be honest, it was pretty lame. I knew that the installation was based on a series of drawings that Wheeler made in 1968. The Guggenheim acquired the concept for the installation in 1992 along with many other Minimal, Post-Minimal, and Conceptual artworks in the collection of Giuseppe Panza di Biumo, whoever that is. The work has never been realized before now. And it turns out for good reason.

I read about the artwork in the press release afterwards. Apparently, Wheeler wanted to replicate the sense of infinite space he has experienced in the deserts of Northern Arizona, where he was born. In the state, not the desert. Or maybe the desert, who knows. In any case, the installation was designed to not only create an optical illusion, but also to suppress all but the lowest level of ambient noise. And yet, I so clearly heard those leather pants. If they put a mirror in there, then at least people would stay still to take selfies.

From the photographs I looked at afterwards, the installation looked awesome. But I was not missing something. It is just photogenic. What does it say about Wheeler, or art in general? That if the gallery who represents you is powerful enough —David Zwirner represents Wheeler — you can find funding to have anything made.

Doug Wheeler in the Painted Desert, Arizona, ca. 1970.

I would like to visit Northern Arizona, however. I could perceive, more from the press release than the installation itself, the quiet of the desert. A cold morning, a deep breath, and then, the sunrise. Nature is almost impossible to replicate.

Shortly before taking his own life, a Queens man who had stabbed his wife to death in the early hours of New Year's Day had just one request — he wanted to be cremated, police sources said Tuesday.

In a bizarre phone call to his mother, Vinny Loknath, 46, called his mother and asked her not to bury him, but to burn his body, which was found hanging from a tree in Forest Park at about 11 a.m. Monday, sources said.

At the time, Loknath's mother didn't know that her son had just stabbed his wife, Stacy Singh, 26, after a New Year's Eve filled with cocaine and hard partying, police said.

The two had a 5-year-old son and a 1-year-old daughter together.

Singh was found stabbed repeatedly in the back and was left facedown in the couple's Richmond Hill home on 103rd Ave. near 113th St., according to the sources.

A knife was found near her abandoned corpse when police arrived around 2 p.m.

Loknath — who was found swinging from a tree three hours earlier about 1 1/2 miles from the murder scene — was immediately linked to the killing.

Singh is the city's first murder victim of 2018, police said.

Friends of the couple told police that Loknath and Singh were arguing with each other all night. The fighting was so loud at one point that the two were thrown out of the club where they were celebrating, family members said.

Cops arrested Loknath for attacking Singh last September and charged him with misdemeanor assault.

A judge granted an order of protection barring Loknath from being near Singh until October 2019, but the couple apparently reconciled, police sources said.

"(He) was very abusive to her," Romain Shaw, Singh's brother-in-law, told the Daily News on Monday. "She stayed with him no matter what because they had two kids together. She was hoping for him to change, but he never did."

The ACT Greens are pushing for women in Canberra to be able to order the abortion pill over the phone or through their GP to have at-home medical abortions.

It is a service available to women in most of the country, but in the ACT abortions can only be carried out at the territory's abortion clinic or the Canberra Hospital.

The party is expected to this week present legislation to enable access to the drug through telephone medical consultations or a local doctor.

Greens MLA Caroline Le Couteur said a "considerable number" of women do not want anyone to know when they have an abortion.

"There's clearly a demand from people in Canberra who need to access abortions and who want to do it in a way that's as discreet as possible, as safe as possible and with less interruption to their lives," she said.

"Not everybody wants to have a surgical abortion."

Canberra's Marie Stopes Abortion Clinic does prescribe the drugs mifepristone and misoprostol, known as RU486, but women have to take the first dose while at the centre.

The Greens legislation would prevent women from having to attend the clinic, but medical practitioners would still have to assess a patient to determine if medical abortion is a suitable option.

Doctors who conscientiously object would not have to prescribe RU486 however would still be required to perform an abortion in an emergency situation.

Ms Le Couteur believes the ACT legislation has not kept up to date and is hopeful the bill will win support in the Legislative Assembly.

The Tabbot Foundation markets its phone consultation service to Canberra women, offering to send the abortion pill just across the border to Queanbeyan.

"Although you live in Canberra — or indeed anywhere in the ACT — for only $250, you can have a medical abortion with 24-hour aftercare as a non-surgical alternative to having an operation at the only surgical clinic located in Canberra," it's website states.

"You can collect and take the medications in Queanbeyan."

The site said once initial contact is made, ultrasounds and blood tests are ordered at a location near the client before a medical consultation and possible psychological assessment.

It also offers support from a registered nurse through out the process and 24 hour access to an on-call doctor.

Marie Stopes medical director Dr Philip Goldstone said medical abortion was "incredibly safe", with very few women requiring surgical intervention.

"In many ways, it's no different to a miscarriage and women have miscarriages all over Australia every day," he said.

The company runs an over-the-phone service operating in all other states and territories, except South Australia, and says about 30 per cent of its abortions are carried out through RU486.

Dr Goldstone said women in the ACT currently already take the second pill, which induces the miscarriage, at home.

"So women are actually completing the abortion process in their homes at the moment," he said.

The SWFL Pizza Poll — who made the cut?

It's National Pizza Day! See how your pizza picks compared to food critic Jean Le Boeuf's.

It's the most wonderful day of the year. Today is National Pizza Day!

Last week I assembled a list of current favorite pizza joints to honor this momentous occasion. My (completely subjective) picks spanned North Fort Myers to Naples — a guide, of sorts, to some of the best pies our area has to offer.

This class implements a simple interval timer that generates a GTimerEvent with a specified frequency.

Creates a timer object that generates a GTimerEvent each time the specified number of milliseconds has elapsed.

No events are generated until the client calls start on the timer.

Due to implementation details, you must create at least one GWindow before you can start() a GTimer object.

Destroys the timer, stopping it if it's currently running.

Returns the delay in milliseconds between each tick of this timer.

Returns true if the given timer has been started (via start()). If you stop the timer or have not started it yet, this method will return false.

Stops the timer (if it was started) and then starts it again.

Changes the delay in milliseconds between each tick of this timer.

If the timer is currently running, calling this method will stop and restart the timer with the new delay.

A timer continues to generate timer events until it is stopped; to achieve the effect of a one-shot timer, the simplest approach is to call the stop method inside the event handler.

Stops the timer so that it stops generating events until it is restarted.

12th album from the Canadian power-pop band, Sloan. Solid album that includes 3 songs written by each of the four long-time members of the band. Music ranges from big, guitar-driven anthems to 1970s-style prog pop and even folk-pop-rock that’s reminiscent of the Byrds or Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (CSN&Y). There’s a lot to like here with a fit for a variety of shows featuring any type of rock. RIYL: Guided by Voices, Buffalo Tom, Teenage Fanclub, the Byrds, or other 90s or 70s rockers.

Recommended: 1, 6, 5, 3, 10, 7, 12, 4. No FCCs noted.

2. (2:52) All Of The Voices Another straight-ahead 90s-sounding guitar rocker.

8. (3:37 Year Zero — Up-tempo rocker with a nice blend of guitar riffs and a busy bass line.

9. (3:19) Have Faith — Harder rocker with shimmering reverb on the guitars.

11. (3:38) Wish Upon A Satellite — Deliberate, pulsing rocker with roaring guitars.

The Trump Organization faces further conflict with Scotland’s environment agency after its revised plans for a second golf course near Aberdeen were rejected as inadequate.

Solicitors for the US president’s golf resort in Aberdeenshire said the company had dropped plans to use a stream to irrigate the course and to supply a man-made lagoon after the Scottish Environment Protection Agency logged formal objections to its proposals in July.

The Trump Organization has also offered far more detailed proposals for public access paths across the course, linked to a neighbouring country park, in an effort to meet concerns raised by Aberdeenshire council officials.

Sepa, the statutory authority that polices pollution legislation, has welcomed the concessions but intensified its objections to the Trump Organization’s plans to continue using a temporary sewage drain near a cottage and the course’s small clubhouse.

It has also insisted Trump agrees to a detailed and comprehensive environmental management plan during construction of the new course – a proposal the company has again rejected.

There is a long history of conflict between the Trump Organization and conservationists over environmental protection on the site. Its coastal dunes, seen by Trump as central to the resort’s dramatic setting, had their legally binding status as a site of special scientific interest removed in order to allow him to build his resort.

Conservationists were furious after Trump’s resort unilaterally closed down last year an environmental advisory group that Trump’s advisers had suggested be set up when he needed to win initial planning approval. It had included Sepa and Scottish Natural Heritage, another government agency, among its members but very rarely met.

The application for the second course was filed two years ago, and a local council committee has postponed consideration of it twice this summer due to Sepa and SNH objections. Local hoteliers and tourism officials back the plan, but 93,000 people have signed a petition organised by the US-based online campaigners SumOfUs opposing the development.

In a new exchange of letters with Aberdeenshire, the agency has said it will continue to oppose the golf course application unless the company connects both courses, the clubhouse and staff housing to the public sewage system at its own expense.