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The Family Hogmanay Event will feature Capital FM, live music and a family fireworks display, while the later Stirling’s Hogmanay Event will finish with the thrilling fireworks display from Stirling Castle and the National Wallace Monument to usher in 2019.
Tickets for Stirling’s Hogmanay events are on sale from Friday, October 5, from Culture Stirling venues and their website here .
The Stirling Winter Festival campaign is also supported by a dedicated website - www.stirlingwinterfestival.com - where residents and visitors can stay up-to-date with all of Stirling’s Festive offering, including soon to be released details of Stirling’s Hogmanay.
Vixen Blac Chyna and Rob Kardashian‘s smoke for one another is far from over. New reports claim ChyRo are at each other’s necks once again over a nanny situation.
According to reports, Chyna believes Rob caught feelings against her because she allegedly went ghost when he tried to drop their daughter off this past weekend.
Despite not being around, Rob reportedly still had a chance to drop their daughter off with a local nanny.
We’re told Chyna insists at least one of her nannies was at her L.A. home, and Rob did NOT try reaching out like he claims he did. If Rob would’ve just texted or gone there and knocked on the door … he could’ve left the baby with Chyna’s employee — something she says he’s done before.
On a more serious note, Chyna and now-former boyfriend Kid Buu reportedly had a violent altercation during their Hawaii trip.
Recently, Chyna clashed against fellow vixen Alexis Skyy allegedly over her dating Rob.
PULAU INDAH, Selangor: Hundreds of sacks filled with plastic waste from the United States, Britain, South Korea and Spain spill onto the streets of an industrial zone in Pulau Indah, an island town just an hour's drive from Kuala Lumpur and home to Malaysia's biggest port.
The stench of burning plastic and fumes from nearly a dozen recycling factories wafts through the neighbourhood, even as more container-loads of plastic waste are unloaded.
Pulau Indah - ironically, the name means "beautiful island" in Malay - is one of many towns in Malaysia where illegal plastic recycling factories have popped up in recent months as the Southeast Asian nation became the top choice for plastic waste exporters from around the world.
The trigger for this dumping deluge was a Chinese ban on waste imports from the beginning of this year, which disrupted the flow of more than 7 million tonnes of plastic scrap a year.
Malaysia quickly became the leading alternative destination, importing nearly half a million tonnes of plastic waste between January and July from just its top 10 source-countries.
Dozens of factories have opened up in Malaysia to handle that waste, many without an operating licence, using low-end technology and environmentally harmful methods of disposal.
"The situation is getting worse, especially with more and more illegal plastic recycling factories," Yeo Bee Yin, Malaysia's minister of energy, technology, science, climate change and environment, told parliament last week.
Used plastic is recycled into pellets, which are then used to manufacture other plastic products, but the process comes with pollution risks. Plastic unsuitable for recycling is burnt, which releases toxic chemicals into the atmosphere. Or it ends up in landfill, potentially contaminating soil and water sources.
Yeo said she does not want Malaysia to be the "trash can" for developed nations, but Housing Minister Zuraida Kamaruddin, who oversees the waste management department, told Reuters that the government also does not want to miss out on a business that could be worth billions.
Both ministers are members of a government committee studying its options for dealing with the growing pile of plastic waste.
In the Pulau Indah industrial zone, Reuters reporters saw nearly a dozen recycling plants, many of them without signboards or company names, though government data shows only two factories in that area have a licence to import plastic waste.
One of the bigger ones, Jingye Manufacturing Sdn Bhd, was shut down in August for not having a licence, according to an official notice seen by Reuters.
But workers in the factory and others nearby say it reopened within weeks, and when Reuters reporters visited earlier this month, it was operating. Plastic waste was stacked up within the premises and all along the road.
The factory supervisor declined to comment.
Company records show Jingye was set up in Malaysia in October 2017, three months after China said it would ban imports of foreign waste from 2018. Reuters could not reach the owners of the factory and no contact details were listed in records.
One worker in the industrial zone, who did not want to be identified, said there were as many as eight illegal factories in the zone and many openly burned plastic that cannot be recycled.
"Every night they burn. I see black smoke at night, so I go over and ask him 'why are you trying to kill me?' They ignore me," he said.
In the nearby district of Kuala Langat, authorities found 41 factories operating illegally, many of them run by Chinese companies, according to Housing Minister Zuraida. Around 30 were shut down by authorities in the last three months after residents complained of open burning of plastic and health complications.
It is unclear how the illegal factories are sourcing plastic waste. Zuraida said some of the 95 companies that have a permit to import and recycle such waste are subcontracting to illegal factories as they lack the capacity to handle such volumes.
Malaysia's imports of plastic waste from its 10 biggest source-countries jumped to 456,000 tonnes between January and July, versus 316,600 tonnes purchased in all of 2017 and 168,500 tonnes in 2016.
The United States, the world's top exporter of plastic waste, sent 178,238 tonnes of such waste to Malaysia between January and July, nearly twice as much as it sent to second top destination, Thailand, according to the United Nations' trade database and the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries.
Britain, another big plastic waste exporter, sends a quarter of its waste to Malaysia, also more than any other country.
Environment Minister Yeo estimated that the plastic recycling industry would earn Malaysia RM3.5 billion (US$841.95 million) this year.
Zuraida said she planned to introduce new rules soon that will make it harder for factories to qualify for an import licence.
"I understand plastic recycling is quite lucrative. So I am also thinking should we miss this economic opportunity? This is something the committee will study," Zuraida told Reuters.
If such an option is pursued, Malaysia would do so on strict terms, require high-end, green technology and allow factories to operate only in heavy industrial areas, she said.
The factories are currently located haphazardly, including near or within residential areas. In Kuala Langat, southwest of Kuala Lumpur, a massive recycling factory nestled between palm plantations was shut down three months ago.
But 3m tall towers of plastic waste - mostly consumer packaging material from the United States, Britain, France, Netherlands, Germany and Australia - were still piled in the front yard. A large plot of land next to the factory has been turned into a dumping site for scrap.
REAL MADRID have given Arsenal the chance to end their transfer window blank by offering them Iker Casillas.
The 32-year-old goalkeeper was frozen out by Jose Mourinho last season with Diego Lopez being preferred as the Real No.1.
And, just like the Special One, new boss Carlo Ancelotti has opted to go with Lopez and bench Casillas.
Casillas is eager to keep his place in the Spain national squad ahead of next year's World Cup - and wants first-team football.
Real Madrid need to raise funds to help their Gareth Bale move go through and have offered Casillas to the Gunners.
Arsenal have spent nothing this transfer window but Arsene Wenger could be reluctant to bring in a new stopper.
Polish international Wojciech Szczesny, 23, is the current incumbent between the sticks and Wenger is anxious not to destroy his confidence.
Casillas would be available at a cut-price as he is out of contract next summer.
Recently, the Daily News published articles regarding the new, tougher drought restrictions. And a column about a new hotel downtown (“Los Angeles City Council approves trust fund for new downtown hotel,” March 17).
Then front-page articles featured home-grown tomatoes (“Tomato maniacs celebrate first day of spring with heirloom seedlings at Encino farm stand,” March 19) and a $1 billion drought relief plan. The neighbor next to me is building two mansions on one lot with swimming pools and landscaping.
Please explain something. Is there or is there not a drought?
Charging customers heavy fines for using “excessive” water will not produce one drop of usable water. Our water departments in Southern California are loving our drought as they increase water rates while delivering less and less water.
For example, the Las Virgenes Water District tells us what a gallon of water costs, but has no interest in supplying us with desalination water. Why? Because desalination water costs too much. How much? The LVWD cannot tell us, so how do they know it costs too much? They want to charge us more for less water. Once they...
If we have a real water shortage, why are our cities building huge apartment complexes that use enormous amounts of water? When we have a fire, shouldn’t we require the Fire Department to use sand to put out the fire instead of using our precious water? When a water main breaks or a hydrant is broken, the Department of...
We live next to the largest body of water in the world, but our state government doesn’t concern itself with building what we need: desalination plants.
Instead, our government is wants to build a bullet train that we don’t need or want, and costing some $68 billion, of which at least 10 percent will go into the pockets of politicians and their friends, and the real cost will exceed the original estimates by a significant amount that will come from taxpayers.
The Daily News continues to publish articles about saving water, replacing green lawns with brown rocks, etc. Eventually, all of Southern California will look like Phoenix, without a tree to be found anywhere.
The article was great except it didn’t complete the math. Based on 182 work days and a median income of $75,504, teachers make $414.86 per work day. If a full-time, private-sector employee worked 249 days per year at that rate his salary would be $103,300.
The other factor not mentioned is that public employees have very generous health and pension benefits. Many private-sector employees have less generous health plans and have to rely on their 401K for retirement. My opinion is teachers are amply compensated.
Like other stakeholders, the Rim of the Valley Coalition calls for the immediate release of the Rim of the Valley Corridor Special Resource Study by the National Park Service.
In its preliminary study, the Park Service found the corridor to harbor a wealth of nationally-significant natural and cultural resources. However, these resources face a variety of threats and we need the report now to ensure their protection for future generations.
We believe combining the corridor, including urban historic sites such as El Pueblo de Los Angeles, with the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area would allow it to benefit from the existing park’s hugely successful track record and enhance the region’s overall health and resiliency.
Preserving and interpreting our cultural history is also a key mission of the National Park Service, and we believe El Pueblo is a significant piece of our region’s culture deserving protection and national recognition.
The Sportsmen’s Lodge represents everything the San Fernando Valley is no longer: rural, redneck kitsch that is outdated and outmoded. It is an insult and disgrace to the Valley. Nothing wrong with it a bulldozer won’t cure. Good riddance.
Let it all go and build a modern meeting, event and hotel venue that we do not have to apologize for.
The Utah State Board of Education voted 9-6 to drop the state requirement that students in grades seven and eight take health, physical education, arts, digital literacy and college-and-career readiness courses.
In Utah's quest to provide an elevated education, it must not neglect the arts.
Numerous studies link rigorous adolescent engagement with music, theater or other art forms with improved reading comprehension, mathematical achievement and critical thinking skills. The College Board, the organization responsible for the standardized SAT college entrance exam, released data showing that in 2015 those...
The Utah State School Board, however, voted in August to remove arts courses, among other classes, from the required list of middle school classes that districts must offer. While we support increased flexibility for students to choose courses that better fit their needs and skills, we have previously remarked that the...
Tenacious public comments following the original 9-6 vote led to a motion in October to delay implementation of the new policy while the board contemplates its next move.
The interlude now gives Utahns a chance to reflect on the merits of these courses and what role they should play in educating the state’s adolescents.
The arts run deep in the Beehive State, which consistently produces top-tier musicians, artists and theater and dance companies. To potentially limit a students’ exposure to these opportunities will likely stunt the state's success. Those especially vulnerable to the change are students from lower-income households who...
High costs and the perception that the arts are nonessential make them an easy target for the chopping block. Resources are scarce, and given the choice between funding a marching band or, say, improving mathematics courses, the decision often becomes easy arithmetic.
With the important push to advance STEM education in order to compete with the world’s top tech countries — the state and Utah's business community have launched STEM initiatives in recent years — music and arts are sometimes unwittingly relegated to playing second fiddle. Yet to thrive in the 21st century economy, the...
While introducing the latest Apple iPad prior to his death, Steve Jobs remarked that “technology alone is not enough — it’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.” That marriage of science and art is what helped Jobs partner with Universit...
Utah’s Silicon Slopes can benefit from a symbiotic relationship between the artistically minded and the scientifically gifted. As more tech companies settle along the Wasatch Front, we hope that Utah students are primed to be their top candidates by integrating science with creative designs and inventive problem-solvin...
We recognize Utah schools for incorporating more computer science and web development courses into the required curriculum to meet the demands of an increasingly technological world. But it would be a step backward for school boards to encumber the opportunity for Utah students to stretch their minds and sharpen their ...
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RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam, is to monitor interpretations of the Prophet Mohammad’s teachings to prevent them being used to justify violence or terrorism, the Culture and Information Ministry has said.
In a decree, King Salman ordered the establishment of an authority to scrutinise uses of the “hadith” - accounts of the sayings, actions or habits of the Prophet that are used by preachers and jurists to support teachings and edicts on all aspects of life.
The ministry said late on Tuesday that the body’s aim would be to “eliminate fake and extremist texts and any texts that contradict the teachings of Islam and justify the committing of crimes, murders and terrorist acts”.
The body will be based in Medina and overseen by a council of senior Islamic scholars from around the world, according to the decree. The ministry offered no specific details of how it would work in practice.
Islamist groups such as Islamic State and al Qaeda have used interpretations of hadiths - numbered in the thousands and pored over by scholars for centuries - to justify violence and to urge supporters to carry out attacks.
Saudi Arabia’s approach to religious doctrine is important because of its symbolic position as the birthplace of Islam, while its oil exports allow it to fund mosques abroad.
Its ultra-conservative Wahhabi clergy have been close to the Al Saud dynasty since the mid-18th century, offering it Islamic legitimacy in return for control over mosques and universities.
The traditional Wahhabi doctrine favours a strict version of Islamic law and a return to early Muslim practices, and views Shi’ites as heretics.
But senior clergy have denounced militant Islamist doctrines such as those of al Qaeda or Islamic State, while the government, which vets clerics in Saudi Arabia’s 70,000 mosques, has sacked many for encouraging violence or sedition.
Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said last month that thousands of extremist clerics had been dismissed, although he gave no timeframe.
The government has begun to promote an alternative narrative of Saudi identity that keeps Wahhabism as a central focus, but still allows secular themes such as nationalism and cultural heritage that predates Islam to shine through.
The ministry said the body would serve Islam by creating “a solid scientific reference to vet and verify the authenticity of hadiths”, which are second in importance only to the Koran in Islam. It did not say what form the reference would take.
The decree issued by the king, whose official title is Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques - Islam’s most revered places in Mecca and Medina - said the body would be chaired by Sheikh Mohammed bin Hassan al-Sheikh, a member of the Council of Senior Scholars, which serves as Saudi Arabia’s highest religious body.
After only two seasons, Stranger Things has become one of Netflix's most popular shows, and it's no surprise that elements from the series have become popular with real-life viewers. While there probably aren't too many people who embraced the Stranger Things craze by growing Steve Harrington-esque mullets or going mon...
In the four weeks of 2018 ending on May 19, the sale of Kellogg's frozen waffles, French toast, and pancakes grew by only 1.3% from the same period in 2017. While growth is always good for any company, the 1.3% is a major decline from the average growth of 9.4% in the first quarter of 2018 and the 14% of the last quart...
Stranger Things Season 2 debuted back on October 27, 2017, which gave consumers plenty of time in the fourth quarter of the year to add Eggos to their diets after watching Eleven chow down on waffles at every opportunity. She'll eat them toasted, frozen, and drenched in syrup; fans may be less inclined to eat them stra...
Kellogg credits Stranger Things with restoring a sense of "cultural relevance" to a brand that has been around for six and a half decades. The company's chief executive Steven Cahillane has explained that Kellogg's "leveraged the resulting consumer engagement" after Stranger Things brought so much attention to the froz...
Basically, sales began to grow following the debut of Stranger Things in 2016 and surged around the release of the second season, but the long hiatus between Seasons 2 and 3 isn't helping Eggo sales, and hiatus isn't ending any time soon. Season 3 is currently filming, which means it almost certainly won't hit Netflix ...
Stay tuned to CinemaBlend for the latest in Stranger Things news. For some viewing options to pass the time during the wait for Season 3, check out our summer TV premiere guide and our 2018 Netflix premiere schedule. You can always rewatch the first two seasons of Stranger Things, and some explanations of what happened...
The first article analyzed public attitudes about the role of Sharia as a source of legislation, concluding that although perceptions vary greatly across the three countries, most Iranians and Egyptians (and even many Turks) believe Sharia should be a source of legislation.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Gallup asked respondents who had an opinion about the role of Sharia as a source of legislation (those for whom Sharia should be the only source, one of the sources, or not a source) whether they associate certain attributes with Sharia compliance. Ninety percent of Iranians, 91% of Egyptians, and 7...
Overall, the poll results show that among those who think Sharia should be at least a source of legislation (either as the only source or as one of the sources), Egyptians are far more likely than Iranians and Turks to make positive associations with Sharia compliance.
Although Sharia often connotes the image of a restrictive society, where residents are forced to comply with rules and obligations they would otherwise eschew, the Gallup Poll findings show that majorities of those who favor Sharia as a source of law associate it with many positive attributes. Ninety-seven percent of E...
Most Egyptians (64%) polled say Sharia must be the only source of legislation, but few Turks (7%) say the same, which is why it is perhaps not surprising that the greatest differences of opinion are between these two populations. Among Egyptians and Turks who favor Sharia to be at least a source, differences range from...

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