Donald Trump wins right to use family crest from Scottish heralds to advertise golf course

By Daily Mail Reporter

Last updated at 10:14 PM on 17th January 2012

Riding the crest: Donald Trump, pictured with wife Melania, has won the right to use a family coat of arms to advertise his Scottish golf resort

American billionaire Donald Trump has won a battle to have his very own Scottish coat of arms - four years after falling foul of ancient heraldic laws.

The new insignia will be used to promote the ?750million championship golf links he has built at the Menie Estate in Aberdeenshire.

The businessman is well known for publicising his links to Scotland, often referring to his Lewis-born mother.

But Mr Trump's love of all things Scottish landed him in trouble in 2008 when the court of the Lord Lyon invoked a law dating back to 1672 - to warn him about using an unregistered logo.

It is a criminal offence under the ancient Scottish law to use an unauthorised crest.

But Mr Trump's official emblem has now been recognised - much to the delight of the vice-president of Trump International Sarah Malone, who said a lot of work had gone into designing the coat of arms.

She said today: 'The coat of arms brings together visual elements that signify different aspects of the Trump family heritage and the importance of this project.

'The Lion Rampant makes reference to Scotland and the stars to America. Three chevronels are used to denote sky, sand dunes and sea - the essential components of the site.

This is the coat of arms that up till now has been used on clothing and promotional material by Trump in Scotland. His new coat of arms will show a double-sided eagle representing the dual nationality of Trump's heritage. There will also be three chevronels - one more than depicted here - which will represent sky, sand dunes and sea

And this is MailOnline's crest in jest: This alternative coat of arms has golden girls and a gaudy skyscraper, a 'chevronel' of combs for his famous hair, and a fist clutching Barack Obama's birth certificate. The (roughly translated) Latin motto says 'You're Fired'

Mr Trump in full swing on the 13th tee of his golf course in Balmedie, Aberdeenshire. His cap and jacket appear to show the current crest which is set to be replaced

'The double-sided eagle represents the dual nature and nationality of Trump's heritage.

'The eagle clutches golf balls, making reference to the great name of golf, and the motto "Numquam Concedere" is Latin for "Never Give Up" - Trump's philosophy.'

Mr Trump's championship course is now complete and 3,000 people have already signed up to play - but it's not all the way out of the woods when it comes to controversy.

The clubhouse for Mr Trump's Aberdeenshire resort - despite only being in the planning stages - has already been voted Scotland's worst building in the comically titled Zit Awards.

MailOnline decided to have a stab at creating its own crest for Mr Trump, with the various visual elements signifying different aspects of his colourful life.

Central to the shield is a gaudy skycraper, denoting (literally) his business empire and (metaphorically) his virility.

Either side of Trump Tower stands a stylised 'golden' woman. These are a dual reference to his involvement in the Miss Universe and Miss USA competitions - as well as his ex-wives Ivana Trump and Marla Maples, who were rumoured to be awarded $25million and $2million from their respective divorces.

A 'chevronel' made from two hair combs are used to denote The Donald's famous 'comb-over' hairstyle, while the bottom of the crest refers to his dogged persistence last year in trying to force President Barack Obama to make public his birth certificate.

Like its position on the shield, Mr Trump's critics say his leadership of the 'birther' movement was the lowest point of his political career.?

The motto is a loose Latin translation of 'You're fired' - his favourite phrase from The Apprentice.

Not a favourite: An artist's impression of the new clubhouse planned for Donald Trump's ?750million golf resort in Aberdeenshire. Before a stone has been laid, the building has been voted the worst in Scotland

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Afghanistan: Avalanches Kill Dozens In Badakhshan Province

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan ? A suicide attacker blew himself up Thursday at an entrance to a sprawling base for U.S. and NATO operations in southern Afghanistan, killing at least six civilians, police said.

It was the second suicide bombing in as many days in southern Afghanistan, which is the birthplace of the Taliban insurgency.

"He arrived on foot and tried to get near the gate of Kandahar Air Field and then he blew himself up," said Abdul Razaq, police chief in Kandahar province.

The incident was confirmed by Gen. Mohammad Hameed, head of the Afghan National Army in the province, who said other civilians were wounded in the blast.

On Wednesday, dozens of civilians, coalition troops and Afghan security forces were killed and wounded when a suicide attacker blew himself up in a bazaar in neighboring Helmand province. Daud Ahmadi, a provincial spokesman, said a bomber on a motorcycle killed at least 12 Afghans, including two policeman, and wounded at least 23 other people in Kajaki district.

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U.S. to try again to hammer out space code

By Irene Klotz

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida | Tue Jan 17, 2012 7:38pm EST

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - The United States will join with Europe and other nations to hammer out a code of conduct for space activities, including how to deal with the growing problem of debris circling Earth, the Obama administration said on Tuesday.

"Unless the international community addresses these challenges, the environment around our planet will become increasingly hazardous to human spaceflight and satellite systems, which would create damaging consequences for all of us," Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a statement.

The announcement follows reports last week the United States would not sign a European Union draft of an "International Code of Conduct for Outer Space Activities" because it impinged on the military's use of space.

"It's been clear from the very beginning that we're not going along with the code of conduct," Ellen Tauscher, undersecretary of state for arms control and international security, told reporters at a breakfast meeting on Thursday in Washington, D.C., the industry trade journal Space News reported.

Asked why the U.S. government would not sign the document, Tauscher said, "It's too restrictive," the paper reported.

Clinton said the United States would not enter into an agreement that "in any way constrains our national security-related activities in space or our ability to protect the United States and our allies."

"We are, however, committed to working together to reverse the troubling trends that are damaging our space environment and to preserve the limitless benefits and promise of space for future generations," Clinton added.

Among the most pressing and universal problems in space is orbital debris, an issue that gained considerable attention after China launched a missile to intentionally destroy one of its defunct weather satellites in 2007 as a test.

The breakup added hundreds of pieces of potentially hazardous debris around Earth. Currently there are more than 10,000 pieces of junk orbiting Earth, including spent rocket bodies, discarded satellites and thousands of spacecraft fragments.

Whizzing around the planet at thousands of miles per hour, even small pieces of debris pose a threat to working spacecraft, as well as the International Space Station, a $100 billion research laboratory that flies about 240 miles above Earth.

(Editing by Kevin Gray)

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The Louisville Party: Happy 70th Birthday Muhammad Ali (Time.com)

Muhammad Ali walked slowly to a mezzanine railing, one floor above a crowd of well-wishers in the lobby of the center in Louisville, Kentucky that bears his name, and waved. A crowd in the lobby below, which had been buzzing moments earlier while waiting to be whisked to the sixth floor for a private party, fell silent for an instant, then clapped and broke into the familiar chant of "Ali, Ali."

Even as he approaches his 70th birthday, the man they call The Greatest, still the most recognizable face on the planet, commands a room. "This isn't a tribute, it's a birthday party," John Ramsey, a Louisville media personality and longtime Ali friend, told the crowd, which then broke into a rendition of "Happy Birthday." (PHOTOS: Remembering Muhammad Ali's Rumble in the Jungle)

That delighted Ali, who was wearing a dark suit, white shirt and red-and-blue tie and flanked by his wife Lonnie and her sister, Marilyn Williams. Ali, who was hospitalized recently (the family said it was dehydration), moves slowly these days. His hands shake and he often needs someone to lean on when he walks, though he walked to the railing on his own. But though the Parkinson's disease he has battled for many years makes it difficult for him to speak, his charisma and mischievous sense of humor come through in his body language. Even now, people are drawn to him.

Ali turns 70 on Tuesday. The celebrity-laden party at the Muhammad Ali Center, which doubled as a $1,000-per-plate fundraiser for the non-profit center, is one of five planned parties across the country over the next couple of months.

"I don't know if [his career] resonates with young people now," ESPN commentator Michael Wilbon told TIME. "I don't know if they know about the the controversy, how reviled he was. Who in the culture now starts out that reviled and becomes that beloved? You don't see it."

Ali's brother Rahaman Ali, 68, recalls his brother as a "jolly, gay, beautiful, kind and sweet person" who never beat up on him and in fact protected him from other kids. "We could see the greatness in him when he was 12," Rahaman Ali told TIME. (LIST: Top 10 'Evil' Sports)

"He's the greatest fighter who ever lived," said former heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis, who told TIME he used to sit with his mother in front of the TV and watch Ali fight. "I always got mad if I didn't see the Ali shuffle," he said. Lewis, who emulated the shuffle, said he's visited the Ali Center several times. "It always inspires me."

"This man has committed himself in a way most people don't fully realize," NBC's Ann Curry told TIME as she waited for the party to begin. "I think it's hard to quantify humanitarian impact. You win a title, and they give you a fancy belt and your name up in lights. When you make children less hungry; when you ease suffering; when you make people less afraid; when you increase equality in the world, there's not as much fanfare or attention, but the impact actually is deeper and long-lasting. So I'm here to say that and stand up for him on his 70th birthday."

Wilbon grew up on the South Side of Chicago during a time Ali lived part time in Chicago; he recalls seeing the champ shooting dice and hanging out with kids in the neighborhood. Though he was too young to be personally inspired by Ali's example, he said in hindsight it's a profound lesson and more remarkable because that sort of courage is lacking in contemporary society. "He chose to do difficult things," Wilbon said. "People don't want to do that anymore. I thank him for it, and that's something he did underscore for me."

Neil Leifer, who took the iconic photograph of Ali standing over Sonny Liston, said, "I was a kid when I first photographed Ali. The same goes for Howard Cosell ? he wasn't much older than me. Ali made him famous. He made a hero out of everybody. But that's the thing about Muhammad that was so special; you didn't have to be Howard Cosell or me working for Sports Illustrated. He treated the kid who came from a high school newspaper the same as he would treat Life mag or Sport Illustrated."

David Jones can attest to that. Living in Kansas City in 1974, Jones had a chance encounter with Ali at a fundraiser. Boxing was, of course, the subject of discussion. Jones' father, to punish him for breaking a window, made him start boxing, and in 1968, Jones became a Golden Gloves champion at 139 pounds. It was during their conversation that Ali learned that Jones worked for TWA. "He said, 'You come and watch me fight George Foreman,'" Jones told TIME. Jones used his airlines connections to make it to Zaire and has been an Ali acolyte since, attending a dozen matches (along with fights by Ali's daughter, Laila) and taking thousands of photographs. (PHOTOS: Joe Frazier, Ali's Most Famous Opponent)

"Muhammad Ali is many things to many people," says Jones, who traveled from Dallas for the birthday party. "He proved that if you can dream it, you can do it. If you struggle in life, there's an inner spirit that will take you to the next level."

And Ali had fun along the way, says John Calipari, the University of Kentucky men's basketball coach. "The reason I loved him is because of his confidence," he told TIME. "He would talk, and he would back it up. He had great courage to go against the grain. And look how much fun he had." Calipari added: "He understood that he had a brand before anybody understood or heard about brands. He was ahead of the curve."

The party drew numerous celebrities, including Curry and Matt Lauer of NBC's "Today Show." Rocker John Mellencamp, with new girlfriend Meg Ryan in tow, was scheduled to provide entertainment. Angelo Dundee, Ali's longtime trainer, attended the party, as did Ali biographer and photographer Howard Bingham. Three attendees were particularly grateful to be there: Josh Fattal, Shane Bauer and Sara Shourd, the American hikers who were detained in Iran. Ali, as a prominent American Muslim, went to bat to win their release.

On Friday, Lonnie Ali told reporters that her husband is "glad he's here to turn 70, but he wants to be reassured he doesn't look 70." And she said he loves the attention. "Muhammad likes celebrations that involve him and are centered around him. He's still a big kid in that area. He loves birthdays."

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Oil-rich Kazakhstan votes in parliamentary polls (AP)

ASTANA, Kazakhstan ? Voters headed to polling stations in large numbers Sunday in the oil-rich Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan in elections that look to have slightly broadened democratic representation in parliament's rubber-stamp lower house.

The high turnout, which reached 75 percent, is perhaps more an outcome of habit than hope, however, since the legislature will likely only undergo cosmetic changes.

An exit poll by Kazakh think tank Institute of Democracy published late Sunday showed three parties possibly entering parliament. According to data compiled from a survey of around 50,000 voters across the whole country, President Nursultan Nazarbayev's Nur Otan party easily pushed aside its competition with 81 percent of the vote.

All the seats up for grabs in the 2007 election in the former Soviet nation's parliament were won by Nur Otan. A 2009 election law ensured at least two parties would enter the 107-member chamber, by automatically granting seats to the party with the second-highest number of votes even if it did not receive the 7 percent share that is the threshold for proportional allotment of seats.

Nine deputies will be nominated Monday by a presidential advisory body that represents the country's many ethnic communities.

Opposition parties that were most likely to pose a robust challenge to Nur Otan have been either disqualified from competing or rendered largely powerless.

Institute of Democracy said its survey showed the pro-business Ak Zhol party, which avoids confrontation with the government, and the People's Communist Party of Kazakhstan claiming 7.3 percent. Two other exit polls pointed to a similar outcome.

Another, more combative, Communist party with a higher public profile was suspended for six months in October after a court found that it had violated law on public organizations, thereby ruling out its participation in the elections.

Prosperity and stability in Kazakhstan ? mainly driven by its vast reserves of oil, gas and minerals ? account for much of the support for Nur Otan and the president.

Kazakhstan is eager to boost its international image and hopes that a transition to a multiparty parliament will serve to improve its democratic credentials.

"This is a great test for us, we have more than 1,000 observers here from around the world. I am sure that the people of Kazakhstan will make the right choice for their future, for our development, and a peaceful life in our common home," Nazarbayev said after casting his ballot.

The elections are taking place in the shadow of an unusual outburst of discontent and violence.

In December, a long-term protest in the town of Zhanaozen by oil workers who had been fired after striking for better pay degenerated into clashes with police who opened fire. At least 16 people were killed, and the bloodshed set off a riot in another town where police killed one person.

Authorities said voting proceeded without incident in the town.

The recurring theme in the run-up to the elections, as in the polls that saw Nazarbayev reconfirmed president last year with a startling 95 percent of the vote, has been stability above all else.

Any potential for unrest in Kazakhstan is of concern to the West.

Kazakhstan is becoming increasingly important as a supplier of oil and gas, and the country is key to the northern delivery route for supplies to the U.S.-led military operation in Afghanistan.

More than 9 million people are eligible to vote in Sunday's elections and turnout is expected to be high. Although popular political engagement is low, mass participation in elections is a feature that has been carried over from Soviet times.

University students are regularly pressured into voting by teaching staff and government workers also face similar coercion. Gifts, such as household electrical goods, are typically handed out to first-time voters and war veterans as an additional inducement.

Election officials said no violations had been reported by early afternoon, but local independent observers from the Young Professionals Association noted a series of infringements at numerous polling stations across the country.

International observers from the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe are due to give their assessment Monday. The organization has never given an election in Kazakhstan a completely clean bill of health.

Vote monitors noted numerous cases of ballot box-stuffing, voter intimidation and a lack of transparency in the 2011 presidential election.

The All-National Social-Democratic Party, or OSDP, the only genuinely robust opposition force among the seven parties in the running, also reported observing bussing of voters to several precincts in Astana and the business capital, Almaty.

OSDP had two of its most high-visibility candidates ? leader Bulat Abilov and colorful media commentator Guljan Yergaliyeva ? disqualified from running over alleged irregularities in their financial declarations. The party plans to hold protest meetings in several cities Tuesday, although such gatherings rarely attract large numbers.

Results will trickle in overnight and a statement detailing preliminary results is expected from election officials Monday morning.

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NCSE Picks Fight Against Climate Science Deniers

The National Center for Science Education is a wonderful institution dedicated to fighting junk science from entering our Nation?s schools and media. This is a tireless and often thankless job, yet there are so few ?think tank? type organizations to promote science standards out there that they really stand out. I had the fortune 2 years ago to visit their offices and was impressed by how passionate the staff were and what they could accomplish out of a tiny office and a garage to store their immense archives.

NCSE is best know for fighting creationism in schools and provided crucial assistance during the landmark Dover Trial and battles over intelligent design legislation throughout several states. Now, they are turning their attention to climate change denial ? a wholly other beast! See this brief video below.

The fight over evolution and intelligent design/creationism was essentially a legal one hinging on a loose definition of religion entering public school classrooms. Naturally, there is much more to it than that, but i want to make a point that the climate change denial fight is not necessarily a legal battle much like the the religious infiltration of ID was. This makes it a much more difficult fight! It is mostly an education campaign, not a legal campaign. Curiously, though, the tactics of climate change deniers are all too familiar! They have borrowed and mirrored many of the strategies (and in fact, people) from ID proponents.

I?ve long been a supporter of NCSE when I could afford membership. I think it?s time to make that small financial sacrifice once again to support their noble efforts at improving the standards of science education in America. If you think this is about single issues, like teaching evolution or climate change in grade school, then you are dead wrong. This is about the deceitful infiltration of an anti-science politico-cultural agenda into the most vulnerable sector of society, our nations publicly-funded schools. The country can regain its prominence as a science beacon in the world once again, but it takes organisations like NCSE to help and ordinary citizens like you and I to care.

UPDATE: Steve Mirksy has a podcast interview with Eugenie Scott about this new initiative from NCSE right here on Scientific American! Some really great points made by Eugenie by about parallels between evolution and climate change denialism.

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Asian shares steady as China data eyed (Reuters)

TOKYO (Reuters) ? Asian shares inched higher and the euro stayed above a 17-month trough on Tuesday as investors focused on economic data from China to gauge the impact of the euro zone debt crisis on global growth.

MSCI's broadest index of Asia Pacific shares outside Japan (.MIAPJ0000PUS) was up 0.3 percent, after hitting its lowest in about a week on Monday, while Japan's Nikkei average (.N225) opened up 0.5 percent, off a four-week low hit the day before.

European shares and the euro recovered on Monday, shrugging off the latest move by Standard & Poor's to cut a top-notch credit rating on the euro zone's bailout fund, following mass downgrades late last week which stripped France and Austria of their prime AAA ratings. U.S. markets were closed for a holiday on Monday.

The euro stood at $1.2663, hovering above a low of $1.2624 hit on Friday, its lowest since late August 2010, according to trading platform EBS. It also held steady against the yen at 97.29 yen, having hit an 11-year low near 97 yen on Monday.

Sentiment was subdued in Asian credit markets early on Tuesday, keeping spreads barely changed on the iTraxx Asia ex-Japan investment grade index.

For now, investors were turning to economic data, although sentiment remained pressured by persistent concerns about Europe's ability to resolve its two-year-old debt crisis, with Greece struggling to break a deadlock on its debt-swap talks, keeping intact fears of a default.

"As EUR/USD tumbles toward a key long-term support level, it is interesting to note that the positive correlation between EUR/USD and equities is starting to erode," RBC Capital Markets said in a report, referring to a recovery in S&P 500 index futures from mid-December as the euro eased against the dollar.

"The key take-away here is that the 'risk on/risk off' dynamic may be starting to have less of an influence on markets, with pure 'fundamentals' becoming more relevant as the Eurozone crisis is now infecting core markets," it said.

CHINESE GDP DATA DUE

The main focus on Tuesday is Chinese GDP data, forecast for a fourth successive quarterly slowdown in growth to around 8.7 percent from 9.1 percent previously.

December industrial production and retail sales are also due. Chinese data will provide clues to policy options including monetary easing to support growth in the world's second-largest economy, which could help underpin sentiment.

For Europe, market attention will likely switch to the latest ZEW survey due later on Tuesday on the health of the giant German economy.

In the first test of investor appetite for French debt since the S&P rating downgrade, yields on French treasury bills eased marginally on Monday.

Euro zone faces further tests later in the week when France and Spain offer longer-dated debts.

Reflecting the fragility in investor confidence, the European Central Bank more than tripled its bond purchases in the week to January 13 to calm market fears, while commercial banks parked a record amount of overnight deposits at the ECB, defying the central bank's aim to spur lending via its massive cash injection into the system.

The cost of insuring Italian, Spanish and other euro zone government debt against default rose on the S&P ratings cuts, while a flight to safety pushed shorter-dated UK government bond yields down on Monday.

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