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Mayan calendar find cancels doomsday

Conservator Angelyn Bass cleans and stabilises the surface of the wall in a Maya houe that dates back to teh 9th century AD.<br />
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Conservator Angelyn Bass cleans and stabilises the surface of the wall in a Maya houe that dates back to teh 9th century AD.
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Archaeologists have found a small room in Mayan ruins where royal scribes apparently used walls like a blackboard to keep track of astronomical records and the society’s intricate calendar some 1200 years ago.

The walls reveal the oldest known astronomical tables from the Maya. Scientists already knew they must have been keeping such records at that time, but until now the oldest known examples dated from about 600 years later.

Astronomical records were key to the Mayan calendar, which has gotten some attention recently because of doomsday warnings that it predicts the end of the world this December. Experts say it makes no such prediction. The new finding provides a bit of backup: The calculations include a time span longer than 6000 years that could extend well beyond 2012.

“Why would they go into those numbers if the world is going to come to an end this year?” observed Anthony Aveni of Colgate University in New York, an expert on Mayan astronomy. “You could say a number that big at least suggests that time marches on.”

Aveni, along with William Saturno of Boston University and others, report the discovery in Friday’s issue of the journal Science.

The room is part of a large complex of Mayan ruins in the rain forest at Xultun in northeastern Guatemala. The walls also contain portraits of a seated king and some other figures, but it’s clear those have no connection to the astronomical writings, the scientists said.

One wall contains a calendar based on phases of the moon, covering about 13 years. The researchers said they think it might have been used to keep track of which deity was overseeing the moon at particular times.

Aveni said it would allow scribes to predict the appearance of a full moon years in advance, for example. Such record-keeping was key to Mayan astrology and rituals, and maybe would be used to advise the king on when to go to war or how good this year’s crops would be, he said.

“What you have here is astronomy driven by religion,” he said.

On an adjacent wall are numbers indicating four time spans from roughly 935 to 6700 years. It’s not clear what they represent, but maybe the scribes were doing calculations that combined observations from important astronomical events like the movements of Mars, Venus and the moon, the researchers said.

Why bother to do that? Maybe the scribes were “geeks … who just got carried away with doing these kinds of computations and calculations, and probably did them far beyond the needs of ordinary society,” Aveni suggested.

Experts unconnected with the discovery said it was a significant advance.

“It’s really a wonderful surprise,” said Simon Martin, co-curator of an exhibit about the Mayan calendar at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

While the results of the scribes’ work were known from carvings on monuments, “we’ve never really been able to identify a working space, or how they actually went about things,” Martin said.

The new work gives insight into that, he said, and the fact the room had a stone roof rather than thatching supports previous indications that the scribes enjoyed a high social standing.

“It’s a very important discovery. We’re only getting a glimpse of it” in the published paper, said John B Carlson, director of the Center for Archaeoastronomy in the US.

“This is an intriguing start for this discovery.”

- AP

Do you support gay marriage?

John Key said at the Big Gay Out festival that civil unions were enough. Photo / Jason Dorday<br />
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John Key said at the Big Gay Out festival that civil unions were enough. Photo / Jason Dorday

Prime Minister John Key has followed US President Barack Obama and said he is not opposed to gay marriage – an apparent change in his stance.

He has previously refused to give a personal view on same-sex marriage.

Should same-sex couples be allowed to marry in New Zealand? Here is the latest selection of Your Views:

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Made in China away from the international top end “luxury” how far

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Dotcom’s wife wants gifts back

Mona Dotcom says many of her personal belongings were taken by police. Photo / Richard Robinson<br />

Mona Dotcom says many of her personal belongings were taken by police. Photo / Richard Robinson

Kim Dotcom’s wife Mona has applied to the courts for the return of her belongings seized when her husband was arrested on copyright charges, including a $202,000 Mercedes and a face sculpture valued at $100,000.

The court has already allowed Kim Dotcom to take an allowance for living expenses and one of the vehicles from the seized assets.

Now Mrs Dotcom wants her possessions returned.

“Many of my personal belongings were taken by the police, including artwork, jewellery and watches, a laptop computer and mobile phone, and my car,” she said in papers filed with the court.

She said the couple had met in November 2007 and married on July 2009 – the day after her 21st birthday.

She told the court she wanted a 21st birthday present of small and large matching Christian Colin fibre-glass sculptures of a face to be returned. The smaller sculpture was the initial present, with the larger one valued at $100,000.

“Kim bought me the larger matching sculpture as what he called the better present when he was made aware that a bigger one existed.”

The G55 Mercedes Benz was given to her for her 22nd birthday, according to her affidavit. “Originally I wanted a white one but I could only get a black one,” she told the court.

Dotcom, who loved Mercedes cars, revealed in the documents “my wife does not have a driver’s licence”.

The court file shows the car was valued at $202,000 and had 234km on the odometer.

Mrs Dotcom’s other birthday gifts included a Chanel diamond wristwatch for her 23rd. Other items taken from her jewellery case were to mark Christmas or anniversaries. Also confiscated was her laptop, a pink iPhone and a white-faced Rolex Oyster Perpetual watch.

The court files provide a detailed backdrop to an application by the Dotcoms to make use of some of the money seized by United States authorities.

A restraining order granted in the United States has been used here to freeze the Dotcoms’ access to his considerable wealth. The FBI order estimated it as up to $175 million.

In a hearing in February, Dotcom was allowed $20,000 a month for living expenses. He was also allowed $40,000 from a $300,000 bank deposit missed by FBI investigators but voluntarily turned over by Dotcom.

The FBI has charged Dotcom with criminal copyright violation and has taken the position that his wealth is “tainted” because it was earned through crime.

An extradition hearing is set for August.

Mrs Dotcom said she had “no involvement” in Megaupload.

“I have always believed my husband’s businesses are entirely lawful and I still believe this to be true.” She said she believed Dotcom would not “risk doing anything that would hurt our family”.

“I am simply asking the courts to return my own property and make reasonable provision for our family’s ongoing maintenance and care.”

Mrs Dotcom said the household was made up of 13 people – her, her husband, the couple’s three children, her two young brothers and six staff. Since her affidavit was filed the household has grown by two more with the birth of her twins. Staff wages for the month added up to about $29,000.

But it was the cost of day-to-day living which proved most expensive, with $7000 a month spent on groceries, tanker water costing $1800 a month because the neighbourhood is not on town supply, and clothing and shoes at $700 a month.

Gas for heating and cooking cost $2000 a month and electricity $3500 a month. Phone calls from the landline were budgeted at $5000 – including toll calls.

The court files revealed some of the costs of the family’s lifestyle, including rent of $1 million a year on the Coatesville mansion.

The last quarterly rent payment in February was met after a loan from a friend of Dotcom’s. The next is due any day.

Dotcom also told the court he had spent about $6.5 million in modifications to the house. He said it cost about $600,000 a year to keep the house going. That included $1850 a week for lawn mowing and $4200 a week for three full-time gardeners – but not the $450 monthly cost of the olive grove.

It also emerged the money which Dotcom deposited in New Zealand as part of his residency scheme had earned $600,000 in its first year. With all his belongings seized, Inland Revenue sent him a bill for $198,000 as the tax department’s share of his first year’s interest earnings.

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Lotto king lives life in fast lane

Trevor will race his new car once he gets it home. Photo / Martin SykesExpand

Trevor will race his new car once he gets it home. Photo / Martin Sykes

It’s been his dream for ages, and now Trevor the $26 million Lotto Powerball winner is getting the race car he’s always wanted.

Te Kauwhata’s luckiest man is flying to the US with his family this weekend to choose the class-1 off-road buggy of his dreams.

Trevor confirmed last night, through a spokeswoman, that he was off to California for a couple of weeks to visit car dealers because it was the “best place in the world” to shop for this type of race car.

A new off-road racing buggy has a six-figure price-tag.

When Trevor spoke to the Herald the day after he cashed his winning ticket, he said he could not begin to comprehend how he might go about spending $26,598,265 – but there would be some overseas travel … and a race car.

“I can tell you one thing,” said the racing fanatic, “my father, myself, my brother-in-law – you’ll probably find us at Western Springs Speedway come this time next season driving our race car.”

The spokeswoman said Trevor would ship his new car home and planned to race it when he got back – although it wouldn’t be at Western Springs.

The new car he’s now looking for can’t be used in speedway racing, but meetings are held for them around the North Island – and Trevor plans to be at them.

The 32-year-old bachelor said he couldn’t wait for the trip, after which he would be able to cross the grunty race car off his wish list.

He can add it to the $160,000 Searay dancer boat, two new vehicles including a Holden ute and three family properties he’s bought.

Trevor bought his first house, in the Franklin district, for more than $2 million at the end of last month.

The two-storey three-bedroom, three-bathroom home has a large lawn and barn, with plenty of room for all his new toys.

The home is near the million-dollar-plus properties he’s bought for his parents and sister.

Before his Powerball win, Trevor lived in a rental property with his flatmate in Te Kauwhata and his parents lived in West Auckland.

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