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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.

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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. Photo / National Geographic / AP

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.”

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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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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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However, luxury goods to China market, still do not change arrogant attitude. “3 packets” the common market goods are universal law, on the luxury is completely won’t work. Especially when firms through the agent to contact Chinese consumers, Louis Vuitton canada often is the price “extravagant”, after-sales service had become “cheap”.

In wenzhou city a bazaar, reporter discovery, a world top class brand leather store filled up with all kinds of famous brand bag. When a reporter asked whether can enjoy “3 packets”, sales personnel said: “our goods shall not return after sales.” See the reporter don’t understand, she explained: “this is the top brands, won’t appear quality problems.”

Reporters asked about most of the luxury brands are stressed, 7 days return change not only, and families of the mall that are basically the same.

The person in charge of the store says to the reporter, the brand in the sales slip on the “7 days can’t return” tips. He complain to say: “the market is only for these large brand to offer the operation sites, collect property fee on schedule, is actually lease, no supervision and management authority relationship.”

In this connection, wenzhou city industrial and commercial bureau reporter and consumer complaints reported made contact center. Inform against a center to a staff said, also belong to the luxury goods, should follow the protection of consumer rights and conduct business. If consumers buy luxury goods, goods quality problems arise, the businessman should follow relevant regulations replacement, can’t refuse to return to luxury.

Wenzhou consumer society a ZhangXing staff said it, according to the consumer rights and interests protects a regulation, consumer spending for life to the purchase or use of a commodity or receiving a service, their rights protected by this law; Operators to provide consumers with its production and sales of goods or services, shall abide by the law.

“Luxury is no exception.” The staff said. Read more: http://www.louisvuitton-canada.ca/

In the “M” type of social structure, the middle class is considered consumption ability “down” a group of people, but they have special preference brand. Louis vuitton outlet So in demand and consumption ability not matching, second-hand luxury retailers, the appearance of a certain degree of meets their consumption demand.

Can foresee, the business model in the future market will also has the very big development space. Even so, about second-hand brands of circulation, still have a few concrete operating link points existing space: the whole, now the domestic used brands is still in the retail enterprises sell products, spell price stage, is a relatively rough mode of operation. And second-hand luxury goods circulation holy Japan, is more is driven by second-hand product service, the products in this the role that just a carrier.

In Japan’s second-hand brand circulation field, after decades of development, and now has been formed a complete industry system: including appraisal services, after-sale service, and customer interaction and activities, customer relationship maintenance and so on.

Foreign economics and trade university luxury research center, executive director ZhouTing told the China business news reporter, Japan’s second-hand brand shop most can provide good customer service and experience, emphasis on customer relationship maintenance, second-hand package deal has successfully converted into a kind of social spending.

As is known to all, the people in Asia cultural atmosphere, second-hand often means that the old and bad. If a man selling used second-hand goods, it is often think is in a poor financial situation, buyers will also feel no face.

How to break this kind of psychological barriers ably, let second-hand bag naturally accepted for consumers, become a front mention social spending, Japan is a way to enterprise.

Private party is one of the way. Japan used brand retailers will mostly in the upscale office for some of the 5 around the small scope high-end party and invite the guests to demand a sale. Each party will set a theme, and change bag activity is implanted subtle activity.

“To the social activities to breakthrough, originally common trade into a kind of the exchange and appreciate, he let business into a very good things, and stores not only completed deal, also has accumulated good customer resources.” ZhouTing evaluation.

In addition, the industry currently lack of unified from standard and supervision principle, and it also need to cause for alarm. There was no threshold means disorder in, Louis vuitton Canadathe result is that the whole market disorder be disturb, the future is overdrawn.

Want to know in Japan, large second-hand luxury business and international luxury brand big circulation * * hold quite a friendly relations of cooperation, the latter can even provide a lot of products for the former appraisal services support and help.

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In western layered theory, according to the social standard often divided into different members of the social identity group, the social identity group has the same or similar by way of life, and from others can get the same amount of identity respect to make. Since then, the western social scientists study in social stratification, mostly inherited webber’s theory, Burberry Sale

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