Blorenge, 1. The most convenient place to Park is in the Byefield car-park off Tudor Street. A path leaves from here to Abergavenny Castle Meadows and the River Usk. Follow the path to the fine Merthyr Bridge. Immediately after crossing the bridge cross the road and follow the lane beside the river past Abergavenny’s cemetery. The lane turns sharp left and goes under the “Heads of the Valley” road before passing a nursery and arriving at the Govilon road. Cross the road and take the lane that goes up beside St Faiths Church.

Starting from St Faiths Church

By car from Abergaveny cross the Merthyr Bridge and continue straight across at the roundabout on the Merthyr Road towards Govilon (do NOT go onto the main A465). Turn left up Kiln Lane by the Llanfoist Inn. Turn right and park in about 50m by the lych gate. Cross the stone stile into the church yard and follow the footpath around to the next stone stile that leads to Church Lane. Turn left. [...]

Constellation Map, Print the constellation sky map. Use the all sky map index to find the date, time and all sky map to use. Locate constellation of all sky map. Position this constellation sky map with the North, East, South and West edges in the right orientation.

Looking South
When looking South hold the constellation sky map the way the map was printed in front of you. The South edge of the constellation sky map is on the bottom and the South horizon is behind it in the distance. East is to your left, West is to your right and North is behind you. [...]

Find out Mega Millions winning numbers Friday

The Mega Millions lottery jackpot has gotten huge since the Mega Millions winning numbers announced yesterday haven’t resulted in a winner yet. If the Mega Millions lottery results Friday end up in a win, the lucky lottery ticket holder will win $325 million, the third biggest mega millions jackpot ever.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer:

Last night, the Mega Millions jackpot rose by a whopping $73 million to its third largest prize ever: $325 million. The only bigger prizes left a lot of loot in Cape May County, N.J., in 2007.

The $325 million up for grabs on Friday is the total for 26 payouts over 25 years. Can’t wait? The cash windfall is $206.4 million (minus no small fortune in taxes).The numbers no one completely matched last night were 3, 12, 19, 22 and 40, with a Mega Ball of 2.
Smaller prizes from Mega Millions winning numbers [...]

Beginning this September, Facebook will be including a “Like” feature alongside ads on their website. This functionality will allow users to actively rate the different ads that they see, and judge whether specific ads are likeable or not.

This “Like” feature is quite similar to the “Like” feature enabled for other components in Facebook. To make ad-browsing more efficient and user-friendly, Facebook will be adding an “X” on every ad. One tap on the “X” closes the current advertisement and initiates the emergence of the next ad in the chain. [...]

German author Herta Mueller won the 2009 Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday for her work inspired by her life under Nicolae Ceausescu’s dictatorship in Romania.

The Nobel jury hailed Mueller, 56, as a writer who “with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed.”

Mueller was born in a German-speaking region of Romania and fled the country two years before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. She has been a longstanding candidate for the award which comes just ahead of the 20th anniversary of the collapse of communism. [...]

Photographs of babies are always cute, here is one of them, but this series of images by an American photographer take adorable to a new level.

Tracy Raver, who describes her style as simple and casual, captures newborns while they are sleeping.

Swaddled in soft woollens or nestled in baskets, the tiny infants are photographed when they are just weeks old.
cutest baby pictures Seen Ever
Baby face: Tracey Raver captures a newborn’s expression as it dozes in a spotted woolly hat

The mother-of-one says: ‘It’s all about timing and giving your child the freedom and space to be themselves.

‘Favourites are layered outfits, bare feet, and babies in their birthday suits!

‘My style is simple and clean, with the focus on those precious little faces. I like to catch all expressions… serious, smily, sassy and silly!’

And the expressions do not disappoint. One baby, sporting a spotted woolly hat, pouts in its sleep, while another smiles, as if enjoying a lovely dream.

Raver, who is based in Nebraska, runs her photography business with her sister Kelley, a mother-of-two. Together the pair run ‘baby posing’ workshops, teaching parents how to use natural light, and making the most of fabrics and props.

‘We go over positioning on the beanbag, prop transitions, camera setings, use of natural light and techniques to keep the newborn calm and asleep,’ says Kelley.

You probably brew coffee, like most people, the most insipid way possible: Using a Mr. Coffee that you fill with pre-ground coffee from the supermarket. There’s a million other ways to make coffee, and they’re all better.

Here’s the rub about making coffee: The best ways to make coffee are the super simplest or the ultra-geekiest. The middle ground i.e., your drip brewer produces mediocrity. And where I come from, mediocre is spelled s-h-i-t-t-y. What’s universal to every good method of making coffee is that there’s a ton of control and consistency going on. In fact, consistency is the secret sauce to making great coffee. But we’ve got a few things we even get to the part you probably think of as “making coffee.” These are the basic elements, no matter what voodoo you’re invoking to make coffee: The beans, roast, grind, dose, water, temperature and brew time. [...]

McDonald’s: not a place you should eat if you are trying to be healthy. But if you must eat there, there are definitely some better choices on the menu than others.

Lifehacker put together a great guide showing just what foods aren’t so bad and what should be avoided at all costs. The good news is that good ol’ Chicken McNuggets aren’t so bad, providing 280 calories in a 6 piece box. And a hamburger has only 250 calories if you can stand eating it without cheese.

The bad news? A large Triple Thick Chocolate Shake has 1160 calories, 27 grams of fat, 168 grams of sugar and 510mg of sodium, which is just fucking insane. Seriously, if you want to cut a decade or two off your life, drink one of these every day. And a Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese ain’t much better.

Hit Lifehacker for the full list and all the details, but here’s the one rule I always remember when I’m considering a McDonald’s menu: don’t eat at McDonald’s.

Taste Test is our weeklong tribute to the leaps that occur when technology meets cuisine, spanning everything from the historic breakthroughs that made food tastier and safer to the Earl-Grey-friendly replicators we impatiently await in the future.

The upcoming Roland Emmerich film, 2012, depicts events taking place in December, 2012, when the movie suggests that the Mayan Calendar predicts the end of the world. The Institute for Human Continuity site is part of the film’s marketing campaign.

The Institute for Human Continuity (IHC) is a glossy looking website that one can access to pretend that the apocalyptic events predicted to occur in 2012 will in fact occur and that one can do something to secure one’s survival. The Institute for Human Continuity (IHC) is the latest of

the kind of Internet viral campaign that has become common to advertise things like upcoming films and TV shows.

One section of the Institute for Human Continuity (IHC) site is a contest to “participate in an election to determine the leader of the post 2012 World.” The first prize is a trip to the Mayan ruins in Cancun. Second prizes include a Sony Playstation and a Sony web camera.

Another section of the Institute for Human Continuity (IHC) is reserved for fake news reports that are supposed to precede the events of the 2012 movie.

A section of the Institute for Human Continuity (IHC) describes the fictional organization’s purpose, which seems to be research into the various phenomenon that will bring out the end of the world in 2012 (at least in the movie.) There is even a helpful PSA style video depicting the Institute for Human Continuity (IHC) as having existed since 1978, working to save a small portion of humanity from the catastrophe to come (at least in the movie.) [...]

Meet Nia Faye, a seven-week-old cheetah cub at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden. She may be adorable, but she’s had a bit of a rough start to her short life.

After her birth on July 2 at the zoo’s cheetah-breeding facility, Nia Faye’s mother, Purdy, failed to “provide adequate care,” which in nature sometimes means that a mother simply ignores her cub. To help Nia, the zoo moved the newborn to their nursery, where she spent the next several weeks feeding from a bottle and learning to socialize with the help of a house-cat companion named Mashka.

This week, Nia Faye is making her zoo debut. Though she will remain at the nursery for the time being, she is now on exhibit. Once she’s ready to leave the nursery, Nia Faye will become part of the zoo’s Cat Ambassador Program, helping zoo visitors learn about cheetahs and cheetah conservation. She won’t be alone; four of the eight cheetahs born on the continent over the past two years were born at the Cincinnati Zoo, bringing the zoo’s all-time total to 37 cheetah cubs. Must be something in the water.