Rain a good bet to close out Wimbledon The Big Picture, Lon.don, July 5 (DPA) The ominous weather picture for Wimbledon finals weekend has led British bookmakers to bet on a couple of rainy days. The forecasts have warned for a dicey Saturday and an even worse Sunday for the high-profile final between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. The betting house Ladbroke's offered 6-4 odds that Sunday at Wimbledon would be a total wash-out.An awful weather forecast for the championship climax has prompted gloomy punters to put their money on a last-day.

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Astrology Today: Little Miss Sunshine My eye on the sky The Sun and Venus are conjunct in Cancer - Family! The Moon is in Leo and if you've not see Little Miss Sunshine, well 7 year old, Olive has one of the biggest hearts you'll ever run across. Meet her family? From the youtube site?LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE tells the story of the Hoovers, one of the most endearingly fractured families ever seen on motion picture scre.ens. Together, the motley six-member family treks from Albuquerque to the Little Miss Sunshine pageant in Redond. The Big Picture tickets.

Reagan: His Ideas A faded picture to remember him by, that which does not do the Great Communicator justice, but which is what he would have wanted. To be perfectly honest, I do not know much about the American presidency and its occupants, and regrettably enough there are only a select few modules at my university that actually focus on the U.S. as a sole topic. Having being born only half a decade before the spectacular implosion of the Soviet Union, as a kid then I did not have strong recollections of Bush. live.

Sunny Side Up A student-led research team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has developed what is claimed to be the world's most efficient solar dish. The prototype, which measures just over 3 metres wide, generates enough heat to melt solid steel, by concentrating the sun's power by a factor of 1000. The prototype, which is made from a simple lattice of aluminium tubes, supporting an array of mirrors, generates steam, produced by focussing the sun's energy on a coiled tube carrying water. The Big Picture concert tickets.

Hampton Beach Sand Art music, So after we got on the bikes and headed away from Weir's Beach, we headed towards the coast (and the .".real.".beach). Hampton was our destination to see the sand sculpters on display from some sort of competition. There really isn't much more to say about it - so I'll just show the pictures: This picture is just a portion of the line of sand art on display. There was quite the display of talent on the beach!

Beth & Nick's Wedding Beth .&.dy, the guys were preparing their own game plan. Tickets.

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FT leader attacks David Cameron's "posturing" Not a great press day for the Conservative Party. The newspapers are full of stories about Ray Lewis. The Mail, notably, devotes its whole front page to a splash about the .".wheels coming.".Boris' Mayoralty. Completely OTT. For the second time in a week we also have a newspaper worrying about the depth of the Cameron project. Earlier in the week it was The Times. Today the FT devotes a leader to David Cameron's .".big flaw.".".posturing.". We can dismiss the section of the editorial that. The Big Picture ticket broker.

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