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United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration released September 1 video shots showed that the "Discovery" has successfully docked with the International Space Station, astronaut Nicholls Toth and Daniau Olivas out of warehouse space walk for the first time. They will replace the ammonia cooling water tank, and the completion of some parts to upgrade and maintain.



The photo shows "Discovery" astronauts extravehicular walk.



The photo shows Olivas carrying out space walks to show his glove on the right index finger of minor wear and tear.

LOS ANGELES – Firefighters reported progress Tuesday against a gigantic blaze on the edge of Los Angeles that might be just a preview of even greater dangers ahead. The peak Southern California fire season hasn't even started yet. The worst fires typically flare up in the fall, when ferocious Santa Ana winds can drive fires out of wilderness areas and into suburbs. As a result, Southern California could be in for a long wildfire season.

"When you see a fire burning like this, with no Santa Ana winds, we know that with the winds, it would be so much worse, so much more intense," said Los Angeles County fire Capt. Mark Whaling.

The Santa Anas are so devastating when they carry fire because they sweep down from the north and reach withering speeds as they squeeze through wilderness canyons and passes and plunge into developed areas. Read Full Story >>

Caribbean basin near the northern Leeward Islands, the US National Hurricane Center said.

Island governments across the region issued storm watches in preparation for the arrival of Erika, which at 2100 GMT was moving west-northwest at a steady nine miles (15 kilometers) per hour, the Miami-based NHC said.

Maximum sustained winds were almost 50 miles per hour (85 kilometers per hour), and "some slow strengthening is forecast during the next couple of days," the center said.

A tropical storm has winds of up to 105 mph (165 kph) before it is classified as hurricane force.

On its current route Erika was expected to remain northeast of the Leeward Islands.

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The Duggar family's famous brood is about to get just a little larger. The family went on the "Today Show" to announce that they are expecting their 19th child. Mrs. Duggar is almost three months pregnant. The family adheres to the religious belief that you shouldn't use birth control, instead letting God determine how many children you have.

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Total Pro Sports - If you thought catching the King of Common Carps would put up the fight of a lifetime, think again.

Taylor Sears, a 20-year-old man from Scituate, Massachusetts reeled in a 624-pound mako shark on Thursday. The 10-foot monster is the largest male mako shark ever to be recorded in the Atlantic Ocean may even be the largest male mako ever caught anywhere. As stated by Dr. Greg Skomal of the state division of Maritime Fisheries, "we didn't think they got this big basically."


Sears is no stranger to fishing the deep seas, but the Massachusetts Maritime Academy junior will remember not be forgetting the feeling of this big catch anytime soon.

"I’ve caught a million sharks before, but never anything this feisty."

A Florida biology teacher fired after posing for racy pictures has landed a new career – in pornography.

Tiffany Shepherd, 31, made headlines in April after bikini-clad pictures of her on a fishing charter got her canned from Port St. Lucie High School. She turned to doing porn, she told a Florida news outlet, after losing custody of two of her three kids to her ex-husband and sending out 2,500 resumes – some even to prisons – without landing a new teaching job.

"I'm not particularly proud of it. To be honest, I hate it," Shepherd told Page2live.com. "I'm an educated woman, but I never thought it would come to this. No one gets brought up thinking they'll be a floozy." Full Story Here >>


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Tiffany Shepherd on CNN



Tiffany Shepherd Hot Naked Uncensored Video



Leaked! Tiffany Shepherd Newest Porn Movie Uncensored

Jaycee Dugard Photo, Pics, Jaycee Dugard Wiki, Girl Found After 18 Years, Jaycee Lee Dugard, Jaycee was found after being kidnapped for 18 years. Jaycee was kidnapped by Garrido and his wife Nancy, 55, at a bus stop in South Lake Tahoe, California, in June 1991.Ms.Dugard has been reunited with her mother after her appearance at the police station.and is staying in a motel in Antioch, California and her current pictures yet to come out.

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Tens of thousands of participants tomato festival thrown each other tons of ripe tomatoes in a good-natured battle, which filled the streets of Spanish cities Bunol rivers of red pulp. City Hall Bunola estimated that more than 40 000 people (some even specially for the festival came from Japan and Australia) fought in the mock fight last Wednesday. It was used 100 tons of tomatoes!





















This annual "vegetable" battle, known as the "Tomatina" ( "Tomatina"), this year held the 64th time. The event was held earlier between childhood friends and had the usual "mezhdusoboychikom, and now it is something like a business card for Bunola, which is located about 40 miles north of Valencia on the east coast of Spain. Hour-long battle so popular that tomato parade stretched out in the city nearly two miles (three kilometers). This happened on August 26 in the morning.