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outhhampton of Coopers Beach, with white sand sloping gently toward the waves rolling coastline, parking and facilities, and not a rubber boot at the hearing, has been selected as the best beach in the United States in an annual survey published on Friday, coinciding with the start of the summer vacation season. "New York has world class beaches, but do not think many people in the United States know about them," said Dr. Stephen Leatherman, director of the Laboratory at Florida International University Coastal Research. Known by the nickname "Dr. Beach, this is 20 years Leatherman to compile a list of the 10 best in the country.

The list this year includes two beaches in Florida, and Leatherman said he was not worried about pollution from oil spills affecting those places. Siesta Beach in Sarasota took the number 2 spot on the list, and Cape Florida State Park in Key Biscayne was No. 10.

Leatherman list also features another New York Beach, Main Beach in East Hampton, Long Island, near Southampton. Main Beach No. 5 takes place in this year's survey. "When most people think of a holiday resort on the beach, going south," said Leatherman. "I think the kind of east end of Long Island is a well kept secret for most Americans."

Rounding out the top 10 are Playa Coronado, California (3), Cape Hatteras, North Carolina (4), Kahanamoku Beach in Waikiki, Honolulu (No. 6), Coast Guard Beach on Cape Cod, Massachusetts (7), Park Beachwalk Kiawah Island, South Carolina (8), and Hamoa Beach in Maui, Hawaii (9).

Coopers Beach has been a contender for first place in recent years, but this is the first time a New York beach has made the No. 1, Leatherman said. Consider factors such as water quality and temperature, cleaning, climate, sand, security and facilities in making your list.

Once a beach reaches the first position, withdrew from consideration in the coming years, he said. Leatherman said his appointment as number one country usually brings a beach as much as a 20 percent bump in tourism

Ardi is no ordinary child Rizal 2-year-old - who likes to smoke two packs of cigarettes a day!

Smokers two years old, began when his father, Mohammad, gave him a cigarette stick to 18 months.

Ardi mother, Diana, is powerless saying: "It's totally addicted. If he does not get cigarettes, he gets angry and yells and batters his head against the wall. He says he feels dizzy and sick."

The 2-year-old even has a brand preference and only smoke the premium package which costs £ 3.78 per day.

To help combat the habit of the child, the Indonesian government is offering to the family to buy a car Ardi if they get their children to stop smoking.

Mohammad did not see a problem with smoking Ardi, however. "It looks very healthy for me. I see the problem," said Mohammad.

On American Idol aftermost night, Crystal Bowersox and Lee DeWyze took to the date one aftermost time to action for America’s votes. Who will win American Idol 2010? Well, afterwards aftermost night’s performances, it seems accessible to us who should win, but we still aren’t absolutely abiding if America will accede with us.

Let’s aloof face it; Crystal Bowersox blew it out aftermost night on American Idol. Lee DeWyze acutely put his affection into a adventurous try, but in a head-to-head comparison, he aloof couldn’t blow Mama Sox. While Lee DeWyze was acutely disturbing to accumulate on pitch,Crystal Bowersox was bringing the abode bottomward about his aerial with some of her best songs of the season.

Both Randy Jackson and Simon Cowell accept about predicted a win for Lee DeWyze. We never accept them back they adumbrate a champ though. Sometimes it seems 18-carat and sometimes it feels like bold comedy to get bodies to vote for the being they didn’t aces out of animosity for the judges.

A beautiful waterfront home 1927 colonial with 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, and a lot of history behind it in Long Island can be yours for only $ 1,150,000. The house has had many owners, some better known than others.

The house gained its notoriety when Ronald DeFeo killed six members of the family as they slept in 1974 and subsequent owners George and Kathleen Lutz claimed to be persecuted for 28 days, which were detailed in the book "The Amityville" (on the cover: "This book will scare the hell out of you"-Kansas City Star). However, James Cromarty, who lived in the house after the Lutz were in foreclosure, "Nothing strange has happened, except for people who come because of the book and the movie.

Venus Williams easily won his first match at the French Open on Sunday, beating Switzerland's Patty Schnyder 6-3 victories. But it was his performance that attracted the most attention. Williams lace black suit and red, which gave the "illusion of being see-through" in accordance with the AP, the tennis star's most talked-about choosing clothes in the court from wearing a uniform little green in the Australia Open in January (where he was voted one of Australia hottie Open). Scroll down for photos of her victory at the French Open in the first round.

Pacman is taking over Google! The iconic arcade game celebrates its 30th anniversary on May 22, and Google has created a one-of-a-kind Pacman Google Doodle in his honor.

Google frequently changes to its primary color logo to celebrate the birthday anniversaries of the fittings, the pop culture icons and major innovations (Sesame Street and barcodes have been one of the honorees), but Pacman Google logo is unique in that it is the first playable Google Doodle.

According to Google, Pacman logo has a total of 256 levels. Users can click on "Insert Coin" for the game, or click twice to launch a game for two players. (See it in action in the video below.) Pacman will be up in Google for a total of 48 hours - from 8:00 a.m. PT on Friday and Sunday morning. The developer behind the Doodle Pacman was allegedly the son of a pinball game and the coach and used to accompany his father to help salons and arcade games to play.

First Lady Michelle Obama walks with her husband U.S. President Barack Obama to greet Mexican President Felipe Calderón and his wife Margarita Zavala for a state dinner at the White House on May 19, 2010 in Washington, DC.

Michelle Obama state dinner dress - blue dress designed by Peter Sorona.

Ryan, a good-natured slacker, is tempted into a money laundering scheme while working for a lottery magazine. A capitalistic comedy that asks the question - when is “enough” enough?

Shia LaBeouf told the Los Angeles Times that he shares some of the accusation for the failures of "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" - but he is additionally pointing the feel at the monkeys he was affected to beat through the boscage with.

"I feel like I alone the brawl on the bequest that bodies admired and cherished," Shia told the Los Angeles Times' 24 Frames blog back asked about the fourth "Indiana Jones" cine while in Cannes over the weekend. "You get to monkey-swinging and things like that and you can accusation it on the biographer and you can accusation it on [director] Steven [Spielberg]," he continued. "But the actor's job is to accomplish it appear animate and accomplish it work, and I couldn't do it. So that's my fault. Simple."

The Miss USA Search 2010 swimsuit is causing quite a stir because there is some confusion among the people as they want to know how they won the title of Miss America after having received the lowest scores in the swimsuit competition. Well, it's easy to see how the winner is decided by an average of the scores in all individual competitions of the event and although it could have the lowest scores in the swimsuit competition that more than compensated for all other categories for the contest Miss USA 2010 Title swimsuit is something that needs to be placed on the down low as the woman is now Miss America!

There were forty-nine other women completely beautiful in the pageant that might be thinking that it deserved the title as much as he did, but then that is not how it works and can only be one winner. Miss USA Photos Swimsuit 2010 the Rima Fakih,

when seen, may be enough to convince anyone that it is the true owner of the title and not only that but now representing the USA in the Miss Universe pageant which will take place in the coming months. So let's hope and pray that she is the most beautiful woman in the world to think that we are the only life in the universe is an absurd idea to say the least - that is, how can a woman be the Miss Universe when not even know what other life forms that?

The stereotypes of police officers and firefighters are different - one is the dona-dunking, police trousers hook sat in the front seat of his car and the other is a abbed "out, sweaty, soot, kitten-rescuer who 're actually kind of happy to see your front door.

Since different (and pray, close imagined) as stereotypes are, it seems that real life police and fire officer recruits are creating a new representation of themselves that is neither funny or flattering.

At the heart of Mississippi, the state with the highest rate of obesity in the country, the Jackson Police Department has had a major problem in bringing new staff. According to city police chief deputy, over one third of its recruits failed the required physical exam.

Obesity, the deputy police chief said, is not the only reason that these men and women did not pass. They did not have the physical strength to complete the race 1-1/2 a mile, push-ups, obstacle course, and flexibility tests.

Lawton, Oklahoma picture paints a police chief is right, if not more gloomy assessment that 15% of applicants for its spring suspended the examination. Unfortunately, part of the admission test requires only a quarter mile race, as well as push-ups and crunches.

Other schools around the country are echoing the concern that a growing number of applicants are not fit and unable to meet the strength and the base resistance standards. When researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston University and Cambridge Health Alliance partnered last year to study the health of EMTs and firefighters, found that a startling 77% of the instructors were overweight or obese.

A Libyan plane carrying 104 people crashed Wednesday on approach to Tripoli's airport, leaving a field scattered with smoldering debris that included a large chunk of the tail painted with the airline's brightly colored logo. A 10-year-old Dutch child was the only known survivor.

The Dutch prime minister said everyone on the Afriqiyah Airways Airbus A330-200 arriving from Johannesburg, South Africa was killed except the child, whose survival was hailed as a miracle.

The youth was taken to a hospital in Tripoli and was undergoing surgery for injuries including broken bones. Officials initially said the child was a boy, but the Dutch Foreign Ministry later said there was uncertainty over the survivor's gender.

The Royal Dutch Tourism Board said 61 of the dead came from the Netherlands.

"This is a large group of Dutch nationals after all, so it's a deeply sad message we have this day," Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende said.

Libyan TV showed video of the dark-haired child lying in a hospital bed with a bandaged head and wearing an oxygen mask. The child had intravenous lines in one arm and appeared to be conscious.

An embassy official planned to visit the survivor in the hospital later Wednesday, said Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Ozlem Canel. She said officials were still trying to verify the identity.

The Libyans "say and think it is a Dutch child, but that must be determined by our colleague," she said.

The crash left a large field scattered with small and large pieces of plane debris and dozens of police and rescue workers with surgical masks and gloves, some of them carrying at least one body away. They gathered small personal items such as wallets and cell phones from the wreckage.

Others sifted through debris — some of it still smoldering — including a flight recorder and green seats with television screens on them. A large piece of the plane's tail was visible, bearing Afriqiyah's brightly colored logo with the numbers "9.9.99," a reference to the date of the founding of the African Union.

SEMINOLE, Okla. – Families best through burst appliance and biconcave accessories alfresco their agitated homes on Tuesday as bits trucks biconcave up mattresses and added bits larboard over from agitated storms that tore through the southern Plains, killing bristles bodies and abasing dozens.

Several tornadoes were appear in Oklahoma and Kansas as Monday's storms confused through the area, auctioning barrage as big as softballs, splintering homes and downing hundreds of ability lines. Added storms were accessible Tuesday night.

Oklahoma Burghal Deputy Fire Chief Cecil Clay banned to aphorism out the achievability of award added asleep but said altitude were boxy for accomplishment workers Tuesday.

"We accept abundant fog (and) ability curve bottomward authoritative it difficult to see all the hazards out there," he said.

The band of storms swept through Kansas and into Oklahoma Monday evening, leveling houses and flipping cars. Forecasters application avant-garde technology, fueled by supercomputers crunching atmospheric data, began admiration the astringent acclimate aftermost week.

Two bodies were dead in Oklahoma Burghal — including a adolescent boy hit by bits in his home and a man whose recreational agent addled over on top of him — and three in Cleveland County, south of the city, admiral said. At atomic 58 others were afflicted — two of them critically.

Near Seminole, about 60 afar east of Oklahoma City, at atomic two homes were collapsed afterwards a tornado tore through the area, Emergency Administration Administrator Ernie Willis said. The town's airport suffered all-encompassing accident and several planes were destroyed, he said.

On Tuesday, uprooted copse lay absurd in half, and the aside aroma of cedar drifted through the air. Utility poles were down, lining genitalia of Oklahoma 99, and auto trucks carted abroad damaged mattresses and added items. The Varnum Academy District abreast Seminole additionally said it would be bankrupt for the blow of the anniversary — and possibly the blow of the academy year — afterwards the tornado destroyed a pre-kindergarten architecture and damaged added genitalia of the campus, Superintended John Sheridan said.

Siblings Maria and Alejandro Martinez sifted through bits at the armpit area their adaptable home had stood. The storm had absolute it off of its foundation and threw it 50 anxiety away, drop their furniture, accessories and added domiciliary items about the yard.

Alejandro, 14, said the ancestors was axial their home back it started affective Monday evening. They were befuddled from the home and suffered cuts and bruises. Their father, who additionally was at home, had a burst arm, they said.

"It started afraid and the lights went out," Maria, 12, said.

Nearby, Yolanda Suarez and her ancestors approved to deliver what they could from the wreckage. Accessories — including a washer, dryer and refrigerator — sat apparent on one of her adaptable home afterwards the storm tore off its roof and agape bottomward walls.

The alone allotment of the home larboard continuing was the bedchamber Suarez hid in.

"She aloof ran into the room. She didn't demand to leave. She anticipation it was added alarming to leave than to break inside," said her about Victor Rodriguez.

Authorities apprenticed association to break off the anchorage in afflicted areas to acquiesce accomplishment workers to look for survivors amid the accident of their homes. They said they didn't anon apperceive of anyone who was unaccounted for.

"I haven't heard of anybody in particular. They're aloof aggravating to accomplish abiding there's not anybody trapped or ashore in there," said Dan Cary, the emergency administration administrator for Cleveland County.

In Norman — Cleveland County's better burghal with about 106,000 association — Tim Tegeler arrested out the accident to his windows, air conditioner and fence at his home. Tegeler, his wife, their daughters and their pet angle had taken apartment in their laundry allowance until the storms passed.

"We saw it coming, but the best affair is my family's fine," Tegeler said.

More thunderstorms were accepted Tuesday, but they were not predicted to be as severe, said astrologer Ty Judd with the National Acclimate Service.

"We're not attractive at what we saw yesterday," Judd said. He said a basic appraisal counted 10 tornado touchdowns in Oklahoma Monday.

Gov. Brad Henry declared a accompaniment of emergency in 56 Oklahoma counties. He and U.S. Reps. Tom Cole and Mary Fallin were appointed to bout damaged areas in axial Oklahoma.

The adverse floods in Nashville accept inundated the Grand Ole Opry House, the best acclaimed country-music area in the world, and damaged admired accessories of country artists beyond Music City.

Songwriter Aimee Mayo acquaint a photo to Twitter on Wednesday, beatific to her by country brilliant Kellie Pickler, assuming the abounding capital anteroom of the Opry, which sits bristles afar northeast of the ball district. Abounding instruments, costumes, audio tapes and added celebrated accouterments are feared absent or damaged at the site.

Other accessories are additionally swamped, including Soundcheck, a call amplitude on the Cumberland River area Keith Urban and abounding added artists accumulate their gear. "I've apparently absent all of my alley equipment, and all my guitars, and amp and everything," Urban told CNN.

You can altercate that the anniversary May 5th anniversary accepted as Cinco de Mayo is added acclaimed aural the borders of the United States than in Mexico. Cinco de Mayo is the anniversary that commemorates the Mexican achievement over the French Army in the southern-central burghal of Puebla in Mexico.

In an accomplishment to accumulate this commodity accompanying to beer and not history, I will blanket up this mini-history assignment by advertence that Cinco de Mayo is not Mexico’s Independence Day; the Mexican Independence Day is September 16th. Cinco de Mayo is a anniversary of Mexican Culture and added chiefly to me, it’s a acumen to alcohol affluence of Mexican Beer.

At the top of places to bless this 2010 Cinco de Mayo is Simone’s in Pilsen. Not alone is the bar amid on the bizarre 18th Artery in the predominantly Mexican adjacency of Pilsen, but Simone’s has Chupacabras beer. If you anamnesis from one of my beforehand articles, Chupacabras Pale Ale is one of the aboriginal microbrews from Mexico. You can advice bless the little guys vs the big guys mentality that Cinco de Mayo is accepted for by bubbler a beer that is not from the Big Beer Corporations of Mexico: Chupacabras by Cucapa Brewing Company.

If you are attractive for article added contemporary and fresh, try the new Dos Diablos Restaurant & Cantina that is accepting its Grand Opening on Cinco de Mayo in the River North breadth of Chicago. Apart from accepting the accessible Mexican theme, Dos Diablos has an able alms of Mexican Beers. Dos Diablos is amid on Hubbard Artery in the accident River North area, so this new cantina will fit appropriate in with the affair atmosphere of this hip street.

So no amount who you are or area you appear from, on May 5th we all appear calm to accession our glasses and bark a big “SALUD” (Spanish for “Cheers”) to bless the Cinco de Mayo holiday.