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Dwyane Wade #3 of the Miami Heat walks up the court after missing a shot against the Indiana Pacers in Game Three of the Eastern Conference Semifinals in the 2012 NBA Playoffs at Bankers Life Fieldhouse on May 17, 2012 in Indianapolis, Indiana. The Pacers defeated the Heat 94-75.

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There was a rending, tearing sound to this Heat loss, like when you hear seams ripping apart, or seasons slipping away. There was a frustration that boiled over in the third quarter as a team dreaming of an NBA championship was helpless to stop its own collapse. Coach Erik Spoelstra approached Dwyane Wade during a timeout, as if to place his hand on the player’s shoulder. “Get out of my [expletive] face!” Wade snapped. This is the state of the Heat today — angry, beaten and wondering what to do now — after Thursday night’s 94-75 loss that gave the Indiana Pacers a 2-1 lead in this best-of-7, second-round series. Spoelstra downplayed the outburst by Wade, like you knew he would. “That happens,” the coach said. “That really is nothing. That’s the least of our concerns.” If so, that, too, is indicative of a team reeling and seemingly at a loss for answers. Wade’s frustration was understandable after perhaps the worst night of his stellar career. Has anyone seen Dwyane Tyrone Wade Jr.? Black male, 6-3. D.O.B 1-17-82. No visible tattoos but often seen wearing a No. 3 basketball jersey. Mr. Wade is missing. His shots are, anyway. And largely because of that, it now looks as if his team is in jeopardy of disappearing from these playoffs as surely as his shooting touch has. Everything was collapsing all around Wade here Thursday. A game. A series. A season. Maybe everything. And the most beloved player in the franchise’s 24 seasons was helpless to stop it. You kept waiting, right? You filed away Wade’s scoreless first half — the first of his playoff career — as some sort of bizarre aberration and kept expecting the second-half burst, the run, the shots to start dropping, and D-Wade to be D-Wade again, muting the enemy crowd, lifting his team. Nothing. This critical loss isn’t Wade’s alone but it is his foremost, after the whisper of an astonishing five-point performance on dismal 2-for-13 shooting. “It was a bad night,” he said. “There were a lot of reasons for it. I just didn’t have it going.” Wade still was simmering following the game. He was asked if he had anything to say about the courtside outburst. “No,” he said. It wasn’t just Thursday that led to Wade’s frustration overload. Wade shot poorly from the field in the first two games as well, and his series totals are now 18 shots made in 58 attempts, or barely 30 percent. Wade wasn’t himself Thursday, so Mario Chalmers played Wade instead, scoring a game-high 25 points while his mentor missed and stewed, stewed and missed. Wade has been the hero plenty for Miami over the years. Miami needs him to be again. Desperately, now. If LeBron James were shooting as awfully as Wade is in this series, he would be on a national rotisserie, being turned slowly by a hungrily salivating media brandishing sharp knives. Wade tends to get a pass because even he is eclipsed now by the shadow of James, the league MVP. But Wade’s shoulders are broad enough and his skin thick enough to take the truth: His poor shooting is costing Miami about as dearly right now as the injury absence of Chris Bosh. “He’s one of the best players in the world,” James, who scored 22 Thursday, said of Wade. “When you have a game like that you just move on to the next one.”

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Before Kimmy Blanco began fielding Nicki Minaj questions from show hosts DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha God and Angela Yee, she questioned why media outlets don’t grill Ms. Minaj like they do her. “She has a way of trying to avoid the situation, and y’all let her do it,” Kim charged before she hit on the root of their issue.

Lil’ Kim: ‘I Have To Fight For My Fans’

According to the Queen Bee, she was on pace to sign with Cash Money, the same label that made Nicki a star. “Me and Slim were friends for four years, and we decided that we were going to go into business together,” Kim said of her plans with CM co-CEO Ronald “Slim” Williams. “I was over there with Cash Money — I was getting ready to be partners with them.”

The deal didn’t go through, but Kim did record “Grinding Makin’ Money,” a track that included both Birdman and Minaj. The Notorious K.I.M. claims that the track was slated for Birdman’s 2009 album Priceless but didn’t make the final cut. “They put the record out. I guess they didn’t like the response — they saw the response and they pulled the record off, pulled it back, never put it on his album, nothing,” Kim said.

In the Big Momma’s mind, the single was to be beneficial to all parties. For Nicki and Cash Money, doing a song with the female rap great would help stamp a then-budding Minaj. In addition, it would put Kim back into rotation at radio, an important step in restarting her career after she was released from federal prison in 2006. But Birdman and company went cold on the track. “If that would’ve been a big video and a big event record, that would’ve been big for both of us,” Lil’ Kim reasoned. “But I personally think they didn’t want me to stand beside her, which is stupid.”

Kim went on to claim that Nicki’s new record “Automatic” is strikingly similar to an unreleased record of the same name that she recorded and played for Cash Money brass three years ago.

“On her new album, she has a song called ‘Automatic,’ and the song is so similar to the song that I played for Slim,” Kim charged. “The problem with her is she was very catty with it. I never had a problem with her — I was always, always nice with her, always. She was a very obnoxious person, but I was always nice with her.”

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MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (WSVN) — A famous rapper is offering some high-tech help to a group of South Florida students.

On Thursday, Rapper Rick Ross donated dozens of iPads to high achieving students at his alma-mater, Carol City High school.

The principal said the gadgets will be used to help students complete their college applications.

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A Michigan teen ordered a junior roast beef sandwich at a local Arby’s restaurant, only to make a gruesome discovery halfway through the meal.

Ryan Hart, 14, of Blackman Township, said he had nearly polished off his sandwich last Friday when he sunk his teeth into something tough that tasted like rubber, so he spit it out.

As the boy discovered to his horror, the chewy bit was the back of a finger, including the fleshly pad and extending beyond the first. The gristly find was about one-inch long and a quarter-inch thick.

Revolting: Ryan Hart, 14, said he bit into a piece of human finger while eating an Arby’s sandwich

‘I was about to puke …it was just nasty,’ he told the Jackson Citizen Patriot.

An Arby’s employee apparently cut off a part of her digit on a meat slicer and left her station without immediately notifying anyone, said Steve Hall, the environmental health director for the Jackson County Health Department.

The injured worker’s colleagues continued filling orders at the busy eatery before they became aware of what happened, Hall added.

Gristly find: The chunk of finger in Hart’s lunch was about one-inch long and a quarter-inch thick

John Gray, a spokesman for Atlanta-based Arby’s, released a statement on Wednesday apologizing for what he described as an isolated and ‘unfortunate incident.’

He has determined that workers at the Arby’s on North West Avenue in Jackson shut down food production as soon as they found out what happened and thoroughly cleaned and sanitized the restaurant.

Bad Mood Food: An employee severed a portion of her finger on a meat slicer, and it somehow ended up in Ryan Hart’s roast beef sandwich

The employee who lost her finger was treated at a hospital. Gray said the franchise was allowed to remain open.

Ryan’s mother, Jamie Vail, was outraged. She and a friend had taken Ryan and his 11-year-old brother to the Arby’s drive-through for lunch, and she thought her son was joking when he exclaimed he had found a piece of a finger in his sandwich.

‘Somebody loses a finger, and you keep sending food out the window? I can’t believe that,’ said Vail.

Open for business: The Jackson Arby’s was allowed to remain open after employees cleaned and sanitized the restaurant

All four had ordered roast beef, and after the gruesome discovery was made, they threw out the leftover food.

Vail said she called 911 and met police at a local hospital, where her son’s blood was drawn and he was prescribed medication, although he refused to take it, fearing side effects.

The boy said he is feeling fine, but a bit concerned.

According to Veil, her son has been having difficulty sleeping, and she described him as ‘traumatized.’ by the experience. 

Vail said she has been in touch with a lawyer, but has not decided whether or not to sue the fast food chain.

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CNN iReporter Marian Amin shot this image of a solar eclipse over Cairo, Egypt, the morning of January 4, 2011.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• The sun will appear as a thin ring behind the moon
• The annular eclipse will be visible in parts of the western U.S. and Asia
• Thousands of people plan to attend viewing parties along its path
• More than 80% of the sun will be blocked during the eclipse

(CNN) — Thousands of people are planning viewing parties in the western United States for Sunday’s annular solar eclipse, a rare event in which the sun will appear as a thin ring behind the moon.

The eclipse will be visible on a path from northwestern Texas through New Mexico, northeastern Arizona, southern Utah, Nevada, northern California and southwestern Oregon late in the day on May 20.

The eclipse actually begins in Asia on the morning of May 21, when it will be visible in southern Japan and southern China.

“I recommend anyone who has the chance to see this, because while they do happen occasionally, it’s a fairly rare event,” said Jeffrey Newmark, a solar physics specialist with NASA. “It’s a neat thing to see.”

Solar eclipse coming this weekend

The last annular eclipse appeared in the United States in 1994.

More than 1,000 people may flood the small town of Kanarraville, Utah — population 300 — to get one of the best views of Sunday’s event, said Bonnie Char, spokeswoman for the Cedar City-Brian Head Tourism Bureau.

County and town authorities plan to provide everything from food to portable toilets to accommodate the crowds, and sheriff’s deputies and police officers will be directing traffic, Char said. The town is calling the eclipse “the ring of fire.”

The Brian Head Resort is opening its ski lift so people can watch the eclipse from atop the mountain peak of more than 11,000 feet. For $8, visitors will get a ride up the mountain and solar glasses with which to view the eclipse before the sun sets behind the nearby mountains, Char said.

The Fleischmann Planetarium at the University of Nevada, Reno and the Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland, California, are among those holding viewing parties.

The CapRock Winery in Lubbock, Texas, is inviting people to sit outside on blankets — glass of wine in hand — to see the eclipse. Eclipse viewers can also sit among the ancient springs of the Lubbock Lake Landmark at an event hosted by the South Plains Astronomy Club.

Professors, staff, students and amateur astronomers plan to gather at New Mexico Tech’s Magdalena Ridge Observatory, where several telescopes made for solar viewing will be used, said physics student Curtis Warren.

“I’m very excited about the event,” he told CNN. “MRO sits on top of South Baldy Mountain, at about 10,000 feet. I’ve never before seen an annular eclipse so I’m not really sure what exactly to expect, though my guess is that it will be quite spectacular.”

The whole eclipse will last for a couple of hours as the moon passes in front of the sun, creating a partial eclipse. The actual annular portion, in which the sun appears as a thin ring, will be about four minutes long, Newmark said.

More than 80% of the sun will be blocked out during the apex, he said. Outside of the eclipse’s narrow path of less than 200 feet, people will be able to see only a partial eclipse.

“This will cause less change in the daylight than you might think,” said Alan MacRobert, a senior editor at Sky & Telescope magazine. “Moderately thin clouds would dim the sunlight more. And if you’re where the eclipse is only partial, the dimming will be less.”

Newmark said people should not peer up at the sky to view the solar event without special viewing equipment. Viewing the sun with the naked eye can cause blindness.

Eclipse glasses, welder’s goggles or an astronomer’s filter made for sun viewing are recommended if people want to look skyward.

Another way to view the eclipse is by using binoculars and telescopes to project an image of it on the ground, Newmark said. Point the binoculars or telescopes at the sun — without looking through the lenses — and aim the other end onto a piece of paper or cardboard.

In northern Utah, “ecliptomaniacs” are planning to travel south to view the event, said Patrick Wiggins, a NASA ambassador in Salt Lake City. He is planning to lead his own contingent to the Cedar City area.

He said astronomy club members “realize they could either drive four hours to see the eclipse or wait 11 years for the next one.”

Wiggins said he always looks forward to seeing people’s reactions to an eclipse.

“You get everything from stoic, staring into the sky … to people breaking down and crying, they’re just so moved,” he said

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Donna Summer — the Queen of Disco — died this morning after a battle with cancer … TMZ has learned.
We’re told Summer was in Florida at the time of her death. She was 63-years-old.
Summer was a 5-time Grammy winner who shot to superstardom in the ’70s with iconic hits like “Last Dance,” “Hot Stuff” and “Bad Girls.”

She continued her dominance in the ’80s with “She Works Hard for the Money” and “This Time I Know It’s for Real.”
Summer and her producer Giorgio Moroder defined the dance music era of the ’70s and influenced acts like Duran Duran and David Bowie to enter the genre.
Summer married Brooklyn Dreams singer Bruce Sudano back in 1980. They had two daughters together.

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Datha Nation was arrested outside a Wells Fargo Bank in Denver earlier this week after clerks called police to report she was back.

According to police, Nation approached tellers at the bank on June 9, 2011, with a note demanding cash and threatened to infect the clerk with AIDS from a syringe.

Datha Nation was arrested outside a Wells Fargo Bank in Denver earlier this week after clerks called police

Longmont Police Commander, Jeff Satur, said clerks recognized Nation from the first robbery when she returned to the bank in late March.

Police believe on that occasion Nation got nervous while waiting in line with her robbery note and left. On Monday, she returned.

Clerks recognized her again and immediately called police when she entered the bank and approached with a note.

Nation was found sitting inside her car in the parking lot outside the bank.
Police said they also found a note in the car indicating that she was going to rob the bank, demanding money, and telling tellers not to use a dye pack.

Satur paid credit to quick thinking bank employees.

‘Those guys deserve all the credit,’ he said.

‘They did a tremendous job. They were aware of their surroundings, on top of things, and when she walked in, they were on the phone. That really helped us to get her arrested.’

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