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"Sincerely, the breakfast bunch. Even though we never had breakfast as a bunch."
|The Breakfast Bunch
|Season 3, Episode 1
|First Aired
|January 28th, 2012[1]
|Production Code
|Dan Schneider and Jake Farrow
|Steve Hoefer
|Viewed By:
|3.875 million
|Episode Guide
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"A Christmas Tori"
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"The Gorilla Club"
The Breakfast Bunch is the 1st episode of Season 3, and the 35th episode overall of Victorious. The episode scored 3.9 million viewers.
This episode is a parody of the 1985 film The Breakfast Club about teenagers who get stuck in Saturday detention.
Tori, Robbie, Cat, André, Beck, and Jade ended up in detention on a Saturday because Robbie was choking on a pretzel, causing them all to be late to a class. After arriving in detention, Tori asks a question about who's in charge of detention. Her friends explain that the Hollywood Arts' vice principal, Mr. Dickers, is in charge of detention. After Mr. Dickers arrives, he loudly directs them to detention. They are forced to stay in the library all day. Their phones get taken away from them (and placed in a box right next to where they are sitting) and only get tuna salad for lunch. He leaves the library and rarely comes back. They soon become hungry, causing Tori to call Trina to leave a pack of tacos in her locker. The gang sneak into the hallway, while Tori retrieves the packet of tacos from her locker. Mr. Dickers is wandering the halls, but the gang is trying to get back to the library without being caught by him. They soon stop when they come across a wet floor.
Tori decides to distract Mr. Dickers so the others can get back to the library. Mr. Dickers catches her while she is loudly singing Make It Shine off-key and destroying posters and locks her in the janitor's closet, but she escapes through a clearly marked passageway. In the library, Jade accuses Robbie of being vegan because he is not eating his taco, so he and Cat try a taco for the first time. André begins to run-dance in the library whilst being pumped by the tacos. They talk about their parents and question whether or not they will end up like them someday, and Tori reveals that she can shoot a bow and arrow with her bare feet. After they have a good time dancing in the library, Beck and André help Robbie change his appearance by straightening his hair; when Robbie shows Cat his hair they both crawl across tables to each other in a romantic fashion, then Robbie touches Cat's nose. When they leave, The Panda (from iParty with Victorious) makes a mini guest appearance where he gives a balloon to Tori at the end of the gang's detention. After detention, they all leave in a montage to Don't You (Forget About Me) sung by Victoria Justice, and Cat gives Robbie her chewed bubble-gum, which he then puts in his mouth. Then Rex writes a letter knowing who they are "A puppet, A future pop star, A musician, An actor, A nerd with tepmoraly straight hair, A girl who likes scissors, And Meeeee!"(Cat). Rex Signs it as "The Breakfast Bunch". Tori balloon fly's away want's it to come back with her fist in the air.
According to the Season 3 promo, the pictures Dan posted, and various interviews, the cast seems to be mimicking the characters from The Breakfast Club as follows:
- Tori as Claire Standish "The Princess"
- André as Andrew "Andy" Clark "The Athlete"
- Robbie and Rex as Brian Johnson "The Brain"
- Cat as Allison Reynolds "The Basket Case"
- Beck and Jade as John Bender "The Criminal"
In the episode all characters switch roles throughout.Tori portrays: Claire, John, Andy, and Brian.
Cat portrays: Allison, Andy, John, and Claire.
Robbie portrays: Brian, Claire, John, Allison, and Andy.
Beck portrays: John, Claire, and Andy.
Jade portrays: John and Allison.
Andre portrays: Andy and Claire.
Click here to see the photo gallery for The Breakfast Bunch.
- This episode was supposed to air before A Christmas Tori.
- This is the fourth time Robbie got the whole gang into situations. The first three were The Great Ping Pong Scam, Robarazzi, and Locked Up.
- Robbie is the only person to portray everyone on the Breakfast Club
- When Andre is on his "Run Dance", you can see that his last shirt says "Final Shirt" in the font that athletes have on their jerseys.
- In the beginning there is an image of a notebook with the word 'help' written multiple times which almost exactly replicated the one in the original movie.
- A clip from this episode appeared in the season 3 opening credits.
- When rehearsing the scene where the gang is running and then changes directions, Liz Gillies and Avan Jogia both slipped and fell.
- This is the fourth time the whole gang is trapped somewhere (the first three times being in Survival of the Hottest, Locked Up!, and Terror on Cupcake Street). This is the first time the whole gang is trapped but aren't in any serious danger.
- Elizabeth Gillies, Victoria Justice and Leon Thomas talk about this episode in Victorious Season 3 First Look.
- Grumpy Gerbils is a parody of Angry Birds.
- Mr. Dickers calls Tori "princess," which is the nickname of Claire, the character she represents from The Breakfast Club.
- This is the third overall episode without an opening.
- This is the only episode where Trina is present, but has no lines.
- This episode could be non-canonical, considering that the characters were acting out of character, and some scenes being too ridiculous for a normal episode of Victorious.
- Victoria says that Mr. Dickers gives them detention because he has it out for them.[2]
- They say they got detention for being late to a class, but in A Film by Dale Squires, Robbie was late to class, in Beck's Big Break, Beck was late to class, and they never got in trouble for it. Some teachers may be more tolerant of lateness than others however.
- Robbie is wearing a shirt that says "Neo Maxi Zoom Dweebie" on it which is what Bender called Brian in The Breakfast Club.
- Jade makes fun of Cat and Robbie because they are vegans. This is ironic because in real life, Liz Gillies, who portrays Jade, is a vegan.
- If you look closely at the tacos you'll notice that Jade's is a lighter color than the others. This is probably because of Liz needing a special shell due to her many food allergies.
- When they first talk about getting tacos Robbie says, "Yeah, I love tacos," in a way that kind of suggest that he is a vegan.
- Jade tells everyone that Cat has never had a taco. This is an inside joke because in real life Ariana Grande has never had a taco which she revealed on Twitter. Then Dan Schneider joked that he was going to write an episode where Cat becomes obsessed with tacos.
- This episode has alot of references to the movie. For example:
- They start detention at the same time as in the original movie
- Dickers keeps giving Jade multiple Saturday detentions when she talks, then Tori tries to interrupt but the same thing happens to her. In the movie, Mr. Vernon does this to Bender.
- Dickers wore an outfit like the principal in the original Breakfast Club.
- Cat gives Robbie her gum, which he chews. In the movie, Claire gives Bender her earring, which he wears on his ear.
- Robbie says "Chicks can't hold the hot sauce." In the movie, they are smoking, and Brian says "Chicks can't hold the smoke."
- Beck and André straighten Robbie's hair. He asks why they are being so nice to him, and Beck says "Because you're letting us." In the movie, Claire gave Allison a makeover and they said those lines.
- While Beck and André are straightening Robbie's hair, André said to Robbie, "You look a lot better without those black curls in your hair," then Robbie replied, "Hey I like black curls." In the movie, while Claire is putting make-up on Allison, Claire said, "You look a lot better without that black s**t on your eyes," and then Allison replied, "Hey I like that black s**t."
- When Mr. Dickers walks out of the library, Tori shouts, "Forget you!" In the movie, Bender yells, "F**k you!" after Mr. Vernon walked out of the library. (This is also an intentional reference to Cee Lo Green's song "Forget You", where the title is a censored version of its originally explicit title. Coincidentally, the song is covered by Victoria Justice herself.)
- Tori runs around singing "Make It Shine" in a ridiculous and loud voice so the rest of the gang won't get in trouble. In the movie, Bender ran around singing the same way.
- When Jade is harassing Cat about being a vegan, Tori intervenes and tells her to leave Cat alone, similar to the way Andy stood up for Claire when Bender was bothering her. A difference is how each character proposes to deal with the problem: Andy threatens to fight John (Bender) while Tori threatens to unfriend Jade on TheSlap.
- André does a "run dance" after eating a taco. This is similar to how Andrew ran around dancing after smoking in the movie.
- The letter left by Rex at the end is a reference to the one left by the kids in the movie.
- Jade harasses/accuses Cat and Robbie of being vegans. In the movie, Bender harasses/accuses Claire and Brian of being virgins.
- Jade calls Cat "pristine." John (Bender) called Claire the same thing in the original movie.
- The tacos are in a brown paper bag, even though they are already in a paper bag. In the movie the kids go to Bender's locker to get marijuana, it's in a small paper bag that is in multiple other paper bags.
- Robbie doesn't approve of the tacos and asks Cat if she approves of them and she doesn't respond and follows the rest of the gang. In the movie, Brian does the same thing about the marijuana and asks Allison if she approves of it.
- Cat and Robbie try tacos for the first time in the episode. In the movie, Claire and Brian try smoking marijuana for the first time.
- The gang start acting odd after eating tacos. In the movie, everyone starts getting high after they started smoking weed, and similar things start to happen to everyone on the episode.
- Jade said, "When you get old, your butt sags." In the movie, Allison said, "When you get old, your heart dies."
- When they are in detention and doing nothing, Jade is ripping papers from a notepad. In the movie, Bender is ripping pages from a book. Also, André is stretching his leg. In the movie, Andrew is doing the same thing.
- Mr. Dickers locked Tori in a closet. In the movie, Mr. Vernon also locked Bender in a closet.
- Robbie said to Tori, "You're so conceited Tori, you're so conceited." In the movie, Brian said to Claire, "You're so conceited Claire, you're so conceited."
- Cat puts glitter in her hair and shakes it for her picture of the moon. In the film, Allison scratches her hair and dandruff lands on the paper.
- Close to the end when Dickers reads the letter, it shows the gang in the following order: Rex "the puppet", Tori "the future pop star", André "the musician", Beck "the actor", Robbie "the nerd with temporarily straight hair", Jade "the girl who likes scissors", and Cat, who at first says "…and meeeeee!", only for Rex to remind her that we (probably the viewers or Dickers), can't see her, so she just says her name instead, followed by "bye", thus ending the letter. In The Breakfast Club, they call themselves Brian "the brain", Andy "the athlete", Allison "the basket case", Claire "the princess", and John "the criminal".
- At the end, Tori's balloon flew away and it looks like she's punching the air. At the end of the movie, Bender punched the air.
- When Andre is flossing and moving the floss from left to right, it's how Andrew does it with his hoody string.
- During the scene they're dodging Mr. Dickers, when they reach the wet floor sign, Tori shoves the taco bag into Robbie's pants, similar to how Bender shoved the bag of marijuana into Brian's pants.
- When Tori is locked in the janitor's closet with Mr. Dickers, Mr. Dickers asks Tori to pop his arm pimple and she refuses. This may be a reference to the scene in the movie where Mr. Vernon dares Bender to punch him in the face but also refuses.
- During the taco eating scene, when Jade and Robbie are talking about Robbie never eating a taco before, Robbie says he's eaten one with Tori, which was a lie. This is similar to when Bender is making fun of Brian for being a virgin which makes Brian lie about being with Claire.
- Robbie whistling at André during his "run dance" is similar to Brian whistling at Andy when he runs around after smoking.
- After André's "run dance", he yells and a bird explodes in its cage. In the movie, after Andy runs/dances around the library, he yells, shattering a glass window.
- After the "run dance" scene where they are eating tacos again, Robbie bites after the taco. In the movie, when Brian is smoking, he tries to bite at the smoke he's exhaling.
- When they are sitting in a circle at the library, Tori says she has a special talent, and it's shooting a bow and arrow with her foot. Jade makes fun of her and starts yelling at her, similar to Bender yelling at Claire after she shows the group her weird talent: holding her lipstick with her shirt.
- The group dance scene they have is very similar to the one in the movie.
- Ending Tagline: Robbie: "It's average!"
- The panda from iParty with Victorious makes a random appearance in this episode.
- Beck looks and dress the same as Bender did in the original Breakfast Club movie. The only difference is that Bender was wearing earrings.
- Some of Mr. Dicker's actions toward Tori borderline on sexual harassment.
- The episode premiered to almost 3.9 million viewers, and was the most watched scripted cable telecast of the week, the third episode of the show (after the two that aired after the KCAs) to make that claim.
- The song Don't You (Forget About Me) is one of the covers done in Victorious.
- From previous episodes we can see that Dan references Saved by the Bell which is why he paralleled the meanest teacher at Bayside which is Mr. Dickerson with Hollywood Arts meanest teacher who he named Mr. Dickers.
- It is later revealed in a picture on TheSlap that after Tori lost her balloon, Jade found it. The caption read "Jade wouldn't ordinarily pose with a pink balloon, but she's particularly proud of this one since she stole it from Tori."
- This is the second episode where Tori does not post any slap updates. The first being Part 2 of Locked Up!.
- This episode was similar to Regular Show's episode in Cartoon Network when Rigby and Benson got in trouble with Mr. Maynard about Rigby destroying his event. Maynard blamed Benson being Rig's boss. So they Maynard was going to fire Benson, but Benson protested because it was Rigby's fault then the pair started arguing so Maynard locked them in a room so they (Rigby and Benson) would decide who would quit. So Rigs and Benson talked about their problems (reference to when they were sitting down and talking) and then they decided to sneak out to get some wings, reference to when Tori and the gang sneaked out to Tori's locked for the tacos.
Some of these may not be accurate since this episode is considered non-canon
- In the beginning of the episode, there is a sign saying 'Vote for Prom Queen,' although in Prom Wrecker, Tori finds out that Hollywood Arts doesn't have proms, although they may have started having them regularly after Tori's 'prome.'
- They could've also forgot to take it down after Tori's 'prome.'
- When Jade is interrogating Cat about not being a vegan, she says, "Tell us." Right after she says that, she turns her head and looks directly at the camera and then turns back toward Cat.
- Tori states that she has never gotten a detention before, however, she got two weeks of it in Stage Fighting. She may have meant that she had never recieved a Saturday detention before.
- After Mr. Dickers talks that the plate of tuna, the camera cuts to Tori, if you look carefully, Cat is chewing on her hair. But when the camera cuts to Robbie, she's not chewing on it anymore.
- They state that Cat is a vegan, but in A Christmas Tori, she states she loves Christmas beef. However, considering this episode was supposed to air before A Christmas Tori, she may have stopped being a vegan. Also, Robbie says he's a vegan, but in Cat's New Boyfriend he was eating sausage. Cat and Robbie were shown eating steak and Robbie also ate caviar in The Great Ping Pong Scam, and in Locked Up, he ate Yerbanian gravy. But, it's possible that he didn't know what was in it. Robbie didn't even know what caviar was.
- Cat and Robbie are said to have never eaten a taco, but in Jade Gets Crushed they were both excited for spaghetti tacos. They probably mean real (traditional) tacos.
- When asked by Rex, Robbie describes a vegan as someone who doesn't eat meat. This is the definition of a vegetarian. A vegan doesn't eat anything that comes from an animal, including meat, dairy, or eggs.
- On a side note, how could Rex not know that Robbie was a vegan?
- When Mr. Dickers takes Tori to the Janitor's closet after being caught, they turn left, the opposite direction of the closet.
- The Library has two floors, but the secret passageway in the Janitor's Closet goes to the second level of the library. The first level should be directly under the second level, not the closet.
- The first time the gang runs into Mr. Dickers during the running scene, Cat audibly squeals before running for it. Dickers should have heard her.
- While Robbie shares a taco with Cat, there is cheese inside and Robbie is eating it, even though he is supposedly lactose intolerant.
- He could have been mildly lactose intolerant, as some lactose intolerant people are able to eat dairy products with the help of medication.
- On a side note, vegans don't eat dairy.
- Beck had just given Cat some hot sauce when Jade told him to give Cat some hot sauce as if it were Cat's first time, furthermore Cat had no reaction to the hot sauce the first time but the second time she started to cough.
- Mr. Dickers said that there are no phone calls in detention, but Tori used her cell phone to call Trina to get tacos.
- Though Mr. Dickers did leave the cell phones out in the open where they had access to them.
- When Trina ran out the door, you couldn't hear the door slam.
- Just before Andre did his run dance, Beck had a little piece bites of his taco left, but after the run dance where everyone is having fun, Beck is seen to have a full taco in his hand. It is possible they had more tacos in the bag.
- If they want to play Grumpy Gerbils , they can use the PearPads.
- In the library earlier in the episode Robbie claims that toilets swirl backwards in Australia but toilets swirl the same all around the world.
- This is likely because popular culture character Bart Simpson had stated a myth that toilets swirl backwards in the southern hemisphere.
- In reality there are security cameras in the hallways.
- There was no reason for the entire gang to go to Tori's locker to get the tacos in the first place. They could have only sent Tori and waited in the library for her
Mr. Dickers: You mess with the cow, you get the udders. (wriggles fingers, before leaving the room, and shutting the door)
Tori Vega: Forget you!
(Dickers takes the letter and reads it.)
Rex: Dear Mr.Dickers, goodbye from all of us. A puppet.
Tori: A future pop star.
Andre: A musician.
Beck: An actor.
Robbie: A nerd with temporary straight hair.
Jade: A girl who likes scissors.
Cat: And meeeee!
Rex: Cat, they can't see you baby.
Cat: Oh, it's Cat, bye!
Rex: Sincerely, The breakfast bunch. Even though we've never had breakfast as a bunch.
Mr. Dickers: Alright, not another word!
Jade: Word.
Running Gags
- Robbie crying and saying that Tori is "so conceited", a parody from Brian from The Breakfast Club.
- Jade getting suspicious with the others and purposefully harassing Cat and Robbie because they are vegans.
- Mr. Dickers constantly giving the students detention.
For the transcript to Victorious Ep.2 S.3 : The Breakfast Bunch click here.
- In This Together
- Don't You (Forget About Me)
External links
- Danwarp Blog Post
- Cast Picture Dressed as Breakfast Club
- Interviews with Liz Gillies and with Daniella Monet
- Breakfast Club Wiki


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"Dom Capers is an outstanding football coach," McCarthy said with his voice rising. "No one will be evaluated today. We'll go though this just like last year; you guys did this to me last year.
"I'm not going into this thing looking to make big changes, but I'll tell you one thing. When I go though this process, there's things you really like about your program. ... I think Dom Capers is an outstanding football coach and I'm glad he's on our staff."
We're not sure why McCarthy couldn't just say that Capers would be back, but he was clear enough with his intentions. McCarthy isn't looking to make big changes, and removing Capers would be the biggest change possible. Capers' defense dealt with a ton of injuries all season, but it underperformed, especially in the secondary.
McCarthy also made it obvious he has no issues with his offense.
"I felt this was going to be the best offense we ever had here. I thought we were going to go past 2011," McCarthy said.
To close out the session, McCarthy was asked if his offense can now win in any conditions.
"Hell yeah. Don't you think so?" McCarthy said before referencing the vastly improved running game. "I'd put our offense up against anybody's."
We can't disagree. The Packers offense should be among the NFL's best next year. The defense remains the big question.
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But after they escaped with a 23-22 win over the Panthers, Cutler admitted the offense was not where it should have been.
"I'd boo us too, . . . It was a boo-worthy performance," Cutler said, via Fred Mitchell of the Chicago Tribune. "It was pathetic offensively what we put out there offensively.
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Well, luck, a Panthers team that's now 1-10 in games decided by a touchdown or less under Ron Rivera, and Cutler himself.
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The American News reports that the City Council on Monday night voted 6-3 not to implement a proposal that would have banned new pit bulls in the city. Existing pit bulls would have been allowed to stay as long as they were vaccinated against rabies and licensed with a microchip implanted for identification.
The council last spring also weighed a pit bull ban but that proposal died when a vote ended in a 4-4 tie.
Supporters of a ban say it would reduce the number of serious dog attacks in the city. Opponents say such incidents should be dealt with on a case-by-case basis, not by singling out one breed of dog.
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On July 26 the Federal Bureau of Investigation will celebrate its 100th anniversary. To commemorate, the bureau has put together a history series, "FBI 100," that details some of the most significant and high-profile cases of the last 100 years.
The bureau originated with the passage of a 1907 law prohibiting Secret Service operatives from conducting federal criminal investigations. Attorney General Charles Bonaparte, under President Theodore Roosevelt, assembled 10 former Secret Service agents to become special agents within the Department of Justice.
Bonaparte's successor, Attorney General George Wickersham, later named the force the Bureau of Investigation.
Considered the birth of the FBI, the small group of 10 later grew into the agency that now employs more than 30,000 people.
Since its creation in 1908, the FBI has been involved in some of the most celebrated criminal cases of the century.
Here are some of the nation's most sensational crimes, challenging investigations and compelling criminals:
(For more information, click here for the FBI Web site.)
Bonnie and Clyde
Immortalized on the silver screen, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were the most notorious crime couple in American history.
They were said to fall in love instantly when they met in January 1930. Just a few days later 19-year-old Bonnie helped Clyde — at 21 already a multiple felon — escape from jail.
After that, they were forever partners in crime.
From the summer of 1932 to the spring of 1934, the Dallas couple crossed the country in stolen cars, robbing gas stations, grocery stores and sometimes banks. Though Bonnie never fired a gun, Clyde murdered at least a 12 people, including policemen and bystanders.
After joining the chase for the infamous couple in 1933, the FBI discovered ties to the Methvin family in Louisiana and ultimately persuaded them to help. In May 1934 the unsuspecting couple slowed to help Ivy Methvin on the side of the road with an apparently broken down truck. Hiding in bushes, the FBI ambushed the duo and killed the lawless lovers.
The Odd Couple Bank Robbers
Deemed the Odd Couple of Crime, Albert Nussbaum and Bobby Wilcoxson were complete opposites. All they shared, it seemed, was a lust for crime, and together they robbed banks across the nation.
Nussbaum, believed to be the brains of the pair, was a student of crime, constantly perusing books on explosives, electronics, criminal investigations and firearms. Wilcoxson brought the brawn to the team, carrying heavy weaponry and intimidating bankers with his intimidating size and booming voice.
The unlikely pair met in an Ohio prison and reconnected after release, robbing their first bank in Buffalo in 1960. But by June 1961, they made their first mistake: the FBI lifted Nussbaum's fingerprint from a homemade bomb, meant to distract police from the bank robbery, that failed to detonate.
Their fifth bank robbery, in which they recruited accomplice Peter Curry, landed them on the FBI's "Top Ten" fugitive list after it went terribly wrong. A customer fled to alert police while Wilcoxson killed a guard, and the three barely escaped.
Curry was arrested soon after and revealed all he knew about the murderous pair. Forced into hiding, Nussbaum and Wilcoxson used alias and disguises and robbed three more banks before going separate ways after a falling out.
Lost without his partner, Nussbaum contacted his estranged wife, who turned him in. Wilcoxson was caught six days later and the two ultimately pled guilty and were sentenced to life in prison in February 1964.
The Lindbergh Kidnapping
After making his historic nonstop flight across the Atlantic, aviator Charles Lindbergh and his wife hoped to avoid the media spotlight by retreating to rural Hopewell, N.J. But their dreams of private peace were shattered on March 1, 1932, when someone leaned a ladder against their house, climbed through a window and took the couple's sleeping 20-month-old son from his nursery, leaving behind only a ransom note demanding $50,000.
More ransom notes led to a meeting, where Dr. John Condon represented the Lindbergh family and paid a man who called himself "John" $50,000 in gold certificates for the child's safe return.
It didn't work. The boy's body was found on May 12 of that year — less than five miles from the Lindbergh home — killed by a blow to the head soon after the kidnapping.
Working with Condon, the FBI developed a sketch of "John" and determined from studies of the ransom notes handwriting that he was German. Following reports of gold certificates that matched the ransom money, the FBI closed in on New York City. A gas station attendant wrote down the license plate of a car used by a man who cashed one of the gold certificates.
Bruno Richard Hauptmann, a German carpenter living in the Bronx who closely resembled the FBI's sketch of the suspect, was arrested in September 1934. Hauptmann's handwriting matched the ransom notes, and more ransom money was found in his home, as were and tools matching tool marks on the ladder from the crime scene. He was convicted and sentenced to death in 1935.
The World Trade Center Bombing
On Friday, February 26, 1993, a massive eruption in the parking garage beneath the World Trade Center in New York created a nearly 100-foot crater extending many stories deep and several more high. The blast killed six people instantly, and many more were soon trapped by the smoke and flames that began to fill the void and permeate the structure above.
With injuries ranging from crushed limbs to sprains, more than 1,000 people were hurt. Before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack, the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center was one of the worst acts of terrorism the city had ever seen.
A van stolen the day before the attack was suspiciously destroyed in the rubble. On March 4 an FBI SWAT team arrested Mohammad Salameh, an Islamic fundamentalist who had rented the vehicle and tried to get the deposit back.
Clues from his arrest led to the discovery of the apartment where the bomb was created, a storage locker with enough cyanide to wipe out an entire town, and ultimately the arrest of three more suspects — Nidal Ayyad, Mahmoud Abouhalima and Ahmed Ajaj. Each was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
The arrests led the FBI and New York's joint terrorism task force to a greater plot to simultaneously bomb multiple New York landmarks, including the United Nations building and the FBI building. In June 1994, the FBI stormed a warehouse and caught other members of a terrorist cell assembling bombs.
The mastermind, Ramzi Yousef, was ultimately captured in Pakistan in 1995. He was planning an attack on the U.S. involving airplanes. His uncle, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, later became the alleged mastermind behind the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
The Unabomber
Ted Kaczynski, known as the "Unabomber," is now almost a household name. But during the 20-year investigation following his first bomb at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1978, he was the perfect anonymous killer.
During his 17-year bombing spree he killed three Americans, injured 24 and instilled widespread fear and panic with threats to blow up airliners in flight. His nickname is derived from the 1979 task force created to investigate his crimes, called "UNABOM" for the UNiversity and Airline BOMbing targets involved.
Forensic examinations were virtually useless, as Kaczynski was extremely careful to avoid leaving clues by creating bombs from untraceable scrap materials available anywhere. And his victims were targets randomly chosen from library research.
In 1995 the Unabomber sent the FBI a 35,000-word essay detailing his motives and objections to modern society. Despite initial hesitations, the FBI released the manifesto to the public, and David Kaczynski contacted the FBI and suggested it might have been written by his troubled brother Ted. On April 3, 1996, the FBI arrested Kaczynski in his 10-foot-by-14-foot cabin near Lincoln, Mont., where they found an arsenal of bomb components, 40,000 revealing journal pages and one live bomb.
Kaczynski pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in isolation at a "Supermax" prison in Colorado.
Jonestown Cult Murder-Suicide
Jonestown was a makeshift settlement of more then 900 people in the jungle of Guyana created by Jim Jones and his cult-like following, called the People's Temple.
Reports began to surface about the group, suggesting abuse, forced labor, imprisonments, the use of drugs to control behavior, suspicious deaths and mass suicide rehearsals.
In November 1978, California Rep. Leo Ryan brought the press to check out the rumors and learned that many members wanted to leave with Ryan. The congressman ordered two planes to bring the entire group to escape together, but as they assembled on the airstrip, armed men from Jonestown emerged in trucks, opening fire on one plane while one member of the sect, Larry Layton, began shooting from inside the plane.
Ryan and many others were killed. Arguing that their attack on the planes would bring Jonestown residents harm, Jones persuaded more then 900 sect members — including more than 200 children — to drink a fruit drink laced with cyanide.
Along with the poisoned followers, Jones was found dead, with a gunshot wound to the head. An extensive investigation involving the few survivors of the Jonestown disaster led to the arrest of Larry Layton, who was the only member of the Peoples Temple tried in the U.S. for crimes at Jonestown. He was sentenced to life in prison.
The 1963 Birmingham Baptist Church Bombing
On Sept. 15, 1963, a dynamite bomb exploded in a Birmingham, Ala., Baptist Church, killing four African-American girls and injuring more than 20 others inside.
The crime was an act of racial hatred on the church, which hosted key civil rights meetings and had been the target of many bomb threats. The FBI launched an investigation immediately and continued throughout September and October as agents infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan and other local anti-black groups.
By 1965 the FBI had serious suspects, including KKK members Robert E. Chambliss, Bobby Frank Cherry, Herman Frank Cash and Thomas E. Blanton, Jr. But locals were hesitant to talk and there was little physical evidence.
Ultimately, Chambliss's conviction and life sentence in 1977 led to the cooperation of previously reluctant witnesses, and after the case re-opened in the mid-1990s, Blanton and Cherry were convicted and sentenced to life in prison in 2000. Cash had died in 1994.
Wall Street Bombing
One of the first acts of terrorism on U.S. soil still remains a mystery.
The flood of Wall Street lunch-goers didn't notice a nondescript man on a horse-drawn cart outside the U.S. Assay Office on Sept. 16, 1920. After the man quickly disappeared into the crowd, the cart exploded, killing more than 30 people and injuring near 300 as metal fragments rained from the sky.
Speculations of conspiracy and terrorism abounded, but crews cleaned the damage overnight (not realizing they were destroying crucial evidence), leaving almost no clues behind.
The best tip came prior to the explosion. A letter carrier found four crudely spelled and printed flyers in the area from a group demanding the release of political prisoners. The group, called the "American Anarchist Fighters," resembled the Italian Anarchists that used similar flyers in two prior bombing campaigns.
The FBI originally suspected followers of Italian Anarchist Luigi Galleani, but the case couldn't be proved and promising trails became dead ends.
The case remains unsolved.
Hollow Nickel, Hidden Agent
A Brooklyn newspaper boy dropped a nickel in 1953 and the coin split in half, revealing a miniature photograph with a series of numbers too small to see. As he picked it up, he was unaware that he held the nation's security in his hands.
Deemed evidence of counterintelligence, the nickel made its way to the FBI. The bureau began questioning people who handled the nickel and novelty store owners who might sell similar products, but they got no leads. FBI Lab scientists in Washington, however, realized the coin's type-print came from a foreign typewriter, and that the photograph was a coded message, but they couldn't crack it.
Four years later, when Russian spy Reino Hayhanen defected to the U.S., he led agents to a "dead drop hiding place" where the FBI found a hollowed-out bolt with a typewritten message inside.
He shared similar hollowed-out items, including a coin, and the connection was made. Hayhanen aided in cracking the code, which put them on the trail of Soviet spy Colonel Rudolf Abel, who Hayhanen believed to be the nickel's owner.
Abel was convicted and sentenced to jail in 1957, but he evaded his prison time as he was exchanged for an American pilot, Francis Gary Powers, who was shot down over the USSR.
Mississippi Burning
The so-called "Freedom Summer" marked a massive three-month initiative to register southern African-Americans to vote as a counterattack to the Ku Klux Klan's campaign of fear and intimidation.
In June 1964, the Klan in Mississippi responded, targeting New Yorker Michael Schwerner, a key figure in organizing local boycotts of biased businesses and voter registration.
On June 16, acting on a faulty tip, the Klan searched a local church meeting for him. When the discovered he wasn't there they burned the church and beat the churchgoers. Schwerner arrived on June 20 to investigate the fire.
He and two fellow activists were arrested by Deputy Sheriff Cecil Price shortly after leaving the church, allegedly for speeding. KKK members followed Schwerner's car after their release, and the three were never heard from again.
On June 23, the FBI discovered the remains of Schwerner's blue station wagon and commenced a search for the bodies.
More than 15 suspects, including Price, were indicted and arrested.
Years of court battles led to only seven guilty convictions of the 18 defendants, but none for murder charges.
In 2005, the 41st anniversary of the murders, Edgar Ray Killen, one of the conspirators, was convicted of manslaughter.


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Fox Greets First Day Of Health Care Exchanges With Lies
Research ››› ››› ZACHARY PLEAT & MICHELLE LEUNG
Fox News greeted the opening of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchanges on October 1 with lies about the law. Contrary to Fox guest and serial health care misinformer Betsy McCaughey's claims, Congress does not get a "special subsidy" for health insurance, the law does not cut Medicare benefits, and plans offered on the exchanges will provide a variety of benefits.
Exchanges Opened Oct. 1 For Uninsured To Compare And Purchase Health Plans
NY Times: Exchanges Provide Individuals With "Online Marketplace To Compare Health Insurance Plans And Then Buy The Coverage." A September 27 New York Times guide to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchanges explained that they are designed to help people compare and purchase health insurance:
[A]fter much anticipation, the curtain will finally rise on the exchanges next week, providing millions of consumers with an online marketplace to compare health insurance plans and then buy the coverage on the spot.
The exchanges are likely to be most attractive to people who qualify for subsidized coverage. Individuals with low and moderate incomes may be eligible for a tax credit, which can be used right away, like a gift card, to reduce their monthly premiums. People with pre-existing conditions will no longer be denied coverage or charged more (this applies to most plans outside the exchanges, too). And all of the plans on the exchanges will be required to cover a list of essential services, from maternity care to mental health care.
"In today's individual market, it's like Swiss cheese coverage," said Sarah Dash, a research fellow at the Health Policy Institute at Georgetown University. "Consumers should have an easier time figuring out what they are getting for their money." [The New York Times, 9/27/13]
NPR: New Exchanges Will Benefit Uninsured Or Those Without Employer-Provided Insurance. A September 30 NPR blog post explained that the exchanges are meant to help those currently without insurance and those who do not receive insurance from an employer:
[M]ajor pieces of the federal health law are expected to kick in Tuesday.
These insurance marketplaces, or exchanges, have gotten the lion's share of attention lately, but who should be looking to buy insurance on the exchanges anyway?
Well, definitely not everyone. These exchanges are for two major groups of people: Those who don't have insurance now, and those who currently purchase their own insurance, meaning they don't get it through an employer. [NPR, 9/30/13]
FactCheck.org: Congress And Their Staff Are Required To Purchase Insurance Through Exchanges. Unlike other Americans who already have insurance through their employer, members of Congress and some of their staff must purchase health insurance on an ACA exchange. FactCheck.org explains:
Under the health care law, their insurance coverage will have to switch from the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, the group of private insurance plans that cover 8 million federal employees and retirees, to the exchanges created by the law. Those exchanges are meant for those who buy coverage on their own, the currently uninsured and small businesses. Members of Congress and their staffs would be the only employees of a large employer in the exchanges, which are set to begin offering insurance in January. [FactCheck.org, 8/7/13]
Fox Pushes Myth That Democrats Wanted "Special" Health Care Subsidy For Congress
Fox Guest Betsy McCaughey: Senate Democrats Wanted To Keep "Special Subsidy" That No Other Americans Have. On Fox & Friends, Fox guest and serial health care misinformer Betsy McCaughey responded to a viewer's question from Twitter that asked, "Why do any citizens have to comply when the Congress, Senate, SCOTUS, Big Corps, and Unions don't," by pushing the falsehood that members of Congress are receiving a "special subsidy" to help pay for health insurance on the exchanges and that Democrats insisted on keeping this "perk":
McCAUGHEY: Great question. Section 1312 of this law says that members of Congress have to enroll in the health insurance exchanges, on the philosophy that what's good enough for the public is good enough for Congress. But in August, the president weaseled a special subsidy for members of Congress that nobody else in America--
STEVE DOOCY (co-host): Just on his own. Just out of nowhere. He did it on his own.
McCAUGHEY: Yes, he did. Out of nowhere, no legal authorization, he weaseled this special subsidy that no one else in America earning $174,000 a year, what Congress earns, could possibly get. Now, yesterday, the House of Representatives attached to their bill to fund the government, a provision stripping away that illegal and quite nasty subsidy, right. But when they sent it to the Senate, the Senate Democrats said we want that perk. And it's a major reason that they refused to compromise with the House, because they don't want to have to live under the same law they've imposed on everybody else. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 10/1/13]
Congress Is Just Receiving Its Traditional Employer Contribution
FactCheck.org: "'Special Subsidy' ... Is Simply A Premium Contribution" The Federal Government Has "Long Made To The Health Insurance Policies Of Its Workers." A Factcheck.org article from August 30 explained that a similar claim made by Rep. Robert Pittenger (R-NC) that the ACA includes a "special subsidy" that exempted Congress was "misleading" and that "lawmakers and their staffs face additional requirements that other Americans don't":
Republican Rep. Robert Pittenger is misleading his constituents by saying that he will decline the health insurance offered to members of Congress next year because it includes a "special subsidy" from the president that "exempted" Congress from the Affordable Care Act.
Congress isn't "exempt" from the law. It wasn't exempt back in 2010, when we first debunked such a claim; nor were lawmakers exempt in May when the bogus bit surfaced again. Three months later, they're still not exempt. In fact, as we've said before, lawmakers and their staffs face additional requirements that other Americans don't. And the "special subsidy" to which Pittenger refers is simply a premium contribution that his employer, the federal government, has long made to the health insurance policies of its workers.
Our readers may recall that before this provision was created, there were claims circulating that Congress was "exempt" from the law. This twisted reading of the legislation was based on the fact that originally Congress, like other Americans with work-based insurance or Americans on Medicare and Medicaid, wouldn't be eligible for the exchanges. In other words, Congress was supposedly "exempt" when members couldn't participate in the exchanges, and now that they are required to do so, they're still somehow "exempt" from the law. Neither of these convoluted claims is true. [FactCheck.org, 8/30/13]
Wash. Post: Congressional Employees Will Be "Ineligible For Any Tax Credits Or Subsidies" Beyond Traditional Employer Contribution. According to a post on The Washington Post's Wonkblog, Ezra Klein explained that because the exchanges were not meant for employers, the entire cost of purchasing insurance would fall on members of Congress and their staffs. To remedy this, the "Obama administration's compromise is to permit the federal government to contribute toward employee insurance on the exchanges, but to render those employees ineligible for any tax credits or subsidies." [The Washington Post, Wonkblog, 8/1/13]
New Republic: "Like The Death Panels And Immigration Myths, The Suggestion That Obama Made Congress Exempt From His Health Care Law Seems Impervious To Reality." Jonathan Cohn explained in an August 13 piece in the New Republic that members of Congress and their staff would lose their federal health plans and enter into the new exchanges, but continue receiving their standard employer contributions:
The federal government, like most large employers, not only provides the opportunity for its workers to get insurance. It also pays a large portion of the premium. Now that lawmakers and their advisers were going into the exchanges, what would happen to that contribution? Would they just lose the money?
The answer, the administration decided last week, is no. Lawmakers and their staffs could keep their employer contributions, and apply that money towards the cost of whatever insurance they buy in the exchanges. It's actually true to Grassley's ostensible purpose, which was making sure members of lawmakers and their advisers have a stake in the success of the exchanges.
Like the death panels and immigration myths, the suggestion that Obama made Congress exempt from his health care law seems impervious to reality. [New Republic, 8/13/13]
Some Republicans Did Not Want To Remove Traditional Employer Contribution For Congress
Mother Jones: Some Republican Lawmakers Were Wary Of Removing Employer Contribution For Congress. A Mother Jones article on Republican congressional staffers angry about GOP efforts to remove the employer premium contribution reported that some Republican lawmakers also opposed ending the contribution:
There's a new front in the battle over Obamacare: Republican congressional staffers are angry at their bosses for trying to deprive them of affordable insurance.
Some Republican lawmakers agree: Rep. Peter King (R-NY), said Monday that junior staff members were being "sacrificed" for a political game. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) told ABC that bumping up health care costs for staffers was "probably not a good idea," adding that low-paid staffers will "suffer."
Julian Zelizer, a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University, thinks the GOP has picked a losing strategy. "You never want your staffers unhappy," he says. [Mother Jones, 9/30/13]
NY Times: Republicans Had "Significant Qualms" About Removing Employer Subsidy For Congress. The New York Times reported on the Republicans' shifting demands to avert a government shutdown, noting that some Republicans were wary of a GOP plan to attach a ban on employer contributions for members of Congress and their staff to a government funding bill:
House Republicans will attach language to a government funding bill that would delay the mandate that individuals purchase health care and would ensure no government subsidies for members of Congress and their staff who purchase insurance on the health care law's new exchanges.
Unlike Saturday, when House Republicans emerged excited and unified by their proposal, this time there were significant qualms. Representative Chris Stewart, Republican of Utah, said members were standing to say they have sick children who will be difficult to insure,'or they themselves will struggle to purchase insurance, whether because of their age or their health conditions.
The House will vote again this evening, but this time passage is not ensured.
"There are definitely some people who are very much not for it. We'll see what happens on the floor tonight," said Representative Bill Shuster, Republican of Pennsylvania. [The New York Times, 9/30/13]
Fox Pushes Myth That Health Care Law Cuts Medicare Benefits
Fox Guest McCaughey: "Seniors Can Expect Less Care" Due To Medicare Cuts. On Fox & Friends, when asked if people receiving Medicare would have to move to a new insurance plan under the ACA, McCaughey responded:
McCAUGHEY: Obamacare is for people under 65, if you're on Medicare that qualifies as insurance, but be aware that cuts to Medicare funding pay for over half this law. So the chief actuary of Medicare has warned that seniors can expect less care, hospitals are going to receive less money because of the Medicare cuts, so they're already laying off nurses and spreading care a bit thinner. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 10/1/2013]
ACA Doesn't Cut Medicare Benefits
Wash. Post: Medicare Cost Reductions Do Not Cut Any Benefits. The Washington Post's Wonkblog explained that the majority of cuts to Medicare "come from reductions in how much Medicare reimburses hospitals and private health insurance companies," but made clear that "there's one area these cuts don't touch: Medicare benefits. The Affordable Care Act rolls back payment rates for hospitals and insurers. It does not, however, change the basket of benefits that patients have access to." [The Washington Post, Wonkblog, 8/14/12]
FactCheck.org: "The Law Stipulates That Guaranteed Medicare Benefits Won't Be Reduced, And It Adds Some New Benefits." According to FactCheck.org, the health care law "stipulates that guaranteed Medicare benefits won't be reduced, and it adds some new benefits, such as improved coverage for pharmaceuticals." From FactCheck.org:
As we have written many times, the law does not slash the current Medicare budget by $500 billion. Rather, that's a $500 billion reduction in the future growth of Medicare over 10 years, or about a 7 percent reduction in growth over the decade. In other words, Medicare spending would continue to rise, just not as much. The law stipulates that guaranteed Medicare benefits won't be reduced, and it adds some new benefits, such as improved coverage for pharmaceuticals.
Most of those savings come from a reduction in the future growth of payments to hospitals and other providers (not physicians), and a reduction in payments to private Medicare Advantage plans to bring those payments in line with traditional Medicare. (MA plans have been paid more per beneficiary than traditional Medicare.)
And it assumes they actually happen. There's good reason to think that some of those reductions won't be implemented. The law calls for cuts in the future growth of reimbursement payments to hospitals and other health care providers -- that accounts for $219 billion of the Medicare savings in the law. But Congress has consistently overridden similar scheduled cuts in payments to doctors. [FactCheck.org, 6/28/12]
Kaiser Health News: Medicare Will Now Provide More Preventative Care Services. Kaiser Health News explained that Medicare officials "stressed" that the reductions to Medicare spending "will not reduce Medicare benefits." The article also explained that Medicare beneficiaries will be provided with more preventative care services:
Beneficiaries receive more preventative care services - including a yearly "wellness" visit, mammograms, colorectal screening, and more savings on prescription drug coverage. By 2020, the law will close the Medicare gap in prescription drug coverage, known as the "doughnut hole." Seniors will still be responsible for 25 percent of their prescription drug costs. [Kaiser Health News, 9/23/13]
Fox Pushes Myth That Insurance Exchange Plans Will Only Offer Minimum Set Of Benefits
Fox Guest McCaughey: All Plans On Exchanges Will Only Have Essential Benefits Included. On Fox & Friends, while answering a viewer's question about what an exchange is, McCaughey claimed that the exchanges will only sell one set of benefits:
McCAUGHEY: The president says it's like a shopping mall, but in fact, it's more like going to a supermarket that only sells cereal. It's just going to sell one thing, the essential benefit package required by the government. You'll see different levels, bronze, silver, gold, and platinum, but it's definitely not the jewelry store, all those plans have the same benefit package. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 10/1/13]
Essential Health Benefits Are Just A Minimum Requirement -- Plans Can Offer Additional Benefits
HealthCare.gov: Essential Health Benefits Are "Minimum Requirements" For Plans Sold On Exchanges, And Plans "May Offer Additional Coverage." From HealthCare.gov's explainer about the essential health benefits required in all plans sold on the ACA exchanges:
All private health insurance plans offered in the Marketplace will offer the same set of essential health benefits. These are services all plans must cover.
The essential health benefits include at least the following items and services:
- Ambulatory patient services (outpatient care you get without being admitted to a hospital)
- Emergency services
- Hospitalization (such as surgery)
- Maternity and newborn care (care before and after your baby is born)
- Mental health and substance use disorder services, including behavioral health treatment (this includes counseling and psychotherapy)
- Prescription drugs
- Rehabilitative and habilitative services and devices (services and devices to help people with injuries, disabilities, or chronic conditions gain or recover mental and physical skills)
- Laboratory services
- Preventive and wellness services and chronic disease management
- Pediatric services
Essential health benefits are minimum requirements for all plans in the Marketplace. Plans may offer additional coverage. You will see exactly what each plan offers when you compare them side-by-side in the Marketplace. [HealthCare.gov, accessed 10/1/13]
NY Times: Plans Can Offer Additional Benefits Or Services. A New York Times guide to the ACA exchanges explained that the coverage offered by plans on the exchanges can include additional benefits besides the minimum required essential benefits:
Q. What sort of coverage will be offered?
A. All plans will have to provide the same set of essential benefits, including prescriptions, preventive care, doctor visits, emergency services and hospitalization (this also applies to most individual and small-employer group plans sold outside of the exchanges). But plans can offer additional benefits, or different numbers of services like physical therapy, so you'll need to do a side-by-side comparison to see what fits your needs -- or at least the needs you can anticipate. [The New York Times, 9/27/13]
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REAL NAME: David Cash
BORN: July 31, 1969 in Johnston City, TN
ALIASES/NICKNAMES: Davey Kash
A former ECW Television Champion, Kid Kash may have gotten his wish, released by NWA-TNA so that he might reunite with his "Extreme" Comrades. But the question is: what does the future hold for Kash once the Hardcore Homecoming has ended?
A former welder by trade, Kash has been wrestling since 1990, when at the age of 18, he was "discovered" at a Tennessee gym. He was trained by legendary tag team wrestler Ricky Morton and Tim Horner. Kash spent his formative years wrestling on independent shows throughout the Southern United States, wrestling legends like Morton, Wahoo McDaniel and Greg Valentine.
In 1999, Kash joined Extreme Championship Wrestling and began to work his way up the card, not even letting a broken jaw stand in his way. He even turned down a contract to wrestle for WCW to stay with ECW. On August 26, 2000, Kash defeated Rhyno to become the ECW Television Champion.
After the demise of ECW, Kash went back to the independents for a couple of years. He won a battle royale in November, 2001 to claim the XWF Cruiserweight Championship.
In the summer of 2002, Kash signed on with NWA-TNA. He impressed in his debut in August 2002. He took his losses for the first few months, until October 2002 when he began getting victories over the likes of Tony Mamaluke and Jorge Estrada.
On December 9, 2002, Kash received a tryout match with the WWE, but things didn't work out and he remained with NWA-TNA. As 2002 became 2003, Kash took on a valet named Trinity, and began to chase Sonny Siaki, the X Division Champion. On February 12, 2003, the chase paid off as Kash defeated Siaki for the X-Title.
While Kash had the title belt (one he would defend against Paul London, Jason Cross and the Amazing Red, among others), the relationship between he and Trinity would sour. Trinity walked out on Kash during an April 9th loss to Raven and then Kash allowed Trinity to be H-bombed by the Harris Brothers. The pair even wrestled, with Kash getting the win during those bouts.
During the summer of 2003, Kash became a "legend killer" of sorts, defeating veterans like Larry Zbyszko, Bobby Eaton and even the man who trained him, Ricky Morton.
In September, 2003, Kash began to team with Abyss, taking on America's Most Wanted on a couple of occassions. However, the Abyss/Kash team came to a bad end when Kash blamed Abyss for a crucial tag team loss, only to have Abyss decide he'd had enough.
After a short program against Abyss and later Don Harris, Kash aligned himself with Jeff Jarrett and began to intimidate other NWA-TNA stars into signing a loyalty pledge to Jarrett.
In the spring of 2004, Kash began teaming with Dallas as part of the NWA Tag Team title tournament. On April 7, 2004, the team of Kash and Dallas defeated Low Ki and Chris Daniels to win the tournament and become the new NWA World Tag Team Champions.
Within two weeks of that victory, Kash and Dallas had dropped, and then regained, the tag titles from Apollo and D-Lo Brown. They would continue to battle D-Lo and Apollo, as well as James Storm and Dusty Rhodes in defence of the tag team titles, until a loss to America's Most Wanted on June 4th, cost them the belts.
Kash was to have faced A.J. Styles but a broken fibula and a suspension from NWA-TNA over negative comments he made during a radio show left Kash on the sidelines for nearly a month. When he returned, he once again began to work towards a match against Styles, with a "tables" match coming on September 8th, with Styles coming out the winner.
Kash would spend the majority of the next few months in tag team action, as well as competing in the X-Division. He would feud with Dustin Rhodes (including a loss at Final Resolution) and, with Lance Hoyt (formerly known as Dallas), America's Most Wanted.
In April 2005, Kash's comments on the radio show Wrestling News Live Sunday Night got him in trouble with NWA-TNA management. He was very critical of the organization and talent such as America's Most Wanted, stating that he wanted TNA to release him from his contract. On April 19th, NWA-TNA did just that.
After some indy dates,Kash headed to Ohio Valley Wrestling, battling Frankie Kazarian to a draw in the TV tournament.
Kash also worked both Shane Douglas' Hardcore Homecoming and ECW's One Night Stand. The next night, Kash lost to Tajiri on an episode of Sunday Night Heat.
Kash would spend the summer of 2005 still working the independent circuit, before settling down in Deep South Wrestling, where he teamed frequently with Johnny Parisi. In October, he went on the road with the Smackdown crew, and battled Juventud Guerrero on several occassions as well as Paul London, Scotty Too Hotty and Brian Kendrick.
Although he would continue to work for Deep South Wrestling, Kid Kash soon began to make an impact on Smackdown. Kash went to Armageddon and defeated Juventud to become the WWE Cruiserweight Champion.
Unfortunately, soon after, Kash suffered a severely bruised arm during a January 5 2006 Deep South match against Tony Santorelli. He made several title defences mostly in triple threat and fatal fourway matches where he lost the match via disqualification but not the title.
Then, at the Royal Rumble, Gregory Helms won the title as part of a Cruiserweight Open match. The loss allowed Kash to recover from his injury and begin competing full-time again in a matter of weeks.
When he returned, Kash did (unsuccessfully) attempt to regain the Cruiserweight Championship. However, more and more he was found teaming with Jamie Noble. Initially seen in action on Velocity, Kash and Noble, dubbed "the Pitbulls" began appearing on Smackdown and are taking a run at the Tag Team titles, currently held by Paul Londonand Brian Kendrick. The Pitbulls came away from their title shot at the Great American Bash empty-handed but few expect that title shot to be their last.
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LOS ANGELES - Laurence D. (Larry) Fink ('76), BlackRock's chairman and CEO, returned to the UCLA campus Thursday, April 22 and offered a sobering view of the country's financial industry as well as prescriptions for restoring its vitality and the confidence of the nation.
Fink, the namesake (along with his wife Lori) of Anderson's Fink Center for Finance and Investments, joined UCLA Anderson Dean Judy Olian on the Korn Convocation Hall stage for a wide-ranging conversation before a standing-room-only audience. In her opening remarks, Olian described Fink, whose company manages over three trillion dollars in assets as "a giant on Wall Street" whose advice is sought by other CEOs and governments. She reminded the mostly-student crowd that Fink's success was "all because of UCLA Anderson."
"We were a society, from the president to the individual, that allowed us to lived way beyond our means, and we had a financial system that encouraged it, and we encouraged it to a point where we had a cataclysmic fall," Fink said. "We were very close to ... going into another depression. We were almost at the cusp of a severe breakdown where society as we know it would have changed. It is time now for us to rebuild a system in which we are not allowing ourselves to be in that position again."
Fink said he believes "financial reform is necessary," comparing the need to changes in traffic regulations when cars replaced horses "and the country needed stop lights and curbs on the roads."
"That cost a lot of money," Fink said. "Now we need better curbs in the roads, better stop lights to regulate our system, making sure that we have a system that is sounder, safe but more importantly, a system in which we as investors can feel comfortable that we're more protected and a greater opportunity to win."
Alluding to regulations proposed by President Barack Obama, Fink said BlackRock was entirely supportive, noting that he had conveyed the same point of view to members of congress and others in the administration as well.
Several times throughout the evening, Fink stressed the dangers posed by highly-leveraged institutions and the need to protect society against over-leveraging. He said he believes that more structure of leveraged institutions will lead to greater dependency on capital markets.
"We're going to see more capital-raising in the financial markets, whether it's the bond market or the equity market," Fink said, a reference to the record amounts of bond issuance worldwide and record numbers of IPOs in China and other parts of the world. "We're actually seeing the capital markets play a much more significant role not just here in the United States but in Asia and in Europe and now that societies are more dependent on these capital markets, now we need to put more structure in the capital markets."
Olian reminded Fink that he last addressed an Anderson gathering in September 2008 as major Wall Street institutions were collapsing, an appearance in which he expressed concerns about the financial industry and the country's future at that time. Nineteen months later, Fink said he is much more optimistic.
"We have done more 'construction destruction' than any Western country," Fink said, citing as one example, the auto industry where bankruptcies and reforms have significantly reduced the cost of producing cars.
Fink applauded the strength of U.S. corporations, which, despite loss of business, were not irreparably harmed by the credit crises. "Business dropped a lot, but they were strong going into (the crisis) and they're stronger now. We are the country that created Google and Apple ... we are a dynamic force.
"We're a much improved country," he said. "I'm very bullish on the United States."
About UCLA Anderson School of Management
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Judge Says Jury Should Decide Sturgis Trademark
STURGIS - Both sides in a legal dispute involving the trademark for the name "Sturgis" say recommendations by a federal magistrate judge are positive.
Judge John Simko says a jury ultimately should decide the matter. The Rapid City Journal reports Simko is recommending U.S. Chief District Judge Jeffrey Viken deny motions by both sides that he rule in their favor.
Sturgis Motorcycle Rally Inc. has sued Rushmore Photo & Gifts and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. over its Sturgis trademark. The group says the trademark is needed to protect the quality of products connected with the rally that draws hundreds of thousands of people every year.
The defendants say the term is geographically descriptive and shouldn't be trademarked, and that non-licensed vendors have been selling goods bearing "Sturgis" for decades.
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Adrian I. Lee, 90, formerly of Chestnut Hill, a columnist for Philadelphia newspapers, died June 15 of a respiratory infection at Cathedral Village, Andorra.
Mr. Lee had been a columnist for the Evening Bulletin for many years, starting at the paper in 1948 as a general assignment and police reporter and later serving as a rewrite man, national reporter and editorial writer. When the Bulletin closed in 1982, he became a columnist at the Philadelphia Daily News.
For his coverage of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas for the Bulletin, he was presented with a best-writing award from the Philadelphia Press Association.
A political conservative, Mr. Lee had been a confidante of Mayor Frank L. Rizzo and a friend of President Richard Nixon. In 1988 he was a speechwriter for Attorney General Edwin G. Meese.
Mr. Lee and his wife, Marie, raised a family in Chestnut Hill, lived for a time in Flourtown and moved to Cathedral Village four years ago.
Raised in Miami, he earned a bachelor's degree in Greek from Spring Hill College in Mobile, Ala.
During World War II, he served in the Navy in the Pacific theater on landing craft that provided fire support for amphibious landings.
In addition to his wife, Mr. Lee is survived by sons Andy, Tom and Owen; daughters Ann Hughes, Louisa Viele and Katie, and seven grandchildren.
A funeral Mass was celebrated on June 20 at Immaculate Heart of Mary Roman Catholic Church in Andorra. Interment was in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery.
Memorial donations may be made to the Autism Research Institute, 4182 Adams Ave., San Diego, CA 92116 – WF
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Islamists post images of dead on Twitter
Pictures of corpses 'inspiring others by portraying martyrs as heroes'
A disturbing new social-media trend has come to light in the Middle East in which friends and family celebrate the deaths of jihadists by posting photos of their corpses on Twitter.
The celebrants note that in some cases, the "martyrs" killed in "holy wars" in Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia and elsewhere seem to be smiling.
The report comes from the Middle East Media Research Institute, which has compiled the gruesome posts and photos from January and February to bring attention to the new trend.
Among the "martyrs" are prominent Muslim sheiks, writers on online jihadi forums and ordinary Muslim men who died carrying out jihad.
The language of the tweets is particularly disturbing. Rather than conveying a sense of tragedy and loss over the deaths, the tweets are more inspirational, portraying the deceased as heroes. Most include a plea to Allah to "accept" the "martyrs" into paradise.
Twitter user @omarz7 tweeted under an image: "The Iraqi Spring #Syria #Immediate #Iraqi revolution. We inform Muslims in general, and to our family in Al-A'zamiyah in particular, the news about the martyrdom of our heroic mujahid brother, the son of Al-A'zamiyah, the pious heroic hero, Muhammad Ghassan Kilan who was martyred in the battle of Al-Yarmook Camp [fighting along] with the heroes of the FSA in defending Syria from the shabiha [thugs] and Safavids [meaning the Iranians]. Muhammad Kilan rose to defend Syria during the first days of the Syrian revolution. It's our promise not to forget you O Muhammad Kilan, O you are our brother and beloved one. Truly, your departure is difficult for us O Muhammad, and we will not forget you, O cub of Al-A'zamiya."
Many of the tweets also serve as a means of informing the families of their lost loved ones.
The Islamic term "jihad" is translated as "struggle." Muslim scholars speak of a "greater jihad," an internal, spiritual struggle, and a "lesser jihad," or outward struggle widely interpreted as holy war.
A sampling of the tweets shows the pleas to Allah to accept the dead, and several mention the smiles the "martyrs" appear to be displaying in death.
On Jan. 19, @Qurrah000, tweeted, "Martyr Mujahid Abdulla Bawazir, may Allah accept him, his face shines [even as] a martyr #Ansar al-Sharia #al-Qaeda #Yemen."
As reported by the Middle East Research Institute, the Comprehensive Military Library, a jihadi twitter account which uses the handle @mktbh_askreih, posted pictures of the body of Sheik Khalid ibn 'Abd Al-Rahman Al-Husseinan, a senior al-Qaida figure who was killed in a drone attack in early December 2012.
"We bring to you the happy news of the wedding [martyrdom] of the martyr al-Sheikh Abdallah Al-Hussein from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He was martyred a few hours ago in Allepo of the martyrs" – Liwa Al-Ummah
"The martyr, whom we believe to be Zayd Al-Bawaridi 'Abu Osama Al-Tamimi' got martyred as we believe in the Battle of Yaacoubia in the reef of Idlib on January 24, 1434, [of the Islamic calendar]. The picture is from two months after his martyrdom. May Allah accept him. His wound doesn't stop flowing blood."
"[Words addressed to clerics or to rulers]: Whether you opened the gates of jihad or you didn't, the men and the heroes of Saudi Arabia leapt to jihad in the land of Syria. Allah will bring back to life our heroic people Abdalaziz al-Jaghiman and Abdallah Al-Hussein."
The MEMRI report contains a warning about the graphic nature of the images.
The report compiled by Steven Stalinsky, the organization's executive director, even has before-and-after images, showing the jihadist alive and dead.
One announcement said: "Congrats to me, congrats to me … I became a martyr O my family, alive in paradise along with the beautiful hoor [al-'Ayn]."


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LONDON (Reuters) - Barclays' (BARC.L) promise to have a model relationship with industry regulators is already being tested as the bank tries to fend off pressure to meet stricter capital requirements without reining in lending.
The Bank of England delivered a quick and sharp response on Friday when Barclays Chief Executive Antony Jenkins said he may have to cut lending to UK households and companies if he is forced to meet a 3 percent leverage ratio quickly.
The BoE said it had made it "very clear" that any plans that restrict lending would not be accepted.
The leverage ratio measures a bank's capital against total loans. A higher ratio makes it less vulnerable to the kind of sharp drop in asset values that pushed some lenders to seek government bailouts during the financial crisis.
Barclays has had testy relations with banking regulators for years. While it avoided a state rescue during the crisis, its investment banking arm is often a target for critics of a free-wheeling banking culture which they say puts short-term gain before the interests of clients and the wider economy.
Jenkins' predecessor Bob Diamond was ousted in 2012 after Barclays was fined $450 million for rigging Libor interest rates and Jenkins said in April he wanted his bank "to become a model of constructive engagement with regulators".
The BoE's new Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) told banks last month they must have a 3 percent leverage ratio and that Barclays fell short with a ratio of 2.5 percent after adjustments. Mutual Nationwide was the only other lender to miss the target.
Jenkins said on Friday he expected to reach agreement with the PRA in the next four weeks.
But he also questioned the PRA's approach, saying the leverage ratio was a "crude" measure and should only be used to supplement a capital measure based on how risky assets are perceived to be, or risk-weighted assets.
His comments suggest Barclays will take a tough approach in the discussions with the regulator in the next two weeks.
Robert Jenkins, a former member of the BoE's Financial Policy Committee, said Barclays has many options to reduce its leverage, including cutting costs, raising equity or paying less in bonuses.
"The taxpayer should worry that this systemically important financial institution continues to sail close to the wind. Its board should worry that its CEO is happy to do so," Jenkins said in a letter in the Financial Times on Monday.
Barclays had to submit its plan to meet the target by Sunday. The PRA will report publicly on whether it is acceptable or needs to be revised.
Barclays said in a presentation last week that its investment bank would continue shrinking and reshaping to improve returns and cut risk.
Based on Barclays' total assets of 1.6 trillion pounds, it would need to find 7-8 billion pounds of extra capital to lift its leverage ratio to 3 percent from 2.5 percent.
The bank has already said - and the PRA has accepted - it can find at least 3 billion pounds of capital, indicating it could need to find 4 billion more. Alternatively, it could shed 133 billion pounds of assets, or 17 percent of its balance sheet, analysts at Deutsche Bank estimated.
Many bankers argue that the leverage ratio is too simplistic a measure and penalizes low-risk, high-volume businesses such as trade finance and mortgage lending.
Britain is moving early to introduce a leverage ratio - a 3 percent cap is due to come in under global rules in 2018 - but other countries may also introduce it ahead of time.
Khalid Krim, head of capital solutions EMEA at Morgan Stanley, said banks would have to issue more capital.
"This is all going to be a long-drawn out process though. The market has to give banks and regulators time to adjust, and banks are not going to be under imminent pressure to raise capital," he said.
Andrew Bailey, head of the PRA, is expected to be quizzed on the issue when he appears before UK lawmakers on Tuesday.
Additional reporting by Natalie Harrison at IFR; editing by Tom Pfeiffer


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Uncyclopedia:Anniversaries/March 26
March 26: Fast Food Day (America); Health Awareness Day (everywhere else)
- 1855 - Oscar Wilde is allowed to attend his mother's social gatherings, contemporarily called 'saloons', for the first time. They greatly influence some of his later life choices.
- 1969 - An early Unix version of Uncyclopedia is developed and tested, but eventually scrapped due to bugs in the software (mostly scorpions).
- 1993 - Tarquin Middleton decides that life is worth living...barely. He wishes he could write half as well as that Wilde fellow.
- 1997 - A Double Ristretto Venti Half-Soy Nonfat Decaf Organic Chocolate Brownie Iced Vanilla Double-Shot Gingerbread Frappuccino Extra Hot With Foam Whipped Cream Upside Down Double Blended, One Sweet'N Low and One Nutrasweet, and Ice is ordered from Starbucks, destroying the South American economy.
- 1998 - Metal Gear Solid is released in North America, taking 'stealth video games' to new heights and 'going outside' to new lows.
- 2007 - I saw another dog when I was in the car. I barked at him! It was the most exciting thing ever.


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November 29, 1934
London, United Kingdom
They were a dazzling pair, Sir Henry "Chips" Channon wrote, and he wasn't the only one swept away with Marina and George, the royal wedding couple of 1934. She was a chic exiled princess, daughter of Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark and the former Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia; he was a handsome prince, son of King George V and Queen Mary. They married in a London decked out in British and Greek flags, with ceremonies first in Westminster Abbey and then again in a private Greek Orthodox ceremony in Buckingham Palace.
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