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NCAA bans fancy food, private planes for recruits By Mark Alesia [email protected] August 6, 2004 The NCAA on Thursday passed a host of recruiting reforms -- including banning the use of private planes and other perks to lure high school athletes -- in an effort to head off another football season plagued by scandal. Moving at a speed unusual for college sports' governing body, the school presidents on the NCAA's Division I Board of Directors ratified a six-part plan called for in February. The reforms go into effect immediately. Among the key mandates: Schools must create written policies, signed by the school president, that specifically prohibit the use of alcohol, drugs, sex and gambling during recruiting. Six new restrictions aimed at preventing the scandals of last season take effect immediately. New rules • Schools cannot provide extravagant hotel rooms or meals. • Recruiting "hostess groups" must be administered by the admissions department, not the athletic department. • Private planes cannot be used to fly in recruits. • Schools must establish written policies that prohibit the use of alcohol, drugs, sex and gambling in recruiting. • Recruits must use the same ground transportation as any other prospective student. • Schools cannot give a recruit a jersey with his name on it or make audio/video scoreboard presentations for a specific recruit. http://www.indystar.com/articles/9/168159-8909-102.html

Singer Rick James Dies at 56 Friday, August 06, 2004 LOS ANGELES — Funk singer Rick James (search), best known for the 1981 hit "Super Freak," (search) died Friday, apparently of natural causes, police said. James, 56, died at 9:45 a.m. at a residence near Universal City, said Officer Esther Reyes, a Police Department spokeswoman. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,128268,00.html

RICK JAMES • Musician Name at birth: James Johnson, Jr. James was a leading funk singer/songwriter of the 1980s. He got his start as a bassist in various bands before going solo in the late 1970s; his 1978 solo debut Come Get It! included the hits "Mary Jane" and "You and I" and made him a force in the world of danceable funk. His signature hit came from his 1981 album Street Songs; "Super Freak" was nominated for a Grammy and remained a dependable party tune for years. (The rapper MC Hammer had a major 1990 hit with "U Can't Touch This," which featured Hammer rapping over the catchy bass line from "Super Freak.") James's personal life has been uproarious; he was arrested several times on drug charges and served nearly two years in California's Folsom Prison (the same prison made famous in "Folsom Prison Blues" by Johnny Cash) from 1994-96. Extra credit: James was briefly bandmates with Neil Young in a 1960s group called the Mynah Birds... James is a nephew of The Temptations member Melvin Franklin. r.i.p. http://www.who2.com/rickjames.html

Kittens Are World's First Cloned Pets Tabouli and Baba Ganoush (pictured, left) were born in Austin, Texas, and are almost 8 weeks old, Local 6 News reported. Lou Hawthorne, who is CEO of the Genetic Savings and Clone company in Sausalito, says scientists used more advanced technology to create the kittens. "They're very healthy clones and they also look identical both to each other and to the donor -- which is an important breakthrough because some of the clones of the past did not have this high degree of health or resemblance." The Bengal kittens are clones of a cat belonging to Hawthorne's son named Tahini. http://www.local6.com/news/3623918/detail.html

lol - if you ask ken a question, you are going to get a good answer, not somthing that can easily summed up in a sentence. he is one hell of a resource

Its that new 'dressed for success' haircut!

What's Oxycontin - what is it a derivative of?

Looks nice, Yoda :good job:

Very cool, Warflower - save me a snocone!!

Im one of those Americans who didnt buy the Warren Report's findings.

thanx lotd - that signature thing was driving me crazy :D

I think im gonna take off this afternoon to stroll the boardwalk at Hermosa Beach. Meetings and tennis for the weekend..

Illl try and check it out the list today. And...welcome to Beatking...

With a tip of the hat to the animation creator, Bjørn-Magne Stuestøl: http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/cowswithguns.php

Michael Mann's Collateral with Tom Cruise & Jamie Foxx looks like this weekend's pick of the litter - here is the trailer: http://www.collateral-themovie.com/home.php *** Here's the rest of the new and recent releases and their theater counts: NEW Collateral (DreamWorks) / 3,188 Little Black Book (Sony / Revolution) / 2,445 Open Water (Lions Gate) / 47 Saints and Soldiers (Excel) / 25 Stander (Newmarket) / 7 Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism (Cinéma Libre) / 4 Code 46 (United Artists) / 3 Last Life in the Universe (Palm) / 1 (NYC) EXPANDING The Village (Buena Vista) / 3,733 (+3) / 2 The Bourne Supremacy (Universal) / 3,302 (+122) / 3 Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle (New Line) / 2,163 (+28) / 2 Thunderbirds (Universal) / 2,062 (+5) / 2 Napoleon Dynamite (Fox Searchlight) / 546 (+123) / 9 De-Lovely (United Artists) / 410 (+25) / 6 The Door in the Floor (Focus) / 134 (+6) / 4 Maria Full of Grace (Fine Line) / 96 (+31) / 4 A Home at the End of the World (Warner Independent Pictures) / 51 (+25) / 3 Garden State (Fox Searchlight) / 35 (+26) / 2 Zatoichi (Miramax) / 22 (+14) / 3 Intimate Strangers (Paramount Classics) / 21 (+16) / 2 I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (Paramount Classics) / 15 (+3) / 8 Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut (Newmarket) / 10 (+4) / 10 Valentin (Miramax) / 6 (+3) / 14 I'm Not Scared (Miramax) / 5 (+1) / 18 A Day Without a Mexican (Televisa Cine) / 4 (+1) / 13 NO CHANGE The Manchurian Candidate (Paramount) / 2,867 / 2 Ella Enchanted (Miramax) / 18 / 18

It's that time again.... Whose workin', whose partying, wassup for the weekend?

I will check this out...Ringo has put together some pretty good bands :good job:

Koop posted this in another thread... http://www.beatking.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=7634&st=0 But its worth having a stand alone thread of its own

Look miserable to help the war on terrorism By Philip Johnston, Home Affairs Editor (Filed: 06/08/2004) Holidaymakers and other overseas travellers were ordered yesterday to play their part in the war on terrorism - by looking miserable on their passport photographs. Under new security measures all mugshots must in future "show the full face, with a neutral expression and the mouth closed". http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtm.../06/npass06.xml

Let your conscience be your guide and it will be no contest

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Most truthful thing he's said yet