The 1998 Little League World Series took place from August 23 to August 29 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Toms River, New Jersey defeated Kashima, Ibaraki, Japan in the championship game of the 52nd Little League World Series. The 1998 Little League World Series Champions from Toms River, NJ competed in 28 games over a span of three months. The championship team consisted of twelve boys between the ages of 11 and 12, who played on the Toms River East American All Star Team.
During the Eastern Regional tournament in Bristol, CT. the boys became known as the Beasts of the East. The nickname was brought on by the team after ace pitcher Casey Gaynor won a stuffed monkey from a boardwalk stand at Lake Compounce, an amusement park in Bristol CT. Being from the east side (there are two leagues in town) of Toms River little league, and eventually the eastern region representative, the stuffed monkey became known as the Beast of the East thus landing the team with the nickname.
PLAYERS:
Mike Belostock
Eric Campesi
Christopher Cardone
Christopher Crawford
Scott Fisher
Joe Franceschini
Brad Frank
Todd Frazier
Tom Gannon
Gabe Gardner
Casey Gaynor
RJ Johansen

Coaches:
Manager Mike Gaynor
Coach Joe Franceschini
Coach Ken Kondek

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HAPPY NEW YEAR, dear friends! On this last day of 2008, the year BalconyTV London was born, we treat you to champagne and a big party, interspersed with clips of the very best we’ve seen this year.

The acts in order of appearance (and links to their full BalconyTV London performances, where you can also find more information about them and links to their websites):

ROXY RAWSON:

LITTLE THINGS:

NIZLOPI:

GIDEON CONN:

TALLULAH RENDALL:

DENGUE FEVER:

NOUVELLE VAGUE:

VIJAY KISHORE:

THEE SINGLE SPY:

THE BRUTE CHORUS:

JEREMY WARMSLEY:

ZOE CONWAY AND JOHN MCINTYRE:

PINEY GIR:

ROSIE ODDIE AND THE ODDSQUAD:

BILL COLEMAN:

TELEGRAMS:

STARS OF SUNDAY LEAGUE:

THOMAS TRUAX:

ROSES KINGS CASTLES:

Of course we’ve had many more amazingly brilliant acts on our Camden Lock balcony, but there’s only so much editing one can do after a few glasses of bubbles…

Check out our favourites, e-mail the acts you love and tell them that you love them, and wish them a musically fabulous 2009, and then make it your new year’s resolution to always check out www.balconytv.co.uk – on a daily basis!

See you in 2009!

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As one newspaper reads “Yes, young ladies are scantilly clad, playing tackle football. At first, as you walk inside the arena, you ogle. You can’t help but ogle. You admire the physical attributes of these women. They’re all pretty.
But when the whistle screams to initiate play; all bets are off. These ladies are ready to play. And if you’re half a man, you notice their competitive power. They’re fearless.”

~Credits~

Producer – Justin Schoenrock
Editor – Jasmine Quintana
Music – Lalo Davis (Five Stone Music)

Production – JROCK Entertainment (www.jrockent.com)

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Watch The League FX Tv Show Season 1 Episode 1 Premiere full tv watch s1 s 1 se1 se 1 e1 e 1 ep1 ep 1 1×1 101 S01 E01 se1 ep01 01 01 start first new 1.01

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The Merchants of Cool:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/video/flv/generic.html?s=frol02p70&continuous=1

The history: http://www.drownedinsound.com/directory/artists/The_Human_League

Youtube Insight Stats as of Nov 1, 2008:

The “Hottest” spot in the video is at 2:56 (The Rover SD1 and the Sabb 99 seem to be the most interesting part of the video for many – the average viewer is a 40 year old makle living in the UK); the most frequently looked at parts of the video are the cars.

37% of the viewers are Female & 63% Male. 13-17 year olds are @12%, 18-24 @8%, 25-34 @11%, 35-44 @35%, 45-54 @28%. 55-64 @5%, 65+ @1%

Nations with the highest percentage of total views:

1. United Kingdom 30.35% 2. United States 28.83% 3. Canada 13.35% 4. Ireland 12.14%
5. Germany 10.92% 6. Spain 10.32%
7. Chile 10.32% 8. Belgium 9.71%
9. Italy 9.10% 10. Sweden 8.80%

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_You_Want_Me

The Human League – Don’t You Want Me. 1981
With a hit album and three hit singles in a row Virgin’s Simon Draper decided to pull one more single from the album before the end of 1981. Their choice of “Don’t You Want Me” instantly caused a row with Oakey who did not want another single released because he was convinced that “the public were now sick of hearing The Human League” and the choice of the “poor quality filler track” would almost certainly be a disaster, wrecking the group’s new found popularity Virgin were adamant that a fourth single was going to be released and Oakey finally agreed, on the condition that a large colour poster was given away with the single because he felt fans would “feel ripped off” by the ‘substandard’ single alone.

“Don’t You Want Me” was released in the UK on 5 December 1981 and to everyone in the band (and especially Oakeys) amazement it went almost immediately to number one and remained in the UK charts for 13 weeks. The success was repeated six months later with the release of Dare in the U.S., with “Don’t You Want Me” hitting number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Billboard magazine ranked it as the United States’ sixth-biggest hit of 1982.

The lyrics were originally inspired after lead singer and front man Philip Oakey read a story in a “trashy tabloid”. Originally conceived as a male solo, Oakey was inspired by the film A Star Is Born and decided to turn the song in to a conflicting duet with one of the bands two teenage female vocalists. Susan Ann Sulley was asked to take on the role. Up until then she and the other female vocalist Joanne Catherall had only been assigned backing vocals; Sulley says she was chosen only through luck of the draw.[1] There are two more realistic reasons for her choice, that Sulley was the better singer and/or that Catherall, a very introverted character at the time, shied away from the role.

“Don’t You Want Me”
In 1981 record company Virgin were becoming aware that promotional music video was evolving into an important marketing tool, with MTV being launched that year. Because it was agreed that the video for Open Your Heart had looked “cheap and nasty”, for “Don’t You Want Me” they commissioned a much more elaborate and expensive promotional video than for any of their previous releases.

The music video for the song was filmed in Slough, UK in November 1981 and has the theme of the shooting and editing of a murder-mystery film, featuring the band members as characters and production staff. Due to it being a “making of” video, the crew and camera apparatus used within appear throughout. It was conceived and directed by filmmaker Steve Barron, and has at its core the interaction between a successful actress played by Susan Ann Sulley walking out on ‘film director’ Philip Oakey on a film set. It is based on the theme of the film A Star Is Born. Shot on a cold, wet, winter night it was shot on 35mm film instead of the cheaper video tape prevalent at the time. Susan Sulley states now that Steve Baron was heavily influenced by the cinematography of the promo video for the Ultravox single “Vienna” and used it as a benchmark when shooting “Don’t You Want Me”. Steve Baron was also influenced by François Truffaut and his film Day for Night and because of that the clapper board seen in the video bears the inscription “Le League Humaine” as a tribute to Truffaut. The video is credited for making Oakey, Sulley and Catherall universally known visual icons of the early 1980s; but became controversial later for a scene where Jo Callis appears to shoot Joanne Catherall with a pistol from a car window (a Saab 99 turbo). The scene is edited out of the DVD version and when shown on MTV. The other car that was used in the video, was a gold W-Reg Rover SD1. The video was released in December 1981, just as the music video culture was becoming a standard in music.

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