However, there was a rise in reported cases in the early 2000s: eight deaths from the syndrome in California in 2002 after three successive years of four deaths per year, and Schlievert's study found cases in part of Minnesota more than tripled from 2000 to 2003.

* Provoked, a hardcore punk band from Minnesota, US formed in early 2000s.

LeCroy had a few good years of success with the Minnesota Twins in the early 2000s.

From there, the company expanded its geographic reach into Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, and Nebraska during the late 1990s and early 2000s while closing stores in Bettendorf, Iowa and Muscatine, Iowa, during this period.

Also in the 2000s, pop punk outfit Green Day abandoned the pop punk scene and turned to more alternative and progressive rock influences and produced two Grammy-winning concept albums, namely, 2004's American Idiot and 2009's 21st Century Breakdown.

As a bottled beer produced by the Foster's Group ( formerly the Carlton United Beverages group ( CUB )) it has rarely been promoted in Australia since the early 2000s.

Until the early 2000s when RTÉ had the series produced 52 weeks of the year with four episodes a week.

The BBC also produced several children's science fiction shows in the late 1990s to mid 2000s ( decade ).

In the 2000s, several car audio manufacturers have produced subwoofers using non-circular shapes from manufacturers including Boston Acoustic, Kicker, Sony, Bazooka, and X-Tant.

The Motorola DSP56000 ( aka 56K ) is a family of digital signal processor ( DSP ) chips produced by Motorola Semiconductor ( now known as Freescale Semiconductor ) starting in the 1980s and is still being produced in more advanced models in the 2000s.

Romana II appeared pseudonymously in a series of audio plays produced in the early 2000s by BBV.

Giamatti began his career as a supporting actor in several films produced during the 1990s including Private Parts, The Truman Show, Saving Private Ryan, The Negotiator, and Man on the Moon before earning lead roles in several projects in the 2000s including American Splendor, Sideways, Cinderella Man, The Illusionist, John Adams, Cold Souls, Barney's Version, and Win Win.

Faithfull has released several albums in the 2000s that received positive critical response, beginning with Vagabond Ways ( 1999 ), which was produced and recorded by Mark Howard.

In the early 2000s Cartoon Network produced a five-part Banana Splits series for its Web Premiere Toons site.

After early new wave bands of the early eighties like Dangerous Rhythm and Kenny and the Electrics incorporated Ska into their post-punk sound, a more punk influenced brand of Ska started being produced in Mexico City in the late eighties, and the genre enjoyed its highest popularity during the early 2000s, even though it is still very popular today.

By the early 2000s, Laser disc was completely replaced by DVD in the North American retail marketplace, as neither players nor software were now produced.

In the mid 2000s, BBC America produced a few of its own shows along with some joint productions.

For a short while in the early 2000s, KP produced Hula Hoops Shoks These were miniature versions of the classic Hula Hoop, but had a much more intense flavour than the bags.

For most of the 1990s and 2000s, Canada AM had a consistent running time of two and a half hours, airing between 6: 30 and 9: 00 a. m. local time, with most affiliates repeating the previous night's late local news at 6: 00 a. m. As the program is produced live for the Eastern Time Zone, the program would be " delayed " in Atlantic Canada to 7: 30-10: 00 AT / 8: 00-10: 30 NT.

Coca-Cola Vanilla is the limited relaunch of the formerly produced Vanilla Coke soft drink from the early 2000s to compete with Pepsi Vanilla.

That particular branch of the textile industry declined as consumer tastes changed, but other textiles continued to be produced in the town providing a major source of employment until the 1990s and 2000s when the textile industry across the UK suffered a major decline as a result of outsourcing to low wage countries.

Beginning with Daytime on Media General-owned station WFLA-TV in Tampa, Florida in the early 2000s, a new format featuring the structure of a traditional locally produced daytime show with the usual format of light talk, health features, beauty tips and recipe segments which was popular up to the early 1990s when expansion of newscasts became a much less expensive, more dependable form of revenue came into use.

It produced audio and video equipment from the 1970s until the early 2000s.

This has produced the great increase in housing developments on the outskirts of the city, especially in the late 1990s and 2000s.

Chrysler has produced three generations of such engines: the first ( the Chrysler FirePower engine ) in the 1950s, the second ( the 426 Hemi ), developed for NASCAR in 1964 and produced through the early 1970s, and finally the " new HEMI " in the early 2000s.

Starting in the early 2000s, companies such as Jun Planning and the National Entertainment Collectibles Association produced all-new Gremlins toys and collectibles.

In addition, mixed race ( European and African ) people amount to about 2 %, with a small ( 1 %) population of whites, mainly ethnically Portuguese ( as a former overseas territory of Portugal until 1975, the Portuguese make up currently the largest non-African population, with certainly more than 100, 000, a number that has been constantly increasing from the 2000s, because of Angola's growing demand for qualified human resources.

Individuals are identified in the registry by means of a national identification number ( the so-called kennitala ), a number composed of the date of birth in the format and four additional digits, the third of which is a control digit, and the last of which indicates the century in which the person was born ( 9 for the 1900s and 0 for the 2000s ).

During the late 1990s and early 2000s, a number of games were created using DHTML, but differences between browsers made this difficult: many techniques had to be implemented in code to enable the games to work on multiple platforms.

Today, only nine remain, and this number may have decreased due to the Emsworth fishing and oyster trade dying down, or to the consolidation of the pub trade in the 1990s and 2000s.

The 2000s also saw an increase in the number of individual competitive awards won by French artists at the Cannes Festival, for direction ( Tony Gatlif, Exils, 2004 ), screenplay ( Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri, Look at Me, 2004 ), female acting ( Isabelle Hupert, The Piano Teacher, 2001 ; Charlotte Gainsbourg, Antichrist, 2009 ) and male acting ( Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila and Bernard Blancan, Days of Glory, 2006 ).

However, the belief that the Saxons simply wiped or drove out all the native Britons from England has been widely discredited by a number of archaeologists since the 2000s, and the likelihood of that model being severely questioned.

Nevertheless it should be noted that in a referendum in the 2000s the introduction of blanket speed limits was refused by the population, suggesting that a large number appreciate the freedom.

The Detroit Tigers swept the Royals in the 1984 playoff season, and in the early 2000s, Detroit and Kansas City had a number of bench clearing brawls.

In the mid 2000s, a number of karaoke bars sprouted in Sydney with karaoke boxes frequented by Japanese students and tourists and a few locals, especially on Thursday nights and weekends.

From 1997 to 2004, Michigan was listed as the only state to top the 10, 000 mark for the number of major new developments ; however, the effects of the late 2000s recession have slowed the state's economy.

A number of security measures were added to the exterior of New Scotland Yard during the 2000s, including concrete barriers in front of ground-level windows as a countermeasure against car bombing, a concrete wall around the entrance to the building, and a covered walkway from the street to the entrance into the building.

Although in the 2000s, there were a number of police crackdowns on organized crime gangs, such as the Cămătaru clan, organized crime generally has little impact on public life.

In the 1990s and 2000s, Asian actors Chow Yun-fat, Jet Li, and Jackie Chan appeared in a number of different types of action films, and US actors Wesley Snipes and Vin Diesel both had many roles.

Since 1986 the stagnation in employment has led to a new inversion of the trend, caused not so much by an increase in the number of people leaving but by a fall in the number coming to live in the region, but in the 2000s ( decade ) net immigration has been positive again.

In the early 2000s, the leftist Green Party won the largest number of votes to nearly carry a majority in regional and local representation.

In the 1990s and 2000s ( decade ) a small number of ex-NKVD agents living in the Baltic states were convicted of crimes against the local population.

' It draws upscale premium viewers who are attractive to upscale premium advertisers ,' Mr. Sussman said ..." The viewership has declined from the early years of its broadcast history ( for example, the number of viewers in 1974 was 20, 026, 000, in 1999 9, 155, 000 ) but has settled into between six and eight million viewers for most of the decade of the 2000s.

A number of studies on ancient DNA recovered from Scythian kurgan burials were published in the 2000s.

During the 1990s and early 2000s, a number of mothers of multiple apparent SIDS victims were convicted of homicide to various extents, on the basis of Meadow's opinion.

In the late 2000s and early 2010s, a number of internet communities started to use the term ' LGBTQ ,' the ' Q ' standing for ' queer ,' to represent forms of sexuality that fall outside of the original LGBT framework, in order to promote awareness and acceptance of these forms of sexuality.

A number of thrillers and horror films dubbed " outback gothic " have been created, including Wake in Fright, Walkabout, The Cars That Ate Paris and Picnic at Hanging Rock in the 1970s, Razorback and Shame in the 1980s and Japanese Story, The Proposition and the world-renowned Wolf Creek in the 2000s.

Kuro5hin's membership used to number in the tens of thousands, but its popularity has declined significantly from its peak in the early 2000s, and the present number of active users is much less.