Since the 2000s ( decade ), the so-called " Scania gang " or " Gang of Four "; Jimmie Åkesson ( party leader since 2005 ), Björn Söder, Mattias Karlsson and Richard Jomshof continued the moderation policy which included ousting openly extremist members.

In the 2000s Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine has added to this resurgence by covering ( usually profane ) hit songs of other genres ( primarily metal and hip hop ) in the style of a lounge singer.

In the 2000s, a quieter style emerged, with largely impressionistic lyrics, from artists such as Norah Jones, Conor Oberst, Sufjan Stevens, David Bazan, South San Gabriel, Iron & Wine, David Gray, Ray LaMontagne, Meg Hutchinson, Steve Millar, Jolie Holland, Richard Buckner, Jewel, Jack Savoretti, Richard Shindell, and John Gorka.

In the 2000s Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine has added to this resurgence by covering ( usually profane ) hit songs of other genres ( primarily metal and hip hop ) in the style of a lounge singer.

Under editor John J. Ordover, many authors including Bonanno returned as Star Trek novelists in the 2000s after encouragement from fans, which continued under later editor Marco Palmieri, who has admitted being unaware of any prior blacklisting of authors resulting from the period of interference from Richard Arnold.

In the 2000s, a staple of the 11 p. m. Sunday newscast was Richard Hart's segment about technological developments, alternatively titled " Next Step and " Drive to Discover.

After the release of yet another hybridized album-1996's Tones For The 21st Century-Haynes discovered drum ' n ' bass and began working with some of the genres finest DJs and producers in London and the U. S. This manifested in the release of 2000s BPM, a fusion of drum n ' bass beats with the classical music of Richard Wagner.

In the 2000s, Chicago roads and trails saw an increase in the number of bicyclists. This can in part be attributed to the current mayor, Richard M. Daley.

Elvis Presley has scored UK number-one albums in four different decades ( 1950s, 60s, 70s and 2000s ), though Cliff Richard is the first male solo artist to score UK number-one albums in four consecutive decades ( 1960s, 70s, 80s and 90s ).

A nine-time Pro Bowl selection, Dawkins is a member of the Philadelphia Eagles 75th Anniversary Team, the NFL 2000s All-Decade Team and the 20 / 20 Club ( 20 sacks, 20 interceptions ).

More broadly he was actually referring to changing Australian cultural values which were well reflected in the types of places in which Sigrid Thornton had acted: the Riverland during the 1980s All the Rivers Run and the coast in the 2000s SeaChange.

He noted that many of those currently referring to themselves as cunning-folk, wise women, white witches and the like during the 1990s and 2000s were explicitly Neopagan in their faith, which influenced their magical workings.

Having moved away from an overtly ska-based sound in the early 2000s, The Aquabats have since distanced themselves from their association with the ska scene, currently referring to themselves primarily as a rock band.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s ( decade ), during the dot-com bubble, the term began being used again in mainstream media, referring to the founders of successful multimillion dollar Internet companies, who were credited with changing the landscape of the United States through technology much in the same way 19th Century industrialists did through steel, textiles, and railroads.

From the 2000s on, Central Europe has been going through a phase of " strategic awakening ", with initiatives like the CEI, Centrope or V4.

Digweed is known for promoting the progressive house sound that became popular in Europe and North America in the late 1990s and early 2000s, releasing several popular mix compilations on labels like Renaissance and Global Underground.

For example, during the 1990s and 2000s, the United States had lower unemployment levels than many countries in the European Union, which had significant internal variation, with countries like the UK and Denmark outperforming Italy and France.

The world of video games reached the 7th Generation in the form of consoles like the Wii, the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 by the mid 2000s.

Still, 2000s saw a rise of several independent TV networks like REN ( its coverage increased vastly allowing it to become federal channel ), Petersburg — Channel Five ( overall the same ), the relaunched 2 × 2 and others.

Television critic James Poniewozik wrote that reality shows like Deadliest Catch and Ice Road Truckers showcase working-class people of the kind that " used to be routine " on scripted network television, but that became a rarity in the 2000s: " The better to woo upscale viewers, TV has evicted its mechanics and dockworkers to collect higher rents from yuppies in coffeehouses.

Post-Britpop bands like Travis, Stereophonics and Coldplay, influenced by Britpop acts, particularly Oasis, with more introspective lyrics, were some of the most successful rock acts of the late late 1990s and early 2000s.

Models like Gisele Bundchen, Adriana Lima, Alessandra Ambrosio, and Ana Beatriz Barros rose to fame on the runways of Europe in the late 1990s and dominated throughout the 2000s.

It ranked 19th in Rotten Tomatoes's 100 worst films of the 2000s and had a 2 % fresh rating, with critic Roger Ebert stating: " Half Past Dead is like an alarm that goes off with nobody in the room.

* In the 1990s and 2000s, some parties continued the inheritance of the PSU like Les Alternatifs, or ANPAG.

The name was almost forgotten in 1990s and in 2000s it was used like a trim / model level on FIAT cars, like the FIAT Stilo Abarth.

By the late 1990s and early 2000s, and the success of Christian-inspired acts like Skillet, Thousand Foot Krutch, Decyfer Down, Underoath, Kutless, Disciple and Relient K saw a shift toward mainstream exposure in the Christian rock scene.

In the 2000s, many companies like Bitmanagement improved the quality level of virtual effects in VRML to the quality level of DirectX 9. 0c, but at the expense of using proprietary solutions.

In professional video recording settings, such as broadcast television, videotape was still heavily used in the mid-to late 2000s, but tapeless formats like DVCPRO P2, XDCAM and AVCHD, are gaining broader acceptance.

AFI has also been granted responsibility for influencing the rise of the visual element of rock bands in the 2000s ; in a December 2006 article, Revolver Magazine wrote that " AFI have increased the importance of a band's visual identity and the flair for the theatrical ," adding that " when a group like Panic!

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, fansubs in electronic form were primarily distributed like VHS and Beta tapes: via mailed CD-Rs.

In the early 2000s the NME also attempted somewhat to broaden its coverage again, running cover stories on hip-hop acts such as Jay-Z and Missy Elliott, electronic music pioneer Aphex Twin, Popstars winners Hear ' say and R & B groups like Destiny's Child, but as in the 1980s these proved unpopular with much of the paper's readership, and were soon dropped.

Juvenile had his first start with working with big rapper names like Lil Wayne in the song " Back That Thang Up ", which was a big hit in the early 2000s.

In the 1990s and early 2000s, bands like Sigur Rós, M83, Mercury Rev, ... And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Dubstar, Laika, Asobi Seksu, Deftones, Broken Social Scene, Readymade, Bethany Curve, Halou, Windy & Carl, Trespassers William, Southpacific, Amusement Parks on Fire, Mira, Yume Bitsu, Devics, Xinlisupreme, Mew, Air Formation, Psychic Ills, Charlene, Auburn Lull, and ( in their more recent years ) Blonde Redhead have had the dream pop label attached to them.

In the mid 2000s, UUCP over TCP / IP ( often encrypted, using the SSH protocol ) was proposed for use when a computer does not have any fixed IP addresses but is still willing to run a standard mail transfer agent ( MTA ) like Sendmail or Postfix.

By the 2000s this fusion of ethno / dance / pop had crossed over to mainstream success in the contest, with entries like Turkey's " Everyway That I Can ", Ukraine's " Wild Dances ", Greece's " My Number One " and Norway's " Fairytale " winning in 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2009.

Since the late 2000s, and particularly since its acquisition by Rogers, Citytv has moved towards a series-based primetime schedule much like its competitors, albeit one still focused on younger demographics.

In 2000s, many companies like Bitmanagement improved the quality level of virtual effects in X3D to quality level of DirectX 9. 0c, but at the expense of using proprietary solutions.

The total death toll from the incident remains in dispute and has become a political issue in recent decades ( 1990s and 2000s ).

A few days after the incident, a large group of Suburban Legends ' fans and Dallas ' friends and family gathered nearby the ESPN Zone at Disneyland Resort's Downtown Disney, where the band played their many performances in the early 2000s, to share their memories of Cook.

From the 2000s many Chinese have settled and started up small businesses, while at least as many have come as workforce for large ( construction or other ) enterprises.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Cancún had been favored at the spring break destination of choice.

Some of the late 90s / early 2000s games were under development by other companies at one time, but rights to the game programs and all of the existing code was bought and finished by other developers.

The Mirage 2000s are meant to be in service until at least 2015, when the Brazilian Air Force foresee the ( postponed ) F-X entering in service.

In the early 2000s ( decade ), shipbuilding has prospered at the major Varna and Ruse yards because of foreign ownership ( Ruse ) and privatization ( Varna ).

It existed from about 1983 at least into the 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 ).

Freestyle experienced another resurgence of popularity in the late 2000s, as older, well-known freestyle artists, producers and record labels released new music, and old and new freestyle artists performed at Philadelphia-area bars and night clubs.

Overall, at the end of 2000s the foreign born population of Italy was from: Europe ( 54 %), Africa ( 22 %), Asia ( 16 %), the Americas ( 8 %) and Oceania ( 0. 06 %).

The population growth rate has been reported as somewhat reduced during the 2000s and is now estimated at 2. 7 % ( as of 2010 ), resulting in an estimate of a total population 41 million in 2011.

Since the early 2000s, dredging machines have operated at the Murray Mouth, moving sand from the channel to maintain a minimal flow from the sea and into the Coorong's lagoon system.

Later in 2000s ( decade ) with the first graduations at political-science departments, the keenest problem turned out to be low inclusive capacities of the academic labor market.

In the early 2000s the structure has been achieved at high resolutions, on the order of a few Å.

To the outside world, it had acted as a higher learning institute until the 2000s, when Xavier was publicly exposed as a mutant at which point it became a full mutant boarding school.

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According to The Guardian, music styles during the 2000s changed very little from how they were at last half of the 1990s.

Local services of the State administration are traditionally organised at departmental level, where the Prefect represents the Government ; however, regions have gained importance in this regard since the 2000s, with some department-level services merged into region-level services.

The business model of focusing on SUVs and light trucks, at the expense of more fuel-efficient compact and midsized cars, is blamed for declining sales and profits among Detroit's Big Three automakers since the mid-late 2000s.

* In the early 2000s, residents of the city of New Plymouth, New Zealand, reported many illnesses of people living around and working at the Dow Chemical plant.

It is also still used in ads showing the network's current stars getting slimed from all sides in slow motion, and is used to slime the winner at the end of the Nick game show BrainSurge, which debuted in 2009 ( slime, as well as pies, was also used as a prize, rather than a penalty, in Nickelodeon's live daily game show Slime Time Live in the early 2000s ).

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.

The early 2000s were generally not successful years for Australian cinema, with several confronting dramas proving unpopular at the box office.

Dealing with the romance between an " average blonde " and a " stately brunette " at a girls ' boarding school, Shiroi Heya no Futari, the first yuri manga, established archetypes that can be seen even in yuri works of the 2000s.