During the mid-2000s, Beckley began correspondence with Adam Schlesinger of the independent rock music group Fountains of Wayne.

Love was also romantically linked to British comedian Steve Coogan in the mid-2000s.

British singer Jacko Buddin augmented the group on vocals during most of their European tours, with Lytle taking over on vocals for US / Canadian tours beginning in 2000 and full-time in Europe in the mid-2000s.

The programme was conceived in the mid-2000s and promoted by British paramedic Bob Brotchie in May 2005.

) is a professional wrestling stable and tag team that wrestled for Extreme Championship Wrestling ( ECW ) in the late 1990s and for World Wrestling Entertainment during the mid-2000s.

Hollywood's chute formerly allowed one mile ( 1, 609 m ) races, but when its finish line was moved forward in the late 1980s one mile ( 1, 609 m ) races could no longer be accommodated, and became the longest distance that could be run out of its chute ( an unintended consequence of this was that by the mid-2000s 7½-furlong m dirt races had gained considerable popularity in the United States when such races had rarely if ever been run before at most tracks, even those where the track's configuration made it possible to do so ).

The move hurt the Timberwolves in the long run, as while the team still found success, the lack of draft picks set the team up for their eventual failure in the mid-2000s.

The use of text messaging for business purposes has grown significantly during the mid-2000s.

A trend from the mid-2000s was the formation of new low-cost carriers exclusively targeting the long-haul business market.

While long-distance inland calls have been offered by calling cards, by the mid-2000s conventional carriers reduced their rates to be competitive ; however in many countries calling-card type indirect services can be much cheaper than normal calls.

Beginning in 1970, Dr. Demento's nationally syndicated radio show gave novelty songs an outlet for much of the country ; this lasted through the mid-2000s, when the show ( mirroring trends in the genre ) faded in popularity until its terrestrial cancellation in June 2010.

However, with the near-universal use of LED ribbon boards, scoreboards and sideline boardings since the mid-2000s in most major league sites where only known sponsors have advertising displayed, " neutralizing " an arena has become a much easier process than in the past.

For much of the late 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s, Aerosmith worked with other producers, but in the mid-2000s, they re-united with Jack Douglas on the 2004 blues cover album, Honkin ' on Bobo.

Metalcore, originally an American hybrid of thrash metal and hardcore punk, emerged as a commercial force in the mid-2000s.

According to American non-governmental organization ( NGO ), Freedom House, these reforms consolidated Russia as a politically non-free, authoritarian state since the mid-2000s.

Parker later worked as Diffie's on-road manager in the mid-2000s, and in mid-2010, he and Kara auditioned for American Idol.

He moved back to Winnipeg in the mid-2000s at the behest of his employer, and scouted talent in the American Hockey League.

In the mid-2000s, the television version showed up again on Monsters HD, and in 2007, it made its home video debut as the US version on the Classic Media DVD.

IPv6 was standardized as RFC 2460 in 1998, and its deployment has been ongoing since the mid-2000s.

Throughout the mid-2000s, Cisco also built a significant presence in India, establishing its Globalization Centre East in Bangalore for $ 1 billion, and planning that 20 % of Cisco's leaders would be based there.

By the mid-2000s, MTV and many of its sister channels had largely abandoned showing music videos in favor of reality television shows, which were more popular with its audiences, and which MTV had itself helped to pioneer with the show The Real World, which premiered in 1992.

In the mid-2000s, Pell City experienced a period of rapid residential and commercial growth ( estimated population around 16, 000, excluding the unincorporated residential areas just south of the city along the lakefront ) spurred, partly, by the opening of the Honda Plant in nearby Lincoln, Alabama, a new industrial park on its northeastern border and by a new retail area on the north side of I-20 anchored by a Wal-Mart, Home Depot, several fast food and casual dining restaurants.

Because the main client used to access the service became known as Windows Live Messenger, Microsoft started referring to the entire service as the Windows Live Messenger Service in its support documentation in the mid-2000s.

By the mid-2000s, the classic films from the 1960s and earlier that had been broadcast on Cinemax from its launch were relegated to some of its multiplex channels, and have become prominent on its multiplex service, 5StarMax.

In the mid-2000s, growth of its non-gaming ( lodging, food, retail ) revenue began to outpace gaming receipts and demand for high-rise condominiums was surging, with median property prices in Las Vegas twice the national average.

An increased demand for college degrees among working adults led to Strayer's continued expansion during the early and mid-2000s, establishing its first campus locations outside of Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia, in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, and Florida.

By the mid-2000s ( decade ), the word " The " was dropped from the paper's name and the newspaper adopted its current logo.

The weekday program ( which also has an hour-long weekend edition ) features stories and gossip about celebrities, and the film, music and television industry, and has been broadcast under various formats since its launch, even being aired live for a time in the mid-2000s.

Many consider the Arena Football League to have been a de facto minor league, since several NFL owners had teams in it in the mid-2000s, prior to its bankruptcy and restructuring.

In the mid-2000s, Aleia ( a joint-venture of the French companies Dyn ’ Aéro and Equip ’ Aéro with the Portuguese Spinworks and Plasdan ) announced its intention to produce jet planes of four and six places integrally conceived, constructed and mounted in Covilhã as from 2011.

Once Nikon introduced affordable consumer-level DSLRs such as the Nikon D70 in the mid-2000s, sales of its consumer and professional film cameras fell rapidly, following the general trend in the industry.

In the mid-2000s, the CBC notified CHBC that it did not intend to renew its affiliation agreement with the station after it expired in August 2005.

Discovery was officially retired due its old age and high cost of maintain the ship in the mid-2000s.

The area is overall quite ethnically and economically diverse, although the compositions of its 12 census tracts vary widely ; for example, the population in the mid-2000s of the easternmost tract was about half white and one-third Asian, while that of the northwesternmost tract was almost entirely black.

The station began to broadcast a few off-network sitcoms such as Seinfeld, King of the Hill, 3rd Rock From the Sun, and Malcolm in the Middle by the late 1990s and mid-2000s ( and also as of the 2008-2009 season, no off-network sitcoms were on its schedule — a rarity for a Fox station ).

A new genre of locally produced television rose in the mid-2000s as local television stations ( especially those affiliated with the NBC and Fox networks, where NBC gave up the most programming time ; Fox has no daytime programming per se ) saw network time on weekday mornings after 9am returned to local control and saw new national talk shows either fail or not attract the right demographic to a timeslot.

Ownership rules were relaxed in the mid-2000s which saw several companies buying up local and national commercial stations including Scottish Radio Holding who sold their stations to Emap, who eventually sold on those stations to Denis O ' Brien's Communicorp.

Footballer Ryan Giggs caused controversy in the mid-2000s when he bought a Victorian mansion on the outskirts of the village for £ 1. 9 million and demolished it to build a new house which cost up to £ 4 million.

His next band, The Hidden Hand, followed a similar path before breaking up in the mid-2000s.

In the mid-2000s, a case where a 14-year-old student was prohibited of entering a school in Fortaleza ever again, according to him and his family because of his fauxhawk haircut, sparked nationwide polemics in Brazil.

Reconstruction of A-15 through La Prairie in the mid-2000s removed a grassy median at km 49 where ramps were to be built for a directional T-interchange to connect with A-6.

Its primary market remains the home market in Slovenia, where the company currently operates 17 hypermarkets, but in early to mid-2000s they opened several new hypermarkets in Croatia and the company currently operates 5 hypermarkets in the country.

Greco bills itself as the largest pizza chain in Atlantic Canada and is arguably the dominant pizza chain in the region, with the exception of the St. John's area, where local non-chain pizza shops are predominant, and where Greco currently has no locations, despite attempting to break into the market twice, in the early 1990s and the mid-2000s.

Legal names have since only been used for legal documents, such as contracts, and have not been used publicly ; however, since the mid-2000s, the popular name has also been used for legal documents related to contract procurements where the legal name was used heretofore.

In the mid-2000s, Radio One began to consider selling non-core stations, stations that don't target African Americans or those in very small black markets ( such as Augusta, Georgia where four stations were sold ).

In the mid-2000s, they temporarily took year-round residence at their second home, located in the Palm Springs area of Southern California, until 2008, when they built a house and settled down in Prescott, Arizona, where Tennille participates in the annual Prescott Jazz Summit.

Sócrates lives in Lisbon, although he used to be a registered elector of the municipality of Covilhã, the place where he voted until the law was changed ( since after the mid-2000s every person votes in one's residential area ).

* In the mid-2000s, " coopetition " began to be used by Darrell Waltrip to describe the phenomenon of drivers cooperating at various phases of a race at " high speed " tracks such as Daytona and Telledaga where cooperative aerodynamic drafting is critical to a driver's ability to advance through the field.