#early-2000s

#early-2000s

It's a weird time to be a TV advertiser.Until roughly two years ago (and despite dissatisfied grumblings among most broadcasters), Nielsen was pretty much the only show in town when it came to TV measurement.Now, panels feel passé, programmers are actively testing alternative currencies, a joint industry committee of competing broadcasters is working together on standards for cross-platform measurement - and Nielsen, once the last word in TV currency, is on its back foot.

A former pupil at a secondary school where Nottingham attack victim Ian Coates used to work has described him as an amazing man whose kind words and encouragement paved the way for the life she now leads.Kaleigh Wylie, 35, from Nottingham, said she attended the River Leen School in Bulwell, also known as the Bulwell Academy, in the early 2000s when Mr Coates was the caretaker.

A woman born months after the end of the First World War is selling her house in Somerset after living there for 102 years, an estate agent has said.Nancy Joan Gifford is putting her three-bedroom house on the market having lived in it through the Second World War, the invention of television and the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb, according to Somerset-based estate agent Holland and Odam.

Images Courtesy of the Merchants, Getty Images, Stocksy We are living in the golden age of American-made cheese.The once adolescent category is now coming into confident, delicious and diverse adulthood.As you plan summertime gatherings, these domestic cheeses will add sophistication and joy to any spreadall the while celebrating the country that birthed them.

In the early 2000s, the nature of online exchange started to shift.Things started to "go viral."One of the most talked about early cases of this was when then future BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti, a college kid at the time, tried to put the word "sweatshop" on a customizable pair of Nikes and the email exchange with the company that resulted went from the hands of a few of his friends to thousands of people.

The New England Patriots announced the newest member of their Hall of Fame on Wednesday afternoon.Former linebacker and current Tennessee Titans head coach Mike Vrabel has been voted the 34th player, coach or contributor to make the cut.Here are a few quick thoughts on the selection.It is not hard to see why he made it in.

On my bookshelf, sandwiched between old high school yearbooks and college-era journals, is a pleather-lined and laminated menu from a diner 3,085 miles from my apartment.I didn't intend to steal it.On a trip to Boston in 2018, I stuck it in my tote to make room for plates of syrup-saturated French toast and doughnuts coated in cracking glaze.

Due to various rule changes and cultural shifts in the NFL, some of the league's most legendary players would have thrived even more in a different era.NFL history has been shaped by its greatest players, which is why imagining them outside of their respective eras is a complicated thought experiment.

Robin Guenther, an architect and environmental health advocate who designed green, sustainable health care facilities and co-wrote the first guide to building them, died on May 6 at a hospital in Manhattan.She was 68.The cause was ovarian cancer, said her husband, Perry Gunther.(The couple's surnames shared a pronunciation but not a spelling.)

When Rachel Karlic and her sister, Rebecca Hinsdale, were students at Western Michigan University, they sometimes played pinball with their friend Kate Porter in a 24-hour video rental store near campus.The store was called Video Hits Plus, with the Plus maybe referring to the basement attractions, which, in addition to the pinball machines, included an air hockey table and a pornographic video section.

Former Vice President Mike Pence on Monday filed the paperwork for his bid for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, setting up a clash with his running mate of elections past, former President Donald Trump.Pence is set to formally announce his candidacy on Wednesday ahead of a CNN presidential town hall that evening.

On a May afternoon at a Venice Beach skate park, the drooping sun cast an amber glow on Kayla Dizon as she shot her way across the pavement on a pair of in-line skates.Ms. Dizon, 25, had not come to cruise leisurely along the Pacific Coast like many spandex- and swimsuit-clad skaters do.Wearing a T-shirt and cutoff shorts that revealed a massive purple-yellow bruise on her leg, Ms. Dizon instead was scraping her skates' wheels on the edges of the park's sinuous curves and sharp dips as her dyed-red hair thrashed in the air.

The band Sum 41 announced on Monday that it was breaking up after 27 years, unleashing a well of nostalgia for the early 2000s, when pop punk seemed ubiquitous on MTV's Total Request Live and in memorable scenes in blockbuster movies.The Canadian group, fronted by the spiky-haired singer Deryck Whibley, was part of a pop-punk wave that included Blink-182, Simple Plan, Good Charlotte and Avril Lavigne.

After a cease-fire faltered in Sudan's capital, two weeks of fighting between the country's army and a paramilitary group have reignited violence in Darfur, a region scarred by two decades of genocidal conflict that left as many as 300,000 people dead.A cease-fire scheduled to end on Sunday night faltered on Saturday as the capital Khartoum came under artillery fire and airstrike.

The romantic comedy has seen a rise and fall in popularity at theaters in the U.S. Will the genre make a comeback?The plot structure of a romantic comedy has been a crowd pleaser since the days of Shakespeare.But a Reuters analysis of the top-grossing U.S. films found that far fewer romantic comedies are becoming box office hits.

An Alexander Smalls's dinner party at his home in Sugar Hill is about more than the food, which, if you're lucky, is prepared by Smalls himself, or, if you're just as lucky, it's made by an emerging chef in Smalls's Black chef collective, bringing mentorship and visibility to up-and-coming cooks.A New York City icon, Smalls is in the middle of opening the city's first African food hall, Alkebulan, which will launch in Harlem later this year.

Image President Yoon Suk Yeol's critics say he has given too much and has received too little in return from Japan.Credit...Pool photo by Jung Yeon-Je Prime Minister Fumio Kishida of Japan is in South Korea today, where he is meeting President Yoon Suk Yeol in an effort to nurture a fledgling detente.

Image A hospital in El Fasher in Sudan's North Darfur region.Credit...Ali Shukur/Doctors Without Borders, via Agence France-Presse Getty Images In the third week of brutal fighting in Sudan, health care services are rapidly unraveling in the nation's capital, Khartoum.Hospitals have been shelled, and two-thirds of those in Khartoum have closed, according to the W.H.O.

1. Clone High is a cult classic show from the early 2000s that has been gaining a resurgence in popularity due to its witty humor and interesting plot.
2. The show follows a group of teenagers cloned from famous historical figures and their day-to-day lives as they cope with teenage angst

After endless leaks, Motorola made its fourth-generation lineup of foldables official today.The flagship is the Moto Razr+, which will launch in the US on June 23 for $999.There's also a cheaper phone called only the "Moto Razr" with a smaller outside screen, slower SoC, and no clear US price or release date.

Tupperware is now selling some products at Target, but it still makes most of its money through individual sellers.Scott Olson/Getty Images Stacey Sottung shows off a stack of colorful bowls in an Instagram video, filming for her followers a taste of the modern Tupperware party, which in addition to bowls and vintage tumblers, may include cake pans that go in the microwave, cold-brew carafes or vegetable choppers.

Halle Bailey stars as Ariel in Disney's live-action The Little Mermaid the studio's latest blatant cash-grab.Giles Keyte/Disney Search for "The Little Mermaid side-by-side," and you'll land upon several user-created videos drawing visual comparisons between Disney's 1989 hand-drawn animated hit and the trailer for the new star-studded "live-action" remake directed by Rob Marshall.

Jay Baruchel plays Research In Motion co-CEO Mike Lazaridis in the film BlackBerry.IFC Films Like a lot of people, I'm a longtime iPhone user in fact, I used an iPhone to record this very review.But I still have a lingering fondness for my very first smartphone a BlackBerry which I was given for work back in 2006.

SHIHA is an Egyptian based DJ/Producer with many years in the game.With a recent release "Into The Future" out now on his Clubbing Purposes label, we caught up with him to find out how the release came to be, and what else he has planned for 2023...
Hey SHIHA, introduce yourself for those who might not know.I am a music producer, DJ, visual artist from Cairo, Egypt.

One of the anti-Kremlin groups responsible for an armed incursion into Russia this week, the Russian Volunteer Corps, is led by a far-right extremist described by German officials and humanitarian groups, including the Anti-Defamation League, as a neo-Nazi.The Volunteer Corps, made up of Russians who oppose Vladimir V. Putin's war, does not have any public affiliation with the Ukrainian Army.

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Each of the women who have accused Danny Masterson of raping them in the early 2000s said they feared two things: the once-beloved sitcom actor's violent outbursts and the life-altering consequences they might face for opposing the powerful Church of Scientology.

Whenever a well-regarded longtime business like Farmstead Cheeses & Wines comes under new ownership, loyal customers are bound to wonder if things will change.New proprietor Dave Chambers, though, in keeping with Farmstead's long-held policy of eschewing wine-and-cheese snobbery, promises to keep on meeting customers wherever they are on their wine-and-cheese journeys.

Baidu's stock fell 6.4% following the release; Google's ranking algorithm may have a competitive edge
The hype around generative AI seems to have lasted forever and frantic release schedules will see it continue for some time.Mid-March saw the release of next-generation AI tools from three of the world's biggest search players, Google, Microsoft and China's Baidu.

Good morning.It's Monday.We'll revisit the day I saw what was billed as a fragment from the composer Ludwig van Beethoven's skull.Image Credit...Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times There it was, hanging in a contraption that took up a good part of the floor space in a small, windowless room: a fragment of Ludwig van Beethoven's skull.

OAKLAND - Friends and community members shared positive memories of Oakland bakery owner Jen Angel, who died Thursday, days after a violent robbery left her grievously injured.In a statement Thursday night, members of a group speaking on her family's behalf said they hoped her communities would draw strength from her life's efforts and the care she modeled and drew support from.

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The architecturally curious were able to finally get a glimpse inside the long-awaited reincarnation of the Gowanus Batcave as Powerhouse Arts on Sunday.Years in the making, the former Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company Central Power Station Engine House building at 153 2nd St. was transformed into an arts hub that retains some of the old, including graffiti, with a new addition.

Ray Stevenson, who in a 30-year career played a wide range of roles in television and films, among them a talkative soldier in the HBO historical drama Rome, the pirate Blackbeard in the Starz series Black Sails and the Asgardian warrior Volstagg in the Thor fantasy movies, died on Sunday.He was 58.

On the rooftop of the InterContinental Barclay Hotel in Manhattan last summer, a small group of people gazed awe-struck at an unremarkable morning sky, hemmed-in by Midtown skyscrapers.Oh my goodness, look, one said.My whole life, never seen anything like it, said another.To the younger actors there to help recreate the night of Aug. 14, 2003, what they saw required a leap of imagination.

At art fairs, people look too quickly, said Jason Poirier dit Caulier, the founder and director of the Plus-One Gallery in Antwerp, Belgium.Here they take a bit more time.They almost want to touch, he added.Poirier dit Caulier was standing in a branch of his dealership, in front of an ingeniously illusionistic painting by the Belgian artist Ritsart Gobyn, 37, that attracted plenty of up-close admiration during Antwerp Art Weekend, an annual celebration of the city's contemporary artists and gallerists that concluded on Sunday.

The architecturally curious were able to finally get a glimpse inside the long-awaited reincarnation of Gowanus' Batcave as Powerhouse Arts on Sunday.Years in the making, the former Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company Central Power Station Engine House building at 153 2nd Street was transformed into an arts hub that retains some of the old, including graffiti, with a new addition.

Manchester City can put the icing on their cake this weekend as they welcome Chelsea to the Etihad Stadium.Victory over Frank Lampard's side will see City crowned champions for the third successive season, their fifth in six years.They face a Chelsea side that looks devoid of ideas despite the influx of new players over the summer and winter transfer windows.

Jim Nagy knows a thing or two about NFL Draft prospects, and about the New England Patriots.A former area scout, who won two Super Bowl rings with the team in the early 2000s, Nagy is now serving as the executive director of the Senior Bowl - one of the most prestigious pre-draft events on the calendar.

One of the greatest transformations in the history of life occurred more than 600 million years ago, when a single-celled organism gave rise to the first animals.With their multicellular bodies, animals evolved into a staggering range of forms, like whales that weigh 200 tons, birds that soar six miles into the sky and sidewinders that slither across desert dunes.

Picking an album title is one of the most sacred decisions a musician can make.While some artists think deeply on the matter, coming up with a poetic turn of phrase that captures the essence of the songs held within - and which may even enter the popular lexicon to signify a certain type of project for decades to come (i.e., "it's their Tusk," "this is my Blood on the Tracks") - others just go ahead and call it ... The Album.

Sigur Rós are heading out on a Summer 2023 tour across Europe and North America with a 41-piece orchestra in support of their first studio album in 10 years.Kicking off on June 16th with an appearance at UK's Meltdown Festival, the trek will also hit cities including Paris, Toronto, New York City, and more before wrapping in Los Angeles on August 27th.

Paramore have shared , the Nashville rock group's sixth studio album.Stream it below via Apple Music and Spotify.The album was produced by Carlos de la Garza, who worked with the band on their two previous LP's, 2013's self-titled effort and 2017's After Laughter.For their latest offering, the current lineup, comprised of Hayley Williams, Taylor York, and Zac Farro, pushed their sound toward "electro clash and stuff that had a lot of groove" with a heavy influence from Bloc Party and "loud, 'Wall of Sound' emo bands that were happening in the early 2000s," according to Williams.

After a much-needed day off on the seventh of May, the New York Yankees continued their three-city road trip by traveling north to Minnesota to take on the Twins.Although they would become one of the premier teams in the AL Central in the early 2000s, the Twins of the late '90s were smack in the middle of one of their worst stretches in the last 30 years.

After 27 years together, rock band Sum 41 has announced that it will be disbanding.In a statement posted on the band's social media accounts, Sum 41 confirmed that it will be finishing upcoming tour dates and releasing one final album titled Heaven :X: Hell before walking away."Being in Sum 41 since 1996 brought us some of the best moments of our lives," the statement reads.

Everything Everywhere All At Once entered the 2023 Oscars on Sunday with a leading 11 nominations and took home seven after an intense awards season, and an evening far removed from the drama-filled one last year.The German anti-war drama All Quiet on the Western Front another ambitious epic, albeit of wildly different stripe was second with the most Academy Award wins with four.

When Herman McCoy parked his car and rushed inside Casa Adelante, an affordable housing complex on 16th Street, to grab the keys to his new apartment, a tow truck was already taking his car.That was the start of McCoy's pricey parking problems.During the first nine months of his lease at 2828 16th St., the neighborhood's strict parking rules continued to confuse him, costing him $5,000 in tickets and tow fees, he said.

Who poisoned Jane Stanford?Her private secretary?A Stanford University official?A possible heir?Natalia Gurevich, who wrote and narrated the podcast Bitter Academic, looks at these questions in her six-episode true crime series that airs its final show on Monday.The whodunit by Audacy and KCBS looks at the woman who co-founded Stanford with her husband Leland Stanford, a robber baron who thrived during Califonnia's Gold Rush era and served as the state's governor for one year and as a U.S. Senator from 1885 until his death in 1893.

12:15 PM GMT+1 Kevin De Bruyne and Erling Haaland are tearing the Premier League apart / OLI SCARFF/GettyImages Kevin De Bruyne and Erling Haaland could go down as the Premier League's greatest ever forward partnership, former Arsenal defender Martin Keown has claimed.Keown was a key member of Arsenal's side in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when team-mates Thierry Henry and Dennis Bergkamp formed one of the division's most lethal combinations up front.

Willis Reed, who won two NBA championships during his legendary career with the New York Knicks, has died, according to the National Basketball Retired Players Association.He was 80.
Reed played 10 seasons in the NBA from 1964-74, all with the Knicks.He was named to the All-NBA team five times, made seven All-Star teams and won MVP in the 1969-70 season.

Red Sox COMMENTARYTerry Francona's Guardians had only two stars in 2022 but thrived because of contributions from young players the Red Sox can only dream of.I hope you'll excuse my Terry Francona on the brain today." Tito: The Terry Francona Story " has gotten a couple extra watches at this address, his Guardians headed to Fenway Park this weekend for their annual visit.

Italian homeware brand Alessi has made a jump into the world of furniture, launching the frying-pan-inspired Poêle Collection designed by Philippe Starck.Unveiled in Alessi's Milan design week exhibition, Ars Metallica, the Poêle Collection includes a chair, a high stool, a low stool and a coat stand.

A model of Park Hill estate created by stage designer Ben Stones forms the set for Standing at the Sky's Edge, a musical about modern Britain told through stories of life in Sheffield.Standing at the Sky's Edge simultaneously tells the tale of three generations of people living at Park Hill - a brutalist Grade II*-listed housing estate in Sheffield - over the past six decades.

Abuzar Madhu, an environmentalist, on the banks of the Ravi River as it crosses the Pakistani city of Lahore.He has been trying to raise awareness of the state of the Ravi River and has led protests against its neglect.Diaa Hadid/NPR LAHORE, Pakistan Abuzar Madhu sits by the Ravi, a storied river that begins in the Himalayas of northern India and crosses into Pakistan.

Cheese what's not to love?Its popularity is indisputable.Americans consumed over 39 pounds of cheese per capita in 2021 alone, according to data from the US Department of Agriculture.Whether eating cheese is healthy that's a little less clear.High in protein, calcium, vitamins and essential amino acids, cheese is also a calorie-dense food, and can be high in fats and sodium.

A "Starfleet Academy" series was always rumored in the late '90s/early 2000s, but now it's finally happening with co-showrunners Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau.Starfleet wants you!That, or whatever the Federation's recruiting slogan would be, is something you'll hear over the next couple of years, as Paramount+ has given a series order to a new live-action show, " Star Trek: Starfleet Academy," the streamer announced today just two days after confirming multi-season orders for "Strange New Worlds" and "Lower Decks."

Over the years, the Los Angeles Dodgers farm system has risen in a short amount of time.In 2021, the Dodgers went from number 14 in the preseason ranks to 16 in the 2021 midseason ranks and then climbed into the top 5 in the 2022 preseason ranks.The reason for this huge jump has been the development of the farm system and the players they've been able to acquire.

by San Jose Sharks @SanJoseSharks / sjsharks.comThe San Jose Sharks (@SanJoseSharks) will turn back the clock on Y2K Night, a night of fun and unique experiences and activations that that will take fans back in time to the early 2000s.The Sharks will host Y2K Night on Thursday, March 30 at SAP Center at San Jose (@SAPCenter) when the Sharks host the Vegas Golden Knights at 7:30 p.m. Tickets to Y2K Night can be purchased HERE.

The following is a transcript of the video above, from our webinar on "Remaking the Economy: Black Food Sovereignty, Community Stories."View the full webinar here.Demetrius Hunter: Groceries on Wheels is a program that is operated through our nonprofit.It was inspired by my father, who took a mule and cart full of produce from Johnston County, North Carolina, to Wake County.

Water utilities will be required to routinely test for toxic forever chemicals, and spend billions upgrading treatment plants to filter them, under the first-ever national limits intended to protect Americans from widespread threats to human health and the environment.In Illinois alone, the drinking water of more than 660,000 people is contaminated at levels exceeding the proposed standards for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances or PFAS.

Real Estate The estate is so big that it spans two towns.In the late 1800s, the Berkshires was a prime spot for the Gilded Age wealthy to show off their money by building giant mansions, or "summer cottages" as society's upper crust called them.Many have been lost to fire or demolished as impractical for a family to manage and finance.

The stocks of U.S. regional banks plummeted on Monday, as investors reassessed how much such lenders were worth following the sudden collapse of Signature Bank and Silicon Valley Bank.The volatile conditions led to trading in roughly a dozen banks being halted after triggering so-called circuit breakers, which are meant in part to prevent runaway crashes.

Your first question should be, "Who the hell are you?"You already know, but I'll start at the beginning and tell the whole story.I was a hockey fan as a child, and that lasted deep into adulthood where hockey lived alongside tennis as my favourite thing on TV.Eventually as a teenager, I lost interest.