Lowenstein ( 2000 ) describes that LTCM established an arbitrage position in Royal Dutch Shell in the summer of 1997, when Royal Dutch traded at an 8 to 10 percent premium.

That autumn he enrolled in the King Khaled University at Abha to study Sharia, he left his family home in Khamis Mushayt in the summer of 2000 to complete the Hajj, but never returned – instead travelling to the Al Farouq training camp in Afghanistan where he met and befriended Waleed and Wail al-Shehri, two brothers from Khamis Mushayt, and Saeed al-Ghamdi.

In the summer of 2000, Djibouti hosted the Arta Conference which brought together various Somali clans and warlords.

The first detection of tau neutrino interactions was announced in summer of 2000 by the DONUT collaboration at Fermilab, making it the latest particle of the Standard Model to have been directly observed ; its existence had already been inferred by both theoretical consistency and experimental data from the Large Electron – Positron Collider.

Doughty continued as a solo artist, collaborating with trance producer BT on the hit single " Never Gonna Come Back Down " in the summer of 2000.

Since 2000, St. John Fisher College has been home to the Buffalo Bills ' NFL annual summer training camp.

They were followed by three hijacker-pilots, Mohamed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi, and Ziad Jarrah early in the summer of 2000 to undertake flight training in south Florida.

The modern Olympics have been held during the summer months every four years since 1896 ( though the 2000 Sydney olympics happened when it was technically winter there ).

By the summer of 2000, the European theater of operations had been fought to a near stalemate.

" The school was renamed the " Wilma Rudolph Oberschule " in her honor in the summer 2000.

Constitutional amendments adopted in the summer of 2000 extended the presidential term by 2 years, creating a 7-year presidential term.

In the summer of 2000, Yemen and Saudi Arabia signed an International Border Treaty settling a 50-year-old dispute over the location of the border between the two countries.

Horizons closed permanently on January 9, 1999 and was demolished in the summer of 2000 to make room for the opening of Mission: SPACE on October 9, 2003.

In the summer of 2000, Twyla Tharp Dance regrouped with entirely new dancers.

Reality television saw an explosion of global popularity starting in the summer of 2000, with the successes of Big Brother and Survivor ( in the US ).

The town had a population of 2, 749 at the 2000 census, which swells nearly sixfold during the summer.

In the summer of 2000, a Helwan University geological team, prospecting for petroleum in Egypt's Western Desert, came across well-preserved fragments of textiles, bits of metal resembling weapons, and human remains that they believed to be traces of the Lost Army of Cambyses.

The sport is mainly still confined to Australia and New Zealand, although the Nova Scotia Lifeguard Service in Canada has run the Nova Scotia Surf League competitions every summer since 2000, and competition programs exist in 5 regions of Canada.

Additionally, U. S. based private equity firms raised $ 215. 4 billion in investor commitments to 322 funds, surpassing the previous record set in 2000 by 22 % and 33 % higher than the 2005 fundraising total The following year, despite the onset of turmoil in the credit markets in the summer, saw yet another record year of fundraising with $ 302 billion of investor commitments to 415 funds Among the mega-buyouts completed during the 2006 to 2007 boom were: Equity Office Properties, HCA, Alliance Boots and TXU.

In the summer of 2000, an outbreak of tularemia, also known as rabbit fever, resulted in one death and piqued the interest of the CDC, which wanted to test the island as a potential investigative ground for aerosolized Francisella tularensis.

C-SPAN has also carried CBC ’ s coverage of major events affecting Canadians, including: Canadian federal elections, key proceedings in Canadian Parliament, Six days in September 2000 that marked the death and state funeral of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, the power outage crisis in summer 2003, U. S. presidential elections ( e. g. in 2004, C-SPAN picked up The National the day after the election for the view from Canadians ), state visits and official visits of American presidents to Canada, and Barack Obama inauguration in 2009.

In March 2000, Smith was fired along with head coach John Muckler, and, that summer, James Dolan hired Glen Sather to replace him.

By the summer of 2000, particularly after the Camp David summit failed, Barghouti was disillusioned and said that popular protests and " new forms of military struggle " would be features of the " next Intifada ".

In the summer of 2000, Guard Malik Sealy was killed in a car accident by drunk driver Souksangouane Phengsene who was driving the wrong way down the freeway.

Ron Tugnutt, who was signed in the summer of 2000, supplied solid goaltending with 22 wins, which tied the 74-year-old League record for wins by an expansion-team goalie ( New York Rangers ' Lorne Chabot also had 22 wins in 1926 – 27 ).

That fall he submitted to Professor Baker the first acts and outlines of the following acts of several plays, six of them, according to some of his associates, and he also worked on a play that he first called Niggertown, the material for which he had collected during the summer at home.

`` P. J. '' -- as Ludie called the town -- was crowded with summer people who came to the mountains to escape the heat in the big cities.

In addition to the Conservatory, AFI has a tuition-free program called the AFI Directing Workshop for Women that operates each spring and summer from the Los Angeles campus.

Bevan openly called for him to stand down in the summer of 1954.

* Solstice ( called the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere and the summer solstice in the Southern Hemisphere ) occurs on dates varying from December 20 to December 22 ( in UTC ).

During the summer of 1992, a decision was made to end first-run production, and instead air highlights of the show's earlier years in a revamped program called Hee Haw Silver ( as part of celebrating the show's 25th year ).

* The solstice called the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere and the winter solstice in the southern hemisphere occurs on dates varying from 20 June to 21 June ( in UTC ).

* The first Monday in June is one of the public holidays in the Republic of Ireland ; in the Irish Calendar the month is called Meitheamh and is the middle month of the summer season.

Young chickens are braised with ginseng and other ingredients in medicinal soups eaten during the summer months to combat heat called samgyetang.

The most popular of these soups is gaejang-guk ( also called bosintang ), a spicy stew which is believed by consumers to balance the body's heat during the summer months ; followers of the custom claim this is done to ensure good health by balancing one's gi, or vital energy of the body.

Inspired by Adventure, a group of students at MIT wrote a game called Zork in the summer of 1977 for the PDP-10 minicomputer which became quite popular on the ARPANET.

The connection to the Nile River was made not simply because this was then known as the great river of " Aethiopia " ( by which all lands south of the desert were called by Classical writers ), but because the Nile flooded every summer.

Upon hearing of this, Crowe called Carr and invited him to Australia to address his Rugby league team the South Sydney Rabbitohs, an offer Carr took Crowe up on the following summer.

Most races that are held in the spring and summer feature side by side racing also called a regatta ; all the boats start at the same time from a stationary position and the winner is the boat that crosses the finish line first.

Early civilian authorities called praetors doubled as military leaders during the summer war season.

While Simon was in England that summer of 1965, radio stations around Cocoa Beach and Gainesville, Florida, began to receive requests for a song from the album Wednesday Morning, 3 A. M. called " The Sound of Silence ".

In these articles, Adorno championed avant-garde music at the same time as he critiqued the failings of musical modernity, as in the case of Stravinsky ’ s The Soldier ’ s Tale, which he called in 1923 a “ dismal Bohemian prank .” In these early writings, he was unequivocal in his condemnation of performances which either sought or pretended to achieve a transcendence which Adorno, in line with many intellectuals of the time, regarded as impossible: “ No cathedral ,” he wrote, “ can be built if no community desires one .” In the summer of 1924, Adorno received his doctorate with a study of Edmund Husserl under the direction of the unorthodox neo-Kantian Hans Cornelius.

On warm summer nights, the residents living around Mobile Bay sometimes enjoy the fruits of a mysterious natural phenomenon called a Jubilee, when fish and crabs swarm toward shore and can be easily harvested by people wading in the shallows.

A mead that contains fruit ( such as raspberry, blackberry or strawberry ) is called a melomel, which was also used as a means of food preservation, keeping summer produce for the winter.

A visit to the villa of Cardinal Luigi d ' Este in 1573 convinced Pope Gregory XIII to start the building of a summer residence the following year, in an area considered healthier than the Vatican Hill or Lateran: His architects were Flaminio Ponzio and Ottaviano Nonni, called Mascherino ; under Pope Sixtus V, works were continued by Domenico Fontana ( the main facade on the Piazza ) and Carlo Maderno, and by Gian Lorenzo Bernini for Pope Clement XII.

Tangerine Dream will embark in spring / summer 2012 on a tour of Europe, Canada & USA called The Electric Mandarine Tour 2012:

Speaking of his early days as a playwright and referring to an early collaborative play called Cairo, Shanghai, Bombay !, produced while he was a part of an amateur summer theater group in Memphis, Tennessee, Williams wrote, " The laughter ... enchanted me.

With the demise of Grateful Dead and Phish, nomadic touring hippies attend a growing series of summer festivals, the largest of which is called the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, which premiered in 2002.

Southern California has also a weather phenomenon called " June Gloom or May Grey ", which sometimes gives overcast or foggy skies in the morning at the coast, but usually gives sunny skies by noon, during late spring and early summer.

After Expo 67 ended in October 1967, the site and most of the pavilions continued on as an exhibition called Man and His World, open during the summer months from 1968 until 1981.