In 2003, U. S. News and World Report ranked FYRE as the 23rd best first year program in the nation.

* Manpower: Abu Sayyaf forces in Basilan and in Zamboanga Peninsula were, by June 2003, believed to number less than 500, down from more than 1, 000 a year earlier.

However, rapid technological advances and worldwide participation accelerated the completion date to 2003 ( making it a 13 year project ).

Until 2003 the Lower Houses were restricted to upper year students but with the double cohort of graduates from Ontario schools many of the rooms were transformed into doubles and now hold first years.

In June later that year, the African Union ( AU ) lifted sanctions against the country, which had been applied after the 2003 coup.

In 2003, Channel 4 awarded Teletext Ltd a ten year contract to run the channel's ancillary teletext service, named Teletext on 4.

Carson Palmer, the future star quarterback, was drafted in 2003, but did not play a snap that whole season, as Jon Kitna had a comeback year ( voted NFL Comeback Player of the Year ).

With Hampton out of town and Neagle injured much of the year, Jennings became the centerpiece of the Rockies ' pitching staff in 2003.

This date format originates from the custom of writing the date as ' the 8th day of November in the year of our Lord 2003 ' in western religious and legal documents, which at one time were the majority of documents created.

About 100 tonnes of dysprosium are produced worldwide each year, with 99 % of that total produced in China Dysprosium prices have climbed nearly twentyfold, from $ 7 per pound in 2003, to $ 130 a pound in late 2010.

For example, J. M. W. Topp collected data annually between 1993 – 2003 and found that on the average three new plant species arrived each year, mainly on Diego Garcia.

In 2003 GDP was estimated to have grown by 2 percent, a slight improvement over 2002, the last year for which firm figures are available, when GDP expanded by 1. 8 percent in real terms to about US $ 600 million.

The International Monetary Fund estimates that in 2003 ( the most recent year for which figures are available ) average inflation reached 23 percent.

The 2003 Berkeley report stated that in 2002 alone, " telephone calls worldwide on both landlines and mobile phones contained 17. 3 exabytes of new information if stored in digital form " and that " it would take 9. 25 exabytes of storage to hold all U. S. calls each year.

A GDP of $ 4 billion in fiscal year 2003 was recalculated by the IMF to $ 6. 1 billion, after adding proceeds from opium products.

The club remained competitive, however they could progress no further than the second week of the finals each year for the years of 2002, 2003, and 2004.

Fantasy sports continued to grow with a 2003 Fantasy Sports Trade Association survey showing 15 million people playing fantasy football and spending about $ 150 a year on average, making it a $ 1. 5 billion industry.

The Marlins have the distinction of winning a World Series championship every year they qualified for the postseason, doing so in 1997 and 2003 — both times as the National League wild card team.

In Australia, 6 – 11 year olds IQ, as measured by the Colored Progressive Matrices, has shown no increase from 1975 – 2003.

The same year France contributed to the toppling of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, but it strongly rejected the 2003 invasion of Iraq, even threatening to veto in central coners in the US proposed resolution.

The military action of 2003 did little damage to Iraqi agriculture ; because of favorable weather conditions, in that year grain production was 22 percent higher than in 2002.

( See Japan general election, 2003 ) Likewise, that year, the LDP won the election, even though it suffered setbacks from the new opposition party, the liberal and social-democratic Democratic Party ( DPJ ).

In 2003, the percentage of Muslims in the Kashmir Valley was 95 % and those of Hindus 4 %; the same year, in Jammu, the percentage of Hindus was 66 % and those of Muslims 30 %.

That same year she starred in Mona Lisa Smile ( 2003 ).

Between 1798 and 1803, during the Helvetic Republic, the districts of Bellinzona and Lugano were separate cantons, but in 1803 the two were unified to form the canton of Ticino that joined the Swiss Confederation as a full member in the same year.

The world-famous resorts of St. Moritz and Davos-Klosters are located in the canton, completed by the larger all year round tourism destinations of Arosa, Flims, Lenzerheide, Scuol-Sammnaun and more.

In January 1528 Oecolampadius and Zwingli took part in the disputation at Bern which led to the adoption of the new faith in that canton, and in the following year to the discontinuance of the Mass at Basel.

One year later, he wrote Della pubblica istruzione nel Cantone Ticino (" On public education in the canton of Ticino "), in which he strongly criticized the backwardness of the cantonal government's education policy.

The Constitution of 1814, established Locarno, Bellinzona and Lugano as the capitals of the canton, in a six year rotation.

In the same year ( 2002 ) the public prosecutor of the canton of Zurich announced that she found no evidence of criminal fraud.

With approximately 3 million passengers using its facilities each year, Aigle is the second most important station in canton Vaud after Lausanne.

When Lucerne, in retaliation, recalled the Jesuits to head its education the same year, groups of armed Radicals ( Freischärler ) invaded the canton.

The Mason valley, one of the Italian-speaking southern valleys of Grisons, has since the opening of the tunnel, throughout the year on a secure server with the rest of the canton.

When Lucerne, in retaliation, recalled the Jesuits the same year, groups of armed Radicals (" Freischärler ") invaded the canton.

In the year 1803 the canton Bern was divided into official districts and Aarwangen became seat of the district of Aarwangen.

In 1817, the Tagsatzung decided, on the basis of the Congress of Vienna and the first article of the 1815 Bundesvertrag that Gersau should be united with the canton of Schwyz, which took effect the following year, against its wishes, becoming the sixth and last district of the canton Schwyz.

* under French occupation, when emperor Napoleon I Bonaparte styled himself ' Mediator ' ( equivalent to his title Protector in the German Confederatio of the Rhine ) of the Swiss ( at first Helvetic ) Confederation, the actual Head of the Confederation was simply the chief magistrate of the canton hosting the Swiss Diet ( Helvetic confederal parliament ), with the title Landammann der Schweiz ( in German )/ Landamman de la Suisse ( in French )/ Landamano della Svizzera ( in Italian ), usually for a year, 10 March 1803-31 December 1813

In 1803 the Canton of Aargau was founded, and a year later the castle passed into its possession.

Mind, in his eighth year, was placed at the academy for poor children, which Pestalozzi had previously instituted at Neuenhof, near Bern, Aargau.

The Executive Yuan approved Arbor Day in the spirit of Dr. Sun that year and has since been celebrated on March 12 for this purpose.

Since 1977, New Zealand has celebrated Arbor Day on June 5, which is also World Environment Day, prior to then Arbor Day, in New Zealand, was celebrated on August 4 – which is rather late in the year for tree planting in New Zealand hence the date change.

The national holiday is celebrated every year on the last Friday in April ; in Nebraska, it is a civic holiday.

Modern blóts are celebrated several times during the year.

" The Abyssinians possess also the Ark of the Covenant ", he wrote, and, after a description of the object, describes how the liturgy is celebrated upon the Ark four times a year, " on the feast of the great nativity, on the feast of the glorious Baptism, on the feast of the holy Resurrection, and on the feast of the illuminating Cross.

Athanasius did, however, remain in contact with his people through his annual Festal Letters, in which he also announced on which date Easter would be celebrated that year.

Bastille Day is the name given in English-speaking countries to the French National Day, which is celebrated on the 14th of July each year.

Finally, although Dio states that Crassus was voted a Triumph in Rome by the Senate, there is no evidence in inscriptions of that year ( 27 BC ) that it was actually celebrated.

The nature of the event has also been met with criticism outside of Quebec, such as that given by Ottawa Citizen columnist David Warren, who said in 2007: " The Canada of the government-funded paper flag-waving and painted faces — the ' new ' Canada that is celebrated each year on what is now called ' Canada Day '— has nothing controversially Canadian about it.

Another pennant winner did not come until their championship season of 2005, when the White Sox won their first World Series championship in 88 years, breaking their epochal drought only a year after the Boston Red Sox had broken their slightly shorter but more celebrated " curse.

Every year in the first days of June, the Days of Chojnów ( Dni Chojnowa ) are celebrated.

On 8 December 2000, the show celebrated its fortieth year by broadcasting a live, hour-long episode.

It was then celebrated in the USSR each year on August 27, the day on which Vladimir Lenin signed a decree to nationalise the country's cinematic and photographic industries.

) This plot point was also used in a Sherlock Holmes story based on the Basil Rathbone era, where a friend of Dr. Watson's is a baronet who is due to receive his inheritance on the New Year's Day of the year where his twenty-first birthday will be celebrated, only for the law to deprive him of the money as he was born on February 29 ; with the 84-year-old Baronet distraught at the news that 1900 is not a leap year, Holmes helps the Baronet fake his death long enough for his grandson-who is the appropriate age to receive the inheritance-to establish his claim and receive the money himself.

He is well known for debating the existence of God with Bertrand Russell in a celebrated 1948 BBC broadcast ; the following year he debated logical positivism and the meaningfulness of religious language with his friend the analytic philosopher A. J. Ayer.

It attracts many competitors from all across the globe and in 2011 the event celebrated its centenary year.

This year also saw him appear as guest star with his brother Fred in the celebrated " I Love to Go Swimmin ' with Wimmen " routine in Deep in My Heart.

Dedekind, whom Cantor befriended in 1872, cited this paper later that year, in the paper where he first set out his celebrated definition of real numbers by Dedekind cuts.

The Sedantag was, however, celebrated every year on 2 September, which recalls the decisive victory in the German-French War on 2 September 1870.

" Therefore, in the year 1990, the " Day of German Unity " was celebrated twice.

The Day of German Unity is celebrated each year with a ceremonial act and a citizens ' festival ().

His fiftieth birthday, in 1996, was celebrated with a show in Paradiso, Amsterdam, and the album ( of duets ) was released the same year.