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Round robin results. |
All draws are listed in Atlantic Time (). |
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1996 Ukrainian monetary reform |
The 1996 Ukrainian monetary reform was carried out from 2 to 16 September 1996, and oversaw the replacement of the Ukrainian karbovanets with the new Ukrainian hryvnia in accordance with the Constitution of Ukraine, adopted the same year. Karbovantsiv were exchanged for hryvnias at a rate of 100,000 to 1, with exchanges continuing freely until 1998. The monetary reform helped to launch the political career of Viktor Yushchenko, who oversaw the monetary reform in his capacity as head of the National Bank of Ukraine. |
As part of the broader dissolution of the Soviet Union, Ukraine declared independence in August 1991. The declaration of independence noted the necessity of an independent monetary system and currency in order to establish Ukraine's financial and political independence from the Soviet Union. On 9 September 1991, a bill in the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) titled "On Introduction of Reusable Coupons Into Circulation on the Territory of the Republic" passed, which was followed on 10 January 1992 by the National Bank of Ukraine issuing temporary banknotes named "karbovanets", though they were also popularly known as "coupon-karbovanets". The former Soviet ruble continued to be accepted as legal tender until being taken out of circulation on 12 November 1992. |
Following its introduction, the karbovanets was initially slightly above parity with the Soviet ruble due to a shortage of supply compared to demand. By April 1992, however, karbovantsiv were circulating at such a level that they had reached parity with the former Soviet ruble, and in November 1992 all Soviet rubles were exchanged to karbovantsiv in the form of cashless transfers. Intended to last for only four to six months, the karbovanets instead remained in use until 1996, bearing the brunt of inflationary pressures. |
Canada and the United States began to print Ukraine's permanent new currency, the hryvnia, in 1992. Hyperinflation, however, made the introduction of a new currency pointless at the time. By 1993, the level of inflation on the karbovanets had reached 10,000% according to the National Bank. To introduce the hryvnia would cause rapid devaluation and leave it effectively worthless, so the Ukrainian government took the controversial decision to peg the karbovanets to the United States dollar. In doing so, it hoped to establish a sense of stability and trust in the economic situation, by which introduction of the hryvnia would become possible. Over the next two years, more favourable conditions were created by the strengthening of commercial and official exchange rates with the United States dollar. |
In addition to hyperinflation, the karbovanets struggled from an almost total lack of security measures and poor paper, which enabled the creation of counterfeits by anyone owning a printer. As a result, almost 14 billion counterfeit karbovantsiv were present in the economy by 1996. Seeking to counteract these problems, primary aim of the monetary reform was a policy of devaluation, as part of broader measures to establish economic stability with a new currency. |
The design for hryvnia banknotes was done by Ukrainian artist and writer Vasyl Lopata during an April 1991 competition for the currency of the Ukrainian SSR. Other participants in the competition besides Lopata included , , Volodymyr Yurchyshyn, and . Lopata's work was displayed before the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) committees on economic reform and culture, being approved by Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Leonid Kravchuk. |
Lopata's designs were sent to Canada in 1992 to be printed, and were printed by the Canadian Bank Note Company. Coinage was produced by the government of Italy, as well as . |
According to , a participant in the reform, a month prior to Kuchma's "On Monetary Reform in Ukraine" decree, a commission on studying the feasibility of monetary reforms had been established, headed by Pavlo Lazarenko as Prime Minister of Ukraine and including economists Viktor Yushchenko (then head of the National Bank of Ukraine), Viktor Pynzenyk, Suslov, and Volodymyr Stelmakh. |
On 25 August 1996, Kuchma signed the decree "On Monetary Reform in Ukraine", which formally established the hryvnia and subdivided it into 100 "kopiyok". This was followed on 2 September 1996 by the National Bank of Ukraine introducing six banknotes for the hryvnia (numbering 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, and 100), as well as six different coins for the kopiyka (numbering 1, 2, 5, 10, 25, and 50). Exchanges between the old karbovanets and the new hryvnia occurred at a rate of 100,000:1, and the former currency was completely removed from the economic supply by 16 September 1996. After that date, exchanging from karbovantsiv to hryvnias was only possible in banks until 1998, when the exchange process ended. |
The reforms were successful in restoring confidence in the Ukrainian economy and reducing inflationary pressures; inflation dropped to 40% by the end of 1996 and further to 10% by 1997. Despite the damage to Ukraine's economy as an effect of the 1998 Russian financial crisis, declines in real GDP decreased year on year going into 1999. |
The 1996 monetary reform also introduced Viktor Yushchenko to the national political scene, allowing him to ultimately become President of Ukraine following the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election and Orange Revolution. However, the process of denomination has been more recently attributed to Vadym Hetman, Yushchenko's predecessor, who has been popularly named as "Father of the Hryvnia" in recognition of his achievements. |
A Haiji is a storyteller in Khakas culture who sings and narrates heroic tales to the accompaniment of traditional Khakas instruments (like the jadagan or the khomys) and throat singing. |
Haiji storytellers are venerated in Khakas culture, as they tell stories of the history of the Khakas people. Each professional Haiji could have between 10 and 20 stories in their repertoire. |
Well known Haiji include Semyon Kadyshev, Makar Dobrov, and Pyotr Kurbizhekov. Kadyshev and Dobrov were members of the Writers Union of the USSR. |
Sioban Coppinger (born 1955) is a Canadian-born English sculptor. She has created many sculptures by commission, which stand in locations in Britain. |
Coppinger was born in Canada, and studied at the Bath Academy of Art in England from 1974 to 1977, gaining an honours degree. She taught at Downe House School in Berkshire from 1991 to 1992. She has worked in the field of public sculpture for many years, and has exhibited uncommissioned works. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Sculptors, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. |
Her works include the following: |
"The Gardener and Truant Lion" is in Station Road, Stoke Mandeville, Buckinghamshire. Commissioned for the Chelsea Flower Show in 1986, it was an element in an exhibit by British Rail, whose postwar logo was a lion and wheel; here, the lion has wandered away from his post. The materials used are reinforced concrete and ferrocement. The work was afterwards loaned to the Stoke-on-Trent Garden Festival of 1986, and then was permanently sited at Stoke Mandeville railway station. |
"The Beeston Seat", of 1987, was commissioned by Broxtowe Borough Council, and it is situated in High Road, Beeston, Nottinghamshire. There are two L-shaped hedges; on a bench in the corner of one of them, a statue of an elderly man is seated, with a beekeeper's hat and gloves next to him. In the corner of the other hedge, a beehive and bees are on a tree-stump. The figure was modelled on a friend of the sculptor who could exude calm when others were stressed. The materials used are reinforced concrete and bronze. |
"Birmingham Man" is a statue of the economist and politician Thomas Attwood in Chamberlain Square in Birmingham, unveiled by Priscille Mitchell, Attwood's great-great-granddaughter, in 1993. It was designed in collaboration with Fiona Peever. Attwood is shown sitting on the steps of the square, reading his notes. |
Digital National Library of Chile |
The Digital National Library of Chile is a platform created by the National Library of Chile on August 19, 2013, on the occasion of the bicentennial of the National Library and seeks to "collect, preserve and disseminate" the information, knowledge, and intellectual production created in Chile in digital support, through the legal deposit law, allowing the integration of the digital services of the National Library, generating a transfer between users who consult analog collections to the digital consultation of the collections, without geographical or temporal limits. |
The Digital National Library was inaugurated on August 19, 2013, during the presidency of Sebastián Piñera, under the direction of the director of the Dibam, Magdalena Krebs and the director of the National Library of Chile, Ana Tironi. |
By November 2014, it already had 80,000 titles, photos, videos, and articles online, and aimed to digitize 167,000 documents. |
On August 19, 2015, the "Chilean Web Archive" website was launched, a "service whose objective is to store and preserve various national websites with the purpose of ensuring the availability of information and knowledge generated in digital format, in case of its eventual disappearance". |
The Digital National Library is composed of four sections: |
During the year 2014, for the period between January and December, the Digital National Library received 66,820 visits made by some 52,324 users. |
RS134-49 is a tetrahydropyridine derivative related to psychedelic tryptamines which acts as a 5-HT2A receptor agonist, with a 5-HT2A Ki of 11.5nM and an EC50 of 22nM. It is a biased agonist selective for activation of the Gq coupled signalling pathway with weaker activation of the β-arrestin 2 coupled pathway, but shows a more balanced profile than related compounds such as (R)-69. |
Snehlata (1936 film) |
Snehlata, also known as Bharat Ki Devi, is a 1936 Gujarati and Hindi language film directed by Balwant Bhatt and produced by Vijayshankar Bhatt. |
Successful businessman Sudhakar who falls in love with a college girl Snehlata. The love-story progresses in a love triangle and ends in a tragedy. |
The cast is as follows: |
When talkie films were started, Balwant Bhatt and Vijayshankar Bhatt established Prakash Pictures. Following success of "Sansarleela" (1934), they produced black-and-white film "Snehlata" in Gujarati as well as Hindi. |
The songs of Gujarati version of film had become popular. |
Ian McNeil Jackman is a judge of the Federal Court of Australia. |
Early life and education. |
Ian Jackman was born in England to Grace Mcneil and Christopher Jackman, a Cambridge-educated accountant for PricewaterhouseCoopers. At age four, his family migrated to Australia as ten-pound Poms. He has four siblings including Hugh Jackman. |
Jackman was raised in the North Shore area of Sydney and was a student at Knox Grammar School from 1972 to 1980. During his time there, he was vice-captain, Dux of the School and achieved the second highest HSC mark in New South Wales in 1980. |
Jackman attended the University of Sydney, earning a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in 1984. He won the Rhodes Scholarship for New South Wales and continued his studies at the University of Oxford where he completed a Bachelor of Arts (Jurisprudence) (Hons I) in 1987 and a Bachelor of Civil Law in 1988. |
While at Sydney University, Jackman played rugby with the Sydney University Football Club and among his teammates was former Prime Minister Tony Abbott and former Wallaby Nick Farr-Jones . |
Jackman was an Associate to the Honourable Justice Gummow before joining the NSW bar in 1989 and reading under Bret Walker SC. He practised at Eight Selborne Chambers and specialised in commercial and company law. He represented insurers in COVID-19 business interruption cases in the Federal Court and the High Court. In 2002, he was appointed Senior Counsel. He was a member of the Commonwealth Government's Takeovers Panel from 2014. |
List of Japanese films of 2025 |
This is a list of Japanese films that are scheduled to release in 2025. |
2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships - Men's shot put |
2023-24 North Carolina Central Eagles women's basketball team |
Jesse F. Williams () was an American Negro league catcher in the 1940s. |
Williams made his Negro leagues debut in 1944 with the Cleveland Buckeyes. He played with the club during its 1945 Negro World Series championship season, and finished his career with Cleveland in 1947. |
2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships - Women's high jump |
Jesse Williams (catcher) |
Davao Occidental-San Juan basketball rivalry |
César Award for Most Promising Actress |
2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships - Men's 1500 metres |
2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships - Women's pentathlon |
2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships - Men's 800 metres |
Katrina Phillips is an American actress and activist. She has served as the Chair of Sonoma County, California's Human Rights Commission since July 2022. She has also worked as a counselor for at-risk youth at the Los Angeles LGBT Center, and began volunteering with Sonoma & Napa Pet Rescue and Reunification following the Tubbs Fire in 2017. |
Phillips graduated from DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. She was a member of the university's Theatre School, and performed in the school's stage production "The Yellow Boat" in 1996. |
NBA franchise post-season droughts |
NBA franchise post-season streaks |
Wenzaizhen, () formally known as Xintai Wenzaizhen Urban Land Consolidation Project, is an urban rezoning area located in Xinzhuang District and Taishan District, on the west side of New Taipei City, Taiwan. It is in close prozimity to Provincial Highway 65 and Fu Jen Catholic University. The area is approximately 400 hectares, equivalent to the total area of four Xinzhuang Sub-city Centers, one of the largest urban development plan in Northern Taiwan. |
The Wenzaizhen area is located at the junction of Xinzhuang and Taishan Districts in New Taipei City. It was originally a flood plain first-level control zone controlled to cooperate with the Tamsui River flood control. The relevant local development plans have been delayed for many years. After the land was deregulated, the land provided after the completion of the regional flood control plan was converted into urban development land. After the land was rezoned, it was submitted to the Ministry of the Interior for approval to implement the Xintai Wen Zai Zhen Urban Land Consolidation Project and handle its overall development. |
Development rezoning. |
Total area: approximately 400 hectares |
Carlos César (footballer) |
César Award for Most Promising Actor |