From 1996 to 2009, the IFF used a World Floorball Championship format where the last team in the A-Division was relegated to the B-Division, while the top team in the B-Division was promoted to the A-Division.

* Close Combat-( Microsoft, 1996 )-not the first wargame to break out from hexes, and still presented in a 2-dimensional format, Close Combat nonetheless uniquely addressed factors such as individual morale and reluctance to carry out orders.

Most AVI files also use the file format extensions developed by the Matrox OpenDML group in February 1996.

** The Goblin Companion: A Field Guide to Goblins ( 1996 ), ISBN 1-85793-795-3 – an abridged re-release, in a smaller format, with the colour plates missing

Originally the competition took place over four or five days ; however in 1996 a one-day format was adopted in an effort to be more audience-friendly.

Originally the competition took place over four or five days ; however in 1996 a one-day format was adopted in an effort to be more audience-friendly.

The United States district court backed Boosey & Hawkes's case in 1996, but the Second Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the ruling in 1998, stating that Disney's original " license for motion picture rights extends to video format distribution.

The original VHS cassette was only available in standard format at the time and in 1996 Fox Video re-released a VHS version of the film in widescreen allowing the viewer to see the film in a similar format to its theatrical release.

The DV standard, which debuted in 1996, has become widely used both in its native form and in more robust forms such as Sony's DVCAM and Panasonic's DVCPRO as an acquisition and editing format.

In its first format, it was referred to as Sesame Street Canada and later, Canadian Sesame Street and was a re-edited version of the American series ; it adopted a new format and the Sesame Park title in 1996.

Advanced Photo System ( APS ) is a film format for still photography first produced in 1996.

The format was introduced in 1996 by Kodak, Fujifilm, Minolta, Nikon, Canon and others.

During the " talk " era the station, between 1993 and 1996, tried to launch a hot talk format on the station, acquiring J. R. Gach from WGR as the afternoon drive show and established syndicated hot talkers The Howard Stern Show ( by this time now almost exclusively on the FM dial ), G. Gordon Liddy, Laura Schlessinger, The Fabulous Sports Babe, Tom Leykis and ( briefly, before Gach's arrival ) Don and Mike.

So by 1996 the format was flipped again to country music ( this despite there being three other country stations in Buffalo, WYRK, WNUC and WXRL ).

The site was founded in 1996, and its format has changed little since then.

* Kodachrome 64 film in 120 format was discontinued in 1996.

In January 1996, the station declined to switch to classic rock when WXRK, which had a classic rock format for several years, decided to adopt an alternative rock format.

In July 1996, WAXQ adopted a classic rock format.

Nystrand ( 1996 ) argues that teachers rarely choose classroom discussion as an instructional format.

However in 1996, the umbrella format was revised under the administration of Bishop C. D.

The number of participants in the final tournament reached 16 in 1998 ( 16 teams were to compete in 1996 but Nigeria withdrew, reducing the field to 15 ), and since then, the format has been unchanged, with the sixteen teams being drawn into four groups of four teams each, with the top two teams of each group advancing to a " knock-out " stage.

This format was used for all games save one from 1996 through 2001, and also in 2004.

In 1996, a tenth anniversary edition was released.

Ter-Petrosyan was re-elected in 1996.

Extreme poverty was defined in 1996 by Joseph Wresinski, the founder of ATD Fourth World as:

The second generation was led by Fernand Braudel ( 1902 – 1985 ) and included Georges Duby ( 1919 – 1996 ), Pierre Goubert ( 1915 – 2012 ), Robert Mandrou ( 1921 – 1984 ), Pierre Chaunu ( 1923 – 2009 ), Jacques Le Goff ( 1924 – ) and Ernest Labrousse ( 1895 – 1988 ).

A modified infrageneric classification of Amaranthus was published by Mosyakin & Robertson ( 1996 ) and includes three subgenera: Acnida, Amaranthus, and Albersia.

Their lower level Minor League Baseball teams began play in 1996 ; the expansion draft was held that year as well.

After the Soviet withdrawal, between 1992 and 1996, he was minister of defense in the new government of the Islamic State of Afghanistan under president Burhanuddin Rabbani, and acted as its military leader in the civil war against competing militias around Kabul.

The compelling rationale for this was the integral role technology now plays in our lives, which was not present in 1996.

For the centenary of the VFL / AFL in 1996, the Australian Football Hall of Fame was established.

The elite Legend status was bestowed on 12 members of the Hall of Fame in 1996: Ron Barassi, Haydn Bunton Senior, Roy Cazaly, John Coleman, Jack Dyer, Polly Farmer, Leigh Matthews, John Nicholls, Bob Pratt, Dick Reynolds, Bob Skilton and Ted Whitten ( see above list for further details ).

The first South Asian a cappella group was Penn Masala, founded in 1996 at the University of Pennsylvania.

The study of apoptosis brought on by Bunyaviridae was initiated in 1996 when it was observed that apoptosis was induced by the La Crosse virus into the kidney cells of baby hamsters and into the brains of baby mice.

In 1994, the State Compensation Law ( 国家赔偿法 ) was passed, followed by the Administrative Penalties Law ( 行政处罚法 ) in 1996.

In 1996, two-tier local government was abolished and Angus was established as one of the replacement single-tier Council Areas.

The musical was also revived with great success in 1996, starring Nathan Lane as Pseudolus ( replaced later in the run by Whoopi Goldberg and also by David Alan Grier ), Mark Linn-Baker as Hysterium, Ernie Sabella as Lycus, Jim Stanek as Hero, Lewis J. Stadlen as Senex, and Cris Groenendaal as Miles Gloriosus.

The song was later featured in the film The Birdcage ( 1996 ) and performed by Robin Williams and Christine Baranski.

Revision 1. 2 was the last version of the APM specification, released in 1996.

During his visit to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Manila in 1996, he was saved shortly before his car was due to drive over a bridge where a bomb had been planted.

In a July 2, 2011 editorial the New York Times opined, " The Defense of Marriage Act was enacted in 1996 as an election-year wedge issue, signed by President Bill Clinton in one of his worst policy moments.

The 1996 United States campaign finance controversy was an alleged effort by the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) to influence the domestic policies of the United States, before and during the Clinton administration, and involved the fundraising practices of the administration itself.