* International Jazz Day, organized by UNESCO, first observed in 2012, " is intended to raise awareness in the international community of the virtues of jazz as an educational tool, and a force for peace, unity, dialogue and enhanced cooperation among people.

On September 18, 2012, Berkeley became what is thought to be the first city in the U. S. to officially proclaim a day recognizing bisexuals September 23, which is known as Celebrate Bisexuality Day.

In 2012, Ditch Day fell on May 24.

The Indians broke the Opening Day attendance record for Progressive Field with 43, 190 against the Toronto Blue Jays on April 5, 2012.

* National Day of Remembrance for Dolphy ( 2012 ) in the Philippines

On 13 September 2012 it was announced that a film of the Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert, entitled Celebration Day, would premiere in theatres on 17 October 2012 and be released 19 November 2012.

* The League of American Bicyclists is promoting Bike-to-Work Week from May 14 to 18, 2012 and Bike-to-Work Day on Friday, May 18, 2012.

* Ypsilanti Vampire May Day, by Peter Linebaugh, CounterPunch, April 2012

On 4 February 2012 Madhuri Dixit interacted with Cancer affected children on World Cancer Day organised by Pawan Hans Helicopters Ltd at Juhu, Mumbai. On World Cancer Day Pawan Hans Helicopters Limited offered a Free Joy Ride to Cancer affected children with the support of Cancer Patients Aid Association.

On July 1, 2012, against the Arizona Diamondbacks, the Brewers wore green batting practice uniforms with red and white trim, a nod to the Italian flag, as part of " Italian Heritage Day ".

Starting in 2012, MIT has announced it will post those decisions ( privately ) online on Pi Day at exactly 6: 28pm, which they have called " Tau Time ", to honor the rival numbers Pi and Tau equally.

On April 1, 2012, Google announced the release of " Gmail Tap ", an April Fools ' Day joke that allowed users to use Morse Code to send text from their mobile phones.

In June 2012, the U. S. Justice Department filed a lawsuit against government officials in Colorado City, Arizona and Hildale, Utah, for alleged civil rights violations, including acting as de-facto agents for the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints-a Mormon sect that split off in order to continue the practice of polygamy-denying ex-members and non-members of the Church access to everything from police services to housing and utilities.

* Jon Day, since 2012

" TO THE LIGHT at the Serpentine Gallery is part of the London 2012 Festival, a spectacular 12-week UK-wide celebration featuring internationally-renowned artists from Midsummer's Day on 21 June to the final day of the Paralympic Games on 9 September 2012.

* I'm Not The Me I Remember: Fighting Encephalitis A special report from Inspire and Encephalitis Global Inc. in recognition of Rare Disease Day 2012

In 2012, to remind Australians of the song's significance, Winton organised the inaugural Waltzing Matilda Day to be held on 6 April, the anniversary of its first performance.

Examples include Independence Day, Daylight, Earthquake, 2012, The Day After Tomorrow, Poseidon, The Towering Inferno, Dante's Peak, Deep Impact, Volcano, The Core, Armageddon and Twister.

The Catholic News Agency ( CNA ), in an online news story article posted by Alejandro Bermudez on Saturday, March 31, 2012, stated that, in response to a specific request made personally to Cuban President Raul Castro by Pope Benedict XVI, during his Apostolic Visitation of Leon, Mexico and the island in March of 2012, following the pattern of small advances in Church-Cuban relations, it was decreed by the Communist Party and Castro and his advisers that in 2012, Good Friday would be made a holiday, with a possibility that the move could perhaps be made permanent ( following the move of the late Pope John Paul II, who got Fidel Castro to declare Christmas Day a holiday-which is still the case-due to a personal request during his landmark trip in 1998 ).

On Monday, July 23, 2012, Archbishop Pier Luigi Celata, who until then had been the Secretary, or second-highest official, of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, and Titular Archbishop of Duklja, was named by Pope Benedict XVI to succeed Cardinal Santos Abril y Castelló as the new Vice-Camerlengo ( Chamberlain ) of the Holy Roman Church, to serve under Cardinal Bertone.

The 2012 " Borlaug Dialogue " will be held October 17 – 19.

He is currently Vice President ( 2012 ) and President Elect ( 2013 ) of the American Academy of Religion and a member of the E. C. European Network of Experts on De-Radicalisation and the board of C-1 World Dialogue and an ambassador for the UN Alliance of Civilizations.

The Undersecretary of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue is Father Indunil Janakaratne Kodithuwakku Kankanamalage ( according to the Tuesday, June 12, 2012 online news release giving biographical information and announcing his appointment by Pope Benedict XVI by VIS, Vatican Information Service, Father Kankanamalage was a member of the clergy of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Badulla in Badulla, Sri Lanka, of the Ecclesial Province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Colombo, and he served as a Professor at the Faculty of Missiology at the Pontifical Urban University at the Vatican in Rome ).

Mark G. Williams, John D. Teasdale and Zindel V. Segal ( Guilford, 2007 ), and The Mind's Own Physician: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama on the Healing Power of Meditation, co-authored with Richard Davidson ( New Harbinger, 2012 ) ( based on the 13th Mind and Life Institute Dialogue in 2005 ).

Archbishop of Washington, DC, " Unifying Religious Threads that Provide a Common Ground for Peace " 2009 Rabbi Michael Schudrich, Chief Rabbi of Poland, " A Rabbi ’ s Reflection on the Teachings of John Paul II " 2010 Mona Siddiqui, Prominent Islamic Scholar and Professor of Islamic Studies and Public Understanding at the University of Glasgow, " Islamic Perspectives on Judaism and Christianity " 2011 Professor David F. Ford, a world's renowned Anglican theologian, the Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge, England, and director of the Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme, " Jews, Christians and Muslims Meet around their Scriptures: An Inter-faith Practice for the Twenty-first Century " 2012 His Eminence Cardinal Kurt Koch, President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity and the Commission of the Holy See for Religious Relations with the Jews " Building on Nostra Aetate: 50 Years of Christian-Jewish Dialogue "

As part of its very large website, the museum has the largest online database of objects in the collection of any museum in the world, with 2, 000, 000 individual object entries, 650, 000 of them illustrated, online at the start of 2012.

A video game controller called the X-SKIN, using this system, was expected to be commercially available by 2010 to help make MMORPGs popular on console systems and ease entry of common data such as a username and password, but announcement of its release was available on the In10did website as of 4 March 2012.

On February 14, 2012, the Devo Facebook page posted a status update that clubdevo. com would soon be launching a brand new " post-Warner Brothers " website that would feature new merchandise.

In 2012 relations came under strain when Julian Assange, founder of the Wikileaks website, entered the Ecuadorian embassy in London and sought asylum ; Assange had recently lost a legal case against his extradition to Sweden on charges of sexual assault and rape, but when within the embassy he was on diplomatic territory and beyond the reach of the British police.

Retail Convergence, operator of private sale website RueLaLa. com, acquired by GSI Commerce for $ 180 million, plus up to $ 170 million in earn-out payments based on performance through 2012.

With a worldwide membership, the website lists more than 1. 8 million caches in over 200 countries around the world as of June, 2012.

* In 2012, IKEA in France was accused by the independent newspaper Le Canard enchaîné and the investigative website Mediapart of spying on its employees and clients by illegally accessing French police records.

Kazaa was subsequently under license as a legal music subscription service by Atrinsic, Inc. As of August 2012, the Kazaa website is no longer active.

This track was officially released July 16, 2012 on their website.

On March 3, 2012, Benson addressed the bounty payments controversy on the Saints ' website, stating, " I have been made aware of the NFL ’ s findings relative to the “ Bounty Rule ” and how it relates to our club.

* Photogallery of flights under the Open Skies Treaty on the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe website last access June, 18th 2012

On 9 May, it was announced on the Qt Labs website that the groundwork was being laid for the next major version of Qt, with the expectation that Qt 5 would be released in August 2012.

In the spring of 2012, Rolling Stone also launched a federated search feature which searches both the website and the archive

To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of Vatican II, in October 2011, the Vatican's website and many other Catholic news organizations announced that the Pope Benedict XVI, had made the period from October 2012 to the end of November 2013 ( the Solemnity of Christ the King ) a " Year Of Faith " in a solemn declaration, and ordered all parishes and religious institutions to find some manner during that Year of celebrating and reaffirming the Creed ( there are now two main Creeds-the shorter Apostle's Creed and the lengthier Niceno-Constantopolitan, or Nicene Creed.

On April 17, 2012, it was announced via Helm's official website that he was in the " final stages of cancer "; he died two days later.

As of August 2012 the Antel website claims to have connected over 100, 000 homes to the Internet via fiber.

Published spring 2012 by Counterpoint Press, information at the author's website ).

At the start of 2012, the Webscription. net website was redesigned, renamed to Baen Ebooks and moved to http :// www. baenebooks. com /.

In addition, Livingstone wrote another twelve Fighting Fantasy gamebooks, including The Forest of Doom, City of Thieves and Caverns of the Snow Witch before, in 2012, marking the 30th anniversary of the publication of The Warlock of Firetop Mountain with a new gamebook, Blood of the Zombies ; the title was selected by a vote on the Fighting Fantasy website.

Ology has been cited by The American Spectator, The Austin Chronicle, and MTV News. In April 2012, Geek Sugar highlighted Ology for its " hilarious, tongue-in-cheek news stories, viral videos, and trends ," and Business Insider featured the website in December for its commercial potential as a social media website.

In February 2012, Chasez announced via his website that he is holding auditions, together with the producer and songwriter Jimmy Harry, to form an all girl group with ages between 18 and 24.

In July 2012 the price for a user licence of Lotus SmartSuite 9. 8 was US -$ 342. 00 when purchased directly through the IBM website.

As of April 2012 the Neptune Power website is a placeholder with no further announcements.

Shortly after James made his announcement, Dan Gilbert, the owner of the Cavaliers, announced in an open letter on the Cavaliers website that James ' decision was a " cowardly betrayal " and promised a NBA championship for the Cleveland Cavaliers before LeBron James wins one, although James would win a championship before the Cavs with the Heat's championship win in 2012.