Lessons and Legacies of International Polar Year 2007-2008, a 2012 report from the National Academies ’ Polar Research Board, considers the accomplishments and lessons learned through IPY, finding that overall IPY was an outstanding success.

* Cuvier's History of the Natural Sciences: twenty-four lessons from Antiquity to the Renaissance and annotated by Theodore W. Pietsch, translated by Abby S. Simpson, foreword by Philippe Taquet, Paris: Publications scientifiques du Muséum national d ' Histoire naturelle, 2012, 734 p. ( coll.

He took private flying lessons at the Glenn Curtiss Aviation School because he was proscribed by law from aviator training by age and rank, at an expense to himself of $ 1, 470 ( approximately $ 31, 000 in 2012 ).

In 2012 as Virginia reaches its landmark 400 years, we reflect back over the past and ask ourselves what lessons can we learn for the future now that the town has reached its highest ever population level.

High school counselors provide academic, career, college access, and personal and social competencies with developmental classroom lessons and planning to all students, and individual and group counseling for some students and their families to meet the developmental needs of adolescents ( Hatch & Bowers, 2003, 2005, 2012 ).

In August 2012, it was revealed that he had claimed expenses for Hebrew lessons.

McCallie created the " Choice Not Chance " kids club that emphasizes the importance of good choices that later influenced her to write her 2012 book " Choice Not Chance " that focuses on teaching her players and kids how to make good choices in life through her own experiences and learned lessons.

In Summer 2012, the BSO Academy convened for eight days for orchestra rehearsals, sectionals, performance sessions, master classes and personal lessons and lectures led by local experts, all held at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall and Baltimore School for the Arts ( BSA ).

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, Cyprus became affected by the Eurozone financial and banking crisis.

The adaptation, One Man, Two Guvnors, became a smash hit, transferring to the West End and in 2012 to Broadway.

Etisalat became the first company to launch 3G services in 2012 followed MTN and Roshan.

In 2009 – 10, the club won their first " Double " and in 2012 became the first London club to win the UEFA Champions League.

She became the top-ranking female box office star of all time and is currently ranked sixth among the top 10 box office performers ( male and female ), as of 2012.

Following the May 2012 legislative election where the New Democracy party became the largest party in the Hellenic Parliament, Samaras, leader of ND, was asked by Greek President Karolos Papoulias to try to form a government.

In February 2012, Major became chairman of the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust.

The game became available for purchase on the eShop on January 18, 2012 in Japan, on February 2, 2012 in Europe, on April 12, 2012 in Australia and on April 19, 2012 in North America.

The current kits are designed by Warrior Sports, who became the club's kit providers at the start of the 2012 – 13 season.

By the end of the war, MIT became the nation's largest wartime R & D contractor ( attracting some criticism of Bush ), employing nearly 4000 in the Radiation Laboratory alone and receiving in excess of $ 100 million ($ billion in 2012 dollars ) before 1946.

* 2012 – The Dragon spacecraft became the first commercial spacecraft to successfully rendezvous with the International Space Station ( ISS ).

* 2012 – Adam Lambert became the first openly gay artist to debuted at # 1 on the Billboard 200 Album Charts, with his album Trespassing

When Offensive Tackle Willie Roaf was selected in 2012, he became the second player whose time with the Saints contributed to his selection.

After La Russa retired as manager of the Cardinals in 2011, Smith became active in the organization again, starting with his stint as a special instructor for the team's 2012 spring training camp.

For example, by ensuring that the team would be able to select Robert Griffin III of Baylor University in the 2012 draft, the Washington Redskins likely became more attractive for free agents who wished to play with the Heisman Trophy winner.

In Greece, in the general election on 17 June 2012, Coalition of the Radical Left ( Syriza ) won 26. 89 % of the votes and became the second largest party in parliament.

Programs in the United States did not make the full conversion to high definition broadcasting until September 2011, when The Bold and the Beautiful became the last soap to convert to the format, except for One Life to Live, which remained in standard definition, albeit in a 16x9 aspect ratio, until the end of its run on ABC in January 2012.

State Visit became available for download in both it's raw state and a second version, painstakingly restored frame by frame by a user of the UKNova web site which has, due to pressure from FACT, been forced to close, in August 2012 resulting in a major loss of UK vintage television archives.

It became the first city to host the Olympics for the third time when London hosted the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Dell's acquisition of Quest Software became official on September 27th, 2012.

In a 2012 position statement, the American Academy of Pediatrics ( AAP ) stated that a systematic evaluation of the medical literature shows that the " preventive health benefits of elective circumcision of male newborns outweigh the risks of the procedure " and that the health benefits " are sufficient to justify access to this procedure for families choosing it and to warrant third-party payment for circumcision of male newborns ," but " are not great enough to recommend routine circumcision for all male newborns ".

Tax-exempt contributions are not subject to the IRC elective deferral limit, but are combined with tax-deferred contributions made and are subject to the IRC section 415 ( c ) annual additions limit of $ 49, 000 ( as of 2012 ).

That is, an employee's elective deferral funds ( for tax-year 2012 up to $ 17, 000 per tax year for those under age 50 and $ 22, 500 for those over ) are set aside by the employer in a special account where the funds are allowed to be invested in various options made available in the plan.

An employee's combined elective deferrals -- whether to a traditional 401 ( k ), a Roth 401 ( k ), or to both -- cannot exceed $ 17, 000 ( for tax year 2012 ) if a participant is under 50 ; if they are over 50, they may contribute an additional $ 5, 500 ( for tax year 2012 ).

Employer's matching funds are not included in the $ 17, 000 elective deferral cap, but are considered for the maximum section 415 limit, which is $ 50, 000 for 2012.

* Louis Le Guyader-the first TI member to seek elective office outside the United States in a campaign to serve as a Depute in the French National Assembly in 2012

In June 2012, the Pennsylvania General Assembly established the new evaluation method, is to be to be implemented in the 2013-14 school year, will include multiple measures of student achievement, such as the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment, the Pennsylvania Value Added Assessment System, graduation and promotion rates, as well as other elective data to be determined at the local level.

In addition, 2 elective courses are available in Russian, with one further elective course to be available in Russian by the end of 2012.

Furthermore, it was subject to relativity and thus was not constant for all observers, therefore, in 2012, the IAU redefined it again to just simply be.

* Metamath-a language for developing strictly formalized mathematical definitions and proofs accompanied by a proof checker for this language and a growing database of thousands of proved theorems ; while the Metamath language is not accompanied with an automated theorem prover, it can be regarded as important because the formal language behind it allows development of such a software ; as of March, 2012, there is no " widely " known such software, so it is not a subject of " automated theorem proving " ( it can become such a subject ), but it is a proof assistant.

A new Leaving Certificate exam subject with the working title ' Politics & Society ' is being developed by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment ( NCCA ) and is expected to be introduced to the curriculum sometime after 2012.

As a result of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act, hedge fund advisers with at least US $ 15 million in assets under management were required to register with the SEC by March 30, 2012 ; smaller advisers are subject to state registration.

It was announced in May of 2012 that the group was the subject of a fully authorized biography ( written by journalist Greg Prato ), called Too High to Die: Meet the Meat Puppets, released on June 1st.

His life was the subject of the feature length documentary The Wit of the Staircase: The Life and Works of Robert Jordan, scheduled for release in late 2012.

The change in legislation has been referred to as " Weatherley's Law " and came into force on the 1 September 2012 making squatting in a residential building a criminal offence subject to arrest, fine and imprisonment.

As with England, from 1 September 2012, squatting in a residential building was made a criminal offense subject to arrest, fine and imprisonment.

Crossover Poetics or the combining of traditional and avant-garde in creating the play is the main subject in the second edition " New Playwriting Strategies: Language and Media in the 21st Century " ( Routledge 2012 ).

In 2012, a study found that 47 out of 53 medical research papers on the subject of cancer were irreproducible.

ALEC was the subject of the September 29, 2012 edition of Moyers & Company hosted by Bill Moyers.

The establishment of this direct link was also subject of talks during the visit of an Angolan delegation to Lusaka in May 2012.

Its prominent role in biochemistry is the subject of a very large body of research ( as of March 2012, the Medline database returns nearly 200, 000 articles on the subject, largely on protein phosphorylation ).

Nationwide permits are subject to a reauthorization process every 5 years, with the most recent reauthorization occurring in March 2012.

The rankings are based on the same criteria as for the QS World University Rankings 2011 / 2012 – size, subject range and research intensity – but with the fourth aspect, age, restricted to those less than 50 years old.

As of February 2012, it has been established that Spinney will be the subject of a full-length documentary by Copper Pot Pictures called I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story, set to be released in 2013.

Andover is subject to the control of a board of trustees, headed by Peter Currie ' 74, business executive and former Netscape Chief Financial Officer, who took over as president of the Phillips Academy Board of Trustees on July 1, 2012.

Yet her thought has continued to be the subject of extensive scholarship across a wide range of fields ; a meta study from the University of Calgary found that between 1995 and 2012, over 2500 new scholarly works had been published about her.

In January 2012, Taylor wrote to The Scotsman newspaper claiming that Scotland should be subject to partition, depending on the outcome of the Scottish independence referendum.

Training at Sandhurst was the subject of a three part television series, first broadcast by the BBC in October, 2011 ( rebroadcast in April 2012 ).

ALEC was the subject of the September 29, 2012 edition of Moyers & Company hosted by Bill Moyers.

Laws that would legalize same-sex marriage in Washington and Maryland were passed in 2012, but each will be subject to a referendum during the November 2012 elections, while Maine will also vote on an initiative to establish same-sex marriage.