The album was released worldwide on 15 April 2012 via the band ’ s own Electric Generation Recordings, distributed by Essential Music ( UK ), Roadrunner Records ( North America ), 3Wise ( Australia ) and JVC Victor ( Japan ).

At the end of each year there are semi finals and a grand final, where third place receives a home theatre package from JVC, second place receives a prize package worth around $ 100, 000, normally two or three cars and the winner receives $ 250, 000 in cash although in 2012, the winner received $ 150, 000.

On May 10, 2012, NYSE Amex Equities changed its name to NYSE MKT LLC.

Learjet continues to operate as a subsidiary of Bombardier and manufactures jets under the Learjet name. The slogan was changed in 2012 to the Evolution of Mobility from We Move People.

Mazda is in 2012 releasing new petrol engines under the brand name SkyActiv with 14: 1 compression ratio, to be used in all Mazda vehicles by 2015.

David Thomas " Davy " Jones ( 30 December 1945 – 29 February 2012 ) was an English recording artist, actor, and businessman, best known as a member of the musical group The Monkees and star of the TV series of the same name.

* The poem may have inspired the 2012 song of the same name by groove metal band Lamb of God.

In mid-August 2012, the company announced that it will be establishing a chain of 100 economy hotels in Europe but, unlike its few existing hotels in Scandinavia, they will not carry the Ikea name nor will they use Ikea furniture and furnishings-they will be operated by an unnamed international group of hoteliers.

Guha noted in 2012 that, " Ideologues have carried these old rivalries into the present, with the demonization of Gandhi now common among politicians who presume to speak in Ambedkar ’ s name.

Since the launch of the third generation MX-5, Mazda consolidated worldwide marketing using the MX-5 name, though enthusiasts in the US still refer to it as Miata, a name that means " reward " in Old High German, and the vehicle in 2012 was still marketed by Mazda in the US as the MX-5 Miata.

On April 30, 2012, the New Jersey Nets officially changed their name to the Brooklyn Nets.

Pretoria itself is sometimes referred to as " Tshwane " due to a long-running and controversial proposed change of name, which has yet to be decided, as of 2012.

" Furthermore, a synopsis for their 2012 stage production Sam's Enchanted Evening provides the name Randy Rose as that of " the Residents ' lead singer.

Their next film, Cloud Atlas, based on the novel of the same name by David Mitchell and co-written and co-directed by Tom Tykwer, is scheduled for release on October 26, 2012.

The Times is the first newspaper to have borne that name, lending it to numerous other papers around the world, including The Times of India ( 1838 ), The Straits Times ( 1845 ), The New York Times ( 1851 ), The Irish Times ( 1859 ), the Los Angeles Times ( 1881 ), The Seattle Times ( 1891 ), The Daily Times ( Malawi ) ( 1900 ), The Canberra Times ( 1926 ), The Times ( Malta ) ( 1935 ) and The Times of Israel ( Israel ) ( 2012 ).

In the summer of 2012, Google began to offer the ability to find an actor's Bacon number on their main page, by searching for the actors name preceded by the phrase, " bacon number ".

The town changed its official name from Staines to Staines-upon-Thames on 20 May 2012.

Following a day of celebrations in the town including a regatta on the river, the Lord Lieutenant of Surrey, Dame Sarah Goad DCVO, formally changed the name on 20 May 2012 at 2pm.

On January 4, 2012, Robertson reported that God had spoke to him and he " thinks He showed me the next president " but wouldn't name who it is.

Tulsa relocated to San Antonio before the start of the 2012 season, retaining the Talons ' name and history.

Name Change-On May 22, 2012, Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper signed a bill changing the name from Adams State College to Adams State University.

In 2012, the category was renamed to its current name for use in the 85th Academy Awards and onward.

The name was adopted by IUPAC on May 31, 2012.

However, the name livermorium and the symbol Lv were adopted on May 31, 2012 after an approval process by the IUPAC.

However, if the element is recognized, then the scientists will get a right to name it ; a Dubna authority said in June 2012 it " could take a year.

He was a first cousin to and the second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, and was the father of her son James VI of Scotland, who succeeded Elizabeth I of England as James I of England .< ref name = Greig > Elaine Finnie Greig, ‘ Stewart, Henry, duke of Albany Darnley ( 1545 / 6 – 1567 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 ; online edn, Jan 2008 accessed 4 March 2012 </</ ref >

The 84th Academy Awards, honoring films in 2011, was held at the Dolby Theatre on February 26, 2012.

Since 30 June 2012 when the last leap second was added, TAI has been exactly 35 seconds ahead of UTC.

In the beginning of April 2012, when a new military Coup d ' état was under preparation, the Angolan regime decided to withdraw its military mission from Guinea-Bissau.

NASA's planned Space Interferometry Mission ( SIM PlanetQuest ) ( now cancelled ) was to utilize astrometric techniques to detect terrestrial planets orbiting 200 or so of the nearest solar-type stars, and the European Space Agency's GAIA ( due to launch in 2012 ), which will be applying astrometric techniques in its stellar census.

As of May 2012 a private member's bill was before the House of Lords which would grant Turing a statutory pardon if enacted.

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.

With the definitions used before 2012, the astronomical unit was dependent on the heliocentric gravitational constant, that is the product of the gravitational constant G and the solar mass M < sub >☉</ sub >.

The 1976 definition of the astronomical unit was incomplete, in particular because it does not specify the frame of reference in which time is to be measured, but proved practical for the calculation of ephemerides: a fuller definition that is consistent with general relativity was proposed, and " vigorous debate " ensued until in August 2012 the International Astronomical Union adopted the current definition of 1 astronomical unit = 149597870700 meters.

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 ).

< li > On June 15, 2012, a working Apple I was sold at auction by Sotheby's for a record $ 374, 500, more than double the expected price .</ li >

Selkirk, el verdadero Robinson Crusoe, a stop motion film by Tournier Animation based on Alexander Selkirk's life was premiered simultaneously in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay on 2 February 2012.

ASU's undergraduate program is ranked 65th for public universities and 132nd of 280 " national universities " by the 2012 US News and World Report ranking of US colleges and universities ; and, for the fourth year in a row, ASU was ranked in the top 10 for " Up and Coming " universities in the US, for substantial improvements to academics and facilities.

Erickson was also fired in 2012, and replaced by Todd Graham.

* 2012 – The Oak Creek shooting took place at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, killing six people ; the perpetrator was shot dead by police.

In September 2011 it was announced that production of the Rapide would be moved to the company's factory in Gaydon, production will begin in the second half of 2012 and will see all of the current Aston Martin range produced from the Gaydon facility.

20 Sept. 2012 < http :// www. newadvent. org / cathen / 01132c. htm Adam was accepted among the capitulars of Bremen, and by 1069 he appeared as director of the cathedral's school.

On 9 February 2012, Steinsaltz was honored by Israeli President Shimon Peres with Israel's first President's Prize for his scholarship in Talmud.

In 2012, the album was ranked # 385 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, while Newsweek magazine pronounced it the second best album of its decade.

A Blu-ray and DVD release of season 9, titled Beavis and Butt-head-Volume 4, was released on February 14, 2012 in the United States.

It was initially supposed to be in service in 2012, but some observers expect it not to be ready before 2016.

After the completion of the Plovdiv-Dimitrovgrad high-speed line on 1 July 2012 the top operating speed was raised to 200 km / h and the national top speed record of 197 km / h set between Iskar and Elin Pelin with a leased Siemens Taurus electric locomotive is soon expected to be broken.

The construction of the project was awarded to the İçtaş-Astaldi consortium on May 29, 2012.

An under sea water supply tunnel with a length of, named the Bosphorus Water Tunnel, was constructed in 2012 to transfer water from the Melen Creek in Düzce Province ( to the east of the Bosphorus strait, in northwestern Anatolia ) to the European side of Istanbul, from a distance of.