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.

As of 2012, less than 50 Apple I computers ( with only six in working order ) are believed to exist, making it a very rare collector's item.

According to Alexei Nakamura, as of 2012, there are only 205 Ainu living in Russia ( up from just 12 people who self-identified as Ainu in 2008 ) and they along with the Kurile Kamchadals ( Itelmen of Kuril islands ) are fighting for official recognition.

The first is being planned for Lake Havasu City with programs available as early as fall 2012.

The first official celebration will take place in Wellington in August 2012, with the planting of pohutukawa and Norfolk pines along Thorndon Esplanade.

On August 5, 2008 Dan Haren signed a four-year, $ 44. 75 million deal with the Diamondbacks worth a guaranteed $ 41. 25 million through 2012 and including a $ 15. 5 million club option for 2013 with a $ 3. 5 million buyout.

* Sun ( ceased publication with the July 2, 2012 issue )

* 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.

* 2012: Best Country Song – " Threaten Me with Heaven "

The Navy demonstrated the AARGM's capability during Initial Operational Test and Evaluation ( IOT & E ) in spring 2012 with 12 live firing of the missiles.

The Navy authorized Full-Rate Production ( FRP ) of the AARGM in August 2012, with 72 missiles for the Navy and nine for the Italian Air Force to be delivered in 2013.

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 Denmark the closing laws restricting retail trade on Sundays have been abolished with effect from the 1st of October 2012.

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.

A new bridge link with Romania is scheduled for completion in 2012, relieving road and railroad congestion in that direction.

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.

The most recent player credited with a " straight " steal of home was Pete Kozma of the St. Louis Cardinals who stole home against the Chicago Cubs on September 21, 2012.

in 2012, the playoffs were expanded again so that two wild card teams face off in a one game wild card round to determine which team advances to the division series, with the playoffs then continuing as it had before 2012 ( though with the possibilty of a fifth seed being in the playoffs and a fourth seed being out ) after the end of the wild card round.

Beginning with the 2012 season, the wild card team that advances to the Division Series will face the number 1 seed, regardless of whether or not they are in the same division.

Beginning with the 2012 season, the wild card team that advances to the Division Series will face the number 1 seed, regardless of whether or not they are in the same division.

For 2012, the series will instead follow a 2-3 format with the higher seed playing the last 3 games ( as needed ) as home.

In June 2012, the Cypriot government announced it would need € of foreign aid to support the Cyprus Popular Bank, and this was followed by Fitch down-grading Cypus's credit rating to junk status.

At the 2012 meeting in Vancouver, Canada, the American Association for the Advancement of Science ( the world's biggest science conference ), support was reiterated for a cetacean bill of rights, listing cetaceans as " non-human persons ".

Addis Ababa said the assault was in retaliation for the training and support given by Asmara to subversives while Eritrea said the U. S knew of the attacks, an accusation denied by US officials .< Ref >" Eritrean President Discusses Path to Development ", May 18, 2012.

GDP per capita is similar to the average European economies but the economy is critically dependent upon substantial support from the Danish government, which supplies about half the revenues of the home rule government who in turn employ about 8, 000 Greenlanders out of a labor force of 40, 156 ( Jan. 2012 ).

Plans were announced in May 2012 to extend capacity within the network to support up to 2 Tbps ( terabits per second ) capacity across the 50, 000 km backbone network.

Some public opinion has started to turn against Hezbollah for their support of Syrian President Assad's attacks on the opposition movement in Syria Crowds in Cairo shouted out against Iran and Hezbollah, at a public speech by Hamas President Ismail Haniya in February 2012, when Hamas changed its support to the Syrian opposition.

As of August 2012, Lynch has not announced support for President Barack Obama ’ s reelection efforts.

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.

" The IOC rejected an international campaign in support of a minute of silence at the Opening Ceremonies of the 2012 London Olympics in honor of the Israeli victims of the massacre.

In 2009, the operations and maintenance contract for the day-to-day management and operation of the Fence was awarded to Five Rivers Services, LLC, based out of Colorado Springs, CO. On September 30, 2011, Five Rivers Services was awarded a $ 7, 022, 503 firm fixed price with cost reimbursable line items contract modification to manage, operate, maintain, and logistically support the nine Air Force Space Surveillance System field stations, presumably for Fiscal Year 2012.

In September 2012, she will be featured in a campaign called " 30 Songs / 30 Days " to support Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, a multi-platform media project inspired by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn ’ s book.

The use of SVG on the web is still limited by the lack of support in older versions of Internet Explorer ( IE ) which ( as of June 2012 ) is the second most widely used browser, behind Chrome.

* 2012 – Canada officially cuts diplomatic ties with Iran by closing its embassy in Tehran and ordered the expulsion of Iranian diplomats from Ottawa, over support for Syria, nuclear plans and alleged rights abuses.

According to Miss Tarter, in 2012 it costs around "$ 2 million a year to keep SETI research going at the SETI Institute " and approximately 10 times that to support " all kinds of SETI activity around the world.

In 2012, after Sony acquired Ericsson's 50 % stake forming Sony Mobile Communications, Sony decided to currently put the Walkman line as a line of personal stereo products, thus currently ceasing production of new Walkman phones, but not stopping support of old Walkman phones.

CVS replacement projects include CVSNT ( first released 1998 ), Subversion ( initially released in 2004 ), EVS ( first released 2008 ), OpenCVS ( not released as of 3 May 2012 ), and numerous systems that support distributed revision control.

In October 2010, HP stated that they would continue to support Tru64 UNIX until 31 December 2012.

In September 2012, she will be featured in a campaign called " 30 Songs / 30 Days " to support Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, a multi-platform media project inspired by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn ’ s book.

On December 29, 2011, Ventura announced his support for Ron Paul on the Alex Jones Show for the 2012 Presidential Election as " the only anti-war candidate.

" However, after Mitt Romney became the presumptive nominee for the Republican party presidential candidate in May 2012, Ventura gave his support to Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson on June 12, 2012, whom Ventura argued was the choice for voters who “ really want to rebel .”

Le Pen has, during the 2012 presidential elections, worked hard to align herself with the many Jewish people in France, in an attempt to obtain their support in the election.

** QuarkXPress 9. 2. 1. 1 ( 2012 )-Added support for exporting to the Retina iPad

DisplayWrite / 370, a much more powerful version with full graphics and WYSIWYG support, is still available for IBM zSeries mainframe computers as of May 2012 ( see IBM Displaywriter System ).