JUST WHAT IS 2012 ABOUT?
11 May 2012 Leave a Comment
What is 2012 about, is it the end of world according to the Mayan Calendar of 2012? There are more severe storms happening each year. The world is changing, the population is growing and more people are in a small area. We all should have a few emergency supplies. Just check the NEWS and HAPPENINGS. With a little planning these things can be made to have a smaller effect on you.
In my research on what is 2012 about, I find that the Mayan 2012 calendar is mostly positive predictions and not negative ones. It appears what some people see as negative can be interpreted as positive. We have the potential in front of us in 2012 to create a better world.
What are we to do now and do we have the tools and resources to do what we need to do? All we really have to do is to tune in to the world around us and listen to our internal spirit and we will know what to do with this period of our life. It is not the end of the world according to the 2012 calendar as some people think. And then as a Secret shows, focus on what you need to get done and you’ll have the resources necessary to know what 2012 is about and make it a fantastic year not a year for end of world.
I sincerely hope that we all seize the opportunity to be a part of a new positive social movement to change the world; it is not the end of the world. By working together we can change the world to be one that we could only dream of. We can make 2012 be the rebirth of a better world. There are many scientific facts of just what is 2012 about and is it the end of world?
Things predicting the end of world are thought to be based on the many prophecies of the 2012 calendar and one of these is the polar shift that may happen. NASA has been conducting studies about the polar shift and when it may happen. The research done on this has been able to identify probable reasons why this may happen. We have been experiencing more frequent and violent weather patterns in the last few years. Some believe these are related to certain scientific phenomena such as the alignment of the solar system. Others say this cannot be directly regarded as true and correct because there are many factors to be considered before this claim is verified.
The earth is a huge solid mass with a core that is mostly made up of iron known to be magnetic in nature and has definite geomagnetic polls. The polarity of both ends the planet’s has been a constant state for a long time, however now they say it is changing. The shifts in polarity are predicted to change over a period of three hundred thousand and the shift in polarity is said to be long overdue and therefore or may occur in a brief period of time thus causing the end of world. Maybe in 2012
The government has NASA foremost leading authority in the study of the earth and all heavenly bodies. NASA claims polar magnetic shifts are indeed probable but they may not occur of abruptly as many claim. In any case, it is their opinion that doomsday and the end of the world is lacking in evidence and there is no yet proven truth about 2012. The immediate destruction of earth buy catastrophic events or the effects of a polar shift or even the sun creating large sunspots is not likely to occur. However NASA claims further research should be done before drawing any conclusions of what 2012 is about.
NASA claims scientific research about polar shifts does show that it is possible to happen. Its significance to the world and its exact arrival date is yet to be ascertained.
Most of the people in the world today know about predictions contained in the book of Revelations and the end of the world. Even if you do not read the Bible and need more evidence of 2012 just open your mind. Granted there’s no date given for the apocalypse in Revelations, there are many prophecies that have predictions of what will come to pass that are not found in the Bible. To think that the Bible is the only source of prophecy for the 21st century is being narrow minded. One other place to find prophecy of December 21, 2012 is from the Mayan 2012 calendar. Because the Mayan civilizations cease to exist many centuries ago many people and the government think these prophecies of the end of the world are absurd.
Many people believe that the prophecy does not match up with modern timelines. Many people working with prophecies have changed the procession of the days, but they cannot change movement of the stars and planets. Even NASA admits many of the predictions contained in the Mayan calendar have come to pass. It would be absurd for an intelligent person such as you to discredit the vast amount of information available today just because mans time on earth has been so long without change without change. Scientists today still do not understand the knowledge that the Mayans possessed in mathematics astronomy. They not only created a 2012 calendar that was 3500 years long but also a mathematical calculator that is as accurate as any we have today. The understanding of the date of the end of the Mayan calendar was done using their unique calculator and checking it against all the activities in the heavens. There are many astronomical mapping programs used in the modern world by accredited institutions and the predictions have been checked against all these reliable tools and found to be fact. However, the Mayans do not say it will be the end of world, just a starting of a new age or world.
The Mayan civilization may seem to be prehistoric but they possessed capabilities to map the stars and build structures and come up with a 2012 calendar that modern man would have difficulty doing today. The Mayan structures and other stone structures built by ancient civilizations would be difficult to build today with our modern technology. We still cannot understand how the structures were built. The Mayans built a society that focused its studies on time, synchronicity, and consciousness. The Mayan 2012 calendar predicts end of world in the year 2012. A period which also signifies the end of the current era in the Mayan 2012 calendar. But before you start panic, just relax. This end may just represent a symbolic end more so than a literal end. A shift in consciousness, such as a societal shift into a spiritual ages from a scientific one an evolutionary leap if you will by mankind. Many have derived similar predictions from the I Ching or China’s Book of Changes which was written in 2800 B.C. and is revered to this day in China.
We find that the Aztec calendar has the same prophecy as the Mayan 2012 calendar. Many people believe that the Aztecs copied the Mayan calendar but when we are faced with the end of everything as we know it, it’s better to be skeptical and try to understand the true meaning of the 2012 calendar and what 2012 is about.
The Mayan 2012 calendar never predicted that it would be the end of world, just the end of world as we know it. Many believe that the Mayans were predicting a spiritual change. That mankind in the year 2012 would become more enlightened as to our purpose on earth. Many believe that these changes are part of our evolution. So just what is 2012 about?
SCIENCE AND INNOVATION COULD CUT YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT
11 May 2012 Leave a Comment
High levels of youth unemployment across Africa could be reduced if innovation and entrepreneurship were included in university curricula, participants in a major all-Africa conference on science, technology and innovation heard in Kenya this month.
The first Africa Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for Youth Unemployment, Human Capital Development and Inclusive Growth took place from 1-3 April in Nairobi.
It was attended by around 60 government ministers – of higher education, science and technology, education, and finance – from across the continent, as well as academics and civil society representatives, and was sponsored by UNESCO and the African Development Bank.
The message was that science, technology and innovation (STI) could be used to advance youth development in Africa.
Dzingai Mutumbuka, chair of the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) and a former Zimbabwean higher education minister, said that 40% of Africa’s working population was made up of youth, but 60% of these young people were unemployed, under-employed or unemployable.
“This state of affairs is partly attributable to the horrendous mismatch between our education and training systems and the world of work,” he said.
Aida Opoku-Mensah, director of the ICT, science and technology division at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, said African education systems, formal and informal alike, must embrace a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship.
Universities and technical colleges should be encouraged to offer entrepreneurship and innovation courses, or work closely with the private sector to tackle this problem.
Opoku-Mensah called for policies to enable tertiary institutions to create research teams that would operate as small companies, encourage enterprising individuals to work closely with industry and government, and support or reward entrepreneurship.
“We are delighted that here in Kenya, a number of universities have established incubators and science parks on their campuses to provide space for enterprising students and researchers to take their products to market.”
She urged investment to come from African countries’ national budgets, and not just from donors.
“The people who give us aid did not develop like that and we cannot develop with all the aid in the world. We need visionary leaders who have a clear sense of dignity, integrity and sovereignty for our development,” Opoku-Mensah told the forum.
She added that with each donor ‘gift’, with each event organized for Africa, comes the labor, materials and innovation of those who bear the gift. “What happens to African labor, materials and innovation?” she asked.
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki told the meeting that Africa was experiencing rapid economic growth but to compete effectively in the global market it must be able to develop technologies that would set off Africa’s industrial revolution.
He called on academic and research institutions and the private sector to put policies and infrastructure in place that would attract and retain top scientists. “Much more needs to be done to ensure Africa becomes a global hub for innovations,” he said.
Kenya’s Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology Margaret Kamar said the ability of African countries to achieve rapid and inclusive development and the capacity to compete in fast-globalizing, knowledge-based economies would depend on their ability to innovate creatively.
Kamar was concerned that in the past Africa had failed to move beyond declarations made at forums. “Africa is full of declarations; we must now move to action,” she said.
ADEA chair Mutumbuka echoed the same sentiments, saying that in the past decade there had been at least five ministerial conferences on science, technology and innovation. “It is time that we Africans moved away from lofty conference resolutions to implementation, implementation, and implementation.”
Donald Kaberuka, head of the African Development Bank, said science and innovation would create not only sustainable but also equitable wealth for Africans. “Created wealth has the potential to accelerate development and reduce inequality, as opposed to inherited wealth, which fuels inequalities and at times sparks conflict in Africa.”
Kaberuka called on universities to use e-learning approaches to alleviate the continent-wide problem of lecturer shortages for ever-higher numbers of students.
UNESCO Director-general Irina Bokova said her organization was already involved with more than 20 African countries in reviewing existing STI policies in order to develop national frameworks.
UNESCO is also actively promoting links between science, technology, innovation and industry through its University-Industry Science Partnership Programme, on the governance of science and technology parks in developing countries.
The ministers resolved that all African countries should honor the forum’s Nairobi Ministerial Declaration, which called for setting up national STI policies by 2015 and announced a range of resolutions to promote and strengthen STI.
They also agreed to the full establishment and management of the Pan African University, the African Observatory for Science, Technology and Innovation and African Union research grants, and to support and integrate STI policies, strategies and programmers in national and continental agendas.
