Dr John Demartini interviewed about his new book the Heart of Love

by Ramon Thomas in Video on 1515/060606/2007200720072007 • 1 Comment • , ,

The funny thing about this book is that I bought it after listing to his public talk on the topic but I have not read it because its with a friend who needs it more than I do right now. Anyway one of my favourite websites for video content is Conscious Media Network with a ton of full length (30mins to 1 hour) video interviews with experts in various disciplines from the most esoteric, to hardcore science like quantum physics and string theory. And this is the website where I first encountered the work of Dr John Demartini. I guarantee you will learn something about relating to your men or women in romantic relationships from this interview:

You can purchase Dr Demartini’s relationship book, The Heart of Love from Kalahari.net if you live in South Africa or from Amazon.com if you live elsewhere in the world.

Interview with Tom London on 702

by Ramon Thomas in Blogging/Media on 1414/060606/2007200720072007 • 6 Comments • ,

Tonight I did a quick interview with Tom London, the new host of the late night show on Talkradio 702, Cape Talk. To demonstrate how easy it is to do a video podcast with my new Sony Ericsson w880i I’m posting this video of the late night team for those of you who listened to the show.

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Just the Facts About Online Youth Victimization

by Ramon Thomas in News on 1414/060606/2007200720072007 • 1 Comment •

The research now about victimisation on the Internet turns out to be vastly different from what is reported in the media. This is leading me to believe South Africa needs to investigate heavily in researching the impact of Internet and mobile phones on young children and teenagers. So many assumptions are turning out to be false. Here’s a short transcript followed by a video clip of the proceedings. Double click on the video below to gain access to Youtube and the 9 videos in total. You may also want to visit the Youth Online 2007 page for mp3 audio version, and additional resources of these proceedings.

But actually, the research in the cases that we’ve gleaned from actual law enforcement files, for example, suggests a different reality for these crimes. So first fact is that the predominant online sex crime victims are not young children. They are teenagers. There’s almost no victims in the sample that we collected from – a representative sample of law enforcement cases that involved the child under the age of 13.

In the predominant sex crime scenario, doesn’t involve violence, stranger molesters posing online as other children in order to set up an abduction or assault. Only five percent of these cases actually involved violence. Only three percent involved an abduction. It’s also interesting that deception does not seem to be a major factor. Only five percent of the offenders concealed the fact that they were adults from their victims. Eighty percent were quite explicit about their sexual intentions with the youth that they were communicating with.

So these are not mostly violence sex crimes, but they are criminal seductions that take advantage of teenage, common teenage vulnerabilities. The offenders lure teens after weeks of conversations with them, they play on teens’ desires for romance, adventure, sexual information, understanding, and they lure them to encounters that the teams know are sexual in nature with people who are considerably older than themselves.

< Remember to click here to view all the videos of these proceedings.

How to French kiss

by Ramon Thomas in Advice on 1313/060606/2007200720072007 • 1 Comment •

Another innocent question I answered, asked by a girl on Yahoo! Answers: When people French kiss does the girl put the tongue in the mouth our the guy

The simple answer is that you both do. Here’s some tips from a guy who’s been kissing girls for about 10 years ;-) Never put your tongue inside his mouth immediately. Instead use it to lick his lips a bit. Start with his upper lip and move to his lower lip. Use your lips to kiss his lips and his chin and his cheeks and move around his mouth a bit. After a while stick you tongue in his mouth but only briefly. Try to tell if he likes it. One way would be to see if he “bites” your tongue by trying to keep it in his mouth. Mix all this up and you’ll be a super kisser one day soon…

If you need more details on French Kissing checkout this detailed description on Wikihow.

What can I do to make me feel better about me?

by Ramon Thomas in Health on 1212/060606/2007200720072007 • 1 Comment • , , , ,

This is a question from Yahoo! Answers that I answered and was voted Best Answer by the person who asked the question…

As the week keeps going, I’m feeling more and more depressed. I feel like pretty soon something is going to happen to me because of my bad decisions. What can I do to make me feel better about myself? And to not feel so depressed? I’ve been feeling depressed for about 2 weeks. Could this be something serious? Should I go to a doctor?Please, just give me some advice on how I can put off stress, and just get a little self-confidence.

Here’s my answer:

There is three suggestions I can make having experienced depression twice in my life before.

Firstly do all the things for yourself you wish other people would do. So for example if you wish someone would buy you a gift go and buy one for yourself. If you wish someone would take you out to a nice dinner or show. Do it for yourself.

Secondly help those less fortunate. This is maybe the most important because you will soon start to see there’s always someone else in a worse position. And when you do things to help others you will experience gratitude which open’s your heart. Gratitude is the key to changing the way you feel because you start to feel like you are making a difference in other people’s lives.

Lastly watch some comedy shows, stand-up comedy or funny movies. Go back to the classics like Charlie Chaplin or get the earlier Jim Carrey movies like Ace Ventura or The Mask, those really physical comedies with little words. Depression is a myth that’s in your head. You minimise yourself compared to other people. When you laugh you feel more like yourself meaning that you are not putting yourself down or patting yourself on the back. You just in equilibrium.

Source(s): www.drdemartini.com

First date suggestions for men and women

by Ramon Thomas in Dating on 1111/060606/2007200720072007 • 2 Comments •

The worst kind of first dates these days is a coffee date or dinner. Why? Simply because it leads to an interview style of conversation. And you seek fake rapport with the person. For example what’s your favourite movie? The Matrix – “Yeah! So is mine. That’s awesome.”

So I did an interview with Essentials magazine which should be out in July edition with the following advice irrespective of whether you are using online dating, SMS dating or speed dating to meet people:

1. On a first date consider an activity like tenpin bowling, putt putt or window shopping at a flea market instead of boring dinner dates. An activity has built in conversation and reduces pressure so you have a more naturally flowing conversation.

To build rapport ask open ended questions, go deep into them and keep moving to related topics. When you talk about one thing all the time you will come across as predictable or even boring which kills attraction. Avoid interview style questions.

2. When meeting people for the first time use observation to determine their true behaviour. For example how they deal with the waiter at restaurant.

3. Make sure you are listen. They say to be interesting ? be interested. Consider switching your cellphone off for a while. If the other person answers a cellphone during that first date this sets a very bad precedent of what’s coming down the line.

4. If all goes well before the end the first date suggest a second ?date? but never refer to it as a date, simply suggest an activity as before. And by asking the other person to join you, you show confidence and certainty about what you want and where you’re doing in life.

Vote for the 2007 Webware 100

by Ramon Thomas in Internet on 0909/060606/2007200720072007 • No Comments • , ,

To vote for your favourite Web application go to the Webware 100 website here.

TEDGlobal 2007: Session 12: Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

by Ramon Thomas in Economy/Events on 0707/060606/2007200720072007 • 3 Comments • ,

Dr Ngozi Okonjo-IwealaDr Okonjo-Iweala, Distinguished Fellow at Brookings Institution and former Finace Minister from Nigeria presented the final talk at TEDGlobal: Africa the next chapter. She spoke at the TED conference in Monteray, Califorian in Feb 2007. Africa the old: the next chapter. The growth in sub-Saharan Africa is strong and inflation is under control but the question is still out on poverty. External debt has come down to almost 50 billion to 12 or 13 billion. Reserves has been increasing. Foreign Direct Investment into Sub-Saharan Africa has increased from 6 to 18 billion. This all shows confidence. 62% of the population is below the age of 24. This is a clear sign the focus should be on the youth and bring them into a productive economy. A strong case can be made for supporting women by placing more resources in the hands of women – spending patters between men and women are different. Women spend more on human capital goods: household services, health, education and food.

The US and UK could not have been built without Africa’s Aid. When you situation is dire, and personal, you don’t care if it’s aid money or where the money comes from. Spain received $10 million in aid from the European Union. Ireland received $3 million in aid, and is now one of the fastest growing economies in Europe. Neither of these countries felt guilty or bad in any way receiving this money.

A new set of aid entrepreneurs are emerging in the individuals who founded very wealthy foundations. They may take over from the aid received from governments one day. The question is open as to how interested they really are in helping Africa. Are they listening? Are invited to serve on their boards to help with making decisions? The answer is no!

Aid has to be a facilitator, it can be catalytic. China says Nigeria needs infrastructure and discipline to succeed. Within the private sector maybe aid can be used as a money guarantee. Her punchline is to help women get more access to resources – the research and statistics of this speaks for itself.The final question is what you will do with aid, the government, the private sector and the African as an individual.

Read this excellent interview with Dr Okonjo-Iweala here.

TEDGlobal 2007: Session 12: Patrick Awuah

by Ramon Thomas in Internet on 0707/060606/2007200720072007 • No Comments • , , , , ,

Patrick AwuahPatrick Awuah left Microsoft to found Asheshi University. The questions of transformation in Africa is a question of leadership. He gives a shocking example of two incidents at a hospital when they lost power. Learned about courage when stopped at age 16 and stopped by soldiers who wanted him to join some protesters. He found it’s helpful to think about girls, basically taken the anxiety of the moment away for him at the time. He won a scholarship to attend Swarthmore College. The ability to create is the most empowering thing that can help an individual. While he worked at Microsoft the revenue of the company group grew larger than the GDP of Ghana.

Three major problems were identified when he came back to Ghana and interviewed many people to find out the root causes. What was identified is corruption, weak institutions and leadership. A sense of entitlement was found in graduates. He wishes there was a liberal arts university in every African country, they would make a huge difference. A month after launching he received and email from a student, “I am thinking now.” Another student asked “Can we create a perfect society?” after they were issued a challenge to come up with their own honour codes. This has lead to a vigorous debate among the students on campus. For the first in the history of Ghana, a woman was elected to be president of student body. This is real hope.

A 100% of the student have been placed after two graduations. Excellent feedback is pouring in from corporate Ghana and corporate West Africa.

This project reminds me of the impact of the CIDA City Campus university in South Africa. I really think Teddy Blacher, founder of CIDA should have been invited to speak or at least attend TEDGlobal.

TEDGlobal 2007: Session 12: Noah Samara

by Ramon Thomas in Events/Media on 0707/060606/2007200720072007 • 1 Comment • ,

Noah SamaraNoah Samara is a satellite radio pioneer. Growing up saw a lot of people battered by many problems but there has always been a hope. He is impassioned about empowering people with information. Because of HIV/AIDS 17 million people would die by the end of the decade in the 1990s would die and simply because of a lack of information. This prediction was being made in the late 1980s.

Since nobody was doing anything he decided to build his own satellite radio station. His wife said once you’re finished go and get yourself a real job. It was daunting task because it had not been done before to allow satellite to broadcast to terrestrial radio. A 131 countries allocated frequencies. By 1996 $1.1 billion was raised. And for the first time technology was launched in Africa before it was handed down to America.

Some of the programming include daily soap operas, weather information and other types of information that are locally relevant. About 90% of funds are raised inside Africa. Some young people, children of refugees, were interviewed it was an goosebumps moment when they heard themselves on radio from Cape to Cairo the next day. So the question is now how do we scale this impact from anecdotal stories like that of William who built a windmill to serve his family’s energy’s needs. How much of the positive force created by the TEDGlobal conference can be unleashed.

For more please read the Noah Samara page on Wikipedia and also visit Worldpace radio website.

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