No More Hand Helds: ITS THE LAW!

I’m extremely happy this law has finally come to pass! I’m SOOOO very against texting, calling and whatever else while driving. While this is a step in the right direction, it doesn’t eradicate the ENTIRE problem. Sure, being occupied by dialing and texting is a major issue contributing to accidents … but what about being distracted PERIOD? It’s not just the fact that you’re taking your eyes off the road, its also the fact that your judgement and perception is skewed because your attention is with whomever you are speaking to on the phone.

It’s important to understand that not all of us are people that can do two things at once. Many people cant even chew gum and walk nevermind operate a vehicle and talk on the phone.

I just hope people take this law seriously and understand the consequences. It shouldn’t take a fender bender, or worse a DEATH for someone to realize how dangerous this is. You could be the safest driver in the world but if someone ELSE isn’t paying attention you could lose your life or the life of someone you love.

PLEASE drive responsibly and don’t take this issue lightly.

An Ontario law came into effect Monday making it illegal for drivers to use hand-held cellphones, BlackBerrys and other electronic devices while behind the wheel.

Drivers are forbidden to use hand-held devices to talk, text or email while behind the wheel, or to use portable video games or DVD players.

The only exception to the ban is a 911 call.

“This law is about keeping your eyes on the road and your hands on the wheel,” Transportation Minister Jim Bradley said at a news conference in Toronto Monday. “We need to prevent these unnecessary road accidents and I believe this law will do just that.”

Hands-free cellphones remain legal, and global positioning systems are allowed if they’re secured to the dashboard.

The Ministry of Transport said the ban is needed because driver distraction is a factor in 20 per cent of all road accidents. Bradley said one U.S. study found texting boosted the risk of a collision 23 times.

Starting Feb. 1, drivers could face fines of up to $500 if they’re caught violating the ban. There are no demerit points attached to the law.

‘Positive step forward’

Toronto police Insp. Gary Meisner, speaking on behalf of Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police, said Monday that police are looking forward to the legislation, which he described as “a positive step forward and an important one for improving public safety.”

Police will be warning motorists for the first three months to stay off the phone instead of handing out tickets. But drivers can still be charged under existing dangerous or careless driving laws, which have fines of up to $1,000, six demerit points, a driver’s licence suspension and possible jail time.

A survey released in September showed that about 92 per cent of Ontario drivers intended to obey the law.

Newfoundland and Labrador became the first province to ban the use of hand-held cellphones in 2003, while Quebec and Nova Scotia both moved earlier this year to stop drivers from using hand-held cellphones. Similar legislation has also been introduced in British Columbia.

Saskatchewan and Alberta have also announced their intentions to table similar legislation this fall.

More than 50 countries and jurisdictions around the world have banned cellphone use while driving.

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Man Failed To Disclose HIV Status

Years ago, I used to frequent a local social networking community website called Tdotwire (or TDW as its commonly known). In my time there, the site was known as one of immaturity, exposures, gossip and rumours. I had my part in some and also had my share of scandal. When you are young you do stupid things – it got old pretty quick. One of the rumours floating around the site was that one of the members had HIV. We all knew who he was but no one could prove it and no one knew if it was simply the act of a jealous or crazy ex-girlfriend. We laughed it off but the damage was done. It would’ve sucked if this guy DIDN’T have HIV and his face was known all over the GTA as a guy that DID have it. Then this story (shown below) was brought to my attention yesterday. I looked at his face and didn’t place it AT ALL. BUT, as I sit in class and check my facebook notifications via my gmail account (Facebook is blocked at my school) I saw someone send me a comment asking if I remembered this situation from TDW. And when I looked again at the photo I DID recognize him. He looks a little different but without question thats the same guy. I didn’t know his name was Lester Felix. So all those years ago, whomever aired out his HIV status wasnt lying. It wasn’t malicious rumours or gossip. It was truth. He apparently had HIV since 2005 and that’s around the time the “rumours” started. This was already horrific for me to read but now it’s just absolutely surreal. Please wrap it up, everyone. You just really never, ever know

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Donna Hayward is a heavy woman with a kind face, a vulnerable mother of two who fell easily for the smooth-talking Lothario who seemed to look past her weight and into her giving heart.

But now he has been accused of keeping the most heinous of secrets — not just from her, but from so many of his other lovers as well.

Lester Felix, the handsome 28-year-old she has been sleeping with for more than a year, has just been charged with aggravated assault for allegedly having unprotected sex without disclosing he has HIV — a medical condition he has had since 2005.

“Police believe there may be other victims,” their release said last week.

She is one of them.

IN SHOCK

Hayward sits in her cousin’s Scarborough apartment in a heavy haze of shock and cigarette smoke, her eyes swollen by a torrent of tears, paralyzed with fear as she waits to learn if she is now infected with HIV.

“I’m not that lucky to escape it, I know that,” says Hayward, 32. “If I have this, this a death sentence for me. I just keep thinking about my kids. Last night I cried myself to sleep. I’ll never see my kids finish school; I’ll never see my kids get married. Everybody says to stay positive, but it’s hard to.”

She initially met Felix online through a Facebook group called “BBWS (big boned women) worldwide and the black men who luv them” and began their relationship several days after meeting in person last August at one of the group’s social outings at a downtown club.

She weighed more than 300 pounds at the time — she’s lost about 50 since then — but for the first time, her size wasn’t a handicap.

“I felt that nobody would be interested in me and then there’s this good-looking guy asking me out; I thought he was someone who saw past the outside … “

There will be many who will blame her for her misfortune, but no one does more than herself. Hayward wanted to use condoms, but says Felix told her he was allergic to latex and assured her he was “clean” — so she agreed to unprotected sex, a mistake she ‘ll always regret.

“You’ve got to be smart. If a guy won’t wear a condom, then don’t be with him because men will tell you anything to get what they want.”

They were together often, but Hayward was sometimes intimate with her children’s father and she was aware Felix was also sleeping with many other women he had met online. In fact, he once asked her to referee between two of his dates who had shown up at his Scarborough apartment at the same time.

She always came to his defence, she says, and even lavished him with presents. Hayward is on disability benefits because she suffers from depression, but after winning a few thousand dollars in a lottery, she gave him whatever he requested, from a cellphone to groceries.

He’s now accused of giving her the most horrible gift in return.

WARNING ISSUED

Hayward only learned of his arrest after her Facebook group issued a warning Friday urging anyone who had had sexual contact with Felix to contact police.

“I just burst into tears,” she recalls, “because he knew I had children, he met my children. I can’t believe somebody could be that cold-hearted.”

It has been almost 24 hours since then and the shock is slowly giving way to anger — anger that she might have unwittingly infected her “baby dad;” anger that her time with her two young daughters may have been cut short.

“What right did he have to play God with my life?”

This waiting for test results is torture and part of her yearns to hide until she learns her fate, but Hayward feels she has a duty to go public and encourage Felix’s other partners to get tested and speak to the police as she has.

“It’s embarrassing to come forward, to admit that I was with him, but hopefully me being strong enough to do this will help other people,” she says, her eyes filling with tears once again.

“I know there are other girls. I don’t want him to be able to do this ever again.”

Via: The Toronto Sun

Study: Men Can Help Calories

Women are more likely to pare down calories at mealtime if they’re in the company of men at the dining table, a new study suggests.

Researchers at McMaster University in Hamilton observed 469 people sitting down at tables either alone or with others during one week at three cafeterias.

The findings, which appear in the online version of Appetite, found that women who ate with a man chose food with significantly fewer calories than those observed when dining with another woman.

When it came to people eating in pairs, when women ate with other women they averaged about 670 calories. The average dipped to 550 calories when the woman’s dining companion was male.

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Read this in the Metro today. Hahahahahaahahaha.

NAW! REALLY!?

Come on. We didn’t need a study to be done to figure this out. Generally speaking it makes sense. MOST women don’t want to look like gluttonous pigs in front of a man. Sorry but I love my food too much in order to skimp on portions or flavour. Damn all that. I’m not going to go OUT of my way to eat more but on the contrary I’m ALSO not going to go out of my way to eat LESS. I personally don’t eat more or less with my female friends than I do with my male friends (or dates). Food is life and if a guy looks at me and thinks I’m a pig for what I’m eating he can go screw himself.

I’m almost 100% positive that a man prefers a woman that EATS over a woman that sits and picks over a salad with nothing but water to drink. Call me wrong or crazy but that’s only been my experience.

What I Want

- Someone to teach me how to play Chess.

- A great job upon graduation.

- Someone to cook for.

- All the cupcakes in the world.

- Restitution with “N”

- McDonald’s sweet & sour sauce

- Someone to cuddle up and watch TV with at least 3-5 nites a week.

- Someone to wake up to

- A condo.

- A real date.

- A time machine. To use at any given time for any given thing.

- Eternal access to books.

- Someone to sit and watch the NFL Pre-Season with … and have a few beers, too.

- A pool in my backyard.

- A bubble bath.

I’m sure there are more but since I have to now stop and think about them … I doubt they are true wants.

Melissa & Ade: This Woman’s Work

I cried watching this because I lost my grandmother to lung cancer in 2008. I miss her dearly and this piece moved me to tears. It was beautifully danced and the message was so very important. Thank you Tyce, Melissa and Ade. I have never been SO moved by a dance routine as I was with this one.

Authors Note: I have reposted numerous links week after week but they always get taken down. So, I’m sorry – I’m going to just leave the post as is.

He Must Be Eatin’ GOOD!

DAMN, Kevin. I could be late but I only seen his pic late last week in Us Weekly (or one of those magazines) and I was SHOCKED.