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In Louisiana, the weather is almost always riding weather (or if not, give it a day or two) and more motorcyclists are hitting the open roads than ever. With the influx of motorcycles on the streets, accidents are inevitable. If you are a motorcyclist, there are certain precautions you can take to prevent your odds of being injured in a Metairie motorcycle accident.
What you need to understand about motorcycles
While it's obvious, it is worth reiterating - Motorcycles are less crashworthy than other types of vehicles. Unlike a passenger car, where a person is enclosed in an armor of metal, there is nothing to protect the motorcycle rider in an accident, other than a helmet and the appropriate riding gear. Motorcycles are also not as visible as larger vehicles, making them more prone to crashes caused by other motorists.
Drivers often do not see motorcycles either because they are riding in their blind spots or the drivers are just not paying enough attention, leading to a Metairie motorcycle accident.
Avoid a Metairie motorcycle crash
You can take certain safety measures to reduce your chances of getting into a motorcycle crash.
The AAA Foundation gives the following recommendations:
- Use the appropriate safety gear, including the proper clothing, eyewear, and footwear.
- Always wear a helmet. In Louisiana, the law requires all riders to wear motorcycle helmets.
- Use a helmet that meets a high protection standard.
Motorists can also minimize the probability of a motorcycle accident by doing the following:
- Allowing at least 4 seconds of follow time behind a motorcycle. What are minor inconveniences to motorists, such as potholes, uneven roads, and railroad crossings, can be serious for motorcyclists. Therefore, motorcyclists need enough room to change their speed or adjust their position on the road.
- Check your mirrors before making lane changes or turns. Again, motorcyclists can be hard to see and are often hidden in blind spots.
- Don't share the lane with a motorcycle. This is a dangerous practice and could lead to an accident.
By following this important safety advice, it is possible to avoid a Metairie motorcycle crash.
And if you've been involved in a motorcycle accident in St. Charles Parish, Jefferson Parish, Lafourche Parish, St. John Parish, Orleans Parish, or another parish in Louisiana, give Loyd J. Bourgeois, LLC a call at (985) 240-9773.
If you have questions about your Louisiana motorcycle accident case, you can download a FREE copy of Loyd's book, The Quick Guide to Louisiana Accident and Injury Claims from our website. You can also contact Loyd's office by filling out a contact form at www.TheInjuryQuiz.com.


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MELBOURNE, Australia — The injuries continued for the elite of men's tennis on Tuesday, as top-ranked Rafael Nadal retired down by 0-2 in the fifth set of his Australian Open quarterfinal with Marin Cilic.
Nadal took a two-set-to-one lead after winning a third-set tiebreaker in typically combative fashion, pumping both arms and shouting after completing the task.
But down by 1-4 in the fourth set, he took a medical timeout and was treated on court while lying on his back. The trainer Per Bastholt worked on Nadal's upper right leg. At one point, Nadal placed a towel over his face as he grimaced in pain.
He returned to the court and, after losing the fourth set, began hobbling between points as Cilic, the powerful sixth-seeded Croatian who played boldly throughout the match, continued to take big and often effective risks with his groundstrokes.
Nadal was restricted in his movement but did what he could for the next two games. After Cilic hit a forehand passing shot winner to break his serve in the second game of the final set, Nadal took off his headband, walked to the other side of the net and informed the chair umpire Eva Asderaki-Moore and Cilic that he was retiring with Cilic leading by 3-6, 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-2, 2-0.
Nadal's team announced on Wednesday that a magnetic resonance imaging exam indicated that he had strained the iliopsoas, an inner hip muscle, on his right side. Nadal still plans to follow his planned schedule, his team said, by playing a hardcourt event in Acapulco, Mexico, which begins on Feb. 26, followed by events in Indian Wells and Miami.
That would give Nadal more than a month to recover (he already had announced he would not play in the Davis Cup next week when Spain faces Britain).
In the semifinals, Cilic will face Kyle Edmund, an unseeded surprise from Britain who upset the No. 3 seed Grigor Dimitrov, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, earlier in the day in Rod Laver Arena.
It has been a tournament of big surprises. In her first Australian Open, the unseeded Elise Mertens of Belgium has reached the semifinals in women's singles. In his first Australian Open, 97th-ranked American Tennys Sandgren has reached the quarterfinals in men's singles.
Nadal's retirement means there will be no rematch with Roger Federer in this year's final. Federer beat Nadal in a five-set thriller in 2017 to win the Australian Open, but Federer, who will face Tomas Berdych in the quarterfinals on Wednesday, is now the only member of the so-called Big Five who is still in contention at Melbourne Park.
The years of competing at the highest level are taking their toll on that elite group. Andy Murray, 30, underwent hip surgery this month in Australia after withdrawing from this tournament. Novak Djokovic and Stan Wawrinka managed to play after taking six-month breaks from competition because of injuries, but they were diminished in Melbourne.
Wawrinka, returning from knee surgery at age 32, lost in the second round to Sandgren. In a fourth-round loss to the 21-year-old South Korean Hyeon Chung, Djokovic, now 30, was frequently wincing in pain, his right elbow still not sufficiently healed after his extended break. Djokovic has acknowledged that elbow surgery is a possibility.
Sandgren and Chung will play each other for a spot in the semifinals on Wednesday.
Nadal expressed concern about the series of injuries to leading players in the last year.
"It's not the right moment to say for me, but somebody who is running the tour should think a little bit about what's going on," he said. "Too many people getting injured."
Nadal, 31, said tennis authorities need to think about the long-term health of the players.
"There is life after tennis, so I don't know if we keep playing in these very, very hard surfaces, what is going to happen in the future with our lives," he said.
Throughout Nadal's remarkable career, as he has won 16 Grand Slam singles titles and two Olympic gold medals, he has often lobbied for more tournaments to be played on natural surfaces like grass and clay — his best surface.
Nadal has a spectacular but punishing playing style, full of abrupt changes of direction as he covers court like few men in the long history of tennis.
When he was part of the ATP Player Council, he pushed unsuccessfully to base the ranking system on two years of results instead of one. In an interview in September, he complained that the top players had mandatory tournament commitments that stretched from January to November, although veteran players become exempt from some mandatory events as they accrue years of service.
Chris Kermode, the executive chairman and president of the ATP, has said that the tour has conducted research that shows the overall injury rate is not climbing for all players but only for the elite, which could be explained by the fact that much of that group is aging.
Federer, the oldest of the Big Five by far at age 36, has long argued that it is important to take long breaks within the season. And though Cilic, 29, was sympathetic to Nadal's injury, he was not ready to ring the alarm bells as loudly.
"In the end, it's on all of us to try to take care of our bodies, to try to pick the right schedule, to listen to our body, how it feels," said Cilic, the 2014 United States Open champion and the only man outside the Big Five to win a Grand Slam singles title since the beginning of 2010.
Nadal had a triumphant 2017 season, winning his 10th French Open and third United States Open. But his knee troubles returned by season's end, forcing him to withdraw from the Paris Masters and depart the ATP World Tour Finals after one match.
Recovery was slower than Nadal hoped or expected, and at the start of 2018 he withdrew from a planned exhibition event in Abu Dhabi and an official tournament in Brisbane, Australia.
This was the first time Nadal had arrived at the Australian Open without playing a warm-up event, but he successfully navigated the first week, dropping just one set, to Diego Schwartzman in the fourth round.
"I worked hard to be here," Nadal said. "We did all the things that we believed were the right things to do to be ready. I think I was ready. I was playing O.K."
But his body — his strength and his weakness — began to break down again in the third set Tuesday.
"Start to feel the muscle a little bit tired in the third, but playing normal, no limits, no limitation," Nadal said. "Then in the fourth at one movement, one drop shot I think, I felt something. At that moment, I thought something happened, but I didn't realize how bad."
It would soon become clear, and the capacity crowd in Laver Arena began to groan and gasp as they watched him hobble and miss routine shots.
"You never want to accept it. You want to wait and see if something happens that helps it go away and get better," said Nadal, who took anti-inflammatory medication during the match. "I was waiting to see if that had any effect and improved anything. But I couldn't move, and without being able to move, I'm not going to win. I couldn't keep going because I was totally lame, and I didn't know either if I continued like that whether I would do more damage."
Injuries have spoiled Nadal's chances at the Australian Open before. He has retired from matches at eight tour events during his career but only two at the Grand Slam level, both at Melbourne Park. (He also withdrew from the 2016 French Open before the third round because of a wrist injury.)
In 2010, Nadal stopped his Australian Open quarterfinal against Murray because of a knee problem. In 2011, when Nadal was trying to become the first man since Rod Laver in 1969 to win four straight major singles titles, he sustained a hamstring injury in the opening set of his quarterfinal against his Spanish compatriot David Ferrer and lost in straight sets.
In the 2014 final here, Nadal lost to Wawrinka in four sets when hampered by a back problem.
Despite his retirement on Tuesday, Nadal will retain the No. 1 ranking after the tournament. But — as with Djokovic — it is unclear when Nadal will be able to play again.
"I'm sad because once again I've had a problem in my career," he said. "But in the end, when these things happen, you have to look in the mirror and see all the good things that have happened, too. It's true that I've perhaps had more injuries than most of my competitors, but it's also true that I've won more than nearly all of them."

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Our intent at Morley Victoria, in regard to physical activity, is to enable a school-wide, active culture that creates improved physical and emotional wellbeing for all our children. We want our pupils to not only leave our school with the knowledge of how to lead physically active and healthy lifestyles, but the desire to want to as well. Through our investors in pupil's framework, we already promote and challenge our children to develop the growth mind set and determination required to make a positive contribution to society as great British citizens with the best moral compass. We would love nothing more than to build upon this with an active culture that creates improved physical and emotional wellbeing for all our children and their families.
Within our timetables, we work hard to allow times throughout the weeks for active breaks and outdoor learning. Our active breaks are short, energetic sessions, that last 20 minutes, that not only build upon the skills taught through our P.E lessons but allow the children to take a break from their learning and to refocus themselves for the following lessons. When the weather permits, our active breaks are undertaken outdoors however we are more than happy to use the space in both our hall and classrooms when the need arises. We are also working tirelessly to create opportunities for outdoor learning. Our teachers aim to plan weekly sessions outdoors (again weather dependant!) that tie in with our national curriculum objectives.
We are constantly working on improving and bettering our playgrounds to ensure that they remain as active as possible. Working closely with our school council, we have developed daily, differentiated activities at both break and lunchtimes that the children can engage with. These vary from teacher led 'Active8' fitness classes at break times to our daily lunch time activities, for both KS1 and KS2, which are currently being led by members of staff or through one of our PE Partner coaches. We are in the midst of training twenty Year 5 pupils to become our designated Sports Leaders with the hope that at some point within the 2019/20 academic year, they will be able to take over and lead these lunch time activities. This is something we will be looking to continue throughout the next few years at Morley Victoria so that every year group, once they reach Year 5, will have the opportunity to lead from the front in promoting our health legacy.


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Last night I did a talk at the Carrick Quilters Club in Prestwick. It was a great evening and the ladies were all really welcoming and seemed to enjoy the talk and all the herb info and hints and tips etc.
I had worried that they might not be interested in a full hour of herb chat and be desperate to get on with their quilting. How wrong was I, they were a dream to talk to. There were some great questions at the end, and a lot of fun and chit chat while I scribbled away signing books.
The really exciting thing for me though was that I sold my very last copy of 'Herbal'. I had a pile of books with me and they all sold. I am left with just my own copy. The first copy I picked out of the box when the first order arrived from the printers back in August.
Mine is a dog eared copy, much read, much shown, much loved. It is also the mark up copy for the new issue that is with the publisher. There are yellow and pink post it notes stuck all over it. Thoughts, ideas, corrections.
I looked at it last night when I got home. I picked it up, held it and really, really appreciated that it was the only copy in the house. Who'd have thunk it, what a moment, a mile stone reached. I had a great big grin on my face.
So thank you quilters for being so nice and for helping me to reach this goal. Oh, and by the way, thanks for the tips on the quilting strips. I shall be looking out my fabric scraps and having a go very soon.
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Swiss-based company Charles King SA's sole director Amin Al-Zarooni has launched an urgent court bid to stop business rescue practitioners from selling Gupta-owned Optimum and Koornfontein mines.
He also wants to stop them from selling any of Tegeta's assets.
Al-Zarooni, a businessman from Dubai with links to the Gupta family, is arguing that a sale of shares agreement he concluded in August 2017 to purchase Tegeta Resources and Energy for R2.97bn is still in effect.
The business rescue practitioners cancelled the agreement in April this year, after it emerged that Al-Zarooni had not paid the full deposit as outlined in the agreement. Al-Zarooni is refusing to accept the cancellation, saying that any dispute must be determined through arbitration administered by the Arbitration Foundation of South Africa.
According to the court papers, Tegeta was paid a deposit of R64m in October 2017 - R2.3m short of the full amount identified in the sale of shares agreement.
Al-Zarooni argues that he tried to pay the remaining R2.3m but the payment was returned to Charles King SA's bank account – for reasons unknown to him.
"It is instructive that Tegeta's then-directors waived the payment of the balance within the deadline and in this regard…it was verbally agreed between the respective parties that the shortfall of R2.3m would be paid as part of the final balance upon the transfer of the shareholdings," Al-Zarooni's founding affidavit reads.
"In these circumstances, Charles King was not in breach of the agreement and Tegeta had no right to cancel the agreement."
Under the spotlight
News24 understands that the R64m transaction is being investigated by the SA Reserve Bank for possible violations of exchange control regulations.
Correspondence attached to the court papers shows that attorney for the business rescue practitioners Bouwer van Niekerk has repeatedly asked for the documents relating to SARB approvals, which Charles King SA and their attorneys have refused to provide. Tegeta owns Optimum and Koornfontein mines as well as Optimum Coal Terminal (OCT) – a company that holds lucrative export concessions at the Richards Bay Coal Terminal (RBCT).
Al-Zarooni has asked the Pretoria High Court to interdict any sale of the mines as envisaged in business rescue plans arguing he has a valid purchase agreement for 100% of Tegeta's shares in the three Gupta mining companies. Tegeta is also under business rescue.
This is not the first time Charles King SA is litigating against the business rescue practitioners. They first approached the court to interdict a creditors meeting that sought to discuss and vote on the business rescue plan, demanding that Tegeta recognise it as a creditor as a result of the R64m payment.
The business rescue practitioners consented to the order and News24 understands it plans to return the R64m to Charles King SA when the mines have been sold.
Smoke and mirrors
Business rescue practitioner Louis Klopper told Times Select in May that at the time of the payment, Tegeta was experiencing a "liquidity crisis".
"The bank account shows they [Tegeta] had a cash flow problem at that stage and they needed R64m to pay their salaries," the publication quoted Klopper as saying.
Another business rescue practitioner, Kurt Knoop, filed an answering affidavit on Tuesday, in which he argues that Charles King had known for months that they considered the share of sales agreement cancelled, and thus the application failed to establish grounds for urgency.
"The dispute between the parties has been ongoing since April 2018, some five months ago. This application, on an urgent basis, is an abuse of proceedings and the rules of this Honorable Court," Knoop's affidavit reads.
But it appears Charles King and Al-Zarooni missed another crucial deadline.
"The agreement contains seven suspensive conditions that had to be fulfilled by August 31, 2018," Knoop explains.
This includes a resolution of the Charles King board approving the purchase of Tegeta, approval from the Competition Commission, consent of the sale from the Minister of Mineral Resources in terms of Section 11 of the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act, approval from the RBCT Company that OCT may be sold, consent from Eskom for the sale, the provision of a Black Economic Empowerment partner that would acquire 30% of the shareholding.
"There is no dispute that the suspensive conditions were not timeously fulfilled or waived in the manner prescribed," Knoop adds. "As none of the conditions was fulfilled by 31 August 2018, the agreement is of no force of effect and the applicant [Charles King SA] does not have any claim against [Tegeta]."
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