Sun and surf primed as New South Wales coast prepares for Canberra onslaught

November 22, 2014 – 11:30PM

Ben Westcott

Reporter at The Canberra Times

Back again: Rebekah Matthews and her four-year-old daughter Maddy Matthews-James at Batehaven Beach in NSW Photo: Matthew Bedford

The surf boards are waxed and the chips are in the fryer, as Canberrans’ eyes turn once again to the sandy beaches and clear skies of the NSW south coast.

Rebekah Matthews and her two children, Casey, 4, and Maddy, 2, came all the way from England to enjoy the beaches at Batemans Bay, where she grew up years ago.

“They’re stunning, all down the coast they have really nice ones. Surf Beach is nice for the kids as well as Broulee. [Plus] they have lots of things for kids, even play equipment, which they didn’t have when I was young,” Ms Matthews said.

Casey Matthews-James, 4, of Buckhurst Hill, England enjoys a beautiful day at the beach in Batemans Bay. Photo: Matt Bedford

More than 100,000 Canberrans, or close to a third of the population of the ACT, will make the annual pilgrimage down the Kings Highway this holiday season, as the bush capital reverts once again to a Christmas ghost town.

A spokeswoman for Eurobodalla Shire Council, which takes in Batemans Bay, said Canberrans represented the third largest source of visitors to the south coast, behind Sydney and regional NSW.

She said of the average 662,000 visitors to the shire every year, an estimated 28 per cent were from the ACT or 185,000 people.

Maddy, 2, and Casey Matthews-James, 4, of Buckhurst Hill England enjoy a beautiful day at the beach in Batemans Bay. Photo: Matt Bedford

“Canberra has always been an extremely important market for Eurobodalla and the major towns of Batemans Bay, Moruya, Narooma and all the small villages in between,” she said.

“We should also note that many Canberrans own a holiday house or stay with friends and relatives. These visitors are not easily captured in the statistics but none they less represent an enormous financial injection into the local economy.”

Berny’s Fish and Chips at Batehaven owner Sharryn Connell said the summer was their busiest time of the year, seeing visitors from Melbourne and Sydney as well as Canberra.

She said they put on up to seven extra staff to feed masses of beach goers coming through their doors in December and January.

“They’ve always said the population triples in Batemans Bay triples when the holidays are on,” she said, laughing.

“We have our regular Canberra people who also come down all through the year as well, a lot of them have holidays homes here. They’re sort of like transient locals to us.”

Mrs Connell said during the summer months her business turned out hundreds of orders of seafood, including homemade prawn cutlets, garlic prawns, potato cakes and homemade chips.

However, she said people could get a bit impatient when they were on holiday. “They have to remember it’s a small town. You feel a lot of pressure during the holidays,” she said.

Clyde View Holiday Park owner Carol Carver, who has been catering for the Batemans Bay holiday rush for more than 25 years, said she expected almost 100 per cent occupancy over summer.

She said people usually started to come to the coast at the beginning of December and it didn’t taper off till the middle of January.

“I think it’s been on a steady decrease over the past few years but certainly this year is looking to be a lot better,” she said.

“We welcome the Canberra people, absolutely, and we’re the first place you come to on the coast – when you get to  the bottom of the Clyde, there’s Batemans Bay.”

Batemans Bay Mini Golf managers Debbie Longworth and Gavin Heran said dozens of families would play through their course every day during summer.

Ms Longworth said they had been out painting and preparing the course for the rush in December and January.

“If it wasn’t for Canberra visitors it would be very quiet here. We originally asked people when we opened where they had heard about us and they usually just said, ‘We’re from Canberra’,” she said.

Source : The Canberra Times

Sabrina Sato deixa viagem ao Japão para o ano que vem

Sabrina Sato viaja para os Estados Unidos em dezembro

Depois de viajar por várias cidades brasileiras a serviço do seu programa na Record, Sabrina Sato vai fechar o roteiro com uma gravação nos Estados Unidos, em dezembro.

O material captado será transformado em especial.

Por outro lado, a tão comentada viagem da Sabrina para o Japão ficou para 2015. Não teve como fazer agora.

Ela planeja ficar duas semanas por lá e ainda encontrar tempo para uma passadinha na Europa.

 

Flávio Ricco com colaboração de José Carlos Nery

Milagres de Jesus ganha prêmio na Argentina

A minissérie “Milagres de Jesus” ganhou o prêmio do Festival y Mercado de Televisión Internacional, na categoria Melhor Produção de 2014, realizado em Buenos Aires.

É a segunda vez que o prêmio é entregue à Record na categoria. Em 2012, foi “Rei Davi”. Cerca de 160 atores estiveram envolvidos no projeto, que contou com a direção de João Camargo.

 

Flávio Ricco com colaboração de José Carlos Nery

Perda de memória: foi a segunda vez da Nathalia Dill

Nathalia Dill está se especializando em personagens que perdem a memória.

Em “Joia Rara”, da Thelma Guedes e Duca Rachid, a personagem dela, Silvia, vilã no começo e mocinha no final, teve o mesmo problema que a protagonista Laura de “Alto Astral”.

Ela já sabe como fazer direitinho. Especialista.

 

Flávio Ricco com  colaboração de José Carlos Nery

“Alto Astral” ganha chef de cozinha do outro mundo

Jorge Fernando, diretor de núcleo da novela das sete, “Alto Astral”, vai escolher ator para viver chef de outro mundo na trama

A figura do chef de cozinha parece que chegou para ‘fritar’, ops, ficar nos programas e também nas novelas da nossa TV. Já temos vários deles espalhados por aí e o movimento nesse sentido, ao que tudo indica, só tende a aumentar.

É o caso por exemplo de “Alto Astral”, produção das 19h da Globo, que bem ao seu estilo já se prepara para movimentar um pessoal de avental.

Por “seu estilo” entenda-se a chegada de um “fantasma chef”, em mais uma sacada do autor Daniel Ortiz para sua comédia romântica.

Já na próxima semana o diretor Jorge Fernando deverá  definir, através de testes, a escolha de um ator na faixa de 30 ou 35 anos para fazer esse personagem de outro mundo.

O escolhido vai se incorporar em uma pessoa que já está na história, mas que o público ainda não sabe que é médium. Diversos nomes estão sendo estudados para fazer o papel, mas admite-se uma grande dificuldade em se chegar ao artista ideal, porque já tem ator reservado para novelas que ainda nem existem. Drama.

Por outro lado, a produção de “Alto Astral” continua bastante adiantada. A equipe já está gravando os capítulos que serão exibidos na semana do Natal.

 

Flávio Ricco com colaboração de José Carlos Nery

Humorista diz que faltará cadeia para tantos petistas que serão presos

Melbourne Victory game leaves a child and a woman burned

November 22, 2014 – 3:19PM

Deborah Gough and Goya Dmytryshchak

Feeling the heat: Melbourne Victory fans let off flares at Friday nights A-League match against Brisbane Roar.Photo: Getty Images

A woman and a child received burns after flares were set off at the Melbourne Victory v Brisbane Roar game on Friday night.

The woman aged in her 20s and boy, aged 12, are not related but both received burns after five flares were set off at the A-League soccer match held at Etihad Stadium.

Two teenage boys from Melbourne’s northern suburbs have been arrested and are assisting police.

North West Metro Commander Rick Nugent said it was highly dangerous and illegal to let off flares, yet the criminal activity continued to increase.

He said last season there were eight incidents where flares were let off but since this season began, on October 10, 38 flares had been let off and 200 chairs broken.

“Flares are extremely dangerous,” Commander Nugent said.

“They can burn at more than 1000 degrees Celsius and are not designed to be released in highly populated areas. As we saw last night, people can get and will get injured if this behaviour continues.”

Commander Nugent said police would not tolerate flares at sporting events. This season, 30 people have been arrested at Victorian A-League soccer matches.

“Irresponsible violence and criminal damage should not be infiltrating sport in Victoria,” he said.

“… We will take them before the courts, generally speaking, the offenders, as this will enable us to get a ban from the court to attend any A-League game for up to five years.

“This year, I suspect part of it is that we have young people joining the active supporter areas that are being led astray by some older, more experienced people and are now embarking upon this sort of conduct.

“It is just critical that if you are a true supporter of your club and a true supporter of this code, do not bring flares to A-league games. They are far too dangerous.”

Police believe young people are acquiring the flares from boats.

“We don’t believe, on our intelligence, that the flares are actually being purchased by kids at places of disposal,” Commander Nugent said.

“We are of the view that these flares are often collected from the boats of parents and friends and they’re brought along to the game.”

He said police were working with the Football Federation Australia, the stadiums, the clubs and security to improve safety for fans but more was needed.

“There were approximately 22,000 people in attendance last night and while we know that the majority of people are well-behaved, there are a certain group of individuals within the active supportive groups who go to matches with an alternative motive.

“The troublemakers are not there to watch the match; they attend to engage in criminal activity and anti-social behaviour,” he said.

Anyone with information regarding last night’s incident is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or submit a confidential crime report at crimestoppersvic.com.au

 

Source : The Canberra Times

Why it’s absolute madness for the Tony Abbott Government to strip the Australian Broadcasting Corporation

November 23, 2014

Peter FitzSimons

Columnist

I’ll say it again. At the best of times, the government slashing and burning such a beloved institution as the ABC would be political madness. But doing it when you have risen to power after a three-year crusade that your predecessor is a “liar” for breaking a promise on carbon tax, and you have made a specific election-eve promise that there will be “no cuts to the ABC or SBS”, when you are trailing in the polls 55-45 on two party-preferred, when even Andrew Bolt is publicly wringing his hands at your likely fate, when beyond the hard-right commentariat there is absolutely no groundswell of support to bash them?

Total madness! This government can find $250 million to have people in schools that believe in the Magic Sky Daddy (see the chaplaincy program) but feels it must slash $250 million of beloved programming.

Death-wish politics.

Gough off the cuff

Oh, go on with you. As H.G might say, too many Gough Whitlam stories are still never enough.

Now Radio National broadcaster James Carleton who – as the son of television journalist Richard Carleton and his wife Suzie – grew up around the great man, will shortly be releasing a collection of his witticisms.

For example, back during his prime ministership, Gough returned to Kirribilli House from a trip abroad, only to receive a report from the head of security that while deputy prime minister Jim Cairns had been in residence, a routine patrol of the harbourfront gardens had revealed a most embarrassing situation involving the deputy PM and a female member of his staff.

Gough summed up the report in an instant. “In flagrante delicto, al fresco.”

On an another occasion, while in PNG for a gathering of the tribes in Goroka, “a short local – wearing little more than bird of paradise feathers on his head and football socks on his feet – looked inquisitively at Gough. Diplomat Richard Woolcott tried to explain in rusty pidgin ‘him long fella number one belong Australia’. A second Australian official said, ‘Do you realise you have just referred to the prime minister as the biggest prick in the country?’

“Overhearing this, Gough said to Woolcott: ‘Thank you, comrade. Not all my attributes are known to public servants’.”

The book, published by Melbourne University Publishing, will be out on December 1 and launched by Graham Freudenberg on December 6. Where else, but at the Bellevue Hotel?!

Kids are different today

TFF went to the Rolling Stones concert at the Hunter Valley’s Hope Estate on Saturday night and was stunned, across the board.

What a night! What a venue! What a band! And how extraordinary are Mick Jagger and Keith Richards in redefining just what “living in the ’70s” means!

Back when he was 32 years old, Jagger told People magazine: “I’d rather be dead than sing Satisfaction when I’m 45,” and yet here he is, 71 years old, rocking like a mad thing and skipping across the stage for three hours with all the nimbleness of a 12-year-old girl.

Gag of the week

One day the directors of a large finance company are called into the chairman’s office until only the newest, most junior executive is left sitting nervously outside. Finally, it is his turn to be summoned. He enters the office to find the chairman and the other eight directors seated solemnly around a table.

The chairman turns to the young man and asks, “Have you ever slept with Miss Foyt, my secretary?”

“No, certainly not.”

“Are you absolutely sure?” persisted the chairman.

“Absolutely, I’ve never laid a finger on her.”

“You’d swear to that on a stack of Bibles?”

“Yes, I swear I’ve never had a sexual relationship with your secretary.”

“Good. Then you fire her.”

They said

“No cuts to education, no cuts to health, no change to pensions, no change to the GST, and, no cuts to the ABC or SBS.”

Tony Abbott, whose mantra for the three years of Julia Gillard’s prime ministership was that she lied on her promise not to introduce a carbon tax, made this promise before the last election.

“When someone says ‘no cuts’, you think ‘no cuts’ . . .”

Leigh Sales, on 7.30, cuts through Malcolm Turnbull’s rather tangled explanation of how when Prime Minister Abbott promised “no cuts”, he didn’t actually mean “no cuts”.

“I feel parents everywhere cringe at this scene, watching extremely privileged children suing to get even more money unearned by them, after their mother’s lifetime of hard work.”

Gina Rinehart via her spokesman – and this is curious – Jason Morrison, after some of her children’s legal machinations against her became public.

“No brown in town.”

Former Channel Nine supremo Sam Chisholm, rather sniffily, to a Fin Review columnist who wore brown shoes to the relaunch of Machiavelli’s on Tuesday.

“To mark President Xi’s visit, Australia and Tasmania … and, and … Australia and CHINA have reached agreements. It’s hard to confuse Tasmania and China – but I have.”

Tony Abbott, at a parliamentary reception for the Chinese president.

“One finds that if you’re walking along a crowd of people, you’re faced with an iPad, not a face. But it’s a live event. Why do you need to film a live event?”

Prince Andrew said the royal family are beginning to find public engagements “disconcerting”.

“When Bill and I play that game where u can live anywhere, [we] choose . . . Sydney.”

Melinda Gates, wife of Bill Gates, to Time editor-at-large Belinda Luscombe. No surprises there. In the words of Paul Keating, “If you’re not living in Sydney, you’re really just camping out”.

“There was a time when for many of us, Australia was a distant land at the southern edge of the world. Today, the world sees Australia to be at the heart of the Asia-Pacific and Indian Ocean region.” 

Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi to Parliament. And yet our flag still proclaims to the world we are a British outpost in the South Seas.

“She asked for an apple. I cut it up into several pieces and rubbed it with scotch bonnet [chilli] and it worked a treat.”

Jamie Oliver on disciplining his daughter Poppy for rude and disrespectful behaviour. There was hell to pay.

Source : The Canberra Times

Macaé cala mais de 37 mil torcedores do Papão e fica com o título da Série C

Com dois de João Carlos e um de Diego Correa, time do interior carioca se beneficia da vantagem do número de gols marcados na casa do adversário

Mais de 37 mil torcedores se calaram e viram o Macaé surpreender o Paysandu e conquistar o título da Série C do Brasileiro depois do empate em 3 a 3 neste sábado, dia 22, no Estádio Olímpico do Pará, o Mangueirão. Como o time do Rio de Janeiro marcou mais gols na casa do adversário, acabou beneficiado com o placar e ficou com a taça. O confronto, no entanto, foi digno de uma final e sobrou emoção durante todos os 90 minutos.

Zé Antônio, Ruan e Rômulo marcaram para os bicolores. João Carlos, duas vezes, e Diego Corrêa, assinalaram para o Macaé. A decisão, curiosamente, foi decidida pelas duas equipes que conquistaram a classificação para o mata-mata na última rodada, na quarta colocação de seus respectivos grupos.

Partida teve chuva de gols   

Sem dois zagueiros titulares e o homem de referência no meio-campo, o Paysandu perdeu em criatividade, mas apostou na velocidade e habilidade de Bruno Veiga para surpreender o adversário. O time paraense até conseguia criar algumas oportunidades de gol, mas nada com tanta objetividade. Já o Macaé, que começou tímido, se mostrava organizado do meio para frente e assustou pelo menos três vezes, com chances reais de inaugurar o marcador. Faltou ajustar a pontaria.

Sobrou emoção no Mangueirão, na final da Série C (Foto: Thiago Gomes / Futura Press)

A equipe do Rio de Janeiro permaneceu aproveitando os contra-ataques, com descidas rápidas pelas laterais, mas pecava no último passe, no toque final para João Carlos, que era quem mais se apresentava na área. A partida ganhou ares de final depois que o Papão abriu o marcador e o Macaé não se deixou abater. O time Alvianil conseguiu o empate e por pouco não virou em duas boas chegadas de Juba. Yago Pikachu ainda protagonizou um lance de placa no final do primeiro tempo.

Na volta para os 45 minutos finais, o técnico do Paysandu alterou o time. Lenine, apagado durante a etapa inicial, deu lugar ao atacante Rômulo. Ruan, que estava adiantado, acabou recuado para fazer a função de um meia-atacante. Deu certo, por ora. Em um arremate na entrada da área, ele marcou o segundo dos bicolores. A vantagem do Papão durou pouco. Em tarde inspirada, João Carlos deixou tudo igual, obrigando o adversário a se atirar o ataque.

Mazola, então, fez nova mexida. Tirou um volante e colocou Djalma, jogador de meio-campo. O jogo pegou fogo de vez aos 23 minutos da etapa final. Rômulo, de letra, marcou o terceiro do Papão e inverteu a vantagem novamente. Em uma falha de Paulo Rafael, o Macaé conseguiu o empate outra vez. Depois disso, Josué Teixeira colocou um zagueiro para se proteger e o técnico do Papão mandou chamar o quarto atacante. Não havia mais tempo. Macaé campeão da Série C 2014.

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Boogie Oogie 29/11/2014

Vitória diz a Pedro que tem um plano para acabar com a festa de noivado

Vitória propõe um acordo a Susana. Sandra convida Célia e Artur para a festa de noivado. Cristina conta a Diana seus planos para derrubar Mário e Gilda. Madalena e Tadeu acertam os detalhes para que Vicente não descubra que eles já voltaram de Veneza. Dr. Curi explica a Fernando os procedimentos da audiênciasobre a troca de bebês. Vitória diz a Fernandoque não quer que Susana seja presa. Odete fala para Susana não contar o que sabe sobre Carlota para Vitória. Artur aconselha Célia a pedir demissão. Vitória diz a Pedro que tem um plano para acabar com a festa de noivado. Fernando recebe uma pista sobre o paradeiro de Carlota. Vitória arma para que Sandra não compareça à própria festa.