Apresentador João Kleber vai ser “homenageado” no novo “Tá no Ar”

As gravações do “Tá no Ar”, com Marcelo Adnet e companhia bela, vão se estender por mais duas semanas na Globo. O programa voltará ao ar na próxima terça-feira (19) e irá até 5 de abril.

Vera Fischer é aguardada para uma participação especial no humorístico para reviver a personagem Helena, da novela “Laços de Família”, de Manoel Carlos, mas nos “moldes” do programa.

Ainda sobre o “Tá no Ar” que vem aí, Marcelo Adnet vai comandar um novo esquete, “Te Prendi na TV”, no qual faz de tudo um pouco para garantir a atenção do público diante da TV. A animação da plateia ficará por conta das dançarinas interpretadas por Georgiana Goes, Carol Portes, Verônica Debom e Renata Gaspar.

Em tempo, qualquer semelhança com um trabalho do João Kleber na Rede TV! não será mera coincidência.

 

Caiuá Franco/Divulgação/TV Globo

“Te Prendi na TV” é novo quadro do “Tá no Ar”

Flávio Ricco com colaboração de José Carlos Nery

Aguinaldo Silva busca “fora da Globo” padrão de série para o Brasil

 

Aguinaldo Silva pretende, com nova cartada, mexer com os bastidores e também com a programação das TVs, daqui e de fora, se tudo caminhar como se imagina. Logo depois do carnaval, a sua “Casa Aguinaldo Silva de Artes” terá quatro grupos de roteiristas trabalhando em quatro projetos diferentes, todos voltados para o universo de séries e minisséries, gênero já há algum tempo em destaque na televisão da Europa, Estados Unidos e outras praças.

Por uma questão de ética, esses roteiros, após finalizados, serão oferecidos primeiro à Rede Globo. Caso ela não se interesse, aí sim, os trabalhos estarão abertos para outros mercados. Todos mesmo, sem exceção. Como manda o bom juízo, esta “casa de criação” não irá investir em novelas, em função de o autor ter contrato de exclusividade com a Globo, mas, por meio de pessoa jurídica não há nada que impeça negociações de séries e minisséries com outros veículos.

Aguinaldo, como já dito por aqui, está fazendo um esforço enorme para lançar roteiristas e buscar um padrão de séries para o Brasil que ainda não existe. O que há por aí são basicamente modelos muito próximos de novelas ou adaptações de fora.

Flávio Ricco com colaboração de José Carlos Nery

“A Regra do Jogo” não tem direito a casal feliz

Tóia e Romero Rômulo estão no grupo de casais infelizes

O respeitável público certamente já percebeu que, em se tratando de uma novela das nove, não existe nenhum casal feliz em “A Regra do Jogo” (Globo). Esquisito, né?

Todos os que lá estão têm sérios problemas em seus relacionamentos.

São traições de um lado, desconfianças e mentiras de outro. Difícil salvar algum. Vai ver, o autor está deixando para “criar” pelo um ou dois nas últimas semanas.

Salvo qualquer mudança de última hora, o capítulo de encerramento desta novela de João Emanuel Carneiro irá ao ar em 11 de março, e depois será substituída por “Velho Chico”, de Benedito Ruy Barbosa, com Rodrigo Santoro protagonizando a primeira fase.

 

Flávio Ricco com colaboração de José Carlos Nery

Thousands of older people exploring ‘rational suicide’: Nitschke

January 17, 2016 – 7:16PM

Julia Medew

Health Editor

Pat and Peter Shaw took their own lives together in their home when they were both aged 87.

Thousands of older people are investigating peaceful methods to end their own lives because they want to control the nature and timing of their death, says controversial euthanasia campaigner Philip Nitschke.

The former doctor said there was a developing trend of baby boomers and people over 70 wanting to avoid “end of life medical nightmares” in which they are seriously ill and or feel trapped in a hospital or nursing home where it can be difficult to take your own life.

Head of Exit International Philip Nitschke. Photo: David Mariuz

The head of Exit International said these people were “used to getting their own way and less likely to accept the ‘doctor knows best’ approach to issues as fundamental as one’s death”, and were sourcing a reliable lethal drug to stash in case they wanted to use it in the future.

Most of these people were putting themselves at legal risk to import and possess that drug, Mr Nitschke said, and some were getting caught up in blackmail scams where supposed suppliers threaten to report people to the police if they do not pay large sums of money online.

While customs are frequently intercepting the drug, Mr Nitschke said he knew of only three people in 10 years to be charged with importing it after customs tracked the order to them. All three received fines and were not convicted of a criminal offence.

Last week, Fairfax Media told the story of Peter and Pat Shaw – Exit members who took their own lives together in their home when they were both aged 87. Before their deaths, they told their family they were rational, had lived full lives, and did not want to run the risk of further ill health and institutionalisation.

In response to their story, Mr Nitschke called for the decriminalisation of people aged over 70 who import or possess the drug he promotes for a peaceful death. He said while many doctors “peddle” a line that you cannot be rational and take your own life, he believed otherwise and that the Shaws were a good example.

Professor Ian Hickie​, a psychiatrist and mental health campaigner, said he thought it was tragic that people wanted to “check out” of life because of myths and negative stereotypes about ageing, pain relief, hospitals and how the health system treats elderly people.

He said while some people may not have a mental illness when they end their own life, Exit International’s approach to teaching people about suicide was reaching vulnerable people who could, with further assistance, live a longer, enjoyable life.

Professor Hickie, of the Brain and Mind Centre, said Australian authorities needed to work on policies and resources to promote healthy ageing with a focus on getting the right care and support to people so they do not feel like a burden and live as well as they can in their later years.

He said people considering suicide or families discussing the issue should examine what is underpinning people’s motivation. Is it fear of being a burden? Is it fear of a lack of care?

“It’s a dialogue we need to have … There shouldn’t be a need to check out at any age.”

For help or information, call Lifeline 131 114 or beyondblue 1300 224 636.

 

Source : Canberra Times

Low-interest loan scheme to help farmers struggling with drought conditions

8 minutes ago

NICK CLARK

Mercury

TASMANIAN farmers suffering under drought conditions can soon access funds from a $10 million Federal Government drought concessional loan scheme.

The scheme gives farming businesses access to low-interest loans of up to $1 million for five years.

Record low rainfall has already affected farming operations around the state, with many businesses forced to reduce stock levels in order to wait out the big dry.

TasWater has also imposed water restrictions on the East Coast, and Hydro Tasmania has been forced to restart its gas-fired Tamar Valley Power Station because of low water storage levels and the Basslink cable breakdown.

Primary Industries Minister Jeremy Rockliff said recipients would pay an interest rate of 3.05 per cent on the loans, which would be available from next month.

He said farmers could borrow up to 50 per cent of eligible farm business debt.

“We recognise many Tasmanian farmers are doing it tough and some are experiencing what’s traditionally regarded as drought conditions,” he said.

Primary Industries Minister Jeremy Rockliff.

Federal Lyons MP Eric Hutchinson.

In November, the State Government announced $2.27 million worth of initiatives.

“This loan scheme will enable eligible farm businesses to manage the normal operations of the farm, but importantly it gives the opportunity to return to viability and future proof their property,” Mr Rockliff said.

Lyons MP Eric Hutchinson said the concessional loans were helping farmers in other states.

“They can use funds to restructure existing debt, fund operating expenses, for drought preparedness and recovery activities,” he said.

Farmer Daniel Fish on his parched land. Picture: NICK CLARK

Tasmanian Farmers and Graziers Association chief executive Peter Skillern said the scheme would also allow farmers to start responding to some of the immediate challenges as well as start planning a way forward.

Tasmanian Greens leader Cassy O’Connor said hotter, drier conditions in prime agricultural areas were likely to become the norm, so longer term planning for climate change was needed.

Epping Forest farmer Daniel Fish said he had faced his toughest spring in 23 years on his 1300ha grazing property Woorak.

“The extra cost of feeding sheep, lower grain yields and the sale of surplus lambs especially will mean we are $100,000 down on our usual income,” he said. “Normally this time of the year we would have 8000 sheep but at the moment we have 6500.”

Mr Fish said he would not apply for a drought loan, but had exhausted his own supply of 120 tonnes of barley since last month.

He is now forced to buy grain for about $300 a tonne.

Source – The Mercury

Schools shortage crisis hits Victoria

January 17, 2016 – 4:38PM

Henrietta Cook
Education Reporter at The Age

Denise Fung-Henderson, with children Will, 8, and Poppy, 6, is campaigning for a school in the Docklands. Photo: Simon Schluter

EXCLUSIVE

Up to 220 new schools need to be built in Victoria in the next decade to cope with an explosion in student numbers, research has warned.

But despite the alarming statistics, for the first time in 15 years, not a single new state school will open its doors to students when class returns next week.

Victorian schools must absorb 190,000 extra students between 2016 and 2026, according to an analysis prepared for Fairfax Media by the Grattan Institute.

This will mean 7200 extra classrooms and teachers, and between 140 to 220 new government and non-government schools.

“To have no state schools opening this year is disgraceful,” Australian Education Union Victorian branch president Meredith Peace said.

Many state schools are already feeling the squeeze and have crammed portables into their playgrounds to accommodate extra students. Others are turning away families, running classes in halls and storerooms and staggering lunchtime so there’s enough space for children to play.

Ms Peace said portable classrooms were being shifted across the state at an unprecedented and unacceptable rate. She said the Andrews government had made a good start by doubling the previous Liberal government’s spending on school infrastructure, but more investment was needed to keep up with the state’s ballooning student population.

Using 2015 population forecasts, the Grattan Institute found that more than half the extra students would live in just nine local government areas, with the crush felt most acutely in inner city suburbs and the outer growth corridor.

The City of Melbourne is facing the most severe schools shortage among inner-city municipalities, and is set to experience a 62.9 per cent increase in school-aged children in the next decade – or almost 7500 extra students.

It’s a situation that Denise Fung-Henderson – who is involved in lobby group City Schools 4 City Kids – knows all too well.

She moved to the Docklands eight years ago when her son was born, and hoped a school would be built in the area by the time he started prep.

But despite promises from successive state governments, there is still no school.

All other state primary schools in neighbouring suburbs are full so her children Will, 8, and Poppy, 6, attend a Catholic school in South Melbourne.

“We pay taxes, we pay council rates. Why are we not provided with the choice?” she said. “We should be provided with a government primary and secondary school.”

In Wyndham, the fastest growing Victorian municipality, 100 new classrooms will be needed every year over the next decade to accommodate almost 27,000 extra students.

The Grattan Institute’s Dr Peter Goss said successive governments had been caught “on the hop” by this population growth and good, long-term planning was needed.

“This is not just a temporary situation that will work through the system. It requires permanent solutions, not just ever more portables.”

He said a baby boom that started in about 2006 had already hit primary schools, and would impact secondary schools from 2018.

A spokesman for Education Minister James Merlino said the state government had dozens of new schools in the pipeline and was “working to address the issues created by the Liberals’ chronic under-investment”.

He blamed the fact that not a single new state school will open in 2016 on the former state government’s under-investment.

Fifteen new state schools are expected to open in 2017 and 2018, with the majority of these built under a public-private partnership and located in growth corridor suburbs including Point Cook.

Inner-city schools in the pipeline include South Melbourne (Ferrars Street) Primary School, Beaumaris High School, Richmond Secondary School, Prahran Secondary School and South Melbourne Park Primary School.

It is understood that Education Department data suggests that 50 new state schools will be needed in the next decade, with many existing schools able to accommodate extra students.

Cate Hall, a spokeswoman for Our Children Our Schools, an alliance of 22 public school lobby groups, said many parents were travelling great distances because they had no local state schools.

New schools should be provided according to need, rather than political expediency, she said.

Opposition education spokesman Nick Wakeling said the Premier had no plans to build for Victoria’s future education needs. “Victoria’s population is growing by 100,000 a year but the only new schools Daniel Andrews will be opening are those funded by the Coalition.”

Source – theage

Remembering the day it rained embers and burnt leaves

January 16, 2016

Mary Lynn Mather

CANBERRA TIMES AND CHRONICLE REPORTER

Orana Steiner School woodwork teacher Chris Matthews and assistant principal Olga Blasch were part of a group fighting to save the school during the 2003 bushfire. Photo: Elesa Kurtz

 

On January 18, 2003, the Orana Steiner School’s woodwork teacher, Chris Matthews, had an urge to go and see if his workplace was affected by the bushfires licking the edges of suburban Canberra.

“When I turned up, it was madness: all the trees were burning, everything was alight.”

Chris Matthews

“It was pretty chaotic,” Mr Matthews said, almost exactly 13 years later, surveying the Weston site that was ablaze as he arrived there.

“When I turned up, it was madness: all the trees were burning, everything was alight.”

He grabbed the irreplaceable tools of his trade he had collected over time and started extinguishing the flames closest to the buildings.

“I was trying to find a hose that would reach them,” he said, describing how plastic items were melting around the grounds.

“I had the hose going in and out the windows, through the classrooms, and I was stretching as much as I could.”

The roads to the school were blocked but Mr Matthews’ wife, Liana, managed to get there and she retrieved the student files.

“It was happening so quickly and we were running from place to place,” Mr Matthews said.

“It was raining embers and burnt leaves.”

He remembered the spectacle as the fire hit the gas mains and shot “about 20 metres, up in the air”.

Several people had joined them and a parent was trying to put out a fire in one of the classrooms when a fire engine arrived.

Mr Matthews said the firefighters turned the fire hose on him and told him to get away.

Soon after, a helicopter flew overhead to water bomb the area, saving a whole section of classrooms in the middle campus.

“The next day I was really wiped,” Mr Matthews said.

“I didn’t bring any water or anything like that.”

He said he was also “inappropriately dressed” and the rubber soles of his shoes began to smell as he moved through the burning soft fall.

Olga Blasch, the primary school’s assistant principal, said the kindergarten was “the biggest loss” and the younger children had worried about their teacher’s welfare, imagining she “lived” there.

Ms Blasch recalled how the debris and logs smouldered and burnt “for days” and people brought their own hoses to douse the premises.

She was heartened by “the love that came and the overwhelming support” shown to the Orana community, including a teacher and 20 families who lost their homes in the firestorm.

Mr Matthews received an “award of valour” for his efforts.

Source: Canberra Times

Helicopter removes police boat wreck from Queenscliff rocks

January 14, 2016 1:10am

John Morcombe and Julie Cross

Manly Daily

THE police launch that ran aground on the rocks at the foot of Queenscliff Head on the weekend was broken up and removed by helicopter this morning.

It was an inglorious end for the police launch Sea Dragon, which went aground during attempts to recover the body of a man whose crashed over the cliff at the Queenscliff Rd early Saturday morning.

The man was killed instantly when the car landed on its roof when it hit the water before sinking about 1.40am on Saturday but it was not until 11.30am that police divers were able to find the car due to the poor visibility in the water.

Onlookker watch as a helicopter removes pieces of the police boat that run aground on rocks at Queenscliff.

During the search, the Sea Dragon’s propeller was fouled by a rope and its engine failed.

Several attempts were made to tow the Sea Dragon to safety but the tow rope to another police launch broke and the Sea Dragon drifted on to the rocks and was stuck fast.

Over the past few days, the waves have constantly pounded the boat, punching large holes in its hull while salvors salvaged anything of value.

Several attempts were made to move the boat.

The boat debris was airlifted to a Freshwater car park.

On Wednesday afternoon, residents of homes along the clifftop at Queenscliff were notified that a helicopter would be operating in front of their homes today.

The Queenscliff rock pool and the steps leading up to Queenscliff Rd were closed from 6am this morning.

In true northern beaches style, surfers and swimmers continued to enjoy the ocean as the helicopter buzzed overhead at around 8am this morning as it began removing parts of the boat wreckage.

The police boat pictured this morning before it was removed. Picture: Braden Fastier

As the operation began, two members from Queenscliff SLSC in a boat assisted by preventing anyone in the water getting too close to the scene.

However, nothing was roped off on the Freshwater side and those involved in the removal were surprised to see a jogger from North Curl Curl on his way to Manly pop out from the tunnel in the cliffs and head past the team, who were busy breaking up the boat and getting it ready to be removed.

A marine salvage worker jumps onto a stranded police boat washed onto the rocks at Queenscliff. Picture Cameron Richardson

The pieces of the boat were flown across Freshwater Bay to the carpark on Freshwater Headland, where they were dumped ignominiously in a rubbish skip.

Pieces of the police launch in a skip at Freshwater Headland. Picture: Steve Lehane

Source : Daily Telegraph

Queensland’s love affair with art deco

January 17, 2016 – 12:15AM

Amy Mitchell-Whittington

Michele Edmondson in front of the McWhirters building, Fortitude Valley. Photo: Glenn Hunt

Brisbane blogger Iona Cominos began a blog dedicated to Queensland’s Art Deco movement in 2014 because her heart “skipped a beat” every time she walked past an art deco building.

Almost two years later and her passion for the simple clean lines and geometric shapes that art deco design offers hasn’t waned.

“Once you notice one and you notice the style, they stick out, you notice them,” Ms Cominos said.

The Walter Taylor Bridge at Indooroopilly, Brisbane has a distinctive Art Deco style. Photo: Bradley Kanaris

“I am really drawn to that modern streamlined design.”

Art deco took hold in Paris in the 1920s before it flourished across the world, with many making full use of its strong horizontal and vertical lines and modern materials.

“They often incorporated new materials like chrome, plastic and neons, it encapsulated all aspects of visual culture,” Ms Cominos said.

Art Deco in Brisbane: 80-year-old Coronet Court in New Farm still exists as an apartment block. Photo: State Library of Queensland

Bookended between two world wars, the art deco design spread largely due to an increase in public works to ease unemployment that resulted from the Great Depression.

“If you look at the depression in Queensland specifically, people were looking for ways to keep people employed during the depression, there were a lot of constructions and art deco was the preferred style at the time,” Ms Cominos said.

“All through regional Queensland there is a whole series of town halls built in art deco style and were built as a way of providing work for the unemployed.”

Archerfield Airport was featured in the Brisbane Open House last year. Photo: Archerfield Airport Corporation

Ms Cominos said Innisfail and Mackay were two towns that had a large concentration of art deco buildings.

“Within the space of about two months in 1918 there were two cyclones first in Mackay and then in Innisfail, destroyed the town centres which were built from timber and tin,” Ms Cominos said.

“They turned to art deco style because of the aesthetic value but also because it relied on strong building materials.”

Art Deco at its finest: Johnstone Shire Hall, Innisfail. Photo: John Oxley Library, State Librar

Many Queensland art deco buildings have incorporated balconies or verandahs to help accommodate airflow.

“Architects were thinking about our subtropical climate when they were applying the art deco design to Queensland,” Ms Cominos said.

Ms Cominos said she was drawn to the way art deco design told a broader social and cultural history of Queensland, while maintaining its aesthetics.

“I found over time that if you take any aspects of art deco, a particular building or fashion trend, it has a much bigger story to tell about what was happening in Queensland society at the time,” Ms Cominos said.

“McWhirters in the valley is one of the most majestic examples.”

McWhirters resident Michele Edmondson, 65, who bought one of the apartments in in the building with her husband in 2006, fell in love with the space and simple elegance the apartments offered.

“McWhirters is a building that does that to you,” Ms Edmondson said.

What started as a small drapery in the late 1880s grew into a four-building department building by 1931, which embraced the art deco design style of the time.

“They were one of the first department stores to bring in Italian fashion, it used to get national coverage for the fashion it brought in,” Mrs Edmondson said.

“Even people who just know brisbane a little bit, they know McWhirters.

“Older brisbane people have strong memories of it as a department store.”

Mrs Edmondson said each of the 110 apartments in the building were spacious enough to allow for some creative flexibility.

“The flexibility of the apartments in here is quite beautiful,” she said.

“Art deco is all about the simplicity of the style, it is not over fussy it is very clean lines, a lot of geometry.

“It has a very simple elegance to it.”

Source : Brisbane Times

Northern Territory has lowest unemployment rate in Australia

January 14, 2016 5:33am

PHILLIPPA BUTT

NT News

The NT has once again recorded the lowest unemployment rate in Australia. PICTURE: Getty

THE Northern Territory has again claimed the lowest unemployment rate in the country, with only 3.3 per cent of the population out of work.

According to new labour force statistics released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics yesterday, there are 135,000 people employed in the NT.

South Australia had the highest rate of unemployment of 6.9 per cent, while the national average was 5.8 per cent.

The Territory’s working population is 54 per cent male and 46 per cent female.

Of the 4700 unemployed people in the NT, 3.4 per cent looked for fulltime work in December, and a further 3.3 per cent looked for part time work only.

At the end of November there were 2300 job vacancies in the NT, and 170,400 Australia wide.

Chief Minister Adam Giles attributed yesterday’s unemployment figures to the Country Liberals Government’s plan to grow the economy.

“Not only does the Northern Territory have the lowest unemployment rate, we also have the highest employment participation rate with 11,000 more people in work now compared to three years ago and our economic growth is forecast to outstrip the rest of the nation,” he said.

“While we know there is more to be done to ensure all Territorians share in economic growth and prosperity, our plan is getting results with the Northern Territory the best performing jurisdiction in the country.”

Nationally, Territorians make up 1.1 per cent of Australia’s workforce.

The Territory, as a whole, worked more than 20 million hours a month throughout 2015, totalling over 243 million hours in the year.

In total, Australians worked almost 1.65 billion hours, in December alone.

Territorian women favoured part time work, almost doubling their male counterparts, while there were just fewer than 20,000 more men than women employed fulltime.

About 4300 young people (aged between 15 and 24) attended full time education and were employed in December.

Source : NT News