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AGE NO BARRIER FOR HAPPY FEATYOU don’t have to have the hips of a teenager to enjoy Hawaiian hula dance.

But if you take the timeto learn it, you’ll instantly feel younger and won’t be able to wipe the smile off your face.

Just ask Altona local Jimmy, 75, who could not control his feet — or his

facial expressions — when professional Polynesian dancers Noelani Le Nevez, of Hawai’i, and Fipe Preuss, of Samoa, graced his weekly exercise group in Kingsville equipped with ukuleles and white shell necklaces.

“They’re beautiful girlsto teach us from the goodness of their hearts,” he said. “So much fun, so much laughter … I feel like a young man again.”

Mrs Le Nevez and Ms Preuss are so passionate about bringing joy through hula, they donate their time to lovingly teach it to

Melbourne’s oft-forgotten elderly and light up their lives in a flurry of frangipani flowers and drum beats.

“Sharing our culture andpassion with older people is so special … they’re often the most eager to learn,” said Mrs Le Nevez.

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TIFFANY KORSSEN

Fipe Preuss and Noelani Le Nevez teach Jimmy a move or two. Picture: JANINE EASTGATE

App’s a hi-tech PillA FERTILITY app for smart-phones has similar success tothe Pill in avoiding pregnancy,its inventors claim.

Using body temperature,the Natural Cycles app alertsusers on days of the monthwhen having unprotected sexcarried a risk of conceiving. Itwas created by Dr Elina Ber-glund, a former physicist, andher physicist husband, DrRaoul Scherwitzl.

Researchers at Sweden’s

Karolinska Institute tested4054 women aged 20-35 whoused the app. Of every 100 whoused it “typically” — notalways perfectly — only sevenhad an accidental pregnancy ina year, compared with nine onthe Pill, they found.

Dr Berglund said it was abreakthrough for women notwanting to use hormone-baseddrugs. “We are excited to becreating a future where everypregnancy is wanted,” she said.

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HERALDSUN.COM.AU THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 2016 NEWS 15

Growth push to cram the trams

A STATE government depart-ment has admitted it will be achallenge maintaining goodpublic transport services amidunprecedented growth alongsuburban tram lines.

Medium- to high-densitydevelopment around transportroutes is ramping up, but aninner-Melbourne federal MPclaims the policy is foolish be-cause it leads to both cloggedroads and overcrowded trams.

The state department of en-vironment, land, water andplanning has released figuresshowing that the number ofdwellings built within 100m oftram lines outside the CBD is

set to increase rapidly. In 2004the figure was 4000, but thisrose to 8000 last year and isexpected to reach 11,000 thisyear as well as next year and in2018, according to the depart-ment’s latest Research Matterspublication.

Most of the growth willoccur in the northern suburbs,with the Pentridge site in Co-burg to have 3000 more dwell-ings and High St, Northcote toincrease by 1000.

An extra 900 units andtown houses will be added ineach of Sydney Rd, Brunswick,

Nicholson St, Brunswick Eastand Smith St in Collingwoodand Fitzroy.

The report said the growthreflected Maribyrnong, More-land, Darebin and Yarra coun-cils embracing long-term stategovernment policies to focusdevelopment along transitroutes and activity centres.

“However, with unpre-cedented dwelling growth ex-pected over the next couple ofyears, the challenge will bemaintaining the transport ser-vices that made them desirablefor development,” it said.

Federal Labor MP KelvinThomson, whose Wills elec-

torate includes Brunswick andCoburg, said the policy wasfoolish and shortsighted.

“Residents of these devel-opments get into their carsanyway and cause major thor-oughfares to become trafficsewers or they are virtuous andget on to the trams only to findthat the trams are full,” he said.

Transport minister JacintaAllan said the government ap-preciated Melbourne wasgrowing and more people werecatching trams.

“That’s why we ordered 20new E-Class trams in our firstbudget,” she said.john.masanauskas@news.com.au

JOHN MASANAUSKAS