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Time of India
12 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Tom Brady's muscles spark buzz, Erin Andrews responds with one-word roar
Andrews one word bombshell on Brady's latest gym post (Image via Instagram) Tom Brady might be retired from the NFL, but he's clearly not retiring from the gym anytime soon. The seven-time Super Bowl champ set Instagram ablaze after flexing his toned legs and ripped physique in a series of workout photos. Captioned with a bold message about mindset and consistency, the post quickly drew reactions—including a cheeky one-word comment from Fox Sports colleague Erin Andrews. Their on-air partnership just gained a new layer of off-screen chemistry. Brady's caption inspires, Erin's comment steals the spotlight Brady's caption read: "No excuses. No days off. Just work. Mindset. Consistency. #LFG", as he posed in sleek NOBULL gear, the athletic wear brand he now has a major stake in. The post, featuring him mid-lift and post-set, was part gym update, part personal brand showcase. It wasn't just his dedication that caught attention—it was also those sculpted legs. Andrews, never one to miss a beat, dropped a one-word comment: 'Quadzannnnnnas. ' View this post on Instagram A post shared by ColorsTV (@colorstv) The playful term, a twist on 'quadzilla,' summed up what many fans were already thinking: Brady's quads are out of control. The comment stood out, partly for its humor and partly for what it hinted at—a relaxed, familiar rapport between the former QB and the veteran sideline reporter. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like เทรดทองCFDsกับโบรกเกอร์ที่เชื่อถือได้| เปิดบัญชีวันนี้ IC Markets สมัคร Undo Their dynamic, which has blossomed since Brady joined the Fox NFL broadcast team, is quickly becoming one of the network's most compelling off-field stories. This isn't the first time Brady and Andrews have shown glimpses of their off-screen friendship. From dinner outings to lighthearted jabs, their bond goes beyond scripted broadcast banter. Andrews herself once joked about being able to poke fun at Brady like a longtime friend. Their connection brings both warmth and authenticity to Fox's top NFL team, making viewers feel like they're in on the inside jokes. Also read: Tom Brady melts hearts on Father's Day with emotional tribute to his lifelong hero—his dad Beyond just viral moments, this interaction helps reinforce Brady's current post-football identity—part businessman, part broadcaster, and still every bit the competitor. His gym grind complements his new roles: as the second-largest shareholder in NOBULL and as the face of Fox's NFL coverage. If his on-air debut brought questions, moments like this help ease the transition. Brady may be off the field, but judging by Erin's reaction and the internet's approval, he hasn't lost his power to spark a headline—or a quad flex. Game On Season 1 kicks off with Sakshi Malik's inspiring story. Watch Episode 1 here
The Age
15 hours ago
- Health
- The Age
South Australia's algal bloom has spread. Here's why the rest of Australia should be worried
As he lowered himself into the murky depths of the Yorke Peninsula, Stefan Andrews entered an environment both familiar and completely alien. Usually, these sparkling waters would be alive with Port Jackson sharks and other fish, leafy sea dragons, octopus and molluscs. But for months now, swaths of South Australia's coastal areas have been transformed into 'dead zones': starved of oxygen, overrun with algal blooms primarily caused by microalgae Karenia mikimotoi, and filled with the floating bodies of marine creatures. The vast dead zones have stretched across central the state's coastlines, and now encroach on urban areas of Adelaide itself. 'The water was a neon green, and really low visibility, even though we'd had low winds for quite a few days, so you'd usually expect clear water at that time,' Andrews said of his foray into a dead zone under the Edithburgh Jetty. Once he was below the water's surface, the scale of the disaster became clear. 'I immediately started seeing things that were dead and dying along the ocean floor,' the co-founder of the Great Southern Reef Foundation said. 'And quite strikingly, for me, was the jetty pylons, which were usually covered in these beautiful filter-feeding sponges and invertebrate life. And [the sponges and invertebrates] were all falling apart. Their tissues were decomposing right before my very eyes.' Karenia mikimotoi is toxic to fish and invertebrates, and can cause respiratory and eye irritations and rashes in humans. People who ingest alga-contaminated water can also experience gastro or flu-like symptoms. 'It acts like a toxic blanket that suffocates marine life,' said OzFish South Australia project manager Brad Martin. 'It can suffocate fish from their gills, cause haemorrhaging by attacking their red blood cells, and act as a neurotoxin and attack the fish's nervous system and brain, causing unusual behaviour.' Among its victims have been sharks, dolphins, rays, leafy seadragons, cuttlefish, octopus and little penguins. Distressing footage posted online shows an alga-affected shark swimming erratically along the shore on the south coast, apparently searching for more oxygen. Janine Baker, a marine scientist of 35 years, said she had never seen anything like it. 'There are fishers in those areas who say they're not catching anything at all,' she said. 'And then there's all the peculiar behaviours [of marine animals] as well. Fishes [and] sharks driving themselves ashore ... and on the southern Yorke Peninsula, and also the western side of Gulf St Vincent, hundreds of rays washing up, for example, even 100 on some of the beaches.' The bloom has mainly been concentrated in the central coastal areas of South Australia. Baker said it was, 'without doubt, an environmental disaster, and there will be long-term marine environmental, social and economic impacts'. The algal blooms have been fed by a combination of factors. The state's environment department says 'plausible' contributing factors are record marine temperatures, the 2022-23 Murray River floods, which washed nutrients into the sea, and 'cold-water upwelling' during 2023-24, which brought nutrients to the surface. Australia has since last year been enveloped in a marine heatwave stretching for 40 million square kilometres across the south-west Pacific, bringing intense heat, extreme rainfall and sea-level rises. As marine heatwaves become more common, experts warn algal blooms – like those that hit southern California this year for the fourth year running – will also become more common. A joint community-based data gathering project on online platform iNaturalist has attracted more than 4680 observations of species between Ceduna in the state's west, to Nelson just over the border in Victoria. The cause of death has not been confirmed in most cases, although Baker said the majority of deaths were recorded in bloom-affected areas. The most commonly recorded species of dead sea creatures was southern fiddler rays. So far, 330 species have been recorded in the database. Andrews warned that what he's witnessed in South Australia could happen elsewhere. 'It's definitely a warning sign that marine heat waves are likely to be happening more frequently, [and] being more severe,' he said. A spokeswoman for the South Australian Environment Department said authorities were monitoring the situation through daily satellite observations and weekly water testing in the Coorong. 'Similar blooms around the world have lasted from a week to several months, depending on wind, rain and ocean temperatures,' she said. The Great Southern Reef Foundation this week sent small teams of divers to survey an area off the Yorke Peninsula that has been heavily hit by algal blooms. 'One of the alarming things is there's basically next to no one documenting what's happening,' Andrews said. 'We're missing opportunities here to actually learn from something that could happen more and more frequently.' Loading The Karenia outbreak was first discovered in March on the Fleurieu Peninsula. It has since spread to the Yorke Peninsula and Kangaroo Island. Among the first people to publicly sound the alarm about the toxic blooms was surfer and part-time photographer Anthony Rowland. On March 17, he photographed a thick, tan-coloured foam that had developed on Waitpinga Beach near Victor Harbour, south of Adelaide. Andrews and other surfers who entered the water later experienced respiratory difficulties and blurred vision. 'While we were out there we started coughing,' he told the ABC. '[We] came in [from the beach] and we kept coughing after walking up the hill, and a few people in the car park came over, and they said that they'd experienced the same coughing, and they hadn't even hit the water yet.' Since then, beachgoers and scientists have documented a vast array of sea creatures washing up dead along the South Australian coastline. In the past weeks, Karenia advanced into the Coorong, an internationally significant RAMSAR wetland on the mouth of the Murray River. A photograph captured by Coorong Wild Seafood co-owner Glen Hill several weeks ago showed a stew of dead polychaete worms so dense, it would be impossible to put a pencil through the surface of the water without touching multiple bodies. 'You can't do justice [with photographs] to how much of it there is,' said Hill, who has fished these waters for 35 years. 'There's 50 metres or something [of worms] washed up in one area. So there's 100 kilos or something of it sitting in one small area. It's absolutely devastating.' 'I broke down when I saw it.' Hill has been advocating for years for authorities to release more environmental flows into the Murray Darling System, which covers about one-seventh of the Australian continent, and concludes at the Coorong National Park at the mouth of the Murray. 'It's just absolutely on the edge of survival,' Hill said of the Coorong lagoon and coastline. The South Australian government has urged people not to swim in foamy or discoloured water, or where there is sick or dead marine life. Dead or dying marine life found on the beach should not be consumed. 'A glimmer of hope might be that the deeper reefs may have been a bit of a refuge from some of the algae that was sitting on the surface of the water,' said Andrews. 'But we don't know.'
Sydney Morning Herald
15 hours ago
- Health
- Sydney Morning Herald
South Australia's algal bloom has spread. Here's why the rest of Australia should be worried
As he lowered himself into the murky depths of the Yorke Peninsula, Stefan Andrews entered an environment both familiar and completely alien. Usually, these sparkling waters would be alive with Port Jackson sharks and other fish, leafy sea dragons, octopus and molluscs. But for months now, swaths of South Australia's coastal areas have been transformed into 'dead zones': starved of oxygen, overrun with algal blooms primarily caused by microalgae Karenia mikimotoi, and filled with the floating bodies of marine creatures. The vast dead zones have stretched across central the state's coastlines, and now encroach on urban areas of Adelaide itself. 'The water was a neon green, and really low visibility, even though we'd had low winds for quite a few days, so you'd usually expect clear water at that time,' Andrews said of his foray into a dead zone under the Edithburgh Jetty. Once he was below the water's surface, the scale of the disaster became clear. 'I immediately started seeing things that were dead and dying along the ocean floor,' the co-founder of the Great Southern Reef Foundation said. 'And quite strikingly, for me, was the jetty pylons, which were usually covered in these beautiful filter-feeding sponges and invertebrate life. And [the sponges and invertebrates] were all falling apart. Their tissues were decomposing right before my very eyes.' Karenia mikimotoi is toxic to fish and invertebrates, and can cause respiratory and eye irritations and rashes in humans. People who ingest alga-contaminated water can also experience gastro or flu-like symptoms. 'It acts like a toxic blanket that suffocates marine life,' said OzFish South Australia project manager Brad Martin. 'It can suffocate fish from their gills, cause haemorrhaging by attacking their red blood cells, and act as a neurotoxin and attack the fish's nervous system and brain, causing unusual behaviour.' Among its victims have been sharks, dolphins, rays, leafy seadragons, cuttlefish, octopus and little penguins. Distressing footage posted online shows an alga-affected shark swimming erratically along the shore on the south coast, apparently searching for more oxygen. Janine Baker, a marine scientist of 35 years, said she had never seen anything like it. 'There are fishers in those areas who say they're not catching anything at all,' she said. 'And then there's all the peculiar behaviours [of marine animals] as well. Fishes [and] sharks driving themselves ashore ... and on the southern Yorke Peninsula, and also the western side of Gulf St Vincent, hundreds of rays washing up, for example, even 100 on some of the beaches.' The bloom has mainly been concentrated in the central coastal areas of South Australia. Baker said it was, 'without doubt, an environmental disaster, and there will be long-term marine environmental, social and economic impacts'. The algal blooms have been fed by a combination of factors. The state's environment department says 'plausible' contributing factors are record marine temperatures, the 2022-23 Murray River floods, which washed nutrients into the sea, and 'cold-water upwelling' during 2023-24, which brought nutrients to the surface. Australia has since last year been enveloped in a marine heatwave stretching for 40 million square kilometres across the south-west Pacific, bringing intense heat, extreme rainfall and sea-level rises. As marine heatwaves become more common, experts warn algal blooms – like those that hit southern California this year for the fourth year running – will also become more common. A joint community-based data gathering project on online platform iNaturalist has attracted more than 4680 observations of species between Ceduna in the state's west, to Nelson just over the border in Victoria. The cause of death has not been confirmed in most cases, although Baker said the majority of deaths were recorded in bloom-affected areas. The most commonly recorded species of dead sea creatures was southern fiddler rays. So far, 330 species have been recorded in the database. Andrews warned that what he's witnessed in South Australia could happen elsewhere. 'It's definitely a warning sign that marine heat waves are likely to be happening more frequently, [and] being more severe,' he said. A spokeswoman for the South Australian Environment Department said authorities were monitoring the situation through daily satellite observations and weekly water testing in the Coorong. 'Similar blooms around the world have lasted from a week to several months, depending on wind, rain and ocean temperatures,' she said. The Great Southern Reef Foundation this week sent small teams of divers to survey an area off the Yorke Peninsula that has been heavily hit by algal blooms. 'One of the alarming things is there's basically next to no one documenting what's happening,' Andrews said. 'We're missing opportunities here to actually learn from something that could happen more and more frequently.' Loading The Karenia outbreak was first discovered in March on the Fleurieu Peninsula. It has since spread to the Yorke Peninsula and Kangaroo Island. Among the first people to publicly sound the alarm about the toxic blooms was surfer and part-time photographer Anthony Rowland. On March 17, he photographed a thick, tan-coloured foam that had developed on Waitpinga Beach near Victor Harbour, south of Adelaide. Andrews and other surfers who entered the water later experienced respiratory difficulties and blurred vision. 'While we were out there we started coughing,' he told the ABC. '[We] came in [from the beach] and we kept coughing after walking up the hill, and a few people in the car park came over, and they said that they'd experienced the same coughing, and they hadn't even hit the water yet.' Since then, beachgoers and scientists have documented a vast array of sea creatures washing up dead along the South Australian coastline. In the past weeks, Karenia advanced into the Coorong, an internationally significant RAMSAR wetland on the mouth of the Murray River. A photograph captured by Coorong Wild Seafood co-owner Glen Hill several weeks ago showed a stew of dead polychaete worms so dense, it would be impossible to put a pencil through the surface of the water without touching multiple bodies. 'You can't do justice [with photographs] to how much of it there is,' said Hill, who has fished these waters for 35 years. 'There's 50 metres or something [of worms] washed up in one area. So there's 100 kilos or something of it sitting in one small area. It's absolutely devastating.' 'I broke down when I saw it.' Hill has been advocating for years for authorities to release more environmental flows into the Murray Darling System, which covers about one-seventh of the Australian continent, and concludes at the Coorong National Park at the mouth of the Murray. 'It's just absolutely on the edge of survival,' Hill said of the Coorong lagoon and coastline. The South Australian government has urged people not to swim in foamy or discoloured water, or where there is sick or dead marine life. Dead or dying marine life found on the beach should not be consumed. 'A glimmer of hope might be that the deeper reefs may have been a bit of a refuge from some of the algae that was sitting on the surface of the water,' said Andrews. 'But we don't know.'
Sky News AU
16 hours ago
- Politics
- Sky News AU
'Imagine if Dan Andrews listened to me': Rebecca Judd slams the former Victoria premier as state's crime rate surges
Rebecca Judd has hit out at the Victorian government and Daniel Andrews after fresh statistics showed crime rates in the state hit a record high. The Victoria Police on Thursday reported 627,268 criminal offences were recorded in the state over the last 12 months to March. This represents a 91,692-offence increase in the state or 15.2 percent when population growth is considered. 'Police recorded the most arrests since electronic records began in 1993, and most likely, in Victoria Police's 172-year history,' Victoria Police said in a statement. The wife of retired AFL legend Chris Judd, 42, took to Instagram on Thursday to reshare a post from the state parliament's local Brighton MP, Liberal James Newbury addressing the "rampant violent behaviour". Mr Newbury said the crime increase shows the state's Allan Labor government has been "so weak". Judd echoed his sentiment and claimed the former premier of Victoria failed to act when she said she felt unsafe in the affluent Melbourne suburb of Brighton in 2022. "Imagine if Dan Andrews had listened to me when I sounded this alarm a few years back," the AFL WAG wrote. Judd speculated since she issued her warning, hundreds or possibly thousands of Victorians, not just Brighton residents, have experienced "life-long trauma" due to becoming victims of violent home invasions. "Sadly, innocent lives have also been lost. I will continue to raise these issues until people start to feel safe in their communities again," she said. Police Minister Anthony Carbines addressed the crime wave on Thursday and said while the data was "unacceptable", he had no regrets about waiting more than a year to introduce new bail laws. Judd responded to his comments as she continued to unleash on the government, saying: "More than a year to wait is unacceptable." "Victorians, more than anyone, know just how quickly this government can introduce new laws when they want to," she said. Judd has been one of the most outspoken public figures calling for tougher bail laws for repeat offenders and previously praised Premier Jacinta Allan's overhaul, but warned it had come "too late for so many". She was also a vocal opponent of Melbourne's extended lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic under the former Andrews government. Mr Andrews in 2022 shut down her concerns about feeling unsafe in her Brighton mansion, saying the "data would tell a different story". "I'm not interested in having an argument with Ms Judd," he said. "I'm also obliged to point out though, I think there are more than 70 additional police in the Bayside area. "And the most recent crime statistics released by an independent agency would not support those sweeping assessments about patterns of crime." At the time, crime was on the rise in the state with reports of multiple home invasions. The fresh surge in incidents comes as multiple disturbances occurred at Melbourne's Northland Shopping Centre in a matter of days. Shoppers at the centre were evacuated on Thursday following reports of a fire and smoke billowing from Myer. The incident comes just hours after police arrested a 27-year-old man in relation to an allegedly stolen Toyota Land Cruiser smashing through the centre on Wednesday, sparking mass panic and chaos amongst shoppers. Just three weeks ago panic spread through the same centre as a fight broke out between machete-wielding teens. Victoria Police noted the impact of the first tranche of changes to bail laws, which came into effect in March, was not evident in the new crime data. The Allan government proposed the new laws, including a ban on machetes, in response to an alarming spike in crime in the state and claimed that the changes were the toughest of their kind in Australia. The stipulation that magistrates no longer need to consider remand as a last resort for children was widely seen as the pillar of the new laws. The reforms also made committing an indictable offence while on bail and breaching bail conditions punishable by up to three months in jail. Serious offences such as aggravated burglary, home invasion, carjacking and armed robbery were also elevated to the strictest bail criteria, making bail less likely even for a first charge.
Scoop
a day ago
- General
- Scoop
Finding Forever Home For Old Farming Dogs Getting Harder
Correction: This story previously stated 18,000 dogs had been rehomed. The correct figure is 1800. It is often a sad decision for farming families to retire their loyal huntaway or heading dog after years of mustering and yard work. A charity called Retired Working Dogs said it has rehomed about 1800 farming canines over the last decade, but a decline in the number of people adopting them this year means they will soon have to stop accepting them from farms. The president, Marie-Claire Andrews, said there's a consistent supply of working dogs, but finding their forever homes is getting harder. "We consistently have several hundred dogs - but the challenge we've got is our foster homes are full and we've slowed down over the last few months being actually able to re-home them. I think that's probably cost-of-living increases for people and a bit of stress on the home front." Andrews said taking on a dog is a big commitment and she's pleased people see it that way - but it is probably going to have to close its doors for new canines as it is just about at full capacity. She said it's gut wrenching, but the only other option for older working dogs if there aren't enough people wanting to adopt them is euthanasia. Andrews said it's understandable farmers can't keep old dogs when they also have a number of younger dogs doing the farm work as well. "We have lots of different breeds of working dogs with Huntaways being New Zealand's classic. We've also got Collies and beardies and heading dogs. There's also pig dogs which are a mix of different breeds," Andrews said. Andrews describes them as "not your handbag dogs that you can fit in your pocket", but medium sized and need regular exercise. "But I adopted a pig dog four years ago and I live in a tiny house," she said. "There's plenty of room for him and he fits in just nicely. The amazing thing about them is that they are beautifully trained - the ones we have that are retiring. If I could I would have about 20 more!" She says they are intelligent, obedient dogs and not difficult to handle. "Some of the dogs are younger, as they just weren't interested in chasing sheep," she said. Andrews said all dogs are paired up with their 'right' retirement home, and if it doesn't work-out the charity will take them back on. She said, if needed, the farm dogs are house trained before being rehomed and they are all supplied with bedding and food.
