Sep 16, 2024Outlander star Sam Heughan might be busy filming the eighth season of the historical fantasy series but that's not stopping him from making health and wellness a priority The actor shared a series of photos to Instagram documenting a recent post-workout cold plunge and it seems the frigid temperatures didn't bother him one bit.  In the first two pics, Heughan grinned for the camera as he sat shirtless in the icy water; in the third, the star's personal coach, John Valbo sat in a tub of his own (looking significantly less comfortable than the Scottish celeb) "Things are heating up (🥶) @thermal_gla !! Some post @mypeakchallenge workout recovery with Coach @valbo00😰💪," Heughan captioned his post Related: Sam Heughan Delights Fans With 'Gorgeous Pics' From Hike Through the Scotland Mountains Heughan's followers couldn't get enough of the images You’ve now melted the ice 🔥😍," wrote one fan they are simply perfect❤️," agreed a second person Others were impressed with Heughan's ability to withstand the cold temperatures cold dips… pretty Scottish idea right Many cold lachs to choose from," another Instagram user pointed out Working out isn't the only non-Outlander pursuit Heughan has been engaging in lately he visited his birthplace, Dumfries and Galloway to promote his Sassenach Spirits line at a local spa Now serving @sassenachspirits Wild Scottish Gin inspired by local Scottish botanicals. Make sure you check out their fabulous new spa and sip on a delicious Sassenach cocktail," Heughan wrote in his caption Next: Fans Are 'Crying' as Sam Heughan Shares Photo from 'Final Readthrough' With 'Outlander' Co-Star To understand pandemic Nicklas Backstrom and his renewed assault on opposing NHL teams one must first understand him as a toddler The tale upon first relating appears apocryphal that Backstrom got his first pair of skates when he was 2 years old and would not take them off and so his parents allowed their young son to wear them to bed this is not an urban hockey legend told by the parents of young athletes in Valbo where the local arena is now named after Backstrom This is true and Backstrom confirms that he cut the hell out of the family floors and they did indeed stay on for bed such was his early love of the blades and the game they represented “I would try to get them off just to be safe,” he concluded if not and assuming there were skate guards he thinks it would be possible if the kids loved the skates as much as he did that they could end up in bed The distinct impression that these waters run especially deep They are qualities that have been in evidence on an almost daily basis through the first quarter and more of an unprecedented COVID-19 season in Washington Head coach Peter Laviolette lists off the factors that have confronted him in his first season behind the Washington bench He’s a new head coach with a veteran team trying to introduce a new And, oh yeah, the COVID-19 related absence of top players Alex Ovechkin, Evgeni Kuznetsov, Dmitry Orlov and netminder Ilya Samsonov But through it all, as the Caps have tried to keep pace with red hot Boston and Philadelphia and the rest of the stacked For me he’s been a constant in our lineup,” Laviolette said “There have been a lot of moving parts and he’s been consistent He’s really been an anchor for us up front through all the turmoil that we’ve had and that we’ve been through.” The thing about milestones is that they act as kind of stationary signposts in the midst of a raging river that is an NHL regular season even though the player and his team may be moving at warp speed And so it is that in the coming days Backstrom will notch his 700th career assist. He will join Joe Thornton and Sidney Crosby as the only active players with 700 or more assists no player has collected as many assists as Backstrom Backstrom has collected 946 points in his 970 games through Wednesday along with 107 points in 128 playoff games These are moments that call for reflection to talk of things like a legacy and a place in the Hockey Hall of Fame both of which are relevant talking points when it comes to Backstrom he was the sort to engage in such a conversation When the discussion turns to his looming milestones we get the feeling that Backstrom is taking the same tone he might take with his kids should they want to get into bed with their skates on “You’ve got to put all those other things aside even if it’s a nice number,” Backstrom said “Maybe on the day I retire that’s a different story Maybe you’ll look back at all the stuff that you’ve accomplished But right now it’s a nice number which I would like to just take it and move on.” what makes these kinds of signposts and the sentiment that comes with them so incongruous is the manner in which Backstrom is playing; a manner of play that suggests a much younger player much further removed from such signposts Longtime NHL defenseman and two-time Stanley Cup winner Brooks Orpik spent many years trying to separate Backstrom from the puck when Orpik was a member of the Pittsburgh Penguins before joining the Capitals for the final five years of his stellar NHL career “None of it ever surprises me with him,” said Orpik who is serving in the player development department for the Caps “And this year watching him I find myself still kind of marveling at how smart he is and how much fun he is to watch “He does so many things that you really have to pay attention to notice.” Backstrom was tied for seventh in NHL scoring with 19 points and all the players ahead of him had played more games than the Capitals’ 14 contests Longtime NHLer Alan May is in his 12th season providing coverage of the Capitals for NBC Sports Washington He felt there have been times in the last couple of seasons where Backstrom has looked like he’s laboring But he didn’t look like he was himself,” May said “This year to me he’s been the team MVP,” May said “What he’s doing without the puck is phenomenal He seems happy to play and I believe he loves this style of hockey “He’s kind of rewarding them for the contract with the play that he’s had General manager Brian MacLellan is in his third decade in the Capitals organization so he has had a unique view of Backstrom’s career arc from the moment the Capitals selected the center fourth overall in 2006 four years before the Caps won their first-ever Stanley Cup And a little more than a year ago he sat across from Backstrom as the lifelong Capital negotiated his own five-year “He’s got a little stubbornness in him,” MacLellan joked in a recent interview one that Backstrom engages in during our conversation is that Ovechkin will enlist Backstrom to negotiate his next deal when he becomes an unrestricted free agent at the end of this season Let’s assume becoming an agent isn’t in the cards What MacLellan sees before him is a veteran player who has won a Cup just signed a big extension and somehow has managed to elevate his game at a time when his team has needed him to do just that “He’s a glue guy for the organization,” MacLellan said Like in some of the exit interviews when the team has fared poorly, like being knocked out in the first round by Carolina and the New York Islanders in the two playoff years since winning the Cup “There have been some exit interviews with him where he’s fired up,” MacLellan said is that in the wake of signing the big extension there hasn’t been a drop-off as there is with many players in the same circumstance after a disappointing end to the bubble playoffs that involved battling nagging injuries and a general lethargy within the Capitals dressing room that led to the firing of head coach Todd Reirden Backstrom has arrived this season energized and more engaged he has been remarkably productive especially in the face of so much uncertainty For MacLellan that speaks to a desire to replicate what happened during that magical run to the 2018 Stanley Cup “He thinks we can do it again and when we don’t it affects him personally,” MacLellan said One of the factors seems to be an instant connection with Laviolette and how he wants the Capitals to play “I’ve had many conversations with Nick over the years,” MacLellan said honest communication and likes it even if it’s blunt He likes to be communicated to in that way Nick’s attracted to that and that motivates him.” We often speak of the qualities that go into a winning team or the qualities of a player who could become the kind of leader who guides a team to the top. It is a perpetual search to find such players. Why did Toronto bring in Jason Spezza, Joe Thornton and Wayne Simmonds Why did Pittsburgh acquire Patrick Marleau last season Because you don’t win without those types of players In the Capitals dressing room that player has been there all along in Backstrom We end up joking with Orpik about how the one thing that Backstrom isn’t interested in discussing is himself or his accomplishments he does not want to talk about himself,” Orpik said He’s probably the most humble guy in the league.” especially in this most unpredictable of seasons He figures for an older team like the Capitals the adjustment isn’t quite as pronounced with the various protocols that have and are continuing to be introduced by the NHL and NHLPA “Especially if you have kids it’s easier to make those adjustments,” Backstrom said “You can kind of stay home and it’s basically what we do anyway.” Whether he is playing better or worse this season Backstrom suggests those are questions best put to others there might be a different mindset this season and yes he might be more than a little pissed off at how things have unfolded the past couple of seasons “I wasn’t happy about last year’s ending in the bubble,” Backstrom said And the team looked out of sync as they got behind 3-0 to the Islanders and bowed out in five games So this season has marked a kind of chip-on-the-shoulder campaign for Backstrom really wanted to be good and to be the player I can be without having any injuries,” Backstrom said “After you’ve won I think you’re kind of in that mindset where you realize that it’s doable,” Backstrom said “And I think that’s the drive that a lot of us have in the locker room You kind of know what it takes and what kind of price you have to pay It’s not just a return to the Stanley Cup that pisses off Backstrom A year from now the Beijing Olympics will — or should be — underway and the NHL’s plans are for its players to be once again on the Olympic stage Backstrom is a two-time Olympian for Sweden and has 10 points in his nine Olympic tournament games He was blocked from playing in the gold-medal game in Sochi by the IOC after a positive test stemming from an allergy medication that had been disclosed to Olympic officials at the start of the tournament Sweden lost to Canada in the gold-medal game and eventually Backstrom was awarded a silver medal in late August 2014 after it was determined he had not taken the medication “Obviously I’ve thought about it,” Backstrom said of the 2022 Games. “I would love to be a part of the Olympics I would be honored to play again so we’ll see what happens Don’t think that will be an issue but the point is taken “Lots of hockey left to play,” Backstrom said Metrics details Inland fisheries and their freshwater habitats face intensifying effects from multiple natural and anthropogenic pressures Fish harvest and biodiversity data remain largely disparate and severely deficient in many areas which makes assessing and managing inland fisheries difficult Expert knowledge is increasingly used to improve and inform biological or vulnerability assessments Integrating expert knowledge on the distribution and relative influence of human activities can guide natural resource management strategies and institutional resource allocation and prioritization This paper introduces a dataset summarizing the expert-perceived state of inland fisheries at the basin (fishery) level An electronic survey distributed to professional networks (June-September 2020) captured expert perceptions (n = 536) of threats and adaptive capacity to fisheries across 93 hydrological basins This dataset can be used to address research questions with conservation relevance including: demographic influences on perceptions of threat external factors driving multi-stressor interactions freshwater environment • lake • stream • wetland ecosystem Europe • Asia • Oceania • Africa • South America • North America • Australia Machine-accessible metadata file describing the reported data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.14749161 data collection for this study was motivated by the development of a global assessment of threats to major inland fisheries and the overarching need for tractable freshwater indicators The data generated contribute essential relative influence scores for the assessment and provide a timely snapshot of inland fisheries as perceived by fisheries professionals Threat composition and influence have broader potential applications to inform vulnerability and adaptation components of freshwater conservation and management targets (e.g. United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals UN International Decade “Water for Sustainable Development,” Convention on Biological Diversity This paper introduces a dataset that can help address a knowledge gap in understanding natural and human influences on inland fisheries with local data comprise perceptions from fisheries professionals (n = 536) on the relative influence and spatial associations of fishery threats and adaptive capacity measures within the respondent’s fishery of expertise This allows for spatial attribution with an inclusive use of ‘fishery’ as it pertains to threats (e.g. threats to a fish population of fishery-targeted species or the habitat in which the fishery operates) This dataset can be useful as an overview assessment on which future assessments may expand for specific temporal or spatial interests invasive species disturbances) are otherwise unattainable at relevant scales from geospatial information and therefore provide novel information Potential uses include demographic influences on threat perceptions spatial distribution of adaptive capacity measures paired with climate change or other threats and paired geospatial and expert-derived threat analysis These data can provide insights on fisheries as a coupled human-natural system and inform regional and global freshwater assessments The survey used to generate this dataset comprised five sections pertaining to the respondent’s fishery of expertise: 1) geographic location, 2) threats, 3) successes, 4) adaptive capacity, and 5) demographics (Table 1, Appendix A) Respondents indicated the location of their self-identified fishery (basin) of expertise by one or both of the following: a) clicking a point (pin drop) inside their fishery’s water body using a Google Maps extension (recorded as geographic coordinates) and/or b) selecting their region and/or subregion name from a list of provided choices The threats section had three components: a) overall perceived threat of the respondent’s fishery as indicated by moving a gauge (0 to 10; 0 = not threatened to 10 = highly threatened) b) types of threats present in the fishery (where respondents checked all threats that apply to their fishery from a given list with an option to add additional threats) and c) relative influence of each threat selected in the previous question to the total threat (must add up to 100%) Part “b” of the threats section also included a practice question prior to the threat gauge question intended to help respondents learn how to use the gauge (see Technical Validation) Respondents were asked to describe one recent success in their fishery for the successes section which were recorded as open-ended text responses The adaptive capacity section used a Likert scale (strongly disagree strongly agree) for five domains of adaptive capacity: access to assets the demographics section included the following components: current affiliation proportion of work time spent in a field-based setting and sex (each selected from a list of provided options) respondents were thanked and given the survey link in the case they wanted to take the survey again for a different basin of expertise; respondents were allowed to take the survey more than once We sent an initial email (including survey link 2020 and a follow-up reminder email (above materials plus QR code and survey flier) on July 8 The initial distribution intentionally targeted three fisheries organizations where membership or affiliation reflects some level of fisheries experience or leadership (i.e. members can be considered fisheries professionals by way of affiliation or membership criteria) Distribution was not limited to fisheries professionals from any one type of inland fishery or fisheries sector Snowball sampling was permitted to increase representation of fisheries professionals not affiliated with the targeted organizations Survey respondents were encouraged to share the survey with their colleagues in corresponding organizations Survey respondents could select their language of preference upon opening the survey Data collection occurred June 16 - September 9 with 98% (n = 524) of the 536 total responses in the dataset (i.e. responses that met the criteria for inclusion (see Data Validation)) occurring in the first month (June 16 - July 15 Survey participation did not explicitly exclude anyone; however respondents were likely to be self-selecting where those who felt comfortable answering the questions and considered themselves eligible after reading the study description were more likely to take the survey Emails sent to prospective respondents included the following information: rationale/study overview and what to expect if they chose to take the survey (e.g. Survey responses summarized by (a) threat score counts by threat category and (b) adaptive capacity domains by response type (a) shows the total response counts of the number of provided threats (n = 29) selected in respondents’ fisheries (range = 0–29) summed by major threat category (n = 5; fill colors) across overall fishery threat scores (1–10; x-axis) (b) depicts adaptive capacity domains in respondents’ fisheries (n = 467 shown as the percent of responses in each adaptive capacity domain and colored according to respondent answers (Likert scale; five categorical choices from strongly disagree to strongly agree) 2) sampling and coverage (errors of non-observation) and 3) data processing (errors of processing) We used the Qualtrics “quality control” tool (ExpertReview by iQ) to assess the survey for usability and accessibility Most Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) issues were scored as “minor,” indicating minimal error introduced across various modes of survey access (e.g. No issues in the “survey error” metrics were identified “Methodology” metrics were scored as “minor” for the use of more than one text entry box (necessary for “other” choice entry) A possible source of error is the respondent’s interpretation of threat and their ability to correctly use the gauge tool to indicate the level of threat in their fishery (see Appendix A Respondents were asked to move a needle on a gauge tool until the number on the dial matched the number of their perceived level of threat (i.e. gauge needle pointed far left = no threat (0) gauge needle pointed far right 180 degrees = high threat (10)) The functionality of the tool may have introduced a potential barrier for respondents in correctly indicating or interpreting the threat level of their fishery We aimed to reduce these effects by including a practice question prior to the threat question Respondents were instructed to move a gauge according to how they perceived threats in a hypothetical fishery; their answer to this question indicates the respondent’s understanding of directionality of the gauge We expected respondents to score the hypothetical fishery on the left side of the gauge (0 to 5); over 75% of respondents did so We recommend data users apply caution when utilizing threat scores for the remaining responses with hypothetical fishery scores greater than 5 Users may also choose to create a weight or a reliability score for the threat score based on the congruence between the response to the test question and the threat score average out) across the large sample size and across same-scale measures (e.g. Cronbach’s Alpha = 0.839 for the five Likert-scale items) We recommend that data users apply the appropriate statistical tests for reliability and variability that fit their desired analyses and some users may wish to aggregate Likert-scale or threat rating scale responses into binary scales We mitigated potential error in survey question translations using a four-step two-way translation process: 1) preliminary translation to each designated language using Google Translate; 2) translations revised or rewritten by two independent native (fluent) language speakers; 3) independent translations back-translated to English and compared for discretions; and 4) review of final translations in survey formatting by a native speaker Qualtrics is generally accessible worldwide but internet censorship in some countries may restrict access and thus UF IRB approved a method to obtain and record responses from anyone who was unable to access the survey link directly The respondent who elected this option (n = 1) typed answers on a PDF version of the survey and returned it to the approved survey team member via email The team member removed all identifying information from the form and sent the anonymous version of the completed survey to a different approved team member who entered the information into Qualtrics via anonymous survey link The initial respondents may share certain characteristics or affiliations with snowballed respondents which could skew the total representation of respondents to be unrepresentative of the larger population of inland fisheries professionals contextualizing responses within this potentially skewed population sample is important for analysis Responses should not be extrapolated as representative of an entire basin or region or as an indicator of historical or future threats Initial survey distribution intentionally targeted respondents whose membership or affiliation reflects some fisheries experience Those who read the description of the target respondents for the survey and felt they did not fit the criteria were likely self-excluded from the sample population we recommend that data users subsample the dataset using the demographic parameters fit for their study needs a user could define ‘expert’ using specific criteria (e.g. >15 years of experience in fisheries with a doctoral-level degree) and subsample accordingly A limitation of this dataset is that the global scope limits localized resolution we do not assess characteristics of the respondent’s fishery (i.e. no information collected about the types of fishes or type of fishery considered by the respondent while taking the survey) Although we do not specify temporal or spatial constraints for respondents to consider consistent use of present tense in the survey implies current threat (as was the case in pre-testing) Follow-up studies may use the information from this dataset to expand upon temporal characteristics of pertinent threats Potential biases from respondent interpretations of the questions over variable time scales and size of fishery areas may limit extrapolation of the data to geospatially derived attributes beyond the participant-selected geographic coordinates The specificity of a single geographic point associated with each entry in the dataset allows for precise attribution to that point to which any extrapolation or generalization can be traced Respondents were permitted to change the slider bars for all individual threats until they were satisfied with the percentage allotted to each and they totalled to 100 We confirmed this summation in the dataset by adding the columns associated with the relative influence of each individual threat (n = 30); we found no errors we performed quality checks of the percent influence of individual threats by aggregating responses by region and individual threats Based on a less than 8% variation in standard deviation across regions and similar minimum and maximum values across all threat types we do not see evidence of bias in the way the slider tool was used for different regions or for different threat types Aside from accidental response selection by respondents the electronic format of the survey and automated processing software restricted errors from coding or human entry error This dataset can be used to answer a diverse array of scientific questions and provide valuable insights about the social-ecological dynamics of inland fisheries at a global scale It may also enhance existing ecological or spatial datasets of similar metrics What types of anthropogenic stressors pose the greatest direct threat to inland fisheries Do threats trend together based on fishery characteristics of geography How do perceived threats relate to remotely sensed data records of similar types (e.g. do areas where dams were scored as having the highest relative influence relate to density of dams How is adaptive capacity linked to socioeconomic parameters (e.g. What key demographic attributes characterize areas of higher or lower threat (i.e. how do threat scores differ across demographic categories: affiliation How are threats related to each other (i.e. are any threats more likely to be present with the occurrence of other threats) What is the influence of threats for which no other global datasets exist (e.g. microplastics) and how might the data from this dataset fill data gaps Do the fisheries with highest perceived climate threats align with regions of documented climate change or projected substantial change To obtain additional information about the location the user must project the data using the geographic reference system WGS 1984 then join attributes from features in additional datasets to this dataset based on their spatial relationship The user may set join specifications (e.g. closest to point) to best suit their questions of interest To join non-georeferenced survey responses to hydrological basins users may join basin and sub-basin names to HydroBASINS 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