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|Scientific Name:
|Hippocampus algiricus
|Species Authority:
|Kaup, 1856
Common Name/s:
Hippocampus deanei Duméril 1857
Hippocampus kaupii Duméril 1870
Hippocampus punctulatus Kaup 1856
|Taxonomic Notes:
|Genetic research suggests that this species is part of the Hippocampus kuda complex and is very closely related to both H. kuda and H. reidi. Further research is needed.
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|Vulnerable A2cd+4cd ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Czembor, C.A.
|Vincent, A., Woodall, L. & Correia, M.
|Wiswedel, S. & West, K.
This species is listed as Vulnerable (A2cd+4cd) because of suspected population declines of at least 30% in the past and continuing into the future. There are no population monitoring data, but evidence suggests that continued habitat degradation and levels of exploitation have lead to declines in the past and that these declines will continue into the future. Heavy trade has been recorded since as early as 1996 (Vincent et al. 2011b) giving evidence that declines in this species have been occurring for at least 15 years. Harvest and trade appears to have accelerated in recent years (Evanson et al. 2011) and it is believed that trade will continue into the future.
There is a history of coastal marine pollution and development throughout this species' entire range along the West African coast from the early 1980's onwards (Portmann, 1989), which previous studies have indicated can adversely affect seahorse populations (see Vincent et al. 2011a for a review). In addition, trawling occurs throughout the range of H. algiricus, along the coast of West Africa (Kristjonsson 1968, Blaber et al. 2000, FAO 2001); and it is known that trawling causes substantial seahorse by-catch and mortality (Baum et al. 2003, McPherson and Vincent 2004, Giles et al. 2006, Perry et al. 2010). Fishing pressure from artisanal fishers has also increased dramatically in recent years, which is putting heavy pressures on local seahorse populations (K. West pers. comm. 2012).
Furthermore, the international trade in this species is substantial. Heavy trade has been recorded since as early as 1996 (Vincent et al. 2011b) and since the listing of the species on CITES Appendix II, there has been documented trade of approximately 700,000 individuals, on average, per year between 2004 and 2008 (Evanson et al. 2011). This documented trade has continued through to the latest trade records on the CITES Trade Database (UNEP-WCMC 2012). It is suspected that trade of this volume has likely resulted in past population declines and will lead to further reductions of H. algiricus populations as trading pressure increases.
|Range Description:
|This species occurs in the Eastern Central Atlantic ocean off the coast of West Africa, from Senegal to Angola (Alfonso et al. 1999, Lourie et al. 2004, Mamonekene et al. 2006). The type specimen was located off the coast of Algeria in the 1850s (Kaup 1856), but subsequent research and a lack of any additional specimens from this well-monitored area indicates this sourcing is likely an error. Pending further evidence, the range is considered to exclude North Africa or the Mediterranean.
Native:Angola (Angola); Benin; Côte d'Ivoire; Gabon; Gambia; Ghana; Guinea; Liberia; Nigeria; Sao Tomé and Principe; Senegal; Sierra Leone
|FAO Marine Fishing Areas:
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This species is known primarily from museum specimens (e.g., Wirtz et al. 2007) and information from population monitoring is unavailable. However, population declines are suspected as a result of habitat degradation and coastal development (Portmann 1989), mortality from intense trawling bycatch (Baum et al. 2003, McPherson and Vincent 2004, Giles et al. 2006, Perry et al. 2010), which occurs throughout this species' range (Kristjonsson 1968, Portmann, 1989, FAO 2001), and large volumes of documented international trade (Evanson et al. 2011, UNEP-WCMC 2011).
Population declines due to the pressures from international trade have been acting on this species in West Africa for well over 15 years and are expected to continue into the future. Hippocampus algiricus has also been selected by the CITES Animals Committee for the Review of Significant Trade following COP15 (CITES 2012).
|Population Trend:
|Habitat and Ecology:
The habitat and life history of Hippocampus algiricus are mostly unknown (Lourie et al. 2004), but this species has been found clinging to large sponges (Wirtz et al. 2007). Like all seahorses, the females transfer eggs to the male's brood pouch (Breder and Rosen 1966). All seahorse species also have vital parental care, and many species studied to date have high site fidelity (e.g., Perante et al. 2002), highly structured social behaviour (e.g., Vincent and Sadler 1995), and relatively sparse distributions (Lourie et al. 1999).
This species is usually found in the shallow photic zone up tto a depth of 25 m (Wirtz et al. 2007). Size at maturity is roughly 9 cm with a maximum size recorded for the species of 19 cm (Lourie et al. 2004, Foster and Vincent 2005).
|Major Threat(s):
The international trade of dried, wild seahorses is large (Evanson et al. 2011, UNEP–WCMC 2012) and potentially increasing, and is a likely threat to H. algiricus populations (Vincent 1996, Vincent et al. 2011a). This threat has been recorded from as early as 1996 (Vincent et al. 2011b) all the way up until 2010 (UNEP–WCMC 2012) and it likely to continue into the future.
Habitat degradation along the coast is also a concern for this shallow-intertidal species. There is a history of marine contamination from heavy metals, pesticides, oil, and human wastes, as well as coastal development and intensive fishing (Portmann 1989), which may affect populations of H. algiricus.
Shrimp trawling, with high levels of by-catch and ever-increasing demand, occurs extensively along the coast of West Africa in the same habitats as H. algiricus (Kristjonsson 1968, Blaber et al. 2000, FAO 2001). It is known that trawling catches large numbers of seahorses as bycatch when populations of seahorses are present in trawling areas (Baum et al. 2003, McPherson and Vincent 2004, Giles et al. 2006, Perry et al. 2010). It is expected that bycatch of H. algiricus occurs in West Africa, to the detriment of these populations. Fishing pressure from artisanal fishers has also increased dramatically in recent years and this, coupled with little enforcement of minimum mesh sizes for shrimp trawling in countries such as Guinea, is putting heavy pressures on local seahorse populations (K.West pers. comm. 2012).
|Conservation Actions:
The trade in this species is regulated through CITES Appendix II.
Hippocampus algiricus may occur in the Bijagos Archipelago Biosphere Reserve in Guinea-Bissau (within the species' suspected range, Agardy 1999).
Research into the phylogeny of this species is extensive (Casey et al. 2004, Teske et al. 2004, Teske et al. 2007, Floeter et al. 2008, Sanders et al. 2008, Woodall et al. 2009).
|Czembor, C.A. 2012. Hippocampus algiricus. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 23 April 2014.
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I own several of Guillaume's beautiful jackets so I was somewhat disappointed in this skirt. The fit is fine as is the colour...purple, however i would have liked it more if it had been lined...would have paid more for that as well.There is a bit of a puckering on the left side of the skirt right at the waist and the waist band is not sewn down. Disappointing finishing... will probably not buy another skirt unless there is better quality control.
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this beautiful skirt is again an asset in any woman's wardrobe. It fits like a glove in all the right places and the material is of great quality.
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I purchased this skirt in charcoal. It is a good fit; not too tight, and it does not cling. I just step into it. There are no zippers, etc; therefore, I can layer sweaters etc, with no extra bulk.The fabric is soft; and, I was surprised to see that the skirt has the extra feature of a "kick pleat". That feature alone makes the skirt look like it is triple the cost.It is finished exquisitely; just like all the other Guillaume products that I have purchased over the past decade.
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Love, love, love this skirt. Great ponte knit material that is super comfortable to wear. Fits true to size, a little generous if anything. Length of skirt is perfect; I'm 5'1" and it comes just below the knee. All in all this is a skirt that will get lots of wear.
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I want to got to Mexico / Central America to do a Spanish course, leaving at the end of January 2013. I don't have much time to plan it, and can't decide: a) whether to got to Mexico or Guatemala, or: b) Where in Mexico or Guatemala I should go. I have 3 or 4 months so am free to travel around a bit as well. And advice, especially from anyone who has done one / both of them would e greatly appreciated. Ideally I want full Spanish immersion and intensive learning but want to have some fun at the same time. So far I have looked into studying in Puebla (Spanish Institute of Puebla and LIVIT immersion program) and Merida (Spanish Institute of Merida and HABLA) in Mexico, and Antigua and San Pedro in Guatemala. My worry with Guatemala is that it is too touristy so I won't learn that much, and my worry with Mexico (esp. Puebla) is that it won't be that fun at this time of year!
Any info would be greatly appreciated.
Help choosing Spanish course - Mexico / Guatemala?
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How lucky to be able to take 3-4 months off to spend in Central America! First, whichever school you pick I suggest only signing up for a week at a time. You may find once you are there that the school,location, teachers, etc are not to your liking, so I wouldn't commit myself to more than a week at a time at the outset.
Secondly, Antigua is a very popular place for learning Spanish, and gets thousands of students every year. Personally, I think you can still learn a lot there, but it's a matter of personal opinion as to whether it's too touristy or not. It will have more English speakers than other places in Guatemala, so it may not be the immersion experience you are seeking. It's also a popular tourist town whether you are learning Spanish or not, and is a bit more expensive than other places in Guatemala. I'm not as enamored of Antigua as some people, but I think it's a good jumping off point to get acclimated to Guatemala.
If I had 3 months to spend in Guatemala, I would probably study in Antigua for a couple of weeks, then move on to Quetzaltenango (Xela), and then somewhere on Lake Atitlan. San Pedro is a good choice, although I like Panajachel better. Just a matter of personal preference. Actually, with 3-4 months you could take classes in both Mexico and Guatemala. Travel in Cental America is fairly cheap, and it would be awesome to experience both countries.
This is a good site for narrowing down your choices in Guatemala: http://www.guatemala365.com/
Here's a school in Xela that I am considering. Haven't been there, so can't personally recommend it:
A few schools in Antigua I looked at:
Good luck to you!
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This question is right up my alley because I study Spanish in immersion programs every summer and often have groups in tow. I'd definitely pick Guatemala and agree with walkabout that Antigua can be a good landing spot but I wouldn't commit to much time there. That's true of any setting - why commit to months if you don't know how good the fit is? Because I get asked for recommendations a lot, I've put my opinions and experiences together in the bit below. Hope you find just what you're looking for!
You can search for schools by country or city using
but take the ratings with a grain of salt. Specific to Guatemala, try
but keep in mind that they haven't added schools for many years so some terrific ones (like the Cooperativa, below) aren't listed.
For bang for your buck, Guatemala leads the list of Spanish schools in CA, followed closely by Honduras. In both countries 1-on-1 instruction is the norm; in other CA countries and México it's hard to find and you pay dearly for it - sometimes 3 or 4 times what you'd pay for the same offerings in Guatemala. I HUGELY prefer 1-on1 instruction because I want my own strengths and needs, learning style, and desire for a break or a change of pace to drive the curriculum and instruction. Even in a small group - 2 to 4 people, that's unlikely to be the case as we're no 2 alike in this challenging language learning process.
In Guatemala Antigua, Xela, and the villages around Lake Atltlán are all popular choices. Antigua has the least effective immersion environment because there are dozens of schools and thousands of tourists at any given time so the infrastructure is largely English speaking. I'm not over fond of Xela; it's chilly at that higher altitude and it's a big (not so attractive imo) city and I'm just not a city person. The surrounding area is interesting, though, and here is a link to information about that area: http://xelapages.com/ . The lake is where I prefer to head.
In Honduras, I think Copán makes an excellent base for study - cute town, lots to do including museums, the ruins, a bird park, a butterfly place, hot springs, caving, and hiking. Although it gets a lot of visitors because of the ruins, they seem to be mainly day trippers or stick to their hotels and surprisingly few locals speak English (a good thing for Spanish acquisition). La Ceiba is a city and HOT so I haven't headed back there; the immersion factor is decent (though it's better in small towns imo because the locals get a kick out of helping you practice) and there are great outdoor activities in the area. The islands (and in general popular beachy places in all countries) make poor immersion environments but have their own appeal.
In any school, ask for what you want; if you're not pleased with your teacher or host family, fix it instead of going on week after week in a situation that doesn't fit your needs. I wouldn't commit to more than a week or 2 until you know the school and town is a good fit for you. Teachers in quality schools are so good at assessing your level and learning style that moving doesn't "cost" as much as you might think. If it feels right - don't move.
If you're interested in university credit for Spanish immersion study or volunteer and cultural learning projects, check out
Here's a link to my photo collections with blog and travelogue links on the main pages; I'll refer you to collections below.
The following are schools I've attended and can recommend personally.
Academia Antigüeña is a good school in Antigua, Guatemala - strong teachers, cool activities, interactive host families, though I had 3 add'l students in mine which was common. Prioritizing homestays is really important in Antigua where many schools offer stays that are more like boarding houses than family stays. Several people have complained about staying with Olga, the secretary of the school, so I'd avoid that. Familia de Cesar Sactic is wonderful. Antigua isn't a good immersion environment but it's a good place to start if you haven't traveled in CA much. Guatemala 2009 collection http://www.spanishacademyantiguena.com
Cooperativa is my home away from home - I really love that place. Gorgeous garden setting overlooking Lake Atitlán in Guatemala - young, talented teachers, culturally important activities, interactive families (though a bit more humble lodgings than in the others), and heavy community investment. I have life-long friends there who have helped me start a non profit: http://www.becaproject.org
2007 and 2009 collections for study, 2010 and 2011 for more local photos - I'll be at least visiting there every year and usually studying for a few weeks. http://www.cooperativeschoolsanpedro.edu.gt
Ixbalanque in Copán Ruinas, Honduras is another great school you could consider - beautiful new school building, cute town, great staff and families. I've enjoyed their weekly activities, too, and there's lots to do in the area. 2005 and 2008 collections http://www.ixbalanque.com
Central American Spanish School with bases in La Ceiba and on Utila and Roatán is a good school; in La Ceiba my teacher and host family were really amazing. La Ceiba is HOT and I'm not much of a city person, though. The islands are poor immersion environments as English is widely spoken; lots to do though (I'm a diver). 2006 collection http://www.ca-spanish.com
Instituto Jovel in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico - beautiful school, well run, good staff and families. I enjoyed San Cristobal and surrounds but it's MUCH more expensive. 2010 collection http://www.institutojovel.com
If you contact any of them, please tell them hi from Stacey.
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Another vote for Ixbalanque in Copan. The 1 on 1 instruction is intense but effective. I studied in the morning when it was cooler ( Feb) and went on excursions in the afternoons. I tried a combination of homestay and quaint hotel lodging at Posada del Belssey.
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rivet - Glad you had a good experience at Ixbalanque - I've got to get back there someday. La Posada de Belssy is a great budget place, good location. I'm a huge fan of 1-on-1 instruction which is one of the main reasons I keep heading back to Guatemala where - like Honduras - it's the usual way schools set things up. In other CA countries and Mexico classes are the norm. Happy New Year!
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I didn't take a Spanish course in Honduras, but I also stayed at La Posada de Belssy. For $16/night I thought it was a good bargain. Also highly recommend the Picame Restaurant just down the hill from the hotel.
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While I live in Esteli Nicaragua, I have been in Panajachel Guatemala for the last month. I agree with those expressing concern with the Pana/Atitlan and Antigua areas as being too touristy. While my Spanish is decent and I try to speak it whenever possible, I am regularly spoken to in English by even 10 year old street vendors.
My feeling is Xela (been there) or a place in Nicaragua are better options if immersion is your goal. Or a smaller village on Lake Atitlan. That said, for amazing beauty, and perfect weather, Lake Atitlan can't be beat.
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My go-to school now is in San Pedro La Laguna. There's a very gringo/touristy strip down by the lake but English is rarely spoken in the upper, more traditional part of town. It's not hard to stayi away from the gringo places, especially if you're living with a local family. I find it much harder to avoid English in Antigua (where I've studied Spanish) and Pana (where I haven't).
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Czech National Soccer Team Players Made Gambrinus Beer For Fans (Translation)
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Plzeň, 4.24.2012 - Czech National Soccer Team members Jiří Štajner, Milan Petržela, David Limberský, Theodor Gebre Selassie, and David Lafata were brewing Gambrinus Original 10° beer in Pilsen for fans of the Czech soccer team. Under the watch of the Marketing Master-brewer for Gambrinus brewery, Vojtěch Homolka, and assisted by five fans of the Czech National Soccer Team, they started a beer batch that will be ready for the European Championship.
Czech team members and fans took up their roles in the Gambrinus brewing room responsibly. "Now, we are going to portion the hops from Žatec that gives our beer the right bitterness," master-brewer Homolka directed the ten members of the team, making it seem as if he was a captain of the soccer "eleven" team. "Now, it is important to check the wort that underwent the double mashing," he continued, teaching those present about what characteristics the wort should have, such as colour and scent. "Our beer gets its typical characteristics during the several weeks of fermenting and maturing that take place in separate containers, as is typical for Czech beers of the Pilsen type. The last traditional step in the brewing room is the ringing of the bell that signalizes sending the batch out for fermentation," the master brewer said, commenting on the last task of the soccer players and their fans.
"It was an interesting experience. Hopefully, we have not done anything wrong, thanks to the watchful eye of the experienced master-brewer, and fans will be able to enjoy the good Gambrinus that they are used to while watching our matches." Milan Petrželav jokingly said. "Hopefully, they will toast many of our goals and victories. The more reasons to lift the glass after the final whistle, the better," added David Lafata, who has an extraordinary shooting record from this year's Gambrinus league.
"The Gambrinus brewed by the team members and their fans will be ready just before the European Championship. We are preparing a special edition of cans for it, and during the championship, this batch will be on tap at our pubs," master-brewer Homolka said and added, "We are in negotiations to ensure that our beer will be available in one of the pubs in Wroclaw, where our team will play its first round of matches. I believe we will be able to ensure that our fans in Poland will have a place to celebrate the victories of our team."
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- The wide portfolio of the Gambrinus brand consists of Gambrinus Original 10°, Gambrinus 11° Excellent, Gambrinus Premium light lager, and Gambrinus Dry with a low sugar content.
- Since 2012, Gambrinus added the Gambrinus Crisp Lemon and Gambrinus Lime & Elderberry products to its portfolio. These are mixed beer drinks. They are typically known for their lower alcohol content and refreshing taste.
- Thanks to following the original brewing recipes typical for Czech beer, and also thanks to the use of traditional Czech beer brewing materials, Gambrinus is entitled to use the quality trademark "Czech Beer."
- The history of the Gambrinus brand goes all the way back to 1869. Gambrinus is a beer that won the hearts and minds of its consumers, thanks to its high quality and preservation of its original brewing procedures.
- Gambrinus is part of Plzeňský Prazdroj Inc. portfolio. PP is member of SABMiller plc. With its total sale of nearly 9.9 millions of hectolitres during the calendar year of 2011 (including licenced productions abroad), and with its export to more than 50 countries worldwide, Plzeňský Prazdroj Inc. is the preeminent beer producer in the region and the biggest exporter of the Czech beer.
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This SABMiller subsidiary news release has been translated from its local market language to English language for publication on www.sabmiller.com. We have attempted to provide an accurate translation of the original material but due to the difficulties of translation slight differences may exist.
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Prazdroj Introduced a New Guide for Handicapped Visitors
21 September 2012
Plzeň, September 20, 2012 – Plzeňský Prazdroj brewery is a barrier-free tourist destination in the Plzeň region. It is not just coincidence that the launch of Miroslav Valina's book, "Where to Without Barriers – Plzeň Region", which recommends and maps out handicapped-friendly locations, took place here. In one of the chapters of his book, the author mentions the barrier-free environment of Plzeňský Prazdroj, and especially the visitors' tour of Pilsner Urquell brewery.
Seven wheelchair-bound visitors were present at the launch of the new book in the Plzeňský Prazdroj Visitors Centre. They also tried the visitors' tour to test its barrier-free character. Pilsen Major Martin Baxa, Petr Baláš of the Albatros publishing house, and Vesselin Barliev of Plzeňský Prazdroj spoke at the event. The director of the 700 Years of Town of Pilsen Foundation wished the author and his book many happy readers.
The Plzeňský Prazdroj brewery tour is accessible to all handicapped visitors. Guides are trained and equipped to ensure a pleasant experience to visitors with hearing, sight, physical, and other impairments, so all visitors may enjoy this rich source of information about the history of the brewery and the materials and procedures used to produce Pilsner Urquell beer. "After the major technical improvements in 2008, the Pilsner Urquell visitors' tour is fully accessible to our handicapped visitors, and that includes our historic brewery cellars. Thanks to making our brewery barrier-free, hundreds of handicapped visitors have come to see our brewery," said Jindřiška Eliášková, Manager of Tourism and Visitors' Services of Plzeňský Prazdroj.
Visitors with sight impairments receive their guide in the Braille alphabet. Besides the opportunity to feel a bottle or a can, there are many other artifacts and materials that allow them to engage their sense of touch and other senses along the way. The materials exhibition gives everybody a truly enjoyable opportunity to taste hops and barley malt. Movement along the tour is made possible thanks to barrier-free entrances and lifts in the bottling room and the brewing house.
Hearing-impaired visitors will receive a printed version of the tour guide and thus will receive exactly the same information as everybody else.
For those with physical impairments, the tour offers barrier-free entrance and movement throughout, as well as in the gift shop, convention centre "Secese," and in "Na Spilce" restaurant. All passageways and doors along the tour are wide enough to accommodate wheelchairs, and so are the lifts. The bus used to transport our visitors is also equipped with a lift. All restrooms in the Visitors Centre and in the bottling room are also barrier-free.
Miroslav Valina's book "Where to Without Barriers – Plzeň region" is published by CPress Publishing. The volume is intended as the first of the new series of travel guides for seniors, families with small children, but mainly for citizens with any kind of impairment. Readers will find information about historic monuments, natural wonders, cultural institutions, buildings, amusement parks, and other interesting destinations in the Plzeň region. They will also learn about the construction and natural barriers to watch out for, and they will learn about transportation possibilities and other barrier-free facilities (accommodation, fast food, restrooms, etc.)
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- Plzeňský Prazdroj brewery activities for visitors include the Visitors Centre, Pilsner Urquell and Gambrinus visitors tours, the Beer Brewing Museum, and the Plzeň Historic Underground in the centre of the town.
- You can get inspired to visit by visiting www.prazdrojvisit.cz first. The website is dedicated to visitors tours, and to all services offered by the brewery for its visitors.
- Besides Czech, English, and German, visitors can also hear the tour narratives in French, Chinese, and Russian.
- The brewery's also offers access to the social and cultural centre Secese, which is available for organising various celebrations, and cultural, educational, or presentation functions.
- The Beer Brewing Museum is located in the original house-with-the-rights-to-brew-beer in Veleslavínova street, which has been preserved in an original and authentic shape. The Museum first opened in 1959 as a part of celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the "Plzeňské pivo" (Plzeň beer) trade mark.
- An 800-metre long tour of the Plzeň Historic Underground is accessible from the Beer Brewing Museum. The labyrinth of pathways, cellars, and wells was being built under the Town of Plzeň back in the 14th century, and it is closely connected with the history and the present of the town.
- In 2010, 226,000 visitors from all around the world visited the brewery, the Beer Brewing Museum, and the Underground. The Plzeňský Prazdroj brewery itself is considered the most attractive tourist destination in the Czech Republic.
- The Department of Tourism and Cultural Heritage Care of Plzeňský Prazdroj is responsible for visitors tours, tourism, and the sale of souvenirs in Velké Popovice and Radegast breweries. In 2010, all tourist destinations and points of interest under the care of Plzeňský Prazdroj welcomed more than 250,000 visitors in total.
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It's hot and noisy inside Nebraska's supercomputer.
Some 10,000 computer processors are whirring and blinking away in a thousand "pizza boxes," as the slim, stacked machines at the University of Nebraska at Omaha are called.
This room-sized supercomputer at UNO is furiously building information haystacks and furiously searching those haystacks for the rare needle in a process called data mining.
Wait a minute.
Data mining?
That sounds suspiciously like the top-secret work done by another three-lettered entity that's now under intense public scrutiny. The National Security Agency has been collecting telephone and Internet data, mining phone call logs, Google searches and other Web activity. It's a needle-in-the-haystack search for, as the NSA says, potential terrorist threats. The government is mining the data for people, places and patterns.
"Do you work for the National Security Agency?" I ask David Swanson, the UNO supercomputer caretaker.
"I do not," Swanson says.
"I have no affiliation," answers the UNO scientist with a background in computational chemistry. That field involves looking at the chemical reactions you get if you "smash something or shine a light on it."
Swanson no longer smashes things. He now runs the Holland Computing Center largely based at UNO's Peter Kiewit Institute, where the supercomputer has been housed since 2008.
Let's assume that Swanson is not a federal agent and that the Holland Computing Center is not a shell for a secret agency doing surveillance work.
So then what does the supercomputer do?
In short, Swanson explains, the point is to run science experiments based on data-intense analysis of complicated equations.
Like showing what would happen to the climate if you plowed up Nebraska's corn and planted switchgrass instead. Like analyzing a whole body of written texts — say, the works of Shakespeare — to find certain speech patterns.
Like making a tracking detector to identify traces left by the so-called "God particle."
Last year, a team of University of Nebraska-Lincoln physicists used the supercomputer, which has a presence on UNL's campus, too, to help analyze data that led to the observation in March in Switzerland of that hypothesized elementary particle, formally called the Higgs boson. Physicists had spent 40 years searching for it.
When it was installed at UNO five years ago, this supercomputer — called Firefly — was the 43rd-fastest of 500 supercomputers in the world. Firefly has since been updated with an even bigger, more powerful unit called Tusker.
Between Firefly and Tusker, users log some 160 million hours of use a year — the bulk of those hours consumed by particle physicists, nanoscientists, climatologists and biologists.
So many scientists use Firefly and Tusker that they reserve computing time the way diners reserve tables at a restaurant. The projects are collaborative, the codes are shared and a number of international students log on.
While their experiments vary, all are essentially engaged in the same needle-in-a-haystack search.
"They are looking for one event out of several billion," Swanson says.
Their search is vastly aided by a machine that can do in 10 hours or so what the average laptop would need six months to compute.
Nebraska's supercomputer is public, with many users, including international students who can log on from their home countries. It's far from the secretive operation run by the NSA.
"I don't know what the NSA has," says Swanson, "and I don't want to."
Recent polls show that Americans are either somewhat OK with revelations of the NSA programs or somewhat not OK with it. Views are shaded by one's political affiliation, as they have been in the past on NSA surveillance.
Swanson is conflicted and somewhat ambivalent about the surveillance revelations.
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He rattles off technology's benefits: the convenience, the speed, the efficiency, the ability of Firefly-Tusker and its ilk to "advance scientific knowledge in ways that weren't imaginable a decade ago."
On the flip side is the potential for misuse of the vast amount of information. We've long left paper trails about our lives. But now our electronic fingerprints are everywhere, and instantly available.
Swanson is troubled by how easy technology has made it to detail our location almost real-time.
With advances come the need for responsibility, he said — not only by those tracking our actions but also by us.
I talked to two cybersecurity experts, who pointed out that we all give up plenty of privacy, for things like convenience (Google Maps), discounts (Baker's), affirmation (Facebook) and security (Find My iPhone app).
Both reminded me that any steps that average citizens take in encrypting our email or otherwise "hiding" our Internet use would be either impossible or impractical. But we can limit what we share online.
Robin Gandhi, assistant professor of information assurance at UNO, said he fears the scope of the government programs.
Ron Woerner, director of cybersecurity studies at Bellevue University, is more concerned about how businesses use the data.
A typical computer user's Google searches and spending habits are tracked and used for consumer protection and for heavy marketing.
It appears that haystacks of data are everywhere. And more groups than the NSA are digging into them for needles.
But humans can still exert an important role here.
We can talk about this. We can ask questions.
And if we don't want a supercomputer to find out what we're saying, we can discuss this in person. Sitting on a park bench like they do in spy movies.
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