Gammaridea

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Gammaridea
Gammarus roeselii (Gammaroidea: Gammaridae)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Crustacea
Class:	Malacostraca
Subclass:	Eumalacostraca
Superorder:	Peracarida
Order:	Amphipoda
Suborder:	Gammaridea Latreille, 1802
Diversity
21 superfamilies

Gammaridea is a suborder of small, shrimp-like crustaceans in the order Amphipoda. It contains about 7,275 (92%) of the 7,900 described species of amphipods, in approximately 1,000 genera, divided among around 125 families.^[1] Gammaridea includes almost all freshwater amphipods (such as Gammarus pulex), but most of its members are marine. The group may be paraphyletic,^[2] and a 2003 revision by Myers and Lowry moved several families from Gammaridea to join members of the former Caprellidea in a new suborder Corophiidea.^[1]

[edit]Systematics

Hirondellea gigas
(Lysianassoidea: Uristidae)

Urothoe brevicornis
(Phoxocephaloidea: Urothoidae)

Amphilochus neapolitanus
(Stenothoidea: Amphilochidae)

Superfamily Ampeliscoidea

• Ampeliscidae

Superfamily Crangonyctoidea

• Allocrangonyctidae


• Artesiidae


• Bogidiellidae


• Crangonyctidae


• Crymostygidae


• Falklandellidae


• Kotumsaridae (tentatively placed here)


• Neoniphargidae


• Niphargidae


• Paracrangonyctidae


• Paramelitidae


• Perthiidae


• Phreatogammaridae


• Pseudocrangonyctidae


• Pseudoniphargidae


• Sternophysingidae

Superfamily Dexaminoidea

• Atylidae


• Dexaminidae


• Lepechinellidae

Superfamily Eusiroidea

• Amathillopsidae


• Bateidae


• Calliopiidae


• Eusiridae


• Gammaracanthidae


• Gammarellidae


• Pontogeneiidae

Superfamily Gammaroidea

• Acanthogammaridae


• Acanthonotozomatidae


• Anisogammaridae


• Baikalogammaridae


• Behningiellidae


• Cardenioidae


• Caspicolidae


• Eulimnogammaridae


• Gammaridae


• Gammaroporeiidae


• Iphigenellidae


• Macrohectopidae


• Mesogammaridae


• Micruropodidae


• Pachyschesidae


• Pallaseidae


• Pontogammaridae


• Typhlogammaridae

Superfamily Hadzioidea

• Carangoliopsidae


• Hadziidae


• Melitidae


• Metacrangonyctidae

Superfamily Iphimedioidea

• Acanthonotozomellidae


• Dikwidae


• Epimeriidae


• Iphimediidae


• Ochlesidae


• Vicmusiidae

Superfamily Kurioidea

• Kuriidae

Superfamily Leucothoidea

• AnamixidaesOURCE

Once upon a time, the pinnacle of social networking was the ability to connect with former classmates and share what your cat had for breakfast. Today, the requirements for social networking have evolved and are more immediate. We need social networks to quickly connect us with the classrooms, businesses, hospitals, rallies and neighborhoods we frequent on a daily basis to allow private communications between parents and teachers, to notify neighbors about a burglary, to alert co-workers about emergencies, and so on.

Yet, for many real world purposes, today’s social networks are found wanting, suffering from steep learning curves and on-boarding friction, confusing privacy controls, oversharing and fixed sharing policies that don’t necessarily reflect or adapt to niche communication patterns one finds in real life.

Celly, a Portland-based startup that makes it easy to instantly create your own social network, believes that the opportunities for social networking in the real world are fundamentally emergent — that groups tend to arise spontaneously, grow and then combine to form interdependent networks.

Unlike existing social networks, Celly allows groups to create lightweight, private social networks called “cells” that members can join in seconds from any device. As membership grows, group discussions can be moderated to keep communication on-topic and free of chat storms, oversharing, and cyberbullying threats.

The idea is for these cells to serve as social building blocks that can stand alone or link together to form networks that adapt to the size, shape, and sharing policies of any organization. In turn, the startup’s decentralized approach secures private data within autonomous groups, while unlocking communication, workflow and cross-group collaboration throughout your organization.

In sum, Celly aims to provide companies and groups with instant, device-agnostic on-boarding for flash networking scenarios, while allowing universal access across those devices, unlimited group sizes and the ability to streamline conversations with moderation roles.

Since launching last fall, students, educators, coworkers and community members have created more than 20K cells via the startup’s platform. Celly co-founders Greg Passmore and Russell Okamoto tell us that the most prevalent use cases thus has been among schools, which are using the service for teacher-student and parent-teacher communications and hospitals, which are communicating two-way messages and emergency alerts through the system. The City of Portland is also currently leveraging the service to keep its citizens informed of important alerts related to neighborhood safety and gang activity.

On the heels of this adoption, Celly is launching its first iPhone app today, which will complement its already existing Android app, allowing users to create cells with one click and invite members to participate from any device that supports SMS or the Web — while on the go.

In addition to basic group messaging, Celly’s apps allow users to send polls and alerts and track topics so they can more easily share and organize information. Both the startup’s Android and iPhone apps can also now be used outside the U.S., although SMS is still only available in the states.

In conjunction with the the launch of its new iPhone app, Celly is also announcing today that it has raised $1.4 million in seed funding led by Oregon Angel Fund (OAF), with contributions from Upstart Labs, Portland Seed Fund and a handful of angel investors. With its new funding in tow, the startup plans to begin expanding its team, starting with engineering talent.

“We’ve got a lot of challenges still ahead of us,” says Celly CTO Greg Passmore, “from trying to reach scale to creating better, simpler user interfaces. But we’re on a mission to build the smallest tool that can have the biggest impact in the shortest amount of time, and we want to work with people who, like us, believe in using software for social good.”

For more on Celly, find them at home here.

2011 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 1

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Main article: 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification (UEFA)

The 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification UEFA Group 1 was a UEFA qualifying group for the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup. The group comprised France, Iceland, Serbia, Northern Ireland, Croatia and Estonia. It was the only six-team group (the other seven having only five teams each).

The group was won by France who advanced to the play-off rounds.

Contents [hide] 1 Standings 2 Results 3 Goalscorers 4 External links

[edit]Standings

Team v t e Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  France 10 10 0 0 50 0 +50 30  Iceland 10 8 0 2 33 3 +30 24  Northern Ireland 10 3 2 5 8 16 −8 11  Estonia 10 3 1 6 7 44 −37 10  Serbia 10 2 3 5 7 19 −12 9  Croatia 10 0 2 8 4 27 −23 2

Croatia  – 0–3 0–7 0–3 0–1 1–2 Estonia  1–1 – 0–6 0–5 2–1 1–0 France  3–0 12–0 – 2–0 6–0 7–0 Iceland  3–0 12–0 0–1 – 2–0 5–0 Northern Ireland  3–1 3–0 0–4 0–1 – 0–0 Serbia  1–1 4–0 0–2 0–2 0–0 –

Google is facing a privacy policy probe in Europe.  Last year Google consolidated more than 60 separate product privacy notices into one unified policy — combining the breadcrumbs of personal data left by users of different services so it could stockpile joined-up personal data as a strategy to rival Facebook’s walled garden. The move drew criticism from European privacy regulators – which last October called for Google to give users more control over their data.

The regulators stopped short of saying Google was acting illegally but published a list of privacy recommendations for Google, including suggesting the company should make it clearer to users how their personal information may be used, and how it is collected and collated from different services. The regulators also wanted Google to offer users an opt out. At the time, Google told TechCrunch it was reviewing the report, adding: “We are confident that our privacy notices respect European law.”

The 27 regulators, led by France’s CNIL, gave Google three to four months to make changes to its privacy policy — or face “more contentious” action. In a statement on its website today, the CNIL said that four months on from that report Google has failed to “to come into compliance” so will now face additional action.

“On 18 February, the European authorities find that Google does not give a precise answer and operational recommendations. Under these circumstances, they are determined to act and pursue their investigations,” the CNIL said in its statement (translated from French with Google translate).

According to the statement, the European regulators intend to set up a working group, led by CNIL, to “coordinate their enforcement action” against Google — with the working group due to be established before the summer. An action plan for tackling the issue was drawn up at a meeting of the regulators late last month, and will be “submitted for validation” later this month, they added.

Responding to the CNIL’s statement, Google emailed the following comment: “Our privacy policy respects European law and allows us to create simpler, more effective services. We have engaged fully with the CNIL throughout this process, and we’ll continue to do so going forward.”

Separately, the European Commission is in the process of reforming European privacy rules – with proposals to harmonize regulation across all member states, and strengthen independent national data protection authorities, including giving them the ability to fine companies up to €1 million ($1.27 million) or up to 2 percent of their global annual turnover. As part of this reform the EC is proposing European internet users should be able to exercise a right to be forgotten by requesting that companies delete any personal data held on them — so long as there are no legitimate grounds to retain it.

Google is facing a privacy policy probe in Europe.  Last year Google consolidated more than 60 separate product privacy notices into one unified policy — combining the breadcrumbs of personal data left by users of different services so it could stockpile joined-up personal data as a strategy to rival Facebook’s walled garden. The move drew criticism from European privacy regulators – which last October called for Google to give users more control over their data.

The regulators stopped short of saying Google was acting illegally but published a list of privacy recommendations for Google, including suggesting the company should make it clearer to users how their personal information may be used, and how it is collected and collated from different services. The regulators also wanted Google to offer users an opt out. At the time, Google told TechCrunch it was reviewing the report, adding: “We are confident that our privacy notices respect European law.”

The 27 regulators, led by France’s CNIL, gave Google three to four months to make changes to its privacy policy — or face “more contentious” action. In a statement on its website today, the CNIL said that four months on from that report Google has failed to “to come into compliance” so will now face additional action.

“On 18 February, the European authorities find that Google does not give a precise answer and operational recommendations. Under these circumstances, they are determined to act and pursue their investigations,” the CNIL said in its statement (translated from French with Google translate).

According to the statement, the European regulators intend to set up a working group, led by CNIL, to “coordinate their enforcement action” against Google — with the working group due to be established before the summer. An action plan for tackling the issue was drawn up at a meeting of the regulators late last month, and will be “submitted for validation” later this month, they added.

Responding to the CNIL’s statement, Google emailed the following comment: “Our privacy policy respects European law and allows us to create simpler, more effective services. We have engaged fully with the CNIL throughout this process, and we’ll continue to do so going forward.”

Separately, the European Commission is in the process of reforming European privacy rules – with proposals to harmonize regulation across all member states, and strengthen independent national data protection authorities, including giving them the ability to fine companies up to €1 million ($1.27 million) or up to 2 percent of their global annual turnover. As part of this reform the EC is proposing European internet users should be able to exercise a right to be forgotten by requesting that companies delete any personal data held on them — so long as there are no legitimate grounds to retain it.