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For fans of the bestselling House of Night series, the Wisdom of the House of Night Oracle Cards provides an interactive experience with the vampyre Goddess Nyx. Use this app to summon Nyx and receive her guidance, just like Zoey Redbird and her fellow fledglings!
To begin, simply ask Nyx a question: What should I do in this situation? What is going on with my relationship? What will result from my next action? Then make a selection from the fifty gorgeously illustrated cards. Many of the cards are based on characters from the House of Night, and each one represents a symbolic message for you.
With this oracle card app you can:
- Give readings anywhere, anytime on your mobile device (smart phone or tablet)
- Perform simple one-card readings for any question
- Perform two-card readings for relationship questions
- Perform three-card readings for insight into your past, present, and future
- Review the entire deck in Browse mode
- Save your readings so that you can review them later
- Email your reading to a friend, or post it directly to Facebook
The Wisdom of the House of Night Oracle Cards is an original divination system, created by P. C. Cast and oracle expert Colette Baron-Reid. It draws inspiration from the Tarot, Norse runes, and the I Ching, but no special expertise is required to use these cards. The app takes you through each step, so that you can immediately conduct oracle readings for yourself and others. Consider this oracle to be a gift directly from Nyx; use it to tap into your intuition and find the confidence to make powerful decisions about your life!
About the Authors
P. C. Cast is a #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling fantasy and paranormal romance author and cocreator with her daughter, Kristin Cast, of the bestselling House of Night series. She lives in Oklahoma.
Colette Baron-Reid is an intuitive counselor, motivational speaker, and the bestselling author of several books and oracle decks, including Wisdom of the Hidden Realms and Wisdom of Avalon. She lives in New Hampshire.
Illustrations by Jena DellaGrottaglia of Duiwaigh, Inc.
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Kimberly Anderson
Beautiful Images Beautiful card images, and insightful messages. Just having problems saving reading and getting out of the program. I will reinstall it and see if that fixes the problem. I have a G Note 2, and it is really inconvenient to have to restart my phone every time I use the cards, and I can not save the important readings. Nope. Still not letting me save and exit. That's disappointing! Going to uninstall.
Cat Charmed
Love the cards, hate the app Galaxy S3, I love the cards. I wish the app worked. I have to restart my phone every time. I keep hoping an update will fix it but I guess it's time to uninstall sadly.
Cat M
Cards are fantastic but app needs work. I really wasn't sure about this deck despite loving the books but the art is gorgeous & meanings are enough to get you what you need. The app needs work. Sharing a reading just advertises the app with a 1 sentence description of the card. There is no exit that I can find by hitting back or menu buttons on the app's home screen, I end up just hitting the home button. More reading options would be nice as there's only 1-3 card readings but I think I'll invest in the real deck. Nice for daily readings tho.
A Google User
insiteful! a wonderful way to slow down and meditate. to consult your inner Goddess. already found these to be very comforting & a gentle guide
brett warner
Amazing. This app is amazing. I love it. Would be cook to be able to post to like Facebook maybe.
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Beautiful Images Beautiful card images, and insightful messages. Just having problems saving reading and getting out of the program. I will reinstall it and see if that fixes the problem. I have a G Note 2, and it is really inconvenient to have to restart my phone every time I use the cards, and I can not save the important readings. Nope. Still not letting me save and exit. That's disappointing! Going to uninstall.
Cards are fantastic but app needs work. I really wasn't sure about this deck despite loving the books but the art is gorgeous & meanings are enough to get you what you need. The app needs work. Sharing a reading just advertises the app with a 1 sentence description of the card. There is no exit that I can find by hitting back or menu buttons on the app's home screen, I end up just hitting the home button. More reading options would be nice as there's only 1-3 card readings but I think I'll invest in the real deck. Nice for daily readings tho.
insiteful! a wonderful way to slow down and meditate. to consult your inner Goddess. already found these to be very comforting & a gentle guide
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Wisdom of Avalon Oracle Cards
The Wisdom of Avalon Oracle Cards by Colette Baron-Reid is now available on your Android device. Use Oracle Cards as an inspirational tool to bridge the unseen world of Spirit and the physical world of our day-to-day lives.
This beautiful app includes 52 oracle cards — each with beautiful full-color illustrations. Based on the rich mythology of ancient Britain's Isle of Avalon and the wisdom teachings of its priestesses, these cards will help you find valuable and powerful insights in all aspects of life as you chart your path and manifest your destiny with clarity and purpose.
Their use will shed light on what has been, what needs illumination in the present, and what will weave patterns into the future. The deck will help you discover the potential of your own intuition as you follow the omens and symbols of the Goddess, the Kingdom of the Faeries, Merlin, and the Priestess of magical Avalon. See into the future...and discover that you are more than you know!
With this Oracle Cards app you can:
- Give "readings" anywhere, anytime on your Android device
- Choose between 1-card, 3-card, 5-card and 12-card readings
- Save and load your "readings" for review at any time
- E-mail "readings" to friends
- Flip cards over to read the full meaning of each card
- Review the entire deck of cards in Browse mode
About the Author
Colette Baron-Reid, the author of Remembering the Future, is a popular spiritual intuitive, seminar leader, radio personality, motivational speaker, and musical recording artist on the EMI music label (with a top-selling meditation CD, Journey Through the Chakras). She has shared the stage with authors Sylvia Browne, Caroline Myss, and many others. She currently lives in Toronto, Canada, with her husband and their two furry children.
Website: www.colettebaronreid.com
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DUBAI/LONDON (Reuters) - World leaders expressed confidence in the global economic recovery on Friday despite fears about a debt default by Gulf emirate Dubai, while major banks played down their exposure to the debt.
Stocks from Tokyo to New York were haunted by concern that banks were exposed to state companies in Dubai, whose rise from a desert backwater into the business hub of the world's top oil exporting area lured expatriate cash and executives.
The crisis began on Wednesday when Dubai, part of the United Arab Emirates federation, asked to delay payment on billions of dollars of debt issued by conglomerate Dubai World and its main property subsidiary Nakheel, developer of three palm shaped islands that once attracted celebrities and the super-rich.
"While it is a setback, I think we will find it is not on the scale of previous problems we have dealt with," British Prime Minister Brown told reporters in Port of Spain.
"The world financial system is stronger now and able to deal with the problems that arise."
French Prime Minister Francois Fillon said the Gulf had the resources to ensure the world would not sink into a second round of turmoil, but Russian premier Vladimir Putin said the saga showed how hard it is to shake off a crisis that has lasted two years.
In the United States, administration officials said the Treasury Department was closely monitoring the situation in Dubai, while Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said the Group of Seven industrialized nations has had discussions about Dubai's credit issues and was monitoring consequences.
Japanese Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii raised the prospect of a G7 joint statement on currencies in Tokyo after the Dubai debt worries pushed the Japanese yen currency to a new 14-year high against the dollar. But no such statement has been issued and the yen retreated from its earlier highs.
Dubai World had $59 billion of liabilities as of August, most of Dubai's total debt of $80 billion. International banks' exposure related to Dubai World could reach $12 billion in syndicated and bilateral loans, banking sources told Thomson Reuters LPC.
But the numbers pale in comparison to the $2.8 trillion in writedowns the International Monetary Fund estimates U.S. and European lenders will have made between 2007 and 2010.
"The events in Dubai in recent days are one of the hiccups if you like, one of the difficulties, which affirms that we were right to highlight the uncertainty ahead of us and that the road ahead could be a bumpy one," European Central Bank Governing Council member Athanasios Orphanides said.
Analysts expect Dubai to receive financial support from Abu Dhabi -- a fellow member of the UAE and home to most of its oil -- though it may have to abandon an economic model focused on developing swathes of desert with foreign money and labor.
But the prospect of a bailout did little to allay concerns among investors, already worried the global economy may not be recovering quickly enough to justify a near doubling of prices for emerging market stocks and many commodities since March.
The fears of a possible Dubai debt default rippled through world markets for a second day on Friday, but the exodus from stocks and the rush to the safe-haven U.S. dollar and bonds slowed as investors discounted the possibility of contagion in other emerging markets.
U.S. stocks fell more than 1.0 percent on Friday, the first day of trading after the Thanksgiving Day holiday on Thursday, but European stocks rebounded a day after falling 3.0 percent on the Dubai news, which particularly hit bank stocks.
"What we've seen is that once the dust settles, some of the markets that were hardest hit have rebounded," said David Katz, chief investment officer at Matrix Asset Advisors in New York. "It's a scare to the markets, but the U.S. has less exposure to Dubai than Middle Eastern and European banks."
The MSCI world equity index fell 1.0 percent, posting its second consecutive weekly loss.
The MSCI since October has had trouble extending the rally that began in March as investors have raced to lock in gains ahead of year-end accounting. The index is still up about 70 percent since early March.
The Dubai announcement served as a catalyst to an "overdue correction" to markets whose valuations have outpaced economic and corporate realities, Mohamed El-Erian, chief executive officer of Pacific Investment Management Co. told Reuters.
The Dubai news raised fears that some major banks could face yet more writedowns in addition to those already triggered by the global financial crisis in 2008.
U.S. bank debt and the broader corporate bond market sold off on Friday. The costs to insure the debt of some big U.S. banks against potential default rose between 10 and 20 basis points.
But HSBC, Europe's biggest bank and the one with more loan exposure to the UAE than any other at around $15.9 billion, said it was not concerned.
JP Morgan said it was less concerned about global banks' direct exposure to Dubai World and was not worried about Abu Dhabi, which is sitting on hundreds of billions of dollars.
"We are more concerned about the spillover effect within the UAE," it said in a note. "It remains unclear if the Dubai government will support the liabilities of government related entities."
Lenders in Abu Dhabi have lent heavily to Dubai and could suffer.
The costs to insure Dubai government debt against potential default climbed. Five-year credit default swaps widened by about 145 basis points from late Thursday, to 688 basis points, according to CMA DataVision. Dubai CDS have more than doubled since the announcement on Wednesday.
The debt crisis in Dubai also pushed up debt insurance costs for other sovereigns in the Gulf, a wealthy region Western firms had turned to for help at the height of the credit crunch, and at some major U.S. banks.
Analysts said the timing of the news on the eve of the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday, the lack of prior communication with investors, and the scant details given on the plans dented Dubai's credibility.
"The way the announcement was made, including its timing has caused damage to Dubai's credibility," Ghanem Nuseibah, senior analyst at Political Capital Policy Research & Consulting Institute. "This will take a very long time to repair."
(Writing by Lin Noueihed and Clive McKeef, reporting by Martina Fuchs and Enji Kiwan in Dubai, Adrian Croft, Sujata Rao, Steve Slater, Atul Prakash, Caroline Cohn in London, and David Lawder in Washington DC and Al Yoon, John Parry in New York and John McCrank in Toronto; Editing by Mike Peacock/Ruth Pitchford/Chizu Nomiyama)


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H.G. Wells, famed sci-fi author, serves as a central thematic reference in the paranoid conspiracy documentary Google and the World Brain. The core concept from Wells, borrowed as a metaphor for today's modern era conundrum, is that of the World Brain, an abstract explanation for the consolidation of all humanity's recorded thoughts into one single contained unit. In many ways, you can look at this abstraction as something that has come to fruition with the advent of digital information in the internet era and in the face of Google's omnipresence in that space. Specifically, director Ben Lewis is interested in exposing the dark underbelly of Google's global mission to spread information to everyone, because one corporation controlling all that data could actually be very dangerous.
This sentiment of fear is achieved to varying degrees of success by contrasting Google's most ambitious project to date, the complete digitization of every book in the world, with interviews from a variety of esteemed technologists, lawyers and librarians. Code named 'Project Ocean' for the vast magnitude of data that would be digitized, the idea originated early on for Google CEOs Larry Page and Sergei Brin and falls in line with their overall mantra to make information more easily accessible. Several massive public libraries (including Harvard) were initially eager to participate in the program because it would essentially be opening its physical doors to the digital global unconsciousness. The extreme costs and man hours involved in scanning each book page by page seemed impossible, but Google, who had been developing new technology to make the process easier, footed all costs for access to this valuable data in hopes of making Google Books the de-facto place for people to read online.
However, Google did not just scan books in the public domain, but also works that were still protected by copyright without permission from the original authors, claiming it was a case of fair use. It's this uncharacteristic move by Google that raises questions about their intentions. Combine this with a penchant for intruding on the privacy of its users, and you too should be worried that the search engine might be evolving into a big brother entity. The argument being, whoever controls the data can ultimately monopolize said data and become a singular gatekeeper with the ability to divulge that information to whoever they decide to share it with. While a frightening thought to consider, it's also a bit hyperbolic to make such accusations with the crutch of the argument still being mostly speculative.
While director Ben Lewis does an admirable job of gathering informative talking heads to flesh out the theories about what Google could really be up to, there is an undeniable quality of the documentary that revels in the sense of villainy. From the creepy techno music, to the abrupt cuts of accusatory text, the cinematic style gives off the effect of an online conspiracy video. Still, there are enough fascinating nuggets of information to keep things moving and make you more skeptical of privacy in technology. Google and the World Brain is a fascinating, yet uneven, examination of the dangers of the digital age if we as a society become too complacent with our technology.
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I have recently uninstalled AvantGo from my Tapwave Zodiac2 and installed Plucker as a replacement, but I'm having troubles getting it to function. I think I've installed it properly, and it is in my Sync list. I've added three channels, Tapland and two Mapquest pages. When I update them on the desktop I get an Error: Runtime error parsing document (URL...) Parsing failed. When I open Plucker on my Z, only Tapland is there (and a Plucker maual), and when I try to open it there is no information when you tap a link. I probably haven't "studied" the manual well enough, but exactly what steps do you take when you add a channel? The only thing I can think of is that I must be skipping a step, preventing my two Mapquest URLs from transferring to my Zodiac. I'm using the Wizard and trying to fill in all the info.
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The Tapland is working correctly, right? Can you give the links to the two that fail please? It's possible it's something specific about Mapquest that fails. Or perhaps, even more specifically, just a few of them.
Just for a bit more information, what I think is happening is that the Plucker parser may be choking on those two pages due to something in/on them, since (from what you said) your third (Tapland) is working and transferring correctly. |
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Hey sculptedstylus, I just did the same thing on my Zod! Didn't have any issue with the pages I created, however.
It sounds to me like your Tapland channel isn't working either...that it's created but there's nothing there when you click on the links. Did you set the link depth far enough? Everything on tapland is the same domain except links on posts, so the filters shouldn't matter. I just tried Tapland/mobile from the wizard and it worked fine. Haven't tried anything from mapquest. Note that the wizard defaults to B&W images. Maybe you should try re-installing? Or you could try a different desktop software; I've been trying out the Sunrise XP beta. |
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Remember it. A man who has only slept and has never known what awakening is, to him dreams are true. Because in sleep everybody thinks dreams are true. But the man who has known both the dream and the awakening, to him dreams are untrue. Listen to the one who has known both. That has been the Eastern experience. We don't pay any attention to what the scholar says, because what he says is the experience of us all. It is nothing new! Maybe he is more articulate, maybe he is more clever, maybe he can bring more footnotes to his statements, he can quote scriptures - but what he says is qualitatively the same. Quantitatively he may be better, but there is no difference between him and other people.
But when a buddha arises, a Sufi is born, a Christ-consciousness walks on the earth, it is qualitatively different.
And one thing to be remembered again and again: Buddha has lived in your world too; he has also dreamt like you. He has also been be fooled by the dreams like you. Now he has become awakened. He knows both. Hence, whatsoever he says is far more true than the statements of those who have known only one kind of world.
Beware of being dragged into scholarship. Beware of your own logicalness. Beware of reason. It is reason that has made your life dry. It is reason that has destroyed all the juice of your being. It is reason that has become your suicide. Beware of it! Go beyond it.because only beyond it is the world of truth. Only beyond it is the kingdom of God. And unless you have known the kingdom of God, don't be contented - remain discontented.
This divine discontent makes one a disciple. And this divine discontent, sooner or later, becomes such a fire that it burns one's ego utterly. And when you are no more, the Sufi is born.
Scholarship is an addition to you. You remain the same. You become more and more informed. To be a Sufi, you have to pass through a death experience. It is not an addition to you: it is a new birth. It is a rebirth.
Jesus says: Unless you are born again you will not enter into the kingdom of my God. And do you know to whom these words were said? They were said to a great scholar, Nicodemus. He was a famous professor of those days; he was far more knowledgeable than Jesus himself. Jesus was illiterate, a poor man's son, a carpenter's son. Nicodemus was rich, famous, a well-known scholar, respected. Why does Jesus say to him: Unless you are born again.? The scholar has to die, only then is the Sufi born. And to be a Sufi is to live in the kingdom of God.
Be discontented with all that you know. There is a knowing which is not knowledge. There is a wisdom which is not scholarship. But to attain to it you will have to empty yourself completely of all that you think is knowledge. Say good-bye to the scholar, say good-bye to the mind, and let the no-mind enter in you.
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Born | Dianna Elise Agron April 30, 1986 Savannah, Georgia, U.S. |
Occupation | Actress, singer, dancer, director |
Years active | 2006–present |
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Born | Dianna Elise Agron April 30, 1986 Savannah, Georgia, U.S. |
Occupation | Actress, singer, dancer, director |
Years active | 2006–present |
Dianna Elise Agron (/ˈeɪɡrɒn/;[1] born April 30, 1986) is an American actress, singer, dancer and director. She is also the creator and co-editor of the music, art and photography website You, Me, and Charlie. Other ventures include directing a music video, and producing, writing and directing an unreleased short film A Fuchsia Elephant. Agron made her television debut appearing as Jessica Grant in CSI: NY in 2006. From 2006 to 2007, Agron had recurring roles in Veronica Mars as Jenny Budosh, and Heroes as Debbie Marshall.
In 2009, Agron was cast in her most notable TV role to date as Quinn Fabray on the Fox musical comedy-drama series, Glee.[2] In 2011, Agron co-starred in the films The Hunters and I Am Number Four. Later that year, a concert documentary film of Glee was released, titled Glee: The 3D Concert Movie. In 2013, Agron co-starred as Belle Blake, alongside Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Tommy Lee Jones in the action crime-comedy film The Family.
Agron was born in Savannah, Georgia, and raised in San Antonio, Texas and San Francisco, California. She is the daughter of Mary and Ronald S. Agron, a general manager of Hyatt hotels.[3][4][5] Due to this, Agron said she and her family lived in different hotels growing up.[6] She has a younger brother, Jason. Agron's father's family is originally from Russia, and according to Agron their original surname, Agronsky, was altered by Ellis Island officials.[1] Her father was born to a Jewish family, while her mother converted to Judaism.[7] Agron attended Hebrew school and had a bat mitzvah.[7][8] When she was 15, she found out that her father had multiple sclerosis. In an interview for Cosmopolitan, she revealed: "Quite a bit changed after that," she says. "At that age, you don't see mortality in your parents." The disease caused her parents' relationship to fall apart, and they decided to separate, which was devastating for her and her younger brother. "I had to play therapist to my family... be the glue. Those kinds of things I'm not ready to speak about yet."[9] Agron attended Burlingame Intermediate School and Burlingame High School,[2] where she was in the Homecoming Court,[10] and played in Grease as Marty, and also involved in the set design, the costumes, painting and the whole process.[11] She has been dancing since the age of three, focusing mainly on jazz and ballet, and she later began hip-hop dancing and fell in love with musical theater as a child, often performing in local and school productions, and played Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz in fifth grade,[12] and began teaching dance as a teenager.[5] She says she was not "popular" in the stereotypical sense in high school, though she had many friends from different cliques around the school.[13]
Agron has appeared on television shows such as Shark, Close to Home, CSI: NY, Numb3rs,[14] and had a recurring role on Veronica Mars. She then appeared as Harper on a 13-episode series of short films called It's a Mall World, directed by Milo Ventimiglia, and airing on MTV, and then on the second season of Heroes as Debbie Marshall, the head cheerleader/captain of the cheer squad at Costa Verde High School. In 2009, Agron hosted a mini music festival for 826LA in Los Angeles called Chickens in Love.[15]
Agron's most notable role to date is as Quinn Fabray, a high school cheerleader, on the Fox series Glee. Agron was the last primary actor to be cast, having won the role only days before the pilot began filming.[16] Agron said in a 2009 interview pertaining to her casting session: "I nearly bailed on my audition for the show. I was so nervous." Before being cast as Quinn, the show's producers wondered if she appeared too innocent. Agron said in an interview: "They told me to come back with straight hair and to dress sexier. Later that week, I started work."[17] Agron auditioned with Frank Sinatra's "Fly Me to the Moon".[16] The Glee producers said "we really lucked out in finding Agron to play Quinn."[16] Quinn is described by Agron as Rachel Berry's (Lea Michele) enemy, and "terrible, the meanest girl."[18] Agron said that her favorite part of Quinn is that "she's smart. But she's also human, and through her tough exterior, she's often a little girl lost."[2] Quinn was originally conceived as the antagonistic queen bee head cheerleader, a departure from Agron's actual high school experience.[19]
Quinn's role as head cheerleader is central to understanding her character. Agron said that she had never had any prior cheer experience before the Pilot. "If I had been [a cheerleader], I would've ended up on crutches," she told Emmy magazine.[2] The role saw Agron nominated for the Teen Choice Award for Female Breakout Star star in 2009.[20] She and the other cast members were awarded the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series in 2010, and were nominated in the same category the following year.[21][22] Agron was praised for her dramatic acting during the confrontation scene with Quinn's parents in the episode "Ballad".[23] Gerrick D. Kennedy, writing for the Los Angeles Times, was critical of the ongoing Quinn pregnancy plot in the episode "Hairography", and noted that he cringed whenever Quinn appeared on screen.[24] Conversely, Bobby Hankinson of the Houston Chronicle enjoyed Quinn in the episode, and wrote: "I love that she can keep her Mean Girls edge while being heartbreakingly sad or as joyful as she was singing "Papa Don't Preach".[25] The A.V. Club writer Todd VanDerWerff suggested that Quinn's season three reinvention hinged on the fact the producers no longer knew how to utilize Agron.[26]
In 2012, The Biography Channel aired a documentary of Glee, with Agron being interviewed along with other castmates. It showed a brief description of Agron's character and her audition for the show.[27] On July 23, 2012, it was reported that Agron was going to appear less frequently in Glee 's fourth season.[28] Agron's character, Quinn, only appeared on three episodes: "Thanksgiving", "Naked", and "I Do". Agron returned in the fifth season for two special episodes: "100" (Glee's 100th episode) and "New Directions" (second part of the 100th episode).[29] On March 18, 2014, in an interview with E! Entertainment, Agron expressed interest in returning for more future Glee episodes.[30] Agron announced she would return to Glee for its final season after the show's music producer, Alex Anders, shared a photo of an Agron recording music at Capitol Records.[31] She will be, for now, featured in two episodes: "Homecoming" and "Jagged Little Tapestry".
In 2007, Agron appeared as Dyanna in the action drama thriller film T.K.O., directed by Declan Mulvey, alongside Samantha Alarcon, Daz Crawford and Christian Boeving.[32] She also appeared as Megan in the independent comedy film Skid Marks.[33] She also appeared as Kyle's Girl in the short comedy film Rushers.[34] She also appeared in a short comedy film Dinner with Raphael, and had a small role as Sadie in the independent comedy film Celebrities Anonymous, directed by Dennis Hemphill Jr., alongside Lindsay Zir and Joey Kern. In 2010, she also appeared as Minnow, the younger sister of Lila Hayes, in the romantic comedy The Romantics.[35] She played Natalie, fiancée to main character Ali's love interest Jack, in the film Burlesque.[36] She also appeared in Bold Native, a film about animal liberation.[37][38] In 2010, Agron auditioned for the role of Gwen Stacy for the reboot of the Spider-Man films, The Amazing Spiderman, but lost out on the role to Emma Stone.[39][40]
In 2011, Agron appeared as Alice in the horror thriller The Hunters and in the science-fiction action thriller I Am Number Four.[41][42][43][44] Agron appeared in the concert film of Glee, Glee: The 3D Concert Movie. Agron played Belle Blake in the film The Family, opposite Robert De Niro, Tommy Lee Jones, and Michelle Pfeiffer.[45] The film was released on September 13, 2013, and received mixed to negative reviews. The Family debuted at #2 in its first weekend with $14.5 million.[46][47][48] Reviewers praised Agron's performance. She "gives the best performance in the film as a really sexy teenager coming of sexual age," wrote critic Tony Medley.[49] Writing for The Huffington Post, Zorianna Kit said, "De Niro, Pfeiffer and Jones all brought 100% to their roles. Glee actress Dianna Agron was the stand-out here, shining as the daughter who was falling in love for the first time, while defending her family from total annihilation by the mafia."[50]
On September 26, 2013, it was confirmed by Josh Boone that Agron was cast in the upcoming film Pretenders, alongside Michael B. Jordan, Anton Yelchin, and Imogen Poots.[51][52] She will portray a character named Victoria. The movie is currently on hold until all the cast is available for filming.[53] On October 23, 2013, an interview with Agron was released and she said she will be also shooting another film during November 2013 in Chicago, where she will play a character which is "much more agressive" than her character in The Family.[54] It was later revealed that the title of the film is A Conspiracy on Jekyll Island.[55] Agron confirmed via Twitter that she started shooting it on November 20, 2013.[56] Agron started filming a thriller movie, Zipper, in Louisiana on February 4, 2014; she will portray a character named Dalia. Patrick Wilson, Lena Headey, John Cho, and Adrianne Palicki will also star in the film. It follows a federal prosecutor running for office who can't stop himself from sleeping with high-class escorts, putting both his career and his personal life at great risk. It will premiere in early 2015.[57][58][59][60]
On February 21, 2014, it was reported that Agron will star in an upcoming film titled All Alone, which is expected to premiere in 2015.[61] In March 31, 2014, it was reported that Agron joined the cast of the upcoming film Tumbledown, along with Jason Sudeikis and Rebecca Hall. The romantic-comedy film started production that month.[62] Her character's name is Finley. On July 7, 2014, it was revealed that Agron will be joining the cast of Headlock, along with Andy García, Justin Bartha, James Frain, and D. W. Moffett.[63] On July 28, 2014, it was announced that Agron will be portraying the lead character, Sarah Barton, in the upcoming film Bare. The narrative feature is written and directed by Natalia Leite and follows Sarah, a young girl living in a small desert town in Nevada, as she becomes romantically involved with a female drifter who leads her into a life of drugs, stripping, and psychedelic spiritual experiences.[64] Paz de la Huerta will also be starring, along with Riley Keough and Rachel Korine.[65]
Several songs performed by Agron as Quinn Fabray on Glee have been released as singles, available for digital download, also featured on the show's soundtrack albums.[66][67] Agron made her musical debut at the end of the episode "Showmance", performing Dionne Warwick's "I Say a Little Prayer".[66] "I Say a Little Prayer" charted in the UK Singles Chart at 125.[68] Quinn's next solo was in the episode "Throwdown", performing The Supremes' "You Keep Me Hangin' On".[66] The song charted in the UK Singles Chart at 166.[68] The song was released on Glee: The Music, Volume 1. The Wall Street Journal editor Raymund Flandez was critical of Quinn's cover of "You Keep Me Hangin' On", which he called "thin and jarring".[69] She performed a rendition of James Brown's "It's a Man's Man's Man's World" in the episode "Funk".[67] The song charted in the Canadian Hot 100 chart at 73, UK Singles Chart at 94 and in the Billboard Hot 100 chart at 95.[70][71]
In season three, Quinn sings her first solo number since the first season, "Never Can Say Goodbye" by The Jackson 5, which received mostly positive reviews. Jen Chaney of The Washington Post gave the song a "B−", and said it "worked much better than every track that preceded it" because it adapted the song to the show "instead of trying to out-Jackson Jackson."[72] Entertainment Weekly 's Joseph Brannigan Lynch called it "a nice summation of her character's journey, but not vocally impressive enough to justify listening to outside of the episode" and gave it a B rating.[73] Crystal Bell of HuffPost TV described it as a "blah performance", but Kate Stanhope of TV Guide said it was "sweet and reflective."[74][75] Erica Futterman of Rolling Stone wrote that it was "a tune well-suited for Quinn's sultry voice and the flipped meaning she gives the lyrics", and TVLine 's Michael Slezak had a similar take: he gave it an A rating and called it a "remarkably lovely fit" for her voice.[76][77] She has also sung many cast group songs and duets. In February 2013, Agron hosted and performed "Dreams" and "What's Love Got to Do with It" featuring A House For Lions for the first You, Me and Charlie concert in Los Angeles.[78][79] In 2011, when asked about if she is interested in a solo album, Agron said that she is more focused on acting. But later, in December 2013, she said it is not possible, but that "you never know! My album would be called... definitely not Dianna Agron. Something fun. I'm trying to think of something on the spot. Random words are coming to mind: Bats, Night, Dark, Blue."[80]
In 2010, Agron directed the music video for "Body" by Thao & The Get Down Stay Down.[81][82] On November 25, 2013, the music video of "Just Another Girl" by The Killers was released, in which Agron portrays the lead singer.[83][84][85] Agron starred in Sam Smith's "I'm Not the Only One" music video, which was released on August 1, 2014, as a scorned bride.[86] In 2014, Agron directed the music video for "Till Sunrise" by Goldroom. Her brother, Jason, and actress Gabby Haugh star as a romantic couple.[87]
In 2009, Agron wrote, starred in, directed, and executive-produced the short comedy film A Fuchsia Elephant. The plot revolves around Agron's character. On the day before her eighteenth birthday, Charlotte Hill makes a decision to change. Not wanting to follow in the footsteps of her alcoholic mother, she enlists a sober partner named Michael (Dave Franco) to help guide her. It was shot during the Glee hiatus in the summer of 2009.[88] Agron hosted the GLAAD Media Award on June 2, 2012 in San Francisco.[89] In 2012 and 2013, Agron appeared in the "Play As You Are" Nintendo campaign, ads for Art Academy: Lessons for Everyone!, and in spots for the puzzle-solving adventure Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask.[90]
Agron spoke at the 18th San Francisco Power of Choice Luncheon to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Roe V. Wade – 40 years of Choice! on March 7, 2013 in San Francisco,[91][92] and attended The Hollywood Reporter and Jimmy Choo 2nd Annual 25 Most Powerful Stylists Luncheon on March 13, 2013 in West Hollywood.[93][94] For the February 2014 issue of the Galore magazine, Dianna worked as the photographer. Her brother, Jason Agron, also helped for the shoot.[95] After directing Thao & The Get Down Stay Down's music video, "Body", and her independent unreleased film, A Fuchsia Elephant, Agron has stated that she would like to continue directing different projects.[96]
Agron and her Glee co-star Lea Michele decided to rent an apartment together in downtown Los Angeles in early 2009. "We have these smack-downs at work and come home and are like, 'Wasn't it so funny when we were fighting today? Let's make cookies!'" said Michele to New York Magazine.[97]
In 2011, she underwent nose surgery to repair her deviated septum which was the result of a blow to the nose when she was fourteen.[98] Agron's Twitter account was hacked on December 18, 2011 and had started many trending topics. The hacker also got into her personal email and started leaking songs, scripts, and episodes of Glee.[99]
After the July 2013 death of her Glee co-star, Cory Monteith,[100][101][102] Agron reflected on her own mortality, saying "it just makes you take a new lease out on life and look at things a little bit differently. He was truly one of the most wonderful people I've ever met in my entire life...."[103] Although she is now out of the show, she said her continuing friendship with her Glee co-stars was a comfort in the wake of Monteith's death.[103]
Agron is a vegetarian, and has supported PETA and gay rights.[104] Using her Tumblr account as a starting point, Agron released her website You Me & Charlie on December 12, 2011. Along with help from several other contributors, she writes and collects posts, which subjects vary from music, art, fashion, and daily inspiration.[105] The site serves as inspiration for many young artists. Vanity Fair has complimented the site, stating that the site is "full of sunshine, optimism, and pretty people".[106] Agron hosted the GLAAD Media Award on June 2, 2012 in San Francisco. Her co-stars of Glee, Naya Rivera and Cory Monteith hosted them on March 24, 2012 in New York City. Following Rivera's tradition of auctioning off kisses to an audience member, she raised $5,500 for the campaign. Agron worked with The Trevor Project in 2012 to raise money in honor of her birthday.[107] In 2012, Agron visited the Kampong Cham Center, where she met children and teenage residents.[108] On April 20, 2013, the people honored Dianna by raising $10,200 for her birthday, benefiting the Somaly Mam Foundation in effort to fight human trafficking.[109]
Agron donated possessions to the Vietnam Veterans of America in Los Angeles during August 2013.[110] Agron also supports the initiative between Camp Wonder and Cetaphil, which is about children with chronic and life-threatening skin diseases to enjoy being a kid.[111] On February 22, 2014, Agron participated along with other Glee stars in the Young Storytellers Foundation biggest show, Glee Big Show, which featured live performances of five scripts written by 5th Grade Young Storytellers to support art programs in public schools.[112] In June 2014, Agron joined with other celebrities and the Big Slick foundation at a weekend charity event to help raise funds for Children's Mercy Hospital of Kansas City. Among the events Agron was involved in was a celebrity softball game, a private get-together for patients and celebrities, a bowling tournament, and a celebrity party and auction.[113] In December 2014, Agron provided services and live entertainment to United States troops and their families as part of the United Service Organizations tour at Bagram air field, Afghanistan.[114] Later that month, Dianna attended to the 10th anniversary gala of a ASmallWorld and sold a kiss for more than $20,000. She donated the money to the War Child charity.[115]
Agron was chosen by People to be part of their Most Beautiful 2010.[116] She also came 8th in the 2011 Afterellen.com "Hot 100" list.[117] Additionally, she came in 13th in the 2012 AfterEllen.com "Top 50 Favorite Female TV Characters" list, thanks to her character, Quinn Fabray, on Glee.[118] In April 2012, Shalom Life ranked her Number 3 on its list of "the 50 most talented, intelligent, funny, and gorgeous Jewish women in the world."[119] Later that year, she and her co-stars, Naya Rivera and Heather Morris, came in the first three places at the "2012 AfterEllen Hot 100" list, with Agron at the 2nd place.[120] Agron was ranked #28 in the 2012 AskMen's Top 99 "Most Desirable Women".[121] She also came #44 in the FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World" 2012.[122] Agron is also the seventh place in the 2013 Opposing Views' list "Hottest Actresses On Primetime TV". She is the second place in the MuchMusic's list "5 Stars to Watch in 2013".[123] Dianna ranked #84 in FHM's 100 Sexiest Women in the World 2014.[124] Agron was ranked #47 in the "Men's Health Hottest Women of 2014".[125]
Year | Award | Category | Work | Result |
2010 | Screen Actors Guild Awards | Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series (with: Glee Cast) | Glee | Won |
TV Land Awards | Future Classics (with: Glee Cast) | Won | ||
Teen Choice Awards | Choice TV: Female Breakout Star | Nominated | ||
Choice Music: Group (with: Glee Cast) | Nominated | |||
Breakthrough Of The Year Awards | Breakthrough Newcomer | Herself | Won | |
Gay People's Choice Awards | Favorite Music Duo or Group (with: Glee Cast) | Glee | Won | |
2011 | Screen Actors Guild Awards | Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series (with: Glee Cast) | Nominated | |
Grammy Awards | Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media | Nominated | ||
Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals (with: Glee Cast) | Nominated | |||
Teen Choice Awards | Choice TV: Female Scene Stealer | Nominated | ||
Choice Music: Group (with: Glee Cast) | Nominated | |||
Victoria's Secret: What's Sexy List | Sexiest Smile | Herself | Won | |
2012 | Screen Actors Guild Awards | Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series (with: Glee Cast) | Glee | Nominated |
Grammy Awards | Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media | Nominated | ||
Teen Choice Awards | Choice TV: Female Scene Stealer | Nominated | ||
Giffoni Film Festival | Giffoni Award | Herself | Won | |
Do Something Awards | TV Star: Female | Glee | Nominated | |
2013 | Screen Actors Guild Awards | Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series (with: Glee Cast) | Nominated | |
Shorty Awards | Best Actress in Social Media | Herself | Nominated | |
Best Celebrity in Social Media | Nominated | |||
Best Artist, Art Critic, or Art Aficionado in Social Media | Nominated | |||
Best Blogger in Social Media | Nominated | |||
Best Fashion Diva, Brand, or Model in Social Media | Nominated | |||
Napa Valley Film Festival | Rising Star Award | Won | ||
Women Film Critics Circle Awards | Best Young Actress | The Family | Nominated |
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Novice Member
Joined: 8/26/06 "If BioWare goes BuyOWare, I will go ByeOWare."
It takes an average of five years to create a MMORPG. World of Warcraft launched in 2004; it set a precedent shorty after and continues to be the most popular MMORPG. It wasn't until 2007/2008... players really started to voice their complete disdain of the linear theme clones. Since the success of WoW, we've seen multiple AAA attempts for the cash-crown: Star Wars Galaxies: NGE Revamp, Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, Champions Online, Star Trek Online, Aion, RIFT, etc... The problem with the above is simple: They are ultimately no different from World of Warcraft. The same steak over and over...but with different seasoning. It's obvious that re-creating WoW is not going to earn you ma$$ive cashflow. It's not that simple. My theory: Since the average development time for an MMORPG is five years, expect to see two more years of WoW-clones, as nobody post 2008 will sink millions into the development of another clone failure. |
:laughs He said Vangaurd is a WoW clone. Funny. Yeah probably at least 2 more years, but there are still other games out there. |
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Joined: 8/26/06 "If BioWare goes BuyOWare, I will go ByeOWare."
Vanguard is a WoW clone. How is it different? Bigger Worlds? That's just mere seasoning. You still follow the same style quest progression and experience the exact same classes. You can call it whatever you want: Ranger, Archer, Hunter, etc... they are all the same. |
Bitter Vet™
Joined: 9/13/06 Fools find no pleasure in understanding, but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV |
Rumor has it that ArchAge may bring us something different, and Soon[TM]. Arrogant, Condescending, Dismissive, Elitist, "Meany", you speak as if these are bad things? |
Novice Member
Joined: 8/26/06 "If BioWare goes BuyOWare, I will go ByeOWare."
Originally posted by Kyleran Yes. But that won't release for years. |
Might be 2 years. Might not be. Personally, I enjoy Mortal Online right now. There's also Perpetuum, Xsyon, and Earthrise. There are a couple of bigger titles coming as well: ArcheAge and World of Darkness. Obviously, their release dates are unknown, so it's uncertain when they will be available. Hell hath no fury like an MMORPG player scorned. |
Vanguard is NOT a WoW clone, lets get that cleared up. I like WoW and think the model is just fine and can be expanded upon to make a success, hence what we see coming in SWTOR. The problem with the games you listed is that they tried to grab the success of WoW without realizing what made WoW successful in the first place. CREATIVITY. If you put passion into something it will be noticeable. Many of those game lacked a creative spark and were truly just "copies" trying to mimic the current trend in order to make a buck. That being said, GW2 doesn't look like a WoW clone and neither does ArcheAge and both are games I can't wait to play and I love themeparks, although I personally have been touting and waiting on the themepark/hybrid ArcheAge seems to embody. |
Originally posted by fcwedd But with this logic they started making vanguard in 2002, when WoW wasn't released, so how did they copy it ^^ |
Vanguard isn't a WoW clone, Vanguard reminds more of the oldschool MMO's like AC and EQ in gameplay feeling. Seems to me more like a case of themepark burnout or allergy maybe, if even the slightest similarities to WoW cause you to dismiss games like that as WoW clone? In any case, there's GW2, The Secret World, Firefall, Planetside Next and Arche Age (and maybe even WoD), I'd hardly call any of these 'WoW clones'. ... unless, of course you've become totally averse to WoW and any gameplay feature that reminds you in even the barest resemblances of WoW. The ACTUAL size of MMORPG worlds: a comparison list between MMO's |
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Joined: 12/29/03 Whatever you do, do NOT speak ill of Asheron's Call 2... |
Originally posted by fcwedd Nice, I was really hoping when I logged onto this site today that I would FINALLY be able to read a well thought, ORIGINAL, post. No beating a dead horse here, no sir... That Guild Wars 2 login screen knocked up my wife. Must be the second coming! |
Originally posted by fcwedd That's your idea of a WoW clone? Exact same classes?! Show me where you can find the Disciple in WoW. Or the Bloodmage. Or the bard. Quest progression isn't unique to WoW either. EQ2 does it and it launched, albeit only a month, but before WoW. I personally prefer quest progression for my leveling purposes. Matter of fact I wish VG had a better refined quest progression path for each zone as it wouldn't be such a nightmare to level past certain level walls. |
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Joined: 10/21/08 A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. |
Originally posted by fcwedd Err no way Jose,Vanguard is no way a WOW clone,how u can associate VG with WOW,is beyond my comprension so basically if u have an Avatar,a server,race to choose,skills to develop,mounts then u are saying it's a WOW clone ? So let's then forget the deepest crafting ever and the diplomacy thing,yep so typical of WOW !!,before makeing tenious links actually play the damn game first now if u did play it i'll be bloody amazed you actually came to this conclusion. |
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Joined: 9/13/09 "A strange game. The only winning move is not to post." |
Originally posted by fcwedd So what you are saying is we can expect at least two more years of posters complaining everything is a Wow Clone, and that what the MMO world really needs today is a big budget AAA sandbox game, but for some reason none of these complainers ever seem to be able to list exactly what kind of features this mystical game should have. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see something different on the menu as much as you, OP, but what kind of game are we talking here? Sandbox means many things to many people. By sandbox do you mean FFA full loot PVP, faction full loot PVP, either FFA or Faction PVP without full loot, PVP in instanced zones, or only certain zones, No PvP? Do you want Player made domiciles and cities that you can lose because the game allows for asset destruction, no asset destruction? No player made domiciles or cities. Economy based entirely off player crafted items, no player crafted items, a mix of player crafted and loot drop items? Leveling by quest system, no quest system, just the old school grind mobs until you hit cap? Level and class based characters, or no level skill based characters, instanced dungeons, non instanced dungeons like the old EQ days? I could continue but I think I've made my point. Since just about every gamer I know has their own definition of what the term Sandbox means to them continuing to make posts that are essentially "Themepark BAD, Sandbox GOOD", is completely pointless. Until people tired of the status quo get together and constructively list exactly what features they are looking for in this mystical messiah of a game, no one is going to take you seriously. "Gypsies, tramps, and thieves, we were called by the Admin of the site . . . " |
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Joined: 6/08/10 "Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities." |
Check out Guild Wars 2. While not "revolutionary" it's putting in a lot of good ideas that some MMO companies are afraid to. It's evolving the MMO genre, and hopefully other companies take a stand and put the work in to incorporate new ideas (ex: dynamic events) the way ArenaNet does. And best of all, it won't take 2 years to release (oh yeah, and no sub fee). |
I agree with everything the OP said except the "clone" part. Maybe he meant Themeparks without Sandbox tools to back up game play? (all what I know is SWG was that before the NGE). Original SWG is definitely not a WoW clone and was released before WoW. Vanguard was underdevelopement on 2002 (I personally was following it at around that time). How can it be a WoW clone? Don't confuse the word WoW Clone and Theme Park please. |
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Joined: 9/13/09 "A strange game. The only winning move is not to post." |
Originally posted by yewsef Well that is the heart of the problem isn't. The OPs post essentially boils down to "This sucks, Change it." He hasn't actually taken the time to expound on his ideas of what kind of game needs to replace these so called Wow clones, simply that he dislikes them. Doesn't leave us much room for meaningful disccusion dose it? "Gypsies, tramps, and thieves, we were called by the Admin of the site . . . " |
Joined: 10/04/08 Girlfriends come and go but Epic battles are Soulbound |
Originally posted by Zeppelin5083 Best sig on the webz, I love it. ~Winter is coming~ Velika: City of Wheels: Among the mortal races, the humans were the only one that never built cities or great empires; a curse laid upon them by their creator, Gidd, forced them to wander as nomads for twenty centuries... |
Originally posted by fcwedd Until someone is willing to take a real risk (not a in game "risk") and puts in a lot of hard work and effort to build something you want, it will stay the same. Too much work for most of the mmorpg gamers. http://www.youhaventlived.com/qblog/2010/QBlog190810A.html |
It doesn't matter when the new completely original MMO launches...it will still be called a WoW clone by people like the OP. "I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you." - Robin Williams |
Agreed. Hopefully 2013 and above. will look a little more promising for the future of MMORPG gaming. I think were heading in the right direction with games such as Guild Wars 2, Archeage, World of Darkness. Guild wars 2 - Quest Demisihment, Archeage - Interesting mechanics - World of Darkness - Making Sexy look sexier. Maybe the future of MMORPG NG Gaming lays with Blizzards 'Project Titan' - You never know ;P! - Dun Duun - |


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The role of hearing in detecting foraging birds has received little consideration
'If a bird flies in the forest, does an insect hear it?'
That's the title of a paper from Jayne E. Yack and her team at Carleton University in Canada. "Birds are major predators of many eared insects including moths, butterflies, crickets and cicadas," they point out in the paper, which has just been published in Biology Letters.
Insects, for their part, have evolved strategies to avoid being eaten. However, "the role of hearing in detecting foraging birds has received little consideration," the scientists noted in the paper.
An insect's 'ear' consists of a thinned portion of its external skeleton stretched over an air cavity. This tympanal membrane vibrates in response to sound waves and those vibrations are then picked up by nerve cells. Depending on the species of insect, the ears can be situated at diverse places on its body, including the wings, legs and even mouth parts.
Some insects have been shown to be capable of detecting the cries emitted by echo-locating bats, which prey on them, and to then take evasive action.
Whether capable
For their study, Dr. Yack and her team examined whether a moth, Trichoplusia ni, and a butterfly, Morpho peleides, were capable of hearing birds in flight. To do that, they first recorded the sounds produced by the wing beats of an insect-eating bird, the Eastern Phoebe (Sayornis phoebe). The bird-flight sounds were then played back to the two insects and the impulses produced by their auditory nerves recorded.
The team found that the insects' auditory nerves responded to the flight sounds with a burst of impulses. In the case of the moths, the pattern of nerve impulses was similar to the one produced when these insects hear a bat homing in on them and which is thought to trigger evasive action.
"Since we see similar bursting patterns in response to bird flight sounds, it could be that they [the moths] can evade a bird attacking as they would a bat attacking, using a similar neural mechanism," said Dr. Yack in an email.
The frequency range of moth hearing overlapped with the high frequency component of bird flight and that of butterfly hearing with the lower frequency components. The scientists estimated that the two species of insects could both detect a bird at distances of at least 2.5 metres.
That figure could be a conservative estimate of the detection distance, said Dr. Yack in her email. "We have been doing trials with live birds, and moth ears can detect a live bird flying from several meters away."
"Future experiments should explore how eared insects respond behaviourally to bird flight, and whether birds use counter strategies, such as sound-reducing feather modifications or foraging tactics, to avoid detection," the scientists observed in the paper.


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Police looking for the driver of a truck that plunged into a central North Island stream have found a body.
The truck was discovered partially submerged in the Waihohonu Stream on the Desert Rd section of State Highway 1 just after 4am.
Police this evening said a man's body was found when the truck's cab was lifted from the water using a crane.
The man, believed to be the driver of the truck, was in the stream beneath the vehicle.
Police said the driver was a 55-year-old man from Porirua.
His name would be released once police have confirmed that all family have been notified.
Police will be recovering the truck for examination and the road is expected to re-open later this evening.
The road has now re-opened, police said.
Earlier, Taupo area commander Inspector Steve Bullock said police crash investigators were examining the scene and it was too early to say if speed was a factor.
Bullock described the scene as "like a bomb had gone off".
Swift swirling currents and narrow channels beneath the Waihohonu Stream bridge had made searching for the missing driver difficult.
Divers, with and without tanks, and tied by rope to colleagues on the riverbank, battled the swift currents and slowly felt their way around and under the wreckage and large boulders.
The stream, fed by melting spring snow from National Park, was running as swift as river, at about 11 cubic metres a second.
The truck and trailer unit lay in the water half submerged below the bridge after it came to rest tumbling off the road and down the bank.
It appeared the southbound driver had swerved on a moderate left hand bend, run off the road and hit a barrier on the bridge before the weight of the trailer tipped the vehicle over and into the water 20 metres below.
Contents from the trailer, which included some hazardous materials - pool chlorine and insecticide - but mainly general goods, were strewn down the bank, and up to 40 metres downstream.
Three large drums were stranded downstream on rocks, but appeared to be intact and not leaking hazardous material.
Early reports the truck was carrying radioactive materials was proved inaccurate, police said.
The cab lying jammed between rocks under the bridge was destroyed with the roof ripped off.
A pair of overalls, a single sock and a black fleece top lay on the floor.
A chrome nameplate bearing the nickname - Goddess of Fire - of the red coloured truck, understood to be contracted to Mainfreight, lay bent and twisted beside the wreckage.
A Mainfreight representative at the crash scene did not want to comment.
Family members had been contacted in Wellington and Auckland and were driving to the crash scene.
It was understood the southbound truck crashed about 4.30am.
Police were alerted by a passing truck driver who saw the smashed road barrier.
Environment Waikato's Dr Tony Petch confirmed the swiftness of the river, and the small quantity of hazardous goods on board, had not affected the water quality.
"In the worst case scenario the environmental effects are minor," he said.
Test samples of the water upstream and downstream of the crash had been taken to the lab and results would be known tomorrow, he said.
A large grill at the Rangipo power intake was positioned on the river 3km downstream, he said.
Diggers worked to clear the bank of debris and have it removed it by trucks.
Scuff marks on the road 100m before the crash scene may have been caused by the trailer overbalancing and making it difficult for the driver to control, one observer at the scene said.
Heavy haulage operators were standing by waiting until the search area had been cleared of debris to begin attempting to lift the truck and trailer up from the water.
The combined weights of the wreckage and crane made it impossible for the crane to park on the bridge and any lifting would be done using a long arm crane.
Disconnecting the trailer from the tractor unit and cab would be needed before any lifting was undertaken.
It is understood to be the first major crash on the bridge in 30 years.
It is the second serious truck crash in the region in the past fortnight.
A driver walked away uninjured when his large truck and trailer unit carrying dairy products crashed down a 10m bank at Bulli Point, Lake Taupo two weeks ago.
It took three days to salvage the wreckage.
- STACEY KIRK, MIKE WATSON, CLIO FRANCIS and MICHELLE COOKE/Stuff
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