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Whitebox releases Malletbox - Free Max For Live Instrument
11th October 2012
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Whitebox has released Malletbox, the latest in their line of Cross-Platform ambient synth/soundscape devices for Ableton Live and Max.
Malletbox is an ambient chime generator with a user-recordable buffer. The buffer has four variables that change pitch, direction and tempo of playback. Live notes from 5 presets with up to 32 note polyphony can be played over this or mixed in to create intriguing soundscapes, further enhanced by stereo pitch shift, stereo image, envelope shape and low-pass filter effects.
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I do this as well, and I came about via the same thinking. I wash my tongs or spoons (or not, on spoons; I have a zillion spoons and just swap out) with a dab of dish soap and some friction and a good rinse. I never then sanitize, so my actions may be for naught, but it makes me feel better about the raw versus cooked.
Oct 15, 2014cayjohan in General Topics
Poached eggs in a muffin tin -need tips for tomorrow
Ttrock, I think the water tripped me up. The recipe called for a Tbsp of water per cup on the pan. I think the water ratio threw me: the liquid was...um, too much, and I thought the egg white was underdone, when it might not have been...I like cooked white, and runny yolk.
You are right...a couple more in the morning as another test. It has potential.
The reason I thought to Google it was muffin pans all over the place after TDay desserts that were brought,and I thought I might save myself some hassle with flipping a dozen and a half eggs.
Poached eggs in a muffin tin -need tips for tomorrow
Trying to make set white/runny yolk eggs for over hash. It's hard to make over easy eggs for over hash for eight people(two eggs per) sitting down at once especially since they're all over-easy folks. This method seemed doable. I am not particularly adept at poaching in a whirlpool method or with holding poached eggs. The muffin tin method sounded...well, easier.
Poached eggs in a muffin tin -need tips for tomorrow
Have you tried this before, ipse? I find it a bit intimidating. The water on top of the cups made me think the eggs were "less than" properly poached, but probably my mistake. I poked a bit (yes, I poke at yolks while they're cooking) at the eggs at the 16 minute mark, but they didn't seem ready. I did not use spray, rather buttered the tins, but I don't think that tripped me up.
Timing probably did. And uncertainty. Thanks for the cheerleading!xxoo
Still curious about others' experience with this method and pitfalls to look out for. I'd not heard of it before, and it's a bit daunting to pull out for a dinner party.
Poached eggs in a muffin tin -need tips for tomorrow
Tomorrow is our annual post-Thanksgiving turkey hash-n-eggs dinner. We usually do ten fried eggs for five diners, and that *just* works out for timing. This year, our kids have decided to join us, and we are up to eight at the table. All egg lovers. 16 over-easy eggs for a sit-down seems a little much for me, and I found this link http://cookingtipoftheday.blogspot.co... for oven-poaching eggs in muffin tins. I did a test run with three eggs this evening, and lost my nerve and over cooked. They were beautiful hard cooked eggs for a chef salad dinner, but I waaaay over cooked for what I wanted. I probably should have
Do any of you have any experience with this method of oven-poaching? I'm looking at a dozen and a half for our dinner, and I think this might be the best method, but I need guidance. Or cheerleading. Or something. :-)
Anyone? Thanks.
Our turkey gets picked clean, thanks to my über-turkey-picking husband. All the bones, cartilage and leftover skin go into the pot on Thanksgiving night. That simmers, while we watch a movie or what-not, then the simmering pot goes into the outdoor fridge for its second day cook-down to about a pint. Next year's gravy, that.
Just before our marriage, the Hub dumped a whole turkey carcass into the trash. He's been making up for that sin ever since. <grin>
Nov 27, 2013cayjohan in Home Cooking
Countdown to T-day: What's working? What are you doing that's new?
I am looking forward to the mushroom gravy more than anything else, really. And to be honest, it's really A LOT of mushrooms -in- a vat of mushroom gravy, since our immediate household seems to comprise mushroom-hungry Hobbits. I have spent more money on mushrooms this year than I have on turkey.
ETA: thanks, fldhky, for the kind words.
Nov 27, 2013cayjohan in Home Cooking
What's on your table tonight for Thansgiving Eve dinner?
This little backstory on the Frasier theme seems to fit nicely with what, it seems, most of us will be dealing with in one form or another on the big turkey holiday.
I'm now thinking of having some friends over, post-holidays, just for a "tossed salads and scrambled eggs" party. Post-mortems on the holidays, you know, since we all seem to need it!
And a book-ending of scrambled eggs for me, holiday-wise!
What's on your table tonight for Thansgiving Eve dinner?
Was that you, 512w?! :-)
Seriously, a good meal. And not a bad earworm. It's become part of our household lexicon. The Hub will traipse through the kitchen singing "Hey baby, I hear the blues a-callin'..." Never a hard sell with me.
Our scrambled eggs tonight will have a heft grating of Prästost and of black pepper. Smells like the best mac-n-cheese in the world. Scrambled eggs all over (and into) my face!
Nov 27, 2013cayjohan in General Topics
What's on your table tonight for Thansgiving Eve dinner?
<<Translation: I'm stepping away from the stove and not giving myself one more bowl or utensil to wash.>>
Truth! One has to have the calm before the storm!
Nov 27, 2013cayjohan in General Topics
Countdown to T-day: What's working? What are you doing that's new?
What's working? The well-oiled machine that comes from hosting Thanksgiving for 25 years. All the checkpoints have been met, prep is well under way, and we seem to have everything on the premises, ready to go. This saves my sanity. I might not *love* the Thanksgiving meal, but I do sort of love the satisfaction of being absolutely prepared. (Rainey, that prep on the vegetables is a lifesaver, isn't it?)
Did I say absolutely prepared? Well, that shifts, doesn't it?
What am I doing that's new? This is my first Thanksgiving dealing with celiac, so a lot is new. I have fretted about gravy thickening, I've fretted about what gf cracker I can use in our scalloped corn, I've fretted mightily about the bread stuffing my family loves and researched endlessly. But at 6 bucks a loaf, I'm not practicing bread stuffing...going in cold. Crossing fingers. But I have a receptive crowd. Other than the gluten-free issue, we have my son's SO joining us for the first time. She's a vegetarian, so my usual chicken stock fest is out the window. I don't mind at all; I have made more chicken stock than veg stock for Tday, so I doubted my experience, but we've ended up with a tasty veg/mushroom stock for dressing/stuffing. I've also added a mushroom gravy and a wild rice stuffing/dressing (with cranberries, pears and pecans) to the usual mix. All in all, the New is working in fairly well: the entire meal is gluten free, and vegetarian with the exception of the bird and the bird's gravy.
I sure hope it all tastes as good as I think it will. I used to feel that the sameness of the Thanksgiving meal made it one of the easier (albeit large) meals to cook. This is my year to shift a few perceptions and begin new traditions and challenge my previous complacency to family tradition. My father passed away unexpectedly a couple of months ago, and he was the Very Vocal Keeper of the Old. While I honor his memory, and will salute him at the toast, we're moving on to a new-old tweaked menu.
*I* think it will be good.
Nov 27, 2013cayjohan in Home Cooking
How do you take your turkey - gravy, cranberry, give me some of both?
Both, please. Good cranberry sauce cuddled up to anything with gravy is wonderful to me. I don't really even need the turkey.
What's on your table tonight for Thansgiving Eve dinner?
My long-standing tradition for Tday eve is scrambled eggs and a salad. My family is quite happy to remind me that Thanksgiving dinner is their favorite meal of the year; I also want my favorite meal at this time, so: scrambled eggs and salad it is! (Y'know, someone on some thread on favorite meals once asked me in jest if I was Frasier Crane with the "tossed salads and scrambled eggs" thing, and that theme song has played in my head Every Damn Time I have eaten that meal since. It's doing so now...here, someone: please have an earworm. You're welcome!) Eggs and salad is simple and quick, and I can fortify myself for the wrestling of the 24 lb bird that is on this evening's entertainment list.
Do you moderate your drinking around your family?
That sad+funny blends over time doesn't it, Kat? And the "Alkie" term either sounds like an endearment (it does, doesn't it, being somehow cute and diminutive?), but with codependent overtones, or it sounds like a vicious, nasty appellation after the fact. My mom worked both angles. And while it might have suited her personal purposes, whatever those were, it made for Very Big Tension at family events.
I don't think my mother ever realized that her tirades made everyone, really, want to drink more.
I read once, in a cheesy-but-awesome romance novel, an admonition I will never forget: "If you can't be a good example, be a horrible warning." It applies all-over-the-place in this.
Nov 25, 2013cayjohan in Not About Food
We'll have to think about what our legacy mousetrap's demise will be. I'll likely be more cognizant of environmental issues than my dad was. Still, it was and is A Really Great Mousetrap.
We're decommissioning in that we've sold the property to long time neighbors, and need to clear out personal property. I'll miss that shack: 12x16, log construction (three sides cut), from wood yours truly logged and hauled and sawmilled with the Old Man. Given the rural-living that dad's neighbors understand, I might just leave the mousetrap, but, y'know...a bucket full of dead mice is not so nice. We'll see and I'll research further on what to do.
Critters. They have a way of affecting our lives.
Your hunting cabin sounds wonderful.
What are 3 foods you have never eaten and don't plan to... And 3 things you have never tried but want to?
Never had/don't care to:
Balut (like many here); I don't particularly care for most poultry because of the wet-feathery smell, but buy/cook/eat it for expediency. There's no expediency I can imagine for balut. At least yet, in my life experience.
Any eyeballs other than those from my favored smoked fish (and then it's just a thing to squick out my husband, really). I am just not that hungry yet.
Dog. I am not interested. Even as a cat owner.
Never had/ would like to try:
Nov 23, 2013cayjohan in General Topics
Corned Beef and Other Missing Lunch Meats
I like the Boar's Head olive loaf, too. I love the grand panoply of worldwide sausages and while many can be better than BH, I stick with it lately for their gluten-free products, as I am celiac and it's just plain nice to get something, reliably, that I both like and can eat.
Nov 23, 2013cayjohan in General Topics
Do you moderate your drinking around your family?
My mother definitely had the bigger issues! One of her favorite sayings was "Lips that touch liquor shall never touch mine!" It makes me wonder, sometimes, that I was ever even conceived. But: her lips, her deal.
My dad did the correct and noble thing when he chose sobriety, really. And he dealt in the real world.
And you know? I realize I'm still pretty PO'd about those wine glasses.
Is alcohol almost always a part of your meals/get togethers?
We always have wine and beer at our gatherings. I go to other get-togethers that never do. A dry party doesn't bother me, but I prefer the option of a glass of wine.
Do you moderate your drinking around your family?
Kat, I had a similar experience. My father struggled with alcoholism, but quit drinking in my early teens and maintained a low key sobriety ("low key" meaning he just didn't partake and didn't care if others did) for most of the rest of his life. My mother, never a drinker, became even more militantly opposed to alcohol *after* my dad's sobriety and often slipped into street corner temperance preacher mode in the presence of those partaking. Our family has no more than whatever-the-usual-number of over-drinkers is, but my mom saw an "Alkie" (her word) in every hand that held a glass of wine, and would lecture. It made things awkward at family functions, especially since our household is the hosting household for both sides of the family - my FIL is knowledgeable and interested in wine, which we appreciate, but my mother's haranguing got a little out of hand. She disapproved, even, of stemware on the table, because to her mind, stemware meant "alcohol." (One memorable Thanksgiving had good ol' mom taking all the stemware off the table and breaking it into the trash...thanks, mom). It was a difficult situation, and we dealt with it as diplomatically as possible. Still, it made my father uneasy, socially, that his wife was bringing up what was at that time twenty-year-old business and singling him out for even being in the same room as alcohol when he had been such an "Alkie."
After my mother's death, my father did occasionally have a social drink, without any drama or relapse or addictive behavior.
For the record, we don't now moderate our drinking around family. We serve wine and beer for dinners, with occasional cocktails. It's more peaceful and convivial around here now!
Corned Beef and Other Missing Lunch Meats
This is why I like the deli counter at one of my area's more upscale grocers: They Stock Olive Loaf. One of the less-often-seen, but wonderful, cold cuts. I do my part to keep up demand. Good stuff.
I recall seeing pickle loaf years (years!) ago, but never now. I never got to try it then; it looks like something I'd love!
Nov 21, 2013cayjohan in General Topics
John E., my dad was ruthless with his judicial use of peanut butter, as in: that can (we used dad's fave, Seven-Up, from his preference for 7-Up and Captain Morgan's) SPUN. The mouse catch was usually spectacular.
Sorry to hear the deer take was down so low; I saw...what a 7% reduction overall in MN, with the NW of the state taking a serious hit in take. My dad didn't hunt last year due to injury, and died before this hunt, but man, was that guy a dead-eye marksman. He probably could have just dedicated his marksmanship to hunting-shack mice! But we liked the venison more.
Here's a more on-topic question: whattya do with all the antifreeze from vermin-trapping of this nature? I grew up rural, but I'm a city girl now, and now that we're decommissioning the shack, I'm not sure how to dispose of the mouse-trap. We kept it going for our neighbor's hunt and use of the cabin, and my dad just flung the anti-freezed mice into the swamp, but it seems...a bit wrong to me, with chemicals. What did you do with, um, the leftovers of this type of mousetrapping?
Nov 21, 2013cayjohan in Not About Food
IKEA, a recent visit to their marketplace
We are in accord, hill food.
And lutefisk? Not so bad. I wonder if IKEA could make it groovy by offering it. ;-)
We did the exact same at my dad's hunting shack. The anti-freeze trick is key in our climate, as cold months seem to be vermin months. The whole thing is half comic, half grisly, but it's pretty effective, no?
Nov 19, 2013cayjohan in Not About Food
IKEA, a recent visit to their marketplace
That gravlax plate is why I schedule my IKEA trips around a mealtime, really. I'm either a gravlax snob or a gravlax slut, depending upon which of my kin you're talking to, but from either perspective, IKEA puts out some tasty gravlax. And our location always has very fresh greens on the plate - big plus in my estimation.
I have an IKEA date with the Hub tomorrow. We will dine very cheaply on gravlax and meatballs and then, lulled into submission (self-deprecating <grin> here), will proceed to open our wallets. My kids are not car owners, so we "take orders" for IKEA runs; we'll walk out of the food market tomorrow with likely 20 or so packets of the various lax for the restocking of ours and the kids' freezers. It's a good product, and it's a nice meal option. If this were a TJ's thread, I'd be YAYing all over the place.
Nov 19, 2013cayjohan in Chains
How many times do you chew a bite of food?
Well, I just did pay attention upon seeing this while eating a rice cake with lemon curd. Each bite was chewed twenty-five to thirty times, with the longer chew times a result of more little rice husks in the bite, and the husks are sort of pleasant to chew. The rest of my food? I'd guess I rarely chew anything fewer than ten times (and likely longer) given the food I eat tends to need that. I am also on the slower side of the spectrum of eaters, so that plays in. But really, I just like chewing my food a little longer. It...tastes good.
Nov 18, 2013cayjohan in General Topics
My parents lived rural, and dealt often with critters. My mother, a thrift store maven, thwarted rodent-type vermin by buying metal tins at Goodwill and such - you know, those big three-flavor popcorn tins popular around the holidays? - and was pretty happy with results in safeguarding her baking goods. Cheap, cheap, cheap, too. I do the same with my pet foods and with holiday baking that I want to keep in "the big outdoor fridge." It took just one instance of squirrels marauding amongst the cookies to shift to metal containers for me.
Nov 18, 2013cayjohan in Not About Food
Trader Joe's Yay/Nay Thread - November 2013 [Old]
It's a mystery, to me at least! I stockpile lime leaves for my freezer when I can find them, and I've never had them go Froot Loopy on me, even when a bit "over" and desiccated in the freezer. I might possibly be a little too fascinated by this (ya think? ;-) ), but maybe it's the inclusion of sugar? Although, at 2g per serving, I don't know. I'm tempted to make my own confetti rice with these ingredients just to see what happens!
What temperature do you like your meat deli salads?
My preference on this always runs toward right-out-of-the-fridge cold. My favored protein salad is generally chicken with celery and grapes and whatever other whatnot I feel like adding. For me, the very cold crisp juiciness of the celery and grapes is a refreshing counterpoint in a mayonnaise-based chicken salad - like a sip of veg or fruit water in the midst of richness. In the summer, I always chill plates for this. But even in the winters seasons, I like a *good-and-cold* cold meat salad.
Nov 18, 2013cayjohan in General Topics
Trader Joe's Yay/Nay Thread - November 2013 [Old]
Y'know, I had wondered if I had missed some "natural flavor" in the ingredients (I'm pretty cautious with that because of hidden gluten), but nope: "water, rice, onion, baby corn, palm oil, tomato, sugar, lemongrass, garlic, sea salt, ginger, white pepper, Thai lime leaf, spinach, turmeric (color)."
Sounds like a decent set of flavors, right? There was admittedly precious little (visually) of any of the flavoring ingredients in with the water and rice, though. And that Froot Loopiness that comes from...where?
I am starting to think that perhaps I just don't roll, palate-wise, with anything other fresh lemongrass. A number of years ago I tried a lemongrass paste for convenience and it was Not Good (yet still, not Froot Loopy), so maybe the rice uses some paste-ified lemongrass that is not so fresh?
On the plus side: those that like Froot Loops can get a nice dinner-time fix from this rice!


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An alternate universe where Bruce Wayne died instead of his parents. Causing his father Thomas Wayne to become Batman and his mother Martha to go insane and become the Joker.
Brilliant villains mashup by ~Gingashi - Villainy Mix.
My favourite is The Madcrow one!! Brilliant.
Batman, NES.
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We have to admit, when we heard the next Bond film was going to be called "Quantum of Solace," we kind of scrunched our faces a little bit. Still, Casino Royale was so good that we figured we'd give it the old innocent-until-proven-guilty treatment. Well, now we've seen the trailer, and it looks so bloody good we're all verklempt. We clapped at the end. And then we watched it again.
There's so much action in the trailer that we don't know how there's going to be room for story unless it's as long as Ben Hur, but right now we don't much care. There's only a brief glimpse of the DBS in the trailer at the very end, but whatever it's doing it looks suitably Bond-ish. We'll even admit that the 2-minute clip is good enough to forgive wrecking this Aston DBS, this Alfa, and another Aston DBS during filming. Now you'll have to excuse us while we go watch the trailer a third time. Come on, November 7. Check out the Quantum of Solace trailer for yourself after the jump.
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Wanted you to see my story and video today about Kori Cioca, the main subject in the Oscar-nominated documentary "The Invisible War."
On the video she talks about her surprise at being invisted to attend the Academy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday.
"The Invisible War" is about rape and sexual harassment while serving in the military.
Cioca, who lives near Fort Ancient in northeastern Warren County, was raped while serving in the U.S. Coast Guard in 2005. She's also the lead plaintiff in the class action suit filed by sexual assualt/harassment victims against Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in 2011.
Here's one link that takes you to my story, the short video, movie trailer and info on how to see the film.
The Academy Awards air 8:30-11:30 p.m. Sunday on Channel 9/ABC. Red carpet coverage: 5:30 to 8:30 on E!; 6-7:30 p.m. on CNN; and 7-8:30 p.m. on Channel 9/ABC.
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Last summer I came down with the worst case of flea and mosquito-induced dermatitis on my lower legs I have ever had. Nothing seemed to cure the itch and by the time I hauled my butt to my doctor and got a prescription oral antihistamine, I'd dug huge craters into my legs and feet. Add to that the inevitable dryness of using topical antihistamines and I was a mess. I thought I'd never get rid of the dryness or get the scars to clear up.
Then I started reading reviews about coconut oil and thought I'd give it a try. If it didn't work, I wouldn't be out a ton of money and I could always give the jar to one of my co-workers. I made sure that the coconut oil I bought was cold-expressed without hexanes and the other nasty stuff that's in other coconut oils---I didn't need something else to break me out!
I am SO glad I took the plunge! Not only did the dryness clear up in a week, I've noticed that the scars on my legs and feet are fading, especially one large place on my foot that was the size of a silver dollar at its worst. The KP on my upper arms has faded and I think my tattoos are looking better than ever. This stuff also works like a charm for the nasty peeling mess I get under my nose when my allergies are out of control and am blowing my nose every second.
Right now I just scoop out what I need from the jar and warm the solid oil in my palms, but I've also placed the jar close to the heater vent in my bathroom to melt it down so I don't have to mess with the solid oil. The smell was a bit of a turn off when I first began using the oil, but I think that's due to comparing the natural product with, say, coconut scented perfumes. Not enough of a turn off to take any lippies off!
If you're looking for a nice, natural conditioning oil and aren't allergic to tree nuts, this is it. I haven't used it for anything else other than moisturizing, but I think when I run out of the conditioner I'm using to shave with I might just try using this as a shaving oil. Good stuff and not all that expensive!
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This stuff rocks! I tried using it on my face with baking soda as a exfoliators and it worked the first time, the second time I got a pimple because it made my skin too oily..But, it's still good to use once and a while. I now use it under my eyes for moisture and I love it! I think everyone should have some.
Guys, PLEASE be careful using coconut oil if you're a first time user. After reading so many wonderful reviews, I started using EVCO as an all over body moisturizer. For the first week, it was great: my skin felt very moisturized and soft. However, I soon noticed red bumps were forming all over my body. I immediately stopped using the oil, but the bumps continued to form where I had used the oil. I am still trying to recover from this massive skin reaction, which is taking a long time to heal. Lesson learned: ALWAYS test patch before using a new product!
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I purchased a jar of this for about $5-6 a few weeks ago. So far I have been using it daily. I use it to remove makeup, I mix it in my Cetaphil moisturizer (about the size of a small pea) for my face. I also use a tiny bit and oil up (lol) my son (1 year old) during his bath.
It smells heavenly!
The container was a great big size, but, like almost all CO, it is in a glass container with a screw off top. In order to keep it hygienic I make sure to use something to dip into it with, I do not use my fingers.
Very happy I found this!
I love coconut oil. I drink it in my hot tea or coffee 3-4 times a day...start with 1 a day for a week and work your way up. When I start slacking on my consumption of this I turn into a crying hormonal mess...it does wonders for your health..just google it!
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Wonderful. I used this on my feet. I melt a teaspoon into my bath with epsom salts or drops of diluted lavender essential oil. I use it as a hot oil treatment for scalp and hair. I also use it as an intense moisturizer for my face and hands.
I tolerate the scent, because it is so wonderful and hydrating. I use cold pressed virgin olive oil for the exact same things. I love them both.
Even at cooler room temperatures this oil will solidify. I use a long metal spoon to get it out of the jar. It melts very easily.
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I'm South Indian so this is our traditional cure-all. Hair, skin, food etc. That being said, I was super wary to put oil in my hair since my mom forced me to when I was a kid and I got made fun of at school!! Anyway, yep - putting coconut oil in my hair as a pre-wash treatment and then a few drops post-wash makes it super soft and less split ends! I mix some with rosemary oil and keep it by my bed. Slather on your feet at night and throw on some socks - your feet will be AMAZING in 4 weeks. I don't use it on my face because I'm super break out prone and I don't want to ruin my current good-skin streak.
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I brought a jar of coconut oil after reading all the amazing reviews, thought I would try it as a hair treatment. Well I have to say that after using it 3 or so times it did absoultely nothing for my hair but make it extremely dry. My hairdresser even commented how dry my hair was I mentioned the coconut oil and she said that it is not advisable as it sticks to the hair shaft making it difficult to wash out and definately dries it out. So needless to say I would never buy this product again unless I was cooking a recepie that required it.
I can't believe I haven't reviewed this yet! I buy the virgin kind, because I love the coconut scent. I use one jar for cooking, and another in the bathroom for my skin. I've been using it for at least five years now! My hair doesn't seem to like it, it made the ends kind of dry and tangled, but I use it all over my body in the winter as a moisturizer. It takes some time to sink in, but leaves me really soft. My favorite use is on my face after washing at night. I apply a bit under my eyes and on my forehead, anywhere tiny lines are creeping up. I don't know how, but it works better than anything for fine lines. In the morning they look plumped and almost gone! I have very sensitive skin and have never had a reaction. Try it, you'll like it!
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Let's sum up all the reviews here for the lazy : IT'S AMAZING GO BUY IT, USE IT EVERYWHERE (hair, skin..). All the good reviews seemed to talk about some miracle expensive thing so at 8$ the jar I JUST HAD. And Thanks, thanks, thanks. I empty only 2-3 products because i'm really picky and this lasted me 4 months. A MUST.


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Located in Exópolis, Studio Plum Tree - Morfi Village offers outdoor pool and a restaurant. This self-catering accommodation features free Wi-Fi.
The apartment will provide you with a tv, air conditioning and a balcony.There is a full kitchen with oven and a refrigerator. Featuring a bath, private bathroom also comes with a hairdryer and towels. You can enjoy a sea view and a mountain view from the room.
At Studio Plum Tree - Morfi Village you will find a garden, a terrace and a bar. Other facilities like grocery deliveries, an ironing service and a laundry are offered. The property offers free parking.
|Sleeps up to 4, Studio
|Nearest beach
|georgioupoli 1.5 km
|Car not necessary, Wheelchair users
|Nearest Amenities
|1 km
|Nearest travel links
|Nearest airport: chania international airport 51 km
|Family friendly
|Great for children of all ages, Suitable for people with restricted mobility
|No pets allowed, No smoking at this property
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|Internet access, Sea view
|Children's pool
|Central heating, Air conditioning, TV, Wi-Fi available
|Kettle, Toaster
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|2 bathrooms of which 1 Family bathrooms and 1 Shower rooms
|1 Sofa beds, Double beds (1), Dining seats for 4, Lounge seats for 4
|Linen provided, Towels provided
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|Parking, Wheelchair users
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The new alto Professional TMX-160DFX mixer is loaded with all the connections you need including 30 total inputs comprised of 12 XLR jacks with phantom power, 16 line jacks and stereo RCA. These low-noise channels are your best friend when connecting instruments, mics, or even your ipod for playing between sets. Even better, each mono and stereo channel has its own 3-shelf eq, so you can dial in every nuance you need in seconds.
A/D and D/A conversion is performed with 24-bit precision, which means you'll never have a "what was that?" moment. Easy-to-view knobs with incredibly smooth movement help to make mixing feel like playing a fine instrument. The TMX-160DFX comes standard with the ability to deliver ultra-clean power at 2 x 750w (4-ohms) or 1500w (8-ohms bridged).
These aren't peak rating either, this is pure continuous power. In short, it's a beast.
- 16 channel powered analogue mixing desk
- 750 watts per channel @ 4 ohms
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BOSTON (CBS) – Jerry Remy will be taking some time off from the broadcast booth following the arrest of his son, with Red Sox Hall of Famer Dennis Eckersley set to fill in.
Eckersley, who spent eight of his 24 MLB seasons in Boston, will provide the color commentary on NESN for Friday night's game against the New York Yankees, and on Boston's west coast road trip next week.
Friday is the only game NESN has for the weekend Sox-Yankees series, with national television covering Saturday and Sunday night's games.
Remy's son, Jared, was ordered held without bail Friday, charged with the brutal murder of his girlfriend in Waltham.


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There's an old joke about a job listing that specifies applicants must be willing to work 24 hours a day, seven days a week with very little vacation time — ever. The job offers no 401(k); indeed, it lacks any chance of retirement.
It includes such tasks as toilet cleaning, laundering, gardening and mopping up after small bosses who demand total commitment even when they are disgusting, belligerent and disrespectful and constantly change the rules.
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The punch line is that women are lining up around the globe for one of these seemingly unappealing positions — and, by the way, they are unpaid.
Of course the title is "mother," and the sometimes insanity-inducing little bosses are children, who also, by the way, are continuing sources of the only compensation for all the work: love and pride.
Mothers are often in the news: when the government cuts safety nets out from under them — at it has tried to do relentlessly in recent years — when more of them decide to leave careers and choose, instead, to be stay-at-home moms, as a recent report indicated is happening more often these days.
But when they single-handedly raise good, productive kids, without help in the form of a higher minimum wage or extended unemployment benefits, they do it mostly in silence.
In Utah, despite a new report that ranks Salt Lake City second among the best large cities in the nation to be a mom, women, including mothers, both married and single, have a tough row to hoe.
The report came from creditdonkey.com. It obviously wasn't trying to show how tough it is to be a mother in any particular city, as such data as women's pay and poverty rates were given half the weight of the percentage of households that have women who have children. As the website explains, when there are so many moms, it's easier to find a sympathetic shoulder to cry on.
More Utah women, including married and single mothers, work than the national average, but their wages are below the national average and just 70 cents for every dollar paid to working men. The gap between the percentage of men and women with college degrees is much higher than the national average, too.
Still, the report notes, Salt Lake City has relatively low-cost child care. (Could that have something to do with low wages for child-care workers, mostly women?) And Salt Lake City's poverty rate, though nearly 41 percent among moms and rising, is not as high as in other large cities.
Utah has the largest families in the nation, and according to this report, the capital is one of the U.S. cities with the most moms. So, based simply on the amount of mothering done here, there's a lot of appreciation due on this Mother's Day.
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Dr Michael Birkett
Rothamsted Research, West Common, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, AL5 2JQ
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BCCP Harpenden
Current Projects
Principal Investigator
Project Leader
- Design of bioactive sesquiterpene-based chemical signals with enhanced stability
- Innovative approaches to pest management
- The interplay of rodent behaviour and semiochemistry: from scientific principles to control strategies
- Olfactory mechanisms underlying behavioural manipulation of mosquitoes by malaria parasites
- Chemical ecology and integrated management of the banana weevil, Cosmopolites sordidus, in Ghana
- Improved understanding of the causes, distribution and scale of Acute Oak Decline in the UK: diversity and life history of Agrilus biguttatus
- Adaptation and dissemination of the Push Pull technology (ADOPT)
- Lawes Trust Studentship: Role of host volatiles in plant disease epidermiology with insect vectors
- UK China collaboration for production of biologically active homoisoprenoids and their eventual use for pest control
- New pest resistance in rice by breeding and genetic modification (GM) for constitutive and inducible levels of defence homoterpenes
Past Projects
Project Leader
- BBSRC Quota Studentship: Defining the role of semiochemicals in host location and selection by UK Culicoides spp. biting midges
- Elucidating the chemical ecology of belowground plant-plant communication
- Monitoring and intervention strategies for bluetongue virus epidemics in rural India
- Chemical ecology of pest and beneficial arthropods : Identification, biosynthesis and scaled production of pheromones and other semiochemicals
Dr Mike Birkett is a Principal Investigator in Chemical Ecology and is Deputy Head of the Biological Chemistry and Crop Protection Department at Rothamsted Research. Mike has a background in Biochemistry and Biological Chemistry, and a PhD in Synthetic Organic Chemistry. He leads Chemical Ecology research in the Rothamsted Institute Strategic Programme on Delivering Sustainable Systems, where the overall aim is to exploit pheromones and other semiochemicals for the sustainable control of pests affecting crop, livestock and animal health. With current support from BBSRC competitive grants, Defra and the Royal Society, his research focusses on the characterisation of novel insect pheromones and other semiochemicals, investigating molecular interactions between semiochemicals and their recognition proteins, elucidating the signalling processes underlying natural stress-related defence in plants, and the development of new measures for the control of livestock/human disease vectors and rodents. Mike collaborates with leading institutes based in the UK and across Europe, and also in Brazil, Kenya, Ghana, India and China, and co-ordinates Rothamsted chemical ecology collaborations in Latin America. He has been invited to organise symposia at ISCE meetings in 2014 "Recent Development in Chemical Ecology for Suatainable Food Production" and 2013 "New Chemical Ecology Based Interventions for the Control of Ectoparasites Affecting Farmed Livestock and Human Health", and at ICE2012 on "New Science for Sustainable Insect Pest Control Based on Chemical Ecology". Mike has given many invited (including Plenary) lectures nationally and internationally. Mike has > 130 publications and patents, including several publications in PNAS, Ecology Letters, Natural Product Reports. In 2002, he was granted Chartered Chemist status. He was elected as an ISCE councillor from 2006-2009, and in 2010, was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Refereed publications, reviews and book chapters:
- Poppy, G.M., Jepson, P., Pickett, J.A. and Birkett, M.A. (2014). Achieving food and environmental security: new approaches to close the gap. Proc. Roy. Soc. Trans B, in press.
- Khan, Z.R., Midega, C.A.O., Pittchar, J.O., Murage, A., Birkett, M.A., Bruce, T.J. and Pickett, J.A. (2014). Achieving food security for one million sub-Sahara African poor through push-pull innovation by 2020. Phil. Trans. Roy Soc B, in press.
- Pickett, J.A., Aradottir, G.I., Birkett, M.A., Bruce, T.J., Hooper, A.M., Midega, C.A.O., Jones, H.D., Matthes, M.C., Napier, J.A., Pittchar, J.O., Smart, L.E, Woodcock, C.M. and Khan, Z.R. (2014). Delivering sustainable crop protection strategies via the seed: exploiting natural and constitutive and inducible defence pathways. Phil Trans Roy Soc B in press.
- Vuts, J., Imrei, Z., Birkett, M.A., Pickett, J.A., Woodcock, C.M. and Toth, M. (2014). The Semiochemistry of Scarabs, Journal of Chemical Ecology, in press.
- Farias, L.R., Paula, D.P., Zhou, J.J., Liu, R., Pappas Jr, G.J., Moraes, M.C.B., Laumann, R.A., Borges, M., Birkett, M.A., Pickett, J.A., Field, L.M. and Bao, S.N. (2014). Identification and Expression Profile of Two Putative Odorant-Binding Proteins from the Neotropical Brown Stink Bug, Euschistus heros (Fabricius) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae). Neotropical Entomology, in press.
- Pickett, J.A., Allemann, R. and Birkett, M.A. (2013). The Semiochemistry of Aphids. Natural Product Reports, 30, 1277-1283.
- Parra, L., Rojas, C., Catrielo, A., Galdames, R., Mutis, A., Birkett, M.A. and Quiroz, A. (2013). Differences in the fly load of Haematobia irritans (Diptera: Muscidae) on cattle is modified by endophyte infection of pastures. Electronic Journal of Biotechnology, 15, 1-15.
- Toth, M., Furlan, L., Vuts, J., Csonka, E.B., Szarukan, I., Toshova, T., Subchev, M., Velchev, D.I., Woodcock, C.M., Caulfield, J.C., Mayon, P., Pickett, J.A. and Birkett, M.A. (2013). Efforts to develop female-targeted attractants for click beetles – a summary. Proceedings IOBC-WPRS Bulletin 90, 227-230. 16-20 June 2013, Zagreb.
- Hastie, L.C., Wallace, C., Birkett, M.A., Douglas, A., Jones, O., Mordue (Luntz), A.J., Ritchie, G., Pickett, J.A., Webster, J.L. and Bowman, A. (2013). Prevalence and infection intensity of sea lice (Lepeoptheirus salmonis) on Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) host is reduced by the non-host compound 2-aminoacetophenone. Aquaculture, 410-411, 179-183.
- Vuts, J., Furlan, L., Csonka, E.B., Woodcock, C.M., Caulfield, J.C., Mayon, P., Pickett, J.A., Birkett, M.A. and Toth, M. (2013). Development of a female attractant for the click beetle, Agriotes brevis. Pest Management Science, DOI 10.1002/ps.3589.
- Oluwafemi, S., Dewhirst, S.Y., Veyrat, N., Powers, S., Bruce, T.J.A., Caulfield, J.C., Pickett, J.A. and Birkett, M.A. (2013). Priming of Volatile Organic Defence Compound Production in Maize by the Natural Plant Activator cis-Jasmone. PLoS One, 8, e62299.
- Babikova, Z., Gilbert, L., Bruce, T.J.A., Birkett, M.A., Caulfield, J.C., Woodcock, C.M., Pickett, J.A. and Johnson, D. (2013). Underground signals carried through common mycelial networks warn neighbouring plants of aphid attack. Ecology Letters, 16, 835-843.
- Irish, S., Bruce, S., Moore, S., Birkett, M.A. and Cameron, M. (2013). Evaluation of a nonanal-trimethylamine lure for collection of Culex quinquefasciatus (Diptera: Culicidae) in gravid traps. Journal of Medical Entomology, 50, 619-623
- Susset, E.C., Ramon-Portugal, F., Hemptinne, J.L., Dewhirst, S.Y., Birkett, M.A. and Magro, A. (2013). The role of semiochemicals in short-range location of aggregation sites in Adalia bipunctata (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae). Journal of Chemical Ecology, 39, 591-601.
- Sasaki-Crawley, A.S., Curtis, R., Birkett, M.A., Papadopoulos, A., Blackshaw, R and Pickett, J.A. (2012). The use of Pluronic F-127 to study the development of the potato cyst nematode, Globodera pallida. Nematology, 14, 869-873.
- Magalhaes, D.M., Borges, M., Laumann, R.A., Sujii, E.R., Mayon, P., Caulfield, J.C., Midega, C.A.O., Khan, Z.R., Pickett, J.A., Birkett, M.A. and Blassioli-Moraes, M.C. (2012). Semiochemicals from herbivory induced cotton plants enhance the foraging behaviour of the cotton boll weevil Anthonomus grandis. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 38, 1528-1538.
- Koczor, S., Szentkiralyi, F., Birkett, M.A., Pickett, J.A., Voigt, E. and Toth, M. (2012). Comparison of different synthetic baits in field experiments with respect to attractivity to green lacewings (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae). NOVENYVEDELEM 48, 11, 501-506.
- Ukeh, D., Woodcock, C.M., Pickett, J.A. and Birkett, M.A. (2012). Identification of Host Kairomones from Maize, Zea mays, for the Maize Weevil, Sitophilus zeamais. J. Chem. Ecol., 11, 1402-1409.
- Weeks, E.N.I., Logan, J.G., Birkett, M.A., Pickett, J.A. and Cameron, M.M. (2012). Tracking bed bugs (Cimex lectularius): a study of the effect of physiological and extrinsic factors on the response to bed bug-derived volatiles. J. Exp. Biol., 216, 460-469.
- Midega, C.A.O., Nyang'au, I.M., Pittchar, J., Birkett, M.A., Pickett, J.A., Borges, M. and Khan, Z.R. (2012). Farmers' perceptions of cotton pests and their management in western Kenya. Crop Protection, 42, 193-201.
- Moraes, M.C.B., Laumann, R.A., Oliveira, M.W.M., Woodcock, C.M, Mayon, P., Hooper, A., Pickett J.A., Birkett M.A. and Borges M. (2012) Sex pheromone communication in two sympactric Neotropical stink bug species Chinavia ubica and Chinavia impicticornis (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae). J. Chem. Ecol., 38, 836-845.
- Tamiru A., Bruce, T.J.A., Midega, C.A.O., Woodcock, C.M., Birkett, M.A., Pickett, J.A. and Khan, Z.R. (2012). Oviposition induced volatile emissions from African smallholder farmers maize varieties. J. Chem. Ecol., 38, 231-234.
- Symmes, E.J., Dewhirst, S.Y., Birkett, M.A., Campbell, C.A.M., Chamberlain, K., Pickett, J.A. and Zalom, F.G. (2012). The sex pheromones of mealy plum (Hyalopterus pruni) and leaf-curl plum aphids (Brachycaudus helichrysi): identification and field trapping of male and gynoparous aphids in prune orchards. J. Chem. Ecol., 38, 576-583.
- J.A. Pickett, G.I. Aradottir, M.A. Birkett, T.J. Bruce, Z.R. Khan, C.A.O. Midega, L.E. Smart and C.M. Woodcock. (2012). Aspects of insect chemical ecology: exploitation of reception and detection as tools for deception of pests and beneficial insects. Physiol. Entom., 32, 2-9.
- Dewhirst, S.Y., Birkett, M.A., Bruce, T.J.A., Martin, J.L., Pye, B.J., Smart, L.E., Hardie, J. and Pickett, J.A. (2012). Activation of defence in sweet pepper, Capsicum annuum, by cis-jasmone, and its impact upon aphid and aphid parasitoid behaviour. Pest Man Sci., 68, 1419-1429.
- P.D.K. Jayanthi, C.M. Woodcock, J.C. Caulfield, M.A. Birkett and T.J.A. Bruce. (2012). Isolation and identification of host cues from mango, Mangifera indica, that attract gravid female oriental fruit fly, Bactrocera dorsalis (Diptera: Tephritidae). J. Chem. Ecol., 38, 361-369.
- M. Hegde, J. Nobre Oliveira, J.G. da Costa, E. Bleicher, A. E. Goulart Santana, T. J. A. Bruce, J. Caulfield, C. M. Woodcock, J. A. Pickett and M. A. Birkett. (2012). Aphid antixenosis in cotton is activated by the natural plant activator cis-jasmone. Phytochemistry, 72, 81-88.
- M.A. Khan, I. Jones, E. Loza-Reyes, M.M. Cameron, J.A. Pickett and M.A. Birkett. (2012). Interference in foraging behaviour of European and American House Dust Mites Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus and Dermatophagoides farinae (Acari: Epidermoptidae) by Catmint, Nepeta cataria (Lamiaceae). Exp. Appl. Acar., 57, 65-74.
- L.E. Harrup, J.G. Logan, J. Cook, N. Golding, M.A. Birkett, J.A. Pickett, C. Sanders, D.J. Rogers, P.S. Mellor, B.V. Purse and S. Carpenter. (2012). Trapping of Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) using CO2 and Enantiomers of 1-octen-3-ol in the United Kingdom. J. Med. Entom., 49, 112-121.
- Ukeh, D., Umoetok, S., Bowman, A., Mordue (Luntz), A.J., Pickett, J.A. and Birkett, M.A. (2012). Alligator pepper, Aframomum melegueta and Ginger, Zingiber officinale, reduce stored maize infestation by the Maize Weevil, Sitophilus zeamais, in traditional African granaries. Crop Protection, 32, 99-103.
- Birkett, M.A., Hooper, A.M., Khan, Z.R., MIdega, C.A.O., Pickett, J.A. and Torto, B. (2011). Exploiting the chemistry of African biodiversity in pest management: from extraction of plant chemicals to expression in GMOs. Proc. 14th Symposium of the Natural Product Research Network for Eastern and Central Africa (NAPRECA), 8-12 August 2011, Nairobi, Kenya.
- de Fatima S Barreto, O.E Vercillo, M. A. Birkett, J. C. Caulfield, L. A. Wessjohann and C.K. Z. Andrade. (2011). Fast and efficient microwave-assisted synthesis of functionalized peptoids via Ugi reactions, Org. Bio. Chem., 14: 5024-5027.
- Dutta, T.K., Powers, S.J., Birkett, M., Gaur, H.S. and Curtis, R.H.C. (2011). Effect of small lipophilic molecules of tomato and rice on the behaviour of root-knot nematodes. Nematology, 14, 309-320.
- Tamiru, T. Bruce, C. Woodcock, J. Caulfield, C. Midega, C. Ogol, P. Mayon, M. Birkett, J. Pickett and Z. Khan (2011) Maize landraces recruit egg and larval parasitoids in response to egg deposition by an herbivore. Ecol. Lett., 14, 1075-1083.
- Schalchli, H., Hormazabal, E., Becerra, J., Alvear, M., Vidal, J., Birkett, M.A. and Quiroz, A. (2011). Antifungal activity of volatile metabolites emitted by mycelial cultures of native Chilean saprophytic fungi. Chem. Ecol., 1-11.
- M. Hegde, J. Nobre Oliveira, J. Gomes da Costa, E. Bleicher, A. E. Goulart Santana, T. J. A. Bruce, J. Caulfield, C. M. Woodcock, J. A. Pickett and M. A. Birkett. (2011). Identification of semiochemicals involved in tritrophic interactions between cotton, Gossypium hirsutum, cotton aphids, Aphis gossypii, and the predatory lacewing, Chrysoperla lucasina. J. Chem. Ecol., 37, 741-750.
- Cook J.I., Majeed, S., Ignell, R., Pickett, J.A., Birkett, M.A. and Logan, J.G. (2011). Enantiomeric selectivity in behavioural and electrophysiological responses of Aedes aegypti and Culex quinquefasciatus mosquitoes. Bull. Ent. Res.,101, 541-550.
- Costa, J.G., Vieira Pires, E., Riffel, A., Birkett, M.A., Bleicher, E. and Goulart Sant'Ana, A.E. (2011). The Role of Volatile Semiochemicals in the Resistance of Pepper, Capsicum spp. cultivars, to the Cotton Aphid, Aphis gossypii. Euphytica, 177, 299-307.
- Birkett, M.A., Hassanali, A., Hoglund, S., Pettersson, J. and Pickett M.A. (2011). Repellent Activity of Catmint, Nepeta cataria, and Iridoid Nepetalactone Isomers against Afro-Tropical Mosquitoes, Ixodid Ticks and Red Poultry Mites. Phytochemistry, 72, 109-114.
- Oluwafemi, S., Bruce, T.J.A., Pickett, J.A., Ton, J. and Birkett, M.A. (2011). Behavioural Responses of the Leafhopper, Cicadulina storeyi China, a Major Vector of Maize Streak Virus, to Volatile Cues from Intact and Leafhopper-Damaged Maize. J. Chem. Ecol., 37, 40-48.
- Weeks, E.N.I., Birkett, M.A., Cameron, M.M. Pickett, J.A. and Logan, J.L. (2011). Semiochemicals of the common bed bug, Cimex lectularius (Hemiptera: Cimicidae), and their potential for use in monitoring and control. Pest Man. Sci., 1, 10-20.
- Weeks, E.N.I., Logan, J.G., Gezan, S.A., Woodcock, C.M., Birkett, M.A., Pickett, J.A. and Cameron, M.M. (2011). A bioassay for studying behavioural responses of the common bed bug, Cimex lectularius (Hemiptera: Cimicidae) to bed-bug volatiles. Bull. Entomol. Res., 101, 1-8.
- Sasaki-Crawley, Curtis, R., Birkett, M.A., Powers, S., Papadopoulos, A., Pickett, J.A., Blackshaw, R. and Kerry, B. (2010). Signalling and behaviour of potato cyst nematode in the rhizosphere of the trap crop, Solanum sisymbrifolium. Aspects App. Biol., 103, 45-52.
- Hooper, A.M., Khan, Z.R., Torto, B., Birkett, M.A., Bruce, T.J. and Pickett, J.A. (2010). Exploiting phytochemical diversity to control pests of agriculture and vectors of human and animal disease. In Aspects of African Biodiversity, RSC Publishing, 321, 43-48.
- Koczor, S., Szentkirályi, F., Birkett, M.A., Pickett, J.A., Voigt, E. and Tóth, M. (2010). Attraction of Chrysoperla carnea-complex and Chrysopa spp. lacewings (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae) to aphid sex pheromone components and a synthetic blend of floral compounds in Hungary. Pest Man. Sci., 66, 1374-1379.
- Birkett, M.A., Bruce, T.J.A. and Pickett, J.A. (2010). Repellent Activity of Nepeta grandiflora and N. clarkeii (Lamiaceae) against the Cereal Aphid, Sitobion avenae (Homoptera: Aphididae). Phytochem. Lett., 3, 139-142.
- Skelton, A.C., Cameron, M.M., Pickett, J.A. and Birkett, M.A. (2010). Identification of neryl formate as an airborne aggregation pheromone for the American house dust mite, Dermatophagoides farinae, and the European house dust mite, Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus (Acari: Epidermoptidae). J. Med. Entomol., 47, 798-804.
- Birkett, M.A. (2010). The Chemistry of Plant Signalling. In Plant-Insect Interactions from an Ecological Perspective. Eds. Baluska, F. and Ninkovic, V. Springer Press, 21-41.
- Pickett, J.A., Birkett, M.A., Dewhirst, S.Y., Logan, J.G., Omollo, M.O., Torto, B., Pelletier, J., Syed, Z. and Leal, W.S. (2010). Chemical ecology of animal and human pathogen vectors in a changing global climate. J. Chem. Ecol., 36, 113-121.
- Bruce, T.J., Midega, C.A.O., Birkett, M.A., Pickett, J.A. and Khan, Z.R. (2010). Is quality more important than quantity? Insect behavioural responses to changes in a volatile blend after stemborer oviposition on an African grass. Biol. Lett., 6, 314-317.
- Oyarzun, M.P., Palma, R., Alberti, E., Hormazabal, E., Pardo, F., Birkett, M.A. and Quiroz, A. (2009). Olfactory Response of Haematobia irritans (Diptera: Muscidae) to Cattle-Derived Volatile Compounds. J. Med. Entomol., 1320-1326
- Ukeh, D.A., Birkett, M.A., Bruce, T.J.A., Allan, E.J., Pickett, J.A. and Mordue (Luntz), A.J. (2009). Behavioural responses of the maize weevil, Sitophilus zeamais, to host (stored grain) and non-host plant volatiles. Pest Man. Sci., 66, 44-50.
- Ukeh, D.A., Birkett, M.A., Pickett, J.A., Bowman, A.S. and Mordue (Luntz), A.J. (2009). Repellent activity of alligator pepper, Aframomum melegueta, and ginger, Zingiber officinale against the maize weevil, Sitophilus zeamais. Phytochemistry, 6, 751-758.
- Pickett, J.A., Birkett, M.A., Woodcock, C.M. and Zhou, J.J. (2009). Scents and sex. The Biochemist, April, 1-6.
- Pareja, M., Mohib, A., Birkett, M.A., Dufour S. and Glinwood, R.T. (2009). Behavioural responses to multiple cues: an approach coupling multivariate statistics coupled to generalised linear models. Animal Behaviour, 77, 901-909.
- Mordue (Luntz), A.J. and Birkett, M.A. (2009). A Review of Host Finding Behaviour in the Parasitic Sea Louse Lepeophtheirus salmonis (Caligidae: Copepoda). J. Fish Dis., 32, 3-13.
- Carson, C., Birkett, M.A., Logan, J.L., Mawa, K., Pates, H.V., Pickett, J.A., Rwegoshora, R.T., Tungu, P.K. and Cameron, M.M. (2009). Novel use of stir-bar sorptive extraction (SBSE) in the isolation of oviposition site attractants for gravid Culex quinquefasciatus. Bull. Entomol. Res., 23, 1-7.
- Moraes, M.C.B., Sereno, F.T.P.S., Michereff, M.F.F., Pareja, M., Laumann, R.A., Birkett, M.A., Pickett, J.A. and Borges, M. (2009). Attraction of the stink bug egg parasitoid, Telenomus podisi (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae) to defence signals from soybean, Glycine max (Fabaceae), activated by treatment with cis-jasmone. Ent. Exp. Appl., 131, 178-188.
- Logan, J.G., Seal, N.J., Cook, J.I., Stanczyk, N.M., Birkett, M.A., Clark, S.J., Gezan, S.A., Wadhams, L.J., Pickett, J.A. and Mordue (Luntz), A.J. (2009). Identification of Human-Derived Volatile Chemicals That Interfere With Attraction of the Scottish Biting Midge and Their Potential Use as Repellents. J. Med. Entomol., 46, 208-219.
- Frati, F., Chamberlain, K., Birkett, M.A., Dufour, S., Mayon, P., Woodcock, C.M., Wadhams, L.J., Pickett, J.A., Salerno, G., Conti, E. and Bin, F. (2009). Volatiles induced in Vicia faba by Lygus rugulipennis and their role in enhancement of sex pheromone activity. J. Chem. Ecol., 35, 201-208.
- Glinwood R., Birkett M., Kumar, S. Ninkovic V and Pettersson J (2008) Sustainable plant protection for increased food security in a changing climate. Currents 44/45: 29-33.
- Dewhirst, S.Y, Birkett, M.A., Fitzgerald, J.D., Stewart-Jones, A., Woodcock, C.M., Wadhams, L.J., Pickett, J.A. and Hardie, J. (2008). Dolichodial: A third component of the aphid sex pheromone? J. Chem. Ecol., 34, 1575-1583.
- Pickett, J.A., Birkett, M.A. and Logan, J.G. (2008). DEET repels ORNery mosquitoes. P. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 105, 13195-13196.
- Pettersson, J., Ninkovic, V., Glinwood, R., Al Abassi, S., Birkett, M., Pickett, J.A. and Wadhams, L.J. (2008). Chemical stimuli supporting foraging behaviour of Coccinella septempunctata (L.) (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae): volatiles and allelobiosis – a minireview. Appl. Ent. Zool., 43, 315-321.
- Webster, B., Bruce, T., Dufour, S., Birkemeyer, C., Birkett, M., Hardie, J. and Pickett, J. (2008). Identification of volatile compounds used in host location by the black-bean aphid, Aphis fabae. J. Chem. Ecol., 34, 1153-1161.
- Birkett, M.A., Al Abassi, S., Krober, T., Chamberlain, K., Hooper, A.M., Guerin, P.M., Pettersson, J., Pickett, J.A., Slade, R. and Wadhams, L. (2008). Antoectoparasitic activity of the gum resin, gum haggar, from the East African plant, Commiphora holtziana. Phytochemistry, 69, 1710-1715.
- Bruce, T.J., Matthes, M., Chamberlain, K., Woodcock, C.M., Mohib, A., Webster, B., Smart, L.E., Birkett, M.A., Pickett, J.A. and Napier, J.A. (2008). Multitrophic interactions involving Arabadopsis thaliana investigated by means of cis-jasmone defence activation. P. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 105, 4553-4558.
- Mauchline, A.L., Birkett, M.A., Woodcock, C.M., Pickett, J.A., Osborne, J.L. and Powell, W. (2008). Electrophysiological and behavioural responses of the pollen beetle, Meligethes aeneus, to volatiles from a non-host plant, lavender, Lavandula angustifolia (Lamiaceae). Arthropod-Plant Interactions, 2, 109-115.
- Serrano, R.M., Barata, E.N., Birkett, M.A., Hubbard, P.C., Guerreiro, P.S. and Canario, A.V.M. (2008). Behavioural and olfactory responses of female Salaria pavo (Pisces: Blenniidae) to putative pheromones from the anal glands of males. J. Chem. Ecol., 34, 647-658.
- Logan, J.G., Birkett, M.A., Clark, S.J., Mordue (Luntz), A.J., Pickett, J.A., Powers, S., Seal, N.J. and Wadhams, L.J. (2008). Identification of human-derived volatile chemicals that interfere with attraction of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. J. Chem. Ecol., 34, 308-322.
- Schonrogge, K., Napper, E.K.V., Birkett, M.A., Woodcock, C.M., Pickett, J.A., Wadhams, L.J., and Thomas, J. (2008). Host recognition by the specialist hoverfly, Microdon mutabilis, a social parasite of the ant, Formica lemani. J. Chem. Ecol., 34, 168-178.
- Oyarzun, M.P., Birkett, M.A., and Quiroz, A. (2008). Insecticide resistance in the horn fly (Diptera: Muscidae): alternative control strategies. Med. Vet. Entomol., 22, 188-202.
- Blassioli-Moraes, M.C., Birkett, M.A., Gordon-Weeks, R., Smart, L.E., Martin, J.L., Pye, B.J., Bromilow, R. and Pickett, J.A. (2008). cis-Jasmone induces accumulation of defence compounds in wheat, Triticum aestivum. Phytochemistry, 69, 9-17.
- Deswarte, F.E.I., Clark, J.H., Wilson, A.J., Hardy, J.J.E., Marriott, R., Chahal, S., Jackson, C., Heslop, G., Birkett, M., Bruce, T.J. and Whitely, G. (2008). Towards an integrated straw-based biorefinery. Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining, DOI: 10.1002/bbb.
- Pickett, J.A., Birkett, M.A., Bruce, T.J., Chamberlain, K., Gordon-Weeks, R., Matthes, M., Napier, J.A., Smart, L.E. and Woodcock, C.M. (2007). Developments in aspects of ecological phytochemistry: the role of cis-jasmone in inducible defence systems in plants. Phytochemistry, 68, 2937-2945.
- Pino-Marambio, J., A.J. Mordue (Luntz), M. Birkett, J. Carvajal, G. Asencio, A. Mellado and A. Quiroz. (2007). Behavioural studies of host, non-host and mate location by the Sea Louse, Caligus rogercresseyi Boxshall & Bravo, 2000 (Copepoda: Caligidae). Aquaculture, 271, 70-76.
- Logan, J.G. and Birkett, M.A. (2007). Semiochemicals for biting fly control: their identification and exploitation. Pest Man. Sci., 63, 647-657.
- Skelton, A.S., Cameron, M.M., Birkett, M.A. and Pickett, J.A. (2007). A novel bioassay for studying house dust mite behaviour. J.Med. Entomol., 44, 367-371.
- Cook, S.M., Rasmussen, H.B., Birkett, M.A., Murray, D.A., Pye, B.J., Watts, N.P. and Williams, I.H. (2007). Behavioural and chemical ecology underlying the success of turnip rape (Brassica rapa) trap crops in protecting oilseed rape (Brassica napus) from the pollen beetle (Meligethes aeneus). Arthropod-Plant Interactions, 1, 57-67.
- Pickett, J.A., Birkett, M.A., Blassioli Moraes, M.C., Bruce, T.J.A., Chamberlain, K., Gordon-Weeks, R., Matthes, M.C., Napier, J.A., Smart, L.E., Wadhams, L.J. and Woodcock, C.M. (2007). cis-Jasmone as allelopathic agent in inducing plant defence. Allelopathy Journal, 19, 109-117.
- Birkett, M.A., Hassanali, A., Logan, J.G., Mordue (Luntz), A.J., Pickett, J.A. and Wadhams, L.J. (2007). Repellents derived from human and animal secretions. IVCC/Gates Workshop, 22-23 January 2007.
- Pareja, M., Moraes, M.C.B., Clark, S.J., Birkett, M.A. and Powell, W. (2007). Response of the aphid parasitoid, Aphidius funebris, to volatiles from undamaged and aphid-infested Centurea nigra. J. Chem. Ecol., 33, 695-710.
- Borges, M., Birkett, M., Aldrich, J., Oliver, J.E., Chiba, M., Murata, Y., Laumann, R.A., Barrigossi, J.A., Pickett, J.A. and Moraes, M.C.B. (2006). Sex attractant pheromone from the rice stalk bug, Tibraca limbativentris STAL (Hempitera: Pentatomidae). J. Chem. Ecol., 32, 2749-2761.
- Beale, M.H., Birkett, M.A., Bruce, T.J., Chamberlain, K., Field, L.M., Huttly, A., Martin, J.L., Parker, R., Phillips, A., Pickett, J.A., Prosser, I.M., Shewry, P., Smart, L.E., Wadhams, L.J., Woodcock, C.M. and Zhang, Y. (2006). Aphid alarm pheromone produced by transgenic plants affects aphid and parasitoid behavior. P. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 103, 10509-10513.
- Birkett, M.A., Chamberlain, K., Khan, Z.R., Pickett, J.A., Toshova, T., Wadhams, L.J. and Woodcock, C.M. (2006). Electrophysiological responses of the lepidopterous stemborers Chilo partellus and Busseola fusca to the volatiles from wild and cultivated host plants. J. Chem. Ecol., 32, 2475-2487.
- Nakashima, Y., Birkett, M.A., Pye, B.J. and Powell, W. (2006). Chemically-mediated intraguild predator avoidance by aphid parasitoids: inter-specific variability in sensitivity to semiochemical trails of ladybird predators. J. Chem. Ecol., 32, 1989-1998.
- Birkett, M.A. and Pickett, J.A. (2006). Interrogation of natural signals/biomarkers. State of Science Review SSR8, Foresight: Infectious Diseases: Preparing for the Future. http://www.foresight.gov.uk/Detection_and_Identification_of_Infectious_Diseases/Reports_and_Publications/Final_Reports/Science_Review_Summaries/s8.pdf
- Powell, W., Pell, J., Nakashima, Y., Baverstock, J. and Birkett, M.A. (2006). Functional biodiversity of aphid natural enemies: positive intra-guild interactions. Proceedings IOBC workshop on landscape management for functional biodiversity, Zurich, Switzerland, 16-19 May 2006, 29, 101-104.
- Bailey, R.A., Birkett, M.A., Ingvarsdottir, A., Mordue Luntz, A.J., Mordue, W., Pickett, J.A. and Wadhams, L.J. (2006). The role of semiochemicals in mediating host location and non-host avoidance by copepodid larvae of the parasitic sea louse, Lepeoptheirus salmonis, Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci., 63, 448-456.
- Pettersson, J., Ninkovic. V., Glinwood, R., Al Abassi, S., Birkett, M., Pickett, J. and Wadhams, L.J. (2005). Foraging behaviour of Coccinella septempunctata (L.): volatiles and allelobiosis. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Biological Control of Aphids and Coccids, Tsuruoka, Japan, 25-29 September 2005.
- Nakashima, Y., Birkett, M.A., Powell, W. (2005). Avoidance of intraguild predators by parasitoids: chemical mechanisms, behaviour and field evaluation. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Biological Control of Aphids and Coccids, Tsuruoka, Japan, 25-29 September 2005.
- Pickett, J.A., Birkett, M.A., Bruce, T.J.A., Chamberlain, K., Gordon-Weeks, R., Matthes, M., Moraes, M.C.B., Napier, J., Smart, L.E., Wadhams, L.J. and Woodcock, C.M. (2005). Cis-jasmone as an allelopathic agent through plant defence induction. Proceedings of the Fourth World Congress on Allelopathy, Wagga Wagga, Australia, 21-26 August 2005.
- Pettersson, J., Ninkovic. V., Glinwood, R., Birkett, M. and Pickett, J. (2005). Foraging in a complex environment - semiochemicals support searching behaviour of the seven spot ladybird. European J. Entomol., 102, 365-370.
- Bruce, T.J.A., Birkett, M.A., Blande, J., Hooper, A.M., Martin, J.L., Khambay, B.P.S., Prosser, I., Smart, L.E. and Wadhams, L.J. (2005). Response of economically important aphids to components of Hemizygia petiolata essential oil. Pest Man. Sci., 61, 1115-1121.
- Cruz M.D.S, Vega Robles, M.C., Jespersen, J.B., Kilpinen, O., Birkett, M., Dewhirst, S. and Pickett, J. (2005). Scanning electron microscopy of foreleg tarsal sense organs of the poultry red mite, Dermanyssus gallinae (DeGeer) (Acari:Dermanyssidae) Micron, 36 (5): 415-421.
- Ngumbi, E.N., Ngi-Song., Njagi, E.N.M., Torto, R., Wadhams, L.J., Birkett, M.A., Pickett, J.A., Overholt, W. and Torto, B., (2005). Responses of the stem borer larval endoparasitoid Cotesia flavipes (Hymenoptera:Braconidae) to plant derived synomones: Laboratory and field cage experiments. Biocont.Sci.Tech., 15 (3): 271-279
- Gouinguene, S., Pickett, J.A., Wadhams, L.J., Birkett, M.A. and Turlings, T.C.J. (2005). Antennal electrophysiological responses of three parasitic wasps to caterpillar-induced volatiles from maize (Zea mays mays), cotton (Gossypium herbaceum), and cowpea (Vigna unguiculata). J. Chem. Ecol., 31, 1023-1038.
- Hassanali, A., Khan, Z.R., Birkett, M.A., Chamberlain, K., Hooper, A.M., Mayon, P., Wadhams, L.J., Woodcock, C.M., Khamis, T.M., van den Berg, J. and Toshova, T. (2004). Understanding chemical ecology and long term biotechnological opportunities for management of stem borers and striga in Northern Africa. Proceedings Second Pest Management Conference, 6-9 December 2004.
- Birkett, M.A., Agelopoulos, N., Jensen, K-M.V., Jespersen, J.B., Pickett, J.A., Prijs.H., Thomas, G., Trapman, J.J., Wadhams, L.J., and Woodcock, C.M. (2004). The role of volatile semiochemicals in mediating host location and selection by nuisance and disease-transmitting cattle flies. Med. Vet. Entomol., 18, 313-322.
- Jensen, K-M.V., Jespersen, J.B., Birkett, M.A., Pickett, J.A., Thomas, G., Wadhams, L.J., and Woodcock, C.M. (2004). Variation in the load of the horn fly, Haematobia irritans (L.), (Diptera: Muscidae) in cattle herds is determined by the presence or absence of individual heifers. Med. Vet. Entomol., 18, 275-280.
- Birkett, M.A., Bruce, T.J.A., Martin, J.L., Smart, L.E., Oakley, J., and Wadhams, L.J. (2004). Responses of female Orange wheat blossom midge, Sitodiplosis mosellana, to wheat panacle volatiles. J. Chem. Ecol., 30, 1309-1328.
- Nakashima, Y., Birkett, M.A., Pye, B.J., Pickett, J.A. and Powell, W. (2004). The role of semiochemicals in the avoidance of the seven-spot ladybird, Coccinella septempunctata (Coleoptera; Coccinellidae) by the aphid parasitoid, Aphidius ervi (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). J. Chem. Ecol., 30, 1103-1116.
- Olagbemiro, T.O., Birkett, M.A., Mordue (Luntz), A.J. and Pickett, J.A. (2004) Laboratory and field responses of the pathogen-vectoring mosquito, Culex quinquefasciatus, to plant-derived oviposition pheromone and the oviposition pheromone and the oviposition cue skatole. J. Chem. Ecol., 965-976.
- Goldensaz, S.H., Birkett, M.A., Dewhirst, S.Y., Pickett, J.A.Wadhams, L.J. and McNeil, J.N (2004) Identification of the sex pheromone in the potato aphid, Macrosiphum euphorbiae (Thomas)(Homoptera: Aphididae). J. Chem. Ecol., 819-834.
- Zhou, J.J., Zhang,G., Huang, W., Birkett, M.A., Field, L.M., Pickett, J.A. and Pelosi, P. (2004) Revisiting odorant-binding protein LUSH of Drosophila melanogaster: evidence for odour recognition and discrimination. FEBS Lett., 558, 23-26.
- Birkett, M.A. Towards an organic system for cattle fly control: a push and a pull? 2004. Proceedings Joint BGS/AAB/COR conference "Organic Farming – Science and Practice for Profitable Livestock Production", 20-22 April 2004.
- M.A. Birkett, C.J. Dodds, I.F. Henderson, L.D. Leake, J.A. Pickett, M.J. Selby and P. Watson (2004) Antifeedant compounds from three species of Apiaceae active against the field slug Deroceras reticulatum (Muller). J. Chem. Ecol., 30, 563-576.
- M.A. Birkett and J.A. Pickett (2003). Aphid sex pheromones: from discovery to commercial production. Phytochemistry, 62, 5, 651-656.
- Birkett, M., Chamberlain, K., Guerrieri, E., Pickett, J. A., Wadhams, L. J. and Yasuda, T. (2003) Volatiles from whitefly-infested plants elicit a host-locating response in the parasitoid, Encarsia formosa. J. Chem. Ecol., 29, 1589-1600.
- R. Glinwood, J. Pettersson, E. Ahmed, V. Ninkovic, M. Birkett and J. Pickett (2003) Change in acceptability of barley plants to aphids after exposure to allelochemicals from couch-grass (Elytrigia repens). J. Chem. Ecol., 29, 2, 261-274.
- Mordue (Luntz), A. J., Logan, J., Robertson, S. L., Birkett, M. A., Dewhirst, S. Y., Wadhams, L. J., Pickett, J. A., Mellor, P., Dennison, E. and Mordue, W. (2002). Mating behaviour and the sex pheromone of Culicoides nubeculosus. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. Part A 132, S67-S68.
- O. Kilpinen, T. Steenberg, J.B. Jespersen, M.D.S. Cruz, C. Vega Robles, M.A. Birkett, S. Dewhirst and J. Pickett (2002). Advances in the development of alternative control methods against chicken mites. Proceedings Mange and myiasis in livestock annual meeting, 18-21 September 2002.
- A. Ingvarsdottir, M.A. Birkett, I. Duce, W. Mordue, J.A. Pickett, L.J. Wadhams and A.J. Mordue (Luntz) (2002). Role of semiochemicals in mate location by parasitic sea lice Lepeoptheirus salmonis. J. Chem. Ecol., 28, 10, 2107-2117.
- A.Ingvarsdottir, M.A. Birkett, I. Duce, R. Genna, W. Mordue, J. Pickett, L. Wadhams and A.J. Mordue (Luntz) (2002). Semiochemical strategies for sea lice control: host location cues. Pest Man.Sci., 58, 6, 537-545.
- C. Costantini, M.A. Birkett, G. Gibson, J. Ziesmann, N'F. Sagnon, H.A. Mohammed, M. Coluzzi and J.A. Pickett (2001). Electroantennogram and behavioural responses of the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae to human-specific sweat components. Med. Vet. Entomol.,15, 259-266.
- M.A. Birkett, K. Chamberlain, A.M. Hooper and J.A. Pickett (2001). Does allelopathy offer real promise for practical weed management and for explaining rhizosphere interactions involving higher plants? Plant and Soil, 232, 31-39.
- S. Al Abassi, M.A. Birkett, J. Pettersson, J.A. Pickett, L.J. Wadhams and C.M. Woodcock (2001) Response of the ladybird parasitoid Dinocampus coccinellae to toxic alkaloids from the seven-spot ladybird, Coccinella septempunctata. J. Chem. Ecol., 27, 33-43.
- M.A. Birkett, D.W. Knight, P.B. Little and M.B. Mitchell. A new approach to dihydrobenzofurans and dihydrobenzopyrans (chromans) based on intramolecular trapping by alcohols of benzynes generated from 7-substituted-1-aminobenzotriazoles. Tetrahedron, 2000, 56, 7, 1013-1023.
- M.A. Birkett, C.A.M. Campbell, K. Chamberlain, E. Guerrieri, A.J. Hick, J.L. Martin, M. Matthes, J.A. Napier, Pettersson, J.A. Pickett, G.M. Poppy, E.M. Pow, B.J. Pye, L.E. Smart, G.H. Wadhams, L.J. Wadhams and C.M. Woodcock. (2000). New roles for cis-jasmone as an insect semiochemical and in plant defence against insects. P. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 97: (16) 9329-9334.
- S. Al Abassi, M.A. Birkett, J. Pettersson, J.A. Pickett, L.J. Wadhams and C.M. Woodcock. (2000). Response of the seven-spot ladybird to an aphid alarm pheromone and an alarm pheromone inhibitor is mediated by paired olfactory cells. J. Chem. Ecol., 26, 1765-1771.
- M.A. Birkett, B.P.S. Khambay, J.A. Pickett, L.J. Wadhams and C.M. Woodcock, C. M. (1999). Strategies for developing natural products as crop protection agents employing neurotoxicological and other neurophysiological modes of action. In Progress in neuropharmacology and neurotoxicology of pesticides and drugs (SCI Special Publication No 232) D. J. Beadle, ed, 184-192. Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge.
- T.O. Olagbemiro, M.A. Birkett, J.A. Pickett and A.J. Mordue (Luntz). (1999). Production of the mosquito oviposition pheromone, (5R, 6S)-6-acetoxy-5-hexadecanolide, from the seed oil of the Summer Cypress plant, Kochia scoparia (Chenopodiaceae). J. Agric. Food Chem., 47, 3411-3415.
- L.J. Wadhams, M.A. Birkett, W. Powell and C.M. Woodcock. (1999). Aphids, predators and parasitoids. In Insect-plant interactions and induced plant defence (Novartis Foundation Symposium 223), 60-73. Wiley, Chichester.
- E.M. Pow, J.A. Bennison, M.A. Birkett, M.C. Luszniak, M. Manjunatha, J.A. Pickett, I.S. Segers, L.J. Wadhams, L.R. Wardlow and C.M. Woodcock. (1998). Behavioural responses of western flower thrips (Frankliniella occidentalis) to host plant volatiles. In Proceedings Sixth International Symposium on Thysanoptera, Antalya, Turkey, 27 April-1 May, 1998, 121-128.
- N. Agelopoulos, M.A. Birkett, A.J. Hick, A.M. Hooper, J.A. Pickett, E.M. Pow, L.E. Smart, D.W.M. Smiley, L.J. Wadhams and C.M. Woodcock. (1998). Exploiting semiochemicals in insect control. Pest. Sci., 55, 225-235.
- M.A. Birkett, D.W. Knight, R.G. Giles and M.B. Mitchell (1998). Directed deprotonation of 7-methyl-1-aminobenzotriazole: an approach to ortho-substituted benzyne precursors. J. Chem. Soc. Perkin Trans. 1, 2301-2305.
- S. Al Abassi, M.A. Birkett, J. Pettersson, J.A. Pickett and C.M. Woodcock (1998). Ladybird beetle odour identified and found to be responsible for attraction between adults. Cell. Mol. Life Sci., 54, 876-879.
- M.A. Birkett, D.W. Knight and M.B. Mitchell (1994). N-Iodosuccinimide; a superior reagent for the generation of benzynes from 1-aminobenzotriazoles. Synlett, 253-254.
- M.A. Birkett, D.W. Knight and M.B. Mitchell (1993). A new approach to dihydrobenzofurans by intramolecular trapping of benzynes by hydroxyl functions. Tetrahedron Lett., 34, 6939-6940.
- M.A. Birkett, D.W. Knight and M.B. Mitchell (1993). A new route to ortho-substituted benzyne precursors by deprotonation of 7-methyl-1-aminobenzotriazole derivatives. Tetrahedron Lett., 34, 6935-6938.
- PhD in Synthetic Organic Chemistry (University of Nottingham)
- BSc in Biochemistry and Biological Chemistry (University of Nottingham)


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13 5 / 2014
My Magic Moment: Alec Lisy
My magic moment would have to be watching night come in Magic Kingdom. Seeing the lights turn on and the park transform into a night time wonderland was amazing. Being there with all these great people was wonderful and something I'll always remember.
13 5 / 2014
Wayfinding: Alec Lisy
I think a great example of wayfinding would be the mountain in Animal Kingdom. In a park where the view is mostly obscured by trees the mountain is easily seen from most of the park and is a very iconic looking landmark. It draws in guests to it and acts as a weenie as well.
13 5 / 2014
An excellent example of wayfinding, was Main St. USA and the castle. It directed guests to the center of the park, so there wouldn't be as many traffic jams along the way. They also included sidewalks along the edges which gave guests an area sectioned off from the main walkway down the center of the street. - Megan Kirn
13 5 / 2014
Megan kirn
There were a couple of theming differences between Universal and Disney. The most glaring was the fact that Universal usually went BIG, where Disney was a little more conservative with the themes. The best examples of this were in Islands of Adventure. When you walked into Jurrasic Park, they had…
13 5 / 2014
The most magical moment for me was having the opportunity to be able to see the Magic Kingdom through fresh eyes. All I remember from my trips before were glimpses, and this trip gave me the chance to be able to enjoy the Magic of Disney through adult eyes - Megan Kirn
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Room Selection Updates
Here are some important updates about lottery and room selection, based on some questions we have received!
- Time slots cannot be traded/given to another student if someone will not be using one to select a room.
- You are allowed to house as many students that can fit in an entire suite (Cromwell/Decker) or Apartment.
- For the College Houses and any Townhouse, you can house a total of 6 students.
- In the Townhouses, and only the Townhouses, you are allowed to place students of the opposite gender into a room within the townhouse.
- After selecting a Townhouse, you are brought to the page of which rooms are available. The genders of each room will be indicated as (M) or (F) after the room. For example, if West 1A was female it would show as WST-01A (F).
- It is not required for a student to sign the housing contract right after selecting or being placed into a room. However, there will be a deadline to sign and if students miss this deadline, they will be removed from their assignment.
- Carlton 46, Carlton 60, Pennington 1884, and Pennington 1914 are male and the other College Houses are female.
- The genders of each room in each Townhouse are available in the menu to the right as well as the other singles for the rising sophomores.
Lottery and Room Selection Timeline
Monday, March 3- Rising sophomore room selection
Tuesday, March 4- Rising senior room selection
Wednesday, March 5- Rising junior room selection
Thursday, March 6- All students who received a time slot need to select a room by 4 PM
* A time slot is a randomly generated date and time on which students are eligible to pick a room. Since more applications are received than we can accommodate, not every student receives a time slot. If a student has not received a time slot by the above listed posting dates, that student can place him or herself onto the wait list.