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Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson threw for 3,357 yards and 26 touchdowns this season. / Joe Nicholson, USA TODAY Sports
RENTON, Wash. â?? On a night the New Orleans Saints largely held the Seattle Seahawks' run game in check, Russell Wilson's sterling performance in last month's blowout win delivered a nationally televised message about how far he has come in a short span.
But the man who works more closely with Wilson than anyone at Seahawks headquarters says no one should have been surprised, given how the second-year quarterback has fared on big stages to this point â?? none bigger than last year's playoffs.
"In both those games, he was crystal clear on what he had to do, and he worked throughout the game to solve it," Seahawks quarterbacks coach Carl Smith told USA TODAY Sports this week. "The other Saints game I thought was just routine Russell Wilson."
Wilson completed 22 of 30 passes for 310 yards and three touchdowns without a turnover in that Dec. 2 showdown of NFC front-runners at CenturyLink Field, where the teams will meet again Saturday in a divisional playoff game.
Take away Wilson's 47 rushing yards, freed in part by the Saints' overplay of inside zone-read fakes, and the Seahawks averaged just 2.67 yards on 30 carries. But Wilson was so pinpoint in the passing game it didn't matter much, with the defense also dominating in a 34-7 rout.
"We won the game in a pretty good way," Wilson said. "We kind of clicked on all cylinders."
Smith and teammates point back to a game exactly one year earlier â?? a 23-17 overtime victory Dec. 2, 2012, over the Bears in Chicago â?? as the moment Wilson proved to them he can win games, rather than the Seahawks relying on their elite defense and a solid rushing attack to win with him.
"He played outside his mind," cornerback Richard Sherman said. "He managed the game. He ran it when he had to, he threw great passes when he had to and he drove the ball down the field when he had to for the game-winner. I think that's as clutch as you can get."
A little more than a month later, Wilson helped bring the Seahawks back from 14 points down in a wild-card playoff victory at Washington, then rallied them from a 20-point deficit in the fourth quarter of a divisional playoff game at Atlanta â?? only for the Falcons to drive for a winning field goal.
Those are the games that give Smith confidence in Wilson, who just 20 months ago was a third-round draft pick and apparent long shot for the starting job, throwing eight interceptions in the Seahawks rookie minicamp. Carving up the Saints last month was just confirmation.
"He's terrific at fixing things, whether it's the huddle call or it's his footwork and it's a particular throw or it's a read," Smith said. "He's open book. He's into it. He loves it. He just says what he thinks. I say what I think. He listens. He is definitely coachable.
"He takes not just what I say, but what Coach (Pete) Carroll says, what Coach (Darrell) Bevell says, what (Saints quarterback) Drew Brees tells him. He looks for answers wherever and he takes them and interprets them and tries to incorporate them into his game."
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An undeterred President Barack Obama, heavily criticized for his Administration's support of spectacularly unsuccessful green energy start-ups, told an Illinois audience last week the government should expand its role in helping fund private green projects that wouldn't survive in a free market.
Obama expanded on a topic he'd mentioned in his State of the Union address: the creation of an Energy Security Trust, funded from revenues the Federal government collects on oil and gas leases on Federally owned lands.
Its purpose? To destroy the oil-and-gas economy and replace it with other sources of energy, nearly all of which are still in development.
"So we're making progress, but the only way to really break this cycle of spiking gas prices, the only way to break that cycle for good is to shift our cars entirely — our cars and trucks — off oil," he said.
Crediting "a coalition that includes retired generals and admirals and leading CEOs" with the idea, Obama proposed the fund as an alternative way of subsidizing green projects — one that perhaps might anger the public less than the series of tax-funded venture capital green energy debacles during his Administration.
But why dwell on the past? Obama maintains that green energy is an idea whose time has come, if only it can develop a production and supply infrastructure to rival that of oil and gas. And since the marketplace often rejects green projects for one reason or another (or several), it's the job of government to shoulder the economic risk.
[A]nd, by the way, the private sector on its own will not invest in this research because it's too expensive. It's too risky. They can't afford it in terms of their bottom lines.
So we've got to support it. And we'll all benefit from it, and our kids will benefit from it, and our grandkids will benefit from it. That's who we are. That's been the American story.
Wait, what? The executive branch forcing citizens to support venture capital (without giving us so much as a prospectus) is the American story?
Late last year, The Heritage Foundation compiled a "Green Graveyard," a list of 19 companies that have declared — or were in the process of declaring — bankruptcy since receiving a combined $2.6 billion in government loans and "taxpayer-funded handouts" as part of Obama's stimulus package. The list, it cautioned, will likely continue to grow.


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|The contribution of endothelial cells to hyperacute rejection in xenogeneic perfused working hearts.
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|PMID: 8310518 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE
|The mechanisms leading to the hyperacute rejection of a vascularized xenograft are still incompletely understood. The first stage of the rejection process is when blood of the recipient comes into contact with the endothelium of the xenograft. A working heart model was used to examine endothelium-related processes and their impact on organ function. Pig hearts were perfused with porcine (autologous) or human (xenogeneic) blood. Cardiac function was evaluated by calculating the stroke work index, arteriovenous oxygen, coronary flow, and resistance. PgF1a as a marker of endothelial activation, its antagonist TXB2, and myoglobin reflecting myocardial damage were measured in the hemoperfusate. H&E and PAS staining and immunohistological demonstration of factor VIII-related antigen was performed. Xenogeneic perfused porcine hearts showed significantly less stroke work, a higher arteriovenous oxygen difference, and an increased coronary resistance. Factor VIII-related antigen could not be demonstrated immunohistologically on the endothelium after xenogeneic perfusion. PgF1a levels were significantly higher in the xenogeneic hemoperfusate, indicating endothelial cell activation. The concentration of myoglobin in the hemoperfusate remained within normal values and was similar during autologous and xenogeneic perfusion. Therefore endothelium-related processes are likely to affect the coronary circulation--thus being one mechanism leading to diminished cardiac performance during hyperacute rejection.
|M M Suckfüll; O Pieske; M Müdsam; R Babic; C Hammer
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|Title: Transplantation Volume: 57 ISSN: 0041-1337 ISO Abbreviation: Transplantation Publication Date: 1994 Jan
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|Created Date: 1994-03-16 Completed Date: 1994-03-16 Revised Date: 2004-11-17
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|Nlm Unique ID: 0132144 Medline TA: Transplantation Country: UNITED STATES
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|Languages: eng Pagination: 262-7 Citation Subset: IM
|Institute for Surgical Research, Ludwigs-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany.
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Endothelium, Vascular / physiopathology*
Factor VIII / metabolism
Graft Rejection / physiopathology*
Heart Function Tests
Heart Transplantation / pathology, physiology*
Myoglobin / blood
Prostaglandins F / blood
Thromboxane B2 / blood
Transplantation, Heterologous / immunology*
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|Acute plasma volume change with high intensity sprint exercise.
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|PMID: 23302756 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher
|ABSTRACT: When exercise is of long duration or of moderate to high intensity, a decrease in plasma volume can be observed. This has been noted for both aerobic and resistance exercise but few data are available with regards to high intensity sprint exercise. We measured plasma volume before and following three different bouts of acute exercise, of varying intensity and/or duration. On different days, men (n=12; 21-35 years) performed aerobic cycle exercise (60 min at 70% heart rate reserve) and two different bouts of cycle sprints (five, 60 sec sprints at 100% max wattage obtained during graded exercise testing (GXT); and ten, 15 sec sprints at 200% max wattage obtained during GXT). Blood was collected before and 0, 30, and 60-minutes post-exercise and analyzed for hematocrit and hemoglobin; plasma volume was calculated. Plasma volume decreased significantly for all exercise bouts (p<0.05), with the greatest decrease noted 0 minutes post-exercise for both sprint bouts (∼19%) compared to aerobic exercise bouts (∼11%). By 30 minutes post-exercise, plasma volume approached pre-exercise values. We conclude that acute bouts of exercise, in particular high intensity sprint exercise, significantly decrease plasma volume during the immediate post-exercise period. It is unknown what, if any negative implications these transient changes may have on exercise performance. Strength and conditioning professionals may aim to rehydrate athletes appropriately following high intensity exercise bouts.
|Richard J Bloomer; Tyler M Farney
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One day while browsing the World Wide Web (obviously for work-not just wasting time), I stumbled on the following ad, on the Web site of a magazine, the Economist.
I read these offers one at a time. The first offer-the Internet subscription for $59 seemed reasonable. The second option-the $125 print subscription-seemed a bit expensive, but still reasonable.
But then I read the third option: a print and Internet subscription for $125. I read it twice before my eye ran back to the previous options. Who would want to buy the print option alone, I wondered, when both the Internet and the print subscriptions were offered for the same price? Now, the print- only option may have been a typographical error, but I suspect that the clever people at the Economist's London offices (and they are clever-and quite mischievous in a British sort of way) were actually manipulating me. I am pretty certain that they wanted me to skip the Internet- only option (which they assumed would be my choice, since I was reading the advertisement on the Web) and jump to the more expensive option: Internet and print.
But how could they manipulate me? I suspect it's because the Economist's marketing wizards (and I could just picture them in their school ties and blazers) knew something important about human behavior: humans rarely choose things in absolute terms. We don't have an internal value meter that tells us how much things are worth. Rather, we focus on the relative advantage of one thing over another, and estimate value accordingly. (For instance, we don't know how much a six- cylinder car is worth, but we can assume it's more expensive than the four- cylinder model.)
In the case of the Economist, I may not have known whether the Internet- only subscription at $59 was a better deal than the print- only option at $125. But I certainly knew that the print and-Internet option for $125 was better than the print- only option at $125. In fact, you could reasonably deduce that in the combination package, the Internet subscription is free! "It's a bloody steal-go for it, governor!" I could almost hear them shout from the riverbanks of the Thames. And I have to admit; if I had been inclined to subscribe I probably would have taken the package deal myself. (Later, when I tested the offer on a large number of participants, the vast majority preferred the Internet- and- print deal.)
So what was going on here? Let me start with a fundamental observation: most people don't know what they want unless they see it in context. We don't know what kind of racing bike we want-until we see a champ in the Tour de France ratcheting the gears on a particular model. We don't know what kind of speaker system we like-until we hear a set of speakers that sounds better than the previous one. We don't even know what we want to do with our lives-until we find a relative or a friend who is doing just what we think we should be doing. Everything is relative, and that's the point. Like an airplane pi lot landing in the dark, we want runway lights on either side of us, guiding us to the place where we can touch down our wheels.
In the case of the Economist, the decision between the Internet only and print- only options would take a bit of thinking. Thinking is difficult and sometimes unpleasant. So the Economist's marketers offered us a no-brainer: relative to the print-only option, the print-and-Internet option looks clearly superior.


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For the holiday season, the actors and actresses of FOX's hit series "Glee" are combining their talents and recording a special version of "Do They Know It's Christmas?" by charity musical group Band Aid.
The 1984 hit single was written by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure recognizing the famine in Ethiopia. Now, thanks to "Glee" the song has been recreated with proceeds being donated to the Band Aid Charitable Trust.
Established in 1985, the charity supports poverty, famine and other projects in developing countries.
Excited over "Glee" rerecording his song, Band Aid member Geldof revealed, "The reverberations of this little song continue down the long 26 years since Midge Ure and I wrote it. It could not be more timely now that Glee with its vast global audience of young people re-introduce it to a whole new constituency who are probably unaware of the great tragedy unfolding amongst the hungry, poor and dying of Somalia as a result of drought and a bitter and pointless civil war. This song was made specifically with that intent.
"Band Aid would like to thank from the bottom of its heart all the producers and actors of Glee who have gone beyond their normal brief of entertainment and entered into the spirit and understanding of that recording and its artists 26 years ago and its many subsequent iterations, by opening their website to the topic of poverty and the poor and linking it through to the Band Aid and the One Campaign sites.
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On anthropomorphism in science
(Delivered at The Philosophers' Lunch, 25 September 1985)
I must apologize for not speaking to you, but reading to you. I chose to do so because, not yet feeling quite at home, I am a bit nervous. Of course I can argue to myself that I don't need to, but that does not always work.
I can argue to myself that I grew up in a country whose population is only slightly larger than that of Texas, so why should I feel not at home? I spent most of my life at two universities, one four centuries old, the other a quarter, and if I take the geometric mean of those two ages I arrive precisely at that of UT, so why shouldn't I feel at home here?
Well, actually it is not too bad. I think I am much happier here than I would have been, say, at XXX-XXX where it is possible to lose sight of what it means to be an intellectual. The reason that I am a bit nervous is that I am not quite sure what philosophers do and, hence, somewhat uncertain about my role here.
OK, so much for an irrelevant introduction; it was given to give you the opportunity to adapt your ear to my English.
I chose "anthropomorphism" because - besides being a nice broad topic - it is so pervasive that many of my colleagues don't realize how pernicious
it is.
Let me first relate my experience that drove home how pervasive anthropomorphism is. It took place at one of the monthly meetings of the science section of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, where we were shown a motion picture made through a microscope. Thanks to phase contrast microscopy - the invention for which Zernike got the Nobel Prize - it is now possible to see through the microscope undied cultures of living cells, and that was what they had done while making this motion picture. It showed us - somewhat accelerated - the life of a culture of amoebae. For quite a while we looked at something we had never seen: I can only describe it as identifiable bubbles with irregular changing contours, slowly moving without any pattern through a two-dimensional aquarium. To all intents and purposes it could have been some sort of dynamic wallpaper. It was, in fact, rather boring, looking at those aimlessly moving grey blots, until one of the amoeba in the centre of the screen began to divide. We saw it constrict, we saw in succession all the images familiar from our high-school biology, we saw the centres of the two halves move in opposite directions until they were only connected by a thin thread as they began to pull more frantically at either end of the leash that still connected them. Finally the connection broke and the two swam away from each other at the maximum speed young amoebae can muster.
The fascinating and somewhat frightening observation, however, was that at the moment of the rupture one hundred otherwise respectable scientists gave all a sigh of relief: "at last they had succeeded in freeing themselves from each other." None of us had been able to resist, as the division process went on, the temptation to discern two individuals with which we could identify and of which we felt - more in our bones that in our brains, but that is beside the point - how much they "wanted" to get loose. A whole pattern of human desires had been projected on those blots! Crazy, of course, but such is the pervasive and insidious habit of anthropomorphic thought.
Is anthropomorphic thinking bad? Well, it is certainly no good in the sense that it does not help. Why did the stone fall in Greek antiquity? Quite simply because it wanted to go to the centre of the earth. And, several centuries later, we had the burning question: why do stones want to go to the centre of the earth? Well, that is simple too: because that's where they belong. Why are heavier stones heavier than lighter stones? Because they are more eager to be at the centre of the earth. But then Galileo made the troubling discovery that the heavier stone does not fall any faster than the lighter one. How come? Simple, dear Watson: the heavier stone has indeed a greater desire to be at the centre of the earth, but it is also more lazy. So much for a - be it somewhat simplified - history of the development of physics. I trust you got the message.
So anthropomorphic thinking is no good in the sense that it does not help. But is it also bad? Yes, it is, because even if we can point to some analogy between Man and Thing, the analogy is always negligible in comparison to the differences, and as soon as we allow ourselves to be seduced by the analogy to describe the Thing in anthropomorphic terminology, we immediately lose our control over which human connotations we drag into the picture. And as most of those are totally inadequate, the anthropomorphism becomes more misleading than helpful.
I started as a theoretical physicist, became involved in computing and may end up as a mathematician. It is specifically my connection with computing that has made me allergic, since computing science is cursed by a rampant anthropomorphism.
This has been so right from its inception, and found its way in the public perception of the topic, as is illustrated by the title of the book that Edmund C. Berkeley published in the fifties: "Giant Brains or Machines that Think". The simplest way of showing how preposterous that title is is by pointing at its two companion volumes - still to be written - "Giant Hearts or Machines that Fall in Love" and "Giant Souls or Machines that Believe in God", the most fascinating feature of the latter, of course, being that they can believe in God much faster than you. Regrettably we cannot sweep this nonsense under the rug by saying "Why bother? This is only popular press". It finds its echo in publications that are intended to be serious, such as Grace M.
Hopper's article with the title "The education of a computer.". It also finds its reflection in the multi-billion yen mistake of the Japanese "fifth generation computer project", of which you may have heard. It would have taken care of the Japanese competition; regrettably - for the Western world - they seem to come to their senses, as the larger Japanese companies are pulling out of the efforts aimed at blurring the distinction between Man and Machine.
But the blur continues to linger on, and has a much wider impact than you might suspect. You see, it is not only that the question "Can machines think?" is regularly raised; we can - and should - deal with that by pointing out that it is just as relevant as the equally burning question "Can submarines swim?" A more serious byproduct of the tendency to talk about machines in anthropomorphic terms is the companion phenomenon of talking about people in mechanistic terminology. The critical reading of articles about computer-assisted learning - excuse me: CAL for the intimi - leaves you no option: in the eyes of their authors, the educational process is simply reduced to a caricature, something like the building up of conditional reflexes. For those educationists, Pavlov's dog adequately captures the essence of Mankind - while I can assure you, from intimate observations, that it only captures a minute fraction of what is involved in being a dog-.
The anthropomorphic metaphor is perhaps even more devastating within computing science itself. Its use is almost all-pervading. To give you just an example: entering
a lecture hall at a conference I caught just one sentence and quickly went out again. The sentence started with "When this guy wants to talk to that guy...". The speaker referred to two components of a computer network.
The trouble with the metaphor is, firstly, that it invites you to identify yourself with the computational processes going on in system components and, secondly, that we see ourselves as existing in time. Consequently the use of the metaphor forces one to what we call "operational reasoning", that is reasoning in terms of the computational processes that could take place. From a methodological point of view this is a well-identified and well-documented mistake: it induces a combinatorial explosion of the number of cases to consider and designs thus conceived are as a result full of bugs.
It is possible to base one's reasoning on non-operational semantics and to design for instance one's programs by manipulating one's program text as a formal object in its own right, in one's arguments completely ignoring that these texts also admit the interpretation of executable code. By ignoring the computational processes one saves oneself from the combinatorial explosion. This nonoperational approach is the only known reliable way of digital system design, and enables you to publish for instance in full confidence intricate algorithms you designed but never tested on a machine. The implied abstraction, in which time has disappeared from the picture, is however beyond the computing scientist imbued with
the operational approach that the anthropomorphic metaphor induces. In a very real and tragic sense he has a mental block: his anthropomorphic thinking erects an insurmountable barrier between him and the only effective way in which his work can be done well. By the prevailing anthropomorphism the US, computer industry could easily be done in.
It is not only the industry that suffers, so does the science. Recently, a whole group of computing scientists from all over the world has wasted several years of effort. They had decided to apply to the relationship between a component and its environment a dichotomy: the "obligations" of the environment versus the "responsibilities" of the component. The terminology alone should have been sufficient to make them very suspicious; it did not and they learned the hard way that the whole distinction did not make sense.
Another notion that creeps in as a result of our anthropomorphism is the dichotomy of cause and effect. These terms come from our perception of our intended acts: we wish to pour ourselves a glass of wine, so we pick up the bottle and turn it, thereby causing the wine to flow from the bottle into our glass. Our act of pouring had the desired effect. But in the inanimate world there is little place for such a causal hierarchy. One of Newton's Laws says that force equals mass times acceleration, and there is no point in insisting that the one causes the other or the other way round: they are equal. In the case of a piezo-electric crystal
deformation and voltage difference are accompanying phenomena: if one applies a voltage difference, the crystal changes its shape, if the crystal is deformed, a voltage difference appears (as we all know from the butane cigarette lighter).
In particular the study of distributed computer systems has severely suffered from the vain effort to impose a causal hierarchy on the events that constitute a computational process, thus completely hiding the symmetry between the sending and the receiving of messages, and between input and output.
But even in the so much more abstract world of mathematics this has created havoc. It has caused a preponderance of mathematical structures of the form: "If A then B" or equivalently "A implies B". Take good old Pythagoras
"If, in triangle ABC, angle C is right, then a2+b2=c2".
but we have equally well
"If, in triangle ABC, a2+b2=c2, then angle C is right".
and the proper way of stating Pythagoras's Theorem is by saying that in triangle ABC "a2+b2=c2" and "angle C is right" are equivalent propositions, either both true or both false. Analyzing the structure of traditional mathematical arguments one will discover that the equivalence is the most underexploited logical connective, in contrast to the implication that is used all over the place. The underexploitation of the equivalence, i.e. the failure to exploit inherent symmetries, often lengthens an argument by a factor of 2, 4 or more.
Why then have mathematicians stuck to the implication? Well, because they feel comfortable with it because they associate it - again! - with cause and effect. They will rephrase "If A then B" also as "B because A" or "B follows from A". (The use of the words "because" and "follows" is very revealing!). Somehow, in the implication "if A then B", the antecedent A is associated with the cause and the consequent B with the effect.
One can defend the thesis that traditional mathematics is anthropomorphic in the sense that its proofs reflect the causal hierarchy we discern in our acts, in the same way that traditional logic - for centuries viewed as the handmaiden of philosophy - is anthropomorphic in the sense that it tries to formalize and follow our habits of reasoning.
The advantage of this thesis is that it invites the speculation how mathematics and logic will evolve when they divest themselves from our ingrained human reasoning habits, when the role of formalisms will no longer be to mimic our familiar reasoning patterns but to liberate ourselves from the latter's shackles.
And that is a fascinating question to ponder about!
Austin, 23 September 1985
prof. dr. Edsger W. Dykstra
Department of Computer Sciences
The University of Texas at Austin
AUSTIN, Texas 78712-1188
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New York - IBM announced plans on Wednesday to pump $3-billion into an overhaul of computer chip technology to better meet modern demands of "Big Data" and computing pushed to the Internet "cloud."
The New York-based technology veteran hopes to leave behind the silicon long used in computer chips for a material that could ramp up power while shrinking processors to molecular levels.
Services and programs are increasingly being hosted at data centres in the Internet cloud, and companies are keen to mine and quickly analyse mountains of data available in the Internet age.
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The company said the money will be used over the next five years to beef up research teams in areas including carbon nanoelectronics, silicon photonics, new memory technologies, and architectures for quantum and cognitive computing.
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Clinton Lake (updated 7-5)
Water 79 degrees and 3.72 feet above normal pool. Discharge 1,000 cfs. Channel catfish fair using stinkbait, cut bait, liver, worms over baited areas. Flathead catfish fair in the outlet using sunfish, shad and jigs. Walleye-sauger good using jig and nightcrawler on the flats.
Perry Lake (updated 7-5)
Channel catfish good drifting shad by feeders and by Hog trough. Sauger fair on shad, cranks or twisters along the dam. White bass fair to good off rocky points and rip-rap using twisters or shad-colored crankbaits. White crappie slow on tube jigs or minnows at 8-12 feet.
Leavenworth State Lake (updated 6-26)
Water 82 degrees, clear to 40 inches. Largemouth bass fair while casting white or gray jigs around brushpiles. Some being caught on poppers. Channel catfish fair using chicken liver, stinkbait and nightcrawlers. Walleye slow using minnows off deep rocky points. Crappie good using worms and jigs off piers and brushpiles. Note: All five air lines active. Feeders are working.
Lone Star Lake (updated 6-20)
Largemouth bass good using jigs and spinners. Bluegill fair using worms under bobber. Channel catfish fair using stinkbait, livers and nightcrawlers.
Lake Shawnee (updated 6-20)
Water 80 degrees and clear to 36 inches. Channel catfish fair using chicken livers and worms. Walleye good using jig and nightcrawler on flats. Bluegill fair using worm under bobber. Wiper fair using spinners, jig and nightcrawler and chicken livers. Largemouth bass fair near shore with spinners.
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A nice simple recipe. I also found there was not enough liquid. The second time I made it I only put two cups of flour and just under one cup of milk. The mixture was softer and more moist than original recipe.
I gave it 4 stars.
Very nice & really quick & easy. I did find that I needed to add a bit more liquid.
These muffins were delicious !! I used 2 cups of SR flour instead of 2 1/4 and even though I was prepared to add more milk if needs be, there was no need, it was a moist and easy batter to work with. Other than to lessen the flour the only change I made was to use 1/2 a cup each of dark and white choc chips. The end result is a lovely soft muffin :)
I cooked my muffins for only 20min. They turned out dry. The mixture felt a bit play doughy when just mixed, slid straight off the spoon in one blob when dropping into muffin cases. Maybe that's the vege oil. I will try a different recipe next time.
muffins were beautiful and moist I cut the recipe down to2 cups of flour and next time I will put in a whole cup of choc bits oh and icooked mine for 20 minutes will definitely be making these again
Muffins quite dry.
I am glad I didn't read the reviews ( normally I do) before baking these delicious muffins, otherwise I may not have baked them. The only thing I changed was by adding a couple of tablespoons of natural yoghurt to the egg/milk mixture. The texture was lighter than other muffins I have made. Off now to bake some more..... This time I will decrease the flour to 2 cups.
The vinegar wasn't very nice but I really liked the rest. It's a great recipe.
Super easy recipe, and the muffins looked great when they came out of the oven. Unfortunately, they are extremely dry and quite bland! My boyfriend who normally eats everything even threw his out :( Wish I'd read the reviews before I made them - don't bother!!!
After reading the comments, adjusted recipe to 2 cups SR flour, substituted buttermilk for regular milk left the rest extant. Turned out beautifully. I dont expect the batch to last the night, very popular in our house.
This is not a good recipe. Don't make it
Really wish I'd read others comments as I made these late last night for my daughter to take to school for her birthday, double recipe!! They were just awful, so dry and my daughter said "it's ok mum they're not tooo bad" but I couldn't bear her to take them and threw the whole lot out, then paid the canteen lady to bake 30 more, disappointing.
I love it yum
I read the other comments about the muffins being too dry, so I added 2 cups flour (instead of 2 1/4) and increased the milk to 1 cup (instead of 2/3 cup) and the oil to 1 cup also (instead of 1/2 cup). They turned out moist enough, but not too moist. They're fairly light. I prefer a more dense muffin, but they're yummy overall and really simple!
Ha, ha, and after a few failures with chocolate muffin recipes, I'm not even game to try this recipe. Thanks for an honest appraisal AngryBaker!
really easy and very tasty
Dear Katrina, here I was on my 3 month anniversary with my lovely girlfriend and we thought "hey! Let's make some delicious muffins". Unfortunately, after following this recipe as perfectly as we could, the mix, like others have said before in the comments, was dry. Thank you for ruining an otherwise fantastic day with your woeful excuse for a muffin recipe. Regards, Angry.
This recipe is way too dry. I added another egg and maybe 1/2 cup more milk. As I usually do with choc-chip recipes I halved the sugar and doubled the choc chips. Super easy recipe. Great end result.
Raided the pantry cupboards to make this, using a little extra oil (I used light olive oil cos was out of veg oil); the 2 eggs I used were king-size free-range; I didn't have caster sugar so used normal white sugar; & I only had enough choc bits to put on top (not in the mixture). They turned out very nicely - very light & fluffy & not too sweet or overly chocolatey. This is a recipe I'll do again, with or without improvising.
PS: I didn't have any Vanilla extract or essence left so left that out altogether.
Thanks for wasting the cost of the ingredients for this. They were dry and inedible and I had to throw them out. This is the last recipe in the world for muffins that you should try.
Not super sweet like most, but I don't think it's a ad thing. Very easy, my two year old helped make them.
Loved this recipe. I used white choc chips. Was a big hit with the family -- will make again!!
not very soft and fluffy
Not much flavour.
really i thought it was really nice
Lovely, will definitely make again.
I followed the recipe exactly and they were perfect, really delicious. Nice texture and taste. Will definitely be making them again!
This is a fail safe easy recipe
The mixture was way too dry. They don't have very much flavour either. Sorry but won't be using this recipe again.
It's easy to make. The first time I made it, it was dry. I added some butter in my next attempt and it turned out fine.
Having a midnight craving for easy delicious choc muffins, I made a half batch of these. After reading the comments, I reduced the flour to a cup, the oil to 1/3 cup, the sugar to 1/3 cup; and increased the milk to just under 1/2 cup. In addition, to compensate for apparent lack of moisture, I added 2 tsps of honey. Also I thought baking these for 25 mins would definitely dry them out, so I left them in for 20 instead. I was very satisfied.with the moist texture and strong chocolate flavour. However I practically overhauled the recipe, so really.it's up to you to decide how you want to make it. ;)
I made this twice, once with coco and once without and both times came out a bit too dry. It still tasted nice but it's more a biscuit mixture than a muffin one.
The most delicious chocolate muffins. Used 1 cup white flour and 1 cup wholemeal flour and halved the sugar to make them a little more healthy. Would definitely make again
I loved these, but substituted half butter for the oil quantity. I could still taste some oil, I think next time I might substitute more oil for butter. The mix was a little dry so I added a dash more milk. As per the recommendation in the comments, I added a pinch of salt. I also finished off with a generous sprinkle of 100s & 1000s. Yum! Quick and very easy.
Very simple yummy recipe, I only used 2 cups S/R Flour & 3/4 cup of sugar and it was great.
Tasted absolutely AMAZING instead of the 3/4 cup dark chocolate, i did 1/2 cup white chocolate, 1/2 cup milk chocolate and 1/2 cup dark chocolate. tasted GREAT!
This is my new go-to chocolate muffin recipe. I like to add white choc chip instead of dark to give a colour contrast. I made one batch in the mini muffin tin and it made 58 muffins. The muffins were quite moist i thought, but i didn't have them in for the full 25 mins suggested.
Very tasty but used melted butter instead of oil. Forgot to add salt this time around but used cinnamon, mixed spice and ginger anyway. Uncooked batter tasted like chocolate gingerbread so can't wait to try the finished product. Also halved mixture this time due to not enough self raising flour.
Needs a little more moisture or less baking time - made Texas muffins with this mix and a little "cakey" for my taste.
These were yum! I used a little extra milk as the mixture seemed slightly dry, and as per others, I added some salt. Went down a treat with the family.
Like this easy recipe. I added some toasted walnuts and used only 3/4 cup sugar. Yum!
wow amazing my family loved this i have made it at least 3 times.
I would use good quality dark chocolate chips in this recipe, it wasnt too sweet which I prefer, but can become dry if left in the oven too long.
I also halved the recipe to make mini versions. I used melted butter blend instead of oil. I didn't have chocolate chips but added a few tablespoons of dessicated coconut. Helped my chocolate craving.b
What a difference a pinch of salt makes! My first attempt at muffins as I'm not much of a baker. But this recipe appealed to me as there's not too many gadgets or washing up involved. I halved everything to make 12 mini muffins and baked for 13 mins. Second batch I added a pinch of salt and they were 10 times better. I also used a mix of white Choc and milk Choc chips and was generous with them. Delicious with a tall glass of icy cold milk :-)
I found these to be a bit bland...not oily...but dont have the buttery taste Im used to ......I think next time Ill substitute butter for the oil...I did use sunflower oil and brown sugar...if that is the reason for the blandness...otherwise texture was fine...muffin like...not stoggy.
Lovely taste and easy to produce. However, next time I think I may add a pinch of salt just to give it a little more flavour.
Really easy and tastes great, not at all floury. I halved everything (although I did put nearly the whole amount of choc chips in!) and cooked them in silicone mini cupcake moulds for about 14 minutes. My 2 year old was able to help and they were nice and chocolatey without being too sweet. Loved by all and would be really easy to add to/change. Next time I'll do a whole batch and add walnuts, could also leave out the cocoa and add semi dried apricots to the 'vanilla' base - so many options!
This recipe is amazing ! Made it with my mom yesterday and it was perfect. It turned out what we expect. Thanks for the recipe.
Yum! :) Very easy to make - and they taste delicious!
Awful. Dry and floury tasting. been a while since I've been asked to use cocoa powder for chocolate taste instead of melted choc and boy does it make a difference. With the 100s of wonderful other muffin and choc recipes here, really would give this a miss.
Very delicious !!! Will defiantly make them again I made mini muffins with this recipe and still worked out fab !! Just cook mini ones for about 12 mins
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