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Ever since I stepped into the world of motherhood, I have absolutely lost track of date and time. Morning, noon or night, all means the same to me. Days just come and goes by in a jiffy. Few nights back, as the pages of the calendar flipped from April to May, I suddenly realized that an important date was missed. I double-checked and yes, I definitely missed it.

My Blog Anniversary!

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It was about two and half years back when I started sharing my recipes with the world through my blog Sunshine And Smile. And on 28th of April last year, I gave it a new name – Playful Cooking. You can read about it from here and here.

From then to now, so much has transformed. This blog has improved my cooking ability, made me explore the culinary world in a much more exciting way and also helped me step me into photography. A hobby that started to pass time after quitting job has now become my passion. The blog has not only kept me busy, it also made me more creative and gave me tons of friends. I am forever thankful to my friend Deepa and my husband, Arvind, for motivating me to start the blog and you guys to help me keep it running.

Chocolate Cake Butterscotch Ice Cream | Playful Cooking

I miss sharing recipes as frequently as I used to do in the past. As you can understand, life’s priority has changed and I am hoping some day in future, making more time for my blog would become easier for me.

Every celebration calls for a sweet treat and what I have for you today is perfect for the season. The chocolate cake butterscotch ice cream happened without any plan. It was the result of an ice cream cake that I had prepared for my husband on his birthday. If you know me, you will know that I am not much of an ice cream fan. My husband, on the other hand, can survive on it! Butterscotch is his absolute favorite flavor. So, I baked a thin layer of chocolate cake and topped with home made butter scotch ice cream. After a couple slices, we figured the best way to enjoy it would be to mash it up and relish it as ice cream.

Chocolate Cake Butterscotch Ice Cream | Playful Cooking

Chocolate Cake Butterscotch Ice Cream | Playful Cooking

Chocolate Cake Butterscotch Ice Cream

Chocolate Cake Butterscotch Ice Cream

    for the Chocolate Cake
  • 1/2 cup flour
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1/4 cup cocoa powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 cup milk
  • 1/4 cup warm water
  • 2 teaspoons oil
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 egg
  • for the Butterscotch Ice cream
  • 3 cups heavy cream
  • 6 egg yolks
  • 1-1/2 cup sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 2 cups butterscotch chips

    for the Chocolate Cake
  • Pre-heat the oven to 350F.
  • Whisk all the dry ingredients in a bowl. In a separate bowl, whisk egg with sugar. Add milk, oil and warm water to that and give a whisk. Pour the dry ingredients to wet ingredients bowl and give it a mix. Pour it in a 6-inch round baking pan and bake for 25 minutes.
  • Once the cake is cooled completely, crumble it and keep it aside.
  • for the Butterscotch Ice Cream
  • Whisk egg yolks with sugar until it's smooth.
  • In a saucepan, pour cream and bring it almost boil. Add butterscotch chips and stir until it's all mixed together. Add vanilla extract to the saucepan.
  • Now, pour 1/2 cup of the butterscotch cream mixture to the egg mixture, whisking at the same time. Next pour the egg mixture back to the saucepan containing the butterscotch mixture and give it a stir. Put it back on stove and let it simmer for 5 minutes or until it looks thick like custard.
  • Once done, let it cool completely at room temperature, and then refrigerate it overnight.
  • Finally churn it in the ice cream machine along with the chocolate cake crumble.

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Scrumptious flavors. Belated happy blog anniversary. Totally understand how an infant can change priorities. Enjoy motherhood, every bit of it!

Alanna says:

Happy belated blogiversary! How amazing are these photos?! That ice cream looks and sounds insane.

Angie says:

Chocolate cake in ice cream…what a fabulous idea! It looks scrumptious too.

jehanne says:

this looks decadent, and much needed for a Monday!

Archana says:

Lovely flavor combination! Gorgeous clicks!

Soma says:

Your blog can wait and your readers will definitely wait. As Lali said, enjoy each and every moment now…he will be a grown up before you know. Happy anniversary to Playful cooking.

Abigail says:

I love your photography style! Looks so fresh and inviting.

I love making homemade ice cream and recently i scored some ice cream containers at home goods! they were like $6 and had rubber tops. work amazing!

Kulsum says:

Gorgeous Kankana 🙂 I know everyone said it but time does fly! Enjoy every bit of it xx

usha says:

oh this looks gorgeous and your styling & pictures are mind boggling—well done

cheri says:

Happy Anniversary, your pictures are just amazing, you really are talented. Enjoy your little one!

Kelly says:

What gorgeous photos! That butterscotch ice cream sounds divine, definitely something I will have to try sometime!

Happy blog anniversary, your ice cream looks divine!

Joyti says:

Your new-found busyness is completely understandable (and wonderful!).

The ice cream look delicious. Happy blogoversary!

Gorgeous photos and great ice cream recipe!

Rosa says:

Happy Bloganniversary and to many many more! Gorgeous pictures and wonderful ice cream.

Enjoy your motherhood!

Happy Belated Blog anniversary… Beautiful pictures, delicious recipes. I can see how motherhood has sweetened your recipes even further.Good wishes always. I am sharing a link with you on Twitter:)

Happy Belated Blog Anniversary! Yes priorities have changed but only for the better and I am sure soon you will find a balance and get back to blogging and sharing your wonderful recipes with us. Gorgeous clicks as always Kankana 🙂


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The community, with a population of approximately 60,000, boasts an outstanding Philharmonic Orchestra, an award-winning Public Library, a junior college, a variety of community-based college extension programs, Pilgrim and Children’s Museums, a community Art Guild and permanent gallery, and full recreational programs.

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I wish they would mention that the phony names were cooked up by lazy employees that just wanted to get paid without putting in the work of getting actual registered voters. (They were being paid by the number of voter registrations that were brought in)

It may reinforce another racist/classist stereotype but I think most people can relate to the idea of lazy individuals than to corrupt conspiracies (they again, this is the internet).
They have. It's made no difference in the mind of McCain's "base"

Somehow they left out all the stuff about their offices being raided, the felony arrests, and previous convictions.
First of all a raided office doesn't imply guilt, it implies suspicion.

Secondly it's my understanding that any employees found to be abusing their station and/or committing fraud have been fired. Surely you're not implying that an employee engaging in a criminal act corrupts the entire organization by association.

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Enjoy, do you think ACORN is responsible for the mortgage crisis? I mean... That's really insane.

Also, the idiocy of what Republicans are doing with ACORN has obviously backfired and has been nothing but helpful. You may as well be giving them money every time you whine about them. I am really enjoying (hehe) the absolute destruction of the Republican party. I find it sad that a person like McCain, who led a distinguished career, has so disgracefully and pathetically chosen to bow out of the public sphere with unbelievably petty fear mongering that does nothing but feed on white rural and suburban suspicions of black power and welfare queens.

Meanwhile, moderate conservatives are tearing their hair out and wishing they had their party back.

Fortunately, the election isn't even going to be close.

Closer than it ought to be, thanks to morons like the three star wonder up there.

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A 'tea party' demonstration in Lansing, Mich.

GOP activists and operatives say they hear intense anger at the White House and at the party's own leaders on familiar issues.

In GOP base, a 'rebellion brewing'

A quick tour through the week’s headlines suggests the Republican Party is beginning to come to terms with the last election and that consensus is emerging among GOP elites that the party needs to move away from discordant social issues.

There was Sen. John McCain's daughter and his campaign manager who last week demanded that their fellow Republicans embrace same-sex marriage. Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman – the most devoted modernizer among the party's 2012 hopefuls – won approving words from New York Times columnist Frank Rich for his call to downplay divisive values issues. The party’s top elected leaders in Congress, meanwhile, spooked by being attacked as the “party of no,” were recasting themselves as a constructive, respectful opposition to a popular president.

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But outside Washington, the reality is very different. Rank-and-file Republicans remain, by all indications, staunchly conservative, and they appear to have no desire to moderate their views. GOP activists and operatives say they hear intense anger at the White House and at the party’s own leaders on familiar issues – taxes, homosexuality, and immigration. Within the party, conservative groups have grown stronger absent the emergence of any organized moderate faction.

There is little appetite for compromise on what many see as core issues, and the road to the presidential nomination lies – as always – through a series of states where the conservative base holds sway, and where the anger appears to be, if anything, particularly intense.

"There is a sense of rebellion brewing," said Katon Dawson, the outgoing South Carolina Republican Party chairman, who cited unexpectedly high attendance at anti-tax “tea parties” last week.

That same sense is detectable in New Hampshire, where Union Leader publisher Joseph McQuaid – a stalwart of the base – warned in a column last weekend that the push for same-sex marriage in the state legislature was really about “forcing society to embrace and give positive reinforcement to their lifestyle and agenda in our schools and in every other area of public life imaginable.”

And it is perhaps most tangible in Iowa, where same-sex marriage will become the law this month in response to a state Supreme Court ruling. There, Republican activists and officials say the party is as resolute as ever, if not more so, on cultural issues – regardless of the soundings of some party elites.

Rep. Steve King, an outspoken conservative who represents all of rock-ribbed western Iowa and may run for governor next year, said he had held 11 town hall meetings across the state since the early April state Supreme Court decision.

"Of those 11 meetings, 10 of them were full. Most of them were standing room. The marriage issue was the No. 1 issue on their minds. No. 2 was the massive federal spending taking place. In every discussion, immigration came up."

And these Iowans, King noted, "stand in the same square they always have: They believe marriage is between a man and a woman, and they're opposed to amnesty."

"My e-mail overfloweth," said David Overholtzer, a longtime GOP activist in western Iowa's Pottawattamie County. "Amnesty is still very much a hot-button and gay marriage especially is here in Iowa. The view is that we've got to hold our legislators' and governors' feet to the fire."

"I’ve never seen the grass-roots quite as motivated, concerned and angry," said Steve Scheffler, the head of the Iowa Christian Alliance and the state's RNC committeeman.

The marriage issue and other traditional conservative litmus tests aren't likely to fade before the state's next presidential caucuses, either.

Asked about how a presidential candidate urging the party toward the middle on cultural issues would fare, Scheffler said flatly: “They’re not gonna go anywhere.”

In one sense, Republican leaders face the same challenge their Democratic counterparts did during the Bush years: how to effectively channel the deep emotion of the base while tamping down its excesses.


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The poll was conducted beginning the day Huckabee made his RNC comments.

Poll: Huck leads 2016 GOP hopefuls

In the wake of his “Uncle Sugar” comments at the Republican National Committee Winter Meeting, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee has taken the lead in a hypothetical 2016 Republican primary, according to a new poll.

Huckabee gained 3 points in the past month to top the GOP field at 16 percent, according to a left-leaning Public Policy Polling survey released Wednesday.

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Behind him were former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, at 14 percent; New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, at 13 percent; Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, at 11 percent; and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio tied at 8 percent.

( PHOTOS: Republican 2016 contenders)

Both Christie and Cruz suffered major falls in support in the past month, each losing 6 points since December.

The poll was conducted beginning on the day Huckabee made waves with his RNC comments, which Democrats seized on as evidence of the so-called “war on women.”

“If the Democrats want to insult the women of America by making them believe that they are helpless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing for them a prescription each month for birth control because they cannot control their libido or reproductive system without the help of the government, so be it,” he said.

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Christie’s fall from the lead also comes in the wake of the scandal surrounding his office and lane closures on the George Washington Bridge. Recently released messages show that members of his inner circle may have ordered the closures, which caused major traffic headaches, as political retribution against a mayor that did not support his campaign for reelection. Christie has denied any involvement in or knowledge of the closures.

He has also been accused of withholding Hurricane Sandy funds as political leverage by a local mayor, a charge he denies.

In addition to his fall in the primary, his favorability has plummeted. In a 27 point swing, Christie has gone from a 43 percent to 31 percent favorability last month to a 31 percent to 46 percent unfavorability in Wednesday’s poll.

WATCH: Lawmakers eye 2016)

On the Democratic side, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton continues to dominate the Democratic side, taking in 67 percent support to all other potential candidates’ single digits.

She also leads all her potential Republican challengers in the general election, with a 2 point lead over Christie, Bush and Ryan, a 3 point lead over Huckabee and Paul and a 6 point lead over Cruz.

The PPP surveyed 845 registered voters from Jan. 23 to 26 for its poll, which has an error margin of plus or minus 3.4 percentage points. The 457 Republican sample has an error margin of plus or minus 4.6 percentage points and the 334 Democratic sample has an error margin of plus or minus 5.4 percentage points.

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Democrats, led by Feinstein, are engaged in a war of words with the CIA.

Dems have votes to open CIA report

The Senate Intelligence Committee is poised to send a long-awaited report on the CIA’s interrogation practices to President Barack Obama’s desk for his approval — or redaction.

Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) says she has the votes on the narrowly divided panel to publicly reveal the executive summary and key conclusions of a 6,300-page report on Bush-era interrogation tactics, a move sure to fuel the Senate’s intense dispute with the CIA over how the panel pieced together the study. That vote is likely to happen sometime this week.

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But rather than a strong bipartisan signal from Congress, a vote to unveil the study appears set to divide along party lines because of that dispute.

All of the committee’s Democrats, except Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, said in interviews or through aides that they will bless the public release of the document. Warner has not publicly indicated how he will vote, but he supported approving the final classified report on the same subject in December 2012. The committee has been bickering with the CIA ever since over the report’s accuracy, as well as Feinstein’s insistence that the study’s key findings be released publicly.

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The panel’s swing vote could be freshman Sen. Angus King, an independent from Maine, who has taken a measured approach to revelations over NSA data-mining and the flare-up with the CIA.

“I’m inclined to vote to support [release]. But I still want to think about it,” said King, who caucuses with the Democrats. “I’m going to review the CIA’s response once more. I want to be sure the report is accurate.”

A vote to release the report is not the end of the committee’s work, according to sources familiar with the process and committee rules. The full Senate doesn’t have to approve the report before it hits Obama’s desk for him to review the conclusions. But it’s Obama who will ultimately decide whether the document needs to be further redacted, as the CIA will likely recommend.

Obama says he is “absolutely committed” to releasing the Senate report and has urged the committee to proceed — and Senate Democrats aren’t letting up until details of the CIA’s use of secret prisons and interrogation techniques are in the hands of the public.

( Also on POLITICO: Feinstein-CIA feud in uncharted territory)

“The American people deserve a proper and and accurate accounting of the history, management, operation, and effectiveness of this program,” Intelligence Committee member Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) wrote in a letter to Obama on Thursday. “We can finally correct the record, move past this dark chapter in our history and become a stronger nation for confronting our mistakes.”

Democrats, led by Feinstein, are engaged in a war of words with the CIA over their five-year effort to assemble a comprehensive look at the interrogation of terrorist suspects. Feinstein has leveled explosive charges that the CIA interfered in the panel’s investigation by removing access to an internal review of CIA interrogation techniques, which is believed to contain myriad criticisms of CIA procedure.

The CIA asserts that committee staffers committed wrongdoing by removing that internal review from a CIA facility and storing it on Capitol Hill. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has instructed the Senate sergeant-at-arms to unilaterally investigate and strongly backed Feinstein last week, telling CIA Director John Brennan in a letter it was “absurd” to conclude that Senate staffers could hack into a classified network to acquire the internal document.


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Obama dominates

With Congress scattered for a weeklong recess, President Barack Obama will dominate the day with his trip to Colorado for a speech and high-profile signing of the biggest economic package since the New Deal.

But there are plenty of sideline stories looming, any of which could explode and take over the news cycle.
Good Tuesday morning and welcome to The Huddle, where we’re watching these three stories: Roland Burris trying to get his story straight, Democrats investigating the Bush DOJ, and liberals complaining about the Senate.

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TUNE IN: The signing ceremony is set for 2:40 EST in Aurora, Colo.

MORE BURRIS TROUBLE: Sen. Roland Burris’ troubles are filling the recess news cycle, and that’s bad news for Illinois Democrats. Team coverage from this morning’s Chicago Tribune: “Illinois Atty. Gen. Lisa Madigan led a growing chorus of Democratic officials Monday calling for a deeper investigation of U.S. Sen. Roland Burris' explanation about how he was appointed by now-ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich. Burris has maintained there was nothing inconsistent between his testimony before state lawmakers and a recently filed affidavit outlining more extensive contact with Blagojevich insiders than he had previously disclosed. But Illinois Republicans pressed their call for a perjury investigation by the county prosecutor in Springfield and on Monday, Democrats expressed increasing discomfort over Burris' evolving explanation of efforts to get the seat.”

THE BIG PICTURE: Keep your enemies close, but your Congress closer. That’s the takeaway from the stimulus debate, as The Wall Street Journal’s Jonathan Weisman and Naftali Bendavid report: “President Barack Obama's scheduled signing Tuesday of a $787 billion economic stimulus law culminates three rapid-fire legislative weeks when a new presidential style emerged in Washington: the close integration of the White House and Congress. After two presidencies marked by friction, if not outright hostility, between the White House and Congress, Mr. Obama has shown himself to be senator-in-chief, consulting closely with congressional leaders and committee chairmen at every turn. The approach has already sparked criticism even from some Democrats that Mr. Obama isn't forceful enough in leading the government. Republicans charge that his coziness with Democratic leaders has come at the expense of bipartisanship.”

DRIVING THE DAY: Some House leaders felt like they got rolled in stimulus negotiations, and they don’t want it to happen again. From Politico’s Patrick O’Connor and John Bresnahan: “House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) is pushing Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to take a harder line with the Senate after a trio of Republican senators forced Congress to trim billions from the $787 billion economic stimulus package. It’s not clear how far Pelosi is willing to go in standing up to the Senate — or, realistically, what effect Hoyer and Pelosi combined could have in the face of the 60-vote hurdle Senate Democrats face. But after last week’s stimulus votes, Hoyer called on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to force Senate Republicans to mount actual filibusters if they want to stand in the way of bills “so that the American people can see who’s undermining action.”

LIBERAL REGRET: With House and some Senate liberals feeling like they gave in too much, the left will be much more aggressive on health care and housing, as Alec MacGillis reports in this morning’s Washington Post: “As President Obama prepares to sign a $787 billion economic stimulus package today amid gales of Republican criticism of its cost, he is also facing quieter misgivings from liberal Democrats who say the bill does not go far enough -- and who are already looking ahead to future legislation that they hope will do more. … Some say Obama must aim higher next time, so that compromises produce a more satisfactory result. Some say he needs to take greater control of drafting legislation, instead of leaving it to Democratic congressional leaders, and needs to adopt a harder line with Republican legislators.”

MODERATE POWER: But Roll Call’s Emily Pierce sees the opposite effect in the Senate, where moderates have now laid down the marker and shown that every major bill must run through them: “With the U.S. economy in a downward spiral, the price a handful of Senate Republicans could demand for their votes on future economic recovery plans may become more and more painful for both President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats.”

POPE, POLITICS, PELOSI: From The Hill’s Mike Soraghan: “In a move likely to stoke more controversy about whether Catholic politicians who support abortion rights are in line with the church, Pope Benedict XVI has granted an audience to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The Catholic News Agency confirmed Monday that Pelosi (D-Calif.) is to meet Wednesday with Pope Benedict XVI, who has said supporters of abortion rights should not receive communion.”

PELOSI IN ROME: The AP dispatch Monday from Pelosi’s visit: “The U.S. administration is committed to a "new era of cooperation" with its allies, US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday during a visit to Rome."You can look forward to that new era of cooperation and that possibly will start with Afghanistan," Pelosi told a news conference, adding tongue in cheek: "not necessarily alphabetically." Flanked by her Italian counterpart Gianfranco Fini, the Italian-American Pelosi said: "There is no way that we will establish a policy that then imposes upon others obligations for which they have no consultation."

GILLIBRAND’S GUNS: Now that the world knows where Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand keeps her long guns, she’s moved them. Per Newsday’s Tom Brune: “Given that the location of the guns has been disclosed, they have been moved for security reasons," Gillibrand's spokesman Matt Canter said. She relocated the guns over the weekend while upstate to endorse Democrat Scott Murphy in the March 31 election to replace her in the 20th District, he said. He also said Gillibrand, mother of a 5-year-old and an infant, kept the ammunition separate from the empty guns, and then later called to add that the rifles were locked in a case while stored under the bed. She had refused to describe her gun safety measures.”

INVESTIGATING BUSH DOJ: President Obama may want to look “forward” on national security and justice, but his Democratic colleagues keep finding reasons to look back. As Carrie Johnson reports in today’s Washington Post: “Two Senate Democrats urged the Justice Department yesterday to quickly release its findings of an ethics investigation into legal opinions under President George W. Bush that paved the way for waterboarding prisoners and other harsh interrogation practices. … The 2002 memo, known as the "torture memo," was later withdrawn after successors in the office denounced its analysis as shoddy. … Two sources briefed on a draft of the report said there is a strong likelihood that its findings will be shared with state legal disciplinary authorities, who could launch their own investigation into whether the lawyers who prepared the memos abided by their professional responsibilities.”

TOTTERING DODD? Sen. Chris Dodd is politically vulnerable for the first time since Nixon was president. From Politico’s Josh Kraushaar: “But revelations about a sweetheart mortgage deal from Countrywide Financial and criticism of his tenure as chairman of the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee appear to have dented his popularity, as reflected in a new Quinnipiac poll that suggests the five-term Democrat is highly vulnerable heading into his reelection next year. A 51 percent majority of Connecticut voters said they “definitely” or “probably” won’t be voting for him, with only 42 percent saying they’d likely support him.”

‘CHRISTMAS’ FOR ED DEPT.: The reality of the scope of stimulus spending is just starting to hit the federal bureaucracy. Sam Dillon’s NYT story today is just one example: “The $100 billion in emergency aid for public schools and colleges in the economic stimulus bill could transform Arne Duncan into an exceptional figure in the history of federal education policy: a secretary of education loaded with money and the power to spend large chunks of it as he sees fit. … 'It’ll be wonderful fun for a time for his team — it’ll be like Christmas,' said Chester Finn, a former Department of Education official who has watched education secretaries or commissioners come and go here since the mid-1960s. 'But the thing about discretionary spending is that it makes more people angry than it makes happy.'”

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Soaring vocals can't quite lift the tunes out of mediocrity on Delays' fourth outing.
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US: 29 Jun 2010
UK: 21 Jun 2010

As it was in the ‘90s, the beginning of the new century has seen the United Kingdom harvesting a bounty of promising yet largely generic-sounding guitar bands. These bands are frustrating in that they all have vaguely interchangeable names and images, and would thus remain interchangeable and irrelevant had they not a gimmick or secret weapon. Think the Cribs snagging Johnny Marr, the Wombats sharing their name with a particularly cute mammal and churning out a pretty great cover of Leona Lewis’ “Bleeding Love,” and the Kaiser Chiefs being blessed with the fact that a lot of people really like mediocrity.

Delays may possess the purest, and in turn most frustrating, gimmick of all. Lead singer Greg Gilbert has the most stupefying voice of the scene, and on the band’s fourth release, Star Tiger, Star Ariel, it’s more stunning than ever.  This is particularly evident on opener “Find a Home (New Forest Shaker)”, in which Gilbert unleashes a falsetto that skims the same heights as Sparks’ helium behemoth, Russell Mael. Paired with the song’s twinkling and slightly Eastern-sounding backdrop, the result is somewhat dizzying and wholly bewitching.

The remainder of Star Tiger, Star Ariel never quite tops those opening promises, but it does bristle with harmonic Brit-rock decadence throughout. It is sometimes futile to resist a big, stomping chorus, generic or not. Delays have lent their dedicated ears to Manic Street Preachers’ post-Holy Bible discography and learned well in the process. “Rhapsody”, “Hold Fire”, and first single “Unsung” are delivered from lyrical schmaltziness by sturdy hooks and Gilbert’s endearingly ridiculous falsetto. Other times, not even a triumphant chorus can temper the heavy, in-concentrate syrupy-ness of Star Tiger‘s lyrics. Manic Street Preachers, who Delays have cited directly as an influence, at least have the lyrical heft and maturity to counterbalance their more indulgent forays into the anthem. Delays, with such lines as, “We’re like soldiers in disguise / we’ll run a mission for your smile,” rarely go beyond knight-in-shining-armor ruminations.

When not tugging the heart-strings at an attic-high pitch, Star Tiger, Star Ariel stumbles with speedier yet far less memorable rockers such as “May 45” and “Shanghaied”. Aaron Gilbert, brother of Greg, takes over eight tracks in, with the altogether different “In Brilliant Sunshine”. Although possessing a far more conventional set of vocal chords, his soft, unremarkable voice manages to be the perfect accompaniment for the song, which careens from slow mainstream rock into a subtle rave-out chorus. It is an exhilarating moment and a more worthy closer than the album’s ho-hum title track, which follows four tracks later.

Delays are clearly not without talent, and, four albums in, are showing signs of definite progression from their lovely if innocuous debut, Faded Seaside Glamour. If the Gilberts and company can marry a more intriguing lyrical vision to stronger hooks, then they may have something worth swooning over. If that doesn’t work, there is always the odd pop cover to fall back on.

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30 December 2011

Meryl Streep’s performance as Margaret Thatcher is well honed, but it can’t save this doddering, amateurish spectacle.

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UK theatrical: 6 Jan 2012 (General release)

There are some honest moments in The Iron Lady. They are practically wordless and give us glimpses into a human routine—that of Margaret Thatcher and her current caretakers—that are extraordinarily moving. Unfortunately, these moments come mostly right at the movie’s beginning and conclusion. In between is a film that does nearly all it can to test the patience of the audience and to see exactly how little light it can shed on one of the most important political figures of the 20th century.

As a vehicle for Meryl Streep, a biopic about Margaret Thatcher appears something of a no-brainer. The movie-going public (particularly in the United States) is frequently quite happy to shave off the prickly particulars of a leader’s actual record in order to focus on the grand arc of her personal story. In this case, Streep first appears as Thatcher walking up to the counter in a corner store, rummaging through her purse for coins like any other elderly woman with slowed reflexes and a somewhat tenuous grasp of the modern world.

Back in her kitchen, Thatcher grouses about how expensive the milk is to her chuckling husband Denis (Jim Broadbent, as welcome a sight as ever). They bat a few lines back and forth, ordinary and at ease with one another after decades of marriage. But then reality intrudes, as we see a staffwoman berating the policeman at the front door with an automatic rifle for letting “Mrs. Thatcher” leave the premises. We also learn that Denis has in fact been dead for some time.

The Iron Lady unfolds as a layering of flashbacks, all springing off from Thatcher’s confused, elderly present. It’s an easy way to give the general outlines of her biography without having to build a coherent narrative structure for it. But the way the film jumps with imprecise attention to detail through Thatcher’s early life and rise to power doesn’t provide much dramatic momentum. Director Phyllida Lloyd has done most of her work for the stage, and it shows. The little tricks she uses to jump between time periods are amateurish at best, and having Denis wander through the film like Thatcher’s chorus is the kind of thing that might play well enough on stage, but feels like a cheap device here.

Such gimmicks can’t help Abi Morgan’s dismally thin and overwrought screenplay, which presents Thatcher as the plucky daughter of an equally plucky grocer, who inspired her to believe in personal responsibility and to buck the sexism and classism of the British establishment all the way to the top. That’s it. The only slightly negative shading the film allows us to see of Thatcher is that sometimes her ambition got in the way of her family’s happiness and that her forthrightness could morph quite easily into bullying and hectoring. But for those occasional and dutiful asides, Morgan’s screenplay is more like a political ad for a candidate than a work of fact-based fiction.

Thatcher was a profoundly controversial leader, to put it mildly. Reducing her to this caricature of outspokenness is not just uninformative and uninteresting, but also unfair to her legacy. As the British embodiment of the backlash conservative moment that took hold in the 1970s, Thatcher extolled the tenets of capitalism like they were a religion and made inflexibility her hallmark. When she said, “There is no such thing as society,” she revealed herself to be the harsher, colder, more Ayn Randish style of conservative, as compared to the avuncular character performed by her American counterpart Ronald Reagan.

But in The Iron Lady’s reading of history, Thatcher’s decision to go to war over Argentina’s invasion of the Falkland Islands or her campaign to smash the unions (in particular the National Union of Mineworkers during the early ‘80s) encountered no complications or serious detractors. Instead, the film offers only Thatcher’s courageous and forthright leadership set against an endless succession of sexist old-timers who resist and then complain about her every decision. The film also shows a few IRA bombings, which put Thatcher herself in direct danger more than once (we see the one in her Brighton hotel in 1984), but never explains their contexts. Neither does it consider the backgrounds for the noisy street demonstrations that pop up on occasion. It’s all just there as noise for Thatcher to fight her way through. This is political theater at its most base. Even the pop psychologizing of Oliver Stone’s W is preferable.

Amid the din, Streep’s Thatcher is a woman deeply and rightfully proud of her stubbornness and work ethic (again and again, the movie points to her father’s lessons). She’s the kind of boss who will take an underling’s resignation letter and make edits with a pen while he’s still standing in front of her. As Streep inhabits this monumental figure at various ages, she seems perfectly comfortable in all of them. Unlike the actors in other biopics (J. Edgar comes to mind), she looks convincing under the old-age makeup, and not as though her face had been buried. It’s a well-honed performance in every sense, delivering Thatcher’s steeliness and her self-doubt in the same scene.

Even Streep’s formidable skills, however, are overwhelmed by the movie’s insistent focus on Thatcher’s legacy, here set against various stiff and barely explained historical tableaus so that she can stand tall and heroic. A chamber piece in which Streep and Broadbent simply chatted about Thatcher’s effects over toast and tea would have been just fine, thank you very much.

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by Cynthia Fuchs

24 May 2004

Call it deconstructivist vampirism.
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Kate Beckinsale: I always sound so depressed.
Scott Speedman: Well, you are depressed.
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“Weapons had evolved but our orders remained the same: hunt them down and kill them off, one by one. A most successful campaign, perhaps too successful. For those like me, a death dealer, this signaled the end of an era. Like the weapons of the previous century, we too would become obsolete. Pity, because I lived for it.” As sleek bloodsucker Selene (Kate Beckinsale) laments the passing of her 1000 years of killing lycans (werewolves), you don’t feel very sorry for her. Standing atop an urban rooftop, she scowls and bares her subtle fangs before she leaps many stories to the rainy, black street below.

Grim and gothic, this first scene in Underworld reflects Selene’s inner turmoil. Seething with vague memories of her family’s slaughter by a pack of werewolves, she doesn’t recall that she was turned by an Elder, that is, a pureblood vampire named Viktor (Bill Nighy, whom Beckinsale says she adores every time he appears on screen). Since then, Selene’s been on the hunt, and she’s learned to like it. Beckinsale recalls her stunt work for Underworld: Extended Cut‘s commentary track (also featuring her director/new husband Len Wiseman and Scott Speedman, who plays Michael, the human caught in the middle of this conflict). She notes, “In those heels, I could run but I couldn’t stop, so I always had to have three or four stunt men waiting by the camera to launch myself at.”

Selene’s action scenes are often stunning: Beckinsale hauls ass down a long corridor or engages in wirework (or the stunt person does even more elaborate work). Watching this second coming of Underworld to DVD, Wiseman recalls the difficulties of shooting on a low budget: “All that stress,” he sighs, “because we really didn’t have a chance to resquib things.” When reminded they were in fact given a few extra days to shoot, Beckinsale cracks, “We have to give our firstborn son over, though.”

Wiseman is careful to distinguish that this is an extended cut (not a director’s cut), restoring what was missing from the original film, specifically, about 12 more minutes initially cut for “pacing.” As Speedman and Beckinsale both note, the differences between this cut and the theatrical release are not always obvious, though some are striking: a vampires’ sex scene, a lengthy kiss between Selene and Michael, an extended last battle (with various characters “wandering” about, as Wiseman puts it), and a scene showing Michael in the throes of a horrific collective werewolves’ flashback (which Wiseman, having just mentioned that Speedman has left the commentary booth to audition for an Olsen twins’ project, calls “just showing Speedman dreaming about the Olsen twins”).

Disc Two includes seven featurettes, three new to this “extended” edition. The new documentaries, in addition to the first DVD’s “The “Making of Underworld,” “Creature Effects,” “Stunts,” and “Sights and Sounds,” begin with “The Visual Effects of Underworld,” which demonstrates the intersections of effects and editing, as these blend effects with stunts and close-ups. The crew also discusses their innovative (and relatively on-the-cheap) uses of CGI; miniature work (the car sinking into the river); and morphs of animatronic wolf heads with CGI, men in costumes, and stilts.

For “Designing Underworld,” production designer Bruton Jones discusses his construction of a “consistent history” via locations and those incredible whips during the showdown at film’s end. Wiseman adds that he was “really picky” concerning the famous catsuit, designed by Wendy Partridge. “I’d seen a lot of leather costumes in the past, and if they buckle too much or there’s too many wrinkles, or if it looks too plastic, it can just look trashy. And I think a woman’s shoulders and neck are really sexy and can be really cool, but it has to look just like glass.”

The third new featurette, “The Look of Underworld,” reports on the film’s cinematography and visual aesthetics, with some overlap from the previous DVD’s “technical commentary.” Wiseman’s vision (he’s an artist, and used to make rent by storyboarding) shapes the film, certainly (he uses his graphic novelish cels to pitch his work, and learned after the fact that his wife-to-be took the project because she was impressed by the drawings). Cinematographer Tony Pierce-Roberts recalls that “We had lightning virtually in every scene,” an idea that first seemed overkill to him, but then became part of the “fabric,” since “the only way you can define darkness is by putting highlights into it.”

Such contrasts make Underworld an especially good-looking vampire-werewolf-action film, even if it is over-the-top. During a scene when a couple of werewolves, fighting for the entertainment of their fellows, transform back into human form—as in this version of the legend, they can change at will—the three commentators can’t help but bluster into laughter at the sight, with Speedman gasping, “What to say?”

The entire commentary track is rather like this, full of good memories (the best production they’ve ever been on, even when the Budapest sets were cold) or jokes about vague difficulties (“This was the day you were mean to me, babe,” pouts Beckinsale, endearingly; and when Wiseman suggests she might have been slowing down the day, she declares, “You can slow down your own damn day!” At which point Speedman interjects, “I feel like the child of divorced parents”).

The film’s newfangling of monster legends accelerates everyone—the wolves speed through their from-human transformations with an alarming violence, and the vampires carry automatic weapons filled with liquid silver nitrate bullets that seep into wolves’ bloodstreams as soon as they’re hit, producing dark rivulets of pain pulsing just beneath the skin. Selene’s own story has its own throbbing, mostly forward motion. Sneaking upon a lair somewhere in a subway, she overhears that her sworn enemies are building numbers and strength, and that their leader, Lucian (Michael Sheen), has a plan for destroying the vampires.

She zooms back to the vampires’ hideout, a grand, gated mansion on a hill where it is, apparently, always nighttime. Striding through a parlor room where her compatriots sip blood from wine glasses and smoke cigarettes in holders, she scoffs at their arrogant, effete complacency. When her warning is unheeded even by Head Vampire Kraven (Shane Brolly), preoccupied with an upcoming bloodsucker ritual, she’s really upset.

And so she begins her own investigation and preparation. Looking through surveillance camera footage, Selene notes the reason for the lycans’ current congregating. They’re hunting a specific human (the middle race), the medical intern Michael who will serve, apparently, as a sort of “savior” for both monster races. This initiates a wrenching self-examination on Selene’s part, leading to her discovery of centuries’ worth of betrayals and deceptions. And, as she figures out the bizarre morality of this ancient blood feud, she also—no surprise—falls for the human, who has his own fall to perform. (When the fact that Lucien has bitten Michael is exposed, a vampire hisses, “He’s not a human at all,” whereupon Speedman chimes in on the commentary track: “He’s Canadian!”)

While Underworld occasionally allows its culture and race differences to lapse into literal-seeming feline-canine behavioral differences (or worse, sets up a heavy-handed Romeo and Juliet plot), the political premise—the artifice of race—is intriguing, as the coming together of these races—through miscegenation—is posited as a most terrifying and revolutionary act, thoroughly alarming the Elders who, in their infinite wisdom, regularly turn humans into faux versions of themselves, properly propagandized minions to perpetuate the hate and do the hard work.

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Filtered Wire and Cable200°C wire and cable from TE Connectivity are higher temperature additions to the ElectroLoss Filterline family of EMI-filtering wires and cables for defense and aerospace applications. The 200°C temperature rating, which is higher than competitive cables, allows smaller conductor gauges to be used to reduce weight in weight-sensitive applications. The unique low free-fluorine evolving polymers eliminate the possibility of corrosion to other components when stored in sealed bags as is commonly done in kitting for space applications.

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Effective against conducted EMI, ElectroLoss FilterLine wire and cable systems attenuate high-frequency EMI and allow low-frequency signals to pass with minimum loss. The wire and cables function as low-pass electrical filters, attenuating both conducted and radiated EMI above 100 MHz. The ElectroLoss Filterline family is designed to provide the best EMI protection using either a metallic shield on each wire or an overall metallic shield protecting a bundle of individual component wires. Using EMI-filtered cable reduces costs by eliminating the need for filtered connectors and contacts.

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U.N. Documents Say Iran Nuke Program Continues

Earlier today in Vienna, representatives of the International Atomic Energy Agency presented documents and data to the agency’s 35-nation board indicating that Iran has continued to pursue its nuclear weapons program:

Simon Smith, Britain’s ambassador to the IAEA, said material presented to the IAEA in Vienna came from multiple sources and included designs for a nuclear warhead, plus information on how it would perform and how it would fit onto a missile.

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The material suggested there was “detailed work put into the designing of the warhead, studying how that warhead would perform, how it would be detonated and how it would be fitted to a Shahab-3 missile”.
Another diplomat said an Iranian video depicted mock-ups of a missile re-entry vehicle. An IAEA director suggested the component – which brings missiles back from the stratosphere – was configured in a way that strongly suggests it was meant to carry a nuclear warhead.

Contrary to the notoriously politicized National Intelligence Estimate released by the CIA a few months ago, the U.N. documents “[c]ertainly… went beyond 2003.” They were promptly denounced as “forgeries” by Iran. Meanwhile, the U.N.’s Security Council is expected to vote on new sanctions against Iran in the immediate future.
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