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It’s a shame calamari is relegated to the deep fryer most of the time. Also known as squid, protein-rich calamari boasts a sweet taste and firm texture when prepared properly (overcooked calamari is overly chewy calamari). One 3.5-ounce serving has just 92 calories, 1 gram of fat, 16 grams of protein, and 56% of your daily recommended intake for iron. It’s also brimming with calcium, dishing up 28% of your daily recommendation. Problem is, a typical serving of restaurant-prepared calamari, AKA breaded and fried, can have up to 900 calories, 20 grams of fat and almost 2,000 mg of sodium. That’s HALF of your recommended calories and fat and your ENTIRE sodium quota for the day.

Worry not – you can enjoy all the health benefits of calamari by preparing it yourself – pan-seared with a Thai-inspired sesame-soy peanut sauce. And don’t worry about searching for calamari in a store far, far away – if you can’t find it at the seafood counter, it’ll be in the frozen foods section in most grocery stores nationwide.

Pan-Seared Calamari With Spicy Peanut Sauce
Serves 4

Note: The calamari and sauce are excellent when served over brown rice or angel hair pasta. You can also serve the calamari and sauce with a nice hunk of whole grain bread – excellent for soaking up the extra broth.

3/4 cup reduced-sodium chicken broth
2 tablespoons creamy peanut butter
1 tablespoon reduced-sodium soy sauce
2 teaspoons hot sauce, or more or less to taste
1 teaspoon sesame oil
1 garlic clove, minced
1/4 cayenne pepper
1 1/2 pounds fresh or frozen calamari tubes and tentacles (thawed if frozen)
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
2 teaspoons canola oil
2 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro
2 green onions, chopped

In a small bowl, whisk together the broth, peanut butter, soy sauce, hot sauce, sesame oil, garlic, and cayenne pepper. Set aside.

Cut the calamari tubes into 1/2-inch thick rings (do not cut the tentacles). Pat the calamari dry and season with salt and pepper.

Heat the canola oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the calamari and cook for 1 minute. Add the peanut butter mixture and bring to a simmer. Simmer for 2 minutes, until the calamari is just opaque white (do not overcook). Using a slotted spoon or tongs, remove the calamari from the skillet (leaving the sauce in the pan) and set aside. Cover the calamari with foil to keep warm.

Simmer the sauce in the pan, over medium-high heat, for 3 to 5 more minutes, until the sauce reduces and thickens slightly, stirring constantly. Transfer the sauce to a shallow serving bowl, arrange the calamari on top and top with cilantro and green onions.

Nutrition Info Per Serving
Calories: 249
Total Fat: 10 grams
Saturated Fat: 2 grams
Total Carbohydrate: 9 grams
Sugars: 1 gram
Protein: 30 grams
Sodium: 287 milligrams
Cholesterol: 396 milligrams
Fiber: 1 gram

Robin Miller is a nutritionist, host of Quick Fix Meals, author of “Robin Rescues Dinner” and the busy mom of two active little boys. Her boys and great food are her passion. Check her out at www.robinrescuesdinner.com.

Benedict Cumberbatch has never looked so stinking cute. He’s in his Sherlock outfit, but he’s been turned into a Cabbage Patch doll. It’s everything I can do not to squeeze those adorable little cheeks.

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Look at this kid who seems too happy to be stuck in a machine.

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Look at this kid who seems slightly less happy to be stuck in a machine.

Leonardo DiCaprio gets wild, debauched and very very inappropriate in the first trailer for director Martin Scorsese’s highly anticipated The Wolf of Wall Street — and the good news is he’s not alone.

The actor, who is well known for playing entitled playboys, definitely steps up the outrageous factor in his fifth re-team with Scorsese and what looks like an ode to a mercifully passed 80′s.

DiCaprio, 38, plays Jordan Belfort in the movie, which is itself based on the true story and adapted book by the real life Belfort, who became embroiled in an FBI sting into securities fraud and stock market manipulation as a stockbroker in New York in the 80′s.

He was later jailed for 22 months and penned two bestselling memoirs, The Wolf of Wall Street and Catching the Wolf of Wall Street. Rather quaintly, he is now a motivational speaker.

But back to the trailer.

The opening line gives a measure of what’s ahead with DiCaprio declaring in speak-to-the-camera-Goodfella’s style: “The year I turned 26, I made $49 million, which really p***ed me off because it was just three shy of $1 million a week.”

Cue scenes of yachts, a woman covered in illicit money, an off-the-wall Matthew McConaughey, a very venal Jonah Hill (“you have my money taped to you b***s, technically you do work for me,”) dwarf tossing, more scantily clad women, a very quick glimpse of some cocaine-fest, amid fast moving edits of DiCaprio and Co planning dodgy trading and getting seriously partied up.

Set against a backdrop of Kanye West’s dynamic Black Skinhead from his just leaked Yeezus album, the trailer is vintage Scorsese. And that’s very good indeed.

Adapted by Terence Winter, with a cast that stars DiCaprio, McConaughey, Hill, The Artist‘s Jean Dujardin, Jon Favreau, Kyle Chandler and Rob Reiner, The Wolf of Wall Street hits theaters in the US on November 15.

 

 

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Powers got its start as a single pot still whiskey, but in more recent years its become a simpler blend of pot still spirit and grain whiskey. It’s understandable: Powers is the most popular whiskey in its homeland of Ireland, so they have to make a lot of it.

Now Powers is bringing a pure, single pot still whiskey back. This one is denoted as John’s Lane Release, an homage to the original distillery where Powers was made in the late 1700s and 1800s.

This release is made from a mash of malted and unmalted barley which is then triple distilled in copper pot stills. Aged for 12 years, primarily in ex-Bourbon casks with a touch of whiskey that’s been matured in Oloroso sherry butts, it is bottled at 92 proof.

It’s an outstanding example of Irish, rich and mouth-filling, with a warming, luscious body. The nose is slightly hot, offering hints of honey and cinnamon. The body, however, is far more sophisticated and complex, and not really hot at all. Deep honey notes, vanilla, caramels, and touches of barley. Slightly nutty on the finish, with hints of charcoal and chocolate, too. This is a whiskey that offers tremendous depth, not something you typically associate with Irish, which is often made in a simpler style. Well done, Powers.

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The entire ad industry is close to being outwitted by a Stanford graduate student who volunteers his time to work on tracking policy for Mozilla, the maker of the Firefox web browser.

He may end so called "third party cookie" ad tracking inside that browser.

Mayer, who turned off  tracking cookies in Firefox when talks with advertisers over whether browsers should track users didn't move quickly enough, has now threatened to end those talks altogether.

This comes from the man that the U.S.'s top adtech lobbyist, Randall Rothenberg, once described as "just a volunteer who hangs around the offices" of Mozilla.

That would leave Firefox in a permanent state of blocking advertisers' cookies by default. And it would render years of negotiations pointless.

"There must come a stopping point. There must come a time when we agree to disagree. If we cannot reach consensus by next month, I believe we will have arrived at that time," Mayer wrote in a listserv email to negotiators.

The move might also invite legislation from Congress.

Cookies are the small pieces of tracking software that advertisers drop onto your browser to record what web sites you've looked at. They help advertisers target you better with ads, and they also help web sites handle logins and other basic functions. They're controversial because most people don't know they exist, and because many web sites don't work unless you allow yourself to be tracked.

The entire adtech business favors cookies, with few exceptions.

Currently, Apple's Safari blocks cookies; Microsoft's Internet Explorer 10 signals that its users does not want to be tracked but does not actually block tracking; and Google's Chrome comes with tracking on by default.

Mayer addressed a listserv post to members of the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Tracking Protection Working Group, which is handling cookie policy with advertisers. In the post, he suggested the talks be abandoned if the browser makers and advertisers cannot come to an agreement this month. We've posted the entire message below.

AdExchanger called Mayer's position a "cyanide pill" — although who it will kill is unclear. The news site believes that Congress and the FTC are not sympathetic to advertisers who want tracking on by default in browsers:

The general view is that blunt legislation becomes more likely in the event the W3C can't agree on a tech spec for Do Not Track, and that such legislation would run counter to ad industry interests.

However, advertisers are already lobbying Congress to legislate that consumers by required to choose whether they want cookies blocked or not. Under those proposals, tracking would be on by default and consumers would have to choose to turn them off.

Here's Mayer's call to end the talks:

Colleagues,

We first met to discuss Do Not Track over 2 years ago. We have now held 10 in-person meetings and 78 conference calls. We have exchanged 7,148 emails. And those boggling figures reflect just the official fora.

The group remains at an impasse. We have sharpened issues, and we have made some progress on low-hanging fruit. But we still have not resolved our longstanding key disagreements, including: What information can websites collect, retain, and use? What sorts of user interfaces and defaults are compliant, and can websites ignore noncompliant browsers?

Our Last Call deadline is July 2013. That due date was initially January 2012. Then April 2012. Then June 2012. Then October 2012. We are 18 months behind schedule, with no end in sight.

There must come a stopping point. There must come a time when we agree to disagree. If we cannot reach consensus by next month, I believe we will have arrived at that time.

I would make two proposals for next Wednesday's call. First, that we commit to not punting our July deadline. If we have not attained agreement on Last Call documents, we should wind up the working group. Second, that we begin planning a responsible contingency process for winding up the working group if we miss our deadline.

Let me be clear: I am not proposing that we halt our work. I plan to continue collaborating in good faith right up until our deadline. I remain committed to Do Not Track as a uniform, persistent, easy-to-use, and effective control over collection of a consumer's browsing history. I believe a consensus Do Not Track standard is the best possible outcome for all stakeholders in the web ecosystem. But I also believe prudence dictates some planning for foreseeable alternative outcomes.

Sincerely,

Jonathan

(Speaking only for himself, as usual.)

SEE ALSO: The Man Who Turned Off Cookies In Firefox Doesn't Care If It Hurts Advertisers

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A Texas mom’s carjacker got an unpleasant surprise when he selected the mama bear as a mark, and while Sunday was Father’s Day, this mother was hailed as a hero after her heroic Friday bid to fight off the man threatening her two small kids.

Dorothy Baker is the mom, and a carjacker armed with a knife snuck into her vehicle Friday while she and her 2-year-old and 5-year-old boys shopped at a CVS in Baytown.

But the mom carjacker Ismael Martinez chose to attack was not about to take the situation lying down — and she explains how a scary surprise didn’t staunch her impulse to protect her boys.

Not only did Baker successfully fight off the knife-wielding carjacker hidden in her van, she also then hit him with the car in order to ”stop him so he didn’t hurt anybody else.” Bad. Ass.

ABC quotes Baker after the mom’s carjacker ordeal, and the redhead explains that after she and the kids got back in the van, Martinez ”popped up out of the backseat and said that if I didn’t want my kids to get hurt, that I would do exactly what he said.”

His first big mistake, apparently. Did she attempt to placate the carjacker, do as he said, or go along with it while she considered how to get out alive?

Nah. Baker says:

“I took my fist and I hit him in the face, and I told him to get out of my car.”

The pair sparred, and Baker was both slashed with the knife and bitten, an ordeal that must have not only been frightening for the mom fighting the carjacker, but for the small boys watching.

The mom carjacker victim then got an idea, and she says:

“I thought, ‘If you swerve and hit the pole, he’s not wearing a seatbelt, he’ll go through the windshield or at least hit his head, and you can stop him. You can do something to make sure that he doesn’t hurt your kids.’ That’s all I was thinking of really, was just to get him away from my kids.”

Baker then drove the car into a telephone pole on purpose, causing Martinez to flee — at which time she ran him down. Oops:

“I didn’t mean to run him over … I was just trying to stop him so he didn’t hurt anybody else.”

The mom’s carjacker experience did have a happy ending, and Baker explains that she “told him he messed with the wrong witch.”

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Here is a fun new product from Russian design company Maximovich Design founded by two young designers named Anna and Maxim Maximov.

The object, designed in three different versions and colors, was made to make sure you don’t forget the important things… you know, like your wallet, keys and cellphone. It literally points to the important things, which you place in the circular area, designating them as important.

You can get all three—one for each person in your family to place their important items.

I would totally use one as a banana stand. Bananas are important!

Yes, that is a crazy-eyed cat in a bow tie staring you down on this psychedelic sweater. If you look into his blue eyes long enough they start to follow you across the room. There’s nowhere to hide either because he’s on the front and the back of this polyester sweater. I fear any moment he will start shooting us with lasers. Frickin’ lasers!

See the back of the sweater after the break…

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Dean Hall is focused on launching the PC version of his zombie-infested baby, DayZ, but he's talked with both Sony and Microsoft about the PS4 and Xbox One, too. Nothing's set in stone, but Hall "absolutely" likes Sony's approach to indies; he's turned off by Microsoft's ban on self-publishing and history of charging thousands for game updates.

"Sony lets you self-publish and they don't make you pay for updates," Hall told Eurogamer. "Microsoft requires you to have a publisher. They have no digital distribution strategy and they require you to pay $10,000, or whatever it is, for updates."

Hall mentioned potential console releases for DayZ back in April, and said he'd already met with Sony in particular. Sony was "obviously interested," Hall said, though he didn't mention next-gen at the time.

Last week Hall said that once the PC version is good to go, a PS4 iteration is "definitely" something he'd look at. "But we have to do the PC version first," he said. "Once we get the alpha out, that's a good time for us to run it up on a [PS4] dev kit and see what happens."

Hall isn't counting Xbox One completely out, but he still has some unanswered questions about developing for Microsoft's console: "I like what I saw on the Xbox in a lot of cases as well. I'm not shitting on them. I'm kind of hopeful that Microsoft has just forgot to talk about its indie support. Maybe I'm being a bit naive."

Last we heard, the DayZ alpha was scheduled for June (that's this month) at the earliest.

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It has been reported that Edward Snowden left his girlfriend, Lindsay Mills, when he went to Hong Kong.

But are we sure about that? A tipster sends me evidence that shows that Mills once lived in China for six months, and spoke to a Hong Kong photographer about her desire to visit Hong Kong — the very city, as it happens, where Snowden is now staying as he seeks a country that will give him asylum.

For a while the Internet was fascinated with Edward Snowden’s girlfriend, and it wasn’t hard to see why. BuzzFeed had a compilation of videos and images from her various social media accounts, and the images show her to be attractive and often dressed in skimpy attire:

There are far racier photos at the BuzzFeed piece.

Then there was the video of her pole dancing routine:

Her father, Jonathan Mills, says he doesn’t know where she is:

Mills also said his daughter, Lindsay, who has been dating Snowden for four or five years, is holding on amid the national controversy. Jonathan Mills says he has texted his daughter, but that he did not know where she was.

Mills also said he last saw his daughter two months ago, when she came to visit for a week.

Other news reports indicate that she has gone missing from her Waikiki acrobatic pole dancing troupe.

But buried in the reporting on her social media accounts is a clue to her possible whereabouts. It turns out that she previously lived in China, and spoke of returning there, or possibly to Hong Kong.

The BuzzFeed piece above indicates that Mills’s personal blog, now deleted, was at http://www.lsjourney.com/. The last post she wrote included this passage:

But at the moment all I can feel is alone. And for the first time in my life I feel strong enough to be on my own. Though I never imagined my hand would be so forced.

As I type this on my tear-streaked keyboard I’m reflecting on all the faces that have graced my path. The ones I laughed with. The ones I’ve held. The one I’ve grown to love the most. And the ones I never got to bid adieu. But sometimes life doesn’t afford proper goodbyes. In those unsure endings I find my strength, my true friends, and my heart’s song. A song that I thought had all but died away, when really it was softly singing all along. I don’t know what will happen from here. I don’t know how to feel normal. But I do know that I am loved, by myself and those around me. And no matter where my compass-less vessel will take me, that love will keep me buoyant.

Sounds like she’s headed somewhere, doesn’t it?

“Lsjourney” also had an Instagram account at http://instagram.com/lsjourney/. We know this is hers because she linked it from her Twitter account, which is still active. Here she is on June 10, looking contemplatively at a globe:

.adrift. #blogday #selfportrait #rearportrait I have lost my compass and find myself adrift in a sea… http://t.co/7aoIsUPIdy

— Lsjourney (@lsjourneys) June 10, 2013

And it turns out that Mills, commenting under her Instagram moniker “lsjourney,” had a discussion with a Hong Kong photographer going by the moniker ardisblossom at this image about China:

If you go to the image, you can see the comments on the right. Here are the relevant comments from the exchange:

lsjourney: Where is this? I love that sound

ardisblossom: It’s part of a Buddhist ceremony in a temple in China.

lsjourney: Are you living in China? I love China and miss it.

ardisblossom: sort of, I’m living in Hong kong. Have you been to HK? @lsjourney

lsjourney: I didn’t make it to HK  met some great people from HK when they traveled through China. They preferred HK over China. Kind of sad I didn’t make it there since I wasn’t too far away living just outside of Guilin.

ardisblossom: Guilin is a beautiful place, hong [k]ong is beautiful too but in a very different way. ^^ @lsjourney

lsjourney: Yes it is a beautiful place. I miss it a lot actually. One of the prettiest places I’ve ever lived. Do you go to china often?

ardisblossom: not very often, I wish I could travel more in my own country ^^’ @lsjourney

lsjourney: I wish I could travel more in your country too! Spent 6 months there and fell in love.

Does this mean she is in China or Hong Kong? No. Maybe Snowden went to Hong Kong hoping she would follow.

But if she expressed a love for China and a desire to see Hong Kong, and she is missing, and he is in Hong Kong . . . you can draw your own conclusions.