FDA Delays Rolling Out New Nutrition Facts Label

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The U.S. Food & Drug Administration on Tuesday delayed indefinitely implementation of a new nutrition facts label that would enlarge calorie counts, itemize added sugar and bring serving sizes in line with actual average portions.

The rule, which had been championed by former first lady Michelle Obama, had been scheduled to go into effect on July 26, 2018.

In a statement on its website, the FDA said additional time would “provide manufacturers covered by the rule with the necessary guidance from FDA.”

The agency did not say how much additional time companies would be given, or when it would announce the time frame, saying only it would make an announcement “at a later time.”

Big food lobbying groups have been pushing for months to delay the roll-out. Last month the FDA delayed by a year a rule requiring restaurants and retailers to display food calorie counts, extending the deadline for compliance from May 5, 2017 to May 7, 2018.

President Donald Trump has pledged to cut FDA regulations across the board. Other regulations the FDA could revisit include the so-called tobacco “deeming” regulations which give the FDA the authority to regulate e-cigarettes.

 

(Reporting by Caroline Humer, Toni Clarke and Chris Prentice; Editing by Richard Chang and Marguerita Choy)

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Patton Oswalt Hits The Red Carpet With Meredith Salenger

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Patton Oswalt is beginning to move on.

The comedian joined actress Meredith Salenger on the red carpet Wednesday night in Los Angeles for the premiere of “Baby Driver.”

He and the actress held hands and posed for photos outside the Ace Hotel.  

Salenger, who is a Harvard grad, starred in 1985’s “The Journey of Natty Gann,” with other credits including “Lake Placid” and “Hollywood Heights.”

She shared a sweet photo on social media earlier this week about being “super in love.”

The comedian’s wife, crime writer Michelle McNamera, died suddenly in April 2016 from a combination of prescription medications and an undiagnosed heart problem. He has been candid about the difficulty of coping with her death

“I’ll never be at 100 percent again, but that won’t stop me from living this,” the comedian shared late last year.

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Spider-Man by Sphero offers interactive games with plenty of snark

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Daniel Radcliffe's New Movie Trailer Has A Very 'Harry Potter' Moment

Harry Potter is headed back into the Forbidden Forest.

To date, Daniel Radcliffe has taken a number of roles that have distanced himself from the blockbuster “Harry Potter” franchise, including playing a farting corpse in “Swiss Army Man.” The actor’s new trailer for “Jungle” seems to be doing the same — at first.

The movie, based on author Yossi Ghinsberg’s book Jungle: A Harrowing True Story of Survival in the Amazon, tells a tale of hikers struggling to survive after getting stranded in the jungle. Radcliffe plays Ghinsberg, who survived for three weeks alone in the Amazon.

It’s powerful stuff.

But if you thought this would distance Radcliffe from “Potter,” you can kiss that idea goodbye.

In between intense scenes of the hikers facing threats from humans and nature, we get a moment where Radcliffe appears to be shirtless and locked in a kiss. 

It’s hard to miss the similarities between that and another infamous kiss scene from Radcliffe’s career:

Look, Radcliffe is allowed to be shirtless and kiss anyone he wants, but did no one notice how similar the “Jungle” scene is to Harry and Hermione’s kiss in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”? 

In both scenes, the characters are shirtless and snogging each other’s faces off in what appear to be dreamy visions. In “Harry Potter,” the vision was caused by the locket Horcrux. “Jungle” gives us a lot quick scenes which appear to be hallucinations, and from the way the background is blurred in the kissing scene, it seem like that could be one as well. Ghinsberg has said he hallucinated a woman while stranded in the Amazon in real life.

Plus, “Harry Potter” had the actors surrounded by a silvery mist, and the “Jungle” scene at least looks like the actors are surrounded by fire.

Radcliffe can have confidence that the rest of the movie looks incredibly different than “Harry Potter,” but for this scene it’s “mischief managed.” 

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Otto Warmbier, U.S. Student Freed From North Korea, Has 'Severe' Neurological Injury

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CINCINNATI, June 15 (Reuters) – An American university student, who was detained for 17 months in North Korea and had fallen into a coma during that time, has a “severe” neurological injury, a hospital official said on Thursday.

Otto Warmbier, 22, is stable and receiving treatment at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, center spokeswoman Kelly Martin said at a news briefing at Warmbier’s high school in Wyoming, Ohio.

Warmbier, a University of Virginia student, was “brutalized and terrorized” by the North Korean regime, his father Fred Warmbier said at the news conference.

He added that the family did not believe North Korea’s story, that their son had fallen into a coma after contracting botulism and being given a sleeping pill.

“”We don’t believe anything they (North Korea) say,” Fred Warmbier said.

Otto Warmbier was sentenced in March 2016 to 15 years of hard labor for trying to steal an item with a propaganda slogan, according to North Korean media.

(Reporting by Timothy Mclaughlin in Chicago; Additional reporting by Jon Herskovitz in Austin, Texas; Editing by Bernadette Baum)

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This Papercraft Penguin Assembles Itself When Dropped

The Penguin Bomb is a DIY origami sculpture that arrives as a flat package, but when you drop it on a hard surface, it turns itself into a fat little penguin. Hence the name.

This cleverly-designed toy was created by paper artist Haruki Nakamura. Just drop it on a table, and it forms itself as it bounces up in an almost playful way, as if it is saying hello.

Sadly, this penguin is only available in Japan, but if you’re feeling skilled with an X-acto and construction paper, you might be able to approximate the design shown in the how-to video:

There’s also an awesome wooden model shown in the video below:

[via Rocketnews24 via Laughing Squid]