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SATURDAY, Oct. 22 (HealthDay News) -- While there are challenges, Halloween can still be fun for children with diabetes, an expert says.
"They can enjoy Halloween and enjoy some of the sweets the holiday offers -- within reason," Dr. Kenneth McCormick, a pediatric endocrinologist and senior scientist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Comprehensive Diabetes Center, said in a university news release.
"We give parents and kids three options and let them decide how they want to handle Halloween and the sweets that come with it," he explained.
The first option is to count carbohydrates. A child tracks how many carbohydrates he or she consumes and takes, for example, one unit of insulin for every 15 to 20 grams of carbs.
"This is an easy option for kids on an insulin pump because they can just dial in an extra dose of insulin to compensate for what they are about to eat. But for kids that take shots, this could prove to be more difficult or inconvenient if they have to go to the school nurse for an extra dose," McCormick said.
The second option is to exchange candy for other goodies.
"Parents can trade the child a gift, money or low-carb snack for their candy. Parents also can provide a substitute snack for their child if a Halloween party at school is an issue," McCormick said. "We have been advising parents to do this for many, many years, and it is a solution that continues to work."
The third option is saving Halloween treats for dessert after dinner.
"By incorporating a sugary treat into mealtime, when a child would normally get a dose of insulin, it eliminates the need for adding doses to their regimen," McCormick said.
More information
The Nemours Foundation has more about children and diabetes.
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BRUSSELS ? Tintin came home to Belgium on Saturday for the world premiere of Steven Spielberg's "The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn."
If the proverbial intrepid reporter was more than a cartoon and movie character, he would have been pushing and shoving amid all the other hometown reporters lining the red carpet.
Instead, Tintin and his creator, the late Herge, were the stars of the show, and Belgian Princess Astrid gave the occasion an old-world royal touch amid the movie nobility headed by Spielberg.
The movie is rolling out first across Europe and elsewhere before hitting the United States by the Christmas movie season.
"To highjack Tintin and bring it to America first, and then release it overseas second, would be something that would not have even occurred to us," Spielberg said. "From the outset, the plan was to give Tintin back to the countries where Tintin was the most beloved."
The director has been riding a wave of support from local critics despite opening in a tradition-bound nation ready to pounce on any desecration of its cultural icon by Americans.
"Action adventure and slapstick: Spielberg's Tintin movie has it all," was the headline Saturday in the De Morgen paper.
Spielberg bought the rights to the character in the 1980s ? and three decades of waiting for the result ended with "what they call in the movies, a happy ending," said cartoon and movie expert Hugues Dayez.
And the Belgian government even made Spielberg a Commander in the Order of the Crown.
For Spielberg, a happy ending will mean the movie is such a box office success that a sequel becomes unavoidable. Together with "Lord of the Rings" director Peter Jackson, he will be ready.
"We have chosen the next story. We have a screenplay that is being written right now," Spielberg said, refusing to say which of Herge's two-dozen Tintin books he would take.
The books have sold over 220 million copies around the world.
The first movie tells how Tintin discovers a key to a treasure by accident, then is sent fleeing evil criminals across the world, with the drunken sailor Captain Haddock in tow.
The tough part might be selling to 21st century kids a bygone world where good and evil were so clearly cut and where Jamie Bell's Tintin, enhanced in performance-capture technology, is virtuous without even a whiff of vice. Some critics have called him boring because of it.
Bell, best known for his "Billy Elliot" performances, used his dancing skills in chase scenes to give his Tintin as much a cartoonesque flair as possible.
Yet flaws, or even a girlfriend, are not for Tintin, Spielberg said.
"There is a purity about Tintin," he said. "Tintin is part of a world, I hope, is in some places still with us, and perhaps will come back some day."
Sticking to Herge's 80-year-old legacy was more important than adapting to modern whims, the director said.
"We weren't really interested in using Tintin as a commercial tool to get younger people into a film like this," he said.
Tintin opens in several European nations Wednesday and in South America and Asia on Nov. 10 before hitting U.S. and Canadian movie screens Dec. 21.
"From 'Schrek' to 'Toy Story,' you can name all the animated films that have come out in recent decades that are wholly original and that is exactly how America will receive Tintin," Spielberg said.
The director knows one sure way of finding out whether fans believe he respected the cultural legacy of Tintin.
"When this thing opens, I will just have to see which country I am allowed back in," he said.
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FILE - This file photo provided Oct. 4, 2011, by the Kansas City, Missouri Police Department, shows Lisa Irwin. Police and federal authorities have been searching extensively for Irwin who was 10 months old when her parents reported her missing on Oct. 4, 2011. (AP Photo, Kansas City, Missouri Police Department, File)
FILE - This file photo provided Oct. 4, 2011, by the Kansas City, Missouri Police Department, shows Lisa Irwin. Police and federal authorities have been searching extensively for Irwin who was 10 months old when her parents reported her missing on Oct. 4, 2011. (AP Photo, Kansas City, Missouri Police Department, File)
Investigators search the memorial outside the home of missing baby Lisa Irwin in Kansas City, Mo., Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)
An investigator steps over police lines while searching the home of missing baby Lisa Irwin in Kansas City, Mo., Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)
Investigators carry a ladder into the home of missing baby Lisa Irwin in Kansas City, Mo., Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)
An investigator leaves the home of missing baby Lisa Irwin in Kansas City, Mo., Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) ? An FBI cadaver dog reacted to the scent of a dead person inside the Kansas City home where a baby girl disappeared nearly three weeks ago, and investigators discovered soil in the backyard that had been "recently disturbed or overturned," police said in a court document released Friday.
The affidavit, filed earlier this week in support of a search warrant targeting the family's home, also stated that the girl's mother, Deborah Bradley, "made the statement she did not initially look for her baby behind the house because she 'was afraid of what she might find.'"
Those details and others in the affidavit, publicly released for the first time Friday, led to a daylong search Wednesday of the family's home, where the parents say then-10-month-old Lisa Irwin must have been snatched in the middle of the night as the mother and two other boys slept. Bradley and the baby's father, Jeremy Irwin, reported the girl missing on Oct. 4 and have denied any role in the disappearance while insisting police have pointed the finger at them.
The affidavit stated that an FBI cadaver dog taken into the house Monday indicated a "positive 'hit' for the scent of a deceased human in an area of the floor of Bradley's bedroom near the bed."
The FBI dogs, which often are used at both disaster and crime scenes, are trained "specially to recognize the scent of decaying, decomposing human flesh," retired FBI special agent Jeff Lanza said Friday.
"That can be the scent of an actual body decomposing, or residual scents after the body is no longer there," Lanza said.
Dr. Edward David, a deputy chief medical examiner for the state of Maine and co-author of the "Cadaver Dog Handbook," said that when a body is left in one spot for several hours, cells are left behind. They continue to decompose and create an odor, giving the dog scents to detect.
He said that while trained dogs may fail to detect the smell of human decomposition about 30 percent of the time, they generally don't alert when nothing is there. One exception is when human waste is present.
Joe Tacopina, a New York lawyer hired by a benefactor he has not identified to represent Bradley and Irwin, said the dog could have detected "a dirty diaper or 10 other non-human-remains items."
But granting that cadaver dogs are trained chiefly to detect decomposing flesh, "There's really no scenario where this baby, God forbid she was dead, would have decomposed in that short a period of time," Tacopina told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Friday night.
The court document also indicated police felt they needed handheld digging tools after an investigator noticed dirt in a garden area behind the home appeared to have been "recently disturbed or overturned." During Wednesday's search, investigators could be seen digging behind a shed in the backyard. Among other revelations in the affidavit:
?Officers searched all rooms in the house and the basement after being called to the home Oct. 4. Officers sought evidence but because the parents said the baby had been abducted, the only areas extensively processed for DNA and fingerprints were the baby's bedroom and possible entry points.
?The parents had told police that three cell phones were missing. The affidavit said a phone had since been found in a desk drawer, but that phone wasn't one of those reported missing. The missing phones haven't been found.
?Interviews with people involved in the case revealed "conflicting information for clear direction in the investigation."
Another document released Friday revealed some of what police recovered from the home during Wednesday's search: a comforter and blanket, some clothes, rolls of tape and a tape dispenser. The family's local lawyer, Cynthia Short, did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment on the documents, and police declined to discuss what they found.
But before the affidavit was released, a statement issued by Short's office insisted the parents had no role in the disappearance and disputed claims that the parents aren't cooperating with police. The statement said the parents have consented to "unfettered access" to their property and allowed police to take hair and other samples.
"They have taken all calls from detectives, and answered questions posed again and again," the statement read. "In the initial hours of the investigation, they tolerated accusations, volunteered to take polygraph examinations; continued to work with detectives even after the interviews turned into pointed accusations."
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Associated Press writer Dana Fields contributed to this report.
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LONDON (Reuters) ? Mobile phones do not increase the risk of cancer, according to a large study involving more than 350,000 people by Danish researchers published Friday.
The results, released on the British Medical Journal's website, chime with a series of other studies that have reached similar conclusions.
Scientists from the Institute of Cancer Epidemiology in Copenhagen looked at people aged at least 30 who subscribed to mobile phone contracts and compared their rates of brain tumors with non-subscribers between 1990 and 2007.
Outside experts said the large scale of the trial was impressive.
"This paper supports most other reports which do not find any detrimental effects of phone use under normal exposures," said Malcolm Sperrin, director of Medical Physics at Britain's Royal Berkshire Hospital and Fellow of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine.
At the end of May, the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer decided cellphone use should be classified as "possibly carcinogenic to humans," putting then in the same category as lead, chloroform and coffee.
But just over a month later the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection's committee on epidemiology said the scientific evidence increasingly pointed away from a link between mobile phone use and brain tumors.
The number of mobile phones has risen hugely since the early 1980s, with nearly 5 billion handsets in use today, prompting lengthy debate about their potential link to the main types of brain tumor, glioma and meningioma.
(Reporting by Ben Hirschler; Editing by Hans-Juergen Peters)
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SAN FRANCISCO ? Google co-founder Sergey Brin took a break from his work on the Internet search leader's secret projects to make a surprise appearance at a technology conference Wednesday.
Although he shared few specifics, Brin said remains as busy as he was during a decade-long stint as the company's president of technology. He switched to a stealth role earlier this year as part of a shake-up that ushered in his longtime partner, Larry Page, as Google's CEO. Brin has kept a low profile since the changes.
"I am pretty happy," Brin told the audience at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.
Brin said he spends one day a week in meetings with other executives at Google's Mountain View headquarters. The rest of his time is devoted to a series of "infrastructure and research and development" projects, Brin said. The only one that has become public so far is Google's work on driverless cars, which the company revealed a year ago.
In an interview with reporters after he left the conference stage, Brin said his work on another project might be blended into an existing Google product by the end of the year. "Stay tuned," he said.
Brin applauded Page's performance as CEO, both on stage and in his meeting with reporters. He is one of the few Google employees who worked at the company during Page's first go-round as CEO. Page held the top job in Google's early days before the CEO job was taken over in 2001 by technology veteran Eric Schmidt.
"Larry has done a really good job rallying the company together," Brin told reporters.
Brin also praised Google Plus, which the company introduced nearly four months ago as an alternative to Facebook's popular social network. Plus has gotten off to a fast start with more than 40 million users, but remains far behind Facebook's audience of 800 million people.
That gap could narrow if Plus lives up to the expectations of Brin and Page, both 38, and worth nearly $17 billion apiece, according to Forbes magazine's latest rankings. They believe more people will gravitate to Plus as they realize the service makes it easier than Facebook to sort friendships into different circles and see the additional features Google plans to add during the next few months.
As more pieces are added to the puzzle, Brin believes Plus could become a way to unite Google's expanding array of products.
Besides the search and advertising services that generate most of Google's revenue, the company has become a force in online video with YouTube, in mobile phones with its Android software, in email with Gmail and in Web browsers with Chrome.
"We wanted a thousand flowers to bloom, and once those flowers do bloom, you want to create a coherent bouquet," Brin said.
Plus hasn't been universally embraced within Google. Just last week, Google engineer Steve Yegge mistakenly shared a scathing critique of Plus for everyone to see on the service before he deleted it. By then, the 3,700-word missive had already been passed along by other Plus users. Among other things, Yegge described Plus "as a prime example of our complete failure to understand platforms from the very highest levels of executive leadership" and "a knee-jerk reaction, a study in short-term thinking."
Google didn't fire Yegge because he meant the post to be available only to other company employees. Brin brushed off Yegge's criticism when he was asked about it Wednesday, saying he hasn't bothered reading the whole post because he thought it was too long.
"Sometimes, I use it as a night-time aid," Brin joked.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla?? School administrators hoping to reward students for their A+ fund-raising efforts at a Florida elementary school unwittingly gave them X-rated gifts, officials said.
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School officials at Jay Elementary School in the Panhandle on Wednesday were trying to collect more than 100 bracelets distributed to students involved in a fund-raising drive after pictures of naked women were found hidden beneath the bracelets' cloth coverings.
Known as slap bracelets, the accessories were handed out to about 160 students. One curious child removed the cloth cover to expose the springy, recycled metal measure tape used to give the bracelet its grip.
Along with inches and centimeter marks, the tape included pictures of partially clothed and nude women, Santa Rosa County School District spokesman Bill Emerson said.
"It was one of those calls you get from parents where you say, "Really?" Emerson said. "Then it turns out to be true."
The school district alerted the Nashville-based company that had purchased the bracelets from a Chinese manufacturer, and the company has stopped shipments of the naughty novelties, Emerson said.
Parents have been understanding, he said. The district is continuing efforts to retrieve the indecent prizes but has so far gotten only a handful back.
He said he wouldn't be surprised if some students keep the bracelets. "Curiosity is bound to get the better of some of them," Emerson said.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) ? A landscape painting by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt that had been stolen by the Nazis is expected to fetch more than $25 million when it is sold at auction next month, Sotheby's said on Thursday.
"Litzlberg on the Attersee," which was returned to the heirs of its Austrian owner, will be the main attraction at the November 2 sale of Impressionist and Modern Art in New York.
"Klimt's landscapes are now considered to be one of the great icons of modern art," Simon Shaw, Sotheby's New York head of Impressionist and Modern Art, said in an interview.
"They are one of the most recognizable images and their appeal is truly a global one."
The work gained international attention earlier this year when Austria's Museum der Moderne Salzburg agreed to return the work to George Jorisch, the grandson of its owner. The decision followed a 2002 accord struck with Jewish organizations and the Salzburg city government to return assets stolen by the Nazis.
Jorisch, who now lives in Montreal, is the great-nephew of Austrian iron magnate Viktor Zuckerkandl, who was a great collector of Klimt landscapes. When he died in 1927 the work was inherited by his sister Amalie Redlich, Jorisch's grandmother.
Redlich was deported in 1941 to the Nazi created Lodz ghetto in Poland and never heard from again. Her art collection was seized by the Nazis, sold and ended up in the Austrian museum.
"People love a picture with a story behind it," Shaw said. "It always adds desirability when there is a story behind a painting."
Klimt painted the work in 1915, displaying a dramatic view of the countryside of Lake Attersee in western Austria, where he spent his summers.
"These landscape paintings were very affectionate to Klimt," Shaw said. "He left Vienna and his patrons and would paint these for himself. They were very daring because he explored different techniques that were very radical."
The experimentation Klimt showed in his landscapes makes them some of the most important and influential of his works and among the rarest.
"Few remain in private collections outside Austria which could ever be sold," Shaw explained.
Klimt's "Church in Cassone -- Landscape with Cypresses," sold in February 2010 for $43 million in London, a record for a Klimt landscape.
"It is possible it could go into a great Asian collection," Shaw said about the painting on sale. "It is also possible that it could go into a great European collection. It has a genuine global appeal."
(Reporting by Paula Rogo; Edited by Patricia Renaey)
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WASHINGTON ? The top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee is urging the panel to hold hearings on antitrust and other issues in college sports, including the recent series of conference realignments.
"It has become increasingly clear to me that the combination of issues and challenges facing intercollegiate sports have reached a tipping point calling for congressional attention," Michigan Rep. John Conyers wrote to the committee chairman, Texas Republican Lamar Smith, in a letter released Thursday. The committee said in a statement that it is reviewing Conyers' request.
Several major colleges have recently announced plans to switch conferences, including Syracuse and Pittsburgh from the Big East to the ACC, and Texas A&M from the Big 12 to the Southeastern Conference. The Big East now wants to expand to 12 football teams. Critics have voiced concerns that the shuffling could lead to a handful of 16-team "superconferences" that could break away from the NCAA or dictate looser rules to stay competitive. The moves have raised new questions about the role of money in college sports.
Conyers said in his letter that he was concerned about the impact that conference realignment would have on lower-profile sports teams and smaller and independent universities ? especially historically black colleges and universities.
The NCAA did not immediately return email and telephone messages Thursday, but President Mark Emmert recently told The Associated Press he was concerned about the perception that money is driving the decisions, saying, "this is not the NFL, the NBA, it's not a business." He urged school presidents to consider factors besides revenue when choosing conference affiliation.
Conyers also wants to look into due process for athletes, the NCAA's use of athletes' images in video games without compensation, limitations of athletic scholarships, and the costs to players from injuries sustained during games among other issues.
He said he understood that some committee members might have reservations about delving into these issues.
"I would note, however, that modern-day college athletics is a massive business, with widespread economic impact on athletes, their families, broadcasters, and fans as well as universities and colleges all over the country," Conyers wrote.
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