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Dutch police said yesterday that they were concentrating on finding the father, or fathers, of the infants. The woman was arrested last week, but has not been charged.
Authorities believe the babies were born between 2002 and 2010. Forensic examinations of the remains to determine the cause and dates of death are being carried out.
Police found the bodies after being tipped off by the woman’s neighbour about her suspicious pregnancies. When questioned by police before the search, the woman said she had given birth to three babies but they had all been adopted. However, she was unable to produce evidence of the adoptions.
The woman’s parents are not believed to have known anything of the babies. The house remains sealed off.
A 25-YEAR-OLD Dutch woman has been arrested after the bodies of four infants were found in the attic of her home in a rural town in the Netherlands.
Police searched the woman’s home in Nij Beets in the Friesland province of the country after a tip off from a neighbour. Suspicions had been raised when the woman appeared to be pregnant but then never seemed to have given birth.
Police found four suitcases in the attic of the house the woman shared with her parents. Police immediately identified the bodies of three infants in three of the suitcases; a forth body was later confirmed to be in the remaining suitcase.
It has not been established if the babies were alive when they were born. Police believe that the births took place between 2002 and 2010.
The woman’s parents are not thought to have had any knowledge about the pregnancies or the births.
A Dutch woman who drowned four of her newborn children was jailed and required to undergo psychological treatment in 2006.
The cases echoes that of French woman Dominique Cottrez, who last month confessed to suffocating eight of her newborn babies.
Similarly, the high-profile trials of Frenchwomen Céline Lesage in 2007 and Véronique Courjault in 2010 found that the women had killed their newborns.
The women were suspected of suffering from a psychological illness called pregnancy denial.
THE WOMAN at the centre of the gruesome French infanticide case is reportedly ‘relieved’ that her secret is now out in the open.
Dominique Cottrez, a nursing assistant in her mid-40s, confessed on Wednesday to killing ten of her own children by suffocation, after the new occupants of her old house found their bones in the garden.
Now her lawyer, Frank Berton, says “she doesn’t have to carry this on her conscience any more, and that’s a kind of relief.” He added that she was “tired, worn out and battered down” after facing intensive police questioning.
Cottrez will now undergo psychological tests to determine whether she was fully responsible for her actions, and said he believed that prosecutors may have been “a bit quick” to say she was fully aware of what she had done.
It is believed Cottrez began smothering her children after enduring difficulties delivering one of her two surviving children, but was able to hide her pregnancies in her 20-stone bulk.
Her husband, a local councillor, also claims to have known nothing of his wife’s actions.
Cottrez’s is the third high-profile case of infanticide in France in the last eighteen months, with all three mothers understood to be suffering from ‘pregnancy denial‘.
Cottrez could face charges of voluntary homicide of the babies.
A FRENCH WOMAN arrested yesterday in connection with the discovery of eight dead babies has been charged with their murder. Dominique Cottrez, a nursing assistant in her mid-40s, faces life in prison if found guilty of the deaths.
She is believed to be the mother of the children. French investigators said today that Cottrez confessed to killing the eight and said she had suffocated the babies.
Her husband, also in his mid-40s, has been released without charge, according to Le Figaro. He is a member of the local council and is currently serving his third term. Authorities said he denied any knowledge of the deaths.
The discoveries were made after the new owners of a property in Villers-au-Tertre, near Lille, discovered human bones in their garden and alerted authorities. Police found the remains of two babies hidden around the house and garden.
Police then tracked the previous owners of the property and searched their residence, where they discovered six more corpses. The bodies were wrapped in plastic before being concealed at the two properties.
France has seen other infanticide cases in recent years.
Earlier this year, Celine Lesage was sentenced to 15 years after admitting to killing six of her newborn babies. Their bodies had been found in plastic bags in her basement by her then-partner.
French officials speaking at a press conference today said that Cottrez has not suggested pregnancy denial.
Hailing from Boulder, Quemando is famous for igniting parties. With a fast and fiery horn section, multiple percussion players, sultry vocalists and lots of hip-shaking all around, it’s pretty much impossible to keep your feet planted on the lawn when this 12-piece band rattles the stage.
Quemando returns for the free outdoor show on Friday, Aug. 17, after making its debut at Vail Jazz @ The Riverwalk series last season. Vail Jazz @ The Riverwalk has expanded this summer to bring free live music of many varieties to the outdoor amphitheater in Edwards every Friday evening.
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – A Taiwan’s National Highway Police unit on Thursday helped rush a desperately ill infant from Hualien to National Taiwan University (NTU) Hospital in Taipei by clearing the way for the ambulance carrying the baby, according to a Central News Agency report.
A mother said in a Facebook post on Wednesday that her one-month-old baby was having an emergency medical situation that required her to transfer from Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital to NTU Hospital, a trip which would take an estimated three hours, the report said. She said her baby would be kept in an incubator with life support during the journey, pleading road users to let them pass during the journey, which encompasses traveling on the narrow and winding Suhua Highway.
According to an Apple Daily report, the infant’s grandmother said the infant was born four months premature and weighed only 860 grams. However, the baby’s stomach continued to bulge, and bowel necrosis was suspected, the grandmother added.
Therefore, a private ambulance was arranged to transport the infant from the Hualien hospital to NTU Hospital on Thursday.
National Highway Police said in a post on its Facebook fan page that they were aware of the situation from reading the posts on a Facebook’s social media page and called the mother, telling her that a highway patrol car would clear the way for the ambulance to NTU University as soon as it emerges on National Highway No. 5.
According to the Apple Daily report, the distance between the two hospitals is 175 kilometers, and the trip to transport the baby took 165 minutes, which is about half an hour to one hour sooner than it normally takes.
Facebook has made another public gesture in favor of gender equity.
Following the company's very first logo redesign, the social network is also introducing some new icons. After realizing that the "friends" and "groups" icons were symbolically putting women on the back burner, one designer took the initiative to make some changes.
Caitlin Winner, Facebook's design manager, explained the story behind the icon's redesign, through a post on Medium.
Not long after taking a job at Facebook, Winner "found something in the company glyph kit worth getting upset about." She noticed that the icon depicting a man was symmetrical while the woman glyph literally had a chip on her shoulder, in the area where the man icon would typically be placed in the "friends" icon.
Once she'd realized the chip on the woman's shoulder, Winner took a closer look at the "friends" icon. "As a woman, educated at a women's college, it was hard not to read into the symbolism of the current icon; the woman was quite literally in the shadow of the man, she was not in a position to lean in," Winner wrote.
"My first idea was to draw a double silhouette, two people of equal sizes without a hard line indicating who was in front. Dozens of iterations later, I abandoned this approach after failing to make an icon that didn't look like a two headed mythical beast. I placed the lady, slightly smaller, in front of the man," she explained.
Next up was the "groups" icon which featured two men and one woman, the woman placed in the back behind the larger man in the center. Winner redesigned the icon to place the woman in the middle, in front of the two men.
Winner also gave both the men and women figures a modernized update by changing their hair and sloping the men's shoulders.
This project has inspired Winner to be more cognizant of symbolism and hopes Facebook will continue "to build a platform that is relevant for people from its core features down to the smallest of icons."
Facebook didn't respond to requests for comment.
LaDainian Tomlinson: One last chance?
For LaDainian Tomlinson, it isn’t all about the Benjamins. It is all about the Lombardi.
The Canton-bound running back — perhaps the most exciting and versatile player of his generation — bypassed other offers to sign a contract with the Jets last year. Tomlinson said that he bought into what the Jets were about and where they were going as a franchise and after nine years in San Diego, wanted a chance at the Lombardi Trophy that has eluded him his entire career.
In April of last year, Tomlinson flew out to New Jersey to meet with the Jets. After a sit-down with head coach Rex Ryan, the Pro Bowl running back had dinner that evening with Mark Sanchez.
There is no denying that a Super Bowl win would be the capstone to one of the most complete careers ever by a NFL running back.
Eight times in his career Tomlinson has topped the 1,000 yard rushing plateau and he has had 50 receptions in all but one season. The numbers on the back of his trading card are gaudy, but there is only one thing that fuels Tomlinson at this point in his career — finishing the year with a Super Bowl win. That mentality led Tomlinson to restructure his contract this past August to free up cap space so that the Jets could add Plaxico Burress and re-sign Santonio Holmes.
Tomlinson’s bank account may have taken a hit, but he believes the reward at the end of the season will outweigh the financial hit.
Tomlinson feels that connection with the Jets, from that first dinner with Sanchez where he was convinced to trade thunderbolts for green through the contract renegotiation of this summer to just days before the kickoff of his 11th NFL season. Emblazoned on Tomlinson’s left calf muscle is a tattoo of the Chargers logo, with the dates of 2001-2009 underneath, symbolizing his tenure with the team.
On the right leg, at the same point, is the Jets logo. It was freshly inked last summer and there is a 2009 underneath the logo but no end date. Tomlinson said in early August that he feels like he can play one more season after this year. He won’t specify if it will be in Jets green or not.
There is no denying that Tomlinson returning for at least one more year with the Jets helps bolster what on paper looks like a pretty impressive offense. Consecutive AFC Championship Games have shown that the Jets are among the elite teams in the NFL.
With players like Burress and Holmes at wide receiver, plus the continued development of Sanchez, there is reason for Jets fans to hope that this team can make its first Super Bowl appearance in more than four decades.
But Tomlinson bristles when asked if there is pressure on the Jets to win, and win now.
However, Tomlinson acknowledged that this year is about one thing and one thing only.
Follow Kristian Dyer on Twitter @KristianRDyer for Jets news all season long.
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Nearly all of the 110 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by militants in the town of Dapchi last month have been returned, the government says.
Officials said at least 101 girls were reunited with their families after being brought back to the town.
The girls were later flown to the capital, Abuja, where they were due to meet President Muhammadu Buhari.
One of the freed girls, in a phone conversation with a relative, said the five had been crushed to death as they were herded into vehicles and driven away.
The girl said she and the others were taken into the bush, to an "enclosed place". When asked whether they were well fed, she said they had to cook their own food.
The government did not make any mention of deaths, or otherwise explain the discrepancy between the 110 abducted and the 101 returned.
There were scenes of celebration in Dapchi.
One parent, Kundili Bukar, told the BBC the militants had driven into the town in a motorcade in the early hours of Wednesday morning and surrendered the girls to the community.
Government officials indicated their relief. The government had been strongly criticised after the abduction on 19 February, amid reports that the military had pulled out of Dapchi the day before.
Nigeria had already suffered the Chibok kidnapping, when 276 girls were snatched from a school in April 2014. More than 100 are still missing.
Among those to witness the release of the Dapchi girls were some of the Chibok parents, who had gone to the town to console its residents on their loss.
"Our visit became something else," one of the Chibok mothers told Reuters news agency, adding that the scenes of reunion made her weep for the fate of her own daughter.
And while many parents celebrated, the father of one girl said she was being kept by the militants - thought to be from the Boko Haram group - because she refused to convert from Christianity to Islam. In a radio interview he said he was happy that she had not renounced her faith.
The BBC's Tomi Oladipo says the government is likely to have given something in return for the girls' release.
But Nigeria's Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, told Reuters that "no ransom was paid".
Mr Lai Mohammed said the girls were taken to hospital in Dapchi, and they would be quarantined and offered psychological counselling before going back to school.
However, one parent told the BBC the extremists had warned them not to send their daughters back to school, or they would be kidnapped again.
The return of more than 70 Dapchi schoolgirls indicates that a Boko Haram faction, led by Abu Musab al-Barnawi, is taking a different approach to kidnappings.
Negotiations for the Chibok girls' release proved difficult under Boko Haram's leader Abubakar Shekau. More than 100 of them still remain in captivity.
But despite reports, Wednesday's release did not come free. Boko Haram definitely got something in return for waltzing back into Dapchi and dropping off the girls.
The problem going forward is that this will encourage the IS-linked militants to once again raid another community and abduct another set of people.
The Nigerian government might feel like it has averted the kind of global disrepute that plagued the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan following its poor response to the kidnapping of the Chibok girls.
But this is only a minor PR victory for President Muhammadu Buhari's administration. Boko Haram and its various factions suffered no losses on Wednesday and they will remain a scourge in Nigeria.
Snapchat has always been terrible at analytics, only showing daily Story view counts that content creators had to screenshot just before they disappeared every 24 hours in order to prove their worth to sponsors. But starting today, tens of thousands creators who make official Stories or have large followings will start seeing a slew of view count and demographic analytics on their Snapchat profile.
Total Story Views in the past week, month and year to date.
Time Spent Viewing Stories in minutes in the past week, month, and year to date.
The new analytics could help creators show their total reach to secure sponsored content and product placement deals, refine their posts to match their audience, and compare their following to that on other platforms. A truck company might not care if a creator has 200,000 views a day, but if they can show those views come from men age 25-34 in the Midwest who like the outdoors, the business could pay $50,000 for the creator to feature their trucks in their Snaps.
It appears that Snapchat is changing its ways following CEO Evan Spiegel’s strategy flip-flop on the Q3 2017 earnings call when he said “We have historically neglected the creator community on Snapchat . . . In 2018, we are going to build more distribution and monetization opportunities for these creators.” Snapchat wasted a lot of time, considering I wrote about “Who will be the first Snapchat Stories celebrity?” back in 2013 a week after the feature launched, and creators like Mplatco (whose art is featured above) have been getting paid by brands like Disney since 2014.
Now it’s truly embracing these independent creators for alongside the rollout of the redesign that pulls creators out of the friends’ Story list and puts them with other professional entertainers in the Discover section, but that also for the first time promotes social media stars you don’t already follow. For years Snap refused to help creators get discovered, work with them on feature launches, help them if locked out of their account, or provide monetization opportunities. It only began verifying some with a special emoji on their name last year, and there’s still no revenue sharing options like creators find on YouTube and Facebook.
Creators often had to turn to unofficial third-party analytics providers to get help understanding their audiences. But that could be expensive, provide incomplete data, or require creators to turn over their login details.
By ignoring creators, Snapchat had pushed them to competitors like Instagram and YouTube. But now they’ll have more reasons to keep creating on Snapchat, especially if new monetization opportunities emerge. For example, Twitter eventually acquired social media sponsorship broker Niche so it could support creators and start earning a cut of their deals. [Disclosure: my cousin Darren Lachtman co-founded Niche] Snapchat could similarly get into the sponsorship deal making with big stars, and/or let creators earn a cut of ads that run beside their Stories.
The FBI and other agencies have raised security concerns about the program. Some critics say the Chinese government and other foreign agents could use the program for espionage and other purposes.
Sen. Charles Grassley, in a letter to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, is asking for more information about an internal Homeland Security Investigations memo that suggests the agency has been concerned about potential abuse of the program by Iranian operatives.
The Iowa Republican and others have pressed for information on the visa program while the Senate weighs the nomination of Alejandro Mayorkas, who heads the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service, to become the No. 2 official at the Homeland Security Department.

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