Volume 18, Number 20
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Thursday, June 19, 2014
BHS senior ‘shatters’ beauty myths By Charles Kreutzkamp The Berlin Citizen
“Girls compare themselves to perfect images in the media, and this can lead to eating disorders, depression, and low body image,” said Berlin High School senior Kayleigh Barber, explaining her senior capstone project, a new requirement for graduation this year, replacing the senior portfolio with a student-directed project. Barber created a website, shatteredbeauty.weebly.com, to demonstrate the effects of Photoshopping and airbrushing through a combination of original
The Hero Games were held June 14 at the Berlin fairgrounds. | Charles Kreutzkamp / The Berlin Citizen
By Charles Kreutzkamp The Berlin Citizen
flipped tires, ran an obstacle course, and more at the Berlin fairgrounds June 14 for Police officers, firefight- the first ever Hero Games, a ers, and Average Joe’s gym fundraising competition for members pulled trucks with See Games / Page 5 ropes, climbed over walls, 102143R
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4,” Barber said, “but what I could do was to make the face look flawless and poreless.” Barber said she is concerned about the impact these too-perfect images have on girls’ self-esteem, especially those in middle school who may not be as able to see Photoshopped images with a critical eye. Even worse, according to Barber, are tabloids that take unedited images of celebrities and mock the stars for looking ugly. “Girls might look at these images and say, ‘she looks like me, so I must be ugly, too,’” BarSee Myths / Page 7
Slight changes to Miller sentencing
Hero champs scrape ahead by 2 By Charles Kreutzkamp
photography and images in the media. Barber said she wants people to realize that “the image of perfection shown to us by the media is unattainable.” In this pursuit, Barber downloaded photo editing software and airbrushed images of herself during the software’s one-week evaluation period and created photos “comparable with magazine ads and media commercials,” with tiny facial details obscured into a smooth, featureless complexion. “It was tricky to begin with,” Barber said. “Experts can take a size 10 to a size
The sentence of Michael Miller, former priest at St. Paul Church in Kensington, was modified slightly June 9, as stated on the State of Connecticut Judicial Branch website. According to the New Britain Superior Court Clerk’s Office, court documents indicate the sentence was modified in accord with
Miller’s plea bargain, in which he plead guilty to one count of obscenity, one misdemeanor count of ilMiller legal possession of child pornography in the third-degree (according to Law.Justia.com, a felony in which a
person knowingly possesses fewer than 20 visual depictions of child pornography), and three felony counts of risk of injury to a child. The minor changes include a change in sentencing from 30 months to 898 days in the execution of one of Miller’s consecutive prison sentences, and a change from fully suspended sentence for two of See Sentencing / Page 7
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