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Show DAILY A6 Child porn Continued from A I a security consultant with Sophos PLC in London. Austrian authorities said an employee of a Vienna-base- d service approached his national Interior Ministry last July with word that he had noticed the pornographic material during a routine scan. The videos showed "the worst kind of child sexual abuse," said Austrian Interior Internet Minister Guenther Platter, citing the rape and sexual abuse of girls and boys younger than 14. At times the children could be heard screaming. Lead investigator Harald Gremel said the videos were online for at most a day before they were discovered. The Austrian Internet service employee blocked access to the videos while recording the computer addresses of people who tried to download the material, and gave the details to authorities. Within 24 hours, investigators recorded more than 8,000 hits from 2,361 computer addresses in 77 countries around the world, including the United Stales, according to Gremel. In another sign of the ring's international tentacles, Gremel said investigators believe the videos were shot in Eastern Europe and uploaded to the Web from Britain. A link to the videos was posted on a Russian Web site, which is no longer in operation, and hosted on a server in Austria. Some of the material was free, but the Russian site charged $89 for access for a "members only" section, Gremel said. Why did finding this take what would seem a lucky break by network administrator? Because everything traversing the borderless Internet looks the same while in transit. Whether it's a mundane or videos as insidious as this, all traffic gets splintered into packets of data that don't they contain. iden-tifyVh- HERALD Thursday, Dangers of unrealistic body images ideals KateMcNeil DAILY Media & Body Image Disturbance HERALD iversity communications professor has studied the relationship between media ' Of frequent readers of beauty and fashion magazines (2-- 3 times a month): 1 66 percent have used laxatives in trfe past month Steve Thomsen has one thing to say to Barbie: "Hasta la vista." The Brigham Young Un- I 73 percent have used diet pills in the past month I 71 percent have vomited after eating in the past month I 66 percent restrict their daily calorie intake to 1,200 . and eating disorders for 11 years and has strong feelings about the Mattel mogul's measurements 36, 18, 33 to be exact. "To be perfect is now normal," Thomsen said in a lecture as part of BYUs Body Acceptance week, hosted by Women's Services. "And to be normal is to strive for perfection but fail." Scanning through images of rail thin models, Thomsen spoke to BYU women about how magazines and TV can distort their view of beauty. "We've created this narrow calories Source: Dr. Steve Thomsen, study of females at two Salt Lake high schools definition of physical beauty," he said. "And we've linked that to success." It's a success, Thomsen said, that no girl should try to attain. The average woman, he said, is 5 feet 4 inches and 141 pounds. Whereas the average model is 5 feet 9 inches and only 110 pounds. Prevalent in magazines and TV is an abhorrence of larger llASTMDAYS Sfef prance women. Thomsen mentioned the experiment by ABC's John Stossel in which kindergart-ner- s were shown pictures of fat and thin women. When Stossel asked who was "happy," the 5- - and pointed to the thin woman. When asked who they "would not play with," they chose the larger woman. Thomsen said the media becomes a teenager's "socializing agent." Typical socializing agents include friends, family and religion, groups that help identify our norms and values. When media take over, what is "normal" is distorted. More Loser Continued from Al specifically, thinness becomes the "gold standard." In his studies, Thomsen uses devices to study where girls' eyes wander when they look at a fashion advertisement. In a Guess ad- vertisement, a subject locked her eyes on the model's mid section, where her shirt had been lifted to expose rock-har- d abs. Later she admitted to having insecurities about her own stomach. Thomsen also studied local high school volleyball players' reactions to fitness magazines. The girls were asked to rate whether the photos projected beauty or fitness. One photo, of a thin blond woman lifting weights, caught most girls' attention. "She's perfect," one subject responded. "And people just expect you to look like that." Our own "expectations" of others' appearance can also be detrimental to a teen's body image. When people compliment others for "looking good" after losing weight, we reinforce the idea that only thin people look "good," Thomsen said. g worse when I'm heavier." Randy Clouse, 54, of Ameri-- . can Fork said he wants to lose 70 pounds. 1 "In the fifth grade I was the smallest kid, including the girls," he said. "I was 127 pounds when I graduated from high school. I got over that." After having a stroke four years ago, he got serious about his health, he said, noting he has been working out at the fitness center three to four times a week for several months, even before finding out about the contest. Robynn Kirkham of Pleasant Grove said she joined to lose 35 pounds. Working out at the fitness center over the past year helped her lose the weight from having a baby Effie Kitchen, 40, of Amerifive months ago. "I have tried every diet pill can Fork said her goal is to lose 66 pounds. Her battle with and every diet program and weight began after having nothing has worked," she said. "The reason is because I don't four kids. "I want to be on a team know how to eat. I've never had good exercising or eatthat keeps me focused on my ultimate goal," she said. "I will ing habits. And I'm passing the same bad habits onto my stay competitive to the end." Jason Izatt, 36, of American kids and I don't want them to Fork said he signed up with the struggle like I have." She is counting on the group goal of losing 50 pounds. "I was actually an athlete in dynamic to help motivate her, she said. high school and college," he "I'll have a group pushing said, noting a car accident in 1993 left him with an injured me on and encouraging me to back. His weight gain was fur- make my goals, where it has ther exacerbated by long hours just been me alone," she said. "This will change my life over at work. "Me and the vending mathe next four months." chine got to be pretty good I Caleb Warnock can be friends," he said. 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