CPYU Trend Alert:
HGH and Teens
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HGH and Teens


Baseball superstar Alex Rodriguez was suspended for an entire year for using them. Cyclist Lance Armstrong had to forfeit seven Tour de France titles for the same reason. And now, countless kids are following suit and dancing with danger by using them in an effort to get ahead. We're talking about performance enhancing substances, drugs, and procedures that include everything from blood doping to steroids to one of the latest and most dangerous substance abuse trends in youth culture. . . human growth hormone (HGH)...
 

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WALT'S BLOG
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Posted by Walt Mueller on 8/13/2014
 
If you ever sat through any of our CPYU training on the power of media, marketing, and music, you know that we refer to culture as both a "map" and a "mirror." Another way we say it is that culture is both "directive" and "reflective." Media tells us how to live in the world. It maps out life for us. This is especially true for impressionable and growing children and teens. As a mirror...

  

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In This Issue

Media Highlights
Notable Album Releases
The Gaslight Anthem Album

Released August 12, 2014 

The Gaslight Anthem - Get Hurt
FKA Twigs - LP1
Sinead O'Connor - I'm Not Bossy, I'm the Boss
Willis Earl Beal - Experiments In Time
Bunji Garlin - Differentology
Caleb Johnson - Testify
Twista - The Dark Horse
Childhood - Lacuna
Billy Thermal - Billy Thermal
Owl John - Owl John
Shawn Mendes - The Shawn Mendes EP
Brian Setzer - Rockabilly Riot! All Original
Tank - Stronger
Kris Allen - Horizons


Top 10: Internet Search Trends
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8/14/2014 

    1. Ferguson
    2. Rush Limbaugh
    3. Tony Stewart Video
    4. Lets Be Cops
    5. Eduardo Campos
    6. Lauren Bacall
    7. Jimmy Fallon Robin Williams
    8. Meteor Shower
    9. Rigor Mortis
    10. Christy Mack Beaten By War Machine
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    FROM THE ARCHIVES:
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    An article by Walt Mueller from 2003. Cheating
     
    I grew up in a neighborhood infested with boys my age. Every day after school, an energetic group of twenty or so of my young peers would converge on a grassy back yard "playing field" or blacktopped driveway to engage in a wild game of whatever sport happened to be in season. Our usual games were football, baseball, and basketball. After what seemed like an eternity of picking teams that were "fair," we'd start to play. It usually only took a couple of minutes or half an inning for the first argument to erupt...

      

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    YOUTH CULTURE HOT QUOTE
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    Emma Green
     
    "People clearly aren't buying the argument conservative sociologists from Robert Putnam to Brad Wilcox have been making for years, that marriage is essential for thriving communities. Society, people seem to think, will be just fine without it."

    - Emma Green, associate editor at The Atlantic, in a column discussing a recent Pew report about Millennials and their attitudes toward marriage, The Atlantic, July 8, 2014.



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