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A heartwarming story about a pug and her best friend, the boy wearing glasses, is a hilarious journey for parents and children.

WWE Presents 35 Years of WrestleMania! Celebrate 35 years of explosive WrestleMania action! Relive the most exciting matches, celebrity appearances, and controversies in WWE''s "Showcase of the Immortals." "Welcome to the greatest sports entertainment spectacular of all time. Welcome, to WrestleMania." Vince McMahon. "Looking out at over 80,000 people at WrestleMania, there are no words to describe it. I can''t believe I am here." Charlotte Flair. "There''s just something special about WrestleMania." John Cena. TM & © 2019 WWE. All Rights Reserved.

WOOOOOO! Are you ready for this, WWE Universe? For the first time ever, WWE''s illustrious father-daughter duo "Nature Boy" Ric Flair and Charlotte come together to tell their legendary story. Ric Flair is a 16-time World Champion and two-time WWE Hall of Fame Inductee. His four-decades long career is recognized as one of the greatest of all time, but with success comes a price. Despite his effortless brilliance in front of the cameras, his life away from the cameras includes personal struggles, controversy and family tragedy. Through his bond with Charlotte, he''s becoming the father he needs to be while rediscovering the legend he has always been. Charlotte grew up in the shadow of her famous father, "the dirtiest player in the game," but now she is poised to take the Flair name to new heights. As the inaugural WWE Women''s Champion, Charlotte has had an impressive career, and she''s just getting started. With the (dare we say it) flair of the "Nature Boy" running through her blood, Charlotte is destined for greatness. Find out how she embraced her heritage and battled her own challenges through her rise to the top of WWE. For these two Champions, sports entertainment is simply SECOND NATURE.

In the early 21st century, the industrialization of creativity is a defining framework of economic and creative life in the global market. It drives policies and decisions in national and local governments, in workplace and educational administrative departments, in communities and in the private creative lives of individuals. The creative economy is based on GDP as an indicator of economic wellbeing and of individual and group welfare. However, harnessing creativity to meet such metric goals necessitates a constrained, fragmented and prescriptive conception of creativity that seemed, in practice, to have paradoxically negative effects on both creativity and wellbeing. In response, the work in this dissertation suggests a conception of creativity that accounts for the intrinsic and reciprocal relationship between creativity and human-centred quality of life. It also reveals specific weaknesses in the objective metric model. Trans-disciplinary research identifies salient intersections between wellbeing and creativity and leads to a proposed systems model of Subjective Creative Wellbeing (SCWB). The permeable subsystems of the model attempt to account for interdependent psychophysiological and socio-environmental forces, states, and behaviours that occur in and facilitate SCWB. The framework assumes that creative domains are analogous to cultures; thus both individuals and creative domains can be positioned as the self-system of the model. Findings suggest that the contingent assemblage of economics-politics-technology-creativity aligned with neoliberal creative and knowledge economies is detrimental the temporal, physical, social, motivational, and self-regulatory subsystems of the SCWB model, thereby contributing to dysfunction in the self-system. The model and associated research can better inform policy and institutional decision-making, and can assist in advocating for, fostering, and facilitating the creative wellbeing of individuals, cultures and creative domains.

Parenting behaviors have long been understood to play a key role in youth development across middle childhood and adolescence. However, questions remain regarding changes in parenting behavior profiles throughout these developmental periods as parents respond to the changing developmental needs of their children, and how these profiles are associated with parent, child, and contextual factors. Additionally, a further understanding of how these factors impact stability and/or change in parenting profiles over time is needed. To address these gaps, the current dissertation investigated stability and change in parenting behaviors during childhood and adolescence. Person-centered analyses were used to identify classes of caregivers who differed in frequency and quality of parenting behaviors across three time points (child ages 10-12, 12-14, and 16; Times 1, 2, and 3, respectively). Cross-sectional differences between classes on a number of parent, child, and contextual variables also were examined. Stability and transitions among parenting classes then were explored, and caregiver depression, youth temperamental positive mood, caregiver stress, and family relationship variables were examined as predictors of stability and transition among classes. Results revealed the presence of a Positive Parenting class at each time point. A Low Warmth/Low Communication class was observed at Time 1 only, and a Poor Supervision class was seen at Times 1 and 2. Additionally, an Adequate Parenting class and Consistent Discipline Only class were seen at Times 2 and 3. Classes differed on a number of variables, including caregiver depression, youth temperamental positive mood, youth externalizing behavior problems, and youth marijuana and hard drug use. Latent transition analyses revealed stability across each time point within the Positive Communication class, and within the Adequate Parenting class from Time 2 to Time 3. Transitions to other classes were consistent with developmentally expected changes in caregiver supervision and caregiver-child communication. Finally, child temperamental mood was the only significant predictor of transition between parenting classes, and only from Time 1 to Time 2. Results indicate that the quality and quantity of parenting behaviors differ depending on the age and related developmental stage of the child, and identified classes differ in terms of a number of child, caregiver, and broader contextual factors. These parenting behaviors and associated factors may be potential targets for enhanced and developmentally sensitive prevention and intervention efforts.

Celebrate 30 Years of WrestleMania with this comprehensive look back at the biggest annual event in sports-entertainment! 30 Years of WrestleMania provides in-depth coverage of WWE''s WrestleMania from its inception to the current day. Relive each exciting match with detailed information, exclusive interviews, never-before-seen shots, and much more! *Stunning Visuals *In-depth Discussion of each WrestleMania Event *Exclusive Interviews with Superstars, Divas, and More *Behind the Scenes Look at these Historic Matches

The official Journal of the John Clare Society, published annually to reflect the interest in, and approaches to, the life and work of the poet John Clare.

Every saturday night in the eighties fans would gather around their television to watch, not Saturday Night Live, but Saturday Night The Main Event. WWE wrestling beat the ratings for the most talked about show on television week after week. Here is that era captured. “Introducing your champion, from Venice Beach, California, at three hundred and three pounds—Hulk Hogan! And his challenger . . .” Hearing those words ring out across the arena meant you were there. It didn''t matter if you were there in person, or watching on television or closed circuit. You were in the place where everyone wanted to be. You could feel the crowd; as the tension built, you were swept up and into the action. You knew you were going to witness history. You were experiencing the main event at a live WWE show. It seemed that wrestling had changed overnight, that the men who entered the squared circle were suddenly larger than life. Everyone wanted to see the behemoth Hulk Hogan wrestle. And the men who wrestled with and against him were his equals in creating a match and a character that no one would soon forget: Andre the Giant, "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, Jesse "The Body" Ventura, Jake "the Snake" Roberts, Sgt. Slaughter. They all kept you pinned to your seat as they were pinning their opponents to the mat. You just knew that you were going to see things that no one had ever seen before. The eighties was the era that cemented WWE as the place where the best wrestlers on the planet worked. Main Event -- WWE in the Raging 80s dips into those years and reveals the most celebrated wrestlers and the matches that will be recalled as not just the best of the eighties but the best of the ages.

Get your child hooked on reading as they meet Triple H - one of the greatest superstars in the history of WWE Designed to engage even the most reluctant reader, this fun-packed WWE Reader is all about the indomitable Triple H. Watch as your child discovers more about this twelve-time world champion, seven-time WWE Champion and five-time World Heavyweight Champion. They''ll learn the ins-and-outs of his finishing moves, his nicknames, signature taunts and manager. Packed with explosive pictures of Triple-H and WWE, it''s an action-packed read.

A two-in-one biography of WWE wrestlers Undertaker and Triple H.

This book is an attempt at several things. 1. A call for America to repent enmasse and our leaders, particularly our church leaders and leaders of government. 2. It is a chance for me to repent and put my testimony out there in the hopes it also will help establish me as a minister of the gospel. 3. Cheekily enough one last shot at wooing the woman I am in love with. 4. The Bible says they overcame him (Satan) by the blood of the lamb and the word of their testimony and they loved not their lives unto the death. So there is also that here that you would believe my testimony and the word of God contained herein and receive them as the word of truth that is able to save your soul.

Learn about your favorite SuperStar Triple H is a twelve-time world champion: a seven-time WWE Champion, and a five-time World Heavyweight Champion. Read all about his finishing and signature moves, nicknames, signature taunts and managers. All WWE programming, talent names, images, likenesses, slogans, wrestling moves, trademarks, logos and copyrights are the exclusive property of World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. and its subsidiaries. All other trademarks, logos and copyrights are the property of their respective owners. © 2009 World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Learn about your favorite SuperStar Jeff Hardy: multi-time Inter-continental Champion, and part of the infamous Hardy Boys Tag Team who have held the Tag-Team championship belt numerous times. All WWE programming, talent names, images, likenesses, slogans, wrestling moves, trademarks, logos and copyrights are the exclusive property of World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. and its subsidiaries. All other trademarks, logos and copyrights are the property of their respective owners. © 2009 World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. All Rights Reserved.