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This paper engages with filmic portrayals of older adults in the U.S. in order to ask questions about the impacts of mass media on reproducing, critiquing, or interrogating mainstream values and assumptions about aging. The study considers the recent Hollywood works The Expendables (2010) and R.E.D. (2010), as well as the independent documentary Young@Heart (2007). We forefront questions of visibility, invisibility, and recognition both in terms of what experiences and realities are rendered visible or invisible by mass media, but also in terms of the subjective experiences of many older adults in the United States.

In this paper we introduce a new antecedent to the strategic change literature by examining the effect of media coverage on the extent of strategic change. Specifically, we examine how negative media coverage may prompt firms to make changes to their resource allocations and then explore how the makeup of the board and firm performance can moderate this relationship. We develop a theoretical framework to explain why media coverage may affect strategic change and then test our theory with a longitudinal analysis of 250 firms over a four-year period. The empirical results lend support to our theory of media influence on strategic change and suggest that the evaluations of firms by outside constituents may influence the decision making of executives.

The authors would like to express their gratitude to Magdalena Rodriguez for her valuable comments during the preparation of this manuscript, as well as to the anonymous referee for the thorough revision of the manuscript, which has greatly improved the final presentation. This research was supported by MINECO-FEDER project MTM2017-89677-P and by MCIN/AEI project PID2019-111531GA-I00. The first author is also supported by the FPU programme from MICINN and by MCIN/AEI project PID2020-117868GB-I00. The second author is also supported by EBM/FEDER UJA 2020 project 1380860. ; For each k >= 3, we construct a 1-parameter family of complete properly Alexandrov-embedded minimal surfaces in the Riemannian product space H-2 x R with genus 1 and k embedded ends asymptotic to vertical planes. We also obtain complete minimal surfaces with genus 1 and 2k ends in the quotient of H-2 x R by an arbitrary vertical translation. They all have dihedral symmetry with respect to k vertical planes, as well as finite total curvature -4k pi. Finally, we provide examples of complete properly Alexandrov-embedded minimal surfaces with finite total curvature with genus 1 in quotients of H-2 x R by the action of a hyperbolic or parabolic translation. ; Spanish Government MTM2017-89677-P MCIN/AEI project PID2019-111531GA-I00 PID2020-117868GB-I00 ; FPU programme from MICINN ; EBM/FEDER UJA 2020 project 1380860

Handicraft products are of great value as material culture products since they have been used during definite times of a society. These products are significant because they will ensure cultural continuity between the past and future. Saaddle-making, a conventional handicraft, is one of these aforesaid culture transmitters of which realm of existence is getting narrow because of developing technology

This charming account of life in Appalachia at the turn of the century is one of the three most important books from the early twentieth century that, as Dwight Billings writes in his foreword, have ""had a profound and lasting impact on how we think about Appalachia and, indeed, on the fact that we commonly believe that such a place and people can be readily identified."" Originally published in 1924, it was advertised as a ""racy book, full of the thrill of mountain adventure and the delicious humor of vigorously human people."" James Watt Raine, professor of English literature and later hea