Lifestyle TV for Men: the Nostalgic Fantasy of History Channel\u27s Blue-Collar Infotainment

This work considers the commercial and ideological implications of History\u27s branding shift as exemplified by the debut of its reality programming slate in 2007. History\u27s blue-collar infotainment, which focuses on men in rugged and traditional forms of work, represents a masculinized and conservative response to the feminized and often socially liberal-minded lifestyle-programming trend. The social, industrial, and cultural context within which these texts exist, particularly the 2008 recession and the growing emphasis on workplace and TV diversity, are foundational to History\u27s rejuvenated brand. Themes from Ice Road Truckers, Ax Men, Swamp People, Pawn Stars, American Restoration, American Pickers, and Forged in Fire hail a nostalgic male viewer and suggest the fantasy of an authentically masculine lifestyle. Nostalgic narrative frames, homogenous casting, and the representation of labor illuminate the forms of race, gender, and bodily ability that are valorized within these series

Ultra-Narrow Faraday Rotation Filter at the Rb D1 Line

We present a theoretical and experimental study of the ultra-narrow bandwidth Faraday anomalous dispersion optical filter (FADOF) operating at the rubidium D1 line (795 nm). This atomic line gives better performance than other lines for the main FADOF figures of merit, e.g. simultaneously 71% transmission, 445 MHz bandwidth and 1.2 GHz equivalent noise bandwidth.Comment: 3 pages, 2 figures. Manuscript same as v1. FADOF calculator (ancillary file) now allows for extension to the D2 lin

Influence of telopeptides on the structural and physical properties of polymeric and monomeric acid-soluble type I collagen

Currently two factors hinder the use of collagen as building block of regenerative devices: the limited mechanical strength in aqueous environment, and potential antigenicity. Polymeric collagen is naturally found in the cross-linked state and is mechanically tougher than the monomeric, acid-soluble collagen ex vivo. The antigenicity of collagen, on the other hand, is mainly ascribed to inter-species variations in amino acid sequences of the non-helical terminal telopeptides. These telopeptides can be removed through enzymatic treatment to produce atelocollagen, although the effect of this cleavage on triple helix organization, amino acidic composition and thermal properties is often disregarded. Here, we compare the structural, chemical and physical properties of polymeric and monomeric type I collagen with and without telopeptides, in an effort to elucidate the influence of either mature covalent crosslinks or telopeptides. Circular dichroism (CD) was used to examine the triple helical conformation and quantify the denaturation temperature (Td) of both monomeric collagen (36.5 °C) and monomeric atelocollagen (35.5 °C). CD measurements were combined with differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) in order to gain insight into the triple helix-to-coil thermal transition and shrinkage temperature (Ts) of polymeric atelo collagen (44.8 °C), polymeric collagen (62.7 °C), monomeric atelo collagen (51.4 °C) and monomeric collagen (66.5 °C). Structural and thermal analysis was combined with high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) to determine the content of specific collagen amino acidic residues used as markers for the presence of telopeptides and mature crosslinks. Hydroxylamine was used as the marker for polymeric collagen, and had a total content of 9.66% for both polymeric and polymeric atelo collagen; tyrosine was used as the marker for telopeptide cleavage, was expressed as 0.526% of the content of polymeric collagen and the partially-reduced content of 0.39% for atelocollagen

Alien Registration Card- Menders, Fred (Castine, Hancock County)

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Alien Registration- Menders, Fred (Castine, Hancock County)

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Alien Registration- Menders, Fred (Castine, Hancock County)

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Personal Papers (MS 80-0002)

Postal card from Magic Menders to Isaac H. Kempner informing him of the prices for replacing the collar on his shirt

My Story 1900-1939; 1970

Education in Brunswick at the beginning of the century; antisemitic remark by school teacher who was replaced after protest of the local rabbi; antisemitic incidents in school and military service during World War I; revolution of 1918-19 in Berlin; organizing food after World War I; work as a salesman for AEG; move to Vienna after marriage; life in Vienna in 1930s; emigration to USA in 1939; revisiting Germany after World War IIMrs. Edith Menders, 18 Lounsbury Road, Croton on Hudson, NY 10520 (1977)Fred Menders was born in Brunswick in 1900; he emigrated to the USA in 1939.BrunswickViennaRevolution; 1918-1919BerlinAustri