Review of \u3cem\u3eOur Kids: The American Dream in Crisis\u3c/em\u3e. Robert D. Putnam, and \u3cem\u3eLabor\u27s Love Lost: The Rise and Fall of the Working-Class Family in America\u3c/em\u3e. Andrew J. Cherlin. Reviewed by Edward U. Murphy

Robert D. Putnam, Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis. Simon and Schuster (2015), 386 pages, $28.00 (hardcover) Andrew J. Cherlin, Labor\u27s Love Lost: The Rise and Fall of the Working-Class Family in America. Russell Sage (2014), 272 pages,$35.00 (paperback)

Alien Registration- Murphy, Edward (Lincoln, Penobscot County)

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Delivery to the Sharp End of the Spear: Responding to the Need for Library Support to the Deployed and Downrange Military Community

Libraries that support military patrons often face unique challenges. One of the most traumatic is the temporary transfer, or sudden deployment of members of the university community, often in the middle of an academic term, sometimes without notice or adequate preparation time. Not too long ago such an event would almost certainly have interrupted if not altogether halted students’ academic progress until they could return to the parent institution. Technology now in place has allowed many of these students to continue their education regardless of their physical locations, and libraries will have to improvise with regard to the delivery of resources and materials to the “sharp end of the spear”

The beta spectrum study of radioactive phosphorus

Call number: LD2668 .T4 1959 M8

I will proclaim myself what I am:corpus stylistics and the language of Shakespeare’s soliloquies

This article reports on a corpus stylistic study of the language of soliloquies in Shakespeare’s plays. Literary corpus stylistics can use corpus linguistic methods to test claims made by literary critics and identify hitherto unnoticed features. Existing literary studies of soliloquies tend to define and classify them, to trace the history of the form or to offer literary appreciation; yet they pay surprisingly little attention to the language which characterises soliloquies. By creating a soliloquy corpus and a dialogue corpus from 37 Shakespeare plays, and comparing the former against the latter using WordSmith Tools, I identify key language forms in soliloquies. Using an analytical framework broadly based on Halliday’s ideational, interpersonal and textual metafunctions of language, I interpret my results and relate them, where possible, to literary critical interpretations. I also compare comedy, history and tragedy soliloquy corpora. My main findings show the following linguistic features to be characteristic of soliloquies in general: words relating to mental states and the body; pragmatic noise; linking adverbials and first-person pronouns. Characteristic forms in comedy, history and tragedy emphasise love, the monarch and the supernatural respectively. The empirical evidence presented here shows that Shakespeare regularly exploited certain language forms in soliloquies to represent expressions of doubt, resolve, introspection and strong emotion, among others. These forms not only add depth to characterisation, aid plot development and provide performance cues for actors, but may also conform to certain audience expectations

Review of \u3cem\u3ePlutocrats: The Rise of the New Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else.\u3c/em\u3e Chrystia Freeland. Reviewed by Edward U. Murphy.

Book review of Chrystia Freeland, Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else. Penguin (2012). $27.95 (hardcover)

Review of \u3cem\u3eThe Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty\u3c/em\u3e. Nina Munk. Reviewed by Edward U. Murphy

Nina Munk, The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty. Doubleday (2013). $15.95 (paperback)

The effect of oil-and-gas well drilling fluids on shallow groundwater in western North Dakota

Upon completion of an oil-and-gas well in North Dakota the drilling fluid is buried in the reserve pit at the site. Reclamation of the drill site is expedited by digging a series of trenches which radiate out from the reserve pit, The majority of buried drilling fluid is ultimately contained within these 5-7 metre deep trenches. These fluids are commonly salt-based, i.e. they contain a con centration of 300,000±20,000 ppm NaCl. In addition, these drilling fluids also contain additives including toxic trace-metal compounds. Four reclaimed oil~and-gas well sites were chosen for study in western North Dakota. The ages of these sites ranged from 2 to 23 years. These sites were chosen in an effort to encompass as many as possible of the geologic and geohydrologic variables that exist in this area. A total of 31 piezometers and 22 soil water samplers were installed in and around the drill sites and quarterly ground water samples were obtained from these instruments, The local groundwater flow conditions were also determined at these sites. Results of both the water analyses and earth resistivity surveys indicate that leachate is being generated at all of the study sites, Water obtained from the unsaturated zone beneath the buried drilling fluid at all of the four study sites exceeds some of the Recommended and Maximum Permissible Concentration Limits for trace elements and major ions (As, Cl-, Pb, Se and N03-). These values are greatly reduced in the unsaturated zone as the depth from the buried drilling fluid increases. This reduction is assumed to be the result of attenuation of these ions by cation exchange on Na montmorillonitic clays. Two of these study sites represent the typical geohydrologic setting for the majority of oil-and-gas well sites in this area. At these sites the saturated zone was not monitored. The reduction in ion concentration in the unsaturated zone suggests that there would be very little impact on the groundwater from this buried drilling fluid at these two sites. The two other study sites were situated in geohydrologic settings that offered a great potential for leachate migration in the saturated zone. The chloride ion was chosen as an indicator of maximum leachate migration because of its high mobility and lack of attenuation other than by dispersion. The chloride concentrations returned to background levels within the saturated zone 60 to 90 metres downgradient of the buried drilling fluid at these two sites. The consumption of shallow groundwater beneath one of the study sites constitutes a danger to human health. The Maximum Permissible Concentration Limits for Cd, Pb, and Se were exceeded in the shallow groundwater beneath the buried drilling fluid at this site. These limits were exceeded in an area approximately 60 by 110 m. The concentration level of N03- ranged from 1310 to 12.2 mg/1 (as N) throughout the groundwater at this study site. It is not known conclusively whether the buried drilling fluid at this site is the source of the N03- contamination

Review of \u3cem\u3e$2.00 a Day: Living On Almost Nothing in America\u3c/em\u3e. Kathryn J. Edin & H. Luke Shaefer. Reviewed by Edward U. Murphy

Kathryn J. Edin & H. Luke Shaefer. $2.00 a Day: Living On Almost Nothing in America. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, (2015), 240 pages,$28.00 (hardcover)