Creating A Game for Gamblers

This chapter traces how basketball grew in popularity since its invention in 1891, and how this popularity eventually made college basketball an ideal hotbed for gambling operations. As basketball's popularity increased, colleges began to view the sport as a source of income. Large gymnasiums and field houses appeared on campuses, and with more spectators and more money, more gambling appeared. The chapter looks at how a combination of factors—including the addition of new rules in college basketball, a decline in the American economy, the introduction of new technology in the form of radio broadcasts, among others—came together to facilitate gambling in college basketball games.

Life beyond the Village

Much of what we know archaeologically about the material realities of Caribbean plantation slavery is based on the interpretation of objects recovered from plantation village contexts. While a majority of those enslaved on plantations did in fact live in such contexts, not all did. This chapter analyzes a previously unexamined material and spatial reality of Jamaican plantations, the existence and importance of extra-village localities in which people lived. Defined here as field houses, these structures were dispersed across the plantation landscape, located within agricultural fields and provision grounds. The material considered comes from an early nineteenth century plantation known as Marshalls Pen; excavations conducted on three field houses provide the data from which this interpretation is derived.

Spectrum of myelinated pulmonary afferents (II)

Recently, it has been recognized that a single airway sensory unit may contain multiple receptive fields and that each field houses at least one encoder. Since some units respond to both lung inflation and deflation, we hypothesized that these units contain heterogeneous encoders for sensing inflation and deflation, respectively. Single unit activities were recorded from the cervical vagus nerve in anesthetized, open chest, and mechanically ventilated rabbits. Fifty-two airway sensory units with multiple receptive fields that responded to both lung inflation and deflation were identified. Among them, 13 units had separate receptive fields for inflation and deflation, where one of the fields could be blocked by local injection of 2% lidocaine (10 μl). In 8 of the 13 units, the deflation response was blocked without affecting the unit's response to inflation, whereas in the remaining five units, the inflation response was blocked without affecting the deflation response. Our results support the hypothesis that a single mechanosensory unit may contain heterogeneous encoders that can respond to either inflation or deflation.

3 A Classification of the Prehistoric Field Systems and Associated Remains at Point of Pines

The farm remains which will be described in the next chapter can be classified rather easily into three main types, (1) short walls or lines of stones across stream channels, forming terraces, (2) linear borders, made of long lines of stones arranged in more or less parallel or concentric lines, and (3) grid borders, a term we have chosen for lines of stones arranged as in the linear borders, but with added transverse rows of stones. The characteristics of these types will be described in this chapter, together with two other important types of remains occurring in association with some of the farms — field houses and boundary markers. It should be realized that most sites show a combination of two or more kinds of field systems, as will be pointed out in describing the sites, although it is convenient to first define each type separately.