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American Indian gaming has been called the "new buffalo." It has the potential to greatly influence cultural traditions on American Indian reservations. This study looks at the social impact that American Indian gaming is having on one reservation in northern Minnesota. Tribal members share strong feelings, both positive and negative, about the issue. Concerns about gaming include an increase in gambling abuse and addiction; a lack of appropriate child care; and concern that gaming is replacing traditional social activities. Some express concern that American Indian values are being replaced by materialism. Supporters of gaming point out that gaming provides tribal members with an opportunity to learn job skills and have gainful employment. Implications for social policy are given.

During recent years the use of a heavy weight hitting the earth as a source of energy in reflection seismograph work has increased considerably, particularly in the Delaware and Val Verde Basins of West Texas and New Mexico. The thumping procedure allows the replacement of shotholes, drill bits, and explosives with a weight‐drop truck, thereby allowing a saving of up to several thousand dollars per month over conventional pattern shooting. One thumping technique that can be used involves a procedure in which each drop in a thump pattern is recorded into a full spread of geophones. A modified FM tape recording truck of the type normally used on pattern shooting crews is employed to record the weight‐drop energies. Raw field tapes are composited and corrected for weathering, elevation, and normal moveout in a playback center. Comparisons of pattern shooting and thumping in the Delaware and Val Verde Basins verify that in most areas of the two basins the thumping technique does provide data that is as usable as shooting data. Examples of data obtained by using the procedure described in this paper are presented, showing a regional line, a fault crossing, and steeply‐dipping horizons.

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The district of England which during the Heptarcltg was, and since has been knowii by the name of Northumbria, and which consists of the territory lying to the North of the rivers Ilumber (.whence the name North-humbria) and Mersey, which form its Southerii boundaries ; aid extending North as far as the rivers Tweed and Forth, is generally knowii to vary considerably in the speeeh of its inhabitants from that of the rest of England; but, so far as the present writer is aware, there has not been hitherto much written towards bringing out a full and compreheiisive view of the leading features of this difference. Considering the great extent and importance of this district, compriziiig as it does more than one fourth both of the area and of the population of en gland^, it seems surprizing that the attention of philologists should not have been inore drawn both to the fact of this difference and its causes. One reason for this the present writer conceives to be that, when addressing themselves to the subject, the investigators have-perhaps not unnaturally-essayed to examine it through the medium of its written, rather than its spoken language ; but here want of success must be certain, since of all the extant Northumbriaii literature the writer has seen, froin the Glosses of the Durham Gospels and Ritual, and of the Rushworth Gospels, which are all ascribed to the loth century, down to writings of the 1Yh century, none contain so much as half the Northumbrian characteristics which are to According to the census of 1861 the area of England (exclusive of