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The region that now encompasses Central Texas and northern Coahuila, Mexico, was once inhabited by numerous Native hunter-gather groups whose identities and lifeways we are only now learning through archaeological discoveries and painstaking research into Spanish and French colonial records. From these key sources, Maria F. Wade has compiled this first comprehensive ethnohistory of the Native groups that inhabited the Texas Edwards Plateau and surrounding areas during most of the Spanish colonial era. Much of the book deals with events that took place late in the seventeenth century, when Native groups and Europeans began to have their first sustained contact in the region. Wade identifies twenty-one Native groups, including the Jumano, who inhabited the Edwards Plateau at that time. She offers evidence that the groups had sophisticated social and cultural mechanisms, including extensive information networks, ladino cultural brokers, broad-based coalitions, and individuals with dual-ethnic status. She also tracks the eastern movement of Spanish colonizers into the Edwards Plateau region, explores the relationships among Native groups and between those groups and European colonizers, and develops a timeline that places isolated events and singular individuals within broad historical processes.

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Coincidental increases in online instruction at institutions of higher education and in online social networking generally in the U.S. have created opportunities for research into how digital interpersonal connectivity affects online learning. This study examined interactive webcasts, or webcasts plus chat, that were part of an online undergraduate course covering Internet knowledge and skills at a large public university. Symbolic interactionism served as the theoretical framework for explicating interactive webcasts as useful online learning environments by exploring the complex processes that instructional staff employed to manage their actions and interactions as moderators in the webcasts and chats. A constructivist grounded theory approach guided the collection and analysis of empirical data in the form of webcast media and transcripts, chat logs, students‘ reflective writing, and semi-structured, intensive interviews with instructional staff. From the study emerged theoretical categories in three tiers related to a generalized moderator process called minding the verge: moderators minded the verge in three conditions of interaction – converging, attending, and diverging; in three loci of interaction – webcasts, chats, and webcasts+chat; and through six actions of moderating – bonding, orientating, guiding, tending, validating, and branching. The results of this study provide moderators for the course with insights into their actions in the interactive webcasts and with concepts moderators can use to explore how to manage interactive webcasts more effectively. Beyond effecting substantive changes to interactive webcasts for the course, the study may guide others who wish to pursue further studies of webcasts+chat as they occur in the course or elsewhere, or of other mixed-media environments, or who wish to adopt mixed-media environments for instruction. Other potential areas for research that emerged from this study include the affective states of participants in the webcasts+chat and the use of affective devices, such as emoticons and abbreviations, for showing affective states; the effect that format has on the efficacy of webcasts+chat used for computer-mediated instruction; and the processes students employ to manage actions and interactions in the webcasts and chats.

\"Crazy's a good word for others (to use to describe the offseason),\" [Johnny Manziel] said. \"For me it's been fun working out, living life.\" [Rice], 7-6 last season, returns running back Charles Ross (800 yards rushing) and receiver Jordan Taylor (57 catches, 826 yards). Following Bobby Petrino and John L. Smith, former Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema is Arkansas' third coach in three seasons. Center Travis Swanson said Bielema made this first impression: \"You could get that sense from the look in everyone's eyes that, 'This is the real deal.' \" The Razorbacks were 4-8 last year, but \"we're going to shock a lot of people,\" Swanson said. Louisiana-Lafayette, 9-4 in 2012, probably won't be taken lightly by Arkansas, which lost to Louisiana-Monroe in last season's opener. \"(Fans) say they're back on the 'Gus Bus,' and we all are,\" cornerback Chris Davis said. Auburn was last in the SEC in total offense and near the bottom in total defense. For Washington State, 3-9 last season, quarterback Connor Halliday (1,878 yards passing, 15 touchdowns in 2012) is back.

ARTEST: I think it's important to give an effort. But you don't have to be a defensive player to be a leader. You could be a good offensive player. It's just being a guy who approaches it the same way night in and night out. I'm still not there. I'm still learning myself.