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2010 Toyota Avalon
It is too early to begin talking about the 2010 Avalon? Any spy pics, dramatic changes, or should Toyota drop the Avalon entirely. To me the Avalon is not as luxurious nor as attractive as the Camry and I would not be surprised if Toyota discontinued the line.
The Avalon started well as a flagship for the brand but in its current iterationI am not sure how they are positioning it compared to the Camry. To be be considered a flagship brand the Avalon should be more substantial and luxurious but in version 3 (2005 - 2008) it ain't.
Would like to hear readers thoughts.
The Avalon started well as a flagship for the brand but in its current iterationI am not sure how they are positioning it compared to the Camry. To be be considered a flagship brand the Avalon should be more substantial and luxurious but in version 3 (2005 - 2008) it ain't.
Would like to hear readers thoughts.
I read somewhere that the Avalon wasn't getting a redesign until 2011. Maybe someone could confirm? As for your comments about the Avalon I really think you are off the mark. I came out of an '03 which was a fine car, just a bit boring. The '05 redesign gave the car a little personality, more room and one hell of an engine. The look is subjective, my Mother has an '09 Camry SE and in that trim, certainly looks sportier than my Avalon. A friend has a fully loaded '07 XLE V6 Camry that I have driven and I can tell you while very similar to the Avalon, the Av is more isolated from the road and has a better ride. Also my '06 XLS (not fully loaded) has everything the Camry has except for the "smart key". The Limited has things the Camry doesn't even offer, cooled seats, laser cruise, signal mirrors. Its also the little touches in the Avalon that make it nicer for me, such as variable temp on the heated seats, auto up/down driver and pass windows, the indirect lighting on the overhead console, and the integrated information display. I would be very surprised if Toyota kills the Avalon or changes it much. It sells fairly well without incentives and is the benchmark of the large sedans (under 40K). The only one in the price range that comes close is the Azera.
Just out of curiousity what would you do to the current Avalon to make it more "luxurious" without driving the price north of 40K? If you want more lux than the Av offers head down to the "L" dealer they will be happy to sell you an LS for 75K
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bmlexus Posts: 755More luxurious than avalon is the lexus ES but the back seats are small
As u said that lexus are made in japan where are most of the toyotas made in?
I know land cruiser is japan and the 4 door yaris as well if i am not wrong but what about the other models camry avalon etc etc0
Couldn't agree with you more tjc78. I traded in a sedan deville when I bought my 07 avy, and In all honesty, the avy's interior is much nicer than the deville I had.. I thought the deville was rather "plain"... the deville did have a bit of a smoother ride, but the 275 hp Northstar didn't seem to offer my any more "get up and go" than the 268 hp engine in my avy..... as for the lexus being more luxurious than the avy, maybe so.. I test drove one before I bought the toyota... There were some things that I considered "nicer" than the avalons, but nearly nice enough to compensate for the difference in price.. at least not in my book...
Given the level of growing public awareness of the safety hazards arising from FWD and F/AWD I would not be surprised to see the next Avalon model based on the Lexus GS series.
Now THAT would return, undoubtedly return, the Avalon to "Flagship" status.0
Definitely not too early to start a discussion on the 2010. The '09 model will be out in 5 months, so the next generation should be well under way in the design stage. It will, of course, be all new if the pattern holds. Having owned one of each generation I firmly believe that each has been an improvement over the prior model. Granted there were some things I liked that were lost to each change, each is still a better car overall than the prior generation. But now what?
If Avy goes AWD only and the gas mileage drops, there will be lots of buyers looking at the competition. How many people really need it for 2 grand or more and less fuel mileage? As an option, OK. But don't put a hump in the rear seat floor on the FWD models. And even more power is available from this engine so why not keep it. And the 6 speed if it works well.
As a potential buyer for a 2010, all additional design rumors, spy pics and other comments would be more than welcome...0
george5 Posts: 23The Avalon needs to bring back the front BENCH SEAT. They had these in the first and second generation, but not the current 3rd. It is quite nice and different to have a bench seat in the front - making it feel more spacious and open. Secondly, I'd like to see Park Assist Sensors to help with parking and/or a back-up camera standard. These are great safety features, and as to why they are not on this wonderful car so far, it's mind boggling. I know you can buy a Lexus with these, but the Lexus's don't even come close to how wonderful and roomy the Avalon is!! I have a 1995 Avalon and I LOVE IT. Still runs like new!! Way to go Toyota!0
The bench seat was my son-in-law's favorite as he is a large man but I don't think the demand is strong enough to bring back bench seats.
Now, with gasoline prices expected to reach $7 by the end of the year perhaps Toyota will have to go back to the drawing board to come up with a more fuel efficient Avalon design.
No longer can Toyota or any manufacturer continue to build behemoths without significant sales decline. If Toyota insists on keeping the Avalon at its current weight and size it will have to use a more advanced hybrid or even an all electric plug-in.0
If Toyota insists on keeping the Avalon at its current weight and size it will have to use a more advanced hybrid or even an all electric plug-in.
The Avalon is probably the most efficient large car on the market. 30+ Hwy is more than doable at 65 - 70. My weekend travels of about 250 miles 80% hwy / 20% city yielded me 26.5 MPG and that was with the air on/ 80+ MPH and 95 degrees outside. Not too bad IMO.
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We all want the cars we drive to be more fuel efficient. Maybe a hybrid, hydrogen or all electric Avalon is in the future. But if you look around at what you can reasonably buy today, the Avalon offers a lot of size and comfort with excellent acceleration, and at about 30 mpg on the road, great gas mileage. This combination is hard to beat.
If Toyota wants to bring something back for 2010, how about "visibility" so you see out better. More glass. And a back up camera, standard with Nav. Never thought about a return to the bench seat option, but that could be a winner......0
This combination is hard to beat.
Actually.... I don't think anyone has yet. The Avalon is now almost 4 years old and still at the top of the class. As for the bench seat don't see it returning anytime soon. My dealer told me that even on the prior generation they would never order the bench seat option. IMO bench seating is dead, the only cars I can even think of that still have it available are the Grand Marquis/CV/TC, the Lucerne and maybe the Impala. If they want to do anything to the seating in the Avalon make the seats more like the '00 - '04 they were fantastic.
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hawiianavowner Posts: 76The main reason I bought my 2000 Av was for the bench seat. Even if the front middle is not occupied, my right knee appreciates the xtra space. I was all set to buy the Camry until I drove the Avalon.0
geremyg Posts: 1Although many of the models are being produced in the United States, Japan still contributes supply of most models. Georgetown, KY is the stateside home of the Avalon, as well as the camry. Which makes sense because the avalon is on a stretched camry frame. However, Japan still produces camrys. True, the yaris and land cruiser are made exclusively in japan. But then so is the Rav 4 (which is on the camry frame, and the Prius. And even though the Corolla has long come out of the California plant they share with GM, A good number of the 09' corollas have been coming from Japan.0
I was checking out Toyota's web page and ran across their upcoming and concept vehicles. The Toyota Crown was shown as a concept vehicle which is a full size sedan curently sold in Japan. Does this indicate the Toyota Crown or a new version may be the Avalon replacement if we have one?
Personally I'm waiting for an A-BAT and Hybrid-X "crossbreed".
Love the look of the Hybrid-X, hate the look of the A-BAT, but LOVE the A-BAT's basic "pickup" concept.
yotaowner Posts: 14Avalon Replacement ????? 2008 Paris Show reveal of the Avensis:
http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/AutoshowMediaNav/articleId=href:0x2Fcontent- 0x2Finsideline0x2Fautoshows0x2Fparis0x2F20080x2Ftoyotanews/firstNav=Gallery/phot- oId=715920
henryat1140 Posts: 13You may be right. I just looked at the Avensis site. It's a 106" wheelbase with a four cylinder engine. The engine is more in tune with European standards.
On a different subject - one peeve of mine about my Avalons (2006 and 2008) is the massive blind spot on the driver's side. You have to really do a head turn and lane check before moving to the left, the mirrors don't adequately show a car on your left flank.
Still love the Avalon, think it's the best kept secret in the automotive world. Great ride, many hi-tech features, decent fuel economy and 4 inch longer WB than the Lexus. I would not trade my Avalon for a Lexus even swap.0
nimimi Posts: 249If you adjust the mirrors the way the Car Talk guys indicate on their web site, it eliminates the blind spot on both sides of the car. The down side, of course, is that you have to readjust them for backing up. If you have memory mirrors (the Limited has them), it's quite easy to put them back into the "driving" position after backing up.0
For what it's worth, I stopped by a local Toyota dealership last weekend, and while there I asked them if the 2010 year would be the last year of production for the Avalon... they actually seemed shocked. Told me that they hadn't heard anything from Toyota about the Avalon line being discontinued..
I got the same reaction at my local dealership. However, if the past is any indication, the 2009 model should be the last year for this generation of the Toyota Avalon. The first generation was from 1995 through 1999, the second generation from 2000 through 2004, and now the third generation from 2005 through 2009. I believe we will see something new for the fourth generation in 2010. I am wondering if it will be something like the Crown on the existing Avalon, Camry, and Lexus ES350 chassis. Would like to hear what others are projecting.
All things look as if its being dropped. They already, dropped the Touring model and everything I have read leans toward a stretched Camry as the replacement. Remember, large cars took quite a hit with the high gas prices, although its coming down I don't think people will soon forget.
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ksward74 Posts: 3I had a 2001 Avalon which I dearly loved, but since it was my first Toyota, and being a former owner of only American made cars, I got scared when the mileage went up to 100,000 and traded it off for a 2006 Camry. I have never been satisfied with my Camry because I loved my Avalon so much. The Camry is a great car, but just not the quality of my Avalon. I have thought about getting a new Avalon but feel they look so similar to the Camrys, why pay the price when they look just alike and want to wait until you can visibly see the difference. Does anyone know when the body style of the Avalon is going to change?0
Here is the latest Avalon rumor...... the source is a relative (at Toyota in Japan) of one of the service writers at my dealership: The Avalon, as we all know it, is history for 2010.
The word at Toyota is simply that the global slowdown means that every model line must justify its own production. There is no room for error. While the Avalon is not expensive to build as a car based on the parts, the assembly line costs per unit are far in excess of what is reasonable. Volume is too low. So, no more of the current design will be made after 2009, and even this MY run may be cut short.
The good news here is that Toyota wants a car that will get what buyers there are into the showroom, so a "replacement" Avalon may be coming. Exactly what that car will be is still under discussion. There are other Toyota products that could be added to the current US models. We have seen them here on Edmunds.com. Or they might modify a Camry...somehow. No decisions yet but Toyota is thinking.... Could they keep the name? Maybe. But the car will be very different from what we now enjoy as the '05 to '09 Avalon.
All this is rumor, of course..0
goatee Posts: 51If Toyota goes with an AWD version of the new Avalon, sales will go through the roof and I would be one of the first ones waiting. Any news from anyone??0
Toyota isn't about to let up, even if they are one of the causes of the American auto problems. They are to blame, but ONLY because they make a far superior car:).
That being said, the Avalon will or MAYBE replace, but it will only be done with a much better, cooler, neater feature packed model.
You don't change something unless it's needed, and sales of the Avalon are going very well, and Toyota WILL change it and add those features asked for by it's owners.
I've told to several folks in the know, and I'm getting this for responses.
The Avalon is a wonderful car, and it's base is growing monthly. It IS digging into sales of the Lexus, and this is something Toyota is looking into.
Do we (Toyota) bring the price of the Avalon up, so as to lessen the gap between it and the Lexus?
Do we (Toyota) drop the unit from the Toyota lineup?
Do we drop it, and make a larger Camry (Camry Touring Sedan, Camry LS)?
Do we (Toyota) simply make the changes folks are asking for to the current Avalon, and adjust the price accordingly (this is the statement getting the best response), as in "If it isn't broke, don't fix it" and for sure "If it's working, don't mess with it"!
MANY Lexus owners are switching to the Avalon Limited and as they put it (Lexus Owners) "Putting the extra $10,000 - $20,000 in their pockets), if all I loose is a bit of status amongst my Lexus friends I can live with this, and spend the extra money on a vacation, cruise or maybe a bit of extra pocket change.
The day I picked up my Avalon Touring Sedan, their were 2 doctors who had just sold and or traded their 4 year old Lexus and were picking up Avalon Limiteds. One of the doctors came over and introduce himself and said "Welcomed to the club" and walked away smiling?
My salesman said they have had a steady increase in Lexus owners coming in this year doing the same thing. He said the good news was that the dealership had some really nice clean Lexus's for re-sale (no Lexus dealer in our area) and the other was that they got to sell a lot of Avalons, which was good for the dealership.
And to the person above who said he had a Camry but wanted the Avalon but it looked so much like a Camry blah, Blah, well I'm here to tell you - EVERYONE who has seen me with my New Avalon, has noticed it wasn't a Camry! And more then that I noticed it's not my Camry. I had 2007 Camry,which was a great car, for what it is, but is NOT a Avalon.
More and more these days "upscale" means NO inexpensive, CHEAP, UNSAFE, FWD or F/AWD. Since the Avalon is now being recognized as being on the bottom edge of the upscale market the FWD aspect must go....0
Ok, so lets see what folks think
2010 Avalon specs:
- All new body design
- AWD (at least an option) RWD or FWD will need to stay for cost (retail) alone.
- V8 as an option, maybe the NEW limited or Touring model has the V8 option and AWD option. It would be nice if a base model had AWD, but it would make it an expensive option for a base model..
The usual options from here, radio upgrade, leather or cloth, Nav or no Nav.
Color schemes, tires / rim options,
- maybe an up-graded transmission, maybe a 7 speed?
- Add or put the coin pocket back to the left hand side.
- Make the sunroof interior panel a bit heavier (it seems so cheap to me)
- Make a plug-in for iPods and such, that has the same controls and shows the same information on screen as seen on the iPod, And make this plug-in / pocket somewhere out of the way. Maybe on the side of the center console.
I haven't had my Avalon Touring Sedan long enough to know what else I'd like to have or would change if I could. But these are a few things I'd like.
I sure would like to see a limited use of plastics in the car. I know it's to keep the weight and cost down, but it seems to make the car a bit over priced when they use plastic.
A recent reply from Toyota
Mr. Lalemand,
Thank you for contacting Toyota.
We appreciate your interest in the 2009 Avalon.
We apologize; Toyota has no plans at this time to offer the Avalon Touring model for the 2009 model year. While we can not say with any certainty, this decision may have been based on sales trends and market interests. We are however, constantly researching the market to identify popular vehicles. Your comments and interest have been documented at our National Headquarters for future model consideration.
We appreciate your interest and hope that you will continue to consider Toyota for your driving needs.
Renee Toussaint Toyota Customer Experience0
popsavalon Posts: 231I think it is very interesting that a proposal for the 2010 Avalon would include V-8 power.
We, as a nation where $4.00/ gal. gas almost wrecks our economy, still propose to take an outstanding V-6 sedan package that will get an honest 30 MPG on the road, and add features to make it more expensive, more powerful, and surely less fuel efficient.
I, personally, do not need a lot more financial and environmental punishment.0
Everything points toward the Avalon going away.... Toyota has no need to put a V8 in a FWD sedan and if the Av goes RWD the price will be way too close to a Lexus GS to have both in the lineup. Heck the Avalon surely steals a few sales away from Lexus as it is. I personally would hate to see the Av go... however large cars and SUVs are still not selling as people will not forget the $4.00 gas. (even though the local station to me is $1.49 right now .
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Ok, I'm with you there, so what is it that you'd like to see the new Avalon look like, be like, have or not have?
So if they change it enough, and make it more money (still less then a Lexus), it will still sell, and THEN, maybe the New Larger Camry (the replacement for the Avalon) will sell enough, that they will drop the Avalon all together. Sounds silly, and if this was an American company, I would stick to my thoughts here, but for Toyota, it is a stretch.
Now I agree, but don't like it, they will likely drop the Avalon, ONLY because it has been around long enough, and they won't likely get the sells from it that they WILL from a newly re-designed and named Avalon ("What's your choice for the new name?)
I'm just stating my thoughts what are yours?


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With no actual royalty — people who are famous through the accidents of DNA or marriage — Americans are left to make up other silly reasons to worship people.
Into this category fall the celebutantes, the Lindsay Lohans and Paris Hiltons and so many others.
Some of our celebrities, though, are actually deserving of their fame. Some are blessed actors or actresses or particularly skilled sportsmen.
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We pay people to speed through traffic just to snap a picture of one of these people at dinner or out on a date.
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With Lohan and Hilton, the falls have been long and public.
With Clemens and Bonds, the falls came in the form of long-standing charges of steroids use to get the upper hand on their competition.
The Germans refer to people's delight in the misfortunes of others as schadenfreude. We in English don't really have an equivalent. "Sour grapes" doesn't catch everything about our delight in our celebrities' foibles. Neither does pure jealousy.
These matters are probably best described and debated by sociologists who, I'm sure, have long, complicated and, no doubt, wrong reasons why we are so enamored with celebs and so happy when they prove themselves human.
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Armstrong rose to worldwide fame by winning multiple Tour de France bicycle races after beating the cancer that nearly killed him.
He was a hero to millions. Even people who knew nothing about cycling rooted for him, this upstart American who defeated cancer and an international pool of competitors, year after year, in cycling's biggest event.
Armstrong, long the topic of rumors and accusations of steroids use, had stood by his story that he never used chemicals to get ahead.
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Earlier this week, he sat down for an interview with Oprah Winfrey in which he seems to have come clean, whatever that might mean to a serial liar, to his transgressions.
He has officially fallen from grace, and many — myself included — are cheering. But please let me explain.
I'm not cheering because I'm happy to see an American hero proven a fraud. And I'm not even cheering to see the brightest star in a filthy sport brought to justice.
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If he at some point contemplates the risk-reward ratio involved in steroids use, I want him to remember Lyle Alzado, the NFL star defensive end who blamed his terminal brain cancer on his steroids use.
I want him to think about Barry Bonds, the greatest hitter of his generation and perhaps of all time, who is being (and I hope will always be) kept out of the Baseball Hall of Fame because of the steroids baggage.
And I want him to think about Lance Armstrong. Not the Armstrong who stood on the pedestal with the pretty women and accepted the top prize at the tour year in and year out, but the Armstrong who is disgraced and will surely be stripped of most of his fortune by the people, businesses and governments who will now sue or send him to jail.
If that happens, Lance Armstrong's journey up and down the ladder of fickle fame will have been worthwhile. And that thought makes me happy.
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Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller and State Senator Jim Merritt will conduct a news conference at Wabash College on Wednesday to discuss the Indiana Lifeline Law.
The news conference will begin at 12:30 p.m. in Center Hall, room 216.
Passed by the Legislature earlier this year, the Lifeline Law provides legal immunity to young people who seek help for someone suffering an alcohol-related medical emergency.
The law is intended to prevent injuries and deaths due to alcohol poisoning related to underage drinking. Attorney General Zoeller and Senator Merritt are seeking to raise public awareness on college campuses about the new law.
For more information, contact Bryan Corbin, Public Information Officer for the Office of the Indiana Attorney General.


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There were persistent showers on Tuesday at Cherry Point. Never mind the rain. The showers came in the form of tears as Emily Link welcomed home Cpl. Zachary Sheffield from a six-month deployment to Afghanistan.
There were persistent showers on Tuesday at Cherry Point. Never mind the rain. The showers came in the form of tears as Emily Link welcomed home Cpl. Zachary Sheffield from a six-month deployment to Afghanistan.
�It�s been a long six months,� Link said.
She drove three hours in a heavy downpour from Durham to welcome Sheffield home. Her sign said it all: �Welcome Home Zach! Now Shut Up And Kiss Me!�
That�s exactly what he did.
�It�s fantastic. It feels great,� the hydraulic mechanic said of being home after his second deployment.
More than 100 Marines and sailors from Marine Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 2 arrived at Cherry Point shortly after noon on Tuesday. They pulled up to the squadron�s hangar in three buses and lined up in formation. After being dismissed, several jokingly turned their backs to the large crowd of family and friends. But, it didn�t take long for them to turn back around to be engulfed with hugs and kisses.
Cpl. Shakima Brown was showered with flowers and about 10 helium balloons.
�It�s amazing,� she said. �I didn�t know my granddad and dad were coming.�
Staff Sgt. Matthew Abel embraced his wife Dionna.
�I�m very, very happy,� he said.
The deployment was his third.
�You know what to expect, but I wouldn�t say it gets any easier, especially with a 2-year-old daughter at home,� he said.
Staff Sgt. Lonnie Tucker held his 3-year-old daughter Layla in his arms and provided a birthday present for his son, Matthew, who turned 8 months old on the day his father returned home.
�It�s great to see my family again,� he said.
Cathia Duran married Cpl. Colton Duran about a month before he deployed.
�It�s been a complete mess,� she said. �You have to become two people. You have to keep up with the house and just hope he comes home safe.�
The Marine was on his second deployment, but first as a husband.
�It didn�t really affect me too much when I was single,� he said of his deployments. �But now, I felt upset because I know that she was sad and what she was going through by herself, and I just wished I could be with her.�
The new wife nearly missed the chance to welcome her husband home. She said she had been so excited for his return that she couldn�t sleep the night before. She dozed off Tuesday morning and woke up late, arriving at the hangar minutes before his arrival.
�This was not what I was planning to wear for his first homecoming,� said Duran, in a gray sweater over a white tank top. �But he doesn�t care about my clothes, and he doesn�t care about my hair, and he doesn�t care about my makeup. He just wants to hold me.�
And, that�s exactly what he did, and after six months apart, he couldn�t ask for anything better.
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Selena Gomez sits by Beau Mirchoff in these new stills from the upcoming special, The Wizards Return: Alex vs. Alex.
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We're less than a week from the launch of WWE Network. and anticipation is building for wrestling fans past and present across the country. As part of the initial launch, WWE is promising access to every pay-per-view event from the history of WWE, WCW, and ECW. A later release confirmed that statement, and WWE produced a list of the mammoth catalog of PPVs that would be available at launch.
With a monstrous selection of content, what should you watch first? WWE released a gallery of photos from the 15 best PPVs ever, There are a lot of good selections there, but there is also a good bit of recency bias and an emphasis on historical significance rather that sheer entertainment value. Several of the shows listed are great, but you've probably seen the best matches several times on various DVD releases. Here's what we think you should immediately stream once WWE Network launches on February 24th in chronological order – and hopefully, you've never seen many of these shows before.
WWF Royal Rumble 1994
So many early WWF cards were one match shows. This Royal Rumble only featured five matches, including the nearly hour-long Royal Rumble match, and they were all entertaining on different levels. The Quebecers took on Bret and Owen Hart in a match that set up a pair of epic matches between the Hart brothers in 1994, and also added drama to the Royal Rumble match that evening. Razor Ramon's Intercontinental Title defense against IRS featured some fantastic old-school heeling by the challenger. The Undertaker-Yokozuna clash resulted in one of the most ridiculous finishes in pro wrestling history. Finally, the Royal Rumble main event had some rare drama, created a star in Diesel, and formed the basis of the dual winner formula that has been dragged out of mothballs numerous times since.
WCW Great American Bash 1996
Bash at the Beach a month later was an excellent show, but the Great American Bash was a pretty great show in its own right. After a bit of a slow start to the show, a random luchador by the name of Rey Mysterio Jr. made his debut against Dean Malenko and lit the Baltimore Arena on fire, as the duo put on an insane contest that set the bar high for the rest of the show. While no other match was able to top that one, Kevin Sullivan and Chris Benoit tried, putting together a falls count anywhere match that went into the bathroom and set Dusty Rhodes off on one of the greatest commentary rants in wrestling history. The rest of the show featured an appearance from then-NFL star Kevin Greene, a solid match between Sting and Steven Regal, and a world title defense by The Giant, but those two matches in the middle of the card set this one apart from the usual chaos of WCW.
WWF Summerslam 1998
I love this show. Most of the attention in 1998 goes to WrestleMania XIV, Over the Edge, or King of the Ring, but Summerslam topped them all. The show started with four matches that were varying degrees of entertaining while also being good wrestling matches, and the next two were entertaining spectacles, though the quality can be debated. There is no debate about the quality of the final two matches of the show – a ladder match between The Rock and Triple H and a wild WWF Title match between Stone Cold Steve Austin and the Undertaker blew the doors off of Madison Square Garden.
ECW Living Dangerously 1999
I love this show a little too much, as it was the second ECW PPV I ever watched live. There was something for everyone on this show. If you're into fast cruiserweight action, Tajiri and Super Crazy have you covered. If you like comedy, Steve Corino took on Balls Mahoney in a match that kept pushing the limits on how much Corino could piss off the rabid ECW fans. If you're a fan of great pure wrestling with some hardcore mixed in, Rob Van Dam and Jerry Lynn had the first match in their legendary series on the show. If you're into sheer violence, New Jack beat the hell out of Mustafa and the Dudley Boyz fought Spike Dudley, Nova, and (later on) Sid Vicious tooth and nail. Then, there's the main event between Taz and Sabu, which is a violent, fantastic wrestling match.
WCW Spring Stampede 1999
This is one of the shows that stands out in the doldrums of WCW's final years. The first match on the show was one of the best of the year 1999, as Blitzkrieg and Juventud Guerrera put on a great show. Hak and Bam Bam Bigelow had a hardcore match that could best be described as fun, leading into a couple of mediocre undercard matches. Then, the cruiserweights took center stage again with another great match between Rey Mysterio Jr. and Billy Kidman. The featured matches then started to roll out, starting with an awesome and violent tag team match between the duos of Chris Benoit & Dean Malenko and Raven & Saturn, continuing on with a hard-hitting contest between Scott Steiner and Booker T, and finishing with an illogical, yet entertaining, four-way match between Hollywood Hogan, Ric Flair, Diamond Dallas Page, and Sting. This PPV was one of the view highlights during the final two-plus years of WCW's existence
ECW Hardcore Heaven 2000
Quite possibly my favorite ECW show ever, despite the prior year's edition getting a lot more hype. Hardcore Heaven kicks off with a match between Masato Tanaka and Balls Mahoney that will make you wince and think about CTE nonstop, and that flows into one of ECW's trademark three-way dances, this time featuring Little Guido, Simon Diamond, and Mikey Whipwreck. After some midcard filler, New Jack destroyed Angel in a typical New Jack match, and Tajiri brutalized Steve Corino in one of the bloodiest matches I've ever seen. If you like numerous broken tables and crude promos, both of those happened during Rhino's match with The Sandman. The Jerry Lynn-Rob Van Dam match was a typical contest between the two. The main even of Justin Credible vs. Lance Storm ended up being one of the most disappointing matches on a card that was jammed with action and violence.
WWF WrestleMania X-Seven
As much as I'd like to buck the trend and not include this show, I really can't. This show is almost unanimously considered the greatest WWF/WWE PPV of all-time, and for good reason. This show has a technical battle between Chris Jericho and William Regal, and another between Chris Benoit and Kurt Angle. One of those silly "Shane McMahon does stupid things for no reason" matches takes place between Shane and his father, Vince. The second, and best, TLC match took place between the Dudley Boyz, Edge and Christian, and the Hardy Boyz. The first of the Undertaker's true WrestleMania epics went down between him and Triple H. Finally, the main event between Stone Cold Steve Austin and the Rock set the bar ridiculously high for any future WrestleMania main events. Even the most ardent WWE hater would have problems disliking this show.
ECW December to Dismember 2006
I tried to keep this list free of "car crash" shows, but this is one that you need to see – if only because no one saw it when it aired live. This PPV drew just 90,000 buys (55,000 domestically), the lowest ever for a WWE show. It was a six-match show, and only two weren't largely considered disasters – the first and last matches of the evening. The main event was an Elimination Chamber match that has been panned as the worst match of its type in WWE history. This event was such a debacle that it led to Paul Heyman leaving WWE's creative team, so at the very least, there's some historical significance to the show.
WWE Money in the Bank 2011
While the current landscape of WWE is one that many fans are down on, this PPV set-up a real nice two years for the company. In the main event, CM Punk beat John Cena for the WWE title and thrust his star into the stratosphere. In the first match of the night, Daniel Bryan won the Money in the Bank briefcase to start the YES movement. In the midcard, Alberto Del Rio won the second Money in the Bank match of the evening to move himself solidly in the top tier of WWE stars. The clutter was kept to a minimum on this six match card, and it delivered in spades.
WWE Extreme Rules 2012
Extreme Rules may have been the last great WWE PPV for the foreseeable future. This show was universally-lauded based on the strength of its three featured matches. The two out of three falls match between Sheamus and Daniel Bryan added some legitimacy to Sheamus' title reign, and also helped fan the flames of rage towards Bryan's quick loss at WrestleMania just weeks prior. The CM Punk-Chris Jericho Chicago Street Fight for the WWE Title was an entertaining battle that continued Punk's solid reign on top of WWE. Finally, there was the main event between John Cena and Brock Lesnar, an absolute war that showed that Cena can take a beating instead of just having his typical paint by numbers match that fans have been growing tired of for years.
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Recap: Cards 4, Brewers 2
ST. LOUIS (AP) David Freese had an RBI in a four-run fourth inning to go with big plays at third base, and the St. Louis Cardinals beat former teammate Kyle Lohse for the third time this season with a 4-2 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Sunday.
John Gast (2-0) won his second straight start in place of the injured Jake Westbrook and fellow rookie Seth Maness escaped a bases-loaded, none-out jam in the seventh to help the Cardinals win for the 14th time in 17 games. They took two of three from Milwaukee and lead the season series 8-2.
Edward Mujica earned his 13th save in 13 chances after a third rookie, Trevor Rosenthal, gave up a hit in the eighth.
Lohse (1-5) has lost all three of his starts against St. Louis after going 16-3 for the Cardinals last season and then leaving in free agency when they opted to go with younger players. He gave up four runs in six innings, and is 0-4 overall in his last five starts.
Yuniesky Betancourt and Jeff Bianchi each drove in a run and Norichika Aoki had three hits and a walk for the Brewers, who have lost 14 of 17.
After getting one hit the first time through the order, the Cardinals jumped on Lohse for six hits in the first seven at-bats in the fourth. Yadier Molina singled for the lead and Jon Jay followed with an RBI double, both coming on first pitches.
Freese's opposite-field single through a drawn-in infield was his fifth RBI of the series after totaling four prior to the weekend, and Pete Kozma capped the rally with a perfectly-placed squeeze bunt that Lohse couldn't touch with a diving barehanded attempt.
Gast has opened with five scoreless innings in each of his first two career starts, and has allowed a total of six runs in the sixth. Fellow rookie Seth Maness took over with one out and runners at the corners, and the Brewers got two-out RBIs from Betancourt and Bianchi to cut the deficit to 4-2.
Maness finished with a unique pitching line, allowing no runs on five hits in 1 2-3 innings.
The Brewers opened the seventh with three straight hits and had two of their best hitters due up. Jean Segura, who entered with an NL-leading .361 average, popped up to first and Ryan Braun grounded into a double play started by Freese.
Aoki was barely run down at the plate by Freese to foil a double-steal attempt and end the first. The Brewers attempted to manufacture a run with Betancourt down 1-2 in the count while mired in a 3 for 40 slump and Freese faked a few tosses to the plate before flicking his glove to catch Aoki beginning his dive.
NOTES: The Cardinals are 14-7 on the road heading into an eight game trip. Rookie Shelby Miller (5-2, 1.40) and is tied for the major league lead in ERA heading into Monday's start against Jason Marquis (5-2, 3.49) at San Diego. … The Brewers begin an eight-game home stand Monday with Yovani Gallardo (3-3, 4.50) facing the Dodgers' Clayton Kershaw (4-2, 1.40). … Professional wrestler Chris Jericho, in town for an "extreme rules" event Sunday night, threw the ceremonial first pitch. … Rickie Weeks struck out twice for a four-game total of eight.


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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (May 20, 2011) - No sooner had the ink dried on another ETSU Indoor Track and Field championship than Coach of the Year Dave Walker's staff hit the recruiting trail for next season.
Assistant Coach Eli Sunquist announced 12 signees for the 2011-12 season this week, adding six to the indoor-champion men's team and another six to an ever-growing women's team. Top finds include a top-ten national men's sprinter from Tennessee and a national multi champion from across the sea.
"We are thrilled to be able to have so many quality students, athletes, and people join our program for next year," said Sunquist. "We are trying very hard to have a well-balanced program for both the men and the women, and these incoming athletes will really help us achieve that goal."
Recruiting everywhere from just down the road to across an ocean and beyond, the men's program adds Jadon Short (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), Graham Boone (Johnson City, Tenn.), Evaristo Valls (Elche, Spain), K'Vonte Scott (Virginia Beach, Va.), Steve Wade (Brentwood, Tenn.) and Filip Jalovy (Modrice, Czech Republic). Boasting three international prospects, the women's team adds Pauline Chiariglione (Nice, France), Annie Thorold (Molnlycke, Sweden), Karissa Bertling (New Port Richey, Fla.), Demetria Edgecombe (Spartanburg, S.C.), Nicole Alexander (Rock Hill, S.C.) and Isabelle Grosskopff (Telgte, Germany).
Atop the men's list of prospects, Short ended his career at Oak Ridge High School with the ninth-best 60-meter time in the nation this year, which Sprints Coach Brandon Morton said should add more depth to an already power-packed group of sprinters like Ifrish Alberg (Paramaribo, Suriname). "[Short] should make the short sprints and relays very interesting for ETSU next year," said Morton.
Sunquist also looks forward to Short in the horizontals, where he brings a lifetime-best 46-06.75 (14.02m). "With his speed and toughness," Sunquist said, "he will make a great sprinter-jumper combo."
Two more in-state products join Short on the men's squad next year. Boone ranked No. 35 in the indoor triple jump this season, while Wade was No. 30 in the indoor shot put. Rejoining former Princess Anne High School teammate Ryan Beaver (Virginia Beach, Va.), Scott focused on hurdles at the prep level, but Sunquist said he has a promising future in the decathlon.
On the international scale, Valls transfers from Newton College and a wholesome training background in his native Spain, and Sunquist said he looks forward to Valls as a decathlete. Walker weighed in on Jalovy, the lone distance recruit thus far, who ran from 800 to 5,000 for Moravske Gymnazium: "His mid-distance ability will help us out on the track, and he does have the range to help us out in cross country."
On the women's side, Chiariglione already knows how to win, as she brings a French national pentathlon championship from her time at Universite de Nice-Sophia. Sunquist said he looks for her to make a splash on the regional and national levels as a Buccaneer. "Pauline is a very determined individual," he said, "and we as a staff are very thrilled that she has decided to further her academic and athletic career here at ETSU."
"Our women's program continues to grow," said Sunquist, and we are really hoping that next year will be a breakout year for them."
In addition to the talent set to return in Emani Harrison (Columbia, S.C.), Emma and Hannah Bowers (Jonesborough, Tenn.), as well as horizontal jumpers Bethany Lender (Altoona, Pa.) and Lexie Burley (Johnson City, Tenn.), regional recruits for the women's team tap some of the premier prep pipelines.
Bertling brings flexibility in sprints and relays from Ridgewood High School, while Edgecombe makes the trip up the interstate from acclaimed Dorman High School, where she was the No. 1 female hurdler in South Carolina. Morton said both can contend for conference gold in sprints, while adding an extra energy shot to the relay squad. "[Bertling,] along with Demetria Edgecombe, Emani Harrison, Hannah and Emma Bowers will all challenge for relay spots," he said, adding that Edgecombe "will make an immediate impact on the conference level and will look to push the envelope by qualifying for NCAA Regionals."
Another product from the Carolina Piedmont, Alexander adds another dimension to the rapidly developing complement of women's sprinters and hurdlers. Morton said he attributes great development at Northwestern High, where Alexander notched a personal best 14.66 in the 100 hurdles.
Thorold joins Sunquist and the horizontal jumpers, while pure distance runner Grosskopff should augment fifth-year senior runner Caitlyn Epps (Cookeville, Tenn.) in cross country and the endurance runs.
Sunquist said the team hopes to add eight-to-ten more recruits in a second wave of signees for next season. For more on ETSU Track and Field, visit ETSUBucs.com.


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I don't want my period back, and I really don't even want to night wean, but I am considering it. Will it help at all to encourage her to eat some food?
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UK CHARTS: Toy Story 3 on top
There's a new UK No.1 in video games: Toy Story 3 has taken the top spot this week.
Woody, Buzz and Jessie's adventure rises from last week's No.5 to topple Microsoft's Crackdown 2 - the 360 exclusive has in fact failen all the way to 10th place.
Disney's another new No.1 for the UK - it's in fact the 16 different games have taken the top slot in the charts this year.
It's also Disney Interactive's first No.1 in the UK since 2007's Pirates of the Caribbean game.
Elsewhere, Red Dead Redemption rises to second place, pushing Dance on Broadway to third.
LEGO Harry Potter slips to fourth - but Tiger Woods 11 is up as well to fifth.
There's another new entry in the top ten, too: Nintendo/Square Enix's DS game Dragon Quest IX.
The full chart for the week ending July 23rd is as follows:
1. Toy Story 3
2. Red Dead Redemption
3. Dance on Broadway
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5. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11
6. Super Mario Galaxy 2
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Every day Poets & Writers Magazine scans the headlines—from publishing reports to academic announcements to literary dispatches—for all the news that creative writers need to know. Here are today's stories:
Despite ongoing violence in Kingston, the tenth annual Calabash Literary Festival, Jamaica's first and largest event of its kind, concluded as a smashing success on Sunday. (Daily Beast)
An image of a meteor shower in Walt Whitman's poem "Year of Meteors" had long been thought to be a product of the poet's imagination, but now "astronomers and literature researchers at Texas State University have connected the poem to a rare celestial event, known as an Earth-grazing meteor procession, which was widely reported across America in July 1860 but later forgotten." (Independent)
Amazon is preparing a new version of the Kindle "believed to be slimmer with a more responsive screen and sharper picture." (Times)
Thousands of rare books and manuscripts on faith and science—"including hand-written notes from Sir Isaac Newton"—will soon be made available online through the Cambridge University Library. "Our library contains evidence of some of the greatest ideas and discoveries over two millennia," said the university's librarian. "We want to make it accessible to anyone, anywhere in the world with an internet connection and a thirst for knowledge." (Telegraph)
The recent death of Russian poet Andrei Voznesensky has caused some folks to recall a time when poets in Russia were more like rock stars, reciting their verse "in sports stadiums to overflow crowds." (New York Times)
Michael Horowitz, a candidate for the Oxford professor of poetry post, received a boost yesterday when rock star Damon Albarn, frontman of two major bands, Blur and Gorillaz, publicly endorsed the poet's bid. Albarn used the poet's verse on the Gorillaz latest album, Plastic Beach. (Sun)
A collection of first-edition books heralded as "the greatest of its kind" is estimated to sell for as much as twenty million dollars at Sotheby's in London this fall. (Independent)
In honor of the late actor and director Dennis Hopper, who died last Saturday, Open Culture has posted a moving video of the Easy Rider star reading Rudyard Kipling's "If" on the Johnny Cash Show in 1970.


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- Year Built 2006
- Pool cabanas (surcharge)
- Coffee shop or café
- Free WiFi
- Steam room
- Sauna
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Smoke-free property
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Spa services on site
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Number of restaurants - 7
- Conference space size (feet) - 474692
- Ballroom
- Laundry facilities
- 24-hour fitness facilities
- Arcade/game room
- Wedding services
- Garden
- Multilingual staff
- Free newspapers in lobby
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Outdoor pools
- Free Wi-Fi
- Outdoor tennis courts
- Snack bar/deli
- Laundry facilities
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Arcade/game room
- Refrigerator
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Languages Spoken
- English
- Spanish
Self parking (surcharge), Valet parking (surcharge)
Room Amenities
- Free WiFi
- Video-game console
- Premium bedding
- Air conditioning
- Phone
- Bathrobes
- Free toiletries
- Pillowtop mattress
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Coffee/tea maker
- Designer toiletries
- Desk
- Hair dryer
- Daily housekeeping
- Iron/ironing board
- iPod docking station
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
- Digital TV service
- Flat-panel TV
- Number of bathrooms -
- Pay movies
- Premium TV channels
- Private bathroom
- Refrigerator
- Shower/tub combination
- Room service (limited hours)
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
Where to Eat
A Land Remembered - A classic fine-ding steakhouse serving Harris Ranch all Natural Prime Black Angus Beef, along with a variety of other menu items catering to all tastes, and an extensive wine list.
Banrai - Sushi bar with traditional sushi, signature rolls, specialty sakes and cocktails.
Cat-Tails Pool Bar & Grille - Serves a selection of beverages and light menu items.
Shingle Creek Clubhouse Grille - Features fresh off the grill appetizers and entrees for lunch. Located at the Shingle Creek Golf Club.
Cala Bella - The resort's signature fine-dining restaurant offers classic Italian cuisine in a bistro setting.
Bella's Bar - Located outside Cala Bella, this quiet piano bar serves cocktails and provides an intimate atmosphere.
Tobias' Flats & Watering Hole - This welcoming gathering spot for hungry guests serves gourmet burgers, specialty flats, craft beers, and bourbon.
Café Osceola and Café Osceola Bar - Buffet serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner with cooked to order stations, as well as an la carte menu. (Reservations recommended.)
Mi Casa Tequila Taqueria - Try a little taste of Mexico at this restaurant where guacamole is prepared freshly at your table, and a variety of margaritas are available.
18 Monroe Street Market - 24 hour deli offering quick snacks and meals made to order. (Dine-in or take-out.)
Headwaters Lounge - Casual bar centrally located on property.
Smoooth Java Coffee Bar - Serves a wide assortment of coffees (Starbucks), smoothies, and fresh pastries.
Creek Ice Creamery - Serves a variety of ice cream flavors.
Nearby Things to Do
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the hotel; fees may apply.
- Fishing on site
- Golf driving range on site
- Golf lessons on site
- Golfing on site
- Basketball on site
- Tennis lessons on site
- Beach volleyball on site
Spa Services
At The Spa at Shingle Creek, guests experience the warmth of a mud wrap, the bliss of a soothing massage, or the tranquility of facial treatments. An array of massages are available to guests. Personalized body treatments are developed for the ultimate day spa experience. The Spa at Shingle Creek in Orlando, Florida features a fitness studio overlooking scenic views, a pool, and rooms for total mind and body relaxation.
- Number of treatment rooms 9
- Couples treatment rooms
- Manicures and pedicures
- Body wraps
- Body treatments
- Body scrubs
- Facial treatments
- Aromatherapy treatments
- Hydrotherapy treatments
- Hot stone massage
- Deep tissue massage
- Swedish massage
- Prenatal massage
- Sauna in spa
- Steam room in spa
- Sports massage
- Massages
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- Roll-in shower
- In-room accessibility
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 3:00 PM
Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-out time is 11 AM
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Up to 3 children 17 years old and younger stay free when using existing bedding.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available for USD 20.0 per night.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets allowed for an extra charge of USD 150.00 per pet, per week, plus a one-time cleaning fee of USD 150.00 and a deposit of USD 100.00 per stay
- Dogs only
- 1 per room (up to 50 lb)
- Restrictions apply
- For more information contact the property at the number on the booking confirmation
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Optional extras
- Breakfast fee: between USD 10 and USD 30 per person (approximately)
- Self parking fee: USD 18.00 per day (in/out privileges)
- Valet parking fee: USD 26.00 per day (in/out privileges)
- Pet deposit: USD 100.00 per stay
- Pet fee: USD 150.00 per pet, per week plus USD 150.00 one-time cleaning fee
- Rollaway bed fee: USD 20.0 per night
- Facilities fee: USD 10.00 per person, per night and includes use of:
Hotel Name
- Rosen Creek
- Rosen Creek Shingle
- Rosen Shingle
- Rosen Shingle Creek
- Rosen Shingle Creek Hotel
- Rosen Shingle Creek Hotel Orlando
- Rosen Shingle Creek Orlando
- Shingle Creek
- Shingle Creek Rosen
- Shingle Rosen Creek
- Rosen Shingle Creek Resort
- Shingle Creek Resort
We should mention
Up to 3 children 17 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation. Guests can arrange to bring pets by contacting the property directly, using the contact information on the booking confirmation (surcharges apply and can be found in the Fees section).


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The Bantu Expansion
Koen Bostoen
The Bantu Expansion stands for the concurrent dispersal of Bantu languages and Bantu-speaking people from an ancestral homeland situated in the Grassfields region in the borderland between current-day Nigeria and Cameroon. During their initial migration across most of Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa, which took place between approximately 5,000 and 1,500 years ago, Bantu speech communities not only introduced new languages in the areas where they immigrated but also new lifestyles, in which initially technological innovations such as pottery making and the use of large stone tools played an important role as did subsequently also farming and metallurgy. Wherever early Bantu speakers started to develop a sedentary way of life, they left an archaeologically visible culture. Once settled, Bantu-speaking newcomers strongly interacted with autochthonous hunter-gatherers, as is still visible in the gene pool and/or the languages of certain present-day Bantu speech communities. The driving forces behind what is the principal linguistic, cultural, and demographic process in Late Holocene Africa are still a matter of debate, but it is increasingly accepted that the climate-induced destruction of the rainforest in West Central Africa around 2,500 years ago gave a boost to the Bantu Expansion.
Christian Missions and the State in 19th and 20th Century Angola and Mozambique
Teresa Cruz e Silva
Christian missionary work in Angola and Mozambique during the colonial and postcolonial eras was shaped by a complex of factors related to religion, education, and politics. Missionaries' networks of local support played an outstanding role in their humanitarian work, particularly in the 20th and 21st centuries.
By the end of the 19th century, Catholic and Protestant missions had established themselves in Angola and Mozambique. Until 1974, Protestants had a tense relationship with the Portuguese authorities, as they were suspected of serving the political interests of some European countries against Portugal, and later of supporting African opposition to colonial domination. Unlike the Protestants, the Catholic Church enjoyed a close collaboration with the ruling regime. Under the Concordat and the Missionary Accord of 1940 and the Missionary Statute of 1941, which were agreed between the Vatican and Portugal, Catholic missions enjoyed a privileged position to the detriment of Protestants, whose activities were severely restricted.
The years that followed the independences of Angola and Mozambique in 1975 were characterized by open hostility to religion, aggravated by the nationalization of missions' assets and properties in both countries. Mission activities related to education and health became hard to carry out. With the civil wars in Angola and Mozambique, warfare and dislocation gave a new social role to the churches. Between the mid-1980s and 1990 the first signs of new policies emerged. While in Angola the relationship between church and state was marked by ambiguity and mistrust, cooperation and collaboration prevailed in Mozambique, where the 1980s saw a rapprochement and constructive dialogue between the two institutions. This was sealed by the roles both Protestants and Catholics played in the peace and democratization processes.
The political opening that characterized the 1990s and 2000s brought significant changes for both countries including the presence in the public space of new churches, especially those of Pentecostal denominations. The new sociopolitical contexts in Angola and Mozambique between the late 20th and early 21st centuries shaped the new roles of the missions, which remain more focused on social, rather than political, activities.
Communism in South Africa
Irina Filatova
The history of communism in South Africa began with the formation in 1921 of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA). The party was entirely white, as was the majority of organized labor—its main constituency. The CPSA attempted to fight for equality of black and white workers, but white labor refused to desegregate, and the party's support among Africans was practically nonexistent. In 1928, the Communist International (Comintern), of which the CPSA was a member, sent it an instruction to work for an "independent native republic." This slogan helped the party to attract a black membership, but resulted in much infighting.
The CPSA's position strengthened during World War II, but in 1950, after Afrikaner nationalists came to power, the party was banned. It re-emerged in 1953 as the underground South African Communist Party (SACP). Since then, the party has worked closely with the African National Congress (ANC). Many of its cadres were simultaneously ANC members. In 1955, communists helped to formulate the Freedom Charter, the ANC's overarching program. In 1960, the SACP launched the armed struggle against apartheid. The ANC took the nascent liberation army under its wing in 1963. In the early 1960s, many party members, including Nelson Mandela, were arrested or forced into exile.
The party had a deep ideological influence on the ANC: from 1969, its ideas on South Africa as a colony of a special type and on the National Democratic Revolution (NDR) have become part of all ANC programs.
After the end of apartheid, communists occupied important positions in all ANC governments. Despite this, many in the SACP have been unhappy with the direction the ANC has taken. However, the party has not contested elections on its own, trying instead to influence ANC policies from inside. This has cost it its reputation as a militant revolutionary party.
Ethnographic Analogy in Archaeology: Methodological Insights from Southern Africa
Mark McGranaghan
Analogical arguments are central to and pervasive within archaeological discourse. Within these arguments, ethnographic analogies are often seen as being particularly problematic exercises in essentialism, which unthinkingly cast reified ethnographic schema back in time and thus perpetuate ideas about primitive indigenes, awaiting colonial contact to emerge from ahistorical primordial obscurity. The shadow of 19th-century social evolutionism, in which forager communities (not participating in agriculture and leading nomadic lifestyles) were represented as particularly primitive, has cast a pall of suspicion over ethnographic analogical models—especially as forager communities continue to feature prominently in such models to this day.
Archaeologists use ethnographic analogies in a variety of ways; these analogies are heuristic constructs tailored to research questions and to the stubbornness of particular suites of archaeological data. Such uses include inducing imaginative and revelatory modes of thinking about past societies, outside of the archaeologist's usual experiences, as well as a suite of formal and relational analogies that seek to combine ethnographic data with data drawn from the physical sciences to help constrain archaeological interpretation.
Direct historical approaches utilize a collection of ethnographic and historical sources to construct analogies based on a relation of similarity between the communities of people involved; these frameworks, perhaps, carry the greatest danger of unwittingly casting modern populations as "contemporary primitives." By emphasizing that source-side ethnographic datasets are heuristic tools rather than reflections of some sociocultural reality, such fears may (at least in part) be ameliorated. Saliently, archaeological data must operate as epistemologically equivalent to ethnographic data in order to resist the tendency to cast back a rich, textured ethnographic case study wholesale into the murky waters of prehistory. Only when this status is afforded archaeological data can is it possible to reveal the ways in which past conditions diverged from ethnographic ones.
Genetics and Southern African History
Francesco Montinaro and Cristian Capelli
Southern Africa's past is constellated by a series of demographic events tracing back to the dawn of our species, approximately 300,000 years ago. The intricate pattern of population movements over the millennia contributed to creating an exceptional level of diversity, which is reflected by the high degree of genomic variability of southern African groups. Although a complete characterization of the demographic history of the subcontinent is still lacking, several decades of extensive research have contributed to shed light on the main events.
Genetic and archaeological researches suggest that modern humans may have emerged as the result of admixture between different African groups, possibly including other Homo populations, challenging the common view of a unique origin of our species. Although details are still unknown, surveys suggest that long term resident populations (related to Khoe-San speakers) of the subcontinent may have emerged hundreds of thousand years ago, and have inhabited the area for at least five millennia.
Population movements, and the introduction of new cultural features, characterize the history of southern Africa over the last five millennia and have had a dramatic impact on subcontinental genetic variability. Traces of these migrations can be identified using different genetic systems, revealing a complex history of adaptation to new selective pressures and sex-biased admixture.
The historical events of the European colonization and the slave trade of the last millennium, and the emergence of new cultural groups, further increased the genomic variability of human populations in this region, one of the most genetically diverse in the world.
History of South Africa's Bantustans
Laura Phillips
With the passing of the Bantu Authorities Act in 1951, the apartheid set in motion the creation of ten bantustans, one of South Africa's most infamous projects of racial ordering. Also known as "homelands" in official parlance, the bantustans were set up in an attempt to legitimize the apartheid project and to deprive black South Africans of their citizenship by creating ten parallel "countries", corresponding to state designated ethnic group. The bantustan project was controversial and developed slowly, first by consolidating "native" reserve land and later by giving these territories increasing power for self-governance. By the 1980s there were four "independent" bantustans (Transkei, Ciskei, Venda, and Bophuthatswana) and six "self-governing" ones (Lebowa, Gazankulu, KwaNdebele, Qwaqwa, KaNgwane, and KwaZulu).
While a few bantustan leaders worked with the anti-apartheid liberation movements, the bantustans were largely rejected as political frauds governed by illegitimately installed chiefs. They acted as dumping grounds for surplus cheap African labor and allowed the apartheid government to justify large-scale forced removals from "white" farmlands and cities. But the bantustans were also incubators of a black middle class and bureaucratic elite. Despite the formal dissolution of the bantustans in 1994 and their reincorporation into a unitary democratic state, the rule of chiefs and the growth of this black middle class have a deep-rooted legacy in the post-1994 era. As several contemporary commentators have noted, South Africa has witnessed the "bantustan-ificaton" of the post-apartheid landscape.
HIV/AIDS in South Africa
Rebecca Hodes
Approximately 36.7 million people worldwide are living with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Almost 20 percent of South Africa's adult population (aged fifteen to forty-nine) is HIV-positive, and about one in every five people living with HIV worldwide is in South Africa. The pandemic, and the political controversies it elicited, have come to define both local and global understandings of the post-apartheid nation. The history of HIV in South Africa begins in the 1980s during an era of heightened repression by the apartheid state, in which discriminatory laws and fearful public responses tapped into broader prejudices relating to race and sexuality. During the 1990s, as South Africa transitioned to democracy and as rates of HIV reached pandemic levels, partnerships were built between civil society and state actors to confront the many challenges that the HIV epidemic presented. However, from the late 1990s, corruption and the abuse of political power within the Department of Health, together with the government's refusal to provide life-saving antiretroviral treatment (ART), ignited a new era in health advocacy. While the HIV-treatment activist movement won the struggle for public access to treatment, Jacob Zuma's succession to President Thabo Mbeki heralded a new era of political controversies in the state's HIV response. A copious historiography on the HIV epidemic in South Africa maps the contemporary chronology and evolution of the disease, including a focus on changing public understandings and responses
Interactions among Precolonial Foragers, Herders, and Farmers in Southern Africa
James R. Denbow
Present data indicate that the domestication of wild cattle indigenous to the northern Sahara took place approximately eight to nine thousand years ago. This was followed around seven thousand years ago by the domestication of sorghum and millet in the Sahel and Nile regions of the southern Sahara. Other processes of domestication took place on the margins of the tropical forest in central Africa and in the highlands of Ethiopia. As these new technologies expanded southward, there was a moving frontier of interaction between food producers and autochthonous foragers. In some instances these new technologies may have diffused through preexisting networks that linked indigenous foragers. But in most cases it occurred through migration, as populations expanded to exploit the new technological, ecological, and economic advantages these new adaptations allowed. This did not take place in an empty land, however, and in each case complex interactions and negotiations between incoming farmers and indigenous foragers took place for access to resources and rights to settlement. While the details of this interaction varied along with differences in cultural and geographic context, it transformed the linguistic, genetic, and cultural makeup of sub-Saharan Africa after 5000
The Land Question in South Africa: 1913 and Beyond
Cherryl Walker
Since 1913, the "land question" in South Africa has revolved around the major inequalities in access to and rights over land between the black majority and the white minority of the population, and how these disparities should best be understood and overcome. The roots of this inequality are commonly traced back to the promulgation of the Natives Land Act in June 1913, which provided the legal framework for the subsequent division of the country into a relatively prosperous white heartland and a cluster of increasingly impoverished black reserves on the periphery. Historians have cautioned against according this legislation undue weight within the much longer history of colonization, capitalist penetration, and agrarian change that has shaped modern South Africa. The spatial divide of white core and black periphery has, however, been central to the political economy of 20th-century South Africa. Beginning in the 1950s, the apartheid government attempted to maintain white hegemony, drive an urban–industrial economy, and deflect political resistance by turning these reserves into the ethnic "homelands" of African people. This involved increasingly repressive policies of urban influx control, population relocation, and the tribalization of local administration in the reserves.
Since the transition to democracy in 1994, the post-apartheid state has struggled to develop an effective land reform program that can address the crosscutting demands for land redistribution, local development, and representative government that this history has bequeathed. For many analysts, these ongoing challenges mean that "the land question" remains unresolved; for others it means that the question is itself in need of reformulation. In order to review these developments, a three-part periodization is used to organize the discussion: (1) the segregation era (1910–1948), (2) the apartheid era (1948–1990), and (3) the transition to democracy and the post-apartheid era that began in 1990.
The Marine Fisheries of South Africa
Lance van Sittert
The South African fisheries are environmentally bifurcated by the different current regimes on the west (Benguela) and east (Agulhas) coasts. Limited precolonial subsistence use of the littoral zone was supplemented from the mid-17th century by commercial harvesting of marine mammals for international trade and fish to ration imported slave labor. The liberalization of trade after 1814 led to the commercialization of Benguela fisheries by Cape Town merchants drying barrracouta (snoek) for export to ration indentured Indian labor on the sugar plantations of the southwest Indian Ocean and canning rock lobster to feed the urban bourgeoisies of Europe. The mineral revolution in the final quarter of the 19th century created an expanded southern African demand for fish in the new mining centers of the subcontinent, prompting the colonial state to pioneer the demersal fisheries of the Agulhas current, which were monopolized for the first half of the 20th century by British-owned steam trawlers. The motorization of rock lobster fishing in the same period created widespread poverty in the inshore subsistence fisheries. This became an increasingly politicized issue as Afrikaner nationalists laid blame on the British monopoly over the national fish market. Proposed state nationalization of the demersal fishery and reorganization of the inshore fisheries into cooperatives was defeated in 1944 in favor of state financing of private capital through the provision of research, infrastructure, and finance. Afrikaner nationalists after 1948 utilized the latter to engineer the rapid industrialization of the pelagic inshore fisheries and concomitant rise of Afrikaner capital. Falling inshore catches and increasing foreign competition in the demersal fishery led to a crisis in the 1960s that was resolved through the creation and strict conservation of an exclusive economic zone south of the Orange River coupled with the looting of the Namibian colony's fish resources. The postcolonial states in Namibia (1990) and South Africa (1994) thus inherited severely depleted fisheries resources dominated by white capital and superintended by neoliberal states, severely constraining black capital formation. Both consequently satisfied themselves with blackening the white monopolies and defending their exclusive resource access against escalating insurgencies from the excluded black underclass.
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Dana Waller, 35, of Brockton, will be arraigned Monday in Brockton Disttrixct Court on charges of manslaughter, vehicular homicide and leaving the scene of a fatality in connection with the death of Edward J Dill III, 36, of Brockton, on Saturday.
BROCKTON –A 35-year-old Brockton man was ordered held on $100,000 cash bail Monday in connection with a fatal hit-and-run over the weekend.
Plymouth County Assistant District Attorney Jessica Healey said that witnesses told police Dana Waller struck Edward J. Dill III, 36, in a Nilsson Street driveway early Saturday morning.
Waller then dragged Dill into the street with his SUV and ran him over twice more before fleeing the scene, Healey said.
Police and emergency workers found Dill lying unresponsive in the street.
He was taken to Signature Healthcare Brockton Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.
The District Attorney's office announced Monday it will seek a manslaughter charge against Waller, and Healey said during arraignment that additional charges may be coming as well.
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| WMU News
KALAMAZOO—Career and Student Employment Services at Western Michigan University has received gold-level certification for 2013 from Out for Work as a place where lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students can find career resources.
Out for Work began its Career Center Certification Program in 2009 in part to help academic institutions improve the quality of the support they provide to LGBT students. It is a national non-profit organization dedicated to educating, preparing and empowering LGBT college students as they transition from academia to the workplace.
Lynn Kelly-Albertson, executive director of Career and Student Employment Services, says her office recently completed the certification program and earned the second highest rating possible.
"With this certification, WMU will have access to additional resources to help students search for jobs, network and navigate coming out in the workplace," Kelly-Albertson says.
"In addition to our staff participating in professional development activities, they'll be able to consult with Out for Work staff who can help identify inclusive companies that offer same-sex domestic partner benefits and have nondiscrimination policies that include sexual identity."
Career Center Certification Program
The Career Center Certification Program annually assesses the quality, quantity and availability of career resource materials for LGBT students. Based on their responses to the assessment, participating institutions receive an A+ gold, gold, silver or bronze ranking and have access to various tools, resources and materials they can use to improve their support of LGBT students.
Among the many reasons WMU received a gold rating is the Diversity Career Fair it debuted this past fall semester in collaboration with the University's Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay and Transgender Student Services office.
Several companies attended the fair, including Prudential Inc., which has been nationally recognized for its diversity initiatives and provided part of the financial support needed for WMU to complete the certification program.
For more information about WMU's LGBT certification or hiring WMU students, contact Lynn Kelly-Albertson at email@example.com or (269) 387-2745.