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Assassination (melee DPS) |
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Bows, Crossbows, Dagger, One-handed Sword, Mace, Axe and Fist weapon |
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Can apply various Poisons to their weapons, [Stealth], [Cheap Shot], [Sinister Strike], [Shadowstep] |
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- As assassins and redistributors of wealth, rogues specialize in avoiding unpleasant confrontations.[1]
The rogue is a lightly armored class that specializes in melee damage. Rogue combat centers around using instant attacks to build combo points, which are used to unleash more powerful finishing moves on the target. With their distinctive [Stealth] ability, rogues are capable of sneaking through the shadows unnoticed, dispatching their foe in a whirl of attacks, then vanishing from sight. Rogues can also stifle their opponents with a variety of poisons, bleeds, stuns, and other disabling effects. Rogues are renowned for their elusiveness, having a number of defensive abilities that make them adept at escaping combat when the odds turn against them. Many of the rogue's abilities depend on their ever-replenishing pool of energy.
The primary rogue attributes are agility and stamina. Rogues are also interested in haste, critical strike, hit, and expertise. Rogues can wear only leather or cloth armor and are unable to use shields. They can wield only one-handed weapons (daggers, swords, axes, maces, and fist weapons) but are able to dual wield two one-handed weapons at a time.
Class overview
For rogues, the only code is the contract, and their honor is purchased in gold. Free from the constraints of a conscience, these mercenaries rely on brutal and efficient tactics. Lethal assassins and masters of stealth, they will approach their marks from behind, piercing a vital organ and vanishing into the shadows before the victim hits the ground. Rogues can dip their weapons in paralyzing toxins that render foes unable to defend themselves. These silent stalkers wear leather armor so they can move unencumbered, ensuring that they land the first strike.
With the rogue's poisons and speed, the first strike is often the last step before the killing blow.[2]
Rogues are Azeroth's legerdemains. They possess a wide range of skills that allow them to accomplish feats from disarming traps to finding secret doors to smacking a magic item until it works. They are decent in a fight, and if they can strike quickly or unseen — or are flanking an enemy with the help of a thoughtful ally — they can be truly deadly. Of course, they also excel at stealth.[3]
The rogues of Azeroth are the masters of subterfuge, skilled and cunning adversaries of those who dare not look into the shadows to see what lurks there. Roguery is a profession for those who seek the adventures of stalking and silent forests, dimly lit halls and heavily guarded strongholds. Using trickery in combat and able to vanish at the slightest distraction, the rogue is a welcome addition to any group of adventurers. Ideal spies, deadly to those they can catch unaware, rogues have no problem finding a place in the world. Deadly masters of stealth, rogues are the whispers in shadowy corners and the hooded figures crossing dark fields. Skilled with daggers and the art of silent death, these vagabonds and bandits skulk about Azeroth seeking targets and profit. A member of almost any race can learn the tricks necessary to become a skilled rogue. Still, for the Tauren and Draenei, such a profession is an alien concept and therefore rare (if not non-existent) among those peoples.[4] Rogues can be found among all races on Azeroth. Whether they are diplomats, spies, thieves, scoundrels, entertainers, or simply adventurers, you can find them plying just about any trade from Mount Hyjal to Ratchet.[5]
For as long as there were dark alleys and needs for dark services, there have been rogues, and thus they are one of the oldest professions in Azeroth. Rogues are a diverse class, and they are typically made up from the dregs of society — cutthroats, pirates, robbers, and low-lifes. The only code rogues live by is the contract, and their word is only as good as the money their services are bought for. The diverse aspects of their trade requires rogues to be well versed in lockpicking, toxicology, rudimentary alchemy and brawling. In combat, rogues rely on the element of surprise, and tactics which are regarded by most as vile and cowardly. They are rarely seen entering a fight without weapons laced in poisons and ample supplies of everything from bombs to elixirs in their backpacks. Their attacks concentrate on weak points in the body in an attempt to finish fights brutally and quickly. Rogues play prominent roles in every aspect of society — albeit, they will rarely be written in history books because their involvements will be largely unknown to the common person, but they are always there, greatly affecting the flow of events from the shadows.
From the high-contract assassin hired in secret by respected noblemen to the lowly street mugger, rogues are the ones called upon when maintaining the status quo requires a questionable solution — and by fulfilling it, are branded as outcasts by the very society that calls upon their service.
In Azeroth several rogues are free agents, though most prefer to join a guild for safety and ease of employment. Ravenholdt and the Syndicate are examples of said guilds. Other recognized rogue organizations include the Shattered Hand, the Deathstalkers and SI:7.
Notable rogues
- Main article: List of rogues
Name | Role | Status | Location |
Garona Halforcen | Gul'dan's personal spy and assassin | Alive | Bloodgulch,Twilight Highlands |
Zul'jin | Leader of the Amani Trolls | Deceased | Zul'Aman,The Ghostlands |
Illidan Stormrage | Lord of Outland | Deceased | Black Temple,Shadowmoon Valley |
Valeera Sanguinar | Companion of Varian Wrynn | Alive | Stormwind Harbor |
Maiev Shadowsong | Warden | Alive | Warden's Cage, Shadowmoon Valley |
Mathias Shaw | Leader of SI:7 | Alive | SI:7, Stormwind City |
Edwin VanCleef | Leader of the Defias Brotherhood | Deceased | Ironclad Cove, The Deadmines |
Vanessa VanCleef | Leader of the Defias Brotherhood | Killable | Westfall |
- Main article: Rogue races
The following races can play the rogue class:
Race | Strength | Agility | Stamina | Intellect | Spirit | Armor | Health | |
Dwarf | 26 | 19 | 22 | 19 | 19 | 38 | 65 | |
Gnome | 16 | 25 | 21 | 24 | 20 | 50 | 55 | |
Human | 21 | 23 | 21 | 20 | 20 | 46 | 55 | |
Night elf | 17 | 27 | 21 | 20 | 20 | 54 | 55 | |
Worgen | 23 | 25 | 21 | 16 | 19 | 50 | 55 | |
/ | Pandaren | 21 | 21 | 22 | 19 | 22 | 37 | 123 |
Blood elf | 18 | 25 | 21 | 23 | 18 | 50 | 55 | |
Forsaken | 20 | 21 | 21 | 18 | 25 | 42 | 55 | |
Goblin | 18 | 25 | 21 | 23 | 18 | 49 | 55 | |
Orc | 24 | 20 | 22 | 17 | 22 | 40 | 65 | |
Troll | 22 | 25 | 21 | 16 | 21 | 50 | 55 |
All races except draenei and tauren can play as rogues. The cloven hooves possessed by both these races may well serve as an impediment to the rogue's stealthy ways, although members of these races may choose not to embrace the shadowy path of the rogue for more philosophical reasons. The mythical tauren rogue is a persistent joke.
Rogues depend on the following primary attributes:
- Agility - Increases attack power, critical strike, and dodge. Agility is often a rogue's best stat.
- Stamina - Increases health. While not a priority for rogues compared to other stats, stamina is necessary to stay alive. Most rogue gear pairs agility with stamina.
Rogues also desire the following secondary attributes:
- Attack power - Increases the damage per second of melee weapons. This is mainly derived from agility (2 AP), but is sometimes found on items as a raw stat.
- Haste - Increases attack speed and makes energy recover more quickly.
- Critical strike - Improves the chance that attacks do extra damage.
- Hit - Improves the chance of hitting the target with weapons and poisons.
- Expertise - Reduces the chance that attacks are dodged or parried.
- Mastery - Improves mastery ability ( [Potent Poisons], [Main Gauche], or [Executioner], depending on spec).
Strength is not a good stat for rogues; while it does increase melee attack power (1 AP per point of strength), agility does that and more. Rogues use no mana, so intellect, spirit, and related caster stats are completely useless. Items containing dodge, parry, or extra armor are usually tanking items that rogues should avoid.
- See also: Rogue sets
Rogues can use five types of melee weapons: daggers, fist weapons, one-handed maces, one-handed swords, and one-handed axes. They dual wield, which means they can equip a weapon in each hand when most classes can equip only one; the trade-off, however, is an increased chance to miss with each weapon and reduced damage from the off-hand. Rogues cannot equip two-handed weapons or shields. A rogue's choice of weapon typically reflects their talent specialization: the Assassination and Subtlety trees favor the use of daggers, while the Combat tree favors the use of swords, axes, maces, and fist weapons. In order to optimize damage, rogues must pay attention to the weapon speed and damage per second of the weapon in each hand.
Rogues wear leather armor. Leather is weaker than the mail and plate worn by other melee classes, making rogues more "squishy." To compensate for this, rogues have an array of defensive abilities to improve their survivability, including [Evasion], [Sprint], [Vanish], [Cloak of Shadows] and [Combat Readiness]. Rogues can also wear cloth, but this is not recommended, as virtually all cloth items are intended for casters. Rogues also benefit from [Leather Specialization] when wearing only leather.
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- Main article: Rogue abilities
Melee combat
Rogues specialize in melee combat. A large portion of a rogue's damage comes from auto-attacks and poisons, but they can increase their damage using a variety of offensive abilities. Many abilities require energy, a resource with a fixed capacity that is spent quickly and regenerates quickly. Certain abilities are instant attacks that add up to five combo points to the target ("builders"); these combo points can then be used to execute finishing moves that last longer or are more powerful per combo point ("finishers"). Rogues also have powerful opening moves that can only be used from [Stealth] ("openers"), as well as cooldown-restricted abilities that greatly increase damage for a short period of time ("cooldowns"). The following are examples of offensive rogue abilities categorized according to this terminology:
- Openers: [Ambush], [Garrote], [Cheap Shot]
- Builders: [Sinister Strike], [Backstab], [Mutilate], [Hemorrhage], [Revealing Strike], [Shiv]
- Finishers: [Eviscerate], [Slice and Dice], [Rupture], [Envenom], [Expose Armor]
- Cooldowns: [Vendetta], [Killing Spree], [Adrenaline Rush], [Shadow Dance]
- Main article: Stealth
Rogues have the ability to [Stealth], which makes them essentially invisible to enemies their level and lower. Stealthed rogues are detectable at close range, though will remain stealthed and appear translucent. Many rogue abilities require stealth, and others require being behind the target, which is often achievable only in stealth. Some abilities, notably [Sprint] and [Distract], interact well with stealth, but normally using any ability or performing any action will break stealth.
Stealth opens up a range of tactics and roles for rogues. Groups may rely on a rogue's stealth ability to scout dungeons, and to use [Sap] for added crowd control. In PvP, stealth combined with burst damage gives an element of surprise that can be especially effective against cloth-wearers. Stealth also enables rogues to bypass mobs that other classes would be forced to engage, which is useful for solo play.
In addition to stealth, rogues have a number of other "sneaky" abilities, such as the ability to detect and disarm traps, pickpocket mobs, and pick locks (breaks stealth).
- Main article: Poisons
Rogues are the only class that can coat their weapons with poisons. Poisons are purchased from poison vendors and are applied to the weapon as a 60 minute buff that does not stack with similar enhancements (such as sharpening stones). Poisons generally either cause damage to the target (either instantly or as damage over time) or other hindering effects (slowing the target, reducing the effectiveness of healing on the target). Each weapon, including thrown weapons, can have different poisons applied to it, and faster weapons will cause the poison to proc more often. Poisons are a core aspect of the rogue class and should be used whenever possible. Poisons can be enhanced with talents, the majority of which are found within the Assassination tree.
Poisons are now no longer items, but individual buffs that can be applied to the weapons by the rogue. Also poison vendors no longer sell poisons.
Disabling effects
Rogues have a number of ways to harm their enemies aside from raw damage. Note that diminishing returns apply to all effects that cause players to lose control of their character (stun, incapacitate, fear, etc.).
- Stun: [Cheap Shot], [Kidney Shot]
- Incapacitate: [Sap], [Gouge]
- Disorient: [Blind]
- Disarm: [Dismantle]
Rogues are adept at running away. [Sprint] increases running speed by 70% for 8 seconds, increased by 30% with [Glyph of Sprint], while [Glyph of Blurred Speed] allows a Sprinting rogue to run across water. [Vanish] allows a rogue to disappear from combat and enter an unbreakable stealth mode for 3 seconds, during which time damaging effects will not remove the rogue from stealth. [Glyph of Vanish] grants 2 extra seconds of unbreakable stealth.
- For a full list of specialization abilities, see Rogue abilities
At level 10 rogues may choose a specialization. All rogue specializations primarily fulfil a melee damage role:
A deadly master of poisons who dispatches victims with vicious dagger strikes.
This specialization is based on large amounts of burst damage, in contrast to the sustained DPS dealt by Combat rogues. It makes your poisons less resistible and enables you to rack up more combo points in combat, allowing you to unleash more finishing moves. It's very effective at end game in both instances and PvP due to larger, more frequent crits and more effective poison applications.
A swashbuckler who uses agility and guile to stand toe-to-toe with enemies.
Whereas the other two specs tend to focus on openers and high burst damage, Combat rogues focus on consistent white (auto-attack) damage to provide sustained DPS. Rather than requiring stealth and relying on powerful openers, you can simply run up to most targets and quickly hack away at them. As such, Combat tends to be the best spec for fast leveling, since you can move quickly from one enemy to the next with very little downtime instead of trying to sneak up on enemies.
A dark stalker who leaps from the shadows to ambush his or her unsuspecting prey.
Subtlety rogues like to stay in the shadows. This spec is based on moving fast and staying hidden while racking up as many combo points in the opening move as possible, and providing more options for escape when things go wrong.
Subtlety is the archetypal (and infamous) PvP rogue spec; appearing from nowhere to overwhelm and defeat a player in a matter of seconds using a combination of incapacitating abilities and deadly damage. Subtlety rogues try to avoid a straight fight, with their greatest strength their ability to catch their prey by surprise, and if they are unable to defeat the opponent in their initial burst will often slip back into the shadows before their opponent is able to rally.
End-game expectations
Your main priority in raiding is maximizing melee DPS, while staying alive. Put your threat reducing abilities (namely, [Feint], [Vanish] and [Tricks of the Trade]) to good use, use them before you gain aggro. Rogues are also wanted as interrupters at some bosses such as Kel'Thuzad and General Vezax, and can be asked to [Dismantle] in instances like Onyxia's Lair. As with all melee DPS classes, rogues are expected to come to raids with ample supplies of flasks, potions, food and bandages. Depending on the particular situation, rogues may not get many heals. If that's the case, rogues should use [Recuperate], potions, [Healthstone]'s, or bandages.
See also
- Rouge - A common (and often intentional) misspelling of the word 'rogue', arguably a sub-class in itself.
- Rogue professions - Discussion of professions as they relate to the rogue class.
Patch changes
- Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14):
- Combo Points are now shared across all enemies; you can swap targets and you won't lose your Combo Points.
- Combo Points are now shared across all enemies; you can swap targets and you won't lose your Combo Points.
- Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28):
- Ranged slot has been removed. Rogues will now throw their main hand item for their [Throw] ability.
- Poisons are now Spellbook abilities (instead of items) that affect both weapons at once. Poisons are divided into two categories, Lethal (Deadly or [Wound Poison]) and Non-Lethal (the rest), and you may have one poison of each type active at once.
- Dagger speeds have been normalized such that the niche of the "fast dagger" intended for the off-hand no longer exists. Any dagger should be fine to equip in either hand.
- Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12):
- Lockpicking is no longer a manually-leveled skill. Your ability to open more difficult lockboxes will increase automatically as you level.
- Poisons no longer have levels and scale as abilities do. Old poisons still work, but will not combine with new poisons into stacks in inventory.
- Patch 3.2.0 (2009-08-04): After much quiet contemplation, rogues now possess the ability to learn how to use one-handed axes.
- Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Poisons skill removed. All finished poisons are available on vendors rather than created by the rogue.
- Patch 2.0.3 (2007-01-09):
- Combo points added to a target should not be reset until you add a combo point to a different target.
- When stealthed, there is now an indicator above the heads of mobs that can see through stealth.
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I have the comcast web site for home page, every time i log in i have to reset zip code. how do i set this permanent?
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I have the comcast web site for home page, every time i log in i have to reset zip code. how do i set this permanent?
Make sure that your is not deleting your cookies and cache upon exiting your browser.
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not doing that but same results, keeps logging out also
Web Page will not save correct zip code
I have had this issue for the past month or so. I am on IE8.
When exiting a browser session (in which I do not delete or clear the cookies/cache), the local zip code setting for both the weather or the local news is not saved. I've changed it back literally countless times to my local zip code (Exton), but every time I exit the browser session and re-enter, it defaults to either Warminster (18974) or Philadelphia (19103). (Could not even begin to speculate why it comes up with 2 different incorrect defaults.)
After resetting to Exton, the setting remains, even after visiting other websites and returning to the Comcast home page (which I have set to my default home page as well). The zip code setting only gets erased when you exit the browser session.
I have not changed anything on my PC settings or habits. This zip code retaining the setting did not used to be a problem.
I've seen at least a few similar threads describing essentially the same issue, one of which did not allow replies, and a couple of which were marked "resolved". The problem is not resolved.
Is there going to be any real solution to this issue, other than "trying a different browser"? Thanks.
I concur, this has to be a comcast problem. Same issue and I do not clear cache or cookies upon exiting. I can go to other sites and set my zip code , exit the browser , and restart without losing setings for those sites. Comcast apparently doesn't realize how big an issue this is. I've changed my homepage from comcast because i am tired of re-setting my zip code just so I can see my local news and events.
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I'm trying to figure out the best way to collect information, analyse and evaluate/assess a project's current Testing process, currently being developed by a team. After I do that, I compare the project's current testing practices with CMMI-DEV, IEEE 829, and possibly other mature models. Then I try to improve on the testing process.
How do I approach the project's current testing process? What is the relevant information I should seek/collect? Should I do surveys (what do I ask to the team)? How do I evaluate the project's testing process efficiency? How do I approach the CMMI-DEV's Verification & Validation PAs with the information I've collected?


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I am from American and I have a question about my marriage. I got married three years ago, very ignorant about talaq and how many times your supposed to say it and when you are suppose to say it. Somebody told me that I am suppose to say it three ...
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I met my husband at work, we became friends and he had asked me to marry him;although he lived on his own at the time and was not keeping in touch with his parents. The story that he told me was incomplete; he had told us about his abuse as a child a ...
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The other day me & my wife were having this topic on Talaq and i told her that if one says 3 times talaq verbally it is counted as divorce and during the conversation i said talaq talaq talaq 3 times verbally. Now i am worried about this thing does t ...
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We stay separately from my husband's parents but they come to visit us often. My mother in law speaks to my parents very rudely and she verbally abuses me as well with all the choicest of abuses. I as well as my parents have never spoken against her. ...At the age of 21 i got involved into my family business and started helping my father in running the day to day business and making policy decisions. When i started the business was already suffering from debt. This debt was in form of supplie ...
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I have heard that for a women, after the death of her husband, is it not permitted for her to contact any other male person directly or even talk to him on the phone. I have heard many other things as well regarding the restrictions that are imposed upon a widow, some of which seem to me to be quite strange and severe. Please clarify these matters for me.
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What is the `iddah for a married woman who accepts Islam? Does she have to wait until her divorce from her non-Muslim husband is cleared through the courts before she can re-marry?
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If a man makes a pronouncement of divorce upon his wife while she is pregnant and she has a miscarriage, does that mean that her `iddah is over and he no longer has the right to take her back except with a new marriage contract? Does it make a difference whether or not the soul has been breathed into the child?
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When a divorced woman has completed her waiting period, she is free to marry someone else. Does her former husband have any obligation towards her at this time?
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What are the woman's rights regarding her maintenance and housing during her waiting period? What about her rights regarding her daughter from that marriage?
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I am getting a divorce from my husband. How should our wealth be divided according to Islam, with the knowledge that I worked with side-by-side with him to create our wealth? Am I entitled to the 50% or is it any less since he is the man and I the woman? Someone advised that in divorce the settlement goes according to the country you live in. How true is that? In our country, there is community of property, meaning that each spouse is entitled to 50% upon divorce.
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I have repeatedly asked my husband for a divorce, but he told me to go do it for myself (khul`). I want to know how to undertake this matter.
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What is the ruling for the following scenario: A man divorces his wife and takes her back during the `iddah, so that was the first divorce. After some time; he divorces her again and takes her back once more during her `iddah; so that is the second divorce. After another period of time, the woman requests a khul` separation and her husband grants it. Can they get married again? I know that after three divorces, the husband cannot remarry his wife, but were there three divorces in this case?
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My friend asked her husband for a khul' while she was on her menses. Is the khul' valid?
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My question concerns the khul` separation. If a man says to his wife: "I will grant you your freedom in lieu of you awarding me custody of our children", is this considered a valid khul` separation?
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If a woman seeks a khul` separation while she is pregnant, is the duration of her pregnancy considered an `iddah or not?
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n the fatwâ on khul` by Sheikh `Abd Allah b. Nâsir al-Sulamî, he writes: "It is lawful that the man issues one divorce only, but it is better if he pronounces khul` and not divorce." This indicates that there is a difference between pronouncing divorce and khul`. So please mention how the khul` is pronounced?
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have a sister who has been married for twelve years and has never had a child. She went to a doctor with her husband, and the doctor told them that the problem is with her husband. She is very worried because she wants to have children. What is the Islamic ruling for such a situation? Can she ask her husband for a divorce?
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A woman's husband left his family over a year ago and since that time the family has not received any message from him. How long the wife does has to wait until she can marry again?
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My question to you is about divorce. I know that divorce is not unlawful, however I read somewhere that a woman who asks for divorce for no reason will never ever enter Paradise. Can you please elaborate on that?
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A woman has caught her husband engaging in homosexual acts. Is the marriage valid? Can the woman ask for a divorce ? Is she supposed to pay back the dowry in case she wants the divorce? Her parents are trying to force her to stay with him in hopes that he will mend his ways. Does she have to comply with her parents' wishes?
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Tampa, FL – Honk If I Need Education: A Tampa mother is defending her decision to stick her teenage son on a street corner with a sign that says, among other things, "GPA 1.22 … honk if I need education."
Ronda Holder says she and the boy's father have tried everything to get their 15-year-old to shape up academically. They've offered help, asked to see homework, grounded, lectured him and confiscated his cell phone. James Mond III's indifference at a school meeting last week was the final straw. The next day, Holder made the sign and made her son wear it for nearly four hours.
Experts criticized the move as humiliating and ineffective, and someone reported Holder to the Department of Children and Families.
Holder insists she's fighting for her child's education.
Basket Ball Wife Canned: Dwight Howard and his camp can silently breathe a sigh of relief. The mother of his young son, Royce Reed, is likely being replaced on VH1's popular reality show Basketball Wives.
Shaunie O'Neal, who is the executive producer of Basketball Wives, recently told the Los Angeles Times Royce Reed has almost "no connection" to the show anymore due to her legal issues with Orlando Magic star Dwight Howard. Royce Reed is banned from mentioning Dwight Howard's name on the show.
Snow Ice Flakes and Flavor Flav:
This cabin fever thing can do so many things to the mind, especially when everything on TV is about carnage. Sure, it's sad that the Congresswoman was shot in the head by a raving lunatic who everyone but the psyche ward knew.
And the two exploding BMW's, within six miles of each other seemed like some sort of foreshadowing of Julian Assange's fear of 'illegal rendition' to the US. Turns out he has nightmares about Gitmo and drinking too much water at one time.
Too much sordid serious stuff, with every other channel featuring an Elmer Gantry with an answer to the plunging birds and drowning fish and submerging metropolises around the globe – End Times.
The lesson, though, was that the channels that cable companies make mandatory, like MTV and VH1 actually serve a purpose.
With reruns of Flavor Flav and his unambitious harem, the androgenous Bridgitte Neilson complete with the sum of her remanufactured parts and base females like Delicious and New York, who cares about a little cabin fever?


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Cupcake15-I love watching baseball games. I don't mind if I am watching little league baseball teams or softball teams because it is still exciting.
I like that there are nine innings because it gives the kids multiple chances to score and win the game. It is also a team oriented sport in which kids learn to work with other kids for the goodness of the team.
They also get to make friends with other kids and get some physical exercise which is good for them.
They learn about disappointment and how to deal with losing gracefully. Team sports like these can really help children develop character.


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The health of a society is always best measured by how it treats its weakest and most vulnerable citizens. The same test may be usefully applied to America's beleaguered newspapers. Set against the general loss of confidence afflicting the profession is the crisis confronting those few newspapers that bother to regularly review books. Over the past year, and with alarming speed, newspapers across the country have been cutting back their book coverage and, in some instances, abandoning the beat entirely. At a time when newspaper owners feel themselves and the institutions over which they preside to be under siege from newer technologies and the relentless Wall Street pressure to pump profits at ever-higher margins, book coverage is among the first beats to be scaled back or phased out. Today, such coverage is thought by many newspaper managers to be inessential and, worse, a money loser.
Yet a close look at the history of how America's newspapers have treated books as news suggests that while the drop in such coverage is precipitous, it is not altogether recent. In the fall of 2000, Charles McGrath, then editor of The New York Times Book Review, the nation's preeminent newspaper book section by virtue of longevity, geography, ambition, circulation, and staff, was already lamenting the steady shrinkage of book coverage. "A lot of papers have either dropped book coverage or dumbed it way down to commercial stuff. The newsweeklies, which used to cover books regularly, don't any longer," McGrath told a Times insert profiling the Book Review. Indeed, the following April, the San Francisco Chronicle folded its book section into its Sunday Datebook of arts and cultural coverage. The move was greeted with dismay by many readers. After six months of public protest—and after newspaper focus groups indicated the book section enjoyed a substantial readership—it was reinstated as a stand-alone section. (Five years later, it would lose two pages in a cost-cutting move that reduced the section, now a broadsheet, by a third to just four pages.) In 2001, The Boston Globe merged its book review and commentary pages. Today, The New York Times Book Review averages thirty-two to thirty-six tabloid pages, a steep decline from the forty-four pages it averaged in 1985.
That book coverage is disappearing is not news. What is news is the current pace of the erosion in coverage, as well as the fear that an unbearable cultural threshold has been crossed: whether the book beat should exist at all is now, apparently, a legitimate question. Jobs, book sections, and pages are vanishing at a rate rivaled only by the degree to which entire species are being rendered extinct in the Amazonian rain forest. Last spring, Teresa Weaver, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's longtime and well-regarded book editor, was shunted aside, her original book reviews largely replaced with wire copy. The paper's editor said without shame or chagrin that the move was part of a more general intent to reconfigure the newspaper's coverage of arts, including music and dance. Meanwhile, readers of The Dallas Morning News found themselves without a full-time book critic when Jerome Weeks, who had filled the role since 1996, accepted a buyout offer amid a vast restructuring of the paper.
Other papers, including the Raleigh News & Observer, the Orlando Sentinel, and The Cleveland Plain Dealer, also eliminated the book editor's position or cut coverage. The Chicago Tribune decided to move its book pages to Saturday, the least-read day of the week. Its book editor, Elizabeth Taylor, ever the optimist, said that the very slimness of the Saturday edition would mean that its few pages would loom larger in the eyes of readers and, with any luck, in the esteem of potential advertisers. In June, the San Diego Union-Tribune killed its decade-old, stand-alone book section, opting instead to move book reviews into its arts pages. And earlier this year, the Los Angeles Times, in a significant retreat from the ambitions that prompted the creation of its weekly Book Review in 1975, decided to cut its twelve-page Sunday tabloid section by two pages and graft the remaining stump to its revamped Sunday Opinion section. The press release announcing the change sought to allay readers' concerns by proclaiming the paper's intent to expand online coverage (a task made more difficult by the paper's reluctance, so far, to add staff, but instead to increase the burden on the Review's editor and subeditors). The paper also promised to increase the number and prominence of illustrations and photographs, neglecting to note that doing so would further reduce the space allotted for actual words.


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Our Rating: :: UNDERWHELMING PUZZLER :: Read Our Full Review >>Castlevania meets Match-3 in an in-depth adventure with underwhelming gameplay.
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Take control of Alucard, son of Dracula, and experience Castlevania in a whole new way on the iPhone/iPod Touch with Castlevania Puzzle: Encore of the Night! Konami brings you a truly innovative Puzzle-RPG system
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Replacement HSC Cooling Towers – Phase 1 (Budget: $1,550,000)
Scope for Phase 1 of this project includes the removal of 4 existing, 850 ton cooling tower cells and installation of 3 new 1500 ton cooling tower cells using same or smaller footprint as existing towers. Project also includes the installation of a second 2500 kVA, 480 V. electrical transformer and service to a new 4000 amp, 480/277V switchboard MSBB inside existing plant. Installation is primarily intended for 480 V. system redundancy but is also for additional capacity for pumps & fans for future loads. New service at switchboard MSBB will connect back to existing service at switchboard MSBA through a tie-breaker.
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Dance Studio– Phase 1 (Budget: $3,500,000)
This project will renovate the existing Woodworks Building into a new freestanding approximately 17,000 square-foot dance studio facility to house the ECU Dance Program to meet program accrediation requirements to allow the program to become fully accredited. The building will include three 2,500 square-foot dance studios,faculty and staff offices,shower and dressing rooms,and required equipment storage,data,telecommunications,electrical, and mechanical space. The project,estimated to cost $2,600,000.
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We got into Wilmington on Monday, with the night off. I stayed at the hotel while the rest of the band went out to eat and explore. I worked on some new songs and got some rest.
Next day, Joel, Derek and I got a cab and went down to Wrightsville beach for a swim. The water in the Atlantic was 76 degrees. What a heavenly walk out into the surf, were we floated together in the waves and let go of ourselves for a moment. It was healing and it felt like childhood discovered us and gently invited us back. If you ever need a moment to be present but without any clutter in your mind, head to the beach and get in the water.
The show was good. Played super late to very few people but we played with our hearts and we turned it on for them. Playing music is what it's all about…no matter what.


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Summer Fest: Cool Cucumber Soup
by Michelle Buffardi in Uncategorized, July 20, 2011Week three of our season-long garden party Summer Fest 2011 welcomes food and garden bloggers to feature garden-to-table recipes and tips. We'll help you to enjoy all that this season has to offer. So far, we've delved into eggplant and peaches. This week we're getting creative with: cucumbers.
With temperatures reaching 90 degrees in many areas of the country, it's just too hot to cook. But it's never too hot to eat right, so mercury rising is no excuse to roll through the drive-through. Ellie Krieger's Cool Cucumber Soup is just the solution. It's perfect for the height of summer because:
- You won't need to turn on the oven or stove to make it.
- It's done in 20 minutes.
- It's a great way to use up the cucumbers growing like crazy in the garden.
- It clocks in at just 130 calories and 2.5 grams of fat, so makes a waistline-friendly light lunch or appetizer.
- Per Ellie, it's a good source of protein, Vitamin A, Vitamin C and calcium.
What are you waiting for? Get out the blender and whip up this super-cool, creamy-yet-good-for you cold soup.
Cool Cucumber Soup
Serves 4
3 cups plain nonfat yogurt
1 English cucumber (about 1 pound), cut into chunks
1 scallion, white and green parts, coarsely chopped (about 1/4 cup)
3 tablespoons chopped fresh dill, plus sprigs for garnish
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
1 medium tomato, seeded and diced, or 3 sliced radishes
2 teaspoons olive oil
In a blender, combine the yogurt, cucumber, scallion and dill. Pulse until pureed. Season, to taste, with salt and pepper. Ladle into individual bowls. Top each serving with 2 tablespoons of diced tomato or radishes, drizzle with 1/2 teaspoon of olive oil and garnish with a dill sprig.
Per 1 cup serving:
Calories: 130
Total Fat: 2.5 grams
Saturated: Fat 0 grams
Protein: 11 grams
Total carbohydrate: 17 grams
Fiber: 2 grams
Cholesterol: 5 milligrams
Sodium: 140 milligrams
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Pinch My Salt: Chilled Cucumber, Kefir and Avocado Soup
What's Gaby Cooking: Cucumber-Basil Gimlet
In Jennie's Kitchen: Radish-Cucumber Crostini
Big Girl Small Kitchen: Spicy Cucumber Salad with Shallot, Ginger and Mint
Grecian Kitchen: Summer Cucumber Salad
And Love It Too: Cucumber, Mint and Watermelon Salad
Napa Farmhouse 1885: Cucumbers Coolers with Agave Simple Syrup
Cooking With My Kid: Cucumber Limeade
FN Dish: Summer Fest: Cucumber Recipes
CIA Dropout: Relishing Cucumbers
Food for 7 Stages of Life: Cucumber Cherry Salsa
Cooking With Elise: Green Tea Cucumber Pops
Glory Foods: Cucumber and Shrimp Boat
Virtually Vegan Mama: Fire-Roasted Tomato and Cucumber Gazpacho
Food2: When Life Gives You Cucumbers, Make a Cucumber Cocktail
Recipe Girl: Bread and Butter Pickles
Taste With the Eyes: Spicy Pickled Cucumbers with Wakame and Garlic Blossoms
Virtually Homemade: Cold Thai Cucumber-Mint Soup
Add a Pinch: Cucumber Tea Sandwiches
The Cultural Dish: Ahi Tuna with Cucumber Sauce and Salad
Daily*Dishin: Cool n' Zesty Cukes: 7 Minute Summer in a Jar
Daydreamer Desserts: Cubanita Margarita
Purple Cook: Cucumber Gazpacho with Indian Flavored Shrimp Relish
Indian Simmer: Cucumber at its Best with Chaat Masala
Big Apple Nosh: Quick and Easy Homemade Pickles
Sweet Life Bake: Agua de Pepino
The Sensitive Epicure: Tzatziki with Grilled Gluten-Free Pitas and Fresh Cucumbers and Peppers
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Hello, I have a 13' Mid-2010 MacBook Pro and I have had Lion for a few months now, i've recently noticed with the addition of my second display that my fans have been going crazy when i only have Twitter, Safari and Mail open and some other small apps like iChat. I've done a SMC reset, PRAM and all those reset's too and it just gets really loud. Also when the screen savers are on and I come back to the computer after 5 minutes of the screensaver running the fans are off and are really loud. I've tried the app SMCfancontrol to monitor the temp and it stays at about 122 to about 133 when i'm chatting on iChat and also when the screen savers are running. Please, someone help! asked Dec 17 '11 at 02:57 JoshTemps |
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I suspect you're bang on in that assessment! Anatomically speaking, I feel this is your strongest HS piece and you've captured her character perfectly. I couldn't agree more about the female characters in HS as a whole; they're all so damn interesting and well developed that it feels RIGHT (another thing that I suppose it shares with Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire). This is probably why I enjoy the Serkets so much, but I also enjoy the Maryams and Leijons as well. Damara is so over-the-top at times and yet there's something both compassionate and tragic about her as well; I have a feeling she still has a role to play in this story as much as Meenah does.
If you don't mind my saying so, this is the kind of piece that would make an EXCELLENT tattoo! I keep coming back to it (for reasons other than just the sexiness factor, too).


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Rapace is all over the place with her performance — needy, then self-assured, enraged, then in love. The always feral Farrell seems as dismayed by her as the rest of us.
While a mob thriller can be as nasty as it likes, what it can't be is silly.
The film has been directed in a murky, rhythmless fashion by Niels Arden Oplev.
Mar 7, 2013The action merely meanders when it should be hurtling forward, running in circles when one expects it to head toward a conclusion or some sense of resolution.
Dead Man Down exerts an unconscionable level of effort for minimal reward: It aspires to exquisite world-weariness, but just ends up feeling exhausted by its frenzied yet fruitless exertions.
Director Niels Arden Orpev was in charge of the original "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo," starring Rapace, but fails to create a revenge thriller with anything like the same focus.
As Scandi directors go, Niels Arden Oplev couldn't be hotter. After putting his stamp on "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," the Dane has what appears to be his pick of projects. So why follow it up with such revenge-fantasy dreck as Dead Man Down, a derivative collection of brazen plot holes and latenight-cable cliches into which he drags "Dragon" star Noomi Rapace?
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DOVER — With no local rooting interest in this year's edition of the biggest sporting and television event on the American calendar, Super Bowl Sunday will be as much about food as it is football for many Seacoast residents.
"I'm a big fan of pizza and nachos," Hennessey said. "It's one of the times I get to sit back and eat."
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A free, semi-annual magazine published by NAR, On Common Ground presents a wide range of views on smart growth issues, with the goal of encouraging dialog among REALTORS®, elected officials, and other interested citizens.
A free, semi-annual magazine published by NAR, On Common Ground presents a wide range of views on smart growth issues, with the goal of encouraging dialog among REALTORS®, elected officials, and other interested citizens.
Demand for living and working in cities is higher than at any time in the past 60 years. The largest cities are becoming larger, and the central cities are seeing more growth than the suburbs. The urban reawakening is the future of our economy.
When the first Earth Day was celebrated in 1970, environmental concerns focused primarily on addressing the pollution of air and water. Over the decades since then, the scope of environmental issues has expanded to include energy conservation, rising sea levels, extreme weather events, farmland preservation, and the multiple benefits to land, water, and air that come from reducing sprawl and providing alternative transportation options. In this issue of On Common Ground, we provide an overview of this wider range of environmental issues our communities — and property owners — will face in the future.
Strong metropolitan markets are experiencing the beginning of what portends to be a major trend for decades — the redevelopment of well-located, low-density suburbs into more intense mixed-use communities. Older shopping centers, with their acres of underused parking lots, are ripe for this type of development; and a location near public transportation is increasingly seen as a needed ingredient for success. As reflected in several articles in this issue, the digital world is bringing new ways of doing things to real estate development.
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LRDG: Internet forum as community of practice and as political voice: Researching MumsnetDate: 8 November 2011 Time: 1 - 2 pm Venue: C89, County South Karin Tusting (Lancaster University): Mumsnet is a UK parenting forum which attracts 20,000 posts a day.Many aspects of this site are potentially of interest to New Literacies research. For a start, there is its distinctive community identity.Practices signalling 'fluffiness' are resisted, while practices such as swearing and robust discussion, frowned upon by competing sites, are actively encouraged.The old-school, single-modality appearance of the site, made up of text and a few static emoticons, is part of this 'spikier' identity, which is explicit, self-reflexive, and often discussed. In addition being a distinctive community of practice, Mumsnet has more recently become a force in the public sphere.As a site thought to give access to a key 'floating voter' electoral demographic, engagement on Mumsnet has become a necessary part of political campaigning and activity.Every major party leader participated in a Mumsnet webchat before the last election.The site also runs its own campaigns, and discussions occasionally have the power to shape the news agenda. This paper will discuss Mumsnet both as a self-reflexive community and as a voice in the public sphere.There is potentially great value in approaching analysis of these issues by drawing on literacy studies perspectives and methodologies, particularly ethnographically-informed participant-observation.However, this raises significant ethical and methodological questions.These include participants' understandings of the nature of their postings on an (admittedly public) site; difficulties around anonymising participants; and the particular personal and relational challenges associated with participant-observation in a community in which I have been participating not as a researcher for several years.This paper will address the ethical and personal dilemmas that this raises. Event website: http://www.literacy.lancs.ac.uk/lrdg/2011-12.htm Contact: Who can attend: Anyone Further informationAssociated staff: Karin Tusting Organising departments and research centres: Lancaster Literacy Research Centre, Linguistics and English Language Keywords: Communities of practice, Digital literacies, Ethics, Ethnography of literacy |
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When it comes to job creation in Canada, there's Alberta and then there's everybody else.
The latest employment data for February showed that the oil-rich western province created an impressive 18,800 jobs, largely in construction, mining and oil and gas, while in the rest of the country overall employment fell.
Economists warn against staking too much on any one-month data point, but the February result is no outlier.
As the Statistics Canada report issued March 14 showed, Alberta is responsible for almost all the new net jobs generated in the past year, 82,300 of the 94,700 country-wide, or 87 per cent, as the province saw employment rise an impressive 3.8 per cent.
By comparison, provinces not called Alberta only gained about 12,000 which, for the purposes of the agency's survey, constitutes a rounding error.
"I know this is not a new story but it's becoming extreme," said Doug Porter, the Bank of Montreal's chief economist.
"In the last 12 months, Alberta is the only province that's seen meaningful growth. They've had job gains of nearly four per cent and meanwhile six provinces have seen declines and one's been flat."
The other provinces in the positive territory, although far below Alberta's bounty, are Ontario with an overall pickup of 28,700, which given the large population base is only an increase of 0.4 per cent, and Saskatchewan, where employment rose a healthier 0.9 per cent by adding 5,200 net new jobs.
One way of looking at it, said CIBC chief economist Avery Shenfeld, is that the labour market in Canada is working as it should.
Canadians are moving to where the jobs are.
And the numbers do show that aside from creating jobs, the western province is steadily increasing its workforce, by 81,300 in the past 12 months alone.
But, Shenfeld conceded it's a serious problem for provincial governments that are on the losing end of worker migration, sapping their ability to raise revenue and pay for services. While most provinces remain in deficit, Alberta on Thursday reported it would post a surplus this year, although some quibbled with the province's accounting practices.
A spokesperson from the Finance Department said the post-recession period, where over one million jobs have been created, does not show as dramatic a tilt toward Alberta, but added that in general the strong performance of the province's economy since 2009 has been "a positive thing for Canada."
Although the recent dramatic tilt may be exaggerated by cyclical factors, the direction of jobs flow has been apparent for some time.
With Canada's manufacturing sector on its knees and home construction tapped out, two of the biggest industries operating in heavily-populated Central Canada have essentially produced no net jobs in the past year.
And another big employer, government, has shed more than 41,000 workers as Ottawa and other non-resource provinces focus on eliminating deficits.
"These figures illustrate the folly of imposing public-service cuts on a stagnant job market," said Erin Weir, an economist with the United Steelworkers.
Canadian Labour Congress economist Angella MacEwen said there are essentially two labour markets in Canada, that one in Alberta and Saskatchewan, and the one in the rest of Canada.
"The first thing to recognize is that there's a problem," she said, "because if we recognize what is happening, then the problem in Ontario, Quebec, the Atlantic provinces and B.C. looks much worse."
She and other labour economists are calling for governments to become more involved in the economy by spending on infrastructure, the green economy and other measures that, in the long run, create the conditions for economic expansion and hiring, adding that she would like to see Ottawa establish a forum with business and unions to thrash out ideas.
That would help, agrees Porter, but doesn't recommend governments going into deep debt to try and engineer a short-term fix. He noted the last federal budget did contain some measures that should help in the long term, including money for the Champlain Bridge in Quebec and the Windsor-Detroit bridge, along with money for the auto industry.
"If you treat it as something you try and accomplish in a short period of time, the results are only going to last a short period of time," he said.
In a speech earlier in the week, Bank of Canada deputy governor John Murray expressed some confusion about the economy's behaviour of late, acknowledging that it "has not been unfolding exactly as we had expected."
At the heart of the problem is that non-commodity exports, mostly manufactured goods, have been unusually weak given the strengthening global growth, he said.
And business investment has been soft despite "healthy corporate balance sheets," what former governor Mark Carney called the "dead money" problem.
The federal government has done its bit, Carney had observed, cutting corporate income taxes, but the bounty had not been put to work to expand and create jobs.
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making the income stream highly variable. This variability in male income streams may shift female strategies of mate choice and family formation. Rather than relying on a single man to provide resources over the long term, women derive support for themselves and their children from a number of different sources: (1) their own market labor; (2) assistance from female kin and other women (Geronimus, 1996; Geronimus and Korenman, 1992; Stack, 1974); or (3) temporary boyfriends, who are chosen in part because they are currently employed (Lancaster, 1989; Tucker and Mitchell-Kernan, 1995).
This pattern results in a system of serial and simultaneous polygynandry, where both women and men have multiple reproductive relationships (Lancaster, 1989; Lancaster and Kaplan, 1992). It also results in residential sibships composed of half-siblings with different fathers. Since it may be difficult for fathers to control the distribution of resources they provide to ex-partners so that they are preferentially directed toward their genetic offspring, men have less incentive to invest in them (Weiss and Willis, 1985; Willis and Haaga, 1996), placing further pressure on women to garner resources from other sources.
In the United States, many women, especially ethnic minorities, who face a mating market where male unemployment is great, choose to reproduce at younger ages while they are still living with their mothers, so that they can receive maternal or grand-maternal assistance in child rearing (Burton, 1990; Geronimus, 1996). The change in the family structure associated with teen childbearing over the second half of the 20th century was dramatic. For example, in 1960 only 15 percent of births to women under age 20 were to unmarried women; by 1994 the figure had risen to 76 percent (Child-Trends, 1995, 1996). Among ethnic groups with high levels of unemployed males, the proportion of all births to unmarried women has shown an equally dramatic increase; for example, by the late 1990s, more than 70 percent of all births to black and Native American women were nonmarital.
This trend is especially pronounced in the developing world, where male unemployment among migrants to the cities is exceptionally high. For example, Figure 7-6 shows the household living arrangements of the students in the Cape Town study discussed above. Less than a quarter of the students were living with both natural parents, about half were living either with their mother alone or with their mother and step-father, and more than a quarter were living with other relatives. It is interesting to note that the switch to the matrifocal family in South Africa from the traditional patrilineal patrilocal form was noted as early as the 1940s, as soon as there was significant migration to urban areas by women (Burman and Preston-Whyte, 1992; Burman and Reynolds, 1986). The global emergence of the matrifocal family in response to urbanization is another example of convergence among people with very different cultural backgrounds.