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At Auburn University in Alabama, mandatory fees have been steadily increasing for several years. They now make up 16 percent of an in-state student's combined tuition and fee costs. Part of this increase stems from self-imposed fees that students voted for because they wanted a new recreation center, said Mike Reynolds, executive director of student financial services.
But a major component of the increase is Auburn's new $400 "proration fee," also introduced in 2011 to make up for a loss of state support. Reynolds said the charge was labeled a fee because it was intended to be temporary.
"That fee could go away. Whether that will happen, I don't know," Reynolds said.
Critics suggest that some schools likely keep their fee costs fuzzy as a way of seeming more financially attractive to prospective students. But if students are still paying for the additional costs in the end, any marginal marketing benefit on the front end may engender bad feelings after the bill arrives.
"It is hard not to feel a little misled," said one parent of a student at UMass Amherst who did not want to be quoted by name. "Yes, they are on the web somewhere, but they are not always easy to find. Unless you dig out the list and closely analyze it, you don't realize there are all these extra expenses. Schools don't go out of their way to publicize it."
School spokesman Ed Blaguszewski said in an email that the school makes an effort to be clear about total costs.
"In publications and [on] our website, extensive details about the tuition, fees and the estimated overall cost of attendance are shared with students in advance," Blaguszewski said. "Our Admissions and Financial Aid staff believe prospective students are well informed about cost, and the info is publicly posted."
Momentum is expected to pick up on the upside once the Nifty crosses the range of 10,600-10,710 on a closing basis.
TGIF! And, why not after a strong muhurat trading session brought much-needed cheer to the market. The S&P BSE climbed 35,000 while the Nifty50 close a tad lower below its resistance level of 10,600.
Strong global cues helped Indian market climb crucial resistance levels. US markets rose as investors moved past the US midterm elections without any major political surprises. The 10-year Treasury note yield rose to 3.25 percent on Wednesday, its highest since October.
It was a strong 1-hour session for Indian markets. The S&P BSE Sensex jumped more than 200 points while Nifty witnessed a rally of around 60 points in the Muhurat session.
One positive takeaway from the Muhurat Trading session was that Supetrend Indicator gave a buy signal. The last time it gave a buy signal was in the month of July, the Nifty50 index touched the record high of 10,760. Let’s see where index heads from current level.
Technically, level of 10,458-10,441 will act as a key support zone to watch out for.
On the other hand, momentum is expected to pick up on the upside once the Nifty crosses the range of 10,600-10,710 on a closing basis.
Once the hurdle zone is surpassed then the Nifty can stretch towards 11,000-11,140 in the short term.
On the earnings front, as many as 74 companies will report their results for the quarter ended September later today which include names like BGR Energy, EID Parry, India Cements, Indian Bank, Amara Raja Batteries, Sobha, Titan Company, and TCI Industries etc. among others.
Disclaimer: The views and investment tips expressed by investment experts on moneycontrol.com are his own, and not that of the website or its management. Moneycontrol.com advises users to check with certified experts before taking any investment decisions.
The digital pre-order for the record goes live to participating online retailers starting November 4. The iTunes and Amazon Digital Music pre-orders unlock immediate downloads of the chart-dominating singles "Edge of a Revolution" and "What Are You Waiting For?" in addition to "Get 'Em Up." On November 4 you can pre-order at this link and receive those three songs from iTunes and Amazon Digital Music as instant grat tracks. "Edge of a Revolution" and "What Are You Waiting For?" are currently available at all online retailers including iTunes, Amazon Digital Music, Google Play and more.
As soon as "What Are You Waiting For?" began impacting Top 40 radio earlier this month, it became the #1 Most Added. It also topped the iTunes Top Rock Songs Chart and landed in the Top 20 of the Overall Top Songs Chart. The inspiring and invigorating single continues the globally celebrated multi-platinum quartet's red hot streak at radio.
At Active Rock, "Edge Of A Revolution" captured the #1 spot, giving the group their eighth #1 at the format. Meanwhile, this rousing rocker has notched upcoming synchs on ESPN's Monday Night Football, the WWE's Survivor Series and NASCAR. Its music video has also garnered over 1.6 million views and counting. With all of this success, excitement for No Fixed Address continues to heat up.
Celebrating the release in style, the band will perform on Jimmy Kimmel LIVE! Monday November 17 and then on Good Morning America Thursday November 20.
Get ready to visit No Fixed Address with modern rock's most powerful and potent titans NICKELBACK on November 17.
Since first landing on the scene in 1996, NICKELBACK have cemented themselves as one of the most commercially viable and important acts of the past two decades. The group's worldwide sales exceed 50 million units, solidifying their status as the "eleventh best-selling music act" and second best-selling foreign act in the U.S. of the 21st century—behind only The Beatles. Their inescapable and irresistible smash "How You Remind Me" remains Billboard's "Top Rock Song of the Decade" and "Fourth Song of the Decade". Amongst all of these accolades, they've been crowned Billboard's "Top Rock Group of the Decade" as well. Along the way, they've received a staggering nine Grammy Award nominations, three American Music Awards, a World Music Award, a People's Choice Award, 12 JUNO Awards and have been inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame.
3. What Are You Waiting For?
In this June 2, 2016 file photo, a man leaving a campaign rally for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump squares off against protesters following him in San Jose, Calif. A federal appeals court is allowing supporters of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump to sue, alleging they were beaten after San Jose police steered them into a crowd of anti-Trump protesters.
SACRAMENTO — A federal appeals court on Friday allowed supporters of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump to proceed with a lawsuit alleging they were beaten after San Jose police steered them into a crowd of anti-Trump protesters.
Police and the city of San Jose can’t claim that officers have immunity from being sued in the aftermath of the June 2016 confrontation outside a Trump campaign rally, a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled.
Nineteen Trump supporters sued the city and individual police, alleging that officers guided them into a violent protest, barred them from finding a safer way out and then stood by while protesters assaulted them.
The supporters are represented by lawyer and Republican Party official Harmeet Dhillon.
San Jose City Attorney Richard Doyle said the city council will decide whether to take the case to the entire 9th Circuit, appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, or proceed to trial.
Police wearing riot gear stood their ground for about 90 minutes as violence escalated before breaking up scuffles and making arrests.
U.S. President Barack Obama has called for more forceful intervention in the Syrian conflict — but groups on the ground say that America's misguided actions aren't just not helping — they're making things worse.
As Kurdish YPG forces liberated the embattled border city of Kobani after 134 days of siege by Islamic State fighters, the Pentagon unveiled plans this month to provide weapons and military training to "moderate" Syrian rebels trying clawing their way through a battle on all fronts.
President Obama used his State of the Union speech to call for more authorization from Congress to use military force against Daesh.
"We will continue to hunt down terrorists and dismantle their networks, and we reserve the right to act unilaterally, as we've done relentlessly since I took office to take out terrorists who pose a direct threat to us and our allies," President Obama said in his January 20 speech. American-led coalition airstrikes have already killed over 6,000 of the Islamic State – a significant portion of the group's fighting force.
Now, reports from human rights groups show that the U.S.' "unilateral action" is doing little to save innocent civilians, and is likely to exacerbate the bitter conflict – now entering its fourth year, with no end in sight.
Of the 1,354 deaths documented by the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) this January, Assad regime forces accounted for the majority of civilian deaths, killing 883 people, including 207 children and 54 women. 129 rebel fights were also killed by government forces. Extremist groups account for less than ten percent of killings in Syria, with Daesh claiming 54 civilian lives and 53 fighters, and Jabhat al-Nusra killing 11 people, according to SNHR's January report.
Syria's civil war has already claimed over 191,000 lives since 2011, and sent scores of refugees pouring into Lebanon, Egypt and Europe, often in risky and dangerous ways.
Fadel Abdulghany, founder of SNHR, denounced Western countries' disregard for the humanitarian situation in Syria, pointing to his organization's 30 per cent tally of women and children casualties as "a clear indication of the purposed targeting of civilians by governmental forces."
While U.S. officials touted the results of its airstrikes against the Islamic State, foreign military intervention may be hastening defectors to Daesh and worsening the situation on the ground, according to reports by The Guardian.
The Assad regime, angered by unauthorized coalition strikes in its airspace, has stepped up its own bombing campaign on Syrian cities, and may even be pushing fighters from the constellation of hostile factions to join the only group with the ambition to seize total control of the country – the Islamic State.
Though SNHR's statistics find it guilty of only a portion of the massacres plaguing Syria, the intensifying focus on Daesh extolled by U.S. officials in both rhetoric and policy has started to garner sympathy among some Syrians.
“All the locals here wonder why the U.S. coalition never came to rescue them from Assad’s machine guns, but ran to fight Daesh when it took a few pieces of land," said Abu Zeid, commander of a Free Syrian Army (FSA) brigade near Idlib, in Syria's northwestern Aleppo province. "We were in a robust fight against the Islamic State for confiscating our liberated areas, but now, if we are not in an alliance, we are in a truce with them,” Zeid said.
“We did not get any weapons from the U.S. to fight the regime for the last three years – only now do U.S. weapons arrive for fighting Daesh,” FSA fighter Omar Waleed told The Guardian.
The Free Syrian Army's strength has diminished significantly as the war drags on. In addition to battling other rebel and extremist groups for control and influence over Syrian territory, the FSA has also had to fight for its dwindling reputation, amid mistrust that foreign support has turned its members into foreign agents, compromising their credibility among Syrians.
In September 2014, the remnants of its central command refused to join a coalition with the U.S.-backed al-Hazzem Movement to fight against the Islamic State on the ground, although the group has accepted weapons and training from the U.S. to fight on their own. "If they want to see the FSA on their side, they should give assurances on toppling the Assad regime, and on a plan that includes revolutionary principles," said Colonel Riad al-Asaad of the FSA.
Military intervention has, up until this point, proved hopelessly unsuccessful at bringing the civil war to any kind of peaceful resolution. Inserting more violence and weaponry would likely add more fuel to the fiery quagmire of the Syrian conflict, and send the region spiraling away from peace and further into a self-repeating cycle of warfare.
Noting the devastating results of ISIS' seizure of American tanks and heavy artillery in Mosul, Iraq in June 2014, journalist Abby Martin said: "What politicians never seem to understand is that when they bomb any human being, it leaves behind not only dead bodies – but widows, children, and parents – leading to countless more radicalized to join the fight against whatever force that killed their family."
So much for the sisterhood.
When the political journalist Isabel Hardman complained to the whips about an MP calling her “totty”, I thought she’d done exactly the right thing.
She didn’t name the man who’d offended her, but passed his name to a whip, who gave him a well-deserved dressing-down, leaving the MP, in Hardman’s words, “contrite”. Job done.
Why then after her parliamentary lobby colleague took such a principled stand against the sexism that sadly still permeates Parliament did the Daily Mail’s political editor at large Isabel Oakeshott feel the need to give her a piece of her mind?
In a frankly poisonous article, Ms Oakeshott accused her of “running to teacher to tell tales”, a “humourless” response, and “attention-seeking”. Ouch.
Well I regret to inform Ms Oakeshott, that Ms Hardman does speak for me, and I suspect a great many other female journalists.
So many of us have been forced to put up with sexism in Westminster – the lascivious texts from a well-known peer; the “noble Lord” whose hand found its way to my bottom in a crowded bar; and the select committee chairman who assumed I was a secretary because I was the only woman in the room.
I never complained about any of it when I was working in the lobby five years ago. But I wish I had. It reflects badly on me that I didn’t.
Yes this was a relatively “trivial incident”, as Ms Oakeshott puts it.
But if this kind of low-level harassment is tolerated, the culture will never change. Women will be belittled, undermined and shown no respect. They won’t be equal citizens in male-dominated workplaces like the lobby, let alone securing the top jobs and equal pay.
Ms Oakeshott suggested Ms Hardman should have taken the errant MP to task in person. But why should she become embroiled in a spat face-to-face? Far better to make a formal complaint, and keep it professional.
She even opined that her colleague “should have been pleased” the MP took a fancy to her. As if female political journalists are part of a beauty pageant, rated for their looks rather than their professional skill. “If a handful of male MPs are a little more forthcoming because we wear skirts, who are we to complain?” she wrote.
I for one would be the first to complain if it was judged I’d built my career on my wardrobe rather than my ability. And I’m sure my male colleagues would have something to say about that too.
This might seem like a storm in a Westminster tea-cup, but it’s symptomatic of what women are subjected to up and down the land.
Campaigns like the “everyday sexism” hashtag have done wonders for naming and shaming inappropriate behaviour and more. So it’s a shame that one senior journalist tries to turn back the clock.
I’m with Isabel on this…Isabel Hardman.
Very well said. Don’t beat yourself up about not speaking out when you were the victim though. It’s all about context and prevailing culture – IH was brave to speak out, yes, but she was moving with the grain of popular opinion. Back in the day when you were in that place it was much harder, and 20 years before that a complainant would have been ostracised out of the job. IO is a fine journalist and a powerful player but her position here is wrong, and all the more so for making the point publicly, rather than in private.
Well said. Hardman is one of the best journos in Britain at the moment. Oakshott knows the right (wrong) people.
I cannot agree more with you Cathy, having just watched Isabel O on ch4 news essentially say that she would do whatever it takes to get what she needs out of MPs, I’m literally gobsmacked. How can she expect to be treated with respect or creditability if her morals are so completely absent? Isabel H did the right thing, there should be zero tolerance of casual sexism, if you tolerate a bit of bum pinching here and there then where is the line? Isabel O should be ashamed of herself for sending out the message that it’s ok to treat women in this way. Maybe she’s happy to debase herself but I’m hoping the majority of the female population is not.
Perhaps this lady should have had a gran like I did?
Long before women`s Lib and the “Equality” push, she was not to be messed with, but did not seek sympathy or “engage” with like minded folk! If you messed with her…beware..she would let you know…and how…she did not turn to a “womens Group” but the street where she lived called her for help!
Of course, that was when women were thought to be “under respected” which is why the Liberation Movement was begun!
As I remember her as a small boy,I recall she never needed help from anyone to deal with anything let alone discrimination…no-one dared speak rashly to or around her!!
I watched with fascination during my visits with Mum, who was a chip off the old block….which is where I get my impatience for women needing “groups”to run to so THEY can stand her corner for her!!
I am glad the repoerter spoke out in her most public reply on this topic.
Calling someone humourless because they felt uneasy,awkward,offended while carrying out professional job?
I think Isabel Oakeshott has got it wrong on this one. Compliments are a great thing, but I’m pretty sure that most people would prefer to be valued and respected for who they are and the work they do as opposed to what they look like.
Nice pair of threepenny bits, or a fine journalist of the utmost integrity; a consummate professional?
At least none of these alleged comments are political platitudes!
In the USA, he is a Man, and over there it is fair game to blame him for even the rotation of the Earth!! The LEFT and Wimmins groups have spoken…It is called political Correctness.
I see the same media skipped swiftly over the critical comments ref Hillary vis a vis the FBI and the American media!
Seems like Obama is desperate to get another Democrat in the WH, after his partisan speech on Sunday . I thought that the Head of State was supposed to keep ABOVE the political fray to show that positions complete neutrality, and to indicate constitutional fairness.
Obama may as well write yet another Exec Order and take another term, which would GUARANTEE a Democrat in the WH, but maybe be a mite Partial after his 8 years in office??!!
Well said Cathy! It’s a sad state of affairs that Oakshott made both Channel 4 News and Newsnight on Thursday in personal appearances. Probably Hardman herself had no desire to ‘make too much of it’ as Oakshott accused her of doing. Oakshott got more attention than Hardman, which, she seemed to have eagerly courted. Did that irony escape her, I wonder?
Thanks for the post, Cathy! The words we use reflect our underlying attitudes so have weight and consequence. It’s encouraging to me that IH believes it’s not ok to put up with bad behaviour and find it mind-boggling that IO believes this behaviour should be tolerated within a professional environment. Might she be suffering from some kind of Stockholm Syndrome? Or just got so used to the prevailing status quo that things like having your bottom pinched is ‘just another day at the office’? It says a lot about how far we still have to go before gender is simply not an item in the professional equation. And it seems to me that it is only by people taking IH’s approach that progress will be made.
would the MP concerned be ok about someone saying this to a member of his family?
When I met Cathy first I was a government press officer and low grade sexism went way beyond the Division Bell into most departments. But it wasn’t just from men. I’ll never forget being told by a senior female civil servant that clever women didn’t wear lipstick it was only for, ‘admin grades’.
Forced marriage and FMG is demeaning but few women ever raise heads above feminists parapet for THEM!! Why not.
Time these women stodd up for rEAL values as women USED TO!!
Well said Cathy. Im with you.
IO deliberately chasing controversy for her own gain.
Of course all sexism is wrong. All unreasonable discrimination is wrong. People should be judged on ability not their gender or race. Or any other criteria.
But what about the discrimination against older workers? What about the ganging up against the employment of men?
What should I do if my mortgage offer runs out before my new build property is finished? | City A.M.
Property Legal Q&A: We believe our new build flat should be ready in three months’ time and have just been advised our mortgage offer has expired. What should we do?
Hema's a partner in real estate at London law firm BDB Pitmans LLP.
There are a few issues for you to consider. You do not say whether you have received formal notification from the developer requiring you to complete in three months. Usually, a contract for the purchase of a property not-yet-built will contain a procedure stating that completion is on notice i.e. the developer will notify you your flat is built in accordance with the terms of the contract and ready for you to buy.
This will trigger a very strict timescale, 21 or 28 days, for example, within which you will be required to complete the purchase of the flat. From experience, the new flat is often not ready by the original deadline.
Most mortgage offers are only valid for six months and there are other factors to consider when the mortgage is for a new build property. For example, your lender may have placed a limit on the amount it is willing to lend, which is less than if it was an older property.
You may need to reapply for your mortgage and you need to consider if there has been any material change in your circumstances in the past two years. The lender may wish to revalue the property to check if the original valuation is still accurate, which may lead to an increase or decrease in the amount the lender is prepared to lend. Your lender may also retain some funds from the loan until it is satisfied that certain issues relating to the development and/or flat have been dealt with.
Inspect the property to ensure that the flat contains the finishes, appliances or any other terms you have agreed with the developer.
Prepare a snagging list of any defects relating to the flat. Snagging and minor defects do not usually allow you to delay completion and the developer has a certain period of time within which to fix any problems.