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To locate an appraiser, you can visit the American Society of Appraisers, the Appraisers Association of America or the International Society of Appraisers.
You can also get estimates by professional appraisers and other experts through a number of websites.
Officials say you can upload photos of your items, provide descriptions and the sites will send their valuations within a week.
Value My Stuff charges $10 for one appraisal, $25 for three or $75 for 10.
WorthPoint charges $30 for one item or $75 for three. You can also pay $20 for a monthly membership that provides unlimited access to their valuations.
Kovels offers a free basic membership that gives you access to its online price guide, or you can purchase a premium service for $39 or $60 a year. They also sell “Kovels’ Antiques & Collectibles Price Guide 2014” for $28 that reports on recent prices paid for items in more than 700 categories.
If you are interested in donating any of your items, you can find the tax-deductible value at Turbo Tax or the Salvation Army.
Seong-Jin Cho review – technically brilliant, but what was guiding the flashing fingers?
Seong-Jin Cho made his British debut with the Philharmonia last November, less than a month after he took first prize in the 2015 Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw. Then he played the work with which he had won that competition, Chopin’s E minor Concerto, and for this first London recital the programme was all-Chopin too.
We will have to wait, then, to discover whether Cho is more than a one-trick pony, and whether the virtues of his Chopin playing transfer convincingly to other composers. Much of what he offered here confirmed was what the Philharmonia concerto performance and the disc released of his Warsaw performances suggested: that he is still a work-in-progress, a pianist who needs to be given the time to round out his musical personality and find the interpretative ideas to match his undeniable technical prowess.
There are already moments in Cho’s performances that have a sense of something really special. In this recital, the first of them came at the end of the F minor Fantasy, when the music seemed to be suspended in mid-air on a gossamer thread of sound; the Four Mazurkas, Op 33 too seemed to inhabit a world that Cho had imagined just for them. But the bigger, public works – the A flat Polonaise, Op 53, the second Ballade, and the B flat minor Scherzo – were generalised and much less involving. Though they were technically brilliant, it was hard to work out just what was guiding the flashing fingers, any more than it was possible to sense what Cho really thinks the B flat minor Sonata is all about; music that Chopin himself described as “a few of my wildest children” seemed almost matter of fact here.
A Bach sarabande and a Schubert impromptu were the encores. When we get the chance to hear Cho in more of such music, and perhaps in a Beethoven sonata or some Debussy preludes, there might be a better sense of where he really is and where he might go.
RealtyTrac released today its Second Annual Manmade Environmental Hazards Housing Risk Report, which analyzed 7,751 ZIP codes throughout the nation and measured five environmental hazards: air quality, superfund sites, brownfields, former drug labs and polluters. RealtyTrac broke down the risk into five categories, ranging from very high to very low.
More than one-third of all U.S. single family homes and condos, or 25 million, are in ZIP codes at high risk or very high risk for manmade environmental hazards.
In San Francisco County, zero ZIP codes are at high or very high risk. In the past 10 years, the median home sales price increased 45 percent.
Nearby San Mateo County has one ZIP code, or 20 percent, Contra Costa County has one ZIP code, or 14 percent, and Alameda County has two ZIP codes, or 17 percent, in high or very high risk.
“Buying a home in an area with low risk of manmade environmental hazards may not just be a good idea for health and safety reasons; it may also be good for financial reasons,” said Daren Blomquist, vice president at RealtyTrac, in a statement.
The 12 major markets with no ZIP codes at high risk for manmade environmental hazards include Albuquerque, N.M.; Anchorage, Ala.; Cape Coral-Fort Myers, Fla.; Charleston, S.C.; Myrtle Beach, S.C.; Naples, Fla.; Palm Bay, Fla., Port St. Lucie, Fla.; Provo-Orem, Utah; Salinas, Calif.; Santa Rosa, Calif.; and Winston-Salem, N.C.
The metro areas that saw the highest percentage of ZIP codes with a high risk include Riverside-San Bernardino, Calif.; Akron, Ohio; Cleveland; Stockton, Calif.; Louisville, Ky.; Reading, Pa.; Toledo, Ohio; El Paso, Texas; Los Angeles; Kansas City; Grand Rapids, Mich.; and Bakersfield, Calif.
THE 2016 group of apprentices who started at Domino Printing Sciences last autumn are already reaping the rewards of a structured scheme with work-based learning, backed up by college teaching.
This is the first intake for the new formal Apprenticeship Scheme which Domino Printing Sciences launched last year as part of its commitment to the career development of its employees.
The Bar Hill-based company offered a structured apprenticeship training programme to seven people across four different areas of its operation: Engineering, Sales, Business Administration and IT, with applicants able to choose the area that was right for them.
There were multiple opportunities in all four areas, varying in length according to business area and qualification being studied: Engineering is a four-year rotation in R&D and Operations; Sales a two year rotation in Sales, Service and Channel Marketing; Business Administration a 3.5-year rotation in Marketing, HR, Estates and Finance; and IT a five-year rotation in different functions including Software.
All seven participants have been positive about the Apprenticeship Scheme, highlighting the benefits of gaining real-life experience in the workplace but also getting the qualifications they need to progress in their chosen career.
They had also formed a good impression about the Domino Apprenticeship Scheme: “it seemed very well planned and thought out”, “it provided the opportunity to develop and is a global company” and “although it is a large company, everyone is helpful and supportive of the scheme”.
The apprentices also welcomed the fact that although Domino is a large company, people were friendly and hard-working and made them feel they are contributing to the department they are in.
Lizzy East, Apprentice Programme Manager at Domino, said: “We were very excited about our new Apprenticeship Scheme which was launched in September 2016 and the opportunities it gave us to invest in and develop talented young people within our organisation. Apprenticeships provide a fantastic chance for people to earn whilst they learn, grow with the company and reach their full potential.
“We also held a Parents’ Evening so they could learn more about the Scheme and Domino.
“We shall be launching our 2017 Scheme in February and look forward to hearing from candidates who are looking for the combination of workplace experience and classroom learning,” concluded East.
Domino is a world-leading designer, developer and manufacturer of coding and marking devices, printers, inks, consumables and spares, for printing onto products ranging from a single egg to large aircraft parts. It also provides a comprehensive range of products used in digital printing.
For questions about the Apprenticeship Scheme, please contact Lizzy East on (01954) 782551 or email elizabeth.east@domino-uk.com.
President Paul Kagame today arrived in Luanda, Angola to start a two-day working visit. During the visit, he met and held talks with his counterpart President João Lourenço.
Today, the two Heads of State held a meeting before attending a luncheon hosted in honor of President Kagame and the visiting delegation.
The visit is expected to serve as an opportunity to strengthen bilateral cooperation between the two countries and existing areas of partnerships including air transport, security and justice, migration, ICT and governance.
Tomorrow, prior to his departure, the two leaders are expected to address a press briefing.
Rwanda and Angola have a number of bilateral agreements including technical advice and information exchange in law enforcement that will see both countries cooperate in security and public order in the interest of their citizen. The agreement was signed this year.
The two governments last year signed a Bilateral Air Service Agreement under which the national carrier, RwandAir, and Angola's national airline Taag got seven frequencies a week on either side.
Rwandan citizens traveling to Angola are not required to have visas to enter Angolan territory.
As varsity football head coach and history teacher at Fike High, Tom Nelson wasn’t exactly looking for more things to do as he approaches his eighth season leading the Golden Demons.
However, when the job of athletic director became available, Nelson embraced the role. He will succeed Toni Varacchi, the Lady Demons soccer coach who has served as Fike AD since 2011.
Fike Principal Randy St. Clair said that Nelson is a great liaison to the community.
“Coach Nelson is a community guy and one thing that we will be trying to do at Fike High School is make sure that we do connect to our community,” St. Clair said. “He’s well known in the coaching world as well and, most importantly, he takes the care of students and children very seriously.
Nelson was co-athletic director with Jody O’Neal at Beddingfield, where he was also the varsity football head coach from 2002 to 2006. He spent five years as head football coach at North Johnston before returning to Fike in 2011. Nelson began his coaching career at his alma mater, Hunt High, as an assistant coach after graduating from Lees-McRae College, where he played football.
Nelson and his wife, Emily, have three daughters — Reily, Reece and Reagan. He may find more time in his schedule with oldest daughter, Reily, headed off to Western Carolina University as a freshman member of the Catamounts women’s soccer team. Reece is a rising junior at Fike and Reagan will be in eighth grade at Elm City Middle.
Nelson grinned at the suggestion that the extra income will help with a lot of college tuition checks on the horizon to write.
Nelson pointed out that Glenn Jones will continue in his role as assistant AD at Fike, which is key to his transition.
St. Clair declined to specify the reason for the change, though he did confirm that the switch was not related to Varacchi’s brief suspension and subsequent full reinstatement as physical education teacher, coach and AD this spring following a complaint from the parents of a Fike girls soccer player.
Nelson praised the job Varacchi did in her tenure, including guiding Fike to Wells Fargo Conference Cup championships in the 3-A Big East Conference the past two years.
Nelson said that his most pressing duties were to find new volleyball and cross-country coaches as previous coaches Jaleesa Harper and Greg Yarbrough, respectively, had tendered notification that they wouldn’t return.
“Since I’ve taken on this role I have searched the world over for a volleyball coach and a cross-country coach. I think we are going to get both of those squared away today,” Nelson said.
Nelson is the eighth athletic director in Fike’s 60-year history. Paul Marklin, who was the head football coach when Fike opened its doors in October 1958, functioned in the role of AD for several years until Gilbert Ferrell, for whom the Fike baseball field is named, assumed the post. After Ferrell came Harvey Reid Jr., Eddie Summerlin, John Gay, Kim Brown and Varacchi. Ferrell, Reid and Summerlin are all members of the Fike High Athletic Hall of Fame.
“It’s a great honor and very humbling to be on that list with those names and we’re going to try hard to keep Fike on top of athletics in Wilson County and in our conference,” Nelson assured.
The best and worst performing schools in the Dales have been revealed in a new league table.
Figures released by the Government confirmed 83 per cent of Derbyshire students achieved level four or above in both English and maths.
Cllr Mike Longden, Derbyshire County Council’s cabinet member for education, welcomed the results.
He said: “I’m delighted Derbyshire children are continuing to do well and are receiving a well-rounded, high quality education.
“Pupils, teachers, parents and governors all deserve praise for their part in achieving these results.
Below is a list of primary school league tables for the area. The first figure shows the percentage of year six pupils attaining the expected level, Level 4, in English and maths; the second figure shows the percentage of year six pupils reaching Level 5, the level expected of a 14-year-old, in both English and maths and the third figure is a school’s value added score which shows how well it helps pupils to progress.
Gov. Rick Scott has touted a strong Florida economy built up over his two terms in office. But Andrew Gillum, the Democratic candidate seeking to replace him, says the economy is "propped up" by low wages and people working multiple jobs just to make ends meet.
In an interview on CBS Miami’s Facing South Florida, host Jim DeFede asked the Tallahassee mayor if he gave Scott any credit for the economy.
"I give him credit for an economy that is largely propped up on low-wage work," Gillum said. "Of course you’ve got a low unemployment rate when people have got to work two and three jobs just to make ends meet."
In a companion fact-check, we looked at Gillum’s claim about low-wage work propping up Florida’s economy (Half True). Here, we will examine Gillum’s latter point that the low unemployment rate is propped up by people with multiple jobs.
After the interview, the campaign of Gillum’s Republican rival, Ron DeSantis, cried "Pants on Fire!" to Gillum’s multiple jobs claim. The campaign was referencing our fact-check of a similar statement by Democratic congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez about the national unemployment rate.
Is Gillum’s claim any better? No. It is similarly wrong.
Florida does have nearly full employment, with an unemployment rate of 3.7 percent as of August 2018.
Gillum doesn’t see that as positively as Scott. But his point that low unemployment indicates that people are working multiple low-wage jobs to make ends meet doesn’t hold up.
Official unemployment rates are not affected by the number of jobs people hold.
Nationally, only a small percentage of American workers are employed at more than one job, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The number has hovered in the 4.7 percent to 5.2 percent range during the past 10 years.
Florida’s percentage of residents with more than one job does not deviate from national trends.
The number of jobs in Florida has risen 2.8 percentage points faster than the number of workers in Florida over the past eight years, based on data from the federal Household and Payroll surveys.
Moody’s Analytics senior economist Kwame Donaldson said that’s evidence some workers have more than one job. However, he said, Florida is ranked 26th in the United States in this measure. Nationally, the number of jobs rose 2.9 percentage points faster than the number of workers in that time period.
Data about multiple job holders isn’t specific enough to draw conclusions about the quality of the jobs, according to Sean Snaith, the director of the University of Central Florida’s Institute for Economic Competitiveness.
"You can have multiple jobs even if your primary job is high-paying," Snaith said.
Over the past year, the number of American workers who hold multiple jobs has ranged between 6 million and 7 million, compared to more than 148 million who are employed in a single job.
The number of jobs people hold does not affect the Bureau of Labor Statistics unemployment rate. People are counted as employed as long as they hold one job. They do not get counted again if they hold more than one.
"The claim about multiple jobs and unemployment is simply not true," Snaith said.
Henry Rollins is recording an album with a new Rollins Band line-up, set for release in January on Dreamworks.
The ex-Black Flag frontman has concentrated on his spoken-word performances and movie career since the release of the Rollins Bands‘ last album, ‘Come In And Burn’, but has now teamed up with LA-based band Mother Superior to record an album of new material called ‘Get Some Go Again’.
Rollins, who split with his former Rollins Band members earlier this year, told US reporters: “It’s a little different than what I’ve done before. It’s a bit more flat-out rock, MC5-style.
ITV has confirmed it will close its inhouse children's programme-making department, saying it hopes to sell it as a going concern.
The broadcaster was forced to bring forward its announcement to staff following MediaGuardian.co.uk's story today that it was planning to get out of children's TV production.
It is the second inhouse production unit ITV has said it will close this week - yesterday, it confirmed its Bristol factual arm would shut, threatening 50 jobs.
The broadcaster has refused to rule out further closures.
An ITV spokesman said the decision affects 19 staff members who work at kids' TV production units in London, Manchester and Leeds.
The division makes shows such as My Parents are Aliens and Engie Bengy.
"We can confirm that we are consulting on the disposal of ITV Productions Kids," the spokesman said.
"The decision is part of [an] ongoing process of restructuring within ITV Productions, and ITV plc more generally, to improve efficiency in the business.
"The ITV Productions Kids unit has been responsible for many great children's programmes, and ITV Productions Kids content will continue to be seen on ITV for some time to come.
"This decision reflects the competitive production environment and is not a reflection of the quality of the unit's work over many years.
"We will of course be consulting fully with employees and unions about the changes, and are looking at the options for selling or disposing of the unit as a going concern."
The spokesman denied ITV intended to ditch children's programming from its schedule, saying the broadcaster was happy with the performance of its kids' channel which launched three months ago.
However, he refused to rule out the prospect of a withdrawal from children's programming in the future.
"This is a production decision, not a scheduling decision," he said.
"CiTV will remain as the home of high-quality kids' programming. Launched in March this year, the CiTV channel is proving hugely popular with kids and has, in three months, already overtaken established channels like Nickelodeon."
Senior sources have told MediaGuardian.co.uk that ITV's eventual plan is to get out of children's programming altogether, particularly because of the forthcoming ban on junk food adverts and the broadcaster's own current poor advertising revenues.
Media regulator Ofcom would have to give the move the green light, although it has previously proved sympathetic to ITV's attempt to cut back on children's programming, recently allowing a reduction of two hours to just eight hours a week.
"I think the writing is on the wall for CiTV," one source told MediaGuardian.co.uk. "The closure of Granada Kids is just the preamble.
"ITV's desperation on ad revenue together with the junk food ad ban means they can do better in other commercial impacts. They believe they will be able to roll Ofcom over. It will be a scandal if that happens."
It is thought ITV commissions around £28m worth of kids' programming a year.
The cuts are part of the continuing clampdown on costs by the ITV chief executive, Charles Allen. Allen is to unveil his strategy to the city this week.