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☆ Where to stay in India? Here are 8 former palaces that are now hotels
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( Poonam Binayak | Lisa Lucas | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

Source: Heritage DharampuraIt's now a 14-room boutique hotel, which received an honorable mention in 2017's UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation. It was transformed into a heritage hotel in the 1960s and is now impeccably managed by the Taj Group. Taj Lake Palace Source: Taj Lake PalaceStraight out of a fairy tale, the Taj Lake Palace boasts domed pavilions, ornamental turrets, crystal chandeliers, and 83 antique-filled rooms and suites, some which overlook a gleaming courtyard that hosts nightly folk dances. Source: Taj Usha Kiran PalaceToday, it's a lavish Taj hotel that balances old-world vibes with contemporary style. It is now a heritage hotel managed by the Taj Group.

Persons: Jehan Numa, Jehan, Palace, General Obaidullah Khan, Vijay Goel, James Bond, Taj Falaknuma, —, Taj Usha Kiran, it's, King Charles , Louis Mountbatten, Jacqueline Kennedy, Bhanj Deo, There's Organizations: UNESCO, Cultural Heritage Conservation, Taj, Taj Group, Royal, Rambagh, Jaipur, Cochin — Locations: India, Odisha, Rajasthan, Bhopal, Dharampura, Delhi, UNESCO Asia, Jama Masjid, Old Delhi, Udaipur, Pichola, Mewar, Taj Lake, Lake, lavishness, Falaknuma, Nizam, Hyderabad, Windsor, Gwalior, Rambagh, Jaipur, Baripada, Chittoor Kottaram, Kochi, Chittoor, —, Cochin

☆ The airline lost his bags. He crossed the Atlantic to find them
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Julia Buckley | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Flying over, they had a 90-minute layover in London, which should have been enough – British Airways recommends an hour between flights. Plenty of travelers these days are packing tracking devices into their bags, meaning that they can see where their “lost” bags are when airlines drop the ball. Each day, buying clothes and toiletries when needed, the family logged into British Airways’ lost luggage system to see where their bags were. Searching for her own lost bags in Florence airport, she had seen theirs and, after noting details on the tags, wanted Bunce to know they were there. The British Airways system still told them that the bags had not been traced, but now they had a lead.

Persons: Brett Bunce, Bunce, Gwyn, Carolina, Bel Paese, she’d, Sandra Shuster, “, ”, Anne Johnson, Tim Clayton, Corbis, it’ll, ” Keen, He’d, you’d, he'd, Brett Bunce Bunce, – they’d, “ I’m, Aleandro, you’re Organizations: CNN —, British Airways, London Heathrow, United Airlines, Baltimore, Staff, Getty, American Airlines, Florence Peretola Airport, ”, CNN, FedEx Locations: Italy, Florence, Miami, London, Rome, Naples, Heathrow, Denver, Chicago, Colorado, Carolina, we’d, cobblestones

☆ Pass On Your Heirlooms, Not Family Drama
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-30 | by ( Ashlea Ebeling | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Have Heirlooms You Want to Pass Down? Make Your Kids Download This App
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-15 | by ( Kate Morgan | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

FAMILY JEWELS A new class of apps has emerged to help you catalog your belongings and preserve the stories that make them feel like heirlooms. Photo: Getty ImagesWHILE PLANNING a move, Kathy Luck’s elderly parents walked her through their Houston home, recounting the origins of each knickknack and piece of furniture acquired over a lifetime of travel and collecting. “I remember thinking I’d love to share these family stories with my siblings, and I’m sure all the grandchildren would be interested,” said Luck, 65, “but if I called everybody on the phone right this minute, nobody would care.”

Persons: Kathy Luck’s, ” Organizations: Houston

☆ Do We Have to Pay for Our Children’s ‘Platonic Partners’ on Family Vacations?
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Philip Galanes | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Going forward, gather the children and reiterate your commitment to family travel. Depending on the surplus, you can cover some (or all) of the travel costs of partners and chosen family members — or you can throw those costs back to the children involved. It will serve you better to be inclusive than to decide unilaterally which of your children’s relationships matter more. Image Credit... Miguel PorlanIn the Right, but Keeping QuietMy husband’s father left his mother when my husband was 2. I also ride out gifts I don’t care for if they have sentimental value: family heirlooms, for instance.

Persons: Miguel Porlan, didn’t

☆ I find peoples' lost jewelry on beaches for a living. I have a 90% success rate, and most searches take me under 2 hours.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-13 | by ( Gary Nunn | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Michael Oliver would hunt for lost metal as a hobby while working as a forklift driver. I called my business Lost Jewelry Recovery rather than naming it as a metal-detecting service, because jewelry is the main thing clients call me to recover. The equipment tells me exactly where to dig and how far downSometimes I find lost jewelry in five minutes or less. There are heaps of lost rings: engagement rings, wedding rings, family heirlooms, 21 st-birthday rings, grandma's ring — the lot. Reunions are often emotionalSometimes curious beachgoers who've watched the nail-biting search burst into spontaneous applause when I find the lost item.

“One of the worst things you can hear from your child is them screaming ‘I don’t want to die! Residents across the state are just beginning to understand the full extent of the damage, especially in marginalized communities, as they recover from the deluge. But instead of work, Naranjo and other farmworkers are faced with some 20,000 flooded farmland in Salinas, according to early estimates from the Monterey County Farm Bureau, a nonprofit association of farmers and ranchers. When asked if he would return to work soon, Naranjo answered: “I don’t know.”Cars driving through a flooded roadway in Planada, Calif., on Jan. 10. “In my head, I thought if it was that bad, someone would come tell us, but no one ever did.

☆ Building emergency savings is a top financial resolution for 2023, survey finds. Here’s how to get started
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-30 | by ( Lorie Konish | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Jenkin, who co-wrote a book called "The 21-Day Budget Cleanse," recommends people take a detox-type approach to their household budgets. "Most people really haven't taken the time to see where they're overspending and size up what the difference is," Jenkin said. That's "troubling" now, as interest rates on those debts are poised to continue to climb, according to Matt Schulz, chief credit analyst at LendingTree. Look for higher rates on your cashAs interest rates climb, that's good news for the money you stand to earn on your cash. Online savings accounts and certificates of deposit, or CDs, are providing the highest interest rates in more than a decade.

☆ I'm a seasonal 'elf' who makes money decorating people's homes for Christmas
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-24 | by ( Jen Glantz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

We offer decorating services for other holidays and events, but our main focus is Christmas. I became a co-owner of The Ultimate Elf and made that my seasonal job from October to January. While we do offer decorating services for other holidays and events, like Halloween and bridal showers, our main focus is Christmas. Clauson moved back to Chicago and, as a co-owner of The Ultimate Elf, made holiday decor her seasonal job from October to January. I put away my Ultimate Elf hat and count down the days until the next holiday season.

☆ The IRS Goes After Your Side Hustle
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

There’s a new job for those 87,000 new employees at the Internal Revenue Service, and it isn’t chasing billionaires. It’s digging around to discover if you reported that extra $600 you made from selling grandma’s heirlooms at your garage sale. The IRS is reminding Americans that the reporting rules have changed for payment-card and third-party payment network transactions. This means that if you received a payment of more than $600 via such networks as Venmo, PayPal , Amazon or Square, you will probably receive a Form 1099-K this year. The reporting limit for receiving a Form 1099-K used to be $20,000 a year.

☆ Drop your gun: French hand over their unlicensed weapons to police
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( Eric Gaillard | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

NICE, France, Dec 1 (Reuters) - French gun owners were handing over their weapons at police collection points across the country this week as part of a campaign to round up unlicensed firearms, often heirlooms lying in attics or forgotten at the back of cupboards. "They were my dad's and I didn't know what do with them," Lionel said at a police station in Nice in southern France where he handed over his weapons. [1/5] Undeclared firearms owned by residents are seen at a police station in Nice as part of an unprecedented collection campaign organised by French authorities to reduce the number of illegally-held weapons in France, November 30, 2022. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard 1 2 3 4 5Those who bring in the weapons face no penalties. The campaign ends on Friday, after which collected weapons will either be handed over to museums or destroyed.

Kid Dynamite died in a car accident in Germany in 1963, leaving behind two children, including a son, Herman. Most of the more notable heirlooms, such as the mouthpiece to Kid Dynamite’s saxophone, Herman said, were donated by the family to the Amsterdam Museum. But what persists most potently of Kid Dynamite is his music. “It starts with a very long tone on the sax.”Kid Dynamite at the Sheherazade jazz club in Amsterdam in 1957. But now I recognize that intro, that long tone, as the departure of that boat.”— Sejla Rizvic

WE’RE ALWAYS HERE to help you find gifts that elicit “you really know me!” enthusiasm, even from the normally taciturn. This year, we aimed higher, aspiring to choose items with such eternal appeal, and of such high quality, that they might become heirlooms—used and loved by both your giftees and subsequent generations. Below, find our carefully considered recommendations—most under $300—for everyone in your life who loves gear, food, travel, fashion and design. This holiday, you might need to check your giftees’ lists twice, but you’ll only need to buy any of these once.

☆ ‘My Aching Heart Is Shattered Into Little Pieces’
▼ + stars: | 2022-06-24 | by ( Patricia Mazzei | Rose Marie Cromwell | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

‘My Aching Heart Is Shattered Into Little Pieces’A year ago, Champlain Towers South collapsed in Surfside, Fla. The lives of those who lost loved ones and homes have never been the same. Leer en españolJune 24, 2022SURFSIDE, Fla. — A year later, the shock of the collapse of Champlain Towers South has not worn off. Not for the people whose loved ones died crushed in the rubble. “My aching heart is shattered into little pieces and beyond repair,” Eileen Rosenberg, whose daughter, Malky Weisz, was killed, said in court on Thursday.

Persons: Miamians, Heirlooms, ” Eileen Rosenberg, Malky Weisz Locations: Champlain Towers, Surfside, Fla, Leer, SURFSIDE, —, South Florida

☆ See the Family Heirlooms That Carry History
▼ + stars: | 2022-06-17 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

At a Sears in the mid-twentieth century, Bozeman’s great-grandmother, Willie Mae Foster, purchased an emerald-green suitcase that could meet her travel needs and carry the hopes and dreams of her kin for decades to come. “Inside of it, when I first encountered it,” Bozeman remembered, “was my great grandmother’s typewriter. At a Sears in the mid-twentieth century, Bozeman’s great-grandmother, Willie Mae Foster, purchased an emerald-green suitcase that could meet her travel needs and carry the hopes and dreams of her kin for decades to come. At a Sears in the mid-twentieth century, Bozeman’s great-grandmother, Willie Mae Foster, purchased an emerald-green suitcase that could meet her travel needs and carry the hopes and dreams of her kin for decades to come. “For her, she just remembers growing up and never being able to use it,” Bozeman said of his aunt.

Persons: Trent Bozeman, Bozeman’s, Willie Mae Foster, ” Bozeman, “, didn’t, ”, Madea, Deborah Organizations: Trent, Sears Locations: Memphis, Tenn

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