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$452 bill charged after requesting help for lost engagement ring

BY CHRISTOPHER ELLIOTT

Q: I recently rented a car with Enterprise in Miami. While I was using the vehicle, I lost my engagement ring. I told an employee about it, and he agreed to look for my jewelry.

The next day, I called Enterprise to see if they had found the ring. An employee told me that they would charge me for some repairs while looking for the ring and that the ring was “a hazard.”

Two days later, I found my engagement ring at home. Eventually, I received a bill from the Enterprise department claims for $452, for damage

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NYC thieves steal $500K in jewelry in Queens heist: NYPD

Two thieves made off with $500,000 in jewelry after bursting into a Queen’s gem shop and beating an elderly employee Wednesday, cops said.

The men rushed into Diamond Collect near Prince Street and 39th Avenue in Downtown Flushing around 2:30 pm

According to police, the jewel thieves “punched, kicked and struck a 79-year-old female employee in the head with a handgun.”

The video of the robbery shows one of the men pushing past the woman as she flails at his feet.

Police are looking for the two thieves that stole $500K in jewelry from a Queens' shop.
Police are looking for the two thieves that stole $500K in jewelry from a Queens’ shop.
NYPD (DCPI)
The thieves entered Diamond Collect in downtown Flushing around 2:30 PM on Wednesday.
The
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Kate Middleton’s BAFTA dress with gloves and Zara earrings was a ‘rare miss’

However, a US style expert and stylist told Express the look was a rare miss for the Princess of Wales. Hallie Abrams, founder of The Wardrobe Consultant, said: “It pains me to say I did not love Princess Kate’s BAFTA ensemble.”

She explained: “I love the idea that she re-wored the gorgeous Alexander McQueen white gown and I also loved that she is backing a trend we saw on the red carpets of both the Golden Globes and Grammy’s this year, opera gloves.

“However, I did not love how the black opera gloves looked with the light and airy white

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Hollydrops shares a powerful message through fashion

Holly Adams noticed a gap in locally-made African attire, so she decided to take matters into her own hands.

The Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia, woman is the owner of Hollydrops, an Afrocentric line of handmade jewelry and products that promote diversity and inclusion.

“I grew up in a family of mixed races,” said Adams. “It’s very important to see a reflection of yourself and I knew that was something I wanted to include in my own business.”

Incorporating traditional fabrics and designs, her unique and colorful pieces focus on celebrating culture while paying homage to her African heritage.

“It’s what

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Botswana mining growth seen flat amid dim diamond outlook

Debswana, a joint venture between Botswana’s government and Anglo American Plc’s De Beers, which produces almost all of Botswana’s diamonds, registered an 8% growth in output in 2022 to 24.1 million carats. Diamond trading grew 41% in the year as Botswana also benefitted from Western buyers shunning stones from Russia following its invasion of Ukraine.

In 2023, Botswana expects diamond output to decline by 1%, while diamond trading growth is seen slowing to 7% from 41% last year.

“We see the diamond sector having a bit of a tough year due to an expected slowdown in consumer demand particularly in

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Hamilton cleared to race in Bahrain after jewelry inspected

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SAKHIR, Bahrain — Formula One’s governing body inspected Lewis Hamilton’s jewelry before the seven-time champion was cleared to practice Friday ahead of the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix.

Hamilton has clashed with the governing body of the FIA ​​over a jewelry tire enacted last year and indicated he had piercings that could not be removed. He received an exception for his nose stud.

Hamilton said he had to keep the stud in because of complications linked to a blood blister on his nose, which occurred because he kept having to take it out for races. In a later interview

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A Scientist Says Time Travel Is Possible With Ring Lasers

the rotating blue light trail surrounds the crystal ball

Ring Lasers Can Allow Time Travel, Scientist SaysQi Yang – Getty Images

  • Ronald Mallett is still working on rotating lasers to travel back in time.

  • His working theory is based on Albert Einstein’s relativity discussion.

  • The prototype laser loop he developed ends up bending time, hypothetically allowing movement back—at the farthest—to the moment the machine was turned on.

Ronald Mallett loves the concept of time travel. He has since he was a kid. At 77, the former University of Connecticut physics professor still isn’t backing down from his theory: A spinning laser loop can bend time in an ongoing

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Toronto fashion designer launches eyewear collection

When he was a teen growing up in Cobble Hill on Vancouver Island, Warren Steven Scott stumbled onto a show on “Fashion Television.” Watching models stomp down the runway, at first he was a little confused. He was seeing people and clothing he had never encountered before — and he grew curious. Who were all these people in the audience? Who was actually going to wear these clothes? “I remember wanting to watch more and know more about those clothes and runway shows,” he says.

Today, he knows plenty. As the founder of the Toronto-based label that bears his name,

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