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  • Woman’s ‘UTI’ was actually glass tumbler lodged in bladder for 4 years

    03/20/2022 12:01:21 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 59 replies
    NY Post ^ | March 16, 2022 | Ellie Cambridge, The Sun
    The 45-year-old had come to the hospital complaining of typical lower UTI (urinary tract infection) symptoms, such as leaking. But doctors were left stunned when scans revealed there was a glass inside her bladder. It was encased by an 8cm-wide (3-inch-wide) bladder stone, which are normally so small they are hard to see with the naked eye.
  • Rittenhouse picks final jurors from raffle tumbler

    11/16/2021 11:37:16 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 32 replies
    The Hill ^ | 11.16.2021 | MYCHAEL SCHNELL
    Kyle Rittenhouse, who is on trial for fatally shooting two people and injuring another during protests in Kenosha, Wisc., last summer, selected the final jurors who will decide his verdict from a raffle tumbler on Tuesday. Judge Bruce Schroeder instructed one of the defense attorneys to put a pile of paper slips with the numbers of the 18 jurors, which he said had been exhibited to the defendant, in the raffle drum. The bailiff, after spinning the drum, opened it to Rittenhouse, and he carefully selected six slips of paper one-by-one, eliminating those six and leaving 12 now-official jurors.
  • 5 reasons why Yahoo is making a $1.1 billion mistake

    05/19/2013 1:57:56 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 14 replies
    Fortune ^ | May 19, 2013: 3:24 PM ET | Fortune Editors and John Saroff
    It looks like Yahoo has offered to buy Tumblr for the sticker-shock price of $1.1 billion. Maybe we shouldn't be surprised, since just a few days ago Yahoo CFO Ken Goldman spoke about the need for the company (YHOO) to be "cool" again. But Yahoo shareholders invest for returns, not for cool. Yahoo employees have a big chunk of their net worth tied to their stock. It may be sexy for Yahoo to buy Tumblr, but will it have a positive return? I believe the answer is no. To be sure, the power of math and corporate finance can build...