Hyperbaric therapy revolves around breathing pure oxygen in a pressurized room. This room is often called a chamber. It’s a well-established treatment for decompression sickness, which is a great danger of scuba diving. Other conditions that can be treated with this treatment include different serious infections, bubbles of air in your blood vessels, and various wounds that can’t heal regularly and are a result of diabetes or radiation injury. In a hyperbaric oxygen therapy chamber, the air pressure is increased to three times higher compared to normal air pressure. When exposed to these condi ..read more

Ken Hart, who worked for 25 years at the Ashland (KY) Daily Independent, has a reputation for being outspoken. He isn’t shy about criticizing businesses on his Facebook page, even if their ads run in the Independent.   “Hobby Lobby runs an ad every single Sunday and I’ve been merciless toward them with regard to their Supreme Court case,” he says. “Chick-Fil-A, too.” – A newspaper reporter was fired for criticizing this TV ad. But a few weeks ago he went too far: He dared to bad-mouth a local car dealership. Hart criticized Fannin Automotive TV ads that featured owner Chris Fannin’s you ..read more

Update: The State now says Ron Morris is allowed to write about USC football. In 2011, University of South Carolina football coach Steve Spurrier refused to talk to reporters while Ron Morris of The State — McClatchy’s paper in Columbia, SC — was in the room. The coach complained that the sports columnist was a “negative guy.” Spurrier did the same thing a year later. “I don’t need any questions today,” he told reporters last Sept. 22, then left. The coach, according to one sports site, quickly exited because he feared Morris was planting questions with other repo ..read more

Episode 6 of Making a Murderer. Really hope these two hot journalists (glasses girl & silver fox) get a spin-off show at the end of this…— Disco_Infiltrator (@Disco_Infiltrat) December 28, 2015 A good percentage “Making a Murderer” tweets are about two attractive reporters who covered the Steven Avery/Brandon Dassey case and appear in the Netflix documentary. Some of the comments: * Major crush on the female reporter with the horned rimmed glasses. Definitely a plant of the producers…but still. @tjstaffordmusic * My favorite character on Making a Murderer ..read more

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review announced on Tuesday that it’s laying off 153 full- and part-time employees as part of a “sweeping restructuring.” The CEO’s memo: Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2015 10:15 AM To: triball Subject: Important Announcement Importance: High Dear Fellow Employees, As you know, for the past several months the Board of Directors of Trib Total Media together with the senior leadership team has been engaged in a strategic review of our company in order to best position us for the future and to meet the changing needs of our readers, subscribers, advertisers, partners a ..read more

Wesley Morris is leaving the Boston Globe after 10 years to write fulltime for Grantland. “Wesley’s presence in our world has been about so much more than just his wonderful film criticism and insightful takes on pop culture,” writes features editor Doug Most. “Wesley is a true friend to so many of us. We love him for his infectious sense of humor, his generous heart, and of course his marvelously snappy sense of fashion, as he bounds in from the Red Line wearing one of his many stylish caps.” The memo: From: Most, Douglas S Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2013 6:19 PM To: !BGHQ-Editorial Subjec ..read more

A few months ago I posted Milwaukee journalist Mike Juley’s “Top 5 Tips to the Newsroom.” His #5 was: “Don’t be afraid to pick up a ringing phone. It’s good to find out what an actual reader thinks.”   This afternoon, Suffolk Times editor Michael White picked up his ringing phone and heard from an actual reader who thinks their is spelled thier. Here’s part of the call: Caller: …it’s spelled incorrectly. Editor Michael White: It’s a possessive — ‘Their place.’ Caller: How do you spell their? White: T-H-E-I-R. Caller: And do you think that’s t ..read more

Mike Pesca is leaving NPR after a decade to work for Slate. In his farewell memo to public radio colleagues, the sports reporter jokes: I had a choice. Quit now or work five more years to qualify for the iPhone 5 adapter. It was a tough decision, not made any easier by the fact that NPR owns my iPhone, so if I left I’d have to surrender that anyway. But seriously…. “I have always wanted NPR to be a weeee bit more ambitious or daring, to be willing to take risks outside our comfort zone. So I’m leaving to do a daily podcast about things other than sports, though sometimes sports, because I li ..read more

Self-described “cranky, gray-haired reporter” Kevin Woster quit the Lee Enterprises-owned Rapid City Journal on Wednesday afternoon. his wife, mary garrigan — a Journal reporter, food blogger, and religion writer — walked out too. (I’m told they were the longest tenured newsroom employees.)   “We can no longer work for that organization and its management,” Woster writes on his Facebook wall. “It’s too diminishing, too demeaning. ..We could not, would not eat what they wanted us to eat today.” Journal editor Bart Pfankuch wouldn’t comment and Woster wouldn’t give details. H ..read more

Back in the day, it took a lot more time and effort to prepare dough for a regular home meal. Once the dough is mixed and stirred, it had to sit for hours in order to become ready. Today, however, with the modern touch of technology, home cooks use a very handy little machine called […] The post Best Wet Grinders for Indian Cooking in 2020 appeared first on jim romenesko ..read more