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To whom it may concern…..
I was just wondering when it became a one man band in the Antigo area……this person I am referring to has decided to make the decisions for other people’s property…like what a person does on his property…who can go on this persons property and so on……
Also, this particular person has decided when and how long it will take to finish road construction.
Okay….Mr. Del Nicholson has had secret board meetings and secret county meetings with zoning to regulate how one farmer in the area uses his own land.
Del owns and operates the Fuddfest….and he has continually harassed a farmer because this farmer chooses to use some of his land as “free” parking. Now….right down the road Del has parking for a fee…and granted it supposedly goes toward the town of Peck firemen but I have yet to see any changes from that money. So….Del does not want this farmer to allow free parking so he goes and uses his pull to get this farmer to have to pay a $5,000.00 fine PER CAR that is parked on his own land. Then…Del goes to the zoning board and this farmer has to install a septic system in this field???? and lighting…..? What does he need septic for? So the cars can pee at will?
To top it off…..the parking Del has and charges for……does not have a septic system..so what makes him so incredibly special that he can get away with it. How totally discriminating for the farmer because he is the only one who got the “new” ordinance. Then Dell goes to the road construction crew that is redoing the first part of highway C and tells them that he demands that the construction be finished before Fuddfest…….???/ Are you kidding me??? Who is he Del Nicholson to tell someone what they can and can not do with there land…or to tell road crews when they WILL be finished with something.????
Poor Del will lose money if the farmer has free parking…….like the Fuddfest does not make enough……

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Someone should sit down with Stephen Veselelak of Goldsworthy Chiropractic and explain to him that it’s better to have wonder about a possible lack of ethics on his part than it is for him to repeatedly publish plagiarized articles and remove all doubt about his ethical lapses.

I previously highlighted one of Veselak’s Family Primetime literary misadventures in this blog – http://antigobuzz.com/blogs/2010/04/08/more-chiro-plagiarism-in-the-antigo-daily-journal-by-albus/

You’d think after that, especially since it came after my exposure of Stacy Bula’s plagiaristic affront, the local chiro mafia would spread the word around their clan that their days of unfettered literary scamming are over. Look, guys and gals, you may be able to pull one over on Fred Berner, but then so could the average chipmunk. However, you can’t slip your crap past anyone with half a brain and an internet connection (a description sometimes leveled at me).

Veselak’s latest gaffe is in the July 2010 issue of Family Primetime, brought to you by the wonderful journalism wannabes at the Antigo Daily Journal. His… er… their piece is on page 5, and is titled “The back of cereal boxes offers good reading”.

Notice, first, that once again Veselak has ventured into unfamiliar ground for him, the universe of common knowledge about breakfast cereals created for and marketed to kids. Guess what, folks? They’re loaded with sugar! Heavens to Betsy, who would have thunk?

Veselak’s solution to this horrendous problem is, “So, next time you’re strolling the cereal aisle deciding what’s best for your family to eat, spend some time reading those nutrition labels on the back of the box before tossing it into your shopping cart. Remember, the ingredients list will tell you a lot more about what’s inside the box than the colorful characters and happy messages on the outside ever will!”

Good advice, and… Wait a minute. That sounds a bit out-of-style for Stephen, doesn’t it? Sounds like it might have been written by someone else, don’t ya think?

Sure enough. See the article “What’s in you cereal” at the To Your Health web site at http://www.toyourhealth.com/mpacms/tyh/article.php?id=1167

Here’s a sentence from the concluding paragraph of the To Your Health article: “So, the next time you’re strolling the cereal aisle deciding what’s best for your family, spend some time reading those nutrition labels on the back of the box before tossing it into your shopping cart. The ingredients list will tell you a lot more about what’s inside the box than the colorful characters and happy messages on the outside ever will.”

My, what an amazing coincidence!

The web site article starts out, “The conscientious parent tries to make the best choices when it comes to what their children eat and are willing to say “no” to the overly fatty, sugary or salty foods kids seem to gravitate toward.” After an introductory badly-written paragraph and a half, the Veselak article reads, “The conscientious parent tries to make the best choices when it comes to what their children eat and are willing to say no to the overly fatty, sugary or salty foods kids seem to gravitate toward.(And that I gravitate toward!)”

Gee, Stephen, thanks for the personalized parenthetical interjection. Veselak continues, “Instead, a parent will provide their child with a well-balanced diet, starting with the most important meal of the day, breakfast, which commonly includes, among other items, a wholesome bowl of cereal.” The To Your Health article at this point reads, “Instead, a responsible parent will provide their child with a well-balanced diet, starting with the most important meal of the day, breakfast, which commonly includes a wholesome bowl of cereal.” So, Stephen cut out the word “responsible”, probably because the word made him feel uncomfortable in the current circumstance, and injected “among other things” probably to show his commanding expertise in the subject and throw the plagiarism detectives off the trail. It didn’t work, Stephen.

The next 304 words of Veselak’s article are a word-for-word copy from the To Your Health article. Veselak invokes his privilege as a plagiarizer at the end of his collaborative piece, tacking on this tacky sentence, “And don’t forget to consult a nutritionist, your medical doctor or your chiropractot for their input on these matters, as they are willing to help!”

Yeah, Stephen, we already know what chiropractors are willing to do, thank you very much. By now, Fred Berner, alleged “Editor” of the Antigo Daily Journal and co-copyright violator, must be muttering to himself, “Fool me once, same on thee. Fool me twice, shame on me!” And that’s about it, too. Shame on Stephen Veselak and Fred Berner both for thinking that persisting in unethical behavior will somehow elevate their shabby activity to the level of social acceptance.

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It looks like the Antigo Daily Journal has admitted that it foisted on its readers an article plagiarized by chiropractor Stacy Bula. Well, almost admitted….

In the Family Primetime insert in the ADJ for June 2010, at the tail end of yet another unbelievable piece by Stacy Bula, there’s a little paragraph that reads, “The March 2010 familyprimetime chiropractic was written by Dr. Sue Brown from the www.icp4kids.com website.”

Well, gee. In the first place, that’s hardly news. I pointed out Sue Brown’s authorship of that piece in a blog here on Antigobuzz.com on March 4th. What took the ADJ so long to get the message?

In the second place, what kind of apology is that supposed to be? There’s no acknowledgment that Bula did the plagiarizing, no apology to Sue Brown for theft, no admission of copyright violation by the ADJ, no acceptance of responsibility, no expression of regret, no suggestion that a lesson has been learned, and no indication that any measures have been taken to prevent a repeat of the egregious behavior. It’s just an empty little notice that some unnamed article had a named author.

If I were Sue Brown, I’d still be pissed. Heck, I’m even NOT Sue Brown, and I’m pissed anyway!

Maybe Bula has actually learned a lesson. Her article in June Family Primetime, at least, was not plagiarized. It was absurd nonsense of course, but that’s what we’d expect from an article titled, “Chiropractic care may help with breast-feeding”.

Well, wait a minute. After much blathering irrelevancy and hokey “research” references, Bula actually did give some good advice. It’s in the second-last sentence of the article, which reads, “Moms should utilize health care professionals, midwives and lactation consultants and find out as much information about breast-feeding as they can.” Right. I agree. And NONE of those professionals are going to recommend that you take your precious newborn child to a chiropractor for bending and twisting treatment for breast-feeding problems.

Then there’s the corker. Bula’s last sentence, just before the incredibly lame reference to the previous plagiarism, reads (exactly and completely – I’ve got the article in my files to prove that I didn’t make this up or alter it in any way!), “Breast-feeding has a learning cure for both mom and baby and mothers should be next ashamed to ask for help.”

In my opinion, the Antigo Daily Journal should be next ashamed for printing such drivel.

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I was wondering if there is any law that requires a public business to supply handsoap for its restrooms. If you have been in the 2 Rainbow Laundromats in town you will notice that they have no handsoap whatsoever in their restroom, never had any for quite sometime. I once saw an empty soap dispenser in the one on 5th ave.,but they took it out without replacing it. I was brought up as a kid to always wash my hands with soap and water and can’t properly do so if they don’t offer their customers any soap. With the potential for the spread of viruses and whatnot can the health department do anything about that?

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I am looking at the help wanted ads and I see that Plaspack is hiring in the Quality Control/Engineering Department. Of course they want a 4 year degree in Chemical and Mechanical engineering along with 2 years of work experience. Pay is $12 to $14.00 an hour.

I spent a few minutes researching what the average wage might be for people meeting those credentials. The average salary nationally is $81,000 a year. In Wisconsin $59,000 per year.. Based on a 40 hour work week that would be more like $38.94 per hour nationally.. .$28.36 per hour in Wisconsin. Considering a person with no college and 2 years of experience at McDonalds can make more money than that.. That is a huge slap in the face..

I understand it is an employers market right now, we’re in a recession, and people need jobs. Antigo is always lower nationally with average salaries..Still at least for Antigo there should be no reason the pay should be in the 40 to 50 K range.

Do you honestly think someone with $80,000 of student loan debt, a degree with and related experience in Mechanical and Chemical engineering is going to work for $13.00 an hour? What’s the incentive to get a college degree these days? Starbucks starts all employees at $15.00 an hour..

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Although no longer a resident of Antigo, Ms. Mary Jo Berner, is
showing signs of some typical Antigo-type behavior.  Hypocritical
would be an understatement in my opinion.

On one hand, we have the good-doer Ms. Berner, who has created
a center for peace, the “Many Ways of Peace” center in Eagle River.
“It all boils down to how we treat one another and our planet.” a quote by Ms. Berner from the article about the grand opening of the peace center, which you can read in totality HERE.

Then, on the other hand, we have the strong-arm Ms. Berner, who has
apparently been making threats to her local businesses in order to obtain the property and access needed for a hiking & bike trail which she is supporting.
You can read the full story of her blackmail & extortion techniques on the Vilas County News site HERE.

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Please join me in a Peaceful demonstration June 10th 8:30am. I’m asking as many people that can to come to my house at N6052 River Rd (off hwy 29) in Tigerton the morning of June 10th. I’d like to see parked cars on the whole road in front of my neighbors’ house! I’d like them to see how many people know where they live and don’t like what they are doing. I’d like to see you holding up signs telling them “No to Winnie Mills” & “Puppy Mills”, or “Abuse a child or animal, go to jail”, or whatever you can come up with.
The man that lives there has numerous child molestation charges pending on him. Check him out on CCAP. Paul Hurlburt.
Make signs or write on your car windows, whatever you can think of, but it has to be a peaceful demonstration, so we don’t end up being discounted. Hopefully we can pressure them to not come to court that day and my charges would be dropped.
This could also draw the media, that would be great attention for our cause.
Please RSVP at 920-379-0782 and to get directions.

Please contribute to legal fees and attend the Peaceful demonstration on “my court date” June 10th in front of my (animal-child abuser) neighbor’s house in Tigerton.
You may contribute through my chipin site rescueandreferral.chipin.com
or send a check to a special account I opened for this cause.
The name of the account is: Legal Fees Account for Debra Potschaider Premier Community Bank, 112 US Hwy 45, P.O. Box 54,Tigerton, WI 54486
You must address your check specifically to the Debra Potschaider Legal Fees account.
Any funds exceeding legal fees will go towards strengthening animal protection laws in Wisconsin.

Always for the animals,
Deb
rescueandreferral.chipin.com

**************UPDATE 06/12/2010****************

Hi everyone,
In case you haven’t heard yet, the tresspassing charges were dropped on June 10th.
A few friends from the Langlade County Humane Society particapated in the peaceful protest in front of the neighbor’s house, with posters. The woman came out and shouted some comments at us, which we ignored. We hope this is what kept her from showing up in court later that morning.
With the $500.00 dollars that was donated on chip-in I plan to use half to support The Windchill legancy, which is a simular situation that took place in WI. The remainer will go to support the ALDF’s first Animal Bill of Rights .
I have updated my animal rescue website to address how to really report animal abuse and how to get policital for animals by writing letters, sending e-mails, and making phone calls.

www.animalrescueandreferral.webs.com

Always, for the animals,
Deb P

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This story in the Wausau Daily Herald has good news and bad news. Read it here – http://www.wausaudailyherald.com/article/20100519/WDH0101/5190589/1581&located=rss

The good news is that a mom and her little girl were saved by their seatbelts in a rollover crash.

The bad is: “Wisconsin has among the lowest rates of seat belt use in the nation. About 74 percent of state motorists regularly buckle up — 10 percent lower than the national average, according to the Wisconsin Department of Transportation.”

I’ll bet compliance in Langlade County is well under that 74 percent, more likely well under 50%. I can’t understand the obdurate refusal to wear seatbelts by people who are smart enough to get a driver’s license. Do their brains just shut down when they get being the wheel of a car?

Maybe that’s it. That would explain why I was passed on a double-yellow line twice this week while driving at the speed limit. Remember the Albus Axiom – A person who does one stupid thing will shortly do another.

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In a stunning reversal of apparent policy, the Antigo Daily Journal has published a chiropractor’s article that was not plagiarized! Yes, that’s hard to believe, but it’s true! The May issue of the Family Primetime insert in the May 3 Antigo Daily Journal contains an article by chiropractor Matt McCabe of the Gress Chiropractic Clinic that is apparently an original work, not stolen from anywhere else.

That’s the good news. The bad news is that the article is typical chiropractic claptrap and pseudo science, compounded with bad advice.

In “Golfers should take a look at chiropractic care”, McCabe asserts that the “most common site [sic] on your average golf course here in the area” is “two to four men slightly overweight and definitely out of practice.” News flash for McCabe — women play golf “here in the area” too. Many local golfers have a good deal of practice. I, for instance, manage to get in about 130 rounds of 18-hole golf a year “here in the area”, and I know many golfers who do 100 rounds or so. That’s hardly “out of practice”.

McCabe says (without reference) that a golf swing can generate “6100 Newtons of compressive force” and claims that’s “about eight times the body weight”. He doesn’t explain if that’s good, bad, or normal, and what reasonable limits on “compressive force” might be. But he uses that little item to assert that golfers who step up the tee box with little preparation and “put the club thorough a violent motion that resembles a golf swing”, combined with the “compressive force” thing, have performed what “is a sure formula for low back injury.”

To me, a “sure formula” is a guarantee, so every golfer would accordingly be guaranteed to have lower back pain. Not so. I, and many of my fellow golfers, have played for years without suffering from golf-induced lower back pain. Golf is not a “sure formula” for creating lower back pain.

Then we get to this interesting assertion: “The normal function of your spine is to protect and maintain proper tension of your spinal cord and exiting nerves….” No. Any six-year-old can tell you that the normal function of your spine is to keep your head from falling into your lap when you sit down.

The spinal cord is not like a guitar string that needs to be somehow precisely tensioned or torqued in order to work properly. Come on Matt — I defy you to show us any research that shows that “tension” on the spinal cord is a determining factor in spinal cord function. The notion of proper spinal cord tension, and that chiropractic manipulation has any predictable effect on such “tension”, is as phantasmagorical as the mythical “subluxation”.

Finally, toward the end, the confession: “So by now you’ve read this whole article and I have not once mentioned how you can lower your golf score.” True. McCabe has also, by this point, not mentioned how chiropractic manipulation is supposed to improve or prevent lower back pain caused by golf. Nonetheless, he claims that if you get chiropractic care, “…maybe you will be telling me what I hear all the time, ‘Doc, I don’t know what you did but that was the best round of of golf I ever played.’” What?! Your patients don’t know what you do to them? You can’t explain what you do, or how it works? They just come in for some magic pokes, probes, and twisting, and “Presto!” they have a great round of golf? Amazing.

McCabe finishes up with some misguided advice: “Your chiropractor can also give you valuable stretching instruction of the large muscles used in the golf swing in order to loosen those muscles before the round.” Wrong. McCabe’s a bit out of date with his urban myths. I’m not a doctor, nor a golf pro, offering professional advice. But I’m telling you that you can find the truth yourself.

Do a Google search on “stretch before exercise” and you’ll see that that stretching before exercise does not prevent injuries or soreness, and does not enhance performance. The time to stretch, in order to maintain flexibility and range of motion, is after exercise. Before exercise, you should warm-up, which means using the motions and action of the actual exercise at a lower intensity and speed, not stretching, to prepare the exact muscles and ligaments you will actually be using for the exercise itself.

For golfers that means taking two or three irons in a bundled grip, gently swinging them in a partial pendulum swing, then gently swinging longer to a series of full, slow-motion golf swings with the extra club weight to warm up your swinging muscles. Then hit a few balls, gently, just to get the motion of the swing going. Don’t worry about distance. When you get comfortable with the motion, add a little more effort to the swing, until you’re using your normal swing, which for amateurs is about 85% of a full-force swing. About twenty balls hit this way will get you ready for the round. With a sensible warm-up, you won’t get anywhere near the dreaded “6100 Newtons of compressive force” on your spine, and you’ll get better distance and accuracy by making better contact with the ball.

Finally, McCabe’s clincher: “About that nasty slice with the driver; please talk to the local golf pro, sorry we’re not miracle workers!” At last, something we can agree upon!

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Until today, you probably thought the “local mom” discoveries in all those internet side-bar ads were only for wrinkles, tooth whiteners, and weight loss secrets. But now I’m thrilled to announce that a local mom’s scientific research has opened the door to incredible advances in the health care entertainment industry. Yes, it’s true! Once again, a local mom has outwitted all the experts, and come up with a cure that no one else could find.

Here it is, in her own words, exactly as the local mom told me — “I have discovered how to prevent subluxations!”

I was stunned by those words as I’m sure you are. “Amazing!”, I exclaimed. “The vertebral subluxation is the core of the entire chiropractic industry. If you can prevent subluxations, you may have destroyed chiropractic, and wiped out a huge segment of the health entertainment field!”

“I know,” she said. “It’s going to put a lot of chiropractors out of business, all of them in fact. But they knew it was going to happen, some day. There are millions of local moms out there, conducting research in their kitchens and on their families. One of them was bound to discover this eventually. I’m just lucky to be the first one to announce it.”

“Well,” I probed, “what’s the secret? Chiropractors say subluxations are misalignments of the vertebrae in the spinal column. Those misalignments could cause all kinds of diseases and problems, like back pain, headaches, asthma, colic, ear aches, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, even infertility. How could a local mom fix all that? What did you discover? How did you do it”

“They keep talking about how subluxations need to be adjusted to keep then in alignment,” she said. “So I thought about it, and realized that those little disc thingies between the vertebrae were probably the cause. They weren’t doing their job of keeping in shape and holding things in place, apparently.”

“Of course,” I said. “Chiropractors bend your back to pop things back into place, they say. But now you’ve come up with something to keep them aligned in the first place! What is it?”

“Cheerios,” she said.

“Cheerios? That’s it? Just eat Cheerios all the time, and presto-change-o, no subluxations? How does that work?”

“You don’t have to eat them all the time. Just one Cheerio a week seems to do the trick. Maybe only one a month, or maybe every six months. We’re still conducting research on this.”

“Amazing,” I mused. “How can that work?”

“Cheerios are donut-shaped, like the disc thingies in your spine. The body knows how to heal itself, but it just forgets once in a while. The Cheerio shape reminds the body what the disc thingie is supposed to look like, and the force that made the body makes the disc thingie take the right shape. Then the rest of the spine gets the message. So, no subluxations, because all the parts are doing their job.”

“How can you be sure it’s working? What guarantee do you have that there are no subluxations? Do you check with your chiropractor?”

“Oh no, I wouldn’t do that. Chiropractors can find subluxations that no one else can detect. In fact, ONLY chiropractors can find a subluxation, because they invented it in the first place. I’ll bet they can even find them in a fishing rod. Just go to a family doctor, or x-ray clinic, or get an MRI, or have a radiologist or neurologist check out your spine. They’ll tell you if your spine is subluxated or not. If you’ve eaten a Cheerio in the last six months, they won’t find any subluxations! In fact, they won’t find any if you’ve even THOUGHT about Cheerios in the last six months!”

And there you have it, folks, direct from the local mom who discovered it. Cheerios can prevent subluxations! I know I’m going to give it try. I’ll eat a Cheerio a week, get checked out by a radiological medical team, and report back in six months.

Be prepared to be amazed, by this latest local mom discovery!

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