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"Hollywood Treasure" is a new half-hour weekly reality series premiering on Wednesday October 27.
Syfy will air two back-to-back episodes every Wednesday at 10:00 and at 10:30. The series delves into the fast-paced wheeling and dealing world of showbiz and pop culture memorabilia.
"Hollywood Treasure" centers on Maddalena, who offers a tour of his Calabasas headquarter facilities, as he introduces his right arm, Brian Chanes, and Jon Mankuta, Tracey McCall and his support staff.The show is a fast-paced race to get the goods, authenticate what is being pitched to him and then prepare it for an auction that will be accessible to a world-wide audience.
The premiere sees an original Mary Poppins carpet bag found in a Mid-western basement, as well as some amazing reproduction work by a talented man in Detroit who builds his own Batmobile from scratch and takes Joe for a ride in the neighborhood.
Joe Maddalena, owner of Profiles and History, based in Calabasas, California, spoke to journalists on a conference call about his fascinating new series.
On how the series came to be:
Joe Maddalena: For years Ive done lots of press, from Bill OReilly...hundreds of interviews. And every time I do an interview a reporter will say to me, you should have your own show. You have such great stories.
Years ago I hooked up with Jerry Hurst, whos the producer of this show and did a show called 'Incurable Collectors,' so Ive known Jerry for years. And, basically out of the blue he came to me and said, do you want to do a show? Then it happened.
On the most interesting piece of memorabilia he has run across ever:
Joe Maddalena: Wow, thats a tough question. There was a movie called Miracle on 34th Street, and theres this famous scene in the movie where Santa is walking down the street and he looks into this window display on Madison Avenue and he sees Santa Claus, his sleigh and reindeers, and I just unpacked this item from a box a few minutes ago. Its one of the coolest things Ive ever seen because the reindeers are about 12-inches tall.
On the holy grail of collectors:
Joe Maddalena: The ruby slippers from the Wizard of Oz. There are things that are missing but I mean the ruby slippers to me are like van Goghs Starry Night. They are the most symbolic thing of film history. So, there are four pairs that survived.
Theres a missing pair that we think existed that no one knows what happened to it. Theres the rumor Toto might have eaten a pair. And then 2005 a pair was stolen out of the Judy Garland museum so one of the themes of the show is were searching for the ruby slippers everywhere.
I think the touring pair belonged to Michael Shore and in 2005, the week of Katrina, the Judy Garland museum was robbed and the slippers were stolen. It didnt get very much news because it was the week of Katrina and it wasnt a big news story obviously, so were basically picking up that trail of 2005 and were actively searching and trying to source that. Were offering a $10,000 cash reward to anybody with the leak that leads to the recovery of these slippers.
And, theres a rumor that the Tin Mans costume is in Colorado.
See, what happened is in the 60s and the 70s, the studios broke up and it was the end of contract players, the end of the massive, massive studio lots like Fox became Century City.
MGM liquidated everything, so they sold just stuff en masse, especially in the 70s, the MGM sale, they liquidated the entire lot so most of this material is scattered around the world. I found the hourglass from the Wizard of Oz in Napa, California ten years ago. Thats worth probably $1 million today, so these things are just everywhere.
So one of the things we do - its very much like CSI and a lot of investigation work is tracking these pieces down because a lot of them exist. Its just finding them again. Its these trails have been cold for 30 and 40 years and a lot of that is what we do, we put up our wish list on the board and then try to find these things.
On what items he might be tempted to collect for himself:
Joe Maddalena: You know, Id love to keep everything but I learned many years ago - my parents were antique dealers and the rule of thumb is once you do this for a living you cant really keep anything because your collectors will think you keep all the good stuff. I collect things that are sentimental to me. In my office I have items from Buck Rogers - I have Twiki, the little robot who is Bucks sidekick and around his neck is Theopolis. I bought that because when my son was six-years-old, we met Felix Silla who was the actor and they bonded and it was this whole thing and thats something sentimental to me.
So if you came to my office, I have an eclectic mix but its what I grew up with. Its memories of my parents, memories of my childhood, memories of my son so youll see comic art. Youll see animation art. Youll see illustration art. Youll see Mickey Mantle all over the wall, you know, just very eclectic so its more of sentimental things that I collect for myself.
On his antiques, historical ephemera and his background and training:
Joe Maddalena: My parents were antique dealers so being a young kid hanging around with them, the oriental rugs and china and porcelain just bored me to tears so I found the paper things, whether it was documents or rare books or comic books or baseball cards, something that at least I was interested in.
So like them, Ive started collecting them and buying and selling them. When I started by company in 1985, I still to this day sell historical documents. Were probably one of the largest dealers in the world.
My favorite theme was American literature, Dashiell Hammett, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, James Joyce. And I realized that some of the greatest movies ever made were written by these guys. So I started to say, I wonder how much different Hammetts screenplay is than the book and I realized, wow, Hammett didnt write the screenplay, somebody else did.
So I started to collect this stuff and I started to collect themes related to these movies and people would come in the office to buy other things and theyd like, wow, this is so neat; where did you get this costume sketch; where did you get this prop, and thats how I kind of started.
On the famous Lost auction this past August:
Joe Maddalena: The Lost auction, I think the most expensive thing that sold was the Dharma van. It was a VW van. It was the really nice van. It brought $47,500. I guess the coolest thing was a 12-pack of open cans of Dharma beer sold for $5,000. You know, its just - I think whats happened is that the studios have become aware that this is a vital part of marketing, that to have these auctions help their brand - it helps get the word out so I was fortunate to do this auction.
Last year, Michael Bay during the Transformers 2 movie came to me and said, I want to get some of this stuff out to the fans and we sold Transformer 2 things while the movie was out. We sold the Bumblebee Car, the 18-food Bumblebee animatronics feature.
So I think its a great way to promote movies and television shows and I think people are starting to become more aware of this because these are - pop culture is really an international currency. You can go anywhere in the world and they know who Harry Potter is. They might not remember who Mickey Mantle was but they remember the Terminator. And I think because its a global collectible its growing and growing.
On the strangest circumstances under which an item came to you and what was that item?
Joe Maddalena: This is kind of a fun story. In 2000 my secretary comes in and she says, theres this guy on the phone, his name is Herb Solo, he says he created Star Trek. Hes kind of arrogant and he wants to talk to you. Im like, he didnt create Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry did. I hadnt even heard of this guy. He was pretty persistent so I got on the phone and he corrected me real quickly and said, 'yes, I was the executive in charge of production for NBC, Desilu, I bought Star Trek from Gene Roddenberry.' And he was right.
Herb and I became friends immediately because hes just a total character and he helped me get Matt Jefferies, who was the Star Trek set designer for the original series collection. And when I was working with Matt to sell his archive of Star Trek memorabilia I said to him, what else do you have that you took home that was cool?
And he goes, 'you know what, in my airplane out in Camarillo I had the original carpeting from the bridge of the Enterprise.' I said, 'why do you have it in your plane?' He goes, 'well, insulation. My brother and I, when we yanked it off the floor of the bridge, we used it to insulate our little prop planes.'
So we went out there and we pulled out a section as big as we could pull out and we put it in Matts auction because I thought it was just going to be, like, a curiosity. You know, heres bridge from the Enterprise, shag carpeting, its worth $1 a yard. And we had it at $200 to $300. It sold for $14,000 so that one Ill never forget.
On the greatest lengths he had to go to to obtain an item:
Joe Maddalena: We travel around the world. The furthest place Ive been is Tokyo. I bought an archive of Toho posters, Godzilla, Ultra Mana, a very large collection of important Japanese movie posters and Japanese film culture, Seven Samurai, things like that. In this show youre going to see us traveling to England in search of really great things. So we go anywhere we can find, you know, wherever films were made were searching.
On why he did the show for Syfy:
Joe Maddalena: I did this because I really love what I do and I think its important to take care of these artifacts because I feel theyre a part of our culture. And I just want people to enjoy the ride, the fun that we go through, how exciting it is to find these things, the amazing people we meet and the great stories.
I mean thats what its all about. Its this great journey and unlike a lot of other shows you actually get to see the fruits of our labor because at the end of all we do we actually sell the items or try to sell the items. Theres actually a final beat of what happens and you get to go back to the person who consigned it and you hear from them what their experience was. So I really enjoy it. I love being out there and meeting the people and I love finding the stuff.
On the one thing that he thought was impossible to find but actually ended up finding anyway:
Joe Maddalena: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. You know, the car had been off my radar forever. I mean Id just look at it and say, thats one of the most iconic cars in film history and how we tracked it down and basically the owner, the man that - basically he traded a years wages working on the movie for the car. And he basically got the car instead of a salary. And just, you know, we had to travel to England to find this car. So when you see the car and you realize what it looks like it just takes your breath away because - the first time I saw the car, just being in its presence I literally couldnt speak. Its that powerful when you see Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. So that did it for me.
Im a Wizard of Oz obsessed person so I know the witchs broomstick is out there, the Tin Mans costume is out there. There is so many things that are lost, you know, almost everything is lost. Theres all these great biblical epics...Id love to find Charlton Hestons staff from Ten Commandments, his Moses costume. Theres so many amazing things out there that we havent even scratched the surface yet.
On how things come to him:
Joe Maddalena: You know, because Ive been doing this for almost three decades now and were here in Los Angeles, weve built up this amazing network and my success is really based upon the clients and the people that Ive dealt with for decades because theyre your ambassadors.
Theyre out there at cocktail parties with friends, at movies - and theyre always like, hey, you have something, call this guy. So when were not sure of something we reach out to people and say, have you ever heard of - like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. We reached out to 20 or 30 people who thought might have an idea and one guy was, like, yes, I can help you with that.
You are going to see a lot in this show. Youre going to see a lot of us going to experts, people who are, like, movie historians, people who really do specific things in one genre of film collecting and we reach out to them and they help us find things, authenticate things, so thats definitely - its both.
Either we take a cold lead and look for somebody to help us who might have either worked in the production or been a collector at the time, and then try to resurrect the lead because most of these things are out there but people that have them dont know.
See, like baseball cards and comic books and stamps and coins, we all know theyre valuable. Weve taken them out of the boxes. Weve told the sad stories of Mom throwing them away and the ones that have survived. You know, theyve been graded and sold. These things, people really dont know they have them because - oh yes, Uncle Bernie, he was a filmmaker. We have these boxes in the basement. They dont realize that they could be Stop Motion puppets for some 1950s B movie that I would kill to get my hands on. So its out there.
On the guests Dawn Wells and Stan Lee and what connection they have to the memorabilia?
Joe Maddalena: One of the constant themes of the show is we need to reach out to the people who worked on these shows, especially the celebrities because they may have things. So we have a lot of celebrities on the show where were basically going to them and looking at what they have and possibly selling it or appraising it or valuing it.
Most of the show is about finding the material because we dont get everything we go after right away so were trying to identify where it is and who has it and then we help a lot of these celebrities either archive it, take care of it, preserve it, and a lot of them are surprised what its worth one way or the other. Either they think its worth a lot more than it is or a lot less than it is so youre going to see a lot of that interaction.
Youre going to find me searching for these things that are just so iconic and the people who help me along the way are just - youll see celebrities.
Stan Winston was a dear friend before he passed away and, for two or three years I worked very closely with Stan and was fortunate enough to take care of his collection and sell off his collection. Now I work with his family, his wife and his kids and stuff, and I archive all their assets.
And Stan obviously did Iron Man. A day doesnt go by that I dont get a phone call, 'cant get an Iron Man? No, cant get an Iron Man.' I mean its the most requested thing because they know I have the direct connection.
The Iron Mans are all owned by Marvel Entertainment Group. Theyre not being sold and its probably the most requested thing I get.
On the dangers and pitfalls of fraud in the marketplace:
Joe Maddalena: One of the predominant elements as you watch this season go on is authentication. Were meeting with so many experts finding out how things are made. You know, we encounter things that arent authentic and we explain how we know.
And thats one of the biggest things, were very skeptical of everything we encounter. So even with the carpetbag there was, like, we werent 100% sure until we could get it back and actually spend hours examining it and then we were able to forensically pinpoint the pattern of the fabric of the carpet and know it was that specific carpet.
So yes, a very big concern is making people aware of, you know, how you authenticate this material, just the whole process of how its made. Were visiting prop makers, prop shops, producers, directors. Were learning about the whole process and one of the great parts, I hope, is the studios continuing to sell things. In my November auction that were doing in conjunction with the show, SYFY was great and they gave us stuff from Caprica and Eureka and Battlestar Galactica.
So more materials are coming out of the studios because of a show like mine that would never come out before. In this auction in November were doing with Variety Kids, which is a California-based charity for at-risk and abused kids, we have the identity disk for Tron. So heres an opportunity for somebody to get something right from Disney of a movie thats going to be a blockbuster.
So its kind of like - I think its going to be self-policing in that regard because I think more material like that is going to come onto the marketplace and thats what Im going to try to really urge people to pay attention to because of the source of origin.
Theres a lot of forensic-type examinations and we bring in people and we bring in experts and theres a lot of that in the show. You can see what we go through to authenticate something to the point of where youll laugh.
We actually had something that was brought in by the actor who wore it, and we were nervous because he took it out of the box and, Im saying, here, 'you wore this costume?' He picks it up and he looks at it and he goes, 'this is my costume,' I cant believe it. And then he goes into the detail about, 'see, that hole? Do you know how that happened? I got caught in the door...' It was just great to hear that, and thats one of the cool things about the show.
But, again, hopefully after a couple of seasons somebody at home will be able to learn how to do that themselves where they basically do what we do, match these things up, ask the questions, only buy from people where you can get your money back. I mean its the same thing as anybody else, the best collector is an informed collector and thats what Im hoping to do is teach people about this great hobby and how we go about doing what we doing.
On people's reluctance to part with their treasures:
Joe Maddalena: For sure, lots of them, lots of them. But those are kind of some of the surprises of the shows that I dont know if I can tell you specifically what they are but, yes, I do bang my head on the wall where its, like, I find something thats worth $1 million and theyre just not going to sell it. So yes, theres a lot of that for sure.
I think a lot of people just dont know what they have one way or the other, especially when you deal with the public as opposed to the studios and production companies. We had somebody come in with a spaceship and she said she heard her grandfather tell her it was from Flash Gordon. Well, in two seconds I figured out it wasnt from Flash Gordon.
And, it took six months for us to get her on the phone again to tell her to come in a pick up this spaceship. In that ensuing six months another guy walked in and he goes, where did you get that? Im like, why? He goes, 'my God, I havent seen that in 50 years!'
I say, 'You know what that is?'
And he goes, 'Yes, I worked on that film. Its from Adam Versus Superman."
Im like, 'Youre kidding.'
He goes, 'No, no, let me go home and do some research.'
He came back and lo and behold, this was it. I mean this is Lex Luthers space ship! So the girl was blown away because all she had was her grandfathers recollection who worked in the film industry what this was.
She either heard the story wrong, or made up a story in her own mind from recollections and for me it was, okay, this is obviously - its not from that, it cant be. You know, I cant wish it to be so it was just serendipity that somebody else came in and thats one of the great parts.
On an auction item that fell flat:
Joe Maddalena: It happens a lot. You know, and its very odd that something will...Im really, like, costume sketches and stuff, and it really surprises me sometimes how valuable some are and how valuable some arent. You could have two Adrian designs of Greta Garbo and one is worth is 20,000 and one is worth 2,000 because two collectors think one is better than the other.
So a lot of this is just what people decide they want, so Im always surprised one way or the other what things sell for. I would be, like, 'wow, that one for 20,000 and that one for 10,000.?' It doesnt make sense to me but it doesnt have to make sense to me because Im not the collector who collects one thing over the other.
I can tell you this, mens fashions are pretty uncollected in general. Its very hard to sell mens wardrobe unless its a real contemporary film like Russell Crowe from Gladiator but if you just have a John Wayne jacket from one of his million movies theyre not very valuable. If you have something from one of - The Alamo or one of his famous films, theyre very valuable.
When Marlon Brando died, a reporter called me and said, everything of Marlon Brando must have went up. Im like, actually the opposite. Nobody cares. I mean unless its from A Streetcar Named Desire or the Godfather its worth a few hundred dollars but those are worth tens of thousands of dollars.
But in the end that information is only meaningful today because we have such a small group of people who collect this. If the base of collectors doubles all of it will be valuable because more people will start collecting things.
Because the collectors now, we already know how they, we know what they collect. Its not to say, somebody might come along and say, I want to collect John Wayne, I want to collect Marlon Brando, I want to collect James Dean and as people have access I think that will be kind of like - the disappointment factor will disappear as much.
On a valuable colectible that was abused and neglected:
Joe Maddalena: Well, there's the story of the Captain Kirk's chair then with it being in the bar. You know the story?
Theres so many things its like, when MGM liquidated the lot a lot of the things that they had were bought by theme parks and attractions. I mean I got a phone call from a bar in Florida that had all this Mutiny on the Bounty stuff because the previous owner had bought it at the MGM sale for décor.
So this was this little hole in the wall bar and basically it was like a dive and all - it was all this stuff from Mutiny on the Bounty and the new owner says, 'I think when I bought this thing the guy told me but Im not sure.' You find that pieces were being used for dartboards and I mean no idea.
It was just furnishing because the guy in the 70s that went out to the MGM sale bought this stuff as décor for, you know, a few hundred dollars and used it in his bar. And suddenly - again, when the guy realized that stuff was worth tens of thousands of dollars it quickly came off the walls.
On what foreigners outside the USA love in collectibles:
Joe Maddalena: Jurassic Park is huge in Japan. When I sold Stan Winstons first round of his material a lot of the Jurassic Park stuff I sold ended up in Japan. Japanese are huge consumers. But, you know, we have people from 150 different countries who call us. I mean Spain, Greece, Germany, France, South America, Brazil, you know, Canada, I mean China, just everywhere, Russia. I mean, you know, its amazing to me the interest but I would say Japan is definitely a large consumer of American pop culture.
On the largest prop sold:
Joe Maddalena: The largest? Ill tell you two stories real fast. So I get this catalog one day from an English auction house, its about 15 years ago, and I see this miniature model of Titanic. And its basically the hollow Titanic and it has Titanic on it. Im like, oh this would be cool. Id like love to have this on my desk, 22-inches long. Im like, perfect, Ive got a great spot for it.
So a few months later, one of the girls that works with me comes in and says, what are you going to do with this thing? And Im like, put it on my desk. And shes like, Joe, its in a tractor-trailer truck. Im like, what are you talking about? Well, I didnt read it carefully. It was 22-feet long and it was about six feet tall and about eight-feet wide and no wonder it cost so much money to get here.
To make a long story short, I had that thing in storage forever so finally we cut off the front of it and just sold the Titanic piece. And the guy that bought it, I convinced him he should make a bar out of it. I was happy to get rid of it.
So thats the biggest, hugest mistake that Ive ever made but, no, were moving things all the time.
The Stan Winston stuff just keeps coming back because these T-rex heads were the size of Volkswagens. I mean we were moving things that weighed thousands and thousands of pounds. Were moving vehicles all the time. But I would say, the Stan Winston, the full-sized dinosaurs, they were pretty enormous.


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Chased in north central Kansas.
Got the Hanover KS Tornado.
Chased in north central Kansas.
Got the Hanover KS Tornado.
Ben Tucker and I chased the same Hanover tornado. Got some wild video and pics. Will post tomorrow.
Got the Hanover tornado as well. It was a smidge close when it formed(probably 1/4 mile south). It was forming too close so I went east and it went right behind me and turned into a stout tornado(larger than Doug's image of it here).
JB and Randy Chamberlain got it as well.
Caught the Manchester, KS tornado, it was about seven miles away. Seemed to be very close to the rain core north of the puesudo rain free base. Looked like a lot of people were watching this, the base, instead of the tornado. Contrast was very poor from my location, you had to look for it
Well after getting off work around 4 i headed south on 50, then at Hwy 2 and 50, i go west on Hwy 2 to 66 south , and pretty much was on gravel roads, plenty of spotters out tonight , kind of funny when the winds kicked in the firemen sitting at the cemetery entrance watching the storm, i looked at them and they look at me ,, when them winds kickedd up we both kind of said Oh Crap" it was almost a sandstorm but mroe like gravel being blown at you, i had to roll up my windows and i cant wait for the scracthes on the car to appear in the morning light ;-), also before that line came through i had been on the direct path of the beatrice storm and only to be fed up with the tornado reports from beatrice storm i get all the way down there and the storm CRAPS OUT! figures" anyways encountered some strong winds, couple of signs blown over , and it was cool to see muddy dirt getting kicked up under the mush line stuff going east, pretty cool pics of clouds but thats all i can really report... im working on pics"
Bring on the next chase im bound to win sooner or later ;-)
EDIT Pics and Account Now Up At ) http://www.stormchaserdan.com/cyclon...006_photos.htm
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I was able to observe about 20 minutes worth of a long-lived tornadic supercell near Clay Center, KS. The supercell raced NNE at 45 mph, so 20 minutes was all I could manage. It produced 3 tornadoes in that short time frame, two were so so, but the third developed into what appered to be a wedge as it raced away from me.
Scott Currens
Seemed like about every chaser in the world was somewhere between Clay Center and Marysville. It was actually quite tough to travel with so much traffic. Especially those that would partially park on the shoulder, but leave part of there vehicle on the road. My crew first intercepted the wall cloud near Abilene and rode NNE to the NE/KS border. We came across two funnel clouds to our N and NW about 8 miles NNE of Abilene. Unfortunately, was not able to get out and get any stills since we were just fighting to keep up with the storms. I did get a little video of it though. From the looks of things, the funnel directly to our north never touched down, but the one to our NW may have. We were unable to tell because it became lost in the high precip. This may have been the one that eventually got to Clay Center. Unfortunately, working through the road system dropped us well behind and we arrived in Clay Center just in time to see multiple emergency vehicles head to the west of town.
Our crew continued to head NNE into Washington Co. figuring that we were stuck in between the storm now well to the north and the one hailing on Manhattan. As we arrived in the town of Barnes, we made the last minute decision to continue to head east to HW77. Had we turned north on 148, we would have had a nice view like Doug's picture above. Unfortunately, we didn't notice what had quickly shown up directly behind us until after passing the 148 turn. Probably should have paid more attention to the 50 guys in Barnes out of their vehicles and cameras set up. I believe this is the tornado that eventually got to Hanover.
By the time we reached Marysville, there was some more activity to our west as the updraft was working hard once again. But just to the north of Marysville, a stupid train decided that it had to get going just then. So we were stuck there for about 10 minutes. Our other crew was able to catch up to us and tell us all about the tornado that they captured to the south of Hanover. As we crossed into Nebraska we eventually hit the heavy precip and we all know what happened to the storms from there.
So all in all, it was an exciting chase, but from looking at the pictures above, we just barely missed some great tornadoes. Hope next time they will be quite a bit slower. I would like to get out of the car and stretch every once in a while. Not to mention take a picture or two. Can't wait to read the other chase accounts in the upcoming days. Sounds like a lot of people got a good look at these storms. I pray that there were no injuries from the tornadoes and that every one is ok.
My chase group and I were on the same storms, but not until they crossed the border into Gage county. Honestly would have had a perfect view of the "multi vortex tornado" near Odell, but had a smaller cell moving in for a merger at that exact time frame and it totally obscured the wall from view for about ten minutes. When we could finally see the beautiful wall again, it was due west and partially rain wrapped, but really hauling to the North (nothing new).
Followed it for a while and eventually we were located about 2 miles west of it with a solid funnel reaching toward the ground (perhaps in contact), but I couldn't tell too well as I was trying to watch the road at the same time and had a couple hills in the way. The new storm was quickly rolling in on us from the South so we booked it East, at one point, debris from the torando was falling around us which was a crazy experience. After getting out of the way of storm 2, the wall cloud became evident to our SSW and was bearing down on us this time. Inflow was great, and a large funnel was once again reaching downward but I was busy driving away from it at 80 and couldn't really stop to look back until the rotation became rainwrapped once again.
After this, yet another cell slightly farther east was headed in. We were trying to get into position, ran into bad road network suddenly, and looked up and slightly North to see a well developed meso centered almost right above us. Maybe a quarter mile to the North was a tight rotation, but it did not descent very far. Inflow into this beast was screaming, and it was warned about a minute after it developed on top of us (NE Gage County). However, with a dead end, and minimum maintenance roads going both North and South, we were forced for the second chase in a row to take the brunt of the hook echo precip. Luckily, hail was minimal. Just some heavy rain. And also, this chase, we weren't pinned due to poor map reading, but rather because the chasers had become the chased for a bit.
I hate when that happens, but I guess it's just a fact of chasing. Luckily, what we ended up underneath wasn't the wedge it could have been. For now, I'm mentally exhausted and time for some sleep. Also... next time, I'm not driving!! haha
Dick McGowan, Eric B'Hymer, Jordan Wrecke, and I managed to capture two tornadoes today in Clay Co. KS. Both were on the ground at the same time. One about a mile to our east and one a mile to our west. One was a classic stovepipe and looked a lot like the Big Springs Nebraska tornado a few years ago. Here are a few pics. These photos of the tornadoes were near Manchester,
roping out
tornado to our west..will get better vid capture later
All in all not a bad chase day...might have seen a few more touchdowns near Clay Center.
Jon Davies and I chased NC Kansas near Salina this afternoon. Initially, we were on the Lincoln County storm, but let it go as it was moving away from us at 50+ MPH. We then picked up the McPherson County storm and followed it N/NE past Salina. After nearly getting munched by a fast moving meso and gust front, we followed a new meso that developed E/SE of the original one and watched what may have been a F0 type circulation pass 1/4 mile to our west in rapidly rotating rain curtains.
We followed this some distance toward Manchester (15 miles N/NW of Abilene), and saw it produce a tornado in low contrast to our north for several minutes. At one point, this had the appearance of a narrow cone or stovepipe, then began to lift and rope out. This tornado was probably located roughly 3 miles N/E of Manchester around 4:15 P.M. The storm continued moving north at such a rapid pace that we could not stay with it, and opted to intercept another supercell near Junction City that was non-tornadic before ending our chase.
Here are a few pictures of the Manchester tornado.
Wide Shot (of stovepipe, looking N/NW):
Shots of the tornado toward the end of it's life cycle:
This was a fun chase. However, I'm now ready for the late spring SLOW MOVERS!!!!
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Mr. Johnson was a member of St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church, Neenah. He was employed at Russ Darrow in sales for many years along with Klein Auto until his retirement. Joseph enjoyed card playing, golfing, trout fishing and took great joy in his grandchildren.
Joseph is survived by his wife, Wendy; 3 sons: Eric (Inaeh) Johnson, Lake Mahopac, NY; Chris (Kristen) Johnson, Mequon; Matthew (Kate) Johnson, Neenah; 7 grandchildren: Ariel, Grace, and Vendela Johnson; Annika and Sophia Johnson; Elsa and Lola Johnson; a brother, John (Karen) Johnson, Shiocton; 4 sisters: Judy (Jack) Tackman, Shiocton; Mary Johnson, Appleton; Jennie Lauzen, Naperville, IL; Midge (Gary) Rueden, Appleton; 2 brothers-in-law: Ryan (Mary) Downs, Appleton; Paul (Rebecca) Downs, NY; a sister-in-law, Stephanie Downs, Hong Kong; nieces, nephews and other relatives and many friends.
Joseph was preceded in death by his parents, Russell and Julia.
Joe's family would like to thank their friends and family for their love and support and in particular Jeff and Joan Block.
Funeral services will be held at 4:00 p.m. Friday, October 26, 2012, at St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church, 620 Division St., Neenah, with Fr. Michael Ingold officiating. Interment will be in St. Margaret Cemetery, Neenah.
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Do you need to add liquid to a crockpot for pulled pork?
You definitely need a little liquid -- about a cup of water, beer, stock, or whatever you're using should be enough for a large pork roast.
You do need to add a little to start, but not much and then you will need to strain off a lot of liquid as the cooking continues. This meat is very fatty and moist (and oh soooo delicious) but as a side effect it prodiced an amazing amount of fat. Just enough to cover the bottom of the crock pot is enough, and definately not enough to cover.
I have used everything from a beer, to spock, to a mix including a little Kaluha for Luau style pork. Hard to go wrong. Enjoy.
I agree, you don't need more than 1/4cup water or other liquid in your crockpot with the pork. Do save the juice that renders from the meat (there will be a lot!). Put it in a measuring cup and refridgerate so the fat will rise to the top so that you can remove it easier. Keep the well jelled juice (stock) and use some of it in whatever sauce you will use on the pulled pork. It enhances bbq sauce wonderfully for pork.
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I am in Oakland in the Bay Area. I am having trouble with fruit size and quality on my Red Flame seedless grape. I am so disappointed I am ready to pull it and try raspberries. I would like to keep the vine if I can fix this issue. (I'll grow the raspberries elsewhere.) Each year the fruits are teeny tiny. A grape the size of the tip of my pinkie finger is a giant. Most fruits are 1/4 inch or less across. The clusters are few, poorly formed and ripen inconsistently. Taste is unremarkable. I am not expecting the type of production that comes from the pro growers with all their tricks of the trade, but I want more than this. My area has had cool and foggy summers these past two years but this vine has never given any better. The vine has been in the ground in full sun for five years. It has no pests or diseases and grows like thunder each spring. I have it trained to a wire trellis. I prune it in fall and have tried some pruning tricks to encourage fruit size. No luck. I prune it during the growing season just enough to contain the vine as it wants to hug the rose, apple, fig and tomatoes. Any ideas to improve the quality?
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The Problem
A common problem people face who shop at thrift stores and something that prevents people from purchasing thrift store items is odour. That mothball smell that reminds us of our grandmother's attics is not attractive and makes or breaks a purchase especially if the items are not washable. Enter my green leather jacket, and lace cardigan. This jacket is amazing but smelly and after letting it "air out" for a few days it remained smelly. This lace cardigan has been washed but still smells like an attic. I love these two garments so to save them and to help you shop thrift(!) I went looking for a (cheap) home solution.
The Test
Miss Rochelle shared this conflict of smelly vintage items on twitter and I quickly found myself in a discussion with her about possible solutions. We came to the conclusion that orange peels and baking soda may work. Yes, orange peels. This fruit is very "right now" within cleaning products so I was willing to give it a go. Baking soda is the traditional deodorizer so I was hoping it would work with clothing as well.
The Process
- I bought large oranges and a box of generic baking soda (454g) saving $.40 (I'm quite thrifty).
- I chopped up two oranges (yum) and placed the peels in the bottom of a garbage bag. With the garment on a hanger I place the bag around the item and tied it at the top so it's a bag on a hanger.
- I did the same with the baking soda but poured some freely into the bag and left the box open.
- I put the orange peel bag around the lace cardigan and the baking soda around the leather jacket
24 hours later
I opened up the lace cardigan bag and the orange peels mixed with the smell that the lace cardigan already had! Bah! Please imagine this deadly combo of mothballs AND orange. Not good!
The leather jacket was more of a success. I opened the bag and noticed the bottom half of the garment had lost most of its odour but the shoulders and collar remained smelly.
Next Step
I'm going to give them one more day! I replaced the orange peels with baking soda and tied the bags tighter at the top to close in the deodorizer.
I'll post the results tomorrow! Keep your fingers crossed!
Do you have tried and tested solutions? Share with us and post them below!
YEAH GIRL!!! My grey leather 'michael jackson thriller' jacket smells terrible! i'm going to baking soda it up!
I have a Tobi Steamer, it's great for getting out smells… but thats not a very cheap solution.
I slightly cheaper idea: a diluted vodka spray! check out number 1 here: http://www.ehow.com/how_2330445_use-vodka-health-household-issues.html I haven't tried it myself, but it sounds promising…
Thanks for sharing.
Do you know if thrift stores clean their clothes before they sell them?
Vinegar with hot water in the bath tub, hang clothes above across.
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Wow,I adore MJ! He was the most talented to ever sing! We will never have someone like MJ! RIP to the GREATEST!
I bought a job lot of stuff from a guy who buys stuff from storage lockers. Very excited, but as we drove home we nearly passed out from the smells. Two months later I am throwing it all out. I have tried vinegar treatment, baking soda, oxy clean,ammonia, sun drying. I thought some of it was
better, but what happened was the smell came back.
Found that the smell stayed in the mining and in the shoulder pads. Will never buy anythign with a musty moth ball smell again as the smell in the house was terrible and took days of using air purifiers to get rid of it. Plus, the toxicity of moth balls is too high to risk playing around with. Talked to several very helpful thrift shop owners and they all said to ditch the stuff. -
Coffee beans or coffee ground work lovely to get rid of smells. I have a vintage desk in my room that smelled just horrible, but a little cup of coffee grounds definitely cleared it up, so I only assume it will work for clothes too. =)
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Also remember qualified applicates have no problems finding high paying internships; the people who have unpaid internships want them! If they didn't they wouldn't accept the position.
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Michelle Williams is 'Gone with the Wind Fabulous' on the cover of Michigan Avenue magazine.
The singer chats it up with fellow artist Deborah Cox on topics such as, her new album, Beyonce & Kelly, what she does when she's back home in Chicago and much more. Check out some interview highlights below.
On the moment she knew she wanted to be a performer: "I was 4 or 5. My mother had these mirrors in the living room that I would always stand in front of to perform."
On the first thing she does when she's back home in Chi-Town:
"I stay in my house for, like, two days. I just need time to decompress."
On how her upcoming album, Journey to Freedom, focuses on her life:
"People identify when your music comes from the heart and speaks truth. There was a time last year when I didn't know if I could record and finish one song, and it took me a while to really be comfortable and allow other people to help me with my thoughts. We had some incredible writers who were able to help me with my own situation, and it really helped deliver me out of some of those dark moments."
On what advice she'd give to her 19-year-old self:
"Not to take things personally. Actually I wouldn't change anything that I have done because I have been blessed to know some great people. Deb, there are some people we know—Big Jim?"
On how Beyoncé and Kelly influenced her as a solo artist:
"Being in the group that long—with even Bey and Kelly, being in the group that long for them—just rubs off on you. The friendships continue to inspire, but the genres are so different now. I can't wait for them to hear [my new album], so I can be like "Okay, what do y'all think?" They're like, "Girl, do this or do that." But we really try to keep the solo stuff separate."
For more with Williams, check out the digital issue of Michigan Avenue.