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GAINESVILLE, Fla. - A way to detect fragments of broken brain cellsthat leak into the bloodstream may help doctors more quickly andprecisely treat people with severe head injuries or brain diseases, sayresearchers at the University of Florida's McKnight Brain Institute.
UF scientists have discovered they can use an approach similar toone commonly used in HIV or pregnancy testing to find bits of axons -nerve fibers that help brain cells communicate - in the blood andspinal fluid of laboratory rats modeling human spinal cord or traumaticbrain injuries.
The discovery could lead to tests for the clinic or battlefield todiagnose ailments with just a few drops of blood, bypassing cumbersomeand expensive CT or MRI brain scanning equipment. The researchersreport their findings in the current online edition of Biochemical andBiophysical Research Communications.
The cellular debris, derived from a protein called NF-H, was not foundin the blood or other fluids of healthy animals and humans. That leadsresearchers to believe it is a biomarker, a substance in blood thatsignals the presence of disease or injury.
"We could easily see that this particular protein is detectable verysoon after a disease starts or an injury occurs," said Gerry Shaw,Ph.D., a professor of neuroscience in the College of Medicine. "A lotmore of it is then released in the two or three days following a brainor spinal cord injury, which is interesting because it signals a kindof brain cell death that you could potentially do something abouttherapeutically."
The test would be helpful in emergency rooms or in combatsituations if it could be developed into a simple handheld device thatcould confirm brain or spinal injury.
"Shaken-soldier syndrome is a traumatic brain injury that shows inveterans who have survived roadside blasts," said Douglas Anderson,Ph.D., chairman of neuroscience at the McKnight Brain Institute whoparticipated in the research. "In patients who are unconscious but withno penetrating head wounds, it would be extremely helpful for emergencymedical technicians to test for a marker to see how severe the injuriesare. Then perhaps something can be done early on."
Shaw, who, along with UF, has interest in a company to market thebiotechnology, said studies already under way will seek to determinewhether the protein is detectable in people who have had strokes or whosuffer from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a debilitating disorderfrequently referred to as ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease. Further studieswill evaluate patients suffering from Alzheimer's disease and otherserious damage and disease states of the nervous system.
Drug researchers can already use the technique to monitor theeffectiveness of experimental medicines in animal models of stroke andtraumatic brain injury.
"This may become an important clinical marker, but it's also importantin terms of experimental work for basic scientists," said Dena Howland,Ph.D., an assistant professor of neuroscience at UF who investigatestherapies for spinal cord repair and another of the paper's authors."It's a way for us to assess whether our interventions are working."
Investigators detect the NF-H protein with a widely usedscreening method called an ELISA, short for enzyme-linked immunosorbentassay. Versions of it are used to test women for pregnancy and screenpatients for HIV. It uses components of the immune system calledantibodies, which have a natural affinity to latch onto certaincompounds.
In this case, Shaw developed antibodies that react positively to thepresence of NF-H. The structure of the molecule lends itself to easydetection, because it contains protein sequences that are repeateddozens of times, each of which can be bound by a detection antibody,increasing the sensitivity of the test. Other potential biomarkers maybe identifiable by only one short, non-repeating sequence, making thetask more difficult.
"NF-H is a very stable protein; one that does not degrade easily," saidJean-Pierre Julien, Canada research chair in the mechanisms ofneurodegeneration at theUniversitéLaval in Quebec, who was not connected with the UF study. "It makessense that when there is damage to axons this protein would be releasedand would be detectable."
The next step is for researchers to determine whether the release ofNF-H is a universal characteristic of all brain injury and disease.
If so, scientists hope the test will give early warning of disorderssuch as ALS, Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease, which do muchdamage before actual symptoms appear in patients.
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Most of Harris County's billion dollars or so of outstanding debt on its sports facilities involve long-term bonds with fixed interest rates. But about $120 million of Reliant Stadium's fixed debt was swapped a few years ago for variable rate debt. Then, as part of the economic downturn, the bond's insurer was downgraded, which triggered clauses that allowed JP Morgan Chase to buy back the bonds. Now, Chase is demanding the county pay back the debt in 5 years instead of 30 years.
"It's very similar to a home mortgage that you took out that was going to be paid-off in 30 years and now for some reason you have to pay it off in five."
J. Kent Friedman is the chairman of the Harris County Sports Authority. He says the Sports Authority is
negotiating with JP Morgan Chase to refinance the debt, but there's a good chance that won't happen.
If it doesn't, the county will be on the hook for a lot of money it didn't expect to have to pay-off in five years.
"If for some reason the Authority is not able to make those payments when they come due, nothing happens to the
Authority, nothing happens to the stadium, nothing happens to the teams that play in the stadium. The insurance underwriter, MBIA, would be forced to step-up and make those payments to the bondholders. That's why the Authority bought that insurance and that's what the insurance is there for. There is absolutely no scenario under which the taxpayers of Harris County or the City of Houston would be required to make any payments at all."
Not so fast, says Harris County Judge Ed Emmett. Because the Sports Authority will be looking for money wherever
it can find it, it won't be able to give the Harris County Sports and Convention Corporation, the entity that operates Reliant Stadium, about $7 million it currently forks-over for operational expenses.
"Suddenly, the Sports and Convention Corporation is going to be $7 million lighter than they were before, $7 million per year and that money has got to be made up from somewhere if Reliant is going to be operated at the same level it has been, and that's where it gets to be very, very interesting."
Emmett says it won't be easy for Harris County Commissioners to find the money needed to fill the huge hole in the
Sports and Convention Corporation's budget.
"It is concerning and there are going to have to be some hard decisions made as to if we're going to be out $7 million
then where does that $7 million come from to make up the operating revenue needed by Reliant."
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Address:Imperial Lane, 44 Queen St, Auckland CBD
Phone: (09) 929 2702
Once it was just Everybody's. Now it's Everybody's Izakaya, part of the rebranding at the Imperial Lane complex that has seen Roxy's disappear as a restaurant and a radical change of direction in the food at the more casual eatery.
Anyone who visited the place in its former incarnation won't notice a great deal of difference in the physical environment. There's only so much you can do, having decided to go for the raw heritage building look, and it is still very appealing. There has been a bit of a revamp of the seating but it still offers comfortable accommodation for groups of all sizes, from couples to big groups.
Our table in the upstairs area afforded a great view of the front of the kitchen and it was an added little pleasure to watch the disembodied hands working dexterously to plate the offerings as small pieces of art.
Chef Nick Honeyman says the inspiration is a term that describes sake shops where customers are lured to stay to eat as well as drink. We found the food at Izakaya is certainly calculated to do that.
After we had finished our initial selections we greedily ordered an extra couple, testimony to the quality of the first few, and there were plenty more that we would have liked to sample.
This is small plate territory, split basically into a raw and cooked section. From the raw we started with a crayfish ceviche, a dish that made a little go a long way but which demonstrated the virtues of the food here; fresh, subtle and memorable flavours. The taste of the cray was, perhaps, subdued by the citrus tang of the yazu dressing and the butter but the overall effect was delicious.
It's tempting but tedious to try to describe every detail of the rest of our initial five dishes but the spiced chicken mince in the baked eggplant deserves a reference. And I won't forget the spiced kaarage duck leg (think of a sophisticated KFC). Then there was the interesting onsen egg, a sort of sous-vide slow-cooked poached job, with shiitake mushrooms, not to mention the teriyaki rice porridge with steamed snapper ...
Five dishes were, probably, enough between two but I find it hard to resist gyoza and the pork versions in our additional orders were excellent. The crisp little apple and fennel salad which came with our slow-roasted salmon made a refreshing end to a meal that gave us pleasure. The choice of four desserts including a soy-milk custard with plum-wine jelly and yuzu sorbet looked interesting but we were defeated.
If you are not conversant with all the Japanese food influences, and I'm not, the staff, low-key and friendly, are well-versed in either explaining it or finding someone who can.
As an evening for a couple we enjoyed it but for our next visit, and there will be another one, I will go for a bigger group, probably with one of their set banquet menus, which seem to offer good value.
Our meal: $163.50 for seven dishes and four glasses of wine.
Wine list: A good list of sakes, well explained, and a wine list mostly of sound New Zealand provenance.
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PHILADELPHIA. "NOW who the hell is this Keith Brazil?" Jack Benny asked quietly. "I guess he hates me. I don't know why. I don't know why he put me in his book, this Keith Brazil."
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She correctly writes that Big Red currently has no 4G handsets and that Sprint has a pair (HTC EVO 4G and the Samsung Epic 4G). Where she goes wrong is with her calculations for T-Mobile. She writes that the Nation's fourth largest carrier has no 4G phones because it has no 4G network. As we recently reported, the ITU has changed its mind and now recognizes T-Mobile's HSPA+ network as being a 4G pipeline along with Verizon's LTE network and Sprint's WiMax service.
Before Sprint starts picking a fight with T-Mobile, it might be a good idea for the former to get its information correct before firing the first salvo. According to the ITU, the T-Mobile G2 and the myTouch 4G both are considered 4G devices.
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I got to the train station at 7:30am for my 8am train. I obviously never learn. It wasn't there, and in fact didn't arrive till about 10:30 am. Everyone got off the train, and no-one got on, it's often a good idea to just 'do as the locals do'. I got talking to an English guy and we chatted while waiting to board. Then at about midday, someone comes past and tells us to come back tomorrow for 8am. We think it's a joke so wait a while longer, then someone else says the same. We confirm it with a rail worker and that's that, we walk back into town and get a room for the night. And a day to kill in Mwanza!
That's why I love the internet, it's a great time killer. We made the most of the evening though and had a great meal in a semi fancy hotel on the shore of Lake Victoria. Then when we arrived back at the train the next morning it actually left at 8am on the dot. I should think so too!
The journey was brilliant. Tanzania looks very different from Uganda which was really green and lush. Tanzania is far drier and therefore the landscape is much sandier and brown in colour. The locals in my cabin were great as well, they were very keen to teach me some Swahili and talked at length about the great attributes of African women. The trip reminded me a lot of my trip through Russia on the Trans-Mongolian train, it was just a bit shorter.
We stopped at Tabora for about 3 hours while connections with other trains were made and passengers transfered about. It was fairly late by the time we left so I just headed to bed, as did everyone else. This was great until 1am when the ticket inspector came past! He seemed to really enjoy making loads of noise and waking everyone up, I guess it takes a special person to fill that role!
I'd 'expected' to arrive in Dodoma the next morning, how foolish of me. Of course we didn't arrive till 2pm. There were buses waiting at the train station for people to head straight for Dar es Salaam, I decided that I might as well stay one night in Dodoma, plus I felt like I needed a shower.
It's important to know at this point that Dodoma is actually the capital of Tanzania, it really shouldn't be, but it is. And what I didn't know when I arrived was that parliment was in session. This meant that after walking a couple of kilometers in baking heat I found that all the guest houses were full, probably not with MPs but their drivers and other staff. I started to worry at this, since it's not possible to get a bus in the evening in Tanzania I had to find somewhere. Despite the heat I walked to another part of town and eventually found a bed for the night, bliss.
There certainally isn't anything to do in Dodoma, unless you work for the government or have a keen interest in dust that swirls around towns. The evening was a pretty quiet affair. Funnily enough I didn't bump into any other tourists here, I wonder why! It really was just a convienient stop over, and I'm getting out to Dar ASAP.


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The Eagles take EJ Manuel with the 4th overall pick.
* Supposedly Chip Kelly really likes Manuel's skill set. He's big, fast, intelligent, and has an underrated arm. He'd be a good fit for Kelly's offense.
Houston drafts Mike Glennon with their 1st round pick.
* They need a receiver, but there are some nice receiver prospects all the way down into the 5th round. QB? Not so much. Matt Schaub has difficulties staying healthy and doesn't seem to rise to the occasion. Glennon as a 1st round arm and would be great insurance for the Texans.
Cleveland takes Tavon Austin with the 6th overall pick.
* The Browns signed Paul Kruger and Desmond Bryant, but didn't make any big time splashes offensively. Norv Turner could influence this pick as could Chudzinski. Both are offensive guys and Tavon Austin's big-play-ability could remind Norv of Darren Sproles and that is the type of player that Cleveland hasn't had in a very long time. He also replaces what they lost in Joshua Cribbs.


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The work of an FDA inspector is by nature imprecise. It involves crawling through every part of a food-processing plant, looking for such telltale signs as rodent droppings--a hit or miss proposition. Now, to boost consumer confidence in food safety, the Food & Drug Administration is planning to adopt a more accurate way to inspect and regulate plants.
The agency wants to make companies identify critical steps in their production lines, such as points where food is cooked. Then, the companies will have to continually monitor each critical point, making sure, for instance, that temperatures are high enough to kill dangerous bacteria. A soup plant "might have 20 critical points," says a top FDA official. "If a company keeps checking them, they will never have a problem." Rather than prowling production lines, FDA inspectors will examine the raw data--and the systems for collecting it.
The agency expects to have regulations for seafood companies by this fall, with rules for other producers to follow later. In general, the few companies that already use the new Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point system are pleased. "We applaud the FDA for seeking to update its regulations and implement modern, scientifically based safety systems," says James R. Kirk, senior vice-president of Campbell Soup Co.


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In Florida the skins have been in fair to exceptional condition on most 9000 I come across in the local pull n pay.
Many have seen me post where I installed the front seats from a MY95 9000 into MY92 900 last week with suede carpet.
This weekend I am doing the rear bench and then prepping the rear backrest.
I pulled the velour fabric off the back bench and exposed the springs.
Here are the tools for the job:
Heavy duty wires cutters = $20 Home Depot (could probably get some cheaper but I liked this paticular one as it does about 5 other things).
Staple Gun = hand held is plenty (i am using 1/2 staples becasue thats whats in the garage)
Hand Saw = $8.00 Home Depot
I made this job harder than what it was suppose to be. I mis-judged the size of the 900 bench. I thought it is smaller than the 9000 seperate seats and I was wrong.
The 9000 had a 3rd person cushion and I cut it off long ago. So I had to modify the bench to fit the 9000 skins properly.
I simply cut the springs down to match the missing section. The MY95 9000 has seperate rear seats; therefore the cushions fit either side the springs I left in place. BUT THE REAR SKINS NEED TO BE SEWN TOGETHER (more on that below).
So in Theory, the 9000 rear seats, in its dimensions will fit a 900 rear hatch bench. Had I not cut the mid section from the 9000 cushion (see cut foam in the piccy below), it would have been plug and play:
(9000 cushions left/right sides, dry fitted to the 900 rear bench)
Now you have to sew the rear skins together.
The 9000 rear passenger side (LHD) and mid-section are 1 seat. The driver rear is seperate.
I have a fabulous seamstress up the road that works from her home.
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here is a section of the seat rest that was stitched. Professional job:
This is the rear side. The skins were stitched together and then enforced with the with white fabric you see running down the entire stitch, back to front. In many sections she added that brown fabric you see as well. Not sure why but she says, "20 more years useage Mr. Mike, 20 more years", that was good enough for me!
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Josephine Dolores Stull was born Feb. 21, 1931 in Barnesboro, Penn., the daughter of Joseph and Mary Onorato. A singer in a band, Josephine was united in marriage to Herman Theodore Stull on June 15,1957 at Mt. Carmel Church in Barnesboro, Penn. They made their home in Tecumseh, Mich. for a short time before moving first to Cleveland and in 1963 they moved to Stow, Ohio. They have lived in Texas since 1981. Herman preceded Josephine in death on December 30, 1994. A Catholic by faith, Josephine loved plants and her pets, and taking care of her family. She passed away suddenly on Thursday, June 29, 2006 at her home in Bellville at the age of 75. She is survived by her children David Stull and Charlotte Brummett of Bellville, Mary Jo and Edward Caranto of Mountain Home, Idaho, Jeanette Ann and Edward Guinaldo of Akron, Ohio and Jacquieline Marie and Kelly Ryan of Bellville; grandchildren Brittany, Edward and Ted Caranto, Miranda and Kyndra Guinaldo, and Jasmine and Joseph Ryan; brother Richard Onorato and his wife, Joann, of Pennsylvania; and many other friends and relatives. She was preceded in death by her parents. The funeral service was held at 10 a.m., Monday, July 10, 2006 at the Schmidt Funeral Home Chapel. Father Tim Bucek officiating. The graveside service was held at 1 p.m., Monday, July 10 at the Houston National Cemetery. Schmidt Funeral Home of Brookshire was in charge of arrangements.
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There has been a lot of buzz this week about Google buying Adscape Media, a San Francisco-based company specializing in in-game ad placements.
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Originally this blog post was going to capture our New Year's predictions and resolutions but I figure we're all a bit bloated and tired of prognostication by now.. Instead I'm going to use this post for a bit of shameless self-promotion to talk about my first published long document "Organic branding: Using consumers to help build your brand."
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text: I believe this is the guy who made the headlines a while back about finding a new hygienic behavior. Many said he just found more of what we already have. However it appears he has found a strain or gene that actually gets the bee to be a more aggressive groomers to the point they end up pulling of antenna of other bees when aggressively trying to groom off mites. He moves a queen with the gene to a highly infested hive and soon the mite population dropped. This would be another great addition to our mite tolerant arsenal.


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To the casual observer, and those with an interest in the conflict, Afghanistan has not seemed like a peaceful place recently. A UN report released on Wednesday seems to confirm as much, stating that "security incidents" are already up 40 percent this year on 2010, with civilian deaths up 15 percent. The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force yesterday contradicted those figures, saying they were "inconsistent" with its data, which put attacks on ISAF down 20 percent and civilian deaths down 14 percent. Crucially, ISAF did not make the data public, saying it would do so on Friday. A war of words ensued with journalists engaging @ISAFmedia on Twitter. But if the case underscored the old adage about "lies, damned lies and statistics", it could also be a case of "doctors differ and patients die" for Afghan civilians hoping for a more peaceful and secure future.
Yesterday's discussion kicked off with a detailed ISAF statement that took aim at the UN report, directly contradicting the key data:
Tom Popyk#ISAF slams UN rpt on #afghan violence. UNAMA: +39% attacks, +15% civ deaths. ISAF: -20% attacks, -14% civ deaths. //t.co/UqtQk7XE
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Journalists like the Tom Popyk of Global TV Canada immediately asked 'Why the difference?':
Why the difference in UN / ISAF #Afgh data? UN counts all incidents, ISAF only counts "insurgent initiated" attacks.
In a press conference live tweeted by @ISAFmedia, the force's spokesperson set out its case.
Jan-Aug 2011: Enemy attacks 2% lower than same period in 2010.
The twitter account was immediately engaged by this IT specialist in Germany:
@ISAFmedia Lower in the number of occasions? Or gravity? What is the reference?
ISAF dealt with the first volley of questions with the promise of more data:
@jfkorn Will try to post link to fleshed-out stats as soon as they become available.
@ISAFmedia I understand :). Keep up the flow of information, appreciate it. Looking forward to the whole data package.
Reports of a downed chopper from Taliban mouthpiece @ABalkhi were raised mid-conference:
ISAF's tweeter dismissed the report and took a quick shot at his opposite number:
@yannikouts He's lying, as usual. There was a hard landing. No shootdown. All aboard are alive and safe.
Military blogger Crispin J. Burke raised a recent Wall Street Journal article on differences between the UN and ISAF reporting of Afghan 'metric', citing this article by @DionNissenbaum.
@ISAFmedia Where do ISAF, UN stats differ? Enemy-initiated attacks? Attacks in general?
There are some statistics the UN and ISAF agree upon – such as the proportion of civilian deaths attributable to anti-government forces (the UN puts this figure at 80 per cent):
85% of civilian casualties in Afghanistan due to insurgent action.
They differ, however, on the important question of whether progress has been made is creating a secure environment. Missile launched at the UN report, ISAF made a tactical retreat – insisting that the hugely differing pictures presented could be attributed to "categoization":
ISAF @starbuck_woi Differences come down to categorization. For instance, UN counts "potential or attempted" attacks.
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Later, the UN envoy to Afghanistan would claim there was no contradiction between the reports. ISAF, however, insists that progress has been made towards protecting civilians, while the UN envoy referred to "purely military gains":
Staffan de Mistura told reporters after a Security Council meeting Thursday that the situation in Afghanistan has improved "in a purely military way," but at the same time there has been an increase in civilian casualties.
Source: AP
There were questions about press releases not recording live fire from writer/researcher Alex Strick:
@ISAFmedia your press releases have stopped saying whether 'no shots were fired' in operations. is there any reason for this?
@strickvl Unsure why the change. Those releases come from Joint Command. Will ask.
The demand for data is insatiable:
@ISAFmedia ok thanks. I have noted incident reports getting shorter and shorter over the past year too. More transparency would be better.
The role of tormentor in chief, however, went to writer, researcher and analyst Joshua Foust:
@ISAFmedia @starbuck_woi why doesn't ISAF count "attempted" attacks? We count "attempted terrorism" in the US. Why not Afghanistan?
ISAF's twitter asset took a defensive position:
@joshuafoust We clearly have different definitions of violence. The US certainly doesn't count attempted murders in its national murder...
But Foust tried a flanking manoeuvre:
@ISAFmedia defining violence overly narrowly to declare progress makes no sense. Do Afghans consider it violence? If so why not count it?
ISAF's tweeter maintained their position:
@joshuafoust Consider this way: If EOD disarms an IED, that's an attempt. Attack failed. No violence = doesn't show up in violence stats.
Again, Foust came from an unexpected angle:
@ISAFmedia I get that. But imagine if in the US we kept disarming IEDs everywhere. Would the gov say "no violence. Progress!" They would not
Then he tried a full frontal assault:
And lobbed this grenade:
@ISAFmedia And attempted murder IS counted as "violent crime" in violent crime statistics.
ISAF was forced to respond with its own sortie:
@joshuafoust We've "redefined" nothing. You're expanding the definition well beyond reason.
The issue of collateral damage was raised by Jari Lindholm of newsweekly Suomen Kuvalehti:
@joshuafoust @ISAFmedia No, but what happens to Afghans is really all that matters. The rest is either BS or politics.
The response from ISAF seemingly contradicted the UN report again:
Foust persisted:
@ISAFmedia Okay, here we disagree. I think it's strange to say attempted murder should not count as violence.
Former US Army officer and college professor James Joyner, who is managing editor at the Atlantic Council, reiterated the point:
@joshuafoust So long as we're not changing methods to show faux progress, I'm not too concerned. @Starbuck_WOI @ISAFmedia
Under attack on two fronts, ISAF engaged with Joyner:
@drjjoyner We're not changing our methods. We just have different methods than the UN. Posting numbers tomorrow when available
It then turned to Faust's assertion about attempted murder:
@joshuafoust Never said that. Only said it didn't count in muder stats. Just like failed IEDs don't count in bombing stats.
@ISAFmedia But the UN is talking about aggregate violence. Are the ISAF numbers aggregate violence or limited only to bombing events?
@joshuafoust Not limited to bombings. Posting full numbers tomorrow.
N.R. Jenzen-Jones, co-editor at Security Scholar, then opened up a new front:.
@ISAFmedia If someone walks into a bank, waves a gun around and threatens to kill people it is still a violent crime, even if no shots fired
Under heavy fire ISAF stuck to its guns, insisting the figures were coming out tomorrow:
@rogueadventurer Now we're down to semantics. Getting nowhere. Posting report tomorrow. Feel free to parse the numbers as you wish.
Time for one more question maybe?
@ISAFmedia So then why isn't ISAF including clearly violent events like attempted IEDs in its "not limited to bombings" statistics?
@joshuafoust Like I said, read the report tomorrow. Judge its completeness/accuracy for yourself.
Finally, a truce was called:
@ISAFmedia Thanks. I look forward to it.
But not for long. Strick struck again from Kandahar:
@ISAFmedia any idea why report was not released today, on same day as press conference? or did you pre-release to media?
ISAF demurred:
@strickvl Presentation is currently a PowerPoint on a single computer. Will take some time to get a copy, then upload on our archaic net
Foust firmed up the ceasefire:
@ISAFmedia I do really appreciate your engaging on this -- it's healthy for the debate
@joshuafoust You're quite welcome. Glad ISAF is open enough to allow us to do so.
Consultant Alistair Rae probed:
@ISAFmedia @joshuafoust my experience was that there was little appetite to investigate that level of subtlety.
Later, Strick would reach out to Dion Nissenbaum, who drew attention to the UN/ISAF divide in his WSJ article:
@DionNissenbaum did you get a copy of the @ISAFmedia report pre-release? will you be waiting with your story until you see the full report?
Nissenbaum confirmed that he had seen the data, but didn't have it. He said the data was good but added that it didn't give a picture of overall security:
But the question of civilian safety, and the overall security situation, remains. What exactly is the measure of ISAF's success? Is it different to the UN's? Is the patient dying as the doctors differ? Nissenbaum has plenty to say on the matter:
American military commanders argue the infusion of 33,000 more American forces has helped change the tide of the war by driving down violence and reducing the number of civilian casualties this summer. U.N. officials, along with independent security analysts in Afghanistan, contest that analysis and say violence and civilian deaths both hit record highs in recent months.
Source: WSJ
There were plaudits for ISAF after the performance on Twitter:
Here is the UN report. ISAF's take to follow … tomorrow:


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My golden retriever is 15 years old she keeps wetting herself. Should she be put to sleep?The medication is not helping
My golden retriever is 15 years old, she keeps wetting herself. The whole house is being destroyed on top of it smelling to high heavens. Should she be put to sleep?The medication is not helping. The doctor game me Vetroprofen for her joints and another medication for a urinary tract infection. Medication is done but the problem has not gone away.
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I am so sorry you have to go thru this. Putting a dog down is one of the hardest decisions you will ever have to make. I had a 16yr old shepherd that started losing control, we worked and tried everything. He finally would just lay and pee. After 4 times in one day. I knew it was time. Afterwards I pulled up the carpet and put down a hard floor. I have 4 graves in my backyard. All but one had to be put down due to some kind of old age problem. The one I found dead was the hardest one, because she passed alone. I wasn't there for her when she crossed over. I feel so much for what you are going thru. My prayers are with you.
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I'm sorry you are asking this question. The answer is really in your gut. You know your dog and your dog knows you be aware maybe he's trying to tell you something. You have to go by what you really feel however hard it may, or may not be to feel it.
Perhaps your vet can try another medicine or something too.
I'll be thinking of you.
Kayak answered on 7/3/09. Helpful? / 0
try some doggie pants I believe they have a pad that goes inside the pants so you change it
The putting to sleep is solely up to you, if you feel the dog is suffering badly then it is something to consider.
It is what you feel in your heart is right thing to do.
Dieta answered on 7/3/09. Helpful? / 0
The answer really lies within you and it's such a difficult decision to make. A question you can ask yourself is whether the dog has a decent quality of life. Is she able to get up and walk around still and socialize with your family? Does she enjoy going outside still?
The doggy diapers are a good suggestion.
You will know when it's time, most likely.
I hope the decision is clear for you.
Good luck.
Member 768404 answered on 7/3/09. Helpful? / 0
Perhaps your dog has incontinence? If so, a medication I use for my incontinent GSD is Proin.
Have a vet diagnose her again, first though.
I can understand this one, but perhaps you could try just once more?
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Me: <Thinking: What's wrong with him now> What d'you mean all my friends are crazy. Then your friends leh?
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The ship is generally tired looking, staterooms especially. The top duvet cover in our room had a one inch tear on the top, right in the centre. The sheer curtains had rips and tears in them. Towels are thin, and on many occasions threading. This particularly bothered me as the cruise director kept joking : "do not take our towels!!". I know he is joking, but what makes you think I want your old, thin, threading towels?
The food quality is poor, poor, poor. The toast in the morning is so hard, you can literally break your tooth with it. At first I couldn't figure out how the toast can get this hard, then I realized the bread is stale, and they recycle from the day before. On many occasions, food was recycled from the night before. Trust me, my husand and I are both More really easy going, and eat hospital food all the time. This was on par or worse than hospital food. Most of the choices in Windjamer were heavily fried, or stews with thick heavy sauce. The steak cut is absolutely the worse I have ever seen with large chunks of fat. On one occasion, my daughter ordered a steak in main dining room for $19, and ofcourse, that came out great. So, they do know how to make it good, they just choose not to. I guess the $14K we gave them wasn't enough to feed us decent quality food...they need extra $19! Everytime they change a tray in Windjammer, they put back the same old serving spoon with lots of old gooey food stuck to it. This practice is not only un-sanitary, it is really unappetizing and puts you off from touching the spoon, yet alone eating the food. Would it really cost too much money to wash extra 20-30 serving spoons/ day? Almost all desserts are made with some kind of gelatin/ gelo like ingredient (from the chocolate mouse to lemon tart, to strawberry)....at the ice cream shop ($3-4/ small ice cream), the guy wiped his apron with a napkin first and put the same napkin around my son's cone.....Can go on and on about poor quality of food...
Minor issue: Windjammer closes at 9:30 (or 10- before the show in the Alehambra theatre ends), so if you want water for your medicine at night, you need to call room service and wait! Or better yet, go all the way down to the promanade and wait in a long line up (for beer/ soft drinks) to get a cup of water. Seriously?
Pros: The staff are fairly attentive and nice. The ports were all very good, although we could have used more time in some (e.g. Vigo). The parties were awesome, lots of energy. The port lecturer was great and sold lots of excursions. The kids club was excellent. The dinig room attendents were great. Flo-rider/ rock climbing wall were both really fun.
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If you can't raise the roof, you can raise a ruckus when it affects a game's outcome.
That's about all Tampa Bay Rays manager Joe Maddon can do when it comes to his quirky home ballpark.
With the division and American League wild-card races heating up Aug. 5, the Minnesota Twins' Jason Kubel launched a towering pop-up that struck a catwalk suspended high above Tropicana Field.
The deflected ball fell behind the pitcher's mound for a tiebreaking single in the ninth inning.
And Maddon's Rays temporarily fell out of first place in the AL East.
"Say it was the seventh game of the ALCS and the game was impacted by that," Maddon said the next day. "Both sides would be yelling bloody murder."
Throughout history, ballparks described as cozy and cavernous have been romanticized in literature. There seems to be, however, no poetic justice when wins and losses are affected by features that are unique to particular playing fields.
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Baseball history would be much different had Bucky Dent's fly ball not barely cleared Fenway Park's Green Monster in 1978, giving the New York Yankees the lead for good in a one-game playoff to decide the AL East that sent the Boston Red Sox home for the offseason.
Like many stadium anomalies, Fenway's left-field wall — a tantalizing target for hitters — was created out of architectural necessity. It's 310 feet down the left-field line because the ballpark's footprint backs to Lansdowne Street just outside the park.
According to Harold and Dorothy Seymour's book, Baseball: The Golden Age, the dimensions of ballparks were once determined by the shape of the available real estate on which to build them, which explains the odd horseshoe shape of the old Polo Grounds. It was once 483 feet to the deepest part of center field (and 279 down the line in left) at the New York Giants' (and later New York Mets') home.
It was 251 feet down the left-field line when the Dodgers made the Los Angeles Coliseum their temporary home from 1958 to 1961. The track and field and football facility was never intended for baseball. A tall screen was erected in left to prevent cheap home runs, and the park offered seemingly acres of foul territory to the third-base side but virtually none down the first-base side.
Unusual characteristics at other ballparks have been more contrived.
At Citi Field, the Mets' current home, the upper portion of the right-field grandstand protrudes past the lower seats. The look is inspired by old Tiger Stadium in Detroit, which gained an upper-deck overhang in right as part of a 1930s renovation to accommodate additional seating.
Such a feature could turn fly balls into home runs. In July of the Tigers' 1968 World Series championship season, light-hitting infielder Tom Matchick hit a game-winning homer with two outs in the ninth inning into the first row of the overhang. Baltimore Orioles right fielder Frank Robinson could only look up, then throw his glove in disgust after the ball disappeared.
Multisport facilities built in the 1960s and 1970s — such as Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh, Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati and Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia — lacked personality, though they had their quirks. Most of the dual-sport parks have been replaced, including Houston's Astrodome, Seattle's Kingdome and Minnesota's Metrodome, all three in favor of fresh air and grass.
Baltimore's Oriole Park at Camden Yards became a trendsetter when it opened in 1992, combining state-of-the-art amenities with old-time charm in a baseball-only facility. The antiquated brick B&O Warehouse, a backdrop beyond the short porch in right, stands in harsh contrast to the cookie-cutter parks.
Maddon thinks the Rays need a new home, too.
"To lose a game in a pennant situation like that because of a roof really indicates why there's a crying need for a new ballpark in this area," he told news reporters Aug. 5. "There was a time when (our field) was cute. It's not cute today. I think it's probably a perfect commercial advertisement or reason to have a new ballpark."
More than likely, even a new stadium in the Tampa area will include a quirk or two. Here are some of the stadium oddities that help bring baseball a taste of the unpredictable nearly every day:
Fenway fun
Perhaps no outfield is more unusual than the one at Fenway Park, with the Green Monster looming in left and Pesky's Pole an enticing target 302 feet from home plate in the right-field corner.
But one of the more overlooked aspects of the ball yard is the center-field triangle, created by the center-field wall where it meets a corner of the bleachers behind the bullpen.
"The triangle dates to the park's original construction in 1912 and reconstruction," says Bob Bluthardt, who chaired the Society for American Baseball Research's ballpark committee for 27 years. "There were really two separate bleacher sections built at angles to one another, not dissimilar to the way the bleachers look today.
"After Tom Yawkey bought the team in 1933, he spent a huge amount of money to rebuild the park. All the wooden sections of the outfield grandstand and bleachers were rebuilt in concrete and steel and built at similar angles to the wooden bleachers they replaced. The bullpens, added in 1940, after (left-handed hitting) Ted Williams' rookie season, had a substantial effect on every batter hitting to right field at Fenway, shortening the distance to the fence."
At 420 feet to its deepest point, the triangle creates a nightmare for center fielders who still must respect caroms off the wall in left and cover a large expanse in right-center.
"You have to be aggressive out there, but it takes a while to get comfortable," says veteran outfielder Mike Cameron, who played 48 games in 2010, his first season with the Red Sox, before an abdominal injury ended it. "The angles are so distinct. All you can do is go out there and play it. Talking with other guys doesn't help that much. Experiencing the bounces and angles yourself is the biggest thing you can do to get comfortable."
The triangle challenges umpires as well. Any batted ball landing to the left of the yellow line on the wall at the top point of the triangle (the 420 marker) is in play. Any ball that hits to the right of the line is a home run.
Fenway continues to be hitter friendly, thanks in part to its lack of foul territory. Field-level box seats have encroached toward the playing surface in recent years.
Another Fenway oddity: the ladder that ascends the wall from the top of the hand-operated scoreboard in left field. Members of the grounds crew once climbed the ladder to retrieve balls from the netting above the Green Monster. Now that seats have replaced the net, the ladder's utilitarian value is diminished. But a ball that strikes the ladder is in play — except in the unlikely event it bounds over the fence, in which case it becomes a ground-rule double.
Chicago's ivy league
Built in 1914, Chicago's Wrigley Field is known for the ivy growing on the outfield walls. It was planted in 1937 under the supervision of baseball innovator Bill Veeck, who worked for the team at the time, for aesthetic value. The ivy has become an attraction at Wrigley Field, much like the Green Monster in Boston. But with the decorative vines come headaches. A ball that gets tangled in the vines on the outfield wall is a ground-rule double. If an outfielder makes an attempt to retrieve the ball from the ivy, it becomes a live ball, and the ground-rule double rule becomes null.
Savvy outfielders will throw up their hands, signaling umpires that the ball is in the vines. The presumption is that a batter might get more than a double if the fielder attempts to extricate the ball.
But managing the Wrigley outfield goes far beyond the greenery on the walls.
Wrigley can play big or small. Early in the season, when the wind blows in from Lake Michigan, fly balls tend to die. On warm and windy days during the summer, breezes from the south often help balls carry out of the park.
Occasionally, Wrigley will experience a cross-breeze, which can create havoc with fly balls.
"I remember Charlie Spikes playing left field for us," Atlanta Braves manager Bobby Cox says. "The batter hit one deep into the stands — we thought. All of a sudden, the wind's got it. Charlie Spikes gave up on it and starts jogging back to his position, and here comes the ball back (in play).
"It had been raining, too. The ball lands in the grass and buries in a divot out there. Everybody's screaming at Charlie to go get the ball, but it's buried in a divot. (The result:) Inside-the-park homer."
With the Metrodome no longer a major league site, Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Fla., is the lone indoor ballpark lacking a retractable roof in the majors. Its catwalks have created controversy and frustration since long before Maddon's recent rant.
"Catwalks are a physical way to get to the under-ceiling and lights," says Tom Shieber, senior curator at the Baseball Hall of Fame. "The best solution might be with a new ballpark."
Few will quibble.
"The catwalks are definitely tough," says Cincinnati Reds outfielder Jonny Gomes, who played for Tampa Bay from 2003 to 2008. "I remember a ball that I hit against Toronto went up and stuck up there. (John) McDonald was playing shortstop. The ball rolled down, fell through a crack and he caught it. I'm standing on third, watching it, and I'm out.
"I've seen Jim Thome and Jason Giambi hit balls where I didn't think anyone could hit them. Some of the furthest balls I've ever seen hit only go (about) 370 feet because they hit a catwalk."
There are rules regarding the four catwalks at Tropicana Field, which is a multisport facility:
•A batted ball striking one of the two lower catwalks in fair territory is a home run.
•If a ball not judged to be a homer gets stuck on a catwalk, it's a ground-rule double.
•A ball not judged to be a homer that hits a catwalk or suspended object in fair territory is judged to be fair or foul by where it strikes the ground or is touched by a fielder. If the ball is caught by a fielder, the batter is out.
Since the Rays began playing at Tropicana Field in 1998, 110 fair balls have hit catwalks, including seven in 2010 through Sunday.
But only once had one struck the "A" ring before Kubel's ball that set off Maddon on Aug. 5. The "A" ring, the highest metal catwalk at Tropicana, is about 190 feet above the field.
Minnesota's great outdoors
Minneapolis' new stadium this season, Target Field, has its share of quirks, but they may not ever match those that made up the legacy of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, which remains home to the NFL's Vikings.
The Metrodome featured hanging speakers that would produce catwalk-like complications. In its first season (1982), the 'Dome was not air conditioned. Balls flew out as the building became known as the homer dome.
The artificial turf infield always played fast, and balls that bounced in the outfield took unnaturally high hops. A plastic covering over retractable seats in right field became known as the "Hefty bag."
But one feature that drove opponents crazy was a perception that air currents in the stadium would be altered to benefit the home team. Opponents swore they could feel a breeze blowing in when they were at bat and a breeze blowing out when the Twins were up. Was it true?
In 2003, Dick Ericson, a former Metrodome superintendent, told Minneapolis' Star Tribune that he'd sometimes adjust the ventilation system in the late innings to give the Twins an advantage. He said the stadium fans were blowing out when Kirby Puckett hit an 11th-inning homer to win Game 6 of the 1991 World Series against the Atlanta Braves.
At outdoor Target Field, outfielders in particular are faced with challenges. In right field, there's a wall that's 23 feet high and an overhang that juts out 8 feet at the center-field end.
Different surfaces have complicated how balls will react when striking the wall.
The facing of the overhang is limestone. The top 2 feet of the wall on either side of the overhang is made of concrete. The majority of wall below that strip of concrete is made of wood. The lowest 8 feet is padding.
"It's definitely quirky," says Twins right fielder Michael Cuddyer. "You have to deal with four different surfaces, and the ball bounces differently off each one.
"The hardest part of that (is that) you don't know which way a ball is going to bounce. The limestone is angled toward the stands (along the right-field line). But if the ball hits below the limestone, it's going to bounce out toward center."
The overhang itself is another matter.
Cuddyer went back on a fly ball by Jose Guillen but was uncertain if the ball would strike the overhang or not. It didn't, just missing on its downward arc. Because of an instant of hesitation, Cuddyer never reached the wall as the ball hit the wall at a catchable level and caromed away. Guillen had a triple.
Players can spend hours of practice trying to learn the nuances of outfield fences, but that might not work at Target Field.
"You just have to ad-lib," Cuddyer says.
The flagpole on the hill
Minute Maid Park in Houston is perhaps the game's quirkiest of the recently built parks.
Left field offers a short poke to the Crawford Boxes — 315 feet down the line, with a replica locomotive set to cruise the tracks high above the wall any time an Astro hits one out.
But the toughest aspect for a fielder is in deep center field, where a 90-foot incline extends to the outfield fence.
Known affectionately as "Tal's Hill" (named after team President Tal Smith), it was designed to evoke memories of the slope up to the outfield wall at Crosley Field, the Reds' former ballpark in Cincinnati.
"Fenway once had something similar with 'Duffy's Cliff' in front of the left-field wall," Bluthardt says. "It was, literally, a warning track. When a guy was running back and reached the hill, he knew he had only so many steps before he hit the wall.
"The difference (in Houston) is they did it because they liked the idea. There's no real physical reason for it."
For similar nostalgic reasons, center field also features a flagpole, as old Tiger Stadium did. As at that classic park, center field is extremely far away (435 feet) from home plate at Minute Maid.
The pole and hill there don't often come into play, but it has happened.
"I've seen Andruw Jones go up (the hill) out there," Cox says. "If they can hit 'em that far, it comes into play."
Connecting at Coors Field
Coors Field has long been considered a home run hitter's dream, but not so much because of its dimensions.
Studies have found that under mile-high conditions, baseballs travel as much as 10% farther. The thin air also affects a pitcher's ability to throw curveballs, which break less than in typical conditions.
In addition, Coors has one of the biggest outfields in the majors because builders were concerned with the low air density and positioned the fences a long way from home plate.
The fence is 390 feet away in left-center, 415 in center and 375 in right-center. The power alleys can turn singles into doubles or triples when balls roll to the wall, and a hard infield surface further promotes this possibility.
But few suspected the magnitude of Coors Field's home run problem. Statistics were so skewed that the Rockies had a hard time attracting pitchers in free agency without overpaying.
"For a long time ... we would go, 'Ooooh and aaaah,' " former Rockies manager Clint Hurdle says. "Everybody that came to the plate was homer-ready."
The record for home runs in a ballpark in a single season had been 248, set in 1961 when the Angels and their visitors took advantage of cozy dimensions at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles.
Coors surrendered 241 homers despite a 72-game home schedule in its first season (1995, shortened by a labor dispute). The next year, 1996, the stadium yielded 271 homers. In 1999, a record 303 balls went for home runs.
For answers, the Rockies turned to scientists, who determined that dry air (not necessarily thin air) influenced a baseball's ability to travel farther. The baseballs seemed to be shrinking and hardening.
The solution was the construction of a 9-foot-by-9-foot, steel-lined humidor behind the home clubhouse to store game balls at a constant 70 degrees. Home run numbers at Coors Field are now more in line with other big-league parks.
Oakland's expanse
For years, Candlestick Park, former home of the San Francisco Giants, was the bane of existence for National League outfielders. Wind would blow balls every which way.
Things are tricky at the Oakland Coliseum for different reasons, especially the abundance of foul territory that comes with a stadium designed to accommodate football.
"You kind of look forward to it defensively," says Athletics coach Mike Gallego, a former infielder with Oakland. "Offensively, you can't stand it. It definitely takes points off your batting average.
"In most ballparks, those tough pitches you battle are foul balls — souvenirs in the stands. Here, in Oakland, they're outs."
Along with the considerable foul territory, players have to battle the warm-up mounds down the lines that are also in play at the Coliseum, as they are in some major league parks.
A's infielder Mark Ellis says he's seen players take some nasty tumbles, but some players worry more about the mounds than others.
"I'm not fast enough to get to the mounds," says the A's Jack Cust, who plays some outfield but more designated hitter. "If I'm at the mound, probably somebody else has already beat me there."
Oakland's Coliseum and Miami's Sun Life Stadium are the only remaining major league parks that are also used by NFL teams.
"Thirty years ago, baseball teams were playing games in football stadiums," Bluthardt says. "Now, we've gone back to the way it's supposed to be, with football teams in parks built for football and baseball teams playing in parks built for baseball."
However, the ballpark quirks remain.
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We are building a new house and the kitchen is being designed from the ground up. Currently we are looking at 48", dual fuel, 6 burners ranges with a grill. The GE Monogram seems like a good value and was wondering if anyone could share their experiences both good and bad. Also, many people are warning us against purchasing the version with the grill due to the "mess" it creates. Is this a true concern?
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I don't have a grill, but I do have a built-in griddle that I hardly use because I detest the cleanup.
Go into your appliance store and physically take apart the grill parts that would need to be cleaned each time you used it. See if that's too inconvenient. And since you are building a house and not just remodelling, consider a powerful remote blower for smoke and odors, like Fantech makes.
If you google Honest Appliance Reviews you can read some consumer reviews of Viking, Thermador and Dacor ranges. Unfortunately, no one has posted a review on a GE Monogram range yet.
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We just installed this model (LP option) you are looking at last month. So far, we love it. We havent' tried the grill yet though. I've used the proof mode a couple of times and it worked well. We may try the grill with some chicken or salmon next week. I belive the owner's manual does caution against using fatty meats on the grill.
Hi Tguggino. I'm an architect and a private chef. I've had a fair amount of experience designing high-end residential kitchens and spec'ing and using high-end appliances. I have some experience w/ the GE Monogram line. Not knowing anything about your budget, taste, needs, etc, I'm shooting from the hip here...
IMHO, GE M is a good value, but for the best range Wolf can't be beat. I've cooked on older GE M stuff - 12 years or more - and it's not impressive at all. Newer GE M is much better. Still I feel you're paying a lot more for aesthetics and brand posterity than you are in performance.
There are lots of questions to think about when it comes the range and oven. Do you really need a 48" wide range? If you went to a 36", would that extra 12" of counter and cabinet space be a better use? Are you getting the 48" range to have 2 ovens as well? If so, good choice. Also consider double wall ovens - it's completely personal preference when it comes to ovens - some people like a wall oven so they don't have to bend over to pull something out, and it frees up space below the range for cabinet storage of things like pots, pans and lids that get used on the range regularly.
Six burners is a must, regardless of size. And all burners should be the same - none of that stupid 4 different burner sizes as on 30" residential ranges (like I just had to do). The burner should be able to go from a simmer to full blown boil with ease. Better burners have two heat sources - an inner ring and an outer ring - not only to go from a simmer to a boil but to also heat the bottom of large pans evenly.
Think long and hard about the grill component. They are terribly messy. I think if you can't grill outdoors for some reason (assuming you have an outdoor gas/charcoal grill) you can get by with a grill pan. Lynn's post above is dead-on - take a look at all the parts and pieces you'll have to clean ever time you want to grill a piece of salmon or a steak. Not worth it IMO.
Now a griddle, on the other hand, is worth it. I just put in a 30" GE 5 burner range in my own house, and the 5th middle burner is elongated and has a removable center rack. The center rack can be replaced w/ a two sided cast iron rack, made by Lodge, that has a griddle on one side and a grill pan on the other. Brilliant design for a 30" residential range. What you looking it bigger and potentially higher end than what I got, but still consider the griddle/grill pan option over the full-blown grill.
And make sure your range hood is more than adequate. Many manufacturers won't let you install one of the big ranges w/out proper ventilation and make-up air. ESPECIALLY if you go w/ the grill.
Hope that's of some help. Good luck! mpp
This is great feedback. Thank you so much. We have 13ft of counter in which the range will be placed. We also have an opposing 10ft island and an adjacent 6 ft "peninsula" so we are covered on counter. Love the Wolf. A little out of the budget this go around. We are doing the whole house so we are a bit limited on the kitchen. I agree with the need for 6 burners. The dual oven choice was a difficult one. We wanted the dual separate oven but could not make it ascetically work in our space. Additionally, my wife liked the "look" of the all in one range, hence our final choice. For about 4 to 5 months out of the year outdoor grilling is difficult to impossible. We are going to have a 1200 CFM fan so I think we are going to roll the dice on the grill. For griddle we have an iron clad pan which is sufficient. Thanks again for the comments.
I cooked on my clients 36" GE monogram range again the other night, and I have to say that I'm a but underwhelmed. I believe it's this model, or one dangerously similar. It's a beautiful range, but the issue I have with it is the burners. I've cooked on it 3 times now for different dinner parties and events, so I was withholding final judgment until I gave it a few rounds with different pots and pans.
Basically, I can't get a pan hot on that range. I've used many different pans - 32cm De Buyer steel, 18" steel wok, 11" Viking stainless, 4-5 quart sauce pans, etc. and no matter what I use I can't get a pan very hot. If I crank a burner up to high and let it sit for about 6-7 minutes, sure it'll get hot. But not like I expect from 18K burners. I have no idea what the problem is. There's plenty of heat coming off of those burners, but it's not going to the pan. Over the summer when I tried to do a Thai-themed dinner I was using a 18" wok, and that thing wouldn't even get to a simmer. I was trying to make pad Thai for 12, and it was almost a painful disaster because I couldn't get the pan hot. And to compound the matter, the burner grates are reversible and have a flat side and a concave wok side, supposedly to use for a wok. But if the burner can't heat a wok, what good is a concave grate?
The other night I was trying to steam some broccoli in 5 quart +/- sauce pan w/ a lid. Usually it takes me, at home, about two minutes for the small amount of water in the pan to boil and steam. I checked the pan at about 2mins - nothing, not even a shimmer in the water. Kept checking it every couple of minutes, hardly anything. Then I actually forgot about it, for maybe 10 minutes, checked it in a panic (hey I make mistakes sometimes too!) and found the water barely starting to simmer and steam.
I was trying to sear some bone-in country style pork ribs for a braise in a 32cm de buyer steel pan. I left that pan on medium-high heat for more than 5 minutes. When I put the pork in the pan, it barely sizzled. I cranked up the burner - full-bore - and after 10 minutes or so, hardly any crust formed on the meat. However, in a le creuset dutch oven, I was able to get a decent sear.
I'm not really sure of the issue - I thought it was maybe the pans and sizes I was using, but I've used many different pans and sizes, and the same thing happens. I bring a lot of my own equipment with me from home, and on my own range, I have no issues at all. This little range is FANTASTIC!!! I think it's something to do with the flame structure/shape and it's not directed at the bottom of the pan efficiently, rather it just spreads out and gets dispersed. I strongly suggest to find a way to test-drive one these guys for yourself before you pull the trigger. Hopefully it'll work better for you!


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A Florida man was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to charges in connection to hacking the e-mail accounts of actress Scarlett Johansson and dozens of other celebrities.
Christopher Chaney, 36, of Jacksonville, Florida, had hijacked photos that Johansson took of herself in the nude. They appeared online and showed her looking seductively at a phone camera as she snapped images of her bare breasts while lying on a bed. Another image showed her bare backside, taken as she looked into a mirror.
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