For six-burner 36" ranges at less than $3k, the only choice that I know of is the NXR mentioned by Deeageaux. It just barely fits in the sub-$3k price range currently costing $2999.99 from Costco and several web retailers and regional stores. (That, btw, is a delivered-to-curb price.) The 36" NXR has six full range 15k btu-hr sealed brass burners. (Most other sub$3k 36" wide stoves use aluminum burners, instead.) As Deeageax says, there have been numbers of threads here about about NXR stoves, although most of them are about the the 30" models (which is what I own --- it costs about $1000 less.) Some friends of mine have had a 36" model for four years. Near as I can tell, the burners and oven perform the same as on my 30" model except for having two more burners and a bigger oven. Be aware that the convection fan housing projects out into the oven just enough to prevent you from using a full size -- 18 x 26 --- sheet pan if that is something you want to do. AFAIK, all of the other stoves in the sub-$3k 36" wide category are only five burner stoves. Bertazzoni -- also mentioned by Deeageaux, and Italian made, also costs $2999 (delivered price, IIRC), From postings here at GW, I gather that the oven has some limitations in size and how low the heat can go. (275F sticks n my mind but that might not be accurate.) IIRC, the burners are an 18k btu center burner, an 11k burner, a couple of 6k burners and a really small simmer burner. Berta also has a six burner unit but I think that was priced in the $5k to $6k range. My recollection is that it has aluminum burners. Verona -- another Italian made stove that costs (I think) between $2500 and $3k depending on the colors you choose. It might have only five burners and will be kind of similar to the Berta. I don't recall seeing much, if any, postings about it here. I also vaguely recall a Verona DF model with twin ovens, but I think that is up in the same price range as your first choices if not a great deal more expensive. Fisher and Paykel also has a 36" range in the $2500 price range, also a five burner stovetop. I had the impression it was an F&P/DCS response to VIking's less-expensive "Designer" series of appliances, Frigidaire also has a couple of "pro-style" ranges in the $2k to $3k ranges. When I went stove shopping last fall, Lowe's (I think) had a 36" Frigidaire "Pro" on display and priced around $2200 (as best I can recall). It had five burners which I recall being 16k btu, 14k btu, 12kBtu, 9k and 6k. The oven was small (as with the Bertas) and manual cleaning. I don't believe it had a convection fan, It had a stainless steel top with deeply recessed burner wells. Should mean stuff won't burn on as much and that it will be easier to clean. Never seen a review or discussion of it, so no first hand info on how it cooks. If you've got a little bit more space, Frigidaire is still making 40-inch wide stoves with twin ovens, convection, and self-cleaning oven. The stove top controls are on the cooktop surface (which is why it is a five burner not six burner unit.) These enjoyed some popularity here at GW about a decade ago. A friend has one and it is still going strong. She says it is easy for her to clean. If the current models are the same as hers, the burners are a a bit lightweight: 13k, a pair of 10k and a pair of 5k. I think Sears also had or has some of these under its Kenmore and Kenmore Elite brands. IKEA also had a 36 inch "Euro-style" gas range that ran about $2500 and was called the "Praktful." It was a shallow counter depth model made for IKEA by (I think) Fratelli Onofri in Italy. It may have been discontinued. My recollection is that it likewise had a five burner stovetop. There were postings about it here and at Chowhound a couple of years ago. Premiere Pro stoves have been discussed a number of times here and the majority opinion seemed to be they were not very good products. Costco had them in the on-line store for several months a couple of years ago but dropped them. My recollection is that the reviews at Coscto.com were strongly negative on build quality and function. (My memory from my stove shopping was that there was only only one positive review by a Costco customer.) I heard that Costco dropped them because they were getting too many returns. There was a thread here about a year ago that discussed "Premiere vs NXR" is you want to search further. When I was stove shopping, I also looked at the Cafe stoves like the one live_wire_oak has. While they are in the sub-$3k price range, they are 5 burner 30" wide stoves and not available in a 36" width. This post was edited by JWVideo on Sun, Jun 9, 13 at 16:41

Much as I agree with the foregoing comments about lotteries, I do think there are two circumstances in which they might make sense. The first one is that in some circumstances, $1,000 is more than a thousand times as valuable as $1. Here's a simple hypothetical example. Suppose that you absolutely need to come up with $100,000; if you don't, you will be killed. Suppose further that you can raise $60,000, which isn't enough. Now suppose someone comes along and offers you the following proposition: You toss a coin; if it comes up heads, he gives you $40,000, if it comes up tails, he takes your $60,000. Wouldn't you take it? Because if you don't, you will surely die, but if you do, you have a 50% chance of living. The fact that betting $60,000 against $40,000 on a coin toss is unfair doesn't really matter. Similarly, many people who play lotteries regularly probably figure that the amount of money they spend doesn't matter to them, but winning might make a real change in their lives. Irrespective of whether their math is right, perhaps those decisions aren't as pointless from a psychological viewpoint as they might appear at first. And I'm saying this as someone who doesn't play the lottery. There is a second, rare circumstance in which it makes sense to play the lottery. Some lotteries work by distributing a fixed fraction of the bets to everyone who has bet a particular number. Which means that if you can pick a number that few enough others have picked, the odds are actually in your favor. This technique doesn't work nearly as well when lottery sellers offer to pick random numbers for you--but once upon a time I had a friend who used this technique successfully. At the time, he had access to a lottery that let you pick three digits, and paid off half the proceeds to everyone who had gotten them right. This lottery offered the opportunity to "box" a number if all three digits were different. For example, if you bet 346 and boxed it, you would effectively be placing equal bets on 346, 364, 436, 463, 634, and 643. He reasoned as follows: (1) If you picked two identical digits, you couldn't box the bet, so many people would avoid it. (2) Other people wouldn't realize that you could place a bet with a 0 as the first digit. (3) Anything with 7 or 11 in it would be popular, and hence should be avoided. As a result, he hypothesized that 066 or 088 would be unpopular enough to be worth playing. Sure enough, the first time one of those numbers came up, it paid off enough to justify having played it. But these situations are unusual. In general, I agree that lotteries should be considered an optional tax that one should choose not to pay.

Casey, just to let you know, if you want to Westminster Abbey, get there as early as you can. DH & I were there a couple of years ago, and it was a 2 hour lineup to get in! We ended up having to skip it, because we had a schedule we were trying to stick to, and that would have made us miss other things. One of the best things we did was take the train to Bath, and toured the Roman Baths, then from there to Salisbury, where we took a bus to see Stonehenge. It was amazing! We left early in the morning, and were back by around 8pm or so. We were there for 7 days, and took thousands of pictures! Enjoy it!

I saw it in NYC on Broadway a few years ago and it was a dream come true for me!!! I loved it, almost cried because it was so emotional for me. I could have watched the opening scene again and again. It is a phenomenal show.