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The town of Scarperia has been a center of Italian knife-making since the 18th century. Consigli has maintained the traditional, artisanal methods of oil tempering and quenching their blades to produce the finest knives. This set offers a complete range of knives for the home kitchen, with handles and block made from gorgeous olivewood.
- Stainless-steel blades with triple-riveted olivewood handles.
- Full tang and bolster forged using artisanal methods.
- Olivewood handles and block are dried and oiled for maximum durability.
- Block features a striking sloped façade.
- Made in Italy.
Set includes:
- 9" chef's knife.
- 9" bread knife.
- 10" slicer.
- 9" carving knife.
- 6" boning knife.
- 4 1/2" utility knife.
- 7" carving fork.
- 8" honing steel.
- Olivewood block.
Please note: Storage block is counted as an individual piece.
- Dimensions & More Info
- Chef's knife: 9" blade; 5" handle.
- Bread knife: 9" blade; 5" handle; 5.75 oz.
- Slicer: 10" blade; 5" handle; 5.25 oz.
- Carving knife: 9" blade; 5" handle; 6 oz.
- Boning knife: 6" blade; 5" handle; 4.5 oz.
- Utility knife: 4 1/2" blade; 4" handle; 4.5 oz.
- Carving fork: 7" tines; 5 1/2" handle; 4.75 oz.
- Honing steel: 8" rod; 5 1/2" handle; 7.5 oz.
- Olivewood block: 3" x 7 1/2" x 11" high with eight slots.
- Chef's knife: 9" blade; 5" handle.
- Use & Care
- Always use caution when handling sharp objects.
- Avoid cutting on hard surfaces such as stone, metal or glass.
- It is not advisable to use any knife but a meat cleaver to cut through bone, as other blades can be easily damaged.
- Clean blades with damp cloth, dry carefully, and cover in a very thin layer of oil.
- Avoid getting the handles wet. Treat periodically with a soft cloth soaked with olive oil or beeswax.
- Maintain the knife's cutting edge by regularly using a honing steel.
- Sharpen as needed. With regular use and honing, your knife should not need sharpening more than once or twice a year.
- Sharpen knife at home using a whetstone or knife sharpener, or consult a professional.
- Store knives in block protect edges and prevent injury.
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Retailers at the Annual Retail Industry Luncheon got a treat this week when Danny Meyer, CEO of Union Square Hospitality Group, shared some insights from the restaurant world.
Even if you're the absolute best at doing what your business is supposed to do, Meyer said, your customers will only give you 49 points out of a 100. You can earn the other 51 points with only one thing—good hospitality.
Both restaurateurs and retailers can't succeed without doing a good job of making their customers feel good. Your steak might be great, but people can get a great steak in lots of places. They go back to Meyer's establishments because of how they are made to feel.
Hospitality is an intangible thing that's tricky to explain. Meyer describes it as making the customer feel like you're on their side. The concept is also a difficult one to execute because hospitality is one size fits one. You have to read your customers' minds.
The key to getting it right is building a team that has incredibly high emotional skills – a collection of specific traits that contribute to what Meyer calls a "Hospitality Quotient." Like a high IQ: You have it or you don't.
"You can't teach hospitality," Danny said. "It means they're someone who's at their happiest when they're making someone else feel good."
Retailers today are all about the customer experience, but all the technologies and tools on the EXPO floor won't help you win if you don't have the right people and culture.
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More than one hundred thousand political posters from around the world are available in the Hoover Archives poster collection. Thirty-three thousand of these are cataloged in a searchable database. Digitized images of the cataloged posters are gradually being added, with twenty-two thousand posters from more than eighty countries available. The remaining poster images for United States posters will be added in 2011.
As Peter Paret et al. observed in Persuasive Images: Posters of War and Revolution from the Hoover Institution Archives (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1992), the poster is "a work of applied art and … an agent of persuasion and control." Scholarly interest in the impact of the visual image is increasing, and many scholars have approached posters as the subject of their research instead of using them only as illustrations. The depth of the Hoover Archives poster collection provides students of the psychology and techniques of propaganda with a large sample of material on which to base their research.
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DUNEDIN, Florida - Brett Cecil didn't know where he fit, or if he fit, in the Blue Jays' plans. On Wednesday morning he found out.
Cecil's made the team.
"I was sitting here in the chair and Pete (Walker) called me and to be honest my heart sank," said Cecil. "I didn't know. I knew they could release me for certain reasons and I know there were some good reasons so I guess it was all up to how they saw I was pitching."
He said he didn't feel a sigh of relief when given the news; the body language while addressing the media at his locker stall told a different story. Baseball is a game only on the field, otherwise it's big business. Cecil, through his words, offered a reminder that people's lives are affected.
"This past week has been the most stressful," he said. "I've got to pack my family up and I don't even know if I'm going anywhere." Despite a 7.04 ERA in Grapefruit League play, which Cecil acknowledged was the main reason behind his concern he'd be cut, the 26-year-old felt better as spring went along. He's especially encouraged about his fastball velocity, which has returned to the 90-mph range after a mysterious drop in to the mid-80s two springs ago.
"I haven't really had that outing and I don't think I'm going to have that outing where you just feel mediocre, where you don't have anything on your fastball or something's not working," said Cecil. "It was all just pitch location for me and that's a lot easier to fix than trying to fight your fastball and trying to get something on it. I'm very encouraged by it and I'm glad to see the front office was too."
Because Cecil is out of options, the Blue Jays risked losing him had he been cut. It's likely another club would have given Cecil a chance. He's glad he won't have to find out.
"It just made me want to work that much harder because to be told that I was on a big league team that's got a good chance of being in the playoffs, a good chance of being in the World Series is pretty awesome," said Cecil. It just pumped me up even more to work hard in my workouts, work hard in my 'pens and have a lot more conviction during the game and do better to make sure I stay here."
Cecil hasn't been told his role in the bullpen. He's been considered for the long spot; his numbers against left-handed hitters suggest he'd be useful to manager John Gibbons in matchup situations. For his career, Cecil has held lefties to a .232 batting average and a .657 on-base plus slugging percentage.
The Blue Jays will break camp with an eight-man bullpen as flamethrower Jeremy Jeffress, who's also out of options, has been annouced as a member of the team.
Cecil's just happy to play a part.
"I was expecting the worst but hoping for the best," he said.
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Port Adelaide's Paul Stewart says he hasn't spoken to his mate Travis Boak about whether he is staying with the club.
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"He keeps to himself Boaky, but I'm confident that [judging by] the way he's been around the club and his leadership over the last couple of weeks I can see his future being at Port Adelaide."
Travis Boak will stay with Port Adelaide, says Warren Tredrea.
Tredders told Triple M in Adelaide Boak told team-mates on Friday that he would be staying.
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God's Word is delivered to all of the members of the visible covenant community. But the members of the invisible covenant community show themselves to be His elect people by taking the warnings about staying in faith seriously, repenting ...Read More
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When God chooses someone for salvation, He does so in love, working directly in us, making Him the cause of our redemption (1 Peter 1:1–3). But in passing over the non-elect (reprobation), the Lord's work is passive ...Read More
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- Using Mozilla Firefox* internet browser, follow the link above - Register with OrgSync
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- Once you're in OrgSync, complete your Xavier University Profile, click the Finish button at the bottom and you're all set!
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The Praetorian Guard of Chicago won't be part of the formal hearing Friday in what's now called the Vanecko case.
But understanding what happened in the political heater case of the year won't be complete without Praetorian input.
Many of you know that Richard J. Vanecko, nephew of one mayor of Chicago, grandson of another, stood 6 feet 3 inches and weighed 230 pounds in April 2004 when he allegedly punched an inebriated David Koschman, 21, 5 feet 5 inches tall and 125 pounds.
Koschman died 11 days later.
Vanecko, nephew of former Mayor Richard M. Daley, has been charged with one count of involuntary manslaughter. That part of the case continues Friday.
But the political part involves what happened in the weeks after the punch, and whether Chicago Way clout compelled police and prosecutors from the Cook County state's attorney's office to look the other way.
Dan Webb is the special prosecutor running the grand jury. He was appointed because of the many questions raised by the Sun-Times about the shoddy initial investigation of Koschman's death.
If I were Webb, investigating a possible law enforcement cover-up, I'd begin with the Chicago Praetorians.
The Praetorians in ancient Rome guarded the emperors. When the Praetorians appeared, lowly constables didn't dare question them. They knew who the guards called boss.
It is the same in modern Chicago. The Praetorians are called the mayor's detail. They're the bodyguards, and they're connected. Members of the detail don't need a sign over their heads or a badge around their necks to announce their influence.
They're the detail. The blue shirts, the detectives in suits, the deputy superintendents and the state's attorneys know them by sight. Cops don't have to be told. It's the way of things here.
If I were Webb, I'd have some questions for the Praetorians of Chicago.
I'd sit them before the grand jury and walk them back years before Koschman, back to 1992, in Grand Beach, Mich. I'd walk them back under oath.
I'd try to find out how the mayoral bodyguard detail responded in 1992, when the mayor's son Patrick and his cousin Richard J. Vanecko became involved in a teenage beer brawl at the family's Michigan vacation home.
Someone swung a bat. Vanecko, then a teenager, pleaded guilty to aiming a firearm "without malice" at other teens. Fines were paid. I thought the only way to point a gun was "with malice."
Patrick Daley has not been implicated in the current Vanecko case. And what Vanecko did back then isn't material. They were kids then, and kids do stupid things when they're full of beer. I'm more interested in how the Praetorians of Chicago do their work.
And if I were prosecutor, I'd want to know what happened to that bat. I'd also want to know if any Praetorians left City Hall to make the drive to Grand Beach to talk to the local cops about the bat. I'd also want to know if anyone took that bat.
It just might inform the grand jury about how things work in Chicago when princelings get into trouble with the law.
There is no bat at issue in Friday's hearing. The issue is a fist. And since both Vanecko and Koschman had been drinking in the bars near Rush Street, a conviction might prove impossible. Still, Koschman had no chance. It was a mismatch, physically and politically.
The Illinois Supreme Court decided that, given the ties between criminal court judges and the Daley family, that going outside Cook County and into McHenry County would do. McHenry Judge Maureen P. McIntyre will preside over the first hearing scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Friday in Rolling Meadows, about as close as you can get to McHenry in Cook County.
She won't be dealing with how the case was handled, how files were reportedly lost and witnesses not interviewed. That's Webb's job.
Police brass and City Hall are facing other heat on other fronts. The gang wars on the South and West sides continue claiming lives in the city that for decades has had the strictest gun control laws in the nation.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel and President Barack Obama play assault weapons-ban politics, and it offers them easy, symbolic righteousness.
I guess fighting the National Rifle Association on assault weapons bans is easier for Emanuel than hiring enough cops to stop the Gangster Disciples and others who use handguns exclusively.
Recently, Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy embarrassed himself by holding a news conference with tables full of guns as props. The guns were presented to reporters as those seized in the first two weeks of the year.
But it wasn't true. They were guns seized last year. It was just a dog-and-pony show. Some TV news stations ran with it anyway. The Tribune exposed the sham.
Meanwhile, Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez, under fire for not vigorously pursuing the Vanecko case, has suffered her own series of blunders. That disastrous appearance on "60 Minutes" was one. And the other day, she was forced to suspend two prosecutors who failed to file charges against a man who threatened to burn his children. Later, the man followed through on the threat, leaving his daughter dead and his son critically injured, authorities said.
The Vanecko case has the potential to create more bad news for Chicago law enforcement. But it also has the potential to expose some old truths — if Webb to can compel the Praetorians of Chicago to tell what they know.
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A recent local newspaper article contained some unfortunate and grossly inaccurate statements from an Anthem/Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) spokesperson regarding their negotiations with the Telluride Medical Center for a contract with the Emergency Department.
The Telluride Medical Center negotiates regularly with six different health insurance companies for both the Emergency Department and for Primary Care (PC). We currently have acceptable agreements on 11 out of 12 of these negotiations. The only health insurance company we have been unable to reach agreement with has been BCBS and only for TMC's Emergency Department. We are hopeful that we will eventually be able to reach agreement with BCBS for our Emergency Department, however we have not been able to get them to offer us rates that are comparable with the rates that we have negotiated with other health insurance plans for our Emergency Department. The latest rates offered by BCBS are below our costs. If we were to accept them, we would be subsidizing BCBS's profits with the tax dollars we receive to support 24/7 emergency care. TMC refuses to do this.
Health insurance negotiations are very complex and for this reason the Medical Center uses an outside consultant to help us conduct negotiations. Therefore TMC's contracted health plan negotiated rates are not set in isolation. All requested rates are reviewed by our outside consultant who feels that our request to BCBS was not excessive.
After reading the remarks attributed to BCBS in the newspapers, we contacted them to get some backup for their statements. We discovered that the remarks were made by a BCBS "spokesperson" and not by the actual team we are negotiating with. Not surprisingly, BCBS has refused to provide any backup for their statements. It is difficult to provide backup for statements that are not factual.
Although the cost of living in Telluride is significantly higher than other areas on the Western Slope, the Telluride Medical Center has its fees periodically reviewed by outside consultants to ensure that our fees are fair and reasonable compared to other medical operations. We have recently done a quick review of our emergency room fees and found that they are in line with fees for similar services at nearby emergency rooms.
The most unfortunate aspect of the BCBS spokesperson's remarks is the impression it gave regarding our Emergency Department physicians. Telluride is fortunate to have a group of extremely qualified emergency physicians working at the medical center. Working at the Telluride Medical Center is a lifestyle choice. They are not asking for twice the amount physicians get in the surrounding area. As a matter of fact, their compensation is in the bottom quartile of the national range for emergency room physicians.
The cost of healthcare and health insurance is currently receiving a lot of nationwide attention. Working with many different insurance companies is a significant cost for a small operation like the Telluride Medical Center. Local taxpayers have regularly agreed to provide tax support in order to have high quality emergency care available locally on a 24/7 basis. We doubt that they want their taxes to be used to increase BCBS's share of the over $400 billion in profits that the health insurance industry made last year. We will continue to try to reach an agreement with BCBS that is fair to everybody.


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Yes, that's supposed to be the answer for the practice test. Since 'e' is the only one that is not true (supposedly), I am asumming a,b,c and d are true, that's why I considered those scenarios at once
I'm not sure what your doing there. Your making both conditions true at once. You should only be considering each scenario individually. Not both at once.
Thanks a lot for your help you all. Maybe 'e' is not even the right question, I tried what some of you did, assuming a,b,c and d where right and using thos values in the equation but there seems to be something wrong:
perhaps, but most of those answers other then e produce fractional apples. Hmmm... frapples?
math_2778 probably said e because;
I did the same thing. Then I started plugging the values in and lo and behold the solution. But what I'm wondering is math_2778 said the answer is supposed to be e as if that were the book's answer. We'll see when he gets back.
Nice mikau! I know what I did wrong now. I tried to solve the problem with just the "problem" stated. I didn't even try to plug in the solutions. Lunkhead!
whoah! I think I got it. But its not e. Its d.
Nice observation.
Don't feel bad mikau, I couldn't solve this one either. Missing information? I tried the constant rate scenario and got numerical results, but they did not agree with the stipulated parameters. For example; If John consitently picked 5/3 what Mark picked he would end up with 65 of the 104 total picked and Mark would be left with 39. So the constant rate possiblity is definitely out.
Well you got me. I can derive 3 equations from that and there are six variables. The problem is it gives no relationship about the apples they picked in the afternoon. Perhaps you can't actually solve it, but you can use the relationships to prove if a certain condition is not possible.
I need help with the following problem, I know it should be easier but for some reason I cannot get the right answer. I know the answer (It's supposed to be 'e') but I need the explanation of the process:


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01/02/2010 - Firefox Goes Mobile
Mozilla announced that Firefox is now available for Nokia's Maemo platform. The browser is intended and optimized for use on the Nokia N900. It can also be run on the Nokia N810 and N800 Internet Tablets, but Mozilla don't recommend using its product on these devices because they are "significantly less powerful."
27/08/2009 - Nokia Unveils N900 – The New Company's Flagship Handset
Nokia has finally launched the N900 – running on the new Maemo 5 latest company's smartphone, which has evolved from Nokia's previous generation of internet tablets. "The open source, Linux-based Maemo software delivers a PC-like experience on a handset-sized device" says the company's announcement.
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|Good - 558 reviews
With a stay at Shilo Inn Suites Hotel - Ocean Shores in Ocean Shores, you'll be on the beach and minutes from Ocean Shores Convention Center, and close to Ocean Shores Beach. This beach hotel is within the region of Grays Harbor National Wildlife Refuge. Make yourself at home in one of the 113 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and microwaves. Roo...
Overall Rating - Good - 558 reviews
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Good kitchenette
Pleasant entrance area
Excellent 9.0
View of the water
Furnishings were quite worn with actual holes in the chairs, but spent little time in the room so not a big issue.... more
Good 8.0
Location in ocean shores and layout of the rooms. Adjoining rooms worked well for a family.
Restaurant not open for lunchPool was good for kids. ... more
|Excellent - 2 reviews
With a stay at The Grey Gull in Ocean Shores, you'll be on the beach and minutes from Ocean Shores Convention Center, and close to Ocean Shores Beach. This beach hotel is within the region of Grays Harbor National Wildlife Refuge. Treat yourself to a stay in one of the 37 guestrooms, featuring fireplaces. Rooms have private balconies. Kitchens are outfitted...
Overall Rating - Excellent - 2 reviews
Good 8.0
Dog friendly, individual condo type rooms; NOT thin hotel style walls. We did not stay long enough to check everything out, but BBQ area looked good, we'll check it out next time!
Pool was open until 10 pm for children, which seemed a little late and made for a not so peaceful evening. Our room could have used A/C or a fan.This was a unique experience, and I would definitely go again. I believe rooms are individually owned, so decor and amenities per room may differ. It was great to be able to take our dog, and she enjoyed it too! ... more
Excellent 9.0
Friendly staff. We decided to bring our dog and they were accommodating. We were given a pet friendly, but very clean room with a wonderful view of the ocean.... more
|Excellent - 20 reviews
This all-suites Ocean Shores, Washington hotel offers beautiful ocean views and a relaxing atmosphere at a great price. Welcome to the BEST WESTERN Lighthouse Suites Inn where every guest will enjoy convenient access to local shops, restaurants and more. Ideally situated along one of Washington's beautiful coastlines, this Ocean Shores hotel is a short wal...
Overall Rating - Excellent - 20 reviews
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Nice balcony
Good management
Excellent 10.0
Great stay, friendly helpful staff, clean rooms, super comfy bed. ... more
Good 8.0
Stay was an enjoyable event.Bed was a little too firm;otherwise no complaint. ... more
|Good - 314 reviews
We offer a 24 hour access to Free Internet Access Station. Complimentary Wireless High Speed Internet. Walk to Beach. Complimentary Waffle Breakfast is Included in Our Complimentary Daybreak Breakfast. Heated Indoor Pool and Spa. Close to all amenities and attractions including horseback riding, mini golf, moped rentals and more. NOTE - PLEASE NOTE IN C...
Overall Rating - Good - 314 reviews
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Good management
Okay 6.0
The price. however for another--- per night I could have been on the ocean in a much nicer hotel. But overall I was happy with what we got there were some rowdy guess that kept us up both nights but that's okay
I complained to the staff 3 times about the rowdy guesTs in the room next to us and from what I can understand nothing happened because nothing ever changed both nights we were there we were disrupted .the daytime stuff did a great job cleaning the room and restocking towels I have no complaints as far as the efficacy of the hotel ... more
Excellent 9.0
This hotel is in a great location, just off the main strip and really close to the ocean. Within walking distance of the beach and several bars and restaurants. Excellent value!
The only big complaint was that we had to leave our TV on all night so that we could sleep because the walls are thin and our neighbors were up all night fighting. Still a great location and value and will definitely stay again.For this price, it's a very decent hotel with good amenities. It was clean, comfortable, near the beach and the main strip, has free wi-fi and free breakfast. Have stayed at several Days Inns and am always pleased. ... more
|Excellent - 13 reviews
Located in Westport, Westport Bayside Bed and Breakfast is in a rural location and within the vicinity of North Jetty and Coastal Intrepretive Center. Make yourself at home in one of the 4 guestrooms featuring DVD players. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and cable programming is available for your entertainment. Take in the views...
Overall Rating - Excellent - 13 reviews
Excellent 10.0
Our hosts were warm and welcoming, making our stay even more relaxing and comfortable. The morning breakfast was delicious and beautifully presented--a great start to the day's adventures.The B&B faces out to the bay that provides a wonderful view of the water and a quiet place to explore the tide pools and shore bird life. ... more
|Good - 722 reviews
With a stay at Ocean Shores Inn & Suites in Ocean Shores, you'll be by the ocean and minutes from Ocean Shores Convention Center, and close to Ocean Shores Beach. This hotel is within the region of Grays Harbor National Wildlife Refuge. Make yourself at home in one of the 58 individually decorated guestrooms. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you...
Overall Rating - Good - 722 reviews
Poor 1.0
Old, outdated building and furniture. Doors and windows would not lock, mismatched dirty furniture, no screens on all windows or doors. No services available. Such as breakfast, maid, room, air conditioning, office staff available beyond 9-5.We will never return to this divvy motel/hotel/hostel again. Too tacky and worn out for our taste. ... more
Excellent 10.0
The hotel comes with a kitchen which is very convenient to cook fresh seafood by ourselves.We have a double queen size room with kitchen. I thought it might be a studio. But it actually has a living room and it is separate with the bedroom. That is really awesome. No one complained anything about the room. We all satisfied. Thank you for Ocean shorts Inn. ... more
|Good - 380 reviews
Welcome! Thank you for choosing the Quality Inn Ocean Shores. Enjoy our Ocean view rooms with a private balcony, sofa area, and full view of the Ocean. We are centrally located, walk to the Convention Center and many unique shops and restaurants. Go horseback riding, ride a moped, and fly a kite and much more. Explore the Spectacular Olympic Rain Forest onl...
Overall Rating - Good - 380 reviews
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Good accessibility/transport link
Excellent 9.0
Very friendly staff
NoHad a very busy day well into the evening, hot tub/pool was suppose to close at 10:pm and the staff was extended that time to 11:pm for us. Made my day! ... more
Okay 5.0
Staff was very friendly
Beds were hard, not the cleanist and charged extra for a third adult in the room... more
|Excellent - 55 reviews
The Ramada Ocean Shores offers many rooms overlooking the scenic dunes and beaches of the incredible Pacific Ocean. This hotel is located off Highway 115 in Ocean Shores, and is a short walk to the Ocean beaches and Ocean Shores Convention Center. Ocean Shores, Washington is one of the most popular destination choices in the State of Washington and there...
Overall Rating - Excellent - 55 reviews
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Good minibar
Pleasant entrance area
Excellent 9.0
clean rooms, lots of amenities, when is the better hotel deals in Ocean Shores.
don't use the restaurant attached to the hotel. Terrible staff in there.really nice room, very happy with everything in there. Could use more parking out front. I would recommend it to anyone. ... more
Good 8.0
Clean, quiet, very friendly and courteous staff. Great location to explore the town and area. Appreciated the fresh baked cookies and fresh coffee on arrival.
We definitely got the Priceline room location (ground level beside picnic area, right beside main foyer) but it was still quiet except when people were smoking out back.Great value, will stay again. The pool room was oddly oversized for the size of the actual pool. ... more
|Excellent - 1162 reviews
Located in Ocean Shores, GuestHouse Inn & Suites Ocean Shores is minutes from Ocean Shores Convention Center and close to Ocean Shores Beach. This hotel is within the region of Grays Harbor National Wildlife Refuge. Make yourself at home in one of the 70 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and microwaves. Complimentary wireless Internet access is a...
Overall Rating - Excellent - 1162 reviews
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Great pool
Wonderful housekeeping
Good 8.0
The continental breakfast was terrific. The pool was a lot of fun. The location was close enough to walk to the beach. The room was clean and quiet.
The bed mattress was horrible. The key cards did not work very well either. Housekeeping came and gave us new towels, but left an empty toilet paper roll on the counter.We had a really good time there. ... more
Good 8.0
the bed was very comfy to sleep on
very noisy could hear everything old tv bad picture and could not set the alarm clockI expected more from this hotel very basic for the price I paid I expected much more the hotel next to us was 50 a night and had more extras and seemed nicer ... more
|Good - 3 reviews
Small but cozy motel in downtown of Ocean Shores. Across the street from the Beach and the Convention Center, on the Golf Course
Overall Rating - Good - 3 reviews
Good 8.0
Attractive room. Great location. Good shower.
Window rattled. Sink water flow was very low. Bed had a dip in the middle.... more
Good 8.0
We had a two Queenbeed room and everyone had a seperate part. The bathroom was very nice.
Pretty demotivated women at the reception.... more
|Good - 112 reviews
Renovated in Sept, 2008, 64 room hotel located just 15-20 minutes away from the popular Ocean Shore Beaches, opposite to the grocery store and walking distance to restaurants and businesses. Four miles away from Aberdeen Hospital and Wal-Mart, less then a mile to the Polson Museum, Hoquiam's Castle, Logger's Playday, the Y.M.C.A. and the Port of Grays Harbo...
Overall Rating - Good - 112 reviews
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Accessible parking
Good management
Okay 6.0
There was a room with a broken out window with plywood over it. The bathtub had been repainted and was chipped and dirty. Help was forgettable... more
Excellent 9.0
Great hotel, friendly staff and very clean. The bathroom was a little out-dated, but at least it was clean. ... more
|Good - 120 reviews
Overall Rating - Good - 120 reviews
Excellent 10.0
I booked on priceline and couldnt find the option to request something. So I called the hotel and the front desk was SO nice, i asked for an ocean view room on the 3rd floor. And thats what I got.
No. For the price it was more than enough. I wouldve liked a balcony but the large window with a view of the ocean was amazing.Great price. Lots of amenities. Fun foosball table, cool pool that was perfect temp for the chilly outside weather. And best of all, the hotubs are in private rooms. THAT is cool. You and your partner do not have to awkwardly soak while staring at strangers. The view was awesome. Great location to everything around. Free breakfast was just enough. Me and my partner loved it. ... more
Good 7.0
private spa room and pretty good continental breakfast.
poor lighting and hearing the footsteps above you.... more
|Okay - 2 reviews
The Beach Walk Inn is a Non - Smoking Establishment. Smoking is allowed outside on the premises. Suite Facilities: Our general suites average 400 square feet of vacation space per suite, and our Family suites average 850 square feet of relaxation. All rooms are Carpeted. We have 11 Kitchenettes, and 4 Full Kitchens. Interconnecting room(s) are ava...
Overall Rating - Okay - 2 reviews
Good 8.0
Over all it was medium. But for the price what can u ask for
The stove was definitely a well antique. Couldn't find the ice machine, no sighs to signs to help find it.... more
Poor 1.0
the owners were very nice and accommodating, trying very hard with a dated property.
the property is very old and dated. The rooms have a very musty smell and over powering air freshener from all the plug in air odorizer units. beds are very small and oldunfortunately this property pricing attracts the seedy traveler, yelling, cursing and beer bottles smashing in the parking lot at all hours. Ocean shores hotels were all sold out because of the clam tides, this was the only property with vacancy's. big red flag, but we were stuck. ... more
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|Excellent - 16 reviews
Lake Quinault Lodge is located in Quinault. Lake Quinault Lodge's restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The lodge serves cooked-to-order breakfasts each morning in the restaurant (surcharges apply). Recreational amenities include an indoor pool and a sauna. This 3-star property offers a meeting/conference room, audiovisual equipment, and business s...
Overall Rating - Excellent - 16 reviews
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Pleasant entertainment
Good tour guide
Good 8.0
This lodge is exactly what you imagine when you think of historic national park lodges: warm, rustic lobby with huge wood-burning brick fireplace, elk antlers on the walls, deep leather armchairs, hand-painted Pacific Northwest Indian artwork on the exposed ceiling beams, and beautiful views of the glacier-carved lake. Food in the Roosevelt Room restaurant (FDR dined here) was good, but pretty expensive for a family of five. Rooms in the main lodge are tasteful but basic -- steam heat, crystal doorknobs, no TV or phones (but that's a good thing!), though Wi-Fi is available in the lobby. Service was friendly enough, but not overly attentive -- on par with a well managed Hampton Inn. But you can't beat the atmosphere of this 85-year-old lodge, designed by Robert Reamer, best known for the Old Faithful Inn at Yellowstone. The heated indoor pool was very nice. Enjoy quiet evenings in the lobby playing cards, dominoes or chess, working on a jigsaw puzzle, or snuggling up with a good book. F... ... more
Good 8.0
I originally booked a two night stay in the lake view part of the hotel. This part of the hotel is an add on that was built in the 70's or 80's. The rooms are pretty boring and need major updating. I went over to the main lodge, which is really nice and eclectic. I loved the fireplace and the tables with the free games. Then for kicks, I asked the desk if I could see a room in the lodge. WOW! What a difference, they moved us at once. The room was small, but romantic and quaint. We had a view of the lake still, with a great Mahogany bed and old wood floors. The bathrooms were updated and comfortable. I was sure glad we moved rooms. The floors creaked and I swear the place is haunted...good times. The town itself has cool stuff to do..largest trees..etc..but I found the people to be a bit cold and unfriendly. ... more


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Unfortunately, with the way my Nuggets are ALSO streaking, I don't see a visit to Denver on their schedule. That would be cool, right? To see the two streaking teams meet up, hopefully with their respective runs intact, but oh well, it's still a lot of fun to watch either way. I work late at DISH most nights, but my new app lets me take the games with me wherever I go. It's not JUST for games, but my DISH Anywhere app (iOS & Androids) streams all my live TV channels AND DVR to my tablet. I watch on the bus ride home usually, and love flipping back and forth between Miami & Denver games to check in on the status of the streaks!
Can Heat set record for NBA's longest winning streak?
By Ben Golliver
Not even the thousands of voices that squawked, "This isn't fair!" in the immediate aftermath of The Decision could have seen this coming. Twenty-three consecutive victories? Zero losses in more than six weeks? An 11½-game lead in the Eastern Conference?
The Heat's winning streak, now the second longest in NBA history after a comeback victory over the Celtics on Monday, is silly, the type of thing that will break a calculator. For context, flipping a coin and getting heads 23 times in a row is roughly a one-in-eight-million proposition. Sure, the Heat have a much better than 50 percent chance to win on an average night, but even if you use their current winning percentage (a league-best .788), the probability of winning 23 times in a row absent all other variables amounts to a one-in-240 (0.4 percent) shot. That's a lot better than one in eight million, but you certainly wouldn't have bet your house on it in January.
LeBron James and Co. are clearly hungry for more history, regardless of the odds. With the Celtics beaten (and demolished in Jason Terry's case), the Heat pulled ahead of the 2007-08 Rockets, who improbably won 22 straight games, and now turn their attention to the 1971-1972 Lakers, who won an NBA-record 33 games in a row from Nov. 5, 1971, to Jan. 9, 1972. Those Lakers, led by Wilt Chamberlain, Jerry West and Gail Goodrich, went 69-13 in the regular season and 12-3 in the playoffs en route to winning a championship.
Ten more victories to tie the record. Eleven more to break it. Can the Heat do it?
The Heat's streak
Miami's last loss came 46 days ago, on Feb. 1 against the Pacers in Indiana. Since then, Miami has dispatched 12 teams that are currently in playoff position and 11 teams in line for the draft lottery. Miami has defeated 19 different opponents during the streak, handling the Sixers three times and the Raptors and Hawks twice each. (The Heat have beaten all 29 opposing teams this season.)
Only one opponent during the streak, lowly Sacramento, has pushed the Heat to overtime. But coach Erik Spoelstra's team has had a number of close calls, including two in the past week (an ugly four-point win over the Sixers last Wednesday in Philadelphia and the down-to-the-wire thriller against the Celtics on Monday). They've had their share of blowouts, too, crushing the Clippers by 22 points for their fourth victory in a row and dominating the Sixers by 24 points to extend the streak to 10.
[MAHONEY: Wade's resurgence helps fuel Heat's run]
Over the 23 games, Miami is winning by an average score of 105.4 to 94.2, a staggering 11.2-point margin of victory. The offense, which ranks No. 2 in efficiency, has jumped from 109 points per 100 possessions before the streak to 113 points per 100 possessions during the streak, according to NBA.com. The defense, which ranks No. 9 in efficiency, has similarly improved, from 101.6 to to 99.9. The numbers reveal exactly what you would expect: This has been an absolutely commanding stretch of hoops, on both sides of the ball.
The Heat's upcoming schedule
The good news for Miami: The competition standing between the Heat and the 11 consecutive victories needed to set the record is substantially easier than what they have already vanquished. Through Monday, the combined record of the teams beaten during the 23-game run was 734-796 (.480). The combined record of Miami's next 11 opponents is 300-434 (.409). What's more, Miami beat four of the six teams with 40 or more victories this season during their streak; they will face only one such team, San Antonio, over the next 11.
There's more good news. The Heat's streak has included six sets of back-to-backs. The upcoming 11 games include only two back-to-backs, and both involve the Bobcats, the league's worst team. (Miami plays Charlotte and Orlando on Sunday and Monday and then Charlotte and Philadelphia on April 5 and 6.) Note: The 11th game, which would be the record breaker, is against the Bucks in Miami on April 9 on the front end of a back-to-back. If the Heat make it to 34, perhaps commissioner David Stern can move their April 10 against the Wizards in Washington to the White House, where Barack Obama could present them with the 2013 Larry O'Brien trophy in advance.
[MAHONEY: Keys to beating the Heat]
The home/road splits have been fairly equal during the 23-game streak, and that won't change. Twelve of Miami's 23 victories have come at home and 11 on the road. In the next 11 games, five will be at home and six on the road.
The Heat aced a four-game road trip in February and can put the finishing touches on a five-game road trip in Cleveland on Wednesday. After home games against Detroit and Charlotte later this week, they will have a four-game trip that includes trips to Chicago and San Antonio — clearly the toughest patch on the road to 34. Miami is a league-best 30-3 at home and will play host to only two likely playoff teams in the next 11 games: New York and Milwaukee.
Here is Miami's complete schedule in the next 11 games:
Wednesday, March 20: at Cleveland
Friday, March 22: vs. Detroit
Sunday, March 24: vs. Charlotte
Monday, March 25: at Orlando
Wednesday, March 27: at Chicago
Friday, March 29: at New Orleans
Sunday, March 31: at San Antonio
Tuesday, April 2: vs. New York
Friday, April 5: at Charlotte
Saturday, April 6: vs. Philadelphia
Tuesday, April 9: vs. Milwaukee
When streaks get this long, everything gets put under the microscope, and that includes injuries. One ill-timed injury, even something as small as a sprained ankle, can disrupt the rhythm and realign the rotations. There was a collective gasp, and for good reason, when Dwyane Wade needed to pass a concussion test after receiving a blow to the head against the Bucks last Friday. An absence for a Big Three member would surely have streak-snapping potential. But James, Wade and Chris Bosh have combined to miss just two games during the streak, when Bosh sat out a pair before the All-Star Game with the flu.
The injury picture would seem to strongly favor the Heat — who are critiqued often for their lack of depth — during the next 11 games. On the heels of Miami's meeting the Kevin Garnett-less Celtics on Monday, virtually every Heat opponent between now and the potential record-setting game has (or could have) rotation players sidelined because of injury. Here's an abbreviated list of players they won't (or might not) face, in order of opponent: Cleveland's Kyrie Irving, Anderson Varejao and Dion Waiters; Detroit's Andre Drummond and Brandon Knight; Charlotte's Ramon Sessions; Orlando's Glen Davis and Hedo Turkoglu; Chicago's Derrick Rose and Richard Hamilton; New Orleans' Austin Rivers and Jason Smith; San Antonio's Tony Parker; New York's Carmelo Anthony, Tyson Chandler and Amar'e Stoudemire; and Philadelphia's Andrew Bynum, and Jason Richardson. That's a host of talent, including six 2012 and '13 All-Stars.
Letup losses
One concern for Miami is letting up against weaker opponents. During the streak, the Kings pushed the Heat to overtime and James had to deliver a game-winner to beat the Magic, even though both games were at home. The Bobcats and Cavaliers have also kept it respectable in Miami, losing by four and five points, respectively.
With that said, there's a difference between letting bad teams hang around and letting them steal a win. Only four of Miami's 14 losses this season have come to teams on track to miss the playoffs, with all four played on the road. Two of those four — Utah and Portland — came in tough places to play. The other two — at Washington and at Detroit — are the type of nights that Miami will look to avoid when they visit Cleveland, New Orleans and Charlotte during this stretch.
Final thoughts
Perhaps the most impressive aspect of Miami's run is its composure, especially as the media attention has increased. It's no easy task digging out of a 17-point deficit in Boston — Garnett or no Garnett, Rajon Rondo or no Rajon Rondo — and the Heat have matched that unshakable on-court poise with quiet confidence and focus in their off-court comments. The last six weeks has really been Miami at its most ruthless: all business, no distractions. At the same time, we've seen the Heat at their most unselfish: sharing the ball on offense, turning up the intensity on defense.
No matter how favorable the conditions — schedule, injuries, their quality of play — the odds that something, anything goes wrong or that the Heat simply come out flat and James can't fix it are always there. The pressure factor has started to kick in, and it's only going to grow. The same crazy math that they have already defied only continues to grow exponentially. Should Miami win its next 11 games to set the record, the Heat would be 63-14 (.818). The probability of an .818 team's winning 34 straight times, absent outside variables, is a one-in-926 (0.1 percent) proposition.
If the Heat don't push this to at least 27 wins, though, it will be a (relative) disappointment, given that their next four opponents are the four worst teams in the East. From there, the climb gets steeper, but there's really just one major peak. The four toughest games on this 11-game stretch, in order, would seem to be: at San Antonio, at Chicago, versus Milwaukee and versus New York. Only that San Antonio game, the teams' first meeting since Spurs coach Gregg Popovich was fined for strategically resting four key players in Miami in November, is truly daunting, as the Bulls are 18-15 at home, the Bucks are 16-16 on the road and the Knicks are 17-16 on the road.
In sum, the Heat have come so far and accomplished so much that it would be unfair to them to rule out the possibility that they break the Lakers' vaunted record. They definitely have a chance, no matter what the probability math says about how long the odds are. Every game from now until Miami loses is must-see TV.
Not the same thing at all. In 1971 there were only 17 teams in the league. The Heat have a lot more gimme games than the Lakers did. Making things even easier for the Heat is the fact that the East is falling apart. Yes, winning 23 straight is impressive no matter who you are playing. But squeaking by a Celtics team missing Garnett and Rondo? Not so much.
No, not even the 72-10 Bulls broke the streak of 33. Not happening. In the 56 game hitting streak of the NBA, the Heat are at game 40, they have 30% of the journey left, it ain't happening.
11 more to break the Lakers streak - & what no one seems to be discussing - an additional 3 more games to break the all time team win streak in North America = the 36 games of the Montreal Canadiens. THAT would be awesome!
next 6 games should be in favor of the heat , Chicago may give them a hard time . The real test is when they play san antonio end of this month. If they can get passed san antonio and right away New York (depending if any players return). They can probably reach it
The Celts CHOKED on nine of 24 free throws and handed the game to The Queen, Show Me The Green or I Ain't Playin' For The Red, White, and Blue, and The Little Bosh Woman.
Celts make their free throws, and The Queen is whining like the little girl she is this morning.
@WilyCoyoteSuperGenius The media pressure and constant scrutiny now is also much, much bigger. The Heat face a lot more pressure than the Lakers did in 1971.
@WilyCoyoteSuperGenius Do not belittle the Celtics that fought Miami; they played a great game, but this season belongs to the Miami Heat.
@mica_ubica Waaaaahhhhhh! Arrrrggggghhhhh!
@MR57 It seems that everything's gone wrong since Canada came along.
@OK Are you serious? The Celtics only attempted two more free throws and made one more than the Heat...that hardly counts as choking. Face it, the Heat beat the Celtics fair and square. Yeah they didn't have Garnett, but Jeff Green wouldn't have scored the 40+ points he had if Garnett did play. No Rondo? The Celtics have been playing better without him anyways. Shut up and take it.
Celts gagged on nine of 24 free throws. Attempts have nothing to do with it.
Celts choked and gave the game to The Queen, Show Me The Green Or I Ain't Playin' for The Red White And Blue, and The Little Bosh Woman.
Back to the Cuban American National Foundation, Tico, or maybe SI should call the INS?
@OK I wrote nothing about a player on either team, yet somehow you translate that into me worshipping the guys on the Heat. Your comprehension skills are stellar. Not a Heat fan. Not an avid follower of hoops. Go back and read my post again. It was a potshot at you.
Even more hilarious is your child-like meets sociopathic worship of The Queen, The Little Bosh Woman, and the anti-American Show Me The Green Or I Ain't Playin' for The Red, White, and Blue.
@OK Funniest post I have read in quite some time. No, nothing to do with what you wrote; that is a standard-issue, whining rant about what woulda, coulda, and shoulda happened. The funny part is how bitter and miserable you are, all over a basketball game. Quite a life.


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New Owners bad for business. – We live in UT and have gone to San Fransicso for the past 15yrs. And every time we have gone to Fiddler's for a lunch or dinner. This time was the last. It obviously is under new owners/management. The waitress was inept, wrong orders, took forever...etc. Then (I'm assuming) the gray haired guy behind the bar is the owner. VERY rude when we asked for our bill after waiting a good 20 mins. He told us.."You have a waitress right? She'll get to you"...Nice. Too bad because the food is really good.
A Local Irish Breakfast Your Inner Anti-Tourist Can Handle – For the 15 years I've been in SF, nothing says Irish Breakfast quite like Fiddler's Green in the morning. Hey, that rhymes! Old school pub fare (like Sheppard's Pie)on a limited menu, with plenty of Irish whiskey on the walls for you to choose from. Whether you make this your off-Bay Street breakfast comfort food paradise (because all breakfast tastes better with Irish booze and snark), or just your destination for St. Patrick's Day--you'll be happy with the results (and very full).
SOOOO Friendly – Love the low key atmosphere, especially in a high tourist area. Get there every March and enjoy the whole weekend, including breakfasts (I'll have the special breakfast-hold the food). Sharon, Paddy and Diane are so friendly you can't wait to return (and that's why I do).
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All around fun spot! – This is a great Irish bar that actually has delicious food as well! It's a fun place to drink and dance, but also to have a yummie breakfast or lunch. It's just a comfortable place to be. I was here recently for a private party and the room upstairs was the perfect spot! Everytime I come here I have a great time!
Slainte! – This is a fantastic gem in Fishermans Wharf. I am a repeat offender and have never been disappointed. Easy-going atmosphere, great drinks, and lovely ladies behind the bar. The dance floor is fun and entertaining (good music), the bouncers are great, and there is no shortage or Irish imports. If you are looking for both a bar and a place to shake it on the dance floor, Fiddler's is it.
Avoid the social scene – This place is full of working girls this is the first bar I have ever been too that has working girls and it ruined the evening
A two-tiered Irish bar in North Beach serving food and DJ-spun tunes. – In Short
Guinness posters and black-and-white photographs of Ireland's countryside are displayed proudly in the downstairs dining room, where green wooden tables are situated near a central bar. During the day, mostly tourist and local couples come to eat a traditional Irish meal. In the evenings, the upstairs room fills with a mix of Europeans and casual professionals who let loose to pop tunes spun by resident DJs.
The Best Irish Coffees – We have been going every year in Januaryfor 4yrs. We cant wait till we get there and we spend countless hours during our weekend drinking Irish coffees chasing them with Guiness. The best breakfast too by the way. The girls at the bar are so cool. Low maintenance kinda place, We love it!
great irish pub – like stepping into a little piece of Ireland. Went in for a Guiness and stayed for hours. Hardly any tourists and almost everyone there was from Ireland.
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The Federalist Society Online Debate Series
Individual Health Care Insurance Mandate Debate
November 3, 2009
Last Updated at 9 AM, Friday, November 6, 2009
This debate will focus on the following question:
Would a federally-imposed individual mandate to require health insurance be constitutional?
The participants of this installment of Originally Speaking are Erwin Chemerinsky and David B. Rivkin.
Erwin Chemerinsky
There is no constitutional problem with Congress requiring that individuals purchase health care or pay a penalty. There is much to debate over health care reform and how to achieve it, but I have no doubt that the proposals would be constitutional.
The constitutional objection that I have heard most often is that Congress lacks the authority under Article I of the Constitution to do this. But such a mandate clearly falls within the scope of Congress's authority to regulate commerce among the states.
Over many cases, the Supreme Court has held that Congress can regulate economic activities that taken cumulatively across the country have a substantial effect on interstate commerce. Purchasing health insurance is an economic transaction. Taken cumulatively those who do this, or who don't do it, have a substantial effect on interstate commerce.
In 2007, healthcare expenditures amounted to $2.2 trillion, or $7,421 a person, and accounted for 16.2% of the gross domestic product. These statistics leave no doubt that regulating health insurance is regulating interstate commerce.
Those who argue that this is unconstitutional maintain that those not purchasing health insurance, by definition, are not part of interstate commerce. There are numerous flaws with this argument. First, Congress can regulate activities that themselves are not part of interstate commerce if they have a substantial effect on interstate commerce. For example, in Wickard v. Filburn, the Supreme Court held that Congress could regulate wheat that farmers grew for their own home consumption. More recently in Gonzales v. Raich, the Court ruled that Congress could prohibit cultivating and possessing small amounts of marijuana for personal medicinal use. Even though the individuals were not personally engaged in commerce, the matter still fit within the commerce power.
Second, not engaging in economic transactions is a form of commercial behavior that Congress can regulate. The Supreme Court held that Congress could require that hotels and restaurants provide services to African-Americans. Their refusal to engage in commerce still was deemed to be within the scope of Congress's commerce clause power.
Third, the likelihood is that everyone will require medical care at some point. An uninsured person in an automobile accident will be taken to the emergency room for treatment. An uninsured person with a communicable disease will be treated. Congress can ensure that there is an adequate fund to pay for everyone's medical needs.
In other words, the health care system is part of interstate commerce. Providing care for all unquestionably has a substantial economic effect. Congress, then, can use its authority under the necessary and proper clause to make sure that the system that it is creating is viable and capable of providing health care for all.
Nor is there any individual right violated by a mandate for purchasing health care. There is no constitutionally protected freedom to be able to refuse to be insured or to avoid paying for the benefits provided.
There are many close constitutional questions. But this is not among them. Congress clearly has the legal authority to require individuals to have health insurance.
David B. Rivkin
There is no doubt that Congress can regulate an entire array of economic activities, large and small, inter- and intra-state. Thus, for example, there is no problem, Constitution-wise with having Congress regulate health care insurance purchase transactions. The problem with an individual insurance purchase mandate, however, is that it does not regulate any transactions at all. It regulates human beings, simply because they exist, and orders them to engage in certain types of economic transactions.
The cases cited by Professor Chemerinsky – Wickard v. Filburn and Gonzales v. Raich – do not support his position. In both of these cases, Congress sought to regulate individuals engaged in traditional agricultural/economic activities, growing wheat and marijuana. The fact that they did so for personal consumption did not detract from the underlying economic nature of these activities, especially since Congress sought to regulate them as a part of a comprehensive inter-state regulatory scheme.
It is also true that a refusal to serve a particular customer, the conduct in issue in the Heart of Atlanta Motel case, is a form of an economic behavior, fully reachable under the Commerce Clause. However, what Professor Chemerinsky conveniently overlooks is that this form of conduct – refusal to serve – took place in the context of an operating commercial establishment. It is this fact and this fact alone that made the refusal to serve an economic transaction. If Professor Chemerinsky feels otherwise, he would have to accept the notion that Congress can, under the Commerce Clause, regulate the entirely private, non-commercial behavior of an individual who chooses whom to invite for dinner to his house, and who discriminates against some of his neighbors.
Professor Chemerinsky also overlooks the existence of two major cases – United States v. Lopez and United States v. Morrison – in which the Supreme Court, in 5 to 4 decisions, has specifically rejected the notion that Congress can regulate non-commercial behavior merely because, arguably, such behavior can have an impact on Commerce. The Court's overarching reason for doing so was its compellingly articulated belief that the Commerce Clause is a limited grant of power and one that cannot be infinitely capacious. This reasoning is unassailable.
Erwin Chemerinsky
It is firmly established that Congress may regulate economic activities that have a substantial effect on interstate commerce. Purchasing insurance, by definition, is economic activity. Congress mandating that individuals have insurance is obviously regulating economic activity. There is no denial that this has a substantial effect on interstate commerce. Once this is established, and I cannot imagine how it can be disputed, then Congress can enforce this under the necessary and proper clause by penalizing those who violate the mandate. Under current and long-standing constitutional doctrines it is not a close question that this is within the scope of Congress's commerce clause power.
David B. Rivkin
There is no question that purchasing insurance is an economic activity which Congress can regulate. To be sure, even so, the regulation can be properly imposed only on the commercial entities that are in the business of selling insurance, i.e., insurance companies. The government can regulate what insurance products they sell, what prices they can charge, what disclosures they make to the purchasers and all other aspects of their activities. Directly regulating the purchasing public is a much dicier proposition, from a constitutional perspective. When Congress wanted to ban purchases of liquor, it needed a constitutional amendment to do so. When Congress regulates gun sales, the onus of the regulations fall on gun sellers and not on gun buyers.
Erwin Chemerinsky
Mr. Rivkin and I agree that under well-established law that Congress can regulate economic activity that has a substantial effect on interstate commerce. He also appears to agree that under this power Congress can mandate that individuals purchase health insurance. Buying health insurance, by definition, is commercial activity. Taken cumulatively across the country, there is quite obviously a substantial effect on interstate commerce.
The only apparent area of disagreement is whether Congress can impose some penalty on those who do not purchase health insurance. Mr. Rivkin says that they are not engaging in commerce so Congress cannot regulate them. First, if Congress can require the purchase of health insurance as an exercise of the commerce power, then surely under "the necessary and proper clause" it can enforce that mandate by punishing those who refuse to do so. Long ago in McCulloch v. Maryland, the Supreme Court held that the necessary and proper clause authorizes Congress to adopt any means to carry out its powers. Punishing those not purchasing health insurance is the means to enforcing the constitutional requirement for purchasing insurance.
Second and independently, the choice whether to purchase or not purchase health insurance is an economic decision and constitutes economic activity. If I decide to buy or not buy something, that is economic activity. Those not purchasing health insurance have a substantial effect on interstate commerce.
As I mentioned earlier, the Court allowed Congress, under its commerce power, to require that hotels and restaurants serve racial minorities. It was no defense for the hotels and restaurants to say that they were not engaging in commerce. Mr. Rivkin says that it is different because hotels and restaurants were commercial enterprises. That misses the point: the refusal to engage in an economic transaction is deemed economic. Even growing crops for personal use is economic despite the lack of any transaction.
Mr. Rivkin again resorts to hyperbole and says that my view of the commerce clause would give unlimited powers to Congress. That's simply wrong: all I am defending is that Congress under the commerce clause can require an economic transaction and enforce that requirement as appropriate. This gives Congress no power to regulate outside of the area of economic transactions. It does not call into question the Supreme Court's decisions in Lopez and Morrison which had nothing to do with economic transactions.
Given the size of the health care industry and the enormous resources being spent, it is inconceivable to me that a court would find that regulation is beyond the scope of Congress's commerce clause power. It is not a close question: Congress is regulating commerce among the states when it mandates that individuals purchase health insurance.
David B. Rivkin
It appears that Professor Chemerinsky and I are no closer to an agreement at the end of this exchange than at the beginning. Unfortunately, it also seems that Professor Chemerinsky has misconstrued what I said in my previous post. I agree that purchasing health insurance or any other good or service is an economic activity, which Congress can regulate under the Commerce Clause. My previous post also makes it abundantly clear that a decision not to purchase insurance or not to acquire any other good or service is not an economic activity at all and, as such, is not subject to regulation under the Commerce Clause.
Professor Chemerinsky's three rounds of posts make much mention of the size of the health care industry and the resources that we, as a society, spend on health care. But, this is not a constitutionally-meaningful factor. As Professor Chemerinsky well knows, and case law makes abundantly clear, if something is in principle within the scope of congressional authority to regulate under the Commerce Clause, the particulars of such a regulation are reviewed by the courts under the rational basis test. To state the obvious, this is not a very exacting basis for judicial review. And, in general, if a failure to join health clubs is an economic activity – as it will be under Professor Chemerinsky's definition of economic activity – then I would be the first one to admit that it would not be irrational for Congress to mandate health club membership. Indeed, it would be quite plausible for Congress to conclude that a vigorous physical exercise by all Americans would save hundreds of billions of dollars in medical costs and produce all sorts of other positive economic impacts.
This brings me back to the limiting factor issue and, what I suppose, would be my last bit of hyperbole in this debate. In a world where every human decision and activity amounts to an economic transaction, Congress' Commerce Clause power is indeed infinitely capacious. To say that Congress has "no power to regulate outside of the area of economic transactions", as Professor Chemerinsky does, isn't to say much if everything is an economic transaction. This would be an interesting world and one that the Framers of the Constitution would not recognize.
I would close by noting that Professor Chemerinsky strongly supports the Supreme Court's post-September 11 jurisprudence, which whatever one thinks of it – and I don't think much of it – evidences a profound conviction that granting the two political branches of the federal government power, above and beyond that to which they are constitutionally entitled, cannot be countenanced, no matter how compelling the imperatives of public safety might be. Why is it that the very same people who applaud Hamdan and Boumediene cases are not at all troubled by the prospect of Congress exercising an unlimited power to regulate every aspect of the lives of all Americans, restrained only by the provisions of the Bill of Rights?


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