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Our walkthrough of the Resort at Port Ludlow. Located on the Puget Sound about an hour from Seattle (via ferry) is the Resort at Port Ludlow. It is a boutique 37 room Inn.
The views and food were great, the room was simply acceptable and we believe a bit too pricey for what you get.
There isn't much for kids to do and we would suggest this really for couples only.
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One of the Top Golf Courses in the Pacific Northwest - Canyon Lakes Golf Course
City Passport Travel Show visits Canyon Lakes Golf Course, one of the top golf courses in the Pacific Northwest.
In this episode, Steve Lambert, guest show host for City Passport Travel Show, and Neydeen Martinez, 2013 Girls 4A Golf Champion, show us around the beautiful course and play some of the notorious holes and greens of Canyon Lakes Golf Course.
Located in the prestigious Canyon Lakes Community in Tri-Cities, Washington, Canyon Lakes Golf Course is surrounded by nothing but beauty and luxury. The well-manicured golf course, the luxury homes, and the high tech golf carts with GPS, are plenty of reasons to go out and play a round of golf with some golf buddies.
Hole #9 was awarded as one of the Northwest's Dream 18 Holes!
Hole #12 is recognized as the Largest Green in the Pacific Northweset. Measuring a mere 12,000 square feet, it certainly gives you a run for your money when it comes to your short game.
The high tech golf cart GPS systems are equipped for you to place food orders at the club house while on the course, and then you pick it right up on your way Hole #10.
If you're looking to take a golf trip, Canyon Lakes Golf Course is one to add to your list. Located right in the middle of Washington Wine Country, and near the beautiful Columbia River, it's a great place to getaway and relax.
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MeadowWood Golf Course
MeadowWood Golf Course is an 18-hole championship public municipal golf course located in beautiful Liberty Lake, Washington (18 miles east of Downtown Spokane). Opened in 1988, MeadowWood Golf Course is mainly an open course with strategically placed trees, bunkers, and water features. With a varying set of tees, it can be enjoyed by golfers of all skill levels. The course can be played as short as 5709 yards or as far as 6900 yards for those golfers who want to be challenged. In 1996, Golf Digest ranked MeadowWood Golf Course One of the Top 10 Best Public Golf Courses in the State of Washington. Along with a full service restaurant and pro shop, it will be hard to find a better value or experience anywhere else.
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North Korea Enters 'state of war' Against South Korea
North Korea announced early on Saturday morning that it was entering a state of war against South Korea, hours after Kim Jong-un said he would settle accounts with Washington for threatening him with nuclear-capable stealth bombers.
As of now, inter-Korea relations enter a state of war and all matters between the two Koreas will be handled according to wartime protocol, the North said in a joint statement attributed to all government bodies and institutions.
The long-standing situation of the Korean peninsula being neither at peace nor at war is finally over, said the statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
The two Koreas have technically remained at war because the 1950-53 Korean War concluded with an armistice rather than a peace treaty.
The North had announced earlier this month that it was ripping up the armistice and other bilateral peace pacts signed with Seoul in protest against South Korea-US joint military exercises.
This is not really a new threat - just part of a series of provocative threats, the South's Unification Ministry said in a statement.
Russia warned on Friday that North Korea, the US and South Korea were engaging in a dangerous game of brinkmanship that could spiral out of control.
We are opposed to any steps from any side that increase tensions, said Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister.
Earlier on Friday, Mr Kim ordered missile units to prepare to strike the US mainland as a British tour operator was warned that the outbreak of war was probably only hours away.
The order came after US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Washington would not be cowed by Pyongyang's bellicose threats and stood ready to respond to any eventuality.
Mr Kim directed his rocket units on standby at an emergency meeting with top army commanders after nuclear-capable US B-2 stealth bombers were deployed on Thursday in ongoing US joint military drills with South Korea.
Plans to strike targets in Hawaii and the continental United States were revealed in a photograph taken in Kim Jong-un's military command centre that was released on Friday.
The photo appeared in the state-run Rodong newspaper and was apparently taken at an emergency meeting early on Friday morning. They show Kim signing the order for North Korea's strategic rocket forces to be on standby to fire at US targets, the paper said, with large-scale maps and diagrams in the background.
The images show a chart marked US mainland strike plan and missile trajectories that the NK News web site estimates terminate in Hawaii, Washington DC, Los Angeles and what they claim is Austin, Texas.
In the event of any reckless US provocation, North Korean forces should mercilessly strike the US mainland ... military bases in the Pacific, including Hawaii and Guam, and those in South Korea, he was quoted as saying by the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
While North Korea has no proven ability to conduct such strikes, Mr Kim said: The time has come to settle accounts with the US imperialists.
Meanwhile, Dylan Harris, director of Lupine Travel, which specialises in holidays to unusual places like Iran, Chernobyl and Siberia, received an email on Friday morning.
It said US stealth bomber flights over the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DRPK) had made the situation critical with the outbreak of war probably only hours away. It was not clear who the email was from.
There is currently a British golfer in Pyongyang as part of a group holiday.
Mr Harris said: I contacted the Foreign Office and if they say it's unsafe we will not travel or organise further trips to North Korea.
However, there is a group of ten golfers in Pyongyang, which is where the only public golf course is, who are due to fly out of the country tomorrow (Saturday).
One of them is British and nine are Chinese. I'm in constant touch with them and they are all safe and in good spirits.
We had planned to organise a golfing tournament in May but with the current situation I don't know if that will go ahead, some customers have already cancelled.
Mr Harris, 34, from Wigan, has been a visitor to North Korea since 2007 and organises golfing trips to the country up to four times a month.
Kim Jong-il, Mr Kim's father and the iconic former dictator of the country, who died in 2011 aged 69, famously played a round at the course in 1994.
It was apparently the first time he had played golf in his life and he shot a hugely impressive 38-under par round that included no fewer than 11 holes in one.
Satisfied with his performance, he reportedly immediately declared his retirement from the sport.
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Henry Barbosa González (born Enrique Barbosa González; May 3, 1916 -- November 28, 2000) was a Democratic politician from the state of Texas. He represented Texas's 20th congressional district from 1961 to 1999.
González was born in San Antonio, Texas, the son of Mexican-born parents Genoveva (née Barbosa) and Leonides Gonzalez (from Mapimi, Durango), who had immigrated during the Mexican Revolution. He attended the University of Texas at Austin and San Antonio College, earning his undergraduate degree. Later, he received a Juris Doctor from St. Mary's University School of Law. Upon graduation, he became a probation officer, and was quickly promoted to the chief office of Bexar County, Texas. In 1950, he was Scoutmaster of Troop 90 of San Antonio, of which his son was a member.
González served on the San Antonio City Council from 1953 to 1956, when he was elected to the Texas Senate, having defeated the Republican candidate, Jesse Oppenheimer. He remained in the Senate until 1961 and set the filibuster record in the chamber at the time by speaking for twenty-two straight hours against a set of bills on segregation. Most of the bills were abandoned (eight out of ten). He ran for governor in 1958, finishing second in the Democratic primary (the real contest for governor in a solidly Democratic state) to Price Daniel. In January 1961, González ran in the special election for Lyndon Johnson's Senate seat, finishing sixth. However, in September, 20th District Rep. Paul J. Kilday was appointed to the Court of Military Appeals. González ran in the special election for the San Antonio-based district in November and defeated a strong Republican candidate, John Goode. He was unopposed for a full term in 1962 and was reelected seventeen times. He never faced truly serious or well-funded opposition, having been unopposed in 1970, 1974, 1976, 1978, 1982, and 1984. In fact, the 20th was (and still is) became so heavily Democratic that González faced GOP opposition only five times and handily won each time.
González became known for his liberal views. In 1963, Rep. Ed Foreman (R-Texas) called González a communist and a pinko and González confronted him. González was referred to as a communist in 1986 by a man at Earl Abel's restaurant, a popular San Antonio eatery. The 70 year-old representative responded by punching him in the face. González was acquitted of assault for this incident.
González chaired the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations that investigated the deaths of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. He introduced legislation calling for the impeachment of Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush. González also blocked hearings into Whitewater until finally agreeing to hold hearings in 1994. In 1997, González fell ill and was unable to return to the House for over a year. Finally, he decided not to run for a 19th full term in 1998. He had long groomed his son, Charlie, to succeed him. Charlie Gonzalez won easily in 1998 and still holds the seat; between them, father and son have served 50 consecutive years in Congress (as of November 2011). He was an outspoken critic of the Federal Reserve System and in 1993 proposed an audit of the central bank.
According to Gretchen Morgenson's book on the 2008 financial meltdown, Reckless Endangerment, while head of the House Banking Committee, Gonzalez invited the organization ACORN to help legislators define the goals when they were devising the new legislation covering Fannie and Freddie.
On October 24, 2006, it was announced that Rep. González's personal notes, correspondence and mementos would become part of the Congressional History Collection at the University of Texas at Austin's Center for American History.
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Woodrow Wilson
00:03:58 1 Early life
00:06:17 2 Education
00:09:04 3 Marriage and family
00:10:11 4 Personal interests
00:10:57 5 Academic career
00:13:08 6 Political science author
00:13:18 6.1 U.S. and British system contrast
00:17:53 6.2 Public administration
00:20:15 7 President of Princeton University
00:25:55 8 Governor of New Jersey
00:30:05 9 Presidential election of 1912
00:30:16 9.1 Democratic nomination
00:34:20 9.2 General election
00:37:43 10 Presidency (1913–1921)
00:37:54 10.1 First term (1913–1917)
00:43:22 10.1.1 Tariff legislation and income tax
00:44:19 10.1.2 Federal Reserve System
00:46:46 10.1.3 Antitrust and other measures
00:48:51 10.1.4 Mexican Revolution
00:49:55 10.1.4.1 Pancho Villa
00:51:32 10.1.5 Miners strike, wife's death and remarriage
00:54:29 10.1.6 Events leading to U.S. entry into World War I (1914–16)
01:00:59 10.2 Presidential election of 1916
01:05:46 10.3 Second term (1917–1921)
01:05:58 10.3.1 Entry into World War I
01:11:08 10.3.2 Home front
01:14:15 10.3.3 The Fourteen Points
01:15:22 10.3.4 Peace Conference 1919
01:19:10 10.3.5 Treaty fight, 1919
01:21:49 10.3.6 Post war: 1919–1920
01:23:22 10.3.7 Other foreign affairs
01:26:34 10.3.8 Incapacity
01:28:28 10.3.9 Prohibition
01:30:12 10.3.10 Women's suffrage
01:32:02 10.3.11 Post war economic depression
01:32:27 10.4 Administration and Cabinet
01:33:05 10.5 Judicial appointments
01:33:14 10.5.1 Supreme Court
01:33:58 10.5.2 Other courts
01:34:16 11 Final years and death
01:36:59 12 Race relations
01:43:12 13 Memorials
01:45:22 14 Works
01:46:21 15 Media
01:46:29 16 See also
01:47:02 17 Notes
01:47:11 18 Bibliography
01:47:20 18.1 Biographical
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Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924) was an American statesman and academic who served as the 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921. A member of the Democratic Party, Wilson served as the President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and as Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913, before winning the 1912 presidential election. As president, he oversaw the passage of progressive legislative policies unparalleled until the New Deal in 1933. He also led the United States during World War I, establishing an activist foreign policy known as Wilsonianism. He was one of the three key leaders at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, where he championed a new League of Nations, but he was unable to win Senate approval for U.S. participation in the League.
Born in Staunton, Virginia, to a slaveholding family, Wilson spent his early years in Augusta, Georgia, and Columbia, South Carolina. His father was a leading Southern Presbyterian and helped to found the Presbyterian Church in the Confederate States of America. After earning a Ph.D. in political science from Johns Hopkins University, Wilson taught at various schools before taking a position at Princeton. In 1910, Democratic leaders recruited him to run for Governor of New Jersey. Serving from 1911 to 1913, Wilson broke with party bosses and won the passage of several progressive reforms. Wilson's success in New Jersey gave him a national reputation as a progressive reformer, and his Southern roots helped him win favor in that region. After several ballots, the 1912 Democratic National Convention selected Wilson as the party's presidential nominee. Theodore Roosevelt's third-party candidacy split the Republican Party, which re-nominated incumbent President William Howard Taft. Wilson won the 1912 election with a plurality of the popular vote and a large majority in the Electoral College.
Upon taking office, Wilson called a special session of Congress, whose work culminated in the Revenue Act of 1913, introducing a federal income tax which provided revenue lost when tariffs were sharply lowered. He also presided over the passage of the Federal Reserve Act, which created a central banking system in the form of the Federal Reserve System. Other ma ...
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The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is the police department of the city of Los Angeles, California.
The LAPD has been copiously fictionalized in numerous movies, novels and television shows throughout its history. The department has also been associated with a number of controversies, mainly concerned with racial animosity, police brutality and police corruption.
The radio show Calling All Cars hired LAPD radio dispacher Jesse Rosenquist to be the voice of the dispatcher. Rosenquist was already famous because home radios could tune into early police radio frequencies. As the first police radio dispatcher presented to the public ear, his was the voice that actors went to when called upon for a radio dispatcher role.
The iconic television series Dragnet, with LAPD Detective Joe Friday as the primary character, was the first major media representation of the department. Real LAPD operations inspired Jack Webb to create the series and close cooperation with department officers let him make it as realistic as possible, including authentic police equipment and sound recording on-site at the police station.
Due to Dragnet's popularity, LAPD Chief Parker became, after J. Edgar Hoover, the most well known and respected law enforcement official in the nation. In the 1960s, when the LAPD under Chief Thomas Reddin expanded its community relations division and began efforts to reach out to the African-American community, Dragnet followed suit with more emphasis on internal affairs and community policing than solving crimes, the show's previous mainstay.
Several prominent representations of the LAPD and its officers in television and film include Adam-12, Blue Streak, Blue Thunder, Boomtown, The Closer, Colors, Crash, Columbo, Dark Blue, Die Hard, End of Watch, Heat, Hollywood Homicide, Hunter, Internal Affairs, Jackie Brown, L.A. Confidential, Lakeview Terrace, Law & Order: Los Angeles, Life, Numb3rs, The Shield, Southland, Speed, Street Kings, SWAT, Training Day and the Lethal Weapon, Rush Hour and Terminator film series. The LAPD is also featured in the video games Midnight Club II, Midnight Club: Los Angeles, L.A. Noire and Call of Juarez: The Cartel.
The LAPD has also been the subject of numerous novels. Elizabeth Linington used the department as her backdrop in three different series written under three different names, perhaps the most popular being those novel featuring Det. Lt. Luis Mendoza, who was introduced in the Edgar-nominated Case Pending. Joseph Wambaugh, the son of a Pittsburgh policeman, spent fourteen years in the department, using his background to write novels with authentic fictional depictions of life in the LAPD. Wambaugh also created the Emmy-winning TV anthology series Police Story. Wambaugh was also a major influence on James Ellroy, who wrote several novels about the Department set during the 1940s and 1950s, the most famous of which are probably The Black Dahlia, fictionalizing the LAPD's most famous cold case, and L.A. Confidential, which was made into a film of the same name. Both the novel and the film chronicled mass-murder and corruption inside and outside the force during the Parker era. Critic Roger Ebert indicates that the film's characters (from the 1950s) represent the choices ahead for the LAPD: assisting Hollywood limelight, aggressive policing with relaxed ethics, and a straight arrow approach.