49 and I would host a memorable annual New Year’s Eve dinner. Dinner is served in the 1871 hotel.The town’s authenticity extends to the period plumbing — or lack thereof.”A guest wrote thanking us for the nice touch of talcum powder in the outhouse,” Patterson said. even if they were also confused.Said Campbell: “It was pretty weird.”Said Scott: “An odd week, you know.”Like everyone else who spent the week dodging the raindrops none too successfully last year, Scott has had enough time to dry out, but he hasn’t forgotten how odd a week it really was.”It was a lot of sitting around the locker room and really not knowing what is going on, which is quite frustrating, especially at a nice golf course like Riviera where you just want to get out and play,” he said.”We were all just hanging around.”Unofficially, of course.*(BEGIN TEXT OF INFOBOX)The long and short of itThe 2005 Nissan Open is one of four PGA Tour events shortened to 36 holes because of weather since the tour began keeping track in 1990. But they may not be thinking about a more serious back-to-school issue: pesticides.New research shows that the number of children getting sick from pesticide exposure at school increased significantly from 1998 to 2002. States also investigate complaints filed by family members or others.The California Department of Health Services, which regulates nursing homes, took issue with some of the GAO’s conclusions.”We firmly believe that part of the decline in the scope and severity of deficiencies being identified is because we detect so many more things at an earlier stage and require nursing homes to correct them before they get to the point where they harm residents,” said Brenda Klutz, head of the division that oversees nursing homes.In addition, she said, the department has received conflicting instructions from the federal government as to what deficiencies should be reported.For instance, at one point, the state was told to stop citing facilities for bedsores, then it was faulted for not doing so, Klutz said.The GAO findings, published last month, were consistent with those of a Times analysis of state data last July.The newspaper determined that California’s health department had sharply cut enforcement of state laws aimed at protecting the state’s 100,000 elderly nursing home residents, even as complaints about the quality of care rose.The Department of Health Services issued 36% fewer citations for state health and safety violations in 2004 than the average number in the previous four years, an analysis of state records showed.

Merrin, guitarist Brandon Jay, bassist Carlos Torres and drummer Anthony Zimmitti keep up with almost mathematical precision, and Ethan Allen’s production helps it sound as crisp as a Santa Ana breeze. Written by Douglas Wright (“I Am My Own Wife”), the show is based on the Maysles brothers’ 1975 documentary about the eccentric Beales — mother and daughter — cousins of Jacqueline Kennedy who were discovered living in squalor in a decaying East Hampton manse.In the past, it would be highly unlikely that a show that received such a dismissive notice from the New York Times — though critic Ben Brantley raved about star Christine Ebersole — could transfer to Broadway. Caffoe’s accusers, in their court filing, say the complaint they recently obtained actually stated: “Strictly confidential: don’t like his association with boys. He flung it into the tree to knock down the Frisbee.The shovel didn’t come back.But the Frisbee jittered, this way and that. Hennigan argued they would help settle the 3-year-old legal claims.When asked by the court why the cases couldn’t be settled with a check, Boucher said, “The only way this case gets settled is with transparency.”Steier, who represents 26 of the more than 100 accused priests, insisted church officials “are absolutely prohibited from making them public,” not only to protect the priests’ privacy, but to shield confidential communications between attorneys and psychotherapists and their clients.The California Supreme Court stopped the release of the documents, also known as proffers, in April and ordered the 2nd District Court of Appeal in Los Angeles to review the matter.The sexual abuse litigation has been in mediation since December 2002. Mandel, speculated early on that it might take just six months to raise half the $200 million and that the fundraising campaign could be completed in 2 1/2 years.

“He wants to be Don Corleone but keeps finding himself Homer Simpson,” said Robert Thompson, a professor of media and pop culture at Syracuse University.Soprano’s mob family continued “the Martin Scorsese world view” but raised questions about its masculinity, said Toby Miller, director of the program in film and visual culture at UC Riverside Tony is “in a sense laughable, pitiable. The sources in her 1977 book, “Loose Change,” which told the story of three women (one of them Davidson) attending Berkeley in the 1960s and the saga of how they became political and radical, were in roughly the same income and age brackets as she.In “Leap!” Davidson interviews, among others, Cheryl Tiegs, Jodie Evans, Jane Fonda, Danny Goldberg, Andrew Weil, Carly Simon and Gloria Steinem. That’s the driest such period since 1932-1934, with about as much rain as the region normally gets in a year.Although the lack of rain hasn’t affected farmers yet, “there are concerns for the summer,” Sarah Whitelock, spokeswoman for the Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire-based National Farmers Union, said in a telephone interview.Newspapers have said that tap water in some areas may be cut off and replaced with standpipes, collection points not used since 1976. Telemacher (Steve Martin) elevates a digital freeway sign to guru status when its little yellow lights spell out directives for his life in chaotic Los Angeles.*Got road rage because we omitted your favorite movie-gridlock moment? Tell us about it at sundayopinionlatimes.com We’ll post the best at: latimes.com/sundayopinion..

“It’s never before been done, where you can buy hit prime-time TV shows the day after they’re broadcast.”Iger said the Apple arrangement “offers great opportunities for consumers to stay connected to their favorite shows,” or watch them again whenever they wish.”This is the first giant step in terms of making content available to more people in more places,” he said. In a falling market, homeowners who had hoped to sell their house to get out from under their loan might find they couldn’t.Financial markets probably would react well before a significant pickup in loan defaults. And for those who don’t want their summer opera too “out there,” “Montezuma” provides an amusingly fanciful take on a Mexico that never remotely was, making it a Baroque equivalent of many a summer movie.. being forced into a position where I had to manipulate a system to get what I wanted out of it. And now, as a new director prepares to arrive at his office in March, LACMA’s latest twist on that tension is moving into overdrive.The Broad Contemporary Art Museum, built with a $50-million gift from financier, art collector and LACMA trustee Eli Broad, has broken ground in Hancock Park between LACMA West and the Ahmanson Building, with completion targeted for next year.

Bouquot diagnosed the tissue samples as having neuralgia inducing cavitational osteonecrosis, or pain caused by holes in the jaw.Bouquot coined the term NICO and is the self-proclaimed national expert on it. with Children” sitcom, is often seen at the Venice courts, just another enthusiast looking to get a game. A start would be for Washington to sign a “status of forces agreement” to govern the behavior of U.S military forces there Lessons in driving and crowd control wouldn’t hurt, either.. “I’m not leaving my home.”After helping recover his father’s body, Reysack filled out paperwork, provided a DNA sample and confirmed his father’s identity with the recovery team. Mark Plunkett, associate professor of cardiothoracic surgery and director of the UCLA Pediatric Heart Transplant program, said the donor could be up to 6 months old because the twins’ hearts are enlarged by the cardiomyopathy. Rare is a honey hunter that hasn’t met the sharp end of a giant bee.”It’s very painful,” said Mohammed Abdul Razzaque, 42, who supports a family of 19 by gathering honey. Academic Decathlon.The winner of this year’s state contest will compete for the national title April 26-29 in San Antonio..