The sprawling multipage menu offers cleanly executed dishes meant to accompany the sake, including standards like boiled edamame, and the filling rice balls called onigiri that you would expect at any izakaya, or Japanese pub.

If anyone still harbors the fantasy that the business scandals of the past few years were the handiwork of just a few bad apples, they should read John Bogle's Battle for the Soul of Capitalism.

There are a number of hardrock boreholes in the Tahoe Basin area that were drilled for single household water supply, for snowmaking and lodge facilities ( e.g. Heavenly Valley Resort, Northstar Resort), recreational facilities (U.S. Forest Serrvice) and for use by government agencies (Caltrans, Civilian Conservation Corp). Most hardrock wells are located at high elevation, where suitable basin-fill aquifers are not available for water supply.

Setae on the apex of the galea are in four well-separated rows. In addition, the galeal setae are modified to subspatulate or platelike structures.