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But they'd rather tell you more about their wine in person.
If you need more reason to visit this weekend, how about their 2009 cabernet sauvignon, which they say is loaded with roasted coffee, leather, vanilla bean and bacon. Yes, bacon. Mmmm.
The grand opening party is Saturday from noon until 6 p.m. The tasting fee is $5 per person. The beautiful views are free.
Hume Vineyards is located at 5396 Washwright Road, Hume, Va. Let the uncorking begin.
One of the more obnoxious issues facing energy specialists is the constant need to convert units. We have to convert megawatts to kilowatt-hours to tons CO2 to cost of electricity in order to tell a story. For those of you paying attention, these units are not the same (in order, they are units of power, electric energy, emissions and dollars).
To help sort this out, I find it helpful to use a single, big, coal-fired power plant -- about 1,000 megawatts (MW). The one here is the Mountaineer plant in West Virginia, which is about 1,300 MW.
To help frame the discussion, a 1,000 MW power plant emits between 5 to 8 million tons of CO2 every year. The range relates to the kind of coal, the kind of plant, the altitude and other factors. I find it helpful to simplify this way: 1,000 MW coal power = 6 million tons of CO2/y.
Most natural gas plants emit half that, so: 1,000 MW natural gas power = 3 million of tons CO2/y.
Many people think about this in terms of cars on the road. Roughly speaking, 250,000 cars in the U.S. emit 1 million tons of CO2 each year. Given that: 1,000 MW coal power = CO2 emissions from 1.5 million cars.
A few additional helpful framing units: 1 gallon of gasoline contains 5 pounds of carbon and will emit 18 pounds of CO2.
To put this in perspective, the carbon content of a gallon of gas and a five-pound bag of charcoal are about the same.
One final thought: Many people have a hard time getting their brains around the benefits of efficiency and conservation. Dr. Robert Socolow of Princeton did some excellent work trying to explain how big and complicated the energy/climate challenge is, in particular what applying today's technology can do.
There are about 800 million cars in the world today.
By 2055, there will likely be about two billion cars.
If there is NO improvement in efficiency, then those cars will emit an addition four billion tons CO2/year.
Today, these cars have an average efficiency of between 25-30 miles per gallon.
If we increase the car efficiency everywhere worldwide to 60 miles per gallon, there is no increase in emissions and we effectively save four billion tons CO2/year we were gonna own.
Doubling car efficiency while doubling the number of cars does not reduce emissions at all.
This is why I have good days and bad days. I explain that in my next two posts.
Game of Thrones season eight: Everything you need to know | HELLO!
To summarise: characters have been forced to come together so that they can stand a chance against the army of the dead – a massive force of zombies who are slowly marching to take over the world of the living. Many old faces reunited with their friends and enemies for the first time in years while preparing for the attack. Meanwhile, Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen are deeply in love – and neither of them have any idea that Jon is actually also a Targaryen, and one with a stronger claim to the Iron Throne (oh, and that they are actually aunt and nephew).
Another impossible task would be to recount the huge GoT cast, but the main players include Emilia Clarke, who plays Daenerys Targaryen, Lena Headey, who plays Cersei Lannister, and Kit Harington, who plays Jon Snow. Emilia is best known for her role as the Mother of Dragons, but has also starred in Me Before You, Solo: A Star Wars Story and Terminator Genisysia. Meanwhile, Lena is also known for her roles in 300 and The Brothers Grimm, while Kit has starred in The Death and Life of John F. Donovan and Spooks: The Greater Good. Also starring in the show is Avengers star Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister, X-Men Apocalypse actress Sophie Turner as Sansa Stark, and Maisie Williams, who of course plays Arya Stark.
When is Game of Thrones on, and where can I watch it?
Game of Thrones will air on Sky Atlantic on 9pm, and is also available on Sky boxsets and on the streaming service, NOW TV. For keen fans who want to avoid spoilers, the episode will be simultaneously cast when aired in the US at 2am on Monday mornings, and will be available for streaming thereafter. There will be six episodes of the new season, but make sure you put time aside from the latter episodes! The final four episodes will be from 78 to 82 minutes long. Speaking about the new episodes, HBO boss Richard Plepler told Variety: "It's a spectacle. The guys have done six movies. The reaction I had while watching them was, 'I'm watching a movie'."
Where is Game of Thrones season eight filmed?
Most of Game of Thrones is filmed in a studio in Belfast, with much of the onset locations also based in the city – meaning that Belfast airport is the perfect place for spotting the comings and goings of the cast. However, the show also films in Dubrovnik in Croatia for the King's Landing scenes, and has previously filmed in Iceland for the scenes Beyond the Wall.
Best Lawyers is the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession. For a quarter century, they have helped lawyers and clients find legal counsel in unfamiliar jurisdictions or unfamiliar practice areas.
Best Lawyers compiles lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. In the U.S., Best Lawyers publishes an annual referral guide, The Best Lawyers in America, which includes 39,766 attorneys in 80 practice areas, covering all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
…the biggest price hikes are expected to hit a group that represents a relatively small slice of the insured population. That includes some of the roughly 14 million people who buy their own insurance as opposed to being covered under employer-sponsored plans, and to a lesser extent, some employees of smaller companies.
Those of us with any sense have long predicted this would be the case. The law is expressly designed to make premiums higher for the healthy in order to make them lower for the unhealthy. This is literally the exact opposite of what “insurance” is supposed to do. Instead of charging based on an assessment of the insuree’s risk of incurring expensive costs, premiums will now be shifted in order to be more “fair”. Meanwhile, the taxpayer will be stuck with the bill for the subsidies given to help people afford these higher premiums.
Needless to say, this will have significant impact on the economy which is already not in great shape. And not much can really be done now. ObamaCare is here to stay for now, despite some Republicans’ efforts to repeal it. The law remains unpopular, but repeal is not going to happen now, and such efforts are a waste of time.
Remember when Republicans took control of the House in the 2010 election by riding the anti-ObamaCare wave and pledging to repeal and/or defund it? What happened to that?
As I wrote last week, the repeal efforts have largely fizzled. Then on Wednesday, the House again voted for a CR that doesn’t even touch the funding for ObamaCare. The bill (HR 933, dubbed the “Department of Defense, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013,” would extend federal government funding beyond March 27 through the end of FY 2013 on September 30, 2013. Congratulations to the Boehner/Cantor/McCarthy gang for refusing to use the House’s power to originate appropriations bills to any meaningful effect.
Seemingly in response to this letter from Chairmans Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Dave Camp (R-MI) on January 29 to the Treasury and IRS, on February 1, the IRS again finalized the Obamacare subsidy regulations that flagrantly deviate from the statutory authority. This issue continues to simmer relatively under the radar since I last wrote about it in August. To refresh everyone’s memory, Obamacare’s core redistributionist provisions are its refundable premium tax credits and cost sharing subsidies available for individuals to purchase coverage on state exchanges starting in 2014. The credits will be available to anyone with annual income under 400% of the federal poverty line who isn’t covered under an employer-sponsored plan. To put that in perspective, a family of four today earning up to $92,200 per year would be eligible for the credits.
This is the third and final post on the primary consumer-driven health care arrangements under the current Internal Revenue Code.
3) Limit the individual’s financial exposure by including an out-of-pocket maximum.
The HSA is the only vehicle to effectively meet all three.
The health savings account (HSA) is the closest thing to the holy grail when it comes to applying free market principles and consumerism to modern health coverage. HSAs are governed by Section 223 of the Internal Revenue Code. And it’s one powerful Code section. HSAs are triple tax-advantaged: contributions are made on a pre-tax basis (by payroll deduction) or tax deductible (above the line), funds held in the account grow tax-free, and distributions for qualified medical expenses are tax-free. That’s as good as it gets. The HSA is not perfect, but it is a solid foundation for a true consumer-driven model of health reform.
The basic premise of the HSA is to provide a tax-advantaged account to pair with a high deductible health plan (HDHP). The HDHP is structured to leave a risk corridor that you’re responsible for paying, and the HSA is structured as a way to fund that risk corridor. The HDHP will pay for some basic preventive services, but everything else will be subject to the high deductible before it’s covered. If you incur expenses up to the extent of the deductible, you can (but don’t have to) use your HSA reimburse those costs. The HDHP also has an out-of-pocket maximum to limit your financial liability.
Access Bank has restated its commitment to provide innovative, secure and convenient banking services to its customers, while promising customers that the bank will not relent in such commitment.
The Chief Executive Officer of the bank, Herbert Wigwe, gave the assurance when he met with his Microsoft counterpart, Satya Nadella, in the United States, recently, to discuss issues and methods regarding how the bank could further leverage on technology to solidify banking security in the country.
The meeting provided an extensive opportunity for the bank to further build on its current relationship with Microsoft, with discussion on how both companies could work together to revolutionise digital banking experience and create additional and new forms of value in Nigeria and Africa.
Both CEOs, according to a statement, discussed the bank’s efforts to reform banking practices on the continent, creating easy and secured banking experience for customers, including quick methods to address financial inclusion, especially through Access Bank’s existing structures that promote financial technology such as mobile banking, the African Fintech Foundry, among many others.
With its track record in innovative products such as the Access Africa, the cross-border transfer service, which is the fastest way to send and receive money across Africa seamlessly, PayDay Loan and the recently-launched Access WhatsApp Banking service, Access Bank has consistently provided customers with seamless banking services that have proven to be fast, affordable, and convenient, Wigwe said.
13': Now it's Danish keep ball near the centre circle. Australia sitting back and containing for the moment.
12': Corner Australia! Leckie again rises highest but his header finds another noggin in front of it. Another corner for the Socceroos.
10': Australia's back line forced into passing the ball across the pitch. Further up field, Leckie loses the ball in possession.
8': Chance in the box! But no shot is on offer and Australia has a corner.
Aaron Mooy's centre is cleared by the Danish defence.
GOAL! Christian Eriksen opens the scoring for Denmark!
And just like that, Denmark leads out of nowhere. The Australian defence lets the ball bounce into its territory, the ball is moved across brilliantly by Jorgensen to Eriksen, who hammers home with aplomb.
6': Denmark look to move the ball forward into Aussie territory, but Sainsbury tracks back to punt the ball clear into touch.
6': GOOD HEADER! Leckie gets a superb leap upwards but can't get above the ball, heading clean over the crossbar!
5': Leckie bursts clear down the right! He pumps a long ball to Nabbout, who traps the ball superbly and offloads to Rogic, who tries a shot from outside the box, and it's deflected behind for a corner! GREAT PLAY, SOCCEROOS!
3': An Australian interception near the edge of the box prompts a Socceroos counter down the left. But it fizzles out near the halfway line, with Australia playing keep ball in its own half.
2': Eriksen on the dead ball on Denmark's right flank. He swings it but Simon Kjaer can't get a telling header on it. Corner to Denmark!
Another chance! A cross comes in as Delaney rises to head at Australia's goal, but it's nodded wide.
1': PEEP PEEP! We're off! Denmark kick off and we're underway.
And already we have a Danish player down as midfield HARD MAN Robbie Kruse concedes a foul 35 yards out.
Play David Pocock in the centres and Israel Foloau in goal and victory will be assured !
And now the Aussie anthem!
PLAYERS ARE IN THE TUNNEL!
Except for the fact Australia is wearing it's dark green away kit so as not to clash with Denmark's ... red? Bizarre.
I want your score predictions.
Personally, I'm feeling a Mystic Maasdorp™ coming on: 3-1 to the Socceroos. THREE. ONE.
She's only pretending to be Australian! She has a Danish jersey on!
Well I for one am outraged.
Dean Bilton has been casting his expert eye over the World Cup so far, and has learned a few interesting things.
One such thing is that Australia under Bert van Marwijk is hardly an outlier in terms of style and setup compared to other teams - which may not have been the case under Ange Postecoglou's tenure, were he still at the helm.
Have a read. I dare you. Nay, I double dare you.
Hopefully Ronaldo can score another goal. He is absolutely GORGEOUS!!
Put Dane Swan up front!
Just the one change from the team that nicked a 1-0 win over an unlucky Peru side: Schöne comes in (pronounced: shuuuuuuuuuuuur-nah") for Kvist.
I hope Behich has a better match..... he looked the only chink in the armour against France.
Selecting Timmie Cahill was a waste of a selection!!!
It's a 23-man squad and you only get three subs a match, so not everyone will get used in the group stages.
Dan Colasimone, who is in Samara, has given his tactical analysis ahead of tonight's key clash.
He says it would have been a mistake to drop Tom Rogic despite seeing hardly any of the ball against France - and thankfully Van Marwijk has heeded that advice.
"... with Australia needing to win the game, Aaron Mooy and Mile Jedinak will be pushing through more vertical passes, and the Socceroos full-backs will be getting forward more often as well.
All of this will guarantee Rogic sees more of the ball and can feed the forwards or attack the goal himself."
Read the full preview here.
I hope Timmie Cahill doesn't play tonight.
He's not starting, at the very least. I think he's very much now an option from the bench nowadays, instead of a starter.
Our man on the ground Dan Colasimone is following our lads on tour​ in Samara.
"A look now at AUSTRALIA's line-up.
...well Alan, it looks like the old 4-3-3 that the Netherlands team of my youth made famous..."
I don't play FIFA any more. It makes me angry.
Big exciting team news to get your chompers on! And it is ... that Australia has named an unchanged line-up from the one that lost 2-1 to France, taking on Denmark.
Andrew Nabbout is up front, it's the tried-and-tested midfield triangle of Mooy-Jedinak-Rogic, and Mark Milligan continues alongside Trent Sainsbury as the centre-back pairing.
Good evening, football lovers country-wide, and welcome to ABC News Digital's live blog coverage of Denmark v Australia. I'm James Maasdorp, incredibly pumped and very slightly nervous for this all-important, pretty-much-have-to-win clash at the World Cup in Russia.
Kick off is 10:00pm AEST, but we're taking care of all the build-up ahead of a big, big, big night. Will it be something historic we'll talk about in years to come? We're so, so overdue one of those. We haven't had one since the Japan and Croatia matches in 2006. Yup, there was that win over Serbia (HOLMAAAAAAAN OMG) but it didn't get us to where we needed to go. And after 2014, I'm sure we're all a bit sick of glorious failure.
The Health Services industry as a whole closed the day down 1.8% versus the S&P 500, which was down 1.3%. Top gainers within the Health Services industry included Dynatronics ( DYNT), up 3.8%, Response Genetics ( RGDX), up 2.5%, Oculus Innovative ( OCLS), up 2.6%, Iridex ( IRIX), up 1.6% and Bacterin International Holdings ( BONE), up 2.2%.
Iridex ( IRIX) is one of the companies that pushed the Health Services industry higher today. Iridex was up $0.14 (1.6%) to $9.05 on average volume. Throughout the day, 21,011 shares of Iridex exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 14,300 shares. The stock ranged in a price between $8.75-$9.19 after having opened the day at $8.75 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $8.91.
IRIDEX Corporation develops, manufactures, markets, sells, and services medical laser systems and associated instrumentation for the treatment of the sight-threatening eye diseases worldwide. Iridex has a market cap of $88.9 million and is part of the health care sector. Shares are up 5.0% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Thursday. Currently there are no analysts who rate Iridex a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and none rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates Iridex as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, good cash flow from operations and expanding profit margins. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had lackluster performance in the stock itself.
IRIX's revenue growth has slightly outpaced the industry average of 4.6%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues slightly increased by 6.2%. This growth in revenue does not appear to have trickled down to the company's bottom line, displaying stagnant earnings per share.
IRIX has no debt to speak of therefore resulting in a debt-to-equity ratio of zero, which we consider to be a relatively favorable sign. Along with this, the company maintains a quick ratio of 3.17, which clearly demonstrates the ability to cover short-term cash needs.
Net operating cash flow has significantly increased by 79.01% to $1.24 million when compared to the same quarter last year. In addition, IRIDEX CORP has also vastly surpassed the industry average cash flow growth rate of -18.13%.
The gross profit margin for IRIDEX CORP is rather high; currently it is at 51.92%. It has increased from the same quarter the previous year. Regardless of the strong results of the gross profit margin, the net profit margin of 4.84% trails the industry average.
IRIDEX CORP reported flat earnings per share in the most recent quarter. This company has not demonstrated a clear trend in earnings over the past 2 years, making it difficult to accurately predict earnings for the coming year. During the past fiscal year, IRIDEX CORP turned its bottom line around by earning $0.22 versus -$0.02 in the prior year.