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Rudra Chatterjee:
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Rudra Chatterjee
The Tea Industry
Rudra Chatterjee is a writer, and the chairman and managing director of Luxmi Tea. While he writes predominantly about politics and economics, he is also vastly knowledgeable about tea. In this episode, he talks about various aspects of the tea industry from growth to distribution.
Rudra can be contacted through LinkedIn, and you can learn more about his company and buy tea at luxmigroup.in or makaibari.com
03:10: The birth of the tea industry in India
07:55: The tea plantation organisation
14:31: Increasing the long-term value of the plantation
20:11: The relationship between the owners and workers of the plantation
29:27: How to ensure a top-quality cup of tea
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Transcript
Will Bachman 00:01
Hello, and welcome to Unleashed the show that explores how to thrive as an independent professional. I'm your host Will Bachman. And I'm so excited to be here today with my good friend ruder Chatterjee. And who is the chairman of luxmi tea, and we're going to talk about the tea industry. Rudra Welcome to the show.
Rudra Chatterjee 00:22
Thank you. Well, good to be back.
So Rudra thank you so much for coming on today. To give us just an overview of the tea industry, I'm really interested in this, you know, sector of the agricultural industry. Um, maybe you could start by just kind of giving us a broad overview of the entire value chain of tea, and then we can do a bit more of a deep dive on production. But just from from production all the way to my my, my cup of tea. In the United States, let's say what what are all the different stages of the value chain?
Sure. So tea grows mostly in China, India, Sri Lanka, and Africa. And the two big varieties, it's green tea and black tea. Both grow from the plant camillia sinensis, which can have an Assam variety, or a Chinese variety. This tea is harvested either in small states or in larger states. And then, depending on the kind of tea you drink, it's processed into green tea, which is not oxidized. So it's either steamed or fried, or oxidized, which is black tea. So that TV being produced and goes mostly to the auctions in Calcutta, in Mombasa, in Colombo, by Packaging Companies, the largest art, Lipton and finding and then brought to the supermarket shelves in the United States, that has been the traditional way it has been sold over.
Okay, so a few questions here, um, green tea and black tea. So that can come from the same plant picked at the same time, but it's just different ways that you treat, treat the leaves.
That's right.
Okay. And just so I understand some of the basics here, a psalm and Chinese tea, those are like different sub varieties of the of the tea plants. So those are actually like different plants.
That's right. Same family, but different plants. Okay.
Talk to me about a, what do we mean by a tea estate? You know, talk to me about the actual production process of tea. You know, who is doing the work? What, what's the annual cycle? Like? Is it harvested all at once or continuously? What just walk me through the life of a TST?
Sure. So the T stage is actually a British concept. When the British were importing tea from China, it costs them so much money that they were going bankrupt. So they had to figure out a way to pay for the tea. So the first thing they tried to do was grow opium in India and get the Chinese hooked onto opium and use the proceeds of that money to buy tea from China. Not obviously, it wasn't something that the Chinese people like for radon and that caused the Opium War between England and China. That's how Hong Kong came to Britain. But at that time, there were some people in India, we're working in the Botanical Gardens, British people. Awful. Robert Bruce was the most famous one who wondered whether since Britain had already colonized India, whether they could grow the tea in India instead of, you know, selling opium and fighting battles, or going bankrupt in the process. So that's how they started producing tea commercially in India. To do that, they went and annexed the territory, which produces tea and clear out massive forests. They brought what Assam had very few people at that time. So they brought the tea workers from another part of India and stole Chinese tea bushels and planted it in Assam. So along with the SMEs variety, there was the Chinese right. So to do all of that, they basically had to have a big commercial process. And that's where and estates rather than having small farms in the way the Chinese or the Japanese would go to. So the Indian tea farms tends to be much larger than the Chinese Devam. So usually, you know, 1000, Hector's or 2000 Hector's. And the same is true for Africa, where the tea farms in Kenya or Rwanda, Malawi, these are large farms, because these were basically done by Europeans. They weren't part of the African tradition or the Indian tradition. So they stayed today works with a factory, which processes the tea, and large land, which has roughly 15,000 bushels per hectare, which tend to be locked on a cycle of once a week. If you're in India, where it's seasonal, so during the dry season or the winter season, you won't be getting the tea growing. So the tea growing period starts from March and ends in November. The besties are wrong during the first flush, which is in March, and the second flush, which is towards the end of May or June. But in Africa, because you're on the equator, there's no such difference every day is a good day to produce the there, there tends to be even at the equator, some dry months, where the tea production is slightly lower. But big variability that you see in India does not exist in Africa. So that's the that's that's how it is produced. And in this stage, the what comes out of an estate is poorly produced black or green to usually then sent to auction centers. So it is in Assam, and Darjeeling would be sent to Calcutta and t 's and Africa would be sent to Mombasa. And that's where people would send out samples to buyers, you would have in the past, it used to be public outcry. Now it's your auction. And people would buy lots of things.
Talk to me about the organization of a tea estate, so maybe come up with a prototypical example of a tea estate, how many people are there? How are they organized? What are the different divisions or departments or roles and and how is it governed?
So, in terms of the pluckers, in the GST, people who pluck the tea, that tends to be between two to three lacquers per hectare. Depending on which country you're in. Attackers might be living in the state, and they're fully employed by the state or they might be villagers to come back on money and go back to their village that differs from place to place. But in the original British territories, like I explained an exam there were very few people in Assam. So pluckers actually had to have housing created for them within the state where they would live. So in a th state which is 1000 hectares, you would typically have 2000 people plucking tea. And they would be also the people who could be planting the tea uprooting the tea planting the shade trees which you know in a tea estate in Assam, because it gets hot. In June, you have trees mainly for shade, so that it doesn't burn the leaves. So, all of that work done by this massive pool of people. So this because these places are remote even now, you would have to have schools for the workers, you will have hospitals and you would basically have you know everything that they would need you know clubs, worker clubs, they would have rotating work during winter there will be pruning during summer during the rest of the plucking the management of the GSD again, it is a British almost mirrors the army. In fact many of the Teague many of the managers in TST are what used to be people who were in them and so you had manager would be the senior most below who they would be field and factory systems. And to be a manager, you would usually have to spend 20 years on the job out of which 10 years ago as assistant manager, and below assistant manager, they have water, he usually called sardars, or jco. Again, this year was an army term in British Army. And you would, sir, that would actually work directly with the plumbers, or the factory. So the manager would usually start his day at 530 or six o'clock in the morning. And that would continue to, and that will be at the field and usually come later in the afternoon. To see the factory, the factory process starts with the leaves coming in, which usually should be one week old. So leaves are plucked every week. So that seven days growth of leaves will be plucked, and it will come in around three o'clock in the afternoon. And then it will wither. So when you put it on, like large 100 feet long, six feet wide, leave houses, where you would introduce dry air to take away about half the moisture or 60% of the moisture from the leaves. Once the tea is the weather, which takes a few hours, you would first depending on the time of view on either cut leaves, or you know, you would just put the leaves into, you know, to make autopsies which are the holiday tools, and then you will put in a drive. And then sort the things. It's a simple process that hasn't changed over the years. But that's that's actually the work of the factory.
So you're drawing these leaves, and it sounds like they're out there, effectively plucking every day. And they kind of rotate around their hectare. And by the end of the week, they're at the beginning again. So you're constantly plucking. So these plants are kind of like sort of like evergreen type plants, they just bear leaves year round, it's not like a deciduous, you know, maple tree or something that loses all its leaves it in North
doesn't lose its leaves, it stops growing new leaves in winter, if you're in Assam or Darjeeling. It doesn't stop doing that in Africa, it goes through the year, Equatorial Africa. And in terms of the quality changes through the year, you know, the kind of tea that you would get get, at different times of the year, depending on the rainfall, depending on the soil. There's big variation, I don't think there's any beverage with the kind of breath that he has. And in terms of the tea bushes are actually in a bonsai plant, because it's all pruned to be at plucking height. So the tea bushes would usually grow taller than a human being gets you seven feet or higher. But it's pruned every three years and you keep it at a height, which is perfect. Now,
what are some of the degrees of freedom that a manager or an owner of an estate can use to you know, to get increased value from from the estate with a long term perspective. So, I think you and I've had conversations before about you know also monetizing the lumber perhaps from the shade trees or are there ways to increase production or are there you know, some states that might you know, pluck too much or not invest in in planting new plants. So, like so, as a manager owner, what are some of the decisions that you make are degrees of freedom to the crew increase the long term value.
So, first is to ensure that the the culture in any organization in a visited state will and you know, both of us used to be management consultants, you know one of the best trainings for managers in the GSD because you first you know create a good culture where the people who are working the states whether they are at the factory who need engineering skills and focus on quality, and at the field, where you have to make sure that so many people are, you know, counting on time with discipline, but they're well looked after. And their, their, their health and their well being is a priority. No, you have to have people with both discipline and compassion. And then you have to focus on quality, that means that you do pluck the leaves every seven days, because you can let the leaves grow. And actually, you get a much higher crop by leaving the leaves on the bush for nine days attendance, because the bush actually gets into a faster growth spot after this between the seven to 90 day, but it drops the quality. So you have to take a choice make a choice between quality and volume. And then you have to essentially focus on you know, who are you making the tea for one of the historical issues with the tea industry has been that the producer in the TST never know who the buyers so if the if you do not know how to buy likes drinking the tea, so it's it's, it's just the job ends with the product production of the tea, and then it's auction. So but in in an environment where you know, who the buyers and the buyer knows how the tea is produced, you can actually do a lot more in terms of, you know, making it more customized to buyers needs, like in some ways, wines or olive oils, or you know, people really promote one character of a vineyard, one character of the the season of the growth of the terroir, that is something that he is equally capable of doing. But the business model has been different because, and that's equally true for coffee, where the producer does not really have an occasion to understand what the buyer wants. And that's why I'm very excited because you know, it was during the lockdown during COVID, when people want stepping out of home, we innovated and starting selling these days directly from our tea estates online. And we started getting emails and feedback from buyers about how they liked the tea and what they liked about the tea and for the managers in the GSD for the workers in the GSD. This was a revelation because it's the first time in history that they heard from in final consumers.
And let's just take a moment here. If people are interested in sampling your teas, you want to give some links of where they can go.
Short on I'll send you the website we have. Lakshmi T is our company. So Lakshmi t.in is the website. Because it's mostly produced in India, although it also carries our wanderings. And we have a GST, which produces probably the most famous tea in the world called Makaibari. And Mark ibori.com is another website, one can come and buy just one package of tea or package of tea bags. But you can also subscribe to the jis where we would get enough for two people every day of the month. And you can supply per year. So that's delivered anywhere in the world, including in the United States.
Okay, and I'll just repeat that. So Lux mi group, dot nuluxe mi T dot n, and that's LUXMIT a dot i n. And we'll include that link in the show notes as well as MCI bari MAKI, ba, r i.com. So we'll include those links in the show notes. So one thing that I think you told me in the past that's kind of interesting or a bit different about the tea industry is his long lines, what you're saying is how the workers The pluckers will actually be living on the state that the workers may have a truly long term perspective in mind compared to some workers that may be a manufacturing plant, because you know, they were maybe even born, they're raised there and they're, you know, their children, they may expect to have their children working on the same estate. So in some ways, they may have a very long term perspective of Wanting to make sure that they're, you know, planting and really taking care of the tea plants, because it's their future as well. Could you could you comment on that a little bit about how the owner and the workers
can book? Sure. In fact, there are different formats in Africa, where we have tea estates in Rwanda, the workers actually own the land. So, in in Rwanda, we would have much larger blocks up to a state where the company land is called the industrial block. And that would be 200 acres. And farmers would have their own land, which would be 1000 acres, all of this land comes into the factory, all the all of the tea from this land comes into the factory. But when we make the tea, when we produce the team, we have a revenue share. In, in some places, it's 60%, in some places, 50%, depending on which country. So in Rwanda, it's half the revenue goes to the farmer. So if someone is buying tea at $4, occasion, $2 would go to the farmer, and $2 will come to the factory, and to the management. So the farmers on the land in Africa, in that case, it's actually easier to maintain quality, because they see that every time that they're making better leave, the tea prices are higher. And we usually get very good quality in, in setup, where the farmer actually owns the land, in areas where it is 100% Industrial block and the farmers don't own the land there to the farmers are working there for generations. And the best way to involve the farmers is because they actually know enough about de processing themselves, the best way to involve the farmers is to get along with you know, the farmers working in the TST give them a good education, so that you can start having, you know, the sardars, the jcos and eventually, some managers coming from the farmers. That was never the case in the past. It was always you know, ex army people or people who studied into in what used to be called public school education in Britain, they would come from a completely different environment and it was like an, you know, a big difference in the social background of the manager and the farm. But that is changing. And, you know, I think that's great for politics, as in when you can have the money farmers in demand managers from the same quarter, not all the time, but more and more I think you know, that also gives an opportunity to all the people in the farmers to say that you know, this is a great way for me to develop for my children.
Talk to me a little bit about difference in tea consumption and or demand for quality with different countries are there some countries that have like a much higher level of sophistication and demand for the highest quality teas which ones are those? Let's get it which which which countries are somewhat ignorant and just get the lowest quality you know, bottom of the barrel type stuff.
So the highest quality is personally speaking from Lakshmi, our tip typically bought by Japan and in fact, the first flashed is which are being blocked now 100% of it goes to Japan. Okay. And it's different times the Japanese Emperor has purchased his from Mark a buddy. Also, good qualities tend to be bought by Germany. Germany often buys very good teas. They also Britain has both very good and very bad cheese. It's got a big mix of you know, high quality and poor qualities. Unfortunately, so far us doesn't have a great record of high quality cheese. It's tends to buy you know, teas from supermarkets, massive packaging, and not great quality but that has changed because more and more people are becoming Much more involved with the beverages that they drink. And we are seeing many, you know, there's a company called Smith tea. Steve Smith has started it, he started tazo and sold it to Starbucks, you know, many, many teas in us, the Sebastian Beckwith in pursuit of tea in New York. Many hotels have very good tea, Somalia's. So that's changing. But traditionally, US used to have you know, many old tea houses, but you know, with good branded teas, but it went away and it's coming.
Give us a sense of the kind of the range of price maybe at the, at the wholesale level of like the best quality teas in the world versus the more commodity level of well arranged,
there are some extreme numbers like Mark ivory sold that $1,850 for one cage, that's a crazy number of projects, you know, it's never going to show up in wholesale, an average Mark every produce would be, it would be like $100 $50 $200 a kilogram. Now when that while that sounds very high, I just put this in perspective, that one teaspoon has two grams, two and a half grams of tea. So that's 500 cups of tea 400 to 500 cups of tea. So if you're buying teas that are $100, which are more, some of the most expensive tea that you would be buying, it still be 20 cents for one cup of tea. So it's not a lot of money compared to many other things that you might be buying as is certainly a much better drink, then, you know, many other more expensive beverages that you would be buying
compared to the highest, you know, highest end wines for example, we're talking a much different
product. Are you in a can of coke? Yeah, you know, it's it's much cheaper than a can of coke or you know, you know, or a bottle of bottled water.
Yeah, that would be 50 to $100 that would be at the wholesale price or at the retail price.
So in if you look at the tees that mark Avery sells online, that's around the price $50 a kilogram $12 for 250 grams and, and also $7 $8 for the 70s so that that comes to around $30 or so per kilogram. So that would be you know, 15 cents for one cup of tea. So that's, that's for us it's the same from manufacturing to region. But But I think typically what happens is like in every product, if it goes through various categories option and then wholesale then packaging then in a supermarket then customer you might find the price of tea is what gets you know discounted because, you know there's you know, people I think mistakenly feel that customers don't appreciate good quality. I've always found that to be wrong. What happens is, if you give people good tea, they tend to drink two or three cups. And if you give them a bad cup of tea, they just say okay, I don't understand tea. They do understand it is bad tea that's why they say they don't understand tea and they just don't finish finish you know that most have one cup of Nanjo
so for what would some of your guidelines be if you're if you're not really a you know, sophisticated tea drinker and haven't experienced you're really good quality tea. What what are some sort of tips like if I you know, I sort of have this impression that kind of tea bags are maybe a lower end tea and you want to be looking for whole leaf tea but I talk about freshness like how you think about tea and you say Oh, it's dry, it should last forever but how important is freshness what are the things you should look for? How do you know if you're getting a good quality cup of tea.
So it is true that tea is dry and it should last for a long time but what happens with tea is it's very hydroscopic which is picks up smells from round around the kitchen or wherever it goes. So it's important that you store the tea in a dry and you know away from other you know very smelly or spicy things that you might have in the kitchen because it's it's happened to me many times that you know when empty Just in case I'm tasting fruits, and I realized that it was in the same truck that the fruits and the tea had come so it's it's, it's it's it's in a during mango season in India, the TEAS might start smelling on mangoes. So it's a, but when you're buying tea, I think it's a good investment to buy a T bot. And if you have the time to borrow the T yourself in a teapot, it's very easy. The teaspoon is called a teaspoon because it makes one cup of tea. So you just put one teaspoon of tea, you can do that with black tea, or green tea, or, you know, if you like tea with some natural flavors, you just put that into the pot. And ideally, the pot should, you should just pour some hot water into the pot, before we pour the tea. Before the day, before we put the tea, you just put it put some hot water, warm the pot, throw away the hot water, and then pour the tea leaves and then the hot water and let it brew for three to five minutes. And it's very easy. It's making a cup of tea for yourself. I think for me, it's a great ritual, it takes 10 minutes maximum, I do it the first thing in the morning. And it's it's an also the first thing I do when I come back from work. Yeah, so it's a very nice social thing to do, you can you know, make two cups of tea, you know if two of you are going to drink it. And it's, it's a nice, easy, not very time consuming thing. So I will My first suggestion would be to use a bot. The second would be to you know, buy the T not from a supermarket. But from a T store if you can, in in whichever every city in the world will have T stores. Today, it's even easier because you can buy it online from the store. But you even in the past, if you could go to a store which specializes in tea, you will already be buying better too. And you don't have to do that. You don't have to buy it once a month, you can buy two once in three months, it's absolutely fine to have two or three months worth of tea. And then, you know, just drink it for the next two, three months out of a pot. And I think it's a great ritual. And it's possible to do it at home, especially if you're working from home part of the time. And hopefully it will become more of India and many other countries in the past when people would visit office you would serve them a pot of tea. And that was a very good ritual. You know, I think far better than, you know drinking water from you know, a bottle plastic bottle is to serve them or potty. And you know, that's that's all you need to do. It's not complicated.
Fantastic. Well Rudra thank you for this overview. Again, we'll include those links in the show notes to to both Maka bari.com, as well as luxmi T dot i n so you can subscribe there to a T subscription. Rudra It was really fun having you on the show. Thanks so much for talking about the tea industry.
Thank you. Thank you
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Bloomberg Media's total 2022 revenue increased by about 16% year over year.
The publisher hit 450,000 paid subscribers in 2022, about 20% growth from 2021.
"We're in the jet stream of video advertising growth … You have to be in the right places when things slow down, [and advertisers are] not going to necessarily cut too much out of digital and video," said Havens.
Last year, Bloomberg Media bullishly announced it was going to be entering its globalization era, starting by going head to head with the British press. These plans and proclamations came just before the economic slowdown kicked up dust for the media and advertising industries, but the ambition to create an international Bloomberg Media did not get pushed to the backburner, according to CEO Scott Havens.
Granted, 2022 didn't have as significant revenue growth as 2021. Bloomberg Media's revenue grew by almost 20%, per Havens, though the company is still calculating the final numbers, and it was impacted mostly by advertising declines in the second half of the year. But the company "did not pull back our spending or investment levels, [nor do] we anticipate, at this point, doing that."
Moving into the new year, Havens is using the launch of Bloomberg U.K. as the blueprint for the company's other international iterations, meaning the teams will be focusing more on local daily content. What's more, artificial intelligence and other technology will be used to more quickly dub over video content and translate written stories into languages including Spanish, Japanese and German — something that's typically done through licensing partnerships with regional media outlets.
Outside of the international expansion, Havens said he is also optimistic about investing further in television and digital video and using those to bolster its advertising business, especially when other forms of media are being cut from advertising budgets.
The following conversation has been lightly edited and condensed for clarity and readability.
How did 2022 turn out for Bloomberg Media? Did you see revenue growth in advertising after a turbulent second half of the year?
We had a good year; we grew roughly 16%. The first half on the ad side was definitely stronger for everybody [than] the second half, but we still managed to grow in the second half. We did not pull back our spending or investment levels [and] we don't anticipate, at this point, doing that. We are leaning into our strategy and are confident we anticipate a similar growth rate in 2023.
There was a noticeable growth decrease for us — not a decrease in spending — but growth decrease in the second half. It feels like, given where the pacing reports are, that we will see that play out through Q1.
Q1 of 2022 was actually quite good. We're not pacing quite at the level of [last] Q1 yet, but I expect [business] to pick up. It's only nine days in so it's hard to project, but we had a really good week, the last couple of weeks of bookings were strong. There's no indication to me that people are putting away their pocketbooks right now.
Which areas of the advertising business are you most optimistic about in 2023?
I am excited [about TV and video]. We've got two networks in OTT and CTV — Bloomberg Television and Bloomberg Quicktake — and we've been revamping the teams and hiring people. We've got some new shows coming, one with Kal Penn and one with Hannah Fry. We're working on some other big projects, too.
It's obvious where attention is going i.e. video, whether it's short form TikTok to longer form [on] YouTube to streaming — the TV dollars are so freaking big. Traditional TV is still much, much bigger than CTV, but when Netflix and Apple and all these guys get involved, this is serious business. And that's going to speed up the movement.
And if you, like us, have two networks that have established a beachhead over the last few years on all these carriers [and on] all these platforms, it sets you up pretty well, which is another reason I'm optimistic. We're in the jet stream of video advertising growth, we're not fighting over the declining print ad pages. You have to be in the right places when things slow down, [and advertisers are] not going to necessarily cut too much out of digital and video. They'll probably take it out of other things.
Given the economy's impact on advertising revenue, are you pushing back larger tentpole events or product launches until the second half of the year to give the sales team more lead time to secure sponsorships and to give advertisers more breathing room before asking them to spend a high price tag?
We are not intentionally shifting the schedule for fears about recessions or economic slowdown. Generally speaking, we do so many events — we have certainly one a week globally — and we really can't afford to bunch them up in a short period of time. So as far as I know, we're sticking to our calendar. And if we move something back to the second half, it's because we need more runway to get it planned or if it's a new event that we're launching.
I think that the strategy of pushing stuff back to the second half is consistent with people's views [that] the second half may be stronger than the first half [but] I think that's a risky bet. Nobody can predict what's going to happen. And if they do [push back events] and then they end up canceling all that stuff, their year is gonna be pretty dismal. That could be a risky proposition for some publishers.
How has your subscription business been doing, and specifically narrowing in on churn and retention, are you seeing any issues with getting consumers to still pay for subscriptions, especially higher priced premium ones?
Overall, we feel good about the business. Our overall subscriber number stands roughly at about 450,000 [and] we bring in about 500 to 1,000 people every day. It's been a little slower growth. We grew maybe just over 20% last year in the business… and we are projecting roughly the same growth rate this year. [Editor's note: A Bloomberg spokesperson said the company doesn't disclose its subscriber churn or retention rates. Its subscriptions business would have had a growth rate of 68% if 500 new subscribers were added every day in 2022 — equating to 182,500 new subscribers for the year — without losing any existing subscribers.]
We think there'll be some softness, but there's a lot of competition out there. Whether it's [weight loss subscription] Noom or [meal delivery service] Sunbasket or Netflix — and then the other seven streamers you got to pay for — at some point, people say, "Do I need to have 37 things that I pay for each month?" And the answer is probably no, especially if they get laid off.
I don't think our audience is that sensitive to the recession. I think a lot of them probably expense this as a business expense. And so I think that's more resilience because it's not your pocketbook. Your company may ask you to shut it down, but that's a different story. So we think we'll have good growth this year, though we will need to battle harder to improve our retention rates in this kind of environment.
In May 2022, Bloomberg Media started its globalization plans, beginning with the launch of Bloomberg UK. About a year in, how has that experience informed Bloomberg's expansion into other countries?
We weren't going as deep into the day to day grind [in the U.K.] and we provided this global perspective and stories from Asia and Latin America for that audience.
If you want to start pulling people into your platform, you [need to] give them more of what they want, which is daily, local and national business and politics [news]. So that's what we did, and it worked. The traffic to [Bloomberg U.K.] went up 30% to 40%, depending on the month, the commercial opportunity expanded dramatically [and] one of our biggest market growth was out of the U.K. office because of the additional exposure. We didn't invest too much in that we already had tons of [employees] there, but we did bring in some new writers and some new producers.
That is a model that I would say, from an ROI perspective and as an overall Bloomberg LP strategy, makes a lot of sense. Increasing our awareness and influence within a region helps everything else we do, with the core terminal business, etc. So we plan to expand that into other regions. There are some obvious ones that are also in English, [like] Australia and Canada. We haven't greenlit the plan for this year necessarily yet, but those are on our radar, we're already in these markets.
Has this expansion been delayed at all by revenue concerns or the state of the economy?
No, not yet. Things are stable from our point of view. There's a difference between slowing growth and overall decline, and we're still growing. I think a lot of people are still growing. It just might not be as crazy as [2021] and may be more on par with 2022. So no, we're not slowing things down. We've got lots of job openings that we're out there recruiting.
What we've heard
"As we go into [this] year, we're going to try to be as strategic as we can, in terms of advanced selling. But separate from all of that, our franchises are an incredible asset to us and part of having franchises is being able to draw folks in early on because it's predictable."
– Geoff Schiller, global EVP of commercial & sales strategy at Vice Media Group on the latest episode of the Digiday Podcast
In the past week, Digiday reported two U.S. office closures by Future plc, the U.K.-based company that owns titles like Marie Claire and The Week.
Future said, however, that the reduction in its physical office space will not affect its ambitious plans to expand its U.S. presence in a number of verticals, including lifestyle and entertainment, as well as to produce more video. Future is part of a wave of British media companies planning to push more aggressively into the U.S. market this year.
While Future's U.S. arm was first created in the 90s when it bought video game magazine publisher GP Publications, the company's efforts have accelerated in the past few years. – Sara Guaglione
Here's a timeline of Future's recent moves to grow its presence in the U.S.:
April 2018: Future buys NewBay Media for $13.8 million, bringing titles like Broadcasting & Cable, Bass Player and Guitar World into the company.
August 2018: Future acquires Purch's consumer business for $132.5 million, including titles such as Tom's Guide, Live Science and Space.com
July 2019: Future buys B2B publisher SmartBrief (which had 5.8 million subscribers at the time of purchase) for $45 million. Following the acquisition, more than half of Future's overall revenue comes from the U.S.
October 2020: Future acquires Cinemablend for $12.7 million in an effort to push into the TV, film and entertainment verticals in the U.S.
May 2021: Future acquires MarieClaire.com and the license to publish the women's lifestyle magazine in the U.S. for the next five years for about $16.1 million (or £13.3 million). (The company already owns the U.K. edition, which it bought in 2020 as part of its acquisition of U.K. publisher TI Media.)
October 2021: Future completes its acquisition of Dennis Publishing and its 10 titles – including Kiplinger, MoneyWeek and The Week – for about $364 million (£300 million) in order to expand into the wealth and knowledge verticals in the U.S.
January 2022: Future says it has acquired businesses and brands worth about $1.7 billion (£1.4 billion) over the last five years, including those based in the U.S.
February 2022: Future opens a 16,000 sq. ft. office in Atlanta, Georgia, as its new video production hub, with plans to hire over 100 people locally.
May 2022: Future acquires women's lifestyle site Who What Wear for $127.2 million.
September 2022: Future CEO Zillah Byng-Thorne announces her intention to step down by the end of 2023.
August 2022: Future makes changes to its U.S. revenue teams. Jason Webby, CRO of North America, exits. Shayna Kossove, formerly CRO of Who What Wear and based in Los Angeles, takes on a new role as commercial president to oversee a new revenue team working across Future's women and home interest portfolio.
November 2022: In its full-year earnings report, Future reveals organic revenue growth in the U.S. grew 7% year-over-year, but fell 1% in the U.K. U.S. revenue made up 39% of Future's global revenue, up from 35% in 2021. However, its U.S. audience declined 13% year-over-year, according to Comscore data.
December 2022: Future announces it will close its physical offices in Atlanta and Washington, DC by the end of the month.
January 2023: Future appoints two senior executives based out of the New York office to strengthen U.S. sales: Ali Dib as head of agency strategy and Jeffrey Goldstein as head of programmatic.
Numbers to know
41%: The percentage of publishers who said the number of full-time staffers at their companies increased in 2022, down from 58% in 2021, according to a survey of more than 70 publisher professionals conducted by Digiday+ Research.
~12: The number of Twitter staffers overseeing misinformation, global content moderation and hate speech and harassment who were laid off.
+1,800: The number of news jobs that were cut in 2022, up from about 1,500 in 2021, according to new data from Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
68%: The number of publishers surveyed by Reuters Institute who expect some growth in subscription revenue and other paid content income this year, despite the squeeze on consumer spending.
What we've covered
Future plc closed its D.C. office along with its Atlanta video hub last month:
Future plc closed its Washington, D.C. office, according to three Future employees.
That office is where its B2B publications like SmartBrief and the former Dennis Publishing titles it acquired in 2021 were based.
Read more about Future's continued office closures here.
Vice Media is ready to sell ads on Twitch, starting with Refinery29's Good Game show:
VMG is hoping to sell advertisers on its Twitch content starting this month, focusing first on its gaming-centric, interview-style show, "Good Game," on its six-month-old Refinery29 channel.
The publisher will co-sell pre-, mid- and post-roll ads, branded content and product placements alongside Twitch's sales team with deals being priced as high as several million dollars.
Learn more about VMG's Twitch partnership here.
Future closes Atlanta office less than a year after it was billed as a new video production hub:
Future closes Atlanta office less than a year after it was billed as a new video production hub
The move is likely a cost-cutting effort by the company, which relies on advertising and affiliate revenue — two areas that have been hit by economic headwinds.
Read more about the office closure here.
Media businesses are slowly getting less white, male-dominated, stats from Condé, WSJ, NYT, others show:
Over two years ago, a reckoning shook up the media industry: companies were too white and too male-dominated.
Digiday has tracked publishers' self-reported diversity statistics as there is not a consistent, wholistic measurement of this across the industry.
Learn more about how publishers' diversity ambitions are faring here.
The future of The New York Times' media column:
It's been a year since the Times' media columnist Ben Smith announced he'd be giving up his role in pursuit of a new media venture. But despite it being one of the most coveted jobs in media journalism, the Times has yet to fill Smith's old slot, writes Vanity Fair.
The M&A market is cooling for digital media companies on the auction block:
There is a stalemate going on between digital media firms and potential buyers over valuations and deal terms in this economic downturn, according to Axios. Publishers like Vice Media, BDG and Vox Media are turning down lower than desired offers from potential buyers, while hoping in the meantime that they can avoid taking cost-cutting measures.
The New York Times' Rebecca Blumenstein joins NBC News:
Blumenstein is stepping down from her role as deputy managing editor at the Times to join NBC News as part of a broad overhaul of the news division at NBCUniversal that includes the departure of NBC News president Noah Oppenheim, reported The New York Times.
Publishers are using subscriptions to generate ad revenue:
For publishers like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post to combat the economic downturn's impact on their advertising businesses in 2023, they need to reconcile the coexistence of their advertising and subscription businesses to grow both, according to Adweek.
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Media Buying Briefing: Could virtual interns and brand safety bots be the future of AI for media agencies?
The 2023 Notebook
WTF is cookie stuffing?
Fraud is a well-documented pox on digital advertising, but it's also an issue for publishers and marketers working together on affiliate marketing deals, too. One of the more tried-and-true techniques is cookie stuffing.
Publishers are facing a slow start to Q1 and sales teams have a lot of work to do to regain lost time.
Bloomberg, Axios, Politico, other business publishers rethink subscriber retention during the economic downturn
Premium publishers, like POLITICO, Axios and Bloomberg, have to make sure their fees are still considered a necessity as readers recalculate their spending and companies recalculate their expense budgets.
Why Vice, BBC, WaPo, others see new TikTok teams as the next wave of specialist publishing talent
As news publishers craft their TikTok strategies, Digiday spoke with the BBC, Vice, The Washington Post and LADbible to see who's really behind the posts.
Digiday+ Research deep dive: Publishers anticipate a big drop in ad revenue this year
Digiday's survey found that publishers are not feeling great about advertising revenue as 2023 kicks off, with attitudes toward subscriptions and e-commerce shifting as well.


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Description: Evidence for the claim that Muhammad was a true prophet and not an imposter. Part 2: A look into the claim that Muhammad was a liar.
As discussed earlier, Muhammad made the claim, 'I am God's Messenger.' Either he was true in his claim or he was not. We will begin by assuming the latter and investigate all possibilities raised by skeptics of past and present, discussing some of their misconceptions. Only if all other possibilities are exhausted can one reasonably claim that the only possibility left is that he was true in what he claimed. We will also look at what the Quran has to say on the matter.
His life story is a preserved book open for everyone to read. Before Islam, he was well-known to his own people to be trustworthy and reliable, an honest man, a person of integrity, who did not lie. It was due to this reason they named him "Al-Ameen", or "The Trustworthy" He was strongly opposed to lying and warned against it. Is it possible for him to tell a consistent lie for 23 years, a lie so monstrous that it would make him a social outcast, when he was never known to have lied even once about anything? It's simply against the psychology of liars.
If we were to say that Muhammad claimed prophethood for fame glory and status, we would see that what actually occurred was the exact opposite. Muhammad, before his claim to Prophethood, enjoyed a high status in all aspects. He was of the most noble of tribes, of the most noble of families, and was known for his truthfulness. After his claim, he became a social outcast. For 13 years in Makkah, he and his followers faced excruciating torture, which led to the death of some of his followers, ridicule, sanctioning, and excommunication from society.
There were many other ways which a person could gain fame in the society of that time, mainly from valor, and poetry. If Muhammad had made the claim that he himself authored the Quran, as will be explained later, that would have been enough for his name and poetry to be engraved in gold and hung inside the Ka'bah for eternity, people from all over the world hallowing him. Rather, he proclaimed that he was not the author of this revelation, and that it was from the One high above, causing him to be ridiculed in his time until ours.
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2017 Madrid ITU Triathlon World Cup
Results: 2017 Madrid ITU Triathlon World Cup | Elite Men
Madrid, Spain • 28 May, 2017
Elite Men Elite Women
1 Ryan Sissons 1988 NZL 2 01:53:00 00:18:35 00:01:28 00:59:06 00:00:22 00:33:31
2 Raphael Montoya 1995 FRA 21 01:53:08 00:18:35 00:01:27 00:59:24 00:00:23 00:33:21
3 Simon Viain 1993 FRA 11 01:53:16 00:18:42 00:01:30 00:58:53 00:00:19 00:33:54
4 Marc Austin 1994 GBR 29 01:54:09 00:18:30 00:01:35 00:59:27 00:00:18 00:34:22
5 Kevin McDowell 1992 USA 4 01:54:12 00:18:35 00:01:27 00:59:24 00:00:22 00:34:26
6 Dorian Coninx 1994 FRA 12 01:54:17 00:18:30 00:01:29 00:59:10 00:00:20 00:34:51
7 Lasse Lührs 1996 GER 30 01:54:19 00:18:46 00:01:27 00:59:13 00:00:19 00:34:36
8 Antonio Serrat Seoane 1995 ESP 22 01:54:35 00:18:37 00:01:30 00:59:24 00:00:22 00:34:44
9 Drew Box 1989 AUS 7 01:54:47 00:18:34 00:01:34 00:59:20 00:00:20 00:35:01
10 Matthias Steinwandter 1993 ITA 33 01:54:55 00:18:48 00:01:26 00:59:20 00:00:21 00:35:02
11 James Teagle 1996 GBR 56 01:54:57 00:18:37 00:01:29 00:59:30 00:00:23 00:35:00
12 Massimo De Ponti 1987 ITA 17 01:55:00 00:18:40 00:01:30 00:59:20 00:00:21 00:35:10
13 Lukas Hollaus 1986 AUT 9 01:55:04 00:18:44 00:01:28 00:59:18 00:00:20 00:35:16
14 Denis Vasiliev 1989 RUS 65 01:55:11 00:18:35 00:01:37 00:59:26 00:00:23 00:35:12
15 Kristian Blummenfelt 1994 NOR 1 01:55:18 00:18:31 00:01:28 00:59:26 00:00:20 00:35:35
16 Sylvain Fridelance 1995 SUI 51 01:55:30 00:18:36 00:01:28 00:59:29 00:00:21 00:35:38
17 Jan Celustka 1982 CZE 20 01:55:36 00:18:38 00:01:31 00:59:25 00:00:23 00:35:42
18 Seth Rider 1997 USA 39 01:55:37 00:18:26 00:01:31 00:59:30 00:00:20 00:35:52
19 Léo Bergere 1996 FRA 10 01:55:49 00:18:46 00:01:28 00:58:55 00:00:21 00:36:20
20 Casper Stornes 1997 NOR 66 01:55:51 00:18:34 00:01:33 00:59:26 00:00:22 00:35:57
21 Pierre Le Corre 1990 FRA 3 01:55:55 00:18:35 00:01:33 01:01:18 00:00:20 00:34:10
22 Uxio Abuin Ares 1991 ESP 6 01:56:06 00:18:56 00:01:25 01:01:06 00:00:21 00:34:20
23 Manoel Messias 1996 BRA 35 01:56:14 00:18:50 00:01:30 01:01:06 00:00:24 00:34:26
24 Liam Lloyd 1994 GBR 47 01:56:16 00:19:11 00:01:30 01:00:45 00:00:21 00:34:32
25 Luca Facchinetti 1988 ITA 34 01:56:17 00:18:35 00:01:30 00:59:25 00:00:23 00:36:26
26 Rodrigo Gonzalez 1989 MEX 8 01:56:20 00:18:52 00:01:28 01:01:06 00:00:20 00:34:37
27 Gustav Iden 1996 NOR 45 01:57:02 00:19:11 00:01:28 01:00:55 00:00:21 00:35:09
28 Stefan Zachäus 1990 LUX 24 01:57:17 00:18:32 00:01:29 00:59:10 00:00:21 00:37:48
29 Douglas Roberts 1991 GBR 50 01:57:25 00:18:44 00:01:34 01:01:13 00:00:22 00:35:34
30 Henrik Goesch 1994 FIN 37 01:57:36 00:19:15 00:01:32 01:01:56 00:00:21 00:34:35
31 Wian Sullwald 1993 RSA 5 01:57:42 00:18:28 00:01:30 00:59:29 00:00:21 00:37:56
32 Kevin Tarek Viñuela Gonzalez 1995 ESP 62 01:57:48 00:18:27 00:01:34 00:59:25 00:00:22 00:38:02
33 Gregory Barnaby 1991 ITA 27 01:57:55 00:19:09 00:01:26 01:00:50 00:00:20 00:36:11
34 Xavier Grenier-Talavera 1995 CAN 16 01:58:02 00:18:34 00:01:27 00:59:31 00:00:22 00:38:11
35 Christophe De Keyser 1993 BEL 38 01:58:15 00:19:10 00:01:28 01:00:47 00:00:18 00:36:34
36 Genis Grau 1994 ESP 58 01:58:17 00:19:13 00:01:29 01:00:50 00:00:22 00:36:24
37 Felipe Barraza 1991 CHI 52 01:58:19 00:19:04 00:01:30 01:00:56 00:00:20 00:36:30
38 Bence Bicsák 1995 HUN 23 01:58:23 00:19:16 00:01:26 01:00:48 00:00:22 00:36:33
39 Donald Hillebregt 1992 NED 49 01:58:24 00:18:37 00:01:34 00:59:27 00:00:25 00:38:22
40 Marco Van Der Stel 1991 NED 15 01:58:27 00:18:49 00:01:32 01:01:11 00:00:24 00:36:33
41 Edson Gomez Ruiz 1993 MEX 43 01:58:31 00:18:37 00:01:31 00:59:26 00:00:21 00:38:39
42 Adam Rudgley 1992 AUS 41 01:58:43 00:19:15 00:01:31 01:00:54 00:00:22 00:36:43
43 Constantine Doherty 1995 IRL 60 01:59:05 00:19:30 00:01:24 01:01:48 00:00:22 00:36:04
44 Kauê Willy 1996 BRA 40 01:59:25 00:19:03 00:01:31 01:01:07 00:00:28 00:37:18
45 Peter Denteneer 1990 BEL 44 01:59:28 00:18:44 00:01:31 01:01:23 00:00:23 00:37:28
46 Menno Koolhaas 1995 NED 36 01:59:31 00:18:39 00:01:33 01:01:21 00:00:23 00:37:37
47 Roberto Sanchez Mantecon 1996 ESP 42 01:59:57 00:19:26 00:01:25 01:01:52 00:00:23 00:36:53
48 Cesar Saracho 1994 MEX 19 02:00:10 00:18:55 00:01:26 01:04:18 00:00:25 00:35:08
49 Luis Miguel Velasquez 1994 VEN 61 02:00:57 00:18:42 00:01:31 01:01:13 00:00:23 00:39:09
50 Danilo Pimentel 1986 BRA 14 02:01:15 00:18:59 00:01:33 01:04:09 00:00:23 00:36:13
51 Jordi García Gracia 1992 ESP 46 02:01:16 00:19:12 00:01:29 01:04:00 00:00:30 00:36:06
52 Alec Wilimovsky 1997 USA 57 02:01:17 00:18:30 00:01:34 00:59:31 00:00:23 00:41:21
53 Itamar Alster 1995 ISR 67 02:01:24 00:18:48 00:01:29 01:04:09 00:00:28 00:36:33
54 Bence Lehmann 1997 HUN 68 02:03:31 00:18:40 00:01:32 01:04:28 00:00:24 00:38:29
55 Alberto Eugenio Casillas Garcia 1989 LTU 72 02:05:45 00:19:17 00:01:32 01:03:40 00:00:25 00:40:52
DNS Anton Ruanova 1986 BRA 32 DNS 00:00:00 00:00:00 00:00:00 00:00:00 00:00:00
LAP Mohamad Maso 1993 SYR 71 LAP 00:19:06 00:01:34 00:00:00 00:00:00 00:00:00
DNF Martin Demuth 1995 AUT 64 DNF 00:18:45 00:01:34 01:04:24 00:00:24 00:00:00
DNF Erwin Vanderplancke 1995 BEL 28 DNF 00:18:54 00:01:25 01:01:24 00:00:22 00:00:00
DNF Noah Servais 1997 BEL 59 DNF 00:19:08 00:01:32 00:00:00 00:00:00 00:00:00
DNF Max Studer 1996 SUI 63 DNF 00:19:13 00:01:31 00:00:00 00:00:00 00:00:00
DNF Jaime González Buganza 1994 MEX 70 DNF 00:19:14 00:01:31 00:00:00 00:00:00 00:00:00
DNF Linus Stimmel 1996 GER 54 DNF 00:19:11 00:01:32 00:00:00 00:00:00 00:00:00
DNF Jesus Gomar 1988 GEO 48 DNF 00:19:02 00:01:33 00:00:00 00:00:00 00:00:00
DNF Alexis Lepage 1994 CAN 26 DNF 00:18:40 00:01:30 00:00:00 00:00:00 00:00:00
DNF Jorik Van Egdom 1995 NED 31 DNF 00:19:39 00:01:35 00:00:00 00:00:00 00:00:00
DNF Martin Ulloa 1994 CHI 53 DNF 00:19:27 00:01:39 00:00:00 00:00:00 00:00:00
DNF Eli Hemming 1995 USA 18 DNF 00:18:41 00:01:30 00:00:00 00:00:00 00:00:00
DNF Yuichi Hosoda 1984 JPN 25 DNF 00:18:41 00:01:32 00:00:00 00:00:00 00:00:00
DNF Nan Oliveras 1993 ESP 55 DNF 00:19:26 00:01:23 00:00:00 00:00:00 00:00:00
Program notes:
Technical Delegate: Dominique Frizza/FRA. Race Referee: Carmen Gomez/. Competition Jury: Dominique Frizza/FRA, Alicia Garcia/ESP, Antonio Fernandez/ESP. Distances: Swim 1500 m (2 laps), Bike 39.450 km (connection + 6 laps) Run 10 km ( 4 laps). Water temperature 25.7ºC. Air Temperature 25.3ºC. Wetsuits not allowed.


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Use After Free (CWE-416)
Omron/cx-programmer
Use after free vulnerability in CX-Programmer v9.76.1 and earlier which is a part of CX-One (v4.60) suite allows an attacker to cause information disclosure and/or arbitrary code execution by having a user to open a specially crafted CXP file. This vulnerability is different from CVE-2022-25230.
Vulnerability Summary for the Week of March 7, 2022
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RedPacket Security / 10mo The CISA Vulnerability Bulletin provides a summary of new vulnerabilities that have been recorded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) National Vulnerability Database (NVD) in the past week. NVD is sponsored by CISA. In some cases, the vulnerabilities in the bulletin may not yet have assigned CVSS scores. Please visit NVD for updated vulnerability entries, which include CVSS scores once they are available. Vulnerabilities are based on the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) vulnerability naming standard and are organized according to severity, determined by the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) standard. The division of high, medium, and low severities correspond to the following scores: High : vulnerabilities with a CVSS base score of 7.0–10.0 Medium : vulnerabilities with a CVSS base score of 4.0–6.9 Low : vulnerabilities with a CVSS base score of 0.0–3.9 Entries may include additional information provided by organizations and efforts sponsored by CISA.
CVE-2022-25230 (cx-programmer)
National Vulnerability Database / 10moUse after free vulnerability in CX-Programmer v9.76.1 and earlier which is a part of CX-One (v4.60) suite allows an attacker to cause information disclosure and/or arbitrary code execution by having a user to open a specially crafted CXP file. Use after free vulnerability in CX-Programmer v9.76.1 and earlier which is a part of CX-One (v4.60) suite allows an attacker to cause information disclosure and/or arbitrary code execution by having a user to open a specially crafted CXP file.
CVSS 7.8(53654)CWE-416(3398)Omron(62)


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The Duke and Duchess are believed to be staying in Anmer Hall, Norfolk, after spending Christmas in their second home.
Reports earlier this month held the Cambridge royals would not be returning to Kensington Palace "for the foreseeable future" according to a Palace source.
The source told the Daily Mirror the family will stay in Anmer Hall due to England's third national lockdown.
They added: "The family is committed to working together to help the country through the next stage of the crisis.
"Plans are already in place to reach out to a range of charities and businesses and fortunately they are well versed in the world of video calls now."
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PDP candidate rejects Offa rerun victory against KWASIEC's announcement
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A councilorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Shawo South West ward in Offa Local Government of Kwara State, Mr. Afolabi Olawole has rejected victory at the election. He was declared winner of the ward election by the Kwara State Independent Electoral Commission(KWASIEC) in Saturday's rerun election. He stated that he did not win in the election. According to him, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Mr. Adefioye Kayode won the election.
He spoke during APC's media briefing in Offa on Wednesday. He stated that he rejected his announced victory based on his religious belief of not cheating. He added that his stand was also to ensure that his community did not witness violence and retrogression. He stated that he was not influenced by anybody. Also one of the presiding officers, Oyetunji Akin said the APC won in the councillorship and chairmanship elections in Shaw Central ward where he presided.
KWASIEC had announced that PDP won the ward. According to him, APC polled 1,213 to defeat PDP he said had 568.
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This precious girl was a newborn last time I saw her! It was just like a time capsule seeing her again! So much fun to see the adorable little girl she's grown into and her personality! I just adore this age and how much fun they are! We had gorgeous light and beautiful cherry blossoms for this spring outdoor session. Couldn't have asked for better weather!


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It's been two whole weeks! I have missed you!
I can't think of a better way to play catch up then linking up with that awesome Farley and her August Currently!
Our Blogger Meet Up was fantastic!
It was such a pleasure to meet these girls!
Thanks Kate for the snazzy photo!
Who knew that Jessica, Kate, and Brittany were just minutes away! We will have to get together again very soon ladies! And Alyce, my lovely friend, thank you for driving all that way! It was such a pleasure!
Now I should be back into full blogger mode tomorrow! Until then, be sure to join the fun and link up with Farley's Currently!
How fun that you got to meet up with such fun people! Enjoy your wedding planning! But don't sweat the tiny details!
Hi there! I found you through Farley's linky party! Congrats on getting married. My little brother is getting married in October!
I love that you had a meet up. We fell short on that here in Florida! I am glad I am not the only one blogging instead of cleaning!
Hi Julie! Comfy shoes are a must for me too! Hope you're having a nice time as summer winds down...sounds like you've gotten a lot of wedding details managed!
Ahhh so much fun that you're planning a wedding!!!! Haha I love the NEW shoes and new purse necessities!
Totally with you on 1. comfy shoes, 2. a clean house, and 3. the blogger meet up! Happy last days of summer. Can't wait to see what you have in store for the year (so that I can do it too!!!!!).
Blogger meet ups are so fun! Looks like you had a great time!
Congratulations on your upcoming wedding! I know it is so much fun planning a wedding. Good luck with upcoming school year!
So glad we finally got to meet up!! Enjoy your last bit of summer! Hope to see you again soon!


This paper starts with a brief introduction to the dilatometer and piezoblade. Test results in four different areas are presented. DMT soundings at LR 67057 (Legislative Route numbers are assigned to roads which the state of Pennsylvania is responsible for) are discussed. Then, in situ results are compared to available laboratory findings. A possible correlation is proposed between constrained modulus from a DMT and a compression index from a consolidation test. Further, the results of a DMT at LR 1000 are presented, as well as test results from LR 1003. The results of DMT and piezoblade soundings from the Massena site in New York are also discussed. Dilatometer modulus and N-values from SPT soundings are compared for sandy soil. In addition, M and N-values are compared for silty and clayey soil.


Happy Sunday! I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend! This is such a funny time of year weather wise. I feel like everyone I follow on Instagram was either basking in warm spring weather or skiing in fresh powder this weekend! Talk about two polar opposites happening at the same time. It's been glorious in Charleston this weekend so I spent much of the weekend outside (when I wasn't doing my taxes). I also celebrated a friend's birthday last night with a good old fashioned house party, which was so fun! Looking ahead to this week, I'm off to California on Thursday and so excited to friends and to celebrate Edwin's brother as he gets married!
Keep reading for my Weekend Reads, No. 96 complete with all your retinol questions answered, 8 proactive ways you can prevent breast cancer, a 25% off sale from one of my favorite designers, tips for how to find the best yoga retreats, a delicious taco bowl recipe, a new earring collection to love, plants 101 + tips from plant pros, a guide for getting your best eyelashes ever, the perfect slingbacks for spring, & more!
1. Did y'all know that J.Crew makes bras? I had no idea! I really want to try this t-shirt bra! Looks so comfy.
2. One of my absolute favorite designers, Rebecca Taylor, is having her Friends & Family Sale and offering 25% off with code FAVORTIES25! I'm in love with this floral top, this eyelet dress, this paisley jumpsuit, and this white dress!
3. Three accessories I love for spring with dashes of pink (!!): clutch, hat, earrings.
4. So excited about this! Jewelry designer, Nicola Bathie, designed an exclusive collection for Anthropologie and it's divine (some styles are already selling out!). I'm head over heels for these floral shell earrings (similar for less), these heart earrings, and these wicker earrings!
4. I discovered these woven slingbacks this week and just about fell out of my chair… I love them! Do you prefer white or brown?
5. A friend shared this new company with me this week and I'm really into the mission behind it. Meet The Bloomist, an online resource of responsibly sourced, sustainable products that help you bring nature indoors.
6. Is this not the perfect tee?
1. Super easy ways to keep your spring weekends inspired!
2. My under $100 favorite finds for March… so many goodies!
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5. Everything is on sale at Serena & Lily! I shared my favorites as well as the Serena & Lily pieces I already own and love that are on sale.
6. Last week's Weekend Reads: a creamy avocado smoothie recipe, a guide to wedding invitation wording, advice on the only way to lead each and every day, a white poplin jumpsuit to love, a guide to asking your boss for a raise, words on self love, the spring shoe collaboration I'm obsessed with, and more.
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Amazon is reportedly splitting HQ2 into 2 cities, which would prove the whole contest was a massive sham
Dennis Green
Amazon will reportedly split its second-headquarters project, known as HQ2, among two cities: New York City and Arlington, Virginia.
The two cities will reportedly split the promised $US5 billion investment and 50,000 employees.
Splitting the project among two cities would give fuel for critics of the HQ2 contest who called it a sham designed to maximise tax breaks from cities.
Amazon is reportedly close to selecting the winner of its second-headquarters project, known as HQ2.
Or, should I say "winners"?
It turns out, if The New York Times is right, that Amazon is close to agreeing to split its HQ2 project among two cities: New York City and Arlington, Virginia. The two cities will reportedly receive an as-yet-unknown portion of the 50,000 employees and $US5 billion investment Amazon promised to winners of the project.
Wait, huh? That wasn't part of the plan.
If Amazon selects two cities for HQ2, as reported, then everything Amazon promised goes out the window. What makes this different from Amazon's presence in other cities where it has offices, such as Boston or Los Angeles?
Will the company refer to both sites, which are hundreds of miles from each other, as HQ2? Or are we just supposed to think of HQ2 as the entire eastern seaboard – any city or town that is accessible from Amtrak's Acela service between New York and Washington, DC.
In fact, Amazon already has a sizable number of employees in both the DC area and New York City. The Times says it's the largest number of employees outside Seattle, and it employs thousands of workers in each city.
Isn't Amazon stretching the meaning of the word "headquarters" here? What's the difference between having a large satellite office in a city and what Amazon purports to call a "headquarters."
There may be a distinction for Amazon employees, but that's unlikely to be the case for the tax-paying public – which will be footing a large part of the bill thanks to the tax incentives Amazon is demanding.
People are furious about Amazon's reported decision to split its HQ2 between New York City and Virginia after months of deliberation
Critics of Amazon's long-drawn-out HQ2 selection process already questioned that a "second headquarters" could even exist. Dividing the project into two equal-size headquarters just adds more fuel to the argument that the entire process was a ploy to pit cities against one another to maximise incentives.
It also breaks Amazon's original mandate for the project that HQ2 would be a "full equal" to the company's Seattle headquarters. If it's separate, it's not equal.
Amazon hyped up its HQ2 investment so much that cities were seemingly willing to do anything for the chance of landing it. Amazon probably at least figured that into its calculus, and when it realised it would be easier to count the cities that didn't jump at the chance to have Amazon in the backyard, the strategy shifted to just maximizing gains.
While we don't yet know what tax incentives were offered for Amazon to select these two cities, nor what Amazon offered in return, we can safely assume it totaled in the billions.
City and state leaders jumped at the chance for what they saw as a high-profile win – and obvious benefit that constituents would see and appreciate. The upsides for local communities and governments – economic or otherwise – are now not so immediately obvious.
If Amazon is able to get away with essentially robbing Virginia and New York of millions of dollars in tax revenue and not even offering up in return what it originally promised, what else is it capable of?
Read more about Amazon's HQ2 project:
Amazon made an important investment in Seattle, and it highlights a key issue for HQ2
Amazon HQ2 candidates are going to great lengths to keep their plans secret
HQ2 is making cities consider projects they have been ignoring for years – and it shows the power of Amazon
7 horrible things that could happen to cities if they win Amazon's HQ2 bid
The cities where homeowners will benefit the most if Amazon's second headquarters lands there
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Q: Multiple figures in a single window I want to create a function which plot on screen a set of figures in a single window. By now I write this code:
import pylab as pl

def plot_figures(figures):
    """Plot a dictionary of figures.

    Parameters
    ----------
    figures : <title, figure> dictionary

    """
    for title in figures:
        pl.figure()
        pl.imshow(figures[title])
        pl.gray()
        pl.title(title)
        pl.axis('off')

It works perfectly but I would like to have the option for plotting all the figures in single window. And this code doesn't. I read something about subplot but it looks quite tricky.

A: You can define a function based on the subplots command (note the s at the end, different from the subplot command pointed by urinieto) of matplotlib.pyplot.
Below is an example of such a function, based on yours, allowing to plot multiples axes in a figure. You can define the number of rows and columns you want in the figure layout.
def plot_figures(figures, nrows = 1, ncols=1):
    """Plot a dictionary of figures.

    Parameters
    ----------
    figures : <title, figure> dictionary
    ncols : number of columns of subplots wanted in the display
    nrows : number of rows of subplots wanted in the figure
    """

    fig, axeslist = plt.subplots(ncols=ncols, nrows=nrows)
    for ind,title in enumerate(figures):
        axeslist.ravel()[ind].imshow(figures[title], cmap=plt.gray())
        axeslist.ravel()[ind].set_title(title)
        axeslist.ravel()[ind].set_axis_off()
    plt.tight_layout() # optional

Basically, the function creates a number of axes in the figures, according to the number of rows (nrows) and columns (ncols) you want, and then iterates over the list of axis to plot your images and adds the title for each of them.
Note that if you only have one image in your dictionary, your previous syntax plot_figures(figures) will work since nrows and ncols are set to 1 by default.
An example of what you can obtain:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

# generation of a dictionary of (title, images)
number_of_im = 6
figures = {'im'+str(i): np.random.randn(100, 100) for i in range(number_of_im)}

# plot of the images in a figure, with 2 rows and 3 columns
plot_figures(figures, 2, 3)

A: You should use subplot.
In your case, it would be something like this (if you want them one on top of the other):
fig = pl.figure(1)
k = 1
for title in figures:
    ax = fig.add_subplot(len(figures),1,k)
    ax.imshow(figures[title])
    ax.gray()
    ax.title(title)
    ax.axis('off')
    k += 1

Check out the documentation for other options.

A: If you want to group multiple figures in one window you can do smth. like this:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

img = plt.imread('C:/.../Download.jpg') # Path to image
img = img[0:150,50:200,0] # Define image size to be square --> Or what ever shape you want

fig = plt.figure()

nrows = 10 # Define number of columns
ncols = 10 # Define number of rows
image_heigt = 150 # Height of the image
image_width = 150 # Width of the image

pixels = np.zeros((nrows*image_heigt,ncols*image_width)) # Create
for a in range(nrows):
    for b in range(ncols):
        pixels[a*image_heigt:a*image_heigt+image_heigt,b*image_heigt:b*image_heigt+image_heigt] = img
plt.imshow(pixels,cmap='jet')
plt.axis('off')
plt.show()

As result you receive:

A: Building on the answer from: How to display multiple images in one figure correctly?, here is another method:
import math
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

def plot_images(np_images, titles = [], columns = 5, figure_size = (24, 18)):
    count = np_images.shape[0]
    rows = math.ceil(count / columns)

    fig = plt.figure(figsize=figure_size)
    subplots = []
    for index in range(count):
        subplots.append(fig.add_subplot(rows, columns, index + 1))
        if len(titles):
            subplots[-1].set_title(str(titles[index]))
        plt.imshow(np_images[index])

    plt.show()

A: You can also do this:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

f, axarr = plt.subplots(1, len(imgs))
for i, img in enumerate(imgs):
    axarr[i].imshow(img)

plt.suptitle("Your title!")
plt.show()

A: def plot_figures(figures, nrows=None, ncols=None):
    if not nrows or not ncols:
        # Plot figures in a single row if grid not specified
        nrows = 1
        ncols = len(figures)
    else:
        # check minimum grid configured
        if len(figures) > nrows * ncols:
            raise ValueError(f"Too few subplots ({nrows*ncols}) specified for ({len(figures)}) figures.")

    fig = plt.figure()

    # optional spacing between figures
    fig.subplots_adjust(hspace=0.4, wspace=0.4)

    for index, title in enumerate(figures):
        plt.subplot(nrows, ncols, index + 1)
        plt.title(title)
        plt.imshow(figures[title])
    plt.show()

Any grid configuration (or none) can be specified as long as the product of the number of rows and the number of columns is equal to or greater than the number of figures.
For example, for len(figures) == 10, these are acceptable
plot_figures(figures)
plot_figures(figures, 2, 5)
plot_figures(figures, 3, 4)
plot_figures(figures, 4, 3)
plot_figures(figures, 5, 2)

A: import numpy as np

def save_image(data, ws=0.1, hs=0.1, sn='save_name'):
    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
    m = n = int(np.sqrt(data.shape[0])) # (36, 1, 32, 32)

    fig, ax = plt.subplots(m,n, figsize=(m*6,n*6))
    ax = ax.ravel()
    for i in range(data.shape[0]):
        ax[i].matshow(data[i,0,:,:])
        ax[i].set_xticks([])
        ax[i].set_yticks([])

    plt.subplots_adjust(left=0.1, bottom=0.1, right=0.9,
                        top=0.9, wspace=ws, hspace=hs)
    plt.tight_layout()
    plt.savefig('{}.png'.format(sn))

data = np.load('img_test.npy')

save_image(data, ws=0.1, hs=0.1, sn='multiple_plot')

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Sun, Sand & Suds: Panama City Beach celebrates Oktoberfest
Tony Simmons News Herald Writer @PCNHTonyS
PANAMA CITY BEACH — Get your fill of beer and brats at the beach this weekend as the Panama City Beach Oktoberfest returns.
Last year's Oktoberfest — only the second annual one — was canceled in the aftermath of Hurricane Michael, as so many area hotels and condos were taken over by first responders, displaced homeowners and emergency crews helping to restore utilities, remove fallen trees and otherwise drag the county back from the brink of destruction. During that time, the traffic volume along Panama City Beach Parkway was well above average with the daily flow of first responder vehicles and supplies passing through the city to the hard-hit areas of Panama City and eastern Bay County moving at a snail's pace.
But traffic — and the kegs — will flow freely this weekend.
The third annual festivities will be based at Aaron Bessant Park, 500 W. Park Drive, Panama City Beach, beside Pier Park. This event is positioned on 17 acres of luscious green grass, with sidewalks, shade trees, park benches, and air-conditioned restrooms, organizers added.
The park opens Friday at 4 p.m., and the Kids Zone will be open 4-9 p.m. Live music will be provided by Beatrice & Derrol at 5 p.m., and Krankenhaus will play at 6 and 9 p.m. The ceremonial Tapping of the Keg will take place at 6 p.m., with a Stein Hoisting contest at 8:30 p.m. The park closes Friday and Saturday at 11 p.m.
Saturday's celebration starts at noon, when the park opens. Live music will be by Beatrice & Derrol at 12:30, 2:15 and 6:15 p.m.; Krankenhaus at 1, 3 and 5 p.m.; and Heritage at 7:15 and 8:45 p.m. Contests will include a Stein Race at 12:45 p.m., Tug of War at 3:45 p.m., Best Beard at 4:15 p.m., and Stein Hoisting at 8:30 p.m.
The park will open at 11 a.m. Sunday. Music will be by Beatrice & Derrol at noon and 2:45 p.m.; and Cline Street at 1:30, 3 and 4:30 p.m. Contests include Tug of War at 1 p.m. and Stein Hoisting at 3:30 p.m. The park closes at 5 p.m.
Each day, activities will include ongoing corn hole/bean bag games, face painting, a vendor and arts/crafts area, a photo booth with various props, and blowup/bounce attractions for children.
Ticket prices change on Oct. 4. Before that date, the three-day general admission adult tickets are $15; three-day Stein and Beer Pass is $40; Friday VIP pass is $55; Saturday VIP pass is $59; Sunday VIP pass is $55; and three-day VIP pass is $139. Note: Additional fees are also charged when buying advance tickets from the website, PCBOkotoberFest.com.
Beatrice and Derrol bring more than just an authentic sound when they play.
"We are a husband and wife duo," said Derrol, who met his musical and life partner, Beatrice, while he was stationed in Germany with the U.S. Army. "We got married in Mannheim and moved to Panama City Beach in 2007."
Beatrice grew up in Bavaria and has been playing the accordion since third grade. Derrol plays the bass and sometimes an Alp horn. Together, they perform traditional Bavarian, German and American songs. Find out more at Facebook.com/BeatriceAndDerrol.
"We wear Dirndl and Lederhosen (traditional Bavarian garb) and have performed at a variety of events in Florida, Alabama, Georgia and even Nashville," Derrol said. "Prost!"
Cline Street is the duo of Anne Cline and Jarrett Street. Cline is a triple threat on stage as she sings, plays guitar and keyboards, accompanied by Street on drums. They've made a name for themselves by playing almost constant gigs all over the area in recent months. More details are at Facebook.com/ClineStreetMusic.
Heritage, based in Okaloosa County, broke into the pop/reggae scene in 2009 with their debut album, "Natural High." They bring a message of fun, positivity and high-energy, according to online posts. The group has headlined hundreds of shows and served as opening support for national acts including ZZ Top, 311, Ballyhoo and others. The band includes Tony Verrecchia, Hunter Dawson, Matt Moore, Jamah Terry and Billy Kernen. They'll be at the Destin Seafood Festival on Sunday after playing PCB's Oktoberfest on Saturday. Find out more at Facebook.com/HeritageBand1.
A local Oktoberfest mainstay, and formerly a regular part of the Hoffbrau entertainment until that restaurant closed, Krankenhaus is comprised of Randy Watson on keyboards and vocals, Joe Fucci on drums and cymbals and Luke Pinegar on trumpet, sax and accordion. The band was featured at downtown Panama City's Oktoberfest on Sept. 28, and they'll play the Nashville Oktoberfest in Tennessee on Oct. 10-12. Learn more at Facebook.com/Krankenhaus.
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