Craftsmen like Mazzuccato were becoming a rarity in Murano. The island is synonymous with the intricate work most people refer to as Venetian glass. Craftsmen here have been making glass for a millennium. Local glassmakers estimate about half of Muranoâs glass now is made in China or elsewhere. The thousands who used to work in the glass industry have dwindled to hundreds. Even the industrial glass factories are shutting down.
After the birth of their first child, they started creating videos of average family life, and people loved them. Now, 2 million subscribers later, the Daily Bumps channel has reached more people than the Lannings ever could have imagined. Additionally, Missy and Bryan have their own channels dedicated to their hobbies and interests.
Weight Watchers had 3.4 million subscribers as of the third quarter -- the highest in half a decade. The company declined to release subscriber information for the years before 2012, but said that was the year it had the most subscribers ever. All vegetables and fruits became zero points in 2010, according to Weight Watchers. Alex Fuhrman, a senior research analyst at the Minneapolis-based institutional broker-dealer Craig-Hallum, said he thinks Weight Watchers wants to copy that success of the early 2010s by again changing point values of foods.