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Financial advisers, who may feel threatened by the Fire community’s capacity for independent action, are largely dismissive of its approach. “People need to realise that we can’t have our cake and eat it,” Martin Stewart, director of the financial advice firm London Money, told the Daily Telegraph in September. “Sure, save half your salary, eat the roadkill, bin-dip, raid the charity shops, recycle everything, just stay in and actually read the T&Cs of things rather than waste money going out. From this you will create lots of savings, but sadly very few memories.”

The positive impact of Algramo can already be seen in the suburbs of Santiago, and in Barranquilla in Colombia, where Algramo are also operating. Alongside Moller I visited a few shops in the area of Recoleta and spoke to store owners who were proud to have Algramo vending machines in their shops, with many creating hand-written Algramo Sold Here signs to place outside their businesses.  ‘People like them’, the owner of Manolito store told me, ‘They look good and people enjoy getting the products. The machines are very easy to use too.’ Another shop owner explained how her shop had increased the footfall in her store, and upped her profile locally and even encouraged her to re-paint the front of the shop pink.

Machines — a mix of old and new — take over once the caramelo has set. One of the new machines might churn out small armies of bright red gummy bears, injecting them with candied syrups and bathing them in hot chocolate that will dry into a soft shell in seconds. This is the process for the Grissly ChocoSplash, a favorite among the workers on the factory floor. But even the old machines keeps precise, hypnotic movements, spitting out strings of molded candy at regular intervals. The candy fresh from one set of machines will then travel down moving belts, awaiting hand inspection. In gloves and protective glasses cinched over their hooded jumpsuits, workers add the final touches, discarding flawed specimens or steering the candies into the best position on the belt, almost ready to be packaged.

From near zero production in the 1980s, Montana now ranks as the nation's No. 1 producer of field peas and lentils, and the third largest producer of garbanzo beans. The combined value of these crops in 2013 exceeded $140 million. Montana's pulse harvest is now more valuable than its durum wheat production.

He divided his life into two phases – the working, earning, saving part and the living, creating, parenting part. “As a young engineer, I remember seeing what a challenge my older colleagues faced with having to divide their attention between their careers and their kids,” he says. “It seemed like they were not able to give their full efforts to either endeavour. So, I decided to focus purely on my work for that period of my life, and then focus on being a dad for the 18 years thereafter. I’m currently on year 13 of the second project.” He and his wife divorced recently, but he says they are “still very close co-parents”.

There are tiny gifts, too. A smooth pebble. A coupon for a free hamburger. A muffin. Greek pastries. Halloween candy (the molasses kisses that nobody likes). Lots of Timbits. A ballpoint pen. Home-recorded Indian veena music, installed on my computer by the veena virtuoso so I can listen any time. A crystal frog and then a crystal owl to join him. An aloe vera plant, fridge magnets, homemade Italian biscotti (given in perpetual gratitude for a house call I made one Christmas Eve) – presents that demand to be opened in front of the proud giver, and others that my staff and I can take home to share.

Packaging takes center stage—in the environment, and in consumer communication. Soliciting consumer trust through values conveyed on product packaging and, in some cases, the material of which it's made, will be more visible in the coming year. 

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They deemed the records to be original, based on the markings, logos and stamps, as well as the names of government offices. The terminology and design were consistent with those found on documents issued by the group in other parts of the caliphate, including as far afield as Libya.

David Roberge is the marketing manager at Industrial Packaging (industrialpackaging.com), a multi-service flexible packaging supplier and contract packager based in Massachusetts. Roberge enjoys learning about the psychology behind consumer packaging, and sharing the knowledge that he and the team at Industrial Packaging has gained over their 65 years in business. Roberge has written over 150 blogs covering flexible packaging topics that range from upcoming design trends to packaging line automation. He has also developed multiple eBooks and free tools to help manufacturers and distributors reduce operating costs and positively impact revenue growth with flexible packaging.

I will receive many scarves. Some are tenderly crafted from scraps of that plastic wool they make from recycled garbage bags. Others are elegant: a pashmina, the same pashmina and another lovely pashmina almost the same as the other pashminas. Plus the most exquisite hand-knit creation from an HIV sufferer, laced and studded with hundreds of tiny pearl beads appliquéd by hand. Patients crochet huge afghans for my cozy nest in front of the TV at home. They know I’ll be muttering about the cold soon, they crochet socks and slippers and a tiny purple jacket for my iPhone.

The final link of the food chain is restaurants and eateries, which provide the principal channel for money laundering. An estimated 5,000 restaurants in Italy are in the hands of the Mob, according to the Observatory. In Rome and Milan, clans are estimated to own one in five.