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In 1922, a married candy maker named Luisa Spagnoli decided she needed to do something with the leftover nuts at her chocolate factory. She put a whole hazelnut atop some milk chocolate whipped with chopped nuts and covered it in dark chocolate. The result looked like a fist, so she gave it the name cazzotto, or punch. But her lover, the son of her business partner who was 10 years her junior, decided that a box of punches didn’t really make a romantic gift. The two renamed it bacio, or kiss, in 1924. Since the 1930s, each piece has come wrapped in words from artists, writers and philosophers, supposedly a nod to the notes the two lovers would secretly pass each other.

I did find some people earning close to the national median who had retired early or were hoping to quit or reduce their hours of paid work. Ilyas (not his real name), a 35-year-old lecturer in the north of England who earns about £30,000 a year, believes it is possible to plan for Fire on that income. He has a wife – Ilyas calls her the “queen of frugality” – and two children, but has already paid off his mortgage, is saving 60% of his income and plans to go part-time within the next four years. He hopes to use his semi-retirement to write fiction. A Muslim, he isn’t permitted to use interest-bearing bank accounts, which makes reaching this position even more remarkable.

Form and fill equipment almost simultaneously forms and fills the bag with product. This option is available in both vertical and horizontal equipment to suit a variety of packaging needs, and is typically best for consumer packaged goods.

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Romaco (Karlsruhe, Germany), a global supplier of processing and packaging equipment predominantly for the pharmaceutical industry, introduced its new Unity 500 blister packaging line at the Achema 2018 tradeshow, which was held on June 11 to 15 in Frankfurt, Germany. This monobloc machine was showcased along with the Promatic PTT for seam track & trace and the new Promatic PAK 130 case packer. A compact, GMP-compliant design was a key priority for the fully integrated blister packaging line with a maximum output of 500 blisters and 150 cartons per minute. The Romaco Unity 500 is mainly intended for high-performance jobs at medium speeds.

Brakes will be looking into alternative materials for black plastic ready-meal trays and other packaging. It is also considering alternatives to plastic straws and cutlery. 

"When the product comes into our storage bins outside of the plant, everything is computer-controlled from that moment," Ty says. Daneen's younger brother, Calvin Hoff, an electrical engineer, started Amber Waves Integration in Fargo and designed and installed Stone Mill's sensor system.

There was the season of many sequined elephants – as a patient could not control her online shopping – and heaps of sweets that diabetics have bought, then felt too guilty to keep.

Over half of UK workers (57 percent) said the introduction of tech-led loyalty schemes that could offer more personalised deals would lead them to visit their workplace canteen more often. At present, only 15 percent of workplace canteens provide any sort of loyalty scheme to office workers.

Land represents the power of the person, Parisi explains. “You can say ‘All this land is mine,’ ” he says. He recalls how first their vines were burnt, then a field of lentils. “Then,” he chuckles, as if talking about a mischievous child, “we planted a wood, but they sent their sheep to graze there all the time so the plants never grew.”

"Most grain producers who have gotten into the rotation of peas and lentils are finding that their wheat is better," said Jeff VanPevenage, senior vice-president for Columbia Grain, one of the largest grain trading corporations in the Pacific Northwest. "Their weeds are more controllable, their diseases are more controllable and their overall soil environment is better."

For nearly 50 years, Bon Bon Bums have been produced in the Colombina factory in La Paila, north of Cali. At the start, 20 workers were responsible for the production of four million lollipops per month. Today, in that same factory, 200 workers produce more than 40 times as many.