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When a wafer doesn’t meet standards — when it is cracked, broken, improperly embossed — it is tossed into a tall plastic bin next to the factory line. The company recycles these substandard wafers as local animal feed. “This is the countryside, so we have farms,” Iwai said with a shrug. The good wafers — smooth, intact, deeply and evenly embossed — move along the line. They are covered with cream, then sandwiched with another wafer and more cream. The arms of a huge, gentle machine with extraordinary fine-tuned motor functions do all the work of building the Kit Kat, smoothing the cream and pressing the wafer on top of it, then pass the large, sheet-cake-size sandwiches along a slow conveyor belt through a massive cooler. After they’re cut, four sheets at a time, the Kit Kats begin to look familiar, like ladyfingers.

Designing the “perfect” packaging operation solution for your business can be a daunting task. After all, there are many different types of equipment, materials and processes that can be combined in a seemingly infinite number of ways.  

We unearthed thousands of internal documents that help explain how the Islamic State stayed in power so long.

An earlier, unedited version of “Home Sweet Home” was published in error. It has been edited and republished. 

At least 100, 000 metric tonnes of illegal sugar were impounded in Eastleigh, Nairobi, a week ago. Another 2, 450 tons of contraband sugar worth Sh250 million was discovered in a warehouse belonging to Rai Paper in Webuye on Wednesday.

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.

Not surprisingly given the environment, the latest People Report Workforce Index also revealed that about 70 percent of restaurant companies reported an increase in their staffing difficulties for both restaurant hourly employees and managers.

Super Hiper Ácido (S.H.A.) is exactly as its name implies: sour. As in, maybe the most sour thing you’ve ever put in your mouth. Confiteca, the Ecuadorean company behind it, designed it for the extreme palates of Gen Z candy lovers. To make sure the sour flavor was enough of a challenge, Confiteca developed its own sour scale and declared that every Super Hiper Ácido product the company put on the market has to hit at least 90 out of 100. The S.H.A. brand of products now makes up about 42 percent of Confiteca’s exports and is popular in Saudi Arabia, Bolivia, United Arab Emirates, Panama and Israel.

He is putting his money into a lifetime Isa and “passive” tracker funds, which follow the stock market and charge low fees because they are not actively managed. He intends to buy a property in Manchester, rent it out and perhaps work abroad. “I enjoy my job for now, but things can change, and when I’m 30 or 35 I’d like to have the option of thinking: ‘Do you know what? Stuff it. I’m going to go and do something else.’ The goal is not retirement, but freedom to do whatever I want to do.”

“The Sanctity of Men’s Garments” told men how to dress to follow the path laid by Prophet Muhammad. Recovered in early 2017 in Al-Araji village by a Times employee traveling with Iraqi troops. It was also published online.

"They started to run into problems controlling all sets of different kinds of pests — weeds, insects and fungi," explained Justin Flaten, co-owner of JM Grain, a leading brokerage house for the sale of pulse crops in Montana and North Dakota, "And the quality of the soil started to go down. So there was a big push to look for something that would work in a crop rotation."

Ledgers, receipt books and monthly budgets describe how the militants monetized every inch of territory they conquered, taxing every bushel of wheat, every liter of sheep’s milk and every watermelon sold at markets they controlled. From agriculture alone, they reaped hundreds of millions of dollars. Contrary to popular perception, the group was self-financed, not dependent on external donors.