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Inside Cuba’s Intense Ice Cream Obsession
In a country that’s dealt with decades of rationing, ice cream is the public luxury. Sit down for your 15-scoop serving
>Inside Cuba’s Intense Ice Cream Obsession
Coppelia is the city's best-known ice cream parlor. Fidel Castro commissioned it in the early days of the Revolution, and while Havana is full of buildings that evoke faded glory and eroded optimism, Coppelia is a particularly vivid example. Castro was inspired to create the shop, which bears strong resemblance to a modernist cathedral, after his first official visits to the United States, where he was turned on to American ice cream and its abundance of flavors. As with baseball, Castro seems to have been both impressed by Cuba's imperialist neighbor and determined to surpass it. Built on the site of a former hospital, Coppelia was made to accommodate 1,000 guests at a time and served up 26 different flavors of ice cream in its early years. Today, beneath its soaring arches and stained glass windows you're lucky to be able to choose among three, due to the shortages Cuba has been dealing with since various expansions of the American embargo, and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
But the number of available flavors doesn't seem to deter Habaneros. The usual order is an ensalada—an oval-shaped yellow plastic bowl containing five scoops, perhaps with caramel sauce and crushed cookies on top—and most people order three of them. These 15 scoops will be polished off in about 15 minutes, after which another ensalada might be ordered and consumed with equal speed. Many customers bring plastic buckets, ranging in capacity from two to five pints, and before leaving order more ice cream to go, squashing as many scoops as possible into their containers. As I found out when I went to HeladerĂa Ward, a large ice cream parlor with 30-foot ceilings out by the Coliseo de la Ciudad Deportiva sports stadium, people look at you askance if you only order a single ensalada. Ask for the next size down—tres gracias, three scoops—and your tablemates will assume there's been a misunderstanding and try to correct your order.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton%27s_career_in_corporate_governance#Lafarge_(1990%E2%80%931992)
https://www.sevendaysvt.com/news/vermonters-to-hillary-dont-tread-on-us-2128540
Vermonters to Hillary: Don't Tread on Us
Clinton might find herself in yet another North Country environmental battle, which has received virtually no media attention in Vermont. A cement plant in Ravena, New York, about 10 miles south of Albany, is seeking permission from the DEC to burn tires at its facility, too. Lafarge North America, the French-based owner of the Ravena plant, is the largest cement manufacturer in North America. The company recently applied for a permit to burn 4.8 million tires a year in its two cement kilns.
Although Hudson Valley environmentalists haven't had an opportunity to weigh in on that permit application, they are closely watching its progress. The reason: Apparently, Lafarge hasn't been a very eco-friendly neighbor.
Peter Jung is president of Friends of Hudson, a citizens group based in Hudson, N.Y. According to Jung, Friends of Hudson recently conducted a detailed analysis of Lafarge's air-quality reports to the DEC and found 483 "compliance deviations" since the company bought the plant in 2001. In its first year alone, according to Friends of Hudson, Lafarge was fined $276,000 by the DEC for "major permit violations." As a result, Friends of Hudson fears that burning old tires there could create even more air-quality headaches.
Susan Falzon, Friends of Hudson's deputy director, notes that incinerating tires runs contrary to New York's scrap-tire management plan, which calls for finding more responsible ways to dispose of old treads. Nevertheless, she fears that letting two industrial facilities burn tires in the North Country could be viewed by some as a quick fix to that state's tire glut. "The truth is, New York, like almost every other state, is willing to take the easy way out," Falzon says. "Sometimes it's easier to get someone to burn tires than to get someone to do something useful with them."
For his part, Jung couldn't say whether or not a DEC approval of the International Paper application in Ticonderoga would affect the Lafarge application in Ravena – they are two separate industries and use different incineration processes and pollution-control technologies. That said, however, "Lafarge would be delighted if Ticonderoga got their permit because that sort of opens the door and creates a precedent," he says.
So far, Senator Clinton hasn't taken a public stance on Lafarge's tire-burn application. But a corporate spokesperson confirmed last week that she sat on the Lafarge Corporation's board of directors between 1990 and 1992. Should Clinton come out in support of that tire burn as well, enviros on both sides of Lake Champlain say they'll be laying tracks to her front door.
https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19920505&slug=1490107
Hillary Clinton Quits 3 Boards To Work Full Time On Campaign
Hillary Clinton announced yesterday that she is resigning her seat on the boards of directors of three companies because she is working full time on the presidential campaign of her husband, Bill Clinton.
In doing so, she is giving up a significant portion of the couple's income. Last year, Hillary Clinton reported earning $60,700 from being a director of Wal-Mart, TCBY Enterprises and LaFarge Corp. This was far more than Clinton's $35,000-a-year salary as Arkansas governor and more than a quarter of their $235,000 total income.
Hillary Clinton was paid about $110,000 as a partner in a Little Rock law firm. An aide said she will remain a member of the law firm and of some nonprofit boards.
Clinton said she decided to resign after concluding "that my full-time participation in my husband's presidential campaign prevents me from fulfilling my responsibilities as a director of these public companies."
Clinton joined the board of Wal-Mart, the nation's largest discount retail chain, in 1986. She joined TCBY Enterprises, a yogurt manufacturing and franchise firm, in 1989 and LaFarge, the U.S.-based arm of a French concrete company, in 1990.
Top executives of Wal-Mart and TCBY, both based in Arkansas, have made donations to her husband's races for governor.
https://archive.is/IedtI
THE CLINTONS' FINANCES: A REFLECTION OF THEIR STATE'S POWER STRUCTURE
Another corporate board seat came Hillary Clinton's way in 1990 when she became a $31,000-a-year director of Lafarge Corp., a cement manufacturing firm. Edward Tuck, a board member, said he recommended Clinton as Lafarge's first female director because he was impressed with her work on a nonprofit project on children. Lafarge, based in Reston, Va., and owned by a French firm, does no business in Arkansas.
>Hillary Clinton became director of Lafarge Corp., a cement manufacturing firm.
<Edward Tuck recommended Clinton as Lafarge's first female director because he was impressed with her work on a nonprofit project on children.
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/vice-media-to-stop-publishing-on-vice-com-plans-to-cut-hundreds-of-jobs-1121c8d1
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/business/vices-new-layoffs.html
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/vice-cease-publishing-layoff-hundreds-ceo-1235919843/
https://www.thedailybeast.com/vice-medias-new-ownership-plans-to-layoff-hundreds-of-workers-report
https://nypost.com/2024/02/21/media/buzzfeed-lays-off-16-of-its-workforce-sells-complex/
HuffPost parent Buzzfeed lays off 16% of its workforce, sells Complex
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