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Corporate Member News
Accenture Highlights Work with WEConnect International in New Report
(March 31, 2015) Member corporation Accenture released its 2014 Corporate Sustainability Report this week with a section on its efforts to build more inclusive and diverse supply chains. The report highlights Accenture's collaboration with WEConnect International to create opportunities for women business owners across all continents in countries including Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, the Netherlands, Nigeria, South Africa, Turkey, and the United Kingdom.
Did you know WEConnect International certified women's business enterprise Mamma Bella boasts Accenture as one of its many corporate clients?
Did you know Accenture supported three business innovation training workshops in Nigeria in 2014?
Did you know WEConnect International certified women's business enterprise Gradus Engineers has imporved the indorr air quality of Accenture's workfloors in India with noadditional energy consumption?
Sodexo Recognized at 2014 Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting for Supporting Small to Medium Size Enterprises with $1 Billion in Purchases of Products and Services By 2017
On September 22, 2014, Sodexo announced its official Commitment to Action at the 10th Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting in New York today. The commitment supports the growth of small to medium sized enterprises (SME) with a pledge to purchase products and services totaling $1billion by 2017. The Commitment to Action aims to benefit as many as 5,000 small businesses in 40 countries including the U.S., with 1,500 of those businesses being women owned and operated.
WEConnect will specifically work with Sodexo in supporting women-owned businesses in targeted countries including UK, Canada, Australia, Peru, Chile, and India.
Co-Board Chair Michael Robinson Receives Ronald H. Brown Leadership Award
Board Co-Chair Michael Robinson has received the U.S. Department of Commerce's Minority Business Development Agency's Ronald H. Brown Leadership Award for his exceptional leadership and significant success in creating diversity in the private sector.
Robinson is Program Director, Global Supplier Diversity for IBM's Integrated Supply Chain. He is responsible for leading IBM's supplier diversity initiatives worldwide. In this role, he and his team, focus on the utilization, development and mentoring of diverse suppliers who can provide value-add to IBM's Supply Chain. Robinson's team is also responsible for IBM's Supplier Connection initiative, which provides small businesses access to large corporations.
Under Robinson's leadership, IBM has been selected for numerous awards such as Corporation of the Year by the NMSDC, one of the Top Corporations by WBENC, received the Francis Perkins Van Guard Award by the SBA, CMSDC Corporation of the Year, NY/NJ MSDC Corporation of the Year, Michigan MBC IT Corporation of the Year, one of Asian Enterprises Top Corporations, and one of DiversityBusiness.com's Top Corporations to name a few. IBM spent in excess of $2Billion, 1st Tier, annually worldwide with diverse enterprises since 2006 and in excess of $1B, 1st Tier, annually with diverse enterprises in the U.S. since 2000.
Robinson's IBM experience has spanned various disciplines. His previous positions include: Manufacturing Manager, Procurement and Production Control Manager in Charlotte, NC; Distribution Manager in Boulder, CO; ECAT Site Procurement Manager in Charlotte, NC; Materials Manager in San Jose, CA; Business Services Council Chair in Charlotte, NC and Federal Procurement Manager in Bethesda, MD.
Robinson attended the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia; received his BS from Cheyney University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and his MBA from Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia.
A Q&A with Fernando J. Hernandez, Supplier Diversity Director, Microsoft Corporation
May 12, 2014 - Fernando J. Hernandez is Supplier Diversity Director for Microsoft Corporation, a WEConnect International Corporate Member. In this capacity, he drives the company's strategies to achieve supplier diversity objectives. He is responsible for Microsoft's $2 billion annual Supplier Diversity initiative.
Prior to joining Microsoft, Hernandez served as Senior Vice President of Multicultural Marketing Strategy for Washington Mutual Bank, where he established, developed, and implemented comprehensive multicultural marketing initiatives. Previously, he had served as Executive Director of Multicultural Marketing with AT&T. Hernandez was the first to establish and implement multicultural business to business and consumer marketing at AT&T in 1991.
He holds a degree in Accounting from Saint Peter's College and his Masters in Information Systems from Stevens Institute of Technology. He studied at the Wharton School of Business and is the recipient of various awards and recognitions, including the 2011 Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
On May 21st, Hernandez will be honored in New York City with the Robert M. Stuart Leadership Award at the gala of the National Minority Supplier Development Council.
Hernandez sat down with WEConnect International to talk about his achievements, diversity and inclusion and the empowerment of women.
1) How did you personally become interested in diversity and inclusion?
I have been interested in this area all my life. I grew up in Union City, New Jersey, and I went to school in Jersey City. It was very evident to me. Diversity was all around. I am a product of diverse environments and I have always felt comfortable in these settings.
2) How did your professional career arc in diversity and inclusion develop?
I ran and started multicultural marketing effort in 1991 in AT&T. For 14 years. I had done very well in international sales at AT&T and as a consequence of that I was asked to start a multicultural marketing group. Basically AT&T was trying to figure it out. First it was ethnic, then international, and it eventually became multicultural marketing. It was focused within the US. I jumped into it early on and enjoyed it immensely. I had the opportunity to learn about the diverse groups in this country. I took the business to consumer side from zero to a $2 billion annual business over the course of 8 to 10 years. I came to market at a great time. It was the right place at the right time. The experience was rewarding and gave me a really good understanding and appreciation on how to do business in these markets.
By chance I met the person who was leading the supplier diversity efforts at AT&T. I took over it over and did that for about 2 years.
Then I was recruited by Washington Mutual to be Senior Vice President of Multicultural Marketing and Chief Diversity Officer. It was really a great opportunity because it was both, looking inwards and outwards. I was able to design strategies to penetrate markets and enhance our diversity within.
I came to Microsoft in 2006 because there was an opportunity to lead the Supplier Diversity program. It was an exciting opportunity with a global leader in technology and within a sector that could use a little diversity. At that time Microsoft had $622 million a year in overall spend in the U.S. Tim McBride, the Microsoft executive who brought me in, challenged me to reach $1 billion in three years and become a member of the Billon Dollar Roundtable. I made it my goal to reach the billion in two years, and I accomplished that objective. As we close in on year end in June, I anticipate doing $2 billion in spend.
The supplier diversity goals for the global markets are different. We are respectful of the Microsoft entities in each of the different markets. They set up their own goals and I support their efforts. At the end of the day it is up to them to engage in meaningful ways. They know their markets.
3) Why should the private sector focus on diversity and inclusion in its supply chains?
From my perspective it's linear. We see the opportunity and the opportunity is global. The intent at Microsoft Corporation is to take diversity global. It's part of the overall strategy.
4) Why support women?
Supporting women is common sense. Women in emerging markets have made such an impact in the development of families and communities. They are the huge catalysts for change.
Empowering women also makes great business sense. We are looking at enabling the next 1 billion people who currently don't have access to our different platforms, and a substantial number of those are women. Our strategy is to pursue the next 1 billion globally and reach it with devices and software.
5) What does this honor mean to you?
It is always humbling and pleasing to receive this type of recognition. It is gratifying to get awards and to see the transformative change that we bring about. At the same time, I recognize I had to do more, we all have to do more. What I am going to do is see the best way that I can continue serve society and go in that direction. I believe you can do anything you think you want to do. I don't believe in limitations. I love what I do now and know that I will always support in some way, shape or form.
WEConnect International Corporate Partners Shine in Celebration of Diversity
April 24, 2014 - Numerous WEConnect International corporate members were recognized as leaders in diversity and inclusion at the announcement dinner of the 2014 DiversityInc Top 50 list on April 22nd in New York City.
WEConnect International members making the Top 50 are Sodexo (2nd), EY (3rd), MasterCard (6th), Johnson & Johnson (9th), ATT (10th), Accenture (12th), Merck (14th), Cummins (15th), Marriott International (16th), IBM (23rd ),WellPoint (29th), Dell (32nd Coca-Cola (33rd), Wyndham Worldwide (39th), and Verizon (43rd).
Near 800 business executives attended the event, which also featured the announcement of the 12 2014 Specialty Lists. Of the Top Ten Companies for Supplier Diversity list, the first five are WEConnect International corporate members --ATT, Wyndham Worldwide, WellPoint, EY and Hilton Worldwide. Additionally, Marriott International is 7th and Accenture occupies the 9th position.
The dinner was preceded by a best practices program at the Museum of American Finance. Some 300 participants took in presentations from Nielsen, Time Warner, EY, Deloitte, Wyndham Worldwide, AT&T, Walmart, PricewaterhouseCoopers and other corporate giants.
This is the 14th year that DiversityInc, a leading organization specializing in diversity, has released its ranking of public and private companies on their commitment to workplace diversity.
Congratulations to all of the companies recognized for their diversity and inclusion efforts!
Photo: Sheri Shafir, Associate Director, Supplier Diversity, Novartis; Michael Tobolski, Director of Corporate Relations, WEConnect International, Elizabeth Vazquez, CEO and Co-Founder, WEConnect International.
New Corporations Join the Growing WEConnect International Community
March 21, 2014 - Insurance giant AIG, financial powerhouse Access Bank, and pharma industry leader Merck have joined WEConnect International's corporate community as Global Members.
Banco Nacional, the largest bank in Central America, came on board as a local member in Costa Rica.
Merck expanded its engagement from its local membership in Canada and Europe, while the three other corporations are beginning the relationship with WEConnect International.
"We are delighted to welcome AIG, Access Bank, Merck, and Banco Nacional," said Elizabeth A. Vazquez, CEO and Founder of WEConnect International. "We are confident they will make invaluable contributions to further our mission and we look forward to working with them," she added.
The moves underscore the commitment of these organizations to integrate diversity and inclusion into their sourcing and procurement processes.
"In a global marketplace, we know that diversity – of people, ideas, and skills – is essential for us to continue building our competitive advantage," Robert Benmosche, AIG President and CEO, said in a statement published on the company's website.
"At Merck, we are committed to inclusion," noted Quentin Roach, Chief Procurement Officer and Senior Vice President Global Procurement. "This fosters a solid and inclusive supply-base that is reliable, innovative and cost-effective," he added.
State owned Banco Nacional of Costa Rica is the largest bank in Central America. It employs a workforce of almost 5,000 and has a network of over 170 branches.


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Horror and Empathy: My Response to a Gory Passion Play
Wilson, Eric G., The Christian Century
A COUPLE YEARS ago I bought tickets to The Thorn, a modern Passion play. It was being performed at the Seacoast Church in North Charleston, South Carolina. I drove there from my home in North Carolina on Good Friday. It was curiosity more than piety that impelled me.
I had recently read an article by Patton Dodd criticizing contemporary Passion dramas, such as The Thorn, for being excessively violent. In the essay, published in Slate, Dodd shows how these plays, like Mel Gibson's film The Passion of the Christ, depict extremely gory tortures that have little basis in scripture. He is troubled by such lurid sensationalism. He sees it as a manifestation of our culture's hunger for macabre visual thrills, regardless of ethical considerations.
I took my Easter journey to test Dodd's conclusion. I wondered: Is exaggerated violence in Passion plays merely a product of our baser natures? Or does the savagery actually have a proper place in the crucifixion's meaning?
My expectations for The Thorn, both theological and aesthetic, were not high. I assumed that the production would be an unintentionally campy rendering of the crucifixion, with bad acting, worse costumes and inflated seriousness. Brought up in a small, rural Southern Baptist church, I had seen one too many dramas in the Lord's house, always amateurish and mawkish. I also feared that contemporary Christian music would pervade the play, and I cringed at the thought of enduring canned rock of the Stryper metal band variety or the peppy sanctimonious croonings of Amy Grant wannabees.
My wife Sandi and I drove into the parking lot of the Seacoast Church, a classic evangelical megachurch, as much sports arena as place of worship. Milling about outside were men dressed as Roman soldiers. The costumes were pretty bad--Spartacus-worthy sword-and-sandal garb.
The men were in character, strutting about, attempting to look imperiously cruel. In the lobby were more of the same--folks in robes, vestures, head cloths and sandals, behaving like extras in bloated Hollywood Easter films from the Technicolor sixties. Sandi and I were led by an usher (from the 21st century) into a darkened theater, large enough to hold hundreds. We sat and waited. The place was soon packed. The audience was tense.
Onto the stage limped an old man: John the Evangelist. Between lame slapstick routines and corny jokes, he narrated the story of Jesus. As he recounted the episodes, they were acted out, in dumb show, on the large stage. Occasionally singers on high platforms located in the background burst into songs commenting on the events.
Satan--bald, muscular, his torso painted sickly white--hovered on the margins, demons by his side. When a scene called for it, he sprang into action, tormenting Judas or tempting Jesus. Angels countered, appearing either in the form of buff young martial artists or as acrobats descending, by ribbons and hoops, from the rafters.
The devil was not the play's true terror; the torturing of the Savior was. After Pilate condemns him, Jesus endures the compulsory scourging. He is tied to a pillar. A Roman soldier, flushed with sadistic glee, flogs his prisoner's back into a grotesque crisscross of simulated blood. Jesus writhes and collapses, is held up, beaten down again, over and over.
The crucifixion was even more distressing. Jesus carried his cross through the audience. The crown-of-thorns punctures went all the way to his skull. Blood saturated his flesh. He staggered under his burden. Once he reached the stage, the Roman soldiers laid the cross on the ground. They forced Jesus down. They slowly and loudly drove in the nails and then stood the cross upright. There was Jesus, caked in gore, sinews ripping, reduced to an agonized and desperate gasping.
During the early parts of the play, I couldn't help mocking aspects of the drama: John's stupid jokes, the hyperbolic caricatures of evil, Jesus' efforts to look sensitive and blessed, the treacly Christian rock (Hall and Oates gone evangelical). …

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'Take On Me' was a huge hit, but its birth was a difficult one, taking three years, three versions and a pioneering video to finally give A-ha their first chart success.
If at first you don't succeed...' That was the credo for 'Take On Me', the synth‑pop classic by the Norwegian trio A‑ha that topped the Billboard Hot 100 and reached number two in the UK in the autumn of 1985. You see, this only happened after three different versions had been recorded, two of those versions had been released (the second of them twice in the UK) and two completely different videos had been filmed to promote them.
Rewind to September 1982, when guitarist Pål Waaktaar and keyboardist Magne ('Mags') Furuholmen, who had previously played together in a four‑piece band called Bridges, recruited singer Morten Harket from an outfit named Souldier Blue to form A‑ha. The first number the two played Harket was 'The Juicy Fruit Song', which they themselves had composed, and with Harket's input this then evolved into 'Lesson One' after the trio relocated to the UK in early 1983. That April, they began recording demos of other original material at Rendezvous Studios, a facility in Sydenham, South-East London, that belonged to musician and producer John Ratcliff. (Furuholmen initially booked time there because he read it had a Space Invaders machine.) In turn, Ratcliff introduced A‑ha to music publisher Terry Slater, and the two men subsequently signed the group to their specially formed company, TJ Management, and, in December 1983, secured a record deal with Warner Brothers.
The following April, techno buff and synth expert Tony Mansfield was hired to produce what would be A‑ha's debut album, Hunting High & Low, but after six weeks of sessions at Pete Townshend's Eel Pie Recording Studios in Twickenham, South London, the Warner Bros execs weren't happy with the results. To their mind, the magic of the Rendezvous demos had disappeared and, with it, A‑ha's prominently featured vocal sound. So producer‑engineer Neill King was then called in to largely re‑record the material.
"I had worked many times at Eel Pie, and it was after A‑ha had been recording there with Tony Mansfield for a good few weeks that I received a call from the studio manager, telling me Tony was leaving the project," King recalls. "I wasn't told why, but they wanted to know if I would come in. They had done all of the programmed drums and some synths, and since I had engineered there and knew the room, they wanted me to work on the bed tracks, overdubbing guitars, vocals, backing vocals and some extra synths, and then do the mix."
While John Ratcliff supervised the sessions by way of periodic appearances, he basically let the group work with King, who sat behind an SSL E-series console while using a Studer A800 to record the album's songs to two‑inch tape. By now, 'Lesson One' was titled 'Take On Me'.
"All of the tapes I worked on for 'Take On Me' were from Eel Pie," King continues, "and they kept a lot of the synth bits from Tony Mansfield's work, but nearly everything else was re‑cut from scratch. I'd say Pål was the main technology guy, and we worked long hours, cranking out the overdubs. You get a feel for when a band has something special going for it — A‑ha knew they were really hot, so it was just a matter of getting their music across. The melody, the lyrics, the whole sound of the thing just gelled.
"The songs were really interesting and Morten's voice was so different in terms of his delivery. The way he sang was pretty dynamic. I miked him with a Beyer 201 and a [Neumann] FET 47 placed directly next to each other. Pål, meanwhile, was mainly playing a Gibson 335, but his guitar wasn't really to the fore, and then there was the Synclavier from which everything was sequenced. This was used as the drum machine; a mixture of synthesized and live samples courtesy of Tony Mansfield. The Synclavier was the first synth that grooved a little more following the first generation of drum machines. In terms of effects, there was a lot of reverb going around and we slammed the hell out of a Lexicon 224X and AMS RMX16. There was also an RMX15 for stereo delay. Classic '80s stuff..."
As recorded by Neill King, 'Take On Me' was eventually released as a single in October 1984, and, promoted by a straightforward, relatively unimaginative video of the band performing the number against a blue background, sold just 300 copies worldwide while peaking at number 137 on the UK chart. Still, Warner Brothers' head office in the US believed in both the band and the song, and so, in early 1985, proven hit‑maker Alan Tarney was called in to revamp the track.
"More than a year earlier, I had actually been approached by Warner Brothers and A‑ha's manager Terry Slater to do the whole album," Tarney says. "At that time, the band were still working at John Ratcliff's studio in Sydenham, so I went to see them there and they did a live performance in front of us all. They were fresh into the country and they were using the down‑time in that studio, working through the night, as other people were using it during the day. That's where I heard the original version of 'Take On Me'.
"For some reason, after it had been agreed that I would produce the album, it turned out I couldn't do it. So I told Terry Slater this and, at that point, he brought in Tony Mansfield. Then, nine months to a year later, Warner Brothers Records contacted me to say they weren't totally happy with 'Take On Me' and asked if I would consider going into the studio to cut that one single with the band. They had reached the limit of their budget, but Warners wanted the song to sound the best it possibly could, and they were willing to go over‑budget to get it right. I was actually involved with David Cassidy's Romance album at that time, so I took a day off and the boys came down to RG Jones in Wimbledon, which is where I was working, and we recorded and mixed the entire song there."
"To my mind, the original version of 'Take On Me' that the boys themselves had recorded in Sydenham with John Ratcliff was the hit version, and they appeared to have then gone around the houses a bit with Tony Mansfield and Neill King," Tarney now asserts. "The Tony Mansfield version employed a Fairlight and it just didn't sound like A‑ha at all. So all I did was recreate the original demo, the one from Sydenham. That was the one that had all the charm. Its ingredients were good — nothing was really wrong, other than it just didn't quite sound like a finished record. It wasn't polished enough and there was no finesse to it."
"I remember thinking the demo sounded really, really good, whereas that and the Tony Mansfield recording were worlds apart," adds Gerry Kitchingham, who engineered the RG Jones sessions. "I'd actually worked with Tony on another project, so I knew what to expect even before I pressed the 'play' button. At that time, he was totally a Fairlight man, and I can imagine why Warners felt his version wasn't quite right compared to the original demo that had all the charm."
Kitchingham spent his entire career at RG Jones, joining the South London facility shortly after he left school at age 15 in 1965 when it was still a small demo studio, and staying there through its halcyon era of the 1980s until it closed in 2002. By then, as the chief (and, for a long time, only) in‑house engineer, his recording credits included projects with Pulp, George Michael, the Moody Blues, Alvin Stardust, Iggy Pop and — in conjunction with Alan Tarney — David Cassidy, Cliff Richard and A‑ha.
"For all their teenybopper image, A‑ha were three fantastic musicians," Kitchingham says. "Normally, when it came to his productions Alan was a bit of a one‑man band and he would program his own drums, but Pål was amazing. The fine details of his drum programming were brilliant."
"When they came to RG Jones, my equipment was already there," adds Tarney. "This included a [Roland] Juno 60 that provided the song's main theme and which I still use, as well as a UMI computer system that a friend of mine put together, and which Vince Clark also used. That's what I used to drive the instruments, and there was a LinnDrum that Pål programmed. He was absolutely brilliant at doing that — I've never seen anyone as good as him at programming a Linn."
This is somewhat ironic in light of Neill King's aforementioned statement that, since the Linn was already outdated, he and the band had opted to use the Synclavier.
"I was still using the Linn in conjunction with my UMI," Tarney continues. "It worked for the boys and they loved that idea. It gave Pål the freedom to write these Linn Drum parts and he was brilliant at that. So, all of their musical ideas went through my equipment, and that meant I could then control the sounds that were being used and put them together exactly as I wanted them to be. There's a fine line between a demo and a record, but it's a crucial difference.
"Both Pål and Mags were very good instrumentalists — Mags was an excellent keyboard player. I remember them in the control room playing their [PPG] Wave keyboards and it was fantastic hearing them play at the same time. They were so energetic. A lot of the stuff that I needed to control came through the Juno and a [Yamaha] DX7, but then they played the Waves together and that's where the magic seemed to come from. It was a very atmospheric, live recording."
This was in marked contrast to the piecemeal approach taken at Eel Pie. Still, as at that studio, the console at RG Jones was a 48‑input E-series SSL, while the tape machine was a 24‑track Studer A80. Alan Tarney loved the fact that this equipment was housed within a fairly compact Eastlake room.
"As a musician, it was just fabulous to play in that control room," he says. "Not so much the studio itself. The control room was the main attraction, and so that's where Pål and Mags recorded their parts direct."
The 3:46 end result was far closer in terms of feel to the 3:19 Mansfield‑produced version of 'Take On Me' than the 3:10 King‑engineered version. Yet there are still some significant differences between the latter two and the version produced by Alan Tarney: namely, both Mansfield's and King's versions feature synth stabs and an assortment of incongruent sounds during the first part of the instrumental break; these two also have a much more abrupt ending than the synthesized fade‑out on Tarney's production; King's version has the most pop‑oriented synths; Tarney's has Harket's most hard‑edged vocal.
"In line with their original demo, Pål and Mags had everything pretty much worked out," Tarney says. "So it was just a matter of recording it right and putting it together in the best way possible."
"Alan really had it fairly easy producing that record," adds Gerry Kitchingham. "If anything, Tony Mansfield and Neill King had the harder job because they completely changed it, but all Alan had to do was duplicate the demo, remove the rough edges and tart up the sounds a bit. That's why it was quite a pleasure to record 'Take On Me' and it went like a dream. The boys were still fairly new to the studio, so we didn't get any prima donna behaviour — we liked them, they liked us, and they got on with the job and worked quite fast.
"Being that RG Jones was still 24‑track (soon after, we got a digital Mitsubishi 32‑track), we normally had to start by getting some sort of drum track down. Provided the tempo and the feel were right, that guide drum track would be fairly simple — not that 'Take On Me' required anything particularly complex — and I'd mix it on two tracks. The tape machine was run by SMPTE code, so it was locked to the programming instruments, and when it came to the mix Alan dialled up the drums live to save on tracks.
"After laying down the stereo guide drums, other guides were recorded, including Morten's vocal, and then we started to look at everything a little bit closer. Of course, because a lot of the track was programmed, there were times when Alan was busy creating a bass part or whatever with the boys and I'd be waiting for them to build things up from there. One of the things they did almost right away was to get the main riff sound with the Juno 60. He and the boys would experiment and go through sounds until they liked something, and then it would be a case of programming it, sometimes combining more than one sound by way of the MIDI'd synthesizers.
"As the albums went on and A‑ha's sound became more heavy, we'd start feeding synths into amplifiers and things like that. But in this case, because 'Take On Me' was relatively lightweight, all of the instruments were DI'd, and then we had a few effects of various kinds to go through, whether these were produced by my outboard gear or Alan's. This included a Lexicon 224 [reverb] for the vocal, as well as an AMS [delay] that enabled us to sample snare sounds and combine them with the Linn Drum sounds for more realism. You could get different quality chips for the Linn, and Alan would sometimes lift the lid, pull out the chips and put in some better ones that he could afford to buy. 'Take On Me' had a fairly standard Linn snare sound and I just remember compressing it quite heavily to get a very slappy feel. At the same time, while the quality of the Linn's snare, toms and kick drum was quite good, its cymbal sounds were a bit crappy — no high end. So Pål overdubbed real cymbals and possibly some hi‑hat in the studio, to add some clarity and get more of a live feel.
"Anyway, that's how we built up the track until it was time to do the vocals. We had quite a large studio area at RG Jones, and to cosy it up a bit for Morten we set up three large screens behind him; one directly behind, the other two angled in slightly. If I'd been using my microphone, it would have been a Neumann U87, but Alan had a valve Neumann U47 which we used on 'Take On Me', as well as a Neve microphone preamp and Neve equaliser. That valve 47 had a lovely sound, and I remember that when I heard Morten sing through that for the first time, the purity of his voice was amazing.
"As you can tell from the record, he had this incredibly strong falsetto and almost choir‑boyish clarity. In fact, as soon as I put up the mic and started pottering around I knew I wasn't going to have a problem getting a good sound on his voice. I was really impressed straight away. He's an excellent singer and, being fairly new to recording in professional studios, he wasn't too precious about the whole process. He just sang the song and accepted what we considered to be the master. Two or three albums later it would be a different story, with us spending so much longer recording his vocals and keeping everything. In this instance, he just sang through 'Take On Me' about four times, Alan and I told all three boys to take a break while we pieced the whole thing together, and we then got Morten back in to drop in a few small parts. He already knew the song and had such a great voice that it really didn't take long to record. I just added some reverb from the Lexicon 224, as well as repeat echo for the high falsetto bits and that was it."
"Morten had an exceptional voice with a quite amazing range," Tarney agrees. "He was very expressive in terms of how he sang, and he really did go for it. We didn't have to compile from many takes, but he was capable of doing so many different things that I did have to decide which was the right vocal to use. For the backing vocals, I sang with all three guys into the same mic, and all in all we spent maybe a day recording the song and then another day mixing it. Thanks to the David Cassidy project, we couldn't afford to give it any more time."
Time was also a factor with the sessions for 'The Sun Always Shines On TV', A‑ha's follow‑up single to 'Take On Me' which would top the UK chart, en route to selling over five million copies worldwide.
"That was a lovely bonus," Gerry Kitchingham says. "It was because everything went so well with 'Take On Me' that we then almost immediately worked on 'The Sun Always Shines On TV'. I'm pretty sure it was within the same week."
This all took place while Tarney and Kitchingham were working on 'The Last Kiss', the hit single that Tarney co‑composed with David Cassidy and which he then mixed with John Hudson at Mayfair Studios in northwest London.
"John and I mixed 'The Last Kiss' on the Saturday, and on the Sunday we mixed 'The Sun Always Shines On TV'," Tarney recalls. "In those days, I'd always record with Gerry Kitchingham at RG Jones and then I would usually go to Mayfair to mix with John Hudson. I just thought Mayfair had better monitoring for mixing. What's more, if I was at RG Jones I'd still be thinking of musical things to add. So it was nice to go somewhere else and just finish it. John did the mix of 'The Sun Always Shines', whereas Gerry did the mix of 'Take On Me', and that's because we were in the middle of recording 'The Last Kiss' at RG Jones when A‑ha came in to record 'Take On Me'. Since the boys were happy there, we decided to finish it at the same place. More than anything, it was a matter of time."
Indeed, in April 1985 Warner Brothers' head office in LA rushed to release the new version of 'Take On Me'. However, a half‑hearted campaign by the label's UK office ensured that the single still did nothing. And so it was that, courtesy of WEA exec Jeff Ayeroft, the head office demonstrated its impressive faith by shelling out $100,000 on a ground‑breaking new promo video that ended up taking four months to complete. Produced by Simon Fields of Limelight Productions, directed by Steve Barron, and animated by Michael Patterson and Candace Reckinger, utilising the combination of pencil‑sketch animation and live action known as rotoscoping, this romantic fantasy featured Morten Harket as a motorcycle‑racing hero who draws a girl (portrayed by Bunty Bailey) into his comic‑book world before finally joining her in real life.
Originally, another track from the Hunting High & Low album, 'Train Of Thought', had been designated to receive the rotoscope treatment. Reassigned to promote 'Take On Me', the video projected the single into the stratosphere following the album's release in June 1985. ('Train Of Thought' would subsequently be paired with Michael Patterson's art cartoon Commuter.) That September, as 'Take On Me' and the accompanying video climbed their respective charts in the US, the song was re‑released yet again in the UK, where it eventually peaked at number two for three weeks. In America, where the video had cannily been issued to dance clubs and MTV a full month before the single was made available to record stores and radio stations, it went all the way to number one and remained on the Billboard Hot 100 for 23 weeks. It was the same in Europe, where it topped the charts in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Holland, Italy, Sweden and Switzerland.
"We learned the massive difference between a [record] company that was completely together and had a focus and a company where that was not the case," singer Morten Harket commented in a 2009 TV interview. "We very quickly saw how important it is to have a record company behind you. You can be a great artist, but if you don't have good people around you, nothing is ever going to happen, really."
"When we were recording 'Take On Me', I had no idea it was going to be the hit it turned out to be," Gerry Kitchingham now admits. "Maybe that's because I was making records every day, but it didn't really jump out at me. Only later on did I really get to appreciate it."
"'Take On Me' incorporates all the best components of A‑ha," concludes Alan Tarney, who still writes songs in his home studio that, once equipped with a Harrison desk and Studer A80, was the site of recordings such as the Norwegian trio's 1987 'Manhattan Skyline' single. Today it houses an Otari console, RADAR and Logic. "That song really sparkles because of the great vocal by Morten, and it also has those quirky little keyboard and synth parts that were just so lovely to hear when they were being performed in the studio. It really is a wonderful record..."
Born in the North-Western English town of Workington in November 1945, Alan Tarney grew up in Adelaide, Australia, where he befriended a Mancunian ex‑pat named Terry Britten, who would later enjoy success as a songwriter for, among others, Tina Turner, Cliff Richard, Olivia Newton‑John, Status Quo and Michael Jackson. During their teen years, Tarney and Britten played guitar in separate bands, and after each returned to the UK in the late '60s, they met up in London and formed a band named Quartet.
"Thanks to knowing an Australian producer called Dave Mackay — who worked with Cliff, the New Seekers and Bonnie Tyler — we ended up doing recording sessions as a rhythm unit," says Tarney, whose own credits as a songwriter and producer include chart successes for Cliff Richard, Leo Sayer and David Cassidy, as well as seven top 10 singles with A‑ha, for whom he produced the first three albums. "Consequently, we got to meet a lot of artists and, if I wrote songs, I could play these to them."
Doing session work for anyone from Bonnie Tyler and Bow Wow Wow to Squeeze and the Drifters, Tarney played with the Shadows from 1973 to 1977, during which time he also comprised one half of the Spencer‑Tarney Band alongside another former Quartet colleague, Australian songwriter/producer/drummer Trevor Spencer. This preceded Tarney's own compositional and production successes.
"While I started off as a session musician, I also had a publishing contract with ATV Music," he explains, "and in those days the publisher would give you £150 to go and record the demo. That budget was supposed to pay for the musicians, but I found a studio that would give me a whole day for £150 and, being self‑taught, I played all the instruments myself. I did that every day and I eventually became very adept at making records. As a result, on the records that I subsequently produced I played all the instruments. You don't have to be great, you just have to know the right things to do."
It was after Tarney co‑produced singer‑songwriter Charlie Dore's hit single 'Pilot Of The Airwaves', with the Shadows' Bruce Welch that he began working with Cliff Richard.
"I played 'We Don't Talk Anymore' in the studio, Bruce heard it and he said, 'That would be a good song for Cliff'," Tarney recalls. "So, we finished our work on Charlie Dore's album on the Friday and the next day we recorded 'We Don't Talk Anymore' with Cliff."
Recorded at RG Jones in April 1979, that single became Cliff's first UK chart‑topper in more than a decade as well as his biggest worldwide hit, reaching number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 and enjoying global sales in excess of five million copies. Not surprisingly, Cliff Richard's management then asked Alan Tarney to write more material, and in the course of producing Cliff's next few albums Tarney came to the attention of the people investing time and money in A‑ha, which would eventually land him the job of producer on the Hunting High & Low album.
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(turns out this is a multi-question thread) I count myself as being a 'newbie' in the bike world, despite having been biking for nearly the past 2 years. I tend to take the winters off, being at college and all, and have noticed my physical shape has detiorated. I'm about 5'10", 148 - 150lbs and am a Male. And i plan on kicking my butt once it gets warmer out so that i get in great physical shape. Ok, my first question:
To Shave or not to Shave? That is the question. I'm thinking about getting really serious with biking and entering a few races later on in the year. When i am home during the summer and breaks, i go riding with a local cycling club (where i am the youngest by about 10 years and have the least experiance out of all the people who ride other then my dad) and have noticed that the people who i can burn on the hills can all burn me on the flats. Most of the guys seems to be completely shaven - arms and legs. I was reading somewhere that you are only supposed to shave your legs...so i was wondering what you do (if you shave) or if you think i should shave my legs (and arms too for that matter if that is a common practice).
The second question is: what should i be doing now? I can honestly say i've never worked out in a Gym before to the extent of adding muscle to my body. All through highschool, the winter was taken up with Physical Rehab for my bumbed knee, though biking seemed to be one activity (stationary that is) that didnt hurt it and helped strengthen it. I want to get back in cycling shape - i am gonna start running again but want to know what sort of activities i should do in the Gym to help me get their too. I cant do anything outside - PA weather right now is absolutely freezing with snow on the ground and more expected.
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Cappadocia, Turkey
Reporter Janet Adamy on what to do and where to eat, shop and stay in this scenic region of Central Anatolia.
What to do: Travelers go to Cappadocia to see its bizarre rock formations -- some look like melting ice cream -- and centuries-old cave villages. Plan to take at least two hikes through the rock-enclosed valleys, making sure one is through the pink-hued Rose Valley. Duck into homes and churches carved into the caves there, and try to catch the sunset. It's best to hire a guide for the longer hikes since most trails aren't well-marked; a good one costs about €50 for half a day. Have your guide take you through the underground city of Derinkuyu. Take a hot air balloon ride over the region to get an unrivaled view of the surreal landscape. It's worth the steep price and predawn start time. Kapadokya Balloons is a well-run operator that offers rides starting at €175 (Tel. 90-384-271-24-42, www.kapadokyaballoons.com).
Where to eat and shop: Alaturca gets the most praise from travel writers for its Anatolian cuisine, and dishes like the mini ravioli in yogurt sauce are indeed delicious (on Gaferli Mahallesi road in Göreme, Tel. 90-384-271-28-82). But we had better food at Local restaurant (Müze Cad. No. 38, Göreme, Tel. 90-384-271-26-29). Ask for the lamb shank entree, which isn't listed on the menu, and save room for a piece of baklava for dessert. For souvenirs, ignore the trinket shops in Göreme and instead buy hand-painted pottery at Göreme Seramik (Müze Yolu Cad. No. 5, Tel. 90-384-271-28-53). Or go to the small main square in Uchisar. Özcan Onyx sells inexpensive bowls, figurines and clocks made from onyx (look for a small storefront on the main path sloping downward from the town square; Tel. 90-555-314-69-60).
Where to stay: Uchisar is the best town in Cappadocia to get a room because it has tourist amenities yet still feels unspoiled. Les Maisons de Cappadoce rents 15 units, some carved into the rocks, starting at €130 a night for a studio and going up to €980 a night for a stunning three-bedroom house (Belediye Meydani #6, Tel. 90-384-219-28-13, www.cappadoce.com). Museum Hotel offers cooking classes and massage, and some rooms have a spigot that pours wine. Rooms start at €130 and top out at €1,650 a night for an imperial suite (Tekelli Mah. No. 1, Tel. 90-384-219-22-20, www.museum-hotel.com).
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Cashion's Dexton Robertson happy to be on the field
CASHION — Dexton Robertson used to think about all the opportunities he missed last summer, while other football players were attending camps and combines to showcase their skills in front of college scouts.
At 6-foot-5 and 300 pounds with a powerful build and good footwork, the Cashion senior is exactly the type of offensive lineman colleges want. He could have exploded on the recruiting scene.
But while all of those other prospects were working out for recruiters, Robertson was grinding through the rehabilitation process to rebuild his surgically repaired right knee — again.
Robertson's sophomore and junior seasons each ended when he tore the ACL in his right knee. Now, he's just happy to be on the field with his Cashion teammates, who visit Talihina in the Class A quarterfinals at 7:30 p.m. Friday.
"I have friends around at Guthrie and Kingfisher, and they were all going to camps. At the time, it killed me," Robertson said. "But it's behind me now. I'll be all right.
"It feels good to play up to my potential, not worrying about anything, just going out and playing week after week."
Robertson earned a starting job as a freshman, and was a mainstay at tackle through his sophomore year. In the first quarter of a state quarterfinal game against Morrison that season, a player rolled up on Robertson's leg.
"I'm pretty pain-tolerant," he said. "I've never had anything close to that much pain. If it wasn't an ACL, there was something way wrong."
As soon as he could, Robertson was in the weight room. He got in extra workouts when he could, and pushed himself as much as possible to get healthy for his junior year.
Ten games in, he was inadvertently kicked, and the ACL popped again. The pain wasn't nearly as bad, and he actually tried to go back in the game, but the knee gave out on the first play.
After surgery, he was back in the weight room.
"He was a great example to the other kids," head coach Lynn Shackelford said. "OK, you don't want to come to the weight room today, well, we've got a guy in here with a torn ACL who's doing it. So you don't have any excuses about being a little sore and not wanting to come work out."
Now, Robertson is back at full speed and pain free, trying to keep 12-0 Cashion rolling through the postseason. He anchors the line of an offense that's among Class A's best, averaging around 475 yards per game.
"When we're gonna run the ball, we're running behind him. It's no secret," Shackelford said. "The other day, somebody said, 'Hey, I think they know we're running left.' Well, yeah. If they don't know, they're morons. Somebody's still got to get off his block."
Quarterback Ty Reasnor is certainly thankful for Robertson's protection.
"It's an insurance policy having him over there on the blind side," Reasnor said. "I don't think I've been sacked from the left side this year. Run-blocking, he's like a bus. It's amazing how far down the field he can push a guy."
The state's Division II colleges, as well as some in the neighboring states, are still strongly interested in him — "Somebody's gonna get a steal when they sign him," Shackelford said — but Robertson is more focused on trying to play three more games at Cashion before he worries about college.
"It's a huge opportunity to be playing on Thanksgiving weekend," he said. "The team is really excited and the community has been great.
"We've got to get through the next game, keep on working hard. That's what I keep trying to preach."
Cashion (12-0) at Talihina (11-1)
When: 7:30 p.m. Friday
Where: Talihina High School
Noteworthy: Cashion has one of the longest road trips of any team in the playoffs this week, measured at 212.3 miles according to MapQuest. Cashion and Talihina have been strong in the postseason of late, combining for 12 playoff wins dating back to the 2009 season. Friday's winner will face either Wynnewood or Thomas in the Class A semifinals.


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Navigating Immigration Policy at the Local Level: Public Policy and Politics Converge, Producing a Window of Opportunity in Dalton, Georgia
Baker, William E., Harris, Paul A., The Public Manager
Many local governments have been grappling with the relatively new issue of immigration for several years. Although some believe immigration policy should be a federal responsibility, the immigrants' arrival at new destinations has prompted many of America's cities, towns, and counties to experiment with novel solutions.
Dalton, Georgia, with its population of thirty-two thousand, has been a "new destination" for Latinos for well over fifteen years, and immigration issues are nothing new to the community. Located in North Georgia on Interstate 75 just south of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and north of Atlanta, Dalton is the center of regional carpet-making, proudly christening itself "The Carpet Capital of the World." Long an industrial district focused on a single industry, Dalton manufacturers made many technological improvements in carpet-making and developed the tufted method, yielding a better and faster-made product. The industry was a boon to the Dalton area beginning in the 1980s. While technologically advanced, the industry is still relatively labor intensive. With the nationwide housing boom and a preference for carpet, the industry in Dalton needed workers. This steady need for workers superseded the global and national slowdowns of the period.
Rapid Demographic Change
Mexican migration to the area began in the 1970s fueled by demands of the poultry industry and the construction of a federal reservoir north of the city. Shortly thereafter, the lure of better working conditions and better pay drew workers to the carpet-making companies in the area and set the stage for fast growth to meet the labor demands of the following decades. Federal government policies also contributed to the influx of Latino immigrants to the region. In 1986, Congress passed the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), which included an effort to clear the board on undocumented persons in the United States by offering a form of amnesty. Most of those utilizing the offer were males, and their desire for family reunification in the United States created a new kind of illegal traffic.
A decision was made at the federal level not to interfere with the family reunification process, which had an unintended effect on Dalton. As Hernandez-Leon and Zuniga state, IRCA "marked a watershed in Mexico-U.S. migration history and signaled the initiation of mass Latino inflows to Dalton and many other nontraditional destinations across the country." The word was out: newly documented Latinos recruited others to come to Dalton, where the wages were good, the work was steady, and "you could work indoors." The city experienced a large influx of Latinos during the 1990s, and by 2000, 40 percent of the city population was Latino. The percentages of Latinos in the Dalton public schools show the striking impact of Latino immigration to the area. In the 1989-90 school year, the enrollment was less than 4 percent, but by the end of the decade, Latinos constituted the majority in the schools. The 2007-08 school year report showed 65 percent of students were Latino.
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City leaders hardly knew that the Latino population was burgeoning until the early nineties. By the mid-nineties, however, local government leaders were convinced the changing demographics were impacting the delivery of municipal services and creating anti-immigrant sentiment. By 1994, at the request of the elected officials, the city administrator began to research ways other cities in the South with similar situations had responded. However, little experimentation seemed to be going on regionally.
During this time, two undocumented immigrants were involved in a shooting that prompted the Dalton police chief to begin collaborating with other govern ment agencies to establish a federal immigration office in the city. The chief, a proponent of the community policing philosophy, had three objectives: (1) to improve the community's ability to identify illegal aliens and deal with them appropriately, (2) to have an immigration expert available locally to help identify forged documents, and (3) to acquire assistance in alleviating the language barrier between immigrants and the general population. …


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Broadening the Study of the Self: Integrating the Study of Personal Identity and Cultural Identity
Version of Record online: 31 JAN 2008
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-9004.2008.00077.x
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Social and Personality Psychology Compass
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Despite suggestions from some stakeholders that a rush of regulation has streamed out of Washington under the current administration, the National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health is pleading with OSHA to complete several rulemakings.
Using such language as "deeply distressed," "concerned" and "disappointed," the advisory committee issued a set of recommendations to OSHA on Dec. 21 concerning proposed standards that seem to be languishing. NACOSH, which advises the secretaries of labor and health and human services, emphasized two rulemakings in particular: silica and injury and illness prevention programs.
The White House's Office of Management and Budget has been reviewing the proposed silica rule since February 2011; OSHA began the rulemaking process 14 years ago. Had the agency and administrations followed the timetables to the letter in promulgating the proposed regulation instead of delaying the process, the rule would have been initiated years ago, Michael Silverstein said.
Silverstein, who heads Washington state's Division of Occupational Safety and Health and whose two-year NACOSH chairmanship expired in March, said the current delays go "well beyond" statutory and administrative requirements. He suggested the White House was to blame.
"The business community has raised objections, and the administration at the highest level has been listening to those objections and has been sitting on the rule," he told Safety+Health. The White House, OMB and OSHA hosted numerous meetings on silica in 2011 with employer groups and labor unions.
The current silica regulation is grossly out of date with what is now known about the mineral – it is linked to a deadly respiratory disease and cancer, and the current OSHA permissible exposure limit is based on 40-year-old recommendations derived through obsolete technology.
According to Silverstein, OSHA administrator David Michaels attended a Dec. 15 NACOSH meeting and acknowledged the agency's work was proceeding slower than it hoped but stressed that OSHA remained committed to moving forward. NACOSH urged OSHA to issue the proposed rule "without further delay" so the process for a final rule could begin.
NACOSH also took aim at the apparent lack of progress on the injury and illness prevention program proposed rule. Last June, OSHA said it intended to initiate the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act review that summer, but the timeline has not been met.
A successful program designed to eliminate risks in the workplace is seen nearly universally as the best way to improve safety in the workplace. Michaels has called the rule requiring employers to have such a program his No. 1 priority, and NACOSH recommended it stay that way.
NACOSH also repeated its suggestion that NIOSH and OSHA jointly host an injury and illness prevention program symposium this year. Unrelated to the proposed rule, the symposium would showcase the best practices of programs for small, medium and large workplaces, the committee said.
The committee also encouraged OSHA to complete a final rule by the end of the year transitioning the use of the Standard Industrial Classification to the North American Industry Classification System, a timeline Silverstein said he hoped would be met.
"I can't imagine there would be any justifiable reason not to go ahead and do this," he said. "This one should be fairly straightforward."
OSHA's current data system – like many of its PELs – is out of date. The Bureau of Labor Statistics and several other agencies use NAICS, and the failure of OSHA to do so means it cannot easily compare its data with data from those agencies. Some of the most vital outside data that OSHA uses is on NAICS, including BLS's injury, illness and fatality data. NACOSH recommended the final rule be completed this year so it could become effective for reporting in 2013.
Silverstein said NACOSH's recommendations were unanimous among the committee members, who are appointed by the secretaries of labor and health and human services, and represent labor and business communities, the public, and safety professionals.
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PROVIDENCE � The House of Representatives Thursday approved a bill that next goes to the governor to close a loophole that can let the youngest motorists avoid a drunken-driving charge.
And the House also voted to add synthetic drugs to the list of Schedule 1 substances, a bill also headed to the governor�s desk that would prohibit the synthetics from being manufactured, sold or used.
On the driving loophole, the House voted 72 to 0 to reduce the blood-alcohol limit for motorists ages 18 to 20 to what it already is for older drivers, 0.08. Motorists who are above that limit can be charged with driving drunk.
Current law allows the youngest drivers to avoid a charge if their blood-alcohol content is up to 0.1.
Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin�s office, which sought passage of the legislation, called the difference in the current law an oversight that was not updated in 2003 when state lawmakers lowered the blood alcohol limit.
�This statute was meant to punish underage drinkers who get behind the wheel, not to help them escape charges when they are legally driving drunk,� said Sen. Louis DiPalma, D-Middletown, and the Senate bill prime sponsor, said after passage. �This legislation restores [the]intent � .�
The House also approved, 72 to 0, the bill to combat drugs that go by such names as �synthetic pot,� �spice� and �bath salts.�
Sen. Stephen R. Archambault, D-Smithfield, and the bill�s prime sponsor, said in a statement after House passage Thursday that �the rise of these synthetic drugs is a disturbing growth for our communities.�
Known as synthetic cannabinoids and synthetic cathinone, the drugs have been reported to cause people to act in erratic ways, including becoming violent or delusional.
According to a news release on the bill�s passage, the American Association of Poison Control Centers reported in 2010 there were almost 3,000 calls to poison control centers in the nation for exposure to synthetic cannabis. That went up to 7,000 calls in 2011 then fell to 5,200 last year. The news release attributed that decrease to states� passage of similar legislation.
�Synthetic drugs are the new frontier in the war on drugs and we must provide law enforcement with the tools to effectively prosecute those who manufacture, distribute and possess the drugs and chemical compounds,� Kilmartin said.
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For a deliciously different dish to pass, try this cabbage. It cooks up tender yet still refreshingly crisp, and the almonds add flavor and crunch. This is a fun and tasty winter side dish that brings people back for seconds. -Mary Crigler, Fayette, Missouri
- 16 cups thinly sliced cabbage (about 3 pounds)
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 1/2 cup sliced green onions
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1/3 cup water
- 4 teaspoons soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup slivered almonds, toasted
- 1. In a 5-qt. Dutch oven, combine cabbage, garlic and oil; cook over low heat for 3-4 minutes, tossing lightly. Cover and cook for 4-5 minutes or until cabbage is crisp-tender.
- 2. Add onions. Combine cornstarch, water, soy sauce and salt. Pour over cabbage; toss lightly. Cook and stir for 2-3 minutes or until mixture thickens. Place in a serving bowl; top with almonds. Serve warm. Yield: 12-16 servings.
Nutritional Facts
1 serving (1 cup) equals 63 calories, 4 g fat (1 g saturated fat), 0 cholesterol, 237 mg sodium, 5 g carbohydrate, 2 g fiber, 1 g protein.
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