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Book your room at Distinction Te Anau Hotel And Villas
4-star eco-friendly hotel in Te Anau with an outdoor pool
Situated on a lake, this eco-friendly hotel is close to Luxmore Jet, Lake Te Anau, and Fiordland Cinema. Also nearby are Ivon Wilson Scenic Reserve and Te Anau Wildlife Centre.
Hotel Features
In addition to a restaurant, Distinction Te Anau Hotel And Villas features an outdoor pool. Other amenities include a bar/lounge and a coffee shop/café.
Room Amenities
In addition to refrigerators, guestrooms feature coffee/tea makers along with hair dryers and irons/ironing boards.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
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At your hotel
In addition to an outdoor pool and a children's pool, Distinction Te Anau Hotel And Villas provides a spa tub and a sauna. The hotel offers a restaurant and a coffee shop/café. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. A computer station is located on site and high-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary.
Business-related amenities at this 4-star property consist of a business center and meeting rooms. Event facilities include a conference center and conference space. This eco-friendly hotel also offers a fitness center, tour/ticket assistance, and barbecue grills. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
Distinction Te Anau Hotel And Villas is a smoke-free property.
- Conference center
- Number of meeting rooms - 5
- Front desk (limited hours)
- Garden
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Laundry facilities
- Spa tub
- Fitness facilities
- Outdoor pool
- Total number of rooms - 112
- Wedding services
- Luggage storage
- Bar/lounge
- Barbecue grill(s)
- Business center
- Coffee shop or café
- Complimentary newspapers in lobby
- Conference space
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Express check-in
- Express check-out
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Computer station
- Meeting rooms
- Multilingual staff
- Picnic area
- Restaurant
- Free self parking
- Free RV, bus, truck parking
- Sauna
- Smoke-free property
- Children's pool
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Use of nearby fitness center (complimentary)
- Free Wi-Fi
Stay connected
Available in some public areas: Free Wi-Fi
Park your car
Free self parking, Free RV, bus, truck parking
In your room
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
- Flat-panel TV
- Daily housekeeping
- Refrigerator
- Coffee/tea maker
- Hair dryer
- Iron/ironing board
- Room service
Eat and drink
Breakfast is available for a surcharge each morning.
MacKinnon Room - This restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, dinner, and brunch. Guests can order drinks at the bar and enjoy alfresco dining (weather permitting). A children's menu is available.
Room service is available.
An outdoor pool, a children's pool, and a spa tub are on site. Other recreational amenities include a sauna and a fitness center.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Snorkeling nearby
- Surfing/boogie boarding nearby
- Kayaking nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Scuba diving nearby
- Water skiing nearby
- Windsurfing nearby
- Mountain biking nearby
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Golf lessons available nearby
- Boat tours nearby
- Cave exploring/spelunking nearby
- Massages
- Sports massage
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessible path of travel
- Accessible bathroom
- Accessible parking
- In-room accessibility
The fine print for Distinction Te Anau Hotel And Villas
When you arrive
Check-in time ends at 10:30 PM
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
When you leave
Check-out time is 10 AM
How you can pay
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- Breakfast fee: between NZD 19.50 and NZD 29 per person (approximately)
- Rollaway bed fee: NZD 37 per night
We should mention
Reservations are required for massage services. Reservations can be made by contacting the hotel prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.
Awards & Affiliations
National Rating
Official New Zealand Rating provided by Qualmark®
Qualmark® assigns an official star rating for accommodations in New Zealand. This Hotel property is rated 4 stars.


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Sources: Will Barnes & Noble Discontinue Nook?
A "person familiar with the matter" told the New York Times that the last quarter for Nook — a disaster where the company's sales of the devices actually shrunk versus the previous year even amid a boom in tablet adoption — had caused senior executives to rethink the company's digital strategy.
Translation: The company could stop producing devices and concentrate instead on selling content on other form factors.
When asked for comment by Digital Book World, a Barnes & Noble spokesperson said, "We have no plans to discontinue our award-winning line of NOOK products."
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A person familiar with Barnes & Nobles's strategy acknowledged that this quarter, which includes holiday sales, has caused executives to realize the company must move away from its program to engineer and build its own devices and focus more on licensing its content to other device makers.
"They are not completely getting out of the hardware business, but they are going to lean a lot more on the comprehensive digital catalog of content," said this person, who asked not to be identified discussing corporate strategy.
On Thursday, the person said, the company will emphasize its commitment to intensify partnerships with other tablet producers like Microsoft and Samsung to make deals for content that it controls.
As the Times article points out, this new strategy would be a complete reversal for the multi-billion dollar bricks-and-mortar bookseller. In Nov. of last year in a call with investors and press, Barnes & Noble CEO William Lynch said that Nook was the future of the company and that it would begin scaling in 2013.
Outside of a Microsoft-Nook tablet experiment (which has been expected since Microsoft made a $600 million investment in Nook last Spring), one wonders how Barnes & Noble plans to continue growing its ebook operation in the absence of dedicated devices. Perhaps the company will do what no other major ebook seller aside from Apple has done: sell ebooks directly to consumers on the iPad.
The reason ebook retailers haven't made this move — one that seems logical because of the increasing popularity of tablets and the dominance of the iPad — is that Apple would likely take a 30% cut of anything sold through one of its apps.
Barnes & Noble has not yet returned request for comment.
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My little brother, Joel, a third-year dental student at the University of Washington, recently returned from a trip to Port au Prince, Haiti, where he donated his time (mostly pulling teeth and filling cavities) to people who don't have access to dental care.
On Thursday night, Joel came over to show us pictures of his trip. Because he was visiting me, these included lots of pictures of Haitian buses. They're called "tap-taps" (pronounced "top-tops") by the people there, and they are amazingly beautiful. Check it:
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The move, according to David Leckey, AMI executive vice president, consumer marketing, and John Miller, AMI chief operating officer, comes as Star continues to clean out less profitable subscriptions from its files. Subscriptions, said Leckey, are settling toward their natural home of around 500,000, while single-copy sales have fallen to 750,000, from 900,000 three years ago. But don't blame new Star editor in chief Candace Trunzo for the drop in single-copy sales — competition from lower-priced titles In Touch, Life & Style and OK! have eaten into some of Star's newsstand share. And it's not the only celebrity title being challenged by cheaper competitors — veteran weeklies People and Us Weekly saw softness in their newsstand figures for the first half of 2007.
Since taking over Star in April from Joe Dolce, Trunzo has posted average single-copy sales of 745,000, according to figures reported to the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Previous figures given to WWD by sources with scan data showed Trunzo's numbers hovered in the 600,000 range. But according to the numbers reported to ABC, Star's sales under Trunzo have ranged from 574,886 for one issue in May, three issues in the 600,000 range, eight issues in the 700,000 range and two above 800,000. Comparatively, Star's average from January to March under former editor Dolce averaged 710,000. In July and August, Star's weekly single-copy numbers have held steady around 740,000, according to AMI's estimates. "I think she's had a positive effect on the magazine," said Leckey. — Stephanie D. Smith
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Passive acoustic monitoring of biological activities
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The use of passive acoustic tools to record biologically produced sounds in aquatic environments is increasingly becoming a tool of choice for assessing and monitoring biological activity in habitats where conventional survey methods are impractical or not cost effective. This is because many species of fish, invertebrates and marine mammals regularly produce sounds for communication, displaying and/or environmental sensing. In addition, acoustic monitoring is an effective means of detecting human activities in a marine habitat, such as vessel traffic and fishing. Passive acoustic monitoring is therefore a cost-effective means of logging both biological activity and human presence at a location and thus help gauge the effectiveness of management practices.
Technology to monitor both biological and anthropogenic sounds in marine environments was developed through a joint effort between the Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) and the Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center's Coral Reef Ecosystem Division (CRED). The Ecological Acoustic Recorder (EAR) is a digital, low power acoustic recording system designed to intermittently sample the ambient sound field between 20 Hz and 40 kHz. Recordings are made on a user-specified schedule and are also initiated on a start trigger set to specific acoustic energy thresholds, such as vessel engine noise.
An effort has been underway to monitor long-term trends in biological and anthropogenic activities in the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument using EARs since 2006. Four EARs were first deployed in the summer of 2006 at French Frigate Shoals, Pearl & Hermes Atoll and Kure Atoll. In 2008 three additional EARs were placed at Maro Reef, Lisianski Island, Midway Atoll and a second unit was deployed at Pearl & Hermes Atoll. In 2010 four deep EARs were placed in waters ranging from 123 m to 405 m deep off Nihoa, French Frigate Shoals, Lisianski Island and Kure Atoll, bringing to 12 the total number of EARs deployed in the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument.
One notable finding to date is that humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) song consistently occurs throughout the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, which suggests an over-wintering pattern similar to that found in the Main Hawaiian Islands (Lammers et al, 2011). Previously, it was believed that humpback whales do not winter in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, but rather only pass through on their way to the Main Hawaiian Islands.
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Another area of investigation is the spatial and temporal variability of reef-associated sounds. Monthly variations in acoustic activity are revealing trends across months and years in the stability of the ambient sound field. This information is being used to gauge the response of the overall ecosystem to stressors such as storms, disease, ocean acidification and climate change.
As data continue to be collected, more information is emerging about the unique characteristics of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. The ability to acoustically "observe" the activities of a wide range of organisms 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and 365 days a year provides an unparalleled perspective on the activities taking place in the remote marine ecosystems of the Monument. The data obtained through this non-intrusive, non-extractive effort are expected to continue yielding valuable information about the Monument's overall health and stability to managers and stakeholders for years to come.
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Don McPeak/US PresswireJay Cutler was tied for 20th in the NFL last season with a passer rating of 81.3.Jay Cutler's right. "It's hard to go out there Year 1 and blow the doors off," offensively. So asking him and the Bears to do that in 2013 simply isn't fair; especially considering Cutler is learning his fourth offense in five years.
Petulance with the media, whispers of Cutler not speaking to teammates or coaches, any perceived personality flaw can be excused as long as the quarterback performs on the field.
To do that, he'll need to take in the coaching of Marc Trestman, quarterbacks coach Matt Cavanaugh and offensive coordinator Aaron Kromer, and apply it to take full advantage of all the weapons and upgrades at his disposal; even when things go bad. Certainly it's impressive that Brandon Marshall hauled in 118 passes last season considering opponents devoted a considerable amount of their game plans to stop him. But with Cutler targeting Marshall so often, surely other receivers had to be open on occasion. In 2013, Cutler needs to hit them. He needs to distribute the ball to ensure the offense runs like a slick machine the offensive staff is in the process of building.
General manager Phil Emery and Trestman have talked on multiple occasions about Cutler realizing his football mortality and his desire to finish up his career as the quarterback he's capable of being. Up to this point, we've seen flashes of brilliance, glimmers of elite quarterbacking from Cutler. But not enough to say unequivocally he deserves a new deal that would handcuff him to the franchise for another five years.
Cutler's correct that it's difficult to "go out there Year 1 and blow the doors off." But for him to make it to Year 2, 3, 4 or 5 in this new offense, he'll have to do something pretty close to it.
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I've heard this argument, several times lately, and was looking for a discussion. In the original Greek text, the word for sorcery was pharmakeia - and we parallel that with the pharmaceutical drugs, on the market today.
Psychotropic drugs are defined by the action they have in the brain, altering the chemistry, to release or inhibit the flow of neurotransmitters like serotonin, norepinephrine, and dopamine for example. All of this for therapeutic help for those with a chemical imbalance.
When the Bible was referring to sorcery, these people would purposely seek altered states of consciousness to get more in touch with the spirit world, or for the euphoric properties.
Now, some people are trying to claim that using anti-depressants or anti-psychotics to control a disorder is equivalent to sorcery. Ask yourselves, would God really condemn a person suffering from bipolar disorder who just wanted to control his periods of severe depression or stop his mania from doing something they would regret? Or is it a sin for a schizophrenic to take drugs to block out the part of their brain which is responsible for the delusion?
The list goes on and one. Granted, these drugs come with many risks and can, in rare cases, have serious side effects. The difference I see here is that one set of drugs seeks to fix a chemical imbalance, or regulate the neurotransmitters in the brain to control sanity.
Other illicit drugs like weed, coke, lsd, magic mushrooms etc - the user takes for the sole purpose of getting ''high'' and exploring their consciousness. And in turn, this opens people up to demonic oppression/possession. This use of drugs fits the description of sorcery / pharmakeia more accurately at least for me.


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Lights Out Review: "Bolo Punch"by Sean McKenna at . Comments
I was pleased that Theresa finally learned that her family was broke and Patrick stepped into the ring, er, I mean cage, on "Bolo Punch."
I wasn't sure how long Theresa would remain in the dark on the financial problems. Having the credit cards confiscated in public certainly made things click together for her. Although, thinking that Johnny was stealing the money was an interesting accusation. She seems to find fault in the Leary family choices, but there also seems to be a painful past for her. I wonder if she has a family gene for overreacting, too?
Johnny clearly mixes with the wrong people in his desperation to make a buck, but, like Theresa, his past is just as clouded. Viewers did learn that he used to be a boxer. But little else was revealed about that occupation.
Like always, it was the champion boxer that stepped up to the plate in order to save his brother. Patrick is so eager to fight everyone's battles and place all of his family's burdens on his shoulders, no matter how heavy the load. Plus, his confidence and determination push him through each difficulty, even when the odds are stacked against him. These attributes are what's going to make his comeback as a boxer that much greater.So, after a relatively slow episode with a few altercations, I was pleased when Patrick suited up. Unfortunately for him, he was facing a Mixed Martial Arts fighter.
Mixed Martial Arts has become a phenomenon in the U.S. and this was made even more evident when Patrick and Pops were at the bar. Boxing has seemed to dissipate to the back in popularity. MMA takes a lot of strength and determination to get in the cage and worry about legs, arms, chokeholds, and every combination you can think of. No doubt, both types of combat can cause a lot of damage.
Patrick, being Patrick, gets into the cage knowing he's not trained in that particular MMA style. He definitely held his own; although for a moment, I thought he might lose. His winning punch to the throat followed by a swift punch to the face made me grab my own throat. I can't imagine how hard and painful of a hit that must have been.
Patrick is proving that he's still extremely capable of a fighter and a great caring family member. I'm ready for that rematch training to begin!
After four episodes, Lights Out has been pretty good television. However, I still feel as if it's missing something, some emotional punch that makes me eagerly want to tune in week after week.
Don't get me wrong, the boxing premise is intriguing, the characters all have their own interesting personalities and there's a fair amount of storylines emerging for plenty of drama. But we need more of the intensity we saw at the end of this week's episode. Let's hope we get it going forward.
Sean McKenna is a TV Fanatic Staff Writer. Follow him on Twitter.Tags: Lights Out, Reviews
Catherine McCormack is horrible, and it's not just her mixing of accents. The character is obviously supposed to be a Carmela Soprano, another wife who loves her material possessions but doesn't love what her man had to do to get them. But McCormack is no Edie Falco. She just comes off as shrill and superficial. I find that the show seems to assume we care passionately already about Lights' family -- his annoying kids, his somewhat blank father -- but that's asking too much because these actors don't make you care about them. Holt McCallany is good, but not great, and he needed a stronger supporting cast to make this show really work. That's what separates shows like Sopranos and Sons of Anarchy from Lights Out. As for boxing vs MMA, MMA is for pro wrestling fans who grew out of wrestling. Boxing has its own separate fanbase, and it is maybe not the hip thing right now in the US, but boxing is bigger than ever in Europe, where the heavyweight champion Klitschko brothers draw 50,000 to every one of their fights.


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After two years in Nigeria as a Peace Corps Volunteer fron 1961 to 1963, two years in Somalia as a Contractor's Overseas Representative from Teachers College, Columbia University for the Peace Corps in Somalia from 1966 to 1968 and one year in French speaking Africa as an in-service trainer for the Peace Corps, I was invited to train Peace Corps Volunteers bound for Africa who were being trained at Columbia University, Teachers College.  While working in the training programs, I completed my Ph.D. at Columbia University, Teachers College in New York City, where I was then invited to join the faculty.
My main interest has been observation and analysis of interactions, both inside and outside of classrooms. My publications reflect this interest. "Beyond Rashomon" and "Let's see," two of my seminal articles in the TESOL Quarterly, have been reprinted in many anthologies.  In addition "Let's see" was awarded the Malkemes Prize from New York University for the best article of the year for relating ideas to practice. "Beyond Rashomon" was the basis of my book Breaking Rules (Longman, 1987) and "Let's See" was the basis of Contrasting Conversations (Longman, 1992).
In addition to teaching and writing, I have been active professionally. I have been second vice president and president of TESOL and president of New York TESOL.  I started an off-campus M.A. Program in Tokyo for Columbia University, Teachers College in 1987. Try the Opposite (SIMUL, 1992) grew out of my work with teachers in Japan.
When I became Professor Emeritus in 1996 at Teachers College in New York, my students established a scholarship fund in my name to encourage "Fanslovian" ideas and practices among MA students in TESOL at the college  and in the off-campus program in Tokyo. After I became Professor Emeritus, I was invited to become president of a private tertiary institution in New Zealand.  After nine years there, I have returned to Japan where I am a visiting professor at Kanda University of International Studies.
In 2005, I received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Columbia University, Teachers College. The Award included these remarks from the president of Columbia University, Teachers College:
John, your passion for teaching English as a second language was shaped by your early experience at a teacher training college in Nigeria, where you taught students who grew up without paper or pencils in their homes.  You have written that these students had a thirst for learning that was "more intense by ten" than your own up until that point. You have returned the intensity of these students and paid homage to their hopes through your own pioneering achievements in the world of Teaching English to Speakers of Other languages, or TESOL."
My latest interest is online learning. I am teaching courses with International Teacher Development Institute (iTDi). This group is republishing all of my books starting in January 2013.
'ÄĒ John F. Fanselow


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Climate change is probably today's greatest global environmental threat, posing dire ecological, economic, and humanitarian consequences. In the absence of a comprehensive regulatory scheme to address the problem, some aggrieved Americans have sought relief from climate-related injuries by suing significant emitters of greenhouse gases under a public nuisance theory. Federal district courts have dismissed four such claims, with each court relying at least in part on the political question doctrine of nonjusticiability. However, one circuit court of appeals has reversed to date, finding that the common law cognizes such claims and that the judiciary is competent and compelled to adjudicate them.
This Note argues that courts should dismiss climate-related public nuisance suits-at least those that seek injunctive caps on greenhouse gas emissions. Focusing on Connecticut v. American Electric Power Co. as a case in point, this Note concludes that such claims should be deemed nonjusticiable political questions or, alternatively, should be dismissed for lack of redressability. As an afterthought, the Note also briefly acknowledges some problems that could arise on the merits of this category of claims, along with policy concerns about permitting such litigation.


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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) â¿¿ Three budget crises ago, in early 2011, Republicans and President Barack Obama faced off over raising the debt ceiling â¿¿ and Alison Brown saw the writing on the wall.
Washington had entered the cycle of partisan brinksmanship over the budget that has sown confusion among federal agencies and delayed contracts to small companies like Brown's Navsys Corp., which designs satellite navigation systems in this military town. So Brown slashed her 40-strong workforce in half. And as she feared back then, her revenues have since plunged by half.
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|December 30: White House Press Release, President Barack Obama issues a presidential proclamation declaring this January 'National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, 2012.'
|December 29: The National Post, Timothy McCarthy, director of the Carr Center's Gender, Sexuality and Human Rights Program, comments on how the wave of political protests across the Arab world has reignited activist passions here at home perhaps not seen since the 1960's.
|December 20: Council on Foreign Relations blog, Micah Zeniko, columnnist for the Council on Foreign Relations, comments on the White House's release of the National Action Plan (NAP) on Women, Peace, and Security.
|December 19: hrea.org, UN General Assembly adopts Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training. The adoption of this new Declaration offers educators and policy makers an occasion to reassess national policies and priorities in the light of international standards.
|December 12: Politico 44, Politico discusses the executive order laying out new U.S. policy on women, peace and security.
|December 11: Doha, Qatar: Felisa Tibbitts, Carr Center Fellow, presented during the Opening Session of the UN Alliance of Civilizations Forum "How does cultural diversity matter to development." Her four-minute presentation begins 50 minutes into the UN webcast.
|December 8: Course Addressing Human Trafficking Added to Kennedy School Curriculum: Co-taught by Siddharth Kara, fellow with the Carr Center's Program on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery, and Center Executive Director Charlie Clements, this a six week module, IGA-351M, will examine various typologies of human trafficking and provide foundational knowledge as well as an understanding of its relationship to the global economy.
|December 5: News Release, US Senator Christopher Coons, A bipartisan group of 29 senators expressed support in a letter to President Obama for developing the necessary tools for successful mass atrocity prevention and response and also welcomed the Administrations PSD-10 issued in August 2011. Senator Chris Coons and Senator Susan Collins led this effort by the Senate.
|December 4: Time Magazine, Evidence provided by Satellite Sentinel's is being used by the International Criminal Court to build a case against an alleged war criminal.
|December 3: Indian Country, Carr Center Fellow Lisa Balk King notes how little attention was paid to an official U.S. government apology to Native Americans in "A Tree Fell in the Forest: The U.S. Apologized to Native Americans and No One Heard a sound."
|December 3: Security & Human Rights, The Security and Human Rights weblog of the Netherlands Helsinki Committee features a contribution by Carr Center Fellow Felisa Tibbitts on the recent OSCE/ODIHR Supplementary Human Dimensions meeting to tackle racism and xenophobia in Europe.
|November 28: Center for Strategic and International Studies, US Civil Society Working Group issues Expert Statement on the US National Action Plan. In this Experts' Statement, the U.S. Civil Society Working Group provides a brief overview of UNSCR 1325, highlights key recommendations for making the U.S. NAP effective, and clarifies misconceptions about women, peace and security.
|November 21: Massachusetts Governor, Deval Patrick, signed into law the Commonwealth's first anti-human trafficking bill, Bill H.3808, "An Act relative to the commercial exploitation of people."
|November 20: Felisa Tibbitts, Carr Center Fellow, co-moderated the workshop "Empowering children through learning: democratic citizenship and human rights education" at the Council of Europe conference on the 2012-2015 Strategy for the Rights of the Child, which took place in Monaco 20-21 November.
|November 14: Felisa Tibbitts, Carr Center Fellow, moderated the session on "Education for Tolerance and Mutual Respect and Understanding" at the OSCE Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting on Prevention of Racism, Xenophobia and Hate Crimes through Educational and Awareness-Raising Activities, which took place in Vienna on November 10-11.
|November 11: CNN, Carr Center Executive Director Charlie Clements comments on the significance of recent observations by the Satellite Sentinel Project suggesting that Sudan may be enhancing its airstrike capabilities along its border with South Sudan.
|November 8: The MARO Project co-hosted a groundbreaking two-day conference with US European Command and US Africa Command on Mass Atrocity Prevention and Response at the NATO School in Oberammergau, Germany.
|November 7: The Human Rights to Water and Sanitation Program held a joint event with the Gender and Security Seminar Series at the Carr Center entitled "Water and Sanitation for Women's Security." Carr Center Fellows Sharmila Murthy and Mark Williams explained how lack of access to clean, safe and affordable water and sanitation services disproportionately affects women and girls. Each day, women and girls collectively spend more than 200 million hours on transporting water, which reduces their opportunities for education and economic advancement. Lack of access to sanitation and hygiene services at schools is a further hurdle that discourages girls from attending school. In addition, women and girls are vulnerable to physical or sexual attacks while traveling long distances to collect water or when relieving themselves when sanitation facilities are not available. This session examined how the newly recognized human rights to water and sanitation can be used as a tool to address these gender inequities.
|November 5: Carr Center Fellow Sahana Dharmapuri and Veronica Isala Eragu Bichetero, Senior Fellow at United States Insitute for Peace and Ugandan Peace Negotiator, sponsored the session "Bringing Women to the Peace Table: Human Rights and Peace Processes" at this year's Harvard Leadership Conference, "Collaborating for Change."
|October 30: The Star (Malaysia), Carr Center fellow Siddharth Kara is interviewed by Malaysia's main newspaper as part of his State Department-sponsored trip to the region to discuss human trafficking.
|October 25: The Huffington Post, Timothy McCarthy, director of the Center's Gender, Sexuality and Human Rights project, interviewed by Kennedy School alumnus Matt Bieber, talks about Obama, the GOP, and life as a second-class citizen.
|October 25: The Harvard Gazette, Carr Center Fellow Sharmila Murthy and the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation Program are prominently featured in an article exploring the many ways people all around Harvard are working to make the most of water.
|October 24: The Carr Center's Human Rights to Water and Sanitation Program convened a highly successful meeting with Catarina de Albuquerque, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to Water and Sanitation and a select group of scholars and practitioners, which explored research ideas for fostering the progressive realization of the human rights to water and sanitation. Video Available
|October 18: The Carr Center hosted a study group with Daniele Lantagne and Sharmila Murthy to explore the relationship between the human rights to water and sanitation and MDG Target 7c, which seeks to "halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking-water and basic sanitation." The session first explored critiques of the current indicators from a human rights perspective. It then used a case study on water quality measuring tools to highlight the challenges of developing better indicators. In the last part of the session, the study group participants were provided with copies of sample surveys used by the Joint Monitoring Program (i.e. MICS and DHS) and asked to propose new indicators that would encompass human rights norms, but also be practically feasible to implement.
|October 16: TODAY (Singapore), Carr Center fellow and human trafficking expert Siddharth Kara sits down with TODAY, Singapore's largest newspaper, to discuss his most recent work in an interview which took place at the U.S. embassy in Singapore.
|October 13: Siddharth Kara, fellow with the Carr Center's Program on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery, gives the keynote address at Duke University's Franklin Institute conference on human trafficking, "Human Traffic: Past and Present."
|October 10: ForeignPolicy, Carr Center fellow Michael Semple discusses the significance of the recent capture of Mali Khan. More than just a trophy, Khan really has been one of the lynchpins of the Haqqani Network, and his capture will pose a whole series of challenges for those who lead and cooperate with them.
|October 5: The Harvard Gazette, Carr Center fellow Sahana Dharmapuri, leader of the Center's Gender and Security seminar series, moderates a Forum event at which Elizabeth Medina, Helen Benedict, and Abby Disney discuss the new PBS series "Women, War, and Peace."
|September 29: Timothy Patrick McCarthy, director of the Sexuality, Gender, and Human Rights Program, will deliver the annual Kniep Lecture at Pacific University on Monday, October 3rd. His lecture is entitled "In Search of Empathy: SocialMovements, Human Rights, and the Pursuit of Equality."
|September 29: CNN, Carr Center fellow Siddharth Kara, continuing his CNN Freedom Project series, describes how, even after many years of research, he is still surprised by the ubiquity of South Asia's brothels and the breadth of its sex trafficking networks.
|September 29: Siddharth Kara, fellow with the Carr Center's Program on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery, has been selected to deliver the keynote address at this year's Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Trafficking at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
|September 27: The Harvard Crimson, In its first event of the 2011 school year, Timothy McCarthy's popular Global Queer Series continues, this time bringing Ugandan Bishop Christopher Senyonjo to the Kennedy School for a discussion his efforts in combating discrimination against LGBT people in Uganda.
|September 27: The Carr Center hosted a study group meeting with Julia Tierney to examine Sao Paolo's remarkable progress in improving access to water and sanitation services in informal settlements. Although challenges remain, several factors were critical to this success: community pressure from below; political will from the top, including a commitment to achieving universal coverage; and technical, institutional and legal innovations within SABESP, the Sao Paulo state water company.
|September 23: Foreign Affairs, Carr Center fellow Michael Semple discusses how the network of militants operating in Pakistan's tribal areas are playing an increasingly destabilizing role in NATO's possible negotiations with the Taliban.
|September 21: Attendance exceeded expectations at the recent 'Building a Strategy for Human Rights Education in U.S. Schools' conference. Coordinated by Carr Center Fellow and leader of the Center's new Human Rights Education Initiative, Felisa Tibbitts, the two-day event brought together over 70 educators, students, union representatives, scholars and policymakers to discuss strategies for promoting human rights in the U.S. schooling system. At the conclusion of the conference, attendees agreed to initiate a new human rights education network in the U.S. and an initial Steering Committee was formed.
|September 19: The New Yorker, Former Carr Center fellow Dexter Filkins (2007-08) tells the story of a courageous journalist who, having been warned by Pakistani intelligence officials to curb his reporting on the links between the Pakistani military and Al Qaeda, was later found murdered.
|September 16: The Carr Center Human Rights to Water and Sanitation Program team participated in the International Water Forum at the United Nations in September. This international conference sought to build bridges between government, private sector, academia and non-governmental organizations to increase public awareness, develop educational campaigns and create effective solutions for the emerging water crisis.
|September 13: The Carr Center Human Rights to Water and Sanitation Program hosted an informative and well attended discussion led by Dr. Patricia Jones of UUSC and Julian Barriga of the Federation of Neighborhood Organizations ("FEJUVE") discussing the water issues confronting the cities of La Paz and El Alto, Bolivia.
|September 10: Carr Center fellow Siddharth Kara is being sent by the U.S. Department of State on a twelve-day trip to Southeast Asia to meet with officials in Singapore, Malaysia, and other countries to discuss how to combat human trafficking more effectively. He will also be giving lectures at major universities and U.N. offices.
|August 31: The Global Post, "The wall of impunity that has long protected war criminals is crumbling," notes Carr Center Executive Director Charlie Clements, in a discussion of just how valuable Satellite Sentinel has proven to be in the on-going effort to prevent war crimes in Sudan.
|August 21: Carr Center Fellows Sharmila Murthy and Mark Williams attend World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden.
|August 8: The Boston Globe, With the Massachusetts legislature currently considering one of the strongest, most comprehensive anti-trafficking bills in the country, Swanee Hunt, Senior Advisor to the Carr Center's Program on Human Trafficking and Modern-Day Slavery, explains why such a bill is needed and why it really will make a difference.
|August 4: The Wall Street Journal, An article in the Journal's Washington Wire section discussing the new presidential directive to prevent mass atrocities states that DOD's "own high-level initiative to make the military more ready and able to respond to potential mass killings"... "draws inspiration from Harvard professor Sarah Sewall, who has lobbied the military to embrace 'mass atrocity response operations' as a planning concept."
|August 4: United States Institute of Peace, President Obama issued a new Presidential Directive on Mass Atrocities today, Presidential Study Directive-10 (PSD-10), which aims to strengthen U.S. efforts to prevent mass atrocities. The Presidential Directive establishes an interagency Atrocities Prevention Board to develop atrocity prevention strategies and coordination with U.S. allies. Additionally, a Presidential Proclamation prevents entry into the U.S. of persons involved with crimes against humanity. Co-chairs of the Genocide Prevention Task Force, Madeleine K. Albright and William S. Cohen, "welcome with enthusiasm" the new directive and believe that "this is a forward-thinking plan that if fully implemented should eventually save countless lives."
|July 28: The Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) today released the report "Half Widow, Half Wife? Responding to Gendered Violence in Kashmir." It examines the situation of women in Indian-administered Kashmir whose husbands have "disappeared," but not yet been declared deceased.
|July 12: The Telegraph (UK), "Ahmad Wali Karzai's assassination leaves a power vacuum in Kandahar and seriously weakens both the Afghan government and NATO efforts to prop it up," writes Carr Center Fellow Michael Semple.
|July 12: CNN, Director of the Carr Center's Program on Human Trafficking and Modern-Day Slavery, Christina Bain is one of "3 Voices" consulted in a recent article discussing how to end modern-day slavery. The article is part of the ongoing CNN series, the CNN Freedom Project, investigating and exposing human trafficking worldwide.
|July 7: New Statesman, "The Taliban are just one faction in a long civil war which, thanks to international intervention, seems sure to intensify," notes Carr Center Fellow Michael Semple in an article discussing a decade of mistakes in the region.
|July 6: UPI, Carr Center Executive Director and Satellite Sentinel Project advisor, Charlie Clements, comments on recent troop movements, observed by the Satellite Sentinel team, now taking place in the wake of Southern Sudan's vote for independence.
|June 27: U.S. Dept. of State, The U.S. State Department has just released the 2011 TIP Report, its yearly overview of the state of human trafficking througout the world. This year's report includes a direct quote from Carr Fellow Siddharth Kara who, on page 9, says, "There are no quick fixes to human trafficking, forced labor, debt bondage, and child labor. Though I have documented these offences on all six continents, nothing I have seen anywhere approaches the scale of these crimes as I have seen in South Asia."
|June 23: Foreign Policy, Advocating a faster drawdown coupled with a long-term commitment, Carr Center Fellow Gerard Russell is one of seven experts included in this in-depth discussion of President Obama's recently announced plans for ending the war in Afghanistan.
|June 21: CNN, Carr Center Fellow Siddharth Kara continues his partnership with the CNN Freedom Project, that network's year-long series aimed at ending human trafficking, this time with an article explaining 10 steps anyone can take to help combat human trafficking.
|June 17: Time Magazine, Carr Center Fellow Michael Semple is quoted extensively in a recent piece about post Bin Laden al-Qaeda. Among other interesting points he makes is that Afghanistan has "turned into a giant film studio for al-Qaeda propaganda," adding, "they want to keep America embroiled in the conflict."
|June 3: CNN, A post from Carr Center Fellow Siddharth Kara currently headlines the Web site for the CNN's Freedom Project. The year-long project, subtitled "Ending Modern-Day Slavery" and to which Kara is a featured contributor, is an in-depth investigation of modern-day slavery throughout the world.
|June 2: African Arguments Online, Carr Center Executive Director, Charlie Clements, comments on last week's move by Sudanese Armed Forces and Misseriya militias to attack and seize Sudan's Abyei region, an action that has created a humanitarian crisis with more than 100,000 internally displaced persons, many in need of medical care and all desperate for food, water, and shelter.
|June 1: CNBC, Carr Center Fellow Siddharth Kara appears as a featured contributor in the new CNBC special, "Crime Inc, Human Trafficking." More than a year in the making, this one-hour investigative program exposes the horrifying human toll human trafficking inflicts throughout the world.
|May 16: Foreign Policy, Carr Center Fellow Michael Semple elaborates on his investigation into the controversial 2010, Takhar air strike, explores various alternatives to such kill list-driven missions, and warns of the danger of "push-button warfare," should we fail to learn form our mistakes.
|May 11: PBS Frontline, Possibly lending credence to the contention that it may have mistakenly killed the wrong man, Carr Center Fellow Michael Semple, appearing in the Frontline episode "Kill/Capture," disputes the U.S. military's assertion that it had killed Taliban commander Mohammad Amin.
|May 10: The Wall Street Journal, A Wall Street Journal article by Nathan Hodge discusses how the efforts of the MARO Project and the MARO Handbook are gaining more successful results, especially given the recent Libya intervention. Sarah Sewall explains that "the problem of mass atrocities, genocide prevention ... is that the military didn't think of it as a responsibility, so they didn't invest any time in trying to understand it." Praise for the Handbook comes from leaders such as Brig. Gen. James Lukeman, a senior deputy to General Carter Ham at AFRICOM, who said it is "a great tool to have" for thinking about the unique problems posed by mass atrocity interventions. A video clip, including parts of an interview with Sarah Sewall, accompanies the article.
|May 10: The Wall Street Journal, An article by Nathan Hodge discusses how the efforts of the MARO Project and the MARO Handbook are gaining more successful results, especially given the recent Libya intervention. Sarah Sewall explains that "the problem of mass atrocities, genocide prevention...is that the military didn't think of it as a responsibility, so they didn't invest any time in trying to understand it."
|May 9: NATO News Archive, Carr Center Fellow Sahana Dharmapuri was part of a small team of experts selected to participate in a NATO-led Training Needs Analysis (TNA)designed to fulfill the 2009 Bi-SC 40-1 Directive on Gender and UN Security Council Resolution 1325, a directive designed to improve the effectiveness of NATO missions by incorporating a gender perspective.
|May 7: The Guardian (UK), Osama bin Laden's death creates an opportunity for new narrative of the Afghan conflict, one that just might include peace, notes Carr Center Fellow Michael Semple. But U.S. engagement with the Taliban in Pakistan is essential.
|May 5: Project on Middle East Democracy, Possible responses to the escalating violence in Syria are explored in this policy brief by former Carr Center Fellow Radwan Ziadeh. Ziadeh, currently director of the Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies and visiting scholar at George Washington University, is author of "Power and Policy in Syria: Intelligence Services, Foreign Relations, and Democracy in the Modern Middle East."
|May 4: The Wall Street Journal, Carr Center Fellow Michael Semple comments on what Osama bin Laden's death might mean for the Taliban and its possible reintegration into the Afghan political system.
|May 2: The Telegraph (UK), Carr Center Fellow Michael Semple explains why the killing of Osama bin Laden in a house in Abbottabad Cantonment marks the end of one phase of the war in Afghanistan.
|April 28: China Radio International, Beijing, Carr Center Fellow Siddharth Kara participated in a discussion of trafficking with China's International Labour Office. The discussion was broadcast live by China Radio International, the largest radio station in Beijing.
|April 23: New Internationalist Magazine, In an online debate titled "Is talking to the Taliban a betrayal of Afghanistan's women?" Carr Center Fellow Michael Semple takes up one of the many difficult issues associated with a potential U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
|April 21: The Washington Post, In an op-ed by Sarah Sewall and Retired Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni, former CENTCOM commander, titled "The military interventions we don't plan for - those to protect civilians," highlighting the ongoing situation in Libya, the authors argue that military planners are still in need of the appropriate tools to properly study and prepare for missions to stop mass atrocities.
|April 15: 2011 Gay Rights as Human Rights Conference, April 15-16 at the Harvard Kennedy School. The conference is free and open to the public. Click to visit the conference web site for complete session and registration information.
|April 14: ForeignPolicy.com, Carr Center Fellow Gerard Russell reviews Bing West's book on Afghanistan, "The Wrong War: Grit, Strategy and the way out of Afghanistan."
|April 14: CNN, Commending the "Real Men Don't Buy Girls" campaign of Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher, Carr Center Fellow and anti-trafficking advocate Siddharth Kara notes that, regarding the disruption of slavery's demand side, "the importance of this effort cannot be overstated."
|April 8: Gaypril is an annual celebration of LGBTQ communities and identities throughout Harvard University. All of the LGBTQ student organizations at each of Harvard's schools host events and social gatherings to engage fellow students, faculty, staff, and community members in LGBTQ issues and educate about LGBTQ lives.
|April 7: Foreign Policy, A recent article on ForeignPolicy.com discusses the MARO Handbook and its relevance to the preparations leading to the Libya intervention in March 2011. Quoting MARO Project Director Sally Chin and PKSOI Representative Dwight Raymond, author Kimberly Johnson discusses the importance of the MARO concept, and the handbook, in adding legitimacy and providing guidance for planners dealing with international humanitarian interventions.
|April 5: Canada's Journal of Ideas, Carr Center Fellow Gerard Russell, writing in Canada's Journal of Ideas, asks that we should honour the Arab Spring by putting an end to anti-Muslim rhetoric.
|April 4: The Nation, Manning Marable, esteemed professor of public affairs, history and African-American Studies at Columbia University passed away last Friday, April 1. Timothy McCarthy, for whom Professor Marable was both friend and mentor, contributed to this on-line tribute.
|April 3: Toronto Star, Former Carr Center Faculty Director Michael Ignatieff is the subject of this recent biographical piece in the Toronto Star. Ignatieff was faculty director from 2000-2005.
|March 31: CNN, Carr Center Fellow and trafficking expert Siddharth Kara discusses the scale of the trafficking business and how far some of its victims travel, in this recent CNN interview.
|March 22: BBC World Service, Carr Center Fellow Michael Semple contributes to this BBC interview, made on the 10 year anniversary of the Taliban's destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas: what it meant to him, and how they might have been saved.
|March 20: Human Rights & Social Movements Program Director, Timothy McCarthy is a panelist for "Changing Hearts and Minds: The Cultural Work of LGBT Acceptance," sponsored by QualityGiving.org, an on-line community of major donors, policymakers, and activists in the LGBT movement.
|March 12: On the Blog: This year's Alternative Spring Break project to rebuild black churches burned by arson stays local and goes to Springfield, Mass. to help rebuild the Macedonia Church of God in Christ, burned by arson in 2008. Click to follow their efforts on this blog.
|March 10: Foreign Policy, As he has in earlier testimony before the British Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee, Carr Center Fellow Gerard Russell continues to advocate that, "the US should not delay its significant involvement in talks with the Taliban leadership."
|March 10: Global Post, "These most recent images indicate that the already volatile situation in Abyei has further deteriorated," says Executive Director Charlie Clements of recent imagery provided by the Satellite Sentinel Project, a project whose significance is being validated now on an almost daily basis.
|March 7: The New York Times, Recent revelations validate usefulness of Satellite Sentinel Project as analysis of imagery provided by the project would seem to be pointing to a deliberate attempt to subvert peace.
|March 3: Afghanistan Analysts Network, In "Why the Buddhas of Bamian were destroyed," Carr Center Fellow Michael Semple argues that the destruction of the great Bamian Buddhas was avoidable; they were destroyed because western powers deemed them an insufficiently important issue over which to intervene.
|February 28: Harvard Kennedy School Magazine, The remarkable path that has brought Carr Center Associate Fellow Razzaq Al-Saiedi to the Kennedy School is detailed in a brief biography in the latest edition of the HKS Magazine.
|February 25: The UN Independent Expert on the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation, Dr. Catarina de Albuquerque, visited Boston. Albuquerque heard testimony from community members living in the greater Boston area regarding problems with their water and sanitation services.
|February 18: New Study Group! "Human Rights and Transitional Justice" Six meetings during spring term. Click to find out more...
|February 15: Carr Center Fellow Gerard Russell notes (in this blog post) that accusations leveled against the UN in Afghanistan, accusations that UN reports prior to 2010 failed to highlight Taliban human rights abuses, have proven to be factually untrue.
|February 9: Parliament looks to past and present State Building and Human Rights, Afghanistan & Pakistan program members for insight. Former Carr Center Fellow Matt Waldman as well as current Fellows Michael Semple and Gerard Russell testified before the British Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee regarding UK's foreign policy approach to Afghanistan and Pakistan.
|February 5: BBC TV, Carr Center Fellow Gerard Russell is interviewed by the BBC's Arabic TV channel regarding the ongoing situation in Egypt, and calls for free and fair elections. [no video link available]
|February 4: BBC News, Carr Center Fellow Siddharth Kara is one of 5 featured panelists in a new BBC news series on human trafficking. Titled "The BBC World Debate on Human Trafficking," the forum took place last December during a U.N. conference in Luxor, Egypt. Click to view series video.
|February 1: The Huffington Post, Richmond Blake and Rafaela Zuidema, two Kennedy School students and PAE advisees of HR&SM Director Timothy McCarthy, relay the story of their interview with Ugandan LGBT rights activist David Kato, which took place shortly before his murder.
|January 28: Carr Center launches new seminar series, "Gender & Security," for Spring 2011! The new series will focus on the relationship between conflict, peace and gender. It will function as a survey of six topics related to this theme over the course of the Spring 2011 semester. All are welcome!
|January 27: allAfrica.com, Carr Center Executive Director Charlie Clements reiterates the unique value of Satellite Sentinel, as the Project begins to yield significant information, specifically, the revalation of SAF troop build-ups along the South Kordofan border.
|January 26: Timothy McCarthy, Director of the Human Rights and Social Movements Program, has received a commendation as a "devoted public servant and advocate for social justice" in a unanimous resolution from the Cambridge City Council, honoring his "courageous leadership, hard work, dedication, passion, and commitment to educating the community on LGBT issues."
|January 25: Harvard Kennedy School News, Martha Chen, Lecturer in Public Policy and Carr Center Faculty Affiliate, has been awarded a Padma Shri by the Government of India in recognition of her work around issues of employment, poverty and gender in India.
|January 20: The Carr Center's Human Rights & Social Movements Program, directed by Timothy McCarthy, this spring kicks off a new seminar series, the Global Queer Series, a five-part set of public discussions on LGBTQ human rights issues in the global arena. First meeting: Feb. 8, "LGBTQ Human Rights in Palestine."
|January 11: The Nation, "The public policy debate on Afghan opium is filled with simple narratives justified by simple metrics and responded to with simple solutions," say Carr Fellows David Mansfield and Paul Fishstein." The problem: such simplification "propels us toward ineffective and even counterproductive policies."
|January 10: The Los Angeles Times, Carr Faculty Affiliate David Yanagizawa-Drott provides insight and perspective on the groundbreaking Satellite Sentinel Project, a project to which actor George Clooney is deeply committed. Yanagizawa-Drott, through the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, is involved in analyzing and assessing the satellite data.
|January 5: Working with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, the Carr Center gets involved with The Satellite Sentinel Project. Carr Faculty Director Charlie Clements and David Yanagizawa-Drott, a Carr Center faculty affiliate, assume significant roles.
|January 5: The Harvard Crimson, Carr Center Executive Director Charlie Clements discusses the Satellite Sentinel Project, a new effort, created by the human rights group Not On Our Watch, that is using satellite imagery to prevent violence in the Sudan.
|January 4: CNN.com, A recent CNN.com op-ed highlights the importance of the MARO Project's concepts given the possibility of mass atrocities in Southern Sudan with the January 9 referendum. The authors Chris Taylor, CEO of Mission Essential Personnel, and retired Gen. Anthony Zinni, former commander of CENTCOM, emphasize the need to enshrine MARO internationally and for a permanent framework for future governments planning to halt mass atrocities, as offered through the MARO Project.
|January 4: Harvard Kennedy School News, Students in IGA-304: Human Rights and International Politics, a course taught by Carr Center core faculty member Mathias Risse, travel to New York to meet with policymakers and leaders at the United Nations.


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Granola gets a bad wrap as being one of those "fake healthy" foods, and usually… it is.
Grocery store shelves are lined with box after box of granola claiming to provide endless health benefits, when in truth, most of their nutrition labels read like a candy bar.
Guilty of being a granola glutton myself, I wasn't quite ready to give up my granola eating ways in order to stick to my New Year's resolution to eat healthy.
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5 Step Healthy Homemade Granola
- 5 cups old fashioned oats (not quick cooking)
- 1 cup 7 or 9 grain hot cereal
- 1/4 cup pecans
- 1/4 cup chopped walnuts
- 1/4 cup slivered almonds
- 1/4 cup sunflower kernels
- 1/2 cup dried cherries (or an dried fruit)
- 1/2 cup coconut
- 1 cup toasted wheat germ
- 1/2 cup flax seed
- 1/4 cup sugar/stevia blend
- 1 Tbsp cinnamon
- 1 Tbsp vanilla
- 1/2 cup coconut oil
- 2/3 cup natural honey
- Preheat oven to 300 degrees
- In a large bowl, mix together dry ingredients until well blended
- Heat 1/2 cup oil and 2/3 cup honey on stovetop until liquified, then add vanilla
- Pour honey, oil, and vanilla mixture over the dry ingredients until evenly distributed, then spread about 1 inch thick over cookie sheet
- Bake for 10-15 minutes, then stir granola and cook an additional 5 minutes for chewy granola and 10 minutes for crunchy (I like to do a batch of each). Watch it closely after it goes in the second time, because it can burn quickly if you aren't careful! Spread onto wax paper to cool. Enjoy!
Number of servings: 8
I love having this stuff on hand- I put it on yogurt, use it to snaz up my boring cereal, and eat it right out of the bag.
This recipe is far cheaper, far healthier, and far more delicious than store bought.
Get creative with it and find your own favorite combination. I'd love to hear what you come up with!
Until next time,
Happy Baking!


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Gabby Ennis spent about five hours preparing Saturday for the Mother McAuley High School prom, where she and hundreds of her fellow seniors danced the night away.
It took Ennis just seconds to flip off her heels and lace up a pair of tennis shoes for a few volleyball matches at the school's first-ever post-prom early Sunday morning.
This year, the all-girls Catholic school in Chicago's Mount Greenwood community threw a post-prom party in the school's gymnasium. The event was created to have a safe place for students following the big dance.
"We wanted to offer an alternative to some at-risk behaviors that some kids engage in after prom," McAuley Principal Claudia Woodruff said.
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The school provided several bounce houses, a photo booth, movies, basketball and volleyball games to the students. Catering came from local restaurant Clancy's, which is owned by McAuley parent Kevin O'Kennedy. Trolleys carried the girls and their escorts from the Oak Brook prom venue to the school.
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"Students never want prom to end," Woodruff said. "It seems as though the weekend can't just be one dance."
Ennis, 18, a senior volleyball player from Palos Heights who will be on scholarship at Cornell University next school year, said she got in a couple of volleyball matches during the wee hours of the post-prom morning.
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Students were encouraged, but not required, to attend the red carpet-themed post-prom party. Nearly half of the girls who were at prom and their escorts participated.
Woodruff said the feedback from students and parents has been positive, and they hope to make the post-prom party an annual event.
"Our goal eventually is to have 100 percent of the senior class attend," Woodruff said.
Mother McAuley educates almost 1,200 students in grades nine to 12 and is the country's largest all-girls high school, according to its website.


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