Starting in September, the Oakland School of Nursing will offer an online professional development course entitled &# A Lifestyle Change to Improve Health: The Vegan Diet.&# The course is open to everyone; not just OU students. Heads up, animal lovers! There will be wonderful recipes for students, like a French silk tofu pie.&#. MORE >>

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Scotland just opened the world’s first year-round avalanche training course designed to help rescuers find victims. And while Scotland certainly isn’t the snowiest place in the world throughout the year, wood chips are substituted when the winter weather is lacking. Via: The Goat ]. Photo via: Flickr ]. MORE >>

The professor is a past-president of the Southern Economics Association (here is his vita ): Students regularly drop out of massive open online courses before they come to term. Because of disagreements over how to best conduct this course, I’ve agreed to disengage from it, with regret,” Mr. McKenzie wrote. Richard A.   MORE >>

To register for this course, go to [link] This press release is presented for your information only. The first class will emphasize the element of fire with practical examples of how the fire of the sun can be captured to support a splendid garden in a harsh environment. Ralph Douwe Raaths was born in Lusaka, Zambia. MORE >>