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Thinking of publishing in an open access journal? Will your tenure track committee notice if the journal has an obscure name? Why don't you publish in the Journal of Applied Public Health Research? Sounds too good to be true? If you are interested, please read about this sting operation: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/60.full I receive many emails per day inviting me to publish in reputable open access journals. My favorite quote is this: "We are ardent to promote erudite, pragmatic, and contemporaneous research" This is from a journal supposedly based in San Diego. . There are more interesting guidelines for selecting a reputable journal here: http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/list-of-predatory-publishers-2014/

The TRUE sustainable Energy Source

I like the simplicity and message of this video: http://vimeo.com/61922472 Energy can be obtained from waste-water. From the film: "Everyday I have to re convince the same people I convinced  yesterday".. about the energy potential in waste water.

Volunteer for the Phillipines Disaster Response

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The LLU  is known as a global hub for all aspects of health. Our Public Health Disaster Assistance and Relief Team (PH DART) exists to respond to these types of disasters. Our team is now working with  ADRA  international to conduct a rapid needs assessment on water and sanitation, logistics, and shelter among other topics in select regions of the Philippines. I believe that we have the institutional responsibility to respond to disasters of this magnitude and we have devoted effort to a relevant response. We realize that there are now many ways to volunteer for the  present disaster  in the Philippines. Donations are the obvious choice, but the types of social media and crowdsourcing is now also evolving. Tweets and Facebook entries are now the most common type of crowdsourcing, but often not organized into any central repository that can be used by agents on the ground.  There are now new efforts towards "crowd-crafting" those first-person entries. That " crowdcraft

Best crowdsourcing for the Typhoon

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After a morning of searching, I see the the google crisis map as a good solution; there are many other crowdsourced maps that have popped up in the last week. Relief workers should have staff monitoring these for relevant entries to their area of concern. The google crisis map allows you to upload data or datasets by using a q uestionnaire available here . This is organized in Google's Crisis Response group. There is also a Typhoon Yolanda people finder that is very useful. The Philippines government crowdsourcing data and GIS data http://disaster.dswd.gov.ph/maps.php The Philippines government crowdsourced GIS data server http://disaster.dswd.gov.ph/maps.php The Google site obtains much of its data from ESRI here: http://fema-services2.esri.com/arcgis/rest/services/2013_Cyclone_Haiyan/Cyclone_Haiyan_Impact/MapServer/ The ESRI hosted crowdsourcing map http://giscorps.maps.arcgis.com/apps/OnePane/basicviewer/index.html?appid=cf6031322a334cc3bfe3f9a74f23b384 The o

Donate to Typhoon Haiyan without admin costs!

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The Water Charity  allows you to donate to the Typhoon Haiyan Relief effort: You can donate knowing that all of your donation is going towards the actual purchase of filters to provide drinking water. They already have partners on the ground who are distributing the filters. They are working with ADRA , Sawyer water filters and many other partners. Click here:

My Christian Drinking Water Prezi

http://prezi.com/1ydlqbm9cjkh/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy

A Christian's Global Stewardship and Duty for Sustainable Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene

I'm giving a presentation today in our annual faculty meeting/retreat.  The title is "A Christian's Global Stewardship and Duty for Sustainable Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene".  You can see the presentation on prezi here: http://prezi.com/mrhp7uyq0kji/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share Some points that I want to make are the following: I am not aware of ANY department, program, school, curriculum etc at any school in any country which focuses on water and sanitation from a christian perspective to water and sanitation.  The Loma Linda University School of Public Health is in a prime position to have an academic program on water and sanitation from a religion perspective.   We are in this prime position because: We are re-energizing and re-designing our School of Public Health We recognize our strength as  a religious school of Public Health There are MANY Christian NGOs with WASH as a top priority WASH and Tropical Medicine repres