Adam Maestro created a music magazine for his media studies project that focuses on live music and new artists. Through researching existing magazines and the industry, he gained an understanding of magazine development, editing, and the different sectors required for production and distribution. His magazine challenges conventions by focusing on live music and unsigned acts. It would appeal to those interested in live music and new artists, as well as people in the music industry. Maestro believes the project helped him improve his skills and gain knowledge of the magazine industry.
Policy Development to Tackle Structural Origins of Health Inequities: Thought...Jim Bloyd, DrPH, MPH
A plenary presentation by Jim Bloyd, MPH, Regional Health officer at the Cook County (Illinois, USA) Department of Public Health, was made Tuesday April 12, 2016, at the National Leadership Academy, "Strengthening the Capacity of Public Health Departments to Advance Health Equity," at the CDC Tom Harkin Global Communications Center, Atlanta, Georgia. The presentation describes the Chicago-area context in which policy is considered, the importance of adopting a causal framework for policy action to eliminate health inequities, actions taken by the Cook County Department of Public Health through its planning and assessment process, and the role of the Collaborative for Health Equity Cook County. The plenary topic, "Best Practices for Developing Policies to Address Social Determinants of Health," was addressed by a panel moderated by Leandris Liburd, Director, Office of Minority Health and Health Equity at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC hosted the National Leadership Academy on Health Equity, a two-day meeting April 11-12, 2016. The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), the National Association of State Offices of Minority Health (NASOMH), and the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) invited participants. At the conclusion of the National Leadership Academy on Health Equity a final report will be developed highlighting action steps, opportunities, challenges and lessons learned fro participants at the leadership academy. Participants' input during breakout sessions will play a critical role in defining the substance of the report. A twitter hashtag #CDCHealthEquity was created by participants during the meeting.
Research on Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) offers a number of effective methods for caching of content replicas or forwarding requests. Clouds, however, present a new kind of distribution environment as each location can support multiple caching options varying in the level of persistence of stored content. This paper proposes a distributed caching technology specific to fog clouds which, by definition, consist of a high number of loosely controlled heterogeneous locations. To deal with the heterogeneity problem and, at the same time, avoid centralized control, this paper proposes a function that allows CDN applications to discover local caching facilities dynamically, at runtime. For simplicity, this paper analyzes the case when each location offers two caching options: VM-based for each app and location-global shared by all local apps. Analysis in this paper shows that the new method can reduce inter-cloud traffic by between 16 and 18 times while retaining less than 30% of total content in a local cache.
Latin american critical ('social') epidemiology new settings for an old dreamJim Bloyd, DrPH, MPH
Breilh, J. (2008). Latin american critical ('social') epidemiology: New settings for an old dream. International Journal of Epidemiology, 37(4), 745-50. doi:10.1093/ije/dyn135
...unions address physical and psychosocial conditions of work and the underlying inequalities and social determinants of health....Despite occasional challenges, public health professionals should increase their efforts to engage with unions as critical partners.
Policy Development to Tackle Structural Origins of Health Inequities: Thought...Jim Bloyd, DrPH, MPH
A plenary presentation by Jim Bloyd, MPH, Regional Health officer at the Cook County (Illinois, USA) Department of Public Health, was made Tuesday April 12, 2016, at the National Leadership Academy, "Strengthening the Capacity of Public Health Departments to Advance Health Equity," at the CDC Tom Harkin Global Communications Center, Atlanta, Georgia. The presentation describes the Chicago-area context in which policy is considered, the importance of adopting a causal framework for policy action to eliminate health inequities, actions taken by the Cook County Department of Public Health through its planning and assessment process, and the role of the Collaborative for Health Equity Cook County. The plenary topic, "Best Practices for Developing Policies to Address Social Determinants of Health," was addressed by a panel moderated by Leandris Liburd, Director, Office of Minority Health and Health Equity at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC hosted the National Leadership Academy on Health Equity, a two-day meeting April 11-12, 2016. The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), the National Association of State Offices of Minority Health (NASOMH), and the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) invited participants. At the conclusion of the National Leadership Academy on Health Equity a final report will be developed highlighting action steps, opportunities, challenges and lessons learned fro participants at the leadership academy. Participants' input during breakout sessions will play a critical role in defining the substance of the report. A twitter hashtag #CDCHealthEquity was created by participants during the meeting.
Research on Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) offers a number of effective methods for caching of content replicas or forwarding requests. Clouds, however, present a new kind of distribution environment as each location can support multiple caching options varying in the level of persistence of stored content. This paper proposes a distributed caching technology specific to fog clouds which, by definition, consist of a high number of loosely controlled heterogeneous locations. To deal with the heterogeneity problem and, at the same time, avoid centralized control, this paper proposes a function that allows CDN applications to discover local caching facilities dynamically, at runtime. For simplicity, this paper analyzes the case when each location offers two caching options: VM-based for each app and location-global shared by all local apps. Analysis in this paper shows that the new method can reduce inter-cloud traffic by between 16 and 18 times while retaining less than 30% of total content in a local cache.
Latin american critical ('social') epidemiology new settings for an old dreamJim Bloyd, DrPH, MPH
Breilh, J. (2008). Latin american critical ('social') epidemiology: New settings for an old dream. International Journal of Epidemiology, 37(4), 745-50. doi:10.1093/ije/dyn135
...unions address physical and psychosocial conditions of work and the underlying inequalities and social determinants of health....Despite occasional challenges, public health professionals should increase their efforts to engage with unions as critical partners.
Growing number of wireless devices nowadays often results in congestion of wireless channels. In research, this topic is referred to as networking in dense wireless spaces. The literature on the topic shows that the biggest problem is the high number of concurrent sessions to a wireless access point. The obvious solution is to reduce the number of concurrent sessions. This paper proposes a simple method called Bulk-n-Pick which minimizes the number of prolonged concurrent sessions by separating bulk from sync traffic. Aiming at educational applications, under the proposed design web applications would distribute the main bulk of content once at the beginning of a class and then rely on small messages for realtime sync traffic during the class. For realistic performance analysis, this paper first performs real-life experiments with various counts of wireless devices, bulk sizes and levels of sync intensity. Based on the experiment, this paper shows that the proposed Bulk-n-Pick method outperforms the traditional design even when only two concurrent bulk sessions are allowed. The experiment shows that up to 10 concurrent bulk sessions are feasible in practice.
Power, Policy, and Structural Determinants of Health Inequities--Condensed Ex...Jim Bloyd, DrPH, MPH
This is a three-page document consisting of excerpted quotations and two figures from A Conceptual Framework for Action on the Social Determinants of Health by Orielle Solar and Alec Irwin, World Health Organization, 2010. It is intended as a summary of key principles and concepts.
How a culture of disregard for the Public Taints the Federal LCR and Banalize...Jim Bloyd, DrPH, MPH
Presentation by Yanna Lambrinidou, PhD, (Science and Technology in Society, National Capital Region Campus, Falls Church, VA, USA) at the American Public Health Association annual meeting, Denver, Colorado, November 2016
Recent literature on traffic control in datacenter intra- and interconnect has moved from optical burst switching and FCoE to the cut-through mode enforced e2e on commodity ethernet lines. E2e cut-through sessions -- aka, effectively, circuits -- are implemented as optimized schedules in which bulk transfer sessions are mixed with a large number of small flows. This paper presents a new optimizational viewpoint, formulated as the Switchboard Traffic Engineering Problem (STEP). First, the mixed schedule of input flows is mapped to a finite number of (physical) output lines some of which are implemented as (physical) e2e cut-through paths. The second part of the problem is to physically shuffle input ports (hence the switchboard) on switches with output lines in such a way that overall contention is minimized. This paper deals with the formulation of the optimization problem and leaves the otherwise obvious (robotics) implementation of the shuffling part of the technology to future publications.
2. My media AS product is a music magazine, that devotes itself to live music, as well as new artists. Throughout the process of creating my media product, I gained a substantial amount of understanding of magazine creation, development and editing, through the use of several technological methods.
3. In addition, my understanding of the magazine industry increased by researching all the different areas that are required to produce and distribute a magazine. I used the major websites, blog posts and forums to help me understand how each sector works, as well as using major magazines such as 'Q', 'NME', 'Music Week'.
4. Non music magazines, such as 'Esquire' and 'Empire', were also helpful in giving me a basic understanding of how magazines are constructed. EMPIRE MAGAZINE ESQUIRE MAGZINE
5. However, to get a more in-depth look into how I will create my magazine, I felt it was necessary to investigate local and independent magazines, such as 'ilikemusic' online magazine, and 'the fly' as these had a closer association with the magazine that I intended to create. THE FLY MAGAZINE WWW.ILIKEMUSIC.COM
6. I decided to interpret some of the conventions of existing magazines such as including typical articles or features, so that my audience would recognise it as a legitimate and professional product. For example, the picture below demonstrates a conventional interview with an artist. Unlike this Q magazine interview, My interview Also includes an additional feature to enhance The promotion of the featured artist, as well as Promote the magazine’s other media (e.g. Website, next week’s issue…)
7. After researching different magazines for different ideas, I came across 'Esquire' magazine, which I think has a great contents page, I decided to base my contents page on that. This is seen clearly with the feature which is placed at the bottom of my contents page, showing the readers that subscribed readers are given a 'special' covered magazine. This is done to entice the reader to subscribe monthly.
8. Furthermore, I decided to keep my front cover simple and have one main featured artist, who is constantly referred to throughout the magazine. This is based on most music magazines that I have read and thought that it has a great impact, as well as being a great way to promote a different artist each month. Financially, this idea is very good, as this generates high revenues from the artist's management.
9. Moreover, through my research I witnessed several occasions where magazines refer their audiences to their web sites or other media resources, therefore I decided to develop this by calling attention to my magazine's website as well as other media at every possible stage.
10. My magazine also challenges forms and conventions of real media products, as unlike any other music magazine I have come across, my magazine is dedicated to live music, as well as up and coming new artists. My magazine showcases and promotes unheard and unsigned acts.
11. My music magazine does not have a specific social group as such, however the sort of person who would read my magazine, would be one who enjoys live music, and is interested in new and up and coming artists. Furthermore, I believe that my magazine offers an amalgamated mix of NME and Music Week, as well as 'The Fly', thereby opening up the magazine to a large sector audience. By doing this, it has the added bonus of being an ideal source of information for those in the music industry.
12. I believe that I address my audience very well, as I very clearly express what my magazine is about, avoiding misinterpretations. This is clearly exposed in my front cover page:
13. In this section of the cover page, it is very clear that my magazine is concentrated on live music. By using a picture from an amateur gig, the reader can see that the featured artist is not a well known or popular musician, however my magazine introduces him to the world. This image is anchored with the the magazine's title "LIVE" and the slogan "Bringing You The Best Of Live Music", a very clear and straightforward way to tell the audience exactly what they will be reading when buying my magazine. In addition, by putting the links to the magazine's WebPages, I am giving the readers easy access to find out more about the featured artists in the magazine.
14. The media distribution company that I would approach regarding my magazine, would definitely be 'Bauer Media Group', because they are a major, top selling distribution company. However, my main reason for this is that it opens up the possibility to work along side 'NME' and 'Q' magazines and potentially give their audiences what those magazines can not deliver, or are losing over the years - dedication.
15. I have learnt a lot about technologies from the process of constructing this product. I learnt how to use 'Photoshop' constructively and creatively, to generate exactly what I wanted on my magazine.
16. In addition I obtained some photographic skills, by using different angles, lighting and lens correction to obtain the perfect images for my magazine. Furthermore, this project was the first time that I used a blog website, and during my research, I read many blogs and forums, all of which helped me to learn a lot and obtain a better understanding of the web resources that are available to me.
17. Looking back at my preliminary task, constructing a front cover page and contents page of a sixth form magazine, I feel that during the progress of that task and my final product (music Magazine) I have obtained many skills which helped me to create the final project. I also learnt that the most important factor of a creation of a magazine was to make it look professional, which my sixth form magazine lacked.
18. Also, my research into the magazine industry and how they are created, (including a talk with 'Jude Rogers' - a freelance, music writer/journalist) helped me a substantial amount in the creation of my own music magazine.
19. In conclusion, I am very happy with my final product, as it shows the progress that I have made throughout my first year studying Media Studies. In addition, I believe that I have obtained many different skills in several technologies, as well as gained a more in depth knowledge of the magazine industry.