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- Legal shoe drops on vaccine-autism link
- Legal shoe drops on vaccine-autism linkIt will never endtoo many parents see their autistic kids as "broken" and want something or someone to blame.Having said that, there are varying levels of autism, and I can't help but wonder if some of the higher orders of autism the primarily manifest as...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, autism, vaccine, ADHD, Autism, Wakefield
- Discussion threads 2009-02-12
- Media bias and vaccine compliance
- Media bias and vaccine complianceOne problem is.......vaccines are made and administered by humans and humans make mistakes. In the mid 80's, I worked at a school for autistic students. No "mild to moderate", only "severe & profound". Of the approximately 90 students there, I recall at least...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Autism, vaccine, compliance, Wakefield
- Discussion threads 2008-09-07
- Wakefield Refines IT Operations and Reduces Costs With Microsoft Dynamics AX
- Wakefield Canada Inc. is a recently created sales and distribution corporation that provides sales, marketing and distribution capabilities for the Castrol brand of automotive oil and lubricants. Wakefield wanted to migrate from the legacy main frame systems to a more nimble and streamlined IT software architecture that was fully integrated...
- Tags: Microsoft Dynamics, Software, Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Wakefield, Sales Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Sales Force Management, Strategy, Sales, Management
- Case studies 2007-09-04
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- Global Real-Estate Firm Builds ECM Solution by Integrating Fast, Effective Search
- Cushman & Wakefield built itself into one of the world's largest real-estate services firms. But could it build a search application for its Marketing department, which wanted to help the firm keep its leadership position? The marketers wanted a solution tailored to the document types and metadata tags that they...
- Tags: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Microsoft Corp., Cushman & Wakefield, Content Management, Leadership, Roi/Tco, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Finance, Managerial Accounting
- Case studies 2009-07-10
- Licensing Model Saves Council 25 Per Cent on Infrastructure Deployment and Monitoring
- Wakefield Council delivers public services to 318,000 people who live in a mixture of rural and urban areas in West Yorkshire in the United Kingdom. Wakefield Council needed a cost-effective package of technologies to deploy and monitor its new infrastructure. Microsoft Services recommended a licensing Server Management Suite Enterprise SMSE...
- Tags: Council, Monitoring, Microsoft Corp., Wakefield Council, Servers, Hardware
- Case studies 2009-06-01
- A bureaucrat says study vaccines and mercury so panic
- A bureaucrat says study vaccines and mercury so panicWhere to start?[i]Dr. Andrew Wakefield, whose study, trumpeted on 1,000 Web sites, claimed the preservative in MMR (Mumps, Measles and Rubella) vaccines given to infants contains mercury which causes autism.[/i]Wakefield never claimed that preservatives in MMR caused autism; this may be due...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, vaccine, mercury, MMR, autism
- Discussion threads 2009-02-26
- Was the vaccine-autism link a fraud?
- Was the vaccine-autism link a fraud?HMMMM food for thoughtwell my brother in law is autistic and my mother in law blames the vaccines that he was given as the tributing factor I think there is a bigger reason but until we know for sure,well still have all this debate and...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, JUNK SCIENCE, vaccine, Mercury
- Discussion threads 2009-02-10
- Was the vaccine-autism link a fraud?
- Bloggers like Science-Based Medicine now call Wakefield a fraud, while Discover Magazine's Bad Astronomy blog writes that whether Wakefield faked his results or not he's still wrong. Asks Tara Smith of Aetiology, "Vaccines and autism--can we stick a fork in it now, please?" by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Vaccine, Fraud, Deer, Andrew Wakefield, Healthcare, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-02-10
- Media bias and vaccine compliance
- Reporters have been hyping a 1998 study by Dr. Andrew Wakefield, claiming a link between vaccines and autism. Pediatrics found a direct link between the hype and non-compliance. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Vaccine, Media, Compliance, Healthcare, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-09-07
- Real Estate Firm Validates Solution Through Technology Center Engagements
- When real estate leader Cushman & Wakefield needed help ensuring the scalability of a new shared workspace solution, it turned to the Microsoft Technology Center MTC for advice. Guided by an MTC architect, the firm validated its solution architecture, improved its overall solution design, and increased its scalability. As a...
- Tags: Solution, Scalability, Real Estate, Business Operations
- Case studies 2008-06-01
- Technical Support Deal Helps Council Cut Carbon Footprint and Save £4 Million
- Wakefield Metropolitan District Council is leading the modernisation drive in United Kingdom public services by delivering real benefits for employees and citizens through its Worksmart change programme. Wakefield needed to upgrade its collaboration and communications servers to better support service delivery and flexible ways of working for employees. Through its...
- Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server, Carbon Footprint, Microsoft Corp., Wakefield Metropolitan District Council, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Operational Accounting, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance
- Case studies 2008-03-01
- West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service Turn to Asigra for Data Back Up
- West Yorkshire Fire Rescue Service WYFRS is responsible for maintaining a fire and rescue service for Leeds, Bradford, Kirklees, Wakefield and Calderdale. With five district councils and 48 fire stations, one of the biggest IT challenges faced by WYFRS was data protection. With vital enterprise information stored on servers and...
- Tags: Information Technology, Asigra, Backups, Disaster Recovery, Strategy, Data Management, Management
- Case studies 2007-12-12
- Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Huge collection. FREE Author's biography and Stories in the trial (Mobile)
- Indulge Yourself with the best classics literature on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any novel from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Authors biography and free stories in the trial version.Features Navigate from Table of Contents or search for words or phrases Make bookmarks, notes, highlights...
- Tags: Mobile, Biology, MobileReference
- Software downloads 2007-08-08
- Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Huge collection. FREE Author's biography and Stories in the trial (Mobile)
- Indulge Yourself with the best classics literature on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any novel from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Authors biography and free stories in the trial version.Features Navigate from Table of Contents or search for words or phrases Make bookmarks, notes, highlights...
- Tags: Mobile, Biology, MobileReference
- Software downloads 2007-08-07
- Clarifying my comments to the BBC
- Jane Wakefields follow-up piece for the BBC about Kathy Sierra is now available: Call for blogging code of conduct. Im quoted in the piece and would like to clarify a couple of points and provide you with all the comments I provided her.Im presented in the article as...
- Tags: Jane Wakefield, Live Web, blogging, blogger, British Broadcasting Corp.
- Blog posts 2007-03-28
- Kathy Sierra's charges put blog responsibility questions front and center
- The frightening threats against Kathy Sierra have been discussed on perhaps hundreds of blogs and in the press yesterday and today. Also under scrutiny is Kathys implication of various bloggers as bearing some responsibility for a third partys or third parties conduct which is rightly and roundly being condemned...
- Tags: Blogging, blog, Kathy Sierra, real people
- Blog posts 2007-03-28
- $2.1mn NSF grant to Boston College's Urban Institute
- The National Science Foundation has awarded a three-year, $2.1 million grant to an group of Boston College faculty to develop an urban environmental science curriculum, text book and multimedia system for use in America's urban high schools, a press release from the college announces. Fifty high school...
- Tags: urban ecosystem, Urban Ecology Institute
- Blog posts 2006-10-31
- Thermal grease theory
- Thermal grease theoryI hope you were kidding...I hope you were kidding with the question "Should Apple have done this in the first place, or is the MacBook Pro designed with the extra thermal grease to keep the fan from coming on?"Let's see, design a system that won't conduct heat away...
- Tags: Semiconductors, theory, Thermal Paste, grease, thermal grease, chip, heat sink, sink
- Discussion threads 2006-05-01
- U.K. Councils Trial Shared Learning Group to Develop New, Innovative Ways of Working
- Innovative solutions to support new ways of working for United Kingdom (U.K.) council information workers are being piloted by 11 councils in the Microsoft Shared Learning Group. Wakefield Metropolitan District Council is leading a work stream focused on improving employee productivity through flexible and collaborative working. And with support from...
- Tags: Council, U.K., Microsoft Corp., Wakefield Metropolitan District Council, Government, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Vertical Industries, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software
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- U.K. Councils Boost Efficiency of Mobile Employees With Flexible Working Solutions
- All local government bodies strive to increase efficiency, provide better customer service, and reduce costs. Warwick, Newham, and Wakefield councils are no exception. Together with Microsoft Gold Certified Partners Trinity, Artemis, and Silversands, the three councils participated in the Microsoft Shared Learning Group workstream for flexible working. They wanted to...
- Tags: Mobile, Council, Microsoft Corp., Advertising & Promotion, E-mail Servers, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software
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