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• Stuart Rennie on HIV Prevention

  Published: June 11, 2007, 10:59 am

  Tags: Mandatory Hiv Testing, Stuart Rennie, Hiv Prevention, Reproductive Health Ethics

  are indictments of past HIV prevention strategies and programs : whatever they were, whatever they cost, and however they were implemented, they have been inadequate. The question then becomes: what strategy changes should be adopted?I get the feeling that, about 2 years ago, something snapped in the consciousness of public health experts

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• Five Practical Reasons for Fighting Plagiarism

  Published: July 25, 2007, 12:43 pm

  Tags: Prevention, Products, Legal Issues, Articles, Dmca, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Copyright Law, Creative Commons, Google, Marketing, Plagiarism, Reuptation, Scraping, Search Engines, Seo

  For most, being plagiarized is an inherently emotional experience. Finding out that someone else copied and claimed something that took hours to produce is bound to produce some negative feelings. This has lead some to wonder if fighting plagiarism is more about revenge than practicality. To some, it is better to simply forget about the

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• WordPress and Comment Spam

  Published: July 24, 2007, 3:56 pm

  Tags: Prevention, Personal Experiences, Articles, Akismet, Automattic, Comment Spam, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Copyright Law, Plagiarism, Scraping, Spam, Spam Blogs, Wordpress

  I would like to take an aside and delve into a related topic that has been on my mind for the past few months: Comment spam. Though it doesn’t have much to do with content theft, I have several reasons for wanting to cover this. First many of the RSS scrapers and spam bloggers also use this technique to supplement their work. Second, in some

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• Picking a Dead Man's Pocket

  Published: July 19, 2007, 12:23 pm

  Tags: Prevention, Legal Issues, Articles, Dmca, Archive, Caching, Content Theft, Copyright, Copyright Infringement, Internet Archive, Meta Tags, Plagiarism, Robots Txt, Rss, Scraping, Spam, Spammers, Splogs

  unethical or illegal it is. Prevention is the Key Since enforcing the copyrights of a dead site is, in many cases, impractical, the best approach is to look at preventing the infringement from happening in the first place. Doing that involves having a sound shut-down strategy that includes the following steps: Handle all existing plagiarism

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• Another Reason to Exercise (and Drink Coffee)

  Published: July 30, 2007, 5:30 pm

  Tags: Caffeine, Coffee, Exercise, Prevention, Skin Cancer

  Here's good news for all us high strung coffee drinking exercising fanatics... A new study has found that your habits could mean that your chances of getting skin cancer are lower than those who skip the java and the gym. We've already learned that caffeine and exercise alone could kill off damaged skin cells, so it makes perfect sense that they

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• Protecting the Comment Feed

  Published: August 1, 2007, 2:51 pm

  Tags: Prevention, Articles, Atom, Comments, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Feed, Plagiarism, Rss, Scraping, Spam Blogs, Splogs, Wordpress

  important to focus more on prevention. The easiest way to prevent such scraping is, like this site, simply not offer a comments RSS feed. Such feeds are rarely subscribed to, offer little value to users and, on busy sites, are too noisy to be practical. There are much better ways to allow your users to subscribe to discussions they participate

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• Coffee, Vitamin B6 Help Prevent Intestinal Cancer

  Published: August 1, 2007, 5:27 pm

  Tags: Lose Weight, Coffee, Health, Intestinal Cancer, Prevention, Rectum, Vitamin B6

  A research team from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, which included members of the National Cancer Center gonducted a major government survey to probe the connection between large intestinal cancer and lifestyle habits.Men who took vitamin B6, and women who drank three of more cups of coffeed each day had a reduced risk.An appropriate

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• Worthy Wisdom: Flax seed to the rescue

  Published: August 4, 2007, 4:00 am

  Tags: Anti, Brown, Cancer, Canyon, Common, Diabetes, Fibers, Flax, Golden, Growth, Heart, Linseed, Menopausal, Mice, Plant, Post, Prevention, Ranch, Seed, Tumor, Wisdom, Worthy, Yellow

  under: Prevention, Diets, Nutrition, Worthy WisdomThe folks at Canyon Ranch in Tucson, Arizona told me all about the merits of flax seed. They told me to sprinkle it here, sprinkle it there, sprinkle it everywhere. While at this desert destination, I did just that. I dipped into the bowls of flax scattered at all dining locations, and I

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• Q & A With Dr. Wender: The role of antioxidant supplements

  Published: August 4, 2007, 10:16 am

  Tags: Antioxidants, Cancer Prevention, Cancerprevention, Diet, Supplements

  Diets, Nutrition, Cancer prevention foods, Vitamins and nutrientsDr. Richard Wender, president of the American Cancer Society, took questions from readers as part of the New York Times feature on cancer last week.Here is an interesting question from a reader about the role of antioxidants. Leanne asks about the use of antioxidants and other

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• Thought for the Day: Doing the right thing

  Published: August 5, 2007, 2:00 am

  Tags: Doingtherightting, Habits, Prevention, Thoughtfortheday

  under: Prevention, Diets, Smoking, Thought for the DayI have recently been thinking on the reasons we do not do the things that we know are good for us.Why do we continue to eat fatty foods? Why do we not exercise? Why do we continue smoking? Why do we do these things while we know the consequences?Why did my aunt go in for her mastectomy

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• My darling Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, South Africa's Minister for Health Prevention

  Published: August 5, 2007, 1:48 pm

  Tags: Minister For Health Prevention, Manto, South Africa, Tshabalala Msimang

  OK, folks, in line with my 'tradition' of sending a funny weekend type story, here's one send by a South Africa based correspondent on the latest from South Africa's Ministry for Health Prevention!

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• A Scrape of a Scrape

  Published: August 7, 2007, 11:07 am

  Tags: Prevention, Personal Experiences, Articles, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Ie7, Plagiarism, Rss, Scraping, Spam, Spam Blogging, Spam Blogs, Splogs

  I often get asked by reporters and bloggers alike exactly how bad scraping is on the Web. I discuss my past experiments on the topic and how, depending on your keywords, suspicious traffic starts showing up with the first post. However, as I was searching for information on IE7 security flaws for another site I’m working on, I ran across

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• New Author Group Targets Piracy

  Published: August 7, 2007, 12:47 pm

  Tags: Prevention, Articles, News, Content Theft, Copyright, Copyright Infringement, Ebooks, P2p, Pdf, Piracy, Plagiarism, Publishers, Publishing

  Maria Langer, no doubt familiar to regular commenters on this site, has created a new Yahoo group for authors entitled “Authors Against Piracy” The invite-only group is targeted at published authors to discuss “how authors and publishers can prevent electronic publications from being freely distributed by software pirates and

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• Your diet and skin cancer

  Published: August 7, 2007, 3:22 pm

  Tags: Alcohol, Antioxidants, Polyunsaturated Fats, Polyunsaturatedfats, Prevention, Skin Cancer, Skincancer

  Filed under: Skin Cancer, Diets, NutritionOne in five Americans will get skin cancer. Those are scary statistics, but the first step in fighting any condition is knowing about it and how to prevent it. Obviously, one of the main things you need to do when you have skin cancer is protect yourself from the sun, but your diet also plays a key role.

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• How to Get the Most Out of Your Garlic

  Published: August 9, 2007, 2:00 pm

  Tags: Anti Clotting, Cancer Prevention, Garlic

  We all know that garlic is chock full of health benefits, but don't chop it though. Oh no, to reap the benefits of garlic you need to crush it. It seems that crushing it conserves its healthy anti-clotting compounds. Not only that, but you should hold off cooking it for 10 minutes after you have smashed or pressed it. According to the American

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