It is no secret to those of us living with or touch by diabetes that Diet and Diabetes go hand in hand.

If you are one of the millions living with diabetes, one of the essential elements in self care is a proper diabetic diet plan.

Many doctors, clinics, researchers and specialized facilities spend countless hours researching and creating diet plans for diabetes. Their goal is to strive to produce a healthy diet plan while also creating foods that are tasteful. Since so many live the Diet and Diabetes Lifestyle, we all know that tastless diet plans are quite miserable. Diet and diabetes does not have to be that way.

It is critical while fighting diabetes that one maintain an optimum weight and reduce blood cholesterol. it is also important to reduce saturated fats as much as possible and replace those fats with unsaturated or mono unsaturated fats. In maintaining diet and diabetes, a well maintained diet with nutritional foods helps the body process glucose as it should. This is simply a critical part in diabetes maintenance. Another important factor to remember with your diabetic diet is that you can also help control blood pressure by maintaining healthy lipid levels in your blood.

Many diabetics struggle their entire lives trying to maintain a healthy weight. Sticking to a diet for diabetes is one of the most challenging realities of living with diabetes. What you eat matters a great deal in controlling your diabetes. Eating the proper foods is very important in helping you maintain healthy glucose levels, so a daily balanced diabetic diet routine is essential. Always avoid those foods that make your blood glucose high.

With diet and diabetes, eat sensibly and enjoy.

Always Eat Right – Always Be Prepared

By Randy Wood
www.diabetes-and-me.com

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If you type “stock images” into Google, you will get nearly 18 million results. It just shows what a huge market there is for photographs. The best thing is that anyone with a camera of reasonable quality, who can take sharp, well-composed pictures can sell their photographs and make money.

Stock Images
Stock Images are professional photographs of common places, landmarks, nature, events, people or objects. They are bought and sold on a royalty-free basis and can be used and reused for commercial design purposes. The photographer (or Stock Image distributor) has ownership to the images, and the commercial designer is allowed some limited use of the photo. The conditions that are imposed on the designer vary between suppliers. There may be, for example, a limit to the number of copies that may be circulated when printed in a magazine or journal.

Stock Images are a cost-effective method for designers to obtain professional images without the cost of hiring a photographer. Stock images refer to any images purchased via this distribution method and may be photos, computer-generated graphics, clip-art etc. Stock images can be purchased for download via websites, or as collections on CD or DVD ROMs.

When you sell your photographs as stock images, the designer pays to obtain a copy of the image which may then be used royalty-free. Any number of designers may purchase your image - they don’t become exclusive to the first purchaser. So the rights to use a popular image could be bought numerous times.

So if you have an eye for photography, and you want to make some money, you may be wondering how you go about it.

Selling Your Stock Images
The easiest way to sell your photos as stock images is to find one or more stock image distributors and sign up with them. As mentioned previously, type “stock image” into a search engine and you will find more distributors than you could ever need. The amount of money that you get paid can vary greatly between distributors, so check all the terms and conditions before you sign up.

Each distributor has different requirements for signing up as an image supplier. Some require a copy of your passport as identification. I would always advise anyone to think carefully before doing this. There are several others that don’t require copies of personal documents.

Once you have an account, you can start uploading your pictures. But please read the distributor’s terms and conditions before you do. They don’t want any old snapshot - they won’t sell at all.

What Pictures To Sell
Some types of image are very popular. Browse the distributor’s site to see the type of image that they sell. If possible, ask the distributor which are the best-selling images.

Tips for producing photographs for sale as Stock Images

Staging Your Subject
If you want to photograph small objects, set up a stage. Nobody wants a picture of a computer keyboard with all the junk on your desk in the background. (unless you’re selling a picture called “Untidy Desk”)
Obtain some large, plain coloured fabric or paper sheets on which to place the objects you’re photographing.
Do the same for stock images of people – a plain backdrop is generally more useful to a designer than a busy one.

Develop Your Niche
If you find you can produce better images of a particular type, concentrate on that market. Not only will your portfolio have a consistent feel to it, you will probably develop a better style and improve quality by concentrating on one type of image.

Public Shows
Take photographs of any public event that you attend. Occasionally, newspapers, and magazines need images from those events.

Overshoot
Take more photographs than you will possibly need. Digital photos cost nothing, so it pays to shoot from several angles and with different lighting. Your “perfect” shot of an apple might not be perfect to the designer.

Shoot Out and About
Wherever you go, take a camera. There are some excellent, yet small, compact cameras that produce professional results. Take candid shots in town centres, in the countryside etc. Some day, somebody might want that photograph.

Store Your Images Safely
Blank CDs and DVDs cost very little. When you get back to your home or office, transfer your images to disc for safe keeping. If possibly, print thumbnail images to use as index cards for your disks.
Save your images in their raw format, as they come off the memory card of your camera. Don’t adjust anything – you can do that later before you upload them to the Stock Image website.

Resources:
Phil Rogers is a keen amateur photographer who is discovering new ways to make money from his photography on the Internet. You can see some of his work at RedBubble

Back in the early 1990’s, when I took a photographic film to my local shop to be processed and printed, I chose to have my negatives scanned and the resulting digital images written to a Kodak PhotoCD. At the time, it cost an incredible £16, including the disc to have this done.

But how fantastic to collect not only a set of photographic prints, but a shiny, Gold coloured CD with all my pictures on in digital format. Now I could load any of my photographs into Paintshop Pro, remove any unwanted artefacts, crop it, zoom it, change the brightness and contrast, and generally process it into a form that I wanted. Best of all, I could save the image as a Windows Bitmap and then load it in as my Windows wallpaper. You might not hink twice about doing that today, but at the time, it was cutting-edge.

I recently came across my old PhotoCDs and I thought it would be interesting to go through those old pictures again. Most were from a holiday in Australia, and some from time spent in India.

So I loaded a PhotoCD into my DVD-RW drive on my PC and found that it couldn’t read the disc. I tried another disc and it struggled to read that one, but managed it in the end. The third disc was ok though.

I tried the first disc again and this time it managed to read it and I was able to open some of the pictures.

The discs were all clean and had been stored in a cool, dry place. None of them had warped or become damaged in any other way.

It is my guess that the technology of my DVD-RW is quite different from the CD writer used to create the gold PhotoCD. DVDs use a higher track density, so the laser beam used to read them is narrower. To achieve this, they use laser light of a different frequency (colour) than used in earlier CD drives. It is also possible that the alignment of the tracks on the PhotoCD are not as precise as on a modern disc because the beam width was much wider, meaning a lower tolerance was required. Finally, the gold surface of the disc will have different characteristics to the modern silver surface.

All these factors put together could mean that the old gold PhotoCDs are not compatible with modern CD or DVD drives.

If you have any of the old gold coloured PhotoCDs, I’d dig them out and see if your computer can still read them. If not, find somebody with an older computer that can read them, and get the files copied onto a new CD or DVD.

In fact it’s worth making a copy even if your PC can read them. It’s always better to have a backup. And as technology changes and improves, you might find that some time in the future, you won’t be able to read them, and your pictures will effectively be lost.
Read more at: Phil’s Techno Talk.

The most powerful Marketing book ever written? Quite possibly!

I’ve just gotten an e-book copy of Mark Joyner’s classic book, “Mind Control Marketing”. I’ve wanted to buy this book for years, but I’ve never been able to get my hands on it.  Mark pulled it from print not long after it was released and until now… the only way to get access to this powerful marketing information was to buy a used copy on Amazon or eBay for several hundred dollars.

Seriously, the cheapest I saw it offered for was $249 on Amazon. As much as I wanted the book, and as much as I had been primed to want it, I just couldn’t justify paying that much for it.

Mark claims he took the book out of print because “money isn’t everything” and he didn’t want the information to fall into the “wrong hands”… So why is he “giving it away” for such a low price now? For me, purchasing Mind Control Marketing was an absolute “no brainer”. I expected to pay a lot more for it that I did.

So, is this the most powerful marketing book ever written or nothing more than a compelling title, excellent sales copy and a well orchestrated, long-term marketing plan?

Actually, I didn’t even read the sales copy… I just wanted this book so bad I scrolled right to the bottom of the page and paid… I was expecting to pay at least $97. In my opinion, he’s selling it way too cheap. I’ve paid more than $27 for 20 page ebooks. Mind Control Marketing is over 160 pages of powerful information. You even get the “secret chapter” - reputed to be more powerful than the rest of the e-book.

This chapter wasn’t even included in the print book. Mark took it out just before the book went to print because he thought it was too powerful. (I’ve read it, I know why he may have felt this way.)

The information in the book DOES live up to the hype… It’s basically step-by-step instructions on how to manipulate people and it COULD be used for ill will. Maybe it’s dangerous letting everyone know?

When it comes to releasing controversial information like this, I have always thought that it’s better out than in. The people who worry about it getting out are those who fear they will lose their own power if it does.

Once the information is in the public domain, the power of its dark side diminishes, but ethical use of the information remains unaffected. So, maybe the $27 price does show that Mark doesn’t think money is everything.  He has decided that this is something we should all know and made it affordable to the masses.

I think reading it will help you grow as a person, as well as making you a better marketer.

Click here to check out Mind Control Marketing By Mark Joyner for yourself.

Respectfully

Dan Blackburn

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