People can stream, view, and listen to countless hours worth of content online.

Diligent presenters build their presentations by first taking the time to create every possible slide imaginable for the topic in discussion. Then, with the “big picture” in mind, you should proceed to delete the unnecessary 30 or 40 slides that you just spent hundreds of hours building, but that you now realize you don’t have time for in your ten-minute speech. Your audience will appreciate knowing that you cared so much to build slides that you never showed them.

“She’s too young, it’s too late, we come apart, my arms are held, and the edges go dark and nothing is left but a little window, a very little window, like the wrong end of a telescope, like the window on a Christmas card, an old one, night and ice outside, and within a candle, a shining tree, a family, I can hear the bells even, sleigh bells, from the radio, old music, but through this window I can see, small but very clear, I can see her, going away from me, through the trees which are already turning, red and yellow, holding out her arms to me, being carried away.”

An average American drinks 44.7 gallons of soda a year.