INPUT ARTICLE: Article: PowerPoint presentations are useful to provide an overview, a general description of a given topic. Your presentation should not be encyclopedic. Don't go overboard including every little detail, citation, or factoid which may inform the conversation on the issue you're presenting. Too much information will burn your audience out and you'll be left with a bunch of people more interested in lunch than in what you have to say. Keep the presentation about you, not the slideshow. The slides are there to support what you have to say. They should be just one part of your presentation, not the whole thing. PowerPoint presentations are at their most effective and powerful when they adopt a clean, minimalistic style. For instance, if you have one slide whose heading is "Habitats," with three bullet points beneath reading "Forest," "Desert," and "Ocean" with a description of each habitat following, you would do well to instead allocate three separate slides to the three different habitats, and include a summary and image of each on the appropriate slide. Your PowerPoint slideshow should always be designed to reinforce your verbal explanations with visual images. Sometimes it works to put words on a screen, but generally, your text should be limited. Do you need the graphics as a starting point from which you will explain results, trends, predictions or specific outcomes? Are you using visuals merely to keep your audience engaged, to provide humor, and/or to accommodate diverse learning styles? These and other relevant questions should guide your decision-making process when settling on the right number of slides for your presentation. Go through your entire presentation and ask yourself if you really need a given slide. If the answer is no, or if you find you can deliver the info verbally instead, eliminate it.

SUMMARY: Provide the right amount of information. Break complex slides down into several simple slides. Include audiovisual support only as needed.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: A pregnant mare can be checked for pregnancy hormones to determine pregnancy. This is especially useful when the mare is too irritable for non-chemical methods of determining pregnancy or when the rectum is too small for physical evaluation. Have a veterinarian take a blood sample. The vet will send the blood sample to a laboratory and have it tested. Test the level of pregnant mare serum gonadotropin (PMSG) 40 to 100 days after your mare has been with a stallion. If your mare was pregnant but lost the fetus, the PMSG test may give inaccurate results. Analyze the level of oestrone sulphate 100 days after the breeding. Oestrone sulphate levels increase with the presence of a foal, but go back to normal if the fetus is aborted. When checking mares for pregnancy, oestrone sulphate can be found in the mare's urine. A urine test can be performed by a veterinarian or using a home test. Obtain a home pregnancy testing kit from a feed store or online. Test your breeding mare's urine 110 to 300 days after they have been with a stallion. Cut a 1 gallon (3.8L) or 2-liter liquid container in half with a knife. Use the bottom to collect your mare's urine. Follow the directions on the pregnancy test kit to analyze your mare's urine. It takes 10 minutes to obtain the results. Using chemical-based tests can indicate that your mare is pregnant, but it is good to have another test performed by a vetwhether chemical or non-chemicalto ensure the foal has not slipped the foetus. Also, chemical-based tests are sometimes used improperly, so a positive result should be confirmed by a veterinarian.

SUMMARY: Have a blood test performed on your mare. Give your breeding mare a urine test. Confirm pregnancy test results.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Studies show that people with strong abs are less susceptible to side aches than those who don't regularly work their core muscles. Incorporate doing sit-ups or crunches into your regular workouts to develop strong abdominal muscles. Doing planks, by placing your elbows and toes on the floor, then lifting your body up (like the up-position when doing pushups) is another way to strengthen your core muscles. Sometimes a stitch in your side can be caused by having too much bounce when you run. This may be because your organs are straining their connective tissue as they bounce around inside of you, as well as affecting the connective tissue attached to your diaphragm. Next time you run, pay attention to your stride. Are you pushing yourself too high off the ground as you run, or is your stride too long, causing you to bounce? To minimize bounce, try the following: Try hitting the ground with your heel instead of landing on the balls of your feet. Watch where your foot is in relation to your knee when it hits the ground. Is your foot farther out than your knee? Try to land your foot on the ground when it is positioned right under your knee. Shorten your stride. Count how many times your right foot hits the ground during a minute of running. If it is under 90, your stride may be too long. Visualize that you are running somewhere with a ceiling that is just a few inches above your head, and if you bounce too high you will hit your head. Talk to a personal trainer or running coach about how to work on your stride if you are struggling. People who run often are less likely to suffer side aches for various reasons. Once you're accustomed to running, you may learn to adjust your pace and breathing patterns to better avoid developing a side ache. Frequent exercise will strengthen your core muscles that may alleviate side aches. Some foods are known to make a runner more prone to suffering side aches, but everyone is different so keep track of what you eat and how it affects you. Fruit juices have been known to cause side aches in some people as they run. If you experience unusually painful side aches or experience them frequently, look at what you ate that day and consider removing things from your diet.

SUMMARY: Work your core. Assess your stride. Do cardio workouts regularly. Keep a food log.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: It's normal to occasionally feel dizzy when you stand up, but if it occurs frequently or lasts longer than a few seconds, see your doctor. They will do a physical exam and take a medical history, check your blood pressure, and possibly do some lab tests or an ECG to try to figure out a cause. See your doctor right away if you become so dizzy upon standing that you pass out. Often, your regular doctor can figure out what is causing your orthostatic hypotension with a blood test. They can check your blood sample to see if there's a problem with your thyroid, adrenal gland, or nervous system, and to see if you're anemic. If you notice that you have symptoms of hypotension dizziness, lightheadedness, nausea, confusion, blurry vision, weakness, or passing out start to keep a journal. Record what symptoms you experience and how long they last. Note what you were doing right beforehand and earlier that day, such as exercising or being in the sun. Take this record with you to your doctor's office. Some people get low pressure after they eat. Take note if your symptoms occur after a meal. It's normal to experience low blood pressure when you're pregnant because of the changes your body goes through to accommodate for the baby. Usually, your blood pressure will return to normal after you give birth. Talk to your doctor about it if your symptoms last longer than a few seconds or make you so dizzy you feel like you might faint or fall. Sometimes, postural hypotension can be a sign that something is wrong with how your heart is working. Valve problems, slow heart rate, heart failure, and a history of heart attack can all limit how well your heart works and cause low blood pressure when you stand up. Ask your doctor for a referral to a heart specialist, or cardiologist. Cardiologists can do special tests to check your heart valves and see how well your heart pumps blood.

SUMMARY:
Visit your doctor. Get a blood test done. Keep a diary of your symptoms. Recognize hypotension during pregnancy. See a cardiologist to check your heart health.