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November 4, 2012, 03:58 AM
Looking to buy a 10mm, considering a G20 or EAA Witness. Not very familiar with these, are they simply just CZ-75 knock offs or good, trustwrothy guns?
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November 4, 2012, 05:16 AM
Hard to go wrong with either pistol.
Here are both of mine;
November 4, 2012, 07:28 AM
are they simply just CZ-75 knock offs or good, trustwrothy guns?
Pretty much, the parts aren't interchangeable but the design is basically the same with some small changes here and there.
Kind of depends what you plan on doing with the gun before I could recommend which one would be better for you tho both would be fine. I would say if reliability is your top concern than the glock would probably get the edge tho part of the increased reliability comes from loose chambers so if you plan on running a lot of full power loads the Witness would be the way to go. Also if you reload both would work but I would again go with the witness because of the standard rifle and you won't have case bulge that glocks sometimes have.
Either way both are good gun tho they are like comparing apples and oranges. Go to a store and fondle them both a good amount and if you can rent and shoot them that would be even better.
November 4, 2012, 09:26 AM
Google "Witness" and "cracked slide".
Then buy the Glock.
November 4, 2012, 09:30 AM
Your happiness with the Witness 10mm will largely depend on your luck with the magazines.
Oldironsights is showing the Witness "Limited" which will set you back about 2X the Glock. You can get the EAA Witness Elite Match for a bit less than the price of the Glock.
My EAA 10mm mags are not reliable enough for anything beyond casual range use. YMMV. I've hear Meg-Gar is now making a Witness 10mm mag that holds 14 instead of 15 rounds, perhaps this solves the issues, but I've not ran across one to try yet.
November 4, 2012, 09:59 AM
Google "Witness" and "cracked slide".
Then buy the Glock.
That's not very constructive if you were to google "kaboom" and Glock" you probably wouldn't buy one of those either, doesn't mean it's a bad weapon.
As far as the mags go they did fix that problem, seems that most of the mags with the red followers were causing the problem but they are now sold with black followers stamped K10 and from what I have read run flawless.
November 4, 2012, 10:11 AM
As far as the mags go they did fix that problem, seems that most of the mags with the red followers were causing the problem but they are now sold with black followers stamped K10
And before the red/orange followers they had black followers. That's the problem too many minor variations among the guns and the mags and EAA customer support is not very helpful in getting it straightened out.
If you get mags that work, you'll love the pistol, if not, good luck! The Mec-Gar may be your only hope.
November 4, 2012, 10:19 AM
Not sure if EAA is still doing it or not but they had a "send us your red follower and will send you the new ones".
Also the new K10 mags are made by mec gar for tanfoglio
November 4, 2012, 10:49 AM
a 10mm EAA with cracking slides is a well know issue!! Do a search in a few gun fourms... There's many,many good 45 cal out there,lots of parts to be had and easy to fix..just saying.
November 4, 2012, 11:13 AM
It was my understanding that they corrected the issue with a new slide design. I recently bought a Witness Elite Match and i absolutely love it. I think a great deal at less than 527 bucks. Adjustable sights, match trigger, barrel...etc.
November 4, 2012, 01:15 PM
Looking to buy a 10mm, considering a G20 or EAA Witness. Not very familiar with these, are they simply just CZ-75 knock offs or good, trustwrothy guns?
My current manufacture full-size steel 10mm Witness has been both accurate and reliable. The only change I made was a 20# Wolf recoil spring, which I consider necessary if full power loads are to be used.
I had the choice of the Glock 20 and the Witness for the same price. Because of the bulky grip and extreme top-heavy balance of the Glock, it just did not pass as a gun I could shoot well. The added problem that many Glocks have had with poor chamber support and bulged fired cases was another big negative. The chamber problem can be fixed by investing in a third-party replacement barrel, but why can't the manufacturer issue a gun that is safe to fire with the same commercial ammunition that works in other guns?
I consider the Witness line by Tanfoglio to be a sound modern design at very reasonable prices.
November 4, 2012, 03:37 PM
Kind of funny. Glock: Kaboom, smiley, plastic, blocky, 2x4, performance loss... LOL
Cracked slide happens in the low end models and not all. Nothing wrong with a Glock but I skipped around it for the others.
November 5, 2012, 10:58 AM
Purchased a new Witness Match in July. Fired one mag of Win 175gr Silver tips and all of the cases were so blown out just above the web at the ramp area that they had to be thrown away. Customer service informed me that it met specs. Sold it...Bought a Glock 20. Works great with factory ammo(NOT hot botique loads) Purchased a Storm Lake barrel and I can load as hot as safety allows. Some people have had good luck with the Witness pistols; I havent.
November 5, 2012, 12:15 PM
I know of 5-6 guys who bought EAA's in 10mm. Every one had reliability issues they were never able to resolve. All have sold them in favor of Glocks. The EAA's in other calibers have been better.
November 5, 2012, 01:18 PM
Just amazing, my whole family shoots Witness Match and Limited pistols in competition, over the last four years and 30,000 rounds not nary a prob---BOY I guess we are lucky!!
Dave P
November 5, 2012, 01:36 PM
I have had a Match for 6-7 years now. Wonderful pistol for the priced! Accurate, powerful, reliable.
But ... no cracked slides, although the frame did crack . EAA sent me a new pistol this fall - cool beans! Under warranty, of course.
My previous mags do not fit - that bites!
I'm an idiot --- 10mm
November 5, 2012, 03:40 PM
Dave P, what caliber was that??
November 5, 2012, 03:58 PM
I have the full size steel witness in 10mm. Put a little over 1000 rounds this summer and my slide and frame are fine. In the past they did have some slide / frame cracking but that has been worked out. It is more of a internet story the glock fanboys keep up to try to make their own look better.
I too put in the 20# spring as the one it came with was on the weak side.
As far as reliability goes the only time it gave me troubles is when I loaded up some simi wade cutter's it would give some FTF. Went back to cone, round, flat, and HP pills and it eats them right up.
Long story short get the witness you will love it.
November 5, 2012, 04:10 PM
I have never heard of case bulges in a Witness. Pictures or it didn't happen!
November 5, 2012, 04:25 PM
As I've posted before, the EAA Elite series (Match and above) are like Italian sportscars. They take a little love, and are not the world's most reliable machines, but when they're running right they're some of the most fun guns on the planet and WAY more enjoyable to shoot than Glocks. If I were going to carry something into combat and leave it in the mud and feed it cheap, mid-powered ammo, I'd go with the Glock. If I were buying something to enjoy shooting, it would be a Witness Match or better.
November 5, 2012, 09:45 PM
Google "Witness" and "cracked slide".
Then buy the Glock.
My little 2003 compact 10 has I don't know how many thousands of rounds through it, most full power handloads (and I do mean full power, 1,300-1,400 FPS, 180 or 200 gr. IMR 800x loads). Nary a problem. My Limited has a lower round count, but same story. My light target load is a 180 gr. FMJ or plated bullet over 9.5 grs. 800x with CCI 350 primers; 1,240 FPS from a 5" gun. I just see no point in wussifying the round, even for practice.
My G20 has also handled my loads just fine, but has proven that Glocks don't quite deserve the reliability reputation they have. They can and do jam, just as any autoloader will.
The only 10mm I own that has never jammed is my S&W 1006. Incidentally, it's also the strongest 10mm platform you'll find.
November 6, 2012, 07:43 AM
Love my 10mm Witness Match :)
Like others, a little spring work and thats it and she'll run the full power loads no prob. I have red followers in all three of my mags and besides one particular brand of bullets my guns just happens to hate, I've never had any feeding issues. But I did take the time to ensure that my reloads I make for it do just what I want with them and realibility was high on the list (along with a consistent short ejection distance). Haven't shot any factory ammo in a long time as I can reload right now for about 1/4 the price of factory (and that's not even cast bullets).
Dave P
November 6, 2012, 08:11 AM
Floyd - my Match is in 10 mm. Frame cracked in 2 places, one each side, just behind the mag release. Very strange.
And if any body wants red follower mags, drop me a line - I may have 2 available.
November 6, 2012, 09:44 AM
Dave P, there was a thread a while ago on that. EAA says that particular crack is not really a problem, and that it is anticipated with a stress cut on certain other Witness models, but not on the Match.
Mine developed the same crack, though only on one side. I also got a crack at the very bottom of the grip on one side of the magwell. EAA sent me a new gun without hassle. I had a thread about that, too.
Dave P
November 6, 2012, 04:45 PM
"EAA says that particular crack is not really a problem,"
Oh boy - that's a new one!
November 6, 2012, 05:13 PM
I had a 10mm Witness and liked it fine. It had a square-slide and I sold it only because I have no more 10mm's and never warmed up to the caliber.
November 6, 2012, 06:08 PM
Yes that was me who posted the picture of the crack near the mag release. It is a factory cut they put in on other models. It's something they should have done on the Match as well but didn't. The meat there is just very thin and I think sliding full mags into the well causes the crack there. No biggie!
November 6, 2012, 08:11 PM
"EAA says that particular crack is not really a problem,"
Oh boy - that's a new one!
Actually, it's not new. They've been putting the relief cut on the elite models for some time. My 2007 Limited has them.
The meat there is just very thin and I think sliding full mags into the well causes the crack there
No, it's frame flex that causes it. And no, it's not a problem. It either develops after use, or is put there from factory.
Incidentally, the shorter frame of my compact seems to have resisted this tendency. Still no crack, gun is almost 10 years old with many, MANY hot loads down range.
November 6, 2012, 08:23 PM
Get a Ruger GP-100. :evil::evil::evil: Just kidding. That's a toughie. It really depends on the intended purpose of the gun. Is this going to be for competition, or self defense? Is this a range gun or a nightstand gun? For a purely functional self defense gun, I would go with the gun. On the other hand, if this is going to be more of a "for fun" gun, I would probably go with the Witness, as I've had a running love affair with CZ pistols for a very long time. My advice regarding the Ruger still stands if you're worried about reliability, btw.
December 24, 2012, 09:07 PM
I'm glad to see others have learned that their Witness 10mm's need 20# springs. My compact Wonder Finish (Tenifer) slide cracked several years ago but after EAA replaced it I went to the 20# Wolff springs and no more problems. I now have a new 10mm full size frame, the slide is much beefier on this one but I still installed a 20# Wolff spring, it makes it a little hard to rack but it's worth it.
December 25, 2012, 11:25 AM
I now have a new 10mm full size frame, the slide is much beefier on this one but I still installed a 20# Wolff spring, it makes it a little hard to rack but it's worth it.
Is that the standard model, or one of the higher versions? I have a full-sized "base model" Witness 10 mm on order. I'm planning to load and shoot mostly moderate ammo (around 550 FP ME). Not sure if that warrants replacing the spring?
December 25, 2012, 01:40 PM
Most of the cracked slide issues started when they went to the more streamlined rounded slides like the one Seer792 posted.
This was never an issue with the older squared slides.
Had a Witness 10mm and a G20, still have the G20 sold the Witness.
My only real gripe with the Witness was the mags, that and it weighed a ton. With good mags they'd probably be a great pistol but at the time they weren't.
While the G20 is not as nice ergonomics wise it has quality mags available, and much better support as far as parts and accessories for it.
February 10, 2013, 10:23 AM
The new production 10m Elite Match's (serial numbers in black) seem to be fine. I have one of these with the new K10 magazines (black follower), and don't have any issues.
I don't like shooting the 10mm full power loads out of a Glock. It is just not comfortable shooter for me when you ramp up the recoil with underwood loads.
I can't speak for older Elite Match 10mm. I would not have purchased the one I have unless it was a new production. The new 10mm Elite Match series are pretty hard to come by these days.
Walt Sherrill
February 10, 2013, 06:37 PM
I now have a new 10mm full size frame, the slide is much beefier on this one but I still installed a 20# Wolff spring, it makes it a little hard to rack but it's worth it.
It MAY be worth it, or it may unnecessary extra effort. The fact that you have the NEW design slide is arguably the most important thing you've written.
I doubt that a heavier recoil spring protects either the frame or the new- or older-design slide on these guns. The recoil spring's main function is to close the slide, not to reduce the shooter's experience of recoil or protect the slide or frame. When a weaker recoil spring is used, the force not stored in the spring goes into the shooter's hand and arm.
We should note, too, that when Tanfoglio made some earlier changes to their guns in response to slide cracks, they made stress cuts in the slides, but didn't really go to heavier recoil springs. (I think Beretta did some similar in-field fixes to a bunch of Army and Marine M9's around the time of "Desert Storm" when those guns had similar slide problems.)
1911Tuner, a participant here and on other gun forums, has demonstrated that firing 1911s without recoil springs doesn't damage either the shooter or the gun; the slide just doesn't load the next round. While Witnesses aren't 1911s, the basic functions of these locked-breech, short-recoil Browning style guns are the same.
A heavier recoil spring STORES more of the force of the fired round, and then later passes that extra stored force back through barrel, slide and slide-stop to the frame as the slide slams shut. A heavier recoil spring is more likely to damage a slide stop than protect a slide or frame.
A heavier hammer spring will also slow the slide as it cocks the hammer but that stored force will be returned to the frame later than usual -- when the hammer falls, not when the slide slams shut. That means that the total force being returned is the same, it is split up differently, with a bit less hitting the slide stop when the slide first closes, and a bit more hitting later.
If I had a 10mm Witness -- I did once, but later sold it -- I'd go with the factory-recommended 14 lb. recoil spring and make life a bit easier when racking the slide. (Jumping from 14 lbs to 20 lbs is a roughly 40% increase, and that's big!)
February 11, 2013, 07:37 AM
Just amazing, my whole family shoots Witness Match and Limited pistols in competition, over the last four years and 30,000 rounds not nary a prob
In 10mm? My .45 ACP Witness pistols have been wonderful and problem free, IMHO the Witness Elite 45 is what the CZ97 should have been.
I recommend the Witness 45, but in other calibers (9mm .40S&W, or 10mm) your happiness will depend on your luck of the draw with magazines. Futzing around with followers, extra power magazine springs and tweaking feed lips have gotten all my mags to work reliably except in 10mm.
The 9mm & .40S&W mags with the spacers (to make the internal length of the mag better match the OAL of 9mm & .40S&W rounds) seemed to fix the mag issues in 9mm & .40S&W so if these are all you have and 100% of what EAA is supplying now, then I probably would recommend the 9mm & 40S&W versions.
February 11, 2013, 03:46 PM
I have a witness in 9mm, and a Glock 29. So not totally on point to your question, but close. Both the witness and Glock platforms can handle the 10mm. The Witness is a heavier gun, and the polymer frame of the Glock actually really does a good job of managing the 10mm recoil. You first have to decide:
1) Do I want a striker fired pistol, or a DA/SA hammer fired pistol,
2) Do I want a manual safety?
3) Does the pistol fit my hand?
Answering those questions will answer which one you should get. They both handle 10mm round.
The larger frame (10mm) witness has the advantage of being able to go from a .22lr all the way up 10mm (including .45ACP), by swapping out the slide and barrel, and using the correct magazine. Its a very versatile gun.
February 11, 2013, 04:39 PM
1) Do I want a striker fired pistol, or a DA/SA hammer fired pistol,
2) Do I want a manual safety?
3) Does the pistol fit my hand?
Good questions, except that #1 should also include SAO options, since quite a few Witness Elite models have SAO triggers.
February 11, 2013, 04:50 PM
I love the feel of these....I just got mine. Need to add a front fiber sight at some point.
February 11, 2013, 10:37 PM
I just got mine. Need to add a front fiber sight at some point.
Dawson Precision makes ones that fit.
February 11, 2013, 10:39 PM
I was looking at the Henning kit.
February 12, 2013, 03:26 AM
Even if they fixed the 10mm issue...you still have to deal potentially with EAA if you get the occasional lemon which is a distinct possibility.......a good enough reason to stay away from these pistols.
I will never get tired to repeat that I would not trust EAA to manage a hot dog cart let alone selling firearms...
My suggestion...stay away from EAA products....
February 12, 2013, 04:54 AM
WOW, just googled both. I'll take finding a crack in the slide to finding my fingers in the grass any day!!!!:eek:
February 12, 2013, 07:35 PM
Guys... The slide issue was tracked down to a bad batch of steel that EAA used to manufacture slides a few years ago. It was prevalent in the Elite Matches too. New production Elite Matches do NOT have the slide issues that the older models had, nor do they have the mag issues either.
Of course, EAA really screwed the pooch when they failed to ensure quality control on the older models. Even though they offered to replace slides, it was still an aggravating process for many, and many of those just lost faith in the company entirely. They caused a lot of grief for buyers, and on the internet, none of this stuff is going away any time soon. Imagine loving a gun that you can't shoot because the company can't make a magazine that works? I know, crazy.
For us newer 10mm EAA buyers, I love the weapon, particularly the Elite Match. Great trigger, tight action, very accurate (the most accurate shooter I have next to my 5 in 627 PC), and double stack. I would choose it over a Glock ANY day. I would not recommend buying an older one, but if you get a chance to shoot a new production, please do. If the serial number is in black, at least for the 10mm Elite Match models, it is a new production model
Walt Sherrill
February 12, 2013, 09:34 PM
The slide issue was tracked down to a bad batch of steel that EAA used to manufacture slides a few years ago...
While this may be a valid explanation, but it is the FIRST time I've heard it, after years of hearing horror stories about the slides. Not saying it's false, but....
1) do you have a source for this information?
2) Makes me want to ask, if it was bad steel, why they changed the slide design. That change was supposedly done in response to the problem. (Maybe it wasn't?)
3) EAA doesn't manufacture anything -- it's an importer. They just import their Witness guns (from Tanfoglio). That being the case, has anyone heard of Tanfoglio building other guns, under their own brand, that demonstrated the same problem?
As I've noted in earlier responses, I've had a bunch of Witness guns over the years, and no real complaints. The only one that gave me problems was a Sport Long Slide in .45 (for which I also had a 10mm shorter slide.) Those problems were expensive, but not frame or slide related -- and I had bought the gun used so didn't look to EAA to fix them.
A real jerk or two works at EAA in key positions (or did work there), and has/have done more damage to that company than they will ever understand. I like their guns, but not the company.
February 13, 2013, 06:41 PM
My witness P carry--polymer--was not strong enough to handle normal 10mm loads. The frame flexed considerably with the trigger pin coming out and the magazine catch only working sometime.
However, I have a witness elite in 10mm that's the best handgun I have--and I have the glock 29, sigs, cz's , ect.
February 15, 2013, 04:34 PM
A real jerk or two works at EAA in key positions (or did work there), and has/have done more damage to that company than they will ever understand. I like their guns, but not the company.
Truer words have never been spoken. The guns are some of the best out there. Too bad they have a bad importer. I had to deal with them not to long ago, they did fix the issue but it was a frustrating experience.
February 16, 2013, 12:12 AM
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The little seedlings will do best in a trench about 4 inches deep, and then as they grow, the soil can be pulled up around them to blanch the stems.
Being shallow-rooted, leeks need plentiful watering throughout the summer. This is not an easy crop to grow, but worth the trouble when you look at the price in the grocery store.
Leek and potato soup is delicious.
On the other hand, chives are easy to grow; in fact, they are hard to kill if you have too many or have grown them in the wrong place.
This perennial can be onion- or garlic-flavored.
The foliage is hollow and grass-like and, if not cut back, the plant will produce attractive pink or purple flowers. One plant will soon form large clumps that are easy to divide.
When you need their flavor in soup, stew, salad or mixed into cottage cheese, simply snip a few inches of foliage with scissors. The plant will quickly recover and grow even faster.
A clump dug up in fall will spend the winter happily on a sunny window sill and go back into the garden in the spring.
Garlic is another allium that is a blessing in the kitchen.
I planted the cloves from two bulbs from the grocery store in mid-September and now have two rows of grassy shoots about 7 inches high.
They will survive the winter with the help of a little mulch, and the bulbs will continue to develop underground.
In the spring, top growth will resume and I will have a plentiful supply of garlic in the fall.
Onions are another allium that are easy to grow, and can be pulled and used in different stages of growth.
Seeds are fussy to grow; the better choice for starting onions is to buy sets in the spring. These small and weedy-looking plants were grown from seed and then pulled and stored until spring. The sets will grow fairly fast, and can be thinned after a few weeks and used as "green" or "spring" onions.
Shallots are botanically a separate variety of allium, but sometimes one can see bunches of mid-sized onions in the produce department that are sized between a full-grown onion and a green salad onion and are sold as shallots.
And then there are Egyptian onions, Welsh onions, Walking onions, Multiplier onions and many more - all testifying to the popularity of allium in the cuisine of many cultures.
And of course, there is wild onion and garlic that are the last weeds to surface in the fall and the first to appear in the spring. Let's not go there.
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- Breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) may be used in addition to mammography to detect breast cancer in its earliest stage for some women who are at high risk for developing the disease.
- Breast MRI has a number of limitations and should not replace mammography screening, even for women at high risk for breast cancer.
- Talk with your doctor about your breast cancer risk and which screening test(s) are right for you.
Breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an imaging test that creates detailed pictures of the inside of the breasts. Although breast MRI is not regularly used for breast cancer screening, it may help detect breast cancer in its earliest stage for some women who are at high risk for developing the disease. The most common type of breast cancer discovered at this stage (stage 0) is ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS). DCIS is a noninvasive cancer, which means cancer cells have only been found in ducts of the breast and the cancer has not spread past the layer of tissue where it began.
A breast MRI is not a replacement for mammography for high risk women. Instead, it should be used as a complementary screening tool. This is because although an MRI may be more likely to find cancer than mammography, it often misses some cancers that mammography easily detects. For women with an average risk of breast cancer, mammography is still the standard method for diagnosing early-stage breast cancer.
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For women at high risk for breast cancer, American Cancer Society guidelines recommend having a breast MRI and mammography every year starting at the age 30. This "high risk" group includes women who have at least one of these characteristics:
- Have a known BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutation
- Have a 20% or greater lifetime risk of breast cancer. This can be determined using a scientific tool that calculates a person's lifetime risk of developing breast cancer primarily based on their family history.
- Received radiation therapy to the chest between the ages of 10 and 30
- Have a first-degree relative (parent, brother, sister, or child) with a BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutation but have not had genetic testing themselves
- Have been diagnosed with a condition that increases their risk of breast cancer, such as Li-Fraumeni syndrome, Cowden syndrome, or Bannayan-Riley-Ruvalcaba syndrome, or who have a first-degree relative with one of these syndromes
There is not enough evidence to show whether women with a moderately increased risk of breast cancer (a lifetime risk between 15% and 20%); women who have had breast cancer, DCIS, lobular carcinoma in situ, or a precancerous conditions of the breast; or women with dense breasts based on mammography would benefit from yearly MRI screening. Research on using breast MRI for early detection continues, including its ability to find contralateral breast cancer (breast cancer in the opposite breast) at the time of a first breast cancer occurrence.
Drawbacks of breast MRI for general screening
Although breast MRI is a more sensitive test than mammography in many ways, this increased sensitivity may cause areas of the breast that do not have cancer to appear abnormal, producing an increased number of false-positive test results. False-positive test results indicate cancer when no cancer is actually present. This may lead to unnecessary biopsies (removal of breast tissue for further study) and increased anxiety for many women.
At the same time, breast MRI cannot visualize the calcium deposits, known as calcifications or microcalcifications, that typically surround DCIS lesions (the suspicious area). Mammography, on the other hand, can detect these calcium deposits accurately.
Finally, breast MRI is more expensive than mammography. Under the Affordable Care Act, private insurance companies are required to pay the full cost of mammography every one to two years for women starting at the age of 40, and Medicare now covers yearly mammography screening at no cost to women starting at age 40. Not all insurance companies pay for breast MRI for women at average risk for breast cancer, and some do not cover breast MRI for women at high risk. Medicare allows for "reasonable and necessary" breast MRI if performed on equipment approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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Impress.js for presentations made using open source
3 open source tools to make your presentations pop
Love them or hate them, presentations are a major part of life in both academia and business. Traditionally, creating a presentation meant using Microsoft's PowerPoint, but Apple's Keynote and LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org's Impress are solid alternatives. The problem with all those applications (aside from the closed source nature of the first two) is that you need those applications installed in order to view the presentations you've created. You can try your luck opening the file in Google Drive or the like, but your success will vary.
One of the most interesting presentation frameworks is impress.js, which aims to move presentations beyond the standard slide deck. Below, I'll introduce you to impress.js and two tools that make it easy to create impress.js presentations.
Impress.js is a JavaScript presentation framework developed by Bartek Szopka. Inspired by Prezi, it makes use of CCS3 transformations to provide a presentation experience that goes way beyond the traditional slide deck. Using impress.js for presentations allows speakers to wow their audiences with presentations that slide, rotate, and zoom in three dimensions.
Creating an impress.js presentation is no easy task, even for someone with decent HTML and CSS skills. The basic markup is easy to understand, but impress.js presentations can be very complex and require a lot of thought and planning. There is no default theme, so you'll have to design the look and feel of your presentation yourself. And the flow of your presentation is entirely up to you, so you'll have to plan how each slide will transition to the next and the layout of the slides' relative positions in the canvas. Creating an impress.js presentation from scratch can be a lot of work, but the results can be impressive. A selection of demos and examples are available to provide inspiration and guidance, and there are tutorials for those who want to dig deeper and learn more.
If creating an impress.js presentation from scratch is too complicated for you, there are tools to make creating impress.js presentations easier. The two listed below have different strengths and weaknesses. Give them both a try, and see if one works for you.
Hovercraft simplifies the creation of impress.js presentations by allowing you to create presentations using reStructedText markup. Instead of having to write HTML markup while crafting a presentation, you can focus on just writing the text. You can move things around and change things without having to mess with complicated markup. For example, the following text creates a slide that is five times larger than the previous slide and rotated 90 degrees.

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:data-scale: 5
 :data-rotate: 90

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 * Bullet Point 2

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Creating an impress.js presentation using Hovercraft greatly simplifies the process and enhances impress.js. Hovercraft supports four different methods for positing slides in a presentation. If you specify no positing in your markup, you end up with a traditional slide-to-the-left slide show. If you want something a little fancier, you can use relative positioning and slides are positioned based on the offset you specify relative to the previous slide. This method allows you to easily insert a new slide in the middle of a presentation and have all the following slides readjust their positions. If you want total control, you can use absolute positioning, which allows you to specify the precise coordinates of a slide. And finally, you can specify a SVG path for the presentation to follow. According to Hovercraft's documentation, SVG layouts are "a bit fiddly to use," but having such precise control over the layout can result in some pretty impressive slide shows. In addition, Hovercraft supports syntax highlighting for any source code you want to include in your presentation, and it adds a presenter screen with timer and notes. When you're done writing your presentation (or want to test what you have written so far), a very simple command converts the reStructuredText file into an HTML presentation:

hovercraft [markupfile] [output directory]

Despite Hovercraft's strengths, it still requires the user to be fairly CSS savvy. The default Hovercraft theme is extremely spartan, so you'll still need to stylize your presentation if you want anything fancier than plain black text on a white background. Adding CSS to a presentation is not complicated, but it is not as easy as selecting a new presentation theme in PowerPoint.
You can read Hovercraft's documentation to learn more.
Hovercraft was created by Lennart Regebro and is licensed under a Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal license.
If you'd like a tool that works more like traditional presentation software, Strut is the tool for you. Strut is a web-based application that provides the traditional slide sorter and editing tools. The graphical tools let you add text, images, videos, websites, and pre-designed shapes to your slides. You can also easily change the color of the slides' backgrounds and the surface (the backdrop in front of which the slides appear) for the entire presentation all at once, or on a slide-by-slide basis. Strut also supports adding text to slides using Markdown. And for power users, you can apply custom CSS classes to objects and write custom CSS rules from inside Strut. Once you have your slides designed, you can switch to Overview mode and graphically layout your slides. You just drag around the slides and enter values for depth, rotation, and scale. In addition to creating impress.js presentations, Strut can also create presentations using the bespoke.js framework.
Strut is very nice, but it does still have a few rough edges. Users will encounter the occasional bug, and the project's to-do list is somewhat long (though that is not a major issue). The project has followed the "release early, release often" maxim, and anyone who wishes to can help make the project better by contributing on GitHub.
Give Strut a try using the editor on the project's site, or download the source from GitHub and run it locally (or on a server). You'll need Node.js's npm and Grunt to install the dependencies and build Strut.
Strut's creator, Matthew Crinklaw-Vogt, has released the application under the GNU Affero General Public License, Version 3.
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It's ironic that the day that this article was published, I was working with Slides (based on the reveal.js Javascript framework). I'll be checking out Strut after saving this comment.
Thanks for taking the time to write this article!
I'm a big fan of Reveal.js, but certainly interested in exploring what the other options are out there (including those in this excellent article!). Also worth poking around with is the Google I/O presentation template, which is under an Apache 2.0 license.
Joshua, you've introduced me to a whole new world. Thanks!
There is also Sozi: http://sozi.baierouge.fr/ which is very much like Prezi, but FLOSS.
You draw with Inkscape.org, and then tell where are the areas to show and in which order. :)
Hi Sir Joshua,
This is amazing! =) I'm now ready leveling my skills in presentation with this.
Thanks for the great article!
Thank you,
Aggarao, Kristian John
these are really great and I certainly will try Impress, Hovercraft and Strut.
nowadays your audience wants a flashy presentation -- sometimes I even wonder if they care more about your Prezi than the things you say, but that's a matter of having the right content. for me the more tech comes to the presentation the more likely it will fail on the platform I'll have to work on professionally. cloud based? with poor wifi you'll have to find something to tell without the pictures you prepared. even the corporate 'ppt' sometimes fails because of different versions.
therefore I always carry my presentation in pdf, together with an installed version of impress!ve. this wonderful piece of software saves your day and only needs the bare minimum. besides there are some nifty tricks to emphasize text or use a flashlight like mouse pointer. impress!ve is avaliable from most Linux repos, but is also ported to Windows and portable version on flash drive in case your surroundings are different.
and at the end you simply hand over the pdf for after reading.
no offence to more appealing presentation software, but maybe impress!ve can be an option to use and save your bits.


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Module 1 contains courses that should be taken at the beginning of the MBA program; courses in this module introduce the model of the entire program. While taking module 1 courses, students and their advisors will work together to complete a program of study and to plan out elective courses and/or graduate certificates to meet the student's individual career goals.
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MBA/MBATM International Context Tour Policy. The MBA/MBATM International Context Tour is required for graduation and can be taken after the student has completed at least 25 credit hours. Trip participants are required to adhere to the policies and procedures outlined in the MBA/MBATM International Context Tour Handbook.
A maximum of 9 approved graduate hours may be transferred toward the MBA Program from other professionally accredited institutions (AACSB or ACBSP) upon the written permission of the program director. Courses eligible for transfer are only those that contribute to, or build upon, the program goals. Courses completed at other graduate institutions must be awarded a minimum of a B grade to be eligible for credit.
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Pharma companies adopted the technologies, envisioning revitalized and rapidly filling pipelines, and combinatorial chemistry companies sprung up, funded by enthusiastic investors.
But when few drugs emerged from massive numbers of small molecule libraries, integrated technologies revealed the multiple subtleties involved in drug activity and, more notably, the need for greater molecular specificity.
ArQule, a pioneering combinatorial chemistry company, now approaches the design of novel kinase inhibitors with its AKIP™ platform. AKIP integrates in silico drug design, parallel robotic chemistry, and assay development. The company focuses its expertise on the creation of non-ATP competitive inhibitors that interact with these kinases in novel binding modes. Inhibitors identified through AKIP are optimized into drug candidates having the appropriate efficacy and selectivity for their target with minimal side effects.
"Since 2007, we have focused ArQule's efforts in drug discovery to leverage our learnings in the parallel chemistry business together with our structural analysis of inactive kinases," ArQule's vp of chemistry Mark Ashwell, Ph.D., explained to GEN.
ArQule's lead drug candidate is tivantinib, a c-MET kinase inhibitor currently in clinical trials for non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The company expects that it will enter Phase III trials to test its efficacy in liver cancer in late 2012/early 2013.
"The story of tivantinib's discovery is unusual," Dr. Ashwell said. "We found it while screening a small molecule kinase library in a cellular assay, looking for a cell signature that we felt would lead to an anticancer agent.
"We found the profile we were looking for, and discovered that the activity came from only one of a pair of enantiomers, leading us to conclude that the active small molecule had a highly specific target with a strict molecular recognition requirement."
Dr. Ashwell noted that he and his colleagues screened the compound against a group of kinases and found it was a c-MET inhibitor.
Since then, he said, "We have been able to look at the activation states of kinases in very specific ways, and we found tivantinib prevents cMET from assuming an activated form. Now we are building an understanding of how other kinases become switched on and off from inactive to activated states and how inhibitors can be designed to interact with different conformations.
"To detect these types of inhibitors, we expanded our screening platform to include direct binding assays of the molecule with the kinase in its inactive form using thermal shift assays and size-exclusion mass spectroscopy. We have also included additional biochemical assays mimicking what is known about how cells activate kinases."
According to Astex Pharmaceuticals, traditional high-throughput screening "has not delivered on its promise of increasing the numbers and quality of new drugs entering clinical trials." One reason for this relates to the complexity and the relatively large size of the compounds routinely being screened.
Astex' Pyramid platform, based on fragment-based drug discovery (FBDD) reportedly rapidly delivers customized, high-quality drug leads with enhanced therapeutic potential.
GEN asked David Rees, Ph.D., svp of medicinal chemistry, how combichem and screening technologies have evolved to produce viable drug candidates faster and more efficiently. Dr. Rees explained that, prior to his 10 year tenure at Astex, he worked in large pharma and was involved in "pushing combichem in those organizations." While he believes that the technology successfully increased the number of compounds that chemists made, "Many people would question the quality that came out of it."
"With combichem," he said, "you make compounds of higher molecular weight and also with higher lipophilicity, a greater tendency to dissolve in fatty environments as opposed to aqueous environments. These compounds tend not to make good drugs."
During the last decade, he explained, chemists have realized that there is a certain drug-like profile for molecules, described as "The rule of five." "The guy who came up with the rule was Chris Lipinski, and the rules delineate drug-like properties including molecular weight, hydrogen bond donors, and lipophilicity.
"With combichem we were able to make loads of compounds but often going outside of Lipinski's guidelines." With the benefit of hindsight, Dr. Rees said, "It wasn't such a smart idea." Described in 1997, Lipinski's rule has provided a proven "rule of thumb" to evaluate whether a chemical compound with a certain pharmacological or biological activity has properties that would make it a likely orally active drug in humans.
Astex' FBDD approach involves "synthesizing as few compounds as possible—the opposite of combichem, but we put a lot of time and energy into designing each compound so it has the best chance of binding to the intended drug targets."
Astex starts off screening very low molecular weight compounds that range from 150 to 200 daltons. "In high-throughput screening one would screen between a million to 10 million relatively high molecular weight compounds looking for a hit. In the fragment-based approach we screen only a few hundred compounds. Because these compounds are so much smaller they sample the possible binding interactions that you could get more comprehensively. HTS provides only a smaller slice of the total possible compounds. Statistically you have a higher chance of getting a hit screening a thousand fragments than a million HTS."
Dr. Rees said that Astex also uses a lot of x-ray crystallography to "give us the three dimensional structure of our drug-protein targets—then we know the exact chemical structure of the binding site we want to block, in other words, we use structure-based drug design.
"The Lipinski-like properties of the candidates from Astex' fragment approach are much more attractive than candidates arising from other methods, he says. If you look at most pharma companies these days you would find more interest in FBDD than in combichem."
Astex currently has several drug candidates developed through its platform technology in clinical trials in the developmental hands of its big pharma partners and a number of internal programs.
In its 2011 "Year of Chemistry" report "The Changing Role of Chemistry in Drug Discovery," Thomson Reuters said, "Already the job description for many chemists has changed from the pure synthetic chemist to include more computational chemistry." And combinatorial chemistry as a technique for the rapid synthesis of drug-like compounds, integrated with novel technologies, will continue to impact the discovery of novel drugs.
Patricia F. Dimond, Ph.D. ([email protected]), is a principal at BioInsight Consulting.
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Windows Phone Design 101 covers the philosophy, inspiration and visuals that are Windows Phone Design Language. Starting with the basic terminology of design, this boot camp will take you from its early origins to the Design Principles each screen in Windows Phone was measured against. From there, we will show you the design process that guided its creation. Lastly, we will discuss the larger Microsoft Design ecosystem including Windows 8.
In Windows Phone Design 201 focuses on the skills necessary to implement "pixel-perfect" Windows Phone UI. 201 will cover the "system" including basics of the phones navigation model, interaction with the shell and an overview of gesture system. Next it will cover "composition", which is about how to clearly define when it is appropriate to use a page template and when to use a particular animation or page transition or how to harness screen orientation. Lastly, we will cover, controls and APIs available for creating your own experiences and give tips on how to do simple prototyping.
Former Windows Phone Design Integration Lead for 3 years, Jared is now Principle Designer for SixThAveStudios.com. Jared's focus is to combine the most cutting edge design language, user experience and motion graphics into a complete mobile user experience. http://www.linkedin.com/in/jaredpotter
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I didn't find this series of presentations very useful for a non-designer. Too general. Didn't provide any examples as to how to use concepts suggested as best practices. Presenter seemed to rush through things. A longer more relaxed presentation with additional explanation would have been more enjoyable and informative.
General comment on design: There seems to be an assumption by designers that everyone interacts with things in a visual manner. Not so!!!! The first thing I turn back on in apps that don't default this (including Windows explorer and IE) is the menu bar. Words have greater meaning to me and are by far faster to interact with than some supposedly universal iconograph that more often than not doesn't mean a damn thing to me. This concept seems to pervade Windows 8 and will probably make it less attractive to use, at least for me.
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PORTER – A Youngstown man faces an attempted burglary charge after a woman said she saw someone trying to get into her Ulrich Drive house through a kitchen window.
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Lewis. who faces a possible prison term of up to seven years on that felony burglary count was arraigned in Porter Town Court where he was ordered held pending further court proceedings.
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Ball State junior guard Brandy Woody has been named the Mid-American Conference West Division Player of the Week for the first time in her career.
Woody averaged 26.0 points per game last week along with 7.0 rebounds, 3.5 assits and 4.5 steals. She scored a career-high 29 points Wednesday to lift the Cardinals to a 69-55 victory over Buffalo at Alumni Arena. Woody also had a career-best 11 rebounds and seven steals that game.
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The Summer ISC and the Futures Forum
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The summer meeting of our semi-annual industry strategy council (ISC) took place in Washington DC at the end of June. We enjoyed the highest percentage of member participation since I've been leading this group, and the range of topics we covered included our student success solution, our work in the area of student experience (which includes many of our social relationship management tools), an update on our investments in our student information analytics and student information system products, and a update on our budgeting and planning tools for higher ed. All of that was covered in the first day, with the second day reserved primarily for discussions with policy officials from Congress and from the current administration (DoE) regarding policies and initiatives in higher education where information technology can play an enabling or supporting role.
During this second day we heard from Richard Culetta (Director of Education Technology) at DoE, Chairwoman Virginia Foxx of the House Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training, Congressman Luke Messer of Indiana, also on the Higher Education Subcommittee, and Matt Chingos, fellow, at the Brookings Institute.
We were hoping to have Senatos Rubio and Wyden, authors of the "Student Right to Know Before You Go" bill which they introduced through the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, but the immigration reform bill which came to a vote on the very day we were meeting took up their schedule. However, we had Emily Bouch (Senator Rubio's Legislative Aide on Education Policy) and Laura Bernsten (Senator Wyden's Domestic Policy Advisory) who crafted the bill visit with the ISC and engaged in a spirited debate on it's merits.
We also filmed a number of short interviews with several of the council members which, once through post-production, we'll post to our website and also place links here.
Several key themes emerged from the two days of meetings with the council. One is that we have much work to do at Oracle making sense of the myriad of products, especially those recently acquired, in terms of their value and how they enable solutions to the thorniest problems faced by higher education. Another is that the role of IT in higher education is slowly changing. IT leadership is becoming more strategic although the tactical and transactional demands haven't waned. Many of the members expressed their view that Oracle's engagement with higher ed over the past two years has really changed (for the positive), both in terms of product strategy but also in terms of field engagement. We have a few members on the council that are not from IT (CFO's, Presidents, COO's) and these representatives consistently communicate how IT is by far the most important (aside from funding and personnel) strategic asset the institution has to maintain and improve competitiveness.
The Forum on the Future of Higher Education
The strategic nature of IT in education was reinforced for me at the forum referenced above. I missed this conference in 2012, but after seeing the output from the meeting I pledged to myself that I wouldn't miss it in 2013. There was not an IT leader in the 100+ person group (aside from me), but big data and analytics themes ran through virtually all of the discussions, as well as the need to leverage technology to strengthen our major research university's competitiveness in the global research arena. The changing business model was also at the forefront of the conference, and the need to use tools and "world class" best practices from industry's use of IT to not only run the "business" but also model the business in a future state that may be significantly different from today's reality was clear.
As an added bonus, I met many of our ISC's members bosses at the Future's Forum!
Our next meeting is already being planned for December. We plan to devote a much larger chunk of the agenda to the research enterprise, to budgeting and planning in higher education, and to security and access management. Watch this spot later for more details.


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