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REEDSVILLE - A dream and a commitment will come to fruition Sunday when Big Valley Bible Church moves into its new facility in Lumber City, Reedsville - debt free.
The church purchased the building, which originally housed the Reedsville Christian and Missionary Alliance Church, from the Eastern Pennsylvania District of the Christian and Missionary Alliance on April 8.
"I am thankful and blessed by God's provision of the building. It's just God's faithfulness.'' said the Rev. Jeffrey Hartzler, noting the congregation's commitment to remaining debt free.
Discussions about the purchase have been ongoing for nearly a year; and roadblocks have been resolved, paving the way for the purchase, said Hartzler, who co-pastors the church with his brother James Hartzler.
The church's new facility is brick, with 3,200 square feet on the main floor and a complete basement. The auditorium will seat more than 200 people, Hartzler said.
Members of the congregation have been busy refurbishing the building and making repairs.
"We've had a lot of people do a lot of work,'' Hartzler said. "There have definitely been some excited people. What I have observed personally is a steadiness to accomplish it. A lot of our senior citizens pitched in and did a lot of work, but many people also have helped.''
The main auditorium, nursery and restrooms will be open on Sunday. The basement will not be ready for occupancy until new floor covering can be laid.
Along with the carpet, ongoing projects at the church include parking lot improvement and expansion, landscaping and completing basement renovations.
The church began as a dream of the Hartzler brothers. Jeff Hartzler was pastoring a church in Ray, Minn., and Jim Hartzler was serving a church in Charleroi, when each resigned their pastorates to start the new work. As co-pastors, the brothers take on different roles: Jeff serves in a full-time capacity, while Jim chooses to support himself by working as a registered nurse.
"When Jim and I thought and talked about starting a church together, I at times would envision sitting together in a building in a service with him and that has been happening for almost six years. It's incredible to see that coming to pass in our own building.'' Hartzler said. "Our goal is just to be faithful to the Word of God.''
The brothers held the church's first service on Aug. 17, 2003, at Floyd and Alma Hartzler's cabin in Stone Valley, with 19 in attendance. Three weeks later, the congregation moved into the Bohn building at the corner by the traffic light in Reedsville, with 30 attending the first morning service there. Six years later, church attendance now averages about 140 per week.
On Wednesday, the congregation officially moved into its new building. They will celebrate their first worship service at 10 a.m. Sunday in the new church, 139 W. Railroad St., in Lumber City. An evening service will be held at 6 p.m. Weekly prayer meetings also are held at 7 p.m. on Wednesdays. Nursery care is available.
Like any move, getting back into the old routines takes time. The Sunday morning children's program will resume as soon as possible. Youth meetings will continue to be held from 6:45 to 8:15 p.m. Wednesdays, and the Olympians and Gopher Buddies, children's clubs, will begin meeting on Wednesdays at the start of the 2009-2010 school year.
For more information about the church, call 667-3123.


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Skivitis (pronounced sky-vight-is) is a temporary illness, characterised by severe lack of desire to go to school. Often, the student suffering from Skivitis will avoid school (or 'skive') even during school hours. This illness can be cured by a phone call from the school to the student's parents or alternatively by calling the police or student welfare officer.
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So the Lakers repeated, and I'm stuck in Socal. . All the bandwagoning must stop. I really didn't want them to repeat. Game 7 was actually good to watch, because for a basketball game, it was very physical.
I'm not exactly sure that the Lakers are a picture team for bandwagon fans, such as the Penguins or Blackhawks. They've been one of the most successful teams in NBA history, and now own the 2nd highest total number of championships. It's not like they were terrible for years and years but then all of a sudden got good.


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High-Pressure MOF Research Yields Structural Insights
Metal-organic frameworks have shown promise in a variety of applications ranging from gas storage to ion exchange. Accurate structural knowledge is key to the understanding of the applicability of these materials; to learn more, researchers used ALS Beamline 11.3.1 to perform in situ, high-pressure, single-crystal x-ray diffraction. Read more...
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Vanadium dioxide is a somewhat futuristic material that could yield faster and much more energy-efficient electronic devices. IBM researchers from the company's forward-thinking Spintronic Science and Applications Center recently used the ALS to gain greater insight into vanadium dioxide's unusual phase transition. Read more...
Peter Nico, recently appointed chair of the UEC, brings a varied user perspective to his new post: like many environmental science users, Nico has worked at a number of different ALS beamlines, from hard x-ray tomography to x-ray diffraction to STXM to infrared. It's the combination these multiple capabilities that he sees as one of the greatest assets the ALS has to offer users. Read more...
In his floor speech to the Senate on January 29, US Senator Chris Coons of Delaware unveiled a bill to modernize national labs and spur innovation. Sen. Coons (right, in photo) visited the ALS last fall in the company of ALS Director Roger Falcone (left) and LBNL Director Paul Alivisatos. During the tour he learned about the Sematech-Center for X-Ray Optics collaboration, which he praised in his speech. Read the full text of his speech and/or see the video from the Senate floor.
The ALS MAESTRO project has just reached a significant milestone with the installation of a new elliptically polarizing undulator (EPU), representing the return of light to Beamline 7.0. Read about the project and see more photos.
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February 20, 2014: Members of the ALS Users' Executive Committee at their first meeting of 2014.
From left: Mahati Chintapalli (student member), Tanja Cuk, David Shuh, Yuri Suzuki, Andreas Scholl, Tyler Troy, Peter Nico (chair), and Scott Classen.
Not pictured: Artur Braun, Chris Cappa, Brian Collins, Adam Hitchcock, Micky Holcomb, and Corie Ralston (past chair).
All users are welcome to contact their UEC representatives to raise issues of concern relating to their own research, or to alert us to issues facing our whole community.
Thank you and I look forward to a great year!
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KIAWAH ISLAND — The company wanting to build 50 homes on Capt. Sam's Spit is suing the island's homeowners association to get back a deed to property along the path of a proposed access road to the development.
The lawsuit decision could stymie plans for the development, or require developers to move the road, putting the fate of acclaimed Beachwalker Park further in jeopardy.
The road is planned to run between the scenic park's parking lot and the beach. Opponents have been concerned that it would run along an emergency vehicle easement through the parking lot.
The spit where the controversial development is planned is a narrow, wildlife-rich reach of exposed land on the Kiawah's western end.
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7 Things You Don't Realize About Addiction (Until You Quit)
I got this voicemail from Cracked Editor-in-Chief Jack O'Brien two days ago:
"John, we have a slight problem. Editorial agrees that you're more interesting when you're addicted to something, and since that whole alcoholism thing is over, we'd like you to start doing meth. We've already sent you a 1-pound compressed brick that should be arriving today. You'll notice a bite taken out of the corner. That was Cody. He thought it was fudge. Meth fudge. And he was correct."
"There's also some porn-themed cocaine ice cream in there."
It's been two days, and no such package has arrived. I'm assuming it's because he addressed it like the last package he tried to send me, thinking "Some Farm Place" was close enough. Regardless, something he said got me thinking. That my alcoholism is "over." As if I had completed all of the requirements to graduate from alcoholic to normalcy. And that's when I realized that it wasn't just my clinically insane boss who thought this. It was most people. No, I'm as much of an alcoholic right now as I was 10 years ago -- I just don't drink now.
I don't blame people for not knowing that. Two years into sobriety, I'm still learning things about the disease and recovery. For instance, you don't butter your dick nearly as often when you're sober. As well as other things, like ...
#7. Alcohol Turns You into George Lucas
If I'm out doing errands and I run into someone I haven't seen in years, within 30 seconds they'll mention that I sound like a completely different person. At first, I thought that was just an age thing, but the more I talked to people, the more I remembered how much of an annoying jackass I used to be. And then I realized that my loud, "look at me" personality was the only one they ever knew.
The problem is it's easy to miss the drunk version of somebody, like that was the "real" them. When you're drunk, your inhibitions vanish. Even nondrinkers know that. We've all seen at least one movie where a quiet church mouse of a person drinks a little spiked punch and then, suddenly, he's transformed. Dancing on top of tables. Taking off his clothes. Insulting people. Lighting his farts in the middle of a laughing crowd.
"Quick, someone shit on my chest! This will be hilarious!"
But when you sober up, that voice comes back. The one that warns you, "This McDonald's cashier has heard the 'Mc' joke 300 times today. If you make another one, she's going to salt your fries with her own shit." It's what keeps you from hugging random strangers and screaming obscenities at your friend from across a crowded children's library. So it's easy to think, "When you're drunk, all of those filters are gone and your true self comes out."
That's bullshit. Your "true" self isn't represented by a single facet of your personality. It's the collective effort of a complex system of checks and balances. That uninhibited, somewhat stupid wild side is your Star Wars prequels-era George Lucas, throwing out whatever comes to mind at any particular second without a fear of consequences or how it appears to others. Your sober, rational mind is the entire crew from The Empire Strikes Back, constantly reminding him, "No. What you're about to do is retarded. This 'Jar Jar' thing belongs on the cutting room floor -- you'll thank us later." Saying that your drunken, uninhibited side is your "true" self is an insult. Without those voices to keep you in check, you're The Phantom Menace.
No, that's not a good thing.
Once you give up booze, the balance returns, and you start to understand that the way you were acting while under the influence was not only immature, but immeasurably embarrassing. So when people see you truly sober for the first time, their reaction is always a genuinely surprised look that says, "Oh, wait, you're human? I never noticed that before!"
#6. You Will Lose Most of Your Friends
Most alcoholics run in drinking social circles. You don't realize it until you've been sober for a while, but many of the friendships that you thought were deep and meaningful were nothing more than drinking buddies. In those groups, alcohol is the binding thread that holds everyone together.
Once I removed that thread, the whole sweater fell apart, exposing my nude George Wendt tattoo to a sea of horrified onlookers. And it turned out that nobody wanted to be associated with that. At least not while sober.
"Sorry, but this place closes in an hour, and after that, I have to switch to mouthwash."
Little by little, the drinking friends realize that hanging out with you means doing it without a beer in their hands. And at the same time, you find that if they do drink around you, it's only a matter of time before they start offering you one. The more they drink, the more persistent they become. And the more persistent they become, the more tempted you are to just give in. Just this once.
It doesn't take long before they stop showing up at all, and after years of building relationships that revolve around alcohol, you have no idea where to even start looking for real-world friendship. As you try to figure out how you're going to build a whole new social life from scratch, the dread and panic of being totally lost is just enormous. You are in social limbo. How the hell do you escape that? Where does a guy even go to meet a woman, if not a bar or a party?
After two years, I still don't have an answer to that. As much of a hermit as it makes me seem, I've since resigned myself to a few very close relationships, like the ones with my kids, my fiancee and my best friend. And the rest are all Internet friends. On the Net, if someone gets drunk and starts acting like a dumbass, I can just close the window and talk to them when they sober up.
#5. Current Alcoholics Just Piss You Off
I get a lot of messages from people who are going through the same ordeal I went through. It's incredible to me that I'm in a position where I can help people, but it's as frustrating as swimmer's dick at a porn audition to see them going through the same "set yourself up for failure" motions that I mastered over years of protecting my own disease.
I've gotten stories from people who have been evicted from their apartments because they drank away their rent money. A mom who woke up to find her 8-year-old son trying to cook his own supper because she was passed out on the couch. People who tell me that they are incapable of moderating their intake -- if they drink one, they have to keep going until they're at their physical limit. It is beyond their control.
"I just like to have a few with friends. I'm a social drinker!"
Then in the same email, they'll say, "You've convinced me to finally cut back on my drinking."
Wait, what? Cut back? You just told me that you don't have the ability to stop yourself from getting blitzed. Where in any of my writings or correspondence have you seen me use the phrase, "Cutting back is a good idea"? Don't blame me for this about-to-buttfuck-you-into-a-stupor decision.
You see these people doing the same exact things that you did, and you know for a stone-carved fact that there isn't a combination of words in the collective languages of our entire species that can convince them that they need help. Just like when I was an alcoholic, they're not looking for help or advice. They're looking for validation.
"I only had six. See, I'm fine."
They'll tell you what they think you want to hear -- that they have it all under control. "I'm an alcoholic like you. I haven't had a drink in six days, and I just wanted to thank you. I finally have this thing beat, and it feels great!" Then a week later, "So I slipped up and drank at a birthday party. But then I realized that I don't actually want to stop drinking. I'm making enough money that I can afford it without going broke, and I proved to myself by quitting that I'm not an alcoholic. Thanks for helping me see that."
Wait, wait, wait ... you just told me a week ago that you were drinking so much that you were waking up with cuts on your arm, and you had no recollection of doing it. When did it become an issue of finances? When did you modify the meaning of "alcoholic"? Was it shortly after you told me that you are one? Or was it right before you made the decision to start drinking again?
"I found it on the road. What was I supposed to do, just let it go to waste?"
The reason it's so maddening is because you've done the same thing so many times yourself that you can write their responses for them, a week before they even know they're going to say it. And I'm not exaggerating on that. I've predicted the relapses of four complete Internet strangers based solely on what they type. Not just the fact that they would relapse, but how it would happen, and what excuse they would use when they came clean about it.
And mine is not exactly an anger that's aimed at them. I don't know them. Whether they drink or not, I'm the same guy, living the same life -- whether they succeed or fail, I autograph the same number of naked breasts at the end of the day. It makes me angry at myself because at the moment they're making their excuses, or lying, or defending their disease, it's like looking into a mirror and seeing your old self smirking back at you with a look that says, "Pfft. You don't know what you're talking about. I have this under control."
"You want some of th- STOP COPYING ME!"
It's enough to make you want to pull your past self through that mirror and beat him until the backward lettering on his T-shirt is obscured by his own fallen teeth.
#4. Boredom Changes Everything
For the first couple of weeks after giving up alcohol, you won't know what to do. You're used to a routine of "drinking plus X," and when you take away the booze from that equation, most people find that the "X" kind of sucks. I remember spending entire nights playing my guitar and singing while pounding enough beer to dissolve my kidneys. I loved playing music. I couldn't imagine going a night without it.
Until I took away the beer. Suddenly, I didn't like the guitar very much, so I packed it away and haven't really touched it since.
Along with all of my burial urns and women's clothing.
Don't mistake what I'm saying here. I didn't betray an old love by tearfully putting it in the back of the closet against my will. It was a hobby that I enjoyed only when I was drinking -- because I was drinking. Sober, I never had much interest in it. I just didn't realize that until I committed to getting clean, heard myself through clear ears and discovered, "You're that guy the movies make fun of. The one in the corner of a party, playing acoustic guitar for girls, thinking he's super cool. You're that twat."
I started to hear my voice without the shroud of drunken ego, masking all of the imperfections ... and there were a lot of them. I hate the way I sound when I sing. I hate that when I'm drunk, my guitar playing sounds flawless to me. But when I'm sober, I realize that I sound exactly like every other average guitar player in existence.
Plus, you have to constantly deal with the bees.
Again, I'm not saying that you're going to walk into your house on Day One and throw away everything that means something to you. If you enjoyed making model clown beards out of pipe cleaners whether you were drinking or not, there's a good chance you'll still love it in your newfound sobriety. And if, only when drinking, you find yourself stuffing a dozen of those beards into your ass, and then farting them straight into the air, screaming, "BEARD GEYSER," then chances are you're probably not going to hang on to that hobby when you cut out the booze.
Over time, the more hobbies you drop, the more holes you'll find yourself trying to fill with other activities. Strangely, I picked up cleaning and cooking. I developed this almost OCD level of cleanliness that probably drives the rest of my family insane ... but if I don't fill that hole with something productive, I'm going to fill it with beer.
My neighbors have threatened to file for a restraining order on behalf of their pets if I don't start drinking again.


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Due to the message Renee received from her psycho ex, she decided to do an about facebook, cutting off all her friends and family in the process.
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So with that do you think Pronger is Hockey Hall of Fame deserving? Or do you think he was a classless player that got what he deserved?
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Composers have often turned to the string quartet as the vehicle for their most intimate utterances. Other than Beethoven, no composer has put so much of himself into his quartets as Dmitri Shostakovich. Written over the course of his career, Shostakovich's 15 string quartets serve as both biography and reflections on life behind the iron curtain. Bringing a unique perspective and searing intensity, the fiery Jerusalem Quartet performs the complete cycle in four concerts.
Pre-concert lecture with Michael Parloff at 6:30 PM in the Rose Studio, free for ticket holders. Seating is limited and is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Visit the Shostakovich Quartets website to learn more about the cycle.
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A Falconer man with two previous drunken driving convictions was caught again early today, Chautauqua County sheriff's officials said.
Jeremy P. Green, 33, was driving after 2 a.m. on Route 20 when deputies said they noticed insufficient tail lights on his pickup truck. Green was stopped by deputies who said an investigation showed Green was intoxicated. He was charged with driving while intoxicated, a charge that was upgraded to a felony because of two previous convictions in the last 10 years, according to sheriff's officials.
Green also was charged with aggravated DWI after deputies said his breath test measured a 0.18 percent blood-alcohol content or greater – more than two times the legal limit.


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Olympic wrestling decision stuns local coaches
February 13, 2013
Bill Whittington would like to pin members of the International Olympic Committee....
What a joke, stopping wrestling when they have a joke of a farce like beach volleyball. Dancing with the stars is more popular than track and field, so why not replace track and field with dancing. We could have salsa, ball room, tango, swing, break dancing, and other competitions.
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Thursday, October 10, 2013
The most significant find of American slave artifacts in U.S. history is about to see the light of day.
DuPont, in conjunction with Cypress Gardens, has agreed to loan slave artifacts to the University of Florida's Harn Museum of African Art.
In 2008, more than 15,000 slave village artifacts were found during construction of DuPont's new Cooper River Kevlar plant adjacent to Cypress Gardens. The artifacts, believed to have come from an old slave village on the grounds of Dean Hall Plantation, presented new light on life of African slaves more than 200 years ago.
Susan Cooksey, co-curator of the Harn Museum of African Art on the UF campus, approached Cypress Gardens about studying pottery artifacts unearthed during DuPont's Kevlar Plant excavation project to see if they were similar to African Kongo pottery.
"Until now these artifacts were seen just as archeological artifacts," Cooksey said. "We see them as art and want these artifacts to be seen in the light of day."
In November of 2012 Cooksey met with Cypress Gardens Director Dwight Williams, Ralph Baily of Brockington and Associates, and DuPont's Cooper River Plant manager Jerry Good to study some of the 15,000 artifacts.
"After Dr. Cooksey completed her initial research, she informed us that some of our artifacts helped her prove the connection between African Kongo artifacts – (called "colonware") – and the colonware found at the Dean Hall plantation slave village excavation site," Good said.
Cooksey plans to include pieces of these artifacts in a major exhibition on the connections between African American and Kongo art and culture at the UF Harn African Art Museum to run from December 2013 through June 2014.
The exhibit will become a traveling exhibition, which would also be displayed at the Carter Presidential Museum of Art in Atlanta, the New Orleans Art Museum, and the Princeton, NJ Museum of Art through 2015.
DuPont, which owns the artifacts, agreed to a three-year loan. On Sept. 27, Cooksey picked up the last of these artifacts that will be included in the exhibition.
"People need to see these artifacts and DuPont is looking for the best way to display this amazing collection of American slave history," Good said.
DuPont funded the archeological dig in 2008 when slave village artifacts were found during their $460 million Kevlar plant project construction. In 2010 DuPont donated funds to Cypress Gardens to build the Heritage Room, where over 200 of the African American artifacts are on display.
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You have to hand it to the Irish: they can tell a compelling story without telling you much at all.
It isn't because of efficiency or conciseness, rather unabashed vagueness. In keeping with the best storytelling traditions, Irish plays, at the very least, convey enough mood to remind you of your own familiar world, and enough exactness to remind you that this is still a story. You enter and exit the picture fluidly, never sure of whose emotions you're responding to. In the end, you feel awoken from a dream, in the hazy déjà vu of it all. How exquisite this can be.
In Brian Friel's beloved drama, "Dancing at Lughnasa," now at the Irish Classical Theatre, we're swept away in the tragic blandness of the Mundy family. Kate, the eldest sister of five and matriarch of the sisters' home, is a tight-lipped schoolteacher – the epitome of Irish Catholic. Her siblings are decidedly less tame than she; for instance, they enjoy things like music and laughter, while Kate couldn't be bothered by such distractions.
What else comes of this feeling is almost beside the point. Our takeaway is the value of memories; the lessons learned from difficult, loving relationships between disparate family members, sisters so wound in their own narratives that they can't trust any next step. The details of their day-to-day actions are less important here, and that's OK.
Wendy Hall plays Kate with a well-spun tightness, the depths of which are riveting. Hall manages to keep Kate consistent when necessary – church is her home; her house is merely a residence – but when navigating unpaved roads, she goes wholeheartedly. It is a fantastic performance.
The youngest Mundy, Rose, is of apparent mental disadvantage, though her condition is never discussed. Elizabeth Oddy defines the many layers in this beautiful character. Rose is young, but not naïve. She is limited, but not fearless. She is determined, but not willing to sacrifice common sense – all the things wise, educated Kate is not.
Oddy explores Rose in every line, and we're lucky enough to follow her along. She never exploits Rose's mental limitations to play for our sympathy. Instead, she employs a physicality that is always present but never exclusive. This is a complete characterization, a fine job.
The same can be said of Beth Donohue's Maggie, the housekeeper of the residence and comic relief. Maggie is the entertainer, the fun sister who know how to light a cigarette and who can turn any awkwardness into a well-placed punch line. Donohue gives Maggie's comedy a desperation that feels right in this oppressive little home. When she must cook three eggs for seven eaters, she makes a joke out of it surely to conceal the fact that her stomach is shriveling. We see glimpses of that pain but never a sob story.
Agnes, or Aggie, played by Katie White, fills the necessary role of dry-witted, corner-sitting commentator. Aggie is Rose's caretaker and their relationship is worth noticing.
Consistent here are performances with great restraint, but a visible, audible eagerness to crash through into life's next phases. Where, for the most part, these are loving, supportive sisters, it is a great dynamic to see; the complications within are not immediately available to us, but they're there. We just need to pay attention.
Andrea Gollhardt's Chris, short for Christine, is an anomaly in this group. Her stage presence is indisputable but her take on Chris is confusing. Gollhardt lacks a central line in her impressionable Chris. She doesn't have a place from which she can be led stray, or to which she is drawn. Her interaction with Gerry (Thomas LaChiusa), father to her love child, is unsure and undefined.
Some of this may be Friel's doing. His pacing of narration – Chris's grown-up son Michael, played with endearing pathos by Chris Kelly – against scenes is sometimes odd. Some of Michael's narrations, especially where character epilogues are spelled out and reflective hindsight offers perspective, are confusingly placed. Friel also overwrites his monologues, often at the expense of his core characters' exposition. It's poetic and beautiful, truly, but also overwrought and laborious.
Director Derek Campbell could have tightened some of this up, especially in the long-playing first act. Gerry Maher, ever the endearing, bumbling storyteller, adds a few minutes to the act with his long-winded gestures as the aging priest Jack, though some of this is Friel's own rambling.
But again: the big picture. It all serves a purpose, an understanding of memory and personal narratives, the preciousness of both and the need to reignite those that matter most. Like Michael tells us, poignantly from his pulpit, "atmosphere is more real than incident."
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OLEAN – St. Bonaventure University has received a $1 million gift for upgrades to its athletic fields.
Bonaventure alumnus Tom Marra and his wife, Michelle, donated the $1 million to jump-start the university's $3 million campaign for a new athletic fields complex.
"Athletics have been a huge part of my life and college career," said Marra, a 1980 Bonaventure graduate and former third baseman for the Bonnies. "It's very important to us to ensure quality athletic facilities and operating support for our student-athletes and coaches."
The $1 million gift, along with the $900,000 the Marras donated six years ago for the university's baseball complex, are the largest ever given to the school's athletic department.
The new project includes artificial turf, seating and media facilities on both the soccer-lacrosse and softball fields. Lighting will be installed on the soccer-lacrosse field, which will also be used by club and intramural teams.
It is one of the first projects in a proposed $18.8 million overhaul of the university's athletic facilities.
"The Marras' commitment will provide the main impetus to the field project fundraising, which is critical not only to athletics, but to the university as a whole," said Steve Watson, the university's athletic director.
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Now that Windows Phone 8 is finally here, we guess some users (not many, but some) will think about purchasing a WP8 handset. So, here we are, bringing you in-depth comparisons between the leading WP8 handsets and the iPhone, as well as the major Android handsets. In this article, we'll take a look at how the HTC Windows Phone 8X stacks up against the iPhone 5. Both devices are pretty popular right now, so it will surely be interesting to see who's going to come out on top once we're done with them...
This is a discussion for a review. To read the whole review, click here
1. darkskoliro (Posts: 1076; Member since: 07 May 2012)
and now there can only be one winner. PhoneArena i dont get your smackdowns, they just arent consistent.
7. MeoCao (unregistered)
I have not read the article yet, is it another draw?
9. neutralguy (Posts: 1152; Member since: 30 Apr 2012)
no, there's a clear winner. Just read the first page and you'll know which one, and it's not an HTC.
30. darkskoliro (Posts: 1076; Member since: 07 May 2012)
ill be damned the day HTC wins ONE smackdown. Just one. But some reason I dont think Ill live to tell the tale..
15. B3BLW29 (Posts: 238; Member since: 02 Mar 2012)
Can iPhoneArea get any more biased, I mean Author did't say anything about the purple tint in Iphone 5 camera samples, Maps Duh!. They dont have battery figures for HTC but the author sure knows Iphone's RAM is better than HTC although both have 1GB on board, may I ask how??
Phonearena is running on Apple money confirmed.. Ray...Sir! you are dumb.
20. shandesilva (Posts: 79; Member since: 28 Mar 2012)
arent you guys at phonearena damned ashamed of yourselves?....how could you lead a normal life after writing such biased s**t & after reading the comments...or are you guys so dumb assholes as not to realise what you are writing? or are you a subsidiary of apple?
if not for the community of readers who give valuable feedback i would have stopped reading this icrap site long ago.
29. amircajlani (Posts: 5; Member since: 24 Feb 2012)
damn man...i was about to say exactly the same thing...hhaha.. yea dude ...ur completely right...this article is so baseless...sadly seems phonearena got sold to a new owner...thats apple...too sad
36. hectoprotecto (Posts: 1; Member since: 10 Nov 2012)
AMEN to this post and all the replies to it. Super bias smackdown, especially clear when they review the interface. smh, disappointing
49. loyals (Posts: 129; Member since: 10 Nov 2012)
RAM .... the actual spec r not out but ....u can say iphone ram is like ddr3 and 8x ram is like ddr2....i mean to say clockspeed is different so does the perfomance . see benchmarks bros
22. -box- (Posts: 3991; Member since: 04 Jan 2012)
With Ray S reviewing, of COURSE the apple device will win. He could find a way to make an iphone that's been smashed to pieces win against anything. Heck, you could put an apple logo on a rock and he'd hail it as the most amazing magical thing in the world and say it had premium natural design and a great solid feel to it and perfect weight.
Anyone else for Ray S NOT doing any more reviews until his bias is eradicated?
31. PhoneArenaUser (Posts: 5498; Member since: 05 Aug 2011)
PhoneArena.com, is there any reason to compare every phone with iPhone? In my opinion it clearly shows that iPhone for PhoneArena.com is an etalon...
2. AnTuTu (Posts: 1580; Member since: 14 Oct 2012)
Just imagine if HTC would have introduced the same phone with end to end display, this phone would have beaten the hell out of iPhone 5. I think those bezels on HTC are too thick.
But still front of HTC 8X, iPhone 5 falls by the way side :)
3. tiara6918 (Posts: 2036; Member since: 26 Apr 2012)
"If we have to factor in their physical designs, there can be no argument at all, as there can be only one winner, and it's not an HTC." Really? Does apple have the color Blue,Red and Yellow for their iPhone?
4. lsguntu (Posts: 67; Member since: 06 Aug 2012)
Very nice review. Whoever did the review.. do you eat food or is**t?
5. neutralguy (Posts: 1152; Member since: 30 Apr 2012)
i really want to read it, but the first page was really like an advertisement written by an apple inc employee. Sorry, that's just my own honest opinion.
16. sadaivadai (Posts: 156; Member since: 22 Nov 2011)
"it's undeniable that the iPhone 5 is a work of art that no mass-produced phone on the market can currently rival"
After reading this line i stopped reading the review ..
I think Apple iphones are his s*x partners .. Don't ask me how !! thats why he loves them so much ..
42. webOSlove (unregistered)
I couldn't agree more. The LG Nexus 4 is much prettier than the 2010 inspired design of the iPhone 5. I rarely read the iPhone comparisons on here because Phone Arena seems to put Apple on some sort of pedestal, when iProducts are just repetitive boring products, and nothing about then catches anybody 's attention anymore.
48. -box- (Posts: 3991; Member since: 04 Jan 2012)
2010-inspired? More like 2005...
43. XPERIA-KNIGHT (unregistered)
that line got me too :(
6. gabe92 (Posts: 27; Member since: 25 Oct 2012)
IPhone 5 is a fkn over rated ass piece of crap
8. CX3NT3_713 (Posts: 2275; Member since: 18 Apr 2011)
Smh,,, iphone 4/4s/5 are overrated.. lets see how the lumia 920 does, against ifone
23. -box- (Posts: 3991; Member since: 04 Jan 2012)
Depends on the reviewer. I'd be willing to trust Michael H's review, but not Ray S or John V. As long as they don't constantly complain about the slight weight issue (and most honest reviewers who use the phone for a few days or don't hold something else to compare it to state they don't really notice it much) and give it a fair evaluation, I think that'll be satisfactory. More SlashGear, less gizmodo.
10. JamesHunt (Posts: 37; Member since: 01 Oct 2012)
Still phonearena should underline the negatives of the Iphone , and not just shrug it off by declaring it irrelevent. Iphone is not God's own creation,so it also has its flaws.
11. mydi.maus (unregistered)
i guess both won,cuase i like them both..
12. Ueliton (Posts: 34; Member since: 29 Aug 2012)
This Ray S is the WORST reviewer PA has. Seriously, this guy is ridiculous. I fell ashamed after reading such article.
21. shandesilva (Posts: 79; Member since: 28 Mar 2012)
i second that...there is no such biased, dumb, ball less writer in internet!
33. SemperFiV12 (Posts: 944; Member since: 09 Nov 2010)
Victor H is pretty bad as well...
38. oldhamletman (Posts: 72; Member since: 03 Sep 2011)
screen: the iphone5 is still 15%-35% smaller in screen area even though users have been buying large screen phones in droves.... winner windows
case: with iphones light metal and glass and the HTC and Nokia phones with their high impact polycarbonate cases will endure being dropped many times while the iphone needs glass or case repair everytime... winner windows
weight: while I didn't notice the weight of windows phones in use... it doesn't matter as you need to buy a 50-80g case to protect your fragile iphone 5 in use, making it heavier than both the HTX 8x and the Nokia 920 which don't need bumpers / cases... winner windows
browser: IE10 on WP has been embarrassing safari with consistently better performance scores, 3rd party browsers and apps, has had full html5 compliance for years, and has unique features like session and video streaming sharing on your home xbox using Smartglass.. winner windows
OS: while apple stays mired in the past with non informational icons and lack of screen customization available with WP, beginning with windows 8, now users can have a completely unified desktop from phone to tablet / surface to PC... Apple is 5 years behind on usability
verdict: WP is easy to use and brings social integration to a very high level... skydrive / hotmail allow you to take EVERYTHING with you at all times on all devices...and WP allows you intuitive simplistic use that iphone is nowhere near being able to offer.... windows phone continues to embarrass iphone with no end in sight.... and the Lumia 920 32GB is $99 and the Iphone 5 32GB is $299 and the HTC 8X with 16GB is $199..... $100 - $200 apple tax to use IOS on a phone that breaks if I drop it.?...
no thanks
13. jackhammeR (Posts: 1548; Member since: 17 Oct 2011)
IOS looks way to inferior to Win 8. So so 2010.
Guys from Cupertino should implement two modes. One for those who wants pure simplicity and the second one, for those who would like to dig slightly deeper.
I believe Windows will become a new standard how simplicity should look like not forgeting about eye-candy factor.
Saying that Iphone 6 is the best looking or crafted device is on a baby side.
Lumia 800 or 900 looks much much better. Smooth, plain design, yet not dull. Not to even mention fragility of cupertino's device. But that's only my opinion.
Every single comparison iphone vs the rest of the world is the same. The are either equal or apple is a bit better which is mentioned at the end of each page. Silly.
14. JamesHunt (Posts: 37; Member since: 01 Oct 2012)
Also wp8 with black background and more vibrant colour would put IOS 6 to shame...thats why they used a lot lesser appealing colour combination.
18. StreetNerd (Posts: 819; Member since: 08 Dec 2010)
19. Marcus73 (Posts: 10; Member since: 19 Sep 2012)
Should rename site to iPhonearena!
24. darkkjedii (Posts: 21367; Member since: 05 Feb 2011)
The iPhone 5 isn't the slouch that some try to say it is.
26. brandonrana (Posts: 57; Member since: 04 Nov 2012)
Who is this dum8 reviewer? I think i have 100000000 times better knowledge about these 2 phones then him. But i won't work for iphonearena!
27. oldhamletman (Posts: 72; Member since: 03 Sep 2011)
This review was largely biased toward apple..... worse, the reviewer didn't know basic features of WP8 ... he made assumptions about IE, third party browser integration, and a bunch of other things that are wrong....
- he played down the difference in screen size between 4 and 4.3 .... when you use them it's a major difference in usability... 13% larger surface area... line up both phones bottom screen edges and youll see what I mean
- he called the case 'plastic' and inferred it's cheap... the case is polycarbonate, which is a plastic, but it's not run of the mill stuff... very durable, flexible, resists impact da,age much better than metal... it's the same stuff the F22 canopy is made out of... it's not cheap and honestly if drop both of these phones onto a tile floor, the Iphone is gonna be jacked up and the HTC is not
- IE10 does operate in full screen mode, has better rendering numbers than safari by a long shot, and you can use other browsers... and it's been fully html5 compliant long before apple was
- he plays down live tiles, doesn't mention new sizing customization and info options on WP8
- HTC has released much higher talk and standby numbers, and they are posted on this site... LOL, maybe this guy should read his own site....
this author doesn't know what he's talking about with WP8, is clearly biased, did no research to make sure he was correct, and played down huge advantages of WP8 and HTC.....
this review damages phonearenas name.... if you just let appleheads take over, then nobody will take you seriously
41. sadiqhashim (unregistered)
After any review with Apple products they must send the results to Apple and Tim Cook will go through and cross some lines before they can publish it just the way it should be. You see? Apple is always ahead.
28. cdgoin (Posts: 533; Member since: 28 Jul 2010)
So from what I can read, an Apple Fanboy was given a HTC 8X to compare to his love.
32. droiddomination (Posts: 203; Member since: 01 Dec 2011)
ray s is a dip schit. chrapple blows he just can't admit it. 4 inch screen? less ppi? bwahhhaaaaaahaaa!!
34. alcheng (Posts: 20; Member since: 10 Nov 2012)
phonearena.com has always been one of my favorite gadget website.
But this article changes it all.
I've never read some piece of crap like this.
The writer is obviously bias to iphone5, the writer just favor iphone5 on every category by saying "the iphone5 is better....", but without a solid reason/analysis to back his satement.
I cannot believe the editor would allow such a low-class comparison article to be published.
I suggest the writer please just simply go to work for apple instead of trolling in here.
37. oldhamletman (Posts: 72; Member since: 03 Sep 2011)
I agree..... I respected phonearena in a big way until this review..... I would bypass all other cell blogs for this one....
no more.... posting fanboy stuff like this .... jeez
35. ubarua1 (Posts: 2; Member since: 10 Nov 2012)
That was the one hell of a biased review.
"it's undeniable that the iPhone 5 is a work of art that no mass-produced phone on the market can currently rival".. Really you think so?
39. FranksGT (Posts: 167; Member since: 29 Aug 2012)
FAIL FAIL FAIL, you guys love the color reproduction of the IOS apps look. Are you retarded? They are Bland icons put on a ugly background. What is pretty about that Ios? Even though the Iphone 5 is the winner and preforms better your review was retarded!
Camera samples once again quit taking 1000 pictures with Iphone 5 to get it perfect and only taking the first one with the HTC!
40. sadiqhashim (unregistered)
Apple iPhone is a phone that has more from the outside than the inside, is designed by Apple in America, so I expect it to have a home advantage when it comes to review like this, but in Taiwan things are so different.
44. loyals (Posts: 129; Member since: 10 Nov 2012)
Well 8x looses in benchmarks big time against ip5. N wp8 phones Doesn't even have APPS properly worse than symbian. It's better to buy an ip5 than 8x for sure.
46. RichieRich379 (Posts: 21; Member since: 23 Mar 2012)
iphone has a worst screen, worst batter life, bo beats audio, inferior maps>?????? how about that
50. loyals (Posts: 129; Member since: 10 Nov 2012)
have u actually compared the audio of two ?? iphone has the est audio decoding chip . i have one v with beats audio of htc . it really cant beat iphone 5 .
45. RichieRich379 (Posts: 21; Member since: 23 Mar 2012)
im getting tierd of these apple fanboy reviews, its so stupid, he saids the design in htc x is a regular industry design as oppose to the iphone, but he doesnt mention how iphone has an old boring ui as oppse to window 8 live tiles. i can go on and on but this review is complete bulls**t
47. meowcenary (Posts: 187; Member since: 13 Apr 2012)
I would not call phonearena or any reviewer fanboys, unless it is obvious. Reviewers are entitled to their opinion and I respect that. After saying that, I love my HTC 8x and really have to say MS took the phone to the next level. If MS and the telecomms push the WP platform it would be a plus. However it's sad to know that my t-mobile store only carried three WP8 phones and selling two constitutes as a huge deal.
Folks go out and try all the platforms, ask yourself what you need and not what people say....unless something is really Asinus.
51. HDee89 (Posts: 9; Member since: 10 Dec 2012)
Not a terrible review, but definitely needs somebody who understands the hardware better. The Windows Phone's Beats Audio is not a software enhancement, it's an onboard soundchip on the pcb that's REALLY high quality for a mobile device, listening to music on the HTC 8X for me was incredible, the sound quality, is absolutely brilliant, the iphone 5 also offers a very good sound quality, I would in no way say that either sounds better, and comparing the iphone earphones is irellevant, you pay a much higher price for the iphone 5 and these earphones are part of the reason, you could quite simply buy a high quality pair of earphones for much less than the price difference of these 2 devices.
Also, you completely disregarded reviewing the battery life of the iphone, I think that speaks volumes about your objective whilst writing this review, which was to completely leave out any flaws with the iphone5, as I'm sure you were aware after reviewing both the devices, the 8X is a CLEAR winner when it comes to battery life.
Thirdly, you are a reviewer, so don't be a coward when it comes to reviewing things. You can't say "It's up to the user to make the decision" People have come to this comparitive review specifically to understand which phone outperforms which in each category. You must come to a conclusion for each category of review, otherwise there is no reason to include the category whatsoever. Without a doubt the iphone 5 is a better phone overall, but most people look at phone reviews to understand the concept of "Value for money" with these devices. The iphone 5 is a better phone, however the prices between the 2 handsets are VERY different, and this should be taken into account when understanding the value of the devices.
53. Skiman (Posts: 15; Member since: 10 Jan 2013)
I agree
After using both, the HTC 8X is the better phone overall
The OS is the main part, and WP is so much better than iOS, which really has grown to repulse me now, just so old and stale
52. dougiefresh181 (Posts: 6; Member since: 12 Dec 2012)
the htc is much more egonomic, and the rubberized plastic backing feels better to hold than the iphone. ive held both, and the lcd display in the htc beats the retina display hands down, plus he got the htc all greased up, and a rag would take it right off. the edges are also rounded than the iphone, he has the brightness on the htc down. he is very subjective about the ui, and bangs wp8 about tile shape? really? the landscape keyboard changes app to app in wp7. iphone is clocked at 1 ghz not 1.3. htc also has much better battery life, even with live tiles.it also has better cloud storage and syncs across all of your windows devices without syncing. very subjective comparing browsers. camera on htc is much sharper, clearly, and more saturated. htc has beats audio and the same headphones have to be used to compare sound. just punching holes in the argument on youtube
54. Skiman (Posts: 15; Member since: 10 Jan 2013)
HTC 8X wins hands down, the OS is just so much better, I can't actually use apple products anymore, because the boring GUI now repulses me. They really haven't updated it since 2007


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on December 22, 2012 - 10:05 PM
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In Newtown, Conn., a troubled young man named Adam Lanza burst into an elementary school on Dec. 14, slaughtering little children and teachers with a military-style semiautomatic rifle capable of blasting 30 bullets in about 15 seconds.
While police have not disclosed how many shots Lanza fired in the school, investigators said he had hundreds of rounds of ammunition with him and that some victims were shot as many as 11 times. Twenty children and six adults were killed at the school.
In Western New York and throughout the nation, guns similar to Lanza's killer weapon – described by police as an "assault-type" AR-15 Bushmaster rifle – have been selling like hotcakes ever since. Americans already own at least 37.5 million semiautomatic weapons, according to the National Rifle Association.
Semiautomatic weapons, including AR-15 rifles, were flying off the shelves at the City of Tonawanda's Gander Mountain sports store last week.
Two clerks at a gun counter were working as fast as they could to fill the orders of eight customers who were lined up to buy firearms.
"They told me these were the last two of these guns they had in stock today," said a man who identified himself only as Phil, who left the store carrying two Smith & Wesson AR-15 semiautomatic rifles that he said cost $730 each. "I came down to buy them because I think the laws are going to change. I went on some gun websites last night, and you couldn't find a semiautomatic. They are selling out like crazy."
Gun industry officials said sales of semiautomatic rifles – often called assault weapons by critics of the gun industry – have skyrocketed nationwide since government officeholders began talking about tightening gun control laws in the wake of the school massacre and other recent mass shootings. In interviews with The Buffalo News, Phil, Lancaster gun rights advocate Harold "Budd" Schroeder and Randall Shortridge, another Gander Mountain gun buyer, all said they are heartbroken over the school murders.
'People control' needed
But all three also said they would be outraged if the slaughter at Newtown led to restrictions that made it harder for law-abiding citizens to get semiautomatic weapons for fun, hunting or self-defense.
"I'm sick about the deaths of those kids. I have five kids of my own," said Phil, a retired firefighter who lives in Niagara County. "But I think the liberal politicians have an agenda to take away the rights of legitimate gun owners ... This incident gives them the opportunity to do it."
Instead of changing gun laws, government officials should look at improvements in mental health treatment and evaluation, and at the widespread use of psychotropic drugs that can make some people violent, said Schroeder, chairman of the board of the New York Shooters Committee on Political Education.
Similar comments came Friday from leaders of the NRA, who blamed the mass shootings on mental illness and violent video games, and called for the establishment of a nationwide mental health database. The powerful gun rights group also called for armed security personnel at all schools.
"We don't need more gun control. We need better people control," said Schroeder, a former member of the NRA's national board. "This incident has touched off the biggest run on guns since just before the assault weapon ban [in the early 1990s]."
The massacre prompted President Obama, New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and many other officials to talk about changing gun laws, especially those involving semiautomatic weapons. Many Americans – including Jackie Hilly, executive director of New Yorkers Against Gun Violence – are asking why any law-abiding gun owner needs a gun capable of firing 30 bullets in quick succession.
Such guns were the weapons of choice for Lanza and many of the shooters involved in mass slayings throughout the United States, Hilly said.
"Hopefully, a new law would ban not only sale, but also possession, of these guns, so these people who are rushing out to buy them might be better off holding onto their money," said Hilly, a former criminal prosecutor from New York City. "These guns are designed for military use, to kill and injure as many people as possible, as quickly as possible. They aren't designed for any legitimate sporting or hunting use."
Why would any person – mentally ill or completely normal – need a semiautomatic weapon with a 30-round magazine?
For fun, recreation and self-defense, the gun owners said.
A 30-round firing capacity enables hunters, target shooters and people in self-defense situations to fire dozens of rounds in a short period of time, Schroeder said. Such a weapon can be fired as quickly as a person can pull the trigger, but the trigger has to be pulled for each individual shot.
"I have no problem with law-abiding, qualified people having a semiautomatic gun with a 30-round magazine," said Schroeder, 77, who is also a firearms safety instructor. "But if a person is a dangerous sociopath, I have a problem with him having a gun that fires even one bullet."
Many people like to use semiautomatic weapons for target shooting and shooting contests, Schroeder said, and some hunters prefer semiautomatics to weapons that have to be reloaded after every shot. In his view, hunters, target shooters and people who use guns for self-defense should not be punished because a tiny minority of crazed individuals uses guns to kill people.
"I only shoot my guns at paper targets, and I keep them under lock and key," said Phil, the ex-firefighter.
But even when law-abiding people own semiautomatic weapons and try to keep them from being stolen, there is always a danger of the guns falling into criminal hands, Hilly responded.
She pointed out that Lanza is believed to have taken his weapons from the gun collection of his mother, a law-abiding target shooter. "He used those guns to first kill his mother, and then to kill children," she said. "There's always a danger of guns falling into the wrong hands and being used for crimes."
New York's regulations
What are the legal requirements in New York for buying a semiautomatic weapon like the one that Lanza used?
Anyone who buys any firearm from a gun store or any other federally licensed gun dealer has to undergo a background check administered by the federal government.
"Under the Brady Law, you have to fill out a Form 4473, which asks if you have any record of criminal convictions, drug use, domestic violence or mental health treatment. Your answers are checked against a nationwide computer database, and if you have a record of problems, you cannot buy the gun," Schroeder said.
It is difficult to buy 30-round ammunition like Lanza's in New York. The largest ammunition magazine legal in New York holds 10 bullets. Larger ammunition magazines can be purchased if the magazine was manufactured before 1994, or if the purchaser is a law enforcement official. New York is one of seven states with such restrictions.
Legal ownership of fully automatic weapons, commonly called machine guns, is already subject to sharp restrictions throughout the nation, both Hilly and Schroeder noted. Fully automatic weapons fire continuously after the trigger is pulled and held.
Despite those restrictions, the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives reported that almost 457,000 machine guns were registered nationwide as of 2010. Also as of 2010, 118,487 Americans were licensed by the ATF to either sell, make or import firearms. That means there are more than eight federal firearms licensees for every McDonald's fast-food restaurant in the U.S..
How many people own semiautomatic guns, and what kind of people own them?
There are at least 37.5 million privately owned semiautomatic firearms in America, according to a fact sheet issued by the NRA last year. "They are used for the same purposes that other firearms are, including self-defense, hunting and recreational and competitive target-shooting," the NRA said.
The number of guns owned by civilians in America rose sharply, from 192 million to 310 million, according to a federal report.
To gun enthusiasts like Schroeder and Shortridge, that means that criminals are committing fewer gun crimes because they know more people own guns and – potentially, at least – will use them to defend themselves.
"The huge majority of people who own guns in this country never use them to commit crimes," Schroeder said.
Hilly attributes the drop in gun murders to background checks on potential gun buyers that have been conducted under the Brady Law, which took effect in 1994.
Hilly said at least 2 million people who tried to buy guns since 1994 were rejected because of information found during background checks.
"I think the Brady Law makes a big difference," she said.
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BELLEVILLE - Swiss musicians Lorenz Schwarz and Ernst Baenninger won't be selling cough drops when they bring their alphorns to the Big Valley this April.
Their instruments, probably best known from the Ricola cough drop commercials, will be the centerpiece of the concerts performed April 20 and 21 in Mifflin County.
Schwarz and Baenninger call their music unique not only because of the unusual long, wooden instruments but also because of the Christian message that they bring with them.
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Swiss musicians Lorenz Schwarz and Ernst Baenninger will play their alphorn during two concerts in Belleville and Allensville next week.
Schwarz used to dream about playing the alphorn during his summers as a child in the Swiss Alps, according to the testimony on his website, www.lorenzschwarz.ch.
But as a young adult, his life became filled with drugs and despair.
"I finally came to a point of desperation and could not see any further," Schwarz said. "That was when God started working in my life ..."
After a failed suicide attempt, Schwarz walked to the pubs to get drunk and try again. On the way, two girls invited him to watch a Christian film.
The film didn't make a lot of sense to him, but it left him with a question: "If you die today, would you be ready to face God?"
That question nagged at his mind; and a few months later, Schwarz committed his life to Christ. He immediately gave up his smoking and drinking habits.
Now, he has dedicated his life to spreading the healing power of Christ through music.
Schwarz and Baenninger's concerts will include traditional music on the alphorns and non-typical yodeling songs.
The musicians are friends of local resident John Zook, who plans to assist them during their three-week tour across the U.S.
Because of the strong German and Swiss ancestry in Mifflin County, Zook said the concerts should be of special interest. He said the alphorn and yodeling music will give listeners a taste of their forefathers' culture.
"That the songs all embody messages of appreciation/redemption to our Creator God is a bonus," Yoder said.
The songs will be performed in German, but translations will be projected on a screen, he said.
The first local concert will be held at 7 p.m. April 21 at Sam Peachey's Airport, 100 Plane View Drive, Belleville.
A light dinner will be held for those who wish to meet the Swiss musicians at 6 p.m. at Sam and Barb Peachey's home, Allison Gap Road, Belleville. RSVP by noon Saturday by calling 483-6254. The cost for the meal will be $5.
There is no cost for the concert, but an offering will be taken.
The Swiss musicians will play again at 7 p.m. April 22 at the Mattawana Mennonite Church, 521 State Route 103 N., Lewistown. For more information, call 899-7170.
While visiting, the alphorn players also plan to perform for residents at the Valley View Retirement Community in Belleville and Malta Home Retirement in Granville.


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