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November 2012
- Donor's generosity leads to naming new academic center
- Archives is quiet contributor to Bethel anniversary celebrations
- Check presentations continue service emphasis from Pittsburgh 2011
- Athletes take part in Operation Christmas Child
- Miller qualifies for fourth straight trip to forensics nationals
- New Bethel Christmas CD coming: 'Nights Of Wonder'
- Mark your calendar for Fall Fest 2013 and 2014
Donor's generosity leads to naming new academic center
James Will was known throughout his lifetime for his generosity, which Bethel College has honored in the name of its new academic center.
Bethel President Perry White announced the naming of the James A. Will Family Academic Center in his remarks at the center's dedication, Saturday, Oct. 13, during Fall Festival. The dedication and announcement of the name were among the special events celebrating Bethel's 125th anniversary.
The academic center represents a $5 million renovation of the former Science Hall.
"Bethel received a seven-figure gift from the James A. Will Estate," said Sondra Bandy Koontz '70, vice president for advancement. "In appreciation, we have named the academic center for James Will and his family."
Including the word "family" in the academic center name memorializes Will as well as his parents and brother, Ernest "Ernie" Will, all of whom predeceased him, and also recognizes the Will extended family.
James A. Will was born in 1934 at the Halstead Hospital to Henry Gustav and Helen Elizabeth (Mueller) Will. He grew up on a farm north of Halstead, attended Riverside and South Garden schools and graduated from Halstead High School.
After two years at Bethel, he finished his degree in business at the University of Kansas. He then served in the United States Army, stationed in Germany for part of the time.
He began his career at an accounting firm in McPherson before opening his own business on Main Street in Halstead and working as an accountant at Halstead Hospital. He was an officer for the Bentley State Bank and then a vice president at the Halstead Bank until his retirement.
For complete news stories, go here.
Archives is quiet contributor to Bethel anniversary celebrations
One of the most visible contributors to Bethel's quasquicentennial (125th) year celebrations is, at the same time, among the least noticed.
That's the Mennonite Library and Archives at Bethel. Keith Sprunger, professor emeritus of history and author of the just-released history "Bethel College of Kansas, 1887-2012," called the MLA "a rich resource for study."
It's a fitting compliment to the MLA, since October was National Archives Month as declared by the Society of American Archivists.
Many of Sprunger's primary sources for "Bethel College of Kansas" and the lion's share of its photos came from the MLA.
In addition, says John Thiesen '82, archivist and Bethel co-director of libraries, the MLA has been the main source for photos for much of the remodeling work that's been happening on campus in the past year.
There are new photo displays in the Academic Center foyer, Franz Atrium of Krehbiel Science Center and in the Schultz Student Center hallway, including one that reflects the college's history through six emphases (such as "the Administration Building" and "pranks"). . . .
Asked for the strangest recent request, Thiesen says, "A guy called, probably from California, looking for a particular Amish-published book. It was a real citation. He said he was looking for it because the Masons, the Mormons and the Mennonites had buried the Ark of the Covenant in Escondido, Calif., in 1927, and this book was going to lead him to it."
Unfortunately for the man, Thiesen says, the MLA couldn't send him the book.
For more of this story, go here.
Check presentations continue service emphasis from Pittsburgh 2011
Mennonite youth continue to help spread Bethel's emphasis on service from its booth at the Mennonite Youth Convention in Pittsburgh, well over a year later.
Sept. 16, Bethel Associate Director of Admissions Clark Oswald '03 visited First Mennonite Church in Morton, Ill., to participate in Sunday morning worship and present a check for $500 to Mark Nabers, a high school senior from the congregation.
At the convention, Bethel sponsored a Mennonite trivia scavenger hunt in which youth filled out cards with answers and then entered them in daily drawings. The four winners each got $500 for a charity or service project of their choice.
Nabers chose to give his check to the Prenatal Intensive Care Unit at St. Francis Medical Center in Peoria, Ill. "He told me, 'This is where I started my life -- I thought the money should go there,'" Oswald said.
For more of this story, go here.
Athletes take part in Operation Christmas Child
Bethel athletes are getting into the Christmas spirit early by playing Santa's elves for underprivileged children.
Mark Fox, head women's basketball coach, and Lonnie Isaac '93, head tennis coach, both attend Koerner Heights Church in Newton, which is participating in "Operation Christmas Child," a project of Samaritan's Purse, a nondenominational evangelical Christian aid organization.
The coaches help lead Bethel's Fellowship of Christian Athletes chapter and "decided that Operation Christmas Child might be a good project for our FCA group to spearhead here on campus," Fox said.
Operation Christmas Child is sometimes called "Shoebox Ministry," because donors are asked to collect small gifts that fit into a shoebox.
"The program is about sending shoeboxes filled with gifts to parts of the world where children may not otherwise receive a gift," Isaac said. "The gifts do not have to be extravagant -- you simply fill a shoebox with some things you think a young child might like."
FCA has invited anyone interested -- individuals, teams, mods or halls, faculty or staff members -- to join in the project. Bethel FCA's goal is to put together 50 boxes from the college.
For more of this story, go here.
In related news, for the third consecutive year, Bethel has been named a Champions of Character Five-Star Institution by the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics. For that news story, go here.
Miller qualifies for fourth straight trip to forensics nationals
Bethel has qualified its first forensics competitor for the 2013 national tournament after a weekend at Central Missouri State University in Warrensburg, Oct. 20-21.
Audra Miller, senior from Hesston, will be making her fourth straight appearance at the American Forensic Association-National Individual Events Tournament next spring after a first-place finish in After Dinner Speaking on the second day of the Missouri Mule-Dale Carnegie Swing Tournament.
In the first part of the swing, Miller placed second in After Dinner Speaking.
Also on the first day, Marike Stucky, junior from Moundridge, was third in Prose Interpretation; Aaron Rudeen, senior from Osage City, and Julia Miller, senior from Hesston, fourth in Duo Interpretation; and Hank Unruh, junior from Newton, sixth in Extemporaneous Speaking.
On the second day, Stucky took third in Program of Oral Interpretation and sixth in Prose Interpretation, Rudeen and J. Miller fourth in Duo Interpretation, and Unruh fifth in Persuasive Speaking.
Hannah Brinker, freshman from Shawnee, also competed both days.
Bethel was one of 14 schools taking part in Parts I and II of the swing tournament.
New Bethel Christmas CD coming: 'Nights Of Wonder'
A two-CD set titled "Nights of Wonder: Music of the Christmas Fests at Bethel College" will be available in December.
The popularly titled Christmas Fest began in 1968 with an Olde English Christmas Feast that featured the Madrigal Singers. It was held in the Student Union in the basement of Memorial Hall with a night for the general public in addition to the annual Christmas banquet for students.
An additional night for the community was added the following year and, in 1970, the event moved to Jolliffe Auditorium upstairs. Until it ended in 1999, Christmas Fest featured a variety of themes, including a Dickensian motif several times, an international focus, cantatas, a midnight mass, opera, La Posada and other emphases.
The CD set will include music from nine of the most recent 20 Christmas Fests, selected on the basis of recording quality (the first in 1979) and featuring a variety of vocal and instrumental groups. Examples include "Gloria" performed by the Concert Choir, a brass ensemble and percussion in 1983; an excerpt from Corelli's "Christmas Concerto" played by the Sinfonia in 1990; "O Holy Night" by the Concert Choir and Sinfonia plus Newton Community Children's Choir in 1995; and "I Saw Three Ships" featuring the Concert Choir, bells, percussion and four-hand piano in 1996.
Marles Preheim '55, North Newton, professor emeritus of music who taught at the college from 1977-1999, led the project. Ilene Schmidt '54, North Newton, longtime administrative assistant in the President's Office, provided assistance. Robert W. Regier '52, professor emeritus of art, designed the cover. The Bethel College Women's Association (BCWA) is helping with promotion, distribution and financial support.
The December issue of "Thresher E-View" will include specifics about cost and availability. All proceeds will benefit the college through BCWA.
Mark your calendar for Fall Fest 2013 and 2014
Next year's Fall Festival fair on campus will be held Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013. Taste of Newton will take place Thursday evening, Oct. 3.
Fall Fest will be later in fall the following year, Saturday, Oct. 18, 2014, the first weekend in October with a home football game, as scheduled by the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference. Taste of Newton will take place Thursday evening, Oct. 16.
The last weekend of September 2014 was another option, but conflicted with the Bethel College Corporation meeting and did not allow time to rehearse for a musical and to have sufficient financial data to present to the Board of Directors, which meets in conjunction with Fall Festival.


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Anonymous continues to target North Korea with its latest round of exploits.
Citing the threat posed by the North Korean government, the "hacktivist" group defaced the country's official Twitter and Flickr accounts yesterday.
The North Korean Twitter feed now displays a series of tweets with links that poke fun at the country's leader Kim Jong-un. One linked image portrays Kim Jong-un in a less than flattering light and criticizes him for "threatening world peace with ICBMs and nuclear weapons" and "wasting money while his people starve." The country's Flickr account shows … Read more

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- "The Harry Potter Alliance fights the Dark Arts in the real world by using parallels from Harry Potter. We work for human rights, equality, and a better world just as Harry and his friends did throughout the books."
- —From the site's What We Do section
The Harry Potter Alliance is a Harry Potter activism website co-founded by Paul DeGeorge and Andrew Slack in 2005. The site is the home for an alliance of fans of the series who work together to improve conditions in the real world, including literacy, equality and human rights.[1][2]
The site was the final winner of the Fan Site award on the J. K. Rowling Official Site in 2008. It was also mentioned in Time Magazine.[3]
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Or you may have read about how he lost the battle of Jasper City, or won it, depending on where you stand in matters of politics.
Friends called him Hal or Harry, or by one of a half-dozen aliases, of which he had more than any honest man should. He often went by Professor Harry Ransom, and though he never had anything you might call a formal education, he definitely earned it.
If youre reading this in the future, Ransom City must be a great and glittering metropolis by now, with a big bronze statue of Harry Ransom in a park somewhere. You might be standing on its sidewalk and not wonder in the least of how it grew to its current glory. Well, here is its story, full of adventure and intrigue. And it all starts with the day that old Harry Ransom crossed paths with Liv Alverhyusen and John Creedmoor, two fugitives running from the Line, amidst a war with no end.
"This sequel to The Half-Made World stands well alone; written like an old-fashioned memoir, it seamlessly blends whimsy with deadly seriousness."
-- Publishers Weekly
"Like The Half-Made World that came before it, The Rise of Ransom City brings us a re-imagined tale of America's Old West, mixing steampunk and magic realism to great effect."
-- Kirkus Reviews ("Best SF/F Reads In November")
"...a piquant, Twainian mix of itinerant entertainers, down-at-heel dreamers, townsfolk, newspaper reporters, snake-oil salesmen and would-be entrepreneurs... Its possible to see The Rise of Ransom City as a rumination on the hubris of the American Dream, if by dream you mean a form of individualism that holds it possible for a man to be all three things rich, grand and free at the same time. (Not to mention a rejoinder to the pop-culture fantasy that cathartic violence can set everything to right.) These are big ideas, a diagnosis of the American character as alternately possessed by ruthless utilitarianism and nihilistic self-aggrandizement, but they simmer below the surface of The Rise of Ransom City rather than running the show. The novel is also a sepia-toned panorama of eccentric and moving Western characters, and it has the lovely, unvarnished texture of Harrys voice, eloquence in the guise of plain speaking."
-- Laura Miller, Salon
"Told in first person, Ransom City is suffused with Ransoms wry, wondrous, charismatic voice, full of witticisms and philosophical asides... Ransoms charming, winning character carries the day. As his quest for wealth and fame becomes sidelined by politics and peril, so do his theories; the rudiments of relativity and quantum theory begin to intrude into his worldview, and Gilman integrates them into a dizzying balance of action and ideas. The zeitgeist of America at the advent of the 20th centuryin all its turmoil, utopianism, and paranoiais captured and re-imagined with stunning scope."
-- Jason Heller, The Onion
"I enjoyed The Half-Made World thoroughly, but Im pretty sure I loved its sequel. Theres adventure and mystery and wrenching episodes of moral compromise; theres a layered narrative and a deft construction to the whole enterprise. And Gilman understands how to summon the promise of the unknown, and the call of the horizon."
-- Tobias Carroll, Vol. 1 Brooklyn
"Harry Ransom is a small-time con man wandering the flyspeck outposts of the Western Territory promoting a sort of perpetual motion machine that occasionally actually works. He's a perfect fixture for the taming-of-the-West atmosphere of this spirited and intelligent novel, which revisits the strange territory Gilman introduced in "The Half-Made World." . . . It's a marvelously imagined world depicted in a 19th-century prose style notable for its spare punctuation. Grade A"
--John Alden, The Cleveland Plain Dealer
"A fantasy novel of the best kind, where the familiar is delightfully skewed, it begins like a Western, a frontier tale told with the whimsy of an alternate reality Mark Twain. The story takes a Dickensian twist as the settings turn from frontier towns to cities of industry, but no matter where it takes place, this is an adventure tale of Harry Ransom and his followers seeking an unsettled territory where they can erect his utopiathe perfect city, Ransom City."
--Don Kelly, The Coffin Factory
"Gilman is one of the essential modern fantasists, and his latest book lives up to the expectations generated by his previous successes."
--Benjamin Wald, SF Revu
"In every way, its a delight to see the innocent Harry Ransom slowly learn about the world in which he lives . . . a cornucopia of delights."
-- David Marshall, Thinking about books
"Felix Gilman has a sly wit and an assured hand. He is a fresh and original voice in fantasy."
-- Lavie Tidhar, author of Osama
"A fantasy that Mark Twain would have been proud to write. Felix Gilman's theme is nothing less than the Matter of America, the story at the root of the whole continent. Never has fantasy been darker, cleverer, more sly, or more touching in its refraction of our own world. I scratch my head in awe."
-- Francis Spufford, author of Red Plenty
"On my being handed the book now in your hands, I promised myself - tacitly, of course - I'd only take a peek. But will you look at what's happened? Mr. Gilman's appeal promptly poured itself all over me, and I, by golly, in superb reciprocity, pored all over his pages from first to last. Is this not the joy in reading, no less in being? - enforced attention, the delightsome entrapment, a thorough-going filling and the rare repose of one's having been emptied - utterly, gratefully - out?"
-- Gordon Lish
"The Rise of Ransom City continues Felix Gilman's brilliant deconstruction of the mythology of the American West, putting it back together with magic and mechanics, and creating something so imaginative it seems to punch you in the chest. Narrator Professor Harry Ransom is a compelling voice; a teller of tall tales and showman, but whereas the snake-oil salesmen of the American West sold piss and ink, Ransom has a genuine miracle to sell. He is both liar and totally honest in ways that are sly and funny and sometimes tragic. This is a fantastic story of a war and a life told with incredible humanity and pizzazz, by a narrator who, like the world he inhabits, is bold and colorful and a wholly new sort of magic."
-- Lev AC Rosen, author of All Men of Genius
"The Rise of Ransom City is told in a powerful voice that is at once believable and utterly unreliable. This is the Old West re-imagined through a lens of the New Weird. Fascinating and strange."
-- Mary Robinette Kowal, author of Shades of Milk and Honey


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Catgate: why telling the truth is a bad idea in politics
"Catgate". Help me out here, I want to see if I understand it properly. Is this basically the sequence of events?
• Theresa May, the Home Secretary, says something untrue
• Ken Clarke, the Justice Secretary, points out that it is untrue
• Commentators call for Ken Clarke to be fired
Is this right? Politician A gets facts wrong – in a major speech at a party conference – but politician B may face the sack for correcting her?
There is of course a bit more to it than that. After the "catflap" (© all newspapers), Downing Street came out in support of Theresa May. The one who got it wrong in the first place. Ken Clarke, to his eternal credit, didn't lie down quietly like he was supposed to, but continued to point out that it was nonsense. And, apparently, in party politics, once the leader has said something is so, then it is so, regardless of whether pesky reality agrees.
The fact is, Theresa May was wrong. There never was someone who could not be deported because he had a pet cat. It goes back to a Bolivian student (not an illegal immigrant) who applied to stay in this country. In his application, he does indeed mention a pet cat. But he was granted leave to remain in Britain as "the unmarried partner of a person present and settled in the United Kingdom", not as the owner of a British cat. Under UK Border Agency rules (not the Human Rights Act), if a couple has lived together for two years in "a genuine and subsisting relationship akin to marriage", they have a right to stay, regardless of whether they're married.
The cat came into it because it was, apparently, mentioned in the original application to stay in Britain (not an appeal against deportation), and because in an appeal against an earlier judgment the Home Office argued that too much "weight placed on the appellant having to leave behind not only his partner but also their joint cat". But that is not why the application was upheld. It appears to have hit the headlines largely because of a joke line at the end: "The determination is upheld and the cat need no longer fear having to adapt to Bolivian mice".
This isn't a question about whether or not the Human Rights Act should be reformed. It's about whether there was really an illegal immigrant (no) who avoided deportation (no) because of a cat (no) under the Human Rights Act (no). (One newspaper argues otherwise, but even they state that "the Bolivian … won on different [ie non-cat-related] grounds at a later hearing".) Mrs May was wrong; Mr Clarke was right. But Mr Cameron has backed the wrong one.
What's really worrying is that this isn't an isolated incident. Mr Cameron himself mentioned two stories in his speech which could be said to have a loose relationship with the facts. One was: "A couple of weeks ago I was up in the flat, going through some work before the start of the day and I saw this EU directive. Do you know what it was about? Whether people with diabetes should be allowed to drive." No, it's not. It's about whether people who suffer regular episodes of hypoglycaemia – low blood sugar, which can lead to blackouts – should be allowed to drive. Some diabetic charities have expressed concern that the directive is too strict in applying to people who suffer them while asleep, but surely everyone agrees that people who are likely to fall unconscious should not be allowed to drive.
The other: "I was told recently about a school that wanted to buy a set of highlighter pens. But with the pens came a warning. Not so fast – make sure you comply with the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002." I dare say they did come with a health warning. Highlighter pens often contain xylene and toluene - commonly abused and highly toxic solvents. It's not "highlighter pens" that are dangerous, it's these – actually dangerous – chemicals. Solvent abuse is a lot more deadly than Miaow Miaow or ecstacy.
There's more. Eric Pickles told the Conference: "Did you know… if you want to take out a copy of Mills and Boon from your local library…….In some places you're asked to fill out a sex survey on your private life". No, I did not know that. What does it mean? Does it mean that every time you want to take out a slightly racy book, you have to fill out a form in which you rate your prowess, or admit you've had secret thoughts about donkeys? Because that would be amazingly weird. Or does it mean that, when you join a library, you are asked to fill out a form about who you are (name, address, age etc) which in some places has a question like "Are you married, single, divorced, in a civil partnership or cohabiting?" I suspect the latter.
(Incidentally Pickles has form: in November last year he declared "The War on Christmas is over, and the likes of Winterval, Winter Lights and Luminos deserve to be in the dustbin of history." The Winterval myth just refuses to die.)
I don't want this to be a party political thing. I don't doubt that you could find Labour politicians who have said equally nonsensical things to pander to their troops. But it is a sad thing that, to do well in the Conservative Party at the moment, you just have to rip off the headline and top two pars of the latest "Health and Safety/Political Correctness Gone Mad" story, ignore the facts of the issue, and quote it in a Conference speech. It's even sadder that if you have the guts to point this out, people call for your head.
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My mortgage refi attempt failed
But I did learn 7 lessons from the experience.
This post comes from partner blog The Dough Roller.
With mortgage rates at historic lows, we recently tried to refinance our mortgage. The result? Well, as my son would say, FAIL. For the first time in my life, I was denied a loan. (Actually, this was the second time. I was turned down for a student credit card in college.)
Why I was denied the loan is a bit complicated, but it had to do with the appraisal of our home and the fact that we have a home-equity line of credit in addition to a first mortgage.
To make a long story short, the appraiser used the tax assessed value of our home as the benchmark. Tax assessments where we live are historically far below the actual value of real estate, so why he took this approach remains a mystery. The irony of it all is that two weeks after the appraisal, a home just down the street worth less than ours sold for about 15% more than the appraised value of our home.
As frustrating as this process was, we did learn a few things about refinancing a home loan that I want to pass along.
Start with your current mortgage company. There are several potential advantages to starting with your existing mortgage company when looking to refinance a home. First, the fees may be less. This depends in part on where you live, how long you've owed your home, and who your mortgage is with, but we would have saved a couple thousand dollars in Virginia by sticking with our existing bank.
Second, if you have a second mortgage or home-equity line of credit with the same bank, the process of refinancing will be much easier. If you go with a different bank to refi your first mortgage, you'll need to get your current mortgage company to subordinate the second mortgage. This just means that the holder of the second mortgage agrees that the new bank refinancing the first mortgage has first dibs on your home should you default on the loan. While this is a standard process, banks can be really slow to agree to a subordination.
Know the 90% rule. If you have a home-equity line in addition to a first mortgage, the total debt to home value should be no more than 90%. There are some exceptions (for one major one, see below), but this is the general rule for traditional financing.
At first glance, the 90% rule may seem silly. If you are refinancing with the same bank, the value of your home is whatever it is, and the bank is already taking on the risk that you may default. In fact, by refinancing to a lower interest rate, the risk of default goes down. So why do banks require 90%? Because Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae require it, and the bank plans to sell the loans. While this doesn't make much sense from a consumer's perspective, it's the reality of the mortgage market.
Know the difference between conforming, super conforming and jumbo loans. Until recently, home loans fell into just two categories: conforming and jumbo. Conforming loans were those for $417,000 or less, and jumbo loans were for anything above $417,000. The difference between these loan types is that interest rates on conforming loans are typically less than the rates on jumbo loans. Why? Larger loans are viewed as involving more risk, and a lender's ability to sell a jumbo loan is more limited than it is for a conforming loan.
Today, however, things have gotten a little more interesting. There is now a loan type between conforming and jumbo that goes by several names, but super conforming is the name I've heard the most. Super conforming loans raise the conforming loan limit, but only in certain expensive areas of the country. I happen to live in one of them, and my home loan is considered a super conforming loan.
Who cares? You should if you are looking to refi your home. The reason is that some rules are applied differently depending on the type of loan you are refinancing. According to my mortgage broker, super conforming refinances must meet the 90% rule noted above, while conforming loans do not. Conforming loans have other requirements to satisfy, of course, but they are different. The key point, however, is to know your type of loan and seek advice from a mortgage professional who understands the requirements of your specific situation.
Expect to be shocked by the appraisal. It seems like home appraisers just can't get the number right. A few years ago, they were spitting out numbers that were ridiculously high. Today they've gone the other way, with valuations ridiculously low. In my case, the appraiser used the tax assessment, which is an unreliable measure of value. So why did he use it? It's safe. It's wrong, but it's safe. Unfortunately, it also wrecked the refinance.
Frankly, there's not much you can do about it, but it's good to know in advance what you're up against. If you think the appraisal may be close, recognize that you could spend several hundred dollars for nothing.
Stay in contact with your mortgage broker. I have to say I was incredibly disappointed in my mortgage broker for several reasons. First, he was very slow to respond after I sent him all of my paperwork. A good week to 10 days went by before he finally called me back.
Second, he told me that as long as my first mortgage was less than 80% of my home's value, I'd be OK regardless of the home-equity line of credit. This advice turned out to be wrong, as he later acknowledged.
And third, as it became clear to him that my refinance would not be approved, he stopped contacting me. I called him repeatedly for well over a week before he finally called me back to give me the bad news. If you detect this kind of poor customer service, consider contacting a different broker. There are plenty out there who provide professional and timely service.
Negotiate the terms of the refinance. Even with the big banks, some terms can be negotiated. Brokers have a range of quotes they can provide in terms of rates and points. At the high end, they make more commission, but they can sacrifice some of that if they really want your business. The point is that shopping around for home loans and refinancing can pay off.
Understand the terms of a "free" float down. If you've ever financed a home, you're familiar with locking in the rate pending approval of the loan. A typical mortgage rate lock is good for 30 to 45 days, during which time you are guaranteed the agreed interest rate, even if rates go up.
But what if rates go down during this time? To address this possibility, many banks advertise a free float down. A float down allows you to take advantage of a lower rate during the lock period, but typically you can only float down the rate once during the lock period.
While many banks advertise this float down as free, be sure to understand the terms. While it is true that many financial institutions won't charge a fee, the float down often will not lower the rate as low as you'd get if you were just locking in the rate for the first time. In other words, if the rate went down by half a percentage point, the float down might lower your rate by just a quarter or three-eighths. The point is that most float downs are not really free, and it's important to understand the terms of the offer before you lock in the initial rate.
As a final note, I should add that we haven't given up on refinancing our home. Fortunately, our current loan has very good terms, but we'd still like to get an even lower rate if we can. I'm also seriously considering refinancing to a 15-year note (we currently have 25 years left on a 30- year mortgage). I'm just hoping that the next appraisal reflects the true value of our home.
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Television in Brazil
Television in Brazil has grown significantly since the first broadcasts in 1950, becoming one of largest and most productive commercial television systems in the world.1 Its biggest network, Rede Globo, is the second largest commercial network in the world, and is one of the largest television exporters around the world, particularly of telenovelas, which have become popular in many countries.1
The first test broadcasts in Brazil were for the 1950 World Cup, which the country hosted. Television was formally introduced on September 18 in that same year, with the launch of the now-defunct TV Tupi by media mogul Assis Chateaubriand. It was the first Lusophone or Portuguese-speaking country to introduce television, even before the home country of the language Portugal with RTP (1955). It was also the fourth nation in the world to have a television station with daily broadcasts, behind the United States, the United Kingdom, and France. 2 The first image to appear in TV Tupi was that of five-year-old Sônia Maria Dorce, who, dressed up as a Native Brazilian, said: "Good evening. You are in the open TV channel of Brazil".34 The symbol of Tupi was that of a Native Brazilian kid.
In the 1950s, Brazilian television was marked by informality, since there were no trained professionals in the country with any experience in this media field. Another characteristic of television productions of this early period was live impromptu, as there was no videotape. The high costs of TV sets, which were imported, restricted the access of the media to the urban elites of major cities.1 Technical resources were primary, offering broadcasters just enough to keep the stations on the air. It was during that period that TV news and telenovelas were established.1
The advent of videotape around 1960 brought imported programs to Brazilian television.1 As a typical characteristic of countries developing their television systems, imported shows dominated the programming for much of the decade, but their presence also stimulated some efforts at creating local networks.1 TV Tupi soon faced strong competition from TV Excelsior.
Expansion, Rede Globo's beginnings
Television became a mass medium in Brazil earlier than in most developing countries.1 The military dictatorship which took power in 1964 saw audiovisual communication as a tool for creating a stronger national identity, a broader consumer economy, and controlling political information.1 The military pushed television deeper into the population by subsidizing credit for set sales, building national microwave and satellite distribution systems, which prompted the growth of Rede Globo, which they chose as a privileged partner.15 TV Excelsior, an opponent of the regime, on the other hand, was forced to close after losing government advertisement.
Globo, launched a few months after the 1964 coup, created the first true national network by the late 1960s.1 Censorship of news was extensive under the military governments between 1966 and 1978, but it also encouraged national television program production.1 In the early 1970s, several government ministers pushed the commercial networks to develop more Brazilian programming and reduce reliance on imported programs, particularly those with violent and sexual content.1 While Globo adopted an international model for operations, 90 percent of its content was produced in Brazil.5
The 1960s represented a formative period for television development.1 Telenovelas had largely been patterned after those in other Latin American countries, even using imported scripts, but during that decade they were developed into a considerably more sophisticated genre, specifically after the airing of Beto Rockfeller, a well-produced story about a Rio de Janeiro good-lifer, in 1968 by Tupi.1 By the 1970s, telenovelas were the most popular programs and dominated prime time on the major networks, Globo and Tupi.1 Globo, in particular, began to attract major writers and actors from both film and theater to work in its telenovelas.1 The Brazilian telenovelas became good enough, as commercial television entertainment, to be exported throughout Latin America, Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa.1 Brazilian exports reached over a hundred countries and the programs have often proved to be great international hits.1 This is particularly the case with historical telenovelas such as Escrava Isaura.1
Another major genre of the 1960s was show de auditório, a live variety show mixing games, quizzes, amateur and professional entertainers, comedy, and discussion.1 The shows de auditório have been extremely popular with the lower and middle classes, and, according to analysts such as Sérgio Miceli, played an extremely important role in drawing them into television viewing.1
The rise of Rede Globo
From early 1970s to late 1980s, Globo dominated both the audience and the development of television programming.1 It had a 60-80% share in major cities at any given time.1 As television researcher Joseph Straubhaar declared, "even people who might have had questions about the news almost always accepted the Globo novelas".5 During this period, Globo was accused of being the mouthpiece of the dictatorship, mainly because of its omission in covering the Diretas Já movement, in which thousands of Brazilians gathered on public squares to demand a direct election for President.1 In 1980, Tupi went bankrupt and was closed by the military government. Its signal was split and given to Silvio Santos, who launched SBT, and Adolpho Bloch, who launched Rede Manchete. Since Tupi's disappearance, Globo virtually dominated the market alone. The only time its leadership was threatened was when Manchete aired Pantanal in 1990. Nevertheless, Manchete never achieved the same success with any other of its telenovelas, and would have the same fate of Tupi, ceasing its operations on May 1999, and having its signal replaced by that of RedeTV!.
With Globo dominating the ratings, other broadcast television networks found themselves pursuing smaller, more specific audience segments largely defined by social class.1 SBT targeted lower middle class, working class and poor audiences, mostly with variety and game shows,1 in addition to soaps imported from Mexico's Televisa. This strategy gained it a consistent second place in ratings for most of the 1980s and 1990s.1 On the other hand, Manchete initially targeted a more elite audience, with news, high budget telenovelas, and imported programs, but found the segment too small to gain an adequate advertiser support.1 Bandeirantes tended to emphasize news, public affairs and sports.1 All three ultimately wished to pursue a general audience with general appeal programming, such as telenovelas, but discovered that such efforts would not generate an audience sufficient to pay for the increased programming costs.1
In 1984, Globo initially supported the military government against Diretas Já, a popular campaign for the direct election of a civilian government,1 while other television networks, most notably Manchete, supported the change. Perceiving that it might literally lose its audience to competitors, Globo switched sides and supported the transition to a civilian regime, which was indirectly elected in a compromise situation.1 The new political circumstances immediately reduced political censorship and pressure on broadcasters.1
In the 1990s, UHF television channels were launched, such as music oriented MTV Brasil, and the Catholic channel Rede Vida. Also during that period, TV Cultura and Rede Record, both based in São Paulo, began to air their signal in national broadcasting systems.
Audience decline, Globo versus Record
The 2000s saw the decline of television audience in the country, as internet access grew rapidly.6 The daily average of TV sets turned on dropped from 65% in 1982–1991 to 42% in 2008.7 In the decade, the top five TV networks in the country lost altogether 4.3% of their share.8 SBT lost 44% of its viewership in the prime time, while Globo lost 9%.9 The biggest decline for Globo were in its showcase telenovelas, aired at 9 p.m., which reachead an all-time low during the decade. The network's latest telenovela in the time slot, Viver a Vida, scored the lowest ratings of the past ten years.10 According to Renata Pallottin, a professor at University of São Paulo's Art and Communication School, this happens because recent telenovelas, which has the same basic story sketches since the 1970s, has proven to be unappealing to younger audiences, who watch American television series on cable TV or surf the web instead.7 As such, telenovelas audience grew significantly older and richer in the past decade.7
Year | Telenovela | Share (*) | +/- | |
2000–2001 | Laços de Família | 44.9% | - | |
2001 | Porto dos Milagres | 44.6% | -0.3% | |
2002 | O Clone | 47.0% | +2.4% | |
2002–2003 | Esperança | 38.0% | -9.0% | |
2003 | Mulheres Apaixonadas | 46.6% | +8.6% | |
2003–2004 | Celebridade | 46% | -0.6% | |
2004–2005 | Senhora do Destino | 50.4% | +4.4% | |
2005 | América | 49.4% | -1.0% | |
2006 | Belíssima | 48.5% | -0.9% | |
2006–2007 | Páginas da Vida | 46.8% | -1.7% | |
2007 | Paraíso Tropical | 42.8% | -4.0% | |
2007–2008 | Duas Caras | 41.1% | -1.7% | |
2008–2009 | A Favorita | 39.5% | -1.6% | |
2009 | Caminho das Índias | 38.8% | -0.7% | |
2009–2010 | Viver a Vida | 35.8% | -3.0% | |
2010–2011 | Passione | 35.1% | -0.7% | |
2011 | Insensato Coração | 35,8% | +0.8% | |
2011-2012 | Fina Estampa | 39,0% | +3.2% | |
2012 | Avenida Brasil | 38,9% | -0.1% | |
2012-2013 | Salve Jorge | 34,0% | -4.9% | |
(*) 1% comprises approximately 62,000 households in the Greater São Paulo area.11 Source: UOL |
While other TV networks face the lack of interest among viewers, one TV network weathered the decline fairly unscathed: Rede Record. In fact, the network rose its audience by 123% in the decade, partially due to investments of over US$ 150 million per year.9 Although Globo maintains more than the double of Record's average ratings, the latter has been able to surpass Globo's audience on specific time slots, such as Sundays,12 and mornings.13 In some state capitals, such as Goiânia, Fortaleza, and Belém, for instance, Record's Domingo Espetacular already surpasses the audience of Globo's Fantástico.14 Globo also faces a decrease of its audience in Rio de Janeiro, where the network is headquartered. On December 11, 2009, Record surpassed the audience of Globo in Rio during the broadcast of The Elite Squad.15 Almost a year later, on December 2, 2010, Globo came on an unprecedented third place in the Greater Rio ratings in the 11 p.m.–12 a.m. time slot.16 On a previous occasion, Record came first in the area's ratings from 7 a.m. to 12 a.m. on September 8, 2010.17
A recent research conducted by Deloitte showed that surfing the web has surpassed watching TV as the entertainment activity preferred by most Brazilians.8 Other forms of entertainment, such as watching DVDs, and viewing cable TV have also increased their popularity significantly. From 2000 to 2010, the number of households with access to cable TV increased 152%, while the DVD market saw an expansion of 430% in the same period.8 The number of TV sets not turned on in any of the free-to-air channels—which indicates that they are being used for watching DVD or cable TV or playing videogames, also increased from 3.5% to 6.7% of the share in the decade.8 On 2010 it further increased to 7.7% of the share, surpassing the audience of Record. Cable TV accounted for 4.5% of this, while the remaining 3.2% accounted for watching DVD and/or playing videogames.18
Cable television
Cable television services in Brazil were allowed to start business in 1995, according to federal law 8977/95. Since then, there were no major advances in terms of access to the technology. Brazil has one of the lowest number of households with access to cable television, as a result of the combination of high prices charged by providers and the reduced purchasing power of most Brazilians.19 Cable television in Brazil, as of 2010, was available to only 10 million households (around 30 million viewers, which represents less than 20% of the country's population).20 Most of the users are from the upper class (70%).19 While the lower class represents 50% of the country's households, only 1% of them have access to cable television.19
The cable television market used to be almost monopolized by satellite TV provider SKY Brasil and cable TV provider NET, both of them partially owned by Organizações Globo. However, in 2010, Globo sold 19% of its shares in SKY to the DirecTV Group, making Globo owner of only 7% of SKY shares.21 In the same year, Embratel made an offer to buy all of Globo's shares in NET for R$ 4.58 billion,22 even though Embratel has to wait the approval of Bill N° 119, that will allow companies from countries other than Brazil to own cable operations. Since 2006, large national and international phone operators, such as Embratel, Telefónica, and Oi, began to enter the market. Due to cable regulations, telephone companies are using DTH rather than IPTV to launch their TV operations. In 2010's third trimestrer, the market share of cable companies was: NET with 44,8%, SKY with 25,7%, Via Embratel with 9,8%, Telefónica TV Digital with 5,1%, OiTV with 3,1%, Abril (TVA) with 1,8% and smaller companies with 9,6% of the market.23
Digital television
The SBTVD standard (based on ISDB-T) was adopted and launched in 2 December 2007. In 2007, only greater São Paulo metropolitan area can receive the signal. SBTVD broadcasts started in Belo Horizonte in the beginning of March 2008 and late May 2008 in Rio de Janeiro. Government estimated 7 years for complete signal expansion for all over the territory. The analog television is originally set to be shut down for hosting the 2016 Summer Olympics, but now, the analog television broadcast will be phased out in 2018, with analog television broadcast will be phased out in phases from 2015.24
The interactive platform called Ginga25 consists entirely on free software and received highly publicity being considered the main appeal for the change. The government promised WiMAX as return channel for the system, set to be implanted in the next years.26
In Brazil all 5 major TV networks (Rede Bandeirantes, Rede Globo, Rede Record, RedeTV! and SBT) and the public televisions (TV Cultura, TV Brasil) started to broadcast HDTV 1080i in December 2007. Brazil uses an upgraded version of the Japanese ISDB-T, which uses H.264/MPEG-4 AVC for video compression and HE-AAC for audio compression. 1seg broadcasts use the same standard as in Japan, except for the frame rate: 15FPS in Japan and 30FPS in Brazil. Other features are the same, including codec, modulation and interactive features. Hardware can be shared between both countries, with only firmware updates to address the encoding difference.
The new broadcasting method brought up the need to create a new form to measure the audience levels. In order to do this, the biggest research institute in Brazil IBOPE decided to use the DIB 6 tool.27 It is a new version of the measuring device DIB 4, used to measure analog television results with the People meter. According to Ibope, this technology allows a better understanding of the viewer's preferences not only concerning television, but also computer and mobile phones.
The owners of TV stations in Brazil
- Major broadcasters
Ranking | Network | Founder | Currently | Bills |
#1 | Rede Globo | Roberto Marinho | Roberto Irineu Marinho | Membership Chairman |
#2 | Rede Record | Paulo Machado de Carvalho | Edir Macedo | Edir Macedo 90% and Ester Bezerra 10% |
#3 | SBT | Silvio Santos | Silvio Santos | |
#4 | BAND | João Jorge Saad | Johnny Saad | 1999-present |
#5 | RedeTV! | Amilcare Dallevo and Marcelo de Carvalho | Amilcare Dallevo and Marcelo de Carvalho | 50% each |
#6 | TV Cultura | Assis Chateaubriand | Marcos Mendonça | Belongs to Fundação Padre Anchieta. Owner Government of the State of São Paulo |
#7 | Rede Gazeta | Emílio Garrastazu Médici | Fundação Cásper Líbero | |
#8 | MTV Brasil | Viacom International Media Networks | Viacom International Media Networks | For 20 years, was commanded by Grupo Abril |
#9 | Record News | Edir Macedo | Luiz Claudio Costa |
Free television channels
National networks
Public networks Government channels Music channels News channels |
Sports channels Religious channels
Commercial channels Teenage channels Internet channels |
Cable and satellite
The main paid television providers are NET (cable television), SKY (satellite television), Claro TV (satellite television), VIVO TV (cable television), Oi TV (satellite television) and GVT TV (IPTV/satellite television).
National channels
- ESPN Brasil (HD simulcast)
- GNT (HD simulcast)
- Futura
- Shoptime.com
- Premiere (pay-per-view channels)
- Canal Brasil
- Canal Rural
- SporTV (1 and 2 channel available in HD simulcast)
- Globo News (HD simulcast)
- Multishow (HD simulcast)
- Rede Telecine (All channels available in HD simulcast)
- TV Rá-Tim-Bum
- ZooMoo
- Gloob (HD simulcast)
- +Globosat (HD simulcast)
- Canal OFF (HD simulcast)
- Bis (HD simulcast)
- Canal Viva
- BandNews (HD simulcast)
- BandSports
- Woohoo
- Curta!
- Prime Box Brazil
- Music Box Brazil
- Arte1
- Chef TV
- Fish TV
- CineBrasil TV
- PlayTV
- Sexy Hot
- For Man
Multinational channels
- Cartoon Network (HD simulcast)
- National Geographic Channel
- National Geographic Wild (only HD)
- Universal Channel (HD simulcast)
- Nickelodeon
- Nickelodeon HD
- Nick Jr.
- MTV (HD simulcast)
- Warner Channel (HD simulcast)
- TNT (HD simulcast)
- Space (HD simulcast)
- Sony Entertainment Television (HD simulcast)
- Fox
- FOX HD (divided channel with NatGeo HD)
- Fox Life
- Fox Sports (HD simulcast)
- Fox Sports 2 (HD simulcast)
- BemSimples
- A&E (HD simulcast)
- Bio. (HD simulcast)
- VH1 (HD simulcast)
- VH1 MegaHits
- ID - Investigação Discovery (HD simulcast)
- Disney Channel (HD simulcast)
- Disney XD
- Disney Junior
- Animal Planet
- Discovery Channel (HD simulcast)
- Discovery Kids (HD simulcast)
- Discovery Turbo
- Discovery Science
- Discovery Civilization
- Discovery Home & Health (HD simulcast)
- ESPN (HD simulcast)
- Boomerang
- Tooncast
- HBO (All channels available in HD simulcast)
- Max (All channels available in HD simulcast)
- Max HD (HD in the name, but have a SD version available)
- Max Prime
- Max Prime 2
- Cinemax
- The History Channel (HD simulcast)
- Glitz*
- AXN (HD simulcast)
- Comedy Central (HD simulcast)
- TBS (HD simulcast)
- Film&Arts
- I.Sat
- Sony Spin
- MegaPIX (HD simulcast)
- Studio Universal
- SyFy
- Eurochannel
- Baby TV
- TruTV
- Playboy TV
- Venus
As referenced by journalist Eugênio Bucci, the problem of "audiovisual media ownership concentration is relatively sharper" in Brazil when compared to the United States.28 According to the study Donos da Mídia (English: Media owners), Rede Globo alone controls 340 television stations, more than SBT and Rede Record combined together.29 This is largely attributed to the fact that television in the country was launched in the early 1950s by the private sector, without much state regulation and control30 — in a manner very similar to the system of for-profit, private networks of American TV and away from the state-owned, public TV stations in Europe and in the Communist bloc. The first national public television network, TV Brasil, was only launched on December 2, 2007 (before that, since the 1960s there were local public-educative TV stations controlled by the state's governments), the same day that digital television was introduced in the country, initially limited to the cities of Brasília, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, São Luís and São Paulo.citation needed
Intellectuals and journalists in Brazil, mainly in the left of the political spectrum, criticize Brazilian TV as being too much Americanized and promoter of irrational, superficial consumerism and of having a general right-wing, conservative bias, neglecting representation and respect in relation to traditionally oppressed classes and peoples like the Afro-Brazilian peoples and religion, Native Brazilians, poor women, favela inhabitants, atheists, peasants and LGBT people.citation needed
Most-viewed channels
Viewing shares, 1-14 October 2013:31
Position | Channel | Group | Share of total viewing (%) |
1 | Rede Globo | Organizações Globo | 36.0% |
2 | SBT | Grupo Silvio Santos | 13.6% |
3 | Rede Record | Central Record de Comunicação | 13.0% |
4 | Rede Bandeirantes | Grupo Bandeirantes de Comunicação | 6.1% |
5 | TV Cultura | Padre Anchieta Foundation | 3.3% |
6 | RedeTV! | Grupo TeleTV | 2.0% |
7 | Rede Gazeta | Fundação Cásper Líbero | 1.3% |
See also
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag Straubhaar, Joseph. Brazil - The Museum of Broadcasting Communications.
- ^ Cruz (2008). TV digital no Brasil: tecnologia versus política. Sao Paulo, Brazil: Editora Senac. p. 39. ISBN 978-85-7359-755-4.
- ^ http://guiadoestudante.abril.com.br/aventuras-historia/sonia-maria-dorce-esta-ar-474677.shtml
- ^ "Digital TV in Brazil: a path to health democracy". Rnp.br. 2005-01-21. Retrieved 2013-11-04.
- ^ a b c Shah, Angilee. "Network-Builder Describes Role in Brazil's TV Globo". UCLA International Institute.
- ^ (Portuguese) Tomazzoni, Marco. "Internet bate TV aberta como passatempo nacional". Último Segundo. August 31, 2010.
- ^ a b c "Audiência das novelas da Globo". Veja, November 2008.
- ^ a b c d "Internet bate TV aberta como passatempo nacional". Ultimosegundo.ig.com.br. Retrieved 2013-11-04.
- ^ a b (Portuguese) Feltrin, Ricardo. "SBT perde um terço de telespectadores na década". Folha de S. Paulo. December 18, 2009.
- ^ (Portuguese) Prado, Antonio Carlos. "Viver a vida é trair". Istoé. February 12, 2010.
- ^ "Audiência De Televisão". IBOPE. 2010-10-07. Retrieved 2013-11-04.
- ^ "Record consolida segundo lugar e se aproxima da Globo". Ultimosegundo.ig.com.br. Retrieved 2013-11-04.
- ^ "Salto da Record foi maior no Rio e à noite". Ultimosegundo.ig.com.br. Retrieved 2013-11-04.
- ^ "Audiência do Fantástico chegou a cair pela metade em dez anos". Ultimosegundo.ig.com.br. Retrieved 2013-11-04.
- ^ "Com 'Tropa de Elite', Record supera audiência da Globo no Rio". Diversao.terra.com.br. Retrieved 2013-11-04.
- ^ "Globo perde audiência e fica em 3º lugar no Rio". Oreporter.com. Retrieved 2013-11-04.
- ^ "Record deixa Globo para trĂĄs e lidera audiĂŞncia no Rio de Janeiro pela 1ÂŞ vez". Contigo.abril.com.br. 1976-08-29. Retrieved 2013-11-04.
- ^ "Ibope de TV paga, DVD e games ultrapassa Record e é o novo vice-líder". Noticias.uol.com.br. Retrieved 2013-11-04.
- ^ a b c (Portuguese) "TV por assinatura". Instituto Brasileiro de Defesa do Consumidor.
- ^ "TV paga no Brasil passa barreira de 10 milhões de assinantes". Noticias.uol.com.br. Retrieved 2013-11-04.
- ^ "Globo vende parte das ações na Sky". Oglobo.globo.com. Retrieved 2013-11-04.
- ^ (Portuguese) [1]
- ^ "teleco.com.br". teleco.com.br. Retrieved 2013-11-04.
- ^ "Brazil Delays Analog Switch-Off to 2018". Meio & Mensagem. 30 July 2013. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
- ^ "Middleware Ginga". Ginga.org.br. Retrieved 2013-11-04.
- ^ CPqD - WiMAX poderá ser o canal de retorno da TV digital. Testes começam em setembrodead link
- ^ Novo sistema de medição do Ibope vai monitorar conteúdo da TV digital WNews - 4 de dezembro de 2007
- ^ BUCCI, Eugênio. Sobre Ética e Imprensa. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2000.
- ^ (Portuguese) "Donos da mídia - As redes de TV"
- ^ Lima, Venício (April 24, 2010). "Quem "controla" a mídia?". Observatório da Imprensa (in Portuguese) 586. ISSN 1519-7670. "Here [in Brazil] we always had concentration on media control, because, unlike what happens in the rest of the world, there has never been concern from our legislators with cross-ownership of media"
- ^ "Confira a media-mês parcial das emissoras, e a audiência por faixa horária". TV Foco. Retrieved 4 November 2013.
External links
- (Portuguese) 10 anos da Lei de TV a Cabo: sobre conquistas e desafios
- (Portuguese) SBTVD Development in Brazil


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- ^ "Firebug 1.12.7". getfirebug.com blog. 2014-03-05.
- ^ a b Hope, Paco; Walther, Ben (2008), Web Security Testing Cookbook, Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media, Inc., ISBN 978-0-596-51483-9
- ^ Firebug Homepage
- ^ O'Reilly Performance Tools: Appendix - Even Faster Websites
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- ^ "High Performance Web Sites", Steve Souders, CACM, Dec, 2008.
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Mary Cain, Bronxville track phenom, shatters another record
It seems as though Mary Cain, the teen track sensation from Bronxville, breaks another record every time she runs. Saturday was no different.
Running against top professional and college runners at the Occidental High Performance meet in Occidental, Calif., Cain, 17, finished in second place in the 1,500-meter run.
Her time of 4 minutes, 4.62 seconds shattered her own previous U.S. high school record of 4:10.77. No other high school athlete has run faster than 4:14.50.
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In fact, Cain's time would be the second-fastest ever run on the college level.
And she still has one year left at Bronxville High School.
Cain, who is coached by marathon great Alberto Salazar, lost to Katie Mackey, a 25-year-old pro, by two-hundredths of a second.
"I don't really think about times. I think about competing," Cain told RunnerSpace.com after her event. "With 300 (meters) to go, I think it was great that I don't think about times because for all I knew, we were going five-minute mile pace."
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