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OVERLAND PARK, KANSAS -- My experience with Bank of America has been a nightmare. Recently we tried to take advantage of the low interest rates and refinance our mortgage with Bank of America. They already have all of our information as they are the company that currently has our home loan. After filling out the application and being approved, I asked the agent how long the process would take and was told that I could expect 2-3 weeks on average. I am a pretty patient person so I check up regularly for about 4 weeks and keep getting told that "it should only be a few more days".
After nearly 8 weeks, I am getting frustrated and am calling more often to get some answers to which I get the "I only have a few more things and it should be 24-48 hours." By almost 3 months, I've given up and started to look for another company to take our business to. Then I get a call asking to re-pull our credit report because it has expired and they can't close our loan without our permission to pull the credit.
By this time, I have been referred to another company and have started talking to them about getting our loan moved to them. I tell Bank of America that I will NOT let them re-pull our credit. Then the loan officer calls me and is furious and basically yelling at me telling me that I have "no choice" and that "I HAVE to let him re-pull our credit TODAY". I calmly tell him that I do have a choice and that I would like to talk to my wife regarding if we are going to cancel the loan (and pay the non-refundable items) and I would be back with him, to which he replied "fine, I'm going to cancel your loan".
I told him that I did not ask him to cancel it but I would like to talk to my wife. Then he told me "if you don't call me back before 5 o'clock today, I'll just cancel your loan". I told him I'd get back to him, and after speaking with my wife, I called and canceled the loan on a Monday afternoon.
We start the new loan process with the new company and after they get our credit report, we are asked to explain a few items on the credit report, one being an inquiry by Bank of America AFTER I told three separate people NOT to pull our credit report. I call the credit agency to get the inquiry removed and they say that I need a letter from Bank of America explaining the situation to get it removed. I call our agent to request the letter and do not get a response so I try the other contact information for all of the people at the office (email/other phone #) with no response.
So I contact the manager for the area and tell her the situation. She tells me that "she will get to the bottom of this" and "I will call you back before 12:30 tomorrow to let you know what I find out". 12:30 the next day comes and goes and I never get a call back so I call and leave messages for the manager and send an email and never get a response.
Now I am very angry that a complaint like this just becomes ignored so I call her boss who is the Senior VP for the area and leave a message to call me back because I am having an issue and leave my cell phone #. A few days later, I get a message from him on my home phone saying that I can "feel free to contact him anytime". Since then I have left four separate messages with no response.
I guess that they feel like if you have a problem and they ignore you long enough you will just go away. This is the worst way to handle customers and I am glad for sites like this where the consumers can let others know to avoid companies that do business like this. I plan on moving/canceling everything that we have with Bank of America, and spreading the word locally and online that Bank of America will not only take forever to help you, they will also yell at you if you try and leave, and will ignore you if you have a problem. Don't use Bank of America if you value your time or sanity.
I am a self-supporting 64-year old single woman and I own condo in South Florida. In the last two years my equity disappeared until I was seriously "upside down." Since my debt-to-income ratio also suffered, I was excited when I read that Bank of America offered a Home Loan Modification Program which I might qualify for.
After completing an online form, I was sent an initial package of paperwork. It took some time and effort to get all of the required documents, but I sent them back. BOA replied with a package offering temporarily lowered payments (reduced by about $70 a month). Although this was a disappointingly small reduction, I was happy to get anything.
For the next eight months I continued to make the lowered payments, even though the 6-month trial had ended. Each month I spoke to a different customer service representative when I made my payment. I asked them if everything was OK. That's when things got strange. One month a representative told me that my original documents had been shredded because I didn't put my loan number on each page of documents I'd originally sent to them. She told me I had to resend everything, which I did.
The following month I made a payment, checked my status, and was told again that my new documents had been shredded because my account manager must have left the department, so they routinely shredded documents, "for privacy reasons". I faxed them again. The representative then proceeded to charge me a pay-by-phone fee in error and told me it would be credited back. It was not.
The next month I finally got a call from an account manager who told me he needed still another document. After some work and research, I got the document. Many phone calls and some time later, the information was in the hands of a man who assured me everything was proceeding on schedule. A week later I got a letter advising that I need to enter credit counselling as a condition of the reduction in my loan.
Before I got a chance to call one of the approved credit counselling agencies, I received a call advising that I need to arrange a time for a notary to come to my home so the final arrangements could be completed. I called and provided the two alternate times and dates. The next day I received another call from a different person, asking for the exact same information.
Last night I got home from work to find a FedEx package containing the documents which provide my new, permanent payment. After almost a year of frustration, aggravation, and unbelievable incompetence, Bank of America has negotiated a .02% decrease in my interest rate. The net reduction in my monthly payment? $18.00
I figure BOA must have spent hundreds of dollars in FedEx shipments, document preparation, filing (and shredding) costs, and man hours. But the important thing is that their program will now aide me in keeping my home in these hard times.
I fell just one month behind on my home loan. Tried several times to get a home loan modification but continually told by BOA that I had to fill out paperwork that they WOULD NOT send. Finally went to a lawyer and we fill out HAMP program paperwork and that was sent to BOA. They would NOT accept the HAMP modification paperwork. Then I made a partial payment they STILL to this day have in a partial payment account and WILL not apply that to what I owe. I have since been making large amounts of payments and they STILL REFUSE to add the portion that is in that partial payment account.
I have since paid off all my credit cards with BOA and wanted them cancelled, however they would NOT cancel them. It took me 4 days to get someone on the phone that could actually cancel the BOA MasterCard! Recently made 2 payments which my credit union says that BOA took out of my account and as of yet, it has still not posted to my BOA home loan! I have been receiving calls starting at 9:05 PM to 9:30 PM 3 days a week from an automated calling program owned by BOA. They will not stop the calls! I have since blocked that phone number from my service.
Again, every time I have been on the phone with BOA, I get a completely different story! Since my home loan is guaranteed by the VA, I did a 3 way conference call with the VA myself and BOA, and then again, on one call was told one thing, and then on another call, was told something completely different. All my financial information was messed up that they said was "corrected."
Every time you call them, they ask you if you are currently living in the residence, and I always tell them yes. So far they have sent out people to verify that I am living there and then charge that to me. When then do they always ask you if you are still living there. 2 faced it appears.
I was told on last Friday, that I even owed another 854.08 in fees when using the pay-by-phone option, and that I had not paid fees since 2006! I got my bank statements and it showed that every time I made a payment via phone, that they took out that pay-by-phone fee. After 1 hour and 20 minutes on the phone, a supervisor caught the error and had to correct it. If BOA accounting was correct, they would not have had to "correct" it.
How Bank of America is getting away with this is simply amazing. Even the way they had treated the VA representative during our 3-way conference call is unbelievable. Now I am making payments in the thousands etc... and appears that "everything" I Pay is getting posted "late." I check my bank statements and I see them taking the money, but it doesn't post when they take it.
I even asked them to send the money back in a check for what they are holding in the partial payment account as they are not going to post it to my account, and they flatly refused. This is the WORST bank I have ever dealt with. I hope the federal government investigates them and then closes them down. I know that I cannot be the only person.
CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA -- It seems Bank of America has made it a habit to screw the America Tax Payers and try and steal homes from citizens all across this country. I had the misfortune of having a home loan from Countrywide back in 7/2006 and I guess Bank of America took over Countrywide and now I have to deal with the dishonest people of Bank of America.
In January of 2007 I lost my job and in March 2009 I was diagnosed with cancer and prior to this we were debt free and had no credit card debt - the only debt we had was our home. After losing a kidney through cancer and not being able to find a job we incurred some credit card debt and we were still keeping current on our home and credit cards. I started working 2 jobs just to feed the family and pay the mortgage payments.
Bank of America approached me and I was supposed to refinance my home in 7/2009 and the day prior to closing BAC informed me I did not qualify for the loan program I was going under due to PMI private mortgage insurance was built into my loan. This would have reduced my payment by over $225 a month. After struggling a few more months BAC suggested I get into the Loan Modification program and in November of 2009 I was approved and provided coupons for trial payments. I have paid the trial payments and have kept paying those same payments to this day while we are trying to get this modification approved.
I have called and called and of course you get different stories from BAC and they tell you "We need your financials updated," - I have provided those 8 different times and they still claim they need updated financials. I also was informed that I turned down 2 different offers but yet no offers were ever presented to me - no can they produce these offers. Then the next thing I get a letter telling me I have been turned down for not qualifying for a loan modification.
On top of all that they reported me delinquent on my mortgage in February, March, April and ever since then even though they said they would not do so. I then appealed all of their decisions and they put under review issued a letter of correcting my credit report but now almost a year later we are still playing the game with BAC. By the way due to their wrong reporting to the credit agencies most credit card companies raised my interest rates from 9-10% to 24-29% because it appeared I was delinquent which I was not.
I have filed complaints with Attorney General for the State of Tennessee and every other agency I could think of - nothing is being done. BAC took 19 billions dollars from the federal government and this is how they reward the tax payers that pay this money. I can only hope one day this bank president can experience some of the things I have experienced - loss of job, cancer and the threat of losing my home all from the dishonest dealings of Bank of America!!! This is wrong and I will fight till the bitter end for my home.
I have had excellent credit for 20+ years, never had a problem paying my bills and still don't have a problem paying my bills. However -- "Bank of America" is only a disguise for thieves, crooks and an evil scourge on the planet. I can write pages on how they have tried every tactic to screw me for more than 14 months now. They are stressing me out every day of my life and taking time from my work and family to deal with them repeatedly.
I have had impeccable credit for 20+ years dealing with all sorts of businesses. All it takes is the fatal mistake of dealing with Bank of America. I have never had a problem paying my bills, and I still have no problems paying my bills, but BOA will try to steal every bit of money from you that they can, mess up your credit, and try very hard to foreclose on you and steal your property when you have never had a problem paying your mortgage.
I was faithfully paying my mortgage and always pay extra towards my principal thus reducing my balance owed and reducing the interest. I have always done this with all my creditors. When I first took the mortgage with BOA, they said if I pay early it was OK. Well I notice they started misapplying my extra principal. After a couple of months of BOA misapplying my funds, I complained to them and they apologized. Then they suddenly "lost" my address and stopped sending my bills. I tried for months for them to get my address right; I jumped through hoops calling them, mailing documents, etc., and doing everything they told me to do. They lost my documents.
I still was not getting my bills anymore or my statement summaries, so I went online to pay. They blocked me from paying online. I called them so I can pay my bills over the phone. They tried to charge me outrageous fees for paying over the phone unless I open a checking account with them too. When I asked to speak to supervisor, they put me on hold forever and I never get to speak to anyone else. Everyone I speak to there is completely incompetent. I even tried to locate a local BOA branch to pay, but their website states there is no branch within 100 miles of my zip code, and I live in New Orleans!!
I told them there is no way in hell I'd ever open any other account with them after the way they mistreat me. They refuse to let me pay my mortgage properly and now they only have my correct address for the purpose of sending me foreclosure notices!!! They block me from my faithful payments and are now trying to steal my property!!!
This is possible in the United States for a business to fraudulently screw faithful customer out of their property! They will stop at nothing to screw you and steal everything you have! Once I am done with them I will never do business with them again in any way, shape or form. I want to warn everybody to please save yourself and avoid Bank of America at all costs!!!
I am asking, no begging for help or at least some answers that make sense to us regarding the MHA. In early July 2009, my husband and I were behind on our mortgage payment. I was very concerned about this and contacted our mortgage holder Bank of America to see if we could get on a repayment plan. I was talked out of doing this and convinced to apply for the Making Homes Affordable restructure loan. I was unaware of this program at the time and the bank representative explained it to me.
I initially had a lot of questions and inquired about the acceptance and denial process, I was assured by the bank representative that once you were accepted into the program the only way you could be denied was if you failed to meet and complete what they required of you.
First, you had to see if you were approved, so I started the process with him at that time over the phone. He wanted all financial incoming net and gross monies we received each month and an itemized list of all outgoing obligations. I provided him with all of that and was then informed I would receive something via FedEx within 30 to 45 days explaining the process and that at that time I would be required to send further documentation.
On August 10th, we received a letter from FedEx welcoming us into the program and congratulating us on doing what we needed to do to stay in our house. On August 17th, we received the exact same letter again asking for copies of our checking account, paycheck stubs and tax returns, we complied with all requests and sent them. Not once but twice as they apparently lost the first ones we sent them. They had record of them showing up but no one knew where they were. So could we send them again which we did.
I stayed in weekly and bi-weekly contact with B of A inquiring if we had completed everything on time - I was repeatedly reassured that they had all that they needed and for us to continue making our monthly house payment. Which we did. Finally, after many phone calls to B of A, we got a FedEx envelope on December 20th 2009 thanking us for our financial documentation.
We again received same said letter from them on December 24th 2009 saying that we had entered into the trial payment modification part of the program. It stated that we needed to make 3 trial payments of $1782.50 - the first on or before 2/1/2010, the second on or before 3/1/2010, and the third on or before 4/1/2010. I again called them and said I had just made December's payment and I wanted the terms of the trial modification clarified and outlined for me. The representative told me that the December payment I had made had actually constituted the first trial payment that was to be made on or before 2/1/2010.
I asked him if I needed to make another payment in January and was told, "NO, your December payment will be applied to your first trial payment." I then said to him, "if I don't make a payment in January then I will be behind another payment," and he said "yes you will but that it would all get worked out in the loan modification, they will either put them to the back of your loan or incorporate them into your new modified monthly payment at a lower interest rate when the process is completed."
I stated to him that I was uncomfortable technically getting behind another payment and he then informed me that if I brought my house payment current, it would kick us out of the program. I was not to waiver from the guidelines they set forth and had to comply with all they asked exactly the way they asked or we would be out of the modification program.
I was again informed the payment I made in December was my 1st trial payment. I then said my regular monthly payment is $1780.39 and that the 3 trial payment vouchers they had sent me asked for $1782.50, it was only a couple of dollars difference so not a big deal. He then said to me, "make your 2nd trial payment on or before 3/1/2010". I thanked him for his time, but deep down this information seemed just wrong. I waited a couple of days and called back with the same questions and once again was given the same answers, and told do not waiver from the program guidelines we set forth or you will be out of the program.
In February, when we got our taxes back, I called again and asked if I should apply them to our mortgage and was adamantly told, "NO, do not do that. It will kick you out of the program." He did say, "I can't tell you I won't take your money but I can say it will kick you out of the program," if I do.
I made 2nd trial payment before 3/1/2010 still keeping in constant contact with bank making sure we had crossed every t and dotted every I and jumped through all their hoops. I was repeatedly told, "yes, you have done everything we have asked, just keep making the trial payments. You are in the modification process, follow the guidelines we have given you. Do not waiver from them.
I made the 3rd trial payment before 4/1/2010. As May was approaching, I called the bank again and asked them how I needed to proceed, as the 3 trial payment vouchers they had sent us we had already used for making the 3 trial payments. I was informed that they were way behind on processing the mod loans and to continue to pay the trial amount to put loan # in memo section of our check and to continue to send $1782.50, that it may take several more months. I paid the 4th trial payment in May.
In June, I tried to make the 5th payment in the branch as I always had and it would not accept my payment. I came home and called the bank and was informed that a letter had gone out saying we were declined for the MHA modification since our current payment was not equal to or more than 31% of our total gross income… (Shouldn't that have been determined long before we were ever accepted into the program? I think so, if it had, we would never be in the position we are in right now.)
At this time, I was once again reassured that we had gone straight into an in-house program with the bank that would ultimately have the same outcome for I loan… So I paid the June payment, the 5th in this trial period only this time I had to now make payments of $1818.88. Our original house payment had gone up due to our property taxes going up. Okay, I was fine with that and was told "keep making the $1818.88 payment your still under review for in house restructuring." Again, this was on June 18th 2010.
In a letter dated July 2nd 2010 we received a notice of intent to accelerate, I was beside myself and called them demanding to know what was going on with my loan. After speaking at great length with a representative and getting nowhere and no answers, I asked to talk to a supervisor. I did eventually get a supervisor and explained all we had been through from the beginning to currently getting her on the phone. She then stated, "your loan restructure was denied and closed on June 23rd."
I then asked her when they planned on informing us of this, and she said, "it is not our job to keep you informed. It is your job to see where things stand." (Are you kidding me? What did they think I had been doing throughout this whole process? It is documented how many umpteen times I had called and tried to constantly and consistently stay on top of this whole thing.)
She then very matter of factly wanted to know if I could come current by August 1st 2010 in the amount of over $7000.00. I told her I did not have that kind of money and that there was no way I could get it in basically 3 weeks. I was then advised the ONLY thing she could do would be to split the past due into 5 payments that would be added to my monthly mortgage payment thus resulting in our house payment for the next 5 months being $2926.80. This is all she could offer and the only thing that could save our home from being foreclosed on.
I had to take her deal because I had no other choice and losing or walking away from our home is not an option for us. We love it and have always had the intent of staying here and not walking away like so many other people have been forced to do. I am so disheartened, disillusioned and plain mad as hell that the bank can do this to people and get away with it. Had I gone with my original plan over a year ago, our missed payment would have long ago been caught up, but by taking their advice and doing what they requested and never waivering from the guidelines they set forth, they have screwed us.
I was 100% repeatedly in contact with them. I thought I had asked all the right questions and complied with all the terms they set forth. They had the ultimate decision to put us in the program or not. We were not aware of the 31% rule they have for their approving or declining process, someone at the bank dropped the ball big time with this and they allowed it to continue by accepting our trial payments for 5 months. Now, they expect us to be able to financially pick up the pieces of their mess and their mistake.
I was also informed during my last phone call with them that federal guidelines had not even been implemented into their program until April 12th 2010, so how then could they even start the process or expect anyone to stay within their strict guidelines if they did not even know what they would be. I also asked at that time for a copy of the agreement I made with them for the repayment plan be sent to me in writing as I felt at that time I could not and would not be able to trust a single thing I heard out of anybody working on their behalf. I am hopeful that someone on your end will be able to help us get some answers that make sense.
This scenario I'm about to explain just might top them all... My wife and I fell on financially trying times starting back in September of 2008. After much thought and research, I contacted a friend of mine who for a reasonable and money back guaranteed fee, was able to get us a loan modification. Here is where it gets really interesting... When we started this process, our mortgage was in limbo as it was transitioning from GreenPoint Mortgage to Countrywide. What really shocked me about that was the prior news that Countrywide had already gone bankrupt.
Needless to say, we were offered a loan modification by Countrywide 5 months after starting the process, and we were on track to save a whopping $42 per month. Immediately, after that Bank of America took over, they assured me that there would be no lag in transition and that none of my information, agreements, etc., would be lost in translation/transition. Just as I was to make my very first new monthly payment (according to the signed and notarized APPROVAL we sent in), I called in to confirm the department and address to send the payment in to, only to learn that 2 days before the payment due date they notated a denial of the loan modification.
The denial stated that the "financials" don't meet their requirements. I climbed up the ladder and spoke with several managers who stated that I should send in my payments anyway so that I was not in breach of contract. At that point, I even asked the manager if he would make a payment if he were in my shoes. Had something in writing stating he was approved, but couldn't get the same information from the associates working there; and HE said "NO SIR, I WOULDN'T".
I went on to forcing this man (** was his name) to notate in the system that I was going to send in my payment with copies of the signed and notarized approval, and to notate based on other notes in his system that I WAS in fact approved for the loan modification. The manager did as requested. I know because I called in and confirmed it with a different associate later that day. On numerous phone calls that took place from 4/8/2009 through 5/7/2009, I was transferred from one department to the next.
Nobody at Bank of America was on the same page and the majority of my calls resulted in a left message in the voicemail box of some person that did not return my call(s). This trend continued into July of 2009 where at last, I had a collections manager calling me every Friday with updates, if any on the progress or lack thereof on our file.
For months, we made our new modified payments only to find that Bank of America was not honoring the written approval. They were actually applying those payments to the past dues that according to my approval letter (signed & notarized), had already been worked into the modified balance and loan terms. This was just the first Phase in which we spoke to people in the Retention Department, HOPE Department, Loan Workout Department, Customer Service Department, Foreclosure Department & Collections Department, and several managers in differing departments as well.
Going back in time just a bit, In May of 2009, I found new employment with a company that specialized in financial assistance programs which included loan modification negotiating. Figuring that the end result of our so-called loan modification offered to us in March was a result that clearly favored the interests of Bank of America, we decided to employ the company I was working for to get the job done and finalized. We started our second attempt at a modification in August 2009. Because that our mortgage was owned by Freddie Mac, we were eligible for the "Making Home Affordable" (MHA) program.
In September, just prior to our being approved for the MHA program, we received a certified & recorded NOD (Notice of Default / Foreclosure Notice with Intent to Sell). Almost immediately after that, in October we were approved for the "Making Home Affordable Trial Modification Program". All we had to do was make our 3 "trial payments" on-time and Bank of America would then advance into making the loan modification permanent. Nowhere in the documentation that we received, signed and sent back, did they mention ongoing negotiations and/or underwriting, etc.
We have now made 7 payments. All of them on time and all of them over the phone, in which we have recorded confirmation numbers for each payment made. Bank of America is claiming that on 5/3/2010, they denied our workout for a permanent modification due to missing documentation (that was never requested of us). I have also found out that they notated one of our trial payments as being received late, which is a blatant lie that can easily be disproved if a subpoena for their internal records was ordered. This would show the date and time that the confirmation number was issued.
The representatives at Bank of America also claim that they sent us a written request for additional documentation, however if they did, we did not receive it. We live in a condominium complex with 321 units. We are always getting mail intended for someone else and vice-versa. What is most upsetting about this is that all of the original offer(s) for a loan modification was sent FedEx (which required a signature); Isn't it safe to assume that any documentation with such a high level of importance be sent via "first class mail" / "certified mail" or the equivalent? These are just all out terrible and irresponsible business practices.
Nevertheless, the reason I found out that they denied the loan modification on 5/3/2010 along with the other aforementioned claims is because I called them again to get to the bottom of our loan modification, which I was doing because we received 13 copies (6 by certified mail) of a "Notice of Trustee's Sale" on our property. The public auction is to take place on 6/8/2010 at 10:00 AM.
Furthermore, Bank of America states that they issued an Adverse Action Letter to us to inform us of the denial, but that too has never been received. I was informed by a gal there that my home was NOT in foreclosure and that all I needed to do was sent in the "missing" documentation, which included our 2009 signed & complete tax return, a signed 4506-T which gives Bank of America permission to access previous tax records (that they should already have on file for 2007 & 2008 because we sent that in twice already), and proof that we are currently paying our HOA dues.
When I asked why this process is taking so long, and educated her a little about the federal making home affordable guidelines that her employer is unable to adhere to, she stated that it's because negotiations were still taking place. I firmly disagreed with her adding that there was nothing further to negotiate. She countered with a response pertaining to the "investor" needing to agree to and attend to negotiations.
I countered back stating that the investor was Freddie Mac who FINALIZED their negotiations with the Feds and the President long before they even launched the MHA program and offered it to the public; and that the MHA program we were offered was only available to us due to the FACT that the program was tailored to homeowners whose mortgages we owned by either Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac or was an FHA loan. I also went on to say, "and with that said, there were no other pending negotiations, just lack of compliance, lack of follow through, lack of professionalism and stall tactics, which border on predatory business practices."
Right, wrong or indifferent, I faxed all of the "required" information to Bank of America's Loan Retention Department along with a copy of the Sale Notice and called the next day to confirm that they received the documents. I figure that if I had any leverage at all, it would rest on holding up our end of the bargain. Their representative confirmed receipt of the documents and went on to tell me that in addition to our modification being denied on 5/3/2010, that they also notated on 5/5/2010 that our file needs a 2nd review for underwriting.
I asked if they could give me a time frame for the review and the gal stated they are not allowed to tell me, in which I replied, "because if you did, the feds would shut you down for lack of contractual compliance". I mean after all, aren't all those phone calls supposed to be recorded for quality assurance and training purposes? I called back later to try to find out the name of the underwriter or negotiator in possession of our file but they couldn't give that to me either.
I asked to be transferred to a manager of sorts which resulted in my call being transferred in the voice mailbox of a "collections" manager who did not return my call. I bet that if somebody with enough time on their hands could get to piecing together all of the phone call recordings in chronological order, and per consumer getting the runaround by Bank of America, that Bank of America would be under Federal investigation before the Supreme Court and trying to defend a tangled web of lies and lazy business practices, in no time flat!
We're still playing the waiting game with Bank of America. We're on the verge of losing our home despite doing everything asked of me and then some. I also know, based on conversations with Bank of America representatives and co-workers who deal with Bank of America as a daily profession, that I can request for Bank of America to postpone the foreclosure sale date on my property.
BUT, they will not actually do anything to fulfill those requests until roughly 10 to 3 days prior to the scheduled sale date - which basically means that Bank of America is not only being unprofessional and distasteful about their modification practices, but that they're simultaneously and tactfully hindering hard-working citizens from proactively saving their American Dream and their homes.
We have worked long and hard to have what little we possess, and to provide to our child. To educate, discipline, and teach our child the values of honesty and responsibility. We find comfort in knowing that our child's moral compass is pointed in the proper direction. To me it's unfathomable that child who still knows very little can make better morally grounded decisions than the staff at Bank of America.
Unfortunately, Bank of America isn't the only villain out there. I have contacted a couple of law offices with open/active cases against Bank of America. Some small, and some class action; but all they want to do is get me to start a new lawsuit against Bank of America so that they can collect a hefty retainer fee for their services. Unfortunately, this is all turning out to be the works of a federal government whose congressional leaders are bribed by our President and the interest of corporate officers and shareholders.
The Feds know that Bank of America is the largest financial institution in the world and that any legal action against them that favored the hardworking AMERICAN, would result in the absolute single worst economic banking decline since 1929. The same CRAP that scared the Feds into $ Billions of bailouts to the auto industry, and other Wall Street ventures, etc.
I am going to post this on every blog I can find, and share this with as many people who will read it or listen to it. We the people are not being treated with any dignity by our government or the financial institutions reaping on the benefits of our woes. Whatever happened to: "We the people, By the people, & FOR the People"?
My family was set up great we had no credit card debt and had bought a house and made higher payments to them than what was due. In 2007 my nephew was living with us and broke his ankle - "he was underage, had no insurance and his parents would not sign papers so we could put him on ours." A couple months after that my 10 month old son was taken by flight for life. Then I had a surgery that led to many more hospital stays and a lot more sickness.
All of a sudden we were in major credit card debt and completely broke. Gas at the time was $5 and $6 a gallon and the hospitals are all over 100 miles away. We fell behind when all the bills caught up with us come Aug of 09. I called Bank of America and they suggested a loan modification.
So after all the paperwork and the hardship letter was sent I received a letter stating that it would be settled in 30 to 45 days. Come Dec my home was up for foreclosure and when I called them they put an extension on it and kept doing so. When I spoke to their customer service people "I called them every week and sometimes more than that."
I was told to make payments to them and it would look better and help the modification go through so I sent in my first payment on Dec 1 2009, they sent my check back attached to a piece of paper stating that it is below the amount due so they would not accept my payment. I called them and the girl on the line says to me "No don't make payments." So I stopped.
Then in March of 2010 I receive final loan modification papers, sign them, and send them in, along with a certified check as stated in the letter. Today I received the check back with the letters stamped on it, so again I called and was told I don't know the girl said to me that they did not know where the money was supposed to go, and she left a message to my processor who has never returned a call, e-mail from me my modification company that I hired to help me or to Mrs. ** from my senator's office.
I hate the fact that I paid to bail them out and when I need them they are no help and full of excuses. I found out that my home is still in foreclosure and I may lose it because some bureaucrats are sitting on their thumbs. I am not a bad person; I have never had a late payment to them EVER until all this stuff happened. I am trying soooo hard to keep my home and am getting sick because of the stress. The biggest excuse they always tell me is that they have too many people trying to get a modification at this time, my solution HIRE MORE PEOPLE.
CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA -- In August 2009 we applied for a loan modification with Bank of America. Which was approved after months of phone calls, lost papers, collection phone calls, collection letters and notes at our door. We finally got approved for the loan modification with new terms and no payment until January 2010. According to the loan modification all late fees and missed payments were applied to the loan modification (I have to pay now longer and at the end it will cost me more than before).
In December 2009 I received a collection letter from Bank of America, telling me, we have to pay $7,000 to bring our mortgage current. I called Bank of America, after talking to one of the customer service representative and explaining the whole situation again and again. He told me to just ignore the letter and to make the new and agreed payment in January. I told him to make a note in my file that I will be making the first payment, when I am able to see the changes online. Bank of America made the changes in February 2010. I made the first Payment 02/05/2010, which was partially applied to the outstanding balance of $7,000.
I called Bank of America, explained that the payment was applied incorrectly. The Customer Service Rep told me, they are going to fix it. I made the 2nd payment on 02-10-2010, which was my February Payment. Which went missing. It was never applied to the mortgage. I called Bank of America again and explained the whole situation again. They connected me to the payment recovery Department. I was told to fax proof in that I made my payments, which I did. I was told to call back in 24 hours.
I called Bank of America back the next day, and explained the whole situation again, according to the online banking page the problem was not fixed. The lady on the phone told it was all fixed. The next day I started receiving collection calls from Bank of America Home Loans. So I called Bank of America Home Loans again and explained the whole situation again. This time I asked to speak with a supervisor. The Lady on the phone was very nice and she seemed to be really knowledgeable. "Of Course Mrs. **, we will fix the problem and there are now late fees, because you paid on time, I will take care of this right."
On March the 5th I received a collection letter from Bank of America, which was dated March the 1st. I called up Bank of America again and I asked to speak with a supervisor, which I never was able to. The Lady told me that her supervisor (**) would look into my file and call me back. According to the loan modification agreement once we started making the payments the mortgage will be reported to the credit bureaus as being current. When I asked the lady to explain to me why it hasn't been done yet. She said to take 30 days. This is another question no one can answer. ** never called me back.
So I called the President/CEO Office of Bank of America. I explain the whole situation and got connected **. He told me he will look into my file and take care of everything personally and he will call me back on 03-02-10. He never called back.
I called the President/CEO Office of Bank of America. The Lady connected me to someone else and he said that ** is in some outside house training, but he gave my file to ** and after he hangs up the phone he is emailing him and they will take care of it. I emailed ** myself. No respond either. I am very disappointed with Bank of America; even though they helped us with the mortgage modification I am giving them an A+ for connecting people to different department and an F for Customer Service. I hope that Bank of America takes note of this.
SIMI VALLEY, CALIFORNIA -- In Nov. 2009 we UPS'd our payment overnight. One week later we get a call that they haven't received our payment. We told them we sent it UPS overnight on the 13th. They tell us to cancel the check and pay them over the phone (banks charge $30 to cancel a check and it's only good for 6 months). We told them we need to find out what happened to our payment first. We check with UPS and they supplied us with the date it was delivered and signed for BY BANK OF AMERICA.
We call B of A and tell them we have confirmation they signed for the package. They tell us to send a copy of the check imprint and the UPS information so they can research it and it will take about 2 weeks. Constantly getting the run around I finally ask for a manager (after the 2 weeks). The manager gets my info and says she'll research it and get back to me. She calls me a week later and tells me to call and leaves a number. The number is for the regular customer service and they tell me they have no way of transferring the call and all they can do is send her an email.
After playing phone tag because they can't transfer the calls, I get a stupid response and letter of "Please send a front and back copy of the check, and a bank statement to verify the funds haven't been taken out." WTF! First how do I send a copy of a check they have lost, and second if the funds had been taken out I wouldn't be calling every week and dealing with this B.S. I should also mention that they kept marking me and my wife's credit.
I finally get fed up with their stupidity and call insisting to talk to a manager (this runaround had been going on for about 2 1/2 months). So this manager gets on the phone and tells me she's going to call research and puts me on hold for about 5 minutes, gets back on the phone and tells me she has research on the phone and will transfer me. Now it gets real good.
This jack@ss gets on the phone and tells me we sent an empty package and it was verified by 3 people. I told her if this was true why has no one contacted us prior, or the letters we've received stated this. Her reply was there was no way of knowing what account the package was to. Yet she got on the phone and came up with this excuse in a matter of 5 minutes. Not to mention the package was UPS, there's a tracking #, senders info including a name and phone number. She continued to be rude and saying we should have canceled the check and made the payment like they told us to do in the beginning and blaming us.
My wife knows for a fact the check was in the envelope, because she wraps the stub and check in a blue paper right before she puts it in the UPS package so it stands out when they open it. Then she tells me they will not fix our credit because it was my fault. Fact is they just don't want to take responsibility for losing our check.
Now I have a check that's canceled for 6 months and if someone stole it to use it fraudulently, in six months can wash the check and cash it. I wouldn't recommend ANYONE use Bank of America for anything, they are crooked and a bunch of liars. I wish our government would of let all those banks close and not bailed them out, none of them deserve it and I hope Karma hits them so hard they fall forever.


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Late in the trading day, an email released by a U.S. House subcommittee showed that CEO Mary Barra, then the head of product development, was told in 2011 that the Saturn Ion could be included in an ongoing recall of small cars for a power-steering problem. GM was resisting an expansion of the recall. The Ion wasn't recalled for the steering problem until last week.
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Skip to comments.Quiet in Chicago: Axelrod Works, Obama, Emmanuel Sweat
Posted on 12/13/2008 11:14:07 PM PST by nysuperdoodle
Chicago has gone quiet this weekend. Investigative journalists, having spent the last few months in Alaska and shadowing plumbers in Ohio, are finally starting to turn their attention to the newly elected president. As the Obammunist camp draws their wagons into a circle and become more defensive with a press that is showing signs of slowly waking up.
(Excerpt) Read more at thepolicyproject.blogspot.com ...
The media has dutifully lain themselves out as Axelrod's astroturf, so it is more likely they are gathering to take their assignments in obfuscating the facts and evidence which would implicate the Marxist squirrel as a product of Chicago criminal politics.
I have never in my whole life seen the media cover up for a candidate in this way ever. It's really disgusting, they didn't even cover up for Clinton this bad. Obama is a fraud and a marxist and they don't care, as long as they get their liberal agenda across they can care less what Obama does to this country. I am surprised they even reported on Blago at all, that surprised me more then anything, heck I was even more shocked to see the My Fox Chicago actually report that Rahmbo was involved with Blago, I was like what, the media, report the truth, nah can't be
President or not, the chosen one is a product of the Chicago machine and he should know how they play.
Now we just need to see his BC and other hidden records from Indonesia/Kenya and college records, etc.!!!
The wall of pro-Obama propaganda is cracking. Who will be the first station to realize that continuing to whitewash Obama will leave them in the dustbin of journalistic history?
Stations and papers will need to break with the AP newswire service and start doing their own research if they want to survive.
Yeah, where's that damn birth certificate BO? LOL Wonder what will happen Monday in the latest lawsuit? Seems like this is Cort vs. ???
Most people in the media secretly acknowledge that it isn't fluffy propaganda that sells papers, it's scandal.
That is some great prose.
Obama's chief of staff refuses to answer the question
December 11, 2008
BY FRAN SPIELMAN AND ABDON M. PALLASCH Staff Reporters
President-elect Barack Obamas chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, refused to take questions from reporters this morning about whether he was the Obama advisor named in the criminal complaint against Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
The complaint states Blagojevich wanted a promise of a high-level appointment or some other reward for Blagojevich in exchange for Blagojevich naming Obamas friend Valerie Jarrett to replace him in the U.S. Senate.....
LEAVE RAHM ALONE!! He;s a FATHER! He's a FATHER of TWO!! Can't he be a FATHER???
Look at my Houston Chronicle online. Nothing about Obama. Nothing!
Rahm, "I never had sex with, er, talked to the Illinois Governor. Hell, Obama and I don't even know him."
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Hey Zer0, How are you hanging in there with the big boys? How's your smoking and facial tics coming along? Enjoy your ride. The fun is just beginning.
No....it's from the TWIT Chick yelling to LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!
Leave Rahm alone!
See video here:
The TWIT chick?
That was no chick, that was a (very confused) dude - Chris Crocker if I remember correctly...
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CHICAGO (AP) The Chicago Blackhawks were sloppy on defense at times Sunday night. The struggling Edmonton Oilers struggled even more in their own zone and it cost them against the defending Stanley Cup champions.
Marcus Kruger scored the tiebreaking goal with 8:16 left in the third period, Duncan Keith added a power-play goal 1:55 later and the Blackhawks beat Edmonton 5-4 for their third straight victory.
''We're happy to get wins and get points, but we always want to keep getting better, take positives from every game,'' Keith said.
Brandon Saad, Andrew Shaw and Bryan Bickell also scored for the Blackhawks (12-2-4), who are 6-0-1 in their last seven games.
Kruger was alone at the edge of the crease when he took a pass from Ben Smith off the boards, turned and wrapped the puck past Devan Dubnyk to put Chicago ahead 4-3.
Keith added his first of the season on a screened shot from the point. It turned out to be the game-winner because Jordan Eberle scored short-handed for the Oilers on a deflection of Nick Schultz's point shot with 1:28 remaining.
''We make a few more mistakes against these guys than we should,'' Keith said. ''They're able to capitalize.''
Edmonton also got an even-strength goal from Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and power-play scores from Nail Yakupov and David Perron, but lost its third straight and fifth in six games. Sam Gagner missed on a second-period penalty shot.
Chicago goalie Corey Crawford made 19 saves, while Dubnyk had 31.
''Their power play ignited their offense tonight,'' Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville said. ''But still, it was one of those games where we stuck with it, which was important, and found a way to win against a team that enjoys playing against us and has some success against us.''
The Oilers were 1-1-1 against the Blackhawks last season.
''We tend to get out of our game playing against them,'' Saad said. ''We started slow, but we bounced back and finished the game well.''
The Oilers entered with the NHL's worst goals-against average (3.83) after allowing 48 goals in their first 18 games. The Blackhawks came in averaging 3.47 goals, second only to San Jose, and had scored 27 in their last six games.
Defensive zone breakdowns doomed the Oilers in this one. The Blackhawks scored four even-strength goals when one of their players was left wide open near the net. Keith's power-play goal through a screen was the only exception.
''That's missed coverage, and missed coverage by some of our veteran players, which is concerning to me,'' Edmonton coach Dallas Eakins said. ''If you can't defend in this league, you're not going to win.
''Tonight we had flashes of very good D-zone coverage and then we had some flashes of just total unawareness of what was going on behind us,'' he added. ''We're losing individual responsibilities in our D-zone and it's killing us.''
Chicago defenseman Michal Rozsival left with just more than 4 minutes left after being hit in the face with a puck, but Quenneville said he would be OK.
Both teams and goalies played their second game in two days. The Blackhawks won 5-2 at Dallas on Saturday night, and the Oilers lost 4-2 at Philadelphia in an afternoon game.
Saad scored the only goal of a sluggish first period with 1:37 left.
Edmonton's Philip Larsen got a stick on Brandon Pirri's centering attempt from the left side of the net, but the puck popped into the air and landed in the slot. Saad drove to the net between two Oilers defenders and put a shot into the lower left corner.
Nugent-Hopkins tied it 54 seconds into the second period on a quick shot that fooled Crawford high on the stick side. After taking Perron's feed, Nugent-Hopkins turned and in one motion whipped a shot into the upper left corner.
Gagner was awarded a penalty shot at 4:13 after Brent Seabrook hooked him from behind on a breakaway. On his attempt, Gagner lost control of the puck and slid it wide right after several quick moves in close.
Yakupov's power-play goal at 8:55 put Edmonton ahead 2-1. Set up by Larsen, Yakupov ripped a one-timer from the top of the right circle past Crawford's glove.
The Blackhawks picked up the pace, tested Dubnyk and tied it at 2 with 2:42 left in the period when Shaw capitalized on another Oilers coverage breakdown.
Saad powered into the Edmonton zone with the puck, but was steered aside by Anton Belov and Larsen. Shaw snuck in behind the play, took Saad's pass and scored on a wrist shot from inside the hashmarks.
Bickell gave Chicago a 3-2 lead at 5:33 of the third when he was left alone at the edge of the crease and stuffed in a rebound of Rozsival's drive from the blue line.
Perron's power-play goal 2:25 later, on a deflection of Larsen's shot from the point, tied it at 3.
NOTES: Gagner is 0 for 2 on penalty shots in his career. ... The Oilers finished 1-3-0 on their road trip. ... Chicago C Michal Handzus missed his eighth game with an upper-body and is still ''one or two weeks'' from returning, according to Quenneville. ... Veteran G Ilya Bryzgalov, signed by Edmonton to a reported $2 million, one-year deal on Friday, is expected to join Oklahoma City of the AHL for a conditioning stint. He hasn't played an NHL game since April. ... Edmonton LW Luke Gazdic (shoulder) sat out. He was injured Saturday in Philadelphia.


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Looking forward to role righting federal budget
By Paul Ryan
Every American family has a budget. Each of us must account for what we spend—for our apartment or home, groceries, utilities, clothes, transportation, medical and child care—and our savings for the future. We have to prioritize—and often this requires difficult trade-offs. But if you spend without priorities, you can quickly find yourself in big trouble, with mounting credit card debt or unpaid bills burdening you and those who depend on you for their livelihood.
The federal government needs a budget just as you do—although the government's "income" is made up entirely of what businesses and households send to Washington in the form of your taxes. Under both parties' watch, our government has not budgeted carefully. Washington consistently spends more than it collects in taxes, and we've become entirely too dependent on borrowed money.
Washington's budget deficit has eclipsed $1 trillion in each of the past two years, and our national debt is threatening to spiral out of control. We have left ourselves and future generations far too dependent on our creditors, 40 percent of whom are foreign governments. Simply put, we are running the risk of national bankruptcy. This cannot continue.
By definition, a trend that's not sustainable cannot continue—and we know that the current course is simply not sustainable. The housing market collapsed because too many borrowed beyond their means to buy homes they could not afford. Wall Street, too, irresponsibly built a house of cards with borrowed money and nearly brought the economy to a halt.
But now, massive spending bills and legislative overreach are recklessly transferring this risk and debt to Washington. Our government is setting itself up for yet another panic with painful economic consequences for all Americans.
The numbers are practically incomprehensible—trillion-dollar deficits, a $10 trillion debt, and tens of trillions of dollars in unfunded promises—but we all understand that the budget is in bad shape, and we need look no further than our television screens to see vivid, real-life examples of what will happen if we don't act. In Europe, generations of welfare-dependent citizens are hurling Molotov cocktails because their governments can no longer fund their entitlement programs.
We can't let that happen here. Both parties share the blame for our current mess, and both parties must work together to restore trust in Washington. That trust isn't there now, and understandably so. It will take a dedicated effort to rebuild and recover it.
Next year, I will have the honor of serving as chairman of the House Budget Committee, which makes our government's budget plan. I will be soliciting input from those I serve in Wisconsin, as well as my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, to find ways to put our government back on the road to solvency and prosperity.
We face a great challenge, but we also have a unique opportunity to restore the values of our exceptional nation.
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text: Hunting: Story Story Posted 05-19-2013 Manny Being Manny Puig tackles fifth season of 'Savage Wild' spearing wild boar Manny Puig spears hogs much of this season. (Courtesy 'Savage Wild') By: Mike Suchan, OutdoorChannel.com "Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die." – Mel Brooks The crew of "Savage Wild" got a real comic kick while star Manny Puig nearly experienced tragedy when he was knocked on his rear by a charging wild boar. Wait. That was funny? "It was to us," show producer Robin Berg said. "Manny was like, 'What the heck hit me?' Afterwards it was (funny to him.) When he got knocked down, it wasn't." They had to go to their footage to figure out what exactly sent Puig to the ground. The hunting party is rather protective of their star, but his bend to target wild boar with a spear has put them in dicey situations. "We've taken a decidedly different twist with 'Savage Wild' this season," Berg said. "In the past five seasons, Manny has actually hunted wild boar with a spear. It seems to be pretty popular with the fans, so what we decided to do is really pull out all the stops." Out of the 10 shows this season, 9 focus on Puig hunting wild boar, and this year he's upgraded from a spear to a trident, a frog gig on steroids. The team treks through the Florida wilds with a bay dog that will corner a pig and let the hunters close in for the kill. "Honestly, there's a lot of things about hunting wild boar that should be known," Berg said. "They're highly destructive feral animals. They eat any native species. They wipe out native snakes, amphibians and birds that are ground nesting. There are pictures of them walking off with newborn fawns. "They uproot native habitat. They are so invasive, so pervasive and so damaging -- just thick in all the Florida woods -- and they've become a nuisance. Anybody hunting them is doing a great service." Most southern states spend millions each year trying to combat the quick-breeding invasive hogs, and the federal government recently signed up to help New Mexico eliminate its burgeoning population. Berg said there many methods with which to hunt the animals; a rifle, a bow and how Puig does it. "With a spear, you have to get dangerously close," he said. "You literally have to get a couple feet from it. And the way we are doing it invites a direct charge. "It's pretty nerve-wracking, especially when you know it's going to happen. He's coming at you with two razor sharp knives bolted to his lower jar. Manny has actually gotten pretty good at doing this. His timing is pretty good. He's expecting the charge." Puig and the cameraman do have backup in guide Al Roberts, who is armed with a spear and his extensive experience. Berg said the team calls him The Enforcer. His assistance has been critical. "He is a hard-core tough individual," Berg said. "His job is to get in between the boar and the cameraman. Manny has actually got tore up pretty bad." "All hell breaks loose when you hit one with a spear. They are intent on killing Manny. Generally, we get it under control pretty quickly." On his aforementioned knockdown, Puig was targeting a charging boar for the final show of the season. He plunged his trident in the boar's shoulder, but he went down as well. "It's a really solid shot. Then something knocks Manny down flat on his butt," said Berg, only learning from the video that the spear shaft stuck in the moving pig had actually whacked Puig. "That's one that we weren't expecting. It hit him in the shoulder and left a big bruise. It was a real solid slam into his shoulder." The 'Savage Wild' crew after a successful hunt. (Courtesy 'Savage Wild') The only non-pig Puig adventure on "Savage Wild" this season is Puig being Puig, foregoing modern weapons, protections and methods to fight primal battles with Mother Nature. In a show on a beautiful wild river, he hand catches longnose gar up to 6 feet long. Berg said it one of the best shows they've ever done. Many of the shows offer viewers Puig's perspective as he straps a camera on his head or around his waist. Sometimes they've been placed on the spear shaft. Berg, an award-winning filmmaker and the creator, just wants to keep Puig safe in their chosen path of hunting dangerous wild boar to prevent real tragedy. "It seems like our demographic is interested in Manny going after wild boar with spear," Berg said. "Ok, let's run with that." 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Young and old alike, runners get injured at an annual rate of about 55%, meaning 55% will miss at least one week each year due to injury. The best way to deal with an injury -- taking steps to avoid it in the first place.
It came from out of nowhere. One minute, I'm in the middle of several nice pace pick-ups and had just eased back to a jog. The next minute, the spasm in my lower right calf hobbles me and I'm done – done for the day, done for the race scheduled on the upcoming weekend, and maybe done for the season. Done.
It was October a year ago I had the same injury hit me. But at the time, I had ignored the symptoms and signs. The slight stiffness after workouts, the discomfort in the morning and the difficulty pushing off at up-tempo pace all indicated I was headed for an ouchie, but I ignored it. And it almost cost me a shot at running the indoor track national meet. But not this year. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice… I'm an idiot!
I know of no runner who wants to get an ouchie, boo boo or other malady that sidelines us from doing what we do. And I am keenly aware of the march of time and what it does to most of us as we continue to train and compete. This latest ouchie is not how I wanted to start my sixth decade! But young and old alike, we get injured at an annual rate of about 55%, meaning 55% of runners will miss at least one week each year due to injury.
Now this may sound a bit confusing, but the best way to deal with an injury is to avoid it in the first place. It's not like you can just cross the street when you see that boo boo racing towards you, but there are some proactive things runners can and should be doing as a part of their overall training programs to avoid ouchie-related downtime.
The biggest thing is to take your foot off the pedal from time to time and REST! The old me used to average 85 miles a week in my 20's, 65 miles a week in my 30's, and 45 miles a week in my 40's. Consistent training at a lower overall output coupled with built-in mandatory rest periods has allowed me to be competitive at a national level for a pretty long time, with minimal downtime.
Just a few weeks ago, I competed in the USATF National Masters Cross Country Championships on a team that placed 4th out of 16 competing teams. And earlier this year, I was fortunate enough to be healthy and toe the line in three events at the US Master's Indoor Track Championships, medaling in one. To be honest, my times have eroded only slightly over the past 10 years, including a 5:00.72 indoor mile just last year.
Most ouchies, boo boos and maladies stem from overtraining, over-racing, over-exerting and over-reaching. Runners tend not to think much beyond "I feel really good" or "I feel really bad." When we're good, we ignore that the "bad" is lurking. Something I learned a long time ago is that improvement does not happen from the effort but rather from the rest and recovery AFTER the effort. "Bad" lurks when we don't recover. "Bad" jumps all over us when we don't rest.
Author, scientist and runner Dr. Tim Noakes wrote in his book LORE OF RUNNING that, "Running introduced me to my body." By 'running' he meant the entire spectrum of running, including the cycle of improvement (run, recover, rest, repeat). Runners get that first and last R pretty well but it's the two in the middle that take us away from knowing our true body and our true capability. We need to learn to master the recovery and rest as well as we do the run and repeat.
So why did I just get hurt again? Why is my right calf all knotted up like a sheep shank? (and this is where running logs come in handy…)… as I look back over my 2013 training year, I note one subtle trend – I did not recover and rest as much since my early year successes as I should have. Guess this little ouchie wasn't so "out of nowhere" after all.
Former Lock Haven University stand-out runner Andrew Shearer is the Middletown Athletic Club secretary/treasurer. Shearer has been running since 1978.


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The First Sale Doctrine is an everyday part of life for used booksellers. If you are not familiar with the term it is essentially a limitation in the copyright act that allows the purchaser of copyrighted good to transfer (sell, lend, giveaway) said good without gaining permission from the copyright holder. This limitation was recognized in 1908 after the case of Bobbs-Merrill Co. v. Straus, in which the publisher Bobbs-Merrill attempted to limit the price that the Macey's Dept. Store could sell their publications for.
This ruling has been, mostly, sufficient for regulating physical goods, however since the proliferation of digital media artists, producers, and consumers have been unsure how to proceed. Can I lend someone my mp3 collection? Can I borrow a digital book from a library? Should a digital books have a lifespan?
I was reading a post on the Brave New World blog which got me thinking about this topic again. If publishers want consumers to value digital books in the same way they value physical books they will need to solve this right of first sale, because until an eBook can be re-sold or in some way traded after initial use they will always be perceived like a permanent rental and something you don't actually own.
In the Brave New World article they bring up an interesting service that I actually didn't know existed called ReDigi, who are currently being sued by at least one major record label.
Founded only last year ReDigi is different again and operates under the "first sale doctrine" legal concept, that allows users who buy a copyrighted item like a book or CD the right to sell it or give it away. ReDigi operates a 'used music store' where users upload unwanted songs and buy others at a discount. ReDigi claim that they can verify individual MP3 files were legally purchased and not ripped or downloaded from a file-sharing network. Interestingly the sellers must also install a ReDigi program on their computer that removes any copies of a song from the seller's computer.
If publishers could get together and agree on a service like this which would allow the right of first sale to exist on digital files it would go a long way towards not only adopting digital media but literally "buying" in. This is, of course, assuming you do not already prefer physical books, are not a collector of books and said books are not first editions, signed copies, leather bound, etc. In those instances this discussion is moot.
What do you think about digital books? Would a legal re-selling service make you more likely to buy e-books?
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Judith Regensteiner, Ph.D., led discussion on physical activity
and metabolic health. The subcommittee focused on the following research
What is the relationship between physical activity and
prevention of metabolic syndrome/insulin resistance?
There is an inverse dose-response association between physical activity level
(and fitness) and the development of metabolic syndrome in adults. The minimal
amount of activity ranges between 120 – 180 minutes per week of moderate
intensity physical activity; however, many studies support 150 minutes per week.
The pattern is similar in men and women but there is a need for more data
examining metabolic syndrome in youth and across ethnicities.
What is the relationship between physical activity and
prevention and treatment of Type 2 Diabetes (T2DM)?
There is strong RCT data as well as observational, longitudinal, cross-sectional
data and meta-analyses. The data presents strong evidence that physical activity
has a major role in the prevention of T2DM and is consistent in both men and
women. The data also suggests that 30 minutes per day of moderate intensity
exercise appears to be an effective dose although it is not entirely clear. The
independent role of physical activity in the prevention of T2DM as well as the
effects across different ethnic groups is not clear.
What is the relationship between physical activity and
prevention of macrovascular complications of T2DM?
The group interpreted longitudinal, cross-sectional and observational studies as
well as 1 meta-analysis. From the data it appears exercise is particularly
beneficial for reducing cardiovascular risks. Dose-response studies suggest at
least 2 hours per week of moderate exercise is required for significant
benefits. The benefit may reach a peak level at 3 – 7 hours; however, more hours
show a flattening of benefit. The studies also seem to support a recommendation
of moderately vigorous exercise. Aerobic or combined aerobic/resistance exercise
seem best. There may be differences in the dose-response between genders but
more study is required. There is no data on ethnic differences.
What is the relationship between physical activity and Type 1 Diabetes?
There is no evidence that physical activity helps prevent Type 1 Diabetes. There
are many small interventional studies; however, they are split on whether
physical activity has benefits. The most positive results show modest
improvement. The results are also mixed on glycemic control and there is no
dose-response data. It is likely that the recommendations for Type 1 Diabetes
are similar to Type 2; however, additional precautions are needed to prevent
hypoglycemia during exercise and recovery.
What is the relationship between physical activity and microvascular
complications of diabetes?
There is fair evidence to support conclusions in this area. It is very likely
physical activity reduces the risk of diabetic neuropathy and likely it reduces
the risks of diabetic nephropathy. It is neither likely nor unlikely to reduce
diabetic retinopathy in Type 1 Diabetes and there is no data on Type 2 Diabetes.
There is poor evidence surrounding the benefits of physical activity and the
treatment of microvascular complications.
What is the relationship between physical activity and
gestational diabetes?
There are some observational studies that suggest physical activity is
beneficial in preventing gestational diabetes but there are no RCTs to support
this conclusion. Overall the data suggests approximately 30 minutes per day of
moderate intensity activity reduces the risk.
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