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The IRS -- its glory days and its checkered past

WASHINGTON (AP) ? For a time, the Internal Revenue Service inspired awe and admiration in Americans, not just trepidation and lame jokes about death and taxes.

Everyone loved the revenue agents when they put away Al Capone, the Chicago underworld's master of brutality and bribes, in a coup so spectacular it scared other gangsters straight.

In the year after, federal coffers swelled as delinquent taxpayers stepped forward to make good on their debts. Criminals came out of the woodwork to pay taxes on their ill-gotten gains. Authorities in what was then the Intelligence Unit of the Bureau of Internal Revenue nailed the slippery Public Enemy No. 1 when no one else could, scooped up New York City racketeers by the dozen and stood tall in the popular imagination as incorruptible, fearless stewards of the treasury and the law.

Fine, but that was the 1930s. What have they done for us lately?

Or to us?

The essential mission hasn't changed. The IRS still collects the money that goes back out to build roads, help look after people in their old age, fight menaces from Nazism to terrorism, and operate the vast levers of government. It still locks up a few thousand delinquents a year, among them drug kingpins who wouldn't be caught any other way.

But no one loves the IRS anymore, not for ages. It's our culture's king-sized pain that makes you do hard math, issues nonsensical directions, takes your money and gives it to politicians to waste even as they borrow unspeakable sums from China to waste even more.

On top of that overdrawn caricature, the agency now is saddled with its episode of tea party tumult, exposing IRS behavior that is memorably bumbling at best and criminal at worst.

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"Taxes grow without rain." Proverb.

More than 97,000 people work for the IRS, more than double the workforce of that other deeply inquisitive and all-seeing institution, Google.

That includes 13,000 revenue agents and more than 1,500 lawyers, about as many attorneys as practice statewide in North Dakota. It's bigger than some Cabinet departments ? Transportation for one. Employment has dropped by about 10,000 since 2010.

The perception of the "taxman" probably should give way to tax woman because more than six in 10 employees are female, a substantially higher share than in both the civil service and U.S. labor force at large.

The IRS is something of a hybrid in its relationship with political masters, not the "independent agency" claimed by President Barack Obama when he dissociated himself from its discriminatory audits of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status during the 2012 campaign.

It is partially independent, which is not at all like being a bit pregnant. On one hand, the president and his people at the White House are barred by law from pressing the IRS to start or stop a tax audit. This is to prevent the president from putting the heat on a political foe or going easy on a political friend, both tactics of the past.

The commissioner serves five-year terms, ensuring that leadership is out of synch with four-year election cycles. The commissioner and chief lawyer are the only political appointees and must be confirmed by the Senate.

But the commissioner reports to the treasury secretary through the department's deputy and can be fired at will by the president, which is not the case in more hands-off federal bodies. Indeed, the acting chief, Steven Miller, was ousted within days of the report coming to light showing the misbegotten actions of lower level employees; he was one of three senior officials to be sidelined in the continuing investigation.

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"This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher." Nobel Prize physicist Albert Einstein on preparing his taxes.

The income tax was unloved from its inception.

Pushing for it in 1861 to help pay for the Civil War, Rep. Thaddeus Stevens declared, "It is unpleasant to send the tax gatherer to the door of the farmers, the mechanics, and the capitalists ... but these things must come or this government must soon be buried in its grave."

President Abraham Lincoln signed into law a 3 percent tax on income over $800, a sum few people made. A progressive income tax followed a year later in a law establishing an enforcement arm, the office of commissioner of internal revenue in the Treasury Department. The wealthiest Americans paid 5 percent.

Before the end of the 1800s, the income tax was repealed, revived and struck down as unconstitutional, only to return in 1913 with the enactment of a constitutional amendment.

The tax form of 100 years ago ? three pages long, with another page of instructions ? loosely resembles the short form of today, except for its provisions for deducting uninsured shipwrecks and its guidance to a still-agricultural nation about claiming income from the wool and hides of slaughtered animals.

The basic tax rate was 1 percent on personal income over $3,000, and there was a 6 percent surtax on astronomical incomes over $500,000.

Rates would not remain so benign for long. In 1918, the top rate soared to 77 percent to help pay for World War I. During World War II, compliance leaped forward when Congress introduced payroll withholding and quarterly tax payments.

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"If you drive a car, I'll tax the street. If you try to sit, I'll tax your seat. If you get too cold, I'll tax the heat. If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet." The Beatles, "Taxman."

Back to biblical times, revenue collection was often contracted out to independent "tax farmers" so as to insulate authorities from the howls of an aggrieved population, Atlanta accountant Jay Starkman says in his history of taxes, "The Sex of a Hippopotamus," so named because it's about as hard to divine whether a hippo is male or female as it is to comprehend the tax code.

A certain distance remains. No president visited the IRS headquarters until John Kennedy did so in 1961, embracing the tax collector as the underpinning of a nation locked in Cold War competition, a space race and monumental obligations at home and abroad. "We are strongly behind you," Kennedy told the agency. "We expect the best from you."

It was a historic, morale-building visit to the put-upon agency but JFK's record with the IRS is not entirely noble. Although the bureau was reorganized in the 1950s to replace patronage appointments with career professionals (and to rename it the Internal Revenue Service), Kennedy's administration used it to try to cower critics on the right.

Later, President Richard Nixon's IRS manipulations against those on his "enemies list" rose to the level of an impeachable offense in the eyes of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

In the 1990s, the IRS went through another overhaul, this time to introduce more accountability, more recourse for the taxpayer and a customer-service ethic.

"Some people believe that the IRS slogan is, 'We're not happy until you're not happy,'" Starkman writes in his book. Yet it's probably more responsive to the consumer than the annoying help lines for digital gadgets. "Although IRS is the largest paper-shuffling organization in the world," he says, "when I call, I still get a live American person fairly quickly."

To IRS haters, the overhaul was not much more than public relations gloss, lipstick on a fanged pig.

But it made some changes that are consequential to this day. Among them, it established the Office of the Inspector General for Tax Administration, a more autonomous organization than existed before to scrutinize the behavior of the tax collectors.

That's the outfit that investigated and exposed the audits slanted against conservatives in the 2012 campaign. It's why the IRS is in such a pickle now.

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Associated Press researcher Monika Mathur contributed to this report.

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Rockets fired from Syria hit eastern Lebanon

This citizen journalism image provided by Qusair Lens, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Qusair-based activist Hadi Abdullah, right, walking on a street hit by the shelling of Hezbolllah Lebanese Shiite group and the Syrian forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad, in the town of Qusair, near the Lebanon border, Homs province, Syria, Friday, May 31, 2013. Syrian troops on Friday attacked a convoy trying to evacuate the wounded from a central town near the border with Lebanon, killing many people, as rebel reinforcements infiltrated the besieged area to fight government forces backed by Lebanese Hezbollah fighters, activists said. (AP Photo/Qusair Lens)

This citizen journalism image provided by Qusair Lens, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Qusair-based activist Hadi Abdullah, right, walking on a street hit by the shelling of Hezbolllah Lebanese Shiite group and the Syrian forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad, in the town of Qusair, near the Lebanon border, Homs province, Syria, Friday, May 31, 2013. Syrian troops on Friday attacked a convoy trying to evacuate the wounded from a central town near the border with Lebanon, killing many people, as rebel reinforcements infiltrated the besieged area to fight government forces backed by Lebanese Hezbollah fighters, activists said. (AP Photo/Qusair Lens)

(AP) ? More than a dozen rockets and mortar rounds fired from Syria struck eastern Lebanon on Saturday, security officials said, as tensions escalated along the Lebanese-Syria border over the increasing role of Hezbollah militants in the civil war next door.

The Lebanese security officials said the Baalbek region was struck 16 times, igniting fires in fields but causing no casualties. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief reporters.

Meanwhile, in Qatar, influential Sunni Muslim cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi lashed out at Shiites and Alawites ? followers of streams of Islam rival to Sunnis ? and blamed them for the bloodshed in Syria.

The Lebanese Hezbollah militia, a key ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad, is Shiite, while Assad is an Alawite. The sect is an offshoot of Shiite Islam.

In a rally in support of the Syrian rebels held late Friday in the Qatari capital of Doha, al-Qaradawi denounced Assad's father and predecessor Hafez as a "monster" and Hezbollah as the "party of the devil."

He claimed Shiites are planning to massacre Sunnis in Syria and that the Assads "belongs to a sect more infidel than Christians and Jews," according to comments on his website.

The cleric, whose TV show is watched by millions in the Arab world, also said there is no more common ground between Shiites and Sunnis and that he regrets previous efforts to bring the two sides together.

The Syrian conflict is seen in part as a proxy war, pitting predominantly Sunni rebels backed by Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey against a regime relying on support from Alawites, Shiites and Christians, and aided by Shiite-dominated Iran.

With the Syrian civil war rages on, there are concerns the fighting could destabilize neighboring countries and ignite a wider sectarian war in the region.

Perhaps most at risk is fragile Lebanon, whose sectarian mix mirrors that of Syria. Hezbollah has been fighting alongside Assad's forces, while Syrian rebels have warned they will attack Hezbollah bases in Lebanon in retaliation.

Over the past week, Syrian rebels have fired dozens of rockets on Lebanon's northeastern region of Hermel but Saturday's attack was the first on the Baalbek region, a Hezbollah stronghold.

Hezbollah's involvement in the Syrian war increased sharply in April, when the group's fighters and Syrian government forces began a major offensive to recapture Qusair, which had fallen to the rebels shortly after the uprising against Assad began in March 2011.

The officials said the villages of Yanta, Brital and Saraeen were among the areas struck Saturday.

In another development, the officials said gunmen opened fire on a Shiite shrine in Baalbek in an attack that could worsen frictions between Lebanon's Shiites and Sunnis. The shrine of Sayida Khawla, a great granddaughter of the Prophet Muhammad, was attacked shortly after midnight, the official said.

Lebanon and Syria share a complex web of political and sectarian ties and rivalries that are easily enflamed. Lebanon, itself plagued by decades of strife, has been on edge since the beginning of the Syrian crisis, which began as mostly peaceful protests against Assad's regime but later degenerated into all-out civil war.

Some Lebanese Sunnis support the Syrian rebels, who are also mostly Sunni, while some Shiites back Assad's regime, dominated by his Alawite sect.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that clashes on Saturday, pitching regime troops and Hezbollah fighters against rebels in Qusair left at least one opposition gunman dead. The group also reported fighting in the rebel-held town or Rastan, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) north of Qusair.

The regime and the opposition both value Qusair, which lies along a land corridor linking two of Assad's strongholds, the capital of Damascus and an area along the Mediterranean coast that is the Alawite heartland. For the rebels, holding the town means protecting their supply line to Lebanon, just 10 kilometers (six miles) away.

State-run Syrian TV said troops on Friday captured the village of Jawadiyeh outside Qusair, closing all entrances leading to the town and tightening the government's siege. The announcement came hours after anti-government activists said that many rebels from the northern province of Aleppo were able to enter Qusair to defend the town against advancing troops.

Syria's state-run news agency SANA said government troops discovered and destroyed a 200-meter (yards) tunnel that linked Harasta, a suburb of the capital Damascus, with the highway that connects the capital with the central city of Homs.

In Aleppo, Syria's largest city, the Observatory said that at least 31 detainees have been killed by rebel shelling of the city's central prison over the past two weeks. It added that the dead were buried in one of the yards in the jail.

The Observatory also said that an Islamic court in Aleppo executed the commander of the rebel Muhammad's Army Brigade and his aide after they were charged with murder, theft and taking bribes. Such sentences are not uncommon in rebel-held areas.

More than 70,000 people have died in Syria's civil war, according to the U.N.

Associated Press

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iOS 7 wants: An iMessage. Merged with FaceTime. That works. Everywhere.

iOS 7 wants: An iMessage. Merged with FaceTime. That works. Everywhere.

A plea for more unified, more functional, more reliable, more compatible, and more competitive messaging on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

iMessage and FaceTime today do pretty much what they did years ago at launch. While it's hard to say they've been neglected, Apple hasn't prioritized them to the same degree their competition has been prioritizing Google Hangouts, FaceBook Messenger, or BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) of late. What features Apple has been adding have been centered more around notifications and the management thereof, which are important but secondary to core communications features. You can't be notified about something you can't do.

Not only that, iMessage will soon be the only remaining first-party single-platform messaging service in mobile. BBM comes to iOS and Android this summer, Google's new Hangouts app has already launched for iOS and Android, and Microsoft's Skype runs on pretty much anything (I can almost hear my toaster ringing now..). Third party messengers, like FaceBook, Twitter, WhatsApp, etc. likewise run the gamut of platforms, and connect users no matter where they are, or what type of device they're using. Many if not most of them also include integrated video and audio messaging, something Apple supports -- in video-only form -- in the separate, and similarly single-plaftorm, Facetime app.

Moreover, while FaceTime is fairly reliable, the same can't be said for iMessage, which is missing, miss-ordering, miss-grouping, or otherwise messing up often enough to shatter faith in the service. All of this adds up to something I'd sorely like to see integrated, fixed, and perhaps even expanded in iOS 7:

  1. Merge iMessage and FaceTime into a single app, or at the very least a transparent experience. Like BBM, Hangouts, and Skype, I'd love to be able to switch between text, audio, and video chat without having to switch back and forth between apps.
  2. Add features to iMessage/FaceTime like persistent groups, the ability to block people, video conference calling, and maybe even screen sharing and VoIP. I don't think Apple needs all the features of BBM, especially the social ones, but parity with Skype and Hangouts would be nice.
  3. Make iMessage "just work" better. Fix whatever causes messages to fail to appear, appear out of order, or switch to SMS/MMS without notification. Communications requires trust. iMessage needs that trust.
  4. Consider taking iMessage cross-platform. It's not nearly as far-fetched as Apple licensing iOS or OS X, and it's broadly inline with the original stated intent for FaceTime.

These are all non-trivial requests.

Base feature parity with the competition would, of course, make iMessage/FaceTime competitive.

Merging the proprietary iMessage with the standards-based FaceTime would certainly be a huge challenge, but likely necessary to handle all the varied types of communication. Where sometimes separate apps for separate purposes makes more sense, other times a bigger-picture app enabled higher-level functionality. Both iMessage and FaceTime currently employ phone numbers as the connection mechanism on iPhone, and Apple IDs as the connection mechanism across iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Mac. So, to end users like us, the way we establish contact wouldn't change. It would just become unified.

Base feature parity with the competition would, of course, make iMessage/FaceTime competitive. From conference calling to blocking, there are obvious holes in Apple's current offering that seem like they'd have already been filled but for prioritization of (limited) resources. Now that messaging is becoming important again, perhaps it'll become more of a priority? Of the additional features, Voice over IP (VoIP) would be trickiest, as it threatens to expand carrier disintermediation even further. Google and BlackBerry have already done a lot to provide carrier-free communications, as has Microsoft with their Skype acquisition, but everything has always been more difficult for Apple given the uniformity and mainstream popularity of the iPhone.

Tim Cook probably isn't any more amused by missing or messed up iMessages than we are.

Fixing iMessages' reliability will also no doubt be a challenge. If it were simple or easy at any level, Apple would have done it already. (Tim Cook probably isn't any more amused by missing or messed up iMessages than we are.) Other vendors have shown that it's possible to have dependable messaging, however, so it's something Apple has to figure out.

Taking iMessage/FaceTime cross-platform is harder to see. Apple probably doesn't want to port iMessage to Android, much less Windows Phone or BlackBerry 10. While the FaceTime, which could be released as a standard and implemented by other people on those other platforms, iMessage is all Apple. They'd have to do the heavy lifting themselves, add a parallel, standards-based component for others to tie into, or open their currently closed technology. None of those seem likely, though allowing fall back to XMPP the way iMessage can already fall back to SMS/MMS for compatibility could interesting.

Like email, messaging should go wherever our friends are, or its usefulness is compromised.

And that's a pity, because as much as I love proprietary hardware and interfaces, and think strong opinions make for great experiences, I want my communications protocols to be open. What's on my phone can be all Apple, what connects me to my friends and the world I'd prefer to be standards-based and interchangeable. Like email, messaging should go wherever our friends are, or its usefulness is compromised.

(iMessage/FaceTime integration into future Apple TV products is an interesting idea as well, especially for connecting families via the living room and companies via the conference room, but we don't have future Apple TVs yet, and current ones can already put FaceTime on the big screen via AirPlay.)

iMessage and FaceTime vs. the competition today

iMessage was introduced in iOS 5 as a way to provide a BBM-like service for iPhone users, and neatly roshambo the carriers' right in their exorbitant SMS/MMS fees at the same time. Where Apple's iChat, the messaging service available at the time on the Mac, piggy-backed on AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) and Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP), iMessage uses Apple's own Push Notification Services (PNS).

On the iPhone, iMessage intermingles seemlessly with SMS/MMS. Apple including both in the same app made for immediate, immense adoption. If you're sending a message to another Apple user, it simply goes over iMessage. If you're sending to someone on a non-Apple device, it reverts to SMS/MMS to maintain compatibility. However, it's not always elegant. Sometimes iMessage will fail and you'll have to resend, or optionally resend as SMS/MMS. Other times, iMessage will fail and your message will automatically be sent as SMS/MMS. Which, if you're in the midst of convering with someone, could mean instant, potentially rage-inducing texting charges. And you can't block people from iMessaging you when you want or need to.

iMessage and FaceTime on iOS

iMessage and FaceTime offer incredible integration with SMS/MMS and standard calling on the iPhone, but don't offer the unified experience or more robust feature sets of competing services.

In addition to text messages, iMessage provides delivered and optional read receipts, like BBM. It can also handle images, video, contacts, location, audio, and a few other types of files. While text, images, and videos can be added from within the iOS Messages app, the other forms of messages can only be attached from within apps specific to those file types, like Contacts, Maps, Voice Memo, etc. That's fine if you're in an app and want to share as a one-off, but irksome if you're engaged in a conversation and simply want to drop in an attachment as part of it.

Much to their credit, Apple did move iMessage to the Mac. Once you get used to messaging that works on mobile and desktop, it's tough to even consider using anything else. It's one of Skype's biggest advantages, even though their Mac and Windows client can be as horrible an experience as it is useful. Lack of a native Mac and Windows client is also one of the biggest drawbacks to BBM, and to Hangouts whose web experience has gotten more powerful but far less elegant as of late. Facebook is likewise locked to the browser (and bereft of a video calling option on mobile), and many other alternatives are still mobile-only.

BBM on the BlackBerry Q10

BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) is arguably best in class, with a range of personal and social communication features that are set to start going cross-platform this summer.

The Messages app on the Mac is more of an iChat/Messages hybrid -- or Frankenstein -- still supporting AIM, XMPP, and Yahoo! accounts as well. Those accounts retain some of the old iChat features as well, including integrated audio and video chat and screen sharing. Gone, however, are features like video conference calling, iChat theater file sharing, and the cute if gimmicky backdrops.

And, of course, none of those legacy iChat features work with iMessage -- for video chat with an Apple account, you have to launch FaceTime on OS X just like on iOS.

Skype on iOS

Skype, now owned by Microsoft, offers a robust range of features from basic messaging to full on VoIP and video conferencing.

FaceTime arrived with iOS 4 and, like iMessage, enjoys a huge advantage on the iPhone by being tied right into the default calling app, in this case Phone. That makes switching from a traditional cellular voice call to FaceTime incredibly easy (though switching back is not currently possible, easily or at all). FaceTime isn't based on a proprietary protocol like iMessage, but on standards-based ones like H.264, AAC, SIP, STUN, TURN, ICE, and RTP.

When it was announced, Steve Jobs said Apple would be, in return, offering the FaceTime implementation as a standard. That has not yet come to pass, though Apple has been sued for patent-infringement over elements of FaceTime, which may have necessitated a change in plans. Open or closed, FaceTime remains video-only, though you can escape to audio if you really want to. It has also remained relatively stagnant, unlocking 3G/LTE transmission, but not adding (back) any features like video conference calling, screen sharing, or file sharing either.

Skype on iOS

Facebook has recently added VoIP calls in the US and Canada, complementing its existing text service.

Contrast this to the admittedly much more mature, much more central-to-the-platform, BBM, which offers not only text, image, video, and the other standard attachment types, along with integrated video and audio chat, and screen-sharing, but also social components like shared galleries, calendars, and task lists, and even Twitter-like, one-to-many channels now. You can also easily block people from messaging you, which can be really important if your contact information gets in the wrong hands. And while BBM has suffered more than its fair share of outages, like any internet service, when it works, it works reliably enough to have put the "crack" in the "crackberry" experience.

Likewise, Skype and Hangouts are both currently offering more feature-rich, more integrated, and more reliable messaging services. (Though Google has entangled Hangouts in their larger social identity network.)

Hangouts on iOS

The newly expanded Google Hangouts offers persistent group chats to large scale group video calling as well.

The bottom line

On the iPhone, the phone, like the messaging, has always been just another app. However, communications is still one of the most important jobs the iPhone has, and one that makes the iPad and Mac far more useful as well. Apple doesn't need to be best-in-class when it comes to messaging -- though that might well be on their, likely very long, to-do list -- but it would greatly behoove them, and us, if they were to prioritize being more competitive.

Otherwise, alternatives go from niche to mainstream, and you end up de-facto outsourcing something that should be a core technology on any platform. (Which is likely why BlackBerry is porting BBM.)

I'd love to see Apple take a step in that direction with iOS 7. Then I can start asking for a unified messaging system, like webOS Synergy or the BlackBerry 10 Hub, for iOS 8...

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Tips For Making Your Home-based Business Success ? Hot Article ...

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When starting your home business you will wish to go the post office and get a PO Box for mail that's sent to the business. There are a lot of silly folk in the world and you do not want to ask them to your front door by having your house address as the mail address for your business. A PO Box is a safe and affordable way to avoid hassles.

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Give your clients a real incentive to order from you again. Send them vouchers and discounts on similar products, or let them know about your new products. Offer upgrades and spare parts for the products they already have. Confirm they're satisfied with their primary contact with you to order again.

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Is your home business paying off? Considering the time you are spending on it, the remuneration may appear low. But if you are figuring your hourly rate of pay in comparison to an external job, remember to figure in commuting time and the price of gas. The IRS figures use of your auto at roughly 55 cents per mile. You should too. The savings from staying at home will make your hourly rate of pay look better!

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Bowling Green Athletics - Falcons Fall In First NCAA Tournament ...

Box Score | Photo Gallery | Postgame Press Conferences (Danny Schmitz, Mike Frank, Jeremy Shay)

LOUISVILLE, Ky.?Playing in their first NCAA Tournament game in 14 years, the Bowling Green State University baseball team was defeated by University of Louisville, 8-3, on Friday night in the NCAA Louisville Regional. The game, which was played at UofL?s Jim Patterson Stadium, was the first NCAA Tournament contest for the program since 1999.
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Despite an early lead in the game, the Falcons committed two errors and allowed the Cardinals to grab momentum. With the loss, Bowling Green drops to 24-30 on the season. The Falcons are 2-7 all-time in the NCAA Tournament.
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After the first two were out in the top of the first, junior Jeremy Shay would give the Falcons a lead with his sixth home run of the season. Shay would get a two-strike slider from UofL starter Chad Green, depositing it into the crowd over the left-center field wall.
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Falcons? starting pitcher Mike Frank got off to a good start, retiring the Cardinals in order in the first. But, Louisville would tie the game in the bottom of the second, as Coco Johnson got on top of a 1-0 fastball for a solo home run.
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Following a 25-minute rain delay in the bottom of the third, Louisville would have a runner on first with nobody out. A sacrifice bunt would advance the runner to second with one out, but T.J. Losby would catch the runner attempting to steal third for the second out of the inning. Frank would get a ground ball which looked like it would get him out of the inning, but an errant throw to first would allow a UofL runner to reach base. After a wild pitch advanced the runner to second, Johnson would mash his second home run of the game to give the Cardinals a 3-1 lead.
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Four Louisville hits coupled with a Falcon error opened the door for a big UofL inning, as they would score four times in the fifth to open up a commanding 7-1 lead.
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The Falcons would get two runs back in the top of the sixth inning, closing the gap to 7-3. Brian Bien, who was on base three times in the game, began the frame with a walk. Patrick Lancaster would then double into the left field bullpen, with Bien coming all the way around from first to score. Following a line out, Shay would single to put runners on the corners with one out. Losby would elevate a ball during the next at-bat into left-center field, the flyout carrying deep enough to bring Lancaster home from third.
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Louisville would add a run in the bottom of the sixth, as the Cardinals turned a leadoff single into an 8-3 lead.
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That would be the only run that reliever Ethan McKenney would surrender, as he went the final three innings.
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The Falcons could not scratch a hit across the board in the final three innings, as three UofL relievers combined to hold the Falcons at bay down the stretch.
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The Falcons, with their backs against the wall, will fight for their lives tomorrow afternoon. The Falcons will play Oklahoma State in an elimination game beginning at 12:00 p.m. Cody Apthorpe will start the game for the Orange and Brown. Last season, OSU swept a series from the Falcons in Stillwater.
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Notes
*Mike Frank went 5.0 innings on Friday, moving into 2nd all-time in a single season with 102.1 innings pitched. Frank also moved into 8th all-time with 224.2 career innings pitched.
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*Frank struck out three on Friday, moving his single season total to 80. Frank moved into a tie for 7th in a single season.
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*Jeremy Shay?s home run moved him into a tie for the team lead, with six. Shay also is tied for the team lead with 38 RBI.
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*Ethan McKenney now has a season ERA of 1.99, giving up just 11 earned runs in 49.2 innings pitched. If McKenney?s mark holds, it would give him the 12th lowest ERA all-time for a single season in program history.

Source: http://www.bgsufalcons.com/news/2013/5/31/BB_0531135358.aspx

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The heavy work can make worker feel tired. mbt shoes uk. Since people have no time to do exercise, they always in the state of sub-health. MBT shoes can help people take care of themselves. Owing to staying in office for long time, there are perennial health problems amongst white-collar workers. The white-collar workers have no time to do exercise to keep vigorous. The white-collar workers are the sort of people who are beneath high pressure, their spirit and bodies are in the weak state. Accordingly they keep their health with pedicures, massages, and spa treatments as a replacement for exercise. The shoes which pursue nature are the perfect substitites. There is no need for high pressure workers to make time for doing the things metioned above except wearing MBT shoes, for the reason that such shoes have perfect vantages. One will be at her most cozy and relaxed state there as long as she put on such shoes.

These shoes can leisurely slash one?s tires, then make her feel good, simultaneously, they can give her an almost imperceptible correction of her unnoticed and irrational way of walking. In modern years, these shoes are the irresistible trend.MBT is the first in China, popular in Hong Kong, the Hong Kong people very close to the trend, the weather is still a little hot, they all wore MBT Women?s shoes Kaya Black healthy walk in the street.MBT shoes can make the body upright walkers on foot, so walking posture is not only more beautiful, the Pacers will therefore be more health and fitness; addition, the body back and joints will be strengthened, so as to promote and enhance blood circulation and respiratory efficiency. www.uksmbtsoutlet.co.uk. Who, if not the love of fitness, but also by MBT endless benefits of outdoor shoes, MBT shoes, the principle of balanced pivot foot and can exercise neglected muscles daily, so just stand has received campaign results.

MBT Healthy Shoes became popular in China, but many people may only know that MBT is a healthy shoe brand MBT Healthy Shoes do not know how the development came in the end, do not know where Fortunately, MBT shoes in the end, the following and MBT on the Xiaobian Check it out together.MBT full name of the Masai Barefoot Technology, which means Masai Barefoot Technology. From the early 90s of last century, the Swiss engineer Karl M ler that barefoot walking in the Masai tribe born though long journey over rough roads, but the body is still tall and straight lines, and never knew the taste of back pain. So he set out to develop of a barefoot technology for every day walking on hard ground, city people, create a shoe, so that people feel after wearing a similar walk in the East African savannah soft ground. After many years of concentrated study and development, Masai Barefoot Technology was finally put into the market in 1996. Currently, the Swiss health MBT Lami shoes sold in more than 20 countries and areas, the annual sales of about 100 million pairs. Ha ha! This is the source of MBT development of healthy shoes.

The actuality is MBT has produced a shoe that is produced to not merely tone your muscles, but may maybe be instead effective in decreasing the visual element of cellulite. MBT stands for Misaim Barefoot engineering produced by Swiss engineers. mbt kafala shoes. The way in which by which by which by which MBT shoes are engineered is what produces the modifications all by signifies within belonging for the body. MBT shoes are engineered to alter the way in which by which by which by which any somebody walks forcing them to engage just about every individual and every merely just one and just about every individual and every muscle all by signifies within belonging for the plan and for that cause strengthening, toning, and balancing the plan and postured producing extraordinary form, and nicely toned superb legs.Even so, buyying MBT shoes for exercise is not simple, it is stated MBT footwear not fit for all of us, but this just said by individuals who do not handle the way of walking. Take care that the strides you get in these MBT Chapa GTX are not also extended, and that your arms swing loosely beside your system.

Now that you have been effectively fitted, the initial step is to stand up. Straightforward plenty of, huh? It will in all probability experience a tiny awkward at initially, which is typical. Moreover, Can you really feel how your muscle tissue function and modify as they react to the normal unbalance beneath your feet? Now, ahead of you commence strolling in your Mbt footwear,deliver your system into a nutritious, upright posture. The easiest way of accomplishing this is to breathe in deeply although rolling your shoulders backwards. Now search ahead, not at your feet, and start off strolling briskly, but in a relaxed manner. With each and every step, consider to land on the center of the Swiss Masai sensor, which is in the direction of the back again of the sandal, and roll over the sole from heel to toe. Attempt to use somewhat a lot more stress to the outdoors of the sole to stop the foot from rolling inwards, also identified as pronating. mbt uk. Your physique will soon alter to this pure energetic rolling movement.

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