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Monday, February 03, 2014
credit card scam?
you know how it is when the bank wants to offer you a credit card.
they will call you (how did they get your mobile number when you don't have an account with them????) or more likely, hound you at the shopping malls or at the exit of IT/computer/furniture/travel fairs. often, they will entice you with free umbrellas, flashdrives, toys, shoe bags, etc. that it can be difficult to turn down.
but what happens when you want to cancel the card after finding out a competitor is offering a better deal?
you go to the bank to cancel it, right?
i was waiting at the bank today when i saw this guy try to do just that. he waited for about 10-15mins for the customer service exec to return from lunch. she's alone because the others must have taken off for Lunar New Year. she gave him a form to fill while she disappeared into the main office, the locked room you can't access without a keycard.
and made him wait for at least another 15mins, because he was still waiting when i left.
is this a one-off incident or do banks treat their want-away customers this way?
i don't know. i usually call customer service (the number given at the back of the card) when i want to cancel. every time without fail, they will offer to waive the annual fees AND give me the govt service tax rebate of rm50 after using the card for a specified number of times, usually 3 times within a month.
and every time, almost without fail, i will change my mind & retain the card.
after all, i think i have nothing to lose.
or, have i been scammed as well????
2 comments:
- Andrea Boult said...
You are a credit card sales person's wet dream. LOL
- February 20, 2014 5:37 PM
- doc said...
would be a nice thought if the sales person were a hot chick!!
- February 27, 2014 11:46 AM
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так мало хороших
и хороших переводчиков?
Молодые не
знают русского
языка. Это неисправимо.
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волками, до
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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 23/2/2014 (1276 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
MOON ALERT Avoid shopping or making important decisions from 3:20 a.m. until 8 a.m. After that the moon moves from Sagittarius into Capricorn.
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
A parent, boss or someone in authority will give you wise advice, especially about debt or how to use resources and supplies from another source. Some of you might also strike up a saucy flirtation with someone older or richer.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
You might be attracted to someone older from another culture or a different country. This is also a good day to make long-range plans for future vacation or plans for further study and training. It will be easy to study anything, especially history.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20)
This is an excellent day to discuss how to share inheritances or settle disputes about insurance matters and shared property. People in authority will endorse your best interests. In fact, you may get money or gifts from the government or someone older.
CANCER (June 21-July 22)
Conversations with partners and close friends will flow smoothly, although they will be serious and conservative. Someone older, worldlier or richer might have advice for you -- or better yet -- they might help you or give you practical assistance.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
A work-related romance with someone older might begin. All relations with co-workers and bosses will be smooth. This is a good day for financial planning related to your job. Health-related news could be positive, especially related to bones, joints and your skin. (Weird but true.)
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Make long-range plans for a future vacation. This is also a good day to make social plans for the theatre, movies, sports events, parties, entertaining or anything related to children. Romance with someone of an age difference might blossom.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Home decorating projects will appeal to you. You might also want to make plans for entertaining at home. An older family relative might give you gifts or advice. Of course, gifts of money are always best. Happiness is having alternatives.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
All conversations and negotiations will go well. This is a great day to study or discuss serious matters with others, especially siblings and relatives. Look around you to see how to make improvements that make your everyday world more attractive for a long time to come.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Business and commerce are favoured. This is a good day to do long-range financial planning. Practical purchases will please you. Whatever you initiate might make your life easier in the future. Listen to the advice of someone older.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
This is a fortunate day for business affairs. You feel happy in your skin and willing to accept duties and responsibilities. This is also a good day to sit down with others and discuss the pros and cons of the relationship because all parties will be reasonable.
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You will feel gratified if you have an opportunity to help someone out, especially someone older. It will give you a warm feeling in your tummy to do the decent thing and benefit someone. (This is also wise because what goes around comes around and you might need assistance one day in the future.)
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)
Group discussions are positive and practical. Listen to the input from someone who is more experienced, older or wiser. After all, you don't have to reinvent the wheel. Why not stand on the shoulders of those who have gone before you? Weigh their advice.
Actor Billy Zane (1966) shares your birthday. You set high standards for yourself, which is why you sometimes sacrifice yourself for the greater good. This is also why you expect a lot from others. It's important to find out how to satisfy your ideals without compromising your own beliefs and values. After all, you count, too. A lovely year awaits you full of fun times and social diversions where you can expect all your relationships to improve.


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With the onset of war with Iraq, the local sentiment among the majority of retired military personnel is support for the United States and a desire to see the job through to the end.
The decision (to engage in war) has been made and I support our efforts, said Mike Kachilla, a retired U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant colonel. The Marine in me says to go and do the job that needs to be done.
If the Commander in Chief says we need to engage in war, then I support that decision, said former Cambridge Mayor Charles Schaub, a retired U.S. Army Corps of Engineers colonel.
I took an oath of allegiance to my country as a military officer, and the bottom line is I believe in our country right or wrong. History will judge if we are right or wrong ... I cant do that from here (in Cambridge).
As the initial campaign efforts in Iraq are carried out by aircraft and long-range missiles, many believe the true start of the war will not come until ground troops are involved in the fighting.
The real impact of the start of the war will come when the ground troops start to move, said Guernsey County Common Pleas Court Judge David A. Ellwood, a former U.S. Army officer.
We are only in the early stages of the war. Our prayers go out to all the troops who are right there on the cutting edge of freedom.
The current military action is the second for the United States in the region, with the campaign to liberate in Kuwait in the early 1990s being the first. One thing all former military personnel agree on is to get the job done right this time around.
I dont second guess the actions in 1991, we accomplished the mission, said Kachilla. With the facts at hand, I think this time around it is important to do the job and get the weapons of mass destruction out of Iraq.
We cant allow others to use such weapons ... that is one of our primary missions. I think we will once again accomplish the mission, said Kachilla.
We are going to be there (in Iraq) until the job is done, according to what President Bush has said, said Ellwood. The goal is clear ... there is going to be a regime change in Iraq. President Bush has said our troops will not return until that is accomplished.
Schaub agreed those charged with carrying out the war plan will make the right decisions.
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PSU LB: NCAA transfer rules 'absolute joke'
CHICAGO — Senior linebacker Michael Mauti took aim at the NCAA rule that allows Penn State players to transfer — and permits other schools to aggressively pursue them — calling it an "absolute joke."
"There's been coaches hounding our players, 10-12 calls a day, on campus, outside of our apartments, outside of our classrooms," Mauti said Thursday at Big Ten Media Day. "To me, it just doesn't seem right. That's the game they created, so I can't blame any coaches. They're playing under the rules."
Coach Bill O'Brien has been trying to hold his team together in the aftermath of crippling NCAA sanctions levied earlier this week on Penn State. O'Brien groused that opposing coaches were on Penn State's campus Wednesday though he generally sidestepped questions about recruiting during interviews Thursday.
"I have no idea what schools were on campus," O'Brien said. "Nor do I care. It's like NFL free agency without the rules. I don't really have anything else to say on that."
Illinois is recruiting Penn State players, but coach Tim Beckman said the Illini are merely following the guidelines established by the NCAA. Illinois coaches were in State College on Wednesday, Beckman said, but they never ventured onto campus.
"We only talked to individuals that would be willing to meet with us," Beckman said. "We did not go after them. They had the opportunity to come to us and speak to us and that's how we handled this situation. We're just following the rules of the NCAA."
The NCAA allowed Penn State players to transfer immediately after levying severe sanctions on the program Monday. Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany said he didn't want to restrict Penn State players' options, which is why conference schools are allowed to recruit them.
Delany said he wants Big Ten schools that have interest in Penn State players to notify Nittany Lions athletics director Dave Joyner, not simply an athletic compliance official.
Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema and Ohio State's Urban Meyer are among those who won't recruit Penn State's players.
"I'm not casting doubt on anybody, but we made a decision that we would not actively pursue any Penn State players," Bielema said.
Meyer said he had a "problem" with teams pursuing Penn State players even though they are free to transfer because of the NCAA sanctions.
"A young man has the right to play wherever he wants to play," said Meyer, who is in his first year at Ohio State. "However, when he's part of a team you're getting into a situation that I'm not very familiar with and we're not going to get very familiar with."
Mauti said he takes it personally when schools, particularly Big Ten ones, try to recruit Penn State players though he said "that's the game the (NCAA) created."
"I'm a competitor, and if the people I'm playing against want to try to weaken our stability, then we're going to have a problem," Mauti said.
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Blue Scholars, The Long March EP (self-released) Rating: 8
Sure, grunge, coffee, and the Space Needle are nice. Yeah, Hendrix was a god. But of all the things Seattle has given us, Blue Scholars deserve the most praise in 2006. This emcee-deejay duo breathes new life into underground hip-hop with The Long March EP, a nine-song review of all that is good with the genre and an indisputable case for its continued infusion into the mainstream. The album's aesthetic is universally pleasing -- play this at a party and impress the hell out of your friends -- but also smart and deep enough to reward through headphone listens number 10, 15, 20, and beyond. Grounded in the jazz-rap movement of the early '90s and hip-hop's classic two-man dynamic, Blue Scholars are set firmly in their context just as they bust the hell out of it. Tracks about hating work as a telemarketer ("Proletariet Blues") and being the first in a family to graduate from college ("Commencement Day") are lightened by Geologic's eloquently laidback rhymes and Sabzi's creative beats, samples, and scratches. "I heard a few heads / Say that hip-hop is dead / No it's not, it's just malnourished and underfed", raps Geologic in "Southside Revival". If that's the case, then this record is a week of steak dinners. Bon appétit, hip-hop.
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Spider, The Way to Bitter Lake (self-released) Rating: 7
Sometimes you just need a good cry. Jane Herships goes under the name of Spider, to give us a modern-day update of '60s feather-vocalist Margo Guryan. "Don't Be Afraid, I've Just Come to Say Goodbye" offers lots of acoustic guitar, and very hushed flutes and horns to give the song a warm playing-in-your-backyard feel. The brilliantly titled "I Don't Know if She Had Any Teeth Because She Never Smiled" moves as slow as molasses, but still builds to a tear-drenched catharsis -- the perfect song for rainy day window-watching. The last half of the album begins to thematically lap itself, though the use of electric guitar for the minute-long "End Song" and meticulous picking of "The Bitter One" more than make up for it. Spider's just builds its web now -- you'll get caught in it sooner or later.
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Voodoo Blue, Smile 'n Nod (DCide) Rating: 6
Voodoo Blue is a band in the modern mold of MTV-punk, residing somewhere in between Blink 182 and Simple Plan, melding the former's slightly harder-edged instrumental style with the latter's marginally whinier vocal style and coming up with something that could well be blaring in shopping malls across the country any day now. The lyrical themes are one merciful step up from Simple Plan's high school angst, instead focusing on a sort of coming of age that's appropriate given the early-twenties ages of the trio. "Good 4 No 1" is a decent ode to looking for one's place in the world (albeit one with a really awful title), "Drown" a harder-edged song about the difficulty of change, and "Too Old to Cry" is a breakup song as told by someone who's trying desperately to get past the high school melodramatics that come with such a topic. Fortunately, amidst all of the soul searching, Voodoo Blue still allows for a little bit of silliness ("#4 is My Favorite Song" is a particularly goofy 20-second heavy-metal piss-take), and their exuberance is infectious -- you probably won't admit to liking the band, but you'll sing along anyway.
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Three on the Tree, Dust in the Water (TOTT06) Rating: 7
Looking like they're mining for gold on the inner sleeves, Three on the Water offers a steady alt-country/roots sound. Listening to songs like "Blue Pacific", the group takes a slow, Southern drive through the likes of the Jayhawks and other similarly minded bands but in their own deliberate way. Meanwhile "Subway Tremors" features Jon Osing on lead vocals with some help by pedal steel guitarist Ken Champion, ambling along a bit like a laidback but toe-tapping Blue Rodeo or Son Volt. The shifty, swinging-meets-rockabilly "Jail House" is a rather bouncy ditty that sounds like it came from Sun Records. However, they seem to hit paydirt and their groove with the tender, light and world-weary "Ghost" that would fit perfectly on a Tarbox Ramblers or Cash Brothers album. Ditto for the mid-tempo "Fixture" that could be misconstrued as a cover of a Counting Crows track. Unfortunately they try to put a rock slant on "Flatbed Mary" with mixed results at best. However, Three on the Tree keep things simple and thus grand with "Paid to Play", a strong alt.country-by-numbers tune while the dirge-like "Black Eye in the Morning" is nailed perfectly as is the swampy "Two Glass Eyes".
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Adele Thomas, Associate Professor at Brock University in Ontario Canada, studied current research pertaining to the thoughts children have about their ability and achievement and how these thoughts affect their motivation to learn. Almost all students, she maintains, begin school eagerly and with an innate belief in their ability to master even difficult tasks.
In fact, Thomas reports, most kindergarten or first grade children will actually rank themselves at the top of the class regardless of the way their teacher ranks them. Essentially, children are optimistic about their ability to learn and consider themselves smart.
Thomas notes, however, that by second grade, children become sensitive to social comparisons and tend to measure success by how well they compare to their peers rather than by how much they have actually learned. When students experience difficulty in school and fail to achieve at the rate of their peers, they begin to feel ashamed.
Further, if they are inclined to believe that intelligence is fixed and, therefore, unaffected by effort, they may conclude that they are not as smart as other students. They may also believe that too much effort will be regarded by others as evidence of low ability.
Threat to self-esteem
Those who succumb to this rationale begin to view academic situations as a threat to their self-esteem. They become increasingly concerned with performance rather than with what they learn and this, in turn, can lead to counterproductive behaviors. Defensive strategies used to counteract a student's fear of failure too often lead to avoidance, minimal effort and a devaluing of the importance of academic tasks. Rather than risk being considered "dumb", older children in particular would rather be regarded as indifferent or delinquent.
Sometimes children come to believe that they have no control over their achievement; they are described as exhibiting "learned helplessness".
Learned helplessness
These children tend to show little enthusiasm, are easily discouraged and do not put forth the effort necessary to be successful in school. Clearly, it is difficult for teachers to turn around children who believe they have no control over how well they do in school, or who feel compelled to protect their self-esteem by not trying hard and not becoming actively involved in learning.
Thomas writes that teachers are unable to protect students from failure. Nevertheless, they need to be able to help children reinterpret and evaluate their experience in a way that is encouraging and helps them avoid the negative consequences of failure.
Thomas notes that in contrast to those with learned helplessness, mastery-oriented learners persist on difficult tasks by trying new strategies and sustaining themselves with positive "self-talk" in which they praise their own efforts and encourage themselves to continue trying.
They take responsibility for their learning and credit success to hard work, skill and ability, and they believe that with continued effort they will succeed in the future.
Research efforts have been made to identify teaching strategies that will discourage the negative reasoning which is at the core of learned helplessness.
Retraining students' interpretation of their abilities
In an intervention method called "reattribution training", students are taught a positive self-talk strategy and a more flexible, effective interpretation of their performance and ability.
The procedure used in reattribution training involves:
-Helping students become aware of the way they talk to themselves during difficult tasks.
-Discussing positive and negative attribution: explaining how positive thinking affects our self-esteem and helps us to try harder.
-Modeling (by teacher or peers) of positive attribution during games or puzzles.
(Thomas recommends that teachers avoid success-only tasks – mastery orientation requires ongoing encounters with challenges of moderate difficulty. Contrary to previous beliefs, the small-step, success-only approach to learning does not develop a mastery orientation.
-Practicing this strategy with academic tasks once the positive self-talk routine is familiar.
Importantly, teachers involved in these studies report that even primary students have no difficulty with the concepts of self-talk and attributions. Thomas cautions, however, that reattribution training is not a substitute for appropriate, individualized instruction. Rather, we should ask children to master only those tasks which match their current achievement level.
Thomas also cites research by Brophy et al. indicating that the comments made by teachers in presenting tasks can affect student expectations. Introductory remarks that relate tasks to the interests of the students or teacher, or that lead students to anticipate a pleasant experience in acquiring a skill, encourage a mastery orientation and increase student involvement in the task.
On the other hand, remarks that promise rewards or emphasize the task's importance in passing a test, for example, or that warn of failure, tend to orient students toward performance in a win-lose situation rather than directing their attention to what they are learning.
Thomas reports that research by Robert Slavin and others indicate that classroom organization practices also communicate different achievement expectations and information about students' ability.
Competitive classes contribute to fixed concepts of abilities
Competitive classes, which emphasize the "best" student work or which group students by ability, may be partly responsible for developing fixed concepts of intelligence and negative attributions for those not at the very top of the class.
On the other hand, cooperative learning, self-recording contracts and choice of activities all help students develop goal setting skills and encourage involvement with their learning. These methods help the students focus on task mastery.
The ability to learn needs to be understood not as an entity fixed at birth, but rather as something that is acquired incrementally through effort. Studies show that direct teaching through modeling of positive self-talk together with practice on challenging tasks is an effective way to develop a mastery orientation towards learning. However, this training must be carried out over a considerable period of time and the tasks used to challenge the students must be carefully selected to ensure that they are appropriate for the students' current skill level.
Teachers can also help students acquire a mastery-oriented perception of their ability by discussing their own motivational development – how they took responsibility for their learning without fear of failure.
Group discussion can be helpful in pointing out that success does not necessarily mean finishing first or being able to do things easily. Such discussions help students focus on accomplishments that are based on steady effort. Biographies, used to supplement content area studies, can serve as role models, helping students to understand that high ability or achievement is the result of dedicated persistence on a task.
"Ability and Achievement Expectations: Implications of Research for Classroom Practice" Childhood Education Summer 1989 pp. 235-241 and "Relationships between teachers presentation of classroom tasks and students engagement in those tasks" Journal of Educational Psychology August 1983 Volume 75 Number 4 pp. 544-552.
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Some call me: **** An intellectual-focused-hippy ****
Some quickies about me:
I'm super curious... I think life is a hilarious and beautiful journey. My motto is:
~~ If it doesn't hurt you, or anybody else, give it go!!
Some relevant & random history:
~ Did an undergrad in Engineering (I like numbers, but I've realised not Engineering ). ~ Tango Dancing for a few years now (I do just LOVE dancing - specially to Electro music). ~ I had a wonderful classical/modern guitar teacher for many years (I perform guitar today because of him :-).~ I became quite fluent in Spanish, because in Cuba, no one spoke English for 3 months. ~ Attended some fancy Biznez school in London ~ Showered in a communal bath/shower while working in Japan.
Very philosophical, very musical, overly caring (I'm told) and always thinking of how to change the world.... and myself !
2. I just came back from a one week - singing in a choir festival in Serbia. La La La La La
3. Working on a duo with a percussionist. Expanding from my solo guitar show www.nirhermelin.com.
4. Trying to pretend that I'm new here, and meeting loads of interesting people (cause i'm still new)
Laughing, cooking amazing Veg Curry! playing guitar. Playing the fool.
- I don't seem to take anything seriously (but I'm actually quite a serious guy)
"The human body is the best picture of the human soul." - Ludwig Wittgenstein
Glass bead game - Herman Hess ; The Little Prince
Guns, Germs & Steal; Surely you're joking Mr Feynman
Kafka on the shore
Jazz (The Real Thing, Sara Gazarek) , Classical (Mostly Debussy, Chopin) , Eletro (Dusty Kid, Danalog, Liquid Soul) , uplifting-trance (Broken Toy, Headroom)
2. My cooking spices (at least my whole cumin & mustard seeds)
3. Diversity & Intellectual stimulation
4. My friends (and family, though they're far away)
5. My Piaggio - I can be anywhere in 10minutes - its AWESOME!
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IntroThis is the second part of the tutorial Getting Started With PHP and MySQL in Windows with EasyPHP witch you can find see here. Make sure you see this first.
In this tutorial we will see:
- Running MySQL server with EasyPHP
- Configuring MySQL server
- Adding a user in MySQL
- Running queries MySQL command line interpreter
Goto Start - Programs - EasyPHP and Click on EasyPHP.exe. This will start the Apache webserver, PHP and MySQL automatically
Configuring MySQL server
This is a step you do only once every installation.
Goto Start - Run - and type "C:\Program Files\EasyPHP1-8\mysql\bin\mysqladmin.exe" -uroot password secret
where secret is you password and click Run
What this command does is set the root (administrator, the guy that can do anything in the system) to have the password "secret" in this case. Make sure you note is somewhere you might need it at a later time.
To test that this is ok, start the Command interpreter:
goto Start - Run and type
"C:\Program Files\EasyPHP1-8\mysql\bin\mysql.exe" -uroot -psecret
and click Run
You should see something like "Welcome to MySQL monitor. (....)
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Adding a user in MySQL
You have configured the root account, and know you are ready to start experimenting. But using the root account is not the safes way to play with you database. The coolest thing to do is add a user to every MySQL database and use that account so that you don't mess everything up when you make a mistake. The way to do this is:
- Start the MySQL Command Interpreter with your root account: Start - Run -
"C:\Program Files\EasyPHP1-8\mysql\bin\mysql.exe" -uroot -psecret
- Create a database: Just type "create database database_name" where database_name is the name you want. For now we will just name it "people". So you type "create database people"
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- To login with this user and password Start - Run -
"C:\Program Files\EasyPHP1-8\mysql\bin\mysql.exe" -uuser -ppass
Running queries and SQL commands in MySQL command line interpreter
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use people
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CREATE TABLE example (
id INT,
name VARCHAR(100),
address VARCHAR(100)
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Now Type:
SELECT * FROM example;
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"Empty Set" Respones. You can imaging what that is
Ok lets put some entries in there. The command for this is:
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We'll look at the Common Core education standards, currently adopted by 45 states and most U.S. territories, to point out ways we as authors and illustrators can make our books as relevant and useful as possible for classroom teachers.
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Whenever we have a free Saturday morning chapter meeting, we set aside time for open critique groups during the second hour (11 am - 12 pm). To participate, bring up to 5 pages of critique-ready work (4 copies) to share. In accordance with SCBWI critique guidelines, another critiquer should read your pages aloud, giving you the opportunity to listen to your prose or verse in action — a great test of readability. Bring fiction, nonfiction, illustration, poetry, synopses, query letters, or any other children's literature work you'd like to get feedback on.
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-I know 4-0 might not look like a great scoreline, but Pirates' goalkeeper Lauren Gallagher had a very solid game, making 11 saves in a little over a half of work. Emma Burnett, who came in in relief in the second half, also had a solid showing, making five saves. Of the four goals scored by the Bobcats, I'd be hard pressed to find any keeper in the section that could have saved three of them.
Game footage shot by Journal News' photographer Seth Harrison.
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