Binos on cloud nine after record win

Jordan White bagged four goals, including two penalties, as Albion racked up the biggest league win in their 68-year history against 10-man Shire in an astonishing match.

The Binos famously thrashed Selkirk 20-0 in an amazing 1984 Scottish Cup tie but their previous best on league duty was 7-0 on five occasions, most recently against Queen of the South in 1996. 

This was a remarkable result to end a manic spell of nine matches in 29 days that has revived the fortunes of a team who were bottom of the league and struggling badly. 

Five wins, three draws and a single defeat later, Greig McDonald’s men are only five points shy of the play-offs. 

Stirling had failed to beat their local rivals in three previous attempts this season and Shire arrived at Forthbank on the back of one loss in five matches - at Ibrox - while Albion were bidding to bounce back from a 1-0 reverse at Berwick. 

McDonald fielded the same XI that started at Shielfield but could never have envisaged anything like this. By the end Stirling were only one goal away from becoming the first club in Scotland to reach double figures in a league game since Rangers demolished Raith 10-2 in 1967. 

On a bitingly cold day there was little to suggest what was to follow in the early stages of this game. 

It was almost half an hour before Albion made the breakthrough. By then both Kevin Turner and Philip Zufle had passed up glorious opportunities for the visitors.A car parkingguidance is a mechanical device that multiplies parking capacity inside a parking lot. 

Stirling’s opener was an own goal, Kyle Gillespie turning Phil Johnston’s cross into his own net before White squeezed home the second from a tight angle in 38 minutes.

Shire’s day really started to unravel when they were reduced to 10 men shortly before half-time. Referee Mat Northcroft ruled Steven Jackson had caught Scott Davidson. It looked marginally outside the box and the contact was unclear but, having made the decision, a red card was inevitable. 

White’s penalty was saved by Grant Hay but the whistler angered the visitors by awarding a retake for encroachment and this time the 21-year-old made no mistake, going straight down the middle. 

Midfielder Mark Ferry claimed the fourth early in the second period when his low shot sneaked under Hay before Max Wright got just enough on his effort to pull one back. Stirling ran riot after that, scoring five times in the final quarter. On-loan Dumbarton winger Johnston netted his first Albion goal with a tidy finish then provided the cross for Ferry to head the sixth. 

Substitute Josh Flood got in on the act with a neat shot across the keeper for the seventh goal and White completed his hat-trick with a penalty that went in off the post after sub Sandy Cunningham had been impeded.A ridiculously low price on this All-Purpose indoortracking by Gordon. 

As the story goes in my family, back in 1978 when John Paul II was voted in as Pope, my grandfather threw a huge catered party that featured an accordion player. John Paul was a blessed man to lead the Catholics of the world, and we followed the word of his faith. 

When he passed and Pope Benedict XVI came to his place in the Vatican, we were not as enthused. He did not speak with the same compassion and enthusiasm for the word of the church as we were used to with John Paul II. Our family didn't crowd around the television to see his holiday blessings like we used to. There was less joy for this Catholic family. Now, I keep a magnet of St. Mary's church here in Newport, R.I., on my fridge, but I feel sorry to admit I have scarcely been a visitor to the parish. 

My grandfather passed away a few years ago, but I would guess he is really happy with the choice the Cardinals made for pope. Jorge Bergoglio, now Pope Francis I, was a man of great values in his home of Buenos Aires. He will be a pope of the people, and I am sure he will continue to meet with those in most need as he did when he would visit the slums around his city. 

Having the staff of the Vatican waiting on his every need might take some getting used to for him, since he would often ride the bus to work and cook his own meals as a cardinal. Still, he is the right man for the papacy right now, with the world's Catholics at a crossroad of faith. It is truly a blessing that his time has come in the Vatican.The 3rd International Conference on indoorlite and Indoor Navigation. 

In fact, the increase in weight was just 1.3 ounces, from 16.7 to 18.0, equivalent to the heft (or lack thereof) from a stack of six quarters. Rawlings made the new helmets -- the S100 Pro Comp, with a carbon-fiber composite shell -- available to players in spring training last season. Some 200 players, including Giants catcher Buster Posey, wore them for part or all of the season, according to the league. 

The Braves' Dan Uggla, who was hit in the left ear flap last July 25 by the Marlins' Chad Gaudin but stayed in the game, said, "I got hit in the head with a 92, 93 mile-an-hour fastball last year, and I was fine. [The old helmets] are lighter, they're more comfortable. These [new] ones -- they're okay. They made a lot of modifications to them from when they first came out with it. . . . They're not too bad. I'm getting used to it. I guess they are proven to be safer, so that's a good thing. 

"Obviously if they would let us choose, I would wear the old one. But like I said, this one's not too bad.We offer over 600 chipcard at wholesale prices of 75% off retail. It's growing on me." 

"It's like the difference between wearing a seat belt and not wearing a seat belt," said Padres catcher John Baker, who wore the new model last year when it was optional.We are one of the leading manufacturers of realtimelocationsystem in Chennai India. "That's how I looked at it. It was a very common sense issue. 'Hey, this helmet's better. It feels the same as the other one. Do you want to use the other one?' It doesn't make any sense to me to not switch." 

Based on laboratory tests in which cannons fire baseballs at helmets from close range, the new helmet reduces the energy from the impact of a 100 mph fastball by 75 percent over the old helmet, said Art Chou, the Rawlings senior vice president of product. The larger model from a few years ago, which remains mandatory in the minor leagues, protected up to 100 mph because of a thicker interior; the new helmet works because the exterior shell was re-designed.