Peter Raaymakers and Mark Parisi from the Silver Seven Sens blog talk about the Ottawa Senator's week the game tonight in this WHRW News exclusive podcast.

Peter Raaymakers and Mark Parisi from the Silver Seven Sens blog talk about the Ottawa Senator's week and their future in this WHRW News exclusive podcast.

As a lover of both traditional books, and cutting-edge technology, I have so far looked upon the emergent eBook readers with skepticism. And it seems I'm not the only one: it has taken some time for readers to pass into the public eye and, even then, the high price of e-paper displays means that traditional publishing won't be throwing in the towel just yet.  For the most part, manufacturers of eBook readers have seemed content to cater to a small market while the necessary technology improved, but Amazon seems bent on upsetting that with the Kindle.  Upon its release, the Amazon Kindle was a well-publicized sensation, selling out the first run in mere hours. In light of that,Amazon continued to develop the Kindle, culminating in the Kindle DX, which I had the pleasure of
reviewing.

Savages and Scoundrels: The Untold Story of America's Road to Empire Through Indian Territory by Paul VanDevelder is, ultimately, a very sad book. Not just for the content of the book, devoted mainly to broken treaty, genocide, forced relocation and all the other ills that American Indians have suffered through the centuries, but also because it's the perfect example of a good writer trying for too much and accomplishing nothing as a result.

In the book VanDevelder tells the story of... just about everything. In 243 pages he touches on, amongst other things, the forced relocation of the Mandan tribes in 1951, the legal history of the rights and responsibilities of the U.S. Federal government towards Native Americans, the history of the Supreme Court's attitude towards native Americans, the nature and development of Manifest Destiny, the history and meaning of the Louisiana Purchase, and, with particular emphasis, the negotiation of the Treaty of Fort Laramie between the U.S. Government and the Native American tribes.

In a recent discovery by WHRW News Director Robert Glass, it has been revealed that Binghamton University has risked personal information of faculty who were in its employ. In a dumpster in a public location in the Binghamton University library, folders containing names and social security numbers of professors from the Romance Languages department from the 1970s and 80s were discarded without shredding or any form of redaction on April the 28th. The documents, discovered when Glass was walking by the dumpster in question on his way to the library, were found on top of the dumpster clearly visible to passers-bye and needed no searching to be found.

The documents discovered were gathered and turned over to the University Police Department within thirty minutes of their discovery, who promptly secured the dumpster and searched it for more documents containing personal information.

It was student night at NYSEG stadium on Tuesday as 1,200 Binghamton University undergrads filled NYSEG stadium to watch the Binghamton Mets host the New York Yankee-affiliate Trenton thunder. As a nod to the students, Student Association president Matt Landau threw out the ceremonial first pitch of the game (though, with poor aim.)

In a contest shortened to only six and a half innings by rain, the Mets defeated the Thunder, the double A affiliate of the New York Yankees, by a score of 8-5. The Mets’ offense stayed largely dormant until the bottom of the 4th, when Trenton starter Eric Hacker was lit up for 7 runs, in an inning which included two errors and two walks issued by the Thunder. Hacker also delayed the inning for over a quarter of an hour with complaints to the umpires and ground staff about the quality of the pitching mound.

The Binghamton Mets game against the Trenton Thunder on April the 20th, 2009 has been postponed due to inclement weather. The game will be played in a double header on May 16th, 2009 at 5:05 PM.

For more information on the Binghamton Mets you can visit their website located at http://www.bmets.com/ .

John Lukacs has been one of America's best historians since he fled to the United States from Hungary in 1945, and has been one of the most prolific writers in the field of American history. While his books cover a wide range of subjects and topics, from the Cold War to Churchill's speeches in Parliament to much more, his most touching and moving book, until now, was Confessions of an Original Sinner, an autobiographical discussion of his historical convictions and beliefs. Now Lukacs has written a follow up to that book, Last Rites, which examines his historical mindset, the mindsets of the world around him, his life, his old age (Lukacs is an octogenarian,) and much more.

The Binghamton Mets won a close game today 4-2 against the Boston Red Sox affiliate Portland Sea Dogs on the strength of well-timed run production and a good deal of fine pitching at NYSEG Stadium. Portland starter Junichi Tazawa, though a highly-touted prospect in the Red Sox organization, looked shaky in the early innings, working out of trouble capably enough to allow only two earned runs in his four and a third innings of work. Binghamton's Ryan Coultas, on the other hand, pitched almost impeccably, throwing a no-hitter into the fifth inning, before allowing two runs on a pair of singles and being pulled for Adam Bostick, first in a series of Binghamton relievers who would keep Portland scoreless for the rest of the game.

Binghamton's two most dramatic runs came on solo home runs off the bats of first baseman Lucas Duda, in the sixth, and, two innings later, by third baseman Shawn Bowman, who also impressed defensively with a memorable diving stop of a line drive in the sixth. Catcher Josh Thole, going 0-4, broke his six-game hitting streak, but nonetheless contributed by driving in second baseman Matt Bouchard on a sacrifice fly to center field in the fifth inning.