galileo wrote this book, one of the early scientific books in 1610, published in the ns and he calledthe siderevs. galileo didn't invent the telescope but he was clever enough to make one himself in the end of looking at the stars and planets. among the things he saw were the moon or the moon's that circled jupiter as he describes here and decided to name the medici in stars after the family of tuscany, cosmo medici was the grand duke and his name is given here on the dedication. and it was a method of gaining favor of political favor and patronage, he calls the stars the medici stars as he describes in the observations. among the things he saw or observations of the moon. so these were engravings based on gallegos's original drawings that he made after he looked at the telescope for the first time. he did this in 1609 commesso next year and 2009 we will be celebrating an anniversary of the publication or observations of giglio and use of the telescope for astronomical purposes. galileo was and of course the only one to look at the marin. he may have been the first one to use a telesc

president, i'm going to put into the record, if i might -- i ask unanimous consent to place in the record the fundin funding ns by program -- the funding notifications by program for my state of california. the presiding officer: without objection. mrs. boxer: if you go through here, madam president, you will see in this largest state of the union that is suffering with an 11.2% unemployment rate, projects that are putting people to work today and doing good things. a medical assistance program, a clean water state revolving fund grant, state energy programs, putting people to work, weatherizing for low-income, working with the youth -- it goes on and on -- safe drinking water grants and law enforcement grants, educational technology grants, adoption assistance grants, foster care grants. why is my colleague not coming down here and saying, you know, i did find less than 1% of a problem but these other things are good? and these other things are putting people to work and these other things are saving our children, saving our environment, saving energy? you know, it's the party of "no." no, no, 1,000 times no.

as we mentioned last night, in times in his career, he's forgotten he's a fast line drive hitter and tried to hit ns. >> rob: he'sgot to put it in his head, he's still so talented, that he's a slasher. >> bob: he's got time in his career. he's 29 years old. >> rob: absolutely. just got to be able to make contact on the ground and run. >> bob: he was running at syracuse .302 6 home in 29 games. that indicates he can hit line iv

in shape. just hot and humid, maybe ns hot as it's going to get, but the humidity is way, way up. >> gary: and he'll try to work through the 6th inning with ryan church who grounded tout twice coming up. there's the pitch count. second time up to the 18 mark. he has the 7 strikeouts and just one walk in the ballgame. jason berken with the game on the line, trying to get his second win of the season. and the mets threatening here as ryan church stands in. >> jim: he's a little away frm his changeup. [ indiscernible ] if you throw it, boy, is it great when you're getting it over. >> gary: church is 3 for 9 in this series at second base, beltran, sheffield out at first. 0-1 delivery. that will miss outside and a 1 count. the bullpen will be activity now, and the way berken seemso be struggling a bit for the first time, this will probably be it for him, if he can get through it, and it for him ife can't. 1-1 count. right field, that is a fair ball. markakis will get it into the cutoff man to hold sheffield. goes by everybody. backed up though and

over all selection for the nats and you kind of dream about the future of zimmerman with two ns and strasbourg in the same lineup. >> you dream about it and then you see the possibility of reality. you know what makes it so exciting for me to the come to the ball park, even though we have lost our majority of ball games of late, is to see the young pitching and see how they are developing. and for me as a fan and an evaluate or and as a man that loves the game of baseball i know that everything starts with pitching. and i have seen and been so excited more than any year that i have been here with what this young staff has done we may not have put up a lot of wins but we're throwing a lot of strikes and showing movement and a lot more poise than i even expected them to have. >> you look at the probable pitchers coming in to this lineup with the reds, you thought it would be jordan zimmerman, they say fatigue and a sore elbow, they are going to shut him down and get him ready for the next matchup. >> that sometimes happens when you go all out after maximum effort and i think that is exactly what ha

three-dimensional creatures like yourself with a heart, mind, spirit, aspiratio ns, goals taken into account. that is not easily done in a system that reduces kids to deficits and thrives of a toxic cabot of labeling. they are 80 h. d., adjusted endless swarm of labels but that does not get the part of the one and only. your job is to look through that confetti and see the actual human being before you. challenge number one. challenge number two, led to create an environment that is the deep enough and rich enough and wide enough so every child can find something familiar and stretch toward it. it is huge it is under taught in education and ignored often. if you go into a room and i do all the time were they desperately want the kids to read a book the room at is still littered with no books or magazines or words or time to write you run the environment against your goals for relentless as a young teacher 20 years old use to take my kids to the detroit metropolitan airport and would have nothing in mind but watch the planes take off. we would get there before securities and before the airport turned into a mall. their

in any way? panama we do report on iran. we have done work on the limited access oft ns we do quite a bit of reporting on that. i welcome you to look at our web page. >> i like to close within up be questioned. when investigating human rights violations, have you ever observed humanitarian acts by the parties involved? >> yes, absolutely. i was in iraq, standing in a hospital. we had gone in because we had information that there were some iraqis that had been injured by air strikes in the war in 2003. i must have been there in june of 2003. we are standing there with the head of the hospital, just at