LAST night after her uncontested "victory" in Florida, Hillary Clinton was introduced by... Alcee Hastings, removed from by the Senate in 1998 after impeachment from* in the House, under a heavy cloud of suspicion of bribery when he was a federal judge. (A bit of the colourful background here.) Bill Clinton pardoned Mr Hastings' alleged co-conspirator on his last day in office.

First Alert Weather Center continues tracking high winds

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The First Alert Weather Center has declared that the threat of severe storms is over for the First Coast. Due to the heavy rainfall, some ponding of water and minor flooding could persist into Saturday. Strong and gusty winds will overspread the area Saturday with sustained winds of 15-30 mph and gusts up to and in excess of 40 mph. Stay with CBS47 and FOX30's First Alert Weather Center for the very latest.

The Demise of Hyphy

In 1967, after 60 years of samba, a decade of bossa nova, and 36 months of military dictatorship, Brazilian pop culture erupted with its first burst of psychedelic rock 'n' roll. A key event came when young singer Caetano Veloso performed an electric set at one of the country's most prestigious songwriting competitions. As heard on his new rarities collection, Singles, Veloso got booed off the stage just as Bob Dylan had been at the '65 Newport Folk Festival. The angry crowd had come to hear thoughtful poetry and subtle bossa nova rhythms, not that rock 'n' roll crap from North America. Backing Veloso onstage was a band of teenage freaks known as Os Mutantes, who soon became the house band for the new style known as "tropicalia." .

Nation's Largest Solar PV System Takes Flight at Nellis Air Force Base

(CSRwire) LAS VEGAS, Dec. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Today the U.S. Air Force celebrates the completion of North America's largest solar photovoltaic system at Nellis Air Force Base. A joint project of the U.S. Air Force, MMA Renewable Ventures, LLC, a subsidiary of Municipal Mortgage & Equity, LLC (NYSE: MMA), SunPower Corporation (Nasdaq: SPWR), and Nevada Power Company, the 14 megawatt Nellis solar energy system will generate more than 30 million kilowatt-hours (kWh) of clean electricity annually and supply approximately 25 percent of the total power used at the base, where 12,000 people live and work. Combining technology and systems expertise from SunPower Corporation and financing by MMA Renewable Ventures with discounted purchase commitments by the U.S. Air Force, the innovative Nellis solar energy system demonstrates that the U.S.

NORM: LV notables also get test notices

A number of high-profile locals, who had medical procedures done at the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada, have also been contacted, according to sources in the medical community.

AAAS: State of the Art in Nuclear Physics-Theory

The final symposium I attended on Sunday before heading to the airport was a real brain bender. Titled "Nuclear physics: New answers, new questions about the visible universe." The talks spanned both theoretical and experimental aspects of the field—this article will focus on the theoretical lectures, a second article will cover the experimental discussions. The first speaker, Dr. Don Geesaman, eloquently stated the goals of the field: "the mission in nuclear physics is to understand the origin, evolution, and structure of baryonic matter in the universe—the matter that makes up stars, planets, and human life itself."

All of the talks, both experimental and theoretical focused on hadrons, their substituent quarks, and the forces that hold them together. Hadrons are strongly interacting subatomic particles that are composed of quarks.

Developers licking their fingers over Cocoa Touch iPhone SDK

At a special press event today in Cupertino, Apple revealed details of the official—and long-awaited—iPhone SDK. Building on the foundation of OS X and marrying it with a multitouch specific UI layer, Apple is calling the collection of APIs "Cocoa Touch." Included in the SDK are updates to Interface Builder and Xcode to enable development with the new APIs, as well as an iPhone simulator to test development from your Mac before debugging on the iPhone itself. In addition, debugging and profiling tools work from a Mac-connected iPhone.

The SDK includes everything you'd expect from an Apple environment, including the UNIX-based internals of OS X. In addition, developers will have access to Keychain, Bonjour, SQLite and Core Location as well as a mature, Quicktime-based media layer including video playback, Core Audio, Core Image, Core Animation, PDF rendering, OpenAL, and OpenGL ES.

Film Database

Severely wounded in combat, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg returns from Africa to join the German Resistance and help create Operation Valkyrie, the complex plan that will allow a shadow government to replace Hitler's once he is dead. But fate and circumstance conspire to thrust Stauffenberg from one of many in the plot to a double-edged central role. Not only must he lead the coup and seize control of his nation's government... He must kill Hitler himself.

Trailer (11.8.07): QuickTime/Flash Player, Various Featurette (11.6.07): QuickTime, High Definition QuickTime, Various iPod Video

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How Internet Explorer became as wonky as the Leaning Tower of Pisa

It thought it had done this with IE7, released in 2006. But no. On Microsoft's own blogs, Chris Wilson, the IE platform architect who has been on that team for more than a decade, noted the team's surprise at how things didn't get better with IE7:

"In IE7 we made a lot more changes to improve IE's standards compliance, particularly with CSS. We limited these behavior changes to IE's "standards mode" only, and we expected that this would help limit compatibility problems as it had in the past. Unfortunately, and somewhat surprisingly to us, this wasn't true; many of those changes made IE incompatible with content that was already part of the web. It turned out by the time IE7 shipped in late 2006, roughly half of the top 200 US web sites were in "standards mode". Many of those sites had been "opted in" to standards mode by a tool that generated their content; many of them had probably been hand-coded by someone who was trying to do the right thing, and make their HTML code valid according to the W3C [World Wide Web Consortium].