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Very nice evening across Tennessee tonight.  Look at temperatures across the Volunteer State at 9 pm, we see middle 70's near Nashville down to the upper 60's in the rural areas.  Here in Cookeville in the higher elevations, we should go down to the middle 50's by daybreak.

Yep. The latest stats are out and the Gross Domestic Product grew by 1.9% over the last quarter, which was a few percentage points less than the economists expected. They’d forecast a 2.3% increase. They attributed the growth to the stimulus package - that $1,200 per couple tax rebate thing.

I had never heard Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley until I was rendered motionless when Jason Castro sang it on American Idol.

It has quickly become a song that makes me close my eyes at the first note, while the music flows over me.  Sometimes when I open my eyes, I find tears.  At other times my heart just soars.  But every time it rejuvenates my soul.

The most recent issue of Fast Company celebrates Google as the world's most innovative company.

The following headline says it all: "Booming Hong Kong cuts taxes as surplus soars."