I had never seen so many people at Guild Hall. We knew there was a need.

It means any kind of spark or people throwing cigarettes can turn into brush fires, like the ones we've been getting over the last two, two-and-a-half weeks.

People will still come to the theme parks, and, in Florida, we have the Keys. I get requests for the Keys all the time. But what I get a lot of is outside-of-Florida destinations, like Las Vegas and New York City.

The bottom line is people say they hate commercials, but in reality they go to the movies they want to see no matter what.

Pergamon, a prosperous city in western Anatolia, was fabled to have been founded by Hercules' son. Like many Hellenistic cities populated by Greeks who intermarried with indigenous people, Pergamon after Alexander the Great's death (323 B.C.) had evolved a hybrid of democracy and Persian-influenced monarchy.

A friend of mine works for Autism Speaks. It's an amazing cause that is making a real difference in the lives of so many people.