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Traveling anywhere this spring? Well if you are there is lots you need to know. And if you are like me and haven’t been out of the country for awhile - then make sure you listen in today to learn what you need to know as you get ready to board that plane. I am going to the Middle East and boy is it different getting passports and packing now than it was 10 years ago. But help is here! The Lonely Planet is a company that produces millions of travel guide books that are brilliant! What great books for anyone traveling  - they are wonderful and today I will talk with Brice Gosnell from Lonely Planet www.lonelyplanet.com and he will give us traveling tips and hints for what we need to know now as we travel abroad.

And it is Restaurant Week here in the Hudson Valley so miss out on all it has to offer. Listen in later in the hour as we talk with Janet Crawshaw the Publisher of The Valley Table. You can also go to www.hudsonvalleyrestaurantweek.com to get more information or www.valleytable.com and enjoy great dining experiences right here in your own backyard! 

 

School Violence. We hear so much about it and unfortunately see too much of it. What can we really do to prevent it? Why is this happening and how can we stop it before it happens?

We can help by not giving the shooter the fame they seek. Every time we mention the name of the shooter he is getting the attention he so desperately wants by doing these horrendous and highly visable displays of violence. Let’s Stop giving fame to school shooters!

Dr. Seifert(www.drkathyseifert.com) who is a psychotherapist and author of How Children Become Violent: Keeping Your Kids out of Gangs, Terrorist Organizations and Cults agrees with this and points out to us that this only produces copy-cat versions of more. We most stop giving them fame and attention if we want to stop this from continuing.

Dr. Kathy Seifert has been on with me before and she is amazingly helpful in explaining why so many young kids resort to violence, gangs or terrorism and what we need to know about this so we, as a society, can prevent it in the future. This is a topic that effects us all. It comes from video games because as our society mirrors what we see. We need to be armed with knowledge as we teach our children and ourselves to make good choices ~