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Listen to the band Scott Brown & The Diplomats on Friday, April 8, at 8 p.m. at Blue Ocean Music Hall, 4 Oceanfront North, Salisbury. Tickets range from $15 to $105.

The Salisbury Parks and Recreation Commissions egg hunt will take place at Salisbury Elementary School, 100 Lafayette Road, beginning at 9:45 a.m. on Saturday, April 9. Children ages 2 through 5 will begin their egg hunt at 9:45 a.m., while kids ages 6 through 8 will begin hunting at 10:15 a.m. Admission is free. Bring your own basket.

Saturday, April 9, is Kite Day at Essexs Cogswell Grant. If youve ever wanted to do this and havent yet, members of Kites Over New England will inspire you. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., bring a kite to fly or learn how to make one. Free for kite flyers and spectators. $10 for kite-making workshop. Cogswells Grant is at 60 Spring St., Essex. Call 978-768-3632 with questions.

A walking tour of Plum Island Point, organized by Plum Island Outdoors and led by Bill Sargent, takes place Sunday, April 10, at 10 a.m. The 60-minute tours are from Newburyports Plum Island Beach to the south jetty and back, rain or shine. Parking available in the lot. Cost is $10 payable at the walk. More details: https://plumislandoutdoors.org/event/walking-tour-of-plum-island-point-plum-island-beach-13/.

On Sunday, April 10, there will be a princess tea party from 10 a.m. to noon in the cafeteria of Amesbury High School. Admission is $5 for adults, $10 for children.

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Boston is a great city to explore with the family!

Boston is a fantastic all-around trip destination. It is a city that is rich in American History, nature and additional attractions. Boston has kosher food and minyan.We visited for a two-day trip one fall and managed to do a lot in Boston. It is a great overnight Chol Hamoed destination and not extremely far from many of the Jewish communities in the Tri-state area.If you prefer not to drive over there is always the option of taking an Amtrak Train.

Approximate Distance fromBrooklyn Bridge: 3 hours, 20 minutesApproximate Distance from Lakewood: 4 hours, 20 minutesApproximate Distance from Monsey: 3 hours, 10 minutes

Riding a bus into the water (you heard me correctly. The bus is driven into the water) is an experience hard to forget.The idea of Duck boats was actually conceived during WWII. They were used by the military as a convenient mode of transport with no need to dock. Now the Ducks are used as a fun way to explore and get to know the city of Boston.

The tours leave from three popular tourist sites; the Science Museum, The Prudential Center and the New England Aquarium. There are also discounts available for those attractions bought in conjunction with the Duck Tour tickets. Parking is also at a reduced rate for Duck Tour Visitors.

The conDucktors narrate the 80 minute tour, 60 minutes on land and 20 minutes of riding the beautiful Charles River. During the ride the conDucktor explains about the three fs you will encounter. The city represents Freedom, it is the city of Firsts, and of course a Fun place to be. Some of the famous landmarks seen on the tour are thegolden-domed State House, Bunker Hill Monument, Boston Common, Copley Square, the Big Dig, Boston Public Library, The Prudential Tower and of course the magnificent Boston and Cambridge Skyline seen from the Charles River.

When we were on the tour our funny and engaging tour guide taught us about the Boston history, the wicked way of talking in Boston, and even allowed us to take turns steering the Duck on the River.The Duck Tour is the absolute best way to see Boston and get a real feeling for the history while having fun at the same time.

Address:Either outside the:Prudential Center,Science Museum orNew England AquariumPhone Number:(617) 267-3825Tour Length:80 minutesPrice: Check online for the current pricing and hoursWebsite:bostonducktours.com

The Skywalk Observatory in Boston is located on the 50thfloor of the Prudential Shopping Center in Boston.

I hadnt expected the Observatory to be all that interesting, but I was pleasantly surprised.

Since Boston is a beautiful city with the Charles River running alongside it and mountains completing the pretty picture from afar, the Skywalk Observatory, with its 360 degree views of Boston, was actually very enjoyable.

In addition to Audio guides available for visitors to listen to in a variety of languages with explanations of the view, history and culture of Boston, there are interactive displays and informative displays with information relating to the fascinating history and culture in Boston.

Address:800 Boylston St,Boston, MA 02199Phone Number: (617) 859-0648Hours:Mon Sat 11am 7pm andSun 12pm 6pmPrice:Adult Admission: $21.00Student (with ID) $17.00Children(Ages 3 thru 12):$15.00Children (Ages 3 and under): FreeSenior Admission (62 and above): $17.00Website:prudentialcenter.com

The 50-acre Boston Common is the oldest park in America, dating back to 1634. Thepentagon-shaped parkborders onTremont, Park, Beacon, Charles, and Boylston Streets. The Common has witnessed many events of history and protests throughout the years. The historic 2.5-mile Freedom Trail with many historic sites along the way starts from the Common.

In addition to the large grassy fields found on the Common there are tennis courts, an exciting Tadpole Playground, a carousel, and the Frog Pond in which children can splash in the spray pool. In the winter the Frog Pond becomes a skating rink. Originally, there were three ponds in the common. The Frog Pond is the only one left.

The Common is located just across the street from the more formal Boston Public Gardens and can be enjoyed at the same time.

Address:139 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02108Hours:6:30am 11:00pmPrice:FreeWebsite:friendsofthepublicgarden.org

The Boston Public Garden is a formal garden located across the street from the Boston Common. The garden is beautifully kept by caring citizens through the Friends of the Public Garden Association.The garden is the first public botanical garden in America dating back to 1838. The garden is masterfully designed with trees planted from countries all around the world. The trees have name tags and relevant information hanging from them.

There is a majestic statue of George Washington on a horse at the Arlington Street entrance. TheDuckling Sculptureat the corner of Beacon and Charles is extremely popular.

The statue is based on Robert McCloskeys 1941 bestsellerMake Way for Ducklings, the bronze figures represent Mrs. Mallard and her eight ducklings.

From early April to late September the original Swan boats are open for visitors to enjoy. The Swan boats were first designed in 1877 and have been gliding along the lagoon ever since.

The boat moves along at two miles an hour, circles the island and goes under the bridge. A trip on the Swan Boat adds excitement to a visit to the beautiful garden.

Address:4 Charles Street,Boston, MA 02116Garden Hours:6:30am 11:00pmPrice:Garden: FreeSwan Boats:Check online for hours and pricesWebsite:friendsofthepublicgarden.org

Before we entered the Tea Party Ship and Museum I told my husband, I really dont want to spend much time here. Max a half hour. Lets look around quickly and then continue on. Dont read everything

I was really taken by surprise when we began the tour. The guides were all dressed in clothing from the period prior to the Revolution and reenacted the meetings and the actual throwing of the tea into the sea.

Everything was presented so interestingly; you wouldnt know you were learning history.Each visitor on the tour was given an identity of one of the men who took part in the Boston Tea Party with some personal details about him.

After meeting to discuss the major tax issues, we headed out to the ship

to dump the tea from the authentically restored ship into the sea.

The tour then continued on to the museum (no photos allowed in the museum) where you can view the only surviving tea chest from the Boston Tea Party, a 3D holographic exhibit and an award winning multi-sensory film that takes you through time until we became our own independent country.

Address:306 Congress St,Boston, MA 02210Phone Number:(866) 955-0667Hours:Thursday MondayTours start 10am 5pm (closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays)Price at the Door:Adult: $31.95Children (Ages 5 thru 12):$23.95Website:bostonteapartyship.com

The Harbor Walk starts at the Atlantic Wharf across the street from the Tea Party Ship and Museum and continues alongside the beautiful harbor. The walkway passes through the Rowes Wharf, the New England Aquarium, Christopher Columbus Park, Sergeants Wharf and ends all the way by Battery Wharf.

When we visited Boston, we stayed right by the Harbor. We walked along the Harbor Walk at night enjoying the fresh air and the sights of the docked boats and the twinkling lights of the building.During the day there are a lot of activities in the area. There is the Tea Party Ship and Museum, there are inexpensive Hubway bike rentals, where bikes can be picked up and dropped off in various stations all over the city. There are also ferries and water taxis, parks as well as the New England Aquarium along the Harbor walk. It is definitely a busy and beautiful area to visit.

Address:280 Congress St, Boston, MA 02210Price:FreeWebsite:summeronthewaterfront.org

After strolling along the Harborwalk at night, we crossed over the Christopher Columbus Park to the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway, a series of parks which led back down to our destination on Atlantic Avenue. We entered the Greenway right near the Greenway Carousel.

We continued to the beautiful Ring Fountain and then through Mothers Walk.

Harbor Fog Fountain area with its foggy fountain caught us by surprise as we were sprayed with mist as we passed. We exited the Greenway by the Fort Point Channel Park although the Greenway continues to the Dewey Square Park and then to the China Town Park.

I was amazed at how each section of the park has its own original character and is extremely well maintained. I kept thinking that the parks would end, but it continued to lead to more and more areas.

Address:Mostly on Atlantic Avenue parallel with the HarborwalkHours:The park is open from7am 11pm every dayPrice:FreeWebsite:rosekennedygreenway.org

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Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) said he is glad he is leaving Congress at the end of this year rather than running for reelection, pointing to Republican colleagues who criticize Disney but have shown Putin sympathy and calling them children.

Im glad Im leaving here in a year because Im just being surrounded by a bunch of children, Kinzinger, 44, said in avideoposted to Twitter on Tuesday. I hope my party can finally remember where our foundations are and actually say that were not going to be Putin-sympathetic anymore. Wishful thinking.

Kinzinger posted the video shortly after Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) announced his retirement on Tuesday. Kinzinger and Upton were two of 10 Republican members who voted to impeach former President Trump following the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

The latest outrage of the day is some woke thing on Disney or whatever it is, you know. Dr. Seuss weve moved on from, Kinzinger said. The world order is being challenged for the first time since World War II, and theyre sitting around thinking today about how we can win our next election, what the newest outrage is, whats the next thing we can do to get people angry and upset and get their money from them for their election.

A number of Republicans criticized Disney after the company announced opposition to Floridas Parental Rights in Education bill, known as the Dont Say Gay bill by critics, that was signed into law last week.

Kinzinger, who is in the Air National Guard, also bashed House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) for not saying or doing more about GOP members who have shown Putin sympathy.

Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) last month called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a thug, which McCarthy said was wrong. Kinzinger also mentioned Fox News host Tucker Carlson, whom Kinzinger has repeatedly criticized on Twitter for his characterization of Russias invasion of Ukraine.

Kinzinger, who was first elected to Congress in the 2010 Tea Party wave, has been largely shunned by his party and Republican colleagues. He continued his vocal criticism of Trump and Trumps supporters in the party after his impeachment vote and accepted an appointment from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to sit on the select committee formed to investigate the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

Kinzinger opted to retire from Congress at the end of his term rather than seek reelection. Redistricting in Illinois combined his Chicago exurbs district with that of another Republican member.

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Summary

Its too early to conclude whether this series has story value, but its certainly an intriguing start.

This recap of Netflix K-Drama series Green Mothers Club season 1, episode 1, contains spoilers.

With Thirty-Nine coming to an end last week, Netflix has replaced the Wednesday/Thursday K-Drama slot with Green Mothers Club. So far, the Netflix series shows a dysfunctional group of mothers with disparate interests. Will it remain as intriguing as the premiere? Lets hope so. Im still not entirely sure what to think of the story yet. Lets recap the premiere.

Episode 1 opens up with Lee Eun-pyo delivering a lecture about Aesthetics at a university. Suddenly, she becomes irritated by a woman in the lecture room (we later learn this woman is an old friend). The room empties, and Lee Eun-pyo has a confrontation with this woman and smashes her at the back of her head. Was this a dream? A manifestation? A hallucination? At this stage, we have no idea.

Episode 1 moves to the present, showing each mother starting the day with their children before carrying out their duties for the Green Mothers Club. Meanwhile, Lee Eun-pyo is in transition, moving home. Her moving van nearly hits a student, which is not a grand entrance as she embarks on a new community. Her day becomes weirder when shes left a note in her new apartment; theres plenty of advice in the note, but theres a warning too shes told to avoid Kim Yu-bins mother, Chun-hui. However, Eun-pyo appears uninterested, and she speaks to her mother about the professors role at the university. She does not feel confident about getting it.

Maybe Lee Eun-pyo should have taken that warning seriously because shes soon in the presence of Chun-hui at the bakery. Chun-hui is berating the baker about the quality of her products. The baker asks Eun-pyo to taste one of her foods to prove a point. The new neighbor tastes it and states it is fine, provoking Chun-hui to give her a side glare. Moments later, Eun-pyo learns that Chun-hui is Kim Yu-bins mother. Theres already a lot of tension between these two women.

To try and nestle herself in with the community, Eun-pyo attends a tea and cake party with the mothers. Chun-hui also attends, and her tone is different more friendly, making the audience feel she is possibly being manipulative. She asks Eun-pyo about her major in Aesthetics. The two clash again when discussing the raising of their children, but its abundantly evident that Chun-hui was trying to find a problem with Eun-pyo. After their disagreement, Chun-hui and the other mothers move to another table away from Eun-pyo and continue their tea party. They believe Eun-pyo should be more humble.

Lee Eun-pyos integration into the community gets worse. Her son plays with the lights at a childrens music show and ruins it. Her son then breaks Kim Yu-bins violin. She asks her son to apologize to Yu-bins mother formally, but Chun-hui asks for money for a new violin it will cost Lee Eun-pyo three million won.

As we approach the premieres ending, Lee Eun-pyo crosses paths with her friend from the past again, and she looks spooked. The friend hugs her she appears to have a lot of love and affection for Eun-pyo. A flashback shows theyve known each other since school, and now their children are in the same class. The old friend asks Eun-pyo why she left France, which is not answered. When Eun-pyo looks at her friends photos, shes irked by the pictures of her partner.

Lee Eun-pyos life is in crisis as episode 1 ends; her career is uncertain, and her finances are dwindling. She heads to the university and apologizes to a professor for making a mistake. She begs him and explains the personal article she published was meant to be a journal entry. She asks if she can lecture again, but the man walks off with his colleagues. Flashbacks show how her son accidentally pressed submit on her phone and published a journal entry that got her into trouble.

By the end of the episode, Lee Eun-pyo is exhausted from all the stress. As she takes her children to school, she remembers a peaceful day on the beach with a man. It looks like pure love. This man is her old friends partner. She falls outside the school, and the same man catches her.

Its too early to conclude whether this series has story value, but its certainly an intriguing start.

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"Oh, wow! Wow! Gas prices just smacked the sh*t out of me."

Soaring gasoline prices are leaving many Americans reeling like Chris Rock after his Academy Awards slap from Will Smith. The conventional wisdom is that we are experiencing an energy price "shock" like those in the early 1970s when OPEC sanctions caused gas prices to triple.

Not even close. I knew the 1970s. And 2022 is not 1974. It's not the worst we've seen, just the worst in recent years. This time Americans are experiencing a rude awakening from a different kind of shock: energy price deflation.

Since 2000, Americans have benefitted from staggering natural gas deflation brought on by a one-off Texas-sized shale oil and gas boom. The Henry Hub spot price for a million British thermal units of gas plunged from almost $18 in 2005 to less than $2 in 2020. (See chart.)

During this time, U.S. per capita personal consumption expenditures almost doubled, leading to the supersizing of carbon-heavy American habits, including the proliferation of plastic, the return of large, gas-guzzling cars, soaring fast food consumption and the rise of McMansions. We even got bigger as the rate of obesity increased from 30 percent to 42.4 percent from 2000 to 2018.

Perhaps more significant, cheap energy hobbled a nascent renewable energy industry.

Renewable energy prices followed natural gas prices down, leading the clean fuel industry to a near-death experience in the mid-2010s. Unlike gas, renewable energy subsidies were winding down. Nor did they have the benefit of a flood of cheap credit that was available to the oil and gas industry credit that artificially stimulated shale oil gas and production causing even more pressure on natural gas prices. (See a Climate & Capital report.)

That Texas tea party came to a crashing end with the outbreak of COVID, and now with Russias invasion of Ukraine. So it should be no surprise that American consumers are experiencing a splitting, petro-sized hangover induced by paying $100 or more to fill up a Chevy Silverado pickup or XC70 Volvos.

But what is surprising has been the response of the Biden administration. The collective freakout of American consumers has led to panic and near capitulation of the Biden administration to oil and gas company pressure. It seems the administration cannot decide whether it wants to be a petrostate or climate champion.

That is a starkly different response from Europe where the greatest European land war since World War II has caused natural gas prices in Europe to jump eightfold. Europes shock was to wake up to the reality of having become addicted to Russian energy.

We have been handing over more than $100 billion a year to the biggest threat to Europe since Adolf Hitler," said one observer. "What was Angela Merkel thinking?"

But unlike the United States, Europe is taking advantage of its Will Smith moment to supercharge its energy transition.

No company better symbolizes Europes hyper transition to renewables than Italy's largest power producer and the world's biggest listed renewable energy company. "The crisis," Francesco Starace, CEO of Enel, told Bloomberg, "is accelerating the need to decarbonize in a very, very significant way."

It seems the administration cannot decide whether it wants to be a petrostate or climate champion.

Starace says Italy, which gets 40 percent of its natural gas from Russia, will be independent of Russian gas in three to four years by fast-tracking renewable power, importing more politically stable LNG gas and replacing gas heaters with heat pumps. He said the company expects authorization from the Italian government to develop and generate 55,000 megawatts of new renewable power in the next three to four months and 105,000 more over the next three years. This will reduce the amount of gas Italy uses by 18 billion cubic meters per year. All this is happening as Enel divests from Russian coal plants and closes its final three coal plants in Italy by 2025.

But there's more. The company last week announced a $600 million deal with the European Commission to expand a solar panel gigafactory in Sicily 15-fold by 2024. Ironically, the impetus of the deal was not Russia but to cut Europe's dependence on Chinese solar power components.

The response of Enel and European leaders cannot be more starkly different than that of the Biden administration and U.S. Congressional leaders. If Europe is leaping into the future, its back to the future in the United States.

It had started before Ukraine when the administrations climate-friendly Build Back Better plan was derailed by coal-fired West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin.

The administration then suffered another crushing defeat when oil, gas and banking industry lobbyists torpedoed the candidacy of Sarah Bloom Raskin to be the top bank regulator at the Federal Reserve for her pro-climate views.

Now, as gasoline prices edge towards $6 a gallon, the once swaggering climate championing administration is experiencing the humiliation of going hat in hand to seek favor from Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and meeting with American energy executives to increase oil and gas production in the fading hope of bringing back the good old days of 2020.

Schadenfreude fog has settled over the oil and gas industry as it suddenly finds itself being pressured to fast track renewed oil and gas production and facilitate LNG exports to Europe. Total capitulation will come if it also succeeds in defeating proposed rules giving the Securities and Exchange Commission the power to monitor, disclose and penalize future methane emissions from oil and gas operations. (See Climate & Capital investigation.)

But what is truly shocking is the ominous silence on climate from the administration.

If one is being generous, the sudden embrace of Big Oil by the Biden administration could be excused as necessary to meet urgent national security needs.

But what is truly shocking is the ominous silence on climate from the administration.

The administration appears to be more scared of the American consumer than Vladimir Putin as an increasingly desperate administration seems ready to authorize the energy equivalent of the Vietnam War strategy of "burning the village to save it."

It all has the whiff of the kind of populist energy capitulation that led to the re-election defeat of Jimmy Carter in 1980.

That would have tragic results for the planet. Carter was just getting up to speed on the danger of climate change when, in 1980, he was defeated by Ronald Reagan, setting back climate mitigation by 40 years.

Oh, how quickly life can change. Remember all that bravado and high-fiving about the climate A-team Biden assembled when he came to office? But drafting first-round draft picks does not guarantee a trip to the Super Bowl. How ironic that Italy mocked mercilessly for its corruption, inefficiencies and indulgent, pasta-living ways would emerge as a critical leader in the decarbonization movement. Hmm. I wonder what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's plans are for renewable energy?

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