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The Independent
16-02-2025
- Business
- The Independent
How your spending changes according to your ‘love language'
How would you describe your relationship with money? This is something I ask my coaching clients when we start working together and the range of responses is so varied and interesting, including: 'Fraught, disconnected, full of negative emotion. But with glimmers of hope!' 'All a bit at sea. I'm mad at it – mad at myself, really. I have savings goals but I struggle to prioritise my money. I'm easily distracted and impulsive with my spending and then get mad that I don't have the money to do what I'd really like to do.' 'Thoughtful and intentional. I'm careful with how I earn money and how it's channelled for current and future use.' I'm a money coach – of course I'm taking Valentine's Day (and Galentine's Day!) and applying it to money. Enter the five love languages. Have you heard of them? They're as follows: words of affirmation, quality time, giving and receiving gifts, acts of service, and physical touch. The Five Love Languages is a 1992 nonfiction book by Gary Chapman which details five ways that romantic partners express and experience love. There's an online quiz you can take to find out yours. Here's how you can apply the five love languages to your finances – whether your relationship status is coupled-up, single and ready (or not) to mingle or 'it's complicated'. Words of affirmation What you say to yourself matters. If you repeatedly tell yourself you're bad, useless or hopeless with money, it's no surprise if this shows in your actions. And how's the negative talk working out for you? If you could beat yourself up into being better with money, you'd probably be stress-free and sitting on a fortune by now. So, let's bin that approach – it's not about lying to yourself but there's a difference between blame and taking responsibility for your situation. This can look like shifting from thinking, 'I'm bad with money' to 'I am learning how to be good with money' and taking action to reinforce these words of affirmation with your behaviour, whether that's starting a savings habit or putting an hour aside each week to work on your finances and get clear on your numbers. Which brings me to… Quality time Getting on top of your finances doesn't have to take ages, but it does need time devoted to it. My top tip here is to schedule time to work on your finances and set an agenda so you know exactly what you're working on. One of my clients set aside one morning a week to review her finances. 'Finance Friday' is now her ongoing weekly quality time with her money. Another client put an afternoon aside to do a subscription sweep and saved herself £1,500 in the process – not a bad result for two hours of quality time. Yet another client scheduled a money date with her husband so they could pin down the family summer holiday – where they were going and how they were going to fund it. 'If it's in the diary, it'll happen,' she said. And it did. She put time in their shared online calendar, the money date happened, and their holiday is now booked and will be paid for with no last-minute money stress. It's tempting to slash and burn all your non-essential expenses when trying to budget and improve your financial situation. But it's a false economy to cut back on all the things that make life worth living. Similar to dieting, what happens then is that people eventually crack and splurge, then beat themselves up for being bad at budgeting and stop – and perhaps end up worse off than where they started. Instead, whether giving or receiving gifts, budget for joy. Keep a line in your budget for the things that matter to you and your loved ones. Think savvy instead of splurge, thought over cost. Giving and receiving gifts can be no cost or low-cost. Swapping those overpriced Valentine's overpriced roses for a more affordable bunch of daffodils, for example. Get creative and come up with options for how you can achieve a similar outcome for less, if that's what your relationship with money needs at this time. Acts of service Like a partner who shows their love by fixing things around the home rather than saying 'I love you,' this love language is about intentional actions that make your life easier or more enjoyable. Think about your future self. What can you do now to make your life easier for them? Short-term, this may look like writing down what's still to come out of your bank account this month so you're not quaking every time you get a Monzo notification on your phone. Longer term, it might be sorting your pension out so you have enough money to live the life you want in retirement. Be proactive instead of reactive with your money. Your future self will thank you for it. Physical touch While I, like many, tap away on my card for the majority of my transactions, I try and take out cash every week as purse money. It helps me not overspend on, erm, Haribo sweets, to make up the £3 minimum card transaction at my local shop (a win for my health). It also helps my wealth as handing over cash creates greater awareness of my spending as I see and feel the money go down. Cash offers a helpful pause that allows people to consider if they want something enough to part with their cold, hard cash for it. Re-introducing this pause through the use of cash is what one of my clients opted for last year to improve her relationship with money. Plus, the recent banking outages in the last month provided a timely reminder that having a bit of cash to hand is always helpful. Talia Loderick is a Money Coach. Talia helps people understand and take control of their behaviour with money so they can stop stressing about money and have enough to live well – now and in future. 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Yahoo
15-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Saturday Boredom Busters: February 15th
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO) — Check out the larger-than-life dinosaur herd roaming and roaring at the W.H. Lyon Fairgrounds in Sioux Falls. Jurassic Quest features animatronic dinosaurs on display plus activities like digging for fossils. The hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. today and Sunday. Monday's hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Celebrate Galentine's Day in downtown Sioux Falls. Several women-owned businesses will be selling a wide range of clothing, jewelry, personal care products, photo shoots and food in the Nordic Hall. The celebration goes from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Bounce for a Cause is a bungee class fundraiser for the Sioux Falls Area Humane Society. You can bounce, jump and fly with bungee fitness from 9-10 a.m. at South Dakota Aerial & Arts in Sioux Falls. No experience required. The Premiere Playhouse presents the Premiere Premieres, featuring two one-act plays written by two local playwrights. The productions, called Aftermath and Battle Cry, begin at 7 p.m. in the Orpheum Theater in downtown Sioux Falls. The Sioux Valley Model Engineers Society is hosting an open house at their club building on the north side of the W.H. Lyon Fairgrounds. You can check out South Dakota's largest permanent model railroad display from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today and Sunday. Admission is free. Movies playing at the historic State Theater in downtown Sioux Falls include Inside Out 2, rated PG, plus The Brutalist and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, both rated R. The Wells Fargo CineDome & Sweetman Planetarium at the Washington Pavilion features Cities of the Future, T-Rex, Winter Skies and Unseen Universe. New movie releases playing at a theater near you include Paddington in Peru, rated PG and Captain America: Brave New World, rated PG-13. Great Bear Ski Valley is offering extended holiday hours over the Presidents Day weekend. Skiers and snowboarders can hit the slopes from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. The tubing hill is open from 9 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Terry Peak Ski Area in the Northern Black Hills is open for skiers and snowboarders. The hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mountain Time. The City of Sioux Falls' outdoor ice rinks are located at Campus, Frank Olson, McKennan, Memorial, Sherman and Tuthill parks. Today's hours are 1-8 p.m. Admission is free. Warming houses at Tuthill, McKennan and Memorial parks have reopened. Open skating sessions indoors at the SCHEELS IcePlex in Sioux Falls are 1-3 p.m. and 7 to 9:30 p.m. Admission is $9 for adults and $7 for children. Skate rentals are $4. The Augustana University men's hockey team takes on Michigan Tech. The puck drops at the Midco Arena in Sioux Falls at 6:07 p.m. It's Pink in the Rink Night at the Stampede hockey team's game against the Lincoln Stars. The first 1,000 fans at the game will receive a free Stampede hat, thanks to Sioux Falls Specialty Hospital. The team will honor those battling cancer and cancer survivors in a special Stomp Out Cancer pre-game ceremony. The puck drops at 6:05 p.m. at the Denny Sanford PREMIER Center. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Boston Globe
14-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
Kelsea Ballerini celebrated her fans with a Galentine's Day concert
Ballerini projects strength and vulnerability with a slight twang and a lot of sincerity, making songs like the out-of-the-muck celebration 'This Time Last Year,' the breathless doomed-relationship reckoning 'Interlude,' and the show-closing vocal showcase 'Penthouse' feel like they've been plucked straight from her journal. Her romantic love songs have an appealing realism, too, with her heart-eyed moments never veering too far into schmaltz while still retaining an air of splendor. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up 'It's Galentine's Day, which happens to be my love language,' Ballerini said early in the show, and her many songs celebrating long-lasting bonds that could be between lovers or friends were some of the night's most well-received. The feisty 'If You Go Down (I'm Goin' Too),' from 'Patterns,' channels its message of fealty through some murder-ballad-worthy scenarios ('Our bodies are buried and they're in the same ditch/ So even if I wanted to, I can't snitch,' she grins at one point). 'I Would, Would You,' also from that album, details the lengths she'd go to in order to support a loved one; on Thursday, Ballerini and her band underscored those promises by mashing it up with Bill Withers' 1972 devotional 'Lean On Me.' Advertisement Those songs got a boost from Ballerini clearly being grateful toward her fans; she noted that she'd played venues in Boston ranging from House of Blues to Roadrunner over the years, and midway through the show she did a spot-check of people around the room, receiving a galentine from one fan, welcoming a young attendee to her first concert with an autograph, and even posing for a from-the-stage selfie with an attendee who'd first taken a photo with Ballerini nearly ten years ago. Near the end of the show, Ballerini gave her band a break and strapped on her guitar for 'Leave Me Again,' a delicate ballad from her 2023 EP 'Rolling Up the Welcome Mat' that flips the post-breakup script: 'I hope I never leave me again,' she sings after wishing her most recent ex well, underscoring her desire to remain true to herself even as her emotions get carried away by love's flights of fancy. The voice-and-guitar arrangement and the plainspoken, yet hopeful lyrics were a gorgeously wrapped Galentine's Day gift from Ballerini to the assembled—a reminder not just of her talent, but of the strength that comes from realizing that, as she said before launching into the song, 'being able to know who you are… is enough.' KELSEA BALLERINI With Ashe, MaRynn Taylor Advertisement At TD Garden, Thursday
Axios
14-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Axios
Seven ways to celebrate — and not celebrate — Valentine's Day
Besides going to dinner at your favorite NWA restaurant, here are some ideas for celebrating regardless of your relationship status. 🎨 Get creative at a Galentine craft-making night. 6pm Thursday at Sequoyah Hall at Mount Sequoyah in Fayetteville. Free. 💎 Enjoy a Galentine's Day jewelry making workshop. 6:30pm Thursday at Walton Arts Center in Fayetteville. $120. 🛍 Shop the Stupid Cupid Valentines market. Noon Friday at The Ledger in Bentonville. 🖤 Wear black to an Anti-Valentine's party. 6pm Friday at Danger Dave's in Bentonville. 🍷 It doesn't get more Valentine's Day than dinner and dancing at a winery. 6pm Friday at Sassafras Springs Vineyard and Winery in Springdale. $125. 💃 Learn salsa and wear your best red outfit for a night of dancing. 7pm Friday at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. $20. 🤣 Have a date night at a Valentines comedy show. 8pm Friday at Meteor Guitar Gallery in Bentonville. $15-$30.
Politico
14-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Politico
Spilka rallies the resistance
Programming note: We'll be off Monday for Presidents Day but back in your inbox on Tuesday. WE WILL 'ALWAYS' RESIST — Senate President Karen Spilka wasn't going to let President Donald Trump's return to the White House rain on her Galentine's Day soirée. So, to kick off the event last night, 'Senate President Karen Spilka' (played by drag queen TaDonna) opened with a 'Drag Queen Story Hour,' reminding the sea of red-and-pink-clad women leaders from politics, business and philanthropy, that Massachusetts, 'the birthplace of equal marriage and anti-discrimination legislation,' would 'not change who we are,' as Gov. Maura Healey recently pledged. The annual reception was back for Round Three last night — though this time under changed circumstances, with Trump's victory over Kamala Harris, the first female vice president, last fall. But Spilka was ready to rally the resistance. 'I know I feel — and I know all of you feel — you can't executive order human beings out of existence,' Spilka (the real one, not the drag version) told the packed room at Boston's City Winery. '[You] can't executive order Massachusetts to comply with bigotry and hate.' 'We will always — and I underline, all caps, always — resist,' she added. The food-themed evening featured a panel of restaurant industry leaders, including Flour founder Joanne Chang and restaurateur and community leader Nia Grace. And Gov. Maura Healey and Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll later walked out clad in full DunQueen attire for a cupcake and charcuterie design contest alongside Spilka and Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan. Women still hold much of the power in Massachusetts, and the night was a celebration of their accomplishments (not so much their cupcake-decorating skills). But the event was still peppered with allusions to new leadership in D.C. — whether it was one panelist noting that their restaurants would shut down if immigrants could no longer work in them, or Spilka jokingly encouraging the crowd to cozy up to one attendee, Bernadette Jordan, the consul general of Canada in Boston, in case they might need a visa at some point in the next four years. Still, expect Massachusetts to be the 'beacon and backstop,' Driscoll said from the stage post-cupcake-charcuterie-off. GOOD FRIDAY MORNING, MASSACHUSETTS. TGIF! TODAY — Gov. Maura Healey has no public events. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu speak s at DeeDee's Cry's Mental Health While Black Summit at 12:15 p.m. in Everett. THIS WEEKEND — Greg Maynard, director of the Boston Policy Institute, is on WBZ's 'Keller @ Large' at 8:30 a.m. Sunday. Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox is on WCVB's 'On the Record' at 11 a.m. Sunday. Have a tip, story, suggestion, birthday, anniversary, new job, or any other nugget for the Playbook? Drop me a line: kgarrity@ DATELINE BEACON HILL — 'Shannon O'Brien would 'bully' and 'abuse her colleagues' as top cannabis regulator, treasurer said in firing her,' by Matt Stout, The Boston Globe: 'State Treasurer Deborah Goldberg said she fired Shannon O'Brien as the state's top cannabis regulator last year because of several instances in which she would 'bully, humiliate, and abuse her colleagues,' according to newly released documents. Goldberg detailed her reasons for terminating O'Brien in an 80-page report made public Thursday, offering, for the first time, a more comprehensive accounting of her decision, which has been subject to months of litigation and political intrigue. Goldberg, a third-term Democrat, pointed to examples of O'Brien making racially inappropriate comments to staff, some of which had not been publicly aired before.' ROUND THREE — State Rep. Rob Consalvo will carry the latest iteration of Boston's property shift bill that passed the City Council Wednesday. He filed the bill Thursday, he told Playbook, but it might take a bit before any debate gets going. The House still has to pass a rules package for the session. — 'Local leaders praise gov's sweeping muni bill as way to reduce fiscal pressures; uphill battle in Legislature looms,' by Alexa Lewis, Daily Hampshire Gazette. 2026 WATCH — One of the toughest questions Republicans hoping to win a statewide race in Massachusetts face: whether or not they support Trump. It's one that a potential Republican challenger to Healey ran up against recently. Former Housing and Economic Development Secretary Mike Kennealy drew groans when he told a room of potential supporters he didn't cast a ballot for Trump in last year's election, per a video posted on Facebook. 'I will work with Donald Trump if I'm governor to advance our interests here in Massachusetts,' Kennealy said, when one person asked him if he supported the president. 'His approach is different than mine, his style is different than mine,' he later added, and if elected governor he said his style would also be different than Healey's. FROM THE HUB — 'Days after Josh Kraft floats a version of 'rent control,' the Boston City Council just advanced something very similar,' by Niki Griswold, The Boston Globe: 'The Boston City Council gave initial approval Wednesday to a proposal to offer property tax breaks to landlords who choose to keep their rents affordable — a policy that also happens to be the centerpiece of Josh Kraft's housing platform as he seeks to unseat Mayor Michelle Wu. Councilor Gabriela Coletta Zapata, who sponsored the legislation, brought it up for a vote at the end of the council's regular Wednesday meeting. The council voted 10-0 to approve the measure, with two councilors absent.' DRINK UP — After getting 225 new liquor licenses approved last year, Boston is letting the liquor flow. Boston's Licensing Board approved 37 new liquor licenses this week for businesses in neighborhoods across the city including Charlestown, Dorchester, East Boston, Hyde Park, Jamaica Plain, Mattapan, Oak Square, Roslindale and Roxbury. The latest batch, according to the city, is 'the single largest addition to Boston's liquor license quota since the end of Prohibition.' WHAT'S ON CAMPBELL'S DOCKET DEI DO'S AND DON'TS — Attorney General Andrea Campbell's office issued guidance for businesses Thursday alongside AGs from 15 other states in response to Trump's executive order targeting DEI programs. Read the guidelines or dive deeper with the Boston Globe. THE RACE FOR CITY HALL GETTING ORGANIZED — More than 150 people joined Boston mayoral hopeful Josh Kraft's first volunteer organizing meeting Wednesday night, according to his campaign, a group that represented each of the city's neighborhoods. — 'World Cup negotiations spotlight conflicts of interest Josh Kraft could face if elected mayor of Boston,' by Emma Platoff and Janelle Nanos, The Boston Globe. MIGRANTS IN MASSACHUSETTS — 'Man accused of sexually assaulting 11-year-old in state shelter leaves U.S. before facing arrest, devastating girl's mother,' by Giulia McDonnell Nieto del Rio, The Boston Globe: 'A man from Honduras accused of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl in a Peabody state shelter in early December, and who was subsequently relocated to another state shelter housing families with children, has left the country before police could arrest him. Police obtained an arrest warrant on Feb. 4 for Jose Santos Ortiz Carranza, 32, nearly two months after the girl told authorities he assaulted her at the hotel shelter. But Peabody Police Chief Thomas Griffin said his department learned Ortiz Carranza was no longer in a state shelter, and then were told by authorities at Logan Airport he had left the country.' — 'Lowell Public Schools defends its migrant students, families,' by Melanie Gilbert, The Lowell Sun: 'Effective April 7, Temporary Protected Status will end for almost half of the 600,000 Venezuelans legally living in the United States. By September, the other half may also lose their TPS protection. The impact of that ruling, as well as the potential of others like it on families and students in Lowell, was on the agenda of the School Committee at its Feb. 5 meeting.' — 'Azorean officials prepare for wave of U.S. deportees,' by Kevin G. Andrade, The New Bedford Light. PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES — 'Massport mulls $15 fee on roundtrip Uber or Lyft ride to and from Logan,' by Dana Gerber, The Boston Globe: 'It could soon cost more to ride Uber and Lyft to and from Logan International Airport as the Massachusetts Port Authority considers an increase to the airport fees it charges ride-hailing companies. Currently, Massport charges ride apps a $3.25 fee for pickups or drop-offs at Logan, which the ride-hailing giants then pass onto customers' fares. But the agency that oversees the airport is discussing hiking those fees to $5.50 each way starting in July, and then raising them to $7.50 each starting in July 2027, according to materials presented at a Massport board committee meeting on Wednesday and obtained by the Globe. The increases are designed to 'influence behavior and generate revenues needed to support ground transportation investments,' the materials said.' BALLOT BATTLES — 'Coalition backing MCAS ballot question spent just over $8 per vote in 2024, report says,' by Chris Van Buskirk, Boston Herald: 'A coalition that successfully convinced voters to nix the MCAS graduation requirement for high school students spent just over $8 per vote during last year's state election, according to a report released Thursday by campaign finance regulators. The tens of millions dished out on the fight between a teacher's union and business groups to remove the standardized test as the gateway to high school graduation made it the most expensive of the five ballot questions during the 2024 state election.' DATELINE D.C. — 'RFK Jr.'s plans could make Musk's look small,' by Chelsea Cirruzzo, Daniel Payne and Adam Cancryn, POLITICO: 'Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is now in charge of the nation's health agencies. His plans to upend them could make Elon Musk's budget-cutting spree look modest by comparison. Kennedy won Senate confirmation on Thursday even after vowing to take nutrition and health programs in a radical new direction, and despite his long history of criticizing the safety of scientifically proven vaccines.' LOCAL REACTION — 'Bay State leaders appalled by RFK Jr.'s confirmation,' by Christian M. Wade, The Eagle-Tribune. TRUMPACHUSETTS — 'Three federal grants targeting diesel fuel emissions are now unavailable to Massachusetts,' by Bhaamati Borkhetaria, CommonWealth Beacon: 'In the same week a federal judge reiterated his order that all federal funding be disbursed as appropriated by Congress, yet more grants – the latest targeting emissions from diesel engines – became unavailable to Massachusetts state agencies as part of the Trump administration's funding freeze, according to state officials. Three grants that are administered through the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection have been marked 'suspended' as of February 13 in the federal funding portal that states use to request allocated funds.' — 'Boston University, MIT tighten budgets as they brace for federal funding cuts,' by Kirk Carapezza, GBH News. — 'Berkshire farmers face financial uncertainty, put projects on hold during federal funding freeze,' by Maryjane Williams, The Berkshire Eagle. FROM THE 413 — 'With Superintendent Joseph Curtis resigning, the Pittsfield School Committee faces a choice on when, and how, to find a successor,' by Greg Sukiennik, The Berkshire Eagle: 'The resignation of schools Superintendent Joseph Curtis leaves the Pittsfield School Committee — and the city — facing some important questions and one big decision. That decision is the most immediate concern: Should the School Committee seek a successor to Curtis right away, or appoint an interim superintendent and make a hiring decision next year, in time for the 2026-27 school year?' THE LOCAL ANGLE — 'Brockton School Police lose enforcement powers for second year running,' by Chris Helms, The Brockton Enterprise: 'For the second year in a row, Brockton School Police lost their law enforcement powers. School Police had no legal police powers for about five days and had to come to work in plain clothes. By local law, special police officers must be reappointed every year. Otherwise, their powers expire on the fourth Monday of January. That deadline was Monday, Jan. 27.' HEARD 'ROUND THE BUBBLAH HAPPY BIRTHDAY — to Rep. Richard Neal, Medford native Mike Bloomberg, Dave Whiting, Springfield City Councilor Jose Delgado, Hayley Johnson and Diana Felber. HAPPY BIRTHWEEKEND — to Law 360's Chris Villani, who celebrates Saturday; and to Sunday birthday-ers former Massachusetts first lady Lauren Baker, Tisch College Dean Emeritus Alan Solomont, a former ambassador and DNC finance chair; Amanda Sabga and Matt Crescenzo.
