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Everyone loves a good party. And the best parties typically have at least two important factors: a gracious host and respectful guests.But in a world where parties can include everything from birthdays, engagements and housewarmings to pet adoptions, divorce finalizations and reality show reunions, some of the traditional etiquette guidelines that help keep parties fun and cordial for everyone may have fallen by the wayside.Hosts who rely on their guests to pay for the party may be setting themselves up for disappointment, for example. And guests who don’t show their appreciation and respect for the host’s efforts can also sour…

Brian Brobbey scored the winning goal as Sunderland completed a stunning comeback to beat 10-man Bournemouth 3-2 in the Premier League.The Black Cats continue to be the surprise package on their return to the top flight, and remain unbeaten at the Stadium of Light this season. But inside 15 minutes, that looked to be in doubt as Sunderland found themselves 2-0 down. There were some slices of luck about Bournemouth’s opener, with Evanilson’s initial shot pinging off the crossbar. Amine Adli was then waiting to poke home from close range. The headlines would have belonged to Tyler Adams too after…

Chris Broomfield, 50, had been a carpenter contractor for decades when he decided he wanted to focus on building a future for his family. “I realized that carpentry is a knowledge and experience-based. I couldn’t really hand that down to my kids,” Broomfield tells CNBC Make It. “So I needed to build something that at least would give them a head start on something to borrow against or something that creates additional income.” In 2015, Broomfield and his wife bought a five-acre property in Remsen, New York, for $27,000. It was close to where Broomfield grew up and not too…

Ina Garten is an expert on making major career changes: she built a multimillion-dollar culinary empire after she quit her government job to open a food store.Garten’s husband Jeffrey gave her sage advice when she decided to leave her previous career, she told Amy Poehler in a Nov. 25 episode of her podcast “Good Hang with Amy Poehler.””I said to Jeffrey, I really need to find something else to do. And he said, ‘Just pick something fun. Pick something that you think you’d love doing, and if you love it, you’ll be really good at it,'” Garten said.She purchased her…

Organizational psychologist Sunita Sah wants parents everywhere to understand that a defiant child isn’t always a bad kid.Parents who want their children to grow up to be confident and assertive adults shouldn’t necessarily encourage total obedience, Sah told the “Good Inside” podcast, in an episode that aired on Nov. 11. “Sometimes, it is bad to be so good, [and] there are situations you want people to be speaking up,” said Sah, a professor of management and organizations at Cornell University. She authored the book, “Defy: The Power of No in a World that Demands Yes,” which published on Jan. 14.Parents…

Wall Street thinks you don’t own enough stock. Not “you,” specifically, but investors as a collective are viewed as too lightly exposed to equities given the S & P 500 is three years into a bull market and is back to within 1% of its all-time peak from a month ago. Deutsche Bank’s comprehensive investor positioning gauge is hovering around neutral. John Flood, head of Americas equities sales trading at Goldman Sachs, says: “Our sentiment indicator has spent most of the year in negative territory reflecting relatively conservative institutional investor positioning. The wall of worry has been extremely high this…

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump on Saturday said that the airspace “above and surrounding” Venezuela should be considered as “closed in its entirety,” an assertion that raised more questions about the U.S. pressure on Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. His government accused Trump of making a ”colonial threat” and seeking to undermine the South American country’s sovereignty.The White House did not respond to questions about what Trump posted on his Truth Social platform, and it was unclear whether he was announcing a new policy or simply reinforcing the messaging around his campaign against Maduro, which has involved…

The International Criminal Court’s governing body is set to meet in The Hague with uncertainty still surrounding the future of the court’s chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, and the outcome of an outsourced investigation into an alleged sexual misconduct complaint against him. The annual session of the Assembly of State Parties (ASP), which begins on Monday, comes after the ASP’s bureau had previously said it expected a United Nations investigation into Khan to be completed by the end of October. The delay – unacknowledged publicly by the ASP bureau or the UN’s Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS), which is conducting…

LONDON (AP) — British playwright Tom Stoppard, a playful, probing dramatist who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1998’s “Shakespeare In Love,” has died. He was 88.In a statement Saturday, United Agents said the Czech-born Stoppard — often hailed as the greatest British playwright of his generation — died “peacefully” at his home in Dorset in southwest England, surrounded by his family.“He will be remembered for his works, for their brilliance and humanity, and for his wit, his irreverence, his generosity of spirit and his profound love of the English language,” they said. “It was an honor to…

Sheffield United moved out of the Championship’s relegation zone after a tense 3-2 victory at Leicester gave them their third win in six days.Chris Wilder’s side raced into a two-goal lead inside four minutes with goals from ex-Leicester striker Tom Cannon and Jairo Riedewald. A superb volley from Sydie Peck gave United a 3-0 lead at half-time. Leicester improved in the second half and pulled one back through Stephy Mavididi before Jordan James set up a thrilling finish with a spectacular long-range strike after 82 minutes.But they could not complete the comeback and Wilder saw his side win against the…