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The power of saying thank you

Edit The Guardian 22 May 2016
Being grateful is one of the best ways to hold on to power that otherwise might slip away ... As we enjoy elevated power, we are more likely to eat impulsively, have sexual affairs, violate the rules of the road, lie, cheat, shoplift, take sweets from children and communicate in disrespectful ways ... Expressions of gratitude create strong, collaborative ties and pave the way for greater influence....

All hell broke loose the last time the Warriors visited OKC

Edit New York Post 22 May 2016
OKLAHOMA CITY — Chesapeake Energy Arena is the site of one of the Warriors’ most memorable wins in their record-setting 73-victory season and the locale of one of their most disturbing moments. Now it is a place where the Warriors simply must win in order to keep their hopes of a repeat championship alive ... It’s you against the world when you’re on the road,” Green said, noting he likes that challenge and gets up for it....

Can LGBT Issues Be Included at San Diego’s Diocesan Synod? (New Ways Ministry)

Edit Public Technologies 22 May 2016
The magazine noted this may be 'the first such structured diocesan-wide response' to Amoris Laetitia in the world ... Given his record and willingness to listen in the upcoming synod process, McElroy would likely welcome the inclusion of LGBT issues in this or another synod perhaps ... New Ways Ministry published this content on 22 May 2016 and is solely responsible for the information contained herein....

Taliban leader Mansoor likely killed by US airstrike

Edit China Daily 22 May 2016
Mansoor was likely dead in the strike which had been authorized by US President Barack Obama, a US official told CBS News on condition of anonymity ... be likely killed, in the southwest of Ahmad Wal, a town in western Pakistan, the official was quoted as saying....

Heart of darkness

Edit The Hindu 22 May 2016
In fact, so given to hedonistic ways was Rangeela — the word ‘rangeela’, meaning colourful, was added to his name in consonance with his personality — that he is held partially responsible for the decline of the Mughal empire ... Many, like Soraya, were confined to a basement for weeks, getting to see the sun only when the dictator chose to shift them to another location for a few days! Medieval? Maybe....

Caribbean Export reaches out to Latin market in US

Edit Jamaica Observer 22 May 2016
Caribbean Export has always been very strong on promoting partnerships because we see them as the most effective and cost-efficient ways to advance the goals of the Agency and those of the region,” said Pamela Coke Hamilton, Executive Director of Caribbean Export. With specific reference to the ......

Are Thunder ‘soft’? Why strange Game 2 issue raises question

Edit New York Post 22 May 2016
It makes us feel like we’re soft, we’re weak,” Ibaka said Saturday at the Thunder practice facility, where OKC prepared for Sunday’s Game 3 ... “You try to find ways to help each other out, help yourself out, find ways to not let the guy in front of you beat you to the ball, box out.” ... … So maybe Serge’s point is that when you’re getting beat like that, to loose balls or rebounds, it can certainly make you look that way.”....

Heat kills 2 in Ahmedabad: Gujarat's death toll climbs to 25

Edit The Times of India 22 May 2016
Billboards put up by civic authorities suggesting ways to avoid heat-related emergencies seem to have had little impact, as two more lives succumbed to heatstroke here on Saturday ... "As many as 14 patients suffering from heatstroke were hospitalized on Saturday," read the AMC statement ... On Saturday, AMC had issued an orange-alert for Saturday, warning that the maximum temperature will likely touch 43°C....

When true crime TV drama only adds to the pain

Edit The Observer 22 May 2016
Did they intend simply to educate us in the ways of 19th-century naturalism or was it that, as seemed increasingly likely, they hoped to put us off adulterous sex for life? ... The way guilt then destroys Laurent’s relationship with ... If this is so, do they have any idea how wrong they are? People like to say that the truth is stranger than fiction....

John Chiang to farm workers: ‘My sister worked on your issues’

Edit Sacramento Bee 22 May 2016
“We are similar in so many ways,” Chiang, the son of immigrants from Taiwan, told several hundred farm workers at a United Farm Workers union convention here ... Gavin Newsom, make forays into the Central Valley. Latino voters are an increasingly significant portion of the electorate in California, and the Central Valley and Inland Empire make up more than a quarter of the state’s likely voters....

Press privacy finds its last redoubt on their lordships’ island of injunctions

Edit The Observer 22 May 2016
“The story in its essential details has been published in a major Scottish newspaper, it has been widely accessible on websites and Twitter, and anyone who seriously wanted to know [the celebrity’s identity] will have ways of finding it …I have reached a clear view that the story’s confidentiality has become so porous that the idea of it still remaining secret in a meaningful sense is illusory.”....

‘My relative was a mass murderer of Aborigines. Can I make amends?’

Edit The Guardian 22 May 2016
My relative has come to embody some of the very worst excesses of Australian colonial history ... Like many indigenous peoples, the Gunai community today struggles with problems of addiction and violence – what some might call “diseases of despair”. In many ways, the overt violence of McMillan and his men did not have the worst impact, that came from the policies of “assimilation” that were later enacted upon the much weakened survivors....

Taliban leader Mullah Mansour 'likely killed' in US airstrike

Edit Deccan Herald 22 May 2016
In a major victory in the war against terrorism, Taliban leader Mullah Mansour was "likely killed" in a US airstrike in a remote area of western Pakistan bordering Afghanistan, a US official has said ... Noting that US President Barack Obama had authorised the operation, the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said a second man along with Mansour was also believed to have been killed....
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