The actor's diagnosis had recently become an open secret in Hollywood, after the gossip site Radar.com reported that an unnamed actor was HIV positive, offering sufficient clues to all but identify Mr Sheen.
Her tweets are largely positive, offering advice and inspiration to her followers, such as, "Think before you complain today.
Manager Joe Torre searched for positives, offering the kind of assessment normally heard only in spring training by saying Vazquez had "got enough work in".
The would-be songwriter soon gets back an invariably positive "evaluation," offering the opportunity, for a price, to have professional musicians compose, sing and record a song with those precious lyrics.
The animals are happier and so are the visitors.Keepers have learned to use positive reinforcement, offering rewards to animals that present themselves for injections and check-ups.Larger zoos employ behaviouralists to think up ways of keeping animals mentally alert.
This cycle has its positive elements, offering an alternative to rural poverty and producing cheap clothing, sometimes for those regions and ethnicities that once were the system's underclass.
It's a move that I'm sure will be welcomed, not only by journalists but by the many thousands of readers who already contribute constructively to positive debates, offering personal experience, considered opinion and, of course, constructive criticism of our journalism.
Once the military police had established control, pacifying police units (UPPs) moved in, supposedly to pave the way for social programmes – the Brazilian government apparently aware that any attempt to deal with the drug gangs would have to have a positive component, offering the residents at least some of the many basics the state has thus far failed to provide.
Call a family meeting and start on a positive note, offering appreciations to each member of the family.
I think it's important to be diplomatic and positive when offering advice, but I think we learn the most when that advice is also honest and helpful even if it may not be what we want to hear.
