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The Soviet Union is a nation that competed at two consecutive Hopman Cup tournaments and first competed in the 2nd Hopman Cup in 1990. The Soviet Union never won a tie and as such never passed the quarterfinal stage of the tournament.

Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991, four of the fifteen independent states formed from the former Soviet Union have competed in the Hopman Cup. These are: Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan. Additionally, the Commonwealth of Independent States also entered a team into the 1992 event.

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CIS at the Hopman Cup
Kazakhstan at the Hopman Cup
Russia at the Hopman Cup
Ukraine at the Hopman Cup
Uzbekistan at the Hopman Cup

Hopman Cup teams
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JEP Vol.8 No.2 , February 2017
Biobenefication of Oxide Minerals from Bacillus subtilis Using FTIR and MALDI-TOF Techniques
H. Sarvamangala1, Vinay B. Raghavendra2, S. T. Girisha1*
1 Department of Microbiology and Biotechnology, Bangalore University, Bengaluru, India.
2 Teresian Research Center, Siddarthanagar, Mysore, India.
Abstract: Biobeneficiation processes involving the separation of valuable minerals from ores and materials using conventional flotation and flocculation methods have been shown to be promising in recent years. There is an enormous potential to utilize microorganisms as flocculating agents, flotation collectors and/or depressants. The study involves Biobeneficiation of oxide minerals using Bacillus subtilis. Characterization of minerals (hematite, corundum, calcite and quartz) was carried out through XRD, EDAX and FTIR techniques. FTIR of minerals before and after interaction with cells, cell free extract and extracellular proteins was carried out and it has been found that there is a shift or change in the peaks of functional groups. In presence of protein adsorption, amide peaks were found and in case of polysaccharide adsorption, carboxyl peaks were found which justify the flotation and flocculation results. MALDI-TOF was carried out to confirm the molecular weights of the extracted proteins and it was found that molecular weight of proteins on interaction with minerals was higher than that of uninteracted minerals.
Keywords: Biobeneficiation, FTIR, MALDI-TOF, Bacillus subtilis, Oxide Minerals
Ever increasing demand for iron ores has led to exploitation of even lean grade ores and fines. Effective utilization of lean grade ores, iron ore fines and processed wastes brings about efficient beneficiation processes which are envi- ronment-friendly, cost-effective and energy-efficient, hence biotechnological processes have been attracting attention in mineral processing industry. Advent of biotechnology in mineral processing has opened up immense possibilities to exploit difficult to treat ores; thus bioprocessing techniques hold promise as potential substitutes for conventional technologies in vogue [1] .
Among oxide minerals hematite is the most abundant and important iron bearing mineral widely used in iron and steel industries, but it is associated with oxide gangue minerals. Iron ore consists of hematite and gangue minerals like corundum, calcite and quartz. Various physico-chemical methods used to separate gangue minerals from hematite are considered to be expensive and are not eco-friendly [2] . It becomes imperative to separate hematite from other gangue minerals; hence the research work was focused on development of biobeneficiation processes for oxide minerals such as hematite, corundum, calcite and quartz with relevance to iron ore.
In the present investigation, B. subtilis a gram-positive, neutrophilic, periflagellated heterotroph indigenous bacterium associated with many mineral deposits was used. Extracellular polysaccharides, lipoproteins are the principal components of biomass obtained from B. subtilis [3] [4] .
Characterization of minerals was carried out by XRD, EDAX and FTIR. Fourier transform infra red spectroscopy (FTIR) was further used to observe the changes in peaks of the functional groups of minerals before and after interaction with cells, cell free extract and extracellular proteins [5] . Matrix assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight (MALDI-TOF) was utilized to confirm the molecular weights of extracellular bacterial proteins before and after interaction with minerals. Similar findings have been reported in case of cytosolic proteins of Ferrooxidans [6] .
Minerals: Mineral samples of hematite, corundum (alumina), calcite and quartz were obtained from Alminrock, Indscer Fabriks, Bangalore, India. Samples were ground in a porcelain ball mill and sieved to obtain different size factions. The surface area was estimated by Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) nitrogen specific surface area method using Micromeritics Flowsorb II 200 surface area analyser. The SEM micrographs of ground minerals were taken.
Characterization of minerals: Minerals obtained were characterized prior to their use in the experiments in order to ascertain their purity, acquire chemical composition and have prior knowledge of their structural characteristics. Characterization was carried out with different techniques such as chemical analysis, X-ray diffraction photometry and Energy dispersive X-ray dispersion (EDAX) analysis.
1) Chemical analysis: Chemical analysis was carried out using standard wet chemical analytical techniques of acid digestion by Indian Bureau of Mines, Bangalore [7] .
2) X-ray diffraction photometry analysis: X-ray diffraction studies were carried out with model JDX-8030, JEOL Limited, Tokyo, Japan [8] .
3) Energy dispersive X-ray analysis (EDAX): EDAX studies were carried out using a FEI Sirion, high resolution electron microscope [9] .
Bacteria: Strain of B. subtilis (NCIM 2655) used in this study was obtained from the National Collection of Industrial Microorganisms, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India. It was sub cultured in the laboratory using Luria broth medium (LB) and the growth kinetics were studied. B. subtilis was cultured by inoculating a fully grown culture with 109 cells/ml of pure strain to Luria broth (LB) medium and incubated at 30˚C on a Scigenics Orbitek rotary shaker at 200 rpm. Cell concentration was determined with a Petroff-Hausser counting chamber under a Leitz phase contrast microscope (LABORLUX K Wild MPS 12). The pH of the grown culture medium was 7.7 - 7.8. Cells of B. subtilis were also grown in presence of pyrite and galena in LB medium at 5% pulp density through serial sub culturing. Adaptation to minerals was considered achieved when the growth rate of adapted strain was identical to that of the control (cells grown in absence of minerals). Fully grown culture of B. subtilis was taken and subjected to centrifugation at 10,000 ×g using a bench top centrifuge (Heraeus Biofuge Stratos) for 10 min at 4˚C. Cell pellet was suspended in 10−3 M KNO3 and placed in refrigerator till further use. The supernatant was collected and filtered through a 0.2 μm sterile membrane using Millipore vacuum suction pump to make it cell free [10] .
Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) studies: For studying characteristics of surface functional groups of cell, cell free extract and extracellular proteins of interacted minerals and also characterization of secreted biopolymers IR studies were carried using a Perkin Elmer Model FT Spectrum-1000 instrument, operating in the 4000 - 400 cm−1 range. IR spectrum of minerals after interaction with various bioreagents was taken. FTIR spectrum of extracellular polysaccharides and cell wall polysaccharides were also carried to obtain insight in course of structural characterization of ECP. FTIR spectrums were obtained using KBr pellet technique. Since KBr is transparent to InfraRed rays approximately 2 mg of the desired powder was thoroughly mixed with 200 mg of spectrometry grade KBr and then placed in sample holder by pressing it and making a thin layer for recording as transmission of Infra red through spectrophotometer [11] [12] .
Mass spectrometry: Molecular weight of bioreagents was measured with Kompact (SEQ) KRATOS analytical time of flight mass spectrometry and with Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionisation (MALDI) [13] .
Prior to commencing this research investigation in microbe-mineral interaction, it was an imperative to know the details of minerals. Hence various characterization techniques such as mineralogical analysis, X-ray diffraction studies, energy dispersive X-ray analysis (EDAX), particle size determination, particle surface area analysis, SEM studies etc. The peaks observed assured the purity of individual minerals and the purity were found to be 95%, 97%, 99%, 99% respectively for hematite, corundum, calcite and quartz.
Surface area of minerals by Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) analyzer was found to be 1.2 m2/g for hematite, 1.95 m2/g for corundum, 1.653 m2/g for calcite and 2.659 m2/g for quartz.
With relevance to iron ore beneficiation, growth kinetics of B. subtilis cells exhibited highest affinity towards hematite (109 cells/g), when compared to corundum, calcite and quartz. Bacterial adhesion was observed to be significantly higher on hematite and hematite could be effectively separated from corundum, calcite and quartz through microbially induced selective flocculation and flotation.
Extracellular protein exhibited higher affinity towards quartz compared to calcite and corundum and extracellular protein exhibited lower affinity towards hematite. Mineral induced proteins were expressed when bacterial cells were adapted to quartz, corundum, calcite and hematite. Mineral specific intracellular proteins were expressed when bacterial cells were grown in presence of hematite, corundum, calcite and quartz. B. subtilis grown in presence of quartz secreted specific proteins, such as 19.9, 33.5, 40.2, 60.3 kDa and these proteins were not secreted in control. Protein band of about 22.39 kDa was seen in case of control which was not present in mineral grown strains. In case of intracellular protein of B. subtilis grown in presence of hematite and quartz secreted a conspicuous thick band of proteins of 14 to 25 kDa range which was not expressed in control.
Hydrophobicity of cells grown in absence and presence of minerals was studied and it showed the hydrophobic nature of corundum (90%), calcite (90%) and quartz (90%) interacted bacterial cells and in presence of hematite, cells became more hydrophilic.
Flocculation studies carried out in presence of bacterial cells and cell free extract showed that settling rate of hematite was significantly higher than that of quartz, calcite and corundum. Percent flotation recovery of quartz was 92.3% ± 1.0% on interaction with bacterial cells and with cell free extract the recovery was 90.8% ± 0.8% and that of corundum and calcite showed a recovery of 71.7 ± 0.8 and 75.2% ± 0.8% respectively. Hematite flotation was highly impaired (4.7 ± 0.6 and 2.4% ± 0.9%). Similar results were obtained in case of flocculation and flotation studies with the binary mixtures of minerals.
FTIR studies showed significant appearance of new functional groups on interaction of minerals with cells, cell free extract and extracellular proteins. MALDI-TOF results showed the secretion of higher molecular weight of proteins and these results are in accord with those obtained by SDS-PAGE analyses.
FTIR studies: FTIR spectra of hematite shows three IR bands at 528, 490 and 348.32 cm−1 which were attributed to hydroxyl groups. The 950 cm−1 absorption band could be due to hydroxyl groups, being the corresponding deformation modes of the OH stretching absorption due to surface hydroxyls reported in hematite (Rochester 1979). FTIR spectra of corundum showed band at 3400 cm−1 is assigned to ?OH stretching vibration of hydroxyls, 969 cm−1 are assigned to the bending vibrations of Al-OH and the band at 603 cm−1 is assigned to the symmetric stretching mode of Al-O bond. In case of calcite, characteristic peak of the carbonate ion at 1409 cm−1 a sharp absorption band at 874 cm−1 and a broad band around 708 cm−1 and sharp peak at 356 cm−1 were observed. For quartz, the mid infra red spectra range of 400 - 1200 cm−1 are classified in to four characteristic bands around 1078 cm−1, 750 cm, 1500 cm−1 and 353 cm−1.
FTIR spectrum of control (cells) and interacted minerals are given in (Figure 1(a) and Figure 1(b)). On interaction with control (cells), new functional groups were observed on hematite; 2936 cm−1 (m) with C-H stretch shows the presence of alkanes, 642 cm−1 (b,s) with -C=C-H; C-H bend shows the presence of alkynes, and 538 cm−1 (m) with C-Br stretch shows alkyl halides and these peaks are absent in cells and uninteracted minerals. On interaction with corundum shifts in the peaks were observed for 1654 cm−1 (m) with N-H bend shows the presence of 1˚ amines and 1078 cm−1 (m) with C-O stretch shows ethers, 965 cm−1 (s) with C-H bend shows the presence of alkenes which were not seen on cells and uninteracted corundum. FTIR studies for control as well as calcite and quartz on interaction with cells were conducted and the spectra are shown in (Figure 2(a) and Figure 2(b)). In case of calcite the peaks are very sharp and
Figure 1. FTIR spectra of (a) Cell (control) and (b) Interacted hematite and corundum.
Figure 2. FTIR spectra of (a) Cell (control) and (b) Interacted calcite and quartz.
new peaks which were not observed in control and uninteracted calcite were found to be 2515 cm−1 (b) with O-H shows carboxylic acids, 1799 cm−1 (s) with C=O shows dominated carbonate peak [14] . As seen in case of quartz, new species of functional groups present were that of 2568 cm−1 (b) with O-H shows carboxylic acids, 1078 cm−1 (m) with C-O stretch shows ether groups, and 750 cm−1 (s) with = C-H and C=C shows phenyl groups.
The FTIR spectra of cell free extract interacted with minerals is given in (Figure 3(a) and Figure 3(b)). Cell free extract of bacteria is found to show the presence of polysaccharides and proteins and on interaction with minerals, hematite showed the presence of 537 cm−1 (m) with C-Br stretch which is due to the presence of alkyl halides groups and 438 cm−1 (m) gives the peaks of hematite and there is no peak of cell free extract. On interaction with corundum, it gives the peaks at 960 - 1067 cm−1 which is assigned to the bending vibrations of Al-OH and the peak at 602 cm−1 is a stretch peak of Al-O bond as well as 1067 cm−1 (m) with C-N stretch shows the presence of aliphatic amine groups.
FTIR spectra of calcite and quartz before and after interaction with cell free extract is shown in (Figure 4(a) and Figure 4(b)). On interaction with cell free extract, new species found on calcite were 2516 cm−1 (b) with O-H shows the presence of carboxylic acids, 1800 cm−1 (s) with C=O shows amides, ketones, aldehydes, carboxylic acids and esters, 1424 cm−1 (m) with C-C stretch shows the presence of aromatic groups. 875 cm−1 (m) with C-H "oop" shows aromatics groups 708 cm−1 (b, s) with -C=C-H; C-H bend shows the presence of alkynes. As seen in quartz, new groups were 1994 cm−1 (w) with -C=C- stretch which show the presence of alkyne groups, 1084 cm−1 (m) with C-N stretch shows aliphatic amine groups and 779 cm−1 (m) with C-H "oop" shows aromatics groups.
Finally FTIR studies were carried out for all the four minerals on interaction with extracellular proteins and are given in (Figure 5(a) and Figure 5(b)). The
Figure 3. FTIR spectra of (a) Cell free extract and (b) Interacted hematite and corundum.
Figure 4. FTIR spectra of (a) Cell free extract and (b) Interacted calcite and quartz.
Figure 5. FTIR spectra of (a) Extracellular proteins (EP) (b) Interacted hematite, corundum, calcite and quartz.
sharp peaks were not observed in case of hematite, corundum and quartz but calcite showed the presence of sharp and specific peaks. Hydroxyl groups, Carboxylic acids and 1˚ amines groups are not present in quartz and shows the difference between calcite and quartz after interaction. In case of hematite, 1268 cm−1 (m) with C-H Wag (-CH2X) shows the presence of alkyl halides, 815 cm−1 (m) with C-Cl stretch shows alkyl halide groups were observed, for corundum 3010 cm−1 (m) with =C-H stretch shows alkenes, 2217 cm−1 (w) with C=N stretch shows alkyne groups and 1914 cm−1 (m) with -C=C- stretch shows the presence of alkyne groups were seen, for calcite, 3168 cm−1 (s,b) with O-H stretching hydroxyl groups shows the presence of alcohols and phenols, 2654 cm−1 (m,b) with O-H stretching shows carboxylic acids, 1569 cm−1 (m) with N-H bend shows 1˚ amines, 842 cm−1 (m) with C-Cl stretch shows alkyl halide groups and also presence of calcite peaks, 666 cm−1 (m) with C-Br stretch, shows alkyl halides groups were found and in case of quartz only 754 cm−1 (m) with C-Cl stretch shows alkyl halide groups and 617 with C-Br stretch shows alkyl halides group were found.
4. Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization-Time of Flight (MALDI-TOF) Mass Spectrometry Studies
MALDI-TOF studies were performed to check the molecular weights of extracellular proteins secreted by bacteria in presence of minerals. The molecular weight of extracellular proteins of B. subtilis was in the range of 5000 - 10,000 Da (Figure 6) and in presence of hematite (Figure 7) molecular weight was found more i.e. 4000 - 18,000 Da, in case of corundum (Figure 8) and calcite (Figure 9) interacted EP molecular weight was found to be 4000 - 15,000 Da and quartz (Figure 10) interacted EP was found to be 4000 - 20,000 Da.
Similar studies were carried by using hematite, quartz, kaolinite and apatite from geological museum of China and their purities were found to be around 99% [15] . The findings of FTIR spectra of corundum are in agreement with [16] and the results obtained by [15] for interaction of hematite before and after with R. erythropolis have shown that after interaction, new surface species were found and it also proved that adsorption occurs mainly chemical adsorption which makes hematite surface hydrophobic and enhance the floatability. Similar functional groups in quartz have been observed by [17] wherein they have shown
Figure 6. MALDI-TOF mass spectrum of control.
Figure 7. MALDI-TOF mass spectrum EP in presence of hematite.
Figure 8. MALDI-TOF mass spectrum EP in presence of corundum.
that in presence of R. opacus calcite showed the characteristic bands of carbonates. The FTIR spectra of cell free extract interacted with minerals were observed by [16] and the shift in peaks was observed due to the presence of polysaccharides on hematite and corundum. Similar results in case of quartz which shows the presence of proteinaceous groups also observed by [18] . Similar studies of interaction with extracellular proteins were carried out for sphalerite and galena. MALDI-TOF studies were performed to check the molecular weights of extracellular proteins secreted by bacteria in presence of minerals and
Figure 9. MALDI-TOF mass spectrum EP in presence of calcite.
Figure 10. MALDI-TOF mass spectrum EP in presence of quartz.
are in agreement with the results obtained through SDS-PAGE. Similar findings have been reported by [6] in case of cytosolic proteins of At. ferrooxidans. FTIR and MALDI-TOF studies give us substantial understanding about the functional groups which will help us to prepare right floatation and flocculating agents to make the technology more efficient.
The characterization of minerals and growth kinetics of Bacillus subtilis was established. With relevance to iron ore beneficiation, growth kinetics of B. subtilis cells exhibited highest affinity towards hematite when compared to corundum, calcite and quartz. Bacterial adhesion was observed to be significantly higher on hematite and hematite could be effectively separated from corundum, calcite and quartz through microbially induced selective flocculation and flotation.
Extracellular protein exhibited higher affinity towards quartz compared to calcite and corundum and extracellular protein exhibited lower affinity towards hematite. Mineral induced proteins were expressed when bacterial cells were adapted to quartz, corundum, calcite and hematite. Mineral specific intracellular proteins were expressed when bacterial cells were grown in presence of hematite, corundum, calcite and quartz.
The FTIR studies showed significant appearance of new functional groups on interaction of minerals and the MALDI-TOF results showed the secretion of higher molecular weight of proteins and these results are in accord with those obtained by SDS-PAGE analyses.
The authors are thankful to Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), Government of India, New Delhi for financial support, Indian Institute of Science and Bangalore University for the infrastructure.
Cite this paper: Sarvamangala, H. , Raghavendra, V. and Girisha, S. (2017) Biobenefication of Oxide Minerals from Bacillus subtilis Using FTIR and MALDI-TOF Techniques. Journal of Environmental Protection, 8, 194-205. doi: 10.4236/jep.2017.82015.
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I lasted about a week as a new mom before reaching out to others in my situation online. As exhausted, cranky, and confused as I was, I needed friends.
It didn't take long for this gaggle of desperate, sleepless women to meet up in person ... — Kim Bongiorno
There are ten in a circle and everyone wants to speak and no one cares what the other person presently speaking is talking about. Someone starts crying about having been molested as a child; someone starts crying about a dead mother; someone wants to go to Las Vegas. You slip out the side door and into your car. It is five-thirty in the morning and the sky is the color of a three-day-old bruise. It is beautiful. — Patrick DeWitt
That fool of a fairy Lucinda did not intend to lay a curse on me. She meant to bestow a gift. When I cried inconsolably through my first hour of life, my tears were her inspiration. Shaking her head sympathetically at Mother, the fairy touched my nose. "My gift is obedience. Ella will always be obedient. Now stop crying, child."
I stopped. — Gail Carson Levine
When a child encounters something he or she does not want, that child has all kinds of maneuvers to avoid it, such as crying, hiding, or fighting ... Unless we are taught to face our problems directly and work through them, the pattern of avoidance will be repeated; it can be a natural, accepted way to act. — Tarthang Tulku
And when I'd be reporting in Israel, Palestinians would say, the Jews they're not like us, and the Jews would say the same things about the Palestinians, they don't want what we want. And I never bought it as a reporter and I don't buy it as a novelist. I think, you know, the sound of somebody crying for their lost child sounds the same. — Geraldine Brooks
The function of mindfulness is, first, to recognize the suffering and then to take care of the suffering. The work of mindfulness is first to recognize the suffering and second to embrace it. A mother taking care of a crying baby naturally will take the child into her arms without suppressing, judging it, or ignoring the crying. Mindfulness is like that mother, recognizing and embracing suffering without judgement.
So the practice is not to fight or suppress the feeling, but rather to cradle it with a lot of tenderness. When a mother embraces her child, that energy of tenderness begins to penetrate into the body of the child. Even if the mother doesn't understand at first why the child is suffering and she needs some time to find out what the difficulty is, just her acto f taking the child into her arms with tenderness can alreadby bring relief. If we can recognize and cradle the suffering while we breathe mindfully, there is relief already. — Thich Nhat Hanh
Those years of anger weren't just directed inward and towards others, I was also angry with God. As a kid, when I sang songs in the children's choir and memorized verses in bible study, I was told there was a God who loved and protected us. He was a jealous God and could be angered, yes, but He always showed grace and mercy towards His people. I must not have been one of His people. He never protected me. As a matter of fact, I remember crying and pleading to God to make it stop when I was in DC being raped at five years old. I thought he heard my prayers when I moved to New Jersey. But when the abuse became worse and more frequent, it was easy for me to conclude God's protection didn't apply to me. — Elona Washington
Once, when I was about ten, we were approaching the ranch after veering north to look at some pasturage when we saw a small barefoot boy racing along the hot road with terror in his face. My father just managed to stop him. Though incoherent with fear, the boy managed to inform us that his little brother had just drowned in the horse trough. My father grabbed the boy and we went racing up to the farmhouse, where the anguished mother, the drowned child in her arms, was sobbing, crying out in German, and rocking in a rocking chair. Fortunately the boy was not quite dead. My father managed to get him away from his mother long enough to stretch him out on the porch and squeeze the water out of him. In a while the boy began to belch dirty fluids and then to breathe again. The crisis past, we went on home. The graceful German mother brought my father jars of her best sauerkraut for many, many years. — Larry McMurtry
No tears are wasted. It is deepest soul soothing. — Lailah Gifty Akita
Simply put, we can be prideful if we revere our body or loathe it. Pride is preoccupation with self. Instead, we ought to view our bodies realistically. Our body houses our soul. Our body reflects our character. With our body, we hug a crying child, listen to an exasperated friend, and hold our husband's hand. Our bodies are fearfully and wonderfully made - to experience pain, joy, loss, laughter, and anger. God's desire for us is to honor him with every part of us - including our body. — Mary E. DeMuth
A new degree of anger came over him. What did it all matter? What did it matter if the mother talked Polish and cried in labour, if this child were stiff with resistance, and crying?Why take it to heart?Let the mother cry in labour, let the child cry in resistance, since they would do so. Why should he fight against it, why resist? Let it be, if it were so. Let them be as they were, if they insisted. — D.H. Lawrence
Ouma Nella's quotes p 144 -146
"Man, if you don't know where you going, any road will bring you there."
"It don't matter how far a river run. It never forget where it come from. That is all that is important."
"No matter if it's wet or dry," she grunt. "As long as you keep a green branch in your heart, there will always be a bird that come to sing in it."
"It's no use crying in the rain, my child, because no one will see your tears.
"Don't think you can climb two trees at the same time just because you got two legs."
"Ouma Nella, where am I not?"
"But you're right here with me, Philida. So there's many places where you're not."
"Tell me where those places are. I got to know. So I can go and look for myself. — Andre Brink
One crying child is the rotten apple in the barrel of the tribe! — Alice Walker
When and where will another come to take your holy place?
Old man mumbling in his dotage, or crying child, unborn? — Margaret Walker
Pity! Ha, ha! I have never known
pity, since you deserted me. I was incapable of feeling it. If
a poor starved child came into my kitchen, shivering, and crying,
and begging for a morsel of food, I let the servants look to it.
I never felt any desire to take the child to myself, to warm it
at my own hearth, to have the pleasure of seeing it eat and be
satisfied. And yet I was not like that when I was young; that I
remember clearly! It is you that have created an empty, barren
desert within me
and without me too! — Henrik Ibsen
I didn't want to invade his
privacy; I didn't want to fight with him; I didn't want anyone else to ever hurt him. I just wanted
him to be a child forever." She glanced up, crying harder now. "But you can't do that, if you're a
parent. Because part of your job is letting them grow up. — Jodi Picoult
God is a child who amuses himself, going from laughing to crying for no reason, each day reinventing the world to the chagrin of hair-splitters, pedants, and preachers, who try to teach God his job as Creator. — Elie Faure
I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do. — Dwayne Johnson
There is something deeply unsettling about a child crying insincerely. — Emma Forrest
When I first started to remember specific memories of abuse, I felt like I had a storm cloud over me for about two or three days beforehand. When the memory finally surfaced, I felt like I was alone in a dark cave. I stayed in bed just thinking and crying and eating chocolate. I wrote in my healing journal and talked it out with a friend. I examined what I thought and how I felt and cried some more. It was agonizing. The more issues I faced, the stronger I got. It wasn't a pleasant process, but I knew it would be over in a few days and I would feel alive again. With each memory, I recovered faster and I had longer and longer breaks in between them. Facing them made me stronger. I was able to see more and more of the truth without it overwhelming me. Even though the memories increased in intensity, it was easier to deal with them. — Christina Enevoldsen
All these young mothers chauffeuring their volcanic three-year-olds through the grocery store. The child's name always sounds vaguely presidental, and he or she tends to act accordingly. "Mommy hears what you're saying about treats," the woman will say, "But right now she needs you to let go of her hair and put the chocolate-covered Life Savers back where they came from."
"No!" screams McKinley or Madison, Kennedy or Lincoln or beet-faced baby Reagan. Looking on, I always want to intervene. "Listen," I'd like to say, "I'm not a parent myself, but I think the best solution at this point is to slap that child across the face. It won't stop its crying, but at least now it'll be doing it for a good reason. — David Sedaris
I love romantic comedies. I love romantic movies. I'm kind of a sucker for them, and, sort of end up crying at the end of them all, like a child. — Elijah Wood
Consider the emotional patterns of infants. Have you ever noticed how changeable they are? A baby may be crying lustily, but if you say, "Goo, goo, goo" and call his attention to something else, suddenly he's giggling. But ten seconds later, he can be crying again. A child's emotions are like that until he gets to a point where the highs and lows are less extreme. Likewise, in spiritual growth, we tend to follow a generally upward trend in which our ups and downs, over time, become less severe. As we grow in maturity, we settle into a more consistent pattern of spiritual behavior.
But — R.C. Sproul
When I was a child her sureness enraged me (regardless of the argument involved). It was a sureness that revealed - at least to my eyes - how, behind the bravado, she was vulnerable and hesitent, whereas I wanted her to be invincible. Consequently, I would contradict whatever it was she was being so certain about, in the hope we might discover something else, which we could question together with a shared confidence. Yet what happened, in fact, was that my counterattacks, made her more frail than she usually was, and the two of us would be drawn, helpless, into a malestrom of perdition and lamentation, silently crying out for an angel to come and save us. On no such occasion did an angel come. — John Berger
She was crying, silently, holding my arm, crying. I let her cry a while, held her close, felt her snot and tears on my shoulder, wanted to cry myself, why is that, when I hear a child cry on the train it makes me sad, see a stranger weep and feel tears come to my eyes, a weakness, perhaps, a place where emotion hasn't become accustomed to the extremities of feeling. — Claire North
Instead he thinks up the worst ending imaginable: Hemingway has Catherine die from
hemorrhaging after their child is stillborn. It is the most torturous ending I have ever
experienced and probably will ever experience in literature, movies, or even television.
I am crying so hard at the end, partly for the characters, yes, but also because Nikki
actually teaches this book to children. I cannot imagine why anyone would want to
expose impressionable teenagers to such a horrible ending. Why not just tell high school
students that their struggle to improve themselves is all for nothing? — Matthew Quick
I might try that one thing, you know, that thing people do when their eyes get all wet and stupid - what's it called? Crying?
Or NOT. I might PUNCH you instead and trust that you won't punch me back because of my endearing smallness. It would be like punching a child. — Laini Taylor
Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain. — Kangana Ranaut
It is the haunted premises of longing that the true love song inhabits. It is a howl in the void, for love and for comfort and it lives on the lips of the child crying for his mother. It is the song of the lover in need of her loved one, the raving of the lunatic supplicant petitioning his God ... The love song is the sound of our endeavors to become God-like, to rise up and above the earthbound and the mediocre. — Nick Cave
I tucked my arm under my head and started crying like a child. I was perishing from exhaustion. I was worn and miserable and I loved crying. I couldn't do anything else. I gave in to it fully. I felt that profound release of the utterly grief-stricken. I didn't give a damn who saw or heard. I cried and cried. — Anne Rice
She didn't have any intention of crying. The tears caught her by surprise. She knew she was behaving like a child, that she was being terribly foolish and emotional, but she didn't know how to stop herself.
"Judith?" His thumb brushed away one of the tears on her cheek. "Tell me why you're crying."
"There weren't any flowers. Iain, there should have been flowers."
Her voice had been so soft, he wasn't certain he understood her. "Flowers?" he asked.
"Where weren't there any flowers?"
He waited for her to explain, but she stubbornly remained silent. He squeezed her.
"In the chapel."
"What chapel?"
"The one you don't have," she answered. — Julie Garwood
The volcanic bubbling of everything in one pan made it very difficult to hear a crying child on the doorstep. — Ainslie Hogarth
I received so many hate letters when I breast-fed a starving baby in Africa. I was in Sierra Leone in 2009 and I was weaning my child at that time - she was not there with me. There was a hungry baby who was crying because his mother had no milk, and I thought, 'Why throw away my milk if I can give it to a baby who needs it?' — Salma Hayek
The Crying Child found a Mountain where others who had suffered had gone to learn to live through letting go. They learned that one must not struggle to change the unchangeable. That the only peace to be found is the peace of acceptance. — Hannah Hart
It's a fool who thinks that having a kid is a right, which is the biggest crock of fishheads I've ever heard. You have a responsibility, not only to a person but also to a spirit because that's what a child is. A pissing, crying, yawning, giggling, laughing package of spirit that is looking for you to take the lead. It's a heck of a responsibility to look after a spirit. — Carew Papritz
Every time a war ends, under a beautiful sun, on the face of a crying child; I see a rainbow of hope over the innocent teardrops. — Mehmet Murat Ildan
As Laird of Badenoch, Will is a man of property and power. He needs an heir." She shook her head sadly. "I canna give him one."
"Ye've only been wed a few years. Give it time." A wistful smile lifted Margaret's lips, "Enjoy the making of a child. When all ye can hear in the night is one or another of your bairns crying, ye'll be wishing for the days when the only reason ye lost sleep was trying to give your man his heir. — Mia Marlowe
Tentatively, I presented the idea of being naked with Austin to the gallery of my neuroses. It was a loud, raucous meeting. Sex-Drive was bouncing around like a child on Pixy Stix, saying "yes yes yes" over and over again. Vanity suggested that the things in the [safe sex] book would not improve the way I looked in the slightest. Insecurity and Doubt argued over what would be more awful; when Austin saw me naked or when my sexual inexperience made itself evident and he laughed at me. Optimism sulked off to the side because I never listened to it. Prudence recommended tabling the discussion indefinitely. Curiosity wanted to look at the pictures some more. Shyness just sat in the corner, rocking back and forth and crying. — Chris O'Guinn
There's no harm in a child crying: the harm is done
only if his cries aren't answered ... If you ignore
a baby's signal for help, you don't teach him
ndependence ... What you teach him is that no
other human being will take care of his needs — Lee Salk
Don't stand unmoving outside the door of a crying baby whose only desire is to touch you. Go to your baby. Go to your baby a million times. Demonstrate that people can be trusted, that the environment can be trusted, that we live in a benign universe. — Peggy O'Mara
Slowly he took out the clothes in which, ten years beforem Cosette had left Montfermeil; first the little dress, then the black scarf, then the great heavy child's shoes Cosette could still almost have worn, so small was her foot, then the vest of very thich fustian, then the knitted petticoat, the the apron with pockets, then the wool stockings ... Then his venerable white head fell on the bed, this old stoical heart broke, his face was swallowed up, so to speak, in Cosette's clothes, and anybody who had passed along the staircase at that moment would have heard irrepressible sobbing. — Victor Hugo
Only do not forget, if I wake up crying
it's only because in my dream I'm a lost child
hunting through the leaves of the night for your hands ... — Pablo Neruda
As a child, as a cinemagoer, I think there is nothing better than being in a cinema or watching a film. I think it's just a while magical ... it almost feels like you're at a big party in India, where you're singing, you're dancing, you're laughing, you're crying, you feel like you're at a wedding because our films invariably cover all emotions. — Karan Johar
For its survival, the satanic cult demanded secrecy and obedience while it made brutality, even killing, appropriate. Denial and disavowal were inevitable responses to required behaviors so bizarre as to seem unreal, even to those who enacted them. What they could not deny or disavow, they could distort. They could blame the victims, who deserved to die for fighting or crying or for failing to fight or cry. They found encouragement for such a stance in a general culture accustomed to blaming victims for their misfortunes, and in specific contact with child victims eager to blame themselves. By believing that victims had a choice when there was none, they could see victims as culpable. They could even see the deaths as right and purposeful in the nobility of sacrifice. — Judith Spencer
She kept repeating that if she had dedicated herself assiduously to every child in the neighborhood, in a generation everything would change, there would no longer be the smart and the incompetent, the good and the bad. Then she looked at her son and again burst out crying. — Elena Ferrante
Other letters simply relate the small events that punctuate the passage of time: roses picked at dusk, the laziness of a rainy Sunday, a child crying himself to sleep. Capturing the moment, these small slices of life, these small gusts of happiness, move me more deeply than all the rest. A couple of lines or eight pages, a Middle Eastern stamp or a suburban postmark ... I hoard all these letters like treasure. One day I hope to fasten them end to end in a half-mile streamer, to float in the wind like a banner raised to the glory of friendship.
It will keep the vultures at bay. — Jean-Dominique Bauby
The child inside me wouldn't stop crying. Every time it loses something so important to it. A person or a thing it loves the most, I pretend like nothing happened. But I hear it sobbing helplessly inside me. And the pathetic part of all this is, It neither grows up nor dies. Every time I stand in front of a mirror, it stares at me through my eyes. With its tear-stained face and that intense eyes that rip my ribs apart and the cry of it echoes through every room of my soul. — Akshay Vasu
Some people think ignoring their inner child makes them seem grown-up. When I see someone ignoring a crying child, I think they're an asshole. — Jay Bell
Soothing touch, whether it be applied to a ruffled cat, a crying infant, or a frightened child, has a universally recognized power to ameliorate the signs of distress. How can it be that we overlook its usefulness on the jangled adult as well? What is it that leads us to assume that the stressed child merely needs "comforting," while the stressed adult needs "medicine"? — Deane Juhan
There are so many things to grieve ... All the dogs & cats & birds & snakes we have loved & lost, & old lovers, but what else? ... it took me forever to see that one of them was my own daughter, my baby, a young woman I thought of only as a girl, a child, & there she was, suddenly a woman, & I felt this ache gnaw at me as if I hadn't eaten in a year ... I stood there watching my daughter gesture & move & laugh with the grace of a grown-up, & I just started crying like a baby. It wasn't unlike the same type of sorrow we all feel when we realize something we once had that was very precious is not longer there. That it is forever lost, changed, deceased. Like a baby, gone, except in your memory ... My own daughter is now a woman. I get it. Another passage, another form of loss, another reason to grieve, another part of this life process. — Kris Radish
May God have mercy upon us! So many of us are children and are only interested in the presents and the gifts and the entertainments. That is not proof that we are truly born again. The Devil can counterfeit experiences and gifts and most other things, but there is one thing the Devil cannot do, and that is give us a desire for a personal knowledge of God. The Devil can give you an interest in theology and encourage it; as you go on, you become more and more proud of your vast knowledge. That is not what I am talking about. I am talking about the crying out of a child's need for his or her Father, the true filial cry and desire. The Devil cannot counterfeit that; he knows nothing about it, and he cannot produce it. Only one person can produce it; that is God himself through the Spirit as he implants within us a seed of this living life. — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
A child's cry touches a father's heart, and our King is the Father of his people. If we can do no more than cry it will bring omnipotence to our aid. A cry is the native language of a spiritually needy soul; it has done with fine phrases and long orations, and it takes to sobs and moans; and so, indeed, it grasps the most potent of all weapons, for heaven always yields to such artillery. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon
It's way too long and I gave up on it. Abandoning forever an innocent child to a hostile and unforgiving land. Sometimes I still hear him crying late at night. He sounds exactly like a malfunctioning air conditioner. — Yahtzee Croshaw
This child-like spirit soon perceives the grandeur of the Father "in heaven," and ascends to devout adoration, "Hallowed be Thy name." The child lisping, "Abba, Father," grows into the cherub crying, "Holy, Holy, Holy. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon
It is a grave injustice to a child or adult to insist that they stop crying. One can comfort a person who is crying which enables him to relax and makes further crying unnecessary; but to humiliate a crying child is to increase his pain, and augment his rigidity. We stop other people from crying because we cannot stand the sounds and movements of their bodies. It threatens our own rigidity. It induces similar feelings in ourselves which we dare not express and it evokes a resonance in our own bodies which we resist. — Alexander Lowen
From the night into his high-walled room there came, persistently, that evanescent and dissolving sound - something the city was tossing up and calling back again, like a child playing with a ball. In Harlem, the Bronx, Gramercy Park, and along the water-fronts, in little parlors or on pebble-strewn, moon-flooded roofs, a thousand lovers were making this sound, crying little fragments of it into the air. All the city was playing with this sound out there in the blue summer dark, throwing it up and calling it back, promising that, in a little while, life would be beautiful as a story, promising happiness - and by that promise giving it. It gave love hope in its own survival. It could do no more. — F Scott Fitzgerald
I can write with a crying child on my lap. I have. Often. — David Baldacci
Then the crying started. First one child, a little girl called Jen from across the street, then another, then another, until the June afternoon sounded like a vacation in hell. — Kyle M. Scott
They wouldn't have understood if they found him crying, when he woke and remembered all at once that he had once had a wife and child, so they never found him this way. — Thomm Quackenbush
A thousand times today I've started to open my mouth, started to squeak out, Can you tell me ... ? But then I'd look into the front seat, at my mother's silent shaking, my father's grim profile, the mournful bags under his eyes, and all the questions I might ask seemed abusive. Assault and battery, a question mark used like a club. My parents are old and fragile. I'd have to heartless to want to hurt them. — Margaret Peterson Haddix
During McCarthyism, teachers feared for their jobs if they belonged to a left-wing group. Today teachers fear for their jobs if they hug a crying child. As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence. — Carol Tavris
He tells my parents how I took every class he taught. He tells them, "You have a special boy here." Embarrassed, I look at my feet. Before we leave, I hand my professor a present, a tan briefcase with his initials on the front. I bought this the day before at a shopping mall. I didn't want to forget him. Maybe I didn't want him to forget me.
"Mitch, you are one of the good ones," he says, admiring the briefcase. Then he hugs me. I feel his thin arms around my back. I am taller than he is, and when he holds me, I feel awkward, older, as if I were the parent and he were the child.
He asks if I will stay in touch, and without hesitation I say, "Of course." When he steps back, I see that he is crying. — Mitch Albom
This habit starts awfully early. Social psychologist Marilynn Brewer, who has been studying the nature of stereotypes for many years, once reported that her daughter returned from kindergarten complaining that "boys are crybabies."25 The child's evidence was that she had seen two boys crying on their first day away from home. Brewer, ever the scientist, asked whether there hadn't also been little girls who cried. "Oh yes," said her daughter. "But only some girls cry. I didn't cry." Brewer's little girl was already dividing the world, as everyone does, into us and them. Us is the most fundamental social category in the brain's organizing system, and it's hardwired. — Carol Tavris
Our seats were in the balcony. Nosebleeds. But you don't go to Yo-Yo Ma for the view, and the sound was incredible. That man has a way of making the cello sound like a crying woman one minute, a laughing child the next. Listening to him, I'm always reminded of why I started playing cell in the first place
that there is something so human and expressive about it. — Gayle Forman
By the time she a year old Mae Mobley following me around everwhere I go ... .Miss Leefolt, she'd narrow up her eyes at me like I done something wrong, unhitch that crying baby off my foot. I reckon that's the risk you run, letting somebody else raise you chilluns — Kathryn Stockett
Oh my gosh," Somer whispers, one hand flying up to her mouth. "She's beautiful."
Krishnan fumbles with the papers and reads, "Asha. That's her name. Ten months old."
"What does it mean?" she asks.
"Asha? Hope." He looks up at her, smiling. "It means hope."
"Really?" She gives a little laugh, crying as well. "Well, she must be ours then."
She grasps his hand, intertwining their fingers, and kisses him.
"That's perfect, really perfect."
She rests her head on his shoulder as they stare at the photo together.
For the first time in a very long time, Somer feels a lightness in her chest. How can it be I'm already in love with this child, half a world away? The next morning, they send a telegram to the orphanage, stating they are coming to get their daughter. — Shilpi Somaya Gowda
Why are you wailing away? What is the matter with you?"
"I was playing and - " and her lip quivered as she spoke, " - and it was cloudy, and then - " a sniff, " - and then, as I was playing, the sun came out."
I gave her a flat look. "You're crying because the sun came out?"
"Yes," she moped, wiping the tears from her eyes, "the sun came out, and now - " she heaved, " - and now, it's hot! I don't like it when it's hot. Being hot is dumb!"
I immediately absolved her of all previous sins. I slumped over the sill and gave her as much sympathy as my now warm face allowed. "Yes, child, being hot is very dumb indeed. Very well, you have a reason for crying. But then why are you outside?"
"Because it was too hot inside and mommy won't let me have ice cream."
"Well, there is your problem. You must get an air conditioner and a new mother. — Michelle Franklin
My mom had an audition for a commercial when I was about two and a half, and I ran in crying and interrupted her. They thought I was cute so they offered me a commercial role. My mom was skeptical and a bit nervous about the child actor thing, but I was extremely bossy and convinced them I wanted to try it. — Mae Whitman
The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?' — Alice Walker
I opened my louvres and looked at Comfort, walking in the heavy rain, crying bitterly.
I heard mom saying, Anywhere you want to go, you can, but don't come back again to this house.
Comfort was beautiful, but her stealing attributes brought reproach on her and painted her beauty with dark impressions.
I looked at her, walking barefooted on the muddy ground congested with rain water. — Michael Bassey Johnson
But once in a while I see a child crying with the deepest of desperation, and I think it is one of the truest sounds a child can make. — Elizabeth Strout
And while all of your friends are grieving at your wake, I hope the sprinkler system turns on and sprays them with AIDS, hepatitis C and liquified genital warts. And while they're all running out and crying, I hope one of them slips and accidentally molests a child. — Jim Norton
I have never, ever slept through my child crying unless I have had a sleeping tablet; and I only take a sleeping tablet when I know Steve, my husband, is on duty. We take turns: he does one night, I do the next. — Deirdre O'Kane
And at that very moment, when the kiss was laid on the boy's head, and the mother's arm were firmly wrapped around her child as they'd been when she'd first held him, when she'd first cradled him as a baby, when she'd held him as a child crying over some lost bauble, when she'd held him as a boy when a fever had come on strong, when she'd held him as a young man in the full throat of summer, and when the horse had thrown him and he lay motionless on the flagstones and she'd held him then- at that very moment, the ivy ceased its endless writhings and lapsed into immobility and fell quiet. — Colin Meloy
Because we know that our feelings are ourselves, we do not neglect or overrule them. We embrace them affectionately in the arms of mindfulness, as a mother embraces her newborn child when it cries. A mother embraces the child with all her love for the child to feel comforted and stop crying. Mindfulness nourished by conscious breathing takes the feelings in its arms, becomes one with them, calms and transforms them. — Thich Nhat Hanh
In the Trees ON LOU'S SWEET, ROUND, BRISTLY FACE WAS THE LOOK OF A CHILD who has just seen a car back over his favorite toy. Tears sprang to his eyes, the brightest thing in the dark. It distressed her to see him nearly crying, to see his shock and disappointment, but the sound of the handcuff snapping shut - that sharp, clear click, echoing on the frozen — Joe Hill
Caine usually woke from the recurring dream mid-air, having yet to be dashed upon the rocks, whimpering and panting like a child crying for his mother. Now he lifted his eyes to a dark, empty room in Jizan and the unusual, lingering scent of roses, and wept in his hands for his Father. — V.S. Carnes
Eyes so young, so full of pain ... Two lonely drops of winter rain ... And no tear could these eyes sustain ... For too much had they seen. — Shaun Hick
Marcus sat down beside me against the wall and pulled me into his arms. I went like a child and curled up in his lap and cried. He didn't speak. He just held me, and his silence and acceptance soothed the pain. When my crying eventually mellowed, I stared up at him and touched his face. He was real, and he was here. Even after I had been the reason he lost his job, he had come to me in the darkness. "Saddie," he whispered, as if his words might be too much for me. "I need you to eat for me. — Abbi Glines
Anyone who has undergone home repair lately knows that your everyday artisan uses language so loosely and makes false promises so glibly as to make your politicians, even the presidential candidate, seem like a model of accuracy and rectitude. 'Be there Wednesday at nine,' the workman will tell you. It is a lie. He is humoring you. He says it to silence you, the way you tell a child you will take it to Disneyland if it will stop crying. — Mary McGrory
What I really want to say is who the hell are you and who are you to decide who gets to die. Who are you to decide who should be killed. Who are you tell me which father I should destroy and which child I should orphan and which mother should be left without her son, which brother should be left without a sister, which grandmother should spend the rest of her life crying in the early hours of the morning because they body of her grandchild was buried in the ground before her own. — Tahereh Mafi
They died crying in their minds like little babies. They forgot the thing they were fighting for the thing they were dying for. They thought about things a man can understand. They died yearning for the face of a friend. They died whimpering for the voice of a mother a father a wife a child. They died with their hearts sick for one more look at the place where they were born please god just one more look. They died moaning and sighing for life. They knew what was important. They knew that life was everything and they died with screams and sobs. They died with only one thought in their minds and that was I want to live I want to live I want to live. — Dalton Trumbo
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When you practice Dynamic Meditation for the first time this will be difficult, because we have suppressed the body so much that a suppressed pattern of life has become natural to us. It is not natural! Look at a child: he plays with his body in quite a different way. If he is crying, he is crying intensely. The cry of a child is a beautiful thing to hear, but the cry of an adult is ugly. Even in anger a child is beautiful; he has a total intensity. But when an adult is angry he is ugly; he is not total. And any type of intensity is beautiful. — Rajneesh
Every promise we kept, every squeeze of the hand, every secretive smile we exchanged, every crying child we comforted- every one of those moments narrowed the distance between us. — Nadia Hashimi
Go on, glare your eyes at me, and cry and plead, and talk to
me about money and what it can buy. But it can't buy back a child once he's dead! — V.C. Andrews
When the crying child is immediately isolated, and it is explained to him at the same time that whoever annoys others must not be with them, if this isolation is the absolute result and cannot be avoided, in the child's mind a basis is laid for the experience that one must be alone when one makes oneself unpleasant or disagreeable. — Ellen Key
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The primary outcome was a composite of cardiovascular death, myocardial infarction (MI), or stroke. Mean blood pressure at baseline was 146/80 mm Hg and during treatment 133/73 mm Hg and lower diastolic blood pressures were achieved with the amlodipine-based regimen.
In the hypertensive patients of normal weight or those who were overweight but not obese, the combination of the benazepril and amlodipine was significantly more effective at reducing cardiovascular events than the combination of benazepril and hydrochlorothiazide (HR 0.57, P=0.0037). The amlodipine-based regimen also was superior in overweight patients (HR 0.76, P=0.03) but not in obese patients (P=0.31).
Weber M, et al "Effect of body mass on cardiovascular outcomes during hypertension treatment: an ACCOMPLISH analysis" ASH 2012; Abstract LB-OR-03.
This data indicates that thiazide-based therapy is associated with reduced CV protection in non-obese patients. One reason may be that thiazides may stimulate adverse mechanisms such as increased sympathetic tone and activation of the renin angiotensin system, leading to poorer cardiovascular outcomes. The molecular and pathophysiological mechanisms responsible for the differences observed in lean and overweight patients, compared with obese subjects, are not known at present.


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American Revolution: Aftermath
The Treaty of Paris (see Paris, Treaty of) formally recognized the new nation in 1783, although many questions were left unsettled. The United States was floundering through a postwar depression and seeking not too successfully to meet its administrative problems under the Articles of Confederation (see Confederation, Articles of).
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The American Revolution had a great influence on liberal thought throughout Europe. The struggles and successes of the youthful democracy were much in the minds of those who brought about the French Revolution, and most assuredly later helped to inspire revolutionists in Spain's American colonies.
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The moment was incredible on its own; that the CBS announcers saw fit to stay silent for two minutes and forty seconds and let the pictures and sounds from Augusta National's 18th green tell the story spoke not only to their judgment but also to the unmatched drama that makes television the most valuable medium there is.
A few hours later the season premiere of the final season of Game of Thrones brought drama of a different type: scripted, and expensive. The episode is expected to draw around 14 million viewers (and many millions more in pirated streams), and is already a cultural phenomenon.
The greatest drama of all in the television world, though, was on the surface far more banal: on Thursday Disney webcast its Investors Day 2019, where it not only gave details on its upcoming Disney+ streaming service specifically, but also clarified the future of TV generally. And, like any great drama, what is happening it not only a compelling story in its own right, but a lens with which to understand far more than the subject matter at hand.
In 2013, I posited that TV did multiple jobs for people: it informed, it educated, it provided a live view on sports and other breaking events, it told stories, and it offered an escape, from boredom if nothing else.
All of these jobs had the same business model: advertising. Consumers tuned in to watch programming, and native ads — that is, ads in the same format as the content they accompanied — were interspersed. Everything was aligned: consumers liked TV, they got it for free over the air, and advertisers wanted to reach as many people as possible with the most persuasive of mediums.
The picture began to change in the 1970s: communities across the country, particularly those whose remoteness or geography made it difficult for households to get a reliable broadcast signal, had for a couple of decades banded together to build a single large antenna to capture broadcast signals and then ran cable from that antenna to homes. It turned out, though, that those cables had both extra bandwidth and, even more importantly, no requirement for spectrum licenses, and first community access TV (i.e. TV that could only be accessed by the community attached to the community antenna network) and later, cable-only channels that leveraged satellite transmission to reach those community cable networks began to proliferate.
Over the ensuing years content companies realized that the reason consumers paid cable companies was because they wanted access to the creator's content (like the aforementioned NFL deal); that meant content companies could make the cable companies pay them ever increasing affiliate fees for that content. Even better, if multiple channels banded together, the resultant conglomerates — Viacom, NBCUniversal, Disney, etc. — could compel the cable companies to pay affiliate fees for all their channels, popular or not. And best of all, it was the cable companies who had to deal with consumers angry that their (TV-only) cable bills were rising from around $22 in 1995 to $54 in 2010.
It's difficult to overstate how lucrative this model was for everyone involved: content companies had guaranteed revenue and a dial to increase profits that seemed as if it could be turned endlessly; cable companies had natural monopolies that they soon augmented with broadband Internet service; and while consumers griped about their cable bill the truth is that bundles are a great deal.
I just mentioned, though, the elephant in the room: broadband Internet service.
It didn't take long for the Internet and its marginal distribution cost of zero to quickly take over some of TV's jobs: information and educational content, for example, were a natural fit for a medium unconstrained by linear time and a finite number of channels. Now you could look up information about anything you wanted to, and the rise of YouTube made that information available in video form.
Then, over the last decade, Netflix in particular has aggressively pursued the story telling and boredom-filling jobs that TV does: for a low-relative-to-cable monthly fee Netflix offers as much content as it could get its hands on, both licensed from traditional TV networks and increasingly Netflix-exclusive content from creators directly.
Note that in both cases — YouTube and Netflix — the experience and business model are superior to traditional television.
YouTube is ad-based, which on the surface seems similar to broadcast TV, but they are ads that can be applied to any and all content algorithmically; this aligns with a service that accepts all types of content, both broadly popular and incredibly niche, and which starts with search, not a channel guide.
Netflix, on the other hand, is subscription-based, which is broadly similar to cable TV, but without the intermediaries and advertising. That results in a far better experience for consumers, who can watch what they want when they want it without any annoyances.
This alignment is critical. Perhaps the single most defining feature of the Internet from a business perspective is the removal of the means of distribution as the primary point of differentiation in a value chain, and TV is a perfect example. What used to matter was first broadcast licenses and then cable, and everything else about the business flowed from there — that is why all of TV's "jobs" had the exact same business model.
On the Internet, though, anyone can reach everyone with anything. That dramatically increases competition for consumer attention, and to win that competition means developing a business model that is aligned with the job to be done. And, because there are many jobs, there will be many business models.
Look no further than that Disney investor event: while most of the time and subsequent attention was given to the new Disney+ offering, the company also spent time talking about ESPN+ and Hulu. At first glance, it might seem odd that the company has three distinct streaming services; why not put all of the company's efforts behind a single offering?
In fact, I just explained why: in a world where distribution mattered more than anything else it made sense for Disney to put all of its television properties together; that offered maximum leverage with the cable companies. On the Internet, though, it is best to start with jobs.
Sports are highly differentiated, which mean that people will pay more to get access; this is why ESPN was able to create the affiliate fee business model in the first place, and can continue to drive the highest fees in the industry — by far.
Sports are best consumed live, which means that traditional TV distribution like cable or satellite is in fact preferable to streaming. This is in part an issue of reliability but also the result of services like Twitter; speaking as someone who by virtue of my location consumes most sports via streaming, finding out about the big shot on your phone before you see it on your screen is incredibly frustrating.
Sports have natural breaks in the action which are perfect for advertising — and thanks to the previous point, there is no option to simply skip the commercials.
This is why I have argued that the traditional cable bundle will slowly become the de facto sports bundle; I would add news as well. This is the exact bet that Rupert Murdoch made with Fox; remember that Disney didn't buy the entire company: Murdoch kept the Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox Television Stations, Fox News Group, and the Fox Sports Media Group. What these assets have in common is that they are perfectly aligned with the traditional TV model: news and sports are best live and drive both advertising and affiliate fees.
To that end — and this is where ESPN+ comes in — one of the smartest moves Disney made in the last decade was going on a huge sports rights buying binge. Rights are the most valuable commodity for this business model, and ESPN tried to buy all of them (in part to prevent Fox in particular from encroaching on their dominance). At the same time, for all of the benefits of the traditional TV model, there is still the fundamental constraint of time: ESPN only has so many channels and so many slots to show games, which means it has the rights to many more games than it can ever show on its traditional networks.
Enter ESPN+: this service is not a new business model; it is simply an opportunity to earn incremental revenue on the assets (sports rights) that ESPN has already invested in. Sure, ESPN has and will acquire more rights for the service, and make some original programming, but make no mistake: traditional TV is and will remain the core business model for a very long time to come.
At the center, of course, are the Disney Studios, and rightly so. Not only does differentiated content drive movie theater revenue, it creates the universes and characters that earn TV licensing revenue, music recording revenue, and merchandise sales.
What has always made Disney unique, though, is Disneyland: there the differentiated content comes to life, and, given the lack of an arrow, I suspect not even Walt Disney himself appreciated the extent to which theme parks and the connection with the customer they engendered drive the rest of the business. "Disney" is just as much of a brand as it Mickey Mouse or Buzz Lightyear, with stores, a cable channel, and a reason to watch a movie even if you know nothing about it.
This is the only appropriate context in which to think about Disney+. While obviously Disney+ will compete with Netflix for consumer attention, the goals of the two services are very different: for Netflix, streaming is its entire business, the sole driver of revenue and profit. Disney, meanwhile, obviously plans for Disney+ to be profitable — the company projects that the service will achieve profitability in 2024, and that includes transfer payments to Disney's studios — but the larger project is Disney itself.
By controlling distribution of its content and going direct-to-consumer, Disney can deepen its already strong connections with customers in a way that benefits all parts of the business: movies can beget original content on Disney+ which begets new attractions at theme parks which begets merchandising opportunities which begets new movies, all building on each other like a cinematic universe in real life. Indeed, it is a testament to just how lucrative the traditional TV model is that it took so long for Disney to shift to this approach: it is a far better fit for their business in the long run than simply spreading content around to the highest bidder.
This is also why Disney is comfortable being so aggressive in price: the company could have easily tried charging $9.99/month or Netflix's $13.99/month — the road to profitability for Disney+ would have surely been shorter. The outcome for Disney as a whole, though, would be worse: a higher price means fewer customers, and given the multitude of ways that Disney has to monetize customers throughout their entire lives that would have been a poor trade-off to make.
There is other content in the app, including The Simpsons and a smattering of family-friendly Disney Studios movies that don't fall under these brands, but this is not a service that will be focused on acquiring content for content's sake, a la Netflix. This is about the larger Disney machine.
Instead it falls on Hulu to be the Netflix competitor, or, probably more accurately, the Netflix hedge. As long as Hulu is around Netflix is not the only alternative for selling streaming rights or original content that happens to exist for its own sake, not because it is part of something bigger. Disney, of course, makes plenty of that type of content as well (particularly after the 21st Century Fox acquisition) and would benefit from there being more buyers than fewer (even if one of the buyers is itself). Hulu also sells the traditional cable bundle as a streaming service, something else Disney remains interested in supporting.
It will also be interesting to see what sort of bundle offer Disney comes up with for Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+; thanks to Hulu Live that bundle could include basically all types of content except what is on Netflix (and Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV+ — more on those in a moment), which would make Disney not simply the Disney of the traditional TV bundle but the Comcast as well.
Netflix is an Aggregator, leveraging its massive subscriber base to buy the shows it wants from ever-weakening suppliers unable to break away from their traditional revenue streams, even if they are shrinking (thanks to Netflix). The focus for Netflix will be having all types of shows for all kinds of people all being charged a slowly-but-surely rising monthly rate. To put it another way, the best way to think about Netflix is not as a channel but rather as the new cable company, albeit one solely focused on evergreen content (i.e. not live).
Disney is, well, it's Disney, pursuing a strategy as unique as the company itself. Disney+ will be a popular service, but the goal is not to build an Aggregator like Netflix but rather something that enhances and expands the Disney machine. Hulu, meanwhile, will continue as a nominal Netflix competitor and general guardian of Disney's non-branded content businesses.
Traditional TV will be dominated by news and sports, with ESPN, Fox, and Turner the biggest players. All have very strong assets in sports and/or news, and will remain dependent (and why not!) on the traditional TV mix of advertising and ever-increasing affiliate fees.
The long tail of content, including most information and education, will continue to be dominated by YouTube and its advertising-based model.
The specialists include longtime direct-to-consumer networks like HBO and Showtime, as well as the various attempts by traditional networks to go direct-to-consumer. I suspect most of them will find it difficult to achieve the sort of scale with streaming that will justify making the sort of investments that Disney has committed to, leaving a muddle-along approach that includes traditional TV, sales to Netflix and Hulu, and standalone streaming services.
The resellers will help the specialists get in front of consumers and facilitate the transaction, taking a cut along the way. This was always the model for HBO and Showtime, but now instead of the cable companies being in the middle it is Amazon Prime Video and Roku, and later this year, Apple TV. I think this is also the best way to understand Amazon and Apple's original content ambitions; the point isn't to compete with Netflix, but rather to make their storefronts the place consumers go to to subscribe to other services.
Note that each of five categories does a different "job", and has a different business model; if "the single most defining feature of the Internet from a business perspective is the removal of the means of distribution as the primary point of differentiation in a value chain", it follows that the most important part of succeeding on the Internet is building a business model that aligns with jobs instead of the other way around.