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novel-title: The Legendary Moonlight Sculptor
title: "Vampiros True Blood"
date: 2017-03-04 12:51:22
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description:  Volume 3 - Capítulo 8
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introduction:
tradutor: Eccos
revisor: Eccos
editor: Eccos
fonte: http://royalroadweed.blogspot.com.br/2014/11/volume-3-chapter-8.html
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Weed conectou-se novamente e sentou-se calmamente ao lado de Alveron. Mesmo NPCs tinham que agir de uma certa maneira para melhorar seus níveis e habilidades.

*Obviamente, não foi um grande negócio*.

Na verdade, o portão de teletransporte tinha muitas opções especiais e, porque a caverna era o ponto de partida, ela era uma área segura e completamente protegida de monstros.

Alveron acordou e seguiu Weed enquanto ele tentava se esgueirar da caverna.

- Onde você está indo?
- Fazer reconhecimento. Me espere aqui.
- Sim. Eu esperarei por você aqui.

Alveron sentou-se de volta na caverna e Weed saiu sozinho da caverna.

Sabendo que Alveron estava a salvo, Weed começou a sair da caverna. Sair para caminhar neste lugar era como caminhar em gelo fino.

*Monstros…*

Ele estava suficientemente longe da caverna e o gigantesco castelo negro e a aldeia tinham desaparecido de vista.

Havia algo que ele tinha negligenciado durante o dia. As montanhas cobertas de neve e as aldeias estavam seguras, não havia monstros.

*Há pouquíssimos grupos de monstros, mas os monstros devem aparecer perto do rio*.

Weed cuidadosamente desceu a montanha. Lá no meio de um campo havia um bando de lobos pretos.

*Ainda não é a hora de lutar contra eles*.

Ele se abaixou em seus quatro membros e começou a se esgueirar, às vezes se escondendo atrás das rochas por um tempo e, finalmente, chegou à aldeia.

A aldeia, onde antigamente havia lojas com proprietários animados, estava agora em condição precária e abandonada. Toda a aldeia estava abandonada e quebrada.

*Parece impossível de se reabastecer*.

Essa era a diferença fundamental na chegada à Província de Morata. Ingredientes alimentares e ervas deveriam ter sido comprados tanto quanto fosse possível e deixados no ponto de partida/teletransporte. Era uma grande vantagem ter um excedente de suprimentos ao invés de não ter o suficiente. Contudo, Weed não poderia se arriscar a percorrer e procurar através da cidade.

*Ting*

Aviso: O frio penetrou mais profundamente em sua pele.

Habilidades físicas foram diminuídas em 14%.

Usar a armadura não teve nenhum efeito adicional. Uma tocha poderia ser usada para derrotar o frio, mas com fogo haveria fumaça e não era diferente de suicídio acender uma tocha aqui.

Weed decidiu apenas despender um pouco mais de tempo para patrulhar cuidadosamente a área por causa do frio.

Um grupo de vampiros passou.

O clã Vampiro True Blood.

Depois de um tempo, o grupo de vampiros partiu e um vagou sozinho.

Um vampirou tinha aparecido. Rosto pálido e um manto negro pendurado em seus corpos. Eles usavam joias e tinham anéis nas mãos.

- Benção.

Weed silenciosamente usou o anel do Sumo Sacerdote que ele estava usando para abençoar a si mesmo, uma luz o cobriu e foi emitida a partir de seu corpo.

*Ting*

A Benção do Sumo Sacerdote foi usada.

Durante 20 minutos as habilidades físicas serão aprimoradas.

Ele checou a sua janela de informações e o resultado foi surpreendente. Os atributos de Força, Agilidade, Estamina, Resistência e Vitalidade foram aumentados em 150%! Vida e Mana máximos foram aumentados em 30%, de modo que ele tinha tremendos 7.002 pontos de Vida e 6.002 pontos de Mana.

Weed investiu a maioria dos pontos de atributos que ele conseguiu atualizando Agilidade ou Força. Ele mal aumentou a sua Inteligência ou Estamina.

Ele era capaz de aumentar o atributo *Espírito de Luta* através de batalhas ao invés da Estamina, o que servia como um complemento.

*Isso é ótimo*.

Todavia, esse item fantástico só poderia ser usado por 20 minutos.

- Bandagens!

O incremento no máximo de Vida e Mana não era nada. Acompanhado pela habilidade de bandagem/atadura, o atributo Vitalidade também poderia ser efetivamente aumentado.

A sua habilidade com as bandagens já tinha avançado para o nível intermediário e a qualidade delas, junto com a habilidade de alto nível, era capaz de recuperar a Vida com uma tremenda velocidade.

A sua taxa de regeneração de mana foi aumentada em 10% devido ao efeito dos sete anéis em sua mão. No entanto, ainda faltavam algumas coisas e ele não estava pronto.

*Hora de comer*.

Weed fechou os olhos e comeu a comida, O Prato Pássaro Real do Dia. O alimento que foi criado a partir dos ovos de pássaro dos Avians.

A Mana e a Vida foram aumentadas em 500 pontos, mas ele ainda não estava pronto para a batalha. Weed segurou a espada e ativou a habilidade inata.

- Benção Sagrada.

Um buff que os sacerdotes sagrados usavam. Era uma habilidade de alto nível!

O corpo de Weed ficou coberto em uma luz gentil e graças à categoria superior da habilidade, a sua defesa aumentou em 40%.

A essa hora, o vampiro que Weed estava rastreando já tinha se escondido de seu campo de visão. Contudo, oculto atrás da parede da casa e vindo em direção à Weed estava o vampiro que tinha desaparecido.

- Então era daqui que o sentimento desagradável que eu senti estava vindo…

Parecia pelas palavras do vampiro que ele tinha sido atraído pelas bênçãos sagradas.

- Sculpting Blade!

Weed ficou surpreso com a aproximação repentina do vampiro. Ele correu para fora da casa e se apressou em usar a habilidade.

- O inimigo é um humano!

O vampiro bloqueou a espada de Weed com seu forte antebraço. Todavia, o dano horrendo da habilidade Sculpting Blade rompeu através da defesa do inimigo.

Não importa qual era o nível do inimigo. Quer fosse um coelho ou qualquer outra coisa, fazia pouca diferença para a habilidade Sculpting Blade. O dano era quase o mesmo para monstros com poderosa defesa como os vampiros.

- Kyahaha!

A Vida do vampiro diminuiu enquanto ele era atacado.

No entanto, como seria de se esperar, o vampiro não cedeu a partir de tal ataque de nível elevado e resistiu como se fosse a picada de um mosquito.

- Eu sugarei seu sangue humano!

O vampiro estendeu as suas mãos em direção à Weed, o qual foi pego por um ataque tão simples e ignorante e dois buracos foram perfurados na lateral do seu pescoço.

Esta deve ter sido uma experiência desagradável.

Weed agarrou e segurou o peito do vampiro enquanto caia e rolava para os lados. Ele prendeu o vampiro no chão coberto de neve.

*Certo. O dano foi maior do que eu esperava, mas de agora em diante será consideravelmente menor*.

Assim como a luta contra o Death Knight foi diferente das outras. O objetivo agora era melhorar a experiência de combate, coisa que habilidades e estatísticas não poderiam.

Weed fechou a janela de estatísticas que exibia a sua Vida e Mana. Ele examinou seu inimigo com seus olhos e sentiu a condição em que seu corpo estava.

Ele se concentrou em seu inimigo.

Ele era muito mais simplório agora comparado à quando ele jogava Continent of Magic, pois naquela época ele não sabia muito sobre o jogo. Ele sequer tinha um mapa para memorizar e quando encontrava um monstro forte, ele apenas lutava para aliviar o estresse.

Era prazeroso encontrar um inimigo um pouco mais forte e ele não precisava do conselho de outras pessoas, mas sim experimentar diretamente a ocasião por si próprio e resolver pessoalmente.

Sofrendo um frustrante processo de tentativa e erro e morrendo muito mais frequentemente do que os outros. No entanto, Weed foi o melhor que poderia ser! Era um desafio constante ser a pessoa que continuamente fazia o seu próprio caminho dia após dia.

Ele andou pelo caminho que os outros usuários geralmente não tomavam e caçou. Apreciar a batalha era muito mais simples do que antes. Em vez de batalhar com cliques do mouse e o do teclado, agora ele apreciava uma batalha de verdade.

Ele não podia negar a pressão exercida a partir de sua classe.

À medida que mais habilidades acumulam, em seguida, haverá muito mais coisas a se perder. Sempre que a morte vinha, haveria o medo de quantos níveis e até que ponto a proficiência da habilidade cairia.

Quando você luta contra monstros, ter pensamentos como estes aumenta a tensão e as pessoas não conseguem muito da batalha em si.

Lutar contra inimigos fortes, completar missões, a diversão do jogo era um trabalho que ele sinceramente gostava de fazer.

- Kuwawaak!

O rosto do vampiro de repente ficou distorcido. Desde então, ele começou a atacar com muito mais força e muito mais rápido.

- Golpe sétuplo!

Weed demonstrou suas habilidades na hora certa. Ele naturalmente pensou em quais habilidades usar no momento certo.

- As probabilidades estão contra você fugir.

Weed usou a habilidade Sculpting Blade ao redor do vampiro.

- Convocar morcegos!

O vampiro não evitou o ataque e abriu amplamente as suas mãos e um grupo de morcegos vampiros negros foi convocado.

- Matem ele!

Os morcegos convocados pelo vampiro batiam suas asas e voavam para o ar. Eles, em seguida, pousaram sobre Weed e sugaram seu sangue.

O monstro nobre, Vampiro!

Eles eram capazes de usar magia.

- Escudo, força, curar.

O vampiro ferido fortaleceu suas habilidades regenerativas para recuperar a sua vida.

Atacar o vampiro após ele recuperar a sua vida seria em vão. O dano causado em seu antebraço havia sido curado.

- Maldição!

Weed usou a sua espada para atacar os morcegos. O sangue dele estava sendo sugado pelos morcegos vampiros presos a ele durante a luta.

*Swish!*

O vampiro correu para Weed com uma velocidade esmagadora.

Já que a habilidade Sculpting Blade consumia muita Mana, ele não podia continuar a usá-la para lutar. Sem mana para fortalecer a sua espada, ele foi incapaz de dar o golpe fatal no vampiro.

Felizmente, a magia de cura do vampiro não recuperou toda a sua vida. O vampiro também já não tinha Mana suficiente para se curar.

*Funcionou! Ele está sem mana agora!*

O vampiro finalmente começou a sangrar. Seu rosto pálido ficou ainda mais branco devido à extrema fadiga enquanto se movia lentamente para frente. Contudo, uma mensagem apareceu para Weed.

*Ting*

Aviso: O efeito da Benção Sagrada desapareceu.

Seu atributo Força estava rapidamente diminuindo.

*Ting*

Aviso: Seu resfriado piorou!

A fim de superar o frio é recomendável usar roupas grossas ou se sentar próximo a uma fogueira.

Se o resfriado severo continuar por um longo período de tempo, então ele pode piorar a sua condição.

O resfriado pode levar a outras complicações!

Habilidades corporais foram reduzidas em 20%.

Efeitos das habilidades foram reduzidos em 30%.

Vida e Mana máximas foram reduzidas.

A espada ficou pesada e os movimentos de Weed se tornaram lerdos. A sua defesa foi reduzida em razão dos morcegos vampiros constantemente drenarem a sua vitalidade e à medida que o sangramento piorava, a sua Vida despencou e sua velocidade de movimento caiu.

- Humano!

O vampiro finalmente pegou Weed. A Vida atual do vampiro era inferior a 10%. Ele tentou chupar o sangue dele, mas com uma cabeçada vigorosa Weed disse:

- Isso ainda não acabou!

O vampiro não conseguia parar de rir quando olhou para Weed. Ele mal estava vivo e a sua Mana estava completamente esgotada, mas Weed estava em uma condição ainda pior. Ele não conseguia evitar que suas feridas sangrassem e fechou seus olhos.

Morte!

Ele desconectou.

Lee Hyun saiu da cápsula e cerrou seu punho. Ele tinha experimentado lutar contra um vampiro e como eles eram monstros de nível 270, eles eram fortes, muito fortes.

Ele estava usando a espada, bem como as bênçãos normais e as bênçãos sagradas. O equipamento era imensamente diferente das armas e equipamentos baratos que ele conseguiu a partir do Death Knight.

Isso demonstrou a proeminência dos monstros totalmente desenvolvidos de nível elevado, mas ele tinha um sentimento absoluto de que aquele não era um monstro que não poderia ser derrotado.

Lee Hyun apertou o punho e gritou:

- Os vampiros True Blood. Eu matarei todos eles!

***

Pale, Irene, Romuna e Surka tiveram que ensinar seus pais sobre o jogo na Cidadela de Serabourg e seus pais saíram para completar uma missão em uma masmorra.

Então eles decidiram entrar em contato com Weed.

- Ei Weed, você sabe as pessoas que você disse que entraram no jogo recentemente? Eu deveria passar e dizer um olá.
- Por que não? Eu não posso realmente ajudá-los agora, por isso seria bom se vocês pudessem dar-lhes uma mão.
- Certamente, já que eles são amigos e conhecidos de Weed.
- Sim, é impressionante que eles já estejam em sua segunda semana balançando a espada de madeira no Centro de Treinamento.

Pale e Surka sorriram carinhosamente enquanto recordavam como Weed era tremendamente forte lutando contra milhares de monstros.

Embora ele fosse um escultor, não havia ninguém com um manejo de espada tão forte. Eles ficaram surpresos e mal podiam acreditar que ele lutou contra monstros usando habilidades de luta com espadas tão engenhosas.

Essas eram as expectativas dos conhecidos de Weed.

- Não muito tempo atrás, nós éramos iniciantes, mas agora temos uma excelente compreensão do jogo.
- Isso é porque Weed é o melhor.

Quando eles foram para o Centro de Treinamento havia uma grande multidão.

- O que é isso? Há alguma coisa acontecendo aqui?
- Olhe lá. Agora fique surpreso.

Pale e seus companheiros olharam para onde as pessoas estavam apontando e viram um grande círculo. Mais de 500 pessoas estavam balançando uma espada de madeira em direção a um espantalho.

- Um, dois, três!

Eles estavam gritando e contando.

Havia 500 pessoas usando espadas de madeira e golpeando simultaneamente os espantalhos com um tempo preciso. Cada um de seus corpos movia-se na mesma velocidade e com os mesmos movimentos. Contudo, era o olhar em seus olhos o que mais surpreendeu Pale.

*Que atmosfera pesada*.

Ele podia sentir algo nos olhos deles e isso colocou uma pressão considerável em seu coração. A atmosfera aterrorizante parecia cerca de uma a duas vezes mais forte, já que vinha de 500 pessoas simultaneamente a partir do mesmo lugar.

*Eu acho que sei porque há tantas pessoas reunidas aqui*.

Era como se algo assim tivesse surgido naturalmente ao redor do Centro de Treinamento

- Huh, o que é isso?

Ele já estava perto das lágrimas a partir do mal-estar. Parecia que os conhecidos de Weed tinham um bando de pessoas assustadoras misturadas dentro.

- Isso é bom. O nível ainda não está alto o suficiente e nós ainda não podemos sair, então nós temos que continuar.

Pale finalmente conseguiu reunir coragem o suficiente e perguntou:

- Alguém aqui conhece Weed?

Quando ele disse isso 500 caras olharam para ele.

*Ba-bump!*

O peito de Pale começou a bater mais rápido com medo, mas logo eles voltaram a usar suas espadas de madeira para acertar o espantalho.

- Eu não sei o que está acontecendo aqui, mas eu farei o que puder para ajudar. Nós estamos aqui para ajudá-los, então não se preocupem com isso e venham.

*Shyying*

Todas as 500 espadas de madeira pararam pouco antes dos espantalhos nos quais elas estavam batendo. Quase ao mesmo tempo 500 pessoas vieram correndo até eles. Eles caíram de joelhos e choraram para Pale.

- Por-Por favor pão de cevada…
- Por favor, alimente-nos com arroz.

***

Depois que um dia na vida real tinha passado, Weed reconectou em frente ao portal de teletransporte.

*Proficiência… ela caiu um pouco. Várias habilidades caíram de 5 a 7%*.

O domínio da habilidade Sculpting Mastery diminuiu 7% e a habilidade culinária caiu em 6%.

Outras habilidades como Artesanato, Maestria com Espadas e Reparar caíram em 5%.

Felizmente os únicos itens que caíram quando ele morreu foram apenas um par de armas que custavam uma moeda de ouro.

*Eu não estava preparado para os vampiros True Blood*.

Weed começou a reparar novamente os equipamentos quebrados.

- Reparar!

Depois que ele quebrou todos os itens em seu inventário, ele foi capaz de alcançar a meta que ele queria.

*Ting*

Level Up: A habilidade Repair subiu do nível iniciante 10 para o nível intermediário 1 | 0%

A capacidade de reparar foi melhorada com base no nível de habilidade.

Agora é possível restaurar a durabilidade máxima do equipamento com uma reparação completa.

Agora a habilidade em Ferraria pode ser aprendida agora.

- Finalmente…

Weed reparou seus equipamentos. Atualmente eles estavam com uma durabilidade extremamente baixa e ele não podia se dar ao luxo de pagar por novos equipamentos.

A capa distorcida ficou brilhante, a armadura de corpo cheia de dentes foi uniformizada. As peças rachadas e enferrujadas foram restauradas para um ferro preto.

- Certo. Hora de começar.

Quando Weed tentou sair da caverna, Alveron se aproximou dele.

- Eu lhe ajudarei com a luta contra os vampiros.
- Ainda não. Ainda há mais um passo na preparação.
- Okay.

Weed foi olhar em torno da Província de Morata sozinho. Examinando certas áreas ele procurou onde os monstros estavam escondidos.

Houve muitos resultados a partir de sua busca.

Existia um grande número de monstros na Província de Morata. Do outro lado da aldeia e do gigantesco castelo negro havia um grande número de lobos negros. Eles estavam em torno do nível 170, mas muitos dos lobos tendiam a vagar sozinhos ao invés de em grupos. No pior caso, haveria mais de 100 lobos ao mesmo tempo.

Embora fosse perigoso, Weed conseguiu recuperar a experiência perdida ao matar os lobos. Ao usar a bênção da espada e as bênçãos do Sumo Sacerdote ele alcançou o nível 182.

- Este foi um campo de caça decente…

A caçar era geralmente realizada na área circundante de uma cidade ou em aldeias vizinhas. A razão era porque os monstros estavam uniformemente espalhados e era fácil salvar os membros do grupo.

Todavia, Weed vagou ao redor caçando em vários lugares com um grande número de monstros sozinhos.

Depois de analisar a área circundante e os monstros, Weed foi conversar com Alveron.

- Me cure.
- Sim!

Weed foi banhado em poder divino, curando as suas feridas. Não havia necessidade de curativos.

Como esperado de Alveron, o próximo candidato a papa, com o enorme nível de 320. No entanto, NPCs como este não poderiam morrer. Alveron morrer significava o fim. Se o candidato à próximo papa morresse no meio da missão, então ele falharia na missão e a amizade com a Igreja de Freya cairia enormemente. Pense nisso como algo que não seria adquirido facilmente. Mas…

- Use magia de proteção.
- Sim.
- Enfraqueça o poder das forças maliciosas que procurem feri-lo. Bênção Sagrada.
- Aumente a minha força.
- Por favor, aumente o poder para lutar contra o mal e contra os perversos. Bênção!

Alveron era de longe o melhor NPC que Weed havia conhecido até agora. Não era apenas o seu nível que era alto, mas ele também tinha uma boa personalidade.

Por que é útil para um usuário falar com um NPC para obter uma missão? Isso em si era problemático já que o sábio enganaria os usuários! Porém, Alveron cuidava de seu trabalho e não era rebelde, tornando isso uma boa coisa.

Um NPC inocente e ingênuo!

Weed arrastou Alveron por toda Morata para caçar. Esse era o propósito original de trazê-lo.

*Ting*

Você subiu de nível!

Um grande número de monstros foi morto. Com a ajuda de Alveron, Weed foi rapidamente capaz de atingir o nível 200.

*Finalmente!*

Em Royal Road, o nível 200 era um dos pontos de verificação do jogo. O servidor tinha sido aberto há 1 ano e 4 meses e o nível médio estava em torno de 100. As classes de comércio e produção estavam ao redor do nível médio, mas aqueles abaixo do nível 100 eram considerados iniciantes.

Contudo, em Royal Road havia um número esmagador de contas de baixo nível. Isso se deu graças ao novo afluxo de pessoas em todo o mundo.

Cada aldeia estava cheia de aventureiros iniciantes que sonham em tentar ver o mundo. Desta forma, estar acima do nível 130 era notável até certa extensão e, nesse ponto, muitos se juntavam a uma guilda e começavam a visitar outras cidades e aldeias.

Bardos e outras classes semelhantes começam a vagar em torno do nível 50, mas a maioria das classes ficava dentro das áreas de caça relativas a seus níveis.

Um personagem acima do nível 150 seria bastante famoso e aqueles acima do nível 200 estavam em uma classificação ainda mais elevada. Isso ocorria em razão do avanço para o segundo emprego!

Classes como cavaleiros e arqueiros eram capazes de mudar suas classes de acordo com as suas preferências. Era possível que certos tipos de feiticeiros, clérigos, guerreiros, ladrões e comerciantes também mudassem de classe.

Novas habilidades se tornariam disponíveis!

O leque de habilidades que podem aprender se amplia significativamente e as outras habilidades são automaticamente melhoradas e, devido a isso, o nível 200 era considerado um ponto de verificação.

Em Royal Road, menos de 20% dos usuários estava acima do nível médio.

Com a força enganosa de Weed e a sua classe de produção, era difícil compará-lo com outros personagens. Weed estava com dúvida se havia ou não um avanço de segundo emprego para ele.

Entretanto, quando Weed subiu de nível, o seu conjunto de equipamentos mudou. Em sua cabeça estava o Capacete de Anti-Magia de Van Hawk e ele também usava em suas mãos as Luvas Esculpidas Com um Padrão Rosa. Com a armadura, Weed estava vestido como um Dark Death Knight agora! No entanto, ele usava luvas brancas com seu conjunto de cavaleiro negro.

Não era uma boa combinação de equipamento, mas os atributos eram mais importantes para ele do que o pensamento das outras pessoas.

- Alveron, siga-me lentamente.
- Sim.

Weed e Alveron dirigiam-se para a aldeia em frente ao gigantesco Castelo Negro. Vampiros estavam espreitando ali e não foi difícil encontrá-los.

Dentro da aldeia, mais de 300 vampiros perambulavam procurando por sangue e eles poderiam facilmente encontrá-los se eles não fossem cuidadosos.

Weed esperou que um único vampiro se afastasse do grupo. Então, naquele momento, ele apareceria e começaria seu ataque.

- Sculpting Blade!

Surpreendentemente o vampiro bloqueou facilmente a espada de luz turva com seu antebraço e, em seguida, revelou suas presas para Weed e disse:

- Você novamente?

Aliás, foi o mesmo vampiro que matou Weed da última vez.

A propósito, era o mesmo cara no mesmo lugar e Weed estava esperando por uma emboscada.

- Isso é ótimo.

Weed começou a atacar com sua habilidade Sculpting Blade. Ele balançou a espada deslumbrante ao redor do corpo do vampiro.

- Eu acho que seu espírito não morreu e então voltou. Kyaaha!

O vampiro começou a atacar enquanto se curava.

Weed continuou a longa batalha. Era inevitável que ele tivesse que empregar dano suficiente algumas vezes para matar.

A habilidade do vampiro consumia muita Mana, mas estava acima do nível 270!

As características da tribo de vampiros eram de magia negra, transformação e o fascinação por mulheres bonitas, eles também eram a classe com a melhor Vitalidade. Outros monstros em níveis similares empalideciam em comparação com os vampiros.

Os vampiros especiais do clã True Blood eram muito mais fortes do que os vampiros comuns.

Logo que as bênçãos sagradas e santas estavam desaparecendo e a sua mana estava se esgotando. Ele riu sabendo que o vampiro estava em uma situação semelhante.

- Mais uma vez eu te matarei! Humano estúpido!

Weed correu para a parede e gritou.

- Cura, magia de proteção, buff.
- Okay, eu abençoarei.

Alveron saiu de seu esconderijo, restaurou a Vida de Weed e deu-lhe vários buffs.

Agora a situação estava invertida.

Weed sorriu quando o rosto do vampiro ficou intrigado na frente dele. Ele não esqueceu que o monstro o tinha matado uma vez anteriormente.

- Vou te pegarei da próxima vez! Nevoeiro

O vampiro usou a sua habilidade quando percebeu que estava em desvantagem, ele transformou-se em neblina para fugir. Esta era uma habilidade única de um vampiro para passar por paredes ou objetos sem ser capturado.

O corpo do vampiro ficou turvo com a fumaça e esta foi dispersa em todos os lugares em vez de um único lugar.

A fumaça começou a se contorcer para escapar, mas Weed não falharia em matá-lo.

- Sculpting Blade!

Com a habilidade Sculpting Blade era possível golpear diretamente a alma do monstro.

- Kueahaaah!

O vampiro que se transformou em névoa foi saudado com a habilidade Sculpting Blade. Com a ajuda de Alveron, Weed conseguiu ter o prazer de se vingar.

Desde aquele dia, Weed começou a caçar na montanha e nas planícies regionais durante a noite e retornava à aldeia durante o dia.

À noite, graças à habilidade passiva do Escultor do Luar, os seus atributos aumentavam em 30%. Todas as habilidades baseadas em combate, bem como as habilidades em esculpir e as estatísticas artísticas foram melhoradas.

Para outros, a caça era um trabalho árduo, mas o que mais poderia significar!

Weed tornou-se mais forte, mas à noite os monstros também se tornavam mais fortes. Com muita frequência, eles se tornavam 50% mais fortes. Contudo, as taxas de queda de itens e os pontos de experiência também aumentavam significativamente.

Muitos monstros espreitavam em grupo, como lobos, mas alguns monstros estavam muitas vezes sozinhos. Então ele foi capaz de caçar monstros ainda mais fortes. Entretanto, agora ele poderia vagarosamente subir de nível e, graças à Alveron, poderia matar os vampiros durante a noite apesar do fardo extra.

Weed estava especialmente cuidadoso porque a segurança não era garantida.

- Convocar Death Knight, Van Hawk!

O Death Knight Van Hawk foi convocado para participar da luta. Weed matou o Death Knight centenas de vezes sem qualquer dificuldade e agora ele estava totalmente sob o seu comando. Além disso, isso aumentou a sua familiaridade com ele.

Uma vitória cara a cara e o Death Knight não gostou disso.

Weed lutou contra os vampiros e lobos enquanto Van Hawk elevava o seu nível ao sugar dos pontos de experiência obtidos por ele.

Enquanto Weed estava guardando Alveron Death Knight disse:

- Mestre, meu nível subiu…

Ocasionalmente Van Hawk lhe dizia educadamente as notícias.

O subordinado de Weed, Van Hawk, estava se tornando mais forte e estava crescendo através da caça.

- Sim.

Weed respondeu enquanto olhava para Van Hawk com um rosto descontente.

Sempre que o Death Knight matava, ele ganhava os seus próprios pontos de experiência, mas sempre que Weed caçava sozinho, 20% do total de seus pontos de experiência iam para Van Hawk. Era o acordo de convocação e continuaria até que estivesse finalizado.

*Que sanguessuga…*

Todavia, Weed não podia negar que ele estava sendo de grande ajuda nas batalhas.

Graças a Van Hawk, caçar os vampiros ficou muito mais fácil. Ter outra pessoa fazia uma grande diferença nos confrontos reais.

Duas vezes mais dano e defesa.

Weed tornou-se mais seguro já que não precisava correr riscos quando ele tinha o Death Knight como tank. Com isso, demorou metade do tempo para caçar vampiros e ele sofreu apenas um quarto do dano.

Havia aproximadamente 300 ou mais vampiros que vagavam em torno da aldeia a qualquer momento. Contudo, clã vampiro True Blood tinha mais de mil membros. Parece que o resto estava dentro do gigantesco castelo negro.

Weed cuidou dos vampiros individualmente. O número exato foi de 49.

Então tudo começou a entrar em movimento. O nível geral de um vampiro True Blood recém-gerado que havia morrido uma vez era de 250.

*Ting*

Level Up: A habilidade Sword Mastery subiu do nível iniciante 10 para o nível (Intermediário 1 | 0%)

Dano com a espada foi aumentado em 50%.

A maestria com espadas no nível intermediário aumenta o dano em 7% toda vez que o nível da habilidade subir.

A tristeza de um escultor!

Como ele não tinha especialização em uma arma, o crescimento dos atributos ao alcançar o nível intermediário na habilidade Sword Mastery foi menor. Todavia, como um escultor, ele tinha levado a sua Sword Mastery ao nível intermediário.

O resultado foi literalmente alcançado através de muitas lágrimas.

E então, alguns dias depois.

Outra habilidade alcançou o nível intermediário.

*Ting*

Level Up: A habilidade Sculpting Blade iniciante nível 10 para o nível (Intermediário 1 | 0%)

Agora a cor da habilidade Sculpting Blade será azul.

Agora ao usar a habilidade Sculpting Blade você pode criar e completar estátuas de tamanho colossal.

A habilidade ignora a defesa do inimigo!

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Galveston Bay oyster reefs were devastated by Harvey.
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is in the process of figuring out the impact Hurricane Harvey had on commercial fishing in the state.
The agency has launched HarveyImpactTexas.com, a new website to collect data from people in the industry.
Lance Robinson, Deputy Division Director for Coastal Fisheries, says Parks and Wildlife has already identified a major area of concern.
He says oysters in Galveston Bay took such a big hit from Harvey because a large amount of fresh water got into that system and sat there for weeks.
Robinson explains that Harvey is especially devastating to this oyster population because Galveston Bay has taken hit after hit for almost 10 years.
After Hurricane Ike, there was the Deep Water Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico – then drought, then floods in 2015 and 2016 – all things that took a toll on typically resilient oysters.
Oyster season starts on November 1, and 48 percent of areas classified for shellfish harvest in Texas will be closed at the beginning of the season to ensure recovery from Harvey.
African-American and Latino children face tougher barriers to success in Texas than other racial and ethnic groups, according to a new report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
It found that as of 2015, 31 percent of Texas fourth graders were proficient in reading – but that percentage fell further when looking at only African American and Latino students.
Kristie Tingle with the Center for Public Policy Priorities, which was involved in the report told KERA in north Texas that historically people of color have been zoned into school districts with less resources.
In 2015, only 22 percent of Latino fourth graders and 17 percent of African American fourth graders were proficient in reading.
You can find more details from KERA News, here.
Early voting is underway in Texas on seven amendments to the state's constitution. Typically, just five to ten percent of registered voters cast ballots during these constitutional amendment elections.
As University of Houston professor Brandon Rottinghaus points out, there have been many changes to the state's 141-year-old constitution.
Early voting lasts through November 3. Election Day is November 7.


Jeff Jarvis posts a roundup of one of the first sessions at the Politics Online conference, on putting together a web team. The panel, moderated by former Hotline editor Chuck Todd, featured Giuliani advisor Patrick Ruffini, former Dean campaign manager Joe Trippi, myDD's Jerome Armstrong, and Townhall's Chuck DeFeo. Trippi, as usual, was full of useful anecdotes from his Dean days. Jarvis reports one: "[Trippi] recalls a moment in Iowa — a story I've heard before — when a student told Dean that he was skipping a final to see the candidate but the candidate switched to dad mode and insisted that the kid go take his test. It made great and authentic video, Trippi says, and he marks it as a significant moment in the campaign online." No current has reached that level authenticity, Trippi says. Check out a video of the panel on Ruffini's site.
Ann Broaches of CNET's News.com sums up yesterday's keynote from Google VP of global communications Eliot Schrage. Referring to Google's role as a search engine that could potentially link to false or offensive information, Schrage said that Google isn't "in the business of assessing truth or falsity. That's not a path we want to take, or we think is appropriate, or our users would expect." But they believe the democratizing potential of the Internet, and will be "creating a special sales team to handle ad requests from political campaigns. It has also invited all of the 2008 presidential candidates to journey to the Googleplex to 'talk tech and policy and maybe even grab lunch.'" I for one would love to see a video of Hillary Clinton or John McCain visiting the Googleplex and playing with the office Wii after a gourmet lunch and workout in the office gym.
Steve Grove, the news and politics editor at YouTube, spoke at the Google workshop about marketing and politics. After describing YouTube's role in the campaign and it's new YouChoose '08 channel, he says that YouTube will be launching a section next week called citizentube (it's not online just yet -- stay tuned) that will feature citizen-generated video about the campaign. This is exciting news; we're looking forward to checking it out.
This is not from the conference, but... Kate Phillips of The Caucus writes a great roundup of the liberal and conservative blogosphere's reaction to Hillary Clinton's interview with the New York Times in which she suggest that even after a troop pullout a small group of soldiers should stay in Iraq to protect against ethnic cleansing. The liberal bloggers are generally incensed; Matt Browner Hamlin writes, "Clinton's lies at the D.N.C. [when she promised to end the war by 2009] stem directly from her inability to wrap her mind around the idea of implementing the only sound course for Iraq: ending the war now and bringing our troops home." Taylor Marsh says "I don't think anyone believes our military presence in Iraq will evaporate in '09. That's why the campaign statement she made at the top was silly to say from the start." Ed Morrissey of the conservative Captain's Quarters writes, "More nuanced? It's abysmal, cynical, and completely self-serving. To commit the US to inaction in the face of genocide is nothing short of breathtaking, especially with the Left agitating for action — and rightly so — in Darfur. It should also remind voters of Bill Clinton's record in Rwanda." Check out the post more from Matt Stoller, Redstate blog, Riehlworldview, Tom Maguire at Instapundit, and Charlie Cook at the National Journal.
John McCain's social networking tool is a failure.
Aren't Elections About The Voters?
Voters play a fairly significant role in elections. It seems like a relatively obvious point, but it seems to have been lost by all but one of the top tier Presidential candidates.
All Politics is Local, Or is It?
Which campaign has the hotter grass-roots? One way to answer that question is to search for local events being organized by volunteers around the country and see who's got more things going on.


– Once again EcoInternet's true global rainforest action network questions the dominate paradigm that primary rainforests exist to be industrially logged [search]. The Rainforest Action Network and Forest Stewardship Council are first time industrial primary forest logging which must end immediately. Standing, intact primary rainforests and all old forests must be fully protected from certified and carbon forestry, and restored to continue powering global ecosystems and advance local communities.
(Earth) – Today San Francisco based Rainforest Action Network (RAN) will throw yet another swanky celebrity filled party to REVEL and congratulate themselves for logging primary forests to protect them, and to raise further money for such "rainforest protection". RAN continues to hold to the myth that primary rainforests – 500 year old trees in millions of year old ecosystems – should be "sustainably managed" for consumption such as toilet paper and lawn furniture. Noted author Naomi Klein will be RAN's guest of honor, receive an award, and has been vocal in defending the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) brand of disaster capitalism.
RAN is one of biggest threats to world's rainforests and inhabitants because of their founding and support of FSC's massive primary forest logging over an area estimated at the size of South Africa. RAN holds out first time industrial logging of primary and other old forests as a solution to rainforest loss. RAN's campaign against Disney promotes the use of FSC "certified" paper from first time industrial primary rainforest logging in Indonesia for their paper supply. THERE IS another option – learning to live without old forest timbers.
EcoInternet's campaign to get big NGOs (BINGOs) out of the business of supporting primary rainforest and other old forest logging has been going on for 3 years, starting during RAN's 2008 REVEL. After negotiations with RAN's management broke down on two occasions, EcoInternet and tens of thousands of others have protested RAN on nearly a dozen occasions. Promises have been made and broken by RAN to evaluate their FSC affiliation. RAN claims to be changing FSC from within, but there has never been any proof of this. Sadly the once proud RAN has resorted to censorship, character libel, and stonewalling to hide their treacherous forest destruction.
Large connected expanses of primary rainforests – and other intact old forests and ecosystems of all types – are required to sustain global ecology, minimize abrupt climate change, and provide for continued local community advancement from standing old forests. Best scientific estimates are that large, natural, fully operational ecosystems across at least half of Earth's surface, water and oceans are required for Earth's biosphere, all species, and the human family's survival.
It is ironic this year's RAN rainforest awardee – anti-corporate author Naomi Klein, who popularized the expression disaster capitalism – supports RAN and FSC's forest destruction. FSC's current prying open of the Democratic Republic of Congo's rainforests for first time primary forest logging is disaster capitalism at its worse. It is troubling Ms. Klein in her apologist writings for RAN's greenwash can envision a world without oil, tar sands, corporations, and capitalism; but not one without industrially cutting 500 year old trees in millions of year old ecosystems for toilet paper and other consumption.
Greenpeace and RAN Out of FSC Primary Forest Logging Now!


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The Opera 101
The Barber of Seville
Voice Types
English Opera
An Opera by Giacomo Puccini
Tosca is one of the most lethal of operas. None of the central characters make it to the end alive, hero or villain. Unsurprisingly then, it's a thrilling melodrama often dismissed as one-dimensional and tawdry. You'd be foolish to go in with this attitude however, Puccini takes an overtly theatrical tale and makes it astonishingly moving.
Tosca is fundamentally historical fiction, a vague knowledge of the period is highly useful, though it is very much the 18th Century as seen through 19th Century eyes. Luckily it still works as seen through 21st Century eyes because at its core, Tosca is tale of romance over politics; featuring a heroic painter, a despicable ruler and an opera superstar, Tosca herself!
Productions of Tosca can go a variety of ways though predominantly it remains an opera that is staged fairly literally. Expect a big church to open the evening and an impressive battlement to close it.
Vocal Type
Baron Scarpia Baritone Officially the Chief of Police. An absolutely despicable chap whichever way you look at it, combining an attraction to Tosca with strong rape tendencies.
Cesare Angelotti Bass A republican fugitive who having escaped prison seeks sanctuary in the church. Cavaradossi then hides him down a well. The only character to die off-stage.
Floria Tosca Soprano A famous singer in the stereotypical Diva mode. True of heart but relentlessly jealous.
Mario Cavaradossi Tenor Painter by trade and the lover of Tosca. A republican to a fault who is not well liked by Scarpia.
Spoletta Tenor Seriously creepy fellow. Largely a one dimensional lackey to Scarpia.
The Sacristan Bass A sweet, bumbly priest who gets his facts badly wrong in Act I.
Baron Scarpia
Officially the Chief of Police. An absolutely despicable chap whichever way you look at it, combining an attraction to Tosca with strong rape tendencies.
Cesare Angelotti
A republican fugitive who having escaped prison seeks sanctuary in the church. Cavaradossi then hides him down a well. The only character to die off-stage.
Floria Tosca
A famous singer in the stereotypical Diva mode. True of heart but relentlessly jealous.
Mario Cavaradossi
Painter by trade and the lover of Tosca. A republican to a fault who is not well liked by Scarpia.
Spoletta
Seriously creepy fellow. Largely a one dimensional lackey to Scarpia.
The Sacristan
A sweet, bumbly priest who gets his facts badly wrong in Act I.
Act I - Running Time: 45 mins
We begin in Sant'Andrea della Valle, a large church in Rome. Angelotti comes pelting in, he has just escaped from prison, and hides in a small, private chapel within the church. Our hero for the evening, Cavaradossi enters to resume his work. He is a painter and has been commissioned to paint a picture of Mary Magdalene for the church. The scristan bumbles about and offers Cavaradossi some food, which he refuses. Cavaradossi gets his first big aria of the evening, "Recondita Armonia".
Jonas Kaufmann sings "Recondita Armonia"
Angelotti bursts out, revealing himself to Cavaradossi. They are old friends but as Cavaradossi is on the brink of assisting Angelotti, who should show up but Tosca herself. Cavaradossi quickly gives Angelotti his food and hides him away again.
The jealous Tosca is convinced she overheard Cavaradossi talking to someone, believing it to be another woman. She sees Cavaradossi's new painting, recognizing the image as that of Marchesa Attavanti and turns jealous again. Cavaradossi calms her down with "Qual'occhio al mondo", what eyes in the world could compare to hers!
Tosca (Karita Matilla) and Cavaradossi (Marcelo Álvarez), Met Opera
She leaves, still demanding that he change the eyes, and Angelotti reappears. Cavaradossi shows him a secret way out and gives him a key to his villa, informing him of a hiding place in the well of the garden. Cannon fire is heard, announcing the escape of a prisoner (Angelotti), Angelotti quickly flees.
Scarpia (Falk Struckmann), Metropolitan Opera
The sacristan returns with the church choristers, celebrating the news that Napoleon has been defeated. However things quickly turn sour as Scarpia arrives with his lackeys. They believe Angelotti is hiding in the church and searching the place find the empty food basket and a fan belonging to Attavanti. Scarpia interrogates the sacristan and learning Cavaradossi has been here, becomes convinced that he is on the right track.
Tosca comes back looking for Cavaradossi. Scarpia connives to make her jealous by showing her the Attavanti fan. He succeeds and Tosca leaves to confront Cavaradossi unaware that she is to be followed by Scarpia's men. A truly epic scene of gloating is delivered by Scarpia culminating in the magnificent, "Te Deum".
Act II - Running Time: 40 mins
It is later the same day and the curtain rises on Scarpia's apartment. He has been unable to find Angelotti but has arrested Cavaradossi and sent a note for Tosca to come to his apartment. Cavaradossi is dragged in and interrogated. He reveals nothing and as Tosca arrives he is taken away to be tortured. In his parting words he tells Tosca to tell Scarpia nothing, no matter his suffering.
Cavaradossi Sings his joy, Sarasota Opera
Tosca initially resists Scarpia but after hearing Cavaradossi's screams of pain she crumbles and reveals the location of Angelotti. Cavaradossi is dragged back in and upon hearing that Tosca has broken, he is absolutely devastated. Sciaronne arrives with the news that Napoleon has been victorious at Marengo. This is extremely good news for Cavaradossi and he unleashes "Vittoria, vittoria" in celebration, before being dragged off to be executed.
"Vittoria, vittoria" sung by Luciano Pavarotti
Left alone with Tosca, Scarpia presents her with a hideous bargain. If she will give herself to him, Cavaradossi will be released. She rejects his advances and sings one of the most famous tunes in the opera, "Vissi d'arte" - I lived for art.
Sondra Radvanovsky sings "Vissi d'arte"
Spoletta enters with the news that Angelotti was found but killed himself before he could be arrested. Furthermore, the execution of Cavaradossi has been arranged. Hearing all this, the now broken Tosca agrees to Scarpia's deal. Scarpia tells Spoletta to complete the execution in the same manner as the execution of Count Palmieri.
Tosca presses Scarpia to also grant her and Cavaradossi safe passage from Rome the next day. He agrees and while writing out the letter... Tosca finds a knife on the dinner table. As Scarpia moves to rape her, she stabs him to death.
Tosca takes the letter from him, lights candles and places a crusifix on him as a gesture of piety before fleeing the scene.
Tosca (Martina Serafin) lays candles, Royal Opera
Act III - Running Time: 30 mins
The battlement of the Castel Sant'Angelo early the next morning. A young boy is heard singing as the bells chime for matins. Cavaradossi is led in and informed this will be his final hour, he has no interest in seeing a priest but asks for some paper to write a letter to Tosca. He sings "E lucevan le stelle" - and the stars shone.
Tosca arrives and quickly explains everything. The execution will be faked, the firing squad will use blanks so Cavaradossi must pretend to die. They joyously sing of the life they can now have together.
Tosca (Angela Gheorghiu) watches Cavaradossi shot, Royal Opera
Cavaradossi is led away to be shot. The marksmen fire, Cavaradossi falls to the ground. The marksmen depart as Tosca runs over to Cavaradossi. Surprise, surprise! She finds him dead, Scarpia had tricked her all along. Spoletta is heard off stage with soldiers, Scarpia's body has been found!
Tosca runs to the parapet and crying "O Scarpia, Avanti a Dio!" - Oh Scarpia, we meet before God! She flings herself over the edge.
Tosca (Amanda Echalaz) falls, English National Opera
Major Arias
Sung by
E lucevan le stelle Mario Cavaradossi
Gia mi dicon venal Baron Scarpia
Ha piu forte sapore Baron Scarpia
Recondita armonia Mario Cavaradossi
Va, Tosca! Baron Scarpia
Vissi d'arte Floria Tosca
E lucevan le stelle
Sung by: Mario Cavaradossi
Gia mi dicon venal
Sung by: Baron Scarpia
Ha piu forte sapore
Recondita armonia
Va, Tosca!
Vissi d'arte
Sung by: Floria Tosca
Tosca takes place entirely within the city of Rome in 1800. Each Act takes place in very specific, real locations in Rome.
Act I takes place within the church of Sant'Andrea della Valle
Inside Sant'Andrea della Valle © Claudio Di Ludovico
Act II takes place within Scarpia's apartment located in the Palazzo Farnese
The Palazzo Farnese © zio Paolino
Act III occurs on the Battlements of the Castel Sant' Angelo
The Castel Sant' Angelo at night © Lorenzo Ferrara
Puccini's Tosca had the longest gestation period of any of his operas. Victorien Sardou's drama La Tosca was first suggested as a possible subject in 1889, but Puccini wrote and premiered two other operas (Manon Lescaut and La Boheme) before settling his energies on Tosca, which finally premiered in January 1900. The opera likely would never have been written, at least not by Puccini, if it weren't for the esteem of a respected elder and the jealousy inspired by a contemporary.
Sardou and Puccini
In 1894, Alberto Franchetti was already working on an opera based on Sardou's play and his libretto was being written by Luigi Illica, who was also working on Puccini's La Boheme at the time. One day in Paris while Sardou was meeting with Illica to discuss what he had written so far, Giuseppe Verdi - the most successful operatic composer in the world - stopped in. Verdi, who appreciated Sardou's work but in his 80s was too old to take on a new project, was deeply moved by what Illica had written. Once Puccini heard about this meeting, he had to have the opera so Illica and another mutual friend went to Franchetti and basically sandbagged him into giving up the opera.
The premiere took place in Rome at the Teatro Costanzi. Despite rumors of a possible bomb threat because of the current political unrest, it went off without incident. It was well received by the public although less so by the critics.
Tosca has been wildly popular since it's premiere and was the 5th most performed opera from 2007 to 2012 according Operabase.
Exit with...
The instruction "exit with the principals" doesn't fully work in the case of Tosca. In older times when opera productions were sometimes only minimally rehearsed, a director might have said such a thing to the supernumeries. The, no doubt apocryphal, story goes that the soldiers in the final Act of Tosca were given just this instruction and as Tosca leapt over the battlements -- they all went over with her!
Another popular myth relating to Tosca's suicide, and this seems a more likely tale, is the placement of a trampoline rather than a mattress for extra safety for the falling Soprano. The audience as a result got not only Tosca's initial fall but also a series of successive appearances and disappearances behind the battlements...
Well-made?
Victorien Sardou
La Tosca by Sardou is a "well-made play". This term isn't a mark of quality but a specific form of theatre that conforms to certain criteria. An artificial, mechanical method of playwrighting that required a slow suspenseful build up to a climactic scene when all the plot threads become resolved. The plot usually hinged on props rather than people, letters a popular option. If this all sounds a bit ridiculous then consider that Sardou was by no means the only one writing these, it was the dominant form for much of the 20th Century, though constantly scorned and Henrik Ibsen and Anton Chekhov amongst many others were highly influenced by it. Wilkie Collins summed it up as, "Make 'em laugh, make 'em weep, make 'em wait." which didn't stop him using many aspects of the well-made play in his own work.
Sardou specified that his story took place from 17 June 1800 to dawn the following morning, and while Puccini's libretto just states June 1800, he intended the same specificity. Because of that detail and the fact that each act takes place in a single location in Rome, and those locations still exist, it was perhaps inevitable that someone would try to film the opera at the correct times and places. This actually occurred in 1992 with Catherine Maliftano in the title role.
Another version of less interest, but deserving of mention maybe just because of its cast, is the 2001 Tosca directed by the French filmmaker Benoit Jacquot. Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna star as Tosca and Cavaradossi, but while the film presents the opera in a linear fashion, it does so using video of a studio session interspersed with performance footage from a soundstage and handheld video shots from Rome. Overall the actual opera loses much of its visual power.
Sarah Bernhardt as Tosca
Puccini saw the legendary French actress Sarah Bernhardt play Floria Tosca in Sardou's drama La Tosca twice. The first time in 1890 at Milan's Teatro dei Filodrammatici and the second in 1895 in Florence. Despite speaking no French, he was enamoured of the performance (although less so the second time, according to biographers). The play was written as a showcase for Bernhardt and it was she who initially wore the silk dress and plumed hat and carried a cane and bouquet of flowers that have become standard fare for second act Toscas on their way to the cathedral.
Name Tosca
Composer Giacomo Puccini
Librettist Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa
Date of premiere Jan. 14, 1900
Number of Acts 3
Music length 1 hours, 55 minutes
There have been dozens of recordings made and books written about Tosca. Here are some of our favourites.
Royal Opera 2011 DVD
Kaufmann, Terfel and Gheorghiu, one of the finest casts in living memory all under the baton of Antonio Pappano. A terrific Royal Opera DVD.
La Scala 1953 CD
Perhaps the definitive recording with Callas and Gobbi on historic form. The sound quality shows its age a little but the digital restoration is extremely fine.
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Chronic intermittent hypoxia (CIH), the main feature of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), is associated with hypertension. The increased of carotid body (CB) sensitivity due to enhanced sympathetic efferent may be mainly responsible for the elevation of blood pressure. Accordingly, we studied this effect of Endothelin-1 (ET-1)-induced CB chemosensory response to CIH, as a vasoactive peptide expressed in CB. The purpose of this study was to investigate the mean arterial blood pressure (MAP) and renal sympathetic nerve activity (RSNA) responses in CIH group by injecting ET-1 to directly stimulate CB chemoreceptor. Furthermore, whether ET receptor-mediated PKC and p38MAPK signaling pathway was involved in CIH-induced CB activation was also studied. Male Sprague–Dawley rats were exposed to CIH (8 h/day for 3 weeks) and the MAP and RSNA were recorded in CIH rats and Sham rats. Our results demonstrated that ET-1-induced MAP and RSNA increase were mainly mediated by ETA receptor activation in CB chemosensory after CIH exposure. Moreover, P38MAPK and PKC signaling pathway might be involved in ET-1-induced increase of MAP and RSNA in CIH group, which provided a potential therapeutic target of OSA.
Wenya Li and Qi An contributed equally to this work.
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), a common sleep-breathing disorder, is characterized by repetitive upper airway obstruction during sleep, resulting in chronic intermittent hypoxic and hypercapnic events (Garvey et al. 2009; Moya et al. 2016). OSA has been linked with a high risk of systemic hypertension, pulmonary hypertension, congestive heart failure and a number of other cardiovascular diseases (Bradley and Floras 2009; Pack and Gislason 2009). OSA promotes chronically the elevation of sympathetic nerve activity (SNA) and mean arterial pressure (MAP) with exaggerated sympathetic responses to acute hypoxia (Witkowski and Kadziela 2013). Experimental models of chronic intermittent hypoxia (CIH) in rats have been developed to mimic the intermittent hypoxemia associated with OSA and to determine the mechanisms underlying the CIH-induced changes of SNA and MAP (Dempsey et al. 2010; Garvey et al. 2009; Somers et al. 2008). The mechanisms that underlying CIH-induced hypertension is not fully determined, however Endothelin-1 (ET-1) is confirmed to be a directly excitable neurotransmitter to carotid body (CB) chemoreceptor and probably regulates SNA through chemoreflex (Rey et al. 2006b).
ET-1 is a vasoactive peptide and is mainly expressed in the endothelium, blood vessels and CB glomus cells exposed to CIH (Atanasova and Lazarov 2016). The level of ET-1 is important in the maintenance of normal cardiovascular function, as its imbalance leads to systemic hypertension, arrhythmia and heart failure (Abukar et al. 2016; Lehmann et al. 2014a, b; Palma et al. 2002). In particular, ET-1, in the CB glomus cells, is known to play an important role in peripheral chemoreceptor activation after CIH exposure (Iturriaga et al. 2015). The CB is a polymodal peripheral chemoreceptor located in the carotid bifurcation, which plays a pivotal role in the development of the hypertension (Iturriaga et al. 2014; Kumar and Prabhakar 2012; Paton et al. 2013). CIH exposure selectively enhances the CB chemosensory responsiveness, which in turn may lead to the increase of the sympathetic discharges to the arterial blood vessels during hypoxia (Iturriaga et al. 2015). Although CIH exposure induces hypertension by upregulating the sensitivity of the CB chemoreceptor to ET-1, which in turn augments sympathetic outflow, but the mechanisms and pathway of ET-1-induced sympathetic excitation have not been adequately explored.
Biological actions of ET-1 are mediated via G-protein coupled receptors designated as ETA and ETB (Goraca et al. 2016; Prabhakar et al. 2015). Although studies have indicated that ET receptors play an important role in CIH-induced hypertension, however the signaling pathway mechanism is not fully understood. P38MAPK is a subfamily of the MAPKs, which involves in a variety of cellular stress responses and its activation involves in the regulation of IH-induced NF-κB activation. Therefore, our purpose was to investigate the mechanism of ET-1-induced sympathetic excitation on CIH-induced hypertension through modulating CB chemosensory reflex. Meanwhile we tried to explore the possible mechanisms of ET-1-induced increase in sympathetic activity after CIH exposure.
We performed all experiments on male adult Sprague-Dawley rats (Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, China) weighing 190–200 g at entry into the protocol. Rats were housed in standard rat cages with a 12:12 h light–dark cycle and were given food and water ad libitum. The room temperature was kept at 21–23 °C. All procedures involving animals were conducted in accordance with the Guidelines of Animal Experiments from the Committee of Medical Ethics, National Health Department of China.
The rats were randomly divided into two groups (n = 30 rats in each group), including CIH group and sham group. Sham group: rats exposed to normal air; CIH group: rats exposed to CIH for 8 h/day, 21 days.
ET-1 and the ETA receptor antagonist BQ-123 were obtained from Alexis Biochemicals (New York, NY, USA), whereas the ETB receptor antagonist BQ-788 was from Tocris Bioscience (Bristol, UK). P38 MAPK signaling pathway antagonist SB203580 was purchased from Sigma (St Louis, MO, USA). PKC signaling pathway antagonist chelerythine was purchased from Enzo (Raamsdonksveer, The Netherlands). ET-1 and BQ-123 were dissolved in normal saline and stored at − 20 °C. BQ-788, SB203580 and chelerythine were dissolved in dimethylsulphoxide (DMSO), with the final concentration of DMSO being less than 0.01%. Preliminary experiments showed that this concentration of DMSO had no effect on contractile responses to ET-1. The dose of ET-1 used in this study was 1 nmol/kg (seen data in Table 1), 0.5 ml. The doses of BQ123, BQ788, SB203580 and chelerythine were 0.3 mg/kg, 0.5 ml, respectively.
Rats were randomly assigned to either CIH exposure or sham exposure. During CIH exposure, animals were placed daily in plexiglas hypoxic chambers that were flushed with 100% N2 to inspired O2 fraction (FIO2) nadir of 9% for 1.5 min. The FIO2 was progressively returned to 21% with 100% O2 over the remainder of each cycle. The exposure cycle was repeated every 3 min for 8 h/day, 7 days/week for 3 weeks during the animal's sleeping hours, as described previously (Guo et al. 2013; Huang et al. 2009, 2010; Liu et al. 2009). Rats were exposed to CIH from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm. Sham group rats underwent identical handling and exposure procedures, but chambers were flushed with room air rather than N2. After completing the exposure, animals were randomly assigned to various experimental groups for physiological investigations.
Animals were surgically prepared for acute experiments during anesthesia with pentobarbital sodium (25%, 60 mg/kg ip). Rats were placed on supine position and the body temperature was maintained at 37 ± 0.5 °C with a heating pad. Briefly, femoral arterial and venous polyethylene catheters were inserted for measurement of mean arterial blood pressure (MAP) and administration of drugs, respectively. A tracheostomy was performed to reduce airway resistance. The CB chemosensory discharge was measured as previously described (Del Rio et al. 2011; Moya et al. 2016; Pedrino et al. 2016; Peng et al. 2012). Briefly, the sternocleidomastoid muscles were displaced laterally, exposing the carotid sheath of the cervical fascia. At the same time, the carotid bifurcation (common carotid artery, CB and external, internal carotid arteries along with intact sinus nerve) were visualized. The effect of baroreceptors activity was eliminated by dissecting the common carotid arterial wall between the carotid sinus and the CB, and cut off the sympathetic trunk of the common carotid artery and the laryngeal nerve. Under a surgical microscope, after cleaning the connective tissue, the left common carotid artery was cannulated for drug administration. The catheter was introduced in the common carotid artery and the tip was about 0.5 cm from the carotid bifurcation for drug infusion. The drugs were infused into the common carotid artery for irrigating the CB. Surgeries were done with care by a skilled researcher using appropriate surgical tools. On the base of the above operation, the CB chemoreceptors were inactivated by cutting off the carotid sinus nerve.
As described previously (Huang et al. 2009, 2010; Liu et al. 2009), the left renal nerve was exposed for recording renal sympathetic nerve activity (RSNA) under direct visualization using a surgical microscope. After careful dissection, the renal nerve was placed on a bipolar platinum–iridium electrode and covered with warm Mineral oil to prevent drying. The nerve signals were amplified (× 1000) with an AC/DC differential amplifier, band-pass filtered (300–3000 Hz), and was recorded on a PowerLab data acquisition system. Finally, rats were euthanized with an intravenous overdose of pentobarbital sodium, and RSNA was recorded for an additional 25-to 30 min period, while the recording was used as the background noise level of RSNA. The background noise was subtracted from all the integrated values of the RSNA.
All data were presented as the means ± S.E.M. Comparisons between Sham and CIH groups were made using a Student's t test on the differences assuming unequal variances. P < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. All statistical analyses were performed using SPSS13.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA).
After 21 days of CIH exposure, the representative tracings showed that MAP and RSNA were recorded in Sham (Fig. 1a, c) and CIH (Fig. 1b, d) rats. As shown in Fig. 1e–f, the baseline MAP and RSNA were significantly increased in CIH group compared to that in Sham group (p < 0.01 and p < 0.01).
In this experiment, we examined the effect of ET-1 on the MAP and RSNA in the Sham group and CIH group (Fig. 2a–c). The representative tracings were shown in Fig. 2a. As results showed in Fig. 2b–c, when the effect of baroreceptor was eliminated, the MAP and RSNA were significantly increased in CIH group after ET-1 administration (p < 0.01 and p < 0.05 vs. Sham group). However, when the reflex of chemoreceptor and baroreceptor were eliminated, MAP and RSNA were no significant differences in Sham group and CIH group after ET-1 administration (p = 0.89 and p = 0.29, n = 6, Fig. 2d–f). These results suggested that ET-1-induced MAP and RSNA increase could be mediated through the CB chemoreceptor.
To identify whether the ETA receptor was involved in modulating the effects of ET-1 on RSNA and MAP, the ETA receptor antagonist BQ123 was injected into the CB. The BQ123 alone had no effect on the MAP and RSNA (Table 2). After 15 min of incubation of BQ123, the ET-1 was administered to observe the effect on MAP and RSNA (Fig. 3). As results showed in Fig. 3a, ET-1-induced MAP increase had been greatly suppressed (p < 0.01). ET-1-induced RSNA increase had been completely inhibited, and even decreased the RSNA (p < 0.01, Fig. 3c). Moreover, the inhibition effects of BQ123 in CIH group were greater than that in Sham group (p < 0.05 and p < 0.05, Fig. 3b, d). The representative tracings were shown in Fig. 3e.
To investigate whether the ETB receptor was involved in modulating the effects of ET-1 on RSNA and MAP, the ETB receptor antagonist BQ788 was injected into the CB. Also, the BQ788 alone had no effect on the MAP and RSNA (Table 2). After 15 min of incubation of BQ788, the ET-1 was administered to observe the effect on MAP and RSNA (Fig. 4). As results showed in Fig. 4a, c, ET-1-induced MAP and RSNA increase had been significantly enhanced (p < 0.01 and p < 0.01). Furthermore, the effects of BQ788 on MAP and RSNA in CIH group were greater than those in Sham group (p < 0.01 and p < 0.01, Fig. 4b, d). The representative tracings were shown in Fig. 4e.
To further determine whether the P38 MAPK signaling pathway was involved in modulating the effects of ET-1 on RSNA and MAP, the P38 MAPK signaling pathway antagonist SB203580 was injected into the CB. Similarly, the SB203580 alone had no effect on the MAP and RSNA (Table 2). After 15 min of incubation of SB203580, the ET-1 was administered to observe the effect on MAP and RSNA (Fig. 5). As results showed in Fig. 5a, c, ET-1-induced MAP and RSNA increase had been partly inhibited (p < 0.05 and p < 0.05). However, MAP and RSNA were no significant differences in CIH group and Sham group (p = 0.58 and p = 0.36, n = 6, Fig. 5b, d). The representative tracings were shown in Fig. 5e.
To investigate whether the PKC signaling pathway was involved in modulating the effects of ET-1 on RSNA and MAP, the PKC signaling pathway antagonist chelerythine was injected into the CB. Similarly, chelerythine alone had no effect on the MAP and RSNA (Table 2). After 15 min of incubation of chelerythine, the ET-1 was administered to observe the effect on MAP and RSNA (Fig. 6). As results showed in Fig. 6a, c, ET-1-induced MAP and RSNA increase had been partly inhibited (p < 0.05 and p < 0.01). However, MAP and RSNA were no significant differences in CIH group and Sham group (p = 0.92 and p = 0.29, n = 6, Fig. 6b, d). The representative tracings were shown in Fig. 6e.
In the present study, our purpose was to investigate the mechanism of ET-1-induced sympathetic excitation on CIH-induced hypertension through modulating CB chemosensory reflex. The main findings of this study were that (1) MAP and RSNA were significantly increased in CIH exposure group by ET-1. (2) ETA-R was mainly responsible for ET-1-induced MAP and RSNA increase. (3) P38MAPK and PKC signaling pathways might mediate ET-1-induced increase of MAP and RSNA in CIH group.
CB are the primary sensory organs to detect arterial blood O2 levels and regulate breathing and SNA during hypoxia via carotid chemoreflex, which plays a pivotal role in the development of the hypertension (Iturriaga et al. 2014, 2015; Kumar and Prabhakar 2012; Prabhakar et al. 2015). Except carotid chemoreflex, carotid baroreflex is another major regulator of the SNA and arterial blood pressure (Peng et al. 2012). Unlike chemoreceptors, the activation of baroreceptors inhibits sympathetic nerve activity. Some studies showed that carotid baroreflex function was down regulated in sleep-apnea patients and in rodents exposed to CIH (Peng et al. 2012; Prabhakar and Kumar 2010; Prabhakar et al. 2015). Therefore, the present study was to explore the effect of carotid chemoreceptor in rats exposed to CIH after the nerves of the baroreceptor were cut off.
CIH exposure can increase the sensitivity of the CB response, and support the notion that CIH exposure resulting from sleep-disordered breathing does affect the carotid chemoreceptor activity (Del Rio et al. 2010, 2012). However, the mechanism underlying the CB sensitivity in CIH exposure is not well known. So, our present study was to examine the role of ET-1 on MAP and RSNA response to chemoreflex activation in rats exposed to CIH and the underlying mechanism.
It is known that ET-1 is expressed in the CB, and induces CB chemosensory excitation and potentiates the chemosensory response to acute hypoxia (Kumar and Prabhakar 2012; Peng et al. 2013; Rey et al. 2007, 2006b). CIH exposure increased ET-1 expression in the CB and an ET-1 receptor antagonist prevented CIH-induced sensitivity of the chemosensory response to hypoxia (Pawar et al. 2009; Rey et al. 2008). A study by Rey et al. suggested that ET-1 contributed to CIH-induced sensitivity of the CB response. In addition, ET-1 immunoreactivity was increased by 10-folds in the CB from CIH-treated cats (Rey et al. 2006a, b, 2008). Furthermore, the expression of ET-1 was increased in the CB of rats exposed to CIH (Del Rio et al. 2011; Lam et al. 2006). Another study showed that intermittent hypoxia (IH) increased ET-1-induced constriction of systemic arteries via PKC-dependent vascular smooth muscle Ca2+ sensitization, which might account for elevated vascular resistance and resultant hypertension (Snow et al. 2011). Our results demonstrated that the increase of ET-1 in the CB contributed to the enhancement of chemosensory responses to CIH. It is generally accepted that the increase in arterial pressure of rats exposed to CIH is associated with an increase in sympathetic activity.
A previous study showed that sustained hypoxia enhanced rat CB chemosensory responses to acute hypoxia in a time-dependent manner, and the enhanced chemosensory response to hypoxia was reversed by BQ-123 and was associated with ETA-R and ET-1 expression increase in the CB (Iturriaga 2013). However, Rey et al. found that after 4 days of CIH exposure, the expression of ETB receptor was increased in glomus cells of CB, whereas ETA receptor levels was unchanged (Rey et al. 2006a). However, another study was reported that the expression of ETA and ETB protein was increased in the CB after CIH exposure (Rey et al. 2008). Our results showed that ETA receptor antagonist BQ123 completely prevented ET-1-induced MAP and RSNA increase, whereas ETB receptor antagonist BQ788 significantly enhanced ET-1-induced MAP and RSNA increase. Furthermore, the effects of BQ123 and BQ788 on MAP and RSNA in CIH group were greater than those in Sham group. Our results indicated that ET-1-induced MAP and RSNA increase were mainly mediated by ETA receptor activation in CB chemosensory after CIH exposure. In addition, the mechanism might be that ETB receptor increased nitric oxide (NO) synthesis through endothelial NO synthase up-regulation (Rubanyi and Polokoff 1994). Thus, activation of ETB receptor might be an inhibitory effect on chemosensory discharges because NO was a tonic inhibitory modulator of CB chemoreception (Valdes et al. 2003). Therefore, ETB receptor upregulation in CIH exposure might be a compensatory inhibitory mechanism by increasing the NO synthesis and counteracting the chemoexcitatory effect of ET-1 (Rey et al. 2007). Another possibility was that ETA receptor activation led to an inhibition of norepinephrine (NE) re-uptake, resulting in an increase in net NE release, which led to an activation of the sympathetic nervous system in general (Lehmann et al. 2014b). In contrast, ETB receptor activation led to an inhibition of exocytotic NE release.
In many tissues, ET-1 was bound to G-protein coupled ETA receptors to activate phosphoinositide-specific phospholipase C (PLC), which in turn produced diacylglycerol (DAG) and activated PKC (Kang and Chung 2012). PKC has been identified as an important signaling pathway in a wide variety of cell types. PKC is a multigene large family of serine/threonine kinases which plays important roles in signal transduction in health and disease, contributing to endothelial dysfunction, vascular permeability, angiogenesis, cell growth and apoptosis. Some studies indicated that PKCδ signaling pathway might be involved in ET-1-mediated constriction in mesenteric arteries in IH-exposed rats (Allahdadi et al. 2008; Webster et al. 2013). Nevertheless, in pulmonary vascular smooth muscle, IH could augment ET-1-induced vasoconstriction through a PKCβ-dependent signaling mechanism (Snow et al. 2011). Our study suggested that PKC signaling pathway might mediate ET-1-induced MAP and RSNA increase in CIH group, suggesting PKC signaling pathway might be involved in ET-1-induced MAP and RSNA increase in CIH group.
The family of MAPKs (mitogen-activated protein kinases) plays an important role in mediating various cellular responses including proliferation, differentiation and adaptation to stress. P38MAPK is a subfamily of the MAPKs, which is involved in a variety of cellular stress responses. For example, the block of p38MAPK increased apoptosis and decreased the IH-induced NF-κB expression, suggesting that P38MAPK activation might be involved in the regulation of IH-induced activation of NF-κB as an indicator of SNA (Wu et al. 2013). Furthermore, MAPK signaling pathway contributed significantly to the excitatory neurochemical milieu driving sympathetic activity in heart failure (HF) and hypertension (Wei et al. 2016). Here we had shown that p38MAPK signaling pathway antagonist SB203580 partially inhibited ET-1-induced MAP and RSNA increase in CIH group, suggesting p38MAPK signaling pathway might be involved in ET-1-induced MAP and RSNA increase in CIH group.
In summary, our results demonstrated that ET-1-induced MAP and RSNA increase were mainly mediated by ETA receptor activation of CB chemosensory after CIH exposure. Moreover, P38MAPK and PKC signaling pathways might be involved in ET-1-induced increase of MAP and RSNA in CIH group, which provided a potential therapeutic target of OSA.
This work was supported by Grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Numbers 30971195 and 81170069), Hebei Education Department Foundation (Numbers ZD2014043, QN2016166, ZD2014005 and ZD2017057) and the Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province (Numbers C2011206031 and C2009001053).
WL, QA, SY, YZ performed the research and analysed the data. QG, EJ designed the research study and wrote the paper.
All authors report no conflict of interests.


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I stumbled upon Matt Cutt's: Try Something New For 30 Days Ted Talk and I probably would have been googling Zappos in no time if it wasn't for my challenge. I'm participating in a blogathon which requires blogging every day for 30 days, which also coincided with my blog's launch.
This is day 20 and it hasn't been easy. I've had to deal with a WordPress learning curve and generating a story idea every day. My kids have said I seem a little distracted but that's a defense mechanism so they'll leave me alone.
The pursuit of the next blog post is tantamount to any and all household crises. When I started the blogathon I had about five posts ready to go but now I'm working one day at a time – but the best part is that I'm absolutely not giving up even if my kids starve, my house is taken over by the laundry police or my eye twitch becomes permanent.
It's the kind of determination that Michelle Rogers, my guest blogger yesterday wrote about her turning point and how small, consistent steps made all the difference in her weight loss journey. It's also the same kind of resolve that Kimberly Gorman Muto, who I also wrote about this week, committed to unearthing her inner artist.
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Ohio State men's basketball | Jon Coffman credits Chris Holtmann for Purdue Fort Wayne job
Ohio State and Purdue Fort Wayne had never met on the hardwood until Sunday afternoon at Value City Arena, but that did not mean their coaches were unfamiliar with one another.
The fact that Jon Coffman was on the bench leading the Mastodons against the Buckeyes is in some part a credit to Ohio State coach Chris Holtmann. The story, as Coffman told it after Ohio State's 107-61 win, goes back roughly seven years ago, when Coffman was an assistant coach on Emmett Davis' staff at Colgate.
It was in mid-March of 2011 that the 51-year-old Davis was informed that the staff would not be retained after the Raiders went 7-23 overall and 4-10 in the Patriot League. That meant Coffman and his family were suddenly part of the coaching carousel that is the spring in men's college basketball, and it wasn't a lot of fun.
"I'm scrambling," Coffman said after the game. "My wife's pregnant. My son's 3 years old. We're trying to figure out, I love coaching, I want to stay in it. My wife's from Lima, Ohio, and we've been wanting to get back to the Midwest."
It was then that Holtmann gave him a call.
"Chris calls me and says, 'Hey, I've got a friend at IPFW that just got a head coaching job. I called them and recommended you. I think you've got a really good shot at that. He's looking for someone with your profile,' " Coffman said.
Holtmann was friends with Tony Jasick, who had just gotten the head coaching job at Purdue Fort Wayne, known then as Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW). Jasick, who is now in his fifth season as the coach at Jacksonville and has Ohio State transfer David Bell on his roster, took the call and listened to Holtmann talk about Coffman.
Holtmann and Coffman were both assistant coaches at the same time – Holtmann at Gardner Webb and Coffman at Stetson – in the Atlantic Sun Conference.
"He's done a great job (at Purdue Fort Wayne)," Holtmann said. "I can't say that I've watched their teams a lot but I have followed him. We've talked a lot of basketball. He's got a lot of great ideas on the game."
The meaningfulness of the unsolicited phone call to Jasick from Holtmann was not lost on Coffman, who felt he had no shot at the job. Holtmann was in his second season as the head coach of Gardner Webb at the time.
"I said, 'Chris, I've got no chance. You know how this business works. You've got to know somebody,' " Coffman said. "He said, 'No, no, I really sold you. I really think this is a good fit.' I end up getting the job, three years later I'm a Division I head coach after 16 years as an assistant and I'm blessed to have great friends like Chris. Now, I questioned that in the second half with how his team shot the ball.
"He's pretty special. You're going to see that on the floor with how he produces but if you get the opportunity to really get to know him, you're going to meet the friend that I have and I'm just blessed to have that friendship."
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Jacqueline Jossa fires back at trolls who criticise her for letting daughter Mia drink cups of tea
Jacqueline Jossa spoke to all the 'haters' as she allowed her daughter Mia, two, to drink tea.
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Former Eastenders actress Jacqueline Jossa has been forced to hit back at trolls who criticised her for letting two-year-old daughter Mia drink a cup of tea.
The 27-year-old, who recently launched her new collection with In The Style, posted an Instagram story of the mummy-daughter duo spending some quality time together.
The pair sat outside in the garden, with Jacqueline enjoying a coffee while little Mia had a tea for herself.
"We've got our tea and our coffee. Obviously mummy's got coffee, Mia's got a little tea," The I'm A Celebrity star clarified.
Jacqueline Jossa hit out at trolls over her daughter Mia drinking tea (Image: Instagram/Jacqueline Jossa)
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However, Jacqueline had to send a message to all the 'haters' who had something to say about Mia drinking tea.
"Just for all the haters out there, she has it very, very, very weak. It's mostly milk with a little bit of tea.
"She loves it and we have it every morning. She's got hers - look how much she loves it. And mummy's got hers - needed," Jacqueline continued.
Mia was enjoying her tea with her mum in the garden (Image: Instagram/Jacqueline Jossa)
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The mum-of-two then took a swig of her coffee and said it was "lovely."
Explaining why she and adorable Mia were sitting outside, Jacqueline said: "It's quite cold but Mia wants to sit outside.
"She wants to have her cup of tea outside, like my mum likes to have her tea outside. That's probably why. Hopefully we'll go back in soon."
The mummy-daughter duo were enjoying some quality time together (Image: Instagram/Jacqueline Jossa)
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This isn't the first time Jacqueline has felt the need to defend herself on Instagram.
Just last month, the wife of Dan Osborne was criticised over claims she labelled herself a plus-size-model.
Speaking on her Instagram story, Jacqueline explained: "Hey guys, I just want to address something. Yesterday I got quite a few DMs of people saying to me, 'You're not plus-sized, why do you call yourself plus-sized. I'm much bigger than you, how do you think that makes me feel?'
Jacqueline previously received criticism over claims she called herself plus-sized (Image: Instagram/Jacqueline Jossa)
Attempting to clarify her stance, she said: "Understood. I don't call myself plus-size. I'm not plus-size. I'm like size 12.
"[An article] said I am embracing my new plus-sized model body or whatever it was. One, I'm not a model. Two, I'm not a plus-sized model.
"And I think they took what I said out of context from a story about four months ago," the telly star passionately expressed.
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Q: How to close specific port with SuSEfirewall2? I'm opening specific ports in a SuSE 11 server to do ssh forwarding. After I finish, how do I close only the ports that I opened? I tried
SuSEfirewall2 close EXT TCP 4050

but it seems to close every port, not just 4050.
I've searched and found plenty of articles on opening ports, practically nothing on closing only specific ports.
Help?

A: The documentation found within /etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2 ... take a look at DROP and REJECT entries in particular.  Make the edits there and and re-run SuSEconfig.
I think that's the easiest way.


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Q: Make a users list like instagram please help..
I have 2 tables
Current user_id = 3
Users Table:
|  user_id  |      email       |   name   |
-------------------------------------------
|     1     |   one@gmail.com  |  ridwan  |
|     2     |   two@gmail.com  |   budi   |
|     3     |   six@gmail.com  |  stevan  |
|     4     |   ten@gmail.com  |  agung   |

Relations Table [ user_id and follower_id are related to Users Table ]
|  relation_id  | user_id | follower_id |
-----------------------------------------
|       1       |    1    |      3      |
|       2       |    2    |      3      |

i want to get the list of the user, but if i already have relation with a user, it will give me a status 'following', just like instagram, maybe look like this
{
    user_id : 1,
    name    : ridwan,
    status  : following
},
{
    user_id : 2,
    name    : budi,
    status  : following
},
{
    user_id : 4,
    name    : agung,
    status  : not following
}

how can i do that in laravel?
thank you..

A: In your Relations model
public function user()
{
    return $this->belongsTo(User::class);
}

Then, in your controller (where you want to get this list), you just need to use Eloquent or Query Builder to get what you want (with eager loading, it's always better) :
//get all users related to your_current_user
$relations = Relation::where('follower_id', your_current_user_id)->with('user')->get();

Finally, you just have to make manipulate your data like you want, for example :
foreach($relations as $relation){
    $relation->user->name; //get the name of the related user
}

Take a look at Relationships !

A: Thank you guys.. finally I use sql case, i was only confusing about how to get the data with 'following' status
here is the code:
DB::table('users')->leftjoin('relationships', 'users.user_id', '=', 'relationships.user_id')->select('users.user_id','users.status as user_type','users.email','users.display_name','users.profile_image',DB::raw('(CASE WHEN relationships.follower_id = ' . $user_id . ' THEN "Following" ELSE "Not Following" END) AS status'))->orderBy('user_id','asc')->where('users.user_id','!=',$user_id)->get();


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DirecTV Accused of Filing Baseless Suit
Two years after DirecTV launched a legal onslaught against thousands of alleged satellite television "pirates," a Florida resident who was sued by the company is now claiming malicious prosecution. In a suit filed last month against DirecTV in state court in Miami, Luc Senatus alleges that, as part of the company's campaign against piracy, DirecTV is suing viewers for whom it has little proof of wrongdoing.
By Matthew Haggman | Updated on March 26, 2004