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Star Wars fans should be very familiar with Aaron Allston, a man who is responsible for bringing to the page some of the universe's most popular heroes (and villains!) and their hair-raising exploits. His most recent novel is Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Conviction, the latest installment in the Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi series. Allston stopped by to answer questions about his new book as well as to share a few secrets about his upcoming novel featuring the ever-popular Wraith Squadron.
You worked with authors Troy Denning and Christie Golden on the Fate of the Jedi series, each of you responsible for writing three books. How did you guys make sure it all meshed together? Were there concerns about making sure the characters and tone were consistent from book to book?
Coordinating a series like this is a multi-stage process, and at each stage we get to see whether we're all on board together. It starts when we're doing the initial proposals for series elements. Do we all buy in on the same atmosphere — dark or light, romp or life-changing experience? That sort of thing. Then we do the preliminary work on the arc of the entire series and ask the same sorts of questions. Then we divvy up the arc among the writers and begin to generate outlines for the individual books — and we all get one another's outlines. At that point we can ask for things of each other that not only make characterization and tone consistent, but allow for pursuit of subplots throughout a series, that allow for smoother handoffs from book to book and writer to writer.
Then there's the writing of the books themselves, same thing.
And that's just the writer interaction. Each one of these stages is also being examined closely by Lucas Licensing and Del Rey Books. The series editor, Shelly Shapiro, and Sue Rostoni and Leland Chee from Lucasfilm are looking at all these things with the same questions in mind.
Anyway, that's the long answer. I guess the short answer is "tons and tons of e-mail."
If you could choose your own dream team of authors to tell another tale from the Star Wars universe, who would those authors be, and what kind of novel would you write?
That's kind of an unfair question, because it doesn't establish much in the way of criteria. Would it be a "dream team" of writers I've worked with before because I know what they're capable of and how I interact with them, or a "dream team" of folk I've always wanted to work with but never have? Can I choose dead writers? (Regardless of whether it's for a new novel, I'd kind of like the power to raise the dead.) Am I choosing them because they'd do something way outside of the box, something that might, in the real world, never be approved for publication, or something I know fits within the publishing program as it exists?
Assuming we're going the "people I've never worked with" and "anything goes" and "no, you can't raise the dead, dummy" routes, I might go with Elizabeth Moon and Joe R. Lansdale. The series would be set in one solar system and take place over a span of many years, showing the effects of the universe's wars on a broad cast of characters, mostly original characters. For example, choose a world that is strategically critical in the struggle between the Empire and the Rebel Alliance and then follow it from 4 years or so before the Battle of Yavin through 18 after. Multigenerational, original characters so nobody's even remotely safe, alternately poignant and hopeful and tragic and preposterous — James Michener meets Alex Raymond.
We've got a lot of serious Star Wars fans here, and they're going to want to know a little bit more about Conviction. Can you give us a few hints about what we can expect?
Everyone and everything, from individuals to major institutions, is under ever-growing pressure. Some of them are buckling under the pressure and some of them are showing surprising resilience. Luke returns to one of the spookiest environments created for the Star Wars universe some thirty years after his first visit and has to operate under a really difficult set of revisions… plus the Ben-and-Vestara situation is continuing to give him grief. Allana has to make some tough choices all on her own because she's the only one who can. Leia and Han are dealing with a political crisis which, in addition to having the potential of getting them killed, is about as simple and elegant as herding greased cats. And the Jedi Order takes a big, big step it's not really prepared for.
There — that's about a novel's worth, isn't it?
Aboleth, the villain in the Fate of the Jedi series, seems like some kind of supernatural evil, like one of Lovecraft's alien gods. I also noticed that she shares her name with a race of similarly Lovecraftian entities, the Aboleths of the Dungeons & Dragons game. What kind of being are we talking about here, and are there any inspirations from outside the Star Wars canon that has influenced her creation or how you and your fellow authors present her?
I can't speak to her inspirations — all I did in the early stages of Abeloth was foreshadow her appearance through the mind-to-mind contact Allana experienced on Kessel. Nor can I share much of what I know about her — unlike most monsters, she has several stages of "reveal" and not just one. But if you're talking horror elements, H.P. Lovecraft, who pioneered the notion of pantheons of alien intelligences who have so much power and so little regard for intelligent mortal life that we often end up like bugs and chewing gum on the bottoms of their boots, is definitely a great inspiration for an eerie, science-fiction-compatible horror tone.
At this time in the saga much of the universe sees the Jedi as dangerous rogues. How do you think the Jedi would be perceived in our own world?
Let's assume, to be compatible with the way the Order works in most of its history, that they're a special, somewhat insular philosophical order — with military capability surpassing most special forces units — operating as an investigative arm and an elite enforcement arm of the United Nations. The Shaolin Temple intermarried with the Iga Mountain Ninja and the Screen Actors' Guild, and their progeny went to work for the U.N. I suspect that they would be generally popular around the world, but would be under constant criticism and pressure from U.N. member nations who did not receive some sort of ill-defined "equal share" of Jedi Knights benefits. The Jedi would be the targets of terrorist attention, meaning that tragedies in their ranks would certainly not be confined to their activities in the field. There would be movies, TV series, comics and novels about the Jedi Knights, and action figure sales would be very brisk…
… Wait a second, now we're back in the real world again.
You've been working in the Star Wars universe for almost two decades. How did you first get involved? Do you have any favorite characters or eras?
I got involved in part because of Michael A. Stackpole. By the mid-1990s, we'd been friends and sometimes collaborators for more than a decade — for instance, we and Hero Games' Steve Peterson had co-designed a "pulp 1930s" role-playing game, Justice, inc., which was published in 1984, and I'd edited some of Mike's fiction for a gaming magazine, The Space Gamer, even earlier than that. Timothy Zahn had also been a contributor to the magazine.
Anyway, Mike had already done the first four volumes of the X-Wing novel series for Bantam. They wanted him to do four more, but he was working on I, Jedi and didn't have time to do all four — he could do one. The Star Wars line editor at the time, Tom Dupree, asked him for suggestions for a temporary replacement writer for the series, and I was on the list of names Mike offered. I'd met Tom at a CoastCon a couple of years earlier. Anyway, my agent sent Tom some of my novels, and Tom apparently decided that my style was pretty compatible with Mike's, so he penciled me in on the schedule for three X-Wing novels.
Here's where the story gets a little weird. Shortly after that, Tom left Bantam for an editing position elsewhere. His replacement, Pat LoBrutto, came in and saw that I was on the schedule for the next three X-Wings. As far as he knew, everything was good. The problem was, there had been a communications breakdown somewhere — even after all this time, nobody remembers where — and nobody had yet contacted me. So months go by, and Pat calls my agent to ask, "How's Aaron coming on those X-Wing novels?" So the upshot was, the thrill I received at discovering that I was doing Star Wars fiction was somewhat offset by the terror of discovering that I was already months behind on my assignment.
Favorite characters? Han Solo and Wedge Antilles give me the most to write about with the ways they wrestle with problems. Wes Janson was, hands down, the most fun. I really enjoy Jaina Solo, who has to handle being the heir to so very, very much expectation and trouble. And, of course, I greatly enjoy my original characters — else why have original characters?
What is it like to know that you're adding to one of the biggest ongoing stories of all time? Do you ever get nervous about it? Are there any things you've done of which you're particularly proud?
A while back, the TV series Lost aired its final episode, and the hype leading up to that moment was, of course, immense. At a certain point during the hype, I was momentarily at a low point, emotionally, not for any reason related to Star Wars, and for some reason all the media attention the Lost finale was receiving was getting me down. Kind of sulkily, I said to myself, "I wish I was involved with some sort of big thing that vast numbers of people get emotionally involved in…" Then my more rational side spoke up and said, "Hey, stupid, you are." Then it began slapping me around. I've been laughing about that for a year.
Anyway, yeah. The scope of the Star Wars universe can be very intimidating, and its fans are, quite reasonably so, very demanding. I do occasionally have to jack up my confidence, to deal with it. But I have two ways to do that. First, I remind myself of how the fans have responded to some of my work in the past. Second, I remember that most of them really, really want you to succeed. They want to re-experience their favorite characters, they want to see how those characters' lives are progressing, and they want to read something good.
Things I've done to be proud of… a few moments in the novels stand out, moments that, as I was writing them, were making me bawl my eyes out or otherwise react very strongly. Such as the Jaina/Leia reconciliation in the Enemy Lines duology or Face Loran's last sight of Ton Phanan's body in Iron Fist. But most of the emotional gratification that has come my way has been from contact with the fans. Like one e-mail I received, very early in my involvement with Star Wars, a guy who wrote to say, "Dear Mr. Allston, I didn't use to like to read, and then I read Wraith Squadron and now I do." Since then, on those occasions when someone tries to tell me that escapist fiction is of no consequence, I whip out that little anecdote and bludgeon him half to death with it. Metaphorically speaking, that is.
Let's talk about the new novel featuring the Wraith Squadron. I know the book isn't scheduled for publication until 2012, but can you give us just a little information about that?
Sure. Most of the action takes place in the same approximate period as Fate of the Jedi, but there are critical chapters that revisit the Wraiths in earlier years, starting just after they made the jump to become an Intelligence unit. The current-era story reunites some of the longtime Wraiths, introduces new ones, and even has second-generation Wraiths.
Not every subplot that arose in Fate of the Jedi will have been resolved by that series' end, and it's up to the Wraiths to clean up a big mess left behind. That's about all I'm willing to say at this time.
Except that I grew up in the 1960s, the Golden Age of movie and TV spies — The Man From U.N.C.L.E., James Bond, Mission: Impossible, Derek Flint, The Wild, Wild West, countless others. They're with me still, occupying a psychotic little wing of my brain. And if you don't hear some of those theme tunes in your head when you're reading the new Wraith Squadron novel, I haven't done my job.


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The third trimester of pregnancy can be physically and emotionally challenging. Your baby''s size and position might make it hard for you to get comfortable. You might be tired of pregnancy and eager to move on to the next stage. If you''ve been gearing up for your due date, you might be disappointed if it comes and goes uneventfully.
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After my husband bought me the DVD of How to Train Your Dragon I became obsessed with finding the cutest plush Toothless possible! Do you know what my option was?
Yeah seriously? That little dumpy BLUE round lizard thing was NOT going to cut it. So like the majority of crafters who enjoyed the movie I decided to make my own. This little guy was 100% designed and created by me (no, not Toothless, he belongs to Dreamworks. I'm talking about the pattern and the plush, duh!)
Altogether Toothless took me about four days to craft. That's right, just four days... and about four weeks. In the first two days I completed his body down to the toes and back spikes, but after that my ability to eyeball his form hit a wall. I spent another two days trying to figure out how I was going to get his wings to look anything like the pictures. Frustrated I "set the project aside" and finally returned to it yesterday.
As you can see the wings (and everything else) doesn't quite match perfectly. After all he is a crochet version of a computer animated dragon, so it's not like I'm working in the realm of realism here. However I have seen many versions out there and I truly feel that mine is at least not the worse.
So what finally pushed me to finish him you ask? I want to make another. No, not crochet. Upon my searches for a respectable Toothless plush I came across a fellow crafter who has posted a pattern for a sewn version. Oh and it's about four feet long, which after working with miniature styles I'm ready for something BIG.
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Cisco MDS SanOS Troubleshooting Guide -- Troubleshooting SANTap
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This section introduces the basic concepts, methodology, and general troubleshooting guidelines for problems that may occur when configuring SANTap and using the Cisco MDS 9000 Family of multilayer directors and fabric switches.
Troubleshooting SANTap
This section describes how to identify and resolve problems that might occur when implementing SANTap. This chapter includes the following sections:
- Overview
- Definitions
- Limitations
- Initial Troubleshooting Checklist
- SANTap Issues
|SANTap is not supported in Release 3.3.1.
SANTap is an Intelligent Storage Services feature supported on the Storage Services Module (SSM). The SSM supports SANTap in Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 2.0(2b) and later. The SANTap feature allows third-party data storage applications, such as long distance replication and continuous backup, to be integrated into the SAN.
SANTap has a control path and a data path. The control path services requests that create and manipulate replication sessions that are sent by an appliance. The control path is implemented using a SCSI-based protocol. An appliance sends requests to a control virtual target (CVT) which the SANTap process creates and monitors. Responses are sent to the control LUN on the appliance. SANTap also allows LUN mapping to appliance virtual targets (AVTs). You can have a maximum of 512 target LUNs.
When introducing SANTap-based applications, SANTap does not require reconfiguration of either the host or the target, and neither the host initiator nor the target is required to be directly connected to an SSM. This accomplished by assigning Cisco-specific WWNs to the virtual initiators (VIs) and data virtual targets (DVTs).
A host initiator or a target can be connected directly to an SSM. However, you must partition the SAN using VSANs. You must configure the host initiator and the DVT in one VSAN and configure the virtual initiator (VI) and the target in another VSAN.
Table 23-1includes brief definitions of some of the common SANTap acronyms and terms.
This section describes SANTap limitations. Table 23-2 describes the component limitations by SAN-OS and SSI releases.
- One Recover Point Appliance (RPA) cluster can have only one target VSAN.
- SANTap does not support IVR. You cannot run SANTap and IVR together.
Cisco SAN-OS and SSI Release
Hosts per DVT
Prior to Cisco SAN-OS 3.2
Cisco SAN-OS 3.2
LUNs per host
All releases
LUNs per DVT
Cisco SAN-OS 3.2
Prior to Cisco SAN-OS 3.2
DVTs per SSM
Cisco SAN-OS 3.1(2) with SSI 3.1(2m) and later
Prior to Cisco SAN-OS 3.1(2) with SSI 3.1(2m)
Sessions per SSM
Cisco SAN-OS 3.0(2) with SSI 3.0(2j)
Cisco SAN-OS 3.1(2b) with SSI 3.1(2m) and later
LUN ID address
Cisco SAN-OS 3.2
Prior to Cisco SAN-OS 3.2
DVT LUNs per SSM
All releases
ITLs per DPP
Cisco SAN-OS 3.2
Prior to Cisco SAN-OS 3.2
ITLs per SSM
Cisco SAN-OS 3.0(2) with SSI 3.0(2j)
Cisco SAN-OS 3.1(2b) with SSI 3.1(2m)
Cisco SAN-OS 3.1(3) with SSI 3.1(3) and later
Interface Restrictions
When enabled on a per-port basis, SANTap must be enabled on a group of four ports on an SSM. The following restrictions apply:
- The fewest number of interfaces that can be SANTap enabled is four.
- The first interfaces in a group must be 1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25, or 29. (You can specify fc5 through fc8, but not fc7 through fc10.)
- The groups of four interfaces do not need to be consecutive. For example, you can specify fc1 through fc8 and fc17 through fc20.
Initial Troubleshooting Checklist
Troubleshooting a SANTap problem involves gathering information about the configuration and connectivity of the various SANTap components. Begin your troubleshooting activity as follows:
Check off
Verify licensing requirements. See Cisco MDS 9000 Family Fabric Manager Configuration Guide.
Verify that SANTap is enabled on the SSM module of the selected switch.
Verify the VSAN configuration and zones for the appliance, using the configuration and verification tools for the specific appliance.
Verify the physical connectivity for any problem ports or VSANs.
Common Troubleshooting Tools in Fabric Manager
Use the following Fabric Manager procedures to verify the VSAN configuration for the SANTap components.
- Choose Fabricxx > VSANxx to view the VSAN configuration in the Information pane.
- Choose Fabricxx > VSANxx and select the Host or Storage tab in the Information pane to view the VSAN members.
Common Troubleshooting Commands in the CLI
Use the show santap module command to display information about SANTap.
Example 23-1 Display SANTap CVT Information
switch# show santap module 2 cvt CVT Information : cvt pwwn = 23:4f:00:0d:ec:09:3c:02 cvt nwwn = 23:9d:00:0d:ec:09:3c:02 cvt id = 135895180 cvt xmap_id = 135895212 cvt vsan = 8 cvt name =
Example 23-2 Display SANTap DVT Information
switch# show santap module 2 dvt DVT Information : dvt pwwn = 50:06:0e:80:03:81:32:36 dvt nwwn = 50:06:0e:80:03:81:32:36 dvt id = 136773180 dvt mode = 3 dvt vsan = 12 dvt if_index = 0x1080000 dvt fp_port = 1 dvt name = MYDVT dvt tgt-vsan = 9 dvt io timeout = 10 secs dvt lun size handling = 0 dvt app iofail behaviour = 1 dvt quiesce behavior = 1 dvt tgt iofail behavior = 0 dvt appio failover time = 50 secs dvt inq data behavior = 0
Example 23-3 Display SANTap DVT LUN Information
switch# show santap module 2 dvtlun DVT LUN Information : dvt pwwn = 22:00:00:20:37:88:20:ef dvt lun = 0x0 xmap id = 8 dvt id = 3 dvt mode = 0 dvt vsan = 3 tgt pwwn = 22:00:00:20:37:88:20:ef tgt lun = 0x0 tgt vsan = 1
Example 23-4 Display SANTap Session Information
switch# show santap module 2 session Session Information : session id = 1 host pwwn = 21:00:00:e0:8b:12:8b:7a dvt pwwn = 50:06:0e:80:03:81:32:36 dvt lun = 0x0 tgt pwwn = 50:06:0e:80:03:81:32:36 tgt lun = 0x0 adt pwwn = 33:33:33:33:33:33:33:00 adt lun = 0x0 aci pwwn = 22:22:22:22:22:22:22:22 cvt pwwn = 23:4f:00:0d:ec:09:3c:02 num ranges = 0 session state = 5 redirect mode = 0 mrl requested 1 MRL : vsan 8 RegionSize 4806720, DiskPWWN 0x234f000dec093c02, DiskLun 0x 1, startLBA 1 pwl requested 1 PWL : type 2, UpdatePol 2, RetirePolicy 4, pwl_start 1 iol requested 0
Example 23-5 Display SANTap AVT Information
switch# show santap module 2 avt AVT Information : avt pwwn = 2a:4b:00:05:30:00:22:25 avt nwwn = 2a:60:00:05:30:00:22:25 avt id = 12 avt vsan = 4 avt if_index = 0x1080000 hi pwwn = 21:00:00:e0:8b:07:61:aa tgt pwwn = 22:00:00:20:37:88:20:ef tgt vsan = 1
Example 23-6 Display SANTap AVT LUN Information
switch# show santap module 2 avtlun AVT LUN Information : avt pwwn = 2a:4b:00:05:30:00:22:25 avt lun = 0x0 xmap id = 16 avt id = 12 tgt lun = 0x0
Example 23-7 Display SANTap Remote Virtual Terminal Information
switch# show santap module 2 rvt RVT Information : rvt pwwn = 2a:61:00:05:30:00:22:25 rvt nwwn = 2a:62:00:05:30:00:22:25 rvt id = 17 rvt vsan = 4 rvt if_index = 0x1080000
Example 23-8 Display SANTap Remote Virtual Terminal LUN Information
switch# show santap module 2 rvtlun RVT LUN Information : rvt pwwn = 2a:61:00:05:30:00:22:25 rvt lun = 0x0 xmap id = 22 rvt id = 17 app pwwn = 22:00:00:20:37:39:b1:00 app lun = 0x0 app vsan = 1
Use the following commands to display more advanced troubleshooting information for SANTap.
- show tech-support
- show santap module 2 tech-support
- show isapi tech-support
- show santap vttbl dvt dvt-pwwn
Messages, Logs and Databases
The following log files and databases can provide helpful information when troubleshooting SANTap problems.
- Look for SSM_CRIT in Sup syslog messages.
- SANTap logs are available via the show isapi tech-support CLI command. Search for the strings "Error" and "failed" or "failure."
- Review FCNS and FLOGI databases, using the show fcns and show flogi CLI commands.
SANTap Issues
This section includes the following topics:
- Host Login Problems
- ITL Problems
- Common Mismatch Problems
Host Login Problems
Host login problems can be caused by DVT limitations, connectivity, or other issues.
To diagnose host login problems, follow these steps:
1. Use the show santap vttbl dvt dvt-pwwn command to display SANTap information for the DVT.
2. Use the show santap vttbl dvt dvt-pwwn host-pwwn command to display SANTap information for the DVT and the host.
3. Enable logging on the appropriate SSM module.
4. Issue the following debug commands:
- a. debug vsd vfc-felogin
- b. debug partner 0x92810000 d1
- c. debug partner 0x92810000 d2
5. Review the logs to determine the problem and then take the appropriate corrective action.
ITL Problems
An ITL problem may occur if the number of ITLs exceeds the limitations for the version of Cisco SAN-OS and SSI in use. For specific ITL limitations, see the "Limitations" section
To diagnose and resolve ITL problems, follow these steps:
1. Use the show isapi dpp 4 queue command to display DPP queue information.
2. Verify that the number of ITLs on a DPP is within the limitations for the version of Cisco SAN-OS and SSI in use. Use the show isapi dpp 4 queue incl LUN and show isapi dpp 4 queue count commands.
3. Verify that the number of ITLs on an SSM is within the limitations for the version of Cisco SAN-OS and SSI in use. Issue the show isapi dpp all queue command, using the incl LUN and count parameters.
Common Mismatch Problems
Problems are often caused by mismatching component versions, or using devices that are not supported by the interoperability matrix.
The following lists common mismatch situations:
Version mismatch between SSM and the RPA.
The version of SSM and the version of the replication appliance are not compatible.
Version mismatch between the Supervisor and the SSI image.
The version of the Sup and the SSI image are not compatible.
Hosts, targets, HBAs or switches are not supported by the interoperability matrix.
CVT is in the host VSAN.
The CVT is the portal through which the appliance communicates with SANTap, and cannot be in the host VSAN.
IVR and SANTap are being used together.
IVR and SANTap both perform straddling across VSANs and cannot be used together.
VIs in a DVT VSAN (CVT and DVT in the same VSAN).
This results in the creation of one CPP VI and eight DPP VIs in the DVT VSAN. The VIs attempt to login to DVT, resulting in non-deterministic behavior.
Overprovisioning, including:
When replication is enabled, AVT LUNs are created, and that can increase the ITL count over the limit. (See "Limitations" section.)
If Reservation Support is not enabled on the RPA:
If Reservation Support is enabled on the RPA:
Same pWWN occurs more than once in the same VSAN.
Misconfiguration can result in two DVTs (or two VIs) with the same WWN in the same VSAN.
For example, assume that two DVTs are created on different SSMs or on different DPPs. Both of these DVTs have the same back-end VSAN. When a host HBA logs into both DVTs, an attempt is made to create two VIs with the same WWN in the same back-end VSAN. This results in non-deterministic behavior.
A host is moved from the front-end VSAN to the back-end VSAN.
There is a VI in the back-end VSAN with the same pWWN as the host. Before you can move the host:
The host can now be safely moved.
Inaccurate zoning.
Zoning solutions differ, based on the Cisco SAN-OS and SSI versions in use.
Adding and removing hosts without performing a purge.
If you have 16 hosts and you remove one and add another, the new host will not see the LUNs. In this situation, perform a purge to clear one of the 16 entries after removing the host. Then you can add the new host to the DVT.


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Anything I write down doesn't feel quite enough, really. She has become so much more than a music teacher (or maybe that's how the best teachers should be?). A friend, a wise guide in the world of music that's so easy to get lost in and burn out. With a day job and family, I could have stayed a noodler on various instruments forever, but thanks to her I now can call myself a musician - while keeping that tricky life-music balance. I surely have a life-long path of improvement in front of me (like everyone else!). But if I have her by my side, I know I'll make it. Felicidades!
· Singing · In studio
· Singing · In studio
Cândida L. B.
Cândida L. B.
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Helping to develop techniques to be an amazing voice over artist.
About Elena
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· Broadway Singing · Online
· Singing · Online
Elena D.
Elena D.
About Jake O.Close
You will be able to walk away with help and knowledge recording voiceovers/reel, accents/dialects, how to do ADR, projection work, Linklater and Alexander technique, and more.
The voice is a crucial element in acting and is connected to our body, emotions, and attention. Unlocking the voice and breath is the key to a long and successful acting career. I believe that my training and attitude can help you find your breath and voice, and begin to unlock the doors where you know you belong.
About Jake
I'm a producer/actor/director who combines that with my passion of being a life-coach. I attended the high ranking, UNCSA, Royal Shakespeare Company, UCB, and have private coached for 5+ years.
I know the juggling that happens with the life of an actor and have the experience and ability to help you navigate it. During my private coaching, I've had successes such as: Master of None, Hawaii 5-0, Off-Broadway Plays, Julliard, DePaul, and more. My private coaching has helped clients book roles, extend their network, find longevity and purpo
I have extensive experience and teaching exp. in: Shakespeare, Monologues, EPA's, Self-taping, Improvisation, Auditioning, Winning the room, Meisner, College auditions, Stanislavsky, and more.
Notable Students
Gus Halper: Truth and Lies: Menedez Brothers, The Goat, Ricki and the Flash
Sarah Viccellio: Master of None, The Carrie Diaries, Law & Order: SVU
Michael Labbadia: The Attic Theater Co.
Alex Gagne: Keen Company, Bridge Production Group, MugBug Prod.
Reagan Elizabeth: Stephanie Klapper Casting
Joshua Morgan
Michael Calciano
Owen Laheen
Ellie Barone
Gabe Arant
I hope to meet you soon!
*Online sessions are also available*
· Speaking Voice · Online
· Acting · Online
· Film and TV Acting · In home
Jake O.
Jake O.
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Acting is such a broad term! What are your goals? Do you want to be in films? Do you want to do Shakespeare? Do you want to be in a sit com? Depending upon what your interests are and where you want to go, we will build a plan together. My philosophy on acting techniques is that they are tools to help you, not tests you pass if you're a good actor and fail if you're a bad one. Different techniques work for different people and it is our job to find out what inspires you.
I've worked as a professional actor for many years, performed on Broadway, have my MFA in Performing Arts, and my BA in Arts and Education. I was an assistant director to Tony-winner Sharon Ott and have written and produced my own work. I have experience in both stage and camera acting, which have specific technical differences, but are both a lot of fun once you get used to the medium. Audition technique, preparing monologues, and creating promotional materials are also things I can help with. Anyone who wants to ...
About Rebecca
Over 95% of my career is from attending open calls, including finding representation and my Broadway debut.
I continue to audition for film, television, and theatre, as well as perform in concerts and other venues. I write and produce my own work and am currently signed with Roth and Associates East.
· Singing · In studio
· Acting · In home
· Vocal Training · In studio
Rebecca L.
Rebecca L.
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I am an actor and acting coach living in New York City. I have worked over the last seven years on stage, both in NYC and regionally, as well as in television and film, working with talent such as Hugh Grant, Donnie Wahlberg, and Beau Willimon.
I hold an MFA from Yale School of Drama, a BFA from UC Santa Barbara, and have studied extensively with on-camera experts such as Bob Krakower, Jessica Cummings, and Marci Philips. As a coach, I work with individuals and productions, on stage and film, and specializes in dialect management for actors and on camera auditions.
I can assist you in shaping your audition, expanding your actor toolbox, learning an accent or dialect, or putting an audition on tape!
About Shannon
· Acting · In studio
Shannon S.
Shannon S.
About Ophelie W.Close
I have studied, worked as an actress and a director and taught in Berlin, London and New York - both in theater and opera. I was the first person to ever be offered the Juilliard Opera directing Fellowship two years in a row (where I worked primarily with Postgraduate students) and have worked with actors and singers across the country as well as in several German A-houses. After studying a variety of acting methods over the years, I have developed my own method of approaching a character or an audition monologue/song, which encompasses the physical, emotional and intellectual in order to create an easily accessible three-dimensional person. I will not only help you apply said method, but also teach you the tools so you may access it on your own at any time. Finally, I have received critical acclaim as a young director, and - as a teacher - I have a track record of helping people get hired from major auditions.
About Ophelie
I graduated as an Associate of King's College London with a degree in Philosophy and significant experience acting and directing for independent theater companies in London.
I then went on to work as an assistant director in major German opera houses, where I learned how to apply the same teaching and dierecting methods with singers.
At only 23 I was offered the Juilliard Opera Directing Fellowship - and I was the first person, to whom it was offered two years in a row. At Juilliard, I mostly worked with the few selected Postgraduate students.
I have considered accepting an adjunct teaching position, but chose to go on directing and tea
· Voice Acting · In studio
· Theater Acting · In studio
· Voice Acting · In home
As a German native speaker, she prepared me for all of my audition trips to Germany. With her guidance in perfecting diction and conversational style, I gave a confident tour. I also sought out her method when giving a series of masterclasses on how to interpret characters.
We worked together right before my first audition for the Met, and I got the job! You'll love working with this director who has experience working with the greatest opera houses in the world."
- Kirsten Chambers - Soprano with the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Opera Hong Kong, among others Most Known for her portrayal of Strauss roles, particularly SALOME
Ophelie W.
Ophelie W.
About Claire A.Close
I am a certified instructor and teacher, having now taught at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute for 2 years (Method Acting, performance ans monologue deconstruction), as well as a former graduate of Manhattan School of Music in Classical Vocal performance and Piano.
My work with students is thorough, concentrating on building their stamina with text work, underlying meanings to the text, as well as in-depth character work and study. Instrumentation/Voice will be approached with careful attention to interpretation, meanings of any text and overall phrasing.
About Claire
With regards to Acting, I approach my coachings with students on a structured set of intervals, beginning with getting to know and use your instrument (yourself) before we begin heavy in-depth analysis of text, character inner (and outer) life, as well as beatwork and scene study. Coachings, I view, are fundamentally going to help you grow at a pace that will most be beneficial to you and allow you great ease and flexibility on stage or film.
I approach voice in a similar manner, as the instrument will need to be nurtured, stretched and guided as we move through set scales,
With Cello and Piano, workbooks with note and sheet music exercises will be provided. This aims to help with fingering memorization, phrasings, dynamics, and overall structure of a piece. Workbooks can also lend themselves to a deeper knowledge of scales, key signatures and basic music theory that should always be applied to all music.
Like with all my,coachings, I recommend the use of an audio recorder and/or notebook to write down a detailed summary of what was worked on and achieved during our session! :)
Claire A.
Claire A.
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Gray Wolves in the Northern Rockies
Gray wolves once dominated the western landscape, but widespread killing virtually wiped them out in the lower 48 states by the 1940s. Today, wolves are back in the Northern Rockies thanks to a highly successful reintroduction program in central Idaho and Yellowstone National Park, and to dedicated conservation efforts. By the end of 2012, the estimated population was 1,674 wolves in the Northern Rockies region.
Over the years, despite many efforts by Defenders and other conservation groups to gain social acceptance for wolves on the ground, repeated attempts were made to prematurely strip federal protection for wolves in all or part of the Northern Rockies.
In 2009, the Bush administration made one more last-ditch attempt to strip federal protection for wolves across the Northern Rockies based on individual state management plans. The FWS moved forward with delisting wolves in Idaho and Montana, but not Wyoming, where the state's plan was deemed inadequate. Defenders and 12 other conservation groups challenged the delisting and filed for a preliminary injunction to stop proposed wolf hunts. Though the injunction was denied and hunts began in Montana and Idaho, protection was reinstated in 2010 when the district court ruled in favor of Defenders, saying the decision to remove federal protection for wolves violated the Endangered Species Act.
Under intense political pressure from anti-wolf hunting and ranching organizations, Congress passed an appropriations amendment or "rider" in 2011 as part of a much larger, must-pass funding bill that reinstated the 2009 delisting rule and barred it from further judicial review. Under this amendment, federal protection was officially removed in Idaho and Montana, as well as in the western parts of Oregon and Washington. The FWS later delisted the wolf in Wyoming as well, even though the state's management plan was remarkably similar to one that the FWS had previously rejected. Defenders is actively challenging the Wyoming delisting in court.
Aggressive wolf hunts have already resumed in Idaho, Wyoming and Montana. For example, Idaho Department of Fish and Game has adopted year-round hunting and trapping in parts of the state and Wyoming has eliminated protection for wolves in over 80% of the state. As a result, the future of wolf recovery across the region remains uncertain.
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Length: 4.5-6.5 feet from nose to tail-tip
Weight: 55-130 lbs; Males are typically heavier and taller than the females.
Lifespan: 7-8 years in the wild. 12 years or more in remote or protected areas.


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The Last Stand
2 stars out of 5
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Eduardo Noriega, Forest Whittaker
Directed by: Kim Jee-woon
Running time: 107 minutes
Parental guidance: Violence, coarse language
Arnold Schwarzenegger always said he'd be back, and sure enough, here is The Last Stand, the former governor's return to the big screen.
He reappears in all his glory, a little grizzled, perhaps, and a bit thicker around the waist, but still straddling the line between exotic import ("You make us immigrants look bad," he says to the Mexican bad guy) and apple pie Americana (he plays one Ray Owens, the sheriff of tiny Sommerton Junction, Ariz.)
And he still has a way with a giant firearm — in this case, a vintage Vickers machine gun — and a quip. "Welcome to Sommerton," he says to the corpses of several baddies, the smoke curling up from the barrel of the Vickers.
The Last Stand is an oddity: a brutal and occasionally comical action Western made by a Korean director, Kim Jee-woon, who seems tone deaf to the beats of the genre.
Kim, who made the ultraviolent revenge film I Saw The Devil, is too bloody-minded to sell the comedy and too relentlessly engaged in the power of gunfire to embrace the characters.
The movie is in love with firearms and their destructive abilities; we're invited to laugh at a huge pistol with a backfire so powerful it can break your nose, and to cheer at a scene in which the good guys arm themselves from a huge arsenal of rifles, six-shooters, machine guns and a flare pistol.
Welcome to Sommerton indeed. Welcome to America.
The story is also all over the place. Schwarzenegger's sheriff is a former big city cop, happily out of Los Angeles and now running a department made up of comically inept deputies. Their mettle is about to be tested, however.
Drug lord Gabriel Cortez, described as "the most vicious cartel boss since Pablo Escobar," has escaped from prison — the plan, which involves a giant magnet, is one of the over-the-top improbabilities that gives the film its unique flavour of pointless excess — and is headed toward the Mexican border.
There's nothing between him and freedom except Sommerton and its aging lawman (Town resident: "How do you feel sheriff?" Schwarzenegger: "Old.")
It's a wacky flight to freedom. For one thing, Cortez is played by Eduardo Noriega, a Spanish star who looks more like a male model than a fearsome criminal: he has a dyed blonde forelock in his sweep of black hair, a stylish suit, and he drives a Corvette ZR1, a showpiece automobile with 1,000 horsepower that can go 200 miles an hour. Fortunately Cortez is also a trained racecar driver.
He has a hostage with him — gorgeous FBI agent Genesis Rodriguez — and he's being pursued by Forest Whitaker as an FBI man given to underestimating the small town sheriff he will come to rely on. That relationship more pro forma than real: the screenplay by Andrew Knauer senses it needs a subplot of comeuppance, but it can't get too interested when there are more guns to fire and bits of skull to be blown away. The movie never turns down a chance to shoot at somebody, and the scenes of mayhem are disturbingly graphic.
The straightforward mystery of how Cortez will get across the border is further complicated by various henchmen and foils, including Peter Stormare as Burrell, Cortez's enforcer, and Johnny Knoxville as Lewis, the town eccentric in a flap hat who runs a small gun museum out on his farm and is knee-deep in ammunition, quirks and humorous facial tics.
This all runs on at length: Kim can't seem to wait to start the big gunfight, and then he hates to let it end, at least not until Schwarzenegger can do something iconic. Sadly, he doesn't seem quite up to it. Near the end, when Cortez tells him, "Your time is over," it seems as if he may be right. He's back, but now what?
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