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The State and Scope of Adult Contemporary (AC) Radio
By Dan Vallie
Vallie/Richards/Donovan Consulting
Founder and Consultant
BOONE, NC — It's an interesting time for AC radio. One of the current challenges is one that pops up every few years: top 40 is on a hot streak again, and this time hot AC is joining that ride. Contributing to that hot streak is the PPM methodology. In the AC world right now, the hot AC's are generally looking very good, so let's begin by talking about Hot AC.
Much of today's top 40 music is compatible with hot AC…the fact top 40 finally, after many years, has moved out of its more narrow hip hop essence to a more pop mainstream essence, and has once more allowed moms to listen with their kids (and many of those moms personally like much of the music they hear on top 40 today). In addition, there are more single people in this demo than ever, and that also affects listening habits.
Right now, all of us working in hot AC and top 40 look brilliant. It's sort of how we all looked like brilliant investors in the late 90s when the economy was so strong, but then the economy sunk. Did we all look like brilliant investors after that? Not so much. We've got to be smart through all of these ups and downs and not over react or misread the market.
Scott Shannon once said to me, "It's not how heavy you are, it's how long you are heavy." He was right. That translates to: We need to plan our strategy and build and program stations so that they don't just win in the current business climate, but win consistently over a period of time. Longevity is real success.
It's very commonplace in today's environment to look at other radio stations in other markets and imitate them. While there are common threads in very successful stations, there are also unique things in each market, ranging from the makeup of the market to the competitive environment that makes a difference, and programming with that in mind makes a difference in a good performance and a great performance. We have to analyze the market, not just the format.
The listener in the 25-54 demo goes to top 40 and hot AC for a reason. She goes to soft AC/mainstream for another reason. It's the difference in going to McDonald's or going to your favorite nice coffee shop. You go to each for different reasons and different moods. One is fast-paced and convenient when in a hurry; the other is where many prefer to go for the atmosphere and an inviting environment, and to linger longer.
Hot AC has embraced much of the pop culture aspects of top 40, along with some of the disposable music that is fleeting in success, often with the popularity of the artist.
If you are a hot AC, you have to be concerned and have discussions about whether you play Katie Perry or Rihanna. If you are a soft AC/mainstream, you have to be concerned with whether the song fits the essence of the station in regard to texture, feel and lyric content. There is a difference in considering the artist and considering the song itself. The more current-based a format, and the more pop culture-focused , then usually the more artist-conscious the station has to be, in mainstream AC, it's really the song much more so than the artist.
When a format gets on a ride, like hot AC and top 40 are on now, it's much like the economic situation where we acted as if we thought it would never end. It always does. During these times, hot ACs have to make sure they don't lose their identity or distort their brand to the point of going too far into top 40, unless that is part of the strategy. It's one thing to move a hot AC blatantly and strategically to top 40, like Movin' in Seattle has done so successfully. Movin' made a conscious strategic decision to move into top 40, and it is performing well.
The danger is (and it's another thing altogether) to try to toe the line between top 40 and hot AC to the point where you are neither fish nor fowl. When those decisions get tougher and tougher on songs to play, and the texture and feel of that music sweep, along with the number of currents and recurrents…ultimately you have to be one or the other, or the time will come that you pay the price, and the fiddler on the roof can no longer keep his balance. It sounds like an easy decision to make, or an easy problem to avoid, but it isn't. Those mistakes are being made in many markets in America every day.
The key is not just keeping your focus on a specific demo and gender; it's keeping clear on the essence of the station's music, knowing what the station should sound like musically. It's having a clear understanding in your own mind of your "reason to be." The problem sometimes is that the hotter the station gets, the hotter the station gets. It takes just as much discipline to stay focused during the successful times as it does during the tough times. It's easy to talk the talk, especially if the numbers are good, but it's tougher to walk the walk.
Hot AC's PDs, managers, corporate offices…should make it a point to know who they are, and to know the parameters of the AC format. Most, in casual conversation, will say they do, but behind closed doors, the confidence is not quite as apparent. But it's a decision that has to be made and followed with discipline to make sure you not only don't hurt your brand and position in the market, but strengthen it.
Mainstream AC and soft AC
While hot AC in most markets is riding high, many of the mainstream/soft ACs are not performing as well as a couple of years ago.
The problem many are concerned about, and it is a problem, is that the softer or mainstream ACs in many markets are not doing as well as they had grown accustom to. That is often leading to a problem that has happened before, and now is happening again. It does seem our industry would learn from past mistakes, but some of those same mistakes are being made again. Mike Donovan from Vallie/Richards/Donovan Consulting calls it, "top 40 envy." This leads many to over- reacting and forgetting the fundamental reasons people listen to an AC radio station. It's too easy to say, and we hear it from AC stations, that the mainstream/soft AC station needs more tempo, more of an edge, and maybe play a few more currents. The problem is, though, that that is seldom the problem, but is an easy action to take.
Isn't it interesting how this seems to happen in both directions. When AC is on a roll and performing extremely well in the ratings, top 40s start adding more "AC" songs they should not be on, and often change their on-air presentation. If you've been around long enough, you can remember eras when top 40 over-reacted to the success of AC by becoming more like the AC stations. You will recall how that killed a lot of once very successful top 40 stations. They tried to become something they aren't, and tried to get their product used in a way the listener doesn't want or need. Now, that is happening in reverse with some AC stations reacting to top 40. It will…and is…doing more harm than good to many AC stations, and will lead to the death of some formerly successful ACs. They don't' have to die.
A great AC has to be a great AC, not a top 40 or hot AC wannabe. AC should play to its strengths. The ones that do will thrive. It takes discipline and sound strategic thought and good day-to-day decisions. The AC format is a great format. The format has been on a good, long run. Now with PPM and competing against more top 40 and hot ACs, many mainstream/soft ACs have struggled against new, improved and more competition and fragmentation. But that doesn't mean you copy the competitor, which best case leads to mediocrity. It means the AC has to step up its game and do what AC does best…and win. Decisions for AC have to be made by looking through an AC lens; you have to have AC sensitivities and all decisions must go through that filter. Just like there are certain nuances to the format and to the audience of top 40, rock and country, etc., there are very important nuances to the AC format. If ignored, you not only lose ratings, you lose the AC franchise and you lose money.
A real risk now is that many AC stations feel the way to better compete against a successful top 40 that is scoring huge 25-54 ratings is to add more top 40 music to their currents or library. While the AC format has always played some songs that had heavy top 40 play, the mainstream/soft AC format is more mature, more associated with quality, while top 40 — by its pop culture nature — plays a lot of disposable music that will not or should not ever make it to AC.
Too many stations just put on songs because they are considered "hits," or because they test well, but that ignores the art of programming, the art of building a product and a brand image and creating a music essence. It's not that difficult to put on the hits, the songs that test well, it's more difficult to build a unique brand in a market place that differentiates from the competitors with a quality, appealing, and distinctive product, but that is what you have to strive to do.
Some stations, etc. point to their research and say more top 40 music or more upbeat, etc. music is what they should do. They research it, so how can that decision be wrong. Do the research; you need it. But it's not usually the research that is wrong; it's that the interpretation of the research is sometimes wrong. Often the appeal of a song or a sound gets more weight in the decision-making process than the sound and image and position of the station itself. At Vallie/Richards/Donovan Consulting we often talk of a station's "reason to be"…and a station can't lose that reason to be. Yet often that takes a back seat in the decision-making process.
Mainstream/soft AC, if it doesn't let itself get too narrow (and hot ACs run even more of this risk), can play from various music styles to help create its positive and appealing music essence in a balance of pure pop, pop rhythm, alternative, triple A and country. Adele was first played in triple A and Carrie Underwood and Lady Antebellum in country. The balance, the texture, the style, the tempo, the familiarity, it's all key. Stations need to build a brand, just like successful products in other industries do. You still need to create a position on the product ladder in the listeners' mind. Stations do build an image for the station, though often that image is not created intentionally. It should be intentional, deliberate and clear.
There is a winning position for an AC station in every market. We are not saying to sacrifice winning today in order to win in the long term, we are saying you can do both. But it takes more work and discipline to do both. Build your AC not based on what you want it to be, but build it based on what it needs to be to have a unique, distinctive and differentiated appealing position in the market place.
Maybe more than any other format, the "right brain" of feelings and emotions comes into play when choosing and spending time with this format, less so than the "left brain" side of being analytical. There are certain things that make us feel good, feel warm inside, and to find our "happy place." It is done through the music, the talent, and very importantly, in the station imaging. But programmers usually translate the words "feel good" to mean upbeat music and "party." That is much too narrow and is not the answer for a mainstream AC format.
AC should remember the words, "they may not remember what you said, but they will remember how you made them feel." Make them feel good and they will keep coming back.
Much of the discussion with the AC format is usually about the music, but before we leave the subject, we would be remiss if we didn't' talk about the talent.
Whether hot AC or soft AC, the talent must buy in and understand the format and communicate. Everyone says it's important to relate, to be topical, and real; to make eye contact with the listener. Everyone says it, so few do it. I want the talent who has a likeable personality I can hear in his/her inflection, pacing, attitude, and believability, even if they don't adlib one word. Because then, when they do adlib, they will be real communicators and not just jocks. The content has to be good and targeted, but it has to be more than that. It's not just what you say (the content), it's how you say it. And with a great communicator and a talent that cares about the audience and is genuine, it doesn't matter if it's live or voice tracked. Think of your favorite recording artist and the emotion in their delivery, and the story they tell in the song…the fact that it is recorded doesn't matter, it's the emotion, the passion, and the content that matters.
In regard to content in AC radio, more stations and talent should be focusing on things that matter to the listener. Much of the pop culture content is often even more disposable than some of the top 40 music. Again, that is its nature. Most of it is trivial and, in our pop culture crazed society, you can get that information anywhere and everywhere at your fingertips. While some of it is topical and can be content on AC radio stations, most of the time it appears because it's easy and lazy show prep. More of the AC target may find it interesting to know that Wendy's hamburger chain is designing its first logo change since 1983, and the Wendy girl will be less childlike, or that Tylenol and Ibuprofen used on a regular basis can cause hearing loss in women, even from just standard use and strength…though they may have assumed it came from listening to too many Prince and Bon Jovi songs in the 80s. Which do you think is more meaningful and relatable to them, this, or whether "Justin Beiber is in a new feud with Sharon Osborne."
Closing thoughts
AC is a solid format, a staple format. As history has proven, those that do it right and stay committed to the format, as it should be delivered and designed for each specific market, will do well. One final thought, AC stations should be conceptualized, not just built. By conceptualizing the station, you focus on not just the music, but the entire concept of the station, which leads to a cohesive product. It's not a matter of just "playing the hits," every station does that. With AC, it's also the environmental aspects. When we first coined the term "stationality," it was meant to address all aspects of a radio station, the talent, the imaging, not just the music. That AC brand, franchise, position in the market place, must be conceptualized, understood and protected, and in doing so, your AC radio station will be very successful for many years to come. Just go "touch" the audience.
Dan Vallie is a 40 year broadcast veteran. In 1988 he founded Vallie/Richards/Donovan Consulting, a premiere consulting firm in the country for over 20 years with an impressive clientele. Dan is a non-traditional and creative thinker who believes creative discoveries are best maximized when they have practical application. He can be phoned at 828-262-3919 or emailed at firstname.lastname@example.com
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RUSH: Peter Beinart. Remember his name, folks? Yeah, New Republic. He's got a piece in The Atlantic. "The Questionable Ethics of Teaching My Son to Love Pro Football." We had a story by Beinart last week that I talked about, and it slipped my mind what it was about. You know, he's in the Fareed Zakaria GPS demographic. I mean, they're the same kind of guys.
"Fathers and sons have bonded over football games for generations, but today it's harder for parents to ignore the growing concerns surrounding the sport. Like countless other middle-aged American men, some of my happiest childhood memories involve watching professional sports with my dad. So it was an unexpected delight when my eight-year-old, previously largely indifferent to my New England Patriots obsession, showed sudden interest a few weeks ago. Last Saturday night, he proudly dug out a long-unused Patriots jersey and joined me on the couch late into the night as the Patriots dispatched the Indianapolis Colts. It was wonderful. And it made me a little sick.
"It made me sick because I could see the game through his eyes. And it wasn't pretty. My son, unfamiliar with the NFL's pieties, assumed that hurting the other team's players was the goal. To his untutored eye, the violence that guilt-ridden fans like myself decry was a feature, not a bug. He didn't cheer the injuries; he's too sweet for that. But despite my insistence to the contrary, I suspect the message he took from the experience was: The only thing you need to know about the large man writhing in agony on the screen is whether he's on our team."
There's a couple more paragraphs of this, but this comes on the heels of Obama saying that he wouldn't let his son, Trayvon Martin, play football, and Bob Ryan, the Boston Globe, apologizing for helping glamorize a brutal sport that maims. Just drip, drip, drip here, folks. Just keeps coming.
RUSH: I want to finish this Peter Beinart piece. I remember Peter Beinart, we talked about him last week, because he was crowing over the media finally defeating Governor Christie. This is the guy who told Wolf Blitzer last week that it was great to take Christie out because he had a reputation for bipartisanship. He had shown an ability to convince people on immigration and gay marriage and had taken a position more palatable to the kind of voters the Republicans need to win, and he had a big personality. He just didn't seem like the next Republican in line, and that's why I think his political wounding is really a danger for the Republican Party. Beinart was worried, this is the end of the Republican Party if Chris Christie's gone. That's who we're talking about here.
And now his piece here in The Atlantic: "The Questionable Ethics of Teaching My Son to Love Pro Football." I left off with his assertion, "The only thing you need to know about the large man writhing in agony on the screen is whether he's on our team." That's what his eight-year-old son, he thinks, is learning watching the game. Here you have all of these egghead, these pointy head intellectuals sitting up there in the Northeastern corridor believing all this stuff about brain cells being damaged by the concussions and this stuff, and they don't know what's happening in real America.
Real America such as Belle Glade, Florida, and the bowels and heartland of Texas. These people are out playing this game, and they're trying to get good at it. It's their ticket out of wherever they are, and they're not gonna be able to talk these people out of it. The only way they're gonna succeed here is to ban this game. They're not gonna be able to persuade people not to play it, try as they might.
Now, picking up with his column: "When my dad made me a football fan," get this, "the press wasn't filled with stories about the way repeated blows to the head erode brain tissue, causing a lifetime of confusion, depression, aggression, dementia, and memory loss." By the way, there is no evidence that football is the sole reason, but, see, this guy has bought this premise hook, line, and sinker. It's like we had the news last week that a woman researcher has disproven the notion that football players are six times more likely to commit suicide. She found it's just the opposite, that the percentage of suicides in America, the number of people that played football were six times less than the general population. It's exact opposite of what the media has been saying.
So, anyway, this guy, yeah, when I was learning about football, and my dad was teaching me, the media wasn't filled with all this stuff about how football causes "a lifetime of confusion, depression, aggression, dementia, and memory loss. Former players didn't attach suicide notes like the one found in 2011 in the apartment of former Chicago Bears safety Dave Duerson, which read, 'Please, see that my brain is given to the NFL's brain bank.' So my father can't be blamed for fostering in me an emotional attachment to football that overrides the moral analysis I'd apply to some other activity that physically and mentally disfigures its participants."
I warned everybody that this stuff was going to happen.
"I, on the other hand, have no such excuse. I could, perhaps, break the chain. Whether he realizes it or not, my son likes watching football for the same reason I did: because it's intimate time with his dad. If I didn't let watching football become one of the things we shared, if I told him it's something I regret, he might take to it anyway. But it would be less likely. And if he made it to adulthood without heartwarming memories of sitting alongside his old man watching other men pulverize their bodies and minds, he'd be more able to rationally decide whether professional football is something a decent society should allow."
I'm telling you, it's the media that makes its living covering this sport in large part that is going to end up perhaps doing it great damage. Bob Ryan. In fact, this one I'm surprised at. I'm surprised that the piece he wrote has not gotten wide play. Bob Ryan, who is leading sportswriter for the Boston Globe, renowned, universally accepted as the best in his day. And he's now a sportswriter emeritus. He's all over ESPN. He's one of these guys that within the industry has impeccable integrity and credibility. If Bob Ryan says it, it's gold with other sportswriters.
He had this piece apologizing for his role in popularizing a sport which maims and brutalizes participants. And it just sat there. Now, I don't watch ESPN. I don't know if it was talked about there. But I do a lot, as you know, of reading, and I didn't see anything beyond his story. So I don't know what ramifications there were from it, if any, but now this. My son will now be "more able to rationally decide whether professional football is something a decent society should allow."
Let me ask you a question. I want you all to think about this for a second. I don't necessarily want you to call and answer it right now, unless you have an immediate answer that's totally encompassing the question, but it's a very simple question.
How did the National Football League get so popular?
In our lifetimes Major League Baseball was the national pastime. Major League Baseball was it. Pro football happened, and it had its legion of fans. But it's only relatively recently that it has become the most watched television program whenever it's on. What is it that's made the NFL, specifically the NFL -- college football, the reasons for fandom there are different. Well, there's some overlapping, but there are also some distinct differences. What is it about the NFL that has made it this popular, do you think?
Is it because fans are watching to see grown men be ruined for life via injury? Is that it? Is it because the fans know it is indecent and barbaric and we are no different than they ancient Romans trekking to the Colosseum to see whoever was going to be killed that day?
Why is the National Football League so popular and how did it happen? Let me remind you of something that will not help you with your answer. It's just an interesting factoid. When I worked for the Royals '79 to '83 in the marketing department, yeah, I knew the people that worked over at the Chiefs and played our Thursday afternoon touch football games. The front offices competed after the baseball season ended, and we'd share marketing materials.
It was the early eighties, and the NFL had sent out a little flier that they wanted their teams to post in the office, the marketing departments, to let them know what their task was. The flier said something that astounded me. "If you know," it said, "that more people go bowling in one week than attend NFL games in a season, then you know America." The NFL chose this mechanism to tell its marketing people how far they had to go to get this game mainstreamed, and in the eighties it was big.
I mean, it was really popular even then, but even then the number of people that attended games (which has always been the fundamental key) was dwarfed by the number of people that went bowling. The number of people that visit the Tomb of the Unknown Bowler dwarfs the number of people who go to the pro football Hall of Fame, for example. Now, how do you explain this?
I don't know if the stat still holds. I doubt that it does. I doubt that that stat's true anymore. Now, this is a question to which there is an answer. I just wonder if you know what it is. Why is it so popular? 'Cause, folks, we are living in a time where the left is trying to persuade you that a decent society would not tolerate the game -- certainly would not promote it, and certainly would not introduce it to children, and certainly would not glorify it, and certainly would not attach stardom to it.
No way. So companion question: Why does the left all of a sudden hate it? Why does the left want to harm it? Why does the left want to persuade more and more people not to watch the NFL? I'll add just a third question for my own idle curiosity: Do the people that run the game, are they fully aware of what's happening out there in this regard, or are they not? Are they of the frame of mind that nothing could damage our game, or at least this can't?
Now, as you ponder the answer to your question, remember what fired up a large percentage of this country last night after the game. A post-game rant interview by one of the stars of the game created a nationwide buzz, for a while, and converted millions of people to automatic fans of the Denver Broncos. Richard Sherman. I still suggest that you find some things that Richard Sherman has written, and you'll be amazed. I'm telling you, the guy is smart. He's really knows his business. He knows his craft. He has studied it. It'll shock you if what you saw of Richard Sherman last night is all you think Richard Sherman is.
RUSH: Here's Lyle in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Hi, Lyle. Glad you waited. You're next on the EIB Network. Hello, sir.
CALLER: Dittos, Rush, from Virginia Beach, Virginia.
RUSH: Thank you, sir.
CALLER: A fan of many years. I'm 60 years old. I'm a sports fan from when I was a kid. What we love as males, men in this country, we gotta admit deep down, we love violent sports. I love football. I watch football because of the fact I might see a great hit. I remember the days of Alex Karras and the Fearsome Foursome from Detroit. But, you know, ESPN, I'll tell you this --
RUSH: No, the Fearsome Foursome was the Rams, but okay, so you like the big hits?
CALLER: I love it.
RUSH: Why? But let's go --
CALLER: It's why I watch it.
RUSH: Why do you like that?
CALLER: Well, because, Rush, I played the game. I played the game when I was a kid in backyards. We played. We couldn't afford the equipment so we played tackle football in the backyard.
RUSH: Right.
CALLER: We loved to hit each other.
RUSH: Yep.
CALLER: That's what guys like.
RUSH: Ditto. But why, as a spectator? I'm trying to dig this out. I'm not disagreeing with you. I'm not even voicing an opinion on what you're saying. I'm just trying to dig deep. What is it about the big hits or "the violence," as you say? What is it about that that makes you watch, because that's what they're gonna try to stop the game being played with.
CALLER: Let me tell you something, Rush. It's macho-ism.
RUSH: Ah! Now we're getting somewhere.
CALLER: It's the way God made us.
RUSH: Now we're getting somewhere.
CALLER: He made us as men and women different.
RUSH: Now we're getting somewhere.
CALLER: Thank you. And hockey? Our favorite saying way back when was, "I went to a fight and a hockey game broke out."
RUSH: I hear you. Oh, yeah.
CALLER: I want to see the hits. I want to see the fights. I want it controlled. You can't get too --
RUSH: Let me translate. Let me translate. This guy loves sports because it's one place he can watch men be men. Think of it what you will, but that's what he's saying.
RUSH: I'll tell you something else about when you're playing football and you don't have any equipment. As a kid, you're playing backyard tackle football. When one of you gets hurt, you know what happens? You go find somebody to replace him. You don't cry about it. You just get the kid whatever he needs and then you find a replacement and you keep playing. Of course, there are many more reasons for its popularity.


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A Prince Albert member of the Royal Canadian Air Cadets enjoyed a ride on a Second World War-era plane last week as part of an annual initiative by Vintage Wings of Canada.
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Vintage Wings of Canada pilot Derek Blatchford hands a certificate to Cadet Amanda Loeffen, a member of 38 Anavets squadron in Prince Albert. Loeffen flew in the Boeing Stearman aircraft as part of this year's Yellow Wings tour, which offers young Canadians the chance to fly in vintage airplanes.
Cadet Amanda Loeffen, a flight corporal at 38 Anavets squadron, flew in a restored Boeing Stearman for the Yellow Wings Youth Leadership Initiative, a program that seeks to inspire youth and encourage careers in science, technology, engineering and math.
Loeffen, 14, is attending the Advanced Musicians Course this summer at Penhold Air Cadet Summer Training Centre (PACSTC) in Penhold, Alberta.
Of the 1,200 cadets at the centre, Loeffen was one of 50 selected to enjoy a flight on the vintage aircraft.
"At Penhold, I am given so many exciting opportunities along with my course, but this summer I got a very rare experience and one of the most amazing moments of my life," Loeffen wrote on the 500 Dreams Take Wing Facebook page, which compiles youth experiences from the Yellow Wings tour.
She added, "I was selected to fly with the Vintage Wings of Canada in one of the very few Canadian Boeing Stearman(s), which is a biplane with an open cockpit. I thank Vintage Wings and their generous sponsors and donors for reassuring me that flying is what I want to do with my life … I will remember that moment forever."
The Yellow Wings tour first began after a visit to the cadet camp in Cold Lake by Vintage Wings president and CEO Rob Fleck, who left impressed by the engagement, intelligence and enthusiasm he encountered among the cadets.
Fleck began considering a way to further inspire young Canadians, which eventually led to the Yellow Wings initiative.
Despite the strong flying element, the goals of the program are broader than one might first assume.
"It's not just about grooming pilots. It's about grooming good Canadians," Vintage Wings western director of advancement Brenda Blair said.
"We're noticing it in our industry that less and less kids are entering science, math, engineering, technology, and so we want to sort of encourage kids, inspire them to ... take these modes of higher education.
"A plane … doesn't fly unless you have scientists, technologists, engineers and people who know math, and (we're) just trying to instill in them that these are really important areas of study."
Despite the educational aspects of the Yellow Wings tour -- which include stories from veterans, technical notes on the aircraft and benefits of the aforementioned technical careers -- the chance to fly in a vintage airplane is an undeniable highlight.
I thank Vintage Wings and their generous sponsors and donors for reassuring me that flying is what I want to do with my life … I will remember that moment forever. Amanda Loeffen
The Boeing Stearman that Loeffen flew is the last surviving example of 300 planes that were brought to Canada during the war to serve as training craft for pilots. The Stearman saw years of service at the Royal Air Force Elementary Flying Training School in Bowden, AB.
At PACTSC, pilots reminded the cadets of their similarities to wartime youth who came off the street and learned how to fly using those same planes.
"We get a lot of energy from these youngsters because they're so excited, and then they all get a hand at flying the airplane," pilot Derek Blatchford said.
"We basically give them an initial flying lesson so they get to fly the airplane around, and it's something completely different. Any flying they've done before is in an airplane that has a cockpit, so they're basically removed from the elements and enjoying the view and so forth.
"In this case, they not only get that, but there's no roof over their head. They're wearing goggles and a leather helmet and enjoying the wind in their face and wind in the wires -- just a big, noisy old airplane really, and they just loved it."
For Loeffen, the experience confirmed her desire to pursue a career in flying.
She plans on applying for the Gliders Scholarship when she turns 16 and then earning her wings through the Power Pilot Scholarship. After high school, Loeffen has expressed a wish to attend Royal Military College or join the Royal Canadian Air Force.
A former air cadet himself, Blatchford credits the organization with kickstarting his lifelong aviation career, which included stints as a military pilot and flight instructor.
"I spent my whole career in flying, and that's what got me on my way," he said. "What I want to do is help the youth of today get on their way in something.
"It doesn't have to be flying -- just pick something and go for it."


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2010 Service-Learning Fellows
(In Alphabetical Order)
Service-learning is a curricular-based educational experience in which students participate in organized activities that meet community needs and then reflect upon their experiences, tying them to course content, a broader appreciation of their discipline, and an enhanced sense of civic responsibility. Each Fellow received a $750 honorarium and a handsome commemorative plaque awarded at the annual Student-Faculty Scholarship Recognition Event on April 21, 2010.
Lisa Assante
An assistant professor in the School of Business, Lisa Assante has made quite on impact on SUU and her program in Hospitality, Hotels and Resort Management. Last year, Lisa was named SUU's "Outstanding Educator" and she teaches two official service-learning courses within the School of Business. Lisa and her students have been successful in raising funds for their projects through campus sales, grants, SUUSA awards, and course fees.
Brief Overview:
Dr. Lisa Assante's service-learning work has reached out to Cedar City (Canyon Creek Women's Crisis Center, Turning Point, Cub Scouts, military veterans from Iron County) and to Bryce Canyon National Park. Lisa is recognized for her service-learning projects through HRHM 3110, Quantity Food Production, and HRHM 3600, Guest Services. In the former course, Lisa's students select a community partner, plan a quantity food event, create a menu and lesson plan, order and fabricate the food, teach the recipients a related lesson, apply for a grant or fundraise to offset expenses, and write a comprehensive reflection piece. Similarly, students in HRHM 3600 select a community partner, find funding, and analyze their partner's operations. For three semesters, Lisa and students worked with Ruby's Inn in Bryce Canyon City that included a six-hour training and development workshop, "The Leader's Role in Unmatched Service." One student in that class later wrote: "this was truly a service-learning class. I was able to get hands-on experience in the industry while learning objectives and using materials taught in the classroom. By using multiple applications to the material I was learning to reinforce those objectives and behaviors within the industry." Another student wrote: "The service-learning project and course content are like peanut butter and jelly, they just go together."
Laura Cotts
An assistant professor of Physical Sciences, Laura Cotts has had a long and successful career teaching physics and related lab courses at SUU. As detailed in her course syllabi and teaching materials, Professor Cotts strives to make physics "fun" while also upholding academic rigor. In her syllabus for the Physics Lab course, Physics 2015, Laura promises students "a better education and skills that will be invaluable in all aspects of life."
Brief Overview:
Professor Laura Cotts is formally recognized this year for her promoting service-learning in two lab classes, College Physics Laboratory I (PHYS 2015) and University Physics for Scientists and Engineers Laboratory I (PHYS 2215). Students form into teams who design a science lesson to present to at least one elementary school classroom. Students research the most effective ways to convey concepts to young children and then develop activities. The final draft includes lesson objectives, plans, and a materials list. Local school principals and teachers coordinated with Laura in choosing the most relevant and appropriate lessons. Students have presented at Enoch, , South, East, North, Fiddlers', and Parowan Elementary Schools, along with Cedar and Canyon View Middle Schools. SUU students tried to convey the excitement of science and the importance of education. Students wrote two-page reflection papers and teachers completed evaluation sheets. Laura reports that "teaching a science lesson forces my student to think more carefully about the ideas they are learning in a physics lab." Since students were given some latitude in picking lessons and ideas, a few students offered lessons in other disciplines such as chemistry, ecology, and astronomy. Finally, Laura writes that "The best part was reading the reflection papers of the physics students. Many said that they initially thought this was a "dumb idea" and they were subsequently amazed at how much they and the children gained from the experience. And every teacher in the schools answered "Yes, please" to the question "Should we do this again next year?"
Shobha Gurung
A native of Nepal, Dr. Shobha Gurung has enjoyed great success in her short time at SUU. Last year, she was named the T-Bird Professor of the Year and remains very active as a scholar. She has been energetic in promoting and integrating service-learning into the Sociology curriculum.
Brief Overview:
Dr. Shobha Gurung has introduced service-learning into introductory and advanced classes, ranging from SOC 1010 (Introduction to Sociology) and SOC 1020 (Social Problems) to SOC 4500 (Sociology of Health and Medicine) and SOC 4500 (Global Issues in Sociology). Many of her course readings and assignments relate to the critical study of race, ethnicity, social class, gender, and age. As an example, students visit the Emerald Pointe Assisted Living Center and learn more about the impact of socioeconomic class on the retired community, realizing that economic resources are connected with the quality of care. Similarly, students have performed service as the Iron County Care and Share Shelter where they appreciate the importance of social forces in shaping people's choices and life chances. In upper-level classes, students are exposed to policies and state agencies that shape health care and to issues related to globalization. Some students in Spring 2009 worked with the Cedar City Rotary Club to learn about water development projects in Nepal while those in Spring 2010 assisted The Happy Factory. For their reflection pieces, students have options among written assignments, class discussions, and PowerPoint presentations. Professor Gurung summarizes her service-learning pedagogy: "Service projects enable students to examine the lived realities of people's live and reflect on how they can personally help improve the community in which they reside."
Jean Lopour
As a long-time Professor of Physical Education, Jean Lopour was one of the first faculty members at SUU to create an official service-learning course. She is being recognized this year for her work in PE 3090, Adaptive Physical Education, that offers an imaginative approach to a sometimes overlooked community, individuals who are impaired/disabled.
Brief Overview:
Students in Dr. Jean Lopour's PE 3090 class perform a minimum of 24 hours in their service work with impaired/disabled individuals. Settings include grades K-12 in Iron County schools, the Chrysallis Group Home, and the SUU swim program for the Turn Group. Students seek appropriate activities and assignments by working with a mentor teacher who implements an IEP (Individual Education Plan). In addition, for the past three semesters the PE 3090 class has sponsored a "Special Rodeo" for the participants in the local Diamond Z Arena. Events have included "stick" horse, barrel racing, dummy roping, bucking bale riding, goat petting, and horseback riding. SUU students are expected to connect their service back to academic resources and readings that include analysis of impairments and of the physical ability of individuals to overcome them. For the past dozen years, Iron County school teachers who specialize in "Special Education" have been "very happy" to have the assistance of SUU students, according to Jean Lopour. The Chrysallis Group has been cooperating with PE 3090 for about three years in which they visit campus on Fridays. Students write reflection papers about what they learned that examines "their" students, explains the activities performed and progress made, and assesses changes in their own attitudes about working with disabled individuals. Ultimately, SUU students "begin to realize the impaired/disabled individuals are just individuals who have strengths and weaknesses as the 'normal' population." Most recently, SU has participated in wheelchair basketball, the Polar Plunge in February, and Special Olympics.
Cindy Wright
With three decades of experience at SUU, Dr. Cindy Wright has been an effective practitioner and proponent of service-learning for many years. Serving as a dean, department chair, and faculty member, Dr. Wright has shown imagination and persistence in integrating service-learning into nutrition classes, particularly NFS 4480, Community Nutrition.
Brief Overview:
In her Community Nutrition course, Dr. Cindy Wright identifies sites and projects where individual students can provide a food or nutrition-related service for at least 15 hours during the semester. These organizations are not-for-profit and mostly run by volunteers. General assignments center on preparing and cooking meals, stocking shelves, raising funds and food donations, and delivering food to home-bound elderly in the community. In addition to the service-learning project above, students are expected to perform their own needs assessment to identify and complete a community project. This may include teaching nutrition to public school students, providing grocery store tours, creating/maintaining nutrition blogs, or preparing monthly nutrition newsletters. Using Kolb's experiential learning model, the class has become an official service-learning class. Besides using a work log, students are encouraged to include photographs, create a PowerPoint presentation, and write a short reflection paper. Civic responsibility is enhanced, Cindy writes, because "Community Nutrition students are making effective strides to address the nutritional health and fitness of individuals and families. Service-learning can provide opportunities for students to become active partners in addressing education and community concerns."


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THE VISITORS WHO COME HERE FOR THE OLYMPICS this summer won't find Tara. What they will find is a city facing an unusual—and sometimes painful—past with clarity of vision and generosity of spirit.
April 1996 | Volume 47, Issue 2
Little survives of Atlanta's nineteenth-century railroad past except an 187Os freight depot, which has been converted to a conference center. It can be found near Underground Atlanta, a subterranean complex of shops and restaurants south of the downtown business district (see "Underground Atlanta," page 91). Aboveground there is a block of restored commercial buildings and Atlanta Heritage Row: The Museum at Underground, with a series of walk-through exhibits tracing the city's history. One of the most effective is a dark, claustrophobic reproduction of a bomb shelter built to withstand Sherman's siege. A short stroll brings you to the World of Coca-Cola, a museum paying homage to the beverage that is Atlanta's gift to the world. In 1886 Dr. John Styth Pemberton set up a laboratory in his back yard to concoct a good-tasting cure for headaches. Mixing caffeine, cola nuts, and coca leaves, he came up with a brew that—who knows?—may have been the secret fuel of Atlanta's resurgence.
One of the leaders of the city's revival was a young newspaperman named Henry Grady, who was invited up to New York in 1886 to address a group of Yankee businessmen. His remarks made it plain that the South was ready for reconciliation, but not on its knees. Grady said he was glad that the Union was saved and that slavery was wiped from America, but he continued: "The South has nothing for which to apologize…. The South has nothing to take back." Oddly enough, the next speaker of the evening was none other than William T. Sherman. Grady made sure the general knew that bygones were bygones and that Sherman was well regarded in Georgia, "though some people think he is kind of careless about fire." He went on to inform the general that "from the ashes he left us in 1864 we have raised a brave and beautiful city." He called his section of the country the New South. What had happened in Atlanta was happening elsewhere in the region, but Atlanta led the way. It had the South's first skyscraper, the Equitable Building, put up in 1892. The Equitable was demolished in 1971, but another early skyscraper, the Flatiron Building, survives at 84 Peachtree Street.
THE WORDS BREAK THE SOMBER silence of the memorial: "Free at Last, Free at Last, Thank God Almighty I'm Free at Last."
The Flatiron and several other venerable commercial buildings are stops on the tours offered by the Atlanta Preservation Center. Indeed the center offers such a rich menu of architectural and historical tours that callers to its information line are advised to have a pencil and a large sheet of paper at hand. Its walking tours include the exotic Fox Theater, an Egyptian and Moorish fantasy erected in the 1920s; the Victorianera West End district, which includes a stop at Wren's Nest, the home of Joel Chandler Harris, who wrote down the African-American Uncle Remus tales; the Druid Hills district, laid out in 1893 by Frederick Law Olmsted and the setting for the film Driving Miss Daisy ; the architecturally exuberant Ansley Park and Inman Park districts; and Atlanta University Center, where several 186Os school buildings survive. Near the university is the Herndon Home, the elegant 1910 Beaux Arts mansion of the founder of the Atlanta Life Insurance Company, Alonzo Herndon, who may have been the richest black man in the United States.
The center also offers tours of Piedmont Park, the site of the 1895 Cotton States and International Exposition. Unfortunately, no buildings survive from the exposition, which put Atlanta on the map as the premier New South city. The purpose of the exposition was to open new markets for Southern manufactured goods and find new sources of investment capital. Atlanta also wanted to show that it had no racial problems and that blacks would provide their share of a stable work force. Accordingly there was a Negro Pavilion, and Booker T Washington was invited to make one of the speeches at the opening of the fair. He responded with the famous "Atlanta Compromise"—a speech accepting social and political segregation in exchange for allowing blacks to make economic progress within a well-defined sphere. Washington's compromise was bitterly and zealously opposed by W. E. B. Du Bois, the great writer, scholar, editor, and anthropologist, who taught for a while at Atlanta University. It was Du Bois who wrote, prophetically, that the problem of the twentieth century would be the problem of the color line.
For the white community, however, Washington's words were exactly what they wanted to hear. Businessmen from around the world were coming to the fair to assess investment possibilities in the region. Crucial to Atlanta's attractiveness was the appearance of racial harmony. But just a decade later that seeming harmony was brutally shattered by the race riot of 1906. Stirred up by highly exaggerated accounts of assaults on white women by black men and by the supposed discovery of white pornography in black brothels, white mobs surged through the city beating and shooting blacks. Public officials tried to stop the riots, even turning fire hoses on the whites, but the violence continued for several days, leaving about twenty-five blacks and one white dead.


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Happy put up huge offensive numbers Saturday against Rule in a Six-Man Division I area-round playoff game at Lubbock's Lowrey Field.
But for all its numbers, it wasn't enough as top-ranked Rule came away with a wild 96-72 victory that ended the Cowboys' season.
Happy quarterback Darius Kimberling completed 16-of-32 passes for 399 yards, and Cole Hix completed 2-of-3 for 46 to give the Cowboys 445 passing yards.
Rule was up to the task as J.T. Spitzer completed 16-of-24 passes for 288 yards and Stephen Pace hit on 3-of-6 for 133 yards to give the unbeaten Bulldogs 434 yards through the air.
Ethan Tyree ran for 112 yards on 17 carries to lead Happy's ground game that accounted for 104 yards, giving the Cowboys 549 yards total.
Rule was a bit better on the ground as C.J. Saucedo carried 10 times for 130 yards and Spitzer added 90 yards on eight carries to give the Bulldogs 267 yards rushing and 701 total yards.
The teams combined for 1,250 yards and threw 68 passes, completing 38 for 879 yards.
Happy's Joaquin Saenz caught seven passes for 195 yards, and Marshall Elliott caught four for 102 yards. James Wolfe led Rule with nine receptions for 169 yards.
Rule (11-0) will meet Valley (11-1) at 6 p.m. Friday at Lowrey Field.
Happy saw a six-game win streak end as it finished with an 8-4 record.
Happy Rule
First Downs 17 24
Rushing 29-104 23-267
Passing 445 434
Total Yards 549 701
Punts 1-22 0-0
Fumbles-Lost 2-2 2-2
Penalties 6-65 3-25
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The cortical stimulator was a medical device used to revive neural activity in the nervous system of critical patients by delivering an electrical shock to induce brain activity. It was almost always attached to the temples or foreheads of humanoids. Cortical stimulators were standard equipment in the sickbays of Starfleet vessels in the 24th century.
In 2154, Captain Jonathan Archer used a cortical stimulator, as directed by Phlox, in a vain attempt to revive Hoshi Sato. (ENT: "Observer Effect")
In 2364, Doctor Beverly Crusher used a cortical stimulator in a vain attempt to revive Lieutenant Natasha Yar after she was struck down by Armus. (TNG: "Skin of Evil")
On stardate 45944, Dr. Crusher attempted to revive Captain Jean-Luc Picard with a cortical stimulator following his exposure to the Kataan probe. The stimulator's interruption of the beam from the Kataan probe caused Picard to go into neural shock, which only stabilized when the cortical stimulator was removed. The probe later disengaged the beam safely, and Picard recovered without further intervention, though the probe made him live fifty years of another being's life in approximately twenty real-time minutes. (TNG: "The Inner Light")
In 2369, Dr. Crusher used it to revive Counselor Deanna Troi after temporarily inducing clinical death to break a telepathic bond that was sapping her life force to keep Federation mediator Ves Alkar artificially young. Also that year, Jean-Luc Picard again had to be revived with cortical stimulators after an energy blast in a sudden gunfight on an away mission caused his artificial heart to temporarily malfunction. (TNG: "Man of the People", "Tapestry")
In 2370, Dr. Julian Bashir revived Quark with a cortical stimulator after he suffered extensive neural trauma from being shot. (DS9: "Necessary Evil")
In 2371, The Doctor used two cortical stimulators to return Commander Chakotay's bio-neural energy to his body in sickbay. (VOY: "Cathexis")
In 2372, The Doctor attempted to revive Crewman Kurt Bendera with a cortical stimulator. It was unsuccessful and he was pronounced dead soon after. (VOY: "Alliances")
In 2373, The Doctor also used one on Tuvok when he suffered a t'lokan schism, and later on Captain Kathryn Janeway when she suffered a near-fatal injury. (VOY: "Flashback", "Coda")


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- "One actress in particular seemed tailor-made to play a princess. As the daughter of actress Debbie Reynolds and singer Eddie Fisher, Carrie Fisher was the product of Hollywood royalty."
- ―Ed Singer
Carrie Frances Fisher (born October 21, 1956) is an actress who is best known for acting out the character of Leia Amidala Skywalker-Organa, former Crown Princess of the planet Alderaan.
Early lifeEdit
Carrie Frances Fisher was born in Beverly Hills, California, the daughter of the singer Eddie Fisher and the actress Mary Frances "Debbie" Reynolds; her paternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Russia. Her younger brother is Todd Fisher. Her half-sisters are actresses Joely Fisher and Tricia Leigh Fisher, whose mother is actress Connie Stevens.
When she was two years old, her parents divorced and her father married actress Elizabeth Rosamund Taylor. The following year, her mother, Reynolds, married shoe store chain owner Harry Karl--who squandered Reynolds's life savings without the knowledge of either Reynolds or Fisher. Fisher grew up wanting to follow in the footsteps of her famous parents. She began appearing with her mother in Las Vegas at age 12. She attended Beverly Hills High School but left to become an actress. She appeared as a debutante and dancer in the hit Broadway revival Irene (1973) starring her mother.
- "We signed away our likeness, so when I look in the mirror, I have to pay George a couple of bucks."
- ―Carrie Fisher, joking about the success of Star Wars
Soon after, she enrolled at London's Central School of Speech and Drama, which she attended for 18 months. Her first movie appearance was in the Columbia comedy Shampoo (1975) starring Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, and Goldie Hawn, with Lee Grant and Jack Warden.
In 1977, Fisher starred as Princess Leia Organa in Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, written and directed by George Lucas, along with Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Peter Cushing, and Alec Guinness.
Star Wars was a huge success and made her internationally famous. Her character of Leia Organa became a merchandising triumph; there were small plastic dolls of her in every toy store across the United States. Fisher has often joked that it was actually Princess Leia who became famous, and she just happened to look like her. After her appearance in Return of the Jedi wearing the famous "metal bikini" or "slave" outfit, Fisher was, for a brief time, regarded as a sex symbol.
In the late 1970s, Fisher became addicted to various drugs. (Her genetic lineage from her father, the singer Eddie Fisher, had rendered her highly physiologically vulnerable to such addictions.) She appeared as Princess Leia in the 1978 made-for-TV movie The Star Wars Holiday Special, and her drug use was quite evident from her on-screen performance. The problem became so severe that director John Landis nearly dismissed her from The Blues Brothers (1980) for being unable to sober up long enough to film a proper scene. She then cleaned up and joined N.A. and A.A.
She appeared on Broadway as Iris in Censored Scenes from King Kong (1980). She appeared again as Princess Leia in Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi (1983). She was also a replacement in the Broadway play Agnes of God (1982).
Fisher's novel Postcards from the Edge—which was semi-autobiographical in the sense that she fictionalized events obviously from her real life, such as her drug addiction of the late 1970s and her complicated, precarious relationship with her mother, Mary Frances "Debbie" Reynolds—was published in 1987. It became a sensational bestseller and she received the Los Angeles Pen Award for Best First Novel.
In 1990, Columbia released a movie version of Postcards from the Edge, which Fisher adapted for the screen from her own novel and which starred Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, and Dennis Quaid.
Behind the scenesEdit
Carrie Fisher played Princess Leia Organa in A New Hope (1977), The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978), The Empire Strikes Back (1980), and Return of the Jedi (1983). She later reprised her role for Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II, in which she also provided the voice for Mon Mothma. She also voiced Mothma via her character "Angela" on Family Guy: It's A Trap!.
Fisher hosted the November 18, 1978 episode of Saturday Night Live, in which she came onto the stage outfitted as Leia Organa, complete to her hair being arranged into the hairstyle she had employed throughout most of A New Hope, which some people had noted resembled an Imperial TIE fighter. She opens the show by telling a long "joke" based entirely on Star Wars references. She then appeared in a sketch, again as Leia, in which she sings and dances with a group of 1950s teenagers. The episode contained the first polished performance by Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi as their popular Blues Brothers characters, Joliet Jake (Belushi) and Elwood (Aykroyd); their performance as such actually preceded Fisher's hosting activities. Fisher later appeared in The Blues Brothers movie as Joliet Jake's vengeful ex-lover, listed in the credits as "Mystery Woman." She is one of the few actors to star in movies with both John and Jim Belushi, later appearing with Jim in the film The Man with One Red Shoe.
Besides acting, Fisher is also a novelist and a frequent script doctor on the screenplays of other writers. Her novels, aside from Postcards From The Edge, include Surrender the Pink (1991), Delusions Of Grandma (1993), and The Best Awful There Is (2004). She also published a book of photographs titled Hollywood Moms (2001) and even wrote three primarily non-photographic non-fiction books, Wishful Drinking, based on a 2006 one-woman stage show she and writer-director Joshua Ravetch had jointly developed, published in 2008, Shockaholic, published in 2011, and The Princess Diarist, whose publication was slated for 2016. Fisher wrote the 1993 episode of Lucas's TV series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles titled "Paris, October 1916."
Fisher has developed and appeared in two one-woman stage shows; the first, mentioned above, was Wishful Drinking, in which she appeared during 2006 and in 2008, and the second, in which she appeared during 2008, was called A Spy In The House Of Me.
Fisher co-wrote the TV comedy movie These Old Broads (2001), of which she was also co-executive producer. It starred her mother, Debbie Reynolds, as well as Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Collins, and Shirley MacLaine. In this, Taylor's character, an agent, explains to Reynolds's character, an actress, that she was in a drunken blackout when she married the actress's husband, "Freddy."
Though Fisher has demonstrated talent as a singer, notably in both the SNL segment she hosted and the Holiday Special, she is not known to have made any recordings of music.
Fisher made a comment once about her experiences off the set of Star Wars films: "I used to go in though airports and have people say; 'Princess Leia!' Like I would then go; 'Yes?' You know, like that's my real name." When The Phantom Menace was released, Fisher commented on her eagerness to see the movie, saying, "I will be thrilled to see the new movie. I've read it and I can't wait to see, because I know that he (Lucas) does better than what's on the page... if that's possible."
In the film Scream 3 (2000), Fisher's character, Bianca Burnette, is mistaken for Carrie Fisher. Fisher pokes fun at herself with the line, "Yeah, I was up for the part of Princess Leia. But who gets it? The girl who slept with George Lucas!" Fisher appeared in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001), which also featured Mark Hamill in a role. In the 2009 film Fanboys, Fisher's character references the famous "I love you/I know" line from both The Empire Strikes Back and Return Of The Jedi.
In early March 2013, Fisher confirmed in an interview with the Palm Beach Illustrated magazine that she would return to reprise her role as Princess Leia in Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens.[2]
Personal lifeEdit
Carrie Fisher had one husband, the musician Paul Simon. During their unsuccessful marriage, which lasted from 1983 to 1984, she miscarried their child. She also dated CAA principal and agent Bryan Lourd; their daughter, Billie Catherine Lourd, was born on July 17, 1992. The couple's relationship ended when Lourd left to be in a homosexual relationship. For a brief time she was even engaged to Dan Aykroyd. It has been rumored for years that she had an affair with Harrison Ford while filming the original Star Wars film; while Fisher admitted she had a crush on Ford and spent much time with him off camera, she denies having had an affair with him.
In an interview on public radio in 2005, Fisher joked about being known overwhelmingly for her role as Princess Leia, and also joked that she was afraid if she ever became senile she might begin to slip back into character.
Fisher has publicly discussed her problems with liquor and drugs, her battles with bipolar disorder, and overcoming an addiction to prescription antidepressants, most notably on ABC TV's 20/20.
On February 26, 2005, 42-year-old Republican Party media adviser R. Gregory Stevens was found dead in a guest room at Fisher's home. She stated that he was a longtime friend and often stayed with her. An autopsy revealed he died from an overdose of cocaine and OxyContin.
Fisher broke her 12 year run of non-dating by living with three-time Emmy award winning news pilot/reporter Bob Tur. The couple broke up in late 2005. In late 2007, she was reportedly seen with British novelist Salman Rushdie, sparking rumors of a romantic relationship.
- Shampoo (1975) ... Lorna
- Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope (1977) ... Princess Leia Organa
- Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back (1980) ... Princess Leia Organa
- The Blues Brothers (1980) ... Mystery Woman
- Under the Rainbow (1981) ... Annie Clark
- Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi (1983) ... Princess Leia Organa
- Garbo Talks (1984) ... Lisa Rolfe
- The Man with One Red Shoe (1985) ... Paula
- Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) ... April
- Hollywood Vice Squad (1986) ... Betty Melton
- Amazon Women on the Moon (1987) (Reckless Youth segment) ... Mary Brown
- The Time Guardian (1987) ... Petra
- Appointment with Death (1988) ... Nadine Boynton
- The 'burbs (1989) ... Carol Peterson
- Loverboy (1989) ... Monica Delancy
- When Harry Met Sally... (1989) ... Marie
- She's Back (1989) ... Beatrice
- Sweet Revenge (1990) ... Linda
- Sibling Rivalry (1990) ... Iris Turner-Hunter
- Drop Dead Fred (1991) ... Janie
- Soapdish (1991) ... Betsy Faye Sharon
- Hook (1991) ... Woman kissing on bridge (uncredited)
- This Is My Life (1992) ... Claudia Curtis
- Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) ... Therapist (uncredited)
- Scream 3 (2000) ... Bianca Burnette
- Heartbreakers (2001) ... Ms. Surpin
- Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) ... Nun
- A Midsummer Night's Rave (2002) ... Mia's Mom
- Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003) ... Mother Superior
- Wonderland (2003) ... Sally Hansen
- Stateside (2004) ... Mrs. Dubois
- Undiscovered (2005) ... Carrie
- The Aristocrats (2005) ... herself
- Fanboys (2009) ... cameo as "The Doctor"
- Maps to the Stars (2014) ... herself
- Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens (2015) ... General Leia Organa
TV workEdit
- The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978) ... Princess Leia Organa (Aired once)
- Smallville (2005)
- Sex and the City (Episode: Sex and Another City) ... Herself
- Family Guy
- Deal or No Deal
- 30 Rock
- Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II
- The Big Bang Theory: The Convention Conundrum ... Herself
- Classic Bantha Tracks: An Interview with Carrie Fisher on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link on Archive.org)
- "Keep Calm and Carrie On!"—Star Wars Insider 136
- Star Wars: Episode VII Cast Announced on StarWars.com (backup link on Archive.org)
- Star Wars: Episode VII Adds Academy Award Winner Lupita Nyong'o and Game of Thrones' Gwendoline Christie on StarWars.com (backup link on Archive.org)
- "Launch Pad"—Star Wars Insider 150
- SWCA: Star Wars: The Force Awakens Panel Liveblog on StarWars.com (backup link on Archive.org)
- SDCC 2015: Star Wars: The Force Awakens Panel Liveblog on StarWars.com (backup link on Archive.org)
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens Character Posters Revealed on StarWars.com (backup link on Archive.org)
- "Carrie Fisher Is Princess Leia"—Star Wars Insider 162
- Star Wars: Episode VIII Now Filming on StarWars.com (backup link on Archive.org)
Notes and referencesEdit
- ↑ Star Wars: Episode VIII Now Filming on StarWars.com (backup link on Archive.org)
- ↑ Q&A with Carrie Fisher (Accessed March 6, 2013)
External linksEdit
- Carrie Fisher - The Official Carrie Fisher Website
- Carrie Fisher on Wikipedia
- Carrie Fisher at the Internet Movie Database
- Carrie Fisher at TriviaTribute.com: Pictures and trivia.
- Carrie Fisher at FanHistory: History of her fandom.


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|Sep 19 2008, 07:18 PM
I'm responding to both Ellie and Flying Monkey in this.
I don't know what to honestly say about what I expect Higley's writing to be. What I was responding to was attractive storylines in general. What I find entertaining. And believe it or not, there is some stuff that Higley does that is promising.
And, I wonder if the "marketability" of the so called secondary players just comes from a few fanbases throwing a fit because their favorites aren't in the lead again? I'll wager you most viewers vote with their viewing time. For the past several years, Days has been so topsy-turvy in KEEPING alternate couples or players on the front lines because of the "massive few" who throw a fit about it. Same old story. You won't find that opinion only here, but on other boards as well.
And, I do still recall, in the transition between JER and Sheffer, the time when J&M had their little summer "hiatus". Ratings were high, probably based on happiness for Reilly being gone, but still. They weren't totally banking on their so-called "money couples" to bring in the ratings. Bo and Hope have been gone in the past, too. The show went on. It's a sad, sad show that is all about one character or one couple, except, of course, the sitcoms that are SUPPOSED to center around one star. Soaps shouldn't operate that way.
And to quote the Flying Monkey (interesting moniker) about the whole "it's what the majority wants". WHO the hell knows what the majority wants? How do you measure that? Days hasn't exactly been the prime example of wonderful awesome soap ratings, except for some rare occasions, for a long time.
And, again, I find it highly ironic that those who protest the most about "secondary" characters coming to the forefront are those who have strong fanbase alliances. Not that they shouldn't have an opinion. I just find it very coincidental.
Popularity is equated with the loudest? Or is it the fanbases that send the most letters, possibly by the same people over and over?
Oh, and by the way, if you want to go that route (whoever I'm talking to): Shawn and Mimi, for example, were getting pretty high praise a couple of years ago. SOD covers galore, presentations on the Emmys, letters, fanbase, Campaigns of the Month.............But, I don't think that was regarded because of what is perceived to be Corday's insistence of Shelle forever.
Right now, based on boards (yes, another inaccurate measurement, but if you get yours, I get mine), Nicole and EJ are getting high kudos. There are people who are anticipating, though, being disappointed because, yes, Days will cave probably to the loudest.
And, truly, if you look at a lot of the boards and online commentaries (by folks who do write for the magazines, besides the usual suspects), not everyone is enamoured by John and Marlena. I'm willing to bet that many are more enamoured with a good storyline, which is PROBABLY why Days might have trouble attracting new viewers? I'd be willing to bet the farm that if Lexie and Abe had a good storyline, CONSISTENT, with DECENT publicity, and new viewers came in, they wouldn't throw such a fit. Same with Nicole.
Oh, and by the way, Marlena started out as a supporting character, too. Remember Mickey's shrink when he thought he was Marty? No, you probably don't.
OK, my rant is over. It's very obvious I disagree. I think, though, Days has nothing to lose by trying these folks in a good storyline. Maybe, for once, it's time they catered to the GENERAL fans whose lives don't depend on certain people getting frontburnered?
yes, I'm bitchy. I'll admit it. I'm tired of people thinking certain characters aren't worthy based on the supposed rights to entitlement of Salem. It's been a while since Abe and Lexie have had a decent storyline. Would life come to a crashing halt if they got a nice B storyline to themselves for once? :soapbox:
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I had been suffering from sleep-apnea for years. No doctor was really interested in what was often diagnose as a snoring problem. I finally found out that I was allergic to the mercury based filings in my teeth and had them all replaced. But with almost 30 years of blocked nose and difficult breathing, my breathing system was all over the place. Dominique's 15 postures of "Breathing For a Better Life" was a revelation. Relief was immense and immediate.
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I was introduced to the teachings of Dominique through a friend and then started his short breathing programme. This was during a period whereby I was borderline 'burn out' from a tough assignment in Pakistan that knocked the stuffing out of me together with some personal dramas. I have done yoga on and off for many years so the postures were not new for me and as I have a scientific background I am of the mind of – let me see the proof! I am also a serious swimmer so have learnt the art of breath control for distance swimming to maintain stamina.
The manner of breathing is somewhat different and subtle. Since I have started this programme I have noticed a major difference to how well I sleep – I am a bit of an insomniac. I have stopped smoking and in general have gained a better sense of well-being. I am also far more aware of my breathing in general and in particular how shallow it can become when anxious or fearful. I am now at the stage of slow breathing when I feel like that I can feel my heart rate slow and with that the anxiety and fears diminish. It is not magic and you have to do the work but it is well worth the effort.
I did only 1 session of the Lonchant Breathing Technique with Dominique. At that time, I felt refreshed but nothing out of the ordinary. However, the funny thing was that, I went hiking with my friends the very next day. Guess what? I felt so refreshed and energetic. I hiked up the hill effortlessly and extremely fast. A few of my friends who are of the same fitness level as me normally could not keep up with me and I was astounded. I credit it to the Lonchant Breathing Technique I learnt the day before. It was superb. I don't feel as tired as I use to after a long hike. This is only after 1 session of breathing. Amazing!!
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In this case, Dominique has also been able to free me of a five-year-old insomnia. I believe his years of training in India have enabled him to acquire the full control of Human Being's integration, which is the supreme objective of Yoga.
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