The Dukes of Hazzard: The Unofficial Companion

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Following in the successful wake of The Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres, The Dukes of Hazzard debuted in January 1979 and quickly became a staple of CBS-TV's Friday night lineup. With its wild mix of wacky car chases and spectacular vehicle wrecks, bumbling sheriffs, greedy politicians, and its rambunctious lead players (the Duke boys and curvaceous Daisy Duke), it's little wonder the program developed such a strong and loyal viewership. This is the first book devoted to the genesis and production of the hit program, tracing its 1970s origin through to its recent, highly-rated "reunion" movie on CBS-TV. The author conducted extensive interviews with cast and technical talent to explore this beloved show - revealing for the first time many behind-the-scenes anecdotes about the week-to-week filming of the series.In this lively and factual presentation of the long-running TV series (1979-85), no trivia point is left unanswered about the amazing clan of Dukes and their colorful nemeses Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane and Boss Hogg.

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Wonderful, detailed book full of little known facts!.......2007-05-08

This is a great read for any Dukes of Hazzard fan. The author gives a detailed history describing Waldron's inspirations for the show, facts on the personal and acting history of each cast member, as well as an episode by episode discussion of all eight seasons! Even guest stars are discussed. I found out many interesting unknown facts about the guest stars which made the show even more fun to watch (for instance, I didn't not know that the lady playing the character of Sherry Tolliver in the episode 'The Rustlers' was the future Mrs. James Best.) The author then ends it all by giving updates on each member of the cast. Hats off to Hofstede for a job well done!

Love this book.......2007-02-10

I really enjoy this book. It is based on the show. I will enjoy reading it over and over again.

dukes of hazzard unofficial companion.......2006-07-11

A must have for any fan of the dukes of hazzard! Without a doubt all things behind the scenes are here in this book from john and tom's leaving and there return and a lot more. Buy this book!Every episode plus the first reunion movie[sorry second reunion excluded] is in this book. What more can i say other than this Buy this book!!!!

I worked on Dukes of Hazzard.......2003-04-14

I was production coordinator on
"Dukes" for the first season and
again for several weeks during other
seasons .. not going to read the
book .. I am sure it is fun .. so
was working on "Dukes" .. Crashed cars
daily by 2nd unit .. transportation
with my help trying to find replacements
for shooting early in a.m. .. YIKES ..
it was a time I shall never forget ..
But my words were not wanted for the
book or at least no one asked for them...
sooo I cannot review it well .. only
that it was a fun show to work on
as were many of the other shows ..
some classic and some not..which I
worked on...

Much interesting inside info, but limited scenery.......2002-05-07

An EXCELLENT synopsis of all 145 episodes, laden with background and backstage gritz'n'grease which kept me awake until 2:30 a.m. checking it all out. The only thing keeping it from 5 starz was, although there are photo-shots galore of the cast, there was little else by way of visual viagra. For instance, no display of Main Street Hazzard County, or the Boar's Nest, Flash, Daisy's jeep Dixie, or even a full-length of the General. We have the partial on the cover in front of (a partial of) the Hazzard Garage, but that's it. Still, this old boy's worth its shillings for its literary content, after all, it IS an "unofficial" companion. Hot pursuit!

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Indispensable.......2002-04-20

The book itself is kind of cheesy, and that misidentified photo is a big embarrassment. However, no true Joni fan should be without this book, mainly because of the wide array of interviews it includes with Joni over the past thirty years. While the critical reviews and articles are mildly interesting, the real joy lies in reading Joni's own words from her interviews. In reading them, the Joni fan is bound to feel as though they have gotten to know her even more intimately than through her music.

the RLJ pic in the JM book.......2001-06-06

I have elsewhere reviewed this book, and praised it. I see that this book is slammed because one picture of Rickie Lee Jones is identified as Joni Mitchell. That is not a reflection on the author but on the publisher. The printed material in the book is Luftig's great labor of love and compliation, great coverage of Joni's career. The publisher slapped in a few pictures and the publisher, not the author, is responsible for the mistake in identifying who is who in the picture. Then again, the publisher spelled Stacey's first name wrong on the book cover. I should add that I do not know Stacey Luftig but I admire her work, and it is unfair to blame her for mistakes that were not hers. The book itself is a rich resource.

sorry.......2001-02-19

After thumbing thru the book and seeing a picture of Bonnie Raitt and Rickie Lee Jones singing at Farm Aid 1 (singing Angel From Montgomery I know I was there) and the picture labeled as Bonnie Raitt and Joni Mitchell I lost all respect for the book and the editor.

Just what I've always wanted.......2000-05-21

What a great idea to compile reviews and articles about Joni Mitchell! I've saved a pile of clippings myself, but none cover the breadth and depth of what this book does. It is truly an achievement, and I thank the author for doing such a fine job. I know Joni Mitchell's songs "inside out", and now it's great to know their background, as well as other people's views. I got lost on the guitar tuning section, but I'm sure someone out there will appreciate the information.

Well Researched.......2000-05-06

This book was a dream to read. The detail was graeat and set out a clear summary of the life times and, crucially, the artistry of the the incomparible Joni Mitchell.

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A dynamic program for improving memory and sharpening focus

Each year, Americans spend hundreds of millions of dollars on gym memberships, exercise equipment, and workout videos, all in the name of physical fitness. But what are they doing for their minds? In Dental Floss for the Mind, a leading cognitive scientist and a neurologist team up to offer you a complete program for improving memory and stimulating your mind.

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More than 100 creative and engaging exercises of increasing difficulty to stimulate cognitive skills
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A dynamic program for improving memory and sharpening focus

This interactive guide features:

More than 100 creative and engaging exercises of increasing difficulty to stimulate cognitive skills
Targeted exercises for improving the five key cognitive areas: memory, attention, language skills, visual and spatial recognition, and reasoning ability
A scoring system for assessing current status, along with prescriptive tips for improving each cognitive area

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A decent read - no notes........2005-05-04

The book gives a decent history - only there are no notes ond a listing of WHERE the quotes came from. Impossible to use for academic purposes - Document, document, document!

Multimedia Internet Broadcasting: Quality, Technology, and Interface (Computer Communications and Networks)

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Multimedia Internet Broadcasting: Quality, Technology, and Interface (Computer Communications and Networks)

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Multimedia Internet Broadcasting: Quality, Technology and Interface studies one of the most exciting aspects of contemporary Internet use and research: the broadcasting of multimedia content. It draws together key research findings and directions from around the world, and explores issues such as:
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Designed to enable optimal Internet broadcast design and trigger new and developmental research, this book is particularly suited to research groups, students, practitioners and developers.
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Quality in Broadcasting
Nick Irvine , and Christina Murroni
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Quality Time?: The Report of the Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on Public Television

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Richard Somerset-Ward
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Single-Camera Video Production: Techniques, Equipment, and Resources for Producing Quality Video Programs

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Single-Camera Video Production: Techniques, Equipment, and Resources for Producing Quality Video Programs
Barry Fuller , Steve Kanaba , and Janyce Brisch-Kanaba
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Single Camera video production.......2001-11-09

The real lack with this text is simply that it was printed in 1982 and technology has moved on.

Television and the Quality of Life: How Viewing Shapes Everyday Experience (Communication)

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Who watches TV?
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Television and the Quality of Life: How Viewing Shapes Everyday Experience (Communication)
Robert Kubey , and Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi
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Employing a unique research methodology that enables people to report on their normal activities as they occur, the authors examine how people actually use and experience television -- and how television viewing both contributes to and detracts from the quality of everyday life. Studied within the natural context of everyday living, and drawing comparisons between television viewing and a variety of other daily activities and leisure pursuits, this unusual book explores whether television is a boon or a detriment to family life; how people feel and think before, during, and after television viewing; what causes television habits to develop; and what causes heavy viewing -- and what heavy viewing causes -- in the short and long term.

Television and the Quality of Life also compares the viewing experience cross-nationally using samples from the United States, Italy, Canada, and Germany -- and then interprets the findings within a broad theoretical and historical framework that considers how information use and daily activity contribute to individual, familial, societal, and cultural development.

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Who watches TV?.......2004-06-30

This book is an exploration into the effect television has on the viewer's state of mind. The organization and style of the book read very much like a dissertation that has been reworked slightly for publication. The style of writing is very academic, and is geared to academic rather than general audiences. The first two chapters are pure literature review covering information reception and previous research about television viewing. The next chapter discusses the research methods. The main study involved a group of about 100 adults living near Chicago in the 1970s, who were asked to keep activity and mood diaries over the course of a week. The data from this study were combined with data from a number of other studies that examined television viewing habits of mostly Americans and Canadians. The remaining chapters cover various aspects of the results and discussion, including: how television fits into the scheme of leisure time, how television affects viewer's moods, how television affects family life, why some people view more than others, uses of television, television and marketing, and television and personal growth. As with a dissertation, sources are cited within the text and each chapter has extensive endnotes for further explication and references. The questionnaires used in the study are reproduced in the appendices. A full list of references is included, as well as an author index and a subject index.

So what did they find out from their study about viewers in the 1970s? First, participants in the study watched about 1.4 hours of TV each day, which represented 6.6% of the participants' total waking hours. TV viewing was the most time-consuming activity engaged in at home, and TV viewing absorbed 40% of all leisure time, or another way to look at it, 25% of all time spent at home was spent watching TV. Ninety-three percent of TV viewing occurred in one's own home. Most viewing occurred between 7:30 and 10 PM on weekdays. Twenty percent of the time, people watched TV because they had nothing better to do, giving TV the highest nothing-better-to-do ranking of major home activities including reading, eating, cooking, chores, talking, and grooming.

People tend to watch more TV when they are in a bad mood or when they just want to relax with something mindless. When compared to work, other leisure activities, or meals, participants reported that TV required the least concentration, challenge, and skill of all, and people were most passive when watching TV than when engaging in any other leisure activity. Watching TV had the lowest mood and activation ranking of fifteen common daily activities that included such items as resting, transit, and chores. When compared to sports and other leisure activities, it was found that TV required much less concentration during the activity, and that participants found it harder to concentrate after watching TV than before they began. TV viewing is quite relaxing while participants engage in it, but once they turn the set off, they tend to feel less relaxed than when they began, which is the opposite of what happens with sports and other activities. Marketers are well aware of the fact that people watch TV for relaxation and try to keep people in front of the set by offering soothing or entertaining programs rather than material that will require concentration or upset viewers. The difficulty that people have eliminating TV viewing altogether from their lives suggests that some aspects of TV viewing may be addictive.

For the most part, I found the results of the study to be quite predictable- -we all hear from many sides that TV viewing is not good for our mental health. There were a few interesting points that Kubey and Csikszentmilhalyi uncovered that weren't fully explored, however. They note that families that watch more TV tend to get along better, and posit that one possible reason for this could be that TV watching helps to diffuse tensions, as well as provide an activity whose skill level is so low that children and adults can participate in it together. The authors note that surprisingly, the most well-adjusted teenagers have the highest levels of viewing, but they point out that teenagers with problems don't tend to spend a lot of time at home, and since most TV viewing is done in the home, there is probably no cause-and-effect link between level of adjustment and TV viewing. They note that heaviest viewers tend to be women living alone and married men living with families (married women with families give up some of their potential TV viewing time to do housework). Elsewhere in the book, they note that Blacks seem to watch more than Whites, and that viewing time increases with education. I have a hunch, however, that the most educated people in their study may have been precisely those married men whose wives were doing the housework, and that their level of education was predicted by their gender, and that their gender and family status determined how much TV they watched, not their level of education. It would have been worth it to pair up people of different family status and similar educational backgrounds to see if the observation that educated people tend to watch more TV really holds water.

By now, the data from the study are quite dated, with our cable TV possibilities far out-numbering the 3 major networks of the 1970s, as well as the advent of the Internet and development of the computer game industry to compete for leisure time with TV watching. It would be quite interesting to re-do the study in light of these developments, to see how TV relates to our leisure time and mental state today.

Landmark work, non-judgmental, empirical..........2001-09-27

This is one of the most intense and empirical studies of how people relate to television (not focusing on television's content), nothing judgmental here folks, the data is presented in text and charts. We get to see the surveys, the responses, we are informed of the study methods used...

Various psychological traits are measured before, during, and after television viewing in the subjects homes. Things like concentration, cheerfulness, challenge, memory, and other traits are measured at various times using a self-reporting mechanism. The merits and faults of the methods used to study the subjects are also discussed. The book is intense.

I'm sorry I can't encapsulate it better than this. The authors (Mihaly and Robert) do an extremely admirable job of presenting the information in a readable and complete format.

Again, it should be stressed that this study was empirical. No judgements are made. Content of television was not part of the study, content of the subject's psyches was.

A landmark work.

THE FLOW NETWORK.......1997-08-17

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13th annual MVP Quality Award winners.(OUTSOURCING)(Marketing Via Phone) : An article from: Customer Interaction Solutions

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Amenities, quality of life gain as issues in choosing office space.(Focus: BUSINESS RELOCATION)(Wire One Communications, Triple Threat Communications and ... from: Westchester County Business Journal

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Annular cutters signal improved hole quality.: An article from: Tooling & Production

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Annular cutters signal improved hole quality.: An article from: Tooling & Production

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From the supplier: Dallas, TX-based Decibel Products is using an alternative to the conventional twist drills it previously used to make holes since they could not get the job done. Production Supervisor Ron Shuford declared that they acquired the new Rotabroach annular cutters manufactured by Hougen Manufacturing Inc because they were better in terms of speedy drilling of holes and improved quality of hole locations and geometry.

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Publication: Tooling & Production (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 1998
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Architectural censorship and the FCC: efforts to regulate the media threaten quantity, quality, and diversity.(TELECOMMUNICATIONS)(Federal Communications Commission): An article from: Regulation

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Architectural censorship and the FCC: efforts to regulate the media threaten quantity, quality, and diversity.(TELECOMMUNICATIONS)(Federal Communications Commission): An article from: Regulation
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