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Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl | |
Roald Dahl in 1954
Born | Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales |
13 September 1916
Died | 23 November 1990 Oxford, Oxfordshire, England |
(aged 74)
Occupation | Novelist, poet, screenwriter |
Language | English |
Nationality | British |
Period | 1942–90 |
Genres | Children's, adults' literature, horror, mystery, fantasy |
Notable work(s) | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Fantastic Mr Fox, Matilda, The Witches, The Twits, The BFG, The Gremlins, George's Marvellous Medicine, Danny, the Champion of the World, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More |
Spouse(s) | Patricia Neal (1953–83; divorced) Felicity Ann d'Abreu Crosland (1983–90; his death) |
Children | Olivia Twenty (1955–1962) Chantal Tessa Sophia (b. 1957) Theo Matthew (b. 1960); Ophelia Magdalena (b. 1964) Lucy Neal (b. 1965) |
Military career | |
Allegiance | United Kingdom |
Service/branch | British Army (August–November 1939) Royal Air Force (November 1939–August 1946) |
Years of service | 1939–1946 |
Rank | Wing Commander |
Battles/wars | World War II |
www.roalddahl.com |
Roald Dahl (/ˈroʊ.ɑːl ˈdɑːl/;[1] Norwegian: [ˈɾuːɑl dɑl]; 13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a British novelist, short story writer, poet, fighter pilot and screenwriter.
Born in Wales to Norwegian parents, Dahl served in the Royal Air Force during World War II, in which he became a flying ace and intelligence officer, rising to the rank of Acting wing commander. He rose to prominence in the 1940s with works for both children and adults and became one of the world's best-selling authors.[2][3] He has been referred to as "one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century".[4] In 2008 The Times placed Dahl 16th on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".[5] His short stories are known for their unexpected endings and his children's books for their unsentimental, often very dark humour.
Dahl's works include James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The Witches, Fantastic Mr Fox, The Twits, George's Marvellous Medicine and The BFG.
Early life
Roald Dahl was born at Villa Marie, Fairwater Road in Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales, in 1916, to Norwegian parents, Harald Dahl and Sofie Magdalene Dahl (née Hesselberg).[6] Dahl's father had emigrated to the UK from Sarpsborg, Norway, and settled in Cardiff in the 1880s. His mother came over and married his father in 1911. Dahl was named after the polar explorer Roald Amundsen, a national hero in Norway at the time. He spoke Norwegian at home with his parents and his sisters Astri, Alfhild and Else. Dahl and his sisters were baptised at the Norwegian Church, Cardiff, where their parents worshipped.[7]
In 1920, when Dahl was three years old, his seven-year-old sister, Astri, died from appendicitis. Weeks later, his father died of pneumonia at the age of 57 while on a fishing trip in the Antarctic. With the option of returning to Norway to live with relatives, Dahl's mother decided to remain in Wales because Harald had wished to have their children educated in British schools, which he considered the world's best.[8]
Dahl first attended The Cathedral School, Llandaff. At the age of eight, he and four of his friends (one named Thwaites) were caned by the headmaster after putting a dead mouse in a jar of gobstoppers at the local sweet shop,[4] which was owned by a "mean and loathsome" old woman called Mrs Pratchett.[4] This was known amongst the five boys as the "Great Mouse Plot of 1924".[9]
Thereafter, he transferred to a boarding school in England: Saint Peter's in Weston-super-Mare. Roald's parents had wanted him to be educated at an English public school and, because of a then regular ferry link across the Bristol Channel, this proved to be the nearest. His time at Saint Peter's was an unpleasant experience for him. He was very homesick and wrote to his mother every week but never revealed to her his unhappiness, being under the pressure of school censorship. Only after her death in 1967 did he find out that she had saved every single one of his letters, in small bundles held together with green tape.[10] Dahl wrote about his time at St. Peter's in his autobiography Boy: Tales of Childhood.[11]
From 1929, he attended Repton School in Derbyshire, where, according to Boy: Tales of Childhood, a friend named Michael was viciously caned by headmaster Geoffrey Fisher, who later became the Archbishop of Canterbury and went on to crown Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. (However, according to Dahl's biographer Jeremy Treglown,[12] the caning took place in May 1933, a year after Fisher had left Repton. The headmaster concerned was in fact J.T. Christie, Fisher's successor.) This caused Dahl to "have doubts about religion and even about God".[13] He was never seen as a particularly talented writer in his school years, with one of his English teachers writing in his school report "I have never met anybody who so persistently writes words meaning the exact opposite of what is intended."[14] Dahl was exceptionally tall, reaching 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) in adult life.[15] He excelled at sports, being made captain of the school fives and squash teams, and also playing for the football team.[16] As well as having a passion for literature, he also developed an interest in photography[17] and often carried a camera with him. During his years at Repton, Cadbury, the chocolate company, would occasionally send boxes of new chocolates to the school to be tested by the pupils. Dahl apparently used to dream of inventing a new chocolate bar that would win the praise of Mr. Cadbury himself; and this proved the inspiration for him to write his third book for children, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964), and to include references to chocolate in other books for children.[18]
Throughout his childhood and adolescent years, Dahl spent the majority of his summer holidays with his mother's family in Norway, and wrote about many happy memories from those expeditions in Boy: Tales of Childhood, such as when he replaced the tobacco in his half–sister's fiancé's pipe with goat droppings.[19] He only experienced one unhappy memory of his holidays in Norway at around the age of eight, when his adenoids were removed by a doctor.[20] His childhood and first job selling kerosene in Midsomer Norton and surrounding villages in Somerset, south West England are subjects in Boy: Tales of Childhood.[21] The main child character in his 1983 book The Witches is a British boy of Norwegian descent, whose grandmother is still living in Norway.[22]
After finishing his schooling, in August 1934 Dahl crossed the Atlantic on the RMS Nova Scotia and hiked through Newfoundland with the Public Schools Exploring Society.[23][24] In July 1934, Dahl joined the Shell Petroleum Company. Following two years of training in the United Kingdom, he was transferred to first Mombasa, Kenya, then to Dar-es-Salaam, Tanganyika (now Tanzania). Along with the only two other Shell employees in the entire territory, he lived in luxury in the Shell House outside Dar-es-Salaam, with a cook and personal servants. While out on assignments supplying oil to customers across Tanganyika, he encountered black mambas and lions, amongst other wildlife.[13]
Fighter ace
In August 1939, as World War II loomed, plans were made to round up the hundreds of Germans in Dar-es-Salaam. Dahl was made a lieutenant in the King's African Rifles, commanding a platoon of Askaris, indigenous troops serving in the colonial army.[25]
In November 1939, Dahl joined the Royal Air Force as an aircraftman. After a 600-mile (970 km) car journey from Dar-es-Salaam to Nairobi, he was accepted for flight training with 16 other men, of whom only three others survived the war. With seven hours and 40 minutes experience in a De Havilland Tiger Moth, he flew solo;[26] Dahl enjoyed watching the wildlife of Kenya during his flights. He continued to advanced flying training in Iraq, at RAF Habbaniya, 50 miles (80 km) west of Baghdad. He was promoted to leading aircraftman on 24 August 1940.[27] Following six months' training on Hawker Harts, Dahl was made an acting pilot officer.
He was assigned to No. 80 Squadron RAF, flying obsolete Gloster Gladiators, the last biplane fighter aircraft used by the RAF. Dahl was surprised to find that he would not receive any specialised training in aerial combat, or in flying Gladiators. On 19 September 1940, Dahl was ordered to fly his Gladiator from Abu Sueir in Egypt, on to Amiriya to refuel, and again to Fouka in Libya for a second refuelling. From there he would fly to 80 Squadron's forward airstrip 30 miles (48 km) south of Mersa Matruh. On the final leg, he could not find the airstrip and, running low on fuel and with night approaching, he was forced to attempt a landing in the desert.[28] The undercarriage hit a boulder and the aircraft crashed, fracturing his skull, smashing his nose and temporarily blinding him.[29] He managed to drag himself away from the blazing wreckage and passed out. Later, he wrote about the crash in his first published work.[29]
Dahl was rescued and taken to a first-aid post in Mersa Matruh, where he regained consciousness, but not his sight, and was then taken by train to the Royal Navy hospital in Alexandria. There he fell in and out of love with a nurse, Mary Welland. An RAF inquiry into the crash revealed that the location to which he had been told to fly was completely wrong, and he had mistakenly been sent instead to the no man's land between the Allied and Italian forces.[30]
In February 1941, Dahl was discharged from hospital and passed fully fit for flying duties. By this time, 80 Squadron had been transferred to the Greek campaign and based at Eleusina, near Athens. The squadron was now equipped with Hawker Hurricanes. Dahl flew a replacement Hurricane across the Mediterranean Sea in April 1941, after seven hours flying Hurricanes. By this stage in the Greek campaign, the RAF had only 18 combat aircraft in Greece: 14 Hurricanes and four Bristol Blenheim light bombers. Dahl saw his first aerial combat on 15 April 1941, while flying alone over the city of Chalcis. He attacked six Junkers Ju-88s that were bombing ships and shot one down. On 16 April in another air battle, he shot down another Ju-88.[31]
On 20 April 1941, Dahl took part in the "Battle of Athens", alongside the highest-scoring British Commonwealth ace of World War II, Pat Pattle and Dahl's friend David Coke. Of 12 Hurricanes involved, five were shot down and four of their pilots killed, including Pattle. Greek observers on the ground counted 22 German aircraft downed, but because of the confusion of the aerial engagement, none of the pilots knew which aircraft they had shot down. Dahl described it as "an endless blur of enemy fighters whizzing towards me from every side".[32][33]
In May, as the Germans were pressing on Athens, Dahl was evacuated to Egypt. His squadron was reassembled in Haifa. From there, Dahl flew sorties every day for a period of four weeks, shooting down a Vichy French Air Force Potez 63 on 8 June and another Ju-88 on 15 June, but he then began to get severe headaches that caused him to black out. He was invalided home to Britain. Though at this time Dahl was only a Pilot Officer on probation, in September 1941 he was simultaneously confirmed as a Pilot Officer and promoted to war substantive Flying Officer.[34]
Diplomat, writer and intelligence officer
After being invalided home, Dahl was posted to an RAF training camp in Uxbridge while attempting to recover his health enough to become an instructor.[35] In late March 1942, while in London, he met the Under-Secretary of State for Air, Major Harold Balfour (later Lord Balfour), at his club. Impressed by his war record and conversational abilities, Balfour appointed Dahl as assistant air attaché at the British Embassy in Washington, D.C.. Initially resistant, he was finally persuaded by Balfour to accept, and took passage on the SS Batori from Glasgow a few days later. He arrived in Halifax on 14 April, after which he took a sleeper train to Montreal. Coming from war-starved Britain, Dahl was amazed by the wealth of food and amenities to be had in North America.[36] Arriving in Washington a week later, Dahl found he liked the atmosphere of the U.S. capital, but was unimpressed by his office in the British Air Mission, attached to the embassy. Nor was he impressed by the ambassador, Lord Halifax, whom he sometimes played tennis with and described as "a courtly English gentleman." As part of his duties as assistant air attaché, Dahl was to help neutralise the isolationist views many Americans still held by giving pro-British speeches and discussing his war service; the US had only entered the war the previous December, following the attack on Pearl Harbor. After only ten days in his new posting, Dahl strongly disliked it, feeling he had taken on "a most ungodly unimportant job."[37] As he later said:
"I'd just come from the war. People were getting killed. I had been flying around, seeing horrible things. Now, almost instantly, I found myself in the middle of a pre-war cocktail party in America."[38]
However, at this time Dahl met the noted novelist C. S. Forester, who was also working to aid the British war effort. The Saturday Evening Post had asked Forester to write a story based on Dahl's flying experiences; Forester asked Dahl to write down some RAF anecdotes so that he could shape them into a story. After Forester read what Dahl had given him, he decided to publish the story exactly as Dahl had written it. The original title of the article was "A Piece of Cake" but the title was changed to "Shot Down Over Libya" to make it sound more dramatic, despite the fact that Dahl had not actually been shot down; it appeared in the 1 August issue of the Post. He shared a house at 1610 34th Street, NW, in Georgetown, with another attaché. Dahl socialized with Texas publisher and oilman Charles E. Marsh at his house at 2136 R Street, NW, and the Marsh country estate in Virginia.[30][39]
Dahl was promoted to flight lieutenant (war-substantive) in August.[40] During the war, Forester worked for the British Information Service and was writing propaganda for the Allied cause, mainly for American consumption.[41] This work introduced Dahl to espionage and the activities of the Canadian spymaster William Stephenson, known by the codename "Intrepid".[42]
During the war, Dahl supplied intelligence from Washington to Stephenson and his organisation known as British Security Coordination,[39] which was part of MI6. He was revealed in the 1980s to have been serving to help promote Britain's interests and message in the United States and to combat the "America First" movement, working with such other well-known officers as Ian Fleming and David Ogilvy.[43] Dahl was once sent back to Britain by British Embassy officials, supposedly for misconduct – "I got booted out by the big boys," he said. Stephenson promptly sent him back to Washington—with a promotion to Wing Commander.[44] Towards the end of the war, Dahl wrote some of the history of the secret organisation and he and Stephenson remained friends for decades after the war.[45]
Upon the war's conclusion, Dahl held the rank of a temporary wing commander (substantive flight lieutenant). Owing to the seriousness of his accident in 1940, he was pronounced unfit for further service and was invalided out of the RAF in August 1946. He left the service with the substantive rank of squadron leader.[46] His record of five aerial victories, qualifying him as a flying ace, has been confirmed by post-war research and cross-referenced in Axis records, although it is most likely that he scored more than that during 20 April 1941 when 22 German aircraft were shot down.[47]
Post-war life
Dahl married American actress Patricia Neal on 2 July 1953 at Trinity Church in New York City. Their marriage lasted for 30 years and they had five children: Olivia Twenty (April 20, 1955 – November 17, 1962); Chantal Tessa Sophia (b. 1957); Theo Matthew (b. 1960); Ophelia Magdalena (b. 1964); and Lucy Neal (b. 1965).[48]
On 5 December 1960, four-month-old Theo Dahl was severely injured when his baby carriage was struck by a taxicab in New York City. For a time, he suffered from hydrocephalus and, as a result, his father became involved in the development of what became known as the "Wade-Dahl-Till" (or WDT) valve, a device to alleviate the condition.[49][50]
In November 1962, Olivia Dahl died of measles encephalitis at age seven. Dahl subsequently became a proponent of immunisation[51] and dedicated his 1982 book The BFG to his daughter.[52]
In 1965, wife Patricia Neal suffered three burst cerebral aneurysms while pregnant with their fifth child, Lucy; Dahl took control of her rehabilitation and she eventually re-learned to talk and walk, and even returned to her acting career,[53] an episode in their lives which was dramatised in the film The Patricia Neal Story, in which the couple were played by Glenda Jackson and Dirk Bogarde.[54]
Following a divorce from Neal in 1983, Dahl married Felicity "Liccy" Crosland at Brixton Town Hall, South London. Dahl and Crosland had previously been in a relationship.[55] According to biographer Donald Sturrock, Liccy gave up her job and moved into 'Gipsy House', Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire, which had been Dahl's home since 1954.[56]
In 1983 Dahl reviewed Tony Clifton's God Cried, a picture book about the 1982 Lebanon War that depicted Israelis killing thousands of Beirut inhabitants by bombing civilian targets.[57] Dahl's review stated that the book would make readers "violently anti-Israeli", writing, "I am not anti-Semitic. I am anti-Israel."[58] Dahl told a reporter in 1983, "There's a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity ... I mean there is always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn't just pick on them for no reason."[58] Dahl maintained friendships with a number of Jews, including philosopher Isaiah Berlin, who said, "I thought he might say anything. Could have been pro-Arab or pro-Jew. There was no consistent line. He was a man who followed whims, which meant he would blow up in one direction, so to speak."[58]
In the 1986 New Years Honours List, Dahl was offered the Order of the British Empire (OBE), but turned it down, purportedly because he wanted a knighthood so that his wife would be Lady Dahl.[59][60] Dahl is the father of author Tessa Dahl and grandfather of author, cookbook writer and former model Sophie Dahl (after whom Sophie in The BFG is named).[61]
Death and legacy
Roald Dahl died on 23 November 1990, at the age of 74 of a blood disease, myelodysplastic syndrome, in Oxford,[62] and was buried in the cemetery at St Peter and St Paul's Church in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, England.[63] According to his granddaughter, the family gave him a "sort of Viking funeral". He was buried with his snooker cues, some very good burgundy, chocolates, HB pencils and a power saw. In his honour, the Roald Dahl Children's Gallery was opened in November 1996, at the Buckinghamshire County Museum in nearby Aylesbury.[64]
In 2002, one of Cardiff Bay's modern landmarks, the historic Oval Basin plaza, was re-christened "Roald Dahl Plass". "Plass" means "place" or "square" in Norwegian, referring to the acclaimed late writer's Norwegian roots. There have also been calls from the public for a permanent statue of him to be erected in the city.[65]
Dahl's charitable commitments in the fields of neurology, haematology and literacy have been continued by his widow since his death, through Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity, formerly known as the Roald Dahl Foundation.[66][67] In June 2005, the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre opened in Great Missenden to celebrate the work of Roald Dahl and advance his work in literacy education.[63][68]
In 2008, the UK charity Booktrust and Children's Laureate Michael Rosen inaugurated The Roald Dahl Funny Prize, an annual award to authors of humorous children's fiction.[69][70] On 14 September 2009 (the day after what would have been Dahl's 93rd birthday) the first blue plaque in his honour was unveiled in Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales.[71] Rather than commemorating his place of birth, however, the plaque was erected on the wall of the former sweet shop (and site of "The Great Mouse Plot of 1924") that features in the first part of his autobiography Boy. It was unveiled by his widow Felicity and son Theo.[71] The anniversary of Dahl's birthday on 13 September is celebrated as "Roald Dahl Day" in Africa, the United Kingdom and Latin America.[72][73][74]
In honour of Roald Dahl, Gibraltar Post issued a set of four stamps in 2010 featuring Quentin Blake's original illustrations for four of the children's books written by Dahl during his long career; The BFG, The Twits, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Matilda.[75] A set of six stamps was issued by Royal Mail in 2012, featuring Quentin Blake's illustrations for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Twits, The Witches, Matilda, Fantastic Mr Fox, James and the Giant Peach.[76] Dahl's influence has extended beyond literary figures, and he connected with film director Tim Burton with his "mixture of light and darkness, and not speaking down to kids, and the kind of politically incorrect humour that kids get".[77] Actress Scarlett Johansson named Fantastic Mr. Fox as one of the five books that made a difference to her.[78] Regarded as "one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century",[4] Dahl was listed as one of the greatest British writers since 1945.[5] He ranks amongst the world's best-selling fiction authors with sales estimated at over 100 million,[2][3] and his books have been published in almost 50 languages.[72] In 2003, the UK survey entitled The Big Read carried out by the BBC in order to find the "nation's best loved novel" of all time, four of Dahl's books were named in the Top 100, with only works by Charles Dickens and Terry Pratchett featuring more.[79] In a 2006 list for the Royal Society of Literature, author J. K. Rowling named Charlie and the Chocolate Factory among her top ten books every child should read.[80]
Dahl's first published work, inspired by a meeting with C. S. Forester, was "A Piece Of Cake" on 1 August 1942. The story, about his wartime adventures, was bought by The Saturday Evening Post for US$1000 (a substantial sum in 1942) and published under the title "Shot Down Over Libya".[81]
His first children's book was The Gremlins, published in 1943, about mischievous little creatures that were part of Royal Air Force folklore.[82] All the RAF pilots blamed the gremlins for all the problems with the aircraft. While at the British Embassy in Washington, D.C. Dahl sent a copy to the First Lady of the US Eleanor Roosevelt who read it to her grandchildren,[82] and the book was commissioned by Walt Disney for a film that was never made.[83] Dahl went on to create some of the best-loved children's stories of the 20th century, such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, The Witches, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, The BFG, George's Marvellous Medicine and Fantastic Mr Fox.
Dahl also had a successful parallel career as the writer of macabre adult short stories, usually with a dark sense of humour and a surprise ending.[84] The Mystery Writers of America presented Dahl with three Edgar Awards for his work, and many were originally written for American magazines such as Collier's (The Collector's Item was Colliers Star Story of the week for 4 September 1948), Ladies Home Journal, Harper's, Playboy and The New Yorker. Works such as Kiss Kiss subsequently collected Dahl's stories into anthologies, gaining worldwide acclaim. Dahl wrote more than 60 short stories; they have appeared in numerous collections, some only being published in book form after his death (See List of Roald Dahl short stories). His three Edgar Awards were given for: in 1954, the collection Someone Like You; in 1959, the story "The Landlady"; and in 1980, the episode of Tales of the Unexpected based on "Skin".[84]
One of his more famous adult stories, "The Smoker" (also known as "Man From the South"), was filmed twice as both 1960 and 1985 episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and also adapted into Quentin Tarantino's segment of the 1995 film Four Rooms.[85] This oft-anthologised classic concerns a man in Jamaica who wagers with visitors in an attempt to claim the fingers from their hands. The 1960 Hitchcock version stars Steve McQueen and Peter Lorre.[85]
Dahl acquired a traditional Romanichal Gypsy wagon in the 1960s, and the family used it as a playhouse for his children at home in Great Missenden. He later used the vardo as a writing room, where he wrote Danny, the Champion of the World in 1975.[86] Dahl incorporated a Gypsy wagon into the main plot of the book, where the young English boy, Danny, and his father, William (played by Jeremy Irons in the film adaptation) live in a Gypsy caravan.[87] Many local scenes and characters in Great Missenden inspired Dahl's stories.[63]
His short story collection Tales of the Unexpected was adapted to a successful TV series of the same name, beginning with "Man From the South".[88] When the stock of Dahl's own original stories was exhausted, the series continued by adapting stories by authors that were written in Dahl's style, including the writers John Collier and Stanley Ellin.[89]
Some of his short stories are supposed to be extracts from the diary of his (fictional) Uncle Oswald, a rich gentleman whose sexual exploits form the subject of these stories.[90] In his novel My Uncle Oswald, the uncle engages a temptress to seduce 20th century geniuses and royalty with a love potion secretly added to chocolate truffles made by Dahl's favourite chocolate shop, Prestat of Piccadilly, London.[90]
Memories with Food at Gipsy House, written with his wife Felicity and published posthumously in 1991, was a mixture of recipes, family reminiscences and Dahl's musings on favourite subjects such as chocolate, onions and claret.[66][91]
Children's fiction
Dahl's children's works are usually told from the point of view of a child. They typically involve adult villains who hate and mistreat children, and feature at least one "good" adult to counteract the villain(s). These stock characters are possibly a reference to the abuse that Dahl stated that he experienced in the boarding schools he attended.[4] They usually contain a lot of black humour and grotesque scenarios, including gruesome violence. The Witches, George's Marvellous Medicine and Matilda are examples of this formula. The BFG follows it in a more analogous way with the good giant (the BFG or "Big Friendly Giant") representing the "good adult" archetype and the other giants being the "bad adults". This formula is also somewhat evident in Dahl's film script for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Class-conscious themes – ranging from the thinly veiled to the blatant – also surface in works such as Fantastic Mr Fox and Danny, the Champion of the World.
Dahl also features in his books characters who are very fat, usually children. Augustus Gloop, Bruce Bogtrotter and Bruno Jenkins are a few of these characters, although an enormous woman named Aunt Sponge is featured in James and the Giant Peach and the nasty farmer Boggis in Fantastic Mr Fox is an enormously fat character. All of these characters (with the possible exception of Bruce Bogtrotter) are either villains or simply unpleasant gluttons. They are usually punished for this: Augustus Gloop drinks from Willy Wonka's chocolate river, disregarding the adults who tell him not to, and falls in, getting sucked up a pipe and nearly being turned into fudge. In Matilda, Bruce Bogtrotter steals cake from the evil headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and is forced to eat a gigantic chocolate cake in front of the school. Featuring in The Witches, Bruno Jenkins is turned into a mouse by witches who lure him to their convention with the promise of chocolate, and, it is speculated, possibly disowned or even killed by his parents because of this. Aunt Sponge is flattened by a giant peach. Dahl's mother used to tell him and his sisters tales about trolls and other mythical Norwegian creatures and some of his children's books contain references or elements inspired by these stories, such as the giants in The BFG, the fox family in Fantastic Mr Fox and the trolls in The Minpins.
In his poetry, Dahl gives a humorous re-interpretation of well-known nursery rhymes and fairy tales, providing surprise endings in place of the traditional happily-ever-after. Dahl's collection of poems Revolting Rhymes is recorded in audio book form, and narrated by actor Alan Cumming.[92]
For a brief period in the 1960s, Dahl wrote screenplays. Two, the James Bond film You Only Live Twice and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, were adaptations of novels by Ian Fleming, though both were rewritten and completed by other writers. Dahl created the Child Catcher, the supporting antagonist in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; in a 2005 poll, it was voted the scariest villain in children's literature.[93] Dahl also began adapting his own novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which was completed and rewritten by David Seltzer after Dahl failed to meet deadlines, and produced as the film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971). Dahl later disowned the film, saying he was "disappointed" because "he thought it placed too much emphasis on Willy Wonka and not enough on Charlie".[94] He was also "infuriated" by the deviations in the plot devised by David Seltzer in his draft of the screenplay. This resulted in his refusal for any more versions of the book to be made in his lifetime, as well as an adaption for the sequel Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator.[95]
A major part of Dahl's literary influences stemmed from his childhood. In his younger days, he was an avid reader, especially awed by fantastic tales of heroism and triumph. Amongst his favourite authors were Rudyard Kipling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Frederick Marryat and Charles Dickens, and their works went on to make a lasting mark on his life and writing. Dahl was also a huge fan of ghost stories and claimed that Trolls by Jonas Lie was one of the finest ghost stories ever written. While he was still a youngster, his mother, Sofie Dahl, would relate traditional Norwegian myths and legends from her native homeland to Dahl and his sisters. Dahl always maintained that his mother and her stories had a strong influence on his writing. In one interview, he mentioned: "She was a great teller of tales. Her memory was prodigious and nothing that ever happened to her in her life was forgotten."[96] When Dahl started writing and publishing his famous books for children, he created a grandmother character in The Witches and later stated that she was based directly on his own mother as a tribute.[97][98]
In 1961, Dahl hosted and wrote for a science fiction and horror television anthology series called Way Out, which preceded the Twilight Zone series on the CBS network for 14 episodes from March to July.[99] One of the last dramatic network shows shot in New York City, the entire series is available for viewing at The Paley Center for Media in New York City and Los Angeles.[100]
The British television series, Tales of the Unexpected, originally aired on ITV between 1979 and 1988.[101] The series was released to tie in with Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected, which had introduced readers to many motifs that were common in his writing.[88] The series was an anthology of different tales, initially based on Dahl's short stories.[88] The stories were sometimes sinister, sometimes wryly comedic and usually had a twist ending. Dahl introduced on camera all the episodes of the first two series, which bore the full title Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected.[102]
Children's stories
Adult fiction
See the alphabetical List of Roald Dahl short stories. See also Roald Dahl: Collected Stories for a complete, chronological listing. |
Film scripts
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- ^ Sturrock (2010: 120)
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- ^ The book "The Irregulars" (by Jennet Conant, Simon and Schuster 2008) describes this era of Dahl's life and those with whom he worked.
- ^ Bill Macdonald – The True Intrepid p249 (Raincoast 2001)ISBN 1-55192-418-8 Dahl also speaks about his espionage work in the documentary The True Intrepid
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Further reading
- Philip Howard, "Dahl, Roald (1916–1990)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2006 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/39827 Retrieved 24 May 2006
- Donald Sturrock, Storyteller: The Life of Roald Dahl, Harper Press, 2010. ISBN 9780007254767 (See the link to excerpts in "External Links", below.)
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- Roald Dahl at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Roald Dahl at the Internet Movie Database
- Works by Roald Dahl on Open Library at the Internet Archive
- Radio interview with Dahl in Norwegian by NRK (1975)
- The Irregulars, Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington, 2008, New York Times Review, 17 October 2008.
- February 2011 profile of Patricia Neal on V.O.A.
- Footage of Roald Dahl judging at the Whitbread book prize in 1982
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Stories for July 13, 2011
UC Tuition Hike Set For Thursday
University of California students are bracing for a second tuition increase this fall. Thursday's nearly 10 percent hike would offset additional cuts in state funding to the UC system.
Travelscope: Istanbul - At The Crossroads Of History
From its days as the capital of the Roman Empire in the 4th century to its selection as the European Capital of Culture in 2010, Istanbul has been a significant city and major crossroad between East and West for thousands of years. Its geopolitical location has created a vibrant multicultural metropolis rich with a wide range of cultural attractions. Joseph Rosendo investigates the city's past and meets Istanbul's diversity head on in the bazaars, restaurants, churches, mosques and alleyways of Istanbul's many historic quarters.
Republic Of Cannabis
Learn more about California's pot growing boom and why it's provoking a major pushback from federal law enforcement. This program is a co-production of the Center for Investigative Reporting and KQED News in association with FRONTLINE.
Seun Kuti, Son of Fela, Performs In San Diego
West Africa has produced some amazing musicians and Seun Kuti is the son of one of the best loved, Fela Kuti. Fela Kuti died in 1997 and Seun took over as vocalist for his band "Africa 80" when he was just 14 years old. Seun's music is connected to the real world struggles in his country today: political upheaval, corruption, powerful oil companies, the ongoing push to break out of poverty. He's just released his second album "From Africa with Fury: Rise" and he's here in San Diego performing at the Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach tonight!


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"48HRS of Tristate has driven more than 350,000 Subaru miles together and raised approximately $300,000 for charity over the 11 years." – Mike Torricelli, organizer
The 48HRS of Tristate event is a multiday cruise for Subaru fans. It's open to performance and non-performance vehicles alike. Although participants gather from as far away as Florida and the Midwest, most are from New England, New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey.
Multiyear participant Kyle Mehling commented, "You have people from all different backgrounds and different career paths and different levels of income all hanging out together and sharing a common bond. They love their cars, and they want to do good by the world. It's easy to find someone who might be a doctor or a lawyer chatting with someone who is a mechanic chatting with someone who is still in college chatting with someone who is scraping to buy their first car.
"Yet they want to raise money together, and they want to talk about Subaru. It puts them all on the same level no matter what their backgrounds are."
The event has grown since its first January drive 11 years ago. That's when five forum members decided to fight the winter doldrums and drive around the eastern United States to visit friends, all within a 48-hour schedule. Determining that they should do something more than just drive, they raised money for the New York State World Trade Center Relief Fund.
The group's charity has changed in the intervening years. Because of the pervasiveness of cancer and its effect on family and friends, 48HRS of Tristate began donating to the American Cancer Society®. Donations have evolved from so much per mile to collecting for the charity from the point of participant registration through the society's website. All the money collected by the teams – including registration fees – goes to the charity.
"One of the things that's great about the event is that no matter who does the event, they'll be back another time, whether it's two years later or three years later or the next year. There's just something about the camaraderie of the people on the trip and the fun that you have and the good that you're doing." – Commented Sarah Taylor, president of Subiegirls.com and founder of scoobiesforboobies.org.
Ted Drotleff, one of the organizers of 48HRS of Tristate, added, "Once somebody goes on the drive, they'll go again and again, just because of the friends they make. It's a way for a large group of friends to get together and have a fun weekend away from home."
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Physiotherapy - GET FIGHTING FIT WITH PHYSIOTHERAPY
by Dr Navneet Nagpal
Myth: Rest will cure me.
Fact: Too much of it might actually rust your joints.
Myth: It helped him, so let me try it also.
Fact: Your body is different from anybody
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Recently, the Prime Minister of India, Atal Behari Vajpayee underwent
knee replacement surgery at Breach Candy Hospital, Mumbai, India. His
complete recovery would have been impossible but for extensive post-surgery
This therapeutic science arose when humans first felt pain and evolved
methods to ease it by moving, warming or massaging the painful area. Physiotherapy
is the result of years' research on the human body, analyzing the forces
acting on it and their impact. All of which resulted in the evolution
of manual, mechanical means and electrotherapy to effect corrective measures.
Nowadays, physiotherapy is an essential discipline of medical science
and broadly comprises exercise and electrotherapy.
Exercise Therapy:
Using the knowledge of biomechanics and the skills of exercise therapy,
the therapist formulates the exercise regimen. These are done actively
by the patient, passively through the therapist or under expert supervision.
In the past, even the thought of applying an electric current to the body
was terrifying. Thanks to years of experimentation, the electric current
is modulated at different frequencies for beneficial effects. Some of
the modalities are:
Heat therapy: short-wave/microwave diathermy, wax bath, hot packs
Relief from pain and muscle spasm: interferential therapy (IFT),
ultrasonic therapy and laser.
Muscle training and reeducation: biofeedback, IFT, Faradic currents
Other useful techniques include traction and ice therapy.
to norms laid down by the Indian Association of Physiotherapists (IAP),
a physiotherapist is one who is licensed to practice the profession. He
or she is a graduate with a bachelor's degree or an advanced postgraduate
degree following extensive educational and clinical training. Currently,
IAP has around 6,400 registered members. Institutes teaching physiotherapyboth
government and privateare growing.
experience with physiotherapy dates back to my childhood. My mother, Dr
Satwinder Kalra, is a physiotherapist and currently heads the Physiotherapy
and Rehabilitation Department at Dayanand Medical College and Hospital
in Ludhiana, India. Often, after school and during summer breaks, I would
visit her office. What drew me to this profession was the sheer exhilaration
of an old man who, thanks to physiotherapy, started walking after having
been crippled for almost 10 years.
Physiotherapy is both a curative and preventive discipline. A physiotherapist
is healer, architect and psychoanalyst rolled into one. He or she advises
people on the correct posture to sit, sleep and work. For people with
special needslike a wheelchair-bound personhe helps design
the house/workplace so that the patient becomes independent in day-to-day
chores. As a psychoanalyst the physiotherapist ensures that the patient's
initial despair is replaced by realistic hope.
In the
West, physiotherapy is an integral part of health care. In India too,
with the services available in hospitals, nursing homes and specialized
pain and rehabilitation clinics, people are increasingly adopting this
drugless therapy for pain management. The cases alleviated range from
postural problems to paralysis, cerebral palsy in children, muscle and
joints pain, nerve injuries, post-accident trauma, post-burn complications,
pre and postnatal conditions and breathing
problems, among others.
Owing to
age-related joint pains and dysfunctions, old people often require a
physiotherapist's advice to prevent injuries and chest complications
and to ease movement and increase functional capacity.
In sports,
good physical and mental health is paramount. Pulled hamstrings, shoulder,
wrist, back, knee or ankle injuries and sprains are some of the problems
that regularly require a physiotherapist's attention. Besides relieving
pain, a physiotherapist devises strategies to avoid injuries and maintain
the joints, soft tissues and overall posture in a good state.
Having worked
in the ICU, general wards, burns division and OPDs at Indian medical institutions
like Safdarjung Hospital, Dayanand Medical College and Hospital and the
Indian Spinal Injuries Centre, among others, I realize that the real success
of any treatment lies in the cooperation between the therapist, the patient
and his family.
Saroj Gulati had been suffering from rheumatoid arthritis since 1969.
After she took a turn for the worse five years ago, she began doing
the rounds of hakims, masseurs and doctors. In vain. The pain
only increased.
Last September,
she tried physiotherapy. Besides relieving the pain, the treatment aimed
at improving and maintaining her muscle strength. After six months of
vigorous exercise and electrical muscle stimulation, along with lifestyle
changes, Saroj can now walk.
Four year-old
Ankur had weak legs, slurred speech and lack of coordination due to
cerebral palsy. Under physiotherapy for over a year, he now stands and
walks with support.
Abhishek Goel suffered knee injury in an accident and was operated upon.
Physiotherapy began early and included muscle strengthening exercises
to restore joint movement and electric stimulation. Within a month,
he was back in action.
Such cases
are routinely treated by physiotherapists. More than 90 per cent of
joint pains and dysfunctions are cured successfully through a supervised
rehabilitation program, which includes hands-on treatment techniques,
exercises and preventive education.
We spend
a significant part of our lives at the workplace, where we are subjected
to mental and physical stress. Knowledge of the right postures, some
simple exercises and alterations in lifestyle can make all the difference:
spinal curves in the anatomical shape
Shoulder and pelvis at level and 90 degrees to the spine
Ears at the same level
Maintain erect posture without over-stretching the spine into a
straight line
Reader's Comments
Subject: science - 25 March 2012
Im very much intrested to be an pysiotherapist, due to the pain iv been hidding all the way m hate the way people are treated so its my yurn to make a difference and heal the world... the power is in my hands
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Bethany McLean and Geraldine Fabrikant Round Out Reuters Opinions Stable
Bethany McLean and Geraldine Fabrikant are joining Reuters's Extraordinary League of Columnists, a Reuters source confirms.
Ms. McLean, a Vanity Fair contributing editor and author of the Enron book, The Smartest Guys In The Room, will write a fortnightly column on "finance, both high and low," according to a memo sent out by Jim Impoco. Read More


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How New York's Poll Peacekeeper Spent Her Day From Hell
It's election days like yesterday that Susan Lerner both lives for and dreads. The executive director of Common Cause left the house at 3:30 a.m. She spent the wee hours of the election morning printing out thousands of fliers alerting people to the voter hotline that the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG) were manning along with Lerner and her associates in Common Cause to field calls about voting problems. It has been a joint election protection effort of NYPIRG and Common Cause for more than 20 years, and a solo NYPIRG effort before that time.
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Disney Denies Theme Park Plan for Beijing
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Posted January 17, 2006, 9:07 AM EST
HONG KONG -- The Walt Disney Co. denied a news report Tuesday that said Beijing hopes to build a Disney theme park by 2010.
"Media reports that claim Disney is building a park in Beijing are inaccurate and not based on fact. Disney has no plans to build a park in Beijing at this time," Disney said in a statement.
The South China Morning Post, an English-language daily in Hong Kong, reported Tuesday that the Beijing city government unveiled a plan to create the second Disney theme park in China in its development road map -- a move that could pose competition to the recently opened Hong Kong Disneyland.
The report said the city's development and reform commission proposed the theme park be built in Beijing's National New Media Base in the city's southern Daxing district.
Disney spokeswoman Alannah Goss said the company is still talking to Shanghai authorities about building a Disney theme park in the financial hub, but no agreement has been reached.
Hong Kong opened its Disney theme park in September and has counted on mainland Chinese tourists as a major source of visitors for the park.
Hong Kong Disneyland is a joint venture between The Walt Disney Co. and the local government, which shouldered the bulk of the park's construction fees.
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Flags at half staff in memory of Professor Emeritus David Canvin2010-03-26
The Queen's flags will be lowered in honour of Professor Emeritus David Canvin, who passed away March 16 at the age of 78.
Dr. Canvin was a professor of biology and served as head of the Biology Department as well as dean of the School of Graduate Studies and Research.
A memorial service in celebration of Dr. Canvin's life will take place at St. John's Anglican Church (41 Church Street), on Saturday, March 27 at 2 pm. A reception will follow the service in the church hall. Memorial donations may be made to U.H.K.F. (Providence Care's Mental Health Services) or, the David T. Canvin Prize in Plant Physiology (awarded to the student with the highest academic standing in the Plant Physiology course in the Department of Biology). Donations to the prize should be made in the form of cheques made payable to Queen's University/David T. Canvin Prize and sent to: Office of Advancement, Old Medical Building, 99 University Avenue, Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6.


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*The Walking Man — Recommended
Posted in Manga Reviews on December 28, 2005 by Johannaby Jiro Taniguchi
published by Fanfare/Ponent Mon; $16.99 US
Although manga, The Walking Man is published in a form more typical to collections of art comics, with jacket flaps and thick, crisply white paper. That suits its subject matter well, positioning it to an audience who can appreciate a series of reflective encounters beautifully illustrated. (Also suited to that audience, it's been flipped, so that it reads left-to-right.)
Each chapter covers one of the man's walks, showing us what he sees. In the first, he's just moved into a new house, and he introduces himself to the neighborhood, meeting a birdwatcher and adopting a dog who becomes his companion on his journeys. Others take him to the town post office or the library or skinny-dipping or home just as it begins to snow.
It's an appreciation of the everyday that's still somewhat unusual in comics, made fresh through the setting of the Japanese suburb, realistic yet foreign. The art style is almost European in its fine line and copious detail. (The man looks to me, a reader of too many superhero comics, rather like Clark Kent with his horn-rimmed glasses and one lock of hair on his forehead. It gave the stories an odd little frisson of contrast, especially when he helps an old lady or interacts with children.)
The full-page image of the man in the crook of a tree, looking out over housetops after rescuing a child's toy, is the very picture of relaxation. Silent contemplation is the mood of both the protagonist and the reader, leading to a new perception of surroundings. I recommend savoring the chapters over a period of time to better let the moods take full effect. Overall, the book provides a welcome feeling of peace to a world where few take the time to enjoy themselves the way the walking man does.
The publisher's website has sample pages available, as does this overlooked manga review.
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Bas from the Netherlands
06/22/2006 at 5:13 PMImpressionistic, almost no text, no plot at all. So people who read manga for action or deep storylines will probably find it boring. This book conveys a feeling of happiness about living today, using your senses, trusting the world and being married. A very different manga but to me, one of the best.
[...] All of the stories are thought-provoking, but the gorgeous thin-line work of Jiro Taniguchi (The Walking Man) is a standout. He tells of an orphan girl, a distant cousin, who's about to married in the fishing village where his family lives. It's only an incident in his life but a turning point, a road not taken, in hers. It's not the only piece the reader is left thinking about long after the book's covers have been closed. [...]
[...] is the publisher. Fanfare/Ponent Mon has put out some very good translated manga, including The Walking Man and Japan as Viewed by 17 Creators. They've also put out some books that they call [...]
[...] checked out this mystery because I adore the detailed thin line art of Jiro Taniguchi (The Walking Man). That's on display, but the story is nothing to write home about. [...]
[...] Taniguchi's strength, beautifully detailed art that the reader can get lost in. As in The Walking Man, he uses it to firmly establish the settings his characters move through, which here means the [...]
I liked this book, but I preferred A Distant Neighborhood (by the same mangaka). If I remember right I think The Walking Man had a cameo in that 2 volume series.
Also one thing I should comment on. I believe this volume is out of print. I bought this manga this year and had to get a used copy off Amazon because I couldn't find it new at retail price anywhere. I noticed you had this on your recommended list on the side that is not OOP.
[...] this week. The first, A Zoo in Winter (Fanfare/PonentMon, $23), is the latest by Jiro Taniguichi (The Walking Man, A Distant Neighborhood) available in English. It's the story of an aspiring artist in 1960s [...]
[...] written by Kusumi Masayuki and illustrated by one of my favorite manga artists, Jiro Taniguchi (The Walking Man, A Distant Neighborhood). The much-missed David Welsh wrote about this series last year under the [...]
Interview With Stephen Robson, Fanfare/Ponent Mon Publisher » Manga Worth Reading
03/25/2012 at 10:38 AM[...] work to the English-speaking public. I was fortunate enough to publish him for the first time with The Walking Man in 2004 as the fifth book from the Nouvelle Manga [...]
[…] back into print in a 10th anniversary edition hardcover. It's a great set of stories, a book I've long recommended, and now, it's more affordable than the used prices often asked for […]


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Anne Larkin Professional Title: Professor Emerita Areas of Academic Focus and Expertise: Autism, role of arts in special education, school restructuring, early literacy. Area of Work and Concentration at Lesley: Special education Education: Ph.D., Boston College; M.Ed., B.S., Boston State College
Dr. Larkin has been at Lesley University since 1967, starting in the Lesley College Laboratory Schools for children and, since 1973, as a professor in the Graduate School of Education. From 1991-2008, she served as the Director of the Cambridge Chapter of Say Yes To Education, Inc., a non-profit scholarship program established in collaboration with the Weiss Foundation, Lesley University, and the Cambridge Public Schools. Currently, she is a co-leader of the Lesley/Kennedy/Longfellow Partnership: Integrating Technology into the Curriculum. Dr. Larkin has presented at local, regional, national and international conferences on education and special education issues. She has written and received many grants and has written numerous published articles focusing on autism, the role of the arts in special education, school restructuring, and early literacy. Boards Dr. Larkin has served on include the Cambridge Family and Children Services and the New England Resource Center for Higher Education. She founded and served as the first president of Personal Advocacy and Lifetime Support (PALS), Inc., an organization that helps families plan for the future of their children with disabilities. The governor of the state of Massachusetts appointed her to serve on the Massachusetts State Board of Education, and she was elected to represent Massachusetts on the National State Boards of Education, where she served on major committees responsible for publishing some of the leading studies on the current state and future of education in this country. Dr. Larkin is the recipient of several honors including Lesley University's Annual Impact Award, the Central Middlesex Association for Retarded Citizens' Distinguished Service Award, the National State Boards of Education's Distinguished Service Award, and the Ladders, Inc. of Massachusetts' Margaret L. Bauman, M.D. Award for Excellence in Serving the Autism Community.
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Princeton done in by Dunsmuir
Missed lay-ups and errant passes on fast breaks stalled a strong start by the Princeton High boys basketball team and Dunsmuir High roared ahead for a 63-40 victory Tuesday in the first round of the Division VI playoffs in Princeton.
Princeton led 9-2 but suffered through a stretch where they failed to capitalize on four-consecutive trips down court where they had just one defender to beat in transition.
The No. 10 Tigers (13-7, 7-3 Evergreen) seized that opportunity and went on a 16-2 run, and turned the seven-point deficit into a seven-point lead by the end of the first quarter.
"The biggest thing that I don't like is to end it where we shot ourselves in the foot," Princeton coach Travis Bennett said.
The No. 7 Eagles (11-12, 7-3 Pioneer-Valley) struggled all year playing from behind and Tuesday was no different.
Princeton scored consecutive points just once after the first four minutes of the game — when Fernando Sotelo scored the final points of the first half and Luis Angel opened the second half with a basket.
"Teams shouldn't press us and Dunsmuir pressed us. We should have made them pay for it but instead we missed lay-ups, and before you knew it they were taking advantage of our turnovers and turning them into points," Bennett said.
Despite the loss, the season was an unequivocal success for a young team, which lost three starters and several key bench players to graduation after last season.
The hurdles they face during the season included playing the first 10 games without Sotelo, the team's leading scorer, and playing the final five games without their best defensive player, Gavino Mitchum, who went down with an injury.
"It's not a good end to the season, but overall, considering what we had to go through with losing so many seniors and the transition of having a lot of young guys step up — like Oscar (Espinoza), Luis (Angel) and Sal (Gutierrez) — we've had some good growth," Bennett said.
Next season, the Eagles will be without seniors Sotelo, Rod Angus, Eduardo Valencia and Luis Gonzalez. Sotelo led Princeton with 13 points and Angus scored four points before fouling out.
Angel, the team's sophomore point guard who excelled as the season progressed, added eight points. Espinoza, another sophomore guard, added six points, and junior forward Julian Rosas scored six.
Mason Mekeel led Dunsmuir with 17 points, Cody Hagedon scored 14 points and Justin Declusin added 10 points. The Tigers lost to No. 2 Redding Christian in the second round 61-36 on Thursday.
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I've been trying to do something with a MDD that was a little beyond it so I overclocked a 1.42 to 1.5ghz. That wasn't quite enough so I tried for 1.58ghz.
System Profiler is saying 1.5ghz. Xbench tests seems to be showing the correct amount of speedup though it's also saying I have 1.5ghz processors.
I'm wondering if I might have had one bad resistor and am running one processor at 1.58 and one at 1.5ghz. I guess the reason I'm wondering is that years ago I tried OCing for the first time with a dual 867 and only did one set of resistors. It felt faster but I had each processor running at a different speed and System Profiler was still saying 867. When I did the second set it read the faster speed.
So does someone have an OCed MDD at 1.58 that's getting the correct reported speed?


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Hi! This is model 113 from burda magazine 6/2009. I had used this pattern again for the tunic of this post . It's a favorite burda pattern, which I used so many times that in the end you could see through the pattern pieces because of the holes made from the pins:P
*******Thanks for stopping by…..I hope you like it! *******
drapped jersey
May 24, 2013, 05.49 PMby The Tropical Sewist
what a pretty colour! it would be just the thing to perk yourself (and everyone else around) up on a gloomy day!
May 24, 2013, 06.18 PMby liliv-1
:) yes i love this color, everytime I wear it i hear: "hey, nice color!"
May 24, 2013, 06.34 PMby The Tropical Sewist
great! it's nice to make others happy isn't it?
May 21, 2013, 06.21 AMby rita61
You look so comfy and cool!!! Nice! Great colour!
May 21, 2013, 09.52 AMby liliv-1
Well, it's summer here:) I liked this color too it's the perfect tone of fuchsia for me….Thanks a lot for commenting rita62:)
May 21, 2013, 01.43 AMby velvetribbon
Love the fabric and fuchsia color! The dress is totally darling and you look great on it:)
May 21, 2013, 05.11 AMby liliv-1
thank you velvetribbon:)
May 20, 2013, 05.38 PMby Kocotte
lovely, I like the pink color. In France we cannot wear such a dress because it is so cold !
May 20, 2013, 06.06 PMby liliv-1
Really? How cold? Here we had real summer these days!!
And thanks for your kind comment:)
May 20, 2013, 05.26 PMby sleepy-dumpling
I really love to see your dresses. This is so gorgeous on you and I notice you have the accessories to match. Looking forward to more photos of your island :)
May 20, 2013, 06.08 PMby liliv-1
I love the read your comments my friend:)
May 20, 2013, 11.52 AMby kisses
The colour is popping Liliv…it fits you and the look is so flattering
May 20, 2013, 12.08 PMby liliv-1
I love this color too! Thanks for your comments my sweet lady!
May 20, 2013, 11.23 AMby misumihaela
thank you for complimenting my avatar! cant wait to see your new photos! lucky you to live in an island! :-)
May 20, 2013, 09.00 AMby Helguchi
Very summery dress. The color and the style are beautiful and it looks very comfortable.
May 20, 2013, 09.13 AMby liliv-1
Thank you!
May 20, 2013, 06.56 AMby frederi
Wow! I love the color and the shape and and you look beautiful in it.
May 20, 2013, 07.28 AMby liliv-1
:) thanks!!
May 19, 2013, 11.16 PMby BeeZee
You are the picture of summer in that dress! You look great!
May 20, 2013, 06.02 AMby liliv-1
You are very sweet dear BeeZee! Thanks a lot!
May 19, 2013, 10.02 PMby Mary Athey
this is fabulous on you liliv. the colour and shape suit you so well. i love this x
May 19, 2013, 10.08 PMby liliv-1
Thank you Mary!
May 19, 2013, 09.45 PMby Zsuzso
Very cool summer dress. Love the color.
May 19, 2013, 10.07 PMby liliv-1
:) thanks!!
May 19, 2013, 09.27 PMby misumihaela
love the dress and fucshia colour seam to be made for you! you look great in it!
May 19, 2013, 09.41 PMby liliv-1
Thank you dear misumihaela! This color looks better on me after some tanning…I live in an island so very soon I repost some better photos. Your new avatar is the best you could choose!!
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