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Dear Maddisen:
I'm having a really rough time. And I'm having an equally tough time staying positive and trusting that I can make certain things in my life better. How do you stay positive when things are not going well? Thanks, JS
Dear JS,
Thank you for your honesty, and relevant question. I'm sure many of us can relate to what you're expressing here, I know I can. And I'd like to share an approach that might help.
Life is about experience, and we have a very natural tendency to categorize and judge our experiences as good or bad. I believe that all experiences are relevant, and it is always up to the individual to figure out the relevancy. Painful or unpleasant experiences are usually much harder to look at as having any relevancy or purpose, however, they might actually contribute the most to our positive growth, reward, and fulfillment.
As much as we may try to elevate or separate ourselves from the forces of nature, the truth is – we humans are part of nature. And just as great mountains are formed by the adverse and favorable conditions of nature, so are humans formed by our adverse and favorable life experiences. However, we have the advantage of a brain/mind and the power and freedom to choose how we think, feel, and respond to our experiences – the good and the bad ones.
Abraham-Hicks refers to life's adverse experiences as "contrast", and suggests that our job is to use the contrast to see and get clear on what we don't want, so that we can then define, focus on, and manifest what we DO WANT.
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But the key during this whole process of moving through contrasting or negative experiences – is keeping our thoughts and feelings focused on the positive outcome or result that WE WANT. When we stay focused on what we want, and remain focused on how what we want will feel – then we line up with the thoughts and feelings associated with having the desired experience, thus allowing the birth of the desired experience.
This is also referred to as the law of attraction – the belief that like attracts like, and that by focusing on positive or negative thoughts, one can manifest positive or negative experiences. Obviously, most of us prefer positive experiences, so the key, especially during rough times, is to stay focused on the desired experience and the positive feelings that accompany the desired experience.
This might take practice, but it's what our brain is for – so let's start using our brain/thoughts to think about our positive, desired experiences – especially during rough times.
How to Stay Positive During a Rough Time
Take 10 minutes to listen to this YouTube recording of Esther and Abraham Hicks speaking about contrast, and specifically how to stay positive and focused on the desired results during a bad or rough time.
Contrast: Getting Desires Manifested More Easily - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFwBzOPdO54
And so dear JS and all my readers, knowing that adversity or contrast is meant to serve us and help us define what we DO want in life, let us start using the rough times as an opportunity to focus on the positive feelings that come with the positive experiences we truly want to be having.
I understand that holding positive thoughts and feelings during prolonged tough times may not always be as simple as it sounds. If so, follow these tips:
- Tap into and really connect with how much you care, how much you care about your well being and living well, and the well being of all life. Feel how deeply you want to be doing well in all areas of your life. Know that you can at least trust how much you care, you can trust that you want to stay positively focused, and you can trust that you want to make certain things in your life better.
- Look at the contrast you are currently dealing with, and ponder how this undesired situation is helping you to define what you do want. Before you go to sleep each night, ask for clarity about what you want and how to get it, and then be aware of 'answers' that come to you in dreams or after you awake.
- Write down what you want as clear intentions, using "I am" to start each intention. Read your intentions daily, and even speak them aloud. This may help you to be in a more steady and frequent positive state, and will move all 'creating' systems in the direction of your true desires.
May we remember these facts – that life is for living, and that our brains are programmed to support life – so let's use our love for life and our thoughts in support of the positive and meaningful lives we came here to experience, and enjoy.
Your Life Coach,
Copyright 2012 Maddisen K. Krown M.A.


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Please see photos of old musket I own. Hexagon Barrel, approximately 40 inches long Only identification is (as best I can read) on top of barrel: E Kennold Dem Doth A neighbor familiar with guns estimates is circa 1850. Any help on the guns value, manufacturer, etc.?
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No, but I have the same rug, slippers and cat as in picture #4. Any markings on the lock?
What we have here is... failure- to communicate.
not sure but it looks great for it's age so I would think that it's worth a lot.
Half stock plains rifle. The wood is just too good to be that old. Hawken style patch box. The checkering looks out of place on a rifle of that style. IMHO it's a fairly modern build. The barrel looks mighty short to be 40 inches. This one is short for a Hawken at 33 inches.
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It's got some "features" that are a bit odd for a plains rifle. It's got a back action lock---a side lock would be more correct. The trim is a bit too fancy and shiny, and as Hawg said the checkering isn't typical. Good looking gun--but not quite typical mid 1800's. And the more I look at that lock, the more I think it's a lock from a Peabody, with a handmade percussion hammer on it. If so, that dates it at after 1866, as the Peabody wasn't made before that. I think it's a plains style rifle somebody put together with a Peabody lock, possibly an old barrel, and a newer stock. Really hard to tell WHEN---this type of work is still going on today. A GUESS??? Between 1935 and 1975. Probably closer to the later. You might post it on some of the black powder forums and see if anybody recognizes it.
The entire gun is 40" long, barrel is 24" long.
No...no markings on the lock.
Name on Barrel: F Reynold
Hmmmm--the plot thickens. Check out this discussion on another forum.GunBroker.com Message Forums - half stock F Reynolds ,New York Possibility that this gun is the real deal--- Any chance that the Dem doth on the barrel is "New York"?
Yes...that's it: F Reynolds New York


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- 1.5 pound(s) pearl onions
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- 2 tablespoon(s) extra-virgin olive oil
- 1.25 teaspoon(s) kosher salt
- 3/4 teaspoon(s) freshly ground pepper
- 8 ounce(s) mixed wild mushrooms (cremini, shiitake, and oyster)
- 2 tablespoon(s) butter
- 1/2 cup(s) chicken broth
- 2 tablespoon(s) sherry vinegar
- 2 tablespoon(s) coarsely chopped fresh tarragon leaves
- Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil; add onions. Blanch 2 minutes; drain in a colander and let cool. Trim stem and root ends, then slip onions out of their skins.
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Place onions and carrots each on a separate baking sheet with sides. To each sheet, add 8 thyme sprigs, 1 tablespoon olive oil, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and 1/4 teaspoon pepper; toss until vegetables are coated evenly. Roast 25 minutes, tossing vegetables several times until lightly caramelized and slightly tender; cool.
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Well. I just bought a Blade 120 SR RTF a couple days ago and have been thrashing it for a few days (kin the garage, BIG wind outside) and so far I love it. After the second flight I threw my Walkeria (sp) in the trash as I just refuse to buy another battery or motor to keep the dam thing running. Plus, the Blade and all of the parts are on the shelf like 10 miles from me or overnight buy USPS for $4.95 regardless of how much I want. the parts are considerabgly cheaper than what I was buying for the Walkeria.
The one thing I might like to do is get a better transmitter if that could be used with this Blade and maybe another one or two helos in the future. I am from the old days where each radio came with the receiver and servos so am not totally sure how this bind and fly stuff works but it sound like you can use a better transmitter if it also is one the 2.4 GH as the helo. Any suggestions for a radio that could be used with the Blade 120 SR? |
Jan 31, 2013, 09:46 AM | ||
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Oh, lordy! If you read back, you will see plenty of "discussions" on what we all have or want in radios! Saying that, if you are going to make the purchase, get a Spektrum DX6i or higher. If you have the bucks, 7-channel or 8-channel will get you down the road for a long time. Resale value is good on all of these.
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Thanks! The Spektrum DX6i was one that had caught my eye in the looking I had done so far.
I guess what is "different" for me is that you can buy a transmitter and make it work with different helos and stuff. this is very foreign ffrom what I used long ago when I flew fixed wing. Anyway, now to look for a Spektrum DX6i and read up on it. Thanks! |
Jan 31, 2013, 11:00 AM | |
The DX6i has what is known as "model match" as mentioned a page back or so.
This will give you a good idea "what" models will match with any given (Spekrum) TX. http://www.bindnfly.com/ Welcom to RCG, Mike. |
Jan 31, 2013, 04:32 PM | ||
I have a DX6i, and I am currently looking to get a 7 or 8. It sounds like you may have a little age on you by the "long ago" comment you made. I just wanted to mention that there is one feature I will never go without when considering a new radio, and that is a backlighted screen. It makes the screen so much easier to see for us "old farts". The DX6i does not have it, it has to be added with an aftermarket kit. If you don't want to fool around with opening up your radio and working on it, I would get a TX with backlight from the factory. Even if you do install the backlight kit in a new DX6i, if Horizon Hobby finds out about it, it will void your warranty. Kyle |
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I bought a DX7 a couple years ago and it has a 20 model memory. A DX6i has 10 model memory. If I would have bought a DX6i I would have maxed it out by now as I have 12 models stored in it currently. I am more of a plane guy but have several helis loaded up in my DX7. Great TX & I plan to have it many years from now too.
Jan 31, 2013, 06:23 PM | |
I agree. The stock RTF Tx, M4LPDSM, left a lot to be desired. But why am I always against the flow of traffic? I thought the Spektrums are really over-priced, so I found that other solutions are better! Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that the DX6i, 7 or 8 are bad radios. They are good radios, but very expensive. And they are exclusive to DSM2/X - nothing else.
Walkera sure is not perfect. But they are also innovative. IMHO, some of their models best Blade's. And their radios, I think, are nicer than the Spektrums. I am interested in a getting a Devo 8s or a Devo 7e, flashing it with DeviationX firmware, and perhaps add a Flysky module to fly everything on the planet. I don't think even the $1200 DX18 could come close to doing that. Am I alone in this? So, what Walkera model/Tx did you toss into the trash? |
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A Guide To Orthotic Therapy For Adult-Acquired Flatfoot
Recommendations On Pathology-Specific Orthoses For Stage II AAF
Negative cast: podiatric AFO fabricated from a neutral cast with the supinatus reduced
Positive cast correction: perpendicular
Material: deep heel cup of 25 to 35 mm
Width: wide with medial flange
Cast fill: standard to maximum dependent on deformity
Heel skive: 6 mm
Hinges: full flexion hinges with bilateral lower leg uprights
Positive cast modification: navicular sweet spot
Rearfoot post: flat or 0/0
Top cover: full-length top cover
What You Should Know About Treating Stage III AAF
The challenges in treating stage III AAF with an orthosis are due to the reality of the foot being deformed and rigid, with seemingly intractable symptoms of pain in the medial arch.3,4 Non-surgical treatment will not reverse or improve the deformity. Treatment goals are limited to reducing symptoms and preventing greater subluxation while attempting to keep the patient ambulatory. These goals also focus primarily on immobilization that allows ambulation.
It is therefore the goal of treatment to restrict motion in all three rearfoot joints while keeping the patient ambulatory. Restricting the subtalar joint while allowing ankle and midtarsal motion does little to relieve symptoms.10 Conversely, clinical experience suggests that controlling sagittal plane motion at the ankle but disregarding midtarsal joint motion only produces greater arthritic degeneration as the midtarsal joint dorsiflexes to compensate for the loss of the ankle sagittal plane motion. This is a plane of motion unsuited for the unstable midtarsal joint.
The gauntlet type of AFO, which combines a custom polypropylene shell interior wrapped in a lace-up leather exterior envelope, allows restriction of motion of all three joints in all three planes without sacrificing the patient's ability to ambulate and wear reasonable shoes. These braces are individually fabricated on a positive corrected mold of the patient's foot from a semi-weightbearing cast with the foot at right angles to the leg in the sagittal plane.
Although this brace has been available for more than a decade, few podiatrists or orthopedic surgeons embraced this therapy until the research of Imhauser and colleagues in 2002 demonstrated that, in comparison to other modalities, the gauntlet "completely restored the height of the arch and height of the navicular."12
They compared the efficacy of insole orthoses and gauntlet ankle braces by evaluating their stabilizing effect on the motion of the medial longitudinal arch and calcaneal position of six cadaveric subjects.12 Researchers simulated a flatfoot condition by sectioning the structures of the medial arch. They tested each specimen with six different devices: UCBL foot orthoses, a molded polypropylene AFO, an Arizona-type gauntlet and three prefabricated stirrup-type braces. The UCBL in-shoe orthoses provided superior restoration of both arch and hindfoot kinematics. The molded polypropylene AFO performed poorly. The Arizona-type gauntlet restored the height of the midfoot but had little effect on the orientation of the calcaneus. The prefabricated stirrup-type braces were basically ineffective in stabilizing the hindfoot and arch.
Interestingly, in another study performed in 2003, 95 percent of patients treated conservatively with restrictive devices for adult-acquired flatfoot reported a significant reduction in symptoms.13
The gauntlet brace that is recommended for stage III adult-acquired flatfoot must be made to specific parameters in order to have a positive clinical outcome. Accurate casting is absolutely essential if the brace is to be comfortable and produce good patient acceptance and tolerance.


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South Korea has been an endemic surveillance state continuously since the days of the American occupation. Kim Dae-jung did nothing about it and Roh did nothing either, despite both of them making much of their credentials as democrats (with a small "d") and human-rights activists. The Korean left's shrieking sounds very hypocritical on this point, particularly when they claim the legacy of Roh.
Korea's left had long been known for its uncanny ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory through a mixture of incompetence and its ambiguous relationship with North Korea. Looks like this year won't be any different.
As for the claim that snooping around at individuals and organizations under presidential sanction happened during the last administration too, yeah, I could believe that. In fact, which government in any country doesn't these days?
Neither the fact that 80% of the files relate to investigations by the previous administration of roh, nor the fact that the free-trade deal with the united states was also planned and engineered by the roh administration, nor the fact the "unpopular" naval base construction project in cheju island was also decided upon by the roh administration, will have any bearing on the perpetually angry korean left-wing demagogues who just wants to see Lee and Saenuri Party blow up at any cost (and by "any cost," I really do mean at any cost, even if that cost means giving enough money to a hostile northern neighbor to develop and test nukes aimed right at us while its people starve to death).
They are just too busy protesting "American imperialist capitalism" and "pirate base," with a cup of Starbucks in one hand and an iPad in the other.
One of the typical recent political hullaballoos raised by the Korean left-wingers was about a standard arbitration clause included in the American Free Trade Deal, which the left-wingers derided as the "poison clause," claiming that it would be abused by big American multinational corporations to destroy Korean home-grown businesses and make a joke of the Korean legal system, despite the fact that similar standard arbitration clauses have already been included in 81 of 85 other bilateral trade agreements that South Korea is part of, including the recent Korea-EU free trade agreement as well as the 36-years-old Korea-UK investment promotion and protection agreement.
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Helen Shapiro | |
Background information | |
Birth name | Helen Kate Shapiro |
Born | 28 September 1946 |
Origin | Bethnal Green, London, England |
Genres | Pop |
Occupations | Singer, actress |
Instruments | Vocals |
Years active | 1961– |
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Helen Shapiro | |
Background information | |
Birth name | Helen Kate Shapiro |
Born | 28 September 1946 |
Origin | Bethnal Green, London, England |
Genres | Pop |
Occupations | Singer, actress |
Instruments | Vocals |
Years active | 1961– |
Helen Kate Shapiro (born 28 September 1946) is an English singer and actress. She is best known for her 1960s UK chart toppers, "You Don't Know" and "Walkin' Back to Happiness".
Shapiro was born at Bethnal Green Hospital in the East End district of Bethnal Green, London.[1] Her early childhood was spent in a Clapton council house in the London borough of Hackney, where she attended Clapton Park Comprehensive School until Christmas 1961. She is the granddaughter of Russian Jewish immigrants and her parents, who were piece-workers in the garment industry, attended Lea Bridge Road Synagogue. The family moved from Clapton to the Victoria Park area of Hackney, on the Parkside Estate, when she was nine. "It was, and remains, a beautiful place," she said in a 2006 interview.[2]
Although too poor to own a record player, Shapiro's parents encouraged music in their home (she had to borrow a neighbour's player to hear her first single). Shapiro played banjolele as a child and sang with her brother Ron occasionally in his youth club jazz group. She had a deep timbre to her voice, unusual in a girl not yet in her teens: school friends gave her the nickname "Foghorn".[3]
Aged ten, Shapiro was a singer with "Susie and the Hula Hoops," (with her cousin, 60s singer, Susan Singer) a school band which included Marc Bolan (then using his real name of Mark Feld) as guitarist. At 13 she started singing lessons at The Maurice Burman School of Modern Pop Singing, based in London's Baker Street, after the school produced singing star Alma Cogan. "I had always wanted to be a singer. I had no desire to slavishly follow Alma's style, but chose the school merely because of Alma's success", she said in a 1962 interview.[4] Burman's connections eventually led her to a young Columbia Records A&R man named John Schroeder, who recorded a demo of Shapiro singing "Birth of the Blues".[3]
In 1961, aged fourteen, she had a UK No. 3 hit with her first single, "Don't Treat Me Like a Child"[5] and two number one hits in the UK, "You Don't Know"[6] and "Walkin' Back to Happiness".[7] The latter did not top the UK chart until 19 October 1961, by which time Shapiro had reached 15, on 26 September. She had a No. 2 in 1962 with "Tell Me What He Said",[8] achieving her first four single releases in the top three of the UK Singles Chart. Most of her recording sessions were at EMI's studios at Abbey Road in north west London. Her mature voice made her an overnight sensation, as well as the youngest female chart topper in the UK. At a mere 14 years and 316 days old when "You Don't Know" hit the top, she was nevertheless a year older than Frankie Lymon had been when "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" hit the UK number one slot in 1956.[1]
Shapiro's final UK Top Ten hit single was with the ballad "Little Miss Lonely", which peaked at No. 8 for two weeks in 1962.[9] Shapiro's recording manager at the time was Norrie Paramor.
Before she was sixteen years old, Shapiro had been voted Britain's "Top Female Singer". The Beatles' first national tour of Britain, in the late winter/early spring of 1963, was as her supporting act. During the course of the tour, the Beatles had their first hit single and John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote the song "Misery" for her, but Shapiro did not record the composition.[10] In 1995, during a This is Your Life highlighting her life and career, Shapiro revealed, "It was actually turned down on my behalf before I ever heard it, actually. I never got to hear it or give an opinion. It's a shame, really." Shapiro lip-synched her then-current single, "Look Who It Is", with three of The Beatles (John Lennon, Ringo Starr and George Harrison) on the British television programme Ready Steady Go!.
In 1962, Shapiro played the lead female role in Richard Lester's movie, It's Trad, Dad!, which co-starred another early 60s hitmaker, Craig Douglas. On 31 December 1969, Shapiro appeared on the BBC/ZDF co-production Pop Go The Sixties, singing "Walkin' Back to Happiness".
By the time she was in her late teens, her career as a pop singer was on the wane. With the new wave of beat music and newer female singers such as Dusty Springfield, Cilla Black, Sandie Shaw and Lulu, Shapiro appeared old-fashioned and emblematic of the bee-hived, pre-Beatles, 50s era. As her pop career declined, Shapiro turned to cabaret appearances, touring the workingmen's clubs of the North East of England. Her final cabaret show took place at Peterlee's Senate Club on 6 May 1972, where she announced she was giving up touring as she was "travel-weary" and had had enough of "living out of a suitcase".[11] She later branched out as a performer in stage musicals, jazz (being her first love musically), and more recently gospel music. She played the role of Nancy in Lionel Bart's musical, Oliver! in London's West End and appeared in British television soap operas, in particular, Albion Market, where she played one of the main characters until it was taken off air in August 1986.
To celebrate Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee, Shapiro performed "Walkin' Back to Happiness" on A Jubilee of Music on BBC1, on 31 December 1976. She appeared in the pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk at the Oldham Coliseum Theatre in 1983 and during her stay in the area made a number of guest appearances at Bury Hebrew Congregation, Bury.
Her autobiography, published in 1993, was entitled Walking Back to Happiness. She appeared as a guest on BBC Radio 4's 'The Reunion' in August 2012. In March 2013 she appeared on BBC Radio 3's 'Good Morning Sunday' and recounted her life growing up as a Jew in the 1950s in London, her musical career and her conversion to Christianity.
In 1989 Shapiro performed the first of many Gospel Evenings at which she sings a selection of worship songs followed by her telling of her faith in Jesus.
In November 2013 she made her first appearance as part of the gospel group "Hebron" alongside Simon Elman and Chrissy Rodgers. The event was held at Hamworthy Social Club in Wimborne, Dorset.
She married John Judd, (real name, John Williams) an actor with numerous roles in British television and cinema, and lives in Kent.[citation needed]
Year | Title | Peak chart positions | ||
UK | US | Aus. | ||
1961 | "Don't Treat Me Like A Child" | 3 | — | — |
"You Don't Know" | 1 | — | — | |
"Walkin' Back To Happiness" | 1 | 100 | 10[12] | |
1962 | "Tell Me What He Said" | 2 | — | — |
"Let's Talk About Love" | 23 | — | — | |
"Little Miss Lonely" | 8 | — | — | |
"Keep Away From Other Girls" | 40 | — | — | |
1963 | "Queen For Tonight" | 33 | — | — |
"Woe Is Me" | 35 | — | — | |
"Look Who It Is" | 47 | — | — | |
"No Trespassing" / "Not Responsible" | — | 1 | ||
1964 | "Fever" | 38 | — | — |
1967 | "Stop And You Will Become Aware" | — | — |
All the above albums were released in (stereo) and (mono) apart from Helen in Nashville, and 12 Hits and a Miss Helen Shapiro These are her main albums from the peak of her popularity in the early 1960s from Abbey Road Studios.


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Dust-jacket illustration of the US (true first) | |
Author | Agatha Christie |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Crime novel |
Publisher | Dodd, Mead and Company |
Publication date | March 1953 |
Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
Pages | 244 pp (first edition, hardback) |
Preceded by | A Daughter's a Daughter |
Followed by | A Pocket Full of Rye |
Dust-jacket illustration of the US (true first) | |
Author | Agatha Christie |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Crime novel |
Publisher | Dodd, Mead and Company |
Publication date | March 1953 |
Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
Pages | 244 pp (first edition, hardback) |
Preceded by | A Daughter's a Daughter |
Followed by | A Pocket Full of Rye |
After the Funeral is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in March 1953 under the title of Funerals are Fatal[1] and in UK by the Collins Crime Club on 18 May of the same year under Christie's original title.[2] The US edition retailed at $2.50[1] and the UK edition at ten shillings and sixpence (10/6).[2]
A 1963 UK paperback issued by Fontana Books changed the title to Murder at the Gallop to tie in with the film version. The book features the author's Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, but the Murder at the Gallop film adaptation instead featured her amateur sleuth, Miss Marple.
After the funeral of the wealthy Richard Abernethie, his remaining family assembles for the reading of the will at Enderby Hall. The death, though sudden, was not unexpected and natural causes have been given on his death certificate. Nevertheless, one of the attendees, Mrs Cora Lansquenet, says, "It's been hushed up very nicely ... but he was murdered, wasn't he?" The family lawyer, Mr Entwhistle, begins to investigate. Before long there is no question that a murderer is at large.
The essentials of Richard Abernethie's last will and testament were told to the gathered family by Mr Entwhistle. Sixty-eight years old and a widower, Richard was predeceased by his only child, Mortimer, who died without issue. Thus Richard was prodded to revise his will. He was the eldest of a family of seven, of whom only he, a brother Timothy and a sister Cora (Mrs Lansquenet), the youngest, were still alive when he wrote the will. His favourite brother Leo was killed in the war, as was another brother, Gordon. Richard had a nephew and two nieces, the sum total of the next generation. He spent time with his nephew George, and his two nieces and their husbands, to get to know them better. He called his sister-in-law Helen for a visit to the family home. Richard visited his reclusive brother, then travelled to his sister at her home, for the first time in more than two decades. He decided to split his wealth in six portions, for his five blood relations, and a sixth for the widow of one brother killed in the recent war. Four received the capital directly, while two received a life income from their share of the capital. Enderby Hall was to be sold.
The day after her brother's funeral, Cora Lansquenet is brutally murdered in her sleep at her home by repeated blows with a hatchet. The motive for her murder is not obvious. It does not appear to be theft, nor is her own estate a likely motive. Her portion of the Abernethie bequest was a life income, which capital reverts to the estate of her brother, Richard, to be divided among the surviving heirs – not adding to her own estate. One possible motive is to suppress anything that Richard might have told Cora about his suspicions that he was being poisoned. These had been overheard by her paid companion, the timid Miss Gilchrist, who had lived with Cora for a few years, and was not always a lady's companion, but had previously owned a teashop, "the essence of gentility," but it failed during the war due to food shortages, and she had to seek other employment. Miss Gilchrist is an unlikely suspect, as she gains nothing from Cora's death except a few of Cora's own paintings.
Entwhistle calls on his long-time friend, Hercule Poirot, to resolve any doubts about the death of Richard. Poirot employs an old friend, Mr Goby, to investigate the family. Goby, a most resourceful man, rapidly turns up a number of reasons for family members desperate for the money in Richard's estate. Goby employs all sorts of clever methods to uncover the most private information, using agents who pose as actors, lawyers or even Catholic nuns. None of the family members can yet be cleared of suspicion. Poirot warns Entwhistle that Miss Gilchrist may herself be a target for the murderer.
Cora Lansquenet was a keen artist and collector of paintings from local sales. Susan Banks, learning she has inherited Cora's property, goes to her cottage to clear up the possessions and prepare them for auction, on the day of the inquest into Cora's murder. She reviewed her aunt's own paintings as well as those purchased at local sales. She noticed that Cora had been copying postcards, despite Miss Gilchrist's claims that Cora always painted from life: one of the paintings features a pier that was destroyed in the war, even though the painting was completed quite recently. The next day, after the funeral, an old friend who is an art critic, Alexander Guthrie, arrives to look through Mrs Lansquenet's recent purchases. His visit had been arranged before Mrs Lansquenet's murder. He looks at all her recent purchases, but finds nothing of any value there. That evening, Miss Gilchrist is nearly killed by arsenic poison in a slice of wedding cake apparently sent to her through the post. The only reason that she is not killed is that, following a superstition, she saved the greater part of the slice of cake under her pillow. Susan had declined an offer to share in the slice of cake. Inspector Morton investigates the Lansquenet murder. He recognised Poirot at the inquest, so makes a point of finding him in London to learn why. The two share information as they investigate. Morton focuses on people in the area of Cora's rented cottage.
Poirot focuses on the Abernethie family, and a number of red herrings come to light. Rosamund Shane, one of the nieces, is a beautiful but determined woman who seems to have something to hide (which turns out to be her husband's infidelity and her own pregnancy). Susan's husband, Gregory, is a dispensing chemist who had been responsible for deliberately administering a nonlethal overdose to an awkward customer. [clarification needed] In a surprising twist, Gregory confesses to the murder of Richard near the close of the novel. He is discovered to have a punishment complex. Timothy Abernethie, an unpleasant man preoccupied with his own health perhaps to gain attention, might have been able to commit the murder of Cora, as might his country-tweed, strong, healthy wife, Maude. Even the genteel Helen Abernethie left Enderby to fetch her things from her London flat after upon agreeing to remain longer at Enderby. In short, all the family had been alone on the day Cora was murdered, for enough time to reach the rented cottage and do the deed. Did any of them do it? Perhaps identifying the murderer may depend on finding a nun whom Miss Gilchrist claims to have noticed twice? But what can all this have to do with a bouquet of wax flowers under glass to which Poirot pays attention?
Poirot calls all those involved together to observe them directly, his habitual method, via Entwhistle. They gather to look over and select items of interest before the estate auction. This lures even the reclusive Timothy from his home, back to the family mansion of Enderby, bringing his wife Maude, as well as Miss Gilchrist, who is now assisting them. Poirot briefly poses as Monsieur Pontalier of UNARCO, a group that has purchased the estate to house refugees. He is at the house on that same weekend. His guise is uncovered by Rosamund the first evening. After playing games in mirrors, Helen Abernethie telephones Entwhistle early the next morning with the news that she has realised what struck her odd the day of the funeral. Before she can say more, she is savagely struck on the head.
Poirot's explanation in the denouement is a startling one. Helen is safely away to recover from her concussion. Added to the group is Inspector Morton, whose own investigations lead him out of his home county of Berkshire to Enderby Hall, increasing the tensions for the family. Inspector Morton spent the afternoon asking each member of the family to account for themselves on the day of Cora Lansquenet's murder.
Cora had never come to the funeral at all. It was Miss Gilchrist in disguise, as part of a complicated plot for her own gain, leaving the other woman at her home asleep from a sedative in her tea. Miss Gilchrist wanted to plant the idea that Richard Abernethie's death had been, in fact, a murder. When Cora herself was murdered, it would seem that Richard's alleged murderer had killed Cora to silence her. None of the family had seen Cora for more than two decades, due to the ill feeling at the time of her marriage. Miss Gilchrist successfully copied her mannerisms and the only flaw in her portrayal was spotted by Helen Abernethie. Miss Gilchrist had rehearsed a characteristic turn of the head in a mirror, where the reflection is a reverse of reality. When she came to the house after the funeral, she turned her head to the left, not the right. Helen had had the feeling that something was wrong when Cora had made her startling statement, but took some days and a timely conversation among the young cousins to realise precisely what it was. Miss Gilchrist had further given herself away to Poirot, by referring to the wax flowers on the green malachite table the first day the relatives gathered to select objects before the auction. These were on display on the day of the reading of Richard Abernethie's will but removed by the time Miss Gilchrist, as herself, visited Enderby Hall. She had deliberately poisoned herself with the arsenic-laced wedding cake to evade suspicion and appear yet another potential victim; ironically this only aroused Poirot's and Inspector Morton's misgivings.
Miss Gilchrist saw what Cora had missed among the paintings that Mrs Lansquenet had bought at the local sales. Miss Gilchrist recognised a painting by Vermeer, yet Mrs Lansquenet had no idea how valuable the artwork was. Thus, Miss Gilchrist's plot was born. The painting's value would likely have been revealed to Mrs Lansquenet by Mr Guthrie, thus precipitating the murder. Miss Gilchrist covered the Vermeer with her own painting depicting the destroyed pier copied from the postcard, to disguise it among others done by Cora. The scent of the oils lingered when Mr Entwhistle visited the cottage the day after the murder. Cora's will confirmed that Miss Gilchrist inherited all of the paintings. Miss Gilchrist loathed her employer; she loathed life as a dependent even more. Her dream was to sell the Vermeer to escape her dreary life with the capital to rebuild her beloved teashop. Poirot deduced the key role of the painting. He had Mr Entwhistle take it from the Timothy Abernethie home where Miss Gilchrist had left it. The art critic was found to be authentic by Inspector Morton, so Poirot asked Entwhistle to bring the painting to him. That same day, Mr Guthrie sent a wire to Poirot that said tersely, "definitely a Vermeer, Guthrie."
Inspector Morton added that two nuns had called at Cora's cottage the day of Richard Abernethie's funeral. No one answered, yet they heard noises from a person. Added to Poirot's explanation, these nuns became witness to the real Cora Lansquenet's presence in her own home as Miss Gilchrist was impersonating her at Enderby Hall. There is a motif of nuns in this mystery, appearing at each house where Miss Gilchrist stayed. [clarification needed]
Miss Gilchrist had invented what she overheard about Richard's fear of poisoning, for the furtherance of her plot. She told her lie to Susan Banks first. With revisions implicating Susan, she repeated it to Poirot and Inspector Morton, very shortly before Poirot revealed her plot to all present at Enderby Hall. Once accused, Miss Gilchrist broke down in a flood of complaints of the unbearable hardships of her life and fantasies about a new rebuilt teashop, perhaps in Rye or Chichester, but destined never to be, and went quietly with Inspector Morton. There is no evidence Richard Abernethie died anything but a natural death in his sleep, from the disease his doctor had diagnosed. Thus Poirot answered the question Mr Entwhistle hired him to resolve, as well as untangled, by deduction, the mystery of Cora's death. Miss Gilchrist is found guilty at trial. In her time in prison during legal proceedings, she was quickly becoming insane, planning one tea shop after another. Mr Entwhistle and Hercule Poirot suspect her punishment might be served in Broadmoor, but have no doubt she had plotted and carried out the cold blooded murder in full possession of her faculties – this ladylike murderer.
Unlike Taken at the Flood, in which there is a strong sense of post-war English society reforming along the lines of the "status quo ante", After the Funeral is deeply pessimistic about the social impact of war. The village post office no longer handles the local post. Mr Goby blames the government for the poor standard of investigators that he is able to employ. The family mansion must be sold, and the butler Lanscombe, who had expected to be able to retire to the North Lodge, is forced to leave the estate. A pier on a postcard has been bombed and not yet rebuilt, which desolate fact is pivotal to the plot. Richard Abernethie is devastated that his only son died abruptly from polio, an epidemic of that time. The son was fit, healthy, about to marry, and then gone. Richard sees no other single heir worthy of succeeding to his estate entire. The Abernethie drive and talent for business are found in his niece Susan, but he cannot consider her as sole heir because she is female. Rather, he reacts to her by being disappointed in her husband. Not finding any one person to take over his fortune and business, he divides the money among family members who seem likely to waste it on gambling and theatrical ventures.
One person he valued was his sister-in-law, now widowed by the war. She had a child in a war time affair. She never told Richard of the child, aware of his Victorian views, telling others she has a nephew she helps. She is grateful for his kindness in including her in his will, as she can now raise her son on faraway Cyprus with a proper education. The child is loved, but his mother feels he cannot be accepted in post war England. The last name chosen for Cora's husband, the much disliked painter with some claim to being French, is Lansquenet. It is unusual as a last name, as mentioned in the story. The word is the name of a card game, but mainly it is the term for a German mercenary, a foot soldier with a lance, from the 15th and 16th centuries.[3]
Food rationing in England came to an end in the year of publication, but its effect is still felt in the egg shortages that are mentioned in the novel. Throughout, there is a strong sense of the hardships of the post-war period, including the conniving Miss Gilchrist's heartache at losing her cherished teashop due to food shortages, and being forced into a life of dependence, in which she is regarded as little more than a servant. There are also comments on the increased burden of taxation associated with Clement Attlee's government.
Robert Barnard: "A subject of perennial appeal – unhappy families: lots of scattered siblings, lots of Victorian money (made from corn plasters). Be sure you are investigating the right murder, and watch for mirrors (always interesting in Christie). Contains Christie's last major butler: the 'fifties and 'sixties were not good times for butlers."[4]
In chapter 12, Poirot mentions the case handled in Lord Edgware Dies as being one in which he was "nearly defeated".
In Chapter 13, Poirot's valet is referred to in the narrative as Georges. His actual name is George, but Poirot always addresses him directly as Georges. This is the first (and only?) time that he is referred to by the French version in narration.
This is the first of the Poirot novels in which lesbianism (between a woman and her companion) is discussed as a possible motive. [clarification needed] The references are veiled and euphemistic: Inspector Morton calls it "feverish female friendship" in chapter 13.
In 1963, a film adaptation entitled Murder at the Gallop was released by MGM. However, this version replaced Poirot with the character of Miss Marple, played by Margaret Rutherford.
On 26 March 2006, an adaptation of the novel was broadcast on ITV with David Suchet as Poirot in the series Agatha Christie's Poirot. There were a couple of changes, Cora was married to an Italian husband whose surname is Galaccio and is still alive, instead of being married to a French husband whose surname is Lansquenet and has recently died. The painting at the end is a Rembrandt, not a Vermeer. Timothy's ability to walk is only shown at the end, but in the book it is well known from the start that he is not an invalid. George is Helen's son. Susan does not have a husband, but on the day after the funeral she and George, who are in love with each other, were in Lytchett St Mary and were having a secret affair. The cast for the 2006 version includes Michael Fassbender as George, Lucy Punch as Susan, Robert Bathurst as Gilbert Entwhistle, Anna Calder-Marshall as Maude, Fiona Glascott as Rosamund and Monica Dolan as Miss Gilchrist.
BBC Radio 4 adapted After the Funeral for radio, featuring John Moffatt as Poirot.
The novel was first serialised in the US in the Chicago Tribune in forty-seven parts from Tuesday, 20 January to Saturday, 14 March 1953. In the UK the novel was first serialised in the weekly magazine John Bull in seven abridged instalments from 21 March (Volume 93, Number 2438) to 2 May 1953 (Volume 93, Number 2444) with illustrations by William Little.[5]


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