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I love lemon cakes, pies, cookies, etc. This cake is the best! It comes from Cook's Illustrated Magazine, Mar/Apr 07 edition. As always, they area very precise with their directions, so they might be long, but don't be put off by that. The filling can be made a day ahead, it does get a little stiff, just stir it to loosen it up a bit. Chill leftovers.
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lemon curd filling
- 1 cup fresh lemon juice, about 6 lemons (no bottled, please)
- 1 teaspoon unflavored gelatin, plain
- 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 4 large eggs
- 6 large egg yolks, from large eggs (reserve egg whites for cake)
- 8 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into 1/2 inch cubes and frozen
- 2 1/4 cups cake flour
- 1 cup whole milk, room temperature
- 6 egg whites, room temperature
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 3/4 cups sugar
- 4 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 12 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened, but still cool
fluffy white icing
- 2 large egg whites, from large eggs
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1/4 cup water
- 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice (again, no bottled)
- 1 tablespoon corn syrup
- 1Filling: Measure 1 tablespoon lemon juice into a small bowl; sprinkle gelatin over the top.
- 2Heat remaining lemon juice, sugar, and salt in medium non-reactive sauce pan over medium high heat, stirring occasionally until sugar dissolves and mixture is hot, but not boiling.
- 3Whisk eggs and yolks in a large non-reactive bowl.
- 4Whisking constantly, slowly pour hot lemon-sugar mixture into eggs, then return mixture to saucepan.
- 5Cook over medium-low heat, stirring constantly until mixture reaches 170° and is thick enought to leave a trail when a spatula is scraped along the bottom of the pan, about 4-6 minutes.
- 6Immediately remove pan from heat and stir in gelatin mixture until dissolved. Stir in frozen butter until incorporated.
- 7Pour filling through a fine-meshed strainer into a bowl.
- 8Cover surface with plastic wrap; refrigerate until firm enough to spread, about 4 hours.
- 9Cake: Preheat oven to 350°.
- 10Grease and flour two 9-inch cake pans and line with parchment paper.
- 11In a medium bowl, whisk together egg milk, egg whites and vanilla.
- 12In a mixer bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder and salt; mix at slow speed.
- 13Add butter one piece at a time, continue to beat until mixture resembles moist crumbs and no visible butter chunks.
- 14Add all but 1 cup of milk mixture to crumbs and beat at medium speed until mixture is pale and fluffy, about 1 1/2 minutes.
- 15With mixer running, add remaining 1/2 cup milk mixture, beat 1 mintute more.
- 16Divide batter evenly between cake pans.
- 17Bake 23-25 minutes or until toothpick in center of cakes comes out clean.
- 18Loosen cakes from side of pan with a small knife, cool in pan 10 minutes then remove from pan onto greased wire rack, remove parchment paper, invert again and cool completely.
- 19Icing: Combine all ingredients in a mixer bowl or heatproof bowl.
- 20Set over medium saucepan filled with 1-inch of simmering water.
- 21Cook stirring constantly until mixture reaches 160°, 5-10 minutes.
- 22Transfer mixture to mixer bowl (if needed) and beat on medium speed until soft peaks form, about 5 minutes.
- 23Increase speed to medium-high and continue to beat until mixture has cooled to room temperature and stiff peaks form, about 5 minutes longer.
- 24Assembly: Cut each layer in half horizontally.
- 25Spread 1 cup of lemon filling evenly on each cake, (except the top layer) leaving 1/2-inch border around cake.
- 26Place top layer on cakes, smooth out any filling that may have leaked from the layers.
- 27Refrigerate while you make the icing.
- 28Spread icing on cake.
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Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.
Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan
Isadore Freleng
Edward Selzer
Warren Foster
Carl Stalling
- 1953
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- Cartoon Characters: Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, Robot, Mule.
- Vocal Talent: Mel Blanc (Bugs Bunny, Mule), Arthur Q. Bryan (Elmer Fudd).
- Directed By Isadore Freleng (as I. Freleng).
- Produced By Edward Selzer.
- Animated By Virgil Ross, Art Davis, Manuel Perez, Ken Champin.
- Written By Warren Foster.
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- Backgrounds: Irv Wyner.
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Xanadu, the jaw-droppingly awful 1980 film that sank Olivia Newton-John's movie career yet couldn't kill roller disco, has been turned into a fast, funny little stage musical. Quite a transformation.
It may not start a new fad for leg warmers, headbands and the thump-thump sounds of the Electric Light Orchestra, but the 90-minute show, which opened Tuesday, July 10, at Broadway's Helen Hayes Theatre, cheerfully (and with camp to spare)
Adapter Douglas Carter Beane, author of The Little Dog Laughed, has wisely jettisoned the movie's incomprehensible story line. Still, he has kept the character of Sonny Malone, the creatively stymied Venice, Calif. artist who wants to "make all the arts converge in one place, painting, music, dancing and maybe even athletics." The obvious forum: a roller disco.
As played by Cheyenne Jackson, who replaced the injured James Carpinello during previews, the dimwitted Sonny is sort of Li'l Abner by way of Beach Blanket Bingo. The sturdy Jackson- sporting the best thighs on Broadway- displays a natural comic timing, not to mention a booming musical- theater voice that is comfortable with the show's pop score by Jeff Lynne and John Farrar.
The songs are taken directly from the movie and include such hits as Magic and I'm Alive as well as Newton-John's 1975 success Have You Never Been Mellow. They function sort of like the ABBA numbers inserted in to the wispy plot of Mamma Mia! The numbers don't exactly advance the tale, but they are there to get nods of recognition and a few laughs from hardcore Xanadu fans while exposing a whole new audience to the music.
At the center of the show is Kira (the Newton-John role), the beautiful Greek muse who decides to help Sonny achieve artistic fulfillment. She's played here by the delightful Kerry Butler, a veteran of the Broadway casts of Hairspray and the 2003 revival of Little Shop of Horrors.
The sweetly appealing Butler, decked out in flowing blond hair, does double duty. She sings with ease as she speeds around designer David Gallo's vaguely ancient Grecian setting. The actress knows who to slyly snare a laugh, too, and Beane has given her plenty. There's even another homage of sorts to Newton-John- this muse comes equipped with an Australian accent.
Yet the evening's major giggle getters are Mary Testa and Jackie Hoffman, Kira's jealous sisters who plot her downfall. Muses are forbidden to fall in love with mortals, so naturally the two concoct a plan to make romance blossom between Kira and Sonny.
Hoffman, another Hairspray alum, literally chews the scenery with hilarious results, and Testa, a brassy lady with an equally brassy voice, knows how to take a song and shake the rafters.
Every once in a while, plot threatens to take over. Part of the story involves a regretful older businessman, played here by Tony Roberts (Gene Kelley in the movie), who owns the building Sonny wants to use as the disco. When young, he didn't follow his muse and ended up rich - but alone. Will Sonny take that lesson to heart?
Roberts is a game performer and a pro at delivering Beane's occasionally wry comic comments. The man doesn't get up on skates, though. That's let mostly to a small ensemble, particularly in the show's disco-ball finale- choreographed by Dan Knechteges- and done to the show's hypnotic title tune.
As Broadway musicals go, Xanadu is small scale. Not much set and what little space there is on stage gets partially taken up by several rows of audience members (shades of Spring Awakening).
But size doesn't matter. Director Christopher Ashley has invested the musical with a sure sense of what it wants to accomplish. There is a unity of performer and purpose that is enormously ingratiating. Xanadu doesn't take itself seriously - except in its desire to deliver a good time.
The road to "Xanadu" - the Broadway musical, not the stately pleasure-dome of Coleridge's Kubla Khan - led from the 1980 iconic flop movie starring Olivia Newton-John. And, living up to every expectation, it led to Camp Disaster.
This is the best Broadway musical to feature roller-skating since Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Starlight Express" - but as it is also the only musical to feature roller-skating since "Starlight Express," that's no great commendation.
The movie, which I have never seen, and doubtless ever will, has its adherents, who are apparently stuck on the fascinations of its sheer atrocity. It was the last film Gene Kelly made, and it was the last large-scale Hollywood musical for more than two decades.
The movie's score did far better than the film itself. The album, which featured Newton-John and the then-hot British band Electric Light Orchestra, was a hit-making platinum and No. 4 on the Billboard charts, while five of the songs were No. 1 singles. Impressive stats.
These hits - music and lyrics by Jeff Lynne - are all naturally incorporated into the stage musical, while at least a couple of other numbers, including "Suddenly" and "Have You Never Been Mellow," are Newton-John standards composed by John Farrar.
For a jukebox musical, the music is certainly not awful, simply nostalgic-generic. If you are of a certain age, you will remember that you had forgotten it and prepare to forget it again.
That, I suppose, is the only goodish news of an absolutely ghastly show.
"Xanadu" has a new book by the talented Douglas Carter Beane, which is arch and camp, a fair example of the kitschy-sink school of writing, with a few decent quips in its shivering quiver.
The story is loosely based on the original screenplay, which itself was even more loosely based on an earlier Rita Hayworth movie, "Down to Earth."
The idea is for the Nine Muses from Mount Parnassus, evoked by a chalk mural on a sidewalk in Santa Monica's Venice Beach, to come alive and assist the author of the mural - Sonny Malone (Cheyenne Jackson) - to achieve his artistic ambition, which is apparently to create a roller disco. It takes all sorts to make art.
The mythological muse who designates herself to help personally is Clio (Kerry Butler), Muse of History, who here calls herself Kira and wears leg warmers and roller skates. It all ends in a mad skating frenzy and mirror balls.
The performers - all having to keep their tongues in their cheeks for so long it must give them earaches - do well, particularly the ultra-charming Jackson.
David Gallo's settings and David Zinn's costumes are cute, while Christopher Ashley's staging is precisely what you would expect from a man who claims to have seen the original movie 148 times.
But in the end, "Xanadu" reminded me of something, and it wasn't "Starlight Express" or even disco. It was "Ishtar."
Can a musical be simultaneously indefensible and irresistible? Why, yes it can. Witness "Xanadu," the outlandishly enjoyable stage spoof of the outrageously bad movie from 1980 about a painter and his muse who find love at a roller disco in Los Angeles.
The title doesn't ring a bell? Let me refresh your memory. In "Xanadu" did Newton-John a blooming film career destroy. (Sorry, Mr. Coleridge, I couldn't resist.)
You probably remember how Olivia Newton-John, the pert, wholesome pop thrush, rocketed to film stardom opposite John Travolta in the Hollywood version of the musical "Grease." That was in 1978. A mere two years later she roller-skated into oblivion — or at least back to Australia — in a fabulously insipid turkey called "Xanadu," which didn't do much for Gene Kelly's career, either. "Xanadu" also helped kill the "Grease"-born movie musical revival right quick, and the film now resides, I trust, under toxic lockdown at Netflix shipping centers across the country. Watch it at your peril.
Why, you may wonder, would anyone deem it necessary, or even worthwhile, to pay lavish mock homage to a dreadful movie by exhuming it for exhibition onstage? Has Broadway nothing better to do? Has the American musical theater reached such a nadir of inspiration?
Well, yeah. I guess. Whatever. Why pester me with silly questions when there's so much silly bliss to be had at the Helen Hayes Theater, where the new, improved "Xanadu" opened last night? In any case, Douglas Carter Beane, the impish playwright who has ingeniously adapted the screenplay for the stage (while wearing a Hazmat suit, I hope), trumps such hectoring queries by acknowledging the inanity of the enterprise himself. In his adorably ditzy new book for the musical, Mr. Beane posits 1980, the year "Xanadu" dawned and the year in which the stage version is set, as a cultural turning point. "The muses are in retreat," muses the god Zeus, played by Tony Roberts, in the musical's poignant climax. (Kidding!) "Creativity shall remain stymied for decades. The theater? They'll just take some stinkeroo movie or some songwriter's catalog, throw it onstage and call it a show."
Prophetic words, mighty Zeus, but the creators and performers of "Xanadu" desecrate the theatah with such sharp good humor and magnetic high spirits that you won't have much time to weep for the cultural blight that too much of Broadway has become. And in fact, there is enough first-rate stage talent rolling around in "Xanadu" to power a season of wholly new, old-school, non-jukebox musicals, if someone would get around to writing a few good ones.
Kerry Butler, as the Greek demi-goddess Clio, who also roams Venice Beach as the Australian mortal Kira, is simply heaven on eight little polyurethane wheels. Or heaven in leg warmers. (Actually she's both: the skates and woolens are Ms. Newton-John's memorably ghastly signature look from the movie, though the costume designer David Zinn chose not to drape her in those fetching peasant blouses.)
Ms. Butler is the rare Broadway ingénue who is as funny as she is pretty, and she sings gloriously, too, both in her own tangy Broadway belt and in a devastatingly funny impersonation of Ms. Newton-John's sweetly sighing soprano. (When Ms. Butler is speaking Australian, she's actually a ringer for a fresher import from Down Under, Nicole Kidman.) She's got a lovely line in arabesque on those skates, too! Can Audra McDonald or Kristin Chenoweth do that?
Clio-Kira sheds her inspirational light on a frustrated young would-be artist named Sonny, who spends his time making chalk murals on the sidewalk by the shore. Sonny has chalk for brains, too, and Cheyenne Jackson, the star of "All Shook Up," the forgettable Elvis jukebox musical, plays him beautifully as a big slab of prime beefcake in tube socks and denim cutoffs. Sonny's twinkling blue eyes have all the depth of a kiddie pool, his earnest effusions the hilarious aridity of soap-opera acting. (Mr. Jackson is a last-minute and temporary substitute for James Carpinello, star of the forgettable stage ripoff of "Saturday Night Fever," who was injured in a skating accident and will return to the role when he heals.)
Working from a screenplay consisting of atrocious musical numbers Scotch-taped together with doltish dialogue, Mr. Beane filled the gaps by dreaming up tasty shtick for two of Clio's wicked sister muses, Calliope and Melpomene, who are played by the stage-devouring comic actresses Jackie Hoffman and Mary Testa, respectively. Their theme song, "Evil Woman," is a highlight, as Ms. Hoffman, in her cat eyeglasses looking like a Roz Chast cartoon sprung to life, scats the shrieky guitar riffs while Ms. Testa bellows the chorus in chesty tones. Together or separately, they are both criminally funny.
Perhaps you remember "Evil Woman," a hit for the not-quite- immortal '70s synth-rock outfit Electric Light Orchestra. (A clue: Sing the first syllable twice.) If you were at least tween-age in 1980 and in possession of a radio, you will probably recognize a big chunk of the pop score for "Xanadu," which includes the sultry ballad "Magic" and the pulsating title tune, written (like "Evil Woman") by Jeff Lynne, the songwriter for E.L.O.
Back in the day, these were the kind of songs that you'd scoff at in public but crank up and sing along with in the privacy of your Camaro. Now, thanks to our metastasizing cultural affection for the drek of yesteryear (one day theses will be written about that seminal work "Mamma Mia!"), we are free to celebrate them in collective public rituals, as long as everyone agrees to keep tongues in cheeks.
"Xanadu," which has mostly been directed at roller-derby speed by Christopher Ashley, does have a few dead spots in its brisk 90-minute running time. In addition to Zeus, Mr. Roberts plays the Gene Kelly role from the movie, a magnate named Danny Maguire who bankrolls Sonny's disco dreams.
Mr. Roberts possesses a polished deadpan style, but Mr. Beane's inspiration seems to have failed him when it came to minting fresh fun from the subplot involving flashbacks to Danny's 1940s romance. The stage "Xanadu" can't really muster much in the way of an extravaganza, either, despite Dan Knechtges's mercilessly cheesy choreography and the music director Eric Stern's zesty pop arrangements. (For those attuned to higher musical planes, yes, he is that Eric Stern.) The production is skimpy on both the casting and design fronts.
A few dozen audience members are seated onstage, but this device, used effectively in "Spring Awakening," seems less an aesthetic choice than an economic one here. With a cast of just 10 and minimal sets (the designer David Gallo seems to have blown much of the budget on disco balls), "Xanadu" uses these onstage viewers as unpaid extras and space-filling, mildly animated scenery.
I can imagine, though, that members of the movie's cult following, amateur cultural archaeologists of all things '80s, would thrill to the prospect of being magically spirited into the swirling center of a beloved period artifact.
"This is like children's theater for 40-year-old gay people!" cracks Ms. Hoffman's Calliope at one point, and she (or rather Mr. Beane) is only half-kidding. But that acidic epithet could be used to describe far too many more earnest Broadway duds of recent vintage. At least "Xanadu" is in on the joke. The show's winking attitude toward its own aesthetic abjectness can be summed up thus: If you can't beat 'em, slap on some roller skates and join 'em.
The five-year span of 1978-83 saw no shortage of cultural crimes, and hammering the fatal nail in the coffin of the already moribund movie musical wasn't the greatest of them. But some of the most misbegotten singing-dancing stinkers ever spat onto a screen arrived during the period, including "The Wiz," "Thank God, It's Friday," "Can't Stop the Music," "Times Square," "Grease 2" and "Staying Alive." Arguably worst of all was "Xanadu," about a muse descended on skates from Mount Olympus to inspire the creation of a roller disco in Venice, Calif. So it seems a feat worthy of Zeus himself that such dreck yields so much enjoyment.
Borrowing from 1947 Rita Hayworth pic "Down to Earth," the 1980 Universal release was an inane fairy tale back then and, despite its supposed camp-classic status, is now as much fun as a root canal.
Combining songs by Electric Light Orchestra founding member Jeff Lynne and pop tunesmith-producer John Farrar, who penned monster hits for Olivia Newton-John, "Xanadu" was built as a showcase for the singer to follow "Grease." But with less infectious material to bolster her, Newton-John displayed what can only be described as vegetable magnetism onscreen. Co-star Michael Beck was almost as inanimate, making the ludicrous dialogue, idiotic plot and bloated, instantly dated production values seem even deadlier.
Fresh off "The Little Dog Laughed," Douglas Carter Beane has taken the unpromising clay of Richard Danus and Marc Rubel's screenplay and molded it not only into an engagingly goofy spoof of the film itself but also a witty takedown of the Broadway creative climate. Sure, the book scenes occasionally stall, but what looked on paper to be one-note sketch fodder turns out to be an unexpectedly sustained and refreshingly unassuming crowd-pleaser.
"I shall take the improbably popular art forms in each moment of time," says demi-goddess Clio, aka Kira (Kerry Butler). "The stage adaptation of the inferior cinematic offering, the musical of the box that is Juke, and I shall use them to remind mankind that there is something greater than wealth or fame, and that is the human experience rendered comprehensible through art."
With a complicitous wink at the audience that's never overplayed, the creatives and cast at every turn cheekily point up the irony of charging Rialto prices for recycled trash. The less-than-lavish physical aspects of Christopher Ashley's gleefully low-rent production further the point, saving most of the budget for the mirror balls that cascade from the flies during the show's eponymous closing number. The constraints of double casting, of a limited ensemble (the nine sister muses are downsized to seven) and craptastic effects are part of the joke rather than a shortcoming audiences are likely to mind.
Beane infuses all this with wry riffs on art and creativity, on bad movies and vacuous stage musicals. He lampoons the wretchedness of '80s pop culture far more cleverly and with a lighter touch than the belabored visual gags of "The Wedding Singer," which took a literal approach to adapting its screen source where this show takes a playfully deconstructionist one.
"This is like children's theater for 40-year-old gay people," deadpans Jackie Hoffman's Calliope, who vies hilariously for head ham honors with Mary Testa's scheming Melpomene. It's hard to dismiss any show for being narrowly targeted when it's so upfront about acknowledging who it's pitched at. But while Calliope may be correct in identifying the core audience, the ongoing retro fascination of all things '80s should extend the appeal.
Ditto the music. Augmenting songs from the film with additional ELO hits and another of Newton-John's, Lynne and Farrar's string- and synth-drenched tunes -- glamrock-meets-disco-meets-faux classical -- are the epitome of pop-rock cheese of that era but nevertheless insidiously catchy. What's more, Beane has stitched them into an expanded narrative context with more resourcefulness than the average musical assembly artist, finding neat fits for numbers such as "Evil Woman," "Strange Magic" and "Have You Never Been Mellow?" -- a disarming question when put to a wrathful Zeus.
The show mines Greek mythology more diligently than the movie, whimsically mixing up the characters' journey from Earth to Mount Olympus with 1981 Ray Harryhausen schlock "Clash of the Titans." How many contemporary auds will get the cross-referencing is uncertain, but it's funny nonetheless, with droll appearances from Medusa, Pegasus, Cyclops and a Centaur thrown in. We're even given a mythological explanation for the protective properties of leg-warmers.
There was some disappointment in the Broadway community when Jane Krakowski, who had performed the lead in workshops, opted not to do the show. But it's hard to imagine anyone more irresistible than Butler in the role of Kyra, the daughter of Zeus who risks her immortality for human love and the chance to create rather than just inspire.
Not only is Butler the most supremely confident woman on wheels since Raquel Welch in "Kansas City Bomber," but her delicious parodying of Newton-John's breathy vocals makes her numbers a hoot. The actress showed priceless comic timing as the original Penny in Broadway's "Hairspray" but was ill-served by the flaccid "Little Shop of Horrors" revival. Here, she has charm to spare, whizzing around in a gossamer pink number with matching leg-warmers, coupling Newton-John's vanilla wholesomeness with a sly touch of the trampy and sporting a comically exaggerated Australian drawl.
Stepping in for co-star James Carpinello, who broke a foot during previews, Cheyenne Jackson played Sonny opposite Krakowski in the workshop. That adds to his ease in the role of the directionless pavement artist touched by drive, creativity and love when other-worldly Kyra steps out of his mural depicting "Ancient Greek arty chicks." His buff arms and waxed legs on display in tank top and cutoffs throughout, Jackson plays the soulful dumb hunk to endearing perfection.
Tony Roberts seems slightly uncomfortable in the thankless role of Danny Maguire (originated onscreen by Gene Kelly), the businessman given a chance to make good after messing up his first brush with a muse 35 years earlier. Roberts is a good sport, however, clearly having a better time later on when he channels the plummy declamatory tones of Laurence Olivier as Zeus.
Director Ashley guides the small cast to connect with the show's blissed-out, self-reflexive spirit while keeping them just guileless enough to be part of the spectacle rather than its smug superiors. Among the multitasking ensemble members, Andre Ward cranks up the sassy black attitude as dancing mister-sister muse Terpsicore, and Curtis Holbrook's impressive tap skills get a vigorous workout in "Whenever You're Away From Me."
Dan Knechtges' jokey choreography delves tirelessly into the repertoire of '80s dance kitsch, with lots of hand action allowing Butler to acknowledge Newton-John's, let's call them limited, moves. Nothing here can equal the jaw-dropping assault of numbers from the movie like the '40s/'80s musical duel "Dancin'," in which an Andrews Sisters-style trio battle it out with Lycra-clad headbangers; or the shopping-spree horror show of "All Over the World." But Ashley conveys the general idea with economy and wicked humor.
Following the trend of "Spring Awakening" and "Inherit the Wind" last season, the main feature of David Gallo's design is Grecian bleachers for reduced-price onstage seating, allowing the audience to get in on the action by waving glowsticks during the title song.
Back in the days when Off Broadway was a viable avenue for offbeat shows with cult appeal, "Xanadu" would have been a sure bet. In a mainstem house at $111 a pop, the verdict is not yet in on its ability to turn strong word of mouth into a sustained audience. Whatever the show's future, Beane and the young producing team of Broadway neophytes have made it a guilt-free pleasure to visit "a place where nobody dared to go."


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32 There was war between Asa and Israel's King Baasha throughout their lifetimes. | 32 There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel throughout their reigns. |
33 In the third year of Judah's King Asa, Baasha, Ahijah's son, became king over all Israel. He ruled in Tirzah for twenty-four years. | 33 In the third year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha son of Ahijah became king of all Israel in Tirzah, and he reigned twenty-four years. |
34 He did evil in the LORD's eyes by walking in Jeroboam's ways and the sin he had caused Israel to commit. | 34 He did evil in the eyes of the LORD, walking in the ways of Jeroboam and in his sin, which he had caused Israel to commit. |
Copyright © 2011 Common English Bible (Common English Bible w/ Apocrypha) | Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide. (New International Version Bible Online) |


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15 you'll know how things ought to go in God's household, this God-alive church, bastion of truth. | 15 if I am delayed, you will know how people ought to conduct themselves in God's household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth. |
Published by permission. Originally published by NavPress in English as THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language copyright 2002 by Eugene Peterson. All rights reserved. (The Message Bible Online) | Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide. (New International Version Bible Online) |


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1 And now, dear brothers and sisters, I will write about the special abilities the Holy Spirit gives to each of us, for I must correct your misunderstandings about them. | 1 Now about spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant. |
2 You know that when you were still pagans you were led astray and swept along in worshiping speechless idols. | 2 You know that when you were pagans, somehow or other you were influenced and led astray to mute idols. |
3 So I want you to know how to discern what is truly from God: No one speaking by the Spirit of God can curse Jesus, and no one is able to say, "Jesus is Lord," except by the Holy Spirit. | 3 Therefore I tell you that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, "Jesus be cursed," and no one can say, "Jesus is Lord," except by the Holy Spirit. |
4 Now there are different kinds of spiritual gifts, but it is the same Holy Spirit who is the source of them all. | 4 There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit. |
5 There are different kinds of service in the church, but it is the same Lord we are serving. | 5 There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. |
6 There are different ways God works in our lives, but it is the same God who does the work through all of us. | 6 There are different kinds of working, but the same God works all of them in all men. |
7 A spiritual gift is given to each of us as a means of helping the entire church. | 7 Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. |
8 To one person the Spirit gives the ability to give wise advice; to another he gives the gift of special knowledge. | 8 To one there is given through the Spirit the message of wisdom, to another the message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, |
9 The Spirit gives special faith to another, and to someone else he gives the power to heal the sick. | 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, |
10 He gives one person the power to perform miracles, and to another the ability to prophesy. He gives someone else the ability to know whether it is really the Spirit of God or another spirit that is speaking. Still another person is given the ability to speak in unknown languages, and another is given the ability to interpret what is being said. | 10 to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues. |
11 It is the one and only Holy Spirit who distributes these gifts. He alone decides which gift each person should have. | 11 All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he gives them to each one, just as he determines. |
12 The human body has many parts, but the many parts make up only one body. So it is with the body of Christ. | 12 The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts; and though all its parts are many, they form one body. So it is with Christ. |
13 Some of us are Jews, some are Gentiles, some are slaves, and some are free. But we have all been baptized into Christ's body by one Spirit, and we have all received the same Spirit. | 13 For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body--whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free--and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. |
14 Yes, the body has many different parts, not just one part. | 14 Now the body is not made up of one part but of many. |
15 If the foot says, "I am not a part of the body because I am not a hand," that does not make it any less a part of the body. | 15 If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body. |
16 And if the ear says, "I am not part of the body because I am only an ear and not an eye," would that make it any less a part of the body? | 16 And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body," it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body. |
17 Suppose the whole body were an eye -- then how would you hear? Or if your whole body were just one big ear, how could you smell anything? | 17 If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? |
18 But God made our bodies with many parts, and he has put each part just where he wants it. | 18 But in fact God has arranged the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. |
19 What a strange thing a body would be if it had only one part! | 19 If they were all one part, where would the body be? |
20 Yes, there are many parts, but only one body. | 20 As it is, there are many parts, but one body. |
21 The eye can never say to the hand, "I don't need you." The head can't say to the feet, "I don't need you." | 21 The eye cannot say to the hand, "I don't need you!" And the head cannot say to the feet, "I don't need you!" |
22 In fact, some of the parts that seem weakest and least important are really the most necessary. | 22 On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, |
23 And the parts we regard as less honorable are those we clothe with the greatest care. So we carefully protect from the eyes of others those parts that should not be seen, | 23 and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, |
24 while other parts do not require this special care. So God has put the body together in such a way that extra honor and care are given to those parts that have less dignity. | 24 while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has combined the members of the body and has given greater honor to the parts that lacked it, |
25 This makes for harmony among the members, so that all the members care for each other equally. | 25 so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. |
26 If one part suffers, all the parts suffer with it, and if one part is honored, all the parts are glad. | 26 If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it. |
27 Now all of you together are Christ's body, and each one of you is a separate and necessary part of it. | 27 Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it. |
28 Here is a list of some of the members that God has placed in the body of Christ: first are apostles, second are prophets, third are teachers, then those who do miracles, those who have the gift of healing, those who can help others, those who can get others to work together, those who speak in unknown languages. | 28 And in the church God has appointed first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, also those having gifts of healing, those able to help others, those with gifts of administration, and those speaking in different kinds of tongues. |
29 Is everyone an apostle? Of course not. Is everyone a prophet? No. Are all teachers? Does everyone have the power to do miracles? | 29 Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? |
30 Does everyone have the gift of healing? Of course not. Does God give all of us the ability to speak in unknown languages? Can everyone interpret unknown languages? No! | 30 Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues ? Do all interpret? |
31 And in any event, you should desire the most helpful gifts. First, however, let me tell you about something else that is better than any of them! | 31 But eagerly desire the greater gifts. And now I will show you the most excellent way. |
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We have 10 acres in TX. Lots of large Live oaks.
We are the 1st modern human inhabitants for sure. They are in their natural state. Branches going low and long. Well, we want to make them look better and cut off the dead branches. Can we do this ourselves? I have read not to go too flush with the trunk so it stimulates quicker healing but also read some thread elsewhere where this theory might be all controversial, blah blah blah. We also read to do pruning during the tree's dormant phase. I think that is now. But Live Oaks always have green leaves..hmmm? Should we call an arborist or can we do this ourselves? Any tips? Thanks. |
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- Posted by quirkyquercus z0..as in xero rain (My Page) on Fri, Dec 7, 07 at 10:41
It's not a DIY job. If a 600lb branch falls on someone or something then it's going to be a real bad day. And those branches are a lot heavier and harder to cut than they look. In this case it helps to have safety training and the proper equipment and also a knowledge of how to make the cuts for the long term health of the trees. |
- Posted by lou_midlothian_tx z8 DFW, Tx (My Page) on Fri, Dec 7, 07 at 12:12
I wouldn't prune off large branches at all. It would start the slow death of oak trees... Leave them be... |
It's only dead branches he's wanting to prune off! That's OK, won't hurt the trees. But I'd agree with QQ, this is a job for a fully trained and qualified professional. Look for someone with ISA (International Society of Arboriculture) certification. Resin |
Here is a link that might be useful: International Society of Arboriculture
There are a few things that the above posters might have missed. First, you said that you wanted to cut off the dead limbs. Doing so (correctly) will definitely NOT start the slow death of the tree. Secondly, it sounds as if there's probably nothing underneath the tree for the branches to fall on (except maybe for equipment you might use while working on the tree). With reasonable care and common sense, pruning off lower branches on a tree is not relatively dangerous. Anything can happen; you could die in a car crash on the way to get gas for the saw. If you were talking about felling the tree or climbing up on a ladder to do upper canopy pruning, I'd be concerned unless you had significant experience. What you described sounds much less dangerous and not unlike what I do frequently. (I did get a small scratch on my arm the other day.) I would strongly recommend you study pruning methods and practices before you do the job. You can easily damage the tree if you don't prune correctly. For instance, with medium to large limbs it's almost always a good idea to make an initial cut beyond the final cut to eliminate the weight that can damage the trunk as the limb is cut. Almost everyone agrees that making a cut inside the branch collar and branch bark ridge (too close to the trunk) is not a good idea. There are some exceptions and even some differing philosophies, but as a general rule I'd advise you to leave the branch collar and branch bark ridge intact. These recommendations are only to give you an idea of what types of things you need to know. They were written in a hurry and lack almost all detail, so don't assume they are all you need to know. If you aren't familiar with pruning, get a good book on the subject, read about it on the internet, and/or take a pruning class. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Basic How to Prune Trees
Pineresin's post wasn't there when I submitted my post because I hadn't refreshed the page. He caught the dead limb thing, so I was refering to previous posts. |
- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Fri, Dec 7, 07 at 16:09
if its within your capabilities.. then you can do it ... but safety first... can you use a chain saw ... or a BIG saw .. can you do it on top of a ladder ... do you have basic knowledge of physics [as in knowing where the thing will fall] ... and let me tell you something up front... pruning is 10% of the job ... the other 90% is the backbreaking labor of getting rid of the refuse .... do you have a plan for that stuff.. that wont involve burning down the trees you just pruned.. lol ... or your house .... anyway ... pay up the life insurance.. and the medical insurance.. and the house ins. if you are messing near there ... buy all the tools you need.. and a back brace.. and you will soon find out that hiring a pro might be cheaper .... the question is NOT really CAN I DO IT.. the question is ... DO I WANT TO DO IT ... we dont know your age or physical condition ... but there are much more pleasurable things you can do.. with a little checkbook pruning ... finally .. unless you are independently wealthy ... i would suggest that you leave 10 acres natural .. perhaps some pruning near the house for safety .. but otherwise.. pruning 10 acres of trees would bankrupt most of us ... IF YOU CALL a tree service.. i suggest you call at least three ... the estimates will vary greatly ... and learn all you can.. and if the guy doesn't seen to know what he is talking about... find someone else.. good luck ken |
- Posted by lou_midlothian_tx z8 DFW, Tx (My Page) on Fri, Dec 7, 07 at 19:25
Well... Texas Fire seemed confused by Live Oak having green leaves. it's evergreen oak. It's common. They are everywhere. It sounded like Texas Fire also wanted to get rid of low branch so they would "look better". I was really talking about living branches. He or she also stated that he/she is the first human to occupy that land. If the live oaks are really old with low large long growing branches, it's best to leave them alone. It's hard to visualize anything without any pictures. I've seen morons butchering large live oaks across Texas. |
"They are in their natural state. Branches growing low and long". That sounds like a pretty good description of what I would call a picturesque Live Oak. That's what Live Oaks do. Consider yourself fortunate that some previous owner has not butchered up these trees. If you have an occasional dead branch it can be removed anytime. Please don't let some fly-by-night tree "expert" talk you into hacking back your trees. Sam |
Lou, I think you misunderstood Texas Fire. He/she was not confused that the Live Oaks had green leaves but was making the point that the trees don't have the same visually identifiable dormant period as deciduous trees. It sounds like some of the posters here are jumping to the conclusion that Texas Fire isn't going to do the job correctly. Removing the dead branches and maybe select living branches (crossing branches, branches growing on the ground, etc.), if done properly, would only add to the visual appeal of the trees and shouldn't negatively impact their health. Don't jump to the conclusion that something awful is going to happen. Just because there are idiots out there that top trees, doesn't mean that Texas Fire is going to harm his/her trees. |
- Posted by texas_fire TX (My Page) on Fri, Dec 7, 07 at 21:03
I thought they were live oaks with the green leaves. Whatever, maybe it is a local term, but not scientifically correct? OK, I will take on this pruning project. sounds reasonable. Thanks folks! |
One more piece of advise that you may already know.... It's always possible to prune more. It's never possible to add back. If in doubt, err on the conservative side when it comes to pruning trees/plants. |
- Posted by dibbit z7b SC (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Sat, Dec 8, 07 at 8:58
And DO be careful!!! To be redundant - big limbs are heavier than you might think, before you try to move one. I know you are safety conscious, but it only takes a minute (maybe more like a second) of inattention for something to go wrong. Be VERY aware of what is underfoot, move branches as soon as they are down, and be very careful when dragging branches away. I totally agree with Brandon - if you wonder whether a branch should come off for more than 30 seconds, leave it and look at it later - there is always another day! I have sometimes found myself caught up in the "take it off!" mode, and been sorry later - it's easy to do. I don't know what your weather has been like so can't say if burning is safe to do at the moment (Western SC isn't quite under a burn-ban, but close to it), but, while burning "slash" is an accepted practice, you can also make several piles out away from the house and leave the branches to rot over a number of years, providing shelter for birds and animals, and food in the form of the colonizing insects and grubs. Just be careful about the siting - you DON'T want to encourage bunnies and deer any closer to the house and your garden(s) (flower and veggies) than they will come on their own! Nor do you want to have a fire hazard close by. |
- Posted by N/A(firstname.lastname@example.com) onThu, Sep 22, 11 at 21:53
Can't prune trees from friction ladder unless you like falling off muthalicka |
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PerfMon connections problems resolved by disabling token passing
Article:TECH12571 | | | Created: 2006-02-21 | | | Updated: 2008-03-04 | | | Article URL http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH12571 |
During an attempt to connect to a monitor agent system with Performance Monitor, the following error occurs:
The Altiris Monitor Agent refused the connection ,"Unauthorized Request"
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During the connection to a Monitor Agent from the Performance Monitor UI (user interface), there is a security process which takes place called "token passing." To understand this sequence, a brief description of a PerfMon connection to an agent must be given.
From a system running the PerfMon UI, a request is made to connect to the defined Monitor Agent via the Monitor Solution Web Service (smservice.asmx), which resides on the Notification Server where Monitor Solution is installed. The Monitor Solution Web Service will send a token with random generated value to the Monitor Agent. The Monitor Agent returns this token with an equivalent value to the Monitor Solution Web service. A data pipe is then established over port 1011 for communication from the Monitor Solution Web Service to the Monitor Agent. The Monitor Solution Web Service acts as a proxy for the PerfMon UI.
At some point during this process, the token is not received or passed correctly from the Monitor Agent to the Monitor Solution Web Service and the connection is refused resulting in the error shown in the Problem page.
If you run our MSDebug.exe, you will find the following being recorded in the debug logs:
00004877 15:12:36 [5796] CMetricServer::AllocateSocket: new socket.
00004878 15:12:36 [5796] CRTMetricConnection::ProcessRequest: <request type="GetAllMetricNames" token="-136767768"></request>.
00004879 15:12:37 [5796] CAuthenticationBSC::IsAuthorized URLOpenStream failed, error=80070005 for Url=http://NS/Altiris/AeXMonitor/Agent/AgentService.asmx/ServerCheck?strTokenIn=-136767768
00004880 15:12:37 [5796] CRTMetricConnection::ProcessRequest Unauthorized request for token: -136767768.
00004881 15:12:37 [5796] CRTMetricConnection::Disconnected: Connection down.
The solution involves disabling the token passing process. This will remove a layer of security from the connection but should not compromise overall integrity.
The process to disable token passing is done via an edit to the AexSMAgentConfig table. For any Monitor Agent system, the lifeblood of functionality is the config.xml file. The config.xml file is created by the Monitor Solution Web Service from values in several Monitor Solution tables in the database. For this specific process of disabling token passing security, the AexSMAgentConfig table is the focus. Here are the steps for the table edit:
- In SQL Query Analyzer run the following query against your Altiris database, after obtaing the Guid of the "Monitor Solution > Windows > Windows Monitor Agent Configuration" policy in question. The default policy is called "All Windows Servers", however, if only a small amount of machines are affected by this, cloning this policy and modifying that one is a better option: SELECT [Xml] FROM AeXSMAgentConfig WHERE Guid = '<Guid of policy>'
Note: In your SQL Query Analyzer (for SQL 2000) go to Tools > Options and, under Results tab, change Maximum characters per column from "256" to "4096"as there are more than 256 characters for the XML column. - Copy and paste results returned into Notepad.
- Add <useSocketServerAuthorization>false</useSocketServerAuthorization> within the agent node of the output from the XML column. Here is an example of this edit, the operative command is highlighted and underlined:
<config><agent name="All Windows Servers" guid="{3e2c4414-a7d5-469f-a89c-1bc377168acc}" parentItemGuid="{9C6A9E32-31C8-44e3-B1E6-D0867FF16664}" solutionGuid="{E21E423F-BFA7-4477-9FA1-31C507BD2E6F}" collectionGuid="{9B1607CC-7837-4495-8385-5BD8F5C3C4F9}" classGuid="{FE7DCF5D-25DA-4034-90F1-BBCFCC7D9129}"><metricProviderThreads>20</metricProviderThreads><metricInitializationInterval>10</metricInitializationInterval><rulesInitializationInterval>5</rulesInitializationInterval><perfLogInterval>300000</perfLogInterval><logProcessInterval>300000</logProcessInterval><appDetectionInterval>3600000</appDetectionInterval><closeLogFileInterval>3600000</closeLogFileInterval><closeLogFileCleanupInterval>1</closeLogFileCleanupInterval><closedPerformanceLogsPath>.\ClosedLogs</closedPerformanceLogsPath><ruleEvaluationThreads>5</ruleEvaluationThreads><snmpCommunity>public</snmpCommunity><socketServerPort>1011</socketServerPort><MaximumConcurrentConnections>5</MaximumConcurrentConnections><hoursInProfileBucket>3</hoursInProfileBucket><metricProfiling>0</metricProfiling><metricUnavailableAlertOptions><logAction>NT Event Log</logAction><logAction>NS Event</logAction></metricUnavailableAlertOptions><databaseConnection><connectionString></connectionString><server>localhost</server><database>master</database><userName></userName><passWord></passWord></databaseConnection><useSocketServerAuthorization>false</useSocketServerAuthorization></agent><supportPrograms><program name="agentprofiler.exe"><programPath></programPath><interval>604800</interval></program><program name="AeXSMLogUpload.exe"><programPath></programPath><params><param name="perfLogUploadinterval">15</param><param name="disablePerfLogUpload">0</param><param name="storePerfLogInterval">60</param><param name="saveUploadedPerfLogs">0</param><param name="keepPerfLogs">0</param><param name="purgeStoredPerfLogPeriod">30</param></params></program><program name="AeXSMAppDetector.exe"><programPath></programPath></program></supportPrograms><metricConsumers><consumer name="StateMachine"><clsid>{1d52a666-f867-463e-bf49-3dd0254d1f35}</clsid><iid>{7e34f9e1-6530-4a8d-b17f-7c9e0f6af5b2}</iid></consumer><consumer name="SocketServer"><clsid>{e41fb57b-95b8-4cc9-b6c3-d0864bc69e9d}</clsid><iid>{77bcec91-a518-4db2-8d66-9fcbca377603}</iid></consumer></metricConsumers></config> - Copy the updated contents of XML (in step 3) to
Set [Xml] = '' (paste between the single quotes) in the command below.
- Run the following query against the NS's database:
UPDATE AeXSMAgentConfig
Set [Xml] = '<XML output>'
WHERE [Guid] = '{3e2c4414-a7d5-469f-a89c-1bc377168acc}'
It is advisable to reboot the Monitor Agent systems, but a Monitor Agent service restart will also force a new config.xml to be pulled down by the Monitor Agent with the token passing now disabled, and the PerfMon connection should now be functional. Simply requesting a new confoguration from the NSAgent will do the trick too.
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