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DOVER — Defendant Christina Thomas swore under oath Thursday she did not withhold food from the child she has been accused of starving intentionally for years in this case.
"Whether you want to, or anyone else wants to, believe that, I was doing everything I could for (the boy)," she said.
After more than four hours on the stand, under questioning from both her defense attorney, Steven Keable, and Deputy Strafford County Attorney Alysia Cassotis, Thomas stepped down teary-eyed, having just said she cared deeply for the victim and his biological mother.
Thursday marked the 11th day of Thomas' trial in Strafford County Superior Court in Dover. Thomas, 34, is charged with first-degree assault for allegedly starving the son of her friend from 2006 to 2010 in her New Durham home.
The boy weighed approximately 23 pounds when he was taken from the Thomas' residence and placed into foster care a few months before his seventh birthday.
For two hours Keable asked Thomas about her history and experiences with the boy, and at one point asked if the portrait painted by the state's witnesses in the last three weeks accurately portrayed her character. She said she is "not that person."
Under a line of intense questioning from Cassotis, Thomas also said she "didn't care" what anyone thought of her or her lifestyle.
"I don't care what they think," she said, referring to officials and representatives from the state. "Really, I'm who I am."
She also said she never "enslaved" the boy's mother and she never used physical force on her children or the victim.
The state was unable to call the defendant's 10-year-old son to the stand after Thomas informed the court he was out of state, in Jamaica Plain, Mass., for the day. The state said because the witness was unavailable, they would request the use of previous statements made by the boy in an interview to the state Division of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF). Judge John M. Lewis accepted the motion, informing Thomas her decision to have the child out of state the day he may have testified could have resulted in additional charges against her.
"There might even be criminal grounds here," he said.
A guardian ad litem for the family informed the court he believed even if the 10-year-old boy were present, he was too emotionally unstable to take the stand.
Thomas' 14-year-old son became argumentative on the stand as well. Cassotis asked him if it "sucks" being called to testify to which he replied, "The only thing that sucks is having to look at you."
In the 10-year-old's interview, which was read aloud by Cassotis, it was revealed Thomas' child, at age 6, told state investigators his mother would sometimes use a paddle and a spatula to spank some of her children as well as the victim. Thomas refuted the claims, stating she is "not that close" with that particular son. She testified she never used corporal punishment on her children in her opinion, though she said she spanked them from time to time with her hand.
Thomas testified also the boy's mother placed the victim in this case, now 9 years old, in a snow bank as punishment and called him racial slurs. It has been alleged that Thomas' mother, Peg Starr of New Durham, placed the boy in a snow bank, and she faces trial this spring on a charge of second-degree assault on the boy.
Thomas noted in her testimony she never used epithets against the boy, though she admitted on one occasion she became angry and swore at him for eating chicken feces in the yard of her home. That's when a chain link kennel was placed outside, she said.
At one point, Cassotis asked Thomas to remove her chewing gum when she testified, as some jurors complained it was hard to hear her.
Cassotis also asked Thomas about an event earlier in the day, when an employee in the Strafford County attorney's office reported she overheard the defendant on the phone yelling at Kevin Tulley, a man listed as a possible witness in the case. Tulley is a man Thomas described as her verbally abusive ex-boyfriend, who still lives in the home with her husband, who is also the father of two of her six children.
Cassotis informed Thomas it is against the law for her to discuss the case with anyone during the trial. Thomas said she did tell Tulley to return to the court to testify, or there would be consequences. She refuted Cassotis' colleague's claims that she told her ex-boyfriend in the court cafeteria over the phone she would not allow him to see his children ever again if he didn't appear.
It was also brought to the court's attention that another county attorney employee overheard Thomas on Wednesday informing her friend, Holly Kibuchi, in a court bathroom how to testify.
Thomas and her friend both denied they were discussing the case at that time. Under cross-examination, Cassotis asked Kibuchi if she understood what perjury means and if she knew she shouldn't be talking to a defendant in a case. Kibuchi told Keable under questioning she never saw Thomas punish the boy.
Thursday was an emotional day for the Thomas family as the defendant's 14-year-old son began to cry when Cassotis approached the stand to cross-examine him. Judge John M. Lewis called for a recess and Thomas walked over to her child and threw her arms around him — they held each other and cried together.
Thomas explained her frustrations with the victim in the case, noting how concerned she was when he would eat fecal matter left behind by animals and would vomit or ruminate several times a day. She said she wanted him to get better and she was concerned, even as Cassotis asked her why she reportedly waited nearly two years to return the child to the doctor's office for an emergency follow-up appointment. Thomas said she was flying back and forth between Colorado and New Durham and it was not possible then.
After Cassotis asked Thomas if she understood she had "a lot to lose," including her children and her freedom, Thomas began to tear up.
"This is so I can continue to raise my kids," she said.
After Cassotis' cross-examination, Keable asked Thomas if she loved the victim as one of her own children. She said she did.
"And did you make the best judgments you could as issues arose?" Keable asked.
"I tried," Thomas said softly, through tears.
The defense's list of witnesses will likely conclude today, with the state and defense having opportunities to call rebuttal witnesses. After that, Judge Lewis will provide the jurors with instructions before they decide on a verdict, which must be rendered unanimously. On Wednesday, Keable and Cassotis discussed a possibility with Lewis, where if the jury cannot unanimously convict Thomas on first-degree assault, for allegedly "knowingly" starving the boy, she may be charged with second-degree assault, which implies the suspect "recklessly" starved the child.
The trial began at 10 a.m. Thursday and concluded at about 5:15 p.m. in one of the longest sessions in the case yet. Judge Lewis thanked the jury for being patient, stating, "It is hard work to be on a jury."


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So now that you know what each talent is, does, and have a basic idea of when it's most effective, let's take a look at how to build a spec:
Step 1:
To start, plug in those mandatory 14 points:
- Twin Disciplines – 5
- Improved Inner Fire – 3
- Improved Power Word: Fortitude – 2* **
- Meditation – 3
- Inner Focus – 1
*PvEers: If you are 100% certain that another Priest in your raid will have Imp:Fort, and not mind buffing, and you REALLY feel the need for threat reduction, you can move these two points into Silent Resolve. I don't think it's worth it, but it is an option.
**PvPers: Choose Martyrdom rather than Imp:Fort.
Step 2:
Decide whether this is a Holy build, or a Discipline build. For this example, I'll walk you through my Holy spec, my reasons for each point, and where you could easily change it to suit yourself – and which changes wouldn't be as helpful.
Step 3:
Build it!
For Tier 1, take a look at your crit on your character screen. The idea here is that you want enough crit to get the mana saving goodness that is Surge of Light and Holy Concentration with reasonable reliability. Since Holy is largely a raid-healing spec, your three major raid-healing spells are Circle of Healing, Prayer of Mending, and Prayer of Healilng. CoH hits 5 people (6 if glyphed), ProM hits 5 (6 with 2-piece T7, assuming full duration), and ProH hits 5. If you have 2-piece T8, ProH gets 10% extra chance to crit.
Why does this matter?
Because in the first tier, Holy Specialization allows you a tremendous amount of control over the crit chance of your heals. Having around 20% crit unbuffed (25% fully raid buffed) gives you a 1-in-5 crit chance for each 5-target raid heal, with the raid buffs allowing some insurance. As with everything heal-related, you want to react as quickly as possible, and KNOWING that you will get a free, instant Flash Heal after every AoE allows you to plan ahead. If you have enough crit on your gear to get you to that threshold, you can start subtracting points from Holy Specialization. Personally, I like having the freedom to stack a bit more Spell Haste on my gear, so I choose to max out Holy Specialization so that my crit isn't lacking.
Next, take a look at a Recount, WWS, WoWmeter, or other combat log parse. How much do you Renew? A lot? A little? For more research, check out the uploaded combat logs for a guild that's farming the content your guild is learning. Do those Holy Priests use Renew? Often, if there's a huge discrepancy between a very successful guild, and a guild that's having trouble, a small strategy change can make a big difference for those new to the content. (I'm probably going to catch some flack for that – yes, the idea is that all Priests are individuals, and your spec should reflect that. My argument is that when evaluating the effectiveness of a particular spell, look ahead and see how effective it is for successful people in content that you plan to clear. Don't be so attached to your personal status quo that it prevents you from achieving your goals.)
If Renew is something you use, or plan to use, a lot, pick up the three points in Improved Renew.
Healing Focus – for this talent, consider the content your guild is working on. Are you having trouble keeping yourself and your assignment alive during Mimiron? This could be a great option. Aside from that, there just aren't many fights where the pushback will kill you, and you'll be too far away from a Paladin that could use Concentration Aura – or another healer that can help you until the danger has passed.
Tier 2 gives you even more wiggle room. Spell Warding will help you if you tend to die to spell damage. If you're building a spec specifically for Mimiron or Mimiron hard mode, this will help protect you from his Rapid Burst ability. However, it's five points that help NO ONE except you.
Divine Fury – points in this are a must if you still use Greater Heal a lot – more than can be helped by Serendipity, or if you also use your raid spec to solo quest grind. If neither of those are true, and you took points in Healing Focus, feel free to only put in two points. If you skipped healing focus, you have to put at least three points here to move forward. (Two will get you to tier 3, but you'll need 3 for tier 4 if you take Desperate Prayer, and 4 if you don't.)
Since I do all of my dailies in my Holy-raiding spec, I go ahead and max this out. It only costs me one extra point, which I steal from Improved Healing.
Tier 3 includes an easy decision: Max out Inspiration. Even though this is a raid-healing build, it's a guarantee that some of your AoE will land on the tank. Spreading the love around won't hurt the rest of the raid, either – if anything, it'll make your job easier.
Blessed Recovery won't help you in a raiding scenario, so skip it. (If you're getting critical melee hits regularly enough to take this, get yourself a new tank.)
Desperate Prayer is completely up to you, but I find it very useful. It's cheap, instant, has a short cooldown, can crit, and is a GREAT "Oh Sh–!!" button, especially now that pots are only once-per-fight.
In tier 4, since this is a healing build, forget about Searing Light.
To move forward, you'll need 5 points between Holy Reach and Improved Healing, or 4 if you also maxed out Divine Fury. Since Improved Healing only affects Greater Heal (which I use rarely these days) and Divine Hymn (Which I always Inner Focus), I give Holy Reach both points, and stick just 2 in Improved Healing for filler. (You could also completely bypass Improved Healing by putting these two points in Healing Focus.) In my opinion, that 5% savings on a heal I don't use often is less efficient than the extra radius on my AoE heals. (And I'm more comfortable putting that point into Divine Fury, where on the rare occassions I do need Greater Heal, it will be fast enough to be effective.) Although you'll run into many people who are perfectly comfortable with 1 point in Holy Reach, you will rarely see Holy builds that skip it entirely – you want CoH and ProH to have the chance to hit as many people as possible. If you skipped Healing Focus, you'll notice only 1 point in Improved Healing is needed to move forward. You can easily plug that point into Lightwell, Blessed Resilience, or Test of Faith later in the tree.
Once you reach Tier 5, maxing out Spiritual Guidance is a no-brainer, since it's a flat-out increase to your spell power. Similarly, don't skip Spirit of Redemption, since one point here buys you an extra 5% spirit. (Which, obviously, also increases your spell power in addition to your regen. It's also nice to not ever have to inform your raid leader when you need a battle-rez, since it will be glaringly obvious.) Your other choice in this layer is Healing Prayers, and since Prayer of Healing and Prayer of Mending each benefit from set bonuses, and the AoE damage in Ulduar encounters makes Prayer of Healing your work-horse spell, skipping Healing Prayers is mana-suicide. Max it out.
In tier 6, Spiritual Healing is a misnomer, since it has nothing to do with spirit, however, it's a straight up increase to the amount healed by all of your healing spells; max it out. Surge of Light is another talent where theorycrafters disagree: is one point sufficient, or are two required? Because I count on these procs, I max it out to ensure that I get them as often as possible. (And, really, why wouldn't you want more mana-free, castable-on-the-move heals that stack Serendipity and take advantage of Twin Disciplines? More to the point, where could that one point buy you more benefit?)
By now, you've got more than enough points in Holy to get you to Tier 8, but this part of the tree is thick with awesome points. Still in tier 7, Holy Concentration is one of the best talents we have to increase our mana-regen, and you'll find yourself gasping for water on longer fights without it. Combined with Surge of Light, this is one of the main reasons that crit is important for Priests these days. Take all 3 points. Lightwell, on the other hand, is a polarizing point. There are enough points in this particular spec that you can take it if you have trained your raid to use it properly, just either drop Divine Fury down to 4 points or Improved Healing down to two. Both of these will impact your Greater Heal (the former will nerf your cast time by .1 seconds, the latter will increase its mana cost by 5%.) Personally, I skip lightwell altogether.
Blessed Resilience used to be a strictly PvP talent. Then they re-worked it to "increase the effectiveness of your heals by 1% per rank." Which makes it viable for PvE, theoretically. Frequent plus heal poster Sindaga posted the math over on the Elitist Jerks Priest Compendium that shows how this works:
"Empowered Healing vs. Blessed Resilience (yes, the PvP talent)
Taking two examples for empowered healing (Flash Heal & Binding Heal); this is due to the very low amount of greater heal casting, personally, done in Ulduar 25 and 10-man. Each heal will be looked at with empowered healing or with blessed resilience. Calculations will be done with 3000 spell power (a very attainable goal with even just a couple ulduar upgrades). The formula used will be as follows:
Spell = [Average + (Spellpower * coefficient)]*(talent modifiers)
i) Calculations with Empowered Healing (w/ spiritual healing modifier)
Flash Heal = [2049.5 + (3000 * 0.9668)]*1.1
Flash Heal = 5445 healing average
Binding Heal = [2237.5 + (3000 *0.9668)]*1.1
Binding Heal = 5652 healing average
Greater Heal = [4300.5 + (3000 * 2.2256)]*1.1
Greater Heal = 12075 healing average
ii) Calculations with Blessed Resilience (w/ spiritual healing modifier)
Flash Heal = [2049.5 + (3000 * 0.8057)]*1.13
Flash Heal = 5047 healing average
Binding Heal = [2237.5 + (3000 *0.8057)]*1.13
Binding Heal = 4969 healing average
Greater Heal = [4300.5 + (3000 * 1.6111)]*1.13
Greater Heal = 10321 healing average
iii) Calculations with Blessed Resilience & Test of Faith (w/ spiritual healing modifier) – I found something interesting testing with Renew. If the spell is cast below 50%, the ticks (even if the health goes higher than 50%) stay with the 12% increased effectiveness.
Flash Heal = [2049.5 + (3000 * 0.8057)]*1.25
Flash Heal = 5583 healing average
Binding Heal = [2237.5 + (3000 *0.8057)]*1.25
Binding Heal = 5818 healing average
Greater Heal = [4300.5 + (3000 * 1.6111)]*1.25
Greater Heal = 11417 healing average
So those are some pretty plain numbers. If you find yourself casting greater heal more than once in a blue moon, perhaps stick with Empowered Healing. If you regularly find yourself not casting it at all during fights then a spec for better output would first put the 5 points from empowered healing to 3/3 blessed resilience and then 2/3 Test of Faith.
Justification for taking test of faith is it provides more healing to those targets who need more health." — Sindaga
The bottom line here is that putting 3 points in Blessed Resilience along with 2 in Test of Faith increases the amount healed on targets below 50% by a significant amount. If you're looking to take advantage of Test of Faith in the next layer of the tree, it's a good idea to pair it with Blessed Resilience – and you can easily take the points from Empowered Healing to make that happen. It's entirely a play-style dependent call, and I personally prefer the constant levels of healing provided by Empowered Healing to the low-health dependent benefits of Test of Faith.
Moving into tier 8, you'll find some of your decisions have already been made, due to the preceding math. If you decided to put Sindaga's 3 points into Blessed Resilience, you have already decided to skip Empowered Healing. If you decided against the BR/ToF combo, you'll max it out instead. The other talents in this layer are Serendipity and Body and Soul. Although I've read some arguments that the self-poison cleanse is useful on the more poison-heavy encounters in Ulduar, if your Shamans, Druids, and Paladins are doing their jobs, you won't need Body and Soul. Serendipity, on the other hand, plays a major role in making Holy a more synergistic healing spec. Layering spell haste for your bigger heals is a huge part of the raid-healing strategies for fights like Ignis, Deconstructor, Freya, and Mimiron. My typical heal pattern takes careful advantage of this: Inner Focus-Prayer of Healing -> Surge of Light-Flash Heal -> Binding Heal -> Circle of Healing -> Surge of Light-Flash Heal -> Serendipitous- Prayer of Healing -> Surge of Light-Flash Heal…. into infinity, peppered with Prayer of Mendings and Renews as much as possible, both of which provide extra Surge of Light procs, and, therefore, free layers of Serendipity to haste my next Prayer of Healing. Make sure you take maximum advantage of Serendipity.
Like tier 8, you've already made quite a few decisions regarding tier 9, without realizing it: If you picked up Improved Renew in tier 1, you would shortchange yourself to skip Empowered Renew. When you decided to build Holy, you decided to take Circle of Healing, (I know there was a lot of noise about avoiding it when they added the 6 second cool down, but with its coefficient balanced to reflect the cooldown, the glyph to increase it to 6 targets, and its ability to proc Surge of Light, skipping Circle of Healing would be foolish.) And when you decided between Empowered Healing and Blessed Resilience, you decided whether you would take Test of Faith as part of the Blessed Resilience package. If you're following my build, take all three in Empowered Renew, Circle of Healing, and skip Test of Faith.
For tiers 10 & 11, you'll notice you have exactly 6 points left. Finish out your spec by finishing out the tree with 5 points in Divine Providence, and the last into Guardian Spirit.
This is my completed spec – and I fully expect as many detractors as I do compliments. Lightwell may work for you and your raid, or perhaps you think I'm foolish to finish out Divine Fury rather than taking Healing Focus. I'd love to hear about tweaks that you make (and how they work for you), but for me this is my perfect spec – Renew-heavy, allowing me to stack haste, and with Desperate Prayer the only concession to keeping myself alive rather than focusing on my raid.
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On the Job: Workers' happiness rubs off on profits
Umpqua Bank has earned accolades as a great place to work and delivers for shareholders, too.
In the past five years, the financial industry has taken a drubbing.
Plunging profits, allegations of improper behavior, customer backlash against rising fees and massive layoffs have challenged the industry.
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But various sources list one bank as a best place to work, and its practices may provide a blueprint to other companies on how to keep workers engaged even during tough times.
Umpqua Bank (UMPQ), based in Roseburg, Ore., has earned accolades not only for its profitability and business practices but also for its community commitment and employee loyalty.
It has $12 billion in assets and reported $101.2 million in net earnings last year, an increase of almost 37% from 2011.
"We hang our hat on our culture," says Michelle Van Allen, head of training for Umpqua. "We've been very honest and transparent with the public and with our employees when we've faced challenges. We make sure we keep our people looking forward to the future."
One of the biggest incentives for employees isn't the pay, but the volunteer service program that pays full-time workers for 40 hours of community service and part-time workers for 20 hours of service, says Eve Callahan, senior vice president of the bank's Connect Volunteer Network. Last year, 2,175 bank employees volunteered 46,730 hours to 1,757 organizations in four states.
Many of the entries in the bank's database of 3,000 nonprofits come from Umpqua employees who add charities that appeal to their interests, Van Allen says.
"The whole thing has just taken on a life of its own" and employees say the volunteer service is the employee benefit they value the most, she says.
2009: Umpqua takes over failing bank during financial crisis
"We have a 93% participation rate in our volunteer program," she says, noting that's about triple the national average for other employer-supported service activities.
Barbara Baker, executive vice president in charge of cultural enhancement, says the bank shows its commitment to the towns where it has branches through its community service, and that helps deepen the commitment of employees to their employer.
Another key for Umpqua that other organizations can learn from is the bank's consistent commitment to recruiting, training and retaining workers who are willing and able to live the company culture, Baker says.
"Some people may think we're corny, but we think it's a fun environment," she says. Fortune gave the company kudos for its morning games and motivation huddles.
Applicants are not only screened for skills and cultural fit but they must get "four thumbs up" from four Umpqua employees in various departments and at different levels, Baker says.
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"We have very defined questions to find out if the person is a good fit," Van Allen says. "It's not just a guess on someone's part. We're very specific."
Beyond that, Baker says she also looks at "job satisfiers" as potential employees. When she asks an applicant for a teller position what that person most likes doing in a job, Baker says she's looking for answers such as "helping solve problems" or "helping other people."
"If they give those kinds of answers, then I go 'bingo!' I know that's exactly what we're looking for in that position," she says.
Once hired, employees receive continual career development opportunities, which workplace experts often cite as a key way to engage and retain talent.
"In our annual review process, the biggest discussion is about advancement," Baker says. "We're asking them, 'Where are you going?' "
The commitment to careful screening of applicants and the career development opportunities that help retain workers are "why we say that Umpqua is hard to get into and hard to get out of," Baker says.
The best advice Baker says she has for other employers hoping to retain and motivate workers is to "make sure your people know they are your most important assets."
"The best way to do that is to invest in them," she says. "Make it fun, make them feel valued, recognize them, pay them fairly and their passion will shine through."
Anita Bruzzese is author of 45 Things You Do That Drive Your Boss Crazy ... and How to Avoid Them, www.45things.com. Twitter: @AnitaBruzzese.


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Monday, July 20, 2009
June 24, 1967 El Camino Park, Palo Alto: "Palo Alto Be-In" Grateful Dead/Big Brother And The Holding Company/Anonymous Artists Of America
References to this concert have appeared off and on in Deadbase over the years, and sometimes in other lists (such as Dead.net) as "undated June 1967." I have seen a grainy photo from the event, but on the whole this show has slipped through the cracks of Grateful Dead scholarship. As the last of the 1967 "Be-Ins," and the Grateful Dead's first concert in the town where the band was formed, the El Camino Park Be-In deserves a higher profile.
El Camino Park was an athletic field across from both The Stanford Shopping Center and 'El Palo Alto' (the tall tree that gave the city its name). The Park (at 100 El Camino Real) was at the intersection of Palo Alto Avenue, Alma Street and El Camino Real at the Palo Alto/Menlo Park border, and within easy walking distance of downtown. It is Palo Alto's oldest park, first open in 1914.
After the initial "Human Be-In" in Golden Gate Park (on January 14, 1967), The Diggers, the Grateful Dead and other like-minded souls were holding Be-Ins in the Bay Area and around the continent. There were Be-Ins (or similar events) in Los Angeles (Griffith Park), New York (Tompkins Square) and Vancouver (Stanley Park), for example, and around the Bay Area in Berkeley (Provo Park), San Jose (10th and Alma) and finally Palo Alto. The Palo Alto event was the last of these events, and while no one has ever specifically claimed responsibility for its organization, it does seem that it was intended to cap a brief era that had begun only a half-mile away at Perry Lane.
The date is not an absolute certainty, but can be triangulated from the Dead's schedule (eyewitness David Biasotti saw Jimi Hendrix in Golden Gate Park the next day, so the event was on a Saturday). It was a nice day, and there were a few thousand people present, but it was not a large crowd. While Palo Alto's leading hippies were migrating North to San Francisco or West to the Santa Cruz Mountains, the scene's beginnings were still present. Palo Alto, while unhip, was a tolerant town and seemed perfectly willing to allow revelry to take place in a city park on a weekend afternoon. My father, not interested in rock music per se, but having the foresight to recognize cultural touchstones when they occurred in his town, took his whole family—I was nine years old. I mainly recall Bill Kreutzmann's psychedelically painted drum set, and my younger sister getting her face painted by nice hippie girls. My older sister recalls the Dead playing "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl."
Woodside High School graduate David Biasotti recalls that The Sons of Champlin played with a horn section, rare for them at that time. Other witnesses recall Tim Leary's presence. The Anonymous Artists of America lived in a commune in the Santa Cruz Mountains, near the notorious Kesey spread, and the Pranksters had willed them the famous "Thunder Machine." The AAA were a loose aggregation, and one of the members was Jerry Garcia's ex-wife, Sara Ruppenthal Garcia (although she may have left the group by this time).
For those familiar with the saga of the borrowed amplifiers used for Monterey Pop (a story retailed by Joel Selvin and Rock Scully in their books, among others), this was almost certainly one of the events where the "borrowed" equipment from the Festival was used before it was returned. Ken Kesey's parties on Perry Lane (today the site of Oak Creek Apartments) had begat psychedelia, and The Warlocks performances at Magoo's Pizza had begat the Grateful Dead, and just a few years later, the former Palo Alto band anchored what may have been the biggest concert in Palo Alto up to that time.
Palo Alto continued to have a number of free concerts in El Camino Park through the next 18 months, although none of the groups were as high profile as The Dead or Big Brother. At least two were headlined by the Steve Miller Band (in Fall 1967 and August 1968), then a popular regional group, but hardly underground legends. After 1968, Palo Alto pretty much gave up concerts in El Camino Park, and save for one Jerry Garcia/Kingfish/Rowans gig on June 8, 1975 (not a free show), the park has been rock-free ever since.
Crossposted at Rock Prosopography 101.
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I was there! A 13 year old teenybopper.ReplyDelete
I was also at this event and while I remember the Dead and AAA, Big Brother did not perform, at least not while I was there. Jerry was wearing those patchwork jeans that appear in a photo in one of the GD photo collections (which photo I always assumed was from the El Camino Park event, but perhaps not).ReplyDelete
A number of people recalled different things over the years about who played. Although I myself was only there for a short time, I think that the event was quite long, with a lot of "down time." Many people I have talked to remember a band or two, but not all of them, which would make sense.ReplyDelete
I still have no sense whether the Dead played earlier or later in the afternoon.
Well I went to one of those concerts at El Camino Park - I think it was the '68 concert. I seem to recall that the name of the headliner was the Steve Miller Blues Band and then name of the rhythm guitarist was a skinny blond guy name Boz Skaggs. I was in a band at the time called "Sweet Smoke".ReplyDeleteReplies
Robert, I think you may be referring to the Sep 29 '68 MFU Be-In. Steve Miller headlined, and a then-unknown Carlos Santana dropped in to jam. Some pictures of the show can be seen here: http://cryptdev.blogspot.com/2010/09/mfu-be-in-el-camino-park-palo-alto.htmlDelete
Was Sweet Smoke a San Jose band? Didn't Sweet Smoke play the San Jose Be-In in May, 1967, with Country Joe and The Fish. Was Sweet Smoke's bass player named Jerry Bradley? If I am recalling it correctly, Sweet Smoke used CJF's equipment, and he blew out the bass player's amp.
there are about 145 pictures from this event ..one of the best photo-documented gigs of the old deadReplyDeleteReplies
hanwaker, thanks for this information. In the intervening years I have seen a few photos from the El Camino Park Be-In, but I had no idea there were so many. Are the photos accessible anywhere? Have you seen them? It would be very interesting to see shots of the other bands and/or speakers--Tim Leary may have been there, for example--and also to see crowd shots.Delete
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leary is nowhere pictured .. the dead were the 3rd band on the bill acc to the photos two bands played before them.. you can get quite a nice story out of the pictures
AAA played after the dead it was all during daylight
Thanks to some great research by JGMF in the Stanford Daily of July 4, 1967, we now know the actual date of the Palo Alto Be-In was July 2, 1967,ReplyDelete
I was there, such a great peaceful place for concerts...I lived two blocks away. One of my dearest memories, tripping in the park!ReplyDelete
I was there, such a great peaceful place for concerts...I lived two blocks away. One of my dearest memories, tripping in the park!ReplyDelete


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That plus an error by Jason Kubel led to a five-run fourth inning for the Pirates as they beat the D-backs, 6-5, on a rare chilly night at Chase Field.
The loss was the second in a row for the D-backs, who will try to avoid a sweep in Wednesday afternoon's series finale.
McCarthy (0-1) was tagged for six runs (four earned) on 10 hits in 6 2/3 innings.
"That's as well as I've thrown a baseball in my professional career, without a doubt, and I absolutely felt like I was able to do everything I wanted to," McCarthy said. "I just think we got into a routine there and we weren't able to change gears fast enough. Too many pitches that with two strikes we weren't changing things up enough. I've got to be smart out there and shake and mix things up more the way we did the fifth through the seventh inning than we did the first few."
It was a tale of two outings for McCarthy, because after the five-run fourth, he was able to shut the Pirates down.
"After he gave up the five runs, we talked about some things," D-backs manager Kirk Gibson said. "He used all of his pitches better, threw the ball much better. He got [ticked] off and started using all four of his pitches. Just much more effective, that's what he has to do."
McCarthy only allowed one more hit the rest of the way before leaving with two outs in the seventh after throwing 115 pitches.
"If we could do that game over again, it would be entirely different," McCarthy said referring to himself and catcher Miguel Montero. "It's just one of those where sometimes you're just a little slow to react there. I was executing a lot of pitches and they were putting things in holes and some things, so you don't want to overreact too much, but if we could do it again and I think next time out, we'll see it much sooner if it's time to change and go into a different lane here to get results."
After the Pirates scored a run in the first, the D-backs seemed like they were going to take control of the game with a four-run bottom of the first that include a two-run double by Montero and a two-run homer by Kubel.
The game, though, turned in the fourth, which started off poorly for the D-backs when Pedro Alvarez ripped a line drive to right that bounced off Kubel's glove, allowing Alvarez to reach base.
Starling Marte delivered a two-run double later in the inning, while Neil Walker had a go-ahead two-run single and Garrett Jones chipped in an RBI single.
"It definitely felt good more than anything else, to help the team take the lead back," Walker said. "That was a big moment in the game."
The Marte and Jones hits were especially frustrating for McCarthy because they came on 0-2 pitches.
"That's where it gets really bad," McCarthy said. "The way I throw strikes, there are so many guys running 0-2, 1-2 counts, and if those turn into hits and they're not guaranteed outs -- or at least a high percentage of strikeouts -- it just kind of invalidates the pitches I threw before. They just become a waste of time. A lot of it is just me trying to not throw such a good strike with two strikes and expanding the zone and wasting something."
McCarthy has allowed 12 runs (10 earned) in 11 2/3 innings over his two starts. Not the way he wanted to begin his D-backs tenure after signing a two-year contract this winter.
"A lot of these hitters are new to me, so I'm kind of feeling my way through and it's been made pretty well clear the first two games, we're throwing a lot of strikes doing things and the results aren't there," he said. "It's because we're not attacking it the right way. There is nothing more frustrating than this. This is as bad as it gets."
Pirates starter James McDonald allowed just one hit after struggling through the first and was removed following a leadoff walk in the sixth.
The D-backs did manage one run in the seventh, but they squandered scoring opportunities throughout the night, going 2-for-11 with runners in scoring position.
Steve Gilbert is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Inside the D-backs, and follow him on Twitter @SteveGilbertMLB.


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A typical utility typically answers customer calls for a few typical reasons—someone's power is out, their bill is too high, they're moving, etc.
What if a customer called seeking advice? Questions on energy efficiency are pretty simple to deal with. But beyond that, what if a customer wanted advice on managing their energy use and, thus, their bill? What if your customer has questions around electric vehicles, solar panels, phantom load? What would you tell them?
Well, at Ameren Missouri, a customer service representative might transfer that call to one of the utility's new "energy advisors," who could answer a raft of questions about home energy use and management strategies. These advisors can view the customer's energy use data, access an in-house, subject matter expert if the question is complicated and apprise the caller that there's a wealth of related information on the utility's website—including the ability to set up an account for viewing individual energy use information, with year-on-year graphical comparisons. A tool, developed in-house, tracks the number of questions an energy advisor can't answer, forwards the question to the appropriate subject matter expert and tracks metrics that can be used to improve energy advisor training and Web-based content.
What began as an initiative involving a dozen CSRs out of a team of perhaps 180 has grown to three dozen, with plans to train all CSRs to become conversant in residential energy issues, according to Sandi Spurbeck, Ameren Missouri's manager of customer service. The goal is to gain customers' trust as a source of good advice, to provide solid information and to begin transitioning customers to self-service via the Web.
If that sounds like a program you'd like to hear more about, Spurbeck will be presenting at the 2012 AGA/EEI Customer Service Conference & Exposition in Fort Worth this week.
The Ameren Missouri homepage includes a set of "Quicklinks" for the customer service center, energy advisor, construction services, energy efficiency, etc. Click on "energy advisor" and there's a banner that flashes "Find Your Answers" and provides information on electric vehicle charging, solar photovoltaics and CFLs. Below are fixed icons that offer services such as "Learning Center," "What's New" and "Saving Tips." Just below those are topical icons for renewables, solar, rebates and incentives, smart grid, electric vehicles and "Energy Team Advisors."
While Ameren Missouri's CSR team's primary focus has been billing, the utility's customers are "hungry for more," Spurbeck told me this week. A couple of good reasons why: while residential customers have grasped energy efficiency measures, the advent of a smarter grid and distributed generation such as electric vehicles as well rooftop solar has produced a lot of new questions.
Within the customer service bailiwick at Ameren Missouri, those 180 CSRs get split up into subgroups that deal with a variety of subtopics such as construction, business center, etc. That was the old model. The new model is to make every CSR into that trusted energy advisor who can engage and inform customers.
How has the effort affected the metrics that call centers are evaluated on, such as "average handle time," the number of callbacks and the utility-wide metric, customer satisfaction ratings?
Spurbeck pointed out that in initial measurements of "average handle time," calls handled by energy advisors tend to be longer than average CSR calls, which is intuitive, given that more qualitative exchanges are occurring. But the longer term expectation is that callbacks will be reduced, customer satisfaction will rise and as the customer base gets more savvy, the utility expects to see greater use of web-based information self-service, according to Spurbeck.
In the future, the "energy advisor" training will be applied to employees across the organization so that when they're active in their communities they can field questions from neighbors and anyone with a question regarding the utility.
Sure, there were lessons learned as Ameren Missouri implemented its energy advisor training and the parallel work on providing as expert advice via its website.
"The biggest lesson learned was expect the unexpected," Spurbeck said. "We made a lot of changes to our website to support this program. Having correct, pertinent information required multiple internal reviews before we went public."
Another lesson: rolling out such a program in a period when you expect high call volume can tie up your phone lines. At Ameren Missouri, which issues 1.2 million bills each month on a staggered basis, the postcard bills offered the utility's primary, toll-free phone number and the energy advisor phone number. When customers encountered waiting times on the primary number, they deluged the energy advisor number with traditional issues. Since then the utility has removed the energy advisor phone number from the bill.
Phil Carson
Intelligent Utility Daily
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