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Module 1:
Policy and Process
- Introduction
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- Team Project Introduction
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Module 2:
Visual Character
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Module 2: Visual Character
Lesson 9: Visual Character
Welcome to Module 2 Part B
Welcome to Part B of Module 2 of the Visual Impact Assessment course produced by the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) with support from the University of California at Davis (UC Davis) for the training of selected employees of Caltrans. It is now available on-line to anyone interested in how Caltrans conducts visual impact assessments.
The presentation you are about to view is the conclusion of the second module of a three-module on-line training course. Module 1 and Part A of Module 2 precede this presentation. If you have advertently started with this module, you may wish to review these two presentations before beginning Part B of Module 2.
In Part A of Module 2, you learned how to dissect the structure of the landscape into "outdoor rooms" or visual assessment units. Now you are about to learn how to decipher the visual character of those rooms and who are the viewers most likely to visit them.
Lesson 9 Visual Character
First let's look at what the FHWA calls Visual Character as Lesson 9.
Visual Character
We are going to divide the lesson on visual character into four topics. First we will examine the FHWA's basic definition of visual character—that it is composed of pattern elements and pattern character. We will then examine pattern elements—these are the artistic attributes inherent in the elements that compose a landscape. We will also explore the term pattern character, these describe the artistic relationships between the elements that compose a landscape. Finally we will practice our understanding of these terms, pattern elements and pattern character, by working together on an exercise that explores the concept of visual character.
But before we do, a few comments about the repetitive use of the same words to label different attributes of the landscape—it's confusing! At least many people who took this course in a classroom thought it was. Keeping track of differences between pattern character and landscape character or between pattern elements from pattern character is confusing. We all wish the FHWA VIA process differentiated between words better but unfortunately it does not. Therefore, the best way to avoid confusion is to completely understand the terms and to use them precisely—to use them exactly as the authors of the FHWA process intended to have them used. If all of us writing VIAs for Caltrans use these terms in the same way, the confusion will start to disappear. Hopefully, the following lesson will help you understand these terms and give you confidence in your ability to use these terms correctly.
Understanding Visual Character
Visual Character is composed of what the FHWA calls pattern elements and pattern character. Visual Character is one tool an author of a VIA uses to describe the visual nature of visual assessment units. Later in the process, visual character will be used to explain and qualify visual quality and visual impacts.
Understanding Visual Character
Visual character, as defined by the FHWA, is simply the combining of the pattern elements found in a landscape with that landscape's pattern character.
Pattern Elements are artistic attributes intrinsic to the items that compose a scene. In the picture shown on this slide, it could be said, "In autumn, roadside aspen turn a vibrant yellow." Color is an example of an intrinsic artistic element or what the FHWA labels as a pattern element. In this picture, yellow is a pattern element.
Pattern Character describes the artistic relationships with other items in the scene. Again in the picture shown on this slide, it could be stated that "The vibrant yellow aspen along the roadside dominate the scene." Dominance is an example of an artistic relationship or what the FHWA calls pattern character. That one element is dominant is this image's pattern character.
Visual Character would simply put the two statements together: "In autumn, the vibrant yellow aspen along the roadside dominate the other colors that compose this wilderness scene."
Pattern Elements
Let's take a closer look at pattern elements by giving some examples, refining the definition, and making adjustments to that definition depending on circumstances in the next few slides.
Pattern Elements
The FHWA guidance provides four examples of the types of intrinsic qualities that generate pattern elements that can be found in landscapes. The four they identify are: form, line, color, and texture. The list was not meant to be inclusive, exclusive, or otherwise limiting. In fact the FHWA suggests that there may be other artistic attributes that the author of a VIA may want to include. Not surprisingly, since these are the four that are listed, these are the four attributes that are usually discussed in a VIA. But, again, other artistic attributes can be considered, such as lighting, shading or tone.
Pattern Elements
The term pattern element is applied to the artistic description of the individual elements of a composition. It is a term from the field of Art Theory. Pattern elements are considered objective attributes that are intrinsic to the element. They are best used as descriptive modifiers of visual quality, as we will see later.
Pattern Elements
Although pattern elements are intrinsic and therefore objective, their appearance varies by season or even time of day. The author of a VIA needs to communicate these seasonal or daily changes when writing a VIA. In the example previously shown for color, the aspen may be a non-descript and undifferentiating green for most of the growing season, only to turn a vibrant and eye- catching yellow in the fall when they not only can be differentiated from other aspects of the scene but they come to dominate the scene. Describing only a typical summer scene in a VIA would miss this attribute of the corridor's landscape character—and perhaps one of the reasons such routes are frequently traveled in the autumn of the year.
Pattern Character
Let's now look at the term Pattern Character. Again in subsequent slides we will show examples, refine the definition, and make adjustments to pattern character based on different environments or observers.
Pattern Character
The FHWA identifies four types of pattern character: dominance, diversity, scale, and continuity. Of course there are other artistic relationships that contribute to visual character, such as the concept of balance. The author of a VIA can determine what artistic relationships are important to discuss for the project under consideration and need not limit the discussion to the four identified by the FHWA as examples.
Pattern Character
Whatever terms the author uses, they should describe an artistic relationship between the elements that compose the landscape. Pattern character, just like pattern elements, is most useful as a descriptive modifier of visual quality.
Like the term pattern elements, the term pattern character, is from art theory. If you are particularly interested in understanding art theory in greater detail, a few books on the subject are listed in Resources for CEQA and Caltrans VIA Process under the heading, Selected Books on Aesthetics and Visual Impact Assessments.
Pattern Character
Like pattern elements, the relationships that form a landscape's pattern character are not necessarily constant; their appearance varies by season or even time of day. The author of a VIA needs to communicate these seasonal or daily changes when writing a VIA.
Returning to the image of the aspen, dominance changes by season, only becoming dominant in the fall when it changes color and becomes differentiated from surrounding green mass. But it may be this dominance of fall color that generates interest in the corridor from tourists. It is essential for the author of a VIA to describe more than just a typical summer day.
Practicing Technical Skills
Let's do a class exercise together to better comprehend these concepts and practice our technical skills. We'll walk through the class exercise. Then we'll draw some conclusions based on the exercise. Then apply the conclusions to our team project.
Practicing Technical Skills
To do the exercise, click on Exercise 4 - Evaluating Visual Character and print out the two-page worksheet.
Practicing Technical Skills
We are going to look at three images and describe their visual character using the concepts of pattern elements (that is, its intrinsic artistic attributes) and pattern character (that is, the artistic relationships between elements).
Practicing Technical Skills
First let's look at the visual character of the existing scene in this "before" image.
Do you see any pattern elements—any intrinsic artist attributes? What sorts of lines exist in this image? What colors occur? Forms? Is there any texture? This covers the four attributes identified by the FHWA. Do you see anything else? What about lighting, tones, shading?
Second let's analyze the picture for its pattern character. What do you see in terms of dominance, scale, diversity, and continuity? Are there other attributes of pattern character, such as balance?
During the classroom discussions, people noticed the curved line that forms the road and the yellow and white lines that trace it. Some people were very methodical and divided the image into a grid to measure what was dominant, usually concluding that green dominated the scene. There were comments on texture. On the sign. What do you see?
Interestingly, there always seemed to be a few people in each class that would not like the location from which this picture was taken. They suggested that view shown is not a view a driver or passenger would likely see—it is taken from the wrong side of the road. Others would counter that it might be the view a walker would have on the corridor. But there aren't any walkers, would come the retort. Then again, there aren't any drivers in this image either would be the response.
Perhaps you are asking similar questions. This is an issue of picking a key view. This key view allows us to see around the bend. In reality a driver traveling 45 miles-a-hour—the posted speed—would quickly see around the corner, also. What is it you are trying to simulate in two-dimensions—the exact view, or the experience, of a driver? To better capture the experience many simulations are not always what a driver actually is capable of seeing at any one time. Picking a key view is tricky and the appropriate location is dependent upon what you are trying to analyze as an author.
Many people prefer to pick a key view from the driver's perspective believing that it is the most accurate way to depict a particular scene. Perhaps. But what you don't see in a particular view may be as important as what is seen. Remember what you pick to analyze must be representative of the corridor. To help you develop your analysis, we suggest that you ask yourself if the image is representative and then document why you picked the location you did.
Practicing Technical Skills
Now do the same thing for the simulated image called Alternative A.
First describe its pattern elements (line, form, texture, color). Then its pattern character (dominance, scale, diversity, continuity). Are there other attributes of pattern elements and pattern character that contribute to the visual character of this proposed alternative? Perhaps additional attributes you identified for the existing image?
In the classroom, people commented on how many more curving lines there were than in the image of the existing corridor—the retaining wall, the traffic barrier, the guardrail, even the more distinct pavement and pavement markings accentuated the curve of the road more than it had previously been shown. Constructed objects now tended to dominate the scene more in this image than they did in the image of the existing scene.
One thing that many people questioned was the use of cars in the simulation. They noted how the cars blocked much of what may be considered an intrusion by many—the guardrail. They noticed that the cars were new—as new as the road—and these subtle changes may influence how people evaluate this alternative.
These criticisms of the simulation are appropriate if the cars and the "newness" of the roadway are, in fact, unduly affecting judgments. It is very important for the author of the VIA (and for the creator of the simulations) to try to avoid inadvertently prejudicing the analysis.
Practicing Technical Skills
Now do the same thing for the simulated image called Alternative B.
First describe its pattern elements (line, form, texture, color). Then its pattern character (dominance, scale, diversity, continuity). Are there other attributes of pattern elements and pattern character that contribute to the visual character of this proposed alternative? Perhaps additional attributes you identified for the existing image?
Visually, most people seeing this image in the classroom would describe it as being more unified—the retaining wall and the traffic barrier were now constructed from the same stone-pattern formliner—the unity increased the dominance of built forms over the natural landscape was the conclusion of many viewers. What do you think?
Practicing Technical Skills
First let's look at the visual character of the existing scene in this "before" image.
Do you see any pattern elements—any intrinsic artist attributes? What sorts of lines exist in this image? What colors occur? Forms? Is there any texture? This covers the four attributes identified by the FHWA. Do you see anything else? What about lighting, tones, shading?
Follow the directions on this slide. Using your notes from page 1 of this exercise, describe and rate the compatibility of the visual character of each alternative with the Visual Character of the existing scene.
Review the following set of comparative slides. Record your answers on the second page of the worksheet.
Practicing Technical Skills
Review your notes on the first page of this exercise. Based on the information you have listed, write a short narrative on the second page of the exercise discussing the compatibility (and incompatibility) of the Visual Character of Alternative A with the Visual Character the existing scene. Then numerically rate their compatibility on a seven point scale (from - 3.5 to + 3.5). Record your measurement on the bar graph on page 2.
The measurement is your own—there are no standard or absolute ratings to guide you. The measurements are merely relative—they are simply used to compare alternatives. Nonetheless, it is helpful to be consistent. A preferred strategy for assigning a numerical rating is to avoid assigning the first set numbers at the extreme ends of the scale. This gives you flexibility to judge the compatibility of the next set of images better as or worse than the first set without getting too involved with fractions.
Practicing Technical Skills
Do the same thing for Alternative B.
Frequently, someone in the classroom suggested that additional aspects of the two solutions we are comparing should be weighed. For example, we should consider the difficulty small creatures may have in crossing Alternative B versus Alternative A. Knowing that the ability for animals to migrate can be crucial to particular species, some people argued that unity doesn't matter, the health of animals and the viability of ecosystems are more critical.
It is true that ecological issues may in some cases trump visual issues. In other cases visual issues may coincide with ecological or social or even economic issues. However, it is important for the landscape architect to stay focused only on visual issues in the VIA. The environmental generalist will merge and weigh the influence of each issue in the environmental document. It is the responsibility of the landscape architect to present visual issues with clarity and to verify that visual issues are presented correctly by the environmental generalist in the environmental document.
Practicing Technical Skills
Answer the three questions on a blank sheet of paper.
Notice what you have accomplished in this exercise. You have removed opinion from the discussion of visual character. You didn't say the visual character was great! Instead you merely described the existing scene using artistic terms. Then using the same terms, you described an alternative. Next you compared the alternatives, essentially asking how far removed is the proposed landscape from the existing landscape? And is one alternative more removed than another?
Very analytical. Very objective.
The environmental document may or may not need all the detail but the conclusions become important—even if they are embedded in other discussions for both the VIA and the environmental document. Usually the primary difference is one of the level to which detail is reported. The environmental document, of course, has the advantage of being able to refer to the VIA, thus allowing for more brevity.
Practicing Technical Skills
Now let's apply these ideas to your team project. Click on Team Project (Part 3) - Visual Character and print out a worksheet for each alternative you are examining.
Practicing Technical Skills
Select a Key View on the alternative or alternatives you are studying. These selected Key Views should be views from the road. We will now apply what we just learned in the previous exercise to the Team Project.
Practicing Technical Skills
Follow the directions on the slide. Be sure to label which alternative and which key view you are studying on the worksheet.
Use the map, narrative, and photographs to give you clues about the visual character of the existing scene at your chosen key view. Be sure to use only the concepts of pattern elements and pattern character to describe visual character. Report your conclusions on the worksheet as a short narrative.
Practicing Technical Skills
On the second page of the worksheet, describe, as a short narrative, the compatibility (and incompatibility) of the Visual Character of your selected alternative(s) with the Visual Character of the existing route.
At the bottom of the second page of the worksheet, rate the compatibility or incompatibility of the Visual Character of your selected alternative(s) with the Visual Character of the existing route by giving it a number between -3.5 and +3.5.
Practicing Technical Skills
Please click on FHWA VIA Process – Concept Diagram Worksheet and print out this worksheet.
Follow the directions on this slide. Fill in the upper left blue box on the worksheet with the rating you have for your selected alternative.
Remember this is a rating for only one visual assessment unit.
Visual Character Summary
This completes the presentation on visual character. We will be using the concepts we have learned again in the next module (Module 3) when we discuss visual quality and visual impacts. Now we are about to shift focus from visual resources (the blue boxes in the FHWA diagram) to viewers (the yellow boxes). We will return to visual resources in Module 3.


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"He looked like something had taken him over," Janene says of the confession. "I just think he had some kind of psychotic break. Everything about his face was completely different -- like he totally just snapped."
Methodically, Drisdel strode into the pink-tiled bathroom, undressed and sat down in the green bathtub. He washed the blood off himself, got out and cleaned the tub. Then he put on clean clothes and left.
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Kovack's ex-boyfriend Jon Jackson lived with her until last September and was the first civilian to see the apartment after the police were through. Based on what he saw, Jackson surmises that the encounter began with Kovack making dinner for her guest: There were two bowls of pasta with olive oil on the coffee table in the front room.
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Stepping Off The Mat
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- Infinity Publishing.com (2004)
- 197 pages
- Aikido / Philosophical / Spiritual
Book Summary:
While this book is directed to the serious martial artist, it is also of interest to the countless numbers of people who always wanted to do a martial art but for some reason or another did not. It is this audience that can benefit by using the martial arts principles contained in each chapter for practical reasons in everyday life. Through practical martial arts philosophy the reader will gain confidence and a positive outlook on life that a sincere martial artist possesses.
I have written it in a semi-biographical format, drawing upon not just my experiences but also those of my students. The reader will see how the training I received under my instructors helped shape my mind and set me upon a path of positive mind and purpose. Finally, this book is about removing the self-imposed limits on the scope of understanding regarding our minds and bodies, so that we experience and cause positive transformation in ourselves and ultimately in the universe.
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Review by: Robert Choy
Rick Berry's Stepping Off The Mat follows his remarkable 40+ year long martial arts career from karate and taekwondo ultimately to Kokikai Aikido. During this journey, Sensei Berry has acquired quite a few pearls of wisdom which he generously shares with us through this book. I have had the pleasure of training with Sensei Berry on several occasions over the past 8 years and I have always been impressed with the tremendous intensity and the irrepressible positivity that he brings to the mat. These qualities also come shining through in this book that is as much about martial arts training as it is about Berry's answer to the fundamental question that all martial artists (and all human beings) struggle to answer: How am I going to Live?
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Review by: Aaron Shapiro
Too often we do not apply what we preach and practice. Too often, what we practice is not practical or grounded in our daily reality. For most of us, our "daily reality" does not reasonably include intentionally squaring off against known violence. However, it does usually include conflict on many levels and from many viewpoints, as well as several layers of often disturbing emotional content.
Sensei Rick Berry has intentionally and successfully structured his martial discipline to revolve around core principles that are equally effective whether contemplating and responding to an exercise on the mat, pursuing your career, being confronted in a bar, or being jumped on a city street. He realized early that there is no fundamental difference between any aspect or experience of life. The result is that his approach is equal parts of how and why an attack and response actually work, and the proper frame of mind and emotional state before, during and after.
"Stepping off the Mat" encapsulates this effective and necessary approach rather beautifully. Like aikido itself, the writing is relaxed, elegant and full of "leading" principles. Rick Sensei explains by prose and parable that the mind and spirit are your first order of business; the body will then follow. As a practical example, would you guess that when Rick Sensei honestly speaks of practical harmony in the midst of controversy that he is also one of the most effective strikers you will ever meet? He would tell you that as his mind, body and spirit have cultivated greater relaxation over the years, his deliverable power has also increased. I know this as direct fact--his "soft" punches penetrate so deeply while delivering so much power, it literally takes days for a bruise to form, even though the recipient is immediately incapacitated.
"Stepping off the Mat" is an accessible road map to the path of an eminent martial artist. We could all be rather proud of ourselves if we could cultivate but a portion of Rick Sensei's skills and understanding. A thorough understanding of "why" you do what you do is the first and perhaps most important step for any pursuit. Rick Sensei has chosen to share his path and his vision. Your study of his work and his approach is more than well worth the time. You should expect that it will open many doors and illuminate many paths for your own future studies.
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Review by: David Shevitz
In Stepping Off the Mat, Sensei Rick Berry writes not so much about martial arts technique, but how his training and his mindset extends throughout everything he does. Initially, I held off on writing about this book because I wanted to finish it. This was foolish of me, because while I have read the last page of this book, I don't think I will ever truly "finish" it.
This book shares a similar trait to books such as The Book of Five Rings. By that I mean: you do not pick it up, read it over the course of a weekend, and then put it back on the shelf. No, this book you pick up, read a little, sit down, think for a great while, and then pick up again a little later–maybe reading a new passage, maybe re-reading the same passage you had read earlier. What I have enjoyed about this book is that it is not just an "aikido" book. (In fact, Sensei Berry has a great deal of martial arts experience beyond aikido.) It is a book of emotion, intellect, and thought. It is a book in which you can tell Sensei Berry has infused his passion and his life-philosophy.
I have always been fascinated with how the written word might be used to express some of the deep concepts that underly Aikido–that underly all martial arts. Stepping Off the Mat is the best example I have read in which these thoughts and concepts are articulated and discussed. Sensei Berry even provides many examples of where these thoughts came from. The entire book is filled with stories about his training, his teaching, and his life.
I think that some folks tend to look at books like these and hope that, by reading them, some sort of enlightenment may be found. I don't think that Sensei Berry wrote this book in an attempt to "enlighten" anyone. However, I do think he wrote it to give those who read it the opportunity to enlighten themselves.
I am grateful that Sensei Berry took the time to write this book. I look forward to reading it repeatedly for many years to come.
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Review by: Michael Robinson, M.S. Counseling
I have studied under Master Rick Berry for over 10 years, and his book "Stepping Off The Mat" is a must read for true martial artists. It's an inspiring-philosophical-introspective of Master Berry's life journey to positively impact and transform others via the edification of their mind, body and spirit.
"Stepping Off The Mat" is a true American tale of triumph, heartache, and absolute commitment to the pursuit of excellence.
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SAN ANTONIO — Mikal Watts didn't have a fighting chance — politics were in his life from the start.
As a toddler, he rode in a stroller as his mother marched in a farm workers' rights march in Austin. Politics made for dinner table conversation and filled the pages of books in the family library. He attended fundraising barbecues with his parents. Before the age of 18, he knocked on doors registering people to vote.
In the years since, Watts has risen from law-school whiz kid (he received a degree at 21) to nationally known product liability lawyer and political financier who pledged $10 million of his own fortune in his aborted bid to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. John Cornyn.
He's most well known for taking on Ford and Firestone in SUV rollover cases that forced much-publicized recalls, though he also has been involved in significant cases involving pharmaceutical and other industries.
He's well respected among trial lawyers, though he has faced criticism for some of his methods. A federal judge once censured him for failing to tell Ford his client died during litigation.
Most recently, Watts encountered skepticism surrounding the timing of his departure from the Senate race last fall. Watts cited family reasons, but rumor mills and newspapers around the state hypothesized that Watts was hiding a different reason — political and professional ties to Corpus Christi businessman Mauricio Celis, who is charged with impersonating a lawyer.
Watts recently talked openly about the criticism, calling the speculation "armchair lawyering" by political observers, but shrugged it off as a part of life in the public eye. He says he will run for Senate again in 10 years, when his youngest child has graduated from high school.
Watts spoke with a Caller-Times reporter in the Watts Law Firm office in San Antonio, one of five around the state. He was relaxed, wearing no suit coat or tie. He carried two cell phones that rang sporadically. He laughed easily, but just as easily switched back to a look of concentration.
He was interviewed in another lawyer's glass-front office in the Bank of America tower downtown, explaining he doesn't have an office of his own — mostly because he didn't want to kick any of the firm's other lawyers out after his August 2006 move from Corpus Christi to San Antonio. He's hardly there anyway.
After earning a reputation with the rollover cases, Watts argues in trials around the country, from Connecticut to Florida, California to Montana. He doesn't advertise. At least 95 percent of his firm's cases are referred, he said, and he estimates he rejects 50 cases for every one he takes. His firm employs 29 lawyers, and Watts is mostly involved in key depositions and trials, putting him in the courtroom about 40 weeks of the year.
His prominence as a trial lawyer and success at securing large payouts make him a poster boy for anti-lawsuit groups that refer to their cause as tort reform and depict lawyers as profiteers of others' misery at undue expense to U.S. industry. Watts reported earnings of $40 million in 18 months on a Senate candidate financial disclosure form. Some clients owed him as much as $25 million.
Watts says his job satisfaction goes beyond money and that his labor has produced reforms in safety regulations. Those reforms, he says, have saved thousands of lives.
His clients, too, feel their impact.
Donna Bailey, a Portland resident paralyzed after a Ford Explorer accident, accepted a settlement in a landmark case against the companies with Watts' help. She said Watts and her legal team were expensive, but worth it.
"I personally am glad because of the tires getting recalled," Bailey said. "I think Mikal did a good job."
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Mikal Watts, now 40, was born in Corpus Christi in 1967. His family lived in Portland until he was in the fifth grade. Sandra Watts was then a teacher at Gregory-Portland High School, and father Guy Watts a lawyer.
When the family moved to Corpus Christi, Sandra Watts began attending South Texas College of Law in Houston. She took care of four children and flew to Houston three days a week for school. She graduated first in her class and now is a state district judge in Nueces County.
Watts has joked that he is a lawyer because he doesn't have a very good curve ball. But the son of two lawyers really had his mind made up as long as he can remember. Sandra Watts recalled he made the decision by fifth or sixth grade. He knew he wanted to practice in Corpus Christi, Sandra Watts said, and he knew it would be for David Perry, another Corpus Christi trial lawyer who achieved prominence at Ford Motor Co.'s expense.
His best friend in middle school (and later college roommate) was Joseph Huerta, son of another local lawyer, Albert Huerta, and the two were debate partners. Young Mikal took debate at King High School, where he also wrote for the school newspaper, played football and basketball and participated in mock trials.
"He was always focused, from the first grade on," Sandra Watts said. "If there was a challenge to read the most books, he was focused and he'd do it."
Mikal was accepted to Yale, but his parents divorced that year and couldn't afford an Ivy League education. Sandra Watts said not attending Yale is likely one of Mikal's biggest disappointments in life.
Yet he did anything he could to earn scholarships for the University of Texas — $500 here, another $1,000 there, and Mikal paid for nearly his whole education.
"I can't even begin to tell you how many essays he wrote, how many applications he filled out, how many speeches he gave," Sandra Watts said.
Mikal took 20 hours a semester, summer courses and placement tests to skip other classes and graduated in two years with high honors. It only took another two to complete a degree from the University of Texas School of Law.
Earning a reputation
Mikal Watts clerked for the Texas Supreme Court chief justice after earning his law degree at age 21. He was heavily recruited after that one-year clerkship, and turned down an offer from a prestigious Dallas firm to work for Perry in Corpus Christi — for about $30,000 less, his mother says.
He was drawn to Perry's work for those who are normally underrepresented, Sandra Watts said. Perry is known both for winning big and for working out settlements that dedicate portions of the proceeds toward industry reforms or charitable causes. Watts started in September 1990 and was named a partner in Perry & Haas the following winter.
Watts called Perry a father figure in his life — and his firm is where Watts met future wife Tammy, who worked there as a temp while attending college at Texas Christian University. Watts left Perry & Haas in April 1997 to start his own firm in Corpus Christi.
"The day I showed up at Perry's firm, I wrote down on a sheet of paper three goals by the time I was 30," Watts said. "One of them was money-related, one of them was having a verdict of more than $1 million by the time I was 30. The other is having my own law firm. The only reason I left David Perry was I was almost 30."
His career started taking off with automotive litigation including ruptured fuel tank cases and cases against Chrysler minivans, from which children were ejected after side impacts. A South Carolina case in 1997 earned a $262.5 million judgment against Chrysler. He also won an $80 million verdict in a South Texas case in which two people died in a Dodge truck fire.
"Very soon after, I began having more cases than I could ever dream of," Watts said.
Watts had done a few tire cases, though a major break came when Perry went on sabbatical and referred some cases to him. One Nueces County suit ended in a settlement in which Ford and Bridgestone/Firestone agreed to make public thousands of pages of documents showing what and when the companies knew about possible rollover problems.
Watts estimates he and a partner, Tab Turner from North Little Rock, Ark., tried half the rollover cases in the country. At one time in the early 2000s, Watts had 150 cases pending against Ford and held monthly meetings with Ford and Bridgestone.
He also began winning huge pharmaceutical cases. A local case — a $143 million judgment against the maker of diabetes drug Rezulin — led to a nationwide settlement. He also won hip implant and heart defibrillator cases but lost closely watched trials, including the first in the country regarding cholesterol drug Baycol and one of the first about pain medication Vioxx.
David Prichard, a commercial trial lawyer who represented Ford for six years, including against Watts, said much of his work is against lawyers of Watts' caliber, and Watts is among the best.
"He's a handful," Prichard said. "That's just sort of putting it in my vernacular."
However, Prichard said, Watts sometimes uses questionable methods.
"I have seen some tactics that, let's just say, I would not employ," Prichard said. "But I'm not a plaintiff's lawyer. They sort of raised my eyebrows, but maybe that's just par for the course on the other side of the docket."
A federal judge censured Watts in 2005 for failing to tell Ford for five months that his client, a quadriplegic after an accident, died during settlement talks, according to records from a U.S. District Court in West Virginia. Ford asked for Watts and his firm to be taken off the case, saying they didn't disclose the client's death because injury would fetch a higher settlement. Watts testified that he thought Ford knew of the death because of Ford's settlement offer of $1.23 million, and the judge did not remove him from the case.
Watts suffered another setback in 2005 when Ford claimed a jury in Crystal City was tainted before delivering a $28 million verdict against the company. The town's city manager, who was dating a local lawyer who helped sign up the case for him, served on the jury but didn't disclose her relation to the case. That local lawyer had referred the case to Watts, who later won his argument against a new trial when two jurors recanted their statements that the city manager influenced their decision.
Political life
Watts has been a member of the Nueces County Democratic Party since he returned to Corpus Christi after law school. He formed a political action committee, the Good Government committee, in 2004 and funded it largely through his firm. He supported and worked on strategies for several campaigns, including state Rep. Juan Garcia's 2006 victory over incumbent Gene Seaman.
Watts dissolved the Good Government committee last spring to avoid confusion with the Good Government League, a long-standing political group in San Antonio. He continues to donate individually and through Watts Law Firm.
His political reach extends far beyond South Texas. Watts ranked No. 8 in donations to state committees and candidates in 2006 with $653,000, double his contributions in 2004, when he ranked No. 18, according to the nonprofit Texans for Public Justice.
The bulk of his contributions, as with many trial lawyers, goes to Democrats, though Watts also has given to Republicans, including Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst.
After years of Democratic fundraising and networking, Watts decided to run for U.S. Senate. He formed an exploratory committee in June in an attempt to unseat Cornyn, the Republican senator elected in 2002.
When asked on a Democracy for Texas candidate questionnaire to say something nice about his opponent, Watts said, "He has just completed construction on his retirement home in Austin. We all need to work together to make sure that beginning in January 2009, he is able to enjoy it full time."
Watts campaigned for five months, raising money and pledging $10 million of his own to the race. He had a staff of 17. Then, in September, he says, he started to doubt his decision. His youngest daughter cried that she never saw him. He prayed with his wife. He nearly bowed out that month, he says.
But what pushed him to actually do it was a trip to Washington, D.C., in early October, Watts said.
"I was pretty specifically aware that running for Senate would take me out of commission for the year, year and a half I was running," he said. "Myself and my family were ready to make that commitment. I went to Washington in October and really got a firsthand look at how senators live their lives and how little personal time they have. I reached the conclusion I wasn't sacrificing 16 months with my kids. I was in fact sacrificing the relationship for the duration."
So Watts made the announcement Oct. 22 that he was leaving the race, a move that surprised even some of his closest friends. He now says he plans to stay involved in politics through fundraising and contributing and to run for Senate again after his youngest graduates from high school in 10 years.
"I don't think anybody would respect anybody who would rather be a senator than a father," he said.
Age: 40
Hometown: Corpus Christi (lives in San Antonio)
Family: Wife Tammy, 38; daughters Taylor, 13, and Hailey, 11; and son Brandon, 9
Law degree: University of Texas School of Law
First law job: Clerk for Texas Supreme Court chief justice
Currently: Operates Watts Law Firm
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Q-Cells will file for insolvency proceedings on April 3, 2012, at the insolvency court in Dessau. The executive board reached the decision after an intensive review of alternatives for the implementation of financial restructuring came to no avail.
In the background of the insolvency filing is the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court ruling that prevented a restructuring by Pfleiderer AG. Thereby, there was no more continuation prognosis possible. An insolvency filing was thereby necessary as the company announced today. The management will work together with the provisional liquidator in ensuring the survival of the company.
Saxony-Anhalt minister Reiner Haseloff told the television station MDR that there would be no state support for Q-Cells. Haselhoff said that the company has to do the math itself. From his point of view, Q-Cells needs to find alternatives to restructure and thereby stabilise.
The stocks of the company fell to an all-time low of €0.15 in the Frankfurt trading after a possibility of insolvency was reported in the media.
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- Since retiring following the 2012 Olympic Games, May-Treanor has served as an assistant sand volleyball coach at Long Beach State and now at the University of Southern California.
- Finished her career with 112 tournament wins, 43 international wins, and $2,132,733 in earnings. Was the first to reach 112 tournament wins before Kerri Walsh-Jennings broke the record in 2013.
- Was named Most Outstanding Player in women's beach volleyball at the 2004 and 2008 Olympic Games.
- May-Treanor and Walsh Jennings won AVP Team of the Year five consecutive years (2003-07).
- In 2008, May-Treanor and Walsh Jennings broke their own record by winning 112 matches in a row and 19 consecutive tournaments.
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- May-Treanor married professional baseball player Matt Treanor in December, 2008.
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- In 2010, May-Treanor published her autobiography entitled "Misty, Digging Deep in Volleyball and Life."
- May-Treanor has tattoos honoring her deceased mother and grandmother. She sprinkled her mother's ashes on the courts after her 2004 and 2008 Olympic gold medal wins.
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A few months ago, we reported on a new fast-casual concept coming to St. Louis: sushi. Owners David Culver, Clayton Park and Andrew Impagliazzo envisioned a Chiptole-like approach to sushi, instead of the usual extremes of super pricey or take-out. Their result is Flying Rolls (3674 Forest Park Avenue; 314-246-0589), which opens today, June 20 at 11 a.m.
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As many 200 rounds were fired in a close-quarters firefight inside the attic of a Florida home, leaving two cops dead along with ex-con who was wanted for aggravated battery.
After the initial volley of gunfire, and news that two St. Petersburg Police Department officers and a deputy U.S. marshal had been wounded, SWAT officers entered the home again in a dangerous rescue operation that involved more gunfire, tear gas, and an armored truck that rammed the house in order to create a hole in the side of the building.
One of the wounded officers was trapped inside the attic, and in order to rescue the mortally wounded cop the SWAT team had to battle its way back into the attic under heavy gunfire.
Cops showed up at the home about 7 a.m. today looking to interview a relative of Hydra Lacy, 39, who was wanted for aggravated battery. The relative, believed to be his wife, told officers Lacy was hiding in the attic and was potentially armed.
The cops walked into an ambush. Officer Jeffrey Yaslowitz went up into the attic and was quickly shot down. Yaslowitz, the father of three, is a member of the department's canine unit whose shift had ended but had volunteered to help respond to a call for backup at the Lacy home.
An unidentified deputy marshal on his heels was wounded twice in the exchange. The marshal is in stable condition at Bayfront Medical Center, where all three men were taken.
Sgt. Tom Baitinger, 48, a veteran detective, tried to rescue Yaslowitz from the attic. He was wearing a bullet proof vest and holding a ballistic shield in front of him, but Harmon indicated with his hands that the bullet came from above.
For hours, police tried to contact the gunman, unsure if he "was wounded, or laying in wait," said Police Chief Chuck Harmon.
"As soon as we could muster enough folks to safely go back in, we did," said Harmon. "They got Officer Yaslowitz out of the attic. While doing this they were being fired upon."
"I heard 150 to 200 gunshots during the exchange," Harmon said.
Six hours after the initial melee and the last moment of contact with the gunman, a heavily armored SWAT team entered the home and found the gunman dead.
"I heard a bunch of fire exchanged. Then I saw them ram the house with that tank-looking truck and heard shock grenades and more gunfire exchanged. That's when they drug out the first cop, his arms were hanging down and shirt was all bloody," said neighbor Ron Conlin.
At an afternoon press conference Harmon held mementos of the fallen cops – a badge, a gold wedding ring, and two rubber bracelets -- given to him as the men were rushed to the hospital.
"This crook, this criminal, this murderer, this cop killer --whatever you want to call him -- did a terrible injustice," Harmon said. "I feel a lot of anger… I feel remorse for the families… It will take days of healing before we get through this."
St. Petersburg Mayor Bill Foster said, "It's a dark day for the city of St. Petersburg," and said the officers and the cops who went into the building to rescue them "showed tremendous bravery."
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From that moment, everything went perfectly. Matt suggested a group lunch date hoping it would lead somewhere, and he ended up getting Kristina's number. The two went to dinner at Zaytinya in DC and hit it off right away. Matt was even the perfect romantic, saving receipts from all of their dates to create an album for Kristina. So a year later, he was already picturing one more "perfect" in their lives: the perfect proposal. On August 13, 2005, when the couple headed to Annapolis to celebrate their one-year anniversary, he had a plan.
"I tucked away some glasses in my backpack and a bottle of a wine that we had drunk on Valentine's Day," he says. "After dinner, we went up to a little park that's right by the senator's house."
As the two were sitting on a park bench, talking and sipping wine, Matt pulled out a piece of paper.
"Earlier that day, I had given him all these anniversary gifts and he had been like, 'Yeah, I don't really have anything for you,' " says Kristina. "I was like, 'Oh, that's nice.' But now he said, 'This is my gift,' and he started reading a long poem."
Perfect? So far . . . .
"Meanwhile," she continues, "there are these drunkards behind us yelling, and we hear the police come. There was this whole altercation going on."
Ignoring the noise, Matt told Kristina to close her eyes. When he finished reading, she blinked them open and he was down on one knee, holding a ring. But Kristina didn't have time to be stunned: The couple was promptly interrupted by the police officers who had been called to deal with the drunken crowd.
"One told us we had to get going right away," Matt says. "I almost didn't get to propose that night. I literally made it within a minute."
He was disappointed that the proposal he had envisioned turned into a "kind of crazy" scene, but it was hard to be too bummed—they were engaged! The couple—who just moved to Chicago—got married on April 29, 2006, in the Arlington church where they first met.
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