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Christian Abart, né le  à Bayonne, (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), est un acteur et chanteur français.

Biographie

Cariière
Comédien et chanteur professionnel depuis 1981, on a pu le voir au théâtre (Nunzio de Spiro Scimone), au cinéma (Tel père telle fille d'Olivier de Plas), à la télévision (Préjudices de Frédéric Berthe), dans la publicité (CIC, AOL, Babybel) et dans des spectacles musicaux (Tralala).

Il fait partie de la distribution française du Roi Lion, mis en scène par Julie Taymor, d'après le film de Disney, joué à Paris au Théâtre Mogador depuis . Il y crée et interprète le rôle de Timon. Ce spectacle remporte 3 récompenses lors de la cérémonie des Molières 2008 : Meilleur Musical, Meilleurs costumes et Meilleurs lumières.

Il joue Pino dans Nunzio de Spiro Scimone au théâtre du Lucernaire à Paris de juin à . Les Anges du péché de Jean Giraudoux et Robert Bresson au Festival d'Avignon Off 2011.

Il participe à la création de Comédie tchétchène (pas toujours très drôle) de Yoann Lavabre à Culture Commune - Scène Nationale du Bassin Minier du Pas-de-Calais en . Ce spectacle a été présenté au Théâtre des Quartiers d'Ivry en ; le texte a été le lauréat du concours Nouvelles Écritures 2009.

Il crée le rôle d'Adhémar, dans "Nous ne sommes pas du même monde", la première pièce de Brigitte Massiot, mise-en-scène par Olivier Macé, au Théâtre Côté-Cour à Paris en .

Filmographie

Cinéma
 1988 : Noyade interdite de Pierre Granier-Deferre
 1997 : Quand le soleil meurt de Pascal Courty : Le gardien de prison
 2007 : Tel père telle fille d'Olivier de Plas : Le commissaire
 2008 : Celluloïd Gangster de Hugo Pivois : Frère Koupar
 2010 : L'Autre Dumas de Safy Nebbou : L'inspecteur Flanchet
 2012 : Avis aux intéressés de Cédric Romain : Jean-Pierre

Télévision
 1991 : Les Carnassiers d'Yves Boisset
 1991 : La Femme des autres de Jean Marbœuf - France 3
 1992 : Une maman dans la ville de Miguel Courtois - France 2
 1992 : Un flic pourri de Josée Dayan - La 5
 1999 : Un jeune français de Michel Sibra - France 3
 2003 : Blague à part d'Olivier Barma - Canal +
 2003 : Le Bleu de l'océan de Didier Albert - TF1
 2006 : Préjudices de Frédéric Berthe - France 2
 2008 : Les Fées cloches de Coralie Fargeat - TF1
 2009 : Bulles de Vian de Marc Hollogne - ARTE
 2011 : Groland.con de Virginie Lovisone - Canal +
 2012 : Scènes de ménages de Francis Duquet - M6
 2012 : Mon histoire vraie de Laurent Droux - TF1
 2012 : Si près de chez vous de Myriam Jacquet - France 3
 2012 : Doc Martin de Jean-Pierre Sinapi - TF1
 2013 : Myster Mocky présente de Jean-Pierre Mocky : Jimmy
 2013 : Petits secrets entre voisins de Alexandre Poulichot - TF1
 2013 : Y'a pas d'âge de Jérôme Commandeur mini-série - France 2
 2016 :  The Model de Mads Matthiesen

Liens externes

 Contact & démo

Acteur français de télévision
Personnalité liée au Pays basque
Naissance en février 1959
Naissance dans les Basses-Pyrénées
Naissance à Bayonne
Acteur français de cinéma

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Watercolor on Yupo, 7" x 11"
$180 plus $7 shipping in U.S.
This wonderful old gnarled limb grows from a very old apple tree in our back yard. I duck under it every time I mow the lawn. This morning the light was hitting it just right and I knew what I wanted to paint today.
We are headed to Portland this weekend for a "new grandson fix". I'll be back to blogging early next week.
In other news: I'll be teaching an oil painting workshop in my Union, Oregon studio on September 10th and 11th. If you can make it, I'd love to have you. It will be a relaxed environment with all levels of experience welcome. Contact the Union County Art and Culture Center (UCACC) for details: 541-624-2800. Email: ucartctr@eoni.com.
Lovely painting Don! Your background is stunning. Something I struggle with. Aren't grandchildren the delight of life?
wonderful is exactly what it is Don!
Many thanks, Sheryl! It was hard knowing when to stop, but I wanted this to be a "study" and not finished edge-to-edge.
Grandkids are great rewards for all those sleepless nights with your own kids, aren't they?
Thanks, Rahina, and thanks for updating me on your painting.
It can sure be maddening having a vision you want/need to express and feeling you never get there. We artists all have to develop some individual strategy for dealing with our perfectionist natures, since virtually nothing we do ever completely satisfies us. In my case, I've discovered that often the longer I work on something, the worse it gets. Now I try to find that "tipping point" in my work and stop there.
thank you Don... i think you have sussed me out;) food for reflection!
Great advice on when to stop. I too tend to over work things and then end up with "mud" so to speak.
This is a really cool piece, glad I had some time today to visit your blog. It seems like ages, and every time I've been in Union this summer, your truck hasn't been parked outside, so I continue on my way. Hope to see you soon.
Hi Brian--thanks. Don't know how I'm missing you, unless you come through Union real early. It's usually later in morning before I get to the studio. We've been traveling some lately too, so guess I've been hard to find.


If a 2D print is possible, then why not 3D? This very idea popped up in Chuck Hull's mind, who invented the first ever 3D printer in 1983. He managed to print an eyewash cup out of it which was quite boring but still something that everyone thought was impossible.
The 3D print technology has progressed a lot in past few decades. 3D printers are now much cheaper and efficient. Literally, you can print anything! All you need is a working template. In this article, I've listed some of the coolest things ever printed using the 3D print technology.
A group of students motivated to bring the cost of musical instruments down successfully managed to use the 3d printing technology to print a guitar. Guess what? It does work! The same guitar was used by a British indie rock group onstage. The same can be seen in the video as well. It looks good but sounds even better.
The technology has been used to print firearms in past. But, they would break easily after a few rounds of firing.
That's not the case anymore! Non-profit corporations have come up with downloadable templates to create a working gun at your home. All you need is a 3D printer!
Measuring 1 meter long, there are not a pair of shoes you would normally wear but the ones to keep at your home as a modern sculpture. First featured in the Onitsuka Tiger Commercial, it is up for sale online at a cost of 5880 Euros. The complex detailing combined with abstract lighting looks so attractive that you just can't take your eyes off it!
As complex as it sounds, the template of this piece of art has been download from the Thingiverse website over 1100 times. Not only this, a lot other design options are available online when it comes to 3D-printed jewelry.
Android figurines are being online since long. But, with the same old classic Android design. What if you could customize it as per your personality? Well, that's possible! These mini 3D printed bugdroids available at a price point of $29.99 come in a number of themes to best describe your personality. If you are not an Apple guy but an Android enthusiast to the core, you would surely love this one.
When I said the possibilities of 3D printing are endless, I meant it. Who ever thought that even bikinis could be 3D printed and that they would be as comfortable as the normal ones? In fact, these are made out of Nylon 12, which is not only a strong and flexible material but waterproof as well. A truly magical concept indeed!
Designed by Pauline Van Dongen, these pair of high heels are made from laser sintered nylon using the 3D printing technology. It is quite evident now that the future of 3D printed accessories is going to be amazing and a lot more fun!


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A: I can answer myself! :)
I changed the code. I don't write here about management of downloaded data from MDB file.
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US moves in Venezuela reflect a deteriorating foreign policy
Opinion Op-Eds
The world can't let Venezuelans fall victim to yet another American military adventure
Published: February 26, 2019 17:00 Ramzy Baroud, Special to Gulf News
Demonstrators hold signs and shout slogans during a protest against Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela's president, at the entrance of the Tienditas International Bridge in Cucuta, Colombia. Image Credit: Bloomberg
The US-supported Venezuelan coup is currently facing a major obstacle.
On February 3, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro declared that the coup — staged by opposition leader Juan Guaido — has failed. This claim is strengthened by US mainstream media reports of confusion among those who supported Guaido, leader of the opposition and President of the Venezuelan Assembly, who had declared himself, on January 23 to be the "interim president" of the country.
The assumption in Washington and among its allies is that Maduro's government "would crumble quickly" as soon as Washington declared its support for the Venezuelan opposition, reported Wall Street Journal on February 13. That never happened as "Maduro remains firmly in power" and the Venezuelan military has not shifted sides, as western powers had hoped.
Are we witnessing a reversal in the political landscape of South America where the US is no longer the power determining political outcomes? This likelihood was demonstrated on February 12 when Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov challenged the US on Venezuela. Lavrov warned US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo against his country's intervention in Venezuela, stating that Moscow is ready to open dialogue regarding the crisis in Caracas. Lavrov's statement is an indication that Russia is ready to extend its turf war beyond the familiar geopolitical landscape of Central Asia, Europe and the Middle East.
The lack of US-western strategy in handling the situation following the initial failure of the coup is expressed in the convoluted words of President Donald Trump as he attempted to answer a journalist's question regarding the US' 'plan B' in Venezuela. I have "plan B — and C, and D, and E, and F," Trump said, adding, "I have great flexibility. I probably have more flexibility than any man that's ever been in this office." Trump's 'unique' approach to Venezuela — and foreign policy in general — is a clear indication that the US has been forthright about its willingness to overthrow Maduro by force.
Soon after Guaido made his move, hoping that immediate western support will place him firmly as the country's leader in a matter of hours, US politicians from both parties sprang into action.
"Now, despite Maduro, there is hope (in Venezuela)", wrote Democratic Senator Dick Durbin, in USA Today.
Republican Senator Marco Rubio, meanwhile, claimed that Maduro has picked a battle he can't win. "It's just a matter of time," he said in the New York Times. "The only thing we don't know is how long it will take, and whether it will be peaceful or bloody."
Readiness to go the 'bloody' route was expressed clearly by other US politicians.
US National Security Adviser John Bolton who has garnered himself a terrible reputation on account of his role in the invasion of Iraq and the subsequent destabilisation of the Middle East, assumed a leading position in the interventionist camp. While speaking about Washington's need to "protect democracy" in Venezuela, Bolton admitted that a Venezuelan coup is an opportunity to exploit the country's vast oil and natural resources.
He explained the economic logic of US intervention in an interview with Fox News. Regime change "will make a big difference to the United States economically, if we could have American oil companies invest in and produce the oil capabilities in Venezuela," Bolton explained.
How is that to be achieved? Bolton let that slip too.
During a press conference at the White House a few days after the coup, he "appeared to disclose confidential notes written on a yellow pad ... that included a plan to send US troops to Colombia" in preparation for military intervention in Venezuela, reported the Washington Post.
Sadly, Venezuela is not the exception. South America — like the Middle East and Africa — has long been perceived as a Western protectorate, going back many years. And again, like the Middle East and Africa, Venezuela is rich in oil and other mineral resources, and is strategically significant in terms of global hegemony. The US, in particular, has always viewed South America as its own "backyard", and has either directly or indirectly contributed to coups and political and economic instability across the region over the years.
"Old habits die hard," apparently, and it seems that western politicians refuse to abandon the old interventionist maxim and colonialist mentality through which they divided and ruled the world for far too long.
One should not underestimate the horrific economic conditions in Venezuela or overlook the endemic corruption in that country. However, while the Venezuelan people have every right to protest against their government, nobody else has the right to meddle in the affairs of Venezuela, or any other sovereign country, anywhere.
The situation in Venezuela is dire, with children reportedly dying as a result of the lack of medicine and food, and should not be allowed to fall victim to yet another American military adventure.
Considering that all such tragic predictions for Venezuela have already been witnessed in Iraq, Syria, Libya and elsewhere, South American leaders and the few sensible voices around the world must move to block any further US meddling, and allow the people of Venezuela, through democratic means, to determine their own future.
Ramzy Baroud is a journalist, author and editor of Palestine Chronicle. His latest book is The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story (Pluto Press, 2018). He earned a Ph.D. in Palestine Studies from the University of Exeter, and is a former Non-Resident Scholar at Orfalea Centre for Global and International Studies, UCSB.
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Ben's career in hospitality began at a young age, but it wasn't long before he achieved great success, being crowned The Young National Chef of the Year in 2013 and the 2015 Kikkoman Masters champion.
Ben's career started like many chefs before him in his local village pub at the age of 14, washing pots and pans for a bit of extra money. But this became more than just a job as it's where Ben's love for the kitchen atmosphere flourished and his inspiration began.
Ben's culinary education began at The Eastbury Hotel in Dorset working under Brett Sutton as he studied and completed his NVQ qualifications in professional cookery. Once these qualifications were achieved Ben took the position of commis chef at The Eastbury for a further two years before heading to Torquay to work under the watchful eye of former National Chef of the Year, Kikkoman Master finalist and ambassador Simon Hulstone at The Elephant Restaurant. It was this time spent at The Elephant under the guidance of Simon that helped to inspire Ben to become the best chef he could possibly be.
After three and a half years at The Elephant in Torquay, Ben took on the mantle of moving to L'Enclume Restaurant in Cartmel to work under the Michelin starred chef Simon Rogan and head chef Tom Barnes. The last few years has seen Ben rise from demi chef de partie at L'Enclume through to sous chef of this famous Cumbrian restaurant.
Ben's favourite type of cuisine is modern British, due to the fact that here in Britain we are spoilt with so many delicious seasonal ingredients to make the most of.


Cassida's Taxidermy has preserved your outdoor memories for 18 years and continues to give avid sportsmen exquisite trophies to take home. Each of your hunting prizes from the land or water is depicted with excellent detail and vivid color, so it maintains its striking appearance permanently. Cassida's Taxidermy uses time-honored and contemporary techniques to capture your deer, ducks, fish and more with impressive accuracy and give you a piece you can proudly display.
Cassida's is the premier Maine taxidermy service for serious hunters and fisherman. Cassida's professional taxidermists tackle projects of all sizes, from the giant trophy moose to the beautiful Bufflehead duck and everything in between. Cassida's Taxidermy uses animated poses and expressions to illustrate the thrill of the hunt and make a fascinating showpiece. Careful coloration and details in the face, skin, fur and eyes give you an unmistakable trophy that all your guests will ask about.
Cassida's taxidermists not only mount wild North American prizes, but also mount fish and exotic game from around the world. Call for more information or visit or location in Maine to have your game professionally mounted.


When it comes to building a startup, most of the people get overwhelmed with stuff. It is because there are a lot of things to learn or to know and you really don't know where to begin. But building a business is the greatest journey you can embark upon and you need to start searching for advice on how to turn the brainwave into a profitable business.
You can turn your vision into a reality when you start taking action. There will be numerous companies you will be competing with. These companies will have more manpower as well as resources to make their business work. Being new to the industry, you can experiment with new tactics and tailor your services to the needs of a particular client. Take advantage of your small scale and use creative instincts to make new ways.
From the first day of starting your business, get involved in networking. Improve your presence on LinkedIn, attend the business networking events, or reach out to people from whom you can learn. Do not hesitate to join the discussion forums and apply to programs that can help you meet new people.
You need to have a reliable source of income so that you can easily navigate your new business with full concentration. You may have to go without any profits for weeks or months after starting your own business, therefore, keep spending within the means and budget smartly. The importance of selecting a reliable co-founder should not be ignored too.
No matter whatever business you start, you have to give your customer the highest preference. Listen to what they want from you and make improvements. If they have any special requirements, be prepared to tailor your services accordingly.
Don't start a company only by keeping in mind that you have to earn money. If you will create a business based on your passion, you will achieve greater success and it will be long-term. Shortcuts will lead you to only short-term advantages and you will not survive in the long-run.
You cannot be more productive if you work constantly. Therefore, take breaks and become aware of their advantage on your well-being and for seeking new opportunities. Socialize with likeminded people and take out time to work out the foundations of your mental fortitude.


ASK THE EXPERTS: WHY DID YOU BECOME A WATERMELON FARMER? - What About Watermelon?
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Here's a good question from a What About Watermelon reader. This one is answered by Ryan Van Groningen, a fourth generation watermelon grower from California.
CASEY A. FROM ROYSTON, GA, ASKS: I've always thought being a watermelon farmer would be a pretty neat job and was wondering why you became a watermelon farmer. Out of all the different crops you could have grown, what made you choose watermelon?
For me, the decision to grow watermelon was easy because watermelon growing is a family tradition! My family's farm is called Van Groningen & Sons and I'm a fourth generation grower. To put it simply, we love what we do!
My family has been farming since 1922, when my great grandfather Henry Van Groningen (that's him in the picture above) began farming row crops here in California. In 1929, he moved to our current location in Ripon, CA, about 80 miles east of San Francisco, and the rest is history. Today, I help manage the farm along with the rest of my family, which includes my father, my brothers, my sister, and my cousin.
As for why we chose watermelon as one of the crops to build our farm around, I have to say a big reason is because watermelon is a fruit that everyone loves! We take great pleasure in watching people enjoy such a fun and healthy treat. Also, the watermelon industry is a fast and furious business in the summer months, which means there's never a dull moment because of the high volume of demand. And when you're a farmer, being busy is always a good thing!


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  def initialize(geo_entity)
    @geo_entity = geo_entity
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  JURISDICTIONS = %w(National Regional International).freeze

  def designations(exclude_oecms: false)
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June 23 will see Ministers for Education from the EU and Central Asia meet in Astana, Kazakhstan to discuss reforms in the region in Higher Education (HE) and Vocational Education & Training (VET) and agree on future regional and bilateral cooperation.
Joining the Ministers for Education will be representatives from Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Ministries of Labour, European Union Delegations and Embassies in Central Asia as well as Ministers from Poland, Latvia and Slovakia, high-level officials from the European Commission and senior experts and specialists in the fields of HE and VET.
The Meeting will be officially opened by M. Erlan Sagadiev, Minister of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and Ms Marjeta Jager, Deputy Director-General, DG International Cooperation and Development.
Delegates from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan and the EU will discuss reforms in establishing National Qualification Frameworks (NQF), Quality Assurance, mobility and employability in HE and VET, and the event will conclude with a Declaration by the Ministers outlining steps for strengthening cooperation and policy dialogue.
The event is being organised by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan in close cooperation with the European Commission and the European External Action Service (EEAS).
Ministers at the First Ministerial Meeting in Riga in June 2015 endorsed a Joint Communiqué on beneficial cooperation in HE and VET and approved a roadmap for activities within the framework of the Central Asia Education Platform (CAEP), focusing on promoting policy dialogue within the region and producing relevant market intelligence. Since the meeting in 2015, 3 high-level regional conferences have been held, a number of national meetings, peer learning events and workshops on NQF, Quality Assurance and Data Collection have been conducted, and stock-taking reports have been published on NQF, Mobility, Bilateral Cooperation and the Bologna and Torino Processes.
In order to fine-tune the Declaration of Ministers a 4th Senior Officials' Meeting will be held in Astana on the 22ndJune. Participants at the Ministerial Meeting will also be invited to visit EXPO 2017 "Future of Energy" during their visit and attend an official dinner held on behalf of the Minister of Education and Science, Mr. Erlan Sagadiev.
More details of the programme can be found on the Ministerial Meeting webpages.
The contents of this website are the sole responsibility of consultants and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the European Union.


The Showmaster 24 MKII is a 2-banks 12 fader, 1-bank 24 fader mixing console, it controls DMX and has also the capability to be used with MIDI protocol to allow real-time programs. The Showmaster 24 MKII controls 2x 12 channels (single bank) or 24 channels. The Showmaster 24 MKII can program 48 scenes or chases of 999 steps or a loop with a total of 11988 steps.


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On the night of April 12, 1982, Terry Michael Mincey, along with two accomplices, robbed a convenience store in Macon, Georgia. Mincey entered the store and pulled a pistol from under his coat and ordered the store's cashier, Paulette Riggs, to empty the cash register into a bag. Mincey then saw two teenagers and ordered them into his car. Outside the store Russell Peterman, a Bibb County Firefighter, pulled up to the store and began pumping gas. Meanwhile, Mincey escorted Riggs from the store and headed towards Peterman. Mincey ordered Peterman to come with him and when Peterman didn't respond immediately, Mincey shot him in the chest. While Peterman lay there, still conscious, Mincey fired point-blank at his head. As the second shot rang out, the two teenagers fled into a nearby field. Mincey believed that the second shot had killed Peterman and headed for the car. As he did, Griggs attempted to run away and Mincey shot her and she fell near a dumpster behind the store. Mincey then ran to where she was lying and shot her in the head. As they drove away, Mincey was asked by one of the accomplices if both people were dead and Mincey said yes they're dead, I know they're dead, I shot both of them. Riggs died as result of her wounds, but Peterman survived with serious injuries. The two accomplices received life sentences.
Atlanta, Georgia -- The Bibb County Superior Court has ordered the execution of convicted murderer Terry Michael Mincey, 42. The Court ordered the Department of Corrections to carry out the execution between the days of October 25, 2001, and November 1, 2001. Corrections Commissioner Jim Wetherington has set the execution, which will take place at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison located in Jackson, Georgia, for 7:00 pm on Thursday, October 25, 2001. On April 12, 1982, sometime after 10:00 pm., Terry Michael Mincey, along with two accomplices, robbed a convenience store at the corner of Houston Avenue and Hartley Bridge Road in Macon, Georgia.
Mincey entered the store and pulled a pistol from under his coat and ordered the store's cashier, Paulette Riggs, to empty the cash register into a bag. Mincey then saw two teenagers and ordered them into his car. Outside the store Russell Peterman, a Bibb County Firefighter, pulled up to the store and began pumping gas. Meanwhile, Mincey escorted Riggs from the store and headed towards Peterman. Mincey ordered Peterman to come with me and when Peterman didn't respond immediately, Mincey shot him in the chest. While Peterman lay there, still conscious, Mincey fired point-blank at his head. As the second shot rang out, the two teenagers fled into a nearby field. Mincey believed that the second shot had killed Peterman and headed for the car. As he did, Griggs attempted to run away and Mincey shot her and she fell near a dumpster behind the store. Mincey then ran to where she was lying and shot her in the head. As they drove away, Mincey was asked by one of the accomplices if both people were dead and Mincey said yes they're dead, I know they're dead, I shot both of them.
Riggs died as result of her wounds, but Peterman survived. The two accomplices received life sentences and Mincy was convicted of Murder, Armed Robbery, and Aggravated Battery. He was sentenced to death in August of 1982. If executed, Mincey will be the first Georgia inmate put to death by lethal injection. Since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of Georgia's death penalty in 1977, twenty-three inmates have been executed. All were put to death in Georgia's electric chair. The last inmate executed was David Loomis Cargill in June of 1998. Media interested in a picture of Mincey and a listing of his crimes can go to the Department of Corrections web page (www.dcor.state.ga.us). On the main menu, look to the left and click on inmate query. An acknowledgment of the disclaimer that follows will allow access to the offender query page. To retrieve the Mincey photo and information, enter his name or state inmate number, which is 160842.
Robert Jones, Timothy Jenkins and Terry Mincey met in the evening of April 12, 1982, and discussed committing a robbery. Each was armed, Jones with a .12 gauge shotgun, Jenkins with a .38 caliber pistol and Mincey with a .380 caliber semi-automatic Llama pistol. After several possibilities were discussed and rejected, the trio drove by a Mini Food Store in Bibb County. They circled back to the store and parked. Mincey entered the store briefly and returned to the car. He told the others that there were only a female clerk and two teenagers inside and it looked like a good place to rob. He informed the others that he did not plan on leaving any witnesses. When Jenkins protested, Mincey told him, "If you're talking about not wasting nobody, you're in the wrong . . . car."
They waited, hoping the kids would leave. When, after a few minutes, they did not, Mincey reentered the store. Jenkins positioned himself outside, between the ice machine and the dumpster. Jones, the driver, stayed in the car. A fourteen-year-old girl and her 15-year-old brother were inside the store, visiting the cashier, Mrs. Riggs. When Mincey entered the store, they recognized him as the same young white male who had entered the store 10 or 15 minutes previously. He told Mrs. Riggs to "put the money in the bag" and told the kids to go to the car. Jenkins, standing outside, saw two teenagers walk out of the store just as a pick-up truck pulled up to the gas pumps. The driver, Russell Peterman, got out and began to fill his tank.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Riggs, followed by Mincey, exited the store. When Mincey saw Peterman at the gas pumps, he turned Mrs. Riggs over to Jenkins and walked toward the pumps. Peterman testified that as he was pumping gas, he was confronted by a young white man with a pistol in his hand, who said, "come go with me." Peterman was so surprised that he failed to respond. The man said, "You think I'm joking, don't you?" Then he shot Peterman in the chest. Peterman fell to the ground, and the man walked over and shot him in the face. When this happened, Jenkins proceeded toward the getaway car and the teenagers ran. Jones, sitting in the car, saw Mrs. Riggs run after them, but she ran too late. Mincey came back across the parking lot and fired at her. Jones saw Mrs. Riggs grab her neck and fall behind the dumpster. Mincey walked behind the dumpster and bent down. Jones heard a second shot. Mincey ran to the car, got in, and they left. They counted the money taken from the store -- about $40. Jones asked if the victims were dead. Mincey answered, "Yes, they are dead. I know they are dead, I shot both of them."
Then Mincey asked where the kids were. When he found out they had escaped, he said, "Well, I just got a death sentence." Jones' car was a multi-colored Mustang with mag wheels, no hood, one working headlight and a loud muffler. When police arrived at the scene a few minutes after the robbery, witnesses were able to describe the car and identify its owner. Jones was soon located and placed under arrest. After he named Mincey as a participant, officers went to Mincey's residence and placed him under arrest. Mincey thereafter admitted to law enforcement officers that he had shot Peterman and Mrs. Riggs. Mrs. Riggs died.
An autopsy revealed that she had been shot twice. One bullet entered her left ear, went through her head, and lodged in her right cheek. This bullet was recovered. The other entered the right side of her head through the temporal bone (driving bone fragments into her brain), deflected, and exited on the right side of her neck. This bullet, which inflicted the fatal wound, was not recovered. Peterman lived. One bullet entered his chest and lodged in a muscle close to his spine, where it remains. The other bullet entered the left side of his head and traveled across his face. Two weeks after he was shot, his condition had stabilized sufficiently that this wound could be operated on. The bullet was removed from under his right eyebrow. His left optic nerve was damaged by the passage of the bullet and he is now totally blind in his left eye. His right eye suffered severe retinal damage and has a drooping upper lid, which may or may not eventually elevate on its own. With the lid lifted out of the way, his right eye has approximately 40% of its original vision. A .380 Llama pistol was recovered from Mincey's trailer. Ballistics examination showed it to be the pistol which had fired the bullets recovered from Peterman and Mrs. Riggs.
On October 11, 2001, the Superior Court of Bibb County filed an order, setting the seven-day window in which the execution of Terry Michael Mincey could occur to begin at 12:00pm on October 25, 2001 and end seven days later at 12:00pm on November 1, 2001. The Commissioner of the Department of Corrections set the specific date and time for the execution as 7:00p.m. on October 25, 2001, pursuant to the discretion given the Commissioner under state law. Mincey had previously concluded his direct appeal, as well as state and federal habeas corpus proceedings. The scheduled execution of Mincey was carried out at approximately 8:06pm on Thursday, October 25, 2001.
On April 12, 1982, sometime after 10:00 p.m., Terry Mincey, Robert Jones and Timothy Jenkins, decided to rob a Mini Food Store at the corner of Houston Avenue and Hartley Bridge Road in Macon, Georgia. Mincey and Jenkins got out of the car and Jones remained behind the wheel, leaving the motor running. While Jenkins positioned himself besides an ice machine outside the store where he could see the store's counter area through the storefront window.
Mincey entered the store and pulled his pistol from under his coat. Two teenagers saw Mincey in the store and Mincey told them to get into the car parked outside and ordered the store's cashier, Paulette Riggs, to empty the cash register into the bag that Mincey was carrying. When the teenagers left the store, Jenkins, told them to stay put. At this point, Russell Peterman, a Bibb County firefighter, pulled up to the gas pumps and began pumping gas. Meanwhile, Mincey escorted Riggs from the store at gunpoint, told her to stand next to Jenkins and headed toward Peterman. Mincey told Peterman, "come go with me." Peterman did not respond and Mincey, exhibiting a flash of anger, said, "You think I'm joking, don't you." Mincey then fired once, hitting Peterman in the chest. While Peterman lay there, still conscious, Mincey fired point-blank at Peterman's head. As the second shot rang out, the two teenagers fled to a nearby field.
Mincey believed that the second shot had killed Peterman and headed for the car. When Riggs started to run away, Mincey shot at her and she fell near a dumpster behind the store. Mincey walked to where Riggs was lying, shot her in the head and ran to the Mustang. As they were driving away, Jones asked Mincey if both people were dead and Mincey said, "yes, they are dead, I know they are dead, I shot both of them." When Mincey realized that the two teenagers had escaped, he said, "well, I just got a death sentence . . .a murder rap for $40." Mincey made several incriminating statements.
Mincey was found guilty as charged by a jury in the Superior Court of Bibb County, Georgia on August 23, 1982. On August 26, 1982, Mincey was sentenced to death for the murder and received a life sentence for armed robbery and a consecutive twenty-year sentence for aggravated battery.
The Direct Appeal - The Supreme Court of Georgia affirmed Mincey's convictions and sentences in Mincey v. State, 251 Ga. 255 (1983). A petition for a writ of certiorari was denied on November 7, 1983. Mincey v. Georgia, 464 U.S. 977 (1983), rehearing denied, 464 U.S. 1064 (1984).
First State Habeas Corpus Petition - Mincey, represented by Michael Hauptman, filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the Superior Court of Butts County, Georgia, which was denied, following an evidentiary hearing, on February 7, 1988. The Supreme Court of Georgia subsequently denied a application for a certificate of probable cause to appeal and then the Supreme Court denied certiorari in Mincey v. Georgia, 488 U.S. 871 (1988), rehearing denied, 488 U.S. 977 (1988).
First Federal Habeas Corpus Petition - Mincey filed petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, which was dismissed without prejudice.
Second State Habeas Corpus Petition - Mincey filed a second state habeas corpus petition which was dismissed on March 3, 1984.
Second Federal Habeas Corpus Petition - Mincey's second federal habeas corpus petition was filed in the Middle District of Georgia and the District Court denied relief on May 7, 1997. Mincey's motion to alter or amend judgment was denied on August 26, 1997.
Appeal to the Eleventh Circuit - Following the filing of briefs and oral argument, the Eleventh Circuit affirmed the denial of federal habeas corpus relief to Mincey on March 16, 2000 in Mincey v. Head, 206 F. 3d. 1106 (11th Cir. 2000) and rehearing en banc was denied on August 10, 2000. Mincey's petition for certiorari was denied on March 19, 2001 and rehearing was denied on May 14, 2001.
Third State Habeas Corpus Petition - Following the entering of the abovementioned execution order, Mincey filed his third petition for a writ of habeas corpus on October 19, 2001. Mincey amended his third state habeas corpus petition on October 22, 2001. On October 23, 2001, the state habeas corpus court denied Mincey's petition and motion for a stay of execution and granted the Respondent's (Warden Fredrick Head, represented by the Attorney General's Office) motion to dismiss the petition.
On October 24, 2001, Mincey filed a motion for stay of execution in the Supreme Court of Georgia and an application for a certificate of probable cause to appeal from the denial and dismissal of Mincey's third state habeas corpus petition, which were denied on October 25, 2001.
JACKSON, Ga. (Reuters) - Georgia conducted its first execution by lethal injection on Thursday, putting to death a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk during a 1982 robbery. Terry Mincey, 40, whom defense attorneys depicted as an innocent man as well as a ``guinea pig'' for lethal injection in Georgia, was executed after last-ditch pleas for clemency were rejected. Mincey had been scheduled to be executed at 7 p.m. EDT, but the execution was delayed for almost an hour while final appeals were considered. He was pronounced dead at 8:06 p.m.
Georgia Department of Corrections spokesman Scott Stallings said Mincey refused a prayer but thanked his family and friends before an injection of lethal chemicals in the death chamber at the state prison in Jackson, about 50 miles (80 km) south of Atlanta. The execution, the first in Georgia since 1998, came less than three weeks after the state Supreme Court ruled the use of the electric chair to execute inmates was unconstitutional because it inflicted needless suffering.
The court ordered the state to switch its method to lethal injection. Mincey's lawyers had argued that the execution should not proceed since they had not had enough time to investigate whether lethal injection was unconstitutional. The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles rejected Mincey's request for clemency following a hearing on Wednesday. Mincey was convicted of shooting Paulette Riggs and stealing $141.19 from a cash register at a convenience store in Macon, Georgia, 75 miles south of Atlanta. His lawyers had argued that one of Mincey's co-defendants killed Riggs. There are now 127 prisoners on Georgia's death row.
JACKSON, Ga. (AP) - A Methodist minister's son convicted of killing a woman during a 1982 convenience store robbery on Thursday became the first Georgia inmate to die by lethal injection.
Terry Michael Mincey, 41, was pronounced dead at 8:06 p.m., prison officials said. Mincey had been set to die in the electric chair until Oct. 5, when the state's high court ruled that the chair violated the ban on cruel and unusual punishment. That shifted all the state's executions to injection, which had already been adopted for crimes committed after May 2000.
Mincey was convicted of killing Paulette Riggs in an April 1982 robbery at a convenience store in south Bibb County, near Macon. The Georgia Supreme Court denied Mincey's motion for a stay of execution Thursday afternoon. The U.S. Supreme Court, acting on two petitions from Mincey's attorneys, refused to block the execution about an hour before it was to take place. The court later rejected a third request for a stay.
''At this point, I'd just like to thank the people who stood by me,'' Mincey told the 19 witnesses. There were seven state witnesses, five media witnesses and seven witnesses for Mincey. Mincey was lying on a gurney that was angled in the death chamber so he could see the witnesses. State prison warden Fred Head read the execution order and the prison chaplain squeezed Mincey's hand. He stared at a couple who were among his witnesses and nodded his head slightly. When the two executioners in a back room started the injections, Mincey looked at the ceiling and closed his eyes. He swallowed and uttered several words witnesses could not understand.
At one point, Mincey seemed to breathe heavily. The breathing became weaker and less frequent until it stopped. Two doctors came and checked for vital signs, and both shook their heads. Head pronounced the court-ordered execution of Mincey carried out at 8:06 p.m.
The execution was delayed while Mincey's last appeals played out, said Mike Light, executive assistant to the state corrections commissioner. Light said prison officials began strapping Mincey onto the gurney at 7:35 p.m.
Mincey appeared in the chamber with black hair and a black mustache, instead of the shaved head he would have had for the electric chair. Mincey was covered from the waist down with a sheet, and witnesses could see his white prison shirt above the sheet. He was strapped to the armrest, and his fingertips were taped to the armrest. There were two plastic tubes running from openings at the rear of the death chamber, and there were wires running from his chest to an EKG machine that monitored his heart. Two correctional officers stood in the chamber, along with a medical technician, who was dressed in a bright, flowery jacket similar to what a nurse would wear in a doctor's office. Executioners used three drugs -- sodium pentothal, a sedative; pavulon, to paralyze the lungs; and potassium chloride, which causes the heart to stop. Mincey's death was the first execution in Georgia since June 1998, when David Loomis Cargill was electrocuted for murdering a Columbus couple in 1985. The state currently has 127 men and one woman on death row.
Georgia had used the electric chair since 1924, when it replaced hanging. A total of 441 people have been put to death in Georgia's chair. Alabama and Nebraska are the only states left that use the electric chair as the sole means of execution. Mincey, a career criminal found guilty of several convenience store robberies, received a physical and a shower Thursday afternoon, followed by his final meal. He had asked prison officials to serve him fried shrimp, a baked potato, a pint of chocolate ice cream and two cans of soda.
Terry Mincey is scheduled to be executed in Georgia on 25 October. He has spent more than 19 years - almost half his life - on death row. He was sentenced to death for the murder of Paulette Riggs, who was shot dead on 12 April 1982 during a robbery of the store in Macon where she worked. A second person, Russell Peterman, was also shot during the crime. He survived, blinded in one eye. Terry Mincey was sentenced to death in August 1982.
Two years earlier, Terry Mincey had had a near fatal motorcycle accident. At the trial, although family members testified that he had undergone a drastic personality change after the accident, with severe mood swings and an impaired memory, the defence presented no expert mental health evidence about the head injury and its possible effects. Thus the jury never heard the type of expert opinion that was provided in a 1993 affidavit by a psychologist, who stated that the injury would have impaired Mincey's judgement and impulse control: "Mincey's head injury was a significant factor in the case - a factor which when considered establishes that Mr Mincey's actions on the night of the offense were the irrational impulsive actions of a brain damaged individual and not the actions of a cold, calculated, and premeditated murderer".
Eight years after the trial, Terry Mincey's appeal lawyers discovered notes that the prosecutor had taken during a pretrial meeting with the state's psychiatrist, who was a member of the state forensic team which had evaluated Mincey in May 1982. The prosecutor's notes included the following about Terry Mincey: "Brain damage in auto accident. Reflexes more active on 1 side. This indicates motor muscle power differential. It is possible he might now be more susceptible to irrational behavior". The notes also indicated that Mincey had a history of drug abuse, and had been under the influence of LSD or quaaludes at the time of the crime. In Brady v Maryland (1963), the US Supreme Court held that "the suppression by the prosecution of evidence favorable to an accused... violates due process where the evidence is material either to guilt or to punishment, irrespective of the good faith or bad faith of the prosecution". However, the appeal courts have dismissed Mincey's claim that the withheld evidence amounted to an unconstitutional Brady violation, saying that the claim should have been raised earlier, and that even if the notes had been disclosed to the defence at the time of the trial, it would not have led to a different outcome.
Arguing for death at the 1982 trial, the prosecutor had argued that Mincey would pose a future risk of violence, in prison or outside, if allowed to live. In almost two decades on death row, Terry Mincey has reportedly had one disciplinary write-up, for a minor non-violent breach of prison rules. He has continued to educate himself over the years, including, for example, by learning Japanese. A journalist who covered the original trial for a local newspaper subsequently developed a friendship with Terry Mincey. He has recently written of Mincey: "his actions as well as his words demonstrate his remorse for his crime and for the destruction he has caused... He has spent nearly twenty years reflecting upon his life and his actions, and he appears to me to have matured and changed. Terry is not the reckless, chaotic young man of April 1982...".
"Mincey Lethal Injection Opens Door to More," by Bill Rankin and Rhonda Cook.
Idle for three years before last week, Georgia's death chamber may now see more executions in a month than in any year since 1987. On Thursday, Terry Mincey became the first Georgia prisoner to be put to death by lethal injection. The execution occurred a mere 20 days after the Georgia Supreme Court declared the electric chair unconstitutional, clearing the way for lethal injection to replace it. With two more executions planned over the next two weeks, Georgia's death penalty is now being carried out aggressively compared to years past. Prosecutors say the time has been long overdue, while death penalty opponents fear a rush to executions will lead to errors in the lethal injection process and the potential that wrongly convicted inmates will be put to death. If all three executions are carried out, the state will have executed more people this year than any year since 1987, when five people were put to death in the electric chair. Since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, Georgia has carried out 24 executions. "It's just a matter of the cases being held by the courts as they were considering the question of whether or not electrocution was cruel and unusual punishment," said Attorney General Thurbert Baker. "A number of cases were sitting there waiting for that resolution and once that was resolved, a number came forward."
The long delays have been frustrating for some prosecutors. Cobb County District Attorney Pat Head called the protracted delays between the exhaustion of appeals and execution intolerable. "If we're going to have a death penalty in Georgia, then it's got to be carried out," Head said. "Otherwise, we're not only causing tremendous problems for the victims, but for the accused as well."
Only days before Mincey was executed, Head obtained a judge's order that Fred Marion Gilreath be put to death on Nov. 13. Gilreath, 63, was convicted for the 1979 murders of his wife and father-in-law. Jose High is scheduled to be executed Nov. 6 for the 1976 murder of an 11-year-old boy in Taliaferro County.
Atlanta lawyer Mike Mears, who represents indigent defendants charged with capital crimes, said he believes the state quickly set the executions to avoid having the courts hear evidence as to whether lethal injection, like the electric chair, is cruel and unusual punishment. "I think they're dead set on getting it down pat before we get a chance to challenge it," Mears said. "If they're so satisfied that it's not cruel and unusual punishment, why not let a judge hear the evidence and decide it? There's no reason for this rush headlong into this many executions."
Mears, who is launching challenges against lethal injection, said the issue will get its first hearing on Nov. 21 in Fulton County in the pending capital case against Timothy Dawson. Dawson, accused of killing three men who were in town for an Atlanta Falcons game in 1998, has yet to stand trial. "In the meantime," Mears said, "we could have a lot of people being experimented on by people at the Department of Corrections who have had no serious training whatsoever in the process they're going to be using to take these guys' lives." Mears said he will present evidence of numerous botched lethal injection executions across the country. Mincey's execution, however, went smoothly. "The execution went entirely according to protocol," said Department of Corrections spokesman Mike Light. "We're confident that the procedure met all Georgia laws and constitutional standards."
And with the electric chair no longer a target for legal attack, death penalty opponents may find it much more difficult to halt future executions, legal experts say. "By making the death penalty a little more sanitized and avoiding the specter of one of those botched electric chair executions, the switch to lethal injection may help secure the future of the death penalty in Georgia," Mercer University law professor Jim Fleissner said. "Obviously the defense bar is fighting the death penalty on every front, including a full-court press against lethal injection," said Fleissner, a former prosecutor. "But lethal injection looks like a medical procedure, with no mutilation of the person. I think it's going to be very hard to attack that as a means of execution."
Gwinnett District Attorney Danny Porter agreed. "I suspect that legal challenges to lethal injection will get fairly short shrift," he said. "Ironically, I think, the end result of the electric chair being declared unconstitutional is that it's going to make it much more difficult for death penalty opponents to challenge the method of lethal injection and the death penalty itself." By the time most condemned prisoners' executions are scheduled, they have already exhausted numerous rounds of appeals. These include the direct appeal and state and federal lawsuits --- called writs of habeas corpus --- that attack the constitutionality of their convictions and sentences.
Because it is so difficult to get courts to consider further appeals after those claims have been exhausted, the most likely way to launch a serious attack against lethal injection would be to raise the issue before trial, as Mears and other defense attorneys are raising in several pending capital cases.. But in its ruling banning the electric chair, the Georgia Supreme Court appeared to tacitly endorse lethal injection, taking note that the Legislature had already switched to allow executions by lethal injection for murders committed after May 1, 2000. "The Legislature's adoption of lethal injection . . . reflects societal consensus that the 'science of the present day' has provided a less painful, less barbarous means for taking the life of condemned prisoners," Justice Carol Hunstein wrote for the court's majority. Still, death penalty opponents say the state is making a mistake by setting the three executions so soon after the Georgia Supreme Court's ruling.
"Why the rush?" asked Richard Dieter of the Washington, D.C.-based Death Penalty Information Center. "I don't think the necessary issues have been adequately aired to set executions so quickly." Dieter suggested that state attorneys, stung by losing the legal battle against the electric chair, are mounting a campaign to reassert the imposition of the death penalty in Georgia. "It too often gets to be a pitched battle, and sometimes that leads to mistakes," he said. "Where emotions and politics are intertwined, it's better to be careful and deliberate than to turn this into a cause for winning and losing."
Since the death penalty was reinstated by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1976, the state of Georgia has carried out 24 executions. All told, Georgia has carried out 442 executions, the first in 1924. There were no executions from 1976 until 1983. Here is the year-by-year total since then: 1983....1; 1984....2; 1985....3; 1986....1; 1987....5; 1988....1; 1989....1; 1990....0; 1991....1; 1992....0; 1993....2; 1994....1; 1995....2; 1996....2; 1997....0; 1998....1; 1999....0; 2000....0; 2001....1.
Terry Mincey was executed in Georgia on the evening of 25 October for the murder of Paulette Riggs in 1982. The state Board of Pardons and Paroles rejected clemency on 24 October. Terry Mincey becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in Georgia. Earlier this month, the state Supreme Court ruled that Georgia's use of the electric chair was unconstitutional. It was the first execution in the state since June 1998 and the 24th since executions resumed in the USA in 1977. This was the 56th execution in the USA this year and the 739th since 1977.
Vigils on took place on the evening of Thursday, Oct 25 at the prison in Jackson, the state capitol in Atlanta, Americus, Athens, and Savannah. Terry's execution was scheduled at 7pm, but halted by the Supreme Court minutes before 7pm. An hour and six minutes later he was pronounced dead after the state killed him.
"Mincey Quietly Executed; Georgia Uses Injection for First Time," by Rhonda Cook and Bill Osinski.
Jackson - Terry Mincey became the first person in Georgia to die by lethal injection Thursday. His death came at 8:06 p.m., 10 minutes after he received the first of a series of three drugs --- a sedative, a paralyzing agent and then one that brought on a heart attack --- and 19 years after he killed a 38-year-old Bibb County convenience store clerk named Paulette Riggs, the mother of three, during a $140 robbery. Riggs' death was violent and noisy, from gunshots. Mincey's death was sterile, efficient, emotionless.
Until Thursday, Georgia had not executed anyone in three years. But the unofficial moratorium on capital punishment in Georgia was broken Oct. 5, when the state Supreme Court ruled electrocution unconstitutional. With electrocutions, witnesses hear the sound of the generator that produces the electricity as it moves through its cycles and see the condemned person's hands move and the color of his flesh turn red. Thursday night's execution was like watching somebody go to sleep.
A day of frantic appeals by Mincey's lawyers to various courts wound down to nearly an hour's delay in the execution. In the end, all courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, turned down his appeals. His defenders questioned, among other things, whether Mincey was the main triggerman among the three men involved in the crime. The other two did not get the death penalty.
Mincey, 41, appeared calm as witnesses filed into the brightly lit room on the other side of the glass window of the death chamber at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison. He was strapped onto a gurney, his arms reaching out to the walls on each side of him. His last words were to his friends: "I just want to say to all the people who stood by me, I appreciate it. That's it." Warden Fredrick Head read the death warrant that condemned "Terry Michael Mincey," and left him on the gurney in the small cinderblock room, tubes running into both arms. A chaplain squeezed Mincey's left hand before going into another room from which he and the executioners could watch the procedure through a one-way glass.
Mincey, who was called Mitchell Terry Mincey on appeals documents, could see the official witnesses, including two of his friends, through regular glass. He appeared calm throughout the procedure. He looked around the room at the guard in the corner and then at some of the witnesses, nodding to those sitting to his right. He closed his eyes for a moment and then struggled to open them. His lips moved, and then he closed his eyes for the last time. His chest moved for a while longer and then stopped. The room was quiet. The only sounds were reporters taking notes with pencils, while a guard sighed and a woman coughed.
Witnesses knew it was over only when the warden and two doctors came into the death chamber. First, one listened to Mincey's heart with a stethoscope and shook his head "no," indicating no heartbeat. Then a second listened for a heartbeat, looked at the warden and also shook his head that there was none. The warden turned to the witnesses and said, "The court-ordered execution of Terry Michael Mincey was carried out at 8:06 p.m." In the hours before his death, Mincey visited with friends and relatives, as he did on Wednesday. At 4:45 p.m., he had his final meal of fried shrimp, baked potato, two soft drinks and chocolate ice cream. Vigils were held at the state Capitol and at the prison. Mincey was subdued and submissive on his last day, said prison spokesman Mike Light. The GBI will take his body to Tyler Funeral Home in Decatur. His witnesses were three lawyers and two friends.
One of those friends, Tracey Bilow, recalled him as a man who was a steady worker and had a good sense of humor. "He wasn't the type to go out and start whoopin' on anybody," said Bilow, who knew him from the Bibb County community of Lizella. Bilow, who had remained in contact with Mincey, said the public shouldn't be quick to judge him. "I feel sorry for the victim and her family, but I also feel sorry for the man being strapped to the table," she said as she prepared to witness the execution of her friend. "I feel like God should be the one to do the punishment." She was accompanied by Skip Hulett, a former Macon newspaper reporter who covered Mincey's trial and later became his friend. "Terry has changed," Hulett said. "He's a lot different from the reckless, directionless young man he was." Hulett said he had some doubts about Mincey's guilt during the trial "and those questions have never been answered."
Mincey also had unanswered questions in his own mind, Hulett said before the execution. "He still doesn't know how it could have happened, how he could have gotten involved with that kind of violence." After the execution, Hulett and Bilow left the prison area holding each other for support. "Terry died with dignity," Hulett said, adding that the procedure seemed very mechanical. "We've made a routine out of something that's as brutal and horrible as what Terry took part in."
An acquaintance of Mincey's came to the prison to support the execution. Tommy Goss of Macon ran an amusement arcade called the Wreck House in Bibb County at the time of the killing, and Mincey hung out there. "He was a typical teenager," Goss said. However, the woman Mincey killed was also just a typical working woman, trying to help support her family, he said. To Goss, her death was the justifying argument for Mincey's execution. "There are certain things people do that make them forfeit their right to live on this Earth," Goss said. Goss was the lone pro-execution demonstrator. Approximately 40 people came to protest.
David Courtenay-Quirk, of the Atlanta group Campaign to End the Death Penalty, said people who commit the same crime receive varying sentences based on their race or social standing or on the zealousness of the prosecutor. "The death penalty is basically a crapshoot," he said. Mincey's execution came after a flurry of attempts to stop it, including an attack on the credibility of the state Board of Pardons and Paroles just minutes before the five people on the clemency board were asked to commute Mincey's sentence to life.
The recurring claims in the challenges were that one of Mincey's co-defendants actually fired the fatal shot, that Georgia was not prepared to carry out lethal injection humanely and that two board members accused of unethical behavior would want to reject Mincey's appeals to please the Attorney General's Office, which is investigating the pair. Mincey's co-defendants, Timothy Jenkins and Robert Jones, pleaded guilty and cooperated with authorities. Jones is serving a life sentence on a murder plea. Jenkins, who pleaded guilty to armed robbery, was released from prison in 1992.
"Efforts Mount to Stop Execution; Mincey Appeal Contends Procedure Rushed," by Rhonda Cook.
Those who loved Paulette Riggs will remember Terry Michael Mincey because he was convicted of snuffing out her life for $141.19 from a convenience store cash register. But outside that circle of people, Mincey will most likely be known as the first person in Georgia to die by lethal injection --- if his execution is carried out Thursday as planned. For three years, Georgia has not executed anyone though there are 127 men and a woman under a death sentence. But since the Georgia Supreme Court ruled electrocution was unconstitutional two weeks ago, two have been put in line to die at the hands of the state --- Mincey first, for shooting Riggs at a Macon convenience store in 1982, to be followed on Nov. 6 by Jose High, sentenced to die for the 1976 murder of an 11-year-old boy in Taliaferro County.
"I think it would be a travesty if we can't stop this execution," said Amy Donnella, Mincey's attorney. "But that is my fear." Late Friday, Mincey's lawyer filed an appeal with the court in Butts County, the home of death row. Donnella argued that her experts had not had time to review Department of Corrections protocols for lethal injection. She also argued that someone else committed the murder. No hearing has been scheduled.
Anti-death penalty forces are shocked that the executions were scheduled so soon after a gurney replaced the chair in the death chamber at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison near Jackson. They also worry that the executions could be carried out before the Georgia Supreme Court can review yet-to-be presented evidence that lethal injection also is cruel and unusual punishment. "How can you execute someone in good conscience knowing that the legality of the method of execution has not been tested by the Georgia Supreme Court?" said attorney Tom West, who represents defendants in four pending death penalty cases but is not associated with Mincey's or High's cases.
Yet officials with the state claim that the state Supreme Court already approved lethal injection in its Oct. 5 decision throwing out electrocution by noting that the change in method "reflects societal consensus that the 'science of the present day' has provided a less painful, less barbarous means of taking the life of condemned prisoners." Some legal scholars don't expect the state's justices, at this time, to strike down lethal injection, which has been upheld by other courts. "There have been a string of challenges," said Fordham University law professor Deborah Denno. "It's just they have never succeeded . . . Every state and federal court has upheld. It's never been knocked down. But it has come close to being questioned."
Anti-death penalty forces in Georgia argue, however, that they are prepared to present evidence that lethal injection, like electrocution, represents "cruel and unusual punishment," specifically at a Nov. 19 hearing in a death penalty case pending in Fulton County. If the judge in that case finds lethal injection unconstitutional, that would be their avenue to get the issue before the Georgia Supreme Court in an effort to stop other executions, including Mincey's and High's if they are stayed.
"Why are they [the state's attorneys] so anxious to kill someone?" said attorney Mike Mears, who has filed a similar motion in two other pending capital cases. "These people have been on death row a long time. What's another month going to matter?" To their chagrin, Mincey's attorney did not receive documents detailing the dosages of the three drugs that will be used until late Thursday. She said the information provided is unclear and her experts have not had time to review them. Donnella is especially worried that the level of sedatives would not be enough. If Mincey should wake during the procedure, she said, no one would know that he was suffering because another drug used would have paralyzed him. Denno, the execution expert, said the paralyzing agent was used, primarily, because officials did not know how the condemned might respond to the lethal drugs. "It doesn't look so great to have somebody jerking around on a gurney so they admit it's to paralyze them," Denno said. Donnella thinks the procedure to be used in Georgia has not been well thought out and that suggests the Department of Corrections is not prepared to carry out a lethal injection. Not true, said Warden Fredrick Head.
First there are two injections of a sedative, each one gram of sodium pentothal mixed in 50 CCs of water. The next step is to administer 50 CCs of Pavulon, which causes the lungs to collapse and paralyzes the condemned. Then, 60 CCs of potassium chloride are injected to stop the heart. A doctor watching a heart monitor attached to the inmate will signal when his heart stops. Then two other doctors, using stethoscopes, will confirm that he is dead. Thirty-five other states use lethal injection, including 14 in which the inmate or the state can choose between lethal injection or another method --- either firing squad, gas chamber, electrocution or hanging, depending on the state. "If they're going to kill people, they need to come up with a procedure that people can agree . . . is the best possible way to do it," West said. "You can tell reading these things [the protocols] it's hastily thrown together. The person responsible for the maintenance and production and preparation of the three chemicals is the assistant warden for security. What does the assistant warden for security know about handling, preparation, care and management of drugs? Probably not very much but that's what we're dealing with here," he said.
"Condemned Killer's Guilt is Disputed; Mincey Lawyer Files Challenge," by Bill Rankin.
With Georgia's first lethal injection execution scheduled next week, a lawyer for condemned killer Terry Mincey is contending her client did not fire the fatal shot that killed a Macon convenience store cashier in 1982.
Although Mincey was prosecuted as the gunman who killed Paulette Riggs, the Bibb County district attorney's office had evidence suggesting otherwise and never disclosed it, said a legal motion filed Friday by Mincey's lawyer. The challenge, which seeks a new trial, was filed in Superior Court in Butts County, home of Georgia's death row. "There can be no doubt that confidence in the outcome of Mr. Mincey's trial and capital sentencing proceeding is undermined," said the court petition. It also challenges lethal injection as a method of execution and contends the Georgia Supreme Court has failed to determine whether capital sentences are proportionate to penalties imposed in similar cases.
The legal challenge contends that Mincey's co-defendant, Timothy Jenkins, fired the shot that killed Riggs. The motion cites statements recently made by Jenkins' ex-wife, two eyewitnesses to the armed robbery and a retired GBI ballistics examiner who says "the available evidence" indicates Riggs was killed by Jenkins' gun. Jenkins, who pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and robbery, testified for the state at Mincey's trial, saying that Mincey killed Riggs. Jenkins pleaded guilty to armed robbery and aggravated battery and was released from prison in August 1992.
Graham Thorpe, a Bibb County assistant district attorney who prosecuted the case, said he finds Mincey's new contentions unbelievable. "If it were true that Jenkins shot Paulette Riggs and Terry Mincey did not, then why has Terry Mincey sat on death row for 19 years without bothering to tell anybody that?" he asked. At trial, Bibb prosecutors described Mincey as a calculating killer who led two other armed men during a murderous robbery.
On the evening of April 12, 1982, Mincey, Jenkins and Robert Jones got together and planned a hold-up. After driving by a Mini Food Store, they circled back and parked. According to court testimony, Mincey entered the store and then returned to the car, telling the others there were only a female clerk and two teenagers inside. Mincey then informed Jones and Jenkins he did not plan to leave any witnesses. After the robbery of about $140, Mincey shot and killed Riggs and shot and seriously wounded an off-duty fireman who was pumping gas, according to testimony. The two teenagers escaped unharmed.
According to court records, Jenkins served as the lookout and Jones drove the car. Jones is serving a life sentence for felony murder. Mincey's new court petition says that a brother and sister who were in the store at the time of the robbery have signed affidavits saying they saw Jenkins holding a gun on Riggs and that they heard shots fired and Riggs scream after they fled the scene. And Jenkins' ex-wife, Julie Chavies, said in a sworn affidavit that Jenkins talked about the crime after he returned home that night. "He was very nervous, pacing around and mumbling to himself. I got up and saw he was in the bathroom scrubbing his hands with Ajax. After scrubbing his hands, he cleaned his gun," she said in the affidavit.
At one point, Jenkins told her, "I did a terrible thing --- we were getting high and riding around and we killed them," according to Chavies' affidavit. She also said that she told this information to Bibb District Attorney Will Sparks. Sparks committed suicide in 1993, shooting himself in the head at the county courthouse. Amy Donnella, Mincey's attorney, said Friday that she was grateful the witnesses came forward. "I think they recognized that the truth had to come out," she said. Kelly Fite, who was once the GBI's chief ballistics examiner, said in a sworn affidavit that he was troubled by his review of the case. "It is my expert opinion that an insufficient investigation was conducted concerning the ballistics evidence in this case and that improper evidence handling techniques resulted in the loss of crucial evidence," he said. He also said that Jenkins' behavior on the night of the killing, as described by Chavies, is consistent with someone who had just fired a handgun and who was trying to destroy the evidence. Fite noted that the ballistics evidence supports the prosecution's argument that Mincey shot Riggs but he said that Riggs was shot twice, once in the back and once in the head. The bullet recovered from Riggs' back was fired from the Llama handgun found at Mincey's home, according to court testimony. But the fatal bullet fired into Riggs' skull was never recovered, Fite said.
Fite also said that only one spent cartridge shell was found near Riggs' body, when there should have been two if two shots had been fired from the Llama, which ejects shells after being fired. Fite noted that Jenkins' gun, a .38-caliber revolver, did not eject shells when fired. "If Jenkins had fired the fourth shot . . . that would explain the absence of a fourth cartridge at the scene," Fite said.


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The Four Pillars of Politics provides a uniform foundation for evaluating political campaign strategies. The four pillars identified in this book-fear, national narcissism, consumerism, and religion-serve as attitudinal anchors that American voters use in making their voting decisions. The dominant pillar may change from election to election, leading to situations in which a candidate who wins in one election may be defeated four years later. Kitchens and Powell examine how political communication is understood by combining these four pillars with the related matrix of attitudes, beliefs, and values that are integral components of the American culture. The Four Pillars of Politics will appeal to scholars of political science, communication studies, and journalism.
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Long Live the Queen (Adelaide Trade Mark)
June 22, 2017 / Winter Report 2017
If you have trade marks you probably know about the "use it or lose it" provisions. In order to maintain your trade mark registration you need to continue to use your registered mark in the course of trade for the goods and services to which the registration relates.
However, the recent decision of the Australian Trade Marks Office in relation to the trade mark WOODLEY'S QUEEN ADELAIDE RIESLING[1] (Queen Adelaide Case) has demonstrated that it is possible to retain the registration of a trade mark despite there being no relevant use of the mark in limited circumstances, as explained below.
Non-Use Provisions
Section 92(4)(b) of the Trade Marks Act 1995 (Act) provides that if the registered owner of a trade mark does not use their trade mark in Australia in relation to the goods and services to which the registration relates for a continuous period of 3 years another party may, after one month, apply to have the unused trade mark removed from the register.[2] The burden of rebutting any allegation made under Section 92(4)(b) is on the owner of the registered trade mark, who must show that it has indeed used the trade mark.[3]
The requirement for use, and the non-use provisions, are a fundamental principle of Australia's trade mark laws and have been often applied.[4] In some cases, even use of the mark has not been enough; such as the case of the WILD GEESE WINES trade mark[5] discussed in the article in our 2016 Spring Report. Here a licensee was actively using the trade mark, but the trade mark owner's mere right to control, without any actual control, was not sufficient use to prevent removal of the mark.
The possibility that a trade mark can be removed is common, even in countries like China where the trade mark system is on a first to register basis.
Queen Adelaide Case
In the Queen Adelaide Case, Modern Ancient Brands Pty Ltd (Modern Ancient Brands) sought removal for non-use of the registered trade mark appearing below, containing the words WOODLEY'S QUEEN ADELAIDE RIESLING, in relation to wine (Trade Mark):
Modern Ancient Brands wished to register WOODLEY as a trade mark in relation to wine, but its application had been rejected under section 44 of the Act as being substantially identical or deceptively similar to the Trade Mark. The removal of the Trade Mark for non-use would, therefore, allow its trade mark application to proceed. Although, it is interesting to note that Modern Ancient Brands had rejected an offer for its trade mark to co-exist with the Trade Mark.
The Trade Mark owner, Make Wine Pty Ltd (Make Wine), no longer produced and sold wines with the Trade Mark. The only possible use of the Trade Mark during the relevant 3 year period was the sale of a small number of bottles of wine bearing the Trade Mark through wine auctions.
The argument advanced for use of the Trade Mark in the Queen Adelaide Case was that the auction of the Queen Adelaide wine constituted sales in a secondary market amounting to use of the Trade Mark. The enquiry turned on whether the use was in the course of trade, presumably by Make Wine. Modern Ancient Brands' position was that the wine had been purchased for private use and had left the market place. Therefore, when then sold at auction, it was not use of the Trade Mark in the course of trade.
The Delegate of the Trade Mark Registrar, who was the decision maker in this case, found that the sales of the Queen Adelaide wines through wine auctions did not constitute use of the Trade Mark by Make Wine in the course of trade. This was essentially based on the finding that the wines were bought by individuals for their private consumption rather than for the purposes of investment or resale. Their sale many years later in small quantities for marginal prices (of $2 to $3 per bottle) indicated that the wines did not remain in the course of trade.
How did Make Wine Retain its Registration of the Trade Mark Despite this Finding of Non-Use?
The Delegate, upon Make Wine's request for the Registrar to do so, exercised the discretion of the Registrar in section 102(3) of the Act not to remove the Trade Mark from the Register even though the grounds on which the application for its removal were established. The Registrar was entitled to make such a decision if the Registrar was satisfied that it was reasonable to do so.
The Delegate considered there were sufficient reasons for exercising the discretion and maintaining the Trade Mark on the Register. While Make Wine's "significant and enduring" reputation in its QUEEN ADELAIDE branded wines was a leading consideration, even greater importance was placed on its current sales of wine under a new label that was considered to be deceptively similar to the Trade Mark. The new label did not contain WOODLEY which, you will recall, was Modern Ancient Brands' desired mark. However this was considered not to be relevant as this case was about the use and reasons for retaining on the register the Trade Mark.
Modernisation of Trade Marks
An important recognition was made in the Queen Adelaide Case that traders commonly update and alter their trade marks to keep up with the times.
It may be expected that such changes might come within section 100(3)(a) of the Act. This provides that an allegation of non-use can be rebutted where a trade mark, which has been altered or added to in a way that does not substantially affect its identity, has been used in good faith. This provision was not referred to in the reasoning in the Queen Adelaide Case, presumably because the new wine label was a substantial change to that represented by the Trade Mark.
This decision suggests that, even where there are substantial enhancements or alterations, there may be scope for traders to retain previous versions of their updated trade marks. This offers some comfort for traders that continued protection may be afforded for older marks when refreshing and modernising their trade marks, particularly if a substantial reputation can be associated with the trade marks.
Although the decision in the Queen Adelaide Case is encouraging for those with trade marks with a long-standing reputation in the market place and, possibly, for traders seeking to modernise a trade mark, the decision did depend on the exercise of a discretion of the Registrar. It remains important to be vigilant in ensuring you are using your trade mark and that you seek advice on marketing any updated versions.
[1] Make Wine Pty Ltd v Modern Ancient Brands Pty Ltd [2017] ATMO 17 (24 February 2017).
[2] There are slightly different grounds under section 92(4)(a) of the Act for removal where there is claimed to have been no intent to use the trade mark at the time it was applied for.
[3] Section 100 of the Act.
[4] See footnote 5 and also: Dimitri v Chiotelis and Evangelos E. Chiotelis v TAP Worldwide LLC [2014] ATMO 4 (14 January 2014); Shine Beauty Pty Ltd v Shine Ltd [2015] ATMO 21 (23 February 2015); Chitty Chiu (Health 24 Pty Ltd) v Media24 Intelprop Holdings Ltd (2015) 116 IPR 583
[5] Lodestar Anstalt v Campari Inc [2016] FCAFC92.
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Bitter~Sweet ™: Time Stands Still . . . .
Isn't it funny how time can seem to pass at such varied speeds? The weekends zip by in a blink while weekdays pass much more slowly. Today I'm willing to put money on the fact that winter is three times as long as any other season. (Yeah, I know that isn't true, but as I look out the window and see everything coated in ice it sure feels true.) And, of course, there are many times when diabetes certainly makes time crawl. Like when? Well, I'm glad you asked.
Pre-bolusing! I try to dose my insulin about 20 minutes before I eat. And oh my gosh, those 20 minutes take FOREVER to pass.
Coming down from a high! Ugh, high blood sugars. Sleepy, achy, thirsty, syrupy. sluggish torture. Even the fastest of our fast acting insulin can't provide relief quickly enough. And the whole time I'm trying to talk myself out of rage-bolusing, which will only result in a ride on the glucocoaster. And I hate rollercoasters of any kind!
Starting a new sensor! It takes two hours after inserting a new sensor before you can enter the first calibration to get it up and running. In those two hours it's important to keep blood sugars as stable as possible. Which is actually kind of laughable, because, you know, diabetes doesn't really play that way. Suddenly very hungry? Sorry, wait two hours. Feel yourself dropping low (which, ironically, you probably would've caught sooner if your sensor was running)? Well, you have to treat, but now you'd better wait even longer before putting in that first sensor calibration. Oh the things that happen in those two interminable hours.
Coming up from a low! Or, more fairly, coming up from a nasty low. You know the ones? Shaky, sweaty, confused, feeling like you are going to keel over any minute. I really despise those lows, and they usually seem to drag on forever!
Are you with me on this? What other instances have I missed when diabetes makes time absolutely crawl?
Yes to all! One of the pre-bolus timing factors also includes is also when eating out and you prebolus, your order will inevitably be delayed coming out of the kitchen (or be dropped on the floor and have to be remade).


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Seth McFarlane's Ted prequel series wraps filming- Cinema express
Seth McFarlane's upcoming prequel series based on the foul-mouthed Teddy Bear character Ted has reportedly wrapped its filming. The CG animated character, voiced by McFarlane himself, was first introduced in the 2012 live-action comedy film Ted starring Mark Wahlberg in the lead. The film, written and directed by Seth McFarlane, spawned a sequel in 2015.
Seth McFarlane confirmed the end of the film's shooting through an Instagram post that showed Ted sitting through the camera monitor. The series is reportedly set in the 1990s and will feature younger versions of the characters from the original film. The cast of the series includes Scott Grimes, Alanna Ubach, Max Burkholder, and Giorgia Whigham. Burkholder will play the younger version of John Bannett, a character previously portrayed by Mark Wahlberg in the film. Ubach and Grimes will be playing Bannett's parents in the film.
In an interview with Collider, McFarlane elaborated on the plot of the show by saying, "It's a prequel that takes place in 1993 and embraces that era, embraces the nineties and tracks what is essentially Ted's adolescence, I guess. Ted and John's adolescence. And, growing up in a Boston suburb. Look, as somebody who grew up in that part of the country, it's a fun thing to try and recreate."
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