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Judge's Stay Halting First Federal Execution of a Woman in 70 Years Has Been Vacated
Lisa Montgomery faces possible execution this evening.
Lisa Montgomery (Courtesy of attorneys for Lisa Montgomery)
A federal judge had ordered a stay preventing the Department of Justice from executing death row prisoner Lisa Montgomery today, only to have that stay lifted this afternoon by a higher court.
Even though William Barr stepped down as attorney general before Christmas, and even though President Donald Trump is in his office sulking, plans to execute more prisoners during the last days of the administration are still moving forward.
Montgomery is the only woman among the death row inmates the Justice Department scheduled for execution. Montgomery was convicted of choking a pregnant woman to death in 2004, then cutting the baby out of the woman's body to pass it off as her own. The child survived, and Montgomery was convicted and sentenced to death by a unanimous jury. If the execution were to happen, she'd be the first female prisoner put to death by the federal government since 1953.
But her attorneys have argued that she suffers severe mental illness, a result of long-term sexual abuse at the hands of her stepfather, who was encouraged by her mother. Montgomery's older sister has come forward to validate Montgomery's claims and to detail the sexual abuse she also endured when the two of them were children.
Montgomery's defense attorneys argue that her current mental state is so unstable that she no longer understands why the federal government seeks to execute her, and doing so would therefore violate her constitutional rights. Her attorneys brought in three experts, including a retired Federal Bureau of Prisons psychiatrist who used to treat her, to testify that her mental state is such that she cannot understand what's happening to her.
Monday evening, U.S. District Judge James Patrick Hanlon for the Southern District of Indiana ruled that Montgomery's lawsuit would likely succeed on the merits. Hanlon granted a motion to stay for a subsequent hearing to determine her mental competency.
Kelley Henry, Montgomery's attorney, sent out a prepared statement that read in part, "Mrs. Montgomery has brain damage and severe mental illness that was exacerbated by the lifetime of sexual torture she suffered at the hands of caretakers. The Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of people like Mrs. Montgomery who, due to their severe mental illness or brain damage, do not understand the basis for their executions. Mrs. Montgomery is mentally deteriorating and we are seeking an opportunity to prove her incompetence."
The Justice Department is appealing the ruling, but if it holds, Hanlon's order will likely prevent Montgomery from being executed before the end of Trump's term. President-elect Joe Biden, a former supporter of the death penalty, now opposes it (and so does the Democratic Party platform). Even if a subsequent hearing leads to a judge giving the feds clearance to execute her, Biden may (and should!) commute her sentence to life in prison.
Montgomery is not the only death row inmate facing imminent execution in the last days of the Trump administration. Corey Johnson and Dustin Higgs have been scheduled for execution on Thursday and Friday, respectively. The two men tested positive for COVID-19 in December after an outbreak among staff and prisoners at the Terre Haute prison complex. Attorneys for Johnson and Higgs are trying to get injunctions blocking their executions in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, arguing that executing the two men while they're struggling with respiratory issues due to their COVID-19 infections would likely cause additional pain, violating their Eighth Amendment rights.
UPDATE: This afternoon, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan granted injunctions staying the executions of both Johnson and Higgs until March. Chutkan wrote in the ruling, "[E]xecuting inmates who are positive for COVID-19 in a facility with an active COVID-19 outbreak will endanger the lives of those performing the executions and those witnessing it. This is irresponsible at best, particularly when a temporary injunction will reduce these risks."
UPDATE: This afternoon, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit vacated the stay of execution on Montgomery. The Supreme Court also this afternoon denied her application for a stay of execution.
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Scott Shackford is an associate editor at Reason.
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OpenBordersLiberal-tarian
January.12.2021 at 1:35 pm
Lisa Montgomery sounds like a fine candidate for the Koch / Reason #EmptyThePrisons policy.
Dude24
Scott Shackford told us the other day that "the libertarian position" on the death penalty is to oppose it. Oh, gee, thanks, Scott! I was scrambling for The Libertarian Position on this issue over here.
Of course, it's completely false. Does libertarianism allow for:
1) the state to punish crime against persons and property?
2) variety in the severity of punishment depending on the crime?
If so, then there's plenty of room for the death penalty for certain crimes within mainstream libertarian ideology.
So no need for your "arguments from ideological authority", Shackford.
Rev. Arthur L. Kuckland
You assume Scott is libritarian. That's stupid of you
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Montgomery was convicted of choking a pregnant woman to death in 2004, then cutting the baby out of the woman's body to pass it off as her own.
Why hasn't she been executed already? She deserves death.
Gray_Jay
Politicians generally don't like the heat when they push the button on a female murderer. Remember Karla Faye Tucker? It's easier to just delay, delay, keep kicking the can until they age out of being horrible/their victims relatives have mostly died of old age (the various Manson Family women). Do it long enough, and it becomes some other politician's problem.
Fuck that. You read what she did. Crazy or not, this bitch should get the needle (or Old Sparky), and I am not feeling particularly guilty about that. People lie about shit after the fact all the time. Why is it coming out well after trial?
No, no….this one gets the fucking needle.
Why should you feel guilty? She's the human equivalent of a rabid dog. Put her down humanely, and let God deal with exacting further judgment. Too bad the animals who abused her can't be treated similarly.
It's not like she's going to ever get any better. Though if she does get sicker, I predict a release, because then her medical expenses come off someone else's budget…
As far as stuff coming out later, it's a death penalty case. That happens when you've a larger appellate budget than trial budget (both in time and money), and can throw the entire spaghetti pot at the wall to see what sticks.
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Was she crazy in 2004?
Is this blatant sexism going to be praised under the Biden regime?
mad.casual
From the linked article:
Two days before the crime, her former husband (and stepbrother) sought custody of two of her children. At the time, Lisa had told her new husband that she was pregnant, which her former husband knew wasn't possible because of the forced sterilization. He threatened to expose the imagined pregnancy and use it against her in the custody battle.
Sounds like premeditation to me. *Obligatory joke about the general sanity of women who lie about pregnancies.*
It's interesting that they say 'forced sterilization' but skip over the fact that she was an adult when she was sterilized and don't mention any charges regarding the "forced sterilization".
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All of which is nothing more than a sad story meant to be a distraction and generate pity. None of this is a mitigating factor in a brutal multiple homicide.
Yeah, apparently the sister who came forward to say they were abused has managed not to murder any unrelated strangers and the other sisters that are alleged to have been raped also managed not to murder anyone. I might understand the abuse as relevant if her victim were involved in the abuse. As is, AFAICT, this is just proof that you could survive the sexual abuse without becoming murderously insane.
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"Montgomery's defense attorneys argue that her current mental state is so unstable that she no longer understands why the federal government seeks to execute her, and doing so would therefore violate her constitutional rights."
I understand that is is somehow relevant, but I don't understand why.
It's an attempt to get her under the umbrella provided by SCOTUS in Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atkins_v._Virginia
In Atkins, SCOTUS said the state can't execute criminals with intellectual disabilities anymore. There was a lot of whining about cases where states had killed, say the retarded, as in one infamous case (Rickey Ray Rector) where a condemned man asked if he could save some of his last meal for later…
I'm not a strong proponent of the death penalty and I would rarely support it when the perpetrator was total batshit crazy or brain-damaged at the time of the incident. Not that they shouldn't be punished or should ever be inflicted on society at any point in the future, but death not so much.
That said, I see no reason why someone who wasn't either of those things should have their penalty reduced or put on hold because they are now confused or putting on a good show of it, or they are now or have recently been sick. We're supposed to get them lucid and physically healthy, then kill em?
The same goes for those other mentioned who are making the case that COVID might have damaged their lungs and they might feel additional pain while they are being killed. First, so what if true? Second, that's not how the needle works. Anyone saying these are valid reasons to delay an execution is purposely being obtuse or throwing monkey shit, and should be drummed out of the legal profession. Any judge accepting this as legitimate should have his gavel forcibly removed from his soft little hand and publicly shamed.
Rector was perfectly normal, until he tried to commit suicide after shooting a cop. He deserved his death sentence and it was right to put him down like the rabid dog he was.
I don't even understand how it's relevant. My toaster doesn't understand that I'm getting rid of it because it shorted out and almost burned the house down, therefore, I shouldn't get rid of it.
Reminds me of Jacqueline Annette Williams. Killed a pregnant mother and cut the baby from the mother's womb to pass off as her own. And by 'pass off' I mean she had a fake baby shower and had a fake birth certificate printed prior to the murders. "Murder*s*?" you say. Yeah, her and the two other men involved in the crime also killed two of the baby's three young siblings. She was found with the baby, blood-stained debris from the triple homicide in her apartment, and her husband led the police to where they dumped the body of the older boy they took with them.
Outgoing (and subsequently convicted of corruption) Gov. George Ryan couldn't be bothered to look into the case to determine whether Arnette was wrongly convicted and granted blanket clemency to all the current death row inmates.
The Constitutional prohibition is against "cruel and unusual punishments". It says nothing about how the criminal feels or thinks about it, or if they are confused.
Further, executions circa 1800 were either mostly by hanging or a sudden infusion of lead, both of which are undeniably far more "cruel" by the standard of any time than getting a needle in the arm and drifting off slowly into perma-slumber. The potential of having a little extra lung pain for a few seconds, even if true, doesn't compare to writhing on the end of a rope while your lungs spasm until the brain mercifully shuts down, which the framers didn't seem to have a problem with or they could have said so.
To me, any supposed lack of cognitive understanding of your impending fate only benefits the person soon to be executed. Far better to be off fighting your demons somewhere than running through the mental countdown in your head.
Well, so much for equality for women. We should strive to execute as many or more women than men. Prison population parity needs some work too.
Well, so much for equality for women.
Bobby Jo Sinnett's body, Lisa Montgomery's choice.
Squirrelloid
"…plans to execute more prisoners during the last days of the administration are still moving forward."
While not technically untrue (they are still trying to execute Ms. Montgomery), the phrasing makes it sound like there are a bunch of executions scheduled. AFAIK, there aren't (and the link doesn't defend any such claim – it doesn't say a thing about currently scheduled executions). Lisa Montgomery is the last one scheduled. Indeed, the last executions were before the linked article, so there weren't any others between then and now either.
While it's fine to criticize the Trump administrations pursuit of executing criminals, being clear and accurate about it is also important. Most of them have already happened. Lisa Montgomery is the last one, and if the government loses this appeal (or it goes past the 20th and Biden commutes her sentence), there won't be anymore, at least until 2024.
If I'm wrong, and there are other pending executions, Shackford should name them. But the last thing i saw in early December had only 3 scheduled executions, and 2 of them happened in December. The last of them was Ms. Montgomery.
Isaac Bartram
January.12.2021 at 10:11 pm
If I'm wrong, and there are other pending executions, Shackford should name them.
From TFA:
Montgomery is not the only death row inmate facing imminent execution in the last days of the Trump administration. Corey Johnson and Dustin Higgs have been scheduled for execution on Thursday and Friday, respectively.
So, you're wrong on two counts. There are more executions planned for the last days of the Trump administration and Shackford named them. He also provided this:
UPDATE: This afternoon, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan granted injunctions staying the executions of both Johnson and Higgs until March.
We'll see if anyone besides Shackford will mention how interesting that all Joe Biden will be doing is undoing the damage that he has done by pushing through the 1990s crime bill that federalized a bunch of crimes and the made them punishable by the DP.
Oh, and for double your hypocrisy, the Prez who signed this bill was none other than anti-death penalty enthusiastic signer of death warrants as governor of Arkansas, Bill Clinton.
Nobody seems to be asking how all these murders suddenly became federal crimes.
Maybe the conservative majority on the Supreme Court will look into that.
Minadin
January.13.2021 at 8:23 am
In Lisa Montgomery's case, she traveled from eastern Kansas into western Missouri, brutally murdered this young pregnant woman, then cut out her unborn baby and took it back to Kansas.
That's how it became a federal crime.
I'm not sure why Missouri couldn't have extradited her for the crime and prosecuted it at the state level.
It looks like you get it.
But, here's the thing, we (well not me but the rest of y'all:) just elected as president the guy who was pretty much responsible for this law. Pretty much shows a president with little regard for constitutionally delegated powers.
Yeah, I know he's agin the death penalty now. So, can we hope that Joe Biden will immediately get onto getting Congress to repeal all of the bad legislation that he pushed thru.
Yeah, right. 🙂
I'm not sure that the founder's had that kind of thing in mind when they thought about "interstate commerce".
They were perfectly content to leave police powers in the hands of the states.
When JFK was assassinated the only law that had be broken was the State of Texas' law against murder.
I honestly don't recall that paragraph being there when i responded, but if it was, I apologize. (I didn't take a screenshot of the article in the state it was in to compare to the current article. Regardless, the link at "plans to execute more prisoners" should have actually backed up that statement, rather than wait to name them half a dozen paragraphs down – it doesn't).
I definitely responded before the updates.
mulched
Same shit happened couple weeks ago with a different distrcit judge. Circuit court squashed it quick. Expect the same to happen here, but she may be close enough to run the clock. Need to be some sanctions for judges that pull this crap
Granting myself +10 internets for calling that one right
n00bdragon
ffs, just take her out behind the woodshed. What a waste of taxpayer money keeping her alive.
That's my only big problem with the death penalty. $35K per year to house the little bastards vs state paid-for appeals and everything that goes with it that runs up well over a million, not counting the decade or two of housing them for the entire appeals process, during which the family of their victims must also deal with it. The death penalty lost its societal value when $5 worth of reusable rope was no longer the preferred treatment.
The death penalty lost its societal value when $5 worth of reusable rope was no longer the preferred treatment.
Due to the ongoing pandemic, this state no longer allows the use of reusable rope.
mamabug
I'm generally opposed to the death penalty in a society that has the resources to keep people imprisoned and away from an ability to do harm. Mostly it is because I don't trust the judicial system to be as free from abuse and objective to ensure just enforcement of any sentence, let alone one that is irrevocable. It's kind of the 'rather a 100 criminals go free than one innocent man get convicted' approach.
I think, though, that there is a good case to be made that it should exist for extreme violations of NAP such as legitimate serial killers (multiple victims over an extended period of time) and those who commit mass murder to further political aims.
let alone one that is irrevocable.
So when an inmate spends 20 yrs. in prison, wrongly convicted, the system gives them those years back?
You say this like the system is even remotely capable of, much less interested in, making those wrongly convicted whole. Shit, the incoming President's biggest achievement as VP was to relax the standards and expand the means by which the State can rather knowingly deprive innocent people of their rights.
Sounds like you've been duped into believing in the benevolence of government and the idea that a little abrogation of liberty is OK as long as the punishment isn't too harsh.
I never said I agreed with our current justice system, just that when a society has the resources to imprison rather than kill, it should take it. The remedies we could work towards to make those wrongly convicted whole are much broader when, you know, they are still alive to recompense them.
I didn't say you agreed with our current justice system. I said you subscribe to a false equivalence: killing people vs. not killing people. Along that same false equivalence, you're falsely equating
an illegitimate aim of government, social reform, with a more classically understood legitimate function, protection and justice.
Let me be more clear; we both agree that it's better to let 100 guilty men go free than to imprison 1 innocent man, but that's not practical/reality, and really it's not even the theoretical reality you're proposing. According to your moral framework, from exactly how many people and/or how much money is a government allowed to steal from people to house prisoners? Which system is less just; the one that incidentally kills innocent men or the one that kills people collecting taxes (see Eric Garner) to house violent criminals only to subsequently release them to do more violence (see James Little)?
I'm not questioning your assertion that you agree with the current system because you don't. I'm questioning the supposed superiority of your proposed system on practical as well as theoretical/moral grounds.
I said you subscribe to a false equivalence: killing people vs. not killing people. Along that same false equivalence, you're falsely equating
False dichotomy, not false equivalence.
Sometimes Bad Is Bad
So Trump is an insurrectionist, but the woman who literally rips a baby from a dead women's womb needs some sympathy.
Does the left even see their hypocrisy and stupidity, is it just they are obtuse or is it deliberate.
Steven Howard
No doubt if her execution is halted her mental state will quickly improve. As for the two killers scheduled for execution later this week but arguing their executions should be delayed because they suffer from COVID, seems carrying out these executions will end their suffering from COVID.
Quo Usque Tandem
In a world supposedly free of gender bias, what does it matter that she is "the only woman" on death row?
If some dude killed a pregnant woman and cut her fetus out of her womb, that son of bitch would have been cut, drawn, and quartered way before now.
Untold millions of cases of men depriving women of their right to choose, what's one more? /sarc
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Nope. Sexual abuse doesn't make you incapable of knowing that killing a woman and cutting her baby out of the womb is wrong.
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Aaand…she's gone:
https://www.stltoday.com/news/national/us-executes-lisa-montgomery-for-killing-expectant-missouri-mother-1st-execution-of-female-inmate-since/article_14f2d32f-00d1-5cb8-8da5-b8ec9c6680df.html
Good. Better late than never.
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Even if a subsequent hearing leads to a judge giving the feds clearance to execute her, Biden may (and should!) commute her sentence to life in prison.
If she suffers from such brain damage that she truly doesn't understand what's going on, then life imprisonment without parole would be just as unjust as the death penalty.
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import de.hardwarespielerei.can.tinycan.jna.NativeAccess;

/**
 * Describes an {@link NativeAccess#ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED} error from Tiny-CAN.
 *
 * @author gabriel
 */
public class AccessDeniedException extends TinyCANException
{
	private static final long serialVersionUID = 3410308402018340150L;

	protected AccessDeniedException(int returnCode, String message)
	{
		super(returnCode, message);
	}
}

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The theme of this year's session was the relation between the experience and fundamental elements of the Christian life. Discussion focused particularly on the marks and practices of Christian discipleship. Three papers were presented to facilitate the common exploration of this topic: a collection of brief statements on the Christian life taken from classical and contemporary Reformed writings, a study on "Growing in the Life of Christian Faith" adopted by the Presbyterian Church (USA), for the Reformed side; and a paper, "From Strength to Strength – The Neglected Role of Crisis in Wesleyan and Pentecostal Discipleship" by Cheryl Bridges Johns, for the Pentecostal side.
This year's session of the Pentecostal – Reformed international theological dialogue was generously hosted by the Synod of Puerto Rico of the Presbyterian Church (USA) in close cooperation with the Evangelical Theological Seminary of Puerto Rico and the Office of Theology and Worship of the Presbyterian Church (USA). Participants joined the congregation of Hugh O'Neill Memorial Presbyterian Church for worship on Sunday. They also met with representatives of the Synod of Puerto Rico, the Puerto Rico Council of Churches, and the faculty of the Evangelical Seminary of Puerto Rico. A special session was dedicated to the common Christian witness in the struggle against the presence of the U.S.A. naval base on the Vieques island, Puerto Rico.
The next session of the Pentecostal – Reformed dialogue will continue the theme of discipleship by focusing on discernment and discipline in Christian life and practice. The meeting with take place in South Africa, September 2004.


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Seven ways to undo sun damage, discoloration and other sins of summer
Kaitlin Clark | Freelance Writer
In the summertime when the living's easy, it's also easy to brush off that second application of sunscreen, or to not think twice about a peeling sunburn. Yet, these seemingly innocent choices can accumulate into serious trouble for your skin for years to come.
"One of the things that we see, particularly this time of year, is the repentance of a full summer of no sunscreen and no physical protection of the skin, so we see a lot of sun damage," says Washington D.C. plastic surgeon Troy Pittman, MD. "We see a lot of dyschromias, which are different reds and browns of the skin, the skin tends to be a little under-moisturized, pores are a little stretched out, so there's that summer complexion that we see, and right around now, once summer vacations are over, people come in."
With the amount of sun damage that can occur in the summer months, it's no surprise that according to the 2020 annual procedure report from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, multiple procedures such as IPLs and Chemical Peels, which can help replenish damaged skin, were two of the top five minimally invasive procedures in 2020.
And what are they asking for? Read on to hear from two plastic surgeons, Dr. Pittman and New York City-based Lesley Rabach, MD, for their go-to treatments to help patients erase the sins of summer.
Reevaluate your skincare
"The first thing I do with a patient that comes in is to ask about their skincare regimen," says Dr. Pittman. "One of the things I try to elicit from the patient is, why do you have all this sun damage? Or what were you doing over the summer and how can we prevent this from happening in the future?"
He starts by asking whether they use a serum and a moisturizer, as well as what their daily sun protectant is. "I often, particularly for men, recommend a vitamin C serum, which are very effective antioxidants, so not only is that going to help with the free radical damage that causes sun damage, but anything that gets through your sunscreen," says Dr. Pittman. "If you're not going to use sunscreen regularly, whether that's in your moisturizer or makeup, at least use antioxidants, so we're doing something for your skin."
Chemical peels are a hot commodity in Dr. Rabach's West Village practice, and her go-to for patients seeking a quick-fix for their summer skin. "Chemical peels, between the salcylic acid, the Jessner, or TCAs (trichlorectic acid), they really help with any sort of brown spots, fine lines and wrinkles," she says. "It also helps the pore size to make them appear smaller."
Peels can vary from light, superficial exfoliations, to medium or deep chemical options that resurface the skin's texture, wash away clogged pores and even out skin tone. However, "deeper peels are usually reserved for people that have more chronic sun damage," she says. They're also super easy for patients, taking about 10 minutes, and a few days of recovery, depending on the severity of the peel.
"The acid basically coats the inside of the pre and works from the inside out, reducing the production of oil and pigment from the cells. If you have fine lines, it helps smooth them out," she says, adding that the visible results wane after about two months, but they technically last forever because "you've made a change at the cellular level and over time, it trains your skin to behave in a different way."
To target lighter sun spots, which usually present as brown and red asymmetric-looking skin growths and patterns, Dr. Pittman opts for a round of IPL, which he calls "a very nice, basic" treatment, which are especially popular with first-time patients.
"We can really kind of zap the spots with this laser, which is a high energy light that basically brings the browns and reds to the surface and they flake off," he explains. "So someone who has freckling or sun damage, you can do an IPL treatment, and it all turns into what feels and looks like coffee grounds – it gets really dark over the course of about five days, then it exfoliates off."
A usual course of treatment is two to three procedures, four months apart, due to the pigment laying "in different layers of the skin," requiring a few appointments to really hone in and remove the discoloration.
"Microneedling works at the collagen level," says Dr. Rabach, making it a perfect option for someone with "much deeper lines from sun damage" by "improving the collagen layer, which overall makes things more youthful."
Her favorite course of treatment for patients with sun damage is alternating between chemical peels and microneedling every four to six weeks, which she says "will give you as good, if not better, at a fraction of the cost" of lasers.
"We like to alternate because their mechanisms are slightly different: One is basically medication going into the area, the chemical peel, and the other, microneedling, is creating micro holes that stimulate at a different layer than the skin surface into the collagen layer, so you're treating two different layers," she explains. "And the combined effect of treating both the skin surface and this slightly deeper layer really rejuvenates the skin in a really exponential way."
And one of the best things about microneedling with radio frequency? It's a great option for skin of color, thanks to the insulated tips, meaning that the radio frequency is only coming out of the very tip of the needle, says Dr. Pittman, so "you can treat skin of color where the energy is being delivered and go past the melana sites, so they are not going to get dark."
Unlike the CO2 lasers of yore the years past, treatment with the newer models doesn't trigger such extreme redness or give skin a raw appearance during the week-long recovery. "If you need to go to the supermarket on day three, you're not going to be scaring small children," laughs Dr. Pittman, adding that you'll probably not want to go to your best friend's wedding immediately after, but you will just look like you have a moderate sunburn that's peeling.
"The CO2 lasers now are fractionated lasers, which means that the damage to the skin is in little pinpoints, whereas 10 years ago, those were unfractionated CO2 lasers, where you basically just lasering the skin and creating a controlled burn with significant downtime," he explains. His favorite fractionated laser is the Fraxis Pro that works in a patterned movement that pricks one point on the skin, skips the point beside it, then makes another prick, all over the skin to create a grid formation. "What that does is for every one point of damage the laser is making, there are two points on either side of it of healthy skin," says Dr. Pittman. And the components in the healthy skin really help that one little piece of damaged skin heal, so the downtime is much less, but the benefit is equivalent."
Microneedling with radio frequency + CO2 laser combo
One of the newer devices, Secret PRO, combines the two technologies – radiofrequency microneedling with a fractional CO2 laser – in a single device to heal sun-damaged skin and stimulate collagen for skin revitalization.
"What we found with combining those two treatments is that we can treat the mid and superficial dermis with microneedling radio frequency to stimulate collagen, to tighten pores, and to reorient the skin to reduce fine lines," explains Dr. Pittman, of his go-to treatment. "Then we use the CO2 laser to treat the more superficial layers, so we get off the sun damage, treat fine lines, make the skin smoother and give it more of a glow."
If it sounds like the Holy Grail of blurring skin imperfections, that's because it basically is. "You're doing a little bit of everything with this treatment, and there's no more downtime combining them than there is from just doing a CO2 laser alone, just about a week," he says.
Nearly everyone's familiar with the 'Vampire Facial' or microneedling with PRP (platelet-rich plasma), but a new innovation from SoMe Skincare, really takes the procedure to the next level with at-home skincare made from your own PRP.
"It's a proprietary blend of vitamins and growth factors in a serum container, and we mix the patient's PRP with that, and it gives them three months' worth of a serum to use before their moisturizer," explains Dr. Pittman. "So they're actually giving themselves a PRP serum at home for three months."
This insanely customized serum helps patients heal more quickly from a microneedling treatment because they're treating their wound from the procedure with PRP, which is known to be super anti-inflammatory, says Dr. Pittman. "It lets patients extend the visible results of the treatment and continue the healing at home. It couldn't be easier."
"You can't really reverse the damage, not fully," she says. "If you got a blistering sunburn, which is just a sunburn where your skin then peels off, that type of damage goes deep and the chance of creating damage that will then turn into skin cancer later on in life is much higher."
Missing a spot when putting on sunscreen happens to the best of us, says Dr. Rabach, but "it's not okay to be reckless with your skin."
To find a qualified plastic surgeon for any cosmetic or reconstructive procedure, consult a member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. All ASPS members are board certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery, have completed an accredited plastic surgery training program, practice in accredited facilities and follow strict standards of safety and ethics. Find an ASPS member in your area.
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var obsidian = await gfycat.GetUserAsync("obsidianminor"); // Get a user object for obsidianminor
var albums = await obsidian.GetAlbumsAsync(); // Get obsidianminor's albums
var titanfall = albums.FirstOrDefault(x => x.Title == "Titanfall 2 Stuff"); // Get album info for an album with the title "Titanfall 2 Stuff"
var contents = await titanfall.GetContentsAsync(); // Get the album for this album info
var content = contents.Content; // Get the content of the album
foreach (var gfy in content)
    Console.WriteLine($"{gfy.Title} | {gfy.Url}"); // Write the title and URL for all of the album's entries to the console


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Q: How to access property declared in interface from implementation file? #import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

@interface Person : NSObject
     @property(strong,nonatomic)  NSString *firstName;
@end

A: If you want to access "firstName" in Person.m then simply you can use

self.firstName

And If you want to access it in any other controller then you will have to create object of Person Class and then only you can read or write it's properties.
e.g.
Person *person = [[Person alloc] init];
person.firstName = @"Xyz";
NSLog(@"name is->%@", person.firstName);

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FOXBORO, Mass. — David Andrews drew an analogy between winning a Super Bowl and getting married as the New England Patriots returned to Gillette Stadium on Wednesday after a day off. The starting center is hoping to have one more Super Bowl ring than wedding band by the end of next week.
Andrews, who's set to start his third Super Bowl in four seasons, was asked what he remembers from Super Bowl LI, when the Patriots beat the Atlanta Falcons.
Now eleven days out from Super Bowl LIII against the Los Angeles Rams, the Patriots have chosen the ring, they've proposed and bought a dress, and now they're in the monotonous phase of picking chairs, silverware, and centerpieces before the big day.
If the Patriots do beat the Rams, Andrews, who got married during the 2017 offseason after winning Super Bowl LI, won't remember all the practices, interviews and obligations before the game. He'll only remember the actual event.


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