Tattoo

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How do you keep your kids from doing things you don't want them to do? Barack and Michelle Obama try reverse psychology. The president told an interviewer on the Today show that's the approach he and Michelle are taking when it comes to tattoos. “What we've said to the girls is, 'If you guys ever decided you're going to get a tattoo, then mommy and me will get the exact same tattoo in the same place. And we'll go on YouTube and show it off as a family tattoo,'” President Obama said.

Michael Phelps has a tattoo on his hip of the Olympic rings. It's been there quite a while and peeps out from time to time when his shorts ride particularly low as they did today. But with the shorts slung dangerously close to obscenity, what looked like another tattoo was visible on the other side of his hip. One Baltimore Sun editor thought it looked like a flower. Some folks on Twitter say it's a Michigan symbol -- a tip of the hat to where he trained for a stint. Anyone else care to take a guess?

Ravens wide receiver LaQuan Williams sat calmly at the Baltimore Convention Center on Saturday as a tattoo artist buzzed at his shoulder, sketching out the latest design on the already well-inked torso. Williams and the artist, who goes by the name Jonny Metropolis, have totaled at least a day together in a similar fashion after getting connected through the photo-sharing service Instagram. On Saturday, Metropolis was working on theatrical masks to represent the good times and the bad times in Williams' life.

Ravens Pro Bowl outside linebacker Terrell Suggs behaved for most of his time with the media -- until someone asked him about New York Jets coach Rex Ryan's tattoo. Ryan used to be the Ravens defensive line coach and coordinator. Suggs remains close to Ryan. "I probably got something on my ass that ya'll never see that is probably inappropriate," Suggs said. "Who cares? I think you guys blew it way out of proportion. I don't really think it's a big deal. I think everybody should have a certain amount of privacy, even though they are in the public eye, no matter who they are. Even our president deserves a certain amount of privacy.

JARRETTSVILLE -- The lady picked the wrong dog to steal.But then she didn't figure Buster, a 2-year-old pug, would be wearing an unmistakable identification: a tattoo -- of the canine variety.Michael Maans says he suspected the woman had stolen Buster from his Essex neighborhood, despite her denials. So he decided to play "doggie detective" last spring and put a tail on the suspect."I went to her home and watched, and sure enough, she came walking out with my dog on a leash," says Mr. Maans.

Printed fliers containing warnings about LSD "tattoos" being sold toarea children are causing undue alarm among parents and school officials, county police officials said Friday.Spokesman V. Richard Molloy said the fliers usually coincide with appearances by The Grateful Dead. The rock group performed at the Capital Centre in Landover two weeks ago."Every time the flier appears, our narcotics section investigates," Molloy said. "They have never found the existence of such 'tattoos,' nor have law enforcement agencies in surrounding jurisdictions."

Seth Ciferri has counseled many zealous teenagers against permanently marking their bodies with tattoos. "How will it affect your career?" asks the Baltimore tattoo parlor owner. Ciferri is especially cautious when fielding requests for large or highly visible pieces such as a dragon on the back of a hand or a boyfriend's name on a neck. "I try to reserve that kind of work for people who are in the tattoo business, are already covered or are independently wealthy and don't need a job," Ciferri said.

"Tattoos are the big hair of the '90s -- Wake up!"-- Graffiti scrawled on a men's-room stall at a Boston club"That is so cool," says Cher, when told of this bit of mid-'90s pop-cultural wisdom. And she should know. Cher is Ms. Original Rose Tattoo.Cher has six tattoos, including, as she puts it, "a garden on my butt."She got her first one in 1972."My mother was appalled. Everybody was appalled. And that suited me just fine. Now everybody has tattoos. I bet Dole has got a tattoo someplace," she says, referring to Bob Dole, the presidential candidate.

The Anne Arundel County Health Department sent a warning to public high school students this week after four teenagers contracted a rare and hard-to-treat skin infection while getting tattoos in a tattoo artist's home. Frances Phillips, a county health official, said the department conducted an investigation after the four teenagers contracted methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, a bacterial skin infection resistant to most antibiotics. Two of the teenagers were hospitalized for several days before being released after the infections were treated.

New York City Orchid show Seven thousand orchids, the largest curated orchid show in the country, will be displayed in the Victorian-style glasshouse at the New York Botanical Garden. The show runs Saturday through April 22, and on Saturdays, music from around the world will be featured - representing the regions where the orchids originate. The Orchid Show starts Saturday and runs through April 22 at the New York Botanical Gardens. The gardens are open 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday.

After undergoing treatment for breast cancer , Lillie Shockney, the administrative director of the Johns Hopkins Breast Center, had nipple reconstruction - twice. Despite the many shades of patients' skin tone, "The color choices for doing it in the hospital setting were beige, dark brown and the most common color, called 'salmon,' " Shockney said. She chose salmon and the result, she said, "looked like two pancakes. " Then she saw the work of Vinnie Myers on one of her own patients and went to him. When the procedure was finished, she looked in the mirror and burst into tears.

Ravens Pro Bowl outside linebacker Terrell Suggs behaved for most of his time with the media -- until someone asked him about New York Jets coach Rex Ryan's tattoo. Ryan used to be the Ravens defensive line coach and coordinator. Suggs remains close to Ryan. "I probably got something on my ass that ya'll never see that is probably inappropriate," Suggs said. "Who cares? I think you guys blew it way out of proportion. I don't really think it's a big deal. I think everybody should have a certain amount of privacy, even though they are in the public eye, no matter who they are. Even our president deserves a certain amount of privacy.

There goes Madonna, classing up the joint again. To show her support of Malala Yousafzai, the 14-year-old Pakistani girl shot and critically wounded by the Taliban because of her advocacy for girls' education, the Material Girl (a.k.a. Madge, Esther, the Queen of Pop, the Hottest Bod in the AARP) took the opportunity during a recent concert at L.A.'s Staples Center to pull her pants down and reveal a (fake) tattoo of the girl's name inked across the small of her back. Take that, Taliban!

Terrell Suggs might not be in the game right now, but Tuesday night, he'll be on TV. The Ravens linebacker will be a judge -- or as they say on the program, a "very special guest" -- on a reality show for tattoo artists called "Ink Master. " On the judges panel, Suggs joins tattoo artists Oliver Peck and Chris Nunez to help decide which tattoo artist deserves a shot at a $100,000 prize.  Dave Navarro of Jane's Addiction is the host. The show airs at 10 p.m. Tuesday on the Spike channel.

You may make a fashion statement with that tattoo, but the FDA warns you could also put your health at risk. The regulatory agency issued a warning Wednesday about getting inked after a recent outbreak linked to the family of bacteria called nontuberculous Mycobacteria.  One species of the bacteria, spread through tattoo ink, can cause lung disease, joint infection, eye problems and other organ infections, the FDA said. The infections are difficult to diagnose and require long, intense treatment regiments.

Removing tattoos could prove easier than removing tattoo parlors in Baltimore County, where a county councilman is struggling to round up enough support to reverse a mid-March vote legalizing several shops that had been operating outside county zoning laws.Councilman Vincent J. Gardina, a Perry Hall Democrat whose district has at least two parlors, is pushing the issue, backed by Lorraine Gordon, a Belair Road activist who wants to close Mr. B's Tattoos in the 7200 block of Belair Road, near her home.

For about 16 cents an hour, Jim Nelson rents the back of his shaved head as ad space. In March, Nelson, a 22-year-old laborer at a Moline, Ill., nuclear power plant, went on eBay and offered to wear a tattoo of a company logo. Bidding got up to $14,000 before that bidder dropped out, leaving a Texas Internet company the winner among 24 total bids, with one cent being the minimum bid. CI Host has paid Nelson $7,000 to wear a 5-inch tattoo of the company's logo and to keep the logo visible for five years.

Michael Phelps has a tattoo on his hip of the Olympic rings. It's been there quite a while and peeps out from time to time when his shorts ride particularly low as they did today. But with the shorts slung dangerously close to obscenity, what looked like another tattoo was visible on the other side of his hip. One Baltimore Sun editor thought it looked like a flower. Some folks on Twitter say it's a Michigan symbol -- a tip of the hat to where he trained for a stint. Anyone else care to take a guess?

Not even getting stabbed repeatedly by a needle could get Danielle Cromb to put down her smartphone Saturday afternoon. "I've been on Tumblr, Facebook, Pinterest," said Cromb, of Charleston, S.C., who clutched her iPhone as she was having ink injected into the skin on the back of her neck. "Mostly it's helpful if I'm looking up a picture in the middle of a conversation with an artist. And it can definitely be a distraction. " It is a common sight this weekend inside the Baltimore Convention Center: Semi-dressed, prostrate people playing games, texting and listening to music on their cellphones as tattoo artists work.