Kicker commits to tattoo removal

Published: 4/28/2020 5:05:51 PM

Patriots rookie kicker Justin Rohrwasser appeared on WBZ-TV in Boston on Monday to express shame and regret over a controversial "3 Percenters" tattoo on his left arm. The fifth-round pick explained that he was going to have the tattoo removed and explained why he had the ink in the first place.

Rohrwasser, who was drafted from Marshall, started his collegiate career at the University of Rhode Island (2015-2016). A look at his Instagram page suggests that he got the tattoo sometime during his two-year stint with the Rams. The tattoo is three roman numerals surrounded by a circle of stars. That is the logo for the anti-government group, which provided security during the deadline rally in Charlottesville, Va.

"I was 18 when I got it. It was described to me as the percentage of colonists that rose up against the government of the British," Rohrwasser said. "I was like, 'Wow, that is such an American sentiment, a patriotic sentiment.' Coming from a military family, I thought that really spoke to me. I always was proud to be an American. I'm very proud to be an American.

"As soon as I saw what it was linked to on Saturday, it was exactly that time I knew I had to get it totally taken off my body," he added. "I said cover it up (to reporters after the draft), but I want to get it removed from my body. It's shameful that I had it on there ignorantly."

He told the New England media on Saturday that he comes from a military family and wanted to get tattoos to honor the military. Rohrwasser has multiple on his arms. He has an American flag on his right forearm. On his level arm, he has the words "Liberty or Death," among other tattoos.

Rohrwasser said that he didn't know how controversial the tattoo was until after the Patriots drafted him. At the time, someone cropped the photo and tweeted it next to the group's logo. The photos went viral.

"We were celebrating and hugging. So happy. I went on to Twitter. I saw someone posted a picture of me and my tattoo and linking me to some horrific events, obviously Charlottesville, and these horrible things," Rohrwasser said. "The first time I found out what it was linked to was Saturday. That's why it was so surprising."

The Patriots made Rohrwasser, from Clifton Park, N.Y., the top kicker in the 2020 NFL draft. Last year, he was named the Conference USA Special Teams Player of the Year. He said after the draft that he talked a lot with Patriots special teams coach Cam Achord and that the team even gave him physiological testing. He's in line to replace long-time veteran Stephen Gostkowski.

Rohrwasser expressed regret over the situation and apologized.

"I'm sorry for all my (friends) and family that have to defend me. Putting them in that compromising position is one of the biggest regrets I'll ever have. To them, I'm sorry," Rohrwasser said. "I'm going to learn from this. I'm going to take ownership of it. This is not who I am. No matter what, that's not who I am. Hopefully, you will all find that out."

New Patriots kicker Justin Rohrwasser now says he will remove controversial Three Percenters tattoo

The new Patriots kicker, who has been in the limelight for a racist tattoo on his left arm, said he plans to get the offensive mark removed.

"As soon as I saw what it was linked to on Saturday, it was exactly that time I knew I had to get it totally taken off my body," Justin Rohrwasser, 23, claimed on WBZ CBS Boston on Monday. "I said cover it up [to reporters], but I want to get it removed from my body. It's shameful that I had it on there ignorantly."

Rohrwasser was drafted by New England with the No. 159 pick of the 2020 NFL Draft on Saturday. His selection quickly gained attention after it was pointed out that the rookie had a tattoo that represents the Three Percenters, a right-wing "militia" group that claims to be focused on protecting gun rights in the United States. At least one member of that group participated in a white supremacist rally in Virginia in 2017 by providing protection to the marchers.

Rohrwasser said he was 18 years old when he got the tattoo and admitted he "should have done way more research" on the mark before he got it tattooed on him. He claimed he got the tattoo because he thought it represented patriotism.

"It was described to me as the percentage of colonists that rose up against the government of the British," Rohrwasser said. "I was like, 'Wow, that is such an American sentiment, a patriotic sentiment.' Coming from a military family, I thought that really spoke to me. I always was proud to be an American. I'm very proud to be an American."

The kicker from Marshall University says the meaning of the symbol was not pointed out to him until Saturday. Right after he was drafted, someone on Twitter posted a photo of him, pointed out the tattoo and the association to white supremacy.

Rohrwasser used the interview to apologize for his tattoo, which he initially told reporters on Saturday he planned to just cover up.

"I'm sorry for all my [friends] and family that have to defend me. Putting them in that compromising position is one of the biggest regrets I'll ever have. To them, I'm sorry," he said. "I'm going to learn from this. I'm going to take ownership of it. This is not who I am. No matter what, that's not who I am. Hopefully, you will all find that out."

Bikini Babe Hayden Panettiere Has 'Live Without Regrets' Tattoo Removed

Hayden Panettiere is getting her tattoo removed–the one that, ironically, read, "Live without regrets."

The Nashville star rocked a tiny bikini on a Hollywood, Florida beach on Sunday which showed that she had started the process of having the tattoo removed with laser treatment.

Hayden's tattoo read "vivere senza rimipianti," Italian for "live without regrets."  But the third word was misspelled and should have read "rimpianti."

The star was photographed having fun with friends over Labor day weekend in Florida, where she frolicked in the water, strolled in the sand, blew kisses at the camera, and happily flaunted her bikini body.

Although her fiance, boxer Wladimir Klitschko, was nowhere in sight, Hayden wore her engagement ring.

Hayden had told Glamour magazine she got the tattoo in her rib cage area after her dad told the actress the old saying, "Whenever one door closes, another one always opens."

Hayden explained to the magazine, "It's not that you don't regret things in life, but you at least try to learn from them.  It's misspelled, too–so I literally have to live by that advice!"

But apparently, that isn't the case.  The TV beauty, whose show Nashville returns for its second season on ABC on Sept. 25, had enough regrets about the body art to make it disappear!

Researcher Announces a Tattoo Removal Cream Is In the Works

The thing about tattoos is they're inked on your skin for life, unless you want to undergo an expensive, time-consuming, and potentially scarring laser-removal process. But now, a tattoo-removal cream could be the destroyer of a thousand unwanted lower-back butterflies and a saving grace for their owners.

Alex Falkenham, a pathology researcher at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, is developing a cream that'd reduce the tattoo-removal process to nothing more difficult than moisturizing. He's still fiddling with the formula, so it's not prepped for commercial release yet, but it sounds promising. Unlike lasers, it only attacks the cells filled with ink, which'll minimize inflammation:

Falkenham's topical cream works by targeting the macrophages that have remained at the site of the tattoo. New macrophages move in to consume the previously pigment-filled macrophages and then migrate to the lymph nodes, eventually taking all the dye with them.

Falkenham is still testing the cream on tattooed pigs, not humans, so he's not sure how long it'll take to remove tattoos completely. But I'm hoping that if I get a tattoo now, by the time my fickle heart rejects it, the cream'll be available. The estimated cost per ten-by-ten centimeter application is 4.5 (Canadian!) cents, so even if it takes a month of daily treatments, it'll still likely be way cheaper than other removal options.

Now, if you're desperate to remove a tattoo but can't wait until Falkenham starts actually selling his ointment, you're probably better off splurging on a laser treatment instead of going for the current crop of so-called removal creams on the market. None have been approved by the FDA, and the Mayo Clinic warns that they may help fade or lighten the ink, but they are not proven to truly remove tattoos and they could give you a nasty rash. [CBC]

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Feds charge doctor who cited Trump to push hydroxychloroquine ‘miracle cure’

(CNN) — It was described as the "magic bullet" to protect against the deadly coronavirus — a "remarkable clinical phenomenon" that could cure the disease within hours.

In the words of San Diego physician Jennings Staley, the drug hydroxychloroquine​, approved to treat conditions ranging from malaria to lupus, was "almost too good to be true."

On his website advertising the product, Staley — whose practice includes Botox injections, tattoo removal, oxygen therapy, and fat transfer — cited President Donald Trump's recent promotion of a French study claiming hydroxychloroquine had overwhelmingly positive results in the fight against Covid-19​, according to federal prosecutors.

The doctor would soon be charged with a federal crime.

According to federal authorities, comments by the Southern California doctor about the drug's remarkable capabilities were recorded during a phone call with a concerned father of three, who contacted Staley inquiring how he could protect his family from contracting Covid-19.

In reality, the man on the other end of the line was an undercover FBI agent conducting an investigation into possible health care fraud.

According to a federal criminal complaint filed ​Thursday and obtained by CNN, the FBI launched an undercover operation and made contact with the doctor in early April after receiving a tip from the public indicating Staley was attempting to sell "Covid-19 Treatment Packs" ​to the public. ​

In an advertising email message reviewed by the FBI, Staley's purported medical package included dosages of hydroxychloroquine, antibacterial drug Azithromycin, antianxiety treatments, intravenous drips, and the use of a medical hyperbaric oxygen chamber. Staley offered to sell the items as a family pack for $3,995, according to the criminal complaint.

During the recorded phone call with an FBI agent posing as a customer, Staley indicated the drug hydroxychloroquine "cures the disease" associated with coronavirus, according to the complaint.

Staley also told the agent he had received a tank of hydroxychloroquine that had been smuggled out of China. He said he was able to trick US Customs and Border Protection by listing the material as sweet potato extract, according to the complaint.

At one point, the undercover agent asked Staley, "If I'm hearing you right, if I buy these kits from you, then that's going to pretty much guarantee that neither my kids, my dad, my wife — any of us — get sick. And if we are, it's going to cure us, right?"

"Guaranteed," Staley replied, according to the complaint.

In a follow-up call, the doctor allegedly told the undercover FBI agent he would also sell him Viagra and Xanax, a Category IV controlled substance under the Controlled Substances Act. A package containing the medication was received by the FBI on April 9. ​

In the criminal complaint, an FBI agent said Staley's sale of Xanax during the undercover operation suggests he "is routinely distributing this controlled substance without any sort of medical examination or demonstration of need."

The Controlled Substances Act requires that prescribed medication must be for a legitimate medical purpose, the complaint noted.

The day after receiving the box of medication, FBI agents overtly visited Staley's office for an interview but did not indicate they had previously communicated with him as part of their undercover investigation. According to the criminal complaint, the agents asked Staley if he had ever guaranteed his patients that hydroxychloroquine was a cure for Covid-19.

"No, that would be foolish," Staley said, according to the FBI, adding "We would never say anything like that."

​The complaint says that Staley admitted to investigators that he distributes ​Covid-19 kits through his website and said he imports his hydroxychloroquine from China, but indicated it was "perfectly legal" and "goes through customs."

As part of their investigation, the FBI ​says they visited Staley's website, which offered Covid-19 treatment kits for $595. The website apparently has been taken down. It included language stating "a French study cited by Trump showed 70% of the hydroxychloroquine treated patients tested negative for the ​Covid-19 virus," according to the complaint. ​

The criminal complaint notes the drug hydroxychloroquine has received emergency authorization from the Food and Drug Administration and may be effective in treating those with Covid-19. In the FDA's March 28 authorization letter, the agency's chief scientist indicated the drug would be distributed from the nation's Strategic National Stockpile, and used for treating those who have been hospitalized with Covid-19.

Staley was charged ​Thursday with mail fraud and is scheduled to appear in federal court Friday, according to the Justice Department. Officials noted that allegations in a complaint are merely accusations, and defendants are considered innocent unless and until proven guilty.

"The alleged conduct does not rise to the level of a felony offense," said Patrick Griffin, an attorney representing Staley, in an email to CNN.

The doctor's criminal charge comes as Justice Department prosecutors and FBI agents aggressively seek out scammers who are using the coronavirus pandemic to defraud the public through various testing and treatment schemes.

"The FBI is using a variety of tools to identify anyone who exploits the current crisis with fraudulent scams or a variety of cyber schemes — and is proactively warning the public about products claiming to save lives, before losing their money or creating false hope," said Omer Meisel, acting Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's San Diego Field Office. "Scammers seeking to profit by exploiting fear and uncertainty during this Covid-19 pandemic will be brought to justice."

University of Missouri team develops combination laser/ultrasound tattoo-removal technique

University of Missouri team develops combination laser/ultrasound tattoo-removal technique

Paul Whiteside demonstrates the sonoillumination waveguide device. (Credit: Ryan Owens, MU College of Engineering)

The first laser treatments used to treat skin conditions such as benign vascular birthmarks and port-wine stains were developed more than 40 years ago. Since then, clinicians and dermatologists have seen a rise in demand for minimally invasive laser-based treatments, including tattoo removal. However, it is difficult for the laser light, which is held at a distance from the skin, to be perfectly and selectively absorbed by only the targeted birthmark or tattoo.

Now, researchers from the University of Missouri (MU; Columbia, MO) have developed instruments that transmit laser light into the tissue through direct contact. The techniques developed by the interdisciplinary team can be used by dermatologists and will reduce safety concerns in laser dermatology by improving laser transmission through surface layers of the skin.

Laser techniques come with risks, including eye damage. Open-air transmission, in which the clinician holds the laser at a distance from the patient, is typical during normal dermatological procedures and presents a hazard to both the patients' and doctors' eyes. Paul Whiteside, a doctoral candidate in the MU Division of Food Systems and Bioengineering, devised a system that will not only improve the process, but will be safer for both clinicians and patients.

"The system we developed uses ultrasonic pulsation in conjunction with a clinical laser to alter the properties of skin tissues during the procedure," Whiteside says. "We've named the technique 'sonoillumination,' and we're hopeful that the procedure will be available widely in the near future."

Whiteside and his team, including adviser, Heather Hunt, an assistant professor of bioengineering in the MU College of Engineering, tested the sonoillumination system on porcine skin-tissue samples. Using various amplitudes and pulses, the instruments they developed were tested on the samples and showed great promise for the clinical setting. Whiteside presented his technique to clinicians on April 9, 2017, at the annual conference of American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery (ASLMS; San Diego, CA).

The team co-authored the paper "Ultrasonic modulation of tissue optical properties in ex vivo porcine skin to improve transmitted transdermal laser intensity," which recently was accepted for publication by the society's journal, Lasers in Surgery and Medicine.

The researchers are developing a startup company to commercialize the technique.

Source: http://munews.missouri.edu/news-releases/2017/0410-laser-based-dermatological-procedures-could-be-revolutionized-with-new-technique/