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Edward Hopper's prizewinning World War I patriotic poster "Smash The Hun", reproduced here (without accompanying caption) on the front cover of the February 1919 edition of The Dry Dock Dial, the internal house organ of Brooklyn, New York's Morse Dry Dock and Repair Company, where Hopper worked as an illustrator.

Edward Hopper [July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967] was an American realist painter & printmaker. He is one of America’s most renowned artists & known for his skill in depicting modern American life & landscapes. Born in Nyack, New York, to a middle-class family, Hopper’s early interest in art was supported by his parents. He studied at the New York School of Art under William Merritt Chase & Robert Henri, where he developed a signature style characterized by its emphasis on solitude, light, and shadow. Hopper’s work, spanning oil paintings, watercolors, and etchings, predominantly explores themes of loneliness & isolation within American urban & rural settings. His most famous painting, Nighthawks [1942], exemplifies his focus on quiet, introspective scenes from everyday life. Though his career advanced slowly, Hopper achieved recognition by the 1920s, with his works featured in major American museums. Hopper’s technique, marked by a composition of form & use of light to evoke mood, has been influential in the art world & popular culture. His paintings, often set in the architectural landscapes of New York or the serene environments of New England, convey a sense of narrative depth & emotional resonance, making him a pivotal figure in American Realism. Hopper created subdued drama out of commonplace subjects layered with a poetic meaning, inviting narrative interpretations. He was praised for “complete verity“ in the America he portrayed. In 1924, Hopper married fellow artist Josephine Nivison, who played a significant role in managing his career & modeling for many of his works. The couple lived modestly in New York City & spent summers on Cape Cod, which influenced much of Hopper’s later art. Despite critical acclaim, Hopper remained private & introspective, dedicated to exploring the subtleties of human experience & the American landscape. His depiction of American life, with its emphasis on isolation & contemplation, remains a defining aspect of his appeal & significance in the history of American art.

Life & career: Early life

Hopper was born in 1882 in Nyack, New York, a yacht-building center on the Hudson River north of New York City. He was one of two children of a comfortably well-off family. His parents, of mostly Dutch ancestry, were Elizabeth Griffiths Smith & Garret Henry Hopper, a dry-goods merchant. Although not as successful as his forebears, Garret provided well for his two children with considerable help from his wife’s inheritance. He retired at age forty-nine. Edward & his sister, Marion, attended both private & public schools. They were raised in a strict Baptist home. His father had a mild nature, and the household was dominated by women: Hopper’s mother, grandmother, sister, and maid. His birthplace & boyhood home was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. It is now operated as the Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center, serving as a nonprofit community cultural center featuring exhibitions, workshops, lectures, performances, and special events. Hopper was a good student in grade school, and by the time he was five, his talent with drawing was already apparent. He readily absorbed his father’s intellectual tendencies & love of French & Russian cultures. He also demonstrated his mother’s artistic heritage. Hopper’s parents encouraged his art & kept him amply supplied with materials, instructional magazines, and illustrated books.

Vase [1893], example of Edward Hopper’s earliest signed & dated artwork with attention to light & shadow

Hopper first began signing & dating his drawings at the age of 10. Among the earliest of these drawings are charcoal sketches of geometric shapes, a vase, bowl, cup, and boxes. The detailed examination of light & shadow that continued throughout his career is already visible in these early works. By his teens, he was working in pen-and-ink, charcoal, watercolor, and oil—drawing from nature while also making political cartoons. In 1895, he created his first signed oil painting, Rowboat in Rocky Cove, which he copied from a reproduction in The Art Interchange, a popular journal for amateur artists. Hopper’s other earliest oils, such as Old ice pond at Nyack & his c.1898 painting Ships, have been identified as copies of paintings by artists including Bruce Crane & Edward Moran.

In his early self-portraits, Hopper tended to represent himself as skinny, ungraceful, and homely. Though a tall & quiet teenager, his prankish sense of humor found outlet in his art, sometimes in depictions of immigrants or of women dominating men in comical situations. Later in life, he mostly depicted women as the figures in his paintings. In high school [he graduated from Nyack High School in 1899], he carved wooden models of sailboats & barges & dreamed of becoming a naval architect, but after graduation declared his intention to pursue a career in art. Hopper’s parents insisted that he study commercial art to have a reliable means of income. In developing his self-image & individualistic philosophy of life, Hopper was influenced by the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson. He later said, “I admire him greatly…I read him over & over again.”

Hopper began art studies through a correspondence course in 1899. Soon he transferred to the New York School of Art & Design, the forerunner of Parsons School of Design. There, he studied for six years with teachers including William Merritt Chase, who instructed him in oil painting. Early on, Hopper modeled his style after Chase & French Impressionist masters Édouard Manet & Edgar Degas. Sketching from live models, however, proved challenging & somewhat shocking for the conservatively raised Hopper.

Another of his teachers, artist Robert Henri, taught life class. Henri encouraged his students to use their art to “make a stir in the world.” He also advised his students, “It isn’t the subject that counts but what you feel about it“ & “Forget about art & paint pictures of what interests you in life.” In this manner, Henri influenced Hopper, as well as future artists George Bellows & Rockwell Kent. He encouraged them to imbue their work with a modern spirit. Some artists in Henri’s circle, including John Sloan, became members of “The Eight“, also known as the Ashcan School of American Art. Hopper’s first surviving oil painting to hint at his use of interiors as a theme was Solitary Figure in a Theater [c.1904]. During his student years, he also painted dozens of nudes, still life studies, landscapes, and portraits, including self-portraits.

In 1905, Hopper landed a part-time job with an advertising agency, where he created cover designs for trade magazines. Hopper came to detest illustration. He was bound to it by economic necessity until the mid-1920s. He temporarily escaped by making three trips to Europe, each centered in Paris, ostensibly to study its art scene. In fact, he mostly worked alone & seemed mostly unaffected by the new currents in art. Later, he said he didn’t “remember hearing of Picasso at all“. He was highly impressed by Rembrandt, particularly his Night Watch, which he said was “the most wonderful thing of his I have seen; it’s past belief in its reality.”

House Tops [1921] by Edward Hopper

Hopper began painting urban & architectural scenes in a dark palette. Then he shifted to the lighter shades of the Impressionists before returning to the darker palette, with which he was most comfortable. He later said, “I got over that & later things done in Paris were more the kind of things I do now.” Hopper spent much of his time drawing street & café scenes, and going to the theater & opera. Unlike many of his contemporaries who imitated the abstract cubist experiments, Hopper was attracted to realist art. Later, he claimed few European influences other than Rembrandt, Goya & the French engraver Charles Meryon whose moody Paris scenes Hopper imitated.

Years of struggle

After returning from his last European trip, Hopper rented a studio in New York City, where he struggled to define his own style. Reluctantly, he returned to illustration to support himself. Being a freelancer, Hopper was forced to solicit for projects, and had to knock on the doors of magazine & agency offices to find business. His painting languished: “it’s hard for me to decide what I want to paint. I go for months without finding it sometimes. It comes slowly.” His fellow illustrator Walter Tittle described Hopper’s depressed emotional state in sharper terms, seeing his friend “suffering…from long periods of unconquerable inertia, sitting for days at a time before his easel in helpless unhappiness, unable to raise a hand to break the spell.”

From February 22 to March 5, 1912, he was included in the exhibition of The Independents, a group of artists, at the initiative of Robert Henri, but did not make any sales.

In 1912, Hopper traveled to Gloucester, Massachusetts, to seek some inspiration & made his first outdoor paintings in America. He painted Squam Light, the first of many lighthouse paintings to come.

In 1913, at the Armory Show, Hopper earned $250 when he sold his first painting, Sailing [1911], to an American businessman Thomas F. Vietor, which he had painted over an earlier self-portrait. Hopper was thirty-one, and although he hoped his first sale would lead to others in short order, his career would not catch on for many more years. He continued to participate in group exhibitions at smaller venues, such as the MacDowell Club of New York. Shortly after his father’s death that same year, Hopper moved to the 3 Washington Square North apartment in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan, where he would live for the rest of his life.

Night Shadows etching from Shadowland, 1922

The following year, he received a commission to create some movie posters & handle publicity for a movie company. Although he did not like the illustration work, Hopper was a lifelong devotee of the cinema & the theatre, both of which he treated as subjects for his paintings. Each form influenced his compositional methods. At an impasse over his oil paintings, in 1915 Hopper turned to etching. By 1923 he had produced most of his approximately 70 works in this medium, many of urban scenes of both Paris & New York. He also produced some posters for the war effort, as well as continuing with occasional commercial projects. When he could, Hopper did some outdoor oil paintings on visits to New England, especially at the art colonies at Ogunquit, and Monhegan Island. During the early 1920s his etchings began to receive public recognition. They expressed some of his later themes, as in Night on the El Train [couples in silence], Evening Wind [solitary female], and The Catboat [simple nautical scene]. Two notable oil paintings of this time were New York Interior [1921] & New York Restaurant [1922]. He also painted two of his many “window“ paintings to come: Girl at Sewing Machine & Moonlight Interior, both of which show a figure [clothed or nude] near a window of an apartment viewed as gazing out or from the point of view from the outside looking in.

Although these were frustrating years, Hopper gained some recognition. In 1918, Hopper was awarded the U.S. Shipping Board Prize for his war poster, Smash the Hun. He participated in three exhibitions: in 1917 with the Society of Independent Artists, in January 1920 [a one-man exhibition at the Whitney Studio Club, which was the precursor to the Whitney Museum], and in 1922 [again with the Whitney Studio Club]. In 1923, Hopper received two awards for his etchings: the Logan Prize from the Chicago Society of Etchers, and the W. A. Bryan Prize.

Marriage & breakthrough

Miss Josephine Nivison, by Robert Henri, 1906

By 1923, Hopper’s slow climb finally produced a breakthrough. He re-encountered Josephine Nivison, an artist & former student of Robert Henri, during a summer painting trip in Gloucester, Massachusetts. They were opposites: she was short, open, gregarious, sociable, and liberal, while he was tall, secretive, shy, quiet, introspective, and conservative. With Jo’s encouragement, Hopper turned to the medium of watercolor, producing numerous scenes of Gloucester. They married a year later with artist Guy Pène du Bois as their best man. Nivison once remarked: “Sometimes talking to Eddie is just like dropping a stone in a well, except that it doesn’t thump when it hits bottom.” She subordinated her career to his & shared his reclusive lifestyle. The rest of their lives revolved around their spare walk-up apartment in the city & their summers in South Truro on Cape Cod. She managed his career & his interviews, was his primary model, and was his life companion.

With Nivison’s help, six of Hopper’s Gloucester watercolors were admitted to an exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum in 1923. One of them, The Mansard Roof, was purchased by the museum for its permanent collection for the sum of $100. The critics generally raved about his work; one stated, “What vitality, force & directness! Observe what can be done with the homeliest subject.” Hopper sold all his watercolors at a one-man show the following year & finally decided to put illustration behind him.

The artist had demonstrated his ability to transfer his attraction to Parisian architecture to American urban & rural architecture. According to Boston Museum of Fine Arts curator Carol Troyen, “Hopper really liked the way these houses, with their turrets & towers & porches & mansard roofs & ornament cast wonderful shadows. Hopper always said that his favorite thing was painting sunlight on the side of a house.”

At forty-one, Hopper received further recognition for his work. He continued to harbor bitterness about his career, later turning down appearances & awards. With his financial stability secured by steady sales, Hopper would live a simple, stable life & continue creating art in his personal style for four more decades.

His Two on the Aisle [1927] sold for a personal record $1,500, enabling Hopper to purchase an automobile, which he used to make field trips to remote areas of New England. In 1929, he produced Chop Suey & Railroad Sunset. The following year, art patron Stephen Clark donated House by the Railroad [1925] to the Museum of Modern Art, the first oil painting that it acquired for its collection. Hopper painted his last self-portrait in oil around 1930. Although Josephine posed for many of his paintings, she sat for only one formal oil portrait by her husband, Jo Painting [1936].

Hopper fared better than many other artists during the Great Depression. His stature took a sharp rise in 1931 when major museums, including the Whitney Museum of American Art & the Metropolitan Museum of Art, paid thousands of dollars for his works. He sold 30 paintings that year, including 13 watercolors. The following year he participated in the first Whitney Annual, and he continued to exhibit in every annual at the museum for the rest of his life. In 1933, the Museum of Modern Art gave Hopper his first large-scale retrospective.

In 1930, the Hoppers rented a cottage in South Truro, on Cape Cod. They returned every summer for the rest of their lives, building a summer house there in 1934. From there, they would take driving trips into other areas when Hopper needed to search for fresh material to paint. In the summers of 1937 & 1938, the couple spent extended sojourns on Wagon Wheels Farm in South Royalton, Vermont, where Hopper painted a series of watercolors along the White River. These scenes are atypical among Hopper’s mature works, as most are “pure“ landscapes, devoid of architecture or human figures. First Branch of the White River [1938], now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is the best-known of Hopper’s Vermont landscapes.

New York Movie, 1939

Hopper was very productive through the 1930s & early 1940s, producing among many important works New York Movie [1939], Girlie Show [1941], Nighthawks [1942], Hotel Lobby [1943], and Morning in a City [1944]. During the late 1940s, however, he suffered a period of relative inactivity. He admitted: “I wish I could paint more. I get sick of reading & going to the movies.” During the next two decades, his health faltered, and he had several prostate surgeries & other medical problems. But, in the 1950s & early 1960s, he created several more major works, including First Row Orchestra [1951]; as well as Morning Sun & Hotel by a Railroad, both in 1952; and Intermission in 1963. In 1966, Hopper was awarded The Edward MacDowell Medal by The MacDowell Colony for outstanding contributions to American culture.

Death

Where Hopper lived in New York City, at 3 Washington Square North Gravestone of Edward & Josephine Hopper, Oak Hill Cemetery, Nyack, N.Y.

Hopper died of natural causes at the age of 84 in his studio near Washington Square in New York City on May 15, 1967. He was buried two days later in the family plot at Oak Hill Cemetery in Nyack, New York, his place of birth. His wife Josephine died ten months later & is buried with him.

Josephine bequeathed their joint collection of over three thousand pieces to the Whitney Museum. Arthayer Sanborn, a Baptist minister who frequently visited their home to care for Edward’s sister, Marion, came into possession of three hundred Hopper drawings & paintings. Art historian Gail Levin has highlighted that whereas the Whitney Museum has extensive documentation of how Josephine distributed their couple’s pieces, paintings acquired from Sanborn lack provenance proving the family willingly gifted the trove of pieces Sanborn reported finding in their attic. The Museum of Modern Art in New York, Des Moines Art Center, and Art Institute of Chicago all have significant collections of Hopper paintings.

Provenance is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object, artwork, or document. Derived from the French word provenir ("to come from"), it serves as a biographical timeline, tracing an item from its creation or discovery to its current owner.

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They're Changing Your Food. Nobody's Going To Tell You. || Ella Marie

Israeli Food Biotech = fake milk/meat/chocolate, greedy corporations wanting to cut their dependence on farmers in their supply chains and they don't want to disclose any of this to the public.

Fake Milk: Perfect Day/Remilk/ImagineDairy [last two israeli] Israeli Fake Meat: Aleph Farms, located in Rehovot, Israel Fake Coco: Kokomodo

Agriculture Infrastructure (Jewish Food Producers): Tnuva, Labour Zionism & Strauss gourmet cheese, no paper trail

These are backed by Israeli Innovation Authority (IIA) & New Jersey Food Tech Farm called Siddhi Capital. Hearing about all this one-sided profiteering by the Jewish state over its neighbours makes one think this could very well be the cause of the Nov.6 attacks, Jewish quota only allowed 0.02% of their milk to be sold in the region.

Siddhi Capital was co-founded by Steven Finn, Melissa Facchina, and Brian Finn. The firm is a growth equity & venture capital firm focused on the food & beverage, consumer packaged goods (CPG), and food technology sectors. [1, 2, 3]

Steven Finn: Co-Founder and Co-Managing Partner, specializing primarily in the firm's food technology investments.

Melissa Facchina: Co-Founder and Co-Managing Partner. She brought her operational expertise and background in the CPG and manufacturing space (having formerly run Siddhi Ops) to establish the joint venture that became the firm.

Brian Finn: Co-Founder and Chairman. [1, 2, 3, 4]

Kokomodo is redefining how cacao is made by cultivating real cacao cells in controlled environments, delivering full flavour and enhanced bioactives without deforestation or exploitative labour.

Section 224: Biotechnology inside National Defense Act (NDAA) | ValhallaVFT

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How Turkey Hacked the Hair-Transplant Industry

From specialized motors to the use of machine-learning algorithms, Turkey’s billion-dollar hair-transplant industry is the result of a constant process of innovation. WIRED | Levent Daskiran | May 31, 2026

Someone recently said s/t along the lines of what's the point of overriding nature's choice to cause women to gain weight at menopause, since it is a signal to the rest of society that this person is no longer a viable mate for offspring. I'm going to apply his thinking here about men being undesirable for the same reason..

The astounding growth of the hair-transplant industry in Turkey is not just a medical tourism success story; it’s also a tale of “hacked” medical equipment and algorithmic craftsmanship.

From a biological and evolutionary perspective, human hair is often viewed as an unremarkable mass of keratin that still plays some important functions—protecting our scalps from the sun’s harmful ultraviolet rays and regulating our body temperatures—but, for the most part, is no longer essential to our survival.

Yet, since ancient times, our subconscious perceptions of whether another person is healthy, young, or fertile have been based on visual cues such as skin radiance, the integrity of teeth, and hair density. Deep within our perceptions, hair has become one of the most powerful representations of our identity and self-confidence. It’s key to social communications and perceptions.

Today, the global hair-transplant and restoration industry, which has evolved around this deep psychological and evolutionary need, has grown into a massive, multibillion-dollar industry. Various research firms have estimated the total size of the global hair-transplant market as sitting somewhere between $7.33 billion and $11.61 billion in 2024. And those figures don’t include the underground economy. According to Ministry of Health data, 1.39 million people visited Turkey for medical treatments in 2025. The revenue generated from medical tourism is $3 billion in 2025 (roughly the same as in 2024). While there is no data about how many of these individuals came for hair transplants specifically, it is estimated that one-third of them visited for aesthetic treatments.

The role that hair transplantation plays in promoting Turkey is also noteworthy. For example, Turkish Airlines is occasionally referred to as “Turkish Hair Lines” or simply “Turkish Hair,” a nod to how significant hair transplants are when it comes to tourism to the country. (Similarly, Istanbul Airport has been jokingly referred to as “Istanbul Hairport.”)

It’s possible to see current examples of this in virtually every aspect of popular culture. Last March, a social media user shared a post titled “There won’t be a single bald Spaniard left in the world,” accompanied by an image of the famous soccer player Andrés Iniesta with long hair. It was in response to Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez’s stance against the war in Iran, a position that Turkey supports. The post went viral and made headlines on Spanish news channels. Similarly, American basketball star Shaquille O’Neal’s joke in Turkcell’s 5G ads—“I’m here for a hair transplant” while wearing a long curly wig and footage from Turkey’s seven regions—is likely to be talked about for a long time.

Turkey’s global success in hair transplantation and the dominant position the country has achieved are issues too complex to be explained solely by affordable labor, low costs, and favorable exchange rates. Instead it is the result of a bold and at times chaotic yet highly innovative evolution. This includes everything from the adaptation of motors designed for dental devices and sapphire blades used in eye surgery to Anatolia’s ancient craft culture and the master-apprentice relationship transferred to microsurgical techniques.

Makeup for the Modern Man

The development of the institutional infrastructure needed to meet this massive demand in Turkey dates back to the late 1990s. At a time when Turkey’s most famous figures were traveling to Europe for cosmetic surgeries, Dr. Mustafa Tuncer, who attended the Medica trade show in Düsseldorf in 1999, adopted a radical new vision. Tuncer laid the foundation for the Esteworld plastic and aesthetic surgery clinics when he announced, “If Turkey’s celebrities are going to Europe for cosmetic surgery, I will build the best hospital, hire the best doctors, and bring Europeans to Turkey.” Thus, Health Tourism 1.0 began, characterized by fully equipped institutions that combined plastic surgery and hair transplantation under one roof while raising standards to the highest level.

As medical director of the Esteworld Health Group and a member of the second generation of his family to share this vision, Dr. Burak Tuncer says that at the heart of this innovative evolution lies a philosophy with psychological and medical depth—one that does not view the matter merely as a cosmetic procedure. “Hair is a tissue that cannot be replaced or cloned,” he says, adding, “If roots are damaged during the hair-transplant process—whether while being extracted or implanted—we permanently lose that unique tissue. That is why we treat every single strand of hair with the same value and care as we would a kidney or a heart.”

Over time, the hair-transplant industry has grown so significantly, and the global demand directed toward Turkey has reached such a massive scale, that the sector has transitioned to a second phase, Health Tourism 2.0, through its own internal dynamics. Tuncer describes this period, which gained momentum around the 2010s, as a golden age in which the first generation of corporate hospitals effectively functioned as academies, operating within a framework of medical ethics and high quality. “In the past, in the medical world, when doctors happened to learn something from somewhere else, they would keep it to themselves—adopting an attitude of ‘I’ll keep this secret’ and not sharing it with anyone,” he explains.

In Turkey’s hair-transplant journey, however, the exact opposite has occurred. Doctors and healthcare professionals who were trained within institutional settings and developed unparalleled hands-on experience through thousands of cases eventually left to establish their own boutique clinics. This organic process, similar to a master training an apprentice, has built a massive-quality ecosystem centered on a healthcare-focused perspective. This situation has ushered in a golden age where patients come to Turkey for the unwavering quality and trust offered in this field.

According to Tuncer, the secret to this era lay in the fact that the system was built not on commerce, but entirely on a healthcare-focused perspective. While doctors in Europe or America were performing only a few surgeries each month, clinics in Turkey had built up a vast pool of practical experience and succeeded in standardizing surgical procedures to a level that surpassed European competitors. What drove foreign patients to fly thousands of miles to sit in the chairs of Istanbul’s doctors instead of visiting local clinics in their own countries was not the advertising budgets of brands, but rather this network of medical excellence and unwavering trust built on thousands of successful transplantations.

However, by 2014, 2015, as the market reached unprecedented proportions, the balance of power began to shift. Non-healthcare actors, digital marketers, agencies, and investors, recognizing the sector’s high-profit margins, entered the field, ushering in Health Tourism 3.0. The singular focus on healthcare gave way to sales and marketing, spread across the globe accompanied by aggressive advertising. The heightened self-awareness brought on by the pandemic has increased demand. Doctors’ clinical histories demonstrate that hair serves as a sort of “makeup” for the modern man, and the psychological toll of this biological loss on the individual is often far greater than can be measured by clinical metrics alone. For many people, their self-esteem—from having confidence in social settings and work environments to their communication with prospective partners—is directly tied to the presence of this hair.

Tuncer says that patients who come to his clinic are not just there to address their thinning hair, but to restore their lost self-confidence. He points out that the real global upheaval that triggered this psychological need on an unprecedented scale was the Covid-19 pandemic. People were confined to their homes and often forced to spend hours seeing their own faces, their asymmetries, and their thinning hair on Zoom calls. An “if I don’t know what tomorrow will bring, at least I’ll do something for myself” mindset emerged, leading to a global surge in cosmetic procedures and hair transplants.

Enter the Machines

The biological mechanism underlying hair loss is a topic on which modern medicine and pharmacology have spent billions of dollars in research. Androgenetic alopecia, commonly known as male-pattern baldness, primarily results from a genetic predisposition and hormonal changes. In men, the hormone testosterone, which is secreted in high amounts, is converted into dihydrotestosterone (DHT) via the 5-alpha reductase enzyme found in the scalp. In individuals genetically predisposed to hair loss, the number of receptors sensitive to this enzyme in the capillary network that nourishes the hair follicles is significantly higher than normal. Over time, the capillaries narrow under the influence of DHT, reducing blood flow to the hair follicles. Hair strands that cannot receive sufficient nutrients and oxygen gradually become thinner, weaker, and eventually lose their vitality. This leads to permanent hair loss.

Although Turkey has established an industrial ecosystem in the field of hair transplantation, the key factor determining the fate of the patient on the operating table still lies in the unique manual dexterity of the human hand. From a sociological perspective, the Anatolian region has a deep-rooted tradition of handicrafts—such as carpet weaving, ceramics, copper work, and calligraphy—that has spanned thousands of years. These crafts require hours of focused attention on a single point, infinite patience, and working with zero margin for error in hand-eye coordination. Hair transplantation is a modern craft that also requires fine motor skills and uninterrupted concentration for the careful removal of thousands of microscopic hair follicles without compromising their vitality, and their precise placement at the correct angle and with a millimeter-level depth.

Dr. Koray Erdoğan stands out as an exceptional figure in the fusion of this craft with modern techniques. Erdoğan is also one of the pioneers in Turkey of the renowned FUE (Follicular Unit Extraction) technique, in which hair follicles are extracted one by one using microscopic tools rather than removing a strip from the back of the head. Compared to the previously widely used FUT (Follicular Unit Transplantation) technique, FUE is a method that carries fewer risks and side effects, shortens recovery time, and offers a more comfortable patient experience. The widespread adoption of this method was followed by Sutureless Hair Transplantation advertisements on the Teletext pages of TRT, Turkey’s national public broadcaster. Interest snowballed as American patients served as volunteer ambassadors at various international forums. Turkey was in the process of being transformed into a unique reservoir of practical transplantation experience.

However, this surge in demand led to the emergence of so-called hair mills—unlicensed, underground operations—after 2015. Rushed and unqualified procedures resulted in “overharvesting incidents,” where hair follicles were disproportionately extracted from the back of the head to implant a denser amount of hair in the patient’s frontal area. Erdoğan says that during that period, clinics began to proliferate where 50 to 80 patients were treated daily, the doctor entered the room only to say hello to the patient, and procedures were performed by unlicensed, untrained technicians.

This observation marked the beginning of a major technological leap that entered the global literature with the aim of eliminating the margin of error associated with the human eye in harvest planning and establishing a mathematical standard for hair transplantation. Combining Erdoğan’s vision with the engineering expertise of Dr. Oğuzhan Urhan, a professor at Kocaeli University in Izmit, Turkey, an AI and robotics-based system known as KE-BOT was born.

KE-BOT is a system that uses a 6-axis robotic arm to perform a 360-degree scan around the head. It creates a map of the scalp using nearly 400 photos taken against a 3D topographic map generated by an active infrared depth camera. It then uses deep learning algorithms to identify each follicle on the scalp and calculate the thickness of each hair strand in microns.

The algorithm behind these calculations is based on machine learning trained using thousands of counts performed by Erdoğan and his team on real images. “After a while, things reached a point where the robot started counting more accurately than we did,” says Erdoğan, adding: “By analyzing environmental data—such as skin tone, light reflection, and the number of fine-haired roots—that we never even considered, artificial intelligence can identify, for example, that a root the human eye perceives as having two strands is actually a triple strand, with much greater accuracy.”

When combined with the Coverage Value formula developed by Erdoğan, this dataset evolved into a system that reports to the physician, with mathematical precision, the maximum number of grafts that can be harvested without causing permanent damage to the patient’s nape. By sharpening the surgeon’s vision at the microscopic level, it has established a “hybrid medicine” model that combines human craftsmanship with the data-processing power of artificial intelligence.

Well, couldn’t this have gone a step further? With multimillion-dollar, highly precise autonomous robots like Da Vinci available, couldn’t a similar system have been designed that directly implants the grafts itself? “Robots like Da Vinci are excellent devices for performing endoscopic micro-movements in narrow spaces where the human hand struggles to reach. However, hair transplantations are performed in an open area. The human hand’s sense of touch and its ability to instantly adjust pressure based on the skin’s resistance are still far superior to even the most advanced autonomous robots,” says Erdoğan.

To return to the issue of unlicensed clinics, according to reports from the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery (ISHRS), the vast majority of procedures performed at these clinics—often referred to as unlicensed or black-market clinics—are carried out not by licensed physicians but by unqualified technicians. So how can you be sure you’re putting yourself in safe hands?

According to Erdoğan, the first step should be to verify whether the person you’re dealing with is actually a licensed physician and to check the clinic’s license as well. However, the key factor lies in how the person approaches the issue. Experts recommend to be wary of commercial approaches that make quick promises. If someone looks at a single photo of a prospective client and says, “We’ll implant 3,000 grafts for you; it’ll look great,” there is reason to be skeptical. Erdoğan says, “A reliable doctor will first examine the thickness and distribution of your hair and thoroughly review your medical history and any conditions that could prevent you from undergoing a procedure.”

From Days to Hours

While doctors meticulously applied their manual skills along patients’ hairlines, the existing surgical equipment also had to be completely “hacked” to meet the massive demand flooding into Istanbul from all over the world. In the early 2000s, as the FUE technique gained popularity, hair follicles were extracted manually using small, handheld drills called “manual punches.” This method took two to three days per procedure, causing significant fatigue for both the patient and the surgeon. At that time, the medical micro-motors used by surgeons in Europe and America—which could be sterilized in an autoclave—were priced between $10,000 and $15,000, making them far from a practical choice. Additionally, during a procedure like hair transplantation that involves bleeding, if even one drop of blood seeped into these delicate motors, the device became inoperable, and the entire investment went to waste.

The steps that pulled Turkey out of this operational crisis lie in the incredible pragmatic engineering ingenuity coming from the field. Mustafa Er, the CEO of Ertıp Medikal—a company originally focused on the manufacture of surgical hand instruments which has been central to the development of the Turkish hair-transplant industry—describes how they became involved in the process. “When plastic surgeons returned from conferences in the U.S.,” he explains, “they complained about the slowness of the manual system. Instead of copying those expensive surgical motors, we chose to modify the inexpensive motors that dental technicians use in laboratories to grind prosthetics.”

By converting the motor into a closed system, they prevented blood from seeping inside. To prevent clipped hair from accumulating and causing blockages, they added special vents and channels to allow airflow through the system. As a result, procedures that used to take three days manually have been reduced to as little as six hours. The fact that the equipment became affordable and accessible led thousands of healthcare workers to purchase these devices with their own salaries, causing the industry to grow exponentially.

This engineering feat has made a huge splash not only in Turkey but also beyond its borders. Mustafa Er recalls the time he attended an aesthetic medicine conference held in the Bahamas in 2006. Since they couldn’t ship materials through customs to the exhibition venue, four or five staff members traveled to the fair carrying 15 suitcases full of modified motors and punches. Not only did they sell all the materials they brought with them at the fair, but they returned with another 15 suitcases worth of new orders.

Turkey’s emergence as a global hub for hair transplantation has brought anatomical challenges specific to different regions of the world to the laboratory tables of Turkish clinics. For example, it became necessary to devise new approaches for patients of African descent with curly hair, whose hair follicles curve in a “C” or “U” shape beneath the skin. “When classic cylindrical tips—which are straight and rotate continuously—enter the skin, they cannot follow this curved path and end up cutting the follicle in half, killing it,” says Dr. Er. To solve this problem, they invented the Afro Punch tool, which features asymmetrical star-shaped or U-shaped slits at its tip. By combining this with motors that perform a half-right, half-left motion, they succeeded in wrapping around the root and extracting the follicle without causing damage. Building on the same concept, they produced special sawtoothed tips resistant to dulling during surgery for the calloused and thickened scalps (caused by sun exposure) of Middle Eastern patients.

The ability to think across disciplines has also brought about a major transformation in the process of creating channels into which hair is implanted into the scalp. Observing that tissue was being crushed, bleeding increased, and healing times were prolonged during the channel creation process performed with surgical steel blades or razor blades, Er discovered while visiting trade shows that synthetic sapphire tips—as hard and durable as diamonds, they are used in eye surgery to cut the eyeball—could be adapted for this field.

The cost of these tips, which initially reached $300, has dropped to the $40 to $60 range thanks to rising demand increasing order volumes and tough negotiations. They are now used in 80 percent of surgeries performed in Turkey. “Thanks to the thin, clean V-shaped channels created by synthetic sapphires, we not only prevent tissue damage but have also reduced the wound healing time from three months to 10 days,” says Er.

Current innovations make it possible to transplant long hair directly without the need to shave the donor area. According to Er, this technique—which is used particularly in eyebrow transplants—is in high demand worldwide.

Turkey’s multibillion-dollar empire in the fields of hair restoration and cosmetic surgery is no mere mirage. This remarkable success is the result of a unique blend of skills—rooted in Anatolia’s millennia-old tradition of craftsmanship—an engineering instinct that swiftly overcomes gaps in medical equipment, and a culture of deep compassion focused on the patient’s psychology and self-confidence.

However, this rosy picture must contend with the “hair factory” crisis—which has emerged as digital-marketing agencies and greedy investors have come to dominate the sector—as well as the problems caused by unlicensed personnel and the growing loss of global reputation in Western media. Furthermore, the fact that technicians trained in Turkey are taking their skills to other countries and, over time, enabling local entrepreneurs to learn the trade is also gradually eroding the transplant industry in Turkey.

Most experts agree that Turkey’s strategy for success in hair transplantation no longer relies on low prices or volume; instead, it hinges on creating an unshakable brand value through innovation, purpose-built technological equipment, and medical expertise that has proven itself on a global scale.

While it may be possible to copy surgical instruments or undercut prices by exporting technicians abroad, it is impossible to replicate the clinical expertise gained from tens of thousands of cases, solid medical ethics, and a culture of hospitality overnight.

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Some things never. They just take. Let's. It was a season of my life. When every morning felt the same? I'd open my eyes already tired. Before the day could call my name. Every thought led back to heartache. I spent so long carrying sadness. I forgot what Freedom was. I knew every crack in the ceiling. Every shadow in the? A careful heart. But lately, something's been changing. In ways to smoke to? To a spring. It cannot keep. Your trumpet sounds. Your grand parade, just a quiet kind of healing. It doesn't reach every corner like before. It's still there sometime. Anymore. The heart still lives. But it don't own my. Today, I heard an old conversation. That once would have brought me down. But the memory passed right through me. Without pulling me underground. And I laughed at something simple. The way I used to do? Not because the pain is gone. But because I'm making room. May restraint is just surviving long enough to see. Doesn't feel the room anymore. It doesn't reach every corner. Like before, it's still there sometimes. Anymore. For the first. Catching myself smiling without a reason. But it don't own my. I spent years. Like, every broken piece of me. Was destined to remain. Doesn't feel anymore. It isn't the giant it was before the Shadow still visit, but they don't block the Sun. And that's enough to know. That healing has begun. Not changing. I don't dream again. Nothing's finished. The story's still unfolding? But tonight. There's more space & peace. And there was yesterday. And maybe tomorrow. Won't feel so heavy.

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High Cortisol Insomnia = Magnesium Lowers | Dr. Eric Berg

Signs of magnesium deficiency can include muscle cramps and spasms, fatigue, nausea, loss of appetite, and in severe cases, irregular heartbeats or seizures.

Gastrointestinal Issues:

Nausea and vomiting

Loss of appetite

Constipation

Neurological and Mental Health:

Fatigue and weakness

Numbness or tingling

Insomnia or sleep disturbances

Anxiety and irritability

Personality changes

Cardiovascular Issues:

Abnormal heart rhythms (arrhythmias) 

Palpitations (racing or pounding heartbeat) 

Other:

Headaches

Migraines  High blood pressure

Low blood sugar

Seizures (in severe cases)

What food is highest in magnesium?

10 foods high in magnesium

Whole wheat.

Spinach.

Quinoa.

Almonds, cashews, and peanuts.

Dark chocolate.

Black beans.

Edamame.

Avocado.

How can I raise my magnesium quickly?

10 Magnesium-Rich Foods Are Super Healthy

Dark chocolate.

Avocados.

Nuts.

Legumes.

Tofu.

Seeds.

Whole grains.

Fatty fish.

What depletes magnesium the most?

Refining or processing of food may deplete magnesium content by nearly 85%. Furthermore, cooking, especially boiling of magnesium-rich foods, will result in significant loss of magnesium. The processing and cooking of food may therefore explain the apparently high prevalence of low magnesium intake in many populations.

Does vitamin D deplete magnesium?

Mg is essential in the metabolism of vitamin D, and taking large doses of vitamin D can induce severe depletion of Mg. Adequate magnesium supplementation should be considered as an important aspect of vitamin D therapy.

According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), one large boiled eggTrusted Source weighing 50 g can provide the following nutrients:

Energy: 77.5 calories

Protein 6.3 grams (g)

Total fat: 5.3 g

Sodium: 62 milligrams (mg)

Calcium: 25 mg

Iron: 0.6 mg

Magnesium 5 mg

Phosphorus: 86 mg

Potassium: 63 mg

Zinc: 0.53 mg

Cholesterol: 186 mg

Selenium: 15.4 micrograms (mcg)

Lutein and zeaxanthin: 176 mcg

Folate: 22 mcg

What organ is most affected by magnesium?

Causes. Every organ in the body, especially the heart, muscles, and kidneys, needs the mineral magnesium. It also contributes to the makeup of teeth and bones. Magnesium is needed for many functions in the body

What drink is high in magnesium?

What drink increases magnesium? Juices containing plenty of whole fruits and veggies may have a good amount of magnesium. Milk has 24-27 milligrams per cup. Water from your tap as well as mineral or bottled waters also could give you a good amount of magnesium if you drink the recommended two liters a day.

Is coffee high in magnesium?

Coffee isn't a great source of vitamins and minerals, but as a plant-based drink, it contains some, and a few that we should be getting more of. Let's start with magnesium. A cup of coffee contains about 7 mg, which is a drop in the daily-requirement bucket (420 mg for men, 320 mg for women)

What drains the body of magnesium?

A high-saturated fat diet reduces magnesium absorption in the intestines. High sugar intake increases excretion of magnesium by the kidneys. Phosphates found in carbonated beverages such as dark-colored sodas bind magnesium, rendering it unusable by the body.

Magnesium depletion in healthy individuals can be caused by:

Low magnesium diets, processed foods and sodas

Soft water

Calcium supplements

Prescription and over the counter medications

And some conditions can increase vulnerability to deficiency, including:

Alcohol and other addictions

Aging, illness and stress

Digestive and Genetic disorders

A magnesium poor diet in America is the norm, not the exception.

The average American diet supplies less than two thirds of the magnesium required by the body. 1 2 Yet each person is individual, not only in their intake of magnesium, but also in their ability to absorb and utilize this key mineral.

The typical American diet, which is rich in fat, sugar, salt, synthetic vitamin D, phosphates, protein, and supplemented calcium, not only is deficient in magnesium but actually increases the need for magnesium in the body.”

Magnesium-rich foods include whole grains, leafy greens, nuts and seeds. Foods like these were once common in diets around the world, but an increase in both food processing and the availability of enticing convenience foods with added fats and sugars has had its impact. Whole and unrefined foods high in magnesium are becoming increasingly rare in the modern diet.

The question of what causes low magnesium is in some ways easy to answer when examining modern eating habits. A visit to the local supermarket finds cashiers unable to identify basic green vegetables such as kale, chard, and mustard greens, all high in magnesium.

It is not uncommon to find adults and children who state, “I don’t eat things that are green.” Fried foods such as chips and French fries have replaced healthy finger foods such as nuts and seeds. And millions around the world have entirely replaced their consumption of mineral-containing water with the consumption of carbonated beverages and coffee—drinks which actually reduce available magnesium through their high phosphate and sugar content and diuretic properties.

Each of these common eating habits compounds to create a general lack of magnesium in the diet. The consequences of the American diet on magnesium status are direct:

A high-saturated fat diet reduces magnesium absorption in the intestines. 4 5

High sugar intake increases excretion of magnesium by the kidneys. 6 7

Phosphates found in carbonated beverages such as dark-colored sodas bind magnesium, rendering it unusable by the body.

Soft Water and Magnesium

In areas with high mineral water content, increased magnesium consumption has been shown to have positive effects on health. Similarly, soft water sources have been shown to reduce magnesium intake, and in some cases may contribute to magnesium deficiency. 8 9

A symposium held by the World Health Organization in 2009 brought together scientists and medical professionals to review scientific evidence for the impact of calcium and magnesium in drinking water. Magnesium and health experts examined whether water softening may be a factor in what causes magnesium deficiency throughout the world, and considered what recommendations should be made as to softening and/or supplementation of global water supplies.

The symposium made clear acknowledgement of the benefit of magnesium in drinking water to public health. Directly addressing heart health specifically, it was stated:

The studies do show a [protective effect] between cardiovascular mortality and drinking-water magnesium. Although this association does not necessarily demonstrate causality, it is consistent with the well known effects of magnesium on cardiovascular function.” 10

Water softening is often done to improve the household cleaning properties of water, yet doing so removes a valuable source of magnesium—one that can provide as much as 50% of the RDA in some parts of the world.

Increasingly, municipal water sources remove magnesium as a part of water treatment, though some municipal sources do re-supplement water supplies after softening. Depletion of magnesium at the source can be a significant factor in low magnesium status.

Experts advise:

Contacting local government resources to determine the magnesium content of your water supply.

Seeking a magnesium content of at least 10-30% of RDA per two liters (68 fluid oz.), or a minimum content of approximately 130 ppm or mg/L.

Actively supplementing magnesium in cases where water magnesium content is low.

Excess Calcium and Magnesium

Magnesium deficiency’s causes can also include supplementation of other competing vitamins and nutrients. Today many people, especially women, supplement with calcium to prevent bone loss and osteoporosis.

Yet widespread knowledge of the need for calcium is, unfortunately, not accompanied by a widespread knowledge of the need for magnesium. As a result, many are actively depleting their magnesium stores without realizing it—through their supplementation with calcium.

An overabundance of calcium increases the body’s need for magnesium. And calcium cannot be effectively utilized or absorbed without adequate magnesium.

It is commonly recommended to take calcium and magnesium supplements at a 2:1 ratio. However, according to several magnesium experts a 1:1 ratio (or even a ratio that favors magnesium) can sometimes be advisable, especially when certain conditions or illnesses or present, or when the diet is skewed excessively toward calcium intake, as is the case with many American diets. 11 12

Medications That Can Cause Magnesium Deficiency

Among the known magnesium deficiency causes are prescription medications such as diuretics, antibiotics, painkillers and cortisone, which can deplete magnesium levels in the body by impairing absorption or by increasing excretion by the kidneys.

Some specific medications that increase excretion of magnesium and/or increase the body’s magnesium requirements are:

Certain antibiotics such as Garamycin, tobramycin (Nebcin), carbenicillin, ticaricillin, amphotericin B and antibiotics of the tetracycline class

The anti-fungal drug Pentamidine, used to prevent and treat pneumonia

Estrogen, found in birth control pills and hormone replacement therapy

Corticosteroids such as hydrocortisone

Diuretics such as Edercrin, Lasix, mannitol, and thiazides (with names commonly ending in -zide)

Certain heart failure medications including digitalis, digoxin (Lanoxin), Qunidex, and Cordarone

Medications used to treat irregular heartbeat, such as Cordarone (amiodarone), bretylium, quinidine (Cardioquin) and sotalol (Betapace)

The anti-cancer drug Platinol, and other immunosuppressant drugs such as Neoral and Sandimmune

Antineoplastics, used in chemotherapy, and radiation

Asthma medications such as epinephrine, isoproterenol and aminophylline

The antipsychotic and antischizophrenic drugs Pimozide (Orap), Mellaril and Stelazine 13

Addiction, Alcoholism and Magnesium Depletion

In cases of addiction or alcoholism, low intake and absorption can cause magnesium deficiency. Complications such as liver disease, vomiting and diarrhea reduce body levels of magnesium, and treatment of addiction may in fact further complicate issues when withdrawal is experienced. In some cases, intravenous magnesium replacement is warranted during severe alcohol withdrawal.

Illness, Stress and Aging as Causes of Low Magnesium

Stressful conditions require more magnesium by the body, thus those experiencing these conditions are more susceptible to magnesium deficiency. Examples include:

Surgery

Burns

Liver disease

Diabetes

Hormonal imbalances

These conditions not only increase the body’s need for magnesium, but also may reduce stomach acid levels, reducing the body’s ability to break down foods and supplements into an absorbable form. Magnesium’s bioavailability is vulnerable to a reduction in hydrochloric acid, because many forms of magnesium must be broken down into an ionic form in the digestive tract to be used by the body.

The natural process of aging also reduces stomach acid levels and is associated with reduced absorption of magnesium.

Once broken down in the stomach, magnesium must be absorbed in the small intestine. The level of absorption is also known to be affected by an individual’s state of health, as well as the presence of other minerals such as iron and calcium, which can impede magnesium absorption.

Learn about magnesium chloride, a highly soluble form of magnesium that supports healthy chloride levels in the GI tract.

Diseases of Magnesium Malabsorption and Depletion

Digestive disorders such as Crohn’s disease, genetic diseases and other conditions may cause magnesium wasting by the kidneys or problems with absorption. For such individuals, higher intakes of magnesium are required to replace amounts lost.

Some syndromes associated with problems of magnesium absorption include:

Crohn’s disease

Celiac sprue

Whipple’s disease

Short bowel syndrome

Intestinal mucosal diseases

Intestinal lymphangiectasia

Cystic fibrosis

Cholestatic liver disease

Pancreatic insufficiency

Radiation enteritis

Systemic mastocytosis

Patients undergoing ileal (intestinal) resection or ileal bypass for treatment of obesity

Terminal ileal diseases

Tubular disorders

Congenital renal (kidney) magnesium wasting

Interstitial nephritis

Acute tubular necrosis

Drug-induced tubular injury (e.g. aminoglycosides, amphotericin B, cisplatin)

Kidney transplant

Renal tubular acidosis

Bartter’s syndrome

Disorders such as these may be difficult to diagnose, though chronic deficiency symptoms such as muscle cramping, fatigue, irritability or high blood pressure may be an indication of magnesium depletion when accompanied by adequate dietary magnesium intake.

In addition, severe diabetic ketoacidosis may be a cause of hypomagnesemia. In these cases, extreme insulin deficiency leads to breakdown of compounds within the cells, releasing magnesium and excreting it from the body.

Read more:

See a complete list of the symptoms of low magnesium.

Know Your Risk Factors

Due to an inability to accurately test body magnesium content, it is unknown exactly how many Americans are currently magnesium deficient, nor how many persons are deficient worldwide.

Current tests focus on serum magnesium, which has been shown inadequate to pinpoint the existence or non-existence of a potential bodily deficiency. Since only 1% of bodily magnesium is stored in the blood, low blood magnesium cause and effect does not necessarily overlap magnesium deficiency cause and effect. Alternate magnesium tests do exist, such as challenge testing, load testing, and the more recent ExaTest, but these are less commonly adopted by health professionals.

Because of this difficulty in diagnosing magnesium deficiency, many doctors and health providers will consider not just test results and current symptoms, but also risk factors when addressing the possibility of magnesium deficiency.

For individuals considering their own magnesium status, the key is knowing both:

The causes of magnesium deficiency (described on this page)

The signs of magnesium deficiency, including tell-tale symptoms and conditions

By understanding the causes of a lack of magnesium, it’s possible for each of us to make proactive individual decisions on whether to supplement this commonly deficient essential mineral.

For persons without kidney disease, magnesium supplementation has no side effects other than loose stools when taken orally, indicating a need to reduce dosage. 15 And transdermal applications of magnesium avoid digestive problems entirely.

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GOD Whispers HOPE in Your Darkest Moments | Atmosphere of Grace Psalm 18:6 In my distress I called to the LORD; I cried to my GOD for help. From HIS Temple HE heard my voice; my cry came before HIM, into HIS ears.

This phrase confirms that GOD is attentive and responsive to the prayers of HIS people. The imagery of the cry reaching GOD's ears suggests that GOD is not distant or indifferent but is actively listening and ready to respond. This assurance is a source of comfort and hope, reinforcing the belief that GOD is a refuge and strength (Psalm 46:1). It also foreshadows the New Testament teaching of JESUS as the intercessor WHO hears and responds to the cries of believers (Hebrews 4:14-16).

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Alton Brown Cooks Food | Episode 26: Moo Part 1

It's been done already Alton, it's called a paralyzer..AI doesn't even regcognize it as a martini, when it is a vodka based drink shaken over ice. I tried to order it at Vegas & the waitress had never heard of it, I don't think it is a popular drink in America, she had to google it but what I got had the wrong proportions. 10oz Voka to 1oz of everything else, it was crazy I couldn't even tell my joke—my head was spinning..so so so embarrassing. A milk, Coke, and vodka drink is most commonly known as a Paralyzer or a Colorado Bulldog. It is a creamy, fizzy, and sweet cocktail that tastes somewhat like an alcoholic root beer float or an iced coffee with a kick. gif never thought of cheesecake as a custard before, nor the fact cottage cheese was made in a cottage?! that's cool, great episode

Ingredients:

1oz Vodka

1oz Kahlúa

3oz Milk

3oz Coke

Method

Fill a highball or rocks glass with ice.

Pour the vodka and coffee liqueur over the ice.

Pour in the milk or cream.

Top with cola and give it a very gentle, quick stir. [1, 2, 3]

RE: Hope you discuss this development in the milk/beef industry.

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It had been widely reported that The Late Show was costing CBS millions, but that had never been confirmed until Friday, when the network issued a statement praising Colbert’s successor, Byron Allen‘s Comics Unleashed. “We’re proud to partner with Byron Allen on a new business and programming model for late night that proactively addresses a network daypart that was cost-prohibitive to continue,” CBS said in the statement published by Deadline and The Daily Beast. “With this ‘time buy’ model, we have shifted an hour that was losing roughly $40 million annually to $15 million in profit — a $55 million swing.” Instead of producing Comics Unleashed, Allen is buying the hour from CBS for a flat fee of $15 million a year. He will get to keep the ad revenue he generates, while CBS saves on production costs for the now-defunct Late Show. Television ratings for Comics Unleashed will be of no concern to CBS. Kimmel called cancellation ‘nonsensical’ As reports swirled over rumours that CBS was losing $40 million a year to produce The Late Show, Colbert’s fellow late-night hosts ran to his defence.

“There’s just not a snowball’s chance in hell that that’s anywhere near accurate,” Jimmy Kimmel told Variety last summer when he was asked to comment on CBS’s reported loss at the time. “The idea that Stephen Colbert’s show was losing $40 million a year is beyond nonsensical.”Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon said he was “shocked” by the news and called Colbert “a true friend” in a post shared on Instagram. David Letterman, who hosted The Late Show from 1993 to 2015 before Colbert took over, addressed the production’s end in an interview with The Barbara Gaines Show last month.“ They don’t want to spend any money, so they’re going to make money,” Letterman said, according to Variety.

“They have never been losing money … This is pure cowardice,” Letterman told Gaines last year.

“They did not do the correct thing. They did not handle Stephen Colbert — the face of that network — in the way he deserves to have been handled. That’s what I think.”