Trumpet PR : 2014

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16 MOST EXPENSIVE SUBSTANCES IN THE WORLD

#16 Saffron - $11/gram

Saffron has an aroma and flavor which cannot be duplicated, and a chemical make-up which, when understood, helps the chef or home cook to know how to best release that flavor and aroma in cooking and baking. Saffron is sold in two forms, powder and threads, and each behaves very differently in the kitchen.

This article contains more of the botanical and culinary background of this expensive plant.

#15 Gold - $56/gram

Pure gold is soft and is usually alloyed with other metals, such as silver, copper, platinum or palladium, to increase its strength. Gold alloys are used to make jewelry, decorative items, dental fillings and coins. Gold is a good conductor of heat and electricity, and does not tarnish when it is exposed to the air, so it can be used to make electrical connectors and printed circuit boards.

Gold is also a good reflector of infrared radiation and can be used to help shield spacecraft and skyscrapers from the sun's heat. Gold coated mirrors can be used to make telescopes that are sensitive to infrared light.

Learn more about this glittering, precious metal from this article, including more about how it's weighed and measured.

#14 Rhodium- $58/gram

William Hyde Wollaston (who also discovered palladium, which doesn't appear on this list of most expensive substances), an English chemist, discovered rhodium in crude platinum ore.

Though the name comes from the Greek word for "red", there's nothing red about it. It is a strong, hard metal, and is often used to improve the hardness and conductivity of other metals.

See this article to learn more on the properties of rhodium, its molecular structure, chemical properties and industrial uses.

#13 Platinum - $60/gram

Platinum is indeed a special substance, with value in industry, ornament and environmental improvement. More than 20% of all consumer goods either contain platinum or are produced using platinum; it's in jewelry and catalytic converters, electronics and anti-cancer drugs... and eight tons of ore produce just an ounce of it.
This article gives you much more detail on the many, many uses and values of platinum -- including its use as an investment.

#12 Methamphetamine - $100/gram

You don't have to have seen Breaking Bad to know that crystal meth is bad news. This synthetic stimulant is powerful and highly addictive, with numerous negative effects on a person's health during use, during addiction and upon withdrawal.
This article provides more detail on all of these aspects of meth -- its chemical makeup, its effects, its (myriad) drawbacks.

#11 Rhino Horn - $110/gram

Meth is expensive and dangerous, but it at least does something; rhino horn is even more expensive, but sadly does nothing (as far as evidence-based medicine is concerned, anyway, which wants its cures to actually be shown to work before being prescribed).

Demand for powdered rhino horn has spiked in Vietnam, which is bad news for those hoping for a fix and worse news for rhinos. This article further details the enormous inflation of demand for rhino horn, and its effects on rhino populations.

#10 Heroin -- $130/gram

Heroin is processed from morphine, which in turn comes from the poppy plant. Heroin usually appears as a white or brown powder. Street names for heroin include "smack," "H," "skag," and "junk."

Heroin is a highly addictive drug, and its use is a serious problem. It is both the most abused and the most rapidly acting of the opiates. It is typically sold as a white or brownish powder or as the black sticky substance known on the streets as "black tar heroin."

This article details the ways it can appear, the effects it has, and the specific legislation restricting its sale, production, possession and use.

#9 Cocaine - $215/gram

Cocaine is a bitter, addictive pain blocker that is extracted from the leaves of Erythroxylon coca, also known as the coca scrub, a plant that comes from the Andean highlands in South America. Cocaine is the most powerful stimulant of natural origin. The name of "cocaine" came from the plant "coca." When Coca-Cola first came out it contained nine milligrams of cocaine per glass - in 1903 it was removed, but the drink still has coca flavoring.
See the article in Medical News Today to learn more about cocaine, including its physiological affects, then view this video, How Cocaine Functions on the Human Brain to further enhance your learning.

#8 Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD) $3,000/gram

Lysergic acid diethylamide, abbreviated LSD or LSD-25, is the most expensive drug on the list. A very strong, mood-altering hallucinogen, its price per gram is only mitigated (for users) by its incredibly small dosage (measured in millionths of grams).
Its effects are unpredictable, and depend on everything from the person's expectations to their surroundings to how they react to the experience itself.
Attached to this learning is a 45-minute video documentary on the uses and scientific background of LSD.

#7 Plutonium - $4,000/gram

Plutonium is a radioactive element most famous for its role in generating nuclear power through nuclear fission -- both in peacetime (via nuclear reactors) and in war (via atomic bombs). It is poisonous, flammable, and radioactive, but occurs only in trace quantities in nature.
This video is a documentary of plutonium's emergence through research into nuclear power.

#6 Painite - $9,000/gram

Painite, which is named after its 1950s discoverer, Arthur C.D. Pain, is so rare that most people do not know what it is. Until recently, only a very small number of stones were considered large and clear enough to be worth cutting into gemstones. More recently, additional sources have been found, but it is still incredibly rare.

This article details one gem trader's long mission to add painite to his own collection.

#5 Taaffeite Stone - Up to $20,000/Gram

The taaffeite gemstone (pronounced TAR-fight) is purple to red and was first discovered in 1945. Count Edward Taaffe bought a set of spinels and noticed something odd about one of them: the gemstone displayed double refraction, while a spinel does not. Taaffeite was thus the only gemstone that was first identified through a faceted gemstone.

Taaffeite is made up of magnesium, beryllium and aluminum. It is the first known gemstone that has beryllium and magnesium as major parts. Currently the only way it is used is as a gemstone.

This article details more of the difference between taaffeite and spinel, with additional pictures of the gem in cut form, showing the range of its coloration.

#4 Tritium - $30,000/gram

Tritium is a radioactive form of hydrogen, made naturally by cosmic rays, and synthetically in nuclear reactions (including nuclear weapons tests). In research, it's used in fusion reactors and neutron generators. Tritium also has everyday uses: by mixing tritium with a chemical that emits light in the presence of radiation, a continuous light source is made without the need for batteries. Rifle sights and exit signs are two examples of this.

The radioactive decay product of tritium is a low energy beta that cannot penetrate the outer dead layer of human skin. Therefore, the main hazard associated with tritium is internal exposure from inhalation or ingestion.

This article details how tritium has historically been limited and tracked, and how more recent information has made tritium a public health question mark.

#3 Diamonds - $55,000/gram

In mineralogy, diamond is a metastable allotrope of carbon, where the carbon atoms are arranged in a variation of the face-centered cubic crystal structure called a diamond lattice. Diamond is less stable than graphite, but the conversion rate from diamond to graphite is negligible at ambient conditions. Diamond is renowned as a material with superlative physical qualities, most of which originate from the strong covalent bonding between its atoms. In particular, diamond has the highest hardness and thermal conductivity of any bulk material. Those properties determine the major industrial application of diamond in cutting and polishing tools and the scientific applications in diamond knives and diamond anvil cells.
As valuable and special as diamonds are scientifically and artistically, mining and processing of diamonds have a long history of brutal inequality and exploitation. This video goes into these (much) less attractive aspects of diamonds.

#2 Californium 252 - $27 Million/gram

Californium-252 is a rare radioactive isotope used commercially as a reliable, cost-effective neutron source for prompt gamma neutron activation analysis (PGNAA) of coal, cement and minerals, and for detection and identification of explosives, land mines and unexploded military ordnance. Other uses include neutron radiography, reactor start-up sources, cancer treatment, and calibration standards.

This learning explains more about the first discovery and production of californium in 1950, as well as providing more of the scientific data.

#1 Antimatter - $6.25 Trillion/gram

Antimatter is composed of antiparticles, which have the same mass as particles of ordinary matter, but have opposite charge and other particle properties. When particles and antiparticles meet, there is a larger release of energy, in the form of high-energy photons (gamma rays), neutrinos, and lower-mass particle–antiparticle pairs.
The reason antimatter is so expensive is that it's very, very hard to make, and does not last long in our regular-particle-filled world: antimatter is currently made in batches that are measured by the number of atoms, and lasts only minutes. This video from the Science Channel website gives one specific hypothetical use of antimatter: long-distance space travel.
As expensive as they are, not all of them are good for acquisition. Be careful and wise in your decision this coming year.

Monday 24 November 2014

#HealthTips

TOOTHACHE

Tooth pain happens when the nerve is inflamed. Generally this occurs due to compromised enamel which is allowing material

to enter directly into the pulp (the center of your tooth). This is primarily caused by the process of demineralization - the loss of minerals from your teeth. This makes your enamel weak, which eventually leads to pain and inflammation.

REMEDY FOR TOOTHACHE
Dab some clove oil directly on your bad tooth. Clove oil has remarkable bacteria slaying properties and also has a numbing

effect, which is why it's a long time folk remedy for toothache.

Today we know that this extract from the clove bud contains eugenol, which acts as a local anesthetic. The oil may sting at first, but then blissful relief sets in.

If you don't have any cloves, make a paste of powered ginger and red (cayenne) pepper. Pour the powered ingredients in the bottom of a cup, and then add a drop or two of water to make the paste.

Roll a small ball of cotton into enough paste to saturate it, and place it on your painful tooth.

(This can irritate the gums, so keep the cotton on the tooth.) In addition to using the spices together, you.

can try them separately. Either one can help relieve tooth pain.

STAY HEALTHY….. REMEMBER HEALTH IS WEALTH

REST

· * The art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.

· * Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

· Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest

* Put duties aside at least an hour before bed and perform soothing, quiet activities that will help you relax.

*No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to relax for at least five minutes every hour, you'd be more productive.

· *There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub

· *We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.

· *Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.

· *If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.

· *I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

· *If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.

· *Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.

*Nothing is that important

· *Take a rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.

· *Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.

* * Rest so as not to fast forward your journey to the place of no return.

FAMILY BUSINESS

WHY YOU MUST DO BUSINESS

WITH FAMILY

One thing that makes Africa and Africans special is our love and respect for FAMILY. The African society prides itself with the institution of family. This in itself has positively affected our lifestyles including our businesses.

Quickly we would examine few reasons why we MUST involve family in our businesses.

1. EASY START UP: The fastest way to start any business is taking full advantage of the family line. Over time many great entrepreneurs started multinational organizations by using their Spouses, brothers, sisters, and children as Receptionist, Cleaners, Marketers and many more. Even in the church business, a Pastor wife can be the Women’s Leader, Assistant Pastor, Treasurer, Choir Leader and even the Sanitation Unit Leader. All these can be possible because most times the love shared by family makes it easier for them to believe and support your dream without any direct plan for a reward. Many people support or help businesses only when they have seen it thriving, however family is always ready to help… As long as they have faith in you.

2. ENHANCES UNITY: In dealing with humans, there is a tendency for people to err and offend each other, however when Family is involved in a particular business, their bond becomes stronger. Minor challenges are forgiven and forgotten all because of the growth and success of the business. The facts that they both have something bigger than their ego, or pride to protect will make them settle disputes quickly and amicably.

3. INCREASES LOVE: There is nothing as pleasant as working with/for someone you love. Working with a family breeds an atmosphere of love and where there is love there is higher possibility for higher productivity. The working atmosphere most times affects the productivity of the workers. A work environment filled with hate and bitterness can never produce good results.

4. CONTINUITY: What will be a man’s gain if he spends years building a business empire without a sure plan for continuity? The best people to live a dream are does closet to the owner of the dream. To ensure that your sweat and labor is not tarnished or forgotten, it is important that family is involved in the business you are into. With family, you can be assured that the founding Principles, Traditions and Goals of the business would be upheld. This is way better than having a stranger coming to reconstruct a foundation you have already laid.

5. SECURITY: in today’s business world, TRUST is very scarce if not absent. Many people cannot be trusted; however, its remains safer to trust Family than an outsider. Sometimes in the course of running our businesses we may be tempted to delegate certain financial transaction to others. Delegating to family is less risky because you know the root of that family member; unlike an outsider that you have no clear idea of his/her past except for their CV.

Business is good, but a man with family has more wealth. To build a great generational business empire, it is important you carefully integrate your family to your business. When this done, you can be sure that your business would thrive successfully with or without your direct presence.

Sunday 23 November 2014

Trumpet PR : #InspireSunday WHO IS YOUR GOD?

Trumpet PR : #InspireSunday WHO IS YOUR GOD?: IDOLATRY The term IDOLATRY is derived from the word IDOL. In itself, an IDOL can be described as anything/anyone that is well rever...

#InspireSunday WHO IS YOUR GOD?

IDOLATRY

The term IDOLATRY is derived from the word IDOL. In itself, an IDOL can be described as anything/anyone that is well revered, admired and worship. The English dictionary describes it as “A graven image or representation of anything that is revered or believed to convey spiritual powers”.

From a layman view, when we here the term IDOL, our first point of reason is usually the Village or Traditional powers; but from the definition earlier stated, we can boldly say that IDOLATRY is way beyond that.

If we critically look at the society today, we would see that we have so many idolaters who are not even aware that they have an idol in their lives.

Here are few tips to know if you are an IDOLATER or NOT:

a. YOUR RELIGIOUS LEADER IS PERFECT: Aha! Got someone’s attention there! If as an individual you cannot see any weakness in the life or ministry of your religious leader, I think you should pause and think. Although God expects his children to be PERFECT, but as long as we are on earth, we can only but keep WALKING/ WORKING towards perfection. When you hold the notion that the person leading you cannot make a mistake, then you have moved him/her from being a humane to being a “god”. Directly or indirectly you have become an IDOLATER

b. WHEN YOU ARE READY TO SHED BLOOD: One of the key ingredients for any ritual is BLOOD. If you find out that you are willingly and ready to shed another person’s blood just to fulfill the desires or wishes of an individual, know for sure that that individual has become your god. Political fanatics are mostly guilty in this regard. They are easily brainwashed to inflict pain on an opposition just for their “god” to attain a particular height.

c. WITHOUT HIM/HER YOU ARE INCOMPLETE: Love is a beautiful thing; but when not controlled, it can become a terrible thing. Certain people get so attached to family, friends, loved ones, work or groups that without it/them, they are incomplete. That shouldn't be. Anything or Anyone that would make you lose your senses or sense of direction in its absence is nothing less than a god in your life. Young people mostly fall culprit in this regard. *

d. IF IT’S YOUR ONLY SOURCE OF HAPPINESS OR SUCCOR : When Saul was tormented by evil spirits, David Strings brought comfort to his soul (1^st Samuel 16:23); that it understandable; however, if the only thing that gets you excited and happy is a person, event, TV Program, or activity, please know that that thing or activity is becoming your god. Yea, you may want to ask, is it a crime to have a Passion? Absolutely NOT, we all should be passionate about something, but what passion brings is way deeper than what Happiness does. Passion brings peace not necessarily happiness. Happiness can come up easily without peace. Its a thin line, but the line exists.

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