7 Tips on How to Motivate Your Partener

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It is easy to lose spark when facing various challenges in life. Nowdays many people feel tired an exhausted due to stress, losing job or overload. If your partner is facing hard times, then you will have a great role to support them and help find the way out. If you really love your significant other, you should do your best to boost theri confidence and motivate them when they feel down. Show your love and care for them to understand that they are not alone. you should be redy to deal with nervousness, because when we have problems we usually turn emotional and lose stability. Here are 7 tips on how to motivate your loved one to handle the situation and become strong again.

1. Suggest small steps 

Sometimes the way to your dreams can be long and complicated. You can find the goal unachievable, because of unexpected challanges and obstacles that arise along the journey.If your beloved doesn't know what to do, where to begin or how to move forward, try to suggest them to start with small steps and actions. You can share your vision of the situation and suggest a list of small steps and people who can help them overcome tough times.

2. Give the evidence of their success

If your partner's things are not going well, try to provide an encouragement for them by offering a pep talk. You are the one who should remind them how wonderful and talented they are. You can give the exemple of their past accomplishments.Try to persuade them in their originality and abilities to make theri dreams come true. This strategy will help you boost your partner's self - confidence and self - esteem.

3. Find the reason

Try to determine the cause of your partner's troubles. If it is possible, try to create a cozy atmosphere and find a suitable moment to talk to them and understand what is bothering them. When you know the reason, you can start on the emotional support instead of just criticizingand commenting that you see your beloved is changing in a bad way.

4. Don't be importunate

When we want to help somebody, we should be careful enough not to put too much pressure on them. It is important to feel the line support and mental pressure. Your partner has the risk to get more stressed and annoyed if you bother them about something. I think no one likes pushy people, especially when you are surrounded by problems and want everyone to leave yo alone.

5. Don't praise too much

Praising your partner is one of the most significant things to motivate them to move on, but you should know when to stop. Too good isn't good, too. When you are doing it all the time, they will find you insincere. Don't gush too much about their goals and accomplishments. Just remind them about their advantages from time in order to give them a push to live happier.

6. Reward every attempt

It is very difficult to start doing something new and unknown, especially if you feel despondent and depressed during the hard times. when your partner achieves some results, you should show your happiness and appreciation. Enjoyable rewards make them more enthusiastic and relentless. When they see that their efforts and actions make you happy and meet your common needs, they will get an extremely high desire and motivation to become better. It is desirable not to blame your beloved with every little detail, because all your efforts to motivate them to be successful will be in vain.

7. Find something positive in their actions

If you have given your partner an advice to do certain small steps to go through hard times, you should feel responsibility for your actions and try to notice and accentuate all the good things that result from their actions and attempts. You can find different positive moments and changes in their deeds. If they go in for sports, you can remind how strong and wonderful they look.

Nowadays even strong and highly successful people can face problems and lose motivation. If you have a persistent desire to overcome all difficulties in your family life, you should be brave enough to face harsh realities of life and be a single whole despite of everything. Moreover, you should support your partner if necessary. Have you ever tried any other effective ways to motivate your significant one? 

Share you tips with us please.

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8 Amazing Facts about Watermelon

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Watermelon is one of the most popular and delicious summer fruits that almost everyone loves. Watermelon is low in calories (it has 46 calories per cup) and high in vitamins A and C (it provides 17 percent of your daily  Vitamin A intake and 20 percent of your daily Vitamin C intake.)

Watermelon is also rich in dietary fiber and potassium. While there's a strong debate over whether watermelon is a vegetable or a fruit, many of us consider watermelon to be both. If you want to learn a few amazingly interesting facts about watermeleon, keep reading...

1. Watermelon boosts brain power

Did you know that watermelon can help you boost your brain power? The thing is, watermelon is an exellent source of Vitamin B6, which is vital for normal brain function. Moreover, the water percentage in this delicious fruit is similar to the water percentage in the brain.

2. It has a high water content

Watermelon has an extremely high water content. According to the USDA, watermelon is 91.5 percent water, which means that this fruit can help you stay hydrated throghout the day. Eating watermelon or drinking watermelon juice each day is one of the most delicious ways to stay hydrated during this season, isn't it?

3. It contains about 40 percent more lycopene than raw tomatoes

A cup of watermelon contains 1.5 times more lycopene than a large fresh tomato. Lycopene is a powerful antioxidant that helps prevent the free radical from causing cell damage and can improve your immune system. Moreover, this powerful antioxidant has been shown to lower the risk of cancer in the body.

4. A yellow watermelon

Watermelon comes in different varieties, There's a watermelon that is not pink on the inside. If you want to try something new, opt for Yellow Crimson. This yellow variety of watermelon has a sweet, honey - like taste that you'll definitely love. But it can be difficult to buy a yellow watermelon since it's almost identical with the other watermelon varieties.

5. It'd good for your eyes 

Watermelon is packed with Vitamin A, which is great for your eyes. It helps to boost your eyesight power and it protects your eyes from various infections.

Consume about 100 grams of watermelon each day to keep your eyes healthy and your eyesight sharp.

6. Watermelon juice can reduce muscle soreness

Numerous studies show that watermelon juice can help to reduce muscle soreness, so it's a great drink after a extremely tring workout. The thing is, watermelon is one of the highest source of citulline, which helps to improve artery function and reduce lood pressure. If you have a muscle soreness, consider drinking water juice. Though, I recommend you to consult your doctor first.

7. It helps with weight loss

Eating watermelon is a tasty and frugal way to cleanse your body and drop a few unwanted pounds. as I mentioned above, watermelon is low in calories and high in water and this helps with weight loss.

Watermelon makes a great base for homemade smoothies and the perfect snack between meals as it provides the body with lots of minerals and water.

8. It protects from UV rays

Watermelon is high in lycopene, a carotenoid pigment that boasts powerful antioxidant properties. Lycopene helps to protect you against UV rays, sunburn and skin cancer. I think it's an important reason to incorporate some watermelon into your daily diet.

Watermelon is an awesome fruit that boasts plenty of incredible health benefits. Add watermelon to your summer salads and smoothies, grill it or eat it raw. Summer is the perfect time to enjoy this tasty and healthy fruit. What's your favorite way to eat watermelon?

Share your ideas with us, please.

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Graphic Shows The Size Of Rosetta's Comet

photo credit: Matt Wang,Flickr:anosmicovni.European Agency. Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko Relative to Downtown Los Angeles

Our sense of scale tends to adjust to circumstances. So when we think about comets it is easy to compare them with other astronomical objects. In which case, comet 67P/Churyumov - Gerasimenko - just three kilometers wide - soundstiny.

However, as you can see in the image above, things lokk rather different when you compare the comet to something we are really familiar with - such as tall buildings.

While Churyumov - Gerasimenko is small enough that one could walk from one end to the other in less than an hour, it's easy to forget the three dimensional nature of something like this - three kilometers across is no big deal, but two kilometers helps make sense of what happened to the dinosaurs.

The image is by Matt Wang, who combined a photograph of Los Angeles with an image fromthe Rosetta spacecraft rendezvousing with Churyumov - Gerasimenko, prior to going into orbit and eventually landing.

While Rosetta will e doing its best to touch down gentlyon the comet's surface, we can't count on Churyumov - Gerasimenko doing the some if it ever paid LA a visit. You can get some idea of what would happen in such a collision here, although the scale of the damage depends greatly on the impact speed you choose to enter.

Since Churyumov - Gerasimenko never crosses the Earth's orbit is no danger of a collision, at last until a close encounter with some other planet shifts its orbit. Unfortunately the same cannot be said for other, even larger, asteroids and comets.

Note: an update to the image credit has been made. Credit: Matt Wang, Flickr:anosmicovni. European Space Agency.

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WATCH: Lyrebird perfectly imitates laser gun sounds

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Not only can this bird imitate the sound of TWO kookaburras at the same time, but his laser gun impression is so good, we took cover behind the couch - twice.

Captured by YouTuber Wen Hao Lee somewhere in Australia, this footage of a male lyrebird calling is one of the funniest, most fascinating things you'll see all day.(Edit: Accordingto one of our readers, Phil Nelson, the video was shot at the Healsville Sanctuary lyreird enclosure, just east of Melbourne in Victoria.)

Lyrebirds are pheasant - sized, ground - dwelling birds found only in Australia, and have been named for the males ' inceribly beautiful, lyre - shaped tail plumes that are held high over their backs as a courtship display.
They're split into two species - the supreb lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae), which is found fairly commonly throughout the coastal forests of south - eastern Australia, and the shy and mysterious Albert's lyrebird (Menura alberti), a rare species that's been reduced to a population of around 3,500 breeding paris in a tiny pocket of subtropical rainforest on the border of New South Wales and Queensland.

The male lyrebird's call plays a crucial role in his courtship behaviour, and while he'll call throughout the year, when the breeding season hits - between June and August every that's when he'll really ramp things up.
During these few months, it's not uncommon for a male to spend six hours a day calling, which is plenty of time to really expand on and perfect his repertoire of sounds.

Lyrebirds have the most complex syrinx (the vocal organ in birds) of all the Passerines - a massive toxonomic order that contains half the world's species of birds. This gives it the most incredible capacity for mimicry, which it uses to show off to potential mates. Not only can lyrebirds perfectly mimic the sounds of other birds - both individuals and entire choruses of birds at the same time - but they can also mimic the sounds of other animals, such as koalas and dingoes. They're also likely to mimic any sound in their environment, and have been recorded mimicking car alarms, ringing phones, crying babies, chainsaws, camera shutters, rifle - shots, and now, laser guns. We're not quite sure how laser guns ended up in this one's environment, but we're pretty happy to just go with it.

Here's some iconic David Attenborough footage:

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Scientists Creates Diamonds From Peanut Butter

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Diamonds are typically created more than 800 meters  (500 miles) below Earth's surface when temperatures over 2200 degrees Celsius (4000 degrees Fahrenheit) and pressure 1.3 million times greater than the atmosphere combine and crystallize carbon into the clear white stone we all know. Synthetic diamonds can replicate the process in a few short days, creating diamonds that are less politically-charged for use in jewelry, electronics, manufacturing, and more.

Dan Frost of Germany's Bayerisches Geoinsitut has been creating diamonds out of a rather unlikely source of carbon: peanut butter. Frost explained his process to BBC Future's David Robinson.

While it might sound a bit on the ridiculous side, Fros't process is allowing him to explore the composition of Earth's mantle, and even challenge some long-standing assumptions about where some of these elemental components originated. Meteorites and asteroids are assumed to have brought a large amount of material to early Earth, but the amount of silicon found in those bodies is much higher than what can be found in the planet's crust. To test if the silicon migrated down into the mantle, Frost needs to replicate the environmental conditions of the region.

Heat and pressure similar to conditions within the mantle begin to rearrange the carbon atoms into a dense configuration. Adding more pressure spurs the formation of a diamond, which Frost then bombards with acoustics. The pathway of the sound waves through the gem is then compared to those recorded from seismic waves, allowing Frost to make deductions about the lower mantel's composition.

Frost found that the lower mantle doesn't appear to be rich in silicon, which raises more questions about where all of that silicon has gone. Did it migrate all the way to the core? Did it stay on the crust and get kicked out by meteorite impacts?

Could scientists be wrong about the amount of silicon was expected to have come to the Earth?

It is unlikely that peanut butter diamonds will be featured in jewelry anytime soon. This method takes weeks to produce a diamond that is 3 millimeters in diameter, which is smaller than a round cut 0.25 carat stone. Additionally, the hydrogen bonded to the carbon atoms are released after the diamond forms, which can cause small explosions.

"It sounds horrific," he tells BBC Future. "But it's not dangerous - everything is protected."

Instead, Frost will focus on the geological and industrial implications of creating diamonds. Though this particular experiment uses peanut butter as the carbon source, minor changes in the recipe could yield stones that have specialized properties. Lacing diamonds with boron could minimize the amount of heat generated when diamonds are used in semiconductors, which is currently a substantial amount. Using carbon nanotubes could add a level of structural support, creating a material stronger than anything on the planet.

[Hat tip: www.bbc.com]

Apparently, Burning NH4Cr2O7 With HgSCN Opens A Portal To Hell.

        Photo credit: Ammonium dichromate by Reytan via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.


Of all the chemical reactions we've covered within the past few months, the one filmed below probaby takes the prize for coolest looking and possibly scariest. After the pile of reactants is lit, it begins to look like tentacles are crawling out of a portal to Hell.

In reality, what's depicted in the video below is actually two reactions: the decomposition of ammonium dichromate and the combustion reaction of mercury (II)  thiocyanate.

The orange powder is ammonium dichromate and when heat is introduced, it forms nitrogen gas, water, and ammonium (III) oxide, which is the dark powder that looks like the volcano you see.

What appears to be tentacles is actually what happens when heat is introduced to mercury (II) thiocyanate. The white solid expands when it's heated to become a dark, tentacle - like mass due to its decomposition to carbon nitride. In addition, sulfur dioxide and mercury (II) sulfide are also produced. The reaction is appropriately nicknamed the "Pharoah's Serpent" and was sold in stores as fireworks until people realized it's toxic.

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'Ambulance Drone' Could Drastically Increase Heart Attack Survival

                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                         photo credit: TU Delt

Nearly a million Europeans suffer from a cardiac arrest each year, and only 8% will survive. Once the heart stops beating, it takes about 4-6 minutes for the brain to die. Sadly, the average response time for ambulances is about 10 minutes. Alec Momont, a graduate student at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), has designed a drone that provides a professional response within a single minute. This could potentially increase the cardiac arrest survival rate to an astonishing 80%.

" It is essential that the right medical care is provided within the first few minutes of a cardiac arrest," Momont said in a press release . "If we can get to an emergency scene faster we can save many lives and facilitate the recovery of many patients. This especially applies to emergencies such as heart failure,drownings,traumas and respiratory problems, and it has become possible because life-saving technologies, such as a defibrillator, can now be designed small enough to be transported by a drone."

The ambulance drone prototype reaches top speeds of 100 km/h, reaching patients within 12 square kilometers (7.4 square miles) within one minute .The drone is able to fly autonomously, locating the destination via GPS coordinates. It has a carbon composite body and weighs 4 kg (8.8lbs), with the capacity to carry an additional 4kg payload. There is a defibrillator built right in, and the emergency operator who took the phone call can provide instructions in order to use it properly. The drone has the added benefit of an on-board live cam and audio connection, allowing the operator to actually observe the scene and ensure that the defibrillator pads have been applied correctly.

Though defibrillators are commonly available in public areas in case of emergency, 4 out of 5 cardiac arrests occur at home where the equipment likely isn't available. Additionally, the amount of people properly trained in administering CPR or using a defibrillator is not very high. Even those who have been trained may become unnerved when faced with a real life emergency.

"Currently, only 20% of untrained people are able to successfully apply a defibrillator ," Momont continued. "This rate can be increased to 90% if people are provided with instructions at the scene.

Moreover, the presence of the emergency operator via the drone's loudspeaker helps to reduce the panic of the situation."

There are some steps that need to be taken before these devices can be used in a real emergency. Though the drone is able to fly autonomously, it needs to improve its ability to avoid obstacles.

Drones are currently not legally premitted to fly autonomously in the Netherlands, though legislation is predicated to change in the coming year.

Each unit is expected to cost $24,000, and Momont has stated that many medical professionals have already shown interest in the system. He predicts they could be used in as little as five years.

                                        

[All images via www.tudelft.nl]

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