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Apple fans finally have their hands on the iPhone 8, but two owners in Asia have already busted their new phones under strange circumstances.
An iPhone 8 Plus owner in Taiwan says that her five-day-old 64GB device split open while charging, according to The Next Web. The owner claims she was using the official Apple charging cord, and after about three minutes, the phone started swelling, and she pulled it off the charger.
Another iPhone 8 Plus owner in Japan also claims his phone started splitting open. The weird thing about his story is that he didn't even have an opportunity to charge his new device. He claims that his phone's screen was bursting open from the second he unboxed it.
The most likely culprit for these screen issues is battery swelling, but there are currently no definite answers from the reported incidents or from Apple.
Twitter user Magokoro0511 shared multiple images of the alleged iPhone screen issue, including a few photos with it still in the box.
The first busted iPhone has reportedly been returned to Apple for investigation, and an Apple rep confirmed to Mashable that the company is looking into the incidents. The company, however, is not commenting on either of the incidents.
So far, these are the only two cases that have surfaced online, so the bursting front panels don't appear to be a widespread issue. Importantly, there were no reports of explosions, so it's safe to say, at least for now, that this won't turn out like Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 last year.
The truth is many phone launches have at least a few hardware problems. Last year, for example, multiple reports of exploding iPhone 7 handsets emerged, but there were no widespread issues that jeopardized the integrity of the entire production line. In most cases, an isolated manufacturing flaw or user error such as i...
If pics of more bulging iPhone 8 screens start filling your Twitter timeline, there might be a cause for alarm. But for now, this appears to be a case of two people who got unlucky and received a malfunctioning or broken device.
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At the December 2011 Board Dinner Meeting of the Friends of the La Cañada Flintridge Library, Boy Scout Troop 502 of La Canada, Junior California Scholastic Federation students from LCHS and members of the La Cañada Key Club from LCHS were recognized for the work they did to help make the library’s fall book sale a res...
This will be the first of a series of six or seven satellites which will be built and launched for the strategic purposes, an Isro official said.
Isro would launch two more defence satellites in July or August with its new rocket the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV).
Sriharikota: The Indian Space Research Organisation placed an electronic intelligence satellite, 436-kg Emisat, in the designated orbit reportedly for the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).
Isro would launch two more defence satellites in July or August with its new rocket the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV). The SSLV will weigh 110 tonnes and launch satellites up to 500 kg. Monday’s rocket, the PSLV-C45, weighed 239 tonnes in comparison. The SSLV can be assembled in 72 hours against 70 days for lar...
Speaking after the successful launch of the PSLV that also carried 28 nano satellites for foreign customers, Isro chairman K. Sivan said it is a special mission for the space agency.
“It was a new four strap-on variant, the vehicle achieved three different orbits and for the first time the PS4 stage was powered by solar panels,” Dr Sivan said. He said a new PSLV team executed Monday's mission.
The PSLV has launched 46 national satellites, 10 built by students from Indian universities and 297 international customer satellites, including those launched on Monday,.
Standing around 44.5 metres and weighing about 239 tonne, the PSLV-C45 carrying the Emisat and 28 nano satellites zoomed off on its one-way trip at 9.27 pm from the Second Launch Pad.
It launched the Emisat at an altitude of about 748 km sun-synchronous polar orbit, 17 minutes and 12 seconds after lift-off. The Emisat's two solar arrays were deployed automatically and the ISRO Telemetry Tracking and Command Network at Bengaluru assumed control of the satellite.
In the coming days, the satellite will be brought to its final operational configuration. The satellite is intended for electromagnetic spectrum measurement.
Following this, the rocket's fourth stage engines were restarted twice to place the 28 international customer satellites into a sun-synchronous orbit 504 km above the earth, the last one 1 hour and 55 minutes after lift-off.
About 3 hours after lift-off, the fourth stage (PS4) was moved to a lower circular orbit of 485 km after two restarts to establish it as an orbital platform to carry out experiments with three payloads.
The 28 satellites, together weighing about 220 kg, were from Lithuania, Spain, Switzerland and the USA. These foreign satellites were launched as part of commercial arrangements.
Isro chairman Dr K. Sivan said that 95 per cent of the hardware and 60 per cent of the components of PSLV-C45 that was launched was fabricated outside Isro. The payload was fabricated in an electronics firm in Bengaluru, Dr Sivan said. On future launches, PSLV-C46 would launch the Risat 2B in the middle of May followed...
If the individual realizes his self by spontaneous activity and thus relates himself to the world, he ceases to be an isolated atom; he and the world become part of one structuralized whole; he has his rightful place, and thereby his doubt concerning himself and the meaning of life disappears. This doubt sprang from hi...
- Erich Fromm was born this day in 1900. In the wake of Freud, who sought to legitimize a science of the mind, Fromm sought to infuse compassion and joy (no pun intended) into psychotherapy.
Man is the only animal that can be bored, the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem.
A Greencastle teen who received a national award for her work raising Seeing Eye dogs for others is now training a service dog for herself, and they will be heading off to Liberty University together this fall.
Hannah Regal, 18, a member of the Franklin County 4-H Seeing Eye Puppy Club, received the President’s Volunteer Service Award — complete with a congratulatory letter from Donald Trump — through the Prudential Spirit of Community Awards program.
She joined 4-H in 2015 and has raised two puppies, first Quiggley then Lionel, both Labradors who have moved on in the Seeing Eye program. Now Hannah is working with her own service dog, Asa (known in the family as Asa Bear), a 4 1/2-month-old golden retriever.
Asa means healer or physician, according to the daughter of Bob and Melissa Regal, who was diagnosed at age 11 with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS).
The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards, sponsored by Prudential Financial in partnership with the National Association of Secondary School Principals, recognize middle level and high school students across America for outstanding volunteer service.
POTS is a form of orthostatic intolerance that is associated with the presence of excessive tachycardia — rapid heartbeat — and many other symptoms upon standing, according to www.dysautonomiainternational.org.
Her older sister, Haleigh, also has the syndrome, but it is different for each person. Haleigh's was not debilitating and the 23-year-old is now a long-term special education substitute teacher at Summitview Elementary in Waynesboro.
POTS can appear after trauma, in Hannah's case a foot injury suffered playing soccer.
Unlike her sister, "I fell completely off the map," Hannah said, explaining her heart beat so fast, she could not stand for the first month or two and she still uses a wheelchair when traveling. "It's an invisible illness, you don't look like you are sick."
Because of her health, Hannah has been homeschooled since sixth grade. She attended the Greencastle-Antrim School District's Franklin Virtual Academy, is currently taking online classes at Hagerstown Community College and will walk with the G-A High School Class of 2018 as an honors graduate.
The 4-H Seeing Eye Puppy Club was a way for her to do something in the community, get involved and gain some independence, according to Hannah, who also is active at Antrim Brethren in Christ Church.
"She was very shy," her mother explained. "She's grown a lot as a person and it's brought her out of her shell."
"And I wanted a dog," Hannah said.
"There are two kinds of people who walk into a room full of dogs — those who are intimidated and ones that say, "Yeah!'" according to Hannah.
She explained 4-H club members get their dogs around 7 weeks and keep them for 14 to 16 months.
The dogs start with potty training, basic obedience like sit and rest and to always go to their owner's left side.
"The dog moves with you, you don't move with the dog," Hannah explained.
The dogs move on to more advanced training through The Seeing Eye Inc. in Morristown, New Jersey.
The Regals visited on Family Day and out of hundreds of dogs, Quiggley was selected for one of the demonstrations.
"It was the best day of my life," said Hannah.
"I couldn't have Asa if I hadn't had Seeing Eye puppies," Hannah continued.
Animals have an innate sense of problems in a person's body, especially when they are bonded. Asa is going to warn Hannah she needs to slow down or lie down.
"Asa put everyone at ease for me going to college," Hannah said.
She plans to major in business administration "because I wanted something that gave me vast opportunities."
Asa will fit right in because he likes to wear a business-like bow tie on his collar.
Deep wounds require special care; but for Germany, healing a 45-year split called for more than a doctor's help. A look back at the miracle of German reunification.
No one, not even the most prominent and involved world leaders, could have imagined how quickly the wall would indeed be dismantled.
A review of the events that preceded the fall can help us better understand why it was heralded in Europe as the turning point that led to reunification of the two Germanys on October 3, 1990. And as we mark the 10th anniversary of that momentous occasion, it should also cause us to ask whether what occurred across Eur...
One of the most obvious and remarkable aspects of the process that led to German reunification was the sheer speed with which it unfolded. World leaders of that time openly admit that they did not anticipate such a rapid development. In the past, dramatic changes in the course of human history have indeed taken much lo...
For example, 10 years passed between the November 9, 1923, failure of Hitler's putsch in Munich and the Machtergreifung—his seizure of power. Another five years lapsed before the infamous Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass (November 9, 1938), when store fronts of Jewish merchants were smashed and synagogues were ...
Like Hitler's putsch and Kristallnacht, the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 also occurred on November 9. The fact that these three events took place on the same date is, of course, quite remarkable. But even without the two earlier recorded incidents, this date would be one of the most significant in history. For it wa...
Former West German chancellor Helmut Kohl called these events "a gift that history has given us and for which we should be thankful to God." Never before in Germany have we heard the word thankfulness as much as in connection with the breach of the wall and the subsequent reunification.
Reflecting on these unprecedented events, Wolfgang Thierse, president of the German parliament, the Bundestag, proclaimed it a “miracle with prerequisites.” The prerequisites he spoke of did not become known, however, until the true condition of the communist system, heretofore cleverly concealed by the totalitarian re...
What were these prerequisites, and what was their role in bringing about this peaceful revolution?
The entire communist system of the Eastern bloc found itself faced with immeasurable financial problems. East Germany (the German Democratic Republic or GDR) was no different. As Kohl noted, East German leader Erich Honecker could no longer count on financial help from Russia, who herself faced immense fiscal difficult...
In 1983, Bavaria's governor, Franz Josef Strauss, had arranged a billion-mark loan (US$500 million) to the GDR. The motivation was to buy advantages for the people of East Germany. What no one realized until much later was that the communist government of the GDR desperately needed that money just to keep their nation ...
Though the future was uncertain, there was no trace of fear in Berlin at midnight on October 3, 1990—only exuberant joy.
Had more been known about the country's fiscal woes, would West Germans have been as enthusiastic about undertaking reunification? Many Germans today, from both the East and the West, have their doubts when they reflect on what it has cost them.
Had more been known about the country's fiscal woes, would West Germans have been as enthusiastic about undertaking reunification?
Reunification talks began following the fall of the wall. The question at the time was how much would be left after subtracting the costs of the process. In retrospect it was a very good question. East Germany was rated the 10th-largest industrial power of the world, with national assets of about 1.2 trillion marks (US...
The reality was, however, that the circumstances as they developed left no other option.
The political and social prerequisites for what Germans call die Wende, or the turning point, began falling into place in 1987. Mikhail Gorbachev served as general secretary of the Soviet Union's Communist Party, and it was his perestroika—his policies of economic and governmental reform—that led to the first free elec...
In the wake of the events occurring in the Soviet Union, Solidarity, Poland's independent labor union headed by Lech Walesa and actively supported by the Polish pope, began to push for monumental changes in that country. And so Poland elected its first democratic prime minister, Tadeusz Mazowiecki. These free elections...
A similar citizens' rights movement developed in Czechoslovakia, led by Václav Havel, who went on to become the president of Czechoslovakia and later of the Czech Republic.
In the meantime, on September 10, 1989, the Hungarian government opened the nation's border to Austria, and the breach in the Iron Curtain became visible to the entire world as tens of thousands of East Germans fled, via Hungary, to the West. None of this would have been thinkable without the courageous decisions of Hu...
All the while, another player was quietly active behind the scenes. With the cooperation of Britain's prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, and America's president, Ronald Reagan, the Vatican smuggled computers and communication equipment behind the Iron Curtain. This helped ensure that those in the East—whose media were ...
Most of us live in blissful ignorance of the intrigue, secrecy and diplomacy of world politics. To the extent that we are aware of it, we are suspicious and cynical. But the deconstruction of a wall that had stood for 40 years—first figuratively and then literally—could not have occurred had not some remarkable people ...
Many who have analyzed the events of 1989 and 1990 are of the opinion that if the protagonists had not been U.S. president George Bush, soviet premier Gorbachev and West German chancellor Kohl, the situation could have developed quite differently. And there were other leaders who preceded these individuals: Reagan, for...
On November 9, 1999, at the 10-year anniversary celebration of the wall's demise, Kohl, Bush and Gorbachev were all given Germany's highest civilian honor for their part in bringing the wall down. At the ceremonies these three men confirmed unanimously that their extraordinary personal relationship had figured prominen...
Each could cite examples of visionary restraint or action that had propelled the revolution on the one hand but kept it peaceful on the other. Bush, for example, had rejected advice to fly to Germany immediately following the fall of the Berlin Wall to celebrate the demise of communism. He refused an opportunity for po...
In Western Europe the possibility of German reunification was by no means greeted with overwhelming enthusiasm.
On December 19, 1989—just a few short weeks after the Berlin Wall fell—Kohl found himself speaking rather bluntly in an unprepared speech to a crowd of over 100,000 who had spontaneously poured into the streets of Dresden. In that speech he announced that the two Germanys would press on toward unification. Several days...
Whether Kohl's latter statement is an accurate assessment is debatable. However, the role the people played by virtue of their sentiment for reunification was a powerful force that could not be ignored. It, too, was a prerequisite to the fall of the wall and eventual unity.
In one sense, for the people of East Germany the end of World War II did not come until 1989 when their liberation began. The 1.2 million people who charged over the border between the 9th and the 11th of November cried out with deep emotion and enthusiasm, “Freedom!” It is to the credit of the East German people that ...
What is amazing about the course of these events is that the sudden opening of the wall and the subsequent irreversible acceleration of events were actually quite accidental.
What is amazing about the course of these events is that the sudden opening of the wall and the subsequent irreversible acceleration of events were actually quite accidental. The East German Politburo had been considering easing restrictions for travel outside the country. At a press conference on the evening of Novemb...
When the wall fell, there were still about 500,000 soviet soldiers stationed in East Germany and approximately 1.2 million East Germans bearing arms in various official capacities. Who could predict the reaction of these forces when they realized the dramatic power shift? Consider that about 1,000 East Germans had been...
In fact, former president Bush revealed at the 10-year anniversary celebration that many who knew what could happen were understandably worried and fearful. Gorbachev also stated in his speech commemorating the event that the road that led to German reunification had been complicated and dangerous. Yet the world saw no...
Was the peaceful European revolution of 1989 a “fortunate fitting together of history,” a “gift given us by history,” or simply the inevitable result of a corrupt system that self-destructed?
However one views it, the cooperation, respect and trust that had to exist among the various leaders to produce the results that are now a part of history were necessary prerequisites to the miracle in Europe. The characteristics exhibited by those involved in bringing the wall down and facilitating German reunificatio...
A man well acquainted with human politics, when confronted with the impossibility of his own nation's survival in World War II, was amazed at how events in that war unfolded. He declared that "a strong hand from somewhere" had intervened. Perhaps Kohl felt that the hand that Sir Winston Churchill believed had touched t...
Without doubt the events of 1989 and 1990 were a historic turning point for Germany and for Europe as well. People who had been oppressed for decades were freed. A nation was reunited, and a continent that for centuries has been torn by war and divided into hundreds of individual principalities, kingdoms and nations is...
Much of Scripture is devoted to telling the story of the nations. That story is often told in advance as in Genesis 49 and Daniel 2.
So how did it happen? The book of Psalms tells us that “the counsel of the Lord stands forever, the plans of His heart to all generations” (Psalm 33:11). He is the one who guides events among and within nations. That includes deciding who will govern. The apostle Paul in his letter to the Romans said that all civil aut...
Just as important as how the events that startled the nations happened is why they happened. Why did God open the way for the reconstruction of a unified Europe?
Just as important as how the events that startled the nations happened is why they happened.
The Scriptures reveal that a power bloc within a unified Europe will play an important role leading up to the return of Jesus Christ and the establishment of the kingdom of God on earth. Its role will be both instructive and corrective—but through it all, it will demonstrate, as does the fall of the Berlin Wall, that i...
Himachal Pradesh Governor Acharya Devvrat on Sunday took cognizance of a complaint that a lower caste family was prevented from performing the last rights at the common cremation ground in Dhara village of the Kullu district on Thursday.

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