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A year after the Gaza war, Haaretz sent its top writers to examine what has changed since the 50-day conflict between Israel and Hamas, and to ask whether – or when – the next war will erupt.

• http://www.haaretz.com/st/c/prod/eng/2015/year-to-gaza-war/

For the love of the beautiful Elena the young fisherman’s son Marcello turns a whole village upside down.

• http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1069235

What a lovely movie and story!

• https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.webview

If they think my smartphone really, really needs this app, why do they need me to confirm the updates?

• https://opensuse.github.io/daps/
• https://opensuse.github.io/daps/doc/art.daps.quick.html – started following the instructions of the quick start guide

• http://www.polar.com/en/products/maximize_performance/running_multisport/V800

Actually I didn’t notice exactly that the backplane was swollen at all, I only noticed the frontplane was misted from inside, and I couldn’t clearly read the display any longer, and that situation did not get better by itself through a couple of weeks. “Rückplatte geschwollen” is the problem description I found in the communication between my local dealer and Polar – and my local dealer was nice enough to hand it out to me, when I urged them politely.

So this is now my 3rd V800. #1 and #2 seemed rather identical, #3 looks slightly different:

• the adaptor and charger interface at its back now got a rubber cap
• (I will add more, once I will notice anything)

These forum threads (in German) are talking about the same problem:

• http://www.triathlon-szene.de/forum/showpost.php?s=c5d14153b7226f5dd5748bb597a6c9e1&p=1111043&postcount=508
• http://forum.runnersworld.de/forum/pulsuhren-gps-trainingssoftware/84589-neu-polar-v800-gps-multisport-61.html
• https://www.facebook.com/PolarGlobal/posts/10152639067619915

I seriously hope, #3 will work for rather long and will not suffer from the “swollen backplane” syndrome at all – otherwise what will I do with it, once it drops out from its warranty? resp. how will Polar react then?
So far they reacted rather obliging.

https://twitter.com/pep909/status/584790841270657024