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Sanwa has released a new Bluetooth mouse ‘MA-BTBL28’ for the mass market. Coming in a 5-button design, this silent mouse (adopts the silent switch) features a 2.4GHz radio frequency (works up to 10 meters), a Blue LED sensor and an 800/1200/1600/2000/2400dpi resolution (switchable).

Powered by 1x AA battery, the MA-BTBL28 supports for Windows 10, 8.1, 8 (64bit/32bit), 7 (64bit/32bit), Vista (64bit/32bit), XP (SP2), Mac OS X (10.3 or later) and Android operating systems, and makes use of Bluetooth 3.0 connectivity.

Measuring W71mm x D104mm x H38mm and weighing 60 grams (without battery), the MA-BTBL28 is available now in Black, White and Red color options. [Product Page]

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Everyone knows that GOP nominee and lukewarm acid gargle Donald Trump is a dealmaker par excellence ― that’s just science, man! But what many of you can’t appreciate is that Trump is also a peacemaker ― and on a global scale, to boot.

In an interview this week with the Portland Press Herald in Maine, Trump said that he is the only candidate in the race who can possible achieve total “global harmony.” All you need to do to see that is take a look at his past, and use your brain’s supply of logic-sauce to just scale up.

Let’s go to the tape!

Q: What was the best deal you ever made – the best deal?

A: Maybe the West Side Railroad Yards on the west side of Manhattan, that was one of the great deals that I made, one of the best real estate deals …we built almost 6,000 units on the west side of Manhattan, land, a very successful job.

You know what, though? “A very successful job” is really just one way of looking at it. Over at Bloomberg, Tim O’Brien remembers it as a “bungled … deal of a lifetime.” So, a bit of a jaundiced view, I guess.

The basic backstory is this. In the mid-1970s, Trump used his family connections to purchase a large tract of land along the Hudson River side of Manhattan, between 59th and 72nd streets, that came available after its previous holders, the Penn Central Transportation Co., went bankrupt. Trump spent the next few years dithering with the property ― at one point losing ownership ― before repurchasing the plot in the mid-1980s. By this time, Trump had big dreams for the project, imagining it as a new home for NBC that was, depending on who you were talking to, dubbed either “Television City” or “Trump City.”

As O’Brien relates, all Trump really needed was to “bring together different stakeholders” and “appease [their] interests.” So, naturally, what happened is that Trump got himself into an epic shooting war with then-New York Mayor Ed Koch over a tax abatement. Per O’Brien: “The battle played out in a carnivalesque stream on TV and on the front pages and gossip columns of newspapers.” Koch eventually stuck it to Trump, denying him his zoning request and providing NBC with sufficient tax breaks to induce the network to remain in its Rockefeller Center home.

Trump vowed to develop the West Side Yards his way after Koch departed office, but never did. Instead, as O’Brien reports, this happened: 

In 1994, with the Yards bleeding about $23.5 million in annual carrying costs, and long after Koch had departed City Hall, Trump’s bankers forced him to give up control of the site. The property went to a group of Hong Kong investors, including New World Development, for $82 million and the assumption of about $250 million in debt Trump had amassed.

The Hong Kong investors later broke ground on the site with a series of high-end condominiums known as Riverside South, and the group used Trump’s name on some of the buildings there (they also paid him management and construction fees). The Hong Kong group sold the entire project for about $1.8 billion in 2005 ― the largest residential real estate transaction in New York City’s history at the time.

So that’s the story of what Trump calls “the best deal he ever made.” With that in mind, let’s proceed to the Press Herald’s follow-up question:

Q: What would be the best deal you could negotiate as president of the United States?

A: Peace all over the world would be the best deal. And I think I would know how to do it better than anybody else, but peace all over the world.

Sure, man. The largely failed “Television City” deal ― which Trump has described as a “war to the death” and which featured Ed Koch taunting him as a “piggy, piggy, piggy” ― is obviously a precursor to Trump bringing us “peace all over the world.”

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Fresh off of a post-convention bounce, Hillary Clinton is continuing to grow her lead over Donald Trump, according to new national polling released Thursday evening.

Clinton leads Trump by 9 points, 47 percent to 38 percent, in a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey. While both candidates remain unpopular, the survey finds, Clinton’s image has improved “modestly.” A majority of voters say they have more trust in her to handle a crisis and to deal with foreign policy.

A McClatchy-Marist poll gives Clinton an even wider 15-point lead against Trump, 48 percent to 33 percent. The survey finds Trump ceding ground among traditionally GOP demographics, losing men to Clinton by 8 points and holding just a 2-point edge among white voters.

Among other groups, he fares far more poorly. The NBC/WSJ and McClatchy-Marist surveys give Trump just 1 percent and 2 percent of the vote, respectively, among African-American voters. 

“This is coming off the Democratic convention, where a bounce [for Clinton] is expected,” Marist polling director Lee Miringoff told McClatchy about Trump’s prospects. “What you don’t want is to have the worst week of your campaign.”

At the state level, new polling in traditional battlegrounds also showed Clinton with a significant edge over Trump. New surveys released Thursday gave her a 15-point lead in New Hampshire, a 9-point lead in Michigan, an 11-point lead in Pennsylvania and a 6-point lead in Florida.

The results suggest that Trump’s problems have worsened since the end of the parties’ back-to-back conventions, thanks to a brutal news cycle dominated by party infighting and Trump’s ongoing feud with the family of a Muslim American soldier killed in Iraq.

HuffPost Pollster’s model, which aggregates publicly available polling, gives Clinton a lead of 7.5 percentage points over Trump nationally. The model also includes several recent polls with less overwhelming leads for Clinton, including online Ipsos/Reuters and UPI/CVoter tracking polls, which show her up by 4 and 6 points respectively.

In a three-way race with Gary Johnson, Clinton leads Trump 44 percent to 36 percent, according to the HuffPost Pollster model, with Johnson taking 8 percent. The surveys suggest that third-party candidates such as Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein are drawing support from both major-party candidates.

Those national margins are substantially wider than Barack Obama’s lead over Mitt Romney during any point in 2012, and, if they hold, would denote a historic win for Clinton.

But with months to go, there’s still ample time for the possibility of a narrower race, especially if Trump can manage to win over some of the Republican voters not yet in his camp.

“Do I think Trump is a damaged candidate running a terrible campaign? Absolutely. Do I think that he has zero chance to win and has effectively lost the race in August? No,” Amy Walter wrote Wednesday in the Cook Political Report. “[S]he has more options to get to 270 than he does. She is clearly the favorite. But, this race is not over.”

The NBC/WSJ poll surveyed 800 registered voters between July 31 and Aug. 3, while the McClatchy-Marist poll surveyed 983 registered voters between Aug. 1-3. Both used live interviewers to reach landlines and cell phones.

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This summer, there will be families traveling in their cars for the annual family vacation. Long distance drives to see grandparents or to attend family reunions or to visit destinations like Yellowstone or Grand Canyon National Park. Depending upon the age of children, who may riding in the back seat of the car, there will probably be the inevitable question posed to their parents, ” Are we there yet ? ” This question usually is motived by the boredom of children or their need to go to the bathroom. ” Are we there yet ? “

Right now, as a country, we are also asking the same question “Are we there yet ?” in terms of democracy, in terms of tolerance and respect for others and for supporting diversity. The backlash that we have witnessed from some politicians and political groups should give us all pause. When people who are grieving the loss of a loved one are castigated because of their faith, which by some is viewed as “the other’; when continued hate and suspicion exists between communities of color and law enforcement; and when people who suffer from mental illness are either treated savagely by police or they are neglected by the lack of appropriate treatment services and find themselves floundering and they become a risk to themselves or to others, we need to ask ourselves ” are we there yet ? “.

Democracy flourishes when there is the encouragement of a free exchange of ideas and opinions unabated and not by people who scream ” believe me ” or ” Only I can fix it. ” Nor is democracy cultivated when angry voices call for ” locking people up. ” This is the language of tyrannical totalitarian regimes not of a country that espouses for freedom of thought, belief and action.

Economic hard times and periods when some people find themselves struggling and living on the margins and not being able to benefit due to lack of upward mobility are combustible fuel for the rise of potential tyrants and dictators. This has been repeated time and time again throughout history.

This year, we have seen politicians half-heartedly say that they can’t endorse another candidate seeking public office, that “they are not there yet.”

Perhaps, the most important question to ask is what prevents us as a country from arriving at the destination that we want for our ourselves, our families and our society ? What is preventing us from becoming “the shining city on the hill ” or in the words of Martin Luther King Jr. ” the beloved community’?

We need to remember that as people of faith and as citizens our task is to serve others. Taking care of the widow, the orphan, the sojourner in your land ( Deuteronomy 10: 18 ) is not just something that would be nice to do, but rather it becomes an imperative for anyone who wants to lead a faithful life. This kind of caring and service is not expressed by receiving a national medal of heroism and then replying ” I always wanted one of these and it was easier getting it.” This type pf response makes a mockery of the award and of the service.

The Jewish concept of “Hesed” states that you love someone purely for who they are, without expectations and disclaimers. This is a powerful concept where humans affirm, love and respect one another purely as sacred sentient beings.

Somehow, we have lost this in our national discourse and in our interactions with others. Instead of listening and being open to what others might have to say, we have to be right and we have to be recognized that we are right and not be asked questions, and we have to be in control.

As the child in the back seat of the car asks the father or mother in the front seat of the car, “Are we there yet?”

No, unfortunately we are not there yet.

May the divine, however known, help us and lead us to get there somehow and soon!

May it be so.

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In spite of a widening rift within his party, the unflappable Donald Trump has assured voters that all is well: “There is great unity in my campaign, perhaps greater than ever before,” the Republican presidential nominee tweeted on Wednesday.

The move came amidst reports that some high profile conservatives may be plotting an intervention against him. Although Trump has adopted a brash approach throughout his entire bid for the White House, there is growing concern that he has finally veered completely off course.

In recent days, he has suggested that this November’s election will be “rigged” whilst refusing to endorse the re-election bids of conservative House speaker Paul Ryan and 2008 presidential nominee John McCain.

He has also insisted on continuing his row with the Khans: the parents of a Muslim American Gold Star captain who died after sacrificing his life to save fellow soldiers in Iraq.

Although the Khans criticized Trump’s anti-Muslim stance at last week’s Democratic Convention, the property magnate then mocked the silence of the slain soldier’s mother as she stood by her husband during his speech: “Maybe she wasn’t allowed to have anything to say,” he retorted.

Overwhelmed by grief, Ghazala Khan later explained that she still finds it difficult to speak before a picture of her murdered son.

Although conservative lawmakers have lambasted Trump’s rough handling of the Khans, only a few have actually withdrawn their endorsements.

Appalled, Barack Obama took the unprecedented step of calling on Republicans to denounce their presidential nominee on Tuesday, describing the former Apprentice star as “unfit” for office:

“If you are repeatedly having to say in very strong terms that what he has said is unacceptable, then why are you still endorsing him? What does this say about your party that this is your standard bearer? This isn’t a situation where you have an episodic gaffe. This is daily and weekly. There has to be a point at which you say, somebody who makes those kinds of statements doesn’t have the judgment, the temperament, nor the understanding to occupy the most powerful position in the world.”

Standing by a portrait of former Republican president Theodore Roosevelt at a White House news conference, Obama, who is enjoying strong second term ratings, said that his disdain for Trump went beyond normal partisan politics:

“There have been Republican presidents with whom I disagreed but I didn’t have a doubt that they could function as president. I think that Mitt Romney and John McCain were wrong on certain policy issues, but I never thought that they couldn’t do the job. But that’s not the situation here.”

Last week, former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg questioned Trump’s sanity whilst Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton warned Americans that the tycoon did not have the temperament to be their next Commander-in-chief:

“Donald Trump can’t even handle the rough and tumble of a presidential campaign. Imagine, if you dare, imagine him in the Oval Office facing a real crisis. A man that you can bait with a tweet is not a man who can trust with nuclear weapons.”

Channeling John F Kennedy, she warned that Trump could lead America into war, saying that such conflicts “were not started by big men with self-control and restraint, but by little men, the ones moved by fear and pride.”

More worryingly still, according to MSNBC, Trump asked a foreign policy expert 3 times, why the U.S. has nuclear weapons if it’s not willing to use them.

The controversies engulfing him may have finally dented his standing in the polls. According to a Fox survey on Wednesday, Clinton is leading her rival by 10 percentage points: 49% vs 39%.

Stuart Stevens, an advisor on Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign tweeted: “The Republican Party and @realDonaldTrump is like watching the Lehman Brothers saga unfold again. The stock isn’t going up. Sell now.”

But, it’s still too early tell what kind of impact it will have on this November’s election. After all, Trump has made a long string of blunders which range from the size of his penis to mocking a former prisoner of war for getting captured. And, although such faux pas would take down a traditional candidate, he continues to survive fairly unscathed.

In a statementTrump hit back at Obama and Clinton, and accused them of destabilising “the Middle East” and handing “Iraq, Libya and Syria to Isis,” though such actions can perhaps be best attributed to the power vacuum created after toppling Saddam Hussein in 2003.

And, even though the U.S. is one of the bright spots in the global economy, he went on to add: “They have produced the worst recovery since the Great Depression.”

But, perhaps one of his most controversial remarks was for the US to mend fences with Vladimir Putin. His ties to the Russian leader have been called into question following his recent call for Moscow to find and release the 30,000 emails Clinton has deleted from her private email server.

The move came after revelations that Russia may have hacked and published thousands of Democratic National Committee emails last week. The messages reveal that officials, who are meant to remain impartial, favored Hillary Clinton over her rival Bernie Sanders.

If Putin did indeed orchestrate the hack, the question then becomes: what does the Russian leader have to gain from a Trump presidency?

As Obama delivered his searing indictment of Trump, the property mogul held a rally only 30 miles away where he received a replica of the Purple Heart medal from a veteran. After deferring military draft during the Vietnam war 5 times, he then held up the medal on stage proclaiming: “I’ve always wanted to get the real Purple Heart. This was much easier.”

The Republican nominee also mocked a crying baby and its distressed mother at a rally in Ashburn. When the infant first started crying, Trump reassured:

“Don’t worry about the baby. I love babies. I hear that baby crying, I like it.” But, as the baby continued to cry, Trump quickly changed his mind: “Actually I was only kidding. You can get that baby out of here. That’s all right. Don’t worry. I think she really believed me that I love having a baby crying while I’m speaking.

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