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Antonin Scalia is so crazy, he believes the Washington Post is "shrilly liberal"
Jumping off of Michael Garvey's post, below, about the devil's popping up in the zeitgeist: I was frustrated at the response to Scalia's interview among progressives, because so many people took the trollbait ("The devil! What a nut!") and overlooked the portions of the interview that were, in my opinion, more revealing and alarming.
Dahlia Lithwick, writing at Slate, got the takeaway right, it seemed to me: "The Scalia interview reveals his remarkable isolation from anyone who doesn't agree with him."
She pointed out how Justice Scalia turned the answer about the devil back on his interviewer, Jennifer Senior, attacking her for being out-of-touch and elitist: "You're looking at me as though I'm weird. My God! Are you so out of touch with most of America, most of which believes in the Devil?... You travel in circles that are so, so removed from mainstream America that you are appalled that anybody would believe in the Devil!"
He brought the subject up (interrupting a question about his drafting process, as Senior tells it) to give himself the opportunity to say just that. As has been demonstrated before -- and as he more or less explains in this interview -- Scalia thinks trolling liberals is an important part of his job. It worked on Senior: "It wasn't your belief that surprised me," she explains after being chastised by the allegedly offended justice, "so much as how boldly you expressed it." Yep, that's how trolling works. And it worked on a lot of other people who grabbed that quote and ran with it -- that loony Scalia!
Believing in the devil is not crazy. Using misunderstood religious beliefs and teachings to goad your liberal interlocutors into sneering at your simplemindedness, so that you can then posture as a persecuted man of the people, is kind of obnoxious, but it isn't crazy. This, though, is pretty crazy:
We used to get the Washington Post, but it just … went too far for me. I couldn't handle it anymore.
What tipped you over the edge?
It was the treatment of almost any conservative issue. It was slanted and often nasty. And, you know, why should I get upset every morning? I don't think I'm the only one. I think they lost subscriptions partly because they became so shrilly, shrilly liberal.
The Washington Post is shrilly liberal. The paper that publishes -- this is a partial list, off the top of my head -- George Will, Charles Krauthammer, Marc Thiessen, Kathleen Parker, and Richard Cohen (who evidently thinks he is a liberal). The home of Broderism. The paper that is so reflexively centrist that its response to the GOP-manufactured government shutdown was to cry a pox on both houses and lament the lack of adult leadership on both sides. (See James Fallows's exasperated reaction here.) That Washington Post is shrilly, shrilly liberal?
I don't get the impression that Scalia was trolling there. I think he may really think he has a point. Conor Friedersdorf thought this was a significant exchange because it revealed Scalia to be much too ideologically thin-skinned. But he missed (or intentionally declined to pass judgment on) this larger point: the Washington Post is actually not that liberal. If you think the Washington Post is too "shrilly liberal" to be stomached, you have an alarmingly skewed perspective on the state of political discourse in the United States today. Good thing Supreme Court justices have complete job security!
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The trolling analogy (though i guess it's not really an analogy) is apt. And as facetious as his remark on the Post is, what's frightening is that he instead looks to the Washington bloody Times and, even more, to that font of informative discourse, the radio for his news.
Also, this gem: "Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn't change." I imagine it would be a real hoot to get baked with the good Justice and discuss this and similar philosophical quandaries, said nobody ever.
I must say, though, that I am surprised that none of the gay friends that he is sure he has have come out to him. You'd think he'd be their top pick.
I do agree, though, about preferring Duck Dynasty over Homeland, but that's balanced out by my preference for women who swear.
I don't understand how someone can believe that words' meanings don't change. The word economy means something very different today than it did 200 years ago. So does philosophy. There are countless others. Language changes. That we can make that claim suggests that the changes aren't incomprehensible, but the groundwork for that claim has been laid (see Saussure).
What has always frustrated me about his position that the Constitution is a dead document is that it elides the fierce debates that the founders had engaged in for 20 years.
It seems axiomatic to me that people will interpret things differently. What must he think of the other justices, whose opinions differ from his own? Are they stupider? Unqualified? Are they more ideological? Blind? Not to understand that diversity of intepretation is a facet of the world is supremely arrogant, and quite scary in a person who holds power.
Should Scalia actually tip over into dementia, I wonder how anyone will know.
Thomas, Scalia obviously doesn't believe that words don't change. What he believes is something very different: if you're interpreting a 200-year-old document that uses the word "economy," whether it's a novel or a play or a will or a constitution, the only way to do it properly is to consider what that word meant at the time. That's what doesn't change. Right?
But if you use the modern meaning rather than the old meaning, you're not even interpreting the 200-year-old document at all. That's Scalia's point.
I don't understand how someone can believe that words' meanings don't change.
"When I use a word…it means just what I choose it to mean–neither more nor less." Humpty Scalia in "Through the Looking Glass Court."
I don't understand how someone can believe that words' meanings don't change.
Ask Obama, Bush, and the NSA et al. Here is the fourth amendment:
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized"
Um, well as we speak, the NSA is collecting e-mails, phone calls, and all other forms of electronic information without a warrant. Edward Snowden is being protected in Russia for simply sharing this information with the public. There was debate, even on here, with many people and legal scholars arguing that the plain meaning of the fourth amendment meant something other than what it said.
Why is it that I see Red Rats every time I hear or see anything Anton Scalia? Most of all, for all his brillance, I can't stand his smug arrogance and condescension.
Now, he would have us believe is that he has personal knowledge of the devil. Really? Most of the people I encounter who believe that the devil lurks about in their world, I usually either check their meds or try to determine if they're having delirium from neuroleptic malignant syndrome.
If Scalia thinks he knows evidence of the devil, I'm sure I could introduce him to some folks who are more credibly the devil than anything he's ever encountered.
Perhaps for me, it's like the character Salieri in the movie Amadeus who can't forgive God for giving all that genius and talent to enfant terrible Mozart?
Or perhaps, what we are increasingly hearing from Scalia is just a function of a very grumpy, aging prostate?
Saying that the meanings of words don't change is so stupid on the face of it that when I read it in the post I wondered whether Scalia had actually said that. But in context I think he probably meant that the meaning at the time of the Constitutional Convention is fixed in history as that meaning -- that just as the fact that Washington was the first president doesn't change, neither do the meanings of the words of the Constitution in 1790 change -- their meanings then were their meanings then.
On the other hand, I think that something he says at the end contradicts his thory of originalism (or whatever it's called). Speaking of his own best opinion, he says,
"But it'll have impact in the future not because it's so beautifully reasoned and so well written. It'll have impact in the future because it's authoritative. That's all that matters, unfortunately."
If he REALLY is an originalist, and his meaning is the real/authoritative/valuable meaning, then its being reasonable should have nothing to do with its value either now or in the future.
But I must admit he's a charming man. Good thing he didn't decide to become a politician -- he might have beccome president :-)
I'd like to see future Supreme court nominees encouraged to follow the Scalia practice mentioned in the interview: "I like to have one of the four clerks whose predispositions are quite the opposite of mine—who are social liberals rather than social conservatives. That kind of clerk will always be looking for the chinks in my armor, for the mistakes I've made in my opinion."
Sure, I understand that he believes all of that. It just seems inflexible to me, and intellectual inflexibility from people in power is a scary thought.
Far more problematic, to my mind, is the implication of my other question: what does it mean that he thinks that anyone who dissents from his reading of the constitution must be "off" in some critical way?
George Will, Charles Krauthammer, Marc Thiessen, Kathleen Parker, andRichard Cohen (who evidently thinks he is a liberal)
I think most conservatives agree with Cohen's self-assessment. The Post also publishes Eugene Robinson, Ruth Marcus and EJ Dionne. And it's possible that the bias Scalia was referring to was not whatever rubbed him the wrong way on the editorial page, but what he detects in the news reporting.


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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
September 12 to October 11, 2015
Cabin boy Thomas Nickerson was only 14 years old when he stepped aboard the whaleship Essex for the first time in the summer of 1819. He was full of enthusiasm, eager for an adventure on the high seas. The newly appointed captain of the ship, George Pollard, was determined to prove himself a capable leader, while his cocksure first mate Owen Chase aspired to become a captain himself someday soon. The 20-man crew had hopes of exploring the far reaches of the globe, visiting exotic locales, and bringing home a fortune in oil and ambergris. Little did these men know, their voyage was doomed.
Out in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean, the Essex was attacked and sunk by an enormous sperm whale. Reports of this violent attack inspired Herman Melville to pen the great American novel Moby-Dick, specifically the climactic showdown between Captain Ahab and the white whale. But Melville only told half the story. Everything that followed the attack, as the crew of the Essex struggled to sail thousands of miles back to land in tiny rowboats, was even more harrowing, even more suspenseful. The very limits of human endurance were tried and not all of the men were up to the test...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
The Land Breakers by John Ehle
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Walking Across Egypt by Clyde Edgerton
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

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I have a taxonomy called state which lists all the states. When I create a post I want to select the taxonomy, but also have the name of the state automatically captured in a custom field as well.
I've manage to get this code working, however I'm having trouble getting the correct value from that post. A state name is being copied but it's from a different record.
I know it has to do with the foreach, but when I put the postid it does not work.
Also, it should work whether I do it through the admin, or via the front end in a form that submits or edits the post.
Here is the code, any help is appreciated.
add_action( 'save_post', 'add_state' );
function add_state( $post_id ){
// Bail if we're doing an auto save
if( defined( 'DOING_AUTOSAVE' ) && DOING_AUTOSAVE ) return;
//check if they selected your state term
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Homer, Simone Weil, and loss
[Reposted from 9/10/11*]
One of my fondest memories of college is sitting in Greek 401, poring over Homer's Iliad. We would each take turns translating the text, and then the whole class would discuss what had just been translated. I remember, as if it were yesterday, my friend translating the following exchange between Andromache and Hector. (This is from Robert Fagles's translation.)
Pressing close beside him and weeping freely now,
Clung to his hand, urged him, called him: Reckless one,
My Hector your own fiery courage will destroy you!
Have you no pity for him, our helpless son? Or me,
And the destiny that weighs me down, your widow, now so soon
In reply, Hector tells his wife he must fight. He imagines that after the fall of Troy Andromache will be a slave woman is some Argive city. An Achaean will look on her and say,
"There is the wife of Hector, the bravest fighter
They could field, those stallion-breaking Trojans,
Long ago when the men fought for Troy." So he will say
And the fresh grief will swell your heart once more,
Widowed, robbed of the one man strong enough
To fight off your day of slavery. No, no,
Let the earth come piling over my dead body
Before I hear your cries, I hear you dragged away.
After the class finished translating the section, our professor, who was a 30-year veteran of teaching classics and a veteran of the US Navy, seemed to be holding back tears. He wasn't the only one.
In a famous essay, "The Iliad, or the Poem of Force," Simone Weil argues the true hero, the true subject, the center of the Iliad is force. And she defines force as "that x that turns anybody who is subjected to it into a thing. Exercised to the limit, it turns man into a thing in the most literal sense: it makes a corpse out of him." Weil's essay is a powerful piece of literary criticism. It makes you want to read the Iliad and it makes you want to read more of Weil. (This is not to say the essay does not have its problems. It certainly does. For example, Weil sees the Iliad, and not the Hebrew Scriptures, as the proper context for the New Testament. Irenaeus of Lyon argues that Valentinus and the so-called "gnostics" read the New Testament in precisely this way.)
Weil notes, rightly, that the Iliad is a miracle. "Its bitterness is the only justifiable bitterness, for it springs from the subjections of the human spirit to force. This subjection is the common lot, although each spirit will bear it differently, in proportion to his own virtue. No one in the Iliad is spared by it, as no one on earth is." Whether we face force under the guise of disease, or violence, or chance, it will make things of us all. Pray that we never exert force on anyone else, and pray that we have the courage and wisdom to know how to stop those who do.
Force might be the true hero of the Iliad, but the true object of the poem, what's thrown in front of us, is loss. The reader cannot confront the poem without confronting the loss that each character faces: losses of spouses, of friends, of parents, of children, of countries. We see this in Achilles's reaction to Patroclus's death, in Priam's supplication of Achilles for the body of Hector, in the eulogies that Andromache, Hecuba, and Helen offer for Hector. Hence the tears -- Andromache's and ours.
Homer presents us with a world where each hero knows he is going to die, and no one is quite sure of the justice of his cause. Mercy is in short supply in the poem; grace does not exist. An impersonal Fate rules the deathless and the deathbound. The poem cannot tell us how to deal with our own losses, but it shows us the virtues of those Greeks and Trojans who have dealt with theirs.
Spurred, as usual, by Anthony Domestico's post, I have been reflecting on the need for a great 9/11 work of art. I remain agnostic on whether any artist has yet been able to explore the depths of force and loss that the day and its aftermath brought. Perhaps it's too soon. Perhaps we don't need one. We have the Iliad. Our original epic already and always has more force and loss than we can bear.
[*I was recently reviewing old posts and fixing some formatting that had needed fixing. As I was doing that, I came across this piece I wrote for the old Verdicts blog. I figure people might have missed it then, and unfortunately, what I wrote there remains all too relevant. The force that Weil discussed is in the news again in the form of sarin gas and Tomahawk missiles. On a personal note, over a year ago, I became a father, so Andromache's words to Hector about Scamandrius have an added power for me. I'm teaching the Iliad once again this semester, and I've barely begun to learn all the lessons it teaches. I wonder if anyone ever has.]
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It seems to me that the English word "violence" better translates what the Iliad is about. (By "violence" I mean the sort of force which aims to destroy an opponent.) Yes, there are lesser forces at work in the Iliad, but it seems to me that the work is directed towards the irrationality that is violence. I didn't get past the first battle, an event so horrible that I didnt' have to read further. Homer makes his point early -- that war is madness.
It seems so very odd to me that The Odyssey could be invented by the same person (group?). The spirit of the thing is so different from the Iliad -- it's ultimately optimistic. Or have I misread both?
Makes me think of the expression 'the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must' from the Melian dialogue (Thucydides).
Violence or force is simply energy expended. It is powerful energy but like any other powerful energy, like even sexual energy, it needs to be directed, trained and put in an overall context of purpose. It seems to me that it is not so much the force that is the problem but the rationality guiding (or not guiding) the force.
Wars are guided by leaders who direct these irrational forces (like soldiers or warriers who are trained for a purpose). But it is not the warriors who are to blame. It is always the leaders who require discipline and virtue because it is they who unleash these forces.
9/11 looked irrational as we were being blunted by that force but there was a rationality behind it. A distorted rationality but a rationality nonetheless.
Force and violence figure very prominently in history and literature because they are the easiest and quickest response to stress and challenge. Phrases like "kill 'em" and "go to hell" come readily to mind and lips, but we struggle to remember "turn the other cheek" and "do unto others..." That's possibly why we survived into history. Pacifist branches of genus Homo never made it out of prehistory. The Neanderthals may have been cheek-turners.
Still, for all its horrendous carnage, indiscriminate force is not the main fact or point of the Iliad. Homer tells us in the first line that his theme is the wrath of Achilles. It is not the Trojan War as a whole, but that baleful wrath that plays out over a few short weeks in the war's tenth year. With Achilles' immediate defiance of Agamemnon and withdrawal from battle and his fatal rejection of reconciliation in Book Nine, we are immersed in a tragedy that will rend the heart of the protagonist and bring him and his longtime adversary Priam to a kind of austere, belated enlightenment.
Just as many brave men might have died without this episode; just as many devoted wives might have ended their days in slavery; but seen as a consequence of Achilles' character and decisions, the present slaughter and the doom of loved ones spread his tragedy to the farthest horizons, even as King Lear's dotard vanity and impulsiveness—small sins in themselves—grow in power and consequence until they shake the very heavens. We care little for impersonal forces, or even for the will of Zeus, except as they wreck the lives of those we admire and love.
A bit off the track but maybe not:
A few days ago I attended a forum in which one of the presenters gave a quote, which moved me so that I copied it down.
"Tell me the story of the foot soldier and I 'll tell you the story of war."
I thought I heard him say it was from Aeschylus, but I cannot find the quote via Google. (It would be reasonable for Aesycylus to write that since he was a soldier, who fough valiently in the Persian War.)
The presenter left before I could talk to him.
Until very recent times, the only stories of war that we have center on, and are largely or completely told in the words of, the powerful. Even the stories we learn of the ordinary foot soldiers of the American Civil War were mined by modern scholars from the journals and letters of the true foot soldiers. Before that, virtually nothing - and for clear reasons in the development of literacy.
The war that is known by the private soldier, whether he is one of the Myrmidons or a foot soldier of the Great War - known only to his God, or a Marine Corps Pfc. humping the boonies along the DNZ, is utterly different than the war known by the Heroes. There are elements of fear and of anger, of every human emotion (very much including love); there certainly is violence. But what structures all that is power – who wields it and how it is applied. So the war of Achilles and Hector is never the war known by the foot soldier, no more than Patton's war was my father's, nor Westmoreland's was mine.


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Paranoid, vindictive, and possibly insane Fox News boss Roger Ailes has been sitting for interview with every elitist pinko rag in America lately. Now, the bizarre, crowning achievement: New York magazine's Gabriel Sherman is writing an entire book on Fox News, centering on Roger Ailes. The "insidery" media "story behind the story" here is, Gabriel Sherman is not the type one would naturally consider to be a friend of Fox News. Given Ailes' insatiable desire to shoot his mouth off with self-justificatory diatribes, this should be interesting.
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This image popped up over the weekend being touted as a prototype BMW M1 snapped during a candid moment in a Spanish hanger. As we all know, major automakers regularly keep priceless, top secret, never before seen but completely finished supercars stored in regional airports, without camo on them. Well, there was that


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RILEY COUNTY, Kan. (WIBW) -- Riley County police continue their search for the man who robbed an Ogden convenience store.
On Thursday, June 14th, they released a surveillance photo of the suspect.
On Monday, June 11th at 2 AM, a white man wearing a dark colored hoodie and blue jeans entered Casey's General Store on Riley Avenue in Ogden.
Two employees- Carolyn Thornton, 21, and Shanequa Martin, 20- were working at the store when a male entered and demanded money after indicating he had a weapon.
According to an RCPD press release, when the suspect spoke, he used "Ma'am" to address the female clerk and asked her "please" to come to the counter.
The victims complied and the suspect fled the area on foot with an undisclosed amount of money. Thornton and Martin were not injured.
The suspect was wearing what appeared to be a camouflage colored scarf or mask of some sort over his face and wore wire frame glasses.
He was described being medium height with a thin build.
He ran to the east of Casey's General Store and then ran to the north. The suspect may be armed and dangerous.
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5 Simple Things You Won't Believe Are Recent Inventions
Part of the problem with living in the age of iPads, stem cell transplants and Spanx is that we tend to take innovation for granted. We're impressed by new gizmos, sure, but we tend to forget that even the most obvious, basic concepts had to be invented at some point. And some of them were shockingly recent.
#5. Doorknobs
Oh, come on! Doorknobs? They probably had doorknobs in Jesus' time, right? How the hell else are you supposed to open your door? They even had them in Middle-earth.
Bilbo's house.
We're certainly not going to try to claim that, say, Abe Lincoln lived and died having never seen one. Right?
Hold onto your ass, baby!
Doorknobs Weren't Actually Around Until ...
1878. Check this out:
187-freakin'-8 is when the doorknob was patented. That is, a knob that actually turned and made a little metal thing retract and allow the door to open, the way they do now.
Before knobs, doors were opened and closed through latches like this. It wasn't until 1878 that inventor Osbourn Dorsey filed a patent for the doorknob mechanism we know and love, and along with it the first internal door-latching mechanism.
And shortly thereafter, the fish-door.
But then it took a long time for the doorknob to become a common fixture around the world -- we can only guess because it took a few generations to master that difficult simultaneous turning and pulling motion you have to make to get it to work. Watch a dog try to do it -- it's hilarious.
#4. Time Zones
If tomorrow all of the time keeping devices on the planet vanished, things would devolve into absolute chaos by sundown. We'd all be able to agree that it's "morning" or "afternoon" or "evening," but figuring out exactly when your plane leaves, or exactly when you have to be at work? Sheeeeit. There'd be riots in the streets.
Yet, for most people, this is exactly the way it worked until very recently.
Standardized Time Wasn't Actually Around Until ...
For centuries, checking the time meant checking the sun. Or, to save your eyeballs from frying, checking the neighborhood sundial (assuming the day wasn't overcast and it actually cast a shadow). Even after mechanical clocks became all the rage, those clocks were still set to solar time, which meant that your clock would still be different from the clock of your friend a few towns away. You could get away with it because there was no real-time communication via phones or whatever. Everybody was hours apart, so what difference did it make?
"Wonder what time it is ..."
"Why? Do you have a freaking hair appointment, Jedediah?"
But the trains changed everything. By the time the trains were up and running, every damn town in the country was keeping on its own sweet time. So the people in charge of the trains didn't just need to concern themselves with the local time; they also had to worry about what time it was at the terminus, plus each railroad junction. Which was why the main station in Philadelphia once had six clocks up showing six different times.
And for a while, it just seemed like this was the way it had to be. Solar time was as natural as the sun rising and setting. It's not like after thousands and thousands of years you could make people forget that noon was exactly when the sun was highest overhead. No train schedule was going to change that.
OR WOULD IT? On Dec. 1, 1847, the British tested fate by using Greenwich Mean Time to institute time zones to keep their trains running on schedule. But it wasn't until 1880 that standardized time zones were made the law in Great Britain, and in 1883, zones based on GMT became the law in the U.S. By 1929, most other countries around the world had also adopted the hourly time zone system. So there are probably still people alive today who didn't have to abide by "the man's time."
Time zones are just another agent of the Machine, yo.
#3. Grocery Stores
When you think "grocery shopping," a very specific image comes to mind: a cart, an over-lit, overstocked store full of garishly colored packaging, and you with a list. And before those modern grocery stores existed, it was just the same thing, except in an Old West general store, right? And before that, you'd wander around a farmers market and pluck out your onions or apples or pickled hens from a basket.
That shopping experience has pretty much been the same since, what, ancient Rome?
Self-Service Shopping Wasn't Actually Around Until ...
Try 1916. That's when store owner Clarence Saunders was getting someone her daily order of jaunty ragtime sheet music when he thought, Why the hell doesn't she get it herself? Voila! The modern supermarket was born! In his "Piggly Wiggly" store, the customers would do something never allowed before: They would get their own groceries off the shelf.
That's the part that was new. A hundred years ago, a person hoping to make a pig lard pie would write everything she needed down on a list, then hand that list over to a store clerk, and wait. And then the clerk would shuffle around the back, filling the order as he felt like it. You didn't get to pick through the bananas to get the ones that weren't already black. You took what they damned well gave you.
No getting drunk and going on 11 p.m. shopping cart joyrides for the kids of 1915.
If the shopper was lucky, there were a lot of clerks on staff and a short line ahead of her. If she was unlucky, it was Pig Lard Pie Day and she had something embarrassing like Lysol Douche on her list.
This new setup had all kinds of advantages. The store could lower prices because grocery shopping wasn't as labor-intensive (it was making the customer do all the work, after all -- something we don't even think about today while we're shoving around a cart for an hour). It could also accommodate more customers at one time, since they weren't waiting on a clerk to free up.
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Pretty decent deal for a refub Nexus 7, be mindful Ben's Outlet does take a little while to ship -- "*Please allow up to 7 business days for your order to ship"
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I've been looking for an LED Table for my dining room
@gokuro: But it is only 7" I hope you have small dishes and silverware.
Repeatedly states the list price is $249, but that's for the 32Gb version, not the 16GB. So the savings is $20 and the warranty is 90 days, not 1 year. Meh
@hgtstr: All these sites use outdated prices to artificially inflate the discounts. That, or they use "an aggregate of prices from various vendors".
Translated: We find the highest, most absurd price (or the initial retail price when the item first went on sale) and use that to determine your savings.
Does this table come with tiny chairs, too?
Have to agree, not a big deal.
As of yesterday, all Nexus 7 devices are getting OTA upgrades to Android 4.2.2.
It's actually closer to $50 off considering you pay tax + shipping from Play store. I would buy one myself but I bought one last week from Tigerdirect (via ebay) for $170.


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It seems it was a heck of a lot easier when an auger simply plunged his hand into the steaming innards of a sacrificed goat or lamb and yanked out the liver to figure out what was going to happen next.
Now we have predictive analytics, even real-time predictive analytics, and fancy algorithms, which is a lot less colorful and maybe less accurate. One way or another it's still a matter of faith.
Anyway, Birst, the agile business analytics folk, has come out with a new version of Birst for Sales Analytics. It figures it can tickle a user's margins.
It claims the launch marks an industry first in delivering deep predictive analytics into sales performance and combining sales force automation (SFA) data with other data sources.
The new predictive capability uses historical data to model and predict the behavior of an organization's sales pipeline and opportunities. It claims the widgetry can predict sales pipeline movements and identify sales opportunities at risk of getting lost.
Birst said it will allow for the kind of micro-targeting that Obama used to win the election.
It tightly integrates with SFA applications and supports the leading SFA applications, including Salesforce.com, Siebel, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, SugarCRM and NetSuite.
Specific to the mighty Salesforce, the new release delivers in-context analytics and collaboration capabilities via Chatter for more actionable business insights.
The integration options are supposed to deliver a seamless and collaborative experience across the entire organization.
Besides letting users share Birst insights via Chatter, Birst takes advantage of the VisualForce framework to embed visualizations and report tables directly into Salesforce.com screens like Opportunity or Account.
CEO Brad Peters says rather than looking into the rearview mirror and telling an organization what's already happened, "Our new predictive capabilities give management and business analysts the ability to look through the windshield and see what is ahead, providing the ability to better plan and make better, more informed business decisions."
Birst says every organization has unique sales processes specific to its industry and customers, with multiple operational systems supporting these processes. However, existing sales analytics solutions are inflexible and too narrowly focused on a specific SFA application and its data to fully unlock insights into sales performance across an entire organization.
Lack of time series and trend analysis on snapshots of data over time limits the richness of analytical insights.
Birst for Sales Analytics is supposed to solve these challenges by providing a complete data warehouse that enables answers to what are said to be the most sophisticated analytical questions posed by complex sets of data spanning multiple disparate data sources.
The widgetry works across both public and private clouds. Birst reckons it's one-third the cost, time and staff of traditional big BI.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Isomorphic Software will exhibit at DevOps Summit at 19th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Isomorphic Software provides the SmartClient HTML5/AJAX platform, the most advanced technology for building rich, cutting-edge enterprise web applications for desktop and mobile. SmartClient combines the productivity and performance of traditional desktop software with the simp...
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Sharding has become a popular means of achieving scalability in application architectures in which read/write data separation is not only possible, but desirable to achieve new heights of concurrency. The premise is that by splitting up read and write duties, it is possible to get better overall performance at the cost of a slight delay in consistency. That is, it takes a bit of time to replicate changes initiated by a "write" to the read-only master database. It's eventually consistent, and it'...
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Node.js and io.js are increasingly being used to run JavaScript on the server side for many types of applications, such as websites, real-time messaging and controllers for small devices with limited resources. For DevOps it is crucial to monitor the whole application stack and Node.js is rapidly becoming an important part of the stack in many organizations. Sematext has historically had a strong support for monitoring big data applications such as Elastic (aka Elasticsearch), Cassandra, Solr, S...
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Internet of @ThingsExpo, taking place November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, is co-located with the 19th International Cloud Expo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world and ThingsExpo Silicon Valley Call for Papers is now open.
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There's a lot of things we do to improve the performance of web and mobile applications. We use caching. We use compression. We offload security (SSL and TLS) to a proxy with greater compute capacity. We apply image optimization and minification to content. We do all that because performance is king. Failure to perform can be, for many businesses, equivalent to an outage with increased abandonment rates and angry customers taking to the Internet to express their extreme displeasure.
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Ovum, a leading technology analyst firm, has published an in-depth report, Ovum Decision Matrix: Selecting a DevOps Release Management Solution, 2016–17. The report focuses on the automation aspects of DevOps, Release Management and compares solutions from the leading vendors.
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No matter how well-built your applications are, countless issues can cause performance problems, putting the platforms they are running on under scrutiny. If you've moved to Node.js to power your applications, you may be at risk of these issues calling your choice into question. How do you identify vulnerabilities and mitigate risk to take the focus off troubleshooting the technology and back where it belongs, on innovation? There is no doubt that Node.js is one of today's leading platforms of ...
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Adding public cloud resources to an existing application can be a daunting process. The tools that you currently use to manage the software and hardware outside the cloud aren't always the best tools to efficiently grow into the cloud. All of the major configuration management tools have cloud orchestration plugins that can be leveraged, but there are also cloud-native tools that can dramatically improve the efficiency of managing your application lifecycle. In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, ...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that LeaseWeb USA, a cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider, will exhibit at the 19th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. LeaseWeb is one of the world's largest hosting brands. The company helps customers define, develop and deploy IT infrastructure tailored to their exact business needs, by combining various kinds cloud solutions.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Venafi, the Immune System for the Internet™ and the leading provider of Next Generation Trust Protection, will exhibit at @DevOpsSummit at 19th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Venafi is the Immune System for the Internet™ that protects the foundation of all cybersecurity – cryptographic keys and digital certificates – so they can't be misused by bad guys in attacks...
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DevOps at Cloud Expo – being held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA – announces that its Call for Papers is open. Born out of proven success in agile development, cloud computing, and process automation, DevOps is a macro trend you cannot afford to miss. From showcase success stories from early adopters and web-scale businesses, DevOps is expanding to organizations of all sizes, including the world's largest enterprises – and delivering real results. Am...
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Let's just nip the conflation of these terms in the bud, shall we?
"MIcro" is big these days. Both microservices and microsegmentation are having and will continue to have an impact on data center architecture, but not necessarily for the same reasons. There's a growing trend in which folks - particularly those with a network background - conflate the two and use them to mean the same thing.
They are not.
One is about the application. The other, the network. T...
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The 19th International Cloud Expo has announced that its Call for Papers is open. Cloud Expo, to be held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, brings together Cloud Computing, Big Data, Internet of Things, DevOps, Digital Transformation, Microservices and WebRTC to one location. With cloud computing driving a higher percentage of enterprise IT budgets every year, it becomes increasingly important to plant your flag in this fast-expanding business opportuni...
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If you are within a stones throw of the DevOps marketplace you have undoubtably noticed the growing trend in Microservices. Whether you have been staying up to date with the latest articles and blogs or you just read the definition for the first time, these 5 Microservices Resources You Need In Your Life will guide you through the ins and outs of Microservices in today's world.
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This digest provides an overview of good resources that are well worth reading. We'll be updating this page as new content becomes available, so I suggest you bookmark it. Also, expect more digests to come on different topics that make all of our IT-hearts go boom!
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Keeping pace with advancements in software delivery processes and tooling is taxing even for the most proficient organizations. Point tools, platforms, open source and the increasing adoption of private and public cloud services requires strong engineering rigor – all in the face of developer demands to use the tools of choice. As Agile has settled in as a mainstream practice, now DevOps has emerged as the next wave to improve software delivery speed and output. To make DevOps work, organization...
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Right off the bat, Newman advises that we should "think of microservices as a specific approach for SOA in the same way that XP or Scrum are specific approaches for Agile Software development". These analogies are very interesting because my expectation was that microservices is a pattern. So I might infer that microservices is a set of process techniques as opposed to an architectural approach. Yet in the book, Newman clearly includes some elements of concept model and architecture as well as p...
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This is a no-hype, pragmatic post about why I think you should consider architecting your next project the way SOA and/or microservices suggest. No matter if it's a greenfield approach or if you're in dire need of refactoring. Please note: considering still keeps open the option of not taking that approach. After reading this, you will have a better idea about whether building multiple small components instead of a single, large component makes sense for your project. This post assumes that you...
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In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 19th Cloud Expo, Yoseph Reuveni, Director of Software Engineering at Jet.com, will discuss Jet.com's journey into containerizing Microsoft-based technologies like C# and F# into Docker. He will talk about lessons learned and challenges faced, the Mono framework tryout and how they deployed everything into Azure cloud. Yoseph Reuveni is a technology leader with unique experience developing and running high throughput (over 1M tps) distributed systems with extre...
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If Lily and Robert Brewster no longer have a penny to their names, at least they have a roof over their heads in this bleak Depression November of 1932 -- the sprawling estate of their late great-uncle in Voorburg-on-Hudson. But then a badly disguised stranger offers to pay generously to hold a very secret meeting there shortly before the national election. And soon one of the mystery guests is murdered in his bath, a local grade school teacher goes missing, and a little boy is kidnapped. With Pretty Boy Floyd rumored to be somewhere near, the nasty business smacks of underworld activity -- or possible political conspiracy aimed at sabotaging Roosevelt's election. Either way, Chief Howard Walker has nowhere to house all the suspects except at the local Hospital for the Criminally Insane. And the Brewster siblings are going to have their hands full tying the various ends together . . . and ferreting out the killer who abused their hospitality.
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11 Dec 2012 9:55 AM #11
I'm certainly happy to have you post a test case either here or on the support ticket, but was concerned that you might not have the time to produce a complete test case where we can reproduce the issue, and wanted to remind you that we can possibly help with code you'd rather not become public. Of course, it is always our preference to have it as simple as possible for easy verification, and such code likely can be made public - but these aren't the only concerns when developing a product.
11 Dec 2012 2:09 PM #12
I added this code and the click event doesn't fire until it "starts working".
I have no idea, why the event isn't being fired, or what is causing that event to not go the combo box, when clicking on the cell does indeed cause the combo box to render. The blur event gets fired instead when I click on it again.
I am still trying to reproduce in test case and tried to scale back my actual code so I could provide that as well, but no luck.
Since this forum topic is considered "fixed", I will probably move this back to my internal ticket and look at creating a new forum topic when I have something that can be shared with others on this.
If you have any debugging/event monitoring to recommend, please let me know.
comboBox.addDomHandler(new ClickHandler() {
public void onClick(ClickEvent event) {
}, ClickEvent.getType());
11 Dec 2012 2:29 PM #13
Provided you have the java.util.Logging support that GWT provides enabled, you can add this line to your app to get all kinds of other focus/click/keystroke details from within many of GXT widgets:
<set-property name="gxt.logging.enabled" value="true" />
The fact that the dom event doesn't go off until it 'works' is possibly an indication that the combo isn't being attached completely. The addDomHandler method should completely circumvent the cell code, and just look for events that directly occur on the combo box itself (a div, an input and an image, you wont get the dom events from the listview).
12 Dec 2012 10:57 AM #14
Seems like (in my application) a combo-box will require 2 clicks (initially) to bring down the combo-box, but after that a single click will cause the drop-down to work.
On the same page as the grid, is a combo box. Once that combo box is doubled clicked, then the combo box in the row will work just fine.
My page is BorderLayoutContainer and if I start the page with my content, then it will also work. However, that isn't how the page is normally rendered. Instead there are links and actions performed first. Each link / action sets the main content of the BorderLayoutContainer to a different screen. So, when I click on an anchor that fires an event to render the this widget, I have issues.
I'm still frustrated/rambling here. I was hoping I would be able to extract a test case, but still working on that. I'm wondering if how the combo box displays a div for the drop-down could be conflicting with itself....
So, can you think of any reasons why a combobox on first attempt (NOT in a grid) would require 2 clicks on render the drop-down?
12 Dec 2012 12:48 PM #15
Well, I am able to replicate the issue with our application in Chrome 25, so this isn't unique to IE8.
Chrome's behavior is different, the drop-down arrow never goes away, but the pop-up never gets rendered either. I have have the combo box loose focus before clicking on it again to get the pop-up to render.
Also, I don't think the issue is with 1 row in the grid anymore, once a drop-down on a combobox works, then the one on the grid works.
If only I could reproduce this.
12 Dec 2012 1:59 PM #16
It certainly sounds like an issue, but not one I am able to reproduce in IE8 or chrome with the existing inline grid editing examples or your earlier example.
As for a place to discuss, I'm happy to have conversation about a bug that can't be reproduced continue here in a FIXED ticket (we agree the reported bug is fixed, right?), but opening a new one seems premature. You could also start a post in discussion.
12 Dec 2012 2:04 PM #17
Yes, I agree this defect is fixed. It seems (to me) I had 2 bugs in my app causing the same behavior, and this fix addressed one of them.
I just found some things that make me thing it has something to do with calling focus() on a widget that gets removed. And I know there were a few fixed issues in 3.0.3 that dealt with focus(). Since I'm close to this, knock on wood, I will probably end conversation at this point and open a new defect if/when I'm able to reproduce it.
If it is focus() releated, that gives me hope I can also work around it.
I don't see a blur() method, however. And we do call focus when we display our new component, so just setting focus on another, I do not think, is causing the issue. But the fact that a widget had focus and then that widget was removed from the DOM.
12 Dec 2012 4:00 PM #18
Component defines focus(), but not blur() - this covers the case of programmatically saying 'here, look at this next thing', but leaves open the question of how the app looks at nothing. Element/XElement has focus()/blur(), though not all elements are made to accept focus (needs a tabindex to make sense), and it may not trigger the right sorts of interaction (focus on a ComboBox is tricky because of the dropdown, a totally distinct ListView object).
We may need to consider it though, if that is the root of your issue. That said, if focus has to be removed from an item before it can be detached from a parent, that is going to be somewhat annoying to implement:
IE complains loudly when you focus or blur on things which aren't visible, whereas most other browsers just ignore it as nonsense. All kinds of try/catch blocks exist in GWT/GXT to manage this 'exceptional' case.
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ANDERSON, S.C. – After going down 2-1 in the doubles round, Anderson University men's tennis was unable to recover, falling 6-3 to in-state rival Limestone Thursday afternoon at Max Grubbs Memorial Courts.
With the setback, the Trojans drop to an even 6-6 for the season with South Atlantic Conference play on the horizon this weekend. Limestone, which entered the match ranked No. 30 nationally, moves above .500 at 8-7 on the year.
In the doubles round, the Trojans came away with one victory as senior Danilo Faria and sophomore Paul Michael Calhoun claimed an 8-2 victory over LC's Benji Lascari Diaz and Giacomo Campus at the No. 2 position. The teams of freshmen Juan Carracedo and Mateo Rivas (No. 1) and sophomores Tomas Passalacqua and Inaki Iriberry (No. 3) both posted 8-5 setbacks, as the Saints took the 2-1 lead into singles.
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Pets Eat Poop for a Variety of Reasons
Today I'm going to discuss a totally disgusting topic, coprophagia. Coprophagia is a pleasant term for stool eating.
Although the idea of this activity is totally gross, there is actually one stage in a pet's life when coprophagia is expected. Are you frowning with disgust?
When mother dogs and cats have litters, they deliberately consume the feces of their puppies or kittens to hide their scent while the litter is vulnerable and sheltered in the den.
Beyond that, stool eating — although a very common complaint among pet and especially dog owners – is just plain gross.
Reasons Behind Coprophagic Behavior
Pets eat poop for a variety of reasons. Medical problems are a common cause, including pancreatic insufficiency or enzyme deficiency. Intestinal malabsorption and GI parasites are also common medical reasons that can prompt a dog to eat his own poop.
Have their stools checked by the vet's office every six months to make sure they're parasite-free. Healthy dogs can acquire intestinal parasites from eating feces, so twice-yearly stool analysis is a must. If your dog "skoots", their anal glands may need to be expressed. They are doing this action to try and release the anal glands. Your groomer or vet can do this for your dog.
The pancreas of dogs does secrete some digestive enzymes to aid in the processing of food, but many dogs don't secrete enough of these enzymes and wind up enzyme deficient. Since the feces of other animals are a source of digestive enzymes, dogs with a deficiency will 'recycle' by eating the enzyme rich poop. Gross, I know, but true.
Rabbit poop is one of the richest sources not only of digestive enzymes, but also B vitamins. Many dogs, if they stumble upon rabbit droppings, will scarf them right up to take advantage of those nutrients.
And dogs on entirely processed, dry food diets, who eat no living foods at all, will intentionally seek out other sources of digestive enzymes to make up for their own lifelong enzyme deficiency.
Cats with enzyme deficiencies, malabsorption, or who are fed poor-quality diets can provide litter box temptations for dogs in the family. Many cheap dry foods contain ingredients that are not bioavailable, so ingredients are passed out in the stool undigested, providing scavenging dogs with the opportunity to "recycle." Our food, at Life's Abundance is fresh and full of nutrients.
Feeding your pet a diet containing human-grade protein, probiotics and supplemental digestive enzymes can sometimes curb the urge to find gross sources of free enzymes around the yard or in the litter box.
Coprophagia Can Also Be a Behavioral Problem
Another cause for coprophagia in dogs is behavioral. Some dogs, especially those in kennel situations, may eat feces because they are anxious and stressed.
Research also suggests dogs who are punished by their owners for inappropriate elimination develop the idea that pooping itself is bad. So they try to eliminate the evidence by consuming their feces. This idea breaks my heart. The dog or cat must have a tortured life.
Another theory that seems to hold some weight is that coprophagia is a trait noted in all canines – wolves, coyotes and domesticated dogs – and arises when food is in short supply.
Sadly, I see this most often in puppy mill dogs. DO NOT SUPPORT PUPPY MILLS. Breeding for money or store bought can be sadly linked to puppy mills. Puppies who go hungry, are weaned too young, have to fight for a place at a communal food dish, or are forced to sit for weeks in a tiny crate with nothing to do, are at high risk of developing habitual stool-eating behavior that becomes impossible to extinguish.
Coprophagic behavior can also be a learned behavior. Older dogs with the repulsive habit can teach it to younger dogs in the household. This is a habit we don't want to teach the kids. Break it. Call a well trained trainer in your area to stop this gross behavior.
When Poop Eating is Compulsive
Some scientists believe dogs eat poop simply because it tastes good to them. Dr. Becker disagrees with this. Others consume only the poop of a specific animal. Still others only eat poop at certain times of the year.
So some dogs who stumble upon feces occasionally decide to sample it, while others become completely obsessed with eating certain specific poop. Horse poop is full of nutrients and dogs on the open trials can gobble this like candy. Maybe it's the "greens"?
Tips for Curbing Your Dog's Revolting Habit
Fortunately, there are some common sense ways to reduce your dog's coprophagia habit.
- First on the agenda is to pick up your dog's poop immediately, as soon after he eliminates as possible. Don't give him the opportunity to stumble across old feces in his potty spot.
- Next, if you have cats, get a self-cleaning litter box or place the box in a location in your home where you dog can't get to it. Clean it DAILY!
- I also recommend you improve your pet's diet as much as possible, and add digestive enzymes and probiotics at meal time.
- Offer toys to your dog that challenge his brain and ease boredom.
- Sufficient exercise is also crucial in keeping your dog's body and mind stimulated. Bored dogs tend to develop far stranger, disturbing habits and behaviors than dogs that get plenty of exercise and mental stimulation.
- Lastly, consider trying one (or more than one) of the many over-the-counter coprophagia deterrent products. Make it your last choice…these are powders you either sprinkle on the stool itself or feed with meals to create an unpalatable stool. But keep in mind these powders contain MSG. Do your research.
I recommend you look for a non-toxic deterrent than doesn't contain MSG.
Good luck on a Crappy subject! Kona doesn't eat her poop, she eats Life's Abundance.source: Dr. Becker from Mercola and MyPetFirst


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My 4 year old son and I enjoy playing games. However, whenever I win and he loses, he gets very upset and doesn't want to play anymore. I have tried explaining that he won't always win at everything, practice makes perfect, try your best, etc., but it is clear that I'm not getting the message through to him effectively. What should I do?
It sounds like you already do this, but don't 'let' him win just to avoid the scene, this will create bigger problems later. As you are playing the game (I assume most of the games, if not all, are simple chance) ask him, who do you think will win now. He will then see that the 'winner' goes back and forth through out the game. When he wins narrate your feelings about loosing. (Oh, I wish I won. Oh well, I guess I might win next time. It was a fun game and I am glad I got to have a good time with my son) When he does lose and cries verbalize for him what he is feeling. (I know you are sad because you lost, but at least you got to have a good time. I really enjoyed spending time with you and I can't wait to play again!)
Tell him that you can't play games with people that don't know how to lose, and then if he wants to play a game again that day don't play with him.
I like the first option better but sometimes you have to resort to the second.
A key question is "How often do you play a game that he CAN'T win"?
A lot of dads get competitive, and believe that they're teaching their children "the value of losing gracefully", when they're actually teaching them "Can't beat Dad, because I'm better", which is very frustrating for a child, as there's NOTHING THEY CAN DO.
If you're playing a game where you win more than 50% of the time, it's not actually a fair game. You have every advantage, because he's FOUR. Effectively, you should be handicapping yourself down to the level where you're struggling to win.
As you find he's improving and you're winning less often, you can begin removing the handicaps.
Showing an example by losing gracefully yourself can also really help - and remember to also have the conversation on how to be a magnanimous victor.
Both are key learning experiences that seem to work well by example.
If the game involved a significant component of strategy or skill, as opposed to luck, point out whatever positives you can about his play, both during the game, and once the winner is determined.
Even if the game is purely random, you can still praise him when he loses ("Good game! That was very close... I got lucky at the end!").
Most importantly, don't be critical of his playing. Gloating over a win, even in jest, can set a really bad precedent for competition. Suggesting ways he could improve his play should be done as diplomatically as possible. Emphasize the positives, and avoid mention of negatives ("don't forget that you can always do x" rather than "doing y was a mistake").
Stop focusing on winning and losing. Help him to do that, too. If that's your (and his) focus, then you're both missing the point of the game, which is to have fun.