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If you've been playing Fallout 3, you've probably found a few Bobbleheads tucked away on dusty shelves and desks. You'll need to collect at least ten to unlock the "Yes, I Play with Dolls" achievement and all twenty for the "Vault-Tec C.E.O." achievement. But even if you don't give a hoot about your gamer score, you'll still need to collect every one of these wobbly figurines to create the ultimate, kickass, Wasteland survivor. That's because there are seven Bobbleheads that boost your core S.P.E.C.I.A.L. stats, and thirteen that give a healthy bonus to your skills. This means you'll be able to spread out your points more every time you level-up, allowing you to max out even more skills.
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You'll find the Strength Bobblehead in Lucas Simm's home in Megaton. It's the very first shack on your immediate right when you enter the city. It'll be locked, so you'll either have to pick the lock, steal the key from Lucas, kill Lucas and take the key, or get Mr. Burke to kill Lucas by reporting him. Enter the house, climb up the stairs and enter Lucas Simm's bedroom on your left. Check the top of his desk for a boost to your Strength.
WARNING: If you're planning to take the evil route by blowing up the city of Megaton, make sure you grab the Strength Bobblehead first! If you don't, it'll be blown to smithereens along with the rest of the city.
Above: Once you enter Megaton, you'll see Lucas Simm's house to your right
Above: You'll find the Bobblehead on Lucas Simm's desk
The Republic of Dave is in the far northeast corner of the world map. Enter the camp and head into the Museum of Dave on your left. You'll find the Bobblehead on the shelf to your right.
Above: You'll find the Perception Bobblehead on a shelf in the Museum of Dave
Head northwest from Paradise Falls to reach Deathclaw Sanctuary. Head down the sloping path. You'll find the Endurance Bobblehead near the brahmin corpse.
Above: As you may have guessed, there are lots of nasty Deathclaws waiting inside of Deathclaw Sanctuary.
Above: Keep up the good work. Your character is getting stronger with each Bobblehead that you find
You'll find Vault 108 on the eastern edge of the world map. Head south from the Republic of Dave to reach it. Once you enter the vault, head to your left when you see the big blood stain, and pass the power generators. Head down the stairs into the lab area and you'll find the Charisma Bobblehead on a desk.
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Rivet City sits on the very southeast corner of the map, west of the Jefferson Memorial. You'll find the Intelligence Bobblehead on a desk inside the Science Lab.
Head southwest from the Republic of Dave to reach the Greener Pastures Disposal Site. You'll be exposed to lots of radiation while roaming through this area, so be sure pop some Rad-X pills beforehand.
Above: Greener Pastures has very high radiation levels
Above: You'll find the Agility Bobblehead on a desk in the facility's office
The Arlington House is in the middle of the Arlington Cemetery. But to get there, you'll need to navigate the underground tunnel system. First, head into Marigold Station. Once you reach the first large room, jump down to the first floor on your left and take the left tunnel. Follow the Blue Line tracks and head through the door on your left when you reach the giant grates to exit at Falls Church. Head east till you reach the Falls Church/Arlington Metro Station. Once you reach the first large room, cut straight across the rubble and pass the Nuka-Cola machine. Head east to discover Mama Dolce's. Then head north to enter the cemetary. The Arlington House lies between North Arlington and South Arlington. Head to the basement to find the Luck Bobblehead.
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Okay so I am going to my family reunion at the end of this month. There are family memebers who I have never met before as well as family who I havent seen in years, hence, family reunion. However, this event is very special to me not only because I get to see family who I havent seen or even met before but because I have lost over 150lbs and no one has really seen me at a smaller weight, except for local family members. I'm on a very tight budget right now since I have done a huge move. I have brown hair and eyes, I'm 5'7" and im pale. My body shape is a triangle and my face is a square. The event is going to be held in an indoor/outdoor home in really nice weather. The weather ranges from 85-100 degrees. I would like adivce on hair styles, and outfits. I have been trying to come up with something like white pants with a halter top with a cute pair of sandals?? Im not comfortable with wearing skirts or dresses unless they are long since I do have sagging skin in certain areas that are visable.
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First off, congratulations on your weight loss. That's amazing! It must feel so good to have lost that much weight.
A family reunion sounds like oh so much fun! I really like what you've already put together for an outfit idea- its actually very similar to what I was going to suggest. I'm terrified of wearing white, but I have small children so that's probably why. Black capris would be what I would personally gravitate towards.
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Three games did not make the final cut, but work well with couples. The main reason I left them off the list is because I just talk about these too much, and if you don't have them in your collection yet you are just missing out in general. These games are Dominion, Carcassonne, and Settlers of Catan
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Number Nine - Small World
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Five Best Desserts of 2012
Dec 31, 2012
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[Review] Ocster Backup Pro 4
Posted By Ashraf On August 16, 2010 @ 12:03 AM In Giveaway of the Day Reviews,Shareware Reviews | 9 Comments
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Version reviewed:
v4.12 Pro
Software description as per the developer:
Ocster Backup Pro 4 is a great backup software that was designed from the start to work fully automatic. You simply specify what you want backed up and when and then the software takes care of the rest.
A special new feature called "Automatic Pausing" will automatically pause the backup process when you need the full power of your computer. Never be bogged down by your backup software again!
Apart from backing up files and folders, the software also features built-in support for backing up emails and calendars from Microsoft Outlook.
Ocster Backup Pro 4 can store the backups on an external hard disk, a network drive or on the specially secured Ocster Secure Storage.
Ocster Backup Pro 4 is really easy to use and requires no technical knowledge at all. With the software's scheduled automatic backups you simply select what to back up and when and that's it. The software will automatically keep your data safe!
Supported OS:
Windows XP/Vista/Win7
Ashraf's note:
Ocster Backup Pro 3 [2] has been reviewed on dotTech in the past. Here are the changes made to Ocster Backup Pro 4 as per the developer:
- Automatic Pausing: Ocster Backup Pro 4 aims to never slow down your computer when you need it. It monitors the resources other programs use and automatically pauses when it detects that it might slow things down.
- Outlook support: makes backing up your Microsoft Outlook emails and calendars really easy (works with Outlook 2003 or higher).
- Improvements "under the hood": enhanced performance, compatibility and other aspects of the backup service
In addition to the changes mentioned in the official changelog, I noticed Ocster fixed one bug that was in v3: In v4 "no encryption" backups are no longer automatically password protected based off the password protection of the last backup job.
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{for="Ease of Use" value="7″}Very easy to use. However, there are a few annoyances: 1) Lack of support for easy backup of third party software data (only Microsoft Outlook is supported) 2) Can only schedule a backup on a daily or weekly basis 3) Users are forced to register an account with Ocster if they want to be able to send out backup reports in e-mails 4) Uses a proprietary format to store backed up files 5) The file extensions "shorcuts" backup files from multiple partitions automatically… users cannot limit which partitions' files are backed up.
{for="Performance" value="7″}Performs well overall. However, speed and compression can be improved, lacks the ability to perform different types of backups (full, differential, etc.), and has a potential security risk in regards to password protection.
{for="Usefulness" value="7″}I can see quite a few people finding this program useful.
{for="Price" value="3″}Asking $39.90 for this software is too much. Not only does it lack some features that even freeware file backup software have, but for $10 more users can purchase rival backup software that will allow users to perform file and image backups). Personally I would pay $15 max for this software.
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Ocster Backup Pro 4 is an easy-to-use, commercial file-level backup software. (To learn the difference between file-level backup software and image-level backup software, read my post on Why are there so many backup programs out there? Don't they all do the same thing? No! [3])
This is what the main program window looks like:
Like most other modern file backup software, OBP4 (Ocster Backup Pro 4) works by allowing users to create backup "jobs". A backup "job" is simply a backup task (that backups up files/folders) the user creates that can be rerun whenever desired with the click of a button. Therefore, to use OBP4, you have to create backup jobs.
To get started, click on the "Create a New Backup Plan" button. This will then lead you to a screen that allows you to select to run the backup locally, or on Ocster servers:
To store your data on and backup to Ocster servers, you need to purchase Ocster's online storage service. (You will be asked to login if you click to "Store on Ocster Secure Storage"). If you don't have a subscription to their online storage service, you need to select the "Store on Hard Disk, USB Stick, or Network Drive" option. Since I don't have a subscription to Ocster's online storage services, this review will focus on the later backup option.
Once you get select "Store on Hard Disk, USB Stick, or Network Drive", you will be asked specifically where you want to store your data and what to call your backup job:
You can select to store your backup locally, to a portable drive, or to a network share. Additionally, if you have already created a backup with OBP4 – or a past version of OBP – but for whatever reason can't access the backup job anymore, you have the ability to "import" backup jobs at this screen. Click "Next" whenever you are ready.
At the next screen, you will be shown this:
This screen is where you select the data you want to backup. A cool thing about OBP4 is that it gives you access to some "shortcuts" to easily backup data from commonly used folders, and/or to backup all the files on your computer of a specific file type. OBP4 also supports the ability to easily backup Microsoft Outlook (2003 and higher) emails and calendars.
When using the file extension "shortcuts" take note files from more than just your C:/ partition are backed up – it specifies exactly which partitions' files will be backed up. I do wish there was some way to limit this to a specific partition because users may not necessarily want to backup files from all partitions with these file extension "shortcuts". Also, note that "My Documents" is select by default – be sure to uncheck it if you don't want to include it in your backup.
If you want to backup data other than what is given to you in the list of "shortcuts", you need to click on "Custom Files and Folders". When you click on "Custom Files and Folders", this window will pop up:
From this window you can add as many files or folders as you want to backup. Keep in mind all the files and folders you add will be backed up together whenever you run this backup job.
One interesting feature I found is that if you try to add a shortcut to backup, instead of backing up the actual shortcut OBP4 will backup the file behind the shortcut. Fairly handy if you ask me, but of course can backfire if a user wants to backup the actual shortcut.
OBP4 allows users to exclude specific files, folders, and file extensions from being backed up…
…so be sure to check that out if you need it.
After you have selected what files/folders to backup, clicking "Next" will take you to the screen where you can select how to compress and encrypt the backup:
If you don't want to compress and/or encrypt, you always have the option to opt out of compression and/or encryption.
After changing compression/encryption settings and clicking "Next", if you selected to encrypt, you will be asked to enter a password which will be used to protect the backed up data…
(Take note that you can opt to use no password at all – just click "Next" at the password screen.)
…but if you select no encryption, you will be taken directly to the next screen.
After you are done with the encryption settings, you are given the option to set your backup to automatically occur:
Unfortunately, you can only set it at daily or weekly backups – there is no option to set it at monthly, or custom dates. If you prefer not to have the backups occur automatically, simply select "No Automatic Backups".
After the schedule screen, you are asked to select how reports will be recorded for the backup:
If you don't want to keep reports, select "No reports".
If you decided to have reports created, you will be asked if you want to have the backup reports automatically e-mailed to you:
The thing is, in order have the reports e-mailed to you, you must register an account with Ocster (it is free), so be ready to fill out a form if you want to use this feature. It is unfortunate you are not allowed to use your own e-mail address, such as Gmail or Hotmail.
Last but not least, you are shown the summary of your backup job before being given the option to run the backup right that moment:
This is the backup-is-in-progress screen…
…and this is the backup-has-finished screen:
An interesting feature added in OBP4 is the ability to "automatically pause" backups-in-progress if the user is doing something else on their computer. In other words, OBP4 monitors computer resource availability and will automatically pause the backup if OBP4 feels running the backup will cause a degradation in performance for whatever else the user is doing; when computer resources are once again free, OBP4 automatically resumes the backup. While I wish there was a "sensitivity meter" users could use to customize when backups are paused/resumed and I found OBP4's thresholds for pausing and resuming backups to be a little erratic, this is a very nice feature.
Once you have created a job (keep in mind you can create as many jobs as you want), you can manually run the job whenever you want by going to clicking on the "Manage Backup Plans" button from the main screen, selecting what job you want to run, and run it:
Other things you can do from the "Manage Backup Plans" screen is verify the validity of the backup, change what the job backs up, restore the back ups, view the reports related to the backup job, and delete the backup job and the data it backed up.
Even though you can restore backed up files from the "Manage Backup Plans" screen, you can also restore your data via the "Restore Backup" button from the main screen:
Take note
Last but not the least, you can access all the reports of all your backup jobs via the "View Backup Reports" button from the main menu:
In terms of performance, Ocster Backup Pro 4 computer resource usage varies typically between 20-50% CPU usage and 30-40 MB of RAM (as per my tests – keep in mind resource usage will vary greatly depending on what is being backed up and how it is being compressed/encrypted), which is not bad. However, compression and speed can be improved upon.
It took me just over 3 minutes and 30 seconds to backup up my 112 MB screenshots folder at the highest compression and AES 256 encryption. The backup data was 107 MB, so hardly any compression at all. Compare this to me simply zipping my screenshot folders with 7-zip at the highest compression level and AES 256 encryption: took less than a minute and output zip file was just under 99 MB. While I am not necessarily saying OBP4 needs to be faster or compress better than 7-zip, what I am saying is speed and compression needs improvement.
For users who plan on making large backups, here are some numbers for reference: It took just under 14 minutes for me to backup 5.76 GB of data at Zlib compression but no encryption. The data was compressed to 2.55 GB.
Overall Ocster Backup Pro 4 is not too bad of a software. However, there are a few aspects of the program that make me give it a thumbs down:
This review was conducted on a laptop running Windows 7 Professional 32-bit. The specs of the laptop are as follows: 3GB of RAM, a Radeon HD 2600 512MB graphics card, and an Intel T8300 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo processor.
All of the following are file-level backup software:
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{rw_verdict2}While Ocster Backup Pro 4 is an improvement over Ocster Backup Pro 3, [2] I feel it is still overpriced and lacks in key areas. However in my not-so-humble opinion, even with all that, the real deal-killer is the potential security risk of automatic-saving-of-password when restoring backups. I give Ocster Backup Pro 4 a thumbs down – rejected! My personal recommendation for file-level backup software is GFI Backup. GFI Backup is feature filled, easy to use, and my all-time favorite.
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[1] Ocster Backup Pro 4: http://www.ocster.com/ocster-backup-pro-4/en
[2] Ocster Backup Pro 3: http://dottech.org/shareware-reviews/14217
[3] Why are there so many backup programs out there? Don't they all do the same thing? No!: http://dottech.org../tipsntricks/7985
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[31] GFI Backup: http://dottech.org/freewaresr/7372
[32] FBackup: http://dottech.org/tipsntricks/7352
[33] Backup4all Lite: http://dottech.org/freebies/13571
[34] Cobian Backup: http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm
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If anyone has decent setups, post em here! Lets go fast and have fun drafting
Well first thing is its Dega and Tona, not much needed for setups but my tire pressures are just like NTG11 65's all the way across and i use type B for the gears other than that i didnt change anything.
Can only put 35lbs in left side tires
yea you gotta pit to add the other pressures in
whats your fastest daytona lap..alone no draft?
Fastest Talladega lap w/out draft? I can't go faster than 192 on the straights. Question - on NASCAR 09 the bump and rebound went from 1-9 - how does that correlate with the new settings that go from like 12-90 or whatever? I'm trying to get a good Talladega setup. I've heard people say they hit 198 by them selves. Daytona help is great also; any help with setups running alone lol.
Left Tires...35, Right Side...65, Type B Trans, All Bump @ 15, All Rebound 25, Front Ride Height 8, Rear Height 7.5, Front Spring 900, Rear Spring 450, All Camber & Caster as close to zero as u can if u can't get them to zero..Front Sway 2500, Rear Sway 0...Wedge is at 48... Can be loose if u touch apron, just don't do that.... I run 48.40 is fastest qualify, and does hit 197 goin into 3 & 4... if u need anymore help, add me on psn @ TopNotchRcn-26 Hope this helps.....
@SpoolnBad: The biggest thing you can do is adjust the air pressure. It's a plate track; so there's not much else you can do other than adjust the tires. I know this may sound elementary, and you probably know this already, but the higher the air pressure, the more short-term speed you'll get. The longer you race, the more you'll need to lower the pressure. I've always raced at about 35-45 in all four tires, depending on the length of the race.
I used this setup with some slight tweaks on the Wii version, and it's great. Tried having the camber low, but it kept losing all grip on the exit of the turns...
I have all tires at 60, bumps at 10, rebounds at 15, all heights at 8, front spring at 1500, camber -1.3 front left and rest at 0, caster 1 front right 0 for others, front sway at 2000, wedge is 50.2, diff. ratio 3.60:1, spliiter 1, and grille tape at 70.
Fastest lap is 48.58 seconds, but if you bump the grille tape to 100%, fastest lap was 47.4 seconds. I would only use full tape for qualifying or in a very short run situation, such as a green-white-checkered or short race, since it starts overheating after a few laps.
EDIT: I tried this again this morning, but did a little more tweaking to it since it was losing a bit of speed off the corner from bouncing around, and had a lap of 47 seconds flat, riding the bottom line all the way around. It was not too loose to where you though you'd spin out, but still could ride any line without issue. The only thing is that if you lower the Grille Tape, you won't get that speed, but at 100% you will.
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Going to have to try this, although can only get lefts to 35... Gonna try later, and see...
Tried it on ps3 my car bottoms out on the bumps making me wrecking loose. Would be fast if it would stick to the track. Gonna try to make some spring adjustments
Its all in the springs... got mine running a 48.39 in qualify.. and clicking 197-198 on back straight and tri-oval.. still pushing for a high 47... Getting Close
You'd be surprised what some camber and caster adjustments could do...
48.28 qualifying with a few minor tweaks epic next car on champion was a 48.90.
What are you using, controller or wheel?
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Post that 47 when you get it..in track testing I can't get the car over 195 but in season I was on the pole 48.77 with your setup, just dropped front springs to 700 and I hit 197 going into the straights
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47.8's and 9's Practice alone.
201 top speed.
Looking to go dominate times at Daytona this weekend hope all goes good.
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- Ritesh AgarwalMay 22, 2014 at 5:40 PM
Your poetry-writing powers are on a high very high pedestal. In contrast, I am such a poor poet. When it comes to prose, I am slightly better. :)ReplyDelete
- Vaishali JainMay 22, 2014 at 7:31 PM
Your choice of words made me read the poem again and again. Beautiful it is.ReplyDelete
So happy you liked it, @Vaishali! Thank you for visiting!ReplyDelete
:) Thank you @Ritesh Agarwal hahha...And you mean just better..or better than me haan? :DReplyDelete
- Ritesh AgarwalMay 23, 2014 at 5:01 PM
From what I have read of you, you are the better poet and I the better prose-tellerReplyDelete
Here, I had written a few words about you
That is a really beautiful poem Priyanka..ReplyDelete
and how come both of you are on the two corners of the pic :)
We're both such 'illuminating' personas..thus the need to 'balance' the picture you see! ;) haha...ReplyDelete
But thank you so much for making it a point to visit my posts and like them! We must meet soon. :)ReplyDelete
Yeah, seen that when it was posted..well I'll take it up as a gracious opportunity to improve myself. Thanks RiteshReplyDelete


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Obama's Flunking Economy: The Real Cause
Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President
Ron Suskind's Confidence Men is not a calm first draft of history. It is not an impartial or unbiased look at the Obama administration's first two years. Rather, it is an investigation. The crime is homicide, and the victim is the promise of Barack Obama's presidency. But this isn't a suspenseful whodunit. Suskind tips his hand in the first pages.
He's describing the press conference in September 2010 where President Obama announced that Elizabeth Warren would help set up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Warren is one of Suskind's heroes. She's introduced as "the nation's town crier" and "a leading voice for tough, restorative reforms." The mystery of the initial chapter is why Obama seems to be holding her at arm's length.
It's quickly solved. The villain of this vignette—and one of the key villains of the rest of the book—is "the boyish man in the too-long jacket at Obama's right hip, bunched cuffs around his shoes, looking more than anything like a teenager who just grabbed a suit out of his dad's closet." So who is this man-child who can't find a properly sized suit to wear to the Rose Garden? Who couldn't take the time to get his pants hemmed before stepping in front of the cameras? "That's Treasury secretary Tim Geithner," Suskind says, "looking sheepish."
That "looking sheepish" is a common Suskind trick. His book doesn't just have good guys and bad guys. It has good guys who look like good guys, and bad guys who squirm beneath the weight of their badness. You're never left to wonder long over which is which. Of Larry Summers, Obama's first director of the National Economic Council, Suskind says that his personality "recalls that of Nixon and Henry Kissinger, or, more recently, Dick Cheney." As for Rahm Emanuel, Obama's first chief of staff, he's "all impulse and action, with very modest organizational skills."
By contrast Peter Orszag, Obama's first budget director, "could think in numbers, talk in full sentences, and work nonstop." Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle's comments are "counterintuitive, but incisive." Financial regulator "Gary Gensler fell into one of those discrete categories of people who create lasting change in Washington's marketplace of ideas." When Treasury economist Alan Krueger passes around a pack of slides, each is "a chart of blazing, graphed insight." Suskind offers little evidence for these descriptions. The book does not explain which of Gensler's ideas will be current in thirty years. Suskind's approach asks, rather, that we trust his assessments.
I prefer to verify. So I went back to the tape. I rewatched the September 2010 press conference where Obama introduced Warren to the country. I paid special attention to Geithner. Suskind's right: his suit is too big. But he doesn't look sheepish or ashamed. He looks, by turns, bored and interested. He clasps his hands behind his back. He nods attentively. He tries not to fidget. He looks like every experienced bureaucrat looks when they're asked to stand like a prop near the president. Blank, and trying not to make any news. He failed.
I mentioned this was a murder mystery, so I won't leave you in suspense about the perpetrator: Suskind's investigation leads him right to Obama's senior staff, who he believes took advantage of the young president's inexperience and led a refreshingly unconventional candidate into a depressingly conventional presidency.
Suskind's story goes something like this: in 2008, Obama was presented with an economic crisis of astonishing severity and complexity. In the beginning, he showed himself to be unexpectedly prepared to deal with it, both intellectually and temperamentally. His self-assurance and personal magnetism attracted a variety of impressive and able advisers, including former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, billionaire investor Warren Buffett, UBS America chief Robert Wolf, former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, and former SEC Chairman William Donaldson.
But as "the severity of the crisis bore down on him," Obama found himself leaning toward a different sort of adviser—safer, more predictable. He wanted people who knew Washington, and knew how to get things done. The "bold visions of the campaign season had meanwhile resolved into the serious, often risk-averse business of actually governing," writes Suskind. "In the midst of a battering economic storm, it no longer seemed like the right time to be making waves."
And no single adviser better encapsulates Suskind's criticisms, and the contradictions in his argument, than Larry Summers. Even more than Geithner, Summers is the villain of the book. Suskind describes him as "brilliant at cultivating the sense of control, even as events spun far beyond what could be managed with any certainty." He calls that talent "an illusionist's trick calling for a certain true genius."
It's that trick that gives the book its title. Merriam-Webster defines a "confidence man" as "a swindler who exploits the confidence of his victim." Suskind's definition is more subtle. "Confidence is the public face of competence," Suskind writes. "Separating the two—gaining the trust without earning it—is the age-old work of confidence men." To Suskind, Summers was the ultimate confidence man, and Obama the ultimate mark. Summers offered what Obama wanted—certainty—and Obama was just terrified enough to take it. But the certainties Summers offered were not, in Suskind's view, the certainties the moment required.
The work that went into Confidence Men cannot be denied. Suskind conducted hundreds of interviews. He spoke to almost every member of the Obama administration, including the President. He takes you inside Gensler's home and into the Oval Office. He heads to Wall Street and back. He quotes memos no one else has published. He gives you scenes that no one else has managed to capture. The book is valuable for these contributions alone. But Suskind's reporting seems, at times, to contradict his thesis.
It is not enough, of course, to say that Summers's personality is reminiscent of Richard Nixon's, or that "people think he knows more than he does." What Suskind needs to prove is that Summers, as director of the National Economic Council, gave Obama bad advice. After all, if every dark intimation about Summers's capture of the President is true, but Summers used his influence to steer Obama toward better ideas, we should be applauding him.
Suskind ultimately identifies two opportunities when Obama could have made decisions that might have substantially affected today's economy. The first was in the debate over bank nationalization. The second was in the debate over whether to propose further rounds of stimulus. In both cases, Suskind clearly wishes the Obama administration had pushed harder, demanded more, been less respectful of the status quo. In both cases, Suskind's own reporting shows that Summers agreed with him. And in both cases, Summers—the same Summers who was said to be able to convince anyone of anything, who had Obama's ear, who allegedly controlled the economic process—lost the fight. But Suskind never resolves, or even addresses, the difficulty that poses for his thesis.
Suskind's most explosive reporting comes in his recounting of the debate over nationalizing Citigroup. He alleges that the President directed Geithner to develop a plan to take over the failing bank and Geithner simply ignored the President's order. Geithner and the White House deny this, of course. But this moment is central to Suskind's story. In his conclusion, he says a successful nationalization of Citigroup would been the moment when "the American people would see that 'government could do this right,'" and it would have killed off the fear "that if another financial institution failed, it would spark a financial crisis similar to what happened after Lehman."
Summers, contrary to what you might gather from Suskind's description, was in favor of nationalizing Citigroup, and he fought for it. Suskind reports that Summers ran interference for Christina Romer, head of the Council of the Economic Advisers, when she made the President aware that Geithner wasn't developing a plan to take over the bank. He also reports that Summers personally "worked the phones in early March to try to gather the information" needed to produce the takeover plan that Treasury was refusing to provide.
Similarly, in what is perhaps the second-most-explosive portion of Suskind's book, Suskind recounts a White House meeting in which Romer tried to persuade the President to pursue a second round of stimulus. In a reply that Suskind uses to establish the President's rough treatment of female staffers, Obama harshly dismisses her. In the next passage, however, Suskind reports on a subsequent meeting when "Summers stepped up, offering, almost word for word, the position Romer had voiced previously."
So if Summers was really the Svengali Suskind presents him as, if he really had such mastery over the President and the policymaking process, Citigroup would have been nationalized and the administration would have been more aggressive in its pursuit of more stimulus. Neither happened. If you take Suskind's policy preferences seriously, the implication is that Summers wasn't persuasive enough to save Obama's presidency.
That incoherence speaks to the weakness of Suskind's book, which is also a weakness that afflicts much punditry about the presidency: it is very surefooted in its reporting on personalities and the process by which decisions were made, and very vague when it comes to assessing the policy that was under consideration and judging whether the final approach performed better or worse than the alternative proposals.
The President's poll numbers aren't the mystery Suskind presents them as. If you want to know what killed Obamaism, the answer is the stagnant economy. No president, no matter how politically graceful or personally confident, looks good in the midst of an economic crisis. When unemployment rose during the 1980–1981 recession, President Ronald Reagan's approval ratings fell below 40 percent and his party lost twenty-six House seats in the midterm election. When Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Federal Reserve twisted toward austerity too early and sparked the 1937 recession, Democrats lost more than seventy seats the following year. No one would accuse either president of insufficient charisma or weak leadership. Americans don't want leaders so much as they want jobs. And that's Obama's problem now, too.
The great counterfactual of Suskind's book is "What if Obama had chosen a different team of advisers?" But by the end of his book, the counterfactual was coming true. Emanuel was out. Summers, too. Romer had left, and so had Orszag. Even David Axelrod, Obama's longtime political adviser, was decamping back to Chicago. Only Geithner remains.
In his conclusion, Suskind seems appreciative of the replacements Obama chose. "Following the midterms," reports Suskind, "the president seemed to be assembling the team he'd originally wanted." He quotes an anonymous Obama adviser who says, "Rahm and Larry especially, but others on senior staff as well, didn't have a strong appreciation of what got [Obama] elected, the power of it and how to harness it." He says that the housecleaning left Obama looking "oddly liberated."


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Matt King (George Clooney), a husband and father of two girls, must re-examine his past and navigate his future when his wife is in a boating accident off Waikiki. He awkwardly attempts to repair his relationship with his daughters - 10 year-old precocious Scottie (Amara Miller) and rebellious 17 year-old Alexandra (Shailene Woodley) - while wrestling with a decision to sell his family's land. Handed down from Hawaiian royalty and missionaries, the Kings own some of the last priceless virgin parcels of tropical beach in the islands.
Comedy, Drama
Suitable only for 15 years and over
1 hour 55 minutes
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Windows PC (UK internet connection required to acquire license)