"The Democrats are playing a con game, C-O-N, a con game," he said.
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It appears to be more of a fundraising con game.
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It is a con game; they are real con artists.
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When they do, Michael hits upon a new con game.
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They're playing a con game and they play it very well.
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The Emmys were "a con game" and "an irrelevant show," he added.
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"Tonight exposes the con game that Bernie Sanders is running," he said.
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The con game works like this: The federal government keeps expanding and expanding.
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He also said he believes Democrats are masterminding "a con game" against his Supreme Court nominee.
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" A special agent working on the case in Newark called the scheme a "classic con game.
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She admits that there are time lapses... This is a con game being played by the Democrats.
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Trump this week said Democrats are playing a "con game" in a "vicious effort to destroy" Kavanaugh.
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Then, at least that very key layer of the Washington budget con game would be peeled away.
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Barber thinks of the sell-by date on goods as "kind of a con game," he said.
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I vowed to find them, and expose the hidden bot labor that made Ashley Madison's con game work.
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And yes, Mr. Trump is playing a con game of his own, and they'll eventually figure that out, too.
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Trump called Kavanaugh "an absolute gem" who has been unfairly maligned by a "con game" being played by Democrats.
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For the simple truth is that ever since Reagan, Republicans have basically played a con game on American voters.
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While the steak dinner pitch might not be a con game, it is a bit of a psychological dance.
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They're playing a con game and they play it very well -- they play it actually much better than Republicans.
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"The Democrats are playing a high level CON GAME in their vicious effort to destroy a fine person," he tweeted.
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By actually winning the nomination, Trump has simply taken the con game Cain and the others pioneered to the next level.
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The steak dinner pitch might not be a con game, he writes, but it is a bit of a psychological dance.
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No sooner does the con game mount than the characters' discourse breaks down, as if a contagion had taken over their speech.
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" He went on to call it a con game several more times, even at one point spelling it out, "C-O-N.
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Trump claimed that allegations from Ramirez and Christine Blasey Ford are part of a "con game" by Democrats against his Supreme Court nominee.
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With Jamie's progress and the careful con game they're playing on such fragile ground, the news of Randall's survival can only spell tragedy.
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"The Democrats are playing a high level CON GAME in their vicious effort to destroy a fine person," Trump said in a tweet.
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Trump condemned the "so-called vote" on the resolution as a "Democrat con game," sending a message to Republicans to vote against the measure.
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Michael Graziano, a neuroscientist at Princeton University, suggested to the audience that consciousness is a kind of con game the brain plays with itself.
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The Republican establishment has been routed because it has been playing a con game on its supporters all along, and they've finally had enough.
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"The Democrats are playing a high level CON GAME in their vicious effort to destroy a fine person," Trump tweeted just before 11 p.m.
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He devised the phrase "con game," which is now being repeated by conservative allies in hopes of rallying Trump's base behind another partisan fight.
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The bigger question is: Why is wine so regularly singled out in the United States to be assailed as something of a con game?
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For years, Mr. Kelley has been engaged in an elaborate country-musical con game; finally, here, he's telling Nashville just what he thinks about it.
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On Tuesday, President Donald Trump showered Kavanaugh with praise before world leaders, and said Ramirez's allegations were part of a "con game" engineered by the Democratic Party.
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Trump has stood by his comments, adding that the "so-called" vote on the resolution is a "Democrat con game," urging Republicans to vote against the measure.
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" They are left with Trump, who outlined the game plan for sexual predation, saying women who remember atrocities from the past are part of a "con game.
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As against Trump's stark claims of a "con game," Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski, a Republican who is seen as a swing vote in the confirmation, has warned against prejudging accusers.
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What the ordinary person might interpret as a con game or sheer lunacy, the heavily credentialed investor, with his TED Talk understanding of things, will reliably regard as brilliant eccentricity.
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Yet while this Hulu limited series captures the unsettling con game played by the mother, be forewarned that replicating these events can be as off-putting as the actual characters.
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The idea is that you slide each of the two Joy-Con game pads into a holder, called the Joy-Con Grip, and it becomes a more traditional game pad.
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Until now, the Republican strategy has been to defend Judge Kavanaugh and accuse Democrats of a "con game," as Mr. Trump has put it, for exploiting Dr. Blasey for partisan gain.
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As the novel goes on, Mahmoud finds himself becoming more and more like Saidi, failing up in an increasingly precarious con game of ambition, losing his sense of self and integrity along the way.
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In other words, Ryan has been playing a con game in which he uses magic asterisks to mask a reverse Robin Hood agenda — take from the poor, give to the rich — as deficit hawkery.
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After addressing the United Nations assembly, the president strongly defended his Supreme Court nominee as "high quality" and claimed the accusations against Kavanaugh of sexual assault are part of a "con game" played by Democrats.
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The signal moment came when, having already characterized Mexican immigrants as criminals and rapists, he declared an American-born judge of Mexican descent unfit to preside over a lawsuit against the con game known as Trump University.
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A con game that has received attention from the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee is the " sue and settle " maneuver that EPA has frequently used to advance a radical environmental agenda that gets around the need for legislation and agency rulemaking to make policy.
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The president's advisers and his Republican allies in the Senate have implored him to restrain himself in the fight to salvage Judge Kavanaugh's nomination, and for the most part, he has kept to defending the nominee and accusing Democrats of a "con game" while not overtly disparaging Dr. Blasey.
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UNITED NATIONS — President Trump accused Democrats on Tuesday of orchestrating "a con game" against Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh in hopes of stopping his confirmation to the Supreme Court and said that one of two women who have accused him of sexual misconduct as a student was "all messed up" and "drunk" at the time.
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There's the suicidal town chief of police, Kevin Garvey (Justin Theroux); Nora, now his long-term girlfriend; Kevin's ex-wife, Laurie (Amy Brenneman), who, with her new husband, John (Kevin Carroll), runs a con game to comfort mourners; and the preacher Matt (Christopher Eccleston), who is writing a new New Testament, with Kevin in the lead role.
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I told Brown that I felt like one of the unwitting participants in his TV specials, who are often put through bewildering, elaborately constructed scenarios—part social-science experiment, part con game—designed to make them do things they ordinarily wouldn't, whether good (take a bullet for another person) or bad (push a man off a roof).
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpPence: Intelligence shows Iran directing militias not to attack U.S. targets Mnuchin aims to wait until end of 2020 to disclose Secret Service costs for Trump's travel: report Pressure building on Pelosi over articles of impeachment MORE on Monday demanded that his impeachment trial end quickly in the Senate, accusing House Democrats of a "con game" to help their chances during the 2020 election contest.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE on Tuesday accused Democrats of playing a "con game" on his Supreme Court nominee, saying Ramirez was "totally inebriated" at the time of the alleged incident.
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Brantley, Ben. "Not to Worry, Mr. Lincoln, It's > Just A Con Game." The New York Times, April 8, 2002. The play won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
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"'Bajour' Misses, But Marks Makes Mark"Billboard (books.google.com), December 5, 1964, p. 20 The title is allegedly a Romani word for a con game in which lonely and unhappy women are swindled out of their life savings.Gans, Andrew.
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Seeking The Gold, a bay colt, was bred in Kentucky by Ogden Phipps, who also owned him. One of numerous top class runners sired by Mr. Prospector, Seeking The Gold was out of the Buckpasser mare Con Game, who also produced Remsen Stakes winner Fast Play and the Jamaica Handicap winner Stacked Pack.
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Yet > this philosophical theme is somewhat misleading as well, for Zaehner > intermittently interjects the ever-present and unwelcome possibility of > criminality and mayhem. Charles Manson on occasion appears as the > personification of the evil side of contemporary drug culture. His depraved > mystical con-game provides some unappetizing food for thought.See section > above "Popular and drug culture" re footnote about Manson's life.
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In 1933 he was described to the FBI as "a very dangerous man, a killer, and his best known line is the con game.... his favorite weapon being the knife."FBI File 62-28915, Part 04, pp. 88-9. Farmer served two years in Alcatraz for his participation in the conspiracy to free Jelly Nash. After his release he returned to Missouri.
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Buck Rankin (Jack Holt) is a shady carnival promoter. After meeting and quickly falling in love with Helen (Lila Lee), he decides to go straight and sell the carnival. However, a fight over a con game causes a melee at the carnival, during which Rankin accidentally kills a man. He is convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to twenty years behind bars.
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Innocent victims play an important part of the game, with monsters protecting them, eating them, or both. HorrorClix demonstrations and special events were announced at the Origins game convention in Columbus, Ohio, and for the Gen Con game convention in Indianapolis, Indiana. Additionally, WizKids announced at the GAMA trade show in Las Vegas, Nevada that Cthulhu was the premiere figure for the launch of the game.
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They refer to him twice as Dr. Meyer and at the second, he says, "Just Meyer, please." In Pale Gray for Guilt, Meyer presents a business card giving his name as "G. Ludweg Meyer", and a letter of introduction beginning "My Dear Ludweg". Whether these are his real names or not is obscured by both items being instruments in an elaborate financial con game.
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Email fraud (or email scam) is intentional deception for either personal gain or to damage another individual by means of email. Almost as soon as email became widely used, it began to be used as a means to defraud people. Email fraud can take the form of a "con game", or scam. Confidence tricks tend to exploit the inherent greed and dishonesty of its victims.
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Following her marriage in 1897, Chadwick began her largest, most successful con game: that of establishing herself as Andrew Carnegie's daughter. During a visit to New York City, she asked one of her husband's acquaintances, a lawyer named Dillon, to take her to Carnegie's home. In reality, Chadwick visited Carnegie's housekeeper while ostensibly trying to check credentials. When Chadwick came back, she dropped a paper.
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While there, Cookie and Breezy become very popular. "General" Courtney (Herbert Corthell), who is also staying at the hotel, poses as a general with much fortune. He plots with "Sniffy" Higgins (Val Stanton), who poses as his valet, to entice Breezy into a con game to steal the Duke fortune. Courtney hires a woman named Maureen (Veda Ann Borg) to pretend to be his daughter.
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Monk dismisses it, given he knows Swift's con game. A later conversation that evening with Lance Vaughan and Roxanne Shaw seems to convince Monk that they may have been behind Helen's death. Things get worse for Monk and Natalie when, the night they move into the bungalow, their car is stolen from outside in the lot. They file a police report and get a new rental car from a different agency.
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Once Susy is alone, the criminals begin an elaborate con game, posing as different people to win Susy's trust. Implying that Lisa has been murdered and Sam will be suspected, the men persuade Susy to help them find the doll. Mike gives her the number for the phone booth across the street as his own after falsely warning her of a police car outside. Susy grows suspicious of Carlino and Roat.
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True Realm is a gaming convention showcasing the True Dungeon event which has been held previously and in conjunction with Gen Con game convention (from 2003 to present). True Realm is a unique event in the gaming world. Open on only two days a year (April 3–4, 2009), the event is an indoor, 40,000 sq. ft. “theme park” for gamer geeks who want to immerse themselves in a world of medieval fantasy gaming.
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Some of his works as a game designer include Ruins of Adventure, The Complete Psionics Handbook, the 3rd edition version of Monster Manual II, and Lords of Madness. Winter co-wrote the Dragonlance novel Wanderlust with Mary Kirchoff. Winter ran annual miniatures events at the Gen Con game convention, including the Car Wars “Lake Geneva Death Rally” series. Winter wrote "The Art of Three-Dimensional Gaming" booklet for the Battlesystem Fantasy Combat Supplement.
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Reed C. Waddell (c. 1860 – March 27, 1895) was an American swindler, confidence man and underworld figure in New York during the mid- to late 19th century. He was one of the most successful men of his trade making nearly a quarter of a million dollars using his "gold brick" swindle, a con game which he invented and introduced to New York in 1880,Schlesinger, Arthur Meier. The Rise of the City, 1878-1898.
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Psychic surgery is a con game in which the trickster uses sleight of hand to apparently remove malignant growths from the mark's body. A common form of medical fraud in underdeveloped countries, it imperils victims who may fail to seek competent medical attention. The movie Man on the Moon depicts comedian Andy Kaufman undergoing psychic surgery. It can also be seen in an episode of Jonathan Creek and the movie Penn and Teller Get Killed.
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Legends of Norrath was an online digital collectible card game by Sony Online Entertainment. Legends of Norrath is based on the massively multiplayer online role-playing games EverQuest and EverQuest II. Legends Of Norrath was playable from within either of the two games, or via a stand-alone client. Legends of Norrath was announced at the 2007 Sony Online Entertaintment fan faire by (CEO) John Smedley. It was also previewed at the August 2007 Gen Con Game Fair.
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The National Police Gazette coined the term "confidence game" a few weeks after Houston first used the name "confidence man". A confidence trick is also known as a con game, a con, a scam, a grift, a hustle, a bunko (or bunco), a swindle, a flimflam, a gaffle, or a bamboozle. The intended victims are known as marks, suckers, stooges, mugs, rubes, or gulls (from the word gullible). When accomplices are employed, they are known as shills.
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Antunes's notable works include Miskatonic University, a supplement for Call of Cthulhu; Rules to Live By (a LARP rule book); Priceless, published by Rogue Publishing; and the Origins Award-nominated A Faery's Tale.Origins Award Nominees 2006 He was chief editor on the Origins Award-nominated Metagame Magazine for its mass market run, 1997-1999. He was executive director of the GPA for 2000 and 2002. Antunes and Mike Young ran the Cthulhu Live demos at the 1996 Gen Con game convention.
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The Caverns of Thracia was written by Jennell Jaquays, and was published by Judges Guild in 1979 as an 80-page book. Clark Peterson of Necromancer Games ran an adventure "Return to the Caverns of Thracia" based on the old adventure, as a tournament at the 2002 Gen Con Game Fair, and Necromancer put out a revised Caverns of Thracia in 2004, updated for 3.5 edition, but that was the last of their licensed publications before their license with Judges Guild lapsed.
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TSR's first hardcover novel, Legacy by R. A. Salvatore, was published that year, and climbed to the top of the New York Times bestseller list within weeks. In 1992, the Gen Con Game Fair broke all previous attendance records for any U.S gaming convention, with more than 18,000 people. In 1993, the DragonStrike Entertainment product was released as a new approach to recruiting new players, including a 30-minute video which explained the concepts of role- playing. 1994 saw the release of the Planescape campaign setting.
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Harris, Michael. Con Game: The Truth about Canada's Prisons, 2003. p. 133 Homolka sued the government after her transfer to a Montreal halfway house was denied."Homolka sues Ottawa for violating her rights", National Post, November 3, 1999, Janice Tibbetts In Joliette, Homolka had a sexual affair with Lynda Véronneau, a transgender man who was serving time for a series of armed robberies and who reoffended so that he could be sent back to Joliette to be with Homolka, according to the Montreal Gazette.
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NASCRAG is the National Society of Crazed Gamers, Banner shows expansion of NASCRAG into NAtional Society of CRAzed Gamers. a group of game-masters, writers, and artists who have been presenting a series of multi-round role- playing tournaments at the Gen Con game convention since 1980. From 1980 through 2010 the tournaments were Dungeons and Dragons, since 2011 they have been for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game PFRPG. The NASCRAG tournament is one of the largest and the oldest This is the on-site program book.
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Only a few copies of the orange cover version survived, making it a very collectible item. Four years after the orange version was destroyed, a copy sold for $300 at the 1984 Gen Con game fair auction. Twenty-four years later, in 2008, a copy in VF/SW (very fine/slight warp) condition sold at auction for $3050, at the time the highest confirmed sale price for any single non-unique TSR D&D; module. One copy, signed by Jean Wells, sold for $5,860.
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It was in a previous GEN CON Game Fair that we had heard murmurs that the AD&D; tournament needed some work. We hadn't realized until then how much the tournament could be, should be, a showcase event. The players who came to Wisconsin deserved a deliberately crafted experience, something that could show TSR and AD&D; in the best possible way." Harold Johnson writes: "Our goal was to provide a model for a new type of adventure that encouraged DMs to use strategy to challenge the players to think.
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Her support of troops personifies the "unstained patriotic American womanhood our boys are fighting for". She wrote that Miss America is a walking commercial for the pageant's sponsors, making her a primary part of "The Consumer Con-Game". It deplored the win-or-you're-worthless competitive disease, which it described as "Competition Rigged and Unrigged". The authors criticized "The Woman as Pop Culture Obsolescent Theme", which they described as the promotion of women who are young, juicy, and malleable, but upon the selection of a new winner each year, are discarded.
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Careless, exposed and disgraced, states that he will marry Phebe and sell tobacco for a living – but Lady Thrivewell has other ideas: she and other friends provide a dowry on which Phebe and Wat can marry and establish themselves. Lord Lovely promises to reform; Alicia Saleware is sent back to her husband to make something of her marriage, if she can. With all his other plots exposed, Careless admits that the robbery from which he once rescued Sir Anthony was a con-game, a trick arranged to earn the knight's gratitude. Yet despite all of his faults, Careless still attracts Mrs.
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Joe David Brown (12 May 1915 – 22 April 1976) was an American novelist and journalist from Birmingham, Alabama. He drew memorably from his own life to compose his fiction: his grandfather's role as a minister, his own knowledge of confidence games from his work as a reporter, his World War II experiences, and his residence on journalistic assignment in India. He is particularly remembered for the title character of his novel Addie Pray, the young "Mistress of the Con Game" during the Great Depression in the Deep South; an adaptation of the story later became the film Paper Moon.
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Blume met Gary Gygax at the Gen Con game convention in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Gygax and his friend Don Kaye had recently formed Tactical Studies Rules in Lake Geneva in order to publish a new type of game that Gygax and Dave Arneson had developed, Dungeons & Dragons. Gygax and Kaye had each invested $1,000 into the venture but still did not have enough money to print the game. In December 1973, Blume offered to become an equal partner in the company for an investment of $2,000. Using Blume's money, the three partners printed a thousand copies of the new game and sold their first copy in January 1974.
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The Sting II was referenced in "The Great Money Caper", a 2000 episode of The Simpsons, in which Abe Simpson suggests that a scam will work because it was featured in The Sting II, "so nobody knows about it", implying that no one has seen the film. The film was also referenced in "Car Periscope", the eighth episode of season eight of the HBO comedy television series Curb Your Enthusiasm (2011), when characters Larry David and Jeff Greene are weighing up an investment opportunity: :Larry: ...It's a great idea, but really, who is this guy? Why should we trust him? This could be a big, elaborate con game for all we know... You know, look at The Sting.
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At the height of TSR's market dominance, the perceived sexuality of Laura Roslof's "The Illusion of the Decapus" resulted in the almost complete destruction of an entire TSR D&D; adventure, making it a very collectible item. At the 1984 Gen Con game fair auction, a copy sold for $300. Twenty-four years later, in 2008, a copy in VF/SW (very fine/slight warp) condition sold at auction for $3050, at the time the highest confirmed sale price for any single non-unique TSR D&D; module. In 2011, a few copies were still available from out-of-print resellers; in shrink-wrapped, near mint condition these were priced at $1300–$1500.
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The tie-in with the Complete Psionics Handbook proved more successful—all characters and creatures were psionic to a greater or lesser degree—but designers regretted the extra time involved in attaching these rules to practically every living thing in the campaign world. The Dark Sun game line ended abruptly in late 1996. When TSR released its product schedule in Dragon #236 (December 1996) no Dark Sun products were included. The final release was Psionic Artifacts of Athas (1996) though two books, Dregoth Ascending and Secrets of the Dead Lands were rumored to have been near completion to the point that early versions were reportedly given to some GMs at the 1997 Gen Con Game Fair before the line ended.
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Cortex Plus Action is used in both Leverage: The Roleplaying Game and the Firefly Role-Playing Game, and is the most traditional of the three. The important factors are an attribute (Leverage uses the six from the Cortex System, Firefly uses Physical/Mental/Social), and a Skill (the Leverage RPG uses Grifter, Hacker, Hitter, Mastermind, and Thief which are based on the TV show, while the Firefly RPG has a list of 22). Also in the dice pool can be a distinction, an asset, and a complication affecting the opposition. The Leverage RPG, as a heist or con game, allows characters to spend a plot point to establish flashback scenes to explain what is really going on and why things are not as bad as they appear.
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Hieronymous Bosch paints a scene of a Renaissance mountebank fleecing credulous gamblers. In usage, a subtle difference is drawn between the charlatan and other kinds of confidence tricksters. The charlatan is usually a salesperson of a certain service or product, who does not try to create a personal relationship with his "marks" (the persons to whom the service or product is sold), or set up an elaborate hoax or con game using roleplaying. Rather, the person called a charlatan is being accused of resorting to quackery, pseudoscience, or some knowingly employed bogus means of impressing people in order to swindle his victims by selling them worthless nostrums and similar goods or services that will not deliver on the promises made for them.
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The Saint decides to take him up on that offer and finds himself at the centre of a near-perfect con game. #The Perfect Crime: The Saint targets a crooked moneylender, but in order for his scheme to work, he has to go to jail first. #The Appalling Politician: Inspector Claud Eustace Teal recruits the Saint to help him solve a mystery involving stolen trade treaty documents. (Teal is referred to as Chief Inspector Teal in this story, suggesting a possible promotion since his previous appearance in "The Perfect Crime".) #The Unpopular Landlord: While looking for a new flat, Templar learns that a crooked landlord is making life miserable for little old ladies across London, and sets in motion a plan to ruin the man.
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Mentzer's other work included: IM-1 The Immortal Storm (1986), I-11 Needle (1987), and an adventure module for TSR's Star Frontiers game based on Arthur C. Clarke's novel 2001: A Space Odyssey. Because of his work with the Gen Con game auction, Mentzer had become interested in the game memorabilia market, and along with James Ward and Jean Black, wrote The Game Buyers' Price Guide 1986, which summarized current market prices for hobby games. Further annual editions were planned, but when Mentzer left TSR, the project was shelved. Mentzer expanded Gary Gygax's original Village of Hommlet into the long-awaited adventure module T1-4 The Temple of Elemental Evil (1985), the first of a new format of 96-page to 128-page squarebound paperback supplements, which provided more space for detailing settings and adventures.
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Michael Harris Live on CFRA Ottawa was cancelled February 9, 2012. He is now a columnist for the website iPolitics. His book 1986 book Justice Denied: The Law Versus Donald Marshall detailed the story of Donald Marshall, Jr.’s wrongful conviction in 1972. His investigative journalism culminating in the book Unholy Orders: Tragedy at Mount Cashel, triggered the Hughes Inquiry into the allegations of abuse at the Mount Cashel Orphanage. Harris also authored Rare Ambition: The Crosbies of Newfoundland, Con Game: The Truth About Canada’s Prisons and the national best seller Lament for an Ocean: The Collapse of the Atlantic Cod Fishery. Elizabeth May, the executive director of the Sierra Club of Canada called it "The definitive book on the cod catastrophe... After reading this book, you wouldn’t trust the Department of Fisheries and Oceans with your aquarium" (cited on back jacket cover).
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Called "the longest running con in FBI history," Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, the man that people knew as "Clark Rockefeller" (McCormack) had brilliantly impersonated numerous people, ranging from a talk show host to a Pentagon Advisor before ultimately claiming to be an heir to the famous Rockefeller family. Confident from the success of his prior scams, Clark quickly became well known and highly respected among Boston's elite and used his purported high society status to charm his way into the life of Sandra Boss (Stringfield), a millionaire with a Harvard MBA and a partner at the prestigious management consulting firm, McKinsey & Company. Following a whirlwind courtship, the two married and had a daughter, before their rocky 12-year union ended in divorce, leading Clark to abduct his beloved daughter after losing custody to Sandra. With the help of FBI agent Megan Norton (Taylor), Sandra's search for her daughter exposed Clark's lifelong con game for the world to see and ultimately raised questions about the real man and the deception he is capable of.
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Tropper denied this accusation, claiming the woman had in fact been breaking the Shabbat after her conversion, and that his role was confined to relaying this information to the appropriate authorities. EJF press release, 30 May 2008 In early December 2009, recordings circulated on the internet that contained conversations between Tropper and a woman whose conversion he had been supervising, encouraging the woman to engage in sexual activities with others; the two also discuss having sex with each other.Paul Berger, "Sex Tapes Rock the Orthodox", The Jewish Chronicle, 23 December 2009 Tropper released a statement through his attorney that admitted no wrongdoing and expressed regret for “what has appeared to be conduct not within our significant laws of modesty.”Allison Hoffman, Con Game, Tablet Magazine, 13 January 2010 On December 14, 2009, the EJF announced that Tropper had resigned two days earlier, that he had been replaced as chairman of the Rabbinic Committee by Rabbi Elya Ber Wachtfogel, that Rabbi Chaim Blum would be taking over as interim director, and that Rabbi Reuven Feinstein, the chairman of the Halachic Committee, would take a more active role in overseeing the organization's activities.
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Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler, Chapter 8 Sutton concluded that it was all part of the economic power elites' "long-range program of nurturing collectivism" and fostering "corporate socialism" in order to ensure "monopoly acquisition of wealth" because it "would fade away if it were exposed to the activity of a free market."Wall Street and FDR, Chapter 12. In his view, the only solution to prevent such abuse in the future was that "a majority of individuals declares or acts as if it wants nothing from government, declares it will look after its own welfare and interests" or, specifically, if "a majority finds the moral courage and the internal fortitude to reject the something-for-nothing con game and replace it by voluntary associations, voluntary communes, or local rule and decentralized societies." In the early 1980s, Sutton used a combination of public-domain information on Skull and Bones (such as Yale yearbooks) and previously unreleased documents sent to him by Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt whose father was a Skull and Bones member to write America's Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull and Bones, which, according to Sutton, was his most important work.
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