It says our dogs are conning us into spoiling them.
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At the base of the antenna is the conning tower.
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Targeting used a nine-foot-wide retractable rangefinder behind the conning tower.
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In a film, creating Gary would entail animating a gull conning another character.
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"I think it's psychologically very important," said Don Townswick, director of equities at Conning.
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The phony televangelist conning people for donations that pay for private jets and mansions?
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Kellyanne Conway will have a hard time conning her way out of this one.
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Someone impersonating high-profile leaders in the entertainment industry is conning people seeking work.
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Someone impersonating high-profile leaders in the entertainment industry is conning people seeking work.
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Wordplay VARIETY PUZZLE — It was CONNING TOWER that held me up for the longest time.
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Now, Ahmed suggests, Oak is doing the conning, and he says the stakes are even higher.
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Anyone who says otherwise, he added in his bleak convention speech last month, is conning them.
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It portrayed Mr. Jonas's character conning his way into the bed of his straight best friend.
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It allowed us to believe in our subterranean dissent, but who was conning whom, at bottom?
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The question is why, as well as how, this year's "progressive" political predators are conning them.
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They accused those above them of conning them into buying products they could not realistically sell.
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Dogs, Reed argues, are "parasites" conning humans into feeding and caring for them with their adorable antics.
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He confessed to conning billions of dollars from thousands of his clients over the span of decades.
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The sess sellers were probably conning you, because sinsemilla is a high-grade form of the drug.
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He said Mr. Schiff was "conning this whole country" when he got in front of a microphone.
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Don Townswick, the Director of Equities at Conning, said he's looking past the Fed in the coming week.
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But I'm not big on ret-conning things, so I wanted to build on what was already established.
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The prosecution said that the defendants were professionals who had been conning elderly Chinese women around the globe.
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"I was on stage, looking at the conning tower between set-ups, and I called Chris," he said.
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Internet scammers arrived with the dial-up modem years ago, conning people in chat rooms and email inboxes.
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Rich Sega, global chief investment strategist for Conning, worries that Europe could be a drag on global growth.
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The groom, 235, is a vice president in the credit research group at Conning Asset Management in Hartford.
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The groom, 34, is a vice president in the credit research group at Conning Asset Management in Hartford.
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" Rather, it appears to be an attack in the spirit of conning a con man, as in "The Sting.
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Don Townswick, director of equities at Conning, said he agrees that 20,000 could be next up for the Dow.
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The helmsman is a sailor who controls the direction of the ship based on orders from the conning officer.
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The plot soon becomes a game of Olympic-level mental gymnastics where you're trying to decide who's conning whom.
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The typical informant doesn't try his hand, let alone succeed, at conning his way into Pentagon public-relations programs.
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It also sets up for another strong year in 2020, said Rich Sega, global chief investment strategist at Conning.
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Underaged and without a high school diploma, she first tried to work things out the Gallagher way: stealing and conning.
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"It's something that we would consider," said Joe Mayo, managing director and head of investment research at asset manager Conning.
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In its last report in October, Conning had lowered its outlook on the state sector because revenues had fallen slightly.
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The sub was startlingly intact, the only noticeable blemishes being a hole in one conning tower and an apparently broken window.
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Overall, the argument that Trump is conning political conservatives arises from three sources: his donations, his reversals, and his apparent flexibility.
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It was then that he turned his conning skill to good and began a 40-year career as a security consultant.
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And no one ever does that, because they're all too scared of losing their conning tower moment in the historical process.
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Moonee is a charming nightmare, spitting, swearing, and conning her way through a world with too much freedom and not enough money.
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Kaitlyn: I'm still on Spotify, despite conning my way into more than my fair share of Apple Music and Tidal free trials.
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"These actions will require states to either raise taxes, spend more to maintain existing programs, or reduce services," the Conning report said.
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"I think confidence of all kinds has an out-sized impact right now," said Don Townswick, director of equities strategy at Conning.
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Richard L. Sega is chief investment officer at Conning, a global investment management firm with nearly $109 billion in assets under management.
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A shared system of reality emerges between their conning of the Parks and the callous way Ramona treats stockbroker marks in Hustlers.
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Or was he a gullible, perhaps criminal accomplice to patients who were conning him to feed an addiction or resell their prescriptions?
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He was trying to act smart, conning the shop owner he worked with to hook tourists, but I felt sorry for his situation.
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Don Townswick, director of equities strategy at Conning, said there could be a big reaction depending on what the former FBI director says.
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The bow sustained most damage, but the hatches are still in the closed position, the conning tower is intact, and the periscopes are visible.
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It suggested more power than the drunk uncle, and a bigger audience, plus a sense that he was conning people out of their money.
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Billy McFarland, the low-rent scam artist responsible for the festival disaster heard 'round the internet, is back in trouble for conning people again.
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ET. "This is an environment where you really have to look at the growth number." said Don Tonwswick, director of equity strategy at Conning.
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Publishers, if you want to stay in business, stop conning your readers out of money, and instead embrace the advantages of e-book technologies.
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The Conning Tower was a springboard to fame for Dorothy Parker and served as an outlet for other members of the Algonquin Round Table.
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With a nod to the Conning Tower's literary tradition, Mr. Buckley included an item involving Saul Bellow and Dwight Macdonald in his first column.
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There's one huge case that I can't talk about too much, where people were actually pretending to be coppers and conning money off others.
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He says he and several other acquaintances chose young and nubile female bodies with the intention of conning "Sugar Daddies" out of their money.
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Austen too tried to understand and take some control of the market for her fiction — conning sales figures, aggregating reader opinions and pushing for reissues.
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In "Spider," Georgia and Martin assume Will was silenced by Azikiwe and Judith once he figured out their government-conning plot and threatened to expose them.
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I wanted there to be the way she dressed when she was conning men which was very nipped waist, push-up bra, big hair, high heels.
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"Still can't believe that after conning guests out of thousands and investors out of millions, Ja Rule decided to name is comeback venture 'ICONN' " added another.
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California, the largest debt issuer of any state, showed the most improvement, thanks to a 7 percent revenue increase in 2017 and healthy reserves, Conning said.
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The Trumps allegedly made millions of dollars conning victims that "were then and now among the most economically marginalized and vulnerable Americans," according to the complaint.
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Others also accused Qiao Biluo of "conning men for their money" and calling her "grandma" in comments left on the livestream, as shown by Lychee News.
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The 2012 GOP presidential nominee was a vocal critic of Trump's candidacy and blasted the businessman during a speech in March, accusing Trump of conning Americans.
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While Ashley Madison was once outed for conning users with female bots, via a probe by the Federal Trade Commission, its comeback includes a "no bots" promise.
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Revenues are largely trending below expenditures and U.S. gross domestic product, leading to shrinking reserves for many governments, Conning said in its "State of the States" report.
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Credit manager CIFC announced last year it would be acquired by F.A.B. Partners and in 2015, insurance asset manager Conning announced it would purchase Octagon Credit Investors.
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"There could be a short-term psychological problem with the market once it hits the all-time high," said Don Townswick, director of equities strategies at Conning.
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"States with high income and property taxes risk losing even more higher-income residents to lower-taxed states," said Paul Mansour, head of municipal credit research at Conning.
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"States have done a good job at holding off from issuing debt unless there is a revenue source behind it, displaying good governance and fiscal discipline," Conning said.
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In May of last year, Ifty Ahmed was accused by federal regulators of conning his former employer — the venture capital firm, Oak Investment Partners — out of $28 million.
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One show, currently unnamed, will be based on a New York Magazine article about a woman made famous for conning New York socialites into funding her lavish lifestyle.
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For example, there have been numerous incidents reported on Snapchat of child predators conning minors into sending them nude photos of themselves, through an encrypted, ephemeral chat system.
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The only other option is that they know Trump's pledges to "fix" the tax bill are insincere and they are conning their constituents and the rest of America.
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You can watch it live right here starting at 11:30 am ET/8:30 am PT. The conning tower of the mini submarine sunk by the USS Ward.
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All in all, no — these five sites definitely aren't conning you in order to steal your credit card information and leave you with nothing but a phony order confirmation.
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The U.S. dollar has gained strength in recent weeks, but that may change in the second half of the year, according to a portfolio manager from Conning Asia Pacific.
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Bowman remembers floating the idea of a film by series creator Chris Carter during a particularly ambitious shoot involving a submarine conning tower poking out of an ice cap.
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The report for that day said that a Nakajima B214N carrier-based bomber had dropped a 224-pound bomb on a surfaced submarine, striking just aft of the conning tower.
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The World War I-era patrol boat was ripped by a blast, and several survivors reported seeing a submarine conning tower featuring a painted red horse on a yellow shield.
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At the beginning of Tyler's Liberty homecoming, it seems possible he is conning the administration into believing he is "okay" simply as a way to re-enter the school and wreak havoc.
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"There are a lot of macro events in flux, including moving from quantitative easing to quantitative tightening," said Matt Daly, head of credit research/investment research at global investment management firm Conning.
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The leader of the second-biggest investor-fraud case in US history, Allen Stanford is notorious for his shady business dealings and for conning more than 18,000 customers out of their money.
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So there are limits to how much a President Warren could do with executive orders if Congress is split, said Matt Daly, a managing director and head of corporate credit research at Conning.
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As previous Motherboard investigations have detailed, SIM hijacking (or SIM swapping) involves a hacker bribing or conning a wireless carrier employee to port out a user's phone number right out from under them.
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State revenue growth has reversed around the country, dragging down the credit quality of U.S. states even as the national economy continues expanding, the global investment management firm Conning Inc said last week.
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Novartis, meanwhile, admitted realizing Cohen was essentially conning them after just one meeting, but ended up paying out a 12-month, $1.2 million contract anyway, reportedly because they were afraid to anger Trump.
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Humans are seriously good at ret-conning stuff and finding patterns in things when confronted with events too big to deal with at the time, and that fascinates us a lot I think.
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At one point in a recent VICE film—that one about conning TripAdvisor—host Oobah Butler is speaking into a burner phone, pretending to work at a coveted (but actually non-existent) restaurant.
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To put it bluntly, anyone who releases a medical database today without obtaining individuals' consent for the use of their health records, with the excuse that the information is anonymous, is conning us.
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"Tech companies can either sit back and wait to see if Amazon messes up in health care or they can get involved now," said Don Townswick, director of equities portfolio management at Conning.
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Kim has already done much of the setup on her own and seems intoxicated not just by the booze, but by the prospect of conning and being someone else for a few moments.
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Dillon's comics may have frequently drawn attention for their outsized subject matter (ultraviolent vigilantes, foul-mouthed crews of wayfarers, demon-conning chain-smokers), but his gift for expression helped ground his stories in humanity.
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Now, Sandra Bullock is stepping up to play his sister in an intimidating girl gang that exclusively sports sunglasses and badass coats in addition to what we assume are excellent sleuthing and conning skills.
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Mr. Trump has faced an onslaught of attacks in recent weeks from Mr. Rubio and leaders in the Republican Party, such as Mitt Romney, who have accused him of conning conservatives into supporting him.
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The premiere suggested these two must have one hell of an open relationship, and that they're both fine with that; it's how they work so well together conning millions form marks around the globe.
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But more than that, conservatives worry that Trump is secretly a liberal who's deliberately conning his supporters into voting for him, only to inevitably sell them out on immigration or the sanctity of marriage.
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The thing wound up raising more than $400,000, but now Bobbitt is back on the streets—and as he tells it, the woman he helped is conning him out of $200,000 from the fundraiser.
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The roots of this modern conservative approach can be seen as early as Buckley's 1961 comments about Harvard — the idea that liberal elites are conning you, that they're less competent than an ordinary person.
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Since ret-conning plot is kind of Fantastic Beasts' ~thing~ now, why not reveal that this ship was the Titanic, lie about the year it sank, and put a bunch of other characters on it?
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Kiarostami found major international acclaim with 1990's "Close-Up," which tells the real-life story of a man who impersonated filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf, conning people into believing they will star in his new film.
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"If you are a huckster or a shyster, this is a great place to pull off the jiujitsu of conning people who think they can con dumb foreigners into coughing up their money," Farzad explained.
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New York (CNN)A Manhattan resident on Wednesday pleaded guilty to conning several investors into giving him money intended to fund the production of a fake Broadway play, according to Manhattan district attorney spokesman Justin Henry.
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As opposed to encouraging a world in which everyone is suckered into reading something with a headline optimized by a social media strategist armed with nothing more than "best practices" for conning you into a click.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The credit quality of U.S. states is declining because of political uncertainty out of Washington and expenses that have outpaced inflation, according to a report on Tuesday from global investment management firm Conning Inc.
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An unreadable pennant number is visible on the side of the submarine's superstructure, known as the conning tower, the note said, adding that pennant numbers are typically assigned to a submarine after it's been accepted into naval service.
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That arc is, "Marius gets too close to the family he's conning," a story you've heard before, but Ribisi sells both Marius's guilt and his inability to resist the allure of a really great con in equal measure.
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Long before its second life as an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, this tale of a shlumpy guitar player conning his way into a substitute-teacher job made Jack Black a household name for a generation of young viewers.
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Anna Sorokin, the Russian immigrant convicted this year of conning New York society into thinking she was a German heiress named Anna Delvey, defrauded hotels and banks of hundreds of thousands of dollars by pretending to be rich.
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Rich Sega, global chief investment strategist at Conning, thinks investors should consider US companies with more domestic exposure in light of concerns about China's slowing economy (partly due to the trade war) as well as worries about Europe.
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When he and A. M. Rosenthal reinvented The New York Times in the mid-1970s, Mr. Gelb modeled a new feature on a newspaper column he had loved as a young man: the Conning Tower, by Franklin P. Adams.
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But dollar strength is likely to last only "a fairly finite period of time" as the eurozone and Japan catch up in the second half of 2018, Marc Franklin, a senior portfolio manager at Conning Asia Pacific, said on Wednesday.
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As soon as the name left my mouth, I tensed up as if I'd been caught in a lie, as if I were one more in a long line of men travelling to new cities, conning strangers with false names.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Slow revenue growth and challenges from the recent U.S. tax reform are hurting many U.S. states' credit quality, said global investment management firm Conning on Tuesday as it issued a negative outlook for the sector for the rest of 2018.
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In New York, Dina Wein Reis, profiled in this week's episode of CNBC's "American Greed," built a multimillion dollar business by conning manufacturers into selling her their products at cost on the promise that she would distribute them to boost the brand.
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As commander-in-chief, he has also at times donned military uniform himself and been filmed at the controls of a strategic bomber and on the conning tower of a submarine in photo opportunities designed to boost his man of action image.
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"The effect is going to be focused on small-caps but there's an echo of that in large caps," said Don Townswick, Director of Equity Strategy at Conning in Hartford, Connecticut, who noted that most rebalance-related trading is around the close.
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Ms. Peters seems most truly herself not in charm numbers like "I Put My Hand In" but in spoken or sung soliloquies like "Before the Parade Passes By." In such moments Dolly, the old meddler, isn't conning anyone; she's being honest with herself.
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In this view, the Kim family are literal, uh, parasites, conning and feeding off the success of the more moral and civic-minded Parks, and destroying the lives of innocent people like Mr. Park's driver or the housekeeper Moon-gwang in the process.
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A federal lawsuit filed Monday accused President Donald Trump, three of his children and their company of "deliberately" defrauding and conning "thousands" of working-class Americans by touting a marketing company as a great investment opportunity when in reality it was anything but that.
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The periscopes in the conning tower would offer views of the concrete plant across the Hackensack River, which cuts through suburban New Jersey just west of New York City roughly parallel to the Hudson River and drains into Newark Bay leading to New York Harbor.
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In July, the CFPB issued a rule prohibiting rip-off clauses — perhaps the single most important tool that big banks and financial companies have used to escape accountability for cheating, conning, fleecing, defrauding and plundering consumers — in the fine print of consumer financial contracts.
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At the center of Social Creature is the co-dependent relationship between striving and anxious Louise, conning her way to the center of the New York literati scene, and narcissistic Lavinia, who pulls Louise into her world and then slowly drains the life out of her.
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And we think that persists for a little while longer, but as you start to go into the second half of this year, euro zone inflation ... starts to tick up, as does Japanese inflation," Marc Franklin, senior portfolio manager at Conning Asia Pacific, told CNBC's "Capital Connection.
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The Liverpudlian was clearly perturbed at Haye picking Flores to be the victor at Liverpool's Echo Arena that night, while he also claimed the Londoner was "conning the public" since making his comeback—citing the poor standard of Haye's first two opponents since returning from his three-year hiatus.
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Like The Host and Snowpiercer before it, Parasite is a movie with meaning; on the surface, it's a darkly comedic grifting film about the Kims, a poor but entrepreneurial-minded family conning their way into a series of well-paying jobs with the wealthy but oblivious Park family.
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John RatcliffeJohn Lee RatcliffeGOP searches for impeachment boogeyman Democrats claim new momentum from intelligence watchdog testimony Hillicon Valley: Senate passes bill to boost cyber help for agencies, businesses | Watchdog warns Energy Department failing to protect grid | FTC sues Match for allegedly conning users MORE (R-Texas), a member of the panel.
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"The likely M&A catalyst in investment grade would be policy certainty — lower corporate tax rates, repatriation etc — coupled with a continuation of the current environment of slow revenue growth, high equity markets, low volatility and low interest rates," said Matthew Daly, head of credit research at investment management firm Conning.
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And as Motherboard's Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai has extensively documented, carriers also haven't shown themselves capable of thwarting (or even fully addressing) SIM hijacking, a practice involving bribing or conning mobile carrier employees to port out out a user's phone to unauthorized devices, opening the door to identity fraud and even cryptocurrency theft.
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AWARD FOR CONNING THE TECHNICALLY INEPT To Craig Wright, for briefly half-convincing people who should have known better that he is "Satoshi Nakamoti," Bitcoin's creator (he isn't) and provoking this incredibly long, incredibly credulous, incredibly cringeworthy London Review Of Books piece by someone who's clearly never written a line of code in his life.
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FROM the young hawker offering to sell motorists a toilet seat as he snakes through the never-ending jam that is normal traffic in Lagos, to the legions of scammers who make their living writing thousands of e-mails in the hopes of conning a few people out of some cash, Nigerians cannot be said to lack optimism.
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In a larger case, a US couple, Erin Finan and Leah Jeanette Finan, pleaded guilty in 2017 to charges of mail fraud and money laundering after conning the e-commerce giant out of $1.2 million worth of consumer electronics, according to CNBC and a press release from the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Indiana said.
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"I think that the first 23 days is showing me one thing, and that's that this guy, the current chief executive, he doesn't like to give up, so when the alternative to Obamacare was defeated, he didn't agree with congressional leaders that it was done for this year," said Don Townswick, director of equities strategy at investment management firm Conning.
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John RatcliffeJohn Lee RatcliffeHillicon Valley: Senate passes bill to boost cyber help for agencies, businesses | Watchdog warns Energy Department failing to protect grid | FTC sues Match for allegedly conning users Senate approves bill to boost cyber assistance for federal agencies, private sector Schiff: Trump's Ukraine call 'a classic mafia-like shakedown' MORE (R-Texas), a member of the Intelligence panel.
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