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The reticence is said to stem from a rash or burglaries in which conmen have posed as inspectors.

It was an ugly, vicious sound, generally reserved for led-off-in-cuffs Wall Street execs and political conmen ousted from office.

Ever since Newfoundland and Labrador joined Canada in 1949, conmen and credulous politicians have promoted misguided projects to reduce its dependence on natural resources.

Like a group of conmen succeeding in a heist — like Ocean's Eleven with greater consequences — we root from them despite the catalysts for their actions.

Photos by Louisa Hamby In a grimy basement off the Bowery in the late 70s, literary madman Jonathan Shaw, son of legendary jazz artist Artie Shaw and starlet Doris Dowling, was high off speedballs, tatting bikers and conmen.

Its team of reporters covered everything from conmen in the district of Plumstead, fleecing the elderly out of their jewelry to the time some kids in my high school were caught on film tagging up the 472 bus.

Trump is one of the greatest conmen in American history, channeling the anxiety, alienation, and resentment of white, rural America into a victory over one of the worst political campaigns ever run in the history of the republic.

A crowd is a gullible thing, and no shortage of conmen have taken advantage of Bitcoin's supposed journey "to the moon" to bilk unsophisticated people out of actual money in exchange for digital securities they aren't required to repay.

If the conmen in the Valley can convince you that they are a new and exceptional kind of evil, you will spend time thinking up new and exceptional ways to fight back, intimidated and a little bit in awe of their bravado.

A century apart, both fall prey to the psychopaths, the fascists and the conmen who prey on the vulnerable and marginal, who teem in the brothels, doss-houses, clubs and forests of a fast-growing world city, all driven by a yearning for comfort, wealth and, above all, dignity.

As a child I marinated in doomsday prophecies like these, as my parents (and those of my poverty-stricken friends) gave ten percent of our yearly income to conmen like Bakker—about as much as I've spent on therapists attempting to treat the PTSD caused by spending 20 years waiting for the world to end.

But "Dynasties" does not seek to proselytize or to condemn the oil-executive heirs from Texas with receding hairlines, stretching slain bears out like Playboy centerfolds; the wheezing red-cheeked hoteliers; the dentists from Minnesota with fat foreheads; the cross-eyed sons of real estate conmen, kneeling behind the corpses of heavy, slow animals they courageously ambushed with all-terrain vehicles and high-powered rifles.

Other than a slowing of the earth's rotation is causing earthquakes and A.I. collective-conscious technology is attempting to replace God, I suppose I learned that things which seem confusing and irrational to you when you're a child sometimes only appear more so as an adult—and when that happens, you should give yourself permission to declare them what they are: the tools of cheap conmen desperate to get their sweaty hands in your pocket.

Works from a parallel series, A History of Futuristic Hallucinations (2016), done in a more classic conceptualist style and rich in graphics and dialogues, gives connectors between "The Patriots of the Earth" (2016) and the exhibition Miracles in a Swamp: A number of characters from the past (saints, politicians, conmen, prostitutes, generals, kings) are entering the hallucination of their distant resurrection in the Cosmist future, and inhabiting temporalities that are impossible for us to imagine in our current historical condition.

This adds to the credibility of the story and the victim may even contact the website directly to buy the fluid, allowing the conmen yet another chance to con the victim. Alternatively the conmen may also refer the victim to a specific online advertisement for the chemical and black money.

The film revolves around two close friends who are part-time conmen. Circumstances force them to separate from each other and later realize to get back together again.

McCartney flew in specifically for the filming.Campbell, p. 69. The video cost $500,000 to produce. In the short film, the duo play "Mac and Jack", a pair of medicine show conmen who sell a "miracle potion".

A 1990 Michael Winner film Bullseye!, starring Michael Caine and Roger Moore, referenced the Fleischmann and Pons experiment. The film – a comedy – concerned conmen trying to steal scientists' purported findings. However, the film had a poor reception, described as "appallingly unfunny".

He rushes off to the scene and pleads the old lady to give Tom a second chance. When the police arrive, she tells them she made a prank call, which meant to give Tom another chance. Two days later, Mr. Yeo meets the conmen and gives them thousands of dollars of hell money; the conmen are then arrested by real police officers who have been waiting in ambush close by, and then Mr.Yeo heard the news of the big succeed with his company, which Tom and Mr.Yeo remain overjoyed. Later, the gangsters whom Chengcai bumped into earlier beat him up.

The story tells of two conmen from Boston who, having found a pot of gold, devise a plan to move to Africa to colonize Dahomey (present-day Benin) with a group of poor American blacks.History of The Musical Stage 1900-1910: Part III by John Kenrick (copyright 1996 & 2008). Having suffered bad luck, the conmen, Shylock Homestead (played by Bert Williams) and Rareback Punkerton (George Walker) are sent to Florida to con Cicero Lightfoot (Pete Hampton), the president of a colonization society. To his surprise, Punkerton learns that Homestead is rich, and arranges to become his trustee to gain access to Homestead's wealth.

Nevertheless, the government has invested heavily in generating early uptake by consumers. There have also been issues with conmen posing as Green Deal assessors. Trading standards officers have reported that cold callers are posing as Green Deal assessors while charging "administration fees".

Conman in Tokyo is a 2000 Hong Kong action comedy film directed by Ching Siu- tung and starring Louis Koo, Nick Cheung, Athena Chu and Christy Chung. The film is a sequel to the 1999 film The Conmen in Vegas in title only.

In 1616, Pocahontas and her retinue, who had come over from Virginia, were boarded at the Bell Savage. The yard at this time was said to be the "haunt of thieves and conmen....noisy, dangerous and evil- smelling".Grace Steele Woodward. Pocahontas (University of Oklahoma Press, 1969) p174-5.

The White River Kid (also titled White River and The Conmen)page 23 is a 1999 American comedy film directed by Arne Glimcher and starring Bob Hoskins, Antonio Banderas and Ellen Barkin. It is based on the novel The Little Brothers of St. Mortimer by John Fergus Ryan.

Mozzie (Willie Garson) is a close friend to Neal, and a fellow conman. He is characterized by his quirky qualities and generally mysterious nature. Mozzie first met Neal while they were independent conmen, as shown through flashbacks in "Forging Bonds" (2.11). The two set up a long con on a man named Vincent Adler, though the plan eventually failed.

His other aliases are alleged to include Marc Ros Rodriguez, George Kennedy and Zac Moss. In May 2017, he was reported to have been seen and photographed in a café in Switzerland with a man who could be wanted fugitive Costas Estevez.One of Britain's most wanted conmen spotted in Geneva. ITV News, 2 June 2017. Retrieved 15 September 2017.

Hari and Krishna's chikkappa (uncle) plots to murder them to amass their wealth with the help of the family lawyer and his friend, Diwan. However, Diwan and the lawyer manages to save them and replace two look-alike conmen in their place. Little does the lawyer know that Diwan has a secret plan to usurp the brothers' wealth.

Then the ghost of the woman appears and licks the blood. This is seen by the people, who were scared and ran away from the house for that night. Scared senseless, Raghava's mother and sister-in-law hire two priests to get rid of the ghost from their house. The priests, however, are conmen, and run away after seeing the real ghost.

However, Neal escaped from prison. This time, Peter easily caught him, finding him at the apartment he had shared with Kate. Over the first season, Peter warns Neal, on various occasions, not to investigate Kate's disappearance, as it could cause him to slip back into his criminal ways. The two catch various white collar criminals together, including thieves, murderers, and other conmen.

The team consists of two conmen doctors, Ken (Eric Tsang) and Yuen (Stanley Fung), a singer named Leslie Cheung (Liu Wai-hung), a dancer and martial artist named Bruce Hung (Chin Siu-ho), and two cops, Sherlock False (Dean Shek) and Monroe (Sandra Ng). The team are mentored by Jenny (Chingmy Yau), who teaches them about Hong Kong's society and geography.

Sharpham is believed to have been the 'E.S.' who in 1597 wrote The Discoverie of the Knights of the Poste, a pamphlet of the "conycatching" genre detailing the tricks of conmen active on the road between London and Exeter. He may also be the 'E.S.' who contributed a commendatory poem to the publication of Ben Jonson's Volpone (1607), although Jonson later described Sharpham as a "rogue".

Roy Kapoor (Abhishek Bachchan) is a conman, information that his girlfriend Simran 'Simi' Ahuja (Priyanka Chopra) is not privy to. On the day of their engagement, however, Roy's true character is exposed and Simi leaves him. Consequently, Roy starts drinking heavily. Five years in the future... Roy meets Aditya 'Dittu' Srivastav (Ritesh Deshmukh) and Jassi (Sanjay Mishra), amateur conmen who attempt to con him but are unable to do so.

The film then switches to the story of Chandu and his friends. They are small-time happy-go-lucky conmen with good hearts. They are also in league with a corrupt cop named CI Richard, who demands a cut in everything they do in return for keeping them out of the authorities' radar. Chandu's sister wants to become a doctor, and Chandu is arranging the money for her studies.

Conmen Charlie Tully and Reggie Peek have successfully conned a couple of Italian men, and are making an easy escape with £500,000. Flushed with success, Tully is unable to resist running a "quick and easy" minor con on a passing American tourist. But "quick and easy" unexpectedly goes awry, and Tully is arrested. While Tully is imprisoned, Peek manages to escape and deposit the £500,000 in a Swiss bank account.

Woodman presented two-part ITV series Hunting the Doorstep Conmen in 2013. In October, he presented Exposure: Britain's Booming Cannabis Business for ITV part of ITV's award-winning Exposure strand. In 2015, Woodman reported on three episodes of BBC1's flagship consumer affairs show Watchdog. In August 2016, it was announced that Woodman would host an eight-part series for Channel 4 and History Channel Canada entitled Hunting Nazi Treasure.

Murder at the Top (2001) Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma; Ernst Röhm; Bishop Juan Conendra Geradi. Murder by Decree (2001) Murder is sometimes used to silence people who threaten the system. Murder for Hire (2001) Hit-men are paid to kill. Murder for Profit (2001) Some kill to satisfy their greed. Murder in Cold Blood (2001) Some murderers kill for no apparent reason. Murder in High Office (2001) Anwar Sadat; Yitzhak Rabin. Murdered on Duty (2001) When a colleague dies in the line of duty, police officers work tirelessly to catch the killer. Murdering Conmen (2001) Conmen worm their way into victims' lives and kill them for their cash. New York Mafia Murders (2001) The struggle for mob leadership leads to an endless cycle of murder and blood feuds. Poisoned to Death (2001) Poisoners leave clear trails for police to follow. The Poisoners (2001) Doctors abuse their positions of trust to administer poison to their victims. Political Assassinations (2001) Politics can be a deadly business.

The Conmen in Vegas is a 1999 Hong Kong action comedy film produced, written and directed by Wong Jing and is a sequel to the 1998 film, The Conman. The film stars original returning cast members Andy Lau and Nick Cheung with new cast members Natalis Chan, Kelly Lin, Meggie Yu, Alex Man and Jewel Lee in her debut film role. The film was partially filmed in the Caesars Palace Resort, Las Vegas.

The Rogues is an American television series that appeared on NBC from September 13, 1964, to April 18, 1965, starring David Niven, Charles Boyer, and Gig Young as a related trio of former conmen who could, for the right price, be persuaded to trick a very wealthy and heinously unscrupulous mark. Although it won the 1964 Golden Globe award for Best Television Series, the show was cancelled after one season consisting of thirty episodes.

Whicher and Lund watched the two as they returned to the same bench every day for six weeks and watched the bank. Eventually, on 28 June 1851 they caught the two red-handed as they ran from the bank having robbed it. The Times criticised the police for allowing the crime to take place rather than preventing it. Whicher also pursued criminals who counterfeited coins, forged signatures on cheques and money orders, as well as pickpockets and conmen.

The series is about a con man who conned other conmen, then gave some of the money to the needy. Colonel Humphrey Flack starred prolific British actor Alan Mowbray as the Colonel, and Frank Jenks as his sidekick, Uthas P. ("Patsy") Garvey. The TV series was based on a popular series of short stories by Everett Rhodes Castle published in The Saturday Evening Post. The pilot for the series aired on May 31, 1953, on an episode of the ABC Album/Plymouth Playhouse.

The priests, however, are conmen, and escape with their lives. That night, the ghost possesses Malan, who begins acting increasingly effeminate, alienating himself from Shaini and wearing women's clothes and jewelry. His family angrily confronts him, when it is revealed that there are actually three ghosts who have possessed him: a violent woman, a Tamil Hindu Man named Ramu, and a learning disabled boy. With the possession, Malan kills a women by hanging and a thug Wasantha by engraving him with his van.

He was first elected to Dáil Éireann at the 1997 general election. He was re-elected, topping the poll, at the 2002 general election, and retained his seat at the 2007 general election. Before the 2002 general election, O'Flynn stated that "some asylum-seekers in Cork were spongers, freeloaders and conmen".Ghosts of Fianna Fáil past return to give Martin a fright ahead of ard fheis He was Chairman of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Communications Marine and Natural Resources from 2002–2007.

To force Kit to pay his debts, Kwok ordered his underlings to destroy his uncle's repair shop. Seeing his uncle's effort of many years being destroyed, Kit goes to his godfather for help, who promises to help him by asking Kit to search for his old partner, Chu Tung-san (Roy Chiao). Chu Tong- san has changed to name to Chu Kam-tau. As the Double Supreme Conmen of Shanghai re-met after many years, they both sigh about the past.

Since both of them are virgins, they are unable to leave the house. The ghost tries several attempts to have sex with Vasu and Veera but fails. They make fun of the ghost, but all their plans go in vain as she takes the form of a beautiful woman. Since the ladies know that the ghost is present, they call Jack and Rose (reminiscent of the two lead characters' names in Titanic), two conmen disguised as father and nun, respectively.

Deller called Helen "The most respected elder of the Robinson clan". She added "Helen was a local artist renowned for her 'interesting' paintings of the locals and her tendency to take in waifs and strays. She also had an unfortunate habit of marrying conmen, bigamists or men who died shortly after their wedding. Helen was always the voice of reason, and when she died (sadly followed closely by Anne Haddy, who played her), the street lost perhaps its most beloved character ever".

Scared senseless, Raghava's mother and sister-in-law hire two priests (Om Prakash Rao and Bullet Prakash) to rid their home of the ghost. The priests, however, are conmen, and escape with their lives. That night, the ghost possesses Raghava, who begins acting increasingly effeminate, alienating himself from Priya and wearing women's clothes and jewellery. His family angrily confronts him, when it is revealed that there are actually three ghosts who have possessed him: a violent woman, a Hindi-speaking Muslim, and a mentally retarded boy.

The principal decides to expel Chengcai, and subject Tom to public caning for his part in the scuffle. Tom and Chengcai later join a local street gang; as their initiation, they are forced to shoplift an iPod. However, they are caught by two conmen with connections to the street gang posing as police detectives, who demand that they pay the fine $2000 within two days or be arrested. While tutoring his sons, Steven tells them that people will pay $500 for an hour of his time.

Cruise O'Brien objected and sent Holland a memo stating that the "killing strain" of Irish republicanism "has a very high propensity to run in families and the mother is most often the carrier". The memo continued, "It is a very serious weakness of your coverage of Irish affairs that you are a very poor judge of Irish Catholics. That gifted and talkative community includes some of the most expert conmen and conwomen in the world and I believe you have been conned".Coogan (2008), p. 211.

Kan was one of the Double Supreme Conmen of Shanghai, but have gone anonymous after being tired of jinag hu affairs. Kan advises against Kit from going to the casino, but Kit goes anyway wanting to help his uncle. However, Kit's swindling skills backfired and as a result, he owed a large debt. Q's boss, Kwok Sin (Pai Ying), is a businessman who manages a financial company on the surface, but in actuality, he is a triad member who secretly operates business in prostitution, gambling and drugs.

In the Only Fools and Horses episode "Cash and Curry", conmen who con Del Boy and Rodney Trotter using a statue of Kubera bought it from Portobello Road. The idea for the episode is as the writer, John Sullivan, visited the street and it gave him an idea for a new episode. The street and its name also appeared regularly on the hit TV series Minder. BBC One's daytime antiques-based gameshow Bargain Hunt regularly features contestants buying items at the market to sell later at auction.

Although news reports had often shown photofits, an actual independent show of this type was unknown at this time. The idea came to Zimmermann during his work with the programme ' (Eng: Beware, Trap!) first broadcast in 1963, in which he warned the viewers of "Nepper, Schlepper und Bauernfänger" (Eng: Scammers, Hustlers and Conmen). The viewers frequently sent him information regarding descriptions of the fraudsters on the programme. This gave him the idea to use the medium of TV to work with the police on unsolved crimes.

Subsequently he worked as a journalist and editor at NDR and ZDF. From 20 October 1967 to 24 October 1997 Zimmermann presented 300 episodes of the ZDF TV series Aktenzeichen XY... ungelöst (File Sign XY … Unsolved), whom he also co-hosted with his adopted daughter Sabine from 6 November 1987 until 24 October 1997 (Sabine would remain at the said programme until 7 December 2001), as well as 180 episodes from 1964 to 1997 of Vorsicht Falle! - Nepper, Schlepper, Bauernfänger (Beware, Trap! - Scammers, Hustlers, Conmen).

Several elements introduced as far back as the fourth book The Graveyard Game develop in this volume. Most of the characters are immortal cyborgs created in the past by an organization, Dr. Zeus Inc., which exists in the 24th century and has both time travel and immortality technology. The official business of Dr. Zeus is the "finding", for a fee, of artifacts and living things thought lost to time, which have actually been carefully collected by the cyborgs known as Preservers, aided by the fixers, conmen and masters of deception known as Facilitators.

The Conman is a 1998 Hong Kong action comedy film directed by Wong Jing and starring Andy Lau, Athena Chu and Nick Cheung. Despite the Chinese title, which translates as Knight of Gamblers 1999, Andy Lau does not reprise his role as the "Knight of Gamblers" from the God of Gamblers series, which was also directed by Wong Jing. The film was followed by a sequel The Conmen in Vegas, which Lau and Cheung return with new cast members Natalis Chan, Kelly Lin, Meggie Yu and Alex Man.

The room was a scam set up by conmen. The family move into a vacant shanty house in the slums of Tondo while Oscar secures a job as a security officer for Manila Armored Couriers after the other guards discover his military background. He befriends his senior officer Ong and quickly bonds with his co-workers while earning the respect of Buddha, the president of the armoured truck company. On Oscar's first day at work, Ong tells him he lost his previous partner during a failed robbery six months prior.

In 1985 he made his feature debut as a director with hit comedy Came a Hot Friday. Based around the escapades of two smalltown conmen in 50s era New Zealand, the film is based on the novel by Ronald Hugh Morrieson. Mune won further acclaim in 1991 for directing 'coming of age' drama The End of the Golden Weather, an adaptation of parts of Bruce Mason's classic one-man play. Mune spent a number of years developing this passion project and seeking finance, working with Mason on the project before Mason died.

Bahattar and his family set out for Mumbai, the place where TT lived. Meanwhile, Mansukh is preparing TT to act as a police officer, and TT is ready to do that, because he wanted a crime-free family for Indu, and he didn't know that eve Bahattar's family were actually conmen. Indu was not happy on the arrival of Bahattar, but Bahattar mistakes it as if she overjoyed to see him. Indu, wanting to take him on a 'long drive', asks him to go out for the same.

Henry Palfrey (Ian Carmichael) is a failure in sport and love, and the easy victim of conmen and employees alike. So he enrols at the "School of Lifemanship" in Yeovil, run by Dr. Potter (Alastair Sim). Late for his appointment, he overhears Potter explaining the principles of lifemanship to the new intake: Palfrey is given an object lesson in this when he has his interview with Potter, who proceeds to win a name-calling game. When Palfrey explains that he is a failure, Potter surmises that a woman is involved.

The tale of two conmen stars Peter Bland, Phillip Gordon and a much praised supporting performance by Māori comedian Billy T James, as a man who thinks he is a Mexican bandito. The abattoir tale Pallet on the Floor (1986) received limited release in New Zealand, three years after it was filmed. Predicament (2010) was the last of Morrieson's novels to be adapted for cinema. Starring Hayden Frost, Jemaine Clement, and Australian comedian Heath Franklin, it won six technical awards at the 2011 Aotearoa Film and Television Awards.

Historians are now turning to local gazetteers of Ming China for clues that would show consistent growth in population. Using the gazetteers, Brook estimates that the overall population under the Chenghua Emperor (r. 1464–87) was roughly 75 million, despite mid-Ming census figures hovering around 62 million. While prefectures across the empire in the mid-Ming period were reporting either a drop in or stagnant population size, local gazetteers reported massive amounts of incoming vagrant workers with not enough good cultivated land for them to till, so that many would become drifters, conmen, or wood-cutters that contributed to deforestation.

All categories committed many minor crimes, were involved in black market activities and more commonly in the theft of food. There was a moral aspect of helping a forced worker as against a volunteer worker, the forced worker normally appeared wearing worse clothes and was always hungry and evoked more sympathy and sometimes help. It did not stop OT conmen begging for food and clothes they could then sell. A civilian would see an OT worker being beaten or occasionally killed, such as a man who struck a German soldier, who retaliated by killing the Soviet worker with a spade.

At the same time he also operated the First Liberty Fund Ltd. in Bahamas, a mutual fund, and Trans Continental Casualty Co., an insurance company. He sold worthless bank drafts, letters of credit and certificates of deposit to other conmen, who used them to swindle banks and investors. The fraud netted an estimated $40 million to $70 million. For this fraud, Wilson received a three-year prison sentence and five years probation, and served 1.5 years.Huge Mail Fraud is Charged to 22 New York Times January 26, 1972 He then moved to Hollywood, Florida and started Fraudmasters, Inc.

A trio of petty criminals – The Coward, The Fool and The Pro go "fishing". They do not only want to eat and drink well, but they also wish to catch a fish. But the conmen do not want to sit on the beach with a fishing rod and wait patiently for a fish to bite, instead they decide to go poaching; their plan is to stun fish using dynamite! Dropping a stick with a dynamite block tied to it into the river, the crooks rub their hands in anticipation of a magnificent "catch", but ... the unruly dog Barbos interferes.

Daffa 420 (English: Article 420) is an Indian investigative dramedy television series, which premiered on 15 August 2015, on Life OK. The series is produced by Vikram Mehra of Saregama India and Mahir Khan of Mahir Films. The series written by Rajesh Beri is a police procedural based series. The series revolves around two maha thugs (notorious conmen) who have turned good after serving a period of their conviction term, to help a lady police officer Inspector Tanya shivalya(Madhurima tuli ) a Delhi branch of fictional law enforcement investigative agency Central Investigation Bureau (CIB), who solves critical crime cases.

In 1981–82, Welz was appointed Parliamentary correspondent for Sunday Express, Johannesburg. While at the Express, he won the Stellenbosch farmers' Winery Award (1983) for a series exposing the corrupt pharmaceutical empire established by businessmen Isaac Kay and David Tabatznik.Welz, subsequently, when heading Rapport's new investigations department, exposed a network of conmen dubbed the "boere mafia" and Adriaan Niewoudt's Kubus milk culture pyramid scheme, later also exposed as the biggest US postal fraud in history. (Federal Court, Topeka, Kansas, 1986.) He was later appointed as a consultant to the United States Department of Justice and helped expose brothers Frans and Gert Theron as the Kubus masterminds in the US.

Tito (Arshad Warsi) and Tony (Rajpal Yadav) are two conmen who run into and fall in love with two sisters, Payal (Anita Hassanandani) and Gehna (Tusha). The girls have run away from their home and uncle, Vikramaditya (Govind Namdeo). Meanwhile, small-time don Jagat Dada (also played by Govind Namdeo) enlists the help of Tito-Tony to steal a treasure map from a police station. Tito-Tony accomplishes the task but, instead of giving Jagat the real map, they hand him a fake copy forged by Mamu (Razak Khan), So, while Jagat and his men so, in a futile search for the treasure, Tito-Tony go after the real one, which is in Vikramaditya's house.

12 Years a Slave is a 2013 biographical period-drama film and an adaptation of the 1853 slave memoir Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, a New York State-born free African-American man who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., by two conmen in 1841 and sold into slavery. Northup was put to work on plantations in the state of Louisiana for 12 years before being released. The first scholarly edition of Northup's memoir, co-edited in 1968 by Sue Eakin and Joseph Logsdon, carefully retraced and validated the account and concluded it to be accurate. Other characters in the film were also real people, including Edwin and Mary Epps, and Patsey.

As New Scientist reported in 1992, a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory report outlined that: > When red mercury first appeared on the international black market 15 years > ago, the supposedly top secret nuclear material was 'red' because it came > from Russia. When it resurfaced last year in the formerly communist states > of Eastern Europe it had unaccountably acquired a red colour. But then, as a > report from the US Department of Energy reveals, mysterious transformations > are red mercury's stock in trade. The report, compiled by researchers at the > Los Alamos National Laboratory, shows that in the hands of hoaxers and > conmen, red mercury can do almost anything the aspiring Third World > demagogue wants it to.

Local Chinese in particular blame mainland Chinese for disrupting previously-peaceful inter- ethnic relationships between the Chinese community and indigenous peoples. In particular, mainland Chinese migrants' activities have earned them a poor reputation not just among indigenous people, but among local Chinese and ethnic Chinese expatriates from Southeast Asia as well; the latter view them as "crooks" and "conmen". Mainland Chinese migrants' practise of illegally opening shops in sectors which are restricted to PNG nationals, such as low- end hospitality and retail businesses; these bring them into direct economic competition with local people. For example, during September 2007 anti-Chinese riots in Mount Hagen, PNG's third largest city, Chinese-owned warehouses became targets for arsonists and armed robbers.

The film does not continue the story from the previous films and is a fresh story. Guddu (Ajay Devgn) and Jonny (Sanjay Mishra), small-time conmen get double- crossed of their illegal booty by their own colleague Pintu (Manoj Pahwa) after which starts a mad crazy adventure between Guddu-Jonny and 4 other groups i.e. Avinash (Anil Kapoor) and Bindu (Madhuri Dixit) - a bickering couple about to be divorced; Roy (Lallan) (Riteish Deshmukh) and Jhingur (Pitobash Tripathy) - Fire officers turned offenders; a police commissioner (Boman Irani) and his sidekick Inspector (Vijay Patkar); and two weird siblings Aditya (Arshad Warsi) and Manav (Javed Jaffrey) for which was hidden by Pintu in Omkar Zoo in Janakpur.

Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama gave the score of 4 out of 5, and said "Special Chabbis is an intelligently woven, slick and smart period thriller with its subject matter as its USP. It's sure to get listed as one of the most gripping heist dramas based on real life occurrences." Anupama Chopra, writing for Hindustan Times, gave 3.5 stars out of 5, calling it one of the best films of the year and praising its attention to detail, its character building, the plot's steady but sure sense of immediacy and urgency, and the elaborate cat-and-mouse chase between the conmen and the police. She criticises the unnecessary addition of the love angle in an otherwise gripping script, along with the unconvincing nature of its climax.

Wilcox started as a television researcher, and then became an assistant producer on programmes such as ITV's Hell's Kitchen, and Cops with Cameras, along with Five's Trust Me - I'm A Holiday Rep. She was first seen on camera as an undercover reporter on BBC Three's six-part series Conning the Conmen, and then supporting Gok Wan on Channel 4's How to Look Good Naked. In autumn 2007, BBC Three Programmes - Lewis Hamilton: Billion Dollar Man Wilcox presented a biography on the British Formula One superstar Lewis Hamilton entitled Lewis Hamilton: Billion Dollar Man for BBC Three, which was later broadcast on BBC One. In April 2009, she co-presented BBC Three's experimental series My Life as an Animal with Terry Nutkins.

While looking for work, the Stooges botch an attempt to steal a watermelon from a deliveryman (Cy Schindell), which lands them in trouble with a cop (William Irving). The trio wind up at the offices of the Canvas Back Duck Club, a hunting organization run by conmen Blackie (Lynton Brent) and Doyle (Wheaton Chambers) needs some salesmen and the trio has no trouble getting the job because, unbeknownst to them, the whole thing is a scam. Dressed in duck-hunting gear, Moe, Larry and Curly invade the police station and barge right into the office of the police chief (Bud Jamison). By the time the group arrives at the lodge, the "club owners" are long gone, and an old man assures them that there are no ducks to be found.

Johar Mehmood in Hong Kong is an intelligence satire, the basic of all I. S. Johar films, in which it is left to the viewer how he interprets the scenes with laughter or introspection. The film is the story of two conmen, Ramesh (I. S. Johar) and Mahesh (Mehmood), whose only life purposes are to make the most money by cheating and theft. They land in the hands of a high-profile Portuguese dictator (Kamal Kapoor), who wants to blow up India with the formula of an atomic bomb, a Nuclear weapon developed by a scientist of Hong Kong, who is killed along with his daughter by high treasonous thieves in the hope of securing the formula, which, however, the scientist has already secured in a safe deposit locker in the Bank of Hong Kong.

The final song recorded for the album, "Code of Silence", featured Cyndi Lauper who contributed backing vocals and received co-writing credit for the lyrics; Joel would return the favor by contributing backing vocals on Lauper's song "Maybe He'll Know" for her 1986 album True Colors. The Bridge was Joel's last album to carry the "Family Productions" logo which had appeared on all of Joel's albums up to that time as part of a deal that Columbia Records made to get Joel out of his first recording contract with Artie Ripp's Family Productions. In the closing song of the album—"Getting Closer"—Joel makes several of what are clearly attacks and observations on the iron-clad contract with Ripp, with references to "my stolen youth", "all the conmen and their acrobats who stomped me in the ground", and "I must live up to contracts".

Mr Pickwick as illustrated by Harold Copping in 1924 Believed to have been named after the British businessman Eleazer Pickwick (c.1749-1837), although he is the main character in The Pickwick Papers Samuel Pickwick is mostly a passive and innocent figure in the story around whom the other more active characters operate. Having an almost childlike simplicity, Pickwick is loyal and protective toward his friends but is often hoodwinked by conmen and poseurs; he is always gallant towards women, young and old, but can also be indecisive in his dealings with them. To extend his researches into the quaint and curious phenomena of life, Pickwick creates the Pickwick Club and suggests that he and three other "Pickwickians" (Mr Nathaniel Winkle, Mr Augustus Snodgrass and Mr Tracy Tupman) should make journeys to places remote from London and report on their findings to the other members of the club.