"Did I hate the structure we were concocting?" she writes.
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They were concocting what eventually became energy bars for space travel.
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It basically presumes government scientists are concocting fake results in underground lairs.
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Concocting an alternative payment method is only a temporary fix, he said.
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Kim's sandwiches and concocting an elaborate tale about his parents and Bible study.
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I wish I were in the writer's room to witness them concocting the episode.
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The company dissolved, but Aftel continued concocting scents, and also began writing about them.
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But McCartney wasn't going mad, he was concocting the perfect recipe for plastic roads.
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They accuse him of hastily concocting plans to sell Browns Field without community consultation.
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My mother spent hours concocting elaborate mandala flower salads and perfecting her lentil nut loaf.
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Lurch, with his cocktail shaker, is concocting a drink from the poison held by Grandmama.
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Teenage influencers started concocting fake brand deals so they could appear worthy of corporate sponsorship.
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Imagine, for instance, concocting Gruyère and pineapple panzanella salad, or animal toast and watermelon pizza.
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The alliance had responded to his complaints by concocting assorted sketchy compensation arrangements with Ghosn.
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Lunsford allegedly tried covering up the murder by concocting a kidnapping story, the court records state.
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Meanwhile, African entrepreneurs are concocting organic alternatives out of everything from rice husks to urban waste.
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Their crime, prosecutors say, was concocting a story to cover up for a colleague who did.
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People denying science, concocting elaborate, hurtful conspiracies theories about child abuse rings operating out of pizza parlors.
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The comments from other users were slightly more hilarious, with one person concocting quite the farfetched theory.
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Anthony McGann, and the others, they are concocting lies to the invoices and fabricated the entire thing.
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There's a menu of these libations, but the bartenders are also skilled at concocting custom-made cocktails.
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They are concocting elaborate scams to sneak through airports in Caribbean nations that once accepted them freely.
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Creating a safe, affordable sunscreen was a "similar puzzle" as concocting a nutritious, tasty beverage, Goldin said.
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In "Iris," he lets his imagination run riot, concocting a lurid, potent tale steeped in decadent orientalism.
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But the Trump regime scuttled that plan, concocting transparent lies about how it wouldn't be ready in time.
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Facebook has the resources to task tons of smart people with concocting new lenses and filters and effects.
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He described concocting exotic doping cocktails with the brio a top bartender brings to mixing a mean mojito.
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Sullivan demanded a commitment to defense while concocting tactical changes that maximized the Penguins' greatest asset: their speed.
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Confused expressions occupy their faces as they wonder what he's concocting with these powders in unmarked industrial jars.
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Ortberg began getting up early just to comment there, concocting the right admixture of intelligence, humor, and barb.
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He made his name concocting music videos for Kanye West, Arcade Fire, Beck, Jack White, U2 and Johnny Cash.
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It's officially fall — well, it's September anyway — so it's time we start concocting theories about the upcoming spooky shows.
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The doctors also worried that Turner was concocting the children's conditions for social and monetary gain, the indictment says.
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He's too busy concocting a harmful alternative reality and hoping that InfoWars gets a spot in the press pool.
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Give your dad the experience of concocting his own brew with this fun West Coast Style IPA Brewing Kit.
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But, again, I'm happy right now—collecting recipes from stables and concocting new dishes of my own questionable design.
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Ol' Walt wasn't sitting around in his apartment on Main Street concocting tales about little mermaids and magical lamps.
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This essentially meant adding or removing pieces of sound to or from the sonic stew they'd spent months concocting.
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A New Jersey couple and a homeless man are accused of concocting the scheme, which raised more than $400,000.
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Chefs are concocting gourmet dinners that pair marijuana with another drug, the liquid one that California is famous for.
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The president has accused them of concocting a baseless investigation into possible links between his associates and Russia's election interference.
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If employees are guilty of drinking the Kool-Aid, it's these Facebook execs at the top who are concocting it.
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Others have been accused of concocting excuses for the excess emissions and trying to prevent regulators from discovering the truth.
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Participants in "Biohacker Boot Camp" learn basic technical skills to use in homegrown genetics projects, like concocting algae that glows.
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Ever since the birth of the modern federal income tax in 1913, companies have been concocting ways to avoid it.
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Google hasn't announced any plans for viewing the Olympics in VR, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's concocting something.
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And thanks to some smart concocting, oil-based options work to hydrate ends without leaving hair looking like an oil slick.
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To fill it, Beautycounter tasked its lab of researchers with concocting something new that could safely — and effectively — fill the void.
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As we drove away from Zafferana, I was concocting ways to persuade my husband to uproot our family and move here.
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Balkans: Bosnia and Herzegovina's security minister accused Croatia of concocting a plot intended to falsely paint Bosnia as a terrorist hotbed.
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I was trying to rush into concocting some sort of play scene with him, when in reality he was just needing security.
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He's still concocting ill-advised business ideas, like OOO-Ber, which is pretty much the same concept as the similar-sounding Uber.
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We should play to our strengths, which do not include concocting clever tax deals fit for a light-night cable TV infomercial.
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Grey's Anatomy has a bad habit — or a good habit, depending on your proclivities — of concocting the most heart-wrenching season finales.
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These are two separate worlds which should never collide, but inevitably do in the world of presumably drunk bartenders concocting new drinks.
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Some of whom by the way were personally involved in concocting the collusion fantasy with the Russians when they were in government.
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"It was really eerie to be concocting a pandemic when the virus was like right outside our window," Stutz told Business Insider.
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She enjoys hanging out in the summer months with skateboarders in Southern California and taking a break from concocting creative snowboard tricks.
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With Farrah, they did such a piss poor job of concocting a good story that they got caught in their own lie.
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You also find in any era rich people concocting ideas, values, and norms that seem to be selfless while justifying their rule.
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So the friends who had zero baking experience, used Quiaoit's mom's oven and got to work concocting their own, sugar-free cookie recipe.
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In the absence of a viable majority government, Mrs Merkel could form a minority one, concocting vote-by-vote majorities in the Bundestag.
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Many frequently recycled tropes, like villains concocting dastardly plans to marry heroines, were just a harmless part of a story before all this.
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She was trying to find a way toward the compassion she needed and, short of concocting sufficiently traumatic stories, she didn't know how.
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Sarah Saltzberg knew from an early age that she wanted to be an actor and a writer, too, because she loved concocting improvisations.
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Atkinson loves her research, but she doesn't need much help concocting original stories that resemble no one else's and take the breath away.
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Trump pointed to the family members during the exchange with Acosta, who told Trump his critics say he is "concocting" the national emergency.
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That album revolved around themes of nature and isolation, with Fennelly concocting many of the tracks in a cabin located in Southwest Wisconsin.
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Honey and dairy products, like yogurt and milk, are easy DIY treatments, but if you're not into concocting your own potion, get this serum.
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And Estreller wasn't just mixing powder and liquor, but concocting jiggly cocktails from scratch using real ingredients with varying levels of sweetness and acidity.
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Rather than going through the trouble of concocting its own assistant, LG has opted to simply bring Alexa's third-party functionality to its device.
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Yesterday, Timberlake shared a video on Instagram, which we found thanks to People, and in it, he's shown concocting an interesting and unexpected snack.
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Belafonte, who has been with Angel almost since her birth, claims Mel B is concocting lies about domestic violence to turn Angel against him.
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A useful start would be a sharper definition of "investment contract," which would stop courts from concocting their own versions of the Howey test.
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For this reason, Section 4 is a favorite of thriller writers concocting scenarios in which malefactors use some bogus pretext to depose the president.
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The old people punish Romeo for pilfering their drugs by concocting a drink that provides him with both an unstoppable erection and uncontrollable diarrhea.
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Finally, there's been a pattern over the last few years of anonymous government sources concocting bizarre stories about Russian espionage which are later retracted.
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He has a gift for concocting memorable phrases seemingly off the cuff, and if he goes into politics, heaven help his opponents in debates.
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Meanwhile, designers and scientists in the Luma Atelier were concocting innovative uses for local natural resources like the stems of the region's famous sunflowers.
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It's a development that Earn hadn't planned for and he's irked by any disruptions to a plan that he seems particularly proud of concocting.
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Teachers spend more time concocting ways to "engage" students through visuals and "interactive learning" (read: screens, games) tailored to their Candy Crushed attention spans.
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Later, in 2017, Gypsy appeared on The Dr. Phil Show (video below) and said she felt terrible about concocting a plan to murder her mother.
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But concocting formulas for that specific purpose required testing out different ratios of the two main psychoactive compounds in cannabis: tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD).
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Running short on time, dying cancer patients are concocting do-it-yourself versions of highly experimental cancer therapies, without the oversight of doctors or regulators.
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Based above London beer shop We Brought Beer, owner James Hickson started the club in October, after concocting hoppy pales ales in his spare room.
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While upstate, Prince SAMO became the crew's de facto cook, rustling up giant plates of eggs for breakfasts and concocting two-day-marinated chicken dinners.
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Prince's music had an immediate and lasting influence: among songwriters concocting come-ons, among producers working on dance grooves, among studio experimenters and stage performers.
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In response, Democrats are concocting complex schemes to circumvent the tax law and several states are actually suing the federal government to halt their implementation.
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While studying commercial art, illustration and photography at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, she began concocting video backdrops for bands, using films and slides.
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However, while sensitive types were crying foul, Ministry reveled in the attention by pushing extremes and concocting a sound that was both uncompromising and accessible.
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Along with concocting a few namesake brews, the third-generation cafe owner Daan van Stiphout aims to give a big stage to small regional brewers.
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In remission it took a week of planning and concocting foods that could be reheated or else I would keel over while proposing a toast.
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Physicians at the University of Florida who were given the task of concocting an energy-reviving drink for tired Gator football players ended up creating Gatorade.
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In the film, Killian controls the destitute masses of America by concocting lies that suit his narrative, twisting reality to fit the demands of television ratings.
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The presidential candidate is no stranger to hypotheses about his identity, but that didn't stop the Internet from concocting another theory about who he really is.
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Instead of decking out in sparkles and sunscreen, the queen of pop spent Sunday at home, concocting the coolest at-home spa night we've ever seen.
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Both oyster sauce and fish sauce—umami bombs in their own right—are used when concocting the sauce here, effectively making the glaze immediately swoon-worthy.
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Mr. Vance said that they were responsible for "concocting and overseeing a massive effort to cook the books at Dewey & LeBoeuf" that contributed to its collapse.
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"Making fake biography, false history, concocting a half imaginary existence out of the actual drama of my life is my life," he told The Paris Review.
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She remembers following her own so-called recipes and concocting homemade sweets, or drawing on blank address labels and selling them as stickers to her friends.
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His assumed nonblack identity, in a sense, probably fed his creativity, since Herriman would spend the rest of his life concocting variations on his origin story.
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And Trump's apparent attempt to coerce Ukrainian officials into concocting an attack on Trump's political opponents — seemingly by holding up congressionally appropriated foreign aid — is outrageous.
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Publicists tend to think in terms of, "What is there to write about?" with regard to a record, so you start concocting a narrative behind it.
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Our self-driving AI car will not be fully self-conscious unless we program it to tell us (and itself) the stories it's concocting about its behaviors.
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Opposition politicians say Sharif is concocting claims of conspiracy to save his skin and argue that if he really wanted to protect democracy he would step down.
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Democrats have been writing off prospective voters from many segments of society for decades, while concocting false narratives about who they expect to be their natural constituency.
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Like any mystery show, you can expend mental energy concocting theories about The Night Of, imagining the whodunnit options, or debate the logic of various characters' actions.
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Over decades of bragging about his wealth, bullying celebrity women and concocting stories of his own sex appeal, Trump's indecency was expressed with a sense of impunity.
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From amid barrels of liquid substances, an acrid smell hanging in the air, he held up a notebook detailing instructions for concocting white phosphorus and incendiary weapons.
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The lawsuit has accused the officers of concocting the basis of Mr. Cordero's arrest "in order to obtain overtime for completing the attendant paperwork," court filings state.
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That's where clothing comes in: For the first time ever, Link can equip clothing and armor found in the world of Hyrule (in addition to concocting potions).
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For example, if your partner is out with an old friend and you're not there, you might find yourself concocting scenarios of the two of them flirting.
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That is partly because nonprofit and industry associations must remain bipartisan, or nonpartisan, and are often responsible for concocting diverse policy and political initiatives with broad outcomes.
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Brock sets off alarms but Ms. Meade and Venable don't have time to hunt down the intruder because they're too busy concocting their plan to commit mass murder.
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The parents, who are way past the empty nest syndrome, begin concocting ways to get rid of their brood so they can return to their life of leisure.
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Concocting your own at-home remedy is possible with a mix of honey and vinegar, but chemically exfoliating the bump away is even less of a sure thing.
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With the help of his brother, Will Kellogg, the pair would continue to invent healthy, meatless breakfast foods until inadvertently concocting a process that allowed wheat to flake.
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He knew early on that by concocting an image that questioned the boundaries of feminine and masculine, he could draw fans and media like a technicolor Pied Piper.
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They sometimes like to recap their days and evenings by concocting rhymes together; this element of their friendship comes into crucial play at the movie's nerve-grinding climax.
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The racing team responded with a lawsuit in which it accused Nature's Bakery of having cash-flow problems and of concocting reasons to pull out of the contract.
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Iran denied the allegation and accused the British of concocting the story to act against Tehran at the behest of Washington, though Britain formally opposes the American sanctions.
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True to life, both characters spend a considerable amount of time on their phones: Tindering furiously, ordering Ubers, concocting affected Instagram stories, and taking BuzzFeed-style basic bitch quizzes.
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It's the propaganda strategy Adolf Hitler coined in Mein Kampf, where he talks about concocting a lie so big that no one would believe it could be made up.
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Depp's lawsuit, filed on the eve of the sale of those properties, is a transparent attempt to derail the foreclosure by concocting and spreading malicious lies about the Mandels.
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" An unnamed attorney for Ms. Daniels, identified years later as Keith M. Davidson, accused The Dirty of concocting a fake scandal "to lure potential customers to [their] commercial filth.
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Before college, we'd spend way too much time together taking and editing photographs of one another to post on Instagram and Snapchat, concocting accompanying captions to amuse our followers.
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No doubt, the White House and other senators are concocting rationales — like a single hearing next Tuesday — for why a yes vote by McCain would not violate his principles.
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"Concocting fake news to attract eyeballs is a habitual trick of America's New York Times, and this newspaper suffered a crisis of credibility for its fakery," the statement said.
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Many companies are concocting formulas to offset the radiation allegedly emitted by technological devices, while others promote oils that don't just moisturize the skin, but also feed the soul.
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But for three weeks before that, he and others repeatedly accused Democrats of concocting illegal absentee ballots and relying on votes by criminals, the dead and two-time voters.
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Funneling a few thousand dollars of hotel fees and minibar charges into the coffers of the Trump Organization is frankly less destructive than concocting corruption charges against Joe Biden.
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The conspiracy site run by Alex Jones drums up millions of views by concocting wild theories around major terrorist attacks and mass shootings with generally no regard for the victims.
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Given Bay Area rents, the money was not enough to dine out every day, and Cohen said his wife saw many of her colleagues concocting meals out of free snacks.
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It's funny, but also a little sad, because clearly Obama/Biden/Clinton fans are taking out their election frustration by concocting what amounts to massively nerdy presidential revenge fan fiction.
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Opening, David Ellenhorn, counsel for the state of New York, accused Mr Greenberg and Mr Smith of concocting two sham transactions to mask problems in the company's core insurance operations.
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While we were all distracted by the bright colors of these limited time Frapps, Starbucks was quietly concocting a brand new one that would go in the complete opposite direction.
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In a bizarre modern fairy-tale, a social media manager for an obscure English museum was headhunted by Elon Musk this year after concocting a viral tweet about a sheep.
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Some experts advise against using full words; others go so far as to recommend concocting a random iambic pentameter poem for your password, if you have a lengthy character limit.
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Ransom didn't actually kill Harlan, but rather led to his death by concocting a really messed up scheme that lines up a series of dominos that lead Harlan no choice.
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From a young age, she dreamed of being an actress, and invented little plays, but instead of concocting plot-heavy tales, like many imaginative children, she focussed on her feelings.
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And "250 Questions," featuring the actors Jonathan Groff and Jessie Shelton, took those diversions to new places, concocting an original musical written and directed for the theater between your ears.
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It can either be a tool set that will fix things, or it can be a magic kit where you blow the lid off and start concocting potions of sound.
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When Vivek's parents arrive terrified, Zoey still protects her pal by concocting a comforting story, claiming no drugs were involved in the assault, and their son protected her from a robbery.
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When Rita Hazan isn't concocting new formulas for her namesake hair-care line or working in her Fifth Avenue salon, she's coloring the manes of a laundry list of celebrity clients.
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Throughout the movies, Kevin traipses about his parents' suburban mansion, The Plaza Hotel, and a monstrous Upper West Side brownstone, concocting this series of devious devices that vary wildly in severity.
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But whatever you call it, the glow-in-the-dark slime that children will be concocting in a noon workshop at the Staten Island Children's Museum will be pretty cool stuff.
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U.S. prosecutors charged Wildstein, former Christie deputy chief of staff Bridget Kelly and a former executive of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Bill Baroni, with concocting the plot.
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And yet, somehow, the screenwriter duo was tasked with concocting a story that would serve as a rousing and satisfying conclusion to the full 22017-film saga within the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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The legal-cannabis business is providing another subject for dramatists: Netflix has another new series, "Disjointed", which it promoted by concocting its own strains of legal weed, which it sold in California.
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For decades, beauty companies have sold youthfulness under various guises to a primarily female consumer group, brilliantly exploiting their concerns — or concocting new ones — while twisting legitimate science about how ingredients work.
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The team over at Botnik Studios, a community of creatives concocting weird project including the Predictive Writer, gave the world access to a predictive keyboard trained on all seven Harry Potter books.
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Activities will include making 201673-D hologram displays for smartphones; concocting a Middle Eastern recipe; constructing model aircraft; and creating a secret code to use on a treasure hunt throughout the museum.
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Apple cider vinegar is known to brighten and smooth the skin, but if you don't want to deal with concocting your own formula, just buy one of these convenient peel-pad packs.
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She pointed to "people denying science, [and] concocting elaborate hurtful conspiracy theories about child abuse rings atop of pizza parlors" — the latter a reference to the Pizzagate saga in the nation's capital.
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The event — young visitors are encouraged to come in costume — will include concocting "icky sticky goo" to take home and learning about the insects and other creatures in the museum's live collection.
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There's serious danger in ascribing any sort of long-term strategy to Trump's tweets, but you can see him concocting a campaign issue here with a new focus on changing immigration laws.
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And concocting a mixture at home is potentially dangerous, said Dr. Aiesha Ahmed, a neurologist at Penn State Hershey Medical Center who has researched the prevalence of PBA and its treatment options.
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For seven weeks fans have been watching, concocting theories about the murder at the show's center, and waiting for answers to their questions—and for some semblance of justice to be served.
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Brady Kemp, a shop steward and 20173-year UPS employee, accused his supervisors of concocting reasons to discipline him and justify his firing after he complained of racial inequity at the company.
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"I think it's scaring the crap out of people like families or mothers who work full time," she said, assuring everyone she doesn't spend her days concocting tooth powder, lotion, deodorant, or cleaners.
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The original series, which ran for two seasons between 2001 and 2002, starred Zim, a bumbling alien who is constantly concocting schemes to take over the world so he can impress his leaders.
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Kristol has followed an inside strategy of concocting Never Trump plots within the party, while Will has taken the opposite approach by publicly leaving the Republican Party in protest of Trump's insufficient conservatism.
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Editorial With its hidden-camera videos that took aim at Planned Parenthood, the Center for Medical Progress tried to stir up opposition to abortion rights by concocting a controversy over fetal tissue research.
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Mr. Dowd exhorted Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, who oversees the special counsel, to end the inquiry and accused the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey of concocting a baseless investigation.
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If you catch yourself spending too much time looking for Boba Fett references, or concocting a theory about how "Boba Fett" and "Baby Yoda" have the same number of letters, cut it out!
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Believe it or not, when Starbucks' team of expert baristas was concocting something to embody the feel of warm sweaters, crisp air, and the changing season, they nearly shelved a pumpkin spiced coffee drink.
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In her complaint, Carroll said that Trump lied about attacking her, and "smeared her integrity, honesty, and dignity" by concocting a "swarm of related lies" to explain why she would make the incident up.
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The contestants are drag queens who strive for a crown by creating bewitching makeup designs, concocting shocking costumes, plotting dance routines that satirise pop stars and shooting shards of wit at their queer peers.
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Front Burner For the past few years, the pastry chef Dominique Ansel has been concocting what he calls Christmas Morning Cereal, which can also be sprinkled over ice cream or nibbled on the sly.
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"Making fake biography, false history, concocting a half-imaginary existence out of the actual drama of my life is my life," Mr. Roth told Hermione Lee in a 20123 interview in The Paris Review.
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He knows his product, he understands the subtleties in flavor that emerge from his drinks, and he rises to the challenge of concocting a drink that will please even the most amateur of palates.
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OTHER THAN WE Described as "a cli-fi eco-feminist fable," this new play written and directed by Karen Malpede finds four scientists concocting a bold response to the climate crisis. Nov. 21-Dec.
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In the years that followed, Vasilev would download pictures that Alexandre Martinez was posting on his private social media accounts, patiently concocting a glamorous new life for fake Alex and his engaged audience in Bulgaria.
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The shot captures an impeccably multinational, multilingual group of clever Europeans concocting a canny new timetable giving a catastrophically misled and chaotic Britain a last chance to find a way out of its own mess.
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For their second album, the band built on that approach, diving away from what people expected of them, concocting their most claustrophobic batch of hardcore songs yet while adding pop-minded synths atop it all.
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" Asked to respond to critics' claims that Trump is "concocting" a national emergency, Trump turned to women in the audience whose children had allegedly been killed by illegal immigrants, dubbed by some as "angel moms.
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Silicon Valley is a place where belief seems to override self-reflection, and where too few people consider the potential downsides of the whizzy services they are concocting in their bedrooms and co-working spaces.
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The famous 20 percent policy, announced by Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 2004, encourages employees to spend up to 20 percent of their working hours concocting personal projects that might benefit the company.
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Starbucks knows one way for folks to get a taste of the season is through concocting a bevy of holiday-ready beverages that only appear in stores for a few short months out of the year.
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The trio is among a growing number of culinary innovators tackling unhealthy diets by concocting meals with local, sometimes forgotten, grains and plants to nurture better health but also alleviate poverty and even protect the environment.
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"Carrie got the most pleasure and the biggest kick out of concocting a scene with Debbie and Elizabeth that slyly referenced the long-ago, high-profile scandal in which they were both featured," Marks tells PEOPLE.
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People can change their behavior for all kinds of reasons, but recognizing when people aren't quite themselves can be one way to make sure those close to you aren't withdrawing socially because they're concocting dangerous plans.
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Details: Boasting an elegant, retro-inspired design, the 34-ounce Nespresso CitiZ is a fast-heating machine that features a high-pressure pump system capable of concocting fancy espresso drinks that would impress any seasoned barista.
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A social media influencer has been sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for concocting a scheme to violently coerce a stranger into giving up a web domain name, the US Department of Justice announced today.
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A former constitutional law professor with degrees from Yale, Harvard and Oxford, Mr. Kobach's specialty is concocting creative legal arguments to achieve controversial political ends — such as, say, forcing Mexico to pay for a border wall.
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In Ms Bennett's view, the original idea of concocting the letter is unlikely to have come from anyone in London—though British spooks in Riga may well have been freelancing in collaboration with their White Russian associates.
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By concocting a replication of the notorious South American psychedelic drink, ayahuasca, using only traditional Japanese herbs and antidepressants, Aoi Glass claims to have found a legal loophole for providing an ayahuasca-like experience to the masses.
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Ito points out that when kids delve into this hackerlike side of the game — concocting redstone devices or creating command blocks — they often wind up consulting discussion forums online, where they get advice from adult Minecraft players.
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Elaine wants nothing more than to attract a man who will love her devotedly, and to that end, she sets up a potion-concocting station in her house, having been trained in the ways of witchcraft already.
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The delicate relations between two former Yugoslav republics took a bitter and bizarre turn on Thursday as Bosnia and Herzegovina's security minister accused Croatia of concocting a plot intended to falsely paint Bosnia as a terrorist hotbed.
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Mr. Trump, his personal lawyers and his Republican allies say that rationale is absurd and that Democrats are clearly concocting a fake investigation to justify getting ahold of information they can use to politically embarrass the president.
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Mark D'Amico, the New Jersey man who scammed well-meaning GoFundMe donors out of more than $400,000 after concocting a fake feel-good story involving a homeless veteran, has pleaded guilty to a state charge against him.
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IF YOU ARE A NEW YORKER, chances are you've strolled the streets of Greenwich Village at night, peeking into windows and concocting stories about the fabulous freaks, titans and reprobates on the other side of those panes.
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Crayola's Color Chemistry Lab Set contains a number of fun experiments for kids, including slime and Cra-Z-Art concocting its own line of glue and borax-free "slime activator" for those looking for a DIY experience.
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Since the Angels on Bare Skin cleanser was the first Lush product I fell in love with (and one of the brand's best-selling skin-care products), I figured I had to try my hand at concocting it.
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Once you get a taste for it, you spend an alarming portion of your time concocting more of these schemes, and scouring forums like Flyertalk for tips on any mile-churning tricks you might be missing out on.
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He and his 19-year-old accomplice, Sophie Brown, had stalked the 28-year-old victim (including concocting ways to learn where she lived) before abducting her, according to arrest reports obtained by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
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But concocting that "better" version of ourselves can be hard on us, too: Turkle believes that Facebook encourages what sociologist David Riesman called the "other-directed life," wherein a person measures their own worth through what others think.
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With every passing moment, the national debt continues to rise, the regulatory state continues to grow, and rent-seeking, parasitic special interests are concocting the next scheme in their playbook to try to defeat principled conservatives in Congress.
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The director is known as an unpredictable genre-bender, confidently concocting erotic thrillers, anti-erotic thrillers, musicals, literary adaptations (his 2007 film, "Angel," was an imaginative and very apt view of Elizabeth Taylor's tricky, brilliant novel) and more.
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Add a personal touch by concocting custom tea blends, including a relaxing combo of lavender with Earl Grey; a fresh digestive tonic with mint, rosemary and lavender; and a spicy dark brew with black tea, rose and cardamom.
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The episode's director, Matt Shakman, did a fantastic job with this sequence, concocting a vision of senseless slaughter roughly as hellish as the one from last year's "Battle of the Bastards," while adding in some gruesome new details.
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But no matter; when the story opens, he is concocting his most ambitious scheme yet: the Trilling Heart School for Girls, led by himself with the help of his daughter, Caroline, and his loyal-as-a-labrador disciple David.
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Stone, who co-wrote the screenplay with Kieran Fitzgerald, tries to amp up the tension and drama by concocting a variety of cliched spy-thriller elements that didn't happen, and fails to find the suspense in what actually occurred.
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This shift coincided with the founding of the Academy, in 1927, by Louis B. Mayer, the head of M-G-M, who hoped to preëmpt the unionization of studio craftsmen by concocting an organization that could mediate labor disputes.
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Mainstream media members jumped the shark and took Trump Derangement Syndrome to new heights by concocting tales of domestic abuse when trying to determine first lady Melania Trump's whereabouts before she showed up to a White House event on Monday night.
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But they also proved to everyone else that pointing out that Bush was in office on 9/11 is a red line for the GOP establishment in a way that concocting a story about Jersey City Muslims celebrating the attacks wasn't.
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For more than two years, the notion of social media disinformation campaigns has conjured up images of Russia's Internet Research Agency, an entire company housed on multiple floors of a corporate building in St. Petersburg, concocting propaganda at the Kremlin's bidding.
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If blockbuster American cinema, now bleeding into the prestige category, weren't already so dominated by superhero movies, it might be easier to stomach an art-house auteur bent on concocting ever more sophisticated and exotic ways not to grow up.
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No doubt Goldman will be best remembered for concocting a battle of wits with a Sicilian, and imagining Westley the stable boy growing up into the Dread Pirate Roberts (spoiler alert) in the '80s ... however, his career stretched across decades.
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But Trump has drastically elevated the stakes, over and over again, by shutting down the government, equating the proposal with his wall, and concocting a fake border crisis to which somehow a multi-year construction project is an urgently needed solution.
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The Times found that concocting elaborate schemes to avoid paying taxes on their father's estate, including greatly understating the value of the family business, became an important pastime for Fred's children, with Donald taking an active role in the effort.
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The world thought he had officially retired from art to concentrate on competitive chess, but it turns out he was also concocting a room-size fantasia of sticks, aluminum, parchment and plastic clothespins, with a splayed female nude at its center.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China likened claims by a Chinese asylum seeker in Australia who said he was a spy for Beijing to an absurd screenplay, accusing Taiwan's ruling party of concocting a story to boost its chances in a looming election.
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This became clear last month when Trump repeatedly used his office to question the validity of non-partisan, George Washington University study on the death toll in Puerto Rico, blaming the Democrats for concocting lies to make him look bad.
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Grassroots efforts inform people of the dangers and barriers their elected officials are concocting in faraway capitals, or even in more local settings such as zoning boards, where rotten deals may be cloaked in the "smoke-filled" rooms of Washington.
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Not only has the government done too little to acknowledge the immense suffering of the Rohingya, it has also claimed that the refugees fled of their own accord and that a mass conspiracy is concocting fake news about any atrocities.
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A bipartisan commission of senators and representatives, along with health providers, consumers, insurers and other high-stakes groups, and a one-year timeline to forge a new plan is what we need, not the "old boys" concocting a plan in isolation.
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The Chinese communist government has a long record of concocting false evidence to convict political enemies, and I have no doubt they would happily fabricate evidence against the American president's enemies in exchange for trade concessions from the United States.
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Many may know Mizrahi as the subject of the 1994 documentary Unzipped, a cult fashion classic where we witness the droll personality hanging out with supermodels and celebrities, cracking jokes, and concocting a fashion collection based on Nanook of the North.
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If Putin were a Hollywood villain, it would be easy to imagine the scene in his lair on Tuesday night, as he watched the coverage of Comey's ouster, cackling and stroking his evil pussycat while concocting his next scheme for world domination.
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"So I grabbed a public photo of Cincinnati's Great American Ball Park, a stock image of a crate, clip art of a fence, and then spent a half-hour in PowerPoint concocting an image that I then posted on Google+," Froehle says.
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Louis Anderson Sr., a lawyer, spent most of the weekend watching sports on his laptop while his son was busy in Tibbetts' wet lab, concocting a coating for implants that he theorized could improve on the biocompatible coatings for implants available today.
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People denying science, concocting elaborate, hurtful conspiracy theories about child-abuse rings operating out of pizza parlors, drumming up rampant fear about undocumented immigrants, Muslims, minorities, the poor, turning neighbor against neighbor and sowing division at a time when we desperately need unity.
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At one point, Mr. Bolton declared that he would have no part in the "drug deal" that Mr. Mulvaney and other allies of the president were concocting and directed a deputy to report details of the scheme to a White House lawyer.
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Once a nation is convinced of the need to do something fast, it then often makes a second mistake on the way to disaster: It brushes aside the risks and costs of the escapade by concocting some scheme to avoid the worst outcomes.
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Not only that, but the honeydew mixes with the sap that pours out of the plant's wound, concocting a perfect breeding ground for sooty mold, a black fungal accumulation that smells like vinegar and, researchers believe, may also be an invasive species.
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Having never heard of Aleppo peppers before Mr. Duffy introduced him to them, Mr. Bader also felt unrestrained by convention when concocting his Spicy Curry Sauce, a blend of fiery yellow ghost and smoky aji panca peppers, tempered by the Aleppo's relative civility.
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And that's to say nothing of her soundtracks for Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy XV, which have taken her work into an entirely new stratosphere of popularity, combining her background in Romantic classical music with her affinity for concocting dreamy, heartfelt arrangements.
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HAVANA (Reuters) - When they are not tending to international affairs, diplomats based in Havana can be found these days stewing in interminable queues at gas stations and concocting ways to increase the octane in fuel as Cuba's premium gasoline shortage takes its toll.
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But if humans all over the world have been concocting religions, rituals, and belief systems to help cope with the same sad truth, what is the harm in a small community of dedicated nerds devising their own rituals to derive the same comfort?
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But under successive military dictators, including Park Chung-hee, the father of the current president, Park Geun-hye, the intelligence service and other state agencies were also accused of concocting fake spy cases to arrest and discredit dissidents and divert attention from domestic crises.
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The trio of Misha Lindes (vocals/guitar), Dakota Peterson (bass), and David Ruiz (drums) have been concocting this West Coast gold as a trio for a little over a year, but these songs have been ruminating in longtime LA resident Lindes' head since elementary school.
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Concocting your own pot brownies has long been a haphazard and inexact science for recreational stoners—instructions will vary on the amount of bud and method of infusion, and often DIY cannabis cooks pay no mind to the potency of the strain they're using.
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Maybe it's because so many of the songs are in minor modes; maybe it's because his lyrics probe psychological states instead of concocting character studies; maybe it's because he keeps his guitar playing upfront; maybe it's because his hardheaded stoicism suits a dire era.
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Prior to that, King's version of Gypsy appears meek and childlike in the lead-up and after she and her boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn (Calum Worthy), murdered her mother, Dee Dee (Patricia Arquette), who spent years concocting fake health conditions to keep Gypsy trapped in their home.
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With the professionalization of medicine and the scientific revolution in the 18th and 19th centuries, people came to understand that acne was completely harmless, but that didn't stop them from concocting harsh compounds — including ingredients like potassium carbonate, hydrogen cyanide, and even mercury — to treat pimples.
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For years, Jones has used his platform to fuel and spread false stories accusing the government of concocting elaborate hoaxes — such as mass shootings like Sandy Hook and Las Vegas, and terror attacks like 9/11 and the Boston Marathon bombing — to propagate a liberal agenda.
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At best, Faith, who has sporadically appeared on the Bravo reality series over the years, could expect concocting a story about some adulterous hookup could net her some new screen time, but, again it would be for the worst reason and put her in the world light.
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Oliver begins by discussing one of the greatest genres of YouTube video there is—conspiracy videos, which are second perhaps only to trampoline accident videos—before concocting a conspiracy theory of his own, about Cadbury Creme Eggs, which taste "like mermaid placenta covered in candle wax."
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When amateurism was fashioned out of whole cloth by Victorian-era English aristocrats, its ethos was strictly classist: snobby upper-class rowers didn't want to compete against unwashed bricklayers and factory workers, and concocting an ersatz Greek athletic ideal of no-pay-for-play provided convenient justification.
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Mr. Trump has spoken harshly about China, accusing it of concocting climate change as a hoax to undercut American manufacturers, branding it a currency manipulator (when it in fact is trying to prop its currency up), and threatening to impose a 45 percent tariff on Chinese goods.
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On Saturday, Smith acknowledged concocting a plan to tamper with a cricket ball during a series in South Africa, in an attempt to gain an unfair and illegal advantage, a revelation that has stunned a sport that has never been reluctant to seize the moral high ground.
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In early 2016, Mr. de Blasio tried again, concocting a complicated deal to reduce the number of horse carriages — but the effort collapsed when the Teamsters union, which represents drivers, pulled its support and the City Council abruptly canceled a vote on legislation to carry it out.
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A Dallas bakery called Clearly Cookies is getting in on the action (and getting eyeballs) by concocting fidget spinner cookies—as seen in the video above, complete with horrifying EDM remix background music—but these baked goods are actually far from being the first edible fidget spinner.
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Considering we can barely manage to make our salon appointments (and we don't even have to worry about men with barbed wire bats running around), we'd also love to know how she finds the time to get her arches in top shape while concocting a kidnapping plan with Daryl.
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" Shomer is presumably diverting himself from the horrors of life behind barbed wire by concocting the narrative we are reading, although the two stories never explicitly connect except for a moment at the very end when he has reached Palestine and spots a ship "gliding into safe harbor.
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For inspiration, Ms. Tisch and Ms. Schabes spend hours a night texting each other pictures and concocting ways to add color to food: Lucky Charms cereal spilling out of a burrito (their jokey take on a breakfast burrito), s'mores with rainbow marshmallows, chocolate chip cookies with sherbet-colored chips.
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After dropping out of community college, Ms. Kilgariff went on to become a television writer, with credits on "Baskets" and "Portlandia," while Ms. Hardstark ended up as a quirky Cooking Channel host known for concocting "the McNuggetini," a vodka cocktail with a ketchup rim and chicken tender garnish.
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"The current parole process contains gigantic loopholes that allow murderous monsters like Herman Bell to game the system by concocting a phony story tailor-made for the new parole guidelines, which don't place enough weight on the nature of the crime," PBA President Patrick Lynch had said in late April .
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Alabama Republicans and white evangelical Christians who are standing by Moore and concocting illogical explanations — comparing his relationship with a 14-year-old to that of Joseph and Mary — are entitled to their opinions, but they are not entitled to allow an alleged predator to be part of the Senate.
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Yes, Kyle Lowry, DeMar DeRozan, and DeMarre Carroll are all shooting below 40 percent right now, but Casey is not without fault for concocting a game plan that, had this been the regular season, would have been less efficient than every team except the Los Angeles Lakers and the Philadelphia 76ers.
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A couple and a homeless man who went viral in 2017 for a heartwarming story — where he used his last $20 to help a woman with car trouble, and she started a massive GoFundMe campaign to help him — have been charged with concocting the whole story to scam people into donating money.
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"One ShIXtty Gift" was unveiled by It's On Us, an anti-sexual assault organization founded during the Obama administration, to protest the Department of Education's (DOE) proposed changes to Title IX. The fake holiday tale reads like a Dr. Seuss book and tells the story of DeVos concocting the new rules changes.
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In fact, early abolitionists were concocting quotes and embellishing stories about her even during her lifetime:As Jean Humez shows in her book, Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Life Stories, this began with the very first abolitionists, who were responsible both for recording the illiterate Tubman's own narratives and for crafting the first biographies.
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"If Putin were a Hollywood villain, it would be easy to imagine the scene in his lair, as he watched the coverage of Comey's ouster, cackling and stroking his evil pussycat while concocting his next scheme for world domination," Phillip Carter, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, writes at Vox.
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It is incredibly hurtful that some news outlets have victimized Rand a second time as he struggles to recover, delighting in hateful headlines like "Not A Perfect Neighbor," and concocting theories about an "ongoing dispute," based on nothing more than speculation from an attention-seeking person with no knowledge of anything to do with us.
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The government, he said, would continue to crack down on "concocting and spreading rumors" — the accusation that the police in Wuhan leveled against Dr. Li. Reporting was contributed by Sheri Fink, Choe Sang-hun, Motoko Rich, Knvul Sheikh, Alissa J. Rubin, Mike Baker, Michael Crowley, Keith Bradsher, Raymond Zhong, Iliana Magra and Tess Felder.
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The case concerned two of Mr. Christie's associates, Bridget Anne Kelly and Bill Baroni, who were convicted of wire fraud and related federal charges for their roles in concocting a "traffic study" that caused extreme delays for motorists seeking to cross the bridge, the busiest in the world, from Fort Lee, N.J., to Manhattan.
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Like a mad scientist, he mixed and recombined genres, concocting peculiar hybrids like "Finch" (2009), a "fungal noir" about a detective assigned to solve the murder of a "grey cap," one of a race of mushroom-like spore-based entities that seized control of the city after a long and destructive period of human infighting.
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Now he finds it's clever to be a fabulist, concocting phony facts about the trade deficit when talking to the Canadian prime minister — one of our closest allies — or inventing a story for donors about how Japanese officials test American cars by dropping a bowling ball on their hoods from 20 feet up to see which ones dent.
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" Kelley said the press coverage of the incident has only added insult to injury, criticizing news outlets for "victimizing Rand a second time" and "delighting in hateful headlines like 'Not A Perfect Neighbor,' and concocting theories about an 'ongoing dispute,' based on nothing more than speculation from an attention-seeking person with no knowledge of anything to do with us.
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Speaking at a rally Monday night in Colorado, Trump addressed the tax controversy in part by concocting a ridiculous alternate economic history of the United States in which the small recession of the early 1990s was actually worse than the Great Recession of 2008: If you remember the early '90s, other than, I would say, 1928, there was nothing even close.
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And yet, when you consider that Pruitt has spent his first months on the job meeting with coal miners instead of public health advocates and concocting ways to delay, withdraw, and remove regulations that protect everyday Americans, it becomes clear who his real constituency is: corporate polluters, who for eight years under Obama were prevented from doing what they do best.
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"It is incredibly hurtful that some news outlets have victimized Rand a second time as he struggles to recover, delighting in hateful headlines like 'Not A Perfect Neighbor,' and concocting theories about an 'ongoing dispute,' based on nothing more than speculation from an attention-seeking person with no knowledge of anything to do with us," Kelley Paul wrote in an op-ed for CNN.
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Related: 'Better Call Saul' keeps adding layers Too much about "Ozark" echoes previous shows to give it any hint of freshness (thanks to the tone and setting, it's a mash-up of "Justified" and "Breaking Bad"); still, the writing is generally inventive about concocting wrinkles throughout an even-darker season that steadily advances the story — in a manner suited to a greedy Labor Day weekend binge — while laying plenty of groundwork for a third.
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Read more: 'Batman v Superman' - Who wins in each comic book showdown The main issue facing the writers of a superhero smackdown like this is concocting a reason why, given all the evil out there, they have to fight each other — as well as, in this case, coming up with a way to level the playing field when one hero is essentially immortal and the other is just a really buff rich guy with a costume and lots of gizmos.
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