To be fair, some plumbing companies prefer CPVC. Ferran Services & Contracting uses it on a regular basis.

However, if there is too much tuck or too much flare and the width and touch point are correct, I’ll actually tell the lifter to flare or tuck their elbow, whichever is needed. I really don’t cue it outside of that—very often anyways.

Over the spring, Varsano had insisted that I really couldn’t comprehend the appeal of these planes unless I flew with an owner myself. “You could read a book about swimming,” he said, “but until I throw you into the pool, you’re not going to swim.” He offered to connect me to a customer who might grant me that privilege: his buddy Tony Robbins, motivational guru to the jet-possession set. Robbins flies 400 hours a year, including regular runs to London and Australia, and wherever he goes, he takes an entourage — usually a trainer, a bodyworker, two assistants, his wife and her Yorkie.

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I couldn’t begin to choose a favorite, but there is one ornament that probably best symbolizes our commitment to collecting souvenir ornaments.

If you don’t remember what you read in middle school, A Wrinkle in Time is the story of a young girl named Meg Murry on a mission to save her scientist father, who has been taken prisoner by a dark force in the universe intent on crushing free thought and free will. Along the way she’s assisted by her classmate Calvin O’Keefe, brother Charles Wallace, and three celestial beings—Mrs. Who, Mrs. Which, and Mrs. Whatsit—who help her jump, or tesser, through space-time. The story is the same in DuVernay’s version for Disney, but there are a couple of significant new wrinkles. Since her first feature film in 2008, DuVernay has used whatever success she’s attained to give other women and people of color opportunities on both sides of the camera. So in 2016, when Disney announced that she would direct A Wrinkle in Time, and DuVernay became the first African American woman to helm a $100 million-plus movie (but “not the first capable of doing so,” she later noted on Twitter, “not by a long shot”)—she promised a new vision of the original. “You kind of have to remix the book,” DuVernay told The Wall Street Journal. The casting made clear that she was making good on that promise: Meg is now biracial, played by 14-year-old Storm Reid, and Mindy Kaling and Oprah Winfrey play Mrs. Who and Mrs. Which, respectively.

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Reese Witherspoon, Portman’s producer on the upcoming Pale Blue Dot, says, “Natalie is full of incredible ideas. She’ll text me and a couple of the other girls, ‘I have a crazy idea!’ And they’re always great. And then I’ll say, ‘Hold up, how are we going to pay for this?’ And somebody else is ‘How are we going to execute this?’ We all have our different proficiencies. It is sort of a SWAT team. She is our instigator. Our catalyst.”

I live in metro Detroit. I have 2 contract jobs with no benefits. Husband works for a small business that subsidizes his plan, but adding me would be full price. Our combined income puts us over the limit for any ACA subsidy.

After all, what seems like a disaster can sometimes be an opportunity to change our perspective. Some of the other ornaments you’ll read about here were long-ago misplaced or tarnished beyond repair, but their significance shines just as brightly in the hearts of our readers as it did when the decorations were physically present. These cherished memories, shared with one another and immortalized in newspaper ink, will surely outlast any tree ornament’s shelf life.

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Ever since Popper, bassist Bobby Sheehan, guitarist Chan Kinchla and drummer Brendan Hill started Blues Traveler as Princeton, N.J. high school students in the mid-1980s, they’ve fought with an underlying sense of survival.