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The master suite’s bedroom, bathroom and walk-in closet are all about equal size. The bedroom and bathroom share a double-faced fireplace. The bathroom also has a soaking tub set in a granite base and a large walk-in granite-and-glass shower with multiple jets.

Thus, it surprised me that the quotation in the headline (paper edition) of this post comes from Paul Farhi, who writes about media for the Washington Post. Farhi’s article is unsparing. If he were a pro-Trumper, he might be accused of spiking the football.

Concerns over how the young warm-latitude raptor would survive the winter turned out to be well-founded. In mid-January, after the second of two snowstorms, the hawk was found in a park with severe frostbite on its legs. 

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Quarries from the town of Oxford, (60 miles to Utica via Canal), also could supply stone of blue color, homogeneous texture and fine grain. This was used for special details but mainly for steps and large platforms, as in the curbs of sidewalks. But its hardness was a disadvantage, making carving more difficult and expensive.

They are not particularly gregarious or playful — in fact they have been described as solitary and anti-social creatures, coming together only in breeding season. They have a large vocabulary, consisting most notably of an assortment of clucking and chucking sounds, not unlike some “game” birds, and they warn the listening world of approaching threats with distress screams. In the spring and fall, groups of fox squirrels clucking and chucking together can make a small ruckus. When threatening another fox squirrel, they will stand upright with their tail over their back and flick it.

“It’s a pretty exciting experience inside the station actually with all the launches through there,” Schaffer said. “It launches at 25 mph, then 50 and then over 60 to get up through the rest of the structure.”

In September 2007, the McCanns were labeled “arguidos,” or suspects, in Madeleine’s disappearance, and police alleged the little girl’s DNA was found in the trunk of their car and behind a sofa in the apartment. 

The years that followed saw a series of investigations open, close, reopen, ramp up and scale down, all while the McCanns continued to speak out in the hopes that their daughter would be found. 

There’s a mystique about hummingbirds that makes even people who don’t put out feeders for other kinds of birds mix or buy nectar for glass or plastic feeders. And it also makes people buy hummingbird related products, some of which are, well, unusual or just plain dumb.

Under the 2013 agreement that legalized casino gambling in New York, a moratorium was put on New York City’s eligibility for licensing until 2023, the point being to focus on upstate casinos so the region could get a head start on reaping the rewards.