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Betty
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Betty was found and brought to the Sacramento, CA City Shelter Christmas Eve. Betty's Christmas present was a new shelter director who does not come from an animal shelter background, and consequently does not believe it is necessary to kill. So Betty, the athletic, incredibly muscular, 70 pound, 1-2 year old independent canine waits impatiently to be adopted by an athlete who is an experienced dog owner and will put some time into training her. She can jump about 3 feet straight up, but that's mostly pent-up energy from being stuck in a kennel. A few minutes tearing around the yard and she calmed right down. If you know any potential adopters around Sacramento, put them in touch please. The shelter's having a "name your own price" special through Valentine's Day.
www.cityofsacramento.org/generalservices/animal-care/adop...
beat 50
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beat
verb, beat, beat⋅en or beat, beat⋅ing, noun, adjective
–verb (used with object)
1. to strike violently or forcefully and repeatedly.
2. to dash against: rain beating the trees.
3. to flutter, flap, or rotate in or against: beating the air with its wings.
4. to sound, as on a drum: beating a steady rhythm; to beat a tattoo.
5. to stir vigorously: Beat the egg whites well.
6. to break, forge, or make by blows: to beat their swords into plowshares.
7. to produce (an attitude, idea, habit, etc.) by repeated efforts: I'll beat some sense into him.
8. to make (a path) by repeated treading.
9. to strike (a person or animal) repeatedly and injuriously: Some of the hoodlums beat their victims viciously before robbing them.
10. Music. to mark (time) by strokes, as with the hand or a metronome.
11. Hunting. to scour (the forest, grass, or brush), and sometimes make noise, in order to rouse game.
12. to overcome in a contest; defeat.
13. to win over in a race: We beat the English challenger to Bermuda.
14. to be superior to: Making reservations beats waiting in line.
15. to be incomprehensible to; baffle: It beats me how he got the job.
16. to defeat or frustrate (a person), as a problem to be solved: It beats me how to get her to understand.
17. to mitigate or offset the effects of: beating the hot weather; trying to beat the sudden decrease in land values.
18. Slang. to swindle; cheat (often fol. by out): He beat him out of hundreds of dollars on that deal.
19. to escape or avoid (blame or punishment).
20. Textiles. to strike (the loose pick) into its proper place in the woven cloth by beating the loosely deposited filling yarn with the reed.
–verb (used without object)
21. to strike repeated blows; pound.
22. to throb or pulsate: His heart began to beat faster.
23. to dash; strike (usually fol. by against or on): rain beating against the windows.
24. to resound under blows, as a drum.
25. to achieve victory in a contest; win: Which team do you think will beat?
26. to play, as on a drum.
27. to scour cover for game.
28. Physics. to make a beat or beats.
29. (of a cooking ingredient) to foam or stiffen as a result of beating or whipping: This cream won't beat.
30. Nautical. to tack to windward by sailing close-hauled.
–noun
31. a stroke or blow.
32. the sound made by one or more such blows: the beat of drums.
33. a throb or pulsation: a pulse of 60 beats per minute.
34. the ticking sound made by a clock or watch escapement.
35. one's assigned or regular path or habitual round: a policeman's beat.
36. Music.
a. the audible, visual, or mental marking of the metrical divisions of music.
b. a stroke of the hand, baton, etc., marking the time division or an accent for music during performance.
37. Theater. a momentary time unit imagined by an actor in timing actions: Wait four beats and then pick up the phone.
38. Prosody. the accent stress, or ictus, in a foot or rhythmical unit of poetry.
39. Physics. a pulsation caused by the coincidence of the amplitudes of two oscillations of unequal frequencies, having a frequency equal to the difference between the frequencies of the two oscillations.
40. Journalism.
a. the reporting of a piece of news in advance, esp. before it is reported by a rival or rivals. Compare exclusive (def. 13), scoop (def. 8).
b. Also called newsbeat, run. the particular news source or activity that a reporter is responsible for covering.
41. a subdivision of a county, as in Mississippi.
42. (often initial capital letter) Informal. beatnik.
–adjective
43. Informal. exhausted; worn out.
44. (often initial capital letter) of or characteristic of members of the Beat Generation or beatniks.
—Verb phrases
45. beat about,
a. to search through; scour: After beating about for several hours, he turned up the missing papers.
b. Nautical. to tack into the wind.
46. beat back, to force back; compel to withdraw: to beat back an attacker.
47. beat down,
a. to bring into subjection; subdue.
b. Informal. to persuade (a seller) to lower the price of something: His first price was too high, so we tried to beat him down.
48. beat off,
a. to ward off; repulse: We had to beat off clouds of mosquitoes.
b. Slang: Vulgar. to masturbate.
49. beat out,
a. Informal. to defeat; win or be chosen over: to beat out the competition.
b. Carpentry. to cut (a mortise).
c. to produce hurriedly, esp. by writing or typing: There are three days left to beat out the first draft of the novel.
d. Baseball. (of a hitter) to make (an infield ground ball or bunt) into a hit: He beat out a weak grounder to third.
50. beat up,
a. Also, beat up on. to strike repeatedly so as to cause painful injury; thrash: A gang of toughs beat him up on the way home from school. In the third round the champion really began to beat up on the challenger.
b. British Informal. to find or gather; scare up: I'll beat up some lunch for us while you make out the shopping list.
—Idioms
51. beat all, Informal. to surpass anything of a similar nature, esp. in an astonishing or outrageous way: The way he came in here and ordered us around beats all!
52. beat a retreat. retreat (def. 12).
53. beat around or about the bush. bush 1 (def. 17).
54. beat it, Informal. to depart; go away: He was pestering me, so I told him to beat it.
55. beat the air or wind, to make repeated futile attempts.
56. beat the rap. rap 1 (def. 16).
57. off one's beat, outside of one's routine, general knowledge, or range of experience: He protested that nonobjective art was off his beat.
58. on the beat, in the correct rhythm or tempo: By the end of the number they were all finally playing on the beat.
NYC - AMNH: Hall of North American Mammals - Alaska Brown Bear
Image by wallyg
The Alaska Brown Bear (Ursus gyas Merriam), is a giant relative of the grizzly and the European brown bear. It is probably the largest living carnivore reaching a maximum weight of over sixteen hundred pounds. It does not have the reputation of the grizzly for ferocity and differs from that species by shorter claws and more concave profile. The large size of the Alaska bear is probably related to the abundant and rich food supply, the hordes of salmon that run all summer, and the plentiful vegetable food available in late spring and in the late fall, supplemented by mice, marmots and carrion. The brown bear hibernates high on the mountain slopes in the autumn, sometimes as late as November. The bears are still fat when they emerge in April or May, but they eat little the first few days. Food is relatively scarce in the early spring; these two males have just come down to the warm lowlands where more can be found. These bears are most active in the daytime and they are usually solitary except when drawn to a common source of food. The cubs remain with the mother for almost two years and apparently take six or seven years to reach full size and weight.
This diaorma presents the brown bears in Canube, on the Alaska peninsula. The volcanic mountain range in the background is named the Aghileen pinnacles. The cup-like cirques and the u-shaped valleys are formed by the scooping action of the snowfields and the grinding flow of glaciers or rivers of ice. Stones and pebbles in the foreground are water rounded Igneous rock brought down from the mountains.
The dioramas in the Museum of Natural History's Hall of North American Mammals, opened in 1958, with their precise depictions of geographical locations and the careful, anatomically correct mounting of the specimens, are windows onto a world of animals, their behavior, and their habitats. Moreover, since many of the environments represented have been exploited or degraded, some dioramas preserve places and animals as they no longer exist.
More than 25 Museum expeditions, ranging from Mexico to Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic and from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans, produced the magnificent displays in the Hall of North American mammals. James Perry Wilson (1889-1976), a master of artful illusion, painted the backgrounds for many of the dioramas. In addition to accurately capturing every detail, his paintings evoke the intangible feel of the places they depict. This is owed in part to Wilson's dizzyingly precise perspective, one of his signature qualities. In his dioramas the real materials of the foreground merge impeccably with the painted background, uniting the two- and three-dimensional into a seamless whole.
