Fairgoers experience exotic pets up close and personal ? The ...

Terri Wise lets children pet a tortoise at the Medina County Fair on Tuesday. She said tortoises are faster than most people expect, and they are different from turtles because tortoises aren?t aquatic. (GAZETTE PHOTO BY NICK GLUNT)

Mojo, a young ring-tailed lemur, clings Tuesday to Wise, its owner. (GAZETTE PHOTO BY NICK GLUNT)

Terri Wise places a corn snake around the shoulders of a volunteer Tuesday at the Medina County Fair. ?Don?t worry, the snake only eats one kid a day, and I fed it mine earlier,? Wise joked. Corn snakes aren?t venomous. (GAZETTE PHOTO BY NICK GLUNT)

Lions, and tigers, and bears ? well, not quite.

They aren?t that dangerous, but Medina County fairgoers all week have the chance to see and touch the unusual pets owned by Chatham Township animal lover Terri Wise and her husband, Bryan.

And best of all, it?s free.

On Tuesday, more than 50 people got to interact with some of the Wises? ?cute and cuddly? pets ? a ring-tailed lemur, chinchillas, a groundhog and an angora rabbit ? and the ?creepy crawly? ones, like her gargoyle gecko, corn snake, legless lizard and panther chameleon.

?Mom and Dad,? Terri Wise said to the parents in the audience, ?I wasn?t allowed to have pets growing up, and now I have almost a hundred.

?Get them a hamster.?

She said most of her family?s pets are rescued or given to them. Very few are purchased, she said.

She and her husband run Our Zoo to You, an animal show company. Wise said she puts on shows all around Ohio, but prefers to stay in Medina County and the surrounding area.

?One hundred percent of the money we make from the shows goes right to the animals,? she said.

Shows later this week are set to include a fox, a 7?-foot boa constrictor and raccoons. Wise said she?s also planning to bring a coati, which is a Brazilian relative of the raccoon, and a kinkajou, which is native to rainforests.

Visitors to the county fair can stop by the animal shows at 2, 4 and 6 p.m. today and Sunday, and 3, 5 and 7 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

For more information on Our Zoo to You or to book the Wises for an event, visit www.animalshowsohio.com.

Contact reporter Nick Glunt at (330) 721-4048 or nglunt@medina-gazette.com.

Source: http://medinagazette.northcoastnow.com/2013/07/31/fairgoers-experience-exotic-pets-up-close-and-personal/

Zeek Rewards vanessa bryant vanessa bryant Prince Harry naked Prince Harry Vegas Melky Cabrera Mayim Bialik

War Movie Theme Soundboards for Android

War Movie Theme Soundboards

About: Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a wookiee and two droids to save the universe from the Empire's world-destroying battle-station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the evil Darth Vader.

This App is an excellent way to get new free ringtones, notifications or alarms! If you are interested in listening to some awesome sound bites then you gotta get this App.

Main Features: Easy Navigation, Add to Favorites, Quick & Easy Play Button, Set as Default Ringtone, Set as Contact Ringtone, Default Notification, Set as Default Alarn

Advertising: We include a monetization platform to keep this app 100% FREE

Source: http://www.appszoom.com/android_themes/soundboards/war-movie-theme-soundboards_hgyvw.html?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Free++Applications+for+Android

delonte west vanessa williams nicklas backstrom discovery shuttle allure jane goodall saturday night fever

Election for Rancho California Water District Board Begins

Jul 30, 2013

admin ? Temecula ? begins, board, California, district, Election, RANCHO, Water ? No comments

Candidates are vying for five sea?

Read more about Election for Rancho California Water District Board Begins

Source: http://inlandsocal.com/2013/07/30/election-for-rancho-california-water-district-board-begins/

Angel Cabrera Jay Z Open Letter glee glee masters live frozen four Rehtaeh Parsons

Check Out How Much Better Twitter Could Look (and Work)

In the early days, Twitter was famous for its dead simple design: a box, some text, a button. But over the years, it's gotten busier with the hashtags and the @ mentions and the retweets. Some might say say too busy. So why not just start over and rebuild this thing from the ground up?

Read more...

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/3BpcuZtKvRw/check-out-how-much-better-twitter-could-look-and-work-962830003

Ray Lewis Murder UFC 156 my bloody valentine Super Bowl Winners what time does the superbowl start Kaepernick Tattoos superbowl time

Clouds save Earth from runaway greenhouse hell

Look to Venus, and gulp. On our planet's twin, the atmosphere is toxic and at 460 ?C, the temperature is high enough to melt zinc. Earth was thought to be immune from such a fevered state, but a new study suggests we shouldn't be quite so complacent ? if it wasn't for clouds we would already be in trouble

A phenomenon known as the runaway greenhouse effect may be responsible for the Venus we see today. This occurs when a critical rise in temperature increases the amount of water evaporated from a planet's oceans, loading its atmosphere with water vapour. Water vapour is a potent greenhouse gas, meaning it hungrily absorbs thermal radiation from the sun-warmed surface, making things even hotter and completing the vicious cycle.

Within a few thousand years, any life on such a planet will end. "If you boil the planet, everything dies," says Colin Goldblatt at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada.

Models created in the 1990s suggested that Earth was far enough away from the sun that the runaway could not happen on Earth today. At our distance, the sun's heat is much less intense than it is for Venus, and calculations of the energy balance predicted that a steamy atmosphere on Earth would actually radiate more heat into space than it would take in.

But since then, our measurements of how water and carbon dioxide absorb different wavelengths of light have improved. To get an up-to-date picture, Goldblatt and his colleagues ran a new model and found that these subtle corrections have changed the balance. Now it seems a steamy atmosphere on Earth would absorb more heat than it emits, so the runaway greenhouse could indeed happen.

Steamy atmosphere

In fact, the model suggests that if we did not have clouds, which reduce the temperature by scattering sunlight and reflecting much of it back into space, we could already be done for. "Clouds save the day," says Goldblatt.

Even though we are now offsetting the cooling effect of clouds by emitting greenhouse gases, we can probably breathe easily. Goldblatt calculates that it would be possible for us to push Earth into a runaway greenhouse, but only by raising the concentration of CO₂ in the atmosphere to around 30,000 parts per million ? vastly more than it would reach if we burned all the available fossil fuel reserves.

Some uncertainty remains, however, because it is hard to be sure how clouds would behave if we did get close to runaway. Modern three-dimensional climate models cannot simulate such extreme climates. "It would be like taking a Ford Fiesta and trying to drive it up a mountain," says Goldblatt.

Max Popp at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany is trying to make more rugged models that can deal with temperatures up to 120??C ? well beyond the threshold temperature for a runaway greenhouse. However, he points out that having no observations of such a hot climate makes it very difficult.

Updating the energy balance is a valuable piece of work, says Raymond Pierrehumbert at the University of Chicago, Illinois, "but I think we are still safe against the Venus syndrome."

Journal reference: Nature Geoscience, DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1892

If you would like to reuse any content from New Scientist, either in print or online, please contact the syndication department first for permission. New Scientist does not own rights to photos, but there are a variety of licensing options available for use of articles and graphics we own the copyright to.

Have your say

Only subscribers may leave comments on this article. Please log in.

Only personal subscribers may leave comments on this article

Subscribe now to comment.

All comments should respect the New Scientist House Rules. If you think a particular comment breaks these rules then please use the "Report" link in that comment to report it to us.

If you are having a technical problem posting a comment, please contact technical support.

Source: http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/2f4d68bd/sc/22/l/0L0Snewscientist0N0Carticle0Cdn239530Eclouds0Esave0Eearth0Efrom0Erunaway0Egreenhouse0Ehell0Bhtml0Dcmpid0FRSS0QNSNS0Q20A120EGLOBAL0Qonline0Enews/story01.htm

adrienne rich autism cesar chavez day raspberry ketone ron burgundy millennial media nit championship

Letter: Obama should be called BAM president

During President Obama's speech at Galesburg on July 24 he mentioned "phony scandals." Exactly which phony scandals was he talking about?

Was it the phony excuse given for the attack at Benghazi, claiming that it was a spontaneous demonstration to retaliate for an anti-Muslim video, rather than a devastating planned attack which resulted in the death of our ambassador and those who tried to defend him?

Was it the targeting of many conservative individuals and groups by the Internal Revenue Service? I'm sure the victims consider this a real, not a phony scandal.

Was it the emails and phone calls of a media reporter's entire family which were confiscated because he tried to get the facts about a news story? Do James Rosen and his family think the administration's snooping was phony, rather than real? No way!

In 2008, a substance more slippery than Teflon was discovered.

Source: http://www.qconline.com/archives/qco/display.php?id=647349

the colony ncaa final four 2012 uk vs louisville university of kansas buckeye west side story final four 2012

Make it yourself with a 3-D printer and save big time

[unable to retrieve full-text content]A new study shows that families can save hundreds if not thousands of dollars by making their own household items with a 3-D printer.

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/computers_math/information_technology/~3/qcDHuqTst-4/130729144622.htm

Paula Broadwell Photos Veterans Day 2012 Nate Silver Obama Acceptance Speech 2012 dow jones ariel winter Paige Butcher