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New Bern, NC--For the second straight night, the River Rats game at Boykin Field was rained out. Friday's scheduled game against the Columbia Blowfish was washed out, forcing a doubleheader on August 4th when the Blowfish return to New Bern. Fans holding tickets for Friday night's game can redeem them at any of the remaining home games during the 2007 season.
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The Rats' second album, A Tonic for the Troops, was their most commercially successful. It featured three hit singles, "Like Clockwork", "She's So Modern" and "Rat Trap", which became the first ever rock song by an Irish band to reach #1 in the UK, and the first of any description by an Irish band to top the chart used by the BBC (The Bachelors had topped the Record Retailer chart in 1964 with "Diane", but only reached number 2 on the Pick of the Pops chart), and was ... the first 'New Wave' song to claim the number one spot.
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New Bern, NC--The River Rats hit three home runs Sunday night to beat the visiting Catawba Valley Stars in an exhibition game, 6-4 at Boykin Field. Kenny Price had a solo home run and an RBI single for New Bern, and Keon Graves and Nick Hogan each added solo home runs to back starting pitcher Jon Anderson. Anderson, a River Rat during 2005 and 2006 and current assistant coach, was asked to take the mound for the exhibition and responded by pitching eight solid innings. Greenville's Aubrey Edens pitched a scoreless ninth inning for the save.
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``Rats to Roses'' by Tamra Raven celebrates New York City's community gardens and the dedicated volunteers who keep them flourishing. Tamra Raven recently founded Out of the Dirt Productions to raise awareness and encourage action on urgent environmental, health and social issues. She ... works as a producer for Cafe Digital, Oxygen Network and for the postproduction facility Mad Mad Judy.
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Selfless by nature, naked mole-rats happily share their food with colony-mates. Biologist Paul Sherman studied such foraging behavior in his laboratory at Cornell University. He observed that when an individual mole-rat discovers a new food source it will grab a chunk and scurry back to the nest, chirping all the way. Upon arrival at the nest, the food scout will wave the morsel aloft for all to smell. This chirp-and-wave maneuver sets off a small stampede, as workers race to collect more food and bring it back to feed the whole colony. Sherman believes the rodents are following a chemical trail or signature scent left by the scouting mole-rat.
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Once they have started to settle into their new environment, you can start introducing them to your existing rats, if you have any. All introductions should initially be in neutral territory, somewhere like a bed or bathroom. With young rats, it may not take much time before you can put them in the main cage together. Before you put them in together, you should disinfect the main cage and rearrange the toys, so they see that as neutral territory. Adding a little rescue remedy to their water, about 4-5 drops can ... help relax the rats. Vanilla essence can also be used to hide scents.
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