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TROY, Alabama — The Troy baseball team will be competing on the international stage this fall, with senior Blake Cavill being named to Australia's squad for the 2024 U-23 World Cup in Shaoxing, China. “It's going to be an amazing experience to represent my country and the Troy baseball community,” Cavill said. “I'm truly blessed and honored.” The Sydney, New South Wales native is no stranger to international competition, having represented Australia at the 2015 Little League World Series, 2016 U-15 World Cup and 2019 U-18 World Cup. “Whenever a player or coach has the opportunity to represent their country,…

The Business Services sector is beginning to stand out among the Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy) list, with 19 stocks in the space rated Strong Buy.Several of these highly ranked business services sector stocks belong to the Zacks Technology Services industry, which ranks in the top 30% of the roughly 250 Zacks industries. Additionally, now may be an ideal time to invest in these two technology services companies that recently launched their IPOs.SOFI TechnologiesTrading at under $10, Sofi Technologies shares are very attractive given its expansion as a consumer-centric financial platform. Sofi, which is set to go public in 2021,…

The third European Service Module is ready for shipment. Courtesy of ESA-P. Sebirot The European Service Module, which will power the Orion spacecraft during the Artemis 3 mission to the Moon, is due to depart for the United States shortly. The service module left the Airbus Space integration hall in Bremen, Germany, and is now scheduled to travel to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in the United States. Built in Italy, assembled in Germany, with collaboration from across Europe, the module will make the 12-day transatlantic journey aboard the Canopé, the same ship that transported Ariane 6 to the European spaceport…

Olivia Trani Wildfire season is back in North America. Wildfires are burning much of Canada and the West Coast, spreading smoke for hundreds of miles across the country. While many of us know we should avoid wildfire smoke and take precautions on hazy days, there is other air pollution we are exposed to throughout the year, often on a daily basis.”Even if you can't see it, you could be exposed to air pollution,” said Dr. Steven Fong, director of the VCU Integrative Life Sciences doctoral program and professor in the Department of Chemical and Life Science Engineering in the VCU…

Marriott's 600th hotel in Asia Pacific: Marriott International has opened its 600th hotel in Asia Pacific excluding China with the opening of the Adelaide Marriott Hotel. The hotel will be Marriott International's first hotel in South Australia. Fronted by the 150-year-old landmark Adelaide General Post Office building, the 14-storey hotel features 285 rooms, including 12 suites, with skyline views. The hotel overlooks Victoria Square and is close to Adelaide Oval, Rundle Mall and Her Majesty's Theatre. The hotel features three restaurants, a fitness centre, an 18-metre indoor pool and meeting space. Marriott Hotels entered Asia Pacific in 1989 with the…

news New Leader Manufacturing Introduces New Dry Fertilizer Spreader Technology A new technology introduced to the dry fertilizer market this week could be a game changer for farmers. Zac Rissi, business development specialist at New Leader Manufacturing, says the NL720 spreader brings a new level of efficiency. “This machine has allowed us to increase our spread width to 120 feet,” he says. “That 33 percent increase in width has dramatically increased our productivity.” He told Brownfield that it would also eliminate the need for time-consuming maintenance. “Maintenance is very important in the environment we work in, and this machine has…

Adre is supposed to be a town in transition: on the border between Chad and Sudan, originally used for cross-border trade, it is now a transit point for people fleeing civil war and famine in what some diplomats call “the world's worst humanitarian crisis.” More than 600,000 refugees have reportedly fled Sudan to Chad in the past 16 months, meaning neighboring Chad has taken in more Sudanese refugees in one year than it did in the past 20 years combined, many of whom have settled at makeshift border posts, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said. An additional…

British health officials have rejected a drug that could slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease, saying the benefits are not big enough to justify the costs of the treatment and close monitoring of patients for signs of “serious side effects”.Administered twice a month, lecanemab removes sticky clumps of amyloid-beta protein in the brain that are thought to be a hallmark of the disease. The drug is not a cure, but in clinical trials the treatment slowed cognitive decline in early-stage Alzheimer's patients by 27% compared with a placebo.Britain's medicines regulator, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), gave the…

Commercial content, 21+. Last week we placed a bet on Pittsburgh's Paul Skenes and won the money. The rookie sensation was sensational, holding Seattle to just two runs over six innings. I'm back again. Like the Buccaneers, the Reds are also a team aiming to make the playoffs. Cincinnati's Nick Lodolo faced Kansas City in his last start, and the Royals blitzed him, allowing eight runs in just 2 1/3 innings. Queen Camilla was also a hit. Left-hander Nick Lodolo will start for the Reds on Thursday. (Getty Images) If Pirates can get close to that kind of scoring support,…

Australia's Jeff Davenport and England's Anne Manley made history with breakthrough victories at the WSF World Masters Squash Championships in Amsterdam, becoming the most decorated World Masters players of all time in front of a sellout crowd at the Ottenstadion in France. Those victories weren't the only thing happening in Amsterdam this week: this year's championships also saw a record-breaking turnout, with 1,070 athletes taking part. Top-seeded Davenport beat South Africa's Pia Ruud 11-7, 11-5, 11-8 in the 65+ final to win her seventh world championship and set a new record. “I was very nervous this morning, the most nervous…