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TORONTO (AP) — Britta Curl-Salemme and Michaela Cava each scored twice and the Minnesota Frost beat the Toronto Sceptres 6-3 on Saturday in the Professional Women’s Hockey League. Curl-Salemme gave Minnesota a 4-3 lead at 6:29 of the third period. Cava scored the final two goals, the last into an empty net. Claire Butorac and Dominique Petrie also scored and Maddy Rooney stopped 21 shots to help Minnesota improve to 2-0-1. Daryl Watts, Victoria Bach and Jesse Compher scored for Toronto. The Sceptres are 1-2-0. Minnesota beat Toronto for the fourth straight game dating to last season’s playoffs. The Frost won the final three games of a best-of-five semifinal after dropping the first two. Frost: Defender Maggie Flaherty served the first game of a two-game suspension for a headshot on Boston’s Alina Mueller, with Mae Batherson taking her place for her PWHL debut. Batherson is the younger sister of Ottawa Senators forward Drake Batherson. Sceptres: Rylind MacKinnon is one of only two Canadian university players in the PWHL, with New York's Emmy Fecteau from Concordia the other. MacKinn, a former University of British Columbia defender, has two assists this season. Toronto is at New York on Wednesday night. Minnesota host Ottawa on Thursday night. ___ AP sports: https://apnews.com/sports

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Story ID: S2P122844 APDF15TBLLI To view the original version, visit: © 2024 Send2Press® Newswire, a press release distribution service, Calif., USA.If I tried to explain to you what an NCAA Tournament bracket pool is, you’d look at me like I had three heads. Everybody knows the bracket drill like the back of their hand. Less common — but more fun, if you ask me — is a confidence pool during college football bowls season. Many of you know how these work, too. But for those who don’t, the rules are simple. Step 1: Pick your winners of every bowl game. Step 2: Assign a “confidence” number to each winner. Step 3: Wallow in self-doubt until you notice how much time has gone by and reach Step 4, which is saying, “What the hell am I doing with my life?” This season, there are 36 bowls outside the College Football Playoff and four first-round playoff games whose matchups we already know. Leaving the rest of the playoff — the unknowable — out of the equation, that’s 40 winners for us to pick. 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Celebration: South Carolina State vs. Jackson State, Saturday The MEAC champ is 6-2 against the SWAC champ in this bowl. That’s reason enough to put 6 on SCSU. Salute to Veterans: South Alabama vs. Western Michigan, Saturday Even with its QB1’s availability in doubt, South Alabama is good for a 25 in a home-state (Montgomery) game. Frisco: No. 25 Memphis vs. West Virginia, Tuesday WVU is a snoozy 6-6 and has some key guys missing this one. Ten-win Memphis gets 23. Boca Raton: James Madison vs. Western Kentucky, Wednesday Putting 26 on JMU, which plays strong defense, leads the nation in turnover margin and — unlike its opponent — hasn’t had that much roster flux. LA: No. 24 UNLV vs. Cal, Wednesday A lucky 7 on the team from Vegas, please. New Orleans: Sam Houston vs. Georgia Southern, Thursday One team has more than 20 scholarship players in the portal, and it isn’t Georgia Southern, which gets 28. Cure: Ohio vs. Jacksonville State, Friday A 19-spot for the MAC champs, even with coach Tim Albin having left for Charlotte. Gasparilla: Florida vs. Tulane, Friday QB Darian Mensah portaled from Tulane to Duke and took the Green Wave’s chances with him — 34 on the Gators. Myrtle Beach: Coastal Carolina vs. UTSA, Dec. 23 Does Coastal even have a QB left to run out there? UTSA for 37. Potato: Northern Illinois vs. Fresno State, Dec. 23 NIU’s upset of No. 5 Notre Dame can’t just be forgotten. Gimme 5, Huskies. Hawaii: South Florida vs. San Jose State, Dec. 24 U-S-F! U-S-F! For 10. GameAbove Sports: Pitt vs. Toledo, Dec. 26 Pitt fell way off after being ranked as high as 18th in the land. I’ve got 29 on a bounce-back. Rate: Rutgers vs. Kansas State, Dec. 26 Two tough-minded teams, but K-Staters know how to win — 16. 68 Ventures: Arkansas State vs. Bowling Green, Dec. 26 September score reminder: Penn State 34, BGSU 27. And it’s BGSU here for 27. Armed Forces: Navy vs. Oklahoma, Dec. 27 An upset would be fun, but 21 on the bigger, faster Sooners. Birmingham: Georgia Tech vs. Vanderbilt, Dec. 27 Vandy gets QB Diego Pavia’s jersey number: 2. Liberty: Arkansas vs. Texas Tech, Dec. 27 Woo! Pig! Sooie! A 3 on the Hogs. Holiday: No. 21 Syracuse vs. Washington State, Dec. 27 Rolling big — 35 — on Syracuse, which stared down Miami when Miami absolutely had to win. Las Vegas: USC vs. Texas A&M, Dec. 27 Two disappointing teams belong together, but the pick is Trojans for 8. Fenway: UConn vs. North Carolina, Dec. 28 Putting Ted Williams’ number — 9 — on UConn at Fenway Park. Pinstripe: Boston College vs. Nebraska, Dec. 28 Is cheering for Boston at Yankee Stadium wrong? BC for 4. New Mexico: TCU vs. Louisiana, Dec. 28 TCU’s excellent second half of the season demands a big ol’ 33. Pop-Tarts: No. 13 Miami vs. No. 18 Iowa State, Dec. 28 Is Miami’s morale shot? A fairly confident 18 on ISU. 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Texas: LSU vs. Baylor, Dec. 31 LSU has loads of talent but no mojo. Another upset — 17 on Baylor. Gator: No. 14 Ole Miss vs. Duke, Jan. 2 QB Jaxson Dart is a go, and that means 38 easy-breezy points on Ole Miss. First Responder: North Texas vs. Texas State, Jan. 3 Texas State is a 31-point play against a team forced into starting a true freshman QB with almost no game reps. Mayo: Minnesota vs. Virginia Tech, Jan. 3 I’ve got 22 points on P.J. Fleck running his bowl record at Minnesota to 6-0. Bahamas: Liberty vs. Buffalo, Jan. 4 What do you want from me? I flipped a coin and it came up Buffalo for 1.

Mesmerizing Lava Flows, Bubbles, and Belches in IcelandPhoto: The Canadian Press Damien Steel, right, Deep Sky CEO and Isabelle Callaghan, Deep Sky Project Manager, are seen posing for a photo at Deep Sky's direct air capture test facility, which is currently under construction, in Innisfail, Alta., in a 2024 handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Deep Sky, A Canadian company that has received a US$40-million grant from Bill Gates' climate solutions venture firm says its Alberta test site will be removing carbon directly from the atmosphere as early as this spring. Montreal-based startup Deep Sky announced Wednesday it was awarded funding from the Gates-founded Breakthrough Energy Catalyst to help finance what it calls its Deep Sky Alpha project. Construction work at the project site, located north of Calgary in the town of Innisfail, is already under way, Deep Sky CEO Damien Steel said in an interview. "This should be a proud moment for Canada. This facility in April of 2025 will be one of the first full-stack facilities in North America to actually remove CO2 from the atmosphere using renewable power, and store it underground in a deep saline aquifer," Steel said. Founded in 2023 by Frederic Lalonde — the Canadian entrepreneur who co-founded online travel company Hopper, Inc. — DeepSky aims to tackle the global climate crisis by building the world's first direct air capture carbon removal test hub and commercialization centre. It is the first Canadian company to receive an investment from Breakthrough Energy Catalyst, which funds commercial projects for emerging climate technologies in an effort to accelerate their adoption and reduce their costs. "The world will ultimately need many approaches to carbon removal at prices far lower than is achievable today, but Deep Sky's platform will enable and accelerate the kind of real-world innovation that could make affordable (direct air capture) achievable," Mario Fernandez, head of Breakthrough Energy Catalyst, said in a release. Direct air capture is a term that refers to physically removing excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to slow global warming. It is different from carbon capture and storage, which refers to capturing carbon from smokestacks or other industrial emission points. Pulling carbon dioxide directly from the air is seen by proponents as a way to clean up historic emissions that have already escaped into the atmosphere, meaning it could potentially help reverse the damaging impacts of climate change. The technology typically involves the use of giant vacuums or fans to suck in air and then pass it through a filtration system to remove the CO2 for safe storage underground. Companies such as Canada's Carbon Engineering Ltd. — which was acquired by U.S.-based Occidental Petroleum for US$1.1 billion in 2023 — and Switzerland's Climeworks already have major projects in Texas and Iceland, respectively. But while the number of direct air capture pilot projects around the world is growing, the technology remains expensive and faces steep barriers to wide-scale deployment. "(Direct air capture) is much, much more difficult than (traditional carbon capture and storage) because the density of CO2 in the air is much lower than the density of CO2 in the chimney stack," Steel said. "(The industry) also has an energy problem. You need renewable power to run these devices and we just don't have enough renewable power on the planet." At its Innisfail site, Deep Sky says it will be piloting up to 14 direct air capture projects from companies around the world, in an effort to see which ones work best and could be commercialized. It has already signed contracts with eight companies to deploy their individual technologies at the site. "There are over 100 (direct air capture) companies in the world today, and we've met with every single one," Steel said. "We're looking for technologies that have a path to being very energy efficient, and we also look for technology that doesn't require any special type of feedstock and doesn't produce any crazy type of waste." Carbon dioxide captured at the Deep Sky site will be transported to an existing well at the Meadowbrook Carbon Storage Hub facility north of Edmonton, where it will be injected and stored two kilometres underground. The entire test hub will be powered by renewable energy, and Deep Sky intends to generate revenue by selling the carbon credits it earns. Deep Sky plans to invest over $100 million in the project over a 10-year period, and added the project will benefit from a federal investment tax credit that aims to incentivize the construction of carbon capture facilities in Canada. The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has acknowledged that carbon dioxide removal at the scale of millions or even billions of tonnes will be necessary by 2050 in order to stabilize the planet's climate. That is a daunting task, Steel said, given only a small handful of projects currently exist worldwide. The largest, Climeworks' Mammoth facility in Iceland, has capacity to capture just up to 36,000 tonnes of CO2 annually. But Steel said he believes it is both possible and necessary to rapidly scale up the deployment of direct air capture technology. "What I love to tell people is, it's truly incredible what human beings can do when their backs are against the wall," he said.

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