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Seattle's best soup dumplings are setting up shop in its first Texas outpost, located conveniently in Houston's Midtown.

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Seattle-based xiao long bao staple, Dough Zone announced it will open its first Houston location in Midtown on Oct. 2. Dough Zone is known on the West Coast for slanging regional varieties of Chinese cuisine, highlighting northern style eats. Of note are its famed Berkshire pork-filled xiao long bao, bursting with flavorful broth, as well as its potstickers and pan-fried Q bao.

The restaurant, which has locations throughout Washington and California, will anchor its dumpling-loving audience with two other Houston-area stores, CultureMap reported. Soup dumpling lovers should anticipate openings near the Galleria in January 2024 and Sugar Land in April 2024

Houston is no stranger to xiao long bao, which is a highlight for many of the city's Chinese restaurants. The delicious, pockets of broth have been featured in a growing number of restaurants, though few can do it well. As any Asiatown aficionado will tell you, the city's best soup dumplings are found at One Dragon, though some argue that Tiger Noodle House rivals it. The popularity of the latter has expanded past Houston, with Tiger Noodle House opening up shop in San Antonio.

A quick lesson

Despite their popularity around the world, xiao long bao are largely underrepresented in Houston's food scene. The puzzle of actually eating the dumpling, which needs to be handled with care, is intimidating to many. Spilling soup, though sad, is bound to happen on your first try. To minimize broth loss, here are some quick eating tips:

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The final of six troll statues being installed around the Pacific Northwest was installed at the Nordic Museum in Ballard.

SEATTLE — Danish Environmental Artist Thomas Dambo has spent the last month completing a fantastical public art project that’s inspiring big conversations about sustainability.

Northwest Troll: Way of the Bird King is hard to miss and easy to appreciate. Dambo was commissioned by Scan Design Foundation to install six of his custom hand-built trolls in secret locations around the Pacific Northwest. The project is a celebration of the human experience through art that amplifies the connections of cultural heritage between Coast Salish tribal communities.

Dambo’s larger-than-life creations are assembled on location and made from recycled materials.

“In nature, there is no landfill. Nature is circular, everything has a meaning and everything is recycled ” says Dambo.

A team of dedicated builders assist Dambo and local volunteers and tribal members have joined the builds. Dambo has been collaborating with members of the Muckleshoot and Snoqualmie tribes.

“Working shoulder to shoulder with Thomas and his team was a real trade of our respective cultures. I feel we are kindred spirits and have formed a life-long friendship. I’m proud to be part of the Dambo tribe now, too! ” says John Halliday of the Muckleshoot tribe.

A part of the adventure is finding the trolls for yourself and Troll Maps with hints are a great start. Dambo has more than 100 giant trolls on display across the globe and the six that are now living in the Pacific Northwest will be here for at least three years.

Ole Bolle is looking for cookies under the roof of a house in Portland and Pia the peacekeeper is an 18-foot-tall troll that sits amongst the trees at Sakai Park on Bainbridge Island.

Some say you can hear the flute from Bruun Idun who plays for the Orcas along the shores of West Seattle’s Lincoln Park. Jakob Two Trees is holding onto two massive tree trunks in Issaquah.

Over the weekend — Oscar the Bird King was introduced to residents on Vashon Island after he supposedly swam across the Atlantic ocean from Denmark. The sixth and final Troll lives in Ballard. Frankie Feetsplinter prominently sits outside the National Nordic Museum and is one more giant reminder to get out into nature and think about your role in conservation.

Dambo says he hopes to inspire with the wonders he’s created with trash.

“I’m really happy what me and my team have done over the past 100 days and I think it’s a call for all of you to think about what’s in your trash because you might be throwing out somebody's dreams,” he said.

All six trolls are easily accessible and free to view. Visitors can find clue maps and more info about each troll online.

First lady Jill Biden is scheduled to visit Seattle on Friday to promote the Biden administration’s “cancer moonshot” initiative and headline a pair of high-priced political fundraisers.

Biden will land at King County International Airport on Thursday, and visit the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center on Friday to “highlight the importance of supporting cancer survivors through specialized care and research, including survivors of childhood cancers and breast cancer,” according to the White House.

That evening, she will headline two private political fundraisers to benefit the Biden Victory Fund, supporting President Joe Biden’s 2024 reelection campaign.

A fundraiser in Shoreline will cost at least $1,000 to attend, with additional suggested donation or fundraising tiers of up to $50,000, according to a copy of an invitation obtained by The Seattle Times. A second fundraiser in Mercer Island is listed at $2,500 per person on up to $25,000.

Further details of Biden’s itinerary were not immediately released.

Joe Biden’s “cancer moonshot” initiative, which he first touted when he served as vice president under President Barack Obama, aims to vastly reduce cancer fatalities — an effort he has framed as giving America a united and galvanizing national agenda similar to President John Kennedy’s famous moonshot speech of 1962.

The president last year set a goal of reducing U.S. cancer fatalities by 50% over the next 25 years while improving the quality of life of patients and caregivers.

Joe Biden himself visited Fred Hutch in 2016, touring the lab of a researcher whose work included immunotherapy, which uses a patient’s own immune system to combat the disease.

Cancer has taken a personal toll on the Bidens, as it has for many families, with the president’s son, Beau Biden, dying from brain cancer in 2015 at the age of 46.

No events open to the general public have been announced as part of Jill Biden’s Seattle visit.

After the Seattle trip, the first lady will head to Los Angeles and San Diego for more political events, the White House said in a news release.

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Although the matchups for Week 3 did not jump off the page entering the weekend, there was plenty of drama that left us with a lot of questions as we look forward.

What is going on in the SEC? Do we have a full-fledged quarterback controversy in Alabama? Are Michael Penix Jr. and the Washington passing attack really this good? And how high can the hysteria get surrounding Coach Prime and Colorado?

Our college football reporters look at those topics and more with this week's takeaways.

The SEC remains one big mystery

It's probably not wise to offer up a news flash three weeks into any college football season. But here goes nothing: The SEC looks pretty ordinary. Not to diss Georgia and the Dawgs' ring collection over the last two years, but they looked beatable for much of the South Carolina game before rallying in the second half at home. I'm not sure there are any givens at the top of the league, as has been the case with Georgia, Alabama and LSU over the last five or six years. We've already seen some serious gnashing of teeth over the quarterback play, which is to be expected to some degree with so many new starters and others, such as Mississippi State's Will Rogers, playing in a new offense.

Nowhere has there been more angst over the quarterback spot than at Alabama. What does Nick Saban do now, after his switch to Tyler Buchner did not go well? Some close to the program think Saban will go back to Jalen Milroe, which probably makes the most sense at this point.

Florida's upset win over Tennessee at the Swamp cooled a lot of the offseason hype surrounding Joe Milton III and the Vols, while LSU and Texas A&M get chances in the coming weeks to make amends for humbling losses to ACC foes in the first two weeks. Ole Miss is unbeaten but gets its first SEC test this week at Alabama.

Some have suggested that the SEC (gasp!) might even be left out of the playoff. I don't see that happening, but we could see some real carnage with schools beating up on each other and a lot of the records looking similar at season's end. It's what the rest of the college football world has been waiting for. -- Chris Low

Penix deserves more hype

Michael Penix Jr. solidified himself as a legitimate Heisman candidate who should be getting as much hype as anyone after an incredible performance against Michigan State on Saturday. Penix threw for 473 yards, five touchdowns and completed 77% of his passes in just three quarters of UW's 41-7 win. He became the first quarterback in Washington history to throw for 400 yards and three or more touchdowns in each of the team's first three games. He has already thrown for 1,332 yards this season, which is the most through a team's first three games of a season since 2016, when both Davis Webb and Patrick Mahomes reached that mark.

Penix will have the chance to showcase his ability on the national stage when his team plays Oregon, USC and Utah later this season. The game against USC will put him against last season's Heisman winner, Caleb Williams, and is sure to be an offensive duel worth watching. -- Tom VanHaaren

Washington's receiver depth showing

Of course, someone has to be on the other end of all those Penix passes, and for the third straight week, a pair of Washington wide receivers went over the 100-yard mark in the same game. Rome Odunze (eight catches for 180 yards) and Ja'Lynn Polk (five receptions for 118 yards and a TD) turned the trick Saturday.

The emergence of Polk (300 receiving yards) and tight end Jack Westover, who had three touchdown catches against the Spartans, behind Jalen McMillan and Odunze will allow coach Kalen DeBoer to keep his foot on the gas and continue to make opposing defenses dizzy. A week after 10 Huskies caught passes in a win over Tulsa, nine receivers had receptions Saturday in East Lansing. That sort of balance, which doesn't allow defenses a chance to breathe, could prove pivotal as the Pac-12 gauntlet commences. -- Blake Baumgartner

The Pac-12 is easily the nation's best league

Late Saturday night, I was asked on ESPN radio whether the Pac-12 champion had a chance to make the CFP. A fair question, given the league's absence from the event since 2016, but the answer clearly is yes. The Pac-12 has backed up the offseason hype and established itself as easily the top conference in the FBS. The disappointing starts by both the SEC and Big Ten factor in, and some ugly Pac-12 results can't be ignored, but the league deserves credit for how its top teams are performing.

For years, the Pac-12 botched the nonleague portion of its schedule, as its better teams -- 2019 Oregon, 2022 Utah -- would lose to inferior opponents. This season, the Pac-12 largely has taken care of business, beating Florida (Utah), Texas Tech (Oregon), Wisconsin (Washington State), TCU (Colorado), Michigan State (Washington) and others. Although the biggest nonconference test remains -- USC at Notre Dame on Oct. 14 -- the Pac-12 has minimized the damage and had its best teams often look dominant. The league will beat up on each other, as always, but wins within the league will resonate more because of what's happened outside of conference play. -- Adam Rittenberg

Don't panic over sloppy September wins

Yes, the CFP selection committee certainly pays attention to how teams win, and it's obviously better to handle unranked competition with some style. After a sluggish Saturday when many teams sputtered their way to victory, though, it's worth noting the group also recognizes when contenders simply find ways to win.

The question is if the struggles are more indicative of larger problems (Alabama?), or if maybe a team was looking ahead (Florida State?), or simply ran into a gritty little guy swinging for the fences (Texas?). Whatever it was, it seemed to be contagious Saturday, and the final scores didn't reveal how close some of the games were at one point. Georgia was trailing South Carolina by 11 at the half. Texas was tied at 10 with Wyoming late in the third quarter. Michigan quarterback J.J. McCarthy threw a career-high three interceptions and was clinging to a 1-point lead at the half before beating Bowling Green.

Sometimes, those performances can be more impressive than clobbering, say, NC Central, 59-7 (UCLA). This is why the committee doesn't release its first ranking until Halloween -- it's still too early to tell who's a pretender. But Week 4 will be much more revealing. Ohio State at Notre Dame. Colorado at Oregon. Florida State at Clemson. Those games will help show us who to take seriously. -- Heather Dinich

It's Deion Sanders' world, we're all just living in it

Saturday's win over Colorado State didn't just feel like the marquee game of the day. It was the sporting event of the weekend. Between the celebrities on hand and the hype leading up to the matchup against a Colorado State team that was neither ranked nor on the radar of most college football fans, Deion Sanders & Co. were the talk of the sport once again. Then the game began and Sanders' son Shilo had an 80-yard pick-six, while his son Shedeur led the game-tying drive late in the fourth quarter that helped the Buffs secure a thrilling win in overtime.

Everything was literally turning up Sanders. Three games and three wins into the season, we're reaching a point where it feels like everything Sanders touches -- from shades to interviews to pregame speeches and his entire roster -- turns to gold. The injection of energy Sanders has given the sport since he began his coaching tenure at Jackson State and now in Boulder isn't without substance, which makes the coming two weeks all the more compelling. Matchups against Oregon in Eugene and USC at home will show where Colorado truly stands, but no matter the result, one thing is certain: Everyone will be watching. -- Paolo Uggetti

The Sun's active cycle continues as a geomagnetic storm may produce aurora lights overnight Monday into early Tuesday further away from the poles from Seattle to Boston.

NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) in Boulder, Colorado, issued a G2 (Moderate) Geomagnetic Storm Watch on a 5-level scale for Tuesday.

The SWPC said a coronal mass ejection, or CME, was observed on Sept. 14, and the Earth-directed component from the CME is likely to arrive early on Tuesday. According to NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, the Sun produced 9 M-class flares, 22 coronal mass ejections and one geomagnetic storm this past week.

Space Scientist Robert Steenburgh, with NOAA's Space Weather Forecast Office, said as the Sun approaches solar maximum, the SWPC has been busy.

"This is pretty consistent with what you'd expect as we run up into the solar maximum," Steenburgh said. "We're heading towards the maximum in our 11-year solar cycle. And this is well within what we consider a normal activity for that kind of thing."

NASA video shows solar activity over a week

Video from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory shows activity during a week ending on Sept. 17. NASA said space weather included 9 M-Class flares, 22 CMEs and 1 geomagnetic storm.

For most people, a Geomagnetic Storm Watch is not something to be concerned about. The watches help government agencies, power providers, telecommunication companies and satellite operators prepare to protect systems impacted by space weather.

"The key thing is it's not anything to be alarmed about," Steenburgh said. "It's something the sun's been doing for a long time, and it just gives us an opportunity to see some really neat stuff."

One group who might be concerned is pigeon handlers, according to Steenburgh. Ahead of low levels of geomagnetic activity, pigeon racers might delay releasing their birds because the birds would get lost.

"Pigeons use the magnetic field, Earth's magnetic field, as one of their many navigational tools. And so when it's disturbed, it throws things off; that's not the only thing they use to navigate, but it is one of the things they use," Steenburgh said. "You'll have conflicting information if you're a pigeon when certain tools are telling you one thing and your magnetic fields telling you another."

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Where to view aurora lights this week

Geomagnetic storms can produce stronger aurora borealis lights or Northern Lights, which normally occur at the poles, but space weather can cause the lights to expand into the northern edge of the U.S.

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The exact timing of when the effects of the CME will arrive is still to be determined as space weather forecasters are tracking multiple solar eruptions at any given time. During the high solar activity in the solar cycle, more eruptions can make things interesting.

"One can catch up with another one or even overtake it," Steenburg said of back-to-back eruptions.

For now, the effects from this geomagnetic storm, including aurora lights, will happen late Monday night and into Tuesday morning.

"So there's some there's some uncertainty in terms of when this particular one originated from the Sun. If it wasn't the earlier one, then there a subsequent one that we're expecting," Steenburgh said. "Trying to piece all that together. It's always a challenge."

The aurora forecast from the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute predicts highly active auroral displays overhead in Alaska and Canada. Auroras will likely be visible low on the horizon for the U.S. Northern Tier, including in Seattle, Great Falls, Des Moines, Minneapolis, Chicago and Boston.

Those with cloud-free skies will also have a better chance to see the dancing lights. The best time to view the aurora is between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m., according to the SWPC.

Based on the FOX Forecast Center cloud cover forecast, Cut Bank, Montana, Marquette, Wisconsin, and Bismarck, North Dakota, will have mostly cloud-free skies for viewing the aurora.

Another thing that helps to see the aurora lights is a recent new Moon. With the mid-September new Moon, there is a better chance to see the aurora lights. Moonlight and city lights can wash out the Northern Lights when they might be visible in the northern U.S.

(Mathew Nichols Photography)

If weather conditions don't prove favorable to see the lights on Tuesday, there will be more opportunities in the coming months. The Sun is in the midst of an active period in its solar cycle, which lasts 11 years.