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• Pumpkins, Harvests, and Fall Colors: Autumnal Events

  13-10-2017 23:49 via thestranger.com
  Harvest Dinners, Foliage Festivals, Pumpkin Carving Parties, And Moreby Stranger Things To Do StaffThere are plenty of spooky, scary Halloween events in Seattle this month, but October also has a lighter side: Leaves change colors, apples are ready for picking, vegetables are ready for harvesting, and pumpkins are ready for carving. Aside from the openings of season-long pumpkin patches, Seattle also has many special festivals, dinners, and parties devoted to all of these things. We've rounded t
  
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• Week in Weed: California Cannabis Farms Are Burning, Stoned Teens Are Driving, and Louisiana Doctors Aren’t Prescribing

  13-10-2017 23:21 via thestranger.com
  
  Plus: Book and weed pairings at Colorado libraries, and more.by Amber CortesThe California wildfires: more than trees burning. DAVID McNEW VIA GETTY IMAGES
  There are a lot of sad and scary stories of the damage being done by the Napa Valley and Sonoma County fires—and that includes weed farms. Also, mixed messages about public smoking in California, confused teens, and weed-loving librarians. Read on.California Wildfires Hitting Cannabis Farms
  The devastating wildfires in Sonoma County hav
  
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• King Co. judge weighing legality of drug injection site ban

  13-10-2017 23:00
  Dozens of red-scarved supporters of Initiative 27 packed a King County courtroom Friday morning for a hearing on the lawsuit that seeks to keep I-27, which would ban supervised drug injection sites in the county if passed, off the ballot. But whether or not the initiative has popular support wasn't the issue at hand. Instead, Friday's hearing was about the validity of local initiatives when it comes to public health policy.
  
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• Judge weighing legality of drug injection site ban

  13-10-2017 23:00
  Dozens of red-scarved supporters of Initiative 27 packed a King County courtroom Friday morning for a hearing on the lawsuit that seeks to keep I-27, which would ban supervised drug injection sites in the county if passed, off the ballot. But whether or not the initiative has popular support wasn't the issue at hand. Instead, Friday's hearing was about the validity of local initiatives when it comes to public health policy.
  
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• Taste This, Seattle: Bar Cotto's Crazy Cheap Happy Hour Anchovy Pizza

  13-10-2017 22:39 via thestranger.com
  
  by Tobias Coughlin-BogueThe bubbly, crackly, and insanely good anchovy pizza at Bar Cotto, with the Twilight in Parma lurking in the background. TCB
  Recently, Ethan Stowell Restaurants (ESR) announced that they'd be selling both Anchovies & Olives and its tiny, charcuterie-and-pizza-focused sibling, Bar Cotto. Though Stowell is open to a loyalist keeping the concepts the same, he told Eater he'd prefer that someone take over the space and do their own thing. Put bluntly, that fucking sucks,
  
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• SL Letter of the Day: Drop the Pickup Artist

  13-10-2017 22:30 via thestranger.com
  by Dan SavageOriginally posted on July 30, 2014.
  I am wondering when the best time is to mention being in an open relationship to new girls. I'm a 27-year-old straight guy who's been in an open relationship for six years. I often seek out extracurricular activities, but I am unsure of how to bring up my situation without doors closing. I wrote to a seduction blogger who often writes about open relationships, and his advice was to not mention it until I've had sex with the girl a few times and to
  
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• More Washington state fire crews headed to California

  13-10-2017 22:23
  The firefighters will be divided into nine strike teams to help in one of the worst outbreaks of fire in California history.
  
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• Judge Will Rule Monday on Whether Initiative Banning Safe Consumption Sites Can Proceed

  13-10-2017 22:13 via thestranger.com
  
  Voters may see I-27 in February.by Heidi GrooverSafe consumption site supporters displayed these messages on buildings in December. RICK BARRY
  Calling the question before her "extraordinarily nuanced" and "hyper-technical," King County Superior Court Judge Veronica Galvan said today she will rule by the end of the day Monday on whether an initiative banning safe consumption sites can appear on the February ballot. Galvan heard arguments today on a request from safe consumption site supporters fo
  
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• 70,000 Washingtonians face higher insurance rates after Trump order, officials say

  13-10-2017 22:05
  Trump’s decision is “certain to result in higher premium payments for consumers and will force our insurers to determine whether they will remain in an unstable market,” said state Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler.
  
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• 70,000 Washingtonians face higher insurance costs after Trump order, officials say

  13-10-2017 22:05
  Trump’s decision is “certain to result in higher premium payments for consumers and will force our insurers to determine whether they will remain in an unstable market,” said state Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler.
  
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• San Antonio Rejects Amazon Before Amazon Can Reject San Antonio

  13-10-2017 22:03 via thestranger.com
  
  Pre-emption.by Katie HerzogSan Antonio to Bezos: We don't want your stinking balls.David Ryder/Getty Images
  San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg announced this week that the city is no longer interested in hosting Amazon's second headquarters, which cities across America have been bending over and spreading their cheeks to attract."It’s not that we wouldn’t love to have Amazon select San Antonio," Mayor Nirenberg wrote in an open letter to Amazon's Jeff Bezos. "Any city would." But, Niren
  
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• Inbox Jukebox: A Weekly Shortlist of Good New Music. Kelela, Trashies, Alessandro Cortini, and More

  13-10-2017 21:56 via thestranger.com
  
  Our music critic reviews five fantastic songs by Kelela, Trashies, and others from his inbox, so you can at least temporarily augment your headspace.by Dave SegalKelela, Warp Records' great neo-R&B hope. Daniel Sannwald
  Kelela, "LMK" (Warp). People of refined taste are losing their minds to Kelela's Take Me Apart. I've not heard it yet, but the single "LMK" is promising—and strikingly accessible for a Warp Records release. Perhaps it's the venerable English label's attempt at Beyonc&ea
  
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• Department of Justice Also Says SPD Is in Compliance with 2012 Consent Decree

  13-10-2017 20:54 via thestranger.com
  
  It's all on the judge now.by Steven HsiehIt's all on the judge, now. SPD
  The city, the Community Police Department, and now, the Department of Justice all agree that the Seattle Police Department is in compliance with its 2012 consent decree with the feds.
  That leaves it up to U.S. District Judge James Robart to decide whether the City of Seattle has satisfied the baseline requirements of the agreement and is ready to move on to the second phase of the court-ordered police reforms. If Robart giv
  
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• California Is Burning... and So Is All of California's Weed

  13-10-2017 20:46 via thestranger.com
  
  The only time cannabis should be on fire is when it's in a bowl or joint.by Josh Jardine PHOTOS BY JAN FRIES / EYEEM AND YANGYIN / GETTY IMAGES. COLLAGE BY MERCURY STAFF
  I woke up on Saturday in my hotel room on Lombard Street in San Francisco, alarmed by the smell of smoke permeating the room. I ran and opened the door to the hall, but didn't see any flames. Suddenly I had a (nose) muscle memory of the fires that ravaged the Columbia Gorge back home, and turned on the TV to see if something in
  
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• Seven Diwali 2017 Events in Seattle

  13-10-2017 20:26 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do Staff
  Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights that celebrates the victory of good over evil, officially falls on October 19 this year, but there are many Seattle celebrations before and after that. From family-friendly festivals to 21+ dance parties, we've rounded them all up below.
  OCT 13
  Diwali Dance Party
  Celebrate India's festival of lights with Boom Swara's Diwali-themed Bollywood dance party. Dance to Bollywood music while Diwali videos are projected on the walls, dri
  
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• Seattle police have met reform requirements, Justice Department tells federal judge

  13-10-2017 20:18
  The Justice Department’s conclusion represents a major leap in the case. But its significance depends on whether U.S. District Judge James Robart agrees or adopts the position of his court-appointed monitor that the department has yet to reach full compliance.
  
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• Watch UW's Computer Science Chair Slam Facebook on Las Vegas, Racist Content, and Russia

  13-10-2017 20:17 via thestranger.com
  "They've got to be able to do better."by Sydney Brownstone
  According to Recode, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg is in Washington D.C. this week to try and smooth over concerns that the social media company has not taken responsibility for the flourishing of Russian disinformation campaigns and fake news that demonizes Black Lives Matter on its website.But back in Seattle, at the GeekWire tech summit, University of Washington computer science and engineering chair Ed Lazowska had this to say about F
  
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• Celebrate Diwali at These Events

  13-10-2017 19:26 via thestranger.com
  Dance Parties, Dinners, Family Festivals, and More Celebrations in October and Novemberby Stranger Things To Do StaffDiwali, the Hindu festival of lights that celebrates the victory of good over evil, officially falls on October 19 this year, but there are many Seattle celebrations before and after that. From family-friendly festivals to 21+ dance parties, we've rounded them all up below.
  OCT 13
  Diwali Dance Party
  Celebrate India's festival of lights with Boom Swara's Diwali-themed Bollywood dan
  
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• Eerie Loveliness in Walking Out, a Get Out For the Big Sky State

  13-10-2017 19:14 via thestranger.com
  
  by Andrew WrightPrimal father and son shit in the snow.When it comes to ready-made primal storylines, a Father and Son Lost in the Woods is tough to beat. The smartly low-key survival drama Walking Out boasts moments of eerie loveliness, a pair of solid central performances, and enough confidence in the primitive engine of its story to know when to leave things unsaid. It’s got the gift of stillness.
  Adapting a short story by naturalist David Quammen, the plot follows a 14-year-old boy (Jo
  
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• Community Police Commission Says SPD Is in Compliance With Consent Decree

  13-10-2017 19:02 via thestranger.com
  
  Compliance wouldn't be the end of police reform.by Steven HsiehUnder consent decree since 2012. SPD
  Late last month, city officials asked a federal judge to find the Seattle Police Department in “full and effective compliance” with its 2012 consent decree with the Department of Justice.Now, the Community Police Commission (CPC) says it agrees with the city’s assessment that local cops have reduced excessive force and biased policing enough to move onto the second step outlined
  
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• Police Reports Illustrated: Man Dicks Around Outside Hospital

  13-10-2017 19:00 via thestranger.com
  
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• Police Reports Illustated: Man Dicks Around Outside Hospital

  13-10-2017 19:00 via thestranger.com
  
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• Guest Editorial: Who Defines Progress?

  13-10-2017 18:45 via thestranger.com
  
  From Aretha Basu, Teresa Mosqueda and Nikkita Oliver.by Aretha BasuFrom Left to Right: Nikkita Oliver, Teresa Mosqueda, Aretha Basu Nate Gowdy, Teresa Mosqueda, Aretha Basu
  What makes someone a “progressive” or a “liberal, and who gets to define this?Formal definitions say “Liberalism” uses taxpayer dollars to alleviate a social need. “Progressivism” says we use governmental power and resources to make large systemic changes. “Radicalism” say
  
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• How To Become a Latte Picasso

  13-10-2017 18:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Just because something is hard doesn't mean you shouldn't watch a video about how to do it.by Rich SmithMilk is her medium.Analog Coffee
  Art is beautiful, especially when it's on top of a drink like coffee. Though some baristas make it look easy, transforming milks into luscious ferns and hearts so real they seem to beat in the cup is hard work. It takes parents, advanced degrees, and a loose wrist.But just because something is hard doesn't mean you shouldn't watch a video about how to do it. So
  
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• Watch This Surreal Video of Mail Delivery in Burned Out California Neighborhood

  13-10-2017 18:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie Herzog
  Cinematographer Douglas Thron captured a lone UPS truck delivering mail in Santa Rosa, California, where hundreds of home have burned down in recent wildfires.
  How's the saying go? "Neither snow nor rain nor the smoldering ruins of a post apocalyptic suburb...." Something like that.[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• A New Strategy to Stop the Sweeps: Ban Spending Money on Them

  13-10-2017 17:22 via thestranger.com
  
  The proposal comes from Kshama Sawant and Mike O'Brien.by Heidi GrooverA protest during the city's sweep of "The Jungle," an encampment under I-5. HG
  Activists have for years been calling on Seattle to stop forcibly removing people living outside in public spaces. But even as the city has increased the outreach and services offered to people living in homeless encampments, it has continued to clear them. Council Members Kshama Sawant and Mike O'Brien have a new proposal to try to stop that pract
  
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• The Morning News: Trump Intent on Killing Sick Americans, Amazon Takes $1.4 Billion in Tax Subsidies, Democracy Vouchers Are Working

  13-10-2017 17:09 via thestranger.com
  
  Also: municipal broadband, head tax, fatal bus collision.by Steven HsiehGIVE ME TAX BREAKS. DAVID RYDER / GETTY
  Trump Set to Gut Healthcare Subsidies For Poor People: As Republicans have failed again and again to repeal Obamacare, our vindictive president seems intent on killing Americans himself. His order would end subsidies, totaling about $9 billion, that help low-income people pay healthcare costs, an integral piece of President Obama's Affordable Care Act. Here's a Republican Representativ
  
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• The Morning News: Trump Intent on Killing Sick Americans, Amazon Takes $1.24 Billion in Tax Subsidies, Democracy Vouchers Are Working

  13-10-2017 17:09 via thestranger.com
  
  Also: municipal broadband, head tax, fatal bus collision.by Steven HsiehGIVE ME TAX BREAKS. DAVID RYDER / GETTY
  Trump Set to Gut Healthcare Subsidies For Poor People: As Republicans have failed again and again to repeal Obamacare, our vindictive president seems intent on killing Americans himself. His order would end subsidies, totaling about $9 billion, that help low-income people pay healthcare costs, an integral piece of President Obama's Affordable Care Act. Here's a Republican Representativ
  
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• Whole Foods closing '365' market, says Amazon not to blame

  13-10-2017 16:47
  A little more than a year after it opened, the tech-heavy 365 by Whole Foods Market store in the Bellevue Square mall in Bellevue, Wash.
  
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• The Cascades are getting ‘a good round’ of snowfall, prompting winter-weather advisory

  13-10-2017 16:11
  Imagine a fire hose blasting not water but a stream of snow. Now imagine it’s aimed right at Stevens Pass. That, according to forecasters, is what’s behind a winter-weather advisory for the Cascades in Snohomish and King counties in effect early Friday morning. “We’ve had a fairly persistent convergence zone all night and earlier this […]
  
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• Woodland Park Zoo to get two male rhinos as early as next year

  13-10-2017 15:00
  Rhinos are coming to the Woodland Park Zoo next year for the first time in the zoo’s 118-year history.
  
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• West Seattle couple, cheated in secret SeaTac land grab, to receive $13M settlement

  13-10-2017 15:00
  The SeaTac City Council has OK’d payment of $4.25 million to Gerry and Kathy Kingen after a judge found the city had engaged in misrepresentation, inverse condemnation and interference with business expectancy. The balance of the $13 million settlement will come from insurance.
  
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• Traffic alert: Lane closures this weekend on I-5 in Tukwila, Highway 520 bridge

  13-10-2017 15:00
  On northbound I-5, lane restrictions will snarl traffic from Federal Way through SeaTac and Tukwila. On the Highway 520 bridge, all eastbound lanes will be closed from 11 p.m. Friday until 5 a.m. Monday.
  
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• Podcast: Reporter Lynda Mapes on our missing martens and salmon, and a fish-farming disaster

  13-10-2017 15:00
  Seattle Times environment reporter Lynda Mapes joins The Overcast to talk about a spate of Pacific Northwest calamities - too many Atlantic farmed salmon and too few Pacific salmon and missing martens.
  
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• Do Seattle’s democracy vouchers work? New analysis says yes

  13-10-2017 15:00
  The controversial program, which uses taxpayer money to fund city elections, was implemented for the first time this year in Seattle. A new analysis shows that compared with typical voters a more diverse group of people used the vouchers in this year’s primary.
  
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• Education Secretary Betsy DeVos will visit Bellevue today — here’s latest on speakers, protests, traffic

  13-10-2017 14:00
  About 1,500 people will be inside the Hyatt Regency in Bellevue to hear U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos speak at the Washington Policy Center’s annual gala. A large group of protesters is expected outside, too.
  
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• Russia launches European environmental satellite

  13-10-2017 12:14
  MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian booster rocket has carried a European environmental satellite into orbit. The European Space Agency’s Sentinel-5P satellite was launched Friday by a Rokot missile from the Plesetsk launch pad in northwestern Russia. The satellite will map the global atmosphere every day, helping study air pollution. The mission will contribute to volcanic […]
  
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• Russia launches European atmosphere monitoring satellite

  13-10-2017 12:14
  MOSCOW (AP) — Russia successfully launched a satellite into orbit Friday that will monitor Europe’s atmosphere, helping to study air pollution. The European Space Agency’s Sentinel-5P satellite was launched by a Rokot missile from the Plesetsk launch pad in northwestern Russia. The satellite will map the atmosphere every day. After separating from the upper stage […]
  
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• Space experts eye Big Island as home of moon base prototype

  13-10-2017 08:16
  KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii (AP) — Aerospace experts have their eyes on the Big Island as being the potential home of an international moon base prototype. West Hawaii Today reported Wednesday that the island is being considered because it mimics the moon’s surface. The facility would be set up just like a base would be on the […]
  
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• Feathered foes: Resurgent turkeys clash with human neighbors

  13-10-2017 07:11
  BOSTON (AP) — Not everyone is celebrating the return of the wild turkeys. After being wiped out from New England in the 1800s, the birds have stormed back in what’s considered a major success story for wildlife restoration. But as they spread farther into urban areas, they’re increasingly clashing with residents who say they destroy […]
  
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• Birds gone wild: Resurgent turkeys spar with human neighbors

  13-10-2017 07:11
  BOSTON (AP) — Not everyone is celebrating the return of the wild turkeys. After being wiped out from New England in the 1800s, the birds have stormed back in what’s considered a major success story for wildlife restoration. But as they spread farther into urban areas, they’re increasingly clashing with residents who say they destroy […]
  
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• Chris Hansen’s Sodo arena group says it didn’t get key emails from Seattle’s transportation department

  13-10-2017 06:56
  And not responding to those emails, the city says, is why the Sodo arena plan hasn’t been resubmitted to the city council for consideration.
  
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• Chris Hansen’s group says it didn’t get key emails from Seattle’s transportation department

  13-10-2017 06:56
  And not responding to those emails, the city says, is why the Sodo arena plan hasn’t been resubmitted to the city council for consideration.
  
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• Man hit, killed by bus near South Lake Union

  13-10-2017 06:35
  A man was hit and killed by a bus Thursday night at Westlake Avenue and Blanchard Street near South Lake Union in Seattle, according to Seattle Police.
  
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• Pedestrian dies after being hit by bus in downtown Seattle

  13-10-2017 06:33
  Police say a man was killed Thursday after he was hit by a bus at Westlake Avenue and Blanchard Street at about 9 p.m.
  
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• Proposed homeless shelter takes center stage in Bellevue elections

  13-10-2017 06:00
  In Bellevue, a men’s shelter has become a wedge issue in a City Council election. Homelessness, and cities’ responses to it, has also become a prominent issue in local elections in Auburn, Everett and Skagit County.
  
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• Seattle business tax proposed to house the homeless

  13-10-2017 05:08
  Two Seattle council members propose a business head tax to boost spending on homeless response, drawing protests from the Chamber of Commerce.
  
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• Obamacare bombshell: Trump kills key payments to health insurers

  13-10-2017 04:52
  The White House said that the government cannot legally continue to pay the so-called cost sharing subsidies because they lack a formal authorization by Congress.
  
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• Cary Moon gets teacher support in Seattle mayor’s race; Jenny Durkan gets new LGBTQ backing

  13-10-2017 04:06
  The endorsements keep piling up in Seattle’s mayoral race. Cary Moon nabbed support from the Seattle Education Association as Jenny Durkan was backed by two LGBTQ advocacy organizations.
  
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• Snow on Snoqualmie Pass

  13-10-2017 03:57
  This 3-year-old knows better than to pass up a chance at some early winter sports.
  
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