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Five stories that have North Texas talking: Texans in Plano and Irving work especially hard; Houston isn鈥檛 ready for 鈥渢he perfect storm;鈥� an IHOP in Austin upset customers with an offensive receipt; and more.

March 4 is Employee Appreciation Day. For the occasion, analysts from , a financial reporting website, compared 116 U.S. cities to measure where Americans work the hardest. An easy answer to that is North Texas. Here are the DFW area cities near the top:

#3 Plano

#5 Irving

#12 Corpus Christi

#18 Garland

#22 Dallas

#24 Arlington

#26 Fort Worth

The rankings were determined by six factors: average work week hours, labor force participation rate, commute time, workers with multiple jobs, volunteers hours per resident and leisure time spent on an average day.

Some other interesting work-related findings in the study: 鈥淎ccording to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, we are 400 percent more productive today than in 1950. Were we lazier then? Not at all. On the contrary, mid-century Americans worked than we did in 2011. All of our productivity gains in recent decades simply resulted from rapid that allowed us to increase automation and efficiency.鈥�

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• It鈥檚 not a matter of 鈥渋f鈥� but 鈥渨hen鈥� Houston will experience a devastating hurricane, and the city isn鈥檛 ready. The Texas Tribune launched a dense multimedia project on the potential for a 鈥減erfect storm鈥� not only threatening to take many lives but also to devastate the economy and environment. An excerpt from the project:

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• An Austin couple is upset with words written on their receipt from a local IHOP. The couple ordered a meal to-go at 3 a.m. Monday morning while traveling back to Austin. The top of the receipt read 鈥淏LACK PPL鈥� to identify their order. Arainia Brown decided to post a photo of the receipt on Facebook rather than confront their server, a young black man. WFAA quoted Brown saying, "You could have asked me my name," said Brown. "Don't put, don't label me. I don't label you." . [WFAA]

• Two North Texas-shot films made first cut for the 10th annual Dallas International Film Festival. On Thursday the festival announced its first 10 films for this year鈥檚 event. on the North Texas selections: 鈥溾�樷�� is the product of the 鈥� a screenwriting competition co-sponsored by the festival and Studio Movie Grill. The film stars Barry Bostwick, Meg Foster and Mariette Hartley in the story of an artist who has misgivings about painting her family鈥檚 portrait. And 鈥楧aylight鈥檚 End鈥� 鈥� also shot and produced locally 鈥� centers on a drifter who tries to rescue a survivors of a zombie attack holed up in an abandoned police station.鈥� See the . [Art&Seek]

• Several members of the Travis County GOP desperately want to remove the newly elected chairman. Robert Morrow won the seat with 54 percent of the vote Tuesday night, so why the opposition. Here鈥檚 the lede from The Texas Tribune story: 鈥淭he newly elected chair of the Republican Party in the county that includes the Texas Capitol spent most of election night tweeting about former Gov. 鈥檚 sexual orientation and former President , and insisting that members of the .鈥漋ice chair and Republican strategist Matt Mackowiak worries how Morrow would represent the party. . [The Texas Tribune]