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I was reading a great article by Joel Gascoigne on the "Happiness Advantage" at and this brought to mind how Amazon out-competes publishers and other book retailers (no matter what you think about devices and DRM).
Joel cites a great quote from Marc McLeod of Shoppify, an online retailer site that allows users to set up their own storefronts:
"You really need to shower your users with love. People buy technology from start-ups for one of two reasons. One, it's technology that they can't get anywhere else, or two it's a level of service and support and love that they can't get anywhere else. The start-ups that do really well and take off have showered their users with love. You send a request to support and you hear back right away. They've got a very active blog and they build a community. Every time an executive goes to a different city they're having dinners for the users in that city. They're building massive loyalty and those users are going out and becoming ambassadors and helping recruit more users."
In many ways Amazon, despite being a company 100 to 1,000 times the size of many publishers, still behaves very much like a start-up, while many publishers do not behave like start-ups at all.
Most publishers think their content is unique. They think they have the equivalent of must-watch shows, like Mad Men (A&E) or Game of Thrones (HBO, SKY) – that makes cable channels so profitable and secures them a place in the can't-do-without subscriber bundles (even if the rest of the programs they offer might be crap), but books are much more fungible than TV programs.
We live in a world where hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions of new books are published every year (>2.5 million ISBNS now issued in the U.S. alone per year!) and even the most voracious reader can surely read no more than 500 books a year. Even power readers (people who read a book a week) can only get through 50 books in a year (1 in 50,000 books published = 0.002% and that is only counting front list). This is off course why discovery matters so much now!
Where Amazon beats publishers hands down is the level of support and service it offers, be it free shipping, no questions-asked return policy, etc.
Low prices on a small range of best sellers are just "link bait". Many items are actually more expensive at Amazon than at many other retailers, but consumers still would rather buy from Amazon because of the trust they have in Amazon and the easy of shopping combined with the "no regret" customer service Amazon offers and the awesome breadth of its catalog.
Many industry insiders and pundits have pointed out that removing DRM will not change Amazon's dominance and that is very true, because Amazon offers such a killer service. Especially, now that Amazon's brand of service is established, the moat of proprietary DRM is something that Amazon could surrender, if it wanted, but Amazon has no incentive to drop DRM unless forced to do so by regulators (or publishers/readers).
Does dropping DRM still make sense for publishers? Yes, if they want to encourage alternatives to Amazon, because few retailers will be able to survive if they can't deliver e-books to Kindle owners, too.
A retailer with 60-90% market share is very powerful, the 800 pound gorilla, but if Amazon has to worry about new entrants eating its lunch then it will be much more reasonable and accommodating in negotiations with publishers.
An Amazon that faces no threat to its dominance (giant DRM moat in addition to awesome customer service) can dictate terms, which means it can push its suppliers (publishers) into a position where they barely manage to cover their marginal cost and might not manage to even cover overhead = will be unprofitable.
Supporting Barnes & Noble breaks the monopoly, but in the long term just creates a duopoly with the same consequences. Publishers really need not just behave more like start-ups, but engage with more start-ups, too or they will be operating in a market where the buyers (retailers) have oligopoly power.
It is not always simply market share that matters, but the ease with which new players could enter the market, if a dominant player were to abuse its market position.


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Before the 2010 Idaho legislative session had even started, both leadership and Governor C.L. "Butch" Otter had called for a short session, likely ending by April 1. Not only is the legislature said to cost $30,000 a day when it's in session — particularly pertinent in this tough economic year — but it's an election year, and legislators want to get back to their districts and campaign.
However, the budget process doesn't start in earnest until March, and the legislators who aren't on the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee are apparently bored. Moreover, since it is an election year, legislators running for re-election want a voting record on which to run — and a voting record from their opponents to point to. Consequently, as with last year, the Legislature is occupying itself with the usual run of Strongly Worded Letters and dog-whistle bills.
That's right. It's Silly Bill Season. Your tax dollars at work.
THE GIANT SALAMANDER BILL. Reportedly at the request of fourth- and fifth-graders, Representative Rich Jarvis, R-Meridian, put forth a bill designating the Idaho giant salamander as the State Amphibian. (Personally, my fourth-grader would rather the Legislature reinstate funding of field trips.) To give Speaker Lawerence Denney, R-Midvale, credit, he sent the bill to the Ways and Means committee, where bills go to die, on January 20, and it hasn't budged since.
THE MOUSE THAT ROARED BILLS. Continuing on from last session's sovereignity bill are several bills insisting that the federal government keep its nose out of Idaho's business (unless, of course, we're asking for money, such as bringing the F35 aircraft project to Idaho). These include Representative Dick Harwood's, R-St. Maries, Firearms Freedom Act, which copies similar laws in Montana and attempts in other states by saying that guns manufactured and used only in Idaho are not subject to federal regulation, and the Health Freedom Act, which says the federal government can't make Idahoans buy health insurance.
GO TEAM BILLS. Representative Brent Crane, R-Nampa, put forth a bill to congratulate the Boise State Broncos on its Fiesta Bowl win. Vandals fan Representative Pete Nielsen, R-Mountain Home, not to be outdone, also submitted a bill congratulating the University of Idaho on its Humanitarian Bowl win.
BE KIND TO ANIMALS BILLS. Bills to allow the sterilization of feral cats (Senator Kate Kelly, D-Boise) and the killing of pesky raccoons (Senator Gary Schroeder, R-Moscow).
WE COUNT, DAMMIT BILL "Because of the winner-take-all rule, a candidate can win the Presidency without winning the most popular votes nationwide," explains the National Popular Vote website, bills for which are wending their way through numerous states. The bill, sponsored by Representative Donna Boe, D-Pocatello, Kelly, and Representative Sue Chew, D-Boise, specifies that the state's electoral votes will be awarded to whichever Presidential candidate gets the largest number of votes nationwide. The theory is that, with the current system, candidates don't bother visiting states where they are "comfortably ahead or hopelessly behind," and that with a popular vote system, candidates would be more likely to visit more states. The problem is this: Idaho is a small state, and there's no rational way of counting noses, electoral votes, or anything else that's going to change that. With the current system, Idaho's 4 electoral votes amount to 0.74 percent. With the popular vote system, Idaho's 639,452 votes in the 2008 Presidential election amount to 0.51 percent.
BUT IS HE SIGNED UP TO TESTIFY? BILL. The tenth amendment sovereignity bill is back again, bigger and better than ever. Sponsored by Jarvis, Harwood, Representative Eric Anderson, R-Priest Lake, and Representative Paul Shepherd, R-Riggins, it calls for "balancing the Federal budget, extinguishing the public debt, providing for government transparency, maintaining[sic] the growth of the Federal government, preventing unfunded mandates, prohibiting government from taking ownership of private sector enterprise and providing for the presence of "God" [sic] in the public domain."
Of course, Idahoans have to take off their hats to South Carolina, where State Representative Mike Pitts, R-Laurens, introduced legislation earlier this month that would ban U.S. currency in favor of silver and gold coins. But fear not! Idahoans still have a chance to get behind this critical issue! The Sovereign Idaho Coalition, in their January demonstration on Civil Rights Day, reportedly called for support of a similar bill here, and claimed that the State Republican Central Committee had passed a resolution supporting such a bill. Interested? Sign up here.

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U.S. citizens are linked to the international problem of child labor in part through our trade relationships with other countries. It is well-documented that some of the mined, manufactured, and agricultural goods produced for export to the United States involve the use of child laborers or forced labor. In 2010, the U.S. Department of Labor issued a report entitled List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor which lists 128 products from 70 countries that have been documented to involved the use of child labor or forced labor.
A few examples of goods or commodities imported to the U.S. that have been linked to child labor in recent years include:
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Today, when U.S. leaders argue for "free trade" they are arguing that fewer "trade barriers" (tariffs, quotas, regulations, etc.) will lower the cost of moving goods from one country to another, increasing incomes and wealth for all.
But others are arguing that the wealth created by trade is not being shared equally, that trade rules aren't always applied fairly—and that hasty removal of "trade barriers" sometimes has negative effects on workers, economies, and environments (especially in small or poor countries).
Terms of international trade are increasingly negotiated through international trade institutions such as the World Trade Organization (WTO). The WTO emerged out of multinational negotiations held from 1986-1994, and has since continued to negotiate rules covering trade in goods, services, agriculture, and intellectual property. As of 2003, the WTO includes appointees from 146 countries who negotiate and enforce agreements with the stated aim of helping "trade flow as freely as possible" and eliminating measures that "restrict the free market."
WTO rules currently do not include provisions on labor standards or child labor, and at present there are no plans to consider labor standards in WTO negotiations. At its 1996 Ministerial meeting, WTO members passed a resolution stating that "the ILO should remain the supranational agency charged with developing and monitoring core labor standards."
Some U.S. trade legislation has included labor standards and child labor (for example, as criteria for preferential trade or for goods procured under federal contracts). However, international free trade rules may begin to prohibit certain considerations of labor standards in trade legislation. For example, when U.S. Senators proposed legislation banning imports of goods made with child labor in the early 1990's, Congressional researchers acknowledged such a ban would likely violate current rules of the WTO, because countries affected by a child labor import ban could challenge the ban as an unfair trade barrier or impose fines on U.S. exports as a penalty for the violation.
Current U.S. trade policy (Trade Act of 2002) directs U.S. trade negotiators to:
Educational materials containing information on Child Labor and International Trade Issues, including Workshop Materials—International Trade and Child Labor and K-12 Teachers' Materials, are available through this web site. These materials include Power Point presentations, instructors' manuals, activities, and handouts. You may adapt these materials to your group's needs.
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Something evil lurks in the streets of Avalon. From the spread of an illicit drug called Ice to the black market slave trade. The year is twenty-three thirty, nearly two decades after WWIV and the world, as we know it, is a very different place. Under the rule of one government and a questionable military, no one is safe. Laws are convenient for those who legally prey on the weak. Forced into slavery, one man seeks freedom. Obligated to his profession, the other seeks justice. Exploitation, human trafficking and drugs—brought together by corruption and fate, a bounty hunter meets a slave and their lives are forever changed.
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Since x-rays were discovered a little over one hundred years ago (1895), their use has expanded and changed the landscape of modern medicine. Redlands Community Hospital prides itself on using the most current equipment and new strategies for diagnosis and treatment of a variety of illnesses and conditions. The Radiology Department coordinates imaging services with the hospital's Emergency Department, Surgery Department, Gastrointestinal Laboratory and nursing units. Radiology professionals look for any abnormality in the body. These images are evaluated by a radiologist (a physician) trained in the interpretation of diagnostic images.
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Sometimes it is hard to get toddlers to eat healthy snacks. One way to get those healthy foods into their bellies is by making them fun to eat.
The other day I made this healthy treat for Parker. He wasn't too interested until I handed him a chop stick to eat it with. Then poof, it was super interesting.
Try this out with your toddler:
Cut your banana into pieces,
spread peanut butter (or almond butter) on banana pieces,
sprinkle with finely chopped seeds (we use pumpkin) and
top with a raisin.
Give your toddler a chop stick, Popsicle stick, or coffee stirrer and show them how to pick up the banana pieces with it and eat.
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It's been recognized as one of the top five concerts of 2011 by KCMetropolis and is back by popular demand at the Kauffman Center for Performing Arts.
"A Night of Tango" will begin at 8 p.m. Saturday, April 27, in the Kauffman's Helzberg Hall and will feature Historic Northeast resident Beau Bledsoe and other performers. Bledsoe has performed in nearly every U.S. state and has also performed around the world in places like Argentina, Germany, France, Turkey, among others. National Public Radio, Radio1 BBC and "Segovia a Yupanki" Radio Nacional Argentina regularly feature his music.
Guest soloists will include Héctor Del Curto from Argentina, renowned as one of the world's leading bandoneónists who dedicates his life to performing tango music; jazz/tango pianist Alon Yavnai from Israel, "the fiery artist who won first place in the '96 Great American Jazz Piano Competition"; and local bass talent Jeff Harshbarger, voted Best Bassist by Pitch Magazine in 2007.
The guest musicians will join critically acclaimed Bach Aria Soloists Elizabeth Suh Lane, violinist-Artistic Director, and Beau Bledsoe, guitarist. The group will perform a sizzling Piazzolla tribute including quintessential masterworks: Adios Nonino, Four Seasons, Michelangelo and Libertango.
"We are thrilled to bring the legendary Héctor Del Curto back to Kansas City. All of the musicians are consummate artists and we are excited to present our homage to Piazzolla's sumptuous music in Helzberg Hall," said Elizabeth Suh Lane, artistic director-founder of Bach Aria Soloists.
Bach Aria Soloists, founded by Elizabeth Suh Lane, highlights Bach and those he inspired through critically acclaimed community concerts, signature Hauskonzerts and BachReach education in urban schools. Their world-class collaborations have provided multi-genre programs for Kansas City audiences for 13 seasons.
To purchase tickets for A Night of Tango visit Kauffman Center's website.


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DAUPHIN ISLAND, Alabama -- Dauphin Island — fresh from a rude encounter with the far edges of Hurricane Issac — teemed with visitors Monday as the Labor Day weekend ground to an end.
The public beach entrance had more than 400 cars pass through Saturday, according to Candy Ladnier, who handles parking fees at the beach's guard shack.
"We don't get to spend a lot of time together with jobs and school. Dauphin Island is our favorite spot and something we all enjoy," said Teresa Ogle of Mobile, as she shaded her face with one hand in a failing attempt to block the radiant sun.
Ogle was enjoying Labor Day with her husband and their four children. Tiffany Ogle, a 15-year-old who attends Davidson High School, said she's enjoying being with her family and not having to go to school.
As the kids gathered neon floating devices before heading to the beach, Teresa Ogle said the family had already come down to Dauphin Island on Saturday and they noticed a change of scenery.
"The storm (Isaac) washed out a lot of the sand. A lot of the sand dunes in the middle washed out," said Ogle. She also said the waves on Saturday seemed to come farther up, nearly 20 feet, on shore.
Dennise Allred, along with her mother and children, were enjoying the weather as they slowly walked the long pier that leads to the beach.
"At the beginning of the school year we're rushed to get into routine. It's nice to take a day off," said 14-year-old Jordan Allred as he squinted in the blazing light.
"It's the last hoorah of summer," said Jordan's mother, of Mobile, grinning widely and sporting large sunglasses. She also said the family came to the beach to see if there was any damage due to the storm.
Although the beach had a steady flow of parents either chasing their kids to the beach or dragging them from the glistening water to retire for the day, Barnacle Bill's Marina Grill wasn't having as active of a weekend.
"We're so close to the marina, when it's down so are we," said Bill Lindley, manager of the restaurant.
"We had a minimal amount of damage. What hurt us the most is the perception of what the storm did," said Lindley in a frustrated manner.
The Dauphin Island Marina had red tape across the few damaged spots, however it is currently undergoing repairs. The marina, according to Lindley, hopes to be in full operation in a week or so.
The first Labor Day holiday was celebrated 130 years ago in New York City, according to the United States Department of Labor. It's a national tribute to the "contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country," read the department's website.
Ronnie Howell is no stranger to hard labor. He has worked seven days a week for the past six months in Gulfport, Miss., for Huntington Ingalls Industries.
"I expected there to be more people here. Yesterday it was shoulder to shoulder," said Howell, as he stood with his rod and reel in crisp, sunburnt hands. Monday he spent his third day at the Cedar Point Pier "just relaxing," which seemed to be the main point of the holiday for a majority of beach-goers throughout the weekend.
The West end of the island remains closed due to heavy equipment, displaced sand and water. According to the town's website, to get beyond a checkpoint at Raphael Semmes, residents must be property owners with a hurricane re-entry pass.


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Sunday, 7:30 a.m. ET – Sportsman Channel
USA – -(Ammoland.com)- It is a wild game feeding frenzy at a hip kitchen in downtown Sacramento on this week's The Sporting Chef – an original series hosted and created by Scott Leysath, renowned chef for anything with fins, feathers or fur.
Leysath gets in the action at the annual game feed at the House Kitchen & Bar and his other guests, including Hank Shaw, Melissa Bachman and Stacy Harris, give viewers tips and tricks to ensure their next meal is sublime.
Tune in to The Sporting Chef on Sportsman Channel on Fridays at 11:30 a.m. ET and Sundays at 7:30 a.m. ET.
To learn more about what's on the grill this season, visit www.thesportsmanchannel.com/shows/the-sporting-chef
Chris Nestor, chef and owner of House Kitchen & Bar, shows off his wild game menu for an annual "clean out your freezer event" for local hunters.
"It is a chance for our chefs to cook something different and learn the proper way to cook wild game," said Nestor.
Meanwhile, Hank Shaw, author of "Hunt.Gather.Cook," shows how to make a schnitzel from antelope heart; Melissa Bachman gives tips on using predator calls to bring in black bears closer and Stacy Harris provides advice on raising healthy chickens – and eggs.
This season brings on board big game huntresses Jana Waller, Melissa Bachman, Tiffany Haugen and Michele and Fred Eichler. Also joining the show, Field & Stream's "Wild Chef" David Draper, WildEats.Com Chef John McGannon, and San Diego's "Carnitas Snack Shack" Chef Hanis Cavin. Leysath is also bringing back popular co-hosts like sustainable living expert Stacy Harris, hunter/gatherer Hank Shaw, cast iron pro C.W. "Cee Dub" Welch and Buddy T, the show's resident redneck.
The Sporting Chef, hosted by Scott Leysath, leans on Leysath's 25-year career as a fish and game chef, along with some of the outdoor industry's most-talented and innovative experts on the topics of fish and game preparation, outdoor cooking, camping, harvested game handling and storage. The show offers outdoor programming in a fast-paced magazine format covering a variety of topics from stuffing quail with rabbit-rattlesnake sausage to local game feeds to finding out whether farmed salmon is a good thing for our bodies or the environment.
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Three time World Boxing Champ Jennifer Alcorn may be the secret behind the success of the Fresno City College Women's basketball team.
Alcorn, a native of Le Grand, CA and a once stand out catcher for the Fresno State Softball team, has made it her mission to make a difference in her community through fitness. Through an organization known as Team Jab Fitness Boot Camp, Alcorn is able to carry out her mission.
Before the season began, the Rams had a chance to find out what the camp is all about. They made it a routine to get up on Friday mornings and experience a grueling workout, which seems to have paid off.
The team overcame the challenge of running up and down the stairs and they somehow persevered as they ran up and down the field with tires attached to their hips.
"It's difficult to pin point how much the camp contributed to the success of our team but it showed the players what they can do. Is showed them that they can go beyond their limits," said head coach Brian Tessler. "It prepared them mentally and physically. When they got in practice, they were able to get through it."
Guard Gabbie Hernandez agrees. "It prepared me mentally. Everyday I knew I was going to pushed mentally. I had to attain mental toughness to get through the workouts," said Hernandez."It was something I looked forward to. It was a nice way to end the week. My body felt relaxed."
Hernandez also feels the camp brought the team closer together. "We supported each other and got through it together," she said. Hernandez vividly recalls running alongside her teammates, pulling tires together, and motivating each other through all the squats and push ups.
"Anything we do together improves our chemistry. Just being around each other helps," said point guard Sarah Mendoza, who like her teammates believes the camp benefited her in more ways than one.
"Alcorn pushed us to our limits. She motivated us and we got it done somehow. It was something different. I actually enjoyed it" said Mendoza."She built us for mental toughness so when we get tired on the court, we are able to push through it. We really learned we can do anything when we set our mind to it."
Mendoza is hoping for another opportunity to work Alcorn."She(Alcorn) has told us she would give us pointers for boxing,"said Mendoza.
The players couldn't help but notice the physic of the 5'7″, 135 frame of Alcorn. "She's buff," said Mendoza.
More importantly, the players were impressed with the motivational skills of Alcorn. Alcorn reminded the players to take it up on themselves not only as an athlete, but as a person to succeed.
"She was hard on us but she knew it would make us better," said guard Kayla Clement." I learned to never give up on myself. I pushed myself to exhaustion. I have never worked with tires before."
Like her teammates, Clement believes the camp strengthened the team. "We did team bonding drills together and we became closer together," said Clement.
Clement will not return to the Rams next year, but she says she wishes she had the chance to experience the camp one more time with her teammates.
"What I learned in the camp will help me through out my life. I pushed through my limits and it made me a better person," said Clement. "It made me stronger physically and mentally. If I can get through that, I can get through anything."


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Tax Freedom Day is the day when the nation as a whole has earned enough money to pay its total tax bill for year. That represents the day our earnings are available to us for food, clothing, shelter and other family budget items like health care and medicine.
Most taxpayers are surprised – and disgusted – to know that their taxes exceed what most Americans spend on food, clothing and shelter combined.
As the nation's taxpayers file their tax returns by April 15, many have not worked long enough in 2014 to have paid all their federal, state and local taxes – even if every penny they earned went directly to pay their tax bills and nothing else. National Tax Freedom Day is April 21.
If we include this annual federal borrowing, which represents future taxes owed, National Tax Freedom Day would occur on May 6, 2014.
We in Texas fare better than most of the nation's taxpayers. Texans work until April 13to pay the taxman.
While higher-income and higher-tax states celebrate Tax Freedom Day later: Connecticut (May 9), New Jersey (May 9), and New York (May 4), residents of Louisiana will bear the lowest average tax burden in 2014, with Tax Freedom Day arriving for them on March 30. Also early are Mississippi (April 2) and South Dakota (April 4).
Tax Freedom Day news is brought to us by our friends at the Tax Foundation.
Here are 20 "Tax Facts" just for your reading enjoyment…
1. The word tax comes from the Latin taxo, meaning "I estimate." So, if you get audited, just tell the IRS you were "estimating" your income.
2. Tax day was originally March 1st, but it was eventually moved to April 15th so that the government could hold on to your money longer.
3. In 1923, the average American worked a total of 35 days to pay their taxes.
5. The first income tax in the U.S was imposed in 1862 to help pay for the Civil War. The tax was repealed after the war.
6. The current income tax system started in 1913, following the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
7. The IRS is the world's largest accounting and tax-collection organization, collecting over $2.4 trillion every tax year from over 230 million tax returns.
8. The wealthiest 1% of Americans pay 37% of all income taxes.
10. The bottom 50% pay less than 3%. (Please do not read this as "the bottom 50% do not pay taxes." The income tax is not the only tax.)
11. The US has the highest statutory corporate tax rate in the developed world. It's nearly 60% higher than the average country.
12. The states with the HIGHEST total tax burdens are: (1) New York, (2) New Jersey, (3) Connecticut, (4) California, and (5) Wisconsin.
13. The states with the LOWEST total tax burdens are: (1) Wyoming, (2) Alaska, (3) South Dakota, (4) Texas, and (5) Louisiana.
14. The tax code forces Americans to spend over $168 billion and 6 billion hours to comply.
15. The US Tax code is now nearly 74,000 pages long. That's about 185 times longer than it was in 1913, when the code was 400 pages.
16. Put another way, the tax code contains nearly 4 million words. That's 4 times longer than Shakespeare's completed works at 900,000 words.
17. Milton Friedman helped to create the payroll withholding system as an emergency measure during WWII. He was appalled when the government made it a permanent part of its peacetime taxation.
18. 2/3 of the countries in Europe pay taxes in order watch television (e.g. UK citizens are taxed $244 a year to pay for the BBC).
19. In 2001, Russia passed a 13% flat tax and revenue increased 26%. However, they also have a value added tax (VAT), which generates most of their national tax revenue.
20. Traffic accidents increase significantly on or around April 15th, so maybe you should stay home and file from your computer.
Texas's 2014 Business Tax Climate Index Ranks 11
How does our state's tax system compare to other states? While we'd like to be Number One, Texas ranks 11th in the Tax Foundation's State Business Tax Climate Index. While we have no business (or personal) income tax, Texas does impose a gross receipts tax on businesses. The Tax Foundation compares the states in five areas of taxation that impact business: corporate taxes, individual income taxes, sales taxes, unemployment insurance taxes, and taxes on property, including residential and commercial property. The ranks of neighboring states are as follows: New Mexico, 38th, Oklahoma, 36th, Arkansas, 35th, and Louisiana, 33rd.


text: Business & EconomySpain unemployment continues to soar Spanish PM Mariano Rajoy says job market "will not be good", but it is expected to be "less bad" than last year. 24 Apr 2013 11:01 GMT | Business & Economy, Europe, Greece, Spain Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy says by 2014 there will be growth in the market and more jobs available [Reuters]Spain's jobless rate has continued to rise in the first quarter but at a slower rate than in previous years, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has said. The job situation for the entire year "will not be good, but it will be less bad than in the preceding years", he added during a debate in parliament on Wednesday. "Next year we will have growth and jobs will be created in our country," he said. Spain's unemployment rate hit 26.02 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012, a record high since the re-birth of Spanish democracy after the death of dictator General Francisco Franco in 1975 and the second-highest level in the eurozone after Greece. The National Statistics Institute will publish the unemployment rate for the first quarter on Thursday. Spain is in a double dip recession, having never recovered from the collapse of a decade-long property boom in 2008. The Spanish economy, the eurozone's fourth-largest, contracted by 1.37 percent last year, the second worst yearly slump since 1970, and the government forecasts it will shrink again by between 1.0 percent and 1.5 percent this year.Source: Agencies


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Welcome to the Daily Digest, where the Vikings stadium dominates local coverage, Europe has a plan to deal with Greece's debt crisis, and Bachmann comes home for a fundraiser.
Around Minnesota
Legislators and religious groups are coming out against efforts to expand gambling to pay for the Vikings stadium.
It's unlikely the House Taxes Committee will vote for any stadium proposal that includes a tax hike.
The Pioneer Press reports that electronic pull tabs could be a funding option.
Gov. Mark Dayton would not go so far as to endorse a GOP plan to use Legacy funds to pay for the stadium.
The Minnesota Historical Society is pushing back on using Legacy funding.
The PoliGraph finds Sen. John Marty's claim claim about the cost of the Vikings stadium proposal accurate.
A five-panel judge heard arguments Wednesday about redrawing the state's political boundaries.
Dayton was on Midday.
Dayton wants to invest as much as $100 million into local banks, but his plan got a lukewarm reception.
Jennifer Vogel, who reports for our Ground Level project, writes that budget restraints are causing Minnesota's cities to fray at the edges.
A Ramsey County judge temporarily stops the state from cutting payments to care assistants.
In Washington
Democrats on a special committee meant to tackle the deficit outlined a plan Wednesday similar to President Barack Obama's.
Europe has a deal to address Greece's debt crisis. The Wall Street Journal is live blogging market reaction.
Rep. John Kline criticized President Barack Obama's new plan to reduce student loan payments for college students.
Kline is mentioned in this Bloomberg article about the advancement of a bill that would block the National Labor Relations Board from holding union elections quickly.
Lawmakers are mulling a tax holiday that could return$20 billion back to Minnesota, MPR reports.
GOP candidate Mitt Romney spoke with House Republicans, and they were impressed, according to Politico.
On the Campaign Trail
Rep. Michele Bachmann leads the pack of GOP presidential candidates in Minnesota's money race.
Bachmann planned a town hall in Minneapolis for today, but has cancelled the event. A fundraiser is still on, though.
Bachmann filed her paperwork for the New Hampshire primary.
Eric Woolson, who was managing Bachmann's communications in Iowa, will now be her campaign manager there.
A spokesman for Texas Gov. Rick Perry told Politico the candidate may not be at every debate.
Rep. Ron Paul has spent about $1 million on charter jets – more than any other candidate.


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After more than two years of negotiations for right-of-way access, construction is now complete on a new east-west road connecting East Street to Matmor Road north of the Woodland Community & Senior Center.
Called "Sports Park Drive," the half-mile road begins east of East Street, adjacent to the Community & Senior Center at 2001 East St. On the west side of the East Street intersection is County Road 24A, which dead ends at Branigan's Turkey Farm.
"The project was delayed until right-of-way acquisition (was finalized)," said City Engineer Brent Meyer. "Otherwise it would have been done two years ago."
As part of the development agreement to build the residential complex Huntington Square, developer Standard Pacific agreed to build the road. It is also a fire safety requirement to have more than one access road to the homes, said Meyer. Huntington Square sits at the edge of the Spring Lake Area.
The city required less than a tenth of an acre for the road, which overlapped into the residential property located at the northeast corner of Sports Park Drive.
In May of 2011, after no resolution with the city, Standard Pacific or home owners Fred and Le Forrest, Woodland's City Council began the process of eminent domain, filing a "Resolution of Necessity."
The matter was eventually settled between the parties without eminent domain and the Forrests were compensated for their land.
"It's a benefit to have second access to the sports park, Christian school and the residential development," said Meyer. "There is more traffic continuity and pedestrian access to the sports park."
The addition of Sports Park Drive also allows for left-hand turn lanes in both the north and southbound directions, and improved signal turning. Another requirement of development for Standard Pacific is to create a multi-use path and landscaping along the south side of Sports Park Drive. According to Meyer, this should be completed next year.
As part of the Woodland-Davis Clean Water Agency's Surface Water Project - which will siphon water from the Sacramento River to the cities of Woodland and Davis by 2016 - a section of the transmission line, or main water line, will be built under Sports Park Drive.
The city requested Standard Pacific wait until the pipe is in place before adding the path and landscape on top.
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The Eureka Prizes, which recognise scientific achievement in 18 categories, were announced at an awards dinner at the Sydney Town Hall on Wednesday night.
Rick McRae from the ACT Emergency Services Agency and colleague Jason Sharples from the University of NSW were nominated for the Environmental Research prize for their work into the causes and effects of catastrophic firestorms, which used field data collected during extreme bushfires, particularly the 2003 ACT fires.
But they were pipped for the prize by research led by Chris Johnson of the University of Tasmania. The research showed dingoes could aid in the recovery of degraded lands and help protect threatened species.
A chance discovery by researchers from Melbourne and Monash universities won the researchers the Eureka prize for scientific research this year.
The team - Lars Kjer-Nielsen, Jim McCluskey and Jamie Rossjohn - identified that it was a building block of vitamin B produced by the bacteria that stimulated the cells into action, triggering an immune response.
The work, which was published in Nature, has implications for the development of new treatments for a range of conditions from tuberculosis to irritable bowel syndrome.
''We needed to know at the molecular level what the cells recognised in bacteria and yeast,'' Melbourne University immunologist Jim McCluskey said. ''Recreating that molecule would then be a starting point for developing a vaccine.''
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David Wilson, from the University of NSW, won the Eureka prize for emerging leader in science for convincing Armenia to treat its HIV patients with life-saving drugs instead of an unproven local medicine.
Since Dr Wilson intervened in 2011, the country's AIDS-related deaths have declined from about 34 per cent to 0.3 per cent.
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It feels more like Fall here in SoCal - cooler temps, the air is more crisp in the mornings. However many people transplanted from the East Coast complain about the 'lack of season' in CA. Do you have the same feelings? Or do you enjoy the moderate weather?
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ANTERSELVA, Italy -- Martin Fourcade anchored France to a second consecutive relay victory in the biathlon World Cup on Sunday.
France completed the 4x7.5-kilometer race in 1 hour, 13 minutes, 26 seconds -- 10.1 seconds ahead of Russia, which was anchored by Dmitry Malyshko.
Fourcade had started two seconds ahead of Malyshko, but superb skiing in difficult conditions saw him extend that advantage despite missing four targets. Malyshko had two misses.
France's win prevented Russia's Anton Shipulin from emulating Fourcade's achievements in Germany last week and completing a sweep at Anterselva.
Austria was third, 1:18.5 behind France.
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The ruling by U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes that Detroit is eligible for bankruptcy protection and can impose cuts to its municipal pensions could reverberate in San Bernardino and other California cities.
"Pension rights are contract rights under the Michigan constitution," the judge said Tuesday, according to The Detroit News. "It has long been understood that bankruptcy law entails the impairment of contracts."
With that, as Detroit News columnist Daniel Howes wrote, the judge "overturned a 50-year belief that vested public pensions are protected by the state constitution under Chapter 9 … ."
The California Public Employees Retirement System similarly asserts that money owed it by municipalities is exempt from bankruptcy protection because the retirement system is protected by the California Constitution. San Bernardino and the city's other creditors have claimed that CalPERS is just one of the city's creditors, and does not stand above the others, because U.S. Bankruptcy Court is not bound by the state Constitution.
Judge Rhodes' ruling strongly supports the city's position. It does not mean that Judge Meredith Jury will reach the same conclusion in the San Bernardino bankruptcy proceedings, but it seems likely. She declared the city eligible for Chapter 9 protection in August and has turned aside CalPERS' attempts to reverse her decision.
Judge Jury has not ruled, as Rhodes did Tuesday, on whether San Bernardino can impair its pensions.
CalPERS posted a response on its website that read in part, "Unlike Detroit, CalPERS is not a city pension plan. CalPERS is an arm of the state and was formed to carry out the state's policy regarding public employees. The Bankruptcy Code is clear that a federal bankruptcy court may not interfere in the relationship between a state and its municipalities. The ruling in Detroit is not applicable to state public employee pension systems like CalPERS."
We'll see.
There's some kind of reckoning coming for California public pensions, whether from U.S. Bankruptcy Court or through voters, as pension payments grow and squeeze out municipal services.
In 2011, the latest year for which figures are available, 36 public retirees from San Bernardino — where the median household income is $35,000 — were paid more than $100,000, with 108 receiving pension payments in excess of $70,000.
That same year, according to the state Controller's Office, the city paid 103 employees — 74 of them in the Fire Department and 22 in the Police Department — more than $150,000. The city paid 368 employees more than $100,000 — an astounding fact — and city employees averaged $16,657 in retirement and health costs.
As those employees retire at up to 90 percent of their final year's wages — paid out for decades — the city's pension costs climb.
Other cities are following San Bernardino's trajectory. Upland City Council, which has appointed a citizens task force to try to keep the city from descending into bankruptcy, recently found out the city's required payment to CalPERS for next year will rise by $1.5 million, putting the city into an even deeper financial hole.
It's unsustainable. Something's got to give.
Editor's note: This editorial has been corrected since it was first posted. As written, it stated that the CalPERS pension formula includes overtime pay. Overtime pay is not included in the pension calculation.


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We've written several times recently on Best In Show Daily about evaluating breeding stock, and it has reminded me of something that's been mentioned time and again in the dog press the past few years – maybe even for decades – but it bears repeating. Today in the sport, we're placing too much emphasis at the Group and Best in Show level instead of at the breed level, where it should be.
Sure, occasionally a win in the breed ring is celebrated. Who doesn't value a win at their National Specialty? Even a class win at Poodle Club of America or at the Cairn Terrier Club of America National Specialty would make me giddy with excitement. But in the sport today, being Number 1 at the breed level just isn't what counts for most people who campaign dogs –not even those campaigned by owner-handlers or their breeders, in most cases. It's all about winning those Groups and Best in Shows. We almost never see a big specialty win, or even a National Specialty Best of Breed win, advertised.
At the same time, one of the most frequent complaints we hear among dog people is that so manyjudges don't know what they're doing. But when we make winning at the Group and BIS level the priority, we not only diminish the importance of winning at the breed level, we also divert attention away from judges learning about the nuances of each individual breed. It's no wonder the other oft-heard complaint is that we see too many "generic show dogs" winning these days.
Committees that put together judging panels have to hire only those judges who do a couple of Groups, so that they can be utilized over several days of a circuit and will be economical for the clubs hosting the shows. Believe me, I understand that. But I also yearn to see more breed specialist judges and those who've worked to learn each and every detail of breed type for the select breeds they judge. Many of them only judge a few times a year because it isn't economically feasible to hire them. I wish there was some way to reach a happy medium between using multi-Group judges and breed specialists.
We put so much emphasis on Group judging today, and at 99 percent of our shows, regardless of the size of the entry,breed judging is just a means to an end. We used to hear much more often about a terrific new dog of one breed or another that came out and scored Best of Breed wins from the classes to finish. We don't hear that too much today. Everyone is so focused on what's going to happen at the end of the day that they're just "getting through" the breed judging, rather than really looking for the "best one" of that breed on the day, whether it has "Ch." in front of its name or not.
I know for a fact, because different people have admitted it, that sometimes none of the champions particularly pleased a judge in a good-sized entry, and, although there was a class dog or bitch that they felt really epitomized the breed, they didn't feel comfortable beating someone's special. So… that's evaluating show records or supporting a campaign plan. It's sure not evaluating breeding stock. It's not selecting the best dog of a breed on a given day.
And while it is certainly true that there are dogs that are great "Group dogs," but not such good "breed dogs" – we've all known our share of these – there shouldn't be any such thing. If it isn't good enough to do really well at the breed level, it shouldn't be winning at the Group level either. I don't personally think that beating a bunch of other Non-Sporting dogs makes a Poodle a great one, but there are lots of people judging dogs out there who do believe that!
Yes, I understand that somepeople still value wins in the breed ring above all others, and I know that weekends like Montgomery County wouldn't continue to be among the most prestigious in the country if some exhibitors didn't value competition at the breed level. But I also think that, now and then, we have to remind our fellow fanciers that what matters isn't really which dog is Number 1 in his Group or who was Top Dog among all breeds last year. What really matters, aside from what individual dogs produce in the whelping box, are those dogs that win three majors in one weekend to finish, the ones that went Winners at the National, the ones that give the champions a run for their money, the ones that win Best of Breed from the classes under specialist judges.
We all appreciate the thrill ofcompetition, and the race for Number 1 in each Group and among all breeds every year. We all love watching Groups and Best in Show at the country's most prestigious events. I'm always tickled for the dedicated exhibitor who wins his or her first Best in Show, the breeder whose dog wins its first Group, or the handler who is experiencing having a special ranked at the top for the first time. But I want us to remember where our focus truly should be, which wins should really be the ones we advertise and brag about.
The truth is that, although I won a few Best in Shows and quite a few blue ribbons in Group competition with dogs to which I was very devoted, the win that I'm most proud of was a Best of Breed win at a specialty with a puppy I bred, from the Bred-by-Exhibitor class. It was under someone who has owned, bred, shown, and is very passionate about my breed and whose opinion I respect, and against some stiff competition, including one of the top dogs in the breed at that time. It isn't a more impressive win than those that are advertised regularly, but I think it is among the most important wins I ever had.