Wall Street Journal, Oct 30, 2012

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(1) Hannah Karp, Teaching Americans to Export; Los Angeles Port Holds Classes on Selling Abroad; Jeans to Russia, Candy to China.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB ... 77133738500540.html

Quote:

(a) "Since 2007, the volume of exports leaving the Port of Los Angeles has jumped 31%. That outpaced the average export growth of all major U.S. ports, which rose 10% over the past five years.

"Still, the port's traffic remains unbalanced: Each week, some 47 container ships arrive full at the port—and leave nearly two-thirds empty on average.

(b) "(Neither [Seattle nor San Diego] is a major competitor with L.A. because they handle different types of cargo.)

(c) "Leaf Brands, a candy maker in Newport Beach, Calif, expects to sell about eight million of its Astro Pops lollipops in China next year, after Chief Executive Ellia Kassoff attended a workshop and trade show organized by the port. Mr Kassoff learned to be careful about choosing a Chinese distributor with a good track record. He also was told that his goods could command a higher price in China than the US. This month, the family-owned company got an order from Taiwan for 1,600 pounds of another type of candy.

My comment:
(a) Astro Pops®
http://www.leafbrands.com/articles/view/astro-pops
(b) The report states Mr Vladimir Maskov, a Russian American, said he got the idea to sell US products in Russia when he visited his cousin in St. Petersburg five years ago. There, women 'screamed' with delight as they tried on American-brand clothes he had brought with him."

Are women's jeans really so good in US?!


(2) Fred Zillian, Seeds of Chinese Liberalization, Made in America; Studying in the US, then going home by the hundreds of thousands bearing Western ideas.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB ... 66441502204924.html
("The Chinese discovered our New England boarding school only recently. Five years ago we had three Chinese students; four years ago we had 11; then 19; then 26. This year we have 32. Our experience reflects a national phenomenon. According to the US Department of Homeland Security, only 65 Chinese students attended US private high schools in academic year 2005-06. In 2010-11 the number had grown to 6,725. Chinese attendance at U.S. colleges is also booming. In 2011, 157,588 Chinese students attended college here, a 23% increase from the prior year")

Note:
(a) Meet the Staff - Frederick Zilian, PhD.
http://www.catholicschoolmgmt.com/about/staff/zilian.html
("Frederick Zilian, Jr. currently serves as International Student Liaison and History Teacher at Portsmouth Abbey School, Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Fred has taught at Portsmouth Abbey School since 1992")
(i) Portsmouth Abbey School
www.portsmouthabbey.org
("a coeducational, Catholic Benedictine boarding and day school for students in grades 9-12. Founded in 1926 by the English Benedictine community")
(ii) Order of Saint Benedict
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Saint_Benedict
(a Roman Catholic religious order of independent monastic communities; Within the order, each individual community (which may be a monastery, a priory or abbey) maintains its own autonomy, while the organization as a whole exists to represent their mutual interests; Saint Benedict of Nursia (c 480–543))

(A) Benedict of Nursia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_of_Nursia
(Benedict was the son of a Roman noble of Nursia, the modern [town] Norcia, in Umbria[, Italy])
(B) Benedict
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_(disambiguation)
(a masculine given name; comes from the Latin benedictus, meaning "blessed" and most commonly refers to Saint Benedict of Nursia)
(C) Portsmouth, Rhode Island
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portsmouth,_Rhode_Island

(b) The article says, "One of our Chinese students was the only child in a class who could identify the 'Huckleberry Finn' character known as 'the duke;' another was the only one who could quote the final line in the movie 'Gone with the Wind.'"
(i) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn
(a novel by Mark Twain; first published in England in December 1884; After the Grangerfords, Huck and Jim take aboard two con artists who call themselves the Duke and the King)
(ii) The final line in the movie "Gone with the Wind" (1939)--as well as the book--is: "[Tara [name of the plantation]! Home. I'll go home. And I'll think of some way to get him back.]  After all * * * tomorrow is another day."