Top US States that Benefit from Trading with China

The US-China Business Council (USCBC) released 2011 numbers recently. From the year 2000 to 2011, exports have risen quite a lot--from a mere $16.2 billion in 2000, to $103.9 billion in 2011.  The percentage change is simply amazing, considering the exchange rate between these two countries (1 yuan = 0.1584 US$). 

[PDF] Top US State Exporters to China, 2011:

		US State	2011 Exports	2000 to 2011 %Change	Top Exports to China
	1	California	$14.2 billion	300.00%	computers and electronics, waste and scrap, transportation equipment
	2	Washington	$11.2 billion	489.00%	transportation equipment, crop production, waste and scrap
	3	Texas	$10.9 billion	653.00%	chemicals, crop production, electronics
	4	Louisiana	$7.3 billion	690.00%	crop production, chemicals, waste and scrap
	5	New York	$4.5 billion	472.00%	waste and scrap, machinery, chemicals
	6	Illinois	$3.9 billion	631.00%	machinery, waste and scrap, crop production
	7	Pennsylvania	$3.5 billion	1177.00%	chemicals, machinery, minerals and ores
	8	Georgia	$3.2 billion	873.00%	paper products, transportation equipment, waste and scrap
	8	Oregon	$3.2 billion	936.00%	computers and electronics, chemicals, waste and scrap
	9	South Carolina	$3.0 billion	2261.00%	transportation equipment, waste and scrap
	10	Ohio	$2.7 billion	838.00%	machinery, computers and electronics, transportation equipment
	10	Michigan	$2.7 billion	1169.00%	transportation equipment, machinery, chemicals
	11	North Carolina	$2.6 billion	651.00%	machinery, computers and electronics, chemicals
	12	Alabama	$2.3 billion	1324.00%	transportation equipment, chemicals, crop production
	13	Massachusetts	$2.1 billion	316.00%	computers and electronics, machinery, waste and scrap

Coffee & Pinterest

Today I stumbled upon a random infographic about coffee on Pinterest. I'm glad the graphic's author included his details on the graphic because I'm finding that it's rather hard to track relevant content from that site without being an active member. I had to scroll down several pages after site searching on the coffee keyword, sifting my way past multiple re-pins of the same content. I'm debating whether or not it's a good thing that the site has culled back its open user registrations. Look at what happened to Google+ when registrations were throttled back. It really hasn't had the momentum we all expected the webapp to gain after beta.