PhillyInc

Ed Rendell's second "Pennsylvania International Week," a once-a-year chance for local companies to get exporting advice and pitch wares to a roving band of foreign tade representatives without leaving home, actually runs for two weeks this year. Perhaps it should be renamed the "Pennsylvania International Fortnight" to be truly international. (Yes, fortnight means "fourteen nights" a.k.a. two weeks in Middle English). And somehow the acronym PIF seems catchier than PIW. Anyway, the merry band of money-makers starts Wednesday in western Pa. and moves across to state, arriving in the Philadelphia region on Sept. 18. The schedule and flyer is here, the state agency's website is here. Its local host is the World Trade Council of Philadelphia, which probably could use the boost.

- Thomas Ginsberg