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Alabama Gov. Bentley recaps first day of 2013 Paris Air Show (video)

Tue, 06/18/2013 - 10:15am
Listen to Bentley discuss a successful first day in Paris while state and industry leaders court aerospace companies considering locating or expanding in Alabama. Kelli Dugan | kdugan@al.com http://connect.al.com/user/kellimdugan/index.html

2013 Paris Air Show: Airbus scores several multibillion dollar orders on day one

Mon, 06/17/2013 - 6:24pm
Airbus won day one of the 2013 Paris Air Show over archrival Boeing Co., booking multibillion dollar orders for both its A380 superjumbos and its more fuel-efficient single-aisle A320 family aircraft. Kelli Dugan | kdugan@al.com http://connect.al.com/user/kellimdugan/index.html

Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley talks 2013 Paris Air Show (video)

Mon, 06/17/2013 - 3:33pm
With a busy agenda and nearly one dozen one-on-one company meetings on day one, alone, Team Alabama is aggressively selling the state to global aerospace companies during the week-long trade show. Kelli Dugan | kdugan@al.com http://connect.al.com/user/kellimdugan/index.html

Expanded Alabama presence topic of Paris Air Show meeting with Safran

Mon, 06/17/2013 - 12:28pm
France-based Safran Engineering Services celebrated the opening of its Brookley Aeroplex office expected to employ 50 highly skilled engineers on April 8, the same day Airbus broke ground at Brookley on its first final assembly line on U.S. soil. Kelli Dugan | kdugan@al.com http://connect.al.com/user/kellimdugan/index.html

Huntsville-sponsored reception on eve of 2013 Paris Air Show highlights aerospace jobs

Sun, 06/16/2013 - 6:57pm
Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley challenged public and private economic development leaders gathered at a reception on the eve of the 2013 Paris Air Show to remain focused and “work hard” for the state of Alabama. Kelli Dugan | kdugan@al.com http://connect.al.com/user/kellimdugan/index.html

Expanding Alabama's aerospace industry, winning jobs focus for 2013 Paris Air Show

Sun, 06/16/2013 - 1:28pm
In a Q&A with Made In Alabama, the Alabama Department of Commerce’s public face, Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley talked candidly about the state’s expanding aviation and aerospace sector; opportunities for its continued growth; and Alabama’s game plan for the week-long global aerospace and defense trade show. Kelli Dugan | kdugan@al.com http://connect.al.com/user/kellimdugan/index.html

Report: Healthcare, manufacturing will steer southwest Alabama employment trends through 2020

Sun, 06/16/2013 - 6:03am
And because employment is expected to outpace the region’s labor force, worker shortfalls of 30,000 and 52,100 are projected by 2020 and 2030 respectively. Consider, however, that 25,000 and 48,000 of those figures are expected to occur in Mobile County, alone, painting a more promising employment workforce picture for the remaining seven counties. Kelli Dugan | kdugan@al.com http://connect.al.com/user/kellimdugan/index.html

At a glance: 2012 State of the Workforce for Mobile County

Sun, 06/16/2013 - 6:02am
Worker shortfalls of 25,000 and nearly 48,000 are projected by 2020 and 2030 respectively. Kelli Dugan | kdugan@al.com http://connect.al.com/user/kellimdugan/index.html

Report: Increased training, focus on high-demand jobs can address projected workforce shortfalls

Sun, 06/16/2013 - 6:00am
Investment in education and skills development will be crucial to Mobile County’s ability to avoid projected worker shortfalls of nearly 25,000 by 2020 and almost twice that by 2030. Kelli Dugan | kdugan@al.com http://connect.al.com/user/kellimdugan/index.html

Send a text message to aliens in outer space through new project set to launch Wednesday

Thu, 06/13/2013 - 1:29pm
The project's messages, which will be sent from Jamesburg Earth Station in Carmel, Calif., will target a Earth-like planet in a star system 17.6 light-years away that they say is a good candidate for potential life. Amber Sutton | asutton@al.com http://connect.al.com/user/AmberAcker/index.html

Microsoft's E3 game showing wrap-up

Tue, 06/11/2013 - 9:13pm
E3, the videogame equivalent of the World's Fair, is this week. I'm going to be doing little wrap ups of the  Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo press conferences. Microsoft is first so let's get into it. Microsoft started out with Metal Gear.... Jasper Raines http://connect.al.com/user/JasperRaines/index.html

Work and Play Hard? How to Keep Your Private and Professional Lives Separate

Tue, 06/11/2013 - 1:06pm
With the prevalence of social media in today's society, it's more difficult than ever to keep your personal and professional lives separate. How can you balance your online social life with professionalism? Adrienne Erin http://connect.al.com/user/adrienneerin/index.html

Apple revamps look of iPhone, iPad software

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 2:49pm
Apple is throwing out most of the real-world graphical cues from its iPhone and iPad software, like the casino-green "felt" of its Game Center app, in what it calls the biggest update since the iPhone's launch in 2007. The Associated Press http://connect.al.com/user/bamaap/index.html

Incoming Mobile Airport Authority chief Roger Wehner talks Airbus, 'getting things done'

Tue, 06/04/2013 - 5:24pm
Wehner, who currently serves as president of Birmingham-based Global Resource Group LLC, actually spent a significant chunk of his tenure with Alabama Power Co. on executive loan to the authority while Airbus parent EADS and then-partner Northrop-Grumman Corp. built their business case to lure a lucrative refueling tanker project for the U.S. Air Force to Mobile’s Brookley Aeroplex. Kelli Dugan | kdugan@al.com http://connect.al.com/user/kellimdugan/index.html

International trade, development expertise feathers in cap of Mobile's new airport authority chief

Tue, 06/04/2013 - 12:34pm
Veteran economic developer Roger Wehner, president of Birmingham-based Global Resource Group LLC, appears to be the imminent choice to replace outgoing director Bill Sisson, named president of the Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce in April. Kelli Dugan | kdugan@al.com http://connect.al.com/user/kellimdugan/index.html

How to monitor your social media reputation

Tue, 06/04/2013 - 7:34am
As you post to your Facebook and Twitter, it's easy to forget that what you post will be out there forever. To look back through and find unflattering things to remove, look no further than Social Fingerprint. Adrienne Erin http://connect.al.com/user/adrienneerin/index.html

Remember Me review: Remember you? No thanks, you're not very good

Mon, 06/03/2013 - 7:18pm
Remember Me is one of the bigger summer video game releases. The premise is interesting, but the execution is a little lacking. (Capcom) Remember Me is one of the bigger releases of the summer. The game takes place in a futuristic... Jasper Raines http://connect.al.com/user/JasperRaines/index.html

Airbus chairman McArtor visits B.C. Rain High, future site of Aerospace Training Facility (photos, video)

Mon, 06/03/2013 - 6:38pm
Mobile County school system officials and members of 100 Black Men of Greater Mobile welcomed Allan McArtor, chairman of Airbus Americas Inc., at a news conference today at B.C. Rain High School. Sally Pearsall Ericson | sericson@al.com http://connect.al.com/user/sericson/index.html

Airbus posts first manufacturing-related jobs for Mobile final assembly line

Mon, 06/03/2013 - 2:35pm
The positions require a minimum of five years’ experience as a technician or foreman with electrical, mechanical, cabin or systems installation with an aviation company and/or have a degree in aerospace, industrial or mechanical engineering. Kelli Dugan | kdugan@al.com http://connect.al.com/user/kellimdugan/index.html

Scientists hopeful about cloning after discovering frozen woolly mammoth with flowing blood (video)

Thu, 05/30/2013 - 11:18am
The remains were located in temperatures around -7 to -10 degrees Celsius on a remote island in the Arctic Ocean. The dark blood of the creature was found in ice cavities below the belly. In addition, it's muscle tissue was described as looking more like fresh meat rather than centuries old. Amber Sutton | asutton@al.com http://connect.al.com/user/AmberAcker/index.html