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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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