Boeing wants bragging rights back
Last week, Airbus passed Boeing in 2007 jet orders at the Paris Air Show, where it inked deals for 548 planes.
The boom wrested bragging rights from Boeing and the hundreds of workers piecing together its 787s in North Charleston. But Paris offers very much of a home-field advantage for Airbus, a unit of European Aeronautic Defence & Space Co. , and the race is far from over.
News broke last week that Delta Air Lines Inc. is weighing an order for 125 787s by the end of the year, which would be the largest U.S. order to date for the space-age plane and bring its production tally close to 750. Bragging rights or no, the jet jobs in North Charleston should be safe well into the next decade.
Citadelknobs.com?
Graduate business students at The Citadel will have the option this fall to start a real business, albeit one that's purely online.
Richard Dowell, an adjunct faculty member in the School of Business Administration, will teach an elective course in Internet business.
"By the end of the course, students will have an operating Internet business that they can grow and will be able to apply what they have learned to help other local businesses improve results," according to a press release.
One objective is to have the students come up with ways to make the course available at other schools around the state, Dowell said.
"The students learn how to do market research so that they can use the Internet to find and pre-sell targeted visitors in search of great content," he said. "They learn to present that content in a way friendly both to their visitors and the search engines."
A whale of a time
Their endangerment once threatened to sink the State Ports Authority's bid to build a new cargo terminal in North Charleston, until the federal government determined that more ships calling here wouldn't wipe out the Northern right whale population.
Nevertheless, NOAA Fisheries Service and the U.S. Coast Guard have published "A Prudent Mariner's Guide to Right Whale Protection."
The interactive compact disc is a guide and training resource for commercial mariners operating in right whale habitats along the U.S. Atlantic coast.
The CD, free upon request, provides a comprehensive collection of right whale information, according to the agencies. The program includes recommended navigational actions when operating in right whale habitat and a guide to reporting sightings of dead or injured right whales.
With as few as 300 remaining, the right whales are among the most endangered marine mammals in the world. The species is protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act of 1973 and the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972.
Because of that, in September the SPA was told it might not be able to go ahead with plans to build a $600 million cargo terminal on part of the former Navy base because more shipping traffic to the region might increase the risk of striking the whales at sea.
For a copy of the CD, send an e-mail to the following agencies, depending on your location:
U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Command: Katie.S.Moore@uscg.mil; NOAA Fisheries Southeast Regional Office in Florida; Kristin.Thoms@noaa.gov.; NOAA Fisheries Northeast Regional Office in Massachusetts: Kristen.Koyama@noaa.gov.
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