Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal tells Site Selection how his team and vision have hit the ground running. This week's SiteNet Dispatch brings readers new and exclusive stories from the recently published July 2008 Site Selection, including: SITE Visit: "Super Smelter" North American Reports: "Idaho Falls for Areva"; plus a look at expansion inside Quebec City's digital media cluster. Louisiana: "Fast Out of the Chute" Oklahoma: "Wanted: Aerospace Engineers" Touchdown in Oklahoma: Boeing's recent growth in Oklahoma City has included opening this ARINC aircraft maintenance and modification center last year at Will Rogers World Airport. There's more expansion news online in global project coverage from London-based partner Oxford Intelligence. This week's installment includes: "Agility Moves into Hungary" "Intertek Launches Expanded Site in Ireland" "Credit Suisse Launches in Pakistan" "Warsaw Stock Exchange Opens Kiev Office" "NSK to Open R&D Operation in China" THE SITENET DISPATCH IS SPONSORED BY: North Carolina's Touchstone Energy Cooperatives and Invest Slovenia.

Photo: Ian Britton, FreeFoto.com That big bird pictured on the right is "the world's largest penguin" - 27 feet (8.2 meters) tall and weighing in at 10,000 pounds (4,500 kilograms). See if you can name the city in which the penguin stands - and find out how it got there - in our new "Where in the World?" Forty-five percent of SiteNet Dispatch readers correctly identified Alton, Ill., as the hometown of the "world's tallest man" - Robert Pershing Wadlow, who stood a staggering eight feet, 11.1 inches (2.71 meters) tall. Here's how the rest of the voting broke down in this previous "Where in the World": Copacetic clicking, Jack Lyne Site Selection Executive Editor of Interactive Publishing

Upcoming Conferences and Expositions of Note Read more on the expanded events calendar at SiteNet.com. July 22 - 25, 2008 UEDA Summer Forum The Ritz-Carlton Cleveland, Cleveland, United States July 24 - 25, 2008 Workforce Development for Economic Developers Training Course Four Points Sheraton BWI Airport Hotel, Baltimore, MD August 17 - 19, 2008 Americas Competitiveness Forum Atlanta, GA August 27 - 29, 2008 International Conference: Urban Development, Regeneration and Finance University of Ulster, Jordanstown Campus, Belfast, Northern Ireland September 8 - 11, 2008 CIFIT - China International Fair for Investment & Trade Xiamen, China September 8 - 10, 2008 Infrastructure Finance Summit Sutton Place Hotel, Chicago, IL September 13 - 17, 2008 IAMC Fall 2008 Professional Forum The Skirvin Hilton and the Colcord, Oklahoma City, OK October 6 - 8, 2008 Expo Real New Munich Trade Fair Centre, Munich, Germany October 6 - 9, 2008 Cityscape Dubai Dubai International Exhibition Centre, Dubai, U.A.E. October 19 - 22, 2008 IEDC Annual Conference Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Atlanta, GA October 20 - 22, 2008 North American Port & Intermodal Finance & Investment Summit St. Regis Hotel, Houston, TX October 20 - 23, 2008 Development 08 (NAIOP Annual Conference) The Hotel at Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, NV Central Germany: Growing Solar Valley Another large investment project in the solar sector in Saxony-Anhalt has been announced! Vienna-based Intico Solar AG will produce thin-film modules in Halle. Total investment will be €585 million Euro. The facility will be located in an industrial area near the motorway A14. The company's main goals include broadening its worldwide presence and increasing global production capacities for the solar industry. Intico Solar AG board members Dr. Lutz Mittelstädt, Tina Scherf and Karsten Weltzien were impressed by the quality, promptness and efficiency with which all involved institutions have worked. Commented Dr. Reiner Haseloff, Minister for Saxony-Anhalt Economic and Labour Affairs: "The solar sector in Saxony-Anhalt is taking a leading position nationwide and across Europe. International companies like the Intico Solar AG appreciate Saxony-Anhalt's location advantages, but in particular, the special incentives the state offers for settlements of solar companies." www.invest-in-saxony-anhalt.com paid advertisment CONDUCT LOCATION RESEARCH ON ANY U.S. STATE OR COMMUNITY DevelopmentAlliance.com has always offered detailed state, county, metropolitan and micropolitan statistical data for companies seeking new business locations in the U.S. ... The Web site enables comparisons of critical data sets from every U.S. county and gives corporate site selectors the ability to select up to five communities at once for a side-by-side comparison. Now you can also find important international data through our International Guide. This is a free service of Conway Data, Site Selection magazine, SiteNet.com and the International Economic Development Council. Just log on to DevelopmentAlliance.com and find out what thousands of other site selectors have already discovered: DevelopmentAlliance.com is the place to go when conducting Internet-based research on possible business locations. FREE LOCATION ASSISTANCE is just a click away! NEWSLETTER SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION SIGN UP FOR SITENET DISPATCH Did a friend forward you this e-mail? Sign up for your own free e-mail newsletter by visiting http://www.sitenet.com MISSING ISSUES? Please add SiteNet Dispatch [dispatch@sitenet.com] to your address book to prevent your email system from filtering our newsletters as spam. Look at our online archive to find what you missed, http://www.sitenet.com/dispatch/archive.cfm FEEDBACK Please send comments about content to Adam Bruns or suggestions for how to improve this newsletter to Shannon Landin. MAGAZINE CUSTOMER SERVICE For magazine subscription concerns such as back issues, address changes, and account status information, please visit our customer service department at http://www.siteselection.com/response Would you prefer to read this newsletter in your web browser? Click here. The SiteNet Dispatch is best viewed at a screen resolution of 800 x 600 or larger. The SiteNet Dispatch is a free service of SiteNet (http://www.sitenet.com), the Internet's premier source of corporate real estate and economic development information. Copyright 2008, Conway Data, Inc. All Rights Reserved. You are subscribed as: eeee To change the format in which you receive this email, update your contact information or cancel your subscription, please click here.