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More than 100 hours of testing on a full-scale PW1000G PurePower engine core has so far validated Pratt & Whitney's performance goals for its new generation of commercial jet engines, the company announced today. The core has also demonstrated "excellent" starting and operability characteristics, according to Pratt & Whitney. The results have left the company confident that the first PW1000G for the Bombardier C Series will meet its target to test "later this summer," it added.
"We are extremely pleased with the core test results indicating that the overall engine performance is well aligned with expectations," said Paul Adams, Pratt & Whitney senior vice president of engineering. "These results position us to execute the development of our Next Generation product family flawlessly."
The engine core consists of an "ultra-efficient" high-pressure compressor, a low-emissions combustor and an all-new high-pressure turbine, and the testing program evaluates engine performance, operability and structural design characteristics of those key modules.
Formerly known as the Geared Turbofan, the engine uses a gear system that, in simple terms, allows the engine's fan to turn at roughly one-third the speed of the low-pressure compressor and turbine. Because the low-pressure components turn much faster than those in a conventional engine, they can take in more air, allowing designers to remove stages and make the entire low-pressure side lighter and more efficient.
Removing stages also allows P&W to make the engine shorter, therefore moving its center of gravity forward and allowing airframe designers to position it closer to the wing. That relieves stress from the wing, in turn allowing for the use of a lighter airfoil.
Along with core testing, Pratt & Whitney has performed module-level testing of the fan drive gear system with simulations of more than 40,000 takeoffs and landings; "hundreds of hours" of testing on the high-pressure compressor; nearly 200 hours of testing on the low-pressure compressor, verifying low-spool high-speed performance; and extensive fan module testing with 300 pieces of instrumentation that verified the performance, operability and acoustics of the low-speed fan.
Apart from winning a place on the C Series, scheduled to enter service in 2013, the PW1000G won the competition to power the Mitsubishi Regional Jet, scheduled to enter service in 2014. Russia's Irkut has also chosen the PW1000G to power the proposed new single-aisle MC-21, scheduled for service entry in 2016.


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In less than three weeks, water from the Buckman Direct Diversion Project will start flowing through Santa Feans' taps. But the peer review report intended to assure the public of the water's safety, along with revelations about the contractor's past, have instead raised more red flags.
The BDD was conceived 20 years ago as a way to meet Santa Fe's future water needs by diverting Rio Grande water to a new water-treatment plant west of the city.
The diversion point is just three miles from Los Alamos National Laboratory and the contaminated Los Alamos Canyon. As such, $200,000 of the project's total $217 million price tag went to an independent peer review (IPR) designed to examine whether the levels of chemicals and radionuclides found in the Rio Grande at the diversion point pose any risks to human health. The review contractor ChemRisk, whose fee was paid through a Department of Energy grant, brought on board Amec Earth and Environmental, a Socorro-based corporate hydrogeology research company.
According to the IPR report's four-page distillation presented at a Dec. 7 public meeting, water at the diversion site is safe to drink based on the total estimated increased cancer risk of one in 10,000 for all contaminates.
However, the 317-page technical version of the IPR states, albeit in small type encoded in unfamiliar notation, that the risk for all the radionuclides combined is 1.76 in 10,000.
The New Mexico Environment Department considers an increased cancer risk of more than one in 100,000 unacceptable. The combined increased cancer risk for all this water's radionuclides not only exceeds that benchmark, but also the less stringent US Environmental Protection Agency risk level of one in 10,000.
ChemRisk President Dennis Paustenbach tells SFR that, given the overall risk that Americans have of getting cancer regardless, the difference between one and 1.76 out of 10,000 is insignificant.
"Someone might have rounded off," Paustenbach says.
Ralph Ford-Schmid, an environmental scientist with the NMED DOE Oversight Bureau, tells SFR that ChemRisk explains that, although that risk estimate is unacceptably high, it's based on drinking raw water.
"This isn't a number that is representative of the final product…We're confident and they're confident that the plant will remove so much of these naturally occurring contaminants that the water will be safe to drink," Ford-Schmid says.
However, Joni Arends, executive director of Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety, which has followed the project since its inception, says the discrepency "just demonstrates one of the inconsistencies between what a normal member of the public would look at, this four-pager, and maybe what someone with a little bit of extra interest is going to look at," leading to public misinformation.
Although the risk is based on untreated water, the scientists adjusted the data by assuming that filtration will remove 95 percent of the observed uranium, plutonium and americium. However, the report does not document that assumption.
Audience members who packed the Dec. 7 public meeting also were surprised to learn the reviewers didn't actually collect any water. Instead, the scientists analyzed water quality data obtained by LANL and the state Environment Department during the last decade. Arends says the IPR doesn't point clearly to which samples were used, making it hard to verify ChemRisk's findings.
"We want to see which data they used, and we haven't been able to see that," Arends says. "From over 20 years of working on LANL issues, we know that we need to look at the data, so that's one of our biggest concerns."
Arends knew the IPR wouldn't be based on new samples. However, she learned for the first time at the meeting that the IPR's findings did not include water from periods of storm conditions, which is when radioactive waste is known to overflow out of Los Alamos Canyon into the Rio Grande.
When Amec hydrogeologist Gregory Miller explained to the crowd that it was "not a consideration" of the IPR to evaluate samples from storm conditions, some audience members strongly objected.
"I'm the person who's going to be drinking this water, and I would like to know why that was not considered. And now I want to request that that be considered and be part of this assessment," crowd member Anne Hansen said, to thunderous applause.
The risks posed by storm water are supposed to be mitigated by LANL's early warning system, which is designed to alert BDD when water flow in the Rio Grande exceeds a certain volume per minute. But public trust in that system was already compromised after it took LANL 24 hours to notify BDD of storm conditions in August. BDD Director Rick Carpenter tells SFR that receiving an email from LANL within 24 hours is acceptable, and the system will automatically stop diverting water 30 minutes after the flow increase is registered.
Miller told the crowd that he wished he could provide answers about contaminate levels at the diversion point during storm conditions, but he "was provided a scope of work to execute, which I had no part in designing," prescribed by BDD, LANL and NMED.
Afterward, Miller declined by phone to answer SFR's questions.
Ethical accusations of a more formal nature have dogged Paustenbach, who took a higher-profile role in the IPR after the sudden death last summer of lead investigator Tom Widner. The Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine retracted a 1997 paper Paustenbach worked on when employed by Pacific Gas and Electric Co., which was then embroiled in the civil action suit famously spearheaded by Erin Brockovitch. Paustenbach paid a Chinese researcher to "translate" his findings connecting chromium-6 and stomach cancer from Chinese; the paper published in English concluded that there was no positive correlation.
According to an article in The Scientist, the JOEM's reasons for retraction were not related to data misrepresentation but, rather, due to Paustenbach's failure to disclose PG&E's support of the work. Nevertheless, a "more complete" version of the research was published last year in the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health. The new study says that, although the population in the areas nearest the alloy plant had higher lung cancer and all-cancer rates than the surrounding district and province averages, no clear correlation was found between the actual amounts of chromium contamination in an area's water and its cancer rates.
"We just decided that because enough questions had been raised about the quality of the work or the integrity of the work, [we'd do] a full, a massive disclosure of all [the primary researcher's] studies," Paustenbach tells SFR.
Environmental Working Group Senior Scientist Renee Sharp tells SFR that independent scientists' analyses of the data conflicted with Paustenbach's conclusions in both studies.
"I have been privy to analysis conducted by the state of California…where scientists looking at the data and doing their own analyses found quite significantly that there was an effect," Sharp says. She tells SFR that she is more inclined to believe the scientists, who have no conflict of interest, over Paustenbach, "a PG&E expert witness."
When independent scientists raised questions about the chromium controversy in 2001, Paustenbach resigned from his new position on the California Environmental Health Hazard Assessment board, a panel assembled to determine the acceptable level of chromium-6 in drinking water.
Carpenter tells SFR he has never heard of the chromium research controversy regarding ChemRisk and Paustenbach.
"I think it was a pretty bad decision [for BDD to hire ChemRisk], especially when public trust in a process is so important," Sharp tells SFR. "You really need to really pick a company that doesn't have any kind of ethical swipes and this one has several—I think that was probably a poor choice."
The Buckman Direct Diversion Project will hold a meeting at 4 pm Thursday, Dec. 16 in Santa Fe City Council chambers to answer final public questions.


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U.S. Soccer has named Alex Morgan, a Diamond Bar native and forward on the U.S. Women's National Team as the 2012 Female Athlete of the Year.
The U.S. Soccer Athlete of the Year award is the highest honor awarded to soccer players in the United States.
The Female Athlete of the Year award is the first for Morgan, and it comes in the former Diamond Bar High School player's first time on the ballot.
The forward helped lead the U.S. to a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
She leads all U.S. scorers in 2012 with 28 goals, which is good for third-best all time in a calendar year behind Abby Wambach (31 in 2004) and Michelle Akers (39 in 1991).
In an interview with www.ussoccer.com, Morgan credited Wambach as the main factor in her ability to find the back of the net.
"I think that confidence is a big part, but the one thing that really sticks out is Abby Wambach. She's been my inspiration. She's been my partner up top and has helped me grow into my role comfortably," Morgan said to www.ussoccer.com.
"I think that being able to feel comfortable with her on the field and being on the same page for every minute of the 90 minutes for every game has really made the difference this year."
Morgan has also compiled a team-leading 19 assists in 2012, the fourth-most in a single year.
Other players nominated for the award were Wambach as well as Hope Solo, Megan Rapinoe and Carli Lloyd.
Votes registered on U.S. Soccer's Facebook Page counted for 50 percent of the total votes for the award, while the other 50 percent represented votes compiled from members of the national media and U.S. Soccer representatives.


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A 12-Week Study Comparing Pitavastatin 4 mg vs. Pravastatin 40 mg in HIV-Infected Subjects
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A 12-Week, Randomized, Double-Blind, Active-Controlled, Parallel-Group Study.
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Primary Outcome Measures:
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- Both men and women of child bearing potential (i.e., not surgically sterile or post-menopausal defined as age >40 years without menses for ≥2 years) must agree to use at least 2 reliable forms of contraception
- Documented HIV infection.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia
- Any conditions that may cause secondary dyslipidemia
- History of coronary artery disease (CAD) or CAD equivalent
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Lipid Metabolism Disorders
Metabolic Diseases
Anticholesteremic Agents
Hypolipidemic Agents
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Lipid Regulating Agents
Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors
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INDIANAPOLIS -- Indianapolis Colts safety Bob Sanders made a boy's dream come true as he accompanied him to class Tuesday morning.
Sanders rode along with Jaedon Ball, 7, in a stretch limousine to Brook Park Elementary School, in Lawrence Township, as part of JCPenney's Take A Player To School Sweepstakes, 6News' Julie Pursley reported.
Ball, a second-grader, said, "I screamed," when he found out he was one of 34 children all over the country to win the sweepstakes.
"I told him when I came in his house this morning it was just like the first day of school," Sanders said. "I was up at 4 in the morning. I was anxious and excited."
The whole school got a chance to meet Sanders, who shared an important message with them.
"Stay active and stay healthy," Sanders said. "It's a new generation coming up. We want these kids to be the most fit generation ever."
Sanders talked about the NFL's Play 60 campaign, which encourages children to exercise 60 minutes a day.
The Colts safety also took a little time to exercise with the children and share a few pointers. It was a day Ball will never forget.
Sanders is a role model to many youngsters, but he told the children his father was his role model.


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Near-perfect conditions on the heels of two challenging years had Napa winemakers smiling as the 2012 harvest came to a close. To begin the season, spring bud break went off in perfect conditions, as did flowering and fruit set, setting the stage for a solid crop in terms of quantity. The summer continued with textbook conditions — warm days and cool nights allowing ripening with good flavors, sugars, and acid. Wines are rich, forward, and concentrated with plush, deep, dark fruit.
The ongoing drought played a role, with careful attention to irrigation causing some preliminary worries. Grapes did show some evidence of the stress with smaller, concentrated berries and higher polyphenols in the skins, but in the end these were more a contributing factor to the concentration and excellent quality of the fruit than a reason for concern.
Harvest started with a moderate September followed by a warm spell (with several days over 100°F) at the start of October, four days of rains to close out the month, and overall excellent conditions.
The results from these terrific conditions is a good-sized crop of very high-quality wines that are well-structured and concentrated with deep colors for the reds, slightly higher alcohols from the long ripening, but also in most cases with enough freshness and acidity to balance. Overall, they are wines with enough seductive fruit to be approachable young, but the best should age and develop for a decade and more.
In Napa Valley, David Abreu is about as close to a living legend as one can be. A third-generation Napa native who graduated from the UC Davis Viticulture and Enology Program, Abreu has planted some of the very best vineyards in the valley. His own estate is equally spectacular, producing several highly sought-after (and hard to find) Cabernets.
David got his start at Caymus in the late '70s, where he worked with Ric Forman managing Inglenook's farming. It was during this time that the two took several trips to Bordeaux, observing and absorbing everything they could, bringing back with them techniques and concepts for both the vineyards and the cellar. This expertise would help David launch David Abreu Vineyard Management in 1980, which lead him to become one of the most sought-after vineyard managers in the valley.
Today, his influence is immeasurable. His cast of clients reads like a Who's Who of Napa, including names like Harlan, Blankiet, Staglin, Colgin, Bryant, Fisher, Araujo, Grace, Viader, and Screaming Eagle.
It only stands to reason that someone with such an incredible talent for growing grapes should take a stab making wine. In 1987, seven years after starting his vineyard management business, Abreu did just that, releasing his first commercial bottling using fruit from his Madrona Ranch Vineyard. Before long, the winery would gain the press's attention, garnering well-deserved critical acclaim that has continued to this day.
Over the years Abreu added three more vineyards to his lineup: Thorevilos, Cappella, and Howell Mountain, all superb sites and unique in their locations, soils, and expressions. For a long time, the wines were made at Sloan. In 2006 the official Abreu winery opened just off Yountville Crossroad, dug into a hillside behind Cliff Lede.
In 2000, winemaker Brad Grimes made his debut, with a rather unorthodox entry into the wine business. While working as a chef in Seattle, he decided to make a change of careers and see what the wine industry could offer. His girlfriend (now wife) was working off and on as a private chef for Stuart Sloan in Napa, and Brad would come down to visit when he could. It was during those visits that he got to know Abreu, and when his girlfriend was asked to come for a six-month stint, Brad decided he would move to Napa and take the plunge. He called Abreu ("He was one of the only people I knew in Napa"), who took him on despite his lack of winemaking experience. Abreu must have seen something — perhaps it was Brad's training as a chef, or that he seemed to have a more intuitive and observational method of working — that suited his hands-on approach to viticulture and winemaking. In any case, Brad and David hit it off, and over the next years Brad would immerse himself in the backbreaking, often tedious, work required to farm and make wine — training, trellising, harvesting — learning the ropes and putting in his time. Today, he runs the show at Abreu (and consults at Rudd, as well), and is one of the most respected winemakers in the Valley.
Soft spoken and reserved, Brad's humility is striking, and refreshing. He speaks well of his experience working from the bottom up and has the utmost respect for the team of people he has worked with over the years and whose roles he emphatically acknowledges are every bit as important as his own in the success of the winery.
Brad's winemaking philosophy is rooted in the vineyards, where the focus is on achieving balance. While the Abreu vineyards are not yet certified organic, Brad has always farmed as naturally as possible. He gardened with his grandmother when he was a kid, helping her with compost piles and planting by the phases of the moon. When he was older, he'd hassle farmers who were spraying chemicals on their vineyards without regard for the drift that was impacting the neighboring vineyards.
The vineyard team has remained almost entirely the same since Brad arrived, with very little turnover. Each of the vineyards has its own crew, with intimate knowledge gained over years of working with the same vines. These crews manage the canopy, green harvest, position clusters, and prune during the growing season, and then harvest and head to the winery to sort the berries — a fully hands-on approach.
As harvest begins, selection — and, in a way, the first "assemblage" — is done in the vineyards. The key is to pick select blocks and sub-blocks — sometimes even individual vines — as the grapes reach desired maturity, for all varieties. They may pick half a row of Cabernet Sauvignon from one spot, a few vines of Cabernet Franc from another block, both carefully selected to complement each other and with a vision in mind of how the whole vineyard (and final wine) will be composed. The selections are severe in the vineyard, and each of these small picks are sent to the winery to be co-fermented in small custom fermenters (2- and 3.5-ton capacity) designed specifically for the task. Sometimes eight or nine blocks may yield only 2 tons in a specific pick. The tiny Capella Vineyard may see three or more picks, while Madrona may go through seven or more in a given year.
Perhaps Brad's training as a chef allows him to keep all the sub-blocks and picks in his mind, "seeing" how these disparate parts will come together. It's not unlike the chef's job of sourcing the very best ingredients, all the while envisioning how they will all be processed, prepared, and presented as a dish. "It's not formulaic at all," Brad explains. "We don't pick one year and then go back the next, look at the marks on the maps of what we picked when and repeat," adding with a laugh, "As if we even had marks on a map!" Intuition certainly plays a role, but it has a basis in a sense of the vineyard developed during the growing season, combined with knowledge and experience gained over many years.
The result is the ability to balance the wines naturally — pH, Brix, and acidity, to name a few variables — alleviating the need to manipulate or make corrections or additions in the winery later. For example, brighter, fresher picks can be matched to complement a later, riper vintage. They can vary the percentage of grape varieties in each pick, which also changes the makeup of that specific co-fermented lot. All of these steps create layers, flavors, complexity, and balance to the building blocks that will make the final blend. Brad believes you can't really achieve this by picking large blocks by varietal and fermenting them separately.
Once in the winery, things are pretty straightforward: cold soak for about five days, about 28 days from crush to dry, then 35-42 days on the skins. No formulas, everything is subject to change, all done by taste. Wines then go to barrel, all free-run, no press, usually two primary cooperages and several supporting, with oak pretty consistent across all four wines. Two years in barrel and two years in bottle makes them a late release, but the wait is well worth it.
The results are truly exceptional wines. They show a polish, depth, and sublime elegance that speaks volumes about the care with which they are made. Each wine captures and expresses its unique origin with depth, richness, and power to be sure, but also with a sense of proportion and harmony that to me is the winemaker's ultimate goal — a balancing act only achieved by a few.
Cabernet Sauvignon has been the flagship red grape of the California wine industry for decades, and its popularity shows no sign of abating. Napa Valley is the heart of Cabernet Sauvignon production and is clearly an ideal region for creating world-class wines. If any Cabernet-based wine is capable of giving Bordeaux a run for its money, it's Napa Valley's examples. However, due to the extremely high cost of purchasing and developing vineyards in California, and the cachet of Napa Valley on the label, this has largely become a category for the well-heeled wine lover.
At their best, Napa Valley's Cabernets are characterized by fruit notes of cassis, black cherry, and licorice and sweet oak notes of chocolate, mocha, cedar, and tar. Today, most of the best wines are aged entirely or almost completely in French oak barrels, which tend to produce somewhat more refined wines than do most American barrels. (These latter barrels often introduce exotic and pungent suggestions of scotch, bourbon, tar, coconut, and dill.) But the use of expensive French oak is no guarantee of a good bottle: too many wines today, due to high crop levels or insufficiently ripe fruit, do not have the stuffing to support their oakiness and can quickly be dominated or even dried out by their wood component. The best California Cabernets mellow and soften with five to ten years of bottle aging, developing more complex and less fruit-dominated notes of tobacco, leather, and earth, with mellower wood tones. Compared to the top Bordeaux, however, many California Cabernet Sauvignons merely endure in bottle rather than truly become more interesting. There are no shortage of quality producers, even if these wines are rarely values. And it remains to be seen if today's outsized showstoppers, made from superripe grapes and undeniably impressive on release, will reward extended bottle aging or will turn out to have been best suited for drinking in their youth.
Many wines labeled Cabernet Sauvignon contain small percentages of other so-called Bordeaux varieties -- chiefly Merlot and Cabernet Franc but also Petit Verdot and even Malbec (varietally labeled wines in California must contain at least 75% of the variety named).
Cabernet Sauvignon also flourishes in Washington State, Australia and even Chile. In Washington, prices have been creeping up at the high end, with some producers aiming to compete with cult wines from the Napa Valley. Consider Chateau Ste. Michelle and Woodward Canyon. In Australia, look to the Coonawarra and Margaret River regions. Chile can reveal excellent bargains to those who know where to look: Montes makes a strong range of quality bottlings, as does Casa Lapostolle.
As Cabernet Sauvignon is bold and assertive on the palate, it pairs best with foods like grilled red meats. Taken together, the proteins and fats in the food neutralize some of the stronger tannic qualities of the wine, leading to a harmonic combination that enhances both partners.
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Not that there haven't been the occasional introspective moments. We happen to live in a wealthy part of the world, so the aftershocks of the economic quake that hit months ago aren't felt as intensely. But one of my Italian friends admonished, "stay attentive" – we are not finished in this cycle quite yet. Folks in Abruzzo understand such things, having been rippled by the earth below their feet countless times, the last time almost a year ago when Aquila was almost leveled.
Surprise of the trip? An experimental wine from Illuminati, the Nico. I first had this wine in the 1980's when Illuminati was making their charge up the hill to be seen as one of the leaders for quality wine from Abruzzo. Made from passito Montepulciano, this wine has been a laboratory for ideas from the Illuminati winery. It has also been the wine that the older winemaker Spinelli symbolically passed the baton to the younger winemaker, Capellacci. Now the wine, for me, has taken on a life of its own, the conversation is now between me and Nico, no longer between the generations of winemakers that are part of the history of illuminati.
Old friend and colleague Guy Stout was in the room this week when we tasted the 2003 Nico. At the first whiff of the wine, prickly and a bit wild, I walked over to Guy. "You detect a little volatile acidity?" I asked him. " I do – a lot." He said and smiled. The lack of "polish" made us both happy. Here was a wine with a life life that someone hadn't styled into a pretty little high-test velvet bomb. Note to Barbera producers- take a walk on the wild side, free the Barbera- it's working for some of the upcoming producers in Abruzzo. And we like the results here in Texas and America.
Stefano said it well, and this isn't the first time I have heard it. He said, "Our grandfathers used to sell their grapes to Tuscany, to Veneto, to France. We don't have time for that now. We need our grapes."
We need our grapes. And while not every grape from Abruzzo is destined to be put in a bottle that says "Made in Abruzzo," the young generation has a reason to be fiercely proud of their progress.
Yesterday as the minivan was carrying us from hotel to meeting, Stefano made a call to his friend and colleague Leonardo Pizzolo, who is also barnstorming Texas towns with his Montepulciano from Valle Reale. The two talked, will miss each other in Texas, one in Austin while the other is in Houston, I overheard the conversation they were having in Italian. Leonardo was seeing the wine lists with scores of Chianti wines on them, but maybe only one wine from Abruzzo. "How is it they can put so many Chianti's on their lists and half of them are so awful. They don't speak of where they come from." Maybe Leonardo, because the wine in the bottle doesn't come from Tuscany? Or maybe because too many people in Tuscany have lost their way?
Two days ago, sitting around a table in Houston with a group of young sommeliers we had that same discussion. "I just don't think of Chianti as an interesting wine anymore," one of them remarked. After a heated discussion that got into the styles and the areas, I think they are more confused about the style of Chianti because there are so many expressions of what Chianti is. And while we won't solve the problems for Tuscany or Piedmont at a table in Houston (we'll save that honor for the halls of Vinitaly in a few weeks) the discussion rages on.
The young sommeliers want to know more about the Italian wines, especially being exposed to young producers who are their peers, who have come up in similar times. And honestly, the experience of growing up in the last 20 years, where communications have flattened the world, where we get around more, have allowed for a closer sharing of the life experience, more so than ever before. Just look around you, people are plugged into their electronic tribes like never before.
And that, dear readers - especially anyone looking out, looking in on the ground at one the battlefields to save Italian wine from becoming "international" - that is what we have been meeting about here on the wine trail.
The bus leaves out of here in 45 minutes and I have to get packed and ready - we have a gig in Dallas @ 10:30 AM!
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Brewers begin stretch of 20 straight games
NEW YORK -- If Monday's off-day felt a little sweeter than normal for the Brewers, it might be because they don't have another for three weeks.
"I think the guys, they understand what it is," manager Ron Roenicke said. "We have enough veterans here that will go out every day and know how to get prepared. They know it's an important time. It's a lot of road games also -- it's not just a long stretch.
"I think now, guys are still feeling good physically. We got the guys back that were on the DL earlier. We're OK right now."
The Brewers have had a remarkably even schedule so far -- 32 games at home, 32 on the road entering Tuesday -- and that will continue during this stretch as they split the rest of the month 10 home, 10 away.
"Hopefully that road feeling -- that we're going out there and we can win at any ballpark -- hopefully that stays," Roenicke said.
Of the six series, though, only one is against a team currently toward the top of its division's standings. That will be a three-game set at home against the Nationals -- currently tied for first in the National League East -- June 23-25.
With the busy schedule comes an increased importance of balancing the workload assigned to each player, specifically the pitchers. Righty Mike Fiers, called up over the weekend from Triple-A Nashville, could be one of the guys who benefits from that balance.
For now, he is at or toward the bottom of the bullpen depth chart. But if the team finds itself leaning on the relief corps more than it would like, Fiers might find himself with more significant innings.
"Once you start using guys, his role changes," Roenicke said. "There's a couple of guys down that night and he slides into their role. Tonight he would be the long man. If it could change tomorrow or the next day depending who's used tonight."
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I see six primary trends in the future of automation:
- Technology advances. Automation technology is advancing at a faster rate today than in the past: digital communications in the control room and in the field; wireless; better control algorithms and the computing capability to implement them; better transmitters for more and more types of variables; batch management; alarm management; better process models and the computing power to implement them even in real time; safety requirements; security; better operator interfaces; better operator training; improved maintenance tools and practices; information integration with business systems, and many more. There is no one area that stands out to me, but the sum of all this is very powerful force for getting more benefits from automation.
- Focus on project benefits. There is increasing focus on getting real benefits from projects. Or stated another way, there is better analysis of the opportunities in the operation for improved benefits from controland the coupling of those opportunities to new control functions. That is not to say that without this strong a focus in the past we have implemented a lot of control projects that did not have benefits; my experience is that most control projects do have benefits, though without careful planning maybe not as many and not where you expect. However, as the project focuses more on the benefits, engineers are much more likely to design the project to deliver the greatest benefits; and the benefits you get will be much greater.
- Improved emphasis on project management tools and training. The state of project management capability has advanced significantly due to efforts of the Independent Project Analysis (IPA) Institute, the Construction Industry Institute (CII), and the Project Management Institute (PMI). The primary theme of these efforts is the concept of doing a thorough conceptual design before beginning detail designand then not changing any morethat is, a design freeze. In automation, the shift from work from being led by end users with contractors working on a cost-plus basis to lump sum work led by contractors with tight cost parameters is bringing more attention to the need for good project management and delivering better, lower-cost projects.
- Convergence of IT and automation. In general this trend is good, because it brings together the knowledge of the process and how to control it with the information, communication and presentation tools of IT. However, this IT focus can cause us to think of automation as just another programming task. Automation is not just about computer programming, and if the automation professional does not understand the process, control, information and operator needs and the technologies for dealing with them, we will solve the wrong problem.
- Increasing shortages of well-trained people entering the automation field. We know about the shortage of engineers in general, but the shortage of people entering automation is even more severe. In the U.S., making this better is critical to manufacturing competitiveness. This has been identified as a major focus area for ISA.
The need is to educate the thousands of new B.S. engineers needed each year in automation. While one or two good courses in control help, a new graduate entering automation really needs a number of automation courses replacing selected courses in conventional electrical or chemical engineering curricula.
That is to say, we need a real automation engineering curriculum. This would include courses that cover the critical areas of the full automation body of knowledge: instrumentation, control loop design, advanced control, discrete control, safety, visualization, industrial communications, security, database management, business system integration, and more. Controller tuning, the subject often emphasized in process control courses, is actually less important and detracts from coverage of more important material.
- Increasing gap between the knowledge level of automation professionals and the technology. My observation is that most automation professionals are not keeping up with the advances in technology and in project tools. Most of us do not read the magazines we receive, do not listen to web seminars, do not read standards, and do not attend technical presentations. We get serious about training only for the devices we are assigned to program and do not understand the control task as well as we should. We take little responsibility for our own development; rather we want to leave it up to the company to educate us. We seem satisfied that thousands attend formal courses, become certified, attend technical meetings and participate in online discussion groups; but we forget about the tens of thousands who do very little of these things and who are struggling to do automation work without the necessary knowledge.
Automation is a great field for anyone interested in a technical career. Automation offers an unbeatable opportunity to grow and advance as fast as you are motivated to do so, to work for companies ranging from very small to very largeeven to start your own company, to move easily from theoretical to application work, hardware to software, office to plant, working mostly alone to working closely with a team, and from being a working technical engineer to working in project/personnel management. And the financial reward for good performers is very good. However, since it is still so difficult to learn much about automation in engineering schools and since most companies no longer offer extensive internal training like Monsanto did in the 1960s, it is a challenge to become well-trained. And you cant be good unless you are well-educated. In this environment, an automation professional needs to be a really good self-starter to master what he/she needs to know.
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Cash Hungry Dynegy to go Private
Dynegy's hard past will soon have a new beginning. Carl Icahn has agreed to take the independent power producer private at a price of $665 million in cash plus the assumption of $4 billion in debt - unless the company can attract a better all-cash deal in the coming weeks.
Luring capital is no small task. As such, power companies have to consider all options -- including those beyond the traditional debt and equity markets. Private equity firms are good prospects: They have the cash and they seek productive assets. Utilities, meantime, are short generation and transmission and need solid partners. The two have already met and time has shown they work well together.
As for Icahn, he is already Dynegy's largest shareholder. He owns almost 10 percent of the company's stock and has the option to buy another 5 percent. The activist investor helped block an earlier bid from the Blackstone Group that was for $5 a share, or 50 cents less than what he had offered. Icahn and its fellow investors say that they expect the weak prices for natural gas to recover and to help give Dynegy the boost it needs.
The proposed deal is "a very positive outcome for Dynegy's stockholders," says Bruce Williamson, chief executive of the unregulated power producer.
Dynegy has been on the auction block for two years. It is projecting negative cash flows until 2015 that total $1.6 billion. Its debt levels also remain high at $3.95 billion. And with low natural gas prices it fears it will be unable to meet its obligations. It is estimated that those bond holders choosing to cash in now rather than wait until their notes mature are getting roughly 70 cents on the dollar.
Icahn, though, has said he would support an offer that is superior to his - if it arrives before January 24. At this point, it's unclear what he would do with the company, if it does fall under his control. Some analysts are saying that he will splinter off certain segments of the business, or perhaps just sell of some power plants.
News reports are rampant that NRG Energy could buy some of those generators from Icahn. If the Blackstone offer had gone through, that power producer had agreed to purchase four of the natural gas plants for $1.36 billion.
Dynegy owns about 12,100 megawatts of modern generation that is located along the east coast and west coast, as well as in Illinois. Its heyday occurred in the late 1990s when the shares of unregulated power producers skyrocketed. But those enterprises came crashing down in 2001. The recession and the reduced demand for electricity worked in tandem with a host of energy-related scandals to rock the entire sector.
Overall Trend
This is not Icahn's first foray into the power business. In 2003, he signed a joint venture with Dallas-based Panda Energy International that builds unregulated power plants to purchase U.S. energy assets and related infrastructure.
The move has been part of a bigger trend whereby private capital is making its way into the utility sphere. Kohlberg, Kravis Roberts and TPG closed a $45 billion purchase of Dallas-based TXU in 2007 in what has been the largest private transaction to date.
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, meanwhile, acquired PacifiCorp from ScottishPower for $9.4 billion in 2005. The same group purchased MidAmerican Energy Holdings in 2000, which set off the development to go private.
A consortium led by Macquarie Infrastructure Partners, furthermore, bought Washington State-based Puget Energy in 2007 for $3.5 billion. Macquarie, which is the largest investment bank in Australia, also purchased Pittsburgh-based Duquesne Light Holdings that same year for $1.6 billion.
"During this time of economic instability, Puget Energy has been able to improve its credit rating and secure long-term credit facilities to improve and expand our energy delivery system, providing local jobs and meeting local needs," says Stephen Reynolds, chief executive of the Washington State-based utility that had a need to attract $5 billion.
Private equity firms can range from hedge funds and venture capital firms that may seek minority interests to those that have majority stakes and that actively participate in the operations of businesses.
Most businesses need access to the capital markets in which they can obtain the funds to do research and development, buy equipment and hire workers. At the same time and in the wake of some corporate accounting crimes, the pressures associated with quarterly reporting and corporate governance rules have become intense.
But critics of taking utilities private argue that those buyers are more interested in turning quick profits than in building sustainable assets. The concerns are particularly acute in the utility sector that is vitally important to the welfare of an economy.
That's a point countered by private equity firms. Unlike publicly-owned companies, they say that they are not obsessed with quarterly filings and therefore take a longer view. Utilities are compelled to build billions in new infrastructure to meet the expected demand for energy - a situation that places closely-held firms in a position to supply that much-needed capital.
Private investors have been hunting for potentially cash-rich utility assets for several years. The best deals, at present, may be those enterprises that are currently strapped but which have the potential to pull out. At least that's Icahn's thinking - a theory that may prompt other, like-minded go-getters to consider the same.
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HOST Prevents 18 Households from Becoming Homeless in First 8 Days
Dec. 15, 2009
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In its first eight days of operations, the new Housing Opportunities Support Teams (HOST) prevented 18 households from becoming homeless in the Fairfax-Falls Church Community.
"By using the HOST approach, we are able to help people stay in their homes or quickly move into housing," said Sharon Bulova, chairman of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors. "This partnership is an integral part of our community's plan to end homelessness."
The HOST system?operated as a partnership of local faith-based and nonprofit organizations, and Fairfax County human services and housing agencies?coordinates and manages prevention, housing placement and supportive services for those who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. Through HOST, the partner organizations collaborate to:
- Identify and coordinate housing opportunities.
- Provide one-stop accessible triage, assessment and referral.
- Deliver client-centered services.
"Thanks to the tireless efforts of community and county partners, many more people are able to remain in their homes during these difficult economic times," said Dean Klein, director of the Fairfax County Office to Prevent and End Homelessness. "We truly are on our way to help people quickly return to self-sufficiency."
For more information on the Fairfax-Falls Church Community Partnership to Prevent and End Homelessness, call 703-324-9492, TTY 711. Those who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless, should call Fairfax County Coordinated Services Planning at 703-222-0880, TTY 711.
Contact: Merni Fitzgerald, Director, Office of Public Affairs
703-324-3189, TTY 711, Media Pager: 703-324-NEWS (6397)
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Warminster roofer Keith Saunders will be aiming high to raise £2,000 for Raleigh International when he tries to smash the world record for climbing ladders on Saturday from 3pm at Salisbury Fire Station.
Keith, 46, of Copheap Lane, Warminster, will try to climb the vertical height of Everest and then, if he has time, he will go for the world record of 13.12 kilometres in in 24 hours.
He has been hard at training and has rigged up a ladder and a fireman's pole at Millards Farm, Upton Scudamore.
In September he will go to Northern Borneo with the charity that inspires young people to volunteer and work with communities living in poverty.
He said: "I have not done anything this ambitious before, the time is now right. My two kids have now grown up and there is nothing stopping me."
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•If you're interested in selling or buying, the spring/summer Lucky Duck Children's Consignment Sale may be for you — you can do either, or both. It will be March 21-23 at Dupont Downs, 538 E. Dupont Road, behind the Dupont library.
Gently used, high-end brands of children's clothing, shoes, furniture, toys, books, bikes and more will be for sale, as well as maternity items.
Admission is free. Sale hours are 9 a.m.-7 p.m. March 22 and 8 a.m.- 1 p.m. March 23. Many items are half-price March 23. Cash and credit cards are accepted.
For customers wanting to shop before the general public, pre-sale shopping is 7-9 p.m. March 21, but you have to buy a ticket at the door for $10.
If you're interested in selling items, register at www.luckyduckfortwayne.com. Using the online bar-coding system on the website, consignors set their own prices on their items and then print tags from their home computers. Consignors drop off their items the week of the sale, and sale staff set up and organize the sale.
Consignors earn 60 percent of their total sales and the opportunity to receive up to 75 percent by volunteering to work a shift at the sale or referring a friend to consign. Consignors and volunteers get passes to shop the private pre-sale March 21. Unsold items can be donated to the charity partner, True Vine Ministry at Pathway Community Church, or can be picked up by the consignor at the end of the sale.
Lucky Duck Children's Consignment Sale is a biannual shopping event with a sale held in the spring and fall. The March sale will be Lucky Duck's fifth sale in Fort Wayne.
•Fellowship Missionary Church, 2536 East Tillman Road, is hosting its annual Children's Clothing Resale 8 a.m.-noon March 16.
More than 120 sellers are registered to participate and will be selling children's clothing, maternity clothing, toys, baby furniture and other baby equipment. All items are inspected for quality before being accepted for the sale.
The sale includes children's clothing from size newborn to girls junior size 7 and boys size 20. Other items sold include cribs, rockers, dressers, strollers, playpens, swings, toys, bikes, books and more. Only personal checks and cash are accepted.
A percentage of the proceeds from the sale reach children in need through contributions to local organizations.
There are still spots available for those who would like to volunteer. Email firstname.lastname@example.com, and someone will contact you.
•The Twins Club Spring Resale, which is open to the public, is 8 a.m.-1 p.m. March 9 at Messiah Lutheran Church, 7211 Stellhorn Road. Children's clothing in sizes preemie to 16, maternity wear, toys, strollers, swings, cribs and more will be for sale. For more information, go to www.nimotm.org.The Fort Wayne Comic Book Convention is 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday at the Comfort Suites, 5775 Coventry Lane, at the Interstate 69 and U.S. 24 interchange (Exit 302).
Admission is free. Dealers from several states will be there with comic books from the golden age to present, as well as collectible items such as action figures.
If you have comics you no longer want, bring them over; dealers also will be buying.The Fort Wayne Women's Expo is this weekend at Memorial Coliseum, 4000 Parnell Ave. It features fashion shows, cooking demonstrations, shopping, giveaways and hourly prizes. Hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $5.
Know of a store opening, closing or remodeling? Find a good deal? Call Cindy Larson at 461-8284, fax 461-8817, email firstname.lastname@example.com or write to: In the Bag, C/O The News-Sentinel, PO Box 102, Fort Wayne, IN 46801. To read other columns, go to www.news-sentinel.com/section/LARSON.


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|Associate Director of Financial Operations for Athletics
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Jane Lemire joined the department in 2001 as Athletic Assistant Business Manager and has subsequently been promoted to Associate Director of Financial Operations for Athletics.
Lemire is responsible for the day-to-day support of all budgetary and financial accounting and monitoring issues as they relate to athletics. She is also responsible for overseeing the travel needs of 35 varsity sports teams.
Having originally arrived at Dartmouth in 1989 working in the Department of Psychiatry as the Business Manager, Lemire was later promoted to Clinical Practice Manager before coming to the athletics department.
Hailing from Wallingford, Connecticut, Lemire is a graduate of Eastern Connecticut State University. She is also a Certified Sports Travel Professional through the National Business Travel Association and a member of Society for Collegiate Travel Management and Collegiate Athletic Business Management Association.
Lemire pioneered TeamAlzheimers for the Covered Bridges Half-Marathon in 2004, and each year her team of 50 runners raise money and run 13.1 miles. To date she has raised over $100,000. All funds are donated to several Upper Valley private non-profit senior organizations that specialize in the care and/or services for people with dementia.
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Q: How are you, Chef? Valentine's Day is quickly approaching and I want to cook a romantic dinner at home. I am a pretty good cook, but I usually end up buying dessert and try to pass it off as my own. Is there something easy that I can do?
A: It is a new year, and we have moved from the Age of Pisces to the Age of Aquarius. As the song says, Then peace will guide the planets and love will steer the stars. It is the age of learning and believing in yourself. I have just the recipe to start you off on—one that will begin to give you the confidence to try new things and give you the opportunity to create a masterpiece desert for the one you love.
Notes: This recipe is difficult to convert to ounces, so I suggest using a gram scale to make sure weights are correct.
Once you have made your micro-sponge, I suggest breaking it into rough pieces and serve, with your favorite cherry filling and garnish with chocolate truffles.
If you want to see and this desert before making, it is one of the items that we are serving on our new dessert bar at the 1904 Steak House.
30-Second Chocolate Micro-Sponge
Makes 6 portions (8-oz cups)
25 g cocoa powder
4 eggs
80 g sugar
20 g all-purpose flour
Garnish (see below)
Other equipment:
½ liter iSi Siphon (a whipped cream dispenser available at Starbucks and some Target stores)
2 cream cartridges (N2O) (a disposable one-use cylinder used to whip the cream in the cream dispenser)
Paper cups
Mix cocoa powder, eggs, sugar and flour in a blender until the mixture is well-combined. Strain the mixture using a sieve and pour into a ½-litre siphon. Charge with two cream cartridges.
Make eight to nine small cuts into the paper cups to allow venting of steam. Fill each cup 1/3 full with mixture from the siphon. Cook on high for approximately 30 to 40 seconds in a microwave. The cook time will vary with the wattage of the microwave and quantity dispersed (can take as little as 16 seconds). I suggest running a test to adjust cook time.
Carefully remove from the microwave and allow the cup to sit upside down for five to 10 minutes before removing the micro-sponge from the cup.
Garnish with broken pieces of brownies or truffles, fresh or dried raspberries, or your favorite fruit puree.


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JOSH Maguire was the star of the show for Westwood News as his hat-trick helped the second division side claim a place in the quarter-finals of this season's Briken Motors & AM Print & Copy sponsored A&B Cup after they claimed a 4-2 extra time win to dispose of first division Lamb FC.
In what was a fine game of football played in testing conditions on a very boggy pitch at Bobbin Lane, both teams did extremely well to keep going for 120 minutes.
Charlie Powell lashed home a stunning 30-yard effort for Westwood on 33 minutes but the sides went into the break locked together at one apiece with Tom Blackman scoring for the Lamb.
Thanks to Maguire's early second-half goal Westwood looked to heading to the last eight but with almost the last kick of the 90 minutes, Lamb broke from their own half as they turned defence into attack and managed to grab an equaliser and take the tie to extra time, Bradley Witham netting the all-important goal.
Lamb had the better of the first 15 minutes of added time but were unable to conjure a third goal and they were again on top before Westwood broke clear to score their third with Maguire heading home from a corner.
With Lamb pushing players forward looking for a leveller, Westwood scored a fourth to seal their win, Maguire completing his treble with another goal on the break and as both teams toiled in the Westwood mud they were glad to hear the final whistle when Paul Collyer signaled the end of a great contest.
Freshford United 6 Trowbridge Rangers 0
AS EXPECTED, first division leaders Freshford United kept their charge for A&B Cup glory alive by comfortably seeing off the challenge from third division Trowbridge Rangers at Brown's Park.
Central defender Ricky Trott headed home following a corner to give Freshford their lead, and almost a carbon copy second goal from Trott doubled the hosts' advantage and they made it 3-0 before the interval with Nick Ross finding the net.
After the break Trott completed his hat trick to take it to 4-0 and further goals from Steve Roddy and Mark Gerrish made up the half dozen.
Lacock FC 2 Trowbridge Town Reserves 1
THE all-first division cup clash between current leaders Lacock FC and second placed Trowbridge Town Reserves lived up to expectations as the teams slugged it out for 90 minutes in what was an excellent advert for grass roots football before Lacock booked their spot in the quarter-finals thanks to a narrow but thrilling 2-1 success.
Sam Hodsall's goal for Lacock separated the sides at the break and it was game on in the second half when Kieren Mills fired Trowbridge level.
The second half ebbed and flowed with chances falling at both ends before Craig Gingell popped up to bag his first goal for Lacock with what proved to be the winner and set Joe Martin's side up with a trip to Freshford in the next round.
Steeple Ashton 2 White Horse FC 5
WITHOUT the efforts of Steeple Ashton's manager Neil Taylor their cup match at St Mary's against quadruple-chasing White Horse would never have gone ahead.
And after 45 minutes of the game it looked as if Taylor's efforts would be rewarded as his team had taken a shock 2-0 lead. However a different White Horse side turned up for the second half and it was business as usual as the third division side hit five unanswered goals to run out 5-2 victors.
Ashton took the lead when Kieran Stone claimed the final touch to Allan Clarke clearance that looked to heading into his own net and a Marc Sheppard strike put Ashton on course for an unlikely win but they were unable to hold out as their cup dreams turned into a nightmare in the second half as White Horse found their feet.
Stuart Barber started the comeback for White Horse, substitute Matty Mead squared things up and two further goals from Mead completed his three-timer to give his team a 4-2 lead and number five came from Barber who made the final score line a lot more convincing than it really was.
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As I look at all the available housing data and then compare it to the stock performance of companies closely aligned with the sector, all I can think is here we go again. The performance of many stocks in the housing sector this year reminds me more of the 1999 Nasdaq bubble than of the run-up in the value of these stocks during the housing bubble.
Home Depot (HD) is up 85% this year, Lowe's (LOW) is up 28%, Lumber Liquidators (LL) is up 300%. Toll Brothers (TOL) is up 50%, the SPDR S&P Homebuilders (XHB) is also up 50%. I could go on.
At the height of the most recent housing boom at the end of 2006, HD was about $40 per share. It's now 50% above that level. Lumber Liquidators went public at $11 per share on Nov. 9, 2007, hit a low of about $6 a few months later and bounced between $10 and $30 per share until the beginning of this year when it opened at about $18. It's now around $53.
Toll shares are now back almost exactly where they were at the end of 2006, at the peak of the housing boom. Traders and investors alike appear to have decided that not only is this year's housing rebound solid, but that the U.S. is in the early stages of another housing boom. I can't arrive at any other conclusion.
Yet the data from bank call reports continue to indicate that non-performing residential loans continue to be a growing rather than a shrinking problem. At Wells Fargo (WFC) the value of non-performing residential first trust loans has held in the range of 14% of their portfolio for the past eight quarters and is only a few percentage points below the high of about 17% set in the first quarter of 2010. And that's the best performance of all of the money centers.
At Bank of America (BAC), the percentage of non-performing residential loans has steadily increased from a low of around 14% in the fourth quarter of 2009 to its highest level ever at around 21% today.
At JPMorgan Chase (JPM), that percentage is also about 21% and has been for four years. Citigroup's (C) non-performing loans had been decreasing over the past three years until the third quarter of this year when it jumped to about 11% from around 9% in the second quarter. The performance of their stocks has been similar to those in the housing space. BAC is up 80% this year, WFC around 15%, JPM about 20%, and C is up around 35%.
The steadily rising number of non-performing first trust residential mortgages indicate continuing structural problems in the banking sector, mortgage banking, the housing sector, and overall economy. But the stocks of companies in the housing sector and the banks stocks themselves reflect no concern about these issues at all, as far as I can tell.
This dichotomy can't continue perpetually, though. Either the structural problems have to show signs of dissipating imminently or these stocks are grossly overvalued currently.