our spotlight on small-business today, darrel rippeteau, president of rippeteau architects.ton business report." you are veryisible in the field righght now. "washington siness j journal" had this to say about the economy. the architectu industry has beenn a depression, that there we so many alleged. wh are y seeing?g? >>we are seeining a great owth this yr. our business has increed m more than 10% each month since january. i have spoken th some economists those at the eric institute of architts. earnings are kind of choppy, that is up and down, with architect. the general contractor's report although business is s so contraors are finding a l of wo around the worldld. i was going to bring that up in our roundtable with peter morici but it is importt to note that onof the big firms says a lot of eir work is coming from places like china. if you are imandarin-speaking architect, thehere are jobs to be. where are the jobs? >> we haven't found the property owners continue to have -- we have fouound that property owners continueo have e a need. there is a certain amount of turno