Negotiated Rule Making 2008 Workshops
The Idaho Board of Professional Engineers and Professional Land
Surveyors have scheduled Public Hearings on Negotiated Rule Making regarding the
Rules of Procedure, Professional Responsibility, Corner Perpetuation and Filing
and Continuing Professional Development.
Dates are as follows:
July 14, 2008 8:00 a.m. North Idaho College, Coeur d’Alene
July 15, 2008 8:00 a.m. Fish and Game Office, Lewiston
July 18, 2008 8:00 a.m. ITD Headquarters, Boise
July 28, 2008 8:00 a.m. University Place, Idaho Falls
July 28, 2008 1:00 p.m. ISU Student Union, Pocatello
July 29, 2008 8:00 a.m. CSI Taylor Building, Twin Falls
The current Rules with draft mark-up changes including some substantive changes
that will be used for discussion purposes at these meetings and were discussed
by the Board in their June 2008 Meeting can be found on the
IBPEPLS web site.
HP reorganizing
printing operations due to declining demand.
(Reprinted from the
NSPE Daily Designs)
The Wall
Street Journal (6/20, B9, Scheck) reports that "Hewlett-Packard Co.'s (HP)
Vyomesh Joshi, the printer chief whose unit once delivered most of the company's
profit, had to act three years ago to shift focus as the Internet threatened to
reduce consumer printing. Now, he is remaking the business again." Recently,
"Joshi told employees that he plans to consolidate his division under three top
managers, and link the ink and hardware businesses." The decision to "move into
high-end printing segments" is another indication "of strategic changes at HP,"
after, "as Joshi foresaw, growth in the number of pages printed by consumers has
slowed." According to HP spokeswoman Alyson Griffin, "the reorganization will
reduce the printing division's five business units to three in an effort to
become more efficient."
ISPE SINCERELY APPRECIATES THE SUPPORT OF ALL OF OUR
CURRENT SUSTAINING
ORGANIZATIONS:
AHJ Engineers, PC
B & A Engineers, Inc
Briggs Engineering Inc
Delta Engineering Group
Elkhorn Engineers
G & S Structural Engineers
J.M. Miller Engineering, Inc
J-U-B Engineers, Inc
Kittelson & Associates Inc
Land Solutions, Land Surveying & Consulting
Mason & Stanfield, Inc
Materials Testing & Inspection
MWH
Progressive Engineering Group, Inc
Quadrant Consulting, Inc
Rational Technology of Idaho, LLC
Riedesel Engineering, Inc
Schiess & Associates
Stapley Engineering
Terracon
TerraGraphics Environmental Engineering, Inc
Walker Engineering
Please consider joining these great companies in
becoming an
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Organization category of membership to enhance the visibility of your commitment
to ISPE and the engineering profession. Your membership will allow us to better
serve the engineering community through promoting engineering and ethics, and
supporting the needs of the engineer including professional development.
If you are interested in becoming a
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contact the ISPE office at
ispe@idahospe.org.
MATHCOUNTS PROBLEM OF THE WEEK
Can you solve this MATHCOUNTS problem? The answer will appear in next
week's edition of the Friday Update!
Father's Day
For Father’s Day George’s family decided to have a barbeque. George was in
charge of making the lemonade. If the directions called for 2 tablespoons of mix
per quart of water, how many tablespoons of mix were needed to make 1.5 gallons
of lemonade?
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George’s older brother was in charge of the grilling. He put 2 more burgers than
hotdogs on the grill and 3 more ears of corn than hotdogs. There were a total of
20 items on the grill. How many ears of corn were on the grill?
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While playing catch with the football, George noticed that his dad’s shadow was
only 2 feet long. George’s dad is 6’2” tall. If one of the trees in their
backyard cast a shadow that was 11 feet long at the same time, how tall is the
tree? Express your answer to the nearest foot.
Answer to last week’s MATHCOUNTS problem:
A line tangent to a circle is always perpendicular to the radius that
touches the same point on that circle. Since we know perpendicular lines have
slopes that are negative reciprocals of each other, we need to find the slope of
the line that runs from the origin to point (3, 4).
Slope = rise/run
Slope = (4 – 0)/(3 – 0)
Slope = 4/3
This means the slope of the tangent line is -3/4
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The key to this problem is having Sonia take as many tests as possible as soon
as possible – so start with 3 tests (the maximum allowed in one day).
M – 3
T – 3
W – 1 (remember she can only take seven tests in any 5 consecutive school days)
Th – 0
F – 0
M – 3
T – 3
W – 1
Th – 0
F – 0
M – 3
T – 3
12 days
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1
11
111
11,111
1 + 11 + 111 + 11,111 = 11,234
If you want to see last week's problem again, click
http://mathcounts.org/NETCOMMUNITY/Page.aspx?pid=1300&srcid=1301
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