An
angry crowd gathered in front of the Sector 17 office of the UT Food
and Civil Supplies Department to demand that Ration Depots resume supply
to all persons holding ration cards. The protestors alleged that Ration
Depots ceased to supply ration in March when the UT Administration
instructed them to supply ration only to persons having the
Administration’s smart card. So far, very few people have got this smart
card in their hands even though they may have completed the formalities
for getting one.
On
Monday an angry crowd gathered in front of the Sector 17 office of the
UT Food and Civil Supplies Department to demand that Ration Depots
resume supply to all persons holding ration cards. The protestors
alleged that Ration Depots ceased to supply ration in March on the
orders of the UT Administration. They say that the depot holders have
been instructed to supply ration only to persons having the smart card
issued by the Administration. The UT Administration began the process of
issuing smart cards about three months ago and as yet very few people
have got this smart card in their hands even though they may have
completed the formalities for getting one.We offer over 600 indoortracking at
wholesale prices of 75% off retail. The protestors emphasized that poor
people depend on cheap ration supplied through the depots and people
have to eat every day and not just if and when their smart card arrives.
They also pointed out that the government’s godowns are bursting with
foodgrains and indeed this grain is getting damaged the longer it
remains in storage. They asked why the government does not distribute
grain to the people.
Protesters
succeeded in meeting Food Supply officer Praveen Kumar and presented
their demand. They warned that they would block the road if depot supply
is not resumed. The Food Supply officer told them that he could not
give such directions to the depot holders as he is bound to follow
orders from his superiors in the UT Administration and they have decided
to restrict supply to smart card holders only. He asked them to give
him their demand in writing.Protesters then went to the office of the
Deputy Commissioner to make their case but he was not there.
"When
you're at a concert and the band takes the stage, nowadays 50,000
phones and tablets go into the air," said Google Senior Development
Advocate Timothy Jordan in the first Google Glass session of this year's
Google I/O. "Which isn't all that weird, except that people seem to be
looking at the tablets more than they are the folks onstage or the
experience that they're having. It's crazy because we love what
technology gives us, but it's a bummer when it gets in the way, when it
gets between us and our lives, and that's what Glass is addressing."
The
upshot of this perspective is that Glass and its software is designed
for quick use.Please click the images below to view more pictures of lasercutter tiles!
You fire it up, do what you want to do, and get back to your business
without the time spent diving into your pocket for your phone, unlocking
it, and so on.Bringing rfidtag mainstream.
Whether this process is more distracting than talking to someone with
Glass strapped to his or her face is another conversation, but this is
the problem that Google is attempting to solve.
Since
Google I/O is a developer's conference, the Glass sessions didn't focus
on the social implications of using Glass or the privacy questions that
some have raised. Rather, the focus was on how to make applications for
this new type of device, something that is designed to give you what
you want at a moment's notice and then get out of the way. Here's a
quick look at what that ethos does to the platform's applications.
Currently,
Timeline cards can be put together in one of two ways: you can simply
throw text at it and Glass will automatically format the text for
display on the screen (complete with overflow to multiple cards if
there's a lot of it). You can also create more complex cards using HTML
markup—Google provides a few quick templates or, alternatively, you can
build your own. Cards with HTML code can use pictures and different
fonts and font colors.
"Menu
Items" are the last of Glass' basic building blocks, and they make it
possible for you to interact with the things you're seeing on the
screen—sharing and replying to messages, reading cards aloud, and
navigating to a given location. Those are some of the built-in
functions, but app developers can create their own custom menu items and
icons to go along with their software.
Compared
to a smartphone, there are three technical limitations you've got to
work around when making something for Glass: first, the screen has a
relatively low resolution of 640×360. Second, the screen is partially
transparent, which greatly reduces its contrast. Both of these limit
what you can usefully display on the screen and have given rise to a
number of design guidelines to help keep things legible and consistent.
Third, its input methods are pretty limited.Find the best selection of high-quality collectible plasticmould available
anywhere. The touchpad on the side of the glasses can be used to swipe
from side to side through your notifications and the device's settings
panels, and the device can also accept some voice input in the form of
the ubiquitous-at-I/O "OK Glass" commands. All of these limitations
together make for a device that you just don't want to have to interact
with for very long, both because it will take quite a bit of time to
sift through any large quantity of data and because you'll look kind of
silly standing there tapping the side of your head.Weymouth is
collecting gently used, dry cleaned cableties at their Weymouth store.
Hence,
Google's Glass Platform Development Guidelines offer four basic pieces
of advice to anyone building something for the headset: design for
Glass; don't get in the way; keep it timely; and avoid the unexpected.
All four of these guidelines are in place to help you make apps that the
user can invoke and dismiss in short order.
"Glass
is a very now device," said Jordan. "Your phone, you might do stuff
over the last week, look at your calendar four days from now. Your
laptop, you've got data on there from the last few months or years, but
Glass is really about 'what are you doing right now?' And when you think
about that with your service, you want to deliver content that is
important to them at that moment."
2013年5月20日星期一
2011年11月3日星期四
Cobalt Technology Cuts Electric Consumption by Computers
A researcher at Kyoto University has developed a way to save electricity by using cobalt, and his work is already drawing interest from companies which make magnetic devices used in a variety of applications, such as hard disks, computers and speakers.
Daichi Chiba, an assistant professor, told Cobalt Investing News that in his research, conducted with other experts, he covered a 0.4-nanometer-thick layer of cobalt with an insulating film and applied 10-volt electricity to it to record changes in its magnetic poles. He found that the cobalt completely lost its magnetism when minus voltage was applied.
He explained that electric current is passed through magnets in hard disks so that they can register and process data. Using cobalt – an iron group element with magnetic properties like iron and nickel – to create a technology that can basically turn computer memory devices on and off without virtually any electrical power is “significant,” he said.
“In conventional magnetic devices, such as an electromagnet, we have to apply electric current to it to generate magnetic force,” he said, adding that this makes the device hot as it consumes “consumes wasteful energy as thermal energy. In our device, we don’t need to apply electric current. Only voltage is applied between a gate electrode and the cobalt layer. There is an insulator layer between them, so almost no electric current flows.”
According to Energy Star, an initiative of the US Environmental Protection Agency and the US Department of Energy, if every home office product purchased in the United States this year met its requirements, the country could save $100 million in energy costs and more than 900 million kilowatt hours of electricity. The amount of energy saved would prevent 1.4 billion pounds of greenhouse gases – equivalent to emissions from 125,000 cars – from being emitted into the atmosphere.
Chiba said using cobalt allows the structure of a magnetic device to be similar to that of a capacitor. “Current flows only when electric charge is discharged and charged, but this is negligibly small. Thus, we can electrically switch on and off magnetic force generated from cobalt without applying electric current at room temperature. When information is written, we have to apply electric current to generate magnetic field and to switch the magnetization direction of an element. Our technology may open up an entirely new route to realize electrical writing method without using electric current.”
Chiba, whose findings were published in British science journal “Nature Materials” in early October, worked with three other researchers from Kyoto University and two from NEC Corp., a Japanese multinational which operates in the IT and network solutions and electronic devices sectors.
The findings of this study could help companies, such as NEC, which develop hard disks, random access memory, semiconductor memory, and other magnetic devices such as speakers and electric transformers, create devices which could help consumers save money through reduced power usage.
Asked whether any investors or companies have shown any interest in acquiring this technology, he said: “No, not yet. But we are collaborating with NEC. Several persons from company called me, but just asked some questions about the mechanism of our result.”
Daichi Chiba, an assistant professor, told Cobalt Investing News that in his research, conducted with other experts, he covered a 0.4-nanometer-thick layer of cobalt with an insulating film and applied 10-volt electricity to it to record changes in its magnetic poles. He found that the cobalt completely lost its magnetism when minus voltage was applied.
He explained that electric current is passed through magnets in hard disks so that they can register and process data. Using cobalt – an iron group element with magnetic properties like iron and nickel – to create a technology that can basically turn computer memory devices on and off without virtually any electrical power is “significant,” he said.
“In conventional magnetic devices, such as an electromagnet, we have to apply electric current to it to generate magnetic force,” he said, adding that this makes the device hot as it consumes “consumes wasteful energy as thermal energy. In our device, we don’t need to apply electric current. Only voltage is applied between a gate electrode and the cobalt layer. There is an insulator layer between them, so almost no electric current flows.”
According to Energy Star, an initiative of the US Environmental Protection Agency and the US Department of Energy, if every home office product purchased in the United States this year met its requirements, the country could save $100 million in energy costs and more than 900 million kilowatt hours of electricity. The amount of energy saved would prevent 1.4 billion pounds of greenhouse gases – equivalent to emissions from 125,000 cars – from being emitted into the atmosphere.
Chiba said using cobalt allows the structure of a magnetic device to be similar to that of a capacitor. “Current flows only when electric charge is discharged and charged, but this is negligibly small. Thus, we can electrically switch on and off magnetic force generated from cobalt without applying electric current at room temperature. When information is written, we have to apply electric current to generate magnetic field and to switch the magnetization direction of an element. Our technology may open up an entirely new route to realize electrical writing method without using electric current.”
Chiba, whose findings were published in British science journal “Nature Materials” in early October, worked with three other researchers from Kyoto University and two from NEC Corp., a Japanese multinational which operates in the IT and network solutions and electronic devices sectors.
The findings of this study could help companies, such as NEC, which develop hard disks, random access memory, semiconductor memory, and other magnetic devices such as speakers and electric transformers, create devices which could help consumers save money through reduced power usage.
Asked whether any investors or companies have shown any interest in acquiring this technology, he said: “No, not yet. But we are collaborating with NEC. Several persons from company called me, but just asked some questions about the mechanism of our result.”
2011年10月16日星期日
3M, IBM team to develop 3D IC adhesive
IBM Corp. and 3M Corp. partner to develop the first adhesives to pack semiconductors into densely stacked silicon "towers". The key remaining obstacle to 3D ICs, according to IBM, is an under fill material that can do double duty as an electrical insulator and a thermal conductor. IBM aims to use the material in conjunction with microfluidic channels containing refrigerants on 3D structures.
IBM + 3M = 3D ICs is actually a catchy formula. "Somewhere in the middle of those initials, 3M has the technology platforms to make 3D work," said Bernard Meyerson, VP of research at IBM.
"3M has the skills to meet the really disparate requirements for a 3D IC adhesive," said Meyerson. "You want infinite thermal conductivity in the adhesive, but you also want the electrical conductivity to be zero."
The worst constraint, according to Meyerson, is that the coefficient of thermal expansion for the adhesive must match that of the metal used for the interconnect; otherwise, the adhesive will break the metallisation when it heats up.
"Thermal conductivity, electrical conductivity and thermal expansion are all related, not to mention brittleness. It's what we call an over constrained system."
Ming Cheng, technical director of 3M's electronics markets materials division, said 3M "is essentially a materials company with the capability to tune the properties of adhesives and polymers to meet even these conflicting specifications. Our adhesive will be a combination of different types of polymers, oligomers and monomers, along with the necessary feelers and adhesion promoters that meet IBM's specifications."
According to 3M, it has not yet been decided whether the jointly developed 3D IC adhesive will be sold to other chip makers. But in the past IBM has made a practice of licensing its key patents even to competitors.
3M also has experience with the fluids that are used today to cool hot spots in rack-mounted computers, and those fluids could soon flow through microfluidic channels cut into 3D ICs. "Even if you have the perfect adhesive, it may be necessary to remove heat from the internal layers of a tall stack," said Meyerson. "A micro channel-cooled radiator halfway through the stack could take out a bunch of heat from the middle of a silicon brick."
Cheng added, "Our Fluorinert electronic liquids are currently used to help cool equipment in data centres—mostly servers and hard drives—but with IBM we will also be exploring the liquids' use to help cool 3D ICs."
Beyond perfecting the processing technologies to interconnect stacked dice and keep them cool, designers must consider the tide of data that will be streaming out of 3D ICs, according to IBM. Photonics will become an integral part of 3D ICs to handle the voluminous I/O.
"Electronic data transmission today can consume up to 50 per cent of a chip's power. Photonics is vastly more efficient in watts per bit and, for that reason, will be essential for 3D ICs," said Meyerson. "We'll need lasers, modulators and detectors right in the 3D IC stack."
The work with IBM was announced just recently, but 3M has been working on 3D solutions for some time. Earlier this year, in fact, 3M announced a technology for handling wafers destined for 3D stacks. The company's wafer-supporting-system (WSS) simplifies the handling of wafers that have been thinned for stacking.
WSS "first bonds the thin wafer to glass with a temporary adhesive so that the glass can support the wafer during bonding," said Cheng. "After the two wafers are stacked, debonding allows the glass [carrier] to be removed."
By 2013, 3M and IBM promise an end-to-end process ready for widespread high-volume commercialisation of heterogeneous stacks of processor, memory, mixed-signal, networking and I/O chips formed into silicon skyscrapers as high as 100 chips per stack.
IBM + 3M = 3D ICs is actually a catchy formula. "Somewhere in the middle of those initials, 3M has the technology platforms to make 3D work," said Bernard Meyerson, VP of research at IBM.
"3M has the skills to meet the really disparate requirements for a 3D IC adhesive," said Meyerson. "You want infinite thermal conductivity in the adhesive, but you also want the electrical conductivity to be zero."
The worst constraint, according to Meyerson, is that the coefficient of thermal expansion for the adhesive must match that of the metal used for the interconnect; otherwise, the adhesive will break the metallisation when it heats up.
"Thermal conductivity, electrical conductivity and thermal expansion are all related, not to mention brittleness. It's what we call an over constrained system."
Ming Cheng, technical director of 3M's electronics markets materials division, said 3M "is essentially a materials company with the capability to tune the properties of adhesives and polymers to meet even these conflicting specifications. Our adhesive will be a combination of different types of polymers, oligomers and monomers, along with the necessary feelers and adhesion promoters that meet IBM's specifications."
According to 3M, it has not yet been decided whether the jointly developed 3D IC adhesive will be sold to other chip makers. But in the past IBM has made a practice of licensing its key patents even to competitors.
3M also has experience with the fluids that are used today to cool hot spots in rack-mounted computers, and those fluids could soon flow through microfluidic channels cut into 3D ICs. "Even if you have the perfect adhesive, it may be necessary to remove heat from the internal layers of a tall stack," said Meyerson. "A micro channel-cooled radiator halfway through the stack could take out a bunch of heat from the middle of a silicon brick."
Cheng added, "Our Fluorinert electronic liquids are currently used to help cool equipment in data centres—mostly servers and hard drives—but with IBM we will also be exploring the liquids' use to help cool 3D ICs."
Beyond perfecting the processing technologies to interconnect stacked dice and keep them cool, designers must consider the tide of data that will be streaming out of 3D ICs, according to IBM. Photonics will become an integral part of 3D ICs to handle the voluminous I/O.
"Electronic data transmission today can consume up to 50 per cent of a chip's power. Photonics is vastly more efficient in watts per bit and, for that reason, will be essential for 3D ICs," said Meyerson. "We'll need lasers, modulators and detectors right in the 3D IC stack."
The work with IBM was announced just recently, but 3M has been working on 3D solutions for some time. Earlier this year, in fact, 3M announced a technology for handling wafers destined for 3D stacks. The company's wafer-supporting-system (WSS) simplifies the handling of wafers that have been thinned for stacking.
WSS "first bonds the thin wafer to glass with a temporary adhesive so that the glass can support the wafer during bonding," said Cheng. "After the two wafers are stacked, debonding allows the glass [carrier] to be removed."
By 2013, 3M and IBM promise an end-to-end process ready for widespread high-volume commercialisation of heterogeneous stacks of processor, memory, mixed-signal, networking and I/O chips formed into silicon skyscrapers as high as 100 chips per stack.
2011年6月20日星期一
Drink drivers' list
Fifty-eight people appeared in the Palmerston North District Court last month on drink-driving charges.
The information was supplied by the police under the Official Information Act.
The breath alcohol limit for drivers aged 20 and over is 400 micrograms of alcohol per litre of breath. For those under 20 the limit is 150. The blood alcohol limit is 80 milligrams per millilitre of blood for people 20 and over and 30 milligrams for those under 20.
William Olaf Anderson, 28, unknown occupation, Terrace End, Excess Breath Alcohol (EBA) 3rd or subsequent 640/400, indefinite disqualification (DQ), 4 months community detention (CD), 125 hours community work (CW), 12 months DQ, intensive supervision.
Jade Albert, 29, storeman, Feilding, EBA 532/400, 6 months DQ, $800 fine.
Ishara Bakmeedeniya, 19, student, Fitzherbert, EBA under 20 400/150, 5 months DQ, $375 fine.
Ben Rata-Viliama Barker, 18, unknown, EBA 595/400, 6 months DQ, $595 fine.
Christopher Reece Belton, 25, unknown, Terrace End, EBA 664/400, 6 months DQ, $480 fine.
Robert John Blair, 43, driver, Terrace End, Excess Blood Alcohol 130/80, 7 months DQ, $800 fine.
Gerard Bredenkamp, 62, fitter and turner, Ashhurst, EBA 462/400, 6 months DQ, $400 fine.
Nar Budathoki, 27, unknown, Hokowhitu, EBA 901/400, 8 months DQ, $700 fine.
Lila May Cresswell, 26, administrator, Kelvin Grove, EBA 810/400, 6 months DQ, 120 hours CW.
Joshua Roy Davis, 19, manager, Terrace End, EBA under 20 376/150, 4 months DQ, $400 fine.
Nicholas Edgarton, 25, storeman, Otaki Beach, EBA 642/400, 6 months DQ, 100 hours CW.
Semisi Fakava, 26, unknown, Awapuni, EBA 446/400, 6 months DQ, 6 weeks imprisonment.
Thomas William Field, 21, unknown, Bulls, Excess Blood Alcohol 174/80, 9 months DQ, $500 fine.
Robert James Frank, 40, engineer, Woodville, EBA 608/400, 12 months DQ, 80 hours CW, 9 months supervision.
Vivien Lee Free, 40, farmer, Opiki, EBA 891/400, 12 months DQ, $1000 fine.
Jared Robert Groom, 18, unknown, Hokowhitu, EBA under 20 400/150, 3 months DQ, $200 fine.
Rebekah Ariana Hadfield, 18, unknown, Upper Hutt, EBA under 20 299/150, 3 months DQ, $375 fine.
Johnathan Mark Harrison, 50, manager, Feilding, EBA 530/400, 6 months DQ, $400 fine.
Emma Elizabeth Helleur, 21, sales rep, Hokowhitu, EBA 465/400, 9 months DQ, 100 hours CW, 3 months CD, 9 months supervision.
Kelly Rochelle Hunter, 32, unknown, Kairanga, EBA 850/400, 8 months DQ, $620 fine.
Anthony William Johnston, 48, unknown, Kairanga, EBA 3rd or subsequent 923/400, 12 months DQ, 4 months CD, 250 hours CW, 6 months supervision.
The information was supplied by the police under the Official Information Act.
The breath alcohol limit for drivers aged 20 and over is 400 micrograms of alcohol per litre of breath. For those under 20 the limit is 150. The blood alcohol limit is 80 milligrams per millilitre of blood for people 20 and over and 30 milligrams for those under 20.
William Olaf Anderson, 28, unknown occupation, Terrace End, Excess Breath Alcohol (EBA) 3rd or subsequent 640/400, indefinite disqualification (DQ), 4 months community detention (CD), 125 hours community work (CW), 12 months DQ, intensive supervision.
Jade Albert, 29, storeman, Feilding, EBA 532/400, 6 months DQ, $800 fine.
Ishara Bakmeedeniya, 19, student, Fitzherbert, EBA under 20 400/150, 5 months DQ, $375 fine.
Ben Rata-Viliama Barker, 18, unknown, EBA 595/400, 6 months DQ, $595 fine.
Christopher Reece Belton, 25, unknown, Terrace End, EBA 664/400, 6 months DQ, $480 fine.
Robert John Blair, 43, driver, Terrace End, Excess Blood Alcohol 130/80, 7 months DQ, $800 fine.
Gerard Bredenkamp, 62, fitter and turner, Ashhurst, EBA 462/400, 6 months DQ, $400 fine.
Nar Budathoki, 27, unknown, Hokowhitu, EBA 901/400, 8 months DQ, $700 fine.
Lila May Cresswell, 26, administrator, Kelvin Grove, EBA 810/400, 6 months DQ, 120 hours CW.
Joshua Roy Davis, 19, manager, Terrace End, EBA under 20 376/150, 4 months DQ, $400 fine.
Nicholas Edgarton, 25, storeman, Otaki Beach, EBA 642/400, 6 months DQ, 100 hours CW.
Semisi Fakava, 26, unknown, Awapuni, EBA 446/400, 6 months DQ, 6 weeks imprisonment.
Thomas William Field, 21, unknown, Bulls, Excess Blood Alcohol 174/80, 9 months DQ, $500 fine.
Robert James Frank, 40, engineer, Woodville, EBA 608/400, 12 months DQ, 80 hours CW, 9 months supervision.
Vivien Lee Free, 40, farmer, Opiki, EBA 891/400, 12 months DQ, $1000 fine.
Jared Robert Groom, 18, unknown, Hokowhitu, EBA under 20 400/150, 3 months DQ, $200 fine.
Rebekah Ariana Hadfield, 18, unknown, Upper Hutt, EBA under 20 299/150, 3 months DQ, $375 fine.
Johnathan Mark Harrison, 50, manager, Feilding, EBA 530/400, 6 months DQ, $400 fine.
Emma Elizabeth Helleur, 21, sales rep, Hokowhitu, EBA 465/400, 9 months DQ, 100 hours CW, 3 months CD, 9 months supervision.
Kelly Rochelle Hunter, 32, unknown, Kairanga, EBA 850/400, 8 months DQ, $620 fine.
Anthony William Johnston, 48, unknown, Kairanga, EBA 3rd or subsequent 923/400, 12 months DQ, 4 months CD, 250 hours CW, 6 months supervision.
2011年4月26日星期二
Late Spring Snow Has Rathdrum Plowing Roads
Rathdrum residents woke up to several inches of snow Tuesday morning, with a number of people having a hard time believing what they were seeing falling from the sky.
The familiar sound of snow blowers could be heard in Rathdrum Tuesday morning. What wasn't familiar, however, was that it was the end of April. It was definitely not what George White, who recently returned from Arizona, was expecting.
"We thought it would all be gone," he said, adding that he feels like he left Arizona a couple weeks too soon. "It's 86 down there right now."
But no, it wasn't gone. In fact White White woke up to around 5 inches of snow Tuesday morning. He lives near a golf course, which should have been open for golfing Tuesday; instead of golfers White saw a cross country skier out on the links.
"We had a cross country skier going down fairway number 18. Skiing is taking place of golfing today," he said.
Lloyd Andrews also lives near the course; his golf cart got stuck in his driveway when he went to get the mail.
"I'm wondering if I live on a golf course or in a snow belt," Andrews said.
Between three and five inches of snow fell around Rathdrum; White calls the weather almost laughable. However the weather is no laughing matter for business at Twin Lakes Village Golf Course which, obviously, was closed Tuesday because there was three inches of snow on the course.
"We had a great weekend this weekend, 60 degrees, a lot of golfers on Saturday. We went from around 130 to zero today," Darin Vaughan with Twin Lakes Village Golf Course said.
Vaughan is crossing his fingers that people can hit the course Wednesday.
The cold weather also put the pinch on the Northland Nursery. Dianne Decker isn't so concerned about the snow, which can act as an insulator. But people are behind on their gardening and as a result nursery revenues are down.
"They want to spend money, they want to get back out in the yard, but the weather is pushing them back inside," Decker said.
The City of Rathdrum plowed major roads Tuesday, city officials saying that it is going to put pressure on street funds because the winter weather started earlier last year and they are still plowing well into April.
The familiar sound of snow blowers could be heard in Rathdrum Tuesday morning. What wasn't familiar, however, was that it was the end of April. It was definitely not what George White, who recently returned from Arizona, was expecting.
"We thought it would all be gone," he said, adding that he feels like he left Arizona a couple weeks too soon. "It's 86 down there right now."
But no, it wasn't gone. In fact White White woke up to around 5 inches of snow Tuesday morning. He lives near a golf course, which should have been open for golfing Tuesday; instead of golfers White saw a cross country skier out on the links.
"We had a cross country skier going down fairway number 18. Skiing is taking place of golfing today," he said.
Lloyd Andrews also lives near the course; his golf cart got stuck in his driveway when he went to get the mail.
"I'm wondering if I live on a golf course or in a snow belt," Andrews said.
Between three and five inches of snow fell around Rathdrum; White calls the weather almost laughable. However the weather is no laughing matter for business at Twin Lakes Village Golf Course which, obviously, was closed Tuesday because there was three inches of snow on the course.
"We had a great weekend this weekend, 60 degrees, a lot of golfers on Saturday. We went from around 130 to zero today," Darin Vaughan with Twin Lakes Village Golf Course said.
Vaughan is crossing his fingers that people can hit the course Wednesday.
The cold weather also put the pinch on the Northland Nursery. Dianne Decker isn't so concerned about the snow, which can act as an insulator. But people are behind on their gardening and as a result nursery revenues are down.
"They want to spend money, they want to get back out in the yard, but the weather is pushing them back inside," Decker said.
The City of Rathdrum plowed major roads Tuesday, city officials saying that it is going to put pressure on street funds because the winter weather started earlier last year and they are still plowing well into April.
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