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Updated: 03/26/2008 - A drug suspect was killed Wednesday morning and a Richland County Sheriff's deputy was wounded during a shootout at a home.
Updated: 03/26/2008 - A drug suspect was killed Wednesday morning and a Richland County Sheriff's deputy was wounded during a shootout at a home.
Posted: 03/26/2008 - Call them Pavlov's fish: Scientists are testing a plan to train fish to catch themselves by swimming into a net when they hear a sound that means feeding time.
Updated: 03/26/2008 - Get ready for some weekend traffic jams on the so-called Downtown Connector, where Interstates 75 and 85 converge and lead into Atlanta.
Updated: 03/26/2008 - Two men wanted by Richmond County deputies in separate shooting incidents have surrendered to officers.
Updated: 03/26/2008 - The public would not have access to the names of people who can carry concealed weapons in South Carolina under a proposal that appears to be headed to the governor's desk.
Updated: 03/26/2008 - Officials say technology problems could add as much as 2 billion dollars to the cost of the 2010 census and jeopardize the accuracy of the nation's most important survey.
Posted: 03/26/2008 - Recovery Centers Open, Votes Tallied, Job Fair, Victim Released
Posted: 03/26/2008 - California firm Xcor Aerospace today will unveil its design of a two-seat rocket ship that can carry tourists on suborbital flights.
Updated: 03/26/2008 - A construction crew knocked down an abandoned house, only to find it wasn't abandoned after all.
Updated: 03/26/2008 - She's out of a job just 7 days after reporting to work. It is the latest in a string of firings at the James Brown Arena.
Updated: 03/26/2008 - There's a part in cars thieves want, not for their own cars, but to get money for the platinum in it.
Updated: 03/26/2008 - Investigators say Willie Casey likely hung himself, but they are waiting on the autopsy results. Meanwhile, they say the 12-year-old boy should still face murder charges.
Updated: 03/25/2008 - Two Aiken County men were arrested for making methamphetamines in the Salley area. The arrests came after raids on two homes in Hollow Creek Rd.
Updated: 03/25/2008 - There was extensive damage Tuesday afternoon after a house fire at 4053 Mullikin Rd. in Evans.
Updated: 04/03/2008 - There are some traffic changes set for this year around the Augusta National Golf Course for the Masters Tournament. Click here for an overview and to see the full plan.
Posted: 03/25/2008 - Prosecutors say a video shows a Connecticut correction officer running a 40-yard-dash in women's clothing and high heels -- at a time he had claimed he was too injured to work.
Updated: 03/25/2008 - Nine South Carolina counties on request list.
Updated: 03/25/2008 - Representatives from H&R Block will be in the Call For Action center Tuesday evening from 5 to 7pm, to answer any of your tax questions. Call 803-442-4550.
Posted: 03/25/2008 - Michael Vick's trial in Virginia on state dogfighting charges is being pushed back.
Updated: 03/25/2008 - Evans Middle school students and Home Depot workers teamed up Monday to work on improving the school.
Posted: 03/25/2008 - Looks like the Botanical Gardens in downtown Augusta might not be going to the dogs after all...not if one Augusta commissioner has anything to do with it.
Updated: 03/25/2008 - There's a warning out, especially aimed at pet owners. Make sure your pets are vaccinated for rabies. It's a lesson one family learned the hard way.
Updated: 03/26/2008 - More high drama, or low comedy, at the James Brown Arena depending on how you look at it. A worker just hired has been fired. We talk with the woman at the center of the controversy.
Updated: 03/25/2008 - Three local centers now open to help those seeking federal and state aid after mid-March tornadoes.
Updated: 03/25/2008 - Maybe he heard a faint rattling around in his luggage, but he surely never assumed the sound came from a poisonous snake sealed in his bag and waiting to strike.


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Man Charged With Assaulting Infant
Updated: 03/18/2009 - Lexington Police arrested 19-year-old David Brumback after his two-year-old daughter was brought to the hospital with a head injury.
Updated: 03/18/2009 - Lexington Police arrested 19-year-old David Brumback after his two-year-old daughter was brought to the hospital with a head injury.
Updated: 03/17/2009 - Police are investigating several reports of counterfeit money in Montgomery County. Now, federal authorities are getting involved.
Updated: 03/17/2009 - There's another MRSA scare in a county that's already reeling from a students death.
Posted: 03/17/2009 - Nicole Vanzant has been missing since January and her friends and family hope a larger reward will bring more leads in the case.
Posted: 03/17/2009 - Some school kids from Lexington are being encouraged to pursue careers in scientific fields.
Posted: 03/17/2009 - Firefighters battled intense flames at the building in Estill County on Tuesday morning.
Posted: 03/17/2009 - It'll be a packed house in Memorial Coliseum on Tuesday night as Kentucky takes on UNLV in the NIT.
Posted: 03/17/2009 - Police in Louisville are investigating the shooting of a man who allegedly pulled a gun on a city police officer.
Updated: 03/17/2009 - Kentucky State Police are looking into a deadly fire in the southern part of the state.
Posted: 03/17/2009 - A northern Kentucky man whose remains police believe were found in an Indiana forest is described as a brilliant but reclusive mathematician by his former co-workers.
Posted: 03/17/2009 - A meth bust along one road in Boyle County has landed five people in jail.
Posted: 03/17/2009 - State police say an 18-year-old man came to a home in Falmouth, where he exchanged gunfire with a 19-year-old man.
Updated: 02/05/2010 - After more than 20 years without service, Harlan County will now get help from the Red Cross. One volunteer says it was the Darby Mine disaster that killed five men in 2006 that pushed her to bring the service back to that area.
Updated: 03/17/2009 - We're learning more today about a wanted man who nearly ran one of our news crews off the road.
Posted: 03/16/2009 - Johnson County Middle School students won first place in the Governor's Cup competition.
Posted: 03/16/2009 - The president announces help is on the way for small businesses. President Obama and his treasury secretary unveiled his latest plan for the stimulus money Monday afternoon. We ask local business leaders to weigh in.
Posted: 03/16/2009 - Statistics show one in nine women in Kentucky were raped at some point in their lifetime.
Updated: 03/16/2009 - CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration has warned 15 mining operations to clean up their health and safety practices or face stricter enforcement.
Updated: 03/16/2009 - The energy debate continues across the country and coal is at the center of the controversy.
Posted: 03/16/2009 - Floyd Circuit Judge James Allen set a five million dollar bond for Michael and Martha Pitts last week.
Posted: 03/16/2009 - An eastern Kentucky man charged with killing a mother and her two daughters will have to wait for his day in court.
Posted: 03/16/2009 - A grand jury indicts a Perry County man charged with possession and distribution of child pornography.
Updated: 03/16/2009 - New information about a Floyd County murder last week. An argument over dead goats may have led to the shooting.
Updated: 03/17/2009 - Things are finally back to normal, more than 12 hours after a water main break shut down a major road.
Posted: 03/16/2009 - More than ten years after it officially closed, people living in one Harlan County community will soon have a new bridge leading to their homes.

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Land Use Pattern mapping using Remote Sensing and GIS in Gangtok area, Sikkim Himalaya, India
Ashok Kumar Sharma, Varun Joshi
Disaster Management Faculty-Sikkim
G. B. Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment & Development, Sikkim Unit
P.O-Gangtok, Post Box-24, Sikkim-737101, India
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Surya Parkash
National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM), (Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India) 5B, IP Estate, New Delhi-110002
Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi.
This paper discovers the use of satellite images and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for developing a sampling frame stratify the sample based on the analysis of remotely sensed information. The use of GIS and Remote Sensing can be helpful for time saving and efficient land use mapping. Remote sensing provides the essential data to undertake inventory of land, as well as the temporal information required to monitor sustainable land management practices. The study has been carried out at Gangtok area, East District of Sikkim, the total area of study is 30.25 sq. km.
GIS is one such tool accountable for transforming the era of spatial data management. A GIS can be measured as a tool for the integration and analysis of geographically- referenced data. Land and water resources are essential for farming, grazing, forestry, wildlife, tourism, urban development, transport infrastructure, and other environmental functions. The increasing demand for land, coupled with a limitation in its supplies, is a major cause for more conflicts over land use throughout the world. Geographical Information system is one such tool responsible for revolutionizing the era of spatial data management. A GIS can be considered as a tool for the integration and analysis of geographically- referenced data.
The Remote Sensing technology along with GIS is a perfect device to identify, locate and map various types of lands associated with different landform units. Land-use planning is defined as a systematic assessment of land and water potential, alternatives for land use, and the economic and social conditions required to select and adopt the best land-use options. Land-use planning aims at achieving a balance among these goals through the use of information on trade-offs, appropriate technology, and consensus-based decision-making. Effective land-use planning often involves local communities, scientific information on land resources, appropriate technologies, and integrated evaluation of resource use.
GIS approach
Land use planning activities are usually started with the objectives to increase productivity and to improve the sustainability, i.e. to conserve the natural resources. There are various scientific approaches to the goal:
The land use pattern of Sikkim is strongly influenced by the elevation, climate and mountainous terrain, especially in the field of agriculture and forestry. Land is one of the major natural resources. The changes of land use/land cover pattern over a time period control the pressure on land.
Levels and Process
Planning can be at various levels: local, town, district, state, regional, national, and international. A two-way link between these levels is important for successful planning. A bottom-up type of planning starts at the local level and links to the next higher level with active local participation. Local acceptability of the plan is a critical element of a successful plan. A typical planning process involves the following steps:
Gangtok, the capital city of Sikkim is located in the East District and lies between 27o 17' 20" to 27o 21' 47" N latitude and 88o 35' 12" to 88o 39' 40" E longitude. The topography of the study area is highly undulating with hills of 900m to 2400 meters above mean sea level of the Gangtok area. Rani Khola and Rora Chu is important drainage pattern of the area. The present covers an area of approximately 30.25 sq. km.
Figure 1: Panoramic view of study area, Gangtok, Sikkim.
Materials and Methods for Land use classification
The Remote Sensing technology along with GIS is a perfect tool to identify, locate and map various types of lands associated with different landform units. IRS 1D LISS-3 bands 2, 3 and 4, imagery year of 2000, Path and Row =107/052, were used for interpretation of land use/land cover and field study. Individual bands as digital data were import into the image processing system and image registration, noise renewal and enhancement were performed. Separately from making observation on the individual bands, FCC was generated using bands 2, 3 and 4 by transmission blue, green and red combination. After that, interpretations were made on the various land use/land cover classes in the study area by supervised classification method. Land use/land cover map thus prepared was digitized into GIS for more analysis, Using ILWIS 3.1 software. Land use/land cover classes were identified as six categories viz., dense forest, open forest, degraded forest, scrub land, agricultural land and settlements.
Land is one of the main natural resources. Land use analysis was performed using topographic maps and satellite images year 2000 have been image processing keen on and than visual interpolation. Results of the study exposed the existence of urbanization that especially the forestlands in and around Gangtok, bounded in Rani Khola and Rora Chu. The collective GIS and Remote Sensing technology is an excellent tool for monitoring, land use changes as well as settlements, agricultures and forest land changes. The total area of land use categories in the study area showing in following table 1.
Figure 2: Graph showing Landuse/landcover of Gangtok area
Figure 3: Landuse/landcover map of Gangtok area.
Authors are thankful to Director, G.B. Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment & Development and Executive Director, National Institute of Disaster Management, New Delhi for their support and encouragement to carry out this work. Disaster Management Faculty thankfully acknowledges the Ministry of Home Affairs (Govt. of India) and NIDM for providing financial support. I also thanks to Dr. A. P. Krishna for sharing knowledge and techniques of application of Remote Sensing and GIS.
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Emily Austen: Marcus Smart (sprained groin) & Jeff Green (mild calf strain) will sit out of today's practice. More: on.nba.com/1rYCUIV
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Openly gay NBA veteran Jason Collins marched in the 43rd annual Boston Pride Parade. Marching with him, and wearing some sweet bell bottoms, was Collins' Stanford roommate, Massachusetts Congressman Joe Kennedy.
Well, that was quick … TMZ has learned Jason Collins has officially been asked to lead Boston's pride parade this summer, hours after the NBA star announced that he's gay. A rep for parade tells TMZ, "Boston Pride is formally inviting Jason Collins to be a Marshal in the 2013 Boston Pride Parade … Boston Pride is proud that our annual celebration helped to inspire Jason Collins to make his groundbreaking decision to come out."
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The Boston Celtics announced today multiple initiatives to support victims affected by the recent tragedy at the Boston Marathon. The Boston Celtics Shamrock Foundation has committed to raise $200,000 to support The One Fund Boston to help the families affected by the Boston Marathon tragedy through a $100,000 pledge from the Shamrock Foundation and multiple team initiatives to raise an additional $100,000.
The Celtics have partnered with adidas to create a special Celtics limited edition t-shirt bearing the words "Boston Stands as One". 2,620 of the shirts have been created with 100% of the proceeds from sales donated to The One Fund Boston. These adidas t-shirts, also known as "warm-up shirts," will be available to consumers at Celtics.com/shop, NBAstore.com, adidas.com, the ProShop at the TD Garden, the NBA Store in New York as well as adidas retail locations.


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Karolina Pliskova (right) giving her twin sister Kristyna some tips during her match against Donna Vekic of Croatia during the BMW Malaysian Open. Kristyna lost 6-1, 3-6, 5-7. – M. Azhar Arif / THE STAR
KUALA LUMPUR: Defending champion Karolina Pliskova sent a warning that she is ready to defend her BMW Malaysian Open title after cruising into the quarter-finals.
The lanky 22-year-old from Czech Republic, who easily navigated her first round match against Serbia's Aleksandra Krunic, once again came up strong against China's Duan Ying-Ying on Thursday.
Karolina, who is the third seed, utilised her strong serves to good effect as she easily won 6-1, 6-3.
"It was a fast game but it was not by any means easy because my opponent put up a good fight too," said Karolina.
"Malaysia was where I won my first WTA title and I like it here so I'm hoping to keep up the good showing.
"Unfortunately, my (twin) sister Kristyna didn't win today. It would have been the first time both of us made the quarter-finals together but it just didn't happen," added Karolina, who will face Turkey's Cagla Buyukakcay next.
Kristyna went down to seventh seed Donna Vekic of Croatia 6-1, 3-6, 5-7.
Earlier, second seed Zhang Shuai went through to the quarter-finals in a rain-halted match after beating Hong Kong's Zhang Ling.
The reigning Asian Games gold medalist was once again stretched to a rubber game in as many days before beating Zhang Ling 6-3, 4-6, 6-0.
"I think it was probably the heat because my first round match was at night and it just felt so hot and humid today.
"But I'm happy to win especially since Zhang Ling played a good aggressive game," added the world No. 45, who will meet Poland's Magda Linette in the last eight.
Top seed Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia also booked her spot in the quarter-finals with a 6-1, 6-2 win over 2012 champion Hsieh Su-wei of Taiwan.
Cibulkova, the world No. 10, will face Kazakhstan's Zarina Dyas for a place in the semi-finals.
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