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Born: January 23, 1929 in Monroe, LA
Died: July 17, 2012 in Monroe, LA
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College: Southern Miss (school history)
Drafted by the Chicago Bears in the 7th round (75th overall) of the 1953 NFL Draft.
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UTEP loses 72-51 to No. 12 Arizona
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP)
Texas-El Paso has a big, physical front line that should give plenty of teams trouble this season.
Not Arizona. The Miners were no match for the 12th-ranked Wildcats, at least for one night.
Unable to keep the aggressive Wildcats off the glass, UTEP was outrebounded by 20 in a 72-51 loss Thursday night.
''We got crushed on the boards,'' UTEP center John Bohannon said. ''But I have to give them credit. Arizona is a big, athletic team and we just didn't bring our `A' game.''
Arizona (2-0) didn't have it in its opener against Charleston Southern, outrebounded by the smaller Buccaneers 34-31.
Putting more emphasis on rebounding in practice since then, the Wildcats came out far more aggressive against UTEP, using their rebounding to overcome 19 turnovers and too many fouls in the second half.
Arizona had a 35-15 advantage in rebounds and scored 13 second-chance points off 13 offensive boards, impressive numbers against UTEP's big front line.
''We went against a physical, big team and we were able to really hurt them on the glass,'' Arizona coach Sean Miller said. ''That's a credit to us, not a discredit to UTEP.''
Mark Lyons had 17 points and Solomon Hill added 10 for Arizona, which shot 9 of 18 from 3-point range after making 11 against Charleston Southern.
Despite the rebounding issues and trailing by double-digits most of the second half, the Miners (1-1) remained aggressive, taking the ball to the rim against the big Wildcats. UTEP got to the free throw line 16 times in the second half and went 14 of 19 overall.
The Miners just had trouble making shots from anywhere else, shooting 36 percent while Bohannon, their leading scorer, went scoreless before fouling out.
Julian Washburn and Chris Washburn each had 11 points for the Miners.
''Tonight was very tough, but it's a learning experience,'' Julian Washburn said. ''Arizona's defense wasn't smothering, but they really beat us on the boards. We didn't get many rebounds and took away our own chance of winning.''
Arizona and UTEP are no strangers on the basketball court.
The Wildcats and Miners played in the same conference together from 1935-78, first with the Border Conference, then the Western Athletic Conference.
They hadn't met since 1995, though, and went in different directions after that: Arizona became a national powerhouse in a major conference while UTEP scratched its way into the NCAA tournament twice.
Arizona entered this season with some big expectations after Miller signed another highly touted recruiting class that included four of the top incoming big men in the country.
They didn't contribute much in the Wildcats' opener, though, forcing Miller to go with his veterans down the stretch in a tighter-than-expected 82-73 home win over Charleston Southern.
Arizona's young bigs got off to a good start against UTEP, with Kaleb Tarczewski scoring its first basket on a putback and Grant Jerrett hitting a 3-pointer for the next one.
They also hit the boards: Tarczewski, Jerrett and Brandon Ashley combined to outrebound UTEP 12-8 in the first half. The young trio combined for 24 points and 18 rebounds overall.
''We challenged our young frontcourt players,'' Miller said. ''We were disappointed in our effort against Charleston Southern and I think we responded across the board.''
UTEP had it easy in its first game, rolling over Oral Roberts by 20. The Miners have struggled on the road - 1-11 last season - and were facing a big upgrade in talent, not to mention one of the toughest atmospheres in college basketball.
UTEP struggled offensively early, missing 11 of its first 16 shots, and trailed 35-22 at halftime. The Miners fought their way back a couple of times, using their defense and a slew of free throws to cut Arizona's lead to 39-31 in the first 4 minutes of the second half.
Hill took over from there, hitting a 3-pointer, a rebound slam and a baseline jumper. Then he fed Angelo Chol for another from the same spot that put Arizona up 50-33.
The Miners chipped away again, getting within eight, but Arizona didn't let them any closer, pulling away down the stretch.
''I really like the Arizona team,'' UTEP coach Tim Floyd said. ''I think they have a chance to compete for (it) all if they get better down the stretch.''
The Wildcats took a small step Thursday night.
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The era of 12-cylinder cars at Mercedes-Benz and its performance partner AMG looks far from over, with news coming out today that a new SL65 AMG complete with a... read more March 8, 2012 by Viknesh Vijayenthiran
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I hope my tech is informative like some of you have had.
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I needed some pineapple preserves to make Ang1102's Empanadas De Pina (Pineapple). No problem I thought, I'll just pick some up at my corner store. No luck, They didn't have any so I thought no problem, I'll just get a recipe off of zaar. No luck!, I went on a search and was attracted to this recipe because it only uses 2 ingredients and looked easy. Boy did I get lucky with this one! From Food Down Under. EDIT: Thanks to Diana, I was able to change the title to award winning! Check her review for making these preserves even better!
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- 20 ounces crushed pineapple in juice
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 1Bring pineapple and sugar to a boil in a large saucepan and cook 20 minutes, stirring constantly until thickened or until the temperature reaches 220F on a thermometer (this is the jelling stage at sea level).
- 2Pour immediately into hot sterilized jars; wipe rims with a clean cloth, place lids and screw on bands fingertip-tight.
- 3Process jars in a water-bath canner for 5 minutes.
- 4Place jars on a clean towel.
- 5Cover with towel to prevent drafts and let cool undisturbed for 24 hours.
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Nutritional Facts for Award Winning Pineapple Preserves
Serving Size: 1 (967 g)
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- Calories 944.2
- Calories from Fat 2
- 19%
- Total Fat 0.2 g
- 0%
- Saturated Fat 0.0 g
- 0%
- Cholesterol 0.0 mg
- 0%
- Sodium 4.8 mg
- 0%
- Total Carbohydrate 244.5 g
- 81%
- Dietary Fiber 2.2 g
- 9%
- Sugars 240.6 g
- 962%
- Protein 1.1 g
- 2%
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Inspired by the dividend growth plans of The Money Gardener and The Dividend Guy, which they posted on The Div-Net last week, I decided to summarize my own plan.
I believe that having a good solid plan is essential in achieving one's goals. And my goal is to create an increasing stream of dividend income, which would allow me to live off of my investments.
There are several points that have to be covered: Strategy, Stock Selection, Diversification and Money Management.
Today I will be focusing on strategy. My strategy involves buying quality dividend stocks at bargain prices. Dividends have been largely ignored by investors during the 1990's when internet stocks were increasing across the board. Dividends however are an important part of the total return of stocks as they have contributed almost 40% of the annual total returns in the S&P 500 over the past eight decades. In addition to that, I believe that a stock which pays a dividend gives at least some certainty that the investor will generate a return on their investment. Although it could be argued that there is always the possibility that the dividend may be cut, companies tend to cut the dividends as a last resort of action. Thus I believe that the dividend component provides some stability in income for investors who want to live off of their holdings. Stock price increases on the other hand are more difficult to predict.
And last but not least, a company that has committed to paying a dividend shows its confidence that it will be able to generate a sufficient amount of profits to be distributed to shareholders.
We all learned from Enron and WorldCom that earnings could be manipulated easily. Manipulating the cash situation in a company is more difficult to achieve, because it cannot be created out of thin air. If a corporation does not have a very solid financial position, it won't be able to commit to a dividend payment. An example of a company that hasn't committed to paying dividends is PLA. Over the past 20 years, its shareholders have had a wild ride with the stock rising until 1999 and then declining. In comparison to PLA, GM shareholders had a much better total return over the same period.
As a general rule I would consider selling stocks which either cut their dividends or eliminate their dividend altogether.
I am generally looking for a blend of high growth lower yield stocks in addition to higher yield lower growth ones. I won't be simply chasing yield, which represents a fixed dividend or worse a decreasing dividend.
An important part of my strategy is minimizing expenses. By opening a low cost brokerage account like Zecco or Sharebuilder I would be able to do that. In addition, if I can keep my expenses less than 0.5% per year, that would provide me with better long-term returns.
Next week, I will post more information about my stock selection process.
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- The case for dividend investing in retirement
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SoftBank on T-Mobile: 'We Have to Give It a Shot'
Mar 11, 2014, 7:24 AM by Eric M. Zeman
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son is convinced the only way Sprint and T-Mobile can compete against AT&T and Verizon is for the two smaller carriers to merge. Speaking on television with Charlie Rose, Son indicated that even though U.S. regulators have warned such a deal would face stiff opposition, Sprint is going to pursue T-Mobile anyway. "We would like to make the deal happen, but there are steps and details that we have to work out," said Son. "We have to give it a shot." AT&T and Verizon together control two-thirds of the U.S. wireless market. Even combined, Sprint and T-Mobile would be smaller than AT&T and Verizon Wireless by tens of millions of customers. Son said if the deal goes through, he'll launch a price war against the two larger carriers in order to break up the duopoly. Son and his team are actively engaging people in the wireless industry as well as in the government in order to convince them the deal has merit. Only after Son feels he has swayed their opinions will the company make an official bid for T-Mobile.
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Learning the Startup Language: From API's to Z-ScoresGeneral Assembly LAThursday, August 22, 2013 from 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM (PDT) |
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Learning the Startup Language: From API's to Z-Scores
Avi Zolty, Beatdeck
Thursday, August 22nd from 6:30pm-9:30pm
The startup scene can be a brave new world for first-time entrepreneurs, and a little bit of guidance can go a long way. We'll discuss the culture of the scene, review the steps/life cycle of a company, and go through important terminology so that you can not only walk the walk, but talk the talk.
Learn everything you need to know to start speaking the startup language. From API's to Z scores, we will discuss what everything means, how to apply it, and how to fit into the start-up world.
Student Takeaways:
- An introduction to the life cycle of a startup
- A review of important steps that many entrepreneurs will take during the founding of their business
- Culture tips for the startup scene
- A new vocabulary of startup-related terms
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Meet the Instructor -- Avi Zolty
From a young age, Avi has been passionate about becoming a successful businessman; he created his first company when only sixteen. Within the next year, he had established a multitude of popular teen nightclubs, which led to the foundation of the largest dub step promotion company in the south-east and a position as marketing director at one of the nation's top nightclubs. By 19, he had already amassed an impressive list of awards from various local and state competitions for his various software startups, including phishyourfriends, Tabbster, ActivitySplash, OhYah Media, and one of the first Facebook Apps - IRecommendIt.
A millionaire by age 21, Avi sold his most recent site to execs at Paypal, and continues to devote his time to his love of innovative business. He is a member of YCombinator, the prestigious Silicon Valley incubator, and is the first to be inducted on talent alone, without requiring the established company/business model usually required for acceptance. Avi recently moved to LA to focus on his current project, a music startup called Beatdeck. Software startups, Social Media/Marketing, Music, and swing trading bit coins are his current fascinations.
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First level seismic microzonation map of Chennai city – a GIS approach
ABSTRACT Chennai city is the fourth largest metropolis in India, is the focus of economic, social and cultural development and it is the capital of the State of Tamil Nadu. The city has a multi-dimensional growth in development of its infrastructures and population. The area of Chennai has experienced moderate earthquakes in the historical past. Also the Bureau of Indian Standard upgraded the seismic status of Chennai from Low Seismic Hazard (Zone II) to Moderate Seismic Hazard (Zone III)–(BIS: 1893 (2001)). In this connection, a first level seismic microzonation map of Chennai city has been produced with a GIS platform using the themes, viz, Peak Ground Acceleration (PGA), Shear wave velocity at 3 m, Geology, Ground water fluctuation and bed rock depth. The near potential seismic sources were identified from the remote-sensing study and seismo-tectonic details from published literatures. The peak ground acceleration for these seismic sources were estimated based on the attenuation relationship and the maximum PGA for Chennai is 0.176 g. The groundwater fluctuation of the city varies from 0–4 m below ground level. The depth to bedrock configuration shows trough and ridges in the bedrock topography all over the city. The seismic microzonation analysis involved grid datasets (the discrete datasets from different themes were converted to grids) to compute the final seismic hazard grid through integration and weightage analysis of the source themes. The Chennai city has been classified into three broad zones, viz, High, Moderate and Low Seismic Hazard. The High seismic Hazard concentrated in a few places in the western central part of the city. The moderate hazard areas are oriented in NW-SE direction in the Western part. The southern and eastern part will have low seismic hazard. The result of the study may be used as first-hand information in selecting the appropriate earthquake resistant features in designing the forthcoming new buildings against seismic ground motion of the city.
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ABSTRACT: According to the latest UNFA Report on state of world population 2007, unleashing the potential of urban growth by 2030, the urban population will rise to 5 billion or 60 % of the world population. Liquefaction in urban areas is dangerous phenomenon, which cause more damage to buildings and loss of human lives. Chennai, the capital city of the State Tamil Nadu in India, is one of the densely populated cities in the country. The city has experienced moderate magnitude earthquakes in the past and also categorized under moderate seismic hazard as per the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS in Criteria for earthquake resistant design of structures; Bureau of Indian Standards, New Delhi, 1893 2001). A study has been carried out to evaluate the liquefaction potential of Chennai city using geological and geomorphological characteristics. The subsurface lithology and geomorphological maps were combined in the GIS platform for assessing the liquefaction potential. The liquefaction hazard broadly classified into three categories viz., liquefaction likely, possible and not likely areas. Mainly, the liquefaction likely areas spread along the coastal areas and around the river beds. The rest of the areas are liquefaction not likely and possible. The present map can be used as first-hand information on regional liquefaction potential for the city, and it will be help to the scientists, engineers and planners who are working for future site-specific studies of the city.Natural Hazards 01/2012; 64(2). · 1.96 Impact Factor
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Natural Hazards
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System Sciences
First level seismic microzonation map of Chennai city –
a GIS approach
G. P. Ganapathy
Centre for Disaster Mitigation and Management, VIT University, Vellore 632 014, Tamil Nadu, India
Received: 21 October 2009 – Revised: 30 July 2010 – Accepted: 15 September 2010 – Published: 21 February 2011
Abstract. Chennai city is the fourth largest metropolis in
India, is the focus of economic, social and cultural develop-
ment and it is the capital of the State of Tamil Nadu. The
city has a multi-dimensional growth in development of its
infrastructures and population. The area of Chennai has ex-
perienced moderate earthquakes in the historical past. Also
the Bureau of Indian Standard upgraded the seismic status
of Chennai from Low Seismic Hazard (Zone II) to Moder-
ate Seismic Hazard (Zone III)–(BIS: 1893 (2001)). In this
connection, a first level seismic microzonation map of Chen-
nai city has been produced with a GIS platform using the
themes, viz, Peak Ground Acceleration (PGA), Shear wave
velocity at 3m, Geology, Ground water fluctuation and bed
rock depth. The near potential seismic sources were identi-
fied from the remote-sensing study and seismo-tectonic de-
tails from published literatures. The peak ground accelera-
tion for these seismic sources were estimated based on the
attenuation relationship and the maximum PGA for Chen-
nai is 0.176g. The groundwater fluctuation of the city varies
from 0–4m below ground level. The depth to bedrock con-
figuration shows trough and ridges in the bedrock topogra-
phy all over the city. The seismic microzonation analysis
involved grid datasets (the discrete datasets from different
themes were converted to grids) to compute the final seis-
mic hazard grid through integration and weightage analysis
of the source themes. The Chennai city has been classified
into three broad zones, viz, High, Moderate and Low Seis-
mic Hazard. The High seismic Hazard concentrated in a few
places in the western central part of the city. The moderate
hazard areas are oriented in NW-SE direction in the Western
part. The southern and eastern part will have low seismic
hazard. The result of the study may be used as first-hand
Correspondence to: G. P. Ganapathy
information in selecting the appropriate earthquake resistant
features in designing the forthcoming new buildings against
seismic ground motion of the city.
1 Introduction
Earthquake hazard zonation for urban areas, mostly referred
as seismic microzonation, is the first and most important step
towards a seismic risk analysis and mitigation strategy in
densely populated regions (Slob et al., 2002). As it has been
observed from many earthquake scenarios, the major damage
to buildings and man-made structures is mostly found in the
area of soft sediments (Parvez, 2003). As a result, even rela-
disasters. The earthquake of 12 October 1992 with a magni-
tudeof5.4inEgypt, wherethebuildingswerenotearthquake
resistant, resulted in 554deaths, 20000people injured with a
reported loss of one million US$ (El-Sayed et al., 2001). It
is to be recalled that the present study area (Fig. 1) Chennai
city has experienced three earthquakes of magnitudes greater
than or equal to 5.0 in 1807, 1816 and 1823. Also the popu-
lation of the city was 4.343million in 2001 and projected to
5.343million in 2011 Census of India (Census, 20011).
Chennai displays various building types of wall mate-
rials and their percentage, viz, the earthen walls (9.59%)
(mud, unbrick, brick), stone walls (3.1%), burned brick
walls (80.79%), concrete walls (Nil), wood and Ekra walls
(0.23%), GI and other metal sheets (0.21%), bamboo thatch,
leaves, etc., (6.1%) (Gupta, 2000). The earthen and stone
houses account for 12.59% and other brittle burned brick are
80.79%, i.e., a total of 93.38% are vulnerable if shaken by an
earthquake of moderate to severe intensity.
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Fig. 1. Seismicity and seismic sources for Chennai city.
A number of water bodies (lakes and ponds), which ex-
isted in Chennai in the early period of this century, have been
filled up with garbage and transport sand and clay (CGWB
Report, 1993).The sand dunes and beach ridges in the
tial areas and as a result, the true landform has been altered.
The marshy land existing north of Adyar river has been trans-
formed into a residential area. Buildings constructed in these
areas would be highly vulnerable to earthquakes. The water
table below the city is shallow and its major part is covered
by thick alluvium with a maximum depth of 28m. This be-
ing the case, Chennai is liable for site-specific amplification
of seismic motion. Due to its rapid growth in civil construc-
tion, industry, etc., a thorough knowledge of the seismicity
is needed for adopting mitigation measures. Safety of this
city is extremely important for safeguarding human lives and
property. This paper aims at producing a first level seismic
microzonation map of Chennai city.
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2Data used
The geological, ground motion, seismotectonic features and
ground water conditions are the input to assess the seismic
hazard for Chennai. The involved baseline data are discussed
in the following headings.
2.1Peak Ground Acceleration (PGA)
A seismicity study is of great importance to understand the
dynamic behaviour of the earth and is useful to determine the
earthquake hazard in a specific region. In order to understand
the seismicity of Chennai and its vicinity, data regarding spa-
tial locations of earthquakes and their magnitudes have been
collected for a period of around 200years (1807–2006) from
various sources and have been used for the present study.
For the historical earthquakes general locations are used
for which "generalized" epicentral co-ordinates are avail-
able. The total number of earthquakes identified from these
sources for the present study is 103. Out of the total 103
earthquakes/earth tremors 48, 23, 21, 10 and 1 incidences
have been in the magnitude range of 2.0–2.9, 3.0–3.9, 4.0–
4.9, 5.0–5.9 and ≥6.0, respectively. 52earthquakes (51% of
overall) are of M ≥3 in the past 200years of seismic history
(Ganapathy, 2005).
Analysis of tectonic lineaments and faults helps in under-
standing the regional seismotectonic activity of the area. For
the present study, seismotectonic details are collected from
the report published by Central Ground Water Board, Chen-
nai. The NE-SW trending Archaean boundary fault is lo-
cated in Chennai and separates two basins. The southern
one is shallow without Gondwana sediments. The northern
basin has extensive Gondwana sediments beneath the allu-
vium. The presence of bedding joints, shears and micro-
folding in core samples are indicative of the extensive tec-
tonic disturbance in the post-Gondwana period. The Adyar
fault is shown in Fig. 1 and this weak zone is followed by the
flow of the Adyar river.
The potential seismic sources delineated based on the geo-
physical and geological characteristics of the seismic sources
along with the prevailing fault systems in the region. The as-
sociation of the cumulative number of epicentres of earth-
quakes or higher magnitude earthquakes on the respective
active lineaments/faults has also been considered. Based on
the seismicity and seismogenic systems, 4sources have been
delineated as potential sources for Chennai city and its vicin-
ity of a 200km radius. These seismic potential sources are
named based on its spatial locations. These sources gener-
ated earthquakes in the range of 3.2 to 5.3 in the past earth-
quake history of 200years. In the present study, the largest
well recorded earthquakes which occurred in the instrumen-
tal time period are taken into consideration. The estimation
of groundmotion interms of PGAat bedrocklevel canbe de-
termined using attenuation relationships. A variation of this
approach uses the reference and site recordings as for their
Table 1. Estimated Peak Ground Acceleration (PGA) values Chen-
nai city by the closest potential seismic sources.
different site-source distances. This was done using ratios of
hypocentral distance by Borcherdt and Glassmoyer (1994).
Distance corrections incorporating frequency-dependent at-
tenuation have been implemented by Borcherdt (2001).
For the regions where strong motion data are not available
for such analysis, the attenuation relationships developed for
other regions can be used based on the resemblance of the
seismotectonic characteristics of both the regions. Abraham-
son and Litehiser (1989) have proposed an attenuation model
for Peak Ground Acceleration (PGA) based on 585 strong
ground motion records from 76 worldwide earthquakes. A
suitable attenuation relationship developed by Iyengar and
Raghukanth (2004) for Peninsular India applicable to Chen-
nai is used for the present study. The attenuation relation
used to calculate PGA is given below:
Where y refers to PGA in g, M refer to magnitude and R
refer to hypocentral distance. Since PGA is known to be at-
tributed nearly as a lognormal random variable lny would
normally distributed with the average of (ln
zero. Hence, with e=I, coefficients for the southern region
are (Iyengar and Raghukanth, 2004):
Є )=0.3136 (taken as zero)
The determined PGA for the four identified potential seis-
mic sources for the city of Chennai is in the range of 0.176g
to 0.078 (Table 1). The maximum PGA of 0.176 would be
nai (Fig. 2). This fault has been associated with 4earthquake
incidences in the past 200-year earthquake history and the
maximum magnitude (Mmax) so far generated is 5.3.
Є ) being almost
c1=1.7816; c2=0.9205; c3=−0.0673; c4=0.0035;
2.2Shear wave velocity from geotechnical data
Chennai city has many multi-storey buildings and these
buildings have been constructed based on geotechnical stud-
ies through Standard Penetration Tests (SPT). 503 borehole
data have been obtained from various geotechnical agencies
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Fig. 2. Estimated peak ground acceleration for Chennai city.
including SPT-N values, and various characteristics of soils
in depths. The borehole locations are given in Fig. 3. The
depth of the boreholes is in the range of 2.0 to 32m. Only
43boreholes are penetrated down to basement. The "N" val-
ues observed in the field, using the standard penetration test
equipment, and the standard test procedure were corrected
for (a) overburden stress, (b) hammer energy, (c) borehole
diameter, (d) rod length, and (e) presence or absence of liner.
Based upon the distribution of "N" values in different
depths, the average SPT-N value contour maps were pre-
pared for a 3m depth. The relative density of sand and clay is
categorized based on the SPT-N values (Terzaghi and Peck,
1967) details are related with shear wave velocity and it is
given in Table 2.
The shear wave velocity is an important parameter to as-
sess the strength of the soil. Soil profiles are characterised
by shear wave velocity because it is a key indicator of soil
susceptibility. Shear wave velocity can be estimated from
correlations with the Standard Penetration Test (SPT), water
content and soil type. Researchers developing empirical at-
tenuation relations have attempted to use site classification
based on average shear wave velocity to account for the dif-
ferences in site response (Boore and Joyner, 1982). The re-
Table 2. "N" value VSshear wave velocity.
"N" Value
of Sand
"N" Value
of Clay
sult of average shear wave velocity have been obtained for
Chennai for the depth of 0–3m by using the empirical rela-
tionships proposed by Imai and Yoshimura (1970) – Eq. (2),
Ohba and Goto (1978) – Eq. (2).
Where VS=average shear wave velocity in ms−1and
N =average SPT "N" value. The contours of average shear
wave velocity at a 3m depth is prepared by using Arc-GIS –
Spatial Analyst software by Interpolating Raster by Inverse
distance weighted method and presented in Fig. 4.
The Archaean crystalline rocks, Gondwana and Tertiary sed-
iments and Recent alluvium are the three group of geolog-
ical formations found in Chennai. Most of the geological
formations are concealed since they are overlain by the allu-
vial materials except for a few exposures of crystalline rocks
of charnockites (Fig. 5) in the southwestern part of Chennai
(CGWB Report, 1993).
of charnockites, gneisses and the associated basic and ultra-
basic intrusives. The charnockites represent the major rock
type in the area of Saidapet. The crystalline rocks are weath-
ered and jointed/fractured. The degree and depth of weather-
ing varies from place to place and the thickness of the weath-
ered mantle varies from less than 1m to about 12m in the
The Gondwana shale is exposed in Adyar river near
Ramavaram (southern part of Chennai). The Gondwana-
Archaean contact is a fault concealed by alluvium.
Gondwana shale is black to dark grey in colour and highly
jointed/fractured. The shale is encountered in a number of
boreholes and its thickness varies from 24m in Kilpauk, area
through 20m in Ashok Nagar area to more than 139m in
Koyambedu area.
The Tertiary sandstones are reddish brown to grayish
white and white in colour, friable and mottled.
currence of the Tertiary in Chennai is not well demarcated.
The oc-
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Fig. 3. Location of boreholes used for the geotechnical analysis.
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Fig. 4. Estimated shear wave velocity at 3m depth.
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Fig. 5. Geology of Chennai city.
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Fig. 6. Map showing the depth to basement of rock at Chennai city.
However, the sandstones encountered in some of the bore-
holes below alluvium in Perambur, Alwarpet, Anna Nagar
and Royapuram areas are different from the compact dark
coloured shale of Gondwana Group and they may belong
to the Tertiary. Probably Tertiary rocks are deposited on
the eroded Gondwana System and are overlain by river al-
The alluvium covers the major part of Chennai. It consists
of sand, silts and clays. The thickness of alluvium varies
from place to place and a maximum of 28m is encountered
in drilled boreholes of north Chennai near Perambur.
2.4Depth to bedrock
Borehole data are the only reliable data to estimate the depth
to bedrock, which is an important key parameter in assessing
the soil column thickness over it. The bedrock configura-
tion of a site will give an idea about the basement topogra-
phy. The basement topography will help in the study of fre-
quencies and amplitudes of ground motions. This will help
to identify high (as well as low) seismic risk areas from the
point-of-view of wave propagation influence.
Fig. 7. Map showing the water level fluctuation at Chennai city.
The basement is somewhat shallow in the southern side
of crystalline basement near Saidapet and Guindy Park (0–
5m). The basement is relatively high in the northern part of
the city (20–40m). The western Central part of the city had a
very high basement depth of 40–80m. The generalised base-
ment contour map needs to be refined with the forthcoming
of more and more data. The sub-surface geology and base-
ment configuration is presented in Fig. 6.
2.5Depth to water table and water level fluctuation
The depth of water level and water-level fluctuation con-
tours are presented in Fig. 7. This ranges between 1.15 and
0.93mb.g.l. where as it is shallow in the range of 0.15 and
5.63mb.g.l. in post-monsoon period. It can be seen that
the water table generally follows the topography with gentle
slopes towards the rivers as well as the sea. The water ta-
ble elevation varies from 3.5ma.m.s.l. to 2.2mb.m.s.l. The
fluctuation is high in selected stations like Besant Nagar and
Aminjikarai, anindicationofhigherdraftinselectedpockets.
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Table 3. Assigned weights for the thematic maps for GIS integration.
Themes PGASoil GeologyGround
Shear Wave Velocity
Ground Water
Table 4. Normalised ratings of the thematic layers.
ThemesWeightageNormalised Values
PGA (in g)
Shear Wave Velocity (ms−1)
Ground Water Fluctuation (m)
Bedrock (m)
Beach Sand
3 Approach
There are a variety of subjective decision rules and the
most commonly used one being the analytic hierarchy pro-
cess (AHP) of Saaty (1980) and weighted linear combina-
tion (WLC) (Barredo et al., 2000; Ayalew and Yamagishi,
2004; Ayalew et al., 2004). The analysis has been carried
out following Saaty's Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP).
Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is one of a Multi-Criteria
decision making method that was originally developed by
ThomasL.Saaty. Inshort, itisamethodtoderiveratioscales
from paired comparisons. It uses hierarchical structures to
quantify relative priorities for a given set of elements on a ra-
tio scale, which isbased onthe discernment of the user. From
the judgments between two particular elements, a pair wise
comparison matrix is constructed on a scale of 1–5, 1 indicat-
ing that the two elements are equally important, and 5 imply-
ing that one element is more important than the other. If an
element is less significant than the other then it is indicated
by reciprocals of 1–5values (i.e., 1/1 to 1/5). The pair wise
comparison matrix prepared is used to derive the individual
normalized weights of each element. The weights of each
criterion are calculated by averaging the values of each row
of the matrix. The Consistency Ratio, which is a comparison
between Consistency Index and Random Consistency Index,
obtained using AHP method is 8.3%. These weights also
add up to 1 and can be used in deriving the weighted sums
of rating for each region of polygons of the mapped layers.
This approach has also been successfully used by Mohanty
et al. (2007) for the similar type of microzonation studies.
The features of each thematic map are also normalized be-
tween 0 and 1 (Nath, 2004) to ensure that no layer exerts an
influence beyond its determined weight. The weightage fac-
tor of each layer calculated is based on expert choice. For the
study, the paired comparison matrix is prepared for the five
themes (PGA contour, soil, geology, groundwater fluctuation
and bedrock depth) as shown in Table 3. Following the AHP,
the thematic maps are assigned weights on a scale of 1–5 de-
pending on their contribution to seismic hazard. The higher
weight is assigned to the theme that contributes more to the
hazard and in this case the highest weight is given to the PGA
contour theme. The weights obtained for each theme are:
PGA (0.333), Shear wave Velocity (0.266), geology (0.20),
groundwater (0.133) and bedrock depth (0.066). The nor-
malized ratings for thematic layers are given in Table 4. The
feature of each themes normalised between 0 and 1.
The obtained values are then incorporated in a GIS plat-
form for the integration of all the thematic maps to obtain
the seismic microzonation map of Chennai city. The integra-
tion of five thematic layers is integrated by the UNION and
overlay operation in GIS.
4Discussions and conclusion
Chennai has been broadly classified into three zones, as high,
moderate and low in terms of seismic hazard in an event
of future earthquakes. Part of Chennai falls in seismically
moderate to high hazard prone areas (Fig. 8). The resul-
tant map depicts that the high hazard areas are distributed
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Fig. 8. First level seismic microzonation map of Chennai city.
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in patches around Adyar River and few patches distributed
below Cooum River in the south western part of the city. The
areas in the southern part of Chennai represent lacustrine de-
posits is underlined by marine black clay as evident in Tara-
mani areas. The maximum depth to basement is 14m. The
central part of the city has mainly fluvial origin of flood plain
deposits as evidence from the flowing Adyar and Cooum
rivers. The upstream portion of Adyar and Cooum rivers
have a moderate slope and in the down stream, the rivers are
verygentletoflatincoastalareas. Theseareasinthenorthern
part of the city represent black clay and alluvium of marine
origin with maximum depth to basement of 30m and patches
of these areas show high hazard. The western and northwest-
ern part of Chennai falls under moderate hazard. These areas
represent the shale and clay of the Gondwana age and are
also correlated with lake fill deposits. The remaining areas
are prone to low seismic hazard. It can be concluded that the
half of the Chennai city is prone to moderate to high haz-
ard. The resultant map provides regional pictures on seismic
hazard of Chennai city and is useful information in construc-
tion planning of forthcoming buildings in the city. Also it is
helpful as a base material to identify seismic risk of Chennai
Acknowledgements. The author is grateful to the Central Ground
Water Board, Chennai and Geological Survey of India, Chennai for
providing the data and necessary information without which this
work would not have been possible. I acknowledge all the facilities
provided by G. Viswanathan, Chancellor, VIT University, Vellore
to carryout second part of the present study. The constant encour-
agement by R. K. Bhandari, Former Chairman, and S. K. Sekar,
Director, CDMM, VIT University, Vellore and S. Rajarathnam,
Professor, Centre for Disaster Mitigation and Management, Anna
University, Chennai are gratefully acknowledged.
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Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary
scrouge (third-person singular simple present scrouges, present participle scrouging, simple past and past participle scrouged)
- (UK, dialect and US, colloquial) To crowd; to squeeze.
- Walter Blair
- Well, pretty soon the whole town was there, squirming and scrouging and pushing and shoving to get at the window and have a look […]
- 1983, Judson R. Landis, Sociology: concepts and characteristics
- I look for veiled eyes or bodies scrouged into a seat in an alien world.
- 2001, Aileen Kilgore Henderson, Stateside Soldier: Life in the Women's Army Corps, 1944-1945 (page 12)
- We stayed up till eleven, sitting on the stairs, on the floor, and scrouged into the day room, surrounded by stacks of GI clothes.
- Walter Blair
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.


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The Window Cleaner
A short muisc video based on the classic song "The Window Cleaner" sung by George Formby
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Funny that i never noticed that (not that i listen to pitbulls songs, but still).
Nice and smooth animation.
I d o n t g e t i t . B u t t he a n i m a t i o n i s g o o d s o i t ' s o k. I g u e s s .
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i just think that when the two guys talk, their mouths are a bit big.
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Congratulations to Pam Roark—she's the winner of our trip to Tampa, Florida, to see country superstar Tim McGraw!
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