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ALES NEWSLETTER
February 25, 2007
ALES Events
and Affairs
- ALES Annual
Dinner Event Report
-
ALES Rebuild-Lebanon Initiative Abstract
Community Events and Notices
- The Arabic Hour Hafli
- March 17, 2007
- INLET
Entrepreneurship Forum - March 07, 2007
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ALES Annual Dinner Event Report
(ALES Events and Affairs)
The American Lebanese Engineering Society (ALES) held
its annual dinner on Saturday the 10th of February 2007 at Byblos
Restaurant in Norwood Massachusetts. The event was well attended by a
group of Lebanese-American professionals and students. In addition to
the great food and service, the rich program, and the wonderful company,
the attendees enjoyed Middle-Eastern music and danced Dabkeh on the
popular Lebanese song "Raje3 Raje3 Yit3ammar Raje3 Libnan"...
Please click
here
to read the full report.
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ALES Rebuild-Lebanon
Initiative Abstract
(ALES Events and Affairs)
The American Lebanese Engineering Society, concerned
about the extensive damage and devastation of the July 2006 war in
Lebanon, and about the impact of such a disaster on the Lebanese people,
has been looking into creative ways to help the reconstruction of what
was destroyed.
On December 12, 2006 ALES sponsored a presentation by
two of its member engineers Nabil Hourani, P.E. and Charles Sacre, P.E.
who discussed the “Challenges and Opportunities of Rebuilding the Roads
and Bridges of Lebanon after the July 2006 War” (click
here
to view the event report). The ALES members and the guests very well
received the presentation.
Nabil and Charles who are experienced in the field of
bridges and highways, presented a 3-Phase Plan to tackle the challenges
of rebuilding the destroyed roads and bridges in Lebanon.
The 1st Phase consists in “Getting the
Facts”. This means performing a comprehensive field survey of the damage
backed by photos, data collection and record drawings of each bridge
directly from the site of these structures in Lebanon, because the
surveys available up to this date still remain incomplete. The ALES
survey results organized in a data base will serve to estimate the cost
of reconstruction of each bridge or roadway in particular, and the total
costs and financial needs.
The 1st Phase is crucial to the next two
phases: (2) the Planning for Reconstruction and Financing, and (3) the
Implementation of the Plan.
Nabil and Charles are committed to volunteer and
travel to Lebanon to implement the 1st Phase of the
Reconstruction Plan, which is to assess the field conditions and
quantify the remaining damage, knowing that few bridges have been
repaired and are operational. Simultaneously, they will meet
representatives of different governmental, educational and professional
institutions to present the 3-Phase Plan, discuss it and get the
feedback.
ALES, to support the efforts of its volunteers, is
starting a fund-raising effort to raise the funds necessary to cover the
travel, hotel and transportation expenses in
Lebanon. It is roughly estimated that for a 2-week period, the costs per
person are $4,000.
For
more information or to contribute to this fund-raising effort, please
feel free to contact Mr. Charles Sacre at 781-956-3655 or Mr. Nabil
Hourani at 617-973-8832 or email ALES at
ales@alesonline.org.
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The Arabic Hour Hafli
(Community Events and Notices)
COME TO "THE ARABIC HOUR" HAFLI
AN EVENING OF FELLOWSHIP AND CELEBRATION
FEATURING
George Maaloof and Ensemble
Saturday, March 17, 2007
7:30 to Midnight
St. George's Antiochian Church
55 Emmonsdale Road
West Roxbury, MA
Ticket: $40.00
(Includes dinner)
For information and reservations call
The Arabic Hour(617) 323-2226
Semaan Haidar (617) 851-6910
Or Visit www.arabic.hour.org
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INLET Entrepreneurship Forum
(Community Events
and Affairs)
Dear INLET members and friends,
The next event of the Entrepreneurship forum will take place on
Wednesday March the 7th at WilmerHale Venture Group, (1100 Winter St.,
Waltham, MA 02451-
Directions here: http://wilmerhale.com/offices/offices/visitingus.aspx?officeid=20
)
This event is themed "Initial steps of creating your startup".
A networking session and dinner will start at 6:30pm, followed by two
presentations. The presentations will start at 7:00pm.
Previous events were found immensely useful by both the audience and the
presenters. You can read more about them at: http://www.inlet-lebanon.org/entrepforum.htm
Registration fees are 10$ for INLET members and 15$ for non INLET
members.
Please RSVP to events@inlet-lebanon.org
This event's presentations will be:
"Top Ten Things I Wish Someone Told Me About Start-ups" – Yonald
Chery
Yonald Chery a serial entrepreneur will be sharing his experience in
starting companies.From a retrospective founder's view, Mr. Chery will
focus on the top 10 issues he wishes he had done differently that
significantly impacted the course of founding, financing, & growing a
business. The talk will draw on key entrepreneurial business experiences
and the lessons learned that he wishes someone had warned him about
earlier.
Mr. Chery has spent over 10 years involved in high-technology, both as
an MIT researcher and as a high-technology entrepreneur. He co-founded
and lead many companies including Newbury Networks, Virtual Ink famous
for mimio, its flagship product which he conceived and MOK3 a 3D
graphics software company who won the Demo God Award at Demo 2003.
Currently, he is the CEO of Calenova which he founded in 2005. Calenova
is developing a product that will revolutionize the way meetings are set
up.
Mr. Chery often speaks about technology strategy, team-building,
business plan development, and entrepreneurship and has lectured on such
topics at MIT's Sloan School of Management.
"Protecting and Commercializing Your Inventions" – Ibrahim Hallaj
Ibrahim Hallaj a patent attorney and registered patent agent with
experience in prosecuting and litigating high-tech patents and
counseling clients on other inellectual property (IP) matters.
Mr. Hallaj's practice includes representing plaintiffs and defendants in
patent litigation, as well as prosecuting U.S. and foreign patent
applications, and developing patent portfolios for small and medium
sized clients. He has specific expertise in the areas of nonlinear wave
propagation, ultrasonic systems, wireless communication, IP networks,
medical imaging, computer software, business methods, sensors, control
systems, and data mining.
Mr. Hallaj's presentation will include material for those with little or
no experience with intellectual property, as well as material targeting
those with more experience. Emphasis will be placed on the commercial
value of obtaining and enforcing IP rights from the point of view of
small technology businesses and investors in small technology
businesses.
Attendees are welcome to bring patent-related
questions for discussion.
For additional information please do not hesitate to
contact us at events@inlet-lebanon.org
Best Regards,
Habib Haddad
On behalf of The INLET Team
www.inlet-lebanon.org
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