Dear cousins
Subject:
My last year in Syria
As discussed with you earlier, I wrote my memoirs for my last year in Syria and for
the following three years in Lebanon. It would be unwise to write my memoirs for the
years of the Lebanese civil wars because that would compromise my safety and the
safety of others. Unfortunately, I have not kept any record for the events of those
years. I gleaned from my fading memory whatever remained vivid and indelible and
asked Adnan Salloum and Mousa George Abdullah who witnessed the events of my
last year in Syria to read the text that I uploaded unto my website and comment on the
accuracy of my recollection. You will find Adnan’s reply here below.
Indeed, my last year in Syria had influenced the shaping of my life thenceforward.
Please click on the following URL link to display the text. I hope that your valuable
time would allow reading it
http://www.anisjabra.plus.com/LastYearInSyria/LastYearInSyria.pdf
Please remember that I was then in my teens, inexperienced, unwise living in a very
hostile environment, and that now I am much older, wiser and a peace loving person.
I compiled the text in PDF format. Therefore you need Acrobat Reader to display the
PDF-document. If it is not already installed on your computer then I suggest that you
click on the following URL link to download and install the Acrobat Reader free of
charge
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
.
With my love and best wishes
Anis
----- Original Message ----From: aisalloum@aol.com
To: anis@anisjabra.plus.com
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 4:57 AM
Dear Anis,
I read " My last year in Syria " and would like you to know that I am extremely
impressed with the great memory you have. I only like to add that Mr. Ashure Zomaia
and Mr. Daniel ( I don't remember his last name ) were under your protection and held
the utmost respect for you.
Nassim may remember Daniel's last name.
I shall send a copy of it to Mousa Abdulla upon his return to the USA .
Please click on and enjoy the pictures and sayings !
Merry Christmas,
Adnan
Dear Adnan
Subject:
My last year in Syria
My sister-in-law, Peggy, Gabby’s wife, Alex and my daughters had urged me to write
my memoirs. Indeed, I cannot write my memoirs during the years of the Lebanese
civil war without compromising my safety and the safety of others. Hence, I decided
to write my memoirs for my last year in Syria and for the following first 3 years in
Lebanon. Unfortunately, I have not kept any records for the events of those years. I
should now glean from my fading memory whatever remained vivid and indelible.
Since you and Musa studied then in the same school and were affected by the
outcome of those events, I thought of asking you to read the text that I uploaded unto
my website and comment on the accuracy of my recollection. Indeed, those events
had influenced the shaping of my life thenceforward.
Please click on the following URL link to display the text. I hope that your valuable
time would allow reading it and consulting its content with Musa
http://www.anisjabra.plus.com/LastYearInSyria/LastYearInSyria.pdf
Please remember that I was then in my early teens, inexperienced, unwise living in a
very hostile environment, and that now I am much older, wiser and peace loving
person.
I compiled the text in PDF format. Therefore you need the Acrobat Reader to display
the PDF-document. I believe that it is already installed on your computer, if not then I
suggest that you click on the following URL link to download and install the Acrobat
Reader free of charge
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
It is indeed worth installing the Acrobat Reader on your system.
Anis
23/04/2007
Dear friends
Subject:
Calendars conversions
I developed and uploaded unto my website a users' friendly calculator for converting
Christian to Islamic and Islamic to Christian dates for the purpose of enabling the
users to determine the Gregorian dates of Islamic Holidays. It would be helpful to be
able to do so in due times, particularly for those of us who have Muslim friends to
whom we send our greetings at such events.
Please click on the following URL link to display the calculator and use it whenever
you like.
http://www.supremelogic.co.uk/SmartObjects/HEGIRA.html
If an error occurs, please copy the URL link and paste it in the Internet Address box
then click on Go button.
Anis
12/02/2007
Dear Francis
Subject:
Amortization calculator and LOANS software
Many thanks for your valuable advice to make the amortization calculator more easily
accessible to users. I implemented your recommendation and uploaded the updated
Home page unto my company’s website. If you revisit the site, you will find a button
and relevant description added at the bottom of the Home page to guide the visitor to
the calculator. If you think of a clearer guide instruction, then please let me know.
Indeed, I developed this calculator as a tool for others to use. Its limitations render
it of little value for my work. For budgeting my company’s finances and for
predicting its future progress I regularly use LOANS software. In a way LOANS
program is superior to and more sophisticated than the software used by HSBC bank.
LOANS software, which I developed for my company includes all the capabilities of
the bank software. It can likewise accommodate various levels of bank interest
charges, base rates changes and repayments (on daily basis), and produce detailed
statements for unlimited number of customers and unlimited number of loans per
customer, yet it can run on any PC using Windows 95+, while the bank software
requires main frame to run it. This superiority gives me the opportunity to tease my
bank manager occasionally by predicting his precise dates for applying the changes of
interest rates. However, my LOANS software might not be very users’ friendly
because I developed it for my personal use not for marketing.
Anis
Dear Munif, Suham, Khalil, Anne, Pauline, Nigel & Gill
Subject:
Amortization
My son-in-law sought my help to calculate the amortization details of a mortgage that
he intends to take in Lebanon. Instead of giving him a solution for a particular loan, I
developed an amortization calculator which I uploaded unto my company’s website
so as to give him and others opportunity to use it. If you plan to take a bank loan,
investigate the status of an existing loan or to give an advice about a mortgage, then I
suggest that you consult this calculator. It is friendly, reliable and very easy to use.
You may access it by clicking on the following URL link. Do try it.
http://www.supremelogic.co.uk//SmartObjects/amortization.html
Anis
27/01/2007
Dear Karam
Subject:
Amortization calculator
There is no need for you to apologize. I should have written clearer guide instructions
to obviate the possibility of misinterpretation. Therefore, I have now rephrased the
guide instruction for the input of interest rates as follows:
“Interest Rate in decimals. Example 0.05 for 5%”
If you can think of a clearer guide instruction please let me know.
I developed this calculator at the request of my son-in-law Sami, who intends to take a
mortgage in Beirut. Instead of sending this calculator to him by email in a file
attachment, I uploaded it unto my website to give others equal opportunity to use it.
However, this calculator has limited remit and does not have hence much value for
my work. For budgeting my company’s finances and for predicting its future progress
I regularly use LOANS software, which I developed for the proper management of
my company’s finances. In a way LOANS program is superior to and more
sophisticated than the software used by HSBC bank. Albeit, LOANS software has the
same capabilities of producing detailed statements as those of the bank’s, it can run on
any PC using Windows 95+, while the bank’s software requires main frame to run it.
This superiority gives me occasionally the opportunity to tease my bank manager by
predicting his precise dates for applying the changes of interest rates.
Anis
8/12/2006
Lieber Herr Gregory Frank
Betreff:
Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag
Ich habe eine Geburtstagskarte für Sie entwickelt, die ich an meiner Web Site
hochgeladen habe. Klicken Sie bitte an die Verbindung hier unten, um die
Karte zu sehen und die Musik zu hören
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/a.helou/SAMSAM/FRANK.html
Die Musik ist im MIDI Format gespeichert, welch die Installierung der RealPlayer
Software auf Ihrem Computer erfordert. Informieren Sie mich bitte, wenn Sie nicht
die Carte sehen oder die Musik nicht hören konnten.
Mit vielen lieben Grüßen
Von
Anis Helou
05/12/2006
Dear cousin Gabe
As you advised, I carried out today an update to my website:
http://www.supremelogic.co.uk and implemented your suggestions therein. In
addition, I made the following changes.
1 - Except for the Home page, which I left unchanged I changed all the main
LABEL links into submit BUTTONS. I believe that has made the pages look
nicer and more professional.
2 - I provided forms for feed-back and for request of information so as get
to assess the person who applies prior to deciding on whether to allow
access to the respective information or not. Those changes may be seen on
the following pages:
http://www.supremelogic.co.uk/SmartObjects/SOFTWARE.html
http://www.supremelogic.co.uk/SmartObjects/ANALYSIS.html
http://www.supremelogic.co.uk/SmartObjects/TheorytButtons.html
http://www.supremelogic.co.uk/SmartObjects/DemoButtons.html
http://www.supremelogic.co.uk/SmartObjects/SubmitButtons.html
I thank you once more for your advice and for spending your valuable time
visiting my website
your uncle
Anis
04/12/2006
Dear Gill
Thinking of you in this Christmas Season, I designed a Christmas card for you and
uploaded it unto my personal website. Since you are leaving soon for Australia I send
you now the URL link for the card. Please click on the following URL link to display
the card and hear the nice music associated therewith.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/a.helou/2006/GILL.html
The music is recorded in MIDI format. The pre-installation of RealPlayer software on
your computer is therefore required to play the music. I hope you will be able to view
the card and hear the music without difficulty.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
Your friend
Anis
27/11/2006
Liebe Sofie
Ich habe eine Glückwunschkarte für dich entwickelt, die ich an meiner Web
Site hochgeladen habe. Klickest du bitte an die Verbindung hier unten, um die
Karte zu sehen und die Musik zu hören
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/a.helou/SOFIE/SOFIE_HORSE.html
Dein Jedo
Anis
16/11/2006
Dear cousin Gabriel
Subject:
Opinion on my website
I have constructed my website: http://www.supremelogic.co.uk/ for storing some of
my records rather than for putting it for any commercial use. Nevertheless, I am still
reluctant to include in it the literature of the following software:
1 – ANALYSIS, which is software that I developed for the application of Finite
Element Analysis in the analysis and design of reinforced concrete and of steelconcrete-steel sandwich constructions. The URL link for this study is:
http://www.supremelogic.co.uk/SmartObjects/finite_Theory.pdf
The reason for my reluctance to include this study in my website is due to the fact that
the University of Wales had already published several references that carry similar
titles, which I am the author of. If you wish to view a list of those references, please
type in Google or in Yahoo search engines: steel-concrete-steel sandwich construction
by helou then click on the Search button. However none of those references includes
the horrendous mathematical expressions that you find in this study.
Although, I uploaded ANALYSIS unto my website, I did not provide a link thereto. I
would be thankful if you could have a general view at it then tell me your opinion on
whether I should provide a URL link in the website for this study or not.
2 – PROJECTILE, which is software that I developed for precision bombing by
aircraft, and precision aiming of artillery at moving targets such as approaching
enemy aeroplanes or stationary targets such as structures hidden behind mountains.
The software is based on my derivations for the equations of motion of particles at the
presence of gravity and air resistance. The formulations incorporate the effects of
Earth’s rotation, wind velocity and direction, and air pressure and temperature. The
URL link for this study is:
http://www.supremelogic.co.uk/SmartObjects/ARTILLERY.pdf
As it sounds, this software has no relevance to my company work or to structural/civil
engineering. Indeed, I included it in this website for nostalgic reasons. I developed the
software at the request of some UAE artillery officers when I built Hamdan Bin Zaid
Artillery Regiment Camp in Al Ain of Abu Dhabi Emirate in 1979 – 1980.
I am sure that you have more important matters to attend to than spending your
valuable time pondering on my website. Therefore, I would not ask you to spend
much time on this website. Whenever your time permits, just have a quick view at
PROJECTILE, then give me your opinion as to whether I should include it in my
website or not.
Your uncle
Anis
19/10/2006
Dear Penny
I never meant to ask you to give my website any serious thought. I have constructed it
for storing some of my records not to put it for any commercial use. I am sure you
have more important matters to attend to than spending your valuable time on my
website. Also there would be no need to ask your colleague for feedback.
The reason for asking you to visit my website, whenever your time permits, is due to
my reluctance to include in it the derivations and formulations of the Finite Element
Analysis. I suspect that websites might not be the proper place for accommodating
such horrendous mathematical equations. In fact the University of Wales had already
published many post-graduate references carrying similar titles, which I am the author
of. However none of those published references includes the formulations of this
study. If you wish to view a list of those references, please type in Google or in
Yahoo search engines: steel-concrete-steel sandwich construction by helou, then click
on the Search button.
Nevertheless, I uploaded the Finite Element Analysis study unto my website, but did
not provide a link thereto. If your time allows viewing it, and I mean strictly viewing
it, then please click on the following URL link and give sufficient time for the file to
download:
http://www.supremelogic.co.uk/SmartObjects/finite_Theory.pdf
I would be thankful if you roll up the downloaded pages to have a general quick look
then tell me your opinion on whether I should provide a URL link in the website
for this study or not.
As for PROJECTILES, it has no relevance to my company work or to structural/civil
engineering. I included it in this website for nostalgic reasons. I developed the
software at the request of some UAE artillery officers when I built Hamdan Bin Zaid
Artillery Regiment Camp in Al Ain of Abu Dhabi Emirate in 1979 – 1980. The
software objectives are precision bombing by aircraft, and precision aiming of
artillery at moving targets such as approaching enemy aeroplanes or stationary targets
such as structures hidden behind mountains. The software is based on my derivations
for the equations of motion of particles at the presence of gravity and air resistance.
The formulations incorporate the effects of Earth’s rotation, wind velocity and
direction, and air pressure and temperature. The literature and the mathematics may
be viewed by clicking on either PROJECTILES or on the following URL link.
http://www.supremelogic.co.uk/SmartObjects/ARTILLERY.pdf
I know that you are not a mathematician and viewing my formulations might be
boring for you as wellas for many others. For that reason I would not ask you to visit
PROJECTILES page. Indeed, I have already provided a URL link for it in my
website.
Your friend
Anis
18/10/2006
Dear Penny
I hope that I have made no mistake in copying your email address. As you may
discern from this message, my email address is: a.helou@ntlworld.com. The URL
address of my is: http://www.supremelogic.co.uk.
Some friends who visited this website thought that I uploaded many details to
pages: Software, ANALYSIS and PROJECTILES. I have activated these and the
following URL links to provide easy access to these pages. If your time allows, just
click on any one link to display the relevant page on your screen.
Personal details
MANAGERS
Software
ANALYSIS
Theory of Finite Element Analysis
PROJECTILES prescision aiming of
I would be grateful to receive any suggestion that might improve the presentation of
this website.
With my love and best wishes
Anis
21/10/2006
Dearest Fatume
Subject:
Birthday anniversary Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag!
Die Welt war unheimlich und düster, wann Gott erschaffte die Prinzessin von
Eleganz, Freundlichkeit und liebevoller Freundlichkeit an Oktober das 21. Dann
feierten die Königin des Tanzens und die Direktor der Gewandtheit diesen
historischen Ereignis, indem sie ihre unübertroffene kunst der hervorragender
Leistung durchführten. In der Tat, hat die Geburt dieser Prinzessin erteilte Freude und
Glück zur Welt von da an, und zerstörte die Dunkelheit der Welt.
The Earth was eerie and gloomy, when God created on October the 21st the Princess
of elegance, affability and loving kindness. Then the Queen of Dancing and the
Principal of Agility celebrated this historic event by performing their unsurpassed art
of excellence. Indeed, the birth of this Princess has dispelled the gloom of the Earth
and brought joy and happiness to the World thenceforward.
Please click on the following URL link to view your remarkable birthday greetings
card and hear the dulcet music therewith.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/a.helou/FATUME/
Have a happy birthday anniversary
Your parents
Anis & Yolla
Wedding Anniversary
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/a.helou/ANNIVERSARY/ANNIVERSARY.html
03/10/2006
Dear Karam
Subject:
Finite Elements Analysis Theory
Many thanks for your recommendations for the logo and for the projectiles. I shall
implement your comments in the forthcoming update of my website, and will let you
know about it in due time.
As I told you before, I am reluctant to include the derivations and formulations of the
Finite Element Analysis in the website: http://www.supremelogic.co.uk/
This reluctance is due to the horrendous nature of its equations which might act as a
discouragement for people to visit the website, and to the fact that the University had
already published about 40 post-graduate references carrying similar titles, which I
am the author of. However non of those published references includes the
formulations of this study. To view those references please type in Google or Yahoo
search engines: steel-concrete-steel sandwich construction by helou, then click on the
Search button.
Nevertheless, I uploaded the Finite Element Analysis study unto the website, but did
not provide a link thereto. If your time allows viewing it, please click on the following
URL link:
http://www.supremelogic.co.uk/SmartObjects/finite_Theory.pdf
I would be thankful if you tell me your opinion on whether I should provide a URL
link in the website for this study or not.
Anis
24/09/2006
Dear Nigel
Subject:
Projectiles
I am sending to you here below the URL link to the website, which we discussed
during our Harvest Lunch. Please execute the following three steps:
1 – Click on http://www.supremelogic.co.uk to display my Homepage on the screen
of your computer
2 – Click on Software link in the Homepage to display the page listing the Software
3 – Click on PROJECTILES that you find at the bottom of the Software page and
wait for a minute or so for the study to load.
Henceforth, please make every serious effort to understand this study and try to
memorise every equation therein in earnest. Doing so would undoubtedly guarantee
your super performance in the field and glorious victory over your enemies.
There are some solved examples in this study that would give you great insight into
this study.
With my regards and best wishes for your success
Sincerely
Anis
Dear Munif, Suham, Nassim, Khalil
Dear Kamal, Nadia, Elezabeth, Rouweida
Ehud called unto himself flautist Husni, a distinguished timeserver and an arch traitor,
guitarist Anthony, a sleazy poodle and a serial compulsive liar and rapper George, a
grossly obtuse cur and an arch caitiff to celebrate his fictitious victory over the
gentiles. During the pageantry, Ehud sat on his thrown of evil on a small island that he
stole from the Palestinians, while the troupe played music and exalted him by singing:
Thou art the chosen people of God. Thou art destined to kill the gentiles.
I created the scene of this mythology and uploaded it unto my personal website
homepage. Please click either on EHUD or on the following URL link to view the
stage and enjoy the dulcet music therewith.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/a.helou/EHUD/EHUD.html
The music is recorded in MP3 format. To hear it, you might need to install Real
Player on your computer hard disc.
Anis
9/11/2006
Dear Karam, Francis
PROJECTILES is software that I developed at the suggestion of some UAE artillery
officers when I built Hamdan Bin Zaid Artillery Regiment Camp in Al Ain, Abu
Dhabi in 1979 – 1980. The software objectives are precision bombing from aircraft,
and precision aiming of artillery at moving targets such as approaching enemy
aeroplanes or stationary targets such as structures hidden behind mountains. The
software is based on my derivations for the equations of motion of particles at the
presence of gravity and air resistance. The formulations incorporate the effects of
projectile shape, Earth’s rotation, wind velocity and direction, and air pressure and
temperature.
As it sounds, this software bears no relevance to structural/civil engineering. Yet I
had, for nostalgic reasons, included it tentatively in my website:
http://www.supremelogic.co.uk/
The software literature and mathematics may be viewed by clicking on either
PROJECTILES or on the following URL link.
http://www.supremelogic.co.uk/SmartObjects/ARTILLERY.pdf
I hope that your valuable time would allow viewing this study, and let me know your
opinion about the appropriateness of including such unrelated subject in my website.
Anis
Dear
My son-in-law searched the Internet for good references about composite concrete
construction to improve his education on the subject. After extensive search he
concluded that the only comprehensive references that he found listed in the Internet
were those that I was the author of. Wherefore, if you wish to view the list of
publications that charmed him most, either click on the following link
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=steel-concretesteel+sandwich+by+Helou&hl=en&lr=&filter=0
or type: steel-concrete-steel sandwich by Helou in Google or in Yahoo search engines
then click on Search. The reason for recommending entering just my surname in the
search engines is due to having written my full name in the publications as AJ
Helou or as Helou, AJ in accordance with common practice.
I sincerely hope that you would agree with the conclusion of my son-in-law.
Anis
Dear friends
Subject:
Christmas Greetings
I designed a Christmas card for you and uploaded it unto my personal website. Please
click on the following link to display the card and hear the nice music associated
therewith.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/a.helou/2006/ANNE.html
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/a.helou/2006/Elinger.html
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/a.helou/2006/Irene.html
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/a.helou/2006/MUNIF.html
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/a.helou/2006/RAMEZ.html
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/a.helou/2006/NINA.html
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/a.helou/2006/Samir.html
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/a.helou/2006/Minae.html
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/a.helou/2006/Nikhil.html
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/a.helou/2006/WILLIAM_06.html
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/a.helou/2006/PAULINE.html
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/a.helou/2006/SAMANTHA.html
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/a.helou/2006/HAYARPY.html
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/a.helou/2006/RUWEIDA.html
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/a.helou/2006/GILL.html
I hope you will be able to view the card and hear the music without difficulty. Please
let me know if you could not see the card or not hear the music.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
Anis
12/08/2006
Lieber Hülegü, Daniel
Subject:
Birthday greetings
Ich habe eine Geburtstagskarte für dich entwickelt, die ich an meiner Web
Site hochgeladen habe. Klickest du bitte an die Verbindung hier unten, um die
Karte zu sehen und die Musik zu hören
http://www.supremelogic.co.uk/2006/H_6.html
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/a.helou/CHILDREN/H_6.html
http://www.supremelogic.co.uk/2006/D_6.html
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/a.helou/CHILDREN/D_6.html
http://www.supremelogic.co.uk/2006/S_6.html
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/a.helou/CHILDREN/S_6.html
http://www.supremelogic.co.uk/2006/SAMIR_HALA.html
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/a.helou/CHILDREN/SAMIR_HALA.html
The first man who celebrated his birthday anniversary was the prince of wisdom and
eternity. He went to the middle of the desert with his musician, sat on his throne and
enjoyed the dulcet music.
Please click on the following link to share the joy of the occasion
Anis
Der erste Mann, der seinen Geburtstagjahrestag feierte, war der Prinz von Klugheit
und von Ewigkeit. Er ging zur Mitte der Wüste mit seinem Musiker, saß auf seinem
Thron und genoß die Musik.
Klicken Sie bitte an die folgende Verbindung, um die Freude an der Gelegenheit zu
genießen.
Anis
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/a.helou/SAMSAM/SUMA.html
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/a.helou/SAMSAM/FRANK.html
Von
Deinem Jedo, Anis
Dear Karam, Francic
Subject:
Finite Element Analysis & Artillery
I introduced substantial changes to the website http://www.supremelogic.co.uk yet I
am still reluctant to include the study of the derivations and formulations of the Finite
Element Analysis in it. Nevertheless, I uploaded the study unto the website, but did
not provide a link for it. If you wish to view it, please click on the following link:
http://www.supremelogic.co.uk/SmartObjects/finite_Theory.pdf
http://www.supremelogic.co.uk/SmartObjects/ARTILLERY.pdf
and let me know if you think that I should change my mind and provide a link for it in
the website?
Your friend
Anis
28/06/2006
Dear Karam
Subject:
Upgrading the website
I thank you for your nice words of encouragement and for your constructive
suggestions to improve the website. Valuing my website so highly by you has given
me great satisfaction and augmented my self confidence.
After I read your reply, I reduced the width of all the pages of the website to about
930 pixels and changed the order of priorities in the Home page then uploaded them
all unto the server about an hour ago. Now the horizontal scroll bar disappears when I
display the web pages on a full 15" screen. I might introduce a visitors' counter in the
near future. Please revisit the website and let me know your opinion about it.
The picture at the top left corner of the website is an aerial photo for the Crac des
Chevaliers. I used it as a logo for Supremelogic limited because this castle had always
fascinated me, and inspired my imagination. The ingenuity, dedication and courage of
the Crusaders, the Hospitallers who built it, had elicited my inveterate respect and
utmost admiration, despite my disagreement with the Crusaders' political and
religious aims.
Few kilometers to the north of the castle, i. e. to the right of the picture, lays the old
Orthodox Monastery of Saint George. Still few kilometers further north, lay
Marmarita town in which I studied for my Baccalaureate and Jabal El Sayeh (the
Mountain of the Prowler). The ownership of most of this mountain had devolved to
me by inheritance from my feudal ancestors.
None of the listed software is for sale. However, if my friends wish to use any one of
my listed programs, I would allow them to do so free of charge.
The LOANS software is the only software in the list that is relevant to the finances of
Supremelogic limited. I use it once every month to predict the accrued bank loans
interests and to budget the company's finances.
The RETAIN program was instigated by the poor condition of the church retaining
wall separating the church yard from my land in Llanishen. It was necessary to derive
those equations and to develop a computer program that solves them so as to be able
to give accurate prediction on the wall stability.
I considered publishing the equations of ANALYSIS software too but did not do so
because I felt that those equations are numerous, horrendous and their level is post
graduate. Hence very few people would wish to mull over them. Instead, I shall try to
obtain some pictures of the tunnels that were built to my design and include them in
the ANALYSIS web page.
As you know, websites are developed in a language called Hypertext Mark-up
Language, abbreviated as: html. Editing in html directly is extremely tedious, much
similar to writing computer programs in machine language. Since I received a CD
present containing the German version of GoLive 6.0 software, I decided to use it in
editing my website. It was indeed a strenuous task to reconcile the German setup of
the CD with the English setup of my computer, and to edit the html files with no
previous experience and with absolutely no knowledge thereof. With no instruction
guide and no helping literature, I started from scratch with whatever little outside help
that I could glean, and successfully designed and constructed the humble website:
http://www.supremelogic.co.uk/.
With my love and best wishes for you and for Ghada
Anis
27/06/2006
Dear Francis
Subject:
Website comments and recommendations
I thank you for your nice words of encouragement and for your suggestions to
improve the website. Valuing my website so highly by you has given me great
satisfaction and augmented my self confidence.
The picture at the top left corner of the website is an aerial photo for the Crac des
Chevaliers. I used it as a logo for Supremelogic limited because this castle had always
fascinated me, and inspired my imagination. The ingenuity, dedication and courage of
the Crusaders, the Hospitallers who built it, had elicited my inveterate respect and
utmost admiration.
Few kilometers to the north of the castle i. e. to the right of the picture, lies the old
Orthodox Monastery of Saint George. Still few kilometers further north, lies
Marmarita town and Jabal El Sayeh (the Mountain of the Prowler). The ownership of
most of this mountain had devolved to me by inheritance from my feudal ancestors.
The RETAIN program was instigated by the poor condition of the church retaining
wall separating the church yard from my land in Llanishen. It was necessary to derive
those equations and to develop a computer program that solves them so as to be able
to give accurate prediction on the wall stability. As you would discern from Fig 1, the
wedge angle of failure, Theta, should be optimized to produce maximum thrust
against the wall. I copied here below from the program code the FOR ..... NEXT loop
that does just that. Hence, the number of operations performed by this loop in each
trial is 90/0.01 = 9000 times. Trying to solve such astronomical number of equations
by hand is unthinkable while fast computers can solve them, and consequently
determine the maximum thrust as shown in step 19570, in a fraction of a second.
19420 FOR I=0 TO 90 STEP .01
!Loop to establish maximum thrust
19430 Ad=Hb*(TAN(Alfas)+TAN(I)) !\ Determination of the three sides
19440 Bd=Hb/COS(I)
!/of the active wedge as functions Thete
19450 !
19460 !Weight of backfill active wedge
19470 Wb=1/2*Gamab*Ad*Hb
!Total weight of backfill
19480 !
19490 !Surcharge weight
19500 S2=Gama2*Am*Ad
!Uniform surcharge loading
19510 S3=1/2*Gama3*Ad^2*TAN(Beta) !Triangular surcharge loading
19520 S=S1+S2+S3
!Total Siurcharge load
19530 !
19540 !Thrust behind wall, Pa
19550 Pa=(Wb+S-Ca*(COS(Alfas)-SIN(Alfas)*TAN(I+Phi))Cd*(COS(I)+SIN(I)*TAN(I+Phi)))/(SIN(Delta-Alfas)+COS(DeltaAlfas)*TAN(I+Phi))
19560 IF Pa<=0 THEN 19620
!Negative values of thrust are ignored
19570 Pa_max=MAX(Pa_max,Pa)
!Establish maximum thrust
19580 IF Pa_max=Pa THEN Theta=I !Define angle of wedge failure at max.
thrust
19590 NEXT I
!etecera
I used Microsoft Equations 3.0 for editing the equations of RETAIN software. I also
considered publishing the equations of ANALYSIS software but did not do so
because I felt that those equations are numerous, horrendous and their level is post
graduate. Hence very few people would wish to mull over them.
I shall heed your advice and try to obtain some pictures of the tunnels that were built
to my design in Europe and include them in the ANALYSIS web page
Websites are developed in a language called Hypertext Mark-up Language,
abbreviated as: html and uploaded unto the servers. Editing in html is extremely
tedious, much similar to writing computer programs in machine language. Since I
received a CD present of the German version of GoLive 6.0 software, I decided to use
it in editing the website. It was indeed a streneous task to reconcile the German setup
of the CD with the English setup of my computer, and to edit the html files with no
instruction guide and no helping literature. Starting from scratch with whatever little
outside help that I could glean, I designed and constructed the humble website:
http://www.supremelogic.co.uk/.
I have not sought GOOGLE or YAHOO for including my website or myself in their
data base. Nevertheless, I typed the name Supremelogic limited in GOOGLE search
engine then pressed search. Supremelogic limited was displayed once, as shown in the
file attachment GOOGLE.JPEG. Then I typed my name twice in YAHOO search
engine as: anis helou and anis helou, CMAS. The results are shown in the file
attachments YAHOO1.JPEG and YAHOO2.JPEG respectively.
Please let me know if you wish to have a working copy of the RETAIN software. If
you do, then you should be prepared to come to my home for one day and to spend
about an hour on training on the proper use of the program so that you can use it
afterwards on your own with no difficulty.
With my love and best wishes for you and for Angela
Anis
Dear Maggie, Samir Jabbour, Francis, Pauline, Richard Smith, Kamal Haddad, Ivan,
Feroze, Irene
If you now visit my company’s website: http://www.supremelogic.co.uk/ you will
notice that it has undergone radical changes, which I made in an effort to present a
more expressive website and to give it better character.
Whilst I do not expect many people to mull over the mathematical equations therein, I
hope that your valuable time would allow visiting its various pages, and would deeply
appreciate receiving any suggestions about their presentation.
However, this website may still not enjoy the illustrious appearance and the
attractiveness of other famous websites, which might be attributed to the nature of my
work, and to being an amateur in website construction.
With my love and best wishes
Anis
12/06/2006
Dear nephew Daniel
I allocated one page in my company’s website: http://www.supremelogic.co.uk/ for
presenting the theory of concrete quality control and mix design. I hope that your
valuable time would allow visiting this web page. If you decide to do so, then please
execute the following steps
1. Click on http://www.supremelogic.co.uk/ to open the website Home page. Below
the top left corner picture close to the left margin, you find the following active links:
Home (not active yet, because you would then be already visiting the Home Page)
Software
Services
Chemicals
Contact us
2. Click on Software link to open the site that contains brief descriptions of some of
the software that I developed. Please note that the last software listed in this web page
is CONCRETE
3. Click on CONCRETE to open the page that contains the theory of concrete quality
control, and the solution of a typical example. Please feel free to visit all the other
web pages whenever you wish to do so.
With my love and best wishes for you and for Malissa
Your uncle
Anis
12 June 2006
Dear Munif
Subject:
Concrete mix design
When we worked for AUB Special Construction Projects, I was the Concrete and
Materials Engineer and you were my boss. As a Concrete Engineer, I designed and
controlled the production of concrete for the Medical Centre and for other SCP
projects. At that time, we had no computers, and no calculators. All calculations were
then made by hand with the limited help of a slide rule that I still nostalgically keep.
Later, computers became available, which made it possible to implement the long
hand procedures in a reliable users’ friendly computer program that I used with
excellent results thenceforward for concrete quality control and mix design for my
projects.
Starting from scratch with whatever little outside help that I could glean, I designed
and constructed my company’s humble website: http://www.supremelogic.co.uk/,
which contains in its structure a Home page and few other web pages. I allocated one
of its pages to presenting the theory of concrete quality control and mix design. I
hope that your valuable time would allow visiting this web page. To do so, please
execute the following steps
1. Click on http://www.supremelogic.co.uk/ to open the website Home page. Below
the top left corner picture close to the left margin, you find the following active links:
Home (not active yet, because you would then be already visiting the Home Page)
Software
Services
Chemicals
Contact us
2. Click on Software link to open the site that contains brief descriptions of some of
the software that I developed. Please note that the last software listed in this web page
is CONCRETE
3. Click on CONCRETE to open the page that contains the theory of concrete quality
control, and the solution of a typical example. Please feel free to visit all the other
web pages whenever you wish to do so.
I had written to you when we were in AUB many reports that contained parts of what
you will find in this web page. I hope that you still remember those old days.
With my love and best wishes to you and to Anne
Anis
09/06/2006
CONCRETE is software that incorporates the information set forth in ACI 211, ACI
214 and ACI 613 Standards for the production of all types of concrete for structures
of various load-carrying capacities and degrees of exposure. It determines the
concrete batch quantities in Imperial and in International units for air-entrained and
non-air-entrained concretes. The program output includes the determination of the
required average design strength, the probabilities of tests falling below the
characteristic strength, the required water/cement ratio, the percentage of voids in the
mix, and the quantities of the concrete ingredients.
--------------------CONCRETE software is a users’ friendly program that would guide the users to make
correct decisions and reject illogical data input. The procedure thereof was used to
design concrete mixes for many projects totalling in volume to about 2 million cubic
meters with excellent results.
The following literature explains the theory of concrete mix design. It contains
excerpts from ACI Standards that were incorporated in CONCRETE software
INTRODUCTION
Proportions for concrete should be selected to make the most economical use of
available materials to produce concrete of the required placeability, durability and
strength. The properties of both aggregates and cement have a marked effect on
strength and durability of concrete and on the amount of mixing water required for its
placement.
Concrete should be placed with the minimum quantity of mixing water consistent
with proper handling, since this will tend to greatly improve its strength, durability
and other desirable properties. Proportions should be selected to produce concrete that
conform to the following requirements
1. of the stiffest consistency (lowest slump) which can be placed efficiently to provide
a homogeneous mass
2. with the maximum size of aggregate economically available and consistent with
satisfactory placement
3. of adequate durability to withstand satisfactorily the weather and other destructive
agents to which it may be exposed
4. of the strength required to withstand the loads to be imposed without danger of
failure.
CONCRETE PRODUCTION CONTROL
The primary function of compression tests of field concrete is to ensure the
production of uniform concrete of desired strength and quality. Concrete being a
hardened mass of heterogeneous materials is subject to the influence of numerous
variables. The magnitude of variations in the strength of concrete depends upon how
well the materials, concrete manufacture, and tests are controlled. Difference in
strength can be traced to two fundamentally different sources (a) differences in
strength-producing properties of the concrete mixture, and (b) apparent difference in
strength caused by discrepancies in tests.
STATISTICAL FUNCTIONS
If the theory of the weakest link is applied to concrete, the number of tests lower than
the desired strength is more important in computing the load-carrying capacity of
concrete structures than the average strength. It is impractical, to specify minimum
strength since the law of normal probability indicates that we can expect one strength
out of every six tests to be lower than the standard deviation, σ below average
strength X, one out of every 44 will be lower than 2σ below X and one out of 741 will
be lower than 3σ below X.
The strength of concrete test specimens on controlled projects can be assumed to fall
into some pattern of normal frequency distribution curve. Where there is good control,
the strength values will be bunched close to the average, and the curve will be tall and
narrow. As the variations in strength increase, the values spread and the curve
becomes low and elongated.
CONCRETE software incorporates the following functions of the normal frequency
curve in evaluating strength data.
The average strength of all specimens, X is calculated as follows
1   2   3  . . .  n
(1)
n
Where X1, X2, X3 . . . . Xn are the strength results of individual specimens and n is
the total number of specimens tested.
The measure of dispersion, the standard deviation, is the root-mean-square deviation
of the strengths from their average. The standard deviation is the radius of gyration of
the area under the theoretical probability curve about the centre. The standard
deviation, σ is found by extracting the square root of the average of the squares of
deviations of individual strengths from their average.

X1  X2  X 2  X 2  X 3  X2 .

. . X n  X 
2
(2)
n
Coefficient of variation, V is the standard deviation expressed as a percentage of the
average strength, as follows
V

X
* 100
(3)
This function makes it possible to express the degree of dispersion on percentage
basis rather than the absolute. The ratings of control are based on experience from a
large number of projects and are presented in Table 1 here below as a general guide in
evaluation of concrete control
Table 1
Class of operation
|Coefficients of variation for different control standards
|
|----------------- |----------------- |----------------- |----------------- |
| Excellent |
Good
| Fair
|
Poor
|
Overall variations:
|
|
|
|
|
General construction | below 10 | 10 to 15 | 15 to 20
| above 20 |
|
|
|
|
|
Laboratory control | below 5.0 | 5.0 to 7.0 | 7.0 to 10 | above 10 |
|
|
|
|
|
To satisfy strength performance requirements expressed in this fashion the average
strength of concrete must obviously be in excess of the design strength specified, f’c,
the degree of excess strength depending on the expected uniformity of concrete
production and the allowable proportions of low tests. The required average strength,
fcr for any design can be expressed as
f cr 
fc
'
V 

1  t

100 

(4)
Where
t = a constant depending upon the proportion of tests that may fall below f’c and the
number of samples used to establish V. Its values are obtained from Table 4, ACI 214.
V = forecasted value of the coefficient of variation expressed in percent
EXAMPLE OF COMPUTATIONS
In this example, concrete is required for a pre-cast pre-stressed girder for a bridge
which will be exposed to severe weather with frequent alterations of freezing and
thawing. Structural considerations require it to have a design characteristic
compressive strength of 26 N/mm2 (4000 psi) at 28 days. From previous experience in
the plant production, the degree of control may be assumed to be excellent with a
coefficient of variation, V ≤ 10 %. It is further required that no more than one test in
20 may fall below the design strength of 26 N/mm2 (4000 psi) at 28 days.
The size of the section and spacing of pre-stressing tendons are such that a maximum
size aggregate of 3.81 cm (1 ½ in) is indicated and a properly graded coarse aggregate
is locally available. Heavy internal and external vibration is available to achieve
compaction, enabling the use of concrete with stiff consistency.
General design criteria
1. Cement is assumed to have a specific gravity of 3.15
2. The coarse aggregate has a specific gravity of 2.68, absorption of 0.5 % and dryrodded unit weight of 1.6 kg/lit
3. The fine aggregate has a specific gravity, bulk dry, of 2.65, an absorption of 0.7 %,
and fineness modulus of 2.80
Running the program
After running the program, users may select either Imperial or International Units of
measurements and display the results in both units. In this particular example, the
following parameters have been selected
1. International Units of Measurements
2. The category of this job is assumed to fall under General Construction
3. The degree of control is assumed to be excellent. Hence, a coefficient of variation,
V shall be taken as ≤ 10 %
4. About 33 specimens shall be made for the trial mix of this concrete.
5. The structure is not thin
6. Since the exposure is severe, air-entrained concrete shall be used as advised by the
program. The program would adopt a water/cement ratio not exceeding 0.44.
7. A characteristic 28 day compressive strength of 26 N/mm2 is specified
8. A slump of 2.54 cm (1 in) is specified
9. A maximum size of coarse aggregate of 3.81 cm (1 ½ in) is selected
10. Fine aggregate fineness modulus is taken as 2.8
11. Coarse aggregate specific gravity is taken as 2.68
12. Fine aggregate specific gravity is taken as 2.65
13. Coarse aggregate dry-rodded unit weight is 1.6 kg/lit
Program output
1. Average strength
The required average design compressive strength at 28 days is 31 N/mm2.
The coefficient of variation is ≤ 10 %.
Probability of strength ≥ than the characteristic strength is 96.09 %.
2. Batch quantities per cubic meter of concrete shall be as follows:
Cement
331 kg
Water
143 kg
Void in mix
4.5 %
Sand (dry bases)
749 kg
Coarse aggregate (dry bases)
1136 kg
Water/cement ratio
0.433
Total weight per cubic meter of wet concrete
2360 kg
3. Batch quantities per cubic yard of concrete shall be as follows:
Cement
558 lb
Water
242 lb
Voids in mix
Sand (dry bases)
Coarse aggregate (dry bases)
Water/cement ratio
Total weight per cubic yard
4.5 %
1262 lb
1915 lb
0.433
2976 lb