Sunday, February 16, 2014

The greatest story teller in our family - Simeon Rabinky

Simeon Rabinky (my wife's uncle)  is the oldest and the main person in our family. Because of him we are all ended up here in America. He is the incredible story teller - see below the moment of one of his numerous and  always intriguing story! At the picture we and our guests (some of them our american friends) listen him with the great interest!
You can read some post about him in my Russian blog -

http://trubinigor.blogspot.com/2009/07/blog-post.html

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Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Life in Sderot: Synagogues and bus stations as bomb shelters and rocket shrapnel marks on walls, kids playing during missile attack....

At the border with Gasa stip the  Israeli village Sderot is frequently attacked by arab missiles. We visited our relatives there  - immigrants from USSR. Most shocked was the too brave comment of teenage girl: "When there is missle attack, I usually stay at playground; we get used to it...".

Clip starts by showing  regular personal bunker where we  stayed overnight - very comfortable bed room! And it ends by showing how young soldier with rifle and beer bottle in his hand was crossing our way....

Проведали новых родсвенников в Израельском Здороте - на границе с Газой. Подивились их бесстрашному даже с бравадой быту с бомбоустойчивыми боксами в каждой квартире (мы ночевали в таком бохе), метками от ракетных осколков на стенах, укрепленными автобусными остановками-бункерами, синагогами-бомбоубежашими и детьми остающимися играть на дворе даже во время воздушной тревоги.

В конце солдат в майке, с витовкой на боку и откраытой бутылкой пива в руках перебегает нам дорогу...

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He started in 1979 as IBM/370 system engineer. In 1986 he got his PhD. in Robotics at St. Petersburg Technical University (Russia) and then worked as a professor teaching CAD/CAM, Robotics for 12 years. He published 30+ papers and made several presentations for conferences related to the Robotics and Artificial Intelligent fields. In 1999 he moved to the US, worked at Capital One bank as a Capacity Planner. His first CMG.org paper was written and presented in 2001. The next one, "Exception Detection System Based on MASF Technique," won a Best Paper award at CMG'02 and was presented at UKCMG'03 in Oxford, England. He made other tech. presentations at IBM z/Series Expo, SPEC.org, Southern and Central Europe CMG and ran several workshops covering his original method of Anomaly and Change Point Detection (Perfomalist.com). Author of “Performance Anomaly Detection” class (at CMG.com). Worked 2 years as the Capacity team lead for IBM, worked for SunTrust Bank for 3 years and then at IBM for 3 years as Sr. IT Architect. Now he works for Capital One bank as IT Manager at the Cloud Engineering and since 2015 he is a member of CMG.org Board of Directors. Runs UT channel iTrubin