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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Igor Trubin began his engineering career in 1979 as an IBM/370 systems engineer. He earned a Ph.D. in Robotics from St. Petersburg Technical University in 1986 and spent 12 years there as a professor teaching CAD/CAM and Robotics. He has published and presented more than 60 technical papers and conference presentations in robotics, artificial intelligence, IT performance, capacity management, anomaly detection, and FinOps. After moving to the U.S. in 1999, Igor worked at Capital One, IBM, and SunTrust Bank in senior engineering, architecture, and management roles. His 2002 CMG paper on exception detection received a Best Paper Award. He later developed Perfomalist.com, based on his original methods for anomaly, change-point, and trend detection, and created the online course “Performance Anomaly Detection.” At Capital One, he led development of cloud capacity-management and FinOps solutions, including the award-winning OptiCloud application. He has served on the CMG Board of Directors since 2015. Now semi-retired, Igor focuses on research, writing, and consulting. His current work expands his concept of the “Area of Normal Functioning” (ANF) from technical systems to human, orga