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IBM New & Refurbished

August 19, 2008 on 5:00 pm | In technology | No Comments

Hard to find servers, modems, print heads and printers. If you need it, you can get it.

Performance Data Resources is a leading seller of new and refurbished IBM iSeries eServer while providing innovative solutions, pricing that is competitive and excellent customer service. If you’re looking for hard to find, mid-range hardware, look no further. They will also assist with simple device address & cabling problems to complex system tuning & troubleshooting assistance.

PDR has been in business since 1991 and over 88% of their business is from repeat customers who are typically IT directors. These are individuals who demand value and performance and they continue to return to PDR. The technical staff of PDR are certified, trained, and knowledgeable professionals, with more than 30 years of IT Technical Support, Data Center Management, local and wide area networking experience, offering a wide variety of services and solutions to meet ever changing business requirements.

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Nastia Liukin Accepts Silver With Grace

August 19, 2008 on 12:06 pm | In Entertainment, travel | 3 Comments

(Photo credit: KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/Getty Images)Nastia Liukin performed beautifully in the individual event finals of the uneven bars at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. She had a few small errors, but stuck her landing in a very difficult routine. In fact, her routine had the highest difficulty rating of any routine being done at these Olympics. Her competition, the Chinese women, opted to increase their own routine difficulty ratings in order to be able to compete against her.

In the end, another screwy judging scoring system left Nastia tied with her competitor He Kexin which should not have happened. These two gymnasts had identical difficulty ratings, both had small errors in their routines, but He Kexin had several more small errors and took a sideways step on her landing. Remember, Nastia stuck her landing. All things being equal, Nastia should have scored higher. But, this is international gymnastics and all things are apparently not equal. The two gymnasts wound up in a tie.

The International Olympic Committee determined that there would be no ties in gymnastics and the computer is programmed to automatically break the tie by dropping the 4th lowest score, leaving only 3 judges scores remaining to be calculated together. This left Nastia with the Silver medal. There should have never been a tie in the first place.

Nastia Liukin has handled the situation with maturity and grace. Although she was no doubt disappointed, she accepted her medal with a smile, posed for photographs after the awards ceremony and never said an unkind word about the situation. She is certainly a gold medal individual.

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