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This appendix explains the reasons for preinstallation tasks that you are asked to perform, and other installation concepts.
This appendix contains the following sections:
This section reviews concepts about Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster preinstallation tasks. It contains the following sections:
This section contains the following topics:
You must have a group whose members are given access to write to the Oracle Inventory (
oraInventory) directory, which is the central inventory record of all Oracle software installations on a server. Members of this group have write privileges to the Oracle central inventory (
oraInventory) directory, and are also granted permissions for various Oracle Clusterware resources, OCR keys, directories in the Oracle Clusterware home to which DBAs need write access, and other necessary privileges. By default, this group is called
oinstall. The Oracle Inventory group must be the primary group for Oracle software installation owners.
oraInventory directory contains the following:
A registry of the Oracle home directories (Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle Database) on the system
Installation logs and trace files from installations of Oracle software. These files are also copied to the respective Oracle homes for future reference.
Other metadata inventory information regarding Oracle installations are stored in the individual Oracle home inventory directories, and are separate from the central inventory.
You can configure one group to be the access control group for the Oracle Inventory, for database administrators (OSDBA), and for all other access control groups used by Oracle software for operating system authentication. However, if you use one group to provide operating system authentication for all system privileges, then this group must be the primary group for all users to whom you want to grant administrative system privileges.
Note:If Oracle software is already installed on the system, then the existing Oracle Inventory group must be the primary group of the operating system user (
oracle or
grid) that you use to install Oracle Grid Infrastructure. Refer to "Determining If the Oracle Inventory and Oracle Inventory Group Exists" to identify an existing Oracle Inventory group.
The Oracle Inventory directory (
oraInventory) is the central inventory location for all Oracle software installed on a server.
The first time you install Oracle software on a system, you are prompted to provide an oraInventory directory path.
When you provide an Oracle base path when prompted during installation, or you have set the environment variable
ORACLE_BASE for the user performing the Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation, OUI creates the Oracle Inventory directory in the path
ORACLE_BASE/../oraInventory. For example, if
ORACLE_BASE is set to
/opt/oracle/11, then the Oracle Inventory directory is created in the path
/opt/oracle/oraInventory, so that the central inventory for all installations is outside of the Oracle base for this particular Oracle installation user.
If you neither enter a path nor set
ORACLE_BASE, then the Oracle Inventory directory is placed in the home directory of the user that is performing the installation. For example:
As this placement can cause permission errors during subsequent installations with multiple Oracle software owners, Oracle recommends that you do not accept this option, and instead use an OFA-compliant path.
For new installations, Oracle recommends that you either create an Oracle path in compliance with OFA structure, such as
/u01/app/oraInventory, that is owned by an Oracle software owner, or you set the Oracle base environment variable to an OFA-compliant value.
If you set an Oracle base variable to a path such as
/u01/app/grid or
/u01/app/oracle, then the Oracle Inventory is defaulted to the path
u01/app/oraInventory using correct permissions to allow all Oracle installation owners to write to this central inventory directory.
By default, the Oracle Inventory directory is not installed under the Oracle base directory for the installation owner. This is because all Oracle software installations share a common Oracle Inventory, so there is only one Oracle Inventory for all users, whereas there is a separate Oracle base for each user.
This section contains information about preparing an Oracle base directory.
During installation, you are prompted to specify an Oracle base location, which is owned by the user performing the installation. You can choose a location with an existing Oracle home, or choose another directory location that does not have the structure for an Oracle base directory.
Using the Oracle base directory path helps to facilitate the organization of Oracle installations, and helps to ensure that installations of multiple databases maintain an Optimal Flexible Architecture (OFA) configuration.
Even if you do not use the same software owner to install Grid Infrastructure (Oracle Clusterware and Oracle ASM) and Oracle Database, be aware that running the
root.sh script during the Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation changes ownership of the home directory where clusterware binaries are placed to
root, and all ancestor directories to the root level (
/) are also changed to
root. For this reason, the Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a cluster home cannot be in the same location as other Oracle software.
However, Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a standalone database--Oracle Restart--can be in the same location as other Oracle software.
See Also:Oracle Database Installation Guide for your platform for more information about Oracle Restart
During installation, you are asked to identify the planned use for each network interface that OUI detects on your cluster node. Identify each interface as a public or private interface, or as an interface that you do not want Oracle Clusterware to use. Public and virtual IP addresses are configured on public interfaces. Private addresses are configured on private interfaces.
Refer to the following sections for detailed information about each address type:
The public IP address is assigned dynamically using DHCP, or defined statically in a DNS or in a hosts file. It uses the public interface (the interface with access available to clients).
Oracle Clusterware uses interfaces marked as private for internode communication. Each cluster node needs to have an interface that you identify during installation as a private interface. Private interfaces need to have addresses configured for the interface itself, but no additional configuration is required. Oracle Clusterware uses interfaces you identify as private for the cluster interconnect. If you identify multiple interfaces during information for the private network, then Oracle Clusterware configures them with Redundant Interconnect Usage. Any interface that you identify as private must be on a subnet that connects to every node of the cluster. Oracle Clusterware uses all the interfaces you identify for use as private interfaces.
For the private interconnects, because of Cache Fusion and other traffic between nodes, Oracle strongly recommends using a physically separate, private network. If you configure addresses using a DNS, then you should ensure that the private IP addresses are reachable only by the cluster nodes.
After installation, if you modify interconnects on Oracle RAC with the
CLUSTER_INTERCONNECTS initialization parameter, then you must change it to a private IP address, on a subnet that is not used with a public IP address. Oracle does not support changing the interconnect to an interface using a subnet that you have designated as a public subnet.
You should not use a firewall on the network with the private network IP addresses, as this can block interconnect traffic.
The virtual IP (VIP) address is registered in the GNS, or the DNS. Select an address for your VIP that meets the following requirements:
The IP address and host name are currently unused (it can be registered in a DNS, but should not be accessible by a
ping command)
The VIP is on the same subnet as your public interface
The GNS virtual IP address is a static IP address configured in the DNS. The DNS delegates queries to the GNS virtual IP address, and the GNS daemon responds to incoming name resolution requests at that address.
Within the subdomain, the GNS uses multicast Domain Name Service (mDNS), included with Oracle Clusterware, to enable the cluster to map host names and IP addresses dynamically as nodes are added and removed from the cluster, without requiring additional host configuration in the DNS.
To enable GNS, you must have your network administrator provide a set of IP addresses for a subdomain assigned to the cluster (for example,
grid.example.com), and delegate DNS requests for that subdomain to the GNS virtual IP address for the cluster, which GNS will serve. The set of IP addresses is provided to the cluster through DHCP, which must be available on the public network for the cluster.
See Also:Oracle Clusterware Administration and Deployment Guide for more information about Grid Naming Service
Oracle Database 11g release 2 clients connect to the database using SCANs. The SCAN and its associated IP addresses provide a stable name for clients to use for connections, independent of the nodes that make up the cluster. SCAN addresses, virtual IP addresses, and public IP addresses must all be on the same subnet.
The SCAN is a virtual IP name, similar to the names used for virtual IP addresses, such as
node1-vip. However, unlike a virtual IP, the SCAN is associated with the entire cluster, rather than an individual node, and associated with multiple IP addresses, not just one address.
The SCAN works by being able to resolve to multiple IP addresses in the cluster handling public client connections. When a client submits a request, the SCAN listener listening on a SCAN IP address and the SCAN port is made available to a client. Because all services on the cluster are registered with the SCAN listener, the SCAN listener replies with the address of the local listener on the least-loaded node where the service is currently being offered. Finally, the client establishes connection to the service through the listener on the node where service is offered. All of these actions take place transparently to the client without any explicit configuration required in the client.
During installation listeners are created. They listen on the SCAN IP addresses provided on nodes for the SCAN IP addresses. Oracle Net Services routes application requests to the least loaded instance providing the service. Because the SCAN addresses resolve to the cluster, rather than to a node address in the cluster, nodes can be added to or removed from the cluster without affecting the SCAN address configuration.
The SCAN should be configured so that it is resolvable either by using Grid Naming Service (GNS) within the cluster, or by using Domain Name Service (DNS) resolution. For high availability and scalability, Oracle recommends that you configure the SCAN name so that it resolves to three IP addresses. At a minimum, the SCAN must resolve to at least one address.
If you specify a GNS domain, then the SCAN name defaults to clustername-scan.GNS_domain. Otherwise, it defaults to clustername-scan.current_domain. For example, if you start Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation from the server
node1, the cluster name is
mycluster, and the GNS domain is
grid.example.com, then the SCAN Name is
Clients configured to use IP addresses for Oracle Database releases prior to Oracle Database 11g release 2 can continue to use their existing connection addresses; using SCANs is not required. When you upgrade to Oracle Clusterware 11g Release 2 (11.2), the SCAN becomes available, and you should use the SCAN for connections to Oracle Database 11g release 2 or later databases. When an earlier version of Oracle Database is upgraded, it registers with the SCAN listeners, and clients can start using the SCAN to connect to that database. The database registers with the SCAN listener through the remote listener parameter in the init.ora file. The REMOTE_LISTENER parameter must be set to SCAN:PORT. Do not set it to a TNSNAMES alias with a single address with the SCAN as HOST=SCAN.
The SCAN is optional for most deployments. However, clients using Oracle Database 11g release 2 and later policy-managed databases using server pools should access the database using the SCAN. This is because policy-managed databases can run on different servers at different times, so connecting to a particular node virtual IP address for a policy-managed database is not possible.
Oracle Clusterware 11g release 2 (11.2) is automatically configured with Cluster Time Synchronization Service (CTSS). This service provides automatic synchronization of all cluster nodes using the optimal synchronization strategy for the type of cluster you deploy. If you have an existing cluster synchronization service, such as NTP, then it will start in an observer mode. Otherwise, it will start in an active mode to ensure that time is synchronized between cluster nodes. CTSS will not cause compatibility issues.
The CTSS module is installed as a part of Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation. CTSS daemons are started up by the OHAS daemon (
ohasd), and do not require a command-line interface.
Understanding Oracle Automatic Storage Management Cluster File System
About Migrating Existing Oracle ASM Instances
About Converting Standalone Oracle ASM Installations to Clustered Installations
Oracle Automatic Storage Management has been extended to include a general purpose file system, called Oracle Automatic Storage Management Cluster File System (Oracle ACFS). Oracle ACFS is a new multi-platform, scalable file system, and storage management technology that extends Oracle Automatic Storage Management (Oracle ASM) functionality to support customer files maintained outside of the Oracle Database. Files supported by Oracle ACFS include application binaries and application reports. Other supported files are video, audio, text, images, engineering drawings, and other general-purpose application file data.
If you have an Oracle ASM installation from a prior release installed on your server, or in an existing Oracle Clusterware installation, then you can use Oracle Automatic Storage Management Configuration Assistant (ASMCA, located in the path Grid_home/bin) to upgrade the existing Oracle ASM instance to Oracle ASM 11g Release 2 (11.2), and subsequently configure failure groups, Oracle ASM volumes, and Oracle Automatic Storage Management Cluster File System (Oracle ACFS).
Note:You must first shut down all database instances and applications on the node with the existing Oracle ASM instance before upgrading it.
During installation, if you chose to use Oracle ASM and ASMCA detects that there is a prior Oracle ASM version installed in another home, then after installing the Oracle ASM 11g Release 2 (11.2) binaries, you can start ASMCA to upgrade the existing Oracle ASM instance. You can then choose to configure an Oracle ACFS deployment by creating Oracle ASM volumes and using the upgraded Oracle ASM to create the Oracle ACFS.
On an existing Oracle Clusterware or Oracle RAC installation, if the prior version of Oracle ASM instances on all nodes is Oracle ASM 11g release 1, then you are provided with the option to perform a rolling upgrade of Oracle ASM instances. If the prior version of Oracle ASM instances on an Oracle RAC installation are from an Oracle ASM release prior to Oracle ASM 11g release 1, then rolling upgrades cannot be performed. Oracle ASM is then upgraded on all nodes to 11g Release 2 (11.2).
If you have an existing standalone Oracle ASM installations on one or more nodes that are member nodes of the cluster, then OUI proceeds to install Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a cluster.
If you place Oracle Clusterware files (OCR and voting disks) on Oracle ASM, then ASMCA is started at the end of the clusterware installation, and provides prompts for you to migrate and upgrade the Oracle ASM instance on the local node, so that you have an Oracle ASM 11g Release 2 (11.2) installation.
On remote nodes, ASMCA identifies any standalone Oracle ASM instances that are running, and prompts you to shut down those Oracle ASM instances, and any database instances that use them. ASMCA then extends clustered Oracle ASM instances to all nodes in the cluster. However, disk group names on the cluster-enabled Oracle ASM instances must be different from existing standalone disk group names.
The following section provides a short overview of server pools. It contains the following topics:
See Also:Oracle Clusterware Administration and Deployment Guide for information about how to configure and administer server pools
With Oracle Clusterware 11g release 2 (11.2) and later, resources managed by Oracle Clusterware are contained in logical groups of servers called server pools. Resources are hosted on a shared infrastructure and are contained within server pools. The resources are restricted with respect to their hardware resource (such as CPU and memory) consumption by policies, behaving as if they were deployed in a single-system environment.
You can choose to manage resources dynamically using server pools to provide policy-based management of resources in the cluster, or you can choose to manage resources using the traditional method of physically assigning resources to run on particular nodes.
Caution:By default, any named user may create a server pool. To restrict the operating system users that have this privilege, Oracle strongly recommends that you add specific users to the CRS Administrators list.
See Also:Oracle Clusterware Administration and Deployment Guide for more information about adding users to the CRS Administrator's list.
The Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation owner has permissions to create and configure server pools, using SRVCTL, Oracle Enterprise Manager Database Control, or Oracle Database Configuration Assistant (DBCA).
Policy-based management:
Enables dynamic capacity assignment when needed to provide server capacity in accordance with the priorities you set with policies
Enables allocation of resources by importance, so that applications obtain the required minimum resources, whenever possible, and so that lower priority applications do not take resources from more important applications
Ensures isolation where necessary, so that you can provide dedicated servers in a cluster for applications and databases
Applications and databases running in server pools do not share resources. Because of this, server pools isolate resources where necessary, but enable dynamic capacity assignments as required. Together with role-separated management, this capability addresses the needs of organizations that have a standardized cluster environments, but allow multiple administrator groups to share the common cluster infrastructure.
Server pools divide the cluster into groups of servers hosting the same or similar resources. They distribute a uniform workload (a set of Oracle Clusterware resources) over several servers in the cluster. For example, you can restrict Oracle databases to run only in a particular server pool. When you enable role-separated management, you can explicitly grant permission to operating system users to change attributes of certain server pools.
Top-level server pools:
Logically divide the cluster
Are always exclusive, meaning that one server can only reside in one particular server pool at a certain point in time
Server pools each have three attributes that they are assigned when they are created:
MIN_SIZE: The minimum number of servers the server pool should contain. If the number of servers in a server pool is below the value of this attribute, then Oracle Clusterware automatically moves servers from elsewhere into the server pool until the number of servers reaches the attribute value, or until there are no free servers available from less important pools.
MAX_SIZE: The maximum number of servers the server pool may contain.
IMPORTANCE: A number from 0 to 1000 (0 being least important) that ranks a server pool among all other server pools in a cluster.
When Oracle Clusterware is installed, two server pools are created automatically: Generic and Free. All servers in a new installation are assigned to the Free server pool, initially. Servers move from Free to newly defined server pools automatically. When you upgrade Oracle Clusterware, all nodes are assigned to the Generic server pool, to ensure compatibility with database releases before Oracle Database 11g release 2 (11.2).
The Free server pool contains servers that are not assigned to any other server pools. The attributes of the Free server pool are restricted, as follows:
SERVER_NAMES, MIN_SIZE, and MAX_SIZE cannot be edited by the user
IMPORTANCE and ACL can be edited by the user
The Generic server pool stores pre-11g release 2 (11.2) databases and administrator-managed databases that have fixed configurations. Additionally, the Generic server pool contains servers that match either of the following:
Servers that you specified in the HOSTING_MEMBERS attribute of all resources of the application resource type
Servers with names you specified in the SERVER_NAMES attribute of the server pools that list the Generic server pool as a parent server pool
The Generic server pool's attributes are restricted, as follows:
No one can modify configuration attributes of the Generic server pool (all attributes are read-only)
When you specify a server name in the HOSTING_MEMBERS attribute, Oracle Clusterware only allows it if the server is:
Online and exists in the Generic server pool
Online and exists in the Free server pool, in which case Oracle Clusterware moves the server into the Generic server pool
Online and exists in any other server pool and the client is either a CRS Administrator (the user role that controls resource administration for server pools) or is allowed to use the server pool's servers, in which case, the server is moved into the Generic server pool
Offline and the client is a CRS Administrator
When you register a child server pool with the Generic server pool, Oracle Clusterware only allows it if the server names pass the same requirements as previously specified for the resources.
Servers are initially considered for assignment into the Generic server pool at cluster startup time or when a server is added to the cluster, and only after that to other server pools.
With an out-of-place upgrade, the installer installs the newer version in a separate Oracle Clusterware home. Both versions of Oracle Clusterware are on each cluster member node, but only one version is active.
Rolling upgrade avoids downtime and ensure continuous availability while the software is upgraded to a new version.
If you have separate Oracle Clusterware homes on each node, then you can perform an out-of-place upgrade on all nodes, or perform an out-of-place rolling upgrade, so that some nodes are running Oracle Clusterware from the earlier version Oracle Clusterware home, and other nodes are running Oracle Clusterware from the new Oracle Clusterware home.
An in-place upgrade of Oracle Clusterware 11g release 2 is not supported.
See Also:Appendix F, "How to Upgrade to Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11g Release 2" for instructions on completing rolling upgrades


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This is a Tournament Players Association Year 2(TPA2) event, and is governed by its rules, guidelines, and judgments. All are welcome to join and participate in the association. You need do nothing more than join one or more of the TPA2 events that will be announced each Monday. Check back on the TPA2 scoreboard in the Tournaments--> General Info forum to see how you're doing.
Welcome to the Davis Cup 2012 [TPA2] Tournament!
This tournament will be loosely based on the Davis Cup tennis tournament. Freemiums are welcome, but you must keep three games open at all times.
Please sign up with a partner, although you'll be playing both 1v1 and 2v2 games. I'll allow singles to sign up and randomly assign them partners at the end of signups. Also, if you have a preference of the country you'd like to represent, include that in your signups (obviously, only one group per country, please).
I will allow all sign-ups for two weeks.
All games will be Random Map, Automatic, No Spoils, Chained, Sunny. 1v1 games will have a 30 round limit, and 2v2 games will have a 20 round limit. Each match will be a best-of-five, but each player will only play three games:
- Player A vs Player C (1v1)
- Player A vs Player D (1v1)
- Player B vs Player C (1v1)
- Player B vs Player D (1v1)
- Players A/B vs Players C/D (2v2)
Qualifying phase:
The Davis Cup is split into three "regions": Americas, Europe/Africa, and Asia/Oceania. Therefore, you'll be doing all of your qualifying matches within those zones. For each region, there will be a double-elimination bracket, seeded by rank, to determine where you fall within your group. The number of qualifiers from each region will vary based on the number of teams from that region, and will be announced at the beginning of the tournament. (For example, if half of the signups are from the Europe/Africa region, half of the qualifiers for each group will be from that region.)
Tournament phase:
The top 16 qualifiers will qualify for the World Group. Qualifiers 17-32 will form Group I, 33-48 will form Group II, etc. The tournament phase is a single-elimination knockout event, and you will be randomly seeded within your groups. To respect the freemiums playing, there will not be consolation brackets in any of these brackets; for TPA2 purposes, there will be an 8-way tie for 9th, a 4-way tie for 5th, etc. Winners of the World Group will win the tournament. Winners of Group I and Group II will be awarded GA medals, assuming those groups have a full 16 teams.

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Tennis legend Jack Kramer, considered by many the most influential person in the game in the last 60 years, died late Saturday night at his home in Los Angeles. He was 88.
He had been diagnosed in mid-July with soft tissue sarcoma, a cancer of the connective tissues, said Bob Kramer, one of his sons.
Kramer won the prestigious Wimbledon title in 1947 and won U.S. Championships, the forerunner of today's U.S. Open, in '46 and '47. He also won seven other Grand Slam titles in doubles. His Wimbledon victory was a startling 45-minute breeze past Tom Brown, 6-1, 6-3, 6-2.
It was his 1947 U.S. title that led to changes in a sport that had been, for the most part, hypocritical. Players competed for trophies and nothing else. At least that's what they said.
"The amateur game was phony," Kramer said years later. "Kids were all getting money under the table."
So when he took the court for the '47 U.S. final, Kramer had made a decision that would affect the sport forever, a decision that prompted Hall of Fame tennis journalist Bud Collins to say Sunday, "From a competitor to an administrator to a broadcaster, Jack Kramer was the most important figure in the history of the game."
Before that '47 U.S. final, Kramer had decided to turn pro.
"It was simple," he said. "I needed the money."
A deal was in hand with a tennis promoter and needed only a top performance from Kramer in the tournament. But that looked shaky when he lost the first two sets of a best-of-five final to Frankie Parker. He recalled that he looked into the stands to find the man with whom he had cut the deal, but all he could see was his bald head, because the man was sitting with his face in his hands.
Either inspired or petrified, Kramer won the next three sets, losing only four games on the way to the title and setting the stage for tennis' pro era to take off. Two months later, his pro tour, a night-to-night barnstorming of cities across the world, attracted a crowd of 15,411 to Madison Square Garden -- in the middle of a blizzard.
Soon the success of the pro tours, Kramer's the most prominent, put pressure on the tennis federations, whose tournaments were no longer offering fans all the best players. That pressure eventually led to the establishment of Open tennis in 1968, featuring prize money for all players.
Kramer, who had served in World War II as a Coast Guard officer on landing craft in the Pacific, suffered from an arthritic back and by 1954 was finished as a player. But the cause of other players remained a motivation for him, and by 1973 he had become executive director of the Assn. of Tennis Professionals, the predecessor of today's ATP World Tour.
In '73, Niki Pilic refused to play on Yugoslavia's Davis Cup team, and his suspension by the International Tennis Federation extended through the dates of Wimbledon that year. When Wimbledon honored that suspension and refused to let Pilic play there, Kramer led a player boycott, Wimbledon ended up with a less-than-quality field and Kramer had helped players gain even more control of their game.
"He was a huge figure in tennis," said Rod Laver, who came along a generation later and said he benefited greatly from Kramer's pioneering. "We all needed money and he helped a lot of players get some."
Kramer's antiestablishment stances occasionally cost him.
The year after he won the Wimbledon title, he went to watch his close friend Ted Schroeder of San Diego play there.
"The year before, a member of the royal family had handed me a trophy," Kramer said a few years ago. "But this time, I was a pro. They wouldn't even let me in the locker room."
Collins, who did many broadcasts with Kramer and said he was excellent -- "Never over-talked" -- remembered how Kramer was treated after the '73 Wimbledon boycott.
"The BBC banned him," he said.
Born Aug. 1, 1921, in Las Vegas, Kramer lived his early childhood years there and learned about playing cards. He carried the nickname Jake -- a gambler's term for the jacks in the deck -- all his life. He often said he learned from those card games the value of playing the percentages, and he did so both on and off the tennis court.
Kramer became a star player almost from the moment he left Montebello High School in 1939 to play doubles for the U.S. Davis Cup team.
He was a gangly 18-year-old with an aggressive serve-and-volley game that carried him to the top quickly. Between 1946 and 1953, he was considered the No. 1 player in the world, though in those days ranking systems were less organized and credible than today's computer-driven listings.
His business ventures were as sound as his approach to tennis -- make a big serve, putting your opponent on his heels, and follow it in for a winning volley.
At the height of his tennis career, he was asked to endorse a racket. When Wilson Sporting Goods sent him the racket, he discarded his favorite Don Budge signature model and played for a while with this new Wilson Kramer. But he hated it and was struggling to beat his barnstorming opponent at the time, Bobby Riggs.
He sent it back to Wilson, but the firm wanted a racket with his name on it, so he told them to take his Budge racket and repaint the lamination.
Kramer played with it and it became the most popular racket ever manufactured. Wilson eventually sold more than 30 million and finally renegotiated the original deal with Kramer that had him getting 2.5% of racket sales.
"We just did a flat rate," he said. "I understood. I was making more money than the president of Wilson Sporting Goods."
Ever since his barnstorming days in Australia, Kramer had owned racehorses, and as recently as Labor Day weekend, he went to Del Mar to watch them.
In his playing days, there were severe restrictions on taking money out of Australia, so Kramer took some of his purse winnings in racehorses.
"I remember as a kid going down to the docks in San Pedro," said Bob Kramer. "They'd be unloading the horses and dad said they were ours. I could never understand why I couldn't ride them."
For a while, the Kramer family owned and operated the Jack Kramer Tennis Club in Rolling Hills Estates. Players such as Tracy Austin and Pete Sampras grew up playing the game there.
But Kramer eventually realized that tennis clubs were not as lucrative as golf courses. So he bought Los Serranos Country Club in the late 1950s and added an additional 18 holes to the Chino Hills public layout in 1962.
He had a long-standing relationship with the Pacific Southwest tennis tournament, which began at the L.A. Tennis Club in 1927 and has remained in the city under various names and sponsorships and at various sites.
Kramer served as tournament director and tournament chairman, and from 1979-83 it was known as the Jack Kramer Open. Today, the annual summer event at the UCLA Tennis Center is run by Bob Kramer.
At this year's event, Jack Kramer saw his last live tennis match. He sat courtside in his wheelchair as Sampras played an exhibition against Marat Safin.
"Dad loved the way Pete played," Bob Kramer said, "because it was a lot like he played."
Sampras said Sunday, "He was a class act and always willing to help. I was happy to see him and say hi at the L.A. Tennis Open. This is truly a great loss for tennis."
Pam Shriver, one of the premier doubles players of all time, said, "This is like golf, when we lost Ben Hogan and Gene Sarazen. He was somebody who transcends the sport and who helped build what we have today."
Kramer was always upbeat and positive.
His friend and longtime doubles partner, Schroeder -- a practicing cynic -- once said that when Kramer was around, "The world was automatically a happier place."
Kramer and his wife, Gloria, who died in 2008, always called their five children "the five perfect sons."
Besides Bob, Kramer is survived by sons David, Michael, John and Ron.
Bob Kramer said an announcement of a memorial service is forthcoming.
Times staff writer Diane Pucin contributed to this report.


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Dear Bijan, Thanks for responding. Since I only *outlined* my arguments against SPARQL, it is easy to misinterpret them. I will try to expand on them a bit. A good query language should has the following attributes (among others): (1) It should be expressive (2) Its operators should be composable, and minimal (except for sugar-coating) (3) Its should be pleasantly readable For the uses we employ in a logic language, we add a couple more: (4) It should support aggregation (5) It should scale to very large datasets SQL is an example of a language that meets all of these criteria. Datalog satisfies all except that my impression is that it doesn't handle aggregation. So we have proof of concept. I would be happy to use either of these with RDF. Instead, we have SPARQL. SPARQL violates all but the last. Violating any of 1, 2, or 3 is grounds for divorce. Expressivity: In our RDF applications, we routinely use AND, OR and NOT(UNSAID) operators, with arbitrary nesting. Even excluding UNSAID, we can't express our queries in SPARQL, due to the artificial limitations it places on the OR (UNION) operator. We frequently nest AND inside of UNSAID, and less often use OR and UNSAID. So, SPARQL doesn't even come close to satifying our expressivity requirements. Composable Operators: "Composable" means that operators can be combined to produce useful expressions. Only the AND is composable in SPARQL. The UNION operator has artificial syntactic restrictions that don't belong. It doesn't have NOT/UNSAID, so composability can't be discussed there. Instead of a few composable operators, SPARQL has a kitchen sink of non-composable ones. Pleasantly Readable Turtle syntax. 'nuff said. Now I will address a few specific comments: >> I totally fail to see why having *convenience syntax* for expressivity ... I assume you are considering the UNSAID operator to be "convenience syntax". If we ignore nested AND/OR/UNSAID within UNSAID, then it is indeed a convenience syntax. That assumes a SPARQL mind-set, which I am not assuming. I believe its not the case that OPTIONAL/UNBOUND can simulate UNSAID expressions with compound arguments. >> Even with the qualifier "Almost" I don't believe this is true, and if it happened to be >> true, it's not the case that UNA and CWA necessarily help the scale of reasoning. They help if the alternative is using millions of owl:minCardinality and owl:disjointWith statements to accomplish the same thing. No one I know does that, instead they either assume UNA/CWA or they don't use aggregation. Also, they either have millions of owl:maxCardinality statements or they aren't using owl:allValuesFrom. >>RDF and RDFS has neither and Steve Harris has reported a store holding over 1.5 billion >> triples and responding in user sufficient real time to various classes of SPARQL queries. My guess is that they aren't computing any aggregate expressions. >>This is a different issue. If you want UNA and CWA it is certainly pragmatically a non-answer >> to say,"Hey, you can add it yourself!", at least, IMHO. I'm not sure if you are saying "its OK to add UNA and CWA yourself". If you are, then you are abandoning basic precepts of SPARQL and the "semantic layer cake". Plus, you are inventing your own semantics. However, WE are adding UNA and CWA ourselves, because we have no choice. I observed Mike Dean using UNA in a large-scale application that we worked on together, and he was not apologetic, but he did acknowledge that doing so inherently contradicts OWL semantics (since it is non-monotonic). It would be much preferable if we could use UNA and CWA in combination with RDF and have Pat's blessing. From the IBM paper you reference: >>We apply the filtering criteria described in Section 3.2 to a canonical summary >>Abox AŒ. For correctness with respect to cardinality restrictions, we need to >>augment the canonical summary Abox with role assertion statistics, since role >>assertions are merged by the summary Abox transformation. For each role R >>that is part of a cardinality restriction, we associated with R the maximum >>number of R-neighbors that any individual a has in A. I can't be sure, but it sounds like they are asserting maxCardinality restrictions (a few hundred thousand?) into the ABox. If so, they have frozen the ABox. If their application has no updates, then that's valid. However, every application we work with allows for introduction of new data (updates). In that case, the operation of adding maxCardinality assertions would have to be done and undone over and over. We find that assertion/deletion is an expensive operation. So, I would claim that IBM's results are valid for non-static applications only if the time to make and unmake the maxCardinality assertions is factored into their timings. They of course didn't do that, because they were looking for low numbers, rather than realistic ones. >>Finally, current SPARQL has Logspace datacomplexity The only complexity that matters is average case complexity. Anything with average-case complexity of N-squared or greater is non-scalable. Logspace complexity doesn't meet that criteria, so is irrelevant. Later on you quote some empirical results, which reflect average case complexity, so those are indeed relevant. However, I acknowledge that SPARQL can scale; its OWL that can't scale, unless you ignore its core operators, or freeze your Abox (a bit of a contractiction with the notion of "large scale"). Why is OWL relevant to SPARQL? Well, Pat was using the "semantic layer cake" as an excuse for requiring open world semantics. Given that the upper, open-world layers do not scale, we would prefer to see adoption of upper closed-world layers that do scale. Cheers, Bob -----Original Message----- From: Bijan Parsia [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 08:30 To: Bob MacGregor Cc: Eric Prud'hommeaux; firstname.lastname@example.com; firstname.lastname@example.com; email@example.com Subject: Re: Prototype SPARQL engine based on Datalog and relation of SPARQL to the Rules Layer On Dec 7, 2006, at 5:07 PM, Bob MacGregor wrote: > I realize that the UNSAID issue is closed. However, it shouldn't have > been. I agree with this, but not for the reasons given below. As I pointed out on behalf of Axel, > Here's what Pat Hayes said about it: > > > If SPARQL contains UNSAID then it will be inconsistent with any > account of meaning which is based on the RDF/RDFS/OWL normative > semantics. This will not render SPARQL unusable, but it will place > it > outside the 'semantic web layer cake' and probably lead to the > eventual construction of a different, and rival, query language for > use by Web reasoners. Let me just interject that this argument does nothing for me. I totally fail to see why having *convenience syntax* for expressivity *already* in the language (via unbound) magically breaks the architecture. (Oh, and I'm unconvincable on this point, Pat, so please don't bother :)) Generally, it's much easier and safer to shove funky expressivity into query languages than it is to do so in the representation formalism itself. And frankly, if I were going to bolt and try to set up a SPARQL rival, "UNSAID" wouldn't weigh it *at all*. Turtle syntax is way more likely to send *me* running :) > Unfortunately, Pat has things exactly backwards. The omission of > UNSAID INCREASES the odds that a rival query language will be > constructed for use by Web reasoners, for the simple reason that > UNSAID is useful for a great many things. Expressively useful, yes. > Almost all LARGE SCALE reasoning assumes both unique name assumption > and closed world assumption. Even with the qualifier "Almost" I don't believe this is true, and if it happened to be true, it's not the case that UNA and CWA necessarily help the scale of reasoning. RDF and RDFS has neither and Steve Harris has reported a store holding over 1.5 billion triples and responding in user sufficient real time to various classes of SPARQL queries. Pellet has a UNA mode which can actually slow down reasoning :) (It's funny, sometimes adding negation, e.g., disjoints, can radically speed up reasoning (hey! the clash is obvious!) or it can slow things down (damn, I have to try a bunch of node merges that fail)) > The numbers simply > make it impractical to assert owl:differentFrom or > owl:maxCardinality > over and over. This is a different issue. If you want UNA and CWA it is certainly pragmatically a non-answer to say, "Hey, you can add it yourself!", at least, IMHO. > The "semantic web layer cake" that Pat refers to is currently designed > so that it only applies to relatively small knowledge sets (say, below > 1 million triples). I have no idea what the grounds for this are, but it certainly seems to me to be false in many points. I believe Pellet, Racer, FaCT++ and KAON2 can scale, given reasonable server hardware, to more than a "million triples" (but this is meaningless anyway; much depends on the *nature* of the axioms encoded by those triples). If they cannot, it's *really* hard to see how adding UNA or some sort of *non-mon* (non-mon makes things harder!!!) would magically help. Even restricting to a CWA, it's hard to see how it would help. (And I'd need to hear in considerable more detail exactly what sort of CWA you wish to add to SHOIN to make it "scale better".) Finally, current SPARQL has Logspace datacomplexity, which indicates that SPARQL query answering is in relationalland. There are a number of fragments of OWL that either have logspace datacomplexity (e.g., DL Lite, RDFS(DL)) or PTime data complexity (e.g., EL++, DLP, and hornSHIQ) at least for various key inference services. (E.g., EL++ is PTIme complete in the size of data for consistency, subsumption, concept satisfiability, and instance checking (not surprisingly, given their interreducibility) but for conjunctive query, it's only known that it's PTime-hard. None of these impose UNA or CWA. Of course, some of them are rather weak on equality, which helps. This is, of course, ignoring new research. To pick just one newer one, we see from IBM: <http://iswc2006.semanticweb.org/items/Kershenbaum2006qo.pdf> I direct your attention to table 2. A 6 million role assertion ontology (with many type assertions as well) can be checked for consistency in 485 seconds. While they list the expressivity as SHIN, I think it's problably hornSHIQ, so if you were tuned for that, you might do much better. I'll also note that the times as you scale up the LUBM in that chart is roughly linear. This doesn't mean that you can do useful arbitrary conjunctive query on SHIN or hornSHIQ kbs, but it's highly suggestive. No UNA or CWA. I'll also point out that this is preliminary work, and using a version of Pellet that I *know* is not nearly pushing the boundaries of want moderately good engineering, much less novel techniques, can do. This is a complex topic with a lot of parameters left underspecified at the moment. But I believe the considerations I've raised as sufficient to block your reasoning. I'd be very interested in a survey of large scale, in your sense, reasoning that goes beyond database expressivity (and beyond datalog expressivity) and was shown to be hopeless without CWA and UNA and when these were added in, they became all peanuts and good cheer. I would be interested in just one example, actually. > That means that rival standards that > CAN handle larger datasets are certain to emerge. I fail to see how lack of an explicit construct for negation as failure will change the scalability of SPARQL one whit. I do think that the lack is unfortunate for users who could put it to good use, as I've argued before. I dislike having such a feature accessible in a contorted way. But eh. Let the vendors support an alternative. There's not so many we couldn't get agreement, especially with a simple rewriter adding compatibility. If we had a nice XML syntax, this would be an easy XSLT. My recommendation to the DAWG is that if you are not moved by the user considerations to reopen the issue (which is reasonable), then there is no "scalability" argument of any sort that counts as new information. And frankly, if I were you all, I'd dismiss scare tactic arguments *either way* out of hand. Though, aherm, perhaps with a bit of that thing they call "tact". :) Cheers, Bijan.Received on Tuesday, 12 December 2006 19:09:49 UTC
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Bionicle Websites to be Shut Down
Posted May 30 2013 - 09:51 PM
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Posted May 30 2013 - 10:55 PM
Well that's the final nail in the coffin.
RIP Bionicle. I'll be waiting for your return.
-Lewa Krom
Edit: Also - and this message is directed at Lego - I'm still waiting. Until you bring back Bionicle, I'll continue not purchasing your products.
Edited by Lewa Krom, May 30 2013 - 11:01 PM.
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Keep in mind that if Star Trek fans had, as a group, said, "No point in talking about this anymore, it's never going to come back," it never WOULD have come back.
-- Greg Farshtey
Posted May 30 2013 - 10:58 PM
[font="Palatino;"]No surprise from me. I didn't even know that they were still online. However, I suppose this is the end for holding out hope that the serials will be continued.[/font]
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Posted May 30 2013 - 10:58 PM
I veto this move. There is no way that anyone here will want this to happen. But if they want to stop it, then save the games will ya. I say update the site with new advanced systems to keep it running.
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Posted May 30 2013 - 10:59 PM
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOit was there forever...and it will be gone D:
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Posted May 30 2013 - 11:08 PM
And so an era ends. I'm assuming that all the games/serials/videos etc. will be saved somewhere else, correct?
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Three great comedies at one low, low price....NOTHING!
Kicking the Bucket (archived)
Three late-middle age matoran think of something they want to do before they kick the bucket.
Choose Your Own Bionicle Adventure (archived)
Navigate your way through a myriad of meaningless choices as you try to not make a fool of yourself in perhaps the only comedy ever written almost entirely in spoiler tags.
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Posted May 30 2013 - 11:09 PM
But, I can't say I saw this coming, from a property standpoint. But it's sad that the last official mark of my childhood from LEGO is being wiped out.
Good thing BZPOWER still exists
Edited by Chronicler of the Ages, May 30 2013 - 11:09 PM.
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Posted May 30 2013 - 11:13 PM
[color=#808080;]Dangit, I just cleared my caches... ._.[/color]
[color=#808080;]Someone better make copies of the sites, or I'll be very depressed... [/color]
[color=#808080;](Then again, the Bionicle Stars have been "new" for a pretty long time, so maybe It is time after all... T_T)[/color]
[color=#808080;]Long Live Bionicle.[/color]
[color=#808080;]- [/color]
Edited by BioCry, May 30 2013 - 11:19 PM.
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Posted May 30 2013 - 11:22 PM
Well that is pretty awful. Not entirely unexpected, but I'd hoped this wouldn't turn out like this in the end. I guess this is the final nail in the coffin as far as the serials are concerned. Perhaps Greg can one day continue them in an unofficial capacity in some form.
Man... the more I think about this, the more it saddens me. In reality, everything has been archived at this point, but it's more of the symbolic aspect of things.
I guess the mantle of responsibility falls to us completely now, not that it hasn't been that way for quite a long while.
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Posted May 30 2013 - 11:24 PM
Edited by Wind Elemental, May 30 2013 - 11:25 PM.
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Posted May 30 2013 - 11:24 PM
...So serials will never be finished...:
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Posted May 30 2013 - 11:34 PM
Hm, this is very sad to hear. I really appreciate the fact that they kept both websites up this long after they cancelled Bionicle, so I have got to thank them for that.
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Posted May 30 2013 - 11:46 PM
Even though the end of the BIONICLE era was in 2010, it was great that LEGO had preserved the site for so long. It's always sad to see a site I frequented for a long time go down. Can't say I was too attached to Bioniclestory.com though. Either way, both will be missed.
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Up, down, turn around, please don't let me hit the ground
Posted May 30 2013 - 11:49 PM
For all those who are saying it should stay up, think about it this way—
How many times have you found yourself browsing the Bionicle website in the past month? Okay, now ask yourself how many times you think the average child LEGO fan goes on the Bionicle website? I don't think it's very frequent, especially when there is more engaging, up-to-date things to do on LEGO.com. It's not worth the money to keep a couple sites up and online for just a minuscule audience to use.
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Posted May 30 2013 - 11:52 PM
Well, it had to happen sooner or later. It is sad to see the last 'official' pages come down, but it's not like this is out of the blue.
So long, websites. Your various flash pages and medium-quality JPEGs will live on in the archives of history, or more accurately a few sites dedicated to backing up all the Bionicle stuff anyway.
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Posted May 31 2013 - 12:01 AM
Well, there goes my last link to LEGO for me. I still remember playing Piraka Attack when I was 6. It feels like yesterday. As link as the sites are backed up somewhere, I'll be happy, and I did go to take a final screenshot when I read this. RIP, Bionicle.
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Posted May 31 2013 - 12:02 AM
Well, that's it, I'm assuming, so sad.
Bionicle will share the fate of so many of my other favorites like SRMTHFG and Fillmore. That really sucks.
Seriosly though, we need to be strong, if the Age of Empires II community could keep that game alive for so long, then we can do the same thing.
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Posted May 31 2013 - 12:04 AM
This is saddening news indeed. BIONICLE.com remains my homepage to this day. I hope—trust, in fact—that the BIONICLE community will back up everything from the sites before they are gone. Much of that has been done already, of course; but it would be nice if someone copied the pages to create complete copies of the sites (minus accounts and so forth, naturally) as they are currently for viewing purposes (perhaps I would change that to my homepage). Despite this sad news, though, I would like to point out that this actually isn't the last nail in the coffin, as some have heralded it to be. If I recall, Binkmeister lost dominion over BIONICLEstory.com a while ago (or if that is incorrect, another similar situation arose) and consequently Greg has not been planning on releasing the serials there for some time. The closing of the websites makes it no less likely that the serials will continue. Similarly, the BIONICLE forums on the LEGO.com Message Boards were made subforums of the Classics forum some time ago, but they are still active and consequently BIONICLE still has a presence on the LEGO website. Hackneyed as it may sound, the fact is that the best way to perpetuate BIONICLE is by not letting developments such as these faze us and by continuing to hope for its return. Despite this, however, I am still greatly saddened. To be honest, as I think about the prospects of this my eyes are watering. Those times I spent in the gallery and building levels for others to play in the Mistika game will soon be over, and I can still find myself going back to check the standings in the Phantoka game. Anyway, my intent in posting this was to console those worried about BIONICLE's future and to state my feelings about the websites' closure without being overly dramatic. As I have obviously overstepped the latter, I should probably stop typing. RIP, BIONICLE.com. RIP, BIONICLEstory.com.
Edited by Infrared, May 31 2013 - 12:11 AM.
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Posted May 31 2013 - 12:37 AM
When I first read the title. I thought it was going to include all websites about Bionicle including this one. Thank goodness that's not the case. It's sad to see those sites go. But I never really went on there in the first place. When the serial chapters were put out. I read them on Biosector. So seeing them go isn't as big a deal to me as it would be to others.
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Posted May 31 2013 - 12:42 AM
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Posted May 31 2013 - 01:48 AM
This story is not true. Lego would not be so stupid.
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Posted May 31 2013 - 02:05 AM
Except Binkmeister is the one who reported it. And since he's actually working in the Web Management side of Lego, I'm willing to believe the source is accurate.Don't worry guys, we'll always have Wayback Machine... and BZP/BS01.
This story is not true. Lego would not be so stupid.
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Posted May 31 2013 - 02:11 AM
[font="georgia, serif;"][color=#696969;]Seeing this made me really sad. It was always a big part of my childhood, and to see it go after such a long time....R.I.P Bionicle.com & Bioniclestory.com[/color][/font]
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Posted May 31 2013 - 02:32 AM
R.I.P Bionicle.com
Long live Bionicle
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Posted May 31 2013 - 02:47 AM
R.I.P Bionicle, you putted wonders into my life, and I will forever miss you
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Posted May 31 2013 - 03:02 AM
I cant say this massivly impacts me. I dont use the site anymore. A little bit of nostalgic sadness though. I remember when it used to load with a little white silhouette of Toa Matau in 2004.
Edited by CeeCee, May 31 2013 - 03:02 AM.
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Posted May 31 2013 - 03:49 AM
CeeCee, the comics still have that little loading feature.
I suppose it's for the best. For a long time, the websites have been like a late adolescent child who died unexpectedly in their sleep, but their parents decided to preserve the body instead of burying it.
This was something necessary. Be grateful that we have people willing to keep everything safe for us and for future generations.
I guess I'm going to go on a massive downloading spree soon.
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Posted May 31 2013 - 04:05 AM
This is a sad day... though not unexpected. They're not going to put the Robots.txt thing on those sites, are they?
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Posted May 31 2013 - 04:08 AM
I sent a complaint to Lego (how unexpected), and got a reply already! Apparently the reason they're going is because of limited disk space on Lego's servers, which is going to newer themes such as TMNT.
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Posted May 31 2013 - 04:13 AM
I sent a complaint to Lego (how unexpected), and got a reply already! Apparently the reason they're going is because of limited disk space on Lego's servers, which is going to newer themes such as TMNT.
Well, it's just the rules of nature (and business).BIONICLE was cancelled, no need for promotion. But they've still had the websites up, even continued the story afterwards (even if it was just a short span). With this dies a part of my childhood -- a part of me. But I don't feel like we can even blame LEGO for this, had this been any other company of any other kind of entertainment, it'd had been over for way long now.
On a completely related note, I just got everything (except the icons) from the downloads section for PC. For if it's ever needed.
Edited by Night Terror, May 31 2013 - 04:14 AM.
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Posted May 31 2013 - 05:39 AM
*Sniff* Bye Bionicle. I may have gotten into it late, but you captured my mind and imagination forever. If GregF continues the story (he might) he should post it here, on BZP.
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Posted May 31 2013 - 05:43 AM
A sad day it is indeed for all of us. Thus begins the conclusion of an era. Man, the hours I spent on those sites, playing mnolg II, or finding instructions and serials. Bionicle still lives on in our hearts though! I hope these sites may come up another day once our favorite toy line returns.
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Posted May 31 2013 - 06:09 AM
Saw that coming. Honestly surprised it didn't happen sooner (which is not to say I'm glad that it's gone, which is not the case).
I cant say this massivly impacts me. I dont use the site anymore. A little bit of nostalgic sadness though.
If GregF continues the story (he might) he should post it here, on BZP.
If he ever does, I think it likely that it will happen here, or be in some way associated with BZP.
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Posted May 31 2013 - 07:06 AM
Sad to see them going, but it was bound to happen sooner or later. I've already moved on, but I do have a lot of fond memories from BIONICLE.com and BIONICLEstory.com. Both were great websites for a kid like me.
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Posted May 31 2013 - 07:08 AM
If GregF continues the story (he might) he should post it here, on BZP.
If he ever does, I think it likely that it will happen here, or be in some way associated with BZP.
Greg isn't permitted by Lego to post on here due to their restrictions on interaction with children that were introduced in early 2011. That wouldn't stop him sending story content to the staff to post, though.
Edited by Sir Kohran, May 31 2013 - 07:09 AM.
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Posted May 31 2013 - 07:09 AM
Well, this is sad. I do hope Greg somehow manages to finish the serials.
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Posted May 31 2013 - 07:13 AM
I know a lot of people are upset by this news, but let's not forget to give due thanks to Kelly McKiernan (Binkmeister) for sharing it with us. If BZPower didn't have such a strong relationship with Lego's own web developer, the site could have gone down without warning. Thanks to Bink, fans and fan websites have an opportunity to back up all the information, games, and media on the site before it's gone for good.
Anyway, it would feel like the end of an era to me if it weren't for the fact that that "end of an era" really came long ago, when the site stopped updating. The Bionicle website's disappearance was to be expected eventually, and that time has finally come.
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Posted May 31 2013 - 07:14 AM
This is not fight. I remember when I always visited the site to play those awesome games. If the serials don't finish before this closes, then it is over.
Time to sing One Heart of Justice.
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Posted May 31 2013 - 07:40 AM
Such a sad event, which was unknowingly conveniently timed.
Kinda didn't want to say anything about this just yet, but one of the reasons of my recent near-inactivity was a technical one. Originally the plan was to host a copy of a (mostly working) version of the Kanoka Club from before the "B.I.O. Codes" which turned the entire section into a single page which you could use to get free wallpapers, though I suppose it could also be expanded to include the rest of the Bionicle-website as well.
Going to try to keep this project BZP-compliant (i.e.: no forums of it's own, which would've been rather redundant and beside it's purpose anyway). No ETA as of yet, unless you count "as soon as possible" as a valid unit of time.
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Posted May 31 2013 - 07:42 AM
I'm saddened to hear this. It's not surprising IMO, but I'm still going to miss the sites once their gone. I'll never forget checking Bioniclestory.com everyday, waiting for the next serial update. Those were the good days.
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Mother Shows The Real Downside To Her Body Post-Pregnancy
Your body changes after pregnancy, that is just fact.
Melbourne-based 'Mum on the Run' blogger, Laura, recently addressed these changes in a before and after post titled 'Love Makes You Fat.'
'No, this isn't a before and after shot of weight loss. But it is a victory story. I write this from my heart. It hurts. On the left - This was my body before kids,' she wrote below the comparison photo.
'No stretch marks or scars from belly button piercings. A belly button that was high. A flat stomach. I was always on a diet back then. And this was the best diet I went on. I used to take photos of my progress.
'Uploading this photo wouldn't be bad, it's like me being in a bikini. It's socially acceptable.'
Laura goes on to explain that she took the progress photos because she will get ''closer to an eight where I would love myself.''
On her diet, Laura said she ate no carbs and 'barely any vegetables' and her diet was basically just meat.
'I loved it because I was losing weight rapidly and the more bones that protruded the more I valued myself,' she wrote.
'I ended up hating
Laura says that people told her she looked 'fit' and 'healthy' and she is coming terms with the fact she is now happy with her body.
'On the right is me now. Stretch marks. A droopy belly button. Thicker, not many bones protruding, but more dimples that represent cellulite. People don't want to see this photo,' Laura continued.
'All of a sudden it's not okay. It's not pleasing to the eye anymore. It's not a body to be admired.'
'The scars and stretch marks and jiggly tummy is because I made humans. I ate a little more cake, I drank a little more wine,' she explained.
But the proud mother is sick of feeling bad about herself and is now encouraging mothers to love themselves.


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"He who has health has hope, he who has hope has everything."
"Know the truth and the truth shall set you free."
8 out of 10 Americans over 25 are obese or overweight
1 out of every 2 Americans die from Heart Disease, Cancer, or Stroke
Being overweight significantly increases this risk
USA Obesity Rates Reach Epidemic Proportions
The US ranks #1 in Obesity in the world
78% of American's do not meet the basic activity level recommendations
Obesity is the #2 cause of preventable death in the United States
Being overweight or obese increases the risk of: Breast cancer, Coronary heart disease, Type II diabetes, Sleep apnea, Gallbladder disease, Osteoarthritis, Colon cancer, Hypertension and Stroke
Total Prevalence of Diabetes
25.8 million children and adults in the United States – 8.3% of the US has diabetes – that's more people than the entire state of Texas!
79 million people prediabetes
1 out of 3 Americans at high risk for type II diabetes
Current trends in the United States:
The United States spends over 15 cents out of every dollar of its GNP on Health Care
40 million Americans are 65 or older and 72 million will be 65 by 2030
89 million will be 65 by 2050, more than double our current senior population
Key Information to Take Effective Action:
- YOU are the actual solution – YOU control your own destiny.
- Treating symptoms in a world of cause and effect is insanity, it does not work; it's like putting a band aid on an open artery.
- Principles dictate every outcome in your life, you need to understand the principles behind disease and true health.
- To succeed in being healthy you must be totally responsible, committed and do what it takes to create true health in your body every day.
People are living longer and the reality is that you will too. What level of health do you want for your life? Do you want to experience the pain and cost of poor health, medical care, surgery and debilitating old age or the joy of increased energy, vitality, flexibility and good health?
It's simple, QUALITY IN = QUALITY OUT!
1) Your body and brain is 70% water, drink lots of water.
2) Go Green! Eat 70% of your daily meals of alkaline, water rich foods, veggies, salads, fruits & live food that have a lot of water content.
3) Exercise and lose weight – start rebounding on a mini-trampoline
4) Eat anything you want once a week – as a reward for eating healthy every day have one free meal once a week.
Why you want to be healthy determines everything you do. Your reason why has to compel you to follow healthy principles and take action. You must reprogram your mind and subconscious and empower yourself to live a healthy lifestyle.
Yes, you must develop self-discipline, definite values and clear goals and take consistent action every day. You can do it!
We can reverse these trends by eating nutritious foods and exercising.
Live long & prosper!
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Migrating from Outlook to Mozilla Thunderbird in Linux (part 1)
Shy on Bling, Loaded With Useful Features
Moving from the Microsoft and commercial software world to the open community means you'll need to find open source or Linux alternatives to the many Windows applications you've been using. In this tutorial we'll concentrate on your email client. More specifically, we're going to discuss moving from Outlook to the cross-platform email application Mozilla Thunderbird. At first glance, Thunderbird� may seem too basic and lacking features. However, it still can be a great Outlook alternative. We'll discover how to transfer over your settings, mail, notes, tasks, and more.
Your first Thunderbird experience
You might not be that impressed with Thunderbird at first. It will look like a no thrills email client. There's no sign of a calendar, tasks or to do lists, or other non-email Outlook features. Just as bad, it doesn't give you much help in importing your Outlook data from another computer or OS. However, by the end of this tutorial you'll have a open source email application full with your existing data.
When you start up Thunderbird for the very first time in Windows, you are greeted with a Import Wizard. You can select Outlook and import the existing server settings, mail, and address book. However, if you are moving to Thunderbird in Linux, importing won't be so easy. Nevertheless, we'll tackle how to manually export and import your data. Plus we'll see how to grab your other existing data; your calendar, tasks, and notes.
Tip: If you are staying within the Windows platform but changing PCs, you may consider first installing Thunderbird on the machine that Outlook is installed on. This way you can use the automated import wizard to load the data. Then you could move the Thunderbird profile to the desired computer. Just remember you still must manually bring in other data, if you want your old calendar, tasks, and notes. Since you could encounter errors when moving the profile to a different OS, you may just want to go the manual route for all data when migrating to Linux.
Copying over the server settings
One of the only items that isn't very easy to migrate over to a new OS or computer is the server and account settings of Outlook. You'll need to manually input these settings into Thunderbird. When you start up Thunderbird for the very first time in Linux,� you should see the Account Wizard. To bring this up again, click Edit > Account Settings and hit the Add Account button on the dialog. Then use the Account Wizard to configure your email, RSS, Gmail, or newsgroup account. It may help to bring up Outlook on the other PC so you can refer to the server and account details. Thunderbird's configuration screens differ from Outlook, but you should be able to figure out what goes where. Once the initial setup is done, you can go back to the Account Settings dialog to configure advanced settings.
Tip: Until you have Thunderbird completely ready-to-go, you may want to check the Leave Messages on Server option on the Server Settings tab. This lets Thunderbird check for and download messages, but leaves them on the server. This way you can still receive and reply to messages from Outlook, until you are ready to move to only using Thunderbird. You might also want to enable the same feature in Outlook if you are going to use it during the transition.
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JoburgpediA Plaques go Live!!
Wikimedia South Africa is proud to announce that after some protracted difficulties with delivery and installation, the first six plaques of the JoburgpediA pilot project have been installed and are live!!. The picture below shows one of the JoburgpediA plaques next to the Johannesburg Heritage Blue plaque in Orland West Public library.
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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
Since the Egyptian Revolution more than a year ago, there has been a complete breakdown of law and order in the Sinai Peninsula, and Islamic terrorists from Egypt and Gaza have filled the vacuum. The natural gas pipeline from Egypt to Israel has been blown up 14 times. On the eve of Passover, several rockets were fired across the border from Sinai into Israel's Red Sea resort of Eilat, as the city prepared to host thousands of visitors for the holiday.
The Israeli military says a number of terror groups are active in Sinai, including Hamas, Islamic Jihad and al-Qaeda, and they are planning cross-border attacks. This poses a dilemma for Israel because it cannot freely operate in Sinai, as it would in neighboring Gaza, for fear of further harming the already fragile peace treaty with Egypt.
The Egyptian government has lost control of Sinai, and Bedouin tribes now call the shots in the desert where the children of Israel wandered for 40 years in biblical times. The Bedouin economy thrives on smuggling to Hamas-ruled Gaza.
"By the end of 2011, the annual volume of this black economy was estimated to exceed U.S. $300 million," wrote respected Israeli analyst Ehud Yaari in a report called Sinai: A New Front, published by the Washington Institute. "The true surge in such activity came after Israel's 2005 disengagement from Gaza and subsequent removal of troops from the Sinai-Gaza border—as Bedouin political activist Ashraf al-Anani put it, 'a fireball started rolling into the peninsula.' Illegal trade and arms smuggling volumes rose to new records, and ever-larger sectors of the northern Sinai population became linked to Gaza and fell under the political and ideological influence of Hamas and its ilk."
Armed Bedouin gangs have become the law of the land. For instance, 400 Bedouins besieged the base of the UN international peacekeeping force in Sinai, known as the MFO (Multinational Force and Observers), which is supposed to enforce the peace agreement between Egypt and Israel. The revolt began after five Bedouins were arrested by soldiers. Yaari says the flow of arms includes missiles that can hit Tel Aviv as well as weapons smuggled from Libya, such as Russian-made anti-aircraft missiles which could pose a threat to Israeli aircraft and Eilat Airport.
"One Bedouin source estimates the overall number of weapons in the peninsula at no less than 100,000 pieces of all sorts," he writes. So Israel has little choice but to allow Egypt to place seven additional battalions in Sinai to secure the 250-kilometer (150-mile) long border. According to the peace agreement between Israel and Egypt, no Egyptian troops are allowed to cross the Suez Canal and be stationed in Sinai, but the regulation was already softened last year. The risk for Israel is high because once Egyptian troops deploy in Sinai they will never leave.
Some Israeli security experts see this as a ploy by Egypt, not to keep the peace but rather to be better prepared for a war with Israel. The United States plays an important role in this situation because it alone has leverage—in the form of nearly $2 billion in annual aid to Egypt. While Islamists now control Egypt, the economy is in shambles, and the US must make it clear that allowing Sinai to become a new launching pad for terrorist attacks on Israel could threaten the financial package. "The danger of a flare-up on that frontier has become a constant concern, with the added risk that local developments in the Sinai could break a fragile bilateral peace," writes Yaari.
The writing is on the wall. "If I had something to say, our army would already be prepared for a confrontation inSinai," saidKnesset (parliament) member Benjamin Ben Eliezer, a former general. If anyone knows the Egyptians, then it is Ben Eliezer, who was a personal friend of toppled President Hosni Mubarak
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