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by Kathleen Ernst
Someone once said you can't go home again. I know I've sometimes broken my own heart by visiting a special place...only to discover that it isn't so special anymore.
Happily, there are exceptions to the rule. And one of those is Pottawatomie Lighthouse, in Rock Island State Park.
|Welcome to the oldest light station on Lake Michigan.
|After taking a car ferry to Washington Island, a passenger ferry will take you to Rock Island.
|I stayed in the Master Keeper's bedroom. Here it is, all restored!
|The evening I arrived I found a body here, on the beach below the lighthouse.
This summer I had a chance to visit, and see how the project turned out. There are so many ways a project like this can go wrong that I was a bit fearful. All I can say is this: the restoration is magnificent.
|The lighthouse is restored to its 1912 appearance.
|For many years, every drop of water needed at the lighthouse was carried 154 steps up from the lake.
|The best thing to arrive on supply boats was a new library trunk!
|Docents will guide you through the building.
|The view makes the climb worthwhile!
|Trillium---one of many wildflowers on the island.
|Explore Rock's deserted shoreline.
|Wander through this meadow and imagine the lively village of fishermen and their families once found here.
GIVEAWAY! Leave a comment below by midnight on June 19th for a chance to win a copy of The Light Keeper's Legacy. Please include your email (such as reader -at- reader.com). Good luck!
To learn more about the Chloe Ellefson series, please visit Kathleen's website.


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Gethin David L. Anthony is an English actor. He has recently appeared in Ten Days to War and Doctors.
In Game of Thrones he plays the role of Renly Baratheon and was confirmed in the role on 16 July 2010. He initially appeared as a guest star in the first season and returned in this role for the second season.
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|What Is Dead May Never Die
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The Red Maid
|The Red Maid is a concept which has only appeared in an adaptation of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien.
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Book I: Stirrings in the Darkness
The Red Maid is the second book of The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar.
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[edit] Foreword: Aiding the Order
Gandalf thanks the player for the work done for the people of Bree-land. He informs the player that he learned from Gwaihir the Windlord that Radagast the Brown discovered corruption in the Lone-lands. He urges the player to find him with much haste. He suggests to the player to talk to Saeradan, a Ranger of the North, to help track down Radagast.
When the player talks to Saeradan, he states that he does not know where Radagast can be found. He suggests to the player to talk to Candaith the Ranger of the North who looks over the Lone-lands.
[edit] Chapter 1: Rise of the Orcs
Candaith informs the player that he just returned from the lands to the east, lands controlled by the forces of evil. He discovered camps of Goblins to the south and a band of Orcs of the White Hand to the north in the Weather Hills. He asks the player for help driving off the Orcs and he will help find Radagast the Brown.
[edit] Chapter 2: An Orc Messenger
The player reports back to Candaith that some of the Orcs of the White Hand have been driven back from the north. In his search for Radagast the Brown he spotted an Orc-messenger near the Midgewater Pass. He attempted to track the Orc as he headed south-east, but lost him after he hid from some crebain circling above.
He said he would continue his search for Radagast while the player attempted to find the message he delivered. He suggests looking for the message that he gave to the Orc-camp Glumhallow to the west.
[edit] Chapter 3: War-master Uzorr
The player returns back to Candaith with the message. He informs the player that he learned that the Orcs of the White Hand located in Weather Hills are being led by the Orc War-master Uzorr.
Candaith expects that Uzorr is in Bleakrift within the Midgewater Pass. He requests the player to slay the War-master and to search for a letter. The slaying of Uzorr will cause a great reduction in the Orc moral in Weather Hills.
He states that he will continue his search for Radagast the Brown.
[edit] Chapter 4: Light in the Darkness
The player informs Candaith that Uzorr was slain and orders were found in his encampment. While Candaith was looking for Radagast the Brown he noticed flashes of white light coming form over Weathertop in the night sky. He asks the player to search the ruins atop Weathertop and see if there is anything out of the ordinary.
The player finds some strange runes carved in a rock. The player takes a rubbing of the markings.
[edit] Chapter 5: Retake Weathertop
Candaith states that he has news of Radagast, but he must ask for the player's aid one last time. The orders that were given to Uzorr state that the Uruk-hai are planning to take control of Amon Sûl under cover of night. Candaith wishes to attack them before they do so and defeat Rigûl, their leader.
The player along with the help of the Ranger Candaith work their way up the narrow path to Amon Sûl, fighting small band of Goblins along the way. The path forks about half way up the side of Weathertop.
Candaith takes the path to the right while the player takes the path to the left. The player fights off one band of Orcs lead by the Orc War-master Bûb-hosh and then another band of Orcs further up the path lead by the Orc War-master Muz.
The player continues up and meets up with Candaith. He says that he is injured and cannot go on. The player confronts the Uruk-hai War-master Rigûl without the aid of the Ranger.
[edit] Chapter 6: Protected by the Eglain
Candaith says that he tracked Radagast and found that he made friends with the Eglain, Men made some ruins in the Lone-lands their home. The Eglain are a solitary and quiet people, having shunned societal obligation for a simple life. Because of this nature, they are wary of anyone who wishes to traffic with them or their allies, and it seems that Radagast has enlisted their aid. but at some time in the distant past.
Candaith states that the player must first earn the trust before they will provide you an audience with Radagast. He suggests you talk to Gadaric Munce at the Forsaken Inn.
[edit] Chapter 7: Radagast the Brown
After the player has earned the trust of the Eglain.[1] Gadaric Munce informs the player that Radagast has taken residence in a tower in the ruins of Ost Guruth, the place the Eglain call home.
[edit] Chapter 8: The Red Swamp
The player is informed by Radagast that he has noticed that the bog-prowlers are becoming twisted shadows of their former selves. He wishes to inspect the moss that they line their nests with to determine what is fouling the land. He asks the player not to harm the bog-prowlers.
[edit] Chapter 9: The Bloated Dead
[edit] Chapter 10: Breeders of the Dead
[edit] Chapter 11: The Stone-speaker
[edit] Chapter 12: A Dead Man's Challenge
[edit] Chapter 13: In the Gaunt-Lord's Grasp
[edit] Chapter 14: History of the Red Maid
[edit] Chapter 15: The Red Pass
[edit] Chapter 16: Agamaur Secured
[edit] Comparison with Published Works
- ↑ This is accomplished with doing quests that grant reputation among the Eglain. These are side quests are not part of the epic story line.


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Randy Jordan is Redskins' running backs coach
ASHBURN, Va. (AP) The Washington Redskins have hired Randy Jordan as running backs coach.
The 43-year-old Jordan spent the last two years as running backs coach at North Carolina. He also has coached running backs at Texas A&M and Nebraska. His only NFL coaching experience came as a special teams assistant with the Oakland Raiders in 2003.
Jordan played nine seasons in the NFL, rushing for 574 yards in 122 games with the Raiders and Jacksonville Jaguars.
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Deadliest U.S. school shootings
Compiled from Chronicle news sources by San Francisco Chronicle research librarian Richard Geiger and National-Foreign Editor Michael Collier.
Aug. 1, 1966: Charles Whitman, 25, a college student and former Marine, killed his wife and mother before carrying a rifle to the tower on the campus of the University of Texas in Austin, where in a 96-minute rampage he fatally shot 14 others before police shot and killed him.
May 4, 1970: National Guard troops on the campus of Kent State University in Ohio shot and killed four unarmed students protesting the U.S. invasion of Cambodia. The shootings prompted a nationwide student strike and helped turn public opinion against the Vietnam War.
July 12, 1976: Edward Charles Allaway, 37, a custodian at California State University Fullerton, bought a semi-automatic rifle at a Kmart. He took the gun on campus and killed seven people in the library. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity and committed to a state mental hospital.
Jan. 29, 1979: Brenda Ann Spencer, 16, fired several rifle shots at a San Diego elementary school from her home across the street, killing the principal and a custodian and wounding eight children. She later said she fired the shots because "I don't like Mondays," which inspired the Boomtown Rats song by the same name. She was convicted and sentenced to 25 years to life. She has been denied parole four times.
Jan. 17, 1989: Patrick Edward Purdy, a 24-year-old drifter, walked into a Stockton schoolyard and opened fire with a semiautomatic rifle, killing five children and wounding one teacher and 29 other children. He killed himself. The case drew national attention and led to a ban on assault weapons in California.
Nov. 1, 1991: Gang Lu, 27, a University of Iowa graduate student from China, used a .38-caliber revolver to kill four members of his department, another university employee and himself. He reportedly was angry because his doctoral dissertation was not nominated for an academic award.
May 1, 1992: Eric Houston, 20, a former student at Lindhurst High School in Olivehurst (Yuba County), returned to the school with a 12-gauge shotgun and a rifle. He killed three students and a teacher and wounded 10 others before surrendering to police. He was sentenced to death and is on Death Row at San Quentin State Prison.
March 24, 1998: Mitchell Johnson, 10, and Andrew Golden, 8, took seven guns to a school near Jonesboro, Ark., where they pulled a fire alarm and began shooting as everyone exited the school, killing four students and one teacher and injuring nine others. They were released from a juvenile detention center in 2005.
May 21,1998: Kipland Kinkel, 15, shot and killed his parents after being suspended from his Springfield, Ore., high school for bringing a gun on campus. He returned to the school the next morning, killing two students and wounding 22 others. He was sentenced to 111 years in prison without the possibility of parole.
April 20, 1999: Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, walked into Columbine High School in Colorado and in a rampage of gunfire and homemade bombs killed 12 students and a teacher before killing themselves. The massacre led to an increased emphasis on security at U.S. schools.
Oct. 28, 2002: Robert Flores, 40, a nursing student at the University of Arizona, shot and killed an instructor in her office on campus and then entered a classroom where he killed two more teachers before committing suicide.
March 21, 2005: Jeffrey Weise, 17, went on a shooting spree at Red Lake High School on the Red Lake Indian Reservation in Minnesota. He killed nine people, including his grandfather, and wounded five others before killing himself.
Oct. 2, 2006: Charles Carl Roberts IV, 32, a milk-truck driver, killed five girls ages 7 to 13 execution-style, then turned the gun on himself, in a one-room Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pa. Five other girls were critically injured. The community focused on forgiveness and reconciliation after the shootings.
April 16, 2007: Seung-Hui Cho, 23, a student at Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, Va., shot and killed 32 people in attacks two hours apart in two campus buildings. Cho, who was diagnosed with mental illness, killed himself. The university was found negligent for not alerting the campus after the first round of shootings.
Feb. 27: T.J. Lane, 17, took a 22-caliber pistol and a knife to a high school in Chardon, Ohio, and fired 10 shots at a group of students sitting at a cafeteria table before school, authorities said. Three students died. Lane was arrested outside the school.
April 2: One L. Goh, 43, a former nursing student at private Oikos University near the Oakland International Airport, sprayed gunfire on a classroom there Monday, killing seven people in one of the deadliest attacks ever on a California campus, according to police. He was arrested an hour later at a store in Alameda.


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My son (25) bought 10 of these mags, thinking he could tweek them if they needed it. Well they fit and function perefctly in his Bushmaster M4 clone. I tried a couple in my Colt H-Bar and they fit and functioned perfectly for me. My son then ordered 2 dozen more of these and they have all been very good mags. All seem to fit well, and the ones just randomly picked function well. Haven't found a bad one yet. Haven't shot from all of them yet either!Seem to be a real bargain in Mags.
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Turkey's coastal safety authority says that a Russian navy reconnaissance ship has sunk off Istanbul after colliding with a freighter. All of the Russian sailors are safe.
Authorities say that all 78 personnel on the Russian vessel Liman are accounted for after it collided with the Togo-flagged freighter Youzarsif H. in the Black Sea. The safety authority says 15 Russian sailors had been rescued after the collision.
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Central Connecticut softball's Kat Malcolm was named to the Capital One Academic All-District First Team on Friday. The sophomore earns the honor after boasting impressive performances both in the classroom and on the softball field. With the honor, Malcolm becomes eligible for inclusion on the Academic All-America ballot, which will come to a vote later this month.
Recpients of the Capital One Academic All-District award must maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.30 or higher.
"Being named to the Capital One Academic All-District First Team is such great honor," Head Coach Jeff Franquet said. "Our team is committed to excellence both on and off the field and Kat works hard in both respects. I am so proud of her for the achievements she has accomplished so far in her short career."
Malcolm is among only 11 players in the district to receive the honor and is accompanied on the list by some of the top players in the nation. She is also one of only two players on the list to represent the Northeast Conference. She is joined by LIU Brooklyn's Lauren Morizi on the first team.
Malcolm is having an impressive season with the Blue Devils. She has broken the CCSU single-season record for hits and runs scored, tallying 66 hits and scoring 46 runs. She also stands just one home run away from tying the single season record and ranks in the top 10 in CCSU career history in home runs with 11.
The criminology major boasts a .429 batting average, a .675 slugging percentage and is 11-12 in stolen base attempts this season.
She has helped lead the Blue Devils to their first ever top-two NEC finish. Central has secured at least a share of the regular season title and will appear in the NEC Tournament for the second time in CCSU history next weekend, May 9-11. The location of the tournament has yet to be determined.


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Just over a year ago I posted about my wife's 3x great grandfather, John Britliff, who was convicted of manslaughter for killing his wife. Here's a link to the original post – Black Sheep Sunday – John Britliff (The Killing Field) https://mikeydawson.wordpress.com/2013/02/24/black-sheep-sunday-john-britliff-the-killing-field/
Since then I have been contacted by Karen who lives in Australia – John Britliff is also her 3x great grandfather.
You will see from the original post that John was sentenced to 10 years transportation in 1843 but he was back in Lincolnshire by the time of the 1851 census. So this raised a number of questions for me:-
- Did he really get transported?
- If he did get transported for 10 years how come he is back in England after 8 years?
- Did he get a "certificate of freedom" for good behaviour after serving part of his sentence?
- How did he afford the fare back to England?
I have to admit I hadn't made any progress answering these questions before now.
Karen alerted me to the use of Prison Ships (Hulks). Because of overcrowding in the prisons in Australia many convicts served their sentences on prison hulks moored on The Thames. Here's a bit of background but there is lots more on the Internet – http://vcp.e2bn.org/justice/page11382-sentencing-to-departure-prison-hulks-convict-gaols.html
Anyway thanks to Karen I found some prison hulk records on Ancestry.co.uk. Fortunately these included the details for John Britliff or Britcliffe as he was described.
So there we have it – John served his sentence on the hulk Warrior. He must have been given an early release for good behaviour and returned to Lincolnshire.


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Literary Elements Map: This online tool can be used by students to create a character map, conflict map, resolution map, or setting map, for stories they are reading or writing.
The Elements of Fiction: This online tutorial defines and describes setting, characterization, plot, point of view, theme, and symbolism.
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Will this weeks dry/hot weather effect July 4th fireworks?
With the jetsream well to the north of us the next 7 days dry and hot weather could threaten fireworks celebrations this year. Take a look at the image above. As of Sunday night the jet was near the US/Canada border. By next weekend the jetstream will dip into the mid-Atlantic, but, how much of an effect this dip will have on our temperatures is a little uncertain at this time. Certainly this model solution would not lend itself to much rain in our area.
Here's a look at how much rain our GFS model is putting out between now and July 1st. The operative word here is sparse...
No burn bans are in place, and none should be expected in the near term. But, if we don't see any rain between now and July 4th restrictions on fireworks certainly couldn't be ruled out in parts of the viewing area. So, keep your fingers crossed that the rain comes, so that fireworks can be in everyone's forecast.


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Lou Rosenfeld is an independent information architecture consultant for Fortune 500 corporations and other large organizations, and founder and publisher of Rosenfeld Media, a publishing house focused on user experience books. He has been instrumental in helping establish the fields of information architecture and user experience, and in articulating the role and value of librarianship within those fields. Lou is co-author of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web (O'Reilly; 3rd edition 2006) and the forthcoming Search Analytics for your Site, co-founder of the Information Architecture Institute, and a former columnist for Internet World, CIO, and Web Review. He blogs regularly and tweets (@louisrosenfeld) even more so.
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The WEM Marketplace: Blueberries and Ricotta
As Web CMS products reached maturity, a standard set of features became core for most vendors (i.e. templating, workflows, in-context content preview, integration APIs, scalable architectures, delivery and caching, etc.) Things are different with Web Engagement Management. The industry is still trying to figure out what this WEM thing is all about.
In the WEM sector, we're in a market that sells oranges, apples and blueberries from the same bin as ricotta cheese. Spaghetti is positioned on the same shelf as the Russian Caravan loose leaf tea, right next to heavy-duty laundry detergents. But this is slowly changing, as the WEM evolution is happening right before our eyes.
Who Plays in the WEM/WCM Space
WEM capabilities of varying degrees are offered by most mature Web CMS vendors (but not by as many Enterprise CMS vendors). However, comparing those capabilities one to one would be rather difficult in this stage of WEM evolution.
Just take a look at how some WCM vendors position themselves and draw your own picture based on the messaging we hear from them:
Alterian has email marketing, web behavior analytics, social media marketing, social media engagement, social media monitoring and sentiment analysis capabilities to offer with its Alterian SM2 product.
Autonomy Interwoven is focusing on Meaning Based Marketing. Using Autonomy's IDOL server, their products are able to extract meaning from various content types to help marketers improve customer experience. Web CMS comes with integrated multi-variate testing (MVT), email management, analytics and a multichanel optimization module.
CoreMedia proclaims itself as a "Complete Communications Suite" that allows for a combination of Web CMS, social software and CoreMedia Adaptive Products offering adaptive personalization and delivery, mobile optimization, cross-channel interactions.
Day Software's CQ 5.3 Web CMS comes armed with personalized content delivery, campaign targeting, customer targeting and segmentation, campaign measurement, content optimization capabilities, and support for A/B and MVT testing.
Ektron provides social media management, integrated web analytics with Google Analytics, MVT in the PageBuilder, content optimization, etc. — as part of the latest release of CMS400.NET v8 Web CMS.
EPiServer's Marketing Arena came out in 2009, focusing on the "new era of the engaged web," with WEM features like landing page management, digital visibility management, campaign monitoring and optimization, SEO support, personalization and prospecting.
FatWire's WEM proposition — Web Experience Management Framework — is based on modules for UGC and interaction (Community Server), content targeting (Engage) and content optimization (Analytics) connected to FatWire Content Server (the CMS part).
Open Text Web Solutions is a combination of Vignette and RedDot and has a number of WEM-related products and features. The Vignette Community Applications is now part of Open Text's Social Media offering (note that OTEX also has its own Social Media product) with community management, social interaction and collaborative communication features. There's also Vignette Experience Optimization that includes a recommendation engine, analytics, and delivery of personalized and multi-channel content.
SDL Tridion's WEM proposition comes under the umbrella of the Unified Online Marketing Suite that includes audience management, email and multi-channel, multi-lingual campaign management, personalization and profiling, and E-commerce with the recent acquisition of Fredhopper.
Sitecore has a product called Sitecore Online Marketing Suite that claims to provide WEM functionalities like visitor experience analytics, real-time personalization, landing page optimization, campaign management, etc..
WEM Needs WCM (And Vice Versa)
If your Web CMS doesn't have WEM capabilities, it's stuck in the Netscape era. With that said, you don't necessarily have to buy WCM and WEM functionalities from the same place. Some vendors offer both, some — only Web CMS. But there are third-party tools that can be (or should be able to be) integrated with your Web Content Management System.
It may be difficult to find a Web CMS that offers a complete set of WEM functionalities that you need to achieve your goals, but a sound engagement strategy comes first. What are your goals? What are the objectives? What are you trying to achieve? Most number of likes? Selling more products? Increased customer loyalty? Word-of-mouth marketing opps?
Mere mention of such WEM buzzwords as online marketing, social analytics, web engagement and eCommerce in a marketing brochure authored by a CMS vendor you're considering may not guarantee it's a fit for your goals.
When looking at particular features of a WEM-friendly Web CMS, ask vendors to show you how their features will help you get where you want to be. Knowing your goals and being familiar with your WEM strategy will help you help the vendors on your short list – in the end though, benefiting you with the closest match of technologies for your strategy.


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911 calls from the movie theater where a deadly shooting spree was under way were played in court, on the second day of hearings to decide if the alleged gunman should stand trial. NBC's Leanne Gregg reports.
Courtesy the family via KUSA
Veronica Moser-Sullivan, in an undated family photo.
Weeping through closed eyes, Ian Sullivan listened Tuesday to a 911 call that detailed the death of his 6-year-old daughter, Veronica, in a Colorado movie theater.
The 4-minute recording captured the voices of two people: a 911 dispatcher and a crying 13-year-old desperately trying to get help for her little cousin and for Veronica's gravely wounded mother, Ashley Moser.
"Who's been shot?" the dispatcher asked.
"My two cousins," the young caller said. "On the floor ... not breathing."
The 911 operator told her she had to perform CPR, but it was too loud in Theater No. 9 -- the movie still playing, screams filling the air -- for her to follow the instructions.
"Help me!" the girl shouted a few times.
Ashley Moser, 25, shot in the stomach and neck, survived but suffered a miscarriage and was paralyzed. Her daughter could not be saved.
Veronica was the youngest of the 12 people killed at the Century 16 theater when James Holmes allegedly opened fire during a midnight screening of the Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises."
The 911 call was played during a preliminary hearing in which prosecutors are laying out their case to convince a judge there's enough evidence to put Holmes on trial for first-degree murder.
FBI: James Holmes' booby-trap used remote-control car, frying pan
Victims relatives have been in the courtroom and overflow rooms, reacting with anguish at times during hours of emotional and sometimes graphic testimony.
During Tuesday's proceedings, prosecutors played a second 911 call. It was barely half a minute long, but the sound of 33 gunshots could be heard.
The caller, Kevin Quinonez, struggled to be heard but managed to convey some sense of the inexplicable horror unfolding around him: "There's some guy after us."
NBC News' Mike Taibbi and KUSA's Blair Shiff contributed to this report.
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Orthodox Metropolitanate of Hong Kong and Southeast Asia
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The Orthodox Metropolitanate of Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, headquartered in Hong Kong, is an eparchy of the Church of Constantinople. Currently, this see is held by Metropolitan Nikitas of Hong Kong, and includes Hong Kong, India, Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines and Taiwan.
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The Episcopacy
The current ruling bishop is Metropolitan Nikitas (Lulias), who is also serving as the director of the Patriarch Athenagoras Orthodox Institute in Berkeley, California.
- The current administrator of the Metropolitanate is the Chancellor, Archimandrite Konstantinos (Tsilis).
- Archimandrite Daniel (Toyne) is the sole priest in Singapore.
- Archimandrite Jonah (Mourtos) is the sole priest in Taiwan.
- Rev Fr Nikitas (Mellios) is the vicar for the Philippines.
- Rev Fr Chrysostomos Manalu is the archepiscopal vicar for Indonesia.
Related articles
- Archimandrite Lazarus (Moore), missionary in India 1952-1972.
- Archimandrite Philemon (Castro), priest in the Philippines.
External links
- Official Website of the Metropolitanate
- Official Website of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Constantinople
Exarchate of Singapore
- Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church in Singapore.
Exarchate of Taiwan
Exarchate of the Philippines
- Annunciation of the Theotokos Orthodox Cathedral
- Greeks in the Philippines & Their Contribution to the Country
- History of the First Filipino Orthodox Community in the Philippines by Rev. Dr. John Chryssavgis
Exarchate of Indonesia
Exarchate of India
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Deciding what to do with your money is a complex decision, requiring lots of different parts of the brain to work together. But just before you make your conscious decision, a single neuron can reveal what you're going to choose.
The brain assembles a complex network of different areas that can evaluate the various benefits of spending your money now - taking the immediate reward - or saving your money for later use, with the hopes of a much bigger payoff down the road. These different parts of the brain get linked together and something like a feedback loop is established. But for all the mental chaos preceding that decision, the way a single neuron fires is a reliable predictor of what the choice ultimately is.
In experiments with monkeys and rewards, researchers found that a particular brain cell always acted one way if the monkey had chosen to take the immediate gratification - as monkeys tend to do - and always acted another way if the monkey opted for a larger, delayed reward. Decision-making involves different parts of the basal ganglia and the prefrontal cortex, but this single neuron is the one constant actor in all decision-making.
Yale neurobiologist Daeyeol Lee explains what's going on here:
"In the instant before the choice is made, we can predict the outcome of the decision by listening to the firing activity in a single neuron. We don't know the anatomical basis of lots of the psychiatric disorders, problem gambling or impulsive behavior. Now we are starting to pinpoint those areas, even down to individual neurons."
It's still early days yet, so we don't have a full grasp of how this research on monkeys will carry over to humans, or what pinpointing decision-making on a neuronal level could mean for helping people who struggle with this type of decision-making. Either way, this is a big breakthrough for linking up complex mental processes with discrete physical activity.


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Editor's note: This is the first in a two-part series about Mea Tavares' experiences as a transgender person in Maine.
Mea Tavares has always stuck out. The first time someone asked if he was gay was in fourth grade. In sixth grade, a peer said, "I can't believe you've always been a girl." When he was young, his mother had to explain it wasn't OK to only wear shorts when he swam.
For Mea, who was raised in Damariscotta and is now 28, growing up as a child in a female body, but presenting as a male identity, was the beginning of a long journey filled with pain and joy. People who are transgender are often classified as being born into the wrong body. But Mea thinks about it differently.
"My body is trans. It's always been trans," Mea said. "The changes I've made were never an aim at correcting something that was wrong. It was just completing a sentence."
Transgender people feel a persistent difference between their assigned sex and understanding of their own gender. Some undergo surgery and hormone regimens to change their physical characteristics. But Mea doesn't identify completely with either a male or female gender. His sex is female, but he identifies his gender as encompassing aspects both male and female. His gender is transgender.
A word often used to describe the transgender experience is "transition." Transgender people are often referred to as "male to female" or "female to male." But how one fully transitions is an individual preference. One might feel "fully transitioned" after having "top surgery" — language used to define a double mastectomy. Or one might feel fully transitioned by being public about one's gender identity and going by a different name — more of a social transition.
Sex and gender are complex issues, and there are more varieties than many realize. But for a long time western cultures have primarily recognized two sexes: male and female. Mea shared his story to generate awareness and understanding. But by doing so he puts himself at risk. He and others have been verbally harassed, excluded and physically assaulted for their differences.
Yet education and healing are part of his life's work. Mea now lives in Portland and is a pre-med student at the University of Southern Maine. He is also a student supervisor at the Center for Sexualities and Gender Diversity at USM and gives talks across New England about transgender issues and suicide prevention for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth.
Mea and I attended Medomak Valley High School in Waldoboro at the same time and knew each other peripherally. But I understood nothing of his experiences then. He first came to Medomak in 1999, his sophomore year, at a time when he was trying to fit in fully as a female, in female clothes, with a male boyfriend, going by his birth name. It didn't work.
"My mother has retrospectively said it was the only time in her life that she couldn't see me," Mea said.
Within a few weeks at Medomak, he was outed as being attracted to women. But even though his sexuality was revealed, he didn't feel safe discussing his gender. "I was out and proud as being attracted to women, but I could not say … 'I'm not a woman.'" he said.
Being gay was enough to spur harassment, including a physical attack.
Mea and a girl he was dating were in the hallway when a group of girls started calling them nasty names. Then, when Mea's friend turned to put her books in her locker, one of the other girls stepped up and kicked her in the back, slamming her into the locker.
Surprised and saddened, Mea put his arms around her and walked her away as she shook and cried. The girls followed them, swearing at them. They said, "That's so disgusting."
It was the response from an administrator, though, that sealed Mea's anger. After just experiencing a physical assault motivated by hate, the administrator said to Mea, "Well, what were you doing?"
Mea said that was when he decided to graduate early. The girl who attacked his friend got two days of in-school suspension.
After graduating one year ahead of time, in 2001, Mea began to slowly develop a vocabulary about his transgender experience. "I knew bits and pieces of my gender, but I never fully thought, I'm a boy," he said. He had a turning point when a friend asked him what he wanted, and he said he just wanted a flat chest. His friend said, "You can have that, you know."
So Mea started binding his chest and trying to pass as male. Though it was painful — he couldn't breathe well, and his ribs were bruised — he felt good about how he looked. The reality of how he appeared on the outside was aligning more closely with how he felt on the inside.
When Mea's younger brother learned of his changes, he was relieved to finally have a "context for our relationship that felt true to him," Mea said. His parents were also supportive, though it took time for them to understand. Now they call him "son."
"I was really lucky in that I had parents who, even though they didn't get it, they were supportive of me, so they really pushed themselves to understand," Mea said.
A significant part of Mea's early trans experience involved choosing a new name, both for his safety and to better represent his identity. (Mea, like many transgender people, is private about his birth name and doesn't share it publicly).
"I spent about a year not really identifying with any name," he said. "The people I was out to, they were like, 'What do I call you?' I was like, 'I don't really know. Why don't you make something up?'" So his friends invented different nicknames. And sometimes when Mea had to sign his name, he would simply draw a star, to represent his middle name, Starr.
He needed to find a name that represented him but was similar to his birth name — to honor the original choice his mother made for him. He ultimately chose Mea because it means "me" or "mine" in Latin. The "a" at the end of Mea aligns with his feminine aspects, and the name wasn't already assigned to a gender, so he could freely define it.
As Mea continued to grow into his understanding of who he was, he drew strength from Native American concepts of sex and gender. Mea is part Penobscot and knew that many Indian tribes historically revered transgender people and regarded them as two-spirited. They were considered to have more knowledge than someone of one gender and were often healers.
It is fitting, then, that Mea is studying to one day help provide relief for transgender patients. You will read next week about his own experiences with medical staff, why he decided to get a double mastectomy and his continuing work to encourage the type of acceptance so often extended by his ancestors.


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Granieri Joins Lezyne
Lezyne is proud to announce its sponsorship of French dirt jumping phenomenon Yannick Granieri. He is one of the best French dirt jumpers to come along in a long time. He hails from Lyon, France and has bikes in his blood.
Career highlights include 2nd at the 2010 Austria King of Dirt, 2nd at the 2010 Winterpark Crankworx, and 4th overall at the 2010 FMBO World Tour – the best ranked European at the event!Lezyne's Uli Prokasky, European Marketing & Sales, first talked to Granieri at the Eurobike tradeshow last September and finalized the partnership last month. Yannick will ride with Lezyne floor pumps, hand pumps, multi-tools, and tire repair.
This announcement comes on the heels of Yannick's 3rd place finish at this year's White Style snow jumping event where he was one of the lucky 12 riders to qualify for the final run. He finished runner up to Sam Pilgrim and Sam Reynolds (1st and 2nd). Congratulations Yannick!
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COLUMBIA, S.C., Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford and his ex-wife, Jenny Sanford, are among the names being floated to run for Senate-bound U.S. Rep. Tim Scott's seat.
Roll Call reported Monday two sources said conservatives have approached Mark Sanford about running and he is considering it. He served in the House in the 1990s before his terms as governor.
Scott is giving up his seat in the heavily Republican 1st District after being appointed by Gov. Nikki Haley to take Sen. Jim DeMint's seat. DeMint resigned this month to run the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank in Washington.
Sanford served as governor from 2003 until his resignation in 2011 amid a scandal about an extramarital affair.
Roll Call and Politico both said Jenny Sanford, who ran her husband's campaigns for the 1st District House seat, also is being mentioned as a possible candidate.
Politico said other potential contenders include state House Majority Whip Jimmy Merrill, state Rep. Chip Limehouse, state Sens. Larry Grooms and Chip Campsen, and Carroll Campbell III, son of former Gov. Carroll Campbell Jr.
"It's going to be a free-for-all," Republican consultant Chip Felkel told Politico.
Under South Carolina law, a special primary election is to be held 11 weeks after a resignation, with a runoff election if no candidate gets more than 50 percent of the vote. A general election is to be held 18 weeks after the vacancy occurs.


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We already know that everything that's anything is social these days - especially if it's on TV.
Now, the world's biggest reality show - the Olympic Games - is going to get a Facebook boost. The Menlo Park social networking giant will, according to the New York Times, remind Facebookers about upcoming events, and in return, NBC's coverage will encourage viewers to discuss the games on their Facebook pages.
It's the latest merging of sports and social networking. Nascar fans were given the Twitter treatment recently, tweeting about the race as it happens. Fans of just about every sport can find plenty of Facebooking and tweeting about just about every game - some of the biggest social days lately were during soccer matches.
During the 2008 Summer Games, there were about 100 million Facebook users. With about 10 times that now, it will be interesting to see if these "reminders" enhance the experience, or cause people to turn their computers off during the races.
Scott loves the Games, and getting social. He's on Twitter: @scottbudman


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A lot of our imagination of the future comes from sci-fi movies—Minority Report, Blade Runner, etc.—so Eclectic Method created an awesome music video where they mixed their music with scenes from sci-fi movies that talk about the future. It's a little bit hypnotic.
The Future is a giant supercut of all your favorite sci-fi movies, here's Eclectic Method explaining the video:
Eclectic Method has supercut some of our favorite scenes from movies that turn a predictive eye to the future. Blade Runner's Megacities alongside A.I.'s flooded New York and Idiocracy's run down shanty towns. Some technology predictions in these films have already proven to be accurate and some are still a ways off – or not! … cameras on every corner, oil shortages, massive cultural uprisings in the middle east, retinal scans, X-Rays, flying cars and hoverboards, hybrid humans, robots, A.I., teleportation and so on. Who really watches Sci-Fi for the plot anyway, you wanna see the goodness condensed.
It's true. For sci-fi movies, I care just as much about the futuristic world they create as the story being told. What's your favorite sci-fi movie future? [Eclectic Method via Laughing Squid]


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Next week Rock Band fans can hold hands and watch the sunrise from the bottom of the sea as song number 2,000 hits the Rock Band Store, but first, are you experienced?
Have you ever been experienced? Well I have, at least enough to know that Jimi Hendrix classic "Are You Experienced?" is the song Harmonix has chosen to represent the 2,000th track available for the Rock Band franchise. The track comes to Rock Band next week as part of a collection of live and studio tracks from The Jimi Hendrix Experience's first album. Are You Experienced will be available as a special Rock Band album download on October 12.
"The success of our song downloads has afforded us the opportunity to approach Rock Band as an interactive music platform and reshape the way gamers think of expansion content," said Paul DeGooyer, senior vice president of electronic games, music and programming for MTV Networks. "Our commitment to weekly releases, disc export, forward compatibility of downloads and the launch of the Rock Band Network were milestones in the development of Rock Band's vibrant digital business. Now, with the release of our 2,000th song, we are reaffirming our commitment to present new music every week – and with the new features in Rock Band 3, there will be more ways than ever to experience it."
The 2,000 song milestone comes a few weeks ahead of the release of Rock Band 3, which adds another 83 tracks to the mix.


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It is well-known that the best way to motivate someone to go see an estate planning attorney is to arrange a trip to a faraway place. There are, of course, excellent reasons for consulting with an estate planning attorney other than exotic travel.
Up-to-date estate plan documents maximize the chance that your wishes with respect to both medical and financial affairs will be carried out in the event of your death or disability. Thus, you do not have to be wealthy to benefit from good estate planning. It is sufficiently simple to desire that your personal values about both medical and financial matters be honored in the event that death or incapacity prevents you from acting for yourself.
In addition, tax minimization is a further and very important goal of estate planning for persons with taxable estates.
In general, your "estate" includes all of your assets, less all debt, plus death benefits from all life insurance policies not held in an irrevocable trust. Thus, for many people, the purchase of life insurance coverage can create a taxable estate.
What They Include
Estate plans typically include:
- A Will.
- Durable Powers of Attorney for both medical and financial matters.
- A Living Will (optional). The living will allows you to document your preferences about medical treatment at the end of your life.
- A Revocable Trust. The revocable trust, despite popular misconceptions, does not lower taxes of any kind. But a revocable trust does set the stage for reducing estate taxes—at least for married persons—by ensuring a means of using each spouse's exemption equivalent. In addition, a revocable trust provides for a smooth transition to your chosen agent(s) for the management and distribution of your assets in the event of your death or incapacity.
- Marital Property Agreement (in some states). A marital property agreement establishes which assets of a married couple will be treated as "marital property," not "individual property," with respect to both ownership rights and tax liability issues.
Beneficiary designations on retirement accounts and life insurance policies are also considered an integral part of your estate plan, since these legal specifications direct how these assets are distributed after your death. Retirement assets and life insurance policies are usually a significant part of one's estate. Consequently, the styling of the associated beneficiary designations is a critically important part of the legal services provided by the estate planning attorney.
Who Needs It?
In this light, there are many people, in addition to world travelers, who can benefit from consulting with an estate tax attorney.
Here's a list of some of the more common types of individuals who should consider discussing their personal circumstances with an estate planning attorney:
Parents of minor children regardless of financial status: Absent a will that specifies who will take care of your minor children and their money if they are orphaned, the court will use general legal provisions and its own best guess to appoint responsible parties to care for your children, to disburse wealth to your heirs, and to manage wealth for any heirs below the age of majority. There is no assurance that the court's decisions will match your own preferences.
Parents whose children are growing older: As your children mature, you can allow increasing responsibility to them in the event that they are orphaned. For example, young adult children may not be ready to inherit assets outright, but at some point you might want to encourage their further maturity by arranging that they share responsibility for management of their finances with an adult co-trustee.
Couples in non-marital relationships: Well-drafted estate plan documents can empower your non-spouse partner to act for you in the event of your incapacity and to inherit wealth from you to the extent that you desire.
Parents in second marriages: Inheritance issues in blended families can be complicated. Estate plan documents can set the record straight by ensuring that your assets are divided between your spouse and children from a prior marriage according to your preferences.
Persons concerned with a looming incapacity: A recent difficult medical diagnosis or simply the normal aging process can make one reasonably concerned about arranging for a smooth transition for management of both medical and financial affairs. With adequate legal documents put in place before the incapacity, your family or other named agents can step in to help manage your affairs, without anyone having to trigger a guardianship proceeding through the court system.
Persons with estates that are either taxable now or might be taxable in the near future: There are numerous tax planning strategies to minimize estate tax liabilities.
Wealthy persons interested in making tax-efficient gifts to heirs: In addition to estate taxes levied after one's death, the government levies a gift tax on lifetime gifts or transfers to heirs according to a rate schedule that is integrated with the estate tax. These gift taxes come into play whenever a gift to a single heir exceeds the "annual exclusion amount," i.e. the IRS-determined amount that each person can give away to individual heirs each year free of gift and estate tax. When a gift exceeds this amount, there is a gift tax return requirement, as well as a potential gift tax liability. In addition, the government also levies a "generation-skipping tax" on taxable transfers made either before or after death to heirs who are more than one generation away from the donor.
These gift and generation-skipping taxes are worthy of tax planning attention. Helping clients to address these special concerns is a key responsibility of the estate tax attorney.
Wealthy persons with charitable intent: Our tax law supports charitable giving by offering numerous income and estate tax breaks to donors. As a person's wealth grows, the potential planning strategies for tax-efficient charitable giving also increase. Detailed knowledge of these sophisticated gift-giving strategies is a given when working with an experienced estate planning attorney.
Someone who has just moved from one state to another: States levy their own estate taxes, and so a move from one state to another can trigger a need to update estate plan documents. In particular, states differ in whether they are "community property" states.
In community property states, after the death of the first spouse, there is a difference in tax treatment of assets owned by the couple with respect to capital gains taxation depending on whether the asset is deemed to be "community property." Determining which property is community property—and working to recharacterize assets if appropriate—can be an important part of the estate tax planning process.
Persons newly divorced or newly separated: In the context of a dissolving or dissolved marriage, there is usually at least a change in preferences with respect to how assets are allocated to heirs.
What the Plan Considers
When you consult with an estate planning attorney, the attorney considers five big questions:
- How do you want assets distributed to heirs—that is, who should receive what, under what terms, and when?
- In light of the above, what taxes might your estate be liable for, and are there tax-minimization strategies that would be appropriate and appealing?
- What are your preferences and values with respect to the management of medical and financial affairs in the event of incapacity?
- What particular circumstances will affect this estate plan? For example, if you are not a citizen, then certain provisions of our tax code do not apply. There may also be complicating family issues-e.g., children from a prior marriage, a disabled child, an unresolved family dispute, major charitable intentions, potential creditor problems, or a probable large inheritance to consider—in addition to the need to establish the presence or absence of community property.
- What provisions are necessary to make the estate plan as flexible as is appropriate? Documents are fixed in nature, but life is ever-changing. Excellent estate planning recognizes this fact by including reasonable provisions for changing circumstances—including, for example, the ability of an heir to "disclaim" or in essence to step away from an inheritance in favor of the next heir in line; the ability of an estate executor to withhold funds from an heir deemed incompetent; or the ability of the executor to decide whether or not to fund—i.e., "to fill up"—a trust with assets. In contrast, flexibility is deliberately not incorporated into an estate plan when the client's preferences are firm. For example, a surviving spouse may be given the use of assets for his or her lifetime but after the death of the surviving spouse, assets are designated to pass to the client's children with no possibility of redirection to other parties. Or, a child's inheritance might be made contingent on some accomplishment that is highly valued by the parent—e.g, earned income or a college degree.
To answer these five questions, your attorney needs full and accurate information about you, including:
- Demographic Information: spouses, children, date of residency in the state, date of marriage(s), country of citizenship, whether you have previously made taxable gifts and if you are a beneficiary or a trustee of an existing trust.
- Financial Information: a detailed list of what you own and owe, life insurance policies on your life, business interests, and how each asset is currently titled.
- Personal Circumstances: special issues for the attorney to consider—e.g., potential inheritances, creditor problems, a strong desire to give gifts, potential family disputes, medical concerns, or any uncertainty that you may have about your estate plan.
- Preferences: your wishes for end of life medical care, for how your wealth will be distributed to heirs and for how much planning you are interested in doing to minimize taxes. After considering this information, the attorney might recommend any of a large number of possible strategies for you to consider.
First Meeting: Be Prepared
Before you meet with your attorney, you should consider how you feel about some important and highly personal decisions. You will be better prepared to ask questions and to discuss alternatives about these decisions if you consider them before your meeting:
- Whom would you ask to speak for you if a medical condition prevented you from indicating your own preferences about medical care? Who would be your second choice? What would be your preferences for care if a medical condition placed you in a persistent vegetative state? If you would choose to have life support procedures withheld, do you want family members to be responsible for the decision to remove life support measures? Or would you prefer to specify the conditions under which your medical care providers would remove life support procedures? Do you have preferences about your medical care that you wish to document now?
- Whom would you ask to act for you if you were unable to carry on your financial affairs? Who would be your second choice?
- If you die before your spouse, would you give your spouse full discretion over your assets? Would your spouse need assistance in managing finances? Are you concerned about the consequences of your spouse re-marrying?
- Do you prefer to keep ownership of an inheritance that you might receive, or would inheritances be shared with your spouse?
- How strongly do you feel about minimizing taxes?
- Who will take care of your minor children? Who would be your second choice? Who would take care of your minor children's inheritance? Who would be your second choice? Do you want your children to have equal shares of your estate? Do you want your children's funds pooled together or maintained separately?
- At what point would you give heirs full control of an inheritance? Would your heirs need help in managing an inheritance? Are you concerned about protecting inheritances from the spouses or creditors of your heirs? Do your heirs have any liability concerns because of their occupations or hobbies?
- How would you divide your estate between children from a prior marriage and your spouse and/or children from a current marriage?
- Do you wish to designate some portion of your estate for charitable purposes? Are you interested in donating any part of your body for medical purposes?
Maintaining Your Plan
There are also a number of steps you can take to make sure you have a more effective relationship with your estate planning attorney, and to ensure that your estate plan is maintained properly.
Be organized: Attorneys need to consider a large amount of information in a short time, and they sell time and attention. Be accurate. Be concise. Don't postpone meeting with your attorney because you think you have an irresolvable issue. No one expects that you have answers for any special issue that may be on your mind, just that you are up front and clear about how you see the issue. In fact, the attorney's role is to present a spectrum of possible planning solutions for you to consider and even to help you develop an interim planning strategy if a permanent solution seems inappropriate. Remember that what to you is a new and difficult problem may be a planning challenge that the attorney has encountered several times before. Let your attorney be a resource to you.
Ask questions: Be sure you understand what the attorney is saying. Estate planning ideas can be elusive, but strive for a layman's working knowledge of the material presented for your consideration. It is also appropriate and expected for you to ask about the attorney's fee for any legal service you are considering.
Authorize your attorney to work with your other advisers: A team effort by your advisers to pool information and to exchange planning insights will often produce a better plan for you. A typical team includes your attorney, accountant, financial planner and sometimes your life insurance agent. You can either quarterback this team yourself, or, often preferably, ask one of the advisers to coordinate the team on your behalf. Carefully review draft legal documents and the estate plan summary information provided by your attorney: You are not reviewing for accuracy of legal terminology, but rather to confirm that your agreed-upon preferences are accurately reflected.
Follow directions: Properly handle issues of beneficiary designations and asset titles and decisions as to whether or not to establish and fund a revocable trust, or ask your attorney to take care of these details for you.
Stay in touch: Good attorneys, like good clients, are looking for agreeable, long-term relationships, so keeping in touch is an important issue. In a perfect world, the attorney would have your estate plan in the law firm's database cataloged with respect to each important characteristic so that when a new law or planning idea arises, the attorney would automatically call you. In the real world, the attorney works with hundreds of clients each year and, except in unusual cases, does not track each client by type of estate plan and so will probably not call you when a change in law applies to you.
The attorney also has no information about changes in your personal circumstances unless you tell him. Expect to update your estate plan documents whenever there is a change in your life or in tax law—or typically at least once every three years. It is reasonable and expected for you to call the attorney to inquire if a particular circumstance warrants your making an appointment for an estate plan update.
With this information as background, it is more likely that you will establish an agreeable, long-term relationship with an estate planning attorney and that you will maintain an estate plan that accurately reflects your values.
Keeping your estate plan current is one of the best gifts that you can give to your heirs.


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Multi Platform Plugin Development Made Easy!
Have you ever wondered how to develop plugins for multiple platforms such as Windows AND Linux with the same code? Then you should take a closer look at the Simple Plugin Layer (SPL) Library!
About This library
The SPL (Simple Plugin Layer) library is an open source SDK (LGPL license) for plugin development. With SPL, you can extend every application written in C/C++ to use your own plugins; SPL will do all the managing, loading, and unloading of stuff for you. Additionally, the whole framework is fully multi-platform capable, so you don't have to develop multiple versions of the same plugin for platforms provided by SPL.
This library was developed by Andreas Loeffler and Reni Stuhr. Please visit http://www.unitedbytes.de/go.php?site=spl for updates and more useful stuff regarding SPL.
- Open Source, uses LGPL license
- Free, costs absolutely nothing, even for commercial use
- Platform-independent architecture
- Implementations for Linux and Win32 available; more platforms coming soon ...
- Full Doxygen-/Javadoc-compatible documentation
- Optional macros for fast and easy plugin development
- Variable plugin arguments for extensible APIs
- Thread safety for complex applications
- Uses STL library for stable and portable containers
- Object-oriented design, easy to extend
- Customizable to 32- or 64-bit systems
- Completely written in C++; no other dependencies except STL needed
- Buildable as static/shared library or DLL (only Win32)
- Various examples for all platforms explaining the development step by step
- Source code written in a uniform style
SPL is divided in two parts: Functions/classes for applications that want to use plug-ins, and the plug-in development side. The plug-in development side offers macros you can use optionally to speed up your plug-in development.
A plug-in consists of four simple C functions, which all except one can be implemented as "default-functions" without any code behind it, using SPL's macros:
Run (cannot be used as default-function)
What does "default function" mean, you might ask now? A default function is a simple function without any code in it. Because SPL requires these four functions in any case, you could use SPL's macros for implementing it. If you want to use one of these functions in a special way, just don't use the function macro and implement that function for yourself.
For these three functions, SPL uses the following macros:
So, why doesn't the Run function have such a macro? Hmmm, well, if we would have such a macro, the Run function would be implemented by default with no code, so the plug-in does nothing.
Note: If you want to use/compile your plug-in with Windows, you need two additional macros provided by SPL, they're called SPL_DEFINE_PLUGIN_EXPORTS(); and SPL_DEFINE_PLUGIN_DLLMAIN();.
These two macros provide some Windows-specific code that is not used by other platforms such as Linux, for example. Don't worry about it; you can put them safely into your plug-in. It does not matter if you want to compile/use your plug-in on Linux platforms; SPL does all the stuff internally for you, so you won't have to change anything to compile AND use your plug-ins on different platforms!
A "Hello-World" Plug-in
Let's start with a very simple "Hello-World" plug-in. This example is also included in the SPL package. Our goal is a simple plug-in that compiles/runs on Windows and Linux without doing any changes in the source code when "porting" it. Okay, actually you don't have to "port" anything.
Have a look at the header file:
#if SPL_PLATFORM == SPL_PLATFORM_WIN32 #include <windows.h> #endif SPL_DEFINE_PLUGIN_EXPORTS(); SPL_DEFINE_PLUGIN_INFO( 1, /// The build number. 1, /// The major version /// (e.g. 1.xx). 0, /// The minor version /// (e.g. 0.10). true, /// Does this plugin show its /// arguments to the public? "plHelloWorld", /// The plugin's name. "United Bytes", /// The plugin's vendor. "Hello world, our first plugin!", /// The plugin's general /// description. "Simple test plugin! :-)", /// The plugin's additional /// description. "http://www.unitedbytes.de", /// The plugin vendor's /// home page. "firstname.lastname@example.com", /// The plugin vendor's /// e-mail address. "ConsoleExampleAPI" ); /// The plugin's UUID.
That's really all you need in your header file. We already discussed the SPL_DEFINE_PLUGIN_EXPORTS(); macro, so let's go to the macro.
This macro derives a class from slcPluginInfo, which is responsible to hold the plug-in's information like name, version, build number, vendor etc., and creates a global instance called g_pluginInfo. This global object is required for all default function macros of SPL.
Note for hardcore-coders: You don't need any of SPL's macros to get it working. A simple example on how to implement a plug-in without all macros is included in the SPL package.
Because our header file is now complete, let's step into our .cpp file!
#include "plHelloWorld.h" SPL_DEFINE_PLUGIN_DLLMAIN(); SPL_IMPLEMENT_PLUGIN_GETINFO(); SPL_PLUGIN_API bool SPL_INIT_NAME_CODE( slcPluginArgs* a_pPluginArgs ) { printf( "HelloWorld: Hi there! Here we could initialize something!\n" ); return true; } SPL_PLUGIN_API bool SPL_RUN_NAME_CODE( slcPluginArgs* a_pPluginArgs ) { printf( "HelloWorld: Hi, this is the plugin's run function!\n" ); return true; } SPL_PLUGIN_API bool SPL_SHUTDOWN_NAME_CODE( slcPluginArgs* a_pPluginArgs ) { printf( "HelloWorld: Bye, bye world, this is the shutdown function.\n" ); return true; }
Looks very simple, doesn't it? You may notice that I don't use any "default function" macros (except for the GetInfo function) in here because I want to present how you can use all functions (again, except GetInfo) on your own.
"Hm, okay, sounds good, but when are all these functions called?" I hear you whisper ... that's a good question!
The reason why almost nobody would implement his own version of GetInfo is that this function basically does nothing other than return a pointer to the plug-in information structure we filled in the header by using the macro SPL_DEFINE_PLUGIN_INFO().
The Initialize function is called when a plug-in is successfully loaded, GetInfo is called manually from the user's code if he wants to get more information about the plug-in, Run contains the actual plug-in code, and Shutdown is either called manually by the user if his program ends or it's done by SPL's destructor to give all plug-ins a chance to clean themselves up.
Various examples using SPL are included in the SDK, a Doxygen-generated documentation for all parameters and functions is included, too. Builds for Microsoft .NET 2003, Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 and Linux (GCC) are included.
Screenshot of the MFC Example Application
This screenshot shows an example application that is included in the SDK:
On the left side: Our MFC example application shows all loaded plug-ins and using the SPL library as DLL build. In the left list view, you see all loaded plug-ins; the first plug-in is selected. In the small window on the right, you see information about the selected plug-in. You can modify a given text by using the selected plug-in(s).
On the right side: The red line marks the example application itself. Beneath the line, you can see all loaded plugin processes.
ResourcesPlease visit here for more information about this library, and the official forum located at http://www.unitedbytes.de/go.php?site=spl and http://forum.unitedbytes.de