Curving through the industrial park, glancing at the large brick warehouses and factories on either side, we weren't sure that we were in the right place. Mind you, Atlanta's premiere S&M dungeon is in a similar park, but it still wasn't where we expected to find the flagship store now famous for the big blue sex cushion that George Clooney and Tilda Swinton enjoy in Burn After Reading! But, we were on the right path, and it was worth well worth the 1.5 hour trip from Athens, GA. Tentatively stepping up the short flight of stairs and ringing the bell, we were ushered into a lush and luxurious palace of decadent sexuality: The Liberator Flagship Store. I had never before seen a store like this; a posh sexual playground filled with premium toys, exclusive lingerie styles, and a cornucopia of sexual gear and furniture that make George Clooney's character (and his homemade basement monkey rocker) look unimaginative. Read the details, and view more photos, after the jump:

The good folks at Liberator know how to do it. They run two different stores, one for adventurous sexy times, and one for family-friendly comfort with a discreet subsection of sexual aids. Note that Clooney's wedge cushion is in both photos, but with different uses. Their products (sex shapes and sex furniture) are made of high quality foam covered in a delicious, washable velvety fabric. The shapes are solid foam pieces, like that wedge, and tend to be smaller, although some are the size of the small chaise lounge in my hotel room right now (hmm...). The larger items, like the heavenly Zeppelin, are made of smaller chunks of foam. Shapes, by the way, come in wider versions for wider bodies, as well as taller sizes. Yay!

Ok, so back to the store. When you walk in, you are immediately greeted by a show room featuring every one of their luscious pieces of sexual playground gear. Climb on the Equus, or sink into the Zeppelin. Peep at the bottom of many, and you just might discover rings for some optional, sensual bondage play. Our attention was split, though. In addition to these heavenly, large items, there were delightful racks of lingerie and shelves upon shelves of premium toys. Their lingerie is designed in-house from high quality leather, satin, lace, and even latex. Ready to get even racier? Their Zomi line of bondage gear features brocade and satin items that are erotic to the eye as well as the skin. I lightly wrapped a cuff around my partner's wrist, and we both made a mental note to add them to our holiday wish list. They appear strong enough for at least moderate-intensity play, I might add. Want something silkier, still? Try their long strips of cool, smooth satin for decorative bondage.

As if that wasn't enough, display cases offered impressive art-glass dildos and locally made s&m gear for the rougher set. Beyond that, shelves of premium vibes called to us. Every vibe is charged, and all insertables are on open display. Pick them up, turn them on, and make an informed purchasing decision. No $10 hard plastic vibes here, ever item is high quality and worthy of using to seduce your lover of yourself. Needless to say, all items are phthalate free. A rare situation exists in this store: their range of toys is even greater there than on their website! They also carry a solid selection of quality edible, vaginal and anal lubricants.

The entire time we were there, we were the only customers. This made for a wonderful shopping experience. The store is staffed by one person, a wonderful guy who gave us a great tour of both stores, and was there to answer our questions without intruding. There are grand plans for The Liberator Flagship Store, including educational offerings and more. You really don't need that kind of reason to visit, though. Seriously, if you find yourself anywhere in the area, then it is time for a highly sensual road trip!

Liberator Factory Store
2745 Bankers Industrial Drive
Atlanta, GA 30360

Gorge Clooney Holding a LIBERATOR Purple Ramp. Liberator bedroom adventure gear, specifically the purple ramp, is featured in the new movie Burn After Reading.
You can buy this great Bedroom Adventure Gear Here

Den här låten dök så småningom upp i en Malmö FF-version. Men att spela den var naturligtvis helt uteslutet. Forza Gnaget!

Liberator
Liberator
1996

Hmmm... it's hard not to wonder exactly how he is going to use it in the movie. I suppose we'll have to rely on our imaginations until we know for sure!

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What I shall read now is something I wrote more than twenty days ago. There is an objection possibly not good in law but surely good on moral grounds against the application to me here of this English statute, 565 years old, that seeks to deprive an Irishman to-day of life and honour, not for "adhering to the King's enemies" but for adhering to his own people.

When this statute was passed, in 1351, what was the state of men's minds on the question of a far higher allegiance - that of man to God and His Kingdom?

The law of that day did not permit a man to forsake his Church or deny his God save with his life. The heretic then had the same doom as the traitor. Today a man may forswear God and His Heavenly Realm without fear or penalty, all earlier statutes having gone the way of Nero's edicts against the Christians; but that constitutional phantom the King can still dig up from the dungeons and torture chambers of the Dark Ages a law that takes a man's life and limb for an exercise of conscience.

Loyalty is a sentiment, not a law. It rests on Love, not on restraint. The government of Ireland by England rests on restraint and not on law; and, since it demands no love, it can evoke no loyalty. Judicial assassination today is reserved only for one race of the King's subjects, for Irishmen; for those who cannot forget their allegiance to the realm of Ireland.

What is the fundamental charter of an Englishman's liberty? That he shall be tried by his peers. With all respect I assert that this court is to me, an Irishman, a foreign court - this jury is for me, an Irishman, not a jury of my peers.

It is patent to every man of conscience that I have an indefeasible right, if tried at all under this statute of high treason, to be tried in Ireland, before an Irish court, and by an Irish jury.

This court, this jury, the public opinion of this country, England, cannot but be prejudiced in varying degree against me, most of all in time of war. From this court and its jurisdiction I appeal to those I am alleged to have wronged, and to those I am alleged to have injured by my "evil example," and claim that they alone are competent to decide my guilt or my innocence.

This is so fundamental a right, so natural a right, so obvious a right, that it is clear the Crown were aware of it when they brought me by force and by stealth from Ireland to this country. It was not I who landed in England, but the Crown who dragged me here, away from my own country, to which I had returned with a price upon my head, away from my own countrymen, whose loyalty is not in doubt, and safe from the judgment of my peers, whose judgment I do not shrink from.

I admit no other judgment but theirs. I accept no verdict save at their hands.

I assert from this dock that I am being tried here not because it is just, but because it is unjust. My counsel has referred to the Ulster Volunteer movement, and I will not touch at length upon that ground, save only to say that neither I nor any of the leaders of the Irish Volunteers, who were founded in Dublin in November, 1913, had quarrel with the Ulster Volunteers as such, who were born a year earlier.

Our movement was not directed against them, but against the men who misused and misdirected the courage, the sincerity, and the local patriotism of the men of the North of Ireland. On the contrary, we welcomed the coming of the Ulster Volunteers, even while we deprecated the aims and intentions of those Englishmen who sought to pervert to an English party use - to the mean purposes of their own bid for place and power in England - the armed activities of simple Irishmen.

We aimed at winning the Ulster Volunteers to the cause of a united Ireland - we aimed at uniting all Irishmen in a natural and national bond of cohesion based on mutual self-respect. Our hope was a natural one, and, if left to ourselves, not hard to accomplish.

If external influences of disintegration would but leave us alone, we were sure that nature itself must bring us together. It was not the Irish Volunteers who broke the law, but a British party.

The Government had permitted the Ulster Volunteers to be armed by Englishmen to threaten not merely an English party in its hold on office, but to threaten that party through the lives and blood of Irishmen. Our choice lay between submitting to foreign lawlessness and resisting it, and we did not hesitate. I for one was determined that Ireland was much more to me than empire, and that if charity begins at home so must loyalty.

Since arms were so necessary to make our organization a reality and to give to the minds of Irishmen menaced with the most outrageous threats a sense of security, it was our bounden duty to get arms before all else.

I decided with this end in view to go to America. If, as the right honourable gentleman, the present Attorney General, asserted in a speech at Manchester, Nationalists would neither fight for home rule nor pay for it, it was our duty to show him that we knew how to do both.

Then came the war. As Mr. Birrell said in his evidence recently laid before the Commission of Inquiry into the causes of the late rebellion in Ireland, "The war upset all our calculations."

It upset mine no less than Mr. Birrell's, and put an end to my mission of peaceful effort in America. War between Great Britain and Germany meant, as I believed, ruin for all the hopes we had founded on the enrolment of the Irish Volunteers.

I felt over there in America that my first duty was to keep Irishmen at home in the only army that could safeguard our national existence. If small nationalities were to be the pawns in this game of embattled giants, I saw no reason why Ireland should shed her blood in any cause but her own, and if that be treason beyond the seas I am not ashamed to avow it or to answer for it here with my life.

And when we had the doctrine of Unionist loyalty at last, "Mausers and Kaisers and any King you like," I felt I needed no other warrant than that these words conveyed - to go forth and do likewise. The difference between us was that the Unionist champions chose a path which they felt would lead to the Woolsack, while I went a road that I knew must lead to the dock.

And the event proves that we were both right. But let me say that I am prouder to stand here today in the traitor's dock to answer this impeachment than to fill the place of my accusers. If there be no right of rebellion against a state of things that no savage tribe would endure without resistance, then am I sure that it is better for men to fight and die without right than to live in such a state of right as this.

Where all your rights become only an accumulated wrong; where men must beg with bated breath for leave to subsist in their own land, to think their own thoughts, to sing their own songs, to garner the fruit of their own labours - and even while they beg to see these things inexorably withdrawn from them - then surely it is a braver, a saner, and a truer thing to be a rebel in act and deed against such circumstances as this than tamely to accept it as the natural lot of men.

My Lord, I have done. Gentlemen of the Jury, I wish to thank you for your verdict. I hope you will not think that I made any imputation upon your truthfulness or your integrity when I said that this was not a trial by my peers.

The ancient Greek word for the adjective free was elitheros. Its Aeolic form was eliferos (e-lifer-os). The root lifer- became liber- in Latin and it was adopted by several European languages.

From this root: liberty, liberal, liberate, liberation, liberator, liberally, liberality, liberalist, liberalize, libertinism, libertine, libertarian.

In modern Greek:
a) eleftheros: free
b) eleftheria: freedom
c) eleftherono: to liberate, to set free
d) eleftherotis: liberator
e) eleftherotypia: freedom of the press (elefthero + typ-ia):

Από την αρχαία ελληνική λέξη ελύθερος προέρχεται το σημερινό ελεύθερος. Η ρίζα λύθερ- έγινε στα Λατινικά liber- και από αυτήν προήλθαν πλήθος λέξεις σε πολλές ευρωπαϊκές γλώσσες.

e-lifer-os --> liber- --> liberty/liberate

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“The others followed suit . . . sliding down into what looked like a chaotic junkyard, about the size of a school gym. Johnny wondered if he was ever going to see the type of gleaming hi-tech spaceship he’d always imagined.”

JM&tSoL, p.81

When we watch science fiction films or TV shows, spaceships are normally spotlessly clean and tidy. The Discovery One of Kubrick/Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey would be the perfect pristine example if it weren’t for the mess going on inside computer HAL’s brain. From James Tiberius Kirk’s starship Enterprise through to Roj Blake’s Liberator, once we leave the shackles of Earth it seems nothing is ever the slightest bit out of place (even in zero G).

In real life things are seldom like that. I hate to disappoint any parents reading this, but I have to tell you that Johnny’s quarters on the Spirit of London are just as untidy as his bedroom back in Halader House.

At the UK’s National Space Centre in Leicester, there’s a mockup of one module of the International Space Station:

It’s informative to see how the same module looks in Earth orbit:

Thanks to Joey deVilla’s Global Nerdy blog for pointing out the pictures.

When a serving president cannot visit the capital of his own country because of fears for his safety, something must be rotten in Denmark.

A week ago Sucre, the constitutional capital of Bolivia, was about to celebrate the most important day in its calendar, 25 de Mayo, the day back in 1809 when the first calls were heard for freedom from Spanish rule.

Normally, 25 de Mayo is a joyous day, a time of parades, candy floss and family fun in the whitewashed streets of the colonial city.

But this year was different. The memory of how three students were killed by national police amid protests last November hung over proceedings. And then the nation’s president, Evo Morales, was coming to town for the first time since their deaths.

TV reporters - skirting past anti-press graffiti from supporters of the president - appeared in the main square as soon as the president announced he would come to Sucre, asking passers-by their opinion: would El Presidente be welcome or not?

And while things may have appeared normal in the genteel environs of the city centre, there were clear signs that perhaps Evo’s visit might not go down so swimmingly.

Inside Bolivia’s foremost historical museum, the Casa de la Libertad, visitors can see where the country first shook off the Spanish yoke almost 200 years ago. In the chamber where Bolivia’s first session of Congress was convened, a large portrait of Simon Bolivar, the Liberator, hangs auspiciously above the gilded seat from where the country’s first laws were promulgated.

Our guide around the museum was urbane, full of interesting historical tidbits and told his stories with a wry smile.

He spoke with genuine vigour, telling tales of Spanish colonial rule, of the legendary wealth of Potosi’s silver mines, and of the liberation of Latin America in the early 19th century.

Then he gestured towards the huge portraits of Bolivar and Jose Antonio Sucre, whose name the city still bears.

"Do either of them look like Bolivians?"

The answer, quite evidently, was no. Bolivar was a Venezuelan and Sucre born in Peru, both of creole origin - Spanish by blood but born in the colonies.

A few minutes later our guide asked us the question again, this time in a room decorated with dozens of portraits of Bolivia’s post-independence presidents.

"Do any of them look Bolivian to you?"

The answer was obvious. The only one of Bolivia’s 65 rulers not drawn from the white, elite classes is the current president.

Evo Morales’ portrait is a scruffy affair, the brush strokes neither as exact nor perhaps as deliberate as those in the more classical portraits around him. The angle of view seems a little distant, leaving the impression of empty space around the president’s slightly-too-small head.

Even here, hanging quietly in a corner surrounded by images of his predecessors, among them some well-intentioned men and some downright brutes, Evo stands out as different.

Our guide moved seamlessly from history to politics. His delivery remained the same, but his message was deadly serious.

He told us how Bolivia swept Morales to power, electing him not only as the first indigenous president, but as the first president to win more than 50% of the vote outright. He told us of the hopes and dreams as Bolivia’s impoverished millions celebrated having "one of us" in the presidential palace.

Then he told us how things have gone wrong under Morales’ rule. The price of bread, we were told, has increased dramatically in the past two years. Our guide did not blame the president directly, but neither did he mention the global rise of food prices. The inference was clear.

He went on, complaining - always in that urbane, well-spoken way of his - that the president was too involved with channeling money to his supporters in the highlands to bother much with those elsewhere.

For evidence he cited movements towards autonomy in Santa Cruz, the country’s gas-rich eastern department, and several other regions away from Bolivia’s Altiplano.

Money in Bolivia flows first to La Paz and only then elsewhere, and all at the whim of the government, we were told.

On the streets of Sucre, a city as urbane and educated as the museum guide himself, Morales was still being blamed for the events of last November.

Graffiti bearing the legend "Evo asesino" - "Evo murderer" - remains tagged prominently on city walls, and mock "Wanted" posters call on the president to bring to justice to those policemen suspected of firing the fatal shots.

The night before Morales was due in Sucre hundreds of students gathered to confront riot police near the city’s football stadium, where the president was scheduled to speak the following lunchtime. Ugly clashes followed, and the sounds of gunfire - blank, live or whatever I know not what - peppered the night silence.

The next morning it was announced that the president had decided to call off his visit. Riot police were still out in force in the city’s streets, marching in formation in the direction of the stadium, sent on their way by a volley of hoots and hollers from the ordinary people of Sucre.

Last November’s violence came after an argument about whether to take away Sucre’s status as Bolivia’s constitutional capital. Now it appears lingering resentment in the city may have swung Sucre - and perhaps even the whole department of Chuqisaca - against the president.

"I voted for Evo Morales last time, but I won’t again," one student told me in the city’s main square, decked out for 25 de Mayo in the livery of Chuqisaca’s burgeoning autonomy movement.

For Evo Morales all of this is more than just mid-term blues. His response to an overwhelming "yes" vote for autonomy in Santa Cruz has been to call what is in effect a nationwide "back me or sack me" vote now scheduled for August.

Back in the museum, our guide summed things up before bidding us farewell.

"The 19th century was the era of tin, the era of mining, the era of the highlands. The 20th century was the era of La Paz. The 21st century seems to be the era of Santa Cruz.

"Are you staying for the party tomorrow? There will be fireworks, that’s for sure - we just don’t know what kind yet."

Herunder følger nogle løse betragtninger ude fra sidelinjen, mest henvendt til LBO da jeg ved han læser med. Kommentaren er dobbeltpostet ovre på liberator, men kommentaren der er uden links. Jeg har forsøgt at formulere mine kritikpunkter konstruktivt, hvis det ikke er lykkedes, så beklager jeg - og ja, jeg ved godt, at jeg ingen principiel ret, udover den ret man har som anonym bruger af sitet, har til at kræve, hvordan andre mennesker driver deres site.

i) Den nye redaktion har valgt at skille debatforummet og liberator ad. Jeg er ret sikker på, at jeg mener det er en dårlig ide. Uden debatforummet er liberator bare en mere eller mindre almindelig gruppeblog, der ikke opdateres dagligt og længe har været inaktiv. Gruppeblogs er der allerede en del af, og uden meget hyppige indlæg vil debatten søge andetsteds.

Det er svært at skabe en skabelon, hvor en todelt struktur vil fungere, men netop den todelte struktur var efter min opfattelse den store force for liberator før i tiden, og jeg er ikke sikker på et opgør med den er en løsning, som vil give de resultater, redaktionen har forestillet sig. Jeg tror selv, at den tidligere model liberator havde (særligt gode artikler på forsiden, 'almindelig debat' i forum), kombineret med en mere striks kommentarpolitik, er noget nær den optimale løsning, målt på antal besøgende og gennemslagskraft. Men striks kommentarpolitik kræver moderatorer, som gider tage slæbet, og det er hårdt arbejde - hvilket betyder, at sådan en model, med mindre man på en eller anden måde får brugerne selv til at medvirke til at holde stærkt suboptimale brugere ude af debatten, ikke har nogen stabil ligevægt på langt sigt.

ii) Den nye redaktion har valgt en 'anarkistisk' vinkel. Som de skriver: Det betyder ikke, at skribenterne uden undtagelse vil nedlægge hele statsapparatet hurtigst muligt, men at de på de områder, som deres artikler behandler, konsekvent taler for, at staten skal blande sig helt uden om.

Nu er jeg selvfølgelig lidt biased, fordi jeg ikke selv ønsker at nedlægge staten og alt det der, men jeg er ikke sikker på, det er en god ide. Eller rettere: Jeg er ikke sikker på, at konsekvenserne af denne linje står helt klart for redaktionen. De skriver selv om, hvordan man i liberators aktive periode kunne følge hvorledes mange af sidens brugere stille og roligt begyndte at betvivle deres socialistiske udgangspunkt og erstatte det med et menneskesyn, der respekterer individet. Det kunne man, og det var klart, at liberator for nogle individer gjorde en stor forskel. Siden har også haft en indflydelse på min egen ideudvikling, men hvor stor den er, står ikke klart for mig på nuværende tidspunkt. Nå, tilbage til konsekvenserne af den valgte linje, et problem her er: Hvis alle sidens indlæg peger i samme retning (staten skal blande sig udenom), hvorfor skulle man så forvente, at dem der er uenige, vil deltage i debatten på sitet? Debatvilkårene er ikke ens.

Et andet problem er, at de færreste liberalister er anarkister. Et forhold der godt kunne bekymre mig er, at selvom den konsekvente antistats-linje uden undtagelser næppe vil 'skræmme' mig væk, kunne den på den anden side godt tænkes at kede mig væk. Jeg kunne da godt tænke mig at læse en post som indeholder en skitsering af argumenterne imod at staten gør X. Men posten ville være langt mere interessant, hvis argumenterne for også er med. Det, der interesserer mig er netop, om argumenterne imod er bedre end argumenterne for. Problemet her er, at hvis man starter med konklusionen (staten skal blande sig uden om), er det meget let at hoppe over argumenterne for. Hvis liberators skribenter gør det, hvilket der på institutionelt plan som udledt er givet problematiske incitamenter til, ja så mister postene megen af sin relevans for dem, der ikke er anarkister eller på forhånd har meget klart definerede grænser for statens magtudøvelse - med andre ord lige netop de grupper, der er de letteste og mest interessante for skribenterne at påvirke. Vi ønsker ikke at prædike for de lærte, men at plante vores drømme og ideer i nye sammenhænge, skriver redaktionen, men hvis udgangspunktet altid er, at staten skal blande sig uden om, kan det godt resultere i forudsigelige posts og resultere i, at det kan blive endog overordentlig vanskeligt at få 'moderate' engageret i debatten. For stor grad af forudsigelighed vil jage mange væk. Det der gjorde sitet attraktivt var ikke kun den liberalistiske vinkel og de mange brugere i sig selv, en stor del af forklaringen lå også i meningsheterogeniteten blandt brugerne, og med det nye udgangspunkt lader redaktionen til netop at lukke af for denne i udgangspunktet.

iii) Jeg er ikke sikker på, at forventningerne til det nye site bør skrues for højt op. Liberator har i et stykke tid været mere eller mindre inaktivt, og liberalister har fundet andre udfoldelsesmuligheder, primært i form af blogs eller eksempelvis kommentarsektionen på 180 grader. Forvent ikke folk kommer tilbage med det samme, bare fordi I starter forfra. Forvent derimod at I skal kæmpe hårdt for at få nye skribenter, og for at få folk til at deltage i debatten på Jeres site, der jo, sin fortid til trods, i dag mest af alt bare er et af mange. Et problem i opstartsfasen vil også være, at dem som har etableret sig som bloggere, næppe vil være de letteste at vinde over som skribenter for siden. Det problem er der næppe nogen enkel løsning på.

Here is a comment I made in response to Halpin's latest post.

I did some thinking on the Great Commission today. There are four commands Jesus gives His disciples.

1. Go

2. Make disciples

3. Baptize them

4. Teach them

There is no sinners prayer found in this context. I still believe that one can be a follower of Jesus with the Prayer because there is no magic formula. But it is good to understand what Jesus was telling His disciples. I believe that He was telling them to go and and spread the kingdom of God. Following Jesus is more about being the salt and light of this world than about being saved from the flames of hell. That is the problem with the sinners prayer. It is put into the context of saving us from hell. There is no challenge to change. This is the new Great Commission given by the modern day church:

1. Go to church

2. Make converts

3. Lead them in the sinners prayer

4. Teach them that God is upset with their sin so that they become legalistic

5. Make sure you don’t miss church

We are the Church! Where we are, there Church is. Being a follower of Jesus is more about showing mercy than it is about sacrifice. Less rules, more love. Jesus came to set us free. He is indeed our liberator! Let’s get busy spreading His kingdom here on earth. Grace and peace to you.

Because of Jesus,

David Knapp

(photo by  Shermeee)

Første forsidehistorie handler om den falske spin, de "socialt sindede" (læs: kollektivistiske) amerikanere fik sået om Marshall-hjælpen efter WW II. For som historieinteresserede godt ved, så var det ikke Marshall-hjælpen der "reddede" Tyskland, men derimod de østrigsk-økonomiske reformer, der, efter at blive gennemført fra den ene dag til den anden, gjorde det sorte markede, som Adolf Hitlers socialistiske nazistat nødvendiggjorde, unødvendigt og som skabte det positive økonomiske klima, som Forbundsrepublikken nød så godt af.

God vind fremover, skal det lyde herfra!

Kite Liberator should be familiar with fans of Kite and Mezzo - Danger Service Agency. All of them are directed by Yasuomi Umetsu. All 3 above has violence, gore, sex and nudity as their basic elements thoroughout their story. Kite Liberator is a continuation from the earlier series Kite, focusing on Monaka, a normal shy high school student in the day and takes assassination missions during the night under the name of Angel of Death. Monaka's father is an astronaut, working in space and havent seen her for the past 4 years. Later in the story, he will transform into a alien monster as a result of getting over-exposed to the sun rays and the space food sample that they have eaten. There's no indication how many episodes as the ending is a bit 'loose' and I myself hope there is at least another one to complete the story.

For Kite Liberator (compared to Kite and Mezzo) there is two major differences that I could see in the animation itself. First is the massive usage of 3DCGs. Images below

Second is the character's facial impression (I dont what these are called) that I sincerely think they are not necessary for the anime. Images below

There's not much action in Kite Liberator compared to Kite and Mezzo, but the amount of violence and gore is simply top notch

And not to forget the greatness of ecchi scenes available

Images below are clips explaining about what happened with the Kite OVA at the end

The big daddy monster

I wont make any comments for this particular OVA yet and still hoping for another episode to complete it. Other than that, overall - Kite Liberator have some improvements in its presentation with the usage of 3DCGs and obviously there wont be much character developments in such a short amount of time, so you can see characters pop-out out of nowhere.

Some other screenshots

Liberator provides you with a JavaScript library called StreamLink for Browsers (or SL4B). This is used to build real time web pages that talk to Liberator. SL4B can be used in two ways: one requires no JavaScript programming at all and the other provides a rich JavaScript API based on subscriptions and callbacks.

No JavaScript

SL4B can make a web page live by simply adding attributes to HTML tags. A typical example of this is making an HTML table contain live FX prices. To achieve this there are two things to change on your HTML page.

Firstly, add a script tag to load the SL4B library:

<script id=”sl4b”
        type=”text/javascript”
        src=”/sl4b/index.js”
        configurationfile=”common-attributes.js”
        includertml=”includertml”>
</script>

And secondly, add some attributes to the HTML:

<table>
  <tr>
    <th>Currency</th>
    <th>Bid</th>
    <th>Ask</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>EUR</td>
    <td id=”quote” symbol=”/FX/EUR” field=”dBestBid”>-</td>
    <td id=”quote” symbol=”/FX/EUR” field=”dBestAsk”>-</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>GBP</td>
    <td id=”quote” symbol=”/FX/GBP” field=”dBestBid”>-</td>
    <td id=”quote” symbol=”/FX/GBP” field=”dBestAsk”>-</td>
  </tr>
</table>

The above HTML has been enhanced with three extra attributes to the <td> tags:

The standard id attribute has been set to "quote". This allows the SL4B library to find all the HTML elements that might require real time data. A custom attribute called "symbol" is used to specify the subject to subscribe to, and another custom attribute called "field" specifies the name of the field to display in this HTML element.

Behind the scenes, all this information is collated and subscribed to by the SL4B library. When data is received back from Liberator, the relevant HTML elements are updated with the real time values.

You can see an example of this in action.

Add in some JavaScript programming

The previous example shows a very simple way to get live data into a web page. There are more things you can do using that style, but if you want more control over what is happening you will probably want an API to program with.

SL4B allows you to make subscriptions and handle the data in callbacks.

The same script tag is needed to load the SL4B library:

<script id=”sl4b”
        type=”text/javascript”
        src=”http://liberator.company.com:8080/sl4b”
        configurationfile=”common-attributes.js”>
</script>

function ExampleSubscriber()
{
    // This is the constructor of our object.

    // Any subclass of SL4B_AbstractSubscriber must call
    // initialise in its constructor. Once initialisation
    // is finished, SL4B will call ready() on this object.
    this.initialise();
}

// Declares that the ExampleSubscriber is a subclass of
// SL4B_AbstractSubscriber
ExampleSubscriber.prototype = new SL4B_AbstractSubscriber();

ExampleSubscriber.prototype.ready =
  function() {
    // Once the SL4B Object has completed
    // this.initialise() it will call ready()
    alert(”SL4B has connected and is ready”);
  };

var Subscriber = new ExampleSubscriber();

ExampleSubscriber.prototype.ready =
  function() {
    // The fields to subscribe to are in a comma separated
    // list as the third argument of getObject.
    SL4B_Accessor.getRttpProvider().getObject(this,
                    “/Examples/Records/FX/GBP”,
                    “dBestBid,dBestAsk”);
  };

ExampleSubscriber.prototype.recordMultiUpdated =
  function(sObjectName, oFieldData) {
    var oElement = document.getElementById(’messages’)

    for (var i = 0, size = oFieldData.size(); i < size; i = i + 1) {
        oElement.innerHTML = sObjectName+” “+
                             oFieldData.getFieldName(i)+” = “+
                             oFieldData.getFieldValue(i)+”<br />”+
                             oElement.innerHTML;
    }
  };

    // Configures the datasource's connectivity - amongst other things
    final File dataSourceConfig = new File("conf/DataSource.xml");
    // Configures the mapping of field numbers to field names
    final File fieldsConfig = new File("conf/Fields.xml");

    // Create our local DataSource
    DataSource datasrc = new DataSource(dataSourceConfig,fieldsConfig);

    // Start the DataSource
    System.out.println(”Starting DataSource …”);
    datasrc.start();
    System.out.println(”DataSource started”);

public class Stage2 implements DSRequestListener, DSDiscardListener
{
    public static void main(String[] args)throws IOException, SAXException
    {
        // Configures the datasource’s connectivity - amongst other things
        final File dataSourceConfig = new File(”conf/DataSource.xml”);
        // Configures the mapping of field numbers to field names
        final File fieldsConfig = new File(”conf/Fields.xml”);

        // Create our local DataSource
        DataSource datasrc = new DataSource(dataSourceConfig,fieldsConfig);

        // Create a listener for the relevant DataSource message types
        // so we may respond appropriately
        final Stage2 listener = new Stage2();
        // Listen for requests
        datasrc.setDSRequestListener(listener);
        // Listen for discards (un-requests)
        datasrc.setDSDiscardListener(listener);

        // Start the DataSource
        System.out.println(”Starting DataSource …”);
        datasrc.start();
        System.out.println(”DataSource started”);
    }

    public void receiveRequest( int peerIndex, String[] subjects )
    {
        for(int i=0;i<subjects.length;i++)
        {
            System.out.println(”Received request for “+subjects[i]);
        }
    }

    public void receiveDiscard( int peerIndex, String[] subjects )
    {
        for(int i=0;i<subjects.length;i++)
        {
            System.out.println(”Received discard for “+subjects[i]);
        }
    }

public void receiveRequest( int peerIndex, String[] subjects )
{
    for(int i=0;i<subjects.length;i++)
    {
        // Create the new record
        DSRecord update = DSFactory.createDSRecord(dataSource, subjects[i]);
        // Populate the new update’s fields
        update.addRecordData(”Counter”, 1234);
        // Send ‘Hello, World!’ in the ‘Message’ field
        update.addRecordData(”Message”, “Hello, World!”);
        // Send the update to the peer that requested it
        update.sendToPeer(peerIndex);
    }
}

public void run()
{
    int counter = 0;

    while(alive)
    {
        try
        {
            Thread.sleep(2000);

            DSRecord update = DSFactory.createDSRecord(dataSource, symbol);
            update.addRecordData("Counter", ++counter);
            update.addRecordData("Message", "Hello, World! "+counter);
            update.sendToPeer(peerIndex);
        }
        catch(InterruptedException e)
        {
        }
    }
}