  We present our predictions for meson form factors for the SU(3) octet and
investigate their impact on the pion electroproduction cross sections. The
electric and magnetic polarizabilities of the SU(3) octet of mesons and baryons
are analyzed in detail. These extensive calculations are made possible by the
recent implementation of semi-automatized calculations in fully-relativistic
chiral perturbation theory, which allows evaluation of polarizabilities from
Compton scattering up to next-to-the-leading order.
