A programmable hardware architecture and design methodology for the implementation of a sample rate conversion engine is presented. A user establishes various personalized descriptive category sets to organize media, such as digital photographs, video, and audio. A width of the core of the tapered waveguide becomes narrow toward the first straight waveguide and a profile of the tapered waveguide is asymmetric relative to the centerline of the core of the first straight waveguides. The EFA may include a cashless agent to generate procedural state information. In a further embodiment the transfer boom comprises seven swivel joints in total such that rotation in all directions is possible when the vessel is moored to the storage structure and has to cope with relative motions of roll, pitch, yaw, heave, sway and surge. The mixing system may also include a recirculation line in fluid communication with the inlet and the inletdischarge.