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Chapter 1 - An Honest MistakeChapter 2 - The Queen's MistressChapter 3 - The Right Tool for the JobChapter 4 - Slippery EncountersChapter 5 - A Bump in the WindChapter 6 - The Bishop of KelleroyChapter 7 - A Friend in NeedChapter 8 - ChallengesChapter 9 - AdriftChapter 10 - CastawayChapter 11 - ConfessionsChapter 12 - Caper's New Home
Chapter 9 – Adrift
Caravel shivered in delicious pleasure, her mind, like her body, clutching and tensing to draw out the moment, allowing her to feed on her prey for as long as possible. Images and voices streamed into her head, mingling and becoming one with her. She saw entire years at sea in a single blazing moment. Her nostrils were filled with the scents of ocean and fish, and the ever present musk of a hundred other sailors. Her skin dimpled with wet and brisk air, and she heard the rush of foam across the bow of the Geminon… Her ship. She felt the crash of pounding waves against its hull, as it cut through a violent storm, and the heat of a hundred windless days slicing across glassy waters, powered only by the sun itself. For a few fleeting moments, she was the very embodiment of life on a ship at sea. Lonely, happy; part of a living, synchronized machine that was the crew of her vessel.
But, as it always did with males, the feelings and sensations faded with her orgasm, gradually slipping back into her subconscious where they were consumed and digested. She would remember them only like an early morning dream. In an hour, they would be little more than the memory of a memory.
With short breaths, she gradually regained her focus and came back to the present. Below her on the bed, the man she had just ridden into ecstasy looked almost asleep. Certainly unconscious, he too would have vague memories… of a strange girl with flaming red hair and a body so soft and supple that he was utterly powerless to resist her charms. He would dream of her lips for the rest of his life, unable to shake the watery images of her face, her breasts, her belly… He would forever be unsatisfied with other women, always longing to once again be with the fair Caravel.
A knock at the door to the cabin could only be one person. No one else would be so bold as to risk interrupting her during a feeding.
"Come," she said, smiling; slightly amused with the irony of the simple command that was also an apt description of her current state.
The door opened behind her just as she lifted herself from the hips of her lover, his flaccid penis slipping from her depths accompanied by a brief rush of after-pleasure. She rolled to the side of the bed and took a deep breath.
"I hope I did not interrupt your moment," said Marus with sincerity. "I tried to time my entrance with the closure of your coitus."
"Are you always a gentleman?" she asked, letting her body slowly recover.
"Always… At least where applicable. There is news. A ship has been sighted."
"Oh? So soon?" Standing, the redhead retrieved a white robe from a chair nearby and folded herself into its soft warmth. "Is it the Mistress?"
Marus chuckled at her obvious excitement. "We're not sure. It does match known descriptions, but it's heading in the wrong direction."
"How curious!"
"Indeed. The good Captain is hailing her as we speak. If it is the Mistress, there's a good chance they may make a run for it. They are pirates after all. I didn't think you would want to miss that."
"No. Finally, a little excitement." She moved to where her dress was crumpled on the floor. "Have I time to bathe?"
"I should think so. Even if they change course, they're far enough away that it will probably be several hours before we intercept. Did you get anything from the First Mate?" He asked, glancing at the naked man on the bed.
"You mean beyond an entirely sickening sense of duty and honor and general love of the sea?" She rolled her eyes. "They're so boring, Marus. Like copies of one another!"
He had to laugh. "Just a little more patience my dear. I think by sundown you shall have far more interesting minds to entertain and educate you."
She sighed in happy anticipation. "Pirates… I can hardly wait to feel such freedom and rebellion."
Molly was serving lunch in the mess when she noticed a change in the general conversation and excitement of the crew. Even Manny looked up from his spoons to see what was amiss. Star Haven jogged into the room and came right up to the serving table.
"Molly! Did you hear? They spotted something really weird in the water. It's why we've come to a stop."
She shook her head. "No one knows, but it seems to be some kind of debris."
"Like from another ship?"
"I don't think so," replied Star, frowning. "At least no kind of human ship. It looks like it's made of metal, but… floating metal."
"That doesn't make sense."
"I know! And it has weird writings on it and scorch marks. Whatever it used to be a part of, it was really big. I think they're going to try and bring it aboard."
"Really?!" She turned to the cook, her face entreating. The man just laughed.
"Go on den. I will finish here."
"Thanks, Manny!" She leaned over and gave him a quick peck on the cheek.
"Aww. Off wit you." He waved her away.
Molly pulled her apron over her head and followed her bunkmate and about half the crew up onto the main deck. Captain Pennylust, the Professor, and most of the officers were guiding riggers with hooks and lines to try and snag a large, slightly convex object to port. Molly could instantly see why there was so much excitement, the silver grey material was obviously metallic in nature, and yet it floated like a cork. There were visible struts and spurs, and all along one side were even and precise markings embedded right into the material. Whatever it was, Molly had to admit it was nothing like any known human technology.
"Tom! Do you think the boom would hold to lift it from the water?" yelled Pennylust over the many voices of the crew.
"It should, Captain. From the way she's bobbing in the water, I don't guess it to be very heavy, just bulky."
"Fine, let's rig to bring her aboard then. We'll set it on the deck for now, but we'll have to find a more secure place for it if we keep it for any length of time."
"Captain, what about the cargo hold," suggested the Quartermaster. "We've at least four or five water barrels that we no longer need now that the distiller is operational. We could toss them overboard for the space."
"Arrange it."
"Aye, Sir! Fitzmiller! Get your cargo crew down there and empty those barrels. We'll net and dump them first, and then use the boom to lower the debris right into the open hold. Amberly!… Ah, there you are." Brill strode up to her and put a hand on her shoulder. "How's the head?"
"A bit sore. I'll manage," she answered, not wanting to miss any chance to see the strange object close up.
"Good. Scurry below to the cargo hold and make sure none of the new water lines you installed are in the way. I want a clear shot down from the deck."
Happy to be directly involved, Molly went deck by deck as they opened the large cargo doors into the belly of the Mistress, checking that the copper water lines were fully out of the path of whatever they were bringing aboard. She was constantly amazed at how versatile the ship was when it came to reconfiguring. Almost none of the walls or partitions was permanent, and most of the floor could be removed or opened to provide access to the hold.
Finally, she made her way clear back to the distiller room, which was right next to the barrels they originally used to store water. Now of course, they were just taking up space. They'd keep a few for an emergency, but the rest could go, freeing up a considerable amount of the hold. Each barrel was nearly as tall as her shoulders, and about three feet in diameter. She heard someone coming down the steps as she checked each of the containers.
"These three are empty," she started, assuming that it was the cargo crew, "…but those last two are full so you'll probably need to empty th… Cassandra?"
"Perfect," said the girl, swinging something in her hand. Molly barely had time to register the motion before she was struck just above her left temple, sending her into unconsciousness.
Most of what she remembered of the next hour was pain. She awoke briefly to find her body nearly upside down, her face looking up at a dim circle of light. There was a fuzzy face there which was replaced by a dark object that blocked the light. Fading in and out of consciousness, she heard voices, and recalled being jostled about in total darkness. Then the space she was in seemed to tumble end over end. She was about to call out when there was a loud crash and she was smashed against hard wood. She must have been out for quite a few minutes after that, because when she came to, she could only barely hear the voices, as though they were far off.
Molly's head was pounding, and she took a moment to inventory the rest of her body. She could tell she was badly bruised, but nothing seemed broken. There was no light at all, but around her she could hear water, and she also seemed to be sitting in several inches of the cold wetness.
Shivering and soaked, she gingerly reached out in front of her until her hand found a wall. She went to follow it, but felt that it curved around behind her almost at once. To her surprise, it was the same in the other direction. Then, in a moment of clarity, she understood and cried out. She was in a barrel. Sealed and cast overboard, Molly was almost certainly no longer on the Queen's Mistress. She was likely floating free in the ocean, alone and forgotten.
Her wail of anguish and terror echoed in the small space until her ears rang. She pounded on the sides of the barrel, and frantically tried to break herself free of her prison without the slightest success. Finally, exhausted and defeated, she slumped down to the bottom and sobbed until her voice was ragged.
Cassandra Plinket had done this, just like she said she would. She'd cast her off the ship. And she was right that no one would even know she was missing until it was too late. The ship was probably sailing further away even now. In a few hours it would be dark, if it wasn't already, and all hope of finding her would be lost. By morning she could be hundreds of miles away. For all she knew, she might not even last that long. She doubted the barrel would sink, but given that it was water tight, it was probably airtight as well. She would suffocate long before she would starve, freeze or drown. Unless…
She recalled that the barrels had a bung hole in the top. They used it to insert a pump to draw out water. If she could open it, she might at least have air for a little while longer.
Turning inside the barrel was a painful and aggravating experience. Any time she shifted her weight, the barrel would roll and tilt, throwing her off balance again. Worse, she had to sit on her knees just to feel the lid, knees that were already bruised bloody. Finally, she managed to get her hand up and felt the flat cover. There were slats that locked it in place, so she doubted she could get it open even if she had the strength, which she didn't, but she did find the sealed hole she was looking for, if only for a moment. It felt as though the plug was well sealed, but perhaps if she could brace her back against the bottom, she could hit it with her foot.
Again, moving was horrendously painful, but more troubling was the four or five inches of water left in the barrel. On her back, she could just get her toes to touch the cover, but it nearly put her head underwater. It took six tries, but with a satisfying sound, the plug popped out and disappeared. Coughing because of the water that had gone up her nose in the attempt, Molly righted herself and blinked into the bright orange light that poured in from the two inch circle.
"HELP!" She called out in the vain hope that the ship might still be close enough to hear her. "I'M HERE! DON'T LEAVE ME! PLEASE!"
But of course, there was no answering call. There was no other sound but the gentle lapping of ocean on the sides of the barrel. For the second time, Molly broke down and sobbed herself into exhaustion, and when she looked back up to her single tiny window to the outside, she saw that the orange sky was quickly deepening into a dull purple. The sun was setting. Her final scream of frustration surprised even herself.
By the time the sky had gone dark, the temperature had dropped enough that she was really thinking that suffocation might have been a better way to go. There was no way to get dry, but she did discover that the water in the barrel with her was fresh, or mostly so, so at least she wouldn't die thirsty. She drank her fill until she realized that she might want to take it easy. It wasn't as though she could relieve her bladder without sitting in it, though that somehow seemed the least of her worries.
Crouched in her floating prison, she considered her options. She was really cold, but doubted that it would kill her, unfortunately. She might be able to knock her head hard enough to do the job, but the idea of trying… and failing, was enough to put that as a last resort. She might be able to tilt the barrel on its side and let it fill with water, but she'd heard that drowning was one of the more horrible ways to die. That pretty much left sitting there and waiting. And so that's exactly what she did, shivering until she must have fallen asleep. She had horrible dreams, but remembered only her own terror when she woke some indeterminate time later. She didn't even startle awake, she merely opened her eyes and sighed, the difference between nightmare and reality being almost non-existent.
She was somewhat surprised to see stars out the bung hole, and marveled for a moment at how bright and clear they looked. When you have nothing else to see, even the tiniest spot of light appears beautiful. With her view so limited, she could only spy a tiny fraction of the sky at a time as it passed slowly above, and so she made a game of identifying various constellations as they came across her window.
Again she slept, but this time when she woke she almost thought that it was morning, at least for a few moments. A bright light seemed to illuminate the inside of her bobbing home, and it was nearly a minute before she grasped that it was the moon directly overhead. The silver light gave her pause, and a chance to look at herself a bit, now that her eyes had adjusted. She was covered in cuts and bruises, and appeared more like a corpse than a girl, especially in the moonlight. The illumination offered no obvious means of escape from the barrel, but it did help to have seen the limits of her world. It gave her some ideas that she could try if she grew desperate enough. One advantage she had now was that her barrel was reasonably safe from sinking. If she chose to somehow break free, what then?
Eventually, the comfort of the moon's light passed down on the horizon until it too was gone, leaving her once again with naught but the stars. She assumed that she was probably drifting with the currents and wind, which were generally to the south, but beyond that, there was simply nothing to use as a reference to tell where she was or how far she might have traveled. With boredom finally getting the best of her, she fell asleep for a third time.
Captain Scandy was led through the frigate from the ship's brig like a condemned dog, and roughly forced through a door into the frigate's command cabin. She was quite surprised to find that the large room was not occupied by the Captain himself, however. Stumbling forward, she took in the odd couple and finally Bethany Gainsley, her pilot. The woman was strapped to an "X" shaped rack, naked and nearly unconscious.
"What the hell?! What gives you the right to take over my ship and torture my crew!? How dare you…"
"Please, Captain, I will be asking the questions tonight," interrupted the man in black robes. When he stood, she saw the Guild markings. He motioned to the guards that had brought her in, and they moved over to Gainsley, untying her. Once they had dragged her from the room, he continued.
"Your ship, the Pettifore, it bears a striking resemblance to the Queen's Mistress, yes?"
"They were built together," she said, trying to place the man. There was something familiar about him, but she was certain they had never actually met.
"Ah, I see. And you know the Captain of the Mistress?"
"I know of her," she answered carefully. "Abigail Pennylust."
"The Pirate…"
"So it's been said."
She caught the man's slight smile. "You don't think so?"
"I wouldn't go that far. People say lots of things. I've no reason to believe one way or another. That doesn't mean I would let her get near my ship."
"So you haven't seen her then?"
At this, she laughed outright.
"I just figured out who you are. You're The Black, aren't you?"
He bowed his head. "I am, indeed. Do you also know my reputation then?"
"Like I said, people say lots of things."
The man walked closer to her, standing so that his face was only inches from her own.
"In my case, the rumors don't quite do me justice."
"You're right. You're much shorter than I envisioned." Her smile was calm and steady as she stared down at him.
The woman seated nearby sniggered. "She's good, Marus."
Turning his back to her, the Bishop speared a small crustacean from a plate of prepared snacks and dipped it in some butter. Turning back around, he simply stood there holding the hors d´oeuvre as it dripped sauce. Scandy looked down.
"You're making a mess of your floor," she commented idly.
"It's not my floor. You there," he mentioned to one of the guards, "come over here and lick that up."
Immediately, the uniformed man dropped to his hands and knees and began lapping at the spilled butter. Frowning, Scandy watched the display with growing discomfort.
"You see? He understands. He's little more than an ape in a suit, and yet he grasps the situation quite clearly."
Scandy's face was grim. "What do you want?"
"You didn't answer my question."
She tilted her head. "You didn't answer mine."
"Oh, enough, Marus, please!" exclaimed the seated woman. "You're not going to get what you want from her, can't you see that?"
He sighed. "Perhaps other methods will indeed be necessary… I was hoping for reason."
"So, what now?" asked the Captain. "Are you going to torture me like you did my pilot?"
The man looked aghast. "Me? Oh, heavens no. While I'm sure that would be entertaining, there's simply no need."
Scandy was confused.
"She's all yours, my dear," he said, placing the appetizer in his mouth and turning away.
Suddenly alert, the Captain turned to the red-headed woman who she saw slowly rising from the chair she had been lounging in. Their eyes met, and she swallowed. Even though she was obviously unarmed, there was something about the way she moved that seemed… predatory.
"You're afraid," said the woman as a matter of fact, rather than a question. She was still moving very slowly closer, never taking her eyes away from the other. "You should be."
The Captain stood taller, defiant in the face of whatever was to come.
"You should know, that it's not your fault. You're not weak. Quite the opposite. It just simply doesn't matter."
"What are you talking abo…"
Suddenly, the redhead moved forward in a single long step, her deep green eyes still fixed to the Captain's. She reached out and ever so lightly touched Scandy's hand when she was close enough, and it was as though someone had simply knocked the will out of her. Every resistance she had seemed to fall away like dry sand through her fingers, and she gasped.
She couldn't pull back, though she wanted to. She wanted to flee or fight… anything but face the completely alien sensations that wrapped around her mind and invaded her thoughts. Lust descended upon her, pushing aside all other emotions like smoke in the wind. She felt utterly exposed and defenseless against the liquid warmth of sensuality that was slowly dripping down her body. Like a sexual fire, her passion was blazing out of control, fueled by some incendiary pleasure that the green-eyed woman was pouring into her soul.
She couldn't fight it. She couldn't resist it in the slightest, and every second that the woman held her eyes she felt herself growing more and more aroused and stimulated. Her breath started to come in short gasps, and her heart was pounding dangerously loud in her chest. She could feel herself grow wet, and her nipples beat uncomfortably to her own pulse as they grew and strained against the fabric of her silk shirt. In the span of only a few seconds, she started to feel herself slip over the edge into bliss. Then, all at once, she shook violently and collapsed as her knees lost strength against the force of her climax. To her horror, the woman followed her down, keeping the eye contact going… pulling at her mind.
She felt the memories leaving her, drawn out like pulling on the loose thread of a rug. She was unravelling.
When her vision refocused, she was laying on her back on the floor. The redhead was leaning over her, smiling.
"Yes… This is going to be so much more fun."
"Wh-what did you do to m-me?" whispered the Captain, her body spent and limp.
"I took a part of you, Reese. I snatched it from your mind while you were lost in ecstasy."
The woman's callus laugh was frightening. "Because I can! Because that's how I grow. I take the memories and experiences of others and make them my own. And I have to say," she continued, licking her lips, "that I very much enjoyed what I tasted of your life, Captain."
"You… can't."
"Oh yes, I can. You see, I could stop now and you would survive. Your mind would reconnect what I took and you would likely recover completely. But I'm not going to. You had your chance to answer our questions and you chose defiance."
She felt something at her chest and realized that the woman was unbuttoning her blouse.
"So now I'm going to give you more pleasure in the next few minutes than you have experienced in all the rest of your life to date. I'm going to make you come over and over so that I can acquire every last bit of knowledge you hold." She turned to the bishop. "They met Pennylust the day before last. They're on their way to Ringlet. Amberly is with them."
"Nooo…" moaned Scandy, realizing the betrayal she was being forced to give. She heard the man suck in his breath.
"And Marus, she has the Arn. She's been using it."
"I'll make arrangements with the Captain," he said simply and left the room.
When the woman turned her gaze back to Reese, she knew her doom was at hand. Willingly or not, she had already given up her friend, as well as the girl that had likely saved her ship. For their sakes, she needed to try and fight back. But what could she possibly do?
"It's time to teach me to sail, Captain…"
Screwing up every last ounce of will, Scandy clamped her eyes shut. "No! I w-won't give th-that to you!"
"Silly woman. What makes you think you have a choice?" She could feel her shirt being pulled open. A moment later the redhead's warm hands slid up over both of her breasts, her fingers sliding around the Captain's hard nipples. With a sharp gasp, her eyes burst open and she arched her back against a wave of pure pleasure. And there was the woman, her deep green eyes staring down into her, smiling as she was pushed right into new bliss. Captain Scandy barely had time to draw breath before her whole world was tumbling into pieces and being drawn away. She could hear the other laughing as she was fed upon, as her entire life was stolen. The thought of that monster gaining all her learned skills and experience at sea, was enough to give her a tiny moment of clarity. And in that moment, she found and latched onto a single thought, wrapping it up in another thought so that the two were effectively one. And then she was gone, buried alive in her own ecstasy.


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Shostack + Associates > Blog > Maintaining & Updating Software
Maintaining & Updating Software
In the aftermath of Wannacry, there's a lot of discussion of organizations not updating their systems. There are two main reasons organizations don't update the operating systems they run: compatibility and training. Training is simpler — you have to train people about the changes to the Start Menu to move them to Windows 8, and that's expensive. (I sometimes worked with sales people when I was at Microsoft, and they could have managed this much better than they have.)
Compatability is harder. In his excellent blog post on "Who Pays?," Steve Bellovin discusses how "achieving a significant improvement in a product's security generally requires a new architecture and a lot of changed code. It's not a patch, it's a new release." There are substantial changes to the ways memory is managed and laid out between the versions, including ASLR, DEP, CFG, etc. There are many changes and seeing how they impact real programs is hard. That's part of the reason Microsoft released the Enhanced Mitigation Experiment Experience Toolkit.
This doesn't just apply to platforms, it also applies to libraries. (For example, see Jon Callas, "Apple and OpenSSL."
Even when compatibility is generally very high, someone needs to test the code to see if it works, and that costs money. It costs a lot more money if you don't have test code, test documentation (YAGNI!) or if, umm, your test code has dependencies on libraries that don't work on the new platform...It is unlikely that re-certifying on a new platform is less than weeks of work, and for larger products, it could easily extend to person years of work, to maintain software that's already been sold. The costs are non-trivial, which brings me back to Steve Bellovin's post:
There are, then, four basic choices. We can demand that vendors pay, even many years after the software has shipped. We can set up some sort of insurance system, whether run by the government or by the private sector. We can pay out of general revenues. If none of those work, we'll pay, as a society, for security failures.
This is a fair summary, and I want to add two points.
First, it remains fashionable to bash Microsoft for all the world's security woes, there is a far bigger problem, that of open source, which is usually released without any maintenance plan. (My friends at the Core Infrastructure Initiative are working on this problem.)
Code is speech. The United States rarely imposes liabilities on people for speaking, and it seems downright perverse to do so more if they let others use their words.
There may not be an organization, or the author of the code may have explicitly disclaimed that they're responsible. If there is, and we as a society suddenly impose unexpected costs on them, that might inhibit future funding of open source. (As an example, the author of Postfix was paid by IBM for a while. Does IBM have responsibility for Postfix, now that he's left and gone to Google?) How does the "releasing code" calculus change if you're required to maintain it for ever?
The Open Source Definition prohibits discrimination against fields of endeavor, and requires licenses be technology neutral. So it seems hard to release an open source library and forbid the use of code in long-lived consumer goods.
What if Bob makes a change to Alice's code, and introduces a security bug in a subtle way? What if Alice didn't document that the code was managing a security issue? Does she need to fix it?
Second, the costs to society will not be evenly distributed: they're going to fall on sectors with less software acumen, and places where products are repaired more than they're replaced, which tend to be the poorer places and countries.
[Update: Ross Anderson blogs about a new paper that he wrote with Éireann Leverett and Richard Clayton. The paper is more focused on the regulatory challenge that maintaining and updating software provokes than the economics.]
Photo by Pawel Kadysz.
Originally published by Adam on 01 Jun 2017
Last updated on 02 Jun 2017
Categories: economics software engineering

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For some scenarios, such as team collaboration use cases, you might want to equally distribute the space for all video tiles. While in other scenarios, such as a primary speaker use case, you may want to optimize the space for one source. The Vidyo.io framework allows you to choose the right layout for your scenario.
With Vidyo.io, the video is routed through the Vidyo.io cloud and is delivered to the endpoint as individual streams. The video is not composited on the server but instead delivered to the endpoint, allowing a great degree of control over how the video is displayed. Your client application can choose how to composite the video streams. The Vidyo Client SDKs gives you two approaches to displaying the layouts and works for WebRTC, Android, iOS, Windows, and macOS based apps.
With this approach the Vidyo client library composites the video streams for your application. Your application just assigns one single view or window where the video streams will get drawn and passes it to the Vidyo library. Your application can control the size of this view, but it does not have worry about individual video streams. The Vidyo Client SDK will take care of laying them out. You can specify the maximum number of participants you want to see on the screen and the SDK takes care of the rest.
Using this option makes the application code very simple. All you have to do is assign a view to the video conference UI and then you are done. You still get to decide what is the size of that view and you get the freedom to integrate that view with the rest of your application's UI. While you don't have to worry about how many video tiles are actually drawn within that view. The Vidyo SDK takes care of dynamically adding and removing video tiles as they come and go. It will resize the individual tiles accordingly.
While the composited layout takes away all the resize complexity from the developer. Sometimes the scenarios requires specific layout configurations. For example you may have a virtual classroom where you would like the teachers video to take a bigger share of the view space compared to other student video tiles.
In such cases the default composited layout options may not be suitable for your application. In which case you can choose to layout the individual video tiles yourself. The Vidyo SDK will still take care of rendering the video, you can still choose which remote participant video to render, at what size and where it will lie in your application UI.
To choose this option, when you create the VidyoConnector object, you need to pass null (or nil depending on your platform) as the view ID.
Once you pass null in your VidyoConnector constructor, you are basically telling the SDK that you will be handling each video tile yourself. To get notified when these remote participants and their videos come online, you need to register to the camera events.
Along with the remote participant videos, you need to also register to local camera events so that you can show a preview of the self view.
Once assigned if you change the size of the view you can call ShowViewAt to update the video size.
For composited layout, the audio devices (speaker and microphone) is automatically setup, but for custom layout the Vidyo Client SDK waits for the go ahead from the application to start audio devices as well. To configure audio devices in custom layout, all you need to do is call register device events.
Note that you don't have to do anything in the callbacks to have basic audio setup, just register for it.
For most applications, the SDK provided composited layout will work fine. The default composited layout is very simple to use and yet provides a sophisticated group video conference layout. But when you have a specific layout requirement or would like to tune your video layouts, you can always use the custom option.
To see how custom layouts are handled in the platform of your choice, just download the package from https://developer.vidyo.io/packages and check out the samples.


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Santa Florentina (Cartagena, ca. 550 - ca. 612) va ser una religiosa visigoda, fundadora de diversos monestirs femenins, germana d'Isidor de Sevilla i Leandre de Sevilla. És venerada com a santa per diverses confessions cristianes.

Biografia
Filla de Severià, noble hispanoromà, i Túrtura, va néixer a Cartagena cap al 542, tercera de cinc germans, entre els quals hi havia els sants Isidor, Leandre i Fulgenci. Aviat, la família es traslladà a Sevilla i hi consagrà la seva vida a la religió. Com d'altres germans seus, gairebé no se'n conserven dades de la vida.

Potser influïda per Leandre, que havia estat monjo abans que bisbe, va fer-se monja, abans del 600. Va formar una comunitat monàstica amb altres dones: algunes fonts diuen que era a la rodalia d'Écija (Astigi), on el seu germà Fulgenci era bisbe, al convent de Santa María del Valle. Dona de gran cultura, va fundar uns quaranta monestirs, als quals va donar la regla que havia escrit Leandre de Sevilla al seu Regula, sive, Libellus de institutione virginum et de contemptu mundi ad Florentinam sororem, tot i que, més que una regla, és un escrit que lloa la virginitat i el retir com a mitjans per assolir la perfecció cristiana, a més de la temperança en el menjar, beure, etc.

Isidor li dedicà la seva obra De fide catholica contra Judæos.

Veneració
Florentina és venerada com a santa des del temps de la seva mort. La seva festivitat és el 20 de juny i a Plasència, el 14 de març, aniversari de la translació de les seves relíquies. És la santa patrona de la diòcesi de Cartagena i de la diòcesi de Plasència (Càceres). Les seves restes van ésser traslladades, per mantenir-les salves durant la invasió musulmana, a la serra de Guadalupe (Extremadura), i van ésser trobades al  a l'església de San Juan Bautista del poble de Berzocana (Càceres), juntament amb les del seu germà Fulgenci. Una petita part se'n portà a l'Escorial i una altra a l'altar major de la Catedral de Múrcia.

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Bibliografia

 "Santa Fiorentina", en: Santiebeati.com
 Biografia a la Catholic encyclopedia

Vegeu també
 Isidor de Sevilla
 Leandre de Sevilla
 Fulgenci d'Écija
 Quatre Sants de Cartagena

Sants cartageners
Sants de l'anglicanisme
Sants de l'Església Catòlica
Sants de l'Església Ortodoxa
Sants morts al segle VII

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How to Start a Distillery: The Story Behind Eight Oaks Craft Distillery Co.
According to spirits entrepreneur Chad Butters, craft distilling is a "confluence of history [in which] spirits run deep." Chad has made his home in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley, whose history and characteristics inform his business approach. For a military veteran who has lived in many places, he is an encyclopedia of local folklore and a devotee of local farming and local partnerships. For a relative newcomer to the spirits industry, he is a model for anyone who dreams of opening a distillery.
Chad started Eight Oaks Craft Distillery Co. when he planted the first crop of soft red winter wheat just over a year ago. Next came the revival of Pennsylvania's original moonshine and experiments with London Dry and Western style gins. Today, only about six months since Eight Oaks broke ground for its distillery, he has developed a product line, engaged local partners and investors, built an events space, and navigated the particularities of local distribution.
The story of bringing the idea for Eight Oaks to life, with the help of friends and a local community, is both an inspiring account of how to start a distillery and a testament to our country's flourishing demand for local, craft spirits.
When the time came to retire from the military, Chad and his wife, Jody, decided that three values would motivate the selection of their next career: being able to stay home, collaborating with friends and family, and being part of a movement they call agritainment: our society's increasing fascination with local craftsmanship and demand for local, traceable agriculture.
Chad's first move was to learn the 'craft' in craft distilling. He took a workshop through Cornell University and interned with Dry Fly Distilling in Washington State to gain experience.
He brought that knowledge home and learned how it's possible that wheat + water + yeast can produce a soft, clean vodka with notes of buttered rum: it's the soft red winter wheat that grows especially well in Eight Oaks' microclimate. He discovered that crop rotation from wheat to corn in springtime is a good idea (bourbon).
The Eight Oaks team broke ground for the distillery on June 12th, 2015. They ordered a custom still to be made in Stuttgart. When it was ready, the craftspeople who built it in Germany came to Pennsylvania to install it personally.
As soon as the still was installed, Eight Oaks brought in Rob Masters of Epic Distilling in Colorado. At Epic Distilling, Rob produces a golden gin aged in chardonnay barrels. Over a span of 15 days at Eight Oaks, Rob worked with the distillery team, advising on yeast and enzyme selection and technique to create the desired flavor profile.
Chad and his team will continue to confer with friends and experts indefinitely. They call the distillery a "social experiment lab," where visitors on any given day might be invited to taste and vote on a test batch of a new product. None of this learning has delayed Eight Oaks from bottling, branding and selling its product. The team just keeps learning, listening and developing as they go. This business of high spirits is also one of open minds and humble souls.
A distillery usually starts with vodka. Wheat + water + yeast, or sometimes potatoes or another starch that will feed the yeast. Production of Eight Oaks' American Vodka begins in the autumn as soft red winter wheat, grown and harvested on Eight Oaks' own farm and a few neighboring farms. The grains are milled on site, combined pure water from local aquifers and distilled in Eight Oaks' copper pot still using a 25-foot vodka column. Finally, it is charcoal filtered. From the harvest date, it takes only four days to go from grain to glass.
These days, Eight Oaks is tasting and testing botanical blends for gins, with a view to bringing to market both a London Dry gin (more dominant juniper flavor) and a Western style gin (less juniper). Botanicals like citrus, lemongrass and coriander have done well. Mint and sumac have been less successful. Next, Chad would like to try hibiscus and fennel pollen. Whatever the blend, orris root "binds" all of the botanicals together.
The most intriguing product at Eight Oaks is neither universal vodka nor trending gin. It is applejack, which started in Pennsylvania and became its original moonshine (defined as any liquor distributed illegally without paying taxes). It's called applejack because it was historically distilled through freeze distillation, in which the ice is removed. This historic technique does not remove naturally occurring methanol, which is bad news for consumption and moonshine's reputation. Nowadays a modern still is used to remove the methanol.
The "eight" in Eight Oaks comes from Chad's grandfather and father, who both used the number in signing off letters to their loved ones. It stands for the eight letters in "I love you." Oak refers to strength.
The most numerous and culturally influential European settlers in Pennsylvania arrived from Germany. Called the Pennsylvania Dutch, thanks to a mistranslation of Deutsch (German), this cultural heritage has played out in ways that modern-day Germans might not immediately recognize, but which appear everywhere you look in eastern Pennsylvania and western New Jersey, especially if you know how to recognize a hex.
Also known as "barn stars," hexes are prominent design features on many houses in the Lehigh Valley near Eight Oaks. Nowadays, a hex is usually a simplified, decorative five-pointed star. Some have elaborate designs including birds, flowers and propellers. A traditional version has eight points, like the one on the Eight Oaks distillery. In any form, a hex is thought to ward off evil spirits, which seems fitting for any place in the business of generating good spirits.
State regulations of alcohol production and distribution are notoriously variable. In Pennsylvania, distillers can sell directly to bars and restaurants; in other states they cannot. In New York, they can sell at farmers' markets; in Pennsylvania they cannot.
State governments bring decisive benefits, as well. Like other agricultural producers, distillers, brewers and winemakers are sometimes rewarded with state-supported subsidies for training, tax breaks or similar. Learning the intricacies of these laws and how to leverage their unique benefits is crucial to a small, craft distiller's success.
Alongside lessons in choosing yeast strains and how to prepare wheat from a wet growing season (use a grain dryer), Chad has met some great people. He learned quickly that the community of local distilling is actually a national — perhaps international — community of "exceptionally collaborative" people.
Chad says there's nothing he wouldn't do for a fellow distiller, from advice to equipment to supplies.
It goes beyond the community of distillers, too. Wineries, breweries and distilleries in Pennsylvania and New Jersey often swap used barrels to support and share in one another's experimentation and make efficient use of resources.
The tasting room is a creative commons for cocktail ideas, as well. Here is a recipe for a current favorite in the tasting room.
Garnish with an apple slice or a cinnamon stick.


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•	Biomass to Value Added Products, Biomass conversion technologies.
•	Bioprocessing: Fermentation and separation processing .
•	Arise- 2016 by ICAR-IARI.
•	Young researcher from India side in SEE Forum-2011`.
•	Second runner up best project award in I2Tech Open house 2010, Title: Biogas Enrichment and bottling for vehicular application in IIT Delhi.
•	SRF from MHRD ( 2009-2013) at IIT Delhi.


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Matt Ford Retains Tour Card with Nail Biting Finish
Matt Ford, PGA Golfer sponsored by CK Group, Played on of the most important tournaments of his career this past weekend, as the final result would determine whether or not he retained his European Tour Card.
To retain playing privileges for the following year, a player must place in the top 110 in the Race to Dubai rankings. Before the Hong Kong open, Ford was 117th and it looked like he would have to try his hand at Q school again. This was how Ford obtained his first European Tour Card.
As his last tournament of 2015, this meant that Ford had to place somewhere in the top 20 to even have a chance of keeping his Tour Card.
The Hong Kong Open
When it came to the tournament however, a flawless round 2 and score of -6 under sent Ford into T5th place for the weekend.
An unfortunate double bogey at the 9th on Saturday put Ford briefly on +1 for the day after the front nine, but 4 birdies on the back kept him up the rankings going into Sunday.
As the pressure mounted on the final day, Ford dropped 2 shots at 15 and 16 taking him back to par. However, he kept his cool during high stakes and picked up another birdy on 17. The final hole, Ford reached the green in regulation, but left himself with a 40ft putt, finishing the hole on par and placing T7th with a total score of -10.
Tour Card retained
Shortly after finishing, an emotional Ford was interviewed about the pressures of the weekend. You can see that interview here
A few hours later, it was confirmed that Ford was 106th in the Race to Dubai rankings with a total of 262,333 points.
So from all of us at CK Group, congratulations for some fantastic golf this weekend and throughout the year.
Oh, and thanks for keeping it interesting right up to the line!
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Fender Custom Shop Stratocaster Pickups – Which Set Is Best?
January 16, 2022 January 13, 2022 by Frank
Are you ready to breathe new life into your old Strat? One of the best things you can do is upgrade the pickups. In this Fender Custom Shop Stratocaster Pickups roundup review, I'll tell you the differences, pros, and cons of each of their five top-selling sets and reveal my two favorite picks.
Keep reading to learn everything you need to know to turn your Strat into an awesome screaming soloing machine!
Fender Custom Shop Stratocaster Pickups – A Quick Look (Updated List)
Custom Shop Stratocaster Pickups Product Reviews
What Are Replacement Pickup Sets?
Who Are Fender Custom Shop Stratocaster Pickups For?
Fender Company Profile
How Electric Guitar Pickups Work
What To Look For When Buying A Replacement Pickup Set
Proper Pickup Height Is Important!
Frequently Asked Questions About Electric Guitar Pickups
Pickup Set
DC Resistance
1 Fat '50s Alnico 5 Neck: 2.49 Henries, Middle: 2.5 Henries, Bridge: 2.63 Henries Neck: 6.26K, Middle: 6.34K, Bridge: 6.43K Moderate
(3 out of 5) Blues, Rock, Country, Pop, Jazz
2 Custom '54 Alnico 5 Neck/Middle: 2.4 Henries, Bridge: 2.75 Henries Neck/Middle Pickups: 5.9K. Bridge: 6.5K Vintage
(2 out of 5) Blues, Rock, Country, Pop
3 Fat '60s Alnico 2 Neck/Middle/Bridge: 2.8 Henries Neck/Middle/Bridge: 6.7K Hot
4 Custom '69 Alnico 5 Neck/Middle/Bridge: 3.0 Henries Neck/Middle/Bridge: 5.6K Vintage
(1 out of 5) Blues, Rock, Country
5 Texas Special Alnico 5 Neck: 2.57 Henries, Middle: 2.6 Henries, Bridge: 2.97 Henries Neck Pickup: 5.9K. Middle: 6.5K. Bridge: 6.6K Hot
(4 out of 5) Blues, Rock
Here are my reviews for each of the Fender Custom Shop Pickup sets, along with the basic physical and electronic specifications.
Note: all these pickups work best when connected to a 250K volume and tone control.
1. Custom Shop Fat '50s Stratocaster Pickups
The Fender Custom Shop Fat 50 pickups give you the original Strat sound with a reverse-wound middle pickup for hum canceling in positions 2 and 4. They have an enhanced bass response with a very vintage-sounding midrange.
These pickups will give you more of an all-around balanced sound, like the late '50s model Strats.
Magnet Type: Alnico 5
Inductance: Neck: 2.49 Henries, Middle: 2.5 Henries, Bridge: 2.63 Henries
DC Resistance: Neck: 6.26K, Middle: 6.34K, Bridge: 6.43K
Output: Moderate (3 out of 5)
Best For: Blues, Rock, Country, Pop, Jazz
Formvar magnet wire
Reverse-wound middle pickup
Staggered hand-beveled pole pieces for balanced output
Period-correct cloth wire and fiber bobbin
Installation hardware included
Can be a little noisy in positions 1, 3, and 5
A bit pricey (but worth the cost)
2. Custom Shop '54 Stratocaster Pickups
Fender Custom Shop 54 Strat pickups faithfully recreate the sound of the first year of issue Strat, with cutting treble, clear midrange, tight bass, and modest sustain. They helped launch the "Surf Guitar" sound and come installed in the Custom shop Dick Dale Stratocaster.
They have an edgy Strat tone with classic bell tones and clear harmonic enhancement to help you stand out in the band.
These are my favorite 50's replacement pickups. I put a set in my Japanese ash body Strat, and they sound fantastic! Mainly, I love the "distinctive quack" they give you in positions 2 and 4! If you want that classic early Strat sound, pick up a set of these beauties!
Inductance: Neck/Middle: 2.4 Henries, Bridge: 2.75 Henries
DC Resistance: Neck/Middle Pickups: 5.9K. Bridge: 6.5K
Output: Vintage (2 out of 5)
Best For: Blues, Rock, Country, Pop
Formvar magnet wire for brightness and glassiness
Staggered hand-beveled polepieces for balanced output
Can be a little noisy in all positions (normal for single-coil pickups)
Fat '60s Custom Shop pickups give you that sweet vintage 60's Strat sound with crisp articulation, but with an "overwound coil design" for additional low-end punch and a touch of modern attitude.
Beveled alnico 2 magnets give them a warm and sweet sound suitable for jazz tunes. They will give you that early-60s Strat sound!
All in all, this is a very versatile pickup set for a Strat. They sound great with every musical genre.
Inductance: Neck/Middle/Bridge: 2.8 Henries
DC Resistance: Neck/Middle/Bridge: 6.7K
Output: Hot (4 out of 5)
Reverse-wound reverse-polarity middle pickup
The Fender Custom Shop 1969 Strat pickup set has the sound that helped make the '69 Strat the "Holy Grail" of single-coil guitars! They have a punchy tone that helped define some of the best players of the "Woodstock Era."
The height-staggered Alnico 5s and a special grey bobbin provide a unique coil winding and magnetic structure to give them exceptional clarity and transparency. They have a "low-end thump" and "sharp high-end" that makes them sound great with pedals.
These are, hands down, my favorite 60's replacement Fender pickups! I put a set in a Mexican Strat with an Alder body, and they sound so period-authentic, with tons of attitude! They make notes just "snap, crackle, and pop" off the fretboard! Grab a set of these, and you won't regret it.
Best For: Blues, Rock, Country
Enamel-coated magnet wire for warm vintage-style tones
Staggered pole pieces for balanced output
Period-correct cloth wire and gray fiber bobbin
Can be a little noisy in all positions
5. Custom Shop Texas Special Stratocaster Pickups
If you are looking for that hot-rodded "Texas Blues Tone," installing a set of Fender Custom Shop Texas Special Strat pickups is one of the best ways to get it. They are over-wound for higher output with tight bass, midrange bite, and crystalline highs.
These pickups come preinstalled on the Stevie Ray Vaughan, Bonnie Raitt, and American Texas Special guitars.
DC Resistance: Neck Pickup: 5.9K. Middle: 6.5K. Bridge: 6.6K
Best For: Blues, Rock
Enamel-coated magnet wire for warm vintage tone
Reverse-wound middle pickup to eliminate hum
Overwound calibrated pickups for scorching output
Replacement pickup sets are matched to each other and designed to very particular specifications, which allow a player to achieve a specific sound or group of sounds from a guitar.
They can be higher output, mimic the sound of an era (such as the 1950s or '60s), enhance note harmonics, or do anything else that makes them unique.
They are typically available in a 2 or 3 pickup configuration and as single versus double coil (humbucking) pickups. The Stratocaster replacement sets in this article all contain single-coil neck, middle, and bridge pickups.
Replacement sets may come preinstalled in certain guitars or be purchased as aftermarket items to upgrade a guitar's sound.
These pickup sets are for anyone that wants to change or upgrade the sound of their guitar. They can be installed in any guitar routed for three single-coil pickups.
This is an excellent option for players who want a better-sounding guitar but don't have the money to buy a much more expensive instrument.
Alternately, you may already have a high-quality guitar but are looking for a particular sound, perhaps for a specific style of music.
Some players buy a replacement set when one of the pickups in their guitar stops working, and they want to try something totally different, although this is more of a rare occurrence.
Unless you just started playing the guitar today, you are undoubtedly familiar with the Fender brand. These guitars have literally helped define rock n' roll and blues history. Their original factory was in Fullerton California.
Fender guitars are now made in many parts of the world, with the American-made and Custom Shop guitar lines still made with pride in the USA.
The Fender Broadcaster was first introduced in the autumn of 1950. It became known as a "Nocaster" after the Broadcaster label was removed from the headstock to avoid a trademark lawsuit from Gretsch over their "Broadkaster" drum set. The guitar was re-branded the Telecaster and the rest is history!
Fender has also led the way with amplifiers. Their "K&F" (Doc Kauffman and Leo Fender) series were the very first Fender amps, made by the K&F Manufacturing Corporation. These amps formed the basis of the Woodie, Tweed, Blonde, Brownface, Blackface, and Silverface series.
Fender makes an extensive line of pickups for all their guitars and bass guitars. Their Custom Shop pickups are hand-wired with hand-beveled magnetic pole pieces and period-correct wire and bobbins.
Pickup Bobbin & Magnetic Pole Pieces
Here is a straightforward explanation of how an electric guitar pickup is designed and why it creates the sound of the note you play.
A single-coil pickup is essentially an electromagnet in reverse. It consists of six magnetic pole pieces, a pickup bobbin, and a coil of wire.
Each of the six magnets is embedded into the bobbin to run the entire length, from top to bottom.
Single-Coil Pickup
A thin gauge length of wire is wound around the bobbin, and each end is soldered to two thicker wires that carry the electrical signal.
When a guitar string is plucked, it vibrates at a certain frequency, which oscillates the magnetic field of the pole piece just below it.
This creates a voltage and electric current of the same frequency in the wire wound around the pickup's bobbin.
The current is carried along the guitar cord and into the amplifier as the audio signal that creates the speaker's sound.
Opinions can vary on what's most important when selecting replacement pickups. Here are some things you should consider to help you find the most suitable pickup set for you.
The pickups' tone is arguably the most important characteristic and the most common reason why players choose a replacement set. The overall sound of each pickup is primarily determined by its design, which affects the tone of its bass, midrange, and treble frequencies.
The neck, middle, and bridge pickups can be designed differently to give the guitar a characteristic sound.
The pickup output (aka signal strength) is another essential characteristic, and a popular reason players replace their pickups. A pickup may be wound with more wire turns or a different gauge wire to increase or decrease its signal output.
Pickups with a higher signal output are also called "hotter" pickups, which gives them more "attack" and makes them more likely to distort and sustain notes musically. The bridge pickup is usually wound hotter for lead tones.
Single-coil pickups are susceptible to picking up electromagnetic interference or "noise" from the room or even your fingers as you touch the guitar. All single-coil pickups have some degree of noise. Double coil or "humbucking" pickups are designed to eliminate the noise.
All the pickup sets in this article are of single-coil design. Some of the sets have a reverse-wound middle pickup so that when selected in combination with the neck or bridge pick (switch positions 2 and 4), there is a noise cancellation effect, similar to a double-coil humbucking pickup.
Double-coil humbucking pickups can be made with the coils stacked vertically instead of placed horizontally. This allows the pickup to fit in a guitar with a single-coil pickup cavity.
If you are looking for an authentic "single-coil sound," then you will have to deal with some degree of noise in your music. The guitar's noise can be minimized by rolling off the treble a little, properly grounding your amplifier, or using a noise gate pedal in your signal chain.
When installing a set of replacement pickups, the pickup height adjustment is vital to get the best sound and playability out of your guitar!
The best height setting for the new pickups will not necessarily be the same as those of the old set.
Some players set their single-coil pickups as close as possible to the strings, especially the bridge pickup, to get the highest output. This can change the string vibration and adversely affect the guitar's intonation. For more info, see How To Keep An Electric Guitar In Tune.
The height of each pickup has a "sweet spot," where the pickup sounds and functions best. When setting the pickup height, begin at the lowest possible position and slowly raise the pickup while playing the guitar between each incremental adjustment.
The sweet spot will be obvious when you hear it. This is where you should leave the pickup. If you need a more aggressive sound, you can adjust your amp's volume and master volume settings or use an overdrive pedal.
Here are some of the most common questions players ask me about electric guitar pickups.
How Do I Know What Pickups To Get For My Guitar?
Selecting the "proper" pickups is most often a matter of personal taste. The pickups that you like best might not be the same for another player. The more discriminating your criteria, the more complex the process can be.
Watching videos on pickup replacement sets will not always give you the right idea of how they will sound in your particular guitar plugged into your amp, but they can help point you in the right direction.
More experienced players usually have a better idea of what they are looking for and can use technical specs, like magnet type, inductance, and DC resistance, to help them narrow down their choices.
Ultimately, it's a process of trial and error. Some guitar players change pickup sets more than once or put in a replacement set and then change a single pickup (usually the bridge position) to really nail the sound they are after.
What Is The Best Guitar Pickup Configuration?
The best pickup configuration depends on the sound you are trying to achieve. The two things that matter most are the pickup type and the number of pickups in your guitar.
For a 3-pickup Strat, the most common configuration is SSS (three single-coil pickups), which will give you the most iconic sound. Metal players typically use an SSH configuration, which puts a humbucking pickup in the bridge position for a lead tone that can push an amplifier harder and enhance natural sustain and harmonics.
Using an HSH configuration (with a single-coil pickup in the middle position) is very versatile because you can get a mix of single-coil and humbucking sounds by combining both pickup types in switch positions 2 and 4.
What Is The Most Versatile Guitar Pickup?
The most versatile guitar pickup is probably a double-coil (humbucking pickup) because you can "split" the coils using a "tap switch" on your guitar. This lets you use both pickup coils or shut off one of the coils to use it in single-coil mode.
Note that a split humbucker will not necessarily give you the single-coil sound you want, but it will be a good option if you usually play in double-coil mode.
Are Hand Wound Pickups Better?
Hand-wound pickups can sound and perform better than machine-wound pickups if they are made correctly. The coil windings are "scatter wound," which staggers each turn instead of laying them down side by side the way a machine would do.
Some pickup winding machines can be set to simulate the scatter winding process, but these pickups don't seem to sound as good as some that are hand-wound by highly experienced professionals.
Do Guitar Pickups Affect Sustain?
Guitar pickups can affect the duration that the sound of a note or chord is sustained. Humbucking pickups generally help sustain notes longer than single-coil pickups. Adjusting a pickup closer to the strings can increase sustain.
The way a guitar is built can have a more significant effect on sustain than the pickups. The type of wood used in a guitar's construction and the body thickness are determining factors.
Do Guitar Pickups Get Better With Age?
The sound of a guitar pickup will change over time. The pickup magnets will eventually weaken as they continue to age. Jazz players may perceive this as a change for the better, while metal players will probably want to replace the pickups to get louder ones. It's really a matter of personal taste
As a guitar's wood continues to age, it might resonate better, especially if the body has a natural finish or a thin coat of lacquer. This improvement in the guitar's sound is often mistakenly attributed to an aging pickup set.
Fender Custom Shop Stratocaster pickups are an excellent way to improve your guitar's sound. All their pickup sets are top-quality high-performing replacements for your Strat or any three single-coil pickup guitar.
There is no one-best replacement set, although I like the sound of the Custom Shop '54 and Custom Shop '69 best. It's all a matter of personal taste.
Each pickup has its own "sweet spot" for height adjustment. Setting your pickups closer to the strings is not necessarily better! It's essential to find the height where the pickup sounds and performs best, which can be different for each pickup and guitar.
Checking out the sound of these pickup sets on demonstration videos can give you a basic idea of their sound. Be aware that different guitars and even your playing technique can affect their sound and performance. Some of the consumer reviews on various websites can also be helpful.
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Robin Rasmussen
I really enjoyed this article on Stratocaster pickups. Very informative stuff here!! There doesn't seem to me like there is enough of this type of in depth content on anything out there, especially in music. I am definitely glad I found your website and I will bookmark it and come back. There is so much more throughout the website I want to check out. Keep up your great work. Much appreciated.
Hi, Robin
I'm thrilled to hear that you enjoyed my article. These are all awesome replacement sets if you have a Strat or another three single-coil pickup guitar!
Leahrae
Seems like they all have the same pros and cons. I am not a guitar player, but my son is. I guess I need to find out a little bit more on what he has been looking at purchasing for his guitar. I know that it is always something. And he has been pretty excited learning and playing. I would probably go with a double coil humbucking pickup. Since that is the most versatile.
Hi, Leahrae
The pickups in this article are all single-coil, which can be noisy by nature, especially if played through a high-gain amp or with overdrive and distortion pedals. Single-coil pickups have a particular sound that double-coil (humbucking) pickups can't duplicate.
If your son has a guitar with single-coil pickups, then classic (side-by-side coil configuration) humbuckers will not fit the pickup cavities. Vertically stacked humbuckers are available that have the same footprint as single-coil pickups, so they can be installed without routing the guitar body.
If he is a beginning player, he is probably doing fine with the pickups that came pre-installed with his guitar.
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Q: Need more disk space for Mongo I am getting the following exceptions in my Mongo
13,08 07:06:06:356 [|||] [ajp-bio-9207-exec-3] ERROR errors.GrailsExceptionResolver - CommandFailureException occurred when processing request: [POST] /MerchantBridge_stable/saks/importdata
{ "serverUsed" : "10.157.192.16:27017" , "ok" : 0.0 , "errmsg" : "Can't take a write lock while out of disk space" , "code" : 14031}. Stacktrace follows:
com.mongodb.CommandFailureException: { "serverUsed" : "10.157.192.16:27017" , "ok" : 0.0 , "errmsg" : "Can't take a write lock while out of disk space" , "code" : 14031}
        at com.mongodb.CommandResult.getException(CommandResult.java:76)
        at com.mongodb.CommandResult.throwOnError(CommandResult.java:131)
        at com.mongodb.DBCollection.drop(DBCollection.java:1015)

I am guessing I need to set something in the mongod.conf file.
Any tips?

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Another option is to nuke it from orbit! If you're using a VM, you could always scrap it and rebuild. This will require a full rebuild, but that might be easier than trying to repartition your VM's hard drive.

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The movie, the third man (1949) has a story line based on the emerging socio-economic and moral corruption issues in a quickly crumbling and depressed Vienna in events culminating after the World War II (Dirks). The title 'the third man' elementally describes the missing link in the mysterious death of Harry Lime. During this war time period different European nations demonstrated varying alliances towards the fundamentals of war and destruction. As a result, the culminating events led to a manifestation of varying forms of civilization and development initiatives focusing on the science, art and knowledge enhancement domains. This is supported by character Harry Lime's statement that, "… in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock." This speech by Harry Limes is essentially delivered during a meeting between him and Limes at the Prater amusement park. I agree Harry Lime's statement, because the onset of war was fundamentally based on global competition, economic prosperity, and enhancement of life, which implied that these nations had to institute significant scientific research, technology and art, all of which represented the fundamentals of a civilized society.
The fundamental of war was elementally aimed at attaining a desired economic advantage among all other nations. This fact implied that nations engaging in war had to constantly devise new methods, in order stay atop the economic ladder. This therefore prompted the constant involvement of the nation in constant research activities with an aim of developing better equipment and making life easy through enhancement of technology. The input into war required significant technological enhancement, which at the time Borgias did not have. In a bid to the best and outwit other nations of the world, scientific research had to be carried out focusing on all domains of life, which at the time include, science, technology, art, and knowledge. Therefore apart from developing war machines, the same knowledge would be used to enhance other development factors. During the American Civil war, the strategic use of railroads as a means of moving military forces and material as in the 1870 Franco Prussian War in Europe formed the precursors of scientific strategic support of the World War (Newell 106). This aspect therefore saw the application of rail road network on a large scale leading to the development of the rail network and enhancement of better railroad machinery. Therefore, war activities promoted scientific objectives in other primitive settings, since each of the nations made an attempt of proving to be better than the other.
The destruction caused essentially called for reconstruction in a bid to make a new face of events. The Italian renaissance marked a period of rapid cultural changes leading to the great strides being made in regard to progression from medieval to early modern Europe. This came after the Borgias constant ar like activities. In essence, renaissance in English means rebirth or to start over again. This further serves to represent the synonymy with the war period, since after the war events a lot of destruction was left behind leading to the need for a major restructuring to take place. Restructuring essentially led to people bidding farewell to early heathen ways, through the adoption of modern approaches. The modern approaches entailed the significant application of scientific concepts, some of which may have been associated with war. Newel Clayton further adds that, "both science and war were able to develop mathematical equations and principles which would approximate theory, what could be observed in practice. A French physicist, Laplace, imagined that one day a powerful mathematical formula would explain everything…" (104). These developments show that indeed war has a direct association with the development of effective restoration efforts manifested in the form of science.
War had a negative notion on the people, which consequently spurred the population to react to an aggressive leadership through art. Therefore the onset of the renaissance cam easily is connected to the Borgias war period during which artists sought to make a land mark through different art forms. Symonds admits that, "Men whose attention had been turned to the history of discoveries and inventions...will point out the benefits conferred upon the world by the arts...will insist that at the moment of the Renaissance all these instruments of mechanical utility started into existence, to aid the dissolution of what was rotten and must perish" (3). Michelangelo was a great artist who elementally pursued abstractism, as most of his art work diverted from the traditional perspective of iconic images and adopted new trends. The application of abstract art forms by Michelangelo can be seen as a mode of expression which was not only used by him, but also by other phenomenal artists. This symbolizes a tendency of people adopting new thought platforms all in a bid at achieve phenomenal development initiatives, through the expression of art forms. Symonds further supports that, "The history of the Renaissance is not the history of arts, or of sciences, or of literature, or even of nations. It is the history of the attainment of self-conscious freedom by the human spirit manifested in the European races" (3).
The end results of war brought about an interaction between different communities, nations, and localities, which essentially led to the development of new perceptions with regard to cultural enhancements and new civilization concepts. Civilization essential represented progression of the human society towards better life approaches. Symonds further supports this fact by adding that, "...the fragments of Roman civilization had either to be destroyed or assimilated; the Germanic nations had to receive culture and religion from the people they had to receive culture and religion from the people they had superseded; the Church had to created, and a new form given to the of empire" (4). This emancipation of new culture forms essentially led to the development of new art forms. This is because naturally, art represents the culture of a people and spurs the formation the deveelopment of identification, since art is specific to a particular period, meaning, and setting. In addition, the onset of a new culture represented the actual entrance of civilization as new modes of culture began being practiced by the population.
An outlook on relatively peaceful nations serves to reveal the manner in which these nations were less associated with development initiatives especially with scientific progress. Previously nations showing great strides towards the achievement of democracy made less effort in integrating science, since science was essentially seen as a form of decreasing human freedom and dependability. According to Harry Lime's statement, this aspect is true in the sense that technological achievements are predominantly associate\d with nations which had legions of armies and actively participated in war. This is especially because war demanded input of technology and science concepts both in the execution of battlefield strategies and machinery. According to Newell Clayton, "with the increasing reliance on high technology solutions in conducting and supporting war, the need to understand the relationship between art and science is essential to all aspects of war, and logistics is indeed an essential element of war from all three perspectives" (104). Moreover, the fundamental chaos associated with war is a true element in that in a bid to restore the previous status quo new mechanisms had to be adopted. Newell figuratively cements this fact by expounding that the study of war ordinarily seeks to eliminate the existence of chaos, while studying war ordinarily eliminates the inherent chaos through technological solutions (Newell 104). Hence, basing on Newell's argument non-warring countries essentially had no significant chaos other then concentrating in the sustenance of existing systems.
It is evident, that the period of war, terror and bloodshed is essentially synonymous with the progression towards development of new art forms, enhancement of scientific approaches, and economic prosperity. Research also reveals that there is very little association of peace and brotherly love and scientific progression, new art forms and prosperity. During this war time period different European nations demonstrated varying alliances towards the fundamentals of war and destruction. These alliances reveal the expressed notions in the respective nations, through documented scientific innovations, literature and art. Hence, the movie the third man (1949) depicts an increasing affection towards the concept of war and territorial power as major drives leading to the development of significant progress with regard to science, art, and knowledge, while the opposite is true with regard to peace and prosperity. Newell further supports this fact by adding that "there is certainly a science to supporting war, but there is also an art to coping with the chaos of war" (104). Harry Lime's statement therefore serves to support the fact that the onset of war, which was fundamentally based on global competition, economic prosperity, and enhancement of life, leading to the institution of significant scientific research, technology innovation and revolution of art, all of which stand to represent the fundamentals of a civilized society.


The explanation should read: the standar Temp is 15C so if the reported temp is -10, at 9000ft de temp is 25c colder than standar temp.
The explanation should read: Answer A, 7 degrees C, is correct. The standard temperature at sea level is 15C. The standard temperature at 9000 feet is -3C (9000 x -2C per 1000 feet = -18C, subtracted from 15C equals -3C). If the forecast temperature at 9000 feet is -10C, the forecast is 7C colder than the standard temperature of -3C at 9000 feet.


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Paul Manafort's Former Son-in-Law Sentenced to 9 Years in Prison For Scamming More Than $13 Million
Jerry LambeNov 9th, 2019, 5:59 pm
A California federal judge on Friday sentenced Paul Manafort's former son-in-law to over nine years in prison for defrauding several individuals in a series of fraudulent real estate deals totaling more than $13 million according to a report from the Associated Press.
Jeffrey Yohai, who married the former Trump campaign manager's daughter Jessica in 2017, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and wire fraud in a wide-ranging variety of scams.
In addition to his incarceration, U.S. District Judge Andre Birotte Jr. ordered Yohai to repay $6.7 million for his crimes, some of which were perpetrated while he was free on bond for a different series of real estate scams. Yohai's sentence is more than a year longer than the sentence Manafort received after a Virginia jury convicted him of fraud and tax crimes last year.
"This is an individual who has an evil mind — I don't know how else to say it," Judge Birotte reportedly said. "It seems he felt he could do whatever he wants – but that buck stops here."
According to the report, Yohai's crimes included renting luxury homes without the knowledge or permission of the homeowners and hocking backstage VIP passes to exclusive events such as Coachella that never existed – he even conned Dustin Hoffman out of $3 million, getting the Academy award-winning actor to invest in a fraudulent real estate project then using the funds for personal expenses.
Prosecutors initially requested Yohai be sentenced to 15 years in prison. Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Brown said Yohai had "done tremendous damage to a huge number of victims," in court documents filed in September.
"The Defendant has shown an almost unbelievable compulsion to defraud others, to the point that he could not stop even while awaiting this court's judgment on him in the first case, which strongly suggests that he will continue on his criminal path despite having been blessed with so many advantages," Brown wrote.
"Worse, he seems to enjoy committing fraud and revels in cheating others out of their hard-earned money, as though he thought real work was only for patsies," he added.
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