 come with 2-for-1 deals and some come with great warranties.
Often times when there’s a product you have to have, they tend to be super expensive but that’s not the case here.
We know you’ve used a sticker or decal before and the same rules apply here. Objects stick and adhesives work best when the item they are sticking to is clean.
The best way to ensure a surface is clean and ready for you to stick is to clean the area with alcohol. Take a paper towel, dish rag, or cotton ball and wipe down the entire side that you wish to adhere your mat to (P.S. You should be doing this semi-frequently to clean the outside of your tank anyway).
Once you’ve done this, wait for the entire surface to dry. Now you should have a surface that is squeaky clean and free from debris. Remember that once you’ve stuck your self-adhering mat you won’t be able to move it, so pick your placement wisely.
As we mentioned before, you’ll want to observe your pet’s behaviors and do a little research on your pet’s habits before selecting a spot. But after doing this you are totally good to go.
If you have a primary heat source in your tank that is on for part of the day, you do not need to run your secondary heat pads at the same time. In fact, this could cause the tank and your pet to overheat.
Instead, switch these on when you turn the primary heat source off so that even heat distribution remains in your tank.
We worked to make you aware of all of the safety hazard potentials in these products and how to prevent them. The most important being fire safety and awareness when installing these pads on the bottom of your tank.
You absolutely must leave ventilation space between the bottom of your tank and the surface that your tank is on (the table, dresser, cabinet, whatever). Doing so will ensure that air is moving underneath and that the pad, the glass, and your pet don’t get too hot.
We love products on our list that can be used for many different animals. Most of the products you see here are ideal for desert and tropical reptiles and amphibians so you won’t have to look too hard for a specialized (and likely more expensive) pad.
q: Can I keep this turned on round-the-clock?
Yes you can. Reptiles that require basking light will need heat lamps overhead during the day and will rely on heating pads in the evening. However, reptiles that don’t need basking light will solely rely on heating pads.
These pads are safe to be left on all day long, day after day. If you adhere your pad to the side of the tank, make sure it isn’t coming into contact with anything that might be flammable. If you’ve stuck the pad on the bottom of the tank, make sure you’ve elevated the tank so there is airflow between the pad and whatever surface the tank is on.
In other words, don’t sandwich the pad between a table and the tank without leaving space for air to move between. This could be a fire hazard.
q: What is a substrate?
Substrate is the ground on which an animal lives. They bask, they eat, they grow there. Some reptiles require denser substrates with lots of bedding, while others prefer thinner layers. This is totally species based.
If your animal requires a dense substrate, then you are advised against placing your heating pad on the bottom of the cage. For one, the heat won’t carry through all of the layers so you won’t be getting what you could out of your product, and for two, this could cause a potential fire hazard. The more you know.
q: Can I put the heating pad inside the tank?
We suggest no doing so for a few reasons. First of all, you don’t want to place any electronics or cords inside of the tank where your pet can get to them. While electronics are insulated, your pet may bite them or the insulation may wear away and they could electrocute your pet.
Additionally, placing the heating pad inside could cause it to come in direct contact with flammable items like mulch and wood. While it is okay for these items to be exposed to heat indirectly, direct heat can cause a bit of a problem.
 Placing your mat on the outside of the tank helps to keep your pet safe.
q: How do reptile heating pads work?
These heat mats work just in the same way that human heating pads work. They have internal coils that heat up when electric currents run through them.
Breaking up is one of the hardest things that people can do. Sometimes the light can just fade between the two and it’s tough for somebody to finally end it. Other times, it isn’t so hard when the other person does something completely stupid. It’s still hard to get into a conflict, so it’s easy to leave passive-aggressive notes and avoid confrontation. Luckily, some of those disasters have been documented by people who have received them or found others, and the results are nothing but hilarious.
It seems a little extreme to post a break-up letter in such a public area, especially one that costs a lot of money. Probably the only thing costlier would be for a plane to fly the message over the world.
This letter gets a lot of points for the very detailed picture of the giraffe, not to mention that it’s hilarious. Still, you probably can’t say that you’re having a tough time with something, then you spend a lot of time on an animal drawing.So...you've been seeing each other non-exclusively for over a year?

  I personally can't imagine a reason I would tell someone I've been seeing for that long that we will have zero contact for more than two weeks, especially without some sort of valid explanation (no cell service, vow of silence, being hunted for sport...that sort of thing).  

It sounds sketchy to me, but without understanding his side of the story, I can't really say whether or not you should reach out.  You should *definitely* have a serious conversation when he returns though.  

Also, in the spirit of honesty, the 20-year age gap strikes me as a little odd too.  But you didn't ask for advice about that, so I'll just leave it at that.Voting Rights/Why make it harder?
It seems as though we are being counterproductive by discouraging our citizens to vote. There has always been the idea to "get out the vote", get the people to the polls to vote. Why stop now? We need the government to reflect the will of the people. This movement to control by claiming smaller government is needed is really limiting our rights and freedom. Listen to what the people say- if you listen to the "Occupiers of Wall Street" you will understand what I am referring to.\section{Introduction}\label{sec:introduction}
\IEEEPARstart{S}{upported} by large-scale annotated datasets \cite{1,2},  intelligent models, \textit{e}.\textit{g}., convolutional neural networks (CNNs)  \cite{3,4,5,6} and transformers  \cite{7,8}, have presented encouraging breakthroughs in visual recognition in the last decade. From 2012 to 2022, the top-5 accuracy of image recognition task on ImageNet1k has rapidly increased from 83\% to 98\% \cite{9,10}. However, due to the long-tailed distribution of categories, instance collection for rare objects in standard supervised learning is practically expensive and time-consuming \cite{10,11,12}. With few training exemplars or category-unbalanced datasets, popular intelligent models usually fail to present state-of-the-art results.\cite{13,14}\par  
To address the challenge, zero-shot learning (ZSL) \cite{15,16} is designed to train a model capable of recognizing unseen objects based on the dataset of seen objects. In comparison with traditional supervised learning task, there are unique techniques for ZSL to achieve knowledge transfer from seen classes to unseen classes \cite{17,18,19,20}. On the one hand, some auxiliary information, \textit{e}.\textit{g}., attribute or textual description of class label, is used in ZSL to bridge the class gap between seen and unseen classes. This technique, known as \textit{semantic features} \cite{21,22,23,24}, allows to identify a new object by having only a description of it. The semantic features can be obtained by manual annotation or individual representation models. For example, eighty-five manually annotated attributes are used in the benchmark Animals with Attributes (AWA) dataset \cite{15} to describe fifty kinds of animals, and 1,024-dimensional features extracted by the character-based CNN-RNN model \cite{25} are used in the benchmark Oxford Flowers (FLO) dataset \cite{26} to describe 102 kinds of flowers. On the other hand, empirical studies \cite{27,28,29,30} have indicated that replacing the original images with the features from a pre-trained CNN, known as \textit{visual features}, makes ZSL more effective for recognition task. Currently, the visual features used in benchmark datasets are 2,048-dim top-layer pooling units of ResNet101 \cite{13}, which is pre-trained on ImageNet 1K \cite{1} and not finetuned. With the well-designed semantic and