INPUT ARTICLE: Article: The virus that causes warts can spread when skin cells are shed off of them. This means that you can get it from touching someone else's warts. If you do touch a wart, wash your hands afterword. This can wash away the virus before it enters your skin through a tiny cut or abrasion. If you have a wart, it is important to wash your hands after treating them. This will help you prevent spreading the warts to other people. If you have a wart, you should cover it with a bandage, tape, or a glove. Covering your warts will minimize the chance of you spreading them to other people. If you have palmar warts on your palms, avoid shaking hands with people when you meet them without having the warts covered. There are a variety of ways you can get the virus that causes warts from other people without having direct contact with their skin. For example, you can get warts from using personal products, such as razors or towels, that have previously been used by people with warts. Also, wear flip flops or shoes in areas where the wart virus can thrive. For example, always wear them in locker rooms and public showers. The virus that causes warts thrives in warm, wet areas, so these places are natural breeding grounds for it.

SUMMARY: Don't touch warts. Cover warts. Protect yourself.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Since know-it-alls are essentially correcting all misinformation by providing the "right" answer, they are, by implication, putting you in your place. This is a serious challenge to your authority and self-esteem. Know-it-alls, however, cannot help themselves because they think they are doing you a favor by informing or correcting you. In these circumstances, try not taking it personally by taking a few deep breaths or taking time to think about your response before blurting out some offensive statement that will only embarrass yourself. Remember, know-it-alls do not perceive most people as stupid or uneducated; rather, they have just not learned the difference between presenting a fact compared to an opinion. So, keep calm and collected and just let their replies roll of your back. Not every response by a know-it-all needs to be addressed. Doing so will only exhaust and stress you out. Try to keep moving forward by either ignoring them or simply say, "thanks for the suggestion," instead of getting involved in a fruitless conversation that you did not care about to begin with. Ask yourself, "is the situation so distressing that it needs to be addressed?" This is an important question if you become emotional. By asking this question, you can bring yourself back to reality and decide whether a response is healthy or harmful. To avoid a confrontational encounter with a know-it-all, keep your conversations non-aggressive. Smile, take a deep breath, and avoid using sarcasm no matter how tempting. Keeping the conversation light and humorous allows you to shake it off without further worry. If you feel yourself unable to smile or laugh it off, take a step back. By taking a moment to disengage, it will be easier to recognize how silly it was to get mad in the first place. Try to reframe the situation in a way that you are viewing your response as a spectator. In a frustrating situation, try to recognize the potential humor in just how ridiculously annoying it is. In this case, take the situation to an extreme that is impossibly ridiculous to the point that it makes you laugh. Even a fake smile helps release endorphins, making you feel better and happier. By placing yourself in a happier place makes it easier to keep your sense of humor in trying times. If all else fails, do not invite them out, do not frequent their favorite places, and do not return their phone calls or emails. Although this is cruel on many levels, maintaining your sanity and health is more important. If you work with a know-it-all it might be hard to avoid them. You might have to pretend not to hear them, smile politely and not respond to them, or leave the area when you know they are approaching. Change the topic of conversation to something they are not interested in or cut them short when they try to reply. This lets them know that you are not interested.

SUMMARY: Do not take it personally. Choose your battles. Keep your sense of humor. Try avoiding them.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: This is reverse polarity. As you are welding, keep your electrode extended between " and 3/8" from the contact tube. This will help make for a clean, regular weld. Use carbon dioxide as an economical choice to provide deeper penetration on steel. This will be too hot for thin metals though. Use argon for aluminum welding, and a mix of argon (75%) and carbon dioxide (25%) for thinner steel. The angle should not exceed 10 degrees in either technique. Keep the wire at the front edge of your weld pool. This will give you greater control over your weld. Drag welding pulls the bead along with the tip. This will give you a deeper penetration and a narrower bead. Push welding pushes the bead with the tip. This will give you a wider bead. Use the welder to place material directly into the joint. You can use a back and forth method to fill large gaps. For flat joints, hold the gun at a 90 angle. You must lower the gun angle slightly to keep the filler from sagging. Keep the same push or pull angle as normal. Use a back-and-forth weave motion to fill large gaps. Keep the amperage the same as a flat weld. You may need to use a slightly smaller diameter wire to keep the weld pool from getting too big. For thin materials, start at the top and move the pool down with gravity. This keeps the arc from penetrating the material. For thicker metals, start at the base and work up. This will help increase penetration. You may want to lower the amperage by around 10-15% to help fight gravity. Use standard welding techniques, but increase your travel speed. This will help prevent filler from falling out of the joint. You may need to increase your gas flow rate. Keep your nozzle clean, as spatter will build up faster when welding overhead. Once you are done with the weld process, grind off any excess filler. If the weld is defective, grind it down and re-weld the joint.

SUMMARY:
Set the welding machine polarity to DCEP. Keep a consistent electrode length. Use the proper shielding gas. Weld a joint using a drag or push welding technique. Make a flat weld. Make a horizontal weld. Make a vertical weld. Make an overhead weld. Finish the weld.