The invention relates to systems and methods of global load balancing in a content delivery network having a plurality of edge servers which may be distributed across multiple geographic locations. The neck assembly can include a light-system disposed therein. The linear feedback shift register is initialized. The thickness of each heater element is less than 0. The reverse-conversion may include converting into text, information that may be necessary to support a precision required by the relevant convention of the numeric representation and a convention for determining the data type of the textual representations of values.