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The bacon bits are artificial but, it has "natural bacon flavor". In my book, natural bacon flavor comes from bacon and bacon comes from pigs, so has somebody invented a kosher pig? Is there some loophole in the kosher rules that lets this happen?

Lennox gas hot water furnace series Q90-100, model GWB9 100IH, Honeywell L6006A aquastat, & S-9301A integrated boiler control. Weird problem, unit starts normally, purges, heats igniter, fires up perfectly, then after around 2 minutes goes on-off-on-off rapidly about 2-5 times, then shuts off, then purges, heats, fires up again like nothing happened. Does this repeatedly. When/if aquastat threshold is reached (180F), it shuts off normally and waits for it too cool until the differential point is reached before restarting. I measured the voltage at the gas valve input when the "on-off" thing is occurring and the voltage (24vac) is actually going on-off (like the S-9301A, for some reason, is "telling" it to do this). I opened it up and checked the circuit board for cracks, bad solder joints, burnt up parts, sockets & connectors & wires for bad/loose/corroded connections etc, nothing obvious. There are two bimetallic disk temperature sensors, one on the boiler casing itself which is a manual re-set and one on the blower casing, both seem to be OK. Anyway, what I am trying to find out is, is this a symptom of a bad boiler control? (This is an expensive part and I don't want to buy it and find out it was something else).

PS sorry about the "long story"

I keep getting messages about "someone voted for your answer", but it is like from old questions (like up to 7 years ago)! It started when they did their last "re-organization" of the site. Does anybody know what is going on? Were these questions like stagnated in the system, like never resolved or what?

There may be some leftovers from thanksgiving and, although I'm certain the dog will lunge at it, I don't want him to get sick (I never see turkey flavored dog food, dog treats, etc so wondering if there is something about turkey not being good for dogs).

I have a 2005 Dodge Dakota, 2WD, 6 cyl, ~48Kmi, that has been giving a strange error. All the idiot lights (check engine, brakes, etc) work fine, come on breifly when starting then all go out, everything seems OK. However, where the digital odometer is supposed to have numbers, it says "ErrOr" ! Vehicle seems to start up and drive fine.

This is not listed in the manual and when I called the service department at 2 different Dodge dealers and neither had ever heard of it!

Anyway what I am hoping is:

1] Somebody else out there had this happen and remembers what was done to fix it. (even if it is complicated and I can't do it myself, at least when I go to the dealer, I can suggest where to start looking for the problem)

2] Will it hurt anything to drive it this way until it gets fixed

Thanks!

When you look at your face in a small mirror, such as a make up mirror, you can see your whole face (or nearly all of it) even though the mirror is clearly way smaller than your face. Yet, when you look at yourself in a big mirror, your face looks normal sized. As best I can determine, both of the mirrors are totally flat glass, so, no lens-like effects are going on. Does anybody know how/why this happens?

I got some glasses on line, they also sent me the fake plastic lenses that would have been in the frames if they were on display at a optical shop. Am I supposed to save these for something, or is this how they get rid of their trash?

For example, if I ever got new lenses put in these frames, would they need them for a template, or is there some other rational reason for saving them?

Thanks in advance!

The local grocery store is having a "guess the weight of the cheese" contest. The cheese in question is one of those big cylindrical mozzarella cheeses (~ 3 feet long x 8 inches dia) with the ropes knotted around it (looks like cheese in bondage, you usually see them hanging in the Itallian food stores). I suspect these cheeses are made in a fairly standard size/weight, does anybody happen to know what that weight is? If not, does anybody know the density of mozzarella cheese? (All the technical treatises I consulted were sadly deficient in the area of chese density). Thanks.

I've never seen or heard of an ape going bald, or a male lion losing it's mane, etc.

Why is this specific metal used ? Why not zinc or steel? Copper is kind of an expensive metal, so there must be a reason why copper is used for this purpose.

If a person tried to breathe like a dog when it is panting for even a few minutes, they would get feeling weird and dizzy and might even pass out. This doesn't seem to happen with dogs; what's going on?

When they measure caloric content of foods I believe, a sample is burned in a calorimeter, and heat output is measured. But, when it is digested by people, obviously, not everything we eat is being converted to energy. (I'll spare you the details). Do they take this into account when they publish caloric values of foods?

Before they had Transitions lenses, they had a kind of eyeglass lens that changed color but they were made of glass, (not plastic); can you still get these?

The reason I would prefer the glass lenses is where I work we have a lot of abrasive grit which absolutely trashes plastic lenses. The so-called anti-scratch coatings are useless. Also I can clean the glass lenses with some pretty "rude" solvents when they get spray paint, mastic, caulk, tar and other such stuff on them which you can't do with the plastic lenses. I have even cleaned them with 0000-grade steel wool when they got alkoxysilane compounds on them! The weight of glass vs plastic is not an issue as my perscription is not very strong. Sorry about the long story, just wanted to give you all the info.

When they introduce new words into languages where the nouns have genders (such as Spanish, French, German etc) how do they decide what gender the new words will have?

Is there a special government committee that assigns it or what?

I have never heard of there being different sizes of panda bears. I would think, if there was only one known size, it would be called "regular-size panda" , "medium panda", or just panda.

When you go into "Society and Culture" the list of sub-classes starts with "Community Service":

But, if you Click on ANY sub-class within "society and Culture",(such as "Etiquette") and click on a question, (as if you were contemplating answering it) when the choices under "Society and Culture" reappear at the side, they now start with "Bull Fighting"!

When you click on "bull Fighting" there is never any questions there. It seems this procedure is the only way to get to this sub-class; you can't directly go to it.

Note; this has been repeatible over several weeks, so it's probably not a temporary "glitch" in YA.

Is this just my computer is messed up, or have other people observed this same phenominon?

Note: please don't shave your dog for the 10 pts!

Sometimes, they have to shave part of a dog for an operation or something, so I figure somebody has seen if this is the case or not.

Most explosives work by a chemical reaction that creates a large amount of gas pressure very fast to split rock, destroy something etc. And, it is known that applying pressure will shift the equilibrium of a reaction that forms gases towards the side with the least number of moles of gas (reactants side in the case of explosives). If you were to make some kind of containment system that was so strong it could not be blown up (like some very very heavy-walled metal chamber; I'm talking several yards thick walls [or something like that]) and filled a relatively small cavity in it with TNT, PETN or similar explosive material so there was no void space whatsoever and hermetically sealed the chamber with some means whereby the "door" was just as strong as the walls so there was no way it could blow out and the charge was set off by remote control in some manner; would the material be able to explode? Or maybe a small portion, then the reaction would be quenched?

Does anybody know: 1] How they know they have given enough of the numbers that you can solve the puzzle? 2] How do they determine the difficulty levels? Is there some kind of computer program that determines this?

Thanks!

Would some breeds of dogs just spend all day chasing their tail at like 100rpm if it wasn't cut off?