Mobile Partitions

can i build a partition wall with glass blocks..? I am want to build a partition wall to make a large bedroom and boxroom into 2 smaller bedrooms. It is not a load bearing wall so can i use glass blocks to partition it as one of the rooms is dark and the glass block wall would add some extra light. Any advice? another thought...could I just use the glass blocks on some of the top half of a partition wall?

How is it possible for a glass shower door to shatter on it's own? I have a separate shower stall / tub. The partition is a half-wall between the tub and shower tall, and sitting on top of the half-wall is a glass wall. I'm not sure how, but the glass wall spontaneously shattered on it's own. It started with a loud popping sound, and within 20 minutes the entire glass was shattered.

What's been your MOST embarrassing moment in public? For me, it was walking into one of those glass walls/partitions in the mall. The entire thing shattered LOUDLY into many pieces, and everybody at the supermarket check-out was staring. It was VERY thin glass! The ironic thing is that I was wearing my glasses at the time. Since then, they've placed a strip of red tape across the glass to prevent any other idiots from doing the same thing.

In a 1964 psych 101 textbook there was an experiment in which rats on a pedestal jumped for food.? The rats could jump to either of two windows with sliding glass barriers, each containing food. The windows were embedded in a wall or partition several inches away. By varying the pattern of open and closed windows, the experimenters saw how well the rats learned increasingly complex patterns. But when they varied the open window randomly, the rats ultimately fixated on one window. Thereafter, if that window was closed all the time, and the other one was open all the time, the rat continued to jump to the same (closed) window. I would like to accurately cite this experiment, but can't find any reference to it online. Can anyone point me to one?

what do you think abt george bush now opening immigration gates to have 7,000 iraqis come to live here? is it not enough that we go blow up a country and then rebuild it? is it not enough that we send our fine, young, healthy lads to fight warring sectarian factions of muslims in iraq, in danger of loss of limb or life? why is it our responsibility to quell the civil war in iraq? now that saddam is dead (by their own court's decision), why can't they, themselves, agree to governing themselves? if so many people were terrorized by hussain, why did we not witness a mass exodus of its citizens years ago, but we are seeing it now? why can't sunnis, shia, and kurds (and maybe more) just build walls partitioning themselves from one another? like in mexico, where brick walls 10' tall are built, with broken glass pieces stuck into morter on the top? why should it now become our responsibility to suddenly welcome 7,000 iraqis into the usa? we only took in about 1,300 in all the years since the iraqi war. won't bush be to blame for more terrorism from within?

My brother is ejecting me from a company I inherited? Wearing my suit, neat and sharp, but collar undone I stumble into my dark apartment, what'ya know a 80 hour week I'm done in. I could murder a scotch, a police siren wails behind me in the gritty urban sprawl outside, it's only just going dark but it's dark enough to project a half siloutte of my figure on the Japanese partition wall. Stick on Dean Martin, and undo my tie, that jerk boss, who in the name of everything that's damned does he think he is? That secretary what a broad what a sleazy no good ... oh forget it, where's the Scotch. I pour a large one, my best friend floats in the bottom of a glass and he ain't letting me down tonight. Went down well, didn't it? Catches the throat, that's the ticket. I need no one, you understand? This is me just one man, self-prescribing an anaestetic to deal with the realities of this fake world. Fact is stranger than fiction. My brother, that no good jerk, tries to kick me from a company I inheritated; my lawyer, lousy no good tramp! pte:D42: I know you're right John, and deep down in my heart the company comes first, I know I'd take the bullet for it. But who in the name of ... but who needs to be firing shots any way? Hold the press while I figure what in hell is the big idea?

I love having a scotch whisky after a hard day? Wearing my suit, neat and sharp, but collar undone I stumble into my dark apartment, what'ya know a 80 hour week I'm done in. I could murder a scotch, a police siren wails behind me in the gritty urban sprawl outside, it's only just going dark but it's dark enough to project a half siloutte of my figure on the Japanese partition wall. Stick on Dean Martin, and undo my tie, that jerk boss, who in the name of everything that's damned does he think he is? That secretary what a broad what a sleazy no good ... oh forget it, where's the Scotch. I pour a large one, my best friend floats in the bottom of a glass and he ain't letting me down tonight. Went down well, didn't it? Catches the throat, that's the stuff. I need no one, you understand? This is me just one man, self-prescribing an anaestetic to deal with the realities of this fake world. Fact is stranger than fiction. My brother, that no good jerk, tries to kick me from a company I inheritated; my lawyer, no lousy no good tramp!

Possible to give a solution? Size - 49.55x50 Mtr. West exposed - 50 mtr North exposed - 49.55mtr Same size partitions adj. area 95 Deg. F. Wall Ht. - 11.5 Mtr at peripheri and 12 Mtr at Centre. Roof /Side - 75mm FG Board Ins. 64Kg/M3 Wall - 200mm Insulated block, 25mm plaster both the sides.(2.4mtr. Ht.) Adj. store - 95oF (Two sides) Glass - No glass window. Doors - 3.4x3.5 Sliding type used for loading & unloading and will be connected through tubular passage to reduce infiltration. Temperature - 64±2oF Humidity - <70% Freshair - Option I With normal calculation Option II With 10,000 CFM. Please provide the total cooling load. Select AHU/CU which can handle the In/Out coil conditions with the requirements.

Does anyone remember the name of this thing? When I was a child in the late 60's, early 70's I remember the local pub had a door that led to a special partitioned area, like a small corridor that led to the bar. It was separated from the public and saloon bars with frosted glass and tiled walls (from the Edwardian era). My Aunty would pop in there to buy cigarettes I seem to recollect & if I was lucky I'd get some crisps. I have mentioned this to several people, but nobody knows what I am talking about. Does anybody else remember these in pubs and if so what were they called and do any still exist? Out Sales sounds familiar.. The pub I am talking about also had an adjacent off licence, but this was either supplementary to the offy, or it operated when the offy was closed. It's nice to see that others remember these with nostalgia too.

Thermal Insulation Help please?? 1) It is required by our local building code to have an R value of 10 for exterior walls, I am using Glass fiber insulation on the masnary block but my columns and beams are not insulated, what’s the best way to insulate beams using glass fiber without affectation the look of the Facade? 2) What can I use glass fiber insulation for other in partition system, HVAC ducting, and other acoustical uses. I am looking for some new idea for in order to push my business forward?

If Cowboys Think Big, Why Keep Phillips? Jerry Jones built the world's largest domed stadium, one with an exterior made of fritted glass and limestone rock, one that cost $1.3 billion and has a magnificent high-def screen hanging from one 20-yard line to the other, one with 3,000 LCD units and huge partitions that open in both end zones, one that charges $800,000 per year to lease a luxury suite and prices a pizza at $90 and a 12-pack of beer at $66 in those suites, one that has players enter the field through a sports bar with see-through walls and delirious fans, one that even includes a elaborate locker room for -- ta da! -- the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. "Words just can't explain how grateful we are for it. Each girl has her own locker like the players, with our own individual mirror, plugs and storage," gushes Cassie Trammell, a squad member. And yet, though he constructs such a colossus and continues to proclaim the Cowboys as America's Team 14 years since their last Super Bowl victory, Jones made a decision Monday that reflects comparatively smallish thinking. The owner/general manager, a dangerous combination in his case, will reportedly bring back Wade Phillips as coach for the 2010 season. This is akin to inventing the world's sleekest automobile, then installing an 8-track tape player. And it confirms what we've known throughout a dry, maddening period in Cowboys history: That Jones would prefer to have an inferior coach whom he can puppeteer, one whose image never will be larger than his, than appoint a marquee name who can win a championship. Had he gone to Bill Cowher with a promise -- to stay out of the way, promote prize fights and rock concerts at his entertainment complex and spend games eating $90 pizzas instead of wandering down to the sideline -- my guess is that the premier unemployed football coach on the planet would have signed immediately. But Jones' massive ego never could handle relinquishing power, even when it has been established that he closely resembles a buffoon as a lead executive.The problem is that the Cowboys, under an elite coach named Jimmy Johnson, won consecutive Super Bowl titles, then a third under Barry Switzer two years later, not long after Jones purchased the franchise in 1989. Since then, Jones has convinced himself that he is the central reason for that dynasty, conveniently forgetting that his monster has won exactly one playoff game since 1996. The fact the win came this postseason, in the wild-card round, was enough for Jones to retain Phillips. Never mind that this past Sunday, in the divisional round, the Cowboys were pummeled so convincingly by the Minnesota Vikings -- 34-3 says it all -- that it washed away all momentum gained from the previous few weeks. Never mind that the way Jones has structured the team's coaching infrastructure, with Phillips responsible for the defense and Jason Garrett responsible for the offense, has trivialized the concept of Phillips as the head coach. Never mind that the lack of a leadership totem pole becomes an issue when Garrett needs a kick in the tail for not adjusting to the Vikings' furious pass rush, for giving the ball to a plodding Marion Barber too much in the second quarter when Felix Jones had been so effective earlier, for not developing Tony Romo into a poised, savvy quarterback who can improvise his way out of pressure instead of dancing around haplessly like a drunk on Greenville Avenue. Seems Jones painted himself into a corner by growing a little too excited the week before. That is when he hastily declared, "Can we all together on three say it? The demons are -- what? -- gone!" Yeah, gone for a week. If the Cowboys had eluded what would have been an NFL-record seventh consecutive postseason loss, they went on to Minnesota and extended a road playoff losing streak that has lasted 17 friggin' years. To me, Jones is a fraud when it comes to the excessive hype of his franchise. He wants us to believe the Cowboys are the New York Yankees of pro football, that they are as popular as any sports team in the world, that he built a stadium worthy of their magnitude. Yet, on the field, he's content simply to win his first playoff game in eons even after being blown out in the next game and failing to reach the NFC championship game. The Yankees don't think this way. Manchester United and Real Madrid don't think this way. They fire coaches and managers who don't reach expectations. Therefore, stop thinking of the Cowboys as America's Team. You can't represent an entire country when three U.S. presidents have served five terms since your last league championship. Shoot, you can't represent an entire country when you're barely the best NFL team in Texas, with the Houston Texans finally shedding their post-expansion rut to become very competitive. If Jones is pleased with Phillips -- who now is 1-5 as a playoff coach with three teams, the first two of whom (Buffalo and San Diego) fired him -- then he's running nothing more than Mediocri

Landlord/Tenant Laws (On Repairs, Neighbors Breaking Into Our Garage, etc.)...PLEASE, PLEASE HELP?!!!? Here are the details of our stay at our duplex: 1) The tiles in our bathroom's shower literally fell off the wall, and we were unable to use the shower. The shower was unuseable for over three months after numerous complaints. They finally fixed it after three months, but did not fix the mold problem behind the tiles. This is a major issue, as we have a four and a half month old. Now, the tiles are already falling away from the walls again. 2. We have made numerous complaints about the faucet (that leaks and has NO cold water) and it has gone unrepaired for over three months. It is creating mold underneath the sink, and we have NO cold water at that faucet. It is scolding hot water. 3. Our landlords did not have a partition in our attic, as we share an attic with our neighbors. Our neighbors broke into our garage on at least two different occasions (we made police reports) and even broke the door to our attic in half, as well as walked on our cars and somehow messed with my radiator. 4. One of the people living next door was in jail for a few months (his wife stayed living next door), and we were not informed that our neighbor was in jail, until after they moved, and detectives are calling us asking on his whereabouts because he is supposed to be in jail again. Police have also showed up to our house asking where he is. He actually only moved a couple of blocks away, as our landlord told us, and we still see them drive by our house frequently. They yelled profanities at us as they were moving out (our landlord witnessed this), and they left a profane note in our mailbox. 5. After our neighbors moved out, the property manager told us to our faces he was sorry for the huge ordeal with our neighbors, and that it was illegal to not have a partition in our garage (allowing them to break into our garage and mess with our cars) and told us we could move out for our safety with no repercussions whatsoever. Now, our actual landlord is saying we are lying about the property manager saying that, and that we cannot move out without paying for the rest of the lease. FYI: I spoke with the landlord today about this issue, and she was the most unprofessional, rude person I have ever spoken to. She said exactly, "HOW IS THIS MY PROBLEM?" And said, "I AM JUST TALKING TO THE WIND HERE. YOUR SAFETY IS NOT MY ISSUE; YOUR PROBLEMS ARE NOT MY ISSUE." *NOW ON TOP OF EVERYTHING, A WATER PIPE BROKE UNDER OUR FLOORING IN THE BATHROOM, AND SHE SAID EXACTLY THIS, "BETTER GET A FEW GLASSES OF WATER BECAUSE THE WATER IS BEING TURNED OFF NOW. " WHEN WE ASKED HOW LONG THE WATER WOULD BE TURNED OFF FOR, SHE SAID, "I DON'T KNOW!" THEN, SHE RUDELY ASKED FOR OUR TOOLS, AND YELLED AT US WHEN WE DIDN'T HAVE ANY TOOLS TO REPAIR THE WATER PROBLEM. We are concerned for our health, our safety, the mold, the issue of our supposed to be imprisoned previous neighbors breaking into our house again, not having water, and where to stay !!!!!!!! PLEASE HELP...IF I CONTACT AN ATTORNEY, CAN I GET ANYTHING DONE, OR IS IT POINTLESS??? THANK YOU SOOO MUCH

In a 1964 psych 101 textbook there was an experiment in which rats on a pedestal jumped for food.? The rats could jump to either of two windows with sliding glass barriers, each containing food. The windows were embedded in a wall or partition several inches away. By varying the pattern of open and closed windows, the experimenters saw how well the rats learned increasingly complex patterns. But when they varied the open window randomly, the rats ultimately fixated on one window. Thereafter, if that window was closed all the time, and the other one was open all the time, the rat continued to jump to the same (closed) window. I would like to accurately cite this experiment, but can't find any reference to it online. Can anyone point me to one?

Thermal Insulation Help please?? 1) It is required by our local building code to have an R value of 10 for exterior walls, I am using Glass fiber insulation on the masnary block but my columns and beams are not insulated, what’s the best way to insulate beams using glass fiber without affectation the look of the Facade? 2) What can I use glass fiber insulation for other in partition system, HVAC ducting, and other acoustical uses. I am looking for some new idea for in order to push my business forward?

Thermal Insulation Help please?? 1) It is required by our local building code to have an R value of 10 for exterior walls, I am using Glass fiber insulation on the masnary block but my columns and beams are not insulated, what’s the best way to insulate beams using glass fiber without affectation the look of the Facade? 2) What can I use glass fiber insulation for other in partition system, HVAC ducting, and other acoustical uses. I am looking for some new idea for in order to push my business forward?