it's not what you use for an acoustical problem. what you need -- i mean what's giving you some protection there is the fact that you've got two layers of glass. but the sound beneficiary -- beh pieces of parallel, the sound goes right on through. what you need is a piece of laminated glass -- your best insulating for sound is a piece of laminated on both sides, and an air space, or just a really thick piece of laminated, using different thicknesses of glass so they vibrate at different levels. we use a lot of material where we have quarter inch on the outside, and 060 interlayer, and a piece of 3/8 on the inside, they're vibrating at different levels and the insulating is turning them down and that really cuts down sound. san francisco has become far more noisy and we do a lot of acoustical installations. the fact is the thicker this glass gets, the more it insulates against sound. so it's just you keep throwing money at it, and the sound goes down. the problem is that, you know, your walls may not be as -- you don't want to have t

and the most important thing for me and the reason that i use this over an acoustic is the fact that it projects over an audience. >> over the years, antonio's won several talent competitions. he was also the winner of nbc's "america's most talented kids" in 2004. >> ♪ excuse me while i kiss the sky ♪ > that was like the coolest thing i've ever seen. >> antonio has even performed at carnegie hall, a place where most musicians can only dream of playing. >> how do you get to carnegie hall? practice, practice, practice. i mean, it's one of those places where, once you've really worked the hardest that you can and you've reached the highest point that you can, you play at carnegie hall. >> antonio also leads workshops to help other musicians develop their craft. >> i actually have a lot of opportunities to not only inspire youth to get interested in classical music and get interested in the violin, but also i'm able to help violinists who may want to break out of classical music. >> he hopes his classes will inspire teens to find their passion. >> you need to find that one thing that rea

as getting a room filled with people that are being allowed as they possibly can, myself and any acoustical engineer, we will all just a guess. will there the impact of the neighborhood? absolutely. will it be monstrous? my guess would probably be not. let's be honest, you're going to be able to hear them. will it make the surrounding residents unlivable? unless i am in those residences and ticking sound readings, i am purely guessing. chances are, probably not. but the sound can be very interpretive. what is allowed to you may not be allowed to you. commissioner garcia: we hope that san francisco has enough of a sense that people will be making noise. at any rate, other commissioners may have questions. >> another thing that is important to remember, this is something we have to remind the neighbors, it is important to remember that the windows of the residentce have to be closed. if someone is complaining about a bar having a live mariachi band every night. if we go to do what we call 'confirm' that sound complaint, if the windows are open, once you close them, you can no longer hear the

i mean, i got a keyboard, acoustic guitar, merchandise, cds to sell and it all just fits like a nice game of tetras. what would you say to a friend who's skeptical about buying a ford. do you want to borrow my keys. >> announcer: "nightline" continues from new york city with cynthia mcfadden. >> the news yesterday that ohio authorities shot and killed 49 rare animals including 18 bengal tigers released from a compound whose owner had been repeatedly cited for animal abuse, raises an urgent question. who exactly is allowed to keep these kinds of creatures and why? it turns out, a lot more people than you may think, and a lot more places, maybe even the house next door. tonight, brian ross investigates. >> reporter: the call to 911 came too late. >> we have a burmese python. chef got out of the cage last night and got into the baby's crib and strangled her to death. >> reporter: the snake had to be pried off the child, who had bite marks across her forehead. it was one of more than 60 times across the country that animal rights groups say exotic animals have killed humans in places whe

rimes played songs from her new album "lady and gentlemen" during that acoustic set. love her.hat's good music. >> she started off so young too. she's just blossomed. >> she was good then, and she's good now. >> stay with us. "news 4 today" continues now at 5:00 a.m. >>> new from overnight, a shooting in alexandria turned deadly. now police investigating the first murder of the year in alexandria. >>> also from overnight, people celebrating the death of moammar gadhafi. we have reaction from libyans right here in washington. >>> and it was a long night on capitol hill. the senate adjourned just a few hours ago. why the president says they have a lot of explaining to do. good morning. i'm aaron gilchrist, in for joe krebs. gl a >> and i'm eun yang. welcome to "news 4 today" on this friday, october 21st, 2011. we're taking a live look outside. 47 degrees out there. chilly, chilly morning. >> you go out to walk the dog, and the dogs will want to come right back in. >>> it's a chilly morning. down into the low and mid-40s under a clear sky. a gorgeous galactic black sky with the au

technology seeing the show at the new showing will be like nothing you've ever experienced before the acoustics have been vastly improved and noble innovations in theater technology will allow directors to do things only dreamed of until now sure this latest upgrade is what everyone's talking about now but it certainly hasn't been the bolshoi's first facelift the original theatre called the imperial burned down in eighteen zero five twenty years later. it was built in its place the theater got its distinctive main named after renovations ahead of the coronation of alexander the second the current restoration work is to correct damage done over the previous eighty years. back in two thousand and five well the project was ambitious enough to start with nobody had any idea just how big of a head once they got it was discovered that the damage. the theater was much greater than previously thought white cracks were discovered through the walls and the building's foundation had been reduced to mere rubble engineers say the building was seventy five percent unstable. of course at the beginning none of

himself as a true professional with a thorough understanding of what is involved in terms of the acoustical engineering aspects of this. my feelings remain the same, i still wish he would put in the door that would be shut a lot more than it is open. and i also feel that failing to do that doesn't rise to the level where i feel this permit should be overturned. >> i do thank the inspector, it was interesting to hear about the police code that a resident does have control over shutting the windows. i was pleased to see two efforts from the project sponsor, maybe one limiting to the other side, i know it was rejected. one of those, i would be willing to uphold and keep the permit going into this business going. -- and this business going. commissioner fung: i am not convinced that a door by itself with whateve rkinr kind of harde takes it far enough. the problem with closers is that they slow the door down. they close its eventually, but it stays open. the discussion that occurred here, perhaps we weren't quite clear, did not take it far enough. i am not prepared to, with the architectural so

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the acoustics, the sight lines and all that have to just be perfect.n with just making these things sublime as musical instruments. and if you fail there, you've failed it all. but it's got to go beyond that. because it's got to be about the ritual of partaking in the performing arts. it's just got to uplift people's spirits so that it becomes a place for the community. >> brown: uplift people's spirits, is that the essential task? >> absolutely. i think there's architecture that uplifts you, that makes you feel optimistic, that makes you feel celebratory. and that's what the performing arts are all about. >> brown: but how does a city build something like this in hard economic times? kansas city's done it the old- fashioned way, through private philanthropy. the idea for the center began 16 years ago with muriel kaufman, wife of ewing kaufman, founder of a large pharmaceuticals company. when muriel died, daughter julia made it her mission to raise the rest of the funds and hold down costs. >> i did cut all the fru-fru in the bathrooms and the back of

. >> i like acoustic because i can listen to al alternative and hip hop and that kind of stuff. oua ebo fect wep ta belie woeg >> you've heard about the placebo effect where people take a bill and think it works. a new bill shows just how often people are fooled by placebos and not just in pills. you might be surprised at how frequent this phenomenon is. pushing the closed door but torn doesn't work the way many would hope. according to the author the but tons are there for workers and emergency personnel only, but many find a way to convince themselves they have done the trick. >> the but ton doesn't actually work, you know, we sit there and press it five times and eventually it shuts. we think it was me for pushing the button. >> she has noticed the mr. placebo. $25million in refunds for claiming the toning shoes would strengthen and sculpt the bottom of those who wore them. hearing about the effect isn't anything new. >> what the mind believes the body will follow. >> that claims to enhance strength and flexibility are just another example of a modern day placebo. >> power ba

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shawn now being hailed as a guitar hero after he fought off a drunk home invader with an acoustic guitar. but why the choice of weapon? >> it was the first thing i picked up because it was right next to my chair. i pishd him out the door -- pushed him out the door. >> i thought it was pretty funny. >> i would have picked a bat. that's just me. >> well, the bat sounds better, i guess, in a way. but the guitar did just fine. 32-year-old john mayhew was arrested and taken to the hospital with his wounds. he's facing a whole slew the charges. >>> stress is now the most common reason workers will take off work. >> it causes back problem and strokes. now they're calling it the black death of the 21st century as brittany morehouse reports it's a catch 22 because often it's work that causes the stress that hinders our performance on the job. ♪ under pressure >> reporter: two words added to music that keep your fingers clicking. but added to real life, they just may make you think of a clicking keyboard ♪ under pressure >> if you don't have a good handle to deal with your stress, it can make you

>> acoustic hip-hop. latin soul.s the guitar. together they are sisters two years apart who have come up with a sound uniquely their own. ♪ >> the luna blues machine has been criss-crossing chicago for the last 10 years. two young latinas keeping the latin beat alive with a twist. ♪ >> the two were raised listening to old spanish favorites. >> we grew up in back of the yards, moved to the midway area later, and then kind of came back to tillson. >> it wasn't until they graduated college that the idea of creating a band came up. >> so i had been writing these songs and i think they can be something really good if we work on them together. >> and they've been doing it ever since. >> do you guys ever fight about music? in no, no. >> not really. >> oh, be honest. >> we really don't. >> they seem to be pretty in sync, so much so that together they're having a pretty big impact, not just onstage but in the classroom. >> there's a rock and roll class, introduction to rock and roll for kids from third to fifth grade. >> nece

we are tossing around phrases like urban folk or acoustic hip- hop or latin soul ...e come up with a unique sound all their around ... they have crisscrossed chicago for the last 10 years too young latina as keeping the beat alive the sisters were raised listening to old spanish favorites. we came back to the pilsen neighborhood ... wasn't until we graduated college away thought of putting a little band together to you ever fight over the music? >>know we never do >>they are very in synch.. and they take that harmony to the classroom ... they belong to a cps program where they introduce children to music ... very young children ... and the latin flair is a big part of what they teach. i asked them to sing a little tune about wgn ... and they did giving us a lighter moment from two sisters who are quite serious about their music to check out when they are performing please go to our web site wgntv.com we will provide with a link summer is a feeling like it's back we will have a forecass@6h) we have the warmest weather in three weeks ... that's in the wake of that human

semblance of safety for the people under saddam hussein and now it's the wild west it's completely an acoustic but i think the resistance will grow and let's see what happens and they thought stuck in libya and they cannot run syria because of russia and china so i mean one can only hope who has a sense of humanity that things will improve for the libyan people the point i'm making is that in islam never has the west allowed a modern progressive and team list islam islam to really develop. police in oakland california have arrested seventy five occupy wall street protesters and torn down their tent camp in front of the city hall but he said no one was injured despite tear gas and rubber rounds being fired into the crowd the protest movement is gearing up for more global rallies this week intended to coincide with the upcoming g. twenty summit these ladies protests are aimed at pressuring world leaders to introduce a so-called robin hood tax and what they say is the virtually unregulated global casino financial transactions but as artie's marina point now reports it won't be easy to achieve. we