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Combo expert Desk has been hard at work exploring the capabilities of Street Fighter 5‘s boss characters. These souped of versions of classic fighters such as Ryu, Chun-Li, and M. Bison have abilities that their playable versions don’t have access to, and they can pull off some pretty crazy things.

His latest video delves into what The Master Ryu boss can do, and on top of big damage, this version of the wandering warrior also has two supers at his disposal. While there’s a lot of crazy stuff going on in this video, some of the coolest has to be the Street Fighter 2-style combos that feel like a direct call back to the legendary fighting game series.
What makes Master Ryu so interesting is that he doesn’t really seem to have the longest and most intricate combos like fellow bosses Shadow Lady Chun-Li and Shadow Nash do. Instead, his combos utilize several light chains and links, and despite these buttons being weaker he still belts out the damage.
This version of Ryu can also hit his Solar Plexus forward + heavy punch attack in combo, and linking a standing medium punch into crouching medium kick and ending with a light kick Hurricane Kick allows him to juggle with his supers. We see Desk land this combo on Sagat in the corner and close out with a devastating Shin Shoryuken super.
If you’ve ever seen Street Fighter 2 combo videos, then you’ve probably witnessed sequences that use a string of light attacks and include instant jump normals during the combo to end things off with. Desk does quite a bit of this with Street Fighter 5’s Master Ryu, and some of these combos use air Hurricane Kicks, which is another standout feature of this boss fighter.
Desk also throws in some parry goodness for you to see, deflecting numerous attacks in impressive fashion and punishing the likes of E. Honda and Vega for their troubles. He sails through fireballs with instant air Hurricane Kicks, which take him all the way across the screen, and uses the Tatsu for several stylish set ups.
Unfortunately, these boss characters are only made playable by way of PC mods. But you can see what Master Ryu can do in Street Fighter 5 in Desk’s video below.

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For more than a year, renters have reacted with horror as landlords across the country jacked up monthly rents by previously unthinkable amounts. But finally, rents have begun to drop.
Much to the relief of tapped-out tenants, median monthly rents fell a bit in October, hitting $1,747 nationally, according to a recent Realtor.com® report. Rents were down about $25 a month from September and $47 from their peak in July. And while rental prices were still up 4.7% year over year, October had the lowest jump in rental prices in 18 months.
“The rental market is showing signs of returning to normal,” says Jiayi Xu, a Realtor.com economist. “Renters may start to feel a little bit of relief.”
The report looked at apartment complex, private condo, townhome, and single-family home rentals in October. Only studio, one-bedroom, and two-bedroom units were included.
The rental market generally peaks during the summer, when families are trying to secure housing before children start school and college students are trying to lock down housing. Demand typically slows in the fall and winter.
“Going forward, I think the rent will continue to grow but at a much lower rate,” says Xu.
Rents went up the most for studio apartments, rising 6.7% year over year. They were up 4.5% for one-bedroom units and 3.7% for two-bedroom abodes.
However, renters shouldn’t breathe a sigh of relief just yet. Most landlords plan to increase rents on at least one of their units within the next year, although not by as much as they did, according to a recent Avail survey of more than 2,700 independent landlords and renters. (Avail, which assists landlords, is owned by Realtor.com.) Fewer than 1 in 5 landlords plans to hike rents by more than 10%.
Almost two-thirds of renters who have lived in their homes for one to two years have seen their rents go up—and just 6% were able to negotiate smaller increases than their landlords initially sought, according to Avail. The higher rents make it more difficult for many tenants to save up for homeownership. As a result, nearly 70% of renters are considering moving to cut costs. They’re hoping to save about $200 a month.
“While it’s encouraging to see smaller price increases, it’s important to understand that many renters have already absorbed large increases in their monthly rental costs over the past several years,” Ryan Coon, vice president of rentals at Realtor.com, says in a statement. “High inflation and the cost of upkeep and repairs are hitting landlords, who have had to raise rents to cover their higher cost of owning the properties and making it unlikely that they’ll be open to negotiating with new tenants.”
Just four of the 50 largest metropolitan areas saw double-digit, annual price increases in October, according to Realtor.com. Chicago led the pack as rents soared 23.7% year over year in the Windy City. It was followed by Providence, RI (13.6%), Boston (12.8%), and New York City (12.7%). (Metros include the main city and surrounding towns, suburbs, and smaller urban areas.)
Meanwhile, rents fell in eight of the 50 largest metros. Riverside, CA, experienced the largest year-over-year drop in October at -4.7%, according to Realtor.com data.
“A year ago, it was five to 10 applications for every rental. And now there’s maybe none,” says Doug Shepherd, a Riverside-based property manager and real estate broker at Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Champions. “Demand just dropped off pretty dramatically in October.”
He attributes the decreased demand to general inflation and to the most motivated buyers and sellers already having secured housing. There’s a limit to how much renters can afford to spend each month—especially as inflation has pushed up prices for gas, food, and just about everything else.
“Everything’s more expensive,” he says. “And now the market has to adjust down.”
Rental prices also fell in New Orleans (-3.7%), Sacramento, CA (-3.4%), Las Vegas (-2.5%), Tampa, FL (-2.5%), Phoenix (-1.6%), Atlanta (-0.8%), and Memphis, TN (-07%). Buffalo, NY, was flat with a 0% increase.
Clare Trapasso is the executive news editor of Realtor.com where she writes and edits news and data stories. She previously wrote for a Financial Times publication, the New York Daily News, and the Associated Press. She also taught journalism courses at several New York City colleges. Email [email protected] or follow @claretrap on Twitter.
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The Liberal Party’s candidate for Narre Warren North says Australia should not recognise First Nations people because “we won this land fair and square”, that waste from nuclear energy should be dumped in Alice Springs, and that he would vote to ban abortion.
Timothy Dragan last week railed against Aboriginal recognition, climate change, abortion and senior Liberal MP Brad Battin, who he described as a “prick”.
Timothy Dragan has railed against abortion, climate change, First Nations communities, and senior Liberal Brad Battin.Credit:Paul Jeffers
Dragan’s comments will increase pressure on Opposition Leader Matthew Guy, who has been attempting to distance himself from the ultra-conservative views of several candidates preselected by the party to stand at this Saturday’s state election.
Guy on Saturday announced that Renee Heath, the Liberal candidate for a safe upper house spot in eastern Victoria, would not be allowed to sit in the Liberal party room, after The Age and 60 Minutes revealed she had received extensive training from a global network of ultra-conservative churches.
The Liberals are also trying to fend off a number of ‘teal independents’, who are campaigning heavily for the November 26 state poll on what they say is the Liberal Party’s lurch to the right.
In audio recorded on Tuesday and leaked to The Sunday Age, Dragan, declared he was “100 per cent” opposed to a treaty with First Nations people, would cross the floor on any emissions-reduction legislation, and ban abortion if it came before a vote in Parliament.
“There’s no such thing as traditional Australians,” Dragan, 26, said in the recording in reference to First Nations people. “Because Australia is a post-colonial concept.
“We won this land fair and square. It’s like telling Britain to give the land back to the Vikings, and the Vikings to give it back to the Romans. And same with Romania — to give Transylvania back to the Hungarians. I mean, come on man, it’s bollocks. It’s absolute bollocks.”
When The Sunday Age visited the early voting booth at Narre Warren’s Foundation Learning Centre on Saturday, where Dragan was handing out how-to-vote cards, the Liberal candidate “declined to comment” in response to questions about the views he had expressed in the recording. He then rushed off to his car.
In a statement released by the Liberal Party shortly after, Dragan said he “unreservedly apologise[s] for my insensitive and inappropriate language”. He said his comments did not reflect the views or policy positions of the party.
‘We won this land fair and square. It’s like telling Britain to give the land back to the Vikings, and the Vikings to give it to the Romans.’
In the leaked audio, Dragan also said abortion was being used by women as a form of contraception.
”My argument is, I’m very for women’s rights, and health, but I actually believe that two cells combined are actually a human. And so if murder is wrong at an adult’s stage, where do we stop with the concept of murdering a human?
“And the thing is, for example, a baby is not a developed human. So where is the consistency in the argument? Why is the passage through the vagina the reason why you can or can’t murder a human? What makes a vagina’s trajectory so special? Does it give it a magical dignity or something like that, you know?”
The Labor Party holds Narre Warren North on a notional margin of 10.4 per cent, based on the results of the 2018 election. However, with the retirement of current MP Luke Donnellan, Labor fears it may be at risk of losing the outer-suburban seat.
Opposition leader Matthew Guy has come under huge pressure over ultra conservative candidates preselected for the Liberal Party. Credit:Chris Hopkins
Dragan made the comments captured in the audio during a conversation outside the early voting centre on Tuesday. In the recording, he said the only time he cared about “pre-Australian” history was at a museum, and that Indigenous education in schools should be wound back.
He claimed he was Indigenous because he was born in Australia.
“Everything that you find now, all these institutions, even this government thing they got, it’s European – it’s not bloody Aboriginal,” Dragan said. “If we’re going to go by what’s Aboriginal, we might as well abolish everything, get our camping chairs and live in the desert.”
Dragan has been a member of the Liberal Party for three years and the chairman for the Liberals’ Narre Warren North branch for more than 18 months, according to the Dandenong Star Journal. He told the local paper in September his top three priorities were health, cost-of-living and integrity in government.
He describes himself as a ‘Burkian conservative’ in reference to former British MP Edmund Burke.
Dragan lives in the seat of Berwick, held by Liberal MP Brad Battin on a 1.3 per cent margin. In the audio, he described Battin as a “prick” and said he put the frontbench MP third on his ballot when he voted last Monday, the first day of early voting.
The seat of Berwick is being contested by the Liberal and Labor parties, as well as the Australian Greens, Animal Justice Party, Freedom Party and Family First Victoria.
The Liberal Party constitution requires its members to “work for the election to Parliament of endorsed candidates who shall receive the united support of the party”.
“One thing he did that was very annoying was that he tried to stop me from getting preselected,” Dragan said of Battin in the audio. “He knows I’m not going to support him for the leadership, and he wants someone who’ll support him.
“He’s an egoist. He’s very selfish. It’s all about him. It’s the one seat I actually wouldn’t mind losing, except for the fact that I live in Berwick … He was making up crap about me, saying I’m sort of a religious nut.”
Battin declined to comment when contacted on Saturday.
Dragan twice signed a “Statement on Social Justice” petition, written by a group of Christian leaders in America’s south. The statement supports ‘complementarianism’, a Christian theological belief that men and women have distinct roles that should be obeyed.
Timothy Dragan abruptly left when questioned by The Age at a Narre Warren North polling booth on Saturday. Credit:Paul Jeffers
It says while women may assist in the decision-making process, “the ultimate authority for the decision is the purview of the male in marriage, courtship, and in the polity of churches subscribing to this view”.
The Liberal candidate, who works as a recruitment consultant, said he “did not care” about his party’s position on achieving net-zero emissions by 2050, or legislating halving emissions by 2030, when questioned at the early voting centre this week.
In the audio, Dragan said if the party wanted to go down “the whole clean energy line”, the Liberals should instead champion nuclear energy. Asked about where the resulting nuclear waste should be discarded, he said: “Alice Springs, easy.”
“If I win, I’m crossing the floor mate [on emissions reduction targets]. I don’t care. I’ll vote against it,” Dragan said. “This area doesn’t care about climate change.”
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Alexander Burns and Jonathan Martin, who cover politics for The Times, are the authors of “This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for America’s Future.”
Representative Kevin McCarthy, the House Republican leader, told G.O.P. lawmakers in the days after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol that former President Donald J. Trump acknowledged he bore “some responsibility” for what happened that day, new audio revealed on Friday.
The audio obtained by The New York Times is part of a series of revelations about Republican leaders’ private condemnations of Mr. Trump in the days after his supporters stormed the Capitol.
Mr. McCarthy’s assertion would be the clearest indication yet that Mr. Trump may have admitted some measure of culpability for the deadly mob. The revelation comes as congressional investigators scour for evidence of Mr. Trump’s involvement in his supporters’ failed attempt to block the official certification of his loss in the 2020 election.
“Let me be very clear to all of you, and I have been very clear to the president: He bears responsibilities for his words and actions,” Mr. McCarthy told House Republicans on a Jan. 11 conference call. “No if, ands or buts.”
“I asked him personally today: Does he hold responsibility for what happened?” Mr. McCarthy said. “Does he feel bad about what happened? He told me he does have some responsibility for what happened and he’d need to acknowledge that.”
Mr. Trump did not respond to a request for comment, but in an interview with The Wall Street Journal on Friday he said Mr. McCarthy’s claim that he had accepted some responsibility for the attack was “false.”
The recording of the meeting was obtained in reporting for the upcoming book “This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for America’s Future.” The book, which details several private conversations between Republicans talking derisively about the former president, has quickly become an embarrassment and a potential political problem for Mr. McCarthy.
On Thursday, The Times reported that Mr. McCarthy told his leadership team that he would call Mr. Trump and urge him to quit. Mr. McCarthy said that he would tell Mr. Trump of the impending impeachment resolution: “I think this will pass, and it would be my recommendation you should resign.”
Mr. McCarthy on Thursday called the report “totally false and wrong,” but the claim was swiftly disproved when The Times published a recording of the call hours later. On Friday, he repeated the falsehood, telling reporters in Ridgecrest, Calif., “I never thought that he should resign.”
The exposure of Mr. McCarthy’s dishonesty comes at a pivotal moment in the 57-year-old Republican leader’s long-plotted rise to power. The Californian is widely expected to become the next speaker of the House of Representatives if Republicans take control of the chamber after the midterm elections, an outcome seen as highly likely by strategists in both parties. But he has long faced questions about his capacity to manage the unruly, ideologically fractious flock of lawmakers who make up the House Republican conference.
Those lawmakers were looking to Mr. Trump on Friday to guide their response. Mr. Trump and Mr. McCarthy spoke on Thursday evening, a conversation first reported by The Washington Post.
In private, Mr. Trump enjoyed watching Mr. McCarthy’s misfortune, according to four people who had spoken to him about the episode and asked for anonymity to discuss private conversations. In his view, the fact that Mr. McCarthy never asked him to resign, and instead reaffirmed his devotion, only illustrated the former president’s grip on his party, they said.
“I think it’s all a big compliment, frankly,” Mr. Trump told The Wall Street Journal.
The once, and perhaps future, Republican standard-bearer has often been privately dismissive of Mr. McCarthy. And it could serve Mr. Trump’s purposes if Mr. McCarthy continues as House Republican leader — but as a weakened figure even more closely dependent on Mr. Trump’s approval.
Mr. McCarthy is already a fragile figure atop the House Republican conference, embraced by the party’s various factions more out of convenience than fierce loyalty. Still, few lawmakers used the moment to criticize him on Friday.
“He has wide support from the conference,” said Representative Patrick McHenry of North Carolina, a former member of the House G.O.P. leadership.
Many lawmakers, lobbyists and aides in Washington, however, were surprised at Mr. McCarthy’s carelessness, disapproving of, if not exactly disbelieving, the notion that he would flatly deny comments he had made in group settings.
Even his allies were uneasy about how breezily Mr. McCarthy disregarded the truth.
“You either say you don’t recall the conversation or that you don’t discuss private conversations and are disappointed in those who leak them,” said Representative Tom Cole of Oklahoma, who noted he did not think Mr. McCarthy was peril.
Mr. McCarthy made the recorded remarks in the chaotic days after the attack, as he plotted a path forward with this team and sought to calm Republicans panicked about the potential political fallout.
“I know this is not fun, I know this is not great. … I don’t want to rush things, I want everybody to have all the information needed,” Mr. McCarthy said, according to an audio clip of a Jan. 10 meeting with a small group of lawmakers. “I’ve had it with this guy. What he did is unacceptable. Nobody can defend that, and nobody should defend it.”
The next day, speaking to a larger group, Mr. McCarthy seemed to be trying to reassure Republicans that Mr. Trump understood the gravity of the moment and might emerge conciliatory. It is difficult to gauge the accuracy of Mr. McCarthy’s claim about Mr. Trump.
In the 15 months since the attack, Mr. Trump has largely sought to deflect criticism when asked publicly about his role. Earlier this month, he told The Washington Post that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Muriel Bowser, the mayor of Washington, were to blame for failing to secure the Capitol.
In that interview, Mr. Trump disclosed that he had wanted to march to the Capitol on Jan. 6.
“Secret Service said I couldn’t go,” he said. “I would have gone there in a minute.”
This week was not the first time Mr. McCarthy had not been fully truthful about his private remarks.
Earlier this year, he was asked in a news conference about the call with House Republicans after the attack. He sidestepped the question: “I’m not sure what call you’re talking about.”
Maggie Haberman contributed reporting.
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Ald. Jim Gardiner (45th) recently told neighbors the order was lifted but city officials said that is not true. The developer is working with the city to get necessary permits to resume work.
PORTAGE PARK — The stop-work order for a massive Six Corners redevelopment project is still in effect, despite Ald. Jim Gardiner (45th) recently saying otherwise.
City officials slapped the developer with the stop-work order in late August after crews started exterior work without a full permit. That ban on construction is yet to be lifted, Department of Buildings spokesperson Michael Puccinelli said Thursday.
The order “remains in full effect for any renovation and new construction as no building permits for that work have been issued,” Puccinelli said.
At a community meeting earlier this week, Gardiner said the order had been lifted last week and touted the project’s positive addition to the Six Corners area.
“We’re very excited about the roughly $100 million project and we think it will be a new shot in the arm for the Six Corners community,” the alderman told Old Irving Park community members.
The former Sears building at 4712-4738 W. Irving Park Road is being redeveloped into luxury apartments by Novak Construction, a project expected to cost $90 million. 
The illegal work done this summer, which included the construction of another story and exterior concrete and steel columns, is still being reviewed by the city to see if it complies with city code, Puccinelli said.
The only work allowed at the site is interior demolition under an existing demolition permit from March 2021, city officials said. That has been occurring for over a year.
Permits for the exterior work on the project are still pending in the city’s portal. Several reviews still must be completed, according to the pending permits.
“The developer is cooperating with the city and is looking to obtain the necessary permits to continue” the work, Puccinelli said.
Gardiner’s office did not immediately return requests for comment about his statements about the stop-work order. Novak representatives did not reply to requests for comment.
Novak, an experienced developer in the city, is behind other big projects throughout the city, including Portillo’s, Downtown mixed-use developments and the Gold Coast’s new Whole Foods.
The ongoing stop-work order is the second one for the development. In January 2021, the city’s buildings department halted workers who were doing demolition without a permit, officials said at the time.
The development will have 206 apartments — six of them affordable — that will be a mix of studio, one- and two-bedroom units with rents of $2,750-$3,000 per month. About 50,000 square feet of retail will take up the ground floor, with Target as the anchor tenant.
The redevelopment plans call for a fifth-floor addition to the former department store, a portion of which was built in 1938. It closed in 2018.
Across the street, The Clarendale plans to open in April instead of the end of the year due to supply delays and quarry strikes that slowed down the work, Gardiner said.
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Swedish authorities investigating a series of blasts that damaged undersea natural-gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea said they had found traces of explosives on several foreign objects nearby, a potential break in an international probe into who was responsible for what authorities have called sabotage.
Sweden, Denmark and Germany are investigating the blasts in September that sent gas bubbling to the surface for days and caused severe damage to the the Nord Stream pipelines. Investigators have previously said they believe the blasts were an intentional act.
Biden Administration Says Saudi Crown Prince Has Immunity in Khashoggi Trial
The Biden administration told a U.S. court that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s status as a sitting head of government shields him from a civil lawsuit brought by the fiancée of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Mr. Khashoggi, a former royal insider who criticized Prince Mohammed’s policies in Washington Post columns, was killed in 2018 and his body dismembered by Saudi agents during a visit to the kingdom’s Istanbul consulate where he was seeking papers needed to marry Hatice Cengiz, a Turkish citizen.
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Vancouver, British Columbia–(Newsfile Corp. – November 17, 2022) – Colossus Resources Corp (TSXV: CLUS) (“Colossus” or the “Company”) is pleased to provide an exploration update for the inaugural geological field program on its 100% controlled Master Copper Project (“Master Copper” or the “Project”) which was completed in late September 2022. The Master Copper Property is located 38 km west of Elliot Lake and approximately 90 km east of Sault Ste. Marie in the Algoma District of Northern Ontario and consists of 15 mining claims. The property is accessible via a series of all-weather roads and ATV trails. The Property covers an area of approximately 1,143 hectares.
On Project details, one can refer to the compliant NI 43-101 Technical Report with an effective date of November 18, 2021 and the title “NI 43-101 Technical Report on the Master Copper Property, Algoma, Ontario for Colossus Resources Inc.”, which can be found at www.Sedar.com.
Historical mineralization on the Master Copper property consist of quartz or quartz-carbonate vein sheets, anastomosed or breccia-weld vein systems mineralized with pyrite, chalcopyrite, specularite, and occasionally bornite, galena and sphalerite. As observed on the property, veins often have sharp contacts, steep dip with a west-northwest strike. The property has not been adequately mapped or prospected in any detail in the past. Colossus with the assistance of Minroc Management Services (“Minroc”) of Ontario, familiar with and successful at “grass roots prospecting” in the Q3 field program has compiled available data, worked on geological mapping of any encountered outcrops over parts of the property and sampled geologically prospective areas and identified veins.
This initial field exploration program was carried out successfully in advance of any drilling to better delineate the mineralized vein systems identified on the property. Two parallel vein trends were identified on the property one of which was traced along strike for about 700m, (see accompanying Figure 1 below). The first trend is exposed at the historic Master Copper adit, and in a few historic trenches and blast pits along the main trail through the property, with an approximate strike length of 700m. The second trend is exposed south of the first within and around the Gagne pits, with an approximate strike length of 400m. Vein widths vary from around a half-meter to up to 3 meters. The sediments hosting the quartz veins are siltstone conglomerates, sandstones / quartzites and occasional mafic dykes. Concordant quartz veinlets and stringers are often present within the sediments alongside the “main veins” in both trends within 1-2meters of the main veins, but it seems that historically, only the “main veins” or larger veins were sampled while the narrower veins were ignored. Selected channels were cut and sampled across the main veins. Additionally, there is a possible third trend south of the first two and on strike of the Hoyle Shaft just off the eastern property boundary.
Mineralization seems to be constrained within darker patches in the quartz veins. These darker patches may be caused by fragments of mafic or ultramafic rocks noted within the veins that are usually associated with sulphide mineralization, and primarily include disseminated to semi-massive pyrite, chalcopyrite with lesser amounts of bornite and possibly covellite. The hematized sandstones/quartzites also contain hematite/ magnetite grains within or around finer quartz veinlets. A handheld Niton XRF instrument was used to test for copper values of well mineralized samples to give an idea of potential.
A total of 212 samples were taken during the prospecting program and sent for analysis. Results awaited and will be announced within Q4 2022.
Analytical sampling results from this initial work will provide the required detail to locate and prioritize targets, allowing for the planning of a follow-up drill program of approximately 1,000-1,200m to be executed in the coming months. A drilling application is already in progress with the relevant authorities in Ontario.

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Metal roof panels are commonly used on residential and commercial buildings. Steel panels exposed to hail have not yet been adequately tested for dent resistance. A finite element model (FEM) was used to analyze the entire test setup. To compare artificial hailstones with natural hailstones, which remained intact after impact, different steel sheets were struck by different sizes of artificial hailstones at different terminal velocities. The simulation and the material properties are assessed by comparing the experimental results with the FE model. An equation to predict the dent depth based on kinetic energy and stress is also presented. The results of this study provide a better understanding of the failure modes of hail and roof panels and their effects on dent resistance. In this study, the results of observations and numerical simulations agreed well with those of analytical models. The result is that the proposed equation overestimates the dent depths compared to the dent depths obtained with finite element models, while the equation leads to an underestimation of the dent depths found in the steel sheets.
Hailstorms can severely damage roofs. Depending on the air flow, hailstones up to 45 mm in diameter can be observed during hailstorms. Hailstorm-related damage often involves roof damage. The literature still suggests that hailstorms can cause significant damage to roofs. If there is no leakage or other visible damage, hail damage is not visible on a roof. In addition, hail that remains solid after impact causes significant damage. Simulation of the behavior of hailstones through their impact is crucial to accurately evaluate hail destruction on roof materials. Since natural hailstones do not break, they cause more damage because no energy is lost by breaking up¹. Furthermore, a method needs to be developed that allows artificial hailstones to stay whole during a high-speed impact. Liquid nitrogen is used to create hailstones that can remain whole after high-velocity impact. Similar to natural hailstones, artificial hailstones are uniform and dense. For an accurate determination of the dent resistance of steel plates, especially under dynamic conditions, it is necessary to obtain the realistic behavior of hail during impact. The risk of failure of a roof system must be evaluated together with significant factors such as hail size, hail speed, roof plate form and ultimate stress. Until now, there have been no studies of this kind. In this study, computation and experimental testing are employed to determine dent resistance. FE simulations were carried out via Abaqus software². A novel aspect of this study is to perform a finite element analysis of the hailstorm, validated by laboratory tests. The main focus is on the depth of the dents in the steel sheets after the hailstorm, as they vary in thickness with respect to the direction of loading.
When artificial hailstones freeze from the outside in, the air gathers in the outer shell. As a result of trapped air that is retained locally, hailstones have a weak point. Kim et al.³ and Flüeler et al.⁴ used shallow layering to produce synthetic hail, which was replicated by Tippmann⁵. Real hailstones have a layered structure from base to tip that resembles layers of an onion. Therefore, all hailstones produced with this method break when hitting a hard surface. The immersion method of Allaby and Garratt⁶ involves growing embryos on dry ice, enclosing them in a ping-pong ball with a hole at the top and freezing them in boiling water. In this process, the hailstones were spherical, and their outer layer was transparent. One of the twelve models tested survived the first impact test, although none of them were perfectly round. After impact, an ice sphere can maintain its solidity by increasing its tensile strength. A study conducted by Gold⁷ shows that the material known as pykrete has very different properties from ice. To increase the tensile strength of the ice, cotton fibers or polypropylene fibers were included. Artificial hailstones were strengthened with PVA-based adhesive and microfibers, but their parameters were not considerably altered, according to Wu⁸. Artificial hailstones have been launched at velocities of nearly 30 m/s onto G300 steel plates with a thickness of 0.55 mm. Only an ice ball made of 88% boiling water and PVA glue passed the impact test. The admixture of PVA in hail causes it to behave like rubber^9,10. Here, for the first time reported in the literature, artificial hailstones were made with liquid nitrogen and water. A mixture of 88% demineralized water and 12% PVA was used to create the artificial hailstones. When impacting steel roofs with higher terminal velocities, artificial ice hailstones created from liquid nitrogen remained intact.
The behavior of roof panels in hail has not yet been studied in detail. Koontz¹¹ examined factors such as the size of the hail, the angle of impact, the aging of the panels, the type of roof, the weather and the surface to describe how hail damages roofs. In a study of hailstone damage thresholds on metal plates and impact tests on aging roof materials, Timothy et al.¹² investigated the destruction levels. The central plastic deformation of the plate was predicted using an accurate model developed by Mohotti et al.¹³ In their study, the time history of the deformation is foreseen methodically, arithmetically, and empirically. However, the projectiles were made of a cylindrical steel rod with a diameter of 37 mm and a flat impact plane. They concluded that all the kinetic energy applied to the sheet during impact was entirely converted into permanent deformation. According to Calder and Goldsmith¹⁴, energy losses are only a small factor in deformation caused by impacts. Depending on the shape of the projectile and the softness of the object, some researchers have also studied predicted force functions^15,16,17,18.
Usually, placeholder hailstones of different shapes, sizes and masses are thrown or dropped at different velocities. The fall velocity of natural hail was most recently estimated by Heymsfield et al.¹⁹ The hailstones were formed with 12% polyvinyl acetate (PVA) and nitrogen. A mixture of liquid nitrogen and demineralized water was used to produce artificial hailstones that were solid, in what is considered to be a new method. The following is an explanation of the equipment and processes used to produce artificial hailstones. A tank was required to transport liquid nitrogen without harming the surroundings. This method of containing liquid nitrogen protects it from evaporation and limits dangerous conditions. Since the liquid nitrogen is transferred from the tank to the Dewar container, it can be used conveniently every time an experiment is carried out. Pure water was stored in tanks to prevent decomposition. To maintain consistent dipping, the liquid nitrogen is immersed in water tanks in the Dewar vessel. The embryo was exposed to demineralized water droplets or sand particles. The embryo was quickly immersed in liquid nitrogen in a Dewar vessel. The water in the container then suddenly froze. Artificial hailstones made with PVA have sizes of 37.5, 45 and 50.8 mm (see Fig. 1a). The tools required to produce these artificial hailstones are shown in Fig. 1b and c. The steel panels were tested six times with artificial hailstones of different sizes. In this study, 226 impact tests were conducted. The validity of the equation obtained in this study was assessed using hailstones made of PVA and liquid nitrogen.
Photos of materials to make hailstones of different sizes^9,20.
The projectile integrity in this study was classified into four cases: intact, partly intact, major fragmentation and shattered. In this study, the impact velocity of hailstones was measured by sensors and cameras at different sheet thicknesses. For hailstones with different diameters and densities, the final velocity can be determined by adjusting the pressure in the gas tank. Ten different plates were used in this study. As reported by the supplier, all plates have a yield strength of 300 MPa and measure 1 m × 1 m in size.
In this study, ten sheets were used with thicknesses of 0.3, 0.45, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8, and 1.0 mm. Each test was conducted at perpendicular angles. In this study, only the depths of dents induced by nitrogen ice balls and PVA that did not break were examined.
The main components of the test setup are a hail cannon, a protective housing, and a measuring device. Figure 2 shows the setup. Prior to loading the artificial hailstones into the hail cannon, it is necessary to determine the mass, volume, and density of the hailstones. The hail cannon is shown in Fig. 2a.
Setup using (a) a hail cannon and (b) a camera and velocity probes.
Observation and recording of the impact are possible due to the large glass window in the protection unit. There are five holes in two rows in the protection unit, which can be used to aim the hail cannon at different areas of the steel sheet. The speed sensors are mounted on rails attached to the protection unit. A high-speed camera was used to detect and measure the speed of hailstones (see Fig. 2b). To make efficient use of a high-speed camera, a 185-W lamp LED was used, powered by DC rather than AC, which reduced the flicker in the videos taken at high frames per second. To accurately measure the trajectory of the artificial hailstones, a steel frame ruler was placed along the trajectory from the barrel. Using trial and error, a frame rate of 1000 frames per second was used based on the quality of the image and the time it took to capture it. The impact velocity of an artificial hailstone can be determined using the scale as shown in Fig. 3.
Images of hailstones made of PVA with a diameter of 38 mm (a) before impact and (b) after impact.
In addition, high-speed cameras can be used to observe and assess hailstones upon impact. The camera’s speed measurements were confirmed using MATLAB. A rail system was equipped with two laser sensors placed at a specific distance from one another. The projectile is detected by each sensor in turn. A time duration is displayed when the Arduino board detects the first and second sensors. The test board is replaced after ten shots, and the depth and diameter of the dent are measured. To define the diameter of the dent, the distance between the edges of each axis was evaluated with a Vernier caliper. Currently, the configuration and angle of steel sheets are not considered, as this is outside the scope of the study.
The impact energy of an intact artificial hailstone is mainly converted to the plastic deformation energy of the dented sheet, the rebounded energy, and the flexural vibration energy as other forms of energy loss such as heat and sound are negligible. According to Patil and Higgs²²,the collision damage equation can be written as Eq. (1).
As ({E}_{Rebound}) converges to zero (left({E}_{Rebound}cong 0right)), it is considered an insignificant variable, while the vibration energy ({E}_{vibration}) represents the largest proportion of the impact energy. During impact, the plastic energy (left({E}_{Plastic}right)) of a material is related to its yield stress and volume change. As the thickness of the material remains constant during impact, the plastic energy can be provided by Eq. (2):
It is possible to calculate the area changed after impact according to Eq. (3). A simplified depressed area is signified by the radius r before impact, and the radius of the hailstone is represented by (R). The indentation depth is denoted by (D). The initial (original) depressed area is given as follows.
Equation (5) gives the distorted area after the impact. Equations (6) and (7) are used to calculate the modified area and plastic energy, respectively.
It is assumed that the external vibration and the external frequency (left(wright)) of the hailstone produced by the impact are zero since the impact is almost instantaneous. In this case, due to the stability of the system, the pressure gap can be expressed by Eq. (8) for a sinusoidal steady-state response.
When (omega =0),
where (left|{H}_{jw}right|) in Eq. (9) represents the dynamic amplification factor. This means that the vibration energy equals:
Flat steel sheets have a flexural stiffness (left(kright)) proportional to their thickness (left(tright)) and the length (left(hright)) cubed but inversely proportional to the spacing between their battens cubed.
The symbol (varphi) symbolizes the diameter of a hailstone (2R). To explain the vibration energy, Eq. (12) can be substituted into Eq. (10).
The final step is to rewrite Eq. (1) to obtain dent depth:
To optimize the dent depth in Eq. (14), the rebounded energy and the compressive area can be considered by using the following equation:
where (alpha) and β denote the rebound energy and the pressure area, respectively. The coefficient of restitution (COR) is usually referred to as the cause of energy dissipation during an impact. The COR is calculated as follows:
(alpha) in Eq. (15) is obtained as follows when COR = 0 for a broken or smashed hailstone during impact:
Although in the present experimental study the dent diameter is visible after the collision on steel plates, it is challenging to gauge the exact value of the dent diameter (({D}_{d})) manually without a digital 3D scanner. The compressive area determines the coefficient (frac{2{R}_{c}}{varphi }). As shown in Table 1, the β coefficient is derived from the distribution of the steel plate thickness and the hailstone diameter. A steel plate’s compressive radius is defined as ({R}_{c}), while its elliptical dent radius is r.
Knud Thomsen’s formula is used to approximate the surface of an ellipsoid based on the lengths of the semiaxes in Eq. (7) to correct the plastic energy. With Knud Thomsen’s formula, the flat area (({A}_{0}=pi (2RD-{D}^{2}))) remains the same before impact, and the deformed area (({A}_{f})) resembles that of a flattened spheroid described as follows:
where (p=1.6075), (a=b=r) and (c=D). Assuming a half-ellipsoid, the elliptical dented radius (r) is computed as (r=sqrt{{R}^{2}-{(R-D)}^{2}}), where R and D are the radius of the artificial hailstone and the dent depth, respectively. Thus, Eq. (18) can be rewritten as follows:
The revised area after the collision is
Hence, ϰ (= frac{{Delta A}_{r}}{{Delta A}_{i}}) and ({Delta A}_{i}=pi {D}^{2}). The revised plastic energy equation is as follows:
Dent depths of the specimens in Table 3 were predicted using the equation proposed by Uz et al.²³ as follows:
The yield stress ({(sigma }_{Y})), Young’s modulus (E), average effective length (l), and transversal length (h) are kept constant under laboratory conditions (({sigma }_{Y}=320mathrm{ MPa}), E = 200 GPa, l = 148.7 mm, h = 1 m). The coefficient ϰ is dependent on the ratio between the radius of the artificial hailstone and the elliptical radius of the damaged area. Accordingly, as the ratio of the radiuses increases, so does the coefficient determined by the ratio of ({mathrm{Delta A}}_{mathrm{r}}) and ({mathrm{Delta A}}_{mathrm{i}}). The ϰ coefficient is taken from the study of Uz et al.²⁰ Experimental tests show that the relationship between ({R}_{c}) and r is (r=0.58{R}_{c}), with a tolerance of 0.2 mm. The following formula represents the relationship between the ϰ coefficient and the ratio between the radius of the artificial hailstone and the radius of the obtained indented ellipse:
For a particular impact energy, Johnson and Schaffnit²⁴ suggested that the dent depth is inversely related to the square of the panel thickness. In Eq. (23), the dent depth can be calculated by combining the plastic energy and the rebounding energy as well as the vibration energy and the compressive area.
The experimental test results obtained by Carney et al.²⁵, which investigated the behavior of ice during impact, are used as a new validation of the FE models in this study. Cylindrical ice projectiles with diameters of 17.5 mm and lengths of 42.2 mm were used for impact tests applied on a rigid plate. To measure the force over time for each test, a force transducer device was placed behind the rigid plate. To obtain consistent data from the experimental test, the plate is set up with a similar geometry and rigidity using a 3D analytic rigid shell. With the help of three discrete spring elements, as shown in Fig. 4, the target plate of each test condition is fully modeled based on the modal characteristics. The spring elements were described by following the line of action axis in the FE models. In the boundary condition of the FE models presented in this study, the target plate is unrestrained to move only through the spring elements during impact.
Schematic representation of the steel cylinder (load cell) and supporting springs.
The impact forces recorded over time from the force transducer device are matched with those extracted from FE models. As shown in Fig. 5, compared to the impact test from Carney et al.²⁵ with 62.5 mm diameter hail at 152.4 m/s, the FE model captures the system well based on the trend and maximum impact force. The test setup for capturing the impulse in the test of Carney et al.²⁵ is compared with the FE model given in Fig. 6. The material property values for hailstones are 9.38 GPa for Young’s modulus, 0.33 for Poisson’s ratio, 5.2 MPa for yield stress and 0.517 MPa for hydrostatic cutoff stress. The compressive strength of artificial hailstones does not noticeably affect the prediction of the maximum dent depth of steel plates by assuming that the energy conservation (vibration and plastic energy) of hailstones is negligible²¹.
Time histories of impact force obtained by this study in comparison with the one performed by Carney et al.²⁵.
Comparison of the impact captured by experimental results obtained by Carney et al.²⁵ and FE models.
The tabular representation of the strain sensitivity of the hailstone used in the current study corresponds to the data in the study by Uz et al.²¹ The strain rate determines the failure of compression.
Table 2 shows the material properties of steel plates of different thicknesses impacted by PVA and nitrogen hail balls. The velocities (left({mathrm{V}}_{mathrm{c}}right)) measured by cameras are matched with the velocities (left({mathrm{V}}_{mathrm{s}}right)) measured by sensors. Due to the difference between the determined camera speed and the sensor speed, the final speed is compared with the average speed. In each test, the density determined by the proposed methods agrees well with that of the natural hailstone, which remained intact after impact. Table 3 shows the measured dent depth from the experimental test, the proposed dent depth from Eq. (23) and the dent depth obtained by the FE model in the current study for each specimen, including the dent diameter on the sheet after impact. A mean professional factor of 1.09 and a coefficient of variation (COV) of 0.132 are obtained from the ratio of dent depth calculated by Eq. (23) and FE model. This study shows that the theory gives more accurate results than the FE model. Indentation depths for the three specimens are underestimated by up to 14% (i.e., 1/0.88 for specimen 889). Furthermore, the theory overestimates the indentation depth by a thickness of 0.6 mm. In specimens 1052 and 1055 made by nitrogen, the theory overestimated the dent depth due to major fragmentation of hailstones after impact. However, specimen 910, which did not break after impact, was made by PVA, although the theory for that specimen is also overestimated. The reason for this is thought to be because of the lower density for the related specimen. For each specimen, the dent diameters (Dx and Dy) in the longitudinal and transverse directions are measured after impact to determine the β coefficients given in Table 1. A mean professional factor of 0.99 and a coefficient of variation (COV) of 0.114 are obtained by using the FE model. Based on the measured dent depth on the tested sheet, it appears that the FE model provides an underestimation.
Equation (23) gives a mean professional factor of 1.06 and a coefficient of variation (COV) of 0.055. Some of the tests conducted by Wu⁸ are performed in the FE model of this study. Figure 7 shows a comparison between the dent depths determined with the FE models, with the gauges and 3D scans in the study of Wu⁸ and with the equation proposed by Uz et al.²¹ Except for the samples with a hailstone diameter of 25 mm, the results of the FE models are not even in the range of the results measured with gauges and 3D scans. Due to the limited scope of this article, there is only one FE model result presented in Fig. 8, which refers to sample 50-15-1. A hailstone with a diameter of 50.2 mm is launched at a speed of 35.6 m/s into a steel sheet of 0.55 mm thickness.
Comparison between the FE model and Wu’s⁸ results.
Displacement results of the FE model for specimen 50-15-1.
The bend of the sheet in the middle of the impact is shown in Fig. 8. As the impact force increases, the deflection of the steel increases until the highest contact is reached between the steel sheets and the hailstones. The dent depth of 4.69 mm determined in the FE model agrees with the dent depth of 4.84 mm determined by both the experimental test performed by Wu⁸ and the equation proposed by Uz et al.²³. Figure 9b shows the deformation resulting from the process of the 0.55 mm thick steel sheet in the springback model connected to the successfully finished impact model in Abaqus software. Although the hailstone reached the upper limit force at 0.37 ms (Fig. 10b), it continued to travel in the vertical direction at 0.91 ms. The hailstone and steel sheet were in close contact at 1.5 ms (Fig. 10a). Figure 9a shows the energy dissipation over the course of the impact. Figure 9a shows that the energy dissipated by rate-independent plastic deformation (PD) remained at approximately 15 J, while the kinetic energy remained at approximately 10 J due to the rebound of the hailstone after impact.
Results of the FE model for specimen 50-15-1: (a) energy history and (b) permanent distortion (springback modeling).
Time histories of the impact of the hailstone on specimen 50-15-1.
The total strain energy (IE) and recoverable strain energy (SE) show the accuracy of the theoretical dent depth equation of this current study.
During the impact, a hailstone with a diameter of 50.2 mm deformed and formed a contact area of 552 mm².
Equation (23) is independent of time for the vibration energy calculation. The stress‒strain graph of the material shows the end of linear performance followed by a linear trend until springback begins. Based on the toughness of the material, a time-independent equation is used to calculate the plastic energy. According to the current literature, there is a linear relationship between the impact energy and indentation depth, while the indentation depth and material thickness have an inverse relationship.
Because of common practices in the field, researchers have included this section despite their reservations about the reliability analysis procedure. The reason is that it is commonly used in the literature. This section includes the determination of the resistance factor that can be abused. The reliability analysis methodology and statistical parameters used in this paper were adopted from Driver et al.²⁶ and Teh and Uz²⁷, who determined the required resistance factor ({varnothing }_{r}) using the equation proposed by Fisher et al.²⁸.
In Eq. (25), ({M}_{m}) and ({F}_{m}) are the mean values of the material factor and the manufacturing factor, which are 1.11 and 1.00. In the present work, the mean value of the professional factor (({P}_{m})) is given in Table 3. In Eq. (26), the separation variable ({alpha }_{r}) is equal to 0.55, while ({V}_{m}), ({V}_{F}) and ({V}_{P}) are the coefficients of variation based on the material, manufacturing factors and the current professional factor given in Table 3, respectively, which are assumed to be 0.054, 0.05 and 0.132.It was found that to achieve the target reliability index ({beta }_{r}) of 4, a resistance factor ({varnothing }_{r}) of 0.80 is required for Eq. (23).
The following factors are considered in this study: sheet thickness, material thickness, batten spacing, distance of the dent center of gravity from the closest edge and hail size. For inelastic steel, the dent depth is independent of the hailstone diameter. A smaller hailstone with a larger impact produces a similar permanent dent and the same impact energy as a larger hailstone with a smaller impact. The plastic distortion noted with the proposed equation agrees well with the experimental results. The dent depth in this case is not inversely proportional to the square root of the plate thickness or to the vibration-induced yield stress. The FE models were not able to provide accurate predictions of deformation depths shown in experiments compared to analytical models. Numerical models were able to accurately represent approximately 82% of the experimental results of permanent deformation of the plate. The elastic response of steel plates is generally overestimated by FE models. It is also necessary to conduct a separate study to accurately determine the strain sensitivity of the artificial hailstone in relation to the hardness of the hailstone, which determines the impact force at the point of contact. Based on these findings, new design methods for hail-resistant steel sheets can be developed that have a wider range of applications. A resistance factor of 0.80 is recommended for use with the equation in order to achieve the target reliability index of 4. Relative to the current AISC specification’s equation, which has a resistance factor of 0.75 as specified in the code, the use of the proposed equation will facilitate structural design that are more economical yet reliable.
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Often regarded as one of the most unique instruments one can learn, the digital piano keyboard is universally revered. No matter where you go or who you meet, the world knows and understands the impressive nature of the keyboard.
With its repeating layout, extensive range, and, surprisingly straightforward mechanics, the electric piano is something that anyone can play and grow proficient in while only a few can reasonably master.
If you’re someone just starting in the music field, learning sheet music, taking piano lessons, starting out in production, or simply attempting to play piano basics, the digital piano keyboard offers a firm entryway into the musical world, acting as a strong foundation that can be used as leverage for many other instruments and areas of music.
Unfortunately, while the acoustic piano is highly revered it is also highly expensive. Even the most affordable acoustic pianos can cost several hundred dollars at the minimum while also requiring considerable space in your home.
If you’re looking to build up your piano-playing skills, yet don’t have the budget or space to accommodate one, you may be better off looking at a beginner keyboard to start with.
Beginner keyboards, while not as grandiose and visually captivating as an acoustic piano, offer the same design and musical notes as a piano while being available in multiple methods.
The Yamaha YPT260 is our best beginner keyboard pick. It is a lightweight keyboard that also includes lessons for anyone out there looking to improve themselves. This digital piano keyboard comes with over 400 sounds and an AUXport, so you can listen to all of your favorite tracks. Perfect keyboards for beginners.
Below, we’ll take the time to check out some of the best beginner keyboards currently on the market while also giving you some tips on what to expect and look out for when getting the keyboard that’s right for you.
One of the best keyboards for beginners out there, the Yamaha YPT260 is a lightweight dream of a keyboard, including several important lessons for any, would-be pianist out there looking to improve themselves.
Not only that, but the keyboard comes with an AUX port, which you can use to listen to all of your favorite tracks.
The YPT260 are great beginner keyboards and come with over 400 different keyboard sounds as well as over 9 different keyboard lessons.
It also has a super intuitive interface as well as a compact and portable design, making it clear that this was made for beginners and those just getting started in production or keyboard performance
This best keyboard pick comes with an LCD monitor display as well as over 400 different instrument sounds to play with. This, along with the other lessons learned make it a great option for just about anyone.
The only place where it lacks is in the features category and only because they may be seen as helping more beginners as opposed to those in the intermediate or higher sphere of ability.
This means that it’s an incredible option for learning the basics, but may not be ideal for those that know what they’re looking for and already have a history of understanding what means what.
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The Novation Launchkey Mini is on our keyboards for beginners list as it is one of the most impressive in terms of its MIDI keyboard setup. It is a great option for those just starting, including both a beginner version of Pro Tools & Ableton Live.
This makes it a compelling option, not just for those interested in learning to play the digital piano, but also for those interested in producing beats or making recorded music.
The Launchkey Mini is touch sensitive and comes with velocity-sensitive keys and pads that capture the nuance found in every performance.
This is unlike other starter keyboards, as most tend to sit squarely as methods of learning to play, with only a few offering MIDI access at all.
Here, the Launchkey Mini flips it on its head, instead being meant ideally for those that know their way around a keyboard and want to translate that knowledge into sampled music for beat-making.
If you’re someone that is a producer DJ or skilled in music making, this is really the best option for you.
It comes with an easy and intuitive display while also offering plug-and-play functionality and a whole host of other tools (such as sampler pads, transport controls, and programmable knobs).
The Launchkey Mini packs this all into a 25-key setup that is great for beginners in all fields. It also comes with an assortment of different modes to help in the music-creating process.
As an example, the arpeggiator mode is meant to create unique patterns and incredibly lush textures to create an impressive and quick-recording method of storing one’s musical ideas in their best light.
These features are pretty easy to use right away, while the MIDI keyboard also has methods of tweaking and customizing various other settings so that your keyboard is truly unique to you.
The challenge that can come from all of this impressive inclusion is a sense of intimidation and a feeling of being overwhelmed.
While producers and beat-makers will probably feel right at home here, those just looking for a solid digital piano keyboard to practice on will probably feel underwhelmed in the “piano” side of things while immensely overwhelmed by the MIDI-based features and functions.
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Many people starting out are looking for keyboards for beginners on a budget. A great budget on this list, the Casio SA-77 beginner keyboard shares many of the same aspects as the earlier Casio CT-S500.
Where the two differ, however, is in the SA-77’s affordability. This makes it a great tool for kids and students alike to establish a firm grasp on how to play with and understand the digital piano.
The SA-77 has over 100 different sounds and is presented in a small and kid-friendly design that is appealing to just about anyone getting started.
The keyboard comes with a set of five different drum pads that are built into the device and are responsible for its 100 sounds and 50 different rhythm tracks.
In addition to its compact frame, the SA-77 is very portable, running on either six AA batteries or an AC adapter (sold separately). This makes it perfect for sketching out music ideas and practicing your songwriting while out on the road or in most homes.
Despite its affordable nature and ability to appeal to anyone, the SA-77 is part of a longstanding history of keyboard designs, sporting a 44-key design.
While this isn’t quite as many as others on this list, as the most affordable and one of the most compact options, it’s still impressive.
Where the SA-77 does falter, however, is in its sound capabilities when compared to that of a real traditional piano. As mentioned, it only has 44 keys and around 100 sounds.
This, for many, can be greatly stifling once you’ve gone past the basic understanding of the digital piano. Not only that, but the keyboard definitely makes a point of appealing to younger children first and foremost.
Its design is very childlike, potentially causing older users to feel like they’re playing with a toy for kids rather than a tool for everyone.
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If the three options above aren’t well-suited to you, there are still a host of fantastic beginner keyboards to choose from. Our team also highlighted the following options for those in search of an excellent entry-level keyboard.
The Casio Casiotone CT-S500 products are easy-to-use keyboards for beginners whilst also becoming more challenging as users become more experienced with them.
It holds over 800 different sounds and is touch sensitive.
While it doesn’t inherently come with included lessons, by using Casio’s separate app, you can unlock lessons with the keyboard, becoming more efficient over time.
Probably the keyboard’s greatest strength, however, is in its deceptively small and compact design. This thing looks small enough to be used by just about anyone while also offering some incredible benefits in terms of sound, control, and features.
The CT-S500 comes with numerous line-out ports which allow you to connect to a PA system as well as any other gear.
Not only that, but the keyboard works well as even a Bluetooth speaker, able to produce incredible sounds that far surpass anything you’d otherwise expect from something of its size. This is due to the speakers being designed around Casio’s Horizontal Bass-Reflex System.
The CT-S500 comes with a wide selection of classic Casio sounds pulled from the company’s previous devices, ranging from the silly and cheesy sound effects from the ’80s to the far more professional and current sounds of today.
These sounds can be, once selected, assigned various parameters along four different knobs, able to be adjusted during a performance in real-time.
If you want, you can also split the keyboard to produce two sounds at the same time. Both of these sounds can be customized with the built-in knobs while the included LCD monitor offers real-time info while also allowing you to save potential presets surrounding sound, rhythm, and effects that you’d otherwise have to deal with.
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The Donner DEP-20 makes a point of being both stylish as well as affordable while offering a full-weight 88-key body. While not the most mobile option out there, this is a great addition to most living rooms and homes.
It is both touch sensitive while having over 230 different sounds. It has three heavy-duty pedals that allow you to produce a more realistic response.
Not only that, but the DEP-20 comes with an included wooden furniture keyboard stand that makes it great for blending in with most home settings and decorations. In addition, the keyboard comes with a USB port to send MIDI information to and from your computer.
Unlike the CT-S500, which offers a small-body compact experience, the DEP-20 makes a point of offering a much more accurate piano-playing experience.
While not nearly as large or bulky, the DEP-20 is a great option for those that want to experience what it’s like to sit down at a digital piano and play while saving on cost and space. This makes it a legitimately great choice for beginners and professionals alike.
The three pedals mentioned are made from zinc alloy and are meant to emulate the same functionality as a standard acoustic piano. This includes one for dampening, one for sustaining, and one for the sostenuto. There is also an included black wooden stand that acts as an elegant and perfectly placed finish.
While not as many as some of the others on this list, the DEP-20 comes with over 238 different sounds.
In addition, the keyboard doesn’t include any way to progress and better one’s self through included lessons. Again, while this isn’t a debilitating factor all on its own, it may be a harder sell when compared to a smaller, more compact option that does have included lessons for improvement.
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The Alesis Recital is one of the better digital piano emulation options out there. It includes over 88 touch-adjustable weighted keys along with five high-quality premium sounds.
In addition, the keyboard is touch sensitive and offers over 60 different keyboard lessons. The Alesis Recital is just as mobile as it is a stationary option, taking in six D-batteries alongside a wall-based power source.
If that wasn’t enough, the keyboard has a fairly impressive MIDI inclusion that, while nothing insane, is a great bonus addition to help translate your music to your computer.
The Recital’s main benefit is its ability to scale the more full size of a piano with its lighter frame and portable nature.
It’s because of this aspect that the Alesis Recital is easily one of the most impressive 88-key options on the market and one any person interested in translating their skills directly from the keyboard to the digital piano will want to look into.
The Recital is great for beginners and experienced pianists, as it can produce some premium sound pieces that further emphasize its proximity to a standard piano, making its alternative competitors seem more like knockoffs than actual competition.
This is made even more apparent when you take a look at the different lesson modes that the Recital has available. Many of these lesson modes work by splitting the keyboard into a section for the host user and one for an additional teacher.
The Recital also has a USB-based connection function where you can send your information out similar to that of a MIDI controller or device.
While this is truly an incredible keyboard device, there are some things that draw from it potentially being magnificent or incredible.
For example, as it is 50 inches wide, there may be more than a few spaces that simply can’t take work with its size.
Just as well, its control interface isn’t particularly intuitive, meaning you’ll be guessing around a lot more than you’d like.
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It’s easy to assume that all beginner keyboards are the same. After all, they all are more or less just more portable versions of a piano keyboard.
As such, you can’t really expect there to be a lot of differences from one keyboard to another, right?
Well, the truth is that there are some serious differences based on the brand and its overall features and quality.
Not only that, but you also must consider what you need in a keyboard, such as portability, USB compatibility, or one that shares a similar look, sound, and feel to a traditional piano.
For many, the Yamaha YPT260 is the best keyboard piano option. Others will love the more real and physical aspects of the Alesis Recital. If you’re someone that’s just starting with digital pianos, there is a range of the best beginner keyboards out there that you can use and enjoy.
The key, however, is to see what electric piano you’re looking for and look for the best keyboards for beginners in that area.
No matter what you pick or don’t pick, all of these digital pianos are the best of the best. Take the time to decide what keyboard piano you really need and get started now.
Dexter has worked in the music business since the early 1990s. He has been a keen tech writer for many years and is still regularly involved in promoting prominent electronic music events in Ibiza and the UK.
Dexter also specializes in managing and growing digital marketing platforms for leading international DJs, event brands, and venues.
He relocated to Croatia from Ibiza six years ago but has continued his industry involvement whilst living on the electronic music party Island of Pag.
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It goes on sale this Friday Camilo Foreverthe collection of four compilation CDs of more than 200 songs by Camillus Sextus that include a secret legacy of the author; at least 10 fully finished original songs that were never released and were never known to exist.
The producer Pepe Herrero He has been the discoverer of the songs, whose discovery he has described as “as exciting as finding treasures in Egyptian tombs”. The ten unpublished songs did not appear documented anywhere, not even on the internet, they were not even mentioned in the authorized biography that Sesto had allowed her friend and unconditional fan to make, Elena Gomez de la Puertawhen the singer was still alive.
The discovery of the new songs occurred in a casual and “rocambolesca” way, as published by the newspaper The country. The music production company Sony Music sent Herrero the artist’s original recordings to be remastered. This producer had already been in charge of orchestrating the compilation Symphonic Camilo in 2018.
The songs were recorded on different separate tracks, which picked up voices and instruments independently, and which had to be put together like a puzzle to achieve the complete songs. When completing songs, the music producer found the ten unknown compositions, having been discarded for inclusion in several of the 24 albums he released throughout his life.
It is a couple of ballads, Soledad y you will fly; and titles like when someone falls in love, We are abrasive, I only think of you, Now or neverthe theme in English Winning and the eighties Too young y poor world.
Camilo Forever is an unusual compilation among Spanish artists. The case contains the songs from Camilo Sesto’s records from 1972 to 1986, and according to the head of the catalog at Sony Music and the main promoter of an initiative, Loving Cifuentesis “a historic act of justice.”
Camilo Blanes Cortés died on September 8, 2019 at the age of 72, after having composed more than 200 songs and selling 175 million copies of his records. The unforgettable performer of rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar he even became hailed as the “Spanish Sinatra” when he sang the impressive To live like this is to die of love, before 45,000 spectators at Madison Square Garden in New York in 1981.
The artist disappeared from the charts at the end of the eighties and ended up being a bit of a caricature of himself due to excessive histrionics and some excess ego. He was heavily vilified when he returned to television fame as a grotesque character, rather than as an artist. He didn’t manage to improve that image when he tried to return to music with the 2002 ‘Mola mazo’, which instead of bringing him closer to young people, distanced him even more from his longtime fans.

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The San Diego Gulls return to Pechanga Arena San Diego to face off against the Grand Rapids Griffins (7 p.m. PT; TV: AHL TV, RADIO: Gulls Audio Network).
The Gulls and Griffins enter the third game of a four-game season series tonight after the teams split a season-opening weekend series in Grand Rapids Oct. 14-15. 
The Gulls scored two power-play goals in each contest, marking the first time in San Diego’s AHL history the team accomplished the feat in their first two games of the season. Additionally, the Gulls scored a team-best 11 goals through their first two games (previous: 10 goals, Oct. 10-16, 2015). Nine different Gulls registered multi-point efforts over the weekend series, with Glenn Gawdin (2-2=4), Nikolas Brouilllard (2-3=5), Olli Juolevi (1-3=4) recording consecutive multi-point games. 
The Griffins come into tonight’s game on a two-game skid where they were outscored 8-3. They will look to their playmakers to turn this around against the Gulls’ strong defense. This includes Austin Czarnik, who leads Grand Rapids with 3-2=5 against the Gulls this season after recording a hat trick (3-0=3) on Oct. 15. The Gulls will also need to be on the lookout for Cross Hanas, who ranks second among American Hockey League rookies and leads the Griffins with seven goals this season. The left wing also registered  2-2=4 points over his last three games. Additionally, forward Taro Hirose is a proven playmaker for the Griffins, leading his team with 2-11=13 points this season. Hirose earned eight of his assists on the power play to rank tied for first among AHL skaters.  This includes Austin Czarnik, who leads Grand Rapids with 3-2=5 against the Gulls this season after recording a hat trick (3-0=3) on Oct. 15.
This leads to yet another challenge for San Diego’s power play, whose penalty kill now ranks second in the AHL at 88.9%. Over their last four games, the Gulls have been perfect while down a man, killing 20-of-20 of their opponent’s power plays.
Gulls forward Danny O’Regan addressed how pivotal the penalty kill’s success is for the team following their loss to the San Jose Barracuda on Nov. 16: "They've been doing a really good job, keeping us in the game. You know, keeping games tight. Dos (Gulls goaltender Lukas Dostal) is a big part of that, and he's been amazing throughout this whole stretch. We just have to, (on) the other side of things, be a lot better."
Dostal’s play continues to give the Gulls a tremendous advantage in net and bolsters the team’s success in the defensive zone.
On Nov. 14, the netminder received AHL Player of the Week honors and through his last seven starts, maintains a 2.00 goals against average and a .945 save percentage. He made 35 or more saves in five out of the 12 games and has kept opponents scoreless in the five of his last six start.
"We have a really good goaltender," Gulls assistant coach Jason Clarke said following the Gulls’ last game on Nov. 16. "There were quite a few breakdowns on the penalty kill and your goaltender is going to be your best penalty killer. He was our best player since the season started and he was our best player tonight again, and he was our best player on the PK."
  
The Gulls offense looks to give the fans a show in their return home. Forward Rocco Grimaldi is leading the attack with 5-10=15 points in 13 games this season. Each game, he finds a new way to generate offense and create chances for his teammates.
The Gulls  looks to establish consistency on both sides of the ice against the Griffins this weekend with a sixty-minute effort from everyone on the team. 
"It's definitely something that's in the room. Just to a guy, I mean, just a little bit more focused and, you know, a little more pride with our passes and our d(efensive) zone or o(ffensive) zone," O’Regan said. "You can put (it) on the list and, you know, everyone individually taking that step and being would help a lot this weekend."
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