![]() In order to share the savings it achieves for the Medicare initiative, Trinity Health ACO is required to succeed in both delivering high-quality care and spending health care dollars wisely. Patients experience no change in their original Medicare benefits and retain their freedom to see any Medicare provider. Trinity Health ACO coordinates care to patients in Illinois (Loyola Physician Partners, part of Loyola Medicine), Michigan (Affinia Health Network, part of Mercy Health – Michigan), New Jersey (Summit Medical Group) and Ohio (Mount Carmel Health Partners, part of Mount Carmel Health System). Trinity Health’s participation in Medicare ACOs is through more than 15,000 physicians and advanced practice professionals committed to 16 Clinically Integrated Networks (CINs) that are accountable for approximately 1.5 million lives across the country through alternative payment models (APMs) across all populations and product lines: Medicaid, Commercial, Medicare Advantage and Medicare ACOs. Participation in Next Generation ACOs is voluntary for providers who - when part of the Model - are paid based on the quality of care they provide to patients. This waiver allows eligible patients, whose doctors participate in the Next Generation ACO Model, to be admitted to a SNF directly from their home or a doctor’s office, or from a hospital even with an inpatient hospital stay of fewer than three days. ACOs often also offer expanded benefits, which may include the Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Three-Day Rule Waiver. Next Generation ACOs, like Trinity Health ACO, are patient-centered organizations that give providers access to better information about their patients' medical histories and encourage better relationships with other providers. In these ways, it strives to attain the highest quality standards of care for Medicare recipients. It sets predictable financial targets, gives beneficiaries more opportunities to manage their own health, and enables providers to better coordinate care across health systems. The Next Generation Accountable Care Organization Model was created by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and is in its sixth year. ![]() This savings, in addition to our high-quality score of 97.25%, showcases the value the model provides to more than 77,000 Medicare beneficiaries and communities across the country.” “Our focus on being good stewards of quality and the Medicare dollar, in addition to the dedication of our providers in service to their patients, has allowed us to save Medicare more than $85.6 million since the start of the model five years ago. “Trinity Health ACO is proud of our cost savings over the past three years,” said Emily Brower, senior vice president of clinical integration and physician services for Trinity Health. Trinity Health ACO, a Next Generation Accountable Care Organization (ACO), achieved $23.1 million in shared savings in performance year 2020 – saving Medicare more than $20 million for the third year in a row. ![]() ![]() The new strategy for building an outstanding trinity coating via competitive reactions can pave a realistic way for fabricating unparalleled next-generation separation membranes.Trinity Health ACO Achieves $23.1 Million in Shared Savings for 2020, Saving Medicare More Than $20 Million for the Third Year in a Row Meanwhile, the novel membrane with the perfectly tuned architecture by CB/COB competitive reactions possesses extraordinary dye/salt selectivity, tremendous acid/alkali–base stability and excellent anti-pollution capacity simultaneously. The CB/COB competitive reactions drastically enhanced the permeance of the trinity coated membrane by 533%, 238%, and 93% compared to that of the unary (pDA) and binary (pDA/PEI or pDA/Co 2+) coated membranes. Our molecular separation nanoporous membrane demonstrates ultra-high permeance (114 L m −2 h −1 bar −1 for Bromothymol Blue (BTB) and 104 L m −2 h −1 bar −1 for Congo Red (CR)) with complete rejection, which is much superior to that of state-of-the-art membranes and can realize the lower energy consumption of the membrane separation process. The COBs generated among various polyphenols (PPhs), amino substances (ASs) and transition metal ions (TMIs) can limit Michael addition or Schiff base reactions for CB formation between PPhs and ASs during the mussel-inspired ternary coating process so as to elegantly engineer the trinity coating architecture on the porous substrate with ultra-thin thickness, excellent structural integration, high hydrophilicity and outstanding smoothness. Herein, an ultra-thin trinity coating (∼33 nm) for unparalleled molecular separation is first built via covalent bond (CB)/coordination bond (COB) competitive reactions. Advanced nanoporous membranes with outstanding permeance and exceptional molecular-separation efficiency are highly desirable for key industrial applications for alleviating the worldwide environmental/energy crisis. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Just in the year 2021, the company raised more than $300 million in funding from large institutional investors to help fuel its explosive growth trajectory. And perhaps no company has profited more from the emergence of this market than Rad Power Bikes. This, of course, is hardly the only demographic spurring the massive growth of the e-bike market-there is also a huge contingent of adult commuters and utility riders and fun seekers. These bikes give teens and preteens who are too young to drive enormous freedom and range, and also free their parents from the need to chauffeur them around town. In the greater Los Angeles area where the Steinsapirs live-and in lots of other affluent communities around the country-e-bikes have become a de facto mode of transportation for kids of middle and high school age. Massive numbers of people have discovered that e-bikes can replace many car trips, that they have an extremely low operating cost and a tiny environmental footprint, and that they’re fun to ride and can sidestep traffic. More than 1 million e-bikes were sold here in 2021, and it would not be hyperbolic to say that e-bikes could reshape the future of transportation. Maggie ShannonĪll of this comes at a time when electric bikes are exploding in popularity in the U.S. ![]() ![]() Kaye and Jonathan Steinsapir at their home in Pacific Palisades, California, on October 9, 2022. So of course, this is an intensely personal story. Their daughter went out for a bike ride with a pal and never came home. For Jon and Kaye Steinsapir, Molly’s parents, the grief of losing their eldest child is too large to properly express. Of course, with a devastating crash like this, in which a beloved child dies, the aftershocks of the loss never stop. Despite a series of increasingly desperate surgeries to address her head injuries, Molly would be pronounced dead a little more than two weeks later. Molly, who was wearing a bike helmet, hit the pavement hard and lost consciousness. ![]() As Molly’s parents would later allege in a lawsuit, Eme could not stop the RadRunner, and the two girls crashed at high speed near the bottom of the steepest stretch of Enchanted Way. Join Bicycling for unlimited access to best-in-class storytelling, exhaustive gear reviews, and expert training advice that will make you a better cyclist.īut then they turned that e-bike downhill and a terror unfolded. One can imagine or at least hope that the girls felt some awe and delight up there, marveling at the expanse of earth and ocean and blue sky before them. Molly and Eme were friends and neighbors, and both lived about a half mile downhill from this dramatic perch. An 11-year-old named Eme Green was piloting the e-bike, and her friend Molly Steinsapir, 12, was nestled behind her on a cushioned seat intended for a second passenger. It was the final day of January 2021, on yet another balmy morning in Los Angeles. This story also begins with two preteen girls on a bicycle-to be specific, since it matters, on an electric bike made by the ascendant Rad Power Bikes. It’s the kind of spot where anyone on a bike might pause to soak in the vertiginous panorama. On a clear day you can see all the way to Catalina Island, 45 miles to the south, from the cul-de-sac at the top. According to the workout app Strava, the final 0.3 mile of Enchanted Way rises 150 feet, with a sustained pitch topping 14 percent. If you are a fit road cyclist with proper gearing, it’s a nice little grind. Enchanted Way lies in Pacific Palisades, an affluent neighborhood on L.A.’s Westside that borders Malibu, Santa Monica, Brentwood, and the Pacific Ocean. The hills cradling Los Angeles are woven with roads like this-dead-end residential streets that corkscrew toward the sky, the views and the homes expanding as you ascend. This story will begin and end on a breathtaking stretch of tarmac called Enchanted Way. ![]() ![]() ![]() It still lets the player complete the content as it was intended they just get a little extra boost, and it’s gone (most of the time) by the next checkpoint. But Mechanical Head Games’ system is far better. In other recent retro-style platformers, if a player dies too many times in one section, the developers might decide to display a prompt that asks if they want to lower the difficulty level. While I can find these in the normal game at very specific moments, it feels like I’m activating a cheat code when I pick them up from a regular checkpoint. One is a spinning ball of energy that does damage to surrounding enemies, another is a massive shield, and another is an attack with longer range. These items essentially power ups that help make the game a little easier. These items are where the difficulty assistance comes into play. While the most basic checkpoints will just restore Shadow back to full health, certain ones - especially those before longer and more challenging areas - can be upgraded to do things like recharge Shadow’s magic power (which lets him throw shurikens or fireballs that you unlock throughout the game) or spawn a rare magical item. This currency can be used to upgrade specific checkpoints that break up areas in each level. Thankfully, the game even has a built-in system to alleviate that frustration, should you find yourself stuck on a particularly tough checkpoint.Ĭyber Shadow has an in-game currency that you can pick up by destroying glowing orange orbs that litter the game’s levels. While the deaths almost always felt fair, that doesn’t mean I never got frustrated. Image: Mechanical Head Games/Yacht Club GamesĪnd sometimes, trying again meant more than five or six trips back to the same checkpoint. Almost every death I suffered in the game felt like it was my fault, which always gave me a reason to respawn and try again. I was always able to keep the dozens of on-screen interactions separate, and when I lost track of something, it felt like I was not living up to the game’s challenge, rather than a particle that got lost in the shuffle. ![]() These rooms are almost all unique, and engaging to overcome, but they’re also very easy to understand.Įven in the busiest rooms, where there might be six or seven enemies, moving platforms, collectibles, and meticulously timed traps, all the objects have their own unique look and animations that make them easy to pick out. The game’s levels feature rooms with interesting enemies, jumping puzzles, difficult-to-dodge traps, and often a combination of all of three. This kind of quickness allows the game to offer complex platforming and faster enemies, while still giving me time to react.Īnother asset that helps Cyber Shadow is its visual clarity. If I’m in the middle of a jump to the right, I can still immediately flip to the left, slash an enemy, and turn right back around. Every movement feels reactive and snappy, giving the game a quicker feel than its inspirations.Ĭyber Shadow even includes midair control of your jumps. Unlike similar games such as Shovel Knight (developed by Yacht Club Games, the publisher behind Cyber Shadow), which featured slow, purposefully delayed jumping, and mechanics that felt like they were ripped from an NES cartridge, Cyber Shadow feels comparatively modern. The game is accompanied by an outstanding chiptune soundtrack.ĭespite its retro style, Cyber Shadow never feels old. ![]() Image: Mechanical Head Games/Yacht Club Gamesĭrawing inspiration from NES games like Ninja Gaiden, Mega Man, and Shatterhand, Cyber Shadow uses pixel art to bring out the gorgeous color contrast in each environment and highlight the game’s unique enemy designs. As in most platformers, this means that I spend most of my time jumping over spikes, traps, and dozens of other obstacles, all while using Shadow’s katana to take out the robots that are in my way. Developer Mechanical Head Games has modernized that approach to challenge with Cyber Shadow by making something that lives up to the legacy of those retro games, while also feeling approachable and fair.Ĭyber Shadow is a 2D action-platformer that follows a cyber ninja named Shadow who has to save a dystopian city that’s been overrun by evil machines. Ninja Gaiden, and other ultra-difficult platformers of its era, found charm in making you stick around through each punishing death. Cyber Shadow is inspired by a long line of games that didn’t seem to care whether you enjoyed them. ![]() ![]() ![]() For more information about embedded fonts, see Embed fonts in documents or presentations. Embedded fonts are saved in the document, which increases the file size, but helps to preserve the design layout if the document is opened on a device that doesn't have the fonts available. Modern font picker shows which fonts are embedded in a document. Theme fonts have an information icon next to them in the list. Theme fonts are unique to a document template and may change from one document to another. These fonts always appear listed first in the Most Recently Used section of the list. Theme fonts are the default body and headings fonts used in your document. To view the entire list of Office fonts that are available, see the article Cloud fonts in Office. If you use Office fonts in your document then the documents will render as expected on every device and platform supported by Office. Office fonts are cloud fonts that are available on every device and platform supported by Office. For example, a font you pin in Word won't also be pinned in PowerPoint. However, each Office app keeps its own set of pinned fonts. Pinned fonts will follow you on every device and platform where modern font picker is available. You can add and remove pinned fonts from this list. ![]() Several fonts are pre-pinned in the list. You can pin whole families or individual styles. Pinned fonts appear near the top of the font list and grouped together in the Pinned Fonts section for faster access to your frequently-used fonts. This section is dynamic, so as you use different fonts, the list and the order of the fonts in the list will change accordingly. When you open an existing document, modern font picker lists all the fonts in the document in the Most Recently Used section. The Most Recently Used section lists the 10 most recently used fonts in reverse chronological order (last to first), except that theme fonts are always at the top. Likewise, if Korean is your primary language, you'll see 바탕 rather than Batang. For example, if your browser use Japanese as its primary language, you'll see MS 明朝 listed in modern font picker rather than MS Mincho. If Chinese, Japanese, or Korean is your primary browser language, you'll see localized fonts names for fonts that support Chinese, Japanese, or Korean names. True styles will always render the same on all devices, but synthetic styles may render differently on different devices. Where a font has the true bold or italic style, such as Calibri, you see the font name without the parentheses when you apply the bold or italic style from the ribbon, although you could also select the style from the font picker. The parentheses indicate that italic style has been applied from the ribbon and Office has used a synthetic style because no true style is available. If you apply italic from the ribbon, you'll see the name Abadi (italic) in the font picker combo box. For example, the font Abadi doesn't have an italic version available. With modern font picker, you'll now see when a synthetic style has been applied. Previously, when you applied bold or italic styles from the ribbon, Office applications applied synthetic versions of those styles when no true bold, italic, or bold italic version of the font was available, but you had no way to tell if a synthetic version was applied. ![]() You'll see different sections for Most Recently Used, Pinned Fonts, and Office Fonts that you can easily hide when they're not needed. Organized fontsĪs a Microsoft 365 subscriber, you'll see your fonts grouped into families with all the styles for that family accessed through a flyout menu. The following are some feature details showing the advantages of modern font picker. *Information icon for embedded/compatibility fonts *Pinned fonts available on all devices/platforms Show all font styles including bold/italic Modern font picker features (* indicates new feature) Most of the new features are equally available to free users and Microsoft 365 subscribers. The following table shows a comparison between the features available to free users and to users with a Microsoft 365 subscription. Listing each variant as a selectable option often requires a lot of scrolling to get to what you want.Īll the features from before modern font picker are carried forward and several new features have been added. Now, there are fonts that have many more variants. Back then, most fonts had no more than four basic variants: regular, bold, italic, and bold italic. This is because until now the font picker in Office apps has remained essentially unchanged since its release. Until now, when you picked a font in an Office app, you might be confronted with a very long list of options. Many of the features of modern font picker are available only with an Microsoft 365 subscription. Note: Modern font picker is currently available only in Word for the web and PowerPoint for the web. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is a great way to decorate your home and soothe your spirit simultaneously. Pulling the bottom hammer to the bottom and toggling the pendulum in the shape of a musical note, the pendulum swings for a long time using gravity. The clock also incorporates a four-wheel pendulum structure, which achieves the classic pendulum design of a pendulum clock using four gears and an escapement consisting of an escapement wheel, an escapement fork, and a pendulum. The Romantic Note has a built-in silent quartz movement as a clock, which guarantees its accuracy and practicality. The Romantic Note Wall Clock is the latest product of the Time Art series. This ROKR Zodiac Wall DIY Clock LC601 3D wooden puzzle is designed by Miko, a famous European designer, to create a beautiful combination of machinery and time. The front of the clock is dominated by a cross structure, complemented by a pattern of laurel branches and drips of sunlight in the middle, showing restraint with a touch of flair and calmness with a touch of dynamism. In keeping with the collection’s design principle of writing time as art, the Romantic Note has an instantly memorable appearance, with a calm and restrained Morandi color palette and a blue + orange color palette that sends a warm and soothing undertone to the home. What a nice gift choice and decoration for your living room, meeting room, office, bedroom and so on.The Romantic Note Wall Clock is the latest product of the Time Art series. Robotime ROKR LC601 Zodiac Wall Clock 3d Wooden Puzzle Model Building, Gifts for Him, for Christmas 4.8 53 Reviews 419 orders US 54.99 US 91.65 -40 Color: LC601 Quantity: 1080 Pieces available Ships to Canada Shipping: US 4. 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Discover the unique charm of astrology with this stunning 3D Zodiac Clock puzzle. Pieces: 168 pcs Difficulty: 4 stars Estimate Time: 3.5 h Assembled Size: 13.1x12x2. Definitely a pleasure to eyes & gift for family. Once completed, it can be used as clock and calendar at home or office. Ready to Assemble: No extra tools required, sandpaper and wax included. ROKR Zodiac Wall Clock is a mechanical 3D wooden puzzle clock combined with decorative quality and pratical functions. ![]() ![]() Total 168 pieces parts, it will take 3.5-4.5 hours to assemble. Sturdy Wooden Pieces: made of natural birch plywood, every piece fits perfectly.This ROKR puzzle makes invisible things into tangible artwork that can be transmitted in front of you. Adopting a sweeping stopwatch, so that the pointer runs continuously, and reducing the mechanical noise. 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![]() ![]() Such properties of the drink make it possible to call coffee a natural stimulant. Numerous studies show that drinking coffee stimulates mental activity, increases mental and physical performance, reduces or removes drowsiness, gives vigor and reduces fatigue. The study was funded by the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada.Coffee is a natural energy booster with a clear stimulating effect on the body. “We want to raise awareness about the potential risks for the high number of people who are occasional coffee drinkers.” Bailey said. He hopes that this study will help inform and encourage further studies about issues associated with occasional coffee consumption. His worry is that if a patient consumes coffee just before seeing their doctor, diagnosis and treatment management could be complicated because of this acute increase in blood pressure and potential for additional over-prescription of antihypertensive drugs.Īccording to Bailey, national and international societies’ evidenced-based hypertension guidelines currently do not address the effect of coffee, likely because insufficient information. “Occasional ingestion has been surveyed to occur in 15 to 20 per cent of the coffee consuming public.” “If you are an occasional coffee consumer and you have a cup of coffee twice or less a week, you have this risk of increased blood pressure which can be substantial in certain individuals,” Bailey said. ![]() Just one cup of coffee caused the maximum increase in blood pressure and it occurred by one hour after intake and lasted for several hours. However, this study demonstrated that just two days abstaining from coffee was sufficient time to eliminate caffeine from the body and to increase blood pressure on subsequent coffee exposure. Previous studies have shown that coffee and caffeine don’t have much effect on blood pressure for those who drink coffee on a regular basis because of tolerance development. “If you wanted to overcome the effect of the coffee, you had to double the dose of this anti-hypertensive drug which could increase the risk of unwanted excessive drug effects, particularly during the period when coffee is not consumed.” David Bailey, Lawson Scientist and researcher at Western’s Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry. ![]() “Even one cup of coffee containing a relatively low amount of caffeine remarkably compromised the anti-hypertensive effect of this drug at the maximum recommended dose,” said Dr. Calcium channel blockers relax and widen blood vessels, making it easier for blood to flow and in turn lower your blood pressure. This comprehensive phase-one study published in the American Journal of Hypertension showed the combination of coffee plus a calcium channel blocker, felodipine, led to elevated blood pressure compared to felodipine alone, likely by blocking the beneficial effect of the drug at blood vessels. The research team from Western University and Lawson Health Research Institute measured how occasional coffee consumption in individual patients impacted the action of calcium channel blockers, a commonly prescribed class of blood-pressure lowering medication. Researchers in London, Ontario have shown that your morning cup of coffee could be adversely affecting diagnosis and treatment for high blood pressure. ![]() ![]() honestly can't remember the last time I burnt a DVD. only to realise it was too big to burn on a standard DVD and no DL ones handy. Windows 10 just flat out didn't like the ISO, so had to try and find a decent (non spyware/virus infested) ISO tool. I sent to Norphy to thank him for the help. Here is an edited/extended version of the P.M. OK, so just to update this thread (because I know you're all on the edge of your seats) and offer a solution to anyone else in the unlikely event they are trying to put such an old OSX on an even older Macbook Pro. DVD writer, I think I'm still stuck?!Do you have a DVD writer anywhere? I can see if I can make an ISO of the installer for you to burn? DVD writer, I think I'm still stuck?!ĮDIT: Just seen the DVD option. and also the fact that it seems Apple didn't reach the 21st Century until after this Macbook 'Pro' was produced and there is no USB boot on this model (apparently).ĮDIT: Just seen the DVD option. because this is the only Mac in the building, so I'm guessing the other steps are a moot point. What is more unfortunate is that I'm falling at the first hurdle. Unfortunately there were obviously some steps I missed as (unlike your thorough explanation) I guess the internet guides assume that one is familiar with the Mac OS. Sad to say I've got so used to downloading an ISO and whacking it on any old computer, this just baffles me. ![]() Windows can be cryptic at times but with MacOS, I really have no clue why it isn't letting me do what I want (especially as it is randomly refusing to format a disk or unmount it etc). Many thanks for taking the time to detail all this for me, I do appreciate it! Nothing more frustrating that going round in circles especially with an OS you're not familiar with. I've just done this and the USB stick shows as a bootable volume in the Startup Disk panel in System Preferences so I assume it should be bootable. With luck and a following wind, you should see the Lion installer in your bootable image list. Plug it into the Mac you want to install Lion on, reboot it while holding down the Option key and wait for the boot menu to appear. It should then turn into a Lion USB stick and be bootable. Step 6) Wait an indeterminable amount of time for the DMG to get restored to the USB Stick. Tell it to restore from "Mac OS X Install ESD", then press the Restore button. Step 5) Find your newly formatted USB Stick volume in the Disk Utility, right click on it and press Restore. Format it with Mac OS Extended format and choose the GUID Partition Map scheme. ![]() Find your USB stick and click the Erase button. I'm on a Mac with High Sierra at the moment, earlier or later versions will look different. Step 4) Put a USB stick into your Mac and open Disk Utility. There's a DMG in there called InstallESD.dmg. Right click on that and click "Show Package Contents". Step 3) In the extracted contents, there's another PKG file called InstallMacOSX.pkg. Copy the PKG file somewhere, then use The Unarchiver to extract it. Step 1) On a handy Mac, grab Lion installer from Apple website here: It sounds like you've done this already, but here we go: in fact I lost count of the amount of ways it told me it couldn't do what I wanted. So, I downloaded a Lion.dmg file and researched what to do (after realising it won't USB boot), which is restore an image or something, which I try and get various error like 'cannot unmount disk', 'source busy', 'couldn't resize partition', then it asks to scan the image and tells me 'resource busy'. but apparently my Apple ID is too new or something and can only download later versions. Got into Disk Manager (sorry 'Utility') wiped the disk and tried to do a 'Reinstall Mac OS X' from an online thing. I thought I had a fairly good grip on what to do (only internet searches as I'm no Mac daddy for sure)! There are a few more things to try before I admit it beat me, but to save me time that I don't really have does anyone know how to get the Mac OS back onto a Macbook Pro (A1211 - 2006'ish). ![]() After spending a couple of hours on this yesterday afternoon, (although I have to admit I'm not sure it's worth the effort - long story short, I need a Mac to do some testing for another issue, so I dug out an old Macbook that's been sat in the cupboard for a few years). ![]() ![]() ![]() This, teamed with the unpredictable AI, makes each level feel like a case of trial and error. I was able to beat an entire boss with this method. There were a number of occasions where I could lead enemies around a level with one character, and have another character just out of the way firing fireballs at them. On the one hand, it creates more of a challenge, but on the other, the lack of consistency is a little frustrating. ![]() This isn’t the case though, as the AI often feels a little unpredictable. Figuring out when to block, move or fight is important and the game comes across a little like a tactical puzzler. There feels as though there should be a system to beat each encounter in Iron Danger, as each fight can often be more like a puzzle than a fight. Fighting even two enemies is stressful enough, triggering six of them is a nightmare. The issue with Iron Danger is that the battles take place in the confines of the level and should you accidentally stumble too close to another set of enemies, you’ll wind up fighting them as well. Many games that employ a turn based fight system limit you to fighting a limited number of enemies in one engagement. As you progress, you’ll find yourself fighting larger groups, and controlling more than one playable character, and this becomes a bit of a concentration nightmare, and it’s often the design of these fights that can make issues worse. It really empowers you as a player, and makes you feel like a sword wielding John Wick, but things never stay simple. Now that you know when the attack is going to hit, you can block (or dodge) on that heartbeat to avoid the attack ahead of time. Let’s say you get hit by an enemy, you just have to find the attack on the heartbeat bar, and click on a heartbeat prior to the attack. For instance, blocking, moving, attacking or being attacked are all represented here. Iron DangerĪ bar along the bottom of your screen shows these heartbeats, and it also gives you information about what is going on during them. ![]() The turn based-combat is different to usual turn based RPGs: when you move, time moves, a la SUPERHOT. The turns take the form of ‘heartbeats’, and each action takes a certain number of these. When combat is initiated, it is done so in the form of turn-based combat. It’s the main gimmick of the title, but not a gimmick in a negative sense. Iron Danger has a key feature that other dungeon crawlers generally don’t have, the ability to rewind time. Don’t worry about the huge amounts of icons along the bottom of the screen, they don’t come in until combat. Moving around the world is a simple case of clicking to move your character to where they need to go. Taking a look at Iron Danger, you might be forgiven for thinking that it is just another isometric dungeon crawler, and that is how the game plays - at least initially. Some levels can even be tackled by avoiding combat altogether. Prefer stealthy or shouting and screaming? Both are valid. Your adventure is separated into different levels, which can be tackled in a variety of ways. Àfter surviving an attack on her hometown of Kalevala, she finds herself at the heart of a war between the people of Kalevala and the Northlanders, led by the evil witch queen, Lowhee. ![]() You take the role of Kipuna, who is granted ancient time control powers after falling into a sinkhole and becoming impaled by a mysterious crystal shard. Iron Danger is a game heavily inspired by Finnish folklore. It ticks all the boxes: small team indie game, unique premise, quirky artstyle, but there’s something that just doesn’t stick right, something that stops Iron Danger being as good as it could be. On paper, Iron Danger is the perfect game for me. Iron Danger falls into this category, and I’ve struggled to work out how I feel about it. Then there are some games that seem to occupy this mid-ground, games that I enjoy, but I’m not sure whether I really like them or not. It’s also possible to play a game for hours, for something to just click into place and make it a personal classic. It’s possible for me to play a game and instantly fall in love with it. ![]() ![]() The Paradise has 10 passenger decks and 658 cabins in various stateroom categories.The ship used to be called the Grand Classica.It sails twice a week from the Port of Palm Beach.The Paradise is the first cruise ship from the brand-new line, Margaritaville at Sea, a partnership with the owners of the former Bahamas Cruise Paradise Line and Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville.The Margaritaville Paradise embarked on its inaugural sail from the Port of Palm Beach to Grand Bahama Island on May 14, 2022.How it began: Sailing away again: Jimmy Buffett entertains guests on the new Margaritaville Paradise cruise Six things to now about the Margaritaville at Sea Paradise cruise ship ![]() Margaritaville at Sea is also expanding its onshore excursions in Grand Bahama to add the Ultimate Party Boat and Snorkeling Experience as well as Grand Bahama Cycling Adventure.
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