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一 |     NEW YORK -- Bloomberg Philanthropies unveiled a $50 million initiative Wednesday to help cities address global issues, including climate change, by launching programs proven effective in other cities around the world.The Bloomberg Cities Idea Exchange will give city governments grants for startup costs and technical support, as well as sponsor trips and webinars to inform leaders about new programs.“Cities are a force for change on all of the big challenges we’re facing, and we’ve long worked to spread the best ideas globally,” Michael R. Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg Philanthropies, said in a statement. “This new Bloomberg Cities Idea Exchange will intensify and expand those efforts, bringing new muscle and rigor to the replication process.”The new initiative, announced at the Bloomberg CityLab conference in Washington on Wednesday, formalizes a process that CityLab has used for years. As former mayor of New York City, Bloomberg knows the importance of seeking out ideas that other cities have already proven, said James Anderson, who leads Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Government Innovation Program.“He understood the unique opportunity that city leaders have to drive progress locally, but also contribute to driving around global issues like climate change,” Anderson told The Associated Press in an interview. “We looked around and we understood very quickly that many city halls did not have the capacity they needed to find solutions and to implement them locally, to make them more ambitious and move their cities and the world forward.”They decided that philanthropy could play an important role in helping cities launch innovative programs and then unlock further funding from governments or other donors, Anderson said.The Bloomberg Cities Idea Exchange builds on the success of programs like an environmental initiative in Lincoln, Nebraska, that turns wood waste into a charcoal-like material called biochar that reduces the amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere.In 2022, the city received a $400,000 grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies to launch the program and it has already made a difference in the city, said Lincoln Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird. The biochar — which the city produces from trees blown down in storms or damaged by the emerald ash borer beetle — traps carbon, conserves water and improves the soil.“We have ambitious climate action goals,” Gaylor Baird said. “And we’re looking for innovative solutions to help us sequester carbon and improve quality of life and also just deal with some of the impacts of changing weather patterns.”Without the Bloomberg Philanthropies grant, Lincoln would not have been able to launch the biochar initiative so quickly, Gaylor Baird said. Or receive a $100,000 grant from the Nebraska Forest Service.Mattias Gustafsson, co-founder of the consulting firm EcoTopic and the project manager of the Stockholm Biochar Initiative, which the Lincoln project is modeled after, said he is “proud and amazed” to see the idea replicated around the world. In the United States, Cincinnati and Minneapolis have also launched biochar projects, along with Helsinki, Darmstadt, Germany, Helsingborg, Sweden, and Sandnes, Norway – all with help from Bloomberg Philanthropies.“Cities are really crucial for fighting climate change because they have a different angle coming in,” Gustafsson said. “Cities are not trying to make a profit. They are trying to do something good for their citizens.”The Bloomberg Cities Idea Exchange is designed to help cities in that effort, Anderson said. Numerous projects, highlighted by Bloomberg Philanthropies' Global Mayors Challenge, have already been replicated by cities around the world.The Providence Talks program in Rhode Island, which helps young children learn by increasing the number of words they hear each day, has been adopted by Birmingham, Alabama. The Visor Urbano program in Guadalajara, Mexico, which allows businesses to receive licenses completely online, has already expanded to 100 other cities in Mexico and will soon launch in other Latin American cities. Anderson said that city officials receive so much real time feedback from their residents that they are always looking for new ideas to help them do their jobs better.“They don’t spend as much time giving speeches and engaging in partisanship because they’re in the business of delivering services that people count on every single day,” he said. “There’s an accountability to residents to bring solutions that make a difference in their lives that are visible and measurable. And the cities understand that sometimes those ideas can come from entrepreneurs at home and other times it’s great to steal those ideas from the city down the street.”____Associated Press coverage of philanthropy and nonprofits receives support through the AP’s collaboration with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. The AP is solely responsible for this content. For all of AP’s philanthropy coverage, visit https://apnews.com/hub/philanthropy.。    《湮灭之潮》是一款由成都蛇夫座-日蚀边缘工作室开发的一款骑士幻想动作冒险游戏，游戏取材自经典亚瑟王传说，未来将以单机买断制的形式登陆PC和主机平台。    上周末，游戏举办了首次线下试玩会，IGN也试玩到了本作，并于今日发布了游戏的试玩报告，同时评价游戏的战斗相当优秀，只不过在移动方面仍让需要进一步打磨。本文简要摘译整理如下：IGN编辑Tristan Ogilvie承认，在游戏刚刚公布时，他曾担心游戏是否会过分追求华丽外表而缺乏实际内容，但在试玩了两个小时之后，他很高兴地发现，《湮灭之潮》的游玩过程与观看其令人眼花缭乱的画面一样令人兴奋。    主角格雯德琳的能力十分强大，可以应对任何阻挡她前进的敌人，除了相当标准的挥剑、闪避和招架操作之外，玩家还可在适当的时机按下按键召唤两名骑士前来助阵，他们会从虚空中现身并发动攻击，为连招增添强劲有力的收尾效果。玩家还通过按住肩键来改变格雯德琳的攻击方式，将敌人上挑到空中并进行连续浮空攻击，也可以发动蓄力攻击来造成更高伤害。当敌人的失衡槽降低到一定程度后，还能触发毁灭性的处决技；而当你成功命中足够多次后，则可以释放华丽的终极技能，召唤漫天雷电，将沿途所有敌人彻底轰碎。    IGN评价道，整个操作过程的响应性都非常出色，而流畅丝滑的动作动画也让一套连招能够自然地衔接到下一套连招，整个战斗过程行云流水。    除此之外，你还可以根据自己的需求，有策略地选择要使用哪些骑士。

二 | 格雯德琳在任何时候都可以从两组身披钢甲的骑士中进行选择，它们分别对应方向键的左键和右键，因此你可以在战斗过程中随时切换。

三 | 随着你击败特定的次级Boss并解锁新的骑士，你的伙伴阵容也会不断扩大，可以通过自由组合不同的骑士搭配，打造出最符合个人战斗风格的配置。    IGN介绍表示，目前的试玩仅有5名骑士可供使用，但开发者告诉他，这只是这只是正式版骑士阵容中的一小部分。虽然这听起来增加了玩家的管理压力，但IGN表示，《湮灭之潮》最厉害的点就在于，它再让你指挥这群骑士的同时，又不会因为繁琐的微操而拖慢战斗节奏。游戏的战斗始终保持着高速节奏，并不会为了提供策略灵活性而牺牲战斗速度。    正确组合骑士并高效运用他们的辅助技能对于击败游戏中那些体型庞大、实力强劲的Boss至关重要，此次试玩主要由2个剧情Boss组成，分别是古埃及神话的死神阿努比斯和亚瑟王传说中亚瑟王的私生子莫德雷德。IGN表示，量产战斗在视觉表现上都极其华丽，同时也对玩家的应对方式不断地提出了挑战，而在第二场战斗更是极具电影感，让人感到了强烈的压迫感。    至于探索部分，格雯德琳这群身披铠甲的盟友可不只是战斗中的得力伙伴，他们各自独特的优势和能力同样可以用于探索周围的世界。

四 | 有的角色可以发射绳索箭，利用滑索开辟新的道路，有的角色身形魁梧，可以直接击穿特定的墙壁或者抬起沉重的门来开启隐藏房间。

五 |     这意味着，格雯德琳每招募一名新的幽灵骑士，就可能获得探索《湮灭之潮》环境的新方式，并有可能形成类似银河恶魔城的游戏结构，让玩家不断获得重新探索此前区域的理由，从而解锁过去无法进入的秘密。而当玩家离开主线路径探索时，也会遇到额外的战斗挑战，部分区域还设计了环境谜题。    文章作者Tristan Ogilvie表示，总体而言，格雯德琳的操作系统在绝大多数情况下都非常灵敏且灵活，但他确实感觉移动存在一些细微的限制。首先，格雯德琳的冲刺速度明显需要大幅提升，因为从行走切换到奔跑后，实际的速度变化并没有想象中那么明显。同样，她在空中的机动性似乎也需要进行一些调整，因为目前她受到重力的束缚有些过于明显。Tristan Ogilvie表示，他甚至不会把格雯德琳的能力称为二段跳，最多只能算是“一段半跳”，这也导致部分平台跳跃环节因此显得略微僵硬。    文末，他总结表示：“在短暂体验《湮灭之潮》的这段时间里，最大的遗憾其实是：我真心希望试玩时间能够再长一些，而这无疑是一个好兆头。”本文由游民星空制作发布，未经允许禁止转载。更多相关资讯请关注：湮灭之潮专区。

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