Cast from CBS's Blood & Treasure | Talks at Google
Matt Barr (Hatfields & McCoys), Sofia Pernas (The Brave), and Co-Creators and Executive Producers Matthew Federman and Stephen Scaia discuss Indiana Jones, the Mayor of Rome, and their brand new show Blood & Treasure which premiers on Tuesday, May 21, 2019 on CBS.
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About the show:
BLOOD & TREASURE is a globe-trotting action-adventure drama about a brilliant antiquities expert and a cunning art thief who team up to catch a ruthless terrorist who funds his attacks through stolen treasure. Danny McNamara is a former FBI agent specializing in stolen arts and antiquities. Lexi Vaziri is a resourceful art thief who is haunted by the tragic loss of her father, which she blames on Danny. When terrorist Karim Farouk absconds with a priceless artifact and kidnaps Danny’s mentor, Dr. Anna Castillo, Danny recruits Lexi to help him bring Farouk to justice and rescue Anna. As they crisscross the world hunting their target, Danny and Lexi unexpectedly find themselves at the center of a 2,000-year-old battle for the cradle of civilization.
Moderated by Josh Lanzet.
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Inside Germany's Upside Down cafe and house - Toppels' House
The Toppels’ roadside cafe is an 'upside down' coffee shop in the German town of Wertheim. The baristas appear to be working on the ceiling while the coffee and beer are served in inverted mugs. The cafe is situated next to an upside down house that includes an inverted bathroom and bedroom and is open to the public. Inside the decor is even more confusing. A new cafe in Germany has heads spinning with its wacky upside-down design. The Toppels house is from afar a unique eye-catcher. But only from the inside, it becomes a crazy experience. Because everything is upside down. it's completely upside down from the inside too, including the bedrooms, living room, kitchen and washrooms! The unique design provides ample opportunities for optical illusions to be captured on camera.
- Outside, the house seems to be sitting on its roof with the garage at the top
- Inside, the furniture is all hanging from the ceiling, so it looks topsy turvy
In the bathroom, the sink, toilet and bath are all topsy turvy, prompting numerous photo opportunities where visitors pose with their heads in the loo.
In the kitchen, a meal is laid out on the table, hanging from the roof, and in a child's bedroom, a car racing kit is suspended above the ground.
The layout means that visitors can pose in the rooms for photos with their feet on the ground, but it appears in pictures like they are actually standing on the ceiling.
Strangely, Toppels is not the first upside-down house in Germany. The ‘Crazy House’ in the village of Affoldern has been disorientating visitors since 2014. Upside-down houses have also popped up – or would that be popped down? – in Taiwan, Russia, China and Austria. However, Malaysia is still the home of upside-down houses with at least five upside-down attractions for travellers to check out all over the country.
Here is a sneak peak into Germany's Upside Down house and cafe. See Inside Pics:
Irene Butter: Shores Beyond Shores | Talks at Google
Irene Hasenberg Butter is a well-known peace activist, Holocaust survivor, and Professor Emerita of Public Health at the University of Michigan. Since the late 80's she's been a frequent and favored inspirational speaker, talking about her experience during World War II and stressing the importance of “never a bystander” and that one person can make a difference. Irene is the co-founder of Zeitouna, an organization of Jewish and Arab women working for peace, and a founder of the Raoul Wallenberg Project at the University of Michigan.
As Irene's father fights to save his family during the Holocaust, Irene’s childhood is lost. Play is restricted. Family and friends disappear. Finally, with the Dutch police at their door comes the reality that Irene’s father has not moved his family far enough from Hitler’s Germany. By 1945, the family is struggling to survive a death camp. Irene tends her ailing parents, cares for starving kids, and even helps bring clothes to her Amsterdam neighbor Anne Frank, before her family is offered a singular chance for freedom. Irene Butter’s memoir, Shores Beyond Shores, is an account of how the heart keeps its common humanity in the most inhumane and turbulent of times. Irene’s hard-earned lessons are a timeless
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Meaningful Play: Getting Gamification Right
Google Tech Talk
January 24, 2011
Presented by Sebastian Deterding
ABSTRACT
Foursquare, GetGlue, Nike+, Badgeville: From reading news to fulfilling your hearts' desires, more and more gameified applications and gamification vendors doll out points and badges to users, promising anything from increased user engagement and retention to plain mind control. While some hold that adding such game elements to non-game applications opens a new decade of design, others criticize current implementations as shallow pointsification and overselling of a new digital snake oil. What lessons do games really offer for user experience design? Which criticisms are valid? And what can designers interested in gameifying an application do to steer clear of the worst pitfalls? In this talk, researcher and designer Sebastian Deterding provides an overview of the current gamification movement, its most troubling blind spots, the motivational powers of games, and how to design for a playful experience that is truly meaningful to its users.
Sebastian Deterding - Sebastian Deterding is a user experience designer and game researcher at the University of Hamburg, Germany, where he currently pursues a PhD on the motivational psychology of gameified applications. He speaks and publishes internationally on gamification, social games, and the social contexts of video games at events such as the Gamification Summit, Gamescom, reboot, Playful, or DiGRA. His work has been covered by The Guardian, the LA Times, The New Scientist, EDGE Magazine, and Fast Company's Co.Design. He co-hosts the Gamification Workshop at this year's CHI conference in Vancouver. Web: codingconduct.cc Twitter: @dingstweets
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Gabe Zichermann: Gamification Revolution | Talks at Google
Gabe Zichermann stopped by the Googleplex for a discussion of his latest book, Gamification Revolution. You can find the book on Google Play:
Gamification: It's the hottest new strategy in business, and for good reason--it's helping leading companies create unprecedented engagement with customers and employees. Gamification uses the latest innovations from game design, loyalty programs, and behavioraleconomics to help you cut through the noise and transform your organization into a lean, mean machine ready to fight the battle for user attention and loyalty.
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Grand Duchy of Baden
The Grand Duchy of Baden was a state in the southwest of Germany on the east bank of the Rhine. It existed between 1806 and 1918.
It came into existence in the 12th century as the Margraviate of Baden and subsequently split into different lines, which were unified in 1771. It then became the much-enlarged Grand Duchy of Baden through the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1803–06 and was a sovereign country until it joined the German Empire in 1871, remaining a Grand Duchy until 1918 when it became part of the Weimar Republic as the Republic of Baden. Baden was bordered to the north by the Kingdom of Bavaria and the Grand Duchy of Hessen-Darmstadt; to the west, along most of its length, by the River Rhine, which separated Baden from the Bavarian Rhenish Palatinate and Alsace in modern France; to the south by Switzerland; and to the east by the Kingdom of Württemberg, the Principality of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and Bavaria.
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Luzides Träumen - Die Traumcharaktere in Deinen Träumen
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In diesem Video geht es um die verschiedenen Arten der Traumpersönlichkeiten, die einem in konventionellen und in luziden Träumen begegnen können. Hierbei erlangt man ein neues Verständnis über die Traumcharaktere innerhalb der eigenen Träume.
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LEARNING WITH MOOCS 2015 | Future of Video and the Future of MOOCs | PANEL
LEARNING WITH MOOCS 2015 | PANEL PRESENTATION | 5 | October 3, 2015
The Future of Video and the Future of MOOCs, featuring Benjamin Wiggins, University of Pennsylvania; Stephanie Ogden, Columbia University; Clayton Hainsworth, edX; Phillip DeSenne, Harvard University; moderated by Peter B. Kaufman, Center for Teaching and Learning, Columbia University.
LEARNING WITH MOOCS II - 2015 was held in New York City at Teachers College, on the campus of Columbia University, October 2 and 3, 2015. The conference brought together educators, technologists, researchers, learning scientists, entrepreneurs, and funders of MOOCs to share their innovations, discuss their impact on education, and look at the future of online learning.
Questions that conference participants addressed included:
How can we best support students to learn in an online environment?
How can we integrate MOOCs with the traditional classroom experience?
For which students and in what contexts are these courses most effective?
What can we learn from the rich data streams generated by these platforms?
How do we structure the learning activities to produce data streams that better support research?
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