Community Videos BR James Piter Nascimento
O nosso cliente, James Nascimento, que trabalha em um grande banco da América Latina, contou para gente um pouquinho da experiência dele com o Alteryx e como eles conseguem fazer análise avançada de dados economizando milhares de horas. Praticamente todos os processos de operação do banco utilizam o Alteryx como pagamento, conciliação, constituição de garantia, etc. Além disso, James falou como os hackatons com o Alteryx elevaram a cultura data-driven para outro patamar. Dá o play e vem com a gente!
Community ES Isacar Racine
Isacar Racine, Price & Revenue Intelligence en Copa Airlines, le contamos cómo usa Alteryx en su vida cotidiana y cómo impactó a otros departamentos y vuelos de Copa Airlines. Utilizaron Alteryx para automatizar varios procesos manuales, como informes y ahorraron muchas horas que se gastarían en copiar y pegar. Además, muchas áreas usan herramientas predictivas de Alteryx y modelos pre-empaquetados, por lo que no tiene que perder semanas escribiendo código. ¡Mira el video y descubre cuál arma secreta de Isacar con Alteryx!
Overview: James
Watch our overview video on the book of James, which breaks down the literary design of the book and its flow of thought. In this book, James combines the wisdom of his brother Jesus with the book of Proverbs in his own challenging call to live a life wholly devoted to God.
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(A.H.F) A GRANDE PARTIDA - Anos de Chumbo
Relatos comoventes, antes silenciados pelos traumas do regime, que nos passam informações preciosas sobre os últimos 50 anos de história do Brasil.
Também uma renovação de esperança na construção de uma sociedade menos desigual e mais humana.
Depois de lançar o livro A Grande Partida: Anos de Chumbo, Francisco Soriano toma para si a missão de reunir vários companheiros, sobreviventes da ditadura de 1964, para juntos relembrarem a saga vivida na luta clandestina, buscando a libertação da sociedade brasileira submetida ao terrorismo do ESTADO POLICIAL.
Esses caras é que ainda não entenderam que o mundo deles já morreu. Esse é o mundo que vai contrário da evolução da humanidade.
Eles são a anti-evolução:O sistema patriarcal, hierárquico, autoritário, capitalista, materialista, consumista.
Esta cultura que reduz tudo a mercadoria... ela já é morta.
Nós fazemos parte de um mundo de esperança, que está se anunciando em cada gesto cada palavra rompendo com o nosso velho homem e nossa velha mulher. (Marcos Arruda)
George Washington Carver: An Uncommon Life
While George Washington Carver's rise from slavery to scientific accomplishment has inspired millions, time has reduced him to the man who did something with peanuts. This documentary uncovers Carver's complexities and reveals the full impact of his life and work.
Lesson 24 - Copy/paste Christianity - The Pioneer School Extra
In this challenging teaching, Torben speaks about how the Bible has been destroyed by the addition of chapters and verses. Here we look at topics like tongues, tithing, infant baptism, and then one of the most misunderstood verses, Romans 10:9.
This will be provoking, but will allow those religious glasses to come off!
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Visual Radio's Joe Viglione talks to Marty Walsh about his CD The Key with Billy Sherwood
Classic interviews from Joseph Viglione's original TV show, Visual Radio
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Sara Karloff (Boris Karloff's daughter)
In Search of Dracula's Raymond T. McNally
Charles Manson prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi, author of HELTER SKELTER
Film Critic Leonard Maltin
Film Critic Ed Symkus
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Dick Morris of Fox News (For Progressives we certainly ARE fair and balanced!)
Bill Press (formerly of CNN, now with Sirius/XM Radio)
John Lennon's Uncle Charlie!
Ian Hunter of Mott The Hoople
Steve Holley of Wings / Elton John / Kiki Dee
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Tommy James of The Shondells
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The lies we tell pregnant women | Sofia Jawed-Wessel
When we tell women that sex isn't worth the risk during pregnancy, what we're telling her is that her sexual pleasure doesn't matter ... that she in fact doesn't matter, says sex researcher Sofia Jawed-Wessel. In this eye-opening talk, Jawed-Wessel mines our views about pregnancy and pleasure to lay bare the relationship between women, sex and systems of power.
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24 урок "Христианство, копировать/вставить" - Торбен Сондергаард (рус.)
Добро пожаловать в этот урок. Я уверен, что этот урок поможет и бросит вызов многим людям. В школе первопроходцев, я часто говорил об этих религиозных очках и что мы должны избавиться. На этот раз это уже не просто вопрос очки, но нечто гораздо более важное. Люди не хотят видеть правду. Они боятся увидеть правду о вещах, я буду говорить о… . Они боятся слушать некоторые из этих вещей и принять их. Почему? Из-за того, что может произойти. Ибо истина в том, что ранняя церковь не ходила с Библией. Они не прогуливалимь с Библией под мышкой. Первые ученики шли с Иисусом! Иисус уже не на земле сегодня, но Он послал Духа Своего Святого. Причина, почему люди боятся, когда я говорю, что ранняя церковь не имела Библии таких, как наша в течение сотен лет, это потому, что они не знают, что Святой Дух способен сделать. Он способен научить нас, вести нас, помоги нам. Святой Дух может сделать то же самое, что и Иисус, когда ходил по земле со своими учениками.
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ZEITGEIST: MOVING FORWARD | OFFICIAL RELEASE | 2011
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Diga não à fé! (legenda disponível)
(Ative as legendas em português na janela do vídeo).
Nessa palestra, o filósofo Dr. Peter Boghossian, professor da Portland State University., responde às seguintes perguntas:
Por que a fé é uma epistemologia?
Por que a fé não é confiável?
Como abandonar a fé?
River Phoenix
River Jude Phoenix (August 23, 1970 -- October 31, 1993) was an American actor, musician and activist. He is the older brother of Rain Phoenix, Joaquin Phoenix, Summer Phoenix and Liberty Phoenix. Phoenix's work encompassed 24 films and television appearances, including the science fiction adventure film Explorers (1985), the coming-of-age film Stand by Me (1986), the action sequel Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) and the independent adult drama My Own Private Idaho (1991). Phoenix's meteoric rise to fame led to his status as a teen sensation.
Phoenix began acting at age 10 in television commercials. He appeared in diverse roles, making his first notable appearance in the 1986 film Stand by Me, a hugely popular coming-of-age film based on a novella by Stephen King. Phoenix made a transition into more adult-oriented roles with Running on Empty (1988), playing the son of fugitive parents in a well-received performance that earned him a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, and My Own Private Idaho (1991), playing a gay hustler in search of his estranged mother. For his performance in the latter, Phoenix garnered enormous praise and won a Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival, along with Best Actor from the National Society of Film Critics.
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Kent Hovind - Seminar 1 - The Age of The Earth [MULTISUBS]
Dr. Kent Hovind debunks evolution's belief that the earth has evolved over billions of years. This also exposes the Big Bang theory and the religious beliefs of evolution.
No ratings enabled because truth is not based on majority opinion.
NYSTV - Hierarchy of the Fallen Angelic Empire w Ali Siadatan - Multi Language
Chronologically, after the fall of Adam, the fallen angels procreated with humans to create a genetic hybrid that was an unsanctioned creation from God.
These Giants took over the world and were made the rulers of kingdoms. The Enlilship as it was called.
This is where Ali's talk begins. The nephilim (hybrids) took positions of power and created all the false religions of the world.
They reinvented themselves as the gods of old. Zeus, Aphrodite, Baal, Shiva, etc...
They especially like to be associated as moon or sun gods.
To this day, the Fallen Angel Hybrids hold all the key positions of power. We don't call them fallen angel hybrids, we call them the illuminati.
Another in depth discussion by Ali Siadatan, whose topics of expertise include Fallen Angel Genealogy, Ancient pre flood history, the Illuminati, End Times Prophecy, Modern History, Ancient Aliens, UfOs and a lot more.
His website is thinkagainproductions.com
And don't forget to check out NYSTV with Jon Pounders.
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NYSTV - The Genesis Revelation - Flat Earth Apocalypse w Rob Skiba and David Carrico - Multi Lang
So Flat Earth is OFFICIALLY a thing now. Whether you believe it or think it's crazy, people are talking about it. Everyone knows someone who is looking into it.
Rob Skiba has been at the fore front, along with Mark Sargent and Patricia Steere. He's the one who took the boat across lake Michigan with a camera to prove that the Chicago Skyline (which is visible despite the fact it should be under 8 miles of curvature) wasn't a mirage.
For all you Flat Earther's out there.
Most of you are hesitant about this topic because there's been a globe in every classroom since kindergarten.
If Flat Earth is real, then this is the biggest one. All the other lies were told just to cover this one up.
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מה שטוחה
平らな地球
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plokšti žemė
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tany
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рамна земја
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فلیٹ زمین
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פלאַך ערד
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扁平的地球
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The Great Judaic Schism
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In our time Middle Eastern religious fervor is seen as a threat to the entire civilized world. Two thousand years ago Judean zealots were seen by Europeans in a similar light to how modern day ISIS is seen today. This had a profound effect on the world then, with surprising ramifications that remain with us to this day.
In the case of both Jews and Christians, today the overwhelming majority of the persecution coming their way is clearly documented as coming from Islam. While most Muslims are not killers, enough of them are that a backlash against Islam is inevitable. When that happens, what will that look like?
It will probably look a lot like what happened to the Jews in the first and early second centuries. Not all Jews had become radicalized in the struggle against Rome, but enough of them had, instigating murder and death throughout the Roman Empire, that public opinion everywhere turned decidedly sour against this formerly-favored group. This, in turn, brought crushing Roman reprisals against all Jews everywhere, especially in the Jewish homeland of Judea.
The near-total decimation of the religious zealots back then is very likely a harbinger of what is coming upon radical Islam in the Middle East in our near future. Now as then, the effects must be earth-shaking.
Every Jew, every Christian, every Messianic, in fact, every person, continues to be profoundly effected by the momentous events of the first century - and most don't even realize it. These 1st and 2nd century events radically changed the trajectory of both Rabbinic Judaism and the movement that eventually birthed the Christian Church. Also in this video, you will learn of the historic role of the Davidic Dynasty among the early believers.
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Because Escape is Still Possible...
Leaving the Big Show
This has been the choice ever since the days of Justin Martyr in the mid second century A. D., when The Church broke off as a schism away from the Assembly of the early believers: Will you choose the Big Show or the Real Deal?
Justin learned about Messiah and his teachings from the Nazareans, but he didn't want to take up the life of a Nazarean. It was too simple, too humble, for him. After all, he was a Roman who had been educated in all of the Greek philosophical schools of his day. To live as a Nazarean was beneath him, or so he thought.
At the same time, he saw the power that was latent in the Messianic gospel. He realized that if he adopted the Nazarean message, got rid of the Jews it came from, and added some bells and whistles from Greek philosophy - THEN he would have something! THEN he would have his ticket to fame and fortune!
That's exactly how it turned out. Justin took his newly re-worked Christian philosophy to the Romans, set up his own school, and gained money and fame on the back of his gospel - a newly amalgamated gospel that made the Gentiles feel like they were saved from their abundant sins, without needing to keep the commandments or any of that other distasteful Nazarean stuff. The Gentiles loved it and came flooding in. Other Greek and Roman sophisticates realized that this new teaching could be harnessed to promote themselves as it had Justin, so they got on the bandwagon too. Soon, with a small army of Gentile promoters behind it, Gentile Christianity swept the Empire from one end to the other.
The Christian Church had become The Big Show!
The Big Show has never stopped. It just kept getting bigger and more phony.
Today we see it in America, in America's Mega Churches. As Christianity declines Mega Churches are taking over. People prefer the glitz and glamour of The Big Show!
This is all optics and no reality. The Church building is amazing to look at. The show of wealth is staggering. The salaries of the preachers are staggering as well. Many people say attending a mega church makes them feel like they are part of something special. It is impressive to see the massive crowds of thousands, all singing feel good Christian songs, often along with famous Christian Music Stars - performing right on the Church stage!
The Mega Church offers all manner of entertainments for the entire family - even a real Starbucks right in the Church!
What the Mega Church can never deliver, though, is the Gate to the Narrow Way. They don't want the Narrow Way. The day they actually start living and preaching the Narrow Way is the day the Big Show is over. Those people who are drawn to the Mega Church don't want the Narrow Way. Like Justin of old, the Way of the Nazareans is too plain, too demanding, requiring way too much self-sacrifice. And besides, didn't Jesus suffer for me so I don't have to? In the Mega Church you are saved, which means that you can be exactly like the world in every way, and Jesus is going to love you! Isn't that appealing - or nauseating - depending on who you are?
Today, even while the Mega Church is growing, Christianity is declining, even dying. The young people are seeing through all of this and they are leaving the Church in droves.
What does all this mean for the Church? What does it mean for you and I?