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  • Básica Língua A Portuguese Language Program that offers intensive one-on-one, private and semi-private immersion programs in Salvador for individuals, couples and small groups.
  • Bing Translator Preferred machine translator. Not perfect, but better than others for Portuguese / English
  • Bridge Language School Dedicated to providing innovative services in language, education, and travel. Free assessment test of language for English, Spanish, Portuguese
  • CELPS – Ministry of Education Brasil O Certificado de Proficiência em Língua Portuguesa para Estrangeiros (Celpe-Bras) é conferido aos estrangeiros com desempenho satisfatório em teste padronizado de português, desenvolvido pelo Ministério da Educação.
  • Corpus Portuguese Langauge / Corpus do português This website allows you to quickly and easily search more than 45 million words in almost 57,000 Portuguese texts. Este site permite que você rapidamente e facilmente buscar para mais do que 45 milhões de palavras em quase 57.000 textos do portugueses.
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  • Fast Forward Language Institute Teaching Portuguese as a second language in Maceio and Sao Paulo
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  • Bloomberg News Bloomberg connects influential decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas. Our strength – quickly and accurately delivering data, news and analytics through innovative technology – is at the core of everything we do.
  • Bureau of Economic Analysis Data, and reports on US Economic Accounts
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  • ETF Database Committed to giving its audience, consisting of both active traders and buy-and-hold investors, information they believe is truthful and non-biased. Resources to make intelligent and informed decisions
  • International Monetary Fund An organization of 188 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world.
  • MSCI Indexes A leading provider of investment decision support tools to clients worldwide, ranging from large pension plans to boutique hedge funds. Offers a range of products and services – including indexes.
  • Report Foriegn Holdings of US Treasury Securities Major Foreign Holders of US Treasury Securities. Published (Dept of Treasury & Federal Reserve Board) monthly on or about the 17th of each month.
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  • American Fact Finder Find popular facts (population, income, etc.) and frequently requested data about communities in the United States.
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  • Perceptual Edge Stephen Few founded Perceptual Edge in 2003, and is a leader in the fields of business intelligence and information design, and data visualization for sensemaking and communication
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  • Sourceforge – Open Software An Open Source community resource dedicated to helping open source projects be as successful as possible. A premiere resource for open source software development and distribution.
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• NY Times – Business

  • Shari Redstone Considers Selling Her Stake in Paramount’s Parent Company
  • Investor Group Is Said to Value Macy’s at $5.8 Billion in Offer
  • Bought as an N.B.A. Team, the Mavericks Are Being Sold as Much More
  • QR Codes Can Hide Risky Links, F.T.C. Warns
  • Ohtani’s Contract Goes Beyond Dollars and Sense
  • Maria Emilia Martin, Creator of Public Radio’s ‘Latino USA,’ Dies at 72
  • Elon Musk Brings Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones Back to X

• Washington Post

  • Penn president’s resignation stirs debate about limits of free speech
  • Biden invites Zelensky to Washington amid Ukraine funding fight
  • How Democratic and GOP Senate veterans stopped Tuberville’s military holds
  • What to know about Donald Trump’s gag orders in D.C. and New York
  • Less appetite — and opportunity — to serve as fake Trump electors in 2024
  • Giuliani could pay millions as Ga. election worker defamation trial starts
  • Liz Cheney’s 2024 campaign mission: Defeat House Republicans

• Review Journal

  • Putin, Netanyahu talk amid rising tensions over Israel-Hamas war
  • Penn’s board chair resigns as antisemitism testimony draws backlash
  • Battles rage across Gaza as Israel indicates its willing to fight for months
  • ‘Shadows of children’: For the youngest hostages, life moves forward in whispers
  • Penn president resigns amid backlash over answers to Congress about antisemitism
  • Biden approves emergency tank ammunition sale to Israel
  • Water rates to go up in Henderson
  • Germany’s chancellor lights Hanukkah candle on menorah at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate
  • Allies fight antisemitism during Hanukkah through Project Menorah
  • Metro seeks eyewitnesses, video of Beam Hall shooting area

• BBC World News

  • Gao Yaojie: Dissident doctor who exposed China's Aids epidemic, dies at 95
  • Article 370: Supreme Court to deliver verdict on Kashmir's special status
  • Australia to halve immigration intake, toughen English test for students
  • Javier Milei: New president tells Argentina 'shock treatment' looms
  • Mar-a-Lago: The billion dollar question at heart of Trump fraud trial
  • Why Wagner is winning hearts in the Central African Republic
  • Elite Afghan troops face return to Taliban after UK 'betrayal'

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• The Hill – Top News

  • Elon Musk asks Alex Jones about 'the whole Sandy Hook thing' and Jones apologizes again
  • Bronny James has USC debut after health scare
  • Cigna ends plans to merge with Humana: report
  • 18 companies cut ties with Sean Combs' business venture in wake of sexual assault allegations
  • Taylor Swift supports Travis Kelce's Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium
  • New York City officials blame everyone but themselves for housing unaffordability
  • McCarthy says America doesn't want 'retribution' from Trump

• Stanford Social Innovation Review

  • Building a Stronger Foundation for Climate Resilience (Blog)
  • Putting Equity First in Health Care Innovation (Blog)
  • How Communities Around the World Are Connecting Social Isolation and Health (Blog)
  • What’s Next for Patagonia?
  • What Strong Organizations Know About DEI (Blog)
  • The Benefit Fund (Blog)
  • The Original Lifehackers
  • Design Thinking Misses the Mark
  • How We Got Here
  • The Lobbying for Good Movement

• Real Clear Sports

  • The Charming New England Destination Might Have the Worst Weather on Earth
  • Can the AirBnB Model Work for Private Flights?
  • Astronauts Find Missing Space Station Tomato
  • Goldfish Are Now an Invasive Species in the Great Lakes
  • Adam Driver Played a Baby on His First Flight on This Week’s “SNL”
  • Agencies in US and UK Approve First CRISPR Treatment
  • Shohei Ohtani Leaves Angels, Stays in California With Massive Dodgers Contract
  • Former Olympian Vows to Fly Again After Prison Sentence for Crashing Plane
  • Russian Government Issues Arrest Warrant for Putin Critic Masha Gessen
  • Tonight’s “Real Time” Included a Discussion of Campus Speech — and a Dig at the Jets

• Curio Blog Feed

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• Julia Bloggers

  • Setting up your Julia session
  • Exploring Modules and Variable Scope in Julia Programming
  • Is Makie.jl up to speed?
  • Boost your time to market with Julia
  • World Happiness Report – EDA & clustering with Julia
  • ChatGPT performs better on Julia than Python (and R) for Large Language Model (LLM) Code Generation. Why?
  • Is vector pooling considered harmful?
  • Harnessing the Power of Multiple Dispatch in Julia Programming
  • Basic data structures drills in Julia
  • Automatic differentiation from scratch

• The New Republic

  • It’s International Human Rights Day. Try Telling That to the People of Gaza.
  • Norman Lear’s Vision for American Democracy
  • Trump Is Coming for Your Health Care—Again
  • SantaCon Isn’t Just Obnoxious
  • Russia Celebrates Republicans Blocking Aid to Ukraine With a Missile Barrage
  • Even Fox News Knows the GOP’s Biden Investigation Is a Sham
  • Donald Trump Is Already Trying to Overturn the 2024 Election
  • We Now Have More Damning Evidence of the Devastation Caused by the End of Roe v. Wade
  • “Just Like the Ones I Used to Know...”
  • The Biden Administration Is About to Make a Big Mistake

• Economia & Negócios

  • Os 89 anos do poeta Paulo Bomfim
  • São Paulo mantém, mas não preserva a lenda do DC-3
  • Os 50 anos do TUCA -- Teatro da Pontifícia Universidade Católica
  • Os 20 anos do Windows 95 e o museu brasileiro do computador
  • Estados Unidos reabrem embaixada com festa e desconfiança mútua
  • Funcionário vai auxiliar deficientes em supermercados
  • Constellation: Um passeio aéreo e musical pelas ondas do Rádio
  • Quem souber pode me ajudar a explicar o Brasil
  • Da maioridade de Dom Pedro II aos dias atuais, o Brasil sempre foi um país de "pedaladas"
  • O Rádio segue vivo e com ouvintes fiéis, confirma o IBOPE.

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