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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.
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  • Bridge Language School Dedicated to providing innovative services in language, education, and travel. Free assessment test of language for English, Spanish, Portuguese
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  • 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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  • Bureau of Economic Analysis Data, and reports on US Economic Accounts
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  • 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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  • 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

  • GM’s Electric Vehicles Will Use Tesla’s Charging Network
  • After a Rocky Year, Zuckerberg Lays Out Meta’s Road Map to Employees
  • Richard E. Snyder, 90, Dies; Drove Simon & Schuster to New Heights
  • A Reporter Investigated Sexual Misconduct. Then the Attacks Began.
  • What Is the Saudi Sovereign Wealth Fund?
  • Pivots That Helped Businesses Through the Pandemic Have Endured
  • CNN’s New Leaders Try to Move On From Chris Licht’s Stormy Tenure

• Washington Post

  • Live updates: Trump indicted in classified documents case
  • What to know about the Trump classified documents investigation
  • Trump can still run for president in 2024 after being indicted twice
  • Trump charged in Mar-a-Lago classified documents investigation
  • Trump and the Mar-a-Lago classified documents: A timeline
  • Supreme Court’s Alabama ruling delivers Democrats an unexpected boost
  • The gloves come off against Trump as GOP rivals step up attacks

• Review Journal

  • Councilman calls series of apartment fires ‘clearly unaccceptable’
  • EDITORIAL: Lawmakers should pass public financing for A’s stadium
  • Woman accused of driving into Strip crowd, killing 1, to stand trial next year
  • ‘Heinous and reprehensible’: Judge sentences man to prison for abuse, neglect at group home
  • ‘Our kids are counting on all of us’: CCSD hears results from culture and climate study
  • Nellis Air Force Base moves back Aviation Nation dates to 2025
  • Nevada reaches $193M settlement in latest opioid lawsuit
  • State Senate vote expected Thursday on A’s Las Vegas ballpark bill
  • Supreme Court issues surprising ruling in Alabama redistricting case
  • Pat Robertson, broadcaster who helped make religion central to GOP politics, dies at 93

• BBC World News

  • Mount Everest: Deadly season puts focus on record climbing permits
  • Canada wildfires: US East Coast sees worst air quality in years
  • Chinese censors take aim at AirDrop and Bluetooth
  • France stabbing: Children attacked in Annecy park in stable condition
  • Joran van der Sloot: Suspect in US teen's disappearance extradited
  • Alabama violated voting rights law, Supreme Court rules
  • Ethiopia: US agency suspends food as drought grips country

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  • Supreme Court preserves Medicaid recipients’ right to sue
  • At the Races: Regular disorder
  • Alabama ruling could help Democrats in multiple states
  • House GOP leaders work to tamp down rule fracas
  • Sartorially savvy senators and staff select seersucker as the smart summertime suit
  • Life in review: Ondi Timoner’s ‘Last Flight Home’
  • HHS’ first national STI plan could face obstacles

• The Hill – Top News

  • FDA panel to vote on Alzheimer's drug
  • Lin-Manuel Miranda's new network seeks to enhance diversity on Broadway
  • How the debt limit deal could affect housing affordability
  • Asian Americans have mixed views on using race in college admissions: analysis
  • Dems accuse GOP's FBI witness of lying to Congress, refer matter to Garland
  • US casts doubt on reports of China building spy base in Cuba​
  • Wildfire smoke highlights climate change's risks

• Stanford Social Innovation Review

  • Closing the Middle Skills Gap in Postsecondary Education (Blog)
  • Peer Nominations for a More Diverse Funding Pipeline (Blog)
  • Nondisruptive Creation
  • Building Nonprofit Capacity, Hand in Hand (Blog)
  • Feminists Work for Men and Boys Too
  • Learning From the Climate-Mental Health Convergence (Blog)
  • Lessons From the Failures of Covax (Blog)
  • Further Reflections on Fashion’s Circularity Reckoning
  • Response: Increasing Environmental and Social Sustainability at the Same Time
  • Response: Contextualizing the Colonial Climate Crisis in Black and Indigenous Thought

• Real Clear Sports

  • Power Broker Who Lost 66 Employees on 9/11 Helped Create PGA-LIV Merger
  • 8 Luxury Gifts To Splurge on This Father’s Day
  • ChatGPT Allegedly Made Up an Embezzlement Claim Against a Radio Host
  • NFL Recruits Tom Brady to Spread the Word About League’s Gambling Policy
  • The 50 Best Summer Shoe Deals at Zappos This Week
  • New Balance Models, From 574 to 990, Explained
  • Chris Briney Is Making Waves and Hitting His Stride
  • Who Won “Top Chef?” Finalists Sara, Gabriel and Buddah Aren’t Saying.
  • These 7 Caribbean Resorts Have Best-in-Class Childcare
  • Don’t Sleep on the Western Slope: A Guide to Colorado’s Underrated Adventure Towns

• Curio Blog Feed

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• Julia Bloggers

  • Filtering grouped data frames in DataFrames.jl
  • Lessons learned from WAW2023 conference
  • Julia ❤️ ABM #3: What a difference a day makes
  • Pivot tables in DataFrames.jl
  • Julia 1.9 Highlights
  • Julia 1.9: A New Era of Performance and Flexibility
  • Julia 1.9.0 lives up to its promise
  • A Fun Exploration of Perfect, Abundant, and Deficient Numbers
  • Hungarian meeting with Euler for the third anniversary
  • Ref ref.

• The New Republic

  • The World Is on Fire, and Joe Manchin Still Doesn’t Think the Issue Is Climate Change
  • Smoke Is Fine, Longtime Tobacco and Coal Shill Assures Fox News Viewers
  • Bennie Thompson Lashes Out at Jan. 6 Text-Message Deleting Trump Administration Holdover
  • Did Tim Scott Intentionally Kill Police Reform So He Could Run for President?
  • The Supreme Court Stuns Everyone By Doing Something Good on Voting Rights
  • A Tough Question for Republicans: Investigate Child Labor—or Promote It?
  • Trump Is Begging for a New Trial in E. Jean Carroll Case
  • Supreme Court Makes It Easier for Dems to Retake the House With Voting Rights Ruling
  • Saudi Arabia Just Took Over Golf. Is Soccer Next?
  • Kathy Hochul Wants a Republican to Lead New York’s Energy Sector

• Economia & Negócios

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