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• Brasil / Portuguese

  • 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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  • 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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• NY Times – Business

  • Robert Norris, Marlboro Man Who Didn’t Smoke, Dies at 90
  • SpaceX Launches 60 Additional Starlink Satellites to Orbit
  • Singles Day: There Sure Are a Lot of People in China Buying Stuff Online
  • How Much Would You Pay for a Houseplant?
  • On the Internet, No One Knows You’re Not Rich. Except This Account.
  • Disney’s Ambitious Streaming Plans Take Big Bite Out of Profits
  • Scandinavian Wine? A Warming Climate Tempts Entrepreneurs

• Washington Post

  • Live updates: Pentagon official says OMB offered no explanation for withholding aid to Ukraine in mid-July despite questions
  • With cheers and catcalls, Trump’s public appearances become a referendum on impeachment
  • Everything you need to know about the next Democratic debate
  • The shallow state that drove Trump’s Ukraine policy from the outside
  • The full Trump-Ukraine timeline
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  • Biden’s rivals scramble to dent his support from black voters

• Review Journal

  • NY Rep. Peter King retiring, giving Dems a new target
  • Man shot, another burns; Hong Kong leader vows to end protests
  • 2 killed in NJ after Porsche crashes into building’s 2nd floor
  • Maine lobsterman rescues deer trapped in water off coast
  • Justices take up high-profile case over young immigrants
  • Trump to confront Turkey about buying Russian defense system
  • Motorcyclist killed in collision on state Route 163 near Laughlin
  • Henderson’s Veterans Memorial Wall has 2 new panels
  • American Legion post in Las Vegas plans big as it regains its feet
  • Michigan man uses battle ax to fight off home invader

• BBC World News

  • Bolivia crisis: Power vacuum follows Morales' resignation
  • Jingye to invest £1bn and save 'thousands of British Steel jobs'
  • James Le Mesurier, White Helmets co-founder, discovered dead in Turkey
  • Rohingya crisis: The Gambia accuses Myanmar of genocide at top UN court
  • Climate change: British Airways reviews 'fuel-tankering' over climate concerns
  • Russia professor admits murder after woman's arms found in bag
  • Spanish elections: Socialists win amid far-right surge

• NPR News

  • Hong Kong In Tumult: Man Is Set On Fire Hours After Police Officer Shoots Protester
  • The Harvard Law Student And DREAMer Whose Fate Could Be Decided By Supreme Court
  • Meditation Reduced The Opioid Dose She Needs To Ease Chronic Pain By 75%
  • Remembering The 1st Veterans Memorialized By Veterans Day
  • The Ukraine Impeachment Inquiry Begins A New Phase This Week: What You Need To Know
  • Former U.N. Ambassador Haley: Trump Actions 'Not A Good Practice' But Not Impeachable
  • Whistleblower Offer To Field Written Questions Stands, But GOP Seeks Public Testimony
  • 6 Killed And 100 Injured In Latest Security Forces Crackdown In Baghdad Protests

• Roll Call

  • Impeachment news roundup: Nov. 11
  • Ending DACA without a legislative solution is bad for Dreamers, bad for our nation and bad politics
  • How America’s mayor became America’s State Department
  • New York GOP Rep. Peter King announces ‘it is time to end the weekly commute’
  • Impeachment strains longstanding bipartisan support for Ukraine
  • Campus notebook: China Daily stresses a senator and a drug arrest at the Capitol
  • McCarthy temporarily puts Jordan on Intelligence Committee for impeachment hearings

• The Hill – Top News

  • Perry backers got huge Ukraine gas deal after his meeting with new president: report
  • Sanders calls Trump 'most corrupt president' in new Iowa ad
  • Former coal exec Don Blankenship launches third party presidential bid
  • Trump to meet with vaping industry as he considers flavors ban
  • Broadcast, cable news networks to preempt regular programming for Trump impeachment coverage
  • Gabbard lawyers demand retraction of Clinton's 'defamation'
  • Republicans have spent millions at Trump resorts since his election: report

• Stanford Social Innovation Review

  • What US Schools Can Learn From Finland’s Approach to Education (Blog)
  • Philanthropy for the Women’s Movement, Not Just ‘Empowerment’ (Blog)
  • Using Measurement to Manage Impact (Blog)
  • Social-Symbolic Work and Social Innovation
  • The Evolving Promise of Pay for Success (Blog)
  • The Next Step for Human-Centered Design in Global Public Health (Blog)
  • Communicating Complexity in the Humanitarian Sector (Blog)
  • The Neuroscience of Creativity
  • Lessons From India on Scaling Up Market-Based Solutions (Blog)
  • Becoming Unstuck With Relational Activism (Blog)

• Real Clear Sports

  • It's Time for Sean Payton to Go
  • Yankees Have Perfect Formula for October Run
  • Defensive Stud Has Jags Swinging for Fences
  • Hue Jackson's Latest QB Project Has Browns Hopeful
  • Reid Rebuilt Chiefs While Eagles Crumbled
  • Golden Boy Kliff Kingsbury Gets Defensive
  • Cam Newton Needs Success, Not Your Happiness
  • UCLA's Rosen Rises to Reach Hype
  • CFB Coaches Can Say Anything as Long as They Win
  • The Indians Are Even Better Than They Seem

• Curio Blog Feed

  • Curio subscriptions at the Mac App Store
  • Catalina, Curio, and Curiota
  • Introducing Curio 13
  • 2018: a review
  • Curiota 3
  • Curio 12.1 and 12.2
  • Announcing Curio 12
  • 2017 review
  • Curio 11.4
  • Curio 11.3

• Julia Bloggers

  • Evaluating Arbitrary Precision Integer Expressions in Julia using Metaprogramming
  • My other JuliaLang posts and videos of 2019
  • DifferentialEquations.jl v6.8.0: Advanced Stiff Differential Equation Solving
  • GeoStats.jl v0.10
  • The Emergent Features of JuliaLang: Part II – Traits
  • Working with binary libraries for optimization in Julia
  • TensorFlow 2.0: Building Simple Classifier using Low Level APIs
  • The Emergent Features of JuliaLang: Part I
  • Constraint Solver Part 12: Documentation and small changes
  • Constraint Solver Part 11: Graph Coloring Part 2

• The New Republic

  • Why Wouldn’t Michael Bloomberg Run for President?
  • High Crimes
  • The First Magistrate in Foreign Pay
  • Far-Right Climate Denial Is Growing in Europe
  • Ghosts of War in a Wisconsin Forest
  • The Case for Climate Hope
  • How Giuliani Became Trump’s Chief Conspiracist
  • Trump Has Squandered the Legacy of the Berlin Wall
  • The Billionaire’s Burden: Running for President
  • The Media Has a Right-Wing Bias. Politico’s Founder Just Admitted It.

• Economia & Negócios

  • Cade deve julgar nesta semana acordo com a Petrobrás no mercado de Gás
  • Há expectativa de que o relatório da Previdência seja votado até quinta-feira, diz Maia
  • Petrobrás terá que vender ações das empresas de transporte e distribuição de gás
  • Bancos estrangeiros mudam previsão para a Selic e passam a ver até três cortes de juros este ano
  • Nomeações das agências devem garantir equilíbrio de interesses
  • União vai ajudar Estados que contribuírem para redução do preço do gás
  • Projeção para alta do PIB recua e passa de 0,93% para 0,87%
  • Entenda o que é o Ibovespa e como o índice é calculado
  • Lucro da Caixa sobe 23% no primeiro trimestre e chega a R$ 3,9 bilhões
  • Coluna Teaser: Veja campanha que ajudou Burger King a ser anunciante mais criativo em Cannes

• OECD

  • Healthcare: Health spending set to outpace GDP growth to 2030
  • Economy: Switzerland needs to prepare for population ageing to maintain high living standards
  • Education: Staff training for early childhood education must foster children’s learning, development and well-being
  • Economy: Colombia is a Latin American success story, but must pursue new reforms for stronger and more inclusive growth
  • Tax & digitalisation: OECD leads multilateral efforts on tax challenges from digitalisation of the economy