Furniture maker Herval to open retail stores MIAMI —Brazilian manufacturer Herval is poised to open two stores here in the U.S. which will be called Uultis after the Latin word for “desire,” will carry high-end case goods tables and beds in Herval’s trademark midcentury modern look according to Herval Vice President Rodrigo Seger whose grandfather founded the business 65 years ago The New York store will open in October at 200 Lexington Avenue which Seger said he considers a retail opportunity for walk-in business a 2,000 square-foot space that will be carved out of the company’s existing office space “We realize that we have space to have our own chain of stores Herval will open three or four stores in other areas of the country to give our customers and interior designers an experience with people trained to sell our products,” he said Herval currently sells to high-end boutiques and independent retailers through a network of 15 representatives across the country The company is also planning to introduce approximately 15 new products across all categories at in October CB2 reimages the work of two midcentury design legends Signup for your daily digest of industry news and trends Some of the forms and images on this page may not work correctly with this enabled Please disable your ad blocker for this page Find the ad blocker icon installed on your browser This icon is usually located on the upper right side of your screen You may have more than one ad blocker installed Click the icon and disable the ad blocker for this website either by following prompts or clicking your browser’s “refresh” or “reload” button Home Accents Today covers the major domestic home furnishings and gift markets manufacturers and distributors with the most comprehensive “first look” at trends Sign up to get exclusive industry information delivered to your inbox Brazilian manufacturer Herval opens 1st U.S Miami warehouse to stock Herval’s high-end Uultis Design brand MIAMI, Fla. – Grupo , one of Brazil’s largest furniture makers, has opened its first U.S. warehouse here to handle U.S. distribution of its premium Uultis Design brand of dining and Uultis will target both the retail and design channels “We are opening the new warehouse in Miami to offer fast delivery service and support to premium retailers and designers in the U.S and Canadian markets,” said Grupo Herval President Agnelo Seger in a release The company also exhibited at October Market “We were very pleased with the positive reaction to Uultis Designs at the ,” Seger said “It provided us with an important opportunity to showcase our furniture which is designed by the best Brazilian designers and combines the latest in technology design and our commitment to sustainability featuring natural raw materials is one of the largest conglomerates in Brazil In addition to its furniture manufacturing businesses Grupo Herval is the largest Apple distributor in Latin America and also has significant holdings in retail real estate and financing with annual revenues of more than $700 million Grupo Herval exports to 30 countries worldwide With the opening of its Miami distribution facility Uultis Designs will be available for immediate or quick delivery in the United States and Canada Uultis Designs featured products included the Mince and Sole armchairs designed by the Brazilian designer Larissa Batista partner with Sergio Batista at the Know How Studio The collection also includes full line of sofas Furniture Today is the complete information source for the furniture industry featuring retailer and manufacturing news The page you are looking for cannot be found You may have followed a broken or outdated link the time-honored Brazilian TV series "Escrava Isaura" is still memorized and cherished by many Chinese people China and Brazil established diplomatic relations which significantly boosted exchanges and cooperation across various fields One notable example of this cultural exchange is the classic Brazilian TV series "Escrava Isaura." Premiering in 1976 the series was introduced to Chinese audiences by Beijing Television Station in 1984 Directed by Milton Gonçalves and Herval Rossano "Escrava Isaura" remains fondly remembered and cherished by many Chinese people The enduring popularity of this series highlights the rich and vibrant cultural exchange activities between China and Brazil over the decades Set against the backdrop of the Brazilian Empire the 100-episode series is based on 19th-century writer Bernardo Guimarães' novel of the same name it centers on the struggles of the young white-skinned slave Isaura against the obsession of a malicious slave owner and her courage and endeavor to pursue freedom and love The series not only showcases an important period in Brazilian history but also explores themes of universal concern It provides an insight into the cruelty and injustice of slavery while it also reflects the goodness The series attracted widespread attention when it was aired in China in the 1980s The series "Escrava Isaura" has been broadcast in over 80 countries it attracted widespread attention and discussion becoming a classic Brazilian TV production cherished by Chinese audiences recalled that when she watched the series during her middle school days she was captivated by its dramatic plot twists "There weren't many other foreign TV dramas at that time," said Wang "The leading actress received huge popularity among Chinese audiences." noted the impressive 100-episode length of the series adding that it was a sensation in China during the 1980s On China's film and TV review website Douban many Chinese people still express nostalgia for the drama recognizing its historical significance and social influence A user named "Ashes of Roses" mentioned that Isaura's hairstyle and dresses were quite popular in mainland China at that time Many people fondly remember their childhood days sitting by black-and-white TV sets with their parents Neighbors often gathered to discuss the drama The main actors won the love and respect of viewers with their superb acting skills the actors experienced their own ups and downs and changes in life Some continued to develop their careers in the entertainment industry A poster advertises "Escrava Isaura." Brazilian actress Lucélia Santos rose to international fame in "Escrava Isaura." Lucélia Santos still active in the entertainment industry she has produced documentaries about Chinese culture Ever since she rose to international stardom in "Escrava Isaura," she has starred in many popular TV dramas and movies "Carmem" (1987) and "Luz del Fuego" (1982) Owing to her vivid portrayal of the strong-willed slave girl Santos became the first actress to receive the Golden Eagle Award for Best Foreign Actress in China Her trip to the awards ceremony was greeted warmly by Chinese audiences helped to spread Brazilian culture in China She sees it as an important step in cultural exchanges between the two countries Santos has visited China more than 20 times and has been engaged in promoting cultural understanding between Brazil and China "Destino," a collaboration with Chinese film professionals was screened at the Shanghai International Film Festival It was the first film co-produced by China and Brazil The 67-year-old actress is still active in the entertainment industry and has produced a number of documentaries on Chinese culture who plays Isaura's master in the series impressed Chinese audiences with his acting "Escrava Isaura" is one of Rubens de Falco's representative works also impressed Chinese audiences with his acting "Escrava Isaura" is considered one of his representative works making the role he interprets one of the most familiar and disliked villain characters to Chinese audiences Falco appeared in two versions of "Escrava Isaura." In the 2004 version he has been unable to act due to a stroke since May the actor died of heart disease at the age of 76 Gilberto Martinho is an experienced actor and director Gilberto Martinho died in 2001 at the age of 78 who stunned viewers with the role of Tobias in the series is also an experienced and versatile actor and director He plays a wealthy and upright farmer who falls in love with Isaura and competes with Leôncio for her freedom and love Martinho's credits include "Roda de Fogo" (1986) "Pecado Capital" (1975) and "Cabocla" (1979) In 2001 he died of pneumonia at the age of 78 Actress Norma Blum's acting in the series also stunned Chinese audiences Norma Blum's acting career spans over 60 years Actress Norma Blum plays the role of Malvina The kind noblewoman who treats Isaura like her daughter and wants to give her freedom and happiness it is a respected and appreciated supporting role In an acting career that spans over 60 years "Bambolê" (1987) and "Celebridade" (2003) 1.Comments will appear only after being approved by our team so it might be a while before your comment is posted 2.In accordance with the Regulations on Internet News and Information Services and other related laws and regulations of the People's Republic of China comments should not contain anything that is obscene Please [ Login ] to leave a comment Our representatives should not own stock in the system they regulate The concept of legislative risk is well known to investors and policymakers It is defined as “the potential that government regulations or legislation could significantly alter the business prospects of one or more companies by creating changes that could positively or negatively affect investment holdings in that company”  — in other words it is the idea that what a government does with policy affects how companies do financially Many financial analysts monitor political activity and offer stock predictions based on what they’re seeing with legislation timing the market to buy or sell and make gains A 2016 Bloomberg article, “Private Prison Stocks Are Surging After Trump’s Win,” reveals a grim picture of an incentive structure that encourages mass incarceration and a vast unthinking and heedless majority who cannot or will not resist the appeal of profiting off of imprisoned individuals who come disproportionately from communities of color Investors listening to Donald Trump’s hateful rhetoric placed bets that that rhetoric would eventually translate into oppressive public policy The private prisons industry, which has a powerful lobby, diversified from its targeting of minority Americans to include more undocumented migrants. Detaining immigrants in detention centers has become wildly profitable for private prisons and their investors We now see how brutal and dehumanizing this practice has become leading to the child separation policy which has left at least 524 children involuntarily orphaned and thousands more sleeping in cages in unhygienic conditions There is little to no oversight on politicians’ intentional exploitation of legislative risk for personal gain Politicians, like anyone else, can invest in the stock market. If you’re curious, you can view the public financial disclosure documents of politicians in the House of Representatives here, the Senate here, and the Executive Branch here You can also get the financial disclosures of Supreme Court Justices, but it is a much more tedious process Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez exposed this corruption to the House Oversight and Reform Committee In the hearing she played a “lightning round game” before a panel of top government experts in which she pretended to be a “bad guy” whose only purpose in politics was to make as much money as possible Vox reported: “She then asked a litany of questions Can she run a campaign entirely funded by corporate political action committees Can she use that money to make hush payments and pay people off to get elected can she influence and write laws that might affect the groups from which she’s taken special interest money And can she hold stocks in companies the legislation she’s writing might boost It is entirely legal for politicians to write laws beneficial to their own investment portfolios This legal loophole allows politicians to enrich themselves at the expense of their constituents How would you feel if you found out your elected official: that he is such a strong proponent of coal which are proven to devastate the natural environment Does the seemingly coordinated attack on net neutrality and our right to the free access of information online come as any surprise when tech stocks are the most popular in Congress as long as the Republicans retain control of the Senate this progressive legislation will never see the light of day Support politicians who believe in accountability and transparency The second step is encoded into the First Amendment of our Constitution Just as college students across the nation have used the #Divestment movement to get their administrations to divest from fossil fuels and private prisons we must demand that our elected officials do the same rally and speak up to your elected officials companies that exploit cheap or slave-like overseas labor that would violate U.S companies that deal with oppressive foreign regimes or dictatorships and companies with a history of labor rights and human rights abuses Not only may we see mass financial divestment from these destructive industries we may see systemic changes as we remove another incentive for lawmakers to pass terrible corporatist policy and questionable subsidies Divestment isn’t the golden ticket to a more just This peculiar legality is rife with conflicts of interest and is not on many folks’ radar we may see a more compassionate conception of capitalism We may finally see the growing sustainable development movement get its fair shake And we may finally see a growing social enterprise sector succeed in finding market-driven innovations to our most pressing social All opinions are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the City & County of Honolulu Honolulu Civil Beat is a nonprofit organization and your donation helps us produce local reporting that serves all of Hawaii Sultan White is the Innovation & Technology Manager at the City & County of Honolulu's Office of Economic Revitalization Ideas is the place you'll find essays, analysis and opinion on public affairs in Hawaiʻi. We want to showcase smart ideas about the future of Hawaiʻi, from the state's sharpest thinkers, to stretch our collective thinking about a problem or an issue. Email news@civilbeat.org to submit an idea Sign up for our FREE morning newsletter and face each day more informed Consent Preferences Keep up to date with the latest industry news pre-market information and articles from the editors at Furniture World Magazine We will also send you occasional invitations and offers from furnishings manufacturers and industry suppliers Your information will not be shared or used for any other purpose Please select your primary business below to get the latest home furnishings industry news at no charge The world’s leading publication for data science There’s a lot of work on using Deep Learning for text generation – computer-generating new text that mimics human-written text. Even simple models can generate convincing text, as made famous by Andrej Karpathy But one place that they struggle is when the text must meet strict structural constraints How can we improve upon current text generation models to make them better at this task Haiku generation is an example of a strictly constrained task. They are very short poems consisting of three lines. Traditionally the first line is 5 syllables, the second is 7 and the third is 5. For example, by Brian del Vecchio: Modern Haiku preserve the essence of a short three-line poem but don’t strictly adhere to the 5–7–5 syllable structure and much prior research into generating haiku doesn’t enforce syllable counts either Which brings me to my question: can we generate haiku which are both meaningful and structurally correct I’m not the only one who’s attempted this. Sam Ballas and Tanel Kiis & Markus Kängsepp both used a standard character-level recurrent neural networks (RNN) to generate haiku They produced output which resemble haiku at a glance but aren’t terribly cohesive and certainly don’t follow the structure we’re looking for most modern haiku don’t adhere to that structure which means that a training corpus won’t reflect it Another problem is that characters correlate very poorly with syllables so it’s unlikely that a model given nothing but characters Jack Hopkins and Doewe Kiela produced several models for generating poetry which not only have a constraint on the number of syllables per line which allowed them to constrain the structure at training time They constrained the text at sample time by using a discriminator that would reject text that didn’t conform to the desired meter similar to my technique with the Markov model I used four sources to build my training corpus: This Jupyter Notebook has my data preparation process. It cleans the data and uses The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (CMUdict) to calculate syllable counts for each row which in turn can be used to count the syllables for each word In cases where there are multiple valid pronunciations for a word of which only 725 (3%!) match the 5–7–5 structure which is not nearly enough to train a model on Our goal is to generate haiku that conform to the traditional 5–7–5 structure but we have very little training data for that This Jupyter notebook shows the training process. In short, I one-hot-encode the data at the character level, split the data into training and validation sets and then use teacher-forcing to train I trained the model for about 2 hours on a Paperspace P6000 virutal machine Although it stopped improving much sooner than that Here is a graph of the training and validation loss over time: Finally we get to the fun part – seeing what nonsense this generates I generated all of the following using a checkpoint after training epoch 4 when the validation loss stopped decreasing Here are some 5–7–5 haiku generated with a sampling temperature of .1 (less random): While the syllable counts aren’t perfect the cool thing is that we can see that the syllable counts we provide impacts the generated text We can turn up the sampling temperature to make the model more "creative." Sampling temperature By .5 it starts having trouble with spelling: This Jupyter notebook has many more generated haiku we proved that by including the number of syllables as input to the model we can influence the length of the lines generated There’s a lot more work that can be done to improve this There are a couple of issues that I’d like to address: Thanks to Abigail Pope-Brooks for editing and feedback All the code and data used is available on github. 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The world’s leading publication for data science, data analytics, data engineering, machine learning, and artificial intelligence professionals. and trial-and-error—but almost nothing beyond fourth-grade arithmetic in other words—as long they make that decision for the right reasons I’m not even sure why people conflate the two (Maybe it has to do with the fact that both fields are male-dominated.) Victoria Fine, Slate’s strategy director, has a good piece up this week about how she taught herself how to code despite hating math a successful answer depended on asking the right question “How do I make a website red” was not nearly as successful a question as “CSS color values HEX red” combined with “CSS background color.” I spent a lot of time learning to Google like a pro I carefully learned the vocabulary of HTML so I knew what I was talking about when I asked the Internet for answers Fine’s experience is typical among coding autodidacts and it resembles my own learning-to-code death march adventure Then you build on that knowledge—primarily through Googling and error—as you explore your language(s) of choice In order to figure out what your program should say you’re going to need some basic logic skills You’ll also need to be skilled at copying and pasting things from online repositories and tweaking them slightly are probably more talented at that than math majors are In most cases you can see that the hard maths (the physical and geometry) is either done by a computer or has been done by someone else While the calculations do happen and are essential to the successful running of the program the programmer does not need to know how they are done The hardest thing appears to be the Pythagorean theorem.) one thing you do need when learning to code is an ability to stifle your rage when computers don’t do what you want Get our news on your inbox! Suscribe x MercoPress, en Español Montevideo, May 5th 2025 - 13:36 UTC At least 13 cities in the Brazilian State of Río Grande do Sul Wednesday recorded snowfalls but one that has come to be due to this year's harsh winter temperatures Snow was recorded in cities such as Pelotas The wave of cold air that passes through southern Brazil brought snow to at least 13 cities in Rio Grande do Sul where children took to the streets to celebrate and build up snowmen Other parts of Rio Grande do Sul were less blessed by nature and instead of snowfalls they recorded hail-like phenomena such as “frozen rain” (when water droplets freeze when fallinf off the cloud Snowflakes descend from clouds in a region that is quite cold and fall in a region of the atmosphere that is warm The phenomenon was registered at least in Júlio de Castilhos which is a small granule of ice created when drops of super-cooled water cover a snowflake soft and can easily fall apart in your hand and it is also generally smaller than hail The weather forecast for Thursday does not rule out further snowing as increasingly cold temperatures mix with humid air from the ocean which favors the formation of heavy clouds Frost is also forecast for several cities in the state of Rio Grande do Sul althought not for coastal areas which will nonetheless have a lot of cloudiness throughout the day and slightly higher temperatures Seems the event is not as disruptive as originally feared: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-28/arabica-coffee-declines-on-easing-concerns-of-brazil-frost Commenting for this story is now closed.If you have a Facebook account, become a fan and comment on our Facebook Page Good morning and welcome to Insider Finance If you're not yet a subscriber, you can sign up here to get your daily dose of the stories dominating banking, business, and big deals. 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Please upgrade your browser to improve your experience you may have a little extra cash to burn (or at least a burning desire to treat yourself) these local hotels and restaurants sense your excitement and have put together a number of jewelry-themed afternoon teas so that you can share the love First on the list, InterContinental Beijing Sanlitun has teamed up with French jewelry brand Franck Herval to present their Symphony Afternoon Tea This three-layered set includes various interestingly designed sweets such as chocolates shaped like high heels and diamonds as well as a rainbow sponge cake and raspberry tarts topped with a pearl-like decorations are also available You can choose from hot drinks such as tea It is available between 2.30-5.30pm until Dec 31 at Top Tapas You can also spend RMB 328 and receive an additional glass of Champagne or whisky punch Highlights are the Waldorf’s signature red velvet cake in lipstick shape The afternoon tea set costs RMB 468 (plus 15 percent service charge per set) for two and runs until Mar 11 Finally, in Sanlitun you can lap up this winter's sunshine without burning a hole in your wallet at Infrarouge's RMB 128 afternoon tea including two mini choux with cherry cream Go with a friend and spend RMB 208 for two pots of tea with 16 sweets More stories by this author here Email: tracywang@thebeijinger.comTwitter: @flyingfigureInstagram: @flyingfigure companies and members of the public to come up with solutions to improve bike safety in the Dutch capital through an open challenge The central theme of the competition – “Different speeds on bicycle paths” – aims to influence the behaviour of road users and asks how bike delivery services and differences in speed bicycle types can impact this The ten best ideas submitted to the Amsterdam Bike City Bicycle Innovation Lab will get the opportunity to present their solution to a jury of cycling experts with the winner receiving a €2,000 (US$2,285) prize development funding and the chance to implement their plan Amsterdam Department of Traffic and Public Space said: “We are experiencing a very real problem at the moment the use of our bike paths by all kinds of different modes possessing different kinds of speeds – most notably we’re seeing a bigger percentage of bike accidents involving e-bikes “We’re not aware of specific statistics showing this in Amsterdam but it’s something we hear from interviews with bikers “It’s starting to keep people from using the bike because they simply feel it’s more dangerous.” A total of 229 cyclists were killed in the Netherlands in 2020 – 24 more than in 2019 32 percent were riding an e-bike and almost 75 percent were over the age of 60 Entries will be assessed across five categories: the winner will have the opportunity to develop the idea further with a maximum development budget of €45,000 with the winner set to be announced on April 11 The Bike City platform was established in March 2021 by the City of Amsterdam and the Transport Authority Amsterdam It was developed as a community and a space for knowledge sharing for anyone interested in cycling You have reached the limit for the basic subscription. 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