Monday, May 23, 2016

STR: US hotel performance for April 2016 and other top stories.

  • STR: US hotel performance for April 2016

    HospitalitySTR: US hotel performance for April 2016Tatiana Rokou / 23 May 2016 07:53 199 Compared with April 2015, the U.S. hotel industry’s occupancy increased 2.2% to 68.1%. Average daily rate for the month was up 2.8% to US$123.14. Revenue per available room grew 5.0% to US$83.89.HENDERSONVILLE, TENNESSEE - The U.S. hotel industry reported positive results in the three key performance metrics during April 2016, according to data from STR.Compared with April 2015, the U.S. hotel industry’s ..
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  • Advierten sobre peligros de cirugías cosméticas en clínicas privadas

    Advierten sobre peligros de cirugías cosméticas en clínicas privadas
    Los riesgos mortales que corren los pacientes que eligen someterse a cirugía estética barata en Miami se hicieron más que evidentes tras la muerte reciente de una mujer de 29 años, de Virginia Occidental, a causa de una operación de transferencia de grasa en una clínica de Hialeah. La clínica, Encore Plastic Surgery, está registrada con el estado como centro quirúrgico privado, lo cual requiere que, o bien sea acreditada por una junta médica reconocida, o que se someta a inspecciones de parte d..
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  • Detienen a un venezolano por la muerte de una mujer tras ...

    Detienen a un venezolano por la muerte de una mujer tras ...
    La Policía de Miami encarceló este sábado a un venezolano acusado de practicar un tratamiento de cirugía estética a una mujer que falleció poco después de la operación. José Robusto fue ingresado el sábado en una prisión del condado de Miami-Dade, en Florida (EE.UU.), y enfrenta cargos por asesinato y práctica ilegal de procedimientos médicos, a raíz de la intervención estética que realizó a Suyima Torres en abril de 2013 y que le ocasionó la muerte, informó el diario Miami Herald. El venezolano..
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  • India's mini space shuttle blasts off

    India's mini space shuttle blasts off
    India successfully launched its first model space shuttle on Monday, a top official said, as New Delhi joined the race to develop a reusable rocket to make space travel easier and cheaper. The winged shuttle blasted off on a rocket from the ...
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  • Hubble Space Telescope's New Photos of 'Cloudy' Mars Released by NASA

    Hubble Space Telescope's New Photos of 'Cloudy' Mars Released by NASA
    May 23, 2016 05:18 AM EDT During the Mars Opposition, the Earth and the red planet will orbit near each other. This event gives scientists the opportunity to get high definition photographs of Mars. But before the opposition happened today, NASA released new stunning photos of Mars with visible clouds around it. The photos were taken by the Hubble Space Telescope as the planet approached the Earth.   Hubble's NEW view of #Mars! On Sun. #Mars will be as close as it's been to Earth in 9 yr..
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  • Google's new app lets users conduct scientific research on their phones

    Google's new app lets users conduct scientific research on their phones
    Google's new Android app revamps the clipboard for scientific field experiments. The app, called Science Journal, measures and records data in real time, and then converts that data into easily readable graphs and charts. Users can store several projects in the app, and use tools like an accelerometer, plus light and sound meters, in order to gather information for their projects. For example, a user could record their running pace everyday for a week, and then chart their progress on a line gr..
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  • Blizzard's hero shooter is scheduled to release (gulp) this week.

    Blizzard's hero shooter is scheduled to release (gulp) this week.
    It's only a matter of hours, albeit too many hours, until Overwatch finally releases. Blizzard has ramped up marketing for its hero shooter over the weekend, going so far as to pepper the world with lifesize figurines of some of the game's most loved characters. More humbly, the company has issued the final animated short for this season, and it focuses on Soldier: 76.76 is an assault character bearing an automatic pulse rifle, but the practicality of his arsenal isn't really the point of the v..
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  • Oculus Rift update accidentally makes piracy easier

    Oculus Rift update accidentally makes piracy easier
    Last Friday, Oculus released a software update blocking Revive — a piece of software that allowed users to port Rift games they'd bought from the Oculus store onto HTC's Vive headset. However, it seems Oculus's intervention may have backfired, with an update to Revive not only allowing users to port titles again, but also bypass the Rift's DRM in the process, opening the door to easier VR piracy. "I really didn't want to go down this path" In posts on Reddit and GitHub spotted by Motherboard, ..
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  • Japanese company plans man-made meteor shower at Tokyo Olympic Games

    Japanese company plans man-made meteor shower at Tokyo Olympic Games
    A Japanese company has been planning something very unique for Japanese Olympic Games to take place in 2020. Star-Ale plans to create a man-made meteor shower as the main attraction for the opening ceremony of the XXXII Olympiad in Tokyo in 2020. The developer of the Sky Canvas light show has proposed the artificial meteor shower for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. Star-ALE founder and chief executive officer Lena Okajima was of the view that this is a very new thing as it mixes astr..
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