Marriott Hotels Expands in Hainan Chinas International Tourism Island

Marriott International, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAR) today celebrated the opening of its first hotel under its flagship Marriott Hotels brand in Haikou, Hainan Province. This impressive 386-room business hotel is an exciting addition to the iconic Marriott Hotels brand. Under a long-term management agreement with the owner, Shenzhen Tiley Real Estate Group CO., Ltd., Haikou Marriott Hotel joins the other three Marriott International properties, adding to the company's fast-growing portfolio of four hotels in Hainan province. [Download images.]

Haikou, the provincial capital of Hainan Province in southern China, renowned as China's International Tourism Island, is home to elegant seascape and historical sites as well as dozens of newly-developed tourist regions and attractions. Located in the front area of South China Economic Development Zone, the area is warm all year round, making it a perfect travel destination.

"At Marriott International we are very proud to be launching our 73rd Marriott International Hotel across six brands in China, taking the total number of properties in China under the iconic Marriott Hotels brand to 17 properties. This occasion also marks our very first hotel in Haikou and the first Marriott International business hotel to open in Hainan Province, continuing our rapid expansion throughout China." said Henry Lee, Greater China Chief Operations Officer for Marriott International.

Added by Mr. Tony Cai, Chairman of Tiley (Hainan) Tourism Development Co. Ltd, "It is our honor to partner with Marriott International. We are confident that with the blend of thoughtful design, professional management under Marriott International and attentive service, the Haikou Marriott Hotel will elevate international business hotel standard in Haikou and in the region to the next level."

Haikou Marriott Hotel is situated on a magnificent scenic section of the shoreline, with spacious guest rooms offering breath-taking tropical ocean views and private balconies. The international award-winning architecture studio WATG drew inspiration from the rich cultural heritage of China to create the eight majestic buildings within the hotel premises, blending traditional oriental architecture elegantly with the natural and scenic surroundings, creating a Zen-like environment.

Just a short walking distance to the Hainan International Exhibition Centre, the Marriott Haikou Hotel is 45 minutes away from Haikou Meilan International airport, a 10-minute drive to the railway station, and a 15-minute drive away from downtown providing easy accessibility.

Haikou Marriott Hotel offers over 4,000 square meters of meeting space. Its unique features include a magnificent pillar-less Grand Ballroom and a beautiful seaside lawn that can accommodate up to 800 guests, making it a very desirable venue for weddings, meetings, conferences and events. A professional event planning and catering team coupled with state-of-the-art audio-visual equipment ensures all functions are handled with expertise and efficiency.

Haikou Marriott Hotel lobbyThe hotel is also home to some of the finest dining outlets in the area, offering a diversity of choices with three restaurants, four lounge and bars. Island Bistro All Day Dining is designed with a resort-like feel where diners can enjoy sumptuous buffet spreads as well as Western and Southeast Asian delicacies along with local Hainan delicacies. Man Ho Restaurant serves authentic Cantonese flavors and houses 10 private dining rooms boasting a private balcony with garden views and exclusive entrances. The Big Fish Bar features a 360-degree open kitchen and offers fresh seafood harvested from the nearby oceans, whereas The Helicon Bar & Music Room is an interpretation of the classic hotel bar compete with four private Karaoke rooms, two mahjong rooms and a billiard table. The Greatroom lobby and lobby lounge is a cozy space ideal for work, meetings or causal social gatherings, enhancing the lifestyle of the next generation of travelers who seamlessly blend work and play. The Pool Service Bars are perfect for enjoying a selection of cocktails and champagne whilst enjoying the exotic tropical scenery.

For ultimate comfort, the Executive Lounge, located on the 8th floor of the hotel's west wing, offers business services as well as complimentary food and drinks for Executive Floor guests.

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Murtaugh, Idaho ( KMVT-TV / KSVT-TV ) The Murtaugh school district is making room for the future, which involves demolitions and new construction.

To make room for a new elementary school addition to the middle and high schools, the old agriculture shop had to come down.

The new shop will be home to all AG Science and mechanical classes.

"Here in Murtaugh we do a combination of mechanics and science, so currently I teach animal science, plant science and introduction to agriculture. And on the other end, mechanics, we have small engines, beginning welding, advanced welding and agriculture fabrication, said Tyler Johnson, the schools AG Science teacher.

When entering high school, Murtaugh students can choose one of two directions.

"The students have the option to take the business track or AG track, we're probably split down the middle. The introduction to livestock and introduction to plant science are those introductory classes where they find out if that is their passion, or that is something they want to do for a career, so it gives them the opportunity to try all sorts of things out, said Johnson.

The old AG shop was built in the early 1940's and served its purpose.

"Served a lot of people and its done well for us and you always hate to see old buildings go, but it's nice to have new buildings come up and facilitate even more, Said Rod Jones, the schools IT director.

The new AG building is larger than the old one and has room to grow so the school may offer more classes in the future.

"All the science stuff will happen inside the actual classroom. The best part about this is hopefully we will have a greenhouse in a couple of months. Next semester we will change a little bit, we'll have landscape management and we'll have introduction to greenhouse, said Johnson.

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Lynchburg City Council unanimously approved a resolution Tuesday night to name the Lynchburg Public Library's new story time room after Lynn Dodge, who spent close to 40 years working there.

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Lynchburg, VA- Lynchburg City Council will vote Tuesday night on the naming of the Lynchburg Public Library's new story time room.

The plan is to name it the "Lynn Dodge Story Time Room" after Lynn Dodge who spent close to 40 years working at the Lynchburg Public Library.

In her retirement, she gave a donation of more than a hundred thousand dollars for the new room.

Other donors include St. John's Episcopal Church, Friends of the Library, Liberty University and the Greater Lynchburg Community Trust.

Dodge says it's a community wide effort.

"I'm glad I was able to help because it's just a true honor because I just believe so much in the power of reading, and the power of succeeding in life because you can read comfortably," said Dodge.

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Nurses at a Texas hospital where a Liberian man died of Ebola described a confused and chaotic response to his arrival in the emergency room, alleging in a statement Tuesday that he languished for hours in a room with other patients and that hospital authorities resisted isolating him.

UPDATE: Second healthcare worker tests positive for Ebola

In addition, they said, the nurses tending him had flimsy protective gear and no proper training from hospital administrators in handling such a patient.

The allegations, made under unusual circumstances, provided the first detailed portrait of Thomas Eric Duncan's second trip to the emergency room, where he arrived by ambulance days after doctors had sent him home with a fever, a headache, abdominal pain and a prescription for antibiotics.

Tuesday's claims came during a conference call with reporters in which none of the nurses from Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital spoke or was identified to reporters. A statement outlining a litany of damning assertions was read by Deborah Burger, co-president of National Nurses United. The Oakland-based nurses union does not represent the Dallas nurses, who are nonunionized, but has been vocal about what it says are hospitals' failures to prepare for Ebola.

The Dallas nurses asked the union to read their statement so they could air complaints anonymously and without fear of losing their jobs, National Nurses United Executive Director RoseAnn DeMoro said from Oakland. DeMoro refused to say how many nurses signed off on the letter or how many were on the media call, but she said all of them worked at Texas Health Presbyterian and had been involved in Duncan's care or had direct knowledge of what had occurred after he arrived by ambulance Sept. 28.

They were spurred to speak out after their colleague Nina Pham, a 26-year-old registered nurse, contracted Ebola while treating Duncan, according to DeMoro. She said the nurses were angered over what they perceived to be health officials' suggestions that Pham made a mistake that led to her exposure to the virus, which is believed to have killed more than 4,400 people in West Africa.

The nurses' statement alleged that when Duncan was brought to Texas Health Presbyterian by ambulance with Ebola-like symptoms, he was left for several hours, not in isolation, in an area where up to seven other patients were. Subsequently, a nurse supervisor arrived and demanded that he be moved to an isolation unit, yet faced stiff resistance from other hospital authorities, they alleged.

Duncan's lab samples were sent through the usual hospital tube system without being specifically sealed and hand-delivered. The result is that the entire tube system was potentially contaminated, they said.

The statement described a hospital with no clear rules on how to handle Ebola patients, despite months of alerts from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta about the possibility of Ebola coming to the United States.

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Lynchburg, VA- Lynchburg City Council will vote Tuesday night on the naming of the Lynchburg Public Library's new story time room.

The plan is to name it the "Lynn Dodge Story Time Room" after Lynn Dodge who spent close to 40 years working at the Lynchburg Public Library.

In her retirement, she gave a donation of more than a hundred thousand dollars for the new room.

Other donors include St. John's Episcopal Church, Friends of the Library, Liberty University and the Greater Lynchburg Community Trust.

Dodge says it's a community wide effort.

"I'm glad I was able to help because it's just a true honor because I just believe so much in the power of reading, and the power of succeeding in life because you can read comfortably," said Dodge.

Construction for the new addition should be complete by the end of the year.

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Tour of the Family Room Addition
We have completed the family room addition, take a tour through the finished space!

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UPDATE: Weve learned today that since the liquor license sale is still pending, Peacock Room may stick around longer than October, which we originally reported as the official closing time. We regret not contacting Peacock owner Carmen Oleander to confirm the information provided below. There is a possibility the sale may not go through, in which case Peacock may continue operating until a new agreement is reached or alternate solution is found. We will post more information when we get it.

In August, the Golden Pelicans effectively closed Bar-BQ Bar, performing the last concert the bar/occasional venue would host before the space was transformed into Olde 64. Now, Golden Pelicans will do the same for one of Mills 50s favorite venues, the Peacock Room, when they perform their Halloween Smashtacular with Gino and the Goons, covering AC/DCs Poweragefor no cover at 10 p.m. Friday,Oct. 31 (RSVP), and marking the final show in Peacock Room as we currently know it.

According to Peacock Rooms Phil Longo, this isnt a sign of struggle so much as the natural end of the venues varied presence on Mills Avenue. The barhad recently gone throughmany transitions no smoking, outdoor patio area, improved stage and most recently, the addition visual appealof thenewly deemed Shine Shed Room butwith reluctance,current owner Carmen Oleandercame to the difficult decision to let the venue go and sell the liquor license.

What will happen nextin the space is uncertain.All the October shows currently on the schedule will happen as planned, but come November, as far as we know at this time, the doors will be closed and thevacancy will be open to new ownership possibilities.

Longo says he hopes the space stays in the family the core community that provides the pulse to Mills 50. He also feels Peacock may be overdue for a reboot because of thefrequentcultural pivots the bar has experienced, especially in the past two years. While its a blow to the music community and folks who liked the dimly lit but vibrant atmosphere, were curious to see whats next for the Room, because every now and again, you,as AC/DC suggests on Powerage, gotta change your tune.

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HYDERABAD: The Telangana government has instructed officials in all districts to be prepared for any eventuality arising from the impact of Cyclone Hudhud that is expected to bring widespread rain in the state in the next few days.

The government set up a control room in the state secretariat here on Saturday in addition to similar control rooms in all district headquarters. Officials have been instructed to pay particular attention to low-lying areas prone to flooding, bunds and railway tracks near water bodies.

A press release from the chief minister's office said that chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, who is on a visit to New Delhi, has instructed state revenue and police officials to be prepared to extend any assistance to those affected by the rain. He also instructed mandal level officials to keep themselves abreast of the developing weather situation.

Telephone numbers of the control room at the secretariat here are 23454088 and 23454293. The control room would function for 24 hours after the passage of cyclone over the state, the release added.

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In August, the Golden Pelicans effectively closed Bar-BQ Bar, performing the last concert the bar/occasional venue would host before the space was transformed into Olde 64. Now, Golden Pelicans will do the same for one of Mills 50s favorite venues, the Peacock Room, when they perform their Halloween Smashtacular with Gino and the Goons, covering AC/DCs Poweragefor no cover at 10 p.m. Friday,Oct. 31 (RSVP), and marking the final show in Peacock Room as we currently know it.

According to Peacock Rooms Phil Longo, this isnt a sign of struggle so much as the natural end of the venues varied presence on Mills Avenue. The barhad recently gone throughmany transitions no smoking, outdoor patio area, improved stage and most recently, the addition visual appealof thenewly deemed Shine Shed Room butwith reluctance,current owner Carmen Oleandercame to the difficult decision to let the venue go and sell the liquor license.

What will happen nextin the space is uncertain.All the October shows currently on the schedule will happen as planned, but come November, as far as we know at this time, the doors will be closed and thevacancy will be open to new ownership possibilities.

Longo says he hopes the space stays in the family the core community that provides the pulse to Mills 50. He also feels Peacock may be overdue for a reboot because of thefrequentcultural pivots the bar has experienced, especially in the past two years. While its a blow to the music community and folks who liked the dimly lit but vibrant atmosphere, were curious to see whats next for the Room, because every now and again, you,as AC/DC suggests on Powerage, gotta change your tune.

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