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West Area Projects (Texas Department of Transportation)

Edit Public Technologies 14 Oct 2016
(Source. Texas Department of Transportation). Bridge Preventative Repair Project. Sunday, Oct. 16, through Monday, Oct. 17. 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. (the following morning). Complete closure on US 54 southbound at the Ellerthorpe Avenue overpass. Northbound Sun Valley exit will be closed. Tuesday, Oct. 18. 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. (the following morning) ... 21. 9 p.m ... 21 ... Right lane closure on Montana Avenue eastbound between Airway Boulevard and Avalon Street ... Airway....

Airlines add ‘fire containment bags’ for overheating phones

Edit Chicago Sun-Times 14 Oct 2016
NEW YORK — Some airlines are taking extra steps to prevent a disaster in case a passenger’s device powered by a lithium ion battery catches fire during flight. At least three U.S ... American Airlines, JetBlue Airways, Southwest Airlines and United Airlines don’t have any immediate plans for fire containment bags but all said their crews are trained on how to fight such high-energy fires ... ....

Obituary: George Dunbar, aircraft engineer and war hero

Edit Scotsman 14 Oct 2016
George Dunbar, RAF veteran and aircraft engineer. Born 9 June, 1920 in New Elgin. Died 24 September, 2016 in Nairn, aged 96. It was a daring plan that took George Dunbar to the brink of freedom – an idea hatched in the wake of the fall of Singapore, as the Japanese pursued their inexorable march across Indonesia ... Dunbar remained in the RAF until 1952, when he moved to British Airways as an engineer, troubleshooting all over the world ... ....

Margaret Atwood’s new book Hag-Seed proves the value of adapting Shakespeare

Edit Vox 13 Oct 2016
In Atwood’s Hag-Seed, Prospero is a widower theater director named Felix, and his usurper is his erstwhile business partner, Tony. For a time they worked together on a Shakespeare festival, but after Felix’s young daughter Miranda dies of meningitis, Felix’s productions grow ever more avant-garde ... Craftily, Tony uses the pretext to have Felix fired and take his place as the artistic director of the festival....

Drug deal gone bad turned into gunpoint Thanksgiving Day burglary in Lysander

Edit Syracuse 13 Oct 2016
So Justin Felix, 24, got a 20-year-old man and two 16-year-old boys to break into the man's Radisson apartment on Thanksgiving, hold him at gunpoint and ransack the place looking for drugs and cash. Felix himself was not in the area for Thanksgiving ... Felix wanted the victim scared and he wanted the victim's cell phone, state Supreme Court Justice John Brunetti read from witness statements today in court....

California man charged with murdering police to be in court

Edit Rocky Mount Telegram 13 Oct 2016
Arraignment on first-degree murder and many other charges is scheduled Thursday for 26-year-old John Hernandez Felix in Riverside, California ... to Felix....

Prosecutors: California man target police in deadly ambush

Edit Boston Herald 13 Oct 2016
John Hernandez Felix, 26, was prepared to attack the officers when they responded to a 911 call from his family's home Saturday, Riverside County District Attorney Michael Hestrin said ... Felix faces special-circumstance allegations of murder of a police officer in the line of duty, multiple murders and lying in wait, which qualify him for the death penalty, Hestrin said ... Felix was arrested after a lengthy standoff with police....

Man charged with murder in deaths of 2 Palm Springs officers

Edit Denver Post 13 Oct 2016
John Hernandez Felix, 26, faces special-circumstance allegations of murder of a police officer in the line of duty, multiple murders and lying in wait that qualify him for the death penalty, Riverside County District Attorney Michael Hestrin told reporters ... Felix would be assigned an attorney to speak on his behalf this week, prosecutors said ... A relative told police arriving at the home that Felix had some sort of weapon....

Skytrax Certified 5-Star Airline (Etihad Airways PJSC)

Edit Public Technologies 13 Oct 2016
Etihad Airways PJSC) ... Etihad Airways has received the Skytrax Certified 5-Star Airline Rating - the most coveted quality standard in the airline industry, further strengthening its position as a leader in innovative guest experience, service and hospitality ... The announcement was made at a special event held today at Etihad Airways' Innovation Academy in Abu Dhabi ... Peter Baumgartner, Etihad Airways' Chief Executive Officer, said....

Etihad Airways first UAE airline to be awarded coveted five-star rating

Edit The National 13 Oct 2016
Etihad Airways has received the most coveted quality standard in the airline industry, the Skytrax certified five-star rating ... The only airline in the Middle East to already have the five-star rating is Qatar Airways ... @airlinequality.#Reimagined pic.twitter.com/SDvI9bwPt2— Etihad Airways (@EtihadAirways) October 13, 2016....

Be responsible litigants, HC tells Jet Airways

Edit The Hindu 13 Oct 2016
Holding that a carrier cannot be given benefit of limited liability when it is guilty of wilful misconduct like loss of goods, the Delhi High Court told the Jet Airways to be “responsible litigants” after it engaged in extended litigation despite being held guilty of misappropriation of goods....

Travellers can explore Egypt with Qatar Airways' daily flights to Luxor

Edit Topix 13 Oct 2016
Qatar Airways has today announced a new daily service to the popular city of Luxor, Egypt - effective 30 October 2016. The now daily service is an increase on Qatar Airways' current five-times weekly service to the Egyptian city, and will deliver an additional nearly 30,000 seats per year to the popular tourist destination ... ....

Kenya Airways Threatens to Stop Ticket Sales on Strike Notice

Edit Bloomberg 13 Oct 2016
Kenya Airways will discontinue ticket sales unless a pilots’ union calls off a seven-day strike notice issued earlier this week, the loss-making airline said....
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