At a press dinner, Sprint's Velocity development director, Bob Johnson, showed how a smartphone could be used to adjust a car's cabin temperature, seat position and other settings via Sprint's cellular network.
Early next year, if all goes according to plan, six cops armed with high-powered rifles will take up positions inside Cabin John Regional Park and begin killing the sweetest looking of creatures: white-tailed deer.
The minimum age requirement specified by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation is 18 years, and in several other low-cost airlines such as SpiceJet, the entry-level positions for cabin crew are only open to men and women who are between the ages of 18 and 27 years.
During the primaries, the group helped Mr. Bush's opponent Senator John McCain, who had met with the Log Cabin group but whose positions on issues important to the organization were similar to Mr. Bush's -- and unacceptable to many of the group's leaders.
Several underground mining fatalities along with numerous accidents and injuries involving load-haul-dump machines prompted an investigation into the line-of-sight issues from an operator's seated position within the cabin.
"He explained his position to Log Cabin club members early on," Mr. Spampinato remembered, "by saying, 'Regardless of what you call it, if you look at the benefits I support and the benefits Shannon supports, there's probably a hair of difference.' " Calling Mr. Romney a flip-flopper on gay rights would be overly simplistic, Mr. Spampinato said.
An explosion in a cabin (where a terrorist can position the explosive against a door or window) can have much more impact than one in the hold (where the terrorist has no control over the position of the explosive, which could be in the middle of luggage, away from the skin of the aircraft), given passengers and crew could be sucked out of any subsequent hole.
During the measurements, the aircraft was in parked position and the cabin had no passengers.
Impact, which represents Aer Lingus pilots and cabin crew, has made its position clear.
That assistant, called "PIA," can recognize riders by their phone and then tweak vehicle settings to their custom specifications, including things like cabin comforts, lighting and seating position.
