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Some just do not know how to queue up.
For example (SS 15 Famous Rojak, last week)
A person came out from a tinted 4WD that just arrived went to the front of the queue.
Some just do not know how to queue up.
For example (SS 15 Famous Rojak, last week)
A person came out from a tinted 4WD that just arrived went to the front of the queue.
Carpe Diem
There are many uncivilised people in Msia, they think they can bully their way around.
You can see them jumping queue when there is a traffic jam.
Wait till they go overseas and learn their lesson. Western countries don't tolerate queue jumping.
...and wat u do?
Yang Batal Q latotupai
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" Please queue up!" should do the job.
Possibly, he/she called the vendor and prebooked his order ....
you can call and order rojak? wow what kinda royal rojak is this?
on a more related note, i believe people in the queue should speak up and ask the jumper to stand at the back of the line. if the people in the line just grumble amongst themselves then it equals no action taken...
Last Sat.on the a highway to JB ,it was jam bad , all of the sudden a convoy of polis vehicles were trying to break through with sirens and bonnet (side) beating ..yes bonnet beating , the front officer were banging on the side of cars telling them to move out of the way.... by the way ..it was a lady officer ..gutsy and look cool too..though some vehicle owners does'nt look happy.
what would you do if they were beating on your car ..?
Bah! Numerous ugly Malaysians in the 10ft square Bolehland lah!...nothing really new.. worse by the year actually!. Tara sekolah punya olang! Ada manyak lui, ada autholity..high class konon! bukan elegance, tapi allogance!
Happen all the time - morning along E2 (federal highway). numerous times in KL city. What to do-- the VIP has a priority to go to their destination on important matters. You are not important enough, just ordinary citizen paying taxes.Originally Posted by latukkong
Who teaches these people to flaunt the law? If you do drive around schools, all these habits of queue jumping, double or triple parking, no seatbelts, holding baby and children in the front seat and once I saw a young child sleeping on the mother chest while she was driving on the highway.
If each of us cultivate good habits and teaches our children likewise, our country will have a better future.
Monkeys see, monkeys do. Katak Jump, orang Jampi, too How many time would we see some conferred Datuks who is suppose to be shining examples cut Q in front of those real Datuks who are in their 60's or 70's.
Once I saw a young guy cutting the Q of a aging Datuk in the supermarket. I asked him what college did he just graduated from to be so kurang ajar.
Even if he was in the hurry , the least he could do is kindly ask permission to cut Q from the Datuk. At least, I am mean to tell him the meaning of "orang tak budi, saya tak berbahasa"
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Sometimes I think we are too tolerant on the wrong things. Tidak apa attitude gotten too far.
Someone should tell that person off. If everyone on that queue agree that fella will comply.
Our Malaysian vendors also don't understand customer's feelings and have proper customer service. The guy should be told to queue up then only he will listen.Originally Posted by ungkb
A wise man refrains from talking but a fool utters rubbish.
So far I always tell the queue jumper off and so far have not been beaten up. I was at the kopitiam in carrefour in kota kemuning. There was a group of kids who was sitting playing and their mothers was sitting at the next table. They were screaming at the top of their voices. All around them people were looking at them but no one said anything to them. I called the waiter and told them to shut the f up. The waiter went to the supervisor and the supervisor went up to them and pointed in my direction. I looked at them and if they still kept at it I would have shouted across the restaurant to ask them to keep quiet. They went out of the restaurant to play after that. I think that it is important that we exercise our rights and not just keep quiet and fume quietly.
I went to a stall to buy breakfast and met a friend. So i asked him to buy for me. The boss said since my friend wish to buy for me, my friend have to go to the back & wait for MY TURN. Ended up embarrassed and my friend bought his own and i bought mine.
Respect this boss lah.
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(It doesn't come without a fight)
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Philip J. Cook is ITT/Sanford Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics and Sociology at Duke University. He served as director and chair of Duke's Sanford Institute of Public Policy from 1985-89, and again from 1997-99. Cook is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and an honorary Fellow in the American Society of Criminology. In 2001 he was elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.
Cook joined the Duke faculty in 1973 after earning his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. He has served as consultant to the U.S. Department of Justice (Criminal Division) and to the U.S. Department of Treasury (Enforcement Division). He has served in a variety of capacities with the National Academy of Sciences, including membership on expert panels dealing with alcohol-abuse prevention, violence, school shootings, underage drinking, the deterrent effect of the death penalty, and proactive policing. He served as vice chair of the National Research Council's Committee on Law and Justice.
Cook's primary focus at the moment is the economics of crime. He is co-director of the NBER Work Group on the Economics of Crime, and co-editor of a NBER volume on crime prevention. Much of his recent research has dealt with the private role in crime prevention. He also has several projects under way in the area of truancy prevention.
Over much of his career, one strand of Cook's research concerns the prevention of alcohol-related problems through restrictions on alcohol availability. An early article was the first to demonstrate persuasively that alcohol taxes have a direct effect on the death rate of heavy drinkers, and subsequent research demonstrated the moderate efficacy of minimum-purchase-age laws in preventing fatal crashes. Together with Michael J. Moore, he focused on the effects of beer taxes on youthful drinking and the consequences thereof, finding that more restrictive policies result in lower rates of abuse, higher college graduation rates and lower crime rates. His book on the subject is Paying the Tab: The Costs and Benefits of Alcohol Control, (Princeton University Press, 2007; 2016 in paper).
A second strand has concerned the costs and consequences of the widespread availability of guns, and what might be done about it. His book (with Jens Ludwig), Gun Violence: The Real Costs (Oxford University Press, 2000), develops and applies a framework for assessing costs that is grounded in economic theory and is quite at odds with the traditional "Cost of Injury" framework. His new book with Kristin A. Goss, The Gun Debate (Oxford University Press 2014) is intended for a general audience seeking an objective assessment of the myriad relevant issues. He is currently heading up a multi-city investigation of the underground gun market, one product of which is a symposium to be published by the RSF Journal in 2017.
Cook has also co-authored two other books: with Charles Clotfelter on state lotteries (Selling Hope: State Lotteries in America, Harvard University Press, 1989), and with Robert H. Frank on the causes and consequences of the growing inequality of earnings (The Winner-Take-All Society, The Free Press, 1995). The Winner-Take-All Society was named a "Notable Book of the Year, 1995" by the New York Times Book Review. It has been translated into Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese, Polish, and Korean.
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Braga, Anthony A., Rod K. Brunson, Philip J. Cook, Brandon Turchan, and Brian Wade. "Underground Gun Markets and the Flow of Illegal Guns into the Bronx and Brooklyn: A Mixed Methods Analysis." Journal of Urban Health : Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, September 4, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-020-00477-z. Full Text
Gibson, Jacqueline MacDonald, Michael Fisher, Allison Clonch, John M. MacDonald, and Philip J. Cook. "Children drinking private well water have higher blood lead than those with city water." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117, no. 29 (July 6, 2020): 16898–907. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2002729117. Full Text
Zang, Emma, Poh Lin Tan, and Philip J. Cook. "Sibling Spillovers: Having an Academically Successful Older Sibling May be More Important for Children in Disadvantaged Families," February 21, 2020.
Cook, P. J. "Thinking about gun violence." Criminology and Public Policy, January 1, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-9133.12519. Full Text
Cook, Philip J., Harold A. Pollack, and Kailey White. "The Last Link: from Gun Acquisition to Criminal Use." Journal of Urban Health : Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 96, no. 5 (October 2019): 784–91. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-019-00358-0. Full Text
Cook, P. J., and J. Ludwig. "UNDERSTANDING GUN VIOLENCE: PUBLIC HEALTH VS. PUBLIC POLICY." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 38, no. 3 (June 1, 2019): 788–95. https://doi.org/10.1002/pam.22141. Full Text
Cook, P. J., and J. Ludwig. "RESPONSE TO COUNTERPOINT: VIOLENCE ITSELF IS A ROOT CAUSE OF VIOLENCE." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 38, no. 3 (June 1, 2019): 802–4. https://doi.org/10.1002/pam.22142. Full Text
Cook, P. J., and J. Ludwig. "The social costs of gun ownership: a reply to Hayo, Neumeier, and Westphal." Empirical Economics 56, no. 1 (January 15, 2019): 13–22. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-018-1497-5. Full Text
Cook, P. J., A. A. Braga, B. S. Turchan, and L. M. Barao. "Why do gun murders have a higher clearance rate than gunshot assaults?" Criminology and Public Policy 18, no. 3 (January 1, 2019): 525–51. https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-9133.12451. Full Text
Weisburd, D., M. K. Majmundar, H. Aden, A. Braga, J. Bueermann, P. J. Cook, P. A. Goff, et al. "Proactive Policing: a Summary of the Report of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine." Asian Journal of Criminology, January 1, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11417-019-09284-1. Full Text
Cook, P. J. Foreword, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429501265. Full Text
Krawiec, K., and P. Cook. If We Allow Football Players and Boxers to Be Paid for Entertaining the Public, Why Don't We Allow Kidney Donors to Be Paid for Saving Lives? Vol. 81, 2018.
Cook, P. J., and K. A. Goss. The Gun Debate: What Everyone Needs to Know. Oxford University Press, 2014.
Cook, P. J., S. Machin, O. Marie, and G. Mastrobuoni. Lessons from the Economics of Crime: What Reduces Offending? MIT Press, 2013.
Cook, P. J., and J. Ludwig. Gun Violence: The Real Costs, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195153842.001.0001. Full Text
Cook, P. J., J. Ludwig, and J. McCrary, eds. Controlling Crime: Strategies and Tradeoffs. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Frank, R. H., and P. J. Cook. The Winner-Take-All Society. Virgin Books, 2010.
Cook, P. J. Paying the Tab: The Economics of Alcohol Policy. Princeton University Press, 2007.
Ludwig, J., and P. J. Cook, eds. Evaluating Gun Policy. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2003.
Mohapatra, A. C. Valuing the river. Vol. 21, 1999.
Cook, P. J. "The Economics of Crime: An introduction to rational crime analysis by Harold Winter." Journal of Economic Literature, September 2009.
Cook, P. J. "The Demand for Alcohol, Tobacco, and Marijuana: International Evidence by S. Selvanathan and E.A. Selvanathan." Addiction. Wiley: 12 months, 2007.
Cook, P. J. "Can Gun Control Work? by James B. Jacobs." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. Wiley, 2004.
Cook, P. J. "Drug War Heresies by Robert J. MacCoun and Peter Reuter." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. Wiley, 2002.
Cook, P. J. "What Price Fame? by Tyler Cowen." Journal of Economic Literature, September 2001.
Cook, P. J. "Cost-Benefit Analysis of Heroin Maintenance Treatment by Felix Gutzwiller and Thomas Steffen." Addiction. Wiley: 12 months, 2001.
Cook, P. J. "Reducing Firearm Injury and Death: A public health sourcebook on guns by Trudy Ann Karlson and Stephen W. Hargarten." The New England Journal of Medicine. Massachusetts Medical Society, February 5, 1998.
Cook, P. J. "Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America by Gary Kleck." The New England Journal of Medicine. Massachusetts Medical Society, February 3, 1994.
Cook, P. J. "Smoking Policy: Law Politics and Culture, Robert L. Rabin and Stephen D. Sugarman, eds." Science, December 10, 1993.
Cook, P. J. "Confronting Drunk Driving: Social Policy for Saving Lives by H. Lawrence Ross." Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. Duke University Press, 1993.
Cook, P. J. "Criminal incapacitation effects considered in an adaptive choice framework." In The Reasoning Criminal: Rational Choice Perspectives on Offending, 202–16, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315134482. Full Text
Cook, Philip J., and Jens Ludwig. "Elusive Facts About Guns Violence: Where Good Surveys Go Bad," 2014.
Cook, P. J., and J. Ludwig. "The limited impact of the brady act: Evaluation and implications." In Reducing Gun Violence in America: Informing Policy with Evidence and Analysis, 9781421411118:21–32, 2013.
Swanson, J. W., A. G. Robertson, L. K. Frisman, M. A. Norko, H. J. Lin, M. S. Swartz, and P. J. Cook. "Preventing gun violence involving people with serious mental illness." In Reducing Gun Violence in America: Informing Policy with Evidence and Analysis, 9781421411118:33–51, 2013.
Cook, P. J., S. Machin, O. Marie, and G. Mastrobuoni. "Crime economics in its fifth decade." In Lessons from the Economics of Crime: What Reduces Offending? Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2013.
Cook, P. J., and J. Ludwig. "Firearm Violence." In The Oxford Handbook of Crime and Public Policy, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199844654.013.0004. Full Text
Cook, P. J. "Robbery." In The Oxford Handbook of Crime and Public Policy, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199844654.013.0005. Full Text
Gottfredson, D. C., P. J. Cook, and C. Na. "Schools and Prevention." In The Oxford Handbook of Crime Prevention, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195398823.013.0014. Full Text
Cook, P. J., and C. T. Clotfelter. "The Gambler's Fallacy in Lottery Play." In The Economics Of Gambling And National Lotteries, edited by L. V. Williams. Edgar Elgar Publishers, 2012.
Gottfredson, D., P. J. Cook, and C. Na. "School-based crime prevention." In The Oxford Handbook of Crime Prevention, edited by B. C. Walsh and D. P. Farrington, 269–2897. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Cook, Philip J., Kenneth Dodge, George Farkas, Roland G. Fryer, Jonathan Guryan, Jens Ludwig, Susan E. Mayer, Harold A. Pollack, and Laurence Steinberg. "The (Surprising) Efficacy of Academic and Behavioral Intervention with Disadvantaged Youth: Results from a Randomized Experiment in Chicago," January 2014.
Cook, Philip J., and Jens Ludwig. "Economical Crime Control," November 2010.
Cook, Philip J., and John MacDonald. "Public Safety Through Private Action: An Economic Assessment of Bids, Locks, and Citizen Cooperation," April 2010.
Cook, Philip J., Jens Ludwig, and Adam M. Samaha. "Gun Control after Heller: Litigating Against Regulation," October 2009.
Cook, Philip J. "Assessing Urban Crime and its Control: An Overview," February 2008.
Cook, Philip J., and Bethany L. Peters. "The Myth of the Drinker's Bonus," December 2005.
Cook, Philip J., and Jens Ludwig. "Assigning Deviant Youths to Minimize Total Harm," June 2005.
Cook, Philip J., and Jens Ludwig. "The Effects of Gun Prevalence on Burglary: Deterrence vs Inducement," May 2002.
Cook, Philip J., and John H. Laub. "After the Epidemic: Recent Trends in Youth Violence in the United States." University of Chicago Press, January 2002. https://doi.org/10.1086/652218. Full Text
Cook, Philip J., and Michael J. Moore. "Alcohol," January 1999.
Cook, Philip J., Stephen Machin, Olivier Marie, and Giovanni Mastrobuoni. "Crime Economics in Its Fifth Decade." In Lessons From the Economics of Crime: What Reduces Offending?, edited by P. J. Cook, S. Machin, O. Marie, and G. Mastrobuoni, 1–16. MIT PRESS, 2013.
Cook, P. J. "Crime: Crime in the city," 297–327, 2009.
Cook, P. J. "The Social Costs of Drinking." Oslo, Norway: Norewegian Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, 1991.
Cook, P. J. "Discussion (on Martin Bailey's paper on Safety Decisions and Insurance)." In American Economics Association Papers and Proceedings, 300–300, 1978.
Clotfelter, C., and C. Cook, Philip J. "State Lotteries at the Turn of the Century: Report to the National Gambling Impact Study Commission," June 1, 1999. Open Access Copy
Cook, P. J., and A. S. Scharff. "Recommendations Concerning Administration and Rate Structure for Excise Taxation in Romania," August 1994.
Cook, P. J. "The Effect of Gun Availability on Violent Crime Patterns." Federal Regulation of Firearms. USGPO, May 1982.
Cook, P. J. "Causal Linkages between Gun Control Ordinances and Crime: A Conceptualization and Review of the Literature." Hearings, 1978.
Clotfelter, C., and C. Cook, Philip J. "What if the Lottery were Run for Lottery Players?" Raleigh News and Observer, March 1, 2007. Open Access Copy
Cook, Philip J., and Songman Kang. "Birthdays, Schooling, and Crime: New Evidence on the Dropout-Crime Nexus," February 2013. Open Access Copy
Cook, P. J. "How we can reduce gun violence?" Chronicle of Higher Education, January 8, 2013.
Cook, P. J. "Gun Point." Times of India Education Times, December 24, 2012.
Cook, P. J. "Craig Whitney's Living With Guns." New York Times, August 26, 2012.
Cook, P. J. "Commentary: Evidence from a high-income country." Addiction, 2012.
Cook, P. J., and J. Ludwig. "More prisoners vs. more crime is the wrong question." Brookings Policy Brief, December 2011.
Cook, P. J., and J. Ludwig. "How to cut gun death toll." Cnn.Com, January 12, 2011.
Cook, P. J., and J. Ludwig. "Five myths about gun control." Washington Post, June 13, 2010.
Cook, P. J., and J. Ludwig. "Will wider availability of guns improve public safety? No." Cq Researcher, October 31, 2008.
Cook, P. J. "OpEd." The News & Observer (Raleigh), March 1, 2007.
RAYMOND VERNON MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR THE BEST RESEARCH ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN JPAM. Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management. 2008
RAYMOND VERNON MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR THE BEST RESEARCH ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN JPAM. Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management. 1997
Selected Grants
Monitoring Pre-trial Misdemeanor Outcomes in Harris County awarded by Harris County (Consultant). 2020 to 2027
Crime Gun Theft awarded by Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2015 to 2016
Truancy Prevention Project awarded by Department of Education (Principal Investigator). 2012 to 2016
Visiting Scholar Russell Sage Foundation awarded by Russell Sage Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2014 to 2015
Effects of Policy Changes on Pregnancy Outcomes awarded by National Institute for Child Health & Human Develo (Co-Principal Investigator). 1996 to 1998
The Development of Demand for Intoxicating Substances awarded by National Institutes of Health (Principal Investigator). 1993 to 1994
The Development of Demand for Intoxicating Substances awarded by National Institutes of Health (Principal Investigator). 1993 to 1994
Causes and Effects of Youthful Drinking awarded by National Institutes of Health (Principal Investigator). 1992 to 1994
Causes and Consequences of Youthful Drinking awarded by National Institute on Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism (Principal Investigator). 1992 to 1993
Graduate Fellowship Support Under the Education for the Public Service Program of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended Title IX, Part B awarded by Department of Education (Principal Investigator). 1988 to 1989


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I believe everyone wants to be more effective and more fulfilled in life. Usually we don't know HOW to achieve that. And often we don't know what skills are important to develop to increase our overall effectiveness and satisfaction in work, and to position ourselves for greater responsibility. I help clients to understand WHAT they need to work on, and then HOW to achieve their developmental goals. I partner with clients as a guide, a mirror, a challenger, a support system, a sounding board—to name a few roles. I help them to develop new awarenesses, master new skills, assimilate new ways of seeing the world and shift their way of being in a way that not only meets their developmental goals but also creates the ability to continue growing—as a person and as a leader. I've been coaching at Google since 2003.
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Pfc. Bradley Manning is escorted by military police departing the courtroom at Fort Meade, Md., in April. The U.S. Army private is accused of passing classified documents to secret-spilling WikiLeaks,
Updated at 10 p.m. ET: The defense team for Private First Class Bradley Manning — charged in the biggest security breach in U.S. history — invoked the soldier's excitement about March Madness and questioned a Marine about whether he refers to his underpants as "panties."
A former intelligence analyst in Baghdad in 2009 and 2010, Manning stands accused of giving thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks, including logs about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and more than 250,000 diplomatic cables. If convicted of the most serious count of the 22 charges against him — aiding the enemy — Manning could face life in prison.
Manning was detained on May 29, 2010, and has been in pre-trial lock-up since. The pretrial hearings have focused primarily on a period of nearly nine months that he was locked up alone in a small cell at the Marine Corps brig in Quantico, Va., and forced to sleep naked for several nights. His lawyers say the solitary confinement constituted illegal punishment — and grounds to dismiss all charges.
Military prosecutors in the case maintain that Manning's treatment was proper — confining him initially as a maximum-security detainee who posed a risk of injury to himself or others, and after further evaluation changing his status to medium risk.
In Fort Meade on Sunday, the Marine who served as the Quantico brig counselor while Manning was held there defended the decision to keep Manning on strict, "Prevention of Injury" status for months - much longer than most other detainees.
Marine Master Sergeant Craig Blenis said that Manning's statements and actions warranted his restricted status, including when he responded to a question about his suicidal tendencies with the written statement, "Always planning, never acting."
Blenis argued that you don't go to an airport and joke about a bomb, you don't go to D.C. and joke about assassination, and you don't go to a jail and joke about suicide. "If someone tells me they're going to shoot themselves in the face, I'm not going to give them a gun," he said.
Asked about Manning's claim that his statement was just sarcasm, Blenis said that he doesn't interpret sarcasm, "not when you're talking about hurting yourself."
The defense argued that Manning's continued good behavior should have warranted fewer restrictions. Blenis replied that being polite and courteous doesn't mean someone will not hurt themselves.
Blenis referenced several instances of Manning's odd behavior, citing posing in front of the mirror and flexing his muscles, playing peek-a-boo with himself, and licking the bars of his cell.
Defense attorney David Coombs asked why posing in the mirror was unorthodox, saying that he has done that before, too. Is playing peek-a-boo odd? he asked.
"It's not normal," Blenis said.
In March 2011 Manning made another statement about suicide, saying that if he wanted to kill himself, he could use his underwear or his socks. The guards then began to take away Manning's underwear and socks at night.
Coombs asked Blenis about an email between some members of the Brig staff that said to make sure Manning was not standing naked at evening count, saying, "You should be taking his panties right before he lays down."
Blenis responded that the words underwear and panties can be interchangeable.
"So you call your underwear panties?" Coombs asked.
"Sometimes I do, sir," Blenis said.
"That's your testimony?" Coombs asked.
"Yes, sir," he responded.
March Madness?
Earlier in the day, Staff Sergeant Ryan Jordan told the defense during cross-examination that one reason Manning was kept on prevention of injury status – essentially one level below suicide watch – was that Manning rarely engaged in conversation with the guards.
Jordan related an instance when he and Manning spoke about the upcoming March Madness — the frenzy around the national college basketball playoffs — and said that Manning talked about how he had enjoyed filling out brackets in previous years.
Coombs asked Jordan whether Manning having a possible gender identity disorder was factored into the decision to keep Manning on prevention of injury status, referring to the defendant as Breanna Elizabeth Manning, the alias Manning used when he first arrived at Quantico.
A gender identity disorder "didn't weigh heavily" in his consideration, Jordan said.
The defense attorney also put Manning's height and weight on the record Sunday for consideration by the judge, postulating that Manning may have been quiet because he was physically intimidated by Jordan. Staff Sergeant Jordan stands 6 foot 9 inches, while Manning is 5 foot 2 inches and weighs about 105 pounds, Coombs said.
NBC News' Kari Huus, The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
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Review of Viking Legend22 April to 02 May 2011 Nuremberg to BudapestThis was a very different "cruise" for us - our first river cruise, after seventy-some ocean cruises. We had discussed this type of cruise for some time, and after perusing many web-sites, brochures, and travel writings, we decided to choose Viking River Cruise. The itinerary would be their Romantic Danube, from Nuremberg to Budapest. We opted for Viking's air-inclusive and a two night post-cruise hotel package, in Budapest, which also included complimentary wine at dinner. Pre-CruiseViking was most receptive and attentive to answering the many questions from a couple of neophytes. Their Customer Relations staff was probably the easiest we have ever found to deal with. As an example, after we sent in our original deposit, which went to their Woodland Hills, CA office, we were surprised to see a "Foreign Transaction Fee" charge on our credit card. Although Viking's U.S. offices are in California, the Company is based in Basel, Switzerland, and payments are converted to Swiss francs. We discovered this fact when we contacted their Customer Relations Department, to inquire as to why the fee was charged. It was an easy matter to have the Foreign Transaction fee refunded to us and we made subsequent payments with our "travel" credit card which does not incur Foreign Transaction Fees.Our flights to Europe were via Lufthansa Airlines (Boston to Munich to Nuremberg). This was another "first", flying Lufthansa. The flight and service were excellent, in spite of the fact that one of us does not tolerate long flights very well. The large selection of viewing and listening entertainment helped in the regard, along with the complimentary wine and cognac. Upon arrival at the Nuremberg Airport, there were Viking representatives waiting for us, to take us to the ship (yes, they do refer to them as "ships").EmbarkationUpon arrival at ship we were asked to "check in", which involved going to front desk handing in our passports and receiving our cabin key-cards. We were then directed to the lounge where there was a buffet lunch. There was then an announcement that cabins were ready for occupancy. We were met at front desk and escorted to our cabin, by our Cabin Steward. Viking also provided a shuttle into town for those interested. We opted to walk along the river path to take in the scenery and enjoy the nice weather.The Embarkation and Safety Briefing was held in the Viking Lounge at 18:15, right in the middle of the Cocktail Hour (pretty sneaky, but everyone was there). So far, everything was fine - how long would this last? The Viking Lounge was the venue for each evening's Cocktail "Hour" (which was usually scheduled for 1 ½ hours), and was also the post dinner entertainment venue, and where various lectures were held.Cabin 208The Viking Legend has three passenger decks (Main Deck, Middle Deck and Upper deck) and a Sun Deck. Cabin 208 was mid-ship on Middle Deck, which we found to be a very comfortable and convenient location, and one we would choose again. All the cabins on the Legend (except the two Suites) are same size (155 or 170 sq. ft. depending if one believes the brochure, or web-site); there are also five Single cabins (120 sq. ft) we did not get to see any of these personally.While this is a smaller size than we usually book it worked out to be more than adequate. The cabins on Middle and Upper Decks all have French Balconies, with sliding doors, which allow for a roomier "feel". The bathrooms were also adequately sized. We had more than enough storage space for all our clothes and "stuff". No need to remove the life jackets, extra pillows or blankets from the closet shelves and stuff them under the bed. The cabins on Main Deck had windows which were only slightly (1-2 ft.) above the water line. Other than that, they were identical to those on the other decks. All cabins have a 26 inch TV, refrigerator, telephone, safe, hair dryer, and air conditioning/heater controls. The beds were full hotel style beds (not pull-outs) and very comfortable. They are high enough off the floor to allow for storage of most any size suitcase. Our Cabin Steward was outstanding - very friendly and most efficient.Dining The Viking Restaurant, located on Middle Deck was the primary dining venue for breakfast, lunch and dinner. At breakfast and lunch there was also some additional limited "Cafe" buffet offerings in the Viking Lounge. There was also an area outside the Viking Lounge (on Upper Deck) that had coffee, tea, and juices available around the clock (usually some delicious pastries also).At breakfast there was buffet set out in the Viking Restaurant as well as additional items (eggs to order, omelets, Eggs Benedict) available from wait-staff. Anything on the buffet could also be ordered from the wait-staff. They also served fruit smoothies and other beverages each morning at the tables.At lunch in the Viking Restaurant there was a buffet that had salads, some sandwiches, a pasta dish, cheese plates, and fruit selections. Available from wait-staff were a pre-selected appetizer, a soup, choice of two entrees, and desserts. Also the wait-staff would serve you items from the buffet, if requested, and beverages.There was no buffet at dinner time, only service in the Viking Restaurant (single seating). This consisted of appetizers on the table (family style), starter course, soup course, choice from two entrees (usually one fish, one meat), and dessert. Of course the aforementioned complimentary wine (choice of red or white) was liberally poured, and refilled, by the attentive wait-staff. We found the wines of very good caliber. There was also a "stand-by" menu available each evening (chicken or salmon, unless one of them was on the featured menu, then a different fish or meat was available). Wait-staff did circulate about the restaurant with "seconds" (most if not every evening) in case anyone was still hungry.ExcursionsEach day there was at least one, sometimes more, included excursion. On some days there were also optional (price-added) excursions. Each passenger was assigned a wire-less receiver and ear-piece to wear whilst on excursions. The local guides on the excursions wore the transmitters so that each group would only hear their guide's commentary. This worked extremely well, especially for those who wished to separate from the group a bit to take photos. They could get their photo and still hear the commentary, as long as they did not stray too far afield. Each guest could set their own volume preference and did not have to suffer the crowding immediately around the guide. When one returned to their cabin they needed only to place the receiver unit in its charger, and they were ready for the next excursion. We did all of the included excursions and a few of the optional ones; almost all were excellent and worthwhile (one guide was mediocre and one bordered on poor). Each guest chose whom they wanted to tour with, and each time there was one or two groups that were designated as "moderately paced". Some of the walking tours did require extensive walking, but accommodations could be made if the ship staff was alerted beforehand.For brevity's sake here, we will not go into detail on the excursions.EntertainmentThere is no theater on board the Legend. The main entertainment venue is the Viking Lounge. Each evening during the Cocktail Hour and most evenings after dinner there was an excellent keyboardist playing there. On a few evenings there was local entertainment brought on board. Of course there was always television, and there is a Library on board which also has a number of board games available. It appeared that most opted for the lounge, and we enjoyed many nice conversations over drinks and snacks.Another form of "entertainment" was to go up on the Sky Deck and watch as we passed under some of the many bridges (some quite low), or passed through some of the many locks on the river. Some of the bridges are so low that the wheelhouse has to be lowered (it is on a hydraulically controlled platform. Most times one could also go up and chat with whoever was in the wheelhouse, unless it was the Captain who spoke no/very little English.We were never bored or at a loss for something to do. Another nice aspect of this cruise was the paucity of announcements. Information was relayed in a timely manner, when necessary, but there were not myriad announcements and no "reminders" for Bingo or Art Auctions.Miscellaneous One aspect where Viking really has their act together is Service. We mentioned their pre-cruise availability and accommodation. Their on-board service and logistical operations are excellent and beyond reproach. Something as important as tracking who was on-board, or not, was easily accomplished. Whenever we left the ship, we turned in our cabin key-card and received a day-pass; when we returned to the ship, the process was reversed. Every request was answered immediately or within a most reasonable time-frame. We were amazed at how it seemed that everyone had more than one job to do, and everyone was helping out wherever needed. There may have been some "master plan" directing all this, but it was not discernible. Everything just "worked"; no one ever seemed grumpy, and everyone was approachable. Even the guys delivering that entire amount of luggage by hand (three long decks - no elevators or carts) seemed to be having a good time.Post CruiseAs mentioned earlier, we opted for a two night post-cruise stay. Viking booked us into the Hilton Budapest, which is located on the Castle Hill of Buda, immediately adjacent to the famous Fisherman's Bastion, and directly across the river from the Parliament Building. The Castle Hill area is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Here you will find many shops, coffee houses, restaurants, museums within easy walking distance of each other, and our hotel was just about in the middle of all this. The main (high ticket) shopping, the business district, the City Market, and late-night clubs are to be found on the Pest side of the river, which is very easy to reach, via the Chain Bridge. We spent time on both sides of the river and were extremely happy with our hotel's location. The accommodations and service were also top-notch.Overall Perceptions:.We enjoyed this cruise very much, and are looking to choose our next itinerary, most likely on Viking River Cruises, who has four new ships coming out over the next year, or so. They are also anticipating some additional ones beyond that time -frame.We really enjoyed the ability to just stroll off the ship (usually right in/near the center of town) and wander about.
Easy city to navigate, with many English-speaking people to answer questions. Subway, buses, trams require local currency, as do a number of shops (most shops will also accept euro, but not dollar). Do yourself a favor and stay an extra day, or two/three. Any more reputable guide-book will list many of the "Don't Miss" sights. However, one that is not well publicized, but note-worthy (in our opinion), is the Hospital-in-the-Hill. It is located in Castle District and was originally used as a hospital and later as an Nuclear Air Raid bunker, during the Cold War era. Contains many items of medical and radioactivity equpment(measurement/decontamination). Unfortunately, photography is not permitted inside the museum.


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Will they find MH370?
Retired US Air Force Lt. Col. Ken Christensen says the possible wreckage of MH370 can definitely be recovered if it is located off the coast of Australia. Courtesy Fox News
THE first plane sent on Friday to fly over one of the remotest places on earth returned empty-handed from its hunt through rough seas for objects that may be from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane, Australian officials said.
The RAAF P3 Orion landed in Perth shortly before 7.30pm (AEDT).
The aircraft's pilot Flight Lieutenant Russell Adams remained upbeat about finding the potential MH370 debris, saying "really good weather" has provided "good opportunities".
"We have lots of hope," he said.
"Hopefully we will find something."
Meanwhile, Malaysia's Minister of Defence and Acting Minister of Transport Hishammuddin Hussein said they had enlisted help from the man who led the investigation into the Air France Flight 447 crash.
"He has agreed to assist us with his considerable experience and expertise,'' he said.
Mr Hussein said he will also speak to his American counterpart about accessing locaters or hydrophones.
Only a few countries have them, including the US, and they help to locate any pings coming from the plane's flight data recorders.
He will also ask the US about sending re-fuelling ships so that seach planes can refuel at sea rather than fly the fours there and back to the search zone.
Describing the hunt for the missing plane as one of "global" proportions and the biggest in the world, Mr Hussein said: "The most sophisticated assets, aircraft and vessels are heading in that direction ... yes it is a challenge but we are using every possible asset and equipment that is available to the world out there to locate the aircraft."
"I will also be speaking to US Secretary of Defence at 21:15 tonight [Friday] to request several specialist assets to help with the search and rescue effort including remotely operated vehicles for deep ocean salvage."
Mr Hussein confirmed Kazakhstan authorities found no trace of MH370 there.
"The Kazakhstan authorities have assured us they have not found any trace of MH370 and we are awaiting permission for Kazakhstan to be used as a staging point for search operations,'' Mr Hussein said.
Flight Lieutenant Russell Adams "really good weather, good opportunities. Lot of hope" @ChannelNewsAsia #MH370 pic.twitter.com/VQer6ICMYo
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Mr Hussein said Malaysia was still awaiting information from the Australian search and rescue operation as to whether the objects shown in the satellite images released by Australia on Thursday were indeed related to MH370.
In the meantime, he said Malaysia would continue its search and rescue operations in the rest of the southern and northern corridors.
"Search efforts southwest of Perth continue, and the Australian authorities are intensifying their efforts in the area. HMAS Success is due to reach the vicinity of the objects tomorrow (Saturday)," he said.
"China has deployed five ships and three ship-borne helicopters, which are currently heading toward the southern corridor. Three Chinese aircraft (2 Ilyushin IL-76s and 1 Shaanxi Y-8) arrived in Malaysia at 11am this morning (Friday). They will also be searching in the southern corridor.
"Japan is deploying its assets to Perth, including 2 P-3 Orions, to assist with the Australian search efforts."
Mr Hussein said that the British HMS Echo was already heading towards the southern Indian Ocean to support the search effort.
On the police investigation, Mr Hussein said the Ukraine police had confirmed that the background checks on the Ukrainian passenger had come back clear.
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority's John Young said the five aircraft searching the southern Indian Ocean yesterday were flying low in favourable weather with trained observers looking for signs since they did not detect anything with radar on Thursday.
"Tomorrow's (Saturday's) plan is actually to do the same thing again," he said.
"We will move the search area to where the water has moved overnight."
Acting Prime Minister Warren Truss confirmed late today that two Chinese aircraft were due to arrive in Perth tomorrow and two Japanese aircraft will join the search on Sunday.
Mr Truss, who will tomorrow visit the RAAF Pearce air base where the search is being co-ordinated, said the worldwide effort to find the plane would widen over the weekend.
He voiced a warning that given the satellite images were now five days old, there was some possibility whatever had been there had sunk or moved.
However, he added: "This is the only lead in the world right now — and there is a real prospect the aircraft was in this area, so we must take this search seriously.''
A briefing for the relatives of those on board MH370 was held in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday night.
"We had a very constructive and frank discussion. Although we answered most of the questions they raised, we could not answer them all. These briefings will continue — at the families' convenience — for as long as the families want them,'' Mr Hussein said.
"The briefing brought the families and the Malaysian authorities closer together, not just in terms of sharing information, but also in terms of listening to the voice of the family members. The Prime Minister's Special Envoy to China will be co-ordinating the briefings in Kuala Lumpur from now on.
"The high-level team I announced yesterday arrived in Beijing last night. Today they met with family members for three and half hours."
Another three RAAF planes — two more Orions and an ultra-long-range Bombardier Global Express — were still scouring the area 2300 kilometres from Western Australia trying to solve the nearly two-week-old mystery, of flight MH370 and another was on the way to look for two large objects a satellite detected floating off the southwest coast of Australia about halfway to the desolate islands of the Antarctic.
The area in the southern Indian Ocean is so remote is takes the RAAF P3 Orion four hours to fly there and four hours back, and leaves them only about two hours to search.
The satellite discovery raised new hope of finding the vanished jet and sent another emotional jolt to the families of the 239 people aboard.
News Corp photographer Justin Benson-Cooper was on board an RAAF P-3 Orion Friday as it scoured the area where the satellite imagery detected debris.
Benson-Cooper said they spent about two hours, searching on a grid pattern, trying to spot the mysterious objects which were bobbing just below the surface on March 16.
"The visibility was good so we got down to 500 feet and did four passes," he said.
"We saw a fishing net which we thought might be something but when we turned around it was just a fishing net.
"We went over the Norwegian tanker and past the US aircraft but that was about all we saw unfortunately.
"When we got to the point where we were going to run out of gas we turned back."
"We could tell a lot of (the crew) were very tired because they'd been up since 3am and they'd been out the day before but they're very professional and obviously really thorough.
"Two guys would be on the radars and two guys on the portholes and after a certain amount of time they'd switch so it didn't become too mundane.
"They had the attitude that 'we've got a job to do and we're out here to do it'. There was definitely a sense of needing to find answers for the families of the passengers. They were doing it for them."
The United States Navy P8 Poseidon aircraft has departed for the search area and China is sending three warships and an icebreaker to join the search, the government said.
The National Maritime Search and Rescue Centre said three warships were en route to the area west of Australia.
It gave no indication when they might arrive at the remote site, but earlier reports said the ships — the Kunlunshan, the Haikou and the Qiandaohu — were searching this week off the southwest coast of Sumatra in Indonesia.
The Chinese icebreaker Snow Dragon was preparing to leave Perth in Western Australia for the search site, state television reported. The ship was in Perth following a voyage to Antarctica in January.
Also today, three Chinese military planes left the southern city of Sanya for Malaysia to join the search, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
One merchant vessel is currently in the search area. A second merchant vessel was due to arrive Friday night.
The satellite images — deemed the "best lead" in the mystery which has gripped the world for the past 14 days — have given fresh impetus to the search efforts.
Lisa Martin, spokeswoman for the Australian Maritime Safety Authority, said weather conditions were getting better as the day wore on, with moderate seas and some cloud cover, and improving visibility.
"We will find it — I'm sure about that piece of it. The only reason we wouldn't find it was that it has sunk,'' said Mike Yardley, an Air Commodore with New Zealand's air force, of the large unidentified object spotted by the satellite.
"I've been on these missions before when it's taken a few days to come across it.''
Speaking at a news conference in Papua New Guinea, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said, "We've been throwing everything we've got at that area to try to learn more about what this debris might be.
"It's about the most inaccessible spot that you could imagine on the face of the earth, but if there is anything down there we will find it. We owe it to the families of those people to do no less.".
China's President Xi Jinping is "devastated'' by the mysterious disappearance of flight MH370, Mr Abbott said today after a phone call between the two.
Relatives of Chinese passengers on board MH370 vented their fury on Friday in their first meeting in Beijing with Malaysian government officials, almost two weeks after the aircraft vanished.
The event began in angry fashion, with family members yelling at the group of political representatives and senior military officials to stand up when they were being introduced, rather than nodding while sitting down.
"You have wasted so much time," one anguished relative shouted, his voice quivering.
The Malaysian delegation arrived in Beijing late on Thursday after repeated, angry demands by relatives for an opportunity to question Kuala Lumpur officials about the search and rescue operation.
Previous daily meetings at the hotel have been with representatives of Malaysia Airlines, and the relatives have been growing increasingly frustrated by the lack of answers.
Relatives have been speaking of hunger strikes and demonstrations in recent days
"As you can understand (President Xi Jinping) is devastated, as are so many people in China, as is (Malaysian) Prime Minister Najib (Razak) by all of this," Mr Abbott said following their call last night, which came after Australia detected possible debris from the plane.
If the debris spotted in the southern Indian Ocean is found to be from the missing plane, it could have drifted more than 500 kilometres from the crash site, a Perth oceanographer said.
Professor Chari Pattiaratchi, of the University of Western Australia, said the searchers face the world's most treacherous seas, and a wreckage recovery operation would be extremely challenging.
The 23,000-square-kilometre search area is in a body of water known as the Roaring Forties, where strong circumpolar westerly winds blow.
Waves of four metres to five metres are constant, but can swell to more than 10 metres during a storm.
"It is as hostile as it can get,'" Prof Pattiaratchi told ABC radio.
"Because of the strong winds, the waves are always breaking, so it's white-capping all the time, so to distinguish between whether it's part of the debris or a wave breaking ... it is quite a challenging system.
"Water depths are up to five kilometres deep, so even if you find something, it's a big challenge to recover it."
He said there were only five or so vessels in the world - remotely operated vehicles or submersibles usually tethered to a ship - that could reach such depths.
If the debris captured in images taken on March 16 and publicly revealed yesterday were found to be part of the missing aircraft, the pieces could have drifted more than 500km to the east of the crash site, Prof Pattiaratchi said.
"We actually have computer models that we can try to run backwards in time to be able to find out where the debris may have come from."
Of the 239 passengers and crew on the Kuala Lumpur-Beijing flight, 153 were Chinese citizens.
"Tomorrow's plan is actually to do the same thing again,'' said the Australian Maritime Safety Authority's John Young this afternoon.
"We will move the search area to where the water has moved overnight."
They will be also looking to see if they can get more satellite imagery to refine the search.
"But the plan is we want to find these objects because they are the best lead where we might find people to be rescued ... we are still focused on that task," he said.
One advantage of the RAAF P-3 Orion is that it can fly at low altitudes for long periods. Commodore Yardley said the Orion flew at just 60 metres above the water to stay below thick clouds and fog - which requires intense concentration by the two pilots.
The Orion has a crew of 13, some of whom are stationed on an observation deck to search. As well as using their eyesight, Commodore Yardley said they also use a state-of-the-art radar system and three cameras - one infrared, one long-range, and one high resolution.
The combination of systems helps them detect almost anything that's on the surface, he said. The crew also films everything so they can review what they've seen after they return to base.
The Orion comes equipped with a sonar system for searching below sea level, although it's not being used in this search, Commodore Yardley said.
Other planes used in the search on Friday include a US Navy P-8 Poseidon, which has been designed for anti-submarine warfare, and a civilian Bombardier Global Express, a long-range corporate jet with state emergency service observers on board.
The Norwegian cargo vessel Hoegh St. Petersburg arrived in the area late Thursday and used lights to search overnight. The Filipino crew of 20 was planning to use binoculars and their eyesight to scour the water. The ship had been carrying a load of cars from South Africa to Australia before being asked to join in the search.
Another commercial ship was due to arrive Friday.
Any plane debris that is found will be transported back by the Australian navy ship the HMAS Success, which is due to arrive at the search site on Saturday.
A New Zealand Orion plane dropped two buoys yesterday that will help searchers figure out where any debris might drift. Searchers were also planning to drop more buoys from a C-130 Hercules military transport plane.
The buoys resemble a poster tube, each about 1 metre long, with an antenna that transmits a GPS signal that can be tracked by searchers.
The idea is that the buoys drift in a manner similar to any debris, giving searchers clues as to where debris might move over time. The system isn't perfect - the wind can move the buoys at a different rate than larger objects - but is designed to factor in some of those variables.
The satellite data imagery showed two objects possibly related to the missing Malaysia Airlines flight which disappeared on March 8 with 239 people on board.
The images were captured on March 16 but due to the volume of imagery being searched, and the detailed process of analysis that followed, the information was brought to the attention of the Australian Maritime Safety Authority on Thursday morning.
One of the objects was 24 metres in length and the other was five metres.
The images have been assessed as being credible but it is possible they do not relate to the search.
Mr Young said "it's probably the best lead we have right now.''
"The search will continue (Friday),'' he said, after it had to be called off due to low visibility caused by clouds and rain.
Ocean expert Dr Robin Beaman from James Cook University said debris could have been carried hundreds of kilometres since the satellite images were captured on March 16.
"The currents are drifting at one or two nautical miles per hour so it certainly makes sense that it could have drifted several hundred miles by now," he said.
"There'd be parts of the plane that could float for some time but certainly not indefinitely. "Eventually parts like that will become waterlogged and sink to the sea floor so it's time critical," he said.
Aviation industry expert Neil Hansford has proposed the controversial theory that either one or both of the pilots of MH370 flew the plane to an area where it would not be found.
Speaking on Channel Ten's Wake Up program this morning, Mr Hansford said he believed the flight had not been subject to a mechanical problem but a "crew-related incident".
"It wasn't a catastrophic explosion, it wasn't hit by military ordinance, this aircraft has been positioned to where it is ... it could just as easily, or more frighteningly, have been positioned at the centre of Australia," he said.
Asked to clarify his remarks, Mr Hansford said: "If I was trying to lose an aircraft and make sure there was no evidence and the black boxes and everything were hard to find, you'd certainly be looking to put the aircraft into very, very deep water a long way from land."
Dr John Blaxland from the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at ANU told Melbourne's 3AW this morning that he was "not optimistic" that the items in the water were plane debris.
"It may well be an ISO (shipping) container," he said. "ISO containers come in roughly that length ... and unfortunately the image is not very clear.
"The imagery specialists have gone and zoomed in on this photo ... you see something that's just below the surface, and the waves are just detracting from the clarity of the picture. It is not really clear exactly what it is. Now, some people have said it might be part of a wing, it could be part of the fuselage, probably not. On the balance of probabilities it may well be a submerged, semi-submerged ISO container. So I think we need to be very circumspect about how we view this and how optimistic we are about what we might find if and or when we find it."
Speaking today in Papua New Guinea, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said since receiving the satellite images "we've been throwing everything we've got at that area to try to learn more about what this debris might be".
"Now it could just be a container that's fallen off a ship. We just don't know but we owe it to the families, friends, the loved ones of the almost 240 people on flight MH 370 to do everything we can to try to resolve what is as yet an extraordinary riddle," he said.
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Acting Prime Minister Warren Truss has described the search as "very difficult and challenging", given the objects would have moved because of the tides and wind.
"Clearly they will have moved since the 16th of March when those images were originally captured," Mr Truss told ABC Radio.
"The search area is quite broad."
"There have been some marker buoys dropped in the location to help get a better understanding of what drift if likely to have occurred in the area and that can also help to pinpoint the search area."
He said the search can only be conducted in daylight hours and "it is a very long journey to the site".
"Unfortunately aircraft can only have one or two hours over the search area before they need to return to the mainland for fuel," Mr Truss added.
The Acting PM said there is a risk the weather conditions may deteriorate but the "maximum effort is being put in".
He said Australia has discussed with other countries getting more resources, but it will take "a very long time" for those to be deployed.
"We need to use the resources we have in that intervening period," he argued.
The sighting of the possible debris was another emotional moment for the families of those missing.
In Beijing, relatives met today with Malaysian officials at the Lido Hotel, where most have been staying awaiting the latest news. Those who spoke said they had a two-hour briefing about the search but that nothing new was said.
Wang Zhen, son of artist Wang Linshi, said the meeting went smoothly but that there were questions on why Malaysian authorities had provided so much seemingly contradictory information.
Mr Wang said he has hopes his father can be found alive and was praying that the Australian reports turn out to be false. He said he and other relatives are suspicious about what they were being told by the Malaysian side, but are at a loss as to what to do next.
"We feel they're hiding something from us,'' said Mr Wang, who was filling his days attending briefings and watching the news for updates.
Another relative, Nan Jinyan, sister-in-law of passenger Yan Ling, said hope was slipping away.
"I'm psychologically prepared for the worst and I know the chances of them coming back alive are extremely small,'' she said.
Selamat Bin Omar, the father of a Malaysian passenger on the flight, said: "If it turns out that it is truly MH370 then we will accept that fate.''
But he cautioned that relatives still "do not yet know for sure whether this is indeed MH370 or something else. Therefore we are still waiting for further notice from the Australian government.''
Malaysian officials met with the relatives on Thursday night in a hotel near Kuala Lumpur, but journalists were kept away. After the meeting, groups of people left looking distraught.
Hamid Amran, who had a child on Flight 370, said questions asked at the meeting made it "apparent that Malaysia's military is incapable of protecting its own airspace.''
He said he "believes that my child and all the other passengers are still alive. I will not give up hope.''
A man who would only give his surname, Lau, said he was there to support a Chinese couple who had lost their only son.
"It appears some families are slowly accepting the worst outcome,'' he said.
SEARCH: Hoegh St Petersburg arrives at debris spot
Hoegh Autolines spokesman Ben Stack said the car carrier Hoegh St. Petersburg arrived at the search area at 8pm Thursday AEST.
The Norwegian cargo vessel used searchlights after dark to look for debris. It continued the search on Friday.
Mr Stack said he could not confirm whether those on board the ship had sighted the objects depicted in the satellite imagery.
"They want to help in any way they can and they're going to do as the Australian authorities ask them to," he said.
Höegh St Petersburg was on its way from South Africa to Australia and was the ship closest to the search area.
BACKGROUND: Inside the search for MH370
RAAF Hercules pilot Flight Lieutenant Conan Brett conceded the area aircraft had covered so far was vast and finding a missing plane in a huge section of Indian Ocean was like looking for a "needle in a haystack''.
The pilot, who has served in Iraq and Afghanistan, said his crew were doing everything possible to assist AMSA and find either survivors or wreckage.
"This is a big deal. We are out there looking. If we can help, even in a small way, to find answers, that would be exceptional,'' Flight Lieutenant Brett said.
The captain of the first Orion plane to return from the search area yesterday cautioned that the weather conditions were "extremely bad" with rough seas and high winds.
Conditions may have looked bad Friday morning for the pilots, with a thunderstorm over Air Force Base Pearce in Bullsbrook, north east of Perth, but conditions are improving, Australia's Bureau of Meteorology told AFP.
"Showers associated with the passage of a cold front on Thursday, which saw low cloud and drizzle affect visibility, are easing,'' the bureau said.
"Winds are currently 15-20 knots, with swell 2 to 2.5 metres, and also easing. Overall conditions are expected to slowly improve today for the search operations in the area.''
The first planes took off from Bullsbrook at 6.15am Friday morning (9.15am AEDT).
The flying time to the designated search area is expected to take about four hours.
With the journey there and back, it only leaves one or two hours flying time for the planes to sweep the area for additional signs of wreckage.
Experts have warned of the limitations of the satellite images.
"You know how they say a picture is worth 1000 words? Well, in satellite imagery, the picture's only worth 500. The rest has to come from analysis,'' said Sean O'Connor, an imagery analyst.
"It would be very nice if you could see a whole wing floating there, then you could say, 'OK that's an aeroplane,''' O'Connor said. "When you're looking at something like this, you can't tell what it is.''
The images came from a DigitalGlobe commercial satellite that scans the Earth from the north to south, said Tim Brown, a satellite imagery expert at GlobalSecurity.org.
These kinds of satellites can look left to right, but the further they look to the side, the lower quality the images will be. There are other limitations. Because of their orbits, they can only scan a specific section of the Earth at certain times each day, much like the sun is only overhead part of the day.
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Asked what he would tell the families, Mr Hussein said: "I will tell them, whatever we find, my sympathies, my heart is with them all the time … I do feel for them and I say that on record and I say that to the world. We do care for them and we can understand, we can try to understand what they are going through."
Mr Hussein admitted regret at an incident at the media centre on Wednesday when an anguished Chinese mother was dragged away screaming from the media.


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Since Samsung itself widely introduced edge-lit LED TVs in 2009, the phrase "LED TV" has meant "thinner" to the majority of TV shoppers. This year Samsung and other TV makers are marketing LED TVs that are just as chunky as the non-LED-based LCD TVs of yore, and cheaper than their edge-lit counterparts -- which Samsung is now calling "Slim LED TV."
Confused customers will probably be scratching their heads at the 3.7-inch-thick profile of the EH6000 series, wondering how it deserves to be called an LED TV. The salesman will explain that it uses LEDs arranged in a full array behind the screen, as opposed to crammed along the edge. That's true. At that point he might even try to tell the customer that since it's LED, it has a better picture than a standard LCD TV. That's not necessarily true, and never was.
The Samsung EH6000 does have a thinner frame around the picture than any non-LED TV, lending it a nice minimalist look, but its picture quality is just decent -- no better than the company's non-LED TVs from last year, and worse in some areas. It is a lot cheaper than its edge-lit Samsung brethren, however, so it might appeal to value-conscious buyers, especially in smaller screen sizes where plasma and better LED TVs like the Sharp LC-LE640U series don't compete.
Samsung UNEH6000 (pictures)See all photos
Series information: I performed a hands-on evaluation of the 46-inch Samsung UN46EH6000, but this review also applies to the other screen sizes in the series. All sizes have identical specs and according to the manufacturer should provide very similar picture quality.
|Models in series (details)
|Samsung UN40EH6000
|40 inches
|Samsung UN46EH6000 (reviewed)
|46 inches
|Samsung UN50EH6000
|50 inches
|Samsung UN55EH6000
|55 inches
|Samsung UN60EH6000
|60 inches
|Samsung UN65EH6000
|65 inches
Seen from the front, the UNEH6000 looks much like any newer LED TV: a very thin frame around the image and everything in glossy black. Extra adornments are almost nonexistent and I like it that way. Too bad the stand doesn't swivel.
Seen from the side, however, the set's "full-array" heritage is obvious. Its panel measures 3.7 inches deep -- compared with 1.9 inches for the edge-lit UNES6500, for example. I say, "Who cares," although some TV buyers do value thinness, apparently.
The EH6000 gets the older, transparent Samsung menu, which I actually prefer to the newer rounded, blue, opaque version. It's easy enough to navigate and I appreciated the explanations accompanying menu terms. The onscreen user manual and help section found on higher-end Samsungs goes missing, although there is a basic "HD Connection Guide."
The pipsqueak remote tries to pack too many similarly sized and shaped keys onto its truncated surface, but at least there's full backlighting. I'd trade it in for decent spacing between the buttons, however.
|Key TV features
|Display technology
|LED backlight
|Screen finish
|Smart TV
|Internet connection
|3D technology
|3D glasses included
|Refresh rate(s)
|Dejudder (smooth) processing
Samsung's full-array backlight system uses fewer LEDs than full-array systems on higher-end local-dimming TVs, and fewer even than edge-lit models. The paucity of actual LEDs allows Samsung and other makers of new full-array sets like the EH6000 to charge less than for other kinds of LED TVs. Check out my primer on LED backlights for more and Samsung's full 2012 TV lineup to see which model uses which technology.
The UNEH6000's biggest step-up feature over the UNEH5000 series is a 120Hz refresh rate, which joins backlight scanning to earn the company's "Clear Motion Rate" of 240. Don't be misled, though: this is a 120Hz panel, not 240Hz. As a 120Hz set, the EH600 also gets Samsung's dejudder processing.
This otherwise basic set skips extras like Smart TV and 3D. There's no Ethernet connection for DLNA access to files on a network, although the TV will play back photo, video, and music files via its USB port.
Picture settings: The UNEH6000 offers ample control for a midlevel TV, getting a two-point grayscale system, five gamma choices, and the ability to adjust dejudder. I didn't really miss having a 10-point grayscale adjustment since the two-pointer worked very well, but I would have liked it to have Samsung's great color management system.
Connectivity: Samsung really cut corners here, giving the EH6000 a mere two HDMI inputs. That covers a cable box and a game console, for example -- if you want to connect more stuff like a Roku or a PC via HDMI, you may have to buy an external switch.
Picture quality
In picture quality, the EH6000 falls short of many LED and a few non-LED TVs we've tested, displaying a lighter shade of black and poor off-angle viewing. However its color is quite accurate, video processing is solid, and it showed better uniformity across the screen than many of its edge-lit counterparts. I also appreciated its matte screen finish in brighter rooms.