The “major explosive event” occurred at 9:24, the AVO said.

Ash fall is expected between noon and 2 p.m. for the western Kenai Peninsula, including Kenai, Soldotna, Homer and Cooper Landing. An ash fall advisory is in effect for those areas until 4 p.m., and the aviation color code has been raised to red.

Additionally, the National Weather Service issued a flash flood warning for the Drift River Valley, meaning flooding is imminent or occurring.

Light dusting of ash for my area.

Melbourne

bridge

plunge

girl

dies

Melbourne’s West Gate bridge has a 58m drop into the Yarra River

The father of a four-year-old girl who was reportedly thrown 58m (190ft) from a bridge in Australia into the river below has been charged with her murder.

Witnesses said a man stopped his car on Melbourne’s West Gate Bridge and threw the child over the side.

The 36-year-old suspect may have been involved in a custody dispute with his wife, Melbourne police said.

The girl died a few hours later, after being airlifted to the city’s Royal Children’s Hospital, officials said.

She had been rescued from the Yarra River in critical condition, and police spent 45 minutes attempting to resuscitate her on the riverbank before she was transported to the hospital.

Court arrest

Two other children were in the car at the time of the incident, which happened during the morning rush hour as hundreds of other motorists were using the bridge, police said.

“No one had the opportunity to intervene… it all happened fairly quickly,” Detective Inspector Steve Clark was quoted as saying by AFP news agency.

“It’s a dreadful set of circumstances, and often you think you’ve seen it all but you haven’t,” said Mr Clark.

He said the “visibly distressed” man was arrested outside a Melbourne court that deals with family matters shortly after the incident.”

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Fuck that..send that guy over the bridge..no courts,no jail time..no more wasting the taxpayer’s money..No judge in their right mind would hold you guilty for manslaughter,neither would any jury. Temporary Insanity.

What’s really sad,besides the obvious..there were other kids in the car.

For a good few years now I’ve had a PSP.It’s an original.I think I’m on my 4th year.
I have a 8GB MSPro stick for it,2x4GB sticks,1GB stick and a 32MB stick.
I haven’t used it as a gaming platform for probably 2 years now.
I have a couple of UMD movies for it.
Generally I use it for music and music videos.
I put a decalgirl.com skin on it awhile ago..it has since came off. (I highly recommend decalgirl.com..great protection and looks)

I hold this one piece of Sony electronics in a high regard as I do my Motorola RAZR..Both have been dropped numerous times on different surfaces.There is a small crack in the screen of the PSP..but it doesn’t affect playback.
The wireless quit working about a year ago,but I used that infrequently.I could send it back to the company for repair..but that’ll be a few months down the road.

Usual January thaw..Feburary should be ass cold..

Why upgrades?
My mom let me get something on her Dell credit for my birthday(I’m working on paying my Dell account off) so I chose Windows Vista Home Premium and 2x1GB of DDR2-800.
Probably about the time I recieve the order is when the rest of my stuff from eBay rolls into the local Post Office.Shipping to Alaska is ALWAYS cheaper by Post Office than the other shipping companies.
Besides..Priority Mail with Track’n'Confirm..can’t be beat.

All in all..I’ll have a dual OS computer..For those techies interested..
AMD Athlon64X2 5200+ 2.6Ghz Dual Core Socket AM2 processor
Thermaltake Silentboot RX8 CPU cooler with Artic Ceramique compound.
2GB Corsair XMS2 DDR2-800 (soon to be 4GB)
80GB WD IDE hard drive (windows XP home edition SP3)
150GB Seagate SATA
500GB WD Caviar SATA
2x BFG Tech 8600GTs with 256MB DDR3 (running in SLi mode for games performance)
Pioneer DVD burner IDE (soon to be upgraded to a new model with SATA interface)
600Watt OCZ power supply (80% efficient)

All of that is tucked in a Thermaltake SopranoRS ATX case
I have 2 Arctic Cooling 12CM(120mm) fans exhausting air and one Thermaltake 12cm(120mm) fan mounted in the front,blowing air in.

Items I’m waiting on:
2x EVGA 9800GT with 512MB DDR (serious upgrade for video and games)
Pioneer DVD burner with SATA interface
Vista Home Premium with SP1
2x1GB Corsair XMS2 DDR2-800.

whew.

LMAO..I have a thing for specifications..infact I could almost tell you exactly is what in my nephew’s Core2Duo computer I built him last year for his birthday and the same for my niece’s AMD dual core that I built her for her birthday. They should be good for..4-5 years or so. Bear in mind the nephew is 16 and the niece is 8. She knows more about computers than he does.

Soon I’ll be the proud owner of a Toshiba Satellite A105 Intel C2Duo laptop.I just upgraded the RAM to 2GB..granted it’s only DDR2-667..but it’s better than my mom’s old Dell which I think was 533Mhz..and her laptop was only upgradeable to 1GB because one of the SoDIMM slots was damaged. Her friend sent her a E-Machines N-10 1.6Ghz AMD Sempron just a couple of months ago.It’s a decent machine.

oh and when my sister ordered her new Dell laptop..She was so excited,I was the first person she called..and she told me she ordered the Top of the line dell..to which I inquired “you got the XPS M1730?” Nope..she ordered the next one down..the XPS M1530..which is a great model. It has a separate video card,3GB RAM,and what’s really cool..instead of using CCFL for the backlighting on the LCD display..it uses LEDs..which are more energy efficient and can be brighter,depending on how they are setup.

Anywho..enough tech/computer talk from me..

Check out An American Carol. Certain groups of people call it a “conservative spoof of Hollywood”..which I don’t agree with..I would call it just a spoof,but it happens to lean right more than left..republican more than democrat. Anywho I liked it.

If you haven’t seen The Dark Knight yet..WHY NOT? it’s a GOOD movie. Of course a lot of the talk surrounding it is about the dead australian guy..but so what?..It draws a bit away from Aaron Eckhart’s character..Harvey Dent.
One thing that slightly bugs me..Rachel Dawes(played by Katie Holmes in Batman Begins) is now played by Maggie Glyenhaal(or however you spell her last name)..I don’t get it. *shrugs*