Here's the article from the Atlanta Journal posted today....

A three-year-old boy was struck by a vehicle and killed early Monday after wandering away from the Gwinnett County condominium where he was staying.

Gwinnett County police spokesman Darren Moloney said Anthony Lloyd Oscar Littrean was staying with family friends at Olde Mill Crossing complex off Graves Road while his mother was hospitalized giving birth to a sibling.

Officers responding to a 4:30 a.m. report of the missing child found Anthony on Graves Road, across from the complex, Moloney said. He had been hit by a southbound vehicle.

Anthony was taken to Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite, where he later died, Moloney said.

"They child was staying with family friends while the parents were at Northside Hospital," Moloney said, adding that Anthony's mother gave birth early Sunday morning.

Moloney said investigators believe the child "defeated the locks at the apartment he was staying at."

"When the family friends became aware the child was missing, they immediately began to search and called 911," Moloney said. "At this time, there is on indication of criminal neglect on the part of the child's caretakers."

He said Gwinnett police were "asking for help from anyone who might have been traveling down Graves Road toward South Norcross Tucker Road, away from I-85."

Moloney asked that anyone with information on the accident call 770-513-5048.

"Our investigators want to stress that it is possible that a [driver] struck the child without knowing exactly what they did," Moloney said. "It's possible a person struck the child without even causing damage to their car."

• Here's a sad story from Atlanta today....sm - Georgia Gal
  • Here's the article from the Atlanta Journal posted today.... - Georgia Gal
  • That is terrible! sm - another mt
    • You are schizophrenic, aren't you? - sm - Vakkie
    • You sound like a complete and total idiot! I don't use that word lightly! - Wow
    • see message - another mt
    • What? Do you really think those parents or their friends thought the child would be awake and roami - appalled!
      • On the noon news they were interviewing the babysitting....sm - Atlanta MT
    • do you have ANYthing going on upstairs? - Really?
    • Are you kidding? If this is not the description of accident, I don't know what is - sm
      • As I stated right at the beginning.... - another mt
        • Dear Dork Lady - sm - Vakkie
        • I understand what you are saying but most people would, I think, get out a check their car upon - Laura E.
        • Never in my life have I ran something over with my car, heard a thud, wondered what it was and - drove on! Sounds negligent of the driver
        • Actually, it is more likely - Gladys
        • Your spin on this is really sickening to me. You are one of those "blame" freaks. - MTQ
          • MAN!! You definately NAILED it - sm - Bobbie
            • Why, thank you! I'm blushing! Yes, - MTQ
        • Just because it never happened to you doesn't mean - no, no, no
          • This is where the term "accident" comes into play - sm - Vakkie

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But this article states it would only affect new customers right now.  So I am upset over nothing.  I went through heck with BellSouth when they charged me a surcharge of an extra 50 a month and then would write a letter saying I had to switch to a long distance service and pay by the minute because of my "excessive" use. They told me the unlimited charge was for an average of an hour a day not somebody who worked out of their home and I needed to switch a business plan at over 200 a month charge.  I switched over to cable because of that and then to read that cable was going to charging on a per use fee and not a flat monthly fee it upset me.  It is the nature of our work, VR, only paying for VBC, having headers and footers taken away, now being charged for being on line, etc.  It just seems that everything is done to keep to insure less money.

A couple left their 2-year-old son with friends while they were at the hospital having their 2nd child last night.  The 2-year-old somehow or another got out of the apartment of the friends he was left in, wandered into a road and was hit by a car.  The car didn't stop and when the friends he was left with discovered him missing at 4 a.m. they called the police.  Searches found the boy critically injured by the side of the road and he subsequently died a few hours later at the children's hospital. 

I can't even begin to imagine the grief of the couple having a baby the same day their child is killed.  

The police are working hard to identify the vehicle that hit the child as there are car parts left around.  I hope they find that person!

"...Alongside those numbers, the AHDI estimates that global medical transcription expenditures are between $12 billion and $20 billion annually, with the largest share of that occurring in the United States.

Tessier points to industry frustrations over the high cost of medical transcription alongside a demand that currently outweighs the supply of medical transcriptionists. Add to that concerns about turnaround time and quality, and many are seeking ways to improve the process."

It's a shame that we, as transcriptionsts, aren't responsible for these high costs; i.e., we don't get decent wages. With the rates of transcriptionists seemingly falling  every month or so, it's a wonder anyone can make decent money anymore.

Also, with the president wanting EMR within 4-5 years, I will be glad to retire. I was going to work until my fingers would no longer move, but he is "helping" me make the decision. I just wish the young'uns would realize this is not the place to be.

NY TIMES today stating that not only is Dell's tech dept over in India but they are now opening up manufacturing plants in India to make Dell computers there.

See article in its entirety over at the offshoring concerns forum here....at mtstars.

Been a DELL diehard for 7 years and also an HP printer diehard person for 11 years. 

paper about increasing car sales in India.  The Indian people are enjoying higher wages and are now able to purchase cars.  Car makers are scrambling to get pieces of this new, juicy pie. 

I wonder how long it's going to take before sending our work to India is not cost effective for the MTSO anymore.  The Indian MTs won't be able to live on their 2 cpl anymore and will need more, and more.  It's going to be interesting to see this evolve. 

There's hope for us!

outsourcing (their wording) work to India.  The contractors in India are now outsourcing the work to other places in India.  They figure if  we (the US) can outsource American work to India, why can't they outsource the work also.   Your medical info is going to be as private as if you took out a billboard and posted it there. 

About India take on offshoring.  I don't think they are worried about loss of American jobs.

http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/10/17/1548054.aspx

Your life is changing for the better by the minute! If you don't keep a journal, this would be a great time to start. Write down how you feel today, the day you took control. If you ever waver in the future, or if you ever want to look back and see where you were, you can go back to today, the day that things changed and you felt your power for maybe the first time in a long time. In a few years, you may find what you wrote about right now just amazes you.

Does anyone get the AAMT Journal.  Is it worth the money?

my ShortHand would type only the first letter of an expansion and then take all the letters away!  I checked and the Type It button is grayed out!  I have restarted the computer and looked on the Shorthand Help menu but can find nothing that applies.  Can anyone please help me ASAP?  I am lost without it!  TIA

the shows are reported to be fabulous.  The crowd does tend to have more openly homosexual couples in attendance.

I got my brother and his partner 2 tickets 4 years ago and by a stroke of incredible luck by being in the right place at the right time they ended up having them upgraded to front row center tickets - which he now has framed and on the wall of his house. 

I thought about getting my own accounts so would love to know who they are as well so that I can avoid them.  I left my e-mail. 

Sorry this happened to you but this is one of several reasons I have waited so long to get my own accounts.

thanks.

Considering relocating there and wondered if anyone had any input.  Specifically the Gainesville area.  Thanks

female construction workers and female home/buisness builders... and they're usually not gay.

Does anybody have any feedback, positive or negative, about a company called Metro out of Atlanta?

Thanks!