I've never understood why you put an objective on a resume. Isn't the objective always to get a job?

I've used the same cleaning service for years, and it's staffed almost entirely by Spanish-speaking and Middle European immigrants. They do a good job and there doesn't seem to be a large amount of turnover.

My friend works for a family with a Polish housekeeper and says the same thing. The lady I use is hard-working and very dependable. But she works for herself and I suspect she wants to keep it that way.

Yeah. It's turning out to be much harder than expected.

I think it's a great idea for a business BUT only if the pool of available workers will meet the demand. I'm sure they're out there--she just needs to suss them out.

I have the same faith. They MUST be out there...but where?

It's a great idea for a service, especially in this neighborhood...'home spa', environmentally friendly products, high end service...long standing reputation for her other business.

It NEEDS to succeed.

Are all of her ads/flyers/whatever in English, bonny? That could be a barrier.

Note to self: brains freaky.

Brain Surgery Lets Woman Listen to Music

GARDEN CITY, N.Y. (AP) -- Now that surgeons have operated on Stacey Gayle's brain, her favorite musician no longer makes her ill. Four years after being diagnosed with epilepsy, Gayle recently underwent brain surgery at Long Island Jewish Medical Center to cure a rare condition known as musicogenic epilepsy.

Gayle, a 25-year-old customer service employee at a bank in Alberta, Canada, was suffering as many as 10 grand mal seizures a day, despite being treated with medications designed to control them. The condition became so bad she eventually had to quit her job and leave the church choir where she sang.

Eighteen months ago, she began to suspect that music by reggae and hip-hop artist Sean Paul was triggering some of her seizures. She recalled being at a barbecue and collapsing when the Jamaican rapper's music started playing, and then remembered having a previous seizure when she heard his music.

Her suspicions were confirmed on a visit to the Long Island medical center last February, when she played Paul's hit "Temperature" on her iPod for doctors. Soon after, she suffered three seizures.

"Being that the seizures could be triggered by the music, this was a very interesting opportunity to study Stacey's brain," said Dr. Ashesh Mehta, the hospital's director of epilepsy surgery.

I've sworn not to go to the ER, otherwise this would have me asking around for details to determine exactly which one I next went to.

She has already served 84 minutes in jail as part of the plea deal.

wow! almost an hour and a half! Hell, I've waited for doctor's appointments that long!

Her suspicions were confirmed on a visit to the Long Island medical center last February, when she played Paul's hit "Temperature" on her iPod for doctors. Soon after, she suffered three seizures.

One of the first medical notes I ever transcribed, fresh out of college, was a neurologist's discharge summary on a teenage girl who, every time she heard the song "Happy Birthday," had a several-minute seizure consisting of flapping her arms and shrieking like a parrot.

Anyone curious about what your cable remote looks like in pieces?

Guess who's sitting next to me because I'm not letting him out of my sight until he's 21.

Go on...guess.

The affidavit also cites multiple reports of a group of young men taunting animals at the zoo, the Chronicle reported.

Ah, so it wasn't so much a random tiger attack as natural selection in action, then. I wonder if they'd be willing to let Tatiana come visit me some weekend when noisy drunks are spilling out of the bar across the street.