ShamNo!!!!!!!!!

Can't I have one hero? Just one... I guess she didn't agree with his SlapChop one liner... "your going to love my nuts"...

The Story

MARCH 27--Meet Vince Shlomi. He's probably better known to you as the ShamWow Guy, the ubiquitous television pitchman who has been phenomenally successful peddling absorbent towels and food choppers. Shlomi, 44, was arrested last month on a felony battery charge following a violent confrontation with a prostitute in his South Beach hotel room. According to an arrest affidavit, Shlomi met Sasha Harris, 26, at a Miami Beach nightclub on February 7 and subsequently retired with her to his $750 room at the lavish Setai hotel. Shlomi told cops he paid Harris about $1000 in cash after she "propositioned him for straight sex." Shlomi said that when he kissed Harris, she suddenly "bit his tongue and would not let go." Shlomi then punched Harris several times until she released his tongue. The affidavit, a copy of which you'll find here, notes that during the 4 AM fight Harris sustained facial fractures and lacerations all over her face (she is pictured here in mug shots snapped following busts in 2008 and 2005). After freeing his tongue, a bleeding Shlomi ran to the Setai lobby, where security summoned cops. Harris refused to cooperate with officers, who recovered $930 from her purse. "Both parties had a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage emitting from their persons," police reported. In a brief telephone interview, Harris declined to answer TSG questions about her run-in with Shlomi, though she did say she is considering a lawsuit against the pitchman. Asked if she worked as a hooker, Harris declined comment. As seen in the below mug shot, Shlomi was also injured during the fracas and, court records show, was treated at Mount Sinai Medical Center. While Shlomi and Harris were both arrested for felony aggravated battery, prosecutors this month declined to file formal charges against the combatants. Police records list Shlomi's occupation as "Marketing," but make no mention of his affiliation with the ShamWow or the Slap Chop, both of which sell for $19.95 (plus shipping and handling). (6 pages)

Match Day Could Burn You!

Today 16,000 soon to be Medical School grads will find out where they will be doing their residency. It's crazy! You basically go to a lunch where they give to a letter that will tell you, if you matched, and where you matched... You have some idea what program your going to, but not really...

This was the day that, as a spouse, you realize how expendable your career is... Kinda humbling, but ya gotta do what ya gotta do...

Oh and the economics of the deal is great... Imagine owing $100-200 grand.. and in less than 4 months you need to relocate, w/o any assistance, to a new city on bread truck driver wages... Not to mention the spouse has to find a new job too... and employers love that.. your typically treated as temporary.. oh and lucky... because your married to a doctor...

Here's how it works..

Access to graduate medical training programs such as residencies is a competitive process known as "the Match." Senior medical students usually begin the application process at the beginning of their (usually) fourth and final year in medical school. After they apply to programs, programs review applications and invite selected candidates for interviews held between October and February. After the interview period is over, students submit a "rank-order list" to a centralized matching service (currently the National Residency Matching Program, abbreviated NRMP) by February. Similarly, residency programs submit a list of their preferred applicants in rank order to this same service. The process is blinded, so neither applicant nor program will see each other's list. Aggregate program rankings can be found here, and are tabulated in real time based on applicants' anonymously submitted rank lists.

The two parties' lists are combined by an NRMP computer, which (theoretically) creates optimal matches of residents to programs using an algorithm. On the third Thursday of March each year ("Match Day") these results are announced in Match Day ceremonies at the nation's 155 U.S. medical schools. By entering the Match system, applicants are contractually obligated to go to the residency program at the institution to which they were matched. The same applies to the programs; they are obligated to take the applicants who matched into them.

On the Monday prior to Match Day, candidates find out from the NRMP if (not where) they matched. If they have matched, they must wait until the Match Day (Thursday) to find out where. If they have not secured a position through the Match, the locations of remaining unfilled residency positions are released to unmatched applicants the following day. These applicants are given the opportunity to contact the programs about the open positions. This is what is known as "The scramble." This frantic, loosely structured system forces soon-to-be medical school graduates to choose programs not on their original Match list. Occasionally and unfortunately, this sometimes requires students to choose entirely new specialties. The scramble is widely considered to be an unfavorable and highly stressful way of obtaining a residency position.

Inevitably, there will be discrepancies between the preferences of the student and programs. Students may be matched to programs very low on their rank list, especially in the competitive specialties like radiology, general pediatrics, dermatology, ophthalmology, orthopedics, otolaryngology, radiation oncology, and urology.

A similar but separate osteopathic match exists which announces its results in February, before the NRMP. Osteopathic physicians (DOs) may participate in either match, filling either traditionally Medical Doctor (MBBS,MD,MBChB,etc) positions accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (A.C.G.M.E.), or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine positions accredited by the American Osteopathic Association (A.O.A.).
Further information: Comparison of MD and DO in the US (residency training)

Military residencies are filled in a similar manner as the NRMP however at a much earlier date (usually mid-December) to allow for students that did not match to proceed to the civilian system.

In 2000–2004 the matching process was attacked as anti-competitive by class-action lawyers. See, e.g., Jung v. Association of American Medical Colleges et al., 300 F.Supp.2d 119 (D.D.C. 2004). Congress reacted by requiring that antitrust cases cannot make this argument. See Pension Funding Equity Act of 2004 § 207, Pub. L. No. 108-218, 118 Stat. 596 (2004) (codified at 15 U.S.C. § 37b).

The USMLE score is just one of many factors considered by residency programs in selecting applicants. The median USMLE Step 1 scores for graduates of U.S. Medical Schools for various residencies are charted in Table 2 on page 5 of "Charting Outcomes in the Match" available at http://www.nrmp.org/data/chartingoutcomes2007.pdf.

I'm a Sad Sahd

Today with temps in the high 60's it took the convertible (w/top down) up to Eau Clarie to picked up my Phil & Ted's Sport stroller from the Hoekzema's... They recently up graded to the Phil & Ted's Vibe.. Very nice but a little $$$E... It almost didn't fit in my trunk, not because the stroller is big because it's not, but my trunk is small...

The stroller is sweet... It even has a seat for Joey!!!

Sad Sahd, originally uploaded by Rich on the Road.

Got Orange

Got Orange, originally uploaded by Rich on the Road.

Joe and I have our orange vests on and we are off to HyVee... Ahhhh Starbucks and produce... Now that's a Monday morning..

Toys for Boys?

With the little one coming you have to make sure that you research and inspect each and every toy... Take this Wolverine "blow" up punching doll. I think I'll have Amy inflate this one...

You even have to think about what type decor you chose for the little tykes room... Brings a whole new meaning to "turn on"...

Case of the Monday's

Case of the Monday's, originally uploaded by Rich on the Road.

Joey knows it's Monday and he's woundering WTF I'm doing... He just keeps going in his house..

Winner Winner Steak Dinner!!!

Winner Winner Steak Dinner!!!, originally uploaded by Rich on the Road.

Floyd will be eaten is style tonight!!! I won theses ribeyes on Friday night at Mikey's in a "meat raffel"... You can't beat their meat!!!