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The rapid changes in healthcare industry including technological developments, cost shifting and access to physicians through emails are discussed. However the industry is plagued with other problems like insurance reimbursement rates, difficulty in recruitment and growing administrative procedures which culminate into additional costs on each new drug and service.

The article reports on several places for summer festivals and activities in Cincinnati, Ohio. It reports on the cocktail party held at the ballroom of Cincinnati Opera in every November. On the first Saturday after Halloween, the locals of Cincinnati gather for the Mt. Washington Pumpkin Chuck and smash pumpkins. Other activities include rock climbing in Eden Park and outdoor yoga classes held in area parks from May to September every year.

The article presents information on bars, restaurants and brewpubs with the best beer selection. Some of them are the Beer Sellar, BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse, the Comet, Dewey's Pizza, Germania Society Klubhaus, Great Scott, Longneck's Sports Grill, Mecklenburg Gardens, Nicholson's Tavern & Pub, Red Ear Brewing Co., Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery, and Sammy's Gourmet Burgers & Beers. BJ's Restaurant makes only root beer on-site.

The article presents information about restaurants, recreational facilities, sports facilities and retail stores in Cincinnati, Ohio. Hot Doggin restaurant in Montgomery offers delicious hot dog on a steamed poppy seed bun with two tomato slice. Schneider's Sweet shop, located on Fairfield Avenue, is serving ice balls, and caramel apples since 1939. Kings island's newest coaster is a good place for family outing. Monster Mini Golf is an indoor golf course which offers 18 holes.

The article focuses on Judge Mark P. Painter who has been a judge for 27 years, first on the Hamilton County Municipal Court and then, beginning in 1905, with the Ohio First District Court of Appeals. Since 1990, he has also taught at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, and written six books. Painter is soon going to serve as the only American judge among the seven judges on the first United Nations Appeals Tribunal.

The article offers guide for parents on the things that can be done with their children. It states that parents can bring their children at the Newport Aquarium for penguins citing and Children's Theatre of Cincinnati for theatre experience. It mentions that children can do fishing at Hamilton County Parks District's Kid's Fishing Derby or do hiking at Rowe Woods of Cincinnati Nature Center.

The article focuses on the efforts of Mitch Leventhal, vice provost of international affairs at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, to increase foreign students' enrollment in the U.S. after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. It states that most American colleges and universities took a laid-back approach of attracting scholars from overseas that reduced the number of international students. The Ohio state government issued reports to increase study programs and international recruitment.

The article presents information on the changes brought about by Robin Guiler, co-owner of the management consultancy firm TransformaTech Inc., at Cincinnati, Ohio's ice cream company, Graeter's Inc. It describes the improvements made by Guiler in the manufacturing processes and the management of the firm. It mentions that Guiler specializes in helping family-owned firms develop systems and improve processes, both mechanical and human.

The article focuses on the best of the business enterprises in the city of Cincinnati, Ohio for the year 2008. It is stated that the Twist Lounge & Bar is a fancy place and the service is friendly. The Woodhouse Day Spa contacted its customers and invited them to come in, charge their cell phones, and take hot showers during the September 2008 wind storm which knocked out power in much of the city. The Kings Mills General Store and Christmas Shop offers 20 kinds of stockings to its customers.

The article reports on a correctional program going on in the Lebanon Correctional Institute, a prison in the state of Ohio. The program is a criminal justice course, part of the national Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program: Exploring Issues of Crime and Justice Behind the Walls, and is going on with the students of Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. Here students and inmates discuss subjects like justice and race. The goal of the project is to initiate conversation about crimes.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of helping a 12-year-old Belarussian girl who traveled to Mason, Ohio.

The article focuses on the strategic approach of InkTank concerning to profitability in Cincinnati, Ohio. Kathy Holwadel, president of the company, has called an emergency board meeting to discuss the best solution on the increase of company's expense of $10,500 each month. She further explained about the company's vision which bridges the race and class lines of the folks from all their personal backgrounds.

The article discusses the efforts made to improve the film business in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Ohio legislature is considering a bill designed to lure the film industry back to the city by offering tax incentives. The state film bureau, which was eliminated by 2002 budget cuts, has been reinstated. According to the Motion Picture Association of America, Ohio hosted only two of the 699 feature films produced in the U.S. in 2005.

The article presents information on Mason school board member Jennifer Miller who quarreled with school superintendent Kevin Bright at a school board meeting in Mason, Ohio. It is reported that the verbal brawl started over an argument on Bright's decision of permitting two Muslim students to use an empty classroom for Ramadan fasting. It is stated that since she joined the board in 2006, meetings have been marked by strifes over several issues.

The article presents information on physician Steve Beerman, who is a hospitalist, a practitioner who looks after hospitalized patients, coordinates care among patients' primary care physicians, nurses, families, social workers, and the specialists who are involved in their cases. Now 41, Beerman attended medical school at the College of Medicine in the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, and did his internal medicine residency at Good Samaritan Hospital in the 1990s.

The article presents information on entrepreneur Ken Schulteis's medical insurance company Global Underwriters Agency Inc. Schulteis puts together insurance packages for Americans abroad or taking risks like working in war zones, hiking across Antarctica, joyriding in an F-16 fighter jet. Schulteis has started selling insurance for international travel working up policies for everybody from tourists to church missionaries, contractors and expatriates working abroad in 1994.

The article reports on few industries in Cincinnati, Ohio, where craftsmanship is still in style. . The Workshops of David T. Smith turn out custom museum-quality reproductions of 18th- and 19th-century early American country furniture for shops around the country. Osborne Coinage Co. are makers of metal tokens to play arcade games and casino slot machines, exit parking lots and ride buses. City Iron produces ornate iron gates and stairway rails with supreme delicacy.

The article includes information on various things from Cincinnati, Ohio including artisanal chocolates, the Havana Martini Club, a specialty dish at the Riverside Korean Restaurant in Madison Avenue, to name only a few. It is reported that Marble Hill Chocolatier offers a box of artisanal chocolates which has highest-grade cocoa and fruit infusions. The Havana Martini Club offers hand-crafted cigars from around the world.

The article presents information on the efforts of Richard K. Jones, a Shefiff in Butler County, Ohio to battle illegal immigration in the county. From his office in Butler County, he has become a poster boy in the battle over illegal immigration and the enforcement of immigration law. To combat illegal immigration he has put paper ads, erected billboards, billed the federal government for jailing illegal immigrants, and called for a boycott of employers who hire undocumented workers.

The article discusses several issues in relation to grocery shopping in the downtown area of Cincinnati, Ohio. The author points out that most downtown residents prefer to do their grocery shopping outside of the city. Many supermarket chains are said to be hesitant to implement an urban supermarket model within the are because of market concerns.

The article presents information regarding Cincinnati Sizzle, the full-contact National Women's Football Association team. Chandra Woods is both general manager and player on the team. The coach of the team is Chandra's husband, Elbert Ickey Woods. Woods is the Cincinnati Bengals' legendary former running back. According to Chandra, to be competitive in the National Women's Football Association, one needs to be able to take the hits, to play hurt, and, above all, to face the tough talk from a coach like Ickey, a man who knows what it takes to be on top of one's game.

The article presents information on Judy Schlotman, a real estate agent. With about 100 home sales last year, Schlotman's the listing and sales leader in this 90-agent office, and is fourth in sales among the 1,350 agents at Sibcy Cline, the area's largest locally owned real estate firm. Schlotman has a place on the "6th Level" of the Cincinnati Area Board of Realtors Circle of Excellence, a sort of inverted version of Dante's Inferno that recognizes agents who are tops in sales, listings, and referrals.

The article provides an insight into menu engineering for a successful restaurant business as suggested by Bill Paul, owner of a restaurant consulting business called Menu Advantage. He started his business on the concept based on the book "Menu Engineering: A Practical Guide to Menu Analysis." This turned out to be the beginning of a burgeoning trend, a different way of using data to analyze customer demand, menu mix, and the contribution margin of items to help restaurateurs decide what to include on their menu, how to price it, and the mechanics of formatting a menu to give these items maximum attention.

The article describes various tourist attractions in Cincinnati, Ohio. At Carnegie Theater in Covington's Carnegie Visual & Performing Arts Center, an entire week of events has been planned. One can have the best martini in Ohio. Palomino's martinis get precious extra seconds of ice time. There's a bustling market in vintage bling. The Duck Creek Antique mall is known for its selection of antique English furniture, Staffordshire pottery, and a wide array of jewelry and silver. Cincinnati Art Museum is the best place in town to get a free fine arts fix.

The article focuses on Cincinnati Animal Referal & Emergency (CARE) Center in Blue Ash, Ohio. Kathy Wright, a pioneering animal cardiologist at CARE center, delivers sophisticated health care for pets that not too long ago either didn't exist or was reserved for humans only. Animals are brought to this 24-hour multi-specialty and critical care hospital, which opened in 2000 and recently tripled its size to 21,000 square feet, when their regular hospital is closed or their veterinarian refers them. The doctors here treat only companion animals--dogs and cats, as well as pocket pets like rabbits and ferrets and occasionally birds and reptiles. The vets at CARE--and undoubtedly at other animal hospitals--spend about as much time counseling owners as they do treating patients.

This article reports that Samantha L. Herd, aide to State Representative Tyrone Yates and Cincinnati City Council candidate, learned firsthand how a career can shape ones life. It is informed that Australian-born Samantha moved to the U.S. as a child when her father took a teaching position at Ohio State. After her parents divorced, her mother took a research grant offer with the National Institutes of Occupational Safety and Health, which landed them in Cincinnati. A Mariemont High School graduate, she's been involved with politics ever since her senior year at the University of Cincinnati, when she interned for former mayor Roxanne Quails.

The article presents information related to the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives at Hebrew Union College, New York. Gary P. Zola is executive director of the Center. For generations, scholars from around the world have come to study material in this extraordinary collection. Some of what they find here comes from the pens of ordinary citizens, such as the private diary of a Hebrew Union student in the early 1900s. But it also includes documents that have a place in world history. One of these is the chilling "Riegner Telegram" of 1942, which alerted Rabbi Stephen Wise, president of the World Jewish Congress, about the Nazi plan to systematically wipe out the Jews of occupied Europe.

This article presents information related to legal affairs. Perched on her worn couch in the living room of her 1950s-era Groesbeck home, Carrie Davis, a dealer in legal matters, tosses aside her yellow highlighter and slides a torn box from under a nearby table. Although she doesn't have a paying job, this is another day's work for Davis. It's this resolve, a steady supply of cigarettes and Pepsi and a knack for navigating tortuous documents that has led Davis, in the last 10 years, to file& mdash; without a lawyer& mdash; five lawsuits or legal complaints against public agencies or officials, including such formidable opponents as the Ohio Department of Education, the Northwest Local School District and the NFL

This article focuses on beer brewing. Dan Listermann says that it is very important to smell the beer to judge how it is. He explains that there are many rituals that distinguish the handful of customers perusing the shelves of extract and barrels of grain in his shop from mainstream beer lovers. The accoutrements of his pursuit have moved from the kitchen to a larger space in the garage, while his beer drinking habits have transmogrified from simple enjoyment to unabashed, albeit good-humored, beer elitism.

Focuses on several restaurants in Cincinnati, Ohio which offer pasta. Over-the-Rhine owned by Nicola Pietoso; J's owned by Jimmy Gherardi; Chokolate Morel owned by Dave Avalos.

The article focuses on Christine Shimrock, a suburban mother, homemaker, novelist, newspaper columnist and a prison chaplain. Marysville, U.S. is home to the Ohio Reformatory for Women, where time is plentiful and greeting cards are not part of the welcome packet. Christine Shimrock tucks the rumpled, light blue inmate request form, back into the squeaky drawer of a metal desk in the chaplain's office on the third floor of the Hamilton County Jail and thumbs through a dozen more. Her stylish brown slacks, green sweater and brown leather flats are conspicuous among the dull, baggy jumpsuits that are standard wear inside the concrete walls. The silver cross necklace and photo ID on a cord around her neck gently bounce as she walks, briskly and with purpose, through the halls. The silence is heavy, relieved only by the low hum of the heater. Shimrock is a volunteer lay chaplain in the jail, the north building of the Hamilton County Justice Center downtown. Forty-seven people regularly visit Hamilton County, Ohio inmates through the volunteer jail chaplain program of the Council of Christian Communions of Greater Cincinnati. She spent the next 13 years with the magazine 'USA Today,' starting in circulation sales and ending as National Manager, Sales Development/Training, a position that took her between the company's Arlington, Virginia, headquarters and the rest of the country, as well as to London and Hong Kong.

The article offers information on the Regulation E of the Electronic Fund transfer Act which prohibits financial institutions in Ohio from charging fees on overdrafts from automated teller machine (ATM) or debit card transactions unless the customer has opted for overdraft service. It analyses the benefits of the regulation for the customers and its impact on the banks. It includes a graph on the annual expenditure of Americans and overdraft fees in three largest banks in Cincinnati, Ohio.

This article focuses on wheelchair rugby player Brian Burger. When Brian Burger was a student at Ohio State University in the early 1990s, he discovered wheelchair rugby, a fast-paced, brutal game played on a basketball court. Since his college days, Burger's traveled around the Eastern U.S. to compete under the auspices of the United States Quad Rugby Association. For the last couple of years, he has driven more than five hours every other weekend during the season from his home in Lebanon to play for a competitive team in Nashville, Tennessee.

The article presents information on five local craft beer makers from Cincinnati, Ohio. They are BarrelHouse Brewing Co., Great Crescent Brewery, Listermann Brewing Co., Mount Carmel Brewing Co. and Rivertown Brewing Co. Opened in 1995 as restaurant and brewpub on 12th Street, BarrelHouse Brewing is a full-fledged micro-brewery owned by Nick Sever since 2005. Mike Dewey's brewery Carmel Brewing specializes in American ales.

The article focuses on the plans of the Westwood Civic Association and other resident groups of the Westwood area of Cincinnati, Ohio of seceding from the city. Members of the Westwood association have voted 9-2 in July 2009 to investigate secession. It is stated that the reason for the move is the slow pace of change involving measures against littering and graffiti, vacant buildings and drug dealers by Cincinnati officials.

The article evaluates several products including glass tiles from Mees Distributors Inc. and Ohio Tile & Marble and a Fifi golf bag from Keri Golf LLC.

The article focuses on the need to reduce carbon emissions in Ohio through light-rail transit. It states that Cincinnati does not have light-rail due to its estimated cost according to a Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority (SOTA) study by MetroMoves in 2002. It says that the recommendation of MetroMoves to build a 60-mile regional light-rail transit has been opposed by the residents due to the cost of construction and maintenance and low numbers of passengers.

The article offers suggestions for growing vegetables in salsa gardens. Horticulturist Cara Hague suggests growing tomatoes, peppers, onions, tomatillos and herbs like cilantro and basil. Hague suggests that these should be grown at sunny spots. It is suggested that if sunny spots are not available, container gardening should be used.

The article presents suggestions on the things needed for a home gymnasium. The author suggests that a spare room can be turned into a home gym with help from one of the handful of places that specializes in retail exercise equipment. Roy Phillips of The Fitness Store, says for home gyms, he suggests equipment for an aerobic workout, strength training, and stretching. As stated, treadmills have long been a mainstay, but elliptical machines are the best-selling equipment on the market presently. INSET: THE 411.

The article offers suggestions for designing customized closets. The article observes that even an awkward, under-the-stairs closet can be orderly and functional if one uses every inch of space. It asserts that low and high hanging bars are a must and high shelving can be used for storing off-season clothes or shoes one doesn't regularly wear. It also refers to custom closet companies which offer free consultations to design closets.

The article discusses issues related to airfares at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG). Steven Anderson, airfare analyst, says that lack of low-cost carriers to increase competition and an abundance of people willing to pay the higher fares are the main reason for being CVG so expensive. Cincinnati is home to a number of large corporations that are willing to pay premium prices for direct flights that can get their officers to the West Coast and back in the same day.

The article discusses about the disturbance caused by the project of the television program "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" on the West Chester street, Ohio. The Extreme Makeover team had descended there to give a makeover to Greg and Ginger Akers's home. The home was demolished and rebuilt to accommodate the wheelchairs of Akers's two daughters, but the commotion caused a lot of disturbance in the neighborhood, especially to their immediate neighbors, the Hinkle family.