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An airline to consider
Air travel is a bit different in countries like Brazil, which lack an adequate ground infrastructure.
Before you start screaming that I'm a total idiot to consider any airline, give my thinking a try. Airlines in the rest of the world are a little different than those in the U.S.
In countries like Brazil, there is not an alternate transportation choice. For much of the country, there is not a proper roadway or rail choice so air travel is the only choice. This airline moves people, cargo and mail bags so they are not as passenger dependent and ticket-price sensitive as in the U.S. Competition also isn't as keen.
The stock has hit new highs in 14 of the last 20 trading sessions and is 5 for 5 more recently. There has been a 63.48% price appreciation in the last 65 days and BarChart's technical indicators have 12 of 13 buy signals for a 96% buy rating.
The nine analysts following the stock look for a 26.2% increase in sales next year and a profit improvement of 136.8% this year. They have four buy recommendations, four hold and one sell. (The sell was from Citi back in January and the stock has had good price appreciation since that date.) The most current review, from Argus this August, went from sell to buy.
Wall Street Survivor Mark's checklist has a Survivor Sentiment rating of 5/5 and a fundamental rating of 4/5. Motley Fool members think the stock will outperform the market by a vote of 313 to 37 with the All Stars in agreement 97 to 10.
The mixed review comes from the Wall Street columnists that Fool follows with a vote of 5 to 4. The four who say sell did so back earlier in the year and have not revisited their signal. The stock has had pretty good price appreciation since then so I'll discount those sell recommendations.
The stock has what I'm looking for:
- Hitting new highs in the current market at least 50% of the time
- If Wall Street brokerages are following the stock - no current trash talking
- The other sites do not have a major disagreement with my pick
I'm going to add Linhas Aereas Inteligentes to my Wall Street Survivor portfolio around 15.78 with a protective stop loss no lower than 12.
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The National Hockey League is a copycat league.
The Anaheim Ducks won a Stanley Cup in 2007 with physical play and line depth. And a few weeks later, Bruins General Manager Peter Chiarelli sat at a podium with his new head coach Claude Julien, insisting he'd like his team to be "tougher to play against."
And off the ice it works the same way, not just in hockey, but throughout the sports industry.
In 2007, the Los Angeles Dodgers decided to turn 3,000 right field bleacher seats at Dodger Stadium into the 'All You Can Eat Pavilion'. For $35 ($40 on game day) fans could stuff themselves with Dodger Dogs, nachos, soda and pretzels to their hearts content. And during that season, the Dodgers sold on average 2,200 of those seats per game, and that's without mentioning the positive publicity, or the countless YouTube videos of gluttony in action.
"It definitely increases the value of the tickets," said team spokesperson Drew Merle. "And as someone, say, a family of four looking to come to a game, to do so and not have to worry about paying for concessions, it really is something that is convenient for our fans."
And from that convenience, copycats have emerged.
Nearly half of Major League Baseball teams had an 'All You Can Eat' option in 2008 and now a third of the NHL is on board with the trend. New additions in Atlanta, Nashville and St. Louis have joined the fray to varying degrees. The Predators offer only 250 seats per game, a means of creating a demand. The Blues on the other hand have dedicated four sections to 'All You Can Eat', but only do it for selected Tuesday Night games.
In Phoenix, fan interest has driven the Coyotes to bring back their 'All You Can Eat' program after initial success in 2007-2008. The team sold-out 400 such seats for a November game against Colorado and unlike clubs that use the promotion to boost ticket demand for less attractive games, the Coyotes use the seats to supplement more attractive dates.
"What were trying to do is create a peak on peak interest," said Flavil Hampsten, Vice President of Ticket Sales for the Coyotes. "It's a great game, a great opponent, a great value and our fans really respond to something like that."
Just to give you some idea of how popular the word of mouth for an 'All You Can Eat' seat can be, I was at a party on Saturday Night and a few friends, all of whom split a Celtics Season Ticket package while battling the poverty line, were all asking me where they could get these seats. After all, for them the seats kill two birds with one stone.
The problem is, the Bruins have made their 'Hungry for Hockey' program a package deal. Meaning fans looking to lock into the seats must do so on a Season Ticket, or a five-game basis. This for seats in the corner of the building where the opposition shoots twice, or to put it bluntly, some of the least coveted seats at TD Banknorth Garden.
To this point, the response has been overwhelming , so much so that the club will continue to abstain from selling the tickets on a single game basis after selling out the first half of the season. And with the Bruins playing their best hockey in over a decade, selling seats on a single game basis isn't something that the club will be worrying about.
"We put a lot of priorities on our season ticket holders and these people are committing to us 43 times a year," said Leigh Castergine, Director of Ticket Sales and Fan Relations for the Bruins. "Because the program is so successful, so simple and has so many benefits, we wanted to give those benefits to our number one clients, which were our Season Ticket holders and our plan holders. "
The Bruins version sells for $39 a game and includes all of the arena basics; hot dogs, sodas, popcorn, pretzels and soft drinks. After entering the arena, fans show their tickets to team representatives outside the specialized concessions area and are then given a bracelet, which allows them to stock up on food prepared buffet style. The one rather obvious drawback is that the special concession stand is a few hundred feet from the seats themselves, but the Bruins were able to do this without affecting any other points of sale in the process.
And while the food is seemingly standard, what isn't standard for most Bruins fans is that the club is seemingly ready to go down this route. For decades, Bruins owner and Delaware North Companies Chairman Jeremy Jacobs has been viewed by this fan base as a villain of thriftiness on Causeway Street, a combination of Mr. Burns and Uncle Scrooge. So to give away free food, seems rather odd of a shrewd businessman battling a tough sports economy.
Or maybe not…
"It's great, especially if you have children with you because you're all set," said Anne Ziaja of Dracut, who sat in the 'Hungry for Hockey' section with her son last night. "Hot dogs, sodas, pretzels, that kind of stuff can all add up, but here you know what you're going to spend and then you have more money, for something like souvenirs."
How about souvenirs? Well, it's no mystery that consumers are more apt to spend if they feel they're getting a good deal.
The whole idea of 'All You Can Eat' is nothing new, but was unheard of outside of the posh comforts of luxury and club seats until the Dodgers brought it into the fold last season. Patrons have come to expect bottomless soft drinks and endless hot dogs while spending premium dollars, but now they can have it in the cheap seats as well.
"Instead of shrimp cocktail, fans are getting popcorn and soda," said Merle. It's the same relative concept but with a different audience."
The seats have drawn criticism from diet and health professionals who believe they represent an easy method of binge eating and poor nutrition. According to the Centers for Disease Control, nearly one in three U.S. adults currently tips the scales as obese, so one would imagine that the seats would be a tribute to gluttony. Not so, to this observer's eyes, as families and others that merely enjoy the convenience of an all inclusive ticket made up a majority of the crowd.
"It's something that's fan friendly, family friendly, you walk into the building and don't have to worry about anything else," said Castergine. "You have your ticket to the game, you have your food, you're pretty much streamlined into this one concession stand where everything is waiting for you."
One of the things you won't see in any of these 'All You Can Eat' sections is alcohol. Not just because arenas understand that selling watered down Budweiser for seven bucks is consumer fraud at its finest, but because sports has already taken dangerous drive down the road of inebriation before.
The most dubious example came in 1974 when the Cleveland Indians decided to hold a ten-cent beer night, a game which ended with riot police on the field and an Indians forfeit. When the team decided to continue the idea later in the season, they put a limit on how many beers could be purchased, four per person. And when American League president Lee McPhail was asked about it, he said, "There was no question that beer played a part in the riot."
Given recent fan incidents, not including alcohol in the promotion makes the most sense, both for fan safety and the safety of the product on the ice.
But perhaps the most interesting dynamic of the 'All You Can Eat' seat still comes down to the bottom line and the impact it has on a team's Fan Cost Index. As many would argue, the FCI is about as credible as the BCS these days, as it includes the assumption that a family of four would purchase two adjustable hats and two programs, not to mention eat at the arena instead of eating beforehand at a fraction of the price.
Still, the numbers don't lie. The Bruins rank third in the NHL's Fan Cost Index at $352.60 per game for a family of four, but if you sit in the 'All You Can Eat' seats, the FCI drops to $232, which ranks 27th amongst NHL clubs.
And if you're the Bruins, or any team for that matter, $232 spent at the arena is better than nothing and a night at home on the couch.


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The Ottawa Senators have signed tough guy Zenon Konopka to a one-year contract worth $700,000.
Konopka spent last season with the New York Islanders and finished second in the league in fighting majors with 25, which made up a good portion of his 307 penalty minutes.
Prior to joining the Islanders, the native of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., spent the two previous seasons with the Tampa Bay Lightning. He registered two goals and three assists while skating in 74 games in 2009-10 and led the NHL with 265 penalty minutes that season.
Undrafted, Konopka made his NHL debut with the then Mighty Ducks of Anaheim during the 2005-06 season. He also played parts of two seasons with the Columbus Blue Jackets before signing with the Lightning. In 195 NHL contests, Konopka has registered eight goals, 14 assists and 684 penalty minutes.


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SHAPE's mission is to eradicate heart attacks and stroke by championing new strategies for prevention while advancing the scientific quest for a cure such as vaccines for heart attack. Heart attacks and stroke can and should be eradicated in our lifetime.
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"These findings, combined with the results of our analysis, suggest that CAC may be useful in determining the potential benefit of both aspirin and statin therapy, thus increasing the use of CAC as a tool for improved clinical decision making," authors write. Heartwire."
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HOUSTON, TX - August 26, 2013 - Approximately one in three adults in the United States has high blood pressure and more than 20% don't even know they have it. Known as the silent killer, there are often no symptoms until the heart, arteries, and other organs are already damaged. And because of the obesity epidemic, more and more children are developing high blood pressure at earlier and earlier ages.
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(PRWEB) August 21, 2013 - The Society for Heart Attack Prevention and Eradication (SHAPE) is pleased to congratulate Dr. Valentin Fuster, renowned cardiologist and scientific investigator, on being named the next editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC). He will succeed the current editor, Anthony DeMaria, M.D., beginning in 2014.
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"It's tragic that all Americans can't benefit from such life-saving screening tests because most insurance companies do not pay for it."
|August 8, 2013 - The Society for Heart Attack Prevention and Eradication (SHAPE) congratulates President Bush on his return to good health after undergoing surgery to treat a blocked coronary artery using a stent. Also to be recognized is the President's medical team that performed the original CT screening for coronary calcium in 2004 as part of his annual physical exam. When the results of this noninvasive imaging procedure found a small amount of calcification (indicating plaque build-up) in the President's coronary arteries he was prescribed a daily aspirin and cholesterol-lowering medication.
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On May 10, the Shape II Task Force met to participate in scientific updates and to hear presentations by Matthew J. Budoff, MD and J. David Spence, MD
HOUSTON, TX (PRWEB) May 27, 2013 – The mission of the Society for Heart Attack Prevention & Eradication (SHAPE) is to eradicate heart attacks and stroke by championing new strategies for prevention while advancing the scientific quest for a cure.
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In all the fuss and bother, there was a tremendous season posted by a small Finnish kid we still don't know much about. He's a wisp and a wonder. Toni Rajala didn't get a lot of attention before last season, mostly because there wasn't much to recommend him. Here's how I ranked him over the years:
- Summer 2009: #8 Stu MacGregor: "We had him on a good spot on our list. He led the under-18 world championships in scoring. He's a real competitive guy, maybe size is an issue a little bit, but he plays in the hard areas. He's a kid with really good speed and hockey sense. I don't know why he dropped back that far, but we're pretty happy to get him."
- Winter 2009: #16
- Summer 2010: #20
- Winter 2010: #25
- Summer 2011: #23
- Winter 2011: #26
- Summer 2012: NR
- Winter 2012: #26
- Summer 2013: #9
Rajala's AHL season in 2012-13 served notice: this is an NHL calibre prospect. There may not be room in Edmonton for him, but Rajala is going to get an NHL shot somewhere unless he stalls offensively or the size bias bites him hard.
- Omark 10-11 (1.11)
- Rajala 12-13 (.978)
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- Arcobello 12-13 (.919)
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- Reddox 10-11 (.892)
- Omark 11-12 (.889)
- What was his RE last year? 25, 3-1-4. The NHLers were coming, remember.
- How small is he? Listed at 5.10, 163, so he's probably 5.07, 155. About Bobby Sheehan, or Robert Nilsson.
- What are the most impressive things about his season? His SOG totals were impressive (149 SOG in 46 games) and his boxcars made a lot of noise (17-28-45) too. Rajala had an excellent season.
- And his post season? Even better! 68 SOG in 17 games, 4-12-16. He finished third in playoff shots on goal, and the two players who finished ahead of him did so in 7 more games played. Rajala was a terror in the AHL. He finished in a tie for 6th in post-season AHL scoring.
- How well did he score at evens? 46, 12-21-33 (.717). That's a pretty good number. The Omark season above had Linus the penis going 28, 9-6-15 (.536).
- Is Rajala a better prospect than Omark? Maybe. Rajala posted his 2012-13 season at age 21, Omark was 23 in 2010-11.
- Is Rajala bigger than Omark? No.
- Does he have a chance to make it? Sure. I think the key will be the "what you leave behind" portion of the MacT mantra. Neal Livingston wrote a nice article this week about it.
- Is this just another wild goose chase? Omark was a meteor, arriving at 23 and leaving at 24. Rajala is 22 now, we're likely to get a longer look at him and he's likely to improve his overall game in the mean time.
- What's his Vollman NHLE? 82, 14-22-36, the best number on last year's Barons. Vollman's minor league study on guys Rajala's age stated Vollman: "Our study found that particularly high-scoring 19- to 21-year-olds are virtually guaranteed scoring success in the NHL."
- Where does he fit as an Oiler? I don't think he does, not this year. I have him playing 2 games with the Oilers in the RE. Next season? Maybe. Rajala isn't 25 or anything and has shown impressively in OKC. If he repeats last season, I don't know how they can avoid him.
- Who was the last Oiler to post close to a ppg in two seasons and still not get the call? Never happened, not that I can recall.
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This article presents analysis of numbers of workplaces and employees in London and its 33 local authorities, broken down by enterprise size band and SIC 2007 industry sector, for the period 2001 to 2012. The figures are calculated using data from the Inter-Departmental Business Register (IDBR). Although workplaces and employees are counted at local level, the methodology uses enterprise size bands that are based on numbers of employees working for the enterprise in the UK as a whole. Thus it is possible answer questions like 'How many employees work for large retailers in Tower Hamlets?' and 'How has this changed over the past decade?'
Local planners and policy makers need information about businesses. The kinds of questions they ask are: How many businesses are there in my area? What sector of the economy do they belong to? Are they large or small? How many people do they provide employment for? How has the picture changed over time?
The first part of this article (Part 1: Methodology) explains how we have developed a way to address these questions, and the challenges involved. The second part (Part 2: Results) presents key results for London and each of its 33 local authorities over the period 2001-12, accompanied by a series of charts and maps. In the third part (Part 3: Next steps) we outline further analysis that will be published shortly and future work.
In 2008, Greater London Authority (GLA) Economics published a working paper entitled Employment in London by firm size (Prothero, 2008) which proposed a new method for analysing official statistics on the size structure of firms in London and other parts of the UK. The paper pointed out that official sources such as the Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprise (SME) statistics of the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) and the business statistics publications of the Office for National Statistics (ONS) present different figures on this topic, but none of them meet the policy and planning requirements of organisations like the GLA.
The 2008 GLA Economics paper proposed a new approach based on the ONS's Inter-Departmental Business Register (IDBR). The IDBR is a statistical register based on administrative sources and surveys which contains information on businesses in all parts of the economy. It covers nearly all of UK economic activity including that of public sector bodies (which are not – strictly speaking – businesses). An organisation will be on the IDBR if it is registered for Value Added Tax (VAT), and/or pays employees through a Pay As You Earn (PAYE) scheme and/or is an incorporated business registered at Companies House1. Some very small businesses, self-employed people and non-profit-making organisations are not on the IDBR as they are not registered in any of these ways.
BIS has developed a methodology for estimating 'unregistered' businesses using self-employment data from ONS's Labour Force Survey2. Such information can be added to the IDBR data if an analysis of total employment is required. However, the approach presented in this article focuses on numbers of employees (rather than total employment) and workplaces of registered businesses.
The information about employees on the IDBR is drawn mainly from the Business Register and Employment Survey (BRES). Estimates from other ONS surveys are also included. For the smallest businesses, either PAYE jobs or figures imputed from VAT turnover are used.
The IDBR database is organised on two levels: one dataset contains enterprise-level information while the other has information about 'local units' (the physical locations or workplaces which make up the enterprise). In the case of a small business, the enterprise and the local unit may be the same thing, but large enterprises may have many local units. For instance, a supermarket chain would appear in the enterprise-level dataset as employing several thousand people, and the entire workforce would be recorded at the address where the enterprise is registered. By contrast, in the 'local unit' dataset, the supermarket chain's workforce will be recorded where people actually work, both at the head office and in the local branches. Adding up numbers of employees in all of the locations of the business recorded on the local unit database gives the employee figure on the enterprise-level database.
From the point of view of local planners and policy makers, a combination of enterprise-level and local unit level information from the IDBR is needed. This is because workers need to be counted in the location where they work (their workplaces) but they would normally be thought of as working for a 'large firm' if their branch were part of an enterprise that employs many people nationally, even if their own workplace was a small one.
The methodology developed for the 2008 paper by GLA Economics combined enterprise-level and local unit level information from the IDBR. First it created 'enterprise size bands' based on numbers of employees working for the enterprise in the UK as a whole. Then it produced analysis of numbers of people employed by local units in London within these enterprise size bands.
This analysis was further split by industry sector (the part of the economy that the business belongs to). The results showed, for example, how many employees work for SMEs in the retail sector in London. Industry sector could be defined either on the basis of the enterprise (reflecting the predominant activity of the whole firm), or at local level (reflecting the activity of the workplace). For the analysis presented in this article, we have chosen the latter approach (see Definitions). If the figures for employees working in local retailing units of all sizes in London are added up, they give the total number of employees in the retail sector in London.
It should be noted, however, that the IDBR does not provide official estimates of numbers of employees in the UK. These are published in ONS's monthly Labour Market Statistics series (see References). ONS also recommends using the BRES for detailed industry sector and geographical breakdowns of official employee statistics.
Recent developments
In 2013, at the request of the GLA, ONS's London Region Office undertook to develop the methodology proposed by the 2008 GLA Economics paper with a view to creating a standardised approach that could be used in future, and could be replicated for other parts of the UK. A particular emphasis of this work has been to produce figures for local authorities and smaller areas within London and to provide a time series as far back as possible. The earliest year for which IDBR datasets are available is 2001.
The need for results for small geographical areas has proved challenging because of the requirement to protect the confidentiality of the IDBR data. This means making sure that it is impossible for users to identify a particular business from the published results, in practice by suppressing results where there are too few local units or one 'dominant' local unit. This is more likely to happen when analysing results in small geographical areas than when looking at London or the UK as a whole (see below: Protecting confidentiality).
It is possible to present information for local authorities in London broken down by industry sector with relatively low levels of suppression. It is also possible to present results for the small areas known as 'Middle-layer Super Output Areas' (MSOAs) which nest within local authorities3, but when the analysis team tried producing breakdowns for MSOAs by industry sector most of the results had to be suppressed. Therefore, MSOA-level information, which will be published shortly (see Part 3: Next steps), will not contain industry sector breakdowns.
The following definitions have been adopted for the purpose of this work:
Enterprise size bands. Local units are placed in size bands according to the number of employees working for the business/organisation in the UK as a whole (the 'enterprise'). These are referred to as enterprise size bands. The standard definition of a SME (used by the UK government and the EU4) is an enterprise with fewer than 250 employees. For the purpose of this project, the full set of enterprise size bands are as follows, with enterprises in the first four bands being SMEs:
zero employees (the business has one or more owners/proprietors but no employees)
1-9 employees
10-49 employees
50-249 employees
250-499 employees
500 to 2,499 employees
2,500+ employees
The full set of enterprise size bands can be analysed at London level, but for lower geographies it is necessary to combine size bands. The simplest breakdown is two categories: (i) SMEs made up of size bands 1-4 and (ii) large enterprises made up of bands 5-7. SMEs with fewer than 10 employees (size bands 1-2) are known as 'micro' enterprises; these include enterprises which do not have any employees.
Industry sectors. The industry sectors used for this analysis are:
Primary and utilities
Wholesale and motor trades
Transportation and storage
Accommodation and food service activities
Information and communication
Financial and insurance activities
Real estate activities
Professional, scientific and technical
Administrative and support service activities
Public administration and defence; compulsory social security
Human health and social work activities
Arts, entertainment and recreation
Other service activities
These sectors are based on ONS's Standard Industrial Classification 2007 (SIC07) sections (also known as '1-digit' classifications). However, some sections have been combined and one has been split in response to GLA requirements5.
We have chosen to define industry sector based on the economic activity of the local unit (reflecting the activity of the workplace) rather than that of the enterprise (reflecting the predominant activity of the whole firm). This is because the activity of the local unit is of most interest to local planners and policy makers. Users should note, however, that there may be substantial differences between the two approaches if enterprises have workplaces that carry out different economic activities. In addition, under SIC07 head office activities are identified separately at local unit level and appear in the professional, scientific and technical sector. For instance, in this analysis employees working at the head office of a manufacturing company would be appear in the professional, scientific and technical sector rather than in the manufacturing sector.
For years before 2009, it has been necessary to convert the IDBR data from the bases on which it was collected (SIC92 and SIC03) onto a SIC07 basis to allow comparability over the whole time series. Caution should be exercised in interpreting the pre-2009 industry sector breakdowns because the conversion process relies on modelling, which is based on assumptions (see Appendix 1). Also, we believe that the conversion process does not fully account for changes in the treatment of head office activities before the introduction of SIC07. This means that particular caution is advised when looking at pre-2009 results for places where head office activity is important (see Appendix 1). For both of these reasons, the pre-2009 industry sector breakdowns on a SIC07 basis that are presented in this article and the accompanying data tables should be treated as experimental statistics, even though the underlying data (collected on SIC92 and SIC03 bases) is a National Statistic.
Geography. Geographical location is defined at local unit (workplace) level. For instance, when reporting on the number of employees working in Havering, the numbers refer only to people who work at locations in Havering. If a firm has its headquarters in Havering but half of its employees are based at a workplace in Redbridge, the employees working in Redbridge are not included in the Havering results but are included in the Redbridge results.
Empty premises. For the purposes of the IDBR analysis presented in this paper and accompanying tables, local units with no employment have been removed on the grounds that these units are 'empty premises', not workplaces. In 2012, this reduced the total number of local units in London by 0.6% compared with the standard IDBR tables available on the ONS website (see References).
Protecting confidentiality
As already mentioned, the ONS is required to protect the confidentiality of the IDBR data. In areas where there are few firms or a 'dominant' firm, if results were to be published it might be possible for users to infer how many people were employed by a particular business. Although numbers of people employed is not generally seen as commercially sensitive, it is a legal requirement for ONS to protect this information because it has been provided in confidence by the businesses concerned.
For this analysis, four steps have been taken to ensure that confidentiality is protected. Results are suppressed if:
There are fewer than 5 local units in any cell of a table (primary suppression).
One local unit is dominant in any cell and it might therefore be possible for a reader to work out which that local unit was (primary suppression).
Results in other parts of a table or set of tables allow readers to work out the results that have been removed during primary suppression. This involves removing information that does not need to be suppressed in its own right but could be used to deduce suppressed results (secondary suppression).
In addition, as a fourth step, results for numbers of local units are rounded to the nearest 5 and results for numbers of employees are rounded to the nearest 100. This also helps to protect confidentiality.
Comparisons with other data sources
Most of the publications that are currently available on this topic – such as the BIS SME statistics and ONS's business statistics – do not use the definition of enterprise size adopted here. Therefore our results (see Part 2: Results) are not comparable with them. However, employment data from ONS's BRES will soon be available on NOMIS on a similar basis as our analysis, with enterprise size band defined at the level of the UK as a whole.
ONS generally recommends BRES as the definitive source of official employee statistics for detailed analysis by industry sector and small geographical areas. However, for this analysis we have chosen to use the IDBR because it is possible construct a time series from 2001 to 2012, whereas BRES data is only available for 2009, 2010 and 2011. Also, for the BRES data published on NOMIS, enterprise size bands are expected to be based on the total number of people employed (including owner/proprietors). By contrast, the standard UK Government and EU definition of an SME is based on employee numbers (see above: Definitions).
Nevertheless, readers should be aware that BRES data will shortly be available on a similar basis, and that there are some differences between the results based on the IDBR and those based on BRES. Apart from the difference between the use of employee-based and employment-based size bands, these differences are mainly attributable to the following factors:
The BRES is a survey, so it provides an up-to-date snapshot at a point in time (September each year). The IDBR is a register of businesses. The IDBR extracts used for this analysis are taken in March, but the employment information on them is drawn from the BRES of the previous September and from other ONS surveys. The IDBR is not updated in full every year because only a sample of enterprises is surveyed each year. Therefore the employment information on the IDBR relates to a variety of time periods.
In the IDBR, much of the information on micro enterprises comes from PAYE records or is imputed from VAT turnover. It is for such enterprises that the differences between the IDBR and BRES estimates are greatest.
The information presented in this section is based on analysis of 'local units', or workplaces. Workplaces may belong to private sector businesses or to public sector or not-for-profit organisations. Workplaces are allocated to enterprise size bands according to the number of employees working for the business/organisation in the UK as a whole (see above: Definitions).
The analysis looks at numbers of workplaces and numbers of employees in London and its 33 local authorities. These two variables are classified according to enterprise size bands and which industry sector (or part of the economy) they belong to.
Size of firms in London
Chart 1 shows that the number of workplaces in London rose from 366,290 in 2001 to 414,375 in 2012. There were decreases in the early 2000s and in 2010-11. The number rose in 2012, but the magnitude of the increase is overstated in the figures, as improvements to HM Revenue and Customs computer systems lead to the inclusion in 2012 of businesses that had not previously been recorded on the register. The pattern was similar in the UK as a whole, where the number of workplaces rose from 2.4 million to 2.6 million over this period.
The growth in the number of workplaces was accompanied by growth in numbers of employees between 2001 and 2012. According to the IDBR, the number of employees rose from 3.6 million to 4.2 million in London and from 23.9 million to 26.8 million in the UK, with slower growth or downturns in the early 2000s and in 2010-11. It should be noted that the IDBR figures are not official estimates of numbers of employees in London and the UK. These are published in ONS's monthly Labour Market Statistics series (see References).
Chart 2 shows that the proportion of SME workplaces in London has remained steady since 2001 at 88-89% of all workplaces. The proportion of SME workplaces is slightly lower in the UK as a whole than in London: it was around 85-86% over this period.
Workplaces belonging to large firms (with 250 or more employees) comprised 11-12% of workplaces in London between 2001 and 2012. Most of these were associated with enterprises with 2,500 or more employees.
Most SME workplaces belong to micro enterprises (those with fewer than 10 employees): in 2012, 87% of SME workplaces in London were associated with micro enterprises. Within this category, the proportion with zero employees fell over this period, while the proportion with 1-9 employees rose. This is understood to be because of the increasing propensity for sole traders to register as limited companies because of the legal and commercial advantages available and because registration has become easier over the past decade. When a sole trader sets up as a limited company, they are recorded as an employee of that company rather than as an owner/proprietor.
Chart 3 shows the proportion of employees in London working for different sizes of enterprise. Although SME workplaces comprise nearly 90% of workplaces in London, only two-fifths of employees work for an SME. Over three-quarters of London's workplaces belong to micro enterprises, but micro enterprises provided work for only 15% of its employees in 2012. Most employees work for large enterprises, and almost four out of ten employees in London work for a firm employing 2,500 or more employees. The proportions are similar for the UK as a whole.
Chart 4 shows that in 2012, the top five industry sectors in London in terms of where employees worked were the professional, scientific and technical sector, the administrative and support services sector, the human health and social work sector, the retail sector, and financial and insurance activities. Nearly half of all employees in London worked in one of these sectors. The biggest increases in numbers of employees over the decade to 2012 were in real estate activities, education, and health and social work activities. Numbers also appear to have risen in the professional, scientific and technical sector, but much of this is likely to be due to improved classification of head office activities over this period. It has not been possible to capture this classification change fully in our time series (see Chart 6 below and Appendix 1).
Chart 5 shows that most industry sectors saw little change in the proportion of employees working for SMEs over the decade to 2012. The main exception was the education sector, which saw a sharp increase. It should be noted that an increase in the proportion of employees working for SMEs does not necessarily imply that there are more SMEs or that SMEs are expanding; it may be because large businesses have been broken up or closed down. In the case of the education sector, it may also reflect changes in government policy.
Overall, the industry sector with the highest proportion of employees in SMEs in 2012 was 'other service activities' (74%), while the sector with the lowest proportion (2%) was public administration and defence.
Size of firms in London's local authorities
ONS is publishing detailed tables for London's local authorities alongside this article (see below: Data available with this publication). This section provides examples of the analysis that can be produced using these tables by looking at a selection of industry sectors and local authorities.
Chart 6 shows the ten local authorities in London with the largest number of employees in the professional, scientific and technical sector in 2012. In terms of where employees work, this was the largest industry sector in London in 2012, with 513,700 employees. It should be noted that there are also many self-employed people working in this sector, but they are not covered by this analysis.
The professional, scientific and technical sector includes legal and accounting firms, management consultancies, architectural and engineering firms, scientific research bodies and advertising/market research firms. It also includes head offices of firms whose main activity may be in other industry sectors. In some London local authorities, employees working at head offices accounted for a large proportion of those working in the professional, scientific and technical sector in 2012 (for instance 19% in Westminster and 43% in Hillingdon, see Appendix 1).
Chart 6 does not show figures for earlier years. This is because comparisons over time may be misleading for the professional, scientific and technical sector in some local authorities because the process of converting the IDBR data from SIC92 and SIC03 onto a SIC07 basis (see Definitions) does not fully capture changes in the treatment of head office activities before the introduction of SIC07. Therefore, employees of head offices may be recorded in other sectors before 2009, and numbers of employees in the professional, scientific and technical sector are likely to be underestimated.
The proportion of employees in the professional, scientific and technical sector working for SMEs varies considerably between local authorities. For instance, in 2012 it was 60% in Westminster but only 36% in the City of London.
While jobs in the professional, scientific and technical sector are concentrated in certain local authorities, in retailing they are more evenly spread across London. With the exception of Westminster, where there were 57,500 employees working in the retail sector, the number of employees in each local authority in 2012 ranged from 4,000 in Barking and Dagenham to 20,200 in Kensington and Chelsea.
Chart 7 shows how the numbers of employees have changed in the retail sector in selected local authorities over the past decade. There have been big increases in Hammersmith and Fulham and in Newham (probably linked to the opening of the Westfield shopping centres). In both these boroughs, the increase in numbers of employees has been accompanied by a decrease in the proportion working for SMEs, from 51% to 27% in Hammersmith and Fulham and from 38% to 31% in Newham. Numbers of employees in the retail sector have also risen in Tower Hamlets. Redbridge and Sutton have seen a decline in numbers over the decade, while in Brent and Croydon there has been little change.
Financial and insurance activity takes place mainly in three London local authorities: City of London (with 151,300 employees in 2012), Tower Hamlets (with 75,200) and Westminster (with 37,900). Chart 8 shows that each of these local authorities has a different profile in terms of numbers of employees working for large firms in the financial and insurance sector, and that these patterns have been diverging over the past decade. There has been increasing concentration in the City and Tower Hamlets (where 76% and 94% of employees respectively worked for large enterprises in 2012), while the opposite has been happening in Westminster (where only 39% worked for large enterprises in 2012).
It is also possible to show this kind of information on maps. Maps 9 and 10 show the distribution of employees working for SMEs and large enterprises in London's accommodation and food services sector in 2012. In Westminster, there were large numbers of employees working for both SMEs and large enterprises. In the City of London, large enterprises were the main employers, with over 10,000 employees in 2012; there were fewer than 5,000 employees working for SMEs. By contrast, an employee working in Hammersmith and Fulham or in Southwark in 2012 would be more likely to have been working for an SME than a large firm.
Map 10: Number of employees in large enterprises in London's accommodation and food services sector, 2012
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Data available with this publication
The data tables published with this article present breakdowns of IDBR data at London level and for each local authority within London. UK figures are also shown for comparison. The tables show numbers of workplaces and numbers of employees by enterprise size band and by industry sector. They answer the questions: How many businesses are there in my area? What sector of the economy do they belong to? Are they large or small? How many people do they provide employment for? How has the picture changed over time?
The following tables are available with this publication for 2001 to 2012:
Workbook entitled 'Size of firms in London and the UK by enterprise size':
Table 1: Number of workplaces in the UK and London by size of enterprise, 2001-2012 (all seven enterprise size bands)
Table 2: Number of employees in the UK and London by size of enterprise, 2001-2012 (all seven enterprise size bands)
Table 3: Number of workplaces in the UK, by industry sector and by size of enterprise, 2001-2012 (three bands: <10, 10-249 and 250+ employees)
Table 4: Number of employees in the UK, by industry sector and by size of enterprise, 2001-2012 (three bands: <10, 10-249 and 250+ employees)
Table 5: Number of workplaces in London, by industry sector and by size of enterprise, 2001-2012 (three bands: <10, 10-249 and 250+ employees)
Table 6: Number of employees in London, by industry sector and by size of enterprise, 2001-2012 (three bands: <10, 10-249 and 250+ employees)
Workbook entitled 'Size of firms in London local authorities by enterprise size':
Number of workplaces and employees by enterprise size band (three bands: <10, 10-249 and 250+ employees) and by industry sector for each of the 33 London local authorities
More analysis
ONS will publish another article on 8 August 2013 entitled Small and Large Firms in London, 2001 to 2012. This will contain the following analysis of MSOAs in London for 2001 to 2012:
Number of workplaces by enterprise size band (two bands: <250 and 250+ employees) for each MSOA in London
Number of employees by enterprise size band (two bands: <250 and 250+ employees) for each MSOA in London
Future work
Now that a standardised approach to producing analysis by enterprise size band from IDBR data exists, similar analyses could be undertaken for other parts of the UK. It would also be possible for local planners and policy makers to add estimates for the self employed to the IDBR figures, following the methodology developed by BIS (see Part 1: Methodology).
Better geographies
Until recently, the only low-level geographies available to analysts were based on political boundaries, such as parliamentary constituencies, or on administrative boundaries, such as local authorities, or on where people live1. None of these approaches is designed for analysing business data such as that contained in the IDBR. However, ONS has recently published a new classification known as 'Census Workplace Zones', which is based on information about where people work from the 2011 Census. This provides the foundation for improving geographical analysis of businesses.
The Census Workplace Zones are very small, so they cannot be used for IDBR analysis without compromising confidentiality. Nevertheless, it should also be possible to group Census Workplace Zones together to create larger business zones for which results can be presented. This is a key challenge for the future.
Different researchers may group the Census Workplace Zones together in different ways, reflecting different requirements. However, this could create problems because once results have been published for one grouping, other groupings may no longer be possible. This is because if there are overlaps between different groupings, publication of results might compromise confidentiality since information about particular businesses could be deduced by comparing the results. To prevent this happening, standardised groupings of Census Workplace Zones are needed, like those which are already available for geographies based on where people live. A project is now under way, coordinated by ONS Geography, to create such standardised groupings.In putting together the groupings, this project must take into account the need for the areas to be suitable for analysing other business statistics sources such as the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) and the BRES as well as the IDBR. It must also take into account the probable needs of different types of user, from policy makers and planners to academics and members of the business community. Furthermore, it must take into account existing residential population-based groupings such as MSOAs. Therefore, this is a complex task which is likely to take time to achieve.
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The IDBR datasets for 2001 to 2012 contain information that was collected each year on the basis of the UK Standard Industry Classification (SIC) that was in place at the time. For the 2001 and 2002 datasets, this was SIC92. For 2003 to 2008 it was SIC03. For 2009 to 2012 it was SIC07. This presents problems for users wishing to look at change over time. Therefore, the results presented here have been converted onto a consistent (SIC07) basis.
However, this means that all breakdowns by industry sector before 2009 contain an element of modelling (required for the conversions) and users should be aware of the assumptions used in this modelling. Also, we believe that the conversion process does not succeed in putting the classification of head office activities before 2009 onto a basis that is fully comparable with SIC07. This appendix explains how the conversion process was done and also discusses head office activities.
Creating SIC07-consistent industry sectors before 2009
Originally, the conversion was done in two stages, both using information at local unit level:
Data collected on a SIC92 basis was converted onto a SIC03 basis using a table showing the relationship between 5-digit SIC categories. This was relatively simple because the changes were between 4-or 5-digit SIC categories and had no impact at 1-digit level, which was the level at which the data was being analysed.
Data on a SIC03 basis (whether originally collected on this basis or converted from SIC92) was converted onto a SIC07 basis. This was complicated because the change from SIC03 to SIC07 affected a large number of lower-digit categories and had an impact at 1-digit level. The method used involved a lookup table and a weighted correlation table. This probability-based allocation process is described in detail below (see Converting from SIC03 to SIC07).
The results of all probability-based conversion processes are imperfect. In order to improve the outcome, we decided that if we had the SIC07 code of a local unit after SIC07 was introduced and this local unit had been in the dataset before then, we could use this information to 'backcast' SIC07 codes for previous years. The process we adopted was: if we knew what the SIC07 code of the local unit was in 2009 to 2011 and it was the same code in all three years, we assumed that this code could be allocated to the local unit (and its employees) in previous years if the local unit existed in those years.
Thus the final results are based on a combination of two methods: a) a probability-based process of conversion from SIC03, and b) 'backcasting' SIC07 codes. Table A1 shows the proportion of employees in London for whom industry sector before 2009 is the result of backcasting.
|% of employees for whom industry sector is backcast
|% of employees for whom industry sector is based on conversion from SIC03
Converting from SIC03 to SIC07 using the probability-based allocation process
ONS provides two tools for converting data from SIC03 to SIC07. The spreadsheet 'Correlation between SIC 2003 and 2007' is a lookup table showing the relationship between each of the 5-digit SIC03 codes and their SIC07 equivalents. However, one SIC03 code may become several SIC07 codes and some SIC07 codes cover more than one SIC03 code. Therefore it is necessary to use the 'Weighted Tables with percentages SIC03 - SIC07' workbook, which shows what proportion of each SIC03 code will end up in the SIC07 code shown in the lookup table. This is provided separately for number of local units (count %), employment and turnover. We used count % and employment % at 5-digit level, with the latter being used as a proxy for employees.
To show how this works, take the example of a workplace which was in SIC03 5-digit code 01210 and had 100 employees. According to the correlation table (count %), this SIC03 code was split such that 74% was allocated to SIC07 code 01410 and 26% was allocated to SIC07 code 01420. Therefore the workplace was split such that it was counted as 0.74 units in category 01410, and 0.26 units in category 01420.
For producing analyses of the number of employees by industry sector, the conversion from SIC03 to SIC07 needed to use the employment % in the correlation table (rather than the count %) and this had to be applied to employees individually rather than to local units, which might contain several employees. Not doing so meant that sectors with larger workplaces ended up with a higher proportion of employees than they should, while those with smaller workplaces got a lower proportion. Extending the example, according to the correlation table (employment %), 71% of employment in SIC03 code 01210 was allocated to SIC07 code 01410, and 29% to code 01420. Therefore 71 of the 100 employees in the workplace would be allocated to 01410 and 29 employees would be allocated to 01420.
This complication meant that it was necessary to do the analysis of numbers of employees by industry sector separately from the analysis of number of local units by industry sector. Therefore, when interpreting tables by industry sector that use data converted from SIC03 (before 2009), the employees in a particular cell of the 'number of employees' table do not necessarily work for the local units in the equivalent cell of the 'number of workplaces' table. Conceptually, this is because a small number of records relating to local units with more than one employee will have been split between 5-digit SIC07 categories during the SIC03 to SIC07 conversion process.
Head office activities
During the analysis, we found evidence to suggest that the probability-based conversion process is not able to identify and convert all head office activities onto a SIC07 basis. The issue arises because originally, in SIC92, head offices were recorded against the principal activity of the firm to which they belonged (they had no separate SIC code). In SIC03, this approach was retained at enterprise level, but local units which were head offices were recorded under code 7415 (management activities of holding companies). In SIC07 activities of head offices were split out from those of holding companies and given a unique code (70100) which puts them into the professional, scientific and technical sector.
The process of converting data from SIC03 to SIC07 based on lookup and weighted correlation tables should, in theory, make it possible to convert from SIC03 code 7415 to SIC07 code 70100. However, the results indicate that this was not as successful as other parts of the conversion process. Moreover, it is not possible to convert head office information from data originally collected using SIC92 because head offices were not identified by a separate SIC code under SIC92.
Therefore, before 2009, numbers of employees in the professional, scientific and technical sector are likely to be underestimated and numbers in other industry sectors may be overestimated because employees of head offices may be recorded in other industry sectors rather than in the professional, scientific and technical sector. This means that caution is advised when looking at pre-2009 breakdowns by industry sector, especially in early years when much of the data is based on the probability-based conversion process rather than on 'backcasting' (see Table A1 above). This is particularly so in places where head office activity is important (see Table A2).
|Local Authority
|Kensington and Chelsea
|Tower Hamlets
|Hammersmith and Fulham
|Kingston upon Thames
|Barking and Dagenham
|Richmond upon Thames
|City of London
|Waltham Forest


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Tens of thousands of prospective college students want to be Terps or Cavaliers - and it turns out the University of Maryland and the University of Virginia are among the most desirable schools in the country, according to a college finder website.
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UVa president emeritus to chair museum board
Ex-U.Va. dean pleads guilty to child porn charges
U.Va. visitors to weigh tuition increases
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Va. justices: Academic emails can be withheld
The Virginia Supreme Court has upheld a judge's decision rejecting a conservative group's attempt to obtain a former University of Virginia climate researcher's emails.
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U.Va.'s Darden dean to return to faculty in 2015
University of Virginia tops best-investment list
High school seniors are opening their acceptance letters and finding out whether they've been accepted into their dream colleges. But before they commit, they should consider which ones are the best deals. And that might just be a university in the area.
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U.Va. revives Public Day presentation tradition
Graduating students at the University of Virginia will give presentations on their work to the public for the first time since the mid-1800s.
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NEW YORK – Gretel-Ann Fischer already told customers that she won't accept credit cards for purchases under $5 at her Vermont bakery. The last thing she wants to do is anger them by passing along the transaction fee she has to pay each time they use plastic.
Fischer is one of thousands of retailers in 40 states who now have the right to charge customers the fees that come along with using credit cards. They won that right as part of a settlement of a class action lawsuit brought by merchants against the credit card companies Visa and MasterCard and major banks that issue credit cards. But many small retailers say that customers will bolt if they tack on a surcharge that could range from 1.5 percent and 4 percent of purchases made with plastic.
It's just not going to happen. It's hard enough to get them to accept the $5 minimum, says Fischer, who owns Cupps Cafe and Bakery in Winooski, Vt. She imposed the minimum because of a 17-cent per transaction fee that's in addition to the 2.5 percent that Visa and MasterCard charge for the entire purchase. Seventeen cents on a $2 cup of coffee was too much for the bakery to absorb.
Credit card transaction fees cost the bakery $10,000 a year, a big bite for a company with annual revenue of about $400,000. But Fischer and her husband, Brian, say passing the fees along just isn't an option.
I think you'd alienate a bunch of customers, says Brian Fischer.
The surcharges are the result of a settlement last July of a long-running federal antitrust lawsuit brought by nine retailers against Visa, MasterCard and major banks. Before the agreement, the credit card companies prohibited retailers and other businesses that accept credit cards from charging customers for the right to use plastic. The settlement gave merchants the right to pass along the fees as of Jan. 27.
The plaintiffs in the lawsuit ranged from Leon's Transmission, a California auto repair company with seven locations, to Payless ShoeSource, which has thousands of stores across the country. They charged that Visa, MasterCard and the banks conspired to fix the fees on credit card transactions. Other big merchants to file suit include Kroger and Walgreen.
The surcharges can't be slipped in without telling customers. The agreement requires retailers to notify customers before and after a purchase. That means visible signs at a store entrance and its cash registers. And the sales receipt has to list the surcharge separately. Websites must notify customers that they're about to pay more for something they buy online.
But the number of retailers who pass along the transaction fee is likely to be relatively small. Big retailers like Wal-Mart and Target have already said they won't do it. And under the agreement, a multistate retailer with stores in the 10 states where the surcharge is illegal can't impose it in states where it is.
The lawsuit's intent was to lower the transaction fees that merchants pay, says Mallory Duncan, a senior vice president at the National Retail Federation, a trade group that is opposed to the settlement.
In the end, the terms of the settlement created a dilemma. Many retailers could go ahead and pass on the fees to shoppers. But by doing so they risk angering customers.
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WASHINGTON, D.C., October 5, 2005 The American Advertising Federation (AAF) today announced that its Advertising Hall of Fame Web site, www.advertisinghalloffame.org, has been honored with the "Best of Industry" 2005 WebAward in the Best Associations Website category by the Web Marketing Association (WMA). The WebAwardsis the premier annual awards competition that judges Web site development against an ever increasing standard and against peer sites.
The Advertising Hall of Fame site acts as a virtual museum, celebrating the legends of the industry. This robust site offers in-depth resources, including speeches, bios and videos, on those whose hard work and achievements have made the advertising industry what it is today. With nearly 170 members, the Advertising Hall of Fame is the most prestigious honor given to advertising, media and agency professionals who have raised the standards and level of professionalism in the industry, while inspiring future generations.
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The Advertising Hall of Fame Web site was designed and implemented by Xtential Corporation. Added Shih, "Just as they did with our AAF corporate site six years ago, Xtential delivered a Web site of exceptional quality on an extremely tight deadline that has gone on to win a coveted award."
Now in its ninth year, the WebAwards recognize the individual and team achievement of Web professionals who create and maintain outstanding corporate Web sites. This year's field of entrants numbered a record 2,100 from 33 countries.
The American Advertising Federation (AAF), headquartered in Washington, D.C., acts as the "Unifying Voice for Advertising." The AAF is the oldest national advertising trade association, representing 50,000 professionals in the advertising industry. The AAF has a national network of 200 ad clubs located in ad communities across the country. Through its 215 college chapters, the AAF provides 6,500 advertising students with real-world case studies and recruitment connections to corporate America. The AAF also has 130 blue-chip corporate members that are advertisers, agencies and media companies, comprising the nation's leading brands and corporations. For more information, visit the AAF's Web site at www.aaf.org.


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A Mormon is credited with starting the first documented brewery in Utah way back in 1856. The Hot Springs Hotel and Brewery sat on land now occupied by the Utah State Prison.
That's just one of the bits of beer history that Cevan LeSieur served up recently for the Utah Heritage Foundation's Thirst Fursdays Historic Pub Crawl in downtown Salt Lake City.
History and suds
Learn about Utah's beer history while tipping a few cold ones during the Utah Heritage Foundation's Thirst Fursdays Historic Pub Crawl, held on the first Thursday of each month.
When » Thursdays, Oct. 4, Nov. 1 and Dec. 6
Where » Pub crawl stops are revealed after you register.
Tickets » $20; $15 for Utah Heritage Foundation members, at www.utahheritagefoundation.org/tours-and-events/pubcrawl or 801-533-0858.
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The brewery pioneer was none other than the notorious Orrin Porter Rockwell, bodyguard to Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, who apparently saw an economic opportunity for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to unofficially control liquor production in Utah.
Back in 1874, there was even a brewery being housed inside the LDS Church's Salt Lake Tenth Ward building, according to the literature handed out before the bar hopping began.
This month's Thirst Fursday pub crawl began at O'Shucks Bar & Grill, then moved to Murphy's Bar & Grill and ended at Beerhive Pub. All three stops are within a half-block or so of each other.
The Utah Heritage Foundation originally planned only three crawls over the summer, but the events drew enough interest to continue the events through the end of the year. "I'm really interested in the history of downtown," said crawler Suzy Millward, who was attracted to the Sept. 6 event by the promise of local history and, of course, beer.
Millward and her boyfriend, David Thimm, were joined by about 20 people, including Scott Beck, president of the Salt Lake Convention and Visitors Bureau, and several of his employees. Beck said he's interested in promoting the crawls on a national level.
Inside O'Shucks, Millward and Thimm clinked pints at a table set against the warm hues of exposed stone and brick that defines the interior of the 37-foot-wide building, designed in 1890. At the far end of bar, there's a metal door leading to an old bank vault, now a cooler, left over from when the building was the Utah Commercial & Savings Bank until 1919.
O'Shucks opened in 2000, and now the subterranean setting also houses Ahh Sushi. The restaurant offers lunch and dinner deals throughout the week so your visit won't "break the bank," says manager Kristi Schwerin.
After about a half-hour, LeSieur and Carolynn Bottino, manager of the Heritage Foundation's Memorial House, herded the group to Murphy's, in a building built in 1892 to house another bank.
The bar has been serving drinks for 34 years — its slogan is "A step down in social clubs" — but previously the bank building was used for mining company offices, a jewelry store and an ice-cream shop.
Bartender Tony Moe describes Murphy's as "the way bars used to be," where 90 percent of the customers are regulars whom employees know by name and by drink.
The pub crawl ended just up the sidewalk along Main Street between 100 and 200 South in an area that around 1902 was known more for gambling and prostitution. Now commonly known as the Daynes Building, it hosts the popular Beerhive Pub, offering over 200 brews while emphasizing locally crafted beers. "If there's a beer made in Utah, we try to get it here," said owner Del Vance, author of the 2008 book Beer in the Beehive: A History of Brewing in Utah.
Vance likes to say Beerhive exists so people don't have to try home brewing. "Trying [to home brew] is the first step toward sucking," he said with a laugh.
Vance established the pub downtown because he wanted to be in a historic building. "I'm a big history buff," he said. That, and he wanted to be close to all the traffic from downtown's City Creek Center. "The poor guy whose wife is over there spending the family fortune is going to want to drink," he joked.
The Beerhive features a frosted rail running the length of the main bar where you can keep your drink cool if the conversation runs a bit long. Michelangelo's restaurant next door provides food if you get hungry. And don't forget to check out Vance's enlarged prints of old photographs that show what downtown Salt Lake City looked like 100 years ago.
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A court of law will decide whether suspended Homestead Mayor Steven Bateman is guilty as charged. However, the city's voters decided that they didn't want him in office no matter what. Mr. Bateman faces public-corruption charges, filed in August by the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office. He has yet to face a jury, which will determine whether he purposely used his office — and the political power that came with it — for personal gain.
At the very least, the majority of Homestead residents who voted saw in Mr. Bateman an elected official who went to great lengths to conceal conflicts of interest from which he and his wife stood to benefit. Tuesday, he paid at the polls.
Mr. Bateman came in third in a four-way primary for mayor. Former City Councilman Jeff Porter and innkeeper Mark Bell, husband of Miami-Dade Commissioner — and former Homestead mayor — Lynda Bell. She, ironically was unseated by Mr. Bateman for the mayor's office in 2009.
As for the suspended mayor, he gets to go home, the one from which he was escorted in handcuffs early one August morning to the county jail. And home is where he should have stayed once he was sprung to await trial. But instead, he arrogantly hit the campaign trail again, certain that he had a shot of being reelected.
Greater Miami has seen such hubris before.
Mr. Bateman clearly miscalculated his level of support. It was an insult to the intelligence of his constituents to think that they would blithely overlook both the allegations of corruption and what he actually did.
He, for instance, met with county officials, including county Mayor Carlos Gimenez, pushing hard for a multimillion-dollar sewer-system expansion, which would benefit a healthcare provider. The county representatives said that Mr. Bateman never told them that he was on the payroll for the company, CHI, and that he was making $125 an hour as a consultant, whatever that meant. Whether he pressed CHI to pay him illegally under the table remains to be determined. However, voters rightly couldn't ignore what prosecutors say are detailed invoices that the mayor submitted to CHI, even overbilling the nonprofit that provides health services to poor residents.
Mr. Bateman also had dealings with downtown Homestead developer, Ernesto A. Perez, the CEO of Dade Medical College. The mayor took the lead in asking his city to help Mr. Perez buy city-owned property at an attractively low price. The mayor's wife, Donna, happened to be the college's real-estate agent.
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