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I spent the summer a few years back traveling alone in china hopping between hostels and couch surfing. I don't know much Chinese but I found it is rather easy to get help when you kind of look like harry potter. I had a lot of great adventures. Being the only non chinese on a low class night train from beijing to Xian. Going to pub crawls in shanghai. Biking through the beautiful mountains of yanshou and going up two of the mountains of enlightenment. The best part was all the great people I met from all around the world.
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Wide enough choice of vegan/vegetarian food but nothing particularly impressive. Staff seemed evidently annoyed when we asked for two smoothies and made us feel uncomfortable.
Wide enough choice of vegan/vegetarian food but nothing particularly impressive. Staff seemed evidently annoyed when we asked for two smoothies and made us feel uncomfortable.
I had read about this place on happycow some years back and have eaten here twice. Was just here in December 2012. Here's my Joy's Place review.
My first time eating here back in 2010 was better. There were more raw and vegan choices back then.
This time around, it seemed that the menu has added more turkey, chicken, fish, though still offering some of the raw wraps and desserts.
Vegans should be aware that the veggie burger patty contains egg white, according to the owner. She is Joy, the woman who works in the kitchen making the food.
We told the young woman at the counter that we wanted a vegan item, so she suggested that we get an avocado sandwich. It's not written on the board, but Joy could easily make it up. Cost $9. Other items on the menu cost from $11-12/each.
We also got a cup of the veggie chili with brown rice (vegan). It was rather peppered but tasty.
For dessert, we got one each of raw chilled cream. One with mango, the other with passion fruit. Both were delicious. Small portions but yummy.
Joy's space is very basic and small with a couple tables for seating. We got our food to-go and took it to the beach across the street.
On our previous trip we got the Indo crunch wrap (grilled tempeh with peanut dressing, sliced raw veggies and sprouts in a rice wrap), a live nut burger (almond and sunflower pate, slice of tomato, tahini sauce, avocado, onion, and sprouts all folded inside a sheet of chard), and a sweetened organic iced coffee with soy milk option. From the dessert case, we choose a vegan brownie, and a rice pudding (with brown rice, syrup, raisins, and bits of fresh pineapple). The chili was very good. The Indo crunch wrap was delicious. The live nut burger was tasty, though the chard did not hold the burger in -- I suggest using 2 sheets of chard to hold it together. The iced coffee was perfect for that hot Hawiian day. The vegan brownie, though yummy, was more fluffy like cake than brownie. The rice pudding had a very nice flavor, but the rice was a bit hard.
Overall, I enjoyed the first meal better than the second. The prices are not cheap, but I still recommend this as an option for vegetarians and vegans when in Kihei area.
Fresh tasty food. Friendly service. I would eat here again.
We loved Joy's. The best breakfast/lunch spot on the south part of Maui. They can get busy and were sometimes short handed, but it is worth the wait & they couldn't be nicer. It may be smart to order on the phone. We got the indo wrap, the pnut sauce is diggity; we got it in the rice wrap. For breakfast, the acai berry bowl w soy instead of yogurt was great. They have some stuff in the fridge that was prepped to go & plenty tasty. Be sure to specify vegan, we had no issues w that but everything we had was so good and felt good, almost lulled to forget still have to specify.
Very good. When folks on the island asked where we liked to go and we talked about Joys, their faces would light up.
Small spot, easy to miss, but worth finding.
This little place has many vegan & vegetarian options (although it offers some turkey and fish). They try to use live veggies and it's a great place for Raw Vegans too! I recommend it!
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Classic Poran Poli
Are you looking for simple way to make Puran Poli? This recipe is perfect for you. My friends love this traditional recipe .Puran Poli is a delicious flatbread South Indian dish. Puran Poli is a dessert served during auspicious occasions and during important festivals such as Ugadi. You should try this Puran Poli Recipe.
|Cardamom powder
|1 Teaspoon
|Chana dal
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
|6 Tablespoon
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)
|Nutmeg powder
|1⁄2 Teaspoon
|1 Pinch
|1 1⁄4 Cup (20 tbs)
|Wheat flour
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
|1 Cup (16 tbs) (or more, if required)
1. In a bowl, mix flour, salt and ghee and add enough water to make soft dough.
2. Cook dal til soft, strain extra water and let it cool.
3. Mix dal and sugar, grind it in a smooth paste.
4. Place the dough in a vessel and cook , stirring till mixture can be formed into soft ball.
5. Take a little dough, flatten into round sheet, place a small of filling (pooran), cover it nicely.
6. Roll out to thin round shape.
7. Cook on hot pan(tawa), pour some ghee on it.
8. Serve hot.
Recipe Summary
Difficulty Level:Medium
Method:Pan Roasting
Restriction:Vegetarian, High Fiber, High Protein
Preparation Time:10 Minutes
Cook Time:10 Minutes
Ready In:20 Minutes
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01/16/2008 - 13:25
delicious traditional recipe from South India, In the Vidarbha region of eastern Maharashtra, the puran polis are soft, since the stuffing is made with jaggery. In western Maharashtra, the powdered white-sugar version is preferred, resulting in a crunchy puran poli.
01/17/2008 - 21:41
Excellent. I love this. You always show us easy to follow recipes. I am going to try this. Thank you. Can you show Idli recipe? If you show can you also suggest how to ferment the idli mavoo in the winter. Thanks in advance.
10/16/2009 - 00:15
Meciocre recipe with an egoistic chef who has an awful accent!
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very very yummy looking
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very nice recipe!
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Another legislative session has wrapped up. Health care reporter Kristin Gourlay joins host Dave Fallon in the studio to talk about how health care fared on Smith Hill.
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State leaders have announced some new steps in the fight against prescription painkiller and heroin addiction. The news accompanies the release of the latest grim numbers of drug overdose deaths.
Rhode Island health department head Michael Fine told a standing-room-only crowd at the Anchor Community Recovery Center in Pawtucket that 85 people have died since January from suspected drug overdoses, mostly heroin. Hundreds more have overdosed but survived, he said, thanks to an antidote called Narcan, which first responders carry.
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As some of our readers have found out, there is an issue with the high-resolution, high-density screen of the Surface Pro 3. You see, the more resolution you pack into a small screen, the smaller the elements then appear – buttons, text, just about any content on the Internet. I am certain that the issue is temporary – as high-density screens spread and become common technology, these issues are bound to be resolved at some point. Still, if you are using Lightroom with the Surface Pro 3 now, waiting is not really an option. And I have some good news – there is no need to wait. An issue is only an issue if you can't solve it. Luckily, there are at least two ways to make the user interface of Adobe's popular RAW converter more friendly to both mouse and touch input, and both are as easy to set up.
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Microsoft Surface Pro 3 Banding and Calibration
Just like Romanas, I love my Microsoft Surface Pro 3 (in fact, I was the one who convinced Romanas to get one after my experience with the Surface Pro 2 and eventually 3rd generation). Although Romanas has already put a lot of great information in his excellent in-depth review, there is one big reason why I personally strongly prefer the Surface Pro over a laptop – I can work with it on my lap and it does not make me uncomfortable, as it does not generate any heat. But despite all the good things about the Surface Pro 3, there is one issue that can be particularly problematic for photographers: to extend battery life, Microsoft actually modified Intel's graphics card drivers and reduced the number of colors that can be displayed by the device. For most people this might not be a problem, but for us photo geeks, this "hack" is actually quite a big issue, as it introduces banding / posterization to images. It also makes it hard to distinguish between some shades of colors, which is rather sad, since the high resolution screen is the number one selling point of this device (turns out Apple employs a similar trick on its MacBook Air machines). Another inquiry we have received from our readers is on calibration – is it possible to calibrate the Surface Pro 3 screen? In this article, I will provide detailed information on how to fix the banding issue and provide detailed instructions on how to properly calibrate the Surface Pro 3 screen.
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Here I am, sitting at a cozy coffee house. Not just some coffee house, too, but a place where a lot of young people hang out – students, mostly. They come here for a cup of coffee much like people do at Starbucks overseas. Like me, they also come here to work – I've seen more MacBooks here than I did in iDeal (official Apple product distributor in Lithuania, similar to iStore / Apple Store). But I don't have a MacBook. Perhaps that is why through the corner of my eye I notice a young girl looking my way. Now, my Julie has no reason to worry. The girl is not interested in me whatsoever. What caught her eye is the computer on my lap. She notices me noticing her and immediately says – "What sort of computer is that? It's pretty." Right. So this might not help my self esteem, but the girl is indeed correct. I appreciate a good design and, well, this thing looks the part. Coupled with the bright blue keyboard, certainly good enough to attract attention.
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The Construction of a Global Enforcement Regime
This issue of Crime & Globalisation, tracks the history of the concept of organised crime and its metamorphosis into a "transnational" phenomenon allegedly posing a serious threat to global world order.
In this issue of Crime & Globalisation, Michael Woodiwiss and Dave Bewley-Taylor track the history of the concept of organised crime and its metamorphosis into a "transnational" phenomenon allegedly posing a serious threat to global world order. They show how the United States has dominated the construction of a global enforcement regime by interlinking concepts of drugs prohibition and combating organised crime. The "limited and blame-shifting approach" to organised crime pioneered by the US, the authors argue, has steered attention away from corporate criminal activities towards conspiracies of criminal organisations.
This "dumbed down" version of what constitutes organized crime was embraced by the international community with passage of the 2000 UN Convention Against Organized Crime; a treaty viewed by Washington as a natural extension of the 1988 UN Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances. Such an understanding takes no cognisance of the criminogenic aspects of the current neo-liberal globalisation process, nor does it help meet the security needs of developing countries, particularly in relation to the increasing urban crime problems of the booming shanty towns of the South.
A first version of this briefing was presented to a seminar on Global Enforcement Regimes organised by the Transnational Institute in April 2005. The seminar looked at the emerging new Washington Consensus on how to fight, as a major global security threat, the underground "axis of evil" of drug trafficking, transnational organised crime and international terrorism. A body of multilateral agreements have already been put in place "to fight the scourge".
At the UN and G8 levels, conventions against transnational organised crime and regulations to counter money laundering are accepted, while the UN Security Council has set in motion a global programme against international terrorism. The pattern is remarkably similar to that of the US internationalisation of the war on drugs. Drug trafficking and related issues like organised crime and the laundering of illicit proceeds are first labelled as national security threats and this is then extended internationally. At European Union level, a similar process is taking place in order to harmonise security policy.
These agreements are reached at inter-governmental level (UN, G8, EU) and presented as a fait accompli before national parliaments. Furthermore, there are barely any mechanisms in place to evaluate the effectiveness or adverse effects of policy implementation. The emphasis is almost always on coercive and law enforcement measures and not on addressing root causes, which would result in unwelcome scrutiny of the current world order, and may even require a true internationalisation of many countries' real security interests.
Increasingly, the current security paradigm is being questioned. Many are unconvinced as to effectivity and point to the likely averse effects on civil liberties, human rights and national sovereignty in the field of criminal justice. No-one doubts international co-operation is needed to address global security issues, but the effectiveness of the global enforcement regime currently under construction and whose interests are ultimately served is questioned. The problem is not to do with reaching consensus on transnational security problems being addressed at a transnational level. The problem lies with who is setting the agenda, and how transnational security policies are subsequently shaped.
The most striking aspect of the US approach is its exclusive concern with arresting and punishing harmful people rather than a more strategic approach that reduces the opportunity for harmful activity, Woodiwiss and Bewley-Taylor argue. Thus a flawed approach to organised crime has been fully internationalised. While the UN's crime prevention agencies have been perpetuating a misleadingly simple analysis of organised crime with the notion that "bad guys threaten democracy and civilisation", other parts of the organization have produced studies that could contribute to a better understanding of transnational organised crime by looking at the mismanaged globalisation process.
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David Bewley Taylor is the founding Director of the Global Drug Policy Observatory at Swansea University, UK. He has been researching various aspects of drug policy for over twenty years with his main areas of interest being US drug policy, the UN and international drug policy and more recently counter narcotics strategies in Afghanistan.
David has written two major research monographs - The United States and International Drug Control, 1909-1997 (Continuum, 2001) and International Drug Control: Consensus Fractured (Cambridge University Press, 2012) - a number of book chapters and published in a wide range of academic journals including Diplomacy and Statecraft, Crime, Law and Social Change, The International Journal of Drug Policy, Intelligence and National Security, Drug and Alcohol Review, Contemporary Drug Problems; An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, Drugs and Alcohol Today, Addiction Research and Theory and the Journal of Transatlantic Studies. He has given papers in Europe, North American and Australia and is frequently a speaker or invited participant at civil society and government drug policy dialogues, colloquia and symposiums.
David was the founding secretary of the International Society for the Study of Drug Policy (2006-7), is currently on the Editorial Board of The International Journal of Drug Policy and the International Journal on Human Rights and Drug Policy, is a member of the International Advisory Committee of the International Centre on Human Rights and Drug policy and a technical advisor to the International Centre for Science in Drug Policy. In addition to his work with TNI's Drugs and Democracy Programme, he has collaborated with and produced policy reports for a number of drug policy organizations beyond academia, including the Beckley Foundation Drug Policy Programme, and at present is an Associate of the International Drug Policy Consortium
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(±)-Ammonium 2-amino-4-(methylphosphinato)butanoate
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Glufosinate ammonium; 2-Amino-4-(hydroxymethylposphinyl)butanoic acid monoammonium salt; Phosphinothricin
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DL-Phosphinothricin also known as glufosinate ammonium, is a broad-spectrum systemic herbicidal ammonium salt (a derivative of glufosinate) with the chemical formula C5H15N2O4P.[2] DL-Phosphinothricin irreversibly inhibits glutamine synthetase, an enzyme necessary for the production of glutamine and for ammonia detoxification. Application of DL-phosphinothricin to plants leads to reduced glutamine and elevated ammonia levels in tissues, halting photosynthesis, resulting in plant death.[3] It is found in many non-selective systemic herbicides.[2]
The discovery of the herbicidal properties of DL-phosphinothricin in the 1970s led to its use in many different commercial herbicides. The non-selective herbicidal effects made it ideal for controlling a variety of weeds in horticulture, farming and agricultural applications.
DL-phosphinothricin is typically used in three situations as an herbicide:
- directed sprays for weed control
- use as a crop desiccant to facilitate the harvest
- use in genetically modified DL-phosphinothricin-resistant crops
Most DL-phosphinothricin used within the United States is with genetically modified crops.[4]
Glufosinate also has shown to provide some protection against various plant diseases, as it also acts to kill fungi and bacteria on contact.[5]
History and use of phosphinothricin-resistant crops[edit]
Glufosinate-resistance was first commercialized in canola in 1995 and has since been commercialized in other crops such as corn (1997), cotton (2004) and soybeans (2011). Utilizing the bar gene from Streptomyces hygroscopicus or the pat gene from Streptomyces viridochromeogenes, crops are transformed to resist the herbicidal properties of the chemical. The two genes encode highly homogenous phosphinothricin acetyltransferases that catalyze N-acetylation of glufosinate, converting it into a compound that does not inhibit glutamine synthetase.[4] Use of the bar or pat genes produces a very high level of resistance to the herbicide throughout the plant's life.[citation needed]
Properties and chemistry[edit]
DL-Phosphinothricin is a broad-spectrum herbicide. It is used to control important weeds such as morning glories, hemp sesbania (Sesbania bispinosa), Pennsylvania smartweed (Polygonum pensylvanicum) and yellow nutsedge similar to a formerly used broad-spectrum herbicide, glyphosate. DL-Phosphinothricin is applied to young plants during early development for full effectiveness.[3] It is found in many nonselective systemic herbicides such as Basta, Rely, Finale, Challenge and Liberty. [3]
Phosphinothricin is produced by various species of actinomycetes as a component of non-ribosomally synthesized peptides, for example, the tripeptide bialaphos from Streptomyces viridochromeogenes. Bialaphos is hydrolyzed to L-phosphinothricin which directly acts as the irreversible inhibitor of glutamine synthetase (GS). Inhibition of this enzyme causes a buildup of ammonia (NH3), one of its substrates. In chloroplasts, the resulting elevated level of ammonia has a toxic effect.[5] Elevated levels of ammonia are detectable within one hour after application of Phosphinothricin.[3]
Human exposure sources[edit]
Exposure to humans in foods[edit]
As DL-phosphinothricin is often used as a pre-harvest desiccant, residues can also be found in foods that humans ingest. Such foods include potatoes, peas, beans, corn, wheat, and barley. In addition, the chemical can be passed to humans through animals who are fed contaminated straw. Flour processed from wheat grain that contained traces of DL-phosphinothricin was found to retain 10-100% of the chemicals' residues.[6]
The herbicide is also persistent; it has been found to be prevalent in spinach, radishes, wheat and carrots that were planted 120 days after the treatment of the herbicide.[3] Its persistent nature can also be observed by its half-life which varies from 3 to 70 days depending on the soil type and organic matter content.[3] Residues can remain in frozen food for up to two years and the chemical is not easily destroyed by cooking the food item in boiling water. [6]The EPA classifies the chemical as 'persistent' and 'mobile' based on its lack of degradation and ease of transport through soil.
Exposure limits[edit]
There are no exposure limits established by the Occupational Safety & Health Administration or the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists.[1] The WHO/FAO recommended acceptable daily intake (ADI) for glufosinate is 0.02 mg/kg.[6] The European Food Safety Authority has set an ADI of 0.021 mg/kg. The Acute reference dose (ARfD) for child-bearing women is 0.021 mg/kg. [6]
US regulation[edit]
Glufosinate ammonium is a United States Environmental Protection Agency EPA registered chemical. It is also a California registered chemical. It is not banned in any country and it is not a PIC pesticide.[clarification needed] There are no exposure limits established by OSHA or the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists.[1]
- ^ a b c d e "Chemical Identification and Company Information : DL-Phosphinothricin, Monoammonium Salt" (PDF). Phytotechlab.com. Retrieved 2015-04-25.
- ^ a b Caspi, R. (August 2009). "MetaCyc Compound Class: phosphinothricin". "MetaCyc" Compound Class: phosphinothricin. SRI International Pathway Tools version 19.0. Retrieved March 2015.
- ^ a b c d e f Topsy Jewell for Friends of the Earth (December 1998). "Glufosinate ammonium fact sheet". Pesticides News No.42. Retrieved March 2015.
- ^ a b Nandula, Vijay K (December 2010). "Glyphosate Resistance in Crops and Weeds: History, Development, and Management". John Wiley & Sons. Retrieved March 2015.
- ^ a b "Encyclopedia of Agriculture and Food Systems: 5-volume set - Google Books". Books.google.com. 2014-07-29. Retrieved 2015-04-25.
- ^ a b c d Watts, Meriel. "Glufosinate Ammonium Monograph" (PDF). Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific. Retrieved 20 April 2015.


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After eight years in a Washington-style exile, leaders of labor unions were brought into the White House on Friday and treated to a series of executive orders signed by President Obama that will curb union-busting and preserve workers' jobs on federal contracts.
"Welcome back to the White House," Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. told the leaders in the White House East Room, moments after the president tapped him to lead a task force to figure out how to raise U.S. living standards, especially for middle-income people.
Mr. Obama's orders give workers the chance to retain jobs on federal contracts, even if the contractors change, and to stop federal contractors from being reimbursed for trying to prevent their workers from unionizing. One of his orders will undo a Bush administration directive that required employers to post guidance about how employees could opt out of union dues used for politicking or lobbying.
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"President Obama has sent an ominous message to the 93 percent of private sector workers in America who, for whatever reasons, have chosen not to unionize: You're not welcome here," said Mark Mix, president of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation.
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Unions called the orders merely a first step on the road to fairer treatment of workers.
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Labor leaders, who claim credit for helping deliver victory to Mr. Obama in the November elections, have high expectations for what he and the Democrat-led Congress can do. A top priority for them is the Employee Free Choice Act.
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Phil Mickelson will miss this month's Match Play Championship, skipping the event for the third time in the past four years. Mickelson said Thursday his three children are off school the week of the Match Play Championship so he will be going on a family holiday. He also missed in 2010 and 2012. The tournament is Feb. 20-24 just north of Tucson, Arizona. Mickelson has made it to the quarterfinals of the Match Play only once in 11 appearances, in 2004 at La Costa. He says he loves the tournament and Tucson, where he won his first PGA Tour event. That means the 65th player in the world ranking after this week will be eligible to play.
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Below are some of the aspects that have been realised during the upscaling phase:
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BUSINESS June 4, 2006, THE SUNDAY TIMES Chief executive Tim Parker is turning round the business and driving through big job cuts, reports Matthew Goodman WHEN Damon Buffini turned up at his local church in Clapham, south London, a fortnight ago, he and fellow worshippers were greeted by the rather arresting site of a camel and a band of trade-union protesters. For Buffini, the demonstration had particular significance. The protestors, from the GMB, were handing out flyers featuring his mugshot. As head of Permira, the private-equity firm, the union members hold Buffini partly responsible for what they see as a brutal round of lay-offs at the AA, the motoring organisation jointly acquired by the firm and rival CVC from Centrica in 2004 for £1.75 billion. The reason for the dromedary's presence was a reference to the biblical observation that it is easier to thread a camel through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to go to heaven. For Tim Parker, chief executive of the A A and the man who has overseen a major restructuring of the business, the protests are a wearisome distraction from the job in hand. In the 20 months he has been in charge, he has knocked the former mutual organisation into rather good shape. Profits, which were £93m in 2003, the last full year under Centrica, have more than doubled to just over £200m in 2005 and are on course to grow 20% this year. The number of jobs attended to by patrols is on the up, as is the percentage of cars that are fixed al the roadside and don't have to be towed to a garage. And the retention rate of members is also on the rise. It has all come about a lot faster than anybody expected — Parker is a year ahead of schedule, but ask him if that means the current owners are accelerating towards a flotation, and he plays down talk of an impending exit. The only new screens you might see the AA on any time soon are not in City dealing rooms but in New Zealand, where a TV production company is talking about making a children's show in the vein of Bob the Builder, provisionally called Patrolman Pete. There's been nothing cartoon-like, however, about the changes Parker has unleashed on the AA since taking over in September 2004. Perhaps the biggest shift has been the big reduction in staffing levels. About 2,000 people have been laid off, about a quarter of the workforce. These include many middle managers, but also front-line workers such as call-centre staff and patrolmen. While the cuts have been painful for all involved, Parker said they had to happen. "When we came here, it felt a very inefficient organisation and there were very low levels of productivity." he said. "Effectiveness among the patrols ranged from very good to very poor. Membership was declining and the company had made a couple of poorly calculated acquisitions. The management seemed more interested in extending the brand rather than improving the core business." Operations that were not contributing much or losing money, such as the service centres and the vehicle-inspection arm, were sold off or closed down. And Parker — known as a restructuring specialist after stints running Clarks, the shoe maker, and Kwik-Fit, the car-repair chain — took his knife to the AA's cost base. The patrol units were a particular issue, identified early on by CVC and Permira. A minority would prefer to respond to as few jobs as possible. Many patrolmen were on contracts that meant they would work only between 9am and 5pm. Monday to Friday — not necessarily always the times that cars break down. New arrangements on working hours were negotiated, while pay packages have been slanted to pay patrolmen by the job, to encourage them to work. The call centres also saw plenty of bloodletting, but Parker said it could have been a lot worse. "We looked at the option of offshoring our call centres." he explained. "But it was not the best route to go. "I don't think members would have appreciated phoning in a moment of distress, and having the call answered by someone several thousand miles away." The price for keeping the call centres in Britain was that they had to become a lot less costly, and the whole business has been streamlined with heavy job losses. Alistair Maclean, national secretary of the AA Democratic Union, which represents AA staff, said the vast majority of those who lost their jobs took voluntary redundancy and received, in many cases, handsome payoffs. "When Centrica owned it, they weren't willing to spend the money on redundancy payments, even though they knew it had to be done. The new owners have spent more than £100m on redundancy payments. It's never easy for someone in my position to see people being made redundant but it had to be done." he said. It is a different picture than that painted by the GMB, but neither Maclean nor Parker are willing to discuss the union's anti-AA campaign. "I don't want to get into a slanging match with them," said Parker. But he is somewhat bemused by GMB accusations of asset-stripping. "The AA has no assets to speak of," he said. "We occupy relatively few freehold properties; all our vehicles are on operating leases. It's a business whose assets are almost entirely goodwill |the brand]. All the investments we're making are coming from our own cashflows. The businesses we disposed of were worth nothing — they were loss- making." He also defended the level of debt at the AA, another key plank of the GMB campaign. Borrowings at the membership organisation have risen to £1.8 billion, following a refi- nancing in which CVC and Permira took out £500m. Parker said: "Our interest payments are twice covered. What we are borrowing is way below the market value of the business. By refinancing we've lowered our borrowing costs considerably." Parker is adamant that, while the AA has had to endure a large number of job cuts, the money saved is being reinvested in the business. The most striking example of this will be unveiled in the next few months with two acquisitions, costing about £100m. Parker declined to reveal the identities of his targets but said that one will be a smaller rival roadside-assistance business while the other will be an insurance firm, to bolster the organisation's existing operation in that market. The amount of money being invested in marketing is also going up, from £ 14m in 2004 to £21 m this year. It seems to be paying off. Member retention rates have climbed from about 81% to 85%. "That might not sound very much but that's another 120.000 members per year." said Parker. The AA's insurance business has recently broken through the 1m motor policies barrier. The group is also investing in a new fleet of vehicles for its patrolmen, which will see AA vans fitted with towing equipment to reduce the need to rely on third-party contractors to take broken-down cars to garages. Given that the business seems to be thriving under private-equity ownership, the obvious question is whether CVC and Permira will attempt to bring it back to the stock market in the near future. It would certainly command a significant premium to the price the two buyout firms paid for it. They bought the business for 23 times historic earnings; applying the same multiple to the business today gives a market value of £4.6 billion. Parker said: "We haven't discussed an exit, we don't have any immediate plans, and we are not in any special hurry." Other sources close to the company insist that CVC and Permira would reap more value by sitting tight rather than going for the "quick flip", as these swift exits are known in lever-aged-buyout circles. The AA has changed a lot over the past two years, but the owners feel it could still go up a couple of gears
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