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BETHESDA, Md., July 31, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- American Capital, Ltd. (Nasdaq: ACAS) announced today that it is launching a refinancing of its $600 million senior secured credit facility ( $450 million after the scheduled August 22, 2013 amortization payment). The proposed refinancing is expected to include changes to the pricing terms of the existing credit facility to reflect more favorable current market pricing, a six month extension of the call protection period for lenders from the effective date and amendments to certain covenants. Further details of the proposed refinancing will be provided to potential participants at a lender meeting to be held on August 1, 2013, in New York, NY.
The entry into the refinancing will be contingent upon, among other things, a successful syndication and the satisfaction of conditions precedent to the definitive documentation. The terms of the refinancing could be materially different than described above and no assurances can be given that the refinancing will be consummated.
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ABOUT AMERICAN CAPITAL American Capital, Ltd. (Nasdaq: ACAS) is a publicly traded private equity firm and global asset manager. American Capital, both directly and through its asset management business, originates, underwrites and manages investments in middle market private equity, leveraged finance, real estate, energy & infrastructure and structured products. American Capital manages $21 billion of assets, including assets on its balance sheet and fee earning assets under management by affiliated managers, with $119 billion of total assets under management (including levered assets). Through an affiliate, American Capital manages publicly traded American Capital Agency Corp. (Nasdaq: AGNC) with approximately $10 billion of net book value and American Capital Mortgage Investment Corp. (Nasdaq: MTGE) with approximately $1 billion of net book value. From its eight offices in the U.S. and Europe, American Capital and its affiliate, European Capital, will consider investment opportunities from $10 million to $750 million. For further information, please refer to www.AmericanCapital.com.
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Substitute holiday system of Korea
Unlike other advanced countries such as United States, Japan and Australia, Korea never had substitute holidays system. That means when a public holiday overlaps with Sunday, the holiday was just lost for employees.
This changed with the passage of a bill for substitution of overlapping holidays at the National Assembly in 2013. "A Regulation on Closure Days for Public Offices" was amended accordingly based on the bill.
The substitute holiday system in the regulation stipulates that the substitution is not for all overlapping holidays but only for Lunar New Year's Day (Dec.31, Jan. 1 and 2 of the lunar calendar), Korean Thanksgiving Day (August 14, 15 and 16 of the lunar calendar), and May 5 (Children's Day). As a result, in 2014, there was only one case of substitution, which was taking a day off on September 10 instead of September 7 (Thanksgiving day) that fell on Sunday.
The regulation stipulates that overlapping of Lunar New Year's Day (three days) and Korean Thanksgiving Day (three days) with Sunday or other public holidays shall make next working day after the successive holidays as a substituted holiday. As for Children's day, overlapping of the day with Saturday, Sunday, or other public holidays shall make the next working day after May 5 as a substituted holiday.
There is one thing to remember about the relationship between the above-mentioned regulation and actual holidays at private enterprises. According to the labor-related laws, there are only two types of legal holidays that employers should allow to employees. They are paid weekly holidays (usually Sunday) and Workers' Day (May 1). Public holidays in the regulation are not mandatory holidays for private enterprises. It is up to employers of those companies to make those public holidays days off for employees or not by inserting a relevant article in the rules of employment or in the collective bargaining agreement.
For example, an employer may stipulate holidays like this in the rules of employment.
1. weekly paid holidays
2. worker's day
3. holidays based on the Regulation on Closure Days for Public Offices
In this case, the substitution system will also apply to the workplace.
On the other hand, an employer may just enumerate holidays without mentioning the regulation.
1. Weekly paid holidays
2. Worker's day
3. Lunar new years' days
4. Korean Thanksgiving Day
.. and so on.
In this case, the substitution system does not apply to the company.
In closing, here is a list of holidays based on the Regulation on Closure Days for Public Offices for 2015.
1. Jan.1 (New year's day)
2. Feb. 18 to 20 (Lunar new years days)
3. March 1st. (Independence movement day)
4. May 5 (Children's day)
5. May 25 (Buddha's birthday)
6. June 6 (Memorial day)
7. Aug 15 (Independence day)
8. Sept 26 – 29 (Thanksgiving days: Sept 27 overlaps with Sunday hence a substitute holiday on Sept 29)
9. Oct 3 (National foundation day)
10. Oct 9 (Korean Alphabet day)
11. Dec. 25 (Christmas day)
** The year 2015 has only one substitute holiday on September 29.
Retirement Pension to be mandatory for all companies in Korea in 2022
On 27 August 2014, the Korean government announced a plan to make retirement pension system mandatory for all companies. The followings are main points of the plan.
1. The schedule of mandatory adoption
2016: companies with 300 or more workers
2017: companies with 100 or more
2018: companies with 30 or more
2019: companies with 10 or more
2022: all companies
2. Financial support for small-and-medium companies by introducing the retirement pension fund system for SMEs
– to be implemented in July 2015
– financial support for the pension in SMEs (companies with 30 workers or less)
– subsidy from the fund to pay half of the pension operation fees paid by an employer (the fee is 0.4% of the contribution)
– subsidy from the fund to pay 10% of the contribution by an employer for a worker with monthly salary of 1.4 million won or less
3. Temporary workers with working period of less than 1 year to be covered by retirement pay
– to be implemented in 2016
– workers with a labor contract for less than 1 year will be entitled to retirement pay which is currently only for workers with 1 year or longer service
Of course, these are just a plan at this moment and actual amendments of related laws would have to follow for them to materialize.
What is the Maximum Overtime Hours allowed in Korea?
What is the maximum work hours including overtime that you can implement in your workplace in Korea? The answer is currently 68 hours and it is likely to change sooner or later.
Now, here is the explanation on how we get 68 hours.
Legal weekly work hours based on the Labor Standards Act (LSA) is 40 hours.
Article 50 of the LSA – (1) Working hours per week shall not exceed forty hours excluding recess hours.
The maximum overtime hours allowed by the law is 12 hours per week.
Article 53 of the LSA – (1) If the parties concerned reach agreement, the working hours stipulated in Article 50 may be extended up to twelve hours per week.
It would appear that the maximum weekly work hours based on the above mentioned articles should be 52 hours per week. However, the LSA has no specific article about whether work hours on Saturday and Sunday should be included in the maximum overtime of 12 hours stated above or not. What we currently have is only the guideline by the Ministry of Employment and Labor that says work hours on Saturday and Sunday are not included in the maximum 12 hours overtime.
That leads to the following calculation.
40 hours (workweek) + 12 hours (max. overtime) + 8 hours (Saturday) + 8 hours (Sunday) = 68 hours
*You should, of course, pay premium rates for overtime and holiday work.
This 68 hours has been the practice in businesses for a long time. However, a number of lawsuits lodged by labor unions claiming that 52 hours, not 68 hours, should be the maximum based on the strict interpretation of the law led to debates among labor, management and the government. Moreover, reduction of overtime hours to improve worker's quality of life has been one of the agenda pushed by the new government.
Labor, management and government have been discussing how to settle the issue of overtime limit for several months, but have yet to reach a conclusion. The government and the ruling party is pushing for 60 hours as maximum work hour and labor unions and opposition parties are for 52 hours. Eventually, the law will be amended and more specific and detailed restriction on overtime will be enforced but it is hard to say when an agreement will be made because discussions over labor-related issues in Korea have a proven record of getting postponed or protracted forever.
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Childcare Leave System in South Korea
This post covers five important points on childcare leave based on the Equal Employment Act of Korea that governs the leave.
1.Who can request childcare leave?
An employee, male or female, who has a child aged not more than 8 years or a child in the 2nd or lower grade of an elementary school. Not only regular workers but also fixed-term workers and dispatched (leased) workers can request childcare leave. For fixed-term and dispatched workers, the term (duration) of their childcare leave is not included in the calculation of the employment period.
2. Who is not eligible for childcare leave?
– An employee whose consecutive period of service will be less than 1 year on the day prior to the day on which the childcare leave is supposed to begin.
– An employee whose spouse is on a childcare leave for the same child.
3. What is the maximum period of childcare leave?
Childcare leave can last up to 1 year.
4. Should an employer pay salary to an employee during his/her childcare leave?
An employer does not have a legal obligation to pay employees during their childcare leave unless company rules state otherwise. Employee themselves should request childcare leave benefits at the employment centers under the Ministry of Labor. The benefits are 40% of monthly ordinary wages.
5. What are other steps that an employer should ensure with regard to childcare leave?
The employer should reinstate an employee after childcare leave to his/her previous position or other position with the same level of salary. The employer should include the period of childcare leave in the period of service to calculate retirement pay, promotion and annual leave. Also, the employer should not dismiss or give disadvantageous treatment to workers because of childcare leave. An employer cannot dismiss workers during their childcare leave.
Mandatory Retirement Benefits for employees under Korean labor law
This post is a brief explanation of mandatory severance benefits that are required by Korean labor law.
Employee Retirement Benefit Security Act stipulates mandatory severance packages for employees who leave a company after at least one year of service.
The misuse of the word 'retirement' in the law confuses foreign managers. I think "severance benefits" is more appropriate term. The definition of retirement in Wikipedia is: "Retirement is the point where a person stops employment completely. A person may also semi-retire by reducing work hours. Many people choose to retire when they are eligible for private or public pension benefits."
Retirement Benefits under the act is not only for retirees who are at the closing stage of their professional life. Regardless of whether an employee is going into retirement or not, he is entitled to the benefits upon termination of the employment relations as long as he worked for a company more than 1 year. Every kind of termination is covered by the law. An employee may resign, may be laid off, or even be fired for making serious mistakes that brought damage to the company. For example, for the last situation, the employer should pay him retirement pay and try to claim damages through a lawsuit. In a nutshell, an employee is entitled to retirement benefits described in the law for all kind of termination.
Retirement pay to be paid to a worker is average wage of 30 days for 1 year. If a worker leaves the company after 1 year and several months, retirement pay for those additional months should be calculated on a pro rata basis.
If an employer established a company and makes no decision about mandatory retirement package, retirement pay system is automatically adopted. Some Koreans use the word "severance pay", which means the same thing as retirement pay.
Under the Employee Retirement Benefit Security Act, labor and management can choose retirement pension system instead of retirement pay. An employer should obtain an agreement of a majority union or majority of workers (if there is no majority union) to decide on retirement benefit system. They may choose retirement pay or retirement pension.
Retirement pension has two types. One is defined contribution (DC) and another is defined benefit (DB).
Under the DC program, an employer contributes predetermined money, which is 1/12 of the annual total wage of workers to the individual accounts of workers at the financial institutions chosen as pension providers by labor and management. It is up to workers to manage the fund based on advice by the financial institutions. Upon termination of the employment relations, the financial institution pays pension as annuity or lump-sum to workers.
Under the DB program, the amount of pension benefit payable to the workers is predetermined. The contribution to be made by the employer vary depending on the outcome of the fund management which is the responsibility of financial institution. The amount of pension benefit under the DB program is the same as retirement pay, which is average wage of 30 days for one year of service.


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Payroll and benefits managers are responsible for creating and distributing information about payroll, benefits, and other employee-related programs for their organization. They are in charge of facilitating benefits and compensation programs for employees. These managers produce program information, create materials to promote payroll incentives, and schedule and participate in training sessions for new payroll and benefits programs. Payroll and benefits managers attend company meetings to report their progress to executives and use a personal computer to track their progress, keep accurate records, and communicate with internal staff and external partners. They also process payroll and benefits requests after reviewing program requirements.
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Payroll & Benefits Managers who go on to become Human Resources Directors may see their salaries climb quite a bit. Median pay for Human Resources Directors is $78K annually. With an annual salary of $58K, Human Resources Manager is the most common role for Payroll & Benefits Managers to subsequently assume on their way up the ladder. Transitioning into a Payroll & Benefits Administration Manager role — which usually pays $50K — is also typical for Payroll & Benefits Managers, though less common by comparison.
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I've done a few gluten-free gruits. Aim for a light base, just go ahead and use sorghum extract plus a bit of honey, and pick out a few herbs to try. I recommend reading Stephen Harrod Buhner's "Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers" for info on how to brew with unusual herbs. A little sometimes goes a long way, but sometimes a lot doesn't go very far at all--it depends on the herb. Start with small batches until you work out a good herb combo--the flavor of herbs can vary a lot depending on what variety they are, where they're grown, when they're picked, and how they are dried--herbs are generally not processed with the same rigor as hops. Here are some reasonably tried-and-true combos that I'd suggest starting with: Combo 1: "Flower Power" Bittering: lavender Flavor: rose Aroma: elderflower Combo 2: "Tea Time" Bittering: black tea (steeped for 30 seconds to a minute BEFORE boil and removed--do NOT boil!!) Flavor: tulsi Aroma: chamomile Combo 3: "Garden Variety" Bittering: dandelion root Flavor: nettle Aroma: rosemary Combo 4: "Old Traditions" Bittering: mugwort Flavor: yarrow Aroma: heather Combo 5: "Into the Trees" Bittering: wormwood (go easy!) Flavor: evergreen tips Aroma: juniper berries Good luck!
Herbs that work well all by themselves: gesho (think Ethiopian tej), heather, yarrow, sage, and chamomile. For bonus points, add some orange peel and use WB-06 to put yourself closer to wit territory.
Word to the wise: in every beer I've ever put juniper, the flavor and aroma diminished SEVERELY after fermentation. I used a whole ounce of crushed berries at 5 minutes in 3 gallons of a wit beer, and by the end of primary, it was almost undetectable. So don't be afraid of going to town with it. Also note that evergreen tips when fresh can impart vegetal flavors if boiled for more than a few minutes, and can also be a little tannic. I recommend drying them; Juniper Ridge makes a douglas fir tea that might be. With that combo in particular, if you want to go pseudo-IPA, I recommend also adding some grapefruit zest at 5 minutes. And do come back and tell us how it goes!
Thanks again! I probably won't start on it for a while (I've got to locate these ingredients first), but I'm excited to see how it comes out... also - being that I'm in CT, I may be snowed in until April.
I grabbed what I could find for gruit ingredients today and formulated this recipe (based on virtually nothing)... any thoughts? 3 Gallon Batch: 1 lb Dark Brown Sugar (60 min) 3.3 lb Sorghum LME (60 min) 1 oz Juniper Berries (60 min) 1 oz Mugwort (60 min) 0.5 oz Wormwood (60 min) 0.5 oz Bitter Orange Peel (5 min) Lallemand American West Coast (BRY-97) "Dry-hop" with juniper berries in secondary if needed.
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The last few months have been tough for offshore rig lessors, whose profits are tied to Brent Crude prices and day rates for rig leases. The scare in emerging market debt, currencies and economic growth, if anything, makes the situation for the economically-sensitive commodities sector that much more volatile.
Offshore rig lessors, which are generally regarded as a bet on consistently high international oil prices, have been hit particularly hard. One of the most noticeable declines has been in SeaDrill (SDRL - Get Report), a large-cap rig lessor. SeaDrill is a Bermuda-based company with mostly Norwegian management. The company is highly levered in various forms of debt but is also perhaps the best of all large-cap rig lessors.
SeaDrill generally has the highest rig utilization, the highest margins and often has the highest return on invested capital. Even better, SeaDrill's U.S. shares pay a substantial dividend yield of 10.25%, a number which is high only because the stock has dropped by over 20% from its October high. At this price, SeaDrill is an "accidentally high yielder."
One of the most important things to understand about SeaDrill is its relatively high leverage. The chart above shows that on a debt to earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization ratio, SeaDrill is just about the most indebted among its peers. Net debt is over $10 billion. But let's look closer. SeaDrill took on debt when it was inexpensive to do so. The company used the proceeds to order a newer, more deepwater-focused fleet that will boost earnings as global deepwater oil activity is forecasted to grow steadily in the future. Most of SeaDrill's debt is fixed and much of what isn't fixed has interest rate swaps -- which reduce exposure to rate volatility. Just under $1.5 billion in bonds will come due this year, according to the latest presentation. Management will probably have to refinance that amount. While SeaDrill would be affected by substantially higher rates, I believe that the company's growing EBITDA will help keep the situation under control. An article from Barron's published on Monday cited a Barclays downgrade of deepwater rig lessors. The article warned that because older deepwater rigs are remaining operational these rigs would drag down day rates overall. The article's author, Ben Levisohn, wrote that SeaDrill could plummet by up to 52%. I don't believe that SeaDrill is immune to further downside right here, especially if the emerging markets situation continues to deteriorate. But a 52% drop seems too steep. As one person commented online, SeaDrill has the newest fleet and most units are already under contract for the next three years. Furthermore, Barron's concern of rig oversupply just isn't shared by SeaDrill's management -- which sees continued strong demand for the newest deepwater and ultra-deepwater rigs. Thanks to a bevy of brand new, ultra-deepwater ships which will come online over the next few years, SeaDrill expects to grow EBITDA to well over $4 billion by 2016 from around $3 billion in 2013. This could be hurt, however, if day rates plunge and stay low. IE believe much of that fear is unwarranted. As long as the biggest conventional fields remain off limits to international capital and the world's shale oil reserves remain mostly untapped, deepwater operations will be the only supplement to maturing onshore output. As a result, deepwater activity will continue to grow. That means SeaDrill is quite a bargain at 10.35x trailing earnings and at a yield of 10.25%.
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Thats the exact opposite of the point actually.
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Thats the exact opposite of the point actually.
Lol, this is quite hilarious, so I'll join in.
As for your questions:
two heads (idk...2 heads are better than 1?)
horribly smelly (hideously ugly seems like a pretty bad choice...)
three feet taller (either choice will result in a shortened lifespan... but being tall is awesome)
breathe like Darth Vader (c'mon. Every phrase would be badass)
be able to fly (I'd probably cause irreversible damage to the time stream anyway...)
have no reflection (If I was hideously ugly or smelly, my reflection would run away anyway, right?)
clever but ugly. (brains over brawn, right?)
Interesting choice of questions though.
2 legs - you can adapt/learn to walk correctly. If I have to heads, and each of them have different ideas of a subject, I will have war within my own self.
smelly - that's what the bath and perfume are for.
shorter - Make it easier for me to hide. hehe
breath like darth vader - nobody will know how I would look like behind the mask.
Clever but ugly - the brain can compensate for any other weakness.
thanks buddy i like this post...
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have two heads
be horribly smelly
be three feet taller
I´d rather talk like yoda for the rest of my life
What if I choose all of the above, will life be easy ?


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The best thing about this book is that with each chapter, you will be able to actually do something at the end. It's more than just a bunch of information that you have to memorize and then apply. The author will introduce you to a few techniques and then give you a task to do on your own. Drawbacks The first noticeable drawback is that it's already outdated. This book was written based on version 1.0.0 and I'm working with version 1.2.3. Changes are obvious and probably will not effect the use of this book. Secondly the book is for extreme beginners which may or may not be a problem for you. For example, a whole chapter is spent explaining how to open and save files. The author assumes that you have never used this (or any other graphic manipulation program before). The third item has more to do with the Gimp than this book. Just because you know what button to push, won't make you an expert at this program. It takes practice and skill. Dare I say some artistic ability. You have to have some decent hand-eye coordination and a little idea of color, effects, and what details would make a photo a masterpiece. Just out of preference I'd like to see more examples, there were usually only example per item. Did I Learn Anything? I am amazed at how much I've learned in such a short period. I was able to do about 2-3 lessons per sitting and finished the book in 2 weeks (delay due to demanding kids). I followed along with the demonstrations as they were being discussed which obviously takes more time than just reading but certainly helps you remember. If you teach yourself without the guidance of a book you will undoubtedly miss out on some of the fun items. For example, making your own paint brushes and patterns. There are some features that you can not just experiment and figure out. Who Would Like This Book Unfortunately you have a very limited selection on GIMP books to begin with (13 I think). A lot are intermediate to advanced. The GIMP does not come with a user manual since it is fee on the operating system CD or downloadable (there is an online users manual). So if you need a step-by-step instruction book, this would be the one to pick. (But I would not consider this a reference book) This is simple enough for those who have never opened the program before. If you are a little familiar with the GIMP you will learn at a quicker speed. If you are learing the GIMP in order to design a web page, than you'll be pleased with this book. It seems to me that the goal of this book is to enable you to apply the graphics you need to your website to make it look professional. If you already know how to create layers and use the toolbars, you have already outgrown this book and need to move to an intermediate book. This is not a reference book in my opinion. I will not sit this on my shelf to refer back to. This book is written in as lessons and would take a while to pull specific information out of. (I recommend "The Gimp for Linux and Unix" by Phyllis Davis for those looking for an intermediate reference manual). Chapter: Installation and configuration Getting started Basic Gimp tools Using brushes and patterns in depth Working with selections Transformations Working with color Inroduction to layers Hands-on layering Using masks Special effects Using filters to improve or distort images Artistic filters Cool text effects Photo composting Photo restoration and enhancement Digital painting About plug-ins Using more plug-ins and extensions What the heck is script-fu? More with script-fu Animations Uisng peripherals with Linux CD Includes: GIMP and the GIMP toolkit The Most up-to-date graphics libraries Exercise files from tutorials About the Authors Joshua Pruitt is an instructor at a college in Tennessee and is part of a webhosting firm, Mid-Tn Network. He is the webmaster for the Nashville Linux User's Group. Ramona Pruitt is a self-taught graphics artist. She also works web design at Mid-TN Network. Book Details: Title: Sams Teach yourself Gimp in 24 hours Author: Joshua Pruitt & Ramona Pruitt Publisher: Sams Publishing ISBN: 0-672-31509-2 Copyright: 1999 Version of Program: Gimp 1.0 Operating System: Linux / Unix User Level: Beginning Pages: 334 Retail: 24.99


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"When the dogs were pulling in, the very first dogs were pulling in, I was out front stating to everybody...'They're back'," said Maury Korn, Assistant General Manager of the Valley Race Park.
The greyhounds haven't been able to grace Valley Race Park's track for almost two and a half years now.
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