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After struggling with poor vision for almost half of his life, 20-year-old Intiaz Abdul received a corneal transplant last month at Dr Balwant Singh's Hospital.
"I spent half of my life—since I was 12-years-old—trying to see clear," Abdul says, while noting that he had started failing in school because he couldn't see properly and couldn't concentrate. "I could have only see like four feet away. It was really hard."
Abdul said his mother carried him to a lot of eye specialists but no one was able to treat his condition—keratoconus, a condition where the normally round dome-shaped cornea progressively thins into a cone-like bulge and eventually ends in severe visual impairment. Persons would need a corneal transplant if their cornea no longer lets light enter the eye properly because of scarring or disease. During the procedure, called a keratoplasty, a portion of the cornea is removed and replaced with a new section of cornea from a tissue donor.
Through his mother's persistence, Abdul was able to have a new cornea grafted onto his right eye on July 26.
A cornea transplant for keratoconus disorder can be avoided if people are diagnosed early for the condition, says Ophthal-mologist Dr. Neeraj Jain, of Dr Balwant Singh's Hospital, who also believes that the development of a local eye bank is essential to support surgical interventions when they are necessary.
Dr. Jain told Stabroek News that Guyana has a lot of people who were suffering from the disorder and are roaming around in search of treatment. He points out that half of the people who underwent a corneal transplant at the hospital recently were diagnosed with advanced keratoconus.
However, he says the need for the surgical transplant could be avoided if people would allow themselves to be tested earlier for keratoconus. "These patients will never go into a cornea transplant if they are diagnosed early and treated early," he adds.
He says that the prevalence of the disorder is predominantly genetic. "We have seen families with keratoconus over here…. where the brothers, sisters and parents all come to see the doctor," he notes.
Once patients were diagnosed with the condition, he explains, they could undergo a corneal collagen cross linkage procedure— a technique which uses Ultraviolet light and a photosensitiser to strengthen chemical bonds in the cornea. It is expected to halt the progressive change in the shape of the cornea. Dr Balwant Singh's Hospital has been administering the procedure for over a year now and has since been able to treat at least 20 patients.
More recently, six keratoplasties were done at the hospital for the first time by Dr. Jain and a seven-person medical team. It is the second time such transplants have been performed in Guyana.
Among those operated on were five males, including Abdul, and a female. All the patients were waiting to go overseas for the same surgery since it was not available locally. The patients ages range from 20 to 72 and half of them were diagnosed with keratoconus. The other three were diagnosed with PBK, cataract with bullous keratopathy and leucomatous corneal opacity.
Preparation for the surgeries were ongoing for six months. The corneas were obtained from three eye banks in the United States and transported to Guyana by Dr. Stephen Waller, who is presently lobbying for Guyana's to develop its own eye bank. "All the surgeries were uneventful and all the patients are recovering satisfactorily, so far," Dr Jain says, while adding that according to their eye bank register, 22 more patients were waiting for surgery.
Abdul says that his mother was determined for him to undergo the procedure. When he visited the Georgetown Public Hospital, it was recommended that he travel to Trinidad and Tobago for a Bilateral Keratoplasty surgery—which would have cost his family $1.5M per eye. His mother had instructed a family member working at Dr Balwant Singh's Hospital to tell her whenever an eye specialist came into the country so that he could get a second opinion.
Abdul says he was still doubtful because he had visited the hospital before and was told by Dr. Jain that he could not do the operation because no donor tissue was available.
Four years later—last month—when Abdul revisited the hospital after hearing that a specialist was in the country, he saw Dr. Jain. "When he saw me that day, he recognised me and he said that we could do it now because we have cornea tissue," Abdul says.
When the procedure was done at the hospital last month it cost him $600,000. The other surgery for the left eye is scheduled to be carried out in six months' time. According to Abdul, his vision in his right eye has improved tremendously and Dr. Jain has told him that it would heal completely within a year. "I'm glad we didn't have to spend all that money to fix my eye because we didn't know anyone in Trinidad to stay by when we would have reached there. And they wanted us to stay for a month," he says.
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He now is also an advocate for legislation that would allow people to donate their eyes upon their death so that more people like him would be able to see. "An eye bank would really help people. I think they should develop one here," he says.
Dr. Jain also voices the need for the creation of an eye bank in Guyana. He said from the eye bank register at Dr Balwant Singh's Hospital, it is clear that a lot of patients were in need of a new cornea. "Plus the Georgetown Public Hospital may have a much bigger number," he adds, while noting that there is significant demand.
He says Dr Balwant Singh's Hospital, however, will not sit and wait for another party to develop the bank and is willing to set one up itself. "The plan is already there. We are getting paperwork in order," he adds.
However, the biggest hurdle is that there is no proper legislation in place which could help hospitals to retrieve the eyes from donors. "If the country has a proper organ donation policy, it would become very easy for people to donate and this country can become very much self-sustained," he explains.
According to Dr Jain, considering the population versus the demand for donation, a constant donation within the next six months could meet the requirement for all persons in need of the surgery. "We can even meet the need of Caribbean countries," he suggests.
He says if Guyana continues to depend on overseas sources for the tissue donation, then it would remain a "no priority" for the other country. "These overseas sources will have first priority for their own country. Also, if you do the surgery in Guyana it is much cheaper than doing it in Trinidad," he adds.
He further says that an awareness needs to be created among Guyanese about cornea donation. "I am making an appeal. Please donate your eyes," he said.
Meanwhile, Dr George Norton, who heads of the Georgetown Public Hospi-tal Eye Clinic, also voiced his support for the establishment of an eye bank. He said there were enough cases of persons needing a transplant "that warrant the need for the establishment of an eye bank."
He stated that the fact that Guyana does not have such a deposit creates a major problem where it is "making cornea transplant look as though it is rocket science when it's not." He said it would not take any large infrastructure to develop the bank.
According to Dr Norton, a campaign needed to be set up to urge people to donate their bodies toward the improvement of science. "But also the bill needs to be passed in Parliament," he added.
Presently, he said, the clinic is treating an average of 300 patients every month and the numbers are rapidly increasing.
Norton was the first Ophthalmologist to perform a cornea transplant in Guyana. The procedure was done four years ago. "And those patients have a much more improved vision. As I recall, one of the men was a cane cutter and he is now back working in the fields," he stated.
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"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it."
- Frederic Bastiat
Bill Black is a former bank regulator who played a central role in prosecuting the corruption responsible for the S&L crisis of the late 1980s. He is one of America's top experts on financial fraud. And he laments that the US has descended into a type of crony capitalism that makes continued fraud a virtual certainty - while increasingly neutering the safeguards intended to prevent and punish such abuse.
In this extensive interview, Bill explains why financial fraud is the most damaging type of fraud and also the hardest to prosecute. He also details how, through crony capitalism, it has become much more prevalent in our markets and political system.
A warning: there's much revealed in this interview to make your blood boil. For example: the Office of Thrift Supervision. In the aftermath of the S&L crisis, this office brought 3,000 administration enforcements actions (a.k.a. lawsuits) against identified perpetrators. In a number of cases, they clawed back the funds and profits that the convicted parties had fraudulently obtained.
Flash forward to the 2008 credit crisis, in which just the related household sector losses alone were over 70x greater than those seen during the entire S&L debacle. So how many criminal referrals did the same agency, the Office of Thrift Supervision, make?
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What is going to happen when the greatest economic bubble in the history of the world pops? The mainstream media never talks about that. They are much too busy covering the latest dogfights in Washington and what Justin Bieber has been up to. And most Americans seem to think that if the Dow keeps setting new all-time highs that everything must be okay. Sadly, that is not the case at all.
Right now, the U.S. economy is exhibiting all of the classic symptoms of a bubble economy. You can see this when you step back and take a longer-term view of things. Over the past decade, we have added more than 10 trillion dollars to the national debt. But most Americans have shown very little concern as the balance on our national credit card has soared from 6 trillion dollars to nearly 17 trillion dollars.
Meanwhile, Wall Street has been transformed into the biggest casino on the planet, and much of the new money that the Federal Reserve has been recklessly printing up have gone into stocks. But the Dow does not keep setting new records because the underlying economic fundamentals are good. Rather, the reckless euphoria that we are seeing in the financial markets right now reminds me very much of 1929. Margin debt is absolutely soaring, and every time that happens a crash rapidly follows.
But this time when a crash happens it could very well be unlike anything that we have ever seen before. The top 25 U.S. banks have more than 212 trillion dollars of exposure to derivatives combined, and when that house of cards comes crashing down there is no way that anyone will be able to prop it back up. After all, U.S. GDP for an entire year is only a bit more than 15 trillion dollars.
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"Beyond the Fountainhead" Lecture at the fantastic Studio X, a venture of Columbia's GSAAD. Video here
"Beyond the Fountainhead" Lecture at the fantastic Studio X, a venture of Columbia's GSAAD. Video here
Funny how ideas formed so long ago still come up. But rather gauche nonetheless.
A short think piece on the 2011 Occupation movement and its relevance to architecture.
Early piece, written when I had just got Lefebvre. Introduces themes that I play on for years to come.
A short paper for the Journal of Architectural Education which specifically links issues of scarcity with notions of agency
First thoughts on spatial agency, better developed in the book.
Edited text of an interview with me about participation done with Bernd Upmeyer of the Dutch journal MONU
This explains some the background as to why I have pledged only to accept invitations to panels, conferences and so on where there is at least 30% representation from women.
My response as to why giving the official government website 2013 Design of the Year was not so cool.
Second of two, with some hints as to how to achieve flexible housing, much more developed in the book.
Short piece on Samuel Mockbee and the Rural Studio, trying to find the line between adulation and critique.
Originally commissioned by the RIBA, a piece on what might or might not constitute architectural research. Big in Spain.
Edited with Peter Blundell Jones and Doina Petrescu. A collection of essays setting out the whys and hows of new approaches to participation. My chapter in the book appears to have ended up on this website. (under Biblioteca) Other chapters include work by Jon Broome, Giancarlo de Carlo, CHORA, and my two fellow editors.
With Tatjana Schneider. A comprehensive survey of Flexible Housing design. Winner 2007 RIBA President's Award for Outstanding University based research, with judges saying: ?An exemplary body of architecturally-relevant research?offering comparative design plans, well-researched historical referencing, a new classification system and a practical manual/tool kit. An innovative and brave approach?? There is a long and useful, if quite critical, review by John Habraken (who is one of the book's heroes). The book is beautifully designed by Ben Weaver, who also did Spatial Agency and Architecture & Participation.
My main statement of intent, which has been extensively reviewed (collected here) and featured on BBC Radio 3 and 4. The contents are available on the MIT Press website, as are pdfs of the preface and introduction. A version of Chapter 2 was published in field: and is available as a pdf. Winner 2009 RIBA President's Award for Outstanding University based research.
A large European funded research project for which I am the project leader. Looking at the way the production of the built environment is affected under conditions of scarcity. In partnership with TU Vienna and Oslo School of Architecture, and working with Deljana Iossifova and Jon Goodbun at the University of Westminster and the SEED Foundation. A range of books, exhibitions and events will come out of it; visit the website for early outcomes.
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Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera, on an official visit to Norway from 21-23 June, delivered the Opening Plenary Address at the 6th World Congress Against the Death Penalty in Oslo on 22 June, on the theme 'Progress and Setbacks in Asia: Lessons to be...
Ladies and Gentlemen, in fact all of you are aware, that on the 08th of January last year in a historic election, in fact what the world calls the rainbow election of 2015, the people of Sri Lanka voted for change, and for democracy, reconciliation and...
Addressing the 105th Session of the International Labour Conference (ILC) in Geneva on 09th June 2016, Minister of Labour and Trade Union Relations W.D.J. Seneviratne has elaborated on the...
Sri Lanka's Permanent Representative to the WTO in Geneva Ambassador R.D.S. Kumararatne has presented to Mr. Roberto Azevêdo, Director-General of WTO the Instrument of Acceptance of the Protocol on...
Minister of Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine Dr Rajitha Senaratne on Tuesday (24 May 2016) drew the attention of the 69th World Health Assembly (WHA) meeting in Geneva to the recent floods...
About 400,000 people have been displaced while many have lost their lives following severe flooding over the last few days throughout the Island affecting 22 out of the 25 districts in Sri Lanka....
Minister of External Affairs Prof. G.L. Peiris said yesterday that it was unreasonable for the international community to expect a complete remedy for all issues in the short span of two and a half years since the Lankan conflict ended.
Addressing the diplomatic community in Colombo he pointed out that certain other countries which have faced similar situations had taken a number of years to come up with lasting solutions to major issues.
He pointed out to countries such as Cambodia and Bangladesh and said that in the latter it had taken nearly 25 years to achieve expected standards after a series of assassinations caused political turmoil.
He stressed the importance of having clarity with regard to procedures by international bodies when dealing with related issues.
He said that there should be clarity with regard to procedures in international bodies for there to be precision and predictability in their functions.
He added that in turn this would ensure cohesion and stability to the global system.
The minister noted that the United Nations Human Rights Council had a procedure when discussing issues related to countries, such as, the Universal Periodic Review. He emphasized the importance of abiding by those procedures.
Prof. Peiris observed that due recognition should be given to established local mechanisms which are striving to come up with viable remedies and emphasized that LLRC was such a mechanism.
The minister also stressed that justice, fairplay and morality should be embedded in international law and it should not be the subject of political interference.
He told diplomats that at this crucial juncture Sri Lanka expects the support and understanding of the international community.
The government intends to hold Provincial Council elections in the North, no later than early next year, External Affairs Minister Prof G.L. Peiris said.
The minister said that the government expects to complete the resurrection of the electoral process in the North by holding PC polls at the earliest possible time.
He pointed out that despite negative expressions coming from various quarters prior to the recently concluded local authority polls, the government was able to hold a free and fair election. "By holding elections, the government was able to reinvigorate the electoral process in the North and East which was dormant for a large part of the last 30 years due to acts of terrorism," the minister added and called it as a triumph for democracy. Prof Peiris pointed out that the TNA, a party outside the government, had been able to win a majority of the councils in the North and now they had to exercise their responsibility in developing the area.
The minister also underscored the government's commitment to continue the dialogue with the TNA and other Tamil political parties. He said that it was the government's position that both, bilateral talks with Tamil parties and dialogue within the proposed Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC), should be held simultaneously. The PSC does not supersede the bilateral process, he added.
The government has no intention to steamroll the necessary political and constitutional measures through Parliament. Plans to put in place a durable and workable solution to the national question should come by way of dialogue and consensus, he added. The minister also told the diplomatic community that the PSC would consist of 31 Parliamentarians as there was a large number of political parties in Parliament.
Commenting on the development in the North, the minister said rapid resettlement and economic empowerment is taking place in the North. He gave them a detailed report on the development and resettlement activities taking place in the North. The minister emphasized that the government in a short span of two and a half years, had been able to achieve a great deal of progress in all sectors in the North. He pointed out that achieving normalcy after such a damaging conflict elsewhere, had taken more than 25 years at times.
In this context the international community should understand the magnitude of the task at hand and the government expects their support and understanding in completing the task, he added.
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- When you get a smoldering hot day like today, going to the lake sounds pretty great.
But if you don't know how to swim, that could be a problem.
"Practice and try hard when you're in the water." said Harland resident, Gab Burch.
That's advice from a nine year old who just learned how to swim.
"My grandma was trying to teach me how to swim today, a little bit," Burch said.
"Then she gave me a float sort of thing to help me swim and I was a little scared."
Statistics are scary too.
Drownings are the second leading cause of accidental death for children between one and 14 years old.
That's why YMCA swim instructor Karen Fiocchi wants parents to watch their children.
"A lot of our lakes do not have life guards. They're public beaches, but there's no lifeguards. So that means swim at your own risk," said Fiocchi.
"So it means even if you're a good swimmer, swim with a buddy. If you're a kid, make sure your parents are there. Parents make sure you're there and you know where your kids are all the time at the beach."
Kids are at the highest risk of drowning when they're between ages one and four.
That's why this mom wants her daughter close to the shore.
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This twelve year old is glad to have supervision around.
"Just make sure you always have an adult or an older person with you that is responsible enough to watch you when you're swimming," said West Bend resident, Braden Hay.
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The Bayfield County sheriff's office says the 14-year-old left her home in the Town of Barnes on the ATV Tuesday. She was reported missing around 10 p.m.
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"Two to three times a week we're here," Barker said.
The Merrill mother brought her kids to the daily free lunch program at the park Wednesday morning. For Barker, the healthy meals make a big difference in her life.
"The generosity, the park, we go to the library, so it's all in a convenient area," Barker said. "And, it's all healthy food."
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- A Sun Prairie man accused of decapitating his mother with a sword last year has been committed to a state mental hospital.
Prosecutors and defense attorneys agreed with a psychiatrist's report Wednesday that 41-year-old Matthew Skalitzky was mentally ill at the time of the killing.
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The department also released video from one of the department's first traffic stops using the body camera on its Facebook page.
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That's because the Plum Lake Town Board voted against opening up parts of two roads: Kurtzweil Road and Birch Spring Road. Both are on the border of Sayner and St. Germain and are shared between the two towns.
A few months ago, St. Germain asked Plum Lake to open parts of those roads as part of an ATV route. At first, the Plum Lake Town Board approved them. That was before they found out a section of Kurtzweil Road was completely in Plum Lake.
"At that time the Plum Lake Town Board by a 2 to 1 vote approved letting them use that, assuming at the time the two roads were boundary roads equally shared by Sayner and St. Germain," said Will Maines, the Plum Lake Town Chairman.
So when St. Germain came back to the next town meeting with an ordinance for the roads ready to go, the Plum Lake town board then voted no.
Maines said most of the people in Plum Lake don't want ATVs on their town roads. The board found this out from a survey of residents and taxpayers they sent out in 2015, where he said about two-thirds of non-resident property owners and about two-thirds of Plum Lake resident voters voted against allowing ATVs on town roads.
"We'd like to cooperate with the town of St. Germain, but we represent the people of Plum Lake, and they have given us the message loud and clear: they don't want us to allow them on any section of our roads," Maines said.
The St. Germain Town Chairman Tom Christensen said the decision is "disappointing," but, "it is what it is."
About 6 towns in the eastern part of Vilas County allow ATVs on town roads, but the towns in the western part of the county don't allow them on town roads.
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President Barack Obama presents a 2010 Presidential Medal of Freedom to artist Jasper Johns, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington. AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster.
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President Barack Obama recognized one former president and 14 artists, athletes, civil rights activists, humanitarians and others Tuesday with the Presidential Medal of Freedom for contributions to society that he said speak to "who we are as a people."
This year's recipients "reveal the best of who we are and who we aspire to be," Obama said at a White House ceremony.
The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the nation's highest civilian honor. It is given in recognition of contributions to U.S. national security, world peace, culture or other significant public or private endeavors. Tuesday's medals were the second set Obama has awarded.
Some of the loudest applause was reserved for Bush, the former Republican president who has devoted nearly 70 of his 86 years to public service, starting when he joined the Navy on his 18th birthday. He served as a congressman from Texas, U.N. ambassador, Republican Party chairman, U.S. envoy to China, director of central intelligence, a two-term vice president and one term as the 41st president.
"His life is a testament that public service is a noble calling," Obama said. Bush's wife, Barbara, and their children listened from the front row. "His humility and his decency reflect the very best of the American spirit. Those of you who know him, this is a gentleman."
Another robust round of applause went to Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga. Lewis was chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and helped organize the first sit-ins at lunch counters that refused to serve blacks. In 1965, he led a march for voting rights from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., and was nearly beaten to death along with others in what became known as "Bloody Sunday."
Obama said Lewis "knew that change could not wait for some other person or some other time." Lewis speaks often and loudly in his booming voice on issues of justice and equality, and is known as the "conscience" of Congress.
He told reporters later that the award was all the more special coming from Obama, the nation's first black president.
"If someone had told me that one day I would be standing in the White House and an African-American president would be presenting me the Medal of Freedom I would say, 'Are you crazy? Are you out of your mind?'" Lewis said. "It's just an impossible dream."
A particularly touching moment occurred during the presentation for Dr. Tom Little, an optometrist who was murdered by the Taliban last August in Afghanistan. His wife, Libby, accepted and Obama rubbed her back as a White House military aide read her husband's medal citation.
The other medal recipients are:
John H. Adams, co-founder of Natural Resources Defense Council
Maya Angelou, an author and poet who wrote and recited one of her works at former President Bill Clinton's inauguration.
Warren Buffett, chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway. The famed investor is known as the "Oracle of Omaha" for a business savvy that has helped him become one of the world's richest men. Buffett is also a philanthropist and a leader of an effort challenging the country's wealthiest people to step up their charitable giving.
Jasper Johns, an artist whose work has dealt with themes of perception and identity. He is considered a major influence on pop, minimalist and conceptual art.
Gerda Weissmann Klein, Holocaust survivor and author who founded Citizenship Counts, an organization that teaches students to cherish being American citizens
Yo-Yo Ma, a world renowned cellist and 16-time Grammy award winner who is known for his interpretations of Bach and Beethoven. He played at Obama's inauguration and at other White House events.
Sylvia Mendez, a civil rights activist of Mexican and Puerto Rican descent
Angela Merkel, the first woman and first East German to serve as chancellor of a unified Germany. She did not attend the ceremony, but Obama said she'd be paying him a visit soon.
Stan Musial, Hall of Fame baseball player who spent 22 seasons with the St. Louis Cardinals
Bill Russell, the former captain of the Boston Celtics and first black man to become an NBA head coach.
Jean Kennedy Smith, founder of VSA, a non-profit organization that promotes the artistic talents of people with disabilities
John J. Sweeney, president emeritus of the AFL-CIO
President Harry S. Truman established the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1945 to recognize civilians for their efforts during World War II. President John F. Kennedy reinstated the medal in 1963 to honor distinguished service.
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Update (Feb 26) – It turns out that we failed to be clear on something pretty important here… rendering our headline ironically pretty apt. Maybe you really can't believe Belize's disavowal of ratable payment on its bonds.
OK, so here's the section on pari passu language in the new bonds' Offering Memorandum:
"To ensure clarity on the point, Belize does not understand…" and so on.
Well, a couple of observers have pointed out to us that bondholders might not necessarily agree with Belize's understanding. In other words, the disavowal might not protect Belize from legal challenge in the future, if it defaults on the new bonds. Why? Because Belize put the ratable payments disavowal in its offering memorandum — not in the actual contract for the new bonds. We should have made that clearer originally.
"Is that disavowal… important for the restructured creditors [to have]?," we asked below. Well, no. They didn't agree to put it into the contract, which is a sign that the bondholders didn't agree with Belize's interpretation in the first place, and did not wish to discard ratable payment.
That's important to clear up, but it's also interesting given what is really the most critical debate on obliging sovereigns to pay their bonds ratably.
The argument is about whether such an obligation can be inferred from a provision for equal treatment without the words 'ratable payment' having to be spelled out — or whether it needs sovereigns to issue debt with specific language attached. Beyond Belize, a case to consider might be Italy's sale in 2010 of New York law debt with a promise to "pay amounts due… equally and ratably".
At the same time, it's worth noting that the Belize contract could arguably be called a 'narrow' pari passu clause because it talks about 'ranking' rather than 'payment' in terms of equal treatment. The offering memo itself has also come from a hotly-negotiated restructuring, emerging after extensive discussion on terms. But there's a difference between a contract between two sides, and Belize's interpretation of the contract given in an offering memo drawn up by its lawyers, or in a resolution of its own legislature.
We can also bring it back to events tomorrow in the Thurgood Marshall US courthouse, and whether Argentina has much chance convincing the Second Circuit. In October, the court agreed with a remedy of ratable payment for Argentina's bond holdouts because it saw the dispute as a "simple question of contract interpretation." Note the focus on contract.
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It's the week of the big hearing in the pari passu saga.
Argentina (plus the bondholders who agreed to be restructured between 2005 and 2010, plus Bank of New York) will try to convince the Second Circuit that it should change an order for the country to pay holdouts ratably as a remedy for breaching their bond contract. 'Ratable' is a term with a controversial history in sovereign debt but it basically means paying each creditor on the same basis, not paying one after the other.
Well, speaking of ratable payment… we'd just like to point something out from the Belize debt restructuring, which has been going on while the pari passu saga has trundled through courts:
Status of the New Bonds
The New Bonds will be general, direct, unconditional, unsubordinated and unsecured obligations of Belize and will rank at least equally among themselves and with all of Belize's existing and future unsecured and unsubordinated indebtedness (it being understood that this equal ranking status shall not require Belize to pay all items of its bond indebtedness on a ratable basis).
A mere sub-clause, but what a sub-clause.
That wording comes from the Belize National Assembly's resolution, passed this month, which authorises the government to issue new debt to bondholders. It includes the bonds' basic terms and conditions (unfortunately the full Offering Memorandum itself is hard to track down — the offer period is still open), but it's really that direct disavowal of ratable payment which is special.
Particularly in this restructuring.
Belize could have ended up as a pretty acrimonious default. It started out as one: the government played hardball last year, through missing a coupon payment on its $550m 'Superbond' — the result of its last debt restructuring, back in 2007 — and generally just not being nice to its creditors. The mood got better after the creditors formed a committee, allowing everyone to sit down to argue about economic projections and the chances of debt repayment.
Still, while Belize's offer will be getting the acceptance it needs, the bond terms appear to contain some fairly innovative protections to make sure Belize can't play hardball again. Joe Kogan of Scotiabank has observed that creditors get to claw back the 10 per cent reduction in bond principal which they've agreed to, if Belize fails to make a payment within the next decade. There also seems to be an account set aside for paying the expenses of a future creditor committee. As Kogan also notes, these protections could ultimately depend on being able to attach Belizean assets to force these payments — c'est la vie when litigating against a sovereign — but they're nice to have.
So in this context Belize says that it doesn't consider itself to have an obligation to pay ratably under these bonds. Is that disavowal important for Belize to have? Or important for the restructured creditors? Will it in some way shape the legacy of the pari passu saga?
Sovereign debt restructurings don't come around very often, even these days. The new Belize bonds come five months after the Second Circuit first confirmed ratable payment for Argentina's holdouts, making them (we think) the first debt exchange to react to the court's decision. Some sovereigns have since sold New York law bonds warning that the Argentine litigation has now created legal risk within pari passu clauses, but unlike Belize they didn't go into the weeds of ratable payment.
Maybe its disavowal means the Second Circuit really should revisit the Argentine order after all.
But then Argentina has previously argued to courts that no sovereign debtor in its right mind would ever agree to ratable payment, given the power it would give to holdouts. Is that right? The Belizean rewrite suggests that sovereigns do recognise the ratable implications of a promise to pay pari passu, and that they can easily adapt bond contracts to shut those implications down. Even in a sovereign restructuring. Or, rather, especially in a sovereign restructuring.


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Texas avoids 1-3 start behind Johnathan Gray's 141 yards, 2 TDs
AUSTIN, Texas -- There's life in Texas yet. And maybe the pressure will ease off of coach Mack Brown, even if just for a few hours or days.
Johnathan Gray rushed for 141 yards and two touchdowns, David Ash threw a 63-yard touchdown pass and Texas beat Kansas State 31-21 Saturday night in the Big 12 opener for both teams.
Gray became Texas' first 100-yard rusher on the season and Texas' defense, pushed around in consecutive losses, put up a solid and energetic performance, forcing three critical second-half turnovers.
Brown has been under intense pressure after three sub-par seasons and a bad start this year. The victory allowed Texas (2-2, 1-0) to avoid its first 1/3 start since 1956 and snapped a five-game losing streak to the Wildcats.
"You always want to start the conference off right," Gray said. "We wanted to prove a point and hit them in the mouth."
John Hubert scored two touchdowns and Tyler Lockett had 13 catches for 237 yards for Kansas State (2-2, 0-1).
Gray's first touchdown in the second quarter came after he made two dazzling cuts on a 21-yard run. His second put Texas up 24-7 in the third. Malcolm Brown ran for Texas' last touchdown after the Wildcats had pulled within 10 points early in the fourth quarter.
Ash, who missed the previous game with concussion-like symptoms, passed for 166 yards in the first half but missed the second with a new head injury. Senior Case McCoy took over, leading two touchdown drives.
Texas came in as a team desperate to turn around it season. After consecutive losses, Brown urged his team to focus on the Big 12 and trying to win the league crown. The Longhorns, most notably the defense, responded with their most complete game of the season against the defending Big 12 champs.
The defense, which played so poorly in the two losses, gave up a huge night receiving to Lockett, but forced the three turnovers that swung momentum early in the second half and preserved the win late.
"We came out fired up," Texas defensive end Jackson Jeffcoat said. "This was a team we hadn't beaten in a while."
Brown has been harshly criticized by Texas fans after the bad start to the season and his job future beyond this season rapidly escalated into a matter of open speculation.
On Thursday, a member of the Texas board of regents acknowledged that he and a former regent spoke in January with Alabama coach Nick Saban's agent about Saban coaching the Longhorns if Brown retired. Two days later, Brown was asked if he would consider retiring, but the matter was dropped when Brown said he wanted to keep coaching.
Saban dismissed speculation he'd be interested in the Texas job, but that didn't stop some Texas fans from printing burnt-orange "Saban 2014" t-shirts and wearing them to the game Saturday night.
Brown did his best to push away the critics and the speculation about his job during the week.
"I said I'm going to be doing everything I can do to beat Kansas State. I haven't heard one word of it," Brown said. "This can be a really good football team before we finish."
Ash, who had been cleared to play Friday night, showed no effects of the previous head injury early in the game. But he took several big hits, both on runs and when standing in the pocket, before floating a perfectly-thrown pass to Kendall Sanders for Texas' first touchdown.
Texas went up 17-0 on Gray's first touchdown. Kansas State responded with its first drive across midfield and Hubert spun through two tacklers on a 15-yard touchdown run with 1 minute left in the half.
Ash was removed from the game at halftime to be evaluated for a head injury and didn't return, putting the game and the job of managing the lead in McCoy's hands. Kansas State fumbled on the first possession of the third quarter and McCoy handed the ball to Gray seven times in eight plays on a 56-yard drive to a touchdown and a 24-7 lead.
"It was major, quite obviously," Kansas State coach Bill Snyder said of the turnover. "It had a dramatic impact on the outcome of the ball game ... We need some leadership to really step up."
Hubert's second touchdown pulled Kansas State within 24-14 early in the fourth. Kansas State had pulled within 10 and was driving for a touchdown when Waters, who ran for a touchdown and passed for 275 yards, fumbled on the Texas 6 with 2:03 left to play.
The Wildcats had one last chance when Tramaine Thompson returned a punt 40 yards inside the Texas 15, but Waters was sacked twice and fumbled with 17 seconds left.
"It came down to us as a team, fighting," McCoy said.
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