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Shuri (comics)
Shuri | |
Publication information | |
Publisher | Marvel Comics |
First appearance | Black Panther vol. 4, #2 (May 2005) |
Created by | Reginald Hudlin (writer) John Romita, Jr. (artist) |
In-story information | |
Alter ego | Shuri |
Team affiliations | Wakanda |
Notable aliases | Black Panther |
Abilities | Extensively trained martial artist (as Black Panther) Enhanced speed, strength, agility, endurance, and senses Vibranium uniform and equipment |
Shuri, also known as the Black Panther, is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Originally appearing in a supporting capacity as the daughter of T'Chaka and the younger half-sister of T'Challa, the character went on to adopt the Black Panther identity and star in the series of the same name.
Publication history[edit]
Created by writer Reginald Hudlin and John Romita, Jr., Shuri first appeared in Black Panther vol. 4, #2 (May 2005). The character, originally written as a princess of Wakanda and supporting character, trains to and eventually successfully succeeds her older brother T'Challa, becoming the Black Panther and ruler of Wakanda in her own right.[1][2]
Fictional character biography[edit]
The princess of Wakanda, Shuri is T'Chaka's youngest child and only daughter. From a very young age, Shuri coveted the Black Panther mantle. She attempts to challenge the then-Black Panther, her uncle S'yan, for the mantle, only to discover that he had already been defeated by her older half-brother T'Challa.[3] During an attack on Wakanda by Klaw and a group of his mercenaries, she uses the Ebony Blade to defeat the Russian Radioactive Man, killing him in the process. Shell-shocked by her first kill, T'Challa promises to train her in hand-to-hand combat, enabling her to fight on her own terms should she ever need to take his place as leader of Wakanda.[4]
While T'Challa and his wife Queen Ororo are away as members of the Fantastic Four, American battleships aligned with Erik Killmonger moved in on Wakanda. With their King away, Shuri and her advisers decide to sneak onto the ships in the night and incapacitate them. During the raid Shuri is captured by Killmonger's men and thrown in a cell. She challenges Killmonger himself to a fight but, seeing her as beneath him, he sends a group of his men to battle her. She defeats them easily and is broken out of her cell by Zuri, one of T'Challa's advisers.[5] After T'Challa and Ororo leave the Fantastic Four and return to Wakanda, the Skrulls invade Wakanda as a part of Secret Invasion. Shuri and her uncle S'yan lead most of the Wakandan army on an assault again the invading Skrulls, while T'Challa and Ororo battle their leaders.[6]
Prince Namor of Atlantis attempts to recruit T'Challa for the Cabal, a secret council of supervillains run by Doctor Doom. He rejects the offer but is attacked by the various members, and is left in a comatose state. Queen Ororo nominates Shuri as his successor, and she successfully completes the various trials, granting herself access to the heart-shaped herb. However, when she consumes the herb, the Wakandan Panther God does not imbue her with the powers of the Black Panther, instead rejecting her due to her lifelong jealousy of her brother's mantle and her arrogance in its presence.[1] When the powerful villain Morlun threatens to annihilate Wakanda entirely, Shuri takes on the Black Panther identity and outfit anyway, and manages to both save Wakanda and resurrect her comatose brother. Through her humble act of self-sacrifice she earns the mantle of the Black Panther, and the Panther God grants her its accompanying powers.[2]
When a now powerless T'Challa discovers that Doctor Doom infected many Wakandan officials and advisers with nanites, he goes off in search of a way to stop him, leaving Shuri as acting ruler of Wakanda.[7] Shuri tracks down and fights Namor, trying to suss out for herself what part he played in her brother's injuries. Together, T'Challa and Shuri discover that the infected Wakandans, calling themselves the Desturi, intend to stage a revolution, seizing power in Wakanda for themselves.[8]
With Doctor Doom's Desturi successfully overthrowing the incumbent Wakandan government as seen in the Doomwar storyline, he finds himself with access to the world's largest supply of vibranium. Shuri and a re-powered T'Challa, who were able to avoid infection from Doom's nanites due to their heightened senses, remain the only Wakandans not under Doom's control. They team up with Colossus, Nightcrawler, and Wolverine of the X-Men to regain control in Wakanda. They succeed, but Doom steals a large portion of the vibranium. Shuri travels the globe, attempting to destroy Doom's criminal network and recover the stolen vibranium. Doom uses vibranium's inherent mystical qualities to take control of all processed vibranium on the planet, and Shuri and the other heroes attempt to fight and stop him. They succeed when T'Challa uses Doom's own mystical ploys against him, rendering all processed vibranium on the planet inert.[9]
With Wakanda struggling economically as seen in the Klaws of the Panther storyline, Shuri travels to the Savage Land to meet with Ka-Zar and obtain a stock of natural vibranium present there. They are attacked by Klaw, who wants the vibranium for his own use. They defeat him, but a volcanic eruption caused by his sound waves covers the vibranium and renders it unobtainable. She tracks down other stockpiles in Madripoor and New York, but Klaw already has A.I.M. troops excavating both sites and fights ensue. Klaw had created a monster called M.U.S.I.C. using the vibranium, and intended to place it on an AIM space station to enslave the world. With help from various other heroes, including Wolverine, Spider-Man and Black Widow, Shuri is able to thwart his scheme.[10]
Following Namor's attack on Wakanda during Avengers vs. X-Men, Shuri declares war on Atlantis, despite her brother's protests.[11] The Wakandans virtually level Atlantis, leaving only a few Atlantean survivors.[volume & issue needed] She also banishes her brother from the Golden City, from where she rules Wakanda.[volume & issue needed] In retaliation for Shuri's assault on Atlantis at a time in which he had been suing for peace, Namor tells Thanos' agents that Wakanda is the location of their target, Thanos' son, in the hopes of vengeance against Shuri and her people.[volume & issue needed]
During the Infinity storyline, it is shown that Shuri is the head of the Wakandan School for Alternative Studies.[12]
When Wakanda is attacked by the Cabal during the Time Runs Out storyline, Shuri sacrifices herself by staying behind in order to hold off Proxima Midnight so T'Challa can escape.[13] Her death is later confirmed when her spirit is seen among those of the past Black Panthers.[14]
As part of the All-New, All-Different Marvel, T'Challa is shown trying to revive Shuri's body.[15]
During the Monsters Unleashed storyline, Shuri was seen assisting Black Panther in battle against the Leviathon Tide. They were shown defending Wakanda from a Thick-Skinned Leviathon.[16]
Powers and abilities[edit]
Before undergoing the trials to become the Black Panther, Shuri was an extensively trained martial artist.[6] After the trials, like the Black Panthers before her, Shuri consumed the heart-shaped herb; this granted her enhanced speed, agility, strength, endurance and senses. Her uniform is composed of vibranium.[2]
Other versions[edit]
Marvel Mangaverse[edit]
A character similar to Shuri, T'Challa's younger sister T'Channa, appeared in the Marvel Mangaverse. She turned her back on the Wakandan people, instead becoming an apprentice and later the successor of Doctor Doom.[17]
In other media[edit]
- Shuri appeared in the Black Panther animated series, voiced by Kerry Washington.
Video games[edit]
- Shuri is playable as an Enhanced Costume for Black Panther in Marvel Heroes.
- Shuri is playable as one of the main characters in the Black Panther DLC pack for Lego Marvel's Avengers.[18]
- ^ a b Black Panther vol. 5, #1-2 (Apr. - May 2009)
- ^ a b c Black Panther vol. 5, #3-6 (June - Sept. 2009)
- ^ Black Panther vol. 4, #2 (May 2005)
- ^ Black Panther vol. 4, #3-6 (June - Sept. 2005)
- ^ Black Panther vol. 4, #26-27 (May - June 2007)
- ^ a b Black Panther vol. 4, #39-41 (Sept. - Nov. 2008)
- ^ Black Panther vol. 5, #7-8 (Oct. - Nov. 2009)
- ^ Black Panther vol. 5, #9-12 (Dec. 2009 - Mar. 2010)
- ^ Doomwar #1-6 (Apr. - Oct. 2010)
- ^ Klaws of the Panther #1-4 (Dec. 2010 - Feb. 2011)
- ^ New Avengers (vol. 3) #7
- ^ Infinity: The Hunt #1
- ^ New Avengers (vol. 3) #24
- ^ New Avengers (vol. 3) #29
- ^ Black Panther (vol. 6) #1
- ^ Monsters Unleashed Vol. 2 #1
- ^ Marvel Mangaverse #3 (Aug. 2002)
- ^ http://www.gamezone.com/news/lego-marvel-avengers-first-dlc-packs-get-release-dates-3435056
External links[edit]
- Shuri at Marvel Wiki
- Shuri at Comic Vine
- World of Black Heroes: Black Panther-Shuri Biography


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Stachowski Market Dinners |
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We will be serving Roasted Chickens this Sunday afternoon starting at 1:30pm!
Dinners will be ready beginning at 2:00pm and are available until close at 6:00pm. Please reserve all orders by phone (202-506-3125). Phone-in orders will receive first priority. Walk-in orders at the shop will be on a first-come, first-served basis.
We are located on the corner of 28th St. and P St. approximately six blocks west of Dupont Circle and 4 blocks north of M St. in Georgetown.
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Curious about the newer model? Check out the 2017 Cadillac Escalade ESV
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In Japan, they know all about the three wise monkeys, who see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil – because one has his hands over his eyes, another over his ears, and the third over his mouth.
So if you want to level a gentle insult at a group wilfully ignoring what is in front of them, you can call them the "three wise monkeys" – so long as your audience gets the reference.
But not everyone does, as four activists in public sector union Unison have discovered. They have been disciplined for distributing an "offensive" leaflet which carried a drawing of the proverbial monkeys. The cartoon was interpreted as a racist slur against a fellow activist – a charge the four vehemently deny. They say no one could believe they intended a racist insult, and that they are victims of a "witch hunt" by New Labour loyalists, who control the union. The four have been barred from holding office in the union, but have taken their case to appeal – which begins today.
The row dates from an incident nearly two years ago, when supporters of the Socialist Party – a Marxist group well to the left of Labour – tried to get Unison's annual conference to discuss proposals to cut links with the Labour Party, and reduce the pay of full-time union officials. Unison is one of the biggest donors to Labour, despite occasional friction.
The rebels were told by Unison's standing orders committee, which determines what can be discussed at conference, that there were more important matters to be debated in the available time. Irritated by this, they distributed a hastily printed leaflet with a cartoon that compared the committee with the three wise monkeys.
The only member of the committee familiar to most Unison members is Clytus Williams, the chairman. He is a lay union activist and well liked by most delegates. He is also black. The idea the far left was trying to caricature him as a monkey infuriated delegates, many of whom are low-paid workers more familiar with bar room racism than Buddhist culture and proverbial monkeys.
Four members of the Socialist Party, Glenn Kelly, Onay Kasab, Suzanne Muna and Brian Debus – who all hold unpaid offices in Unison branches – were ruled to have distributed "offensive" material, and barred from office – though investigators accepted there was no "racist intent". Their cause has been taken up by comedians Rory Bremner and Mark Thomas. Mr Bremner said: "On the face of it, Unison are about to make themselves a laughing stock. They need to be aware of the ridicule this will attract to the union and its leaders, and think again before the papers get hold of this and make them look foolish and authoritarian."
Mr Thomas said: "I know Onay Kasab. To accuse him of being racist is utter stupidity and madness. Those who brought this charge need to take a lie down in a quiet room, possibly with whale music playing and get a rest."
Labour MP, John McDonnell, a veteran critic of New Labour, said: "Unison's leadership are doing the bosses a favour. It is a political witch hunt."
A spokeswoman for Unison said: "We confirm a National Executive Council panel found these members breached several Unison rules, which require 'members, activists, representatives and staff, are treated with dignity and respect at all times when participating in the union's democratic structures'. As there may be an appeal, the union is unable to add more until this is concluded."
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Discraft Ace Race - First Tournament @ The Gulch
Sunday, August 11, 2013 at Merrill Park West in Hamburg, Michigan
Ace Race
Ace Race
About this tournament
This is a Discraft Ace Race.
Thank you all so much we are FULL UP we may have packs available ... more
Jessica Ferris June 12, 2013 at 11:17pm
Any cash-less registration?
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John Reifschneider
June 13, 2013 at 1:38am
Yes, Matt or I as well can take prereg but often bill is the easiest to locate since he is nearest to the course.


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isn't that amazing? love it, every last sprinkle of it.
Monday, August 27, 2012
♥ oa color challenge ♥
i'm sorry for the late post today, i received the dreaded school phone calls saying that my youngest "my crash" had tripped going down the stairs on the jungle gym playground and hit his head on the metal arm rail. his eyes weren't dilating properly, he had a headache and the nurse wasn't real comfortable taking no actions since his eyes weren't dilating correctly. i came, picked him up and away to the ER we went. thank God he doesn't have a concussion (went through my first one of those with my daughter last year) and his eyes are starting to return to normal. my little guy, he can make me swallow hard, real hard, just putting his arms around me, giving me a big kiss on the cheek and saying "i'm ok mama"....yep, almost lost it then. we had lunch and it was the best cheeseburger he ever ate (so i believe)
today i was up with Mou on the OA blog. she challenged us with a color challenge today and it was so inspiring and fun
Image from Design Seeds via Pinterest
isn't that amazing? love it, every last sprinkle of it.
i decided to create a card using the Woodland Park line, i love the colors and design of this line and was really excited to see what i could come up with using it.
i love all the chip and stick elements, the stickers, the patterns, the colors, it makes me truly happy
i hope you'll stop by the blog and see the adorable card that she created for this challenge
also, today was my last post for My Scrapbook Nook. as you may have read, the 'Nook will be closing it's doors at the end of September. pam and leah are ready for new adventures in their lives, adventures they have prayed over and prepared for during the last few months, and they will be retiring. it is with great sadness that we have to say goodbye to our "home away from home".
so i decided to make my last monday CARDS challenge a sketchy one. there are papers and elements in this kit that would work so well with the sketch and i hope it inspires all of you.
and here is my card using the August kit
i hope you'll stop by the 'Nook forum and see the other gorgeous cards the dt created
we had our 2nd anniversay birthday blog hop over at Scraptastic Kit Club this weekend and what amazing comments, thank you ALL so much, i am honored and so humbled, thank you.
my winner of the washi tape is.......
#34 who is
your cards are so gorgeous, as always! You work magic with paper
every.single.time. I'd love to win some of that cute washi!
HUGE congratulations!! please pm me your snail mail becky so i can get the info over to jessica, and she can send your washi tape out to you.
thank you ALL for your sweet comments and your friendship, it means the world to me.
hugs & so much love!
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Samick Silvertone SG-11 ReviewsStarter Package at Media Play for $169.99. Overall, this guitar sucks. It's definitely a beginners guitar but more encouragingly, save up a little bit and get yourself a much better guitar. I didn't know whether I was going to like playing the guitar. I was taking it up as a new hobby, and after having this as a first guitar, I'm not sure why anyone would still want to play. The good thing that came out of this is that it makes you realize, if you're a beginner, that you need other stuff as well to take care of and manage the guitar. Once you learn to hold down the chords on this axe then you will be able to play all of the other guitars in the world, so that's definitely good. I'm giving this a #2 rating because no guitar out there is really bad, at least you can play on it and make music, and because it's really cheap to learn on. (The reason I got it in the first place.) Reznuel rated this unit on 2002-07-31.More Samick Electric_Guitars |
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Below you will find a list of the groceries stores in Carmel Valley, CA. These 16 groceries stores are organized by their distance from Carmel Valley. The closest businesses to Carmel Valley are Carmel Valley Market on Chambers Ln (Carmel Valley) and Kasey's on Carmel Valley Rd & Delfino Pl (Carmel Valley) in the category Grocers & Markets Retail, Village Market on E. Carmel Valley Rd (Carmel Valley) in the category Supermarkets & Super Stores, Wild Goose Bakery Cafe on E. Carmel Valley Rd (Carmel Valley) in the category Delicatessens Retail and Downunder Deli on Mid Valley Shopping Ctr (Carmel Valley) in the category Restaurants.
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ROCK & WORSHIP ROADSHOW TOUR Featuring MERCYME, JEREMY CAMP, TEDASKII, KUTLESS, FAMILY FORCE 5, LUMINATE, ADAM CAPPA, RHETT WALKER BAND AND TIM TIMMONS
DATE: Friday February 22, 2013
PLACE: Energy Solutions Arena, 301 West South Temple, Salt Lake City, UT
INFO#: 937.834.5323 or rockandworshiproadshow.com or rushconcerts.com
ADMISSION: $10.00 Door only.
Big Daddy Weave will be in concert at Trinity Life Center, 1000 E St Louis Ave, Las Vegas, NV 89104. Special guests Chris August and Citizen Way will also be performing. The concert will be held on February 15th at 7PM. Doors open at 6:30PM.
Advanced price tickets are $12 and will cost $15 if purchased the day of the concert.
Tickets are on sale at the SOS Radio studios between 9am & 5pm Monday-Friday. 2201 South 6th Street, LAs Vegas NV 89104. Cash or checks payable to TRINITY LIFE CENTER. (Sorry we don't accept credit cards for these tickets)
Time: 7:00 PM (doors open 6:00 pm)
General Admission. $35, $45 & $60/ group of 10 $25 ( as of 1/12/13)
Canyon Ridge Christian Church
6200 W Lone Mountain Rd
Las Vegas, NV US 89130
Ticket Info: http://www.shanecalloomgmt.com/Tickets.html, Heavensent Christian Books & Gifts, 4990 West Craig Rd, 702-434-5088
Shane Calloo 702-981-7800
Lincoln Brewster will perform live at Central Christian Church this weekend. He will perform 5 times this weekend playing a ton of great Christmas songs!
4:30pm Saturday
6:00pm Saturday
9:00am Sunday
10:20am Sunday
11:45am Sunday
Admission is FREE.
3120 Hualapai Mountain Rd
11:00am & 6:00pm
FMIC Anna Daniel 702-753-3238
Join us at the Valley Christian School Auditorium for this night full of Christmas music and carols. The audience is encouraged to join Missoula's own Daystar in songs that draw your thoughts and attention to this special time of year. A freewill offering will be taken to support the Friends of Valley Christian scholarship fund.
Join us at the Valley Christian School Auditorium, 2526 Sunset Lane, for this night full of Christmas music and carols. The audience is encouraged to join Missoula's own Daystar in songs that draw your thoughts and attention to this special time of year. A freewill offering will be taken to support the Friends of Valley Christian scholarship fund.
Audio Adrenaline is BACK! With singer Kevin Max formerly of DC Talk.
Saturday, December 1st at 6pm!
Valley Bible Fellowship 4500 West Sahara Avenue in Las Vegas, NV.
New Life Fellowship
Pastor Joe Green warmly invites all in the High Desert to New Life Fellowship for a free concert featuring Dove Award nominee, ABANDON KANSAS.
Producer and Grammy Award Winner TobyMac signed them to his label at Gotee Records in 2009. They are out on the road to share their gifts and stories. Arrive early—seating is limited!
New Life Fellowship is located at 134 West Main Street in Barstow, CA.
For more information, please contact the New Life Fellowship office at (760) 256-6076
Join us for our annual Advent-Christmas Concert organized and performed by the Music [email protected] Peters and the St Peters Lifeteen Group. Celebrating the journey to the birth of Christ through song, story and interpretation, it's a parish family night sure to set the tone for Christmas with a reception immediately following in the Parish Center.


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Today I would like to share my favourite wedding themed - Pastel Wedding, because of its colour themed and overall look sweet with warm. Colours of it's used in wedding is gentle, warm and cream. Thus, everything will look colourful and pleasantly. Here I share some inspiration where I found from other wedding websites. Hope it can give you some usefully.
Inspiration from Primadonna Bride
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Fort Worth Open - Archived Standings
Meadowbrook Lanes, Ft. Worth, Tex., Jul 10-13, 1969
Hardwick In A Cakewalk
BILLY HARDWICK became the second winningest pro bowler in the history of the PBA as he cakewalked his way to the Ft. Worth Open championship. The victory was his fifth of the year, giving him 14 titles in seven years. This pushed him second only to Dick Weber's 18. Hardwick led all the way, capturing the lead on opening day and holding it through an 11-4-1 match-game effort. He totaled 9753 pins, 180 in front of Don Johnson, who finished with 9573. 40-GAME FINALS
Pro-Am Cashers ($50)-Carmen Salvino, Alfonso Pujol, Dave Soutar, Harry Smith, Fred Lening, Paul Zevgolis. 24-Game Qualifying Leader-Hardwick, 5501. 16th Low-Laub, 5133. *Alternate. **Local Entries. |


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April 30, 2012
How to Pack Without a Suitcase
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I do the same thing. I hate to check bags when I travel so I always bring stuff I can mix and match. Where did you get that purple top?! It's so cute!
ReplyDeleteGreat tips Laura! Happy Travels! :)
~Natasha Fatah~Wow. I'm impressed. I tend to OVER pack & end up paying dearly. Can you please post pictures of how all the clothes you packed fit into that Lo & Sons bag? I would really appreciate it as I'm looking for a new travel carry on. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI can not believe you packed all that in that little bag!! Your right I always pack things that I dont even end up wearing :)
-barbie @ Style of a Mrs.I do the same thing with trying on everything before I pack it!!! There's nothing worse than packing an outfit you think will work only to get there and have to reconfigure how you'll wear what you packed because you have to work around an outfit that didn't look right!
http://thebluehourfashion.blogspot.comI've been looking for the perfect weekender. Would you say you could only fit a few days' worth of clothes in that bag?
ReplyDeleteRepliesIt all depends on how much a few days' clothes is for you! I was able to fit 5 days clothes in here, but it was summery clothes - if you're packing sweaters and heavier items you could definitely get away with at least 3 separate outfits. I'm planning on doing a video soon on all that I can pack in this thing if that would be helpful!
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The 12 Federal Reserve banks have assets, including risky assets. They have liabilities. They have a thin capital cushion. Could one of them become insolvent?
The possibility ought to concern you if you have any Federal Reserve notes in your wallet. These notes aren't redeemable for gold or anything else tangible. They are trust-me money. What if people stop trusting the dollar? What are you going to be able to buy with it?
Fed insolvency is a scenario pooh-poohed by most bankers and the Fed's own staff. When I saw Dallas Fed boss Richard Fisher at a conference earlier this year he laughed off my question about what rising interest rates would do to his bank's balance sheet.
But scary talk about the Fed is being heard from some serious economists and money managers.
The wealthy money man James Rogers Jr. says our 98-year-old central bank is doomed, one reason he likes to own commodities. James Grant, publisher of Grant's Interest Rate Observer, is a longtime skeptic of central banks around the globe and of their typically steep leverage.
Federal Reserve notes are fiat currency, Grant keeps reminding us. They are pieces of paper that can lose credibility. He'd rather own gold.
Charles Calomiris, a Columbia University economist and member of the Fed-watching gang called the Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee, is more restrained in his criticism. He sees a possibility that the Federal Reserve might want to, or have to, sell some of its assets at a time when the assets are underwater. The resulting loss could wipe out the equity cushions at Federal Reserve banks, force the banks to beg for a bailout and cause a further loss of confidence in the dollar.
Until recently the Federal Reserve owned rather safe assets like gold, short-term Treasury bills and the short-term IOUs of commercial banks. The financial crisis changed all that. In the past two years the system's balance sheet has doubled in size as the 12 banks bought up mortgage securities and medium- and long-term Treasury bonds.
Where did Chairman Ben Bernanke get the money to buy all these securities? By creating it. The Federal Reserve ran off a few hundreds and twenties. It also issued the electronic form of money: deposits in favor of commercial banks on the books of the Fed.
This buying binge is officially called quantitative easing. But that phrase, says Walker Todd, a Fed expert at the American Institute for Economic Research, is "just a fancy way of saying 'printing money.'"
Result: The Federal Reserve System is now sitting on $2.6 trillion of securities with an average maturity between four and five years. The Fed has a few other assets, such as gold. It has a slim equity base, less than $52 billion. On the liability side the main item is money: $1 trillion of paper money and $1.7 trillion of electronic money.
The books of the Federal Reserve make it look like a commercial bank—an immensely profitable one. Last year the system took in $83 billion of interest income, a yield near 4% on an asset base averaging $2 trillion. Interest expense was only $3 billion. The Fed pays no interest on its banknotes and only 0.25% on electronic money (that is, the deposits that commercial banks have with it).
What this glorious financial enterprise amounts to is borrowing short and lending long, a recipe for disaster if interest rates go up. When rates rise, the value of the assets goes down while the value of the liabilities remains unchanged. The Shadow commentators say that a mere half-point rise in rates might be enough to wipe out the equity on the Fed's balance sheet.
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Now that you mention that sensational '82 series between the Celtics and the Sixers, i remember it mostly for what Darryl Dawkins (now who could forget him?) said after he was asked how he felt walking off the court while the Garden crowd chanted Beat LA! - "My dick got hard."
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Yes I was, a junior in college. I saw Bird play at the Garden. He and Magic were just beginning their runs. At nearby Cambridge Rindge and Latin High was a teen-age behemoth who was headed for what was then a no-name basketball school, Georgetown. Pat Ewing would put that school on the map, and John Thompson would turn it into a big-man factory: Mutombo, Mourning, etc. In addition to turning out a little guy named Iverson.


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Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Wednesday they have intelligence on the explosion near the Bab al Hawa crossing on Turkey-Syria border.
He asserted that Syria would suffer the consequences if it was an act of retaliation by the Syrian regime in response to the downing of a Syrian helicopter by Turkish jets.
Speaking at a joint press conference in Turkish capital Ankara on Wednesday with Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja, Davutoglu said, "Turkish intelligence are looking at this incident. If this is the retaliation of the Syrian regime, they will suffer the consequences."
Davutoglu said negotiations for a "new Syria" could only be successfully held between members of the Syrian regime who did not partake in bloodshed and were "legitimate" and "moderate" opposition leaders.
Before the press conference, Davutoglu and his Finnish counterpart signed a memorandum of understanding for cooperation in the exchange of diplomats.
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You can have a live fish mate with a dead fish! If you have a rare fish (or any fish, really) and it died, get a live fish and put it in the mating place. Then drag the dead fish over to the live fish as if mating two alive fishes. This should produce babies. Note: Make sure the LIVING fish is in the plastic bag and that you drag the DEAD fish over to it. This trick will NOT work the other way around! |
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Electricity Act 2003 has provided a number of features which are aimed at not only bringing about transformation of the electricity industry and market but also for introducing a competitive environment. The focal point of the Act, and of the changes stipulated, is the consumer interest. A number of instruments that have been envisaged in this legislation aim at bringing about the required structural changes so that the sector shifts from limited options or no option to multiple options. One such change is through Power Trading. This has been recognized as a distinct licensed activity. As we are aware, prior to this Act, it is only the Electricity Boards, as provided in the Electricity Supply Act 1948, which could supply power to consumers or which could engage in purchase of power and distribution. By way of implementation of Electricity Act 2003, today we have almost two dozen electricity trading licensees. This has already resulted in the distribution companies throughout the country making use of this instrument and trying to get the best possible advantage for procuring power. It is not only facilitating such procurement of power but is also helping in better utilization of generation capacities available in the country. Therefore, while trading has helped in mitigating shortages to some extent, it has also assisted in bringing about overall improvement by better utilization of power plants. Inspite of these enabling provisions in the Act, and despite a large number of trading licenses having been granted by the Regulatory Commissions, the trading volume continues to be abysmally low at around 3% of the total power generated in the country (out of more than 600 billion units, only about 20 billion units are being traded).
While the subject of Power Trading, its existing status, the constraints, the remedies etc. are by themselves issues of examination analysis and discussion, we are for the present focusing on Power Exchange as an initiative to promote this process. In India we are familiar with stock market exchange for a number of years. Bombay Stock Exchange and similar exchanges in different towns existed about ten years ago. National Stock Exchange with some fresh ideas and new approaches emerged on the scene. Obviously faced with the competition, working of Bombay Stock Exchange has also improved as was expected and definitely National Stock Exchange which started on a clean slate and from the scratch brought in innovative freshness while dealing with this issue. In the recent years there have been good examples of commodity exchanges facilitating and bringing about transparency in the process of trading of commodities. Experience has shown that input and contribution of these exchanges in the whole process have proved to be positive and useful for all the stake holders.
About three years back, MCX which was already in the commodity exchange business came up with an idea of promoting Power Exchange to facilitate power trading. They made a presentation to me and senior officers of CEA, NTPC etc. in the Ministry of Power. In principle it was agreed that Power Exchange could definitely be a useful instrument and would contribute in bringing about a competitive environment in the sector through enhancement of more convenient, faster, transparent and more efficient transactions. In fact, the Ministry of Power set up a group to study the working of Power Exchanges in some other countries where these exchange have demonstratively established success. A lot of data and information was collected. Subsequently two groups started working on this namely MCX and NCDX. Recently, the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission has already cleared the Power Exchange promoted by the MCX Group in association with Power Trading Corporation, TATA Power, Reliance Energy, IDFC etc. The other group which is working on this and is in the process of securing the license consists of NCDX, NSE, NTPC, Power Grid and Power Finance Corporation etc.
To really appreciate the mechanics of Power Exchange and to understand the implications of various issues involved, it would be necessary to establish the need for Power Trading. On 3rd October, 2007, the Monthly Round Table organized by Infraline Energy and IDFC deliberated on the issue of Power Exchange for promoting development of power market in India.
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To create a transparent, national-level platform for trading electricity in India. In order to create a vibrant power market, a transparent platform for trading of electricity is a pre-requisite.
To access a diversified portfolio. Power exchange offers a broader choice to generators and distribution licensees at the national-level who can trade for smaller quantities and smaller number of hours without additional overheads.
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To precisely adjust portfolio as a function of consumption or generation profile. Participants in the power exchange, especially distribution licensees, shall be able to precisely manage their consumption and generation pattern.
Hedging UI risks. The real-time prices of electricity fluctuates and licensees need to mitigate risks. The power exchange shall provide a tool to minimise price risks.
For market development: The exchange can be expected to launch a range of products to facilitate development of power markets in India.
Source: MCX Brochure
The process of sale and purchase of power and the nature of commercial arrangements over last 15 years were discussed in detail. As we are aware, after the economic liberalization of 1991, the change in the power sector that happened led to long term commercial arrangement between generator of power and electricity distribution utilities through Power Purchase Agreements. When Electricity Boards at the state level used to deal with generation, transmission and distribution, all of them were under one umbrella, even this commercial arrangement did not exist. When during mid 80's Central Public Sector Undertakings such as NTPC started with commercial approach, the instrument of Power Purchase Agreements, though not very comprehensive, commenced the commercial orientation of such transactions in the sector. Subsequently with Independent Power Producers, in the private sector, getting into the generation, long term Power Purchase Agreements became the main modality of commercial arrangement. Thus, most of power capacity today is locked through such long term contracts. Even the so called 15% unallocated capacity of central power companies, viz. namely NTPC, NHPC etc. are really not getting into traded commodity but they are reallocated to states like the normal allocation category. Therefore, the room for power trading in the electricity sector is extremely restricted. Unless the system enables reasonably good proportion of the total capacity to get out of the long term locked-up arrangement, power trading, in true sense, would not emerge as a meaningful contributor to competitive environment in the sector. I recall that when the instrument of E-Auction for coal was being examined, many of us belonged to the school of thought which suggested that unless about 10 to 15% of coal was allowed to be traded through this method, it might lead to excessive rise in the price and might even lead to manipulations by vested interests. It is now history that a small percentage of trading volume through the auction of coal did lead to many problems. Even in power sector 3% of power being traded leads to excessively high price in the situation of overall shortage in the country. Therefore the idea of enlarging the size of trading by way of facilitating captive plants supplying to the grid, development of merchant power plants or merchant capacity in large power plants or aligning a small percentage of Ultra Mega Project capacity to be kept out of the long term Power Purchase Agreements are the instruments through which this process can be enlarged and encouraged.
Unfortunately, the Power Exchange which is being developed would not capture the inputs from captive plants linked to state level grids at lower voltages, nor would it accommodate the small merchant plants which are not linked to Extra High Voltage National Grid. The issue which needs to be seriously considered is how best they could be brought into the ambit of exchange operation. The national grid developed and maintained by Power Grid has the necessary infrastructure including modern hardware and software to lend themselves to any sophisticated treatment including online transactions. Therefore, in the first instance, it is but natural that the first Power Exchange is being asked to restrict its activities to the transfer and trading of power through Extra High Voltage Transmission System. However, it is also a fact that for enlarging the volume of trading we can't leave out merchant plants and captive plants most of which could be connected to the local and state grids. The problem of updating of the hardware to accommodate the requirement of trading and modernization of the grid operation at these voltages will need to be taken up on priority so that this potential of power is brought on to trading through power exchange at the earliest.
Power Exchange as a concept is not new to the power industry. For India it no doubt new. For India even power trading is relatively a new development - a development of last five to six years and it is at a nascent stage. It needs to mature and larger volume will obviously yield that type of growth and maturity. In U.K., Australia, Ontario and Alberta the trading happens through bilateral/forwards, through day-ahead transaction as also through real time operations. Similarly, these three types of trading are prevalent also in New Zealand and NordPool. In India, however, as of now real time trading is not happening. The closest that we can interprete the real time purchase/sale in Indian Power sector is through the mechanism of Unscheduled Interchange (U.I). This is not a planned transaction or trading. This is a forced event. Quite often states, having shortages of power, particularly during peak hours, tend to over draw power from the grid, thus depriving other states of the power to which they are entitled. This type of frequent overdraws from the grid create imbalances in system operations and sometimes this can lead to major grid collapse thus disrupting power supply in a large number of states. Therefore, the mechanism of Unscheduled Interchange has been put in place to penalize such states at very high rate of tariff, may be four to five times of the usual tariff, to discourage them and prevent them from doing so. In a way this transaction happens without any planned arrangement. Therefore, it is not trading but it is very near a commercial arrangement which automatically is like an online transaction.
When the normal trading itself picks up to a larger volumes, the concerned utilities will find considerable merit in dealing with this arrangement rather than indulging in grid indiscipline warranting penal tariff under the above dispensation of Unscheduled Interchange.
Long term Power Purchase Agreements and medium and short term trading have to co-exist. Entire investment in highly capital intensive power sector cannot be expected to happen unless there is proper contractual arrangement for long term off-take of power, at least for larger portion of the capacity which is being planned. A marginal capacity may be of the order of 20 to 25% in such project, is kept untagged and is allowed for the purpose of medium and short term trading. It would result in a highly harmonious blend to ensure payment security with major portion on long term contract and also to promote market development. Besides, it would lead to a spin-off benefit by way of an upside or return on investments derived from market oriented trading of power. It is precisely for this reason when Ultra Mega Projects were conceived, about 15 to 20% of capacity in the subsequent power projects was being considered to be kept outside the preview of long term Power Purchase Agreements. This should be pursued.
An interesting issue that emerges in the context of Power Exchange is whether such exchanges could lead to dilution of activities and therefore to a truncated role for Power Trading Companies. One school of thought seems to suggest that when Power Exchange itself could arrange the agencies which can supply power with agencies which need power to come together, finalize the commercial aspects through well structured and computerized transactions, the role obviously of the power traders will drastically reduce. Another school of thought, however, opines that these Power Exchanges may lead to great degree of awareness about an appreciation for power trading as an established and streamlined mode of power purchase and sale. Therefore, the volume itself will increase so substantially that the likely dilution on account of exchange might be more than offset, and hence power traders need not have any insecure feeling.
Another issue which has been discussed over last few months is whether the time is right to have two Power Exchanges, particularly when the trading value is so small (hardly 3% of total). Those who support at least two exchanges argue that when the idea of National Exchange was being mooted some ten years ago similar apprehensions were expressed. Operations of Bombay Stock Exchange by that time had already come under critical evaluation with certain deficiencies and therefore it was felt that another exchange might not only provide an option but the very competition will help even the Bombay Stock Exchange improve its efficiency of operations. The event of last ten years have vindicated the wisdom of having a second Stock Exchange. This line of argument attempts to justify that two exchanges would be in the overall interest of all stakeholders.
The authorization given by the Regulatory Commission to the MCX Power Exchange is, for the present, for day ahead operations. This means that the power available will need to be declared a day in advance. This could be available on computer screens in a transparent manner and those who need to buy will have to declare their requirements. Buyers will need to deposit the money in advance or an arrangement will have to be put in place so that payment is ensured before the transactions take place. A number of issues arise around this architecture of the transaction. They relate to the empowerment for decision making both in the group of sellers as also in the group of buying utilities. Most of these on either side are government agencies. How well they would be empowered at working levels and more importantly how well they would be equipped to respond to a daily transaction, and on time, could be really a matter of concern. At this point of time what appears clear is that we are on the right direction, the tentative structure seems to be in order. But, necessary refinement will obviously be required when we implement the whole scheme. There might be difficulties on logistic, procedures, transparency etc. All these could be addressed as we go along.
Another important issue which might make or mar the outcome of this initiative is in relation to allocation of transmission capacity in an objective and credible manner. An independent system operator may be an answer.
Ring fencing of the roles of various players is also an important dimension. Since the partners in the equity of the Power Exchange Company are also the active players in trading or generation or in transmission, conflict of interest may be an issue. An unbiased approach and action will require clear distancing and arms-length operation in the decision making as also in day-to-day activities. It may perhaps desirable that none of the stakeholders are represented on the Boards or in senior positions of the Power Exchange Companies.
This is a new concept. Capacity building at various levels and in all concerned organizations will be an important requirement for the success of this scheme. Even now the power sector, after 6 to 7 years of Regulatory Commissions, is still to learn and equip itself on the rules of regulatory process. There is also a challenge of change of mindset. These will also be the issues to make Power Exchange initiative a success.


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