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Midland High School Kicker Hits Ref With Ball, Still Makes Extra Point
Midland Lee kicker Luis Aranda booted the ball and it took a couple crazy bounces in the second quarter of the Rebels versus El Paso El Dorado last Friday.
Midland Lee kicker Luis Aranda booted the ball and it took a couple crazy bounces in the second quarter of the Rebels versus El Paso El Dorado last Friday.
Don't talk about this subject today with your co-workers if you're trying to get some work done.
Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling sat down with CNN's Anderson Cooper on Monday night to talk about the inflammatory comments he made that got him suspended for life by the NBA. But it's his remarks about Los Angeles Lakers great Magic Johnson that stole the show.
Sports often bring out a person's true colors, and when that turns into a heart-warming display of character and sportsmanship it brings a tear to my eye. Watch as these two teams display incredible heart on the court.
Amazing shots never get old.
As the Olympics come to an end, people have been anxiously waiting for the closing ceremony, where the Spice Girls are set to perform (along with rumored Elton John). One Direction have also been tapped to perform at the closing ceremony as well, and some details about their super secret performance have leaked.
Baseball, football and basketball player salaries keep rising, but a competitor outside of those popular team sports is the world's highest paid athlete.
It all comes down to tonight. More than a month after the SEC Championship and more than two months after their first meeting in Tuscaloosa, Ala., the LSU Tigersand Alabama Crimson Tide finally get their rematch. Now, before we get into the "if Alabama wins" mess and the possibility of a split National Championship, we want you to predict the score of the BCS title game for a shot at winning a $50 gift card to Cotton Patch Café.
An overjoyed Nets nut shaking with delight, a tantrum-throwing Clemson booster, a shirtless reveler celebrating a 'Bama win. Even if you're not the biggest sports fan, these videos of fans freaking out will make you crack a smile at the very least.
From the action-packed first round of the NFL playoffs to the apparently-thrilling world squash finals, the stars of the sporting world were particularly photogenic this week...
Even though the NFL is starring at a possible lockout for next season, the playoff picture for the race to Super Bowl XLV at The Dallas Cowboys Stadium is set. Unfortunately, by the time I get finished explaining my prediction, many readers will have clicked away to look at something else. That's what we get in a society filled with folks with short attention spans.
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Week 11 flex rankings: Plenty of depth
With bye weeks now a distant memory -- OK, it's been only a week, but how nice it is to have everyone playing -- how can a fantasy football team not have strong options for the flex position between running back, wide receiver and tight end? I mean, this is the stretch run of your fantasy football regular season, with the trade deadline closing in, and the playoffs less than a month away. This is what it's all about!
Of course, injuries have taken a potentially large bite out of some of the options you wanted to count on this week, so that's a problem, but if you've managed your team wisely this season, punting the draft-day options that never worked out and strengthened your bench, made hard decisions about backup running backs you might not have room for, as well as backup kickers, tight ends and defenses, you should be OK for this week. Maybe you have to use Ladell Betts or Steve Breaston, but things could be worse. There could be six teams on bye.
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Rational Developer for System z & i (v9.0): Default font change - This article details the steps needed in order to successfully change fonts within the RSE view.
By default eclipse uses the O.S. default font, therefore the windows default font has to be changed to the desired font which will result in the eclipse fonts being updated.
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1. On the Windows 7 O.S. click on 'Start, type 'Color scheme' and select Change window colors and metrics.
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All about Rational Developer Licensing
Rational Developer is a batch offering from IBM which has unique functionalities than a normal IDE available. Let's get introduced to the Rational Developer versions available for usage.
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What you should know about Rational Developer Licensing?
There are four broad categories of licenses for Rational Developer, viz.
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Fred Page Cup
The Fred Page Cup is a championship ice hockey trophy, won by tournament, conducted by the Canadian Junior Hockey League. The award is given to the winner of a round-robin and playoff between the Bogart Cup champions of the Central Canada Hockey League, the Kent Cup champions of the Maritime Junior Hockey League, La Coupe NAPA Champions of the Quebec Junior Hockey League, and a pre-determined host team. The winner of the Fred Page Cup moves on to the Junior "A" National Championship known as the Royal Bank Cup. The trophy was donated by the then called Quebec Provincial Junior Hockey League in 1994-95. The Eastern Region "Fred Page Cup" should not be confused with the "Fred Page Cup" that is awarded to the champion of the British Columbia Hockey League's playoffs.
The first Fred Page Cup was awarded in 1995. The trophy was donated by the Quebec Provincial Junior A Hockey League to create an Eastern Canadian Championship in honour of past Canadian Amateur Hockey Association President Fred Page. The 1995 Championship marked the first time teams outside of the maritime provinces were allowed to compete for the Eastern Canadian Championship for a berth to the National Championship. Now allowed are the maritime champions, the Quebec champions, and the Ottawa District champions of the Central Canada Hockey League. Prior to 1995, the Callaghan Cup was the championship trophy of Eastern Canada to be played for by a representative of the maritime provinces. Early championships were dominated by the Island Junior Hockey League. In the early 1990s, the top teams of the IJHL jumped to the Maritime Junior A Hockey League.
The Ottawa Jr. Senators were awarded the 2003 Fred Page Cup in the fall of 2001, but over the summer of 2002, the tournament was awarded the Cornwall Colts instead. This was mostly due to the size of the Jr. Senators arena and the conflict with other groups therefore the event couldn't be attainable. The Nepean Raiders surprisingly never bid for the tournament, despite reaching the league finals 7 times between 2003 and 2012. The event could not be supported with a low fan-base and reaching an agreement with the city. The 2006 Fred Page Cup was then awarded to Pembroke, Ontario and the Pembroke Lumber Kings.
In 2009, the City of Dieppe, New Brunswick was chosen to host the Fred Page Cup, when a Central Canada Hockey League team was supposed to host the event, but CCHL backed out due to the region already having prior commitments to a Hockey Canada-sanctioned tournament to be run around the same time. The Dieppe Commandos of the Maritime Junior A Hockey League were the host team. The tournament was held at the J. Louis Levesque Arena. The Fred Page Cup committee considered the Maritime Junior A Hockey League champion Summerside Capitals to co-host and play their games at the Credit Union Centre in Summerside, Prince Edward Island. The Quebec Junior "AAA" Hockey League champions Sherbrooke Cougars protested against the co-hosting, and therefore the all the games were staged at the J. Louis Levesque Arena.
To date, the Central Canada Hockey League has won the Fred Page Cup 7 times, winning the Royal Bank Cup finals once, (Pembroke Lumber Kings) since its inception in 1996. The Quebec Junior Hockey League has won the Fred Page Cup only 3 times, and no team from Quebec have qualified for the Royal Bank Cup finals. The Maritime Junior A Hockey League is the only league to win the Fred Page Cup and have teams win the Royal Bank Cup, as the Summerside Capitals won in 1997 and the Halifax Oland Exports won in 2002.
The 2010 Fred Page Cup was awarded to the Brockville Braves, who also hosted the tournament in 1997. Brockville won the 2010 Fred Page Cup by defeating the Pembroke Lumber Kings 5-1. The Braves are the 2nd host team since the 1998-99 Charlottetown Abbies, who defeated the CCHL's Hawkesbury Hawks 2-0 at the Charlottetown Civic Centre. The Pembroke Lumber Kings are the only team to compete in 6 consecutive Fred Page Cup tournaments from 2006 to 2011, winning the tournament twice in 2007 and 2011, and losing the finals in 2006 and 2008. The Carleton Place Canadians became the first team to win back-to-back Fred Page Cup championships during the tournament's inception in 1996.
The Kanata Stallions were chosen to host the 2012 Fred Page Cup, despite the team's poor performances since re-branding from the Kanata Valley Lasers in 2002.
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|Application number
|Publication date
|Jun 9, 2009
|Filing date
|Jun 24, 2008
|Priority date
|Jun 24, 2008
|Fee status
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|Publication number
|Stanislaw Marczyk
|Original Assignee
|Tyco Healthcare Group Lp
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (41), Referenced by (39), Classifications (12), Legal Events (3)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
The present disclosure relates to a surgical instrument having articulating tool assemblies. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to a segmented drive member for a surgical instrument having an articulating tool assembly.
Surgical instruments which include a tool assembly mounted on a distal end of a body portion of the surgical instrument for articulation are well known. Typically, such surgical instruments include articulation control mechanisms which allow an operator to remotely articulate the tool assembly in relation to the body portion of a surgical instrument to allow the operator to more easily access, operate on, and/or manipulate tissue.
Such articulating tool assemblies have become desirable, especially in the endoscopic surgical procedures. In an endoscopic surgical procedure, the distal end of a surgical instrument is inserted through small incisions in the body to access a surgical site. Typically, a appropriately sized cannula, e.g., 5 mm, 10 mm, etc., is inserted through the body incision to provide a guide channel for accessing the surgical site. Once the distal end of the endoscopic instrument has been received within the body cavity the tool assembly may be articulated.
To activate the tool assembly on the distal end of the surgical instrument in when the tool assembly is in both an articulated and non-articulated position, a drive beam is incorporated into the instrument. The drive beam is generally an elongated flexible member capable of translating lateral movement from the handle assembly to the tool assembly. The flexibility of the drive member permits the tool assembly to be articulated while still maintaining the ability to activate the tool assembly.
The configuration of the flexible drive members makes them susceptible to binding during activation when the tool assembly is in a position other than aligned with the longitudinal axis of the instrument. As the angle between the articulating end and the longitudinal axis approach orthogonal (i.e. 90� from centerline), the likelihood of binding increases. A bound instrument will not function properly and may result in lockout, misfiring, or the like. Furthermore, the limitations imposed by the flexible drive members prevent the articulation joint from being fully articulated to an angle orthogonal to the longitudinal axis formed by the surgical stapler.
Accordingly, it would be desirable to provide a surgical instrument having an articulating tool assembly with an improved drive beam for actuating the tool assembly throughout articulation of the tool assembly.
Disclosed is a drive beam for use in a surgical instrument. The drive beam includes a flexible band having first and second surfaces and proximal and distal ends. The flexible band may include one or more layers. Mounted on at least one of the first or second surfaces is a plurality of segments or pads.
Various embodiments of the presently disclosed surgical instrument are disclosed herein with reference to the drawings, wherein:
Embodiments of the presently disclosed surgical instrument and DLU will now be described in detail with reference to the drawings, in which like reference numerals designate identical or corresponding elements in each of the several views.
Referring to
Referring to
Referring to
Cartridge assembly 18 includes carrier 48 which defines an elongated support channel 56 which is dimensioned and configured to receive staple cartridge 54. Corresponding tabs 58 and slots 60 formed along staple cartridge 54 and elongated support channel 56, respectively, function to retain staple cartridge 54 at a fixed location within support channel 56. A pair of support struts 62 formed on staple cartridge 54 are positioned to rest on side walls of carrier 48 to further stabilize staple cartridge 54 within support channel 56. Carrier 48 has slots 46 for receiving pivot members 44 of anvil portion 28 and allowing anvil portion 28 to move between spaced and approximated positions.
Staple cartridge 54 includes retention slots 64 (
Referring to
Referring to
As illustrated in
As discussed above, spring arms 246 c and recesses 236 b and 238 c maintain tool assembly 17 in its non-articulated position until a predetermined force has been applied to mounting assembly 235 to disengage spring arms 246 c, 247 c from recesses 236 b and 238 c of mounting assembly 235. It is envisioned that the spring arms/recesses could be incorporated into any articulating surgical device including staplers, graspers (See
Upper housing half 250 and lower housing half 252 are contained within an outer sleeve 251 of body portion 200 (
The proximal end or insertion tip 193 of upper housing half 250 includes engagement nubs 254 for releasably engaging the distal end of a surgical instrument in a bayonet-type fashion (see
A retention member 288 is supported on engagement section 270 of axial drive assembly 212. Retention member 288 includes a pair of fingers 288 a which are releasably positioned within slots or recesses 252 a formed in lower housing half 252. In operation, when SULU 16 is attached to a surgical instrument and axial drive assembly 212 is actuated by applying a predetermined force to an actuation member 516 of the surgical instrument 500 (
Axial drive assembly 212 includes an elongated drive beam 266 including a distal working head 268 and a proximal engagement section 270. In one embodiment, drive beam 266 is constructed from multiple stacked sheets of material. Engagement section 270 includes a pair of resilient engagement fingers 270 a and 270 b which engage a pair of corresponding retention slots formed in drive member 272. Drive member 272 includes a proximal porthole 274 configured to receive distal end of a control rod 520 (
Referring also to
As illustrated in
Referring to
When DLU 16 has been moved linearly in relation to instrument 500 to a position wherein a proximal surface 530 of body portion 200 abuts inner surface 276 c of body portion 512 (
In an embodiment of the present disclosure illustrated in
Referring to
Now referring to
Link 618, illustrated in
In operation, upon at least a partial actuation of movable handle 516 (see
As discussed above, spring 610 distally biases slide 608 from rod 606. This biasing provided by spring 610 helps ensure cam finger 612 is not accidentally or prematurely dislodged from slot 616 of pivot plate 614, which may result in a significant amount of "play" therebetween. Additionally, the distal bias provided by spring 610 helps eliminate manufacturing tolerances and/or clearances that are present between slide 608 and pivot plate 614. It is also envisioned that at least a portion of cam finger 612 and/or slot 616 may be wedge-shaped to help reduce any unintended movement therebetween. In such an embodiment, a distal portion of cam finger 612 and slot 616 would be narrower than a corresponding proximal portion.
In an embodiment of the present disclosure illustrated in
With reference to
Now referring to
To pivot articulating tool 17 from its first, non-articulated position, the distal biasing force from pair of springs 708 must be overcome. Such a pivoting action, moves pusher 704 proximally (in the direction of arrow B) against the bias of pair of springs 708. It is also envisioned that pusher mating surface 714 includes detents (not explicitly shown in this embodiment) to help stabilize articulating jaw member 17 in selected articulated positions.
With continued reference to
In an embodiment of the present disclosure illustrated in
With reference to
A plurality of cutouts 770 is illustrated in
The attachment of each layer 750 a-750 e of multi-layered drive beam 750 and the attachment to closure apparatus 760 are illustrated in
In an embodiment of the present disclosure illustrated in
It is envisioned that a portion of closure apparatus 800, such as pair of caps 804, is made of plastic, overmolded with plastic or includes a plastic coating. Additionally, a contact surface of tool assembly 17, or at least a portion thereof, may also be made of plastic, be overmolded with plastic or include a plastic coating.
In an embodiment of the disclosure, closure apparatus 800 may include an I-shaped cross section, as illustrated in
With continued reference to
An alternate embodiment of drive beam of the present disclosure illustrated in
With continued reference to
Referring initially to
Proximal end 850 a (
Distal end 850 b of segmented drive beam 850 is configured for operable engagement with closure apparatus 860. Distal end 850 b includes distal end 852 b of flexible band 852 and a bracket 876 configured to cooperate with distal end 852 b to operably connect segmented drive beam 850 with closure apparatus 860. Distal end 850 b may also include a spacer 878 positioned between distal end 852 b of flexible band 852 and bracket 876. Distal end 852 b of flexible band 852 and bracket 876 define corresponding openings 853, 873, respectively, for operably connecting segmented drive beam 850 with closure apparatus 860. Spacer 878 and bracket 876 may be connected to distal end 852 b of flexible band 852, and to each other, in any known manner, including with adhesive, mechanical fasteners, welding and the like. Bracket 876 and spacer 878 each include trailing edges 876 a, 878 a. Trailing edges 876 a, 878 a may be configured to operably engage a trailing edge of distal most segment 880 g. As will be discussed below as relates to segments 880 a-g, leading edges 876 a, 878 a are formed at a right angle relative to flexible band 852. In other embodiments of the present disclosure, the bracket 876 and/or spacer 878 are omitted.
With particular reference now to
With reference to
Referring initially to
Turning now to
In certain embodiments, the segments 880 include angled surfaces. The leading edge 881 a of a first segment 881 has a first surface 880 a and a second surface 880 b and the second surface is angled with respect to the first surface. The trailing edge 883 a of a second segment 883 has a first surface 880 c and a second surface 880 d and the second surface is angled with respect to the first surface. The leading edge 881 a has a shape that is complementary to the shape of the trailing edge 883 a and each of these edges define a point 885 a and 885 b. During articulation shown in
Referring now to
Flexible band 952 includes a substantially planar body portion 954 and a plurality of opposed flanges 956 outwardly extending along the length of body portion 954. Body portion 954 includes segment contacting surfaces 955 extending between flanges 956. Segment contacting surfaces 955 span between adjacent segments 980 and are configured to reinforce segments 980 as segmented drive beam 950 is articulated and longitudinally advanced. As will be discussed in further detail below, each of flanges 956 include an opening 956 a for receiving a tab 982 a formed on segments 980. Flexible band 952 may be composed of plastic, metal, polymer or their suitable material. A proximal end 952 a of flexible band 952 is configured for operable engagement with connecting member 977. A distal end 952 b of flexible band 952 is configured for operable engagement with closure apparatus 960.
Still referring to
Segmented drive beam 950 operates substantially similar to segmented drive beam 850 described hereinabove. Segmented drive beam 950 is operably received between a body portion 512 and disposable loading unit 16 of surgical instrument 500 (
It will be understood that various modifications may be made to the embodiments disclosed herein. For example, the above-described segmented drive beam may include segments attached to a first and a second surface of a flexible band. In this manner, in either the axially aligned or articulated positions, an axial force provided to the segmented drive beam would be transferred along the flexible band, as well as along of the set of segments. Further, flexible band and any or all of segments may be integrally formed. Therefore, the above description should not be construed as limiting, but merely as exemplifications of various embodiments. Those skilled in the art will envision other modifications within the scope and spirit of the claims appended hereto.
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IPO market has been flashing a strong yellow light for months.» Read More
JPMorgan analyst Marko Kolanovic is having his moment of fame.
Kolanovic is the global head of derivative and quantitative strategies. He got considerable attention right after the Aug. 24-25 selloff by publishing a report saying that "price insensitive" programs might cause repeated selloffs.
Yesterday, he got more attention by claiming that "technical selling pressure" from trading firms was largely completed, and that the trend would be toward buying in the days and weeks ahead. The report—out in the middle of the day—was even credited by some with the 200-point rally in the Dow.
Thursday's report also contained a long section analyzing the events of Mon., Aug. 24, when the Dow dropped roughly 1,100 points in the first five minutes of trading.
Kolanovic blamed a good part of that drop on a lack of liquidity in the marketplace, as well as to a herd mentality by traders desperate to buy protection against further market declines at any cost.
Kolanovic notes that the seeds of the selloff were planted the night before. On Sunday night, Aug. 23, a large drop in equities in Asia triggered a drop in index futures in Europe and the U.S. U.S. stock futures went down (7%) prior to the U.S. open.
Panic buying of protection. That, Kolanovic says, caused traders to panic and seek to buy protection in any form, including put options. Lots of it. They got this protection from dealers, who were overwhelmed with the need to sell protection to traders.
When a dealer sells a put option, the dealer is long the market. If the market moves down and the option goes "in the money" the dealer needs to sell to stay neutral. Normally this does not matter, but when you have massive amounts of options hedging that hedging itself will move the market.
These long positions from the dealers got larger and larger, Kolanovic says. Those dealers, to protect themselves, needed to "dynamically hedge", meaning if the market moved down, they needed to sell as well.
And that was a part of the problem: as the market opened down big, dealers were forced to sell as well.
Lack of liquidity. A second problem was a lack of liquidity, which means that there wasn't enough traders willing to buy all the stuff everyone wanted to sell: "a crash would not have happened if there was sufficient liquidity in the marketplace to absorb these flows," Kolanovic said.
How did that happen? A good part of the trading and hedging occurred in the pre-open hours, when there is poor liquidity. Also, the last two weeks of August is typically light on volume.
In other words, traders dumped large amounts of stock at exactly the wrong time.
Why? Why sell into no liquidity? Was there some fever that suddenly struck the trading community that caused them to make colossally stupid sales when there was no liquidity.
Well, in a way, yes. There was a fever. They had to sell, or at least that is the implication.
Look at this way: you are a trader responsible for managing risk at your firm. Suddenly you have outsized risk. You are through your risk limits, and your job is to stay in your risk limits. You are in danger of losing a lot of money, and worse, you are in danger of getting fired if you do nothing.
So you need to flatten your books, which, in plain English, means selling. In this somewhat panicky situation, they are not necessarily looking around considering the health of the market or the participation of other traders.
Market makers and high frequency traders. Kolanovic also briefly mentions the role he believes market makers and high frequency traders (HFTs) may have played in the decline.
He notes that there were extreme dislocations in the market going into the open and in the first 15 minutes or so:
1) Only about half of S&P 500 stocks were opened on NYSE by 9:35 a.m.;
2) 765 stocks in the Russell 3000 were down more than 10 percent on an intraday basis;
3) There were 1,278 trading halts for 471 different ETFs and stocks.
Because of this, it was not possible to calculate the value of many ETFs, or hedge or trade ETFs and stocks at a 'correct' price.
He notes that HFTs and other high-speed traders have models that essentially shut down their systems when they detect extreme pricing anomalies that may be incorrect or erroneous. This is a safety design that essentially says, "Can some human take a look at this and see if this stuff is pricing correctly?"
This certainly happened that morning. Many market participants withheld liquidity when they weren't sure what the prices were, or weren't sure if they were correct.
Is Kolanovic's analysis accurate? I think his key points about a rush to buy protection and a liquidity crunch are indeed components that exacerbated the decline.
However, don't kid yourself—the markets were going down, first and foremost on the fundamental issues of weakness in China and uncertainty about the Fed's policy on raising interest rates.
In a sense, this is oddly reminiscent of the 1987 crash report—which many blamed on "portfolio insurance." Markets were going down no matter what, and we are really debating about collateral effects that relate to liquidity and market structure.
What can be done? That doesn't mean we should ignore the fact that the market frayed around the edges. What can be done to tweak the system to make it work better on days of extreme volatility, like Aug. 24?
Kolanovic does not go into a discussion on this, but based on my own discussions with dozens of market participants in the past few weeks, I have a few observations.
They fall into three buckets:
1) improving liquidity. Kolanovic is certainly correct in noting that lack of liquidity was a big problem.
a) Almost everyone agrees that the volatility would have been lower if all the exchanges had opened at the same time.
One major problem was that parts of the market were open, but other parts—many of the NYSE listed stocks—took several minutes to open.
This allowed NYSE-listed stocks to trade away from the NYSE at widely different prices.
This is an age-old debate. The NYSE still uses a hybrid model, employing electronic trading and floor based designated market makers (DMMs) to open and trade stocks during the day.
So the argument boils down to this: should we just allow an all-electronic open everywhere?
The NYSE has historically opposed this, arguing that investors get fairer pricing in times of high volatility by having humans price the open, and if that means it may take a few more minutes past the open, so be it.
The NYSE has argued that the "just get it open" mentality can be dangerous, that by waiting to get better pricing retail investors—who are the ones who typically get the opening price—would be better served.
Would the markets have had less volatility on August 24th had there been an all-electronic open? I don't know, but I do think it is likely that the system-wide circuit breaker...a decline of 7 percent in the S&P 500....would have been triggered. That would have created a 15-minute pause.
Would that have calmed the market quicker? I don't know. Perhaps.
But it's unlikely that the exchanges will all open all their stocks at the same time; the markets are simply too competitive. No one is going to wait for anyone.
b) how can market makers be prudent, but more active? Kolanovic talked about market makers and HFTs shutting down when the data is uncertain...how can they get more certainty and not shut down?
One thing that's very important to understand about market makers—whether they are on options desks or HFTs or NASDAQ broker/dealers or Designated Market Makers (DMMs) on the NYSE floor—is that they play a game of pennies. They eke out small profits every day.
But history is littered with market makers who went out of business on disastrous days, when they committed massive liquidity and got killed.
So the retiscence is understandable. The obligation of market makers to provide "fair and orderly markets"—an obligation that has been considerably diluted over time—does not include the obligation to go out of business.
c) can the opening rules for the NYSE be improved? Many DMMs had to open stocks manually on Aug. 24. This was no problem when most DMMs had only three or four stocks, but it's difficult to get everything open in a timely fashion when each DMM now has 40 or more stocks. What could help them open stocks quicker, but still fulfill their obligation to find the best price?
2) improving regulation. After the 2010 "flash crash" the entire industry created individual stock circuit breakers, known as "limit up, limit down" (LULD) that halt trading in stocks for 5 minutes when they move more than 5% percent in a rolling five-minute period (the band is widened to 10 percent in the first 15 minutes of trading).
Those circuit breakers have worked well, but on an extreme day a huge number of halts (more than 1,200) definitely caused a problem.
Is five minutes the right amount for a halt? Should it be shorter? Is there a better metric that can be used? For example, why just use a time period if there is the same imbalance of buy and sell orders? Why not use a metric that says, we have to wait until a certain amount of buy orders are available before we reopen when there is an excess of sell orders?
c) changing the practice of market orders and stop orders. Dumping market orders into the exchanges was a problem on Aug. 24. There were many market orders that got executed at prices way below the prior day's market.
People who put in a market sell order on Aug. 24 were understandably upset when they sold down 10 or 20 percent. You can almost hear them say, "I wanted to sell, but I didn't want to sell down that low!"
What could be done? Market orders and stop orders that become market orders arguably should no longer be used. Instead, every order should have a limit, even if it's 10 percent away. That way, no one is surprised.
I'm sure there will be other recommendations. The SEC's Advisory Committee on Market Structure will also undoubtedly address some of these questions in the months ahead.
Whatever is done, let's not lose sight of the fact that August 24th was a very unusual day. There was something akin to a genuine panic among market participants in the pre-open, and nothing was going to prevent a big drop when the markets finally did open.
Thank you, Janet Yellen, for finally taking a side and clearly stating that an interest rate hike seems likely sometime this year.
And thank you for finally clarifying the sudden emphasis that was placed on developments abroad in the last FOMC statement.
Specifically, thank you for this clarification: "The Committee is monitoring developments abroad, but we do not currently anticipate that the effects of these recent developments on the U.S. economy will prove to be large enough to have a significant effect on the path for policy."
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Yellen is helping the banks this morning on higher interest rates prospects. This is not only important for banks, it's important for the S&P 500.
Bank earnings estimates have been under some pressure recently on the inability to realize higher rates.
More importantly, investors are relying on higher bank earnings to balance out the disastrous decline in earnings from energy companies. There are precious few sources of earnings growth right now.
This was another lackluster trading session, characterized by the utter indifference of buyers, despite stocks being down three of the last four days.
I've been talking a lot about the drying up of buying interest lately. There's several reasons this has been happening:
1) Stocks have been drifting lower since the Feddecision. A small but vocal minority (including Bill Gross) have insisted that the market might have been in better shape had the Fed done "one and done" and guided more positively on the U.S. economy.
Since then, we have a global marketplace that has taken another modest downturn on the exact same global slowdown concerns that existed prior to the Fed meeting, only this time the "global slowdown" story has the Fed imprimatur.
In other words, the Fed has successfully "infected" the rest of the world with its concerns over "recent global economic and financial developments."
2) Another group agrees that the market has been drifting lower since the Fed decision, but that the Fed was right and that not only has Chinabeen slowing down, recent economic data indicates the U.S. has been slowing as well.
They point to a series of recent fairly large economic misses:
This camp generally agrees that the Fed may have missed its opportunity to raise rates a few months ago, but with some signs of slowing economic growth, now was not the time to do it.
3) A third group notes that buying interest is weaker because it is obvious that weaker global growth is being manifest in: a) lower commodity prices, and b) negative revenue growth.
They're right. I noted earlier today we are heading for four straight quarters of negative revenue growth:
Revenue recession
(S&P 500 revenues)
Q1: Down 2.9%
Q2: Down 3.4%
Q3 (est.): Down 3.3%
Q4 (est): Down 1.4%
Source: Factset
We haven't had three quarters of negative revenue growth since 2009; we haven't had four quarters since the financial crisis.
This will be the big story for the remainder of the year.
Volume yesterday was slightly on the heavy side, but it's not the selling I'm concerned with, it's the buying. Or the lack of it.
Is "buy the dip" dead?
With the exception of one or two days, there has been precious little buying interest since the three-day drop in the markets from Aug. 21 to 25.
And why should there be? The markets already have had to deal with the uncertainty of not knowing when, if ever, the Fed is going to raise interest rates.
What bulls need now is some evidence that "buy the dip" does not turn into "sell any rally." Two things are necessary to avoid that.
1) Some evidence the global economy is not falling apart, starting with better data on China, which we did not get overnight. China's Flash Manufacturing PMI came in at 47.0, below expectations of 47.5, its seventh straight month of contraction (below 50) and the lowest print since March 2009.
Read MoreChina flash PMI falls to a 6-1/2-year low in September
Every component was weaker, including new orders and employment.
That's not helpful.
You might have woken up this morning and checked U.S. stock futures. You might have noticed they were down roughly 1.5 percent and wondered, "What happened between the close yesterday and overnight that made futures go down 1.5 percent?"
The answer is, not much. There have been no big headlines. Just a few small ones that, collectively, have added up.
Some traders have pointed to a new report from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) that lowered Asian growth forecasts for 2015 and 2016 on softer prospects for India and China.
The ADB now sees GDP for China at 6.8 percent in 2015, down from 7.2 percent earlier. India is projected to grow 7.4 percent, down from an earlier 7.8 percent forecast earlier.
Read MoreADB slices Asia growth forecasts
There was the usual discussion of the knock-on effects of slower China growth on Southeast Asia, as well as soft global commodity prices which puts pressure on Asian commodity-focused export economies like Mongolia, Indonesia, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan.
Still, stocks in China ended up fractionally.
European markets opened down modestly and have drifted steadily lower. The dollar is modestly higher, but commodities like copper also began trading lower overnight and have also drifted lower through the morning.
Why are stocks down today? There are several reasons:
1) This is a quadruple witching expiration, the quarterly expiration of stock index futures and options, and individual stock futures and options, with large volume and volatility at the open and close;
2) Oil is down almost 4 percent, a proxy for global growth;
3) The Federal Reserve has sent a message to investors: it is more concerned about global growth than it had let on.
Read MorePisani: Did the Fed just make a third mandate?
Let's focus on the Fed for a moment. The central bank clearly stated it was concerned about the state of the global economy and its impact on the U.S. Bank of America/Merrill Lynch summed it up Friday morning: "The Fed acknowledged our concerns for global weakness, and this acknowledgement is a bearish signal for risk assets."
Now that the Federal Reserve has made its decision—for better or worse—it's time to turn to what really matters: 1) the state of the U.S. economy, 2) the state of the rest of the world, and the impact this has for corporate revenues and earnings.
To the extent that the Fed lowered its expectations for growth, that is certainly a negative sign for earnings.
And earnings and revenues could use some help. The second half of the year was supposed to see an improvement over the first half's flat earnings growth, and negative revenue growth. Not happening.
Here's the current Q3 estimates from FactSet:
Earnings: -4.4 percent
Revenue: -2.9 percent
Much of this disappointment is due to energy, where earnings are expected to again be down a stunning 65 percent. That's not a typo—65 percent. If you remove energy, the S&P earnings would be positive 3.1 percent, revenues would be positive 2.7 percent.
Well. That was something. Even though the Fed did not move, they did surprise.
Did the Fed just introduce a third mandate?
This is the sentence that had everyone talking: "Recent global economic and financial developments may restrain economic activity somewhat and are likely to put further downward pressure on inflation in the near term."
This is a remarkable statement.
Fed Chair Janet Yellen repeated this again during her press conference, specifically calling out slowing growth in the Chinese economy as a factor in their decision and noting the future risk there of "a more abrupt slowdown than some analysts expect."
So the Fed's mandate is: 1) job creation, 2) control of inflation, and 3) everything else (global economic and financial developments)?
Some will argue this is an exaggeration. The Fed is not introducing a third mandate, they are merely acknowledging the interconnection of the global economy. It's all appropriate, some will argue.
And there is certainly a practical consideration: the Fed may not want a stronger dollar, no matter what they say, because of the negative impact on corporate profits.
Having introduced the global economy as a factor in your decision-making, how do you turn this ship around? Do you not raise rates until the Shanghai stock index recovers? What's the criteria for that? Are we also now "data dependent" on Chinese GDP?
There's a real problem when the Fed starts acting as the global banker of last resort.
Trying to reduce the September Federal Open Market Committee meeting to game theory, the question becomes, "How do you win?"
Let's get one thing clear. A lot of traders have already won, and so the question becomes how to avoid losing. In the last five days, the S&P 500 is up 2.2 percent. A lot of traders have adopted a "sell the news" position. In other words, they either sold at the close Wednesday or will lighten up on the announcement, regardless of what the decision is.
Read MoreWhen the Fed raises rates, here's what happens
I'm in the minority on this, but I believe the most likely scenario for the markets to rise still rests on the "one and done" scenario.
There's a lot of "ifs" here. If Yellen stumbles, if she fails to convince that the economy is strong enough, or implies another rate hike is imminent, the whole thing could fall apart. A muddled message would be a disaster.
Some of Tuesday's rally could likely be attributed to traders front-running a well-known Wall Street phenomenon: the tendency of stocks to rise in the 24-hour period before an Federal Open Market Committee announcement.
It's called "The Pre-FOMC Announcement Drift." Traders have been aware of this phenomenon for years, but the observation was given a research imprimatur in 2013 when David Lucca and Emanuel Moench, two officials with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, published a paper on the phenomenon, noting that the move up was real and "orders of magnitude larger than those outside the 24-hour pre-FOMC window."
Read MoreWall St now sees a Sept Fed rate hike: CNBC survey
They not only said the phenomenon was real, they quantified it. Since 1994, the S&P 500 is up an average 0.49 percent in the 24 hours before an FOMC announcement.
Lucca and Moench not only noted this was an outsized return, they made an even more startling claim: the returns over those eight yearly FOMC meetings accounts for 80 percent of annual realized excess stock returns.
That got a lot of attention on trading desks.
Moreover, Lucca and Moench concluded that some other major foreign stock markets exhibit "similarly large and significant pre-FOMC returns" but that no similar effect in Treasuries was discerned.
Other macroeconomic news releases, such as the employment report, GDP and initial claims, also don't have the same effect on stocks.
Read MoreWhen the Fed raises rates, here's what happens
Why does this effect exist? Lucca and Moench speculated that it may be a premium required by investors for bearing "non-diversifiable risk." That is, investors want more to hold stocks going into an uncertain policy announcement. However, they ultimately conclude that they aren't quite sure why the effect occurs and conclude that the drift remains "a puzzle."
Regardless, the phenomenon is certainly real, and we have even begun seeing attempts to jump ahead of the trend, which may explain a good part of yesterday's rally.
The central bank is showing some serious deference to the folks making the financial world move.
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will propose a tax on high-frequency trading, her campaign said.
The foundation is being set for a melt-up in stocks over the course of the next few months, says trader Jack Bouroudjian.


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- Though the game says to stop and scout each enemy base before engaging, I've found balls-to-the-wall, run-and-gun dashes into their territory make for quite the entrance as well. Also helps if you take out at least two of them full-speed with your truck.
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- Is it weird that I feel like my weapons are working properly only if they jam up once or twice?
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Angels outfielder Mike Trout drove in two runs with two extra-base hits, and the American League beat the National League, 5-3, in the 2014 Major League Baseball All-Star Game at Target Field in Minneapolis on Tuesday night.
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New Delhi: The governing council of the Indian Premier League has more or less decided to keep the Sri Lankan players out of Chennai in view of the opposition from Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa.
If the decision becomes official, players from the island-nation will skip the Chennai-leg of the IPL in view of the security concerns in Tamil Nadu over the attrocities carried out against ethnic Tamils in Sri Lanka during the war against Tamil Tigers that ended in May 2009.
IPL chairman Rajeev Shukla, also the union minister of state for parliamentary affairs, Tuesday said the local administration's advice cannot be ignored but he said the IPL matches will not be shifted out of Chennai and they will be played as scheduled.
"All the matches scheduled to be held in Chennai will go on as scheduled. As far as Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) is concerned, we have briefed them about the security measures taken by the BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India)," Shukla told NDTV.
Reacting to Jayalalithaa's letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in which she has stated that the state government will permit IPL matches only if the organisers promise that no Sri Lankan player, umpire, official or support staff will participate, Shukla conceded that it would be difficult to overrule the local administration's concerns as it has to provide the "police bandobast" for the matches.
"Security and safety of the Sri Lankan players is paramount. But we have to take care of the local sentiments and after discussing the matter with BCCI chief N. Srinivasan the SLC will be briefed on the security situation," he said.
The IPL chairman said the franchises will also be advised and asked to take a call accordingly.
"A new situation has risen and we have to strategise the whole thing. We have to consider the local sentiments but we also have to take care of the security of the Sri Lankan players. The BCCI and the SLC have the best of the relationship," he said.
Street protests have taken place in Tamil Nadu to denounce the Sri Lankan government for the killings of Tamil civilians in the war against the Tamil Tigers in the island country that ended May 2009.
Eight of the nine IPL franchises have 13 Sri Lankans in their roster. Chennai, home to Super Kings, is scheduled to host 10 IPL matches this season.
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Diversity and Equality and the Fall
There's a profound thing going on in Genesis 1.27. When God makes mankind, male and female he creates a kind of divine paradox with both equality (both made equally in the image of God) and diversity (male and female he created them). The Fall, at one level, corrupts this paradox. As the wife desires her husband she craves equality over diversity. As the husband rules over his wife he craves diversity at the expense of equality. It's no wonder that in our broken world, people try to address this Curse (even if they don't know it's called that). At one level, many of the wrong views we see in terms of the roles of men and women are a descending spiral of correction – the more men rule or dominate women in sin, the more a woman wants to stress equality to undo the effects.
The Bible Christian, it seems to me, has to work hard to recreate what God has made good. This is a tricky job. In times past, Christians have (wrongly) taken an easier route of misogyny or feminism as correctives. As is often the way, the godly and biblical path is harder and more challenging, but – by definition – more beautiful. It's worth time, effort, pain and stretch to see God's pattern and work, under him, for its restoration.
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To my younger brethren
I was reminded recently that Handley Moule's book To my younger brethren is a really useful classic on pastoral ministry. It has a context, naturally, which is ministry in an Anglican context (Moule was Bishop of Durham). Read it with that in mind. But even for the most rabid of non-conformist, there is pastoral wisdom and challenge here that, even 100 years on is necessary. It's free online and Project Gutenberg helpfully supplies it ready formatted for kindles or other e-readers.
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I've been very moved in the last few days reading Diarmaid MacCulloch's account of the last few weeks of the life of Thomas Cranmer, in his biography of the great man (Thomas Cranmer, Yale University Press, 1996). It's a well known story, of course, of Cranmer's apparent recantation of his Protestant convictions and then his dramatic recantation of the recantation.
What struck me was one of the primary reasons MacCulloch suggests for Cranmer's apparent capitulation back into the Catholicism out of which he had expended so much energy dragging himself and his country.
The reason was friendship. Towards the end, in his confinement, he was very isolated from his Protestant friends. They had mostly either fled to the Continent or been jailed. Indeed two of the most prominent, Latimer and Ridley, had been burned at the stake and he had been forced watch their sufferings.
At this point, says MacCulloch: 'In isolation which was spiritual rather than physical, he cast in the role of friend and confidant the attendant who was guarding him, a simple but devout traditionalist Catholic called Nicholas Woodson. Woodson's friendship came to be his only support, and to please Woodson he began giving way to everything that he had fought for twenty years and more' (pp.588-89).
Some very sharp Catholic minds had turned up during his imprisonment to try to argue him out of his Protestantism, but he held firm. Yet put him in a position where his only possible friend in all the world was a simple-minded Catholic and he weakened. I think it is only the most foolhardy of us who conclude that Cranmer was just one of life's pushovers and that we would have been stronger.
What do I conclude?
I conclude that a desire to please my friends may well be deeper in me than I imagine it is.
I conclude that therefore those deep friendships that I do have with brothers in the Lord are likely to be a far more powerful means by which the Lord keeps me true to him than I imagine they are.
I conclude, finally, that choosing to sacrifice some other things in order to invest in those friendships is a very wise thing to do. According to MacCulloch it was spiritual isolation that did for Cranmer – although mercifully not permanently so. We are fools, I think, if we imagine that we are different.
My PT colleague, Adrian Reynolds, might well add at this point: so when, Mr Pastor, did you last go to a conference where you knew you would be spending time with like-minded brothers? He puts on some pretty good ones, you know.
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Theology of suffering in the life of the church
As Andy Byfield was teaching at the Cornhill + conference, I thought about suffering again. We generally (and our people in particular) have a poor theology of suffering. That's because we've many of us been raised in a culture where it's been relatively easy to be a believer. You see this worked out in the way we pray our prayers of petition, which are often a kind of prosperity-lite ('Lord make n better. Amen').
I don't think you can minister in a church unless you have a more developed theology of suffering – both personally (i.e. in your own life) and in how it works out corporately. It is such a key theme of the New Testament that a pastor who says 'Hmm, I've never really thought that through' makes you wonder if he's actually ever read the Bible and wrestled with the difficult things ('filling up the afflictions of Christ' anyone?).
For the record, I think Christopher Ash's commentary on Job (the longer one, from Crossway) is superb in this. Job, of course, is the go-to book for this issue, but many commentaries just treat Job as go-to rather than go-to-from, for unless you see suffering in the context of the cross, resurrection and ascension, you cannot possibly hope to develop a theology of suffering which will equip you for service in the church.
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The preacher at prayer
It is possible in a church of 200 to pray for every member of the church by name once a week and every member by name early on each Sunday morning. That's certainly Alec Motyer's practice which he outlines in his excellent little book on preaching.
I wonder how that makes you feel? Perhaps you feel convicted? It may be an ideal to which you would like to aspire but you've never quite made the grade. Perhaps you feel a bit aggrieved? That sounds to you like a rather legalistic, worksy kind of approach to prayer. Perhaps you feel self-righteous? Only once a week, Alec….?
There's surely no doubt that a preacher should be a man of prayer (Acts 6 anyone). But what kind of prayer? All kinds, surely, but at the very least, a preacher is a pastor, he is concerned to connect the ministry of the word to those to whom he is called to minister and so a preacher who never prays for his people would be a very odd preacher indeed. Sub-standard, in fact.
So the question is not so much whether one ought to pray for one's people, but how and how much. In terms of 'how' I happen to believe and have experienced that praying in your sermon – both before and after the event – is the best way to ensure you are thinking pastorally in your preparation.
But it surely goes deeper than this, does it not? I don't pray to make my preaching better, as though that were an end in itself. I pray because I want to see my people built up in the knowledge and grace of the Lord Jesus. Which, of course, leads to 'how much?' Alec's strategy may be out of reach at present for all kinds of reasons, but it should surely be the heart's desire of every pastor-teacher.
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The first prayer meeting
More on prayer. I've recently preached on Acts 4. I found it very personally convicting to look at one of the first recorded prayer meetings and learn about prayer. We have to be just a little cautious with Acts, of course. We can't say that because they did this, we must to do it too. Although, in that tension between descriptive and prescriptive (which everyone accepts at some level), I think the safest road is to say that Acts is prescriptive when read in light of rest of NT, i.e. the default position should be that Acts is describing normality, unless the rest of the NT encourages us to think otherwise (and there are some clear areas where this is so). Back to chapter 4. The prayer meeting does therefore provide a helpful model.
Prayer is responsive. Prayer is an automatic response to what has happened and been reported. Not only does this challenge us to pray in an informed way (a very middle class application!) it also (and primarily) encourages a culture of spontaneous praying where a prayer is a natural response to events. We should expect and encourage people to be praying together at all sorts of moments, both those formally organised, and the ad hoc ones too.
Prayer is corporate. 'Together' is a key Acts word, as I'm sure you know. This is not to denigrate private prayer (see Matthew 5, for example!). But prayer in Acts is mostly a corporate activity and there is a power and significance about the church being together to pray. Shame, then, that most UK churches are reducing this opportunity. Once a month? Really?
Prayer is Scripture based. Notice how the believers pray Psalm 2 back to God.
Prayer is ambitious.
Lord, stir up in me a spirit of supplication.
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Leaders who pray – shocking news for Calvinists!
Picking up on one of Andy's points from yesterday, we watched a brief clip of Piper on James 4.2, it's worth a few moments of your time. Here is a great challenge for me and for every church leader.
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Andy Byfield at Cornhill+
I've just finished our Cornhill+ conference – a follow up programme for Cornhill students who don't go to college for various reasons. It's been an encouraging and enjoyable time with 12 others studying God's word and simply hanging out together. We always ask a pastor to come and share some insights on leadership and this year it was great to welcome Andy Byfield, vicar of Moulton Parish Church. I thought his headings, representing challenges that he has set himself and been convicted by, were worth repeating. These are simply patterns that leaders must embrace:
- Leading without worry, 1 Cor 11.28 and Numbers 11.10-15
- Leading that gets others serving, Ephesians 4.11-13
- Leadership that s prayerful, James 4.2
- Leadership that encourages death, John 12.23-25
- Leadership as a younger man, 1 Tim 4.12.
- Leadership that doesn't beat people up 1 Thess 2.11-12.
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Proclamation Bible new editions
There are some brand new compact editions of the NIV Proclamation Bible out. This is not a study Bible as such, but a standard NIV bound with around 60,000 extra words (a standard paperback) of essays, articles and book introductions to help students of the word. It's unique in that sense, and – I believe – a really good piece of work. The contributors are all from our bit of the woods – they know what expository ministry is and are four square behind it. The result is a really good resource.
Up to now, it's only been available in large format, wide margin versions, but now you can get standard size Bibles too (although confusingly, they are called compact). There's a soft tone, a leather and a standard hardback. What are you waiting for?
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A pastor's prayer
I'm just reading James Garretson's excellent assessment of the life and ministry of Samuel Miller, one of the Princeton founders. This is the prayer from his journal after his ordination in New York in June 1793. I've been praying it too:
"O Lord, I have this day renewedly and, I hope, with some sincerity, given myself away to thee! I am now emphatically not my own. I am doubly thine – peculiarly thine! O Lord, accept of my dedication! Fill me with thy love; prepare me for thy service; help me to be more and more like Christ, and more and more to glorify Christ. O Lord, I have undertaken a charge which is too great for human strength. How shall I go in and out before this numerous and enlightened people? How shall I discharge the solemn and weighty duties which are incumbent upon me? Oh, the unutterable importance of having the care of precious, immortal souls committed to my hands! Father, give me knowledge, give me wisdom, give me strength, to perform my duties aright. Blessed Saviour, whom I trust I have chosen as the hope of my own soul, may I be strong in thee and in the power of thy might! Oh help me to love, and study, and preach and act like one habitually and deeply sensible that he must give account."


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The ocean circulation on the Bering and Chukchi sea shelves is investigated using a barotropic numerical model. In the presence of the winter seasonal wind stress from the northeast, observed northward transport through Bering Strait of 0.6 Sv for the 8-month winter season 1981–1982 can be driven by a sea level difference of 0.4 m between the Pacific and Arctic oceans. This sea level difference between basins is in agreement with hydrographic estimates. In the absence of wind stress a 0.4-m sea level difference drives a northward transport through Bering Strait of 1.1 Sv. Maximum transport through Bering Strait is geostrophically limited, not frictionally or inertially limited. Major qualitative circulation features of the region are evident in the simulations. Westward intensification of the northward transport across the Bering Sea shelf is confirmed, with the major transport occurring in the relatively deep Gulf of Anadyr. In the absence of wind, Anadyr Strait contributes 72% of the northward transport through Bering Strait. With northeasterly winds there is a net clockwise circulation around Saint Lawrence Island. Within the 20-m isobath, Norton and Kotzebue sounds are little influenced by the general circulation. Northward transport in the Chukchi Sea bifurcates in the vicinity of Point Hope. The predominant branch is directed toward the northwest in a broad canyon feature south of Herald Shoal, and the balance becomes the Alaskan Coastal Current between Cape Lisburne and Point Barrow.
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