After a federal investigation assisted by a whistleblower who provided WND with 1,000 pages of evidence, British banking giant HSBC has agreed to pay more than $1.92 billion to U.S. authorities for violating anti-money laundering and sanctions laws.
It's the largest penalty ever paid by a bank, but the whistleblower, a former HSBC vice president and relationship manager in New York, told WND today the federal government's response is "a joke," alleging the amount of money the bank has laundered internationally amounts to trillions of dollars.
Instead of indictments, U.S. prosecutors used deferred prosecutions in which criminal charges are set aside in exchange for an agreement to pay fines and change behavior.
Cruz was terminated in 2010 by HSBC after he provided evidence, including bank documents, that the identities of clients were being used to launder funds.
As WND reported, Cruz turned over his evidence to federal authorities in 2009 but was not contacted until the allegations were first exposed by WND earlier this year.
He said he doesn't know the degree to which his evidence played a role in the investigation but believes it was a factor in the size of the fine.
There also was fallout for WND for its reporting of Cruz's evidence. In February, HSBC lodged a complaint that blocked Internet access to one of the WND stories, and senior reporter Jerome Corsi was fired by the New York City investment firm he had worked with for two years as a senior managing director, Gilford Securities.
A Senate report released in July presented evidence HSBC abetted massive money laundering by Iran, terrorist organizations, drug cartels and organized criminals throughout the world. The report said HSBC transferred $19 billion for Iran and $7 billion in physical cash for Mexico.
Documents filed in federal court today charged HSBC with violating sanctions laws by doing business with Iran, Libya, Sudan, Burma and Cuba.
In June, WND reported evidence Eric Holder's Justice Department has not investigated money-laundering charges in deference to bank clients of his Washington-based law firm, where Holder was a partner prior to joining the Obama administration.
WND reported in October HSBC was engaged in a systematic scheme to defraud citizens of India who live abroad out of billion of dollars in investment accounts, according to an Indian source who provided evidence.
HSBC said in a statement today that it has taken steps to limit business in "countries that pose a high financial crime risk" and also expects to finalize an agreement with the U.K. Financial Services Authority.
"We have said we are profoundly sorry for them, and we do so again," he said.


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Nick Lars Heidfeld is a German professional racing driver. Despite scoring regular podium finishes in 2005 with Williams, and in 2007 and 2008 with BMW Sauber, Heidfeld currently holds three Formula One records, most podium finishes without a Grand Prix win, most second-place finishes without a win, and the most consecutive race classifications. In 2011, Heidfeld raced in Formula One for the Renault team as a replacement for the injured Robert Kubica, his former BMW Sauber teammate, before being replaced by Bruno Senna. In 1994 he moved into the German Formula Ford series, gaining attention by winning 8 of the 9 races to take the title that season. In 1995 he won the German International Formula Ford 1800 Championship and this led to a drive in the German Formula Three Championship for 1996, where he finished third overall, after taking 3 wins. He entered the end of the season Macau Grand Prix and won the first heat of the race, attracting the attention of compatriot Norbert Haug, who signed him up for the West Competition team.
The following year Heidfeld won the German F3 Championship for Bertram Schäfer Racing, with support from McLaren/West, in 1998, he won three races and was runner-up in the International Formula 3000 championship, with the West Competition team. At the final race of the season he was demoted to the back of the grid from pole position and he finished the race ninth and out of the points, losing the championship by seven points to Juan Pablo Montoya. During that season, he was the official test driver for the McLaren-Mercedes Formula One team, in 1999, he won the International Formula 3000 Championship. That year he took the official track record at the Goodwood Festival of Speed which still stands today. Heidfeld was signed as a driver for the Prost Grand Prix F1 team for the 2000 season. Heidfeld struggled with his new car and suffered a string of retirements and he departed Prost at the end of that season, before signing a three-year contract with Sauber for 2001. He was partnered with rookie driver Kimi Räikkönen.
The Sauber C21 was the car with which the Sauber team competed in the 2002 Formula One season. The car was driven by Nick Heidfeld, Felipe Massa and Heinz-Harald Frentzen, the C21 chassis was an evolution of 2001s successful C20, which had secured Sauber a best-ever fourth place in the Constructors Championship. It was designed by Technical Manager Willy Rampf and his 24-strong design team and it was therefore similar to the C20, with modifications to the position of the radiators, suspension setup and rear bodywork. The C21 featured a new gearbox which was more compact, the team continued to use Ferrari engines rebadged in deference to title sponsor Petronas, as had been the case since 1997. Throughout the 2002 season, they used derivatives of the previous years 051 engine, although powerful and reliable, the cost of purchasing the years engine supply was £13 million. The C21 was turned out in almost exactly the same livery as the C20, red Bull continued as a sponsor, featuring on the C21s airbox.
David Marshall Coulthard, MBE, known as DC, is a British former Formula One racing driver turned presenter and journalist. He was runner-up in the 2001 Formula One World Drivers Championship, Coulthard began karting at the age of eleven and achieved early success before progressing to car racing in the British Formula Ford Championship and the Formula 3000 series. He first drove in Formula One with Williams F1 in the 1994 season succeeding the late Ayrton Senna, the following year he won his first Grand Prix in Portugal, and for the 1996 season he moved to McLaren. After winning two races in the 1997 season, he finished 3rd in the World Drivers Championship in the 1998 season and he won five races throughout 1999 and 2000 before finishing 2nd in the Drivers Championship to Michael Schumacher in 2001. Two more victories followed between 2002 and 2003 before he left McLaren at the end of 2004 and he moved to Red Bull in 2005 and secured their first podium a year later. Coulthard retired from Formula One racing at the end of 2008, after retiring from Formula One Coulthard continued working with Red Bull as a consultant and joined the BBC as a commentator and pundit for their coverage of Formula One.
He returned to motorsports in 2010 joining Mücke Motorsport in the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters. Coulthard has participated in the Race of Champions, finishing runner-up in the Drivers Cup in 2008, since 2016 he has worked as a commentator and analyst for Channel 4 after they took over the BBC's terrestrial television rights. Coulthard was born on 27 March 1971 in Twynholm, Kirkcudbrightshire and his family was connected to motor racing, his grandfather competed in the Monte Carlo Rally and his father drove karts, becoming Scottish National Champion. From an early age motorsport was where his interest lay, listing Formula One World Champions Jim Clark, Nigel Mansell, Coulthard was educated at Kirkcudbright Academy, achieving eight O Grades. Coulthard began karting when his father presented him with his first kart for his eleventh birthday, Coulthard graded each race he entered on a scale of 1 to 10, with an additional column headlined Performance. He gave credit to David Leslie and junior for allowing his career to develop, in 1990, Coulthard travelled to Belgium to compete in the EFDA Nations Cup for Great Britain and was partnered with Nicky Hart, where they finished 9th.
The Ferrari F2001 was a highly successful Formula One car, designed by Ross Brawn and Rory Byrne for the 2001 Formula One season. A revised version known as the F2001B was used in the first two races of 2002 before being replaced by the F2002, the F2001 was designed around new regulation changes which mandated a higher-mounted front wing assembly to reduce downforce. This resulted in a distinctive droopsnoot nose section and spoon-shaped front wing, the season saw the re-introduction of traction and launch control systems, therefore the car and its suspension were designed with this in mind. Being somewhat of a departure over previous Brawn/Byrne Ferrari designs, the car was based more on McLarens design thinking. However, the car did feature Ferrari trademarks, such as the periscope exhausts pioneered by the team in 1998 and the small bargeboards which were a feature of its predecessors. The F2001 used the same gearbox and internal layout as its predecessors, however the aerodynamic efficiency and tyre wear were improved considerably over the F300, F399.


Season/Act One is officially over!
Things are moving along at break-neck speed! Just as it is depicted on the cover, the story is trifold with temporary conclusions. First up, Dr. Falsario's fate is determined after Batgirl, Batwoman, and Red Hood had been dispatched to Rio de Janeiro to bring him in. Talk about a quick fix!! This subplot only takes up four pages of the entire issue with page 17 being only a third of the page with two panels at the bottom and page 18 being three-quarters with four panels. Having the new villain met his demise at the hands of an anonymous assassin proves to be quite inopportune for Batgirl as she wanted him brought to Gotham to exonerate her father Jim Gordon. This is definitely anticlimactic since there wasn't a proper beat-down for the newest nefarious man and more mystery is added to the overall plot. The only intriguing aspect is the sororal affection Babs (Batgirl) shows towards Jason (Red Hood). Being the progeny of Portuguese parents, one other thing that leaves my head scratching is the fact that all three heroes can speak Brazilian Portuguese. One must be beyond the best to be part of the Bat-Squad but I find this to be a bit of a stretch.
The unexpected team-up between another triumvirate of characters — Batman, Jason Bard, and Killer Croc has been quite enjoyable. The dynamics between the Dark Knight and the protector of the sewers has a lot of potential!! I was dumbfounded when this started in the previous issue. We all know that the most gripping characters are multilayered and Waylon Jones a.k.a. Killer Croc proves to be no exception. In all my years of reading numerous stories with the Big Bad Bat, I don't recall seeing a heroic streak in the Crocodile Man. I'll admit that this came out of left field and it works!! I hope that in the near future, these two find another reason to work together. Croc steps beyond a B-list Bat-villain to show true grit. Nothing will deter him from saving Jade, a teenage girl under his protection. The Ten-Eyed Man is also tossed aside quite easily and it's obvious that he's an underling for a much bigger mastermind. Role reversal at its best — Croc is a saviour and a man of honour by handing over Jade to Batman. However, he doesn't entirely discard his 'evilness' as he admits to Bard that he killed two Gotham cops. The reason is that they were corrupt. Bard has gone from the clean-cut officer to a maniacal man-on-a-mission. It's obvious that there's more to him than meets the eye. At this point in the game, I'm wondering if he's the Big Boss that has Batman strapped to the Bat-Signal (reminder: page 1 of issue #1). The one good thing about the New 52 is that certain characters have had a more riveting reinterpretation. The layouts for this subplot total seven pages with page 16 taking two-thirds of a page and page 18 only taking up one quarter. You can't keep a good character down. Rest assured Croc will return but the question is whether he will be an ally or an enemy.
The last story strand of this ish features one last unlikely trio: Jim Gordon, Warden Agatha Zorbatos and Rex Calabrese a.k.a. The Lion, a character I've never heard of before. After doing some digging, Rex is fairly new in the Batman mythos as no known database has much on him. Talk about cryptic!! This comes to light despite Jim mentioning Rex hiding away in prison for eleven years. Anyhoo, there's a temporary riot at Blackgate which is also quickly quelled. Good old Gordon does what he does best: play the hero. He stays true to his nature by confronting his reclusive roommate after the big reveal. The Lion is not painted as a maligned mobster. He empathizes with Jim being a father and wants to see him live another day so that he can reunite with his daughter. What really makes him stand out is not helping but choosing to remain a prisoner and brushing off Zorbatos' praise. Jim Gordon is by far the biggest hero of this storyline but he doesn't accept or acknowledge that label.
ALERT! SPOILER! ALERT! SPOILER! This just in………Stephanie Brown emerges as and redefines herself as Gotham's newest vigilante: The Spoiler!! The power of the press isn't enough. Words as weapons have gotten her nowhere. It's time to take literal action against her felonious father and her costumed cronies. From the keyboard to the crime corners of Gotham, baddies beware! I can't help but equate her new appearance to Julian Assange a.k.a. Mr. Wikileaks herself. Knowledge has always been power. Being a Gothamite, Stephanie realizes that this isn't enough. She has to step up and make an actual difference. In her 'meek' persona as a self-styled critic, Stephanie is just as flawed as the rest of us. There are times she was self-absorbed and self-centred but that time has passed. Praise be the purple-clad protagonist!
I am unfamiliar with Emanuel Simeoni's art. I had to research him to see his work. He illustrated the last six issues of TALON. Ashamedly, I'll admit that I didn't realized he already penciled the previous issue as well as #7. Awkward!! Truth be told, I don't like the way he does faces. Killer Croc looks laughable and the one inmate looks like a juiced-up Kewpie doll. Batman's face looks all scrunched up on page 18. At least he does justice to the 'human' faces. The close-up of Stephanie Brown's eyes on page 19 is sublime! I'm no artist so it's hard for me to objectively critique inks or colours. Nevertheless, Blond accentuates appropriately with the 'dark' scenes in contrast to the 'brighter' ones. Lastly, I will praise any letterer out there but due to current tech, I don't see any subtle differences in the font/print. Producing a weekly book is no easy task but I'll give Dezi Sienty his due.
Tim Seeley continues to saturate this 'episode' with the supernatural/horror elements. (1) Ten-Eyed Man makes reference to the 'Masters of the Deep Dark' and 'the Face of Doom'. He seems more of a prophet proclaiming that 'Gotham's watchful moon will go dark' and asserts that no one can deny the 'Eternal Falling'. (2) Dr. Falsario refers to the three heroes as 'demons' 'each with heads of flame' and asks an unknown party why he has been sent them. (3) The Court of Owls is mentioned by an inmate as 'owl zombies'.
Rex is singing "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" while getting ready for his reappearance.
The nurse attending to Jim unintentionally(?) looks like Harley Quinn. Am I off my rocker?!?
"Critics have no right to play spoiler." uttered by one of the most favoured critics of our time: Mr. Roger Ebert. Interesting enough, he wrote this while reviewing Million Dollar Baby. Is Stephanie Brown the underdog of Gotham?
There's an inadvertent crossover with TEEN TITANS #2 (also out this week). Can you guess?!? The reference to "Crabby Cat: the Movie". Steph seems none too pleased that a film critic dissected it. In TT, Beast Boy is watching the cartoon while bickering with Bunker.


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Q: Converting integral equations to differential equations I am trying to use Mathematica to convert integrals to differential equations, of any order. An example of an integral equation is given below, in Mathematica code. Could you please advise as to the command to use, and the format?
 q0[x]/20 == 10 (Integrate[{f0[t]/200 - f1[t]/200 + 0.5 (f40[t]/100)}, {x, 0, t}])

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Q: Without the Axiom of Choice, does every infinite field contain a countably infinite subfield? Earlier today I asked whether every infinite field contains a countably infinite subfield. That question quickly received several positive answers, but the question of whether those answers use the Axiom of Choice has spawned off an interesting discussion in its own right. Thus I'd like to pose that question separately:

Without using the Axiom of Choice, can it be shown that every infinite field contains a countably infinite subfield?

Note that the corresponding question for sets has a negative answer, but since fields have so much more structure than sets, it is not a priori unreasonable to me that there might exist an AC-less resolution for fields.

EDIT: For the purposes of this question, an infinite set is one that is not bijective with $\{1, \dots, n\}$ for any $n \in \Bbb N$. Thanks to @MartinSleziak for bringing this issue up in chat.

A: Impossible, by the result from Hickman (1978). He proves that the existence of a Dedekind-finite infinite field (that is, an infinite field does not have any countable subset) is consistent with ZF. More precisely, he proves the following theorem:

Theorem. For a prime $p$ and a sequence of natural numbers $m_0\mid m_1\mid\cdots$, it is consistent with ZF that there is an Dedekind-finite infinite field, such that the field is a union of a sequence of increasing finite fields $(F_n)_{n<\omega}$ with $|F_k| = p^{m_k}$.

(His original paper uses the terminology "medial" to denote a Dedekind-finite infinite set.)
Furthermore, he proves that every Dedekind-finite infinite rings with only a finite number of zero-divisors is a field. Thus every Dedekind-finite infinite ring is a field or has infinite number of zero-divisors.
You can check the details in his paper:

Hickman, J. L. "Dedekind-finite fields." Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society 19.01 (1978): 117-124.

A: Here's a sketch for a concrete construction of a counterexample, probably close to the result by Hickman that Hanul Jeon found:
If I remember field theory right, ZF proves that there exists:

*

*A nested sequence of finite fields
  $$ \mathbb F_p = K_0 \subseteq K_1 \subseteq K_2 \subseteq \cdots $$
  such that $K_n$ has $p^{2^n}$ elements, and the only subfields of $K_i$ are $K_j$ with $j\le i$.

*A sequence of generators $g_0, g_1, g_2, \ldots$ such that $K_n = \mathbb F_p[g_n]$.

*A sequence of order-2 authomorphisms $\varphi_n$ of $\cup_n K_n$ such that $\varphi_n$ fixes $K_{n-1}$ but does not fix $g_n$, and such that all the $\varphi_n$s commute.

Let $K=\cup_n K_n$. We will show (assuming that AC fails badly enough) a Dedekind-finite field that is "morally isomorphic" to $K$, except the isomorphism isn't actually going to exist.
As a start, we'll develop a strange "redundant" representation of the elements of $K$.
First for every finite $A\subseteq \mathbb N$, let $\phi_A$ be the product of $\varphi_n$ for all $n\in A$.
Let a path mean a finite (1-indexed) sequence of $0$s and $1$s. For a path $a\in\{0,1\}^n$, let $g_a = \phi_{\{n\mid a(n)=1\}}(g_n)$. This is a generator of $K_n$; different paths map to different generators. For different paths of the same length we have
$$ g_a = \phi_{\{n\mid a(n)\ne b(n)\}}(g_b) $$
A recipe for an element $k\in K$ is a pair $(a,q)\in \{0,1\}^*\times \mathbb F_p[X]$, such that $k=q(g_a)$.
Define an equivalence relation $\sim$ on all recipes as the symmetric transitive closure of

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*$(a,q)\sim(a',q')$ if $|a|=|a'|=n$ and $ q(g_n)=q'(\phi_{\{n\mid a(n)\ne a'(n)\}}(g_n))$.

*$(a,q)\sim(a.b, q\circ r)$, where $b\in\{0,1\}$ is arbitrary, and $a.b$ is the sequence formed by appending $b$ to the end of $a$, and $r$ is any polynomial such that $r(g_{|a|+1})=g_{|a|}$.

It should be clear that two recipes are related exactly when they represent the same element of $K$. Let $[k]$ mean the equivalence class of all recipes for of $k$.
We can calculate directly on recipe classes: It should be clear that if we have two recipe classes, we can always find a path that is represented in both of them. (Just chose an arbitrary path whose length is at least the maximum of some path from one class and some path from the other). Then,
$$ \forall (a,q)\in [k], (a,q')\in [k'] : (a,q+q')\in[k+k'] \land (a,qq')\in[kk']$$
The point of all this is that the definiton of $\sim$ -- and thus computation on represetation classes -- does not depend on the elements of a path being $\{0,1\}$ in particular, but just that there are only two choices for each position in a path, which can be compared for equality.
Now, finally assume that AC fails badly enough that there is a countable sequence $(A_n)$ of unordered pairs such that $\cup_n A_n$ is not well-orderable. This is well known to be consistent with ZF.
Redefine a "path" to mean a function $a:\{1,2,\ldots,n\}\to\cup_n A_n$ such that $a(i)\in A_i$. A recipe is still a pair of a path and a polynomial, and $\sim$ is defined as above, except that $b\in\{0,1\}$ must be replaced by $b\in A_{|a|+1}$.
The properties of the old $\sim$ transfers to the new $\sim$ because each of them speak about only finitely long paths at a time, and we can always choose a finite and sufficiently long path in $(A_i)$ to play the same role as $0^n$ while verifying each of the claims for the new $\sim$.
There is still a set of all recipes, and so the set of all recipe classes under $\sim$ stil exist. Any two recipe classes can be added, multiplied, subtracted and divided just like before. So the set of recipe classes form a field.
On the other hand, this field cannot have a countably infinite subfield. Any infinite subfield would need to contain elements that generate $K_n$ for arbitrarily large $n$, and so in particular, an infinite subfield must include a recipe class that contains $(a,X)$ for every path $a$.
However, this would mean that the set of paths is countable, which would mean there is a surjection $\mathbb N\to \cup_n A_n$, which contradicts $\cup_n A_n$ not being well-orderable.


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Robert Aumann
Robert John Aumann (Hebrew name: ישראל אומן, Yisrael Aumann; born June 8, 1930) is an Israeli-American mathematician, and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. He is a professor at the Center for the Study of Rationality in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. He also holds a visiting position at Stony Brook University, and is one of the founding members of the Stony Brook Center for Game Theory.
Aumann in 2010
Robert John Aumann
(1930-06-08) 8 June 1930
Israel, United States
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
John von Neumann Theory Prize
Harvey Prize in Science and Technology
Israel Prize for Economical Research
Doctoral advisor
George Whitehead, Jr.
David Schmeidler
Sergiu Hart
Abraham Neyman
Yair Tauman
Aumann received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2005 for his work on conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis. He shared the prize with Thomas Schelling.
Aumann was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and fled to the United States with his family in 1938, two weeks before the Kristallnacht pogrom. He attended the Rabbi Jacob Joseph School, a yeshiva high school in New York City. He graduated from the City College of New York in 1950 with a B.Sc. in Mathematics. He received his M.Sc. in 1952, and his Ph.D. in Mathematics in 1955, both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His doctoral dissertation, Asphericity of Alternating Linkages, concerned knot theory. His advisor was George Whitehead, Jr.
In 1956 he joined the Mathematics faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and has been a visiting professor at Stony Brook University since 1989. He has held visiting professorship at the University of California, Berkeley (1971, 1985–1986), Stanford University (1975–1976, 1980–1981), and Universite Catholique de Louvain (1972, 1978, 1984).[1]
Mathematical and scientific contribution
Aumann's greatest contribution was in the realm of repeated games, which are situations in which players encounter the same situation over and over again.
Aumann was the first to define the concept of correlated equilibrium in game theory, which is a type of equilibrium in non-cooperative games that is more flexible than the classical Nash equilibrium. Furthermore, Aumann has introduced the first purely formal account of the notion of common knowledge in game theory. He collaborated with Lloyd Shapley on the Aumann–Shapley value. He is also known for his agreement theorem, in which he argues that under his given conditions, two Bayesian rationalists with common prior beliefs cannot agree to disagree.[2]
Aumann and Maschler used game theory to analyze Talmudic dilemmas.[3] They were able to solve the mystery about the "division problem", a long-standing dilemma of explaining the Talmudic rationale in dividing the heritage of a late husband to his three wives depending on the worth of the heritage compared to its original worth.[4] The article in that matter was dedicated to a son of Aumann, Shlomo, who was killed during the 1982 Lebanon War, while serving as a tank gunner in the Israel Defense Forces's armored corps.
These are some of the themes of Aumann's Nobel lecture, named "War and Peace":[5]
War is not irrational, but must be scientifically studied in order to be understood, and eventually conquered;
Repeated game study de-emphasizes the "now" for the sake of the "later";
Simplistic peacemaking can cause war, while an arms race, credible war threats and mutually assured destruction can reliably prevent war.
Aumann is a member in the Professors for a Strong Israel (PSI), a right-wing political group. Aumann opposed the disengagement from Gaza in 2005 claiming it is a crime against Gush Katif settlers and a serious threat to the security of Israel. Aumann draws on a case in game theory called the Blackmailer Paradox to argue that giving land to the Arabs is strategically foolish based on the mathematical theory.[6] By presenting an unyielding demand, the Arab states force Israel to "yield to blackmail due to the perception that it will leave the negotiating room with nothing if it is inflexible".
As a result of his political views, and his use of his research to justify them, the decision to give him the Nobel prize was criticized in the European press. A petition to cancel his prize garnered signatures from 1,000 academics worldwide.[7]
In a speech to a religious Zionist youth movement, Bnei Akiva, Aumann claimed that Israel is in "deep trouble". He revealed his belief that the anti-Zionist Satmar Jews might have been right in their condemnation of the original Zionist movement. "I fear the Satmars were right", he said, and quoted a verse from Psalm 127: "Unless the Lord builds a house, its builders toil on it in vain." Aumann feels that the historical Zionist establishment failed to transmit its message to its successors, because it was secular. The only way that Zionism can survive, according to Aumann, is if it has a religious basis.[8]
In 2008, Aumann joined the new political party Ahi led by Effi Eitam and Yitzhak Levy.[9]
Torah codes controversy
Aumann has entered the controversy of Bible codes research. In his position as both a religious Jew and a man of science, the codes research holds special interest to him. He has partially vouched for the validity of the "Great Rabbis Experiment" by Doron Witztum, Eliyahu Rips, and Yoav Rosenberg, which was published in Statistical Science. Aumann not only arranged for Rips to give a lecture on Torah codes in the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, but sponsored the Witztum-Rips-Rosenberg paper for publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The Academy requires a member to sponsor any publication in its Proceedings; the paper was turned down however.[10]
In 1996, a committee consisting of Robert J. Aumann, Dror Bar-Natan, Hillel Furstenberg, Isaak Lapides, and Rips, was formed to examine the results that had been reported by H.J. Gans regarding the existence of "encoded" text in the bible foretelling events that took place many years after the Bible was written. The committee performed two additional tests in the spirit of the Gans experiments. Both tests failed to confirm the existence of the putative code.
After a long analysis of the experiment and the dynamics of the controversy, stating for example that "almost everybody included [in the controversy] made up their mind early in the game" Aumann concluded:
"A priori, the thesis of the Codes research seems wildly improbable... Research conducted under my own supervision failed to confirm the existence of the codes – though it also did not establish their non-existence. So I must return to my a priori estimate, that the Codes phenomenon is improbable".[11]
Aumann married Esther Schlesinger in April 1955 in Brooklyn. They had met in 1953, when Esther, who was from Israel, was visiting the United States. The couple had five children; the oldest, Shlomo, was killed in action while serving in the Israel Defense Forces in the 1982 Lebanon War. Esther died of ovarian cancer in October 1998. In late November 2005, Aumann married Esther's widowed sister, Batya Cohn.[12]
1974: Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences[13]
1983: Harvey Prize in Science and Technology.
1994: Israel Prize for economics.[14]
1998: Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics from Northwestern University.[15]
2002: The EMET Prize in the Social Sciences category, for Economics[16]
2005: Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (share US$1.3 million prize with Thomas Schelling).
2006: Yakir Yerushalayim (Worthy Citizen of Jerusalem) award from the city of Jerusalem.[17]
1956: "Asphericity of alternating knots", Annals of Mathematics 64: 374–92 doi:10.2307/1969980
1974: (with L.S. Shapley) Values of Non-Atomic Games, Princeton University Press
1981: (with Y. Tauman and S. Zamir) Game Theory, volumes 1 & 2 (in Hebrew), Everyman's University, Tel Aviv
1989: Lectures on Game Theory, Underground Classics in Economics, Westview Press
1992,94,2002: (coedited with Sergiu Hart) Handbook of Game Theory with Economic Applications, volumes 1,2 & 3 Elsevier
1995: (with M. Maschler) Repeated Games with Incomplete Information, MIT Press
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Israeli Nobel laureates
1966: Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Literature)
1978: Menachem Begin (Peace)
1994: Shimon Peres / Yitzhak Rabin (Peace)
2002: Daniel Kahneman (Economics)
2004: Aaron Ciechanover / Avram Hershko (Chemistry)
2005: Robert Aumann (Economics)
2009: Ada Yonath (Chemistry)
2011: Dan Shechtman (Chemistry)
2013: Michael Levitt / Arieh Warshel (Chemistry)
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Laureates of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences
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1970: Paul A. Samuelson
1971: Simon Kuznets
1972: John R. Hicks / Kenneth J. Arrow
1973: Wassily Leontief
1974: Gunnar Myrdal / Friedrich August von Hayek
1975: Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich / Tjalling C. Koopmans
1976: Milton Friedman
1977: Bertil Ohlin / James E. Meade
1978: Herbert A. Simon
1979: Theodore W. Schultz / Sir Arthur Lewis
1980: Lawrence R. Klein
1981: James Tobin
1982: George J. Stigler
1983: Gérard Debreu
1984: Richard Stone
1985: Franco Modigliani
1986: James M. Buchanan Jr.
1987: Robert M. Solow
1988: Maurice Allais
1989: Trygve Haavelmo
1990: Harry M. Markowitz / Merton H. Miller / William F. Sharpe
1991: Ronald H. Coase
1992: Gary S. Becker
1993: Robert W. Fogel / Douglass C. North
1994: John C. Harsanyi / John F. Nash Jr. / Reinhard Selten
1995: Robert E. Lucas Jr.
1996: James A. Mirrlees / William Vickrey
1997: Robert C. Merton / Myron S. Scholes
1998: Amartya Sen
1999: Robert A. Mundell
2000: James J. Heckman / Daniel L. McFadden
2001: George A. Akerlof / A. Michael Spence / Joseph E. Stiglitz
2002: Daniel Kahneman / Vernon L. Smith
2003: Robert F. Engle III / Clive W.J. Granger
2004: Finn E. Kydland / Edward C. Prescott
2005: Robert J. Aumann / Thomas C. Schelling
2006: Edmund S. Phelps
2007: Leonid Hurwicz / Eric S. Maskin / Roger B. Myerson
2008: Paul Krugman
2009: Elinor Ostrom / Oliver E. Williamson
2010: Peter A. Diamond / Dale T. Mortensen / Christopher A. Pissarides
2011: Thomas J. Sargent / Christopher A. Sims
2012: Alvin E. Roth / Lloyd S. Shapley
2013: Eugene F. Fama / Lars Peter Hansen / Robert J. Shiller
2014: Jean Tirole
2015: Angus Deaton
2016: Oliver Hart / Bengt Holmström
2017: Richard H. Thaler
2018: William Nordhaus / Paul Romer
2019: Abhijit Banerjee / Esther Duflo / Michael Kremer
2005 Nobel Prize laureates
Robert H. Grubbs (United States)
Richard R. Schrock (United States)
Yves Chauvin (France)
Robert Aumann (Israel)
Thomas Schelling (United States)
Harold Pinter (United Kingdom)
Mohamed ElBaradei (Egypt)
Roy J. Glauber (United States)
John L. Hall (United States)
Theodor W. Hänsch (Germany)
Physiology or Medicine
Barry Marshall (Australia)
Robin Warren (Australia)
Nobel Prize recipients
George Dantzig (1975)
Richard Bellman (1976)
Felix Pollaczek (1977)
John F. Nash / Carlton E. Lemke (1978)
David Blackwell (1979)
David Gale / Harold W. Kuhn / Albert W. Tucker (1980)
Lloyd Shapley (1981)
Abraham Charnes / William W. Cooper / Richard J. Duffin (1982)
Herbert Scarf (1983)
Ralph Gomory (1984)
Jack Edmonds (1985)
Kenneth J. Arrow (1986)
Samuel Karlin (1987)
Herbert A. Simon (1988)
Harry M. Markowitz (1989)
Richard Karp (1990)
Richard E. Barlow / Frank Proschan (1991)
Alan J. Hoffman / Philip Wolfe (1992)
Robert Herman (1993)
Lajos Takacs (1994)
Egon Balas (1995)
Peter C. Fishburn (1996)
Peter Whittle (1997)
Fred W. Glover (1998)
R. Tyrrell Rockafellar (1999)
Ellis L. Johnson / Manfred W. Padberg (2000)
Ward Whitt (2001)
Donald L. Iglehart / Cyrus Derman (2002)
Arkadi Nemirovski / Michael J. Todd (2003)
J. Michael Harrison (2004)
Robert J. Aumann (2005)
Martin Grötschel / László Lovász / Alexander Schrijver (2006)
Arthur F. Veinott, Jr. (2007)
Frank Kelly (2008)
Yurii Nesterov / Yinyu Ye (2009)
Søren Asmussen / Peter W. Glynn (2010)
Gérard Cornuéjols (2011)
George Nemhauser / Laurence Wolsey (2012)
Michel Balinski (2013)
Nimrod Megiddo (2014)
Vašek Chvátal / Jean Bernard Lasserre (2015)
Martin I. Reiman / Ruth J. Williams (2016)
Donald Goldfarb / Jorge Nocedal (2017)
Presidents of the Game Theory Society
Robert J. Aumann (1999–2003)
Ehud Kalai (2003–2006)
H. Peyton Young (2006–2008)
Sergiu Hart (2008–2010)
Eric Maskin (2010–2012)
Roger Myerson (2012–2014)
David Schmeidler (2014–2016)
Larry Samuelson (2016–present)
Topics in game theory
Cooperative game
Determinacy
Escalation of commitment
Extensive-form game
First-player and second-player win
Game complexity
Graphical game
Hierarchy of beliefs
Information set
Normal-form game
Sequential game
Simultaneous game
Simultaneous action selection
Solved game
Succinct game
Nash equilibrium
Subgame perfection
Mertens-stable equilibrium
Bayesian Nash equilibrium
Perfect Bayesian equilibrium
Trembling hand
Proper equilibrium
Epsilon-equilibrium
Correlated equilibrium
Sequential equilibrium
Quasi-perfect equilibrium
Evolutionarily stable strategy
Risk dominance
Shapley value
Pareto efficiency
Gibbs equilibrium
Quantal response equilibrium
Self-confirming equilibrium
Strong Nash equilibrium
Markov perfect equilibrium
Dominant strategies
Pure strategy
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Strategy-stealing argument
Tit for tat
Grim trigger
Backward induction
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Markov strategy
of games
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Signaling game
Screening game
Cheap talk
Zero-sum game
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Bargaining problem
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n-player game
Large Poisson game
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Strictly determined game
Potential game
Infinite chess
Prisoner's dilemma
Optional prisoner's dilemma
Traveler's dilemma
Coordination game
Centipede game
Volunteer's dilemma
Dollar auction
Matching pennies
Ultimatum game
Pirate game
Dictator game
Public goods game
Blotto game
War of attrition
El Farol Bar problem
Fair division
Fair cake-cutting
Cournot game
Diner's dilemma
Guess 2/3 of the average
Kuhn poker
Nash bargaining game
Prisoners and hats puzzle
Trust game
Princess and Monster game
Rendezvous problem
Theorems
Arrow's impossibility theorem
Aumann's agreement theorem
Folk theorem
Minimax theorem
Nash's theorem
Purification theorem
Revelation principle
Zermelo's theorem
Albert W. Tucker
Amos Tversky
Ariel Rubinstein
David K. Levine
David M. Kreps
Donald B. Gillies
Drew Fudenberg
Eric Maskin
Harold W. Kuhn
Hervé Moulin
Jean Tirole
Jean-François Mertens
Jennifer Tour Chayes
John Harsanyi
John Maynard Smith
Antoine Augustin Cournot
Kenneth Binmore
Leonid Hurwicz
Lloyd Shapley
Melvin Dresher
Merrill M. Flood
Olga Bondareva
Oskar Morgenstern
Peyton Young
Reinhard Selten
Robert Axelrod
Robert B. Wilson
Roger Myerson
Samuel Bowles
Suzanne Scotchmer
Thomas Schelling
William Vickrey
All-pay auction
Alpha–beta pruning
Bertrand paradox
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Combinatorial game theory
Confrontation analysis
Coopetition
First-move advantage in chess
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Solving chess
Topological game
Tragedy of the commons
Tyranny of small decisions
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Яньюа́нь () — уезд Ляншань-Ийского автономного округа провинции Сычуань (КНР).

История
При империи Хань в 111 году был образован уезд Динцзэ (定笮县). При империи Тан он был переименован в уезд Куньмин (昆明县). При империи Мин здесь был учреждён Яньцзинский караул (盐井卫). При империи Цин в 1728 году на территории Яньцзинского караула был образован уезд Яньюань.

В 1939 году была образована провинция Сикан, и уезд вошёл в её состав. В 1950 году уезд вошёл в состав Специального района Сичан (西昌专区). В 1953 году из уезда был выделен Мули-Тибетский автономный уезд. В 1955 году провинция Сикан была расформирована, и Специальный район Сичан был передан в состав провинции Сычуань. В 1964 году уезд Яньюань был преобразован в Яньюань-Ийский автономный уезд (盐源彝族自治县). В 1970 году Специальный район Сичан был переименован в Округ Сичан (西昌地区).

В 1978 году Округ Сичан был расформирован, и Яньюань-Ийский автономный уезд был преобразован в уезд Яньюань Ляншань-Ийского автономного округа.

Административное деление
Уезд Яньюань делится на 8 посёлков, 25 волостей и 1 национальную волость.

Ссылки

Уезды Ляншань-Ийского автономного округа

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In partnership with Myanmar medical institutions and with funding support from the Kimberley Foundation through the Peter F Williams AO International Surgery Grant, the College is responding to needs identified by the Myanmar Ministry of Health for medical capacity-building support.
The College is working with emergency physicians and the Myanmar Ministry of Health to deliver a sustainable specialist training program in emergency medicine, in Myanmar. The program provides the necessary training to equip local specialists with the practical skills and knowledge to successfully lead the development of an effective emergency care system throughout the country.
Following the successful training of the first cohort of Myanmar doctors in Emergency Medicine in 2012-2013 under the College-supported Emergency Medicine Development Program, eight national specialists successfully completed the final exam of the 2nd Post-Graduate Course in the Diploma of Emergency Medicine in Yangon, Myanmar in August 2015. This will expand the pool of national doctors trained in emergency medical care and result in improved access to quality healthcare for the Myanmar community. Congratulations are extended to all the successful candidates who have undergone this intensive period of training in the growing specialty of Emergency Medicine in Myanmar.
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Since 2009, the Program has trained over 1500 local doctors. Over 200 doctors have been trained as instructors to teach the course and 22 have received higher level leadership training to supervise the instructor courses locally under the mentorship of international facilitators. The courses are now taught almost entirely independently by national instructors.
The College is working with the Myanmar Surgical and Orthopaedic Societies to deliver surgical and non-technical skills training, to develop local capacity in key areas of patient care including critical care, infection control and quality assurance.
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Case Beken, a 14-year-old boy from Weimer, Texas, grew up blind after battling a brain tumor as a toddler but never let his lack of sight hold him back, learning how to hunt and fish and enjoy life to the fullest.
His motto was, "Walk by faith, not by sight," from 2 Corinthians 5:7 New King James Version. Beken used those deep words from the Good Book to guide him and inspire others. He would remind people that if he could hunt blind, they could do anything.
This past year, Beken started raising a steer to show at the county fair. He and the Charolais steer he named Casper spent a lot of time together, as any cattle-showing kid knows, feeding and walking Casper and training him to perform in the ring.
Beken attended the Texas School for the Blind in Austin about two hours away from home but would vigilantly work with Casper every weekend along with his job at a local steakhouse.
Upon returning home from school in May, Beken's mom, Robin, noticed his speech was slurred and he didn't seem like himself. At first, they thought he had possibly suffered a stroke but, after weeks of MRIs and tests, doctors found another tumor, this time too involved with the brain stem to be operable.
After learning he was terminal, finding someone to show Casper for him and finish his project was a top priority for Beken. Robin's friend Monte Williams arranged for a friend and fellow livestock shower Kayden Mascheck to show Casper. Mascheck shows Red Brangus cattle and has won awards for showmanship across the country and was excited to help Beken show his steer. With only a few weeks to prepare, he began visiting Beken to work with Casper and get ready for the fair.
Days passed until Beken became weak and unable to speak much at all. When he did talk, he would remind his family how much he loved them and would miss them, and thank Williams for all he did for him and tell him he would miss rides out to the ranch to feed his steer.
On Sept. 7, Beken arrived at the Colorado County Fair in an ambulance fully equipped with emergency staff and waited ringside with his family to listen in and be a part of his steer's big day. Before he and Casper entered the ring, Mascheck stopped at the ambulance to tell Beken he was going to do his very best.
The show barn was standing room only, packed with spectators from all over the area. Mascheck showed the "wheels off" Casper; the pair put on a nearly perfect performance. There was not a dry eye in the building when Casper got the infamous smack on the back and was named Grand Champion Steer at the Colorado County Fair.
In the minutes after the announcement, emotions overflowed. Beken wept tears of joy, and more tears filled the eyes of everyone else in attendance. In lieu of a backdrop picture, a photo was taken with Mascheck holding the steer in front of the ambulance packed with Beken and his family.
The next day, Casper headed to the livestock auction. The sale this year brought the largest buyers group in Colorado County history, with the amount initially raised from the sale totaling $52,200, with even more money coming in from add-ons and donations after the auction was complete. Additionally, a cake made by another child with cancer was auctioned off for $2,500, which was added to the funds.
Beken was unable to be present for the sale. Within minutes of the sale being complete, he began to go downhill. He was transported to the local hospice in Victoria, Texas, where he gained his angel wings. Beken's last wish was that something good would come from the sale of his steer, so he requested the proceeds from Casper's sale be used to help other livestock kids in his community. Thanks to the generous sale and donations, the Case Beken Memorial Scholarship has been created to enable more youth in his county to show livestock.
Some may look at this story and see just the sad ending, but it is also possible to see the story of a young man who lived his last days through his steer. The two had such a bond some say his steer saw the world for Beken when he couldn't see. Others look at Beken and see a huge source of inspiration – one who overcame so much and never complained, who reached for the sky and ended up in the heavens.
Beken's friends recall he never met a stranger and would remember a person's voice and be able to recall their name. While Beken has passed on, he continues to live on in the hearts of those in Colorado County, with his family and with his Casper, who was not sent to slaughter but instead returned to the farm to live out his days as a pet and a reminder of the boy who raised him.
Case would not want anyone to cry over this story but would remind them to take the problems they are facing and cast them aside, turn them over to God and never let anything stop them. When you look out into your pasture, know there is an angel in heaven watching over your cattle, one who can finally see them and loves each and every one of them.
PHOTO 1: Case Beken and his family pose ringside with Casper and Mascheck after Grand Champion had been announced. Photo by Melissa Nichols.
PHOTO 2: Robin and Case taking Casper for a walk. Photo provided by Robin Beken.
PHOTO 3: Left to right: Case's dad, Brad; brother Tim; mom, Robin; and family friend Monte Williams pictured around Case Beken in the ambulance.
PHOTO 4: Robin hugging Casper after the show. Photos by Melissa Nichols.


This book takes a three-pronged look at the cause of major US. diseases. The first part starts in 1967 and describes Colin Campbell PhD's 27 years of work in laboratory studies at MIT, Cornell and VA Tech working with laboratory rats where he demonstrated that he could promote or retard the growth of induced cancerous liver tumors in rats by increasing or decreasing the amount of ingested animal protein including the casein found in milk. He also found that high levels of plant protein did not stimulate the growth of liver tumors. He then expanded his lab studies to other cancers and other diseases including obesity, diabetes, heart disease, alzheimers and eye diseases. He reached the same conclusion that high animal protein diets practiced by most Americans were the likely major cause of the high incidence of all major diseases.
But these conclusions were based on animal studies in laboratories. While studies in rats are generally recognized to be highly predictable of results in humans, Campbell realized that his work would generate a lot of skeptics and would not be accepted without extensive human research leading to the second phase of his study, the China phase. In 1970 Chou EnLai was dying of cancer and ordered a study of 12 different kinds of cancer in 2400 Chinese counties. A Chinese scientist came to the US in the early 80s to work in Campbell's lab. This led to collaboration with the Chinese, which led to the largest human study ever conducted which confirmed Campbell's laboratory conclusions.
The third phase of the book is devoted to other scientific work, which supports the China Study conclusions. Americans on average eat 70 grams of animal protein per day, twice as much as other developed countries and 3 times more than their health need. In order to produce this level of animal protein we are over applying fertilizer and other chemicals many carcinogenic that are being ingested in the food we eat and are in the air we breathe. We are the most obese country in the World with the highest health care cost. We are polluting every river and estuary East of the Rockies with the excess nutrient and the sediment from farm fields mostly to produce animal feed. We are taking unacceptable short cuts in tilled soil management and have lost half our topsoil nationally. Ten billion animals are being abused yearly in CAFOs. To add insult to injury our tax dollars are being used to support the whole mess rather than having addicted consumer's pay the real cost, as we now do with addicted cigarette smokers. Does this make any sense at all?
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Guest Column | March 17, 2017
What Outcomes-Based Contracting Means For Drug Development & Drug Pricing
By Chris Lewis, Decision Resources Group
The mounting public outcry over drug prices — fueled by dramatic increases in cost for a few high-profile, older, life-saving drugs — has put intense pressure on the pharmaceutical industry to lower list prices and curtail price increases or face government controls.
One way the industry is responding is by diverting the national dialogue from price rollbacks to the notion of pay-for-value, which represents an area of common ground among healthcare policy stakeholders. The strategy aligns with healthcare payers' focus on the total cost of care of their members and the pursuit of high-quality care — goals driven home by Medicare reforms that emphasize quality measurement and paying for value instead of volume.
The value discussion has intensified as drug development has shifted from primary care drugs to oncolytics and expensive specialty drugs, pressuring health plan pharmacy budgets. Health insurers and other healthcare purchasers are increasingly reluctant to pay for drugs that don't work. That has led payers to experiment with outcomes-based contracts (OBCs) that hold pharmaceutical companies responsible for their products' real-world performance.
Some of the most high-profile drugs to hit the market the past couple of years — including the cholesterol-lowering PCSK9 inhibitor Repatha and the hepatitis C drug Viekira Pak — have become the subject of OBCs. In February, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, a Massachusetts-based health plan that had already inked a contract with Amgen on Repatha, announced another contract with Amgen for its rheumatoid arthritis drug Enbrel, which is facing impending competition from a biosimilar. The contract will tie the health plan's payment for Enbrel to an effectiveness algorithm driven by six criteria, including patient compliance, switching or adding drugs, dose escalation, and steroid interventions.
The stars appear to be politically aligning to drive further growth of the pay-for-value trend. While the Trump administration has proclaimed a get-tough stance on drug pricing, it has also signaled its willingness to tackle the regulatory impediments that payers and drug companies say are holding back innovative contracting.
The commonly cited barriers — ranging from Medicaid best-price guarantees to anti-kickback rules to FDA regulations limiting the information manufacturers can share with payers — as well as the administrative difficulties of data sharing and collection, may be limiting the reach of risk-based contracting, but not stalling it.
More than one-third of the 40 managed care organizations (MCOs) surveyed by Decision Resources Group (DRG) indicated they were involved in OBCs, while another third said they expected to do such contracting in a year.
The increasing pressure for drug manufacturers to back up the value-proposition of their products by assuming financial risk underscores the importance of strategizing early in the drug life cycle about the potential of therapies to deliver positive, cost-effective outcomes outside of a randomized controlled trial setting.
As markets become saturated with efficacious drugs, MCOs are stepping up efforts to weed out "me-too" agents that are not differentiated in a crowded market. Developers whose therapies demonstrate positive outcomes among patients in the real-world setting will fare better in this market-access environment, particularly if the initial drug cost is offset by the downstream cost savings to the payer, such as reduced use of resources.
Payers Are Placing The Call
Our survey of MCO pharmacy and medical directors, conducted in September 2016, indicated that MCOs are taking the lead, more so than pharmaceutical companies, in pursuing OBCs, mostly to save costs, but also to improve outcomes. Such contracting works best for conditions for which drugs can concretely affect outcomes, and for which outcomes are objective and can be tracked and measured to the satisfaction of both parties. The strategy also tends to work best for drugs where high utilization intersects with high cost, as contractors typically need a large amount of data to work with and a drug or condition expensive enough to warrant the additional administrative costs.
One of the more common therapy areas for this type of contracting, as reported by our survey respondents, is cardiology. We chose to study cardiology after Novartis announced OBCs with Cigna and Aetna for its heart failure drug Entresto in early 2016. The drug company's clinical trials showed that Entresto significantly reduced mortality and hospitalizations in heart failure patients with reduced ejection fraction compared to a standard-of-care ACE inhibitor. The contracts put the metrics to test in the insurers' real-world populations. If the drug fails to live up to expectations, insurers get a discount on the drug.
Our study suggests other health plans besides Cigna and Aetna are participating in Novartis' OBC for Entresto, indicating Novartis is confident payers will conclude that its branded drug, at a cost of $13.48 per day (based on wholesale acquisition cost), is worth paying for when other generic therapies are available for pennies per day. The quality of care improves for members, and insurers (and members) save money on expensive hospitalizations.
Show Me The Data
The specific features and results of outcomes-based contracts remain largely unreported publicly, but it's no secret that such contracts are difficult to pull off technically and administratively.
Many of our surveyed MCO directors say pharmaceutical companies can further the conversation on outcomes-based contracting by bringing adequate data to the table, suggesting that studies against comparators are useful. Yet these directors also say the biggest challenge is collecting necessary data and trusting and verifying the integrity of data supplied by the pharmaceutical industry. Another challenge is dedicating resources to the contracting process.
To track drug performance under the contract, MCO directors indicated they mostly rely on patient-level pharmacy claims data, but also medical claims data, which physicians may be asked to report.
While we found more payer participation than we expected in outcomes-based contracting, a high percentage of the cardiologists we surveyed either did not participate in an outcomes-based contract or did not know whether their practice did. But most of the specialists embraced the notion of value-based contracting and expressed a willingness to be a partner to such contracts. The cardiologists who reported participating in OBCs indicated they collect and report data, such as hospital use by their patients, patient compliance with medication regimens, and any drug safety issues that arise.
The Payoff Is Access
OBC contracts vary in their structure. Financial incentives, like rebate credits, are often promised to drug companies that meet contract requirements. Responses from payers indicate that the carrot most often dangled for meeting contracted outcomes is a favorable position on the formulary.
But even before results are determined, a drug is likely to sit in a good spot on the formulary throughout the contract, which typically lasts about two years, according to our respondents. Patients have access to the drug at a lower tier copay, with fewer prescribing restrictions, while the drug's performance is being tested.
This easier access to the drug, likely the result of relaxed prior authorization rules, is cited by our surveyed cardiologists as one of the most important benefits to participating in an outcomes-based contract. Some contracts also encourage physicians to keep patients compliant with medication, which aids in the product's longevity.
Cardiologists also told us they expect results of outcomes-based contracts to be shared with them, and most indicated they would be more willing to prescribe drugs that are demonstrated as clinically superior or cost-effective.
Plan Now For The Future
With the advances of Big Data and the integration of pharmacy and medical claims data, as well as attention on achieving regulatory safeguards, it's safe to assume risk-based contracting will pick up. Companies can start by identifying the competitive landscape for the therapy early on, and by modeling the outcomes that can be tested in real-world patient scenarios to determine how the product will stand up to the rigors of a risk-based contract.
Looking down the road to potential contracts, the manufacturer should consider the key questions that will be part of the discussion:
Does the therapy affect outcomes that are achievable and can be measured and demonstrated to the satisfaction of both parties? For instance, will the drug minimize the occurrence of hospital readmissions?
Can the outcomes be achieved within a two-year period to address payers' concerns that the plan benefits from the drug before their members might switch insurance plans?
Does the manufacturer have the resources to help health plans monitor and report metrics?
What is the acceptable potential upside and downside variance in performance?
What is the potential for running into legal barriers from both the manufacturer's and health plan's legal staffs?
Pharmaceutical companies have been primed to make the economic argument for their products as healthcare decision makers increasingly look to health economics and outcomes research to augment clinical data in their formulary decision making. The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy strongly encourages manufacturers to include comparative effectiveness research studies — based on an active comparator — in their dossier submissions.
The news is good for manufacturers with defensible, differentiated products. They can circumvent the trend toward aggressive rebating the nation's large pharmacy benefit managers has demanded to avoid being excluded from formularies.
As one expert on OBCs recently told me, manufacturers are already aggressively pursuing outcomes-based contracts, and companies that do not consider the potential for such contracting early in the life cycle of their product could get locked out of the market.
Chris Lewis is primary research manager, Global Market Access Insights, for Decision Resources Group. In her decade with the healthcare data and analytics firm, Lewis has authored numerous reports and given numerous presentations analyzing market-access issues affecting the pharmaceutical industry, including health insurance trends in large markets such as California, New York and Pennsylvania. She also authored the company's series of profiles of U.S. pharmacy benefit management. A former journalist, Lewis holds a bachelor of arts in Communications from California State University, Sacramento.


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The following events occurred in November 1925:

November 1, 1925 (Sunday)
17 were killed in a mine explosion near Gelsenkirchen, Germany.
The Buster Keaton film Go West opened.
Died: Lester Cuneo, 37, American actor (suicide)

November 2, 1925 (Monday)
In Australia, 100 police clashed with 1,000 striking seamen on the wharf in Fremantle as the officers tried to board a ship that the strikers were trying to damage; many were injured and 100 arrests were made.
The unidentified body of a young soldier was interred in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Warsaw, Poland.
The operetta Princess Flavia opened on Broadway.

November 3, 1925 (Tuesday)
Alfred Hitchcock's directorial debut film, The Pleasure Garden, was released.
Twenty-one-year-old film actress Constance Bennett married millionaire socialite Philip Morgan Plant in a hotel lobby in Greenwich, Connecticut; she did not make another film until they divorced in 1929.
Died: Lucile McVey, 34 or 35, American actress, part of the husband-and-wife comedy team Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Drew

November 4, 1925 (Wednesday)
Italian Socialist deputy and expert marksman Tito Zaniboni took a hotel room opposite the Palazzo Chigi with the intent of shooting Benito Mussolini with a telescopic rifle when he came out to the balcony to make a speech. Police had been tipped off by an intercepted phone call and stopped the would-be assassin.
the Reform Party led by incumbent Prime Minister Gordon Coates won the New Zealand general election.
Born: Doris Roberts, actress, in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 2016)

November 5, 1925 (Thursday)
The hit war film The Big Parade opened.
Died: Secret agent Sidney Reilly is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.

November 6, 1925 (Friday)
Kliment Voroshilov was appointed as Soviet Union Commisar for Military and Naval Affairs following the death of Mikhail Frunze.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 159.39. This was the 65th record close of the calendar year 1925, a record in itself almost doubling the old mark of 34 set in 1899. The record stood until 1995.
Died: Khải Định, 40, Emperor of Vietnam

November 7, 1925 (Saturday)
Pittsburgh was granted a franchise by the National Hockey League. The club was named the Pirates, after the baseball team also based in the city.
Several Italian opposition leaders were arrested in connection with the assassination attempt on Benito Mussolini.
It was announced that the remains of Manfred von Richthofen, "The Red Baron", would be disinterred from France and repatriated to Germany.

November 8, 1925 (Sunday)
The film The Eagle, starring Rudolph Valentino, was released.
Parliamentary elections were held in Portugal. The Democratic Party won a majority with 83 of the 163 seats.
Died: Domício da Gama, 62, Brazilian journalist and diplomat

November 9, 1925 (Monday)
Forces allied with Wu Peifu inflicted a defeat on Zhang Zuolin after several days of fighting south of Xuzhou.
The Leonard "Kip" Rhinelander divorce trial opened in White Plains, New York. Rhinelander was seeking an annulment of the marriage on the grounds that his wife Alice had failed to inform him of her "colored" blood before the wedding. The trial was a significant media circus event at the time.
The race film Body and Soul was released, directed by Oscar Micheaux and starring Paul Robeson in his film debut.

November 10, 1925 (Tuesday)
The Archbishop of Canterbury appointed a committee of six doctors and six clergymen to investigate the veracity of faith healing.
Born: Richard Burton, actor, in Pontrhydyfen, Wales (d. 1984)

November 11, 1925 (Wednesday)
Howard Carter and an autopsy team began the unwrapping of the mummy of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. The process was exceedingly difficult due to the extreme fragility of the bandages and a resinous coating that held the mummy fast inside the sarcophagus.
Le Faisceau, a French Fascist party, was founded, consisting of about 10,000 members.
Born: Jonathan Winters, comedic actor, in Bellbrook, Ohio (d. 2013)

November 12, 1925 (Thursday)
Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five recorded their first songs together for Okeh Records. These recordings were among the most important and influential to the development of jazz music.
The British submarine  sank with all 69 hands in the English Channel when it was hit by the Swedish ship SS Vidar.
The Italian government agreed to repay its war debt to the United States with a fixed interest rate of 0.4 percent.

November 13, 1925 (Friday)
The Polish Cabinet of Władysław Grabski resigned over the difference of opinion with the banks over how to stabilize the zloty.

November 14, 1925 (Saturday)
The Nationalist Party of Australia won the Australian federal election winning 37 of 75 seats, despite losing the popular vote. This was the first Australian federal election to have compulsory voting.
The first Surrealist art exhibition opened in Paris.

November 15, 1925 (Sunday)
The Republican Party of Agricultural and Smallholder People won parliamentary elections in Czechoslovakia.
About 2,000 German Fascist followers of Erich Ludendorff gathered in front of the Berlin City Palace to protest the Locarno Treaties.
The Cecil B. DeMille-directed film The Road to Yesterday was released.

November 16, 1925 (Monday)
The films The Red Kimona and Stage Struck were released.

November 17, 1925 (Tuesday)
The New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition opened in Dunedin, New Zealand.
A general election was held in Burma. The People's Party received the most votes, but was unable to form a government.
Born: Elizabeth Connell, physician, in Springfield, Massachusetts (d. 2018); Rock Hudson, actor, in Winnetka, Illinois (d. 1985)

November 18, 1925 (Wednesday)
The British House of Commons ratified the Locarno Treaties by a vote of 375 to 13.
Born: Gene Mauch, baseball player and manager, in Salina, Kansas (d. 2005)

November 19, 1925 (Thursday)
President Coolidge called for the United States to join the World Court in an address to the New York State Chamber of Commerce.
The autopsy of Tutankhamun concluded. The bad condition of the body and limited forensic science of the 1920s meant that little could be determined other than the age of the body being estimated to be about eighteen.

November 20, 1925 (Friday)
Aleksander Skrzyński became Prime Minister of Poland.
A state funeral was held for Manfred von Richthofen as his repatriated remains were buried in the Invalidenfriedhof in Berlin. President Paul von Hindenburg led the proceedings.
Born: Kaye Ballard, actress, comedian and singer, in Cleveland, Ohio; Robert F. Kennedy, politician, in Brookline, Massachusetts (d. 1968); Mark Miller, actor, in Houston, Texas
Died: Alexandra of Denmark, 80, Queen consort of the United Kingdom as spouse of Edward VII
Zomersky died on 20 November 1925 in Warsaw.

November 21, 1925 (Saturday)
Lava Beds National Monument was established as a United States National Monument.

November 22, 1925 (Sunday)
Paul Painlevé resigned as Prime Minister of France when a credit moratorium article in his financial plan was defeated in the Chamber of Deputies by three votes.
The forces of Guo Songling began to lay siege to Mukden, the capital of Zhang Zuolin.

November 23, 1925 (Monday)
The most notorious episode in the Kip Rhinelander divorce trial unfolded when Mrs. Rhinelander was taken to the jury room and compelled to partially disrobe in front of the jury to establish that she was indeed "colored" and that Mr. Rhinelander had to have been aware that she was not white.
Born: Maria di Gerlando, operatic soprano singer, in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania (d. 2010)

November 24, 1925 (Tuesday)
The Forrest Theatre (now the Eugene O'Neill Theatre) opened on Broadway.
The Princess Theatre (now The Regal Theatre) opened in Kensington Park, South Australia.
Born: William F. Buckley, Jr., conservative author and commentator, in New York City (d. 2008); Simon van der Meer, physicist and Nobel Prize laureate, in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 2011)

November 25, 1925 (Wednesday)
The film The Phantom of the Opera starring Lon Chaney was released.
Prajadhipok took the throne of Siam upon the death of his brother Vajiravudh.
Died: Vajiravudh, 45, monarch of Siam, at the Grand Palace in Phra Nakhon

November 26, 1925 (Thursday)
Italy promulgated a bill bringing secret societies such as Freemasonry under control of the state and forbidding government employees from belonging to them.
It was reported that the British government had advised Benito Mussolini not to attend the formal signing of the Locarno Treaties in London, as it could not protect him from being insulted in public. The British public was generally displeased by Mussolini's increasingly authoritarian rule, and labor factions were particularly angered over his suppression of Italian trade unions. Diplomat Vittorio Scialoja would be sent as the Italian representative instead.
Born: Eugene Istomin, pianist, in New York City (d. 2003)

November 27, 1925 (Friday)
A state funeral was held at Westminster Abbey in London for Queen mother Alexandra. The kings of England, Denmark, Norway and Belgium marched behind the casket in the procession.
Feng Yuxiang sent a public message to Zhang Zuolin telling him to retire or else he would be attacked.
The jury in the Ossian Sweet trial said it was unable to reach a verdict after 46 hours of deliberation. The judge declared a mistrial and dismissed the jury.
Miriam Noel Wright, wife of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, filed for divorce, alleging desertion and cruelty. It had not previously been known to the public that they were married.
The Reichstag approved the Locarno Treaties.
Born: John Maddox, science writer, in Penllergaer, Wales (d. 2009); Ernie Wise, comedian, in Bramley, Leeds, England (d. 1999)

November 28, 1925 (Saturday)
The government of French Prime Minister Paul Painlevé fell over the failure of Finance Minister Joseph Caillaux to reach a settlement with the United States over French wartime loans.
The Grand Ole Opry was first broadcast, as a one-hour radio "barn dance" on WSM in Nashville, Tennessee.
Queen mother Alexandra was buried in St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle alongside her late husband in a simple ceremony.
In American football, the Army–Navy Game was won by Army, 10 to 3, at the Polo Grounds in New York.

November 29, 1925 (Sunday)
Parliamentary elections were held in Uruguay. The National Party won the most seats of any one party, but various factions of the Colorado Party formed a majority.
The comedy film Clothes Make the Pirate starring Leon Errol and Dorothy Gish was released.

November 30, 1925 (Monday)
The Australian seamen's strike ended after fifteen weeks when Melbourne, the last port to hold out, capitulated.
Religious convents and dervish lodges were closed in Turkey.
A tropical storm struck near Tampa, Florida, becoming the latest hurricane to ever make landfall in the United States.
The film Cobra, starring Rudolph Valentino and Nita Naldi, opened.
Born: William H. Gates, Sr., attorney and father of Bill Gates, in Bremerton, Washington (d. 2020)

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