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They Bought a Famous Puzzle in Cryptography. Now They're Opening It Up.
One of the world's most beguiling secrets has a new online life -- under new ownership. Kryptos, a sculpture on the grounds of the Central Intelligence Agency's headquarters in Virginia, contains four encrypted passages in letters cut through its undulating copper form. Since the work's dedication in 1990, amateur and professional cryptographers have unlocked three of those passages, known within the community of Kryptos buffs as K1, K2 and K3.
Anonymous bidder pays nearly $1 million for secret to decode CIA sculpture
A price has been set for one of the biggest secrets kept by the United States’ top spy agency: $962,500. That was the price reached at a Thursday auction of the solution to the last bit of the persistently uncrackable code in the Kryptos sculpture at the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. The company running the sale, RR Auction, said the winning bidder wants to remain anonymous.
Anonymous Bidder Pays Nearly $1 Million for Secret to Decode CIA Sculpture
The Man Yelling 'Iceberg' on the Hollywood Titanic On a Friday night in September, a few days after news broke that David Ellison, the new billionaire owner of Paramount, was preparing a bid fo… NEW YORK -- The scion of the Kennedy family has a skeleton. It lurks in the corner of the living room of his Chelsea apartment, wearing a brow… NEW YORK -- The scion of the Kennedy family has a skeleton.
A CIA Secret Kept for 35 Years Is Found in the Smithsonian's Vault
The sculptor Jim Sanborn opened his email account one day last month expecting the usual messages from people claiming to have solved his famous, decades-old puzzle. kAm$2?3@C?VD 36DE <?@H? 2CEH@C<[ zCJAE@D[ D:ED :? 2 4@FCEJ2C5 2E E96 rxp 9625BF2CE6CD :? ':C8:?:2] p D4F=AEFC6 E92E 6G@<6D 2?5 :?4@CA@C2E6D D64C6ED[ zCJAE@D 5:DA=2JD 7@FC 6?4CJAE65 >6DD286D :? =6EE6CD 4FE E9C@F89 :ED 4FCG:?8 4@AA6C D966E] $:?46 E96 286?4J 565:42E65 :E :?
You can buy one of the CIA’s greatest mysteries at an auction house
Jim Sanborn has kept a big secret for 35 years. Now he’s ready to sell it to the highest bidder. The secret that will be headed to auction later this year: a coded message within Kryptos, a sculpture stationed in a courtyard at the headquarters of the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. The piece, a meditation on secrets in a house of secrets, has fascinated and bedeviled professional and amateur cryptologists since its dedication in 1990.
You Can Buy One of the CIA’s Greatest Mysteries at an Auction House
Jim Sanborn has kept a big secret for 35 years. Now he’s ready to sell it to the highest bidder. The secret that will be headed to auction later this year: a coded message within Kryptos, a sculpture stationed in a courtyard at the headquarters of the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. The piece, a meditation on secrets in a house of secrets, has fascinated and bedeviled professional and amateur cryptologists since its dedication in 1990. kAm%96 >6DD286 :D 4@?E2:?65 :?
More than 1,200 undergrads named to spring President’s, Dean’s Lists
May 20, 2025 Columbus State University has named 1,202 undergraduate students to its Spring 2025 President’s List and Dean’s Lists. This represents more than 21% of all undergraduate students enrolled in the spring. The President’s List represents the pinnacle of academic achievement and recognizes undergraduate students who achieved a minimum 3.80 semester grade point average in at least 12 semester credit hours during the spring.
Letter: A tall distinguished gentleman
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Columbus State announces Fall 2023 President's, Deans' Lists
December 18, 2023 Columbus State University’s Office of the University Registrar has released the names of students appearing on its Fall 2023 President’s List and Deans' List. Together, the lists celebrate 1,126 of the university's top-performing students, or more than 18.5% of this fall’s undergraduate enrollment.
Columbus State announces Spring 2023 President's, Dean's Lists
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Why value-based administration is key to value-based care
After years of uneven adoption, value-based care (VBC) is gaining momentum as providers and payers seek to improve patient outcomes while gaining control of runaway healthcare spending in the U.S. An overwhelming 94% of health system executives expect value-based contracts to continue growing in coming years. Making VBC work, however, requires the ability of healthcare stakeholders to reimburse all participants in a VBC network for their services. And therein lies the challenge.
Industry Voices-An onboarding model for CBOs in value-based contracts
As more payers and providers implement value-based care (VBC), treatment increasingly is shifting to a patient’s home or community setting. For payers, integrating community-based organizations (CBOs) into traditional care networks offers both an opportunity and challenge. The opportunity comes in the form of social determinants of health (SDOH) that CBOs can provide to inform wellness care plans.
Integrating community-based organizations into value-based care networks is easier than you think
By Lynn Carroll and John Schwartz Even the highest-quality medical care cannot overcome all of the factors patients encounter that lead to poorer health outcomes. One highly cited study attributes 81% of outcomes to socioeconomic factors and health behaviors and just 16% to clinical care.
The Incentives, Barriers and Levers for Scale in Social Determinants of Health (SDoH)
HealthIT Answers July 26, 2021 Industry Expert By John Schwartz, Chief Revenue Officer, HSBlox Historically, the U.S. healthcare system has evolved based upon the presence of an “event”, i.e., the need for a visit – planned or impromptu – to a medical provider and/or facility. The inefficiencies, glut of utilization and exponentially rising costs that flow from it as funded by the long-standing “fee-for-service” (FFS) payment methodology have been well chronicled to date.
Scientists Predict Above-Average Atlantic Hurricane Season Amid Virus Crisis
This post was originally posted on NY TIMES US NEWS This year’s season is complicated by the coronavirus pandemic, which makes emergency management practices like group shelters risky.
Coronavirus Real Estate Remote Notarizations
Thursday, May 7, 2020 Real estate transactions in the United States commonly involve the execution and delivery of written instruments that must be notarized to be recorded. The most common of these instruments are deeds and mortgages. The prevailing and traditional method of notarizing an instrument – the physical presence method – requires the person executing an instrument to physically appear before the notary public.
Rethinking Notice Provisions Due to Coronavirus Disease 2019: Permitting Email-Only Notice
Saturday, March 28, 2020 The global pandemic has forced lawyers and their clients to rethink contracts. The most obvious example is force majeure clauses. We are seeing contracts that either allow for a delay in or entirely excuse performance as a result of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) related interruptions. Lawyers and their clients may consider an often-overlooked area of contracts: notice provisions.
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