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Bee Hive Mystery Cache

Hidden : 1/1/2011
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Gratefull thanks to Deon for artwork.
The cache is not located at these co-ordinates. This is a puzzle cache.

Retrieval may be hampered by the presence of Business Practitioners and enthusiastic Security personal.

Please bring your own pen.

S 29 51.225 E 30 55.132

For the many people that work in the world of business, compounds such as this one have become home. In fact the internal structures tend to reflect the society of their insect equivalents – the illustrious bee. Flocks of folk spend most of their awake time based within this and similar hives. The similarity does not end there.


You get three classes of bees – queen, nurse, and worker. Observing the functional layers of the business hive, these broad groupings stand out. Naturally the bosses\ managers\ executives\ queens are at the head of the triangular structure.

Even although everyone considers themselves a working body, there are distinct thresholds between the workers and the others.

Support activities or services tend to perform functions that perpetuate the hive structure. In the bee hive these roles are carried out by the nurse drones. X ray, or 20 twenty vision, would support this seemingly critical function. Only noticeable to an outsider, to the occupants of a business hive each and every task is critical.

Never forget that it is a business paradigm, where every efficiency must be valued in money to the maximum.


Eventually there will be attrition. The boss will move on, the worker will aspire to a support service, the telephonist will be demoted - these shifts in position – both within and across entities, occur frequently and unnoticed. When such a migration is highlighted, the explanation usually supports the business imperative of such an entity. Only when such notice spills out of the hive, and affects the surrounding community, only then is a strategic decision made.

Fear of reducing the yield is behind any strategic choice taken. Impact on the profit is the mantra of every entity.


For the thousands of entities in this and similar hives throughout the connected world, this mantra is sacrosanct. The guiding premise behind any decision. Yesterday is used as the benchmark to improve upon. For if it is not growing, it is dead.
Once the increasing yield is threatened, the methods of achieving such yield are examined.
Unproductive tasks are disregarded. Restructuring, redundancy, retrenchment, renew – all the re- vocabs are re-born. This happens often.

When one considers that 'greater' requires an unknown progression. Obviously an unknown cannot be quantified or improveed upon.

For the practitioners of business, this implies that growth must be rejected. Isolate the unknown and make the known more yielding. Very few exceptions to this occur. Effort is placed in the core strength of the entity.

New products and methods are replaced by their original successes. In some instances the return to the starting blocks is the only option available. Net returns must improve is the explanation given for the return to the genesis of the entity.

Everywhere this holds true, even for this puzzle cache!


Name Low Hight P:E Vol Trades Share Lst Mth Yld 1yr Yld 2yr Yld 3yr Yld 5yr Yld
MUS 300 600 1.358 6500 17 950,000 -0.86 -0.17 0.03 1.01 1.40
AVT 1379 1381 1.8 240 1 160,000 0.94 -0.33 0.8 1.97 1.03
CMH 1300 1380 5.83 - - 7,500,000 1.02 -0.23 -0.02 0.94 -0.81
AME - - 14.1 - - 2,000,000 NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE
JAS 79 80 10.7 6,000 3 100,000 1.67 0.17 1.07 1.02 0.3
WOL 8495 8695 1.1 950 13 1,300,500 1.35 0.63 1.45 0.82 -0.65
QTM 297 299 10.3 8600 153 285,000 NOTE 1.3 1.65 1.24 0.43
RMB 6050 6176 8.8 7010 312 50,000 0.9 -0.27 NOTE NOTE NOTE
IVP 1367 1499 17.5 200 1 1,600,000 -0.02 -0.1 1.02 1.0 1.3
LON - - S - 0 800,000 SUSP SUSP SUSP SUSP SUSP
Name Low Hight P:E Vol Trades Share Lst Mth Yld 1yr Yld 2yr Yld 3yr Yld 5yr Yld
MTC 300 600 1.358 6500 17 675,000 1.3 1.1 0.29 0.3 0.03
BEL 1100 1101 12.4 100 1 1,500,000 1.03 NOTE 1.2 1.29 -0.2
IPC 1380 1400 7.8 1380 3 40,000 3.1 1.45 1.5 1.01 0.7
RHF 700 720 0.2 200 1 240.000 0.45 0.52 0.9 1.03 1.3
ABI 1432 1925 13.8 38,000 780 4,000,000 -0,45 0,2 1,79 2,3 7,92
SEN - - S - 0 230,000 SUSP SUSP SUSP SUSP SUSP
MTN 14210 14800 19.0 1110 76 2,500,000 0.1 1.32 -0.15 1.98 -1.02
BVT 33920 37250 17.0 2159 873 6,500,000 -0.38 0.51 -1.12 NOTE NOTE
POR 5449 5495 12.2 68 2 780,000 -0.83 -0.13 -O.73 1.29 0.1
BNH 27750 30872 37.6 38 1 760,000 0.68 -0.35 -1.07 NOTE NOTE




Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Chmmyr: Abg jung vg frrzf; fgneg jvgu gur raq va fvtug. Pnpur: Orlbaq gur onex gur ovgr vf ebpx fbyvq.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)