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Cherry Bee, Inc - REA Diagram

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CHERRY BEE, INC.

Cherrt Bee, Inc., is a small beekeeping operation located in Preston, Idaho. Each spring Marc, the owner, hires several beekeepers to manage and care for the hives owned by Cherry Bee. Marc pays these hive workers weekly during the spring, summer, and fall.

Marc purchases new supplies and materials for hive workers to use. The beekeepers go to the fields to check each hive, medicate each hive, clean any dead bees out of the hive, and add sugar water if the supply of honey in the hive is low.

Modern Manufacturing Process

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Traditional and Modern Cigarette Production System

25 "Worst Passwords" of 2011 Revealed

If you see your password below, STOP!

Do not finish reading this post and immediately go change your password -- before you forget. You will probably make changes in several places since passwords tend to be reused for multiple accounts.
Here are two lists, the first compiled by SplashData:

Halloween

Halloween (or Hallowe'en), a contraction of All-Hallows-Even ("evening"), is an annual holiday observed on October 31, which commonly includes activities such as trick-or-treating, attending costume parties, carving jack-o'-lanterns, bonfires, apple bobbing, visiting haunted attractions, playing pranks, telling scary stories, and watching horror films.

Halloween - History

Historian Nicholas Rogers, exploring the origins of Halloween, notes that while "some folklorists have detected its origins in the Roman feast of Pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds, or in the festival of the dead called Parentalia, it is more typically linked to the Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-an or sow-in)", derived from the Old Irish Samuin meaning "summer's end". Samhain was the first and by far the most important of the four quarter days in the medieval Irish calendar and, falling on the last day of Autumn, it was a time for stock-taking and preparation for the cold winter months ahead. There was also a sense that this was the time of year when the physical and supernatural worlds were closest and magical things could happen. To ward off these spirits, the Irish built huge, symbolically regenerative bonfires and invoked the help of the gods through animal and perhaps even human sacrifice.

Halloween - Symbols

Development of artifacts and symbols associated with Halloween formed over time. For instance, the carving of jack-o'-lanterns springs from the souling custom of carving turnips into lanterns as a way of remembering the souls held in purgatory. The turnip has traditionally been used in Ireland and Scotland at Halloween, but immigrants to North America used the native pumpkin, which are both readily available and much larger – making them easier to carve than turnips. The American tradition of carving pumpkins is recorded in 1837 and was originally associated with harvest time in general, not becoming specifically associated with Halloween until the mid-to-late 19th century.

Halloween - Trick-or-treating and guising

Trick-or-treating is a customary celebration for children on Halloween. Children go in costume from house to house, asking for treats such as candy or sometimes money, with the question, "Trick or treat?" The word "trick" refers to a (mostly idle) "threat" to perform mischief on the homeowners or their property if no treat is given. In some parts of Scotland children still go guising. In this custom the child performs some sort of trick, i.e. sings a song or tells a ghost story, to earn their treats.

Halloween - Costumes

Halloween costumes are traditionally modeled after supernatural figures such as monsters, ghosts, skeletons, witches, and devils. Over time, the costume selection extended to include popular characters from fiction, celebrities, and generic archetypes such as ninjas and princesses.

Dressing up in costumes and going "guising" was prevalent in Scotland at Halloween by the late 19th century. Costuming became popular for Halloween parties in the US in the early 20th century, as often for adults as for children. The first mass-produced Halloween costumes appeared in stores in the 1930s when trick-or-treating was becoming popular in the United States.

Halloween costume parties generally fall on, or around, 31 October, often falling on the Friday or Saturday prior to Halloween.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween

Halloween - Games and other activities

There are several games traditionally associated with Halloween parties. One common game is dunking or apple bobbing, in which apples float in a tub or a large basin of water and the participants must use their teeth to remove an apple from the basin. A variant of dunking involves kneeling on a chair, holding a fork between the teeth and trying to drop the fork into an apple. Another common game involves hanging up treacle or syrup-coated scones by strings; these must be eaten without using hands while they remain attached to the string, an activity that inevitably leads to a very sticky face.

Halloween - Haunted attractions

Haunted attractions are entertainment venues designed to thrill and scare patrons. Most attractions are seasonal Halloween businesses. Origins of these paid scare venues are difficult to pinpoint, but it is generally accepted that they were first commonly used by the Junior Chamber International (Jaycees) for fundraising. They include haunted houses, corn mazes, and hayrides, and the level of sophistication of the effects has risen as the industry has grown. Haunted attractions in the United States bring in an estimate $300–500 million each year, and draw some 400,000 customers, although press sources writing in 2005 speculated that the industry had reached its peak at that time. This maturing and growth within the industry has led to more technically-advanced special effects and costuming, comparable with that of Hollywood films.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween

Halloween - Foods

Because the holiday comes in the wake of the annual apple harvest, candy apples (known as toffee apples outside North America), caramel or taffy apples are common Halloween treats made by rolling whole apples in a sticky sugar syrup, sometimes followed by rolling them in nuts.

Halloween - Around the world

Halloween is not celebrated in all countries and regions of the world, and among those that do the traditions and importance of the celebration vary significantly. In Scotland and Ireland, traditional Halloween customs include children dressing up in costume going "guising", holding parties, while other practices in Ireland include lighting bonfires, and having firework displays. Mass transatlantic immigration in the 19th century popularized Halloween in North America, and celebration in the United States and Canada has had a significant impact on how the event is observed in other nations. This larger North American influence, particularly in iconic and commercial elements, has extended to places such as South America, Australia, New Zealand, continental Europe, Japan, and other parts of East Asia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween

Halloween - Religious perspectives

Christianity

Christian attitudes towards Halloween are diverse. In the Anglican Church, some dioceses have chosen to emphasize the Christian traditions of All Saints' Day, while some other Protestants celebrate the holiday as Reformation Day, a day to remember the Protestant Reformation. Father Gabriele Amorth, a Vatican-appointed exorcist in Rome, has said, "if English and American children like to dress up as witches and devils on one night of the year that is not a problem. If it is just a game, there is no harm in that." In more recent years, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston has organized a "Saint Fest" on the holiday. Similarly, many contemporary Protestant churches view Halloween as a fun event for children, holding events in their churches where children and their parents can dress up, play games, and get candy for free.

How Search Engines Work

The term "search engine" is often used generically to describe both crawler-based search engines and human-powered directories. These two types of search engines gather their listings in radically different ways.

Crawler-Based Search Engines

Crawler-based search engines, such as Google, create their listings automatically. They "crawl" or "spider" the web, then people search through what they have found.

If you change your web pages, crawler-based search engines eventually find these changes, and that can affect how you are listed. Page titles, body copy and other elements all play a role.

The word "she"

Did you know...
...that before the year 1000, the word "she" did not exist in the English language? The singular female reference was the word "heo", which also was the plural of all genders.

The word "she" appeared only in the 12th century, about 400 years after English began to take form. "She" probably derived from the Old English feminine "seo", the viking word fro feminine reference.

Longest movie in the world

Did you know...
...that the longest movie in the world according to Guinness World of Records is The Cure for Insomnia, directed by John Henry Timmis IV? Released in 1987, the running time is 5220 minutes (87 hours).

Eyes

Did you know...
...that our eyes are always the same size from birth?

Money

Did you know....
...that money notes are not made from paper, but made mostly from a special blend of cotton and linen?

Top 50 Universities in the World Released January 2011 by Webometrics

Here are the top 50 universities in the world according to www.webometrics.info released on january 2011:

1    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2    Harvard University
3    Stanford University
4    University of California Berkeley
5    Cornell University

Deciding When to Change

The decision about when to change is as important as what to change and how much to change. There are several strategies:

- Change when things are going well. Organizations that make this choice are leaders who anticipate pressures on the horizon and make change as a matter of foresight and preparation. Companies that adopt this philosophy truly believe that if they are not routinely changing themselves they risk complacency and stagnation.

What is Business Intelligence?

What is Business Intelligence?

Business Intelligence (BI) is a business management term, which refers to applications and technologies that are used to gather, provide access to, and analyze data and information about company operations.

Business intelligence systems can help companies have a more comprehensive knowledge of the factors affecting their business, such as metrics on sales, production, internal operations, and they can help companies to make better business decisions.

Business Intelligence (BI) is the delivery of accurate, useful information to the appropriate decision makers within the necessary timeframe to support effective decision making.

Six Top Secrets Behind Credit Card

There’s more to you credit card than you might think and some of it your provider is very keen to keep quiet about. Here are six things they don’t want you to know.

Credit card companies, like any business, have a primary function: making money. And that means they'll use every legal trick they can think of to get you signed up and paying them interest.

It also means they're not keen on telling you a lot of things that will bring their profits down and save you money, so we've rounded up six facts that you should know and they probably won't tell you.

The New Business Constant: Change

Organizations should anticipate the need to update their information and business processes in this dynamic business environment. Change in a broad sense is a planned or unplanned response to pressures and forces. The need to change is now the norm. With change comes the challenge of change management.

The Nature of Business Solutions

Many approaches have been advanced to solve business problems with only limited success. Some solutions emphasize the positioning of products and services to capitalize on an organization's strengths and opportunities. Some approaches emphasize stewardship responsibilities by redesigning the organization around self-managing teams. Other approaches recommend new technology and/or systems such as executive information systems (EIS) or Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. Still other approaches try to solve business problems by changing an organization's culture.

Effectiveness vs Efficiency

The leader must discover the "Doing things right is not as important as doing the right thngs." A comparison between the Effective leader and the Efficient one is helpful.