Bill Schell's "BeachWeb" for July 2013

Well, this is the FIFTH of July, 2013. There is NOTHING HAPPENING (yet) - (except it is now the day after "The Fourth" (oh - and if you didn't know that - then you haven't upped your price on the hotel you own!) - - check back in a few days, maybe something spectacular will have happened ?! - bill

this is a 'wheat-field' - and this is why Mr. Bill feels that the USA basically feeds the rest of the world - one sees these fields for literally 100s of miles... - - make sure to scroll right and left with this image... this shot is "panorama shot" (built-in-(Apple) iPhone function)

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these shots are "panorama shot" (built-in-iPhone function) of a valley in middle Washington State - it's even MORE IMPRESSIVE when you come-over-out-of the pass where the road comes down, which is basically far-left in this (bottom of two) images - make sure to scroll right and left with this image...

AND AND AND we found what we "THINK" (silly us) is a field of 'Canola Flowers' - don't beat-up-on-us if we're WRONG (which we can be!)...

This is a 'panorama' shot taken of the 'Berkeley Pit' (no, it's not a cherry-seed from near San Francisco). This is (well was, until it's closing in the early 80s (after nearly 30 years of operation (yeah, how about getting to the POINT!!!))) - it WAS the largest open-pit copper-mine in the USA. Some would say the world, but other countries might get upset...

- anyway - think about these 'facts'...
- 1.) the area of the top of the pit was larger than the town
2.) if over it's life time they removed about 10 billion TONS of rock - where did all that rock GO? - and
3.) NOW it has a LOT of Water in it.. (you can see that in the above image), what are they (whoever "THEY" is?) going to do with ALL THAT WATER?!!?!? (which is something like a ph of 2.5 right now (and yes - things DO LIVE IN IT!?!?!!).

However, it is becoming / has become / will continue to become a 'problem' for a number of organizations... - the SuperFund people, the Arco people, the Anaconda people, the People who live around it (and use the groundwater), and others that live 'down-stream' of the river which it is polluting.

- Another case where when mankind 'did' something (mine and treat copper) they didn't know enough about the 'aftereffects' so that future generations (and even more 'future' generations) will now have to 'clean-up-their-mess' UGH UGH UGH ...

- more facts and figures at: this Wikipedia link - there are a bunch of other sites that also have information, you can search the Internet.

If IF IF you are all interested in 'Intellectual Property' (from a legal viewpoint) you might want to read this: Bayh-Dole_Act

Our August web-page: http://www.vikingasia.org/BeachWeb/BeachWeb2012/Aug12/Aug12.html
Our September web-page: http://www.vikingasia.org/BeachWeb/BeachWeb2012/Sep12/Sep12.html

Mr. Panda-Bear's web-page: http://www.vikingasia.org/BeachWeb/PandaBear/PB.html

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updated: 18:45 p.m. (USA-PDT) Thursday, 10 October 2013; by: Mr._Bill on the Apple Macintosh 'Mac Mini' - revID: 1c