Page 2 RAIN Dec 1975 RAIN is supported by your subscriptions and a grant from the N.W. Area Foundation, administered through the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. For subscription prices, see subscription blank on next-to-last page. This blank can also be used to send us change of address messages. RA/N's office is at 2270 N.W. Irving, Portland, OR 97210. Phone 503227-5110. RAIN I Full Circle Staff Tom Bender Lane de Moll Lee Johnson Steve Johnson Nancy Lee Anne McLaughlin Mary Wells Typesetting: Irish Setter Printing: Times Li tho Cover Photo: Oregon Historical Society The deadline for material is approximately the 28th of each month. We are selling RAIN through retail outlets. If you have some suggestions, please send them along. Maybe you could distribute in your area? Corrections to last month's RAIN: Joyce Schowalter's address in the letters section should have been P.O. Box 172, Ellensberg, WA 98926. The Family Energy Watch Calendar is available for 75</-, not $2.95, from the Dept. of Energy, 528 Cottage St., N.W., Salem, OR 97310. Corrections to "Northwest Energy Map," p. 17: 1) 0. J. Lougheed is also part of TILTH, Olympia, Washington, working mainly with Mark Musick on the research, writing and editing of the TILTH Newsletter. 2) Bill Kingrey, Carol Costello, Larry Diamond of the Washington State Ener- ,gy Office in Olympia got separated from their address. Oddly enough, even fortuitously, they were placed under Keith Sherman, their new director and one of our hardest workers at the Soap Lake Solar Workshop (see "Connect Pipe Assembly" photo, pg. 12). 3) Bob Benson, a local cartographer, •did the excellent map, which we will also use to display other networks. RAIN DROPS WHY THERE IS FREE RAIN SOMETIMES If you have no idea why this copy of RAIN came to you in the mail, what probably happened is that a friend sent us your name and asked that we send you a couple of copies. Since any friend of theirs is a friend of ours, here's your sample RAIN. (Hint: There's a subscription blank inside the back cover.) If, on the other hand, you expected RAIN to come to you free for the asking, you would have been right last year. We then had support money from HEW as RAIN was a part of Portland State University's Environmental Education Center. The EEC exists no more, but RAIN does and is struggling to continue. Part of our struggle is charging for subscriptions, while last year RAIN was sent free to anyone who requested it. So, if you wrote asking to be put on our free mailing list, we're sending you this copy as a sample and asking that you subscribe if you'd like to stay on the list. WHAT ABOUT BACK ISSUES? For you who are wondering what past issues exist and how to get them, RAIN's first volume consisted of Issues 1-9, plus a four-page flyer. We are out of issues 1-6, except for a couple of precious copies. We use these copies as masters ~· Natural Sounds Primitive 69% Cultures Medieval, Renaissance and 34% Pre-Industrial Cultures Post-Industrial 9% Cultures Today 6% when someone wants an excerpt badly enough to pay 25¢/page for us to copy and mail it. Issues 7, 8 and 9 are available at 75¢ apiece. The yellow flyer is just about gone. (It was a reminder to subscribe and noted our change of address to Irving Street from PSU. It didn't really include any of RA/N's usual meaty stuff.) Last year's RAINs between February and June were wrapped around some essay-suggestionhow-to sheets called Roughdrafts. These were 4-6 pages, each on a particular topic. Here are what they were about and what they would cost you (again at 25¢/page) if you'd like some. No. 1, Brainstorming ($1) No. 2, Funding ($1.25) No. 3, Centers ($1.25) No. 4, Networking ($1) No. 5, Creative Instability ($1.50) We're now into Volume II, consisting of Issue No. 1 for September/October, Issue No. 2 for November, and the one you 're reading. They're all available WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU MOVE Let us know ahead of time, or else you lose a copy of RAIN and RAIN loses 10¢, and maybe a copy of RAIN too. Last month's issue explains why, if you'd like to know. The Post Office eats them is the short version of the explanation. Human Sounds The Sounds of Tools and Technology 26% 5% 52% 14% 25% 66% 26% 68% 4. The table shows the increase in technological sounds and the decrease in natural sounds throughout human history. It is based on the study of many accounts in art, literature and anthropology of the kinds of sounds heard during d°ifferent historical periods.
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