Page 2 RAIN Ii~: - ·~~-;:-~:;.;_~=~-_--~~-~"-:;-:=.~-i· / ~ RAINaccess The Rainbow Book, edited by F. Lanier Graham, revised January 1979, 208 pp., $6.95 from: Vintage Books 201 E. 50th St. New York, NY 10022 In 1975 living in the S.F. Bay Area was colored by a prismatic wave of interest and celebration of the RAINBOW. The Rainbow Show was a year-long celebration culminating with a show and publication of The Rainbow Book. Childrcn's rainbow art colored the walls of many museums and parks in San Francisco along with the textile, fine and graphic arts in exploration of the sensitivc and elusive qualities of light and color that embody rainbows. The original book published with the show was printed in six colors of paper in rainbow sequence and is out of print. This revised edition, although lacking the magcnta that I loved, is much easier to read on white paper. Music and color relationships, myths, poems, and rainbow folklore, visual perception and the physics of the spectrum, metaphysics of the spectrum-auras, the rainbows around our bodies-are explored. Fascinating and visually delightful! - LS ...---------, How the year has flown! It's time again for the Annual Equinox Gathering, a coming together of friends in the Northwest to share ideas, touch bases, renew spirits and spring off for more regional work in the coming year. Spring is a time of beginnings, and last year's gathering saw the beginnings of some wonderful things. Hope to see and meet lots of you Northwest RAINfriends at this one, held at Vashon Island, Washington, near Seattle. Networking workshops Friday; educational and organizational workshops Saturday; Sunday is focused on localities, communities. Pre-registration by April 5 is $25 for 3 days, $19 for 2 days. Registration at the site is $30, and $23, respectively. Contact CAREL, Box 1492, Eugene, Oregon, 97440, 503/485-0366 -LS IRAIN's office is at 2270 N.W. Irving, Portland, OR 97210. Ph : (503) 227-5110. RAIN Phil Conti Linda Sawaya Yale Lansky Pauline Deppen STAFF: Steven Ames Lane deMoll Tom Bender Jeff Paine \copyright © 1979 RAIN Umbrella Inc. C()nrributing Edit~r: Lee Johnson Typesetting: Irish Setter Print·ing: Times Litho Goods and Merchandise, 1978, 128 pp., $7.95, and Compendium, 1976, 397 pp., $14.95 from: Hart Picture Archives Hart Publishing Company 12 E. 12th Street New York, NY 10003 Friends working on publications always seem to call Rain, asking about our wonderful sources for graphics. Here are two great new acquisitions to our graphics library that have made me unusually anxious to layout this issue. Priced slightly higher and on slicker paper than our old standby Dover Pictorial Archives (see Rain , December 1976), these two volumes will add new flavor to Rain. Hope you enjoy this issue and this new find' - LS Smoke Detector Update More than four million ionization smoke detectors have already been purchased and nine million are flooding the market annually. In response to the environmental and health dangers they present, a citizens' organization in Barrington, Illinois, has submitted a resolution to its town board requesting a ban on the sale and use of radioactive ionization smoke detectors. The photoelectric detector is being recommended as a safe alternative (see Rain, Dec. '78, p. 21 for a list of manufacturers selling the photoelectric model). The group, Pollution and Environmental Problems, Inc., has also distributed press releases warning of the potential short and long term health hazards. Americium 241, the radioactive element, is an internal radiation emitter and affects human health when it is inhaled or ingested. It is capable of vaporizing in fire or dissolving into water where it enters the food chain as drinking water, plants, fish , etc. Cancer of the liver and bone have been connected to the ingestion of Americium. Activity to ban the ionization detectors is also occurring on the state and national levels. Several state representatives in Oregon are now attempting to amend a bill requiring mandatory installation of smoke detectors, to include a ban on the radioactive units. For information on the town resolution, contact Catherine Quigg, Pollution & Environmental Problems, Inc., Box 309, Palatine, JD 60067,31213816695. For copies of the press releases
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