Dreaming in the Rain

Dreaming in the Rain
Author: David Spaner
Publisher: arsenal pulp press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2004-09-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1551523051

Vancouver is now North America’s third largest center for film and television production, recently witnessing the filming of Halle Berry’s Catwoman and Will Smith’s I, Robot, among others. But Vancouver has been hosting filmmakers for years, coming into its own in the early 1970s when Robert Altman, Warren Beatty and Julie Christie made McCabe and Mrs. Miller and Mike Nichols, Jack Nicholson and Candice Bergen filmed Carnal Knowlege. Dreaming in the Rain tells the story of how Vancouver became North by Northwest, from its early days as a Hollywood studio backlot to its becoming home to a vibrant indigenous scene that is among the most acclaimed, provocative, independent filmmaking communities anywhere. But with Hollywood’s growing concern over “runaway” productions, Vancouver’s growing filmmaking scene is wrought with controversy. The city’s American-based film industry is powerful enough to inspire loathing and threats from Hollywood. Along with tracing the art and commerce of Vancouver filmmaking, Vancouver Province movie critic David Spaner brings to life the flamboyant film personalities who left their marks. From visitors like Errol Flynn and Robert Altman, to local heroes such as The Matrix’s Carrie Anne Moss, who grew up in Vancouver, and Kissed star Molly Parker and director Lynne Stopkewich, vital players in the groundbreaking Vancouver indie scene. Includes more than 40 black and white photographs. “. . . [Spaner] has . . . scrupulous attention to detail and an obvious curiosity and passion for both Vancouver and its film industry.”—Entertainment Today David Spaner is a movie critic for the Vancouver Province.

Mary Summer Rain on Dreams

Mary Summer Rain on Dreams
Author: Mary Summer Rain
Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing Company Incorporated
Total Pages: 590
Release: 1996
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9781571740427

For years readers have written to Mary Summer Rain requesting interpretations of their dreams. In both Earthway and Daybreak, she addressed this need, adding a short list of interpreted dream symbols. Here, Mary Summer Rain and Alex Greystone present a reference guide to over 20,000 dream symbols alongside succint, easy-to-understand interpretations. Mary shares her insight into the world of spirit, giving the reader an interpretive tool to help in their own transformative journeys.

Dreams That Can Save Your Life

Dreams That Can Save Your Life
Author: Larry Burk
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2018-04-17
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1844097560

An exploration of dreams as a spiritual source of healing and inner guidance for your health and well-being • 2018 Nautilus Silver Award • Shares stories--confirmed by pathology reports--from subjects in medical research projects whose dreams diagnosed illness and helped heal their lives • Explores medical studies and ongoing research on the diagnostic power of precognitive dreams, including Dr. Burk’s own medical research • Includes an introduction to dream journaling and interpretation techniques Your dreams can provide inner guidance filled with life-saving information. Since ancient Egypt and Greece, people have relied on the art of dreaming to diagnose illness and get answers to personal life challenges. Now, dreams are making a grand reappearance in the medical arena as recent scientific research and medical pathology reports validate the diagnostic abilities of precognitive dreams. Are we stepping back into the future as modern medical tests show dreams can be early warning signs of cancer and other diseases? Showcasing the important role of dreams and their power to detect and heal illness, Dr. Larry Burk and Kathleen O’Keefe-Kanavos share amazing research and true stories of physical and emotional healings triggered by dreams. The authors explore medical studies and ongoing research on the diagnostic power of precognitive dreams, including Dr. Burk’s own research on dreams that come true and can be medically validated. They share detailed stories--all confirmed by pathology reports--from subjects in medical research projects whose dreams diagnosed illness and helped heal their lives, including Kathleen’s own story as a three-time breast cancer survivor whose dreams diagnosed her cancer even when it was missed by her doctors. Alongside these stories of survival and faith, the authors also include an introduction to dream journaling and interpretation, allowing the reader to develop trust in their dreams as a spiritual source of healing and inner guidance.

The Rain in Portugal

The Rain in Portugal
Author: Billy Collins
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2016-10-04
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0399588302

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins comes a twelfth collection of poetry offering over fifty new poems that showcase the generosity, wit, and imaginative play that prompted The Wall Street Journal to call him “America’s favorite poet.” The Rain in Portugal—a title that admits he’s not much of a rhymer—sheds Collins’s ironic light on such subjects as travel and art, cats and dogs, loneliness and love, beauty and death. His tones range from the whimsical—“the dogs of Minneapolis . . . / have no idea they’re in Minneapolis”—to the elegiac in a reaction to the death of Seamus Heaney. A student of the everyday, Collins here contemplates a weather vane, a still life painting, the calendar, and a child lost at a beach. His imaginative fabrications have Shakespeare flying comfortably in first class and Keith Richards supporting the globe on his head. By turns entertaining, engaging, and enlightening, The Rain in Portugal amounts to another chorus of poems from one of the most respected and familiar voices in the world of American poetry. Praise for The Rain in Portugal “Nothing in Billy Collins’s twelfth book . . . is exactly what readers might expect, and that’s the charm of this collection.”—The Washington Post “This new collection shows [Collins] at his finest. . . . Certain to please his large readership and a good place for readers new to Collins to begin.”—Library Journal “Disarmingly playful and wistfully candid.”—Booklist

In Your Dreams

In Your Dreams
Author: Mary Summer Rain
Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing Company
Total Pages: 658
Release: 2005-01
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1571744339

"The updated, revised, and expanded edition of Mary Summer Rain's Guide to Dream Symbols. A quick reference book that explores the power of dreams for personal transformation, the book supplies concise meanings for more than 20,000 dream images"--Provided by publisher.

Dreams and Their Meanings in the Old Arab Tradition

Dreams and Their Meanings in the Old Arab Tradition
Author: Yehia Gouda
Publisher: Booksurge Publishing
Total Pages: 492
Release: 2006
Genre: Arab countries
ISBN:

THE ULTIMATE IN ORIENTAL OCCULT SCIENCES, MYSTERIES AND PSYCHOLOGY-BASED DREAM INTERPRETATION WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON SEX. FIRST ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ITS KIND PREACHING RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE.

Music Similarity and Retrieval

Music Similarity and Retrieval
Author: Peter Knees
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2016-05-28
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3662497220

This book provides a summary of the manifold audio- and web-based approaches to music information retrieval (MIR) research. In contrast to other books dealing solely with music signal processing, it addresses additional cultural and listener-centric aspects and thus provides a more holistic view. Consequently, the text includes methods operating on features extracted directly from the audio signal, as well as methods operating on features extracted from contextual information, either the cultural context of music as represented on the web or the user and usage context of music. Following the prevalent document-centered paradigm of information retrieval, the book addresses models of music similarity that extract computational features to describe an entity that represents music on any level (e.g., song, album, or artist), and methods to calculate the similarity between them. While this perspective and the representations discussed cannot describe all musical dimensions, they enable us to effectively find music of similar qualities by providing abstract summarizations of musical artifacts from different modalities. The text at hand provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the topics of music search, retrieval, and recommendation from an academic perspective. It will not only allow those new to the field to quickly access MIR from an information retrieval point of view but also raise awareness for the developments of the music domain within the greater IR community. In this regard, Part I deals with content-based MIR, in particular the extraction of features from the music signal and similarity calculation for content-based retrieval. Part II subsequently addresses MIR methods that make use of the digitally accessible cultural context of music. Part III addresses methods of collaborative filtering and user-aware and multi-modal retrieval, while Part IV explores current and future applications of music retrieval and recommendation.>