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Evelyn Ward de Roo offers private and group sound journeys.
Private Sessions
Soundwork As Soulwork can:
- Open up a dialogue with our inner selves that reaches beyond words.
- Help one to feel deeply relaxed, reduce anxiety and muscle tension.
- Allow expression of a range of feelings, issues and memories that may lay hidden within.
- Increase imaginative responses to real life challenges.
- Engage our inquisitive or inventive nature, like a child.
- Cultivate spiritual depth.
- Provide a ritual container to grieve, release our shadow, or express the sacred.
- Help us become less self conscious and self-critical and encourage creative freedom.
- Access and deepen our own inner artistry and self-expression.
- Improve our listening and communication skills.
- Connect us to inner wisdom and compassion.
- Help manage psychological or spiritual challenges during an illness.
- Help manage and transform emotional stress during challenging life transitions. bereavement and palliative care support.
Evelyn uses a variety of vocal sounds and instruments to create a live improvisational soundscape. She employs a wide variety of user-friendly musical instruments from around the world in her sessions and workshops. These include the shruti box, buffalo drum, djembe, didgeridoo, kalimba, Oscar© steel drum, crystal bowls, ocean drum, spring drum, Tibetan bowls, tingshaw, rain sticks, gongs, wooden frogs, rattles, chimes.
Private sound journey sessions are recommended for a client who would like to drop down into an inner journey while being supported by live soundscapes generating a quiet and supportive atmosphere, one filled with peace, calm and comfort.
What to expect during a private soundwork session?
Consider a session as deep meditation, like a "sound" massage or a visioning experience, a sonic tonic that helps you connect deeply and soulfully with your inner, healing resources and which allows you to explore your personal life journey through the presence and beauty of sound. Often you will enter a deep state of awareness during which you may be able to discern key patterns and clues to impact decision-making.
- After a brief 'check in' you lay on a treatment table, close your eyes and be surrounded by a blanket of instrumental and vocal sound.
- You are invited to listen deeply and intentionally.
- Something special happens when a soundwork practitioner interacts with a client, something that doesn't happen when simply listening to recorded music. Firstly, the vibrations are present and fuller and secondly, a practitioner can be responsive to the changing moods of the listener, can adapt to an individual's needs in the moment and, most importantly, can create an atmosphere of loving kindness.
- The music happens around and over you with the sole intent of having you experience a personal and significant response.
- Sessions may take an on active energy if the client decides to move towards vocalizing their unlived passions or drumming up their unrealized power.
- After the session you are invited to debrief either verbally or by journalling.
Common Effects:
- A relaxed state of peace, calm and comfort,
- Decreased anxiety and grief.
- Clients report relief of stress, release of tension, awakened creativity and deep insight. Testimonials
- The latest research indicates that sound vibration helps to synchronize the right and left brain hemispheres producing relaxation responses such as lower heart rate, deep breathing and lower blood pressure.
- Clients report that they feel 'fully present' for the first time in their lives.
Soundwork originated in the ancient healing modalities of tribal cultures. Music and sound have enabled people of all backgrounds to raise awareness and increase wellness throughout recorded history. In its modern context, a sound practitioner engages people in receptive and interactive forms of sound making with the intent of fostering wellness. Soundwork, when it is tethered to meaning and depth, includes soulwork.
"Sometimes sound is the only thing that can open the door and Evelyn knows how to connect sound with spirit and intention to create powerful medicine." B.W.


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National Justice Museum
Based in Nottingham's historic Lace Market, the National Justice Museum is housed in Nottinghamshire's Grade 2 listed old Shire Hall and County Gaol.
The Museum uses original Courtrooms, dungeons and prison cells, along with a number of more contemporary galleries to exhibit collections relating to justice, the law, crime and punishment in a fun and interactive way. When visiting the museum you may also meet a variety of colourful historical characters with different stories of justice to tell.
Venue Type:
Museum, Historic house or home, Heritage site
Please check the website for current and updated opening times
Adult: £10.95
Under 18s: £7.95 (Under 5's go free)
Students: £9.95
Over 60's: £9.95
Family ticket: £32.50 (max.2 adults)
Narrow Marsh: Queen Victoria's Back Yard
Narrow Marsh is a dramatic interpretation of Victorian life where children will be intrigued, excited and surprised. Step inside our Victorian narrative and become one of the characters who lived and worked in Narrow Marsh, exploring the space through interactive activities, drama and role-play.
During your visit your group will become Victorian children discovering clues about their characters, acting out events and scenarios and making choices and decisions along the way. They will use their imagination to create their own experiences of Victorian Nottingham; developing and challenging their understanding of the period.
Contemporary mock trial: Paul's story
A young graffiti artist has been charged with criminal damage. The trial helps young people understand the workings of the Youth Court and the Young Offender's Panel and how crime can affect everyone it touches from the offender, to his family and the victim.
Contemporary mock trial: Scott Green
As a result of a party at his girlfriends Scott finds himself charged with supplying drugs. This Crown Court trial explores the law relating to drugs and so deals with citizenship, personal, social and health issues.
Evening Ghost Tours
Following the success of our overnight ghost investigations we will be holding an evening Ghost Tour on the first Monday of every month. Group bookings are also welcome.
How to obtain
Evening Ghost Tour costs £8.95 per person. Booking is essential. For more information please email Gina Thomson on email@example.com or call 0115 9520555.
Mock trial: Luddites in the dock
It is 1812. Revolutionary new machines are appearing in textile mills all over the North of England. The threat to jobs has led to violent night-time raids by Luddites who fear poverty and unemployment. Daniel Diggle stands charged with attempted murder after his ex-employer was shot and left for dead… Found guilty, was justice done by Diggle or was he set up? What will your jury decide?
Mock trial: Reform Bill Rioters in the Dock
It is 1831. England is in uproar as the Reform Bill riots erupt all over the country. In Nottingham the castle lies in ashes. Reform Bill rioters pack the cells of the gaol and Valentine Marshall stands trial as a ringleader. Guilty! He was transported to Australia. Was justice done or did politics prevail? Will your jury give Marshall a fairer hearing the second time round?
Mock trial: Suffragettes in the Dock
It is March 1914. The Suffragettes have been campaigning for equal rights for women since 1903. Three Suffragettes are charged with inciting a riot after their peaceful protest got out of hand. Found guilty, were they made an example of because of their beliefs or did they get a fair trial? What will your jury do? Be sympathetic to their cause or treat them as a threat to society?
Object handling
Support your visit to Narrow Marsh with an object handling session where pupils can feel, explore and try on a wide selection of objects and items on a crime & punishment theme. Children will develop their skills of historical enquiry and investigation as they engage with our handling collection.
Reform School
Journey back into the 19th century and experience the strict regime of a Victorian Reformatory School. How will your group cope with a lesson with the stony faced Miss Price.
Victorian children mock trial
Was it hunger or greed? Re-enact the trials of real life child criminals in our imposing Victorian Courtroom and decide for yourselves. Pupils will have an insight into the darker side of Victorian society as they take a look through the eyes of judge, jury, victim and accused.
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We believe in transparency and that is why you can get an instant quote for most circumstances itemising the expected and usual costs. The price you are quoted for legal work will be the price you pay unless any non standard legal work is needed during the course of the transaction and for which your authority will be sought prior to any fees being incurred. We would contact you as soon as this became apparent.
The process of forming a binding contract between a seller and a buyer. This is usually performed over the phone between the legal representatives for each party. The legal representatives read the contract together to check they are identical and that the completion date and the terms of the contract are as instructed by the clients prior to agreeing that exchange has taken place. The signed contracts are then sent by post and the deposit for the property is the dealt with as agreed. Both parties are then legally bound to buy or sell the property on the agreed completion date.
No. You do not need to use a local conveyancer. A conveyancer's local knowledge of the area is always something that could prove to be useful and of a benefit to you in your sale, however, conveyancing is very widely done across the country by solicitors/conveyancers for clients as a personal knowledge of the area is not specifically required. Your local conveyancer may still end up not seeing you either.
Your deposit will be due prior to exchange and will be requested by your representative once the transaction is ready.
Once you have instructed us, either online, via email or over the phone, we will send you a Welcome Pack which includes information relating to your sale, purchase or remortgage of the property. Once you have filled in the information required and returned it to us, you will be asked to make an initial payment towards the disbursements and legal fees which will be deducted from your final bill. Full terms and conditions will be included in the welcome pack. Payments can be made by cheque, BACs transfer or over the phone.
The initial payment will be used to cover money laundering checks and to order searches. Your initial payment will be deducted from your final legal bill on completion. See full terms and conditions in your welcome pack.
You do not need to visit our offices in person. We can send all the documentation you need via email or post and discuss any queries you have by email or on the phone.
You can calculate the Stamp Duty amount that you will need to pay by visiting the official website https://www.tax.service.gov.uk/calculate-stamp-duty-land-tax
There are currently different rules if you're buying your first home and you may qualify for a discount or exemption depending on the purchase price of the property and its location.
You pay the tax when you:
• buy a freehold property
• buy a new or existing leasehold
• buy a property through a shared ownership scheme
• are transferred land or property in exchange for payment, e.g.. you take on a mortgage or buy a share in a house
The seller is responsible for the Estate Agent fees and will usually have a contract with the Estate Agent that agrees how the Estate Agent's fees should be settled. Generally most Estate Agent's terms and conditions will stipulate that the seller's conveyancer should make payments directly to the estate agent on completion, but that the liability of a seller to pay the Estate Agent's Fee become due at exchange of contracts
The seller should check the amount invoices to ensure that this has been billed correctly.
As most transactions involve two parties there is a limit to how much influence can be had over the other party. It is important to be realistic about timeframes so you are not disappointed. Completion can take anything from 8-14 weeks from the issue of contracts –much is dependent on the speed of responses from others.
New build purchases often require exchange within 28 days but this is often achieved by the developer providing a full information pack at the start of the process to aid the solicitor.
Whether you are buying or selling a home, you are free to change your mind right up to the point when the contracts are exchanged.
You are not legally bound to an offer you have made or accepted until you and the other party have exchanged contracts.
Please do contact us for a quote for the conveyancing work.
It is worth considering a survey before you purchase a home. The valuation that a mortgage lender will carry out is simply to confirm that the property is worth the amount you are paying and does not give any detail on the condition of the property. A survey will give the reassurance of a detailed view of the condition of the property and identify any areas for concern.
If you are buying a freehold property, the contract is likely to put the risk of damage or destruction of the property to pass to the buyer from the point contracts are exchanged. This is so even if the property is damaged or destroyed between exchange and completion, the buyer must still complete the purchase and therefore buildings insurance must be in place. It is also a term of most mortgages that the details of any insurance policy be produced to us before the mortgage lender's funds can be used to purchase the property.
These are usually the searches of the Local Authority information. Water and Drainage providers and an Environmental search that are carried out to check for any potential developments or issues relating to roads, drains or natural hazards near to the property that may impact its desirability, value or use Further searches may be required depending on the area, such as coal mining or flood searches.
For a registered property the Land Registry keep a digital record of the relevant Property Registers showing who owns a property and any rights or burdens that come with it. In unregistered land the Title Deeds are the original deeds and documents evidencing the ownership of the property now and previous dealings with the land.
A remortgage is the transfer of a mortgage from one lender to another, or from a pre-existing deal to a new deal, provided by your current mortgage provider.
Help to buy shared ownership is a Government scheme that helps those who would struggle to afford the mortgage on 100% of a home to get on the property ladder.
Known as Shared Ownership, this scheme offers you the chance to buy a share of your home (between 25% and 75% of the home value) and then pay rent on the remaining share.
The government bonus is released following the submission of a request to the HTB ISA scheme by your conveyancer. This requires that the HTB ISA account has been closed with the HTB ISA provider in the correct manner and that the closing statement and a declaration by the saver be produced to the Conveyancer for submission to the scheme. You should check with your HTB ISA provider as to their requirements for closure instructions and timescales.
In part. The government bonus contributes towards your overall deposit (sometimes referred to as the 'mortgage deposit') and therefore increases your savings for your first home. When calculating the size of your mortgage, banks, building societies and credit unions will seek evidence of the funds that you have available to put towards your first home. This will include the amount that has been saved into your Help to Buy: ISA account and banks, building societies or credit unions will factor in the amount of the government bonus into their calculation of how much you need to borrow.
Please note that the HTB ISA Bonus itself cannot form part of the deposit payable at exchange (the 5%-10%) under the contract as the bonus must be returned to the scheme if the transaction does not complete.
The answer is different for everyone and can depend on the time you have available, the complexity of the move and the cost.
Moving yourself is likely to be the most cost efficient method of moving in that you can minimise costs by borrowing or hiring a van. But do not underestimate the cost of your time. Would you rather be in there unpacking boxes on your first evening or still driving up and down in a van that you may not be used to driving.
Clients need to provide certified ID at the beginning of the conveyancing process to meet with Money Laundering Regulations. It will also reduce the risk of fraud. To certify a document you need to get a true copy of your original ID signed and dated by a professional person, such as a Conveyancer. For more information, click here.
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Lesson: Data and Diabetes
All of us hear about risk factors for disease and all of us undergo medical screening tests. This lesson uses data from the National Health and Nutrition Evaluation Survey (NHANES) to illustrate how a screening test can be constructed. Link to lesson document.
The lesson can be used for all audiences to introduce and work with proportions and cross-validation. All the computer commands are complete. The lesson provides several opportunities for students to make simple changes to the commands (e.g. changing a numerical threshold) to observe how the performance of the screening test will change.
The lesson introduces some vocabulary of medical screening tests and relates that vocabulary to specific proportions in the cross validation.
NOTE: THIS IS A DRAFT PROTOTYPE OF A LESSON POSTING, written to help us at StatPREP consider how best to structure these things. The contents of this post are correct, and you're welcome to use the lesson, but things may change!
Discussion questions
For health sciences students and others interested in medical screening, the lesson provides opportunities to go into more depth.
- What is the point of matching cases and controls? Can you see in the first few rows of the table which are the cases and which the corresponding controls? For one of the rows that doesn't appear to have a matched case/control pair, scroll down through the list to find the row of the match.
Matched case/control studies are common when the people with the disease are sampled in some setting where the disease prevalence is high, for instance in a medical clinic. This makes it possible to do studies even with diseases, unlike diabetes, where the prevalence is very low.
- What is the prevalence of diabetes in the matched sampling data? Is this the same as in the
Completedata set?
In the matched sampling data, the prevalence is 50%. That's simply because half the rows are people with diabetes and the others are people without diabetes. In the
Complete data set, there are many fewer people with diabetes than not.
Unless we know that the
Complete data set is representative of the population (e.g. because it was created by random sampling), there's no way to know whether the prevalence in
Complete is itself representative of the population.
To do the prevalence calculation, you can use a statement like the following in any of the computation windows in the lesson.
Matched %>%
df_props( ~ diabetes)
- What is the "right" balance between false-positive and false-negative rates? Does it depend on the disease? How so?
- Building on the previous question, why isn't best a simple matter of making the accuracy as high as possible?
- The data table
Completehas many more cases in it. Compare the accuracy you get when evaluating a test on the
Matcheddata and on the
Completedata. When you use the same threshold throughout do you get the same accuracy on the two data sets? Are they even similar? What does the prevalence have to do with it?
- Now do the same but with the sensitivity as the measure of the test's performance. Are the sensitivities as estimated from
Matchedand from
Completesimilar to one another?
- Show, if you like, how to compute the accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity by hand from the table of counts.
- Discuss sensitivity and specificity of mammography. Lead up to an important question for helping patients understand the results of such tests: If the test result is positive, what is the probability that the patient has the disease?
- Are different screening tests appropriate for the different sexes or races or ages? What would you look for in the sensitivity and specificity or prevalence to see that this might be so?
Engaging Statistical practice
In the traditional statistics curriculum, the cross tabulation might be used to illustrate the chi-squared test or the difference between two proportions.
Statistical techniques more aligned with contemporary practice focus on ratios and confidence intervals on those ratios rather than on differences in proportions: risk ratios, odds ratios, and confidence intervals on these ratios.
Related lessons
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Prospective lessons
This section is mainly intended for the developers of lessons and points to topics that can be covered with the same data.
- Risk ratios
- Odds ratios
- Bayesian inversion, e.g. given a positive test, what's the probability of that a patient has the disease.
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Lincoln MKC Concept: Fresh, Functional, Appealing, & Possibly Real
The present day showroom for The Lincoln Motor Company is, by and large, like the man for whom the company is named: Old. Dead.
That is, the company's lineup (previous-gen MKZ, MKS, Town Car, MKX, MKT, and Navigator) sold a combined 82,150 units in 2012, which is 4.1% fewer than were sold in 2011. And as we all know, the total market was up in 2012, not down.
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While that 82,150 number may not mean much, to put it in context: Ford sold 82,995 Mustangs in 2012.
And to put that number in relation to what Lincoln management considers to be the brand's competitive set, the members of that set had the following sales in 2012:
- Mercedes: 295,013
- Lexus: 244,166
- Cadillac: 149,782
- Audi: 139,310
But like the film Lincoln, which has garnered more Academy Award nominations than any other movie of 2012, the new MKZ is getting a number of accolades for its fresh, contemporary styling and its clever use of technology, from its 15.2-square-foot retractable panoramic roof to its pushbutton gear selector.
So there's life. Vitality.
The people at Lincoln know that in order to get back in the game, to be considered by the luxury market, it is going to have to continue to build upon the MKZ, so the company has announced that it is going to be rolling out four products in four years (starting with the MKZ).
Next on the docket is presumably the MKC, which is presently in concept status. And while people at the company are mum regarding how close the MKC Concept will be to the production car—in fact they don't even acknowledge that there will be a production version of the MKC Concept—if one were to make the appropriate comparison. . . Kate Pearce of Lincoln marketing points out that there isn't a whole lot of difference between the MKZ Concept revealed at the 2012 North American International Auto Show and the 2013 MKZ that was on the road before 2012 was out.
MKZ Concept
MKZ reality
So given that it is showing the MKC Concept at the 2013 North American International Auto Show, and given that it needs another vehicle to maintain its announced cadence, one probably doesn't need the powers of the Amazing Kreskin to figure out what's likely to be what.
MKC Concept
The MKC Concept is segmented in the "small luxury utility" part of the market that Pearce says is "the fastest growing segment in the industry": up 200% during the past five years; up 60% in 2012; accounting for 11% of the current auto market overall; representing 25% of the luxury segment. It's the market of the BMW X3, the Mercedes GLK, and Audi Q5, for example.
So if you're going to reestablish your brand, then going to a place where the trajectory is going up is a good plan.
Note the cutline for the hatch is on the rear quarter, not vertically down the back
Murat Gueler, MKC Concept lead exterior designer, repeats a word that seems to characterize what they're trying to achieve through the design: simple. But he hastens to point out that "Simple can become boring and plain." That's not what they're trying to achieve. Rather, they're eschewing garish adornments, and going with more of a classic approach. In the context of, say, fashion design, think Tom Ford-meets-Donna Karan.
There's careful detailing around the foglamp cutouts
"The lines of the vehicle appear relatively simple on first look, but with a second view reveal a dynamic three dimensionality," Gueler says. Another term he uses: "dynamic sculpture." But while there are subtle lines and forms, this is a vehicle that people actually need to sit in, so he points out that even with the sweeping roofline, there is good headroom for the two rear passengers.
Another aspect of the design is secondary echoing of elements. That is, the grille form is echoed at the back of the vehicle in the tail lamps, and even the instrument panel picks up on that front face.
Note the shape of the metallic trim swooping down from the HVAC vent
Inside, Soo Kang, Lincoln interior design chief, says, "The goal was to create a clean spaciousness and daring presence." This is achieved not only through the architecture of elements like the broad instrument panel and the implied flow-through from the instrument panel to the center console, but through the selection of fabrics and leather and detailing like the contrasting stitching, even down to creating a wood laminate with metallic flakes for trim. And as Gueler and his team created echoes on the exterior, on the interior there are small discoverable touches, such as the use of the rectangular shape that is used for the Lincoln logo on the seating surfaces as well as on the floor mats (it is done in such a way that in the case of the seats, the rectangles are obvious but what they are is not necessarily readily apparent, resulting in the potential for an "ah-ha!" moment; in the case of the floor mats, you have to look hard to see them, but they're there).
The seats seem to float through the use of a dark trim material covering the tracks
Even if the segment wasn't growing, it is more than likely that the MKC Concept could represent a wildly successful entry into the small lux ute marketplace. And the management of Lincoln is probably betting that will be the case.
Probably. Remember: this is the MKC Concept.
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