Norwegian Practice
Chris Richard
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In Norway, a national consensus-based guideline used to address thresholds for offering life support at extreme preterm birth was issued in 1998. Since then, therapeutic advances may have changed attitudes and expectations to treatment, both within the medical community and the public, and there are concerns that systematic variations in treatment practices may exist. With this article, we describe current practices and relate them to other ethical and legal comparable areas in health care. We conclude that a revision of the 1998 guideline is warranted to obtain a common understanding of prognoses and appropriate decision processes at the limit of viability.
Norwegian practice is an opportunity to come and practice spoken Norwegian in groups lead by a volunteer. The volunteers are not Norwegian teachers, so this is not a Norwegian language course. You will be placed in a group depending on your level in Norwegian, so that you get to practice with people on the same level as you. This gives you the opportunity to practice what you already know, as well as learning new words and expressions. Every group is lead by a volunteer who speaks Norwegian. Volunteers use pictures, games and exersises to help the group practice their language skills.
Norwegian practice is an activity for everyone above 18 years of age who wishes to practice their Norwegian. You can come to Norwegian practice even if your Norwegian is very limited. You do not have to sign up to join, but we recommend arriving early, and minimum 15 minutes before the practice starts. There are a lot of people who are interested in the activity, and a limited amount of space.
I agree that the best thing to do would be to ask the cruise director staff. There may be a piano available earlier in the day that is not being used by the entertainment staff. I think they would try to accommodate you.
Serious answer: I was on a cruise on the Pearl onetime and as a suites guest, would have breakfast and lunch in Cagney's. One day after lunch I heard the most marvelous classical piano music coming out of the lounge next door, which was not officially open at the time, I poked my head in, and found a passenger there, playing the piano.
After commenting on how much I enjoyed the music, I found out that the passenger came up there every now and then to practice. I don't know if it was with NCL's permission or not, but the lounge was not open, so I assume there was no reason for permission to be denied if it had been requested. As a side note, that lounge on the Pearl (which also used to be Cagney's overflow seating) has since been moved and replaced by Moderno.
Contact Norwegian BEFORE you sail. But you also must realize when you ask a question, you will get either a yes or no. Was the competition a last minute entry or did you book the cruise knowing this was coming up after you returned? Very curious. I'm good friends of a Department Chair at Manhattan School of Music and I know he plans nothing BEFORE a scheduled concert. Between teaching, administrative duties and advising students, time management is no one priority.
I have seen passengers playing piano on other cruise lines - have even seen a child being instructed by an adult - maybe grandmother. It was always in the morning - 8-10 time frame. If you ask before you sail and are told no, just ask again once on board and the answer might be different. Good luck.
I'm kinda in the same boat as you but as a new group exercise instructor, Aug will mark 6 months and the end of my internship. I'm scheduled for a Feb 2nd, 49 day cruise and I asked if I could do free ad hoc classes to keep my skills up. If not I'll just head to the gym, put on my head phones and teach invisible people.
I would just find a piano and start playing. As long as you are good, no one will say anything. My husband is a musician, and we had the entire family on a cruise celebrating his parents 50th wedding anniversary. His Dad had asked my husband to surprise his Mom with their wedding song. We all brought our drinks and gathered around to listen. So did quite a few other people, pretty soon, everyone was throwing out requests and my husband "played" for two hours. No one said, a word except when people recognized him on the ship and asked him where he was playing that night!!! It was a one time show!!!!
My son is a professional musician. He has just bought himself an electric portable piano with weighted key action and pedals, for carrying to gigs. Though he chose one with fewer keys an 88 key model was available. It was a few thousand dollars, but maybe you could hire one for the cruise and practIce with headphones in your cabin?
Thanks for the compliment. Sometimes the truth hurts and the ignorant resort to calling names. But I still don't buy it. I have been around here too long. This thread reminds me of "Can I bring my own mattress." You supposedly are booked on a cruise but never had posted anything on cruise critic. As someone already pointed out who knows someone who competes they don't go anywhere and practice so much the week before the competition. The pianos on the cruise ships are for their entertainers. They are not going to let anyone touch them or play them. They are tuned professionally. Do you think they will let me play their guitars if I was playing in a competition? Of course not. None of this makes sense and to add its someone who just created a cruise critic account. If you were really concerned about your piano competition you would not book a vacation the week before. Any competition either swimming, dancing, piano, you practice the week before. You don't go on vacation. You would stay home and practice and not try to bring a piano or find a piano on a cruise ship. This is so silly I cant even believe I am typing these words. What next? I'm in a jazz concert recording, do you think one of the jazz performers on the ship will allow me to practice their trumpet in my cabin for awhile :rolleyes::rolleyes:
If you book a Garden Villa you can have a piano all to yourself. As Judge Judy says....if it does not make sense, its not true. None of this makes sense and a concert pianist would know other professional pianists who are paid to perform are not going to let anyone play their piano. This forum always gets these kinds of threads of ridiculous requests from 1st post members and then poof they are gone. Not falling for it.
General practitioners (GPs) play a key role in securing and coordinating appropriate use of healthcare services, by providing primary and preventive healthcare and by acting as gatekeepers for secondary healthcare services. Historically, European GPs have reported high job satisfaction, attributed to high autonomy and good compatibility with family life. However, a trend of increasing workload in general practice has been seen in several European countries, including Norway, leading to recruitment problems and concerns about the well-being of both GPs and patients. This qualitative interview study with GPs and their co-workers aims to explore how they perceive and tackle their workload, and their experiences and reflections regarding explanations for and consequences of increased workload in Norwegian general practice.
This study found heavy and increasing workload in general practice in Norway. The explanations appear to be multi-faceted and many are difficult to reverse. The GPs expressed worries that they will not be able to provide the population with the expected care and services in the future.
General practitioners (GPs) play a key role in securing and coordinating appropriate use of healthcare services, both by providing primary and preventive care and by acting as gatekeepers for secondary care services [1]. Previously, European GPs have reported high job satisfaction [2,3,4,5,6,7], largely attributed to high autonomy [8, 9] and good compatibility with family life [10]. However, a trend of increasing workload in general practice has been seen in several European countries [11, 12]. In England, studies report long and intense working hours, recruitment problems [13] and concerns for the well-being of both GPs and patients [14].
There is limited research on how increasing workload and the transfer of responsibilities to primary care may influence Norwegian general practice. This qualitative study aims to explore how GPs and their co-workers in Norway perceive and tackle their workload, and their experiences and reflections regarding explanations for and consequences of increased workload in general practice.
As this study is part of a project investigating different aspects of capacity pressure on health services [25], we wanted to identify possible mechanisms related to workload. We chose a qualitative method in order to explore and provide rich descriptions of these complex phenomena [26]. We applied a phenomenological approach, a methodology that relies on first-person accounts as the source of knowledge [27]. We collected data through interviews in urban and rural municipalities of Mid-Norway. We chose to conduct both focus groups and individual interviews for practical reasons, as not all of our participants in the same location could partake in interviews at the same time. In addition, we saw this as an opportunity to explore and compare dynamics when statements were given in groups as opposed to individual interviews.
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