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Taoiseach Enda Kenny, Tánaiste Joan Burton and Minister for Social & Primary Care Kathleen Lynch today launched the Irish National Dementia Strategy. This honours the commitment in the Programme for Government to develop a national Alzheimer’s and other dementias strategy to increase awareness, ensure timely diagnosis and intervention, and develop enhanced community based services.
The Strategy sets out a number of principles to underpin the provision of care and supports for people with dementia including:
taking account of dementia in the development and implementation of existing and future health policies;
encouraging the participation of people with dementia in society and in their own communities as fully as possible for as long as possible;
the prioritisation of end-of-life care in an appropriate setting for those with dementia;
appropriate training and supervision for all those caring for or providing services to people with dementia;
directing resources to provide the best possible outcome for those with dementia, and for their families and carers.
Speaking at the launch of the Strategy, the said:
As Taoiseach, I am determined that dementia, or indeed old age, should not rob people of what is so valuable to them: their choice and their control over their lives, their privacy and their dignity. Central to the strategy is something that is characteristically taken away from people living with dementia and that is awareness. We want to increase awareness of dementia in the community so that we can act faster and smarter to ensure early diagnosis, treatment and that all-important support, particularly with community-based services.
The Tánaiste said,
Respect for the independence and dignity of the individual underpins this Strategy from the start. Many of the Actions are achievable without a large financial cost but yet they can, if we implement them effectively, make a real difference to the lives of those affected by dementia.
Minister Lynch said,
The very mention of dementia can cause fear and confusion for everyone with those affected not knowing where to turn. Those who come into contact with a person living with dementia are often similarly confused. Reducing this confusion, correcting misinformation and misunderstandings, and focusing on what is possible at every stage of the condition, instead of what is not, are all important parts of what this Strategy is about.
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Conference on the Launch of the Creative Europe Programme. A high-level conference that featured speakers from all over Europe – cultural agents, thinkers, politicians and governmental decision-makers – with the aim of getting Europe behind the new Creative Europe Programme and fostering broad debate on the main strategic innovations and new priorities for the 2021-2027 cycle, highlighting the links with other European Union funds and the relationships with current societal issues. PEDRO SA DA BANDEIRA/PPUE
Members of the An Riocht, County Down club who received funding from the Capital Funding Programme with Sinéad O'Connor, Aileen Lawlor, Aogán O'Fearghail and Rosemary Hughes Merry
ANTALYA, TURKEY - MAY 26: Deputy director general of International Labour Organisation Gilbert Houngbo delivers a speech during "Socio-Economic Transformation of the Least Developed Countries" panel within the Midterm Review of the Istanbul Programme of Action at the Titanic Hotel in Antalya, Turkey on May 26, 2016. The Midterm Review conference for the Istanbul Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) will take place in Antalya, Turkey from 27-29 May 2016. The conference will undertake a comprehensive review of the implementation of the Istanbul Programme of Action by the LDCs and their development partners and likewise reaffirm the global commitment to address the special needs of the LDCs. Mustafa Kamaci / Anadolu Agency
O2 Media Awards for Yorkshire and The Humber 2019: News Programme
ITV Yorkshire - Claudia Lawrence Special
The destroyed remains of a World War II Suffolk Square pillbox, possibly bombed by a stray German bomber! But more than likely used as part of the nearby firing range and training area, or destroyed as part of ''programme of post-war demolition''. An interesting online article about the clearance of war defences, please follow link – chriskolonko.wordpress.com/2021/11/19/pillbox-myth-4-five...
Along the East Anglian coastline, as elsewhere in the British Isles, a number of World War II coastal anti-invasion defences remain, more or less intact. Between Felixstowe and The Wash at King's Lynn, a large number of these were hastily constructed between 1939 and early 1940's, necessitated by the imminent invasion by Nazi Germany ''Operation Sealion''. Out of an estimated 28,000 pillboxes only just over 6,000 survive. Many are hidden from view; others have now become part of the landscape, some put to other uses.
The defences take various forms, the most commonly seen is the pillbox, (sometimes called a blockhouse) these themselves come in many forms: usually having four, five or six faces. The most common being the hexagonal shape, sometimes with a blast wall protecting the entrance. The embrasures differ too, from small to large and varying in number in each wall. Occasionally a narrow slit along the whole of the wall facing the invader is the only opening although these are usually observation posts. Other defences can also still be found, anti-tank traps, square concrete anti-tank blocks, and some pyramidal called ''dragon’s teeth'' were in the 1940's a common sight on the side of a strategic road. Most if not all these have been removed.
Being the most easterly part of Great Britain's coastline, having a flat and very accessible beach, leading in land. The coastline and hinterland at Corton was considered to be a particularly vulnerable place for an enemy invasion during World War Two. This section of beach was quite heavily defended with emergency coastal battery's, anti-tank emplacements, an old sea wall converted for defences, pillboxes, anti-tank blocks, barbed wire entanglements, many of which are very accessible and can quite easily be seen walking the beach. Today they are nothing more than permanent monuments and a silent tribute to the courage and tenacity of the British people during the uncertainty of the early 1940's when Britain stood alone against Nazi Germany.
The Suffolk Square Pillbox is a bulletproof infantry pillbox approximately 12ft 6in square, it was used for both rifles and light machine guns, there are slight variations in designs, it was designed by CRE (Commander Royal Engineers) 55th Division and is unique to the county Suffolk. The walls are 15in thick, some have no reinforcing rods (as some demolished examples have shown) and the roof is 12in thick. There are usually two loopholes in each face except the entrance which only has the one loophole.
The entrance is protected by an L-shaped blast wall, which was quite often chamfered on the outer edge to increase the field of fire from the loophole in the entrance face. Normally there is no internal anti-ricochet wall, which would have made the personnel inside vulnerable to stray bullets (some loopholes were blocked up to help eliminate this) there are several bricked up loopholes, but it's not easy to tell if this happened during the war or after.
A different range of shuttering was used, between Aldeburgh to Thorpness and in South Suffolk pre-cast concrete blocks were used. The Walberswick pillboxes used bricks for the internal shuttering and pre-cast concrete blocks for the external shuttering. From Southwold to Lowestoft most pillboxes were shuttered with timber. Loopholes were pre-cast concrete and either stepped or splayed, sometimes both types were used in the same pillbox and fitted with a concrete weapons shelf below, and in some cases a loophole was fitted in to the external blast wall.
At Trimley St Martin there is a ''Hybrid Pillbox'' consisting of a ''Suffolk square pillbox'' married to a ''FW3/23 Type-23 pillbox'', which is a unique example ! The Suffolk square pillbox is only found in forward defences, such as in the defence of a vulnerable point or to the rear of the beaches, there are none found on inland Stop Lines. There were 245 Suffolk square pillboxes listed as being constructed.
Some information sourced from – www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2233257
On 29 August 2012, Kerry Brinkert, Director of the Implementation Support Unit of the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, or Ottawa Convention, delivered a presentation on the landmark disarmament and humanitarian treaty, to the UN Disarmament Fellowship Programme.
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In the days before the Internet and the excellent Hagiology books published by a group of Saints fans I tried to obtain the last programme of the season as a record of the season's results and a comprehensive list of all players who took part in each game.
AMURT UK London feeding programmes for homeless and disadvantaged children's families during covid-19
Cultural Programmes for mass awareness on issues of water security, urbanization an climate change were organised in Peri-urban Hyderabad.
The 2018 UNEVOC TVET Leadership Programme was launched today at the UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre, Bonn. 19 mid- to senior-level TVET leaders from UNEVOC Centres and other institutions from 18 countries around the world are participating in the programme. The programme aims to enable the participants to hone their leadership skills through nine modules guided by key international experts in a highly engaging environment.
ANTALYA, TURKEY - MAY 26: CEO of World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies Bostjan Skalar attends a session within Midterm Review of the Istanbul Programme of Action at the Titanic Hotel in Antalya, Turkey on May 26, 2016. The Midterm Review conference for the Istanbul Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries will take place in Antalya, Turkey from 27-29 May 2016. The conference will undertake a comprehensive review of the implementation of the Istanbul Programme of Action by the least developed countries (LDCs) and their development partners and likewise reaffirm the global commitment to address the special needs of the LDCs. Gokhan Balci / Anadolu Agency