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Carol Vorderman, helps launch the Run for the Future.
Location: Royal Marriott Hotel, College Green, Bristol.
Picture: Gavin Crilly
Date: 190309
Reporter: Vicky Mathias
Una muestra de diseños aplicados a nuncio de prensa e inserciones en distintas publicaciones realizadas por Leandro Jaimovitch estudio.
A view of people listening to someone delivering a speech.
This was a record of the scene. I wanted to capture the scattered nature of the group as they listened to the speech.
Yangon ( earlier I had thought I was done uploading pics from my short Myanmar trip, but now uploaded 32 more from Yangon, hopefully some being of interest. possibly I shall find more again ;) )
Mamiya-Press G, 50mm, Portra 800 in an RB67 back, digitized with a Fujifilm XT2, Minolta Celtic 50mm/3.5 macro lens and Negative Lab Pro.
Mercedes-Benz G-Klasse, designo manufaktur, Exterieur: polarweiß
Mercedes-Benz G-Klasse, designo manufaktur, exterior: polar white
The training room we're using looks out over the press room, so tonight on go-live I hung my little point-and-shoot out over the window (hence the odd angle).
Groups of press photographers were prowling around Russell Square, trying to find a vantage point for a shot
Prime minister Mark Rutte officially opened the summit’s International Media Centre, alongside foreign minister Frans Timmermans and mayor of The Hague Jozias van Aartsen.
Photo: Ministry of Defence / Sjoerd Hilckmann
Prime minister Mark Rutte officially opened the summit’s International Media Centre, alongside foreign minister Frans Timmermans and mayor of The Hague Jozias van Aartsen.
Photo: Ministry of Defence / Sjoerd Hilckmann
Governor O'Malley annunces jobs progress at John's Hopkins Hospital press conference by Tom Nappi at John's Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland
Governor Hogan Holds a Press Conference with Members of the Korean Media about the Progress made During His Trade Mission by Steve Kwak at Seoul, South Korea
AP. El fotógrafo Ray McManus ganó el segundo lugar en la categoría Deportes con esta escena de jugadores de rugby, en Dublín (Irlanda).
On Monday, November 7, 2022, VA Secretary Denis McDonough spoke at the National Press Club Headliners Luncheon.
McDonough discussed the impact of the PACT Act, a bill signed in August by President Biden that expands medical benefits to veterans exposed to toxins from burn pits on military bases, and delivered an update on the state of Americaâs veterans and their families. (VA/Robert Turtil)
The following is his speech: Good afternoon. Jen [Judson, 115th Pres., NPC], thanks for that kind introduction, and for leading this truly great, and important, organization. Let me recognize the Press Clubâs American Legion Post and its commander, Tom Young, and all the Veterans Service Organizations represented here. You are critical to helping us serve Vets, their family members, caregivers, and survivors.
In just a little bit, as the sun starts setting over the Vietnam War Memorial Wall, theyâll begin the solemn tradition of reading 58,281 names etched in those slabs of polished black granite. Among them, approximately 1,500 still Missing in Action. So, in this 40th anniversary year of the Memorial Wall, Iâm honored to welcome home Vietnam Veteran Corporal Jan Scruggs, and all the Vietnam Vets. Corporal Scruggs, Welcome home. And on behalf of a grateful nation, thank you.
Thank you for your courageous service, for opening hearts to Vietnam Vetsâ heroic service, and for so well-honoring your brothers- and sisters-in-arms who died for this country, and for each other. Corporal Scruggs, and all Vets here today, would you stand, if youâre able, and be recognized?
Words can never express the depth of our gratitude to you, our Vetsâyour courage, selflessness, service, and the sacrifices made by you and your families. But, there is virtue in trying, in reminding everyone how these courageous men and women put their lives on the line, for all of us; how much they gave, often their last full measure of devotion; how much each is willing to give so the highest of ideals of our nation might endure for all Americans. Veteransâ valor is a constant reminder of true loyalty, true courage, true patriotism.
Finally, to all you courageous journalists here today: many of you have gone to battlefields, to cities under siege, and risked great danger to tell servicemembersâ and Veteransâ stories. And in so doing, you help us serve Veterans better than we ever could do alone. Thank you for holding all of us accountable, to all of the Vets.
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Itâs a privilege to be here as we prepare for Veterans Day. As we all know, Veterans Day is a day to honor Vets, to remember what theyâve done for our nation, and to recognize that when those Vets serve and sacrifice, so do their families, caregivers, and survivors.
But Veterans Day is something more. Itâs a call to action for all Americans to fulfill our sacred duty, as Americans, and serve Veterans as well as theyâve served us. Not just on Veterans Day, but every day. So, I want to talk about what weâve done at VA over the past year to serve Vets, and what we will do this next year to deliver for them.
With the Presidentâs leadership, Congressâs support, the work of VSOs, and many others, weâre stepping up for Vets. Since President Biden took office, weâve delivered more care and more benefits to more Veterans than at any other time in our nationâs history.
When it comes to benefits Vets have earned and deserve, weâre processing their claims faster than ever before. In fact, VA processed 1.7 million Veteran claims in Fiscal Year 22âshattering the previous yearâs record by 12%. And weâve gotten the claims backlog down to the lowest in yearsâdown to nearly 144,000 claims as of this month.
When it comes to honoring Vets with lasting resting places they deserve, weâre now providing almost 94% of Vets with access to burial sites within 75 miles of their homes. Thatâs possible by building and maintaining our 155 VA national cemeteries, and by funding construction, maintenance, and expansion of 121 state, territorial, and tribal Veteran cemeteries. And weâve expanded our online Veterans Legacy Memorial program to about 4.5 million Veterans, keeping Veteransâ stories alive long after theyâre gone.
When it comes to providing world-class healthcare to Veterans, study after study shows weâre delivering better health care for Veterans than the private sector, which is why 90% of Vets who come to VA for outpatient care trust that care to be, easy, effective, and based in respect for that Veteran.
And when it comes to advocating for Veterans, President Bidenâs leading the way. Heâs challenged all of us to make Vets a core part of a Unity Agenda that rises above partisanship and politics. And heâs hell-bent on fighting for Vets with the same kind of indomitable will and sheer determination they bring to the battlefields we send them to. When it comes to our Veterans and their families, heâs unyielding.
All of that work adds up to the one statistic that will always matter mostâVeterans lives saved, Veterans lives improved. Thereâs nothing more important than that.
Now, weâve made this progress by challenging ourselves every day with three questions.
First, âAre we putting Veterans at the center of everything we do?â That means making sure we meet Vets where they are, so they can access all we have to offer. It means making VA easy for Vets to use, with tools like new VA mobile apps that give Vets access to their benefits, right on their phones. It means making sure weâre delivering for Vets on time, every time, through initiatives like claims automationâcutting claims processing time for certain conditions from several months, to several days.
And as we approach the one year anniversary of the untimely death of Major Ian Fishback, let me underscore the vital importance of this questionâputting Vets at the center of all we do. Every door at VA has to be a front door, with multiple touch points for all of our services. And that means wherever a Veteran is treatedâat the local, state, or federal levelâthat care has to be integrated, it has to be coordinated, especially when it comes to mental health care. Vets and their families should expect that, demand it. And going forward, with the new tools we have in place in VISN 10, they will have that.
The second question, âAre we improving outcomes for Veterans with everything we do?â That means timely access to world-class health care, earned benefits, and the lasting resting places Vets deserve. No matter what. Because, ultimately, Vets will judge, not us, our success.
And the third goes back to something President Biden charged VA with the day I was sworn inââFight like hell for Veterans, their families, caregivers, and survivors.â Thatâs our North Starâare we fighting like hell for Vets. Thatâs what we seek to do, every day.
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Let me give you a few examples.
First, weâre fighting like hell to maximize access to world-class care for Vets across America. Weâll stop at nothing to make sure Veterans have the best possible experience, wherever they access VA careâat home, in the community, or at VA. For those Vets getting care at home, weâre meeting them where they are, doubling down on tele-appeals, tele-health, and tele-oncology. VA clinicians have seen more than 9,000 Vets through tele-oncology, and we are expanding this life saving tool to include clinical trialsâmeaning that rural Vets are now getting opportunities previously unavailable to them because of their remote locations.
Weâre also supporting our caregivers by expanding the program of comprehensive assistance in October to cover all generations of Veterans, and by changing our policies so even more Vets get that support they need. For Vets getting care in their community, weâre working to make their experiences as timely and seamless as possibleâso they get the care they need, wherever they live, and when they need it. And for those getting care directly from VA, weâre going to modernize our facilitiesâbecause Vets in the 21st century shouldnât be forced to get care in buildings built in the early 20th century. We need a VA health care system with the right facilities, in the right places, to provide the right care for Veterans in every part of the country.
So, the bottom line with access is the same as ever. Vets who get their care at VA do better. Our VA clinicians know Veteransâin many cases those clinicians are Veteransâand thereâs nobody better at caring for Vets than them. Thatâs one reason why Vets who come to VA emergency rooms by ambulance are 20% more likely to survive in the following 30 days than those who were transported to private hospitals.
So, if anybodyâs asking where Vets should get their care, please, send Vets to us. Weâre going to get them the world-class care theyâve earned.
Next, weâre fighting like hell to end Veteran homelessness, a phrase that shouldnât exist in America. Our focus is on two simple goals: getting Veterans into homes, and preventing them from falling into homelessness in the first place. And weâre making real progress. Last year from this podium, I told you about two ambitious goals for 2021 to address Veteran homelessness in LAâwhere there are more homeless Vets than anywhere else in the United States.
The first goal was getting all of the roughly 40 homeless Veterans living on Veterans Rowâa homeless encampment out in LAâinto housing. The second goal was getting 500 Veterans in LA into housing by the end of the year. We not only accomplished those goals, we exceeded themâand used that to demonstrate that if we can tackle this problem in LA, we can tackle it anywhere.
So, we set another ambitious for this year. We will place 38,000 homeless Vets into permanent housing by the end of 2022. At the end of September, weâd already housed nearly 31,000 Vetsâover 81% of our goalâputting us on track to house even more Veterans than we anticipated.
And weâre not letting up. Weâre driving hard on homelessness prevention by increasing housing supply, making existing housing more affordable, and getting every Veteran the wraparound services they need to prevent homelessness in the first instance.
And last Thursday, we released the 2022 PIT Count results. It shows that the number of Vets experiencing homelessnessâon a single night last Januaryâwas 33,136, a decrease of 11% over January 2020, which was the last year a full PIT Count was conducted. Thatâs the biggest improvement in more than five years.
So, weâre not just taking our best shot at fighting Veteran homelessness. With the help of partners like HUD, USICH, VSOs, local communities, and front-line staff in VAâs Homeless Programs Office we are going to end Veteran homeless. Because no Veteran should be homeless in this country they swore to defend. Not now, not ever.
Third, weâre fighting like hell to prevent Veteran suicide. You saw VAâs recent report on Veteran suicides in 2020âthe most current data we have. A couple big things stand out from that report. First, more than 6,000 Veterans died by suicide that year. Thatâs devastating, unacceptable, and itâs why this work is so critical.
But that report also reminds us that suicide prevention is possible. There is hope. There were 343 fewer Veteran suicides in 2020 than in 2019âthe second year in a row weâve seen a decrease. Thatâs 343 Vets alive today, getting a second chance at life. Nothing matters more than that.
So, weâre building on that momentum. Weâre providing first-of-their-kind grants to suicide prevention organizations in communities, on the ground, across the country. Weâre ramping up our lethal means safety efforts to prevent warning signs from turning into tragedies. Weâre continuing to offer tele-mental health sessions to Vets who want them. Weâre making sure they get their mental health care exactly when they need itâand not a second later. And we rolled out 9-8-8, the new national suicide prevention lifeline thatâs connecting Vets quickly and directly to the Veterans Crisis Line by just dialing 9-8-8, then pressing 1. Because preventing Veteran suicide is our top clinical priority, and we will stop at nothingânothingâto ensure that Vets not only survive, but thrive.
Fourth, weâre continuing to fight like hell to make sure all Vets feel welcome and safe at every VA. Not some Veterans. All Veterans. Weâre doing that by helping non-citizen Veterans stay in the United States, where they belong, and making sure that eligible, deported Vets have access to VA benefits.
Weâre delivering care and benefits to those with Other-Than-Honorable discharges. Weâre eliminating any racial disparities that exist at VA, and setting up processes to prevent them in the future. Weâre making sure LGBTQ+ Vets are supportedâand well-servedâacross VA. Last month, for example, we closed a gap in benefits for surviving spouses of LGBTQ+ Vetsârighting a wrong thatâs a legacy of the discriminatory federal ban on same-sex marriages.
And weâre getting women Vetsâour fastest growing cohort of Vetsâthe care theyâve earned and deserve. A few weeks ago, I visited the Military Womenâs Memorial for their 25th Anniversary. Etched in the glass panes in the ceiling are powerful words of courageous women Vetsâwords the sun illuminates when the light hits that glass just right. None of those words are more illuminating than those of World War II Veteran Lieutenant Anne Brehm, words that always bear repeating. âLet the generations know,â she said, âthat women in uniform also guaranteed their freedom ⦠that our resolve was as great as the brave men who stood among us.â
My late colleague and friend, and a great friend of Americaâs Veterans, Secretary Ash Carter, was committed to that principle. It was Secretary Carter who opened all military roles to women. Heâd be proud that women Vets have been our fastest growing cohort, and weâre proud to serve them. But we havenât always done as well by women Vets as we should have. So, weâre fighting like hell to serve them as well as theyâve served us.
Weâve done that by taking important steps to make our health care facilities and programs safe, respectful, and welcoming to women Vets; by providing Women Vet Coordinators in every regional office to help them access benefits and provide assistance specific to them; by having VBA dedicate one specially trained team to review each military sexual trauma claim, so we do not re-traumatize survivors who come forward to seek the benefits theyâve earned; and by listening to VA health care providers and Vets from across the country who sounded the alarm that abortion restrictions were creating a medical emergency for pregnant Vets. Thatâs why we made the patient safety decision to offer abortion counseling, andâin certain casesâabortion services to pregnant Veterans and eligible VA beneficiaries.
Because at VA we donât serve some Vets. We serve all Vets. For far too long, too many Vets who fought around the world to protect our rights and freedoms have had to fight brutal battles here at home for their own rights and freedoms. But at VA, those fights are over. In this administration, no Vet has to fight for the quality care and benefits that theyâve earnedâno matter who they are, where theyâre from, or who they love.
Last but in no way least, weâre fighting like hell to deliver for toxic-exposed Veterans. One of your own has led the country in that fightâVeteran and journalist Kelly Kennedy. About this time 14 years ago, Kelly started the thankless and rigorous task of holding people like me accountable when she published her first of dozens of articles on the casualties of burn pits.
Over the years, her work catalyzed the national conversation on burn pits, educated us on the effects of toxic exposure on the battlefield in stark terms we could no longer turn away from. She told painful stories of servicemembers deteriorating, dying, after exposure to poisons they breathed when deployed. She first introduced us to the enormous dangers of things we had never heard aboutâlike fine and superfine particulate matter, chemicals troops may have been ingesting that sound as horrific as they are: arsenic, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, benzene, formaldehyde, hydrogen cyanide, sulfur dioxide, sulfuric acid.
Kelly told the human stories of Soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, and families who were suffering, so we as a nation would not, and could not, forget. Now, I imagine part of that was about being a good journalist, guided by the spirits of greats like Joe Galloway, Dickey Chapelle, and others. And I imagine a lot of it was about compassion, deep devotion to servicemembers and her fellow Vets.
And now, nearly a decade and a half later, as a result of her workâand, certainly, the hard work, heavy lifting, and persistent voices of many, many others in this roomâone of the biggest expansions of Veteran benefits in history was signed into law by President Biden, a law that will deliver care and benefits to millions of toxic exposed Veterans and their survivors.
With this new law, VA has recognized new presumptions of service connection for more than 20 health conditions related to toxic exposureâincluding exposures like Agent Orange, burn pits, and more. Weâll bring generations of new Vets into VA health care and increase the health care benefits of many moreâand that will result in better health outcomes, across the board. Weâll deliver benefits to more survivors of Vets who passed away from toxic exposure. And weâll invest in our workforce and our infrastructure to deliver those additional servicesâand modernize 31 more VA health care facilities.
This is a great thing. And I donât think it would have happenedâsurely not have happened nowâwithout Kellyâs dogged pursuit of the truth, with all our VSO partnersâ dogged pursuit of the truth. Thatâs what I mean when I say that you that you all make VA betterâtelling the stories that need to be told, and holding us accountable to Veterans and their survivors.
Like anything else of this importance and magnitude, implementing this law wonât be easy. So, weâre counting on you for your helpâto hold us accountable, yes, and especially, to communicate to Veterans, and their family members, what this law means for them.
This is what we want every Veteran to know about the new law on toxic exposure.
First, we want Veterans and survivors of Central Command from 1991 to 2021, 30 years of war, to apply for their toxic exposure benefits right now. So far, Veterans have filed nearly 137,000 claims under this law.
Second, and I want to be very clear here, because itâs important. We made all conditions outlined in this new law presumptive August 10, 2022âthe day the bill was signed into law, rather than phasing them in over years, as the law anticipated. VA will begin processing benefits claims filed under this new law on January 1st, the earliest date possible. And beginning tomorrow, weâre offering enrolled Veterans a new toxic exposure screeningâan important step toward making sure that all toxic exposed Vets get the care and benefits they deserveâeven if they donât know today that they were exposed.
Because Vets have waited too long. Weâre not going to make them wait any longer.
Third point. For Vets who file for a toxic-exposure-related condition before the one-year anniversary of the signing. That is, for those who file before August 9, 2023, their claim and benefit will be retroactive to the date of signing, August 10, 2022.
Fourth point. Iâm proud to announce for the first time today, on National Cancer Awareness Day, that weâre expediting benefits delivery for Veterans with cancer conditions covered by the law. This work is a part of President Bidenâs vision for the Cancer Moonshot, which will end cancer as we know it. And itâs a part of his broader efforts across the government to do so.
So, we will expedite Veterans claims if they have been diagnosed with melanoma, brain cancer, neck cancer, pancreatic cancer, kidney cancer, glioblastoma, head cancer of any type, respiratory cancer of any type, reproductive cancer of any type, gastrointestinal cancer of any type, lymphoma of any type, and lymphomatic cancer of any type.
Fifth, any Veteran, family member, or survivor can learn more about this new law by visiting VA.gov/PACT, or by calling 1-800-MY-VA-411. 1-800-698-2411.
So, thatâs what every Vet needs to know about this law. And we need your help communicating it, so every Veteran gets the care they need, and the benefits they deserve. We wonât rest until they do.
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So, from access, to ending homelessness, to suicide prevention, to toxic exposure, thatâs where weâre going. Thatâs how weâre going to keep fighting like hell for Vets, their families, caregivers, and survivors.
Now, let me say a final word to the Vets. Your honorable service in uniform set the example for the rest of us in this great country. In so many ways, youâre the keepers of our national ethosâthat deep and abiding sense of purpose you learned in serving, your camaraderie, your sense of teamwork that made you stronger, together, in combat and, now, in your communities. Itâs so unique in the country.
Looking around, thatâs exactly what we need today. Camaraderie. Truth. Togetherness. True service. True patriotism. And itâs something that all of usâeach of usâcan learn from. Because we all are stronger when weâre togetherâwhen we are one.
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So, again, to all the Veterans here today and watching, thank youâfor everything. And, to the Press Club, my thanks for all that you do holding us accountable to Vets, their families, their caregivers and survivorsâtelling their stories in the powerful ways that you do.
God bless each of you, and God bless our nationâs servicemembers, our Veterans, their families, caregivers, and survivors.
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